Rumour has it another A-50 joined the Eternal Flight:
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-...military-says/
edit: at this point there is coverage and it's no longer a rumour.
Rumour has it another A-50 joined the Eternal Flight:
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-...military-says/
edit: at this point there is coverage and it's no longer a rumour.
Last edited by Iphie; 2024-02-23 at 09:41 PM.
Even russian sources are admitting to it. The attack was caught on film, with it desperately dropping flares but still being hit and going down in flames.
russia is only meant to have 6 or 7 of these things in operation, and that's 2 of them down now. And they can't replace them. And, unlike the meat waves, they need trained specialists onboard and they are all gone now as well.
Oh, and there is a report of yet another su-34 lost as well, but that one is still a rumour.
8 or 9 in the last week. Hard to keep track.
Ukraine is saying they used an upgraded s200 missile that had increased range to bring it down. russia has decided to go with 'we shot down another of our very rare very expensive awacs through friendly fire, again' excuse.
Given how they have been pushing the message Ukraine is weak they kind of can't admit to losing planes to them. Or ships. Or anything.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
CIA saboteurs taking the plane down is better story for them than Ukrainians doing it tbh. USA would be the safe thing to blame as they know the US won't do shit about Russia just talking shit. Domestically it also looks better to blame someone as strong as the US.
There was a lot of talk back in the day about how Putin might actually want for the West to collectively push his shit it, so he could withdraw from the clusterfuck of the Ukraine invasion by claiming that Russia is actually fighting the entire West. It would have looked way better for them than getting their dick kicked off by Ukraine.
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
Since nothing Russia says is true and the people know this aswell, I fail to see why he couldn't withdrawn now and claim its because the entirety of NATO attacked them. I mean they have already been claiming they are fighting the entirety of NATO in Ukraine. They wouldn't even be changing the narrative.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
well his attempt to stop aid via the US Republican party seems to be working, it makes sense for him to hold out until the US election and see how that shapes the coming 2 years. If Republicans hold power in either chamber then they can further delay aid, if Trump wins the aid just stops entirely, and the Democrats get control of all 3 steps the pressure is going to ramp back up.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
BTW was that this one they said was downed or another one?
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato...ion-media.html
Edit:
I guess so, unless they meant this one...
But they can always make new ones, right?
Oh...
Last edited by Iphie; 2024-02-24 at 05:35 PM.
Interesting opinion
Ukraine Can’t Win the War
https://time.com/6695261/ukraine-forever-war-danger/
For the lost Ukrainian territories are lost, and NATO membership is pointless if the alliance is not prepared to send its own troops to fight for Ukraine against Russia. Above all, however painful a peace agreement would be today, it will be infinitely more so if the war continues and Ukraine is defeated.
That is ultimately the issue, there are more Russian men than there are Ukrainian and if it comes down to pure attrition, which it is. I don't think they need to completely wipe Russia out but they do need to make it absolutely impractical to continue, that is probably their best option, rather than winning by killing everyone you win by simply making it pointless to keep fighting, or nearly impossible to do effectively. Russia probably won't get that far either seeing as they wouldn't get a supply line to Kyiv, I saw a video the other day where some guy is talking about the supply line being individual dudes carrying 30kg over 15km. That's not going to get them very far, the deeper they actually get into Ukraine, the more they are going to be relying on non-existent supply lines.