Oddbean new post about login | logout Rheinmetall? The company that built those Leopard tanks that were all blown up in like a month? 😂 A billion dollars just doesn't buy as many guns and bombs as it used to!
Tanks aren't very relevant in modern warfare ( Drones are ) but this is just an example of how serious ( if the article is to be believed ) NATO are about re-arming.
I'd move that tank factory back just a bit. The land might get overrun by the Russians before the plant is completed! 😂
Also RE: drones, isn't it a bit odd that the USA isn't giving Ukraine Predators and/or Reapers? I wonder what the story is there.
Just a guess, but they might not want to give anything with IP russia could steal when ukraine Inevitably fucks up and gives them some of it
Possibly. But lots of drones were shot down in Iraq and Afghanistan. Surely some of those are already in Russian/Chinese research labs.
MQ-1s and 9s are easily destroyed by SAMs and MANPADS, both of which your average goat fucker terrorist org doesn't have access to.
This is probably the answer.
my guess is they want the war to drag on. they don't want to give Ukraine so much power that it will make Russia pull out.
you may remember Russia almost lost when Prigozhin marched on Moscow. it was only Prigozhin's mistake in believing Putin's promises that saved Moscow. Putin promised Prigozhin will be safe then almost instantly assassinated him.