Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Sankari said:
Republicans are malding hard over the fact that Zelensky didn't wear a suit to the White House, preferring to remain in his army greens.

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Ahem…..what about Trump on the 6th Jan? :D

Oh and “more than what Zelensky did”? :D
 
ianh said:
They should have stuck to complaining about the billions the US is paying Ukraine ($100,000,000,000 so far) rather than what he looked like if they wanted to play up to their base support as most Red voters couldn't genuinely care what the guy looked like, only that he left with more of their money.
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Ukraine has received $48 billion from the US since January 2022.

Military hardware is provided under a Lend-Lease Act, which is the same system used between the US and UK during WWII. This is a loan (as the name implies) rather than a gift, so Zelensky will need to return it.

Ironic that today's Republicans would have refused to support Allied nations during WWII.
 
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Sankari said:
Republicans are malding hard over the fact that Zelensky didn't wear a suit to the White House, preferring to remain in his army greens.

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Here's Churchill during his visit to the White House during WII, dressed in his air raid outfit:

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Yup, he did fine and Spicer spouting fashion nazi crap highlights the inability of Spicer to understand the position of the house of representatives at a time of war. Zelensky - carry on.

I wonder if he FBI will investigate her comments.. just to check for any putin goings on.
 
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Angilion said:
Unsupported tanks have been vulnerable since almost as soon as they existed. Anti-tank weapons were developed very quickly after tanks were first deployed. Weak ones compared to modern anti-tank weapons, but the same was true of tanks. No competent military force ever deploys tanks without appropriate support and hasn't done so for over 100 years. The Russian military has done so but that's because it's incompetent. You only deploy unsupported tanks if you're very desperate or if you know, absolutely know, that whoever you're attacking doesn't have any viable anti-tank weapons.

There's been talk about tanks being obsolete since at least as far back as the 1920s. It wasn't true then and it isn't true now. Tanks need to be deployed correctly, but that's true of everything military. The key point is that tanks (when used correctly) can perform a military function that nothing else can do better. That's the key thing that makes military equipment obsolete - the existence of something else that can do the job better. That's why the focus has been (and continues to be) on improving protection for tanks rather than on replacing tanks with...with what?
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As ironic as it is true, heavily armoured tanks need soft squishy humans to protect them!
 
New Perun is up

Some pretty wild content; next generation fighters for Europe and Japan look good. Russia is unlikely to have a next generation fighter anytime soon.

The Americans have the wildest plans by far, their next generation "fighter" is looking more like it's going to be a Flying Fortress with a design/shape that's never flown before, an aircraft carrier of the sky - a big plane, powered by massive engines, seating up to 4 people, with laser weapons and huge amounts of electronic including controlling a fleet of drones armed to the teeth with missiles and having the radar profile of a bee, about 100 times more stealthy than an F35

 
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The new Russian school curriculum has been released and includes some changes...


Russian children will now be required to attend Patriotism classes where they will learn to love Putin, anti terrorism classes where they will learn to hate the West and report anyone who steps out of line and combat classes where they will learn how to use weapons such as shooting an ak47 and throwing hand grenades
 
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Grim5 said:
New Perun is up

Some pretty wild content; next generation fighters for Europe and Japan look good. Russia is unlikely to have a next generation fighter anytime soon.

The Americans have the wildest plans by far, their next generation "fighter" is looking more like it's going to be a Flying Fortress with a design/shape that's never flown before, an aircraft carrier of the sky - a big plane, powered by massive engines, seating up to 4 people, with laser weapons and huge amounts of electronic including controlling a fleet of drones armed to the teeth with missiles and having the radar profile of a bee, about 100 times more stealthy than an F35
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Watching it now. I wonder what Perun does as a job. He's very good.
 
Sankari said:
Republicans are malding hard over the fact that Zelensky didn't wear a suit to the White House, preferring to remain in his army greens.

vqy4he.jpg


Here's Churchill during his visit to the White House during WII, dressed in his air raid outfit:

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Perhaps there’s a shortage of tailors in Ukraine at the moment due to a year of fighting off the Russians and Kyiv being bombed/shelled/missiled into a pile of rubble.

