US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine

[robertpaulson]

"WAR is a RACKET. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." - USMC Major General Smedley Butler (1935)

[yakivpopavich]

And it takes 2-3 months minimum to be trained on the system, Ukranians will be in Germany doing said training until March or later. And ontop of that Raytheon and Lockhead Martin only produce 250 missiles for the system a year. And ask Saudi Arabia how they work. Saudi oil fields have been striked by drones numerous times and the system fails to detect or intercept the drones. Aside from all the aforementioned issues the Pentagon and US State Department won't even say how many they are sending. So odds are it's 7-10 or something minimal.

[rxonmymind]

Bye bye Russian helicopters and fighter planes.

[jolliev]

?? Didn't we sell a bunch of Patriot missile systems to Slovakia 🇸🇰 🇸🇰. No more than a year ago ...right??
The country on the left side of Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦

[unclefester]

What's the difference between the HIMARS & the PATRIOT systems? Which one is more effective?

[MrMedeus]

If the pentagon gives the green light and Biden signs, WW3 here we come merica 🇺🇸

[joshuapaul]

It's extremely unlikely. I suppose some inapt, unqualified people in the WH (it would take Sam Brinton to do a thing that crazy! 😂😂😂) can push Pentagon to do it, but it's nuts and Pentagon will be able to dissuade these people. 1 . This system wouldn't be particularly effective against Russian cruise and quasi ballistic missiles (it would further discredit Patriot after its poor performance in SA). 2. It would have to be operated by American servicemen in large numbers basically on a suicide mission. It would be a colossal mission creep. 3 Many more medium and short-range air-defense systems should be sent simultaneously just to protect Patriot system (a sitting duck without this multilayer protection). They also should be operated by numerous American military personnel. 4. It would mean to all intents and purposes the beginning of WW3.

[loveofmylifemybestfriend.]

For ABC 7 channel that's about it babe

[edwardhenderson]

Please get Joe Biden out of office we are in some trouble we have to check this guy at the front of this situation

[Kayluv]

very bad idea russia could get there hands on it and we’d be screwed.

[somethinglikethat]

Better get to prepping for nuclear war