Ukraine is saying goodbye to the EU, NATO, the west, etc..

Don’t panic, no one really wanted the deal, and releasing Goldilocks as precondition made it a farce in the first place.

and firmly getting into bed with Russia.

Unless borsch with salo becomes world’s next favorite meal, Ukraine is dependent on Russia to keep the country afloat but their relation is going to continue crazily schizophrenic as is today.

its also highly likely that the political system will be modified to ensure Yanukovych will be in power for a while.

Don’t count on it, it’s not like he has enough support at home or abroad.

Since they are also desperate and wanting to overhaul their air force, they’re likely going to turn eastward and internally for sources.

They’re trying to upgrade what they can by themselves because they have no other option, not even Russia is willing to sell them new hardware.

improved relations with Russia also means them likely willing to sell them more things than say 5 years ago.

Wishful thinking, from the Russian point of view Ukraine can’t be trusted.

Similar arguments were taken as fact to justify the believing that certain political system produced challenged individuals that unmistakable were inferior both physically and intellectually.

I’m sure everyone knows the outcome so please don’t feed the troll.

Northrop Grumman facilities in Iran are the reason why F-14s are still flying around, once their airframes are exhausted their replacement is going to be a domestic fighter even if it’s not up to today’s standards just to keep current capabilities.

Defensive systems and deterrence are the priority at the moment, with or without sanctions lifted, in the long term this is not going to change, especially looking at the neighborhood.

The main issue is not if Iran is able to recognize Israel or not but if Gulf monarchies are going to allow losing their privileges without having a say in it.

US pop culture is loved by Iranian youth, not so much the political institutions that promote sanctions. Iran is pushing for a variety of strategic partnerships mainly with Caspian Sea neighbors and those without overlapping interests like Indonesia, deviation from this path is highly unlikely in the short term.

it flew into Turkish airspace, they can do whatever they want.

Imagine the outrage if Greece decides to apply the same reasoning and shoots down the next stray aircraft intruding it’s airspace around Samos or Rhodes.

So basically no foreign radar guided missile has ever been integrated with a radar as long as you ignore all the cases where they have…

Read again, I said that is less difficult to integrate one onto another with help than without it.

the Japanese may have lost the overall battle, but in terms of equipment and personnel damage.. the Japanese and their Manchurian/Chinese slaves destroyed way more planes and tanks than the Soviets-Mongols did. They destroyed the numerically superior Russian military in past wars too.
South Korea is not going to wage a war over a corvette, they have more to lose than N.Korea in a war. During the Vietnam war however, South Koreans were very good at killing Vietnamese people.
The Chinese mostly fought other Asian countries in recent history, the one time they fought a non Asian power, Soviet Union (actually SU is more of an Asian power than European really..but for the sake of this thread).. they did quite poorly as the Soviets spanked them around the river

Last time Japan and it’s minions faced the SU-Mongol duo was in 1945 and in two weeks the former suffered tenfold the casualties of the later.

I hope you’re not referring to the infamous civilian massacres done by some South Korean units in Vietnam.

How SU wasn’t an European power when most of it’s population lived in the European part of the country and Slavic people were the biggest ethnic group among it’s population?

So you ******** off out of Afghanistan and left a weak government with no backing with the people and with the countryside in control of the muhajadeen. The country was still in state of war. And even you state that the government lasted a mere 3 years before collapsing.

Refugees were returning long before withdrawal and it wasn’t until Yeltsin dropped all support for Afghan government, in a gesture of good will to US, that things started going downhill for Afghan central government with shortages fueling violence again.