Ukraine’s air defenses are being depleted by Russia’s intensified missile and drone attacks as Western military aid for Ukraine is drying up.
“Intense Russian air attacks force us to use a corresponding amount of air defense means,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said on Monday, according to The Associated Press. “That’s why we need more of them, as Russia keeps increasing its (air) attack capabilities.”
Russia has stepped up strikes across Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces have been launching more attacks inside Russian territory, including a recent missile strike on Russia’s Belgorod Oblast that killed 25 people. After the Belgorod strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to increase attacks even more.
According to Ukrainian officials, 500 Russian missiles and drones were fired across Ukraine from December 29 to January 2. Ukrainian President Volodomy Zelensky said Sunday that his country lacks “a very concrete and understandable thing, that is air defense systems.”
The problem for Ukraine is that its war effort is still entirely reliant on Western support, and the US, its biggest benefactor, has said it doesn’t have the funds to send more arms. The Pentagon said last week that it’s “out of money” to send more weapons to Ukraine until Congress authorizes more spending on the proxy war.
President Biden is seeking over $60 billion to fuel the war in Ukraine for another year despite the reality that Ukrainian forces have no chance of winning on the battlefield. Republicans in Congress are holding out on authorizing the aid as leverage to get a deal to make changes to border policies and immigration laws. It’s still unclear when an agreement will be reached as Senate negotiators met on Monday and said the two sides are still far apart.
Oh, I’m sure another 60 billion will change things a whole lot… /s
Oh, but it will.
Yes, it will. It will prolong the war so more Ukrainians can be killed and more of their infrastructure can be destroyed. And in the end, Ukraine will be begging for the peace deal that was on the table back in March of 2022.
We”ll see.
You’re delusional. Delusion is a sign of mental illness my dude.
Lol, we are delusional because we don’t support the Russian invasion of a neighboring country?
You know, we’ve been called neocons and Nazis SO many times for almost 2 years now that I don’t even get it anymore. It’s just scripted lines.
You guys are cultists or even worse, unpaid Russian propagandists waiting for a paycheck because Russia doesn’t pay salaries anymore Lol
They get paid in…potato.
Lol
You’re delusional because you think Ukraine can take back any territory or resist Russia for any considerable length of time. I am not commenting on the morality of the Russian invasion, rather on Ukraine’s prospects which don’t look good. You get called Nazis and neocons because you mouth their words like you have string coming out the back of your neck like a cheap ventriloquist doll.
bah bah
Ukraine has been taking land back and fighting off Russia, or better stated, the so called “second strongest Army in the World” for almost two years now.
Given that, I think they have a chance to resist and continue gaining.
Look at the map when Russia tried to take Ukraine and look at it now, now is that huge difference because Ukraine let Russia take it all, or because they fought for their independence, identity, and freedom?
You, fluffer, are the delusional prick.
As I said you and your fellow propagandists are delusional. Even Zaluzhnyi has admitted that Ukraine can’t take back significant amounts of territory. Are you claiming to know better than the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine?
They’ve “resisted Russia” for 23 months now.
Barring any more cash/weapon infusions from the USA they won’t last the year. They’ve only lasted this long because the American middle class has been footing the bill.
More weapons will be on the way soon. Your fever-dream of the GOP stopping it (Showing their support for Putin like you do) isn’t going to happen.
You’re probably right, but we will see. Either way, without the USA footing the bill Ukraine is fuxored, and all more American cash/weapons do is delay the inevitable and cost the lives of more Ukrainians.
Ukrainians have decided this is their fight and I fully support it.
And there’s little doubt that they’ll be getting more cash/weapon infusions. I don’t like that very much, but it will probably shorten the war. There will be some kind of return to “frozen conflict” with Russian retaining Donetsk and Luhansk, instead of 20 years of insurgency before they give up Kherson and Zaporizhia.
I don’t know they seem to be slow playing it a bit longer than I thought they would. I do tend to think, though (as you do), that they will try and keep the gravy train flowing for as long as possible.
