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Ukraine War

That's special to call me retard with all the dumb documented opinions you have on most subjects.
IQ test offer is stil on the table. You ran from it before. What's 150 billion divided by 300 million, Growls?
 
Not interested. I strongly feel that my common sense takes are superior to your lifetime of communist academic indoctrination.
I've explicitly called communism stupid. Hell, it's as retarded as you.

Free market principles = good. Authoritarianism = bad.

Oh I'll add in given the thread, Russia = bad. Common sense
 
I've explicitly called communism stupid. Hell, it's as retarded as you.

Free market principles = good. Authoritarianism = bad.

Oh I'll add in given the thread, Russia = bad. Common sense
Gun confiscation is communist Waldo and you are in favor of it while simultaneously wanting our military to get into a nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine. That doesn't scream out high iq.
 
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Preparing to Lose Two Wars​

The establishment believes defending Ukraine will keep Taiwan safe. In reality, aid to Ukraine is making Taiwan more vulnerable.
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Bradley Devlin
Sep 1, 202312:03 AM
“So, if you were in charge of NATO. If you were, say, Joe Biden, what would your next move be in the war in Ukraine? What would you do?” Tucker Carlson asked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a recent sit-down conversation.
“Peace. Immediately. Call back Trump,” the prime minister said with a chuckle, “that’s the only way out.”
“Call back Trump?” Carlson asked.
Orban repeated: “Call back Trump.”
It’ll be quite some time before Trump is called back. In the meantime, the Biden administration has cash and stockpiles to burn.
On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced another military aid package worth $250 million. “This package contains important capabilities to help Ukraine on the battlefield,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed in an August 29 press release. The package includes missiles for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), AIM-9M air defense missiles, 155mm and 105mm artillery munitions for U.S. provided howitzers, Javelins, mine-clearing equipment, demolition equipment, more than 3 million rounds of “small arms ammunition,” as well as funding for services and training.
“Every day, Russia continues to wage a brutal war of conquest that has killed many of Ukraine’s civilians and displaced millions of its people,” Blinken continued. “Russia started this war and could end it at any time by withdrawing its forces from Ukraine and stopping its brutal attacks. Until it does, the United States and our allies and partners will stand united with Ukraine, for as long as it takes.”
As has become abundantly clear, the establishment is united in its support of Ukraine.
Last week in Milwaukee, several contenders for the Republican presidential nomination reiterated their membership in the club. “A win for Russia is a win for China. We have to know that. Ukraine is the first line of defense for us,” Nikki Haley claimed. “He [Vivek Ramaswamy] wants to hand Ukraine to Russia, he wants to let China eat Taiwan, he wants to go and stop funding Israel.” (Later, in a back and forth between Haley and Ramaswamy about aid to Israel, Haley would argue, “It’s not that Israel needs America, America needs Israel”—a pretty strange argument in favor of aid.)
The argument is that if the U.S. does not defend Ukraine, China will invade Taiwan. It is an argument that Haley, Pence, and many other establishment Republicans make in favor of continued aid to Ukraine. What it fails to account for, however, is that if China does make a move on Taiwan in the next few years, stockpiles already reduced by Ukrainian aid will make aiding Taiwan more difficult and expensive if policy makers decide to do so. The foreign policy establishment that lost in Iraq and Afghanistan is laying the groundwork for defeats in two more wars of choice, against Russia and China—both nuclear powers, putting human civilization on the line.
To live up to its promise to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, the Biden administration made use of the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the president to pull from existing Pentagon stockpiles up to a dollar amount pre-determined by Congress in this latest round of aid. The annual cap on the drawdown authority used to be $100 million; but in May 2022, members from both parties in Congress voted to increase that annual cap to $11 billion. It’s no surprise, then, that the Biden administration has used the drawdown authority on more than forty separate occasions to dispense upwards of $23 billion worth of military aid.
