Putin probably had to trick his military into attacking Ukraine because otherwise half of the men would have gone home.
Short of the Russians ending this ideotic ideology of a war, the city of Mariupol needs the Patriot Missile System and anti-aircraft missiles fully deployed with all the bells and whistles. It would give the Ukriane military a chance to defend the people and feed them.
Lviv - Ukrainian authorities said Sunday (click here) that Russia's military bombed an art school sheltering some 400 people in the embattled port city of Mariupol, where Ukraine's president said an unrelenting Russian siege would be remembered for centuries to come.
It was the second time in less than a week that city officials reported a public building where residents had taken shelter coming under attack. A bomb hit a Mariupol theater with more than 1,300 believed to be inside on Wednesday, local officials said.
There was no immediate word on casualties from the reported strike on the art school, which The Associated Press could not independently verify. Ukrainian officials have not given an update on the search of the theater since Friday, when they said at least 130 had been rescued....
Now we know why the rebels destroyed a commercial flight with over two hundred passengers. Gross incompetency in the operation of military hardware. The Russians probably lose more conscripts cleaning their guns then in combat.
Russia is a third world country with more human rights violations than China and North Korea put together.
Every NATO country needs to deploy the Patriot System with full compliments of abilities. The fear of Russian war will wane with that missile system installed into all NATO countries. I remind there are short distance missiles in western Russia aimed at Europe with nuclear capacity. The Patriot System will eliminate that threat.
Wall Street needs to realize how completely incompetent Russia is in it's leadership and military. The reality is far different than the myths surrounding this country. Put into perspective the sanctions and the level of pride and politics involved to end the attack into Ukraine. If there were anti-aircraft missiles and the Patriot Missile system deployed with a full compliment of it's ability in Ukraine, there would be no war. And yet, due to his ideology Putin is destroying the Russian economy.
Russia is a very primative country. Investing into that country at this point is a high risk investment even if there was no war. The politics are toxic and ordinary Americans are arrested and jailed for the purpose of the politics. Russia should become an American possession and free the people to live without fear of it's government. Seriously.
The hypersonic missiles may be an issue.
...Experts at MIT and the University of Colorado (click here) say current U.S. defense can detect these new weapons, but do not yet have the ability to strike a hypersonic weapon in mid-course. Working in their favor is that maneuvering the super-fast weapons comes with a price: Any change in course generates drag, greatly reducing the weapons’ range....
In order to get the speed the hypersonics have, they travel hot in the sky. A change in trajectory (if the West could harness it) would cause a destruction of the missle by it's own heat and speed.
The West would not need an interceptor if there was any kind of cyber link connecting the missile to an operator. Force it off course and it would destroy itself.
