[Zhang Fei]

[No. None of the Russian provided equipment was their best. Od F-16 variants would be a good analogy. ]

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Mig-21’s were a decade old when they handed them to North Vietnam. F-16’s have been around for over 40 years. Aircraft are a lot more valuable than artillery. The skies are the ultimate high ground. That’s precisely why they’ve been denied to Ukraine. Western leaders are strangling Ukraine while pretending to prop it up because their voters are aghast at the carnage Russia is inflicting while simultaneously being impressed at the valor displayed by Ukrainian fighting men and women.

[Jim Noble]

their voters are aghast at the carnage Russia is inflicting while simultaneously being impressed at the valor displayed by Ukrainian fighting men and women

Actually, we don't give a crap.

[familyop]

"Western leaders are strangling Ukraine while pretending to prop it up because their voters are aghast at the carnage Russia is inflicting while simultaneously being impressed at the valor displayed by Ukrainian fighting men and women."

They're afraid that Ukrainians will hit targets in Russia with western equipment. And they're afraid of that, because the Russians have repeatedly implied threats to launch nuclear weapons (nuclear blackmail, terrorism). Each politician wants to kick that can into the next politician's term, so they allow communist/fascist expansionism to continue towards a much more difficult war in the near future. It's a recurring historical error.