Imagine for a second, just for a brief second, that what happened in the German elections had happened in Ukraine, with people voting for the openly far right. You would stomp us into the dirt, your press would destroy us, your societies would refuse to support our resistance, and they would say we deserve to be invaded.
Your societies, in fact, already do all that to us. The only thing saving us from that becoming the majority view is that we have never had a far-right party in our parliament.
But Germany? For Germany, it's fine. It's also fine for the rest of the West to have the far right, sit at home in complete safety, and argue online that Ukraine needs to be "denazified."
The West has a far-right problem. A big fucking one.
@USMarineVet1969@IAPonomarenko So, now that Russia is finally being bombed (the thing you’ve been saying will start WWIII), when exactly is this WWIII starting???
In case you plan on playing the “wait for their response” game, today’s strike on Moscow WAS a response. For Ukraine’s holiest place bombed. And for dozens of cities & towns razed to the ground. And for 20 thousand kids kidnapped. And for 700 kids dead. And…
Russian forces captured 68 square miles of Ukraine last month — and it cost them 4,800 vehicles and more than 36,600 dead and wounded troops.
At the current rates of advance, Russia would capture the rest of Ukraine in the year 2256 at the cost of 101 million casualties.
https://t.co/5bwDGETCjp
@A_B_Germany@Mylovanov Fair to feel that in your safe home thousand miles away. Would you say the same to the US Army or Europeans in 1945 when they were celebrating the destruction of the nazis thought? Prospective my friend changes everything
@ricomanfredi@Didacous@LucaBizzarri Ucraina ha il diritto di eliminare russi dal momento che hanno invaso e bombardato il territorio Ucraino. si chiama difesa della sovranità e integrità territoriale. Ogni presenza nazi-fascista in Ucraina sarebbe esclusivamente un problema interno, esattamente come lo è in Italia.
@FinalWrangler@AndrewPerpetua You have info but not the kniwledge how to use it. The Russians committed a war crime by killing what they thought were Ukrainian soldier DURING A CEESFIRE. Read the articles you cite at least.
BREAKING: Qatar just signed a 10-year defence co-production agreement with Ukraine.
Not an advisory partnership. Not a training exchange. Co-production facilities. Joint defence industry projects. Technological partnerships between companies. Signed by the Chiefs of General Staff of both nations on March 28 per Zelensky’s verified account and Qatar News Agency.
Qatar shares the world’s largest natural gas field with Iran. The North Field / South Pars reservoir holds 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas per the IEA. Two-thirds lies in Qatari waters. Ten days ago, Iran hit Ras Laffan Industrial City, the facility that processes all the gas from Qatar’s side of their shared field per CNN and QatarEnergy. Seventeen percent of Qatar’s LNG capacity is offline for three to five years. Fourteen percent of helium exports are cut. Force majeure declared.
Iran bombed the other half of its own shared gas field. And now Qatar is building weapons factories with the country that mastered killing the drone Iran used to do it.
The drone is the Shahed-136. Iran designed it. Russia industrialised it. Russia fired it at Ukrainian cities for four years. Ukraine developed the $2,100 Sting interceptor that kills it at a 70 percent rate. Zelensky told The National he can deliver 1,000 interceptors per day. The 10-year deal ensures Qatar will not just buy these weapons. It will manufacture them on Qatari soil with Ukrainian technology.
This is the first time in the history of this war that a Gulf state has committed to building the production line, not just purchasing the product. Saudi Arabia signed a defence cooperation agreement on March 27. The UAE agreed to security cooperation on March 28. But Qatar went further. Co-production means factories. Factories mean sovereignty over supply. Qatar will no longer depend on anyone for the weapon that protects the gas field that powers 30 percent of the world’s helium.
Zelensky met Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani. He updated them on Russia’s ongoing attacks and its cooperation with the Iranian regime. He told them air defence remains Ukraine’s absolute priority. Then he asked for what he has asked every Gulf leader this week: Patriot missiles that the Gulf possesses and that Ukraine desperately needs to stop Russian missiles that use the same guidance components from the same Chinese rare earth processing chain.
The exchange is now visible across three countries in 48 hours. Ukraine gives cheap interceptors and expertise. Gulf states give expensive missiles and investment. Ukraine gets what it needs for Russia. The Gulf gets what it needs for Iran. And the drone that connects both wars, the Shahed that Iran designed and Russia upgraded, becomes the mechanism through which two separate conflicts merge into a single weapons economy.
Trump called Zelensky “the greatest salesman on Earth.” In 48 hours, Zelensky signed three defence agreements across three Gulf capitals, secured a 10-year industrial partnership, deployed over 200 specialists, and positioned Ukraine as the sole provider of the one capability America’s $3.9 million Patriot cannot replicate: cheap, high-volume, battle-proven drone interception at $2,100 per unit.
The country America said it did not need just locked in a decade of Gulf defence contracts while America raids Swiss accounts to cover its own interceptor shortfall.
Full analysis - https://t.co/32ixeQpN7N
@meandmyfrens@frontlinekit I try to follow but help me here: what is a logical connection between polio vaccines and Ukrainians being genius at mastering complex military systems and successfully fighting the world's 2nd-largest military?
BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ.
The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles.
Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough.
The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan.
Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth.
The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times.
Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost.
And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one.
Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.”
The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption.
The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need.
Full analysis - https://t.co/32ixeQpfif
The reason we gotta spend $4 million per Patriot missile to shoot down a silly $20,000 Shahed drone is because Donald Trump refused to give Ukraine the Tomahawks necessary to take out the Shahed factories in Russia
Around 40 Iranian Shahed-136 drones targeted the UAE. Ukraine, experienced in stopping them, has offered support, sharing technology that disrupts their navigation systems with up to 90% success.
A million thanks to Ukraine. 🇺🇦
@Abdulkhaleq_UAE
Operation Epic Fury is now in Day 4.
Iranian Shahed suicide drones are swarming Gulf airspace. They're targeting military bases and infrastructure.
Russia has been using Shaheds against Ukraine for 3,5 years.
And Ukraine knows how to deal with Shaheds cheaply. 1/
@Wisdom_HQ @UnaskedMind Wisdom.. it looks like you have more questions than answers. Take your time and come back with a clear idea, metaphorically speaking..