Russia Declares War on Ukraine<<MOD WARNING>>

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  1. AlpinLuke

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    For the records ...
    Russians have just arrived and problems with local population have begun.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/06/...kraine-russian-occupation-cmd-intl/index.html

    190,000 soldiers are not enough to control a wide country like Ukraine [overall keeping in mind that Moscow hasn't got the money to sustain a long term military effort]. I do think Russians are going to understand that they are making a terrible mistake.
     
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    Its the flag of traitors and losers, fits.
     
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    interesting - thanks mate...:thumbsup:
     
  5. Bill Carson

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    And I thought the French were clueless:

     
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    My goodness .. imagining Dicks in the arses of posters are we now .. Bill in this case. Tell me of your childhood young man .. some trauma ?
     
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    Sorry... I'm an Army guy not an Air Force guy. I don't know a whole lot about fixed wing, but I'm something of an expert on Apache... weapons, not flying. I've always felt that the training challenges between Apache and our latest fighter aircraft were similar. Heads Down Displays, Heads Up Display, Integrated Helmets, standoff ranges, etc.
     
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    Not to be trusted? Between Biden's cowardly abandonment of US citizens and allies in Afghan, and his running away like a scalded dog... and his inaction on Ukraine... I wouldn't expect European nations to trust us at all.
     
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    .......just a few of the F-16s at Davis-Monthan SFB.....

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    A few more with some F-15s......
     
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    Russian mobile crematoriums:

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    Bill Carson's avatar is the Cross of Saint Andrew, who was the patron Saint of Constantinople, this is why it's used in the Donbass. Scotland also uses the Cross of Saint Andrew, so I gather there were a lot of Scotch in the Confederacy.

    The Cross of Saint Andrew is also on the British flag along with the Red Cross of Saint George. The Red Cross on a white background was originally the Genovese flag, but they allowed the British to use it as protection from the Ottomans who feared Saint George. They still do.
     
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    More bluster from forces on their way to humiliation.
     
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    Do you know how much F35s cost? Poland is getting F16s as a replacement.
     
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    F16 are crap. They’re export market airplane for second tier airforce. They’re not an upgrade compared to those mig29.
     
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    Well, Poland is nato, if it ever needs F35s, I’m sure they will be there with American pilots. :)
     
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    I answered your question. Now answer mine which country of NATO raised its defense budget because of Dotard's demands.
    Name them.
    Before 01-06-21
     
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    The French are never clueless to what's going on. The government/corporate controlled medias, just censor them so Americans won't know. Yesterday the Azov Battalion blew up a building in Mariopol and killed 200 people. I assume it was because they wouldn't allow them to go in and use them as human shields.

    Mariupol was originally a Greek city that was given to them by Catherine the Great. The Greeks who left for Greece are opening their mouths and saying what the Ukrainians have been doing for the past 8 years, so Azov blew up the Greek consulate.

    Of course lying Blinken will blame the Russians. He now said they have evidence that the Russians are killing civilians. It figures? I guess the Russians are killing Russians again to make the Ukrainians look bad.

    Anyway the situation in Mariupol is very bad. Russia wants to open corridors so the people can leave the way they did in Syria, but Azov knows that if they don't have civilians to use as human shields, that will be the end of them.

    And then there's Zalensky. He could give a damn.
     
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    Shelling the suburban neighborhoods I wouldn't come as a surprise to some and would be to some as well. We'll have to wait and see what Ukraine does about this and what Russia plans to do next. Russia is stepping up their attacks and Ukraine will have to defend what they have and will have to do in full force. We will have to see what happens next.
     
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    Indeed. America isn't handing out planes straight off the production line. The value of these planes has basically depreciated to $0 or something close. This will be part of some military aid package that will offload some air frames America doesn't need and gets some US companies paid to outfit them with suitably modern internals.

    Whether or not you calculate this as a financial loss depends on the likelihood of them ever being sold. Even if that was the case the value of the planes would be a LOT lower than the sticker price when new.
     
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    Notice how our Putinisata are getting ever more shrill & desperate. They were licking their lips expecting a rapid Russian victory. Now that their boys are getting hit hard and Putin is increasingly targetting Ukrainian cities they are just throwing out everything they can get from their favourite propaganda sources.
     
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    Excuses, excuses.
     
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    Yet they did not respond in any positive way. Trump failed, just as he failed to win reelection and failed to steal the election after he lost.
     
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    Purveyor is my favorite. He is getting more desperate by the day as sanctions destroy his spending power and isolate him within Putin's fiefdom of lies and control.
     
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