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The Biden administration is moving toward lifting a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine, four US officials familiar with the matter told CNN, to help the country’s military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems.

The change would mark another significant shift in the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy, as the US looks for ways to give Ukraine’s military an upper hand against Russia.

The policy is still being worked on by administration officials and has not received final sign-off yet from President Joe Biden, officials said.

  • @PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    -125 months ago

    Demonstration of American commitment to stopping its enemies worldwide is always handy.

    I had a coworker use this to support our war efforts after 9/11 a week ago.

    I don’t know if I have a non-dogmatic opinion of the current shit, but looking big is a bad reason to kill peeps.

    As much as I feel I shouldn’t support interference, I’ve only bought Ukrainian vodka for a while.

    • @boywar3@lemmy.world
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      15 months ago

      To be clear, I didn’t necessarily state I advocated for those things, but the prompt was for what interests the US has in being involved in Ukraine.

      Whether it is right or justified is another matter, but it is undeniably of significant importance for a state to be able to show it can project force/inflict harm on those it deems a problem.

      As for US involvement in the Middle East…yeah…not great. US involvement in Ukraine? I’d say it’s a different story since we are actually wanted there by the Ukrainian people, and it is reasonably likely that Russia would be involved in Ukraine whether or not it wished to be involved with the West, as it is valuable land in an area of historical Russian influence, and the crackpot ideology of Putin’s Russia all but demands its subjugation (no, really, shit’s wild).