Unique Unit: Samuyil Hyde “Ghost of Kyiv”
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We all know that Ukraine's real strategy (that's totally winning the war, guys!) is to barricade themselves in with sandbags stuffed with US dollars and wait it out until the Russians (who are totally inept, guys!) run out of fuel and starve.
Currently it's to blow up all of Russian supply depots (and C2 points), so in a way you're right.
Ineptness: when it all started, there was a pqnicky message from the Avdiivka line of contact about heavy arty attacks and "this is the end, farewell". It was one of the first places attacked. Nearly half years later and the Russians still didn't take it, but the no man's land is now littered with wrecks: https://twitter.com/uaweapons/status/1532285908447272961
The reaction of a lot of my fellow right-wingers has been confusing to me over the course of this entire war. Its entirely in reason to cry foul over raw cash being sent, but I would have thought giving a nation the firepower it needs to fight its own war would have been a welcome change in foreign policy instead of putting our own citizens lives at risk (I know I favor it in the future). And I would have thought they would have taken heart in a people deciding they would fight and die to defend their own nation, and that we should hope to be so brave if the time came for our own.
But no. For some reason, a ton of my fellows on the right went all rootless cosmopolitan and have said that the Ukrainians should have fled without a fight, and just accepted their new rulers because "Putin is the savior of the west and the white race" or some bullshit. Even though Putin is the one killing white people through his own brutality and ill-advised war, and lets also forget that he has said his goal is basically to reform the Soviet Union, and this will bring him into conflict with a ton of other nations who are even more hostile toward him than Ukraine.
Quite frankly, I dont really care anymore. Give them beans and bullets, keep the receipts on the cash for later, and let the Ukrainians go buck-ass wild so that we can destroy a nation who is a threat to the West and the world at large. Then tell China "Your next. Dont even think about Taiwan."
8 year old conflict, many knew of it already and see Ukraine as the aggressor, Ukraine being ultra corrupt, Ukraine Govt shutting down Biden corruption investigation because Soros told them not too, etc.
Then they are wrong. Russia has been the aggressor for this entire time, and its their own damn fault that Ukraine has been moving away from them. To the point that when Russia came screaming into the country, a ton of territory in the east that everyone thought would side with the Russians instead started fighting back with a savagery rarely seen in war. To the point you saw cities that were majority ethnic Russians deciding they would rather be razed to the ground than join the Russians. Which is part of the reason that the Donbass is still not secure, even though they were the ones who said it would be done almost as soon as they invaded.
Who isnt in Eastern Europe? That doesnt change the fact that Russia is the larger threat, and it would behoove us to side with Ukraine. Just like we did the Hungarians, Polish, Baltics, Bulgarians, and Romanians. All of these governments are fairly corrupt. But sometimes you have to look the other way to deal with a larger threat.
Did you...did you just link to a statement from the guilty party themsleves?! No freaking shit the Atlantic Council says they had to shut down the investigation. It would have implicated THEM! Ukraine never stopped any such investigations. The US just said they didnt want to hear it anymore, because it turns out that Trump was on to something when he said something was rotten over there. And I would like to remind you that for all the complaints that people have thrown his way, it was Zelensky who was saying that he liked Trump and was wanting to work with him on corruption issues...which was the entire basis for the "Ukrainian Collusion" they tried to impeach him over.
It's not that confusing at all.
Taiwan is depressing in how despite being one of the most technologically advanced nations they're still flying the Phantoms and the original Cobras today (no one wanted to sell them any combat aircraft ever since America last did in the 1970s) and so on. By their own calculations in perhaps just five years now they would be defeated quickly and with minimal Chinese losses. Nowadays they would still be defeated (alone) but they would still make the enemy bleed, soon it's going to be just one sided like the Gulf War I guess.
I think the scale is tipping back in their favor. They have been buying up a lot of current-gen F-16's (the ones that have gotten a ton of upgrades to the avionics and radar), and they have been getting a pretty extensive SAM network. They also have a pretty significant anti-ship missile capability now (thank you Trump), and have even started upgrading their navy. Japan has also said that they will view an attack on Taiwan as an Article 9 worthy event, so its unlikely Taiwan would even be going it alone.
And this is of course all assuming you believe the Chinese combat capabilities. Because lets be honest: China uses most of the same stuff Russia does, and we have spent months seeing that their shit is nowhere near as effective as was advertised.