(#5478) The European Union has come through for Ukraine!

      Earlier today the European Union and its 27 members voted unanimously to allocate 50 billion in funding to Ukraine over the next 4 years. What this will do specifically is add stability to Ukraine and its weapons procurements. Knowing that the EU is set to provide the aid for several years helps Ukraine decide how best to allocate the funds toward their repulsion of Russia's invasion. not only for short term planning but more complex long term planning. What we have seen as an analogy in Ukraine's battle to protect its sovereign territory is akin to Ukraine playing chess while Russia is still playing checkers.
     The difference is like night and day as to how each is strategizing their moves. Russia keeps sending their troops into battle head long without the proper military ancillary support. What are crudely called "meat waves" where Russian infantry are formed into large groups and told to attack what is all to clear a near impossible to defeat target. The killing fields are pretty much being used daily by Ukraine to end the lives of about a thousand Russian troops per day with over 386,000 dead Russian soldiers already. Yet putin and the kremlin persist because their imaginations on how to fight this invasion they thought would be a cakewalk is not going like they supposed and they have little regard for their troops.
     Russia is still working off of the playbook of world war 2 scenarios whereas Ukraine is inventing present and future type tactical schemes that are more than a match for the overwhelming Russian built in advantages of larger forces and more equipment. With the newly added support today from the European Union now available Ukraine may go about their defenses against the Russian infantry attacks even more confident that Ukrainian defenses will be unassailable. As to the offensive capabilities of Ukraine, striking at the heart of Russia, within Russia, and its supply and demand facilities to make the kremlin, putin, and the Russian general public know that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not going to go well for them, only increases in effectiveness.