Russia - threadbanned users in OP

If we allow countries to invade neighbouring countries and hold onto territory they will not stop there .

I thought we all knew that.

Have you references for donor counties' arms being depleted so that they can no longer defend themselves?

is there no arms industry to produce the arms that are needed?Is there no money to pay for it?

Are we too poor and lacking in armament to provide Ukraine with the means to defend itself ?

Oh dear what a pity

Zelensky has meeting in Shannon...

with Sudanese army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. The pair discussed security challenges posed by Russia’s invasion, with Zelensky saying they aim to ‘intensify’ cooperation between Ukraine and African countries.

@amandstu If we allow countries to invade neighbouring countries and hold onto territory they will not stop there .

But nobody actually stopped them ,this is the crux of the problem which led to this latest invasion, Ive been on numerous threads discussing the invasion that was coming since 2014 ,your a Russophobe,you hate this and your just saying this to make them look bad , Fast forward 550+ days post invasion 2.0 and guess what were still having the same discussion,

The EU and NATO didn't do enough and aren't doing enough,but now they are sitting there going Ukraine aren't doing enough and the big counter has achieved very little strategically and winter is rapidly approaching which will pause the counter offensive .

"Have you references for donor counties' arms being depleted so that they can no longer defend themselves'

So NATO countries have an infinite supply of weapons, tanks and other vehicles to Ukraine.

No ,no they do not,have countries given a very large supply of equipment and munitions to Ukraine yes ,has that equipment and munitions and vehicles been replenished no they have not have their stores replenished, does that leave countries weakened defence wise yes .

Leaving aside ammunition (afaiwa) the US unlike Europe, has no shortages of most of the weapons platforms they might want to supply Ukraine. For example, I think they could repeatedly feed kinds of numbers of IFVs/artillery systems/tanks etc. they have given or promised to Ukraine so far from stocks over several years of the war before making a large dent, and could do the same with aircraft if they decided to supply these in future. Without the US we (in Europe) would be in trouble.

At the moment IMO the US is calibrating and limiting support for domestic political reasons (the division + general lack of belief in supporting Ukraine on conservative/isolationist right) and also as a strategic calculation (worries about "WW3", Putin going on a mad one + cracking under the pressure and using nukes, and/or Russia exploding in chaos). It is not because they are caught short of stuff to supply Ukraine with and struggling.

An advertisement for the Russian armed forces. The sign says 'Meat Farm'

Utterances from the Russians now too.

And still more claims are coming out against him and classified documents,if he gets re-elected America will be a lost cause

America is in a sad state of affairs. The choices for president are comical.

A geriatric with one foot in the grave ,the opposite is a full on highly unstable basket case,and the other wants to make woke go broke , banning being gay and burning books ,

It's like a comedy show

Theres 3 1/2 years between them so they certainly are both geriatric! I really can't see Trump getting the Republican party nomination with all those criminal charges over his head. He might well still stand as an independent candidate, if there's no legal obstacles against him?

I'm not sure that either of the USA parties are prepared to back other more suitable candidates for the next presidential election. Betting odds have the two auld 'uns way out in front as favourites. WTF?

A very sad state of affairs in this time of world crisis.

“He might well still stand as an independent candidate”

that’s exactly why he will get it, and why he got it first time round too. If he runs as an independent, the GOP lose a large percentage of their vote to him, effectively handing the election to the democrats

as long as there’s no legal barrier to him running, I think 100% he’ll get the nomination, he’s just too ‘popular’ with enough of the republicans voter base

It is certainly possible but I would also think that Germany's main concern was energy supply for German industry not be interrupted by the Ukraine cutting off supply through their country.

Germany have had a fairly detached view of the more recent full scale invasion of Ukraine. It was really only when the pipeline was blown up that proper support for Ukraine against Russia materialized.

No doubt, and if the West, NATO etc knew 2 years ago what they know now, they would have done something. But the general consensus at that time was Ukraine didn't have chance of a snowball in hell of withstanding an invasion by the 2nd most powerful military in the world, and a nuclear superpower to boot. Remember all the military "experts"? 2 week's maybe, but 3 weeks max, no longer. Basically it would be a re-run of Crimea. But Ukraine turned that plan on its head, as we have seen. So it was only after Ukraine proved to the world that they were not prepared to fold in the face of Putin's aggression that the military and other help started to flow. Had Ukraine the gear back then that they have now, Putin's invasion would have been stopped dead in it's track's. Unfortunately that did not happen.

Biden could only do so much to keep things locked in, Obama did the same, Trump did the same with the pull out yeah and the US Taliban Treaty, Obama/Congress did it with Russian sanctions, it completely neutered his naked effort to appoint Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson to Secretary of State to grease the wheels of a Russia-Exxon deal worth at least $500 Bn. It won't stop Trump from calling Russia and giving away intel though, or taking executive actions to stand down any movement of materiel.