🇩🇪 @Bundeskanzler, 🇮🇪 @SimonHarrisTD, 🇲🇩 @sandumaiamd and 🇳🇴 @jonasgahrstore congratulated #Ukraine on the Independence Day!
— MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) 24 août 2024
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@Bundeskanzler
, @SimonHarrisTD
, @sandumaiamd and @jonasgahrstore congratulated #Ukraine on the Independence Day! Thank you!
I don't know the real reason behind the Biden administration's reluctance to take decisive action to help Ukraine win the war or at least stop Russia, but it's none of the above. There's a clear pattern of fear and delays, which is eventually overcome time and again 11/
Then, there is a a belief in current sufficiency: The Biden administration maintains that Ukraine already has the necessary authorities and capabilities to win the war under current restrictions. This of course is total BS and they know it. 10/
Some US officials argued that the weapons wouldn’t be effective, citing Ukraine's supposed lack of logistics, trained personnel, and the ability to reach or penetrate targets in Russia. Well, let Ukraine be the judge of that 9/
Instead, Russia reacts to events on the ground and developments at the front lines. If they can take Bakhmut, they push forward no matter what. If they can't defend Kursk, they simply declare it the "new normal." 8/
Politico reports the US is concerned that deep strikes could hinder post-war normalization with Russia. Yet, long range precision weapons, limited strikes on Russian territory, intelligence sharing, and sanctions didn’t. Extending Ukraine’s strike range will? I don’t buy it 4/
There are several publicly known arguments for why the US wouldn't allow deep strikes or, in the past, opposed providing weapons and permitting their effective use None of them hold up 5/
Yet, despite no escalation after Kursk or after providing F-16s, ATACMS, HIMARS, or Abrams tanks—the US still hasn't reconsidered its policy against deep strikes on Russia. Instead, they've just come up with a new excuse 3/
Zelensky: The whole naive, illusory concept of so-called red lines regarding Russia, which dominated the assessment of the war by some partners [the US], has crumbled these days somewhere near Sudzha [Kursk] 2/
The successful Ukrainian incursion in Russian Kursk has exposed the hollowness of the US fear of escalation However, the US quickly shifted to a new excuse: they argue that deep strikes might jeopardize the possibility of restoring relations with Russia in the future 1/
