Jubilation at Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb – but is this joy justified?
3 June 2025, https://theaimn.net/jubilation-at-ukraines-operation-spiderweb-but-is-this-joy-justified/#google_vignette
A web, or a trail to Armageddon?
The news media is agog with the glorious success of Operation Spiderweb – drones sent deep inside Russia to damage 41 planes. Ukraine claims that these were A-50 surveillance planes, the supersonic Tu-160 and Tu-22 bombers, and the massive Tu-95s, which were developed to carry nuclear bombs and now launch cruise missiles.
The damage is estimated to be $7 billion. The targets reached inside Russia included Belaya airbase over 4,000km) from Ukraine, and three other distant airbases. The complex operation was planned in secret, over 18 months.
It was such a clever operation, involving smuggling of drones into Russia and placing them inside containers, which were later loaded on to trucks. Remotely activated mechanisms opened the containers allowing the drones to fly out and make their distant attack.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised the “absolutely brilliant” Ukrainian drone attack – “produced by Ukraine independently.”
Wow! We’re all delighted, aren’t we, at this surprise, this ingenuity, done all alone by Ukraine – such a demonstration of how the clever Ukrainians will beat the stupid boorish Russians?
There are just a few questions that I would like to see posed, in the corporate media.
I hardly know where to start. Can we believe that:
This was done over 18 months completely without the knowledge of Ukraine’s European partners, in particular Great Britain, France and Germany, who were all consulting with Ukraine over that period, and especially in the last few weeks?
Without the knowledge of the USA, while Senators Lyndsay Graham and Richard Blumenthal, in Ukraine in the past week where they coordinated intensely with the Ukrainian government?
Why was this attack timed exactly at the time of the Istanbul peace talks between Ukraine and Russia?
Did Zelensky not understand that this would at least cast a damper on those talks, upsetting Russia – a bit like the effect on USA if someone attacked US Air Force B-52H bombers and B-2 bombers?
Well, if Zelensky did understand that, was his intention to sabotage the talks, and provoke Russia into a retaliation, which might bring Europe and even the USA into the war?
The jubilation of the media seems to completely ignore Russia’s stated policy on its use of nuclear weapons, updated in 2024 – nuclear weapons would be authorised for use in response to:
“… attack by [an] adversary against critical governmental or military sites of the Russian Federation, disruption of which would undermine nuclear forces response actions.”
We don’t know how Russia will respond to this remarkable and unprecedented attack.
We don’t know how President Trump will respond.
What is clear is that the Istanbul peace talks have been wrecked, and a whole new phase now opens in the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It started out with the intention of a limited attack – the Russians still call it a Special Military Operation. Now Putin has no other option than to declare it a full scale war.
Watch Alistair Crooke's analysis of the latest Ukraine provocation which was undoubtedly midwifed by MI6/CIA/Mossad. https://rumble.com/v6u7bpl-judgingfreedom.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Those Russian strategic bombers had to be out in the open as a condition of the START treaty that demands this so that the bombers can be counted by satellites. And why the silence from Trump and Vance while little warmonger Lindsey Graham is cavorting with fellow warmonger Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, egging on WWIII? If the tables were turned and US strategic bombers had been attacked by Russia, WWIII would already have kicked off. The west is run by lunatics. The only sensible adults in the world are in Russia and China. We are literally teetering on the brink of Armageddon and nobody in the crazy west seems even remotely concerned.
I find this question posing unhelpful, let us not forget it was Putin invaded Ukraine. It is Putin who has consistently lied about cease fires, about his intentions and consistently pounded Ukrainian cities to powder.
This imaginative action is nothing less than critical self defence.
How will Putin react? We all know the answer but this war has always been Russia’s responsibility - they are the aggressors. Not Ukraine.
As for Trump, he’s lost any vestiges of respect I might have had for him months ago. He’s not interested in helping Ukraine and never really has been. I believe he’d happily watch Putin completely destroy Ukraine and then “do his deals” and divide the spoils with Russia afterwards.