Not sure, but I believe going after civilian infrastructure is classed as a war crime. Going after oil infrastructure should be ok since its directly funding and fueling the war.
Looks like a good opportunity for early hand-over of F-16's to Ukraine, with HARM missiles, to get some live target practice inRussia continues its Electronic Warfare outstretched over several NATO countries. Disrupting our commercial air traffic and putting lives at risk.
Ukraine has no direct access to Kaliningrad without first flying over a NATO country.Looks like a good opportunity for early hand-over of F-16's to Ukraine, with HARM missiles, to get some live target practice in
LOL @ anyone thinking a ‘war crime’ means anything to a country at war.
Oh FFSIf anything, Russia is harming NATO with its actions. This is between them and us. Their EW hardware is easily solved by a "stray" missile or drone.
It's not for the countries at war during the war. It's for the country at war after it loses. You're right, though: for now, your asshole leaders are intentionally and gleefully committing war crimes and they laugh at the accusations because they are pieces of shit and that's just what pieces of shit do. Always has been, always will be.LOL @ anyone thinking a ‘war crime’ means anything to a country at war.
The Czech Republic’s approach was to act as a middleman, said Tomas Kopecny, the Czech special envoy for Ukraine who helped negotiate the deal. Prague approached nations it knew to have either manufacturing capacity or compatible ammunition in storage and connected them with a Western country that would place an order and pay for the shipment.
The Czech Republic would then organize the logistics, with shipments going either through its own borders or through third countries, blurring any direct link between the country of origin and Ukraine so as not to expose the supplier to Moscow’s ire.
“Confidentiality is key here: We talk and will talk to anyone, no matter what their allegiance or political stance is—with a very few exceptions, such as North Korea,” said Tomas Pojar, the Czech government’s national security adviser.
Prague’s efforts exposed a discrepancy between some governments’ friendly attitude to Russia in public and their openness to doing business with Ukraine’s allies in private, said Jan Jires, deputy minister of defense.
“If you come with a pile of money they are interested, and Czechia is seen as neutral compared with the U.S., which is often polarizing,” said Jakub Janda, head of the European Values Center for Security Policy, a Prague-based think tank, using an alternate English-language name for the country.
So far, the Czech Republic has secured funding for the first tranche of around 300,000 shells. Among the donors are Germany, Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark. The U.S. isn’t part of the buyers’ club at this stage.
“We are like hobbits—small and peaceful, but in a moment of crisis we jump to forge alliances with much more powerful countries and deliver results,” Kopecny said, referring to the diminutive heroes of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” saga.
Kopecny, wearing socks depicting the Kremlin engulfed in flames, said the Czech Republic’s past as a Soviet satellite informed his country’s tough line on the war. Its government sees a Russian defeat in Ukraine as imperative and doesn’t believe in negotiating with President Vladimir Putin.
Are you unable to load twitter embeds, or do you simply not understand the subject matter?Oh FFS
Oh FFS, I'm just glad that wiser, more measured persons are in charge of militaries. Because you're just desperate to bomb some shit someplace.Are you unable to load twitter embeds, or do you simply not understand the subject matter?
Russia's use of electronic warfare far from Ukraine is a threat to passenger aircraft in Europe.
This threat is actively being used against us and should be eliminated.
What would be your advocacy, if you had words? Cowering before Russia is unacceptable in a time of war.
At least 873 airplanes had navigation equipment malfunctioning. Every one of them is a passenger flight filled with civilians.
Death by a thousand cuts. Its not like “Ukraine” is The Vlads first attempt to snuff out free people. Free people in Europe. Free people in US. At some point you gotta say: Think you overplayed your hand sir… Or just accept that Putins way of doing business is the way the international order is going to proceed from hereon.Oh FFS, I'm just glad that wiser, more measured persons are in charge of militaries. Because you're just desperate to bomb some shit someplace.
Without Greece, Romania and Türkiye ? No Southern flank ? No Black Sea /Aegean domination ?
What sort of peace do you imagine exists right now?Oh FFS, I'm just glad that wiser, more measured persons are in charge of militaries. Because you're just desperate to bomb some shit someplace.
I don't see how a shared nuclear arsenal would work - how would you craft a decision making process that had the ability to act swiftly in a crisis but kept people from going off the reservation?I would strongly recommended that the Euros have a very classified high level conversation amongst themselves about the political feasibility of building a shared nuclear arsenal and the IRBMs/stealth ALCMs to carry it.
I don't see how a shared nuclear arsenal would work - how would you craft a decision making process that had the ability to act swiftly in a crisis but kept people from going off the reservation?
Seems like Germany should build nukes though.