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What happened to Russia's Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped
Reuters ^ | Mar 1 2022 | Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali

Posted on 03/01/2022 5:54:02 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: FreedomPoster

they have been continuing to do stand off stuff

for example, Putin destroyed the main civil administration building on Freedom Square in the city of Kharkiv with a cruise missile early today


21 posted on 03/01/2022 6:20:05 PM PST by Meet the New Boss (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They could deliver a cruise missile anywhere they want and not lose anyone.


22 posted on 03/01/2022 6:21:49 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Zhang Fei

The numbers of civilian casualties we’ve been hearing, three here, six there.

Heck, we wiped out a family of six with one drone strike

The Russians have also been telling people where the strikes will be, and telling the civilians to clear those areas.

These civilian numbers have been low.


23 posted on 03/01/2022 6:22:18 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: aumrl

“can you imagine some A10s strafing that column?
HIGHWAY OF DEATH II”

Well I guess they know they don’t have to worry about A 10’s so they presumably can do what they want.


24 posted on 03/01/2022 6:24:42 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: BipolarBob

McGregor was right on. His discussion explained and confirmed a lot for me.


25 posted on 03/01/2022 6:24:52 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Their pilots are poorly trained, don’t trust their leaders, and they don’t want to die for Putin.

L


26 posted on 03/01/2022 6:25:51 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: whistleduck

Easily could conduct bombing runs from above that in a Cessna twin...


What would you drop exactly from a Cessna twin? Fireworks?


27 posted on 03/01/2022 6:26:12 PM PST by rbg81
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To: rbg81

Yah. I wanna know too! Let’s hear it.


28 posted on 03/01/2022 6:28:17 PM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: Fido969

[The numbers of civilian casualties we’ve been hearing, three here, six there.

Heck, we wiped out a family of six with one drone strike

The Russians have also been telling people where the strikes will be, and telling the civilians to clear those areas.

These civilian numbers have been low.]


OTOH, nothing is set in stone. If, in 1979, you had told anyone that the mighty Soviet Army, near the peak of its powers, would give up the fight after a decade of struggle in Afghanistan, most people would look at you like you had two heads. So there’s that. And the Russian Army today is a pale shadow of the Soviet Army.

The consolation prize from a Ukrainian collapse is that Biden not only looks like Carter on the domestic front - he’s also a disaster on foreign policy. Afghanistan, Ukraine and maybe Taiwan. I could see a Reagan-like tsunami, with coattails, in 2024, no matter who runs.


29 posted on 03/01/2022 6:30:05 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Waiting until they’re ready?

Letting the convoy grow until it’s “unstoppable”, not unlike they did at the border, while letting the Ukrainians feel their fear and now their hunger grow, too, along with it, as they watch day after day and then find a safe place to hide night after night? (Perhaps we’ll get our turn to play this game, so pay attention to how it’s done.)

Making people wonder what comes next and why are they acting so unconventionally and unpredictably, while encouraging the belief that what they’re doing doesn’t make sense?

Maybe that song is right and everybody really does want to rule the world …and Putin wants to give communism another chance?

Maybe Putin wants to put the band back together, just like it was and should always be in his mind as a loyal Russian son of Mother Russia.

Perhaps a communist is a communist is a communist, forever and ever, and now we’ve been taken by them, too?

Oh, and would you look a that, eh … the son of Fidel Castro is ruling things in the great white north next door.

Thanks to our Chinese communist friends and Covid-19, the heads of the hydra have ahold of us all, it would seem.

This is a very good time to make friends with Jesus and to pray for all of them and for all of us, too. We really should have been helping to clean the cages and build that ark, so to speak.

But instead, perhaps we’ve ignored all of the warnings and now nothing can stop what’s coming?

30 posted on 03/01/2022 6:33:01 PM PST by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“The fog of war” is what is happening now. There is a lot we don’t know, and much of what we think we know is not adding up. When retired generals are confused, we don’t know and won’t know for months, maybe years.


31 posted on 03/01/2022 6:34:49 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: Fido969

Heretic…burn at the stake…witch, witch!!


32 posted on 03/01/2022 6:40:02 PM PST by Hypo2
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To: Fido969

Russians are still negotiating, they are basically pointing the gun at Ukraine, but they don’t want to shoot. But either their brains or their signature will be on that piece of paper.


33 posted on 03/01/2022 6:41:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BipolarBob

First of all Macgregor was a colonel not a general. He’s also a Russian ass kissing defeatist who said we can’t increase our military spending.

The opinion of all Tucker guests is that we can do nothing at any level.


34 posted on 03/01/2022 6:44:19 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Haven’t seen a lot of their newest equipment.

Maybe Putin worries about China.


35 posted on 03/01/2022 6:45:37 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I think some of these generals are getting badly frightened. They may be starting to “lie” to the Fuhrer so to speak. Pretend to follow orders while not doing so.

Please God let this end.


36 posted on 03/01/2022 6:45:53 PM PST by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: FreedomPoster

I’m just speculating, but maybe they have a limited supply of precision munitions.


37 posted on 03/01/2022 6:45:59 PM PST by I-ambush (If we make it we’ll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

4lbtr


38 posted on 03/01/2022 6:55:52 PM PST by Romans Nine
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To: rbg81

What would you drop exactly from a Cessna twin? Fireworks?


Not suggesting it as a tactic, but wasn’t there a guy who fitted bazookas to a Piper Cub during WWII? Why yes. Here he is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carpenter_(lieutenant_colonel)


39 posted on 03/01/2022 7:00:52 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

People the Russian consider this THERE spiritual homeland under occupation so they would tread lightly... if it was a Foreign capital they would flatten it


40 posted on 03/01/2022 7:07:49 PM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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