Steve Bannon warns Ukraine risks escalating war after drone strikes

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Steve Bannon warns Ukraine risks escalating war after drone strikes

Key Trump allies have condemned the

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, warning the attacks risked escalating the conflict at a time when Washington is trying to keep both sides at the negotiating table.

Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist during Donald Trump’s first term, used a Second World War comparison as he pointed out that Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, launched the operation just a day ahead of talks in Turkey.

“On the eve of peace talks or ceasefire talks he takes the Japanese role in Pearl Harbor –

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,” he said on his popular War Room show.

He called on the Trump administration to immediately condemn the strikes if it had no warning that Ukraine was planning such a huge attack.

Mr Bannon and his allies fear the world is hurtling towards a Third World War, as China and Russia deepen ties, and flashpoints ignite around the world.

A day earlier, Ukrainian officials said the surprise drone offensive had

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at air bases deep inside Russia.

Operation “Spiders Web”, 18 months in the planning, targeted strategic bombers capable of launching nuclear weapons.

As well as sending a message to Moscow, analysts said it was hard not to see a message for Mr Trump after his Oval Office showdown with Mr Zelensky, when he told the Ukrainian president: “You don’t have the cards. With us, you have the cards, but without us, you don’t have any cards.”

The strike was launched ahead of a big week of diplomacy.

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Mike Flynn, who was Mr Trump’s first national adviser in 2017 before resigning over undeclared meetings with Russian officials, described the weekend strikes as a “geopolitical insult” if Washington had not been informed in advance.

“People, and especially world leaders, need to realise the global implications to such an operation as Ukraine just pulled off,” he posted on X.

“Russia will respond. Action, reaction, counteraction. Those are the shifting tides of warfare.

“This wasn’t a bold action, it was brash. Ukraine’s short-term win could be the world’s long-term loss.”

Volodymyr Zelensky meets with Ukrainian officials

The US president has moved one way and then the other as he tries to make good on his campaign promise to

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Long an admirer of Vladimir Putin and his hardline rule of Russia, he hardened his position on Moscow after a

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at the ******** in April, but has not pushed through additional sanctions and has given the Russian leader more time to show he is serious about wanting peace.

On Monday, the two sides met for just an hour in Turkey. That was still enough time to agree to swap the bodies of 6,000 soldiers killed in action.

Mr Bannon said: “This is scampering up the escalatory ladder at the exact moment President Trump wants to get everybody off the escalatory ladder.”

Mr Bannon and his allies speculated that the Trump administration had given tacit approval.

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Vasyl Malyuk, the head of Ukraine’s Security Service, looks at a map showing a Russian military aircraft base amid the attack on Russia – AFP

“There’s no way that our intelligence services could not have known about this,” Jack Posobiec, a conservative activist and conspiracy theorist, told Mr Bannon’s show.

“We’ve had intelligence services that have been on the ground, as we know prior to the war, that are directly embedded, direct embeds with Ukrainian intelligence services and Ukrainian security services.”

Mr Bannon may no longer be in the White House, but he continues to talk with the president and his show is deeply influential with the wider Maga base.

“Russia is just not going to sit there and take it,” he said about the strikes

“The attack was audacious and bold and brilliant. That’s also not the point.”

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