So, will those 'practice/test' shots on, for example, the US Dark Eagle site in Poland, trigger article 5 in NATO? I don't know. Putin has made it clear he will target those individual countries that manage to damage Russia. In effect, it is separating the NATO members into individual members.
Gives a new meaning to DEEZ NUTS, BTW. Hazel-nuts.
Keep in mind that article 5 means other nations can join in and come to the aid of the stricken NATO member. So far, they have assumed the existence of a de-facto member (Ukraine) and a de-facto Article 5 - the winderwaffen supplies to Ukraine, with nO BOoTS oN ThE GrOuND, AT aLL.
So, the whole narrative is smoke and mirrors.
Even the Russians seemed to play with words when calling this war a Special Military Operation. Mind you, they only borrowed the term from a previous USA 'operations'. (Operation Iraqi Liberation, for example). Mind you, the Russians have a strict protocol for SMO, which includes sparing innocent, as well as their own soldiers' lives, and having immediate humanitarian aid available as soon as the front passes over civilians. SMO can include tactical retreat, for example.
Nevertheless, the Russians are fighting an existential war, while for USA is not - and this is significant, as it speaks to motivation. Rather, the US State department (Namely Blinken, Sullivan et al.,) went around Austin's back (who has the only hot-line talking to the Russians, by all accounts) and made a desperate political attempt to keep covering up the corruption, money laundering and oligarchical control, which had boiled up and manifested itself in the richly-resourced, technically manpowered Donbass, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Basically, they are protecting their cookie-jar.
The 'mistake' that Putin made, according to these sociopaths, was to legislatively expel the oligarchs from the the seats of power in Russia. The first thing to do, was for those scum to stage themselves in Ukraine - the dark hole of corruption, spying, money-grubbing and secret societies of all forms, since hundreds of years. I 'member that at the beginning (2008) the stories of horror and war-crimes were often mistaken about the identitiy of the supposed perpetrators. Thus, Russia was blamed for the downing of a Malaysian 'plane over Donbass, because it was hit by a Soviet missile, by a lunatic Dutch court.
All the Dems did (in the dead duck period, and against popular will), was to make the use of the Wunderwaffenz official, the result is: that Medium-range, nuclear capable missiles be aimed at Russia from Europe. (In fact, every Crimea strike in the last two years falls in that category, so the Russians have been very patient, but also those missiles are now stationed in various NATO nations, since the NATO-games this summer).
Now, the Russians have shown that Anything the West can do, they can do better.
I hope Trump is aware, and ready to pick up that red phone, especially in these very dangerous days, no matter whether sworn in yet, or not. I don't trust that Austin still has enough balls to do anything, against the State Dept.
So, will those 'practice/test' shots on, for example, the US Dark Eagle site in Poland, trigger article 5 in NATO? I don't know. Putin has made it clear he will target those individual countries that manage to damage Russia. In effect, it is separating the NATO members into individual members.
Gives a new meaning to DEEZ NUTS, BTW. Hazel-nuts.
Keep in mind that article 5 means other nations can join in and come to the aid of the stricken NATO member. So far, they have assumed the existence of a de-facto member (Ukraine) and a de-facto Article 5 - the winderwaffen supplies to Ukraine, with nO BOoTS oN ThE GrOuND, AT aLL.
So, the whole narrative is smoke and mirrors.
Even the Russians seemed to play with words when calling this war a Special Military Operation. Mind you, they only borrowed the term from a previous USA 'operations'. (Operation Iraqi Liberation, for example). Mind you, the Russians have a strict protocol for SMO, which includes sparing innocent, as well as their own soldiers' lives, and having immediate humanitarian aid available as soon as the front passes over civilians. SMO can include tactical retreat, for example.
Nevertheless, the Russians are fighting an existential war, while for USA is not - and this is significant, as it speaks to motivation. Rather, the US State department (Namely Blinken, Sullivan et al.,) went around Austin's back (who has the only hot-line talking to the Russians, by all accounts) and made a desperate political attempt to keep covering up the corruption, money laundering and oligarchical control, which had boiled up and manifested itself in the richly-resourced, technically manpowered Donbass, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Basically, they are protecting their cookie-jar.
The 'mistake' that Putin made, according to these sociopaths, was to legislatively expel the oligarchs from the the seats of power in Russia. The first thing to do, was for those scum to stage themselves in Ukraine - the dark hole of corruption, spying, money-grubbing and secret societies of all forms, since hundreds of years. I 'member that at the beginning (2008) the stories of horror and war-crimes were often mistaken about the identitiy of the supposed perpetrators. Thus, Russia was blamed for the downing of a Malaysian 'plane over Donbass, because it was hit by a Soviet missile, by a lunatic Dutch court.
All the Dems did (in the dead duck period, and against popular will), was to make the use of the Wunderwaffenz official, the result is: that Medium-range, nuclear capable missiles be aimed at Russia from Europe. (In fact, every Crimea strike in the last two years falls in that category, so the Russians have been very patient, but also those missiles are now stationed in various NATO nations, since the NATO-games this summer).
Now, the Russians have shown that Anything the West can do, they can do better.
I hope Trump is aware, and ready to pick up that red phone, especially in these very dangerous days, no matter whether sworn in yet, or not. I don't trust that Austin still has enough balls to do anything, against the State Dept.