Posted on 05/03/2023 8:25:42 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Air defense systems are only as robust as the human skills and protocols make them.
We saw that recently with the Chinese balloons over the US.
Of course both countries have been buzzed by UFOs for decades—the US and Russian Air Force policy is to deny deny deny and hope they go away.
See “Reichstag Fire”.
I was over there in the 1970's while in the USAF, and never met a Russian that wasn't drunk by 9 AM.
Good way to start a nuclear war.
Well, play stupid games win stupid prizes.
When you start a war within driving distance, blowback is messy
Putin lives in a bunker far from the Kremlin... This phony ‘attempt’ was complete nonsense cooked up by Putin and his allies to garner sympathy for a marked man... The idea that a drone could be sent from the Ukraine to Moscow without being detected or shot down is total BS.
Putin will die and hopefully sooner rather than later, but it will be from a poison delivered by a cook or doctor. It won’t be some drone from the Ukraine.
My thoughts too.
“I was over there in the 1970’s while in the USAF, and never met a Russian that wasn’t drunk by 9 AM.”
I was over there in the 70’s myself (that was when the Soviets first opened up to Western visitors). Didn’t see a single drunk during my time there. We must have traveled in different circles. I met many Russians while there just none from the military.
“ I was over there in the 1970’s while in the USAF, and never met a Russian that wasn’t drunk by 9 AM.”
Sad.
What a waste of human potential .
Russia could be great.
But they choose not to be.
We just need to fight hard to keep our nation from a similar fate .
This Ukrainian drone is nothing more than a really poor Russian immitation of the 1933 Reichstag fire.
I saw the video of that alleged drone strike and it sure wasn’t loaded with any significant explosives. More like a few M-80’s
These dudes have nine lives. How many times did Andropov and Cherneko “die” before finally kicking over?
We were escorted around and other than an accidental excursion to GUM, we were mostly segregated from the average person on the street.
We are doing with drugs like pot, meth and crack, what they are doing with alcohol.
I don't know, three?
No assassination attempt.
Russia shot down 2 drones.
During the shoot down of one drone, 2 men were on the ladder-catwalk leading up to the flag pole:
https://twitter.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1653751335139901441
https://twitter.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1653804246070878208
That drone had just flown past the flag pole that is situated above the Kremlin dome, when the drone was hit by a defense system.
Back story:
A careless, dilettante, thoughtless Ukrainian businessman, Volodymyr Yatsenko, announced a contest back in April:
“Competition for drone manufacturers to land a drone on Red Square in Moscow during Victory Day on May 9th”
https://twitter.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1645782396946489344
One report from a frequently knowledgeable source indicated there was some sort of Russian argument over which flag should be flown for the May 9 celebration. That is why the drone was molesting the flag. The small explosion could have been from the drone, or as one person here suggested, it could have been an attempt to knock out the drone. At any rate, no damage to the building or dome.
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