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Can You Segway?Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.So exactly who was going to be sympathetic to their plight, who we cared about?Beyond my fevered dream of making a difference there was a pinch of reality. See, the Cabindans and the people of Zaire were both ethnic Bakongo and the Bakongo of Zaire had also once had their own, independent (until 1914) kingdom which was now part of Angola. The Bakongo were major factions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -(formerly for a short time known as the nation of Zaire, from here on out to be referred to as the DRC and in the running for the most fucked up place on the planet Earth, more on that later)- and Congo (the nation) yet a minority in Angola. Having an independent nation united along ethnic and linguistic lines made sense and could expect support from their confederates across international boundaries.The Liberation Air ForceThe Earth & Sky operated under one constant dilemma ~ when would Temujin make his return? Since they didn't know and it was their job to be prepared for the eventuality if it happened tomorrow, or a century down the line, they 'stockpiled', and 'stockpiled' and 'stockpiled'.That was why they maintained large horse herds and preserved the ancient arts of Asian bowyers, armoring and weapons-craft. That was why they created secret armories, and sulfur and saltpeter sites when musketry and cannons became the new ways of warfare. They secured sources of phosphates and petroleum when they became the new thing, and so on.All of this boiled over to me being shown yet again I worked with clever, creative and under-handed people. The Khanate came up with a plan for a 'Union' Air Force {Union? More on that later} within 24 hours, and it barely touched any of their existing resources. How did they accomplish this miracle? They had stockpiled and maintained earlier generation aircraft because they didn't know when Temujin would make his re-appearance.They'd also trained pilots and ground crews for those aircraft. As you might imagine, those people grew old just as their equipment did. In time, they went into the Earth & Sky's Inactive Reserves ~ the rank & file over the age of 45. You never were 'too old' to serve in some capacity though most combat-support related work ended at 67.When Temujin made his return and the E&S transformed into the Khanate, those people went to work bringing their lovingly cared for, aging equipment up to combat-alert readiness. If the frontline units were decimated, they would have to serve, despite the grim odds of their survival. It was the terrible acceptance the Chinese would simply possess so much more war-making material than they did.Well, the Khanate kicked the PRC's ass in a titanic ass-whooping no one (else) had seen coming, or would soon forget. Factory production and replacement of worn machines was in stride to have the Khanate's Air Force ready for the next round of warfare when the Cease-fire ended and the Reunification War resumed.Always a lower priority, the Khanate military leadership was considering deactivating dozens of these reserve unit when suddenly the (Mongolian) Ikh khaany khairt akh dáé (me) had this hare-brained scheme about helping rebels in Africa, West Africa, along the Gulf of Guinea coast/Atlantic Ocean, far, far away, and it couldn't look like the Khanate was directly involved.They barely knew where Angola was. They had to look up Cabinda to figure out precisely where that was. They brought in some of their 'reservist' air staff to this briefing and one of them, a woman (roughly a third of the E&S 'fighting'/non-frontline forces were female), knew what was going on. Why?She had studied the combat records and performance of the types of aircraft she'd have to utilize... back in the 1980's and 90's and Angola had been a war zone rife with Soviet (aka Khanate) material back then. Since she was both on the ball, bright and knew the score, the War Council put her in overall command. She knew what was expected of her and off she went, new staff in hand. She was 64 years old, yet as ready and willing to serve as any 20 year old believer in the Cause.Subtlety, scarcity and audacity were the watchwords of the day. The Khanate couldn't afford any of their front-line aircraft for this 'expedition'. They really couldn't afford any of their second-rate stuff either. Fortunately, they had some updated third-rate war-fighting gear still capable of putting up an impressive show in combat ~ providing they weren't going up against a top tier opponents.For the 'volunteers' of the Union Air Force, this could very likely to be a one-way trip. They all needed crash courses (not a word any air force loves, I know) in Portuguese though hastily provided iPhones with 'apps' to act as translators were deemed to be an adequate stop-gap measure. Besides, they were advised to avoid getting captured at all cost. The E&S couldn't afford the exposure. Given the opportunity ~ this assignment really was going above and beyond ~ not one of these forty-six to sixty-seven year olds backed out.No, they rolled out fifty of their antiquated aircraft, designs dating back to the 1950's through the mid-70's, and prepared them for the over 10,000 km journey to where they were 'needed most'. 