Another possibility, according to things I read, is that Russian airlines will cannibalise aircraft to keep others flying. The number of planes they need to operate is much smaller now, because international flights are limited to countries where (a) Russian planes are not banned and (b) aircraft leasing companies won’t be able to reclaim their property.
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Fucking hell. Expect using false flag but otherwise real genocide to keep up the both sides narrative in the media to be a tactic that all western forces will have to expect in the future.
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It sounds like a failed “October Surprise” aimed at France’s election this weekend.
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If so it’s a misguided tactic to frame it as an outrage. Le Pen and her supporters love few things more than French soldiers killing Africans en masse.
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A brutally senseless excuse to kill people.
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This part is simply incredible. The Russians fire an artillery/tank/rocket/mortar round, and the radar tracks the round and calculates its path back to origin, sends coordinates to a fire control unit, and starts counter firing, and can do it before the original rounds hit.
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Odesa under attack
Meanwhile, two more Russian generals are claimed killed by Ukraine, with a third seriously wounded.
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Yeah, i talked to a guy who was in Desert Storm as an artillery guy. Thats exactly what he told me. They could lock into a position, fire, and move before the enemy hit their position. And if they tried to adjust they would do the same thing.
Like everything think infantry is the main cause of casualties. Or maybe now air power. The truth is in modern war Artillery is the deadliest weapon. That is what is used to level cities.
Amidst a war of destruction, Ukrainians create: A new word, “Pашизм” sounds like “fascism,” but with an “r” sound instead of an “f” at the beginning. “Ruscism” means, roughly, “Russian fascism.”
That is a cool new word. I like it.
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BTW… we’ve been failing never again for a very long time now. We’ve had lots of genocides and acts of genocide since the nazis.
Whether in Bosnia, Rwanda, Xinjiang, Bucha, Kharkiv or Mariupol, “Never Again” seems to happen again and again.
ETA: new link, related to the general topic with regards to US law/courts…
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I’m always a bit confused if people incredulously ask “Why isn’t Germany supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons?”.
I’m also surprised that the historical and political background of the current government’s decision to be cautious about the subject is not even alluded to here:
The whole situation is a new world order. And given German usual Beharrungsvermögen, we are in the fastest shift of German politics since 1989, if not 1949.
I am not going to argue that Germany should supply Ukraine with heavy weapons. But I also will not oppose it when it happens, I think. Things in this bloody timeline would have to shift again for that, I don’t believe they will, soon.
That said, please, PLEASE someone make that happen. Let’s just make a serious “never again” commitment and disarm the world.
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More on this from AlJazeera…
Cue complaints about the US… bUt WhaT aBoUt aM3icAn imP3riAlisM? /s
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I think I need a card printed. “American imperialism doesn’t make any other imperialism tolerable. Thank you for your time considering this, this is the end of the discussion. Fuck off.”
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