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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...

Andrew Perpetua's documented loses for Russia and Ukraine, Sunday, February, 11th.

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...

Andrew Perpetua's documented loses for Russia and Ukraine, Saturday, February, 10th.

Andrew Perpetua's documented loses for Russia and Ukraine, Friday, February, 9th.

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...

Andrew Perpetua's documented loses for Russia and Ukraine, Thursday, February, 8th.

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...

Andrew Perpetua's documented loses for Russia and Ukraine, Wednesday, February, 7th.

The U.S. Senate will vote today, sometime after 12pm EST, on a bill containing $14.6 Billion usd in weapons for Israel, $60.1 Billion usd in weapons and macro financial aid for Ukraine and $2 Billion usd in weapons for Taiwan. As it relates to Israel specifically, I've read the bill...

Because it hasn't been. Happy to keep you up to date, however, because I know you're not from this hemisphere. There are two bills in the U.S. Senate right now and both have the same $60.1 Billion usd for Ukraine, $14.6 Billion usd for Israel and $2.1 Billion usd for Taiwan. However, the bill...

Vancouver has far more Asians (mostly Chinese) and Indians than it does Muslims. Ottawa, a city I've lived in, has about 40,000 Muslims, a lot of whom are fantastic, non-radical people, among a populous in the greater area that is about 1.2 million people. The Muslim population is Canada is...

Ecuador 🇪🇨 will transfer 6 Osa-AKM SAM air defense systems to the United States 🇺🇸 for transfer to Ukraine 🇺🇦. This deal was previously reported, but the details had not yet been released. The OSA-AKMs are part of $200 million usd exchange, in which Ecuador will send Ukraine a variety of Soviet...