The United States 🇺🇸 Senate, in a 70-29 vote, has passed a $95.34 Billion usd foreign aid bill that contains $14.6 Billion usd in additional military aid for Israel 🇮🇱, as well as roughly $10.0 Billion usd I'm humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. Specifically, the military aid included in...
After debating through the night on Monday, early Tuesday morning the United States 🇺🇸 Senate voted 70-29 (with one absentee) in favour of a $95 Billion usd foreign aid bill, which contains $60.1 Billion usd for Ukraine. Both party leaders in the Senate, Schumer and McConell, voted for the bill...
I've been following this for a while and although Ukraine definitely wants what's left of the helos (I've read that less than 15 are actually still salvageable), the political will in Australia 🇦🇺 does not exist to have them repaired and sent.
How could Australia meaningfully help Ukraine right...
Actually, the best course of action
would be to deploy the rested, re-fitted, 3rd Assault Brigade (currently in reserve near Kramatorsk) to bolster a fighting retreat, to alleviate the pressure from the 110th, which holds the core of the city and the elements of the 53rd and 47th, which are...
I'm not suggesting that they don't have the right to make their own choice. I'm suggesting that countries that want to be part of an alliance ought to abide by the conditions of the alliance (2% of gdp towards the defense spending). Otherwise, the alliance should not have any problems abandoning...
You know what, there isn't much I agree with Donald Trump about, but something I do agree with is the idea that Europe should be primarily responsible for funding Ukraine's defense, for two reasons.
1. They are the countries most directly affected if Ukraine falls.
2. Most European NATO...
Here is the complete comparison you're looking for.
Andrew Perpetua's visually confirmed and geolocated losses for Russia and Ukraine. Saturday, February 4th -Friday, Feb 9th.
Main Battle Tanks
Russia: 69
Ukraine: 16
Infantry Fighting Vehicles
Russia: 68
Ukraine: 9
Armored Personnel...
Russia had about 12,000 main Battle tanks before the war started. Satelite imagery shows that 3000 of those tanks are beyond the point of repair and cannot be restored. That leaves 9000 pre-invasion tanks in their arsenal.
They're losing 2000-2400 tanks per year. They are producing 200 new...
Because I've started posting Andrew Perpetua's visually documented, geolocated losses for both sides in this conflict, I'm going to compile Russia's weekly losses in a post as well. There are some Russian supporters that don't believe that Russias is actually losing scores of equipment at an...
New Ukrainian aid packages announced today.
Finland 🇫🇮 announced a new military aid package worth 200 million Euros. Per usual, Finland didn't release the contents of the package but it's widely believed to contain artillery shells among other key items.
Norway 🇳🇴 has made the request to its...
No, you're just pretending to think that Nasser crossing a communicated, widely known red line (closing the Straits to Israely shipping), doesn't constitute an attack. But Nasser did and he knew it would draw an immense response. That's why he put 100,000 soldiers (2/3 of his army) in the Sinai...
There is another authority that the President of The United States has to send military aid to Allies in times of need, if Congress isn't passing bills quickly enough or won't approve aid at all.
The authority is called "Excessive Defense Articles" (EDA) which allows the President to send up to...
Changes in military leadership are quite common, particularly over the course of a war. Russia has shuffled Generals around quite a bit as well. Historically, it's not uncommon for field generals to switch jobs consistently. Zaluzhniy will fill a new roll inside their Ukrainian Armed Forces and...
There will now be an ammendment process, before the final vote in the Senate. At that point the bill will pass in the Senate, but still has to go to the House of Representatives for passage there, before the President Biden can sign it into law.
This isn't happening over night, for anyone...
In a 218 to 42 vote, the Italian 🇮🇹 Senate has approved a decree to authorize the direct transfer of weapons from Italian military inventories, to Ukraine. Italy has one of the most robust armies in Europe and while they are notoriously quiet about what they transfer Ukraine, this decree is...
