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Faithful007:
The US are not backing anybody.

Let me give you a quick rule of thumb. The US currently has no plan to back any of these political struggles in Africa because it is just like tipping a domino. The US currently is only interested in negotiating cease fires in all conflicts concerning Africa. So long as it isn't terrorism, count the US of A off. In fact the legitimate government will still be recognized no matter what.

Africa's conflicts are viewed as largely socially driven and intractable, coupled with illiteracy, tribalism and extremism. Nobody wants to meddle with that. If it is a nationwide struggle against an autocratic government, that's a different case. But you see all these ethno-religious conflicts that tend to stratify countries. clashes fought on ethnic and economic grounds complicated by misinformation; nobody is interested in backing anyone.

davefurn:
Then why place restrictions on the Ethiopian government. To them, they wanted it to end faster and peacefully..... Most times us tends to support the weaker side even though they may sometimes be in the wrong. Btw Ukraine are doing very well now with their counterattack
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/28/ethiopia-tigray-abiy-tplf-war-biden-needs-to-correct-course/

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/25/us-backed-tplf-seeks-protection-from-un-after-facing-military-defeat/

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-imposes-restrictions-ethiopia-assistance-over-tigray-2021-05-23/

Faithful007:
The problem is that Ethiopia wants the west to see Tigray as the problem here. But the US and her partners don't want to do that. They want to handle them both on equal footing. That boils down to my earlier point. If it isn't religious terrorism, the US will be constrained to act to please anyone. Ethiopia wants to crush TPLF but the US is looking for negotiations and ceasefire.

davefurn:
Then why place restrictions on the Ethiopian government. To them, they wanted it to end faster and peacefully..... Most times us tends to support the weaker side even though they may sometimes be in the wrong. Btw Ukraine are doing very well now with their counterattack
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/28/ethiopia-tigray-abiy-tplf-war-biden-needs-to-correct-course/

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/25/us-backed-tplf-seeks-protection-from-un-after-facing-military-defeat/

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-imposes-restrictions-ethiopia-assistance-over-tigray-2021-05-23/

“They used everything on us,” said Denys, a 33-year-old Ukrainian soldier whose unit fell back from a Russian-held village after a lengthy barrage of cluster bombs, phosphorous munitions and mortars. “Who can survive an attack for five hours like that?” he said....“We lost five people for every one they did,” said Ihor, a 30-year-old platoon commander who injured his back when the tank he was riding in crashed into a ditch.

Ihor had no military experience before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. He made a living selling animal feed to pig and cow farms. His replacement as platoon commander also has no previous military experience, he said.

The Ukrainian soldiers never had a chance to withstand the might of the Russian military. None whatsoever. That was recognizable from the very onset of the war. That the Ukrainian government and its backers tried to withstand the onslaught was illogical...My best guess is that Ukrainian losses are not five but ten times those on the Russian side. An attack, through the open steppe, on an armored force that is technologically superior is a suicide mission.

President Volodymyr Zelensky denied rumors about plans to transfer the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny to another position.

kikuyu1:
Really!? They decided on an aggressive battlefield posture this week in Kherson to prove their worthy of a new US 3 bn $ arms package. Here's their major Anglo Zionist MSM outlet:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/07/ukraine-kherson-offensive-casualties-ammunition/

Read the whole thing. Am trying to avoid Russian media but the mayor of the Transcarpathian town from whence the 128th mountain assault brigade was drawn declared a day of mourning-they took at least 70% KIA. This neutral blog from an ex serving American officer reveals the truth of the Kherson fighting.


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/ukraine-loses-soldiers-europe-its-economies-all-for-no-gain.html#more

It was a terrible decision that shows the J/Uke army command wasn't in control of things. No FKn way any army man even the greenest 2nd lieutenant couldn't ordered an attack against prepared positions on an enemy with armour on a battlefield without cover! Look at the pix-its basically ALL steppe;no cover or even concealment.
There are some lessons from this tragedy. It seems this move was pushed by Zelensky against the advice of army commander Gen Zeluzhny. I can believe that as there've been stories of J/Uke army resentment with Zelensky for interfering in operational details.


https://babel.ua/en/news/83353-zelensky-denied-rumors-about-zaluzhny-s-possible-resignation

[b]Also,learn to take the L,goddammit! [/b]Know when to retreat and live to fight another day-reinforcing failure and screeching," never surrender!" looks good on motivational speaker vids but in the real world is the perfect script leading to lower colorectal pain.

davefurn:
But they had some success in Kharkov too..... Seems they are now using NATO trained troops

kikuyu1:
Success? Source.

Faithful007:
The problem is that Ethiopia wants the west to see Tigray as the problem here. But the US and her partners don't want to do that. They want to handle them both on equal footing. That boils down to my earlier point. If it isn't religious terrorism, the US will be constrained to act to please anyone. Ethiopia wants to crush TPLF but the US is looking for negotiations and ceasefire.

kabe1:
Indian Navy Ship INS Tarkash, visits Lagos, Nigeria

kikuyu1:
This neutral blog from an ex serving American officer reveals the truth of the Kherson fighting...

You are a extraordinary naive and dump personality.

SuperSixSeven:
You are a extraordinary naive and dump personality.

SuperSixSeven:
You are a extraordinary naive and dump personality.

davefurn:
The truth is Russia doesn't want to bring in more troops, how can you be using the same 200k troops to fight since beginning of Feb; Ukraine has done 7 mass mobilisation and now they want to start using women now banning them for leaving the country, they have over 700k troops on ground.... Numbers matters alot in a war even if they are just poorly trained that's why NATO fights as a group to augment the numbers factors

Exnavyboy62:
"We shall fight Russia till the last Ukrainian and foreign mercenary" _The United Snakes of WARmerica

I think your write up just cleared my doubt on this trending statement above by some angry concerned people.

MAN1960:
100 MRAPs from UAE
the type of this MRAPs is still unknown

300 APCs from unknown sources but little information says the APCs will be coming from proforce

While plans are on the way to acquire more super tucano from the US

Plans to acquire a frigate for the Navy is already in advance stage


And trust me months from now when the new government comes in they will try to out perform the buhari's government in arms procurement, to be able to have the bragging right over the military success in the future.
This means more arms procurement

MUTERIKA:
News like these are soul lifting. However, our current problems are more of lack of political will and not the of weapons per se. The more the merrier. NAF is surely acquiring more platforms. The best part for me is the APC part. NA would have more protected carriers.

MAN1960:
2 Seaward defense boats from Nigeria

MUTERIKA:
News like these are soul lifting. However, our current problems are more of lack of political will and not the of weapons per se. The more the merrier. NAF is surely acquiring more platforms. The best part for me is the APC part. NA would have more protected carriers.

LTGEN:
Correction:
The next LST is coming from the UAE not Saudi Arabia .