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Trump can’t negotiate on behalf of Ukraine. Ukraine can’t legally cede any territory to russia. It’s unconstitutional and forbidden by law. Putin can’t withdraw from Ukraine without losing power and his life.
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Yep. Afford them no access.
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Send Aussie Cossack with him.
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Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Ukraine - Robotic warfare, Ground Combat & Supply drones
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perhaps slightly, but your statement is overly ambitious. The difference is in maturity models. Russia is lagging in the strategic adaptability: most of the military industrial capacity is for last century equipment and new, high-tech stuff relies on western/chinese components. Also doctrinal adaptability; most countries in the west have a very robust doctrine and lessons learned establishments that are constantly reviewing, analysing and testing new capabilities, force composition and tactics; the US has a whole formation dedicated to learn new doctrine and tactics and use them against regular army/marines formations in a large scale, well designed and organized series of exercises - where failure of the regular units is often the outcome and not something hidden from commanders as opposed to the russian large scale exercises where a strict script is followed and failure is aggressively hidden.
This results in greater adaptability of the western forces throughout the whole force as opposed to ad-hoc and limited/localized improvements seen from RU forces.
Although, at the moment we in the west are restrained by bureaucratic acquisition and procurement systems, if the dogs of war are unleashed, we can turn industry around in pretty short order - at the moment, we still depend on the global supply chain, but we have the tech and knowhow to cut dependance in a matter of a year or less on some items.
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I’m afraid I agree with you on that
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Dmitri has so many relevant questions. Let’s continue to hope RU doesn’t find any answers.
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coincidentally, (to my previous post) I just received this memo for our awareness (working in doctrine and policy) on what the americans are doing in this regard
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