Sources? I wouldn’t be surprised but I find it hard to believe Russia would be okay with NATO/Western troops right near it’s border.
Ukrainian Defensive War against the Russian Invasion - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion
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Sources? I wouldn’t be surprised but I find it hard to believe Russia would be okay with NATO/Western troops right near it’s border.
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Tom Cooper / Sarcastasaurus but also anyone monitoring the war closely in hiven to wonder about the competence of Ukrainian High Command and some of the sector commanders. Tom seems very much of the opinion that commander (in)competence is as crucial as the supply of ATACMS, Challengers tanks, César artillery batteries, shells and recruits. Hassling Deep State probably confirms that.
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There isn't any hard evidence Trump is considering going that way, but Bri*ish MoD seems to bare minimum be testing the waters internally/domestically on the idea.
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I mean, they already are on the border in another country, which was one of the original reasons people called Putin's argument about starting the war - the one about trying to keep Ukraine neutral as a barrier between Russia and NATO - bullshit to begin with.
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I'm getting the Impression the Ukrainians are taking special pleasure in killing the zipper heads.
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Single ducted-fan drone being tested:
Imagine if the Ukrainians get their hands on some of these for development....
Imagine if the Ukrainians get their hands on some of these for development....
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Also worth pointing out that these have not just non-DU export packages for armor, but didn't even have ARAT mounted, so they had to supply their own ERA.
TL;DR: Very susceptible to a mission kill when hit with FPV drones, but almost impossible to actually destroy and the crew will be able to walk out without a scratch. The top armor is a big weakness in the drone-heavy battlefield, but that's not exactly a problem unique to the Abrams.
Also worth pointing out that these have not just non-DU export packages for armor, but didn't even have ARAT mounted, so they had to supply their own ERA.
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This is already happening. Eurocuck "allies" funneling money to Russia, Iran, China*, Libya through the cold war, Belgium and France pursuing their nigger kingdoms. Turkey buying S-400s from Russia. The Eurofighter project. Resistance to trying standardize on common vehicles and rifles, insisting on their own (gay, failing) versions and then not buying more than about 15 of them and complaining its too expensive to maintain an army vs. welfare check for niggers.
I could just list off a bunch of horseshit France has done and sold weapons to. Such as continuing to trade oil for """"""""""machine parts""""""" and """"""Farm equipment""""""" with Iraq and which country had sent technicans to Iran to build their nuke reactor again? Can you remind me?
I'm not going to fault countries for not joining in on Iraq (except for the CucKing of Spain who pussied out to islamic terror like a bitch) but France, butthurt over their loss of cheap oil & having to kowtow to their islamic bloc, took every chance to drag the US in the international forum while trying to weedle their way into rebuilding contracts.
And lets not forget that US really wasn't feeling a need to get involved in Libya. That was all the Frogs and the Dogs.
We just talked about Germany's ambassador laughing smugly as Trump told them "Its bad idea to rely on Russia for energy" - how many more tanks does Russia have because of Krauts being run by Stassi manchurian candidates.
That that's before we get into all the tradewar horseshit the eurocucks get up to.
So basically yes, instead of funding the destruction of their own societies by niggers and muslims god forbid they have to maintain some level of military.
Add to this that Ukraine has conclusively shown that having even a small force on Day 1 of the invasion really hamstrings
And you sanction Cuba because is an oppressive commie hell hole run by the biological uncle of the Canadian PM.
*Ok they aren't alone there but still Italy taking belt and road loans.
Had to? More like GET to; I'm pretty sure that was a demand from Ukraine.
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JFC being sent to the front lines with a fucking SKS.
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Their life expectancy is nonexistent, Why equip them properly? Think of what improvements you can make to a dacha with the funds.
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Russia proving that their boats can sink just fine even without Ukrainian attacks.
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Yeah everyone wants their own military-industrial sector which it's jobs and outsourcing that to a third party will not be popular. Regardless of which country we are speaking about. Redundancy is not effective, I agree. But it makes systems less fragile. Imagine there would be no Airbus and Boeing had it's known issues. Just with them knowing they are the only game in town. Grim.
To the first, probably France, maybe Siemens. But aren't we forgetting something...something called Obama? I think there was something. But if you, by chance, have an article or a book on the topic ready, I will read it.
To the later, that sounds very similar to how the US relations are to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was for years a stable arms export destination and their track record for human rights is not really better than Cuba. State sponsored terrorism. Killing a journalist in the Saudi-Arabian embassy in Turkey, the list goes on.
