When is the admin going to run out of excuses?

  • KillingTimeItself
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    331 month ago

    to be clear, ukraine went ahead and did this anyway. And then the US lifted restrictions on this kind of stuff (idk if it was completely, but they did do it)

    It’s not really arbitrary, it’s just geopolitics being geopolitics, ukraine and the rest of europe showed that russia would bluff, and we’re supporting them more now.

    I guess it should make sense coming from a partially republican legislature that doesn’t even believe in the ukraine war to begin with.

    • @Valmond
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      71 month ago

      It’s about atacms strikes deep (+100km) inside russia, what according to you did they do “anyways”?

        • @Valmond
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          51 month ago

          I know, and that has always “been allowed”.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        31 month ago

        they have sent other munitions from other sources fairly deep into russia, i believe the submarine dock attack was with a storm shadow missile, and at least one drone attack, the obvious one being the kremlin bombing, as well other other sourced materials they can find. They’ve been doing it whenever accessible and possible. Oh and obviously the recent offensive into russia itself.

        The obvious example is the ATACMs missile, but i believe that was post restriction.

        to be clear here, i’m not saying they broke the US restrictions, i’m saying they broke the “taboo” on firing into russian territory.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          The submarine dock was in Sevastopol, which is Russian-occupied Ukraine rather than Russia.

          • KillingTimeItself
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            01 month ago

            sevastopol is in crimea right? Is crimea recognized broadly by the global nations to be ukrainian territory? Crimea is annexed by russia, there was a whole thing around this when it happened. I know ukraine contests this and wishes to get it back, but currently for most intents, and most purposes, crimea is a part of russia.

              • KillingTimeItself
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                01 month ago

                i guess i’d probably define it by either governmental ties, although i believe crimea was closer to a territory of ukraine, than an actual part of ukraine, and whether or not the government itself has some sort of significant influence in that region.

                Geo politics is fun.

                I guess the other alternative is digging through the history of ukraine and crimea to see if they ever established any sort of relationship that you could use as a basis for a modern claim of “ownership”

        • @Valmond
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          11 month ago

          Ya I’m with you there, they have broken so many taboos (or as the russians call it, red lines), tanks, western help, javelins, hitting oil depos, substations (but that was retaliation I guess), …

          What about a kremlin attack? I only know about a staged one with a drone from IDR like 2022?

          • KillingTimeItself
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            21 month ago

            oh was the drone attack on the kremlin staged? I remember hearing that as a possibility, but i never looked into it after the fact.