Zelensky warns Iran war 'emboldening' Russia after Ukraine meets Trump officials

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh yeah, the Iran war is a GREAT boon to Russia. Trump really helped out his friend boss Putin with that one! All at the low low cost of crashing the global economy.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t Zelensky selling US/Israel drone tech that he’s then diverting from his own front line?

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The bottleneck is not drones, the bottleneck is expertise.

    Foreign investment/buy orders increase the production capacity of Ukrainian businesses which compensates for any drones diverted by increasing overall production, so no it isn’t diverting from the frontlines really.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The bottleneck is not drones, the bottleneck is expertise.

      One cultivates the other, as operators need something to train on.

      That said, raw supply of materials remains an issue across each theater of conflict. One of the bigger problems US/Israel has atm is producing and staffing weapons systems both offensively and defensively.

      Ukrainians stepping in to provide support both drain their own front lines and create some miserable optics for a country that needs to be seen as opposing violations of sovereignty.

      Foreign investment/buy orders increase the production capacity of Ukrainian businesses

      A country already strapped for resources and manpower, which they cannot afford to export.

      Might as well be France, during the Blitz, exporting tanks to Franco’s Spain. It doesn’t help you if you’re businesses are going to be someone else’s property in another few months.

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  • testaccount372920@piefed.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ukraine’s current main limitation appears to be funding, not troops or production capacity (although those are also precarious). Short-term they are diverting resources from their own frontline, but mid- to long-term it will allow them to increase their production capacity.

    Being able to supply more drones to their frontline allows them to achieve more per deployed soldier. I recently learned that with enough drones, they need only a fraction of the troops they needed previously to hold the line. This means that selling equipment in the short-term could address their financial and reqruitment issues in the mid- to long-term.

    Given that Ukraine is still holding on after more than 4 (or 3?) years of war, I think it’s safe to say that Ukrainian leadership has a good grasp of what they’re doing and that selling tech is a smart decision. With the worst of the winter behind them, they have less of a need for anti-drone drones. They just need to have enough of them before next winter.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ukraine’s current main limitation appears to be funding, not troops or production capacity

      That explains their lack of need for conscription and their air superiority.

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