US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears its stockpiles are too low
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Some shipments have been stopped ‘to put America’s interests first’, White House says

The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.

At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.

After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.

But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.

  • rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
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    9 hours ago

    It cannot be overstated how completely different these situations are. Israel is trying to exterminate Palestinians. Russia does not want Ukraine to be part of a hostile, nuclear-armed military pact. Palestinians are fighting because otherwise Israel will kill them. Ukrainians are fighting because their coup government is having its strings pulled by NATO

    While i agree russia isn’t trying to ethenic cleansing ukranians the argument they use it’s still the same in my opinion. I think Putin want to make ukraine part of russia without erasing ukrsnian identity but if ukranians want to stay independent russia should respect that. I don’t see any other reason why Putin said that Ukraine used to be part of Russia

    • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Who cares if the arguments resemble one another? The underlying situations are what determine if the argument makes any sense.

      “I was afraid for my life” is a fine argument for firing back if someone pulls a gun and starts shooting at you. It’s ridiculous when it comes from a cop who opens fire on a kid with something in his hands.

      if ukranians want to stay independent russia should respect that

      The parts of Ukraine Russia controls right now were trying to break away from Ukraine before the war. And again, Russia is not trying to conquer Ukraine – the goal is to keep Ukraine out of NATO.

      • rumimevlevi@lemmings.world
        11·
        8 hours ago

        I was afraid for my life" is a fine argument for firing back if someone pulls a gun and starts shooting at you. It’s ridiculous when it comes from a cop who opens fire on a kid with something in his hands.

        Only if the risk is so eminent . Israel used the same argument to occupy gaza and the west bank in 67. Even if Israel goal of occupation is extermination of Palestinians and Russia is to make Ukraine part of Russia again occupation is occupation .

        I don’t see any other way to interpret Putin mentioning that Ukraine used to be part of Russia and that Ukrainians are just Russian

        The parts of Ukraine Russia controls right now were trying to break away from Ukraine before the war

        I know that there is separatist movements in them but we don’t know how much of the population backing it up