Some countries (e.g. the UK) already lifted those restrictions in the past. Germany is babbling about it now, except they're talking about lifting restrictions on... weapons they haven't even supplied yet - namely Taurus cruise missiles. They've been talking about those for three years now, but it's all just talk; Germany doesn't want to give them away because they can't make any more, and also given the state of German military those missiles might be nonfunctional (they seem to have a habit of buying arms and ammunition and then leaving it in the rain to rot), and Ukraine also doesn't have anything capable of launching them and noone knows how long it would take to update the few F-16s Ukraine has to do that.
Ukraine has been hitting Russian civilian targets before, too, so that wouldn't really be an escalation. They don't have much to attack anything in Russia with, but it's not for a lack of trying.
Ah, that's informative. I'd only heard the headlines recently but admittedly haven't dug into a lot of details. That does sound about right, with how I'd expect each of those nations to try and play things.
And yeah, I do remember that Ukraine's hit civilian targets a little bit. Not with anything particularly big, but with at least enough effort to try and scare up the civilian populace. Mostly a handful of low effort drone strikes and of course their insurgent incursions into Kursk.
Some countries (e.g. the UK) already lifted those restrictions in the past. Germany is babbling about it now, except they're talking about lifting restrictions on... weapons they haven't even supplied yet - namely Taurus cruise missiles. They've been talking about those for three years now, but it's all just talk; Germany doesn't want to give them away because they can't make any more, and also given the state of German military those missiles might be nonfunctional (they seem to have a habit of buying arms and ammunition and then leaving it in the rain to rot), and Ukraine also doesn't have anything capable of launching them and noone knows how long it would take to update the few F-16s Ukraine has to do that.
Ukraine has been hitting Russian civilian targets before, too, so that wouldn't really be an escalation. They don't have much to attack anything in Russia with, but it's not for a lack of trying.
Ah, that's informative. I'd only heard the headlines recently but admittedly haven't dug into a lot of details. That does sound about right, with how I'd expect each of those nations to try and play things.
And yeah, I do remember that Ukraine's hit civilian targets a little bit. Not with anything particularly big, but with at least enough effort to try and scare up the civilian populace. Mostly a handful of low effort drone strikes and of course their insurgent incursions into Kursk.