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Vonz90 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:14 amA lot of video of Ukrainians running around with them, so they must have them.
Yeah, I want some of those too!
How come us.gov is so generous with Ukrainians, but taxpaying US citizens are left out in the cold?
I'm also wondering how videos of Ukrain.gov officials handing out GI AK47s with the happy switch to anyone who shows up isn't making the Rachel Madcow's head explode.
Hey DiFi, I'll give up all my ARFs and even my revolver (the one that looks like yours) if your husband can send me a few Javelins!
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Vonz90 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:14 am
A lot of video of Ukrainians running around with them, so they must have them.
The US supplied 300 of them in January of last year, than another 30 launchers and 180 rockets in October, plus whatever the various European NATO member states supplied them. They've become so endemic to phot coverage of the conflict, that it spawned a new meme,"St. Javelin":
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Yeah, I want some of those too!
How come us.gov is so generous with Ukrainians, but taxpaying US citizens are left out in the cold?
I'm also wondering how videos of Ukrain.gov officials handing out GI AK47s with the happy switch to anyone who shows up isn't making the Rachel Madcow's head explode.
Hey DiFi, I'll give up all my ARFs and even my revolver (the one that looks like yours) if your husband can send me a few Javelins!
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Yeah that was definitely an interesting read. At least to a layman, it would appear that in hindsight, using the term "near peer" when comparing Russian and US conventional forces, was a bit of a stretch. They should have rolled right over Ukraine, and instead it has become a modern Finland for them.
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