The F16 is like a carrot that the West dangles in front of the Ukrainian donkeys. It will probably never be transferred to Ukraine. And even if they finally make it to Ukraine, what do you reckon their impact will be? The same as Javelin? The same as Bayraktar? The same as HIMARS?
Aiden Aslin, is a British volunteer in Ukraine, who appears on Twitter as Cossack Gundi. He was captured in Mariupol earlier and then released. He returned back to Ukraine and delivered supplies to the beleaguered city of Avdeevka.
So, stars, planets, astrology points to 2026 as the date of the end of the Ukrainian conflict.
2025-2026 is the time of the Saturn-Neptune conjunctions that figured prominently in the history of the USSR.
I was listening to a podcast today and they quoted Kyrylo Neckbeard Doublechin Budanov as saying that Russia can only maintain the fight until 2025 or 2026, after which they will run out of their economic potential. So, therefore Ukraine needs to hold until 2026 to achieve peremoha.
UPD 2024: I at first thought this is a typical Russian hyperbole. I was kind of stunned that this was the first thing Russia destroyed in the war. Kinda reminds me of this video of Russian spetsnaz saying that the Kiev regime has been inviting NATO in…
I have found more info on the Ochakov base.
During Yushchenko’s presidency and the again after the Maidan, and meanwhile the US wanted to get Ukraine into NATO. Even without NATO membership, the US began building a military base near Odessa, without limit to the kind of weapons that could stationed there. After completion, the base could be used for launching rockets with 6-7 minutes flight time before reaching destination. Russia could then be blackmailed in almost any question. Russia wrecked it in the first days of the operation in 2022.
“In the future, the base should be a command centre for the Ukrainian Navy” -explains Oleg Zhdanov for Apostrophe. “In the time of peace it will serve as a training centre for the naval forces of NATO countries and Ukraine. This is a training and material base for command of the navy”
Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote about US and UK presence in Ukraine in 2021. The blue points are where troops were openly deployed, the red points indicate conspicuous deployments. Yavoriv base was also bombed, and there have been reports of NATO officers being besieged in Mariupol.