Summary
President Biden recently authorized Ukraine to use longer-range U.S. missiles to strike inside Russia, marking a small but overdue escalation in the conflict.
This decision aims to disrupt Russia’s military operations and bolster Ukraine’s position, especially with the potential Trump administration favoring pro-Russian policies.
Russia’s retaliatory missile strike on Ukraine, though deadly, represents more of the same tactics.
Analysts argue Biden’s earlier caution was excessive, and calling Russia’s nuclear bluffs is strategically necessary to counter further extortion.
It’s way too late. Unless we are pro-war now it would’ve been better to make a peace plan before the other guy is in office.
The only peace plan is the Ukraine disposing Putin.
Which will only happen if we have WW3. Let’s be honest.
I’m actually pretty doubtful that Russia still has much of a nuclear capacity. Maintaining a nuclear arsenal is very expensive, and the Russian oligarchs have been embezzling massive amounts of money from the military.
They’ve had to resort to asking NK for help, so I don’t think they have a good chance of winning the current conflict, much less an actual NATO power.
It takes 26 minutes and 40 seconds for a ballistic missile to get from a launchpad in Russia to the East Coast of the United States.
Cool then you don’t have too much time to worry.
Biden isn’t escalating the war, he is slow-walking the aid. Too much to die, too little to live, as the Ukrainians say. If you give Russia 9 months to pull critical assests out of range and only allow strikes deep into Russia after a whole nother nations enters the war on the side of Russia, you can’t frame that as escalatory, no matter how much Putin removed and moans.
Hmmm. My idea of the process is a little different. Embedded CIA reports to the DOD on daily to and fro of the war. What the Ukrainians needed yesterday isn’t necessarily what they will need tomorrow. Wars evolve. The DOD takes this information and projects future needs leading to a budget recommendation to Congress. Congress creates a budget bill and passes it. Johnson sitting on that bill, BTW, put Ukraine behind the 8 ball. Biden uses that allocation to buy weapons per the DOD recommendations. Rules placed on weapons use, such as not using US missiles on Russian ground, are meant to stop escalation into NATO entering into the conflict. In fact when that rule ochanged there was an escalation, but not involving NATO, yet.
The right thing, done far too late.
Triggering WWIII with other nuclear powers is the right thing to do?
It gets easier by the day to manufacture consent
You consistently have the most brain dead takes on Lemmy, bravo
TIL triggering ww3 is when you don’t allow one nation to invade and conquer another.
And enabling authoritarian regimes to do what they want is the right thing to do? Fuck you.
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You really had to make an alt account for your pathetic trolling?
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Which has nothing to do with your mental illness at the moment, champ.
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Did you have a stroke?
Edit: You literally worship a grown man who shits his diapers.
Didn’t realize we bounced over December and right to the inauguration…
This decision is leading to another 90K NK troops and possible Yemen might send troops as well. The perpetual agitation of escalation cant be anymore clear. Yeah Russia deserves this but in no way is this not escalation.
Ukraine is defending themselves. Russia is the one escalating and has been since the invasion.
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No one is arguing that. What Biden stupid ass did before he leaves office is the same he has done since the war started. Escalation!
You’re arguing that now, lol.
And you’re blaming Biden for Russia invading Ukraine?
I see reading comprehension is not your thing!
Lol.
What Biden stupid ass did before he leaves office is the same he has done since the war started. Escalation
So this isn’t you implying it’s Biden’s fault?
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Meanwhile, several thousand miles to the south…
