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What a stupid comment in the attachment: Zelensky seeking fame and fortune. The guy already had fame and fortune before he became president. He is not a bad helmsman. A country that, on paper, stood no chance of resisting the Russian onslaught for long is still there 2 years later.

UK central government chose to reduce funding to local government. Local government is supposed to maintain roads, provide a library service, adult education. All cut back severely. With $3 trillion+ UK GDP, spending $1 billion or $2 billion a year on Ukraine is easily affordable. Up to now UK...

US, EU, Canada, Norway, UK can afford to go on for ever. Russia cannot. But will Ukraine's supporters change their mind and force Ukraine to sue for peace?

What has happened? Russia decided to attack Ukraine, expecting Ukraine to fold in a few days by the Red army taking Kiev. Unexpectedly that did not happen. A large number of countries then decided to support Ukraine by supplying it with weapons. Many countries that supplied weapons to Ukraine...

The West was frightened when Russia invaded Ukraine and that fear indirectly allowed Putin to set the rules of engagement in his war of aggression. The legendary Red army was expected to overwhelm Ukraine in a matter of days or weeks. It transpired that the strength of the Red army, while...

What happens next? An apology saying it was a mistake? I imagine it was.

I don't speak Pharsi but if I did I might send the Iranian leader a message of thanks. A few Iranian ballistic missiles cannot damage Ukraine as much as the US has done by preventing weapons being used to strike inside Russia at the origin of attacks against Ukraine.

Sure, 1 x TF35K could be installed in KAAN with 1 x F110. I don't know a thing about testing. How useful would it be if the thrust asked of the still-in-development TF35K had to be greatly limited in flight testing for safety reasons? Perhaps I have not understood and the aircraft concerned...

Can Dr Kotil's schedule for the TF35K engine be dismissed as wishful thinking? A few months ago he claimed it would be installed in KAAN in 2028. With valid prototypes possibly starting to test fly in 2025 (frame 0 was just an exercise in nationalistic bluster IMO), when could testing of the...

I should have phrased it better. The UK would not pay to develop Tempest on its own, particularly if it only guaranteed production of around 100 for itself. With UK, Japan and Italy ordering, development cost should be shared over 250+ frames ordered by the partners. If the Arabian states...

Also with a large enough home market, US does not need exports for their crown jewels programmes to be viable. Unlike the British Tempest programme. KAAN was pursued with no dependence on a future partnership or export sales, I presume.

Interesting insights. If the government of a Gulf country would like the air force to have a 5G fighter but US refuses to supply, what role can the consultants/arms lobbies play in blocking an alternative 5G? What grounds would they have to push against KAAN if Turkiye was prepared to supply...

No Gulf states in the market for KAAN? Denied F-35, I would think they would be interested in an alternative 5G fighter.

Azerbaijan is a partner. What can that country do to lower Turkiye's financial outlay on production? What components of KAAN could Azerbaijan mass produce? Indonesia is a potential buyer of KAAN or similar, has an aerospace capability, so would have value as a partner. Pakistan is broke and...

Any reason Turkiye cannot buy them from the producers?

What is a 'partner' in your view? Is it a country interested in investing in KAAN production? Are there any countries with the technology needed to contribute to further KAAN development?

What is there to cooperate about? KAAN's airframe design must be nearing completion. Indonesia can buy it when it is ready if it wants to. Makes me wonder what partnership in KF-21 achieved.

Indeed. Involving Indonesia has created problems for the KFX project. What would make Turkiye think things would be different if Indonesia was involved with KAAN?

I'm not sure about adults being in charge. The adult thing for Putin to do would have been to make some excuse and abandon the invasion once it was clear the blitzkrieg had failed. The adult thing for Biden to do would have been to furnish Ukraine with the best means to reverse the invasion...

Just a reminder about the relative strength of Russia v its opponents in the Ukraine war GDP Russia - circa $2,250 billion US+EU - circa $40,000 billion Spending $100 billion-$200 billion a year on Ukraine is easily affordable for US+EU. They can do that indefinitely (internal politics allowing).