Yeah, all that experience with the US systems is going to advance the Ukrainian pilots too. I think Ukraine has only received about half (~35) of the F16s they’re supposed to get, and only lost a handful of them so far.
They finally figured that out huh? such innovation. Ukraine still hitting oil and gas infrastructure. Russia is struggling to get rid of their oil now that there’s real pressure on the shadow fleet. Between Starlink terminals needing to be whitelisted and Putin choosing to throttle telegram, Russia’s front line ISR and quick strike capabilities have been severely degraded. This appears to have given Ukraine an edge along many points on the front and allowed them retake about 200 km² east of Zaporizhzhia and even cross the river. They’ve also retaken islands of the dnipro east of Kherson. Hopefully that reduces the frequency of “human safari” in Kherson. Anyway, mostly good news right now other than the weather:
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-ukraine-russian-forces-whitelist-catastrophe-telegram-bloggers-2026-2 Russian state news is begging Trump to end his quarrel with Musk, plainly stating they think this is happening for petty reasons, not because starlink was being used to kill Ukrainian civilians. Wish I could say I thought they were wrong.
Which year? Wasn’t this pull-back predictable based on the halving cycle? Probably going lower over the next few months as the lower price kills some of the corporate holders.
Teams spend so much to retain players when they think they’ll be great. They are simply cutting their losses, to the modest degree they can, when they get rid of them, to give younger, cheaper players opportunities to exceed expectations. Accurately evaluating football players, even on your own team, is demonstrably quite difficult