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Ukrainian attacks on oil infrastructure recently show a willingness to damage Russian capacity to earn the funds to continue this war. Makes good sense and I'm sure they will finds new ways to further this aim..

Yes .

NATO signed a 1.2 billion deal for 200,000 shells for use with french and German mobile artillery guns to replenish stocks that have gone to Ukraine,

Putins goal has been to get to November and hope Trump wins the election. That looks more or less 50/50 now i'd even have Trump as slight favorite due to the polling numbers but then again will it translate on election day who knows. Right now it's looking really grim for Ukraine.

putin's empire has base interest rates of 16% to try control rampant inflation which was over 7% last year, making the economy weaker when before their invasion of Ukraine the productivity was smaller than that of Italy. The count of troops killed in Ukraine to hold onto 18% of the country they tried to destroy are moving steadily towards 400,000 and are likely to go past this figure well before any elections in the USA in November. While it is grim for Ukraine that they still have to endure indiscriminate attacks on urban areas by putin's terrorist state it is a sign of how little hope putin now has for success on the battlefield that this is the only type of offensive actions they are left with to distract from the troop losses that regularly reach about a thousand a day and massive equipment losses that will leave putin's raw new recruits with increasingly very little left to fight with. The EU has committed to bypass Hungary blocking 50billion euros worth of funding and there are billions in frozen assets of the russian federation that are likely to be freed up to help rebuild Ukraine after the damage putin's attacks have caused. EU membership on the horizon, a growing indigenous arms industry and an army that now is proving quite effective at killing moskovyte invaders means to me I can't see how it is as grim for Ukraine as pro putin posters would like to make out. Trump wont be able to save putin even if he wanted to. Wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the talk of slowing aid to Ukraine was not just a ploy to suck in more of putin's forces to the meat grinder they have made for themselves in Ukraine.

It would have all depend on what there purpose was and how they were set up of they existed,they could have deployed large numbers to Ukrainian border positions , under peace enforcement rules maybe , another issue would they have deployed to a non EU state , I don't think there would have been more weapons,the European military industry has be whittled down to Only a handful of companies since the fall of the Soviet union,but look at Poland they went out of the EU to rebuild and modernise there military mainly the US and South Korea,

South Korea is producing armour and weapons that exceed some of the best NATO countries have to offer outside of the US , in Europe you primarily have rheinmetall and saab who produce the lions share of land sea and air systems. All the while the usual infighting is still going on between the usual suspects,

An all European army would have to be done different,there will be no point if they have spend decades trying to discuss which country will host the HQ.

I don't think Trump will do much of anything to rock the boat. He has bigger fish to fry, and there's a huge economic boost in the US off the back of Ukrainian support.

Honestly, did he do much of anything in his last term in office? I think his biggest success was the huge amount of daily news generated about him .

Sad fact of life, but war is a business, and that's the truth. Currently the war economy is what's keeping Russia going and is being financed by manipulation of Russia's wealth fund IE:- Russian Citizens cash. And at some point in time, even with the financial genius of Elvira Nabiulla manipulating the cash reserves, that particular well will run dry.