Some eastern European countries take far bigger hits to their defence than some further west do, who spend months debating red lines and being cowards, either because they're scared of Russia's reaction or because they don't want Russia to lose too quickly or because they're scared to take a slight hit to their own defence because either Russia might attack them (Lmfao) or China.
Then we spend months fucking around until someone finally grows some balls and makes a move, whether that be training Ukrainian troops or sending shit that they actually need, it was UK who had to make that move with tanks and I thought UK sending Storm Shadow would open the floodgates for long-range missiles, France sent some SCALP but we still have Germany and America f*cking around and stringing Ukraine along.
Ukraine isn't asking for the entire damn arsenal, lets imagine UK has sent 50 Storm Shadow's and France has sent 50 SCALPS. That is 100. So send 50 ATACMS and 50 Taurus and that's 200. 200 > 100. We likely have even less Storm Shadow's than America has ATACMS but we still sent some. None of us have a "huge" amount of these missiles and so that's why we should come together and combine our stocks.
But hey if it were up to me then UK would send the majority of its Storm Shadow arsenal to Ukraine, as it is being replaced by SPEAR 5 but Storm Shadow has shown so much efficiency in Ukraine that I wonder if we shouldn't produce some more! Seems like an amazing missile that doesn't even need replacing if our main enemy is struggling this much to intercept it. Unlock the 500km version too.
I'm not afraid of UK taking a hit to its defence and I'm unsure why so many in the West are. Ukraine is our chance to defeat Russia and remove them from the board for the next decade at minimum. Leaving only China as a viable threat and they only become a threat if they invade Taiwan and if they invade Taiwan, the battle will largely be fought via the sky and seas, China is NOT going to be coming to invade France, Germany, UK, America, etc.
Biden is pissing me off with the ATACMS nonsense.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 20 September 2023
