I wonder if there is some place, a forward base of the US, that is within striking distance of Russian troops...
Given the history of false flag terrorism by Pax Americana and the lack of unprovoked military aggression by Russia in Ukraine, I could believe that the USA and its allies were behind the attack of the report. Further evidences include the demographic Russian majority in Crimea, the pro-Russian unification by Ukrainians who have Russian ethnicity which suggested that Crimea citizens supported the annexation by Russia, and the 8 years of genocidal campaign by the Euro-maiden Kyiv government against an ethnic minority group before Russian military intervention.
There was a big terror attack on Crimea using ATACMS that killed a bunch of civilians.
Considering how Russia hasn't really been reacting to most of what the US and co has done against them, the US likely is confident nothing will come out of it like in most of the other times they did things against Russia, thus, the US will probably escalate this within days. Like many of the other times.
There's little reason for Russia to rock the boat at the moment given that they will win if the status quo continues. Direct escalation would make things more unpredictable. However, what I can see happening is Russia sending advanced weapons to Iran, DPRK, Syria, and Yemen.
Direct escalation would make things more unpredictable.
This is the U.S. strategy -- to provoke Russia into a response that will turn more than Europe against it.
Exactly, and the fact that the west keeps doing provocations is clear evidence that they're losing the conflict.
