The Balkan: Following a meeting of the Supreme Defense Council last Thursday, Romania has agreed to host a NATO regional hub for the training of F-16 fighter jet pilots, which will train Ukrainian F-16 pilots in anticipation of the delivery of the advanced aircraft to the Ukrainian military later in the year. The decision deepens Romania’s involvement in the conflict in a neighboring country that still occupies large portions of Romanian territory occupied at the end of World War II, including Snake Island in the Black Sea.
“This regional hub will cover the needs for training for allies and regional partners, thus contributing to increased cohesion, unity and strengthening the euro-Atlantic deterrence and defense position,” a statement issued by the office of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis read. “Romanian pilots who fly F-16 aircraft will be trained here, and later the structure will be open for pilots from allied states and NATO partners, including Ukraine, to participate.” Read More
While the politicians get rich.
Seeing as it takes a year and a half to adequately train for an F16, they’re planning on this war continuing for a long time. If they shortcut training, they’re just putting targets up in the air.
Did Nato forgot about Kinzhal hypersonic missiles? No question Russia is busy adapting them for air-to-air use.
Thank goodness they have to oxygen masks! The garlic, whiskey, and cigarette fumes coming off Romanians is enough to gag ya.
It’s all just a show. The US military is no longer a fighting force, just a showcase for our MIC.
Michael Hudson suns it up well:
“Military, for the United States, is different from what the word ‘military’ meant in every other society from the beginning of time. When you say military, you think of an army fighting. You cannot conquer a country without invading it, and to invade it, you obviously need an army, you need troops. But the Americans can’t mount an army, of enough size, to occupy anybody except Grenada, or Panama, because the Vietnam War stopped the military draft. What America does have, what it calls military, is what you quite rightly linked it to: the military industrial complex. It makes arms. And weapons.”
“But again, these are a funny kind of weapons. Suppose you had a winery that made wine that was so good, that really wasn’t for drinking. It was for wealthy people to buy, and to trade. And as the years go by, the wine would turn to vinegar. It’s not wine for drinking. It’s wine for making a profit, a capital gain.”