As long as they’re funded/armed, they can keep it up conventionally until Putin finds a way to get his teat out of the wringer without getting removed or killed (but I repeat myself).
If they stop getting funded/armed, they’ll keep it up unconventionally until Putin finds a way to get his teat out of the wringer without getting removed or killed (but I repeat myself).
If Putin’s lucky, he’ll end up with the Donbas as a consolation prize. If not, he’ll likely be removed or killed (but I repeat myself).
So in my neighborhood there is a Russian lady who is no fan of Putin, but according to her he’s never been more popular in Russia. Public opinion polls seem to bear this out putting his approval rating somewhere around 83%. I could be wrong, but I don’t see him getting overthrown any time soon. It seems that Russian resolve has grown as the war has gone on, not lessened. If Ukraine stopped receiving weapons and cash tomorrow the war would probably be over in 6 months. They simply don’t have the ammo to keep going without more infusions from the west.
Yes, he’s so incredibly popular that he can get re-elected over and over, and all he has to do is outlaw any opposition and imprison any credible opponents.
That said, his fake popularity has nothing to do with whether he could be overthrown. The populace doesn’t decide who occupies his office; whichever gang of oligarchs won the last power struggle does.
They are running out of men.
And why in the world would they “give up” Zaporizhia and Kherson”? They form a nice, cohesive, solid buffer zone along the Russian border, and have been bought and paid for with Russian blood. There is ZERO chance Ukraine can “take it back”; and your comment about a “frozen conflict” seems to agree with that.
“And why in the world would they ‘give up’ Zaporizhia and Kherson?”
Because Zaporizhia and Kherson are the hot stove that will remain hot until they get tired of burning themselves and let go.
There’s absolutely no evidence of that. Crimea by itself seems to be enough to keep the crazies in Kiev going; and Zaporizhia and Kherson are all about shielding Crimea, which is critical to Russia. Besides, holding Zaporizhia makes the Sea of Azov a Russian internal body of water, with full ownership of any energy resources that might be under it. It’s a pretty big deal.
Yes, Zaporizhia and Kherson are both pretty big deals.
And the price of the war returning to frozen conflict will likely be Russian withdrawal from them.
Well, that’s an opinion; but completely unsubstantiated by anything anyone has stated. Very much the opposite. MAYBE, before the abortive summer offensive, this could have been negotiated, but now? Kiev has zero offensive capability left, and very little chance of developing any new one.
Who said anything about the “offensive capability” that you’ve been claiming Ukraine is fresh out of for 22 months now, like Dorothy clicking her heels together and chanting “there’s no place like home?”
At some point, if you can’t secure an area, you abandon it. And the Russian forces are unlikely to ever secure Kherson and Zaporizhia.
It’s not a claim, it’s a fact. They have no offensive capability, as their “summer offensive” proved. And they have even less now. Ukraine had ONE offensive success, but it came at a high cost – chasing a very understrength Russian force out of Kharkov oblast. They did NOT “recapture” Kherson city through offensive action, Russia voluntarily withdrew from there, because they couldn’t secure it with the forces at hand, so they withdrew to more defensible positions on the east bank. From where, as 2023 has shown, they ain’t leaving. Seems pretty secure to me.
Hey Knapp, since you mentioned the secret Austin mission, did you see the theory that he was injured in Ukraine?
NA mentioned it. I know nothing about the accuracy of the youtube poster:
Austin Was Wounded In Kyiv.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNYDc2-Msw&pp=ygUYbWlsaXRhcnkgc3VtbWFyeSBjaGFubmVs
Interesting theory.
OK, chief. You’re the guy yelling at the clouds.
Why do you persist in being humiliated day in and day out on this forum. You have to be getting paid that’s the only answer I can come up with.
You, the text book tankie, is the one who looks like the fool. You spew Putin MOD and RT talking points and Ukraine still resists and kills more Russians. (You probably do the same at family gatherings — raging against pumpkin spice being everywhere and how kids don’t want to work.) Trust me, the reality-based people here roll our eyes at you just like your family does behind your back!
