Russia - threadbanned users in OP

You have to convince US Republicans of that. As it stands they'd love nothing more than to hand the war over to Putin. Without their obstruction, missile defense systems can show up by the end of the month. And more.

However they see much more in common with the Anti-LGBTQ co-kompromat Russian counterparts these days then they did middle easterners in the War on Terror.

This has been the biggest issue since the start,we know that there's a shortage of everything now ,when you get senior NATO officials saying we're approaching the bottom of the barrel this isn't something to take lightly,there is no infinite supply of equipment and weapons in NATO and yes someone Will counter with neither does Russia, but Russia is still physically occupying large parts of Ukraine, despite having no men , tanks, artillery and barrels,money they are still holding ground,

A few f16s won't change anything in the bigger picture,they have mig 29s and with air 2 air weapons,but Russia holds and advantage in air defences even with a few f16s they won't be able to achieve air superiority, one Ukrainian commander wanted something like 160 f16s they will be eventually get something like 50 sometime in the future, zelensky said 42 was coming from the Dutch alone but they said we didn't agree on an actual figure,

NATO and the US went HiTech, Ukraine and Russia are fighting an analogue war using pretty much last centurys equipment and strategies, yes they both have drone but for most part they are fighting Artillery duels and small scale infantry battles ,

There will have to be a rethink when it comes to the supports ,there is several year waits for new equipment when it's paid for in advance by governments ,one of the companies that produces tanks along side rhemimenthal can only produce a maximum of 50 new tanks a year, and they said they haven't seen any new orders, air defence systems are the same the Newest systems are built to custom orders , nobody has warehouses full of launchers and missiles, were rapidly approaching year three of this war and still haven't been able to get the equipment and weapons to Ukraine in any great numbers, they need more air defence systems more than anything especially with now it's winter to protect vital infrastructure, we've seen Russia is getting drones and missiles through,but they still don't have the ability to protect against Air attacks on the front lines ,

If they can't get them all of the equipment they need then they need to put boots on the ground and finish this ,

Could you please elaborate on your source of this information that you describe as fact that because of the raid by Ukraine "the whole force was captured or killed" and that the information released by Ukraine about the same raid that stated that their force had now returned from Crimea and had been involved in a battle with russian forces that suffered significant losses is as you claim "propaganda".

Wouldn’t hold my breathe😀😀

It can be almost guaranteed that it'll be Russian in origin. I saw on Suchomimus' youtube channel that Russian propogandists were handed their Kremlin script to say that the lot had been killed. Ukraine actually did admit that there were losses on their side but failed to say how many. As @Jinglejangle69 said I wouldn't hold my breath. He's clearly been instructed not to get into his usual style of arguing that up is down. Doesn't stop him from posting the usual scutter as though it were fact though.

The last time Ukranian special forces destroyed a radar installation and an S400 system. Which likely led to a submarine, a landing ship, a dry dock and the Black sea fleet HQ(incl probably Sokolov and his retinue) in Sevastapol being barbequed by Stormshadows. Lets see if this operation is followed by similar strikes.

reminds me of the saying that ‘ if you have a reputation for getting up early you can step in bed all day’ . I wonder did any country measure to decibel level , vibrations created that would indicate that an N bomb was actually tested?

NATO doesn't make claims like this ever,this isn't some kind of trick aimed at the Russians or as part of public discourse,

It's still a warning sign and a worrying statement. Note how even the "Russia will run out of ammo in 2 weeks and defences will collapse like cards" brigade here have gone very quiet recently. There's a notable shift in public messaging and perceptions are important.

If it was politics it wouldn't have been made public, there's never been an finite supply of weapons and munitions in Europe or NATO for decades there is real interest to ramp up supplies that NATO countries essentially don't want or need were heading to year three of this war and still only a handful of countries in NATO have increased spending to the 2% of gdp spending for NATO,and there is still only a few countries who have a military industry capable of supplying anything,

McCarthy does a u-turn

At least 49, including children, killed in a missile strike against a shop/cafe. Russia is a terrorist state.

Utterly horrendous. It could be as high as 300 killed, one estimate is at 600 (!!!)