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Pentagon chief urges allies to provide advanced air defense systems for Ukraine
The Hill ^ | 09/19/2023 | NICK ROBERTSON

Posted on 09/19/2023 7:13:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is encouraging U.S. allies to “dig deep” and provide more air defense systems for Ukraine, saying that the munitions could be critical to stop Russian missile barrages.

“Air defense is saving lives,” Austin said at a meeting of NATO and allied military leaders in Germany. “So I urge this group to continue to dig deep on ground-based air defense for Ukraine. We must continue to push hard to provide Ukraine with air-defense systems and interceptors.”

Tuesday marked the 15th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, made up of military leaders from more than 50 nations focused on supporting Kyiv against the Russian invasion.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: airdefense; allies; pentagon; ukraine; wwiii
Austin is a scum bag
1 posted on 09/19/2023 7:13:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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2 posted on 09/19/2023 7:15:56 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Austin is an Affirmative Action scum bag.


3 posted on 09/19/2023 7:16:28 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They don’t need weapons, they need Soldiers...

UKRAINE CAN WIN THIS WAR if we conscripted every blood relative of ALL Federal Employee’s between the age of 17-35 and sent them to the Front Lines to Fight for their Families wishes...in Ukraine.


4 posted on 09/19/2023 7:18:36 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

FR certainly has several dozen loudmouth globohomo internet warriors to offer up.


5 posted on 09/19/2023 7:23:41 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

MAGA-Dittos to what you said. I thought the Ukies were kicking Russki Butt? Why do they need air defense systems? They’ve sunk every ship and submarine that the Russki had.


6 posted on 09/19/2023 7:23:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes, excellent idea. Let’s deplete all of our Patriot Missile inventory in Ukraine, which will then give China free reign to attack Taiwan with no U.S. air defense assets left to deploy in the Taiwan theater.


7 posted on 09/19/2023 7:28:09 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If you think about it, regardless of the effectiveness of the Russian Military, they have a lot more men, air defense systems, artillery, air force, etc.

If the USA were really trying to help Ukraine win this war, we would have given them Tanks, Jet Fighters including training, and advanced air defense systems, early on in this war, instead of dribbling it out over the last 1.5 years.

The Warmongers in Washington and in NATO don’t really care if Ukraine wins as long as they kill Russians and drag them further into this quagmire, meanwhile 10s of thousands of Ukrainians have been killed and the infrastructure of Ukraine has been destroyed, all to be rebuilt by American Companies backed up by Wall Street investment firms.


8 posted on 09/19/2023 7:29:08 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If you think about it, regardless of the effectiveness of the Russian Military, they have a lot more men, air defense systems, artillery, air force, etc.

If the USA were really trying to help Ukraine win this war, we would have given them Tanks, Jet Fighters including training, and advanced air defense systems, early on in this war, instead of dribbling it out over the last 1.5 years.

The Warmongers in Washington and in NATO don’t really care if Ukraine wins as long as they kill Russians and drag them further into this quagmire, meanwhile 10s of thousands of Ukrainians have been killed and the infrastructure of Ukraine has been destroyed, all to be rebuilt by American Companies backed up by Wall Street investment firms.


9 posted on 09/19/2023 7:29:08 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

I agree 100%. This whole Ukrainian fiasco is as big a fraud as the Let’s Go Brandon! administration is.


10 posted on 09/19/2023 7:35:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I thought the Ukies were kicking Russki Butt? “

so you mean theres no truth to rural Ukranian farmers destroying columns of Russian tanks?

In all honesty, this war is probably nothing more then a few local operations in a few oblasts....
it certainly isn’t a major war.


11 posted on 09/19/2023 7:38:56 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Canada is thinking about providing air defense to Ukraine but does Canada have it’s own air defense ?


12 posted on 09/19/2023 7:40:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The Ukranian Government including Zelensky are in on this fraud, if the situation in Ukraine really gets serious and Zelensky and his Oligarch friends get in real danger of getting killed, they will flee the country and live somewhere they can live like kings on the money they’ve stolen.

I think most of the ordinary citizens in Ukraine have figured this out, that’s by MILLIONS have fled the country, especially military aged men, that’s why Ukrainian Authorities are running around grabbing men off the streets and sending them to the military, given a couple of weeks of training and sending them to the front.


13 posted on 09/19/2023 7:43:51 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Jaysin

“Truth is the first casualty of war.” - Who cares if Hiram Johnson didn’t say it exactly that way. It’s still true.


14 posted on 09/19/2023 7:44:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: eyeamok

I second your proposal. 100%


15 posted on 09/19/2023 9:24:45 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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