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@gameburn178 Finland's most potent combat power is in its fleet of 64 F/A-18C/D Hornets and accompanying weapons systems....made in the US. Sweden's air force is powered by US GE engines. Both nations have been more reliant on the US militarily than they have ever known, and their leaders repeatedly hide these facts from their people due to pride.
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. It takes most European industrial nations 3-5yrs just to form a committee that might then think about decisions. Advanced military systems like fighters, missiles, helicopters, transports, and electronic warfare systems take decades. Europe refused to invest in modern systems decades ago, so now Europe is more reliant than ever before on the US.
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@SydneyMoo The US supplied Russia with more war material than we did our own forces in the Pacific theater, thus prolonging our Pacific campaign. Russia didn't have things well in hand. Russia lost 20 million people in the War. Without Lend-Lease, Hitler would have conquered Russia.
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 @MarkSullivan_xyz US was supplying the allies with material and even volunteer forces. Europe didn't stand a chance without US logistics.
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@HedgehogsAreBetterThanYou American aerospace has generations of advanced development that began long ago. European parliaments chose to defund European advanced programs, and spend money on bureaucratic waste and stupid social programs instead.
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@gameburn178 Since WWII, the importance of air power manifested itself in ways not even the Wright Bros imagined. The lack of air power in Ukraine is why the war has drawn out this long.
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You have a small population with enough weight already on your shoulders to defend Norway and part of the northern corridor.
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@merjakotisaari9046 Finland has 0 of its ordered F-35s because the US can't make them fast enough for all the customers. Finland is in no position to be worrying about sending material it will need tomorrow. It's madness.
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@jamesgornall5731 What country will these brilliant nations rely on to refine their oil imports? Where will they buy their fighters, missiles, Radars, transports, AWACS, Artillery, and advanced systems? Remember, European parliaments chose to not fund these things for generations.
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@charlesmelanson1607 What European forces do you think have expeditionary capacity to deploy to Ukraine and force Russia back to Feb 2022 lines? That would be an escalation of war not seen since 1942.
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Players and motives: Putin: Reestablish the Czarist and Soviet era territories held by Russia. Ukraine: Assert their sovereignty and right to determine their own future without Russian interference. Poland and smaller Eastern European nations: Keep this fight away from their borders as long as possible, continue to build their defense forces, and weaken the Russian forces by proxy. Central Europe: Keep this war from spreading into Eastern Europe and affecting their borders, economies, and trade. United States: Contain the war in Ukraine so that it doesn’t spread into Europe and destabilize the European security structure, economies, and trade. Biden: Hide the fact he’s been on Soviet payroll since 1972, while appearing to support Ukraine. Obama underlings in the WH: Slow-roll the US support to Ukraine to allow Putin to be successful. US DoD: Provide enough material to contain Russian forces and attrit them so they aren’t capable of invading Europe any further, while trying to re-orient the force to the Pacific theater threats from China, and fund new weapons systems that have been in development for many years. Try to improve recruiting and retention. China: Attempt to contain economic stagnation and collapse in real estate and finance sectors, while prepping for integration of Taiwan through political subterfuge, followed by military intervention. Iran: Take advantage of chaos in order to upgrade the aging Iranian Air Force with help from Russia. Fund surrogate Islamic maniacs in the Middle East to knock the US and Israel off base.
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@ragingmonk6080 Let me think back to all the times we asked MPs for their tactical, let alone strategic assessments of Russian order of battle, readiness, and force posture....hmmmm, yeah never.
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 @ninemoonplanet Uh, the US has been the primary soldier and weapons provider for your security for generations.
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 @dmitrizorkin3851 For modern weapons, you need to invest tens of billions just in RDT&E 30 years ago. Good luck.
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@HedgehogsAreBetterThanYou The US makes every Gripen GE engine and FLIR pod. Rafales cost 2x as much as F-35As, are not survivable in the near future battlefield, especially vs Su-57. Europe needs F-35s now more than the US does.
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 @PutinPuppet-z7w Most US debt is domestic, not foreign.
