Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that deliveries of anti-ballistic air defense missiles from allies have fallen threefold compared with 2025, urging partners to accelerate supplies and expand production on Aug. 5.
Maybe y’all should have actually pushed back against the US starting the Iran War harder?
Yes and to be clear I place blame on US leaders for not understanding and also being proactive about the fact that even though the US was happy to do missile defense in the past… leaving it open so that if the US decides to go batshit crazy Europe wouldn’t be placed into existential crisis without ballistic missile defense is a doomsday scenario waiting to happen.
That being said, with this existential strategic blindspot being what it is, Europe should have understood from the beginning what role the Iran War needed to play for Trump and Putin.
Yes and to be clear I place blame on US leaders for not understanding and also being proactive about the fact that even though the US was happy to do missile defense in the past… leaving it open so that if the US decides to go batshit crazy Europe wouldn’t be placed into existential crisis without ballistic missile defense is a doomsday scenario waiting to happen.
That being said, with this existential strategic blindspot being what it is, Europe should have understood from the beginning what role the Iran War needed to play for Trump and Putin.