Allan Milne Lees
1 min readMar 14, 2024

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I really wish people wouldn't write such silly puff pieces. Given Russia has at least a 10:1 advantage in artillery fires and at least a 2:1 advantage in everything else, and given Russia has moved to a full war economy while the West continues to dither and do nothing, and given that Russia's allies are supplying vast quantities of equipment and materiel while the fascist US Republican Party has choked off what little aid the US had previously sent, while Europe had little and now has nothing to give, pretending some minor new weapon system that exists in single-digit quantities will make any difference at all is either stupid or dangerously duplicitous. The very last thing we need, as we sleepwalk into a new Age of Tyrants, is yet more mindless complacency in the West. One or two shiny toys will make zero, repeat zero, difference to the outcome of this conflict. Oh, and....um.... what happened to those supposedly game-changing F-16s? That were going to be in Ukraine before the end of 2023....? Just asking.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

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