Ukrainian officials have expressed envy over the US’s response to an Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel that came in retaliation for the Israeli bombing of Iran’s consulate in Syria.
The US, the UK, France, and Jordan all intervened to help intercept Iranian drones and missiles. “The whole world saw that Israel was not alone in this defense — the threat in the sky was also being eliminated by its allies,” Zelensky said.
The attack on Israel came as Russia has stepped up its missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which Moscow said was a response to Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries inside Russian territory. Ukraine has suffered serious blows in the strikes as it’s running low on air defenses, and Russia’s intelligence continues to improve.
“When Ukraine says that its allies should not turn a blind eye to Russian missiles and drones, it means action is needed — a bold one,” Zelensky said. “It is not rhetoric that protects the sky, it is not opinions that curb the production of missiles and drones for terror.”
The US and NATO have not directly intervened on Ukraine’s behalf due to the obvious risk of a direct war with Russia that could quickly turn nuclear. In the early days of the war, Zelensky was asking NATO to impose a no-fly zone, which would have required shooting down Russian planes and bombing surface-to-air missile systems inside Russia, but the idea received little support in Washington.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba acknowledged that the US and NATO wouldn’t directly intervene but called for more military aid. “Even if you cannot act the way you act in Israel, give us what we need, and we will do the rest of the job,” he said.
The $60 billion President Biden is seeking to fuel the proxy war in Ukraine still hasn’t passed through Congress. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he would work on getting more military aid to Israel this week, and the White House has said that it would only support legislation that also included spending for Ukraine and Taiwan.
Washington is using Slavic Ukrainians as cannon fodder. They always looked down on Slavic people.
Unlike Israel, Ukraine does not have neighbors who like to help a friend in need (obey the US).
Also, in the ever shifting hate barometer, many Arab states hate Iran more than Israel..
Last, as this attack demonstrates, Russian retaliation is somewhat worse than Iranian retaliation and more competent.
You disregard that Iran’s intentions were not devastation.
My mistake,
Those were confetti ballistic missiles and party drones.
The reports about Iran’s failures are not limited to western propaganda sites.
If the intention was to drain defense resources from Israel, they would attempt to have as many weapons as possible reach Israeli territory.
Instead, a third (low estimate) to over a half (high estimate) failed to launch or reach their targets.
The rest were shot down by the US above Arab allies or by the Iron dome family. This may be an historic first but this was not a show of force.
This will either lead Iran to invest much more on their weapon’s R&D or to divert more funds to their proxies (drones from Lebanon have a higher success rate and are essentially bombs with RC remote.
It cost at least one billion to shoot down “confetti”.
And Iran learned much about defenses.
What do you think would have been the response had Iran used enough hardware to overwhelm Israel’s defenses, thereby inflicting serious damage with proportionate body counts?
Do you think that would have constituted a gesture commensurate with the bombing of an embassy annex?
Or are you advocating an argument commensurate with that of an idiot?
You don’t pull any punches, lol.
I honestly don’t know (and afraid to imagine).
Nevertheless, This is not the result Iran had hoped for. Iran’s technological capabilities were held by the obsolete US patriot missile and the aging jets of US Arab vassal states.
This is also an embarrassment to Israel who needed help from neighbors against the Iranian swarm strategy.
They’ll call the Ukraine weapons funding a loan, but we all know the ukrainians are completely not good for it. They wouldn’t pay their bills for Russian gas, and now Ukraine will be importing huge amounts of electricity from the west. Who will pay to rebuild Ukraine if the war ever ends? Probably no one. Ukraine should think twice, but they’re really bad at that clearly.
Some of the US aid went toward paying off Ukraine’s debt.
Ukraine has its own vast natural gas reserves but Russia would not let them export it so to avoid competition with the EU market hence Putin keeping Ukraine abused and oppressed for decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Hey Ukraine!!, give up the nukes you inherited and in return, we’ll guarantee your security and sovereignty.
