repulsewarrior wrote: truth is, it is a paper tiger.
Curious, isn't it? Why has Russia demonstrated so little of its fire power in this war if it has it?
Two weeks on and the Ukraine has no air-force or air defenses left, so the little air power (80?) Russia had sent there appears to have achieved its objective of clearing the skies.
If however some foolish European country or coalition thereof, were to attempt something stupid over soviet territory it’ll take Russia about 10-15 minutes for the serious air power to reach the Ukrainian skies to confront the fools.
Russia’s arsenal is massive both in quality and quantity so the notion that such a European front will achieve a “no fly” zone over soviet territory, is very optimistic and extremely suicidal.
Do you know what America is gonna say to the EU if they do something stupid alone?
“We didn’t authorize this… you’re on your own!”
… because NATO is all about a unanimous voted decision or an American led decision, and not the initiative of the other individual members.
So the likes of Poland had better not initiate anything stupid thinking that the US will come to save them because Vlad may well end up nuking Warsaw, and the Yanks will then say…
“Tough titties Poland, we’re not gonna start WWIII just because you went in without permission!”.
The US and Russia seem to have a clear understanding of all these rules, but the credulous European baboons appear to be drunk in ignorance. Here’s hoping that they’ll give Uncle Sam a call before making any dumb moves.
