{"id":287837,"date":"2024-05-19T06:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287837"},"modified":"2024-05-20T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T07:20:08","slug":"as-nato-prepares-to-provide-ukraine-capability-to-strike-deep-within-russia-sep-presidential-candidate-denounces-plans-to-deploy-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287837","title":{"rendered":"As NATO prepares to provide Ukraine capability to strike deep within Russia, SEP presidential candidate denounces plans to deploy troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Crosse \u2013 World Socialist Website May 18, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

On Friday, the New York Times<\/em> reported that over the last several weeks and in recent days, high-level Ukrainian government officials have been pressing the Biden administration to provide sensitive intelligence information that would allow the far-right regime to launch military strikes deep within Russian territory.<\/p>\n

While the US already provides Ukraine with some intelligence on the positions of Russian forces on the border, the Times <\/em>reported that Ukrainians are pushing the Biden administration for more \u201creal-time intelligence\u201d so that drones and guided missile strikes could more easily evade Russian air defenses.<\/p>\n

This is the second report in as many days from the Times,<\/em> a conduit of the Pentagon and intelligence agencies, that provide a glimpse into the well-advanced NATO plans for escalating the war against Russian in Ukraine. On Thursday, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown told the paper that the NATO alliance would \u201ceventually<\/a>\u201d send combat troops to Ukraine, describing it as \u201cinevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the report Friday, the Times<\/em> again cited comments from General Brown which he gave to reporters while on a flight to a NATO summit in Brussels. Brown told the paper that the Ukrainian government had been \u201casking us for help to be able to strike into Russia,\u201d but that the request was broad and not \u201cspecific to a weapons system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The paper noted that while similar requests had been turned down in the past, as Ukrainian positions continue to wither in the face of unrelenting Russian artillery and glide bomb strikes, Biden \u201cadministration officials have begun to review\u201d the Ukrainians request for the high-level intelligence access.<\/p>\n

The US government is leading the war drive, and what the Times <\/em>frames as \u201crequests\u201d from Ukraine are really decisions made by the NATO powers. Last month, members of both the Democratic and Republican Parties overwhelmingly voted in favor of a $95 billion military supplemental package. The war bill included over $60 billion for Ukraine and another $17 billion for Israel to continue its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

In response to the Biden administration\u2019s plans to deploy NATO troops to Ukraine and escalate the war, Socialist Equality Party candidate for US president Joseph Kishore released a statement on X denouncing the \u201cplans of the Biden administration,\u201d writing that it would be \u201ca massive escalation that enormously increases the danger of nuclear war.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As the Socialist Equality Party\u2019s candidate for US president, I denounce the plans of the Biden administration to deploy active-duty NATO troops to Ukraine, a massive escalation that enormously increases the danger of nuclear war.<\/p>\n

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,\u2026<\/p>\n

— Joseph Kishore (@jkishore) May 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n