I wonder who they're defending against though - could easily see this ending up with a military coup.
Yeah I'm pretty sure they're going to. To my mind the GLSDB's are the real gamechangers that nobody seems to be talking about. The media is so focused on ATACMS. But honestly the real reason that ATACMS haven't been delivered in my mind comes down to 2 factors:
I might be an armchair general but if I had to choose between 1 ATACMS and 25 GLSDBs i know which i'd be choosing every day of the week. SAAB apparently have thousands of these things lying around waiting for a buyer. It will be a very grim day indeed for russian logistics if the Ukrainians get their hands on these.
Hilarious
Hopefully he's trying to goad him out of the bunker because Yakiv Bondski is in position in Moscow ;)
Who knows!? It's not like if he were dead the Russians would tell anyone anyway. Sure they even covered up Chernobyl until it was impossible to cover it up anymore. It was setting off alarms in power plants all over Europe.
There were rumours they used to put Boris Yeltsin on a dialysis machine in the plane to try and sober him up too.
If Putin were dead, they'd likely cover it up for weeks until they had some kind of plan in place.
Hence the conspiracy theories fly every so often and are quite believable because the realities in Russia often make conspiracies seem quite dull.
He's certainly dead behind the eyes anyway. Very creepy looking, whatever he is.
He's dead to me anyway. He hasn't called me in over a year. And we used to be best buddies.
How did he die?
Did he fall down the stairs and sh*t himself as they said in the news not too long ago?
Or was it the bone cancer? Or Parkinsons?
Mullah Omar, founder of the Taliban was dead for 2 years before the world ( including Afghanistan / Pakistan ) found out about it, so why not Putin suffering the same fate? The oligarchs want to keep the same show on the road....
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)
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.
What's wrong with them being tested in Ukraine? If they over shoot, all the better. Slava Ukraini.
Who'd have guessed?🙄
Mobilized soldiers from the Samara region refusing to return to the front.
(Not)Putin-
It's just goading putin to come out of hiding away.
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Something drastic has to happen to change Scholtz's position.
If Putin is dead, the war is still going, so I guess there goes any hope of regime change
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
Thanks for confirming the suspicion.
Really,and you know President Putin better than anyone and have done peace talks allready?
Ukraine president is now a conspiracy nut. Just what they needed to lead them.
Seen this earlier couldn't post due to work..
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
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.
HIMARS have gone very quiet lately.
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.
They supplied some secret naval drones with no details as to what they are or can do.
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.
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.
A significant majority of German voters support helping Ukraine, that's not in question.
The contention is over heavy armaments.
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.
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