If war is extension of economic capabilities the west could have long ago given enough weapons to ukraine so that balance of power would tip and Russian aggression would not be worth it anymore. Why they dont that?
If it’s all for the “money, power, biaches and lolz” why do my peers walking around complaining “muh war - bad” ?
>Why they dont that?
They coopted Pootin is antics and turned the whole thing into a massive money laundering operation, its in the West's best interest to keep both engaged in stalemate, one serves as a money laundering apparatus that doubles as good PR while the other is an ex adversary who keeps eroding himself through their own incompetence and corruption.
this.
its a war between Ukraine and Russia, but the real victor will be America, since they're getting a frick ton of practice with moving armaments around the world AND weakening an adversary.
>What is American foreign policy since the end of ww2
It's reruns of reruns and they will keep on going.
what money laundering
isnt the aid just gifting current stocks of equipment valued at MSRP
>what money laundering
LOL, Ukraine can take their own money and "invest" it certain companies that donate to specific politicians and groups.
That plus our MIC needing to "Refill" will get a ton of over budget government contracts which will funnel more money into certain people's pockets
If the US wanted to we would have ended the war but as OP has posted, the US doesn't want that.
fricking moron
its not "muh tax dollars" nafo gay,
all the "$money" being used is
>*money printer go brrrrr*
its not fricking real.
do you understand how any of this actually works?
>is a moron
>gets called out on your moronation
moron.
why were ukrianian officials wives buying swiss real estate outside lake geneva in american cash?
idk why is Russia such a shithole but all of Putin's buddies are sailing around the world in megayachts?
as expected: vague, evasive bullshit
oh look, he made the exact same post for the sixth time
you need to have a nice day
holhols please go
Brain damage.
lmfao, you post saving, collage making government shills are the most b***h ass people on the planet.
what intelligence agency sent you?
why do you save ANY posts from this God-forsaken hell hole? who the fuuck, OTHER THAN A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE, meticulously saves shit-posts from PrepHole, puts them in a collage by, organized by time-stamp, to shove back in some random homosexuals face in meaningless ukraine gloat thread#1352367885434?
what government is pays you to do this?
the answer to this question is more interesting than the OP, by far
good bait
>oh look, he made the exact same post for the sixth time
>you need to have a nice day
lmfao, imagine being you
you work for a government that assigns you the job of monitoring a single random persons drunken shitposts, on a mongolian underwater-calligraphy board.
lol you remember individual posts, because its your job to collect, save and categorize them for powerpoint slides
its all kinds of shady shit. anyone stupid enough to shoot down the idea this isnt another iraq meets haliburton ukraine edition money hustle scam, is a fricking moron. FTX has been involved. ukrainian officials wives went to go buy real estate in switzerland in $100 USD bills.
>ukrainian officials wives went to go buy real estate in switzerland in $100 USD bills
may I see it?
>isnt the aid just gifting current stocks of equipment valued at MSRP
Probably that. Here's an actual professional tip for you. If you ever find yourself babysitting, and the kids are quiet and you ask "what are you doing" and they answer "nothing", that's most probably not what they are actually doing but instead they are likely engaged in malevolent activities.
this is a reminder to take your medication
Look I'm all for Ukraine, donated some money, helped around some refugees to re-settle, even gave my old television to one family, but to think there's no corruption going on in a situation which would facilitate corruption is just... naive.
ok post proof chincel
Proof of what? That corruption has existed since there were more than three people to frick over? Could you in return provide proof that not a single cent sent over there isn't skimmed off?
Proof of your claim that any significant amount of corruption is happening in regards to weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
Sure thing. It's not like I'd go and just claim things on the internet without credible verifiable sources.
https://eucrim.eu/articles/war-and-corruption-in-ukraine/
> link doesn't support your claim
Lel
I think the following quote from the article also sums up atleast what I read, not sure what you guys did read.
>"While the country’s primary focus must be on its military efforts, the government in Kyiv must also focus some of its attention on setting up a robust structure to effectively deal with the influx of foreign assistance in order to ensure that it is distributed and delivered to those sections of the population and military forces that most need it – an undertaking that would be a significant challenge even in peacetime. It is beyond doubt, as in any other country during an armed conflict, that some individuals will exploit this situation for their personal gain. Unfortunately, being preoccupied with defending the country, the government can only expect to be marginally successful in fighting the activities of war profiteers"
That link contradicts your claim.
