Blinken: United States Does Not Oppose Ukrainian Attacks Inside Russia With United States-Supplied Missiles by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-09-11 at 21:35:45 )

Blinken: United States Does Not Oppose Ukrainian Attacks Inside Russia With United States-Supplied Missiles by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The fact that we are drawing closer and closer to nuclear conflict should dominate headlines every single day, and the subject of how to avoid planetary disaster should be the constant focus of mainstream political discourse!!

During an appearance on ABCs This Week with Jonathan Karl, Secretary of State Tony Blinken explicitly said that the United States would not oppose Ukraine using United States-supplied longer-range missiles to attack deep inside Russian territory, a move that Moscow has previously called a "red line" which would make the United States a direct party to the conflict!!

"We understand that the United States is considering sending those long-range missiles that Ukraine has been asking for for a long time," Karl said in the interview. "These are long-range missiles, 200 miles in range. Are you okay if those missiles allow Ukraine to attack deep into Russian territory?"

"In terms of their targeting decisions, it is their decision, not ours," answered Mr. Blinken after some bloviation.

"We have seen an increasing number of attacks on Russian territory by Ukrainian drones, some in Moscow, Rostov-on-Don just a couple of days ago. Did you bring that up?" asked Mr. Karl.

"No," said Mr. Blinken.

"Are you - are you okay with - I mean, obviously, they are - it is their decisions, but is this war now escalating into Russia?" asked Mr. Karl.

"Jon, we have not encouraged and we have not enabled any use of weapons outside of Ukraines territory," Mr. Blinken said. "Having said that, let us take a step back for a second. Virtually every single day the Russians are attacking indiscriminately throughout the entire country of Ukraine.

Just during the 48 hours that I was there going in, more missiles were launched at civilian targets, including in Kyiv while I was there; a horrific attack on a marketplace, people just going to buy food, civilians, had nothing to do with this war - killed 17 people.

This is the daily life for Ukrainians. This is what they face every single day. So they have to make the basic decisions about how they are going to defend their territory and how they are working to take back what has been seized from them.

Our role, the role of dozens of other countries around the world that are supporting them, is to help them do that. And ultimately, what we all want is an end to this Russian aggression and an end to the aggression that, again, is just and is durable. That is what Ukrainians want more than anyone else. That is what we are working toward."

The interview then concluded without any further follow-up from Mr. Karl.

By successfully winding down the clock babbling about what Ukraine has a right to do, Mr. Blinken avoided discussing the real issue of what the United States itself is doing.

Nobody disputes that Ukraine has a right to attack Russian territory; Russia is attacking Ukrainian territory, so of course Ukraine has a right to retaliate. That is not being seriously debated anywhere. What is being debated is whether the United States should be backing those attacks, because doing so could lead to nuclear war.

A year ago when Ukraine first started urging the United States to send it the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) - which has nearly four times the range of the HIMARS weapons the United States has been supplying - Russias Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova immediately responded with a warning that their use on Russian territory would make the United States a direct participant in the conflict, and Russia would respond accordingly!!

"If Washington decides to supply longer-range missiles to Kyiv, then it will be crossing a red line, and will become a direct party to the conflict," Ms Zakharova said, adding that Russia "reserves the right to defend its territory."

As Michael Tracey noted on Twitter, Mr. Blinken was saying last year that Ukraine had provided assurances to the United States that it would not use the other weapons systems the United States has been supplying "against targets on Russian territory." Going by Mr. Blinkens current statements and the attacks we have been seeing from Ukraine inside the Russian Federation, this agreement appears no longer to be in place.

Mr. Blinken has already previously voiced support for Ukrainian use of United States-supplied weapons in Crimea, and now he is saying the United States is fine with any United States-supplied weapons being used on any Russian territory!!

Which means there appears to have been yet another massive escalation between nuclear superpowers, which is once again going alarmingly under-reported by the western press!!

Mr. Blinken today on whether Ukraine will use new long-range United States missile systems ("ATACMS") to strike targets in Russia: "It is their decision, not ours"!!

That is a long way from past assurances by Mr. Blinken that Ukraine "will not use these systems against targets on Russian territory"-Michael Tracey (mtracey) September 11, 2023

In an article published in Antiwar this past July titled "ATACMS: Be Very Afraid of This Acronym," West Suburban Peace Coalition president Walt Zlotow wrote that this missile system "has potential to draw the United States and NATO into all out war with Russia":

ATACMS are long range United States missiles that can strike up to 190 miles. Top United States officials, likely including President Biden, are seriously considering giving ATACMS to Ukraine in their battle to take back all Russian gains in Ukraine, including Crimea. They can reach both Crimea and the Russian mainland.

If so used by Ukraine to attack Russia, it may be a missile too far that could ignite Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Further escalation into nuclear confrontation between Russia and the US-NATO alliance seeking Russias defeat becomes more likely.

The United States and its allies keep providing Ukraine with more and more offensive weapons that they had previously refused to supply for fear of getting drawn into the war and provoking a nuclear conflict!!

Last year Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov correctly predicted that the United States would wind up supplying the tanks, F-16s and ATACMS it had previously deemed too escalatory, because that had already been established as the trend from the beginning of the war.

"When I was in D.C. in November, before the invasion, and asked for Stingers, they told me it was impossible," Mr. Reznikov told The New Yorker last year. "Now it is possible. When I asked for 155-millimetre guns, the answer was no. HIMARS, no. HARM, no. Now all of that is a yes." He added, "Therefore, I am certain that tomorrow there will be tanks and ATACMS and F-16s."

"..NATO arms transfers have now escalated well beyond what governments had worried just months ago could draw the alliance into direct war with Russia.."-Responsible Statecraft (RStatecraft) January 25, 2023

As Branko Marcetic explained earlier this year in an article for Responsible Statecraft titled "Mission Creep? How the United States role in Ukraine has slowly escalated," this continual pattern of escalation is actually incentivizing Russia to start taking aggressive action against western powers so that its warnings and red lines will cease being ignored!!

"By escalating their support for Ukraines military, the United States and NATO have created an incentive structure for Moscow to take a drastic, aggressive step to show the seriousness of its own red lines," Marcetic writes. "This would be dangerous at the best of times, but particularly so when Russian officials are making clear they increasingly view the war as one against NATO as a whole, not merely Ukraine, while threatening nuclear response to the alliances escalation in weapons deliveries."

"Moscow keeps saying escalatory arms transfers are unacceptable and could mean wider war; United States officials say since Moscow has not acted on those threats, they can freely escalate. Russia is effectively told it has to escalate to show it is serious about lines," Mr. Marcetic added on Twitter.

And it is just so strange how this is not the main thing everyone talks about all the time!!!

The fact that we are drawing closer and closer to nuclear conflict should dominate headlines every single day, and the subject of how to avoid planetary disaster should be the constant focus of mainstream political discourse!!

But it is not, because that would interfere with the grand chessboard maneuverings of a globe-dominating empire working to secure unipolar planetary domination by undermining disobedient nations like Russia and China!!

It is hard to think about the end of the world!!

It is hard to even wrap your mind around it, much less stand staring into the harsh white light of deep contemplation about what it is and what it would mean!!

A lot of cognitive dissonance and discomfort comes up, and it is easier to shift ones attention to something easier to chew on like the presidential race.

But this is something that urgently needs to be looked at. Because the people steering our world today appear to be driving blind!!!

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