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It could have been anyone Ted

Sure who wouldn't be out on a Saturday, lobbing cruise missiles at Odessa ?

At least we know it wasn't Russia, they said so . . .

Maybe Ukraine have a magic submarine or boomerang missiles ???

Where's this reported? And if so, seems a serious escalation. Israel can't go about attacking facilities in other states. Unless it's declared war on Iran?

In a way it was never really on. I await the usual "false flag" bullshit from Vlad and Co.as an "excuse" for reconsidering the agreement. At a time when conspiracist views proliferate in the Internet, "false flag" plays to the conspiracist mindset.

However I hope I'm wrong and that the grain starts flowing out, simply for the sake of millions of innocent victims of this monster.

But the role of the UN isn't to enforce anything really. They haven't got the funding nor the political backing and definitely not the military.

For me the UN is more of a moral authority, they do endless research into human rights , global energy crisis, poverty etc and the point is that they should be thought leaders for what we aspire to. We never reach their targets but at least they set a direction.

They have no power to do much else. Similarly you will see all global organisations get blamed for things beyond their control, see the world bank, the WHO etc. They are always the easy target but we don't empower them with anywhere close to the funding required to achieve the goals that we expect from them.

They have no power, period. So what is the point of them?

They can't enforce anything. They can't agree on anything. The idea of them being thought leaders for us to aspire to is **** daft. Aspire to someone who can make a difference, as opposed to someone who talks about making a difference.

The idea of the UN is great, but it has been proven not to work, and that is from both sides if the aisle. Incidents like this just show how niave they are, and it's so frustrating to watch.

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Israel has been attacking sites in Syria for literally years. They will attack any site literally anywhere they consider a threat to themselves.

.....and, I'm back.

I've been working at RIAT and Farnborough and man!, as some of you into aircraft or have gone to either site will tell you, NATO really pushed the boat out this year. It was two huge parades of tech and military mite wrapped up in an airshow and som industry lectures.

Biggest airshow in the world, too. Bigger than Nellis now.

Anyway, I see the USAF Global Hawk (FORTE) is back around Crimea again, taking a good look at the Russian Fleet following missle attacks on Oddesa.

Also, keep an eye on Kaliningrad folks. Not a whisper about the enclave of late, but it's definitely one to watch.

Frequency of flights (even with their 2 hour extension in time to reach destination) have increased dramatically.road haulage is completely disrupted and is effecting BMW, KIA and others as they are assembled in Kaliningrad. Did you that Kaliningrad tried to gain it's own independence. The public voted in favour of it. It the Russian Military currently stationed there could be persuaded to switch sides, We ((Europeans) would, in one stroke of a pen and depending on tides, time of year etc, take the Russian Baltic Fleet, into our arms.

Of course what we cannot see are the hundreds of monthly NATO aircraft interceptions. Russia have been quietly and studiously enhancing its military stationed in Kaliningrad.

This is definitely going to be one to watch come Autumn.

Iran made a deal to sell drones to Putin and Israel had info they were build or stored in Syria and thus ...... kaboom

Surely Iran has other drone plants in Iran itself rather than in Syria?

I dont see the Israelis taking out a drone plant near Tehran or anything like that. Now a nuclear plant would be a different story. But to take out buildings inside Iran would be a highly dangerous escalation. Picking off scientists is one thing, actually bombing a place is very different.

Battlemap is quite interesting. More or less halted last two Weekes.

The whole world is waiting for the big push by the Ukrainians in the South.

Dear me