War in Ukraine

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It's just a farce to say this is about colonialism. This small piece of a broader conflict is what wars and battles have been fought over since the earliest dawn of humanoids. This is a fight over the control of resources deemed critical for survival. Nothing more or less.
 
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Russian TV Host Says 'Demonstration' Nuclear Blast Needed to Warn Europe​

What part of Mutually Assured Destruction do these morons not understand?

TLDR: If Russia strikes first with strategic nuclear warheads, Moscow, St. Petersburg and all major Russian cities will be turned to glass by our retaliator warheads.

Perhaps what this type of rhetoric really means is our ATACMS and other weapons Ukraine is pounding Russian occupied targets with is hurting them bigly, so all they can really do is pull a @volgr and whine like little bitches.
 
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TVOLS said:
My understanding was French Troops would be sent for training purposes only, not for combat. Am I missing something?
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Does that make a difference? And do you really believe that? The US had trainers in Vietnam in the late 1950s. Do you think they were just training and not fighting?

Don't be naive
 
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volinbham said:
and an escalation for us
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Sounds to me like we (NATO) are signalling to Russia in a number of ways that west is prepared to answer their proliferation in this conflict. Chess being played, wish we had strong leadership to communicate to our people and world the West's stance here.
 
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A potential solution to the Russian glide bomb?

Sweden is donating 2 AWACs to Ukraine. These can detect Russian fighters/bombers from a safe distance as they approach Ukraine's border before releasing their glide bombs. Forthcoming F16s as well as Patriots and NASAMS are able to achieve missile lock from the AWACs - putting Russian planes on the receiving end of our AMRAAM missiles as well as Patriots NASAMS missiles.

"What is critically important then, is that the ASC 890 has an integrated datalink that allows it to transfer missile locks to F-16 fighters. ASC 890 has Link 16 datalink capabilities, meaning its radar functionality can be fully integrated with a linked F-16, much like a NATO E-3 Sentry.

While a low-flying F-16’s radar “vision” is limited to the limited radar horizon, when datalinked with the high-flying Saab 340’s ASC 890, the F-16’s “eyes” are now effectively that of the aircraft flying at 60,000 feet that can see 100+ km behind Russian lines.

The Ukrainian Saab 360 can radar lock a low-flying incoming Russian fighter bomber, and send the targeting information via datalink to a low-flying F-16, which can then fire an AMRAAM at the fighter bomber at max range.

40km for an AMRAAM AIM120-B, a whopping 105km for an AMRAAM AIM120-C, a mindblowing 160km for the most modern AIM120-D. Ukraine will likely get mostly AIM120-Bs, which are available in massive stockpiles, and probably some AIM120-Cs (which have been in production since the 90s). It may receive a small number of AIM120-Ds, but probably not many, as Western stockpiles are low and hoarded.
 
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KB5252 said:
Sounds to me like we (NATO) are signalling to Russia in a number of ways that west is prepared to answer their proliferation in this conflict. Chess being played, wish we had strong leadership to communicate to our people and world the West's stance here.
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Oh the Europeans might be the short bus riders but most of the rest of the world has figured out what the West is doing i.e. stance. As I mentioned a few weeks back, not sure what the Russians believe can be achieved by diplomacy but my guess not much. The mindset should be shifting to just continue to flatten and move West as this will just be a problem that keeps popping up.

Escalation at this point other than pouring 10s of thousands (per month) of meat FAB catchers into there to possibly impact the timetable potentially escalates it into WW3. There really isn't chess going on, its actually the opposite for about a year or more... not much is going on. Of course, escalation can occur in quite a few ways but anything that is going to impact (other than timetable) the battlefield significantly most likely just brings WW3 into view.

In the meantime, those females might want to think about getting across the border while they still can because most likely they're next.
 
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LSU-SIU said:
Oh the Europeans might be the short bus riders but most of the rest of the world has figured out what the West is doing i.e. stance. As I mentioned a few weeks back, not sure what the Russians believe can be achieved by diplomacy but my guess not much. The mindset should be shifting to just continue to flatten and move West as this will just be a problem that keeps popping up.

Escalation at this point other than pouring 10s of thousands of meat FAB catchers into there to possibly impact the timetable potentially escalates it into WW3. There really isn't chess going on, its actually the opposite for about a year or more... not much is going on. Of course, escalation can occur in quite a few ways but anything that is going to impact (other than timetable) the battlefield significantly most likely just brings WW3 into view.

In the meantime, those females might want to think about getting across the border while they still can because most likely they're next.
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established air power would absolutely make a difference without a large number of bodies involved.

the trick would be if it can actually be established with the new drone front.
 
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Velo Vol said:
What's preventing this now?
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The United States. Meaning, they have already set them up to fail, if they don't do what they are told all support will be gone.

There is no win for the Ukraine, never was. Same thing I said 18 months ago. There isn't anything complex about this.
 
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