Re:Ukraine attacks Moscow in one of largest ever drone strik...
by protomolecule on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:37AM
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>Every war zone is a testing/advertising zone for weapons manufacturers.
I don't think that civil war in Myanmar, for example, is much of testing/advertising zone.
>do not direct it
They do. There were many articles in western press about, for example, the role of NATO in planning of last year's failed Ukrainian offensive.
> But Ukraine has taken a weak hand and, without a navy, bottled up the Russians in the Black Sea.
That's an old thing: "another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected." [0]
I don't think that civil war in Myanmar, for example, is much of testing/advertising zone.
>do not direct it
They do. There were many articles in western press about, for example, the role of NATO in planning of last year's failed Ukrainian offensive.
> But Ukraine has taken a weak hand and, without a navy, bottled up the Russians in the Black Sea.
That's an old thing: "another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected." [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002