Pick your post-war wishlist. This also includes building up your own military-industrial complex, since the war has shown outside help help takes time to arrive.
Also, how big would your armed forces be?
This scenario assumes Russia is beaten but not gone, and far from forgiving.
Allow the Russians to peacefully occupy us so there'll be no lost of blood and at the least we'll be autonomous like many of their city states.
>Allow the Russians to peacefully occupy us so there'll be no lost of blood
They lead you into a field and shoot you, then rape your wife and kids.
But don’t worry, no (russian) blood was lost.
Personal nukes.
Nukes
Maximize the effort to get Ukrainian made HRIM-2 SRBMs into production.
Despite the rhetoric, SRBMs like Tochka regularly get through missile defense systems.
When combined with GMLRS hitting AA radar, it’s a massive force multiplier.
Agreed. Get the Ukrainian factories back online and say, "Oh we're just making jobs for our people. We're totally not threatening you Russia."
Tactical and strategic range missiles with various modern warheads. Make them terrifyingly effective at conventional war while enemy keeps swinging their flacid NuKes dick they cannot use. Uninterceptable bunker busters, bridge choppers, precision VIP removers, ultra long range aircraft interceptors etc.
Long range anti-shipping missiles. That way, in any future conflict, we could threaten all black sea trade
Also some drones of our own
I love when this guy goes on Jo Roegain and he and Bart Chrysler do the drug funnyman talk
Do everything in our power to obtain nukes. Again.
>join nato asap
>invite america to build at least 2 military bases
>focus on rebuilding
that's the cheap thing to do but Russia will keep starting low intensity artillery duels forever. So I doubt they'll be able to join NATO while that's happening. The Russians are such cynical pieces of shit they will do this
Ukraine needs to reclaim its territory to get into NATO.
So time to become biggest military power on European continent.
So what artillery would be best for winning duels for the Ukrainians?
Tons of HIMARS, long range ballistic/cruise missiles, Leopard tanks, Predator drones, and F-15s/F-16s with standoff naval and ground strike capabilities.
>Pick your post-war wishlist
Nukes. With rockets that have the range to fly up to Ural mountains.
Then you will be safe forever
I think Ukraine would look really good with some F-16s.
About time someone drew the F-16 in Ukrainian colors. It does look pretty awesome.
HIMARS, switch to NATO weapon standards ASAP, invest in domestic long range anti-ship missiles, American SAM systems, invest in domestic anti-tank weapons, and either get Abram or Leopard tanks.
T-84-120 seems like a better alternative
all the bells and whistles, but you can make it home
The West could upgrade the T-84 even more for Ukraine. Make it even more dangerous, yet still homemade. An unambiguous Vatnik-slayer.
Large quantities of budget Kalis. Anyone over 18 who can stand is given one plus 6 full mags if they complete militia training.
adopt 5.56 for the service rifle for all troops if not an AR derivative entirely
Missile fields everywhere. Cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, smart missiles, old missiles, new missiles, AA missiles - everything. And Russia helps build them. And if they don't want to give Crimea back to Ukraine in 2 years - every missile would be used against Russia.
Out of curiosity, how could the West upgrade Ukraine's T-84?
>what weapons would you get for it
nukes is the only answer
30+ x 50,000-200,000 ton presses and extruders.
Build avozstals between cities and borders
Build factories that mass produce soviet tier t90, BMP, su, s300, etc for export. Except it works and is cheaper than Russia.
Build a c5 replacement that's not shit and give at cost to true NATO allies.
Dominate fixed and rotary heavy lift market commercially.
Including a Modernised mi6
Giant ekranoplans as commercial ferry's in black sea.
And militarised as the main naval vessels.
Armed forces;
10,000 pilots
100,000 merchant marine
1,000,000 military(civil) engineers.
50,000 sof
100% Tax breaks for software development of new techs. Free stem university for everyone.
Make a deal with Poland and get in on their big Korean buying spree. Increasing a big tender like that would lead to a lot of savings for SPGs, tanks, light fighters, trainers, missiles, helicopters, APCs etc.
this guy has a big brain
not only would Ukraine and Poland both get even more economies of scale, in the event Round 3 breaks out, suddenly "Ukraine's" arsenal doubles in size and Polish warehouses start looking awful empty...
more or less copy the finnish model, just with more precision artillery and anti-tank weapons
the original defense in depth plan worked remarkably well, the only thing that backfired was when the russians started razing cities with massed artillery, so in the future Ukraine would invest on both massed and precision artillery to deny the enemy any chance to repeat their buttfrickery
and keep investing on AA and Anti-missile defense
if you can force air parity and have better arty, the enemy is fricked
oh, and keep expanding the drone fleet, all shapes and sizes
Gripens.