Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Poland looks likely to have received all its 500 himars and 300 chunmoos by 2027. Along with abrams and k2s, on some longer schedule. Hard to put all the dates together, but some of the dates aren't so far off.

So good luck to Russia getting through all that. Hard to win an arms race with the whole ass kicking in Ukraine dragging ye down.

Nett contributor nations to the EU, including ourselves now, are indirectly funding Poland's lavish spendthrift defence budgets.

Saw a picture on Reddit this evening of a mother and child reduced to a pile of ashes in a house in Kharkiv . Terrible stuff. What kind of inhumane b.a.stards carry out such atrocities and their enablers across the world may they all rot in hell. Honestly think the human race is f.ucked. To think that we are going to save the planet while at the same time members of our species are hell bent on annihilating each other.

:( I wish I hadn’t read that. For me it is the picture of a smiling baby with her mum that haunts me, from the first weeks of the war, and you knew the baby girl was loved by whoever took the photo (probably dad) by the way she was looking up at them, beaming. They were killed by artillery in an Odesa apartment block.

On that point. How many physical telecoms cables connect the civilised world to Russia?

exactly, it is all in his head. can you imagine a single country's premier, asking him if he would protect them. the man is a nutcase.

his supporters lap up the big man stunt though.

I presume that the option of manufacturing their own Himars was looked at, that would normally be the way things work., yet they went ahead and purchased off the shelf ones? Could urgency have been the cause? Manufactauring issues? Its very easy to say " we will make our own" but sometimes it's not that simple. These Himars are not quite the same as the multiple launchers you see mounted on trucks, are they? They're hi-precision computer-controlled weapons.

Either way, if Putin is allowed to think that he is victorious, either by a partial or complete takeover of Ukraine, that will trigger more war in him. The Poles share a border with Russia, they don't need to go through Ukraine, and they themselves have said several years ago, that war between them and Russia is inevitable, it's only a matter of time, and that's what they are preparing for even now. They're not going to be caught unprepared, unlike Ukraine and that's for sure! No, I don't believe that Putin will win in Ukraine, even if Trump gets re-elected (and I doubt that will happen either, but with US politics, you just do not know) Europe is wide awake now to the threat that Putin poses and are ramping up weapon production and tightening the sanctions. I think that Putin will be stopped in Ukraine. The question is, which (if any) part?

you are smashing all the arguments together, the most likely outcome is either the borders stay the same as they are now or Russia take a couple more areas to the west, it would still leave Ukraine over 60%-80% intact. That does not put Poland "next" on the list and the only border that Russia shares with Poland is the exclave of Kaliningrad, that's not a feasible staging area, it would kind of tip off NATO

"As for your argument, GDP doesn't put boots on the ground and clearly not even arty shells in a cannon."

The EU had supplied over 223,000artillery shells to Ukraine already back in August last year.

Production of artillery shells in the EU has increased since putin's attack on Ukraine and is on track to allow EU supplies to Ukraine meet the 1million shells per year target.

As for boots on the ground there are millions of Ukrainians still in their country eager to avoid whatever treatment putin intends for them in his attempts to conquer new land for his empire. Lots of reports of EU arms manufacturers going into joint production agreements with Ukraine and every penny the EU puts into Ukraine to build up their capacity to defend themselves is money well spent in defusing putin's terrorist state's ability to wage war on its neighbours and further afield. The EU has woken up to the threat posed by putin's attempts to emulate the military dictators of history and the orange moron in the USA won't be able to help putin as much as he might like to.

President Trump on another mad one again today. Encouraging Russia to attack European countries. Hilarious, if batsht. As usual for US presidents.

I didn't say that other US presidents have had Trumps particular strain of instability. But rather that its usual that they're batsht. This can be seen in sleepy Joe, fool me once Dubya, blowie Bill, sleepy Ronald, or helicopter nixon. The Americans sure do pick some doozies. I have abs from laughing at US presidents. They're nearly always mental.