This is one of those really rare situations in life where there's clear good guys and bad guys, in the trillions of dollars we've spent for much more 'muddled' reasons, nobody should have an ounce of give a shit on this one unless they're a sympathizer for rapists and murderers.Everybody realizes that a ceasefire just freezes the situation in Russia's advantage and they'll be back for more in a few years. Don't let them disengage and keep arming the Ukrainians. As far as US taxpayer expenditures the destruction of the Russian military is cheap at triple the price.
OMG, the politics and news forum that I have been posting on for decades may not view what I say in the best of light.
I cited the source - CNBC and the headline is basically the article. Some posters here seem to feel that only relentless and poorly sources messages that are relentlessly positive about Ukraine are fine.
More somber but still supportive posts, now those need extra support.
My only reason for the more downbeat posts I make is because the UA is getting hammered daily and have lost a lot of their experienced and highly trained soldiers. They have been mounting a heroic defense of their home. Amazing courage and execution against a foe that most thought would make short work of them.
However, losing slowly is still losing. If they do not keep getting a constant stream of weapons and supplies and support, that losing slowly may be losing faster.
Excessive hopes about a southern offensive can be dangerous as well. Russia has troops there and is moving more in.
So far Ukraine has done way better than I thought and I really to the bottom of my heart hope it continues and even improves. But I am not going to ignore that they still are in a very bad situation.
When I posted about a month ago about Russia now having the edge after learning from their earlier mistakes and have now got the Ukrainians on their back foot I was lambasted as a 'turncoat'.
Sen Victoria Spartz brought up the issue of corruption which is a real problem even without the Russian invasion, when only 30% of donated supplies of weapons reaches the front lines, something is really wrong.
You didn’t read your own linked article - it is explicitly not about weapons.When I posted about a month ago about Russia now having the edge after learning from their earlier mistakes and have now got the Ukrainians on their back foot I was lambasted as a 'turncoat'. You're right about the relentlessly positive atmosphere here on this thread. Instead of reflecting on the turn of events on how Russia managed to seize Severodonetsk/Lysychansk rather easily compared to the strong impression that the Ukrainian leadership gave that Severodonetsk was going to hold and were themselves funneling lots of resources to hold the city and the Donetsk campaign in general, there was the relentlessly positive themes on how Russia was going to run out of ammo/soldiers/tanks.
When I said (link) that Ukrainian units were posting their own videos about refusing orders to fight because of low morale and other problems, or that the Russians have coped and somewhat overcame the initial problems they had with drones like the Bayraktar - I was accused of lying. Only positive news allowed it seems. No bad news about Ukrainian soldiers or their heavy weapons getting left behind in the Lysychansk retreat seen here.
Sen Victoria Spartz brought up the issue of corruption which is a real problem even without the Russian invasion, when only 30% of donated supplies of weapons reaches the front lines, something is really wrong.
Now Ukraine seems to have a counter offensive going on in Kherson very soon (or has it started already), and seems to be sanguine enough to pull resources from Donetsk to add to the offensive. In the meantime Russia is making moves on Bakhmut. Any day now Russia is going to run out of steam and start retreating.
Very interesting, so what sort of aircraft launched the missile? AFAIK only western aircraft can. Could it be so easy to integrate on their Migs or Sukhois?
Very interesting, so what sort of aircraft launched the missile? AFAIK only western aircraft can. Could it be so easy to integrate on their Migs or Sukhois?
Either they figured out a way to adapt some US missiles to the Soviet planes or other things are in the air nobody is talking about.
My guess is some modernised Warsaw Pact airframe. We know that programs are floating around, like the Romanian Mig-21 Lancer: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...he-mig-21-lancers-it-just-grounded-to-ukraine An Israeli company put a modern NATO compatible avionic package in it, and now it can launch NATO munitions.
Either something like this was handed over from a friendly nation, or someone has been upgrading Ukrainian hardware behind the scenes.
Hell yeah!
I hadn't heard about that modernization effort over in Romania, great news and yes that would work for all involved really. A timely and flexible bit of help right there. And as your article noted, Romania already has F-16s. This is a great chance to ditch Soviet era hardware and replace with fully NATO compatible weapons. I'm sure we can give them some good deals on used replacements, or maybe they want some Rafales. This is the perfect trade up point folks, get in on it.
My guess is some modernised Warsaw Pact airframe. We know that programs are floating around, like the Romanian Mig-21 Lancer: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...he-mig-21-lancers-it-just-grounded-to-ukraine An Israeli company put a modern NATO compatible avionic package in it, and now it can launch NATO munitions.
Either something like this was handed over from a friendly nation, or someone has been upgrading Ukrainian hardware behind the scenes.
Yes, but never mind fertilizer prices - large areas in Ukraine are going to remain unplanted and unharvested as it's simply too dangerous. And those areas RF has taken, have been taken with their favourite tactic: flatten everything with artillery so even when the war ends it will takes ages to recover.Maybe famine will be avoided. Hard to say, supply is still restricted and fertilizer prices are still way up.