Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Yeah when they started dropping bombs for a second season of HBO’s Chernobyl, might be fair.

 

They couldn’t just shut the thing down with a cyber attack? My estimation of Big Bad Russia’s abilities as an evil empire is falling by the hour. They’re a nuclear arsenal strapped to a Yugo with duct tape.

 

I hate to pray for smiting, but …

 

Cross him off then.

 

There's a huge difference between being a good infantry soldier and having even the most basic idea of how to get a fighter jet off the ground. A Navy SEAL is a tremendous soldier, but I doubt most of them could fly their own helicopters to get them where they need to go on a mission. Conversely, the SOAR pilots are the best in the world at what they do but you wouldn't want them raiding houses in Afghanistan to take down terrorists.
Give each of them a couple of months training and maybe the SEAL could get an aircraft off the ground and the pilot could tag along on a raid without either of them dying. But neither is going to be very good at it.
Hell, even the Japanese Kamikazes in WWII had a few weeks of flight training before they flew into something.

 

Maybe you're right. I don't know enough about such things to be sure. But I think Ukrainians deserve an opportunity to try to do what they can, seeing as how we/NATO are apparently not going to step in.

I also just heard some former military guy on TV saying that if we even just sent over some retired aircraft -- F-15s and F-16s, I think he said -- and, perhaps, used contractors to fly them, or allowed the Ukrainians to do so, he thought it absolutely could be done, and that Ukraine gaining control of the skies would be a game-changing factor in this war. And that 40-mile convoy? It would've been a scrap heap long ago.

 

Putin said that Ukraine will be rebuilt. Bigger and swankier than the rub joints in Slovenia. And Mexico Will pay for it.

 

No. Even if the plant's not producing power, the rods are still in the reactors That's what's radioactive. There's no place to put the rods. Also probably somewhere on that site are spent rods probably in water, those are also radioactive.

In the United States, the concrete dome or tower around the reactors are built to withstand a 747 being flown into it. I don't know if Ukrainian plants are built to those specs.

 

I'm just an armchair first private who's read a lot of books about the military and various wars. One of the things I've gleaned is that none of this stuff is as simple as it looks. Even sending retired F-15s and F-16s and pilots to fly them might not do a lot of good because the Ukrainians wouldn't have the spare parts to keep them running for very long. If you could scare up some Russian planes — MiG-29s, Su-27s, etc. — that's what they need right now, even if it's just to cannibalize them for parts.