Nov. 17, 2024 (EIRNS)—The surprise announcement Sunday, Nov. 17 that the Biden Administration would now allow Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike Russian territory is a powerful reminder as to how close the world still is to thermonuclear war. As EIR has warned over the recent months and years, the proxy-war in Ukraine against Russia has put the world on the absolute precipice of global war—a situation which the war hawks in the trans-Atlantic are hell-bent on igniting. And the decision to approve Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons may just push it over the edge.