Where did I say the US would bomb Cuba? I’m saying that in a shooting war they’d be conveniently stationed a couple hundred miles from both an F-15 base and an F-22 base. Not smart.

There will be no shooting war between Russia and US. No, not now, maybe never. So sending Backfires to Cuba is exactly the same thing like sending an us army mission to Georgia. But the equivalent of arming equipping and training the georgian army with US support is sending russian soldiers and material to train iraqi insurgents. Or Iranian revolutionnary guards. What will the US do then ?

I don t see why people refuse to believe the evidence. Yes US trainers and US army was supporting the Georgian army. The georgian president may be excited or lunatic but there is no way that the 300 + american troops in Georgia including the 20 some active in the government would have ignored the georgian army assault built up. So it seems very probable that US forces might have been in the frontline and therefore killed or captured by the russians. The russian press has presented plenty of evidence of this. Putin has stated the obvious. It doesn t really change much the situation. It s even normal in the power game when you consider that the us navy is 50 km away from russian fleet in the black sea. So how come some people consider this to be russian propaganda ? Nobody imagines Putin the russian prime minister would lie about this. He may be hostile, maniac, imperialistic, whatever but he is not a comic. If he says that there is proof of us direct involvement in the georgian act there must be . It does not make the russian actions more or less legitimate. It is just logical

Surely it would be child’s play for Russia to provide evidence of this “genocide”?

FR 2 and Radio Canada have provided ample documentation in yesterday and today ‘s TV news journal about the destruction inflicted in SOuth Ossetia by the Georgians army (bombed hospitals, destroyed houses, etc). Was as always is terrible and it is ridiculous that CNN and other US manipulated channels cannot provide the minimum objectivity when covering civilian victims

Graphic photos

Here some graphic photos from the conflict

http://lsd-25.ru/2008/08/14/voyna-v-yuzhnoy-osetii-89-fotografiy-arkadiya-babchenko/

Be careful, some are very… disturbing.
From a military point of view
– one can notice that most russian soldiers don t have armored vests as the georgians did
– the individual equipment of the georgians seems to be very good. US stuff, LAVs and Javelins, Range rovers, and communication equipment, us trucks…
– a lot of pictures of vostok batallion and chechen troops working with the russian. Old equipment, no individual protection but they must have been a tough bunch… a lot of experience.
– the russians seemed to have had the upper hand with the use of artillery and heavy equipment… even if the georgians had very got ATGW, they probably got crushed by the mix of special forces and heavy armor

What is that

These tanks don t look like T90 or T80 to me… more like t64… What do you guys say ? Why would Russia use them ?

Russia is sending 2 rogue special companies
According to Russia Today, the 42d infantry division based in Grozny is sending two of its special rogue (volunteers) companies to Georgia. The Vostok and Zapad batallions are made of volunteers and famous for getting into racketting and gang battling chechen environment. You can google their name and find out in how many bad blood they have been involved. These are volunteers, cosack type troops, operated under the command of the GRU (army intelligence) but without the proper discipline of regular forces. This can mean that Russia wasn t really planning for this since their best available troops are in Grozny and made of volunteers. Second, it can also get messy since these troops (Vostok Zapad) are used to irregular warfare and mixing civilian with military targets. The only sure thing is that they have a lot of experience and are tough nuts to crack for anyone

Yes, let s use cnn and fox news, they are much, much more credible. When the US is using a B2 to bomb a terrorist cave where goats hide in Afghanistan , all the fox news and cnn journalists are in awe, impressed by the american power and might. When Russia uses bombers to attack airports they are worried about excessive use of force

Welcome portugal

Now some pics from the ceremony of transfer of mission from the Romanian air force to the Portuguese air force. The Romanian Lancers (Mig 21 with improved avionics , HUD , helmet based fire target selection made by Elint etc) were armed with 2 magic 2 missiles and their standard load included two fuel tanks. Any ideea of what the Portuguese F16 will use ?