Posted on 08/10/2025 12:16:24 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine is an economic basket case.
Ukraine is going to want defensive weapons it can’t make itself and funds to maintain its army of properly trained, combat-proven soldiers.
Hopefully, the EU will pony up the money, but Europeans are known to hold on tightly to money.
Hopefully, Ukraine can supply drones and combat training to the US/EU to help compensate for EU/US contributions.
$elensky* will want his presidential palms greased.
A few billion a year is cheap by Pentagon standards to secure the southeast front of NATO.
*[Conservative Treehouse]
“Graham is as Republican as Romney or McCain. Sorry if you like him”
I have a more favorable view of Florida black snakes.
“activates the more severe response”
WIKI
The Phoney War (French: Drôle de guerre; German: Sitzkrieg; Polish: Dziwna wojna) was an eight-month period at the outset of World War II, during which there were virtually no Allied military land operations on the Western Front from roughly September 1939 to May 1940.
The U.S. foreign correspondent William Shirer was assigned to Berlin at the onset of World War II. In his diary entries on 9 and 10 September 1939, he wrote about the puzzlement felt by many:
Apparently the war in Poland is all but over. Most of the correspondents a bit depressed. Britain and France have done nothing on the western front to relieve the tremendous pressure on Poland.… One week after the Anglo-French declaration of a state of war the average German is beginning to wonder if it’s a world war after all. He sees it this way. England and France, it is true, are formally fulfilling their obligations to Poland. For a week they have been formally at war with Germany. But has it been war? they ask. The British, it is true, sent over twenty-five planes to bomb Wilhelmshaven. But if it is war, why only twenty-five? And if it is war, why only a few leaflets over the Rhineland? The industrial heart of Germany lies along the Rhine close to France. From there come most of the munitions that are blowing up Poland with such deadly effect. Yet not a bomb has fallen on a Rhineland factory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
Quit supporting the Mexican Criminal Drug Cartels.
Oh, stop it! Just stop it!! LOL After three and a half years everyone knows Russia is not a bear! Ukraine attacks anywhere and any time it wants to inside Russia. Now, Russia could not stop anyone from attacking them. China, Ukraine, NATO, Turkey or Israel...
Anyone banking on European security guarantees should recall the Srebenica massacre. The victims were supposedly under the protection of European peacekeepers.
IATS
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