The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.
At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.
After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.
But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.
This is literally just taking Israeli Justification at its word.
Iran specifically has a fatwah (Religious and political ruling) against developing Nuclear Weapons. They’ve been insistant that they don’t want nuclear weapons, the whole reason they were back at the table with Trump. The only reason they couldn’t agree is that the US was demanding “0 enrichment”, not that Iran was demanding nuclear bombs.
Funny enough, your “its Trumps fault for leaving the first deal” is the exact same justification Biden would have used if the bombing happened under him. Which it would have.
Your acceptance of both these narratives make it obvious you have internalized the Israeli/Western narratives on this issue. Almost like they had been setting the stage for this to happen for a while and even started developing the plan under biden…