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This is a complete and total tangent, but... There's a weird...not 'beauty' at all, but a good appearance...to the mid-60s Soviet design bureau love-affair with big honkin' air intakes that extend to just behind the cockpit and makes the whole plane just...look like a Soviet apartment block but...

...Ha! That's because they've already been getting it. Seriously, this French saber-rattling and chest-beating might be more intimidating if the French military hadn't been so reliant on American aircraft for not just strike-missions and air support for active regime-toppling (see: Libya), but...

The pace seems to have increased dramatically (especially from late last year). Like, moment's-research, last year Ukraine struck roughly a half-dozen Russian refineries. Once with choppers, mostly with drones, and concentrated in the first six months of the year. Then there was a lull, and...

Honestly, even as someone much more skeptical of ongoing US aid, I think worthy of question is how long US pressure has been restricting Ukraine from doing the most obvious targeting of infrastructure in war for strategic advantage possible. Perhaps especially when they could/would contrast...

Questioning both the efficacy of ongoing aid in comparison to other uses, the competency of this administration to provide that aid in Ukraine especially are a combination that makes a '3' in that list. Like...From Ukraine itself we know there was the big anti-corruption effort that bore fruit...