Following on the heels of the Biden administration announcing it would send longer range rocket systems to Ukraine, the Kremlin has issued a veiled threat that if it’s territory is hit it could strike back directly at the West.
“One of President Putin’s closest allies has warned that Moscow could target western cities if Ukraine uses rocket systems supplied by the United States to carry out strikes on Russian territory,” the UK Times is reporting. The dire warning was given by close top Putin ally and former president Dmitry Medvedev, who currently serves as the Russian security council deputy chairman.
“If, God forbid, these weapons are used against Russian territory then our armed forces will have no other choice but to strike decision-making centers,” Medvedev warned in the new statements.
That’s when he suggested the following for the first time, marking a severe escalation of rhetoric:
“Of course, it needs to be understood that the final decision-making centers in this case, unfortunately, are not located on the territory of Kyiv” – with the suggesting being that those Western capitals supplying the advanced arms could come under attack in response.
Previously Russia has threatened to hit “decision-making centers” within Ukraine, such as Kiev and Lviv. These cities have been targeted on occasion, but rarely, throughout the war now in its fourth month.
The US confirmed this past week that Ukraine would receive M142 high-mobility artillery rocket systems, which are medium-ranged, capable of striking targets some 50 miles away.
President Biden on Tuesday stressed that “we’re not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that strike into Russia” – which the Kremlin acknowledged as a “rational” decision, while stilling condemning the transfer of the systems.
Ukraine’s government, meanwhile, has reportedly given Washington “assurances” that it will not uses US-supplied weaponry to target Russian territory, which Moscow has long made clear would mark severe violation of its ‘red lines’.
This as Yahoo News UK has noted that “The West has been increasingly willing to give Ukraine longer-range weaponry, including M777 howitzers, as its forces battle Russians with more success than intelligence officials had predicted.”
Likely these fresh warnings from Medvedev serve to further warn and enforce over Russia’s red line. While the longer range MLRS missiles are apparently off the table for now, which can reach up to 190 miles away, the shorter-range MLRS systems could easily be updated with the larger, more advanced and longer range systems.
On the sanctions and economic war front, Poland officials have on Saturday said the next, seventh round of anti-Russia sanctions are currently being readied – suggesting that for the time being the ongoing Russian-NATO/EU standoff will only escalate further. Negotiations are at the same time stalled completely, and diplomatic openings and communications are fewer and fewer, making the situation even more dangerous.
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They surely have the coordinates for DC.
And keep in mind a 100 MT nuke completely takes out a radius of about 30 miles (50km).
That would be a good start. Has to be during working hours, though.
Going to strike “decision making centers.” Oh no, they’re going to hit Susan Rice and Obama!
Laissez les bon temps rouler
Hey now!!!
I would really prefer to not see nukes tossed around, but Gropey Joe seems to be hellbent to fuck around, find out.
Sorry, not really Joementia, his handler the Halfrican.
Hope Putin has a hypersonic treat for Obammy’s beachside retreat. He can just nuke DC, I’m good with that.
I realize I just contradicted myself on the whole nuke thing. But when it comes to DC, I find myself torn.
I’m not sure Putin would throw a nuke first. That is what the Cabal wants. Why not just sink an aircraft carrier? A more modest and localized response, no civilian deaths, and easily accomplished.
I keep hoping for the dumpster sized meteor for Mordor on the Potomac during the next State of the Union address, if there ever is another one.
I’m torn between cheering for an East coast hit or a West coast hit.
So long as they is a leftest city hits….
Hey, have you heard about the 5 stages of grief for Europeans?
The five stages of grief:
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Paying in Rubles
I think Putin fucked up on this. He opened the barn door for Zelenski. Why wouldn’t Zel fire those missiles into Russia? Start a world war, hope Russia ceases to exist ….just what the doctor ordered!
Vlad should have kept quiet.
close up view of a Ceasar Canon.
The only way France could see the potential of any of its hardware is for someone else to use it. You know…the old joke, “Want a good deal on a French army rifle? Never fired and only dropped once.”
You mean “we can’t handle Vlad’s truth”?
(Or Ze would never have conceived the idea to fire those missiles into Russia without that opened barn door??)
I personally prefer to being told exactly what my opponent thinks, and plans to do in certain circumstances.
Yes the geniuses of our ‘defense’ establishment have gotten us into a real mess. It’s not Putin’s fault. He is only to blame in that he didn’t move faster and with more force to crush us in the Ukraine. Vlad is one of the only sane voices today among world leaders.
Bullshit. He is drawing a line in the sand. Russia has built shelters and is prepared to save its people. The west has not. Russia also has far superior anti missile systems that will serve them well. They also have operational hyper-sonic missiles, the west does not. The last thing the west wants is this to go nuclear.
Russia gets one shot. Three Ohio class SSBNs will shower every major city and military installation in Russia. Well, unless they launch during Biden’s nap time.
Someone should tell that demented fucker that Russia-Ukie SHARE A BORDER!!! You could launch a bottle rocket from Ukraine that lands in Russia.
Precisely.
As they already did in Syria, but more technology-wise (drone warfare and defense against such etc.) than combat experience-wise.
Well, except the last sentence, as Russia did send/is sending some of their most advanced weaponry to Ukraine, but carefully in a way that none of it can fall into enemy’s hands intact, and probably not showing all modes (for example of EW capabilities).
DC first please, preferably a Poseidon right up the potomac during 10% Joe’s presser, would be epic
Say…
Vlad could pop off a nice four megaton shot right under the George Mason bridge and get all the good bits of D.C. PLUS the PENTAGON at ONCE!!!
But how will we ever get over losing our beautiful capital city???
(VLAD… we’ll get over it. Do what you gotta do!!!)
Maryland and Delaware? Mostly lefties anyway. They seem to like radiation, advocating for kicking The Bear the way they do these days.
We’ll put the new capital in KANSAS where it belongs.
Opportunity. The new nation could put the capitol in the geographical center of the U.S. As I recall there is a market there now. New elections and each candidate agrees to limited term going in.
You don’t pop a Poseidon in a river or bay, you do it in deep water some hundred miles in front of the shoreline.
Ignorance.
Per usual from you.
Fact-free ad hominem.
Per usual from you.
The dry run in the indian ocean, ’04 not enough testing?
Wait – they had the Poseidon in 2004 already?
DC during a full session of Congress and a packed White House would be an excelled target
Stupid f ing democrats.
If only he could have used the old Satan 2 nuke on the Davos crowd last week. Could have been world piece in our day at last.
The threat doesn’t seem “veiled” to me . It seems like a straight to the point warning .
If the west keeps this up much longer, it would not surprise me if Putin loses patience and levels Kiev.