In an interview with Sputnik published May 31, former Pentagon analyst and U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (ret.) warned that Russia could see Ukraine’s long-range attacks inside Russia as a precursor to a NATO nuclear strike.
“The big problem is that Kyiv’s drones have attacked Russian early warning systems that are designed as part of their nuclear defense…. I don’t think they damaged them, but this has been done. If American weapons, heavier weapons are used against those targets, this cannot help but be seen by Russia as a precursor to a first strike—a nuclear first strike. When you hit someone’s nuclear defense radars, their ‘eyes,’ their defensive systems, in normal war strategy, you’re preparing a battlefield. So I don’t know if the Biden advisors in Washington really have a sense of this, because there are no military people up there that are talking to Biden about this, but it’s a very dangerous situation,” Kwiatkowski emphasized.
Biden, in allowing Ukraine to use U.S. weapons in strikes against Russia, Kwiatkowski said, “is responding and going by a neoconservative playbook, which is a playbook that wants war.”
