Caitlin Johnstone covers the sass and stupidity from one of Mordor’s foremost neo-Trotskyites, Stinkin’ Blinken.
During an appearance on ABC’s This Week with Jonathan Karl, Secretary of State Tony Blinken explicitly said that the US would not oppose Ukraine using US-supplied longer-range missiles to attack deep inside Russian territory, a move that Moscow has previously called a “red line” which would make the United States a direct party to the conflict.
“We understand that the United States is considering sending those long-range missiles that Ukraine has been asking for for a long time,” Karl said in the interview. “These are long-range missiles, 200 miles in range. Are you okay if those missiles allow Ukraine to attack deep into Russian territory?”
“In terms of their targeting decisions, it’s their decision, not ours,” answered Blinken after some bloviation.
The ATACMS, like the rest of NATO’s Sanford and Son garbage weapons, won’t make any difference in the SMO. However, they do risk widening the conflict, possibly to GAE bases in Europe or even in the good old U S of Gay. If Lockheed Martin factories and/or ‘Murican cities start receiving Russian long-range missiles, ‘Muricans can then blame themselves for allowing their government to fall into the weak, clammy hands of demented foreigners like Tony B.