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There was an agreement recently to aquire 88 F-35s in Canada to replace our old CF-18s. Also, Canada has a number of Leopard 2s. Hoping it's one of these or both.
Wish we could provide more.
No country should suffer Russian aggression. >

Who didn't see that coming when June HI:MA:RS got going.  Plenty of cope on Russia's supposedly unlimited ammo stocks and how cheap/easy to make shells - ignoring logistics of supply and use.
Same goes for missiles. Same goes for trucks.  Same goes for mobiks.
Ukraine doesn't have to beat the entirety of Russia. Just carve them out of their country one slice at a time. >

For those who say "Iran is already sanctioned enough":
This is nonsense, sanctions (especially from Europe) are actually pretty lenient. >

Also this is a typical "argument" by people who fundamentally do not understand diplomacy and politics.
For each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. This sanction is the cost that has been attached to misbehaviour. All existing sanctions are in response to past misbehaviour. Therefore it doesn’t matter if existing sanctions seem to be high already. >


For each perceived mis-step there has to be a specific sanction. 

It's clear that specific sanctions for particular mis-steps were not punishing enough >

Interesting that they mention that replenished VDV units are being thrown at Soledar. I didn't hear that. So it's Wagner reserves at Bakhmut and the best military units at Soledar. Really does sound like a last-ditch effort to make progress. >

Reports last night were that VDV were pulled in to Bakhmut to maintain pressure and frontline Wagner troops, rather than prisoner Mobiks, were involved in the frontal assault on Soledar.  
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The one disappointing element is that everything appears to be coordinated for the first time across most of the front with pressure maintained on Bakhmut, advance attempts in Adriivka direction and increased shelling around Kremmina. So they are really throwing everything at the Soledar push and trying to tie up UA reserves elsewhere. I can't really remember seeing any such coordination previously. 
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That level of coordination is doubly surprising to see with Lapin, who both Wagner and the Chechens have openly mocked, being appointed head of the Russian Army Main staff today.  Hopefully this was coordinated before his appointment and it will be back to one upmanship attempts and infighting from now. >

I suppose Russia was bound to get better at this eventually. It's just weird how often they follow that pattern, suffering some of the most lopsided defeats in history early in a war, and then completely flipping the script later on. 
But of course Ukraine has gotten more competent too, so as long as Russia doesn't achieve great success here the Russians will probably go back to throwing each other under the bus for awhile. >

With other words: Soledar has not fallen and people can stop dooming. Also shows how pathetic Russia has become: sacrificing thouands for places with no tactical importance. >

And also even if it falls it’s because Ukraine is playing it smart keeping their soldiers alive while Russia throws them in the meat grinder giving them a pyrrhic victory. >

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You just know when they announce they "killed" 600 Ukrainians they were all but admitting that was their loss count.  Because they can't allow themselves to be shown as incapable of tit-for-tat. >

The fuck is a "foreign intelligence provocation" in this context? >

Can't allow the foreign intelligences to demand we pay the promised compensation to relatives. So much better when people just disappear. >

Ah, I see >

Every responsible country should be looking at this war and thinking, "holy shit, we need a procurement plan to massively increase our ammunition stockpiles or an industrial plan to scale up production within a few months. >

They said that after WW1.
And WW2.
And the Korean War... >

What’s old is new; flak cannons command and conquer style >

There are a lot of early cold-war era AA guns that I feel like are probably just a radar upgrade, a raspberry pi, and a good algorithm away from being drone swarm obliterators. >

That’s the spirit! Plug them in to network with the patriot radars for bonus points and away we go >

Good news, hopefully the Greek offer to wait with their deliveries of Marders is still on the table. That would help out a lot. >

"Nazi's have little love for Jews"
"KKK members not too fond of black folks" >

It's so sad too... they're missing out on all these great friendships because of hate. Only hurting themselves in the long run. >

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It seems to me that the only real guarantee of Ukranian security is Ukranian military assets. Substantial deterrence on the ground ready to go.
If I was any neighboring country of Russia I'd be working on the same thing to remain autonomous. Or working on becoming a good puppet. 
A bully like Russia won't stop after they get a bruising in Ukraine. They'll reconstitute and pick a weaker target next time, with less support. >

Absolutely! Russia is a bully that only understands strength. This is something that some countries still don't understand. Diplomacy is for Russia only a ploy to buy more time to plan their crimes.
Ukraine (and all of the neighboring countries of Russia who don't want to get gobbled up) needs a military large and strong enough so that Russia won't even contemplate attacking them again.