[PilotDave]

It's looking like the Ukraine military planners have prepared wisely. The Javelin and mlaw anti Armour missiles plus manpad shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles are wrecking Putin's plans. The western airforce could end this current situation in a couple of days. What would Purina be willing to escalate to is the problem. But right now every current and former A10 pilot is chomping at the bit. This is the exact cold war scenario they've been training for for 50 years.

[montag813]

Another week of this and the Politburo will stab the KGB dwarf with a poison umbrella

[PIF]

Our Lady Saint Javelin

[Dr. Franklin]

[R]ight now every current and former A10 pilot is chomping at the bit. This is the exact cold war scenario they've been training for for 50 years.

A competent president could dust off the Lend-Lease Act strategy, and lend Ukraine some A-10's. They could then pay the pilots. The results would be spectacular.

[PilotDave]

[PIF]

The western airforce could end this current situation in a couple of days

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After all Russian fighters and SA systems had been destroyed - a highly problematic situation.

[nuconvert]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMZsE47XIAE8938?format=jpg&name=medium

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[JoanSmith]

This is called a schlock icon. That is an “icon” that is not real, and has no holiness imbued in it. The icon is not written according to the Canons, and is solely a cartoon.

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of stories of saints and the Mother of God defending the Slavic lands from invasion (mostly from Muslims). In cases where the lands were successfully defended it was because the saint appeared to the enemy and terrified them into retreat (for example: https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/08/great-miracle-of-st-spyridon-on-august.html) or a natural disaster, such as an earthquake, flood, landslide, fire, etc. disabled the invading party.

Icons where the celebrant carries weapons are understood to be fighting the real enemy, meaning the demons and the devil (for example St. George the Greatmartyr and Trophy Bearer, St. Michael the Archangel).

There are many martyrs who were sainted because they refused to murder others despite being in miltary service, and as such were killed by their countrymen, such as St. Maurice.

The image of “St. Javelin” is non-Orthodox, and is solely cultural. It carries with itself no Orthodox spirituality and in no way represents the Church.

[denydenydeny]

First sold to Ukraine by president Donald Trump in 2017 after the previous administration sent blankets.

https://www.defensenews.com/flashpoints/2018/05/23/for-first-time-ukraine-showcases-its-american-made-javelin-missiles/

[daniel1212]

There is no St. Javelin but from 12/26/17 there is

Trump Sends Tank-Killing Missile To Fight Russia in Ukraine, But What Can It Do? By John Haltiwanger On 12/26/17 at 5:53 PM EST The decision to sell the Javelin missiles also comes not long after the Trump administration approved a limited weapons sale between American manufacturers and Ukraine of Model M107A1 sniper systems, ammunition and associated equipment...It's fired from the shoulder and tracks targets via infrared (heat signature). Instead of targeting the front or sides of tanks, which are thick with armor, the missile flies in an arc and hits the top of tank where the armor is weak.. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko defended the move in a Facebook post, thanking President Donald Trump for his support. Poroshenko further described the arms sale as "a transatlantic vaccination against the Russian virus of aggression." - https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tank-killing-missile-fight-russia-ukraine-759745

[ShawnShawntheLeprecaun]

Thank you President Trump.