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The US has been assisting Kiev in carrying out drone attacks on energy facilities inside Russia for the past several months, the Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed American and Ukrainian officials. US officials previously made no secret of their data-sharing with Kiev, but never confirmed their involvement in targeting Russia’s energy assets. When asked earlier in October about Washington’s possible role in Kiev’s strikes deep into Russian territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that it was “obvious” to Moscow that “all of NATO and US infrastructure is being used to collect and pass on intelligence to the Ukrainian side.” The FT said in an article on Sunday that Washington started sharing this data after a call between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky in mid-July, in which Trump reportedly asked his interlocutor if Kiev could strike Moscow with American-supplied long-range weapons. The White House later claimed that Trump was “merely asking a question, not encouraging further killing.”

This is not news--the US Armed Forces are generally not a real fighting force for real war. Let alone against Russia, but the US military does have some crown jewels, which in case of SMO exist only because the US hides behind backs of 404 cannon fodder and in the case of cowardice and casuistic legality declares itself not a belligerent of the West's war against Russia. Of course, it is and it uses its untouched ISR, primarily orbital grouping, to provide targeting and timing (that one is crucial) for ukrop drone strikes into Russia's territory. 

Now, that Russia demonstrated to the US what escalation dominance is, which the US doesn't have due to a primitive TOE from 1990s and a complete lack of strategic-operational real military expertise, cowards in D.C. are butthurting and coping big time and still cannot grasp the fact that they should go into REAL military-educational institution to get a feel of the model of AD battle and recognize that the only thing they can hope for are those pin-pricks by "leakers", which are inevitable in any missile-drone exchange. Obviously, for these guys the simple truth that even by 1980 Soviet AD could repel a massive missile-air attack at USSR's central industrial district is beyond their grasp since NATO has no serious military educational sector dedicated specifically to the issue of air defense. So, losers continue to drink Kool Aid provided to them by all kinds of info shysters both in the West and from Russia.