Relations seemed to have cooled down a bit, but as long as the US was more dependent on their oil. It was a different matter, wasn't it?
Europe does not have the same energy resources as the US has. And as the US had done in the past. Europe is forced to do inconvenient agreements to ensure their energy supply while America can be summed up as this picture:
The question towards that video should always be: Who else should be the supplier? Domestic production is a problem with Europes large population density. It's easy to spawn wells in the vast nothing of Texas. In the area between Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne? Not so much.
So who could it be? The US? Biden put up export restrictions on LNG gas not so long ago and Trump would use any energy dependence in the same matter as Putin would. And then we quickly run out of countries with adequate production capabilities. See the issue?
That does not mean that nothing was done to lessen the dependence. Support of public transport, rail for freight, bans on gas/oil heaters, energy efficiency requirements for buildings, taxation on energy consumption and so on.
But Europe was also pushing for solar and wind electricity generation to become a reality and those combined are on track to provide 15 % of global electricity not far into the future.
Nothing is ever simple.
I think that started with steel tariffs and wasn't initiated by Europe. The target was China initially if I remember right. Europe does have more regulatory barriers, that is true. But those also saved Europe from approving OxyContin as medications. Take it for whatever it's worth.
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Was this the ship they were sending to pull their shit out of Syria? If so AHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA how the fuck is Russia still allowed to act like its a real country?
Its not just redundancy, but for whatever you want to say about US arms & equipment it they make more of it than anyone but China. This means you get volume scale discounts.
So for Europoors complaining about MUH DUEX PERCENT, they then turn around and ensure their defense has the maximum per-unit cost by making their own special snowflake shit.
What the fuck are you driveling about? I understand that thoughts that Euroserfs aren't good at free thinking so I'll help you out.
tl;dr: While sanctions were on, France (and others, but the frogs were trying to morally superior pricks about it later) sent Saddam equipment and machine parts that were claimed for "farming" but were actually weapons parts, including those used to build the biggest gun ever built to shell the jews. Basically sending engines & parts for T-55s and T-72s labeled as "farming equipment" despite no tractors in Iraq taking a V-12 diesel.
Oh and while France did sent a bunch of shit to Iran I meant Iraq's nuke reactor. Osrik was 100% a frog project. Done while Iraq was under sanctions.
What I'm saying is that Eurocucks make a whole thing about morals, and then turn around and try to do as much business with dictators as possible, the most dangerous ones.
Which, bringing this back to the point of this back-and-forth:
You said "why should Europoors contribute to their own defense if they can't make decisions that go against the US foreign policy hymn sheet?"
And I am pointing out MULTIPLE cases where they do that anyway. So if they are going disloyal, short sighted back-biting mincing shriveldicks might as well at least make them keep a standing army that might be able to at least make Russian/Chinese armored collumns at least slow down some.
My nigger, the North Sea is utterly rotten with Oil and Gas you baby-dicked serfs are too gigantic of faggots to go get because "muh climate change; better import just as much from Russia". Germany had a pretty robust coal mining industry until the Stassi sleeper agents made them shut it down so they can buy mor natural gas from the Russkis.
Or you could actually build some nuke reactors, but that'd be too much for shivering spineless eunuchs of the EU countries.
You are fucking high. Eurocuck slap fighting with their betters goes back to post WWII and the Marshall plan.
The shiftless, disloyal europroles do everything they can to block US imports and scream bloody murder when the same is done to them.
They don't ANYMORE because they killed their own coal industry and nuclear is oh-so-icky.
No no best to continue to import gas from the #1 regional threat.
How many of the tanks in Ukraine were bought with money sent to Russia because the Eurocucks were too busy slitting their own throats?
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What brought about this unhingedness?
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Of course Germany had reactors. Gerhard Schröder's cabinet in 2000 decided they should be shut down. Schröder later famously went on to become a board member of Russian energy companies like Gazprom and Rosneft.
Both Schröder and Merkel should be shot for treason. Fucking German chancellors, man.
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Forget the tanks purchased, how many of them had Thales-made thermal sights? The Germans bought Russian oil and gas and the Russians then turned around and spent that money on French optics and electronics.
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The last reactors closed in 2023. Among its blessings was a new open cast mine for dirty brown coal and (a) new power station(s) burning it. In addition German energy costs soared thanks in part to that, but also thanks to the treacherous Schroeder-Merkel energy policy of making Germany heavily reliant on the whims of one turd world dictator. Germany helps Ukraine, but also Russia (via LNG purchases). Trump would say: 'Sad!'