🇺🇸🇷🇺Russia has been hit by ATACMS missiles originally sold to South Korea, marking another escalation in the conflict.
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) December 19, 2024
Photo 1 features debris in Taganrog.
Photo 2 shows wreckage shot down in Bryansk.
Photo 3 shows another successfully neutralized ATACMS fired at Kursk.
For… pic.twitter.com/MNob4oZkpr
US didn't had a lot of them. Around of 1500-2000 of them were build. 560+ were used by US, not all old ones were updated. Ukraine received all the clusters variants and been using them since September 2023 and then this year launched over 300 regular once between February and May towards Crimea.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Blinken explains the plan until January, 20th pic.twitter.com/YFHPLLRHNQ
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) December 20, 2024
And here Blinken talks about bringing Ukraine into the best position and that Russia doesn't want "good faith" 
like how can he says that in such straight face when he promised khohols they are gonna defeat Russian on battlefield then now says best deal for Ukraine after all the game changers didn't brought up anything ?
Ukraine has the worst hand since this conflict started. Those SK missiles only shows it.
🇷🇺🇺🇸🇹🇷 US Grants Turkey Exemption from Gazprombank Sanctions to Pay for Russian Gas — Bloomberg
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) December 20, 2024
Turkey is allowed to buy Russian gas. pic.twitter.com/MoDwMrQZU7
Didn't wanted to make separate story but seems like US gives a lot of exceptions to the sanctions
@fedposter didn't you mentioned some super duper sanctions. Guess which country was never touched by sanctions and has every exception to trade with Russian including military gear: India. Then you talk about Russian propaganda when you are the one who takes western propaganda at absolute value without questioning it. If we listen to western propaganda it makes it look like Russia is sanctioned at everything when in reality is not so. You are also such an epic economist that you believe business would give a frick about those sanctions and not looking for ways to bypass them. You think all those companies that suddenly started selling tons of stuff to Kazakhstan and even to Baltics don't know where that goods will go ?
US is also not going to risk to put another sanctions on Chinese companies that also selling stuff to Russia.
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That's not a lot, NK has more ballistic missiles than this. And it's also an downgrade for Ukraine since they were using more recently build atacms before they started using SK one
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He was making fun of your shit english.
US didnt HAVE a lot of them.
Around o̶f̶ 1500 - 2000 of them were builT
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Yes the US was doctrinally against tactical ballistic missiles during a big part of cold war because they feared spamming a bunch of conventional ones could be mistaken for nukes because it looks the same on radar. So the US focused on air and sea launched cruise missiles. Which is also easier to move around the world.
They only starting making ATACMS in the 90s
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I was told by pro Ukrainian that all the weapons Ukraine is getting are from 80ties or earlier and it doesn't matter that Ukraine is using Bradley's that were almost brand new with December 2022 modifications.
And thing is US told Ukraine it doesn't have enough tomahawks for all targets Ukraine wants to hit.
I also wrote before atacms were introduced that they will have only couple of months an effect and then Russian would gain exp shooting them down.
So nothing can save Ukraine now except the concept that if Russia nukes Ukraine then IS wouldn't be able to stand aside and will put boots on the ground
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