USAF F-22 landing mishap today at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida (🇺🇸).
— Aerospace Intelligence (@space_osint) March 22, 2022
The landing gear collapsed upon landing, causing the aircraft to veer off the runway. There are currently no reports of injuries. pic.twitter.com/J0GWTuKxw2
Have you guys noticed something. I'm not talking about the actual fight between infantry, the armor, not even the artillery duels.
Have you noticed the Ukrainian missile strikes?
They're not hit or miss. They're not "directed" by UAV, scouted by Recon or gathered from knowledge of the area.
Some of the strikes have been damn near surgical.
Those strikes have been of the quality that indicates advanced ISR capabilities that as far as I know Ukraine doesn't possess.
Additionally the strikes indicate that they've been planned to inflict maximum pain.
I have nothing else to base it on but I'm saying aloud that some of these strikes seem to be directed not by Ukrainian forces but by some skilled allied force (don't know from what country).
I'm mostly looking at the fighting around Mariupol. They knocked out a Russian Helicopter Base? Ok. I get that. But they also knocked out HQ units (if I recall correctly 4 of them)?
That smells of the type of professionalism that I haven't seen from the Ukrainians.
I know most will disagree but I believe that while we're not engaging kinetically, there are unseen hands guiding the strikes and perhaps even planning the defense.
All we've seen is Zelensky. No military commander of note on the Ukrainian side.
Someone is in charge of the fight and it ain't the comedian turned President. He's just the figure head.
UPDATE! I wonder if Ukrainian military leadership is even INSIDE Ukraine! With all the strikes we've seen the Russians should have picked off at least ONE high ranking officer by now. They haven't (or it hasn't been broadcast by either side). That tells me they're in Poland, Brussels, Berlin...hell even at the Pentagon!
Yeah boys...its the 25th ID again. They're trying to take over the Pacific! Good thing its big!
In partnership with the Philippine Army, fire control specialists with Battery B, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade, demonstrates the capabilities of the M142 High Mobility Missile Artillery System during a live-fire exercise during Salaknib 2022 on Colonel Ernesto Rabina Air Base, Turlac, Philippines, March 18, 2022. Salaknib is an annual Philippine Army-led, U.S. Army Pacific sponsored bilateral exercise designed to enhance U.S. and Philippine Army capacity and interoperability across the spectrum of military operations, while also strengthening the ties between the two longstanding partner nations. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Matthew Mackintosh, 28th Public Affairs Detachment)
Wow.
The USMC was once capable of fighting across the spectrum of military operations.
Guess that's the Army's baby now.
I was chewing on a few things about the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia and arrived at an obvious but stunning conclusion.
The US/NATO is at this very moment committing acts of war against Russia.
We are at war with Russia.
Drink it in.
It's passive, pussified, weak-ass warfare but its warfare none-the-less.
What put me on this trail is the reports that Biden is going to Europe in a bid to "turn up the economic heat" on Russia. My first thought was geez...what more can we do?
But then I decided to look a few things up. The definition of a Blockaide via Wikipedia.
A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force. A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are legal barriers to trade rather than physical barriers. It is also distinct from a siege in that a blockade is usually directed at an entire country or region, rather than a fortress or city and the objective may not always be to conquer the area.
I contend that with globalization the difference between a blockaide and the way the West is using it from sanctions is simply word play that will thrill only lawyers.
Russia has been cut off from the world's economic system.
But let's dig deeper. The definition of economic warfare via Wikipedia.
Policies and measures in economic warfare may include blockade, blacklisting, preclusive purchasing, rewards and the capturing or the control of enemy assets or supply lines.[3] Other policies, such tariff discrimination, sanctions, the suspension of aid, the freezing of capital assets, the prohibition of investment and other capital flows, and expropriation,[4] even without armed military war, may be referred to[by whom?] as economic warfare.
To put it simply?
The seeds of WW3 has been planted.
Without a doubt if another nation or group of nations attempted to do to us what we did to Russia we'd be mobilizing for full scale combat on a scale that has never been seen in the history of mankind.
The above is why I'm so certain that China will develop an alternative to the current economic system. It's also why I'm positive that the Europeans will be forced to participate in it as will the Middle East, Africa, S. America, Asia and the rest of the world.
Emotionalism over this conflict will lead to the restructuring of the global economic system. Leadership pushed too hard and played too loose with the global economic rules (you don't think that every rich guy is taking steps to get their money in a place where govts can't touch it - which will you trust more, a China seeking to become the new world currency or the US that has shown it'll take your shit without blinking twice?)
People in leadership aren't talking about it, but it explains why they have been so leery of China aiding Russia.
Before this decade is over we'll see one of two things. Further decline on the part of the US or combat with China.
The only other option is to see them rise and accept a diminishing role on the world stage.
The American empire is over.
