President Putin continues playing hardball and sending tough signals in the face of Trump administration criticisms, and after on Monday the White House confirmed it is reversing course on its recent pause on weapons to Ukraine, as it will instead send more.
Russia overnight launched an unprecedented 728 Shahed drones as well as decoy drones, accompanied also by 13 cruise and ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s air force announced Wednesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described that the northwestern city of Lutsk, near the borders with Poland and Belarus, suffered the most intense attacks and damage, and ten other regions were also targeted.
First of all, if Ukraine wants to BUY weapons from the United States, fine, since after all the United States IS an arms dealer, but they MUST reimburse for everything we have provided to them to date. Oh wait, they can’t? Then cut them off. Let Europe foot the bill if they wish, but NOT ONE MORE PENNY FROM US (translated, not one more penny of new debt or tax revenue from Americans). Same thing with Israel. Let them take up a collection from all of their billionaire Jewish supporters in this country and elsewhere. NOT ONE MORE PENNY FROM US.
Absolutely in agreement with the above. Moreover, the US and NATO need to publicly acknowledge that they have lost this war, they have no means of “winning” it now, as Ukraine has decimated its fighting age male population with incredible losses, and no NATO member country has the wherewithall in either hardware or personnel left to stage a serious fight against Russia in a direct conflict. In short, they mistakenly thought they could wage war with what was mostly a PR campaign with half-assed support via funding and hardware, while [not really] avoiding the appearance of being active belligerents towards Russia.
Now that the illusion they tried to create has failed totally, they have two choices: engage Russia directly, or concede that they blew it. The former is a non-starter for obvious reasons (we’d suffer losses the American psyche just can’t handle) so it’s time to own up to the failure, give Russia whatever they want to end active combat, and most importantly, learn to stop acting like a little bitch always looking for a fight. But we know that won’t realistically happen either, at least until the damage becomes so bad that it is beyond undeniable.
THIS!
you may get that Russian engagement yet, trump threatened Putin with a date of July 12th for, “a big surprise.”
The lithium we got as “payment” for weapons is now Russian property, we ain’t gonna get shit for all the wasted money.
Cult/clan/club leaders are doing this- not countries, not people. Refer to the proper agents- gotta quit generalizing- I’m not a part of it just because I live in America- none of it is my fight or concern.
I don’t disagree with that stance, but for the purposes of discussion it’s easiest just to refer to the countries in whose names these bastards are operating. I certainly don’t support any of what they’ve been doing, but then I don’t get any say in it, either. At least not by voting, I don’t.
Historical as Kiev is to Russia, the need to level Kiev and the need to accomplish that task are evident. Destroy Ukraine and put an end to obummer’s and nuland’s fake dictatorship headed by the “shrimp” clown Zelensky.