Anant wrote:Singha, we = America. Believe it or not, many Indians live in the US and are quite content supporting our cultural homeland, India, and our adopted homeland, the United States.
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Anant wrote:Singha, we = America. Believe it or not, many Indians live in the US and are quite content supporting our cultural homeland, India, and our adopted homeland, the United States.
I'm not buying this; the dirty litte secret about air defense is that it doesn't work. US air defense doesn't work either, with a horrible track record even vs the occasional ancient Houthi missile, and even more useless vs SCUD's in 1991. Russian-made air defense doesn't work either. Isreal bombs Syria at will even without the benefit of stealth. The only missile defense that has ever been even partially successful is Isreal's Iron Dome, and only because it covers a tiny area. Yet even Iron Dome fails when Hezbollah launches more than a couple of missiles at one time.Austin wrote:Just highlighting the failure , Worst seems Barz and Jaramani , 7 out of 30 shot success ratio 23.3 %
Homs - out of 16 , 12 got intercepted 3 were failures so 81.25 % success
Russians are fools if they believe they can keep riding out these strikes and keep their gains in Syria. The end game is regime change and ejecting Russia from the region. Also to demonstrate to all current and potential Russian allies, that Russia is a paper tiger and unreliable ally.ShyamSP wrote:If the west takes control of Assad's Syria, do you think they let Russia stay there? Its interest is to clean up the Russia out of the region. If they succeed in Syria, next is Iran for total control of middle east. At some point being military superpower Russia has to enter into fray, otherwise they are going to lose global allies and power.
Besides putting themselves into fray in Syria, Russia will have to fire some long sticks on Saudi and Iraq areas to balance the region between them and the west. Making this region unipolar is dangerous for the world.Y. Kanan wrote:Russians are fools if they believe they can keep riding out these strikes and keep their gains in Syria. The end game is regime change and ejecting Russia from the region. Also to demonstrate to all current and potential Russian allies, that Russia is a paper tiger and unreliable ally.ShyamSP wrote:If the west takes control of Assad's Syria, do you think they let Russia stay there? Its interest is to clean up the Russia out of the region. If they succeed in Syria, next is Iran for total control of middle east. At some point being military superpower Russia has to enter into fray, otherwise they are going to lose global allies and power.
The only way this ends favorably for Russia is if they take a stand. Put their personnel in the way and force US & lackeys to kill Russians if they want Syria. Russia has to do this, and simultaneously go to full nuclear alert, with their arsenal on standby, and announce an attack on their military is an attack on Russian soil, to be met with nuclear attack. The citizens of US\UK\France\Isreal\Saudi must believe they and their loved ones could die in nuclear fire. That is the ONLY way this aggression stops.
As with Hitler, continued appeasement isn't going to work.
Don’t think so , I have not read of any weapon designed to neutralise cw , if it’s binary cw it’s safe else it’s lethalThakur_B wrote:Aren't most weapons designed to neutralise chemical weapons white phosphorus and thermite based bombs and not available as cruise missile warheads ?
Does this mean Russia gives Houthis advanced weapons now?Statement by the Ambassador Antonov on the strikes on #Syria:
A pre-designed scenario is being implemented. Again, we are being threatened. We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences.
All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris.
That statement of your does not stand test of time , What you are stating is AD is no good and does not work.Y. Kanan wrote:I'm not buying this; the dirty litte secret about air defense is that it doesn't work. US air defense doesn't work either, with a horrible track record even vs the occasional ancient Houthi missile, and even more useless vs SCUD's in 1991. Russian-made air defense doesn't work either. Isreal bombs Syria at will even without the benefit of stealth. The only missile defense that has ever been even partially successful is Isreal's Iron Dome, and only because it covers a tiny area. Yet even Iron Dome fails when Hezbollah launches more than a couple of missiles at one time.
Residents of the Syrian city of the Duma in East Gut received the first shipment of humanitarian cargo sent from Russia.
The cargo was reinforced on special platforms in the port of Tartus. After that, the Russian military police escorted an automobile convoy with him to the settlement of the Duma.
The humanitarian equipment this time was a special equipment - bulldozer, excavator, truck crane, trucks KamAZ. Along with them, several cars with building materials went to the Duma: steel pipes, sawn timber, power and other cables. Techniques and tangible property are unusually in demand in the difficult conditions of the Syrian Arab Republic.
The equipment and materials will be used to restore roads, socially significant facilities and infrastructure that were barbarously destroyed by militants and destroyed in the course of hostilities. ■
Houthis need humanitarian assistance. Saw many pics where ill and injured people are left fending for themselves as no medical help is available. I think they even face shortage of food.Y. Kanan wrote:https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/98 ... ories.html
Does this mean Russia gives Houthis advanced weapons now?Statement by the Ambassador Antonov on the strikes on #Syria:
A pre-designed scenario is being implemented. Again, we are being threatened. We warned that such actions will not be left without consequences.
All responsibility for them rests with Washington, London and Paris.
Good read indeed , I wonder why didnt they start liberating east ghauta 3 years back when the air campaigne started ? This is the closest to damascus and they used to fire regularly from the east some of the mortars even fell on Russian Embassy compound.Singha wrote:good read on why usa is so pissed about the east ghouta liberation
https://ejmagnier.com/2018/04/15/the-us ... -revealed/
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Air strikes carried out by the United States, France and Britain against Syrian military targets could give terrorism an opportunity to expand in the region, the Iraqi foreign ministry said on Saturday.
The air strikes marked a “a very dangerous development”, the ministry said in statement.
“Such action could have dangerous consequences, threatening the security and stability of the region and giving terrorism another opportunity to expand after it was ousted from Iraq and forced into Syria to retreat to a large extent,” it said.
The ministry called on Arab leaders to discuss the situation at a summit due to be held in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
Looks like Tomahawkhabal wrote:Syrian soldier on top of a downed western cruise missile