Emp_Palpatine

Grozny, 2006. F.Y.O.I... And show me a picture like that of Tshinvali. By the way, you should also be more coherent: 1500 civilians, then civilan/military. Things seems to change following your own tries of justification.

You said yourself "civilans and military". Give us precise international-based breakdown of casualties, Mr Propaganda! What you are speaking about is called "war". That's not a lovely business, but it's how it's working. Now, we could also compare S.O and Chechenya, will you? Difference between war and genocide... Do you want to come on that terrain? I do not advise you to do so. By the way, if Georgians did have the time to commit a genocide during the few hours they effectively controlled much of S.O, they are the most efficient people on earth. For your own information: legal definition of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2, of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" It rings several bell in my head. Not S.O, but Chechenya, for instance. Or Serbian in Kosovo, actually. Or what will happen in a few days/weeks into Abkhazia and S.O for Georgians. And we all know, thanks to you, that Russia's priority is to prevent genocide, wether they are real or fantasy. Wait and see...

Glad to hear it.

No french Mirages F1- III/Jaguar in 68 or 79?

And that's what you dared to call "Genocide". The only things one will get, by calling whatever does move a "Genocide" is pure indifference and scepticism when a real one will occur...

September-October 1915. It was expected, but it's still a bad news. Italy is now officialy in the brawl. As the Alps were ready since the summer, it would not be that serious, hadn't be this problem: Italian fleet, combined with Austria-Hungary one, is sufficient to contest Entente's superiority in eastern Med! That means that British forces in Serbia are cut from supply and for the time being, isolated there. It might be the end of Entente expeditionnary forces there, or at least the begining of a "Dunkirk" style operation... Serbia is indeed in an increasingly bad shape. How are the big guns of the Entente? Russia is finally enterring a war economy. HQ points and arm refits can now be purchased in significant numbers Britain still do the core job of research and naval things, but must now take care of its infantery commitments. And France, of course, is still focused on the ground war. Research efforts stay the same: artillery, assault, tanks, gas.

Everywhere those ideas were put into motion, the results are the same. Almost 1/3 or half of the countries of the World are here to show those facts. From Cuba to North Korea, Russia, Ethiopia, Algeria, Libya, Yemen, Vietnam, Cambodgia, Benin, Congo, China... The same reasons drive to the same results: those ideas are wicked.

Here's the greatest caption possible : http://punditkitchen.com/2008/08/12/politi...olleyball-wwbd/

I've experienced Libyan way of socialism, seen security forces searching people on street, having seen people dissaeppered, seen the fear in the eyes and habits of libyan friends, heard and seen purges, been on watch myself and seen the results of state-managed economy. Thank God, as a member of an embassy (but not a diplomat), I had some protection and privilege... I'ven't been more awake of what liberty and free market mean that those days. Without any doubt in my mind, Communism and Socialism are evil.

It is indeed. Here's the J/F-8I A super sized two-engined fished. The J-8II just got a new nose.

Might be related to George Bush strong speech yesterday (or this morning, don't know with that jet lag).

Indeed, you're right! I forgot about this one. And Fantan too, by the way.

I don't think Chinese design get Nato names.

Wasn't it Libya? (Funny, when you know how Qaffafi likes to loath "western" human rights and want to promote is own-written "Green Charter of Human rights" (whose efficiency, while living in Libya, I haven't found obvious ). Cuba also is or was in the HRC. So was China, etc...

May be not in Britain. But trust me, it was on this side of the Chanel: strength of the Communist party and movements and the hegemonic influence of Marxist-communist intelligentsia. Soljenistsine was one of the wake up call, but the way he was received here is sufficient enough to show how intelligentsia (apart from the few conservative intellectual) saw Soviet Union. In 1989, some said, in december: "Sovietism balance is positive".

I've always liked those strange reworked, two-engined Fishbed. Can't wait to have them in my gunsight!

The fact is newly freed countries in Europe had two main goals for their diplomacy: joining NATO and joining the EU. In this priority: - Nato is the only key to security, as behind Nato there are the United States might and will. They are not fools and do not -still today- count on western europe to help them against any threat (read Russia). - The EU was there as a symbol of being back into Europe, no longer be a soviet puppet, and as a mean to gain more prosperity. But it was the second priority, the first one being survival and security. Nato. All these countries always choose the Atlantic and NATO before the EU when confronted to conflicting options, and I do think they are very right. But you might be used to my ongoing "love" for the EU and my poor appreciation of my western european fellows (my own country men included). And another point: there are more people that want the US being stripped from their veto in UN than Russia. Don't play with that... Just wish a thing: get ride of the UN! That stuff isn't good to resolve political crisis. It might do good jobs on other issues (humanitarian or whatever), but just a new League of Nations on the political scene. Useless and most dangerous, as its General Assembly do have a majority of dictatorships and other radical countries in.

