so who is supposed to be enforcing these sanctions?
CNN Exclusive: A single Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies | CNN Politics
Parts made by more than a dozen US and Western companies were found inside a single Iranian drone downed in Ukraine last fall, according to a Ukrainian intelligence assessment obtained exclusively by CNN.www.cnn.com
I saw where the French were sending some six wheel APC's. They are getting now stuff and giving their old stock away.
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They have to hit these Iranian drones with AAA otherwise it's extremely inefficient to be using missiles that cost 200,000$ or more,play's into Putin's hands and the West can't replace as quickly,it's a pure numbers game. Missiles need to be used vs. missiles or aircraft only.
While we all hope for the Russians to "rise up", what you say is sadly true,and just about every Russian family has grandfathers or great grandfathers who disappeared in Stalin's gulags,never to be seen or heard from again. It's fair to say that those memories are not that far removed. Taking on the apparatus of a security state is a big burden to endure requiring courage and cunning in a land where your not sure if you can trust ANYBODY.
who is going to stop them now if they all rose up? the army? the internal police forces that have been sent to the front to die?
I understand your impatience,I was hoping that Vlad's clusterFK of epic proportions could prompt his overthrow,but there is still time,and while his reputation as a steely strategist has taken a big hit, his KGB background in rooting out backstabbers and crushing dissent is probably the last skill he will lose.
Russia hasn't reached the bottom yet, but it will soon enough, wait at least until they are humiliated and driven from Ukraine while getting shelled right past the border and into Russia until they are out of HIMARS range. Economic conditions are getting worse by the week and the economy needs to collapse in a bigger way. Russian society hasn't reached the breaking point yet, but they are getting there and by summer social and economic conditions in Russia should be interesting as the army is driven from Crimea in defeat.
they shouldn't have to reach a breaking point...the breaking point should have been when putin invaded Ukraine on bullshit pretexts...the next breaking point should have been when it became apparent that the invasion was a total fuckshow brought about by government corruption and incompetence...the next breaking point should have been the use of ethnic russians for cannon fodder...the next ......
Understanding what happened in America helps to understand what is happened in Nazi Germany and in Russia too, though neither society had a grounding in or an appreciation for liberal democracy. Even in liberal democratic Europe it was done differently with state controlled media everywhere in tightly packed Europe, radio couldn't be a commercial free for all. Likewise most countries had and some still have state religions, protestant and catholic. The legal system is different too with no jury trials and there are lots of other historical holdovers and adaptations.
“a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enema” or something.
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Ukraine wants some of that cold too, they need frozen ground to move. Only the Russians are stupid enough to attack in mud season and they are paying a heavy price for it and getting nowhere while getting mass slaughtered.
