Ukrainian Abrams will be neutered due to highly classified armor

A new phase of the war in Ukraine begins at the beginning of 2023. We assumed that winter would be a time for solving problems, changing tactics, and new arms deliveries. This is happening right now. Although, the Russian occupiers in Ukraine are not stopping with their aerial missile raids.

Ukrainian Abrams will be neutered due to highly classified armor

If they even get them.

Ukraine expects to receive 24 modern fighter jets, says Air Force Command + More

Ukraine expects to receive 24 modern fighter jets, says Air Force Command

But even once negotiations for the delivery of these jets will be completed, Ukraine will not be able to use them on the battlefield for months, as training of pilots and technicians will take at least half a year, Ihnat warned.

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Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Improving Airfields Anticipating Western Fighters

There is currently one Ukrainian student in the U.S. Air Force Aviation Leadership Program, which provides pilot training in the T-6A, not geared ultimately for any one specific combat aircraft, Air Force Capt. Rachel Salpietra, an Air Force Secretary spokesperson told The War Zone Friday afternoon.

Ukraine has been participating in the program with us for the last 12 years,” she added. “Ukrainian maintainers and engineers have not participated in any training with the U.S. Air Force for the past several years.”

UK might donate fighter jets to Ukraine for air policing – The Telegraph

Commenting on the matter, one of the newspaper’s sources said “never say never,” while another one stressed that “it’s not the priority now,” regarding fighter jet transfers.

Scholz got Olaf the tanks for Ukraine

Scholz got Olaf the tanks for Ukraine

After taking a pounding in the press for weeks, the German chancellor got precisely what he wanted. The U.S. will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, paving the way for Berlin and other European capitals to send 80 German-made Leopard IIs of their own. The allies moved in lockstep and Europe’s most powerful state won’t be singled out by Russia — a win-win for Germany.

The short-term wins: Scholz can revel in the fact that he held strong and got the U.S. to heed Berlin’s position on Abrams tanks. “It is definitely a coup for him,” said SUDHA DAVID-WILP, director of the German Marshall Fund’s Berlin office, especially for his own domestic politics. “There’s now Western unity on this, and Ukraine is getting more than it expected.”

This episode was the second time that Germany needed the U.S. to bail it out of a geopolitical bind, as last year Scholz required Biden’s cover to kill the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline. It’s now clearer than ever that Germany can’t — or won’t — take the reins on security policy. It needs America standing right behind it.

Scholz’s plays work for now. Biden is a transatlanticist and prioritizes allied unity. He’s shown a willingness to bend over backward to protect the chancellor politically.

But another White House denizen, one less devoted to backing Ukraine and keeping Europeans happy, might require Scholz to change course. “With any other U.S. president, this could have ended very differently,” said the Council on Foreign Relations’ LIANA FIX.

They don’t think that Biden has a backbone—he doesn’t, but it’s revealing.

The West Is Incentivizing Russia To Hit Back

Well the omnicidal war sluts won the debate over sending tanks to Ukraine, so now it’s time to start arguing for sending F-16s.

The West Is Incentivizing Russia To Hit Back

It’s going to be the last dumb thing that he’s ever done! 👇

Hypersonic Avanguards and Sarmats are already targeting this part of the mainland. They won’t have time to be scared when the USA disappears. – Der Friedensstifter

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CIA director holds secret meeting with Zelensky on Russia’s next steps

CIA Director William J. Burns traveled in secret to Ukraine’s capital at the end of last week to brief President Volodymyr Zelensky on his expectations for what Russia is planning militarily in the coming weeks and months, said a U.S. official and other people familiar with the visit.

CIA director holds secret meeting with Zelensky on Russia’s next steps

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Nyet means Nyet

Ukraine and Georgia’s NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia’s influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests. Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a
major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.

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