by Admin
Nov 18, 2024
Joe Biden, the United States President on Sunday made a U-turn in restriction on allowing Ukraine to use United States-made long-range missiles to attack deep into Russian territory.
President Joe Biden’s decision comes as a sign of relief for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who has been pushing for the use of Western-made missiles to attack deep into Russian territory since the beginning of the war.
This decision comes less than two weeks after the emergence of Donald Trump as the newly elected president of the United States who has assured that he would bring an end to the Ukraine-Russia war.
The new directives come hours after a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure left the country’s energy sector paralyzed and almost half of the country’s population without electricity.
Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia has always reiterated that any use of NATO missiles against Russian territory shows a clear signal of war between Russia and NATO. The new directives from the United States president have left the Russian government furious while different reactions have been going around from the Russian officials in the Kremlin.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, has accused the United States government of “pouring oil into a hot fire”. Peskov said the decision by Washington has directly put the United States and NATO in a direct war with Russia.
The United States and Britain have provided Ukraine with ATACMS and Storm Shadow long-range missiles but President Biden has warned Ukraine not to use the Storm Shadow missiles to attack Russia, the British Storm Shadow which has a longer range than the United States’ powerful ATACMS missiles.
Also, Germany has refused to supply Ukraine with its Taurus missiles with a range of over 500 kilometers(310 miles) over concerns that they could hit Russian territory.
Prodesq political analyst, Temitope Oladeji, said the decision of the outgoing United States president Joe Biddn to give Ukraine the green light to use U.S long-range missiles to attack deep inside Russian territory is purely political both within and outside the United States political territory.
Giving Ukraine the greenlight to attack deep into Russian territory takes the war to another scale of conflict which will intensify the Russian attack against not just Ukraine but NATO at large, which gives the United States’ incoming President Donald Trump a much tougher situation to deal with, Trump who in recent times have said that he would bring an end to the war in Ukraine and also reconsider United States commitment to NATO, will have a long decision to make after he resumes to the Oval office.
Joe Biden putting his successor into a tough position will make Donald Trump look weak if he decides not to fully support Ukraine after Russia declares war on NATO if Ukraine decides to strike Russia with U.S.-made missiles.
Also, the arrival of Ten thousand North Korean troops to aid Russia in the war has changed the political landscape of the war. The United States, which has always been a strong ally of South Korea, sees the military pact between Russia and North Korea as a dangerous precedent for the United States’ political grip on the Korean peninsula.
However, President Putin has yet to release any official statement regarding the new turn of events in the war.