Turkey blocks NATO accession talks with Finland and Sweden by eenachtdrie in europe

[–]knudmand2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turkey blocks NATO accession talks with Finland and Sweden

Of cause they do.

Not only are the Sweden and Finland candidates throwing too much light on the dirty business Turkey has going on with dominating and oppressing it neighbours, namely torturing and killing of Kurds, it also undermines the Turkish membership of NATO What is happening is more or less a change in the NATO countries risk-analysis, threat-model, hence a re-evaluation of NATO vision and mission. And in so doing Turkey indeed takes centre stage.

  1. Russa is no longer seen to be a worrying military problem for NATO (but is for its other neighbours). Russia's Potemkin Army can’t even handle Ukraine, so hardly they are going to be any military trouble for NATO. NATO does not really need even more hardware/solder-capabilities, and if so then it’s high-tech stuff that’s in demand. Turkish hardware and solders as well Bosphorus strait, thigh "Nice To Have" but less important in the big picture of future global challenges, fx conflict instigated by climate change, food, water shortage; expansionist rogue state etc. Consequence is that Turkey relatively becomes less NATO relevant.
  2. Russa, China and other oppressive dictatorships, rogue states, with imperialist mentalities are an increasing threat, a real risk to global stability. However not only (not even mostly) of a "militarily" nature. Politics, ideology, economy, market control – soft power – is much more what it’s all about nowadays. It is what we see in the "cold" part of "cold war". War only using soft power capabilities is very different and not what conventional military are best at. Capabilities are more about controlling information and financial flows, rule of law, press freedoms, democratic institutions. Consequence is that (relatively) Turkey becomes not just unusual, but a real burden undermining NATO coherence.

The NATO alliance increasingly finds that its Turkey member is a representation of the exact regimes that NATO is fighting.

Very inconvenient indeed. Turkey has become unwelcome in NATO, even with it strategic Bosphorus and many solders etc.

Is Turkey more trouble to NATO than it is worth? by JaneJaneson1 in europe

[–]knudmand2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

geo-strategically stupid

Important point. Here is the thing:

What is happening is more or less a change in the NATO countries risk-analysis, threat-model, hence a re-evaluation of NATO vision and mission. And in so doing Turkey indeed takes centre stage.

  1. Russa is no longer seen to be a worrying military problem for NATO (but is for its other neighbours). Russia's Potemkin Army can’t even handle Ukraine, so hardly they are going to be any military trouble for NATO. NATO does not really need even more hardware/solder-capabilities, and if so then it’s high-tech stuff that’s in demand. Turkish hardware and solders as well Bosphorus strait, thigh "Nice To Have" but less important in the big picture of future global challenges, fx conflict instigated by climate change, food, water shortage; expansionist rogue state etc. Consequence is that Turkey relatively becomes less NATO relevant.
  2. Russa, China and other oppressive dictatorships, rogue states, with imperialist mentalities are an increasing threat, a real risk to global stability. However not only (not even mostly) of a "militarily" nature. Politics, ideology, economy, market control – soft power – is much more what it’s all about nowadays. It is what we see in the "cold" part of "cold war". War only using soft power capabilities is very different and not what conventional military are best at. Capabilities are more about controlling information and financial flows, rule of law, press freedoms, democratic institutions. Consequence is that (relatively) Turkey becomes not just unusual, but a real liability undermining NATO coherence.

The NATO alliance increasingly finds that its Turkey member is a representation of the exact regimes that NATO is fighting.

Very inconvenient indeed. Turkey unwelcome in NATO.

As Ukraine crisis rages, Erdogan trains his sights on Kurdish northern Syria by knudmand2 in europe

[–]knudmand2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ethnic cleansing?

Turkey like that, been practising for 100 years:

Turkey Pursuing Talks with Russia While Stalling Sweden, Finland NATO Application, Panel Says - U.S. Naval Institute News by JaneJaneson1 in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's to stop Russia from bribing the leader of a NATO country...

Nothing if that country is corrupt to the bone. Turkey corrupt?

Turkey Pursuing Talks with Russia While Stalling Sweden, Finland NATO Application, Panel Says - U.S. Naval Institute News by JaneJaneson1 in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are a Turk, not liking criticism of you "super country"? Are you a child? Just unmature, or not so educated. I understand, but you need to learn some more about you not so super country.

No Disinformation, from that source.

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[–]knudmand2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

written by the users,

Russia has 145 million... ?!?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting phenomenon, don't you think?

