Posted on 03/23/2022 9:03:40 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
Protecting BIOLABS ain’t easy.
Maybe they could collect money from the corrupt politicians and oligarchs to buy some more. They’ve got plenty of money.
Sending weapons to the Ukrainians to prolong the slaughter is immoral.
Many NATO countries learned over the years to let the U.S. bear the greater burden. And it worked for them.
How so? Whether you are winning or losing, high-intensity warfare consumes resources at an incredible rate. Same with the Ukrainian pleas for help. Just because you may be winning strategically doesn't mean a lot of people aren't getting killed, and a lot of infrastructure destroyed.
I believe that was Zelensky's point.
Globohomo thinks and acts female - unsurprisingly.
They want to stop a mechanized army with the equivalent of a restraining order.
“German POS said sending the aid “doesn’t make us proud” but they must do it. What a vile statement to kiss Russian ass.”
No kidding.
Germany is even more unreliable than the French when it comes to defense.
Very true.
Nobody is forcing the Ukrainians to fight. If the people just wanted it to be over and to surrender, they wouldn't be putting up the fight they are.
I know a fair number of Ukrainians, many of whom have family friends still in Ukraine. The sentiment to stop fighting and just give in to the Russians is non-existent.
But on the offense? Without peer.
but but but……I thought the Ukes were winning. I thought Russian forces were surrounded. I thought they were deserting. I thought their morale had collapsed. I thought Putin was about to be overthrown. I thought the Russian economy had collapsed. What happened?
Its too bad that we don’t audit expenditures with the same enthusiasm that we spend them.
But, all the information that we are fed says that the brave Ukranians are winning.
Donations are not making it across the border.
Fire all your guns at once, explode into space ...
Why does Ukraine say they’re running out of weapons? With all the Russians they claim to have killed, there should be plenty of weapons lying all over the ground.
There was mention somewhere I forget where that US arms supplies were being deliberately held up by some bureaucracy.
US logistical teams could have gotten everything across the border an to the UA within days, but were stopped in their tracks, according to that mention.
Saving money on defense tends to work really well - until it doesn’t.
When the Ukrainians made the choice in the early 1990’s to go out on their own, they took the gamble both as a growing nation and separating part of the soviet block. Half of that was still developing but the other half, the separation, was beyond their power to control.
Now that Putin’s Russia is demanding the return of the property and it’s benefits to their complete control, the Ukraine has run out of time as it was only a matter of it.
They have way too much for Russia to pass up being among the world leaders in grain and steel. They also house a number of natural gas pipelines from Russia already in place that feeds Europe. The Donetsk region is home to a port that ships out grains and metals, as well as major steel mills for export.
The only reason they have lasted this long in the skirmish is that Russia wants to use the pieces of the country they are attacking. But at some point they are going to have to play hardball and decide what to lose to win.
wy69
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