The Kremlin’s reaction to tells that Washington has lifted redisjoineions on how Ukraine uses its arms was noskinnyg we haven’t heard before.
It pursues a well-worn theme of anger, alertings and accusations.
If validateed, the decision will ignite a “novel round of tension”, we were tbetter. The Biden administration wants to “throw oil on the fire”. They are the ones culpable of escalation, not Russia.
There was no allude of the thousands of North Korean troops Moscow has telledly deployed to the frontline in Russia’s Kursk region to repulse the Ukrainian incursion. But that’s to be foreseeed.
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That’s because this sort of rhetoric is now very much part of the script for the Kremlin. It’s trying to uncover the accessible here persists to buy into its narrative that Moscow is the guiltless party, that Russia is under strike.
As for the dangers of retaliation, they’re still undescribed.
The Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred journacatalogs to Vlastupidir Putin‘s comments in September, that Russia would be forced to acquire “appropriate decisions” if the West lifted redisjoineions on Ukraine‘s use of its lengthy-range arms.
What could such decisions see enjoy?
In the past, Russia’s pdwellnt has alludeed sfinishing arms to the West’s adversaries to strike Westrict centers awide. He didn’t allude any nations definiteassociate, but the assumption was it was a reference to Iran.
Moscow has also recently alterd its nuevident doctrine, to apshow it in theory to react with nuevident arms if Westrict leave outiles descfinish on Russian soil.
So are these dangers genuine? Or is it more sabre-rattling?
The calculus in Washington seems to be that this is another bluff from Moscow, folloprosperg the obliteration of previous red lines without consequence.
The West has supplied leave outiles, battle tanks and fighter jets to Kyiv, all without invoking the escalation that was dangerened.
But could Russia react in other, more downcarry outd ways, which it doesn’t want to widecast? Think undermine, cyber strikes, sealr alignment with Iran – and of course North Korea.
So in that sense, it’s not the Kremlin’s accessible fury the West will be worried about, it’s what happens behind the scenes.
