Russian Designs and Ukrainian Capabilities
GoebbelsTV announced the goal of the “SVO” — the destruction of Ukraine and nothing more . Got it? Spirituality, culture, history — these are all fairy tales. Modern Russia has one thing in common — the desire to destroy the normal world.
This quote above is short. It has a video of Soloviev life attached to it. Russians have been clear on this. What they want is the utter destruction of Ukraine as a nation and an identity.
It is genocidal in intent. It matches other periods of Russian history. It’s not a joke, even if our political leaders seem lost because of elections. Yes, I know politics gets in the way of good policy, somewhat of a weakness of democratic societies. That is until we get something like a Pearl Harbor event because countries like Russia read our doubts as weakness.
This brings me though to a curious post about dumb bombs falling in Belgorod:
2 more FABs dropped Russian planes on the Belgorod region, ASTRA sources
On March 31, FAB-500 was found near the Nina farmstead. And in the area of the village of Kryukovo they found a crater in which, preliminary, there was also a FAB-500.
Thus, this is already the 16th case in the last 2 weeks.
Now, this is one of those posts that usually is skipped. I admit, the first two I did. But sixteen makes me start asking questions. Mostly, we ground squadrons for doing this at the practice range with lots of safety checks, looks at training, etcetera.
So, are Russians dropping weapons early because pilots don’t want to get shot down? Are there a series of mechanical problems? Is this a training issue? Most of these have fallen on fields and, from what I can tell, have also failed to go off.
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