118 pilots would go (72 active plus 46 replacements) along with 400 ground crew and an equally aged air defense battalion (so their air bases didn't get blown up). Security would be provided by 'outsiders' ~ allies already on the ground and whatever rebels could be scrounged up. After the initial insertion, the Indian Air Force would fly in supplies at night into the Cabinda City and Soyo Airports.The composition,14 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 jet fighters ~ though she entered service in 1959, these planes' electronics were late 20th century and she was a renowned dogfighter. 12 were the Mig-21-97 modernized variant and the other two were Mig-21 UM two-seater trainer variants which could double as reconnaissance fighters if needed.14 Sukhoi Su-22 jet fighter-bombers ~ the original design, called the Su-17, came out in 1970, the first 12 were variants with the 22M4 upgrade were an early-80's package. The other 2 were Su-22U two-seat trainers which, like their Mig-21 comrades, doubled as reconnaissance fighters. The Su-22M4's would be doing the majority of the ground attack missions for the Cabindans, though they could defend themselves in aerial combat if necessary.6 Sukhoi Su-24M2 supersonic attack aircraft ~ the first model rolled off the production lines in the Soviet Union back in 1974. By far the heaviest planes in the Cabindan Air Force, the Su-24M2's would act as their 'bomber force' as well as anti-ship deterrence.8 Mil Mi-24 VM combat helicopters ~ introduced in 1972 was still a lethal combat machine today. Unlike the NATO helicopter force, the Mi-24's did double duty as both attack helicopter and assault transports at the same time.4 Mil Mi-8 utility helicopters, first produced in 1967. Three would act as troop/cargo transports (Mi-8 TP) while the fourth was configured as a mobile hospital (the MI-17 1VA).4 Antonov An-26 turboprop aircraft, two to be used as tactical transports to bring in supplies by day and two specializing in electronic intelligence aka listening to what the enemy was up to. Though it entered production in 1969, many still remained flying today.2 Antonov An-71M AEW&C twin-jet engine aircraft. These were an old, abandoned Soviet design the Earth & Sky had continued working on primarily because the current (1970's) Russian Airborne Early Warning and Control bird had been both huge and rather ineffective ~ it couldn't easily identify low-flying planes in the ground clutter so it was mainly only good at sea. Since the E&S planned to mostly fight over the land,They kept working on the An-71 which was basically 1977's popular An-72 with some pertinent design modifications (placing the engines below the wings instead of above them as on the -72 being a big one). To solve their radar problem, they stole some from the Swedish tech firm Ericsson, which hadn't been foreseen to be a problem before now.See, the Russians in the post-Soviet era created a decent AEW&C craft the E&S gladly stole and copied the shit out of for their front line units and it was working quite nicely ~ the Beriev A-50, and wow, were the boys in the Kremlin pissed off about that these days. Whoops, or was that woot?Now, the Khanate was shipping two An-71's down to Cabinda and somewhere along the line someone just might get a 'feel' for the style of radar and jamming the Cabindans were using aka the Swedish stuff in those An-71's. The Erieye radar system could pick out individual planes at 280 miles. The over-all system could track 60 targets and plot out 10 intercepts simultaneously. NATO, they were not, but in sub-Saharan Africa, there were none better.Anyway, so why was any of this important?Why the old folks with their ancient machines? As revealed, since the Earth & Sky had no idea when Temüjin would return, they were constantly squirreling away equipment. World War 2 gave them unequaled access to Soviet military technology and training.Afterwards, under Josef Stalin's direction, thousands of Russian and German engineers and scientists were exiled to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan who were then snatched up (reportedly died in the gulags/trying to escape) and the E&S began building mirror factories modeled on the 'then current' Soviet production lines.So, by the early 1950's, the E&S was building, flying and maintaining Soviet-style Antonov, Beriev, Ilyushin, Myasishchev, Mikoyan-Gurevich, Sukhoi, Tupolev and Yakovlev airplanes. First in small numbers because their pool of pilots and specialists was so small.The E&S remedied this by creating both their own 'private' flight academies and technical schools. They protected their activities with the judicious use of bribes (they were remarkably successful with their economic endeavors on both side of the Iron Curtain) and murders (including the use of the Ghost Tigers).By 1960, the proto-Khanate had an air force. Through the next two decades they refined and altered their doctrine ~ moving away from the Soviet doctrine to a more pure combined-arms approach (the Soviets divided their air power into four separate arms ~ ADD (Long Range Aviation), FA (Front Aviation), MTA (Military