WAR trouble brewing again in ukraine

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jpigott said:
Update: U.S. sends U.S. Coast Guard Cutter to the Black Sea.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1387056060750389248
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Coast Guard Cutter? Are those things used to protect our borders, on the sea, in things like drug interdiction, smuggling humans, Russian subs, etc...

I know the Coast Guard does go everywhere, but I'm like what is wrong with sending the Navy?

BTW I don't think we should do anything. leave them people alone.
 
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jpigott said:
Update: Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada deputy Roman Kostenko suggested aiming Ukrainian missiles at Russian nuclear facilities. "Moscow should know that they have nuclear power plants, such as we had in Chernobyl , and that our missiles will simply fly there."

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1387051580696915971
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And Russian nuclear tipped missiles will simply fly to Ukraine.

What are these people thinking?

Or smoking?
 
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Techwreck said:
And Russian nuclear tipped missiles will simply fly to Ukraine.

What are these people thinking?

Or smoking?
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They no longer have their own nukes, so to create their own 'deterrent', because they are probably not getting into NATO, they are threatening Russia's power plants. They are saying "we won't be a nuclear battlefield - we have teeth too."
 
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Russia sending a big message to the U.S. and its Coast Guard ship it sent to the Black Sea. Russia sent out the cruiser Moskva "flagship of its Black Sea Fleet" in response for live fire drills.

The Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation reported that two large landing ships of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation "Alexander Otrakovsky" and "Kondopoga" still remain in the Black Sea after large exercises near the annexed Crimea.
 
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The USA under biden just offered "unwavering support" and gave millions in war supplies to a CRAZED UKIE GOVT that just threatened to NUKE Russian nuke plants like Iran just threatened to nuke Israel's nuke plant. We called Iran F=_<>> TERRORISTS but the ukies are our best buds now? PREPARE FOR WAR!!!!!!!!
May 9th, 1940 was when Hitler invaded France, Holland and Belgium by the way. France gave up on June 25th, Holland lasted a week. Yep, game on Lurkey.
 
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Checkmate: For Twenty-Two Years You Were Warned | NC Renegades

Checkmate: For Twenty-Two Years You Were Warned
Posted on April 26, 2021 by Hammers Thor
“…. everything I have said today is not a bluff – it is not a bluff, believe me – and … those who live in the past … unable to look into the future … [should] stop rocking the boat we are all in which is called the Earth.”
VLADIMIR PUTIN, 1 MARCH 2018
We may be in more trouble than we already thought.

This essay by JR Nyquist may be one of his most concerning yet. It is a follow-up to his previous article, which I reposted here. Please read the entire post, then see the summary points below.

In his State of the Nation Address, Vladimir Putin said, “Russia ranks among the world’s leading nations with a powerful … defense potential,” Putin added, “The next few years will prove decisive.” Then the Russian leader adopted the tone of that kinder guy whose soul George W. Bush claimed to have glimpsed. Putin admonished his countrymen that Russia must not fall behind technologically. Cities must be expanded and other “large-scale” projects must be embraced. Putin spoke of “family farms” and shrinking the state’s share of the economy by state sponsorship of “start-up entrepreneurs.” With these and other deceptive flourishes, the Russian President plodded toward a stunning presentation. The speech turned from boring promises of a shiny socialist future (without using the “s” word), to Stalin’s trick of making his victims soil themselves.

PLEASE read the entire article here…

So, to summarize what Russia now has:

1. They have increased their long-range high-precision weapons carriers by 12 times, and the number of guided cruise missiles by over 30 times.

2. They now have the Sarmat missile, which weighs over 200 tons, and can launch 10 large warheads, 16 smaller ones, or a hypersonic boost-glide vehicle.

3. They have developed nuclear powered strategic arms (missiles) that do not use ballistic trajectories – this means that they are unpredictable, and therefore, virtually undefeatable.

4. A nasty little submersible drone that can travel up to 185 kilometers per hour and can withstand a depth of 1000 meters – oh, and it can carry a 200 megaton cobalt 59 nuclear warhead that can create a 500 foot tidal wave on any of our coastal cities, and render the area uninhabitable for years.

5. They have successfully tested and deployed a hypersonic aircraft missile system that is not 5 times faster than the speed of sound, it is 10 times faster than the speed of sound. Aircraft carriers are defenseless against it.

