The president's justified, overdue, but probably too-late authorization to Ukraine isn't pushing us toward World War 3.

Summary

President Biden recently authorized Ukraine to use longer-range U.S. missiles to strike inside Russia, marking a small but overdue escalation in the conflict.

This decision aims to disrupt Russia’s military operations and bolster Ukraine’s position, especially with the potential Trump administration favoring pro-Russian policies.

Russia’s retaliatory missile strike on Ukraine, though deadly, represents more of the same tactics.

Analysts argue Biden’s earlier caution was excessive, and calling Russia’s nuclear bluffs is strategically necessary to counter further extortion.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    16·
    47 minutes ago

    Well that’s a shit opinion not supported by foreign policy experts. And the US puppet government he’s running in Ukraine is largely made up of Nazis.

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
    444·
    10 hours ago

    Biden isn’t escalating the war, he is slow-walking the aid. Too much to die, too little to live, as the Ukrainians say. If you give Russia 9 months to pull critical assests out of range and only allow strikes deep into Russia after a whole nother nations enters the war on the side of Russia, you can’t frame that as escalatory, no matter how much Putin bitches and moans.

  • Lemmywings@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    26·
    3 hours ago

    It’s way too late. Unless we are pro-war now it would’ve been better to make a peace plan before the other guy is in office.

        • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
          4·
          3 hours ago

          I’m actually pretty doubtful that Russia still has much of a nuclear capacity. Maintaining a nuclear arsenal is very expensive, and the Russian oligarchs have been embezzling massive amounts of money from the military.

          They’ve had to resort to asking NK for help, so I don’t think they have a good chance of winning the current conflict, much less an actual NATO power.

  • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    432·
    6 hours ago

    Triggering WWIII with other nuclear powers is the right thing to do?

    It gets easier by the day to manufacture consent

      • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
        15·
        46 minutes ago

        You mean like the Zelenskyy regime, which is composed of Nazis, banned opposition parties & media, and refuses to hold elections? Is that not authoritarian?

        • NewDay@lemmy.world
          11·
          36 minutes ago

          You do not hold elections during a war if your constitution says so. Many countries do it this way. Russia can hold as many elections as it wants because those are not real elections.

          • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
            12·
            24 minutes ago

            So just never stop the war, and you can keep holding office with a constant influx of billions! Brilliant trick!

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
      81·
      4 hours ago

      TIL triggering ww3 is when you don’t allow one nation to invade and conquer another.

  • NastyNative@mander.xyzEnglish
    539·
    9 hours ago

    This decision is leading to another 90K NK troops and possible Yemen might send troops as well. The perpetual agitation of escalation cant be anymore clear. Yeah Russia deserves this but in no way is this not escalation.