Sweden and Ukraine Eye Export Deal for Up to 150 Gripen Fighter Jets
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Sweden and Ukraine are considering a deal for up to 150 Gripen fighter jets, sparking discussion on the implications for regional security and the potential for escalating tensions with Russia.
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Bad: this is likely to cause an escalation in tensions in the Ukraine-Russia situation.
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These countries are at full war. The only NBCs the Russians aren't using is their nuclear and biological arsenal. They are using their chemical weapons.
As for "they are at war, what do you mean 'escalations'" I'm referring to western countries, including the US, giving Ukraine the ability to make deep strikes into Russia that could provoke Russia in declaring officially what has been the de facto case for a while: it's not fighting Ukraine, it's fighting NATO and NATO is striking through the Ukrainians but Russia has not yet struck back at NATO.
Forgive me for hoping that we might be able to find peace and avoid the deaths of hundreds of millions of people by not ratcheting things up in Ukraine more than it already is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_des...
The "peace" word in this context is not really what it seems like. The "peace" movement in our countries is often of full of at least former Soviet and Russian funding. Essentially tankies. I think you can imagine their goals.
Up until the day of the invasion in February 2022, something as simple as deploying US airborne forces to Kyiv for exercises could have prevented the war. Biden chose to avoid confrontation, and here we are now, in the fourth year of the war.
The difference in sentiment is basically whether the snowball is too big to stop, or if this is our last chance to stop it.
You're naive and you're helping Russia kill more innocent people every day.
Check the map in today's update:
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian...
And they will need an air force.
And it seems natural that they seek alternatives from buying airplanes from the Moscow state.
And even if they wanted to buy airplanes from the Kremlin, they may very well refuse to sell.
As a Swede I can tell you my country will support Ukraine until victory. Russia can stop the escalation be getting the hell out of Ukraine.
And Russian war industry very much stands on Chinese dual use imports. Without them, their capacity to produce drones would be non existent - Shaheds are using parts from China, fiber spools are coming from China....