Cool story bro. I love that you think you are “reality based” after going on for months about how the Ukrainian offensive was going to succeed and that they were gaining ground. Will you ever admit you were wrong? Oh wait no you can’t because you are delusional and mentally ill like I pointed out earlier. Well either that or you’re getting paid to be such a willfully ignorant tool.
Are you sure I said “succeed” or is that something you manufactured to support your cognitive dissonance?
Fact is, the Ukes gained ground near Verbove the other day. (Did you not know this because RT or Russian MOD didn’t tell you?) Now, the Ukes might lose that but they’re still on the offensive, so you can’t say it didn’t succeed. A more accurate statement would be is hasn’t succeeded yet NOR has it failed yet.
And YOU would be more likely to be the tool in this case.
This is weapons grade copium. According to you they’ve been about to take Verbove since late August. Give it up with the offensive schtick already.
Exactly. At best it will delay the inevitable, and at worst will lead to the end of the world as we know it. The three or four Ukraine supporters on this site are complete psychopaths.
Putin lover. Always defending your emperor. You guys are ridiculous.
Zero shame.
I was defending Putin? Really? I think you need to lay off the sauce my dude.
For Zelensky’s wealth, sure.
Your girlish sarcasm is obvious. No special mark is necessary.
You sound like some kind of misogynist. You better change your tack or you will lose the support of “progressive” Americans. Oh wait you already have. Here in “progressive” Connecticut no one will admit to supporting Ukraine anymore. They pretend like they didn’t have signs up in their yards and complain about inflation and the economy. It’s hilarious watching slack jaw “progressive” Americans be so oblivious.
If you knew anything about warfare, you’d know it does.
you can ask the Russian cannon fodders, they’ll tell you.
Says the shit stain who for months told us how successful the Ukrainian spring…er summer offensive was.
FJB
They neocons will try and blame the Ukrainian defeat on anybody but themselves (as usual) and will also try to engage in narrative building around the idea that Russia has lost because they haven’t taken over all of Ukraine. Nevermind that Ukraine will be reduced to rump state status.
The Kremlin Nazis will try and blame the Russian defeat on anybody but themselves (as usual) and will also try to engage in narrative building around the idea that Ukraine has lost because they haven’t retaken their land back. Never mind that Russia will be reduced to rump state status.
Here you go, douche b, fixed for you. Now walk over to Red Square and go fluff your master Putin.
The Kremlin… Nazis? Dumb.
Sorry, I missed that word:
Dumb Kremlin Nazis!!!
Better now?
Nope, just as dumb. To make such an absurd claim, you need to back it up.
Lay off the alcohol bro. Your liver will thank you.
I only drink beer but you should quit the Vodka. It’s making look like your fellow Russian Zombie soldiers in Ukraine.
Russian mil-bloggers complaining about incompetent Russian tactics.
Russian wives threatening revolt.
Yeah. Things are going well for Putin.
As compared to Ukraine?
Yes. Compared to Ukraine. The Russians keep bombing their own people!
And Ukraine did a counteroffensive with no air support. Something their benefactor, the US, admitted they would never do. They sent troops through minefields with no mine clearing equipment. Their benefactor, the US, claimed they were casualty adverse for complaining about all the dead. And Ukrainians are just as war weary, actually more so, than Russians since it if their land and infrastructure that is being destroyed. But hey, it was a “good investment” for the US.
That happened over 6 months ago and Ukraine has adjusted their tactics. (I’m thinking they launched that attack to please their US benefactors.) I’m sure the Ukes are war-weary but their fighting for survival so they’ll continue attempts to regain their territory.
Investment in freedom and the fight against totalitarianism is a good one, yes.
Of course, they launched the counteroffensive to please their benefactors. That’s the problem. Their benefactors never had any intention of supplying Ukraine with weaponry capable of defeating Rusia. They made that known from the very beginning. They didn’t want a hot war with Russia. Nothing has changed, That $60 million won’t be near enough to change the war’s outcome.
And the investment had nothing to do with freedom or the fight against totalitarianism, it was to weaken Russia. Besides, Ukraine wasn’t free before the invasion, and they have a totalitarian government of their own.
