Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]

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  • Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: NicaraguaEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I think it would depend a lot on how big of threat these ‘long-range’ systems actually pose. If only a modest number were delivered and used, Russian air defenses and retaliatory strikes inside Kiev-controlled territory could easily handle that. Russia would then likely respond by delivering various weapons systems (like S-400 air defense systems, advanced anti-ship missiles, and modern warplanes) to the DPRK, Iran, and other allies.

    However, in the worst case scenario, if the Western imperialists actually tried overwhelming Russian air defenses, Russia would need to respond by conducting strikes of its own on Western military bases inside NATO countries that would be supplying and covertly providing operators for those weapon systems. It’s easy to then see how extremely aggressive acts by NATO could escalate into a nuclear war or “World War III” scenario. Frankly, I doubt that the US ruling class is brave enough to try that – they have far too much to lose, even with their overseas empire in terminal decline, they still have immense riches at home that they’d rather not see vaporized (not to mention their own lives).

  • Socialism_Is_The_Alternative [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from September 9th to September 15th, 2024 - Viva Sandino! - COTW: NicaraguaEnglish
    65·
    5 days ago

    Some more news from the front.

    Russian forces have now liberated at least 10 Kursk oblast settlements over the past two days (Apanasovka, Byakhovo, Vishnevka, Viktorovka, Vnezapnoye, Gordeyevka, Krasnooktyabrskoye, Obukhovka, Snagost and 10th October): https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/russian-army-ousts-ukrainian-troops-from-10-settlements-in-kursk-region-1120121317.html

    President Putin also made an important statement today in response to all the NATO chatter about ‘long-range weapons for Kiev’:

    “I have already mentioned this, and any experts will confirm, both in our country and in the West, that the Ukrainian army is not capable of [independently] carrying out strikes using Western modern, long-range precision systems. It cannot do this. This is possible only with the use of intelligence from satellites which Ukraine does not have. This data is only available from satellites of the European Union or the United States, in other words, from NATO satellites. That’s the first point.

    The second and very important, perhaps key point is that only NATO servicemen can make flight assignments to these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this.

    So this is not about whether or not to allow the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia using these weapons, but about deciding whether or not NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not. If such a decision is taken, it will mean nothing short of direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries, in the war in Ukraine. This would constitute their direct participation, and this, of course, changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. It will mean that NATO countries, the United States and European countries, are at war with Russia. And if this is so, bearing in mind the change in the very nature of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”

    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/putin-natos-direct-involvement-in-ukrainian-conflict-will-mean-it-is-at-war-with-russia-1120123826.html