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Under Pressure, Biden Allows Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russia (www.nytimes.com)
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http://archive.today/2024.05.30-203844/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-weapons.html

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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The permission from Mr. Biden is intended solely for Ukraine to strike military sites in Russia being used to attack the Kharkiv area, U.S. officials said.

kinda hard to not see this as a proxy war with russia with verbiage like this

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I mean, it is. A years long war of attrition instead of full on boots on the ground is great business for everyone except Ukraine.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

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