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US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears stockpiles are too low (www.theguardian.com)

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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] -14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We blame Trump because it wasn't inevitable. He lied to Americans about Gaza. He tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran. A lack of weapons is entirely Trump's fault.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Biden I'm working constantly trying to get Israel to do a ceasefire" Constantly sends them weapons

Israel: "Joe Biden has never said the word ceasefire to us".

Liberals: "Trump is so unique for lying to us about Israel! It's totally not just a reflection of the systems flaws itself!"

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Lying to Americans about Gaza has been the bipartisan policy our entire lives lol

... although, yeah, him tearing up the nuclear deal in his first term and his Arab-Israeli normalization plan to unite Israel and the Gulf states against Iran actually might have set us on this course. The nuclear deal could have potentially brought Iran in-line with US interests in the region, and he blew that up. Normalization, meanwhile, was basically the reason for Operation Al-Aqsa Flood which started this phase of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians (to be clear, the genocide was ongoing before Oct 7th).

In the counter-factual, where Hilary won and the nuclear deal was maintained and Iran was brought in with the rest of the Gulf states in alliance against China, Israel probably would have been able to carry out its ethnic cleansing of Palestine without a war. Instead, thanks to Trump, Israel is going to destroy itself trying to wage war on all of its neighbors and will be broken against the Axis of Resistance.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 week ago

Lying to Americans about Gaza

Kamala lost because she wouldn't lie!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

She still lied. She openly refused to call it a genocide, she said Israel was "defending" itself, and she helped Biden sell the lie that they were working tirelessly for a ceasefire and a two state solution. That's all lies too.

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

In what way?

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 week ago

She said she supported Israel. Meanwhile Trump was in battleground states telling Michigan Muslims he supported Gaza.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/nx-s1-5183216/how-trump-was-able-to-win-support-from-many-muslim-voters-in-michigan

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nobody genuinely believed that Trump would support Gaza, even the article says he would bring "peace," which as anyone knows would require the dissolution of the state of Israel and a full, secular, democratic Palestine. Harris lost because she campaigned to the right of Biden, who was already right-wing.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 week ago

Nobody genuinely believed that Trump would support Gaza,

Muslims believed him and voted for him. That's what the NPR article I linked was about.

Harris lost because she campaigned to the right of Biden

Which, as I said, is because she didn't lie.

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

Trump was not campaigning to the Left. A huge proportion of Deerborn voted for Jill Stein, not Trump. Some did, but nobody in any significant numbers thought Trump would be better for genocide.

Harris could have told the truth and not run a far-right campaign.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 week ago

Harris could have told the truth and not run a far-right campaign.

? She said she supported Israel. That's telling the truth.

Muslims didn't agree with Harris so voted for Trump who said he supported Palestine. It's not theoretical. More Muslims voted for Trump. That's why there's an NPR article about their leopards eating faces moment.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

No, I mean she could have been truthful, and she could have run a leftward campaign.

As for Muslim voters, a small portion voted for Trump, but another portion voted for Jill Stein. If Harris wanted to get votes from Muslim voters, her and Biden could have not supported genocide.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 week ago

No, I mean she could have been truthful, and she could have run a leftward campaign

You mean she could have been an entirely different person? She supported Israel. To say otherwise would have been a lie.

Trump said he supported Palestinians and got Muslim votes in key states.

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

She could have run an entirely different campaign, one appealing to workers, but she didn't. Trump also said he supported Israel. Your point is veering on "muslims are too stupid to realize Trump is a Zionist too," which is horrible. Reconsider the options and see how Mamdani is doing very well, the US wants candidates to the left of the DNC, and the DNC won't do it because they'd rather lose.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 week ago

She could have run an entirely different campaign

That has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she didn't lie. You wanted her to be someone else. That's valid. But she didn't lie about her position on Israel.

Your point is veering on "muslims are too stupid to realize Trump is a Zionist too,"

Trump lied about Palestinians. I provided proof that it was believed and his lies influenced the election.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

No, you provided evidence of a minor swing and a testemonial from one person. This wasn't 4D chess.

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[-] [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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