The Pentagon has expressed no concern regarding the advance of Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Pentagon’s press service reports.

The Pentagon has expressed no concern regarding the advance of Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Pentagon’s press service reports.

Source: European Pravda, citing Sabrina Singh, Deputy Spokesperson for the Pentagon

Details: “No, because at the end of the day, Ukraine is fighting for its sovereign territory that its neighbour invaded. So, if we want to de-escalate tensions, as we’ve said from the beginning, the best way to do that is Putin can make that decision today to withdraw troops from Ukraine,” Singh stated, when asked about the potential escalation of tensions due to Ukrainian forces entering Kursk Oblast

  • EmpricornEnglish
    57·
    3 months ago

    Ukraine willingly dismantled its nuclear arsenal

    In exchange for assurances that Russia wouldn’t invade them. They won’t make that mistake again. And it’s not just me, NATO and organizations around the world have vouched for Ukraine’s continuing efforts to root out and remove corruption.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      1011·
      3 months ago

      There is the issue that at the time, Ukraine had absolutely no ability to actually pay to maintain a nuclear arsenal. Getting security agreements instead was a sensible thing to do, it just turns out that the ones they got weren’t strong enough

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        Ukraine had absolutely no ability to actually pay to maintain a nuclear arsenal.

        And Russia does? At least they’d have the “what if one of them still works” card that the Russians are playing.

        • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          Theoretically yes, although that would mean less yachts for oligarchs, so maybe some maintenance might be neglected or skipped

          • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Not really, Russia spends about as much on its arsenal as the UK while having orders of magnitude more warheads to maintain. Either they have help from the magic nuclear maintenance faeries or only a small portion of their arsenal is still functional.

        • Skua@kbin.earth
          52·
          3 months ago

          Russia’s GDP and GDP per capita have both been a lot higher than Ukraine’s in the entire post-Soviet period. Usually about two to three times higher per capita and five to ten times bigger overall. Post-Soviet Russia hasn’t been particularly prosperous, but it has a large population and oil money. It was definitely much more able to pay for it than Ukraine.

          • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            All I’m saying is that if they kept some, they could maintain some ambiguity whether they were maintaining them or not, potentially deterring the current invasion. It’s not like Russia has money to spare either, we’re taking them at their word that they have a functioning nuclear arsenal.

            With how the current invasion is going, I doubt that they know for certain. But let’s be honest, that uncertainty is the only thing keeping US F-22s out of Moscow’s skies right now.

            • Skua@kbin.earth
              3·
              3 months ago

              I agree it would have been better for them with the benefit of hindsight. My point is more that the decision that they did make was a pretty rational one at the time