...in exactly the same way that Adolph Hitler was an irredentist German Nationalist.
Right down to Putin playing "Pan-slavism" in Ukraine exactly the way Hitler did the "German Volk" in Czechoslovakia.
The difference being the Ukrainians people fought tooth and nail...
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...despite their government, while Czechoslovakian elites & people did not.
What really gauls me is the fact that German SPD and American Democratic legislators bought this Russian irredentist bulls--t and took Russian money.
I've ranted enough about the SPD & Gazprom.
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We have several Democratic congressmen and a senior Biden National Security policy maker who took Nord Stream II lobbying money.
Go look them up. I can't use their names, because @TwitterSupport
The one I can mention is the deceased Rep John Conyers ban on US Military
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...contact with the Ukrainian Azov para-military movement because Putin called them "Neo-Nazis" for effectively fighting Putin's Russian irredentist thugs in Donbas.
The word I got at the time Azov was cut off was that Russian lobbying was responsible.
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The US Military *still* cannot provide aid/support to Azov, despite Putin's invasion, thanks to Russian lobbying of Conyers.
The thing Putin made clear in his screed announcing the invasion of Ukraine was that politicians who are calling others "Neo-Nazis" & "Fascist"...
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...in the 21st century are simply projecting their personal identity and political brand/plans onto their opponents.
The example of Putin's use of "Neo-Nazi" & "Fascist" on Ukraine will make those charges use in Western political discourse radioactive...
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...because the immediate counter by those being named such will be
"You're just like Putin. You use "Nazi" on anyone you don't like because you want to be an Evil Nazi to them."
And the people using that counter on such politicians will be correct.
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This is a thread that will explain the implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices based on this photo of a Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile system's right rear pair of tires below & the operational implications during the Ukrainian mud season.🧵
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For the sin of being the new guy, I was the DCMA quality auditor in charge of the US Army's FMTV "vehicle exercise program" at the contractor manufacturing them from the Mid-1990's to the mid-2000's Then we got more new guys.
Short form: Military trucks need to be...
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...turned over and moved once a month for preventative maintenance reasons.
In particular you want to exercise the central tire air inflation system (CTIS) to see if lines have leaks or had insect/vermin nests blocking the system.
James Dunnican's Strategypage.com site had a very interesting analysis column that explains what Russian VDV descents on Ukrainian air bases ran into and the patterns of combat to date with Putin's five invasion axis's.
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Excerpts from the column:
"Russian airborne forces managed to take an airport ten kilometers outside Kyiv. Efforts to use that airport to bring in additional troops were disrupted by the Ukrainian use...
...of Stinger portable anti-aircraft missiles as well as rifle and machine-gun fire at low flying aircraft. The airport was quickly attacked by a Ukrainian army rapid reaction force organized and trained for retaking key locations seized by Russian airborne forces.
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The Russian military has turned the volume on their OTH-B radar to "11" -- AKA wartime frequency & power -- in an attempt to track stealth aircraft & drones. 1/
This is text from the beginning of the previous link:
The Radar Interference Tracker (RIT) is a new tool created by Ollie Ballinger that allows anyone to search for and potentially locate active military radar systems anywhere on earth.
Image- Sentinel-1 interference pattern 2/
It turns out that the Sentinal-1 commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signal frequency is interfered with by C-band radars like those used by Patriot, S-300P FLAP LID & successors, 5N62 SQUARE PAIR, in fact a good number of Russian acquisition and engagement radars. 3/