The Austrian Typhoons are all the earliest model and Austria chose not to upgrade any of them, so they're approaching 25 years old and a less mature design than everyone else's Typhoons
In an ideal world, immediately. But ultimately I would personally prefer a peace that Ukraine finds acceptable to justice being served against Putin, if we can only have one
We actually should invite him. We need this to be better than the extortion attempt that America made. What we need to do is just include a genuine mutual defence clause for Ukraine in the deal.
The contradiction is you insisting that the ruling government doesn't matter while also stating that it can treat an ethnicity like shit. The only way that's not a contradiction is if you think it doesn't matter if the government treats an ethnicity like shit, and if you thought that then you wouldn't have brought up Ukraine's Romanians.
Is it an “existential” threat? No
Putin's own writing shows that he doesn't think that the Ukranian nationality is real, so for Ukraine as a nation (and I mean a nation as in "a distinct people" here, not "a state" or "a country") yes, it absolutely is an existential threat.
You just refuse to see anything beyond the propaganda that you’re being fed & deflect from any point, instead shifting the conversation to a comfortable place for you.
I haven't deflected a damn thing. You started the conversation by talking about Ukraine's manpower shortage, and I replied to that. I've replied thoroughly to everything else you brought up up until you started doing the internal contradictions, at which point there is no point in me trying to reply.
For example: do you support the perpetual human rights violations and abuses committed by the TCC?
No, I don't. I still don't think that those abuses mean that we should abandon all of Ukraine. In fact, if Ukraine got the support it needed, I bet those violations would stop right away as well, because it wouldn't be so desperate for soldiers any more. Same goes for the consular services.
If it was so obvious then Russia obviously knows too and it should just be explicit. Ukraine can't rely on implications here. The Budapest memorandum clearly wasn't good enough.
Territory can be regained
By what means? More bloodshed? Or are you hoping the invader just decides to return it out of the goodness of their own heart?
Considering the long history of Russification in Russia's territories, life doesn't just get to go on and family and friends are not all alive and well.
No, it does not magic more manpower out of thin air. As you said, though, it is a war of attrition. It cuts down the attrition. That matters, because right now Russia remains unable to sweep through Ukraine and is having to offer more and more to offset its own attrition. Tank depots are running dry. Inflation is spiking. Ukraine gets away with its economy being fucked becase Europe is propping it up with funding.
Giving up territory now without meaningful security guarantees does nothing to prevent Russia from coming back for more later. Like how it took Crimea in 2014 and came back for more. Like what it did in Chechnya. Like what it did in Georgia. Russia got away with it once, it did it again. Giving up a portion of Ukrainian territory without actual backup isn't just that, it's surrendering entirely to being a Russian puppet state, because if Ukraine does anything against Russia's interests then Russia just comes back for more.
Tell me, how much of your own country would you give up to an invader that acts like that? What if it was the part you lived in?
They literally do mean more manpower in the future. If you lose less now, you have more than you would have going forward.
And the country’s “leader” doesn’t want it to stop.
This is nonsense. He doesn't want it to stop on terms that would be equivalent to a total defeat. I see that you're a fan of Trump, but don't let that cloud the fact that Trump's "deal" was nothing more than an attempt at extortion.
The better-equipped the army is, the fewer casualties it takes while fighting. This is why you see stuff like Desert Storm, in which one side was enormously better-equipped and took a tenth of the casualties of the other
Absolutely wild that Trump and Vance thought they could just intimidate a guy that has been completely unshakeable through the last three years of what Zelenskyy has dealt with
It gives an example of two British engines right after that, and the UK's jet engines were both independent of Germany's and better than them by the end of the war
The Austrian Typhoons are all the earliest model and Austria chose not to upgrade any of them, so they're approaching 25 years old and a less mature design than everyone else's Typhoons