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32 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

You have to believe that the Ukrainians are monitoring every negative thing said about Trump and America - and immediately passing the quotes onto the White House (like they did on a visit a couple months ago).   I truly hope they are continuing to do that, as I think it is one of their more effective arguments to get mote kit and intelligence from the US.   

They need to get some secret poll of world leaders to view Trump as weak, unlike Putin.  You have to believe that Russian state TV will pounce on that and reinforce it.  While Trump will be pissed, he’ll probably start dumping stuff into Ukraine.

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I'm beginning to think that Ukraine is getting reliable intelligence on when Air Defense Systems are being moved. The attacks seem random in location, but overall strategic. Like they have a list of 10 of targets each day, and know which ones have air defense and which ones have a Toyota with a machine gun in the back. 

Might be causing some of those defense system to be in constant movement rather than actually defending anything. 

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42 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

I'm beginning to think that Ukraine is getting reliable intelligence on when Air Defense Systems are being moved. The attacks seem random in location, but overall strategic. Like they have a list of 10 of targets each day, and know which ones have air defense and which ones have a Toyota with a machine gun in the back. 

Might be causing some of those defense system to be in constant movement rather than actually defending anything. 

They planted explosives by hand on pipelines on the other side of Moscow, so we know they have operatives deep inside of Russia .plus, even though the head of Ukrainian intelligence is young, he made his reputation operating behind Russian lines after 2014.

I feel like they have a lot of intelligence on Russian AD deployments.  Russia may not even be moving stuff around, they maybe pretty tapped out.

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5 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

Shadow fleet tankers actually being destroyed is new.  At some point, you have to think that the owners don’t want to risk losing the ships (since the ships are probably uninsurable), rather than take Putin‘s generous payments for running that risk.   

Black market entrepreneurs are greedy, but I’d imagine that they aren’t so greedy that they will risk losing their main assets once that situation turns from a possible to a probable scenario.

They probably have their transponders turned off, but would be interesting to see if tankers are leaving the Black Sea through the Straits riding high

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Sorry to continue the derail regarding B-24s, Ploesti, etc. I thought some might find it interesting that the 376th bomb group donated all of their records to the Briscoe Center at UT. 

I learned this researching my great-great uncle's plane. He was a tail gunner and was KIA over Budapest on July 2, 1944.

https://briscoecenter.org/support/endowments/376th-endowed-internship/

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Story from survivor of his plane: https://www.armyaircorps-376bg.com/kesler_earl_440702.html

 

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3 hours ago, Jameslaw121 said:

I'm beginning to think that Ukraine is getting reliable intelligence on when Air Defense Systems are being moved. The attacks seem random in location, but overall strategic. Like they have a list of 10 of targets each day, and know which ones have air defense and which ones have a Toyota with a machine gun in the back. 

Might be causing some of those defense system to be in constant movement rather than actually defending anything. 

They're definitely getting the good stuff from us now.

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