Ukraine War

[IFocus]

As long as he's home by bushfire season it should be fine.
By the way did we go back to buying the diesel subs?
Also he probably hasnt been in one spot long enough to organise a lunch menu, let alone a free trade agreement.
The bit China wants, we're sitting on, they already have third world bits of their own, without picking up Frances bits. Lol

Isn't there a conversation about building more diesel subs to get us through to when the nuclear subs will be ready and obsolete?

For China to take Australia they really need at least one but preferably more than two secure forward bases, guess where that will be?

 

[IFocus]

How many of those items existed beside the submarine debacle when scomo was on holidays during the fires. The man is not a time traveller to attend things that didn't exist at the time.

Also why would NATO want us in it, NATO is not meant to be the the EU army to take over the world as much as the EU are trying to make it that way.

The Chinese move into the Pacific has been talked about for some time its not new, having the French onside is important not that you would rely on them when push comes to shove still any thing that makes the Chinese blink is worth it.

As for the NATO visit suspect the building relationships was more about setting up support for the free trade agreement, then there is the longer term armaments' and military hardware support to counter the US possible slow reaction should the US elect another Trump US 1st president and we have a problem.

 

[sptrawler]

Isn't there a conversation about building more diesel subs to get us through to when the nuclear subs will be ready and obsolete?

We already have diesel subs, but if there is a backhander to be made, it is always an option.?

For China to take Australia they really need at least one but preferably more than two secure forward bases, guess where that will be?

I've already stated that ages ago, Indonesia and Solomons, with possibly a third base in East Timor.

 

[3 hound]

Well the Solomon's are clear where they stand and who they look to and align with, hint: it's not Australia.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07...olice-equipment-for-solomon-islands/101213248

 

[sptrawler]

Oh the irony, I wonder if the media will go ape$hit about this breach of confidentiality, probably not.
Australia seem to be in a new media friendly paradigm now.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to reveal private telephone exchanges in a documentary about his failed efforts to convince Vladimir Putin not to start a war in Ukraine has drawn strongly-worded rebuke from Russia.

“When calls are made at the highest level this of course is confidential, these are closed-doors negotiations,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

 

[3 hound]

Oh the irony, I wonder if the media will go ape$hit about this breach of confidentiality, probably not.
Australia seem to be in a new media friendly paradigm now.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to reveal private telephone exchanges in a documentary about his failed efforts to convince Vladimir Putin not to start a war in Ukraine has drawn strongly-worded rebuke from Russia.

“When calls are made at the highest level this of course is confidential, these are closed-doors negotiations,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

Don't people like Assange get their lives destroyed over such things.

 

[sptrawler]

Don't people like Assange get their lives destroyed over such things.

That last one the media took to bits over such things, was Morrison, funnily enough it was to defend Macron.
Like I said ironic, but IMO that's our media, crap on our own and kowtow to everyone one else, sniveling bunch of breath wasters IMO.

 

[3 hound]

That last one the media took to bits over such things, was Morrison, funnily enough it was to defend Macron.
Like I said ironic, but IMO that's our media, crap on our own and kowtow to everyone one else, sniveling bunch of breath wasters IMO.

Well an unbiased media is essential for a functioning democracy....

 

[mullokintyre]

According to The Evil Murdoch Empire , Russia has introduced a new "weapon" into the war.
By occupuying Nuclear plants, surrounding them with guns. mines tanks etc, they have effectively made these items unable to be fired on.
Smart thinking.

The Russian army is transforming Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into a military base overlooking an active front, intensifying a monthslong safety crisis for the vast facility and its thousands of staff.
At the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, more than 500 Russian soldiers who seized the plant in March have in recent weeks deployed heavy artillery batteries and laid antipersonnel mines along the shores of the reservoir whose water cools its six reactors, according to workers, residents, Ukrainian officials, and diplomats. The Ukrainian army holds the towns dotted on the opposite shore, some three miles away, but sees no easy way to attack the plant, given the inherent danger of artillery battles around active nuclear reactors.

