So is Ukraine supposed to micromanage how each piece of equipment is being used based on how each donor country feels about attacking Russia?
Yes. They sold the equipment under stipulations on how it will be used. If the US just gives Ukraine massive long-range offensive capabilities then Russia will treat that as a declaration of a proxy war and may attack US forces elsewhere. Or escalate in other ways. No one wants a desperate Russia. They want Russia to spend itself to death, again. And die like it did in the cold war.
Thats just the excuse, Ukraine has not declared war on anyone despite Iran, North Korea and China providing weapons to Russia. Russia just likes to rattle and make noise and the wst constantly walks on egg sells.
Yeah, that’s what the rest of the west want, but Ukraine just want to punch Russia in the face and send them packing. They don’t have the people or morale for a full-on meat grinder war over the next decade.
They don’t have the people or morale for a full-on meat grinder war over the next decade.
Russia doesn’t have the people or morale. Ukrainians are defending their homes with outside support, Russians are being dragged kicking and screaming into war with blocking troops behind them so they can’t turn and run.
Russia had a major demographic problem before any of this started, then a bunch of young men fled mobilization, now thousands are dying every week. The Kremlin’s last mobilization was deeply unpopular.
This isn’t the combined power of the USSR driven by an ideological hope for a better future, it’s a shrinking country with an unstable economy run by the Mafia.
And die like it did in the cold war.
Except it only appeared to die. Ukraine gave up its nukes in the 90s on the belief Russian aggression had “died” in the cold war.
Also, how is Russia to know which bit of equipment is attacking them, and where is it from?
Inventory Numbers, same reason we can identify us bombs used on civilian targets in Israel.
So they have to hope they find details on fragments left. I literally have no idea of the odds on that.
Sounds good, but they first need to actually deliver the jets, because this is otherwise pointless.
Good for the Netherlands.
F-16s have so many strings attached that I’m surprised they haven’t been literally copied or pirated lol.
They don’t like giving AMRAAMs either.
Isn’t that usually in the discretion of the country that built the fighter? E.g. the US? Usually the US has the final say on whether a fighter they sold to a country can be resold, and I find it weird that they would then allow the Netherlands to do something like that without their approval.
