America is investing in Ukrainian failure
The reality is that this war could have been averted with sober and mature diplomacy by the United States.
What if "the reality" is that there was no desire to avert the war? We could ask ourselves, which party has been the real victor in this war?
NATO gained membership through fearmongering.
Finland in April 2023:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_213448.htm
Sweden in March 2024:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_223446.htm
March 2024: Sweden and Finland join Nato's biggest military exercise in decades:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68535762
Here is some older news, but since so many news sites appear to have reported part of the January 2018 drone attacks story and then dropped further reports on the story, I think that it can be interesting to read two of the follow-up articles that came after the initial flurry of news reports.
At the start of January 2018, Russian bases were attacked by GPS-controlled drone swarms, without anyone laying claim for the attacks, and it is apparently quite rare for no one to lay claim. Multiple news stories report that Russia first blamed the US, and when the US denied blame, Russia blamed Turkey, all in early January. A news story that many may have missed was that Russia later absolved Turkey of any blame. Russia also finally makes the claim that the attack was sophisticated, thereby implying a possible return to Putin at least believing that the US was responsible:
https://secondnexus.com/alina-habba-trump-stormy-credible
Jan. 31, 2018
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The Kremlin now claims to know who attacked two Syrian locations and that the drones used were, in fact, far more sophisticated than countless photos and news reports would have you believe.
To date, the attacks have gone unclaimed, despite Putin’s initial assertion that Turkey played a hand in the attack. The Kremlin now claims to know who attacked both locations and that the drones were, in fact, far more sophisticated than countless photos and news reports would have you believe.
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At a date slightly after most of the news stories came out, the following investigative report tried to shed some light onto some of the related claimed items:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018/01/12/the_poor_mans_airforce/
January 12, 2018
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The Russian MoD claim that the drones were navigating using GPS is consistent with what appears to be a GPS antenna identified in the wreckage seen at Homs. The lack of evidence of any cameras also tangentially supports this claim – without a camera or line of sight, an operator would find it difficult to pilot this drone, especially at ranges in the tens of kilometres. This suggests a level of automation in what initially appears to be a rather rag-tag set of drones.
it seems likely that these drones were regarded as disposable, and were never intended to return to their point of origin.
The lack of cameras on the drones suggest that they are likely pre-loaded with a flight plan and then flown autonomously to their target, where they dropped their payload en mass on a given GPS coordinate.
Curiously for such an audacious attack against a high-profile target, no group has yet claimed responsibility for any of these strikes. Considering the numbers of drones involved in these raids and the high profile of the target set, it seems likely there was significant planning involved in these strikes. The fact that no group has claimed them is striking.
Although there is no direct evidence that these drones were involved in the attack on New Year’s Eve, circumstances and context suggests it should be considered as a possibility.
The discovery of two of these drones on January 1 near the airbase suggests... that a drone attack caused the damage and killed the two Russian soldiers.
The Russian MoD claim that whoever launched these drones required nation-state support is dubious. The suggestion that a United States Poseidon aircraft is somehow related to these drones is even more so.
Although I.S. reportedly sometimes operated more than a single drone at a time, they did not appear to have ever used a massed attack on this kind of scale using drones flying with a measure of autonomy. This indicates a strategic grasp of the use of drones, as well as a high level of planning. The lack of any kind of claim, or even rumours from the rebels, indicates that whoever is producing these drone and launching these attacks has a high level of discipline and an understanding of operational and personal security.
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Regardless of who was ultimately responsible, if Putin believed that a supposed ally in the conflict in Syria (the US) was responsible, it could be seen as one factor in a rationalization to start the current war in Ukraine, in a retaliatory act of frustration.
Ignoring the significant loss of life, the political gains for the US by way of the additional NATO countries, the smudging of Russia's reputation, and the exhaustion of Russian military supplies are enough for certain US organizations to perhaps at least wish that they had been clever enough to have been behind the January 2018 (and possibly December 2017) sophisticated drone attacks.
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