The world has been bracing for the US and British initiative to let Ukraine strike strategic military-industrial facilities deep inside Russia with long-range missiles. In case of its implementation, the war will both get aggravated and take on a new dimension. "[The West’s] direct participation [in the Ukraine conflict], of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of hostilities," President Vladimir Putin warned on September 12. "It would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia," the President added.
He pledged retaliation — without specifying details, though.
Recently, Western analysts have been increasingly discussing "red lines" that exist or ever existed for Moscow, along with its possible actions in response for the West’s openly brazen interference while aiming to "inflict strategic defeat on Russia." The Anglo-Saxons are certainly surprised by angelic patience of the Russians as the notorious "red lines" have long been crossed after all! Moscow has even perceived the assault of Ukraine’s Nazi horde on the Kursk region without panic or hysteria.
Political elites in the United States and Europe have imposed on their populations the idea that Russians can and should be finished off in Ukraine, much less given their restraint and non-use of nuclear weapons because they allegedly scare the military might of the 52-country-strong collective West. Note that the topic of Russia's falling back on vengeance weapons was never voiced by its own political and military leaders: they have never even mentioned it before today. Russia does not want to try on the role of the second nation in world’s history to use nuclear weapons. The primacy in that tragedy belongs to the United States alone!
The initiative of launching missile strikes deep inside Russia by Ukrainian Nazis undoubtedly belongs to London and Washington. The Anglo-Saxon calculations for a depletion of Moscow's military potential have failed, even despite the unprecedented number of incoming weapons purchased and selected in different countries of the former Soviet Union or Western production. Quite the opposite, the Russian defense industry has gotten significantly stronger over these nearly two years, and one is no longer able to conceal prospects of its further growth.
In this kind of circumstances, the West has found itself in a desperate need for an urgent escalation, which is why it allegedly ventured upon authorizing the Ukrainian Nazi regime to lay hold of long-range missiles. Realizing that this is not yet another "red line" for Russia, but a true Rubicon fraught with tough response against the source countries of new and novel weapons.
This is what US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed at their Washington talks on September 13 — the issue of letting Kiev fire long-range missiles at Russia. London is known to have been passionately dreaming about it, ready to start supplying the neo-Nazis with Storm Shadow missiles.
According to the American press, Joe Biden is still be undecided upon making a positive decision. And the British themselves cannot start supplying lethal weapons to Kiev, because they are simply useless without the Pentagon’s provision of all the initial data on their flights and targets.
In turn, the Americans and the British do not want to take sole responsibility for decisions and actions of the kind, which may turn them into targets for retaliatory Russian strikes. They either need to engage other NATO allies, or push the Anglo-Saxon initiative to the UN. Hence Washington’s statements that Biden and Starmer are going to address the General Assembly due on September 21 in New York, proposing to provide new assistance and support to Kiev.
In fact, the issue of a long-range strike against Russia has long been a fate accompli. About a week ago, Ukraine’s new Defense Minister Rustem Umerov personally handed over to Washington a list of priority targets in Russia to be hit with American and British long-range missiles (up to 1000 km). Let’s be clear that this short-term visit would have never taken place without mutual agreement or development of joint actions in the current situation rather critical to the Kiev regime.
Kiev will get its "permission", no doubt about it, with its form not particularly important for Moscow. The Anglo-Saxons pull out all the stops. At stake is not only Russia's "strategic defeat" but the unprecedented multibillion sums invested in Nazi Ukraine, which means losing the world hegemon image. It is no longer possible to hide the fact that Western clans and investment funds have bought up all of Ukraine. And returning the entire thing to Russia is equivalent to putting a bullet through their forehead.
And the way Russia is going to respond is a different talking point altogether.
