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Russia-Ukraine War: US concerned about Ukrainian drone strike on Russia | WION News

  • May 30, 2024



Russia-Ukraine War: US concerned about Ukrainian drone strike on Russia | WION News

we are now being joined by retired Colonel David D Ro he’s also a professor of NE east south Asia Center for strategic studies at National Defense University he’s joining us live from Washington DC thank you so much for joining us on weon this morning the United States seems to be worried that strikes on Russian early warning system could alter the Strategic stability between Moscow and Washington why is that good question so uh when you look at nuclear deterrence um in order to have stability in a realm where both countries have substantial nuclear forces uh you really have to have visibility on what each country is doing uh so if Russia’s uh nuclear detection Radars are blinded then they have to resolve to other less accurate methods and the fear is that they will um mistake uh innocent activity for some sort of uh nuclear activity and escalate uh but it’s worth noting that um you know these Radars are focusing South where the United States doesn’t have any fixed uh nuclear launch facilities uh they were originally planned in the 60s when we had uh a Strategic Air Command base in Saudi Arabia we had nuclear missiles in Turkey um it The Radars under question here at least from an American perspective are aimed at uh an area that you know we don’t have uh fixed launchers and then the second thing is that there was a regime whereby the United States would inspect Russian positions and the Russians would inspect American positions that the Russians walked away from so we could perhaps reestablish that on-site inspection as a means of mitigating the damage from weapons that the Russians have been using uh in the war in Ukraine and Colonel as you well know there is this debate about how you Ukraine should utilize the weapons that it receives from the West in its fight against Russia what happens if Ukraine is given the green light to use Western weapons inside Russian territory and could there be any repercussions good question so I think based on past practice uh the answer what would happen would be not much um when Russia initially invaded uh Ukraine and sought to Annex you know in what is quite frankly a colonial action sought to Annex uh about 25% of Ukraine um Russia initially accompanied that with the threat of nuclear escalation and at every step of the way and periodically Russia has been threatening this this is clearly uh more of a psychological method aimed at undermining Western support for Ukraine’s sovereignty um but when you start and and it’s also worth noting that the ukrainians launched a long range strike against against Engles Airbase which was Russia’s Premier long range nuclear launch facility but it had also been used to launch missiles against Ukraine so this has been going on for some time there have been attacks against their um deterrence the Ukrainian position is that look Russia is massing forces on our border and is firing into Ukraine from Russia and we’re prevented from responding to that so they’re using strategic depth uh as a means of conducting tactical operations if uh the restrictions were lifted and I think they probably should be you could mitigate this by for example saying okay you know we can only attack within the range of these uh Russian Glide bombs you know say 200 miles within Ukraine I’m I’m just throwing out random numbers but you could say look this is the danger area and push you know establish a degree of danger for Russian forces operating uh in Ukraine but um these long range Radars which are being used to guide uh uh Glide bombing launched aircraft which Ukraine has no means of countering at the moment you know this is this is a threat here uh I think that if we were to engage the um strategic concerns in a meaningful manner things like perhaps temporarily allowing Russian inspectors at US nuclear facilities we could mitigate this assuming the Russian threat and the Russian concerns are raised in good faith I think it’s an open question as to whether they are making a good faith argument or just trying to scare people in the west yeah such valid point H Colonel thank you so much for joining us David the do ro from Washington DC I look forward to speaking to you again very soon thanks Susan for all the latest news download the weon app And subscribe to our YouTube channel

The US has been concerned about Ukraine’s strikes on Russian nuclear early-warning systems as it could “dangerously unsettle” Moscow at a time when the White House is considering lifting restrictions on the use of US-supplied weapons in cross-border attacks.

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24 comments

  2. The West bombs his early warning, detection centers, and Putin does nothing about it. Come on idiots. He’s in on it.

    Don’t be fooled…Putin has been a CIA associate for over 20 years just look at him with the Bush family. He doesn’t give a damn about Russia. The only thing he cares about is his money and his 125 million dollar yacht. And the world government who owns him.
    All he is doing is getting young Russian soldiers killed, which is all part of the plans to take over Russia by the west to complete their New world order against all the other ordinary people of the world.

  7. Valid points, however If Russia has no meaning to know what is coming in their direction they could think that the incomong missals coud be a nuclear attack.
    This could prone Russia to react with a nuclear attack from their side. Very scare situation
    Why would we risk so much for Ukraine ? What is that the politicians doesn't tell us about what going on in Ukraine?
    Territory integrity apply only to Ukraine while doesn't apply in many other parts of the world.
    There is many things that aren't very clear
    Why Ukraine is so important for the West. That we are willing to risk all?????

  9. Make no mistake Washington don't be involved in war with Russia over Ukraine,,,,,, Russian will hit any US based in Europe,,,,,Not every NATO state is willing to fight Russian because of Ukraine,,,,, NATO is divided,,,, Situation have Rich a Dangerous level,,,,,

  13. Russia USA is not worried only Crocodile ties, Biden said Ukraine should make his own decision on how to used USA weapons,Same USA said he doesn’t agree on Israel Rafah operation but same time sending weapons to Israel to carry operation.

  18. Catherine the Great conquered Ukraine and over time more and more areas where taken over by Russia. At one time they even outlawed the Ukrainians language from usage. They continued to put thier own people of choice in control even after Russia split apart, but no Ukraine has not always been part of Russia

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