US stepping up defensive build up in NATO nations, as well as a provocative act in the Arctic: 400 Marine pilots and support personnel deployed to Germany along with 10 F/A-18s following ending their participation in Operation Cold Response. An additional 260 Navy pilots and support personnel were deployed to Germany along with 6 EA-18 Growlers - electronic warfare aircraft. Russian fighters were scrambled when at least 1 B-52 strategic bomber taking part in NATO's Cold Response Exercises turned off its transponder for a period of time, and then was monitored flying loops along the Russian border near the northern most coastline of Norway. The event triggered Russian subs to depart for open waters as well as Russian fighter jets to scramble and come within mere miles of the orbiting B-52 before the bomber finally turned and headed back towards the west. 400 Marines deploy in Eastern Europe as part of US response to Ukraine war
Ukraine, Finland, and Switzerland should agree to a neutrality alignment with each other, no NATO, plenty of firepower. And with that agreement I would win the nobel peace prize and stabilize eastern Europe
Small, portable kamikaze drones and good satellite intel. The drones are literally killing it. Feel bad for the young Russian conscripts just trying to get out alive.
Do you think there may have been a few highly trained men who didn't like how it went down in Syria. Surprised there isnt a kurdish battallion there looking for revenge
Testing their response. It seems deadly slow. Maybe not the best time to play this game unless it is a somewhat frequent game they play. Interesting that their subs were in port. Perhaps the navy readiness mirrors the army. It appears that a culture of corruption has consumed their military
IMO, this is why we’re reluctant to give jets to Ukraine. They can start attacking in Russia. Can’t blame them when they have cities are getting flattened.
The use of the high security bunkers, if confirmed, is alarming and suggests Putin may be preparing to deploy nuclear weapons, and move that would lead to inevitable reprisal. We may already be close to that point. Scary that we may have to rely on his yes men to do the right thing.
as someone mentioned above, I think it’s more about being safe from a coup. If we know where he is, then could still nuke him, and his absolute best case is living in a bunker for 20 years. Even if he somehow survived the blast the area would be irradiated, and even if he found a way out with a hazmat suit or something we would blow him to dust. But a few trusted people in a remote place, he would see them coming from anywhere really and can keep his power base. If it has the added effect of scaring the west, then so much the better from his POV I would imagine. Not to mention his own people being worried that he would do something crazy from there if they came after him. And it keeps him safe from a random cruise missile. Which he is probably now afraid of after Biden’s comments.
That's basically what I postulated during the first days of war. Russia does not have the manpower to take Kyiv, I surmised then that the attack there was a ruse of some sort. The 200,000 estimate is way outdated, although counting 600,000 is probably including all militia and paramilitary manpower. I don't think Russia is trying to convey that they're withdrawing. They're clearly going to redeploy. I've put in my thoughts a few posts back. They'll conduct a large pincher attack from the north and the south either in a few weeks along the Dnieper, or in a few months east of it when the ground is no longer muddy and they can maneuver off major roads. No, this is not why. It's an escalation that is technically very difficult and with very few rewards. A few cold war era jets will not be able to drop a single bomb on Russia without taking unacceptable losses to Russian air defence systems, that's assuming they can get off the runway in the first place.
