A hint (for the 🇩🇪 government): Start looking in your own storages! There should still be a considerable number of (old, upgradable) Patriot launching units (LS), some engagement control stations (ECS) and also some antenna mast groups (AMG) - you took over from the 🇺🇸 /2

Escalation management is the opposite of strategy. Something we had known since at least Andrew Marshall 1972 RAND report

If you're too coward to send the missile systems directly, send the necessary components:

- BAE/Hensoldt: sensors
- TDW/SAAB: warheads
- Safran: turbojets
etc.

I don't care how it's done, but Ukraine must be able to produce missiles/long-range drones at scale and shoot back.

The thing is: eventually missiles would get through. The trick is hitting launchers and destroying them

At this stage of the war, state capacity is the crucial factor. We rightly commend 🇺🇦 for having found a way to undermine Russia's state capacity with indigenous long-range drones. But at the same time we are content to stand by and watch Ukraine's state capacity burn? 2/3

Let's face it, Ukraine's largest power station being permanently disabled is really bad. We are witnessing the failure of the appeasers and escalation managers' strategy in Ukraine.

Not providing Ukraine with the means to disable Russian launchers was never sustainable. 1/3

Fabian Hoffmann It's also completely consistent with Russia's defence doctrine and Putin's personal views - that nuclear weapons are the supreme guarantee of Russian security and that conventional weapons can never entirely replace nuclear weapons in Russian warfighting doctrine.

#ScholzUltras & SPD-Fraktion im Bundestag — Ich 😎

Given the context of Arrow 3 and past leaks, it is at least now plausible to consider that Scholz and his team may genuinely believe they can deny a Russian nuclear attack.

I'm just curious about the Air Force's perspective on all of this. They should theoretically know better.

Given the West's history of yielding to Russian coercive nuclear rhetoric in this war so far, this is of course entirely unsurprising. Why would Russia stop investing in one of its most effective tools?

😱🔥Wir freuen uns sehr, bekannt geben zu können, dass wir mit eurer unglaublichen Unterstützung unser Spendenziel von 30.000 € übertroffen und dies in nur zwei Tagen erreicht haben! 1/11

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 President Zelensky tells Bild that German Chancellor Scholz doesn't want to part with Taurus cruise missiles because he fears nuclear war with Russia.

Scholz, Sullivan, Biden, all of them are paralyzed in fear by Putin's nuclear threats.

Ein großes Problem sind meiner Meinung nach nicht nur die Zahlen verfügbarer Systeme in den Beständen der Bundeswehr, sondern auch das Fehlen einer ballistischen Kurz- bzw. Mittelstreckenfähigkeit.

JFS-M, was als Unterschall-Mfk konzipiert ist, wird kaum in der Lage sein,…

Ukrainian EOD engineers run hard after lighting the fuse to destroy a Russian FAB-250 bomb. Use a longer fuse next time, Guys!

Great piece by Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 on why #missiles remain a defining capability of the war in #Ukraine & why it's crucial Western countries start to massively reinvest in this segment. Something also Fabian Hoffmann and many others, including myself, have been repeating for months.

Well, if I were a defense editor at a major newspaper, I'd commission a piece from Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 on US security aid to Ukraine before the competition beats me to it.