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.