First they said leopard tanks would destroy Russia, then it was #HIMARS, after that #ATACMS and cluster bombs.
When will they realize that #Ukraine has 0 chance of defeating #Russia? This war has no end, and no winners.. everybody lose and the only outcome is #ceasefire followed by #peace negotiations.
Two Western officials told the paper that the #US had supplied #Kiev with about 20 rockets in cluster munition versions, each carrying 950 small bombs.
Now, with the advent of ATACMS, #Germany is expected to be forced to hand over its #Taurus - Scholz refused to send the German long-range missiles ahead of the Americans.
Just another scary opinion, which most probably will not become true.
I believe there is a clear connection between the successful Storm Shadow attack on the general staff building in Sevastopol and the decision to ship #ATACMS to Ukraine now. I also note that the decision to supply the American missiles will surely be followed in a few days by the German decision to ship its long-range #TAURUS missiles. Both decisions have till now been held back on grounds that they would lead to a Russian #escalation of the war. Now it would appear that, facing imminent defeat, the Biden administration is throwing caution to the wind and is ready to risk outbreak of a direct, not proxy Russia-NATO war.
As a further straw in the wind, I point to another deeply troublesome bit of information that you will not find in The New York Times. The Russian news ticker today carries a report from a Russian commander in the field in Ukraine that his unit just destroyed a Leopard tank and found that the entire crew was Germans. Two of them were killed and one injured tank officer was taken prisoner. Those manning a Leopard surely were not soldiers of fortune but genuine #Bundeswehr boys. Put in other words, #NATO is now directly on the battlefield and not as advisers or instructors. We are headed into very dangerous territory.
#Zelensky's chief of staff is confident that #Washington will agree to send these missiles to Kyiv/Kiev
NATO will not stop until #Russia destroyed or pushed to a corner to escalate the war into a nuclear confrontation.
