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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago

No way they were using all those weapons for genocide??!!!?!

lmao as if he's just now realizing this, sure thing.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

More plausibly, US has now run through its stocks of weapons sending them to Ukraine, and doesn't have the weapons to send. Framing it as refusing to send the weapons because US all of a sudden developed a conscience is a way to avoid admitting this.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

More plausibly, US has now run through its stocks of weapons sending them to Ukraine, and doesn’t have the weapons to send.

That is the most wildly implausible thing I've read on Lemmy today.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

Western media openly admits that US isn't able to keep up with ammunition production for Ukraine. Try keep up with the real world.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today -1 points 1 week ago

Western media openly admits that US isn’t able to keep up with ammunition production for Ukraine.

Yes, but that only applies to artillery shells and there's a very good reason.

Try keep up with the real world.

I do, which is why I know that things like JDAMS are entirely unconstrained. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of them lying around.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Yes, but that only applies to artillery shells and there’s a very good reason.

Reason being lack of industrial capacity. And it's not just artillery shells, it's a systemic problem https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine

do, which is why I know that things like JDAMS are entirely unconstrained. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of them lying around.

Not really unconstrained given that US has delusions about fighting China. Also, how many of those still work is a question.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

And the millions of weapons prior to the some 3.5 thousand bombs weren’t?

[-] Pilgrim@beehaw.org 36 points 1 week ago

At least its a slight movement in the right direction, but until the flow is cut off entirely we need to hold his feet to the fire.

[-] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago
[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago

This particular comment sings to me

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Oh come on. This is pretty limp wristed narrative bait. There was one shipment out of many that maybe got held up, temporarily, potentially by accident, that's not the firm moral opposition to a genocide that we seem to think it is

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 18 points 1 week ago

Smacks of "I am placing sanctions on Israel" Places sanctions on 3 men

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

If anyone thinks that they're either lying or just very stupid

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Plot twist: the bombs were intended for use in Rafah and Biden feared they only might be.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago
[-] ski11erboi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Too late for thousands but in time for hundreds of thousands more.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah that brief pause achieved nothing except to give his genocide complicit supporters an excuse to continue to make excuses for him.

[-] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

… Was there shipments to Israel before last week?

[-] Lath@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

Definitely would. The more accomplices, the better.

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