The U.K. openly authorized Ukraine to use maximum-range Storm Shadows to strike targets in Russia.
Russia threatened to retaliate by striking targets in the U.K. if this happens, but the U.K. is not afraid, nor should they be.
Russia is just not going to launch a first strike against NATO no matter what we give Ukraine or what Ukraine does with it (nuclear weapons excepted). The Brits know this, and we should know it after long-range ATACMS strikes were an escalation nothingburger. We should start acting like we know it.
It should be noted that Russia has repeatedly attacked the UK in the last two decades, including the assassination of a Russian dissident with a radioisotope in 2006 and a nerve agent attack on British soil in 2018 which killed a British woman. Britain has shown remarkable forbearance in dealing with Putin, and his existing record of brutal murders in the UK renders his threats somewhat meaningless - he's already been doing in peacetime what he is now threatening to do in a time of war.
I will say, this current batch of House Republicans did mandate the delivery of maximum-range ATACMs. If we can somehow get the Republican Party back on the train of "Biden is weak on Ukraine! A real President would kick ass and take names!", we'd be in great shape.
That isn’t happening. The majority of republicans don’t support it. The majority of republican voters don’t support it.
Atacms will have a limited impact on this war. Sure it will help for a bit but then Russia will adjust and it will go back to the grind we have been seeing for the last year.
The U.K. openly authorized Ukraine to use maximum-range Storm Shadows to strike targets in Russia.
Russia threatened to retaliate by striking targets in the U.K. if this happens, but the U.K. is not afraid, nor should they be.
Russia is just not going to launch a first strike against NATO no matter what we give Ukraine or what Ukraine does with it (nuclear weapons excepted). The Brits know this, and we should know it after long-range ATACMS strikes were an escalation nothingburger. We should start acting like we know it.
It should be noted that Russia has repeatedly attacked the UK in the last two decades, including the assassination of a Russian dissident with a radioisotope in 2006 and a nerve agent attack on British soil in 2018 which killed a British woman. Britain has shown remarkable forbearance in dealing with Putin, and his existing record of brutal murders in the UK renders his threats somewhat meaningless - he's already been doing in peacetime what he is now threatening to do in a time of war.
Hard to do with this current batch of house republicans
I will say, this current batch of House Republicans did mandate the delivery of maximum-range ATACMs. If we can somehow get the Republican Party back on the train of "Biden is weak on Ukraine! A real President would kick ass and take names!", we'd be in great shape.
That isn’t happening. The majority of republicans don’t support it. The majority of republican voters don’t support it.
Atacms will have a limited impact on this war. Sure it will help for a bit but then Russia will adjust and it will go back to the grind we have been seeing for the last year.
Ukraine needs a draft asap.