Lavrov: Moscow and Minsk are ready for "any scenarios" from the West
Lavrovs nose always gets bigger when he is lying
White sands in New Mexico certainly, 3200 square miles is pretty huge. Kwajelein (where they did the nuke interceptor testing in the 60's/70's), maybe even Alaska.
I know it's out of range, but it's like a message to the Kerch bridge with that video!
Maybe close to the coast, the right winds and weather 🤞
I was thinking that, but it seems to be roughly 32x100miles, which doesn't seem that big.
They always have the ocean to test anyway.
White Sands is just about big enough, 160km long.
The US not sending tanks is as equaly a load of BS as Scholz's 'no one else is'. There are so many M1A1's made the Ukrainians don't need to be able to fix them if it's something complex, just leave the thing there and climb into another. 10,400 have been built!
There are no more M1 Abrams tanks at the U.S. Marine Corps' base at 29 Palms in California, one of the service's premier training facilities and its largest base anywhere. The Marines have been retiring M1s, as well as M88 armored recovery vehicles and Armored Vehicle Launched Bridges...The Marine Corps plans to eventually divest the entirety of its M1 fleet, more than 400 vehicles in total
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35198/the-last-tank-has-left-marine-corps-base-29-palms-soon-the-entire-service
Give them what the Marines no longer want. 'But we don't have enough spare parts' - yes you do:
The US is doing a mighty job in support of Ukraine, but it also isn't doing anything like enough, if it truly means what it says and compared to what Ukraine actually needs.
"For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said of Putin.
Biden Vows to Back Ukraine ‘as Long as It Takes’ Despite Economic Toll
If he meant what he said, the current level of aid is really a weak effort.
It's instructive to look at what the US does for itself, in a Soledar/Bakhmut type situation. In 2018, 30 US SOF and some Kurds in a conoco base in Syria were attacked by a force of 500 Wagner mercenaries and some T-72 tanks.
Here's a brief list of what weapons systems the US fielded to deal with the situation:
B-52s bombers
F-22 fighters
F-15E strike Eagles
AH-64 Apache attack helicopters
AC-130 gunships
MQ-9 Reaper drones
Marine artillery, so probably M777 howitzers. Probably morters too.
This lot were used to eliminate 200 or so of the attacking force.
From that list of hardware, what has been given to Ukraine to help them fight the entire Russian army?
M777 howitzers and some mortars. With that and a lot of very capable and brave troops, and a handful of DJI drones, Ukraine has reportedly killed over 1,000 at Soledar/Bakhmut.
The US lost not one person - Ukraine has not been remotely as fortunate in it's casualties.
The US uses vastly more resources and weapons systems to tackle a measly 500 Wagner than they are prepared to give Ukraine to fight all of Russia, Wagner, other mercenaries and a whole wave of additional conscripts.
There is no incentive for Germany to help Ukraine.
Ukraine free of russian troops would be a huge boost to the economy of the EU and Germany. The provision of aid to a country having suffered so much at the hands of the russians could be a great boost to the political groups that lead the way in this support. I don't understand the point you are trying to make.
A significant majority of German voters support helping Ukraine, that's not in question.
The contention is over heavy armaments.
Ze Germans are not quite as keen on sending military aid long term, and almost prefer a negotiated peace
As many as 82 percent of Poles agree that EU and NATO countries should support Ukraine until it wins the war with Russia. Respondents are also ready to accept the possibility that it may take even several years. The pursuit of peace by the EU and NATO, also at the expense of part of Ukraine's territory, is considered a good solution by only 12 percent of Polish respondents to the survey.
With Germans and Germans it is different. 42 percent of them are in favor of supporting Ukraine until the war is won. However, almost as many (39 percent) respondents in Germany believe that the EU and NATO should instead seek to negotiate a peace deal – even at the expense of part of Ukraine's territory. Interestingly, as many as 20 percent of Germans do not have a firm opinion on this subject, while in Poland the answer "I don't know/it's hard to say" was given by only 6 percent of respondents.
This tank thing isn't the only A grade BS the US spouts.
The US claims it won't provide Ukraine with drones, like Reapers, Predators and Gray Eagles, because it's worried about their precious tech secrets falling into Russian hands
Absolute 100% bullshit.
