Posted on 02/29/2024 3:32:52 PM PST by hardspunned
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of a "flagrant abuse of intelligence" after he revealed that British troops are helping the Ukrainian military launch long-range Storm Shadow missiles on Russian positions.
Tobias Ellwood, a senior Conservative lawmaker and the former head of the UK's Defense Select Committee, said Berlin endangers the lives of British troops in Ukraine, the Telegraph reported on Thursday.
"This is a flagrant abuse of intelligence deliberately designed to distract from Germany's reluctance to arm Ukraine with its own long-range missile system. This will no doubt be used by Russia to racket up the escalator ladder."
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Well…well…well…
I suspect this has to do with who blew up the pipeline.
> Berlin endangers the lives of British troops in Ukraine <
Ah, no. The person who sent them there is the one who is endangering their lives.
Way to add your country to Russia’s nuke targets list, if it wasn’t there already.
Another conspiracy theory turns to conspiracy FACT
Russia has shown incredible patience.
Imagine if it was revealed China had secret intelligence basis in Mexico, was using them to gather targeting data in the United States, and had Chinese troops launching rockets into the USA?
What would the USA’s response be??
Someone keep an eye on those pesky Bosnian Serbs and keep them away from any motorcades.
There are also US troops in the battle zone being productive.
They’d better not congregate themselves anywhere findable by the Ruskies. The Brits would have some ‘splaining to do to the home folks about why their troops were there.
The current leadership would say we need to cede the Gadsden Purchase back to Mexico to create a neutral buffer zone.
SpecOps and spooks…
It appears there is dissension among the ranks of our European client states. We’d best send Victoria “the hammer” Nuland to Europe to put the stooges in line before this backbiting gets out of hand.
Olaf Scholz said on Monday [February 26, 2024] that he would not deliver the Taurus, Berlin’s equivalent of the Storm Shadow, as it would require soldiers assisting on the ground, citing the UK and French approach with their own systems. Mr Scholz argued that following the UK would make Germany a “participant in the war”.
Germany could have easily been producing 155mm artillery shells to meet Ukraine's needs, but Germany has all along, been working to both, a) appear to be only able to the extent it claims, and b) restore trade with Russia.
The HMS Diamond is in the Red Sea sans missiles.
Victoria Nuland deserves the Qaddafi ending.
NATO went Woke and now it’s Broke.
WIKI
The Flying Tigers began to arrive in China in April 1941. The group first saw combat on 20 December 1941, 12 days after Pearl Harbor (local time). It demonstrated innovative tactical victories when the news in the U.S. was filled with little more than stories of defeat at the hands of the Japanese forces, and achieved such notable success during the lowest period of the war for both the U.S. and the Allied Forces as to give hope to America that it might eventually defeat Japan. AVG pilots earned official credit and received combat bonuses for destroying 296 enemy aircraft, while losing only 14 pilots in combat.
The American Volunteer Group was largely the creation of Claire L. Chennault, a retired U.S. Army Air Corps officer who had worked in China since August 1937, first as military aviation advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the early months of the Sino-Japanese War, then as director of a Chinese Air Force flight school centered in Kunming. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union supplied fighter and bomber squadrons to China, but these units were mostly withdrawn by the summer of 1940. Chiang then asked for American combat aircraft and pilots, sending Chennault to Washington as an adviser to China’s ambassador and Chiang’s brother-in-law, T. V. Soong.
Chennault spent the winter of 1940–1941 in Washington, supervising the purchase of 100 Curtiss P-40 fighters and the recruiting of 100 pilots and some 200 ground crew and administrative personnel that would constitute the 1st AVG.
Of the pilots, 60 came from the Navy and Marine Corps and 40 from the Army Air Corps. (One army pilot, Albert Baumler was refused a passport because he had earlier flown as a mercenary in Spain, so only 99 actually sailed for Asia. Ten more army flight instructors were hired as check pilots for Chinese cadets, and several of these would ultimately join the AVG’s combat squadrons.) The volunteers were discharged from the armed services, to be employed for “training and instruction” by a private military contractor, the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO), which paid them $600 a month for pilot officers, $675 a month for flight leaders, $750 for squadron leaders (no pilot was recruited at this level), and about $250 for skilled ground crewmen. Some pilots were also orally promised a bounty of $500 for each enemy aircraft shot down, and this was later confirmed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Chennault set up a schoolhouse that was made necessary because many pilots had “lied about their flying experience, claiming pursuit experience when they had flown only bombers and sometimes much less powerful aeroplanes.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers
“ I suspect this has to do with who blew up the pipeline.”
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Nah… different “nation of interest” in that criminal action.
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