Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Glimmer of hope...Tanks

And this is not fake news...

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3256989-pentagon-announces-300m-in-aerial-systems-military-weapons-for-ukraine/amp/

The money came the same day a U.S. official told The New York Times the U.S. will be assisting allies in giving Ukraine Soviet-made tanks in response to an appeal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Is this to pacify or a real change in policy?

Yesterday Zelensky said this, on fox (unfortunately)

We don’t want to receive a million of quality bulletproof vests, or some special brand helmets” Zelensky said.

“Just give us missiles. Give us airplanes. You cannot give us F-18 or F-19 or whatever you have — give us the old Soviet planes. That’s all. Give them into my hands. Give me something to defend my country with.”

Zelensky — who wore a trademark olive-drab military T-shirt for the remote appearance — also said he believed “that the people of the United States want that.”

“But if this process gets longer, continues to be delayed, if we can see that the process of transferring those weapons is getting slower, then people will begin to ask the question: Is it really true? Maybe there is some game behind it,” he said.

“I don’t want to believe that some — some partners of ours are playing games. We want simple peace for our nation.”

Zelensky continued: “I don’t know if President Biden is fearing President Putin. I don’t — I believe that he doesn’t. I want to believe that he doesn’t. Because he’s the leader of a big nation, a great nation.”

The Ukrainian leader then gestured with both his hands, saying, “I’m holding my fists. That’s our tradition. I don’t know if you understand this"

“I hold my fists or cross my fingers so that this will never happen — that any president of the United States would fear Russia, because America for us was always a symbol of democracy,” he said.

“And I have faith that Ukraine is also now.”

https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/zelensky-says-biden-needs-to-deliver-jets-and-missiles-to-ukraine/amp/