Ogee wrote: Sun May 21, 2023 10:41 pm

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Below are some choice clips taken from an extensive, well researched article on Zelensky which is packed with linked references should there be any doubt.

It’s a rigorously suppressed fact that Zelenskyy is the second US puppet to occupy the office of President since the US-engineered coup overthrew the democratically-elected government of the Ukraine in 2014


Despite presiding over a neo-Nazi Government whose ethnic cleansing of its own population had been reported by Western media for eight long years


Today, the West has so far handed over an astonishing $186.52 billion to the Ukraine’s US puppet Government


But things have now changed. Since Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping signed the fourteen agreements between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China in March, the Zelenskky puppet has fallen silent as its master’s hand has been removed from its strings.


Zelenskyy, like all politicians, is a liar; but he is also a thief who has embezzled the Ukrainian people, handing over the grain, oil, gas, mineral and lithium resources of his country in shady deals with predatory US asset managers BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.


And in order to pre-empt any opposition to these policies, Zelenskyy has banned eleven opposition political parties and all independent media platforms in the Ukraine, made laws prohibiting around 73 per cent of workers from forming unions or collective bargaining, and issued hit lists against journalists and academics denounced as ‘enemies of Ukraine’ for criticising his Government.


By continuing the proxy war with Russia, Zelenskyy has perpetuated the cover under which the $186.52 billion of Western ‘aid’ can be laundered into anonymous accounts in offshore jurisdictions.


the purpose of such offshore financial jurisdictions is not only to hide the money but also who owns it, so nobody knows how much Zelenskyy has made from this vast programme of embezzlement ... But one estimate of the net worth of this former TV comedian has put his personal fortune at $596 million.


My own view is that, given Zelenskyy is handing over an entire country to the oligarchs of Western capitalism, either this figure is far short of his actual compensation or he needs a new agent.


Finally, and not least in the list of crimes Washington’s puppet has committed or enabled, since 2014 the policies and actions of the Governments of the Ukraine against the people of the Donbas, where thousands of ethnic Russians — including an estimated 3,400 civilians — have been killed by ultranationalist armed forces like the Azov Regiment, the Aidar Volunteer Battalion and Right-Sector paramilitaries, and Russian culture and language is banned from public consumption and official use as effectively as that of the European Jews was under the Third Reich, meet the United Nations’ definition of genocide.


https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.u ... zelenskyy/

Biden responded to the threats of the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the supply of F-16 fighters to Ukraine

At the G7 summit, the head of the White House was asked if the delivery of the F-16 is a "colossal risk", as they say in Russia.

Biden replied: "For them, yes."

vvFish wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 3:43 am

Biden responded to the threats of the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the supply of F-16 fighters to Ukraine

At the G7 summit, the head of the White House was asked if the delivery of the F-16 is a "colossal risk", as they say in Russia.

Biden replied: "For them, yes."

its funny, because it is true, the radar shadow of russian planes can be seen from enourmous distances, the f-16's can't, and they have range advantage, they will hit russian planes before they saw the f16 radar signature even form a single blip.

andrei-1 wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 2:05 am It is very convenient to imagine the scale of what is happening. Compare with the size of the armies of some countries.

The capacity of the stadium is 100,024 spectators.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G",[5] is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria.

size doesnt matter when the army is total shit though xD, that amount is how many russians died taking bakhmut, in 12 whole months as well, what a fricking mess of an army, no coordination at all. well its a good thing at least, the incompetence.
the win in bakhmut is a total loss for russia at the same time, because everyone sees how bad they are, and they dont even have modern equipment anymore, all is gone to corruption before the war even started. they cant even afford decent shoes to the poor soldiers

Poor pilots who die while people get rich and party off it who dont care

Su-35s have a major advantage

Gethsemane wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 4:52 am

Yes, i cnow

Somewhere in a parallel universe. The West fears India and China. He is afraid that someone will buy Russia, and then east Europe. He strengthens Russia by returning Kievan Rus to it. So that no one would guess, he covers it up with a war.