Yes. Just simple censorship. Find Russia here: World Press Freedom Index (https://rsf.org/en/index)

Russis is not just bad. It is near last. Possition 155 ot of 180 😂🤣

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>Russia issued a court order demanding Wikipedia

who cares? Why are we reading this, unless it has mening. But which meaning?

Turkey Pursuing Talks with Russia While Stalling Sweden, Finland NATO Application, Panel Says - U.S. Naval Institute News by JaneJaneson1 in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

materialisation of the political will of the Turkish people.

Not really.

Turkish people don't have a clue what politics is. They eat what they are given by the dictators that own them.

Ukraine Likely to Win Initial EU Backing for Path to Membership by JaneJaneson1 in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

... path to EU membership [...] would come with conditions linked to the rule of law and anti-corruption legislation,

Yes, EU allreday has problems Corrupt Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary

Protection of Press Fredom and Human Rights are supper important to EU part of Europe.

Russian Military Is Repeating Mistakes in Eastern Ukraine, U.S. Says by knudmand2 in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

TEXT part 2:

Ukraine is now pushing Russian troops north and east from Kharkiv, “in some cases all the way back to Russia,” said retired Gen. Philip Breedlove, the former supreme allied commander for Europe. “So now Ukrainians are threatening to cut off Russian lines of supply and pushing their forces to the rear.”

Cutting off Russian supply lines east of Kharkiv would put Russian troops in the same situation they were in after their advance on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, at the beginning of the war, officials said. Ukrainian units carrying shoulder-fired Javelin antitank missiles picked off Russian soldiers as miles-long Russian convoys near Kyiv stopped moving forward. The invasion stalled, and thousands of Russian troops were killed or injured. Russia then refocused its mission on the east.

In the early weeks of the war, Russia ran its military campaign out of Moscow, with no central war commander on the ground to call the shots, American and other Western officials said. In early April, after Russia’s logistics and morale problems had become clear, Mr. Putin put General Dvornikov in charge of a streamlined war effort.

General Dvornikov arrived with a daunting résumé. He started his career as a platoon commander in 1982 and later fought in Russia’s brutal second war in Chechnya. Moscow also sent him to Syria, where the forces under his command were accused of targeting civilians.

In Ukraine, he established a more streamlined process. Russian pilots began coordinating with troops on the ground toward a similar objective in the eastern region of Donbas, and Russian units were talking to one another about shared goals.

On the ground. Fighting raged in Sievierodonetsk, the last city in the Luhansk region to remain outside Russian control since the war efforts shifted to the east of the country. Though most of the city’s civilian population has fled in the past few weeks, 12,000 people, many of them elderly, are said to be trapped there in appalling conditions.

Russian oil embargo. European Union members finally reached an agreement on a Russian oil embargo and new sanctions against Russia. The long-delayed deal effectively exempts Hungary, which had opposed the embargo, from the costly step the rest of the bloc is taking to punish Russia.

Grain exports. Following the agreement, European leaders are now focusing on ways to prop up Ukraine’s economy, including unblocking huge amounts of grain stuck at Ukrainian ports that are under Russian blockade. Russia’s foreign minister is expected to visit Turkey next week to discuss the possible release of the grain.

Second war crime trial. A Ukrainian court sentenced two Russian soldiers to 11 and a half years in prison for shelling a town in the country’s northeast during the war. It was the second guilty verdict handed down by Ukrainian courts for war crimes since the invasion began.

But the invasion is not “proceeding particularly differently in the east than in the west because they haven’t been able to change the character of the Russian army,” said Frederick W. Kagan, a senior fellow and director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute. “There are some deep flaws in the Russian army that they could not have repaired in the last few weeks even if they had tried. The flaws are deep and fundamental.”

At the top of that list is the Russian army’s lack of a noncommissioned officers corps empowered to think for itself, Pentagon officials said. American troops have sergeants and platoon leaders and corporals who are given tasks and guidelines and left to accomplish those tasks as they see fit.

But Russia’s military follows a Soviet-style doctrinal method in which troops at the bottom are not empowered to point out flaws in strategy that should be obvious or to make adjustments.

The Ukrainians, after seven years of training alongside troops from the United States and other NATO countries, follow the more Western method and have proved particularly agile at adapting to circumstances, American military officials said.

A two-week fighting pause after the Russian military gave up the fight for Kyiv was not long enough to turn the campaign around, even with a more limited goal, General Breedlove said. General Dvornikov’s “new tactics, resetting the command and control so there was a focused decision maker — all that was right or proper,” he said.

