Comments by "Graeme Peters" (@graemepeters5717) on "Keir Starmer and Joe Biden hold talks in Washington | BBC News" video.

  1. Biden and Starmer have rejected Putin's statement that authorising the use of long-range missiles, which are operated by NATO troops NOT Ukrainian ones, against targets inside Russia, would be direct participation by NATO in the conflict. The Russian Govt has issued a statement that if NATO missiles are fired into Russia, then a state of war will exist between Russia and NATO. The Russian ambassador to the UN Security Council informed the UN that such an open attack would mean Russia would take appropriate decisions with all the attendant consequences. Russian embassies and consulates in Washington and New York are operating on skeleton staff only. Senior diplomats and their families were flown back to Russia this week. Russian maritime surveillance and submarine hunter aircraft were operating near Alaska this week. The US sent a B52 to Alaska and a sub-hunter to patrol the sea off Washington - where the US has 2/3rds of their nuke armed subs and their Trident storage site. All Black Sea ports from Sevastopol to Sochi have been EMPTIED this week. Blinken says the US stands by Poland's right to shoot down Russian missiles near its border. Dong John (Chinese minister) has stated that China will support Russia militarily if NATO attacks Russia! The BRICS meeting was in Belarus this week. Iran also attended. Belarus is performing nuclear weapons drills on Poland's border. Japan scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian planes in the area between Japan and South Korea. Russia and China have the largest naval exercise in 30 years in the South China Sea. Finland has denied Russian allegations that drones were launched from its territory to attack Russia's Murmansk oblast (where 2/3rds of Russia's nuclear submarines and her Northern Fleet are based). Finland has just announced a massive donation of funds and equipment to Ukraine. The UK has sent several 'high-priority surveillance flights' up the coast of Norway to the Russian base. Also sent a P8 sub-hunter to patrol the coast of Poland and the Baltic. Poland also has patrols covering northern Poland and the Baltic. NATO surveillance flights to the seas around Iceland (where Russian subs would have to pass through). Israel is about to mount a major offensive against Hezbollah, Iran won't sit by and say nothing! Israeli special forces raided and destroyed an Iranian missile factory in Syria.
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