It's Tuesday, November 19, 2024.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The headlines that broke yesterday tell us that President Biden has reversed U.S. policy

and is going to allow Ukrainian defense forces to use

a long-range American missile and to use it inside Russia. This is a massive change in policy

because even as the United States has been offering considerable military assistance to Ukraine,

and that's include many armaments, we have not allowed the most

dangerous of those armaments, the most deadly of them, including the attack,m's missile system

inside Russia, or, in truth, very far inside Russia. The point is that the use of those American

military weapons, even in Ukrainian hands and under Ukrainian supervision, still amounts to

an involvement of the United States against Russia in active military action. This is something of a

surprise since President Biden had been withholding that very permission ever since you had the

active engagement of Russia in Ukraine, which is to say Russia's aggressive attack

on Ukraine, trying to conquer Ukraine, seize its territory. When you had American and European

allies, among others, come to the defense of Ukraine, one of the dimensions of that assistance

was military weaponry as well as military assistance in leadership and strategy,

not to mention military intelligence. But the use of these kinds of weapons inside Russia,

it amounts to an escalation of the entire conflict. And it's an escalation at a very dangerous time,

and in one sense, at an odd time. Russia's invasion of Ukraine meant the

invasion of one sovereign nation by another. Ukraine was formerly a part of the Soviet Union,

along with Russia. But with the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Ukraine became

once again a sovereign nation, And as a sovereign nation,

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