Transport Aviation) and the V-PVO (Soviet Air Defenses ~ which controlled air interceptors).).It wasn't until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the various former SSR's that the E&S program really began to hit its stride. Still, while Russia faltered, China's PLAAF (Peoples' Liberation Army Air Force) began to take off. Since the Chinese could produce so much more, the E&S felt it had to keep those older planes and crews up to combat readiness. The younger field crews and pilots flew the newer models as they rolled off the secret production lines.Then the Unification War appeared suddenly, the E&S-turned Khanate Air Force skunked their PLAAF rivals due to two factors, a surprise attack on a strategic level and the fatal poisoning of their pilots and ground crews before they even got into the fight. For those Chinese craft not destroyed on the ground, the effects of Anthrax eroded their fighting edge. Comparable technology gave the Khanate their critical victory and Air Supremacy over the most important battlefields.What did this meant for those out-of-date air crews and pilots who had been training to a razor's edge for a month now? Their assignment had been to face down the Russians if they invaded. They would take their planes up into the fight even though this most likely would mean their deaths, but they had to try.When Operation Fun House put Russia in a position where she wasn't likely to jump on the Khanate, this mission's importance faded. The Russian Air Force was far more stretched than the Khanate's between her agitations in the Baltic and her commitments in the Manchurian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Georgian theaters.With more new planes rolling off the production lines, these reservist units began dropping down the fuel priority list, which meant lowering their flight times thus readiness. Only my hare-brained scheme had short-circuited their timely retirement. Had I realized I was getting people's grandparents killed, I would have probably made the same call anyway. We needed them.The KanateThe Khanate's #1 air superiority dogfighter was the Mig-35F. The #2 was the Mig-29. No one was openly discussing the Khanate's super-stealthy "Su-50", if that was what it was, because its existence 'might' suggest the Khanate also stole technology from the Indian defense industry, along with their laundry list of thefts from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the PRC, Russia and half of NATO.Her top multi-role fighters were the Su-47, Su-35S and Su-30SM. The Su-30 'Flanker-C/MK2/MKI were their 2nd team with plenty of 3rd team Su-27M's still flying combat missions as well.Strike fighters? There weren't enough Su-34's to go around yet, so the Su-25MS remained the Khanate's dedicated Close Air Assault model.Medium transport aircraft? The An-32RE and An-38. They had small, large and gargantuan transports as well.Bombers? The rather ancient jet-powered Tu-160M2's and Tu-22M2's as well as the even older yet still worthwhile turboprops ~ from 1956's ~ the Tu-95M S16.Helicopters? While they still flew updated variants of the Mil Mi-8/17 as military transports, the more optimized Kamov Ka-52 and Mil Mi-28 had replaced them in the assault role.Bizarrely, the Khanate had overrun several Chinese production lines of the aircraft frames and components ~ enough to complete fairly modern PLAAF (Peoples Liberation Army Air Force) FC-1 and J-10 (both are small multi-role fighter remarkably similar to the US F-16 with the FC-1 being the more advanced model, using shared Chinese-Pakistani technology and was designed for export,).They did have nearly two dozen to send, but they didn't have the pilots and ground crews trained to work with them, plus the FC-1 cost roughly $32 million which wasn't fundage any legitimate Cabindan rebels could get their hands on, much less $768 million (and that would just be for the planes, not the weeks' worth of fuel, parts and munitions necessary for what was forthcoming).Meanwhile, except for the An-26, which you could get for under $700,000 and the An-71, which were only rendered valuable via 'black market tech', none of the turboprop and jet aircraft the Khanate was sending were what any sane military would normally want. The helicopters were expensive ~ the 'new' models Mi-24's cost $32 million while the Mi-17's set you back $17 million. The one's heading to Cabinda didn't look 'new'.The Opposition:In contrast, the Angolan Air Force appeared far larger and more modern. Appearances can be deceptive, and they were. Sure, the models of Russian and Soviet-made aircraft they had in their inventory had the higher numbers ~ the Su-25, -27 and -30 ~ plus they had Mig-21bis's, Mig-23's and Su-22's, but things like training and up-keep didn't appear to be priorities for the Angolans.When you took into account the rampant corruption infecting all levels of Angolan government, the conscript nature of their military, the weakness of their technical educational system, the complexity of any modern combat aircraft and the reality that poor sods forced into being Air Force ground crewmen hardly made the most inspired technicians, or most diligent care-takers of their 'valuable' stockpiles (which their