fka ftc said:
I did have an opportunity to wave at the Ukes training on the UKs Challenger II tanks yesterday.
They gent who pointed it out was fairly pessimistic they would make a difference. With the Russians well dug in, its going to be difficult to make progress without a total assault on the fortified positions and the Ukes are simply not capable of that at this point, without further contribution of European and US assets.
This conflict is headed to either a very bad outcome for Ukraine, or a very bad outcome for Russia, Ukraine, and the rest of the world. It's time this be brokered to an end.
The longer the conflict goes will be good for Ukraine until their efforts fall out of line with NATO. It's the EU who is having the biggest impact. Biden admin is supporting but they are not leading. In the long run it will be better for Ukraine.
I am kinda surprised the argument against have morphed into conventional weapons.
The strategy the US in employing is a good one ……at least for the democrats. The US economy needs all of the help it can get since they are wrecking the oil and gas industry. The US has shipped all of the stick piles ATM's and SLM's they had in inventory. Old, old stuff. Now someone in the Defense Industry is going to get a big fat contract to replenish with state of the art technology.
There are 100's of items being sent to UKRAINE that will justify printing more money and laundering through the defense industry. The immediate effect is the anti war party (sarcasm) now gets to heavily benefit by heavy spending building up the war machine. This gives them some cover to add some nuts to the economy. It is just too easy to see.
Unfortunately that is the motivation I see driving most of the US policy of emptying the old stock piles of everything, don't fall behind or get to far ahead of EU/NATO in driving policy involving support for Ukraine and print as much money to buy new stuff and be the recipient of allied nations who also have donated old stuff and are looking to buy new stuff.
If DJT was implementing the same policy he would have have anti war activist, anti war industry protesting everyday. But only crickets…..Hollywood could do a movie about an administration who gives away (Afghanistan and Ukraine) military assets of old/new who then starts shoveling money to the Defense Industries…….but they won't.