The good news is that the threat of war in Niger appears to be receding. France has backed off from its threats of intervention. Neighboring Sahel countries Mali and Burkina Faso have expressed strong support for Niger’s coup government. Algeria, which certainly has the most capable military in the entire region and has great economic importance for Europe, while unhappy about the political instability to its south, has also voiced strong opposition to military intervention in Niger—seeing it as a security threat to Algeria itself. The
It’s very similar to all the lawfare being used against Trump. Very contrived by super credentialed people, but not expecting any push back or retaliation. Goes back to the us rules based world order. Basically the us can do whatever it wants. Calvinball rules.
It's a strangely written article, but one that's full of trenchant observations:
“The bottom line of this reality,” concludes Hack, “is that Ukraine will lose all operational effectiveness much sooner than they will run out of men and equipment.”
The writing is on the wall: three to six months before the Ukraine military collapses entirely.
So wouldn't the really smart thing for Poles be to thank their lucky stars their dealing with Putin, instead of with Hitler and Stalin, and make a deal? Think about it. If you respect some of my opinions, my opinion is that years ago Putin would have been overjoyed to do a generous deal with Poland. He still would be.
I can't speak for others here, Darek, but what I want is for the neocons and NATO to respect Russia's legitimate security concerns. That means not doubling NATO in size since the end of the Cold War and trying to get Ukraine to join, not overthrowing a legally elected government in Ukraine or killing ethnic Russians there, and actually adhering to the Minsk Declarations giving autonomy to Russians in the Donbas, as recognised by international law. If this is construed as "Putin winning", then I'm guilty as charged.
Poland using relief work to move in to Ukraine?
https://astutenews.com/2023/08/heres-how-poland-is-slyly-taking-control-of-western-ukraine/
My guess Ukrainian airplanes take off from Poland
Release missiles within Ukraine
Fly back.
or perhaps momentarily touch down on a Ukrainian road, for legal reasons.
NATO still suffers from an arrogance problem I think. An attitude of “what are they going to do? They would never.” Very foolish in my opinion.
It’s very similar to all the lawfare being used against Trump. Very contrived by super credentialed people, but not expecting any push back or retaliation. Goes back to the us rules based world order. Basically the us can do whatever it wants. Calvinball rules.
This is an interesting take from an Australian:
https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/joe-biden-never-even-tried-to-meet-vladimir-putin-in-the-middle-over-ukraine-and-prevent-the-most-avoidable-war-in-history/news-story/d4f739450cfbf11870079e67c1b35793
It's a strangely written article, but one that's full of trenchant observations:
“The bottom line of this reality,” concludes Hack, “is that Ukraine will lose all operational effectiveness much sooner than they will run out of men and equipment.”
The writing is on the wall: three to six months before the Ukraine military collapses entirely.
"ECOWAS countries are simply not militarily prepared for such a venture". ECOWAS, meet NATO.
As for the Polish-based aircraft speculation (protecting Ukrainian bombers from airfield missile attacks), here is an illustrated war-mapper rationale from Military Summary channel: https://rumble.com/v358gre-summer-operations-ukrainians-use-su-24-from-nato-territory.-military-summar.html?start=326
I agree that if this is happening the Russians are sure to know about it.
So wouldn't the really smart thing for Poles be to thank their lucky stars their dealing with Putin, instead of with Hitler and Stalin, and make a deal? Think about it. If you respect some of my opinions, my opinion is that years ago Putin would have been overjoyed to do a generous deal with Poland. He still would be.
Correction: the aircraft accident in Smolensk.
I can't speak for others here, Darek, but what I want is for the neocons and NATO to respect Russia's legitimate security concerns. That means not doubling NATO in size since the end of the Cold War and trying to get Ukraine to join, not overthrowing a legally elected government in Ukraine or killing ethnic Russians there, and actually adhering to the Minsk Declarations giving autonomy to Russians in the Donbas, as recognised by international law. If this is construed as "Putin winning", then I'm guilty as charged.
It seems that there's next to nothing that you can understand.
Totally illogical.
For the sake of argument, siding with the little enemy (Ulraine) against the big enemy (Russia) which is sure to win is just stupid.