We should have given Ukraine more weapons earlier, says ex-NATO chief (www.politico.eu)
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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 06 Oct 2024 21:42 next collapse
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MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io on 06 Oct 2024 22:37 next collapse

No shit!

BombOmOm@lemmy.world on 06 Oct 2024 23:48 collapse

Best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, and today. We need to surge weapons to them and we need to allow them to fully use the weapons we are sending. The US still blocks Ukraine from using things like ATACMS in Russia.

someguy3@lemmy.world on 06 Oct 2024 23:52 next collapse

Ukraine’s allies should have supplied Kyiv with more arms before Moscow’s full-scale invasion to prevent the war, NATO’s former chief said Friday.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca on 07 Oct 2024 00:45 next collapse

“gee. Ya think?!?” – everyone

Assman@sh.itjust.works on 07 Oct 2024 01:05 next collapse

In all fairness I don’t think anyone expected Ukraine to put up the fight they have

finitebanjo@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2024 02:33 collapse

If that were the case then I think the full scale invasion would have occured back during the annexation of Crimea?

That’s exactly what this official implies: allowing things to get this bad after what happened before took either a supreme lack of foresight or malicious intent.

vin@lemmynsfw.com on 07 Oct 2024 10:22 next collapse

Sounds like that episode of yes minister

wewbull@feddit.uk on 07 Oct 2024 10:41 next collapse

Got to love how he talks about 2014-2022 as pre-invasion. I was horrified how we sat back and did nothing as Russia took Crimea.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 2024 15:38 next collapse

But that would have been bad for business.

Sorgan71@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 2024 15:51 next collapse

well to be fair we thought russia would steamroll them and get any weapons we sent them.

sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world on 10 Oct 2024 20:10 collapse

Couldnt we have wired our equipment to blow up spectacularly if the equipment was lost? I’m obviously no expert, but it seems possible. Any military types know the answer to this?

Sorgan71@lemmy.world on 10 Oct 2024 21:41 collapse

indiscriminate weapons and booby traps are illegal under the CCW

sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world on 11 Oct 2024 03:03 collapse

ah ok. appreciate the info.

bigFab@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 2024 16:42 next collapse

No shit!

sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world on 10 Oct 2024 19:58 collapse

I’ve voted straight dem ticket all my life but I wonder now what that D even means anymore. Its not what it was in the previous decades and it not liberalism. its barely any defense of western values or being anti fascist and anti communist. I think Nato has similar qualms about us, and rightly so.