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Kyiv's tools, honed over years of daily Russian drone attacks, could give a critical boost to Middle Eastern countries looking to repel attacks from Iran.

As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, Ukraine could prove to be an invaluable trove of battle-tested expertise from its own bitter and costly fight against Russia.

After months of pressure and hardened rhetoric from Washington aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Kyiv is now also fielding requests for help as Iran’s Gulf neighbors grapple with the modern reality of drone warfare.

Hotels, airports and residential buildings have been hit in cities across the Gulf, wreaking havoc as Iran targets the U.S. military bases hosted by its neighbors. It’s a picture all too familiar in Ukraine, whose skies are swarmed by hundreds of Russian drones on a nightly basis, many of them of the Shahed type designed in Iran.

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[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 26 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Iran "attacking its neighbors" is one way to phrase the fact they are hitting back towards US bases they are being attacked from and also towards Israel which itself has attacked basically every country it has borders with and several that it hasn't.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Iran never had nukes

Iran wasn't seeking nukes

Iran only had their metaphorical "nuke": the world economy.

The US attacked them and Iran, in response, used its metaphorical nuke to defend itself.

The countries who's oil infrastructure Iran attacks supports the enemy attacking their country.

This is all self defense. Western media is cooked.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 hours ago

Iran wasn't seeking nukes

Ehh idk about that, enriching hundreds of kilos of uranium to 60% (per IAEA's reports) is well beyond what a nuclear reactor needs.

I'm not completely against nukes, they're a great tool for countries with crazy ass imperialist neighbors seeking to destroy them, I just don't think that part of the comment is honest

If anything, this whole clusterfuck is going to push them strongly towards trying to quickly complete their nuclear weapons program.

[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 hours ago

Iran launched a nuke? How could Biden do this?!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

They offered to help America for free, and trump told them to kick rocks...