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https://www.wired.com/story/russia-hypersonic-missile-test-nato-borders/
Russian military exercises near NATO borders follow the recent incursion of Russian drones into the airspace of Poland and Romania, further stoking tensions with the West.
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Well, yeah. There would be no point in making threats if you do it only where nobody can hear you and don’t tell anybody about it.
What is the point of making threats? The us developed the f15 in response to a threat - turned out the threat didn't live up to hype but the f15 was great for the time.
If Russia is good at nothing else, they’re at least quite adept at making themselves look more dangerous and capable than they really are. Of course, that veil is getting mighty tattered at this point, and when they pull belligerent stunts like this, the response is increasingly derision and ridicule rather than fear and uncertainty. The thing is… It’s the only thing they know how to do, so that’s what they do. It’s not a particularly good idea, but I dare say most everything Russia has done for some time haven’t been very good ideas. At least they’re consistent about shooting themselves in the foot while it’s in their mouth.
Russians shouldn’t be weapons testing on the doorstep of an avowed neighbor. What is this? 1945 Japan?!
I think we’ve very firmly established that Russia has no interest in being a good neighbor at this point, yes. Just in case you’ve been in a coma for the past decade and just woke up, we’ve also learned that they have no interest in common decency, honesty, integrity, deescalation, diplomacy, lawful behavior or having a functional economy.
On the other hand they seem really into belligerence, aggression, vodka, genocide, kidnapping other people’s children, asymmetrical warfare and vodka (I know I said that twice, but it bears repeating).
Looks like they just gave Ukraine a new drone target.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 day ago
Russian generals: Hey, so we're behind in terms of tactics, intelligence, morale, and we're constantly short on manpower. We've been fighting this thing for years now, and the distance we've penetrated into Ukraine is shorter in a lot of places than some of the longer footraces. And the more Western countries take this whole thing seriously, the more of their functionally infinite economic resources they're going to devote to making sure we keep losing. We have figured out one good thing we can do, though: Cheap drone munitions including a lot of decoys, just spamming to overwhelm the defenses, since a lot of Western defenses are organized around single-shot ordnance that costs a ton of money. If we can launch 30 drones that each cost $15k, and it costs $3 million to shoot down each one and there aren't even all that many of those $3 million missiles in the launcher, we can overwhelm the defenses and get some bombing done.
It doesn't help too much with the war, but we can at least kill some civilians, which everyone knows is always productive. So: The plan is to make sure the West's focus is elsewhere so they don't start committing lots of energy and resources to us as an issue, and attack Ukraine focusing on cheap ordnance so that what resources they do commit are going to be as disadvantaged as possible.
Putin: Or, hear me out here,