Lockheed Martin never has to issue a commercial again to attract buyers.
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Lots of easy options now with bridges having bike lanes.
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On a more sombre note, there is a downside to flooding Ukraine with weapons like these (and stingers). The weapons are a terrorist’s or assassin’s wet dream, and even if events in Ukraine go our way we will not be able to account for them all. But, ya gotta fight one battle at a time, and I agree with the strategy of giving Ukraine everything they can use, short of nukes. On a more positive note, I’ve read that the javelin deliveries they’ve been getting have been from the older end of the inventory, nearer the end of their shelf life.
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As is Vlad.
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That’s been my concern as well. Although it looks like, from reports, that to get a gun one has to sign up for one of the various military formations, sign paperwork, etc.
EDITED: And both the French and Italians as well as the Dutch and Belgians seemed to handle decommissioning quite well after WII.
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Doesn’t really mean anything. Countless thousands of toys being picked up from russkie invaders as well.
But whichever way, it’s the fucking sniffles that are annoying, like the shocked people whining on the twitters about Geneva Conventions violations for posting videos of the captured soldiers.
Like, What in the Actual Fuck. “OMG, you violated the Geneva Convention because you showed their faces on camera”, no stress about the fact that they’re an invading force.
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Vlad is as undead as Lenin.
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the Ukranians asked our help in removing nukes… they can do some accounting
Geez dude, did someone call you out on your war porn addiction?!?!
They’re not handing out javelins to molotov chuckers.
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You always complain about things like this. We all know you have a Soros funded armory of fun toys. The rest of us get an old over under with one bad barrel.
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True enough, but honestly not nearly as scary as the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles that we were shoving into the Afghans’ hands back when it was the USSR’s turn to learn why sensible armies stay the Hell away from the Hindu Kush. If you recall, there was a lot of worrying in the aftermath of that, folks expecting Taliban/AQ/etc to be popping up, knocking down airliners all over the globe.
The fact that it didn’t quite work out that way is probably due to numerous factors, some of which I can think of:
- They have things like batteries with limited lifetimes, and require maintenance
- It’s not always easy to smuggle missiles around the world
- They require at least some training to use
- We very likely sent a few very specialized “repo” teams to collect them in some cases
On a more positive note, I’ve read that the javelin deliveries they’ve been getting have been from the older end of the inventory, nearer the end of their shelf life.
Make sense. Once the Ukrainians get their hands on them, they’re not going to spend much more time on any kind of shelf. “First in, first out” is a simple but effective way to keep stock fresh.
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False equivalence. Nukes are not man portable, not deployed on the front lines of an active battlefield, let alone urban warfare.
Is there like a sticker on the launch tube that reads, “Use for Blowing Away Ruskie Bastards Before 1 April 2022”? 
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Actually, I’m invested in this particularly because I’ve been to a number of these places, I know people there, I have friends, their families and acquaintances at risk, and have a personal history with the post-Crimea mission to fend off russia.
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See, if he uses the issued ones, he has to do paperwork to account for them. If he organizes his own on the side, not so much.
Well, except for the medical reports. Oh, and the bail paperwork. And sometimes a really impressively thick environmental impact statement. But I digress.
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The propellant and explosive also have finite useful lives. Sometimes they’ll still go boom well past their expiration date (thus the care taken when they find a WWII bomb in a swamp), but that’s not the way to bet.
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What’s life without a little mystery. Go boom on the target or immediately upon firing? Makes life exciting.
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Biden is wise to mention inflation (a bugaboo better than the usual for the GOP). He may not mention the way in which he animated the folks in Europe.
No matter
They know
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