Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Permission? They've been doing it throughout.

 

I also read that France, Poland and one of the Baltic countries gave the green light to hit military bases in Russia.

 

I wonder if this is some specialized equipment that we’re worried could be captured in Russia.

Could also be something other than rockets and bullets that Russia could use as an excuse to escalate with NATO.

I don’t know.

 

We don't give the good stuff to our really, really close friends, let alone Ukraine.

 

I would like to point you to my last line of that post

 

We withhold a lot of the very best high end stuff. There are a number of our standard guided munitions that Russia has learned to jam after prolonged battlefield exposure in UKR. The Pentagon does not want to expose our top end munitions to that sort of battlefield analysis.

 

Or, as we've seen with the Russians capturing the Abrams tanks we sent over there, risk the good stuff falling into enemy hands. That phenomenon is not exclusive to us, either, as evidenced by Russia apparently holding back some of its rare high-end equipment.

 

Do we/would we share the good stuff with Israel, or do we keep it all? Serious question, do we share anything of value, or it it kept under wraps and we sell a lesser Version of equipment to allies?

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...more-f-35-stealth-jets-3-bln-deal-2023-07-02/

 

https://www.cdse.edu/Portals/124/Do.../GS160-guide.pdf?ver=ObVCc2wC8eHkvt8jfvWCwg==

Here's the tl;dr: Our friend today might not be our friend tomorrow. Our friends might not guard our secrets like we might prefer. Evvvvvvvery bit of tech we ship to other countries is reviewed very, very carefully.

 

Even then, we might sell very advanced airplanes while not including our most advanced radar, targeting systems, avionics, or weapons.

 

It's also going to be very black box.

"Here's the thing. No we won't tell you how it works. No you can't reverse engineer it. No we won't tell you the difference between the version you get and the version we get."