Brendan Cole – NEWSWEEK Sept 11, 2024
Anthony Blinken, Vladimir Zelensky and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy
The West has probably already decided to allow Ukraine to conduct long-range strikes within Russian territory, the Kremlin has said, adding that Moscow would have an “appropriate” response if that happened.
Ukraine has long pressed the U.S. and the U.K. to drop the restriction on long-range weapons being used for strikes inside Russia over concerns that this would escalate the war.
Kyiv says it needs long-range weapons such as ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) to target air bases used by Russia’s warplanes that launch glide bombs against Ukraine often from deep inside Russian territory. British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles with a range of around 150 miles have been used against Russian targets in occupied Ukrainian territory only.
When asked if Washington would drop the restrictions, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that his administration was “working that out now.”
However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that “most likely, of course, all these decisions have already been made,” by the West regarding dropping the prohibition on long-range weapons, the state news agency Tass reported.
“This can be assumed with a high degree of probability,” Peskov told Russian media. “At the moment, the media is simply conducting such an information campaign to formalize the decision that has already been made,” he added.
“Efforts are ongoing by the U.S. and European governments to distance themselves from involvement in this conflict,” Peskov said. “U.S. and European involvement in Ukraine is becoming more direct.”
If Ukraine were given permission to use weapons for strikes deep into Russia, Peskov said that Moscow would come up with “an appropriate response,” although he added “there is no need to expect some kind of response everywhere.”
David Silbey, military expert and history professor at Cornell University, said the dispute over allowing Kyiv to use long-range weapons echoes the tensions within the U.S.-Ukrainian relationship during the war.
“The U.S. has slowly allowed deeper and deeper strikes to hit Russian targets, especially now that the Ukrainians have mounted a land campaign inside of Russia itself,” he told Newsweek.
“The Russians have reacted by shifting tactics, most notably firing ordnance from outside Ukrainian airspace, like short range ballistic missiles and glide bombs, and now the Ukrainians are pushing for another shift in U.S. limits.”
He said Biden’s comment “is a classic Washington signaling tactic that they’re beginning to shift on that limit as well.”
Vyacheslav Volodin, the chair of Russia’s Duma, the lower house of Parliament, had earlier accused Washington and the U.K. of “becoming parties to the war in Ukraine.” He said that such a move means that Russia “will be forced to respond using more powerful and destructive weapons to protect its citizens.”
When asked for comment, the British Foreign Office told Newsweek “there has been no change in the U.K.’s position,” and referred to Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s comments to media that “we need to listen to the Ukrainians, to understand the plan, to understand the strategy, to understand the needs across a whole range of fronts.”
Newsweek has contacted the State Department for comment.
On Tuesday, Senator Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, posted on X, formerly Twitter, a letter he co-signed with other lawmakers, calling for Biden to lift restrictions on the long-range weapons, writing, “we need to remove the handcuffs and give Ukraine every advantage.”
The issue will be a focus of Secretary of State Antony Blinken‘s visit to Kyiv and Lammy. Biden is also likely to discuss the issue with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer when they meet in Washington on Friday.
You have no gravitas, David Lammy. You’re not the statesman you think. I don’t doubt in your career as a lawyer you had a decent work record, and setting out in your career as a politician you began with good intent. But in this case they–Blinken, Zelensky and Netanyahu–are taking you for a shaved ape.
Your Westminster career may soon be over but your CV won’t shine. Your prospective employers will know that it should say on it somewhere how you negotiated the funds and arms for war crimes and genocide. They know that accusation will follow you, and you may have to flee or you could be arrested, and that at the very least taking you onboard might leave a skidmark on their business reputation.
The picture says it all , two Jews and a token negro setting policy that impacts the future of the war not only in Ukraine but worldwide. God help us all!
That rogue’s gallery of the three criminal clowns in the top photo brings in memories of an earlier rogues gallery of the 1945 meeting and photo of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.
People ask why are there so many jewish pedophiles ?
why were there remains of children found in the tunnels under the brooklynn synagogue ?
Abraham is taken as the father of the jewish religion
read your scripture when he was an old man he took as his bride a girl nine years old.
Jews have always taken children in this way
BBC’s Repair Shop host Jay Blades charged with controlling and coercive behaviour
The Repair Shop presenter Jay Blades has been charged with controlling and coercive behaviour against his estranged wife. he alleged behaviour includes physical sexual and emotional abuse, according to court documents.
The 54-year-old appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court earlier and was bailed until another court appearance next month.
Blades married fitness instructor Lisa Zbozen in November 2022 in Barbados, but in May she said she was living in fear and “broken” after grabbing a bag of things and leaving home. West Mercia Police said he was charged on Thursday after they were called to an address on 3 May, and began an investigation.
Blades – a furniture restorer – is the face of the popular BBC show, which features people having treasured objects repaired and rejuvenated. The Repair Shop first aired in 2017 and its 14th series is due to air later this year. His other TV work includes Britain’s Best Beach Huts and David and Jay’s Touring Tool Shed, alongside Sir David Jason. The BBC accused of hiding up the abuse said a repeat of the latter show had been dropped from Friday’s schedule. Blades claimed he acted in self defence and said he was sexually normal and not into little boys like that dirty white man Huw Edwards
Carl jones take note
The photo is like men already in the dock, or else a cage in a zoo
Kier Starmer: “Transforming the country ‘will take time’ but I will deliver on communism” Keir Starmer said he sympathised with people struggling because of the decision to strip the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners but he had a “steely determination” to fix the country’s problems.
he said ” the wealthy will pay for the poor”
the haves will fund the have nots ”
The Prime Minister acknowledged that the Government was making “painful” decisions “that aren’t going to be popular”. and getting back into the EU was a priority
Kier Starmer has been described as the biggest fraud since Uri Geller “
Thousands of people sign petitions calling
1 for a halt to immigration
2 start sending them home
3 remove all winston churchill statues
4 stop Kier Starmers slide into total communism
5 no more racism against UK people
6 no more weapons sales for israeli terrorism
Story by James Rodger & Matthew Senior
Oh, so the Jewnited States and Jew-K filling Jewkraine with long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia would be a “declaration of war”, eh? No shit, Sherlock. Then again, there’s been a declaration of war for some time now. Of course, it’s all just distractionary theatre in the rousing production of Goys Must Go, for which there will be no third act for you and yours unless people address the aggressive malignant cancer that is Jewry.
The declaration of war everyone should be by much more concerned about isn’t a bunch of cuntries declaring and waging war on each other, it’s that your (former) cuntry has declared war on YOU.
“Senator Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, posted a letter he co-signed with other lawmakers, calling for Biden to lift restrictions on the long-range weapons, writing, ‘we need to remove the handcuffs and give Ukraine every advantage.’” … Is that so? What are you doing about the take-over and ongoing invasion of the Former United States, asshole? That sniveling shit-stain Wicker and everyone else who signed that letter should be chased through the streets, beaten to pulps, and have their hands chopped off and stuffed up each others’ asses.