Yes, all supports the theory that they prefer a long war than a short one that ends in Ukrainian victory. Weakens Russia while bringing in money, always 2 top American priorities.
War is big business for the yanks especially when they're not directly involved. If they can up production they'll sell even more. This war has been a massive advertisement for them.
And Trump wants to stifle this? As much as he's obviously in the pocket, or just in awe, of Strongman Putin, Trump would be mad in the head to end the US' involvement in the war; cos it's making lots of money and no doubt boosting local economies.
Meanwhile in the US it was announced yesterday that US defence companies had sold over 238 billion dollars in weapons in 2023 alone ,
2024 Could be an even bigger year for US defence companies.
@linkoping in relation to this part of your post:
* would there be any repercussions for him personally sitting pretty there on his throne at the Kremlin? No
I'm no NATO general but it strikes me as obvious that targets 1, 2 and 3 in response to any Russian aggression on a NATO country should be Putin's personal dacha's, yachts etc. Were I a NATO general, I'd make quite sure that not only were there detailed plans to destroy his personal property empire, but also that such plans were leaked to make sure he knew the price he'd be personally paying for any such move.
Report that more new weapons are to be tested out on putin's forces in Ukraine:
Here's Longer version and slightly more in-depth,I think this has weakened zelensky position especially if he's shown to have backed down after trying to force his chief of staff to resign only for him to refuse , that a line that's firmly been drawn in the sand ,this isn't the end of this story.
Russia did not demanded anything. Whole nuclear charrade was firmly in hands of the USA who pushed Ukraine to ship them off to Russia for more than 3 years. They even paid for it.
It moved forward at speed right after USA found out that some entrepreneurial minds un ukrainian army started dismantling missiles and removing warheads. Whole process was put on steroids right after january 12th 1994 meeting.
If Poland see themselves at war with Russia within the next decade then surely it can only mean that their plan is to seize Królewiec, the formerly German city of Königsberg. Or perhaps that is only wishful thinking on my behalf.
I had rather hoped that Germany might like it back, but that does not seem to be the case. I believe thomil may have mentioned this some time back.
Certainly the Russians do need to be rousted out of what is essentially EU territory and it becoming part of Poland is more than acceptable.
A good read on the mobilisation and Reforms they are trying to push through, oddly enough Mobilisation age for males is 27- 60 and currently only 7% of working aged population is actually serving in the military, definitely changes need to be made but they seem to be focusing on people outside of Ukraine, they can't be forced back not will they be deported from EU States which could cause issues with EU support
Ok so we can probably now say Russia's missile capacity has been seriously reduced. For months last year they weren't using many and we believed they were stock piling for the winter months. November, December and January are gone. Only February left.
They launched what they could and it's hardly affected Ukraine. Hopefully Ukraine acquires even more air defence systems this year and Russia's long range missile threat is twarted for the rest of the war.
There'll Keep making a few every month at great expense but they won't be crippling Ukraine thank God.
They're going to be pretty good at lobbing missiles/drones at civilian targets at the very least.
We've seen what Ukraine is doing with 20 or so Himars ,
Poland is getting 486 and another 300 + Korean equivalent and thats just Rocket artillerty before the armour and Apache helicopters, put that against the Russians that's a very bad day for any military let alone one as bad as Russia's as It stands now
And the fact that the hardware has been proven to be atrocious
Well this is huge. Are we on the verge of a mutiny ?
I'm not sure about the combat experience thing as so much of their combat capable troops seem to be sent on operation suicide or meat grinder.
It all depends on how quickly Russia can rebuild after this war. At the moment it looks like it's going to take a while with all the equipment losses and sanctions. The one thing they have going for them is that they'll have more combat experience than their next opponents. But their next opponents will be ready, and started building up earlier.
The poles have a specific plan and are working towards that plan ,they want to be the top dog in Europe but they have Openly talked about open conflict with Russia within the next 6-8 years, and they are still Spending on defence heading for 3% of their GDP but they are still in the building phase another few years they could roll to Siberia and back
While I agree they would be supported, I'd also think that Poland at this stage (considering the state of the Russian forces in Ukraine) might actually be able to handle Russia by herself.
I haven't seen the video, but there's no realistic scenario in which any of the Baltic or Nordic countries, or Poland, would be fighting a Russian invasion on their own. It's possible there would be limited aid coming from the US, UK, or say, Spain - and probably nothing at all from the likes of Hungary and Turkey. Russia would still have to fight several countries. All of which are prepared for Russian aggression.
After such an attempt to "test" NATO, they should have much less!! 😎
Finally some movement on the long awaited GLSDB. That's the good news.
On the bad news front, I'm less confident now that the American funding for the border/Ukraine bill will be passed than I used to be. I do still lean on the side of the bill passing but I've become less sure.
Beforehand I thought that Johnson was just a whore who hadn't been paid his price yet in border reforms for the vote to go ahead and it was all a bit of theatre. I hadn't anticipated that the horrible orange c*nt could be pressuring the MAGA republicans to stall the border issue until the election campaigning kicked off. So he could swoop in and save the issue for himself, the last thing Trump wants is to hand Biden a win on the border issue. It's really all up to the other republicans now to pressure Johnson into making the vote. Or potentially Johnson could be outed and the dems could offer any other nominated speaker protection from the hardline MAGA republicans.
The details of the proposed border reforms will be coming out this week supposedly and Johnson hasn't made any signals that he's willing to compromise yet. It'll be a very important week for Ukraine in the US.
There is nowhere for him to either invade or to occupy via kaliningrad the Baltics are sewn shut and then there is the constant NATO intelligence gathering aircraft over head for the last 2 years off the coast, and there's several hundred thousand NATO troops on Standby or already stationed in the Baltics that's out of the question,to get the weak links like Romania and Moldova he has to commit to a large naval amphibious assault via the black sea, the black sea that's currently off limits to the Russians in the air and on the water,so that's out of the question, Finland they share a large border Finland are well prepared for the Russians and they also have bilateral defence agreements with There neighbours the Danes and Swedes so that out of the question already .
So there's no where Russia can Suddenly invade or occupy
It is quite unreal that the main reason the Russians can carry on their own invasion...at their own chosen time and place...is because they have begged Iran/NK for weapons and ammo.
Its equally easy to forget, despite some disappointments, how amazing it is that here we are, nearly 2 years down the line and the Ukrainians are holding firm and causing massive casualties on all things Russian. Imagine it if the Republicans hasn't stalled on support as they have at the moment. The Russians would be in real trouble.
What an opportunity missed to damage the Russian imperialist state.
For sure. Corruption is still a huge problem in Ukraine but genuine efforts seem to be underway to improve the situation, which is the exact opposite of Russia.
Nonsense
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