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They will just carve Zs on their noses !

For that money, Ukraine could have built 5 walls and kept russia out surely. russians don't have ladders and angle grinders, do they?

War will be over by time they arrive.

STOP TRIGGERING ME 😂 She's another dope....The Republican Party , the party of w@ankers for w@nkers ! Big fans of Russia due to ManBaby Trump being funded by them.

Not too sure about the rumours that Trump had stopped the Ruzzian invasion earlier by regularly preforming fellatio on Putin (while dressed as a goat no less!!)

Because the US doesn't want to send any - period - so deliberately dragging it out seems the next best thing.

They have thousands of the things, but refuse to pull 30 from existing stocks. They have hundreds sitting in a dry bit of desert, with presumably at least the hulls and turrets in reasonable condition, but this is their actual plan: Manufacture them from sratch.

They are going to get 30 tanks from an ally and have them ship them to the US. You can imagine the delay in said ally country for their political process to talk about agree to it and negotiate a best deal for themselves. That alone will take months. Then they have to actually get them to a port and ship them to the US. and then ship them to the factory where the process in this article will take place.

The US Marines have recently stopped using Abrams so there is a good supply of their cast offs that are pretty much good to go. Australia has 59 surplus to requiremants M1A1s in very good nick that the US could easily persuade them to part with, especially since they have a large order of M1A2s in the pipeline for delivery next year.

The US is messing and makes Scholz look obliging and quick to make decisions, when it comes to tanks.

Which is all very weird given numerous senior political and military figures in the US who have said the US should be supplying more and a lot faster.

The 70 Bradleys might be just as effective and they are already next door, so that's one thing the US can certainly be applaude for.

Could be that. Not at all clear what is going on now but it seems that not withdrawing is a big risk.

Officially the luckiest person on the planet that day.

If Ukraine had gotten just half of the things that have been considered, they'd be sorted by now. Poland have been considering sending their Mig-29s since Feb last year, but they seem to want an offer of brand new F-16s, one for one, in exchange.

If the Azov fighters lasted 80 days or whatever in Mariupol then Bakhmut would be a cakewalk. This time Ukraine can keep the pocket open for as long as they need.

Depends on who you ask

What’s all this talk about a country being a buffer between AAnd B . Eg Ukr between Ru and Europe. It’s a wery, very weak argument when you consider how far some ornaments can reach . Buffer zones are ABSOLUTLY useless when it comes to damaging / cutting/ blowing up underwater supply/service lines. Cyber attacks is another very good example. There is a very big buffer between England and Ru yet a number of Ru citizens. Have been ‘popped off’ by Ru apparently by being poisoned, falling off a bridge, etc, etc. Under cover agents/ special/partisan groups can also do a lot of damage.

IMO cyber attacks will be where a large part of wars in the future will be fought. The ultimate, main objective of any war is to weaken the ‘opposition’ or regime change. Can easily be done by constant cyber attacks, spreading mis information , cutting cables, etc, etc, etc.

the major advantages are relatively cheaper to carry out and little or no loss in life

How often do you hear of a bin truck full of mines,

Something manic touched on very recently .

squeaky bum time

Ask Putin. He probably knows!

If the Russian rate of attrition really was that bad they should have burned through all their fighting force by now.

And yet the much hyped next wave of mobilization hasnt yet happened.

We will never get the true figures for losses on either side, even after the war is done. But the Ukrainians likely will have lost more simply due to having far less artillery compared to the Russians. Until that situation is rectified (western allies - give Ukraine more SPGs and shells!), Ukraine are fighting a losing battle.