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Ukraine does not need to consolidate their exisiting troops. They need 4-6 Western trained / equipped followup brigades to enter the action in the south come the fall. They need another 12,000-18,000 mechanized soldiers to be training right now, to keep driving the wedge towards Tokmak and...

Everyone is talking about F-16s, but I continue to maintain that they'll be limited in their impact on the battlefield. They may give Ukraine the ability to engage (from range) Russian helicopters and CAS aircraft with sophisticated AMRAAMs and they'll maximize the effectiveness of HAARMs, but...

On August 17th Germany 🇩🇪 announced that they have handed over to Ukraine two of the promised IRIS-T SLS air defense systems. The SLS version is a mobile, shorter range system, with range up to 12km. The systems are ideal for short range point defense, or protection of strategic assets. In...

The full contents of the new USA 🇺🇸 $200 million aid package for Ukraine has been announced. Contents of the package are as follows... - Additional PAC 2/3 Patriot Missiles - Additional GMLRS for HIMARS - Additional 155mm artillery shells - Additional 105mm artillery shells - Additional...

Russia is goi g to burn through their foreign currency at an alarming rate, as their currency continues to plummet. They'll continue to give off the impression that their economy is fine, but it's not. It's very important that we just keep bleeding them dry. It's a slow, aggravating process, but...

Anyone and everyone would expect their respective country (especially politicians) to claim the moral high ground in a conflict. Russian politicians are doing it to justify to their populace their war effort and western politicians are doing it to justify funding Ukraine's defense to their...

Bingo. It's nothing personal. Russia is the enemy of the West and therefore, so are the citizens that overwhelmingly support the Russian government. However, the harder the sanctions bite and the more destructive they are to the Russian way of life, the faster my tax dollars can stop being spent...

Despite enormous attempts by Russian propaganda to paint the Russian economy as performing well, the Ruble has crashed to between 97-98 to $1 USD. The Ruble has lost 13% of its value since late June alone. Russia's trade surplus is falling substantially quarter after quarter and the Russian...

Something to watch on the funding front for Ukraine's defense effort. USA 🇺🇲 has exhausted the majority of the Congressionally approved $25 Billion usd in drawdown authority that was granted to President Biden. All that remains is $6.2 Billion usd that was the product of miscalculation. With a...

Germany 🇩🇪 has supplied Ukraine with two additional launchers for Patriot air defense systems. These launchers will augment existing systems, increasing Patriot's coverage envelope. Meanwhile, Britain 🇬🇧 has quietly supplied Ukraine with an unspecified number of trucks converted to fire...

USA 🇺🇲 is set to announce a new $200 million arms package for Ukraine. The package is known to include the following... - PAC 2/3 air defense missiles. - GMLRS for HIMARS. - TOW Missiles for Bradley IFVs. - Javelin anti-armor systems. - AT4 anti anti-armor systems. - Small arms and...

Apparently and undisclosed country (suspected to be The Netherlands 🇳🇱) purchased 50 Leopard 1A5 MBTs from OIP Land Systems, a private weapons dealer in Belgium 🇧🇪. According to the Dutch source, the tanks arrived in Ukraine on August 7th and were repaired and modernized prior to shipping...

Again, you're misusing the word criminal by making a moral appeal. There is nothing criminal about another country not giving their assets to Ukraine. They don't belong to Ukraine, and, therefore, Ukraine does not have a right to those assets. You and I can both agree that we would have liked...

To be clear, there is absolutely nothing criminal about the West choosing when, and how much of their resources they send to Ukraine. You might have a moral objection to it and that's fine, but young (and old) men have died in wars for all of human history. I don't like it any more than you do...

Again, there is no reality in which Ukraine was going to achieve the type of air superiority that the United States has had during it's modern armoured invasions. A couple dozens F-16's was / is not achieving air superiority with Russian S-300 and S-400 systems all over the Russian rear and...

Yes, Western (and all others) countries are responsible for whatever they do internationally and domestically. I think that as a planet we let people off the hook far too easily. There is very little accoutanbility globally.

Yes. Countries are made up of people. Governments are voted into power (in democracies) by those people. Those people are accountable for the actions of the Governments that they support via their vote(s) and their tax dollars. Every single Russian of a voting / tax paying age, is responsible...

I'm sorry, but I think this is an incredibly naiive take. Russia has 300,000+ soldiers in Ukraine and thousands of artillery systems and armoured vehicles. They're simply buying themselves time to tighten up their defenses even further, in hopes that Ukraine will not see a point to a counter...

In reality, they could probably get away with about 4-6 Patriots, 3-4 SAMP/T and about 20 combined NASAMS / IRIS-T, supported by systems such as Gepard, Buk and Skynex for intercepting slow moving drones. 10-12 Patriots would be great, but PAC 2 / 3 missiles are extremely expensive, and are...

Rest In Peace to the many Ukrainian young men that have lost their lives in the last 24-36 hours as Ukraine begins an armored thrust into the Robotyne / Dobrove section of the front. Ukraine is making meaningful progress in the area, but as expected it's coming at a significant cost. Reports...