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Ukrainian drone hits bomber base inside Russia
Reuters ^ | December 26, 2022 | Pavel Polityuk

Posted on 12/26/2022 10:41:41 AM PST by Timber Rattler

A drone believed to be Ukrainian penetrated hundreds of kilometers through Russian airspace, causing a deadly explosion at the main base for Moscow's strategic bombers in the latest attack to expose gaps in its air defences.

Moscow said it had shot the drone down causing it to crash at the Engels air base, where three service members were killed. Under its usual policy on incidents inside Russia, Ukraine did not comment.

The base, the main airfield for the bombers that Kyiv says Moscow has used in recent months to attack Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, is hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian frontier. The same planes are also designed to launch nuclear-capable missiles as part of Russia's long-term strategic deterrent.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: democult; drone; europe; joewantsaworldwar; nato; notourwar; ukraine; war
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To: dfwgator

The West supported Russia in WW2 and Russia defeated an aggressor.

Eighty years later the West is supporting the defender. And the defender will prevail.


81 posted on 12/26/2022 3:26:59 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Cathi; Travis McGee

Russia has attacked NATO? That’s news not just to NATO but also to Russia!

Did you get this from Scott Ritter the twice convicted CHILD MOLESTER? You really need a new source of info whose past isn’t so compromised.


82 posted on 12/26/2022 3:42:08 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Travis McGee

Pardon my ping. That was an error on my part.


83 posted on 12/26/2022 3:43:14 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Bobalu

“Crimea and other territories were Russian for centuries until some stupid commie signed some papers and said they were now in Ukraine.. isn’t Russia giving back Crimea like giving back Texas?”

That’s a horribly bad analogy from both ends. Mexico recognized Texas as an independent country, then as a part of U.S. - and that was over 150 years ago.

Crimea’s history on this issue is much more recent, but Russia recognized it as part of Ukraine AFTER communism ended.

Crimea’s population identifies as Russian for the most part. Texas’ population identifies as American for the most part.

It’s just a bad analogy all around.


84 posted on 12/26/2022 4:28:48 PM PST by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

You still here?


85 posted on 12/26/2022 4:30:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: vladimir998

Actually I think Russia would be loath to accept all of Ukraine back into the fold...it would be as though the US broke up and then reformed into multiple parts... who in their right mind would allow CA, IL, NY..etc back in their successful little kingdom.

Except for their base in Crimea they seemed to want nothing to do with
taking control over Ukraine, in fact they appeared to be perfectly fine with just leasing the base until that became nonviable.

I’d guess the Russians living in the east would have been fine remaining with Ukraine if not for their reported horrific mistreatment. I bet Russia would have been relieved if such an outcome was possible...it was not.

Of course you have misfits on both sides but that’s the minority, most just wish their affairs had not been meddled in by greedy outsiders.


86 posted on 12/26/2022 4:50:17 PM PST by Bobalu (Elon should buy the Washington Post—and turn it into a newspaper.)
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To: Bobalu

“I’d guess the Russians living in the east would have been fine remaining with Ukraine if not for their reported horrific mistreatment.”

There was no “reported horrific treatment” in either Luhansk or Donetsk. Seriously, any claim to such is from AFTER the time the rebellion started.


87 posted on 12/26/2022 5:09:31 PM PST by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Truth29

Would you be surprised if a US Carrier group was hit in retalitation as well. These are some of warning Russia has given the US over their rouge proxy being the Ukrainians. There have been a number dumb chit US Officals stating for the record the US is at war with Russia.


88 posted on 12/26/2022 6:22:46 PM PST by Jumper ( )
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To: Timber Rattler

no matter what happens we can always blame Putin, because that is what we are told to do, even when it is obvious we are guilty. That is what Patriotism is all about ya know.


89 posted on 12/26/2022 7:23:08 PM PST by norsky ( <P><img src=" "width=400"></img> <P> <a href= > </a>)
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To: Bobalu

Leftists hate the bear because he abandoned communism.


