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The War in Ukraine

HavokFour said:
Shocking. Guess he'll have to pull more support from Ukraine to punish Putin?
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Well, he's quoted saying they've already received TOO many U.S. weapons now, right?
apnews.com

Trump says US has given Ukraine too many weapons in first public comments on pause in shipments

President Donald Trump is complaining that the United States provided too many weapons to Ukraine under the previous administration.
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... Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a flight to Iowa, Trump said former President Joe Biden “emptied out our whole country giving them weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves.” ... Trump, who also spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, suggested he wasn’t completely cutting off American assistance to Ukraine. “We’ve given so many weapons,” he said, adding that “we are working with them and trying to help them.” ...
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Let's see if AP's read of this as a "suggestion" of continued aid is correct. 🍿

Meanwhlie, workarounds apparently being attempted ....
militarnyi.com

Germany Seeks to Acquire Two Patriot Systems From U.S. for Ukraine - Militarnyi

The German government is urgently working on a decision that would allow the transfer of new Patriot air defense systems and corresponding missiles to Ukraine
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... and leaks apparently being tracked to be plugged
militarnyi.com

Czech Republic to Investigate Companies Suspected of Supplying Equipment for Russian Arms Production - Militarnyi

The Czech Security Information Service will investigate local companies that may have supplied equipment to Russia for weapons production
militarnyi.com militarnyi.com
 
MilEME09 said:
China continues to be the biggest supplier keeping Russia going. However no one wants to dare sanction china it seems

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941119169791160750
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The Chinese want their resources colony to win but not decisively enough to become a threat to them again. Apparently the Chinese told some EU diplomats that they dont want Russia to lose so the Western military focus is entirely on them.
 
daftandbarmy said:
And those two things are not the same, in the least.
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Neither are boots and radios

kyivindependent.com

Ukraine signs major drone co-production deal with US Swift Beat, Zelensky announces

Ukraine signed a major deal with U.S. company Swift Beat to co-produce various types of drones, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on July 3 during his visit to Denmark.
kyivindependent.com kyivindependent.com

Ukraine has signed an agreement with American company Swift Beat to produce hundreds of thousands of drones this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced Thursday.

Zelenskiy shared the news on social media during his visit to Denmark, outlining the various types of drones that will be manufactured under the agreement.

"Interceptors for destroying enemy drones and missiles, quadcopters for reconnaissance and fire adjustment, long-range strike drones — there will be much more of all this," the Ukrainian president wrote.
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news.ssbcrack.com

US Army Plans Major Shift to Uncrewed Aircraft in Future Warfare Strategy - SSBCrack News

US Army leadership has expressed a clear intention to increase the number of uncrewed aircraft in its fleet, aiming for a substantial transformation that will
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Currently, approximately 90% of the Army’s aerial operations involve manned aircraft, while only 10% are performed by unmanned systems. However, the goal is to reverse this ratio within the next few years, with plans to equip every division with 1,000 drones over the next two years. This ambitious objective reflects the Army’s proactive stance in redefining its aerial capabilities.
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www.newsweek.com

US Army plans $36 billion overhaul, largest in nearly 50 years

The U.S. Army's new approach is reportedl influenced by lessons learned from the war in Ukraine.
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One of the biggest changes the force will tackle is equipping each of its 10 active-duty combat divisions with approximately 1,000 drones, something that Ukraine has leaned on heavily during the Russian invasion. Both Russia and Ukraine have deployed unmanned vehicles and units on the battlefield, including robotic dogs that Kyiv can use for increased surveillance and transport.
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breakingdefense.com

Less ships, more bombs: Senate unveils its version of $150B defense reconciliation package - Breaking Defense

"The House and Senate are very, very close in the provisions,” SASC Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told reporters. But there are differences.
breakingdefense.com breakingdefense.com
SASC spends $2 billion more on low-cost enablers such as drones, counter-drone tech, cheap munitions and AI, for a total of $16 billion. It boosts funding for the small drone industrial base from $1.1 billion to $1.4 billion, and increases funding to expand and accelerate qualification activities meant to increase unmanned competition in the defense industrial base from $500 million to $1 billion. It also adds $250 million for the development and procurement of Air Force low-cost counter-air technologies, among other changes.
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Former Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan, Chris Alexander, argues Trump is in the thrall of Putin, just based on his actions.

www.thediehardoptimist.com

Dependence Day

Trump's thraldom to Kremlin fascism is scrambling America's moral compass
www.thediehardoptimist.com www.thediehardoptimist.com
 
YZT580 said:
seems more like hegseth has a hard on for Ukraine. Can't quite figure whether he is just acting as Trump's foil or if he is acting on his own at least some of the time. Either way it is a tough duo for Zelensky to go up against.
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Good cop/Bad cop routine?
 