The new infusion of weaponry effectively shields the plant from a counter-attack by Ukrainian forces, and amounts to something the carefully regulated atomic-energy industry has never seen before: the slow-motion transformation of a nuclear power station into a military garrison. In a lesser-scrutinised aspect of its war strategy, the Russian army is day-by-day positioning the weaponry around a nuclear plant that is among the world’s largest, using it to cement control of the front line where their advance through southern Ukraine ground to a halt.

This technique may be a useful one in future conflicts, provided of course those doing the attacking think it is also a bad ides to bomb a Nuclear plant.
Mick

 

[3 hound]

This technique may be a useful one in future conflicts, provided of course those doing the attacking think it is also a bad ides to bomb a Nuclear plant.

Lol.

 

[basilio]

When millions of people start starving to death around the world and overthrow their Governments in anger and despair don't forget which brutal bastard caused the famine.

This is Russia at war with the world.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

good copy

Inside the battle on the Eastern Front

I was given access to a secret Ukrainian base

unherd.com

Beyond Ukraine, Dima is especially positive about two things, or rather, two people. “Elon Musk’s Starlink is what changed the war in Ukraine’s favour,” he tells me. “Russia went out of its way to blow up all our comms. Now they can’t. Starlink works under Katyusha fire, under artillery fire. It even works in Mariupol.”

“I know you British have a complicated relationship with your Prime Minister, but here Boris Johnson has become something of a national hero,” he continues. “The NLAWs you have given us are the best. Easy to use — lock, load and move. Without them we wouldn’t be taking out so many Russian tanks. We knew from the beginning that Britain was a very ancient and important nation. Now we know it’s a country that stands by its word.”

and another one from the 'southern front'

Inside the Ukrainian resistance

In Kherson, Russian collaborators are being hunted

unherd.com

 

[Dona Ferentes]

and also featuring in this BBC report

Ukraine-Russia: Hidden tech war as Slovyansk battle looms

Ukrainian volunteers are taking part in a largely unseen battle to defend their territory with drones.

www.bbc.com

Dnipro 1's drone intelligence unit. .... "IT guys who fight". All of them are volunteers. Most of them have a background in information technology, and knew each other before the war started.....

............ Despite Russia's advantage in electronic warfare, Dmytro Podvorchanskyi believes his own troops' commercial experience and background in IT will help give them an edge.

While he sees Ukrainians as highly creative, in contrast he believes the Russian military adheres to more rigid military doctrines. One of his men says in a few years they will be better than the Russians, but the key question is whether they have long enough turn the tide.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

In truth, Russian bombs are targeting not only random people, shops, medical buildings, pets. They are also targeting the whole apparatus of international law governing war crimes, human rights, and terrorism. With every bomb that Russian forces knowingly drop on an apartment building, and every missile they direct at a school or hospital, they are demonstrating their scorn and contempt for the global institutions Russia was once so desperate to join.

- Anne Applebaum

Russia’s War Against Ukraine Has Turned Into Terrorism

The Russian military isn’t just bombing civilians. It’s also targeting the laws and values that protect human rights.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[3 hound]

Russian bombs are targeting not only random people, shops, medical buildings, pets.

a). Targetting

b). Random

Choose one.

 

[Sean K]

a). Targetting

b). Random

Choose one.

I think the words chosen are correct. Russia is targeting civilian buildings. Random people, not military. It's against IHL and LOAC enmeshed in the Geneva Conventions.

 

[3 hound]

I think the words chosen are correct. Russia is targeting civilian buildings. Random people, not military. It's against IHL and LOAC enmeshed in the Geneva Conventions.

Then it might be random bombing of civilian targets perhaps.

Soon as you are 'targetting" it's no longer random - the random part spontaneously disappears. Do you people even physics.

An example would be the US bombing of North Vietnam


A dumb ass bombing in contrast would be what Biden did to that car load of children during the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster.

how is this not totally and blatantly obvious???

Random would involve closing your your eyes or something.

 

[Craton]

Logical or lexical semantics, choose one.

Random targetting is a method of targeting that simply chooses a random angle among the angles that could possibly hit the opponent.

 

[eskys]

3 hound must have lumped targeting and random together as verbs. From what I understand, targeting in this instance is a verb, eg, taking aim. The 'random' describes the public...

 

[3 hound]

Is there a flat distribution on the spectrum of locations where the bombs land within the battleground?

If no then not random.