Biden's last-minute missile moves for Ukraine are coming far too late, weakening their effect on the Russians

It's way too little, years late. It's been a truism that Ukraine has needed the capability to strike the Russian rear for many years at this point."

George Barros, a Russia analyst at the US-based Insitute for the Study of War, told BI

It feels like everything that we've been getting has been either too late or it's just enough to barely hold on."

One American fighting in Ukraine told BI

Had Ukraine been able to destroy several squadrons of Su-34 and Su-35 fighters early in the year, then Russia would have significantly less capacity to employ glide bombs against Ukrainian positions and civilians,

he said

Putin is not entitled to a veto over US or NATO policy on the basis that he can threaten us."

He said

The idea was we are a defensive alliance, so we will only sit and wait until we are attacked, and then when we are attacked, we will be able to shoot down the 'arrows' that come to us,

During a question-and-answer session after his address at the European Policy Center in Brussels, Bauer said ... referring to a Russian strike

Mr. Bauer is either a fool or a provocateur. Perhaps both at once,

Mironov said in a statement to Newsweek, which referred to Russia's nuclear capabilities, which include "a hypersonic weapon from which no one has protection."

The interesting dynamic here is that, were it not for the U.S. election, the Biden administration would probably be more concerned about the escalatory implications of its decisions than it currently appears to be,

he told Newsweek

It's one thing to use these weapons within Ukraine's 1991 borders,

he said

John Kirby (admiral)white House national security spokesman

Right now, they are able to use ATACMS to defend themselves in an immediate-need basis. And right now, understandably, that's taken place in around Kursk, in the Kursk Oblast."

Quote from Kirby