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About the hospital... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/9/search-for-survivors-as-ukraine-mourns-after-wave-of-deadly-strikes#:~:text=Ukrainian%20officials%2C%20however%2C%20said%20they,Tuesday%2C%20citing%20its%20own%20analysis.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-air-defence-engaged-repelling-russian-missile-attack-kyiv-officials-2024-07-08/#:~:text=An%20online%20video%20obtained%20by,an%20Kh%2D101%20cruise%20missile. No evidence? A video of a cruise missile heading for the hospital is not evidence? PS If...

US is preventing Ukraine defending itself from attack by restricting use of the long range strike weapons it supplied (eg ATACMS). The US may not have attacked a children's hospital in Ukraine but they have made it easy for Russia to attack Ukraine and very difficult for Ukraine to hit back at...

MBT I recall that various countries wanted to send Leopards. That was delayed and it was only when UK announced it was transferring Challengers that decisions were made to allow the transfer of Leopards and Abrams. Fighters I recall that various countries wanted to send MiG-29's. That was...

I agree. The withholding of able weaponry (tanks, fighters, HIMARS, ATACMS etc) when this was a mobile war that Ukraine could win made no sense if Ukraine's suppliers wanted to liberate Ukraine. The restriction on use of ATACMS, leaving Ukraine open to attack from Russian bases makes no sense...

I think that there are about 200 countries at the UN. How many recognise Kherson, for example, as being part of Russia? Russia, North Korea, Syria. Any others? You could have an election in Kherson but what would be the point if south of the Dnipro people could not vote? Even if there were a...

How do you hold an election with parts of your country occupied by foreign troops?

Chavez and Maduro brought their country to its knees. Would it not be good for Maduro to be brought down? From Wiki: A country with massive oil reserves in which people cannot feed themselves. Something is seriously wrong (with its government)...

They've demolished the place, more or less, so why stay any longer? Even if they had managed to get rid of all Hamas in Gaza, their inhuman behaviour must surely have created thousands more Israel-haters than before IDF entered Gaza. In the same way the inhuman behaviour of Hamas on October 7th...

Indeed, no 'reliable' data on Ukrainian losses. Are Russian losses roughly correct? I do not know but I see trends in the numbers reported and they seem to be high at the moment. If, for example, one month Russian losses are reported as 500 per day and the next month they are reported as 1,000...

I hope this is not what happens but I expect it will. I gather that the biggest supply of recruits for Russia are men from the poorer parts of the country. High losses from those areas do not seem to register with the Russian population as much as losses from the richer areas would. If reported...

So, Israel is being given a headache. Unfortunately whoever is doing that tends to end up with a brain haemorrhage in return. What makes you think that Israel does not have the most powerful military in the region? The US ensures it has.

I would have been interested to hear Trump's answer to the question put to him but he simply evaded it and rambled on talking so in the end I switched the video off.

There is no great enthusiasm in the west for a war in Ukraine. When this started, the people of western Europe were shocked to see a European democracy threatened with takeover by totalitarian Russia. Regarding Russia winning the economic war, I don't think there is any chance of that...

I think that those men trying to avoid service in UkAF regret the war and, as a result of the war, being conscripted.

It seems that Ukraine has struck an airfield in Russia used for drone operations.

Without checking, I believe sitting US presidents are more likely to be re-elected than not, so are normally selected as candidate by their party. I think that a year or two ago the US Democratic Party should have recognised that Biden's age weighed against proceeding as normal. In addition it...

Quite possible that the US will boost weapons supply to Israel to Ukraine's detriment. I am tempted to agree with the view that the US sees the war in Ukraine as a means of weakening Russia militarily and financially - the longer it lasts, the better. That would explain what looks like a deep...

I can understand that.

Indeed, I was ignorant of the acronym A2/AD. My apologies for that.