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Chechen bandits sure love to be in front of cameras.
Apparently solid-state fuel reacts quite badly to bullets.
In Russia, Western Planes Are Falling Apart
After months of sanctions that have made critical repair parts difficult to access, aircraft operators are running out of options.
https://www.wired.com/story/in-russ...-apart/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
After months of sanctions that have made critical repair parts difficult to access, aircraft operators are running out of options.
https://www.wired.com/story/in-russ...-apart/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
First confirmation regarding Western heavy weapons.
Sometimes the Ukrainians are quite reckless in their PR. They started so well. No need to accuse other nations' citizens of not doing enough.
This could also explain why Western sanctions have not 'bitten' as heavily as expected.
eu countries are also buying directly from india. india buys from russia, india refines in india. india then sells to eu. eu then pays highest possible price which it is partly responsible for because of sanctions. genius right?
political class
This is the moment when offensive weapons should start arriving en masse in Ukraine. They will need the right tools to shift the momentum and strike back before Russian forces get moving again.
Thanks for posting this Raoul.
A fantastic, moving, watch. It's easy to become complacent after time, but clips like this put things into perspective.
The war for those people is real, and unrelenting. Death can come at any moment, and fear and suffering really is 24 hrs a day.
Those brave people have balls of steel and hearts of lions
Awful watch. Having lived through the war as a kid and I didnt see that much of it, especially compared to many others who either needed to flee, lost everything or family members, friends, I can imagine how they feel. My grandparents needed to flee their hometown and it took a toll on my grandad who got ill and was never the same. I remember news about the war, people saying on radio who are they looking for or asking someone to let know if he/she is all right, news about which town or village fell, rushing to the shelter.. And as I said that's nothing compared to others but nevertheless I have a terrible feeling watching videos like this and I remember having an awful feeling in the stomach on the morning of 24th of February when news broke out Russia is attacking Ukraine..
I still don't know who's going to bankroll Ukraine in the long run. They were the 2nd poorest country in Europe pre the 2022 invasion. As long as Russia themselves won't suffer real attacks on their soil they can bankroll the war with oil and gas revenue.
I agree. Once winter hits, and energy prices rocket further in Europe and the West, I think there will be more and more calls for compromise/negotiating.
Yeah and in the post covid era where most just want the economy to go back to normal and then you have the America first mantra with the American Repubs. I just can't see where the money will come from in a prolonged war of attrition.
The American military complex will fund it if all else fails and Dems and Repubs continually vote to give it greater funding because arms companies donate funds to their campaigns. This is an existential war against Western democracy and peace across European as a whole. It's a war Russia must outright lose.
Russia aren’t going to accept anything less than control of Ukraine, and if Peter Zeihan is right, and many government officials have commented on it in Russia, that they want to take the Baltic states and they want half of Poland. This is so they can have defensible borders holding the Polish gap and the Bessarabian gap in Moldova, which they will also take. It’s not a coincidence Russia has basically captured eastern Moldova already, they’re headed that way.
His theory is that the west feels they must stop Russia in Ukraine or confrontation with NATO is next, where Russia will have the option of using nukes or losing.
If Russia takes Ukraine, partisans will likely destroy the Ukraine pipeline as well.
Yes, even the biggest cynics on western goodwill should understand the greed of some parties has the power to keep the gravy flowing.
Regardless, Ukraine is never giving up, no matter what help they do or do get from elsewhere. Neither are other eastern European countries. Some people just don't realise what is at stake.
I agree with all the above, but I genuinely think the unity the West has had up until this point will be seriously tested in the winter. Everyone will be wanting to keep their houses in order as a matter of priority.
Just look at what's happening in the UK right now. If there was an election tomorrow, I'm not sure Ukraine would be the most pressing issue for voters.
Economy, Energy and Immigration would probably all poll higher, unfortunately.
Russia isn't going to invade Poland or any Nato country. They know they will be destroyed and humiliated. Its non nato countries who have a good cause for worry.
The bit where the soldier opened up a Russian MRE for the dog to eat was a bit poetic, given how Putin has treated his own soldiers like cannon fodder.
Sounds like you would be better served, if you just stopped reading this random Peter Zeihan guy.
I guess it's a good thing they're not selling their military hardware to their police departments.
I agree, Zeihan has also suggested that Russia might blackmail Germany and/or Turkey, saying that they will only supply oil and gas if they withdraw from NATO and stop all military aid to Ukraine. I'm a little surprised if hasn't happened yet, just because it sounds like it would be devistatingly effective, much more so than the idea of using tactical nukes in a way with NATO, who can respond in kind, and the introduction of which might wildly effect world opinion.
But seeing as Putin holds more than half the world hostage with his oil, gas, wheat, fertilizer and potash supplies, can anyone but the few (mostly) self sufficient countries afford to oppose him? Russia can live off potatoes and their own energy supplies for a long time.
Since Russia violated the nuclear disarment treaty they signed with Ukraine, we ought to give Ukraine some nukes. For real.
This is the sort of creative thinking that NATO is missing
.It sounds crazy to me too, I'll admit, and these plans were made before the Russian armed forced showed themselves to be so wildly incompetent in comparison to NATO. The thinking was that if Russia invaded like they're doing in Ukraine, they'd be pushed back and that would be the end of it.
But now Russia know they would lose a conventional war, and while this is good news in general, Russia are desperate. They see their post-Soviet borders and indefensible, and feel they must hold most of the territory they had as the USSR to narrow the points of entry, so they would actually have enough soldiers to successfully defend itself. They've gone from holding 1 of 9 entry points after the collapse to 5 iirc as of now.
He thinks this is why they're talking about nukes, because they would need to use tactical nukes to have any hope of beating NATO forces, or more likely terrorizing people into submission (which I don't think it's likely either).
From a demographic standpoint, Russia's population is collapsing even faster than Europe, their pool of 18-40 year olds in ideal draft age will be half what it is now in 20 years, leaving them with a force incapable of holding the vast planes of western Russia. And even if they believed no one in Europe would invade them currently, they're worried about what might happen in 100 years.
Nevermind that Europe will have a population collapse as well, and none of their borders are defensible either, of course.
Again, this is all from Zeihan.
This is the sort of creative thinking that NATO is missing
Well I mean Russia promised to defend them in return. Now they are doing opposite while dick swinging their nukes. Give Ukraine a few nukes in compensation and then see if Russia's citizens feel safe in support of the war.
Talk about a system that would be hard to install and train Ukranians to maintain and utilize! We're not sending them anything fancier than a stinger or artillery piece because of this same issue (okay some of the fancier stuff is finally getting to the front after months of training #gohimars).