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.

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      23 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?

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        9 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.

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        23 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.

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          23 hours ago

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

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            17 hours ago

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

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              8 hours 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.

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                4 hours ago

                “Slaughtering ethnic Russians” cool you just made that shit up.

                “NATO moving missiles to the border” dumbass they aren’t IN NATO how the fuck would they have NATO missile emplacements. Also, even if they had, you know how a fucking border works right? It is THEIR territory they can put as many fucking missiles on their side all they want

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                  4 hours ago

                  I’m just repeating what human rights organizations were saying. I guess you’re accusing them of making it up.

                  How would you feel if Mexico let Russia place troops and missile deployments at their border with the US? It’s their border, right?

                  Love that you tried to play both angles, though. It didn’t happen, and even if it did… I needed a good laugh. It did happen, and foreign policy experts at the time warned Obama that it would provoke an invasion from Russia. Even war criminal Henry Kissinger said it was a fucking terrible idea.