(December 18, 2022 at 6:53 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 18, 2022 at 6:38 pm)Helios Wrote: Also if supplying a country with weapons means the country supplying the weapons are the ones attacking. Does that mean Iran,North Korea, and China are all attacking Ukraine? Or is Russia attacking another country every time they sell weapons to another country and that country goes to war? Or is it only NATO this rule applies to I wonder?
Supplying weapons to a country at war is itself legally an act of war. That much is true.
But equivocating that fact with every individual use of those weapons as acts perpetrated by the supplier(s) is silly.
And you're dead right, IA's entirely quiet about the Iranian supply of attack drones ... probably because that doesn't get mentioned in Kremlin talking points.
If the US and NATO are supplying weapons, that means they are allowed to draw red lines about what Ukraine can and can not do with those weapons. If Ukraine then fails to listen to those red lines and pisses off NATO to the point where they cut off funding, you might have a point. But, the funding is still pouring in. Guess NATO wasn't too bothered by what Ukraine did, and continuing to pour in money is an endorsement of those actions, full stop.