6. They have hypersonic high-precision weapons systems that can hit targets at intercontinental distances and adjust their altitude and course as they travel.

7. They have troops that have been armed with laser weapons for at least a year.

In contrast, we have the useless and failed F35 aircraft that tears itself apart when it engages it’s gatling gun. We also have the Ford CVN nuclear powered aircraft carrier, which after four years still has not completed its post-delivery test and trial period.

But, as one comment posted on JR’s essay indicated, our diversity is our strength.
 
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Lurker said:
That and a strongly worded email. Sooo scary. Pussy's.
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Sarcasm fits you, Lurkey. This just confirms what I have been saying for years now. Russia has ABSOLUTE military superiority over us.
The tsunami missiles can destroy every coastal city we have in 1 hour.
 
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Crimea: The Expanding Military Capabilities of Russia’s Area Denial Zone in the Black Sea

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 67
By: Sergey Sukhankin
April 27, 2021 05:49 PM Age: 31 mins

Two important and connected developments in the second half of April—military exercises in Crimea (RIA Novosti, April 22) and the wider growing tensions with Ukraine—cogently reiterated the military-political importance to Russia of this illegally annexed peninsula. Since 2014, Moscow has been heavily investing in building up its military posture there.

And at the moment, Moscow’s main objective along this vein for Crimea is to upgrade local anti-missile and anti-aircraft capabilities—and anti-drone operations in particular—in order to complete the formation of an area-denial zone centered on this strategically positioned region.

The implementation of this strategy started soon after the annexation of the peninsula, when, in late 2014, the Russian Black Sea Fleet received its first Murmansk-BN complex—the most up-to-date long-range (more than 5,000 kilometers) jamming system, designed to operate against high-frequency military satellite communications (Archive.is, December 4, 2014). But rapidly, the peninsula was also turned into one of the main testing grounds for anti-drone operations. The first major military exercises of this type took place in 2018 and involved more than 1,500 military personnel and 300 pieces of equipment. The main goal of these anti-drone warfare drills, which assembled large numbers of units employing Russia’s most advanced electronic warfare (EW) models, was to practice spoofing, jamming and intercepting enemy radio signals. Some of the main EW systems employed included the RB-341В Leer-3, RB-301B Borisoglebsk-2 and R-330Zh Zhitel automated jamming stations, as well as the Krasukha ground-based radio-jammer system (TASS, September 26, 2018).

According to Russian sources, by 2020, Crimea—along with Kaliningrad oblast and the Kola and Kamchatka peninsulas—was equipped with all necessary means of EW to transform the region into what could be roughly translated as an “area denial zone” (“zona ogranichennogo dostupa” in Russian) (Vpk.name, November 23, 2020). Russian sources further claimed that thanks to all the steps Moscow had taken in the past six years to integrate the most up-to-date technology into Crimea’s multi-layered defense system, “NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] is incapable of effective intelligence gathering and reconnaissance operations near [the Crimean] coastline. Locally deployed EW complexes are not only diminishing the capabilities of [NATO] intelligence gathering gadgets but are also knocking out the settings of naval forces.” Reportedly, this is achieved through the use of the following EW systems: the Krasukha-4 jamming station, the Pishal portable complex (specifically designed for anti-drone operations), the Rtut-BM jammer system; the aircraft-mounted Vitebsk system (equipped on the Ka-52 reconnaissance and combat helicopter, Mi-28 attack helicopter, Su-25 ground-attack fighter, Mi-8MTV military transport helicopter and Mi-8AMTSh assault transport helicopter), as well as the Khibiny complex, which makes the Su-34 fighter “virtually invisible to radar” (RIA Novosti, March 18, 2020).

These trends were heavily reinforced during 2021. According to Ukrainian sources, the beginning of the new year was marked by Russia specifically amassing anti-drone warfare capabilities on the peninsula. This is predictable considering that Ukraine has been acquiring battle-proven Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial combat vehicles (UCAVs) (see EDM, February 6, 2019 and November 16, 2020). The Bayraktar combat drones are, arguably, among the most dangerous weapons now in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ inventory. Russian Black Sea Fleet exercises from March 24 appeared to specifically address this issue through simulated anti-drone operations along the coast. During these drills, Russia’s EW systems operated together with locally deployed anti-missile and anti-aircraft complexes: while the former concentrated on detecting enemy flying objects, the latter focused on destroying them. Based on these Russian maneuvers, Ukrainian experts concluded that in any potential military encounter near a coastline, Russia’s naval forces—primarily, Project 11356Р/М frigates—would constitute the backbone of anti-drone operations (Defence-ua.com, March 30, 2021).

