Posted on 09/08/2026 6:06:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Germany will send Patriot air defence missiles to Ukraine from its national stocks, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday, warning that Russia was likely to intensify its air campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure as winter approaches.
Speaking at a videoconference of nations supporting Ukraine, Pistorius said he had decided to "deliver urgently" additional PAC-2 interceptor missiles.
Patriot missiles are currently the only effective defence against Russian ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine, officials say.
"Since Russia is only advancing very slowly at the front line, it is trying to destroy Ukraine's economic base and critical infrastructure by way of air raids on port installations, power plants, and other civilian targets," Pistorius said.
"Unfortunately, we can expect Russian air raids to increase again once temperatures drop, and then the damage will be even greater," he told the meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group.
Pistorius did not say how many missiles Germany would provide.
He said Germany would also expand deliveries of air-to-air missiles and continue supplying drones and long-range ammunition to Kyiv.
Ukrainian Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said Kyiv is contracting to buy around 1,000 Patriot missiles but most would only be shipped in the coming years. He urged allies to dig into their stocks for Ukraine now, on the basis that Kyiv would replace those missiles from future deliveries.
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Germany just knows we got their backs.
Wait! Didn’t we just say that Madman Putin is about to attack Western Europe, hence the trip of Jarad/Witkoff? If so, seems we’d want to keep as many Patriots in Western Europe as possible. Looks like a contradiction.
(LOL, just kidding, we realists know EXACTLY what’s going on there)
The one for today isn’t posted yet.
Stop with the stupid straw-man argument. Look at a map, Germany is not next door to Russia.
Putin is a current threat to his neighbors, the small Baltic states with their high Russian populations.
So when Trump announced he was sending 5,000 US troops to Poland, he was not being a "realist" like you? Okay
President Donald Trump announced on May 22, 2026, that the United States will send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland.
(https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/22/us-deepens-european-uncertainty-with-deployment-of-5000-troops-to-poland)
“Stop with the stupid straw-man argument. Look at a map, Germany is not next door to Russia.”
Fine, tell your friends running the UK and Germany to SHUT UP about being invaded by Russia. Besides the geography, there’s NO DAMN REASON for Russia to want another 40 million insane Muslims. It was hard enough for them to get their own Muslims behaving.
Maybe Russia takes out Zelensky and ends this madness. Without, it is just a shell game for the monied interests.
Again with the straw-man, Stop!
UK and Germany are not yelling about being invaded by Putin. Germany has called out Putin for his "hybrid" war and the UK criticized the Russian spokeswoman who threatened attacks on UK bases.
Also, tell your friends running Russia to SHUT UP with their threats against the West.
Maria Zakharova stated: Russia is well within its right to retaliate to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons by targeting "any British military facilities and equipment in Ukraine and beyond."
Maria Zakharova stated Russia is well within its right to retaliate to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons by targeting "any British military facilities and equipment in Ukraine and beyond."
Germany Calls Out Putin’s ‘Hybrid’ War
The Interior Minister says Russia was behind a drone airport attack.
Germany said Tuesday that Russia was responsible for a drone attack at Leipzig airport last month, and the Kremlin role is no great surprise. The news is that the Germans are finally calling out Vladimir Putin’s reckless escalations against the NATO alliance.
“We do not consider ourselves at war but we are the daily target of hybrid warfare,” German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/germany-leipzig-airport-drone-russia-nato-iran-1df66c1e
Would be pointless. There is no top Ukrainian leadership that advocates surrendering to Putin.
Pukraine is wiiiiinning
Elenski is an idiot. If he were gone they might accidentally pick someone competent.
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