America’s permission to Ukraine to fire its potent ATACMS missiles into Russia looks like a last gaps gesture by the dying Joe Biden presidency. Is it too little, too late to save Ukraine from defeat, and the triumph of Vladimir Putin’s forces now advancing on several fronts?
The missiles have been used already, but only against Russian forces in Ukraine itself. Now they are needed to stop the force of over 50,000 now bent on pushing Ukrainian forces out of the pocket of Russian territory they seized round Kursk earlier this summer. Among the 50,000 are up to 10,000 North Koreans – and more expected if the offensive goes on through the winter.
