Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
The State Department on Sunday implied that Ukrainian forces are allowed to use US-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) against Russian targets in Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014.
When the US first announced it was sending HIMARS to Ukraine, Biden administration officials said they received “assurances” from Ukrainian officials that the rockets won’t be used to target Russian territory.
When asked if the ban on Ukraine using the HIMARS to target Russian territory applies to Crimea, a State Department spokesperson told Antiwar.com, “Crimea is Ukraine.”
“The United States does not and will never recognize Russia’s purported annexation of Crimea. We will continue to stand up against Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war against the people of Ukraine,” the spokesperson said.
On Saturday, a Ukrainian intelligence official said that Ukrainian forces should start attacking Russian facilities in Crimea and suggested US-provided HIMARS could be used for such strikes.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chair of Russia’s security council, warned Sunday that if Ukraine launched attacks on Crimea, it would mean “doomsday” for Ukrainian leadership.
“Should anything of the kind happen, they will be faced with a doomsday, very quick and tough, immediately. There will be no avoiding it. But they keep on provoking the general situation by such statements,” Medvedev said, according to Russia’s Tass news agency.
Medvedev also said that the fact that Ukraine and Western nations don’t recognize Crimea as Russian territory poses a “systemic threat”” to Russia. “If any state, either Ukraine or a NATO country, thinks that Crimea is not part of Russia, it is a systemic threat to us,” he said.
The HIMARS the US has sent to Ukraine are equipped with munitions that can reach targets up to 50 miles away. The rocket systems could be outfitted with longer-range rockets, but the US chose the 50-mile range and sought assurances that they won’t be used to target Russian territory over fears that such attacks risk escalating the conflict.
But since Russia considers Crimea its territory, any attack on the peninsula would be a major escalation and would risk provoking a response from Moscow.
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The Great Reset would be aided by a major escalation and provoking a response from Moscow.
Russia seems determined to not give them their Great Reset. That would be the greater strategic move on their part.
Hopefully Putin Nukes Kiev.. Then London, Then Brussels, Then DC.
Paris on the way???? Please please pretty please with sugar on top???
and Paris…
DC first.
Idiot–kill hundreds of thousands of good, honest people? The state of Maryland had 19 of 23 counties vote conservative in each election. The rats that you’d like to target will be on underground railway systems, jets or within deep bunker networks. The only people who would die if you nuked DC would be average working stiffs and a few fed worker parasites ( easily replaced parasites.)
On top of that, if you think a nuke on DC would stop the globalists who are actually in control, you’re not just an idiot- you’re a delusional, imbecilic idiot.
Well said javelin. The same keyboard warriors who probably never went to a protest, stood up to the feds like Bundy Ranchers, Jan 6th patriots or Canadian truckers want a foreign country to nuke their citizens.
I’m all for overthrowing our corrupt govt, but calling for incinerating thousands and thousands of Americans is just repulsive.
Coming from the brave keyboard warrior who uses “Anonymous” as a handle.
Real funny when people talk about nuking your friends and family…where do you live, let’s discuss just a carpet bombing of you and your loved ones.
I think you, terrorists, the unibomber and Dresden bombers have similar sense of humors.
You are welcome to get into Sodom and Gomorrah, but don’t ask me to shed tears for you. The destiny of the Whore of Babylon is foretold.
Apples and oranges..God promised to spare those cities if even 10 righteous citizens could be found. You’re talking about the massacre of thousands of innocents and you call it humor. I call it the sick cousin of people who go into elementary schools with weapons and kill the bullies, teachers and classmates with equal relish.
To be able to joke about the horror of nuking a city, the surrounding wildlife, animals, farms, rivers and Chesapeake Bay as radioactive is deranged.
Why are you racist against thermonuclear weapons?
Kill them all, and let God sort them out. He will know his own.
Western power centers getting blown up is pretty much a sure thing at this point, so we might as well joke about it. Just look at the intellectually inbred ‘tards we have in positions of power. While we were busy staring at our iPhones, Russia and China were busy with more worthwhile pursuits. Now they outclass us in so many ways, militarily and economically. Not to mention intelligent leadership. Yet our idiot classes keep poking them any way they can.
Our idiot classes tell the euro idiot classes to give half their weapons to the Ukraine, then commit economic suicide through sanctions, AND THEY DO IT! Too stupid to live. How can this possibly end well?
7 people — if you can call them that — voted you down. 7 people believe your legitimate concern for INNOCENT lives is not acceptable.
These people are fucking MONSTERS. Really.
Sometimes I fucken hate this place.
There are no good honest people in Paris nor in DC
Or nuke DC, London, Brussels and then Kiev.
Watch how fast we get global government after a few cities are hit ( if it stops there).
A perfect setup for a “grave and urgent need for a global governing body” to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.
You want to end DC/Brussels etc… organize the hundreds of millions who have also had enough of their elitist bs.
Without Tel Aviv it would just be whack a mole. But you got most of them.
Don’t forget Ottawa, Canberra and Wellington. You wanna be in the “Five Eyes”? You’re all in, then.
Heres the solution to ALL the problems currently plaguing the Earth.
We can load all the telephone sanitizers and politicians onto rocket ships and they can lead the way to better planets. Once they’ve arrived and set up a system of governance they can signal for the rest of us to follow… Seems there are better alternatives to the rock we inhabit…
We just need to vote, democracy you know, and they’ll all be off on a glorious adventure… I’m thinking that even the glat earthers could get behind this.
If we ran them through grinders first, a lot more would fit into each cubic foot.
Freeze-dried and powdered. Reconstitute on arrival.
I’m liking that but the problem is its much more energy demanding than just chipping into a pod like TN stated… Want to stay ‘Green’ as possible…
communistszombies like that.29 June 2022
While NATO heads of state and government are gathered in Madrid mapping out a third world war against the Russian Federation, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos has released on its Telegram channel the coordinates of Western decision-making centers.
It displays satellite images of the White House and the Pentagon (United States), of NATO headquarters (Belgium) [photo], of the Congress Center (Spain) where the NATO summit is being held, of the Ministry of Defense (United Kingdom), the Reichstag and the Federal Chancellery (Germany), and even the Elysée Palace (France).
The site provides the strike coordinates:
⠀🇺🇸 38.897542, -77.036505
⠀⠀🇺🇸 38.870960, -77.055935
⠀⠀🇬🇧 51.503049, -0.127727
⠀⠀🇫🇷 48.870433, 2.316842
⠀⠀🇩🇪 52.519903, 13.368921
⠀⠀🇧🇪 50.879986, 4.425771
https://www.voltairenet.org/article217482.html
If they’re stupid enough to deploy this weapon (and they are), Kiev might not exist within an hour. Dams along the Dniepr are toast, too.
Onr Rooskie flatly stated that sinking an entire US Carrier Group with their nuclear torpedo is on the table. That threat opened up the trains from Kalinngrad and Sweden releasing Rooskie ships moorecd there.
I wouldn’t want to be an operator or anywhere near one of these launchers, because the Russians will be sending missiles their way….
Joined the Army to guard poppy fields in the ‘stan, not this Ivan bait B.S.
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