Good question…Sweden has traditionally supported suppressed minorities (like the Kurds) but maybe a Right Wing Government which is anti-immigration would be prepared to accede to the Turkish wishes.
Well given Ulf got in bed with the Sweden Dems I’d be guessing nationalist goals will be number 1 priority.
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No, the winner is help in defeating Russia, please keep your biases in check!
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What bias?
What part of @bigallan’s statement is untrue?
Countries that have traditionally sourced their military equipment from Russia will now be getting it from the US…that seems pretty factual to me.
And free of any bias.
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That tank commander needs to buy a lottery ticket.
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There’s actually a place in Ukraine called Mylove?
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Pronounced my-lov-eh
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The sound you make when you read the name on a map and wonder about it.
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Wo, wo-wo, wo
Wo, wo-wo, wo
Mylove does it good
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It just also happens to be relevant to Republican voting trends , post mid term elections, in regard to the level of ongoing US support for Ukraine .
Wow, a shiny new thread. Congratulations and great work everyone on 10000 posts on the previous thread - especially @benny40 @bigallan @ArthurD @barry_day and also @andrewb @Speedy_Gonzales @FuriousGeorge @goon_squad @tinhillterror @Albert_Thurgood megahertz, up_up and everyone else (It seems I can only mention 10 people in a post). Keep up the great work boys…
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Thread on the challenges Russia faces to pull back from Kherson.
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I think it would be more accurate to write that countries that have recently joined NATO are transfering Soviet-era equipment to Ukraine and bringing forward the procurement of NATO standard equipment.
It will be interesting to see if military procurement changes in response to the war. However, these programs have immense inertia, sometimes lasting decades, and I don’t think that things have changed that much yet.
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But the depletion of Soviet era weaponry has been accelerated by the War in Ukraine, in addition to sanctions on Russia inhibiting purchasing weaponry from there.
Coordination and specialisation in manufacturing and purchasing between European NATO countries may be at a slower pace. Also long standing French policy of independence in defence capacity would be hard to move ( although it hasn’t played the empty seat at the NATO table in more than 60 years, IIRC).