Private jumbo jets fly US weapons for Ukraine to Europe

LOL

EXACTLY !!

Your first sentence is incomplete, and undecipherable. Your second sentence tells me, and anyone who has worked deeply within the framework of operational security that you have not.

GAO accounts publicly disclose these flights it is not secret. The US government wants Russia to know about lethal aid being sent to Ukraine. The State Department OKed the release to Ukraine of intelligence that assisted in sinking of the Moscva and the downing of Russian aircraft because killing Russian soldiers is what defeating their world destabilizing aggression requires.

Really, demented? I'm guessing you are a Trump fan. Thank God we have a President who will stand up to the "demented" Putin, who is a dangerous, unstable, mentally deranged killer of innocent babies, children, women, and men. If it takes a hot war to rid the world of Putin, so be it.

It was a joke. Tongue in cheek

Except Putin is pushing the narrative we are at War with Russia. His pal the Pope blames NATO for the War on Ukraine - see a recent WSJ opinion piece.

Other than trump said we were leaving more than a few months before HIS leaving...I saw no major movements of material out of Afghanistan. Or did you forget that tidbit of information?

Darn. I wanted to send a picture of Slim Pickens as Major T. J King Kong riding the nuclear bomb down. I lived through several near misses of WW3. Luckily, cooler heads than yours. prevailed.

No they won't.

These are Oblamer the-gang-that-couldn't-shoot-straight folks running this show.

They actually have a CJC who shared info with the CPC when supposedly worried that TRUMP would start a war (you know, the guy who ended the Islamic State, killed Baghdadi and Soleimani and was responsible for the Abraham Accords).

Why do you think Trump was the only President this millenium because of whom Putin didn't dare take land that wasn't Russia's?

Trump would never have abandoned Afghanistan. He would have wound it down and left Kandahar and at least Bagram just like the US still has bases in Europe because of WWII and the Soviets.

And he CERTAINLY would not have done it during fighting season.

Do you think it was a coincidence that tbe Taliban killed not one US troop since Trump told them they'd get the same treatment other US enemies received if that were to happen?

Carrying water for the current admin is TDS run amok and responsible for the current state of affairs in, among many places, Afghanistan.

That's why legions of us can't bring ourselves to believe 81 million Americans voted for Hunter's dad.

Oh he got the ballots.

Just not the votes.

Yeah, that's equally as dumb.

A Few...

I don't recall getting it, but knowing that I was on an exercise in Korea didn't matter, though I did have a roll of film confiscated.

oh no, not opsec again.

I would disagree. Even with the simple flight tracking tools we have available to us now, we could track almost anything heading out of Dover in that general direction. Why risk it?

God, I sure hope you’re not in charge of anything important that requires rational thinking, like flying an airliner or something. Your hypothesis has already been tested by MH17 and resulted in 298 deaths. I guess you just love the idea of mass slaughter.

Which part is bullshit? The danger to aircraft in a war zone civilian or otherwise?

You're a putin apologist. Seek kremlin work somewhere else.

Yup.

Link: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/03/07/big-risk-of-weapons-vanishing-as-over-20-countries-send-arms-to-ukraine/

"Risk of weapons vanishing as over 20 countries send arms to Ukraine
Diversion to the black market was already a problem there. Now that the pipeline is flowing, there needs to be more controls."


Ukraine struggled with diversion before the Russian invasion, with civilians and soldiers alike funneling weapons into an expansive illicit weapons trafficking network. Although Ukraine ramped up investigations into the theft of military property in 2014, diversion of small and major arms persisted. A Small Arms Survey briefing on illicit arms flows in 2017, for example, found that, of the more than 300,000 small arms that disappeared from Ukraine from 2013 to 2015, only about 13 percent were ever recovered.

As a report from the Stimson Center notes, the risk of diversion of these war-fighting weapons is even higher for international weapons transfers. In fact, the Global Organized Crime Index found Ukraine’s role as a key link in the global arms trade has only grown since conflicts intensified in eastern Ukraine in recent years. This is a bad omen for the recent influx of international arms transfers. On February 28 alone, for example, Finland pledged to deliver 2,500 assault rifles, 150,000 cartridges for those rifles, and 1,500 single-shot anti-tank weapons; Norway donated up to 2,000 M72 anti-tank weapons; Croatia announced it would send $18 million worth of rifles, machine guns, and protective equipment; and the Italian Parliament is considering sending Stinger surface-to-air missiles, anti-tank weapons, machine guns, and counter-IED systems.

And they breed! ! ! !

Quit drinking the Kool-aid

While this scenario is unlikely, the much-more-plausible lies of the establishment (covid vaccines prevent infection and transmission, masks work, mandates, curfews and shutdowns are/were worth the damage the scale of which is yet to be determined) were and are still absorbed by much of the general public.

Always demand links to any pronouncement and don't just ignore it because it is not sanctioned by the authorities.

We are all lied to daily by someone.

Always follow the
money and ask who benefits.

For instance, do you support the effort in Ukraine to the extent that nuclear weapons might be used.

Do you understand that the same people who call Putin insane are inducing him to consider using his nukes?

If you know Russia has the most nuclear weapons on the planet and that many of them are unstoppable ICBMs, what is the endgame for this conflict?

Hard choices.

Westerners presumably want all the world to be democratic but it isn't and this is a fact with which we must deal.

Oh, and consider that Trump is so far the only President under whose watch the Russians did NOT take territory the world deems (deemed 😏) not theirs.

Foreign policy matters. 😉