"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (13 Viewers)

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Russia will draw this out as long as possible before rejecting it on some spurious grounds.
 
Our nukes were conceived and paid by French taxpayers, not by the EU. These are strategic weapons and the quintessential symbol of a national independance.

And considering the EU bureaucratic behavior, I would fear the most with an involvement of the EU in military affairs, that by law are not even of its competence but that it tends to appropriate.

Paradoxically for a Frenchman, I share the common British opinion on the EU : a good idea ruined by its application.

As for French commitment with NATO : Afghanistan, 90 deaths, 700 wounded, for finally nothing.
 
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That's the problem when you build a nation on grift/graft...it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle.
 
Right of Angary : an international right disposition that enables a belligerant nation to requisition transports of neutral countries (originally maritime and later extended to other transports) and use them for its own purpose provided a relevant compensation.
Now, as the Russians do not pay anything...
 

I thought I posted this yesterday before going to town and only just found it waiting to go

You are correct that the west is leaderless but that is because the administration of the country which has been leader for the last 80 years, and who repeatedly and emphatically stated they were the leader of the free world, has abandoned the west to get in bed with the Kremlin.

Ukraine is one obvious choice as the free world leader because it has demonstrated that it CAN fight back and innovate and is now the world leader in many military technologies.

Sweden is another country that comes to mind.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciG36x4YLFE
gives a short recent history of that country.

Poland is another that is not waffling and showing it is less and less likely to obey the people who have abandoned the west.
 
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The French operate 4 E-3A Sentries, the Swedes also operate AWACS, perhaps they could help?

Regarding this --

A French Air Force reconnaissance aircraft, escorted by two Dassault Rafale B fighter jets, conducted a surveillance mission over the Black Sea, approaching within 150 kilometers of the Crimean Peninsula.

The flight was tracked by Flightradar and other aviation monitoring platforms, indicating France's continued aerial presence in the region amid heightened tensions.

According to flight tracking data, the Boeing E-3F AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft carried out its mission over international waters while the two Rafale jets provided escort.


 
Any idea of the origin airbase?
 
Looks as if a number of the Russian nuclear forces are now being drafted in a foot soldiers. This must be very worrying for Russia as they would be the last people you would draft in. Even more concerning is that a number of them seem to have come from engineering and technical support units. I would have expected those people to have been sent to the repair and engineering bases.

 
Any idea of the origin airbase?

I was wondering that myself. After a little digging I found this:

During the Wednesday Rafale mission, flight tracking platforms showed an unidentified military aircraft loitering in airspace over southeast Romania, flying at speeds and altitudes typical for a long-range reconnaissance aircraft. The Ukrainian military information platform Krymsky Veter, citing local air traffic sources, said that plane was a French Air Force AWACS airborne radar platform.

The flight track shown in the article implies Romania or Hungary, but there's no explicit mention of the launching base.

 


 

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