• Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Wars are just not fought that way, and to think that somehow ukraine has the ability to create a safe maintenance infrastructure in mid war is ridiculous. They can’t even do that with leopard tanks. They have to haul this stuff back to germany/poland for repair.

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        1 year ago

        Didn’t say that. I think it’s reasonable to assume that the military with the most experience in these weapons systems know what they’re doing. They don’t even have capable runways for F16s yet

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          1 year ago

          I think what you’re suggesting is that we should go to WAR WITH RUSSIA so that it’s a lot easier to repair F16s with more direct NATO equipment and infrastructure

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      Hauling back to Poland or Germany is simply more convenient : Russia can’t bomb those countries, and they already have the people to fix the tanks there.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not for now, it’s for later.

      Ukraine has to start swirling over to NATO weapons platforms, so they have to start somewhere.