• FuglyDuck
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    317 months ago

    We should hand them the weapons and let them use them how they want/need to.

    If Russia doesn’t like how they use them, they can end this fucked up war of aggression they started simply by leaving.

    • @pikmeir
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      117 months ago

      It’s like trying to end an ant infestation by just spraying your kitchen table.

    • @rayyy
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      -27 months ago

      Problem is that if the Putin rat is backed into a corner he may be tempted go to tactical nukes - by accident, of course.

  • @gedaliyah
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    207 months ago

    How can they drive back Russian forces if they can’t act against military targets behind enemy lines? Seems to be an unnecessary limitation as this point.

    • @[email protected]
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      87 months ago

      Seems like it’s absurd to pretend it was a limit in the first place, and a fake issue entirely.

    • @jeffwOP
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      7 months ago

      What are you talking about? Did the US put those limits on the strikes inside Russia?

      • @gedaliyah
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        US and EU as far as I know. I guess it has to do with treaties and policies about proxy wars. If a country sends weapons to another country and tells that contrary to attack a third country, I think it’s considered an act of war from the country that sent the weapons. IANAL

        Edit: especially considering that Russia has long since claimed that Ukraine is just a pawn of the West

        • @jeffwOP
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          7 months ago

          ??? This was like the second biggest news story of the past week? The point of the article is about the relaxation of those limits

  • @gedaliyah
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    37 months ago

    The Biden administration had held targets inside Russia off limits to U.S.-supplied weapons. The fear had been that Russian President Vladimir Putin would then seek to widen the war to Ukraine’s neighbors. Or, an even more grim possibility: Russia unleashing tactical nuclear weapons in combat.

    But Russian battlefield gains in recent weeks near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, seem to have changed the adminstration’s approach.