We are getting closer to World War 3 every day. You have retired armchair generals, big ego political hacks, etc. all urging no fly zones and giving Ukraine those fighter jets. Joe Biden is inept no doubt, but, I give him credit for refusing to go along with the neocons urging him to confront Russia. That is the right thing he has done. There is enormous pressure from the idiots on both the left and the right to get into Russia's face by supporting a no fly zone or giving fighter jets to Ukraine. Tactical nuclear weapons can be used in Ukraine if NATO is foolish enough to give those fighter jets to Ukraine or establish a no fly zone. Then, what? Who is going to stop the exchange of tactical nuclear weapons to prevent it reaching the point of launching ICBMs from both sides and ending humanity as we know it? Once, that line is crossed, both sides would be firing their tactical nuclear weapons unrestrained at each other because it becomes a matter of survival then.
So you are just going to appease Putin and give him everything he wants as he brutally attacks one country after another. Just because he saber rattles and says he will use nuclear & chemical weapons if you don’t accede to his demands. The days of appeasing authoritarian dictators are over. At this point the West has a choice between putting our foot down now with a Ukraine no-fly zone and putting a firm end to Putin's nonsense... or a large scale European conflict two years from now when an embolden Putin invades another country.
“I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard.” Remember this one ? Russia's super powerful nuclear submarine with 160 nukes on board appears off US coast
Putin knows some threats when he sees them. First and foremost, he recalls the threats that brought Yeltsin down and brought Putin to power. ie. the economy and the ruble collapsed under Yeltsin leading to "some changes." Right now, it is deja vu all over again in that regard for him. If he has a missile for that, in the same way that Marianne Williamson has an essential oil for whatever your problem is, then that is the one he should use. If not.....well.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...ay-moscow-hardening-views-back-home-rcna20605 As Russians as hardening their support for Putin and they are Buy1Sell2's opposite numbers, we should ask him how he would deal with his Russian mirrors.
Yeah... you and what army, Vlad. Vladimir Putin's chilling warning he could have troops in six capital cities in two days The Russian president is alleged to have told former Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko that he could have soldiers on the ground in the capitals of Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Romania within 48 hours https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world...chilling-warning-could-26574427?ICID=ref_fark
It is now clear that the Pentagon leadership has seen the utterly dismal performance of the Javelin and now wants to phase it out from U.S. forces. Remember, out of thousands of Javelins supplied, thousands of videos published by Ukraine, not a single successful usage of the system has ever been recorded. In fact the vast majority of successful Ukrainian defeats of Russian armor happens at the ends of legacy Soviet/Russian systems and mostly artillery. Russian forces continue to find Javelin units completely unused because Ukr troops have found them to be unwieldy and impractical in combat – too long to set up and use, too heavy to carry around, and not effective even when used. For urban combat where troops have to be as light, mobile, and agile as possible, the Javelin is absolutely worthless with its large CLU interface and overly-bulky design. The Pentagon has clearly seen the failure of the over-hyped system. -In another sudden and unexpected report, the Pentagon now wants to scrap DOZENS of F-22’s. They have suddenly decided they want to ‘divert funding’ to the next generation platform. There is clearly connection here to something the Pentagon has witnessed in Ukraine that has left it scrambling to rethink its approach to modern warfare. You see all proxy wars are laboratories for Great Powers to test and assess their equipment. The F-22 was the flagship of the U.S. airforce, the ONLY plane forbidden by Congress to sell to any ally even in ‘export version’. The F-35 was meant for the export market while F-22 was supposed to be solely the unique and unmatched great hope and pinnacle of American engineering that would lead to victories in future wars. But it seems now that the Pentagon has had a taste of what modern Russian air defenses / radars are capable in Ukraine and is no longer confident of the F-22’s chances. It has suddenly scrambled to desperately dump the F-22 and prepare for the “next generation” platform titled the ‘Next Generation Air Dominance’ project, which would consist of heavily utilizing integrated drone warfare and possible drone swarms controlled by the pilot. This appears to indicate the U.S. sees no other way to defeat Russian air defenses and air power in general apart from massive over-utilization of integrated drone saturation – it can no longer count on F-22’s after seeing how Russia has completely nullified the Ukrainian air and anti-air capabilities, which by the way were orders of magnitude greater than the capabilities of the Serbians in the 90’s who humiliated the U.S. air force several times. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/...sias-military-operation-unfolds.html#comments
Garbage non-sequitur whataboutism. India shilling for Russian's imperialism because they want cheap energy & fertilizer is just ironically sad. Yes America bad sometimes, and guess what, Russia also bad sometimes.
LOL --- go to Google and put in the words Ukraine Javelin Video. Note the 9 million results. Many very clear videos of Javelins being used to destroy Russian vehicles and tanks in the Ukraine. Note that Javelin missiles dive from the top -- hitting the thinly armored top of vehicles. Very different hit than most of the other portable anti-armor weapons which hit the vehicle on the side. Ukraine Video Shows 'Javelin' Missile Striking Russian Tank https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/new...-javelin-missile-striking-russian-tank-625376 If Javelins suck so bad then why is Ukraine regularly demanding more of them. Must be their 93% kill rate. Ukraine tells the US it needs 500 Javelins and 500 Stingers per day https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/politics/ukraine-us-request-javelin-stinger-missiles/index.html Video Analysis: Ukrainian Anti-Tank Weapons Appear to be Decimating Russian Armored Vehicles A former US Army Infantry Task Force Commander who led units which destroyed the Iraqi Republican Guard near the Baghdad Airport in 2003 provides analysis on the strength of Javelin Anti-Tank Missiles https://warriormaven.com/russia-ukraine/javelin-anti-tank-missile-ukraine-russia-invasion