davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoUnder Pressure, Biden Allows Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russiawww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1228arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1225arrow-down1external-linkUnder Pressure, Biden Allows Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russiawww.nytimes.comdavel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareHegar@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down5·3 months agoObviously there’s a proxy war between russia and the west in ukraine, but I don’t think the US wants a long attritional war. They could have done more to not end up in one, but I think escalation management really is driving a lot of decisions in washington.
minus-squareTriasha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 months agoYeah, they probably told the Russians they were going to greenlight the Ukrainians way before they told the Ukrainians. Which is tooth grindingly frustrating, but I can’t fault Biden for his efforts to avoid nuclear exchange.
Obviously there’s a proxy war between russia and the west in ukraine, but I don’t think the US wants a long attritional war.
They could have done more to not end up in one, but I think escalation management really is driving a lot of decisions in washington.
Yeah, they probably told the Russians they were going to greenlight the Ukrainians way before they told the Ukrainians.
Which is tooth grindingly frustrating, but I can’t fault Biden for his efforts to avoid nuclear exchange.