LVSteve
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Indeed. See Gergi Markov assassination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov
Russia's 'Pearl Harbor'
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DWalt
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There was indeed a story of a Serbian double agent spy (I do not remember his name, Dusko something) working for the Abwehr who saw the entire Japanese attack plan well in advance and reported it to J. Edgar Hoover. But nothing was done. He was one of Ian Fleming’s confidantes. I’ll see if I can find it.
Here - Dusko Popov
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In practice, communism and dictatorships (often the same) work by fear. People can't trust anyone who might turn them in to the authorities, which might result in them disappearing forever. It's hard to believe that people could favor such a system, but people have short memories and tend to only remember the good. Of course there is nothing approaching a secret ballot, either.
As my grandpa told me and I watched it myself communism is the government pretending to pay people and people pretending to work.
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That saying is well remembered in every post-Communist country where I've worked. Also a Communist truism - 'only a fool or an infant tells all they know.'
He's going to have to bomb even more hospitals and kill even more children now.
Did you see the new CSIS analysis put out about how the Russian advances over the last year have been as slow as the infamous grinding advances during WW1. They are gaining ground but it's pretty much been limited to fields and small towns for the last year. Most fronts are moving around 50 meters per day with high casualties. It will take a decade to get back to the ground they had in 2022 and decades to accomplish their goals assuming they can maintain extremely high causality rates for that long.
They don't even need a memory to remember the good, because there is nothing good to remember!
Oh you see here you are wrong. Plenty of people in USSR remmer the "good". The way things operated was slavery by any other name. While half the country was in prison or being slaves the other half got to be "good communists" and live off the people toiling in the fields and starving and dying in the coal mineshafts and tell them how good and fair communism is.
Sort of like political patronage jobs or DEI hire or whatever you want to call it. They got government paid poets and writers and singers to tell every one how great communism was while some half starved miner was slowly dying in a coal mine from collapse due to the lack of basic safety and having to meet quotas.
People don't realized that USSR had literal slaves until 1986. You know how you see those drunk inbred looking russians with square dull faces in a lot of POW videos? People were assigned to collective farms, yes in USSR you were assigned your job you were assigned your living arrangement and you were assigned your healthcare if you had any. You needed a passport and a permission slip to rally travel anywhere or go to school outside of your area.
What did it mean in reality? The communist official of your collective farm held your passport, you could not move somewhere else and get another job because you were an "essential employee" or something along those lines. You could not go to a city and apply for a university because they communist official had your passport and you did not have the education to get into the very difficult college exams.
So they went from Tzars serfs to communist slaves stuck in the same miserable village inbreeding for centuries drinking themselves to death due to despair and depression.
But hey if you were smart and were a good communist and lucky to be born to the right family you could escape that fate.
I’m not a bettin’ man, but I suspect Google Earth gave them all the information they needed..
Plenty of commercial satellites and also Ukrainians are REALLY good at humint in russia for the same reason russians have really good humint in Ukraine.
Not specifically about the the German comment, though remember USN ships had already been sunk when conducting "neutrality patrols" around UK-bound convoys in the Western Atlantic for a number of months and they had signaled when U-Boats were detected.
Just read the "fun and games of sending a warning via telegram" from DC because one service (Army) would not use Navy signal equipment. The telegram arrived as bombs were dropping. There is also some "evidence" that signals traffic in the Philippines (read MacArthur who had no idea what it was) and info from UK/Australian signals analyses that implied that that Japanese fleet carriers were "missing" from their usual bases. Plus there was an US flagged passenger cargo ship that was sunk by the Japanese some 500 or so miles west of Pearl Harbor and no one thought "why are the wireless signals missing?" Dave_n
Russia has been fighting defense. US biolabs on their border. Ukraine attacking and killing Russians in eastern Ukraine. USA cia funded 2014 coup changing Ukraine government. MSM isn’t giving factual details.
If China built clandestine biolabs and installed offensive military equip in northern Mexico…
Add in the fact that NATO has been breaking treaties taking more nations into the fold and any reasonable leader will balk.
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That's certainly what Putin says. It's propaganda.
Latest cost to build a Tu-22M3 is quoted at $40 Million. Cost to build a Tu-160 is $300 Million. Totaling those numbers up results in a cost of $7.1 Billion. It is also stated that the Tu-22M3 takes 4 years to build. Ukraine states the Tu-22M3 would cost $100 Million to build today.
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It's been decades since Russia actually built a Backfire.
Modernization efforts to extend the lifespan of these bombers face significant hurdles. The Tu-22M3M upgrade program, which aims to modernize up to 30 aircraft, has been delayed. Only two Tu-22M3M aircraft are known to exist, with one completed around 2018. The Defense Express believes that 30 may be the number of airworthy Tu-22M3s.
euromaidanpress.com
In addition, it is extremely important that the russian federation wanted to send only up to 30 aircraft for modernization to the Tu-22M3M variant. So this figure that can be considered a benchmark.
Tu-22M3M / Open source photo
Taking into account this figure, we can subtract at least two aircraft and some damaged ones. But in reality, there are many more, because not all russian Tu-22M3s are in good condition. In particular, the use of these aircraft, which was quite active in 2022, has now been reduced to only a few episodes.
en.defence-ua.com
Modernization efforts to extend the lifespan of these bombers face significant hurdles. The Tu-22M3M upgrade program, which aims to modernize up to 30 aircraft, has been delayed. Only two Tu-22M3M aircraft are known to exist, with one completed around 2018. The Defense Express believes that 30 may be the number of airworthy Tu-22M3s.
Russia struggles to maintain aging Tu-22M3 bomber fleet amid losses - Euromaidan Press
Russia's Tu-22M3 strategic bomber fleet is diminishing due to production cessation since 1993, recent losses in Ukraine, accidents, and modernization difficulties.
euromaidanpress.com
In addition, it is extremely important that the russian federation wanted to send only up to 30 aircraft for modernization to the Tu-22M3M variant. So this figure that can be considered a benchmark.
Taking into account this figure, we can subtract at least two aircraft and some damaged ones. But in reality, there are many more, because not all russian Tu-22M3s are in good condition. In particular, the use of these aircraft, which was quite active in 2022, has now been reduced to only a few episodes.
How Many Tu-22M3 Strategic Bombers Left in russia and How Many Produced | Defense Express
The loss of each Tu-22M3 long-range bomber is painful for the russian federation, because all that remains is the remnants from Soviet era
en.defence-ua.com
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DWalt
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Occurred to me that if the Ukes can secretly ship a flock of drones over 2000 miles into Russia to take out Russian bombers on the ground, what is to prevent the Chinese from sending a few cargo shipping containers packed full of similar drones into the U.S. and parking them in range of our AF bases? Chinese are right now buying up land in the US close to bases.
It’ll all come out eventually. The first 9 attacked areas in Ukraine overlap exactly with locations of 9 biolabs. Just like with American politics. It’ll come out eventually.
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Putin says so; it must be true.
Popular podcasters spread Russian disinformation about Ukraine biolabs
www.brookings.edu
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Nothing at all to stop them unless we pull our heads out of our posteriors.
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You still get Christmas gifts from santa I see
