As it should be, really.
Why? People like to know they are winning, it motivates them.
Finland doesn’t announce what they are sending most of the time
Yes, my point is that Finland should announce the donation of generally useful equipment like this as a crucial form of power.
Finland is a very powerful nation militarily, Finland kicked both russia and Germany’s ass in WW2 and there is no indication Finland has become less powerful or skilled at cold weather warfare.
I am getting really tired of people complaining russia always wins the propaganda war with a firehose of misinformation when y’all can’t even agree it is safe to announce we are winning decisively with confidence.
No, being shadowy about this makes the only way for these weapon donations to be effective is if every single one of them is used in combat to make a physical difference, which massively diminishes the impact of the donation of those vehicles and condemns many more Ukrainian and russians to die needlessly. The impact of armor in war at a general level is the impact of potentials, of what-ifs, declaring a huge amount of donated armor places a huge question mark on the battlefield in a way that only hurts the enemy and their ability to confidently plan and maintain morale because they don’t know where that difference is going to appear and smash them to pieces but now they have to account for it everywhere.
No, I will not tolerate people complaining any more about all of the disinformation russia puts out and how that convinces people russia is winning or is more powerful than they are when this kind of mousey refusal to talk straight about the war is so common. Either consign yourself to never being able to convince the general international neutral community you are winning the war, and thus reach advantageous political bargins based on that political perception… or stop telling people to be shy about declaring our wins as a threat and a promise that russia does not necessarily have to experience directly to be impacted and deterred by.
How do you expect to actually become militarily independent of US military power if you aren’t willing to publicly declare your power? It does not matter politically if you materially possess military power if you do not make it politically visible to the general population.
True. But strategy depends on available equipment. And it is sometimes wise not to give away one’s strategy.
MRAPs are useful everywhere for virtually everything in Ukraine…
It is not enough to win a war to end it, you must decisively and publicly demonstrate your proof to the neutral international/regional context.
Publicly declaring large amounts of MRAPs donated to Ukraine is itself a process of winning, war is hopelessly political.
Because when you border russia and you let them know that you’ve sent away your limited amount of armored vehicles or other equipment isn’t stratetically wise. Other countries declaring equipment they’ve sent makes sense but for countries bordering russia it would not be wise to let their enemy know what equipment they’ve given up.
NATO can airlift a large amount of medium armor within days to an attacked country, I don’t think this a necessary deception, it is more advantageous to underline the decisive advantage.
Is this NATO in the room with us right now?
the enemy can try to sabotage the transfer. i have seen things being announced after the transfer tho. it’s a good tactic.
Yes I think any kind of strategic logistics requires levels of obscurity/secrecy in the details until a transfer is complete.
