Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

"In Russia, the recruitment office of Moscow issued a call-up paper to perform military service to 34-year-old Dmitry Klyukvin, a completely blind man from birth. Russian media reports."

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1577566847670620160

GLSDB är små robotar som har en räckvidd på upp till 150 kilometer. Det innebär att Ukraina får kapacitet att träffa mål bortom frontlinjen.

– Det här ger Ukraina långdistanskapacitet som innebär att de kan försvara sitt land och återerövra sitt suveräna territorium, säger Patrick Ryder, talesperson på Pentagon.

https://omni.se/t/omvarldens-svar/4a00b0fe-f020-44e7-96ba-9c69577cc60e

Vår GLSDB är utvecklad i samarbete med Boeing och är exceptionellt flexibel, mycket effektiv och exakt över långa avstånd.
https://www.saab.com/products/ground-launched-small-diameter-bomb-glsdb

Vilken konstig mening. Jag som trodde att ukrainarna stred för Ukraina och ukrainarnas skull?

Men du menar kanske att ukrainarna egentligen vill bli slavar under massmördaren Putin - alternativt lämna Ukraina och bli livslånga flyktingar över hela jorden?

Om Putin anfaller Sverige och massmördar kvinnor, barn och gamlingar här, medan svenska soldater försöker försvara dem mot Putins mördare, så menar du att svenskarna slåss för USA:s och Ulf Kristerssons skull? Inte för kvinnorna, barnen och gamlingarna?

Someone pointed out that the Russians have had a sorry battlefield performance to this point. Yes, said Orban, it's true. But if you look at Russian history, this is how it goes with the Russians at war. They start out poorly, but after a while, they figure things out, and then become hard to stop. He expects that will be the case this time. He also mentioned at the start of the session that Russia's being pushed into an alliance with Iran is extremely dangerous for Israel, and expressed hope that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, whose adult son was sitting at the table, could become a peacemaker between Russia and Ukraine. Though Ukraine has had some amazing successes against Russia, Orban said in the long term, he can't see that we in the West are on the winning side, especially considering Russia's manufacturing capacity.

Orban talked about being the lone dissenter among the 27 European Union leaders on Ukraine war policy. He said it's very frustrating, because his colleagues in leadership won't debate the wisdom of this war. Why not?

"They don't know who they are," he said bluntly.

He explained that if you asked them to define themselves in relation to the war, they would say, I am the leader of a country standing on the right side of history. That conviction, and being pressed hard by Washington, as well as "fear of the liberal media," is what motivates their thinking -- not a consideration of what's in the best interest of their own countries. Orban said he sees his role as the elected leader of Hungary to help his people deal with the challenges they face today, and to prepare them for tomorrow's challenges. "But I would be the only one to understand [the job] that way," he said.

Orban said French president Emmanuel Macron is the only other European leader who thinks in a visionary way. He said that if he (Orban) proposed that Europe needs to return to its Christian roots to be able to cope with the problems ahead, Macron would disagree, and would propose a liberal ideological strategy. To all the other European leaders, the whole question would seem stupid.

(See, this is one of the reasons I stay frustrated with Western media coverage of Orban. Even if you can't stand his politics, the man is deep. He thinks hard about this stuff, at the level of grand strategies and principles.)

Orban made a pointed, and poignant, remark about the Germans in the current war: "The Germans are suffering because they know what's in their national interest, but they're not able to say it." He meant that the German leadership knows it has no business being involved in a war with Russia, but is, for whatever reasons, unable to say no to Washington.