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I have seen in the western media, much boasting about how Russian air defenses have "failed," to shoot down HIMARS missiles, while, at the same time, bragging how these new systems, operated by western mercenaries, (read, US servicemen,) are making a large impact on the war.
IOW? I suspect, it is only a matter of time before the Russian central command gives the order to unleash the full force of the Russian air-force, and strike those systems directly?
This is, in my estimation, a dangerous escalation, which will lead to American deaths.
So? Naturally Washington wants NATO air forces to defend them.
"One should not be afraid [of HIMARS], one should fight it. It is not a panacea, it is one of the weapons that the enemy uses now," Andrei Kartapolov, head of Russia's State Duma Defense Committee, told TASS on Thursday. "At the same time I want to emphasize that it is foreign specialists, that is to say, mercenaries, who steer it at a target. I don't rule out American servicemen working there."
"The system is serious, but there is a countermeasure—our air defense facilities," the legislator added, claiming that on Wednesday, Russia's air defense shot down 12 missiles over the Antonivka Road Bridge, also known as the Antonovsky Bridge, in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, which is currently occupied by Russian forces.. . . "
Not according to Putin:That is absurd.
The western propaganda continually beats us all over the head, with how Russia is having a hard time, just chewing on Donbas.
In the same breath, you want us to have a hair on fire panic attack that Russia is going to take over all of Europe or even the Balkans.
I have no idea, how you folks take any of this seriously, I really don't.
Even when there are continual statements coming out of Russia, that all they want, is national security, no ambition to take over Europe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday compared himself to the country’s first emperor, Peter the Great, in a speech marking the 350th anniversary of the figure’s birth.
Putin made the comments while visiting a multimedia exhibit about the 18th-century leader, who led a conquest of the Baltic region while at war with Sweden. Putin remarked that Peter the Great viewed the land as rightfully Russian, drawing a connection to the current war Russia is waging against Ukraine.
“He was returning it and strengthening it,” Putin said, according to The New York Times. “Well, apparently, it has also fallen to us to return and to strengthen.”
Putin also noted that when Peter founded the city of St. Petersburg, “none of the countries of Europe recognized it as Russian.”
“It’s impossible — do you understand — impossible to build a fence around a country like Russia,” Putin added.
Putin compares self to Peter the Great, says he is taking back Russian lands
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday compared himself to the country’s first emperor, Peter the Great, in a speech marking the 350th anniversary of the figure’s birth. Putin made …
thehill.com
Putin is clear that the purpose of the invasion of Ukraine is the westward expansion of the Russian empire.