Very interesting declassified memo I stumbled on just now. If you think russian ambitions on conquering Europe were a recent putin thing read this. The absolute cheek of yeltsin casually suggesting to Clinton that russia just be allowed to take Europe with no US interference
They could but I don't think they will unless they plan something spectacular for inside the Russian border but at the current flight operations they have already have the ability to take out Russian Radars using haarm missiles from their own aircraft, they could go after airfields in Crimea but that brings the risk of losing valuable aircraft,but I also get the feelings that individual countries will put restriction on what can be targeted, hopefully it won't be the case but I get the feeling that there will be restrictions put on them
"Russia's military is stronger now than at the start of 2022 , a working alliance swapping tech and know how is now in place between Russia, China, Iran, and NK."
Any evidence you'd like to share to prove China is actually supplying military tech to putin? Just seen information about Iran and North Korean supplies but not seen anything solid about the supply from China.
Also just wondering how is his military now stronger after loosing the equipment recorded to have already been lost in Ukraine?
I would think that when the f16s are in play in a large number they will target something meaningful and spectacular and say to the rest of the world hey look what we can do with them now give us more of them as we can use them properly and do proper damage to Russia.
No the Danish government announced that they wouldn't be sending unless all of the training of flight crew's, ground crews, maintainers and other infrastructure was in place first, nothing to do with F35s .
I should have taken that bet that was proposed
6 weeks. JFC, people were guessing 6 months, not 6 weeks. That was also the training timeframe.
The 6 months delay is with Danish F16's, there's no mention of the Dutch ones being delayed. So the Danish delay could be down to the F35 delivery to replace their F16's being delayed and not to do with training.
More issues in America sectary of defence Loyd Austin goes into for elected surgery and ended up in intensive care for 5 days and nobody not even Biden was informed he was incapacitated .
Considering it was announced it was going to happen it's not rumour, just people having the notion it was going to happen in 6 weeks last year was completely unrealistic
Unfortunately Ukraine is collateral damage to the US and NATO. Morally bankrupt
But it seems to be on the card and not just an unfounded rumours as claimed on here by some posters.
That's some amount of spin to come to that conclusion. What this war has conclusively shown is that Russian weaponry is no match for the west's overall.
If Russia ever find a way to combat the Patriot missile system I might go some way to agreeing with you. That would be a game changer. As it is we see over the skies of Kyiv their missiles are about as effective as Saddam's scud missiles were. The vast majority of their drones and missiles are shot down . Also look what the western weaponry is doing to their navy in the crimea region.
Russia's military is stronger now than at the start of 2022 , a working alliance swapping tech and know how is now in place between Russia, China, Iran, and NK. Germany is currently sabotaging its industrial and chemical sectors due to the cutting off of cheap energy from Russia , did you know that BASF alone consumes as much natural gas as Switzerland.
The US is financially making out like bandits at the moment, but they created problems for the themselves and Europe down the road, though that;s par for the course since Bush lol
The Pentagon said end of 2024 before pilots complete there training,it was always on the cards between pilots, maintainers, ground crews and building new infrastructure it wasn't going to happen in a few weeks or months as some previously predicted on here
I have said this all along. The added bonus of a slow bleed means Russia will take years to re build its Arms forces and is less of a threat to American geo political interests going forward
Under the GVA convention's it's a war crime to attack anything bearing the Red Cross emblem, but it has often happened that anything showing the emblem has been deliberately attacked precisely because they are medics. In some of the videos, it can be seen that the Russians are making no attempts to even try to avoid the bombs. Paralyzed with the cold and fear. If these videos could only be seen by the Russian public.
It became clear that that this was the strategy pretty quickly
Sent to die in a freezing cold hole while Irish hungover men (me) watch the footage of your death/mutilation in a warm bed….
here we go again - i find it hard to watch (not the blackadder clip) , i feel sorry for the poor stupid bastards - even though you know they're the "crack troops" because they bothered to send them in with armour support, and all they have to do is go f'ing home to their families in Russia
Supposedly not but who knows. I suspect it's one of the most tightly held secrets in the UAF at the moment. And for good reason. The first anouncement of the F-16 should hopefully be them clipping some Russian planes or blowing up a bunch of radars or something. No advanced notice needed.
Besides that was just the Danish ones. There was 18 from the Dutch that were supposedly going to arrive first.
So fighter jets delayed another 6 months until the summer. I'm assuming Ukraine won't be seen in the attack again before then and even at that they might decide to defend the entire year.
If he destabilizes a state enough - and gets enough politicians on board he can persuade many in a country that they'd be better off back with mother russia ,its an insidious process, there may or may not be a nato in 20 ,50 years time , could be a catastrophe somewhere that allows a future russia to sneak in, they just need an in ,a window where Nato wouldnt intervene for T"HAT " country,at that time
It looks like an old arcade game has been rebranded: Russian Invaders.
Or is putin being used as a tool by North Korea and Iran to slowly defeat the russian army by sending them to get killed in Ukraine?
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Yes, I heard a Russian say he prefers to work at night because the vision is so good.
They can always surrender to UA/Red Cross. Can't be that hard.
Either way the majority seem to be helping injured people, it's a catch 22 really, awful to see but they are invaders,go home.
This has been obvious for more than a year now. Unfortunately for Ukraine they are being used as a tool to slowly depleat the Russian army over time and neither Europe nor the US is particularly interested in seeing a massive instant collapse and possible breakdown of chain of command in a nuclear armed nation..
Is it understandable yes, is it morally right absolutely not..
Well, his place in history is well assured all right, not in the manner he will like. In the annals of the infamous he will stand out like a bright beacon in the darkness. And the sooner that happens the better for the world.
Not a great sign , patriot missles supplies under threat due to lack of funds or so it's been claimed
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/world/europe/ukraine-patriots-us.html
Too much Hollywood, for years in movies and TV a single hand grenade could blow a car /military vehicle 10ft + in the air or demolish parts of buildings ,most grenades only have a small amount of explosives in them , they look great on screen but in reality they are less than spectacular
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