I’ve asked this before, but never get a satisfactory answer… If Ukraine LOSES the war to Russia, what happens to all the billions in dollars and material we’ve sent them? Who owes us? How do we get repaid and made whole? My guess is we are just screwed… we gave away the American taxpayers money without permission and contributed mightily to our deepening debt… essentially we threw money down the toilet.
You never see this brought up in the media, for “reasons”. I suspect it’s because it’s just a continuation of the money-laundering operation that has been going on there since before this skirmish. The higher ups in media are controlled by their masters who probably benefit from the laundering.
Ukr has already lost, months ago. You will get nothing back. The 'money' is fiat: essentially, it is worthless. What the IMF et al claim it's worth is its only worth. This has been so since the fed was established. Nixon removed the gold standard to finalize the process. When "they" want (not need) more money, "they" print it. The purpose of the Russian "invasion" was to expose and protect. Since the projects were close to completion in the bio facilities, Russia had to act. IMO this was planned long ago, since the US funded said labs beginning 2004. Exposure at this time coincides with the takedown of the global empire. We still have a long way to go down that path, and it will be bumpy. To destroy the empire, its infrastructure must also be destroyed. That includes people involved, and there will be collateral damage.
Addressing another comment in this thread, don't worry too much about our US tech being apprehended by Russia. If you're following the "war", you'll know the Russians have used stuff that's well beyond what we flaunt in public. You should also understand that Trump and Putin have, without question, shared a substantial quantity of tech; this exchange dates back into the early days of the cia. A for instance is Vietnam: my training group got instruction on both cia methodology in explosives and Russian methodology in chemistry (poisons). There was a covert share program since approximately the Korean War.
The weaponry available to some (few) aspects of the military is well beyond the scope of standard battlefield ops, including SpecOps. Some of what we have I have witnessed personally. As Johnson stated before his death, "You know all that stuff in Star Wars? Well, we already have that." Russia has similar types of tech. Some of you will believe this, some not. Rest assured that the tech you see every day is old tech: basically, the only thing new is the shrinking of parts. Argue if you want, but here's one example: I have a pdf taken of the original research paper, by UC Los Alamos, titled "Use of homopolar generators and superconductors as power supplies for high energy space based lasers." The paper was filed in Dec 1974 and finalized Feb 1975. In 1979, I was shown one of the proof of concept lasers in Silicon Valley, power 6 MW. The laser was contained in approximately a 4 ft cube, and could cut through 1" steel plate like it was warm butter. By the time I saw it, the engineer in the firm that built it said the lasers had been placed in orbit. That was 1979.
Q et al have and are using the tech developed by DS against them, besides having their own developments more advanced than DS.
Do you have an example?
A hypersonic missile launched in what appears to be a barrel of sorts, straight up, lights up and impacts a target over the horizon (horizon is generally considered to be 20 miles on flat land, ocean etc) within a couple seconds. A tank encountering a nazi roadblock; uses a unique form of explosive round from what appears to be 2-3 hundred meters distant. The round explodes roughly above those manning the post in more than a dozen places, on a plane just above head height of the soldiers on the station, killing all. The video shows the tank crew examining the dead soldiers. That was a single round from the tank. There is little doubt in my mind that such things exist, for one reason: in 1973, I was on the team that designed/built the comm device that fit into a 105mm howitzer round, to be used for intelligent targeting. The device was required to survive 20,000 g three axis. It was sent to Sandia labs, Los Alamos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_&_Koch_XM8
This was in the SOCOM video game - "smart" grenade launcher back in 2002-2003. If that was developed 20 years ago, it shouldn't be too difficult to scale it up.
Not the same thing. Not talking about grenade launchers here.
Perhaps you've encountered the minutes from the mil meet, the analysis of the Russian tactics/organization done by US 'top brass' (which I have little faith in, based on personal experience). The analysis was accurate, IMO, based on what I've seen from Ukr. Essentially, the brass stated that the US couldn't win against Russia if the US doesn't change tactics/equip/organization to fit. Keep in mind that the Russian organization of Bn size includes all those items the US keeps separate, such as anti-aircraft, long range artillery, SpecOps teams and so forth. US tactics do not includes such things, and the Russian method gives a highly mobile force that is a complete attack force. The report also stated that the Russian artillery within Bn was capable of fire nearly ten miles farther downrange than the Western counterparts.
Bear in mind that these analyses are based on conventional weapons and weapons development. None of the military analysis, mil or civilian, encompasses the true nature of what is available.
Another for-instance is the US navy research into the rail gun. The most recent "reports" claim testing somewhere between 2000-2006, as nearly as I can determine (so not necessarily of utmost accuracy; while I did have top secret, I no longer do). In fact, the navy was piddling with that thing in the 1970s; we heard of it in 1976 (I then worked in San Diego, which is the location of NUC/NELC and the main sub base, besides large Navy installations/airfields etc). Two other engineers and I designed and built one that was handheld, and did offer a very potent projectile. If the navy was fooling with it back then, it's a logical assumption that the more recent offerings are no more than distractions.