Is Ukraine about to have a war?
The worm has turned......
Talking of worms....
Here is another one that has seen which way the wind is blowing and wants to be on the right side when it ends....
Scholz had better pull his finger out quick, otherwise it will all be over before his tanks arrive.
No guts no glory
President Erdogan says that Russia is required by international law to leave Crimea and give it back to Ukraine.
Talking of worms....
Here is another one that has seen which way the wind is blowing and wants to be on the right side when it ends....
Slovak Defense Minister has announced that Slovakia will send 30 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine exchange for 15 Leopard2A4 Main Battle Tanks from Germany.
Scholz had better pull his finger out quick, otherwise it will all be over before his tanks arrive.
No guts no glory
Approximately 800 military aircraft airborne over USA in the last hour.
HIgh level of surveillance aircraft airborne around US and North of Venezuela
State Dept ordered all US civilians and to leave Ukraine.
https://ua.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-kyiv-ukraine-6/
Mjb
HIgh level of surveillance aircraft airborne around US and North of Venezuela
State Dept ordered all US civilians and to leave Ukraine.
https://ua.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-kyiv-ukraine-6/
Mjb
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For those who have access to 'Foreign Affairs', John Mearsheimer's latest piece on this conflict is well worth reading. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukrai...g-fire-ukraine
His take is that there is no settlement in sight or under discussion and that both sides have upped their aims, so the prospect is for further escalation, with no obvious stopping point.
He sees the destruction of the Ukraine power grid as a likely first step..
His take is that there is no settlement in sight or under discussion and that both sides have upped their aims, so the prospect is for further escalation, with no obvious stopping point.
He sees the destruction of the Ukraine power grid as a likely first step..
Source? Sounds like wibbling to me
ADSB exchange for the flight info.
US state department for the alert.
https://ua.usembassy.gov/security-al...yiv-ukraine-6/
US state department for the alert.
https://ua.usembassy.gov/security-al...yiv-ukraine-6/
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For those who have access to 'Foreign Affairs', John Mearsheimer's latest piece on this conflict is well worth reading. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukrai...g-fire-ukraine
For those who have access to 'Foreign Affairs', John Mearsheimer's latest piece on this conflict is well worth reading. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukrai...g-fire-ukraine
1. If Putin is insane, then nuclear war is inevitable anyway.
2. If He isn't insane, giving him anything now guarantees he will regroup and be back for more. Followed, at some point when it goes too far by WW3,
logically, therefore, only defeat for the rapists and other war criminals (preferably with a Nuremberg style trial and sentencing of the criminals, but I don't hold my breath on that one) is the only possibility to avoid WW3. QED.
Approximately 800 military aircraft airborne over USA in the last hour.
HIgh level of surveillance aircraft airborne around US and North of Venezuela https://ua.usembassy.gov/security-al...yiv-ukraine-6/
Mjb
HIgh level of surveillance aircraft airborne around US and North of Venezuela https://ua.usembassy.gov/security-al...yiv-ukraine-6/
Mjb
nearest military aircraft to venezula is a spanish A-310, so unless spain is planning to invade with 200 infantry
The worm has turned......
https://twitter.com/i/status/1562136831164137472
https://twitter.com/i/status/1562136831164137472
Russia has to work out a way to recover any semblance of confidence in its trading partners, as the partners it now has been forced to trade with are price driven, not ideological. While V Putin is in power, or any of his crony crims, that is going to be... "....is problem...".
The NRA could rapidly gain support I would think, the winds of change may be starting to "blow",as heralded by the hapless young lady Dugina; Guess Russian Uber may become popular with the current Russian regime, "...is safer, da..."
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Turkey could also screw up Russias Syrian support by closing their airspace to overflights.
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I respect Mearsheimer's expertise and take his comments seriously, because he was outspoken about the disastrous consequences likely to result from the effort to bring Ukraine into the western fold.
He called that exactly, so his current posting deserves attention. Just because it does not make for happy reading is no excuse for brushing it under the rug.
It could have been dictated by Moscow's troll factories. Give Putin this time what he will be content with to avoid nuclear war.
1. If Putin is insane, then nuclear war is inevitable anyway.
2. If He isn't insane, giving him anything now guarantees he will regroup and be back for more. Followed, at some point when it goes too far by WW3,
logically, therefore, only defeat for the rapists and other war criminals (preferably with a Nuremberg style trial and sentencing of the criminals, but I don't hold my breath on that one) is the only possibility to avoid WW3. QED.
1. If Putin is insane, then nuclear war is inevitable anyway.
2. If He isn't insane, giving him anything now guarantees he will regroup and be back for more. Followed, at some point when it goes too far by WW3,
logically, therefore, only defeat for the rapists and other war criminals (preferably with a Nuremberg style trial and sentencing of the criminals, but I don't hold my breath on that one) is the only possibility to avoid WW3. QED.
