Blinken says Russia has received new ballistic missiles from Iran
Blinken says Russia has received new ballistic missiles from Iran
US and Europe impose new sanctions on Iran in response to supply of weapons that US says Russia could use in Ukraine
Russia has received new deadly ballistic missiles from Iran for use in Ukraine and is likely to use them, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced on Tuesday in London as he prepared to travel with the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to Kyiv.
The news, confirmed by the US for the first time and seen as of huge significance to the battlefield balance ahead of Ukraine’s difficult winter, led the US and Europe to impose new sanctions on Iran, so apparently slamming the door on the prospect of a rapprochement between the new reformist Iranian government and the west.
The move may also add to the pressure on the US to end its restrictions on Ukraine using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia and not just in occupied parts of Ukraine.
Another cost of blindly supporting Israel no matter what.
Israel causes more drama then they're worth as an ally, they're a bully and have acted like it for decades.
I'm really not sure, if I can follow.
How is Israel (absolutely doing a genocide atm - just to have that said) involved with that? What's the connection?
Maybe I missed something just scrolling through?
I'm a bit confused where the line actually is - it seems to be a very low bar - but at least some red lines for the US do seem to exist.
E.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/15/biden-israel-occupy-gaza-big-mistake/ (don't retake Gaza)
The flip side is that the US being allied with Israel can sometimes be asset - able to push for justice by asking Israel to investigate it's own forces in https://www.npr.org/2024/09/09/nx-s1-5106819/us-israel-american-woman-shooting-west-bank (though admittedly the "expression of deep regret" as per https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/israel-says-highly-likely-its-troops-killed-turkish-american-aysenur-ezgi-eygi sounds a lot like "thoughts and prayers")
A slightly more successful version, https://theintercept.com/2024/08/09/israel-prison-sde-teiman-palestinian-abuse-torture/ , where the US asked Israel to investigate, resulting in some arrests...
That said, I do hope that the US soon follows suit with the UK on this, https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/australian-government-backs-uk-decision-to-curb-arms-sales-to-israel
Nonsense. Take your Hamas talking points elsewhere. Iran would have done this regardless.
Mostly agree. At least, the threshold to get Iran to not do this is much, much higher - remember that Iran is trying to get a nuclear program among other things that the US and many other allied countries take an issue with, and it's likely those would have to get put on the table as well if one were to hypothetically attempt to negotiate with Iran over the subject in the article..
When the US backs Israel no matter what. The countries Israel keeps starting shit with don't have many other options besides Russia or China
If America stayed out of it, Israel wouldn't be as aggressive, and their neighbors wouldn't have to run to Russia and China.
Like...
Has no one explained to you that one of the big factors the West had in creating Israel was to create a volatile area for proxy wars instead of another war in Europe?
If you don't know that, hardly anything else is going to make sense ...