From "The Analyst":
THE BIDEN RESTRICTIONS ARE A MESS
The Americans (and with them the Germans) have established a ridiculous set of restrictions that simply make no sense.
In simple terms anything in occupied Ukraine is OK to attack with anything.
Anything in the Belgorod Oblast of Russia can be hit by anything except ATACMS.
Anything in the Oblasts facing the rest of the Ukrainian border with Russia proper - ie Sumy/Cherniv areas, those can’t be fired into at all. Even though Russian forces are potentially massing in those areas.
Ukraine is also not allowed to fire into the regions behind Donbas/Luhansk, or Krasnodar at the opposite end of the Kerch bridge.
This is senseless. You can either hit Russia proper or you can’t. And baring in mind Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk and Zaporhizia are already in Russian eyes, part of the federation following their illegal annexation in 2022. So Russia proper, from a Russian perspective, is already being fired upon by western weapons, therefore the restrictions are moot.
Restricting anything at this point is simply senseless when you have already established the principle of hitting Russia proper, it doesn’t matter where or what with anymore.
America urgently needs to rectify this situation.
And talking of things that need rectifying, a bizarre situation has cropped up with training Ukrainian pilots on F-16.
The British did the basic training, the French did the second level jet basic training. America is supposed to finish the full training on the jets themselves in Nevada. 30 pilots are ready to finish their training. America has now admitted that it only has 12 spaces to give them on the available course. I personally find it astounding how disorganised and pathetic America makes itself appear when it can’t seemingly organise something so desperately needed, when it knows in advance - by months - what’s required. President Zelensky has requested that America does something about it.
