Putin’s military strategy backfires as Biden pledges air defences to Ukraine | Ed Arnold

“Putin’s attacks on the children’s hospital were no accident, but it might have forced Nato members to stump up more in terms of air defence.”
Ed Arnold, RUSI’s Senior Research Fellow for European Security reacts to Biden’s announcement of air defences for Ukraine.
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[@peterturchyn8685]

Another incremental step. However it is time to sanction Modi and India for their support of Russia.

[@projectedone]

Don’t think they care as much as you would like them to.

[@tonyfendex2558]

That would be very counter-productive right now.

[@TheReykjavik]

It is too late for the kids who died in that hospital. It isn't too late for the kids that survived that attack who might not survive the next one if we don't send air defenses as quickly as possible. And while we are at it, we should not be holding Ukraine back from hitting the airfields used to launch these attacks.

[@timothykatende8484]

But not too late to talk peace

[@TheReykjavik]

@@timothykatende8484 When Putin (or his replacement) is ready for peace, he can withdraw his troops to actual Russian territory and begin negotiating. He can probably even get a ceasefire for a safe retreat. Until then, talk of peace is meaningless.

[@CollectiveDefence]

@@timothykatende8484 Russia doesn’t want peace unfortunetly. It wants to rebuild an empire.

[@tomw.6757]

Russia will never be allowed to keep a single inch of Ukraine. That includes Crimea

[@aleccap5946]

Because Blackrock owns huge chunks of it

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

Try and take it

[@davidchabi8532]

Are you currently in Ukraine fighting against Russia, if you were there then I would take you seriously but If you are not then you have a big problem

[@Cruzeoc101]

Too late, the Russian federation has grown

[@fv5855]

@@aleccap5946 We have SEIZED 500 Billion Dollars of YOUR Russias Cash & Assets , so You Comrade are Paying the Ukrainians to Eliminate the Russian N@T ZZs . KARMA at its Best . Thanks 😀😀 The Entire World is Laughing at Putin as Russia Collapses ....Again

[@JohnPaul66]

"Is easer to aim to the archer, than try to catch the arrows", General Hodges.

[@nsevv]

Remove restrictions. That is most important.

[@d.e.7210]

Excellent analysis. Thank you.

[@robertmoyse4414]

This guy has written some very perceptive things for RUSI. One of his best was this: “relying on around 300,000 US voters in five swing states every 4 years is not a viable strategy”. Wake up Europe, it’s time to get off your elbows! Thanks for another good interview Kate.

[@georgeallcorn6302]

Yes, a " difficult position " due to being " asleep at the wheel ", since the fall if the Soviet Union "

[@whitebelliedsea]

We should have been building up our weapons industry since 2014 not just UK but all of NATO I hope we are learning from our mistakes

[@barriewilliams4526]

Politicians never learn from mistakes. Starmer is living proof!

[@alpinecenter]

"America always does the right thing. After it tries everything else." ... Winston Churchill

[@DARDA360]

You thought that trading in Ukraine would make you safe in this 'new world' of ours. Mistake it is indeed. How about sending more of the outdated and expired Storm Shadows?

[@fredmercury1314]

Without NATO expanding into Russia's borders, none of this would be happening. But I guess you just really want a war.

[@mickg7299]

First we look after are own!

[@markopodganjek845]

Air defences?!? 5 patriotes? This will be for 2 weeks

[@stevetickner3874]

About Bloody time 😢

[@Mr-Science-Stevens]

Thanks for the continued efforts.

[@tramdriver123]

Not impressed by rhe reactive rather than proactive support to Ukraine. The phrase " as long as it takes" was wrong from the outset. It doesn't include the word " winning".

[@stream2watch]

This. We should start pushing our government to hand over Tomahawks, even before they start asking publicly.

[@briancarno8837]

ahh if only they could had included the word winning...then they would be winning!

[@mrbeaverstate]

After the US helps Ukraine, the message to the rest of Europe is to step up, next time we might be to busy in Asia.

[@rikkafe6050]

Definitely came too late for all the children that have been killed?

[@mickg7299]

Not timeline for NATO membership, Zelensky’s pleas falling on deaf ears 😭

[@tinatovar7548]

Ukraine needs to restrictions lifted off of them

[@soldierandsunshineshow5583]

It’s all up to the Ukraine people only if they never give up they win if they lose faith they lose

[@beattrixer7947]

nowthat we know thatthe missile that hit the hospital was caused by a usa issued air defence missile, now what?

[@user-pz6ls4uk8k]

Там нет погибших детей. Не беспокойтесь

[@alpinecenter]

One of the most effective air defenses are F-22's.

