technically and exclusively to how he has framed it, what fender said is correct, accepting that fender and djunior are not quite saying the same thing.
in my opinion.
also:
Russia said Thursday U.S. President Joe Biden had no interest in improving ties with Russia after he referred to Vladimir Putin as a "killer," sparking the biggest crisis in years between the former Cold War rivals. Russia's relationship with the West has eroded over a spate of disagreements, but relations plunged to new depths Wednesday after Biden agreed Putin was a "killer" in a U.S. television interview. "These statements from the president of the United States are very bad," Putin's spokesman Dmirty Peskov told reporters. "It is clear that he does not want to get the relationship with our country back on track, and we will proceed from that," he added.
In a swift response to Biden's comments, Moscow on Wednesday evening recalled its ambassador in the United States for urgent consultations — an unprecedented move in recent Russian diplomacy.
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in combination with Biden's stated "he has to go" - in the eventuality that Biden is re-elected, there is a heightened risk of direct war between the US and Russia. its amazing that the US are saying all these and making no efforts to dial it back. flying planes in and around contested air space, while bombs are dropping close to nulcear power plants, while tanks are being shipped in. This rhetoric is all very scary and all of this is inviting an accidental sleep walk into a larger war, which will not be fought conventionally (because this is all russia has conventionally and they cant beat ukraine with it).
video footage purporting to relate to the drone:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-video-shows-moment-russian-fighter-jet-collides-us-drone====
and also from Fox news: "US drone downed by Russia latest in pattern of Moscow hostile 'signaling'". Im not sure, I thought they were already at war. If they are not hostile what are they? perhaps flying close to Taiwan, err i mean crimea, is seen as a hostile act in and of itself?
Finally (again, fox news):
While Western defense officials remain concerned over how this could escalate the war in Ukraine and potentially beyond its borders, retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Tata said the alleged attack was in part a response to a shift in the U.S.'s intelligence sharing policy with Ukraine.
"The least discussed aspect of the Russian jet engagement of the United States Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone is the apparent policy change of providing intelligence directly to Ukraine, which of course requires the United States to deploy intelligence collection assets in proximity to Russian forces," Tata, author of the new book "Total Empire," told Fox News Digital.
During the early months of the war, reports suggested that the Biden administration had limitations on the sort of intelligence it would share, like information that would aid Ukraine in the precision targeting of top Russian officials.
However, by the end of 2022, reports citing unidentified senior officials from the Pentagon suggested that the U.S. had expanded its intelligence sharing policies to aid Kyiv.
"The Reaper – jet incident is the latest icy patch on the slope toward NATO and [the] United States’ direct military involvement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine," Tata added.
The retired brigadier general pointed out that though the downing of the Reaper drone is a costly loss for the U.S. and its allies, it is not the first time Washington has dealt with such an incident.
"Not having a pilot in the downed aircraft keeps the response threshold below direct combat retaliatory threshold," he said. "We should remember that Iran downed the very same model aircraft in 2019 and the administration wisely kept its powder dry.
"Still, Russia intercepted and destroyed the drone, and the incident deserves a policy response and discussion, bearing in mind at the bottom of this slope are the two nations with the bulk of the world’s nuclear weapons," Tata added.
This post was edited by ferdia on Mar 16 2023 05:09am