$60B will buy quite a bit of kit for a defensive action (which Ukraine seems to be currently pursuing.)
Ukraine is a democracy and you know it, Wars. Russia (although they have “elections”) is a dictatorship. And you know that too!
At this particular moment, neither Ukraine nor Russia is really pretending very hard to be a “democracy.”
And “defensive action” means a stalemate at best for Ukraine. Which will mean, again, that the near agreed upon peace deal that was available in March of 2022 will just be wishful thinking for Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia rate well up on any government corruption scale you want to look at. And Putin is no more a dictator than Biden. Kill either one and the train rolls merrily along.
If/when someone kills Putin, we’ll see.
Same shit, different degree. Probably more hard core.
Ukraine is in no way a free society. It is a one party ethnostate at this point. Which given our hardcore support of Israel seems to be a specific kink of the neocons.
Sure, son. Whatever you say.
“Ukraine is no way a free society”
Have you ever been in Ukraine?
Fair to ask, have you ever been in Russia?
Can you compare life in those two countries?
No, I haven’t but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a country under martial law which is not holding elections and is forcibly conscripting its citizens when 70% of them voted for peace with Russia in the last free election is not free. I will admit, though, that it is not completely an ethnostate yet, but the groundwork has been laid by the Banderites in Kiev. I have never been to Russia, but from what I understand it is not a free society either. That being said American freedoms have been severely eroded since the start of the GWOT after 911. Lucky for us the 2nd amendment is still intact.
The Ukrainian “counter-offensive” was an exceedingly dumb and costly idea. The only explanation for it that makes any sense is “PR” — and more for US consumption than anything else. It let supporters of continued funding/support claim the Ukrainians were “doing something.”
The strategic defensive is and always has been Ukraine’s “best outcome” strategy.
Yes, it was definitely for American consumption. I mean the stated goal of the American neocons is to “degrade the Russian military,” and also a transfer of wealth to the MIC. They have succeeded in the second goal and are fine with that it seems as they have cut Ukraine off.
Either way, what was best for Ukraine was never part of the equation. The fact that the three or four paid trolls on the comment sections are still defending it is hilarious. Even it’s most ardent defenders in the pliant American press have admitted it was a failure.
Wow!!! The Russian troll calling the folks outside his sphere of influence Trolls.
Very entertaining.
D bag Putin fluffer.
I argue with tankies for free! (I love when you slowly start to seeth and then just yell, NEOCONS!)
Who’s seething? This is cheap entertainment. Watching fascists slowly lose touch with reality is damn entertaining.
Wait…we’re fascists now? Am I a dictator — like Putin — who controls the entire government and “disqualifies” candidates who wish to run against me?
Perhaps a quick check with dictionary.com can assist you with a proper definition.
LOL. You can’t even spell fascist let alone have any clue what a fascist is. Here let me help you:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203871577/fascism-political-theory-daniel-woodley
Oh, no! The spelling police got me! (A common tactic for an ignorant D-Bag.)
Why don’t you do some of the pre requisite reading and get back to me. Maybe then we can have an intelligent conversation about how Ukrainian Banderites may or may not fit within current taxonomies of fascism.
You sure are showing me what’s what — with your $10 words and all that.
Tell you what, son, bring some real facts to the table and we’ll have a conversation. Your “libertarian” outlook makes you look like your WAY out of touch. (And your labels are quite out-of-date.)
“In Soviet secret records, the word “Banderites” for the first time emerged in late 1940 and began to be used in Soviet propaganda starting in late 1942. The term became a crucial element of the Soviet propaganda discourse and was used as a pejorative description of Ukrainians, sometimes all western Ukrainians in the most negative way.”
Libertarian? How do you figure?
“You sure are showing me what’s what — with your $10 words and all that.”
It’s clear from what you post here that you aren’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. While you seem to be confused about American political terms like liberal, conservative, libertarian, neocon, neoliberal, fascist, ect. you seem to be an expert on Ukrainian political terminology. Why is that?
