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WTF? It's not as if the Orange baboon will be on the red telephone warning Putin not to be so silly is it? It's probably more likely they'll be discussing how to carve up Europe between them.
Trump could make a TV address from Washington demanding the Russians to step down their forces, but who in the world would actually believe his worlds were resolute?
The Americans have essentially allowed a power vacuum to develop & this could be the result.
Hopefully it's just exercises FFS!
Would more assume that they are moving them as far away from Ukraine as possible so they aren’t hit
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lkbzfj23cs2n
Kremlin told U.S. it didn’t want Trump’s Ukraine-Russia envoy at peace talks.
How utterly ridiculous is this??
oh look it, predictably enough not many want to spend billions on potential junk
the off-switch thing is a myth and it's more to do with dealing with a fascist leader now
These things need constant maintenance. So if you can't get spares it's essentially an off switch. Same when Russia stole a load of plans at the start of the war. They could run them for a while but pretty soon they weren't airworthy and any country bar Russia wouldn't fly them.
As I said Trump will tell Zelensky to accept the terms Putin is demanding or else aid etc will be cut off.
So predictable. Knife straight into the back of Ukraine.
These demands would amount to victory for Russia, plain and simple. I'd be surprised if they were accepted but unfortunately Trump is president.
Crimea is long gone, Luhansk and Donetsk fighting Ukraine for many years.
Fair deal to me is letting Crimea go, and
Luhansk and Donetsk
Old map from a CNN article in 2014, how they saw the country back then.
He wants zappranesia (spelt wrong) power plant ,biggest nuclear power plant in Europe, if not the world,
Indeed, and there is no reason to believe that the people who will be taking over are any less inculcated in the US military culture as far as that goes.
Hegseth's firing of the various JAGs was more symbolic of his change towards 'warfighting ethos', and they were just unfortunate enough to be the heads to be symbolically removed. His issue is that he believes JAG officers have become too focused on the issues of law than of combat. There is something to that, in that a running joke is that any time anyone has a good idea, the death knell is "Let's run it by JAG first". Perhaps it's overstated that the default position is 'allow no legal risk' in a profession which is all about risk, but it is a true fact that for a period of time US troops in Iraq were more worried about prosecution by their own military lawyers than they were about the possibility of the enemy killing them. And there was also that JAG who decided on the basis of their extensive technical knowledge that a type of Army issue ammunition was illegal for use in Iraq. Though in fairness, she was overruled within not too many days. Lawyers became part of the 'kill chain' of individual engagements, in effect a legal version of a commissar with override authority instead of being advisors to commanders and administrators of the judicial system.
Now in fairness to the JAGs, the situation in many respects at the time allowed for such a process, and they are much less integrated in the operational side of modern training exercises given renewed focus on major combat operations which pre-dates Hegseth. anything I hear from the JAGs is that the now-fired Berger was actually more 'operationally minded' than his predecessors, and an all-round good guy. The folks Hegseth removed were not responsible for the situation they found themselves in as more junior officers at the time, but it's Hegseth's way of announcing to the force at large "Out with the old ways, in with the new," in the same way the fired branch chiefs were in the seat at the time.
Bottom line, I doubt that the administration would get particularly much different legal opinion on matters like "waging war of aggression" or "the exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act" by any JAG (or branch chief) nominated to Congress, even if they do have differing priorities on matters like rules of engagement or diversity initiatives.
If you think tanks are slow and vulnerable, how do lighter vehicles like trucks and IFVs fare? Heck, infantry can be killed with a pointy stick, they're not going anywhere.
It's widely believed Russia will test NATO.
My guess would be something like a rocket deliberately into a field in Romania, no casualties, followed up quickly with denials and false claims (e.g. it was a "Ukrainian intercept" missile). And see if NATO responds. If no significant response, then probe the next level and so on.
They all voted to be Ukrainian before being invaded though didn't they. If they spoke russian, irish or martian is meaningless in a democracy and that's the real reason russia invades. Democracy is pesticide to a mafia ran oligarchy like russia. They are terrified it will wake up their soul crushed peasants.
I'm not sure about that metric either, ie we've quite a lot of native English speaking people here.
as long as Putin is in power, Russia will continue to attack Ukraine, and Ukraine will continue to defend itself. I think we all know this.
This Trump thing is just a sideshow, both sides trying to show how much they both want peace. Talk of a “peace deal” with Russia is very naive. But eventually this Trump initiative will die a death and Ukraine still needs to defend itself.
There’s nothing “fair” about that. As long as Putin is rewarded for starting this bloody war, he’ll be back again for more.
We have literally the same Russian diplomats now saying they want peace who lied adamantly prior to 2022 that no way they would invade Ukraine.
They are already poking NATO.
Last month a drone hit an apartment block in Estonia (someone important just happened to live there - what are the chances eh?), drones on a number of occasions have crashed in Romania, missiles regularly cross Polish airspace (one killed a polish farmer after being shot down by Ukrainian air defence), arms warehouses exploding in Bulgaria, numerous attacks on organisations in the UK aiding Ukraine, assassinations throughout Europe, numerous ship anchors ripping data cables, Russian military aircraft entering NATO airspace acting as a menace (they got their comeupance when the Turks shot down a Russian fighter jet).
The aforementioned are just a few examples of Russia testing NATO countries.
Yeah, can't see there being much traction for the idea that all countries with majority native English-speakers should be invaded by the UK …… again!
More of putin's terrorist state oil infrastructure catches fire overnight.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/drone-strikes-fuel-tank-at-tuapse-refinery/
Refusal by putin to accept an unconditional ceasefire to pave the way for talks should be seen as a green light for escalating supply of weapons to Ukraine so they can remove putin's terrorists from their country completely and bring the war to an end with a strong Ukraine able to defend itself from future moskovyte aggression.
not if the security guarantee is strong enough, something tantamount to nato membership…
We speak English so should be part of the UK? Whats language got to do with it.
The point he is trying to make is that’s how stupid the arguments Putin has made as one of the justifications for war he started
Which btw brings me to a thought, as a security measure Russian language and Russians should be banned from Europe
Trump can’t complain as he just he is doing same to Spanish language and Spanish speakers in US
All of the volunteers involved in the Easter Rising would have spoke English........it didn't exactly make them sympathetic to British/English causes.
There's Russian speaking ukranian regiments fighting Russia now.
The soldiers song was sung in English in the gpo, the Irish version happened later.
Hell, there's russian speaking russians fighting russia
It’s not up to Trump to accept something on behalf of another continent
What happens if Trump accepts all of Putin’s demands and Ukraine and Europe go “yeh lol”
Then Ukraine and Europe would likely have to stand on their own two feet militarily, right away…
Ukraine have been standing on their own feet for 4 years now
Europe has 20x-30x the economy of Russia which is finally waking up to need to kick their barbarian asses back into the shitholes they crawled out of
Shevchenko possibly taken back in the last 24 hours. That's just south of Pokrovsk.
