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Originally Posted by Pierre
so we only get interested when things get a bit
“hotter”.
Maybe if we had done something when things were a bit “cooler”, we wouldn’t be where we are.
We all seemed quite content in letting the Donbas and Crimea go.
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We should have. But we were too interested in deluding ourselves that Russia would stop at Crimea. Anyone who has bothered to listen to what Putin himself says about Russia, its history and its legitimate sphere of influence could have seen that was unlikely. Sadly only the Ukrainians and select other Eastern Europeans were listening, and warning, and we weren’t for listening.
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They were certainly a bit careless in Sevastopol a few days ago.
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The impact pattern in the widely circulated video is not what you get from a cluster munition on impact. I’ve seen far more videos than I’d like, of what they do when they do land and explode as designed. It is widely dispersed and.looks like debris impact, either from a failed interceptor, or pieces of a missile successfully intercepted. The fact that some of the impacts appear to explode suggests it was an intercepted missile.
Crimea is a war zone, its many Russian military installations under regular bombardment for many months. Russian civilians sunbathing in a war zone is odd. I certainly wouldn’t do it. I don’t imagine many of them will in future. Not when they’ve seen their military is willing to conduct missile interceptions right above their sun beds.