Am I confused? How so? (Other than your declaration of it.)
Now you not just delusional, your hallucinating. I’ve never claimed to be a libertarian. You are quite confused today, aren’t you.
Well, usually frustrated right-wingers say they’re “libertarian” because they’re too embarrassed to say they’re GOP.
Keep swinging shit stain. Eventually you’ll hit something.
And it’s exactly what Ukraine gets for Zelenskying itself.
What neocons? The Reagan democrats? That word was decommissioned in the 80’s. All you pacifist libertarians just use it because you think it makes you sound smart.
“Neocon”, “Neolib”, whatever. Only difference is one is more psychotically pro Israel than the other.
And let me guess, you would rather have a bunch of Kremlin Imperialistic Invaders than one Neocon because a neocon is worse than anything our world has even seen.
Right?
“because a neocon is worse than anything our world has even seen”
Why don’t y0u ask the Iraqis, Afghanis, Libyans, and Somalis?
I already did. Did you?
What did they say?
Nice irrelevant and senseless reply (Imperialistic? LOL! Compared to who?). And in case you haven’t noticed, your precious “neoconservatives” have a VERY poor track record, which belies the fact that people still keep listening to them. If they aren’t the worst (judging by their body count), they are certainly close.
Another dictator lover coming in defense of his leader.
Always condoning his actions because another entity has done worse.
And that’s how corruption is let to grow, especially in Russia.
Keep on babbling your nonsense. “Yawn….” Maybe your fellow World-Hegemony-Seeking-at-Any-Cost-to-World-Peace Empire lovers will listen to you. 🙂
It’s so fun getting these trolls worked up, as the more incoherent and aggressive they become, the more obvious it becomes that English is not their first language.
I wonder where in Ukraine they are based? Probably as far away from the front as possible. Like the American neocon they are probably hard right chickenhawks.
Who’s body count is larger?
You’d have to go back to WW2, no?
Uncle Sammy is swimming in the blood of millions of Iraqis killed by the wars, embargoes, societal breakdown, post US invasion.
Libyan is still torn by civil war.
US/NATO destroyed 2 of Israel’s chief opponents and of course the Zionists want Uncle Sammy to attack Iran.
No US war for Israel!
Franco Russo is our phony American Patriot that hates America. In reality, he is just another closet Russian Neocon calling Ukrainians that want nothing to do with Russia Nazis, and Americans that support Ukraine, Neocons.
Tequila man is half in the bag already. Good job man, it must be tough trying to stay coherent long enough to fill your quota for the day.
Shut up, unpaid russian propagandist.
Need some money for Vodka?
I understand that being an uneducated moron must be tough for you, but please try and keep up.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42896185
The fact that you don’t know what a neoconservative is and you are commenting on antiwar.com from a “pro-war” perspective speaks volumes. You’re a neocon fascist shit stain and you don’t even know it.
The point of striking the power stations, but never all at once to deliver a knockout blow, was always to deplete the large number of Soviet-era anti-air missiles that Ukraine had. They have no choice but to defend the power stations.
(By the way, when Washington invaded Iraq they bombed all eight power stations around Baghdad.)
The Russians are mixing in old Soviet missiles that aren’t of much use to them with the new ones, and the Ukrainians don’t have much chance of deciding which are which as their flight patterns are similar, so they have to fire at all of them.
Thanks to this successful strategy, Russia has depleted the anti-air missiles so that Russian jets and helicopters are now virtually unthreatened as they bomb the Ukie front lines far more than before. But maybe the media can write a “run out of missiles” story again.
Recently The Telegraph posted a Ukrainian claim of shooting down a hypersonic missile, which they have actually never managed to do. The Ukrainians had a video of a missile falling into the Dniepr. However, after closer scrutiny it was clear that it was a Ukrainian anti-air missile; since they are old, many of them fail and fall down to earth. But this video was enough for the Telegraph to write that Ukraine had shot down a hypersonic missile.
Ukraine keeps firing at Russia’s missiles over Ukrainian cities, instead of waiting until the missiles have passed by on their way to the power stations and other targets. Many Ukrainian missiles fall and damage buildings. Without fail the govt-controlled media then claim that “Russia is firing at apartment buildings!”
