• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 month 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.

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    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.

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      1 month ago

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

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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

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

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    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.