Why are you lying?
Anon The West has been laundering it's money through Ukraine since long before this war started. Not to sound like too much of a Trumptard but it's not a coincidence that the US President's crackhead son got a do-nothing job on a Ukrainian oil company's board
>muh laundering
You vatBlack person morons really don't even understand what the word actually means, do you?
The military aid is almost exclusively equipment close to the end of its shelf life that would otherwise need to be destroyed or moved out of the war stock.
The economic aid comes mostly in the form of loans and is used to pay pensions, government employees and debt service so Ukraine does not technically go bankrupt.
Like everywhere, embezzlement is happening, that is always priced in.
Given that we get what would otherwise be WW3 at GWOT prices this is such a bargain, even if the Ukrainians stole half the money it wouldn’t matter. The entire endeavor is ridiculously cheap relative to the objectives achieved.
>10 year old HIMARS are at end of their storage life
I wish the unabashed shills weren't so fricking moronic.
I wish you weren't moronic too.
>ALMOST exclusively equipment close to the end of its shelf life
lrn 2 read
Why the frick are you in a forum if you can't read?
>The entire endeavor is ridiculously cheap relative to the objectives achieved
This. Destroying the military apparatus of a nuclear power while not using a single NATO soldier is chefs kiss.
Money laundry is a lot easier when you don't burn down the laundry you fricking moron.
sounds like what someone interested in tracking the money laundering would say. if you want to make a laundromat you have to break a few washing machines.
Do you idiots even know what money laundering is in the first place?
>Money laundering is when corruption
No it's not.
Money laundering is when you take Illegally made money, and make it legal by lying about where it's come from.
Taking US tax dollars which is 100% legal, and moving it somewhere else to stick it in your pockets isn't money laundering, it's simple corruption.
And the US doesn't need Ukraine to do that, just look at the giant bills that went to a bunch of Liberal groups during COVID that disappeared into thin air.
What is it with low IQ /misc/cels and money laundering ? Anything they don't understand is money laundering. Ukraine ? Money laundering. Onlyfans ? Money laundering. The fed ? Money laundering. My wiener in your sisters pussy ? Money laundering.
>money laundering apparatus that doubles as good PR
You fricking morons on /misc/ have no idea what Money Laundering even is. let me explain it to you like your 5.
>have money that was gathered using illegal means
>move money into legal businesses to "launder" said dirty cash
>money comes out totally legal
>money laundering
weak politicians and politicians bought by Putin
Army officers have been calling for more weapons to Ukraine since March - even in Stasi-subverted countries like Austria.
The aim here is to cripple Russia for a generation. The war has to continue for a while yet before that objective can be thought to have been achieved.
No kidding. Draw the line right here, the Russian population is Separate and Ukraine chooses not to join NATO.
historically populations usually bounce back after war fairly robustly. I don't think mother Russia is going anywhere
>historically populations usually bounce back after war fairly robustly.
Russia won't. it's all sorts of fricked
Belerus had 11 million people before WW1
They lost so many people in that war they still havent recovered to pre WW1 levels over 100 years later.
holy shit, seriously?
11 million pre war
7 million post war
At 9 million currently
Dont ask where the 4 million vanished to but I will say being a russian client state during a war with conscription has always been shit.
There is a reason every country that escaped is virulently antirussian.
A lot of WW2 fighting in the east was done in Belarus. Estimates are that betweenness soldiers in the red army dying and civilians starving, dying to combat action or straight up being murdered by the Germans, Belarus lost between 20 and 25% of its population 41-44.
everytime russia starts drafting belerus loses 20-30% of its pop.
No wonder Luka is still peeling potatos.
The country got laid to waste so hard in the last two large wars in Europe, I am not blaming them to have little appetite for round three.
>historically populations usually bounce back after war fairly robustly. I don't think mother Russia is going anywhere
LMAO dude historically Russia has a bloody revolution and regime change when they lose a war
You can't just dump weapons on a country that doesn't have the infrastructure set up to repair and supply them. The HIMARS Ukraine does have are the max amount they can keep armed, fuelled and in good condition.
Remember you need guys trained on these machines, you need mechanics, parts inventory, fuel, ammo, etc.
