• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is the Western version of the salami slice method. A bit more weapons. Russia blathers about retribution and consequences, maybe another salvo and that’s it. Give longer range weapons and check reaction from Russia. Allow targeting Russia but limited. Now countries are slowly talking about training in Ukraine and boots on the ground and getting the classic consequences speech from Russia.

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      6 months ago

      Ukraine doesn’t want to target Moscow. They are not like Russia, they go after actual military targets, not civilians. They have been using their homebuilt drones for long enough inside Russia to show their priorities.

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          6 months ago

          It has a high symbolic value but it’s not very valuable as a military target. Better to wipe out a bunch of fuel trucks and tanks and soldiers than a handful of bureaucrats in a stationary palace.

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              6 months ago

              The main benefit it would provide would be a morale boost. It wouldn’t bring Ukraine any closer to removing the Russian occupiers or slowing their attacks.

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        6 months ago

        Sorry, these new US weapons take some getting used to. We’ll definitely get it right next time. Promise

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      6 months ago

      must be getting pretty good at making them if the US is starting to roll back restrictions.

      or maybe that limited use is only for civilian minorities.

  • SickofReddit@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I see this as Biden calling Putin’s Bluff. And I predict Putin will double down and use a battlefield nuke in Ukraine putting the ball back in Biden’s Court seeing if he’ll call that bluff.

    I don’t think Putin is concerned with Russia past his death.