Is Ukraine about to have a war?
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Times is apparently reporting the SAS are in Ukraine training Ukrainians.
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An interesting point of view as to why the war started and an update from an ex Swiss and nato intelligence officer.
https://www.thepostil.com/author/jacques-baud/
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An interesting point of view as to why the war started and an update from an ex Swiss and nato intelligence officer.
https://www.thepostil.com/author/jacques-baud/
https://www.thepostil.com/author/jacques-baud/
Swiss and NATO?
An excellent read re arming Ukraine
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/15...tin-offensive/
I often thought a couple hundred quad bikes equipped with NLAW or Javelin’s operating in teams free to hunt out targets would be better, after all they cope with mud well, are light, cheap, easy to learn, easy to maintain, are quick and can shoot and scoot..
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/15...tin-offensive/
I often thought a couple hundred quad bikes equipped with NLAW or Javelin’s operating in teams free to hunt out targets would be better, after all they cope with mud well, are light, cheap, easy to learn, easy to maintain, are quick and can shoot and scoot..
….
“If we are the arsenal of democracy, then let’s be the arsenal of democracy and open the doors and push everything out that [Ukrainians] possibly need,”
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An interesting point of view as to why the war started and an update from an ex Swiss and nato intelligence officer.
https://www.thepostil.com/author/jacques-baud/
https://www.thepostil.com/author/jacques-baud/
The other thing it does not really address is the concomitant massive land grabs, adding to Crimea and taking the corridor through Mariupol, joining the new republics to Crimea. If what he says about the pincer movement and crushing of the Ukrainian armed forces is totally correct, there may be trouble ahead.
“We have exaggerated the risk, and the Russians know this,” he said. “We have the most powerful alliance in the history of the world scared to provide 25-year-old aircraft to a country that’s fighting for its life”
If Ukraine got them wouldn't they be very vulnerable assets on the ground in Ukrainian territory?
Another point is that Poland bought them from Germany for 1 Euro each, (ex DDR aircraft) and while I've heard that the Poles keep them in pretty good shape, giving them to Ukraine and expecting new F16s FOC from uncle Sam sounds just a little cheeky. And leaves Poland for now with very much reduced air assets until they were current on the F16s.
Of course, a month ago Putin was saying that even imposing sanctions could be considered a covert declaration of war and threatening dire consequences. The West has called his bluff on that one and on other points.
But now perhaps they could operate out of Poland (with Ukrainian crews)? A question for the experts, if that risk were taken by NATO, how useful would those mig29s be?
The Jaques Baud article does read like the Kremlin viewpoint rather than an unbiased overview. Take two sections, first the one on incorporating foreign volunteers. Western journalists have reported that the inexperienced or misguided are weeded out and returned to whence they came, and the useful incorporated into the Ukrainian forces structure, a very different picture to that presented.
Second, an unnamed 'US source' is used to claim that the Russians are not deliberately targeting civilians- patently not the case.
The Ukrainians may be winning the propaganda war, but that does not mean that much of what is reported by the West is false.
A different assessment might conclude that any previously USSR state or Warsaw Pact state, now European oriented is a threat to Russia, so must be occupied. So, once Ukraine is occupied, Poland is now the border, hence the threat and must be occupied. East Germany....(etc, etc.)
Second, an unnamed 'US source' is used to claim that the Russians are not deliberately targeting civilians- patently not the case.
The Ukrainians may be winning the propaganda war, but that does not mean that much of what is reported by the West is false.
A different assessment might conclude that any previously USSR state or Warsaw Pact state, now European oriented is a threat to Russia, so must be occupied. So, once Ukraine is occupied, Poland is now the border, hence the threat and must be occupied. East Germany....(etc, etc.)
I can't find the right words to describe it, but the whole writing style is very like that of RT.com; not only the bias, but also the flowery language and the general structure.
it's been a while since those Polski M29s have been mentioned. How might that work now though?
If Ukraine got them wouldn't they be very vulnerable assets on the ground in Ukrainian territory?
Another point is that Poland bought them from Germany for 1 Euro each, (ex DDR aircraft) and while I've heard that the Poles keep them in pretty good shape, giving them to Ukraine and expecting new F16s FOC from uncle Sam sounds just a little cheeky. And leaves Poland for now with very much reduced air assets until they were current on the F16s.
Of course, a month ago Putin was saying that even imposing sanctions could be considered a covert declaration of war and threatening dire consequences. The West has called his bluff on that one and on other points.
But now perhaps they could operate out of Poland (with Ukrainian crews)? A question for the experts, if that risk were taken by NATO, how useful would those mig29s be?
If Ukraine got them wouldn't they be very vulnerable assets on the ground in Ukrainian territory?
Another point is that Poland bought them from Germany for 1 Euro each, (ex DDR aircraft) and while I've heard that the Poles keep them in pretty good shape, giving them to Ukraine and expecting new F16s FOC from uncle Sam sounds just a little cheeky. And leaves Poland for now with very much reduced air assets until they were current on the F16s.
Of course, a month ago Putin was saying that even imposing sanctions could be considered a covert declaration of war and threatening dire consequences. The West has called his bluff on that one and on other points.
But now perhaps they could operate out of Poland (with Ukrainian crews)? A question for the experts, if that risk were taken by NATO, how useful would those mig29s be?
it's been a while since those Polski M29s have been mentioned. How might that work now though?
giving them to Ukraine and expecting new F16s FOC from uncle Sam sounds just a little cheeky. And leaves Poland for now with very much reduced air assets until they were current on the F16s.
giving them to Ukraine and expecting new F16s FOC from uncle Sam sounds just a little cheeky. And leaves Poland for now with very much reduced air assets until they were current on the F16s.
Russian Missile strikes on Kyiv & Lviv
it's been a while since those Polski M29s have been mentioned. How might that work now though?
giving them to Ukraine and expecting new F16s FOC from uncle Sam sounds just a little cheeky. And leaves Poland for now with very much reduced air assets until they were current on the F16s.
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giving them to Ukraine and expecting new F16s FOC from uncle Sam sounds just a little cheeky. And leaves Poland for now with very much reduced air assets until they were current on the F16s.
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