If Russian media is to be believed there are already a whole bunch of NATO corpses, usually advisors and training staff garrisoned near the front.

Amazing. An entire city dedicated to dumping shit on the ground and wondering why they have rats

Kanye's PA this morning

"But they're just TV shows" "it's not that deep" etc. I would implore you to listen to this excellent episode of Citations Needed..

It covers how modern cop shows were invented directly to counter shows that portrayed defence lawyers as the protagonists, along with a general push to lionize the police state despite its inability to prevent crime or deliver real justice.

I know this is being played out like Ubisoft is getting unfair treatment here, but I'm going to be very unsurprised when the underlying cause is some bullshit DRM or kernel level bullshit that should never have been bundled with something as frivolous as a videogame

"delicate diplomacy" didn't do shit so now she's about three months from joining some rebel faction in Myanmar

If Assad was truly on that plane, then maybe it's time Russian proxy leaders and client statesmen learn to NOT to board a Russian plan the moment you've royally pissed off your Kremlin handlers.

The F-16s were always a gimmick. They're easily outmatched by modern Russian aircraft (in the numbers Ukraine was given) and take ages to train on since Ukrainian pilots are used to Soviet aircraft.

Even without hypothetical air-to-air combat (which is a distant memory in this war) even the S-200 system is capable of taking down an F-16 so the more modern systems are more than a threat.

Their usefulness was mainly as a carrier for the "deep strike" missiles (Storm shadow) in order to give them decent range, but that was quickly shuttled after Russian Kinzhals started meticulously hunting down any F-16s they could find on the ground.

EDIT: Wikipedia claims 9 are combat ready

let them fight.

SEND IRAN THE YELLOW CAKE, SUPREME LEADER

Understandable if true, but it also seems concerning that Israel was supposedly just throwing bombs in whatever devices could fit them after the pagers were infiltrated. Physical access will always trump any security practice. Israel could easily infiltrate a batch in transit if they had the need to.

That being said, the 2nd best time to dump all of your secure Comms would be just as the enemy gives away that your Comms might be Laden with explosives

Lemmy dot world definitely doesn't circlejerk, no siree.