Eh. It largely depends on how trustworthy you want your country to be seen. If you repeatedly disregard deals people will stop making deals. If you don't really care about the long term you can cancel whatever deals you like (with approval from other branches) so theoretically Trump could do it. However arms manufacturing owns enough politicians on both sides that it isn't a real threat.
I guess the rare case when arms manufacturing priorities line up with my beliefs.
Unfortunately the US elections are around 17 month's away and at the rate Ukraine are retaking territory Putin will feel confident they can hold out until then.
Trump is such an extremist and not very pro EU and if he turns his back on Ukraine they'd be in trouble. Hopefully America provide as many Abram's, f16's and ATACMS as possible before then.
That guys not a useful idiot ,
He's a deliberate propagandist -
He knows what he's saying and doing is russian government lies , but he's pushing it anyway .. maybe its how he'd like to see the world -
Considering the dragging of the feet to supply Ukraine with artillery shells, along with other hugely vital equipment, Biden isn't going to be flooding Ukraine with Abrams or F16s anytime soon,it's more than likely he's had his hands tied on certain items,
For instance Europe is struggling to find 1 million artillery shells for Ukraine,ask how many artillery shells the US currently has in stores inexcess of 400 million shells,the EU created a budget to purchase shells for Ukraine but in the wording of the deal the fund is there to buy shells for Ukraine and to restock countries who are running out of shells after giving to Ukraine,
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In the "Trumpian president turns his back on Ukraine" scenario you've outlined above, I think the people who should be the most concerned are Trump and the Republican Party. Do you think the US armaments industry would stand idly by and allow a new administration that would diminish their revenue stream? They'll either have solid guarantees from potential Republican candidates or they'll be putting all their weight behind the Ukraine-supporting Dems.
The entire Russian Narrative for this invasion has basically been a real-life recreation of the aliens from Mars Attacks; chanting "we come in peace" as they indiscriminately lay waste to Earth's cities and people - sometimes just for fun.
The only difference between real-life and Tim Burton's 1990s film is he couldn't have figured there'd be humans defending the Martians' rights to invade us, that we encouraged or even provoked them by our existence.
The biggest military industry revenues come from US military contracts, while the Americans are giving billions most of which doesn't involve high ticket items being produced as new ,they are being equipped from stuff sitting in stores for most part
Yup , and a lot of the stuff being sent is end of life in the US, so its has been taking up space in reserve depots for years , and would then cost to decommision it ,
So the cheapest way is send it to ukraine , not exactly big business items though ..
New longer range gmlrs coming on stream soon , plenty of older bradleys , strikers,humvees on the way out ,
The recently announced ( and much requested ) Dpicm cluster munition of the which the US has huge stocks is being replaced ,
The big exceptions to that being patriots and Javelins..
I understand they haven't committed 100% of their forces yet but there's now 100,000 Russian troops gathering along with supposedly 900 tanks and a swath of artillery to the north of Ukraine (Source: Sky News).
If when the Russians start to attack from there it will take a large contingent of the UKr troops not yet fighting away from where they were already planned to fight in the east or south of the country, where the main offensive is currently taking place.
This will surely hamper big time the original UKr offensive plans.
I just hope Ukr can work through this, maybe the cluster ammunitions are being sent just in time to help counter those 100,000 Orcs.....time will tell
400million shells, that sounds made up.
Unless you mean all calibers and including poultry!
Or did you just Google and not read and see 400 million submunitions from cluster shells (70-88 submunitions per shell)?
Puts the US cluster shell stockpile at around 5 million.
Michael Clark said South American countries have thousands of shells which the Americans wanted to send to Ukraine but they refused because the war is none of their business. I hope when the Space Aliens come down they will be the first to get blasted for their lack of moral perspective.
Sounds made up ,
And yet I keep getting it right
402 million shells
Images of the damage done on the grain handling facilities by Russian missiles in Odessa.
Just shows how this grain really sticks in Putin's craw that he's sees it as a target to hit.
He'll be bringing trouble on himself that Russian grain ships will be seen as legitimate targets in retaliation.
Yes we've seen when you've been challenged to provide proof and fail to provide it and just say that you stand by your statement.
The last word in the highlighted section is the key piece you ignore.
Going a bit too far
The 100,000 Orcs amassed near Kharkiv would beg to differ that a counter attack is unlikely.
Indeed, only 20 minutes ago, Sky News report that Russian forces have "Supposedly" taken control of a train station in Kharkiv - 100,000 troops is a sizeable force in anyone's book
Yes we've seen when you've been challenged to provide proof and fail to provide it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
America is sitting on large stockpiles of artillery,
Yes
Ireland investigating drone parts
Ireland investigates appearance of their details into Shahed drones | Ukrainska Pravda
They said that last time as well,
So if that's the case, any agreements Biden makes now regarding supports for Ukraine, the incoming President after the elections ( assuming change) will be bound by any arrangements made now?
I believe its possible,it might involve congress and possibly the supreme court American presidentals agreements aren't my strong point though .
Des Santis wants to fight the cartels in his war if he gets in , while pulling support for Ukraine and woke issues
Must be true because the Russian Ministry of Offense said it, and it was reported on TASS.
100k pigs at one place at the same time. Roast provided by Himars. Nice summer BBQ.
Calls for peace now remind me of this.
I see Putin is not going to South Africa for the Bric Summit. Lavrov is going instead. There is not many places he can go to now without fear he will be arrested.
Apparently they aren't too worried about that force in the Lupiansk direction. Russian soldiers (prisoners, OAP's, etc) aren't exactly the most organised in the world.
Apparently a lot of grain has been destroyed, along with port facilities.
Putin going all out to destroy Ukraine grain export, weaponising global food supply.
Croatia has already offered its rail network and ports to assist, hopefully something can be done to take it over the rail network
Edit: Possibility Romania, Bulgaria could use their territorial waters for grain deal being discussed with Turkey (reportedly)
Seems to be an anti tank missile on a drone
It's a strange one. You would imagine they'd be keen to send China a clear message that invading Taiwan is a very bad idea. Instead of giving them encouragement by the drip feed support of Ukraine.
is it that the Biden administration prefers a slow bleed of Russia that renders them weak for years to come rather than an unequivocal resounding defeat that could lead to chaos and instability in a nuclear armed state? With this in mind The director of the CIA met the Head of Russian intelligence to assure him that the CIA had no part in the recent Wagner rebellion. Could it be Biden fears that if Putin is ousted that Pandora's box could be opened in a nuclear state? Is it a case of better the devil you know in his mind?
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