How on earth are we in a 'much more strategic position than Ukraine'?
Ooh look DUKE 28 flew over Hungary ... He was lucky not to be shot out of the sky.
The Pentagon denied providing "specific targeting information" to Ukraine to sink the Moskva, a Russian guided-missile cruiser that was the flagship of Moscow's fleet in the Black Sea.
"We did not provide Ukraine with specific targeting information for the Moskva," said Pentagon press secretary John Kirby in a statement Thursday night.
"We were not involved in the Ukrainians' decision to strike the ship or in the operation they carried out. We had no prior knowledge of Ukraine's intent to target the ship."
Ukraine claimed to have struck the ship with two Neptune anti-ship missiles in mid-April.
The ship then sank as it was being towed back to port for repairs. Russia said the damage to the ship was the result of the detonation of ammunition.
"The Ukrainians have their own intelligence capabilities to track and target Russian naval vessels, as they did in this case," Kirby added.
Live Updates: Russia's war in Ukraine (cnn.com)
Still, they might have and might not have. They're not going to tell.
Rumors of another sunk ship https://twitter.com/AlexKhrebet/status/1522506742789287936?s=20&t=PYp8fqFyjQygJbR05ohuMw
Looks like Orban is mouthing off today about the ECs "attack on European Unity" with their oil ban. The end of 2023 is too soon and also disagrees with the Russian church being sanctioned. I read somewhere else he's quoted as saying he said he doesn't want to use the word veto...
Rumours abound that a Second Russian Ship has been struck. Hopefully we will get some visual evidence to clear up whether this is true or not.
The fact that FORTE11 is performing some surveillance could indicate some truth.
I see Modi has been visiting a number of countries in Europe this week, don't expect to see any public change from India in regards to Russia but I hope at least he got enough of an earful from the various leaders he met to quietly withdraw some of the supports they are offering to Russia
In reality one of the biggest reasons for our independence is due to British public opinion in 1921 turning against the Auxillary campaign in Ireland. If Britain had been a more authoritarian regime at that time they could have doubled down and suppressed the country with brutality like many other countries were. In reality that is still the case to this day. If Britain becomes an authoritarian aggressive regional power again ( not beyond possibility) our independence is in serious danger. They have a large Army in close proximity to us with a land border not to mention a large Navy and nuclear weapons. In a pure geopolitical strongman sense we are to Britain what the former Soviet states are to Russia, complete with contested region and all.
Russia is not normal, fires are large, nothing to see
Fyp 😁
The next time some fringe type claims that this war is stop the "expansion" of NATO, ask them why Russia is replacing Ukrainian road signs with Russian road signs
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They already had the knowledge, and they had done the hard work, and so the US confirming was just a double check, and not helping sink the Moskva. I have no idea what they would have done without double checking with the US. No one here does. But I can say that if I were them I’d have taken a chance and fired ahead without the US positional confirmation, as it wouldn’t necessarily have been a very expensive operation for the size of the potential reward.
I did read it “Two senior American officials said that Ukraine already had obtained the Moskva’s targeting data on its own, and that the United States provided only confirmation.”
They say that they only confirmed what the Ukrainians knew about the position of it. Click bait headline.
I think this is being a bit pedantic, yes, from a technical terminology perspective we have no allies, but we are so deep in the The West, culturally, economically, and EVEN militarily (e.g. use of Shannon etc - not complaining or changing the subject, just saying) that our "Friendly Nations" would see an occupation of Ireland as a threat so inconceivable that they would not let it happen, whether we liked it or not.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable can add to this, but it strikes me that this is indicative of the sorry state of the Russian military. In times of high wastage of senior commanders, new and better leaders should emerge. The British and Americans sacked several commanders earlier in WW2. Stalin took it to the next level and shot them, but from all this emerged Zhukov, Koniev, Timoschenko, Bradley, Patton, Montgomery, etc. I won't count the Germans here because their staff training system had been producing a steady supply of competent commanders for some time. During the French Revolutionary Wars many generals went under the guillotine or were exiled - the Armee du Nord had twenty-four commanders in six years. But from that chaos emerged leaders like Davout, Lannes, Augereau, Massena and of course, Bonaparte, among many others. Where is the Russian talent that should be rising to the top?
Not lamenting its lack of course, just interested in the cause. :-)
No, it doesn't.
Not really. It’s a case of the click bait headline not matching the article. It appears that most people don’t read past headlines.
Changing Russia to America in the first sentence works too.
A lot of denial around this. https://twitter.com/AVindman/status/1522390875879485441?s=20&t=nptixfWsVQWOFGWI_dl8nA
I have seen a comment on Sky News that Putin wants badly are for those trapped in Mariupol to surrender so he can have them paraded to the media in Russia as part of some victory gig. Compleat dressed in pink boiler suits and hand ties. That could be why Russia is bombing the steelworks to the ground. The same commentator says any declaration of mass mobilisation of Russian conscripts back in Russia could backfire on Putin very badly as there is a lot of evidence on the ground that [young]people don't approve what's going on in Ukraine. There is also a great lack of SNR army leaders left to keep said recruits from going loco. Most of said SNR army guys are dead! They cant keep the promotions up as there are not enough qualified on the ground.
I wonder if they'll start calling drones "broomsticks".
Russia have had their turn at their major offensive of "phase 2". Ukraine look to be now starting some counteroffensives over the last few days. Causing an army to retreat hits their morale hard so hopefully they're much more proficient than the Russians were.
Reminds me, I need to watch the second series of Motherland, Fort Salem.
Trying to escape Azovstal? https://twitter.com/Troubleless_/status/1522473920816951297?s=20&t=F_3Yop13rfCq9IoygXNerQ
Seems the European Parliament is bringing up the issue of the stolen aircraft. Russia is reregistering leased aircraft (many of which are Irish) in the Russian register. The total value across all leasing companies is over €10 billion (not all EU based)
Meanwhile Aeroflot seems to be planning to continue to fly to India and various other destinations. If they’re flying any stolen aircraft on those routes, I assume those countries will act? Or are they just going to ignore and facilitate?
The more I read about Russia the more it sounds like some kind of dystopian nightmare of a place to live - brutality, authoritarianism, control and tacky, tasteless displays of wealth.
There seems to be a misunderstanding of being respected on the world stage too. Respect is earned by deeds and actions, not by making threats. There’s a huge difference between being respected, trusted and liked and just being feared because you’re irrational and have weapons.
Simple just get secret service rangers to administer a tasty dose of opiates to half the surgeons and amphetamine to other half before the op
Spot on. Good to see correct info. Heading to RIAT this year?
That’s just brilliant, I hope they record those shows
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Cato the Younger is aging well. :-)
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