So the fact that none of them have officially started ramping up isn't an issue? As long as the people who have skimped on defense spending the last 20 years decide to do an about face in the middle of a horrible economy and massive immigration crisis... we are all good. LOL. that is called wishful thinking. There was a whole lot of talking but outside of Poland, Estonia and Romania there is very little action on increasing production of anything.
Don’t believe China wants to fight against its #1 cash cow.
Yes, Russia paramilitary invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014 & that limited conflict stayed that way till Putin's military proper invaded full force a year ago. That move was enormous compared to what he had there earlier.
I heard military production is being ramped up across NATO. No idea what "officially" means to you in this context.
I have decided to date Megan Fox. I'm not officially dating her but I said that I was... You see the difference right? The fact is that only 3 countries are actually ramping up production and everyone else is waiting to see if Ukraine survives the spring to decide if they are going to go further into debt for this war.
I can't find data beyond your videos that confirm or refute your three countries claim. I agree that saying you will increase your defense budget is meaningless.
US lost 59,000 troops. The N. Vietnamese lost over 900,000 with another 2 million civilian casualties. That is a resounding military victory on the battlefield.
You are ignoring the political will to stay in the fight. Nobody in America is into this fight except for a bunch of neocons and corrupt politicians. If we lose men and a couple jets the country would turn and the losses would be for nothing. You realize the people who closed Bahgram and sat encircled in Kabul airport are still in charge right? The people that sacrificed 13 Americans, and then killed a dad and his 3 kids as payback, to then just drop it like a hs girlfriend... that is who is still in charge.
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You're ignoring that I repeatedly say this example is NOT about political will. We are only discussing the military results on the battlefield. Period.
No.. you are suggesting a series of events that lead to escalation. Escalation leads to US troops dying and our jets getting shot down. Then the avg American decides "its too hard and I don't want to lose wifi"... so we then pull out for nothing.
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Back to insults instead of providing actual arguments for why this is in our national interest and how nato is prepared to see this to the end.... Weird.
LOLman isn't reading that. He's wayyyy too smart.
Hersh again, huh? He's turned into a babbling conspiracy theorist in his old age. Dont you tire of his anonymous sources and the "I know people " bs?
Zerohedge again huh? Owned by a VERY pro Russian. Congrats on gobbling up the propaganda.
Did you just assume the gender of our entire military personnel? General Milley is not pleased with your lack of wokeness.
That’s the lie but the truth is that Luhansk and Donetsk are not populated by Russian speakers exclusively. Ethnic Ukrainians have significant presences in both oblasts.
The US is holding a sizable kitty ($300 billion) of frozen Russian assets that Ukraine can claim in the World Court after the conflict is concluded. Europe has approximately $250 billion. It can be said that Russia is funding Ukraine’s resistance to their invasion to the tune of half a trillion dollars.
Ok. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the POTUS, in a speech explaining why we need to send more billions to Ukraine to defeat the Russians, said that current US tax dollars will be used for those social programs I mentioned earlier including pensions. Correct? Unless that sizeable kitty is being saved to reimburse the US for the billions we sent to Ukraine...which it isn’t.
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Who blew up nord stream? Someone did? Which country was it?
Russia blew it up most likely. Give me a shred of proof we did it. You 100% cannot. I dont buy into anonymous sources, especially a single one. China is only with Russia so long as it benefits them. No further. Some people in Europe do feel that way but their leaders, in general, do not.
I know about Netherlands and Denmark, it remains to be seen what the rest of Europe does.Welt: The Netherlands and Denmark will not supply Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine
The governments of the Netherlands and Denmark have announced that neither country will deliver Leopard-2 tanks, reports the German news source Welt.news.yahoo.com
China is all in with Russia. They’ve been running joint operations in the pacific for decades. Things are not looking up and Putin is still there.
Funniest thing about lolman is that he is in the climate change thread saying climate is the biggest threat to humanity and we must weaken ourselves to save the planet while being on this thread talking about how dynamic our economy is and how great our manufacturing is. It's like he is incapable of seeing that one directly hurts our ability to do the other so he just pretends it has no effect.
What possible reason would Russia have to blow up their own pipeline? They could simply turn off the valve and leave the pipeline there as a negotiating point for Germany and others. If they blew it up they took away the leverage they had while energy prices spike in Europe. Germans paying 5X more on energy this winter might have been more likely to force a deal if Russia could turn the spicket back on.
