Posted on 09/21/2022 10:03:58 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to call up 300,000 reservists should prod the West to send the longer-range artillery and more technologically advanced weapons that Kyiv will need to press its advantage in the harsh winter months ahead, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said Wednesday.
Volodymyr Havrylov’s list is topped by the ATACMS, a missile that can outrange the artillery rockets Ukraine is currently using, and fighter jets, which Washington has been reluctant to provide out of fear that Russia would escalate the nearly seven-month-old war.
“I think after today's announcement [by] Putin, we are closer to a political decision here in Washington, D.C., that Ukraine deserves and really needs to be provided with ATACMS,” Havrylov said at a conference sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association in Austin, Texas.
Ukraine’s highly successful use of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, has prompted the Russians to move its ammunition depots and logistics hubs more than 100 kilometers from the front lines, Havrylov said. That places them out of the range of HIMARS.
“If we had a capability to destroy the targets of the depots to 100 kilometers [away], it would be a total disaster for Russia,” he said. “That's why we're asking for ATACMS,” which has a published range of 300 km.
Polls: Americans Oppose Increasing Ukraine Aid, Defending Global Democracy
9/21/22
Two new polls from Morning Consult and Concerned Veterans for America show at least a plurality of Americans are tired of interventionism. The results show twice as many Americans want to send less aid to Ukraine than those who would support sending more. Meanwhile, only 17% of Americans are concerned about defending democracy around the globe.
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It’s all fun and games till Kiev gets turned into pavement...
Six months ago Putin was merely in a war of aggression to restore the old Soviet Empire. Today he is in a war to preserve his dictatorial power. He is in a corner and most dangerous.
If this most unfortunately becomes a contest between NATO and Russia he will lose his ass in conventional warfare. It will then go nuclear and there will be no winners.
Our leader if he is our leader is Joe Biden and he is mentally compromised.
We live in most dangerous times. Who really has the finger on our nuclear button. Is it his wife, his staff, etc? Our enemies do not know and this is most destabilizing. Our president is not our president. He can not even read a teleprompter properly and then does not know how to walk off the stage. He is lost.
Haven’t you got enough to do sticking your nose in Brazil’s politics
Turnabout is fair play.
Your friends are such nice people.
I’m glad that I annoyed you enough to interrupt your daily Wax and Simoniz of Zel’s posterior.
#1. I’m not sure if Ukraine needs or should have ATACMS. Putting a few dozen in warehouses on backroads in Poland couldn’t hurt, now could it?
You do have a gift there, I have to say.
I’m not sure which unearthly being blessed you in this way, but I have my suspicions.
Nobody cares.
Go to Truth Social, or Gettr. Right wing alternatives to twit. Know how many conversations are about Ukraine?
None.
Zero.
Zip.
Stop poluting this board with pro-Biden, pro-globalista crap.
No denial of your place in the Zelenskyy human centipede, I see.
Here, I’ll throw this log on that fire. We’re in such bad shape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(United_States)
“Since 2015, Congress has been selling the oil in the reserve to fund the deficit, in unpublicized sales.”
And your bunch is so polite
Some are the worst I’ve seen since Schiavo wars here
They will not tolerate anyone asking why they suddenly trust the media again
Nobody ever answers that question
Before you call me a Putin lover
I’m riding with
Bannon
Tucker
Borbert
MtG
Vance
Navarro
Gaetz
Laura Ingraham
Mike Flynn
Gosar
Charlie Kirk
Massie
Trump at times
Rand Paul
Mollie Hemingway
Hawley
Prosobiec
I can live with that group
Dinesh
Crenshaw
Most federalist society
Three i disagree with at times but thought I’d toss em in lol
Well, I support all that lot.
But being a foreigner again (after 40 years in the US) , your politics is your business.
Over here the POV is somewhat different. We have conservative parties, some considerably more conservative than yours, like the Spanish Vox and the Sweden Democrats, not to mention ruling parties in several countries. All of them are pro Ukraine.
Where are u
Sorry I misunderstood your position before
My apologies
I was wrong
I lived and worked outside the us for 14 years
I’m a southerner though butternut 100% culturally
Haiti
Jamaica
Colombia
Brasil
London
Schweiz at times
Israel some
Sierra Leone
Bunch more but less time on the ground
I am Spanish, a Basque actually.
But born and raised in the Philippines.
Anyway, the Ukraine situation has very little to do with US politics. The politics of Ukraine in Europe does not map to the arguments going on here. Nor is it part of a globalist conspiracy.
barack obama. He pulls Lying Joe Biden’s strings. He is assisted by George Soros. And the people love , adore and worship all three of the bastards.
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