The Americans have prolonged the war for months.
But they’re really hitting diminishing returns at this point.
President Vladimir Putin warned the United States that Russia will retaliate by striking new targets if it sends long-range missiles to Ukraine.
“If it now comes to rockets and they are supplied, we will draw conclusions from that and employ our weapons that we have in sufficient quantities to strike those facilities that we are not attacking so far,” Putin said in an interview aired on Russian television Sunday, state-run media reported.
The Russian leader also said all the “fuss” over missile systems being supplied to Ukraine are intended to prolong the war that entered its 102nd day on Sunday.
“In my view, all this fuss over additional deliveries of armaments generally pursues the sole objective of stretching out the armed conflict as long as possible,” Putin said, according to the news outlet Tass.
President Biden, after initially rejecting a request from Ukraine to send long-range rockets because they would reach inside Russia, did an about-face last week and announced that his administration would arm Kyiv with advanced missile systems as heavy fighting in the eastern region of the country continues.
We’re reaching do or die now.
The weapons shipments are not working.
They’re either going to have to send in American troops or give up.