This type of funding is critically important. It's much more expensive for USA defense contractors to build drones and ship them to Ukraine than it is for Ukraine to build them domestically. Ukraine has noted for months that it's own defense industry has significant spare capacity to create...
USA 🇺🇸 has agreed to loan $20 Billion usd to Ukraine for their military needs as part of the G7's promised $50 Billion usd that will be donated prior to the end of 2024. The loan will be paid back using interest garnered from frozen Russian assets. A portion of it will also be forgiveable after...
France 🇫🇷 announced that they will use $325 million worth of interest from frozen Russian assets to provide Ukraine with the following military aid package:
- 12 CAESAR 155mm Howitzers
- ASTER Air Defense Missiles
- AASM Guided Bombs
- 155mm Artillery Shells...
Two new military aid packages aid packages for Ukraine 🇺🇦 announced over the last 24 hours.
Canada 🇨🇦 announced a new military aid package for Ukraine valued at $47 million usd. The package consists of the following:
- C7 Assault Rifles
- Small Arms Ammunition
- Drone Coalition Funding
-...
Lol the war has cost the West virtually NOTHING. NATO alone spends 1.4 Trillion usd annually on its combined defense. Add in the other countries supporting Ukraine outside of NATO and that number rises to 1.6 Trillion usd.
We're approaching the 3 year mark of the war, which means those...
The war continues to cause significant attrition for both sides. With that in mind, the West still has plenty it can give and plenty more that can be ordered for delivery throughout 2025 and 2026. At the same time, increasing the funds dedicated towards funding for Ukraine's domestic production...
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 announced a new military aid package for Ukraine today. They're purchasing an additional $294 million usd worth of 155mm artillery shells for Ukraine. The purchase is being made through the Czech 🇨🇿 led artillery shell purchasing program.
The Dutch are also purchasing 6...
Germany 🇩🇪 announced the delivery of a new military aid practice for Ukraine today. The contents of the package consisted of the following:
- 1 IRIS-T SLM Air Defense System
- 1 IRIS-T SLS Air Defense System
- 8 Leopard 1A5 MBTs
- 20 Marder 1A3 IFVs
- 6 Panzerhaubitze 2000 Artillery
- 4 Dingo...
Two new significant military aid packages for Ukraine were announced today by USA 🇺🇸 and Australia 🇦🇺.
USA 🇺🇸 announced a new $425 million usd military aid for Ukraine. The package consists of the following:
- AIM-9X Missiles (NASAMS)
- AIM-120 Missiles (NASAMS)
- RIM-7 Missiles (FrankenSAM)...
No, I don't think shelling a UN site is legal. I think it's strictly illegal under international law.
But I'll repeat what I said previously. I don't think it matters at all, because the U.N. is a sham institution, whose only real "hard power" comes in the form of the members willing to put...
Russia has been using tear gas in Ukraine for multiple years. It's been extremely well documented.
Nobody cares. The UN is a useless organization because it has no "hard power". Its only enforcement mechanism is to hope that member states will use their respective armies to intervene in conflict.
Completely legal strike, against a military target. I have no issues with this strike from Hezbollah. That's how war goes. Casualties both ways. Props to Hezbollah on this one!
Hopefully Israel ratchets up the intensity of their air strikes in response and creates 10 casualties for each one...
What you refuse to realize is that there is strategy associated with rationing Iron Dome interceptors. Israel knows that they can't intercept all of the rockets fired by Hezbollah. It's simply not possible or cost effective. Firing a $60,000-$100,000 Tamir interceptor at each low yield...
Objectively, the demage Hezbollah is doing to Israel is extremely minor in the grand scheme of things. You're talking about the damage / destruction of individual dwellings and the deaths of civilians on a single / low double digit scale. If you look at conflict from a historical perspective...
Germany 🇩🇪, Belgium 🇧🇪, Norway 🇳🇴 and Denmark 🇩🇰 collectively announced a new military aid package for Ukraine today valued $1.5 Billion usd. The package consists of the following...
- Skynex Air Defense Systems
- Gepard Air Defense Systems
- Undisclosed Main Battle Tanks
- Undisclosed...
It'll be interesting to see if Israel 🇮🇱 takes the strategic step to go after Iran's O&G production in any meaningful way. They could, objectively, deeply hurt the Iranian economy through the mass targeting of highly vulnerable oil production and storage sites, as well as processing and...
The $50 Billion usd loan for Ukraine, backed by frozen Russian assets, is going forward. The European Union 🇪🇺 has agreed in principle to make $35 billion available, while USA 🇺🇸 , Canada 🇨🇦 and Japan 🇯🇵 will use Word Bank mechanisms to put up the remaining $15 billion usd.
The breakdown in...
The Lebanese ought to invest in some quality air defense. It would be much more difficult for Israel to bomb them from the air with impunity.
Israel's air defense isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it has proven to be effective!