How did that work for Ukraine?
That’s pretty fcked up. And now they have to trust Putin on “peace” negotiations?
Putin can go F himself.
Ukrainians need to fight like each one of them is the third monkey going into the Fcking Noah’s Ark.
But that’s find, people like you will help them pay for their loans one way or another. Eat it. Lol
Evil twin sisters are notoriously jealous of each other. But in this situation, Ukraine has a case against her sister.
Ukraine was invaded.
Israel was bombed by missiles and drones with a Windows Vista operating system.
Slight difference.
From 2022:
Zelenskyy says wants Ukraine to become a ‘big Israel’
Zelenskyy stressed that his vision for Ukraine’s post-conflict future included having armed forces in “all institutions, supermarkets, cinemas, there will be people with weapons”….
Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, has on several occasions stressed the importance of maintaining close ties with Israel, which he hailed as a model for Ukraine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/5/zelenskyy-says-wants-ukraine-to-become-a-big-israel
The bowl of world “leaders” has many cracks.
Nor can they compete with The Lobby’s munificent bribes, …. They should be effusively grateful and happy with the return on Hunter and 10% for The Big Guy.
Ukraine should probably not really wish all that hard for more consistency in US policy. They are after all not the Israel, but the Gaza in their story. But perhaps they should use the billions not to invest in Raytheon & co but in buying and paying for the entire US political system as the Israeli do. If the Ukrainians took the trouble to look at the bill before deciding on the full menu they’d known too that buying a US government is a lot cheaper than selling your country to them.
Show me where and how these “billions are buying the system.How much from who to who.
shut up jake. nobody needs to show you any proof.
you either believe what you are told or you prove someone wrong.
That’s because you don’t know what Proof is as you always post Russian BS.
you shut up too Agent
You damn right, I’m agent, a fcking well paid agent.
I’m pro America and Pro Ukraine too.
You can also call me a well paid fcking troll.
And you are one of Putin’s little b!tches, here only to repeat Kremlin propaganda, hate on the US/UA and fluff your master.
You’re an agent of bullshit. I love my country, but I hate my government and just about everything it does. I’m intelligent enough to recognize the difference between my country and my government. You’re not. You’re a joke, Don Julio. You should STFU.
Well perhaps not. This is what I do love about the US and that makes it pretty unique in the world: the philosophy that allowing the idiot to ignore Mark Twain’s warning, as they are by it’s very definition are unable to resist, is always the preferable option. I do firmly believe everybody is better off that way.
Poor Jake. We’ve got to do homework for you…
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/summary?id=D000046963
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552
“Even if you cannot act the way you act in Israel, give us what we need, and we will do the rest of the job,” he said.
Seems NATO has given you more than enough, and you down-home Aryan twits have consistently failed to “do (the rest of) the job.”
Ukraine is a walking Sunk-Cost Fallacy.
“Ukrainian Officials Are Jealous of US Defense of Israel During Iran Attack”
Next headline: “Ukraine hates the US and Israel”
Next one after: “Ukraine ready to attack Americans”
Lol
Meanwhile; Russia is flooded with all kind of social issues and literally with water and Putin is still spending billions of taxpayer’s money a day to fund his personal war in Ukraine to take their land.
Now, How’s that for a real antiwar headline?
I wish Russia would just finish Ukraine quickly, before it becomes an arm of Zionist Israel. I also hope that Russia, Iran, Turkey, China, will step up and ARM Palestinians, like the UK, USA, Germany, EU, arm Zionist Thugs. The idea that only a few get to defend themselves is UNAMERICAN.
Awwwww shucks….
There was a defacto quasi-peace. It was called the Minsk Agreements. Ukraine flying Drones from Turkey over the boundary wasn’t allowed. They did it anyways. The war is taxing the rest of the EU. There should not be Europe War. Northern Ireland peace was achieved, so can this.