[@ataxpayer723]

The US Air Force has been openly discussing plans to retire its most potent air superiority fighter, the F-22 Raptor, in favor of its next fighter in development. And while the exact timeline remains somewhat murky, the fact of the matter remains: The reign of the Raptor is coming to an end. Despite being the best in its role, the Pentagon decided to buy only 186 aircraft out of the intended 750. Furthermore, Congress shut the door to any prospective buyers, forbidding Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer, from ever selling the aircraft abroad. Of the 186 F-22 Raptors delivered to the Air Force, only about 130 were ever operational. As a result, today, the Raptor is a bird facing extinction. Although current operational numbers are classified, it wouldn’t be irrational to assume that fewer than 100 F-22s are combat-ready at any given time, and every time a Raptor flies, it’s one less time it will fly in the future because of the lack of spare parts. In 2011, the last Raptor rolled off the production line, and Lockheed Martin cannibalized its production line to support the F-35.

[@michael931]

The F-16s will get there. Maybe in 10 years or so...

[@mickg7299]

@@ataxpayer723 F-35 program has lost 30 aircraft without a single shot or missile being fired 😂

[@Zenon00007]

❤Ukrainians❤

[@ananamu2248]

Yay Biden!!! We must stop putin and chuck him out of ukraine and rescue the Ukrainians

[@paulthomas-hh2kv]

😂

[@joeperkowski]

@@paulthomas-hh2kv What have you've done Russian boy

[@kaylidington]

NATO led by the US is not an honest player. The US will provide (or allowed to be supplied by other countries) air defence systems to shoot down missiles over Ukraine but specifically denies it the ability to take out the sources of those missiles across the border with russia. NATO cannot be effective whilst it is incapable of identifying and outcome and working consistently to achieve it.

[@chrisczarnik3439]

USA 🇺🇸 has become very untrustworthy. Unfortunately. From Australia 🇦🇺

[@MickyChowMein69]

You have to remember what NATO is. Its not a military pact. It's a nuclear insurance policy. Anyone under it's umbrella is safe from nuclear bullying from the likes of Russia and China and probably Iran and North Korea within a few years. Thats all. They aren't in the empire building business. Thats why they are hated by those four countries.

[@11bob-zs9rz]

Why does that make the US and NATO dishonest?

[@user-sm9jy2jm1i]

The man just bombed two children's hospitals. The man is responsible for over half a million deaths on European soil in 2024 The man has nukes. This is a very delicate situation that could easily escalate into a WW3. This situation needs to be managed very carefully. We are dealing with a psychopath.

[@yurilytviak9066]

@@11bob-zs9rzthe u s a disarmed Ukraine and is doing lots to prevent Ukraine from adequately defend itself . Cuz the yanks are so darn moral when they burn hundreds of thousands of women , children old people , refugees and like that . Swept from memory …

[@user-ym3oh9tm9k]

The US must stop imposing restrictions on Ukraine when it comes to the fighting. Imagine if the US has restrictions imposed on it when the Japanese attacked tgem in WW2, such as you can't attack Japan

[@user-pz6ls4uk8k]

Тогда ждите русские атаки по городам США и Европы

[@aleccap5946]

Why are comments being removed ?

[@oneshothunter9877]

Is that new to you? Happens all the time. One wrong word....

[@chrisczarnik3439]

Because youtube loves Russia and putin.

[@harrylloyd6955]

They restrict comments, not the violent videos you can find on here.

[@alpinecenter]

Comments like this are likely to be removed.

[@mickg7299]

Sometimes it’s YT and sometimes it’s users manipulating their comments in order to hide replies.

[@AlanHindes]

Need the older leaders of this world to retire and a younger generation to bring sense to this world. I fear they will never be given the chance. Sad really. Imagine a world of peace. At some point we must say I forgive you for the sake of my bloodlines future.

[@neededtruth9764]

Biden understood what’s happened in the hospitals in Kiev??? 😅

[@JackRT3]

Wow, someone who actually knows something. That's a big change for TR!

[@MoeElliot]

is this Jaw's from Bond films son?

[@chrisczarnik3439]

Biden pledges, yea sure, WHEN? From Australia 🇦🇺 🦘

[@joeperkowski]

What are you doing Russian boy

[@ataxpayer723]

At the NATO Summit held on July 10, 2024, US President Joe Biden pledged the support of NATO to Ukraine against Russia's Putin's "war of aggression". Biden said the US, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, and Italy will provide Ukraine with five additional strategic air defence systems. The US, Germany, and Romania will each provide a Patriot battery of their own, while the Netherlands will work with other countries to enable an additional Patriot battery. Meanwhile, Italy would also provide a SAMP-T long-range air defence system. Norway will donate six F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, reports said, citing the Norwegian PM at the NATO summit in Washington. British PM Keir Starmer indicated that Ukraine can use long-range missiles supplied by UK to strike military targets in Russia during their war. "Putin wants nothing less -- nothing less than Ukraine's total subjugation," Biden said in his welcome address. Biden's speech at NATO came a day after Russia conducted strikes across Ukraine, including a strike on children's hospital in Kyiv.