In total, the U.S. military aid thus far dispensed to Ukraine is valued above $41 billion. The U.S. has appropriated over $100 billion for Ukraine’s defense.
But William LaPlante, under secretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment, says there’s nothing to fear. Both Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, LaPlante has said, consider the impact each round of Ukraine aid has on U.S. military readiness. “So, by definition, if it’s taken of out of drawdown, the assessment’s been made (that) we can do it and we can manage the risk.”
One year before the latest aid package to Ukraine, reporting from the Wall Street Journal warned about U.S. aid to Ukraine was depleting pre-existing military stockpiles.
Per the WSJ’s report from August 29, 2022: “In recent weeks, the level of 155mm combat rounds in U.S. military storage have become ‘uncomfortably low,’ one defense official said. The levels aren’t yet critical because the U.S. isn’t engaged in any major military conflict, the official added. ‘It is not at the level we would like to go into combat,’ the defense official said.”
The report detailed the depletion of U.S. stockpiles of 155mm artillery shells used for howitzers, and revealed that the reason the U.S. is providing the Ukrainians with both 155mm and 105mm shells is that the U.S. simply does not have adequate stockpiles of 155mm shells.
The WSJ added that strains on stockpiles, like those experienced with 155mm shells, aren’t a quick fix: “In the U.S., it takes 13 to 18 months from the time orders are placed for munitions to be manufactured, according to an industry official. Replenishing stockpiles of more sophisticated weaponry such as missiles and drones can take much longer.”
Since then, the U.S. has been able to increase its production of 155mm shells to 24,000 per month, up from 14,000 per month prior to the Ukraine war. Thus far, however, the U.S. has given Ukraine 2 million 155mm artillery shells, and with Ukraine aid continuing at its current pace, it does not appear that the current level of 155mm shell production is adequate to maintain already depleted levels of U.S. stockpiles, much less build them back to pre-war levels.
The Ukraine war is straining our 155mm shell capacity, which is not only evident in the continued substitution of 155mm with 105mm shells, but also the Biden administration’s decision to green-light providing the Ukrainians with cluster munitions, which are banned in over 100 countries. The White House claimed it intends to use the cluster munitions as a “bridge” while artillery shell production ramps up. “We’re going to be able to continue to provide the Ukrainians with munitions, I think, for a long time,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told members of the press in July, but admitted, “I think they’re probably going to continue using [the cluster munitions] for a while as well.”
As The American Conservative previously reported, aid to Ukraine has strained the supplies of other kinds of U.S. weaponry, and weapons manufacturers are struggling to keep pace with the necessary rate of replacement. The U.S. has provided Ukraine with thousands of shoulder-fired Javelins, which Raytheon Technologies chief executive Greg Hayes said in December 2022, amounted to “five years worth of Javelin production.”
Further increases in production for Javelins and other weapons systems is proving difficult. Supply chain issues have led to persistent shortages for simple and complex components alike—the military is even struggling to get its hands on ball bearings. Labor shortages have also been hampered production.
The Pentagon devoted $2 billion to try and rectify these issues last year, but even with additional funding, building resilient additional capacity could take several years for even some of the simpler systems the U.S. has provided Ukraine. That fact prompted Gen. James Hecker, the commander of US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), to claim on a panel just weeks ago at the Chief of the Air Staff’s Global Air & Space Chiefs’ Conference in London that U.S. stockpiles are getting “dangerously low,” due to the administration’s insistence on supporting Ukraine. The problem, Hecker said, has no “short term” fixes. “We don’t have nearly what we had at the heart of the Cold War,“ he said. “Now you add that we’re giving a lot of munitions away to the Ukrainians — which I think is exactly what we need to do — but now we’re getting dangerously low and sometimes, in some cases even too low that we don’t have enough.”


