How is this controversial? Of course that would be participation. You enforce a no-fly zone by shooting down other countries’ airplanes so that you own the sky, ie the airborne territory.https://twitter.com/afp/status/1500106008366039041?s=21
oh weird.
"Any countries imposing no-fly zone over Ukraine would be parties to conflict: Putin"
I find any numbers the "Independent" or the Ukrainian Air Force gives to be suspect. Even so though the Ukrainians are (figuratively speaking) killing it!
How is this controversial? Of course that would be participation. You enforce a no-fly zone by shooting down other countries’ airplanes so that you own the sky, ie the airborne territory.
I mean, the US Army couldn’t declare the bridges into Kyiv to be “no-drive zones” without being involved in the war.
That's where we're at already...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60629851
I'm not advocating for the US to perform a Normandy-esque landing in Odessa and roll north-northwest to Moscow.
I'm just saying let's leave the keys to a couple A-10s parked on a Poland airbase for a couple Ukranians to test drive....
Did he listen? It'd be the first time. People have been asking him to do that for years.
One of the people at Bellingcat, who I'd never heard of previously, but are an independent group of citizen journalists, investigators, and researchers, is saying that the Russian army doesn't have the material or financing to continue functioning beyond Sunday.
We'll see.
I read that Trump and some other Republicans were trying to raise money(with Trump taking an 80% cut) so that Russia could keep fighting.
This is a good analysis of Russian logistical challenges in the war.