glenn239

I think that the Ukrainian types of specialized drones for sea denial is the direction that poor states and groups should pursue, rather than more expensive and vulnerable missile boats.

Slight correction. No one was talking about Roswell until the press officer of the 509th bomber squadron (Atomic) held a press conference and announced that the USAAF had recovered debris from a downed alien craft. Had the American air force itself not made this announcement, nobody would have paid the slightest attention.

If so then MSC will post a retraction/alteration when more information comes in.

A report on Military Summary Channel this morning that North Koreans fought an engagement in the Kursk region on Russian territory. According to the unconfirmed report, the NK's attacked through a minefield, entered a village, killed 300 Ukrainians, (executing any prisoners), then withdrew (I think Russians took over the captured village), taking their dead and wounded with them.

Any idea if the fibre optic drones easier for operators to use, ie, less training, more training, or about the same?

Trudeau might be a camera seeking dainty, but like his dad Castro, he's not a lightweight in a cage match either.

The problem is that all theories suck. Why would the US government not announce it if it were its own agencies doing air defense tests or whatever? How could the Chinese or Iranians possibly organize this type of sustained campaign on American soil without getting tracked and caught? Why would UFO's sound like Harleys? How could a bunch of teenagers get drones the size of cars and buses in large numbers. Nothing fits.

Exactly. So the most likely explanation seems that they are linked to some sort of US military program. That would solve a bunch of logistical issues, answer the question on the lack of policing and arrests, why the drones are lit up, and explain why the US military doesn't seem to care.

Like the Russians, the Iranians seem to have concluded that there was no point fighting the new Syrian army if the old one just dissolved. May as well hit the reset button and go from there. In terms of the Iranian position, I think negotiations with the Turks are paramount - both share a Kurdish enemy and increasingly it seems both may share an Israeli enemy. (With the Kurds, I see drone video of the Turkish army going to town on Kurdish forces all over Syria right now. They are defenseless against Turkish drones and require US assistance, ie, NATO vs NATO.) With the Russians I would suspect their dipilomatic hand is vastly improved, in that they can concentrate on making moves to win the war in Ukraine without having the added complication of propping up the Syrians, which presumably required a delicate balancing act between competing interests. Now, with Assad gone, the Russians are free to wheel and deal with the Turks in Syria, whereas before with Assad's enmity towards Erdogan, they could not.

You made two references to Israel attacking Turkish interests in Syria or arming the Kurds to do the same, now I see this morning that Erdogan has told the Israelis to get out of Syria.

Effectively holding Syria surely requires hundreds of thousands of troops. Figures for the insurgency I've seen bantied about are more like 30,000. This is a second reference to an Israeli war with Turkey? There's a debate in Iran apparently on using the Iranian army to stabilize the situation, not just the IRGC.

That's one option. The second is to leave, at which point they'll be completely free to maneuver as they wish diplomatically. Keeping the bases allows the new regime to hold one over the Russians and force their policy to some degree.

The new guys seem a little thin in numbers for the amount of ground they're occupying. The Syrian army walked off the field, but the Iraqi army did that too, and in the case of Iraq, it didn't mean they were out of the game, they were just switching teams.

Assist the Kurds? That means assist them against Turkey?

The only person that the Russians seem to care about is Trump.