Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted March 9, 2022 Posted March 9, 2022 The link is to BBC 'Today' this morning. Nick Robinson interviewed Maria Butina who is a Putin loyalist. If you go to 1h 50m and within less than a minute he introduces her. Maria Butina Prepare to be astounded. Quote
corsechris Posted March 9, 2022 Posted March 9, 2022 Not astounded at all frankly. What would anyone expect from a member of the Duma other than the party line? It's just the doctrine of 'the big lie' Oddly enough, something most effectively used by Hitler despite the fact he accused Viennese Jews of using it to discredit the actions of Germany in WW1. And of course, not to forget, saying anything to the contrary is now an offence with a potential 15 year prison sentence. I've said before, I think the entire Russian State Machinery is complicit in this, and they know it. Putin has built an almost unassailable structure of shared guilt. Getting them out of power is almost impossible, as almost to a (wo)man, they know very well that if regime change comes, they are going to find themselves on a naughty list for their actions, be these actions domestic or foreign, and they'll have to answer for them. Of course, there will be quite a chunk of them who think what they are doing is 100% right and proper anyway. The premise of "I was only following orders" has long been established as no defence for the sort of crimes we are seeing now, so all they can do is keep telling that big lie and carry on. I just feel sorry for the average Russian who want's nothing more than to live in peace. They've been victims of their leaders madness for a very, very long time. Quote
McFrancis Posted March 9, 2022 Posted March 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Man On The Clapham Omnibus said: The link is to BBC 'Today' this morning. Nick Robinson interviewed Maria Butina who is a Putin loyalist. If you go to 1h 50m and within less than a minute he introduces her. Maria Butina Prepare to be astounded. Wow, sounds a nice girl. Quote
clansman Posted March 10, 2022 Posted March 10, 2022 On 28/02/2022 at 22:00, corsechris said: Lots of interesting flights on FR24 at the moment. Small ‘business’ jets, no callsigns, no registration, no flight info, just the most basic flight data….Moscow to Istanbul, Moscow to Nice, Nice to Istanbul. Been seeing an awful lot of Air Pink flights to and from Moscow too. If only I was rich enough to boycott them Also spotted an RAF Typhoon GR4 circuiting around the border of Ukraine and Romania along with a KC2 tanker keeping it topped off. Probably more than one Typhoon there at a guess. Not seeing the Global Hawks any more. No doubt they are still there, just not showing up any more. As always, what I find interesting is why ‘they’ choose to show us what they do from time to time. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae5420 Global Hawk up today but over Greece ! If you select the U at the top of the screen it filters out all “ normal” traffic and only shows military aircraft 1 Quote
corsechris Posted March 10, 2022 Posted March 10, 2022 14 minutes ago, clansman said: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae5420,4d03ca Global Hawk up today but over Greece ! That one left Siognela yesterday at about 10:00 and was looping over the Black Sea all day yesterday until starting to make it's way back to base. Fascinating how the different platforms show different amounts of data - FR24 doesn't show that E3F over Chelm shown on your linked site at all. I've found that most of the in-flight refuelling tasks have a callsign beginning with LAGR (FR24 showing 4 active at the moment) and all the Global Hawk missions I've seen lately have a callsign beginning FORTE I'm waiting for ANONYMOUS to hack the ADSB system and change all Russian flight credentials to something rude like they did with that super yacht recently. 1 Quote
Nemesis Posted March 10, 2022 Posted March 10, 2022 Yes I was a Royal Navy Medic in a former life, I saw some 'interesting' times and I got my marksman badge early on in my career, Please get me within a mile of the crazed Russian loony..... I'll do the rest, I promise. 2 Quote
Glen_I Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 We don't want any clean headshots though......make him suffer!! 😠 Quote
CarbonWest - Chris Broster - Bristol & Bath AO Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 23 hours ago, corsechris said: That one left Siognela yesterday at about 10:00 and was looping over the Black Sea all day yesterday until starting to make it's way back to base. You'd be surprised at the range of the sensors on the GH and what it can see and track from afar. Why go danger close when you can stay safe away... Quote
corsechris Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 Spotted this the other day but didn't know what it was at the time. I see it's back on duty today. The larger jet to it's left is, I think, LAGR240 in-flight refuelling and there's also an EP-3E Orion in the area. Highly likely they have a few F15s keeping them company: It's a prototype replacement for the 'Guardrail' sig-int aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_RC-12_Guardrail This new one is called 'Artemis' and is based on a Bombardier Challenger 650. Not much information about it in the public domain but I found this: https://www.defensenews.com/land/2021/05/27/looking-at-high-speed-isr-jet-capability-us-army-deploys-demonstrator-to-europe/ Quote
corsechris Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 Just now, Chris Broster - Bristol & Bath AO said: You'd be surprised at the range of the sensors on the GH and what it can see and track from afar. Why go danger close when you can stay safe away... Indeed, I saw an interesting map showing tracks of recent surveillance aircraft and just how far they can see into Ukraine etc. Can't find it now Quote
corsechris Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 Watched 'The Courier' last night. Seemed apt..... Just have to hope there are a few more folk like Oleg Penkovsky about in the Kremlin corridors. Interesting piece in the news this morning suggesting there are some rumblings coming from unexpected places in Russia about just how bad an idea the invasion is, with references to Afghanistan and how bad that was for the USSR. Quote
CarbonWest - Chris Broster - Bristol & Bath AO Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 All depends on what your intent is See if and what is there and where it is going OR track something to target and attack? It is fascinating to see what sensors/platforms are being brought to bear by the West to 'see' into UKR and BEL and RUS but also that Putin thinks he can operate in UKR oblivious that every citizen has a phone and hence is a media outlet - he controls that IN RUS but not in UKR. 1 Quote
corsechris Posted March 11, 2022 Posted March 11, 2022 I saw that NATO are providing almost real-time info to Ukraine from some of the surveillance, so that has to be a big help. I guess it can give the Ukrainians help with both attack & defence. Hard to know how deluded/misinformed Putin is really. Lots of commentary that he's been largely isolated for a good while now, just plotting & planning in his head. How true that is, who knows. Can't imagine that the Putin of even 5 years ago would have made such a colossal blunder as he just has. He may be evil, but he was certainly smart. Sadly, it won't be that hard for Russia to destroy large chunks of the phone network in Ukraine. Somewhat surprising it's still working as well as it is? Bad for Putin that it does though, as you say. Quote
Blatman Posted March 14, 2022 Posted March 14, 2022 https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/alastair-campbell-my-dinners-with-putin-41440895.html I have a bit more time for Alistair Campbell now he's not toadying up to Blair. And irrespective of that, I think it's an interesting piece. Quote
Captain Colonial Posted March 15, 2022 Posted March 15, 2022 Elsewhere in Britain…. mixed messages: Quote
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