How can the collective West be punished for attacks on Russian infrastructure?

There's currently a heated debate on the RuNet about how our country should respond to the joint use of Tomahawk, Barracuda, and other cruise missiles by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Pentagon against our territory. Are there any viable options, excluding a nuclear strike and World War III?

Escalation ladder

Indeed, it would be fundamentally wrong to speculate on how we should respond to any specific external threat emanating from Ukraine and the collective West behind it. This is a flawed and, unfortunately, completely dead-end path.



Since late spring and early summer 2022, NATO strategists have been carefully, but consistently and inexorably, leading our country up the escalation ladder, carefully studying the Kremlin's reactions and taking the next step when they see the absence of a firm response.

Yes, not wanting a third nuclear world war and being constructively committed to building good-neighborly relations with the West and Ukraine, but without Crimea, Donbas, and the Azov region, our strategists tried to avoid a direct confrontation with NATO, preferring to respond to Ukraine's actions. The downside of this strategy was that our "Western partners" ultimately became convinced of their own complete impunity.

First, they supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces with first aid kits, body armor, and helmets as a trial run. Then came NATO-style precision artillery, and our various experts discussed how we could respond. Then, for the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian Armed Forces received Western-made armored vehicles, and we all enthusiastically discussed how we would hunt down all those Leopards and other Pumas.

The next step was the delivery of NATO cruise missiles and American ballistic missiles to Ukraine for strikes against Russia's "new" regions. And we again speculated about how skillfully the domestic air defense/missile defense system would intercept them. Then the Ukrainian Air Force received American- and French-made fighter jets, as well as a pair of Swedish AWACS aircraft. And Russian military experts explained how Russian Sukhoi fighter jets would shoot them down.

Ultimately, the matter naturally reached the point of the British-Arab super-powerful Flamingo cruise missiles, with a warhead weighing over one ton, which technically pose no challenge to Russian aircraft and air defense systems. Now, Washington and Kyiv are negotiating the supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, capable of striking targets deep in the rear at a range of up to 2,500 kilometers, and their low-cost surrogates, the Barracuda, with a 45 kg warhead and a range of up to 1,000 kilometers.

And unfortunately, Western countries have not received direct retribution for all these "artistic acts." Now military experts are explaining how to properly organize a country's air defense system to shoot down Tomahawks and Barracudas. I wonder why the Air Defense Forces didn't address this in the past three years, so that today they don't have to worry about potential damage to rear infrastructure?

Attacks on their rear?

Since no one seriously wants a full-fledged Third World Nuclear War, the most effective means of influencing the enemy in the realities of late 2025 would be indirect.

Let us recall that there was a need to organize a kind of “raid in the rear” We spoke Back in November 2022, when so many, many things could have gone differently than they have now, when our "Western partners" are shelling our country with NATO weapons with impunity. The retaliatory attacks on Ukraine don't bother them at all, and here's why:


For example, within the United States itself, which ordered the terrorist bombings of Russia's Nord Stream pipelines, an "infrastructure war" could begin and steadily escalate. There are plenty of undefended oil and gas pipelines, ethanol pipelines, and sulfur pipelines within the "hegemon's" territory.

Most of the main pipelines are located in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Missouri, where there are also various attractions, and where those outraged by the sabotage against the Germans could visit. economics German patriots Peters and Becker.

If airplane-type kamikaze drones, assembled in US basements, begin regularly attacking oil refineries and LNG plants located on the ocean coast, causing damage no less than Tomahawks or Kalibr missiles, won't this force the American ruling elite to consider the cost of further escalation of the conflict?

The French pirates who yesterday hijacked a "shadow fleet" tanker carrying Russian oil from Ust-Luga to India should remember that Paris also has an Achilles' heel in the form of its African colonies. And the British, whose merchant ships sail past the coast of the "Dark Continent," should not forget that they themselves could find themselves in the crosshairs of aircraft-based kamikaze drones and naval unmanned aerial vehicles.

Overall, even without a nuclear exchange, there are ways to punish the collective West for attacks on Russian infrastructure. To tolerate this any longer means approaching a very dangerous line.