The policy of incremental escalation is looking increasingly unwise

There’s an old saying, “Fool around and find out.” On November 19, Ukraine fired six US-made missiles at a target located on Russian soil. On November 20, Ukraine fired up to a dozen British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles against a target on Russian soil. On November 21, Russia fired a new intermediate-range missile against a target of Ukrainian soil.

What if there simply is no alternative to America’s permanent war party?

Strike appears to be an elaborately staged attempt to show Russia will outbid the west over Ukraine

MOSCOW, Nov 22 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that a strike on Ukraine using a newly developed hypersonic ballistic missile was a message to the West that Moscow will respond harshly to any “reckless” Western actions in support of Ukraine.

The Pentagon refuses to say whether Joe Biden even informed it of his reckless decision to allow the strikes, which the DoD has strenuously opposed, reports Joe Lauria.

SecDef Austin’s claim that these explosives are safe is dead wrong

EU, U.K. favored over U.S. as negotiators

With his party decisively beat at the polls, the rejected president is gambling with regional security to preserve his ‘legacy’ and to saddle the incoming president, who wants to end the war, with a major new crisis, writes Joe Lauria.

The US Must Operate the Long Range ATACMS missiles Russia claims