I'm just hoping someone comes up with something, even if it isn't the same as the TES upgrades rather than send them out as standard.
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I'm just hoping someone comes up with something, even if it isn't the same as the TES upgrades rather than send them out as standard.
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Vous voudrais un Javelin, c’est soir?
Or how about.
Bonjour, je m’apelle LeClerc.
That’s about the limits of my high school French from a now depressingly long time ago.
The Pentagon over valued military equipment sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion
That means without needing further budget approval, $6.2 billion of more aid can be sent now
To summarise what caused this calculation error: 10 years ago the Pentagon switched its valuation methodology to account for depreciation, so that older equipment would be valued less than new equipment- after all an F14 today should not be valued as the same as an F35 that just came off the production line. But the general in charge of sending equipment to Ukraine missed the memo and used the old method and so all the decades old equipment the US has sent to Ukraine was valued at its original new cost, creating a huge over valuation
I bet other countries are doing the same thing, but not accidentally, but to make their contributions look bigger. There are other issues; Spain for example announces its sending the same equipment multiple times to confuse people into thinking they are sending more equipment than they actually are
That means without needing further budget approval, $6.2 billion of more aid can be sent now
To summarise what caused this calculation error: 10 years ago the Pentagon switched its valuation methodology to account for depreciation, so that older equipment would be valued less than new equipment- after all an F14 today should not be valued as the same as an F35 that just came off the production line. But the general in charge of sending equipment to Ukraine missed the memo and used the old method and so all the decades old equipment the US has sent to Ukraine was valued at its original new cost, creating a huge over valuation
I bet other countries are doing the same thing, but not accidentally, but to make their contributions look bigger. There are other issues; Spain for example announces its sending the same equipment multiple times to confuse people into thinking they are sending more equipment than they actually are
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Probably tow them away in Citroën 2CVs
Head of the German BfV: Russian propaganda is creating growth in right wing extremism in Germany, against the back drop of trying to justify this war, which is against international law. In general the Russian diaspora in Germany do not support the war, but there is a vocal minority who do engage with the propaganda. From now on we will have to start putting people who support Russian propaganda and support the war under surveillance to watch them
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Pentagon accounting error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid
The Pentagon says it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years, resulting in a surplus that will be used for future security packages.
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That's one hell of an accounting error
Pentagon accounting error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid
The Pentagon says it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years, resulting in a surplus that will be used for future security packages.
Standard MIC behaviour.
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It makes you wonder if they've done it on purpose, get a bill through for intentionally overpriced gear, then say the gear was accounted wrong, so there's money spare for future donations without needing to go through congressional approval as it's already approved in the amount previously passed
5 tanks in a Squadron, so i think its a little bit more tbh
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Bad news guys, Ukraine is losing and Biden and Boris thwarted a peace deal because they love war according to David Sacks and Elon.
That dosnt sound right. Pretty sure there is more than 5 to a Sqn, that sounds more like a troop. with a Sqn comprising of 3 troops plus a Sqn command element. Maybe I'm thinking old money. I'm not a tanky mind, I just work with some, so I hear bits and bobs in conversation.
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I would imagine they can pretty much pluck a figure out of their arses for what this stuff is worth now. Obviously its not worth what it was when it was built.
Im tired, 5 to a troop - 14 to a squadron (sorry)
Wasn't there the same sort of story only a month or two ago?Pentagon accounting error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid
The Pentagon says it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years, resulting in a surplus that will be used for future security packages.
I don't get how any remotely not brain dead person can come out with things like "the peace which could have been" or some other forms of talk about how there should be negotiations, etc. - yes there "should" be negotiations and most reasonable people would hope this could be resolved with negotiations but it is crystal clear from a raft of sources irrespective of any propaganda that the ground for successful negotiation which result in a less bad outcome let alone a good one simply aren't there. Talk about negotiations, etc. is just wasting your own time and everyone else's with empty headed nonsense even if well intended as I suspect is the case sometimes, and not so much others.
The way this is going things are going to get a lot worse before they get better and partly that is due to people (individuals, governments and whatever whether able to directly influence events or not) not looking far enough ahead.
Are you struggling to read again? At no point in that Tweet did he say Boris and Biden love war. You're actually just lying in a lot of your posts now it seems.
Granted he doesn't directly say it but the subtext of the full tweet heavily implies that they benefit from/wanted to see war.
The premise of the Tweet is fairly flawed as it mostly revolves around the document Putin showed the African delegation:
But in the same round of meetings Putin also told the African leaders Ukraine had always refused talks.
So one of those can't be true...
EDIT: Also interesting there is a comment there about receive security guarantees from the West as part of the presentation by Putin as the agreement included cutting off any involvement with Western military organisations.
End of the day though why would anyone agree to such a thing - you'd have to be completely desperate to agree to make yourself vulnerable and make it an easy task for someone threatening your peace and security by force. If Russia was remotely negotiating in good faith they'd have come to some kind of phased agreement not one which left the target of their intimidation defenceless.
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Yeah, I'm not commenting on whether a peace deal is good, bad or achievable. Simply that the author of that tweet actually went to lengths to provide accurate information that is being presented unfairly again by Colonel_Klinck. Personally I think a peace deal is somewhere at the end of a road that we're simply determining the length and cost of in lives and money.
I'm happy to be proved wrong and Ukraine defeats Russia, but the opposite isn't off the table either.
I don't think the subtext is that anyone loves war and I don't think that's suggested.
I'm happy to be proved wrong and Ukraine defeats Russia, but the opposite isn't off the table either.
I don't think the subtext is that anyone loves war and I don't think that's suggested.
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