That said, there is every reason to believe that anti-drone warfare constitutes merely one—and not the most significant or daunting—aspect of Russia’s militarization activities in Crimea. Indeed, Russian officials have announced that, in accordance with a decision adopted last year, a Yakhroma early-warning missile-defense radar will be established on the territory of the peninsula. The Yakhroma replaces the older Voronezh meter-wavelength radars and will be deployed to Crimea in 2021.

Crucially, Russia is additionally planning to put up these new radar complexes in Armavir and Kaliningrad, thereby completing the work on building a two-range radar field. Reportedly, this system will be able to promptly spot and track ballistic missiles launched at the territory of Russia (or its allies) (Vzglyad, February 15). If these plans are fully achieved and the above-mentioned (“unparalleled in the world”) system becomes a part of Crimea’s multi-layered defense architecture, Russia’s surveillance, intelligence-gathering and early-warning capabilities in its European part will be profoundly strengthened. Strategically, this will be a huge gain for Russia.

In tactical terms, Russia’s likeliest next steps in Crimea might include a further military buildup that will be mainly concentrated on bolstering local anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense capabilities with a focus on long-range targets.

Incidentally, this thesis was first voiced by the commander of the Southern Military District, Alexander Dvornikov, who stated earlier this spring that, “at some point in the future,” Crimea’s defense architecture could receive such pieces as the S-350 Vitiaz and the S-500 Prometheus surface-to-air missile and anti-ballistic-missile systems. He also noted that, as of today, S-400 complexes (protected by the Pantsir S-1 self-propelled medium-range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery systems as well as the BAL and Bastion coastal defense systems) have already been deployed to Dzhankoi, Feodosia, Sevastopol and Yevpatoria. According to open-source Russian data, the S-500—and this information runs contrary to what can be found in Western sources—is capable of hitting objects located up to 3,500 kilometers away, thus allowing this system to destroy not only “aircraft [and] virtually all types of drones and hypersonic missiles” but also “targets located in outer space” (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, March 17).

Although Moscow has profoundly boosted Crimean defense capabilities since annexing this peninsula in 2014, some hidden “surprises” may still be in the offing. For instance, former commander of the Black Sea Fleet (1998–2002) Admiral Vladimir Komoedov hinted last year that Russia may purposefully not be activating some locally based EW systems, since this might expose them to NATO’s and/or Ukraine’s scrutiny (Vzglyad, March 16, 2020). The observed massive buildup of offensive forces in Crimea over the past couple months may, thus, be far from the full story.

Crimea: The Expanding Military Capabilities of Russia’s Area Denial Zone in the Black Sea - Jamestown
 
Doomer Doug

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Here is an Asian Times article on the subject.

asiatimes.com

Biden picks an ill-conceived fight with Russia

What does Russia want from Ukraine? This is one of the vital questions surrounding Russia’s growing buildup of military hardware and troops, both facing eastern Ukraine and from Crimea. No on…
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Biden picks an ill-conceived fight with Russia
Russia's military build-up on the Ukrainian border threatens a war that will be hard to stop once it starts
By STEPHEN BRYEN


What does Russia want from Ukraine? This is one of the vital questions surrounding Russia’s growing buildup of military hardware and troops, both facing eastern Ukraine and from Crimea.

No one seems to be asking Putin any questions, but rather are just demanding that he pull his troops back and relieve the military pressure. Nor is it clear if anyone is in a position to ask that question.

The Biden administration has dug itself into a hole by slapping on new sanctions and kicking out Russian diplomats. The Russians have tried to do tit for tat.
So, too, have the Europeans got themselves into a tight mess. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for the Russians to pull out their troops, the EU is upset and the British and French are not far behind in offering condemnations.

President Joe Biden, who called President Putin and suggested a summit meeting, has badly harmed his effort by slapping on more sanctions and crying fire.
 
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