That might put us on the hook for more money. We gave Israel the iron dome system but we refused to give them any technical information about the missiles themselves. It makes them dependant on us for ammunition. If/when Russia "wins," those debts will never be repayed while a bunch of hohol beurocrats become hundred millionaires overnight.
They consider the Catholics to be heretics and the pope to be just some guy with a dumb hat. They have a more decentralized structure.
Clearly fake news. You mean to tell me Ukrainian, NATO, and US politicians were lying to me when they said Ukraine now has the equipment and power to win right now?
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None, nor would any Ukrainians be trusted with the technical information necessary to perform repairs on such a system. If it's repairable, the yanks will send their own troops in to repair it Probably tow the Patriot to a known target first, so the yank repairmen can get blown up incidentally, giving those warmongering filth a casus belli for WW3.
US Pres elections are 18 months away!?!?!? Does he know that? Maybe he's thinking they're this November.
I don't believe they'll risk that inside Ukraine, the military wouldn't allow domestic repair crews in without being able to protect them with active US military assets. Instead it will have to be towed to Poland and rebuilt (if it even can be towed). In other words any damage to these systems takes them permanently out of action.
I think he does know that, and knows that the Biden administration and his cronies are basically telling him he's not ALLOWED to lose or to prolong the war that long, as doing so would be a massive humiliation to the Biden administration and raise strong doubts that the magnitude of money and equpment burned up during the war was even worth it.
They're already preparing the fucking narrative and retconning everything by basically saying "WE PREVENTED RUSSIA FROM TAKING ALL OF UKRAINE GUYZ" (you know, even though Russia never wanted all of Ukraine in the first place). We're now in a world where giving Russia what it wants is a victory. It is absolutely shocking.
> Citadel, last fortified location in Bakhmut falls
The entire war could've been avoided in the first place had Ukraine pledged to remain neutral instead of pursuing NATO membership and allowed a quasi-independent Donbass.. That's all Putin wanted. Then when the war started he added the demilitarization of the extremist factions of the Ukrainian military. Russia didn't want to annex any territory. This isn't speculation, the goals were defined in Putin's initial announcement of the SMO on Feb 24 2022:
That could go either way. Some people will say Russia is attacking American contractors and use it to justify boots on the ground, and some people would say America already has boots on the ground because soldiers are getting killed while operating weapons systems against Russia. Either way, I'm sure the guys going in there to do the work are sweating their balls off waiting for a missile to crash through the roof and kill them before they even hear the sound.
When this whole thing kicked off, Vesperus Snr. and I were discussing exactly what Putin was after. We agreed it would only becomes become clear when he got it. Meanwhile we (ie, the west) would spout bullshit, waste money and get people killed for absolutely zero gain.