These shortages will hamper the U.S.'s ability to address a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. An issue primer produced by the Center for Renewing America (CRA) asserts that “Many of the weapon systems that the US is supplying to Ukraine are also needed by Taiwan to deter or defeat a Chinese invasion. Currently, there is an approximately $19 billion backlog of weapons deliveries to Taiwan, partly caused by the US prioritizing arms supplies for Ukraine. Many of the same weapon systems being supplied to Ukraine (Harpoon missiles, HIMARS rockets, etc.) are also needed by Taiwan and other East Asian partners, creating real trade-offs against the US’s ability to deter Chinese aggression.”
The defense industrial base is struggling to produce weapons for Ukraine with extra cash and assistance from Washington. Unsurprisingly, it is set to fail in sectors without those additional resources and focus, particularly if China should invade Taiwan. War-games performed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies between the U.S. and China over Taiwan found, unsurprisingly, that the U.S. would likely run out of long-range anti-ship missiles within a week.
What matters more to the Chinese when they’re considering making a move on Taiwan: messaging—American resolve to stand with Ukraine—or China’s materiel capacity compared to that of Taiwan and the United States? If aid to the Ukrainians continues to come at the expense of U.S. preparedness, the world might soon have an answer to that daunting question.
 
In his defense, I don’t think he ever agreed to Starlink being used in that capacity. Why he does care that it’s used in that way is suspect
Maybe but why would he disable it for some war plans and not others, especially knowing it's a US backed war and he's meddling in the outcome. He's not a general or an expert on war strategy and no one would blame him for what Ukraine does. He can provide it or not but if he does, he shouldn't be directing how it's used by every end user. JMO
 
Maybe but why would he disable it for some war plans and not others, especially knowing it's a US backed war and he's meddling in the outcome. He's not a general or an expert on war strategy and no one would blame him for what Ukraine does. He can provide it or not but if he does, he shouldn't be directing how it's used by every end user. JMO
Ideally yeah, but the reality is they need the satellite uplinks to communicate. I’m willing to grant that he feels it’s right to help them with that without being comfortable with them using his stuff to hit Russia back, as dumb as it is.

Don’t know that it’s a great analogy but it’s the first one that occurred to me. Lot of states have had trouble carrying out lethal injections because the company that makes a needed component doesn’t want its drugs used in that way. Don’t see why they care, but maybe I can understand to a degree
 
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if that had occurred it would have been the official start of WW3.

Wasn’t world war 3 when Russia stole Crimea in the first place.

The US has bent over backwards in a lot of ways to aid Ukraine without sparking something larger. In the first place, the US military is not fighting or striking Russian targets (providing intelligence, you bet your ass. Americans volunteers, sure). There are longer range missile systems we continue to refuse to send given that they would make it considerably easier for Ukraine to hit Russia proper. No F16s from us as of now. There is still dialogue between the American and Russian governments. I think the idea that the administration is blind to that possibility is plain wrong, and I suspect the whole “WW3” thing is being pushed by tankies rightfully afraid of the US and friends continuing to send a great deal of pain Russia’s way.

If you were going to use nukes, it takes time to prepare. You’re going to put your strategic bombers up. You’re going to put your subs out to sea. You’re not going to cry, “We have nukes!” with your military operating as normal.
 
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Gun confiscation is communist Waldo and you are in favor of it while simultaneously wanting our military to get into a nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine. That doesn't scream out high iq.

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”​

― Karl Marx
 
Why do you love Russia and hate Ukraine? Such a weird point of view to love an aggressor and hate the country trying to protect itself. You apparently cheer for bullies?
Because he buys the Russian propaganda that a “genocide” was happening in the Donbas.
 
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The US Better get its production in gear fast.

Game of Numbers: Russians Are Circumventing Sanctions, and Producing SEVEN Times More Ammo Than US and Europe​

 
The US Better get its production in gear fast.

Game of Numbers: Russians Are Circumventing Sanctions, and Producing SEVEN Times More Ammo Than US and Europe​

We are boosting production, and our military operates in an entirely different way than theirs.

Russia can’t manufacture advanced fighter jets or tanks in numbers, but yeah, good for them that they can make some bullets and shells
 
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We are boosting production, and our military operates in an entirely different way than theirs.

Russia can’t manufacture advanced fighter jets or tanks in numbers, but yeah, good for them that they can make some bullets and shells
Can we actually do what you claim? According to some reports China is running circles around us in production.
 
Can we actually do what you claim? According to some reports China is running circles around us in production.
Wouldn’t doubt it, they’ve had to play catch up and have a larger industrial base. Their shipbuilding capacity is an absolute concern, but it’s not like Washington isn’t aware of this. Obama was, Trump was, Biden is. I trust our people, Americans, not Dem or Pub, to adapt and have us prepared
 
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Ukrainian Ungratefulness and Entitlement Went Too Far, so Poland’s Decision to Stop Supplying Weapons to Ukraine May Signal the Beginning of the End to Kiev’s Regime​

 
Dispensing some reality. Over a hundred Billion flushed for nothing basically and China Joe is trying get more sent over now.

Mainstream “Newsweek” Wakes up to Reality: “$113 Billion in Modern Arms Hardly Dented Russian Lines”​


By Richard Abelson Sep. 21, 2023 11:30 am
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Destroyed US Bradleys and German Leopard tanks in July

Writing in Newsweek magazine, Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities think tank, acknowledged what Gateway Pundit has been reporting for months: That Ukraine’s “summer offensive” is “producing little to no meaningful progress toward the objective of evicting Russia from Ukraine’s territory,” even as “American politicians, generals, and pundits continue advocating for open-ended support to Kyiv in their war against Russia.”
Davis’ sobering assessment carries the headline “We Can No Longer Hide the Truth About the Russia-Ukraine War“.
It was not clear why anyone would want to “Hide the Truth” about the US taxpayer-funded border dispute in distant Eastern Europe.

