According to CNN, “The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official. … Ukraine has been calling for the US to send the advanced long-range air defense system that is highly effective at intercepting ballistic and cruise missiles as it comes under a barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks that have destroyed key infrastructure across the country. It would be the most effective long-range defensive weapons system sent to the country and officials say it will help secure airspace for NATO nations in eastern Europe.”
Jesus-fucking-Christ! What took so fucking long, and why now? Why is it that the majority of Ukrainians need to be plunged into darkness during winter before the U.S. gets its fucking act together to send desperately needed (for months) defensive military hardware? This fucking bullshit excuse from the Biden administration that they feared escalating the war is exactly that: Fucking bullshit! Hey, Biden: The war escalated the second Russia crossed the border (again). Why does stupid America keep thinking Russia will “play” nice and fair? They never do! We should have been funneling everything on Ukraine’s wishlist from day one to end Russia once and for all.
And another thing. All this mumbo-jumbo requirement for Ukrainian soldiers needing to get trained in Germany on the Patriot system is more fucking bullshit. There is no time for that. For each battery system sent to Ukraine, we should be sending the necessary American troops to operate and maintain them. Ukrainian soldiers can learn on the job and in real time. Might this put American soldiers in harm’s way? Yes! Is this absolutely necessary? Yes! Would Putin consider this escalatory or evidence that NATO is getting more directly involved in the war? Who gives a fuck! I don’t give one goddamned fuck what Putin thinks. Everything is an escalation to him. Everyone and everything is a threat to that paranoid motherfucker! So fuck him! I’ve been saying it for months: It’s long past time to end that motherfucking country called Russia from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok! End it now!