War in Ukraine

I have to ask, why do you come to this board and just post information that is just absolutely false? Is it just to get a reaction out of other posters? Do you think it is funny?

 

There is a very legitimate argument for this decision. Just because you do not like the current POTUS or SecDef, do not let that impact your thinking on this policy decision.

 

Go ahead, grind your teeth …

 

Just realize that the definition of "readiness" is often nebulous. It can change depending on which scenario the DoD is planning for and what assumptions are built into that.

 

Apparently, while Russia was sending a massive drone attack against Ukrainian civilians, Ukraine was busy with its own drone attack against a Russian air base. Supposedly, a glide bomb depot was hit, possible along with several aircraft.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...mp-zelenskyy-d403d0807e35a64f530d587dbd218aa5

 

Missiles and drones negotiating with far-right ultra-nationalist Zelensky regime …

 

I'm sure it was all planned to avoid civilian causalities.

 

I understand and agree with that completely. However, this is an actual war going on against an actual enemy of the U.S. So I would rather err on the side of keeping Ukraine supplied than risk seeing Ukraine fail due to short-sightedness. If we were that worried about the more serious scenarios with other countries materializing, we should crank up our defense production to supply both ourselves and Ukraine. Trump seems unable to recognize the need to stop Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. He's a more arrogant and less intelligent version of Neville Chamberlain, with his first response being to deny that there's a problem with the situation.

The Ukraine War could easily be the canary in the coal mine for World War III, just like Poland was in WWII. Europe and the U.S. did not take Germany seriously enough at that time, partly because they were dealing with the Great Depression. We have no such excuse. Telling our grandchildren that the after-effects of WWIII are not our fault because we elected a mentally disabled president who wanted to save a few dollars at the cost of millions of lives is not going to go over well.

 

Spoken like a true supporter of Vladimir Putin. "Ultra-nationalist" meaning resistance by Ukraine to being completely subsumed into Russia, losing it's identity as an independent country and returning to it's status under the Soviet Union or the Czarist Russian Empire.

 

Fortunately, European countries are taking the threat of Russia seriously. Total aid to Ukraine from other NATO countries is now exceeding US aid. Unfortunately the other countries do not have weapons with the capability of some American systems, the Patriot coming immediately to mind.
Europe's overall Ukraine aid outpaces US by $26 billion, report says

 

Absolutely. And immediately. Still, there is some delta between the flash and the bang of ordering the weapons into existence and their physical manifestation. To stay true to Colby’s strategy, we have to hold on to the weapons we need to fight China and not give them away, hoping we won’t need them, such as Patriots. That part makes sense to me. Where I’m less clear is on the weapons we don’t need to fight China, such as 155mm artillery shells. There should be no interruption in supply of weapons that are mostly for land component combat.

 

The issue is that it is too late to crank up defense production if you think the CCP is going after Taiwan in 2027. It is something that the Biden Admin should have done back mid-2023. We have what we have right now in our current stocks and what we can produce in the next 18 months. Do you want to lose a war with China because we ran out of long range fires after two or three months?

Ukraine is producing their own cruise missiles now. The only thing they could really only get from us are the GLMRs and Patriots. If the Israelis are willing to sell them some air defense capabilities, it would make up for the Patriots.

 

I think the Czechs stepped up to give everyone a year off to build their stocks back up.