Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): During an appearance on ABC’s This Week with Jonathan Karl, Secretary of State Tony Blinken explicitly said that the US would not oppose Ukraine using US-supplied longer-range missiles to attack deep inside Russian territory, a move that Moscow
  • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I remember reading that AFU couldn't pull the trigger on HIMARS without US approval. If other US/Nato weapons systems are sold under the same rules that escalates this conflict well beyond the status of proxy war.

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      US and AFU weren't exactly shy about the fact yankee drones and satellites are providing targeting data for the missile strikes. The only reason everyone pretends it's a "proxy" war is because Russia can't openly declare against NATO (due to nukes)