The president's justified, overdue, but probably too-late authorization to Ukraine isn't pushing us toward World War 3.

Summary

President Biden recently authorized Ukraine to use longer-range U.S. missiles to strike inside Russia, marking a small but overdue escalation in the conflict.

This decision aims to disrupt Russia’s military operations and bolster Ukraine’s position, especially with the potential Trump administration favoring pro-Russian policies.

Russia’s retaliatory missile strike on Ukraine, though deadly, represents more of the same tactics.

Analysts argue Biden’s earlier caution was excessive, and calling Russia’s nuclear bluffs is strategically necessary to counter further extortion.

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
    514·
    1 day ago

    Biden isn’t escalating the war, he is slow-walking the aid. Too much to die, too little to live, as the Ukrainians say. If you give Russia 9 months to pull critical assests out of range and only allow strikes deep into Russia after a whole nother nations enters the war on the side of Russia, you can’t frame that as escalatory, no matter how much Putin bitches and moans.

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
      131·
      1 day ago

      Hmmm. My idea of the process is a little different. Embedded CIA reports to the DOD on daily to and fro of the war. What the Ukrainians needed yesterday isn’t necessarily what they will need tomorrow. Wars evolve. The DOD takes this information and projects future needs leading to a budget recommendation to Congress. Congress creates a budget bill and passes it. Johnson sitting on that bill, BTW, put Ukraine behind the 8 ball. Biden uses that allocation to buy weapons per the DOD recommendations. Rules placed on weapons use, such as not using US missiles on Russian ground, are meant to stop escalation into NATO entering into the conflict. In fact when that rule ochanged there was an escalation, but not involving NATO, yet.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    224·
    16 hours ago

    Well that’s a shit opinion not supported by foreign policy experts. And the US puppet government he’s running in Ukraine is largely made up of Nazis.

  • Lemmywings@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    210·
    19 hours ago

    It’s way too late. Unless we are pro-war now it would’ve been better to make a peace plan before the other guy is in office.

        • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          55 minutes ago

          Russia isn’t starting WW3, because there’s literally no possible way for them to survive doing that.

          They can’t even beat Ukraine in a straight fight, and they know it. They are woefully ill equipped to take on all of NATO.

          No matter how much damage they could potentially do if they tried, the ending is guaranteed; Russia and its current leadership do not exist.

          The Russian leadership are vain, greedy, and power hungry, and the thing about those traits is they make you very, very averse to personal risk. They’re not going to take any action that puts them in the firing line.

        • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
          8·
          18 hours ago

          I’m actually pretty doubtful that Russia still has much of a nuclear capacity. Maintaining a nuclear arsenal is very expensive, and the Russian oligarchs have been embezzling massive amounts of money from the military.

          They’ve had to resort to asking NK for help, so I don’t think they have a good chance of winning the current conflict, much less an actual NATO power.

  • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    443·
    22 hours ago

    Triggering WWIII with other nuclear powers is the right thing to do?

    It gets easier by the day to manufacture consent

      • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
        118·
        16 hours ago

        You mean like the Zelenskyy regime, which is composed of Nazis, banned opposition parties & media, and refuses to hold elections? Is that not authoritarian?

        • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
          31·
          3 hours ago

          Supposing all of that were true, it wouldn’t matter.

          Defending Ukraine against unprovoked foreign aggression would still be the right thing to do. Because a free Ukraine can eventually have a better government. An occupied Ukraine cannot.

          • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
            13·
            1 hour ago

            Unprovoked? The Nazi puppet government was slaughtering ethnic Russians in east Ukraine for years prior to the invasion, while allowing NATO to deploy droves of troops and missile deployments at the Russian border.

        • NewDay@lemmy.world
          51·
          16 hours ago

          You do not hold elections during a war if your constitution says so. Many countries do it this way. Russia can hold as many elections as it wants because those are not real elections.

          • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
            310·
            16 hours ago

            So just never stop the war, and you can keep holding office with a constant influx of billions! Brilliant trick!

            • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
              61·
              10 hours ago

              Are you actually just stupid? They are being LITERALLY invaded by Russia you stupid идиот

              • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
                14·
                1 hour ago

                Because they were slaughtering ethnic Russians in east Ukraine for years, and allowed NATO in to deploy loads of missile and troop deployments at the border. They intentionally provoked it.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
      111·
      20 hours ago

      TIL triggering ww3 is when you don’t allow one nation to invade and conquer another.

  • NastyNative@mander.xyzEnglish
    545·
    1 day ago

    This decision is leading to another 90K NK troops and possible Yemen might send troops as well. The perpetual agitation of escalation cant be anymore clear. Yeah Russia deserves this but in no way is this not escalation.