600 Brimstones, 19 Caesars, Archers, CV90s... A great day.
Military assistance to Ukraine. The main thing for today:
Poland will transfer C-60 complexes and 70 thousand ammunition;
Britain will provide 600 Brimstone missiles;
Latvia will hand over the Stinger air defense system, two Mi-17 helicopters, UAVs and conduct training for two thousand Ukrainian servicemen;
Estonia will transfer dozens of FH-70 and D-30 howitzers, hundreds of anti-tank grenade launchers, thousands of 155-mm ammunition;
The Czech Republic will assist in the maintenance of the equipment already provided;
Denmark will hand over 19 Caesar ACS to Ukraine;
Sweden- BMP CV90, ACS Archer and ATGM NLAW;
It can arrive in a location with no more than 2 crew unleash a barrage and be on the way to another location or safety in a few minutes.
It's a pretty brilliant system in there is similar systems but I think the Archer has an edge over the other compatible systems, I've been following the development of the system for over 10 years now ,two systems I said should be deployed was the CV90 and archer but there's not many currently fielded by the swedish themselves 14 at the last count by they have an order for 40 + systems
Ah well, buy sh1tty russian weapons, win sh1tty NATO prizes 😏
It's a fantastic system, they can be gone before anyone on the receiving end even thinks "counter battery fire". Quality & precision is demonstrating it's superiority over quantity. Now just to get that landslide of heavy weapons sliding a little faster!
If Trump was still in power his response to that would be
'' If Russia fires a nuke, then Russia as a country will no longer exist, it will be wiped off the world map forever''
And it's the only talk that Russia understand. Trump did it with North Korea too, and what was their response, to talk, to become friendly with Trump.
Like this hopefully
I'm not so sure about that,the republicans are in the russians pocket,and Trump himself declared putin a genius!
There is a better chance of the UA being in Sebastopol and the Kerch bridge by early autumn than Russia even holding what it now holds. They may make some small short-term gains but the new weapons are game changers.
He meant that from 'Putin's '' point of view. Trump said also that on his watch none of this would have happened, and it's because of the tough talk that it would not have.
I'm not convinced of that,anyway it's a moot point now.
And the problem with this for the Putin regime is that once Europe stops buying energy and gas from them, there will be no going back. Once it has its own energy sources, it won't need the mafia / gangster state in future.
Poland president @AndrzejDuda at @PLHouseDavos: NATO-Belarus border needs to be protected the same way as NATO-Russia border. We need to respond to Ukrainian NATO membership aspiration - we need to update NATO guidelines on defense spending and be prepared for a period of uncertainty
If Putin has body doubles. When the time comes that he's assassinated or overthrown in government and hung or shot or falls from a window. How would anyone outside of the Russian authorities , outside of the mafia state know it wasn't his body double?
When you hear they are having his funeral,
several hearses turn up at the grave yard at the same time while the priest asked did we get them all
More weapons.
If he has ( and more than likely he has, devious bastard that he is) then I would not like to be one of them when he does die....maybe FSB or one of their contemporary's will kill them, like in some religions, when the Husband dies, the wives will be buried with him, dead or alive......now that's a chilling thought !!!
"But the psychological effect would be massive, people would be getting rounded up to look for non existent traitors ,
Everyone would be looking over their shoulders"
But they've been doing that since communist times....only difference now is that they have electronic surveillance that Stalin could not even dream about.
He didn't dream about pansirs on the roofs of Moscows buildings either,
But then again remember that Time when a Young Man landed a cesna in Moscow
Always follow the money. And unfortunately for Russia now, the money isn't following them at the moment, and for the current foreseeable.
Putin has a habit of vanishing for a couple of weeks at a time, it's has been going on for a year now, he comes back, pumped full of drugs to prolong his life for another while. He'll be back in a few days
I'm wondering in their panic did they consider the load bearing properties of the roofs of those buildings they're landing very heavy weapons systems onto. The S-400 missile if it fell through the roof would finish off the entire building.
We might have a comparison to ghost of kiyv soon, in Moscow.
Putin the ghost of Moscow
Not really, it is more because the conventional armies of Poland, Finland and the Baltic states would destroy any invading Russian army easily.
Everytime things are not going Russias way,the nuclear threats comes up,we have heard it the last 11 months now.
Thats really a good sign
I have noticed a strong presence of trolls lately as well on social media,thats another good sign.
Meaning Russia is struggling more than ever
On December 7, 2022, president Putin stated that Russia will not be the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict, neither will "it be the second" to do so ,in public.
Lets see if he keeps his words,besides Russia also have a no first use policy when it comes to nuclear arms.
Plenty of modern missiles would not detonate from just a fall. They would need to be armed first. S300 and 400 missiles definitely need arming before any possible detonation.
I read that Scholz and Germany keep repeating that they have had no formal request for permission from other states to send German manufactured tanks to Ukraine.
Is this credible? And if it is, what is a formal request in their eyes I wonder - one written in the blood of a Dodo?
Apparently according to Ben Wallace there has been an official request by an unnamed eu country.
Most likely Poland
https://news.sky.com/story/berlin-asked-for-permission-to-send-german-made-leopard-2-tanks-to-ukraine-ben-wallace-reveals-12790563
On the news it said Finland and Poland requested permission
Maybe Russia's "thinkers" would do better to work out how to improve their country by helping it to move on from displaying a mindset like that of a four-year-old whose peas are touching the mashed potatoes.
The more Russia keeps talking like North Korea the more it will end up looking like North Korea in the medium term - an isolated, weird place that everyone is trying to get out of…
It’s a fairly bleak future they’re creating for their own citizens.
I’m a little concerned that the people driving Russia aren’t very logical though. That may be an image they want to project, or it may be just reality. It’s hard to tell but their credibility as a country is rapidly melting away to the point that it’s hard to see how they’ll build it back, probably for decades.
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