Anon, stop being reasonable. If you want a working armored formation, all you need to do is handing over tanks/IFVs have them read the first steps mini manual and point in the general direction of the enemy. Also machines never break from regular use, especially not tracked vehicles.
If we are seeing IFVs now, there has been prep and training going on for about half a year. If we see batallion batches coming in now, there will be brigades in three months.
The country is at war, its 40million people country and they spend shitloads of everything they do on war efforts.
Muh they don’t have xyz doesn’t really work. If they can operate 24 himars they can operate 240. Matter of logistics can be covered with money showered over war which they are doing anyways.
they're too busy throwing molotovs at people they dont like and catching themselves on fire. they dont want to do boring as frick drudge work on an HIMARS
because they're mega Black person rich in an even worse uganda with snow?
Wrong. No amount of money can replace trained technical specialist, nor can any amount of money markedly speed up the time it takes to train them.
>The HIMARS Ukraine does have are the max amount they can keep armed, fuelled and in good condition.
Wow. All 40 of them? It's amazing that Ukies have enough brainpower to speak their own language.
(You) seem to be a *knower* of All The Things.
How exactly would having more HIMARS help, compared to for example having more missiles for the current HIMARS?
moron
>resorts to insults
I win
HIMARS aren't bleeding edge tech. They don't require 12 degrees in mechanical engineering and rocket science to maintain. And logistics-wise they aren't any different to any other SPG. Having more of them enables you to keep the same amount of units active without sacrificing maintenance. The only argument you can make about not having more of them is if they're chronically in short supply of missiles which so far seen minimal signs of.
Ukraine has said this explicitly. They don't need more HIMARS. The amount they have is sufficient for full coverage of their frontlines so that whenever they identify a target high value enough to be hit by HIMARS, they're capable of designating, deploying and hitting it while also being able to keep the HIMARS repaired, supplied and safe. If they tripled the amount of HIMARS on the front, that triples the logistics, triples the possibility of Russian being able to hit one, and because 40 was already enough to engage deep targets with accuracy, it doesn't add any real gain.
It's the same with western tanks, it's going to be entirely up to the supply chain and how many guys can be well trained on them, because you're not going to just throw away your russian tanks and get the guys trained on them to use entirely different western stuff. You're going to make new divisions with new people trained on western armored systems, which takes a lot of time to set up.
>You're thinking whether they could, not whether they should.
we are not willing to push the monke to nook
Monke can't nook. The bonobos sitting behind him would put a bullet in his head before he could ook the words into his banana phone.
ukraine committed suicide at the behest of joe-biden, and will be forgotten in a single-segment on the 6pm news on CNN
ukraines sacrifice meant nothing.
at best it was a social experiment to see what 'western collapse' looks like in real-time
thanks for playing homosexuals
you will NEVER get the weapons you demand.
there is ZERO % chance ukraine recieves any meaningful or decisive weapons systems offensive or defensive.
biden does not care about ukrainian suffering, or else you would have gotten what you need LONG ago.
the fate of ukrainians is to be
demilitarized,
de-industrialized,
balkanized
and
turned into a blasted-out, cratered, effeminate rump-state that the eu will inundate with lgbtq propaganda, until whatever is left of the ukrainan people are subjugated or forced to emigrate to europe.
Post bakhmut
>blasted-out, cratered, effeminate rump-state
That sounds almost as bad as Russia. Poor guys.
