What Krasnov doesn’t understand is that if the US doesn’t let Ukraine build Patriots, that won’t result in Russian air superiority over Kyiv and Trump Org deals with Moscow about Kiev real estate. It will result in Ukraine and Europe developing their own interceptors and cutting their dependence on ones the US can restrict or extract profits from.
It’ll take a few years to build a production line for Patriot missiles as well, so it the short term benefit was mostly political. Trump’s flip-flop however will result in long term political consequences and a loss of deterrence for US allies.
And the US giving Ukraine a license to make Patriots could have had the effect of diverting resources from the sovereign interceptor programme to the tried and tested one, ensuring US influence and licensing revenue for years to come, not to mention reducing the risk of competition in the export market (the Ukrainian-European venture that makes whatever replaces Patriot will have ready export markets for it, in Taiwan/Japan/the Philippines and the Persian Gulf to name two regions).
16 Comments
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 48d
Sounds like sumbuddy gotta call from Putin.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 48d
I'm so sorry our leadership and about 40% of our people are total trash
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 10 pts · 48d
Count in the non-voters and apology is accepted.
ladicius@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 48d
Same problem nearly everywhere worldwide.
Rothe@piefed.social · 3 pts · 48d
Not really. Lots of countries are wholeheartedly supporting Ukraine. The US has a unique fascist problem, and relativising it doesn't help one bit.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 4 pts · 48d
"unique"
Sure bud.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 17 pts · 47d
What Krasnov doesn’t understand is that if the US doesn’t let Ukraine build Patriots, that won’t result in Russian air superiority over Kyiv and Trump Org deals with Moscow about Kiev real estate. It will result in Ukraine and Europe developing their own interceptors and cutting their dependence on ones the US can restrict or extract profits from.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 47d
That’s already under development but it takes years to build such capability.
metermatic26@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 47d
It’ll take a few years to build a production line for Patriot missiles as well, so it the short term benefit was mostly political. Trump’s flip-flop however will result in long term political consequences and a loss of deterrence for US allies.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 5 pts · 47d
And the US giving Ukraine a license to make Patriots could have had the effect of diverting resources from the sovereign interceptor programme to the tried and tested one, ensuring US influence and licensing revenue for years to come, not to mention reducing the risk of competition in the export market (the Ukrainian-European venture that makes whatever replaces Patriot will have ready export markets for it, in Taiwan/Japan/the Philippines and the Persian Gulf to name two regions).
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 48d
Because of course he does
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 14 pts · 48d
taco strikes again
SillyMe@piefed.social · 8 pts · 48d
as infuriating as it was expected
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 48d
Putin is Trump's daddy
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 47d
Putin is Trump's daddy
rayyy@piefed.social · 0 pts · 47d
Not a real problem for Ukraine since they are developing a better system on their own which will be cheaper and operational even faster.