Source: WSJ Reports of U.S. Aid to Ukraine Deep Strikes into Russia is Total NATO Bullshit

Oct. 3—A source close to the White House said that the unattributed reports in the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. was shifting strategy to aid Ukraine in attacking deep into Russia was "total NATO propaganda bullshit" coming from the flagship paper of the neo-con "war party" propaganda machine.

"No serious person with knowledge of the current strategic situation should ever believe anything that the Wall Street Journal says on any subject," said the source. "There has been no change on the part of President [Donald] Trump on giving any support for Ukraine's attack deep into Russia or providing new weapons systems such as Tomahawk cruise missiles that could strike Moscow. [NATO's Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr] Zelenskyy has asked Trump for this last week when they met at the UN, and he was told that it was not going to happen. Zelenskyy told Trump that such action was required to bring [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to the negotiating table. Trump expressed frustration that Zelenskyy had not yet met with Putin but also told Zelenskyy that 'he had heard' that the reason there is no meeting is that the Ukrainian would not agree to any agenda and that he needed to correct that immediately."

This and other sources say that the WSJ report came from sources inside the military and defense establishment who cling to the neo-con agenda to bring the United States into direct conflict with Russia, including a military confrontation that could rapidly become nuclear.

Neo-Con Advocacy and Trump’s Rejection

The need for this policy shift was strongly argued by neo-con godfather Robert Kagan in the most recent issue of The Atlantic, where he urged the U.S. to back decisive military action, including using its own capabilities to create an on-the-ground situation where Ukraine could defeat Russia. Kagan, whose wife is the Queen of the Ukraine, former State Department official Victoria Nuland, who engineered the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, argued for the use of advanced weapon systems to strike deep into Russia, hitting infrastructure and oil refineries, while also blowing up the Kerch Strait Bridge, which would wipe out the line of supply and retreat for Russian forces, trapping them in Ukraine. Kagan, like the fool that he is, admits that this might provoke a response from Russia that would attack NATO forces outside Ukraine, and even a nuclear response, but claims a weakened Putin would not risk this.

"Trump has rejected this advice," said the source. "Instead, he is in conflict with the NATO establishment that wants to prolong and intensify its proxy war versus Russia to involve NATO and American assets. He intends to end this war through diplomacy, and he awaits the release of a new peace plan from Putin. He is frustrated by the slow pace of things but is not such a fool to think that intensifying hostilities will bring the war to a close."

Strategic Shift: U.S. Pullback from Europe

"There has been a change in strategy," the source said. "And it is about more than Ukraine. The neo-cons are freaked out because the President intends to pull U.S. assets out of Europe, and force European NATO to accept the responsibility for its own defense. The U.S. intends to place more of a focus on the Western Hemisphere. He has said the war in Ukraine is NATO's war, not ours. You want to supply Ukraine, then you can buy weapons from U.S., but we are done supporting your war with our money, and you can forget about U.S. troops. That was the meaning of his social media post last week. You can win the war with sanctions and other non-military policy, but Europe is not going to do this. Look at the bullshit that came from the recent EU ministers meeting on sanctions: we need to look at them, look at trying to stop people buying Russian energy, but as usual, they huff and puff and do nothing."

So, the WSJ tried to flip things, implying that the U.S. will now act more aggressively, using military means through the Ukrainians against Russia, the source stated.

WSJ Claims and Internal Contradictions

According to the report posted Oct. 1 in the WSJ, the U.S. will provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, unnamed American officials said, as the Trump administration weighs sending Ukraine powerful weapons that could put in range more targets within Russia.

The Journal claims Trump recently signed off on allowing intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to aid the Kyiv regime with the strikes. U.S. officials are asking NATO allies to provide similar support, the officials said. The expanded intelligence-sharing with Kyiv is said to be the latest sign that Trump is deepening support for Ukraine as his efforts to advance peace talks have stalled. It is the first time, officials say, that the administration will aid Ukrainian strikes with long-range missiles against energy targets deep inside Russian territory.

The WSJ says further that the U.S. is also weighing deliveries of Tomahawk and Barracuda missiles and other American-made ground- and air-launched missiles that have ranges of around 700 miles, other administration officials said. No decision on what to send—if anything—has been made, the officials said.

In the view of these officials, the intelligence, combined with more powerful weapons, could have a far more potent effect than Ukraine’s previous strikes in Russia, causing greater damage to its energy infrastructure and tying up Russian air defenses.

Then, to provide them with a fig leaf to cover their lies, the Journal writes that U.S. officials are "awaiting written guidance from the White House before sharing the necessary intelligence, one official said." So, in other words, totally contradicting all they have written, nothing has been decided or given.

Russian Intelligence Warnings and False Flag Concerns

The source close to the White House stated that the Russians know what Trump is dealing with and will not be provoked by such non-sourced reports. Despite what Trump posted about the possibilities of Ukraine "winning" and regaining its territory, American intelligence reports say that Ukraine is losing everywhere along the battlefront, and is retreating, which only makes NATO more desperate. This is why the Russians are putting out warnings about more likely "false flag" operations against NATO countries, run by Ukraine and blamed on the Russians to try to justify and trigger more NATO direct involvement against Russia.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, issued a warning Sept. 30 that the Kiev regime is preparing a false flag provocation to be used to bring NATO directly into war with Russia. The SVR said in a statement on Tuesday, Sept. 30 that the drone incursions into the EU were part of continued efforts by Ukraine, which is losing on the battlefield, aimed at “drawing European NATO countries into armed conflict with Moscow,” reported RT.

“Another provocation is currently being worked out” by Zelenskyy, the SVR statement read. It would revolve around “a sabotage and reconnaissance group deployed into Polish territory and allegedly consisting of special forces servicemen from Russia and Belarus,” it added. Members of the unit have already been selected from the ranks of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Belarusian Kastus Kalinouski Regiment, which have been fighting for Kiev in the Ukraine conflict, the agency said.

According to the scenario being prepared by Ukraine’s military intelligence (GUR) together with Polish spy agencies, after “the ‘detection and neutralization’ of the group by the security forces of Poland, its members are expected to appear before the media and give confessions, implicating Russia and Belarus in attempts to destabilize the situation in Poland.” The belief in Ukraine is that, following the faked "Russian" drone incursions, “such an event should leave no doubt in the minds of the Poles and other ordinary Europeans that Moscow and Minsk stand behind all the hostile actions,” SVR said. “Kyiv expects to prompt European countries to respond to Russia as harshly as possible, preferably in a military manner,” the SVR warned.