Post Snake Island
Post Northern Front
Post Moskva
Post Odessa landings
Post functioning air power
Post intact ammo depots
Post PGMs
Post missiles that actually hit their targets
Post Russian soldier that hasn't had their butthole resized
Post negative HIV test
Post relatives over the age of 70
Post encrypted comms
Post unexpired rations
Post optics
Post NVGs
Post an AA system that hasn't routinely gotten dunked on
Post living VDV
Post sugar
Post bread
Post non defaulted currency
Post domestic industry that can process raw goods
Post domestic semiconductor industry
Post what you think Russia will gain even if they control 100% of Ukrainian soil
Post Baltic Sea control
Post how much you've begged literal third worlders for your artillery shells back
Post river crossings without double digit casualty rates
Post aircraft not routinely dunked by MANPADs
Post Post Hostomel
Post sensor suites in a non potato resolution
Post Officers that aren't dead
Post a competent NCO corps
Post Kyiv
Post intact supply trains
Post control of the Black Sea
Post Russians being a-okay with returning to an pre-Industrial agrarian economy
Post Finland and Sweden not being NATO members
Post how you feel about being dependent on China and India
Post crying babushkas over the losses of their sons
Post the Oligarchs sitting comfy while they destroy the legacy of your entire culture
Post how Russians feel about being viewed the world over as one tiny step better than North Korea
Post police blackbagging protestors
Post families being denied the money for the death of their sons
Post literally any positive outcome Russian can expect to have even if they 'win'
Post pallets
Post Lyman
Post Izyum
Post Soledar
Post Kharkiv
Post Kherson
Post Bakhmut
Post 600 conscripts of Makeevka
Post Mariupol
>ukie win list
>ruskie win list
Nice projection moron
>end the war of they wanted to
>ESL detected
The point is to keep the "aide" grift up for as long as possible, not to win.
Kek, well posted
>Ass blasted non-response seething x5
I'm coming to Indiana.
71 posters in this thread.
lets see how the rest of the shill opp goes from here. you glowing nafo homosexuals are cancer, /k/ desperately needs ID's to filter you homosexuals out
its because all the holhol astroturf brigade. all crimes are great as long as the holhols are doing it and not the vatniks.
40 kopecks have been deposited in your account.
It is Operation Cyclone 2.0
they are bleeding Russia
possibly with the intention of breaking it up, something Dick Cheney advocated at the end of the Cold War and we know these kinds of geostrategic ideas or goals never fully go away
a swift victory would result in an end to russia's hemorrhaging and a potential wakeup call for the country to get its act together. by edging russia, they are gradually drained of their stamina until whittled down to nothing.
>but muh ukraine
if you think the US is using ukraine as anything more than a pawn you're even more moronic than the vatniks
It is true. When you get down to brass tacks I haven't heard a retired general who didn't advocate for much more aid given to Ukraine in sufficient enough numbers to seriously resolve the battle, and who wasn't confused by the whole mbt debate that has played out across the west.
The facts are: Even if you gave a frick about the mbt shit, you got mexico, you got malaysia, you got indonesia, you got crete, you got Greece. You could have easily filled up stocks of amx-30, and amx-13, with troop carrying IFV varients of enough number to totally frick the russians. Amx-30 and amx-13. None of those countries want that materiel, and most of them decommissioned it in the last 24 months but have it in reserve. That's two tracked platforms that with decent computation, stabilisation, suspension and thermals would have wrecked face with whatever the frick the RF had.
The West had six months to make that happen and get some team of nerds together to figure out what good modernisation of that shit would look like for the Czechs and Poland to fricking retrofit.
By twelve months the modernisation of the amx-30 and amx-13's could have been completely finished and delivered with training in place for whoever the frick is in third legion.
In they fricking roll.
Another thing? While every western power is given the task of producing the modernisation packages for those tracked vehicles, they could have been given the modernisation packages for any of the warsaw pact shit that was hitting Ukraine. t-55 up. Fricks, MB-LT up. m101 up. Frick whe could have been making a frickload of 100mm artillery that could easily be dismantled and mounted on mt-lbs but still have integrated computerization. I'm sorry, I'm drunk and angry.
Whether you like it or not, we already have every single bit of information of how to upgrade to the maximum extent warsaw pact horseshit. Frick, from the Ukrainians themselves, given that was their god damned military's industry for twenty years.
All of us could have done it, figured out our industry's capability at production, channeled our apprenticeships and other production training towards it. Frick, opened factories in warsaw pact counties for students to learn their trade, liase with Warsaw pact montherfrickers and become a big frickoff NATO family with tactile connections through god damned hard work that lasted two generations.
Ukraine could have seen their stupid modernisation pipe dreams realised, and understood there was a place for it the whole time. Hey now your BDRM is destroying t-90's, congrats. More importantly, it's protecting your family. You were right, the work of your grandad, your dad, and you has it's fricking place.
But no, no. Here's not enough modified m113's, and in a miad of configurations it's fricking useless to have them donated, just about. Hey well done at those victories, but we aren't gping to make sure that all that captured equipment has an accessable database so you can request spares and have them delivered on time, so you go back to your poor culture of hoarding all the shit you've found on the vague assumption it might be useful one day, with the flow on effect that your very capoab;e general have less tan frick idea what your actual capability is, and assume the worst in their wisdom, so initiative is never properly utilised.