After the last large Russian barrage, many Ukrainians were once again arrested for filming the damage they caused to the targets, which Zelensky always denies, and for filming the damage caused to the cities by fallen anti-air missiles – you can’t let the missiles be identified like the one that fell in the Dniepr.
“Thanks to this successful strategy, Russia has depleted the anti-air missiles so that Russian jets and helicopters are now virtually unthreatened as they bomb the Ukie front lines far more than before. But maybe the media can write a “run out of missiles” story again.”
The f you talking about, did you get this from RT News?
The most uninformed statement I’ve read all day.
The Russian Aviation has not enjoyed unimpeded air operations since they invaded and ever since couple weeks ago when Ukraine shot down 5 Russian bombers in 3 days with their Patriots, Russia has not dared to fly bombing missions in the front lines. Plus they are having a high rate of friendly fires involving their aviation.
Ukraine Patriots have shot down 15 Russian “Hypersonic” and this is a fact, not propaganda but you can choose to deny it.
Finally, Russia has been firing missiles at Ukrainian cities since the war started. It’s not like they give a damn about collateral damage, if they did, they would not have invaded.
Your desperate defense of Russia is baseless and ignorant.
Russia isn’t the desperate one in this situation, it’s Ukraine. They fact that you have is soo ass backwards is telling. Pull your head out.
Hey idiot, Ukraine is not desperate, they are fighting for their lives. If they don’t fight, there will be no Ukraine.
The fact that you come here after the few folks supporting Ukraine while supporting Russia, while at the same time pretending to be American, is beyond my comprehension.
Go have a Zoom call with your other boy Wars and have a wonderful anti US day.
” they are fighting for their lives.”
Sounds pretty desperate to me.
I live in the state of Connecticut in the USA unlike you. My grasp of the English language illustrates that it is my first language. Tell your superiors that you need some better ESL classes that focus on how to use idioms properly.
All those libs in Connecticut must drive you crazy…
How so?
How not so?
Did you vote for Senators Murphy and Blumenthal? (They’re pretty liberal.)
How not so? Because it’s a free country. People can believe what they want. I have conservative friends and liberal friends. I do not have any fascist friends though. Types like you. I definitely wouldn’t associate with that scum.
Noticed you didn’t answer my second question…
Remind me where I pledged to disclose my voting habits to fascist shit stains. But since you are so obsessed with how I vote I will throw you a bone. Sometimes I vote D and sometimes I vote R, but usually I vote for a third party candidate. In ’24 I will be voting for RFK, Jr. for president.
At the moment, RFK Jr. is only on the ballot in Utah, and his campaign seems to be experiencing various problems (at least some of them likely drummed up by major party operatives who are afraid he’ll “spoil” their vote take).
While I’m not a fan of him myself, I have a number of friends who are, and my attitude toward candidates is always “the more the merrier.”
I have no illusions about personalities saving us. When I was a bit younger and more gullible I fell for the whole hope and change schtick which really meant just more of the same with different rhetoric. He just seems to be the best choice we have this cycle. That is if he can get on the ballot.
RFK is rabidly Zionist if that is a consideration for you.
It does matter, but there doesn’t seem to be any candidate polling above single digits who isn’t a “supporter of Israel.” Either way, it is my suspicion that a Kennedy presidency would look a lot different than a Kennedy candidacy.
Dunno Frank, his manager is CIA.
Ultimately, I’m more interested in the issues he brings to the table being discussed in the open instead of the same boilerplate R vs D bullshit. The two mainline parties are going to do everything they can to prevent presidential debates this cycle. Their platforms and records are bankrupt and Kennedy would shred them both in an open debate.
Here’s my theory: like Cornel West, Kennedy had a “come to Jesus” moment. Establishment Ratfucking, with the lingering threat of more in the air, and then acquiescence. Same with Sanders. RFK likely felt the weight of it even more with the history of assassinations in his family. So he gets a CIA minder and Kucinich is gone.