And don't forget the giving out of russian passports. Europe do import Gas. At least, in France, we still have our own civil nuclear network, so Gas does not count that much. Germany and others might soon understand the meaning of "energy independence". But speaking of resolve, remember our executive just cut out military spending here in France, arguing "Military role is now a security one, protecting from terrorists and do police forces over seas" "States against states confrontation are things of the past". Bulls**t... Resolve? I'm afraid Europe won't have any, even if there were Russian troops in Riga, Tallin and Vilnius or Warsaw (East-european -or close cousins, as Georgians- do understand what freedom is and would stand, but in Western europe... ).

Did I wrote I supported intervention in Kosovo?

US army is actually good (and improving) at COIN operations now. Things have been learned the hard way, but in research material, be sure american ways of doing such operations are now inspiring influences. The fact is COIN-based wars are just "more difficult" to win, as assymetrical (don't even now how to translate "assymétrie", don't even think about "Dissymétrie") warfare is by nature an hard job. Most armies are used to the classical way of fighting, but I don't doubt a second Russian forces would be quickly wiped out in open field.

In August, because of the initative weakness of Russia (lack of precious "HQ points") and the situation in Serbia, only the French front saw some actions. The gas-supported offensive must go one, before any counter-measures does cancel this avantage (hence the numbered limit of gas attacks: it does not mean gas are no longer used, it just simulate the small number of attacks with effective surprise one can make with new gas, before efficient counter-measures are found and used by the ennemy, cancelling the advantage). Of course, Metz and the Vosges are the goals of these offensives. But the targets are harder nuts to crush now. Metz forts are still holding, with Germans falling back from fortifications to fortifications. But the ennemy cohesion (readiness) and morale are sinking, and the french are advancing with hardly a few loses. In the Vosges mountains, it's thanks to the terrain that the French offensive is slowed down. But as in Metz, the ennemy morale and cohesion is sinking because of those dreadful gas... What seems to be setbacks are indeed quite interesting. Combat reports show that the ennemy readiness is just about to be zero, because of the gas, and that attrition had taken its toll. It won't recover enough by september to prevent success in future offensives. It's not a breakthrough, but it's quite promising

For the two summer months, a big french push in Lorraine, using Gas, is planned. The first weeks of July are used to store up corps, artillery battery and "special" ammo. In a very WW1 fashion, the show began with weeks long artillery barrages. Then, suddenly, the barrage does end, substituted by strange shells emitting enormous clouds of strange fumes from which emerge infantry men in horizon-blue, wearing strange and monstrous masks on their faces. In their trenches, German soldiers are choking, bleeding to death. Those able-bodied enough are just fleeing. The fellow couragous enough to stand are killed either by the gas or by the French soldiers. The German line between Metz and the Vosges had just collapsed. Further North, in the Metz aera, only the huge forts of the city did saved the German line for the time being. In Caucasus, Russian offensive resumes against Ottoman Empire into Turkish Armenia. The Turkish armies are defeated and pushed back to Erzurum forts. In Silesia, Russia does take the initiative back too. Two offensives are planned in order to limit Austrian push and to retake Dubno. Dubno is back into Russian hands. The northern part of the offensive is a failure... In Serbia, British expeditionnary forces efforts to expand their holds are quite mixed. On this front, things are not getting better.

July-August 1915. Strategic phase. Of course, as usual, diplomatic news and actions are flocking, with the same goals as usual. Driving Romania into the Entente would prove to be quite a bad surprise for Bulgaria, and would relieve Serbia of some of its burden. Breakthrough! But only in R&D: first researchs are now available for Assault (or "how to form stormtroopers the way Germany did in 1918 and make trench warfare obsolete") and tanks. Is WW2 already in sights?! Apart from technology, the Entente is gaining power on the terrain: more planes are coming on the front, thanks to production efforts made months ago. And other nasty and bad surprises are ready for the Central Powers... If the Central Powers do not have equal gas technology, it's going to be an important asset in the upcoming weeks.

Looks like it, indeed!

Just like S.O is part of Georgia, gentleman. Just give a look at internationaly recognized borders. Justifications are right when it's Russia/Red China; Wrong when Georgia? Dishonesty is sure a marvellous thing.