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Poll: Americans More Supportive of Arms Supplies to Ukraine, Including Tomahawk Missiles

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Poll: Americans More Supportive of Arms Supplies to Ukraine, Including Tomahawk Missiles

Despite the official position of the US government to reduce aid, more and more Americans are in favor of supplying weapons to Ukraine.

This is reported by the New York Post.

According to a new poll by the Ronald Reagan Foundation & Institute, cited by the publication, 64% of respondents were in favor of providing lethal assistance to Ukraine, which is 9 percentage points more than last year and the highest since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Support among Republicans increased to 59%, and among Democrats – to 75%.

The majority of Americans also support expanded military assistance to Ukraine. In particular, 65% approve of the transfer of long-range cruise missiles, such as the Tomahawk. 68% support the sale of U.S. weapons to European allies for further transfer to Ukraine.

The launch of a Tomahawk missile. Source: US NavyThe launch of a Tomahawk missile. Source: US Navy

In addition, 69% support the provision of NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine, and 74% support the creation of a demilitarized zone under the control of European forces with US air support.

As for the goals of the war, 45% of Americans believe that Ukraine should fully restore its territorial integrity.

The authors of the study note that these results indicate a strengthening bipartisan consensus in the United States in support of Ukraine, as well as overwhelming public support for the strategy of military assistance, European solidarity, and deterrence of Russian aggression.

The survey involved more than 2,500 Americans who answered questions by phone and online between October 23 and November 3. The statistical error of the survey is ±1.96 percentage points.

HIMARS MLRS during an exercise. Photo credits: US ArmyHIMARS MLRS during an exercise. Photo credits: US Army

In late November, the White House warned Ukraine about the possible termination of arms and intelligence supplies if the Ukrainian leadership did not agree to the 28-point peace plan proposed by the United States.

This document was prepared by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff with the participation of Russian Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

The plan, among other things, provides for the transfer of Crimea and parts of Donbas to Russian control, a reduction in the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, refusal to join NATO, and a ban on the deployment of foreign troops in the country.

The President of Ukraine expressed his readiness to discuss the document, while emphasizing “the fundamental principles that are important for the people of Ukraine.”

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Archer83Able is such a nice retro handle Able Archer 83 - Wikipedia

 

Footage showing the process of a FAB-500 aerial bomb being turned into a guided munition by the Russians. The bomb is pulled from storage on a forklift. Then, Russian servicemen attach the elements of the UMPK guidance kit to it and install it under the wing of a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber. After that, the Su-34 takes off for a combat task.

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5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is the kind of stuff that happens in war these days - innovation at a rapid pace.

 

Despite things like Lucas electrical and Armstrong-Whitworth threads, the Brits are really good engineers.

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Ivan goes SPLAT

https://united24media.com/latest-news/su-34su-24-crew-reportedly-killed-after-ground-ejection-system-failure-14085

An incident occurred at a Russian bomber aviation regiment when the ejection system activated onboard an aircraft parked inside its shelter, according to reports from a pro-Russian military blogger affiliated with the Russian Air Forces Fighterbomber on December 8.

The malfunction reportedly triggered an ejection while the jet was on the ground and static, resulting in the deaths of both the pilot and navigator, who sustained injuries described as “incompatible with life.”

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32 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

So exactly what leverage does Trump think the United States has to compel Ukraine to accept its (or any) peace deal?  If Ukraine is able to keep up the fight without American aid, why wouldn't it do so?

That's doubly true as Ukrainian sovereignty becomes every more important to Europe as it rapidly realizes that it can't trust the United States to protect it.

Basically, all Trump has done is render the United States irrelevant.

Pull targeting intel sharing.

Put restrictions on our allies' use of our weapon.

Flip the off switches in the F16's, ATAACM's, etc we have given them.

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9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is the kind of stuff that happens in war these days - innovation at a rapid pace.

