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I think Ukraine established its will to fight within the first month and its ability to exist in two or three months or so. We should have shifted our approach
by ripvanwinkle 3y ago
I think Ukraine established its will to fight within the first month and its ability to exist in two or three months or so. We should have shifted our approach around then and started planning long term.
We are 14 months in now.
- ethbr0 3y agoEspecially relevant on the F-16 discussion, since they'd likely only be flying over Ukrainian controlled territory. There's no reason we shouldn't have gotten some of their pilots started in a training pipeline months ago.
- simonsarris 3y agoI don't want to make any big claims because real visibility is low but I think your assessment is somewhat mistaken, and not shared by US DoD generally, which were, I believe, fairly pessimistic as recently as 3 months ago.