Russia's 'Pearl Harbor'

I've read Hitler's U-boat commanders talked him into it so they could target US warships guarding the convoys.

One of the history channels had a show that said a Russian spy in Japan tried to warn US about Pearl Harbor attack. Who knows?
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.
 
By killing children and bombing hospitals? He's been there, done that.
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.
 
What has always mystified me is why Hitler declared war against the USA four days after Pearl Harbor. There are numerous reasons given but I can’t say that any make much sense. Hitler had no formal treaty obligation to jump in with Japan as an ally in the event of a war declaration between the US and Japan. Prior to Hitler’s declaration the U.S. and Germany were officially neutral toward each other.
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
 
There’s some important things to consider in taking a position here:

1 Look up a map of NATO in 1990 during the German reunification - when Baker promised that NATO would “not move one inch to the east”. Then look at NATO today. Ask yourself “Who is ‘taking over Europe’”.

2 Read up on the 2014 Minsk agreement. Has one side failed to abide by it? (And find Angela Merkel’s recent comments, and then ask yourself why Putin might mistrust peace talks.)

3 Defend our countries actions during the Cuban missle crisis. Then criticize what Russia is doing. (BTW, Krushchev was Ukranian.)

4 Just a point of interest, as we approach our country’s 250th year:
How long has Ukraine been a country? (~32 years, IIRC)
How long were they part of Russia? (1,300+ years.)
What was the first capital of Russia? (Kiev)

Always good to know a little historical fact.
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.
 
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.
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.
 
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.

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.


How Many Tu-22M3 Strategic Bombers Left in russia and How Many Produced, Defense Express
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.

 
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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.
 
That's certainly what Putin says. It's propaganda.
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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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.
Nothing at all to stop them unless we pull our heads out of our posteriors.
 
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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.
You still get Christmas gifts from santa I see
 
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