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Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in Qatar: Stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry and bound for Ukraine.

In a matter of hours, frantic questions reached Washington from Ukrainians in Kyiv and from officials in Poland, where the shipments were coordinated. Who had ordered the U.S. Transportation Command, known as TRANSCOM, to halt the flights? Was it a permanent pause on all aid? Or just some?

Top national security officials — in the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department — couldn’t provide answers. Within one week, flights were back in the air.

The verbal order originated from the office of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, according to TRANSCOM records reviewed by Reuters.

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[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Who the hell do you think these mythical Democrats should vote for? Some third party that won't win and will have a spoiler effect? The GOP whose policies help create the problems you've described?

What Republican is running on popular leftist policies? That's news to me.

You're right we shouldn't have to settle. Unfortunately we live in the real world where should doesn't matter and actions dictate our reality. I'd much rather take a milquetoast centrist that wants to preserve our democracy and important institutions vs a right-wing radical that wants to burn it all down.

Why can't Democrats do the same, but in the other direction?

They kind of are with AOC and Bernie Sanders on tour but it takes time. Not to mention, for better or worse, there are people trying to do the math of winning/losing voters and who is more or less likely to vote. For now, the DNC "professionals" are betting that they'd turn off more voters than they'd get if they ran further left candidates in more races.

I'm not sure I agree with them or the overall DNC strategy the past decade but the strategy and who they plan to back with money does seem to be moving further left so that's good.