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Why Is Biden Escalating the Russia-Ukraine Conflict?
As more world leaders call for peace talks, President Joe Biden appears to push for a wider conflict.
“Moscow warns US missile authorization may mark new level of involvement in conflict for Washington,” Kevin Shalvey wrote for ABC News on November 18, 2024.
“Allowing Kyiv to strike deep inside Russia with U.S. long-range missiles, if such permission has actually been given, will mark a qualitatively new round of tensions and level of Washington’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict,” the Kremlin spokesperson told the press on Monday.
“Putin fine-tunes Russia’s nuclear doctrine after Biden’s arms decision on Ukraine, in clear signal to West,” Anna Chernova, Nathan Hodge, Christian Edwards, and Clare Sebastian reported for CNN on November 18, 2024.
“President Vladimir Putin has updated Russia’s nuclear doctrine, two days after his US counterpart Joe Biden granted Ukraine permission to strike targets deep inside Russia with American-made weapons,” they began. “Under the updated doctrine, Moscow will consider aggression from any non-nuclear state — but with the participation of a nuclear country — a joint attack on Russia.”
“The change comes as Russia claims Ukraine fired the US-made ATACMS missiles into the Russian region of Bryansk,” they added. “The…