The sacrcasm writes itself“We are not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022 ... s-ukraine/
honk honk!the administration reportedly secured an assurance from Kyiv that the systems will not be used to strike targets on Russian soil, officials said in a background briefing before Biden’s announcement.
The report comes on the heels of the news regarding newly spiffed up Ukrainian fighters dropping their swastika patches. So no one can say that Ukrainian Nazis fired rockets provided by Resident Biden into Russia (if one does happen to land there).
Mainstream Media Praises Ukraine's Azov Battalion For Dropping Nazi Patches From Uniform
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... biztoc.com
Amid their looming defeat in the Donbas, which even The New York Times and Washington Post have belatedly and reluctantly begun to acknowledge of late, the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion is still struggling to make over its image, given the Western mainstream had long ago admitted them as a significant "neo-Nazi threat" - as one BBC documentary bluntly described years ago. But since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the public has been steadily told that Azov is merely "far right" or simply "nationalist" in their ideology. Or even better, the group just has far-right "roots" with images often "misunderstood" and shared "out of context"...
"Many soldiers who surrendered at a steel complex in Mariupol belong to the Azov battalion, a group with far-right roots," The New York Times wrote two weeks ago following the large-scale Ukrainian surrender at Azovstal steelworks plant in Mariupol. In the same article we are told this is merely a false "portrayal" the that Kremlin propagandists have presented. And now in new reporting on Monday, the UK Times assures its readers that "Azov Battalion drops neo-Nazi symbol exploited by Russian propagandists" in its headline. Below is the Times working overtime trying to run damage control...
The new insignia features a golden trident, the Ukrainian national symbol worn by other regiments https://t.co/2VQT9RkeIF
— The Times (thetimes) May 30, 2022
From the opening lines we are informed it's really all just "Russian propaganda" and exploitation: "The Azov Battalion has removed a neo-Nazi symbol from its insignia that has helped perpetuate Russian propaganda about Ukraine being in the grip of far-right nationalism."
Ah yes... when these fighters proudly display Nazi symbols, the real problem is Russian officials and media pointing it out: all very inconvenient of course.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... biztoc.com