US and UK Will Keep Hitting Russia with Missiles.
What if Putin’s Nuclear Threat Is Not a Bluff?
Steven Starr & Tyler Durden
(November 24, 2024) — It is clear that Biden, Starmer, and Macron intend to intensify their missile attacks on Russia. France has now signed on to using its SCALP missiles to strike Russia; the French Foreign Minister has stated that there should be no “red lines” for the West and France is “open to extending an invitation” to Ukraine to join NATO.
Putin has clearly and repeatedly stated that Russia now considers itself at war with the US and NATO. Russia will strike NATO targets if it is subjected to continued missile strikes by long-range precision weapons that can only be launched with the full participation of the US and UK (and now, France). The use of the intermediate range ballistic missile armed with non-interceptable hypersonic warheads against a target in Ukraine two days ago was Putin’s last warning to the West that Russia is NOT BLUFFING.
Through his order to attack Russia with US missiles — which was immediately followed by a combined US and British missile attack on Russia — Biden has set in motion a process that will lead to Russian retaliation against military NATO targets.
The US and Russia have put their nuclear forces on elevated alert. We are moving towards nuclear war.
France Backs Ukraine
Firing Its Long-Range Missiles At Russia
Tyler Durden / Zerohedge
(November 24, 2024) — This weekend, France has belatedly made clear that it has joined allies Britain and US in authorizing Ukraine to use long-range missile for strikes on targets in Russian territory.
The past week has witnessed significant escalation after Ukraine used both UK-made Storm Shadow missiles and US-supplied ATACMS in at least two separate cross-border assaults. And now:
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told the BBC that Ukraine can shoot French longer-range missiles into Russia in the “logics of self-defense.” The French Scalp missiles are the same as the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles, which Ukraine had already used in attacks on Russia.
“The principle has been set… our messages to President Zelensky have been well received,” he said in the Saturday interview, however without disclosing whether French Scalp missiles have already been used in such a way.
He argued that the Western allies should not put any limits on supporting Ukraine’s effort fighting back Russia. He called for the West to “not set and express red lines.“
After saying this, he was then pressed by interviewer Laura Kuenssberg over if that could even mean sending French troops into the war. “We do not discard any option,” he responded.
The top French diplomat continued, “We will support Ukraine as intensely and as long as necessary. Why? Because it is our security that is at stake. Each time the Russian army progresses by one square kilometer, the threat gets one square kilometer closer to Europe.”
On the question of Zelensky’s push to join NATO, Barrot strongly hinted that Paris considers it as a possibility: “We are open to extending an invitation, and so in our discussions with friends and allies, and friends and allies of Ukraine, we are working to get them to closer to our positions,” he said.
“Of course we will have to spend more if we want to do more, and I think that we have to face these new challenges,” he said of broader French and European defense spending.
The Kremlin’s response to all of this was swift, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova declaring that FM Barrot’s comments are “not support for Ukraine, but rather a death knell for Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine have continued exchanging drones over each other’s territory at an intense pace. “Ukraine’s air force said that at least 73 Russian attack drones entered the country’s airspace on Saturday into Sunday morning, after a week in which both sides made battlefield history with new advanced weapons systems,” ABC reports.
And Russia’s defense ministry said during the same period its military downed a reported 36 Ukrainian drones. Russia further described that in Ukraine it targeted “military airfields, production facilities and storage sites for drones, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment.”
