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[–]Dune1032 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ukraine has already used ATACMS effectively against Russian targets. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ukraine-deploys-new-weapon-for-first-time-after-secret-delivery/ar-AA1nAWY4

The F-16 and Su-35 have their own advantages. See https://www.defencestreet.com/sukhoi-su-35-vs-f-16-fighting-falcon/ With the F-16, Ukraine will be able to counter any Russian air threat.

Russia has suffered heavy losses. See https://www.reuters.com/world/us-intelligence-assesses-ukraine-war-has-cost-russia-315000-casualties-source-2023-12-12/ However, just as in World War II Russia knows it has a massive personnel advantage over Ukraine and is willing to sustain heavy casualties. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8fWp-i-BGA&t=11s Ukraine can offset this with superior Western weapons. During the Korean War, UN forces were able to offset China's numerical superiority with superior weapons.

Russians are not eager to fight. See https://www.npr.org/2023/04/13/1169464889/russia-military-draft-ukraine-war

Ukrainians should draft and have countries return men who avoid the draft. If Ukraine have good leaders, troops will fight for each other and their country, although some will have to be forced. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv9XNFpRdhg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZGSfFFuujw

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ukraine has already used ATACMS effectively against Russian targets.

Not effectively enough to make a difference to the war.

With the F-16, Ukraine will be able to counter any Russian air threat.

Another in a long line of failed Wunderwaffen which Uke-stans claimed would win the war for Russia.

Russia has total missile domination over Ukraine. They're not going to engage F-16s in one-to-one dogfights, they're going to use their air defense to blow them out of the sky long before the F-16s get close enough to do any damage.

Russia has suffered heavy losses.

This is from the same American source that claims that Ukraine has only suffered 70 thousand casualties. They think you are an idiot.

Ukraine can offset this with superior Western weapons.

The west doesn't have superior weapons, they have fragile, expensive weapons in tiny quantities that need vast amounts of maintenance and even then its only fifty-fifty if they will work in actual combat. Western weapons are designed for selling, not for fighting.

The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber requires 119 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight time, and you better believe that the Russians can defeat the stealth and detect them. Serbia was able to detect the "invisible" stealth F-117 and shoot it down, using ancient Soviet Union radar technology from the 1960s. What the Russians have now is far better. The US air force knows this, and under no circumstances will allow their super-expensive stealth planes near Russian air defence. The F-35 is a piece of over-priced junk, even in peacetime less than half of the planes are in working order at any time. After twenty years of active service the combat record of the F-22 is exactly two Chinese weather balloons.

The reason they have them in tiny quantities is that the west is deindustrialised and can't make munitions in large quantities. The Pentagon has ordered a 500% increase in artillery shell production over the next five years. That means that by 2029 America will be making the same number of artillery shells in a full year as Austria made in a month in 1914 when WW1 broke out. Pathetic.

The UK has said that if they go to war, they only have enough munitions for a week's high-intensity combat.

Russians are not eager to fight.

Source: literally US government funded propaganda from NPR. NPR's CEO is Katherine Maher, a member of the anti-Russia pro-NATO "Atlantic Council" and works for the the US State Department on the Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

Ukrainians should draft and have countries return men who avoid the draft.

This is how popular the war is in Ukraine.

Ukraine has been conscripting people for this war since it started. Literally millions of Ukrainians have fled the country to avoid being drafted, and the army has press gangs literally snatching men off the street. Men are scared to leave home for fear they'll be kidnapped, forced into the army and sent to the front with barely any training to be used as cannon fodder.

[–]Dune1032 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ukraine has just struck Russian air defences in Crimea with ATACMS. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/crimean-air-defenses-hit-by-ukraine-atacms-strike-reports/ar-AA1nOoQY Ukrainians believe that Western weapons are superior to Russian weapons. Seehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0iZYxnBCQk&t=16s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Un__ss_ag&t=46s

Russian tactics support the claim that Russian losses are heavy. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwkIsnTn01E 1:38 into video.

Russians also flee the draft. See https://www.npr.org/2023/04/13/1169464889/russia-military-draft-ukraine-war Bring Ukainians back from overseas and they will fight; for their country and each other.