Russia - threadbanned users in OP

haha is that what basil fawlty beat with a branch

Expulsion of Russian forces from all of Ukraine

Requirement for all new members

I think with the number of Ukrainians killed defending the rest of Europe from a genocidal army of russian scum they will be given much more lenient terms than any other country previously joining the EU. I think you are way off in your estimates of when Ukraine becomes a full member of the EU and it will be much sooner that they will be welcomed into the EU free trade area. I also think this is not going to be just a charitable decision from the EU but Ukraine will give serious benefits to the EU from the natural resources of Ukraine and a strong military force that is being built up there to defend the EU from any political instability to the east.

Putin doesn't know how to lose, so when the s hit hits the fan, someone in the EU will be hit with a missile, at this point the response from Nato will be to down play it, Nato is too PC for war. You need strong leaders to beat Putin, right now EU, UK, NATO, US, have weak leaders

Had a quick look through the first pages of the thread for a laugh, ah the good old days of 2021 when posters gushed over Putin and eagerly parroted all his talking points.

I never said the US doesn't have plenty of stuff in stock they clearly do, but a lot of it has features the US don't want to send, hence all the sourcing from scratch.

Many of those drones cost more than fighters. If you have an actual detailing their build times, I'd love to see the link. Anyway, I said nothing about the build time of those.

If I understand things correctly the HIMARS launchers in Ukraine are geofenced. If they aren,'t and it's the individual munitions, fair enough,

Tell me about it. I once owned a beautiful car built from that metal, and even in Australias slightly drier climate, it rusted while you looked at it.

Eu can't realy fast track Ukraine into the EU membership. They will have to meet fiscal requirements and sort out the corruption across the society at a mimimum first. I would be in favour of Ukraine joining but only once they meet the minimum requirements and thats years away otherwise it would weaken the overall EU. Russia is not a military threat to the EU, they are struggling even with ukraine. This war has shown how weak russia really is. Nato would pick off the Russian air force in weeks, their only real threat is nuclear.

No, some brave leaders are needed. "Strong leader" makes me think Putin and other dictators and autocrats that seem to tickle the fancy of a certain kind of voter...(!) We don't need that.

The only time I read about the HIMARS being geofenced was an opinion piece. It was just someone speculating they could be geofenced in relation to an official comment that the launchers were modified to prevent them firing an ATACMS missile.

For that reason now, people are lead to believe that the current missiles Ukraine uses, should have a 150km range, but have be modified to reduce the range to half that.

Biden is definitely a big improvement on Obama when it comes to russia… Obama is partly to blame for this situation…. He should have bombed the sh1t out of Assad

It was not speculation or an opinion piece, it was a report in the Wall St Journal quoting US officials:

So claiming you can just pop GLSDBs in them is without any foundation in fact. Maybe it is possible, but my guess is that it isn't, hence the talk of supplying launchers with the munitions 9+ months now, according to Bloomberg.

And WTF is this stupid, mindless negativity about opinion pieces? If the person supplying the opinion is a former commander of US forces in Europe, like General Hodges, where does anyone get off claiming his opinion isn't worth anything? It's the old tactic of trying to discredit the message by suggesting it's source, or the conduit by which it was conveyed, is flawed. Ironically, this is one of the main tools the Orcs use.

Popularmechanics clearly believes the report to be true and did a piece on it:

From my research on commercial drones that Ukraine wants and uses, it turns out that the most favoured brand - DJI - are geofenced, meaning they won't fly in restricted airspaces or above various countries height restrictions, but that drones made by Autel are not geofenced - Ukraine uses those too, mainly the thermal imaging ones which are the ones they reportedly the ones they most frequently fly at night. I suspect Ukraine has no problem getting around the DJI geofencing or they would be unlikely to be as popular as they are.

That is just absolutely horrifying. Such fcuking monsters!!! Hope every one of those cnuts is caught and strung up.

The WSJ article quoting US officials does not mention geofencing. It simply states as per US officials, HIMARS were modified to prevent them firing the ATACMS missiles.

The opinion piece goes on to talk about preventing missiles landing in Russia and speculates about geofencing.

How does the US guarantee an ATACMS missile cannot land in Russia... They just don't give Ukraine a ATACMS missile. If they are worried about allies supplying them, they could, as per US officials, have modified the launchers. There's absolutely no need to geofence them if they can't physically fire what they don't physically have.