Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[crissindahouse]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

crissindahouse said:

Ukraine looking at how half of Europe helps to shoot down Iranian rockets and drones now while nobody ever shot anything down for Ukraine the last 4 years. Thousands of lives lost and billions in damages because helping to shoot down Russian rockets and drones wasn't worth it for European countries...not even rockets a thousand miles away from Russia. 

To be fair, the drones and rockets that they want to shoot down are either:

1. Targeting a base they have in the region
2. Targeting a third country not otherwise part of the war

Neither of which would apply in Ukraine.

Moldova got some protection in the same way when Russia started sending their drones a bit too far to hit Ukraine, too, so it's not without precedent in the Ukraine war. But those instances were pretty limited compared to Iran shooting around like they'd like to hit every inch if terrain in the Middle East.

Don't really see why protecting countries not part of a war is different to protecting the sky of a country which is part of the war because another country wants to invade them. 

In both cases you just shoot something down to protect. You aren't supposed to kill Russian pilots. 

And since Russia even has as example North Korean soldiers on their side I see even less of a problem to do that. They have foreign soldiers but you can't destroy some drones? Ok...