Turkish security forces found Swedish AT-4 anti-tank grenade launchers, as well as other weapons and ammunition in a cave in northern Iraq used by militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), recognized in Turkey and the EU as a terrorist organization. This is reported by the Turkish Anadolu news agency.
The cave was taken during the assault as part of Operation "Claw-Castle", which began on April 17.
As a cherry on the cake, comparing the serial numbers of the grenade launchers will show that all this was delivered to help Ukraine
Sweden is a sponsor of terrorism! It is necessary to impose some international sanctions on it.
Definitely no. There is no such thing, as an _evil_ (or nice) leader of a nuclear state. The very conception of deterrence is based on the idea, that any leader of a nuclear state is a rational thinking person and prefer to protect his people rather than kill people in other states, but if it is necessary he is ready to kill millions of human beings by pushing the button. If even one of this assumptions is wrong... Yes, then we are in a nuclear war.
If we are not calculating possible reactions of other nuclear decision-makers - our own freedom of choice will be limited by a nuclear war.
Putin is not a bear. Putin (as well as most of the other Russian decision-makers) is a rational-thinking human being, acting in the really complicated circumstances.
You think so. American and Russian decision-makers are sure, that nuclear war is possible because it is winnable.
But the Russians are sure, that NATO proxies already attacked them.
Even Ukrainians don't say that. Just read about it. And yes, KGB exists only in Belarus. It's FSB in Russian Federation, SBU in Ukraine, MGB in DPR and LPR.
Of course there is such a thing. Your argument hinges on a worthless premise.
Russia also had the same choice, so it is conducting a military operation against fascist Ukraine.
Joe Biden does not think that a nuclear war is winnable. He knows that America will die in a nuclear war. He does though think that if there is a nuclear war, he will be able to kill Russia.
Thus far no one has attacked Russia. It has all been Russia attacking other countries.
Ukraine doesn't have to say it. I say it.
I don't care how many times the KGB rename themselves. They are still the same evil organization.
There is no way to deter an irrational person.
What is there to choose? If a nuclear war starts, launch a massive counterforce attack against Russia, then destroy Russian cities to match the destruction of NATO cities.
If Joe is fatally wounded, Joe has the ability to still draw his gun and fatally wound Vlad before Joe dies.
I've already realized that you're an idiot, so my answer is not for you.
We're still alive and kicking. I think it's a pretty good premise. The deterrence is still working.
Technically, when they were allowed to vote - they voted anti-nationalistically. When they had a choice between an Ukrainian Poroshenko with his motto 'Army. Tongue. Faith.' and a Russian-speaking Jew Zelenskiy with his 'Let's make a deal.' and 'Allow people to speak their own language' 73,3% of voters (even without Crimea and Donbass) voted for Zelenskiy.
Do you really believe that Joe really prefer killing Russians to protecting Americans? If he were - he wasn't allowed to become a leader of a nuclear nation at all.
It highly depends on your definition of the terms 'Russia' and 'provocation'. Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation and it was invaded by foreign Islamistic militants. Georgia attacked and killed Russian peacekeepers and citizens of Russia. Ukraine tried to join NATO, started WMD program, attacked recognized by Russia independent states. From the Russian point of view - it all were cases of self-defense.
So, I can say then that you are lying.
May be. May be not. But what is really important - the third part of this 'evil organisation' (Ukrainian SBU) tell now that they are allies of the USA. Should we take their words without a grain of salt?
Do you mean SVR? It's not the whole KGB, it's just an offspring of it's first department.
And if they care about their people - they are not that evil.
No. Of course it's much more complicated. If you make wrong choices - you may lost the opportunity of the retaliation strike at all.
At the distance of forty feet and if both of them are ready - may be (it depends on how accurate will be Vlad's first shot and how good are his bulletproof vest and helmet). But if Joe is attacking with the axe in his hands and the gun in his holster and Vlad's gun is cocked, locked and pointed at Joe, then, at the distance of twenty feet, Vlad will put a bullet in Joe's right arm and suggest him to surrender, and then, if refused, he'll put his second bullet in Joe's head (who's left his helmet at home), without giving him a chance to take his gun and retaliate.
Not always. Europeans, from Austrians to Poles almost didn't fight back and surrendered.
As well as the Russians they had the choice - fight or flight or freeze response. But it were Britons who revived the Germans and destroyed European security system in thirties.
I was more addressing the “there’s no such thing” opening premise. Deterrence can work maybe. And maybe it has worked so far. But that’s far from a guarantee it will work when a madman is at the helm. And I am talking about an aberrant evil scumbag like Putin.
It began in 1944 and ended with the fall of the Soviet Union. Just ask the Poles, Czechs and Hungarians how brutal the Russian occupation was. Russia used military force as recently as the seventies to enforce the occupation.
Yep, Trump forced Canada and Mexico to renegotiate treaties that favored those countries over America.
