• BigFig@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Fucking FINALLY, Ukraine should have been designated a no fly zone the moment Russia invaded

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      Biden was too much of a limpdick to do anything about it, but I do find it morbidly amusing that it took the US outright switching sides to get Europe to do something concrete.

      • tal@lemmy.today
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        8 days ago

        This doesn’t sound like it’s really a new proposal:

        Though variants of the proposal have been discussed without making progress since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a fresh version of the plan has gained renewed impetus this week after Zelenskyy’s acrimonious meeting with US president Donald Trump on Friday.

        So it’d already been discussed. I don’t know how much weight to ascribe to “renewed impetus”. It doesn’t sound like there’s yet a commitment.

        That being said, it certainly beats there not being a “renewed impetus”. It could potentially develop into something real.

        But at this stage, I don’t think that it’s yet over that hump.

      • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 days ago

        When you’ve been relying on a free source of defense for decades, it’s attractive to divert investment into something more directly beneficial to the citizenry. Better late than never, at least.