Ogee wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:52 pm But why was the bill held up for the last 4 months Oh that's right, real republicans were demanding money for the southern border be included, did that happen ... er no. So Johnson is really just another swamp dweller in disguise, expect he will probably go the same way as McCarthy.

Your post is off-topic in this thread because it's unrelated to WWIII. Unlike my last off-topic post in this thread, it has not been removed by your fellow Muscovites.

Republicans finally realized that it is better to send weapons to Ukraine
than for American soldiers to die in a war in Europe.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-hou ... 024-04-20/

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine / General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
34 min. ·
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 20.04.24 were approximately:
of personnel / personnel ‒ about 459530(+950) persons / persons,
tanks ‒ 7229 (+16) units,
armored fighting vehicles / APV ‒ 13896 (+23) units,
artillery systems – 11719 (+41) units,
RSZV / MLRS – 1046 (+0) units,
anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 767 (+4) units,
aircraft – 348 (+0) units,
helicopters – 325 (+0) units,
UAV operational-tactical level – 9379 (+38),
cruise missiles ‒ 2115 (+6),
ships / boats / warships / boats ‒ 26 (+0) units,
submarines - 1 (+0) units,
vehicles and fuel tanks – 15,785 (+68) units,
special equipment / special equipment ‒ 1926 (+8)

Big payday for the US Military Industrial Complex in a bid to delay the collapse of Ukraine until after the November election.

More wishful thinking because Russia already has the measure of the western missile systems (Storm Shadow UK and French version and the US patriot air defence system). Which is why they have all been destroyed and Ukr is in such a desperate need of more.

Preventing Ukraine collapse during US election




Meanwhile the EU begs Russia for help, again.

Since the EU's US handlers forced the EU into sanctioning Russia, and blew up the gas pipeline just to make sure, the EU lost it's supply of cheap gas causing the collapse of the German fertilizer production industry. Now the EU must import fertilizer from ... err, Russia.

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This time the help should be well planned and smart. For example, it shouldn't be possible
to launch a counter-offensive with a depleted air force. It must be taken into account
that the Kremlin has practically unlimited human resources, and using aid as before
will only result in further human losses and a repetition of the same problem
when the present help will run out. The realistic goal and the method of achieving
it must be precisely planned. A significant technological advantage can and should play
a decisive role.

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine / General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
1 hour ·
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 22.04.24 were approximately:
of personnel / personnel ‒ about 460,260 (+730) persons / persons,
tanks ‒ 7236 (+7) units,
armored combat vehicles / APV ‒ 13904 (+8) units,
artillery systems – 11736 (+17) units,
RSZV / MLRS – 1046 (+0) units,
anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 768 (+1) units,
aircraft – 348 (+0) units,
helicopters – 325 (+0) units,
UAV operational-tactical level – 9384 (+5),
cruise missiles ‒ 2117 (+2),
ships / boats / warships / boats ‒ 26 (+0) units,
submarines - 1 (+0) units,
vehicles and fuel tanks – 15,812 (+27) units,
special equipment / special equipment ‒ 1934 (+8)

Reminder that NATO were building up the Ukr military to fight this conflict since 2014 and that $60 bil is nothing compared to the hundreds of billion that have already been sunk into 'project Ukraine'. The $60 billion is just meant to try to get Ukr to stay on it's feet until November.

Reminder too that Russia destroyed the Ukr air force in the first weeks of the conflict and it's Russia that has not only the technological advantage with hyper-sonic missiles and 5th gen fighter aircraft, but also has a clear arms production advantage able to out-produce the US and the EU combined several times over. Notice too the the west is not even trying to catch up, that should tell you all you need to know.

Delaying the end of the conflict will only mean more Ukr dead and a demographic that will spell the end of Ukr as a nation. And encouraging Ukr to fire missiles deeper into Russia will only guarantee more land lost as Russia demands an ever increasing 'buffer zone'.

The only point to the US delaying the inevitable end is to prevent another embarrassing Afghanistan type failure for Biden in the run up to the US election.

If this is an extension until November, which however has been going on since 2014,
then it is highly likely that it will be extended much longer...

BTW, I read somewhere that the total number of 5th gen fighter aircraft SU-57
is equal to 10 (ten). The US / NATO air superiority is overwhelming, compare e.g.
the old bomber TU-95 to B-52 (TU-95 is closer to B-29).
As you know, many Soviet weapons were developed on the basis of industrial espionage.
The Kremlin does not have high-class domestically produced electronics
to build technologically advanced equipment. However, it was a tycoon in the production
of analog systems (which, as we know, can survive an electromagnetic pulse during a nuclear explosion).

wojtek wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:02 pm If this is an extension until November, which however has been going on since 2014,
then it is highly likely that it will be extended much longer...

BTW, I read somewhere that the total number of 5th gen fighter aircraft SU-57
is equal to 10 (ten). The US / NATO air superiority is overwhelming, compare e.g.
the old bomber TU-95 to B-52 (TU-95 is closer to B-29).
As you know, many Soviet weapons were developed on the basis of industrial espionage.
The Kremlin does not have high-class domestically produced electronics
to build technologically advanced equipment. However, it was a tycoon in the production
of analog systems (which, as we know, can survive an electromagnetic pulse during a nuclear explosion).

The conflict can't continue once Ukr has run out of soldiers. A report yesterday said the newly mobilised had their 2 week training cut short and were rushed to the front to plug gaps (posts from the people involved themselves). Once the Ukr army collapses it will all get very ugly very quickly.

NATO absolutely will not be entering this war, they have said as much and have made absolutely no preparations for doing so. Reminder that the west has already stripped itself of weapons to give to Ukr.

I don't know what kind of propaganda you might believe. Yeah, yeah, Russian convicts fighting with shovels and stripping the chips out of their washing machines . But no NATO country has been able to make hyper-sonic missiles whereas Russia's had them for years.


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Ogee wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:32 pm The conflict can't continue once Ukr has run out of soldiers.

This is true, that's why it was a mistake to supply the Ukrainian army
with equipment of average quality ('too weak to win, too strong to lose')
when this army was still fully efficient and functional (i.e. two years ago).
And the Kremlin has practically unlimited human resources, as I wrote before.

This is not a propaganda - e.g. compare the number of aircraft carriers
(the US - 11, UK, France, Italy), and the only one Admiral Kuznetsov
which is not too big and under constant renovation.