US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears stockpiles are too low
US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears stockpiles are too low
Some shipments have been stopped ‘to put America’s interests first’, White House says
The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.
At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.
After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.
But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.
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Naturally people will blame Trump because he doesn't really care about Ukraine, but this was inevitable when Israel started sucking up all of the USs military aid. Without a massive increase in industrial capacity to build even more weapons, eventually, the stockpiles were always going to run low.
What all this illustrates is that the US lacks industrial capacity for maintaining its hegemony. They've run through their existing stocks over the past three years, and they're unable to manufacture weapons at the rate they're being consumed. As a result, they have to make hard choices regarding which proxies have more value to them.
We blame Trump because it wasn't inevitable. He lied to Americans about Gaza. He tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran. A lack of weapons is entirely Trump's fault.
"Biden I'm working constantly trying to get Israel to do a ceasefire" Constantly sends them weapons
Israel: "Joe Biden has never said the word ceasefire to us".
Liberals: "Trump is so unique for lying to us about Israel! It's totally not just a reflection of the systems flaws itself!"
There is a huge difference between Biden selling weapons to Israel and Trump bombing Iran.
Joe Biden would have bombed Iran too. You think he's fine partaking in a genocide but draws the line at bombing Iran?
The MIC makes these decisions, the presidents role is to sell it to you.
Biden was VP for Obama when Iran signed the nuclear deal. He didn't bomb Iran when he last president. He absolutely would not have bombed Iran.
Just like Biden didn't deploy ICE as Gestapo.
GTFO with "both sides are the same."
You said in another comment.
You mean she could have been an entirely different person? She supported Israel.
How both sides are not the same if both sides are pro genocide?
One didn't lie about it. Trump lied and got the Muslim vote.
So one side is better than the other because one say the truth about how horrible they are and the other lies about how horrible they are?
Both lied about wanting the end of the genocide
If israel attacked during biden he would definitely support israel attack and save them when they find that the air system munitions was going to be all used
Again the reason Israel attacked is because Trump ripped up the Obama non proliferation agreement.
The deal was between the united state and Iran. Tearing off the deal do not give the right for Israel to attack Iran . The USA showed again and again that they allow Israel to violate redlines. Israel impunity is the result of the west backing up Israel especially the USA unconditional support of decade and arab leaders traitors.
Iran would never been attacked if israel was put in it's place
Tearing off the deal do not give the right for Israel to attack Iran
The only reason Israel attacked was because Iran started developing an atomic bomb after Trump tore up the agreement.
Lol you really believe israeli propaganda? Iran never had the plan to build nukes. Netenyahu been claiming that for 30 years, khamnei has a fatwa prohibiting them. American inteligence denied that iran was building them. Iran after trump tear down the deal was keeping the enrichement to 60% for 4 years What other proof do you want?
The real reason israel attacked was after the succeed against hizbollah , israel wanted to continue it's winning streak and attack the country who provide weapons to armed groups so israel can continue genocide without any resistance
This is literally just taking Israeli Justification at its word.
Iran specifically has a fatwah (Religious and political ruling) against developing Nuclear Weapons. They've been insistant that they don't want nuclear weapons, the whole reason they were back at the table with Trump. The only reason they couldn't agree is that the US was demanding "0 enrichment", not that Iran was demanding nuclear bombs.
Funny enough, your "its Trumps fault for leaving the first deal" is the exact same justification Biden would have used if the bombing happened under him. Which it would have.
Your acceptance of both these narratives make it obvious you have internalized the Israeli/Western narratives on this issue. Almost like they had been setting the stage for this to happen for a while and even started developing the plan under biden...
Take your head out of the sand
Biden planted a bomb in a funeral that killed hundreds of Iranian civilians
??? If you are talking about Kerman, not only did the US not do it, but Biden warned them that they had information there would be a terrorist attack.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Kerman_bombings
Iran didn't blame the US.
As you liberals love to say... I have a bridge to sell you
Iran didn't blame the US or even insinuate that the US was involved.
Stop lying.
Biden wouldn't have done anything to stop israel attack on iran either
Israel attacked Iran because Trump ripped up the Obama non proliferation agreement with Iran.
Lying to Americans about Gaza has been the bipartisan policy our entire lives lol
... although, yeah, him tearing up the nuclear deal in his first term and his Arab-Israeli normalization plan to unite Israel and the Gulf states against Iran actually might have set us on this course. The nuclear deal could have potentially brought Iran in-line with US interests in the region, and he blew that up. Normalization, meanwhile, was basically the reason for Operation Al-Aqsa Flood which started this phase of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians (to be clear, the genocide was ongoing before Oct 7th).
In the counter-factual, where Hilary won and the nuclear deal was maintained and Iran was brought in with the rest of the Gulf states in alliance against China, Israel probably would have been able to carry out its ethnic cleansing of Palestine without a war. Instead, thanks to Trump, Israel is going to destroy itself trying to wage war on all of its neighbors and will be broken against the Axis of Resistance.
Why didn't biden restaured the deal when he was in power?
Well after being betrayed the first time it seems obvious that Iran would require more assurances and a more binding nuclear agreement, and that's just something the US would never be willing to agree to. Iran would also have problems with the Arab-Israeli normalization plan and, if they had a seat at the table, would have slowed everything down.
Also, Biden is very Zionist. I don't think we can discount that he might just personally hate Iran for being a obstacle to Israel.
Lying to Americans about Gaza
Kamala lost because she wouldn't lie!
She still lied. She openly refused to call it a genocide, she said Israel was "defending" itself, and she helped Biden sell the lie that they were working tirelessly for a ceasefire and a two state solution. That's all lies too.
In what way?
She said she supported Israel. Meanwhile Trump was in battleground states telling Michigan Muslims he supported Gaza.
Nobody genuinely believed that Trump would support Gaza, even the article says he would bring "peace," which as anyone knows would require the dissolution of the state of Israel and a full, secular, democratic Palestine. Harris lost because she campaigned to the right of Biden, who was already right-wing.
Nobody genuinely believed that Trump would support Gaza,
Muslims believed him and voted for him. That's what the NPR article I linked was about.
Harris lost because she campaigned to the right of Biden
Which, as I said, is because she didn't lie.
Trump was not campaigning to the Left. A huge proportion of Deerborn voted for Jill Stein, not Trump. Some did, but nobody in any significant numbers thought Trump would be better for genocide.
Harris could have told the truth and not run a far-right campaign.
Harris could have told the truth and not run a far-right campaign.
? She said she supported Israel. That's telling the truth.
Muslims didn't agree with Harris so voted for Trump who said he supported Palestine. It's not theoretical. More Muslims voted for Trump. That's why there's an NPR article about their leopards eating faces moment.
Harris said : As president, I will exert every effort to terminate the war in Gaza, secure the release of hostages, alleviate the suffering there, ensure Israel's safety, and guarantee that the Palestinian people can attain their rights to dignity, freedom, security, and self-determination"
She was lying
Don't generalize. Like any other group some muslims voted for harris some for trump
If you truly believe our stockpiles are low, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.