After announcing plans to send Challenger tanks to Ukraine, Britain has revealed that it will send a further 600 Brimstone missiles. Meanwhile Moscow has warned that supplying Ukraine with longer range weapons will take the conflict to a ‘whole new level’
The latest $2.5 billion weapons package for Ukraine won’t include any of the heavy armour requested. However, it will include at least 90 Stryker armoured combat vehicles
Douglas Macgregor explains that the Russians “will have to eliminate the Zelensky regime “ because it presents a “permanent danger to Russian national security”. If that happens all bets are off as the U.S. and Poland may decide to intervene directly to save Zelensky’s “criminal regime”
In recent days Russia has secured some decisive victories in Ukraine. Although you wouldn’t know it from the Western MSM, which appears to be trying to integrate snippets of facts on the ground with the heroic tale of inevitable Ukraine victory
Scott Ritter explains why Ukraine will never again replicate the circumstances that brought it military gains in September (2022)
14 Challenger tanks maybe too little too late, because it will take at least six months to train crews to man them. And even if Germany approves the export of Leopard 2 tanks analysts still believe Ukraine will need at least 100 heavy tanks to launch a successful spring offensive
It’s not only Britain that is sending weapons. Germany, France, Poland, Canada and the U.S. are also sending advanced weapons to aid Ukraine in a war that for Russia is an existential conflict
Scott Ritter offers valuable insight into what some Western MSM commentators have described as “Russian mercenaries”, the Wagner Group
A lot of patriots across the West want Russia to prevail in its conflict with Ukraine. That is not necessarily because they like Putin or admire Ukraine but because the same forces supporting Kiev are also behind much that is undermining the West too
The U.S. appears to beefing up its forces in Eastern Europe with literally hundreds of heavy armoured vehicles. Is it preparing for an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine? Maybe even direct intervention?
“No one is talking ‘disarmament’. Everybody is talking ‘arms race’. The Russians are already well ahead … They have new missiles, new systems out there that we can’t match… The Russians will annihilate us.”
Even before the currant conflict with Russia Ukraine was considered one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, if not the world. If anything things have only got worse