War in Ukraine

Just the aircraft? No other HPT's still in range across the border?

 

The door has been open for some time now. Russia obviously has more skin in the game. The answer isn't to match them tit for tat, though. It's to admit this quagmire isn't as important to us as it is to Russia and work out a deal. Putin figures if Washington wants to drag it out, he sends Un a few bitcoins and keeps 'er going, knowing full well the entire time Washington won't up the ante.

Let's see here:
#1 won't allow them to fire the ATACMS
#2 no American boots
#3 the enemy doesn't trust them with the Kursk blueprints
#4 wraps emergency foreign military aid into immigration bills and whines when they don't pass
#5 leaks Israeli strike plans

Of course Putin is internationalizing it. Because he can. You might even say we are encouraging him. Can't recall if JFK ever called Khrushchev a murderous dictator, but he somehow worked out a deescalation. This admin? LOL, they are too busy lying to each other the figure out a plan for Russia.

 

Yeah, even if true that’s a beating around the bush non-answer and I’d go after him again if it were a deposition or trial.

 

But we’ve done our mentor proud!

 

How much air defense can they have left?

Ukraine destroyed another advanced Russian air defense system

On October 21st, soldiers from the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces in cooperation with the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed a Buk-M3 air defense system. The assault was captured by an overhead drone and published online.

Ukrainian troops spotted the 9A317M launcher vehicle of a Russian Buk-M3 air defense system 60 kilometers or roughly 37 miles behind the frontlines and promptly destroyed the system with a cheap bomber drone according to Miltiarnyi.

“This example once again demonstrates the effectiveness of modern technologies: a munition costing only $500 destroyed a strike component of an enemy air defense system, which is estimated to cost about $100 million in full,” the Unmanned Systems Forces explained according to Militarnyi in a Telegram alongside a video of the incident.

 

putin holds a conference to convince others to not use the dollar or the euro and tells them to bring dollars and euros to pay for everything

Putin's dollar problem is on clear display at the BRICS summit, starting with the moment guests land at the airport

De-dollarization is one of Putin's priorities because trading in local currencies would mean that a heavily sanctioned Russia wouldn't be beholden to the Western US-dollar-dominated global financial order.

But it's not easy to move away from the greenback. The organizers of the BRICS summit have advised foreign attendees to bring cash — specifically US dollars and euros — to the event in the Russian city of Kazan.

Most Russian banks will only take US dollars or euros — which Moscow has deemed "toxic currencies" — to exchange for rubles, according to a guide on the summit's website.

Going cashless isn't an option since it's not possible to use Mastercard or Visa cards issued outside Russia in the country. The two card issuers halted local operations days after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.