US Special Envoy Kellogg has expressed his fear that the recent Ukrainian attack on Russia’s nuclear bomber fleet is a scary event and also the US is now aware that the risk of direct confrontation between the US and Russia has dramatically increased.
The Ukrainian attacks with hidden drones smuggled into Russia were not an act of ordinary war but a spy operation. It is almost impossible that these attacks, which were prepared since 18 months were made without US or Western help.
Donald Trump said that the US was not informed about the attacks beforehand. It was not specified if the US knew about the secret build up of attack drones in Russia, or if there are still others remaining inside Russia.
The Russian side did not yet react officially, except some known hardliners demanding swift and hard response.
“I’m telling you, the risk levels are going way up – I mean, what happened this weekend,” Trump’s envoy, Keith Kellogg, told Fox News.
“People have to understand in the national security space: when you attack an opponent’s part of their national survival system, which is their triad, the nuclear triad, that means your risk level goes up because you don’t know what the other side is going to do. You’re not sure.” Kellogg said.
This is the first official statement from the US Government which points to the risks of the attack on Russia’s nuclear deterrance force. If the US was attacked by one of its enemies in the same way, say Iran, Yemen, Somalia or Hamas have attacked the US in such simple, inexpensive way, the US would most probably have executed devastating retaliation hits with thousands or hundred thousands of deaths.
If Russia executes a strong retaliation over Ukraine, Russia must be sure that the attacks on its nuclear bomber force was genuinely Ukrainian … as long as Russia has doubts the retaliation on Ukraine will correspond thereto, while Russia might reserve its right to retaliate at any moment and at any other place it seems reasonable.
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