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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Ukrainians have every right to strike inside of Russia.
Even at Moscow itself.
They won't because of what the retaliation might be. But they would be justified.
As Putin continues to target the civilian population far from the occupied territories, I wish someone would remind him what might happen if Ukraine has nothing left to lose.
Idle late night thought, not meant as actual geopolitical reality.
TomDaisy
(1,874 posts)CanonRay
(14,105 posts)An arms factory was blown up 700 miles east of Moscow. Railroad tracks running to Belarus were also blown up.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)that to counter Russia's nuclear threats, maybe Ukraine should get back some nukes of their own. I know it's fraught with danger but Putin needs to be frightened and the Russian people need to be motivated to act against him?
Raine
(30,540 posts)Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)NATO weaponry, it would be a blunder to support strikes inside Russia with weapons like long-range HIMARS missiles (of the sort Joe Biden has held back, and for good reason).
It might be satisfying to cheer for such actions on an internet forum, where such things don't matter, but in the real world if UKR forces used advanced NATO weaponry to hit Moscow that would massively destabilize a situation that is already precarious.
Ukraine will prevail in this conflict. Russia is in defeat. We all have a duty not to inadvertently touch off a nuclear conflict. Soviet and now Russian military doctrine has long made one exception for the use of nuclear weapons, and that is the defense of the motherland.
There is a middle path we need to tread. One that gives the ukrainians what they need to drive Putin's forces from their soil, and to endeavor to avoid a nuclear conflagration in the process.
edhopper
(33,591 posts)If you want to be geopolitical realistic, but what's the fun in that?