The Wall Street Journal had reported that Ukraine had given in to pressure from the White House to stop bombing Russian energy infrastructure.
Ukrainian officials, however, told the Kyiv Independent newspaper that they never agreed to a demand from Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law, to pause refinery strikes for 30 days. The raids on Russia restarted on Friday, Kremlin officials said, complaining that Kyiv was now “simply ignoring” US wishes.
Trump has blamed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the rise in global fuel prices, and last month lifted US sanctions on Russian diesel.
I wish we in Europe could get our shit together and support Ukraine properly so they don’t have to rely on the senile clown anymore.
It’s kinda being done but the problem is that Europe’s weapon production levels were lower than America’s at the start of this and I think they still are.
Similarly America had far deeper stockpiles to begin with (though as the whole Patriot situation shows, maybe not by all that much in the stuff that matters - they sure have lots of conventional bombs to give Israel to bomb Gaza but their Patriot missile stocks turned out not to be enough to face Iran)
Finally, with things sold by America it’s almost always a shavers and razor blades situation - they sell you the shavers cheap and after that you’re stuck having to buy their expensive razor blades. That’s the problem Ukraine is having with Patriot - they got the systems early on and now are stuck having to buy the missiles from America and they ain’t selling them anywhere near enough for their needs.
(That said, I don’t even know if Europe has a homegrown air-defense system capable of intercepting balistic missiles).