Ukraine demands speedier weapons deliveries from West to confront Russian pressure

Reuters ^ | 16 Jan 2023 | Herbert Villarrga and Tom Balmforth

[blueplum]

demands, y'all. Who wants to be the first to tell Zelensky we're broke and they need to make do with what they have already been given?

[mylife]

bite me vlod

[Governor Dinwiddie]

K.M.R.I.A

[yuleeyahoo]

Faster delivery, more mercenaries and another $10 billion.

[AnthonySoprano]

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Money laundering has to be done right.

That can’t be rushed.

[CapandBall]

Translation:“Hurry up bi*ch, there is a line”

[Trumpisourlastchance]

The only way Ukr survives is to stop weapons deliveries and they surrender on best terms they can get.

But that is not what the US/EU want.

[Allegra]

Uppity foreigner in a t-shirt says what?

[Brian Griffin]

I didn’t see Zelensky’s name on my 2020 ballot.

[Trump20162020]

[sport]

It was spelled: J-O-E B-I-D-E-N

What Zelensky wishes, the Biden worshipers make happen.

[SaxxonWoods]

Hey, we are busy picking pronouns. Call back next month.

[rlmorel]

Demand in one hand. Crap in the other. See which fills up first.

However, given that Biden is involved, his demand might be met in conjunction with his hand filling up with crap.

[TheConservativeTejano]

How can this guy being a "Giant 3rd Grade Brain" be our POTUS!!!

Joe Biden just barely has a 3rd Grade Brain right now after that surgery to stop the bleeding in his brain aneurysm.

[lepton]

Don’t they already have enough weapons coming in fast?

[AnthonySoprano]

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Buyers are getting impatient.

[mass55th]

They can’t keep up with the demand from the black market.

[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

When the Normandy landings were delayed because of the difficulty in putting together enough men and resources in 1943, the Russians threatened a separate peace with Hitler. This was on top of the Russians having supplied the Germans for their blitzkrieg against the West and colluded with Hitler to divide Poland up. Only with Hitler’s invasion of Russia did they finally fight Germany - literally to avoid being exterminated to the last man, woman and child in accordance with Hitler’s personal obsessions about eliminating certain ethnies from the gene pool.

The Ukrainians are just asking for more materials, not direct intervention, as the Russians were. We gave the Russians 14,000 tanks and 13,000 planes. So far, 0 tanks and 0 planes for the Ukrainians. No particular surprise Ukraine is getting antsy - the Russians are gearing up for another big attack, and the Ukrainians would like to be ready.

Unlike Russia in WWII, Ukraine doesn’t have a production base of its own over a thousand miles away from the the front lines, out of range of enemy munitions. That’s why it needs Western equipment and munitions to fight on. Many of the major structures capable of churning out big ticket military gear have been hammered by Russian smart bombs. And simply getting and transporting the raw materials necessary to build those items, at a time when infrastructure is randomly bombed, is no picnic.

https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html

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https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1861311
[STALINGRAD INAUGURATED the most intriguing period of Soviet wartime diplomacy. The great battle brought a crushing defeat to Hitler but did not strengthen the solidarity of his enemies. In fact the Russians began almost immediately to put that solidarity to test. They harassed the British personnel attached to the arms convoys, interfering with their navigation and subjecting them to various indignities.43 The official Soviet press was conspicuously deficient in acknowledging American lend-lease deliveries, a deficiency that prompted public criticism by the United States ambassador, William H. Standley, and an angry Russian reaction in return.44 Most im- portant, in both his public and his confidential statements Stalin indicated doubts about the suitability of the Allied coalition as a vehicle for his interests.

On February 23, 1943, Stalin’s address on the Day of the Red Army did not even mention the Allies.45 It presented the war as an exclusively Soviet- German affair. Stalin’s words were not calculated to reassure Western military planners, many of whom feared that the Russians would stop fighting once they reached their prewar frontiers. Indeed the sharp curtail- ment of offensive operations by the Red Army on March 15, 1943, tended to confirm rather than to destroy that disturbing hypothesis.46 The unprece- dented calm that afterwards prevailed on the battlefields of the eastern front was perhaps justified by the great exertions of the recent months. But the beginning of the calm also coincided to a day with Stalin’s “most em- phatic warnings” in a reply to Churchill’s notification of further obstacles to an early landing in Europe.]

[dfwgator]

Soviet propaganda and movies about the war often portrayed Britain and the US as trying to make secret deals with the Nazis against the Soviets.

[Sunsong]

Dmitry Peskov essentially just said:

‘helping Ukraine demonstrates *anti-russian* attitudes

things are becoming real

get Ukraine all the weapons they need to win