This is the Western version of the salami slice method. A bit more weapons. Russia blathers about retribution and consequences, maybe another salvo and that’s it. Give longer range weapons and check reaction from Russia. Allow targeting Russia but limited. Now countries are slowly talking about training in Ukraine and boots on the ground and getting the classic consequences speech from Russia.
Today they have something like 7 minutes to decide whether to launch a retaliatory strike if missiles are en route if recall correctly, 12 hours seems like a luxury.
I think the 12 hours are in reference to a conventional invasion. In case of a nuclear attack the decision might not even be made by someone high-up on account of them being encased in glass but by the crew of the nuclear subs, based on a letter the higher-ups left for that circumstance.
Target Moscow
Ukraine doesn’t want to target Moscow. They are not like Russia, they go after actual military targets, not civilians. They have been using their homebuilt drones for long enough inside Russia to show their priorities.
The Kremlin is in Moscow. Is it not a military target?
It has a high symbolic value but it’s not very valuable as a military target. Better to wipe out a bunch of fuel trucks and tanks and soldiers than a handful of bureaucrats in a stationary palace.
Seeing it burn would send a message of much higher value
The main benefit it would provide would be a morale boost. It wouldn’t bring Ukraine any closer to removing the Russian occupiers or slowing their attacks.
Flooding the one specific bunker on the other hand… Not an easy task, but I feel that’s how it would end.
Seems like a military target to me.
Are you enlisted?
I see this as Biden calling Putin’s Bluff. And I predict Putin will double down and use a battlefield nuke in Ukraine putting the ball back in Biden’s Court seeing if he’ll call that bluff.
I don’t think Putin is concerned with Russia past his death.
