RogerdeLluria
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- Jul 5, 2015
According to Ukrainian sources a MiG-29 shot down a Russian Su-35 in the Kherson region. It's surprising that Russia has not managed to suppress the UAF after 3 months of war.
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Interesting opinion article.
That Su-35 is a textbook example of maintaining situational awareness.According to Ukrainian sources a MiG-29 shot down a Russian Su-35 in the Kherson region. It's surprising that Russia has not managed to suppress the UAF after 3 months of war.
That Su-35 is a textbook example of maintaining situational awareness.
"Hunting for ground attack aircraft" meant it was not at optimum altitude and I have not seen any statement so far, that would indicate they were operating with a wingman - total recipe for disaster.
This has got nothing to do with Communism!!But Puton is a true believer in a sort of Manifest Destiny of Russian led world communism. So why stop?
As a former KGB officer in the Soviet Union, how else would Putin base his motives on?This has got nothing to do with Communism!!
You are probably right. The revanchist/irredentist would only push to reclaim previously controlled territory. The Baltic states, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Alaska. Espousing a Greater Slavic Co-prosperity Sphere, you could throw in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria. Rumenia, Hungary and Germany just to round out the old Soviet Empire. But Puton is a true believer in a sort of Manifest Destiny of Russian led world communism. So why stop?
As a former KGB officer in the Soviet Union, how else would Putin base his motives on?
Especially considering he claims that the fall of the Soviet Union is the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century".
IndeedActually Putin is more of a Czarist wanting the return of Imperial Russia rather than Soviet Communism. Nor does he want the Russian Empire to expand to the Atlantic ocean.
This has got nothing to do with Communism!!
It need not have anything to do with communism. Invading neighboring countries is a very old tradition, one that has been participated in by dictators, democracies, and everything else. It's sometimes cloaked in mottoes like Liebensraum or Manifest Destiny or spreading civilization.You are probably right. The revanchist/irredentist would only push to reclaim previously controlled territory. The Baltic states, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Alaska. Espousing a Greater Slavic Co-prosperity Sphere, you could throw in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria. Rumenia, Hungary and Germany just to round out the old Soviet Empire. But Puton is a true believer in a sort of Manifest Destiny of Russian led world communism. So why stop?
Just the Daily Fail. Might as well be an article in the National Enquirer.An interesting post.
This whole issue simply reminds me towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. War and unrest for decades simply due to "it's mine, no it's ours".It does if the guy refusing to talk is being bankrolled and armed by a fickle world, members of which may seize at the first opportunity to dial back aid. The West, with its short attention span won't keep on arming and financing Ukraine indefinitely. That's especially true if it increasingly appears that the West is backing a losing horse, the Donbas is fully taken and then annexed into Russia, making it a fait accompli, with the West treating it like Crimea in 2014.
This whole issue simply reminds me towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. War and unrest for decades simply due to "it's mine, no it's ours".
And just as what USA is for Israel, China is/will be for Russia.
As long as whatever government in Moscow is regarded as neutral or even friendly - China will be their premium sponsor.
I am not just referring to military aid - but the money needed to rebuild Ukraine so as to keep peace and "happiness" amongst it's population - otherwise there is going to be a change in government very soon. (one of the main reasons why Putin is focusing on "as time goes by") As such we are talking about $trillions not millions or billions.
Just to keep former East-Germany's, 17 million population happy and content has cost the German government $ 2 trillion Euro till today (in 30 years, including a trillion within the first 5 years) - and their infrastructure wasn't destroyed and neither half the population displaced.
E.g. The USA spends in total around 40-50 billion a year on foreign aid.!!! (out of which 10-15 billion are military aid). we are realistically talking about more then 2 trillion for Ukraine in the next 10 years.
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In 2009, China's total financial commitment to development aid reached a whopping $69.9 billion, two times that of the U.S. foreign aid in the same year.
China spent $354.3 billion over the 15-year period from 2000 to 2014 — a figure approaching the $394.6 billion spent by the U.S. over that same time frame. In fact, China now outspends the U.S. on an annual basis.
They tried, launching missile barrages to "blind" air defense radars and SAM sites, failing to achieve a "critical mass" of hits due to Ukrainian mobility and poor Russian intelligence. Their wild weasel tactics and kit were not up to snuff, making prosecuting emitters with air launched anti radiation missiles problematical. Their fire and forget type ARMS just couldn't seem to reliably find their targets.I still believe that a major Russian mistake was not seizing air supremacy at the onset of their invasion.