from 20 minutes ago:
Have: Perl Harbour, 9/11, terrorists, I have a dream, a live videofeed directly into US congress on a cinema sized videowall, encrypted video communication out of the Ukraine provided by the US military, preproduced video package (close the sky over Ukraine, scored to violin music);
Need: No fly zone, if not possible, S-300 anti air systems, companies leaving russia, new tools to be created to be able to respond quickly. Justice to history.
Searching for: “Sense in life, if I can not save lives”.
Will get - another 800 million USD released as security assistance.
edit: Also this:
Slovakia has preliminarily agreed to provide Ukraine with a key Soviet-era air defense system to help defend against Russian airstrikes, according to three sources familiar with the matter, but the US and NATO are still grappling with how to backfill that country’s own defensive capabilities and the transfer is not yet assured.
According to two of the sources, Slovakia, one of three NATO allies that have the defense systems in question, wants assurances that the systems will be replaced immediately.
If a country provided its S-300s, the supplying country is likely to receive the US-made Patriot air defense missile system to backfill the capability it would be giving up, according to two other sources familiar with the negotiations.
Germany and the Netherlands have already publicly announced that they are sending Patriots to Slovakia. But integrating a new, complex air defense system into a country’s existing military architecture, as well as training its forces to use it, can take time, one source familiar with the matter cautioned.
src: click
and this:
US to provide Switchblade drones to Ukraine, sources say
President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday additional US assistance to Ukraine including drones, and two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that, specifically, the US will be providing Switchblade drones, which are small, portable so-called kamikaze or suicide drones that carry a warhead and detonate on impact.
src: click