US earns a lot of money, and can afford a huge debt, by being a global superpower. By projecting power abroad, it also projects support for American businesses on worldwide markets. This is how the US earns enough money for a huge military budget, used to project the power. And all of this becomes possible thanks to alliance with European and other countries.

Current Russian invasion in Europe is about vital US interests. Support to Ukraine requires a rather small fraction of the US military budget. Failure in Ukraine will cost much, much more - probably including the American lives.

Thank you, brother, for your friendly shoulder. Your support enables us to stand firm.

I was talking about the tactical nuke that might have been stored there. By the way, the locals in Toropets said that the explosion would be much bigger if another storage facility was hit. Perhaps they were talking about some deep storage with a nuke that remained intact. And this is probably the reason why the Ruscists now strictly forbid any publication of the aftermath.

The explosion of the nuke in the storage is very different from the explosion of the intentionally exploded armed nuke. It may not even explode at all, but only spread radioactive material.

But in this case, the radioactivity level did not increase, so evidently no nuke was hit.

Indeed, there may have been a tactical nuke stored among other armaments. I hope people there have Geiger counters.

Which words? If you mean Roskomnadzor, it’s a typical example of the bureacratic newspeak, invented in Russia during the establishment of the Communist regime. It’s meant to terrify.

Otherwise Slavic languages have about as many consonants as French.

Thank you 👍

It were Ukrainians who initially populated this region, so it’s no wonder that people there still preserve the Ukrainian accent. People from Donetsk and Luhansk puppet republics also speak with this Ukrainian accent.

It’s interesting that the speaker pronounces the letter “г” softly, in a Ukrainian manner. Well, the town of Sudzha was once a capital of Ukraine, even if only for a month: https://ukrainetoday.org/sudzha-the-city-in-the-kursk-region-was-once-ukrainian/

Sudzha was previously a capital of Ukraine, even if only for a month: https://ukrainetoday.org/sudzha-the-city-in-the-kursk-region-was-once-ukrainian/

Apparently, some officer thought that this combat vehicle was completely protected and invulnerable.

The Rashists left Chernobyl after one of their crazy units dug in a radioactive forest, and the Ukrainian staff of the closed power plant scared the Rashists of all possible consequences.

It must have been a cruise missile. The cruise missiles which Russia uses to bomb us are sizeable and have a huge impact.

In case of paywall: https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-vladimir-putin-war-machine-ruble-ukraine-sanctions-oil-2023-12

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Thank you, dear friends, for your kind hospitality! 🇺🇦❤️🇪🇺

Thank you for your compassion. The main thing is that F-16s will soon be here to protect the Ukrainian skies.

Ukraine is not safe these days, and many Ukrainians have nowhere to return to.

Well, you probably know more about tanks than I do. But sorry, this article isn’t about making tanks completely immune. It is about improving protection. To quote the article:

ERA blocks contain layers of explosives that explode outward when struck, potentially deflecting the incoming blast. Reactive armor doesn’t work against inert penetrating rounds, but against high-explosive rounds it can roughly double a tank’s protection.

With a tight layer of ERA, a Leopard 1A5 should go from having around 70 millimeters of steel protection to the equivalent of 140 millimeters or so. That’s still less protection than a Russian T-72 has, but it’s enough at least to give Ukrainian crews more confidence as they roll onto battlefields teeming with explosive-laden drones and anti-tank missiles.

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Use them in a supportive role as a precise gun on range (and as it’s rifled it is actually more capable in regards to long range precision than modern smooth-bore cannons).

Indeed, the Ukrainians use them as accurate long-range guns. But as for the “supporting role”, what other tanks should these Leopards support? Perhaps Ukraine will miraculously receive or make hundreds of modern battle tanks in the future. But for now, the Ukrainians must do the best they can with what they have, upgrading old vehicles where possible.

Well, you can, but first you should learn more about these tanks: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/11/19/ukraines-leopard-1-tanks-roll-toward-the-front-line-but-without-extra-armor/

If you care to read a purely Ukrainian weapon expert, David Axe, in the purely Ukrainian Forbes magazine :-)

Yahoo version: https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-won-major-victory-over-174126233.html