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Moldovian government resigning

Source claimed as Reuters but I cannot find a confirmation on it.

Pressing X to doubt. Until I can confirm.

Absolutely outrageous.

The only answer is to move patriot missile batteries right up to the border and start shooting anything down that creeps even one millimetre into NATO airspace.

More orcs being slaughtered but at least the wives/mothers will get a new lada 👍️

They could operate out of the airport close to the Polish border. Russia may not risk trying to target it. It's far from the Frontline however. Just need to find a place close enough to launch sorties from, but out of range of ground launched S300 systems, but still within the protection of the Patriot systems when they arrive.

Or just just what ever infrastructure they currently use for their Migs. It won't be their first fighter jets after all.

Finland and Singapore have trained on takeoff and landing on regular roads.

If the US or the west wanted to give fighter jets, they will find a way. Lack of runways would be least of the issues.

The Empire "warning" Moldova yet again

Very interesting short piece on a unit repelling a small Russian probing attack and how they do it

Yet just a few posts back you said:

"I don't know anything and I didnt say I did. I just posted a link to an interesting story I thought was relevant in the context of this conflict."

So which of your statements have any truth to them or do you not like the question I clearly asked you? Is it true you read newspapers or that you know nothing and are just posting misinformation to support the increasingly boring playbook that russia is somehow the victim in invading Ukraine?

For your information I have read newspapers and find you implying I have not done so stange. You are responding like a child. Are newspapers some how something unusual where you are from? Is it part of your job to read newspapers to scrape the bottom of the barrel for anything that might potentially be positive for putin and his genocide in Ukraine?

Move in a straight line and tight formation, that'll confuse the enemy for sure

So tanks and longer range missiles deliveries well under way. Putin still hasn't launched nukes. I can't wait for fighter jets and attack helis to be announced so we can finally stop hearing about red lines and nuclear sabre rattling.

At that point the red line would be shifted to a NATO country directly entering Ukraine or Belarus.

This rumour has been circulating for a few months now - hopefully there is some truth to it, but the ball is in Jordans court...

People, and the media, got all hung up on a few dozen leopard 2 tanks going to Ukraine but seem to have no interest in potentially hundreds of challenger 1 tanks going.

An updated C1 is probably a better tank than the Leopard 2a4 - at least in terms of armor. It's miles ahead of the 1a5 and far better than most if not all Russia tanks.

They're British made so Scholz can do SFA about it if another country decides to buy and send them. The only thing I'd imagine as a real practical hangup is the logistics for a 40 year old tank.

Is supporting these tanks even logistically possible? I'd imagine not many countries would have spare parts for them lying around. Would be sweet if possible though.

Thought this is quite apt.

Don't dis plastics. If you made a tank hull out of thick enough Dyneema (UHMWPE), it would probably be tougher while weighing a third or less the weight. Might be costly.

Some of these are posters who have previously claimed that e.g. Russia weren't killing civilians in the invasion or that the US was somehow behind it and so on. Reductionists and revisionists who pander to simplistic narratives rather than reality. The "smarter" ones create new accounts or are just happy to play a cautious role of contrarian in the threads.

Competing to see who can be the biggest failure apparently

"The head of the Wagner mercenary group repeatedly criticized the Russian military leadership. Defense Minister Shoigu is also in the firing line. This is now apparently sending fighters from the Patriot military company to the Donbass. The security company is considered a competitor of the Wagner group.

According to Ukrainian sources, after the Wagner group, Moscow is moving another group of mercenaries to the Donbass. Accordingly, fighters from the private military company Patriot were sighted near Wuhledar in the Donetsk region. This was announced by Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesman for the eastern group of the Ukrainian armed forces, according to the online portal Ukrajinska Pravda in a TV interview. The information cannot be independently verified."

""In particular, in the Stepne area on the Wuhledar front, we noticed that in addition to the Wagner group, the Patriot military company, associated with the current Russian Defense Minister Shoigu, also appeared," Cherevatyi said. "Obviously they pull all combat powers in order to achieve at least a few successes." Asked about rumors of a conflict between the two mercenary companies, Cherevatyi said that the Wagner group and the Patriot company were competitors. However, both would currently be deployed on different front sectors."