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Yes, $300 million out of Jake Sullivan's mouth:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-preparing-new-weapons-package-ukraine-officials-2024-03-12/

Another story on how Avdiivka fell:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/politics/us-prepared-rigorously-potential-russian-nuclear-strike-ukraine/index.html

Most of the first half of this podcast is a discussion on the chances of Ukraine being ultimately successful against Russia between H.R. McMaster and Victor Davis Hanson - and/or what it will take in Western support to make this possible - in the context of Biden vs. Trump this November.

Mashovets offers a long analysis of how Avdiivkafail to the Russians: https://t.me/zvizdecmanhustu/1688 He concludes with:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/two-years-later-lac-and-russias-war-ukraine Two Years Later: LAC and Russia’s War in Ukraine

Actually, the above is out of date now. TLDR: Secretary of State Anthony Blinken welcomes Sweden to NATO and he and the Swedish Prime Minister both say some nice words.

Another plea from bipartisan group of U.S. House members in support of Ukraine aid (and border reforms) via a press conference. They are still trying. https://www.c-span.org/video/?534060-1/bipartisan-members-news-conference-border-security-legislation

So Singapore is a Russian or Chinese ally? Really? I'm sure they still have decent economic relations. https://www.mindef.gov.sg/web/portal/mindef/news-and-events/latest-releases/article-detail/2024/February/28feb24_speech

Rybar says 50 km from the front line instead of 40. Either way, that's quite a distance.

Did anyone else see this nutty story? https://www.rt.com/news/593781-no-f35s-ukraine-pentagon/ No F-35s over Ukraine – Pentagon Singapore’s defense chief earlier claimed that Washington had used the jets to spy on Russian surface-to-air missile sites

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-president-signs-swedens-nato-membership-ratification-2024-03-05/

Yep. https://t.me/AFUStratCom/22979

There was a hope for the discharge petition route, but it hasn't gained sufficient momentum yet. Most of the Republicans that want to support Ukraine also seem to want to try to still go for a census approach, if that's possible. And whenever Trump says something, things get off track again. There are some that that are tired of waiting, and on the other side, some that are 100% opposed. The struggles they are having to reach a compromise on the budget bills doesn't help, either. But it's all painfully slow.

Maybe they are going to try this tech on some Iranian-supplied UAVs?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nitrocellulose-market-2024-foreseen-noteworthy-growth-tmhdf/ https://www.thomasnet.com/products/nitrocellulose-53813002-1.html Looks like there are some relatively small producers of military-grade nitrocellulose (higher nitrogen content) in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. https://www.ulprospector.com/en/asia/Coatings/Detail/23284/587873/Nitrocellulose-Cotton

Another update from Syrskyi https://t.me/osirskiy/608