David Axe – Forbes July 2, 2024
Yesterday, a Russian drone spotted six Ukrainian air force Sukhoi Su-27 fighters parked in the open in broad daylight on the tarmac at Mirgorod air base, in northern Ukraine 100 miles from the border with Russia.
A Russian Iskander ballistic missile streaked in, destroying two of the precious supersonic fighters—potentially five percent of the overall Ukrainian Su-27 fleet.
[Reuters reports that Moscow claims that its missile strike destroyed a total of five Su-27s. Ed]
Today, something similar happened. A Russian drone winged over the Ukrainian air base in Poltava, just east of Mirgorod and also 100 miles from the border. After hours of surveillance, an Iskander missile struck—damaging, if not destroying, a Ukrainian army Mil Mi-24 gunship helicopter.
It’s apparent what’s going on. A shortage of air defenses has exposed Ukrainian air bases to Russian drone and missiles attacks. Russian raids on Ukrainian bases have steadily escalated since last fall. So far, these raids have destroyed two Su-27 fighters, two Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters, a Sukhoi Su-25 attack jet and potentially the Mi-24.
The losses aren’t sustainable for the battered Ukrainian air force and army aviation brigades. The air force has just a few dozen each of the MiGs and Sukhois and no obvious source for identical replacements. The army has 50 or so Mi-24s but could also struggle to acquire more copies.
Yes, the air force is about to get 85 Lockheed Martin F-16s and a dozen or so Dassault Mirage 2000s from its European allies. But these new aircraft will be just as vulnerable on the ground as the MiGs, Sukhois and Mils are.
It’s an air defense crisis. Normally, the Ukrainians would protect their most important bases with layers of surface-to-air missiles. But the Ukrainian air force and army are struggling to simultaneously cover cities, major troop concentrations and front-line bases such as the Mirgorod and Poltava airfields.
The numbers underscore the scale of the problem. Between them, the Ukrainian army and air force began the wider war with around 400 surface-to-air missile systems. Twenty-eight months later, the Ukrainians have lost around 140 of those systems and acquired around a hundred as replacements.
In theory, the Ukrainians are down just 10 percent of their pre-war air-defense force. But that force is stretched much thinner than it was before February 2022. Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities—targeting apartment buildings, hospitals and even churches—have compelled the Ukrainian military to concentrate its best air defenses around the biggest cities.
Those systems had to come from somewhere. It’s apparent that, in prioritizing air cover for the cities, the Ukrainian armed forces have left their airfields less protected. The Russian drone that surveilled Poltava was visible to everyday Ukrainians on the ground for three hours before the Iskander missile struck. Clearly, no one had any way of shooting it down.
To be clear, the Russians have the same problem. They too struggle to protect their air bases from Ukrainian missiles and drones. The difference is that Russia has more bases and more planes—and can absorb greater losses.
Help is coming to Ukraine. The United States has previewed a $2.3-billion aid package, slated for mid-July, that will reportedly include numerous air-defense systems, including long-range Patriot missiles and medium-range NASAMS missiles.
But it’s possible these new defenses will also end up protecting cities instead of air bases. “You’ve got to make sure you have air defenses in place to try to protect the areas in which you’re making investments,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
The Ukrainians have tried to fill the gap by forming short-range air defense teams equipped with gun-armed trucks. If teams were present around Mirgorod and Poltava, they either didn’t notice the Russian drones winging overhead—or couldn’t hit them.
References:
- War Vehicle Tracker: https://x.com/WarVehicle/status/1808218837063721464; https://x.com/WarVehicle/status/1808171970237780212
- Oryx: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-ukrainian.html; https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/04/answering-call-heavy-weaponry-supplied.html
- CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-2-3-billion-in-military-assistance-for-ukraine/
- Antony Blinken: https://x.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1808161413342384368
Staged/coordinated war between NATO & Russia to liquidate white males. Figure it out if you can.
If you listened to Klaus Schwab in 2020, or perhaps wasted your money and read his book, you would realize that this illustrious Devos WEF crowd are the leg men & women of the banksters and plutocrats behind the “Great Reset” for a technocratic (and totalitarian) New World Order. You would also realize that the entire outfit is really made up a hodgepodge of various stakeholders of both diverse and mutual interests. The same can be said for those who ignited and are fueling the war in the Ukraine, whether they be the Davos WEF crowd and their backers, or the US-UK-Israeli axis group bent on global hegemony, or by both, in their plans where “we the people” and our nations in the unfolding of the Great Reset and UN Agendas by 2030 will own nothing and be happy that the elite ownership class holds all major resources and major assets on the globe in their clutches.