If only Comrade Donald knew!

open.substack.com

Weekend Update #140: The US Cuts Ukraine Off: If Only Comrade Stalin Knew!

Putin Humiliates Trump In Response; Are Advances Set To Get Smaller?
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This was the week that the Trump Administration (and that includes Trump himself) did what it always has wanted to do—and not only refuse to provide more aid for Ukraine, but to take back aid that was already allocated and in the process of being delivered. The amazing thing was not that this decision was taken—its that people tried to find a way to say Trump did not know and really did not support this. Its the old, “If Only Comrade Stalin Knew” claim brought to 2025 America.
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For those who do not know this phrase, it was supposedly regularly uttered in the 1930s USSR by those who had been arrested and taken to the Gulag, or whose lives were ruined, as they somehow convinced themselves that their misery was not down to the great Stalin—but instead was the work of some of his evil henchmen such as Genrich Yagoda or Nikolai Yezhov. It was nonsense of course—government policy in the USSR was Stalin’s responsibility, but he rather seemed to like these kinds of ideas, and often stayed quiet during the worst moments of Stalinist oppression so that people might think he did not know what was going on. This allowed him to execute both Yagoda and Yezhov when he wanted to pivot away from one set of policies.
That the USA in 2025 has been reduced to such misplaced Stalinist hopes is one of the more depressing aspects of where we are. It seems like some people are so desperate to separate Trump from the excesses of his administration—that they are attacking his underlings and blaming them for decisions that could only be made because Trump is president
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The US Cuts Ukraine Off: If Only Comrade Stalin Knew!
Some of the US aid, or so I have been told by Ukrainians I trust, was only a few minutes from the Polish-Ukrainian border. It was just about to cross into Ukraine, where it was desperately needed especially for air defense. And then the US swooped in early this week and stopped it in its tracks. Even though this aid for Ukraine had been approved by Congress and President Biden and already allocated and transported to Europe, the Trump administration decided that it was not going to be delivered, but instead would head back to the USA (where it was not needed—more on that below). “Daddy” was swooping in for the kill.
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And what important aid it was. Amongst the weapons snatched away from Ukraine at the last moment, were key parts of the Ukrainians layered air defense network “including Patriot missiles, the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile and shorter-range Stinger missiles”.
Combined these systems have taken a heavy toll on attacking Russian air assets, including the most advanced cruise and ballistic missiles. If you wanted to take away aid and hurt Ukraine the most at this difficult time, this is precisely what you would do. Moreover, this was a decision that has no real strategic rationale for the USA. Internal sources in the Pentagon immediately leaked the fact to NBC news that there was no need for the halt and that “providing continued assistance to Ukraine would not drain U.S. supplies below a required threshold needed to ensure military readiness.”
Yes, the decision started in the Pentagon, and that led some to say that Trump might not have been involved and did not approve. In an extreme act of displacement, lots of anger was directed as Undersecretary State of Defense Elbridge Colby. Look, I’m no fan of Colby, he and I have even feuded on twitter, but blaming Colby is real shooting the messenger stuff Btw, supposedly Trump does not like Colby that much, regardless of the latter’s attempts to ingratiate himself. It was said that Colby was very unimpressive in his interview for a job with Trump after the election, which is why he was was lower down the Pentagon totem pole than he had hoped.
Colby and Defense Secretary Hegseth, who also had to ok the decision, would only have tried this without Trump’s explicit approval if they believe the president would support the decision regardless (and so far they seem to have been right). How do we know this? Well, the Pentagon had a few months earlier, in February, done something similar, and that time had to give way. Trump acolytes would only do it again if they were confident in the president’s response.
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Former Governor of Kursk (until May 2024) is dead. He was also the one responsible for the construction of defensive structures that never happened in the region prior to the Ukrainian incursion.

kyivindependent.com

Russian transport minister fired by Putin reportedly shoots himself dead

According to Russian media, ex-Transport Minister Roman Starovoit's body was found near Moscow. Preliminary findings suggest that the suicide may be linked to a possible criminal case.
kyivindependent.com kyivindependent.com
 
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