The president's justified, overdue, but probably too-late authorization to Ukraine isn't pushing us toward World War 3.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22457543

Summary

President Biden recently authorized Ukraine to use longer-range U.S. missiles to strike inside Russia, marking a small but overdue escalation in the conflict.

Analysts argue Biden’s earlier caution was excessive, and calling Russia’s nuclear bluffs is strategically necessary to counter further extortion.

  • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I know Biden never would, but if he really wanted to go full “Dark Brandon” he’d give Zelensky the nuclear football on his final day in office, and just give Trump an NFL football in a lockbox.

    This is (mostly) just a joke, as the Nuclear football doesn’t work like that, and doesn’t actually get passed from president to president like that. And also nuclear warfare is horrifying and a bad idea. But between the presidential immunity and Trump having floated nuking a hurricane in the past, I’m also not sure giving Ukraine access to all of our nukes would be any worse than the direction we’re going anyway.