While the US military aid has flatlined, and Olaf Scholz will not send Taurus missiles, Russia has just dropped one of the first ODAB-1500 thermobaric bombs.
Thermobaric weapons spread a cloud of flammable liquid and then ignites the cloud, creating a deadly blast followed by a lethal vacuum which rupture the lungs on humans.
Does anyone think Putin is worried about this being an escalation?
Stop talking. Give Ukraine every thinkable weapon, so they can defeat the evil before it spreads.
@musictraveler I am sorry, but this is not rooted in fact. You can acuse Olaf Scholz of many things, but claiming he is an “admirer of Putin” has no merit.
Please remember, Olaf Scholz was central to moving Germany from pure pacifism to now contributing more to Ukraine than the US.
I agree, denying Ukraine the Taurus missiles seems wrong, but it is a huge leap from that to the conclusion that there should be some kind of sympathy between Scholz and Putin.
The U.S. has only committed 0.32% of its GDP toward Ukraine aid, which falls below the percentages committed by the UK (0.55%) and Germany just (0.57%)
But countries like Denmark and Estonia have each committed aid totaling more than 2% of their gross domestic product, with Estonia being the highest, at 3.55%
Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Poland also stand out among the highest donors by share of GDP 🤷🏻♀️
@randahl Comrade Scholz is a repulsive Chamberlain/Daladier type of sleezbag. And the republicans would sell their own mothers to dog cans factory, if they coyld get away with it. One would vomit.
@randahl I keep repeating myself. If Scholz does not want to send Taurus, his real mistake is to say it and not use it as bargaining power. He could use it at least to draw red lines!
This is satanic! We must arm Ukraine, any thing they need. Poo-Tin is really a horrible creature of Evil, like Hitler, Pol Pot, Leopold of the Congo. At this point my hope is in either mortality or revolution because he must be stopped. I doubt there are any others with his thirst for savagery and blood. If he’s gone it might end.
@darthwonka according to The International Committee of the Red Cross, thermobaric weapons are not by themselves illegal, but of course they can easily be used in ways that are illegal, for instance if they cause civilian casualties.
@randahl I do not understand Scholz... This fear of escalating or to become a party to the war. His red lines... Putin can decide Germany or any other country is the enemy for any made up reason.
@randahl@stargazersmith
Easy. We send NATO. I mean it's not an art. 5 country where we MUST help, but it is a country where we MAY help.
Almost everything is already there (except Air Force), time for the people with the nametag 'NATO-OTAN'.
("But then it will be a world war!"😲
"And what is it now?🤔 ")
@TheJen The thermobaric weapons previously used in Ukraine were the 173 kg rockets of TOS-1A.
When these were used, Ukraine often managed to fire back and destroy the launcher vehicles.
These new ODAB-1500 are enormous glide bombs which are launched from an aircraft far away from the target, and it is presently unknown if Ukraine will find a counter measure.
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@MindTGap I have no idea what is going on with the Scholz theater. All I know is, it must stop right now.
Russia has these 1500 kg. glide bombs on the way, and more. If we do not commit fully to arming Ukraine, we will eventually reach a point, where there will not be any Ukrainian soldiers left to fight this fight.
Some people may think they do not care. But they will care, once they realise, this means their own young men and women are next, after the last Ukrainian hero has fallen.