DONETSK OBLAST – Gasping for air from a trench in eastern Ukraine, an infantryman was ready for the worst when a suffocating white smoke spread into his position. A Russian drone had just dropped a gas grenade into the trench, an internationally banned practice in warfare used to suffocate Ukrainian soldiers
  • assembly@lemmy.world
    54·
    4 months ago

    With Russia using chem weapons, the allied countries need to drop limitations on the use of weapons by Ukraine and increase weapons shipments. That will send a clear signal that this shit won’t be tolerated.

    • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
      251·
      4 months ago

      Biden won’t because he’s an ossified boomer and still thinks of Russia in CW1 terms.

      Unfortunately, I think the earliest chance of a significant positive change in US policy vis a vis Ukraine will come after Harris is sworn in. It’s deeply frustrating, because I very much understand the tactical exigencies of the current situation, but Biden is more or less (wrongheadedly) paralyzed in that sense.