MrMakabar

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in Military support for Ukraine | Federal Government (Germany)

There have not been any official Leopard1 deliveries for months now. We know for a fact, that there are a large number of Ukrainians officially being trained in Germany on them for what looks to be way too long and we also now that there are significantly more actually fully repaired and refurbished Leopard1s in Germany factories. There was no official delivery of Leopard1 for over four months now.

Chances are that the list is incomplete. It is meant to show a lot of weapons are being send to Ukraine and is a good tool to miss lead Russia.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Europe in The tech behind a flying car, originally developed and successfully test-flown in Europe, has been bought by a Chinese firm

Flying cars are the stuff politicans love, because they do not have to change anything about car centric infrastructure at all, do not have to buitl public transport and only the rich can afford them. We call the helicopters today.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 23.03.24

Until they realize that only 1743 boys are born in Russia every day. Good luck fighting the next war, after killing all the fathers and let the rest flee abroad.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in Researcher on Germany's security policy: "Berlin’s incompetence and dithering endanger everyone"

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-security-chief-says-47-russian-spy-networks-uncovered-last-year-2024-02-25/

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in Researcher on Germany's security policy: "Berlin’s incompetence and dithering endanger everyone"

It is a consequence of its once divided status.

That was 35 years ago and in the mean time the Soviet Union collapsed and they are in a war with Ukraine. If I were to bet Ukraine has more Russian spies then Germany right now. Just because they are trying a lot harder.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in Researcher on Germany's security policy: "Berlin’s incompetence and dithering endanger everyone"

Your "Researcher" just published something very similar on the right wing Daily Mail:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13155971/EDWARD-LUCAS-want-leak-secret-Kremlin-just-tell-Germans-Berlin-Natos-weakest-link.html

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in Fact checking: Social media users are claiming the West broke a 1990 treaty undertaking not to expand the NATO security alliance closer to Russia’s borders. It's false.

No, there were negotiations for the reunification of Germany and during those a few Western officals offered not to go further east. However that ended up not being part of the final treaties. In fact the 2+4 Treaty, which the Soviets signed does clearly state that ALL of Germany is part of NATO, with NATO troops being allowed to be stationed in former East Germany as well. Obviously that is just Germany, but in no other country, did the Soviets have any sort of legal reason to deny joing NATO what sort ever.

So no this is just Russian propaganda and not to be taken seriously.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in First Patriot Launcher (Likely Two) Destroyed By Russia -- In Donetsk | Suchomimus

It is the launcher, that is the cheapest part of the system. The expensive parts are the command center and the radars.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in Chinese mercenaries spotted fighting for Russia in Ukraine

China is also stronger then Russia and they know they just have to bribe one of the US parties to stop aid to Taiwan.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in Macron to French party leaders: There are no "red lines" in supporting Ukraine

For anybody wondering. France has a strategy of strategic ambiguity. That means they always leave all options open, so they can change their minds and also have the enemy guessing. That is why their are no red lines. It is fundamentally against French strategy. However it does not mean that France sends soldiers to Ukraine or anything like that.

A great example why it makes a lot of sense is Scholz. He was initially against sending Marder, Leopard, artillery and a lot more weapon systems, but later and not even too much later changed his mind. This did piss of countries like Poland and obviously Ukraine for no reason, create bad press and it means that Scholz saying no is somewhat of a temporary thing, which weakens his position in negotitations. If he had said that he has not decided to send those weapons to Ukraine, the entire time, then he would have had a lot less of an issue.

So please do not read too much into this. For France what matters, is if they say they are going to do something., not maybes.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz in Anschlag auf Tesla: Faeser warnt vor Linksextremismus

Die Nazis greifen halt auch keine Unternehmen an.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in "There will be no Armenia in five years:" Kremlin propagandist and Putin ally says Russia's neighboring country "will not exist at all"

Russia abadoning Armenia was really a bad call. Georgia wants to be an EU member badly and Armenia also has a somewhat democratic system. The only thing missing is Azerbijan. That would open up Central Asia to the West. With Russia threatening Kazkhastan this could really put Russia in a bad geopolitical position.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 06.03.24

You are absolutely right they didn’t manage to break through the line, but I never thought that was the purpose of the campaign against Avdiivka.

No, but it makes perfect sense to try. Ukraine did have a lot of troops and equipment out in the open in unprotected positions and the new positions were likely to be at least partly manned by the soldiers leaving Avdiivka. So good time to try.

MrMakabar , 3 months ago to Ukraine in The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 06.03.24

Avdiivka was a well protected position and the new defensive line is quite a bit further West from Avdiivka. So Russia had to take some ground to reach it and Ukraine made them pay, but without really having good terrain to really put up a strong fight. It also means Russia has no good positions to hide and logistics are stretched. So they did not manage to break through the line, but just moved it further to the West.

MrMakabar , 4 months ago to Ukraine in Germany’s Scholz pressed by own coalition to provide long-range missiles for Ukraine

The decision of the Bundestag is not binding for the government. However some other parts of the decision:

• officially aknowledging that Germany made a mistake in not using significantly more force when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014
• Ukraine has to win the war, which is very different language to Russia has to loose
• using spelling of Ukranian locations in German in offical documents, rather then the still normal Russian spelling(okay not that important)
• also I read a lot about it could mean Himars missiles instead of Taurus. The passage with the "long range weapons" thanks France and the UK for supplying SCALP, so it is basically as clear as it gets without saying Taurus.