US Secretary of State Blinken & UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, will travel to Kyiv to inform Ukraine that restrictions on use of long-range missiles against Russian territory will be lifted.
Initially, this will mean that American-supplied ATACMS (Advanced Tactical Missile System) along with British-supplied "StormShadow" missiles, and French-supplied "SCALP" missiles, can now be used to attack deep inside pre-war Russia.
HAL TURNER ANALYSIS
How much longer can any reasonable person expect Russia, to sit back and allow itself to be attacked with American, British, French, and German weaponry, fired by Ukraine?
In the real world, if persons "A" and "b" give a weapon to person "C," and person "C" goes out and uses that weapon to commit an act of violence . . . and gets arrested . . . . they then ask Person "C" "Where did you get this weapon?" When person "C" tells them, the very NEXT people to get arrested are persons "A" and "B."
There __is__ liability and culpability for what the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and NATO member countries, are doing. They are accessories before the fact.
If it weren't for the fact that the US and NATO breached the promise made by President George H.W. Bush (the father) . . . who promised Mikhail Gorbachev that "NATO will not move one inch eastward" if the then-Soviet Union approved of the reunification of East and West Germany, none of this trouble would be happening.
WE PROMISED the Soviets we would not expand NATO. Bill Clinton got into the US Presidency, and the Presidential promise to the Soviets went out the window.
We not only expanded NATO more than one inch eastward, we expanded it right up to Russia's BORDER!
When the US/EU and NATO tried to get Ukraine to join NATO, back in 2013 and 2014, Ukraine's Democratically-elected President, Viktor Yanukovich said "Thanks, but no thanks." So the US -- under Barack Obama -- the EU, and NATO fomented, financed, and facilitated the forcible, violent overthrow of Yanukovich.
It was THEN . . . . right then . . . . that Russia realized the expansion of NATO was going to put American missiles on Ukrainian soil - and do it by overthrowing Ukraine's President! ! ! !. Those missiles would have a five minute flight time to Moscow.
Russia also pointed out that even if, as the Americans claimed, the missiles were "conventional" and "defensive" that they could also be re-fitted with OFFENSIVE and NUCLEAR warheads. The refit could be done while the missiles were in their launcher, and no one would know the missiles had been swapped-out.
Russia could then find itself on the wrong end of nuclear bombs with a five minute flight time to Moscow, and a slightly longer 7-10 minute flight time to Russia's strategic nuclear missile silos.
Russia pointed out that no nation on earth can defend itself against a missile with a five minute flight time from launch to impact.
Russia pointed out that it was US President John F. Kennedy, who set the precedent for this, when he imposed a naval blockade of Cuba because the then-Soviets, had place nuclear missiles in Cuba with a five minute flight time to Washington DC. (Cuban Missile Crisis.)
Had the Soviets not agreed to remove those missiles, President Kennedy was already massing troops in Florida to invade Cuba.
Russia tried, at least TWICE, to negotiate "iron-clad, legally enforceable security guarantees" via Diplomatic efforts in December 2021 and January 2022 to protect their national security from NATO expansion and more missiles. The collective West laughed and told Russia "No." So the second attempt, Russia told everyone "If we cannot obtain iron-clad, legally enforceable security guarantees via Diplomatic means, we will obtain them by military or military-technical means." They told everyone -- in writing -- they would use military force.
The collective West waited about two weeks and then laughed at the Russians again, and told them "no."
Russia made clear this issue is a "Red Line" and they would not allow Ukraine to Join NATO.
In its final effort to keep the peace, Russia called Ukraine and told them "You have five hours to agree not to join NATO." Ukraine called the US and UK, both of whom told them "ignore the Russian ultimatum."
Russia waited. When the five hours were up, Russia waited two additional hours and, having heard nothing but Ukraine earlier say "We are a Sovereign country, we will do what we want, Russia said "Oh yea? Here. Meet the Russian Army.
In went the Russian troops.
The West then turns around and screeches like girl-men "This is an unprovoked aggression by Russia." No it isn't. It was provoked. Provoked by the expansion of NATO. Provoked by the forcible overthrow of Ukraine's President Yanukovich. Provoked by the Ukraine Army shelling and mortaring Russian-speaking civilians in Luhansk and Donetsk.
Russia is DEFENDING its own national security by forcibly halting this expansion of NATO; done by the forcible overthrow of Ukraine's government by the US and EU. Russia is defending itself from American missiles being on Ukrainian soil.
Russia is defending the Russian-speaking populations of Luhansk, Donetsk Kherson, and Zaporozyhe - many of whom were already being attacked by Ukraine artillery and mortars. In fact, Luhansk and Donetsk, had already lost about 13,000 people to Ukrainian attacks, before Russia stepped-in to help them fight off the Ukrainians in 2013 and 2014.
Russia is right in what it's doing.
If Russia gives-in, NATO will simply continue to expand until all of Russia is surrounded. Then, one day, NATO calls and says something like, you have five minutes to surrender or we will wipe your country from the face of the earth and take all its riches. At that point, it would be too late for Russia.
Russia had to take a stand, now. They had no choice.
We in the West are the aggressors here. It is we in the West who moved our NATO bases right up to Russia's border. It is we in the West aiming more and more missiles at Russia from all those bases. And it is we in the West who have been using Ukraine, as a Proxy army, to attack Russia for OUR (NATO) benefit.
If Russia decides they have had enough of us, it is WE (here in America) that may be hit by their missiles. All because NATO wants to expand.
I say, No thanks, NATO. You don't need to expand anymore.