Many people expect a lot from the F16s.. really?, they aren't a match for the Russians Defence Forces.. open your eyes (and brain), read why.. in the eyes of a former F16 pilot.
Former F-16 pilot says he would not want to fly missions over Ukraine right now, arguing ‘there is no fighting chance’


Ukraine has repeatedly asked the US for fourth-generation fighter jets like the F-16.
But air combat experts have argued that these aircraft would have little battlefield impact.
A former F-16 pilot said these jets don't have a fighting chance given Russia's air defense systems.
Ukrainian officials have long pressed their Western military backers to send them modern fighter jets, arguing Kyiv needs the airpower boost to best the invading Russian forces, and while some in the West agree, others argue fighter aircraft like the ones Ukraine wants wouldn't stand a chance in the current threat environment.

There have been repeated requests for the delivery of American-made F-16s, leading to debates over how effective the fourth-generation plane would be in the skies. One former F-16 pilot told Insider he wouldn't want to attempt to fly missions over Ukraine right now, asserting that the aircraft can't outmatch Russia's air defense systems.

Fourth-generation fighters "have no business in a modern-day battlefield," John Venable, a 25-year veteran of the US Air Force, told Insider in a recent interview.

Since the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has sought fighter jets from its Western allies to supplement its diminishing fleet of Soviet-era MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters, which arguably cannot compete against Russia's superior air force.

F-16 fighters would likely be outmatched by Russian air defense systems
The airspace above Ukraine remains contested after 14 months of war. But Russia has enjoyed a numerically larger air force, stronger technical capabilities in its fighter jets, and long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, according to a recent report on Russian airpower published by the Center for Naval Analyses.

The capable SAM systems "have proven extremely lethal" against Ukrainian aircraft and are the "primary killer" of Ukrainian jets, helicopters, and drones, the report notes.

Fourth- and fourth-plus-generation fighter jets like the F-16 that lack stealth features are "completely outmatched in high-threat environments" because of advanced air-defense systems like Russia's S-400, argued Venable, a veteran and senior research fellow for defense policy at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.

In commentary published on the think tank's website last month, Venable wrote that the F-16 is not suited for Ukraine's air force for several reasons, including that the S-400 can outsmart the F-16's targeting systems and that it can target the fighter jets before they're in range to fire weapons like Small Diameter Bombs.

Venable said that when he was flying F-16s over Europe earlier in his career as a pilot, his aircraft had solid jamming pods that worked against threats posed by the SA-6 and SA-11 Soviet-era SAM systems. He explained that he would have felt comfortable going up against the integrated Soviet air defenses in the 1980s and 1990s knowing he was backed by HARM targeting systems designed to take those on.

"The threat would've been high. There would've been a good possibility that I would've been shot down, but also at least an equal possibility that I could have made it to the target, hit my target, and then I drop successfully and then egress safely from the battlefield," Venable said.

But there's since been a "whole leap in capabilities" between those and the current Russian SAM systems that have evolved over time. "I had a fighting chance back then," he said. "Today, there is no fighting chance."

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-su35-j ... ts-1788446

Russian SU-35 = junk

The Su-35 is a "typical Russian machine" that "looks good," but "deep down, it's not that good of a plane,"

The Russian Su-35 is a "very large" twin-engine aircraft, which is "easy to see, easy to pick up on radar, and easy to shoot at with a long-range missile," Hampton said.

"Our planes are more durable. I wouldn't bet in combat on the Su-35 or any Russian-made aircraft,"

The "highly maneuverable" and "high-performance" F-16 aircraft is used for air-to-air and air-to-surface attacks, according to the U.S. Air Force. An all-weather aircraft costing between $14.6 million and $18.8 million, F-16 variants have "superior accuracy" and can defend against enemy aircraft.

They had an experience that proved this in Syria.

On November 24, 2015, a Su-24 type attack aircraft of the Russian Air Force was destroyed in 4 minutes by an F-16 fighter jet of the Turkish Air Force performing reconnaissance flights.

This Turkish f-16,

He locked and pushed back a fleet of su-24 and su-35s 5 times.


LOL, lets give ukraine those f-16s right now

Do you all exchange information from newspapers? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you probably still don't get the whole point of what's going on.

KosmosDaBas wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 6:20 am Do you all exchange information from newspapers? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you probably still don't get the whole point of what's going on.

"Please tell us what you know."