It may be that many awake and influential people of the most resource-rich nations on the globe such as Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and various nations in Africa feel a tad victimized with the WEF and UN plans hatched by a global ownership class doing its best to break down their borders and to glom onto their resources without local restrictions and their own controls for their own development and prosperity. The ownership class of the West which is causing all of this turmoil are stakeholders in the New World Order internationalist venture and they are legion. They include anyone with assets which depend upon and/or are to be handsomely increased through globalist controls over resources, trade and people. Without realizing it, the strongest backers of corporations such such as BlackRock or Lockheed Martine capitalizing on the war in the Ukraine, may be the baby-boomer generation living mostly on their dividends from their investments in various hedge funds, which invest in such corporations. However, whatever actually makes up this globalist movement we know it is made up of diverse elements with both unified and diverse goals which in the final analysis may not be mutually compatible with one another.
We know that Marxists such as Obama and Trudeau are WEF globalist prodigy “world leaders”. We know that thinktankers such as Jeffry Sachs have played a great role in lobbying influential leaders around the globe for the globalist cause. Even Putin appears to have been a globalist prodigy and perhaps his loyalties remain not just with Russia but in a vision of a globalist Marxist order, with all powers centralized in the State.
Realizing how diverse things actually are and being mindful that the illustrious globalist top-down order which inflicted the Covid plandemic on the world, which plans were hatched in the West, and in which crimes most governments of the globe were consenting parties, despite having absolutely no real consent from their peoples, we now are better able to discern globalist plans and motives, but we are not able to discern any real unity among the major stakeholders. Then when we consider the folly of the Western branch of that misguided control-freak order in coercing its own people to ingest the alleged “experimental” mRNA spike-protein vaccines, essentially “poisoning” most of the people in the West with the never-ending spike proteins being produced in their systems, you have to be either asleep or a total moron not to realize that this globalist order of “stakeholders”, this hodgepodge of control freaks, really has very little control over the things they start in motion. That should worry us, because it is the same people who gave us Covid and the devasting mRNA killer vaccines, who do not really have a clue about what they are doing, and who have started a war with the hypersonic superpower of Russia. All the US can think of for their apparent folly is to quickly develop similar technology. This does not look like a very controlled and wise globalist plan for a happy world by 2030.
Sure the banksters and the Fink’s of the world may have a plan for economic global hegemony with some partnership with China, but that does not mean there are not divers interests and powers with alternate plans. A superpower may start a proxy war for some interest, and as with the Ukraine it may have been a pretext to draw Russia into a land war on or near its own turf, so as the loosen its hold on a place such as Syria, or it may be that the globalists simply need the ultimate peril pretext in the form of a real threat of a WWIII nuclear war to destroy everything, in order to frighten the masses into lockstep obedience for a world government to make us “safe”. The problem is that when you play with wars they tend to take on a life of their own.
The military industrial complex is a beast unto itself. It already is far too influential and powerful, and likely a globalist stakeholder with visions of endless importance and profits from government expenditures for global “police operations”. It certainly is a beast unto itself. However, once a war is started against a real superpower, the military seats in the global control room will start to crowd out those of the bankster and Fink stakeholders. The focus will become on “winning” that war. More and more pressures will be asserted for everyone to get into “game”. Such wars begin with people being dupped with ideas of provocations for “peaceful” ends, and limited excursions, but end up in total wars where victory and retribution despite the ever-mounting killing, destruction and atrocities is the only real goal. As we have seen very clearly in the 20th century, such wars only escalate and escalate, and in conclusion, all you have left in the control rooms on each side are sociopaths and monsters, people with no moral limits, and those who gain power and money mainly through wars.
[ Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities—targeting apartment buildings, hospitals and even churches—]
The propaganda is heavy in this article….
He won’t throw in the towel until every fertile male is wiped out. (Genocide 1)
Why?
He said himself he wants a greater Israel. You can’t have a greater Israel with Christians there, so you spend a decade radicalizing naive youth into fanatical Nazism to attack your ideological enemy, ie Christianity – Eastern Europe was the last bastion of Orthodox Christianity.
You spread propaganda by the likes of Victor Schnirelmann, Victoria Noodleman, Sam Bankman-Fried and Larry Fink to do the rest….