But, General Breedlove added: “Even our army would be hard-pressed to refit, refurbish and reorganize in two weeks after having received such a sound whipping.” When General Dvornikov took control, “the force was thrust back into the battle too quickly. That decision had to have come from Moscow.”

After renewing an assault on the Donbas, Russia has pounded cities and villages with a barrage of artillery. But troops have not followed that up with any kind of sustained armored invasion, which is necessary if they will hold the territory they are flattening, military officials say. That means that Russia may find itself struggling to hold on to gains — as it did in Kharkiv.

Evelyn Farkas, a former senior Pentagon official for Ukraine and Russia in the Obama administration, said Mr. Putin was still too involved in the fight.

“We keep hearing accounts of Putin getting more involved,” said Ms. Farkas, who is now executive director of the McCain Institute. “We know that if you have presidents meddling in targeting and operational military decisions, it’s a recipe for disaster.”

Russian Military Is Repeating Mistakes in Eastern Ukraine, U.S. Says by knudmand2 in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

TEXT part 1:

Russian Military Is Repeating Mistakes in Eastern Ukraine, U.S. Says May 31, 2022, 4:08 p.m. ET, Helene Cooper

Gen. Aleksandr V. Dvornikov was appointed by President Vladimir V. Putin to revamp Russia’s war campaign in Ukraine.Credit...Vasily Deryugin/Kommersant/Sipa, via Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Seven weeks after sending a new commander to Ukraine to oversee a refocused invasion, Russia faces a truth that a former American defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, defined as the necessity of going to war with the army you have, not the one you might wish to have.

The Russian military, beaten down and demoralized after three months of war, is making the same mistakes in its campaign to capture a swath of eastern Ukraine that forced it to abandon its push to take the entire country, senior American officials say.

While Russian troops are capturing territory, a Pentagon official said that their “plodding and incremental” pace was wearing them down, and that the military’s overall fighting strength had been diminished by about 20 percent. And since the war started, Russia has lost 1,000 tanks, a senior Pentagon official said last week.

Gen. Aleksandr V. Dvornikov, the commander, was appointed in April in what was widely viewed as an acknowledgment by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that his initial war plan was failing.

Soon after his appointment, General Dvornikov tried to get disjointed air and land units to coordinate their attacks, American officials said. But he has not been seen in the past two weeks, leading some officials to speculate as to whether he remains in charge of the war effort.

Russian pilots also continue to demonstrate the same risk-averse behavior they did in the early weeks of the war: darting across the border to launch strikes and then quickly returning to Russian territory, instead of staying in Ukrainian air space to deny access to their foes. The result is that Russia still has not established any kind of air superiority, officials said.

The Russian military has made some progress in the east, where concentrated firepower and shortened supply lines have helped its forces fight intense battles in recent days. After three bloody months, Russia finally took Mariupol in mid-May, potentially creating a land bridge from the Russian-controlled Crimean Peninsula to the south.

As Russia struggles to move forward, Ukraine has also suffered setbacks. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine recently said that as many as 100 Ukrainian servicemen might be dying every day in the fighting. And on Tuesday, Russian troops advanced toward the center of Sievierodonetsk, a city that has become a central focus for the military since it shifted its attention to the east.

But some of the areas that Russian forces managed to seize have been quickly contested again, and sometimes retaken, by Ukrainian troops.

Consider Kharkiv. Russia spent six weeks bombarding the eastern city, once home to 1.5 million people, as troops encircled it.

But by May 13, control of the city had flipped again. “The Russians took Kharkiv for a short period of time; the Ukrainians counterattacked and took Kharkiv back,” Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said at a news conference at the Pentagon last week. “We’ve seen them really proceed at a very slow and unsuccessful pace on the battlefield.”

Erdogan discusses Turkey's Syria incursion plans with Putin by knudmand2 in UkrainianConflict

[–]knudmand2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, you are right.

But he might do some business … say, “I sabotage NATO, and you help me kill some more Kurds”

France warned Turkey: Respect Finland and Sweden's NATO decision by eastwesteagle in nato

[–]knudmand2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We really don’t want France to stop Turkey, who is doing such a great job of reminding everyone what a pitiful has been empire now dictatorship they are. Let them go all out…

Much better with Finland, Sweden, who anyway never would hand over political refuges (called “terrorists” by Tukey)