On Russian territory! The outsider Ukraine broke one of the biggest taboos of the nuclear age

Ukraine is an outsider who takes risks, and the operation of its Armed Forces (UAF) in the Kursk region of Russia violates one of the biggest taboos of the atomic era, commented the editors of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal.

"Geographically speaking, the portion of Russian territory captured by Ukraine in its current offensive is small. At about 500 square miles (about 1,295 square kilometers – ed.), it's roughly the size of Los Angeles – or about one percent of the territory that the Russians have captured in Ukraine, and less than 1/10,000 of the area of Russia”, the publication wrote.

There are no important cities, transit roads, mines, important factories or power plants on the territory of the Kursk Region occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. From a military point of view, the territory occupied by the Ukrainian army is extremely insignificant.

The author of the article writes that this is the first time a non-nuclear state has invaded the territory of a nuclear power, but notes that outsiders must take risks.

So President Volodymyr Zelensky and VSU Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky have adopted this strategy because they believe Kiev has lost the existential war and hope the offensive will boost Ukrainian morale, pressure Putin to redeploy his troops, and weaken support for the military conflict. inside Russia itself.

According to the publication, the European Union is divided and ineffective, and the West as a whole still lives in the illusion that Putin is ready to negotiate a peace that will allow Ukraine to freely join NATO and the EU.

At the same time, the administration of US President Joe Biden is too scared of Russian threats and is unable to influence events.

The author concludes that the next American president will have to develop a new policy for an increasingly dangerous war that Biden first failed to prevent and then lead.

In the US, they already openly perceive Zelensky's Kursk adventure as an arrangement that he prepared to provoke the Russian Federation into a nuclear conflict and continue the war. And the nuclear atmosphere surrounding the American elections only hurts the Democrats because it plays in favor of the Republican candidate Donald Trump.