Ukrainian Artillery losses Running Total: 170
RuZZian Tank losses RunningTotal: 1579
December 2022 – 56
November 2022 – 105
October 2022 – 212
September 2022 - 217
August 2022 – 74
July 2022 – 108
June 2022 – 67
May 2022 – 148
April 2022 – 243
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 350
RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 453
December 2022 – 19
November 2022 – 55
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
“U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is in the Latvian capital of Riga to meet with other members of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), a U.K.-led alliance of European militaries that share tactical knowledge and conduct joint training exercises to increase interoperability.
He is set to announce a new artillery package for Ukraine and urge other member nations to continue their support for Ukraine. He will meet British troops in neighboring Estonia later in the day.”
Dec 19, 2022
Forbes has published an article attempting to dismiss concerns over extremism among the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces as Russian propaganda, but admits that it had been a problem that Ukraine has since “fixed.”
Unfortunately, a screenshot included in the article is from a video that proves exactly the opposite - that extremism in Ukraine’s armed forces is worse than ever and openly benefiting from Western weapons and equipment flooding the country.
The many references to articles in the Western media about Ukraine's neo-Nazi problem at link.
When it comes to funding a war that will enrich them, their commitment is for “as long as it takes.”
Congress has $68 billion in taxpayer funds for overall aid for Ukraine just this year alone and could pass tens of billions more before the year’s end. Biden has asked Congress for $38 billion more (coincidentally, $38 billion is the amount of money Zelensky recently requested to fulfill his 2023 budget deficit). Even when the GOP controls the House expect very little change. It must be remembered that the fund being dispatched have tracking or transparency measures.
The U.S. and its allies have procured around $50 billion worth of U.S. weaponry in the past last year; of this amount, the U.S. taxpayer funded $19.3 billion just for Ukraine.
All of this is occurring while the U.S. going through myriad serious crises such as high inflation, high gas prices, a fragile economy, a crime wave, a drug crisis, and an uncontrolled influx of illegal aliens — all of this is owing to Biden’s misgovernance.
Ukrainian officials claim that nearly 20,000 foreign volunteers have signed up to fight alongside Ukrainian forces against the Russian invasion. What if some of the unvetted mercenaries have links to terror groups? They could sell this weaponry on the black market. (In fact, they already are — American arms from Ukraine are beginning to “filter” into Africa, to ISIS and Boko Haram.) They could use it to attack American interests either on foreign soil or in the U.S. itself.
But the powers that be have no interest in what happens within the U.S. because there is little to gain from it.
This is exactly what Eisenhower warned about in 1961.
I will try to post today’s WiU tomorrow - Doctors appt kept me busy today.