Moscow warns of nuclear war as West considers escalation

The Kremlin has issued yet more warnings following reports that the Biden administration may soon green light to long-range attacks by Kiev forces on Russian territory using US-supplied weapons.

Both the UK and Canada are on board, we reported earlierand British Prime Minister Ken Starmer visits Washington where he is lobby directly Biden to get on board and accept Zelensky’s urgent request to lift all restrictions on Western weaponry.

However, The New York Times suggests that saner minds prevail at this time. “President Biden’s deliberations with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on whether to allow Ukraine to attack Russia with Western long-range weapons were further evidence that The president remains deeply afraid of sparking a wider and more dangerous conflict“, the publication writes.

Let’s hope that’s the case, as this is probably the most dangerous moment and decision point of the war so far. Pentagon leadership recently stressed that granting permission for long-range strikes would do nothing strategically to change the battlefield, where Russian momentum has steadily gained in eastern Ukraine.

Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoli Antonov, added to the Kremlin’s earlier warnings on Friday Russia 24 channel he fears the American leadership and the people under it “illusion”.

He said they seem to think so “if there is a conflict, it will not extend to the territory of the United States of America.”

Antonov went on to point out that Americans cannot hide from nuclear war if this unthinkable happens. “I’m constantly trying to convey to them a thesis that The Americans will not be able to sit out behind the waters of this ocean. This war will affect everyone, so we are constantly saying – don’t play with this rhetoric,” said Antonov. conformable to declare media translation.

Regarding British Prime Minister Starmer’s visit to Washington, The Wall Street Journal previously anticipated that “While the final decision on Storm Shadow will be made by the UK government, British officials will demand that the Biden administration intervene, as some rocket components. are made in the usa”

But based on what NSC spokesman John Kirby said Friday afternoon, Washington’s policy has not changed and no permission has yet been granted to Ukraine.

So far, Ukrainian forces have hit targets in Russia with drones, but launching missiles into the Moscow Oblast area, for example, would take the war to a whole new level.

President Putin has warned that Russia will they make no distinction between Ukrainian forces and their NATO suppliers at that time. It won’t matter who pulled the trigger.

By Zerohedge.com

More top reads from Oilprice.com