Moscow has announced that Russia has experienced a serious escalation of the conflict with Ukraine on Wednesday, after the country launched six ATACMS ballistic missiles, built in the United States, into one of their airfields. Guys, this is not a good sign. We should be hoping for a de-escalation in the violence happening between these two nations and it seems that President Joe Biden is bound and determined to drag our country into a massive global conflict before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. We’re in a scary, scary place in human history.
According to a new report from ZeroHedge:
Taganrog is a Black Sea port city in southwestern Russia, and was targeted in the heavy attack. The military claimed that all six were able to be intercepted and downed before reaching their target, with two reported intercepts by a Pantsir air defense system, and the others destroyed after electronic warfare systems diverted them.
“Missile fragments caused injuries among personnel. There was no destruction, but two buildings in the airfield’s technical area and three military vehicles sustained minor shrapnel damage. Civilian vehicles in a nearby parking lot were also damaged,” the Russian Defense Ministry statement said. Apparently this damage occurred through “falling fragments of the missiles” according to the ministry, which also vowed that retaliation is coming for the strike.
“This attack by Western long-range weapons will not go unanswered, and appropriate measures will be taken,” it continued, though the statement contained no further details.
It appears that at least other drones or missiles which were part of the broader assault made it through Russian aerial defenses:
In the early hours of Wednesday, Dec.11, multiple explosions shook the city of Taganrog in Russia’s Rostov region, regional governor Yuri Slyusar reported, describing the attack as a “missile strike.”
The attack, reported around 4:20 a.m., triggered air defense systems and caused at least ten explosions, local residents told the Shot Telegram channel. Eyewitnesses suggested the target might have been a military airfield, according to CHEKA-OGPU Telegram channel.
Back in September, President Vladimir Putin spoke to the world and announced new “red lines” for the war between his country and Ukraine. One of those was an assertion that long-range attacks on Russia with weapons that were supplied to Ukraine by Western nations would be considered “direct participation” of NATO countries in the conflict.
“It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict,” he explained. “This will mean that Nato countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia.”
The use of ATACMS, along with the employment of other Western systems, requires NATO personnel to assist with satellite and targeting data, including being able to “input flight missions into these missile systems.”
As I said previously, this is very bad. Russia will likely view this attack as Westerners meddling in the war, particularly the U.S. We’re literally dangling above an inferno by a single strand of silk at this very moment, that inferno being a world-wide nuclear war.
Putin could potentially order a major attack on Kiev or the command and control centers of Ukrainian armed forces. This is, without a doubt, going to complicate the negotiations Trump is going to attempt when his administration comes into office. That’s probably been Biden’s prerogative with giving these weapons to Ukraine and encouraging them to ratchet up their attacks on Russia.
Pray we can avoid a third world war and that things will cool off a bit while we wait for January 20 to roll around.
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