Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

That’s exactly what they told my President for 3 more month to convince him to buy Russian S-300 systems (which are not even being used and are sitting in a military warehouse) in return for being kicked out of the F-35 program (of which we were producing some key elements).

I hadn't heard about this, but it doesn't surprise me. The whole weapons exchange thing is done for politics or for graft, not effective defense. 

It's a way for the US to exert control over its obedient vassal states, and to enrich US manufacturers. Decisions are made based on political connections rather than what actually works. 

For example, it looks as though these super-duper Abrams tanks which are going to fly in to rescue our man Zelensky are difficult to use because they require fuel that's different from other machines. This increases logistical and maintenance difficulties. And the reason they are built this way is because Rumsfeld used the Abrams program to enrich the Chrysler Corporation, which was struggling at the time. 

https://spoilsofwar.substack.com/p/magic...-disasters

Anyway, CNN is saying the tanks won't arrive for a year. CNN lies constantly, of course, but only in pro-American ways, so we'll see. Lots of pledges of assistance like this are made for the headlines, and then when attention has shifted to the next thing the pledges are quietly forgotten. So let's see how many of these super-duper tanks really arrive.

1) The F-16’s won’t arrive for a few months. They need to train the pilots.
 
2) The German Tanks will arrive within weeks (the training time is shorter and it uses diesel, not jet fuel + I think the leopard is still the better tank in this war. The Total number of modern Tanks that will be sent to Ukraine in the coming months is 327. That’s the number Zelensky needed. French Tanks are coming too. (https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-recei...00258.html)
 
3) Now they need air defences, Migs and F-16’s. I don’t know about A-10’s. Why not just send them and see if it works (it’s an old type of airplane anyway) . I came to know that F-35 is the beast US fighter jet second only to F-22 Raptors which are very expensive but are described as the Ferrari’s of fighter jets. But Just like Eurofighter’s and Mirage airplanes these have very complex technologies and require a lot of training. The war will probably be over before Ukrainian pilots are trained on these systems. Besides Russia has about 20 next generation airplanes which cannot leave Russian airspace because they don’t want them to be shut down. So F-35’s would only be necessary if Ukraine wanted to invade Russia at some point (to bypass their air-defense system [S-300’s]) but this is not going to happen. So F-16’s should do so there can be more men (Both Russian and Ukrainian) who will be able to be with their families next year.
 
4) First paragraph. You know Greece is a rival country for Turkey since many years (I mean in geopolitical terms and influence in the Aegean Sea). Greece has about 20 F-35’s, 20 Mirage airplanes + a fleet of modernized F-16’s. Because he took the S-300’s from Putin, The One with Neo-Ottoman Ambitions was even denied equipment to modernize our fleet of F-16 airplanes. We are a country of 80 million inhabitants. The population of Greece is about 10 million. So (thank God) nothing is going to happens in the near future with Greece. But if something was to happen it wouldn’t look so nice for us if you know what I mean .
 
- But yes. At least we have some Soviet-Era missile missiles (which are only sitting in our military warehouse – instead of Patriot missiles by the way). But now everyone knows for sure that we are not a vassal state. (what did I just say? :