I’ll keep it short and simple: one thing that I was discussing with my fiance, about the hostilities in Ukraine, is that, apparently, Western nations are refraining from sending more modern weapons to help Kiev’s regime precisely because they’re aware the Russians would capture them and, soon enough, there’d be both counter-measures for those plus suspiciously similar designs appearing in Russia and, mayhaps, China.
Or would that be too difficult to happen? What are your thoughts?
Its possible, but western countries have been glad to export technology if it meets an even short-term profit goal.
IMO its all about money. The west knows that military “aid” to Ukraine, is now coming out of their own pockets, and is overall a wasted investment. The Ukrainian military is not going win against Russia without direct NATO involvement: air support, troops, cyber warfare, the whole thing with the goal of bringing Ukraine into NATO. That would likely cause WW3, so the only option left is to appease Ukraine and the more hawkish NATO supporters, by giving insubstantial and effectively useless weaponry.
I think you guys are right. The anti-tank weapons and MANPADS seem to be doing a decent enough job against tanks and helicopters (and - unconfirmed - against planes flying too low). But one thing that even my hippie mother guessed, is that Putin could simply pull the stops and use heavier weapons to flatten the entire country.
I think Zelensky and his neonazi cronies just don’t surrender not even out of self-preservation, but out of pride. Russia’s terms were more than generous… but I digress.
Even the simple systems they sent still appear to be being brought for study by the Russians, while the rest is supplied to the DPR and LPR militaries.