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Clumsy orphan children would be close.

Wikipedia would have sufficed: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izgoi Something between outcasts, orphans and bastards. For us Poles the term "sierota" has the more accurate tone than orphan in English.

LMAO. What fucking masters? And don't fucking try to paint Italy of all places as some conservative island oppressed by evil international liberals to take migrants. You can't exactly claim to vote less leftists into powers than others, you have one of worst TFRs in all Europe (so much for you...

Great, Italian corruptocrats have arranged a demographic dead hand weapon if it's how you put it, people like that have to go. Ukraine's existence as a sovereign, not Russian dominated state is of massive importance to all of its western/southwestern neighbors. I know Italy is not one of them...

It's work very variable in tame based on level of urgency and resources assigned. It can take a year at the pace of peacetime bureaucracy, or it can take a month if the people at the top decide it has to be done NOW.

It's not about if they deserve it or not, it's that it is in NATO and EU interest that they get it. Whether they deserve it or not is internationally irrelevant personal sympathies. Does Italy deserve any assistance from EU and NATO with migrant problems? Well Italy is a bit well outside of...

If only they were also so isolationist when it comes to migrants arriving on Italy's shores, there would be a lot more money and refugee residences left for Ukraine, but no, that problem gets to be exported to the rest of Europe.

Lots of NATO stuff is more or less active but awaiting retirement or replacement. USA could arrange hundreds of spare M1's, with time, or sooner given some red tape cutting and political will. Poland still has ~150 PT-91's that will be exchanged to other tanks sooner or later, with right...

>profit centric policies Come on, we aren't leftists here. And some western countries aren't DEI crazy, so given an actual contract backed with money they absolutely could start making a lot more stuff. We aren't talking about training them to use M16's. How do you train in expectation of...

The manpower question is treated without much haste because they don't want to raise more light infantry, and without major increase in equipment shipments they can't turn the manpower to something else. Political will is a bigger issue than anything else, there's plenty of stuff in reserve that...

Artillery spam means that a 140 million wannabe superpower with oil wealth is stuck in trench warfare against a poor ex-soviet 40 million country for years and its fanboys scream about victories measured in "price of a mile" scales. If that is winning, king Pyrrhus was a great leader. Like...

And? Can you actually make an alternate proposition that's actually better? The fact is that US arms industry is quite competitive regardless of your complaints. The only way to have massive spare capacity is to, surprise surprise... either make a lot of unwanted stuff and pay for it, or pay for...

Some people theorize Russia is doing everything possible to hold off another wave of mobilization until after election, as Putin doesn't want an extra degree of shitshow added to the political climate around it. Also another industrial superpower moment:

Hilarious, one oddball quotes another who thinks heavy towed mortars don't count as "towed artillery". Sometimes a gun is a glorified suicide device for the crew of minimal military utility. A shitty gun has the same crewing and logistical needs as a great one, if not more, and so it takes even...

Speaking of artillery, barrels and production... Something seems to have happened with Russian artillery reserve, can anyone guess what? If the great industrial superpower makes so much of them, why empty the crappy old commie era reserve?

I'd guess they have a preference in the India-Pakistan conflict.

Of course they don't have the infrastructure for depot level repairs of models that they didn't even see before the war started. They do them for the tank models they are familiar with though. Even some smaller NATO militaries have to send those elsewhere...

It's fucking trench warfare. If you think this sort of "slow but steady" is a good idea, you need to look up WW1 a bit more, and if you think Russia is an exception and can take it, remind yourself how WW1 ended for Russia. That's just plainly wrong...

That would be massive overkill. 1% of EU GDP would be a massive increase over what Ukraine is getting, and considering how many EU countries underspend even the modest NATO 2% defense goal there would be a good argument for it.

Of course you wouldn't see one, you just want to simp for eastern powers in a misguided attempt to own the current western governments, who even people like me have their problems with, but that doesn't justify such delusions. Ukraine is not running out of bodies, and Russian artillery focus is...