According to Ukrainska Pravda, citing unnamed sources, U.S. officials are increasing pressure on Kyiv to withdraw its troops from Donetsk Oblast as part of a potential settlement.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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    6 hours ago

    The bottleneck is not drones, the bottleneck is expertise.

    Foreign investment/buy orders increase the production capacity of Ukrainian businesses which compensates for any drones diverted by increasing overall production, so no it isn’t diverting from the frontlines really.

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      The bottleneck is not drones, the bottleneck is expertise.

      One cultivates the other, as operators need something to train on.

      That said, raw supply of materials remains an issue across each theater of conflict. One of the bigger problems US/Israel has atm is producing and staffing weapons systems both offensively and defensively.

      Ukrainians stepping in to provide support both drain their own front lines and create some miserable optics for a country that needs to be seen as opposing violations of sovereignty.

      Foreign investment/buy orders increase the production capacity of Ukrainian businesses

      A country already strapped for resources and manpower, which they cannot afford to export.

      Might as well be France, during the Blitz, exporting tanks to Franco’s Spain. It doesn’t help you if you’re businesses are going to be someone else’s property in another few months.

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        Might as well be France, during the Blitz, exporting tanks to Franco’s Spain. It doesn’t help you if you’re businesses are going to be someone else’s property in another few months.

        No it might as well not, do not fear monger, the frontlines of Ukraine are not in danger of collapsing. The opposite is true, Ukraine’s localized counter attacks are threatening to develop into full on counter offensives.

        The more foreign powers work with Ukraine on drone defense the more all of Ukraine benefits. Drone production is one of the easiest weapons of war to scale up production of, we aren’t talking about helicopters, tanks or jets here.

        Also… these nations tend to have a lottttt of money and idk I feel like a whole lot of money might be something Ukraine is interested in acquiring to help the war effort? Do you understand how much money these nations can decisively throw around if it has to do with ensuring the security of their ports and skies???