My two cents on Ukraine

[DemocratSinceBirth]

We could evict the malignant 🤡 posse from Ukraine in a week if we didn't have to be concerned about Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons to stave off a military defeat. Therein lies the dilemma.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Ukraine needs Drone technicians/operators to get to those convoys

backed up for miles outside of Kyiv.

One can dream.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. That forty mile convoy would be a killing field if we got involved.

But again Putin might use nuclear weapons to stave off a humiliating defeat.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. They need not be American, but American/Internationally trained.

But then, you might have a point there. He is that much a ego driven megalomaniac.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. They would be part of the West.

Putin is going to lose. The question is when and how. This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan. We just give it back to the Ukrainians. I keep coming back to the point that Putin isn't a rational actor so that needs to be taken into account

[Nevilledog]

5. I read that the 40 miles is incorrect due to translation error.

Instead it's a 4 mile convoy, 40 miles from Kiev.

These were military guys who did the math and it would basically add up to more than 16 battalions if it was 40 miles. It would also be totally ridiculous to have that amount of equipment together where a disruption would stop the whole operation.

Just attack the very front and the very back and they're kettled. Plus, being stuck on that long of a line would take a shitload of resupplying.

[Nevilledog]

6. ...

Link to tweet

[electric_blue68]

7. Ah! Ty 👍

[Nevilledog]

8. Honestly, we just don't know. Info is all over the map.

It just makes zero sense to have 40 miles of equipment & personnel lined up on 2 lane roads. Easy to target, hard to resupply.

[electric_blue68]

9. Got it. 👍