Perhaps we should've been more proactive and stopped Biden and the US military industrial complex from starting the war in the first place.
However, seeing as we didn't, I agree with your point. The bed's been made. We have to sleep in it now.
FFS, seriously bro, you letting MAGA brainworms get to you. I must have missed the fact that anyone else by Russia invaded Ukraine.Perhaps we should've been more proactive and stopped Biden and the US military industrial complex from starting the war in the first place.
There is plenty more millions of taxpayer dollars that trudeau pisses away on useless shit around the world, that we could divert to our own military.
Besides the fact that “Biden and the US MIC started the Ukraine war” was one of the lines used by Tenet to spread Russian disinformation.
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Which begs my point. If not ready then...
My opinion is that it’s best to proceed with the plan of equipping and training the Ukrainians as best as we can. I fail to believe the West cannot do more (and I know we can) and each Russian that the Ukrainians take off the chess board make it one less we won’t have to face, BUT also makes it clear to others that we will back our allies, and deter further aggression (like China into Taiwan).
One can argue the tepid response to the takeover of Crimea by Russia encouraged Putin to push further. Had the US rolled an Armoured Division into Ukraine in response and set them up near the contact line. I be guessing Ukraine would not be fighting for it's survival right now.
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Nothing new about inert drones/aerial targets being used as PENAIDs. Both sides have done it before. Hell, anyone who read Red Storm Rising knows that trick.Another aspect of the drone/counter-drone conflict evolving in Ukraine is the use of decoys to help overwhelm limited AD assets:
Russian ‘Parody’ drone debris found in Ukraine
Ukraine’s National Police have released footage showing debris of a Russian decoy drone, identified as the "Parody," used by Russian forces to mislead Ukrainian air defense systems. The “Parody” drone is designed to divert fire away from Russian kamikaze drones, such as the Geran-2. According to...
And in a semi-related story Ukraine has captured one of Russia's newest MANPAD SAMs. Analysis could help with the development of counter-measures (or make decoy drones like those noted above) more effective:
Ukrainian troops seize Russia’s new Verba missile
Ukrainian forces have reportedly seized one of Russia’s most advanced portable air-defense systems, the 9K333 Verba. The Verba system is a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS), used by Russian ground forces. The Ukrainian military...
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Or the flip side of just getting out of the fallout area when Iran starts to glow…Interesting potential factor in Russia’s occupation of SE Ukraine…
US troop withdrawal from Syria in exchange for Southern Ukraine?
Recently, media outlets have surfaced suggesting that the United States plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq and Syria. While a final decision on the withdrawal has not been made, four sources within the U.S. Department of Defense and the State Department have stated that the White House is no...
The IDF did that in Berka Valley in the 1980's as I recall.
The real takeaway of the drone wars for me is the 2-3 week iteration of hardware, software and tactics. If you don't upgrade and change yours they rapidly become useless. I find it hard to see how the current western R&D / bufgeting / contracting / semi-monopolistic large defense contractor manufacturing paradigm will be able to achieve that level of innovation and weapon fielding.
I think you give small UAS ‘drones’ too much credit, and the larger DoD contractors not enough.
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