Biden No Longer Fears Nuclear Threat from Russia, The Hill Says

Biden No Longer Afraid of Russia's Nuclear Threat, The Hill Vladislav Kravtsov

Joe Biden has granted Ukraine permission to use long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia. This shows that the US president is no longer afraid of nuclear threats from Russia.

This is reported by 24 Channel with reference to the material of the publication The Hill. Our state was allowed to carry out some of the first long-range strikes against Russia using ATACMS missiles.

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< p > The publication noted that on November 17, after almost two months of internal analysis, Joe Biden finally agreed to allow Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missile systems against Russian targets, first in the Kursk region, where Ukraine is conducting its operation.

< p >Biden also subsequently authorized Ukraine to use British Storm Shadow air-launched missiles and French Scalp missiles (both jointly developed by the two countries), whose components contain American navigation systems and are therefore subject to American restrictions on their use.

According to journalists, within two days of receiving permission from the White House, Ukraine fired at least eight ATACMS at a weapons depot near the city of Karachev in the Bryansk region of Russia. The following day, Ukrainian bombers fired 10 British Storm Shadow missiles at an underground command post of the occupiers in the Kursk region. It was reported that Russian and possibly North Korean commanders were present.

On the same day that Ukraine first used ATACMS, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially signed changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine.

The document, which updates Russia's official nuclear doctrine, contains several key changes. In particular, Putin stated that Moscow could use nuclear weapons to defeat “aggression against the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus … using conventional weapons, which creates a critical threat to their sovereignty and/or territorial integrity.”

In practice, however, no matter what Russia's official nuclear doctrine says, the decision to use nuclear weapons or not has always belonged to Putin alone.

As the publication writes, Biden's decision to provide ATACMS to the Ukrainians may mean that, finally, as his presidential term ends, he has decided to no longer hold back out of fear of the Russian nuclear threat.

Journalists noted that if Washington had approved such a decision a couple of years ago, the war in Ukraine could have ended long ago, and the country would have avoided so much mass death and destruction from Russia.