Fricking breaks my heart.
The US is slowly trickling in bigger and better weapons because they don't want to escalate too quickly. Once Abrams or F16s are given to Ukraine, they no longer work as bargaining chips. They want to use the threat of more escalation to induce Russia to pull out. Plus, once Ukraine has this hardware, the cat is out of the bag. They have it forever afterward.
You don't do everything all at once. You train operators, build technical capacity for maintenance, sustain equipment with parts, etc... A huge dump of advanced, expensive weapons weapons could trigger Russia into using a nuke, be misused and wasted, or make US allies nervous about being the cause of an escalation. The "Boiling Frog" metaphor is used. I've posted about this before. You start small and slowly turn up the heat until Russia is trapped and can't escape:
>"We sent Ukraine some guns and ammo. Bullets are nothing to worry about"
>"Ukraine makes their own ATGMs. You're can't say some ATGMs is an escalation when Ukraine can build their own"
>"We replaced some of Ukraine's parts for their Tanks and IFVs. Are they not allowed to replace stuff now? Be reasonable"
>"We sent some armoured ambulances without any guns. Is Ukraine not allowed to have trucks now? They're purely defensive"
>"So we sent some new parts for their planes. We didn't actually send planes though. They had MORE fighters when you first invaded, nothing has changed"
>"We sent them some old Soviet tanks. They've had Soviet tanks forever."
>"We sent HIMARS but you already said it wasn't as good as your stuff, so NBD."
>"We're going to send them some modern air defense systems. Purely defensive. You shouldn't have attacked civilians"
>"We gave them some old IFVs from the 1980's. Don't you have stuff better than that?"
>"We've already sent about four different IFVs, the ONLY difference is this one has a 105 cannon. But so did those old T55's we sent."
We are here
>"Yeah, so we sent some western tanks, but we've been sending tanks for a year now. You've said yourself your tanks are better."
>"Fighters? Of course we gave them F-16's. The other ones were old soviet garbage, and Ukraine has been running out of parts. F-16's are 40 years old, what are you worried about? Your aircraft are stealth. They exist. They should have no problems, right?"
> escalation
Yeah it’s like russia is 5 year old and they dont understand it right?
Well, if anything we have learned from all this is that russians are fricking stupid
Yes.
Yes, we are incredibly lucky they are so stupid.
i'm still so happy Biden didn't b***h out and actually supplied HIMARs
Never interrupt your enemy whilst he is fricking up on a cataclysmic level. Yes, the west could end this war now. But who does that benefit? If we push a semi intact Russia back into its box, it will learn from its mistakes and come back for more later on. Russians are not real humans. They need to be wiped out and the longer this war goes on, they are taking care of that problem for us by themselves. I think the Ukies understand this too and are happy to play along if it means destroying their parasitic neighbour
originally the big fear would've been "escalating" conflict with Putin and forces them to respond in some way. people really weren't sure how well things would end up at the very beginning of the invasion. even if you followed Russian military affairs extremely closely, you'd probably have figured that at the very least Russia would be able to win a decent bit against Ukraine like they did in 2008 against Georgia. hence initially, most weapons sent to Ukraine were small arms and light weapons like ATGMs, MANPADS, and mortars. it was only until fighting lasted about a month that Soviet surplus vehicles, SAMs, and heavy artillery started pouring into Ukraine.
but at this point it's pretty obvious that Russia's threats are just a bluff, considering that they can't even hold together a solid defense of Donbas and Crimea. they even just flat out ignored Armenia (biggest independent Russian ally in the Caucasus) when it got invaded by Azerbaijan in 2022, despite the fact Azerbaijan "accidentally" shelled a Russian military base in Armenia. Russia has almost 0 hard or soft power at this point, other than the nuke threat.
at this point, the real big thing holding back much stronger Western support is the fact that most NATO/US-allied countries have been arming up like crazy and modern weaponry is in high demand. almost every NATO member has made new orders for US-made weapons (especially HIMARS, F35s, M777s, etc.), and meanwhile big alternative arms suppliers in South Korea, Turkey, Israel, and France have basically been working overtime to fulfill orders for customers in Europe and Asia. thus, it becomes very hard to spare any extra high tech weapons to the Ukrainians beyond simple light weapons.
