Providing Air Support to Ukraine

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‘We are Here at the Invitation of the Legitimate Government’ Providing Air Support to Ukraine

When Putin sent his air power to support Syrian dictator Bassar al-Assad, a mission on which the Russian air force committed war crimes such as bombing humanitarian aid convoys, his only justification was the following: ‘we are here at the invitation of the legitimate government’.

Russia believes that, in and of itself, this is all that is needed for the air force of one country to go to the aid of another country. Therefore, Putin cannot complain about this. He will, of course, so what?

As well as Putin himself providing the precedent, other examples in history tell us that such an action is legitimate. Sweden, for example, came to the help of Finland in 1939. There are indications that Poland may be the first country ready to join such a collation. Others should follow its lead.

The excerpt is from further down in the article, but IMHO is an important point. The article is from March 7th, but again makes some good points.

Link: https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/07/we-are-here-at-the-invitation-of-the-legitimate-government-providing-air-support-to-ukraine/

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1. Meh. I heard it said by various and sundry

important people that most of the damage was caused by artillery and cruise missiles. There were almost no attacks from actual planes.

Then I read today that there were over the last few days, on average, 200 or so Russian sorties per day over Ukraine. Few planes are falling from the sky, so they're likely higher than Stingers can go.

I guess that when you don't want to do something, 200 sorties count as "almost none."

As for escalation, I'd say that pretty much the entire Ukraine theatre is an escalation, and hypersonic bombs are escalations, and shelling hospitals is an escalation.


Last time a Ukrainian town fell to Russia, the world expressed outrage and I could have swore they said "never again." Should have paid closer attention, I guess. I'm fairly sure that a recording of those utterances would clearly indicate they said, "ever again."

In other news, Assad's visiting the UAE and Arabs are trying to rehabilitate him. Even as he recruits fighters to send to Ukraine to make his allies and patron states Iran and Russia happy. Such beautiful people.