Russia - threadbanned users in OP

you forgot to add whataboutism. It is a mandatory piece. And also a 'yawn' word they like to add at the end of their 'very valuable response' when u point out something obvious back to them. 😉

I think you overstate the case, but agree that the US is of course acting primarily in its own long term interests. As the Russian regime is a terrorist regime or at best a pest to all its neighbours I'm happy to see it weakened and hopefully destroyed, but sorry to see Ukraine suffering more than necessary in the process

I'm not seeing the problem of watching russia bleed itself dry and then going in to dismember it.

You're making false comparisons. This isn't a World War and Russia is not Nazi Germany.

To ask the question again: do you think America has much stronger and better weapons than what it's supplying Ukraine with? If not, why do you think Ukraine keeps asking for more and better stuff?

Don't get me wrong: I think the US has been a great support to Ukraine. All I'm saying is it has the ability to do much more if it wanted to. This is hardly a secret

Poor guys. they will be in for a surprise once they learn what kind of monster they are cheering up to.

Best news of the day.

I am sure behind-the-scenes work is being carried out on those F-16s.

They might ask another, even more awkward, question:

"where did the money go and who has it?"

You couldn't rule it out. Like when James Cleverly announced that the UK had finally decided to supply Storm Shadows. Less than 24 hours later, while everyone was wondering how long it would take to train, modify aircraft etc, the Ukrainians were already hitting Russian targets with Storm Shadows. Clearly the decision had been made many months before the announcement.

Sky News reports that the west is giving short range anti aircraft missiles. No doubt this is to counter the Russian helicopters. Better late than never...

Fair enough. I'd also like to see the current Russian regime and its enablers destroyed and brought to justice and a more enlightened Russia emerge, as happened with Germany and Japan post WW2.

This war has been going on since 2014, when russian proxies were in a "civil war" in Ukraine.

It can go on a lot longer still, until US/NATO give Ukraine enough to end it - they are still dragging their feet and giving the bare minimum of arms to Ukraine.

It wont end this summer with the Crimea beach party, and I'd be surprised if it ended by christmas 23 either.

It reveals nothing - "they're hardly going to state the real reasons in a press conference". So there you go.

Just that you viewed the press conference through the prism of an already held opinion.

You were unable to support your claims with direct reference to the press conference. Which proves my point. I didn't dodge your question, I was sticking to the main point.

And besides, if they were about to give some new weapons -> they'd hardly give any hints of that in a press conference. Catch 22.

As for your question, you have expressed a wish to Russia to be 'destroyed' and rebuilt like Japan and Germany after WWII. Your posts seem to ignore the geopolitical reality that Russia is nuclear and WMD armed and if it thinks it is danger of suffering a 'killer blow' from Ukraine or NATO may resort to their use.

On top of that, I can imagine a whole host of reasons why certain weapons are held back -> fears of advanced systems falling into Russian hands, shortage of equipment, need to keep reserve for other threats, complexity of training, logistics, supply.

I don't think it reflects some conspiracy / agenda to deliberately draw out the war. If I'm to be convinced of that, need a lot more.

So I will take the comments at face value.