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Russia Has Military Targets in the Open and Ukraine Can’t Touch Them
Right now, Russia is leaving military targets out in the open, just daring Ukraine to hit them.
A Russian tank regiment, two motorized rifle brigades, a motorized rifle division, a motorized rifle regiment, and many more units, are all congregating completely outside of cover and concealment. There are also at least two military airfields within range that are full of Russian military aircraft.
So why isn’t Ukraine hitting these big, juicy targets that are just begging for a well-placed ATACMS? Ukraine actually has the capability to destroy all of them right now!
What’s stopping them?
The answer is one of humanity’s most arbitrary and artificial creations: the all-mighty line on a map…
These targets are sitting right across the Ukraine-Russia border, on the Russian side. And the only thing stopping Ukraine from hitting them is the approval of a single elderly man 8,000 kilometers away in the White House.
But it’s important to understand why the US is preventing Ukraine from striking Russian targets, on Russian soil, with US weapon systems.
When the US first started sending Ukraine military support, the CIA composed a report and presented it to President Biden. In that report…