{"id":4868,"date":"2022-07-29T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2022-08-02T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:18:55","slug":"himars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"HIMARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An image from occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kherson?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kherson<\/a> where Ukrainian resistance is active and waiting for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UkrainianArmy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UkrainianArmy<\/a>: <br \/>&quot;Occupier, go home<br \/>or HIMARS will show you the way&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AzQkLcqS5k\">pic.twitter.com\/AzQkLcqS5k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Victoria Amelina &#x1f1fa;&#x1f1e6; (@vamelina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vamelina\/status\/1552169172112744459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>From the BBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-62317366\"><strong>West&#8217;s modern weapons halt Russia&#8217;s advance in Donbas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US and Europe have sent a number of HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems) to the Ukrainian army, and they are using the systems most effectively. Russia has very little in the way of defense against these very lethal, highly mobile truck-mounted rockets. Countries such as Poland and Estonia, also at risk of attack, have started ordering hundreds of these defensive weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s keep sending more, until Russia is finally driven back to its own country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/7\/26\/the-russians-have-nothing-equivalent-how-himars-help-ukraine\"><strong>\u2018The Russians have nothing equivalent\u2019<\/strong>: How HIMARS help Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The US-made system has struck Russia\u2019s advance and is the weapon of choice on NATO\u2019s eastern flank.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cThe agreement to unblock Odesa would have been impossible without HIMARS. It\u2019s now very clear that the war will end earlier if we arm Ukraine faster,\u201d Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on July 22, referring to Russia\u2019s agreement to allow Ukrainian grain shipments through the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Baltics will become a single theatre of war for Russia,\u201d said Estonian defence minister Kusti Salm, explaining the regional coordination on defence procurements&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Balloon Juice<\/em> has recovered their full archives, and Adam continues <a href=\"https:\/\/balloon-juice.com\/category\/ukraine\/\"> his daily series<\/a> reporting on the war in Ukraine. His posts are a good way to keep up with the details of the war.<\/p>\n<p><b>ETA, 8\/2:<\/b> Robert Farley at LGM blog also has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2022\/08\/russia-ukraine-update-7\">another update on the war,<\/a> with many good links to more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image from occupied #Kherson where Ukrainian resistance is active and waiting for the #UkrainianArmy: &quot;Occupier, go homeor HIMARS will show you the way&quot; pic.twitter.com\/AzQkLcqS5k &mdash; Victoria Amelina &#x1f1fa;&#x1f1e6; (@vamelina) July 27, 2022 From the BBC: West&#8217;s modern weapons halt Russia&#8217;s advance in Donbas The US and Europe have sent a number of HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems) to the Ukrainian army, and they are using the systems most effectively. Russia has very little in the way of defense against these very lethal, highly mobile truck-mounted rockets. Countries such as Poland and Estonia, also at risk of attack, have <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=4868\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,17,19,248,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-justice","category-military","category-ukraine","category-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s13tCM-himars","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4902,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}