Posted on 12/05/2022 8:23:28 AM PST by MeganC
100,359 views Dec 5, 2022 Ukraine attacks Russia's Engels Air Base with a possible drone over 600 kilometers from Ukraine home to Tu-95, Tu-160 and Tu-22M
Video from today:
Shooting down a Russian cruise missile by a Gepard anti-aircraft-gun tank
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1599811122466414602
Now the Ruskies have a couple fewer long range bombers. Sounds good to me.
We know Russians can shoot down civilian airlines. I guess they have to work at shooting down clones of theIranian drones.
In your imaginary scenario, can you remind me why we invaded Texas instead of independent Texas petitioning to join the United States?
If memory serves Ukraine missiles didn’t fly into Russia until Russia started a war in which they’ve been going backwards for roughly 9 months.
Recently, the bear spits. A couple weeks ago they ran. A couple months ago, they had to swim. The Russian bear can do a lot of things.
Ukraine is defending itself by destroying Russian assets being used to attack Ukraine.
Russia is no lily-white innocent victim here. They had it coming and it was long overdue.
Not to be argumentative, but haven’t they been getting poked for nearly a year?
‘....the hull plating of two aircraft was slightly damaged.’
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Great propaganda work of making something out of nothing.............................................
Whatever did that damage, a few on the Kremlin would get their attention as well. The Russians have had no hesitancy on bombing Kiev, return the favor.
When Ukraine launched the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, I said this opened the doors to continual attacks on the infrastructure of Ukraine, which has been devastating.
Now they have struck 600 km inside Russia and all bets are off.
Ukraine better brace themselves.
I hope the Russians go full Roman by pushing all Ukrainians west into Europe, tear down every building, and turn the Ukraine into a giant nature reserve.
The Zeepers like ZZpeedy try to conveniently forget that the call between President Trump and Zelensky was the basis for the coup and Colonel Vindman, the creepy “whistle blower “was a naturalized Ukrainian national who has been offered the position of Defense Minister of Ukraine two times by the Ukraine.
That is absurd, and it doesn't obscure the truth, which is Putin's illegal invasion of the Ukraine is the exact equivalent of Mexico's Labrador declaring war on the US in order to preserve the Mexican mojado illegal US invasion of Texas and California and the American Southwest!
"¡Aztlán es nuestro! ¡Los Estadounidenses son Nazis!" ("Aztlan is ours! Americans are Nazis!")
The only difference is that the mojados don't need guns, other than that one time Boogums Holder gave them some of their own guns back.
You Putlims are so remarkably intellectually impaired as to not see this war, this pendejo invasion, going on right in your backyard as identical to Putlim invading a sovereign country; and yet you profess this ridiculous fealty to Putlim doing . the . exact . same . thing.
And the most hilarious part: you Putlims are incapable of stopping either one. So you line up daily for your bitchslapping in these threads. Schadenfreude.
This may make sense in your mind, but can you translate it for the rest of us?
Also, what happened to "Putinfluffer" or "Putinpuffer," Putlim is a new one.
Now get back to class before teacher sees you on your cellphone.
One of the a priori condition precedent for Putin's prior invasion of Crimea and the Ukrainian War of 2022 is to continue the Soviet tradition of rewarding Russia's kleptocracy -- particularly those 'Old Communist' families -- who over many decades of the USSR and right until the present day, were 'awarded', along with staffers and hangers-on, prime Crimean and east Ukrainian Communist outposts -- accompanied by their beautiful dachas: Odessa, Yalta, Mriya.
Gorbachev's Zarya dacha in Foros -- a billion-ruble 'investment' -- the more recent example.
This Soviet policy was and is specifically meant to displace the local Ukrainian populace.
Putin's illegal invasion of the Ukraine, therefore, is the exact equivalent of Mexico's Labrador declaring war on the US in order to preserve the Mexican mojado illegal US invasion of Texas and California and the American Southwest!
"¡Aztlán es nuestro! ¡Los Estadounidenses son Nazis!" ("Aztlan is ours! Americans are Nazis!")
This Mexican policy was and is specifically meant to displace the local American populace.
I read a lot of comments at the link given for this post. Here is a particularly interesting one apparently written by a former Russian soldier:
“A lot has happened in the last few hours. As well as the two airbases the central shopping area in St Petersberg has caught fire, the meat processing plant which supplies the western Russian Army with its ration pack meat is on fire. Ukrainian troops have been seen in the outskirts of Mariupol. From information that I have the reason that the Russian troops are constantly going forward in the Bakhmut area is that they have no food left and have no alternative but to go forward. Also I’ve been asked to go back into the Russian army, err no you sacked me last year for telling you that a war in Ukraine would be fatal for Russia. So thank you for the offer I will remain in Perm along with everyone else who got sacked last November.”
A number of comments expressed hopes the Kerch Bridge would be taken out. I think this is a bad idea. The bridge is damaged enough now that only two lanes of light road traffic, one lane in each direction appears to be operational. Also only one rail line is operational. It may only be good for passenger travel, not heavy military. A lot of heavy stuff is being carried by large ferries (600 autos), which is a much slower process. Entry to Crimea from the north near Mariupol has been used, but is now a target of Ukraine army planning and action. Ukraine really does not want to be responsible for the 2 million people recently in Crimea, when the water can only supply 800,000 at times. Leave the bridge for them to evacuate themselves and burden Russia with their care. Occasiional attacks on the bridge with light weapons will keep everyone nervous and moving away, without depriving Ukraine of this bridge when they win.
In peacetime Ukraine can make money from Russian beach tourists. It might even be possibly to rent space at Sevastapol for Russian commercial shipping with careful inspection that weapons are not shipped in or out, and similar inspections at the bridge. These could be useful suggestions at peace negotiations.
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Ping!
“Ukraine better brace themselves.”
I agree. Ukraine had better brace themselves for thousands of Russian prisoners!
The fact of the attack taking place 600km inside Russia is damage itself.
That is not propaganda. You saying it is “nothing” is propaganda.
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