Russia - threadbanned users in OP

There truly are an infinite number of Universes - never thought I'd end up being in one where I agree with Piers Morgan.

To the outside viewer probably like the same kind of war. NATO is to my knowledge, big on common communication protocols, so that eg. if a squadron of F-35s is operating ahead of a squadron of Eurofighters picks up targets on their radars etc. they can feed that data to the 'data swarm' and the command structure will know and the Eurofighters will know where those targets are located. The military doctrine is for high interoperability of battlefield situational information, at least as far as I understand it. Of course NATO didn't form out of a single military so it was natural for eg. german french and american platforms to speak different languages in a sense, be engineered differently under different progeny, but when they were looking at the Joint Strike Fighter Program in the late late 80s/early 90s part of that review was to homogenize those systems (not just for the F35 but all of NATO) because in effect, communication between forces was firewalled between the technological distinctions between them, impeding the speed and effectiveness of battlefield communication. It's unclear how much operational intelligence, direct or otherwise, NATO is providing the the Ukrainian command structure. But they do seem to keep pantsing the Russians.

Just had a thought.

Ukraine used to have nukes.

Then they gave them back to russia, (budapest agreement) on basis they were not attacked by russia.

Clearly russia broke this.

What if?

Ukraine "found" 3 or 4 nukes that were not returned at the time of this?

This would be a game changer

That's usually something the person who was asked the question gets to say and why so defensive in the first place, it's like you're taking what I said as a personal attack?

The question asked was what a "high-tech" war with NATO looks like, what the Russians claim wasn't brought up by anyone but you and all you're doing is derailing things with your obsessive take.

It was a fair question and point made, stop looking for your own little battles.

No it wouldn't change a thing,

Even if they found a few nukes just laying around, try threatening Russia with several nukes first they would have to show they are willing and able to use them but on the other side of the coin Russia has thousands of nukes who's going to win that particular game ,

Lancets are obliterating Ukrainian equipment at the moment.

War has changed, €20,000 Drones destroying millions of equipment.

I watch both the Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels.

Both sides are making heavy use of suicide drones to good effect. Anything that's within a few km of the frontline is spotted and destroyed. There are plenty of incidents of even t72 tanks being completely destroyed by such attacks.

I get the feeling that this war will be won or lost be whoever has the resources to overwhelm the others in this sort of attack.

Good interview here with Arsenal player on Ukraine

I do actually.

The BBC have 25k confirmed dead, based on graves by independent sources in Russia.

I have read comments that they think the real number is undercounted.

They think the actual number of dead is 50k.

WRT the FT link about confiscating oligarch funds... A law is one thing (both houses must sign off and POTUS sign off), but once confiscation starts to occur, expect lots of lawsuits, probably going up to the SCOTUS because of the money involved. I'm interested in the legal justification for the confiscation of funds, which is what the new law will be about.

Plus the eye-watering sums will attract lawyers, probably good ones, not the flotsam we've seen floating around TiFG lately.

Capable of change.......the one thing that dictatorships are not amenable to, and actively work to prevent. Kim Sung, Iran's Ayatollah, China's Xi, and of course Putin. None of the above mentioned are capable of willingly changing the status quo, and thousands of people who thought or tried to bring change paid for it with either their Freedom or Lives.

This should be attached to that Twatter post between Homeless Mick and P.Morgan