Quote:It’s official: Ukraine is now allowed to use some U.S.-provided weapons to strike military targets in Russian territory.

The Biden administration has quietly given Ukraine permission to strike across the border from Kharkiv — and only that area — using U.S.-provided weapons. That’s according to two U.S. officials and two other people familiar with the move who spoke to our own ERIN BANCO, ALEX WARD

It’s a major reversal that will help Ukraine to better defend its second-largest city, following hints from top Biden aides that the U.S. would consider the move this week.

“The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S. weapons for counter-fire purposes in Kharkiv so Ukraine can hit back at Russian forces hitting them or preparing to hit them,” one of the U.S. officials confirmed, adding that the policy of allowing long-range strikes inside Russia “has not changed.”

In recent days, U.S. officials repeatedly told the public that there was no shift policy, but signaled that it was possible. Ukrainian officials, European allies and U.S. lawmakers from both parties have been calling on Biden to allow such strikes across the border for weeks — and the White House listened.

Ukraine asked the U.S. to make this policy change only after Russia’s offensive on Kharkiv began this month, the official added. In the last few days, the U.S. made the decision to allow Ukraine “flexibility” to defend itself from attacks on the border near Kharkiv, the second U.S. official said.

In effect, Ukraine can now use American-provided weapons, such as rockets and rocket launchers, to shoot down launched Russian missiles heading toward Kharkiv, at troops massing just over the Russian border near the city, or Russian bombers launching bombs toward Ukrainian territory. But the official said Ukraine cannot use those weapons to hit civilian infrastructure or launch long-range missiles, such as the Army Tactical Missile System, to hit military targets deep inside Russia.

It’s a stunning shift the administration initially said would escalate the war by more directly involving the U.S. in the fight. But worsening conditions for Ukraine on the battlefield — namely Russia’s advances and improved position in Kharkiv — led the president to change his mind. Kyiv has spent the last several days drawing up plans to use the weapons to hit the Russian targets, working to keep the news quiet until it achieved its goals.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/nat...a-00160711

Why is he escalating the war months before the election? Hmmmmm

(05-31-2024 10:04 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Why is he escalating the war months before the election? Hmmmmm

Because the rest of NATO had already allowed it.

Slavitards are joyous at the news

French troops are now in Ukraine.

(05-31-2024 10:04 AM)mlb Wrote:  

(05-31-2024 10:04 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Why is he escalating the war months before the election? Hmmmmm

Because the rest of NATO had already allowed it.

Creepy, cowardly Joe finally followed.

Good.

If the Russians are staging & supplying their troops from inside Russia, then those targets need to be taken out…

(05-31-2024 11:41 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  If the Russians are staging & supplying their troops from inside Russia, then those targets need to be taken out…

Thanks General Dementia

(05-31-2024 11:41 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  If the Russians are staging & supplying their troops from inside Russia, then those targets need to be taken out…

So we should be greenlighting the Israelis the same way. Anything or anyone supporting Hamas or supplying them needs to be taken out.

(05-31-2024 10:07 AM)Claw Wrote:  French troops are now in Ukraine.

Doing what? Cooking dinner?

(05-31-2024 01:14 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-31-2024 10:07 AM)Claw Wrote:  French troops are now in Ukraine.

Doing what? Cooking dinner?

Throwing their rifles down and hands up.

(05-31-2024 01:15 PM)bearcat65 Wrote:  

(05-31-2024 01:14 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-31-2024 10:07 AM)Claw Wrote:  French troops are now in Ukraine.

Doing what? Cooking dinner?

Throwing their rifles down and hands up.

If they are there for training purposes, Ukraine must be preparing to surrender.

If they are there to fight, then Ukraine is even bigger trouble than before they arrived.

lol---Its a war. What did Russia think was going to happen? Poutey Putin continues to venture deeper and deeper into the "find out" phase of this ill conceived vanity adventurism. Currently, Russia is on a long streak of sustaining over a 1000 casualties a day at this point. What a foolish waste of Russia's youth---not that Putin ever cared much about the plight of the poor citizens of Russia. No---this has always been about his massive ego. He wants to be remembered as a modern Katherine the Great. Not looking too good for that outcome. On the upside, moving to allow long range weapon strikes inside of Russia probably moves us closer to a world where BOTH Russia and Ukraine are forced to accept the reality that neither is capable of attaining their stated political goals on the battlefield and would be better served coming to a negotiated settlement.

(05-31-2024 03:42 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  lol---Its a war. What did Russia think was going to happen? Poutey Putin continues to venture deeper and deeper into the "find out" phase of this ill conceived vanity adventurism. Currently, Russia is on a long streak of sustaining over a 1000 casualties a day at this point. What a foolish waste of Russia's youth---not that Putin ever cared much about the plight of the poor citizens of Russia. No---this has always been about his massive ego. He wants to be remembered as a modern Katherine the Great. Not looking too good for that outcome. On the upside, moving to allow long range weapon strikes inside of Russia probably moves us closer to a world where BOTH Russia and Ukraine are forced to accept the reality that neither is capable of attaining their stated political goals on the battlefield and would be better served coming to a negotiated settlement.

You wish. The only settlement Putin will take is after he takes a beat down because he was foolish enough to escalate the war.

He can hang out in Ukraine for at least a decade if not longer

He has done a masterful job at recreating Vietnam.

Russia won’t win this war. They won’t even come close.

The scars will be for the next generations of Ruskies.

The US was SO sure Russia would do nothing if we kept creeping closer, and then crying “Russia is threatening NATO.”

We guessed wrong, have massively outspend Russia in this war, and have nothing to show for any of it except more debt. The bankers are grinning and rubbing their hands together for more.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMn-bgnaVe...Rvb3JzdGVw

This clip goes back many, many years, but the original keeps getting flagged on YouTube apparently, because the original and 3 subsequent copies I have marked to view later have disappeared.

Associated Press veteran Matt Lee cuts through the Pentagon BS. There are a couple very familiar faces in this old clip.

When asked if NATO had expanded to Russia, or Russia expanded to NATO, he, in part, replied

“I barely got a history degree from the University of South Florida…”

The world is laughing at us.

This would be embarrassing for a country in sub Saharan Africa where people live a dollar a day and have an average lifespan of 35. And that’s not hyperbole.

+3 for me for knowing and sharing this type of buffoonery. I know, there’s so much that has come and gone since this was recorded, but it really is an iconic level of embarrassing.

Justified. Seems very similar to our response when attacked in 1941 and 2001.

Biden's just steadily inching us into direct conflict. All he has to say is no NATO in Ukraine and this would be over. Imagine if we were at war with a neighboring country and Russian arms fell onto one of our population centers. It could and probably would escalate in a hurry. We have supplied Russian adversaries with arms before, but never have they been used on Russian soil that I know of. We are as close to WWIII as you can get.

(05-31-2024 12:37 PM)bearcat65 Wrote:  

(05-31-2024 11:41 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  If the Russians are staging & supplying their troops from inside Russia, then those targets need to be taken out…

So we should be greenlighting the Israelis the same way. Anything or anyone supporting Hamas or supplying them needs to be taken out.

No, because Mensa Dementia actually supports the terrorists. Mensa is team Hamas and Iran.