 

 Effective and low cost is just what the doctor ordered.  

Let NATO take a bunch of seized Oligarch money and give it to Britain to make 100 of those.  

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5 minutes ago, Parliament said:

I really wish our American weapons manufacturers were deep into this.  Standing on the sidelines because...you know.

Well, they were before tfg changed his mind and cut off the money spigot.  

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15 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Weird they're posting old shit.

The one I posted was so damn tiny I couldn’t read it until it posted.

Corrected

But to your point, it may be the order implementing that which was already available as an option once Putin ran out of meat?

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Somebody about to walk out of a window.

"We have growth everywhere, all of December — growth across all sectors. But not positive growth, negative growth." - Samara governor Fedorishchev carefully and thoroughly described the situation on the Russian market. He says it’s due to certain "economic phenomena." Oh? And what kind of phenomena would those be?

 

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8 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Weird they're posting old shit.

8 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

The one I posted was so damn tiny I couldn’t read it until it posted.

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But to your point, it may be the order implementing that which was already available as an option once Putin ran out of meat?

We don’t hear anymore about emptying out prisons, and countries in Africa and Asia are working to stop them tricking people to come to Russia, and we don’t see PMCs heavily represented. We do hear that people picked up for crimes in the large cities are conscripted.  They are trying to avoid formal conscription in the large cities, but the outer villages maybe tapped out.

We do see a lot of Russian soldiers who are just broken down people, and they don’t have proper gear.

Here’s a title more clarity on it (maybe)

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7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

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So they are stripping the national guard and civil defense and emergency workers all over Russia to become meat in the front lines.

Which means once Russia has no electricity or heat in their homes this winter due to Ukrainian drone and missile strikes, there will be nobody around to assist their freezing citizens.

Brilliant!

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22 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

So they are stripping the national guard and civil defense and emergency workers all over Russia to become meat in the front lines.

Which means once Russia has no electricity or heat in their homes this winter due to Ukrainian drone and missile strikes, there will be nobody around to assist their freezing citizens.

Brilliant!

Actually I read it to conscript civilians into the national guard, civil defense, emergency, etc.  I'm wondering if a bunch of these will be sent to oil & gas refineries and other critical infrastructure with machine guns on pickup trucks to shoot down drones and missiles.

I may have read that wrong, but it makes more sense to take the reserves and mobilize them to fill out the national guard, civil defense, etc. because obviously they are going to need them as things continue to go downhill, and they will be happy that they are staying in Russia and not being sent to Ukraine so they might be more willing to put down their fellow citizens.

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16 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Actually I read it to conscript civilians into the national guard, civil defense, emergency, etc.  I'm wondering if a bunch of these will be sent to oil & gas refineries and other critical infrastructure with machine guns on pickup trucks to shoot down drones and missiles.

I may have read that wrong, but it makes more sense to take the reserves and mobilize them to fill out the national guard, civil defense, etc. because obviously they are going to need them as things continue to go downhill, and they will be happy that they are staying in Russia and not being sent to Ukraine so they might be more willing to put down their fellow citizens.

Probably a better take.  I guess it’s just my cynicism that tells me that if they are conscripting people to “undergo military training”, they are on their way to the front.

it just seems unlikely to me that anyone who they purport to send for military training is gonna wind up in Siberia to help out with local emergencies.  I could be wrong.  The verbiage does track your interpretation.   But I also think there might be less opposition to conscription if people think there is a chance that they won’t wind up in the front lines.   But since everything they say is usually a lie designed to get troops into the meat grinder, I’m suspicious that they’re telling the truth on this one.

Here’s the other thing I may be wrong on: I thought that Putin had previously gutted all of those agencies and sent most of those people to the front already.   If they did realize they still need some help at home, then maybe they are replacing bodies already taken to the front with new conscripts.   

As is apparent, I have zero expertise in this.    But I would not want to be a Russian who is about to have successfully completed military training right now.

 

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