Ukraine is now able to answer just a third of Russia's shell fire along the entirety of its front line, a Ukrainian minister said, per Bloomberg.
  • Ukraine is able to fire just 2,000 shells a day, its defense minister said.
  • That’s about a third of what Russia is firing, Rustem Umerov added.
  • In a letter seen by Bloomberg, Umerov urged his EU counterparts to fulfill their ammo commitments.
  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    121·
    9 months ago

    Supporting Ukraine is far more important than supporting Israel IMHO. Israel needs no support. The civilians of Gaza are the people needing support in that conflict.

    • من البحر إلى النهر@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      I do agree. But it is not just being evil or believing in biblical myths that makes the US support Israel unconditionally. As much as I hate it, Israel serves a strategic interest to the US and is seen as an asset in the region rather than a liability but that’s changing. Of course nothing justifies a genocide but for the US, it can’t risk Israel falling, it needs it to control the oil exports and international trade that passes through the region.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        9 months ago

        An asset to destabilize the region?

        If “strategic interest” means “overthrow any government that doesn’t give us oil” then maybe.

        “Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.” - John Sheehan, S.J.

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        it needs it to control the oil exports and international trade that passes through the region.

        Does it?

        It wants to control it, but it’s megalomaniacal to NEED to control it. The US does not govern the world. Israel could fall, and the world would live on. Trade would continue. Oil would still be sold.