Biden OKs Ukraine using US weapons to strike Russia, but with caveats

[RYAN ROBERTSON]

THE WHITE HOUSE IS GIVING UKRAINE THE GREENLIGHT TO STRIKE INSIDE RUSSIA USING U.S. SUPPLIED WEAPONS.

THE MAJOR POLICY REVERSAL BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION COMES AFTER PLEAS FROM KYIV AND OTHERS.

THERE ARE SOME CAVEATS, THOUGH.

THE WEAPONS CAN ONLY BE USED TO COUNTER RUSSIAN ATTACKS NEAR KHARKIV.

THE U.S. STOPPED SHORT OF ALLOWING LONG-RANGE STRIKES INSIDE RUSSIA AND CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE IS OFF LIMITS.

THE MOVE BY BIDEN–WHICH WAS FIRST MADE QUIETLY–

IS AIMED AT GIVING UKRAINE THE ABILITY TO FIGHT OFF THE RUSSIAN FORCES DISMANTLING ITS SECOND LARGEST CITY.

SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN SAID THE CHANGE WAS DESPERATELY NEEDED, NOT JUST FOR UKRAINE, BUT THE WORLD.

[ANTONY BLINKEN]

“THE STAKES COULDN’T BE HIGHER FOR THIS MOMENT. WE KNOW THAT IF RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IS ALLOWED TO PROCEED IN UKRAINE WITH IMPUNITY IT WILL NOT STOP WITH UKRAINE.”

[RYAN ROBERTSON]

NOW, UKRAINIAN FORCES CAN USE U.S. WEAPONRY TO INTERCEPT RUSSIAN MISSILES HEADING TOWARD KHARKIV.

RUSSIAN TROOPS MASSING OVER THE RUSSIAN BORDER NEAR KHARKIV ARE ALSO FAIR GAME.

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PREVIOUSLY SAID LIFTING RESTRICTIONS COULD ESCALATE THE WAR…BUT THE ONSLAUGHT ON KHARKIV WAS APPARENTLY ENOUGH TO FORCE A CHANGE OF HEART FOR BIDEN. 

THE U.S. ISN’T THE ONLY COUNTRY TO CHANGE ITS MIND. BERLIN LIFTED RESTRICTIONS ON GERMAN-PROVIDED WEAPONS TO UKRAINE– WITH SIMILAR STIPULATIONS AS THE U.S.

MORE WESTERN NATIONS ARE ALSO SHOWING THEIR WILLINGNESS TO CROSS VLADIMIR PUTIN’S REDLINES. 

FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON SAYING MORE DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR IS COMING.

THE FRENCH ARE IN TALKS TO SEND MILITARY TRAINING PERSONNEL INTO UKRAINE. PUTTING WESTERN TROOPS ON UKRAINIAN SOIL OF COURSE PUTS THEM AT RISK OF BECOMING CASUALTIES. PUTIN ALSO SAID BEFORE DEPLOYING WESTERN TROOPS TO UKRAINE WOULD HAVE “TRAGIC” CONSEQUENCES.

LOOSENING THE LEASH ON UKRAINE AND THE WILLINGNESS TO SEND FOREIGN TROOPS TO UKRAINIAN SOIL ISN’T SITTING WELL WITH ALL NATO MEMBERS.

HUNGARY’S PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN CLAIMS NATO IS “GETTING CLOSER TO WAR” EVERY WEEK…HE ALSO SAID NATO IS DRAGGING BUDAPEST INTO A “WORLD WAR.”

ORBAN’S PARTICULARLY WARM RELATIONSHIP WITH MOSCOW HAS PUT HUNGARY AT ODDS WITH FELLOW NATO ALLIES.

THE KREMLIN, ON CUE, IS DENOUNCING THE POLICY CHANGES SURROUNDING WESTERN AID TO UKRAINE. 

FORMER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT AND CURRENT SECURITY OFFICIAL DMITRY MEDVEDEV SAID MOSCOW ISN’T BLUFFING ABOUT USING TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS AGAINST UKRAINE…SOMETHING HE AND OTHER RUSSIAN LEADERS HAVE SAID BEFORE. 

MEDVEDEV SAID MOVES BY THE WEST COULD LEAD TO AN ALL-OUT WAR…AND  “RUSSIA REGARDS ALL LONG-RANGE WEAPONS USED BY UKRAINE AS BEING DIRECTLY CONTROLLED BY SERVICEMEN FROM NATO COUNTRIES. THIS IS NO MILITARY ASSISTANCE…HE SAYS… THIS IS PARTICIPATION IN A WAR AGAINST RUSSIA.”

WE’VE BEEN COVERING THE WAR IN UKRAINE FROM THE START AND WILL KEEP DOING SO…FOR MORE OF OUR UNBIASED, STRAIGHT FACT REPORTING DOWNLOAD THE STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS APP TODAY….OR VISIT US AT S-A-N DOT COM.

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