Wouldn't it make more sense to give Ukraine these weapons, let them use them, and then tell everyone we okayed it?
The Arms Export Control Act pretty much specifically states that arms sales have to be public record if over $25million (or about 25 JASSMs). There's ways around it (that the US has been using extensively selling stuff to Israel of late) but for high-ticket items like this, public disclosure is required.
Was a tweet that said we were granting use of JASSM missile. I assumed it was bogus, but at this point, people almost need to propagandize. It's inexplicable why we aren't allowing use of this stuff. Even if Putin wanted to do a nuke war, someone (inside/Chinese/who knows) would take him out. It's insane.
War has always sucked but when I see this stuff it reminds me of the hardcore history episodes when two eras meet. When captains are leading horse mounted cavalry charges into machine gun nests.
Those fuckers should've told Russia a long time ago that if they accept Iranian missiles, we'd unleash the hounds. Instead, they TELEGRAPH that UA can use ATACMS. Guess what Russia's gonna do in the meantime? This is bullshit foreign policy. I hope Kamala can do better.
My take: I’m sure that message was delivered to Russia last year. Didn’t Russia and Iran sign an agreement last year for Iran to deliver a few hundred missiles to Russia? They have probably been in transit for weeks and NATO has been aware of it. The ATACMS policy didn’t trigger Russia to obtain the missiles. Instead, it’s a planned response to Russia actually receiving the Iranian missiles. I imagine more responses are to come. Just my take and it could be very wrong.
If not I think shit is gonna get even worse for Ukraine. Russia isn’t running out of arms thanks to Iran and I assume China. Ukraine has to be able to hit deep to slow them down.
Don't know where to put this but holy shit. They can make pagers spontaneously explode? Cell phones a weapon next? http://news.yahoo.com/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-130833720.html More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah members, wounded in Lebanon when pagers explode
To piggy-back on my own sarcastic post, pagers make sense for insurgencies because one-way-pagers can't be geolocated from cell towers since there's no response from the pager acknowledging receipt or telling the tower that it's connected to it.