Up to yesterday the Anglo-Zionists, led by Tony Blinken but with verbal backing from Zhou, we’re pushing hard to escalate against Russia by authorizing American missile strikes inside Russia. Ok, let me be explicit as to why I specify that they were seeking American—American and not Ukrainian—strikes on Russia. President Putin of Russia explained it in simple words that even Zhou or Kama Sutra could understand. Here is Putin addressing the types of weapons systems under discussion:
only NATO servicemen can in fact enter flight assignments into these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this. And so this is not about allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not - it is about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict or not.
If this decision is made it will mean nothing other than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries, in the war in Ukraine.
This is their direct participation and this already of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict!
This would mean that NATO countries, the United States, European countries, are at war with Russia. And if that is the case, then bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us!"
- Vladimir Putin
Today we find out that someone in the US put the kibosh on the crazy Anglo-Zionists:
-- GEROMAN -- time will tell -  -- @GeromanAT
A nothingburger:
US has not changed its approach to limiting Kiev's use of US weapons for strikes deep into Russia, does not plan to announce changes today — White House
Following today's meeting between Biden and British Prime Minister Stramer, the United States will not announce the lifting of the ban on Ukraine's strikes on Russia, said John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council.
"I would not expect an announcement today that Ukraine would be allowed to strike long distances deep into Russia. Our policy on that has not changed," Kirby said.
Earlier, Western media reported that the issue would be decided during the UN General Assembly session at the end of September.
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11:35 AM · Sep 13, 2024
It wasn’t exactly a nothing burger—there’s a reason why Kirby made this statement today:
The US government is taking seriously Russian president Vladimir Putin's warning that he would consider the West directly involved in the conflict if Ukraine fired Western made long range missiles into Russia.
Notice, if you will, that Kirby refers to “Russian president Vladimir Putin”—unlike Blinken’s continual insolent references to “Putin”, much like someone other than a US secretary of state would refer to “Hitler” without any title.
Kirby’s message to President Putin was , Yes, we heard you loud and clear, and we’re backing off. The reason the need was felt to send that message was because Putin’s words had put the fear of God into the normally atheistic White House and civilian national security apparatus, staffed by insane Neocons (see Gilbert Doctorow’s comments). My guess is that the fear of God was administered by Lloyd Austin, backed up by most of the top members in the military establishment. They know that war with Russia on the scale that Putin was threatening would be a disaster for the US. Austin and the military establishment know that the US military is overstretched and that something has to give. The US military in Ukraine, in the Pacific, and in the Middle East is or is becoming untenable. Only a strong message of this sort from the military establishment to the White House can account for this sort of “Oh, shit!” climb down. It’s possible that Austin and others demanded a face to face with Zhou to make sure the message got through.
This, by the way, was also a slap down administered to super creepy Brit PM Keir Starmer. This past week has featured repeated leaks from that corner stating that authorization would be provided to “Ukraine.”
There may have been another factor involved in this, and that is panic in Europe. Mikael Valtersson explains, and he points to a key country in the war on Russia—Poland. If Russia were looking for a target to strike in retaliation, Polish bases or any of the numerous US bases in Poland would make attractive and logical targets.
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Long-range strikes: NATO countries risk a harsh Russian response;
"I believe that NATO countries skeptical to the use of long range weapons deep inside Russian territory don't want to be involved in giving permission for their use," Mikael @MikaelValterss1, former officer of Swedish Armed Forces and former defense politician and chief of staff with Sweden Democrats, told Sputnik.
Valtersson's comments come in response to a statement by the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense [Radek Sikorski], suggesting that the decision on expanding Ukraine's long-range strikes deep into Russian territory with Western missiles should be made by NATO rather than individual states.
The Biden administration is considering giving the go-ahead to Ukraine for the use of US-made ATACMS missiles, while the UK has reportedly agreed to allow the Kiev regime to expand the use of British-made Storm Shadow missiles against Russia.
"Even if NATO as an organization approves of use of long distance weapons on Russian territory it will be the specific countries that deliver and/or produce the weapons used that will be blamed," Valtersson said.
Russia's response would not be long coming if the US and other countries authorize the Kiev regime to launch long-range strikes, he warned.
While the pundit did not expect Russia to retaliate with tactical nuclear weapons – unless NATO attacks it with nukes – he did not rule out that Moscow would provide long-range missiles to countries deemed adversaries by the West in line with comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin in June.
"NATO has made small steps all the time, mostly to avoid a large step that Russia must answer to. This will probably be so this time too, but slowly the western countries are getting closer to a harsh Russian response, when enough is enough," Valtersson said.
For an extended discussion of all this:
Thanks very much for your take. I wasn't so sure there would be a "stand down" after reading this story:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-informs-un-security-council-direct-war-nato-assured-if-us-approves-long-range
Could it be that they are FINALLY taking Putin's red lines seriously? Almost hard to believe. After reading your post quoting Dominique de Villepin it occurred to me (not for the first time) that maybe all of these current Western leaders (Trudeau, Starmer, etc.) and/or the people backing them are so amoral and such liars that they are incapable of thinking that anyone else had morals or could tell the truth. Could this be a turning point? I sure hope so.
Folded up like a cheap umbrella in a hurricane. Nothing screams power and dominance like skulking off into the corner when someone with real power calls your bluff. What a bunch of amateur hour dipshits. It’s remains incredible that these are “the best and the brightest” that the neocons have to offer.