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"We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine. And with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army." - Ad targeted to Republicans to support Ukraine (streamable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

There was an article a few days ago about how the soldiers stopped following some of their western training as it wasn't working / appropriate for their situation.

I imagine there will also be some cross training where they update the American soldiers on what worked and didn't work and why.

[-] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

From what I heard that seemed to be mainly two factors where the situations were different than most conflicts the Western forces have been in in a good while.

Lack of air support. The air is still contested over Ukraine.
Minefields everywhere

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No offense Germany, but you gotta fix your military.

A lot of the Ukrainians complaining about poor training / equipment are the ones getting German gear it seems. That's... okay. Some training is better than none, and Germany is sending good tanks / equipment after all. But Germany definitely is underperforming IMO given its economic level of output and overall strength of the country.