Eventually Russia will move against the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance assets NATO has deployed against it. Russia probably won’t rattle before it does so. From William Schryver at imetatronink.substack.com:
I have written many times over the past two years about what is arguably the single most important component of US/NATO military involvement in the Ukraine War: its Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets that have been omnipresent on the battlefield from the very beginning.
I have frequently expressed my expectation that the Russians would eventually feel compelled to “do something about it”.
Up until now the most they have done is down an MQ-9 surveillance drone over the Black Sea, by the novel method of buzzing it with an Su-27, dowsing it with jet fuel, and possibly even giving it a wingtip nudge.
But the serious platforms — the RQ-4 unmanned drones and the various crewed jets packed with electronic gadgetry — have been permitted to operate more or less unhindered.
Or at least we can say none have been shot down yet.
We are not privy to the knowledge of how successful the Russians have been so far in developing effective countermeasures to NATO ISR.
Of course, these aircraft are flying either in “international airspace” or (primarily) in the airspace of Romania and Poland.
That said, this is war. And little diplomatic niceties like “protected airspace” lose their meaning in war. If you don’t believe me, review the history of what the United States, Britain, and Israel (among others) have done over the course of the past several decades.
But, but, but, big dumb vodka swilling lout with gas station attached to an economy? (s/)
LNG is not the only resource in the 11 time zone superpower that isn’t out to destroy itself from within.
In fact it already survived that and headed the other direction.
They don’t give a mean rattler warning either when they strike.
Saw a dank one word review of the TC/VV P interview in contrast with Brandon…it’s like a head of state compared to a head of cabbage.
Innernett High five and (h/t) to the original commenter.