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Putin says US missiles in the Philippines are a problem, US recalls them the next day. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3268895/philippines-warned-us-satellite-status-puts-it-under-putins-nuclear-cross-hairs

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3268941/us-recalls-potent-midrange-missiles-philippines-used-south-china-sea-drills

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

I mean in any normal world, that is a coherent response.

Russia: Could you not point that fucking gun RIGHT IN MY FACE?! I have my own weapons too, so don’t do anything stupid.

USA: My bad.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is very uncharacteristic of the United States. Their usual response would be to escalate even more because they smell weakness in any country sharing a concern with them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Definitely. These things look like shipping containers for a reason. Time will tell if the US really did recall them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That was my immediate suspicion.

This is very strange given how the US usually acts, so I think this is either not true and they didn't remove them at all or Russia only knew and complained about some weapons and the US left the rest of them in the Philippines.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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