Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned that Ukraine’s recent attacks on Russian oil refineries risk impacting global energy markets and urged the country to focus on military targets instead.
  • GrymEdm@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 years ago

    Priorities. Kill tens of thousands of civilians in a few months = I sleep (until it threatens careers). Blow up oil = serious problem deserving immediate response.

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      For real. What does this even mean? How does this headline impact our lives in any way? How did they “slam” these strikes and what was the consequence of said “slam”? Was it really just that they had a journalist ask a diplomat of some kind about it and they just said something like “we do not condone strikes on oil refineries because of the rippling global economic impact”? And they didn’t want to have their journalist come back without a story even though there’s no story here?

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
    164·
    2 years ago

    Well, if I was Ukraine, I would bomb the shit out of them now, unless maybe I get more military aid. They win either way.

  • MechKit@beehaw.orgEnglish
    144·
    2 years ago

    Defending yourselves from an invader is inconvenient to our profits.