edit I reached out in a direct message to @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz in and he immediately accused me of going off the rails and appears to be stuck on a minor detail that I posted about this to my unmanned vehicles community, which I reference the Ukraine community specifically in the sidebar of. Ughhh.
Be aware of this kind of distortion on the conversation around what led up to Ukraine's allies having no more interceptors to give from the arbitrary launching of the Iran War when this outcome was widely accepted as most likely.
see modlog https://sopuli.xyz/modlog/23366
see discussion on PTB https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73473606
No explanation was provided.
In fact, the post I made asking why I had comments removed originally was removed and then another post asking why I was banned was removed as well.
No explanation other than handwaving at a rule I clearly did not violate.
The point I believe hit a nerve with the mod....
To back up my basic point that touched a nerve with the mod, I find it hard to look at the current situation with Ukraine having no missile interceptors available to be given by "allies" was an accident and totally unintended given the Iran War was launched by Trump/US Government and Netanyahu/Israeli Government.
Given there was no credible evidence the threat was acute from Iran, that Iran was actively moving towards clandestinely building a nuclear bomb or that any rationale used to start the war has been shown to have essentially zero substance.....given all that it feels maybe part of the reason for starting the Iran War when Trump and Netanyahu did was to make sure russia would have leverage over Ukraine by making sure there were no missile interceptors that they could be awkwardly goaded into giving Ukraine by their voters.
It doesn't really matter to me whether this is incompetence or this was on purpose, look at the facts, look at the information that was available to the decision makers like Trump and Netanyahu and consider the outcomes that were presented to them by their experts on the situation, look at the decades long established foreign policy writing in US political circles about how a war against Iran to try to control the Strait Of Hormuz would be futile from the beginning... for the precise reasons it now is...
Then consider that if Ukraine had a reasonable number of Patriots NOW from allies who still had sufficient interceptor stocks for themselves that russia would have very little leverage over Ukraine at this point given how badly the rest of the war has gone for them.
If Trump and Netanyahu were actually allies of Ukraine they would have consulted Zelensky before launching the Iran War and proactively considered how to conduct the war while needing to fire off the least amount of interceptors which would have included at a minimum Trump and Netanyahu consulting Zelenksy and Ukraine about quickly deploying mass air defense to preserve valuable Patriot missile stocks. There would have been negotiation about timelines and escalation limits to ensure the Ukraine War was not thrown under the bus for a pointless shitty war that only made things worse for everyone. They did nothing of the sort.
"Ukraine has never had this many missiles to repel attacks. More than 800 have been used over the past three days alone," Zelensky said.
March 5th, 2026
https://kyivindependent.com/over-800-patriot-missiles-used-in-middle-east-in-3-days-more-than-ukraine-since-2022-zelensky-says/
