Saturday 23 September 2023

Looks like Biden is giving Ukraine the big guns

After months and months of delay and reluctance it seems President Biden has decided to give the long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine. Zelensky has been after them from the beginning. Biden was always worried that Zelensky would use them to hit targets inside Russia but since Ukraine has been striking at targets inside Russia for months, and also Russian-annexed Crimea, with their own weapons and with the British Storm Shadow air-launched stand-off cruise missiles, ATACMS will not seem quite such a dramatic step. But Moscow will not be happy, especially if the 190-mile range missiles start hitting some serious targets in Russia. The war is moving into a new phase, possibly a new dangerous phase that could provoke Putin into something horrendous. Not nuclear, I don't believe he will do that, but Ukraine I fear will be in for some frightening moments. What worries me is that as the weapons escalate there is less and less chance of the war coming to an end.

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