Posted on 06/02/2025 7:09:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Ukraine’s extraordinary attack deep inside Russia has, at a stroke, rewritten the rules of modern war. On Sunday a swarm of small drones, each costing under $500, rose over four Russian airfields deep inside Siberia and the Arctic and destroyed over forty strategic bombers reportedly worth over $7 billion. Thanks to meticulous planning, sophisticated military imagination and an underdog’s boldness of vision, Kyiv’s forces have landed a stunning blow on their far stronger opponent, opening a new chapter in the history of human conflict.
The question that will be haunting Putin is – what’s next? Ukraine’s famously stone-faced chief of military intelligence, or HUR, Major-General Kyrylo Budanov, has built his covert operations forces into a weapon as deadly, if not more so, than Israel’s Mossad, its only international rival.
And like the Biblical champion Goliath, it is precisely the vast lumbering size of Russia that makes it fatally vulnerable to small but precisely aimed projectiles from David’s small but deadly slingshot.
Many of the details of Sunday’s drone operation come from the Ukrainian side, so may be taken with a pinch of salt. But the basic logistics of the strike are in no doubt. Ukrainian military engineers, possibly already inside Russia, covertly loaded dozens of explosives-laden drones into special compartments set into the roofs of standard 40-foot steel shipping containers. Using a network of haulage companies set up for the purpose, Ukrainian operatives recruited truck drivers via commercial apps to drive their loads to specific designations next to military airfields thousands of miles away from the Ukrainian border.
At a predetermined time the drones buzzed into the air and headed for the airfields with their deadly payloads –
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British press is like that.
When it comes to the Russians, I always remember the story about the British turning over the Cossacks to the Soviet commissars at the end of WWWII.
The most ridiculous propaganda about this war invariably comes from the British media.
Oh, good...that’s what ya want. A nutty tyrant, perhaps with a year to live, and nukes out the ying-yang to be terrified.
The spin is that Russia just had a “Pearl Harbor” of course the USA “escalated” after that and won a war.
The Neocons like escalation from the side they slap around like in this case the Russians.
Any Russian escalation will be demonized in the usual places in British newspapers by Lindsey Graham etc. etc.
The UK is becoming a failed state, and it wants to drag the USA down with it.
The question that will be haunting Putin is – what’s next?
Trump was right to demand Zelensky to play his "cards".
While the Ukraine attack is noteworthy, “gaining the upper hand” is a bit of stretch.
Personally I have wondered why Russia continues to fight with gloved hands. If Russia desired, kiev would literally be rubble in short order.
Russia may finally take the gloves off, rather than slow slogging for slow ground gains, begin to simply go scorched earth.
It was a daring attack to be sure, and effective, but upper hand? I doubt that.
It will be interesting to see how Russia responds.
That's the problem. Short of using a nuke Russia can retaliate any way they want and the world can say nothing about it.
Is that a good thing?
Trump told Putin that he (Trump) was preventing terrible things from happening to Russia.
Putin ignores it.
Terrible things happen to Russia Bombers. Coincidence?
Not true. Other than missiles and drones, the Russians are using '60s tech with their military. They're using Soviet era equipment.
It will be interesting to see how Russia responds.
Other than a nuclear attack, Russia “holding back” seems highly unlikely.
Russia has lost most of its late model tanks, about a third or more of its Black Sea fleet, probably a quarter million to a million casualties... and is holding back?
More likely it is doing all it can to win, short of the nuclear option.
I’m sure the Chinese have a similar plan for the US.
Trump was wrong, saying that Zelensky didn't have any cards. In response, he then played this wild joker.
The attack as I said in another post was daring and effective, but “gaining the upper hand” is an insane stretch.
Russia literally has the capacity to turn Ukraine into a parking lot if it chose to do so, and has for whatever reasons decided to continue a slow slog for territory.
I wonder how much longer Russia will continue to keep its gloves on. If Russia ever decides to take its gloves off, it will be a very very bad day for Ukraine.
Their response will be ineteresting, but no matter what it is, you can guarantee the wester press will react as though it is beyond the pale and unjustified. The Globalist want escalation, and they want WWIII... This has been a proxy war from day one.
If Russia finally does take their gloves off, I would ask anyone, what do you think the US Response would be if someone attacked Whiteman Air Force Base and literally wiped out most if not all of our B2 Bombers. If you think Russia’s response is on par with what the US would do or not in that instance.
If I was in Ukraine, anywhere in Ukraine, military or civilian, I would be far more worried than Putin is about “what’s next”.
MR, once again I ask you. How does a successful attack on Ruzzian planes
help YouCrane Retake Territory that is under Ruzzian Control?
YouCraynee needs lots of warm male bodies to retake territory back.
Apparently, YouCrayne does not have enough warm male bodies
or they would have already taken their territory back.
So, tell us how YouCrayne will get their Territory back.
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