2024-09-13 | Is NATO Really "at War" with Russia as Ukraine Blitz Grows in Scale

2024-09-13 | According to Putin and his minions, NATO countries are on the brink of war with Russia. Is this more hollow bluffing and bluster from the diminutive tyrant in the Kremlin, or are we about to cross the first genuine Russian red line of this war? Evidence points to it being another empty threat, if we ignore the threatening words and look at Russia’s actions and capabilities. ---------- The first action based was for Russia’s FSB security service to revoke the accreditation of six British diplomats in reaction to a widely held belief that use of British Storm Shadows will be authorised for use on the territory of Russia. These Moscow based personnel have been accused of spying and sabotage work. Six diplomats were named on Russian state TV, and photographs of them shown. As we already know, Russian propagandists love to position the British as their core enemy, the “main bastards”, and see British plotting as instrumental in pulling Washington away from its cautious ‘escalation management’ policies towards taking a harder line against Russia, and in support of a Ukrainian victory. Delusional, paranoid maybe, but this seems to be the thinking of the war-addicted elite in Russian media and policy making circles. Vladimir Putin said that a western move to let Kyiv use longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would effectively mean NATO is “at war” with Moscow. It is known that US and UK diplomats are discussing easing rules on firing western weapons into Russia. Kyiv has been pressing for this change in policy for many months now, and indeed it makes no military sense at all to restrict Ukraine for firing back on the airfields and launch sites that deliver death and trauma to Ukrainian civilians daily. It’s purely a political restriction, one borne of fear of Red Lines Moscow has threatened and others that we have imagined. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/13/russia-ukraine-moscow-kyiv-long-range-weapons-nato-keir-starmer-joe-biden-latest-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-66e3e3e58f082dce7ae32965#block-66e3e3e58f082dce7ae32965 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/russia-revokes-accreditation-british-diplomats-spying https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/ukraine-daily-briefing-russia-accused-of-unprecedented-missile-attack-on-grain-ship-in-black-sea https://kyivindependent.com/russian-cities-left-defenseless-as-ukraine-ramps-up-drone-attacks/ https://kyivindependent.com/the-long-range-missiles-ukraine-could-soon-be-firing-deep-into-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/irans-fath-360-ballistic-missile-what-we-know-about-the-weapon-now-in-russias-hands/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------