According to Ukrainska Pravda, citing unnamed sources, U.S. officials are increasing pressure on Kyiv to withdraw its troops from Donetsk Oblast as part of a potential settlement.
Fuck Trump
Oh yeah, the Iran war is a GREAT boon to Russia. Trump really helped out his
friendboss Putin with that one! All at the low low cost of crashing the global economy.Isn’t Zelensky selling US/Israel drone tech that he’s then diverting from his own front line?
The bottleneck is not drones, the bottleneck is expertise.
Foreign investment/buy orders increase the production capacity of Ukrainian businesses which compensates for any drones diverted by increasing overall production, so no it isn’t diverting from the frontlines really.
The bottleneck is not drones, the bottleneck is expertise.
One cultivates the other, as operators need something to train on.
That said, raw supply of materials remains an issue across each theater of conflict. One of the bigger problems US/Israel has atm is producing and staffing weapons systems both offensively and defensively.
Ukrainians stepping in to provide support both drain their own front lines and create some miserable optics for a country that needs to be seen as opposing violations of sovereignty.
Foreign investment/buy orders increase the production capacity of Ukrainian businesses
A country already strapped for resources and manpower, which they cannot afford to export.
Might as well be France, during the Blitz, exporting tanks to Franco’s Spain. It doesn’t help you if you’re businesses are going to be someone else’s property in another few months.
Might as well be France, during the Blitz, exporting tanks to Franco’s Spain. It doesn’t help you if you’re businesses are going to be someone else’s property in another few months.
No it might as well not, do not fear monger, the frontlines of Ukraine are not in danger of collapsing. The opposite is true, Ukraine’s localized counter attacks are threatening to develop into full on counter offensives.
The more foreign powers work with Ukraine on drone defense the more all of Ukraine benefits. Drone production is one of the easiest weapons of war to scale up production of, we aren’t talking about helicopters, tanks or jets here.
Also… these nations tend to have a lottttt of money and idk I feel like a whole lot of money might be something Ukraine is interested in acquiring to help the war effort? Do you understand how much money these nations can decisively throw around if it has to do with ensuring the security of their ports and skies???
Ukraine’s current main limitation appears to be funding, not troops or production capacity (although those are also precarious). Short-term they are diverting resources from their own frontline, but mid- to long-term it will allow them to increase their production capacity.
Being able to supply more drones to their frontline allows them to achieve more per deployed soldier. I recently learned that with enough drones, they need only a fraction of the troops they needed previously to hold the line. This means that selling equipment in the short-term could address their financial and reqruitment issues in the mid- to long-term.
Given that Ukraine is still holding on after more than 4 (or 3?) years of war, I think it’s safe to say that Ukrainian leadership has a good grasp of what they’re doing and that selling tech is a smart decision. With the worst of the winter behind them, they have less of a need for anti-drone drones. They just need to have enough of them before next winter.
Ukraine’s current main limitation appears to be funding, not troops or production capacity
That explains their lack of need for conscription and their air superiority.
I will never understand the knee-jerk insistence to play the Kamala Harris “We ran a perfect campaign” line against whatever Ukraine’s current defense policy happens to be. This was a country starved for equipment and experienced personal going back to before the '21 invasion even started. And now exporting equipment and manpower for some quick cash is the optimal play?
To assist in the invasion of another sovereign state, even?
