amayer

amayer, 1 day ago

@noelreports That’s … not how you surrender. Gun in hand and no white flag. ☠️

amayer, 10 days ago

@noelreports Soldiers in a war are legitimate targets? You don’t say.

amayer, 14 days ago

@elCelio It would be much easier for Ukraine to get them more F16s.
There should be enough to go around; more than 4600 have been built.

amayer, 13 days ago

@elCelio "the #USA will not provide aircraft"

Well, why not?
As for 'don't care', there's always the option to pay those countries. Most of them care for money.

I'm not saying don't provide other planes. Just that it will be difficult for Ukraine to implement the necessary logistics for yet another new system, especially one as sophisticated as a modern combat aircraft. It has been more than half a year already, to do that for F16s.

amayer, 19 days ago

@ErikJonker @geopolitics I’m all for setting red lines for russia, but there is no real risk that the russians could get to Kyiv any time soon. Much less Lviv.

amayer, 20 days ago

@randahl No, they have not broken through. Please be careful with the wording.

https://kyivindependent.com/syrskyi-ukrainian-forces-retreat-to-west-from-berdychi-semenivka-novomykhailivka-in-donetsk-oblast/

"Ukrainian troops have retreated west from the villages of Berdychi, Semenivka, and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast, the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said on April 28."

amayer, 26 days ago

@anderspuck @randahl @DeeGLloyd @gtconway3 Yes, and what Jake said is that Trump essentially got bored of the topic (of Ukraine) and therefore relented. I think that fits perfectly with Trump’s personality.

I really hope the Americans can get rid of that dangerous individual soon.

amayer, 26 days ago

@t_mkdf @anderspuck @randahl @DeeGLloyd I’m a bit confused. Maybe Biden was opposed to splitting the bill, but since all aid bills passed, I don’t see how that was a defeat for Biden (or some kind of win for Johnson).

amayer, 28 days ago

@anderspuck @DeeGLloyd @randahl Relevant text:

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Sec. 505. (a) Transfer Of Long-Range ATACMS Required.—As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall transfer long range Army Tactical Missile Systems to the Government of Ukraine to assist the Government of Ukraine in defending itself and achieving victory against the Russian Federation. (1/3)

amayer, 28 days ago

(b) Notification.—If the President determines that executing the transfer of long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems to the Government of Ukraine pursuant to subsection (a) would be detrimental to the national security interests of the United States, the President may withhold such transfer and shall notify the congressional defense committees, the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Affairs… (2/3)

amayer, 28 days ago

of the House of Representatives of such determination.
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I think this is important because a) it explicitly mentions long range ATACMS, which Ukraine hasn’t gotten at all and b) the president, should he decide not to deliver them, will now have to explain his decision to the Senate and the House. (At least that's what I guess 'notify' would imply.) (3/3)

amayer, 28 days ago

Oh, and also noteworthy is, that this paragraph explicitly mentions "achieving victory against the Russian Federation".

amayer, 28 days ago

@jwildeboer @peterkotrcka I fail to see a problem.

amayer, 28 days ago

@Kierkegaanks @randahl

amayer, 28 days ago

@noelreports Only took them half a year.

amayer, 29 days ago

@isagalaev The problem has already been resolved:

amayer, 1 month ago

@NatureMC @patkane You don’t have to imagine soldiers with joysticks. That is already daily reality in the war in Ukraine. It’s not going to go away either, because it saves the lives of those soldiers since they don’t have to run around on the battlefield.

No matter how terrible you think those technologies are, they help win battles, so they are going to get used.

amayer, 2 months ago

@Thomas_Wuest Ist doch schon der Fall. Putin’s Regime kann sich nur noch halten, so lange er den Krieg weiter führt.

amayer, 2 months ago

@kaffeeringe Ja. Und das Argument ist Angst. Scholz ist ein Angsthase und verlängert damit den Krieg.

#FreeTaurus #TaurusJetzt #ScholzVerlängertDenKrieg #NieWiederSPD

amayer, 2 months ago

@kaffeeringe Die Ansicht ist, daß Taurus eine nützliche Waffe ist und es keinen vernünftigen Grund gibt, sie nicht zu liefern.

Das ist vollkommen unabhängig von der übrigen Unterstützung.

amayer, 2 months ago

@hanse_mina So… 'only' 355,000 casualties in total (dead and wounded) but +500,000 invalids in the country?

Something seems off.

amayer, 2 months ago

@VikingChieftain @hanse_mina That’s probably it. "Statistics with Russian characteristics"

amayer, 2 months ago

@martinvermeer @VikingChieftain @hanse_mina || also: people trying to be classified as disabled in order to escape drafting.
Hundreds of thousands?

If the total casualties are around 350,000 the number of disabled should be no more then 250,000.
That would leave 250,000 people unaccounted for.

Oh well, I don’t think we will be able to figure it out from here.

amayer, 2 months ago

@VikingChieftain @martinvermeer @hanse_mina I agree. But I don’t think those are enough to account for the difference.

The strong dip in 2022 is suspicious, so my guess is that there was something going on with accounting. Maybe the official numbers weren’t as desired and were 'massaged' for some report? And now they are back at normal (+ war casualties).

Maybe someone who can read Russian feels like investigating further. :}

amayer, 2 months ago

@anderspuck @kyivindependent Hm. I still think something like C-RAM should work against surface drones. You’d probably need four on any ship to be able to defend against multiple drones.

Theoretically, Russia should have equivalent systems, but from what I have seen, they either only used small arms fire, or those guns simply don’t work as they should (surprise).