Biden crosses Putin’s red line: Ukraine may launch long-range missiles

US President Joe Biden has decided to make an important decision in his final months in the White House that could turn the war in Ukraine in a new direction. According to the American newspaper The New York Times, Kiev may from now on use American long-range missiles to protect its soldiers controlling the Kursk region in western Russia. 

With this remarkable decision, the United States is responding to Russia’s decision to deploy North Korean soldiers and weapons against Ukraine. But Joe Biden, in doing so, is clearly crossing the red line that Putin had drawn and for which he threatened with nuclear weapons if it were ever crossed. France and the United Kingdom have also given their approval to strike Russia with Scalp and Storm Shadow, according to Le Figaro newspaper.

Biden would not yet have given permission for the Army Tactical Missile Systems (Atacms) to also be used to strike targets far inside Russia, however.

Nuclear retaliation?

So what next? For now, it remains to wait for an official response from the Kremlin. Several months ago, the Russian Security Council laid down in a new nuclear doctrine that Russia can respond to an attack with conventional weapons on its territory with a nuclear retaliation, if that attack is carried out by a country supported by an ally with nuclear weapons. Thus, according to the letter of this text, Russia can already consider a small nuclear attack in this case, because the nuclear powers US, France and UK support Ukraine in its attacks on Russian territory….