US calls for calm after officials say Israeli missile hit Iran - BBC News
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Antony Blinken says Washington was not involved in any offensive operation, as Iran downplays reports of attack.

An Israeli missile has hit Iran, two US officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

Iranian state media is reporting that flights have been suspended over several cities, according to Associated Press.

Iran has been on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian attack against it on Saturday night

  • Neuromancer@lemm.eeEnglish
    516·
    7 months ago

    Who have the Ukrainian military the first lethal weapons like the Javalin?

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      143·
      7 months ago

      My dude the training and arming of Ukraine by NATO started happening before Trump came into office.

      Trump tried blocking the Javelins in 2018. He wasn’t for it. He was convinced ultimately to follow longstanding US foreign policy that started before he got there.

      Yes he approved it. 1 scenario where he got out of the way. Neat.

      What’s his stance been since? And before?

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          62·
          7 months ago

          Let me get this straight.

          After the Republican Party, largely led by Trump, have stymied aid to Ukraine and generally been pro Russia.

          The motherfucker was for all intents and purposes outed as a Russian asset during congressional hearings.

          Now Trump makes a politically pragmatic statement (backed up by no action or calls for his party to turn and support Ukraine) and suddenly we’re supposed to think he’s on their side?

          Neuromancer you have got to be one of the dumbest motherfuckers to exist if you think you’re fooling anyone.

        • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          7 months ago

          As well, a condition was placed on the sale of the Javelin anti-tank missiles: They could only be stored in western Ukraine, away from the conflict, to be used as a deterrent.

          Yeah… okay, and threatened to withdraw support unless he helped him politically. Really lovely.

    • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      According to Catherine Croft, who served as Ukraine director at the U.S. National Security Council, Trump had viewed Ukraine as a corrupt country and believed it should pay for the weapons itself, Foreign Policy magazine reported in 2019.

      As well, a condition was placed on the sale of the Javelin anti-tank missiles: They could only be stored in western Ukraine, away from the conflict, to be used as a deterrent.

      Then, in 2019, Trump ordered a freeze on a $400-million package of military assistance to Ukraine that had been approved by Congress. The freeze came days before Trump’s phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, where he pressured the Ukrainian leader to investigate Joe Biden, a presidential front-runner at the time, and his son Hunter Biden. It was this request that led to Trump’s first impeachment.

      The aid, though, was released on Sept. 11, only after a whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s pressure on Ukraine had surfaced and a few days after Democrats in Congress opened the investigation.

      Hm. Really sounds like support there eh.

      • Neuromancer@lemm.eeEnglish
        310·
        7 months ago

        According to Catherine Croft, who served as Ukraine director at the U.S. National Security Council, Trump had viewed Ukraine as a corrupt country and believed it should pay for the weapons itself, Foreign Policy magazine reported in 2019

        The US governmenrment policy is ukraine is a corrupt country. That’s why Biden did what he did. Why Obama Wouldn’t sell weapons at all and why we’ve excluded many weapons to transfer.

        That wasn’t unique to the Trump administration.