I’m not telling anyone who to vote for, or who not to vote for. At this juncture or precipice, the shadow government is pulling out all of the stops in desperation for hegemony.
I agree with you about the weight, but I’m not so sure to what extent RFK, Jr. has altered his trajectory because of it. He definitely had to go all in on (or at least thought he had to) the pro Israel schtick to prevent himself from being completely destroyed by the media. The “CIA minder” is his daughter in law so there’s that. As you said the interference we need to worry most about is not foreign, but rather from entrenched interests in our power structures (i.e. the MIC, intelligence agencies, ect.) Re Kucinich: I always saw him as more or less controlled opposition ala Sanders.
I don’t know, no real opinion, except that Kucinich was dispensed with by Dems and then Kennedy.
JFK’s Assassination at 60: Revisiting the Israeli Connection Anew
http://ohiopeacecouncil.org/?p=16853
Ahhh…you’re an anti-vax, a**hat! ‘Nuff said!
(“Libertarian” for sure.) And “libertarian” is another name conspiracy theorist. (Your digestiing of Russian propaganda now makes perfect sense!)
As all of my children and myself are vaccinated I would hardly call myself anti-vaccine. That’s a cool trick you do where you can read people’s minds. Can you teach it to me?
The same thinking was used in WW2 better to be Russian soldiers being killed than ours , Exactly what is happening in Ukraine .
Biden isn’t thinking that. He’s just afraid.
US is spending all it has on killing Palestinians.
No it isn’t. The US has massive numbers of long-range ATACMS scheduled for decommission. They could easily be given to Ukraine.
I thought all what’s left for the stupid Russians to use was “Russian Shovels?” …That’s what Zelensky is saying? …Oh good. I’m glad Ukraine Zelenskied itself. They don’t have to worry about Russian missiles. All we need is for Israel to Zelensky itself. …What’s that? They already did?
Remember when the Ukrainian propagandists on this site were saying Russia didn’t have any missiles left, that the Russian army was weeks away from collapsing, and that 2023 was the year Putin would be outed by a coup.
Yeah. Turns out we were correct.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/04/russia-ukraine-north-korea-ballistic-missiles-iran/72109440007/
It’s fun kicking you in the nuts repeatedly!
You take the White House at its word?
“Russia has stepped up strikes across Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces have been launching more attacks inside Russian territory, including a recent missile strike on Russia’s Belgorod Oblast that killed 25 people. After the Belgorod strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to increase attacks even more.”
As usual, DeCamp is mouthing Russian propaganda. Ukraine did not target Belgorad civilians. They targeted the Russian rocket launchers on the far side of Belgorad. The rocket launchers that were targeting Ukrainian civilians. The casualties in Belgorad were the result of the debris falling when the Russians shot down the Ukrainian rockets and drones.
And just like clockwork as night falls on Ukraine the fearless defenders of Ukraine go silent. Funny that.
Yet every single day, “selected news sources” on MSN.com, including Ukrainian Pravda, Voice of Ukraine, Essa,news, etc all say the same thing; “Russia fired five hundred drones and missiles, 499 were shot down by our gallant and effective air defense, and the last one missed). Every. Single. Day.
So, is Zelensky lying, or are his media outlets? They work for him, after all; any independent media was shut down long ago.
There appears to be a plethora of Fascist countries who are giving the UA nazis various air-defence systems and missles.. Very strange that nobody will ever be paid for their contributions, yet give away their arsenals anyway.. Ukraine: a literal black hole..
There has to be some corruption involved. I mean we are talking about the most corrupt country in Europe.
Plan for victory in Ukraine: Republicans explain how the United States should help defeat Russia
Three committees of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, headed by Republicans, have severely criticized the Biden administration for insufficient aid to Ukraine and demand decisive action.
The “Proposed Plan for Victory in Ukraine,” drafted late last year, was signed by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairmen Michael McCaul, Armed Services Committee Chairmen Mike Rogers, and Intelligence Committee Chairmen Mike Turner.
