• @[email protected]
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      -4911 months ago

      Wars are just not fought that way, and to think that somehow ukraine has the ability to create a safe maintenance infrastructure in mid war is ridiculous. They can’t even do that with leopard tanks. They have to haul this stuff back to germany/poland for repair.

      • @Slartibartfass
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        2511 months ago

        So you recomend not to help? Or what else could we do?

        • @[email protected]
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          -1311 months ago

          Didn’t say that. I think it’s reasonable to assume that the military with the most experience in these weapons systems know what they’re doing. They don’t even have capable runways for F16s yet

          • @Zirconium
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            711 months ago

            I think what you’re suggesting is that we should go to WAR WITH RUSSIA so that it’s a lot easier to repair F16s with more direct NATO equipment and infrastructure

      • @bouh
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        1111 months ago

        Hauling back to Poland or Germany is simply more convenient : Russia can’t bomb those countries, and they already have the people to fix the tanks there.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        It’s not for now, it’s for later.

        Ukraine has to start swirling over to NATO weapons platforms, so they have to start somewhere.