Actually yes, I apologise unreservedly for adding Poland, of all places to that list. Poland was one of those that stood out in not being utter bastards on that score. Quite the opposite, even during Hitler's occupation of Poland. A large proportion of Poles defended Jews, before and after.
The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency described the sharing of information and intelligence between the United States and the Ukrainians as “revolutionary in terms of what we can do” at a Thursday congressional hearing.
Army Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier told the House Armed Services subcommittee on intelligence that he could go into greater detail on how this is being done in a closed session.
Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads both Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, said that “in my 35 years” he has never seen a better sharing of accurate, timely and actionable intelligence than what has transpired with Ukraine.
The Pentagon are playing a crucial role in leveling up the battleground for Ukraine. Id say the intel the Ukrainian army are getting is the main reason why they are having such success killing Russian generals. One or two you could put down to pot luck but they are up to 9 dead Russian generals now, that can only come about by having solid intelligence on their locations.
What exactly has been done with most of the anti-war protesters who have been arrested from Russia (apart from the woman who showed that message on Channel One News, who was fined but might still be prosecuted on more serious charges)?
True and fantastic, but you'd think the Americans would at least try and keep their mouths shut about it. I don't see how going this public with that serves much of a purpose? It plays into putin's propaganda to his people for a start. See!! Look, the Americans and NATO are out to get us!! Ballsology. Ballsology his people firmly believe.
Unless the Americans are being this open and vocal because their same intel knows much more than we know about things like putins real support among his minions, or that his nuke threat is a damp squib. Lord knows.
I spotted the same flight path on March 1st and have seen it again since then and now.
I posted the same query over on the A&A forum and was informed it's carrying nuclear fuel. It's flight path is cleared and exempt from restrictions placed on Russian aircraft over European airspace.
I've heard that it is a mixture of heavy fines or imprisonment for up to two weeks.
Well they did release the elderly woman they arrested, because a couple of days later she was back out on the streets with her posters telling soldiers to lay down their arms for peace. Courage of a lion that woman.
More than likely it's a flight for a delivery of nuclear fuel. There's been a few of them since the airspace ban.
But, Pogroms did happen in Poland before Hitler. And, for what its worth, Jews were expelled from Poland long after Hitler as well (1960's as I recall, probably at behest of the Soviets.)
I'm not claiming 'national sport,' that was someone else and as Wibbs pointed out, some Poles resisted the Nazis.
As I said pogroms were conducted by Russians (at times occupying big parts of Polish territory)
BTW Sasha is a Russian name
Is it? I haven't seen any NOTAMS and ATIS returns look as busy as normal with the usual mix of NATO/US and commercial.
Do you have a source for that?
Whilst it may not be anything official, it does seem like Polish air traffic control are routing any commercial aircraft far more west than they used to. If you check Flightradar24.com, you'll see that there is very little commercial traffic east of a line running roughly from Krakow via Radom, Warsaw and Bialystok. There's the occasional flight, as well as the scheduled flights to airports such as Lublin or Rzezow, but that's about all. The same general picture appears on flightaware.com, with the exception that that websites shows some NATO surveillance assets that are apparently being filtered out on fr24.
The same situation seems to repeat over Romania. Very little in the way of civilian traffic north of a line running from Galati via Targu Mures and Cluj-Napoca to the Hungarian border.
Gee, I never knew that Sasha was a Russian name till now.
Poles conducted pogroms. Here's a famous one from long after Hitler - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/kielce-post-holocaust-pogrom-poland-still-fighting-over-180967681/
Be that as it may, Poland's on the right side in this Ukraine conflict. Let's move on from Poland's history of violence towards its own citizens, o.k.?
I thought Russia was where the majority of Jews can trace ancestry?
It's a "f#ck you" to Russia really blatantly showing them they will give Intel that has a direct impact on there forces. I think anyway.
Maybe for someone who lived through the siege of Leningrad with German bombs and shells raining down regularly, and people dying of disease and starvation all around them, Putin's wrath isn't so scary.
To lose nine generals in less than a month seems a bit excessive for any conflict.
Here is a very positive take on what Ukraine has accomplished in the last 48 hours or so. Grain of salt insofar as this is an opinion piece, and stuff can change fast in the field.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/17/2086623/-Today-was-a-bigger-day-for-Ukraine-than-many-realize
I suspect you're not one to consult a road map going forward in a neurotypical way.
My personally most hated nonsense word is "explainer".
In a modern supposedly high-tech conflict, yes, but not for any conflict. The same number of generals were killed in a single day a Gettysburg in 1863, and at Borodino in 1812 the French and Russians lost at least 11 generals between them. Of course, those were days when generals led much more from the front, needing to see things for themselves. And it seems that this need may be afflicting Russian generals too.
The Americans record 33 General Officers killed for the whole of WW2, which would seem to make the 20th Century a much safer time in which to be a general, assuming that number is not vastly different from other nations.
I'd say the difference between WW2 and the current conflict is the availability of satellite and signals intelligence. Although its interesting that the Russians don't seem to have eliminated any Ukrainian generals. This may be due to it being easier to conceal command posts when defending, and possibly the parlous state (and speed) of Russian signals intelligence capabilities. Also we don't know if Russian combat units are getting their data "raw" or whether it's being "processed" at higher command levels first, to the detriment of freshness and accuracy.
We shouldn't underestimate the level of NATO clandestine cooperation going on. They are pretending not to be actively involved in the war but must be providing the Ukrainians with tons and tons of valuable intel, using everything at their disposal (satellite imagery etc).
My guess is that Ukrainian knowledge of Russian deployments is better even than the Russians' knowledge of their own deployments.
There are snippets published by Russian media sources about individuals.
Translation:
Leonid Chernyi, a street artist from Yekaterinburg, was prosecuted for vandalism, according to the local online publication It's My City.
Earlier, Cherny had been detained with stickers that read "Pussy" and "Cargo 200," written with the letter Z. He could face up to three months in jail.
Cargo 200 is Russian military code for transporting casualties.
I have also seen reports of people being fined amounts of 30,000 and 50,000 rubles for attending protests, a month ago those fines would have been equivalent to €340-575.
The White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, explained that making it public knowledge was demonstrating to the world that the U.S. President is serious about providing Ukraine with every means of defending itself short of committing U.S. forces and escalating the conflict.
Sure: https://polishnews.co.uk/russia-ukraine-pansa-half-of-the-polish-airspace-for-the-army/
The source I read originally was in Polish, but the content is similiar
Some teacher in Russia made a stand against teaching propaganda, then all this insane stuff started happening so he's just fled the country
That was stated openly. I'm not sure how good is the source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-altered-rules-for-sharing-intelligence-with-ukraine-11646744400
Translation
Defenders 🇺🇦 in the Zaporizhzhya direction report the destruction of a KA-52 helicopter and damage to another of the same aircraft. About 60 Russian occupiers and several units of armored vehicles were also eliminated 🇷🇺
Another "superalligator" KA-52 was shot down in Kyiv region.
Eminent writers urge Russian speakers to tell truth of war in Ukraine | Ukraine | The Guardian
Apparently no arms have been sent from Germany to Ukraine in 3 weeks. Only a 5th of the stuff they promised has arrived. If true, that's an absolute disgrace, someone needs to light a fire under them and get arms moving.
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