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Because anybody who stays outside NATO has to face Russia alone, so there's safety in the crowd. Plus, NATO is not just a self-defense alliance, it is an imperialist project as well (all supranational alliances are - be it NATO, EU, or the late USSR and Warsaw Pact). At the very least, it...

Should Croatia conquer Bosnia then? :p: Anyway, thanks for posting. It seems quite interesting.

Well, he is not wrong... everybody lies. But NATO General Secretar has no place accusing others of being liars - glass houses and all that...

Nowhere close to that. He actually has rather logical reasons for invading Ukraine, but most of them boil down to "internal politics", "historically ingrained Russian paranoia" and "Europe trying to get independent of Russian gas". I have an article about it scheduled for this Sunday on blog.

I think best choice would be Gripen. One of major lessons of this war is that airfields are vulnerable indeed, and Gripen is the only fighter I know of that was specifically designed to operate against an overwhelming enemy force capable of establishing air superiority from the day one. What...

The most important lesson of the war: https://historyandwarfare.wordpress.com/2022/03/06/promises-cannot-replace-weapons/

"Eliminated" does not necessarily mean "physically destroyed". Maybe troops simply abandoned it upon coming under attack. Also, not every car is a Pinto; small arms fire will not necessarily set a vehicle aflame.

They are not going to help Ukraine. But Russian actions in Ukraine had made many Eastern European countries rather nervous - especially Poland, which has a history of being violently violated by Russia. So Rafale deployment is basically a political statement, to Poland but also to Russia, so...

A short article I've written, but... the war had basically proven what I had been talking about for a long time. Doesn't matter if you have the most modern fighters (which Ukrainians don't, mind you) if you left them sitting out in the open on a tarmac that can be seen literally from orbit...

Why would they deploy anything modern? At this point, the only weapons against Russian Air Force that Ukraine has are MANPADS and harsh language.

I already know how it is to live in a country where I have no say in who rules over me. HDZ and SDP are the same pieces of garbage, and the same goes for all other parties. Elections are a formality, as politicians will do the same thing anyway no matter what party they are part of. I live in a...

https://historyandwarfare.wordpress.com/2022/02/27/pacific-war-12-doolitlles-tokyo-raid/ During February 1942., a request for volunteers was passed through all of the USAAF’s bomber squadrons. From a large number of volunteers, around a hundred ended up being chosen and sent to an air base in...

Something on the war: https://historyandwarfare.wordpress.com/2022/02/24/russia-attacks-ukraine/

I'd feel sad, but... they dug their own grave then. If anything, NATO dithered for too long. If they were going to do anything, they should have done it in 1991. I mean, killing civilians is bad, but... it is not like Serbia didn't do the same.

As said in the thread, it is not just about Chinese military might. Rather, Russia has nuclear weapons, and United States have spent themselves trying to maintain their hegemony. And rulers of United States care more about pushing Marxist woke crap onto everybody than about countering threats to...

https://historyandwarfare.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/pacific-war-11-indian-ocean-raid/ Japanese advance continued on unrelenting. And while Nimitz’s carriers had shown that the further southward advance be connected with significant risks, there was absolutely no resistance in the west. Japanese...

https://historyandwarfare.wordpress.com/2022/02/13/pacific-war-10-marshalls-gilberts-raid/ When attacking the Pearl Harbor, Japanese focused all their attention on the battleships. It is unknown why the Japanese command, which had spearheaded the usage of carriers as a main tool of attack, had...

More electronics, and most of those jets are single-engined fighters... operating over an ocean. Of course there will be crashes.

Pacific War 9 – Japanese Conquest of Indonesia – History and War (wordpress.com) After all the previous successes, it was clear that the Japanese will not stop and that Indonesia was next in line. It was also very clear that a piecemeal defense had absolutely no chance of success. This led to...

https://historyandwarfare.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/pacific-war-8-fall-of-guam-and-wake/ Fall of Guam Introduction On 11th June of 1931., the Secretary of the Navy ordered Guam’s Governor to demilitarize the island. This move was in reaction to Japanese military activity in Manchuria, seized...