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  Yeah it is so easy! Just snap your fingers, and the crews will be instantly trained, the equipment mobilized and sent over, logistics sorted out, ammunition made ready, and advisors out in the field! So fucking simple, you must be an actual genius. Please, hurry and go work for the Pentagon, or as an advisor to Congress, as you clearly know how to do all this lickety split!
context: I like the way media people are adjusting the language used relating to weapons deliveries...
  
  still a no on missiles
  
  We all know by now it's just a matter of time until Ukraine military is among the best equipped on Earth. Still no, but it's coming. >
  
  That is the Russian take. And you are regurgitating Russian propaganda. Replace it with Russian blood in the vial, and you get, what is really happening, from the western prospective. Ukraine is expected to bleed Russians dry and make them (more) harmless, but slowly, so it doesn't trigger the nuclear all out war. >
  
  While it's true Russia is bleeding, it's also a fact that Ukraine is losing blood as well. The longer this drags on, the more blood is lost. >
  
  Russia should withdrawal it's troops from Ukraine, in order to prevent blood from being lost. They started this war, and them withdrawing all their troops is the only way to end it. >
  
  Yes agreed, a large part of the world has been persuading them to do do for almost a year now. >
  
  Note the “ground based version included in this aid package will take months to develop” means they’re still expecting a long drawn out fight :/ >
  
  bureaucracy and military logistics do tend to be an unfortunate bitch. >
  
  Ukraine must be pissed to be denied weapons that can help break the current stalemate. >
  
  Stalemate?!  Once the leapords come online this way is over, just a matter of time.  Russia is just throwing meat to the slaughter once western main battle tanks come online. >
  
  bro, don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
  Their is rumblings that the EU partners cannot hold up their end of the bargain, that their tanks are not in any shape to be used and many countries are renegging on their previous statemnets.
  Need to keep up maximum pressure on US and its allies to send the weapons Ukraine needs.
  Do not get complacent, Ukraine depends on you. >
  
  
  Do not get complacent, Ukraine depends on you.
  
  If Ukraine is depending on /r/worldnews, Ukraine is fucked. >
  
  Literally the title is contradicting itself what garbage >
  
  Not sure why this is up voted, GLSDBs are in no way a missile >
  
  Ok, I'll bite.  What are they, then?
  
  
  Launch from an MLRS or HIMARS
  
  
  Powered by a solid rocket engine
  
  
  Guided by GPS/inertial and accurate within 1 meter
  
  
  Can attack targets behind the launcher >
  
  It's in the name, ground launched bomb. A smart bomb usually dropped from an aircraft gets a rocket booster that's breaks off once it burns. The bomb then glides to the target. >
  
  LOL... you're aware that this weapon was modified from the Small Diameter Bomb, which is an actual bomb dropped from aircraft?
  The GLSDB literally is the SDB warhead and guidance with a rocket engine attached.   It's a guided missile in all but name, and it has a range almost twice that of the SDB. >
  
  The GLSDB is closest in character to a cruise missile, but does not maintain power during flight. Unpowered ordinance that flies aerodynamically to a target is a glide bomb.  
  Remembering that it is a glide bomb has its advantages, considering they are equipped with the necessary sensors to be guided by a laser designator on terminal approach. The slow speed and lack of evasive or terminal sprint capability is also an important distinction for the tactical use of the weapon.  
  They're really frigging neat, but they are definitely still glide bombs, not missiles. >
  
  So you'd also consider a Javelin missile a glide bomb because IT doesn't maintain power its whole flight?
  You're trying to defend a blurred line here. >
  
  The Javelin missile does not fly aerodynamically and is powered through at roughly half of its flight depending on range. That makes it a guided missile. >
  
  Hurry up and wait Ukraine. Those GLSDB 94 mi glide bombs don't even exist yet. The contractor is awaiting an Air Force contract before they even start production and delivery is at least 9 months after the contract is signed. So much for helping Ukraine retake Crimea anytime soon. The clock is ticking, it is past time to say yes, time to release the ATACMS! >
  
  this is so embarrassing.
  Why would the West get so invested to just let Ukraine fail?
  The tanks are not coming for like 4+ months and the EU side is fucking up left and right. >
  
  Yeah, something isn't adding up...Western leaders often repeat we stand 100% with and support Ukraine in this war, but their actions have been sluggish at best. Various western military know what Ukraine needs to win, to outright kick Russia out of Ukrainian sovereign territory. Under practically every circumstance it wouldn't be easy, in fact, it would be incredibly hard fought just because of the huge disparities between the Ukrainian army and the Russian army. 
  And yet, our political leaders have all been tip-toeing around what they will not provide Ukraine for fear of escalation and/or how certain sophisticated weapons are unsuitable for the Ukrainians or would take too long to train or too difficult to supply or maintain. With each sophisticated weapon shipped to Ukraine (after delays), the Ukrainians have shown they are more than up to the task of using the weapons given to them to great effect again and again, proving time and again, how hollow those many of excuses have been.
  Western leaders' war goals are not aligned with Ukraine's war goals. We've heard from the US Administration repeatedly, it is up to the Ukrainians to determine how they define victory. Ukraine's goals are clear, to kick the Russians out of their sovereign territory, to receive reparations, and international justice. It's not adding up because our political leaders have been deceiving us and (at least publicly) deceiving Ukraine. >
  
  I read that western leaders are afraid a defeated russia might collapse into a bunch of regional regimes, possibly resulting in nuclear proliferation as regional leaders take control of their local infrastructure >
  
  One way to look at it is that nukes change hands from one terrorist group to a few smaller ones. >
  
  the Ukraine military is going to be the most experienced military in the world soon, sooner or later US soldiers will learn from them lol >
  
  To take Crimea you would want something almost double the range >
  
  in like 6 or 7 months.. this shit is honestly unacceptable.
  Send them ATACMS and they can hit targets 300 km away.
  It's like a certain amount of Ukrainians have to die first before the West says "OK, send them a little more weapons."