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It’s also possible the US and UK gave targeting information or helped Ukraine with site selection. It’s not like we don’t know where this stuff is coming from.

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US? Absolutely not

UK? Quite possibly. Given their recent admission (finally) around the Russian propaganda for Brexit

Most of those drones have starlink recivers.

UK has no infra to target even their own missiles. They always had to use US!

Ukrainian drones can't use Starlink in Russia because Musk is not allowing that. So that's false.

US is helping with targeting and a lot of things.

Thanks for the pointer to that Brexit story. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdm3zggl0ko for anyone else who's not seen it.

That doesn’t make sense. The US literally gives targeting intelligence to Ukraine.

Maybe, but also, they just hit a few of the largest data centers. Russia simply does not have that many large data centers and it's not so much of a secret where they are located I guess. Such an attack disrupts a lot of things and it's natural that the Russians focus their recovery efforts and the spare capacity they have left elsewhere on more critical services.

US seems unlikely given Trump just made a deal to give money to Russia in exchange for diesel and blamed Ukraine for gas prices.

I mean, sure, maybe some random person at the Pentagon could have done it but the US has not acted as a Ukraine ally for years now.

Just this week Trump was threatening to cut off intelligence if Ukraine continued targeting Russian oil refineries. This implies they are still receiving intelligence.

Exactly and also Europe still buys products from Russia. Maybe having high diesel prices is a bigger problem than Russian companies getting a few extra rubbles. It’s a tough situation - what else should be done? You can say Iran but they have to be taken care of too or prices would be even higher.

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