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The Ukrainians are going to continue to give up land. It's the reality of this war. Despite Russia suffering heavy losses to this point, they still have plenty of manpower, armor and artillery, to continue their advances. What's going to be important for Ukraine is that they continue to train...

Why can't Turkey just donate them to the U.S., or Poland, directly? Why make a 3rd party spend their financial resources, when they can be allocated elsewhere to aid the war effort? Turkey is a big country, with a strong military. They can afford the donation, no?

Probably because they're trying to spread their asks around, among NATO countries, so that not any particular country is being asked to give more than it can afford. The more you spread the asks around, the better chance that countries will oblige.

The war is still winnable for Ukraine, but it's going happen in a much more patient manner and with a lot more bloodshed, than most care for. 1). The Ukrainians must continue to strategically withdraw and give up territory, in order to draw the advancing Russians into artillery fire and through...

They're going to at least match the U.S. shipment of 18, M777 howitzers, with several thousand rounds of ammunition. It's part of a $500 million dollar package that Trudeau announced recently. The rest of it will be procured from a wishlist of items that Ukraine has put forth. They'll be...

Let's go The Netherlands. You're on my list of the world's biggest economies. I want to see your investment rise to $1 Billion USD by the end of next week. Time to catch up. 25 Bushmaster troop carriers. 25 Boxer infantry fighting vehicles. 25 Fennek fitted with stinger anti-aircraft weapons...

It's certainly going to be rough, but security comes before economy. I need to see the E.U. be all in here. The weapon's transfers are nice, but let's face it, the backlog of Soviet weaponry that many Eastern European nations are sending, needs to be replaced anyways, with Western weapons...

After doing quite a bit of research surrounding inventories of tier-1 anti-armor weapons, which include American made Javelins, British / Swedish made NLAWs, German made Panzerfaust 3's, as well as Ukrainian made Stugna-P's, my evaluation is the following. 1). The United States would probably...

Had a great conversation with a friend tonight. Just to provide some context surrounding how passionate many people on this side of the world are to see Russia lose this war, the following is, essentially, his paraphrased comments about the situation. "One positive about the coming deaths of so...

Greece is a deeply unreliable country, and has been for a long time. It wasn't long ago that they were basically bankrupt because they couldn't handle their own affairs. They are among the last nations that NATO or the EU should be relying on to do their part. I have no personal feelings about...

I'm not saying that they haven't received significant help. I'm simply suggesting that if the West was fully committed to Ukraine winning, they would have already sent dozens of long range artillery systems with counter battery radar, several hundred tanks, up to a thousand infantry fighting...

It's actually not alot, given the type of opponent they're up against. Consider that the United States spent between $100m-$200m (USD) per day, to defeat a far inferior Iraqi military. If you average that out to $150m per day and factor in that this war is 50 days old, that's $7.5 Billion USD...

They are just doing their job to politic the world for as much they can get. You can't expect to get the help you need if you aren't loud about it. They're not ungrateful, they're simply up against the clock until Russia starts its next offensive and they want to make sure they have what they...

A shame if that many of them survived. I was hoping that the overwhelming majority of them had drowned, cold, scared and alone, in the dark vastness of the sea... Oh well, at least the ship is out of service. That's a small victory.

The West has to crank up the cruelty towards Russia. We need every Western intelligence source focused on locating and plotting the systematic killing of all mid / high level Russian military leadership, both inside the Russian military and inside "civilian" leadership of the Separatists in the...

When you see how easily the Moskva was taken down, you become inclined to laugh about the idea of the Russians using the their remaining two Slava-class cruisers, Marshall Ustinov and Varyag, to confront the NATO carrier taskforces. With one of the Russian Kirov class battlecruisers, Admiral...

Wow, Japan is now preparing a shipment of weapons that will be transferred to Europe and are destined for Ukraine. This represents a huge shift in Japanese policy, aligning them even closer with NATO and the West. They had previously sent body armor, helmets, uniforms and some medical gear...

Never rush to attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. Remember that when the Kursk exploded under water, it was attributed to combination of neglect, incompetence and poor repair. I'm not saying that an anti-ship missile wasn't fired at the Moskva, but I wouldn't be at...

If Ukraine can, simultaneously, fight the Russians to a stalemate in the Donbas, while pushing them out of Kherson, the Russian offensive is going to be in real trouble. Both sides can expect significant casualties in the coming weeks, but if Ukraine can keep providing fresh bodies for combat...

Make no mistake about it, the West is making an orchestrated effort to bleed Russia dry and they know they've found willing combatants in the Ukrainians. If the combines arms manufacturing of the West mobilizes to maximize profit, there is no way Russia can win this war. The USA, alone, spent...