Did you even read the article? Nothing says “abandoning communism” like naming one of your most important air bases after a father of communism.


90 posted on 12/26/2022 7:51:38 PM PST by lodi90
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To: crz

It is a small group of chest thumpers on here to run off the rest of the people who use this place as a source for news links, that is if one can find a reliable source of news anymore.

You are right. War is coming to this country. And when it hits, they are going to have a real problem to address in their little comfy quarters. Society will break down and they will find themselves on the front lines in their own little comfy homes.


On the contrary. It’s a large group of voters who are disgusted by Kremlin bootlickers and their end of the world day dreams. Maybe you saw the midterm results?

MAGA is in serious danger of becoming a fringe political movement that never wins anything because, unsurprisingly, most folks don’t want to be associated with whack job political gadflies. So my suggestion to present company would a little less “chest thumping” and a little more introspection. Are we tired of losing yet?


91 posted on 12/26/2022 8:01:33 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Tough talk for a punk behind his computer toaddie90.


92 posted on 12/26/2022 8:46:23 PM PST by crz
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To: lodi90

It’s a bit like how we named some of our bases after Confederate war figures... it’s a mostly meaningless gesture to history.

It’s hard to admit that powerful political figures from your past were actually quite evil... I’m sure Russia has a ways to go to fully admit the absurd nature of their existence under communism... they suffered much and their eventual awakening and struggle against communism and the far-left should stand as an example to us of what to avoid.


93 posted on 12/26/2022 8:56:48 PM PST by Bobalu (Elon should buy the Washington Post—and turn it into a newspaper.)
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To: Bobalu
If you want Armageddon then keep poking the bear, you will get it. Neocons just hate the bear out of spite. Leftists hate the bear because he abandoned communism.
Neocons aren't communists or leftists. They opposed the USSR. Russia is still run by the KGB.
You have lost your principles and sanity
94 posted on 12/26/2022 9:02:36 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Thanks tovarich. A country with a Jewish president is secretly Nazi. The president's native language is Russian, but they are secretly seeking to exterminate Russians.
\ I look forward to your rendition of the International
95 posted on 12/26/2022 9:05:13 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: McGruff

YOu think Ukraine doesn’t know where a major Soviet air base was? Stop taking KGB krokodil


96 posted on 12/26/2022 9:06:22 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: 353FMG

If someone hits your nuclear base twice with conventional cruise missiles, you hand to expect that one day it will be carrying a nuclear warhead. The day is coming that a miscalculation results in a launch. We have pretty much scrapped the conventionally armed ICBM perfect for that very reason. It’s exceedingly destabilizing to shoot a standard ICBM at someone in hopes they will wait for impact to decide it was a 2000 pound warhead and not a nuke.
The idiot Ukes and the CIA are playing at game right now.

Utterly insane


97 posted on 12/26/2022 9:45:29 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Levy78

“Another element I would add is Russia military doctrine and its national psyche is able to withstand massive casualties. They associate war with massive loss of soldiers and the ‘wave’ dynamic,“

Even worse, since they got the A and H bomb, and ICBM it has been an article of near religious faith over there that there will never again be an enemy that visits attacks on Russian homelands without getting their own homes devastated.
They have felt safe that no more Napoleon, no Kaiser, no Hitler, will ever be able to visit that devastation on them again without 30 minutes later getting vaporized.

Times are far more dangerous that we would probably believe. And nobody on the NATO/DC/EU side shows the slightest concern about how this might escalate.


98 posted on 12/26/2022 10:01:22 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: rmlew

“ Neocons aren’t communists or leftists.”

Aerially that is exactly what they are. It was the Trotsky wing of communism here in America. At home for a long time in the democrat party, then it jumped Republican… and now has plenty of followers in both.


99 posted on 12/26/2022 10:08:59 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino

Great point, sir. Really good.


100 posted on 12/26/2022 11:08:35 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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