bluGill

then support more money into defense against this. research now can save lives. More equipment to ukraine so russia loses faster would help too., 1000 f35 complete with all weapon would help. (all produced to date, but I want them without robbing our military of their jets)

AT what cost? 80,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere wouldn’t surprise me…

That depends on how this ends. If this drags out for a while the people may realized that Ukraine is a better government and demand not to go back to Russia. Seems unlikely, but strange things happen.

Nice to see someone being kind to competition

That is the most likely case, but IF Ukraine doesn’t have enough defense on the border he might attack for Putin. It is a risk, but if he takes and hold Kiev it is a win. He might just be insane enough to attempt that, so Ukraine must figure out how to defend and that diverts troops (which is what Russia wants)

It is what the Russians turned them into. I’d prefer Ukraine was known for food, cement, iron rod, and other industrial equipment -all things that would improve my life. Instead they were attacked thus forcing them to become things that are not nearly as useful to me (or so I hope…)

Google is funding firefox. Who knows how much control they have, but it isn’t zero

Putin is good at this. They better watch out for windows.

The obvious thing is this was poorly defended enemy territory. By attacking here they got through - Ukraine has entered more land in the last 2 weeks than Russia in all of 2024 (entered does not mean control).

This does several things for Ukraine that we know of. there may also be things it does we have not thought of and Ukraine isn’t talking about.

It forces Russia to counter-attack to get their own land back. Defense is generally easier than offense so Ukraine can slowly retreat while inflicting lots of Russian losses. Those are troops that don’t attack in Ukraine. Better yet, Ukraine doesn’t really care to hold this land so they don’t have to make as hard of decisions - if troops will be lost retreat (troops will be lost, but hopefully not as many as there is not much value in trading lives). They can also rig traps that would destroy the land, Ukraine isn’t going to pay to rebuild it after the way so not their problem.

It pulls Russian troops out of Ukraine. Even after Ukraine withdraws Russia will be forced to keep more troops on the border to prevent Ukraine from doing this again. Those are troops (including supplies) that cannot defend in Ukraine and in turn that makes it easier to take back their own land back.

It gives Ukraine something to bargain with. “you want your land back, we wants ours, lets just trade and call it even”. Russia isn’t interested in any bargains at this time, but this gives Ukraine something to work with when they are, and also gives Russia reason to be interested. Overall nobody thinks this is a useful thing at the moment (Russia doesn’t care), but it is a consideration.

Last (because you are most likely to remember what is last this is what I think is most important) this improves moral. Ukraine has been slowly losing land for months now - this gives a great moral boost: we can take land from Russia. Both defending troops celebrate and then fight harder, and also friends (NATO) can say aid isn’t a lost cause as Ukraine can fight back.

Tank losses declined seriously half a year ago. It isn’t clear if Russia is running out of tanks, or has finally figured out how to use tanks without losing them. (most think it is the former - they have run out of old tanks that can be restored quickly - but it isn’t clear)

It wasn’t clear that windows 95 would beat OS/2, and OS/2 was clearly the better so I installed that over windows 3.1. Then in college I got introduced to BSD. I still prefer BSD, but sometimes linux has things that BSD doesn’t so I use linux in places.

Your drones, but what about the guy farther down the line who might be closer or have longer range drones.

Moscow is too close. They need to reach the north korea border to stop importation of somethings. Also they need to hit airfields in Siberia where bombers are sored.

Drones is plural. Even if most don’t reach the emitter all you need is one.