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We certainly hope so. It was a bad joke last year that the fighters protecting the whole Europe from fascist hordes were mostly equipped by the USA. Germany's i

• exar0815 3y ago
  Somehow, the US seems to have forgotten to get more than "always the same" to the front. Also, the helmet-bullshit is driven by polish anti-german pis-bullshit. Germany delivered PZH2000 and Gepard, as well as being the first with modern Air Defence. France and Britain were the first with Cruise Missiles. Scandinavia was the first with Tanks. Netherlands the first with modern planes. The Blinken-Deescalatin-Crowd in the US which seems to still believe in escalation management and mutual co-operation with Russia. Where are ATACMS, more Patriot, more Bradley, more Abrams, more cluster munitions? The material is there, it's high time!
  • KptMarchewa 3y ago
    I don't agree with bashing Germany, but Poland was first with tanks, delivering over 300 of them starting from April 2022.
  • Yoric 3y ago
    As far as I understand, the US has a strong problem with stockpiles. They can send more material to Ukraine, but they want to have enough to also sustain a war in Taiwan. And it's unclear (at least to me) what the Chinese military doctrine would entail, since China has been mostly at peace since the truce with India. If a war for/around Taiwan ends up being the same kind of high-intensity conflict as the war in Ukraine, it has the potential to engulf the yearly US production of ammo in a few weeks.
    • verdverm 3y ago
      The weapons for a (hopefully not) showdown over Taiwan are going to be very different, just like the entire situations. Shells and tanks in one, boats and planes in the other. There is no easy way to ship tons of material to Taiwan, likely the West will be having to run a Chinese blockade, kind of the opposite of the Cuban missile crisis. Except for drones and phones, war has definitely changed, the fog is dissipating.
      • Yoric 3y ago
        Your remarks make sense, but it's only going to be boats and planes if the war stays contained around Taiwan. India and China have been waiting ~60 years for a rematch, so there is the distinct possibility of a second front on land. North Korea could also try and attack South Korea for a variety of reasons (either as a distraction for China or taking advantage of the distraction), which could open yet another front. And these are the easy ones – if there is a big showdown, it could domino in a number of directions, each of which would justify the US maintaining a stockpile of ammo. And of course, land and sea warfare share some of the same missiles.
        • benterix 3y ago
          There is one big but in all this, and this is the example of Russia. All autocrats are looking at Russia and how the war played out for them. Not too well, it seems. One can well model and alternative reality where Russia didn't start the war but instead concentrated on using its economic advantage to make Europe more dependent on its gas etc. (it was going quite well!). And it seems a good example to China as to what is more beneficial to do. The Chinese leaders have been quite pragmatic so far, and while one definitely can't say what's actually in their heads, the war is unlikely if they follow logical reasoning.
          • verdverm 3y ago
            Applying western thinking to the CCP is a mistake, thinking autocrats follow logical reasoning too. Xi's career goal is the complete re-unification of China and he's getting quite old now, likely his last term (ends in 2027/8 iirc). He'll be making important decisions in the next few years.
• jamil7 3y ago
  This attitude always misses the context of the US's deep post WW2 involvement in Europe, the formation of NATO, Gladio etc. right up until Ukraine today. The US has it's own interests in Europe and will continue to do so.
• marsa 3y ago
  where does this notion of 'protecting the whole Europe from fascist hordes' come from? has there been any indication that Russia genuinely intended to steamroll Europe if they had taken Ukraine as planned?
  • nickpp 3y ago
    From Putin himself. His speeches in the last 20 years. He was quite upfront with his ambitions: restauration of the last Russian Empire, the Soviet Union. Eastern Europe and ex-USSR republics have been trying to warn the world for quite a while, it's the West who refused to listen. Read Kasparov's "Winter is Coming" book to understand more.
    • marsa 3y ago
      i haven't heard / read his speeches but isn't that just regular political speech? 'we'll make x great again' where they invoke some mythical glorious past x and make grand promises to appease the masses? i'll check the book out, but if there's less speculative stuff like leaked cables, war plans, fact based reporting etc out there i'd be more receptive to the idea that the Russians were genuinely about to blitzkrieg Europe if all went well in Ukraine it just sounds too ridiculous and farfetched
      • jacquesm 3y ago
        That's because it is ridiculous and farfetched. Unfortunately that doesn't stop Putin from trying.