Today in War
26th April 2022
Blinken and Austin sneak into Ukraine’s capital to meet with Zelensky (CBS)
Sweden and Finland agree to submit Nato applications, say reports (The Guardian)
Austin says US wants to see Russia’s military capabilities weakened And I bet you thought it was about Ukraine.
How the Ukraine war must end Edward Luttwak.
Europe Buys Abu Dhabi Crude To Replace Russian Barrels
Russia Expels 40 German Diplomats In Retaliation For “Unfriendly Decision”
In Major Reversal After Warning Of Nuclear War, Germany Approves Tanks For Ukraine
European Union To Cut Russian Oil And Gas Imports To Zero By 2027 And with any luck the war will not have ended by then.
Facing obsolete parts, Raytheon struggling to replace Stingers sent to Ukraine The problem with increasingly complex weapon systems is that they require increasingly complex parts produced by increasingly complex production lines, which cannot be maintained indefinitely. This is why the Defense Department has to specify ahead of time how many, say, fighter jets of a particular type they want to buy, because once that number are produced, the production line shuts down, the facilities are repurposed, and it would be financially ruinous to restart production if you decide in five or ten years time that you really wanted more. This is why the destroyer Zumwalt’s guns don’t have any ammunition – to produce ammunition for only three ships (instead of the 32 originally planned) meant that the unit cost for the shells were unaffordable. The fancy-pants gun system, which cost $22.5 billion to develop, will be ripped out and replaced with … something else, as yet unclear. (Your tax dollars at work.)
Wimbledon Allows Unvaxxed To Play, But Not Russians
Russia Reportedly Halts Natural Gas Supplies To Poland – European Energy Prices Spike
Polish PM Says Warsaw Has Delivered Tanks To Ukraine
Wily Ukrainian Tactics and Poor Design Led to Russian Warship’s Sinking
‘NATO Expansion’ In Reality Means Placing Territories Under US Command: Lavrov Like Democrats, Russians mostly fear what they themselves intend to do.
Pentagon Chief Admits The Real Strategic Goal In Ukraine: Quagmire For Russia Also an excellent excuse to pass off our outdated weapons for Virtue Signaling Credit and create business for the Defense Industries by ordering more. KA-CHING!
The Belarusian railway workers who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv