• Skiluros
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    5 hours 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.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

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

    • RustyShackleford@literature.cafe
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      4 hours ago

      What happened, is American aide to Ukraine is about to end in January, due to the Trump administration taking over. Plus, aide was likely waiting until the end of the American election system in hopes Democrats won, so less for the Republican side to complain about.

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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        I think the issue has been that Russia has stated that the US not having limits on the use of their supplied weapons would be seen as a US escalation of the war. And that becomes tricky because Ukraine is not a NATO country, but Russia drawing the US into the war would bring are NATO allies in as well potentially allowing WW3 (although for Trump it would be only WW2).

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          That’s meaningless. Russia can call it an act of war all they want, it doesn’t actually do anything. The only way for the US to get “drawn into” the war is for Russia to directly attack a NATO country, which there is literally zero chance of Russia doing, because if they can’t win a war against a single country being funded and supplied by NATO, how the fuck would they ever have a chance to prevail against the real thing?

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            Nukes. The hesitation is always about who is unhinged enough to actually fire a nuke.