Ukraine will have had the time to manufacture these Mig-28s themselves by the time this story runs its course
A biological research facility is likely to have various contagions in storage which nobody would like to see released into the wild
Something the world may have had recent experience of...
there’s a new hotline established since the invasion started
WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - The Pentagon has established a newhotline with Russia's ministry of defense to prevent "miscalculation, military incidents and escalation" in the region as Russia's invasion of Ukraine advances, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.
Nazism was Communism's younger brother, it never reached the murderous heights that Communism did.
That's not a positive reflection on them but just on the truly jaw dropping psychopathy unleashed on the world post 1917.
Putin is a by product of the psychotic State that was the USSR.
Ah would ya look it's Glib Pavlovsky here.
All the same, I wouldn't be surprised to see them in the skies over Ukraine eventually. Perhaps Nato is adopting their own maskirovka techniques.
What may look like public bungling could be an exercise in plausible deniability.
For those waiting to see a nuke mushroom over the horizon:
It'd be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too.
Oh it was a powerful speech. I was saying on the other thread that i teared up.
A Leader/fighter - in his capital - fighting and leading a war to save his country-
It looks like Poland aren't willing to "make the first move" and test Russia's resolve; so they pushed the responsibility over to the US. Now the US is the bogeyman for not following through; but they can use the old "US can't get involved directly in action against Russia" excuse.
Or maybe the whole thing is a tightly choreographed play to test how Putin and Russia react; who knows.
Pretty disappointing all the same; I imagine the Ukrainians will be having all kinds of feelings over this.
Agreed 100% - Careerist too - The Spitting Image caricature was apt -
Gove: 'she says things we want to say, but could never get away with'
Or create a massive black market opportunity.
From what the Pentagon are saying, it looks like the plan will have to be scrapped - they are saying they are not okay with the idea of the planes flying from a US airbase in Germany straight into a warzone.
Patel is a sh*tbag. The daughter of Asian parents expelled from Uganda by a tyrant pulling up the drawbridge on refugees.
Interestingly this didn't seem to concern the Ukrainian President today. He quoted Shakespeare and Churchill in his speech to the House of Commons.
Even more when they shot down flight MH17 over ukraine
So that's a no so.
They came out with 35 different "explanations" for the Skripal poisoning.
Lying is a Russian national obsession. A nation of liars.
Just when i started to warm to (some) tories
I think there might be some logic in that. If other countries with Mig29 donate they as the Polish gov is asking Russia would have to blame the USA or Germany (location of the air base). Or blame all countries that did it. Anyway, looks like its not going to fly (sorry, bad joke).
My sense has always been that elements within the Polish military (and society at large tbf) want to throw everything they have at Russia by proxy, but there are moderating voices within the political system that want as few Polish fingerprints on things as possible in case they're the country that draws a Russian response.
And, there's highly likely still an open line between US and Russian intelligence agencies. My sense also is that the Russian agencies are briefing the US on what actions will or won't convince Putin to let the phony war with Nato go hot.
Or she's just concerned what a Russian armed forces unit might do in or at a biological research facility considering they've already opened fire at or near a nuclear facility. A biological research facility is likely to have various contagions in storage which nobody would like to see released into the wild because of an errant shell.
Or there's concern about Russia using it to stage a false flag operation of some description; or all of the above.
That's not much of a response. When posters resort to glib Ewan MacKenna style smirking soundbytes it's an automatic admission of having lost the argument.
Maybe the idea is the gauge a reaction, at least one would hope. In these situations it’s important to signal intent before doing something.
In terms of precedent there is no real way the Russians can object. Plenty of cold war arms trade precendents - To be honest this looks like yet another U Turn
Smells to me like US political machinations. and back peddling - Perhaps some US Reps decided they needed to sign off on this - or felt they were entitled to
The above are only 4 headlines - which dont add up at all
I agree with you BTW - i would send them asap
Makes everyone look stupid this does. Announcements, or seemingly announcements, then rowbacks or abandoning of the proposal by the US.
You'd wonder where all this is coming from.
While I know it's not called after him, Orwell Road is a perfectly apt address. Everything about the Russian approach is newspeak, double speak, deflection, lies, propaganda, gaslighting and utter hypocrisy - up is down, left is right, green is pink ... everyone else is wrong except themselves.
The U.S. and Japan have developed a missile defense system to counter the threat of North Korea. In November 2020, it successfully neutralised an ICBM in a test scenario.
You can skip the first 3 minutes of the video and watch the animation of how the system works.
I believe they're not even collecting the bodies.
Everything is an act of war according to the Kremlin these days - except of course, the actual war that they started.
I don't really see the logic of putting them through the US airforce. I mean, it's not like the Russians are not going to see them as Polish aircraft given to Ukraine. They aren't even paying any attention to the Geneva Convention, so I don't think they'll be too concerned about some complex change of national flags of ownership before flying them in. Poland would likely still come under pressure from Russia, so I mean you might as well just send them straight to Lviv and get NATO to back up the Polish air defence directly.
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