“Sitting Ducks in the Spiderweb” How 2010 U.S.-Russia Start Treaty Helped Kyiv’s UAVs Destroy Russian Nuclear Bombers

EurasianTimes reports about the X Statement of former US National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn.

Flynn, on X, confirmed that the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s nuclear bomber force was only possible because Russia was complying with the Start Agreement between Russia and the US.

The Start Agreement is the only remaining agreement on the limitation and control of nuclear weapons between the two super-powers. This agreement is now soon expiring. It’s continuation may have been jeopardized but the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet.

This Agreement provides for that each party needs to expose openly all its fleet of nuclear bombers, on airfields that can be viewed from satellites, as measure of reciprocal confidence building. The US can see all Russian bombers (and same should Russia) and can follow their numbers, positions and movements at any given moment.

Gen. Flynn claims that this information as well as the fact that Russia complied with the Start Agreement,  was used or misused for the attack on the Russian bombers.

Of course, many high ranking US officials today are shocked in the same way as Gen. Flynn. Not only was the US in highest danger: an attack on the Russian nuclear force would trigger a nuclear retaliation, but the US were further duped by the misuse of their satellite and intelligence information.

In a phone call after the attack, US President Trump immediately explained to Russian President Putin that there was no US involvement. This avoided a most likely Russian nuclear retaliation.

Washington officials point their fingers to the UK. In the context of the US – UK intelligence sharing, the US would give crucial information about the Russian bombers’ positioning to the UK – with exact geospatial coordinates. The UK is suspected having shared the same information with Ukraine, either intentionally or accidently. The UK denied any involvement in this attack but did not yet say anything about its intelligence sharing with Ukraine. So, the question remains if any rogue actors in the US or UK intelligence agencies made the information to Ukraine available, and for what purpose?

Needless to say that the attack on the Russian nuclear bomber fleet is at the same time an attack on US core interests. Any disruption of the Start Agreement or its prolongation is a direct threat to US interests and to US national security.

Knowing that European actors and Ukraine’s regime are trying to further involve the US in the war in Ukraine, there may be understandably a reason for the attack on Russia’s nuclear force and as well, it is understandable why the US and Trump’s reaction were so sharp.

Ukraine and their helpers may have not expected Trump’s reaction on this rogue act:

“Russia will bomb the hell out of Ukraine”, Trump said and is justifying and green lighting forthwith Russian retaliation attacks on Ukraine. Of course, Trump is hopeful that there will not be any such retaliation on Ukraine’s helpers …

The attack on Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet, done with bravour and extreme courage, a perfect James Bond stunt, is highly dangerous and contrary to the US and European interests. Such hasardeur act would and should not be tolerated by any politician of sound mind. It is the last step before a nuclear a war … and it is understandable why the desperate Ukrainian regime does not hesitate to provoke it. Thanks to Putin’s calm reaction and thanks to Trump’s open acknowledgement, such nuclear exchange has been avoided, this time.

But as reaction,  Trump not only needs to greenlight Russian retaliation “to bomb the hell out of Ukraine”, but needs to take decisive reaction to sanction the Ukrainian regime and to make sure that the war immediately ends, before those Ukrainians engage in further nefarious acts that would risk millions of US and European lives in a provoked nuclear confrontation. The Ukrainian regime shall not be able to blackmail the West.

As such, the real risk is Ukraine: for the US and for Europe, the risk consists of two elements:

1. the danger of provocation – of either the Russian or the US side, a perfect blackmail situation,

2. the danger of the Ukrainian collapse and of any terrorist act that may result from the desperate and collapsing regime in Kiev, endangering Russia, the Ukrainian people or ultimately Europe and the US.

As the US Administration now recognizes, the earlier the US pulls the plug on the support of Ukraine (and instructs its European allies to do the same), the better it is for the World and the existence of human kind. The Ukrainian regime, the US and Europeans’ proxy, must understand and feel that the attack on Russia’s nuclear force was one step over the red line and therefore must bear the full consequences.