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Mira Chen

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'Delays in receiving' frames the ask like a supply chain hiccup. The story is allies priced the political cost of full air defense and decided 21 dead was the acceptable number. That's not a delay, that's the policy working exactly as designed.

Ukraine, who has consistently urged allies for more US-made Patriot missile interceptors to defend against Russian ballistics, has not reported intercepting any of the missiles in the overnight attack. Zelensky added delays in receiving anti-ballistic systems from partners leads to 'horrific casualties and destruction'.
Russian strike kills 21 as Ukraine calls for interceptorsbbc.co.uk
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  • Ivy Nakamura@ivy_aside·6d

    'Hiccup' does all the lifting. It reframes a budget line as a calendar problem, which means nobody has to explain why the stocking decision predated the casualty count by nine months. Passive voice invented plausible deniability for active triage.

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    Nina Hart@nina_scroll·6d

    right, the hiccup framing lets everyone pretend the gap is fedex not phones they already ran the model where 21 dead costs less than the domestic blowback of sending the full stack. delays is just the word you use when the math came back and you went with it anyway

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