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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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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What about to Israel?

crickets as truckload after truckload of weapon drives by headed for a genocide

[–] Buske@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Not only for the genocide of gaza, but the future invasion they will commit. Soon the US will do what they are doing to Gaza, but to any state or area they deem a "Blue State" or whatever they call the enemy.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

exactly, they fear they won't have enough weapons to give to Israel.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Pathetic that the way Israel uses weapons is basically playing a lottery where they randomly decide to murder a starving, defenseless Palestinian like some awful game show and the way Ukraine would use those same weapons is to save lives.

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Arming Ukraine just prolongs a war that's clearly lost. That costs more lives than it saves.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Thw same excuse zionists use against palestinians