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News & Current Events Mar 28, 2026 at 8:34 PM

Ukraine Finalizes Air Defense Deals With Gulf Nations Amid War in Mideast - The New York Times

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ninjatutte91 Mar 28, 2026 +54
Think Ukraine have better cards and more money now
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Evening_Lawyer6570 Mar 28, 2026 -68
Highly doubt it.
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AppearanceDizzy7006 Mar 28, 2026 +32
They definitely do. Ukraine just struck a weapons deal with countries with a trillion dollar sovereign wealth funds. Furthermore, seeing these nations put protection in their own hands is the start of the US/Israel having less control in the region. What are you counterpoints?
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smltor Mar 28, 2026 +14
Because of the money aspect or the cards aspect? I'd guess they have some pretty good anti drone tech and skills by now. Which would lead to money I suspect. Blowing up lawnmowers in the sky with high cost missiles is something Ukraine learned not to do and all the ideas they have tried they know which ones work with limited resources. I'm a guess even the richest people in the world don't want to see their wealth pissed away. Actually maybe them even more than anyone else. At 1 billion a day for the US to keep going that is only like a couple a bucks a day per person (I am bad at back of the envelope math though so do your own check). 3$ a day wouldn't kill me, it'd suck a bit for most people but wouldn't kill them. But your second tier billionaires in the US would be pretty pissy at spending a billion a day on something stupid. And as far as I am aware the gulf states tend to not have much in the way of taxes so the costs are maybe covered by the top guys almost personally.
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Jman1a Mar 29, 2026 +3
"lawnmowers in the sky" I love that.
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Plane_Willingness_25 Mar 28, 2026 +9
They literally receive more money for their defense expertise and their military technology, which brings also geopolitical pull
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macross1984 Mar 29, 2026 +20
Here is Ukraine making the best of situation by helping Gulf Nations better defend themselves from Iranian attacks and showing Trump is an incompetent bumbling convicted felon president.
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tormentnexus Mar 28, 2026 +15
 Not being dependent on the US is good for Ukraine’s long term survival, smart man Zelensky
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Evening_Lawyer6570 Mar 29, 2026
Honestly it was for the better.
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bicycle-made-for2 Mar 29, 2026 +8
You have to applaud Zelenskyy for the way he has acted in the last few years. I watched with increasing disgust that infamous meeting with Trump, Vance, Rubio at the White House. Since then he has gone from strength to strength. No wonder Trump says he doesn’t like him. He is everything that Trump is not.
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kinetic_honda Mar 28, 2026 -8
Good for Ukraine! Maybe other countries should also start getting friendly with these middle eastern authoritarian regimes as well if the money is good.
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