{"id":64444,"date":"2022-12-12T08:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64444"},"modified":"2022-12-12T08:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:31:06","slug":"pentagon-gives-tacit-support-for-ukrainian-drone-attacks-deep-inside-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64444","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Gives Tacit Support for Ukrainian Drone Attacks Deep Inside Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/12\/11\/pentagon-gives-tacit-support-for-ukrainian-drone-attacks-deep-inside-russia\/\">Pentagon Gives Tacit Support for Ukrainian Drone Attacks Deep Inside Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span class=\"pagesub\"><i>The Times<\/i>\u00a0reports that the US no longer has the same concerns about escalations and is likely to send longer-range weapons<\/span><\/strong><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Pentagon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/THWT2\">has given its tacit endorsement of Ukrainian attacks inside Russian territor<\/a>y and no longer fears such operations could lead to a \u201cdramatic\u201d Russian escalation,\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0reported on Friday, citing unnamed US defense officials.<\/p>\n<p>The US position appears to only be based on the fact that up to this point, Russia hasn\u2019t responded to attacks on its territory with nuclear weapons or by attacking NATO countries.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0report reads: \u201cMoscow\u2019s revenge attacks have to date all involved conventional missile strikes against civilian targets. Previously, the Pentagon was warier of Ukraine attacking Russia because it feared the Kremlin would retaliate either\u00a0with tactical nuclear weapons\u00a0or by targeting neighboring NATO nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report came after Ukrainian drone attacks hit Russian air bases deep inside Russian territory, including one that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/12\/05\/explosions-hit-air-bases-deep-inside-russia-killing-three-russian-soldiers\/\">killed three Russian soldiers<\/a>\u00a0and damaged two Russian bombers. Following the attacks, Russian missiles pounded Ukrainian energy infrastructure, worsening the already dire situation for millions of Ukrainian civilians who are without power and heat in freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Russia didn\u2019t start launching large-scale attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure until October, after the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland. US officials previously said that<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/08\/18\/us-approves-of-ukraine-striking-crimea\/\">\u00a0they support Ukrainian attacks on Crimea.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Times<\/em>\u00a0report said that the US doesn\u2019t want to publicly give Ukraine the greenlight to attack targets inside Russia. In public comments, US officials have said they are not \u201cencouraging\u201d or \u201cenabling\u201d Ukrainian strikes inside Russian territory. But a US defense official said that it\u2019s up to Ukraine where they attack and that they have limited restrictions on using US-provided weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon Gives Tacit Support for Ukrainian Drone Attacks Deep Inside Russia The Times\u00a0reports that the US no longer has the same concerns about escalations and is likely to send longer-range weapons The Pentagon\u00a0has given its tacit endorsement of Ukrainian attacks inside Russian territory and no longer fears such operations could lead to a \u201cdramatic\u201d Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11541,30261,694,821,827,834,11226,862],"class_list":["post-64444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-war-com","tag-dave-decamp","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-pentagon","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64445,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64444\/revisions\/64445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}