A US-made MQ-9 Reaper UAV came down over Libya, just outside the city of Benghazi, on August 23, 2022.
...
Last June, the U.S. confirmed that a Reaper had been shot down over Yemen by Houthi rebels with an SA-6 surface-to-air missile.
Reported Loss Of Two U.S. MQ-9 Reapers In Syria Raises Troubling Questions
The Gray Eagle is amongst the oldest and least capable of the drones the US has. It's the drone version of VW beatle VS the Covettes and Mustangs, and yet it's tech is too precious to risk on the battlefield? Er, what?
Gray Eagle:
It's not a secret, but the US has drones that are very big secrets, particularly their advanced stealth drones, like the RQ-170 Sentinel and RQ-180 and...?
Which do you think contains more sensitive secrets? The one they spent years hiding from the world that can fly at 50,000' or the 29,000' beatle?
Well in 2011, Iran spoofed the GPS coordinates being fed to an RQ-170, and got it to land at one of their airbases because it thought it was landing back at it's real base in Afghanistan. Whoops.
One of the main intelligence gathering assets the US has been using to monitor the situation in Ukraine is the $180 million, 60,000' RQ-4 Global Hawk, one of the most non-secret drones they have. An F-35 costs $78 million. It would be safe to say there is some secret stuff in one of these. Well the Iranians shot one down and recovered a lot of it: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-china-stole-top-secret-information-f-22-and-f-35-94201
So worrying about losing sensitive secrets when you have already lost far bigger one's to Iran, Russia, China - and I wouldn't be surprised if North Korea also, is a nonsense.
And it gets worse. The Chinese are known to have hacked US defence contractors and stole all the plans and data on the F-22 and F-35.
In some ways, the damage is already done. Beijing has gained reams of technical information on advanced U.S. weapons system such as the F-22 and F-35. “Adversaries will continue to use cyber operations to undermine U.S. military and commercial advantage by hacking into U.S. defense industry and commercial enterprises in pursuit of scientific, technical, and business information,” Coats stated. “Examples include theft of data on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, and the MV-22 Osprey
So we can't afford to send a VW beatle to Ukraine because we have all these incredible secrets to keep - the mind boggles at the scale of that nonsense.
They supplied some secret naval drones with no details as to what they are or can do.
Woomera test range in South Australia - the size of Louisiana - 127,000 square kilometres - the largest in the world. All sorts of secret stuff going on there.
HIMARS have gone very quiet lately.
They certainly have form for that:
The Hawkeis are in testing mode and can often be seen on the streets of Bendigo, but Mr Myroshnychenko says he would like to see how they perform in the field.
"I believe it will really test them in Ukraine, provide valuable feedback and just make them better so that they can serve the Australian Defence Forces much more efficiently," Mr Myroshnychenko said.
Myroshnychenko is Ukrainian ambassador to Australia.
Kurdish forces using Americans/western Anti tank weapons,it's a regular occurance.
But no Challenger tanks or Abrams were lost to other tanks, especially not Soviet/Russian tanks.
While they have chalked up a fair number of tanks destroyed mainly Russian/Soviet design's
Seen this earlier couldn't post due to work..
Ukraine president is now a conspiracy nut. Just what they needed to lead them.
Really,and you know President Putin better than anyone and have done peace talks allready?
Thanks for confirming the suspicion.
Well when you compare the photos and videos of the last few years, they have definitely involved different people, including where else have you seen a world leader using green screen to create an audience
If Putin is dead, the war is still going, so I guess there goes any hope of regime change
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Something drastic has to happen to change Scholtz's position.
It's just goading putin to come out of hiding away.
(Not)Putin-
Who'd have guessed?🙄
Mobilized soldiers from the Samara region refusing to return to the front.
What's wrong with them being tested in Ukraine? If they over shoot, all the better. Slava Ukraini.
It's an off the cuff comment, Putin is known to have doubles, his appearances and photos can be heavily choreographed, it's just another dig at him
Not that you are really "concerned" about it.
I really hope the US sends those GLSDB bombs, up to 150km range I believe, around 40k each (so much cheaper than the alternatives) and can be launched from HIMARS. Would really stretch the Russian supply lines (they have their big ammo dumps just outside current HMARS range)
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