Considering Israel and Ukraine

Why does America treat them differently?

Ken Briggs
5 min readApr 17, 2024

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This week, Iranian drones were launched as part of a military attack. This happened in two places: Israel and Ukraine. Iranian-manufactured Shahed drones were used by Iran to attack Israel in apparent retaliation for an Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus last week. The same model of drone, supplied by Iran to the Russian military, have been used in swarms to attack Ukraine.

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Ken Briggs

Engineer, tech co-founder, writer, and student of foreign policy. Talks about the intersection of technology, politics, business, foreign affairs, and history