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The man who launched a chemical weapons attack on this country is baby whining about his invasion of a peaceful sovereign territory getting some push back.The trick of making these threats to give some of his useful idiots in this country something to bleat about and been tried again and again and nothing has happened when one of the so-called red lines has been crossed. British supplied weapons have been used in Kursk since the incursion first began with Challenger tanks at the forefront of the assault. (Incidentally they appear to have been so successful that the Russian disinformation ministry has been forced to create a fake AI video showing one of them being destroyed).  The use of these tanks unambiguously crossed the Russian line of western supplied weapons being used on Russian soil so Storm Shadow is nothing new.Even if you ignore the pretty unambiguous warnings that the Chinese have given the Russians about nuclear escalation, the idea that Biden's move increases the risk is a Russian talking point that only a moron would repeat. Trump has been very quiet personally on this issue and it is certain that he had been told about these plans in his lengthy transition meeting with Biden. Putin knows that any escalation at this point would destroy any chances of him manipulating Trump into totally abandoning Ukraine. Biden knows that, for Ukraine to get anything out of what looks like to be Trump sponsored talks in the new year, they have to still be in Kursk. The Russians are launching a massive counteroffensive using North Korean troops and even Trump can recognise how, if that was allowed to succeed, the prospects for peace in Europe would be seriously undermined.Biden has played a weak hand in a masterly fashion. Everyone who has more that a veneer of understanding of what is actually happening here is going to miss him.

Francis Rowe ● 33d