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  • US officials are considering letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons, The New York Times reports.
  • Ukraine says it's necessary to fight cross-border attacks. 
  • But fears of crossing Russia's red lines have long made the US hesitate.

The US has barred Ukraine from striking targets in Russian territory with its arsenal of US weapons.

But that may be about to change. The New York Times on Thursday reported that US officials were debating rolling back the rule, which Ukraine has argued severely hampers its ability to defend itself.

The proposed U-turn came after Russia placed weapons across the border from northeastern Ukraine and directed them at Kharkiv, the Times reported, noting that Ukraine would be able to use only non-American drones to hit back.

The Times reported that the proposal was still being debated and had yet to be formally proposed to President Joe Biden.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

As long as US officials restrict strikes to avoid Russian nuclear deterrence installations, I don't really see why this wasn't already permitted.

The key US policy consideration in the conflict should be to avoid nuclear escalation. Don't strike nuclear early warning radars, don't strike nuclear silos, and everything else should be fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

can dbzer0 users comment here on lemmy.world?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah dude I can see you from my l.w. account

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's the whole point of Lemmy, isn't it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

well see my post I made. Apparently there can be sync issues that are quite apparent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There used to be a lot of problems with that back in December/January after the 0.19 release was being rolled out, but they managed to fix them eventually and I haven't really had any issues for the past three months or so. Has your instance recently upgraded their software perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

well the sync issues im talking about are quite specific use cases which you wouldnt encounter on the regular. See my post for reference. It's about searching specific communities on difference instances from another instance. Then, only the communities with very little traffic will not be synced. I've no idea what my instance's latest version is. Can a non-admin even check that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It should be at the bottom of the page. Looks like your instance is on version 0.19.3, which I believe is the most recent one.

For any further questions, you should probably talk to your instance admin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it's the latest version, then talking to instance admins wouldn't be of any help, because every instance suffers from the same issue...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It might, because it could be configuration issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I can see your comment but I don't belong to lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Idk seems unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Late as fuck but better than nothing. The airfields used to deploy glide bomb launchers should be obliterated

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You cannot tiptoe around dictators, you need to crush them

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"The US is thinking about..."

This means literally nothing. This is not news. This is a trash headline for a trash article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It's scouting public or opinion and/or fabricating consent. Nothing new

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It's turns out to be a soft launch of a real policy fairly often.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Well the fact that it includes the words "enrages Putin" in the title actually means that they think it matters a lot to get ahead of it and get people to think it's a bad idea to support Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure the UK has given green light to use its weapons on Russian soil. Macron keeps the option open to deploy French troops. US weapons are approved for use against unarmed civilians in Palestine.

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