{"id":163380,"date":"2024-11-22T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163380"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:26:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:26:39","slug":"ukraines-using-atacms-on-russian-soil-consequences-or-bargaining-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163380","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s using ATACMS on Russian soil-Consequences or bargaining chip?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Russia-nukes-US-city-born-into-a-middle-class-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-161220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Russia-nukes-US-city-born-into-a-middle-class-family-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Russia-nukes-US-city-born-into-a-middle-class-family-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Russia-nukes-US-city-born-into-a-middle-class-family-331x333.jpg 331w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Russia-nukes-US-city-born-into-a-middle-class-family-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Russia-nukes-US-city-born-into-a-middle-class-family.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C. provided Ukraine with permission to unleash ATACMS on Russian soil. The Russians have indicated that ATACMS use will result in consequences. Included among these consequences would be Russia&#8217;s understanding that this represents a Western escalation against Russia. This escalation would &#8220;get a response.&#8221; Rebecca Grant penned an opinion piece that suggests that Donald Trump may have gained a bargaining chip.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) has been used by Ukraine before, but this strike came after the Biden White House granted new permissions to hit on Russian soil.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has done President-elect Trump a favor with this U-turn decision on ATACMs. Striking Russian ammunition and troop concentrations feeding the battle against Ukraine applies pressure on Russia and makes a lot of sense. As secretary of state nominee Sen. Marco Rubio has said, Ukraine needs leverage. ATACMS helps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those missiles clear a grid square, a square kilometer,&#8221; then-Maj. Gen. David Petraeus said of ATACMS in 2003, when he was commanding the 101st Airborne Division on the march up to Baghdad. The U.S. Army V Corps ended up firing 414 ATACMs during Operation Iraqi Freedom, often packaged with Apache helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>Petraeus said the ATACMS were &#8220;incredibly lethal and absolutely devastating&#8221; against a range of Iraqi infantry and air defense targets.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been piling up supplies and launching drone and missile strikes from sanctuaries just over its border. North Korean troops are there, too. Meanwhile, all of Ukraine is subject to random attack, and Russia&#8217;s drones have dropped into Latvia and Romania several times this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a conflict where neither side has air superiority, ATACMS is a pointed message about the devastation Ukraine can unleash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grant, R. (2024, November 21). Biden helps Trump by unleashing ATACMS on Russia. <em>Fox News<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/biden-helps-trump-unleashing-atacms-russia\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C. provided Ukraine with permission to unleash ATACMS on Russian soil. The Russians have indicated &hellip; <a title=\"Ukraine&#8217;s using ATACMS on Russian soil-Consequences or bargaining chip?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163380\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ukraine&#8217;s using ATACMS on Russian soil-Consequences or bargaining chip?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,613,384,640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-joe-biden","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}