• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Not gonna lie, that headline had me on the first half. I was getting mad up until the last three words.

    • AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Same. I started thinking “why, that stupid shit-for-brains…” and had to reel that in with the last few words.

      ::confused slow clap::

  • fluxion@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I feel like he changed his mind when he saw how upset i was while reading through the first half

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    3 months ago

    These limitations on Ukraine really need to be lifted. Ukraine needs freedom to attack the best strategic targets they can, whether they are in Ukraine occupied areas or in Russia. Since Russia annexed the occupied territories, there’s not a big difference anyway.

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      The only problem I see is that it’s escalatory. If Ukraine starts using Western-supplied weapons for offensive operations, this situation goes from supplying war material for defense (under-the-table proxy war) to full-on overt proxy war. Russia will spin this as “NATO is using Ukraine to attack us” (though they’re probably doing that already).

      I can’t see how this won’t lead to a wider conflict.

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          3 months ago

          I’m sure you’re right.

          How do we use our understanding of that, and the way that they operate, to avoid a full scale war?

          • Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            There IS a full scale war going on. 31,000 confirmed dead Ukranian soldiers, and up to 120,000 dead Russian soldiers. We don’t even have a good idea how many civilian deaths, but the total death toll could be as high as 500,000.

            And no, before you start - Mutually Assured Destruction isn’t “a full scale war”. Its Annihilation of both sides, and has no precedent in the history of war.

      • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        The only problem I see is that it’s escalatory

        Wasn’t invading Ukraine escalatory in the first place?

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Russia is Already losing to U.S. weapons being used by Ukraine. Do you really think they want to find out what U.S. weapons used by the U.S. feels like?

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        3 months ago

        Boris calling for escalation again when he’s the one who talked zelensky out of a peace deal earlier in the war? Nooo.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I will admit that I am confounded by how often I agree with Boris Johnson’s views on providing military aid to Ukraine, considering I almost always vehemently disagree with him on pretty much anything and everything else.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    I was enjoying not hearing from this buffoon way too much, just like I will enjoy not hearing about Trump one day.

    So I’ll just go:’ oh no anyway’ on this one and hope the next but about him is further in the future.

  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Doesn’t Storm Shadow require Western operators to program targets? I want Ukraine to win this war of national survival (unlike the US administration) but Western operators programming missiles to hit targets in Russia does sound escalatory to me. I’d rather see Ukraine receive a decent number of F16s (i.e. much more than currently pledged) with corresponding munitions. There’s a lot of really useful stuff in the Western arsenal that would otherwise remain unused forever, including older-gen glide bombs & standoff weapons. It’s not going to be the Wunderwaffen winning this war, anyway. But an ample supply of decent weapons could work wonders. Just look at the success of Russia’s cheap glide bomb upgrades. (Sorry for the wall of text, by the way, but I can’t get Connect for Android to retain line breaks)