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The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.

At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.

After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.

But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

Naturally people will blame Trump because he doesn't really care about Ukraine, but this was inevitable when Israel started sucking up all of the USs military aid. Without a massive increase in industrial capacity to build even more weapons, eventually, the stockpiles were always going to run low.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

What all this illustrates is that the US lacks industrial capacity for maintaining its hegemony. They've run through their existing stocks over the past three years, and they're unable to manufacture weapons at the rate they're being consumed. As a result, they have to make hard choices regarding which proxies have more value to them.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

What about to Israel?

crickets as truckload after truckload of weapon drives by headed for a genocide

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

exactly, they fear they won't have enough weapons to give to Israel.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pathetic that the way Israel uses weapons is basically playing a lottery where they randomly decide to murder a starving, defenseless Palestinian like some awful game show and the way Ukraine would use those same weapons is to save lives.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

If they send arms to Ukraine, what will they have left to put down the US citizenry with, right? We can't all fit in alligator-adjacent tents. 😶

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

mirrored my thoughts.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago

This time next year, Ukraine will be "The" Ukraine again. Thousands will be murdered. And in a hundred years, the history books will put the blame squarely on the Incredible Bulk.

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