Well worth reading this two year old article...still just as valid now in 2017....
Putinism and the Anti-WEIRD Coalition
https://20committee.com/2014/04/07/p...rd-coalition/#
Well worth reading this two year old article...still just as valid now in 2017....
Putinism and the Anti-WEIRD Coalition
https://20committee.com/2014/04/07/p...rd-coalition/#
Interestingly, we have slightly differing numbers.
While Poroshenko said 211 KIA, you have 217 and I 225.
Besides, I counted..
Azor.....reference some of your questions....
Numbers source - ATO HQ reports, including only Ukrainian army regular soldiers, 1 attack could be "Half day non-stop fighting"
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 01-02-2017 at 12:00 PM.
Amasingly rare, high standard of journalism.
NOLAN PETERSON: DISPATCHES FROM THE FORGOTTEN WAR IN UKRAINE
http://europe.newsweek.com/nolan-pet...-536917?rm=eu#
In Opinion: Putin’s next land grab looks like the Suwalki Gap
http://europe.newsweek.com/putin-rus...-426155?rm=eu#
Lithuanian private army of 'elves against trolls' to combat Russian influence online
https://apnews.com/27ce7f001bde4ccb9415ce4a0de74af1#
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 01-03-2017 at 05:49 AM.
Svitlodarsk salient: tactical situation, achievements and perspectives:
https://informnapalm.org/en/svitloda...perspectives/#
2 JAN 2017 in the middle of yet the 20th Russian so called ceasefire....
Ukraine reports 32 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas
UAF reported WIAs/KIAs....
During 2016 the daily average Russian attack rate was 44.....40-50 attacks per day are actually indicators of a full scale ground war thus in the middle of Minsk 2 and repeated Russian so called ceasefires WE had a serious war underway....
2 Ukr soldiers killed, 2 wounded in military unit near Maryinka > violation of the rules of handling weapons
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 01-03-2017 at 09:08 AM.
Russian military echelon in Persianovsky, Rostov region on 23 December
http://liveuamap.com/en/2017/2-janua...rostov-region#
pic.twitter.com/fjJZhEMMbV
Azor...this goes back to a previous discussion of ours.....
Many in Moscow Now Think Using Nuclear Weapons is ‘Entirely Possible,’ Mlechin Says
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com...-nuclear.html#
I don't find him particularly compelling. Research into nuclear weapons policy indicates that American and Russian/Soviet nuclear doctrine was and is almost wholly dependent upon their conventional power relative to one another.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Even when Kennedy's administration turned away from Eisenhower's New Look/First Offset/Massive Retaliation doctrine, not much changed operationally until the Nixon era, because it took decades (at least 20 years) for the United States to develop a credible Flexible Response.
Only during the late 1970s did it become apparent that technological advancement could allow US conventional forces to "fight outnumbered and win" against quantitatively superior Warsaw Pact, Chinese and North Korean forces.
Despite Reagan's confrontational rhetoric, he was the first US president not dependent upon nuclear weapons when it came to the Soviets.
Look at the nuclear saber-rattling done by Eisenhower (to end the Korean War), Kennedy (to end the Cuban Missile Crisis), Nixon (to deter Soviet forces from entering the Yom Kippur War and to pressure the Soviet Union and China to stop aiding North Vietnam) and Ford (to signal displeasure to North Korea).
Putin's nuclear saber-rattling coincides completely with: (a) official acceptance of the Russian military's weaknesses, and (b) a sense that the West is expanding and needs to be contained.
Irrespective of one's moral views regarding the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, the fact is that both saber-rattled when they felt on the defensive and unable to challenge the other.
Removed from the context of the Soviet Union being a genocidal and aggressive power, Eisenhower's deployment of nuclear weapons was not only provocative but bordering on lunacy.
Galeotti noted that no Russian general believes that "nuclear de-escalation" is even feasible. It's all part of Putin's show; his brinkmanship that mimics what US presidents did in the 1950s-1970s. Unfortunately, Mlechin serves as an unwitting mouthpiece to convince the West that Putin is a "madman" and therefore cannot be confronted anywhere lest he set off the bomb.
UAF radio cat (Forward Cat Observer---FCO) coming off a 24 hour work shift...he spent the night calling in return artillery fire after his UAF outpost was attacked 12 times...he called for return fire after he could not get any sleep...a sleepy cat can take only so much....no one was hit in the UAF positon due to his rapid call for return fire....
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 01-03-2017 at 10:38 AM.
Hacking warning......
How smartphones can be turned into spying devices with a simple app available on the net. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-d...vie-g9r5s7rgn#
Last edited by davidbfpo; 01-03-2017 at 06:50 PM.
Aeroflot just begs to get into @EU sanctions by opening daily plane route from #Sochi to #Crimea.
Last edited by davidbfpo; 01-03-2017 at 06:50 PM.
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