The PDF document contains a cover with a collective photo of modern dictators: Putin, Xi Jinping, Ali Khamenei, and Lukashenko.
The introduction to the plan states that it “aims to answer critical questions about the support of Ukraine by the US and its allies and to present a victory plan in which we win and Russia loses.”
The document consists of five sections: “Threat,” “Proposed Victory Plan,” “Oversight,” “Distribution of Support,” and “Timeline of Biden’s Deadly Delays in Providing Arms to Ukraine.”
Russia and an alliance consisting of China, Iran, and its proxies (such as Hamas and Hezbollah), and North Korea are working together to undermine American interests around the world, the document says. “Their goal is to weaken the US economy, disintegrate key alliances and establish a new world order of totalitarianism,” the authors believe. “The United States has not faced a more dangerous set of adversaries since World War II.”
They note that the U.S. Congress has a responsibility to protect freedom from countries like Russia, China, and Iran: “Many have asked why we should support Ukraine, and the report not only answers those questions, it also provides information … for voters – why our support is necessary”.
“Biden’s mantra about supporting Ukraine ‘as much as it takes’ is a losing strategy,” they say.
Instead, House Republicans say that Biden should present a credible victory plan and provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs to win as soon as possible.
According to the authors, from the first day of the war, “Biden’s exhausting hesitation to provide Ukraine with critical weapons delayed the Ukrainian victory.” Ukraine needs the longest-range version of ATACMS (not 160, but 300 km), and F-16 aircraft, as well as a sufficient number of cluster munitions, artillery, air defense and armored vehicles to change the situation on the battlefield. This delay costs the lives of Ukrainians and the treasure of American taxpayers, they emphasize.
They indicate that the path to victory for Ukraine will require, first, the rapid provision of critical weapons; second, the strengthening of sanctions against the Putin regime; third, the transfer of 300 billion frozen Russian sovereign assets to Ukraine.
They emphasize the need to control American aid, but note that, so far, numerous inspections have not revealed any significant violations.
They say that Ukraine’s victory “will prevent a Russian invasion of a NATO country, which would be immeasurably more expensive in terms of American blood and money.”
They also note that as a percentage of GDP, the United States ranks only 30th in aid to Ukraine. Much larger contributions are made by Poland, the Baltic states, Great Britain, Norway and other states. As for military aid, the US ranks 14th, lagging behind Europe.
US support for Ukraine is not charity, they point out in the explanatory note.
“After the disastrous withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan by Biden, Ukraine’s support in the fight against Putin’s forces is crucial for the restoration of American deterrence in Europe, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific region.
The proposed plan “will provide Ukraine with the opportunity to achieve the necessary successes on the battlefield.”
https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2024/01/11/7436711/
Unfortunately, the plan concludes with the proposition that Ukraine’s successes on the battlefield will “force Russia to negotiate.” That is exactly the wrong goal. The goal should be to force Russia to unconditionally surrender, just as Germany and Japan were forced to do at the end of WW2.
Hey will you look at that. After 8 hours of sleep the troll wakes up in Ukraine at 8:00 am and goes to work. Like clockwork.
Yeah, anyone who disagrees you must be a paid troll.
There are plenty of folks on here with whom I disagree, but there are three in particular that make me wonder.
If we don’t arm Ukraine, NATO will be at war with Moscow within a few years
https://ukrainetoday.org/putin-may-be-about-to-launch-an-apocalyptic-assault/
NATO is already at war with Moscow. Where have you been?
I guess that’s the question – with Ukrainian air defenses running out and running thin (and US supplies not likely to flow as before – especially if Bellichek is out with the Patriots) how long until Russian Federation air strikes go from cruise missiles and “run & gun” radar evading fighter-bombers, into safe passage for carpet-bombing Tu-95s and ‘-160s to start making constant sorties to make 1970s Cambodia & Laos look like untilled soil ???
I don’t think Russia is as barbaric as the U.S.A. They don’t need to carpet bomb and it would only serve to make any future occupation more unmanageable. So far the Russians have, for the most part, done a pretty good job of limiting civilian casualties when possible.