Thoughts? “Muh hypersonics” has been a defense commentary talking point for a few ars now.
EDIT: found an actual video of what is supposed to be the strike:
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I think that the first Missile strike on that foreign soldier training facility made NATO/The USA shit bricks,and this will make it even worse for them.
Anyway, here is a picture of the "repair factory" that got hit:
My, looks like there are a lot of combat aircraft on the adjacent field, me wonders if perhaps a lot of their ammo didn't go out in smoke.Or maybe the actual airfield was the target, or all those aircraft are there because they are in the process of being repaired and Russia didn't target them because they are foreign-owned, dunno.
Long-term this will degrade any and all war-making abilities for Ukraine, and I stand by my theory that the actual invasion will be mostly over once the mega-cauldron in the East is closed and boiled over.
Looks like Russia is actively going after remaining Uki Airforce assets now, it might be possible that the Belarussians might try and get a piece of Rivne Oblast, as there is some Belarussian population, that would make Lovov's district encircled by foreign borders from 3 sides and get the Poles in the area to succeed from whatever is left of Ukraine and petition to join Poland proper.
It will also give Kachinski's opposition a boost in the form of "but muh suffering Polish brothers" and "gibs back our Lovov" style rhetoric.
Kachinski, btw, is the one who is the real power behind the throne in Poland's current government and a rabid Russia hater for a host of reasons, some of them apparently being his delusion that the Russians killed his brother during an airplane crash at Katin.
Long-term Lovov, the refugee waves, EU sanctions and the economic damage will probably split Poland politically.
At some point some segment of their rightwing will be like "yeah, this shit is not working, and we keep getting buttfucked by the EU, time to rethink our relationship with the Russians."
Only Nixon can go to China and all that jazz.
90% chance they take Eastern Ukraine in some form, with the Dnieper serving as the new border.
75% chance they try and cut off the South, with a new Republic appearing there.
50% chance Belarus tries to pull something off with Rivne.
70 to 90% chance that Lovov becomes a hot potato between Poland and what is left of Ukraine.
Anyways, back to events closer at hand:
Big pro-Russia/anti-NATO protests in Bulgaria despite the government trying to divert attention from the war and the USA's Affirmative Action Defense Secretary coming to beg for our C-300s to give to Ukraine by jailing, then releasing our former Prime Minister and Chief Kleptokrat of many years with the aid of the EU's prosecutor general.
Also, as with our COIVD lockdown protests this is getting next to zero coverage.
In funnier news, we get more Ukrainian crossdressing:
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