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The main reason for the absence of medical evacuation is simple and gruesome: The fighting is just too intense.

It can take a day or even two for soldiers to get in and out of the fiercest fighting spots – killing any hopes of medics coming to save the wounded.

Left alone at the positions, the soldiers often have to pull out their comrades on their own under heavy shelling, sometimes walking five to seven kilometers to the nearest evacuation points, where vehicles take them to makeshift hospitals.

When soldiers carry their wounded out, the group is easy to spot – and it immediately becomes easy prey to Russian first-person view (FPV) drones and artillery.

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[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Random peons being the ones elected to pass policy and control the budget, right?

And the president only being able to help if he blatantly abused a loophole, right?

If that's the case, yeah you've got it right. I do think that the contingent of folks who are acting against providing aid are more responsible than the person who isn't abusing a loophole to help.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

the person who isn’t abusing a loophole to help.

You have just been linked evidence that Biden is abusing the loopholes. For israel. So that entire argument goes out of the window.

Genocide Joe does abuse his presidential powers. He does it for israel when Republicans are blocking their weapons. He does not do it for Ukraine.

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Genocide Joe does abuse his presidential powers. He does it for israel /when Republicans are blocking their weapons. He does not do it for Ukraine. /

Can we talk about the conditional you put on your statement here?

Are you just going to pretend that doesn't exist?

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Oh no the Republicans are most definitely trying to screw over Ukraine. The claim is that Russian propaganda, aka only the Republican party is responsible here. In reality both sides are responsible for. Democrats have the power to do something about it if they wanted. But it is looking more and more like the West using Ukrainians as cannon fodder for a few years against Russia and then abandoning them was the plan all along.

Boris Johnson Pressured Zelenskyy to Ditch Peace Talks With Russia: Ukrainian Paper

"The British government has become an obstacle to peace in Ukraine," said the Stop the War Coalition. "The conflict there is developing into a proxy war between Russia and NATO and it is the Ukrainian people who will suffer the consequences."

Lets see if Ukrainians will join the long list of allies used to fight an enemy and then thrown aside. I'm sure the Kurds will welcome them with open arms.

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Oh cool I haven't read about that one before. So Biden did find out how to abuse his powers for Ukraine as well

The sale will require temporary-duty travel to Europe of an estimated five U.S. government employees and 15 contractor representatives to support training and sustainment, the official said.Presidential drawdown authority had been used previously to transfer HAWK equipment to Ukraine. That provision allows the United States to transfer defense articles and services from American stocks quickly without congressional approval in response to an emergency.

So basically all we need is Biden doing this a few hundred times more and then Ukraine has the arms it needs.