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   RaymondPierreL3 (raymondpierrel3@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 18:41:57 JST RaymondPierreL3

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   • John Quiggin

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   Given Russia’s depleted arsenal and reduced capacity to replace lost equipment, a united #EU effort to give #Ukraine what it needs is in my view (besides turning the conflict into an EU proxy-war) enough to defeat Russia militarily and push its troops (and proxies) all the way back to the Ukrainian borders agreed to in 1991.

   And it’s about time it did.

   All thanks to the #TangerineBaby and his cohort of bumpkins for the burgeoning of a #UnitedEurope. Let’s not kick the #US out of #NATO, let’s just ignore it for the time being.

   #SlavaUkraini

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     John Quiggin (johnquiggin@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 18:41:58 JST John Quiggin

     An important error in this piece, and in lots of estimates of the force required to stop Putin. Russia isn't "producing 1500 tanks a year". Most of that number are refurbished T-62s that may be up to 60 years old. Ukraine has already destroyed Russias front-line army

     https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/five-minutes-to-midnight-new-look-america-sets-clock-ticking-for-europe-20250228-p5lfu2.html