The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report
The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report
The change in policy is being considered after Russia placed weapons across the border from northeastern Ukraine, The New York Times reports.
- US officials are considering letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons, The New York Times reports.
- Ukraine says it's necessary to fight cross-border attacks.
- But fears of crossing Russia's red lines have long made the US hesitate.
The US has barred Ukraine from striking targets in Russian territory with its arsenal of US weapons.
But that may be about to change. The New York Times on Thursday reported that US officials were debating rolling back the rule, which Ukraine has argued severely hampers its ability to defend itself.
The proposed U-turn came after Russia placed weapons across the border from northeastern Ukraine and directed them at Kharkiv, the Times reported, noting that Ukraine would be able to use only non-American drones to hit back.
The Times reported that the proposal was still being debated and had yet to be formally proposed to President Joe Biden.
Why the hell are we concerned with Putin's feelings on the subject?
I'm sure it also enrages him that we're helping Ukraine at all, so what's the point?
In fact, we should be going out of our way to purposefully piss him off.
He's 71 and possibly has cancer, inducing a coronary might be the quickest way to get this war over with.26Do it already!
24Pretty sure the UK has given green light to use its weapons on Russian soil. Macron keeps the option open to deploy French troops. US weapons are approved for use against unarmed civilians in Palestine.
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13The UK openly said Ukraine could use British-supplied weapons on Russian territory a few weeks ago. We're much closer to the Russian heartlands and have a much less scary military than America, but Russia hasn't done shit about it
10Fuck puthead. Hes been asking for a while now
8Putin can Crimea fucking river, stop bombing Ukraine and you won't have to worry about it!
8Kind of annoyed people here still haven't made the connection that NATO doesn't want to support an offensive war because that would cost money and the entire MIC would not be making tech for profit. Hence why most tech given to Ukraine has been 90s surplus.
Nukes don't really mean anything even to Putin. Unless Moscow is under direct invasion, MAD will keep even the most insane at bay.
7Lol you mean Putin is calm and collected now?
7Late as fuck but better than nothing. The airfields used to deploy glide bomb launchers should be obliterated
6Fire away
5You cannot tiptoe around dictators, you need to crush them
3Putin might become "enraged"?
Oh no!
Anyway...3As long as US officials restrict strikes to avoid Russian nuclear deterrence installations, I don't really see why this wasn't already permitted.
The key US policy consideration in the conflict should be to avoid nuclear escalation. Don't strike nuclear early warning radars, don't strike nuclear silos, and everything else should be fine.
2This is the best summary I could come up with:
The New York Times on Thursday reported that US officials are debating rolling back the rule, which Ukraine has argued severely hampers its ability to defend itself.
The apparent U-turn comes after Russia placed weapons across the border from northeastern Ukraine and directed them at Kharkiv, according to the Times.
Analysts say the policy shift could hand Ukraine a crucial advantage in fighting Russia's attacks, using US weapons to strike troop gatherings and Russian planes that carry "glide bombs."
According to reports, Biden believes that Russia could hit back by launching an attack on the US or one of its allies, leading to a retaliatory spiral that could result in nuclear war.
But so far Russia has yet to respond to these moves with a massive escalatory attack, and analysts recently told BI that the Kremlin appears keen to avoid a direct war with NATO allies.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an interview with Reuters this week, criticized Western caution, saying that its support typically came about a year too late.
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2Like they even need it anymore. They've hit an oil refinery or storage facility every other day for the past month with goddamn homemade kamikaze drones. A good chunk of them deep in Russia.
2If missles start landing on Russia with American flags on them things could get confusing really quickly.
1We're just waiting for memorial day 😄. Why do we call it memorial day if it wasn't to remember something that happened that day. Am I right?
1We're cool with Israel using our weaponry to do a genocide but we're on the fence about whether Ukraine can use our weaponry to take back the land that Russia invaded and stole?
We really fucked up when we decided to form societies larger than tribes, huh? We could've basically just had community gardens and leisure, and instead we chose this. If I were an alien, I would consider Earth a flyover shithole not worth visiting.
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