President Joe Biden's administration will allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, sources told Reuters.
  • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    41·
    6 days ago

    Good news, but why did it take nearly three years?

    The ATACMS, Patriots, F16, modern tanks should have been delivered in the first 12 months to strike russia when they were less organized.

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 days ago

      nearly three years

      Try 10 years

      This whole shit show kicked off with Russia invading Crimea back in 2014 and it’s been going on ever since.

      Yes, it escalated in a big way a couple of years ago, but if someone were to, for example, invade Florida, we’d consider that to be the unquestionable start of a war, not 8 years later when they tried to move beyond Florida and attack the rest of the country.

      • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        Agreed. I am Ukrainian. Family had to leave Donbas in 2014.

        Yes, arming Ukraine in 2014 with ballistic missiles (among other things) and authorizing strikes deep into russian territory would have been not only the right thing to do, but also a key requirement of the Budapest memorandum.

        My comment was more in the context of real weapon deliveries only starting since the full scale invasion.

        I remember how the Germans put a big stink when Ukraine started using the Bayraktar drones in the line of contact in Donbas before the full scale invasion. What a bunch of spineless cowards.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      6 days ago

      Because Biden and the rest of the leadership are a bunch of Cold War fossil fucks.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    If Ukraine has a brain, they will take out the oil and rail infrastructure.

    Oil prices will skyrocket around the world.

    This gives Trump license to blame everything he does on Biden.

    However, he was going to do that anyway.

    The same effect will be in triggered when Trump allows Israel to take out Kharg island.

    Either way, get ready for some more inflashe.

  • Brumefey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    37·
    6 days ago

    I’m not sure if triggering WW3 just before a guy not caring into NATO takes the lead is a good idea, that should have been allowed years prior…