Russia - threadbanned users in OP

That C-17 was probably delivering aid to Turkey.

Its like they live in a dystopian world where their military, navy and allies have an invisible shield around them protecting them from retaliation.

"We send our navy to their borders" - but ignoring that if their navy stood out of line, every boat \ ship would be sunk in short time, an every soul on board would perish.

"We get north korea to hit them in a heartbeat" - but ignoring that NK would then within about a couple of hours, be transformed into a glassy radioactive wasteland, basically devoid of human life.

"We should strike London or Berlin" - Refer to NKs outcome for same above.

In their minds do they seriously think western countries would just be afraid and in awe when they saw their russian adversaries approaching and would sit idly by as russia does what it likes without fear of retaliation ?

The sight of that white haired old man in a suit gesticulating in front of the camera as he delivers such ludicrous nonsense is quite sad viewing in a way.

Something you wanted to add?

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Apt for this thread

1. The guilty party should be held Liable for damages/injury/death, that is a fair assessment.
2. Next part is enforcement. Not possible to use Russian money to rebuild unless they are beaten out of the area to be rebuilt, this is clearly happening.
3. The practical part is the application of the finance. Much of the money has already been seized from Russian Oligarchs so quite easy to do.

So no that I have answers yet another of your deliberately leading questions let me ask you a real one.

Why would you think Russia will not pick up the tab?

The Russian military stopped manufacturing most of there RPG's in the late 90's early noughties and basically exported them to anyone fighting the Yanks. The numbers they have are quite small it seems numbering in the thousands not ten of thousands.

They are a number of variants however they have one major flaw they all weight 12ish kgs similar to the Javelin. A LAWS is 3ish kgs. They have not got enough to deploy at squad level.

Just look at the LAWS the UA has 100k of them. If you have a million active military that is one to ten troops, but you would not be giving them to pilots, tank crews, artillery units etc.

The drone would have been put up to see was there another tank or howitzers within 2-3km of the trench. Battlefield intelligence would tell you that generally such positions do not have ATM, whether it's ATGM or RPG's

Basically it's battlefield risk analysis and comes back to how poorly equipped the average Russian troop, squad or army generally are.

So basically the decision by a battlefield commander in such a situation was how do we attack it. In this case it was send in a fast moving tank to shoot up the trench.

What's the problem with "denouncing the Putin government " ? Or does ye're bravery not extend beyond raping and murdering civilians?

Well, I had one experience in Syria where I was stopped at a checkpoint, ( pretty much common experience there!!! ) and as things seemed to be dragging on, I asked the officer what was the problem, and he said that we were stopped because there were snipers operating from a tall building just ahead, and that they had requested a tank to come and take them out. And sure enough, a tank duly appeared (on its own) and levelled the building. If the snipers were still in it or not, I never found out, but there were no shots fired when we drove past it anyway.

The Geneva Conventions are universal.

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The wheels will move quite slowly because you are talking about lots of different countries with actual working independent legal systems vs 1 country with Putin (or someone similar) who can snap his fingers/invite someone to a sit down and a cup of tea, but I don't think Russia is getting the frozen assets and money it has in the West back.

So Russia will pay the piper eventually.

I would not underestimate the complexity of seizing state assets (i.e. Russian offshore reserves) and then giving them to another state. It's pretty much unprecedented in modern economic history.

I also think Russian reparations (along the lines of say Versailles) are highly unlikely.

A modern-day Marshall Plan for Ukraine, funded by the EU and US, seems much more probable in my view. In fact, it's already happening. Some of the aid being pledged is not direct military or humanitarian aid, but is rather for reconstruction.