Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-23 and Invasion

[Legbiter]

Multipolar world update.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Belarusia's authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Zimbabwe to pomp and fanfare on Monday, in a visit that seeks to cement economic and political ties between the two countries that are both close allies of Russia.

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa and hundreds of singing and cheering ruling party supporters welcomed Lukashenko at the main Robert Gabriel Mugabe airport in the capital, Harare. The leaders didn't speak to the press.

The visit, according to Zimbabwe's foreign affairs ministry, is aimed at boosting "strong cooperation in political, economic, mining, agriculture and disaster risk management" between the two countries.

[Josquius]

Irans drone factory seems to have been bombed.
Americans ?

[crazy canuck]

The Israelis may be a better bet.

[Tamas]

Maybe Saudis on American encouragement? I can't see Israel taking a risk to help Ukraine.

[Valmy]

We did kill that Iranian general several years ago but we usually don't bomb factories. That would a little too directly provocative under the circumstances.

[Josquius]

Maybe Saudis on American encouragement? I can't see Israel taking a risk to help Ukraine.

That's my thoughts. They've been keeping neutral. Weird they'd get involved.
Though perhaps as some sort of backroom deal with America they would.

[crazy canuck]

I can't see Israel taking a risk to help Ukraine.

I agree.  But it does not only help Ukraine.  Taking out drone manufacturing facilities in Iran is also of assistance to Israel.

[grumbler]

It's a token attack.  You can't take out factories with the size of warheads you could get on a drone.  Unless maybe a drone B-52.

[crazy canuck]

It's a token attack.  You can't take out factories with the size of warheads you could get on a drone.  Unless maybe a drone B-52.

Do we know how the factory was bombed?

[crazy canuck]

Just did a quick google search to see if I could answer my own question.  And it turns out Israel has claimed responsibility for the attack.  And they used drones.

But it appears what they attacked was a missile manufacturing facility, not a drone manufacturing facility.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/world/middleeast/iran-drone-strike-israel.html

[Grey Fox]

Azerbaijan probably helped.

[The Larch]

Can somebody attest to the historical faithfulness of this recreation? 

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1618192698959360001

At the end of last year, Sergei Ivanov, a local politician in the Russian city of Syzran, reportedly used a state grant worth the equivalent of around £25,000 to stage a reenactment of the WW2 Battle of Kursk in a university sports hall

[DGuller]

Story is that these tanks went straight to the front after the reenactment.

[PDH]

Story is that these tanks went straight to the front after the reenactment.

So far their survival rate is higher than the T-72s

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOw4_X8JjZA

Biden says US will not send F16s; 49% support sending more military aid, 47% do not.