In recent days, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has shown a new trend. Although the Ukrainian army is still launching an offensive against the Russian army at any cost, due to the excessive losses of personnel and equipment, it has never been able to break through the Russian military's defense line. The preparations for the Russian army's new round of counterattack have not been fully completed, so the front line of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has not changed significantly recently. However, outside the battlefield, the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, the United States and the West continues, and it becomes increasingly intense and exciting. The two most important things about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict recently are the dirty bomb storm, and the Democratic Party’s key members demanded that Biden change his policy to Ukraine.
According to the Russian news agency for illegal parking, sources said that Kiev made fake missile to provoke " dirty bomb " in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area.
On the 23rd, Russian Defense Minister Shoigu spoke with the four defense ministers of the United States, France, Britain and Turkey on the phone, saying that the Russian intelligence department had verified that the Ukrainian military would detonate a dirty bomb in the Ukrainian control area and then frame Russia. However, the United States, Britain and France completely ignored Russia's warning and issued a joint statement claiming that Russia's warning was an excuse for "escalation of the situation."
British Foreign Secretary Cliverly, French Foreign Minister Cologne and US Secretary of State Blinken said the three countries opposed Russia's statement that Ukraine was preparing to use the so-called "dirty bomb".
Aerospace Lord introduced in a previous article that Russia is very reluctant to see the Ukrainian army use dirty bombs, because once the frame-up plan is successful, Russia will fall into a more isolated situation in the international community, and the pollutants of dirty bombs are also highly likely to spread to Russia and Belarusian territory, causing huge economic losses. After Shoigu, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Gerasimov, also spoke with Mark Mili, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss the incident, but there was still no result. Seeing that the West was not able to directly warn the West, Russia directly put the "dirty bomb incident" into the UN mechanism.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kureba said Kiev is not ready to buy "dirty bombs". Kureba wrote on Twitter: "Ukraine is a member of the obligations of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons : We do not have "dirty bombs" and we do not intend to buy them."
According to the Russian media Issue, Russian representative to the United Nations Nebianjia wrote a letter to the UN Secretary-General Guterres , asking the Security Council to hold a special meeting on the possible use of dirty bombs in Ukraine, and proposed that "the Security Council should do all its efforts to stop this heinous crime." However, there is no news at present that the Security Council has held this meeting. Objectively speaking, Russia's appeal to the United Nations to the dirty bomb incident is difficult to actually stop Ukraine's plan to use dirty bombs to frame Russia. Because according to the Russian side, the United States and the United Kingdom are both deeply involved, and the United Kingdom even provides Ukraine with small nuclear weapon and submersible devices for the deployment of nuclear weapons. At least two of the five permanent members may participate in or even lead the matter, which destined that the United Nations mechanism could not prevent the worst outcome. However, Russia repeatedly mentioned this on the international stage. Even if Ukraine eventually detonated the dirty bomb, its frame-up effect would be greatly reduced because Russia issued several advance warnings.
Another major event is that the attitude of the ruling US party towards the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is changing. On October 24, local time, the Washington Post reported that at least 30 Democratic members of Congress submitted a joint letter to Biden. The joint letter believes that continuing to intensify the conflict is not in the interests of the United States and Ukraine, and the United States should try ways other than military aid to end the Russian-Ukraine conflict as soon as possible. In order to achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible, the U.S. government can consider making some concessions to Russia.The joint letter caused a stir in the US political arena. Previously, several senior Republican officials said that once Congress is seized in the midterm elections, aid to Ukraine will be reduced. Now there are 30 Democratic lawmakers who also hope that the US government will stop adding fuel to the fire and make concessions to Russia. This shows that the attitude of the US government towards the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has been shaken.
Why did such a change occur within the US government? First of all, the United States' aid to Ukraine has caused harm to the United States' own military and economic strength. At present, the United States has provided millions of ammunition and countless pieces of weapons and equipment to Ukraine, which has led to a critical inventory of some of the US military's weapons and affected the combat readiness of the US military. At the economic level, the endless aid plan for Ukraine has also brought huge burdens to the U.S. fiscal year. The US government's deficit exceeded one trillion US dollars for three consecutive years, but the US government still has to take out its already tight budget to aid Ukraine, which has aroused dissatisfaction among isolationist politicians. Secondly, the current economic situation in the United States is extremely poor, and the high inflation of still plagues the American people. At the same time, the United States' GDP has also declined for two consecutive quarters. Under such circumstances, the American people are very dissatisfied with the US government's failure to seriously resolve domestic problems and instead show off their power overseas. It is reasonable to ask the US government to reduce its aid to Ukraine.
Judging from the current situation, the probability of the Republican Party winning a great victory in the midterm elections is extremely high, and the possibility of the United States reducing its aid to Ukraine is also very high. By then, Ukraine will become an abandoned child. Perhaps it was because of the realization of this ending that the Ukrainian government would continue to launch a cost-effective counterattack against the Russian military positions while the Democrats still held parliament, trying to show some value, so as not to be abandoned too early.
