“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Jun 02, 2025
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
I have read that the United States was not advised of this surprise attack by Ukraine on the bomber fleet of Russian airplanes that has put a new light of reflection on the long, miserable, and free-world-critical Russia/Ukraine war.
So it is that I have to assume that this secrecy and silence was planned by Zelenskyy and Ukraine, meant to mean that Ukraine will not rely, and perhaps cannot rely, on the United States for help — no doubt because of Trump and his administration’s demand for some kind of payment or financial caveat for continuing to aid Ukraine.
My personal thoughts about this new and very weighty situation is that “Democracy should be Democracy” world-wide regardless of boundaries, but rather wherever its free world countries are located, and all Democratic nations should help shoulder the burden when one or more democratic counties are threatened from Oligarchies or other Authoritarian nations.
Such an understanding among 50 original countries has existed since the European democracies led by the United States of America formed the “United Nations” in San Francisco, California, on June 20, 1945. Ukraine wants to join the UN to help their new Democracy flourish even while once occupied by their neighbor Russia.
The USA, with or without Trump, should help finance and stand behind Ukraine, expecting nothing more in return except for the welcome addition of a vibrant and new Democratic nation joining the free world . . . ~llaw
How will Ukraine’s attack on Russian bombers affect the war?
An unprecedented assault on the eve of negotiations aimed at ending the conflict weakens Russia’s image, observers say.
Published On 2 Jun 20252 Jun 2025
Kyiv, Ukraine – Any description of Ukraine’s attacks on Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers could leave one scrambling for superlatives.
Forty-one planes – including supersonic Tu-22M long-range bombers, Tu-95 flying fortresses and A-50 early warning warplanes – were hit and damaged on Sunday on four airfields, including ones in the Arctic and Siberia, Ukrainian authorities and intelligence said.
Moscow did not comment on the damage to the planes but confirmed that the airfields were hit by “Ukrainian terrorist attacks”.
Videos posted by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), which planned and carried out the operation, which was called The Spiderweb, showed only a handful of planes being hit.
The strategic bombers have been used to launch ballistic and cruise missiles from Russian airspace to hit targets across Ukraine, causing wide scale damage and casualties.
The bomber fleet is one-third of Moscow’s “nuclear triad”, which also consists of nuclear missiles and missile-carrying warships.
According to some observers, the attack shattered Russia’s image of a nuclear superpower with a global reach.
The attack inadvertently “helped the West because it targeted [Russia’s] nuclear potential”, Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko, former deputy head of the Ukrainian military’s general staff, told Al Jazeera.
While the assault decreases Russia’s potential to launch missiles on Ukraine, it will not affect the grinding ground hostilities along the crescent-shaped, 1,200km (745-mile) front line, he said.
Romanenko compared The Spiderweb’s scope and inventiveness to a string of 2023 Ukrainian attacks against Russia’s Black Sea fleet that was mostly concentrated in annexed Crimea.
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