Latest package from the US.
It is planned to take 5 years for the US to train the Moroccans across to these tanks.
Their own individual positions perhaps, but the strategy is going to result in a very long term problem for everyone else in Russia.
They've pretty much now reversed their European relationship to one of being contained like during the Cold War.
They are complex, and the fuel efficiency is horrendous. Anyone can operate anything if given enough time/training. We'll see how it evolves
Supposed push to Southwest of Bakhmut is alarming - although the extent of it isnt clear since it's based solely on Ukrainian MoD statements of "Attack repelled near town X". One persons version of "near" is very different to anothers. They may not be nearly as far west of the Donbass canal as per above.
What makes you think they aren't logical?
The are logical alright. They are just concerned with themselves only. It doesn't mean that they can make the wrong decision even by their own logic. But their logic is probably "sound" in terms of what they want i.e. protect or strengthen their own positions
Any sign of this announcement yet? Wouldn't mind some good news and two fingers to Scholz at the same time will do too.
Scholz's request is more than reasonable.
It's the American's who need to get the finger out here. They have plenty of M1A1SA's which are older variants that use diesel and have recently been shipped to Morocco. The excuse that they are "complex" and that training would take time is bollocx. If Morocco can operate this variant, Ukraine can too.
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.
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.
On the news it said Finland and Poland requested permission
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
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?
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.
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.
Not really, it is more because the conventional armies of Poland, Finland and the Baltic states would destroy any invading Russian army easily.
We might have a comparison to ghost of kiyv soon, in Moscow.
Putin the ghost of Moscow
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.
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
Always follow the money. And unfortunately for Russia now, the money isn't following them at the moment, and for the current foreseeable.
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
"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.
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 !!!
More weapons.
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
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?
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
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.
I'm not convinced of that,anyway it's a moot point now.
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.
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