I think eventually they'll probably get some second hand Abrams and F16s from the US, and many some equivalents from EU members as token additions. if they're getting the Patriot they'll probably get other super advanced stuff.
pozziya could end the war instantly by leaving Ukraine. Where is your *concern* ..?
I will gladly pay taxes to see more dead Russians. It gets me so fricking hard. These morons got to larp as a world power for far too long and seeing it crumble is fricking amazing.
Oh hey again mentally ill anon. Have you reconsidered volunteering in Ukraine? They have Russians in Ukraine and lots of them. Perhaps you would find your orgasms infinitely more satisfying if you could see, hear, and smell the dead Russians in person.
I know Russia propaganda is all you inbred people know but Ukraine wouldn't take them even if they offered.
>Why they dont that?
Biden is Putin's ideological ally. He cannot simply do nothing because the weapons manufacturers and armed forces would do it without him anyway, but he has to at least keep up appearances.
If Ukraine ever got "too much" equipment and were able to overwhelm Russia into surrender, that'd not be in the best interest of the West (Or the powers that be at least). Russia would quickly rebuild their population, arms manufacturing and stockpiles, and likely become a threat to western hegemony in the future.
But if the war is nearly a stalemate, then Russia will keep pouring men and resources into the meatgrinder, and whether they win or lose, they'll be sufficiently weakened for decades to come.
And the west doesn't have to sacrifice any of their own manpower to do so. Just a bit unfortunate for some Ukrainian souls.
>ITT, moron OP still doesn't understand things like logistics and training and how they limit what makes sense to be sent
It's so tiresome.
>and Russian aggression would not be worth it anymore
It hasn't been worth it since fricking April. Putin doesn't care, he wants his banan no matter the cost.
I could end the war by killing Putin.
Wont do it tho.
It takes time to kill Russians and not so much at one time they lose hope and run away.
Enough reel must be given to slowly wind them in. the drip of weapons is exactly that
of course slavs on the other side die too but that is a price we in the west are willing to pay
they are training new generation of soldiers be Ukrainian kids and russian kids argued and they said OK? FRICKING FIGHT THEN? give me one example of gru in Ukraine russia owes Ukraine indefinitely due to Chernobyl and out of respect as a slavic country im tired of hearing about it they beeen at at war simce 2013 and publicly announced its almost over late 2019 i was looking at model tanks and transport trucks that day
>They could end the war of they wanted to
exactly, but the west convinced the uncritically thinking ukrosperm lovers that russia will run out of munition and collapse on its own in two more weeks, so everybody is content in doing the bare minimum
Because if Russia fell apart completely then there wouldn't be any reason to keep NATO going.
Every month this goes on adds another year to the time it will take for Russia to recover and try again
Russia needs to be slowly drained of the USSR stockpiles. Once this is complete Russia will capitulate since it is not a functional economy or posses a production capability, it is purely a nkvd population control gimmick. The reason to push towards capitulation is to offer Russia investment and security in exchange for it becoming a civilized nation, since the Russian population is the epitome of pathetic they would never be able to achieve this themselves. The benefit to the west of all this expense is rolling back the doomsday clock, as Russia does not have a rational leadership for MAD to work. Therefore Russian nuclear disarming is of the greatest benefit to the west, to Russias neighbours and especially to Russia itself. But disarming a bomb is best done delicately and slowly.
>If
No because most of western economy are just speculation. War is extention of industrial capacity and 50% of that is in china
Because MIC israelites make more money off a slow drawn out conflict.
The US is run by various corporate interests and these will profit a lot from reconstruction, which will mostly be paid for by europeans.
In order for these companies to suck on the fat european tax payers tit Ukraine must first be turned into rubble. The more this war goes on the more destruction there is and the more destryction there is the more money is to be made.
At this point they might as well just merge this board with /misc/ and be done with it.
>let's bring in even more noguns third world Black folk and yuropoors
No thanks
You can't just DUMP weapons on people who don't know how to USE them yet.
They must be TRAINED first. DUH.
The point of the war is to drag it along for as long as possible to kill as many white people as they can. Also the 10% for the big guy from all the gibs given to ukraine.