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Defend against whom? Has Switzerland been making aggressive moves on French or German territory? Things are pretty calm for the moment at the Canadian-American border. I'm not very studious but I just don't remember AFVs participating in the fleet actions in the Pacific. Possibly the Med because the Brits did come up with some wacky, zany stuff. Taiwan doesn't seem to be good tank country to me but others here would know better. We've been using F-16s for target practice. Google QF-16. We know how arming Ukraine re-arms us with better equipment. Equipment that has to manufactured at a far higher rate than we all realized, except maybe GrauGeist.Think of it this way. If one supplies a nation at war, it will go through stocks in a pace an at peace pact like NATO cannot supply without out cleaning out their arsenals.
History proofs that that is not a smart move. There must always be enough to defend yourself.
Not surprised.Ukraine claims surrendering soldiers were 'executed' by Russian troops
Ukraine launches an inquiry into the alleged execution of two soldiers at the hands of their Russian counterparts.www.abc.net.au
Yes.......for the momentThings are pretty calm for the moment at the Canadian-American border. .
Yes.......for the moment
Yes.......for the moment
Except for that kamikaze car last week. Everything seems to have gone very quiet on that one.
Appeasement doesn't work as we learned first with Hitler and again now with Putin. Deterrence is the key, and that comes from a properly equipped and trained military to savy political alliances and a strong political will.I think many (most) of us feel likewise. Time and time again in the history of conflict, first responses are so meagre that the aggressor becomes emboldened. If Ukraine had been properly armed prior to hostilities, outcomes would have been very different.
Ukraine had thirty-two years since independence to prepare itself for the Feb 2022 invasion. The West has stepped up incredibly these past twenty months, but it would have very different if Ukraine had done itself a solid and used its vast agricultural and mineral wealth to rearm itself throughout the 2010s. A good example is the Kharkiv tank works and the T-84, leading to a total of six tanks produced for the AFU from 1994 to 2022. It also doesn't help that in 2014, Ukraine walked out of Crimea with hardly a shot, with its forces either fleeing from or collaborating with the Russians. With these apparent political conditions, the West would never have sufficiently armed Ukraine in 2020-2021 to counter the Feb 2022 invasions. The relationship between Kyiv and the West was not there yet. Here's Ukraine of 2021 Ukraine - United States Department of State.If Ukraine had been properly armed prior to hostilities, outcomes would have been very different.
That's my point, why the West would never have sufficiently armed Ukraine before the Feb 2022 invasion. The country was as high on the corruption index as Russia. These posters suggesting the West dropped the ball prewar need to remember this.Even now corruption and Putin friendly people are still there in abundance, although they are nowhere near as common as in pre Zelensky days.
At one point Ukraine had the second worst corruption rating in the world, and that's only because they bribed the judges.That's my point, why the West would never have sufficiently armed Ukraine before the Feb 2022 invasion. The country was as high on the corruption index as Russia. These posters suggesting the West dropped the ball prewar need to remember this.
That's when things are getting bad. Next thing you know Australia will be allowed to compete in the Eurovision song competition... hang on....At one point Ukraine had the second worst corruption rating in the world, and that's only because they bribed the judges.
It has to be acknowledged that after a slow, even embarrassingly slow start to supporting Ukraine, Germany have stepped up a huge amount. I only wish the UK had kept up in the development of support as I feel that the UK got off to a good almost invaluable start but its petered off considerably.Rheinmetall from Germany reveals a plan to produce in Ukraine Fuchs an
Rheinmetall AG, a leading German defense company, is poised to enhance its collaboration with Ukraine. As reported by "WirtschaftsWoche", the company's CEOwww.armyrecognition.com