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My worry is that this latest $60b in US aid is the last large transfer from Washington. It's almost certainly the final one for 2024.These folk need every bit of kit they can get.
A modern version of the Imperial Japanese Fu-Go of WWII.Ukraine Strikes Russia With Long-Range Bomber Balloons
Ukraine is attacking Russia with a new type of long-range drone: a balloon dropping mortar bombs from high altitude guided by GPS.www.forbes.com
I love the NATO reporting names.What is Old Soviet-Made Ukrainian S-200 Air Defense System Used to Destroy Modern Russian Aircraft? | Defense News April 2024 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2024 | Archive News year
What is Old Soviet-Made Ukrainian S-200 Air Defense System Used to Destroy Modern Russian Aircraft?www.armyrecognition.com
That sums it up nicely.
Here you are.Dimlee,
Are you able to post the entire article?
Thanks,
Biff
Regarding the strategic ends, I'd argue that the Kremlin changed its aim from fracturing to eliminating Ukraine. They discuss it openly now, in their talk shows, social networks, etc.That sums it up nicely.
Russia's strategic ends can be summarized as:
Russia's strategy of exhaustion can be broken into five lines of effort:
- fracture the Ukrainian state—politically, territorially and culturally;
- maintain sufficient territorial acquisitions to support a range of acceptable political-military outcomes;
- maintain strategic materiel overmatch;
- exhaust Ukraine's ability to continue fighting—both materially and as regards Ukrainian support from the international community;
- normalize the conflict's abnormalities; and
- undercut and erode Ukraine's ability to conduct offensive operations to reclaim annexed territory.
- incrementally increase territorial gains to support negotiations later down the line;
- fortify territorial gains to prevent Ukrainian efforts to retake that land;
- destroy Ukraine's offensive capability to prevent future attempts to retake annexed territory;
- temporally elongate the conflict to outlast U.S. and Western military support; and
- temporally and spatially elongate the conflict to exceed Ukraine's manpower reserves.
It does sort of feel like 1936-38 leading up to WW2. Italy invading Ethiopia and demonstrating the weakness of the League of Nations and international order; the Spanish Civil War with Nazi Germany testing out its new kit; Japan invading China including the Nanjing Massacre; Germany annexing Austria; the USSR and Japan clashing at Soviet–Manchukuo border; Arabs revolting in Palestine; plus political unrest in France and an isolationist USA enacting its third Neutrality Act in 1937. The British must have felt thoroughly alone during this period.For those not paying attention, WW3 has already begun. Russia, China and Iran are committed to breaking the Western global hegemony, which has governed the world order for the last few centuries.
It does sort of feel like 1936-38 leading up to WW2. Italy invading Ethiopia and demonstrating the weakness of the League of Nations and international order; the Spanish Civil War with Nazi Germany testing out its new kit; Japan invading China including the Nanjing Massacre; Germany annexing Austria; the USSR and Japan clashing at Soviet–Manchukuo border; Arabs revolting in Palestine; plus political unrest in France and an isolationist USA enacting its third Neutrality Act in 1937. The British must have felt thoroughly alone during this period.
The missile looks very like the old UK Bloodhound missileWhat is Old Soviet-Made Ukrainian S-200 Air Defense System Used to Destroy Modern Russian Aircraft? | Defense News April 2024 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2024 | Archive News year
What is Old Soviet-Made Ukrainian S-200 Air Defense System Used to Destroy Modern Russian Aircraft?www.armyrecognition.com
Probably copied, wouldnt be the first time.The missile looks very like the old UK Bloodhound missile
And massive rearmament. History sees Chamberlain (1937-40) and to a lesser extent his predecessor Baldwin (1935-37) as weak, appeasing PMs, but during those four years before the outbreak of the Second World War, Britain's government funded massive increases in capabilities in the RAF, RN and to a lesser extent the Army. Just look at the number of battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, escorts and submarines, plus advanced combat aircraft like the Spitfire and Manchester begun under Britain's 1936-40 rearmament. Chamberlain was no fool.Naw, the British were into appeasement.
They started training with NATO for starters.One should ask what was Ukraine doing from independence in 1991 to 2014 to prepare for the historically-predictable Russian aggression?
And massive rearmament. History sees Chamberlain (1937-40) and to a lesser extent his predecessor Baldwin (1935-37) as weak, appeasing PMs, but during those four years before the outbreak of the Second World War, Britain's government funded massive increases in capabilities in the RAF, RN and to a lesser extent the Army. Just look at the number of battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, escorts and submarines, plus advanced combat aircraft like the Spitfire and Manchester begun under Britain's 1936-40 rearmament. Chamberlain was no fool.
One should ask what was Ukraine doing from independence in 1991 to 2014 to prepare for the historically-predictable Russian aggression?