Biden's late late missile decision

Talk about leaving it to nearly the last possible moment. Poor old Zelensky in Kyiv has been bashing Joe Biden's ears for months, if not years, to let him have and use long-range weapons to hit Russian targets deep inside Russia only to have the US president shaking his head wearily from side to side and telling him, "You can have the weapons but you can't use them over the border in Russia". Now after no no no, Biden has decided to say yes yes yes to launching the 190-mile-range ATACMS rockets at targets inside Russia. Biden has eight weeks left of his presidency and it seems like a parting shot at Putin, take that, Vlad. Biden and his officials have tried to suggest that what drove the decision at last was the presence of 10,000 North Korean soldiers fighting alongside their Russian comrades to force the Ukrainian troops currently occupying the western Russian province of Kursk back over the border. But, to be honest, I really don't see why this bizarre move by Putin and Kim Jong un is reason to announce a major change of mind and policy in Washington which, until now, was based on Biden's obsession with not escalating the war between Russia and Ukraine into a war between Russia and the whole of Nato. The North Koreans have no combat experience and can be finished off without too much trouble with directly-targeting artillery and tank shells. What will ATACMS rockets do to the North Koreans which a bit of good infantry and armour manoeuvring could do? But it's Biden's last throw before exiting the White House and he obviously wanted to show Zelensky that he would back him all the way to his last minute in the White House. Was it a sensible move? We will see how Putin responds. One person who is not happy about it is Donald Trump who wants to end the war altogether on Day One in the Oval Office. The ATACMS decision by Biden could complicate that.