Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I am curious as to why Biden would get approval for $100m to fund the training of Ukrainian pilots when it's seemingly never had any intention of supplying them with planes?

And that was 9 months ago.

And what will happen to Russia then if it does that? Shortly after Russia itself would glow so green, you would think that they were still celebrating St Patricks Day....Actually no, thats nit what would happen, but Russia have been guaranteed that if they resort to any kind of use of nuclear weapons / Dirty Bomb. their military will be annihilated, using conventional weapons. Plus nearly every other Country in the world ( inc. China) would turn against them ( Nth Korea being a possible exception,) If Putin could have used an atomic weapon ( even a so called "limited yield bomb) and gotten away with it, he'd have done it before now, given all the Russian Red Lines that have been crossed.

And that's assuming the Russian Federation even has a functional Nuclear arsenal anymore.

I can fully imagine an oligarc being given the billions of rubles needed to keep such a complex operation going, and then out of the corner of his eye spot the price tag of with the Super-Yacht we wanted to buy, so that he could sail to Monaco with his trouphy wife....and mistresses....while taking a break from the huge dacha he built with the money that was earmarked for the Armata tank-system.

All the while,he saved a few Kopecks to throw at the old Soviet closed cities, to keep them closed with poorly paid troops and decades old bureacracy. But within those cities are the missle silos, with missles left to rot...just like the Buran shuttles. But the appearance of the Nukes remain. Russia still appears to be armed with them.

I feel that if any of the above matches reality, and the world finds out...all bets are off. A confirmed non-Nuclear Russia is toast in any fight with NATO.

Did someone suggest that Russia would threaten to nuke the Hague recently,,,,

Mr Medvedev says hi .....

I would agree with that too. My thinking was that if the threat of Nukes was gone, then it's more likely for a conventional NATO force to roll in and use their conventional weapons to defeat the Russians.

Hopefully Ukraine can do the job over the next few months.

Things could change outside anyone's control in regards to supplying Ukraine with money and military equipment etc. Just look what is happening in regards a few banks and the jitters that is causing there. If and I say big If like the bank financial crisis back in 2008 if that happened again or anything like that you would see countries maybe not giving as much help as they are at the moment.

A lot would a hell of a lot more would you are right there.

Yeah true if they have to find the money they will. Just hopefully it's something that doesn't happen and its not something Ukraine have to worry about.

Russia is still an Empire, it doesn't just think it is.

That's an important distinction.

The peak of Russian Imperial power was manifest in the Soviet Union, no doubt there.

There are a lot of nations and tribes in the Russian State.

So who did putard meet in Mariupol locals they say,

Locals Russian military who have all previously been photographed with him of course.

Whoops, there goes that take too long to train argument. Biden has generally been fairly good, but I agree with the Republicans who have accused him of having no clear goal or strategy. I remain convinced he doesn't want Ukraine to win, the aid has been provided far to slowly and in a miserly dribble with all sort of stupid excuses trotted out to justify it. I no longer think Ukraine can win with what it's got and with what weapons have been provided and promised.

There are numerous opinions that their military has just lost way too many of their most experienced and best troops. You can see this in Bakhmut. they just lost another very experienced and highly regarded medic a day or so ago. If the Orcs are losing 500 a day killed in Bakhmut, Ukraine must be losing 71 killed and likely 210+ wounded. In just one month that's 2143 killed and 7200 wounded. Thats over 9,000 a month. I am fairly certain that the rate of mobilisation and training can't remotely counter that.

I thought for a while the Bradleys might be enough to swing, it, but no more. They need a significant edge and it's not being provided. The Czech president, who's a former general, Petr Pavel is likely right about Ukraine having one shot and fatigue setting in.

Biden needs to either stop the pretence or ramp things up and enable the supply of far more weapons, stop lying about secrets falling into the wrong hands, and enable the provision of significant air power and weapons that go with that.

Air power has been the cornerstone of every US engagement since the Gulf War. Biden needs to ask himself is supplying Ukraine with air power more dangerous than Ukraine failing, the Orcs winning and Poland then trying to fix the mess he caused?

The Poles. Poland has offered significant support to Ukraine over the past year in terms of providing a conduit for supplies from other states, supplying their own armaments, taking refugees etc. They're also the most likely to step in with direct military assistance and that is beginning to look increasingly likely.

Back in the 80s I worked for the UK MoD calibrating batteries from Swingfire missiles (amongst others). Happy days, an' all that 🤣

It seems to me that if Poland feels a need to get involved, then the best time would be before Kyiv is defeated.

It's really depressing to see Xi Jinping arriving in Moscow just a couple of days after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin.

The world is splitting in two, and today's visit feels like another milestone on the path to a much, much bigger conflict.