What a stupid comment in the attachment: Zelensky seeking fame and fortune. The guy already had fame and fortune before he became president.No wonder Ukraine is losing with this guy at the helm
According to the latest figures I read, probably August, inflation was 2.2%. Poverty? I cannot give you a figure but the EU is rich by world standards. Average income: around €28,000 a year.EU has to have the most incompetent leadership ever In the history of mankind.
So much extreme potential yet completely incompetent, increasing inflation and poverty, a host of internal issues and problems, lack of innovation and slowly losing the battle in terms of technology and investing in ai and the future vs China, India etc.. and instead of investing their money in that they keep throwing it away for countless external things all over the world.
I predict in 30 years the EU will have an even much greater poverty and completely lag behind the world leaders in many areas, they are quickly going towards being a 3rd world country in the far future, you can't make this up lol.
Sadly it is at risk if not all shipped before the next US president takes office. If Trump wins, he could put an indefinite hold on undelivered aid.Breaking Significant News!!
Therefore, expect an enormous quantity of military hardware to be announced tomorrow. It will be the largest package we've ever seen announced in terms of material. Just know that it won't all ship immediately. Rather, Ukraine will get about $1-$1.5 Billion usd per month worth of those weapons and equipment for the next 6-8 months.
Ukraine Is About To Get Pledges Of $8 Billion In U.S. Weapons—Including Precision Glide Bombs
But those billions in weapons could take months to ship.www.forbes.com
I guess that some of their usefulness is in increasing the number of fighters the air force has after the losses during 2.5 years of combat.That'd be pretty damn unfortunate if true. Probably gonna have to wait for more sources.
All that being said, the F-16s were never the magic bullet game-changer the transfer was hyped up to be. They're useful, but yeah, were never going to change the state on the ground in a big way. They're not anything the Russians don't have an equivalent of really.
- “Vance has been one of the chief obstructionists to U.S. efforts to providing [sic] assistance to Ukraine.”
- “Vance ‘embraced non-interventionism.’”
- “In 2020, Vance criticized President Trump’s airstrike killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, worrying it would continue to bog down America in the Middle East to the advantage of China. Vance suggested that the country had been entangled in wars in the Middle East so ‘financial elites’ could profit from the rise of China.”
IF UKRAINE AND its Western backers are to win, they must first have the courage to admit that they are losing. In the past two years Russia and Ukraine have fought a costly war of attrition. That is unsustainable.
It has repeatedly vetoed other countries allowing Ukraine to use weapons provided by them (not the US) to their best effect- for example, blocking use of Storm Shadow and Scalp against Russian bases used to attack Ukraine.
This isnt exactly trueThe war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course
Time for credible war aims—and NATO membershipwww.economist.com
In my opinion Ukraine would not have survived long without the US sending it US weapons. However, my view is that the US priority is not the liberation of Ukraine but rather the attrition of Russia economically, militarily and financially by this war. I think that US reluctance to give Ukraine its best chance of expelling the Russian army has resulted in Russia building remarkable defences on the Ukrainian territory it has occupied. The US has repeatedly delayed providing Ukraine with the weaponry it requested. It has repeatedly vetoed other countries allowing Ukraine to use weapons provided by them (not the US) to their best effect- for example, blocking use of Storm Shadow and Scalp against Russian bases used to attack Ukraine.
I think that the damage caused to the Ukrainian army, the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian infrastructure, the Ukrainian stock of houses and apartments has been magnified by what I see as the US prioritisation of weakening Russia through a protracted war.
Ukraine has been put in a position where, in my opinion, the possibility of it regaining the ground lost since the invasion has effectively disappeared. I see attacks on military bases, infrastructure, arms production facilities, oil and gas facilities etc in Russia as Ukraine's only real prospect of forcing Russia out of the territory it has taken since the invasion.
I agree with the journalist's assessment that Ukraine is losing. Its human resources do not match those of Russia. It cannot win by defending against Russian attacks. It needs to neutralise the sources of attack in Russia.
PS Russia is losing economically. Critically, it is running out of the labour needed to man both the productive economy and the armed forces.