the russians warned us for years about ukraine and now they're extending the warning and since its obvious that they didn't bluff before it aught to be so now;

The decision by the United States and several allies to supply Ukraine with main battle tanks is paving a “direct path” to a full-scale war in Europe, Russia’s deputy envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) warned.

In a statement issued on Thursday concerning the “dangerous policy of the Western Alliance countries to escalate tensions” in Ukraine, deputy OSCE representative Maxim Buyakevich said foreign arms deliveries to Kiev would only prolong the current conflict, or kick off a larger regional war.

“The leaders of the US and their NATO client states have come close to a red line. Their deliberate actions to escalate the military confrontation in Ukraine – provoking the regime into military action against the Russian population using Western heavy weapons and NATO intelligence – is a direct path to a full-blown military conflict in Europe,” he said, arguing that all people on the continent “definitely stand to lose” from such a war.

The Anglo-Saxon puppeteers of this escalation will not sit on the sidelines this time.

The statement followed an agreement between Washington, Berlin and other European partners to send heavy armor to Ukrainian forces earlier this week, with the US preparing to ship more than 30 M1 Abrams tanks in addition to about a dozen Leopard 2s from Germany and Challenger tanks from the UK. ..........more........