It's funny how quickly the french scrambled to provide fighters once Ukraine started receiving F-16's. France is clearly eyeing a post-war future where Ukraine upgrades their fighter fleet. Old F-16 with trainers and trained pilots will make it easy for them to transition to newer F-16's or even F-35 while Mirage-2000 path leads directly to Rafale. They don't want to miss out on that.Ukraine will be receiving more Mirage 2000s earlier than originally thought.
With France phasing these out over the coming years for Rafale there will be quite a few frames available.
It's funny how quickly the french scrambled to provide fighters once Ukraine started receiving F-16's. France is clearly eyeing a post-war future where Ukraine upgrades their fighter fleet. Old F-16 with trainers and trained pilots will make it easy for them to transition to newer F-16's or even F-35 while Mirage-2000 path leads directly to Rafale. They don't want to miss out on that.
Same reason there have been serious talks in Sweden now to provide older C Gripens that Ukraine could easily transition to E Gripens much later on.
From other videos it looks like we sent a whole lot of them.
We have copper head snakes in our rivers - are they the same sort of copper heads ?
David is right on the money with these tweets:
The Russian film studio «Mosfilm» has supplied 28 T-55 tanks, eight PT-76 and other military equipment from its warehouses to the war in Ukraine. This was announced by the general director of the Mosfilm film studio, during a meeting with Putin in the Kremlin.
Will they use canon balls or north koreans ?They have 1800 cannons too. Watch out for real iron balls flying
Is that a silver lining? Because if they can support themselves more, they'll also be more liable to just tell the US to pound sand when we want their help with something.The silver lining to a reduction in American support is that it hopefully engages the Europeans to finally realize they have to be self sufficient.
Is that a silver lining? Because if they can support themselves more, they'll also be more liable to just tell the US to pound sand when we want their help with something.
Ukraine needs to be rapidly industrializing their nuclear breakout ability.
On principle I oppose any and all nuclear proliferation.
But if nuclear powers get to ride in and slaughter the unarmed, then becoming armed is the ONLY choice. For the entire planet, everyone and their dog.
I still oppose the idea of it, but the practical need is beyond immediate. To stop Russia, China, and others from ending life. They must be met by a nuclear deterrent.
In our abject failure to protect smaller nations, smaller nations (everyone) must protect themselves. This is the only way.
The same psyops bullshit that got you DJT is also going on throughout Europe. As a deterrent the sun in a can is not the only measure we need. We need a different kind of firewall.The silver lining to a reduction in American support is that it hopefully engages the Europeans to finally realize they have to be self sufficient.
EU needs to stand together and I'm not opposed to Germany becoming one of the big boys again militarily.
To long have the EU nations used NATO as a crutch.
Besides the American should probably focus eastward to the Chinese, and Taiwan which has greater global consequences.
Sorry to sound brutal towards Ukrainians, but their not going to risk their neck for you, that much is clear at this point, and is unlikely to change. America and EU could end this war in a week, or Russia escalates. The status quo sucks, but it is what it is.
As I said. It must be the entire planet.It wouldn't be just Ukraine going nuclear. Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden etc. could also easily develop, build and deploy nuclear weapons if they choose to. US withdraw and disengagement from Europe would force their hand.
It wouldn't be just Ukraine going nuclear. Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden etc. could also easily develop, build and deploy nuclear weapons if they choose to. US withdraw and disengagement from Europe would force their hand.
Ukraine could end up being an important supplier of delivery systems for such weapons. They have the expertise in cruise and ballistic missile design and would not be a potential future political problem (unlike the Germans/French). They'll just sell stuff for countries who want to roll their own nukes.
Some people don't realize that Ukraine had some home grown very advanced missile systems of it's own.
Ukraine's Home-built Long Range Ballistic Missile