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[william]

Press conference with Helen McEntee following today’s meeting of Defence Ministers

Russia is hitting Europe with a wave of increasingly kinetic hybrid attacks.With this, Putin wants to scare us away from supporting Ukraine. He will not succeed.To the contrary, we will increase our support and invest in our own defence. We are also planning the most far-reaching sanctions against Russia yet.This is the best way to stop Putin.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2094798437086531832

 

[william]

Closure of the Russian Consulate General in Bonn (Bad Godesberg) is more than a diplomatic measure. The site was one of Russia’s most important remaining land-based #SIGINT nodes in western Germany.

With the closure (by September 18), the local antennas, satellite reception facilities, and the physical presence of technicians and operators will be gone.The ability to intercept microwave links, mobile communications, government radio traffic and unsecured connections in the Bonn–Cologne–Rhineland region on-site will be severely restricted or discontinued. In and around the Cologne/Bonn metropolitan area are numerous intelligence and military facilities of interest to Moscow.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095445528007913504

 

[william]

Putin's nuclear bomb commander shot in face and abdomen in assassination attempt​

Russian nuclear chief who ordered strike on Ukrainian children’s hospital shot in head in attempted assassination

The commander is blamed by Ukrainian security services for multiple atrocities during the conflict.

nypost.com

Putin's nuclear bomb commander shot in face and abdomen in assassination plot

He was shot 'with a pistol' in the face and abdomen in the village of Probuzhdeniye, in Engels district

www.the-express.com

Putin's nuclear bomb commander shot in face and abdomen in assassination attempt - AOL

He was shot "with a pistol" in the face and abdomen in the village of Probuzhdeniye, in Engels district

www.aol.com

MSN

I think this needs to be confirmed through more mainstream sources.

 

[Irag8er]

I think this needs to be confirmed through more mainstream sources.

The headline calls him “Putin's nuclear bomb commander.” That's misleading if it makes it sound like he personally controls Russia's nuclear weapons.

Varpakhovich commands the 22nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Division.
The division operates nuclear-capable strategic bombers from the Engels area.
Those aircraft are part of Russia's strategic nuclear forces.
He is not the person who gives Russia's nuclear launch order. Russia's president is the ultimate decision-maker for nuclear use.


There's no solid evidence that Ukraine was behind the hit.
However if it walks like a duck........

 

[william]

Russia is having fuel problems

A Russian Mi-8 crew accidentally ran out of fuel while on a flight over Sakhalin Island today, making a crash landing on a public road.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095150687097114689

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095150756613546287

 

[GBS61]

Striking the British Isles would be an insane escalation. Anything done there would be done clandestinely with plausible deniability.

I wonder if the USA would respect Article 5 of NATO assuming that Great Britain requests the activation of Article 5.

 

[william]

I wonder if the USA would respect Article 5 of NATO assuming that Great Britain requests the activation of Article 5.

I don't think Britian would even have to request it. IMO

 

[GBS61]

I don't think Britian would even have to request it. IMO

You're not answering the question!

 

[Charmender]

I wonder if the USA would respect Article 5 of NATO assuming that Great Britain requests the activation of Article 5.

If Trump wanted to quit NATO (officially or by ignoring a call), he would have already done so, or provided clear undeniable signaling.
Not the case, quite the opposite as the Trump's administration is investing a lot of effort in presenting "NATO 3.0".
Putin knows it, as much as he knows that with or without the US, he cannot start a war with the UK, not even practically even if he wanted to (not without losing it of course).