“Despite great hopes for a rapid success, Ukraine’s months-in-the-making offensive has sputtered from the outset”, Davis writes, noting that “That shouldn’t have surprised anyone in the White House.”
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Two months before the start of the offensive, Davis warned that “Zelensky’s troops—with little to no air power and a dearth in artillery ammunition—could suffer egregious casualties while gaining little,” he says. “Five days later, The Washington Post revealed the contents of a leaked Top Secret U.S. intelligence assessment which likewise predicted the Ukrainian offensive would probably fall ‘well short’ of expectations, and that ‘enduring Ukrainian deficiencies in training and munitions supplies probably will strain progress and exacerbate casualties during the offensive.’”
To succeed, Davis explained, Ukraine would “have to conduct the most difficult task in modern land warfare: a combined arms operation into the teeth of a dug-in enemy force that is prepared for an attack,” complicated by the shortage of artillery ammunition along with “limited airpower and minimal air defense. “Nevertheless, on the eve of battle, some Western analysts remained optimistic.”
Once Ukraine’s “spring offensive” began on June 5, Davis writes, “that optimism quickly evaporated. In the first two weeks of the fighting, Ukraine’s spearhead brigades suffered massive losses in armor and personnel while capturing virtually no territory. By the end of the third week, they had lost an estimated fifth of their strike force, requiring Ukraine to dramatically change tactics.”
“Instead of leading with tanks and other armored vehicles (which were predictably getting chewed up in minefields and by Russian anti-tank missiles and artillery shells),” he noted, “Ukraine moved to an infantry-centric attack system.”
While this change did result in some small advances on the battlefield, “the cost was exorbitant,” Davis writes. “On Aug. 29, the BBC reported that new leaked reports suggested Ukrainian battle deaths exploded since the offensive started. Whereas Ukraine was reported to have lost 17,500 troops in the first year of the war, it is presently assessed to have lost a breathtakingly high 50,000 additional deaths, for a total of 70,000 dead and 120,000 wounded.”
Observers including Col. Douglas MacGregor and Robert F. Kennedy claimed Ukraine had lost approx. 350,000 men even before the start of the offensive. On Sept. 5, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that Ukraine had lost 66,000 men since the start of its counter-offensive June 4. Since then, according to the Russian figures, Ukraine has lost another 9,000 casualties in the counter-offensive, putting the total casualties at 75,000.
“If it wasn’t clear to Washington before the offensive started that the fundamentals of combat operations and principles of war indicated Ukraine would likely fail, it should now be crystal clear,” Davis writes “Although Ukraine appears to have finally penetrated the first line of Russia’s main defense, the most difficult part of Russia’s defensive system has yet to be overcome: the hundreds of kilometers of dragon’s teeth, tank ditches, and yet more vast minefields. It is unclear at this point whether Ukraine has enough striking power remaining in its offensive forces to reach, much less penetrate, Russia’s second main line—beyond which is a third main line followed by a fortress-defense at Tokmak, which is still 75 road kilometers from the Azov coast.”
Given these realities, Davis notes, “The best Ukraine can likely do for the rest of the year is to hold what they have and prevent the possibility of losing more territory to a potential Russian counteroffensive this fall.”
He states the US leadership “would be wise to adjust its policies to reflect the reality of Ukraine’s slim chances against Russia’s fortified lines. Washington has spent nearly $113 billion over the course of this war, provided Ukraine with an astounding volume of modern arms and ammunition, and delivered an impressive array of training and intelligence support. After almost a year of preparation, it hardly dented the Russian lines.”
“There is no realistic basis, therefore, to believe that Ukraine has the capacity to attain its stated strategic objective to reclaim all its territory, including Crimea,” Davis states. “What is realistic is to continue providing Kyiv with the military wherewithal to defend itself from further Russian incursions. This goal should be combined with shifting an increasing percentage of the burden for additional arms and ammunition to our rich European friends. The U.S. should continue to ensure the war does not expand beyond the borders of Ukraine, and increase diplomatic efforts with all relevant parties to end the war on the best terms possible for Kyiv—all of which are beneficial to American interests.”
“Rather than repeating over the next year and a half what has already not worked—potentially costing Ukraine yet additional hundreds of thousands of losses—it’s time to try something that has a chance to succeed. In other words, it’s time to acknowledge objective reality and employ policies that can work,” Davis concludes.
 

Endless Money: Biden Administration Awards $2 Billion Loan for Poland to Modernize Its Army – Move Comes as Scandal Shows Squalid, Grotesque Conditions in Some American Military Installations​

 

Endless Money: Biden Administration Awards $2 Billion Loan for Poland to Modernize Its Army – Move Comes as Scandal Shows Squalid, Grotesque Conditions in Some American Military Installations​

 
Did they get the money back?

Good job falling for Russian propaganda ops. His daughter got married 10 years ago lol. Do better
 

Good job falling for Russian propaganda ops. His daughter got married 10 years ago lol. Do better
I need more documentation on this. How many kids?.... and please attach some receipts.
 
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