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Ukraine was in trouble already — now it openly admits it's on track to lose
Business Insider ^ | April 17, 2024 | Tom Porter and Mia Jankowicz

Posted on 04/17/2024 9:29:30 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's president, is warning with increasing urgency that his country could lose the war if it doesn't get $60 billion in US aid that Republicans in Congress are refusing to release.

"Can we hold our ground? No," Zelenskyy recently told PBS of Ukraine's prospects should it not get the funding.

On the front line in east and south Ukraine, reports say the situation is increasingly desperate, with Russia outfiring Ukraine at a rate of three to one. Parts of the front line are also dangerously close to collapse.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americalast; killkillkillforpeace; miajankowicz; mic; psychomaximus; tomporter; ukraine; zeepersdeeplysad; zeepershithardest
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Ukraine is on track to lose.
1 posted on 04/17/2024 9:29:30 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Apparently Buck$ can’t buy 155mm shells as usage exceeds current western production capacity.


2 posted on 04/17/2024 9:31:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Navy Patriot

That’s why the corruptocrisy is rushing to get more money into the kickback machine.


3 posted on 04/17/2024 9:35:03 PM PDT by Fido969 (Ia)
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To: Paladin2

We have millions of 155mm DPICM shells ready to ship to Ukraine immediately after Congressional funding is approved.


4 posted on 04/17/2024 9:37:41 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Navy Patriot

Its always been on the track to lose. Yet the Democrat/Deep-state money laundering and political black-box operation continued apace

Now its just further down the track.


5 posted on 04/17/2024 9:38:36 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Navy Patriot

This war is still going on?

Ukraine ran out of munitions and men 14 times.

From day one-this ends at whichever comes first-Putin decides it is time to end it or President Trump floods the world with oil.

Get the victory speech ready-when President Trump floods the world with oil and sends Vlad back to the poor house-

like magic Putin will have gained exactly what he was after all along.


6 posted on 04/17/2024 9:59:39 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Navy Patriot

Missiles and shells don’t dig trenches or rebuild wrecked fortifications. $61 B will be barely enough to keep the rump state afloat for a while.


7 posted on 04/17/2024 10:01:48 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: marcusmaximus

Biden could ship them on his own authority, and their promise to pay, at any time.

He did just that with tank ammunition in December for Israel.

He doesn’t do it because they don’t want to help Ukraine. They want the issue.

They could ship cluster munitions and land mines in the millions right now, if they really wanted to stabilize the front.

Those are both in inventory in the millions.

The REgime knows Ukraine will lose. Most here think they want to push the final collapse past the election.

But I think they want the collapse before the election, so they can try to use it against Trump and Repubs.


8 posted on 04/17/2024 10:05:13 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Navy Patriot
Time to pull the plug, and take it off life support.

9 posted on 04/17/2024 10:05:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Navy Patriot

“Ukraine is on track to lose.”

I’ve been hearing this for over two years now. Nothing new is happening aside from Ruzzia getting hit at home. Like they deserve.


10 posted on 04/17/2024 10:09:25 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: Reverend Wright

The 155mm DPICM shells are sitting in Korea and ready to be shipped to Ukraine Those will be sent first after funding is approved.


11 posted on 04/17/2024 10:13:56 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: MeganC

Russia has advanced less than 8 miles west after “conquering” Bakhmut almost a year ago. Less than 8 miles in 12 months. The real story over the past 12 months is Ukraine’s continued demilitarization of Russian capabilities in Crimea and the western Black Sea.


12 posted on 04/17/2024 10:19:42 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

The USA has millions in inventory.

This is from the mid 90’s, but the numbers were confirmed when activists in the second Obama Administration were trying to get him to destroy all the land mines and cluster munitions. 4 million M483A1

(scroll down a bit for the DOD printout)

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/on-shells-and-armor-the-war-of-sustainment?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fartillery&utm_medium=reader2


13 posted on 04/17/2024 10:22:26 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: marcusmaximus

Biden does need “funding”. He can declare a “national security emergency” and send them on his own executive order.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/politics/biden-congress-israel-military-aid/index.html


14 posted on 04/17/2024 10:24:36 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright; marcusmaximus

That is, Biden DOES NOT need “funding”...


15 posted on 04/17/2024 10:25:58 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: marcusmaximus

I agree. Mighty Ruzzia looks like a pathetic joke, doesn’t it?

And their best, most loyal troops spend their days posting fantasies on this forum.


16 posted on 04/17/2024 10:26:10 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: marcusmaximus
The 155mm DPICM shells are sitting in Korea and ready to be shipped to Ukraine Those will be sent first after funding is approved.

You must be pleased that your master and commander, Speaker Johnson, is about to stab conservatives in the back just so Ukraine can get a type of ordnance they don't want.

17 posted on 04/17/2024 10:26:36 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Navy Patriot

Hey, I have a brilliant idea! Let’s borrow ninety-one BILLION dollars and send it to the grifting losers! Let the grandkids figure out how to pay it back! Yeah, that’s the ticket!

Thanks Johnson you lowlife sh!thead.


18 posted on 04/17/2024 10:28:35 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Reverend Wright

The congressional funding will be approved soon and you’ll be able to watch the supply flights from Korea to Poland on all the real time flight tracking apps.


19 posted on 04/17/2024 10:29:18 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Real conservatives don’t appease Russia.


20 posted on 04/17/2024 10:31:08 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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