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If Trump backs down on trying to broker a peace, I just hope he doesn't move on to starting business deals with Russia instead.
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I think there will always be a willingness on Trump's part to broker peace. But, it takes two to tango. I'm not sure how long Trump is willing to be strung along by Putin. My sense is his patience is wearing thin and that window is closing. And if that's the case, I'd imagine Europe will have to step up and carry a bigger burden in supplying Ukraine with weapons and money.
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Great. Is that just military contributions, or does that include direct cash to fund Ukraine's government, payroll, pensions and other?
Honestly, it's hard to say how much the US has contributed. I was counting along month after month and felt it was roughly $200 billion. Zelensky says he's only seen $100 billion. Trump says it was $300 billion. Those numbers certainly are not the way they are due to rounding differences.
I support a full audit to get to the bottom of it.
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Footage of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber using an RBK-500 cluster bomb equipped with a UMPK module. The video was filmed near the village of Malaya Tokmachka, in the Orekhov direction, in the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine. The Russian RBK-500 bomb was dropped on the positions of the 118th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army. The RBK-500 SHOAB-0.5 bombs were adopted by the USSR in 1969.
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The graph shows the grand total of military and humanitarian aid, both in goods and funds.
Military aid in goods is valued by a function based on what governments said their donations are worth, corrected for original prices, inflation, and what looks to me like a flat deduction for age.
The US has given more military aid in goods than Europe. It'll be difficult to substitute—provided Trump still means to supply goods that would need substituting—but far from impossible, and the gap is shrinking.
The conflict has reached a point where aid in goods is not as important as it used to be, at least as long as the US (and Europe, too) refuse delivery of further modern MBTs and long-range effectors. The Ukrainians have achieved autarchy in terms of most munitions, drones, and self propelled howitzers.
There are three major items of the "previously approved for delivery"-category which Europe can't fully substitute so far, and that's Patriot interceptors, ATACMS missiles and holistic intelligence packages.
There's only one Patriot producer in Europe (MBDA in Germany); expansion is underway, but production is capped to about 20 a month until their new factory is finished (2028).
ATACMS is, obviously, out of production, and no compatible replacement exists in Europe.
And as far as intelligence goes, well, there's a reason the NSA is seen as the most potent intelligence agency in the world. France, Germany and the UK operate 31 military satellites between them, compared to 247 operated by the US.
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He's such a bullshitter.
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For once, he's being honest. He doesn't want NATO spending 5%.
Sailors of one of the NATO ships showed footage of a Russian Su-24M frontline bomber flying at an extremely low altitude. The video was filmed in the Baltic Sea, the type of ship and the date of filming are unknown.
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Surely Putler doesn't fear getting whacked himself?
On the left side is 174 inch shortest length and underlined. You'd think for a one at a time process there couldn't be any confusion.
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He's already lost so many henchmen over the last two years. That touches even the most deranged autocrats.
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thats a huge strategic flaw/weakness if that is the ONLY place making gun barrels in the US. thats a shame, there is a huge steel plant in Georgetown SC that is shutting down.... its not like we need to make steel, we can just buy it all from russia and china! what could go wrong with that plan! SMH
Russian servicemen showed a Ukrainian BATT UMG armored car abandoned in the Pokrovsk direction. The armored car is intact, it only needs to have its front wheel installed. Presumably, the car ran over a mine. The BATT UMG armored car is manufactured by the American company The Armored Group
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