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Seems legit:

F-16 with identification marks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Likely taken at one of the training grounds where Ukrainian pilots undergo training on the fighter jet.

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Must be pretty easy to locate with this pic. Either its fake or UA air force is fine making the location public early or he photograph and guy pictured could/should be sanctioned.
 
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Must be pretty easy to locate with this pic. Either its fake or UA air force is fine making the location public early or he photograph and guy pictured could/should be sanctioned.

I would of course agree if the jet was in UKR. But it isn't. From the post on X:

"Likely taken at one of the training grounds where Ukrainian pilots undergo training on the fighter jet. [My u.]"

As of now they aren't training inside of UKR. The jets won't enter UKR territory until they're operational. But hopefully it won't be that much longer now until these F-16s actually are operational.
 
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Oh the irony: Russian born general in charge of Ukraine's military.
Alternative title: Russian native in charge of defeating Russia.
Syrsky is a career soldier who was born in the village of Novyky, in the Vladimir region, 130 kilometers north of Moscow. At the age of 15, he moved to Ukraine, where he has lived ever since.

During Soviet times, he graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. He served in the army of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and, after independence, joined the National Guard and later the AFU.
 
Oh the irony: Russian born general in charge of Ukraine's military.
Alternative title: Russian native in charge of defeating Russia.
Syrsky is a career soldier who was born in the village of Novyky, in the Vladimir region, 130 kilometers north of Moscow. At the age of 15, he moved to Ukraine, where he has lived ever since.

During Soviet times, he graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. He served in the army of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and, after independence, joined the National Guard and later the AFU.

Clearly a Z nazi. /s
 
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The United States fully supports this funding. We believe there is overwhelming support in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, and it will be done," Republican congressman and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Turner said during his visit in Kyiv.

 
Someone has been spoon fed far too much of the David Sacks narrative. Tucker's Putin pep rally isn't going to move the needle in DC.

Everyone in the US already has their mind up about Tucker Carlson. For the minority who like him, he's preaching to the choir. For the rest he's a washed up hack getting played by a vicious dictator.

There are those in the choir who are talking about this moving the needle, but they are disconnected from reality.

We're probably at a low point for the west at the moment. Initial donations have run low but EU+Ukraine industry hasn't had time to spin up arms production while Russian production has increased production more rapidly as they have moved to more of a wartime economy. Another year or two and it's likely that EU production will dwarf Russia's but Ukraine may not be able to survive that long.

One of the problems with Europe stepping up is some of the weapons are US only items. Anders Puck Nielsen recently talked about this

Europe has the economic capacity to spool up military production without severely impacting the civilian economy. But there are some things they can't make. Ukraine is also spooling up production of their own war goods. Ukraine has an indigenous arms industry.

But then the war crime trials would start. And the demands to repatriate the stolen children. Ending the fighting isn’t going to finish the war, imo.

If Putin left tomorrow and the shooting stops it would technically be the end of the war, but the war would have a lot of aftermath.

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There are reports that Ukraine has deployed jet powered long range drones that are mass produced

This could be significant for the war. There are no big "game changers", but it will stress Russia's already stretched air defense network. Russia moved a lot of its air defense into Ukraine for relatively short range air defense, but if Ukraine is going to be able to strike deep into Russia with drones and do it frequently, then Russia is going to have to pull back a significant number of their air defense units to defend strategic targets within Russia. This will thin out their air defense in Ukraine.

Even if Ukraine gets few hits on Russian targets in Russia, it will weaken Russian air defense nearer the front which is a good thing.
 
Putin blaming Poland for WW2 was a new perspective to me. He even had the gall to mention the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in the same breath. I suppose all those Polish officers in Katyn forest were actually part of a death cult.
Sociopaths can lie with a straight face all day long.
 
...] One of the problems with Europe stepping up is some of the weapons are US only items. Anders Puck Nielsen recently talked about this

Europe has the economic capacity to spool up military production without severely impacting the civilian economy. But there are some things they can't make. Ukraine is also spooling up production of their own war goods. Ukraine has an indigenous arms industry. [...

Haven't watched the Puck Nielsen video yet.

But can't the EU/UK/France/Germany/Norway/Netherlands just buy these "US only items" and then simply just transfer them to UKR?
 
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