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@MarkSullivan_xyz Now you're left trying to explain the Battle of Khasham in Feb 2018, and FMS to Ukraine the next month, as well as Trump energy policies that collapsed Russian oil revenues. Turn off the crap you've been reading.
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 @MarkSullivan_xyz You know where the vast majority of munitions sent to Ukraine come from, right? Your grossly-uninformed opinion is irrelevant.
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@MarkSullivan_xyz Europe and Australia did not contribute tens of billions of dollars into F-35 development. That was almost all US Defense RDT&E money. There were some small contributions from the UK as a Tier 1 partner nation in JSF, since the UK was in on the ground-level for ASTOVL already in 1983, in conjunction with DARPA, USAF, and USMC. The US foot the $61 billion bill for RDT&E on JSF-A, JSF-B, and JSF-C development prior to any production starts.
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Weird. I wonder why Finland and Poland spent billions preparing since 1995, while the rest of Europe celebrated "the end of history". Maybe Finns and poles never forgot. Talk of 3 years to prepare? The Eurofighter partner nations haven't even funded new Radars for Typhoons. They're flying around with 80s tech.
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 @hegara376 The "climate crisis" was Soviet propaganda to get Europe to overregulate its own energy production in-favor of Russian oil and NG. You got suckered, pure and simple.
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@SydneyMoo You need to study Lend-Lease. You are currently clueless about WWII. The US supplied and fought in 3 theaters simultaneously: Pacific North Africa ETO More war material was sent to Stalin than the Pacific. Lend-Lease allowed the Russians to get off their heels by 1943, and turn the fight around on the Germans. The US literally bailed out Russia, China, Italy, France, and UK from German and Japanese occupation. This is a matter of overwhelming historical record, not up for revision by amateurs.
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@homebrewznz3482 You needed to have tooled-up and manned-up at least 30 years ago, on top of industries that would have needed to be kept operational 40-60 years prior to that. Instead, European Parliaments packed with stupid feminists and socialists treated the military and industry as their mortal enemies, and defunded them for the past 4 generations, while relying on the US in case anything bad happened.
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Curious and aware people don’t watch legacy corporate trash media advertising agencies. Biden WH has delayed or slow-rolled supplies since the summer of 2022, after initial supplies from European nations were sent once everyone realized Russia wasn’t reaching their intended goals. Zelensky really threw a wrench in the cog wheels of the plan by refusing to take Biden’ offer to ride out on a plane, which would have allowed Putin to seize Kiev and then transition to an occupation. This war is poised to last at least 3-7 years at the current pace. We’re at 22 months now.
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@Lanedl1 Biden is pumped full of amphetamines to animate for the day, then put to sleep with downers. He doesn't even know where he is. During the 2020 "campaign" he said multiple times that he was running for Senate in Delaware, and that we couldn't have 4 more years of George Bush. He has had at least 2 cranial aneurysms.
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@ I tracked Finnish H-X program from 2014 until it was awarded. The problem is many Finnish people think the F-35s are already in Finland’s possession, when they haven’t even been manufactured yet. The backlog is many years due to extremely high demand. Finland needs its squadrons of F-35As 2 years ago, not 2027-2030 when they are scheduled to be delivered. In Sweden, the government and media lies to the people about Saab, saying the Gripen is a domestic fighter program built by Swedish geniuses, without telling them how many of the critical systems are actually foreign-made. The General Electric engine is made in the US for example, then shipped to Sweden in sub assemblies and re-branded.
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@gameburn178 The US has the most significant military footprint and capabilities in Europe, not France. France chose to hold onto outdated technologies with Rafale, not invest in new technologies 35 years ago, and not produce relevant numbers of key air power assets.
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@pasilahtinen-wo3ey AIM-120 series has over 5000 live-fire tests against supersonic and highly-maneuverable TGT drones, with constant updates and programmable guidance technology in the later variants. AIM-120D3 has better WEZ, NEZ not published. Finland's Hornet fleet arsenal is made in the US. Finland got JASSM, which is a big deal, way before being in NATO.
