{"id":1485177,"date":"2024-08-22T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1485177"},"modified":"2024-08-22T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:45:00","slug":"dont-expect-a-radical-response-from-russia-to-washingtons-involvement-in-ukraines-invasion-of-kursk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/dont-expect-a-radical-response-from-russia-to-washingtons-involvement-in-ukraines-invasion-of-kursk\/1485177\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Expect A Radical Response From Russia To Washington’s Involvement In Ukraine’s Invasion Of Kursk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t Expect A Radical Response From Russia To Washington’s Involvement In Ukraine’s Invasion Of Kursk<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s foreign spy agency SVR\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe Ukrainian Armed Forces\u2019 operation in the Kursk region was prepared with the participation of the special services of the USA, Great Britain and Poland.<\/strong> The units involved in it underwent combat coordination in training centers in Great Britain and Germany. Military advisers from NATO countries provide assistance in managing the UAF units that have invaded Russian territory and in the use of Western types of weapons and military equipment by Ukrainians.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They ended their statement to popular newspaper Izvestia by adding that \u201cThe alliance countries also provide the Ukrainian military with satellite intelligence data on the deployment of Russian troops in the area of \u200b\u200bthe operation.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>This coincided with the Russian Foreign Ministry summoning the US charges d\u2019affaires to\u00a0protest<\/a>\u00a0American journalists\u2019 illegal crossing of their border for propaganda purposes in support of this invasion as well as the military role therein played by at least one American PMC.<\/p>\n

Commander of the Akhmat Special Forces from Russia’s\u00a0Chechen Republic Apty Alaudinov accused the invaders of carrying out a\u00a0spree of war crimes<\/a>\u00a0as part of Zelensky\u2019s\u00a0stated goals<\/a>\u00a0of carving out a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d and bolstering Ukraine\u2019s \u201cexchange fund\u201d for future prisoner swaps. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had earlier warned in an interview with leading Russian media that Ukraine might actually want Russia to use nuclear weapons, the possible rationale of which was explained\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What all of these details show is that what\u2019s happening in\u00a0Kursk<\/a>\u00a0is a real NATO-backed Ukrainian invasion of universally recognized Russian territory, not some \u201c5D chess master plan\u201d by Russia to encircle the Ukrainians in a \u201ccauldron\u201d like some in the\u00a0Alt-Media Community<\/a>\u00a0(AMC) have\u00a0speculated<\/a>. The US can\u00a0play dumb<\/a>\u00a0about this all it wants, but Russia is convinced that it orchestrated this unprecedented provocation, thus raising questions about how it\u2019ll respond.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot of AMC folks on social media demand something radical like Russia striking targets in NATO and\/or having Wagner carry out cross-border incursions against its frontline members from Belarus, but neither are likely to materialize. Regardless of whatever one\u2019s personal opinion might be about his approach, Putin has proven to have the patience of a saint by refusing to escalate in response to the slew of provocations that have been carried out against his country since the\u00a0special<\/a>\u00a0operation<\/a>\u00a0began.<\/p>\n

This includes Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0bombings<\/a>\u00a0of the Crimean Bridge, its\u00a0destruction<\/a>\u00a0of the Kakhovka Dam which risks turning Crimea\u00a0into a desert<\/a>, the assassination of journalists like\u00a0Darya Dugina<\/a>, incessant attacks\u00a0against civilians<\/a>\u00a0in Russia\u2019s new regions, the bombing of its\u00a0strategic airbases<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0early warning systems<\/a>,\u00a0involvement<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Crocus terrorist attack<\/a>, and even\u00a0attacking the Kremlin<\/a>. All of these provocations and more were carried out with American assistance, yet Russia hasn\u2019t radically responded to any of them. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most that it\u2019s done is carry out strikes against Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure in an attempt to impede its military operations as well as recently carve out a\u00a0tiny buffer zone<\/a>\u00a0in Kharkov Region, but it won\u2019t bomb bridges across the Dnieper nor political targets like the Rada.<\/p>\n

Time and again, Russia consistently refuses to escalate, only doing the bare minimum of what its most zealous supporters in the AMC demand when it finally decides to do something out of the ordinary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reason for this (some would say too) cautious approach is Putin\u2019s fear of inadvertently triggering World War III, which he\u2019s afraid might become inevitable if Russia radically responds to its foes\u2019 provocations due to the fast-moving sequence of events that it could lead to. To be clear, Russia has the right to respond in such a way, but it\u2019s voluntarily eschewing that right for the aforementioned reasons that it considers to be for the \u201cgreater global good\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Accordingly, it\u2019s highly unlikely that Putin will finally throw his\u00a0characteristic caution<\/a>\u00a0to the wind by deliberately risking World War III (or at least that\u2019s how he\u2019d see everything as being) by opting for a radical response to his government\u2019s conclusion that the US is involved in Ukraine\u2019s invasion of Kursk. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The only plausible scenarios in which he\u2019d change his calculations would be if there was a nuclear provocation, a high-level assassination, or a terrorist attack even worse than the recent Crocus one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recalling what was written earlier about how Lukashenko warned that Ukraine might actually want Russia to use nukes, none of these scenarios and whatever other ones might cross Putin\u2019s non-negotiable red lines (which the previously enumerated provocations didn\u2019t do) can be ruled out. They\u2019d also likely be used in the far-fetched event of a Russian military collapse along its western border, or Belarus\u2019 collapse along its own with NATO or Ukraine, and subsequent large-scale invasion.<\/p>\n

From Russia\u2019s perspective, Ukraine\u2019s invasion of Kursk remains manageable despite the US\u2019 involvement in this unprecedented provocation, thus meaning that Putin probably won\u2019t resort to the radical response that many in the AMC have been fantasizing about. If he finally decided to let loose, however, then he might only ramp up the intensity of the special operation in Ukraine instead of attacking NATO and thus risking the outbreak of World War III that he\u2019s worked so hard to avoid thus far.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 08\/21\/2024 – 21:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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