Source: Inter Press Service
by Alice Slater
“The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the U.S. intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian bear beyond its patience without even influencing the outcome of the war in Ukraine’s favor. There had been a sense of waiting with bated breath in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that he would lower the threshold for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons, as the U.S. and its NATO allies broadcasted their plans to ignore a repeated ‘red line’ articulated by U.S. President Joe Biden not to provide arms to Ukraine which could be launched deep inside Russia.” (10/05/24)