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.

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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.

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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/

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