Russia's showing NATO its hand in the air war over Ukraine (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 4 months ago

"'It's been surprising they're adapting over time through trial and error,' Justin Bronk, an airpower expert at the UK's Royal United Services Institute, said."

Justin Bronk, "airpower expert," thinks a major military power with a long-established air force "adapting over time through trial and error" is "surprising." Quite the scoop.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 months ago

"We tried turning off the lights on tall pylons and buildings, knowing which way the Russians flew and hoping they would fly into these static structures but the pilots saw through the ruse. They are a lot more adaptable than we thought."

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

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[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 4 months ago

Bronk said that "it's so much cheaper and easier" to invest now in the capabilities to deter Russia than it is "to actually invest in the forces capable of fighting an extended war for six months, a year, two years."

This is the important part, isn't it. "Invest more money, but don't worry about the long term, just hand over the cash, the short term is what matters here."

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 months ago

Line has to go up

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago

welcome to capitalism :)

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

an extended war for six months

An extended love making session of two minutes.

[-] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

That's a disingenuous read, this is obviously a "stitch in time saves nine" case where long term thinking leads to short term investment to avoid long term blow out costs.

You can argue that this investment will not succeed in avoiding protracted war or that it is unnecessary as Russia has no ambitions to extend the war outside Ukraine but I don't think this article can be accused of not worrying about the long term whether or not you agree that it's worries are founded.

[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't understand how you come to the conclusion that such a read of it is disingenuous. It's a publication called Business Insider from the western empire, an empire that has a history of war profiteering and putting short term thinking over long term. I could see a point that it's foolish to think nobody in the western empire is trying to think strategically in the long term, but I would figure those are more the people in think tanks and backrooms, not writing pieces for a publication that sound like a pitch to investors.

If there is a part of the article you think especially demonstrates sincere long term thinking, feel free to quote it and I will look at it. Calling a read of this that syncs right up with the chronic observable tendencies of the western empire "disingenuous" is odd to me, to say the least. Reductive, maybe, but disingenuous?

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 4 months ago

Absurd levels of cope here.

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 months ago

we've basically had two years of non stop coping from western media

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