You’re right.
Russia should just pack up and go home.
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Huh? Ukraine has just successfully crossed the Dniper and is fortifying positions on the left bank. That’s a huge win
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Ukraine aid’s best-kept secret: Most of the money stays in the U.S.A. Washington Post (link)
Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.
But you wouldn’t know that from the actions of some U.S. lawmakers. When Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R) joined a United Auto Workers picket line in October at the Jeep assembly plant in Toledo, he said he wanted to “show some support for the UAW workers” in his state. Yet he has not shown the same solidarity with the UAW workers in Lima, Ohio, who are churning out Abrams tanks and Stryker combat vehicles for Ukraine thanks to the military aid that Congress has approved. Vance opposes Ukraine aid, as does Rep. Jim Jordan (R), whose House district includes Lima.
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Sevastopol
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I say that’s more a Russian info op than anything to do with reality. Ukraine lost quality, but is replenishing and has the political will to access extra manpower. Russia is doing everything possible to avoid another mobilisation so are actually in a worse manpower situation.
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Only issue with that article is that they’re not even churning out Strykers and Abrams for Ukraine. They’re building them for the US army to replace the mothballed old ones they’re donating
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Sounds like a John Lennon song… just in time for Christmas, too.
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more like the worst kept secret? I guess it depends on where you get your news.
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iirc Ukraine was actually turning volunteers away last year due to not being able to deal with the volume of numbers
not sure if/when that changed
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NATO Allies have supported Ukraine’s call for creating a common Euro-Atlantic defense industry complex, which would be able to meet Kyiv’s demand for weapons, as well as the needs of the Alliance members, none of which could have completed such tasks on its own.
The relevant statement was made by Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba in a conversation with journalists in Brussels, following the first meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"The agreement, which has not been put on paper but has been heard in almost all speeches, – it is the approval of the initiative put forward by Ukraine regarding the need to develop the defense industry complex of EU and NATO countries as a whole mechanism. This is very important, because each country on its own is unable to meet the needs of Ukraine or its own state in terms of weapons and ammunition. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary that NATO and the EU start looking at their defense industries as a whole complex, lift all unnecessary regulatory restrictions, and have a common policy to support private businesses,” Kuleba noted.
In his words, the process of such unification is impossible without involving the Ukrainian companies, which will participate in joint efforts at various stages, from technological development to technology testing. Ukraine is expected to be one of the major consumers of the final product. In addition, Ukraine and NATO agreed to develop the new projects intended to increase the production capacity of Ukraine’s defense industry
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I guess the problem is that many of the republican dissenters on UA aid are being disingenuous and feeding the narrative that UA aid is all being wasted in UA. Lots of disinformation, such as that viral thread that was going around a while ago, talking about how aid should be going to Hawaii not UA.
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I really think that rifle name translation is lacking. Wouldn’t “Lord of the Horizon” sound much better than “Horizon’s Lord”?
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Agreed.
Anyway don’t mind me, I’ll go back to reading “Rings’ Lord” and watching “Planets’ Battle”.
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“A shot is 5% of all the work”: UA snipers on work, camouflage, and Ukrainian weapons - hromadske (Eng Subs)
