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If there is one thing that is flying under the radar but not for too long imo, it is the german behaviour
When France and Italy stopped to trade luxury goods (hitting hard their industry) Germany is still selling machine-tools
Because otherwise there will be plenty of unemployement and hungry people in the cold (i am sure the Ukrainians are feeling sad)
And BTW, what is helping more russian military apparatus : Prada suits or high precision industrial tools
 
I guess this is going to be the new myth. Russia had a hard time because it fought against the whole world.

But Russia was only against Ukraine. Equipped with more modern weapons, and training...but only against Ukraine.

That song is probably the last thing a psycho shooting in the crowd hears in his head before firing his weapon...And I love Disneyworld
Many insane threats. This war isn't going to be decades long. They may want to be the size of the CCCP but I bet they don't want to live like the CCCP. Create their own personal Iran. That won't improve Russia. They are not controlled by an ideology only a short F***er with a big ego.,
 
If there is one thing that is flying under the radar but not for too long imo, it is the german behaviour
When France and Italy stopped to trade luxury goods (hitting hard their industry) Germany is still selling machine-tools
Because otherwise there will be plenty of unemployement and hungry people in the cold (i am sure the Ukrainians are feeling sad)
And BTW, what is helping more russian military apparatus : Prada suits or high precision industrial tools
The excuse for seimens that some of their turbines are now controlled by Russians. They have no side like the Swiss.
 
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Iran was desperate, well I guess so is Russia. i've flown planes that had airframe damges that were repaired by OEM, they were never the same afterwards. They can probably get it flying but we are talking months, if they rushed it. Hell even if we go by weeks, do the Russians have that time?
I assume it only takes a few days to redeploy planes from other regions, there's no need to wait for any damaged ones to be repaired. There's no immediate threat around any of the other borders.

You know, I have wondered about this particular claim, counter-claim cloud of brown mist.

Is it possible that this stems from a Ukrainian long range attack very early on that struck an airfield inside Russia? Do you remember that?

Is it possible they caught IL76 on the ground here? And that generated the nugget which evolved into these stories.

Because the only other way I can feature multiple IL76 going down at that time and not being found yet is if it went into the water.
It wasn't hearsay, I believe the US government would know if the planes were hit in flight or on the ground.

Yes, but if we accept the threat now, and we dont act, even though most would want to help the Ukrainians, and militarily its better to bleed Russia in Ukr, than Poland.

So next time, Russia invents some pretext to invade Lithuania, and warns us to keep out or get nuked, what are we going to do?

Hopefully our leaders have good information, that the Russian army is F***ed, and we are just waiting for the endgame, hence the downplaying of this threat.
I hope there's a realistic plan in the works, waiting for the Russian army to bleed itself to death might take some time and every day this war goes on both sides lose. So there are two options, give the Ukrainians the means to push the Russians back fast or start considering making some compromises at the negotiation table. How things stand today, there's no reason for Russia to make peace while not achieving any of its objectives, they still have military capabilities, there is no major civil unrest back home, sanctions will take a while to have any significant effect on military operations. They won't suddenly grow a conscience and by the time Russia can't afford the war, half of Ukraine will look like Syria. Who will fork out the trillion needed to rebuild and improve the country?

I flew on Aeroflot in 2014 coming back from Japan. Much better airline than anticipated or advertised. A330 neat and clean, professional crew.

I guess when they run out of parts, they'll have to roll out some IL 62' s that could'nt reach Cuba without stopping in Gander for fuel. Memory lane for the Russians...this is what communism was capable of manufacturing.

Could they get around the boycott by using firms from other countries? I'm sure anyone trying to work with Russian airlines will be warned they may become blacklisted themselves, but how many firms can they sanction before your own citizens board planes that are lacking maintanance. I have a feeling spare parts will find their way into Russia.
DPR claims 20 people died, but there was no blood visible.
Is this a video from the Donetsk? I see a Russian flag on one of the stores and those people look really dead to me.

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How the heck did it get there? It's far outside the range of any known Russian position inside Ukraine. Maybe Russian cells monitoring the Polish Romanian border with UAVs?
 
I assume it only takes a few days to redeploy planes from other regions, there's no need to wait for any damaged ones to be repaired. There's no immediate threat around any of the other borders.


It wasn't hearsay, I believe the US government would know if the planes were hit in flight or on the ground.


I hope there's a realistic plan in the works, waiting for the Russian army to bleed itself to death might take some time and every day this war goes on both sides lose. So there are two options, give the Ukrainians the means to push the Russians back fast or start considering making some compromises at the negotiation table. How things stand today, there's no reason for Russia to make peace while not achieving any of its objectives, they still have military capabilities, there is no major civil unrest back home, sanctions will take a while to have any significant effect on military operations. They won't suddenly grow a conscience and by the time Russia can't afford the war, half of Ukraine will look like Syria. Who will fork out the trillion needed to rebuild and improve the country?



Could they get around the boycott by using firms from other countries? I'm sure anyone trying to work with Russian airlines will be warned they may become blacklisted themselves, but how many firms can they sanction before your own citizens board planes that are lacking maintanance. I have a feeling spare parts will find their way into Russia.

Is this a video from the Donetsk? I see a Russian flag on one of the stores and those people look really dead to me.

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I dont maintain airliners, but just as with your modern car, they want the actual serial number, to look up what they built, to find a spare part, so while there will be grey/clone parts out of you know where, it wont meet FAA etc rules. And as someone mentioned 2000 pages ago, where are you going to fly too, and what are you going to spend while you are there? Russia doesnt need these planes, except to replace all the il76 they lost.
 
I hope there's a realistic plan in the works, waiting for the Russian army to bleed itself to death might take some time and every day this war goes on both sides lose. So there are two options, give the Ukrainians the means to push the Russians back fast or start considering making some compromises at the negotiation table. How things stand today, there's no reason for Russia to make peace while not achieving any of its objectives, they still have military capabilities, there is no major civil unrest back home, sanctions will take a while to have any significant effect on military operations. They won't suddenly grow a conscience and by the time Russia can't afford the war, half of Ukraine will look like Syria. Who will fork out the trillion needed to rebuild and improve the country?
Well, that's thing. Bleed the Russian military, sure. But Ukraine will be destroyed in the meantime. If Russia tries to take Kiev, Russian casualties will be horrendous. But tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians will also die. And the city will be destroyed. I'm all for de-escalation right now. The Russian military has taken a beating and the world has seen it. 15-20K casualties, ( dead and wounded), hundreds of tanks destroyed, over 1,000 IFVs. Asking China, Syria, Chechnya and Belarus for help. Pathetic. No one will look at them the same way again.

If you want to hurt Russia. STOP buying Russian oil. Of course, it looks like China will now buy all the energy it can get from Russia as well as wheat. But these things are simply global commodities and their prices can be manipulated - if we had leaders who were smart enough to do it..
 
I dont maintain airliners, but just as with your modern car, they want the actual serial number, to look up what they built, to find a spare part, so while there will be grey/clone parts out of you know where, it wont meet FAA etc rules. And as someone mentioned 2000 pages ago, where are you going to fly too, and what are you going to spend while you are there? Russia doesnt need these planes, except to replace all the il76 they lost.
Even North Korea has domestic flights... It won't be a big demand for flights but I'm pretty sure Russians would still want to take the plane from Moskow to Vladivostok. I meant genuine spare parts sold at inflated prices to the Russians by third parties.
 

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