Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Dec 22 2023 03:12pm)
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I will make several points, make of them what you wish.
The war is not over.
Russia has the strategic initiative after Ukraines counteroffensive has ended.
In an attritional battle, Russia will always have an advantage of scale and manpower.
In a war of large scale manoeuvre Russia has failed to show it can achieve a decisive victory.
For this compare desert storm with Russias initial invasion and in particular the exposed columns of armor at a standstill without fuel or sufficient logistics.
Any pledge of future aid takes weeks if not months to manifest in actual miltary equipment.
Think tanks. They were pledged months ago. We haven't seen any Abrams on the battlefield yet. Although that does not mean Ukraine does not have them and is intentionally ambiguous iguous about there deployment.
Think of F-16s. Pledged many months ago and yet to be deployed.
So to say that because the Congress blocked future funding to Ukraine the war is somehow immediately over is fallacious.
Does it mean that Ukraine could face shortages in the medium term? Absolutely.
Does it mean that unless European countries step up that Ukraine inevitably would not be able to continue the same level of operations? Absolutely.
Money pledged in Washington doesn't appear as military equipment in Kiev the next day.
That's not how this works. And it is infantile to suggest otherwise.
You're really unaware of what's going on, the fact you don't even realize some of the key points here yet you drew focus to 3 jets that were downed, really shows how much knowledge you have on this war let alone far eastern politics