[@eddiecampbell9913]

Do not need Donald Trump either so what y'all talking about Joe Biden for tell Donald Trump two step down that is not right to tell your body to step down tell Donald Trump to step down with all he done did

[@SurfinScientist]

???

[@user-sm9jy2jm1i]

I thought it was a foreigners comment badly translated into English, but then I looked at the name. I wonder if this guy realises that nobody understands a word he says.

[@joeperkowski]

Donald Trump will capitualte to Putin

[@trs4437]

AI

[@ataxpayer723]

HUH?? Did you get Chat GP to write this?

[@kirikoo9981]

What air defense is this guy talking about? Maybe some that is coming from Mars but not the patriot system.

[@LR-jk2jk]

Where is the air OFFENSE, you bunch of chickens?

[@projectedone]

😂😂😂😂😂 the cope . UK fights a or war while Russia fights the real thing and takes one settlement after the other. All uk can do is imagine scenarios totally removed from reality.

[@APW-ry2ok]

Yes a few reefs have been destroyed in the black sea with Russian ships falling into them. Where’s that HQ in Crimea ?

[@tonyfendex2558]

Russia?? Russians are stuck in the mud. They couldn't even take Kiev in two years of war. They haven't achieve anything significant in years!!! Maybe a few kilometers??

[@user-pz6ls4uk8k]

НАТО ничего не может. Слишком большое отставание в вооружениях и не имеет гиперзвука

[@jamesantill5065]

Tell us you dont know about missiles without telling us bot!

[@livingtribunal4110]

What attacks on children´s hospital???

[@user-xw4gr9kn8n]

Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt hospital was hit by a Russian ballistic missile.

[@lukeamato423]

An oncology children's hospital

[@livingtribunal4110]

@@user-xw4gr9kn8n Proof? Evidence? Data?

[@livingtribunal4110]

@@lukeamato423 So what?

[@lukeamato423]

@@livingtribunal4110 🤡

[@aleccap5946]

Tell me. What is Ukraine got to do with America ?

[@merlin7766]

What’s you point mate ?

[@livingtribunal4110]

Furthermore, why would USA/NATO jump so eagerly into a conflict between non-EU or non-NATO members?

[@livingtribunal4110]

@@merlin7766 Looks to me like he was just asking a question...

[@merlin7766]

@@livingtribunal4110 fair enough and I apologise.

[@livingtribunal4110]

The answer, as Sen. Lindsay Graham so clearly pointed out a few weeks ago: “Ukraine is sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals. They could be the richest country in all of Europe. _WE_ don’t want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China” Thanks, Lindsay.

[@creativecatalyst777]

The Ukraine as a condition of getting funds and weapons agreed to audits and full reports of how the money is spent. Yet not only have they not done so, but Zelensky continues to buy real estate for himself. He ought to be cut off until he lives up to the terms of the agreements. Americans are sick of his lies and corruption.

[@dadistos4538]

How to show you do not know where or how the money is spent. You very obviously think we're giving them grain sacks full of money lol.

[@stream2watch]

You actually believing that is the truth says a lot about your intellect. Your lot are even releasing AI deepfake videos now, with some dodgy carseller animation claiming that Zelensky buys a Bugatti. Your entire fantasy world is hilarious to observe. If you actually believe the nonsense you spout, you're certifiable.

[@petegreenway8953]

what money? Ukraine are being sent military gear, the money is being spent in the US and EU.

[@jamesantill5065]

You bots need to work on your grammar a little if you want to sound credible. And feel free to find some evidence too!

[@russellspeed1693]

Just more silly nonsense

[@7th.trumpet]

Ha ha "Biden pledges" !! You mean "Obama pledges" !

[@rodicaionescu3024]

Modi don’t need lessons from Biden ?😂😂🤦‍♀️

[@user-fl6zf6qj2v]

Where is your evidence about Russian looses?🤣🤣🤣

[@user-pz6ls4uk8k]

Их нет. Они как обычно лгут

[@rodicaionescu3024]

Ukraine Belarus Russia federation is Russia territory Ujrsinusbbhsvd no country never did they lived on Russia territory They never fought ti have a country If they don’t like can go there are not many left