This would be true over a hundred years, ago. Private financiers were needed back then. These days states have the finances or can acquire them as proxies but not necessarily the weapons which come with conditionalities.
Yeah posted this already.
Are you sure about this. They have outsourced their drones production to a number of countries and I don't think we're one of them. They pretty much pioneered the industry with lots of domestic production as well.
They need more basic things. Obama structured 'aid' to include basic munitions like air bombs, artillery and tank rounds for free. This meant the local factories had no economic reason to make them. Then Ukraine happens and Jan '23, the Americans ask for the ammo they pre-positioned in Israel. Meaning Israel started the war with an empty cupboard and had to scramble and restart their domestic production again.
A lot of Jews wanted out of Russia once the union collapsed so I don't know to what extent this accusation is true. Lots of antisemitism as earlier the soviets were active backers of the Pals since they had very little influence in the Arab world. The arabs supported these so called Pals, as a balance to zionism. Soviets saw Israel as this western outpost that defeated their Arab clients. A lot of current anti Israel rhetoric came from the soviets.
After the collapse many Russian Jews went west and others to Israel to the point Putin thinks of Israel as this Jewish country with Russian speaking people.
Definitely and much of the present action is to topple him for that reason. Putin had two rules when it came to oligarchs. No selling off national assets to foreigners and no involvement in politics. Otherwise leave. He stopped the rampant looting that went on in the 90s.
Yeah, she's not with us anymore. Given her IDF background she got roped into some Uki militia and one fine day in 2015 we learnt she was gone. A week before she left for her mission she posted this photo of wheat fields against a blue sky. That's where the Uki flag comes from. She was saying good bye.
Had I known what I do today I'd have told her to leave Ukraine for Israel. What a waste. Ukraine is just using its people as cannon fodder to get external funding for a corrupt American installed government dating back to the coup in 2014. This is a government that answers to its creditors before it's people. I don't think oligarchs have much to do with the trajectory which is being funded & directed by Washington & EU. War is business so they do their part.
