Sharp statements from the Russian Foreign Ministry following CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow have created a situation reminiscent of a new Caribbean crisis.
Russia could strike British targets, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today. She said retaliatory strikes could be carried out against any British military facilities in Ukraine and beyond its borders.
Zakharova stressed that Moscow had repeatedly warned London about the consequences of Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions using British weapons, including Storm Shadow missiles and unmanned surface vessels in the Black Sea, as well as the establishment of production facilities for such weapons in Ukraine.
Zakharova’s statement came after reports in The Wall Street Journal, Politico and CBS News that CIA Director John Ratcliffe had made an urgent trip to Moscow to warn Russia against launching direct military strikes on NATO countries, which could trigger a response under Article 5 of the alliance.
British media have also begun reporting on changes to the country’s defense protocols in the event of an emergency. These reports have been linked to repeated warnings from the Russian Foreign Ministry that British military factories and bases could be targeted in response to attacks carried out with British weapons.
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Zakharova’s renewed statements following Ratcliffe’s visit appear designed to make clear that Moscow considers its red lines to have been crossed and has no intention of backing down under US pressure.
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However, Zakharova’s statements represent a warning, not an indication that a strike is inevitable. Russian President Vladimir Putin is deliberately staying out of the current exchange of views, because at his level, the counterpart for dialogue is US President Donald Trump, not the CIA director.
Putin’s silence while the Foreign Ministry voices an uncompromising position creates the most dangerous kind of uncertainty for the West: it does not know what Moscow’s real plan is or how far Putin is prepared to go. The last time his warnings were ignored, Russian forces reached Kyiv within days.
Western commentators note that Russia’s response would not necessarily take the form of a direct missile strike.
Hybrid measures are also being discussed, including the transfer of precision weapons to adversaries of Britain and the United States, such as the Houthi’s in the Red Sea or Iran, as well as cyberattacks targeting British infrastructure.
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Trump’s emergency three-hour meeting with senior defense and security officials directly contradicts his own description of Ratcliffe’s trip as routine.
CIA directors do not normally fly to Moscow on emergency overnight flights aboard C-17 military transport aircraft, without prior announcement, simply for an ordinary exchange of views.
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“Global terror ” created by world terrorist USA with the help of its servants the UK/EU-
Since the late Forties America has started now 85 wars — blown apart from its “Shock & Awe ” warfare 30 Million world citizens .
In Iraq 1 Million children and babies blown apart that’s official figures.
I am glad Russia is at last seeing sense I would rather die fighting for Good rather than let the world be tortured by evil people .