• @Kyrgizion
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    Cowards. The Ukrainians are laying down their lives in defense of Europe and they can’t even get this, but a genocidal maniac who would sacrifice millions to remain in power gets all the aid he wants.

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      IDK, this seems like the DoD actually doing their jobs (for once).We’ve given tons of anti-missile systems to ukraine. Deploying THAAD to a conflict where we can’t actively deploy US troops alongside it is a serious intelligence risk, and it doesn’t fill a particular role thats missing in Ukraine. Russia hasn’t been using ballistic missiles of the size THAAD would even be effective against. Patriot, MANPAD, aerial launched and even hera systems have been extremely effective, and NATO continues to supply those systems for Ukraine.

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          Removed and temp banned for Russian propaganda. Ukrainians are NOT Nazis.

        • @[email protected]
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          Just stop with the conspiracy bullshit. If you believe none of it, you’ll be right 98% of the time. There’s not much else in life with such certainty.

            • @[email protected]
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              Just a tip, nobody is ever going to accept a youtube video as a valid source. Nobody is going to spend 10+ minutes potentially watching some bullshit propaganda just to see if it even contains anything relevant to your claim. It could be the most perfect, well-sourced, undeniably-accurate youtube video in the history of videos, but literally nobody is going to watch it when brought up as a source for a claim on Lemmy or similar sites.

              I’m not trying to be a dick here, I’m being genuine. If you think there is actually vital information that people should know, you absolutely need to find a verifiable text-based source of that information. Period. Of course I can’t say if that applies in your case or not because as previously stated, nobody, myself included, will ever click on a youtube video as a source for a claim, so I can’t speak to whatever you’re trying to spout.

            • The Assman
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              These are the same guys who went to North Korea, you know, the place where owning a kdrama DVD will get your whole family executed, and basically said, “it’s not so bad idk what the fuss is about.”

              Let’s see a source that isn’t from authoritarian apologists.

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                North Korea, you know, the place where owning a kdrama DVD will get your whole family executed

                That is quite the claim.

  • @Rapidcreek
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    Ukraine has recieved several anti missile systems from the US, but do not man them as in Isreal. I suppose if US Troops were killed by the Russians in an attack, then all kinds of escalating shit would happen.

    • @Valmond
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      What kind if escalation does putin have though? Hes bombing civilians, schools and hospitals. And the nUcLeAr saber rattling has been used so much the saber is all dull.

      • @Rapidcreek
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        But he’s not bombing US hospitals. Read NATO, Article 5

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          Article 5 requires co-defense an attack occurs in the territory of NATO nations (or places occupied by members when NATO was created). It doesn’t cover US forces getting put in harms way and attacked in a non-member country. It doesn’t even cover troops getting attacked in Hawaii.

          • @Rapidcreek
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            Which is the reason NATO joined the US is Afghanistan

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              I’m not sure what you’re trying to say with this comment, but NATO was in Afghanistan because the US mainland was attacked, not because some soldiers got attacked in a foreign country.

        • @Valmond
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          That’s not how article 5 works.

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            Yes, it does.

            I see you can’t support your own statement.

      • @Rapidcreek
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        Iran would be destroyed by US Airpower. They know it.

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          And then what? Iraq got destroyed by air power, Afghanistan got destroyed by air power. Now both countries are hot beds of terrorism and instability.

          • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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            Yeah, but the Taliban or Iraq are not able to mass manufacture drones to sell to Russia.

          • @Rapidcreek
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            No, Afghanistan was not about air power. Iran has a lot to lose and could lose it very easily.

        • @Warl0k3
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          And they’re not a nuclear power. Like, pointedly not. We made real sure of that.