[Wash Post Max Boot] The Ukrainians rewrote the rules of warfare again on Sunday. The Russian high command must have been as shocked as the Americans were in 1941 when the Ukrainians carried out a surprise attack against five Russian air bases located far from the front — two of them thousands of miles away in the Russian Far North and Siberia. The Ukrainian intelligence service, known as the SBU, managed to sneak large numbers of drones deep inside Russia in wooden cabins transported by truck, then launch them by remote control.
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One'd assume that, after 3 years of war, Americans (no matter how that specific individual hates/fears Russia) would learn to take Ukrainian success claims with a grain of salt.
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I stopped reading at the byline. Max Boot, ah ... nope
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06/02/2025 8:45 Comments ||
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The attack seems real enough with new video footage of Russian bombers in flames. Ukraine covertly infiltrated short ranged drones in civilian trucks next to Russian bases.
This is a wake-up call for anti-drone base defense.
Especially since the CCP has been buying up farmland next to American bases.
Posted by: Difar Dave ||
06/02/2025 10:30 Comments ||
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I will admit I didn't read past the first paragraph. Some of you didn't read past the byline which I totally understand. I just don't see how the rules of war have changed. It seems pretty simple: Kill the other guy and destroy his stuff before he does it to you. The introduction of new weapons has never changed that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/02/2025 11:03 Comments ||
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You might recall a week ago, Chancellor Merz declared that Germany gave Ukraine “permission” to carry out long-range strikes into Russia. Smooth move, Friedrich. He is, apparently, unaware that in so-doing he automatically gave Russia permission to strike deep into Germany as well, which Russia has not yet done.
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All of this puts Mr. Trump in a bind. His efforts to negotiate peace are on-the-rocks for now, as is his (America’s) ability to control the maniac globalist warmongers of NATO. Many in the US, and Mr. Trump himself, make noises about backing off the big mess altogether and dissociating from a NATO alliance that has lost its purpose and meaning, becoming, in fact, a menace to our interests.
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Many in the US, and Mr. Trump himself, make noises about backing off the big mess altogether and dissociating from a NATO alliance that has lost its purpose and meaning, becoming, in fact, a menace to our interests.
Ever since the USSR went kaput I thought the only reason for the US to stay involved with NATO is to keep the Germans from starting another war. Somebody needs to sit on those globalist war mongers before they do something we'll all regret.
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06/02/2025 12:17 Comments ||
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Germany may become engaged with their own struggles.
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CTH this morning:
"Zelensky’s Gauntlet – Did Ukraine Just Draw the USA and NATO Closer to War with Russia by Targeting Russian Strategic Long-Range Bombers Covered by SALT and START Treaties?
June 2, 2025 | Sundance | 724 Comments
First the cliff notes version: There’s an important detail to remember. People are laughing at the long-range Russian bombers being left out in the open, vulnerable to attack. However, the bomber visibility is required as part of several nuclear agreements between the USA and Russia (SALT and START). Our U.S. long range nuclear capable bombers, covered under the same agreements, are also visible. Ukraine President Zelenskyy is playing with fire by targeting them, which also explains why Zelenskyy never told President Trump in advance.
The U.S and NATO have provided the means. However, #1) did Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just exploit a vulnerability by targeting Russian long-range nuclear capable bombers? and #2) was the CIA and NATO intelligence community a willfully blind participant knowing they would benefit?
Both the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), call for U.S. and Russian long range nuclear capable bombers to remain “visible and observable by national technical means of verification.” That open visibility creates a mutual vulnerability as well as a method of surveillance and verification for both the USA and Russian Federation."...
:Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and by extension his NATO enablers, just exploited that SALT/START vulnerability and used drones to attack Russian bombers covered by USA-Russia treaties. There are reports (and videos) now surfacing from inside Russia showing the Russian Federation moving strategic long-range mobile missile launchers into position for a counterattack against Ukraine.
This situation is obviously very fluid and let us all hope that President Trump and President Putin are in communication about this escalation as created by Zelenskyy and his enablers, even if -and probably especially if- our own intelligence agencies are part of the enabling.
Think about the ramifications of NATO enabled Ukraine targeting major Russian military assets which are vulnerable only because they are part of a previously agreed U.S-Russia negotiation to remain vulnerable. In essence, an argument can be made by Russia that NATO -and by extension us- have targeted nuclear capable missile systems, and those systems were protected by the SALT/START treaties. How would we respond of an adversary launched a strike against our strategic long-range nuclear capable bombers in the USA?"
𝗨.𝗦. 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗲 on France's initiative to reward Hamas with a Palestinian State:
"If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I've got a suggestion for them: Carve out a piece of the French Riviera and… pic.twitter.com/yV8KHPbayl
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) June 1, 2025
[Spiked] The hysterical response to Israel’s aid initiative in Gaza has exposed the lunacy of Israelophobia.
Israel is behaving criminally again. It has once more turned its nose up at ’humanitarian principles’. It is trampling even harder than usual all over international law. What inhuman act has the pariah state committed now? Brace yourselves: it is seeking to feed the people of Gaza.
This is the news that the Jewish State, in tandem with the US, has launched the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Its aim is to get foodstuffs and other essentials to the benighted people of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. You would think the activist class would be pleased at this news. They’ve been renting their garments for months over an alleged tyranny of famine in Gaza, which they say is the worst case of ’urban starvation’ since ’the siege of Leningrad’. Alas, you would be wrong. They hate this initiative. Why? Because Israel is behind it, and in their twisted minds, so addled by Israelophobia, everything Israel does is evil....
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
06/02/2025 00:00 ||
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...There's another point that the author may be missing - if Hamass doesn't control the food; then they don't control the population.
I would suspect that the 'collaborators' mentioned in another post are instead simply some poor bastards who tried to get a food box and are now being executed pour encourager les autres.
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