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It's another way of me saying "I agree with you". I'm not suggesting that you're not making an argument. I'm saying "I have no argument to your point". Simply a misunderstanding between what you thought I was saying and what I was actually saying. No worries!

The biggest problem isn't the availability of shells worldwide. There are millions that could be purchased. The problem specifically is with the sourcing of 155mm shells of the appropriate type. One of the problems that the West faces is that many of their platforms fire specific versions of...

How many shells (roughly) do we know for certain have been paid for via the Czech 🇨🇿 artillery shell coalition for Ukraine? Germany 🇩🇪: 180,000 shells Netherlands 🇳🇱: 135,000 shells Belgium 🇧🇪: 110,000 shells Norway 🇳🇴: 75,000 shells Portugal 🇵🇹: 55,000 shells Canada 🇨🇦: 20,000 shells Lithuania...

Finland 🇫🇮 has joined the Czech 🇨🇿 coalition to purchase artillery shells for Ukraine. They will make an initial investment of 30 million Euros towards the project. For those tracking, that will purchase approximately 16,000 shells from the tranche of 800,000 identified. Of important note...

No argument here.

"Easily" is a huge stretch. Israel has, by far, the most capable air force of its adversaries in the region. Nuclear weapons act as an insurance policy, but the IDF is a capable army, although flawed like all armies.

The $1.2 Trillion usd government spending package that USA 🇺🇸 will unveil today officially puts UNRWA funding for Palestine 🇵🇸 on hold until March, 2025. In 2022 and 2023 USA provided the agency with $364 million usd and $371 million usd. This is the right thing to do. Let the wealthy Arab /...

One of the more brutal videos I've seen yet of drones hammering infantry. In this video, two Russian infantrymen refuse to surrender and instead get caught in a "no man's land" of sorts with shovels, trying to fend off an FPV drone armed with a shaped charge... NSFW... Check out the results. To...

Andrew Perpetua's visually confirmed, geolocated losses for Russia and Ukraine, Wednesday, March 20th.

Poland 🇵🇱 isn't screwing around when it comes to arming itself against Russian aggression in the region. They just completed a contract today to purchase nearly 1800 missiles from USA 🇺🇸. The contract is worth $3.6 billion usd and consists of... - 821x AGM-158B-2 JASSM-ER cruise missiles. -...

The Netherlands 🇳🇱 have announced the following defense package for Ukraine. - 18 F-16's that will be sent to Romania 🇷🇴 to train Ukrainian pilots. An initial cohort will consist of 50 Ukrainian pilots that will train out of a Romanian air base. Seperate pilot training will also take place in...

Sweden 🇸🇪 and Portugal 🇵🇹 have officially joined the Czech 🇨🇿 led initiative to purchase artillery shells for Ukraine from outside the European Union 🇪🇺. Sweden will donate $108 million usd to the coalition, while Portugal will donate $32.6 million usd. The combined donation will purchase...

Spain 🇪🇸 has announced a new defense package for Ukraine, consisting of 19 additional Leopard 2A4 MBTs. The tanks are being refurbished from existing Spanish stockpiles and will be sent to Ukraine later this year. Spain has several hundred Leopard 2A4 MBTs in storage. However, many would need...

The main goal of the West is and has always been to spend small amounts of money (relatively speaking) to support the Ukrainians in exhausting Russia's Soviet stockpile and, thus, their ability to project "hard" power in the region and to quell their attempts to remake the Soviet Union by force...

Lol, 80%+ of Ukraine is not occupied and Russians lose thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of men and hundreds of armored vehicles and artillery pieces for each additional 1% that they take. Outside of Mariupol, all of Ukraine's large cities are still standing and none are under immediate...

Some news on additional defense packages and macro financial assistance for Ukraine. Finland 🇫🇮 is sending CB90 river boats to Ukraine, joining the initiative by Sweden 🇸🇪 and The Netherlands 🇳🇱. Finland did not announce the quantity of boats that they'll send...

290,000 additional artillery shells equates to tens of thousands of young Russians that will never make it home to their families for Christmas. It's also hundreds, if not several thousand tanks, IFVs and artillery pieces from the Soviet stockpile that Russia will never be able to replace...

Andrew Perpetua's visually documented and geolocated losses for Russia and Ukraine, Tuesday, March 19th, 2024.

Canada 🇨🇦 announced the full contents of their latest defense package for Ukraine. It consists of the following. - $40 million usd worth of 155mm artillery shells, purchased in line with the Czech 🇨🇿 led initiative. - $7.5 million usd worth of night vision devices...

Interesting. Must have auto-corrected without me knowing. I post flags all the time and I think that's the first time I've ever got one wrong. Thanks for pointing it out!