Posted on 07/11/2024 1:24:01 PM PDT by hardspunned
Western-provided F-16 fighter jets are on their way to Ukraine and set to start flying missions later this summer.
But they may not yet be enough to make a difference on the battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy indicated in a discussion this week on what Ukraine needs, comparing the jets to the US-made Abrams tanks that Ukraine got last fall.
Asked by Fox News' host Bret Baier at the Reagan Institute if the 31 Abrams Ukraine received as its counteroffensive was already stumbling made a difference, Zelenskyy said: "I'm not sure that such number of tanks can change the situation on the battlefield."
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another good video example of mighty power not always being enough is the one from Vietnam era to Fortunate Son as depicted in the famous movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-6vxLXj9M
WOW, are you even aware that putin is a dictator?
If you feel that adamant about it, travel across the pond, enlist in the Ukrainian military, and head to the front lines as a volunteer. You’ll be next to citizens of Ukraine pulled out of their homes and conscripted to go die in a globalist money-laundering war.
Of course he’s a dictator. So is Zelensky, who even cancels elections as he sends middle-aged mechanics and janitors die on the front lines.
Can’t vote him out for a president who may negotiate for peace so they get to go fight and die.
“The West needs to give Volodymyr Zelenskyy nuclear weapons.”
“Under Article I of the NPT, nuclear-weapon states pledge not to transfer nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices to any recipient or in any way assist, encourage or induce any non-nuclear-weapon state in the manufacture or acquisition of a nuclear weapon.”
“Non-parties
(India, Israel, Pakistan, South Sudan)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons
Then get your shit from somewhere else, and save American taxpayers some money.
After 25 years of leading Russia and knowing he is president for the rest of his life, naturally people speak of Putin as Russia.
Go finance this proxy war with Russia yourself. I’ve done it enough in the past 50 years.
“Zelenskyy says the problem with the coming F-16 fighter jets is the same one Ukraine had with the Abrams tanks”
They both suck and that’s because the Leftists running the country and our military (and supported by the Zeepers, by the way) actually BELIEVED that Russia was a “gas station with nukes”. After all, why else did they even try fielding about the EASIEST navigation on the planet to jam, which is GPS?
Yes, the problem will be the same as with the M1 tanks, the dumb SOBs don’t know how to use them. Drive tanks down a road you know is mined, wander around in open fields with one unsupported tank, no infantry support, no artillery. Hell yes, the gator will get your granny and Ivan will blow up your tank. Same will go with the F 16.
“Get Ukraine everything they need to defeat putin!
This isn’t rocket science...”
Yep. American troops. That’s wat they need.
But send them to us if you want, as long as you give my friends billions in cash.
The planes belong to those countries not the US. They are home.
This globohomo wil never be satisfied. I am convinced that there will never be an end to the war as long as he’s in power.
How I loved the Phantom. It even looks wicked. And watched them work out delivering ordinance to commies, what a sight to watch.
I see. Okay wrll the planes can stay home and not go to Ukraine where they’re not wanted.
“GPS on a commercial level is pretty easy to jam or spoof, but encrypted military-grade GPS is a good bit more robust. And not something Ukraine has access to.”
You got a link for that (from a credible source), or are you just a Zeeper pulling shit out of thin air to try to keep this horrific war going through the election?
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