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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Pilgrim@beehaw.org 36 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

This particular comment sings to me

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ski11erboi@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

… Was there shipments to Israel before last week?

[-] Lath@kbin.earth 1 points 3 weeks ago

Definitely would. The more accomplices, the better.

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