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What they need to do is build up a consensus for a United European Defence Force that is geared primarily towards continental security from the likes of Russia. It's obvious that regardless of WHO comes after Putin that Russia is going to be at best an unstable country if not an outright Fat Korea sitting on Europe's Eastern Flank into the future. No European Country can fight this alone.
lots of ifs >

This is what'll happen if instead of an offensive out of Zaph towards Melitopol, it's a big push across the Savtoe-Kreminna road.
It's a longer harder road to the end state of such an attack.  But taking the city Lugansk would flank the entire Donbas and the Ukrainians could quite plausibly push down to Azov Sea along the border. >

very early on in the invasion i heard from pediatric colleagues that they took over portions of the children’s hospitals when there were no official casualties.  The Russians don’t care. >

Keep those coming. I think we'll get a lot of announcements for equipment systems already present in Ukraine, just in steady volumes on an incremental basis. >

Denmark is also sending Caesars >

NGL, Boris has been going hard doing some high profile influencing/ambassador style work, still contributing to the UK as a public servant, despite no longer being PM. >

I think the guy is a disgrace and is almost singularly responsible for fucking the UK over by being the face of the Leave campaign in the EU referendum. That said, he has been amazing on Ukraine from the outset and I think people should respect him for that. >

I'm not British so I'm wondering why you think that? Personally as a Canadian I always saw Nigle as the face of Brexit. The way its always seemed to me is the previous 2 leaders got ousted and Boris came in while the process was already well underway. Didn't really know.he was super involved in the leave campaign prior to the popular vote on it. >

Boris was pretty popular and had cross party appeal in 2016 (he was elected mayor of london, which is very left leaning). Think of him as an Arnold Schwarzanegger type who was governor of Cali despite how democratic it was. He had enough pull to bring across many people who didn't really care one way or another initially
During the referendum debate he was personally ambivalent (he famously drafted two conflicting editorial pieces, one pro brexit and one against) then he through his lot in behind leave because he (correctly) saw it as a route to power as mainstay of the leaders in the Conservative party were pro remain. By winning the Brexit vote he made them persona non grata opening up a pathway to him becoming prime minister. >

Worth noting that modern armies consider units that sustain 30% casualties to be combat ineffective. >

Good. We need to make sure this stuff gets shut down. I can understand a well-educated (key word) difference of opinion on a certain issue, but a flat-out lie…? Yeah, that stuff needs to be shut down. >

Yeah, there's definitely a difference. And, BTW, that identical tweet has now been posted by dozens of other accounts, so it's even more obvious that it's an operation, not just ignorance. >

It'd be great if they would finally send some ATACMS. Get Russia to fear the safety of its ammo dumps and logistics hubs again and force them to relocate them even further behind their lines, making resupply and logistics even more difficult. >

ATACMS are large enough to be spotted by Russian AA and shot down.
Now, if you could sync those launches with HARMs to pick up on the AA radar, oh boy you got a stew going.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about HARMs to know if that's feasible. >

Not possible with jury-rigged MiG-29 launch platforms. They appear to only be able to attack pre-briefed, known targets. This is definitely possible, and is actually part of the intended role, of the HARM when it's launched from a NATO jet and particularly the F-16, which has access to the HARM targeting system.
People talk about the F-16 being valuable to Ukraine in an anti-aircraft role, which is true, but it's also one of the best SEAD/DEAD platforms available. Alternatively, the EA-18G Growler (a derivative of the Hornet) would be a similarly cheap, effective electronic warfare platform to support that kind of mission. I don't think Ukraine will ever be given those, because the electronic warfare equipment on them is *really* sensitive (in the enemy intelligence sense). >

Horrible stuff. :(