I know #blueanonNeoCon/#neoconGe hates the guy, but he is a war veteran and wrote a book that at one time had many (once hated, now beloved) #neocon leaders moving from 6 to Midnight.
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Phalanx-Landpower-Bibliographies-American/dp/0275957942Unlike the armchair neocons that sadly run the show, or sit behind their computer at the pinnacle of first world problems sipping Starbies and exhorting our country on to more perpetual war. MacGregor has actually lead our nations troops into combat.
https://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Rage-Great-Battle-Easting/dp/1591145333His overview of restructuring our Army to better use our high tech capabilities to kill people and win wars had multiple components therein that were actually implemented. Killing people and winning perpetual wars is something that I know #neoconGe can really get behind.
Trigger Warning: MacGregor is a go to for that got damn Tucker Carlson! MacGregor says things that #blueanonNeoCon/#neocongGe doesn't want to hear. So he is labeled a Putin Puppet by the armchair neocons who have only lead their laptops and Ipads into war.
https://weltwoche.ch/daily/this-war-has-been-lost-a-long-time-ago/
The bottom line is these four launchers are going to make absolutely no difference at all. It looks like a face-saving venture by the U.S. government to create the illusion that we've done something important for Ukrainians when, in fact, we haven't.But I think the United States has been confused for a long time. This government is probably more confused than almost any other we've had, but we don't have a clear, unambiguous, strategic framework from which we operate. There is no clear, unambiguous, end state for anything that we embark upon.
For those keeping score at home, this is also known as a #shitshow
I think that NATO is weaker than ever. The unity you're seeing is a facade, at best. Macron was absolutely right, and he was not the first to make those statements. The United States does not have allies in Europe. It has military dependencies. There is one country in Europe that is capable of fielding significant military power and dominating the scene if necessary, and that is Germany. Germany, today, is what it was before World War II and World War I. It is the dominant power, regional power, and, to a large extent, an international power.Over and over again, the Europeans were never able to agree that any one European state would take the lead on much of anything. They never built the capabilities that were necessary to defend European interests. So, they defaulted to America's enormous investment in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Europe was effectively defenseless without the United States.
A series of American presidents have enjoyed that condition because we suffer in the United States from what I would call, “national narcissism.” It is flattering to us to think of ourselves as this great imperial power that protects and dominates everyone. I think that's going to change because, quite frankly, we don't have the funds or the resources to maintain this level of military investment in perpetuity. In fact, I think we're coming to the end of it. When we hit the end of it, you're going to see a massive withdrawal of U.S. forces from all over the world.