Skynews Analysis: Why the West Should Be Worried About What Happens Backstage After the Biden Green Light in Kiev For Missile Use

Just two months before the current U.S. president handed over power to Donald Trump, Joe Biden gave the “green light” to use Ukraine for the first time American long-range, ATACMS-type, to strike within the . After changing attitude from the White House and outgoing US President Joe Biden regarding the basic question is what the Russian response could be, not a verbal one, but in practice. “If such a decision has been made and communicated to the Kiev regime, then this will be a new round of tension and a different situation in terms of US involvement in the conflict,” said Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. According to Peskov, Washington with its move wants to escalate the dispute between Moscow and Kiev, noting that Joe Biden’s U.S. outgoing government “throws oil into the fire” and seeks to escalate the conflict in Ukraine. “These are the culprits of escalation, not Russia”. In his analysis, SkyNews correspondent in Moscow Ivor Bennett evaluates the first official reaction from the Kremlin and notes that it is just “the kind of rhetoric we expected”. He points out that, as expected, no mention was made of the thousands of North Korean troops Moscow reportedly developed on the front line of the front in the Kursk region of Russia to ward off the Ukrainian invasion. “This is because this kind of rhetoric is now largely part of the Kremlin script. He tries to ensure that people continue to believe his account that Moscow is the innocent and that Russia is attacked.” With regard to threats to retaliation, these are still undefined, the journalist notes. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred reporters to Vladimir Putin’s comments in September, that Russia would be forced to make “appropriate decisions” if the West lifts restrictions on the use of Ukraine’s long-range weapons. ‘Real threats or sabotage?’ Vladimir Putin has not ruled out “the prospect of sending weapons” to Western opponents to hit western targets abroad, which is estimated to be a reference to Iran, as noted in the analysis. Sky News also notes that Russia’s nuclear doctrine has recently changed so that Putin can theoretically respond with nuclear weapons if Western weapons fall on its territory. “ Are these threats real? Or is it more sabotage?” is the question posed by the British network. “In Washington it seems that they estimate that this is another bluff from Russia, because other so-called red lines from Moscow have been overcome during this conflict” in Ukraine. Sky News explains that when it became “development of Western missiles in Ukraine earlier during the conflict, when they sent tanks and fighter aircraft to Kiev, this happened without any escalation” from the Russian side. “Thinking in the White House seems to be that if the Kremlin reacts in the same way again, they can proceed without consequences” noted and conclusively, in this immediate analysis the very crucial question arises “if this (ed. the use of American long-range missiles) will indeed have the desired effect on the battlefield? “ But could Russia respond in other, more treacherous ways, which it does not want to make known? Think sabotage, cyber attacks, closer alignment with Iran (and of course North Korea). In this sense, then, it is not the Kremlin’s public rage that the West should be concerned about, but what happens in the background, the analysis of Skynews concludes.