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Oh give it a rest would you? If he dies of cancer in 2027 you'll doubtless pop up here to say "and I thought his illness was fake news"...
I think you have accurately captured the reality there.
There is no coherent Russian strategy.
**** hell, that is absolutely mental.
Imagine strolling down Grafton Street on a Monday morning on the way to work and a rocket from a neighbouring country just flies by you, blowing up part of the city.
We're not in big disagreement here. Obviously Russia is struggling strategically. I just found your phrasing callous in the circumstances, 50 or 100 dead civilians in the last few days were not needed to shore up support. If it was poor comprehension you might want to look at how you phrased it.
The German consulate in Kyiv has been hit by a Russian missile. - The Guardian quoting the German Foreign ministry.
Lukashenka says he and Putin have agreed to deploy a joint regional group of troops
Belarus about to become more assertive?
President Zelensky has spent the last year trying to draw NATO powers into direct conflict with Russia
This was when he forced Russia to invade Ukraine was it?
Seems like a more targetted approach to the terror campaign this morning. How long can the Russian embassy last in Dublin I wonder ? I've made arguments in the past for it to remain as a functional diplomatic channel, but we're well beyond the pale at this stage...
What's Belarus got to make Ukraine really transfer manpower?
The German consulate is the 20th or so floor of a building, lower floors on the building were hit by a missile. Technically true but context is everything.
Luka has been harping on about plots from NATO members to oust him or invade the country, so now russian troops will straddle his borders also
that might concentrate some minds in and around Berlin hauptbahnhof area
Lukashenka buries his head in his hands after the call from the boss and says "Why is this happening to me??"
Ah come on now, so because a different floor was hit by a rocket, that doesn't count that the German consulate was hit by a rocket? They were in the same building ffs.
Where did I say it didn't count?
I said that context was important - the difference between a targeted strike on an EU embassy, and a strike on something else in the same building is huge. The impact of the former and the response it will generate is magnitudes different from the latter.
If the building comes down it makes f-all difference the floor it's on. The mental gymnastics from some of the orcs cheerleaders is mind blowing!
He's calling for Russia cities to be hit this morning i see.
We've other posters trying to form some sort of gotcha moment via Twitter when most sensible posters wait for verifiable news sources to report the facts like i did with Belarus earlier.
I'm just leaving them to it as they seem happy enough to drag the thread down with nonsense back and forth stuff.
We've a few different options here.
Having a rocket hit a building you are sitting in could definitely be construed as you being the target. If a rocket hit a floor under the building I'm currently in I wouldn't be sitting there going 'I'm clearly not the target'.
Nah, just part of the populist movement that's taking hold all over the world. The worst part is that people actually vote for clowns like this.
The sovereign territory of a NATO-member country. Does article 5 include embassies and consulates?
https://www.bild.de/politik/2022/politik/ukraine-krieg-deutsches-konsulat-in-kiew-von-russen-raketen-getroffen-81572388.bild.html
Apart from terror and grotesque displays of power?
Not the first time a NATO country's embassy has been damaged by deliberation or by accident. Not even the second time...
So, I have a feeling that it won't prompt any kind of direct military action.
Kaliningrad focus:
Anti-ship missiles deployed on the coast:
In the photos below, you can see evidence of Bal and Bastion anti-ship missile systems deployed in pre-constructed hard stands at Cape Taran, near the Mys Lighthouse, which is the red building at the top left of the image. Kaliningrad is littered with these concrete standing areas.
We can take a closer look at the area in general.
Here is a top-down view of the site, showing its relationship with Kaliningrad in general:
Looking at the picture above, last January, this adventurous tourist visited the site, and flew a drone at the position of the lighthouse, affording us some excellent views of the areas where the systems are now deployed. In the bottom picture, you can see the hard-stand, right next to the cliff, where the target acquisition radar is now situated. Below the drone are other stands in the facility. In the distance, you can see a fuel-farm and to the left of that, is a Naval Helicopter base.
Here are some more detailed pictures of both the fuel farm and its adjacent naval base, with a mixture of Kamav and Mil's parked up. ( taken last January)
The Bastion missile system has a range of up to 300km. The joint Naval Amphibious Task Force is currently sitting just outside the Kaliningrad maritime zone, in international waters, well within range of these systems.
It's an attack on the German consulate no matter what way it's spun. The mental gymnastics of some to try and deny that will be interesting.
Soldiers. Tanks etc. Even if not major numbers I'm sure be a few thousand soldiers if they were brought to 2 or 3 different points near the Ukrainian border giving the impression they might invade from the north you would have to reposition some of your own men and materials up there to counter this in case it does happen. I know they have men etc. Up there defending same but you would have to increase that if you believed that you were going to be attacked from that region again. So you would have to pull troops etc. From different areas to counter that. Even if it doesn't happen you would need to bring extra troops there just in case it does happen.
Indeed. The right approach.
As for Belarus possibly entering the war (now that, 7 months in, reliable sources are reporting it) I too am pretty surprised if it happens. I do not imagine that their soldiers will be keen on the idea as they have none of Russia's imperial delusion, and the population surely even less so. Seems very risky by Lukashenko, unless it's simply Putin saying "I've propped you up all these years. Time for payback", leaving him no choice.
Indeed, A NATO embassy was once burned to the ground in Dublin.
These attacks on Ukraine were meant to terrorise. Took place in broad daylight when ordinary people were up and about and going about their business.
Given how well NATO intelligence read Russia's intentions, they will know what Belarus intends to do and what they have to do it with and that information would almost certainly be passed on to Ukraine. If Belarus did intend to make a move, I wouldn't give them long.
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