Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): During an appearance on ABC’s This Week with Jonathan Karl, Secretary of State Tony Blinken explicitly said that the US would not oppose Ukraine using US-supplied longer-range missiles to attack deep inside Russian territory, a move that Moscow
Makes me wonder if a post-war Ukrainian rump state might try and capture territory from Moldova or somewhere in order to pay off their massive debt to the west, and be actively encouraged by the west to do so only for the west to flip around on them and attack them for it.
Nah… That’s too risky and would really make it complicated to make propaganda for the moral case for Novorossiya belonging to Ukraine. They’ll just do austerity and structural adjustment at home instead, like they’re supposed to.
True, I was drawing parallels to the Iran/Iraq war, but there really isn’t much in common except the US prodding them.