(OPINION) If the trajectory of the war in Ukraine remains the same, Russia will win. The only way that Ukraine could win would be for NATO to get directly involved in the conflict, and we are dangerously close to seeing that happen.
If Ukraine keeps firing long-range missiles provided by NATO into Russian territory, the Russian responses to those missile strikes will keep getting more intense.
Eventually, the Russians may do something so dramatic that it would give NATO justification to enter the war, and that is precisely what many among the Western elite want.
But, of course, a direct conflict with Russia could spark a nuclear war that would kill hundreds of millions of people. So, by choosing to greatly escalate the war in Ukraine, the Western elite are literally gambling with all of our lives.
On Tuesday, it was being reported that Russia is gaining territory in Ukraine “at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion”…
Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month, analysts and war bloggers said on Tuesday.
The corporate media in the U.S. doesn’t talk much about Russian victories, and so most Americans don’t even know that this is happening.
So far this month, the Russians have captured approximately 257 square miles…
Pasi Paroinen, a military analyst with Finland’s Black Bird Group, said Russian forces had taken control of an estimated 667 sq km (257 sq miles) this month, citing data he said could include some October gains noted with a delay.
President Vladimir Putin, who replaced his defence minister in May, has repeatedly said that Russian forces are advancing much more effectively – and that Russia will achieve all its aims in Ukraine, although he has not spelled them out in detail.
The Ukrainians are outmatched and worn down by more than two years of relentless fighting.If things remain the same, the Russians will continue to march forward.
At this stage, the Russians already control 18 percent of Ukraine, including all of Crimea, just over 80% of Donbas, more than 70% of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions in the south, and just under 3% of the eastern Kharkiv region, according to open-source maps.
The Western elite are absolutely determined to do something to change the momentum of the conflict, and so they have decided to allow Ukraine to launch long-range missiles that NATO has provided into Russian territory.
But the Russians promise that every time this happens, there will be a response… “Missile strikes deep inside Russian territory are an escalatory step,” Lavrov told Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper. “All of our warnings that these unacceptable actions will be met with an appropriate response have been ignored.”
Those behind attacks on Russian citizens and infrastructure will face “well-deserved punishment,” the minister warned. He added that “no escalation coming from the enemy would force us to abandon our goals” in Ukraine.
The brand new Oreshnik missile the Russians unveiled is a game-changing weapons system. According to Scott Ritter, the Oreshnik is unlike anything that we have ever seen before…
The Oreshnik was designed to carry between four and six IPBVs. The one used against Dnipropetrovsk was a six IPBV-capable system. Each warhead, in turn, contained six separate submunitions, consisting of metal slugs forged from exotic alloys that enabled them to maintain their form during the extreme heat generated by hypersonic re-entry speeds.
These slugs are not explosive; rather they use the combined effects of the kinetic impact at high speed and the extreme heat absorbed by the exotic alloy to destroy their intended target on impact.
The military-industrial target struck by the Oreshnik was hit by six independent warheads, each containing six submunitions. In all, the Dnipropetrovsk facility was struck be 36 separate munitions, inflicting devastating damage, including to underground production facilities used by Ukraine and its NATO allies to produce short- and intermediate-range missiles. (READ MORE)
