Russkies are building up forces near the finnish border.
Although not quite sure why they are moving those coastal missile systems there.
Geolocated 50km from Finnish border.
https://www.google.com/maps/@60.7448...7i13312!8i6656

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The Russians do not want to tangle with the Finns again especially when they are getting their Butts kicked in Ukraine!

The Russians might stick to dealing with this Hornet’s Nest they stuck their head into first.

Apparently the plan is that the leo ones will go to western ukraine where supply lines are shorter and ukrianias can train them. This will allow the soviet / russia armor to goto the east where it will be more suitable from a training and logisitcs view

On another forum we had this same discussion. I suggested there 3 practical options for a ukrainian airforce in the mid term. As you suggest there tranche 1 eurofighters from UK and Swiss, the other options would be some of the 46 FA-18 sitting in hangers in australia, they could be regenerated as there was quite a few flying december of last year, got millions of miles and remote airbases you could train pilots and ground crew and no in the world would know. The other probably way more expensive but better long term is the Kuwaities were apparently looking for buyers for thier super hornets last year.

Dvornikov enters from stage left with the same script.

B@stards 😡

Interesting thread IF the numbers are correct.

If they have indeed used chemical weapons, I thought that was the red flag for the west to intervene?

Re build up near Finland, wasn’t there something about possible Western guarantee’s prior to NATO enrolment? Though he is struggling in Ukraine so a second front would dilute his force’s? Still the threat is at least tying up Russian forces.

I posed that question a few days ago but no response.

Here it is

https://abcnews.go.com/International...-join-83912486

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...manys-approval

"he believed that Ukrainian personnel with certain unspecified existing skill sets could be trained to operate a Leopard 1 in a timeframe measured in days. "You have to be trained a bit more intensively on the Leopard 1. But if the Ukrainians want the tank, a way should be found,"

If Russia has in fact used Chemical weapons against Ukraine Civilians......what should the World's reaction to that be Crime Against Humanity?

Can we just turn a blind eye to it.....just wag some tongues but take no action?

If that is what happens....then what will Putin and his Thugs think they can get away with?

If they used/use Chemical weapons, i say send in the Tomahawks. Like in Syria, plus the french with SCALP

I have been reluctant so far to agree with NATO direct action but Putin will just keep pushing the envelope until NATO really has no choice so I think now is the time to act. NATO must demonstrate strength as well as unity. Locate and totally destroy a column of Russian armour in Ukraine with stand off weapons, then tell Putin there is much more to come if necessary.

Perhaps its his way of keeping NATO out of Ukraine. NATO sees a threat to a member state in the North & deploys forces there. In Put-Puts mind, that's diluting possible forces that could be deployed to Ukraine. The other alternative is that he's gone completely bonkers & just wants WW3 regardless of how he makes it happen. :(

NATO will wring their hands and tell Putin he is ‘really really naughty’, but they will do nothing. The spineless and eviserated NATO leaders have already stated that Putin will not be confronted because he has nukes.
Putin can do whatever he wants - NATO is far too afraid of him to lift a finger, and he knows that.
If he has used chemical weapons to slaughter children, nothing will change. NATO and the West will be judged as the people who simply watched.

All the organisations set up to prevent exactly this happing again - a re-run of Hitler's aggression and expansion - are going to stand by with plenty of platitudes and no action.

Agree with the idea of stand-off weapons to destroy the Russian armour wherever it is in Ukraine.

With all the revelations about how easy it has been for money to travel from Russia to be washed in the rest of the world, one has to wonder how many senior people in every country have somehow been tainted by association or even directly bribed - it might explain some of the reluctance to act directly if Putin has the threat of exposing financial irregularities over their heads.

After all, the majority of politicians are in the game for wealth, power and influence - see our present lot for a prime example.

Ok thanks for this.