More evidence of Russian infiltration of members of NATO.
Right now it’s a regional problem. Could Russia increase the power and knock out Europe’s GPS?
This is in @LSLGuy wheelhouse.
Would it effect the younger pilots with less experience with older navigation equipment?
Russian intelligence agents have been stepping up attacks throughout Europe. After the start of the invasion a lot of agents were kicked out of Europe. Seems they’ve been working hard to replace them. Below is an article that talks about the number of attacks and the concerns.
Russia is certainly brazen about these things. I feel like the West needs to take a hard line with these sort of actions.
Speaking of (probable) Russian agents acting up:
The best thing for the West would be to do something non-violent, but also expose Russia as impotent. Figure out the maximum grey-area harassment and escalation possible.
Changes in the power at Moscow:
Shoïgou leave the Defense Ministry and take the Security Council. Belousov takes the Defense Ministry.
As usual it’s a game of musical chairs.
Hey, let’s replace the guy with no military experience with another guy who has no military experience!
Not that I’m actually complaining, mind you.
Putin has put an economist in charge of his military. Is this to try to make military spending more efficient or is he just the most convenient yes man?
ISW says it is to prepare the economy for a protracted war. Likely part of the new(ish) strategy of seeing if the west will give up before Russia collapses.
I wonder where Patrushev has been moved to?
Probably to a window seat with a great view.
If the goal is a wartime mobilized economy, wouldn’t it make more sense to put a general in the economic ministry, rather than an economist in the defense ministry?
It’s because you are not a master strategist.
I wasn’t aware of most of these incidents, but Russia’s really been going all-out on the sabotage and disruption:
500,000 after 2 years of heavy losses. Says a lot about the size of the Russian population.
For context, the US coalition forces in Iraq were at a similar level during the surge. But the coalition never had heavy losses similar to Russia.
Just the size of Russian forces makes them hard to stop. Doesn’t matter if their training is lacking.
If Russia’s Surge fails then maybe it will finally be their breaking point? 
Link Ukraine withdraws troops near Kharkiv, Russia enters Vovchansk in new offensive
in WW1 Russia suffered 1,8 millions casualties in the military ( and about 1,5 million in civilians). Some sources goes up to 2 millions for military. All that on a population of 165 millions.
The size of Russian population has a breaking point, but a high one.
Russian aggression is making the Baltic region unstable. I hope the people responsible are Slovakian. Seems unlikely outside factions would attack the PM.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/europe/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-shooting-intl/index.html
Balkan.
Slovakia is in the Balkan Peninsula. Saying that “the Balkan region [is] unstable” is kind of like observing that rain is wet, hence the common term “balkanization” to refer to a fragmentation of interests and internecine conflict.
Robert Fico is a pro-Putinist, proto-fascist, Viktor Orban ally, and is a major cause of political instability in Slovakia. Fuck that guy.
Stranger
I got my B regions mixed up. Thank you for the correction.
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