The way they ask for the airspace to be closed, and claim they can just start using F-16's effectively make me cringe, but they are obviously outgunned in this conflict, and are fighting for the future of their country. They know their success is completely dependent on outside help and they are rather lucky to have a president in office who has been so successful at getting all the help they realistically can. If you were fighting a war against an enemy you stand little chance against you wouldn't have a problem asking for this kind of help, it is different from begging America to directly get involved, like closing the airspace.
Ukrainian War Developments
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Except Europe and Russia are actually on the same boat, while the US is the big bad wolf out there, wanting to eat Europe for dinner.
Which is not a good thing for Russia. Russia's true family is Europe (Germany and France). Russian--FrancoGerman is one commonwealth of interest. While the USA is the financial apex-predator of the world. USA is literally the Wolves of Wall Street searching for capitals to consume all over the world. Now the USA is inflicting a "civil war" in the Russian--FrancoGerman commonwealth, while reaping the benefit of consuming EU's wealth. Russia as the resources and energy provider, certainly won't feel the pain nearly as fast as Europe will feel. But if Europe is on the route of long term decline, it won't be good for Russia as well.
Of course, Russia has little to lose, because Russia still has South Asia, East Asia and West Asia to engage with.
Sure, except at a very minimal amount.
Except de-globalization is initiated not by Russia, but by China and USA. Like I said in my last reply to you, the USSR's original more "distributed" way of planning and "landscaping" all over the country would actually be the trend of the future, in terms of physical layout of MIC and other industry. However, in order for Russia to quickly dash into the future and reap the benefit of USSR's "ahead-of-time" industrial landscape, Russia would have to invest heavily on implementation of 5G, AI and industry 4.0, etc, in her current infrastructure.
Russians are very good at research, innovation and management. But in order to realize their grand future, they will need A LOT of time and money invested. I mean an order of magnitude of more investments than what Russia is putting in now.
A fully modernized Su-25 would be nice to see. We will look forward to see whether this war could let Su-25 prove its worth in modern and future warfare.
Well, let's hope these projects are fruitful. Because cutting innovation is not without risks.
It'll be for the nazis who've barricaded themselves in underground bunkers/tunnels in the industrial sector. Doubt Russians have any chemical stocks, plus using chemical weapons is messy.
Flooding them with seawater is the Geneva convention approved option, but you may lose evidence.
Alternatively just hook up the exhausts of a few tanks to the ventilation system and any nazis who remain will be getting a reenactment of Dachau. Again Geneva convention approved, no hazardous chemicals, no further damage to infrastructure and can be reversed quite easily.
Flooding them with seawater is the Geneva convention approved option, but you may lose evidence.
Alternatively just hook up the exhausts of a few tanks to the ventilation system and any nazis who remain will be getting a reenactment of Dachau. Again Geneva convention approved, no hazardous chemicals, no further damage to infrastructure and can be reversed quite easily.
What was you expecting, that they would play nice with Azov?
Terrorists get different treatment.
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Such desperate disinformation can only point to the fact that the end is nigh for the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis trapped in Mariupol.
If a country is forced into a default by physically blocking them from making payments, does it even count as a default? Russia is a resource rich country, it should have no problems paying back borrowed money. Unlike western countries, Russia has very little debt.
This war will affect their ability to access international markets no doubt, but I don't see what difference a forced default is going to make. Isn't this just giving Russia a chance not to pay off debts?
Right on the money. The recent wave of mass surrenders points to collapsing Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol. AzovStal is pretty much the only thing they have left now, and even there they only have partial control.
It doesn't matter what the UK claims about WMD, it matters what America says. They have as much say in this as Poland. So far America has twiced denied Ukrainian claims that WMD were used in this conflict. The first was the nuclear plant attack, the second was the chemical weapon attack on Abramovich (which was also championed by the UK).
It'll be interesting to see how America responds to this UK attempt to escalate. They've already stated that a chemical attack will result in a response "in kind", whatever that means. I think they'll deny it has happened.
It'll be interesting to see how America responds to this UK attempt to escalate. They've already stated that a chemical attack will result in a response "in kind", whatever that means. I think they'll deny it has happened.
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