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Posted on 04/20/2026 9:12:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Europe must have its own defense system against ballistic weapons, and Ukraine is already holding talks with several countries on its creation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.
Defense against ballistic missiles is one of Ukraine's biggest challenges in the war with Russia, since only certain types of missiles used by the American Patriot system are capable of intercepting Russian ballistic missiles.
Russia uses ballistic missiles to attack Ukraine's energy infrastructure, destroying thermal power generation and electricity transmission systems.
"I believe, and my idea is that we should have a European anti-ballistic missile defense system. We are in talks with several countries and are working in this direction," Zelenskiy told the national TV channel, Marathon.
"We need to build our own anti-ballistic missile defense system within a year," he added.
Zelenskiy said the task is extremely difficult but realistic, and added that he had already discussed it with key European countries, though he did not name them.
He gave no more details.
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ROFL!! Europe can’t even afford to put aside money for their own defense, especially NATO countries. Spain, who wasn’t even up to the 2% funding of their GDP, wouldn’t agree to the 5% recently agreed to by all the other nations. They whined, and got a special 3.5% rate. It’s good to be a communist, and have a wife charged with corruption.
Power it by electric motors and solar panels and windmills will they?
Why does *Ukraine* need to convince them of this? They can’t decide to do this themselves...like, yesterday?
i remember sdi, aka star wars, president reagan is a visionary
Rather than a supplicant for American aid, Ukraine has become a profit source from arms deals for this administration. Rather than becoming an orphan, Ukraine has formed partnerships for mutual weapons production with Europe. The world's foremost technician of drone warfare, Ukraine has positioned itself as the centerpiece of drone defense treaties in the Persian Gulf.
In about two years the world has gone from watching President Trump rudely dismissing the Ukrainian leader on television in the Oval Office, "you have no cards," to world leaders now half seriously joking among themselves if a surging Ukraine would actually accept association with NATO. History is vindicating Zelinski, not Trump.
It is noticeable how less and less frequently the disparagements of President Zelinski and of his courageous country are appearing in this forum.
Perhaps the inevitability of Russian victory is no longer so clear. Maybe the exaggerated costs of support of Ukraine are being understood as the propaganda they were when falsely uttered by the president. Could it be that the revelations by DOGE of endemic corruption in America and the revelations of corruption in Minnesota, California, Maine, and elsewhere are causing some conservatives to gain a less hypocritical perspective about the inflated allegations of corruption in Ukraine? Perhaps the diminutive size of President Zelinski is not as relevant as it was even a few months ago. Perhaps resourcefulness and ingenuity at a tactical and strategic level have caused President Zelinski to grow a few inches.
Maybe, just maybe, the extraordinary valor of Ukraine, its courageous struggle for its very existence in the face of great odds, its steadfastness in the face of desertion by America, is causing some conservatives here to question our misplaced arrogance?
Another (an even more unlikely maybe), maybe the resourcefulness of NATO and Europe in uniting and coming to the support of Ukraine in the wake of abandonment by America, will cause some conservatives to reassess our hubristic dismissal of NATO and Europe. Maybe we will begin to acknowledge that we consciously estranged NATO, rather than the other way around, even as we abandoned Ukraine, as we recognize that NATO and Europe did not abandon Ukraine. Perhaps we will see that Europe and NATO are in fact reforming and that maybe NATO could actually become one of our great assets and bulwarks against very dark forces.
The US and Israel have invested 50 years and trillions of dollars to develop and deploy effective missile defense systems. To think that the EU is going to be able to come in and duplicate that effort with Ukraine taking the lead is absurd and the hubris is of the charts.
These people don't even know what they don't know.
Hold on to your wallets.
Ukraine is the foremost technician in drone warfare ?
You need to get out more.
The US is by far the world leader in drone warfare. Nobody else even cones close to second place.
The Ukraine has some expertise with battlefield applications of small drones and FPV systems in a low threat, permissive environment but they do not even come close to US drone capabilities.
Modern drone warfare is won or lost not only on technical quality but on affordability to scale against swarms. Hence, even the United States is being tutored by Ukraine.
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