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@reklamreklamerad Developing new gas turbine engines isn't something you just plan to do and some smart people will figure it out. You either commit large sectors of your scientific and industrial base to it with tens of billions in funding, or you don't. Once you do, it will take generations before you have even a 1960s-era J79 class motor. The metallurgy and parts fitment all take decades of institutional RDT&E. The hot core turbine section is almost impossible to do. Only a handful of very large population nations can do it, after spending the last 40-80yrs working on them. We're talking about technology that is far more difficult than rockets and space travel.
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@CyberBeep_kenshiEurope needs America more than any time since the Cold War began. The reason is that European parliaments have neglected their own defense, while the US has not, leaving the US as a sole source for many advanced critical systems.
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 @gameburn178 The USMC alone has a bigger air force than the UK. In fact, the UK had to borrow USMC F-35B squadrons just to be able to deploy Queen Elizabeth.
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@paulvdd3889 The problem is those 31 small bits rely on the 50 US States and forward deployed permanent basing in Europe to handle many critical tasks for them that they can't do. SEAD is one of them. Wartime logistics is another. Heavy lift air transport is another. Strategic Aerial Reconnaissance is another. Large fleet naval force project is another. The most powerful Navy in Europe has to borrow USMC F-35B squadrons from the US Marines just to be able to float. The USMC has a bigger air force than the RAF and Royal Navy combined, and USMC is the smallest branch of Active US Military.
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@pjmlegrande I've spent a career in DoD before working with the Nordics from 2005-2016, mainly Finland, since my mom is from there. The Nordic nations have tiny populations. Sweden is the largest at 10mil. Finland 5.6m, and Norway at 5.5m. They all rely on US combat systems for their limited air power. The US has built Norway's fighters for generations. Sweden relies on US fighter engines for their Gripens and their last fighter, the Viggen. Finland's Air Force is currently composed of 64 US-built F/A-18C/D fighters, contracted to be replaced by 64 F-35As from 2027-2030. Even if those 3 nations were to muster their forces, they can't even project combat power regionally without US heavy lift support. Their militaries are only really focused on national defence. Finland is the one who has taken that more seriously since the 1990s, with a force modernization effort with the hornets. Sweden's Rigstag has gutted their military and cut the budget as a rule over the past 34 years. Norway does a good job of air defense and anti-submarine warfare as a long-term committed NATO partner who deals with the Russian air and sea threats regularly. The Swedes have been geographically insulated by Finland and Norway for the past 216 years.
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@RooLoose Trump is focused on North American defense security, because it has been neglected and weakened now for generations. Many of us did not agree with the drawdowns and the slashing of prime and sub contractors in the wake of the soviet collapse. We were of course ignored. Canada has dropped the ball so terribly that they only have a fraction of the trained pilots they need to fly their CF-18s, just as one example. China and Russia have already been on track to start claiming territory in the arctic. What the Trump administration is telling you is that you have to take your security seriously. Europeans still don't get it. They assume the US will be there to bail them out, without understanding some of the worst case scenarios. Trump gets better intelligence than any us president has had, because he's not a freaking fool who trusts the CIA and the PDB. The CIA was co-opted by the soviets when it started. They had 200 moles and double agents within the agency in 1947. This is the main reason why the CIA and the intelligence establishment went so hard after Trump. Everything you've been fed from corporate media is largely an outgrowth of the old Soviet IOJ. A former Finnish head of the IOJ revealed the true nature of that organization long ago.
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@khizzkazul7450 Norway is already doubling their defense budget, and they sent $1 Billion worth of advanced US weapons to help Ukraine. Norway already has a very tall order with defense of itself because of its proximity to the primary Russian naval route over the top. Norway has to fund air defense, air intercept missions, ground defense, anti-submarine warfare, sea & coastal defense, and contribute regular rotations to NATO coalition taskings. That's in times of peace. They're one of the few who have no choice but to take defense seriously.
