Showing posts with label Rusia. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 20, 2022

For the U.S., a Tenuous Balance in Confronting Russia

 www.nytimes.com /2022/03/19/us/politics/us-ukraine-russia-escalation.html


Mark Mazzetti, Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, David E. Sanger13-16 minutes 19/3/2022

Navigating between aiding Ukraine and avoiding an escalation with Moscow has led to a tangle of decisions and sometimes tortured distinctions over weapons and other elements of policy.

Credit...Ivor Prickett for The New York Times

March 19, 2022

WASHINGTON — In the first weeks of the first major European land war of the 21st century, the United States has sent tank-killing weapons to Ukrainian forces, but not fighter jets. It is equipping embattled Ukrainian troops with lightweight “kamikaze” attack drones, but not, at least in an obvious way, conducting an aggressive cyberwar to degrade Russia’s technological advantage.