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submitted 3 months ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ok, I'll go search for your other comment

Edit: I'm still not sure how the US supporting Israel is making Russia attack Ukraine or how that should be connected - obviously, geopolitical everything is somehow connected, but not causal

Edit 2: I'm absolutely not in favour of US backing Israel (or their fucking imperial capitalism), but do you want to say, that Russia had no other choice or...?
I do know this sounds foolish, but I'm currently really struggling to make sense of what you want to say

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

You're not wrong. It's a bullshit point that has no merit. US could have nothing to do with Israel, and that would have no bearing on Iran sending missiles to Russia.

Russia is getting missiles from Iran, because they need them and Iran is supplying them, it's as simple as that.

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