President Emmanuel Macron announced earlier this week that they would provide some SCALP missiles to Ukraine, though France and others have been hesitant to do so because such actions have thought would only prolong the war.
The U.K. has already been providing their own version of them called the Storm Shadow since May.
France 24 reports that these missiles have already arrived in Kiev.
This type of weapon raised questions in the sense that the Ukrainians could use them to bomb critical infrastructure on Russian territory. The West thought that if the Ukrainians managed to target an air base, then they could target a hydroelectric dam, a nuclear power station or even Moscow’s Red Square.
We should not assume that these weapons will hit civilian infrastructure situated 250 kilometres inside Russian territory. Furthermore, Russia’s anti-aircraft defence system is so effective that Ukrainian aircraft are forced to drop their weapons from 100 kilometres behind the front line.
Swiss military expert Alexandre Vautravers said
In response to Macron’s announcement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated it is a “mistake” of Frances’s part, and will result in “consequences” for Ukraine. ‘He warned that Moscow would take “countermeasures,” without specifying details, RT reports.
Furthermore, the U.K. has announced that they will be sending hundreds drones to Ukraine, along with tons more long-range missiles.
Military historian Yuri Knutov told Sputnik in a statement that this will only prolong the war, after the disappointing counteroffensive failed to turn the tide of the war, and further demonstrates Europe and NATO’s continued support of Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops are not coping with their task at this stage. And that goal was to deliver a lightning strike, to break through in the direction of Melitopol in a matter of 72 or 96 hours, reach the Sea of Azov, cut off the land supply routes to Crimea. They failed to achieve this… The maximum that the Kiev regime manages to do is fight for advance strongholds.
If Germany becomes the number one supplier of weapons after the US, then the UK is expected to exercise overall political and military leadership. Military advisers, generals are already there, on the territory of Ukraine, coordinating and even directing military operations.
As I said earlier, the supply of Challenger tanks was a signal to start supply of Leopard tanks… The supply of cruise missiles [to Ukraine] prompted Germany to consider delivery of such cruise missiles as Tokmak, with Paris reportedly mulling supplying SCALP-EG cruise missiles. The next stage, I believe, will be the UK being one of the initiators of the delivery of aircraft [to Kiev].
Knutov said, noting that Russia is more than capable of defending against these new war toys, adding that there have already been casualties among high-ranking British military officers stationed there in the embattled country.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; [2] Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. [3] They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah. Psalms 140:1-3
The West just cannot let this stupid war end already. All they want to do is not only increase their wealth and that of the military industrial complex, which siphons more money away from the working class whilst inflating the money supply to fund these wars in perpetuity; while also draining their own nation’s defenses, making them weaker on purpose.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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