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@hadtopicausername One of the issues that people unfamiliar with the defense industry don’t realize is that defense systems are not sitting on shelves waiting to be purchased anywhere. Active manufacturing bases and programs are already back-ordered for years. The US has been sending billions worth of outdated vehicles, weapons, and munitions that were scheduled for destruction or decommissioning. They were already paid for in the 1980s-1990s, but still have high value. Many NATO countries operate slightly-newer versions of those weapons and munitions, but still have compatibility with old stock. Because Europe has divested of so many of their limited stockpiles and weapons from the Cold War era, there isn’t much to go around. You can place orders, but it takes time. Nobody in their right mind in NATO wants to send their critical systems for national defense, especially with an adventurous Russian dictator who has invaded Chechnya twice, Georgia, Ukraine, Transnistria, and crushed uprisings in Kazakstan and the Caucuses.
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@hadtopicausername I've been in the defense sector or military my entire life, with assignments and postings all over the world. That includes Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Panama. Aerospace sector is huge and people have no clue how long it takes to get critical things done. The US has been manufacturing military drones at-scale since WWII. People just don't know about it. We have drone space shuttles, high altitude ISR drone jets, armed drones, medium, small, and even hand-held drones. We have decoy missiles, programmable cruise missiles, stealth cruise missiles, and even hints of subsurface naval drones. Europe has not invested well in this space, and has also neglected its basic territorial defense posture and systems as a matter of policy for generations.
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Biden has been a Russian puppet his whole political career. The Soviets financed his 1972 Senate campaign.
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@BadAimMkay Obama was literally conceived from a black Bolshevik, and raised to seethe and hate the US.
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@francoisbourriaud9646 No, Obama was one of the worst Presidents in US history because he was and is a traitor to the United States, by design. His mother Stanley said she was going to protest the patriarchy by getting impregnated by a communist negro. She told this to her college mates. She also worked for.....US AID. That’s why she moved to Indonesia and married Soetoro. When Obama graduated from college, he then worked for a CIA shell company called Business International Corporation. When he was a Senator, he worked hard to disarm Ukraine of conventional artillery pieces on-behalf of Russia. As President, he refused to send any weapons to Ukraine, and encouraged weak-spined European nations NOT to send weapons to Ukraine as well. When you see the Biden family used as intermediaries for Russian money-laundering to the Obama family, it all makes sense.
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 @MichaelPetek The US has been withdrawing its bases from Europe since 1992.
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@spxram4793 Trump is the only US President who authorized US forces to annihilate Russian forces in Syria in February 2018. Battle of Khasham. The next month, he sold $150 million in Javelin anti-tank missiles to.....Ukraine. Trump slapped little Putin around like a punk.
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 @dougbates8018 US military drawdown from Europe began in 1992 with base closures left and right. It never stopped.
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 @guynorth3277 Now you're left having to explain the Battle of Khasham and US military aid to Ukraine beginning Mar 1, 2018.
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@gameburn178 Finland and Poland are the only 2 who took defense seriously since the 1990s. Where did they buy billions of dollars of new weapons from? A Nation that also takes its defense seriously.
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basiledex2164 Merry Christmas!
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basiledex2164 I've been focused on this region since the 1970s studying Soviet order of battle, weapons, force locations, economy, and policies. Finnish on my mom's side, so we can't afford to be ignorant of what's going on. Everything I listed is accurate. Biden has been traveling to Russia since 1973, after they bankrolled his campaign in '72 through CFALW. Part of Soviet Active Measures strategy. That's why James Biden has been running shell companies for decades to launder Russian bribes initially.
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27:53 The Soviets hijacked MOCKINGBIRD from within the CIA out of the gate, since they had so many moles in the Agency brought in from the OSS days. The main 3 TV networks spewed and continue to spew Russian propaganda since the early 1950s.
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Russia filled the US and NATO nation intelligence with moles who inflated the threat assessments of Soviet forces throughout the Cold War. That's how we got the nuke count, MiG-25 10ft tall, T-72 estimates, ICBM capes, AK-47 reliability, etc. Turns out it was all propaganda. They have always been a dirt-poor paper tiger with lots of bodies, systemically incompetent.
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