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President Joe Biden pleaded with Republicans on Wednesday for a fresh infusion of military aid for Ukraine, warning that a victory for Russia over Ukraine would leave Moscow in position to attack NATO allies and could draw U.S. troops into a war.

Biden spoke as the United States planned to announce $175 million in additional Ukraine aid from its dwindling supply of money for Kyiv. He signaled a willingness to make significant changes to U.S. migration policy along the border with Mexico to try to draw Republican support.

"If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there," Biden said. Putin will attack a NATO ally, he predicted, and then "we’ll have something that we don't seek and that we don't have today: American troops fighting Russian troops," Biden said.

“We can’t let Putin win,” he said, prompting an angry reaction from Moscow.

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[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago

-- and "stabilizing element" in the middle east. Israel gets a lot of leeway because they've proven they have a capable military, intelligence agency, etc. And they're not at all squeamish about using them.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Capable military intelligence

Oct 7 happened

Pick one

[-] thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Most people consider the US to have somewhat capable intelligence, but 9/11 still happened.

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Yes but word is that they had plenty of intelligence about a major operation. So it wasn't a lack of intelligence as much as arrogance in the leadership, at best. At worst, well you'd have to get into some dark conspiracy theory.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

They bombed a car with a grandma and her three grandkids in Lebanon saying they were terrorists. Israeli "intelligence" is nothing more than AI over satalite imagery and web scaping.

It's worthless if they just gather a mountain of information but can't filter any real useful intel from it.

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