US signals that it has expanded policy to allow Ukraine to counterstrike into Russia

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1. Great news! 🙌

   >The US appears to have expanded its [agreement with Ukraine to strike over the border ](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/europe/ukraine-western-weapons-hit-russian-territory-intl-latam/index.html)inside Russian territory wherever Russian forces are engaging in cross-border attacks into Ukraine, not just in the Kharkiv region as was previously determined.

   >National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told PBS News on Monday that the agreement with Ukraine to fire into Russia extends wherever Russian forces are attempting to invade.

   >“It extends to anywhere that Russian forces are coming across the border from the Russian side to the Ukrainian side to try to take additional Ukrainian territory,” Sullivan said, adding that it’s “not about geography. It’s about common sense.”

2. Don’t need to shoot the really expensive Patriots missiles if you let them shoot the cheaper ATACMS to take out all their aircrafts.

3. I have previously compares this gradual escalation of tech and permissions by the west to the old “boiling the frog” idea. And there is likely something to that. But I think that probably there’s at least as much, if not more, of a mentality of “lets see if this changes Putin’s mind this time”. Is there a point at which Putin will decide the cost is too high and withdraw? If yes, what is that point? You don’t really know, so you escalate lethal aid to a country that is not your own, one step at a time, hoping to apply pressure until Putin cracks, without having to basically go onto a wartime footing to support Ukraine in a war which is not an conflict the US (or NATO) is directly involved in.

   And meanwhile, people continue to die. It’s just a nightmare.

4. Finally!!!

5. No safe havens.