pjmedia.com By Richard Fernandez
The BBC reports that Vladimir Putin has told U.S. President Donald Trump that he will have to respond to Ukraine’s major drone attack, codenamed Spider’s Web, on Russian airbases.
Speaking after a phone call with the Russian president, Trump said: “President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.”
Russian officials declined to confirm this on Wednesday night, but Moscow had earlier said that military options were “on the table” for its response.
Trump warned in a social media post that the phone call, which lasted more than an hour, would not “lead to immediate peace” between Russia and Ukraine.
The Russian has telegraphed his punch, which seems so odd as to almost be contrived. Putin, like a movie villain, gave a speech before actually firing his shot at his supposedly cornered enemy, who in the meantime may find a way to preempt him…
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