A Russian lawmaker calls President Biden's decision to let Ukraine fire U.S. missiles deep into Russia a "very big step toward the beginning" of a third world war.

Summary

The US’s approval for Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, capable of striking targets nearly 200 miles away, marks a significant escalation in Ukraine’s ability to retaliate against Russian aggression.

The move, coming after intense lobbying by Kyiv, allows Ukraine to target Russian positions with more precision and destruction than prior weapons.

Russia has condemned the decision as a provocation risking world war.

Analysts suggest the policy shift, reportedly limited to Russia’s Kursk region, aligns with U.S. efforts to support Ukraine without triggering broader conflict.

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Russia has been rattling the World War saber for so long that it’s lost all meaning. It’s like they’re copying North Korea’s homework when it comes to international threats.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In other words russias invasion of ukraine could cause a world war. Its not the ukrainians who decided to fuck around with russians.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Ah yes, tell us more about how Russia’s sudden invasion and annexization of Crimea following Euromaidan was the fault of US backed Ukrainians.

        Best case, you’re going to blame this on the fact that native Ukrainians staged a revolution to remove their corrupt president that was trying to buddy up with the sovereign that has been abusing and betraying them since 1941. To which I say, good for them. The annexation of Crimea came during the power vacuum following that when Putin saw that his good buddy sycophant Yanukovych had been removed by a hostile electorate. Putin saw his slaves trying to make a break for freedom and decided to bring his fist down on it.

        • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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          2 months ago

          Any suggestion that Crimea doesn’t prefer being in Russian Federation compared to under nazi rule committed to destroying them is delusional propaganda. Crimea was transferred to Ukraine in late 1950s. No one there had to bother learning Ukrainian language and little Ukrainian emigration occurred there.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s still so weird they don’t refer to Ukraine in any quality, it’s always about them fighting the EU and the US because it makes their struggles look less pathetic.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Many ‘leaders’ and politicians create problems that give them a way to use their own ‘solution’.

      For Putin it’s the West to justify gaining control over Ukraine. For many other countries it’s immigrants to get into power.

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    World War against who? You have nukes and a bunch of conventional forces which can’t even beat Ukraine. If you have a suicide wish then fucking get it over with already and stop jerking us around

    • NecroParagon@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      To be fair to them, there’s not a ton of militaries that could beat Ukraine. They’re pretty cracked. Gotta give them that, they’re some of the best fighters we’ve seen in a very long time.

      Except when it comes to retreating effectively. They suck at that part.

    • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      That Putin has threatened to end the world? It’s in the 20’s at least, but I lost count a while ago.

      Part of me wishes he’d go ahead and pull the pin. Dealing with the consequences would probably distract Trump and his cronies for his entire term and would reduce the head count of his supporters, giving the sane folks in the US a chance to regroup.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Lmao. Imagine if North Korea would tell Putler that he is not allowed to use their soldiers for offense.

    Russia should have been thankful there were restrictions on the weapons Ukraine received.

    It’s such a baby move.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Make no mistake, we were headed there anyway.

    Sadly with great orange Hitler in charge we’re probably going to be the axis powers this time along with Putin and Winnie the Pooh and the rest of the world doesn’t stand a chance because we have all the bombs.

    • MisterLister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I doubt the US is going to play an active role in that new Axis, no matter how much taintlicking Trump does… I think it’s more likely we are simply declawed mostly due to a sudden internal focus shift (attempting to reroute the military to purge “illegals” and whatever other civil strife ensues as a result), leading to an effective breakdown of global presence and influence.

      Once Trump takes office, the US is pretty much guaranteed to no longer be a global superpower. Maybe not overnight, but the damage done will take generations to fix and that’s probably the real goal here… not to make the US join hands with them, but to entirely neutralize us as a potential threat or obstacle. We might still have all the bombs, but what use are they when our incoming government is more likely to use them on our own cities or be paralyzed with infighting about maybe not using them on our own cities?

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Counterpoint: the military attack on illegals is a first step. An attempt to put the blame for all of our country’s ills onto a specific class or ethnicity. This is exactly what Hitler did with the Jews. The next step would be to make a play to convince the populace that annexing another country would be an effective solution to cure the problems of the nation.

        The fat orange fuck has literally bragged about reading Mein Kampf. He’s reading from Hitler’s playbook and using it as an instruction manual.