So the Russian pilots adopted the approach of "pee'ing" on the American drone with their planes? At this point I think 90% of Russian Pilot training is just watching the original Top Gun over and over. Or possibly Hot Shots. I'm not sure they can tell the difference.
Russian jet collides with US drone over Black Sea - BBC News
archived 14 Mar 2023 18:59:43 UTCarchive.is
Fucking lol, Russia please stop being jokes for once please.
I agree that the US will continue sending aid to Ukraine as long as Russia is a threat. I disagree that Russia is the only reason for NATO's continued existence. It's a mutual defense treaty; except for people with a pisspoor understanding of geopolitics the idea that having defensive allies being a net benefit, especially when you aren't capable of spending hundreds of billions of dollars on defense, is pretty obvious. There's a reason why countries like Portugal, Canada, and the UK were founding members despite not being immediately put at risk by the USSR, and there's a reason why former soviet states flocked to NATO when the USSR fell (that isn't NATO magically brainwashing the people/governments to support NATO membership in order to spark a war with Russia for some reason).
To be fair neither can I.
Not surprising that FSB would consider rail sabotage in Poland. That's the path all the new western tanks will take entering Ukraine.
There's been a shitload of rail sabotage in Russia recently, junction boxes & power transmission stations getting torched, etc. Russian sympathizers (and/or Ukrainians) are responsible, but no doubt they blame NATO.
at the time of nato founding the USSR was a real global power that could absolutely strike at UK, canada, portugal if it had wanted to, and this was seen as a real danger since the USSR officially pursued the goal of achieving worldwide communism.
I've actually read somewhere that Turks are somewhat worried about their future, if Russia would be weakened enough to be not a threat to Europe.
makes a little bit of sense.
I guess it was a dumb point in retrospect (though Portugal and the UK were more at-risk than Canada, being that the USSR only had to pass through West Germany and France). Of course, the USSR was a major factor in the formation of NATO, but I'm saying there's reasons why you'd want to keep it around even when there isn't an immediate threat like Russia. It's why you don't completely demilitarize during peacetime, as Germany is learning the hard way. It's why Australia has been in a series of defensive pacts since the 50s, despite not really facing any existential foreign threats until recently with China. It's why the US is involved at all with defense treaties despite the ability to basically just sit neutrally in our corner of the world and not have to deal with the squabblings of Europe and Asia.
But I was told that was hohol cope and Putin wouldn't need to call up any more draftees given how many polish mercenaries they were killing every hour in Bakhmut.As Russia can't stop winning, they are going to call up another 400k conscripts!
Just two more weeks Z-bros!
snippet from article:
Russian army to be replenished with 400,000 new contract service personnel
The Russian Defence Ministry will start new recruitment of professional soldiers to the Russian army from 1 April, their aim being to add 400,000 new recruits to the army.www.pravda.com.ua
Russian army to be replenished with 400,000 new contract service pers…
archived 15 Mar 2023 15:23:22 UTCarchive.ph
In a short term tactical level, yes.
That's fairly optimistic unless you are referring to nukes and not conventional forces.
two years ago it would have been, yes, but under current conditions this is tiny and irrelevant.
I think its more serious now, tensions are higher than ever and both sides really would want to make sure there is no direct confrontation
For what it's worth, Radio Liberty did cite a Telegram post as their source. I'll just paste it here:
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The channel is attributed to some site called verstka.media. I can't tell you whether they're a legitimate site since I don't read Russian.
Russia lost their plane in the process. This is the kind of incident that could be an excuse to start something, but is obviously not intentional.
The USSR's first successful nuclear test was a few months after the founding of NATO. No ICBMs either but bombers probably could have made the distance, albeit not without resistance. The US probably could have held the West Germany but it'd likely be difficult without at least logistical help from NATO states. Though that was also the period (or just before the period) where the US was suggesting that the USSR would win if we didn't suspect the invasion at least 10 days in advance.
I don't think the west would have stood for armed separatists in West Germany. The USSR seemed to prefer to cause division through its fifth columnists in the West. I'd argue they still do, even if it's more decentralized and for perhaps a different aim.
That mysterious and awful time you allude to would not have seen such an incident, because Chimputin wouldn't have wanted to set off a certain someone and his knowledge of the deep lore of primate dominance behaviors thanks to countless hours analyzing the gorilla channel
