Oh, we actually agree about something in the Ukraine thread.
Maybe they could if Russia was willing to accept a ceasefire. The only thing stopping the election is the ongoing fighting.
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Not really; elections are typically suspended during wartime (same as in most countries, for quite understandable reasons), and Ukraine is under a protracted invasion. Even the opposition have agreed one shouldn't be run now. It's a bit much to expect people to evade the daily firebombing of their homes and neighbourhoods to go to the polls, and it's especially rich for Putin-- who has allowed no free vote for 25 years-- to be suggesting it.
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It's a pretty easy conclusion to come to. It is beyond clear that US weapons have been gifts all along. Trump's insistence on being 'paid back' for previous aid insults everyone's intelligence.
When was the last time someone did deploy aircraft carriers against anyone with a reasonably functioning air force / navy, though? The Falklands, maybe?
I would say so, yes.
Although with a caveat that the US had aircraft carriers deployed for the Gulf War and Iraq invasion, but I don't think they were meaningfully exposed in the same way given the plentiful land-based forces and (in the latter conflict) severely depleted opposition.
