Biden allows Ukraine to use U.S. arms to strike inside Russia
President Joe Biden's administration will allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, three sources told Reuters.
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.
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.
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).
Because Biden and the rest of the leadership are a bunch of Cold War fossil fucks.
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.
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.
He needed it to be too late before doing too little.
Finally, damn.
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.
Finally they are allowed to use arms
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…
People downvoting me : feel free to add something. I get from the downvote that thinking it’s too late is unpopular opinion.