Silly woman.
 
Sankari said:
Republicans are malding hard over the fact that Zelensky didn't wear a suit to the White House, preferring to remain in his army greens.

vqy4he.jpg


Here's Churchill during his visit to the White House during WII, dressed in his air raid outfit:

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When all you can do is criticise someone's dress sense, you really don't have much worthwhile to say
 
Sankari said:
Ukraine has received $48 billion from the US since January 2022.
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Just to clarify - yeap that is the amount so far up until the new aid package, worth another $45,000,000,000, was agreed a last week taking the total to a minimum of $93,000,000,000,000 so far and rising (not the $100,000,000,000 I said TBF) - https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...is-not-charity-urges-more-support-2022-12-22/

Sankari said:
Military hardware is provided under a Lend-Lease Act, which is the same system used between the US and UK during WWII. This is a loan (as the name implies) rather than a gift, so Zelensky will need to return it.
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Just to clarify - The Lend/Lease programme only became Law on the 5th Sept 2022 (but signed earlier) and therefore all military hardware given to Ukraine before that date, when the Act became Law, is NOT part of the Lend/Lease programme and does not have to be paid for, as they are supplied via either the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), Foreign Military Financing (FMF) or Replenishment of U.S. weapons stocks programmes - https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3522/text - this is also mentioned in the article you linked to which said "But in this case, the US government is bypassing the usual regulations governing such transactions by accepting that there is no guarantee that any of the equipment (given by Land-Lease - IanH insert) will actually be returned or paid for after the end of the conflict."

Additionally, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Minister has said that the US has not actually sent any military hardware via Lend/Lease yet as Ukraine can't afford it, so the US is using it's own budget (via the 3 programmes mentioned above and not Lend/Lease) to keep sending military hardware - https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-still-not-received-lend-153111029.html (from this original Ukrainian news report).

I know it sound like like I'm being nit-picky but both those parts did need a little clarification so as not to give a false impression.
 
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This is the second or third fire i seen about in a matter of hours

At least 20 dead after entire floor of illegal care home engulfed in flames in Russia​

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Edit: The other fire was this one https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=c5eda57734dc40428e15096eba7f6be9
A fire broke out at night in a military object in the east of the Russian capital.

A dozen fire trucks had to extinguish the 200-square-meter fire in a garage complex of the military facility in Moscow. The cause of the fire is unknown so far. There are said to have been no casualties so far.
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ianh said:
Just to clarify - yeap that is the amount so far up until the new aid package, worth another $45,000,000,000, was agreed a last week taking the total to a minimum of $93,000,000,000,000 so far and rising (not the $100,000,000,000 I said TBF) - https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...is-not-charity-urges-more-support-2022-12-22/



Just to clarify - The Lend/Lease programme only became Law on the 5th Sept 2022 (but signed earlier) and therefore all military hardware given to Ukraine before that date, when the Act became Law, is NOT part of the Lend/Lease programme and does not have to be paid for, as they are supplied via either the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), Foreign Military Financing (FMF) or Replenishment of U.S. weapons stocks programmes - https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3522/text - this is also mentioned in the article you linked to which said "But in this case, the US government is bypassing the usual regulations governing such transactions by accepting that there is no guarantee that any of the equipment (given by Land-Lease - IanH insert) will actually be returned or paid for after the end of the conflict."

Additionally, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Minister has said that the US has not actually sent any military hardware via Lend/Lease yet as Ukraine can't afford it, so the US is using it's own budget (via the 3 programmes mentioned above and not Lend/Lease) to keep sending military hardware - https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-still-not-received-lend-153111029.html (from this original Ukrainian news report).

I know it sound like like I'm being nit-picky but both those parts did need a little clarification so as not to give a false impression.
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Fair corrections.
 
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