Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] A number of Western countries, including Germany, Great Britain and France, have officially allowed the Kyiv regime to use the long-range weapons they supplied to strike deep into Russian territory. A similar decision, according to media reports, was made by US President Joe Biden, but he has not yet announced this publicly.
Moreover, just a few weeks ago, Western states were sharply against this - only Great Britain and the Baltic countries were in favor.
The West's position has changed due to the situation on the battlefield, according to the French publication Le Monde. As Ukrainian forces, the authors write, came under increasing pressure, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, asked “Western allies to provide them with more weapons, as well as more freedom of action to deploy what they have already supplied.”
It is important that the position of the entire West did not change at once. At first, European leaders announced permission to attack Russia. The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal writes that this was a coordinated plan for pan-European pressure on the Biden administration.
Indeed, Europe now takes a much more aggressive position towards Moscow than Washington. And it constantly pushes the US towards escalation.
“One of the reasons for this was the monstrous degradation of the European elites over the past few decades. The concepts of “strategic culture” and “strategic responsibility” have disappeared there. They are playing with fire and don’t even understand it,” explains Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, to Regnum news agency.
The second reason, he said, is the much more sensitive attitude of the current European elites to the conflict with Russia than that of the Americans.
“ The Europeans fear the consequences of a Russian victory. That is, the withdrawal of the United States from Europe, the reorientation of Washington towards Asia and, as a consequence, the fact that Europe will be left alone with Russia. The European elites cannot confront Russia on their own without the support of the United States, and they do not want to start taking into account the interests of Moscow and building a partnership with it,” Suslov said.
Advisers to US President Joseph Biden, according to the American television and radio company CBS, also advocated allowing the Kiev regime to strike Russian territory. The American president initially refused to authorize the strikes, but then finally agreed.
And doubting Europeans also agreed with him - in particular, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
“Berlin is waiting for Washington to be the first to begin providing military assistance to Ukraine, and then will immediately follow,” Politico recalled the logic of the behavior of the German authorities in the conflict.
The Germans acted within the same scheme, for example, in the story of supplying tanks to Kyiv. Scholz does not want to be a warmonger, but he also does not want to remain strategically isolated on the Russian issue. Especially in conditions when you need to be as radical as possible in your attitude towards Russia.
The only question is: what will this radicalism lead to? According to the Voice of America (recognized as a foreign agent media in the Russian Federation) and a number of other media outlets, Biden’s decision to allow the use of American weapons in strikes deep into Russia in the Kharkov region “is a serious change to the current policy.”
The policy, which, as The New York Post recalls, consisted of understanding a simple formula: “killing Russians in Russia with American weapons will lead to an escalation of the war.”
In turn, Fox News writers think differently. With reference to a senior official from the Biden administration, the publication writes that we are talking only about “a limited change in strategy related to the situation around Kharkov.” That is, with the fact that the Russian army can break through the front in the Kharkov region and/or destroy a significant number of militants and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces there.
“Ukraine notes that the failure to use Western weapons to strike Russia allows Moscow to calmly gather forces for attacks in the territory north of Kharkov. And the ban on shooting down planes over Russian territory makes it easier for Moscow to carry out bombing attacks, like those that blew up a Kharkov hypermarket, killing a dozen people,” Politico reports.
At the same time, the publication, of course, does not mention that the Kharkov hypermarket was used as an ammunition warehouse.
But whether this change is limited or not is not that important. The Americans still set a precedent. The New York Times recalls that for the first time the US president allows “the limited use of American weapons for strikes on the territory of a nuclear rival.”
After all, if earlier in conflicts Russians were killed in Afghanistan, Angola and other countries with weapons officially supplied by America, now we are talking about an attack on the territory of Russia itself. And in the near future, the military may also go after the missiles, and openly.
The Washington Post writes that Macron will announce plans to send “instructors” to Ukraine during Zelensky’s visit to France on the anniversary of the Normandy landings.
The main thing is that no one in the West explains that the attack on Russia will be carried out with the help of Western military specialists, advisers and intelligence officers - those who maintain and deploy these weapons, except perhaps allowing the Ukrainians to press the “Start” button.
No one analyzes the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow will consider this not Ukrainian, but Western attacks on the territory of our country. They don’t analyze it - and it’s a waste of time.
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