The Wall Street Journal, with the connivance of the neo-con Institute for the Study of War (ISW), couldn’t resist playing up the ostensible potential of Anglo-French-American supplied Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles in the wake of Russia’s Nov. 21 strike on Dnipropetrovsk by its Oreshnik hypersonic missile. “The U.S. and its allies have permitted the use of the hard-hitting and difficult-to-intercept missiles at a critical time for Ukraine, which is struggling to hold back mounting Russian offensives along the 800-mile front line. Striking deeper in the rear will help Ukraine slow Russia’s war machine before it delivers more troops, supplies and bombs onto the front lines, where they are most dangerous,” the Journal wrote on Nov. 24. “How much of a difference the new capability will make on the battlefield depends on how many missiles Ukraine receives and how effectively it uses them.”