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2022-03-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Foreign policy experts call for 'limited no-fly zone' over Ukraine

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-09 07:26|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 "limited" NFZ
Makes sense. In response to what they called a "limited" incursion by Vlad.

Golly, at this rate our 'experts' are going to run out of "limiteds" soon. And what would we do without experts?

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-09 07:37|| 2022-03-09 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 "Experts" *spit*

Idiots who want a world war more like.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-09 07:59|| 2022-03-09 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Is that like a limited thermonuclear war?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-09 08:00|| 2022-03-09 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Show me something, anything, these foreign policy experts have gotten right in the last 10-20 years and maybe I'll listen.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-09 08:29|| 2022-03-09 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 10-20years, go back farther than that.

Posted by Chris 2022-03-09 09:35|| 2022-03-09 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 oh yeah, how long did that no fly zone in Iraq cost us and look at how well that worked out.

Posted by Chris 2022-03-09 09:36|| 2022-03-09 09:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah, yes, the Libya-Style, where we limited the no-fly zone for about a day before dropping bombs.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 10:54|| 2022-03-09 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Is that Sky Marshall Hannity calling for A-10s? Any know-how, parts, ammo sitting around handy in Ukraine for A-10s? Where exactly is the nearest airfield equipped to handle flights of A-10s flying combat missions into Ukraine? Eastern Ukraine.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 11:40|| 2022-03-09 11:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Hell, I'm nervous enough about their plan to deliver MIGs from Germany to Ukraine. The problem with Putin's army being so slow is it gives our elites too much time to come up with dumbass ideas like this.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-09 12:04|| 2022-03-09 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd guess nobody wants to have or be within five miles of That Airfield, so the plan is by train or something?

Of course we all know the first rule of Flying Tiger Club but there is China Shits in my Mouth Blinkin talking all about it like the idea itself is a major breakthrough victory.

I bet every name on that letter is part of the problem.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 12:11|| 2022-03-09 12:11|| Front Page Top

#11 #4 Show me something, anything, these foreign policy experts have gotten right in the last 10-20 years and maybe I'll listen.

Ask and ye shall receive. John Mearsheimer, Ray McGovern, dozens of other Russia and IR experts have warned us for years this would end in disaster.

(Cross-post alert) The dean of International Relations scholars worldwide, Mearsheimer accurately forecast Putin's responses and the course of this Ukrainian disaster six years ago in a super-clear lecture that explains the foolishness of poking the bear as we did. 18 million views now on YouTube.

Why is Ukraine the West's Fault?
The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis
John Mearsheimer
U Chicago Alumni Weekend
June 4-7, 2015

Here's a shorter version - John Mearsheimer with Ambassador Jack Matlock and former CIA Russia Desk and Presidential Daily Briefer for GHW Bush, Ray McGovern

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-09 12:35|| 2022-03-09 12:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Put enough MANPADS and longer ranged SAM systems in Ukrainian hands, and it will a de facto "no-fly zone"

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-03-09 18:21|| 2022-03-09 18:21|| Front Page Top