What happens now, after the Ukraine’s ATACMS strike on an arms storage site in Bryansk oblast, Russian Federation?

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Shortly after my latest interview on ‘Dialogue Works’ at noon European time, global and Russian media were reporting that a swarm of 6 ATACMS missiles was fired in the middle of the night from Ukraine against an arms depot in the region of Russia just bordering Kursk called Bryansk.  Official Russian sources say that they shot down 5 of the missiles, but the sixth got through and reached its target causing explosions at the depot.

And so the question of how the Russians will respond to the use of ATACMS against their home territory now moves from abstract to real and immediate status. It became the central point in my discussion with Judge Andrew Napolitano half an hour ago on his ‘Judging Freedom’ channel.

I strongly recommend this program to the community not so much for what I said, though I trust readers of these pages will find additional comfort in my remarks, but principally because of the stunning, brilliant 2-minute speech by Donald Trump that Judge Napolitano put up on screen at minute 9, asking my opinion.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go–8rh8Kx0

For those who want to see NATO completely restructured and re-purposed, for those who believe, as Trump says here, that the greatest threat to civilization is not Russia or China, but the United States leadership – these two minutes will bowl you over.

For my contribution to the debate in alternative media over the ATACMS issue, I call out my comment on why the Kremlin must be delighted that these missiles are totally under U.S. control rather than control by the maniacs in Kiev. The Kremlin through its ambassador to the United Nations Nebenzia may claim, as he does in a video clip shown by the Judge, that Biden’s decision demonstrates the utter irresponsibility of Washington as it leads the world towards a global conflict, but that is propaganda and nothing more.  Yes, dear friends, as I have said for some time, the Russians are not bunny rabbits.

After all, the ATACMS were directed against a legitimate military target, not against residential housing, civilian infrastructure or, heaven forbid, the nuclear power plant in Kursk.  That is the only kind of targeting that Zelensky and his army are capable of.

And so, I conclude that we may all sleep calmly through the 60 days to come.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2024

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

Was passiert jetzt, nach dem ATACMS-Angriff der Ukraine auf ein Waffenlager im Oblast Brjansk, Russische Föderation?

Kurz nach meinem letzten Interview bei „Dialogue Works“ um 12 Uhr mittags europäischer Zeit berichteten globale und russische Medien, dass mitten in der Nacht ein Schwarm von 6 ATACMS-Raketen aus der Ukraine auf ein Waffenlager in der russischen Region Brjansk, die an Kursk grenzt, abgefeuert wurde. Offiziellen russischen Quellen zufolge wurden fünf der Raketen abgeschossen, aber die sechste Rakete erreichte ihr Ziel und verursachte Explosionen im Depot.

Damit wird die Frage, wie die Russen auf den Einsatz von ATACMS-Raketen auf ihrem Heimatgebiet reagieren werden, von abstrakt zu real und unmittelbar. Dies wurde zum zentralen Punkt in meinem Gespräch mit Judge Andrew Napolitano vor einer halben Stunde auf seinem Kanal „Judging Freedom“.

Ich empfehle diese Sendung der Community sehr, nicht so sehr wegen dem, was ich gesagt habe, obwohl ich hoffe, dass die Leser dieser Seiten in meinen Ausführungen zusätzlichen Trost finden, sondern vor allem wegen der beeindruckenden, brillanten zweiminütigen Rede von Donald Trump, die Judge Napolitano in Minute 9 auf den Bildschirm brachte und zu der er mich nach meiner Meinung fragte.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go–8rh8Kx0

Für diejenigen, die eine vollständige Umstrukturierung und Umgestaltung der NATO wollen, für diejenigen, die glauben, wie Trump hier sagt, dass die größte Bedrohung für die Zivilisation nicht Russland oder China ist, sondern die Führung der Vereinigten Staaten – diese zwei Minuten werden Sie umhauen.

Als meinen Beitrag zur Debatte in alternativen Medien über die ATACMS-Frage möchte ich meinen Kommentar dazu anführen, warum der Kreml erfreut sein muss, dass diese Raketen vollständig unter US-amerikanischer Kontrolle stehen und nicht unter der Kontrolle der Wahnsinnigen in Kiew. Der Kreml, vertreten durch seinen Botschafter bei den Vereinten Nationen Nebenzia, mag behaupten, wie er es in einem vom Judge gezeigten Videoclip tut, dass Bidens Entscheidung die völlige Verantwortungslosigkeit Washingtons demonstriert, da sie die Welt in einen globalen Konflikt führt, aber das ist Propaganda und nichts weiter. Ja, liebe Freunde, wie ich schon seit einiger Zeit sage, die Russen sind keine Kaninchen.

Schließlich waren die ATACMS-Raketen gegen ein legitimes militärisches Ziel gerichtet, nicht gegen Wohngebäude, zivile Infrastruktur oder, Gott bewahre, das Kernkraftwerk in Kursk. Das ist die einzige Art von Zielerfassung, zu der Selenskyj und seine Armee fähig sind.

Und so komme ich zu dem Schluss, dass wir alle die kommenden 60 Tage ruhig durchschlafen können.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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7 thoughts on “What happens now, after the Ukraine’s ATACMS strike on an arms storage site in Bryansk oblast, Russian Federation?”

  3. That was not a speech so much as a public declaration of war on the American MIC/PTB/INTEL/BANKING blob.

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  4. If anything at all is true, it is true that the people directing the Ukraine and ME adventures, not to mention Yemen, Africa etc. are paying absolutely no attention to what Trump says. They will do exactly what they want to do, and if what they want to do is postpone the inauguration past January 20, they will through whatever means necessary.

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  7. Biden is only nominally head of the Anglo-Saxon empire. The ones really in control are the security apparatus. Trump or any other president would end up like Kennedy if they were any threat.

    In 2022 Russia performed a major escalation by sending it’s army to Kiev. Regardless of how much sense it made, when I first heard it on the radio I thought it was an exaggeration of what had unfolded until I read about it.

    My only comfort rests in the fact that Russia might react by providing advanced weapons to the enemies of those that target it’s territory like it has threatened to do so as opposed to launching ICBM’s, as you rightfully noted, and getting the world into MAD.

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