officers all too often sold on the black market anyway), things didn't just look bleak for the Angolan Air Force, they were a tsunami of cumulative factors heading them for an epic disaster.It wasn't only their enemies who derided their Air Force's lack of readiness. Their allies constantly scolded them about it too. Instead of trying to fix their current inventory, the Angolans kept shopping around for new stuff. Since 'new'-new aircraft was beyond what they wanted to spend (aka put too much of a dent in the money they were siphoning off to their private off-shore accounts), they bought 'used' gear from former Soviet states ~ Belarus, Russia and Ukraine ~ who sold them stuff they had left abandoned in revetments (open to the elements to slowly rot) on the cheap.To add to the insanity, the Angolans failed to keep up their maintenance agreements so their newly fixed high-tech machines often either couldn't fly, or flew without critical systems, like radar, avionics and even radios. Maybe that wasn't for the worst because after spending millions on these occasionally-mobile paperweights, the Angolans bought the least technologically advanced missile, gun and rocket systems they could get to put on these flying misfortunes.On the spread sheets, Angola had 18 Su-30K's, 18 Su-27, 12 Su-25's, 14 Su-22's, 22 Mig-23's, 23 Mig-21bis's and 6 Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano (a turboprop aircraft tailor-made for counter-insurgency operations), 105 helicopters with some combative ability and 21 planes with some airlift capacity. That equated to 81 either air superiority, or multi-role jet fighters versus the 12 Union Air Force (actually the Bakongo Uni o de Cabinda e Zaire, For as Armadas de Liberta  o, For a Area ~ Liberation Armed Forces, Air Force (BUCZ-FAL-FA) Mig-21-97's.It would seem lopsided except for the thousands of hours of flight experience the 'Unionists' enjoyed over their Angolan rivals. You also needed to take into account the long training and fanatic dedication of their ground crews to their pilots and their craft. Then you needed to take into account every Unionist aircraft, while an older airframe design, had updated (usually to the year 2000) technology lovingly cared for, as if the survival of their People demanded it.A second and even more critical factor was the element of surprise. At least the PRC and the PLAAF had contingencies for attacks from their neighbors in the forefront of their strategic planning. The Angolans? The only country with ANY air force in the vicinity was the Republic of South Africa (RSA) and they had ceased being a threat with the end of Apartheid and the rise of majority Black rule in that country nearly two decades earlier.In the pre-dawn hours of 'Union Independence Day', the FAL-FA was going to smash every Angolan Air base and air defense facility within 375 miles of Cabinda (the city). Every three hours after that, they would be hitting another target within their designated 'Exclusion Zone'. Yes, this 'Exclusion Zone' included a 'tiny' bit of DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) territory. The DRC didn't have an air force to challenge them though, so,Inside this 'Exclusion Zone', anything moving by sea, river, road, rail, or air without Unionist governmental approval was subject to attack, which would require neutral parties to acknowledge some semblance of a free and independent B U C Z. Worse for Angola, this 'Zone' included Angola's capital and its largest port, Luanda, plus four more of their ten largest urban centers. This could be an economic, military and humanitarian catastrophe if mishandled.The Angolan Army did not have significant anti-aircraft assets. Why would they? Remember, no one around them had much of an air force to worry about. The FAL-FA in turn could hit military convoys with TV-guided munitions 'beyond line of sight', rendering what they did have useless. It got worse for the Army after dark. The FAL-FA could and would fly at night whereas the average Angolan formation had Zip-Zero-Nadda night fighting capacity.Then geography added its own mountain of woes. As far as Cabinda was concerned, there was no direct land line to their border from Angola. Their coastal road only went as far as the port of Soyo where the Congo River hit the South Atlantic Ocean. Across that massive gap was the DRC where the road was not picked back up. Far up the coast was the DRC town of Muanda (with an airport) and though they did have a road which went north, it did not continue to the Cabindan border.Nope. To get at Cabinda from the south meant a long, torturous travel through northeastern Angola, into the heart of the DRC then entailed hooking west to some point 'close' to the Cabindan frontier before finally hoofing it overland through partially cleared farmland and jungle. Mind you, the DRC didn't have a native air force capable of protecting the Angolans in their territory so,In fact the only 'road' to Cabinda came from the Republic of Congo (Congo) to the north and even that was a twisted route along some really bad, swampy terrain. This had been the pathway of conquest the Angolans took 39 years earlier. The difference being the tiny bands of pro-independence Cabindan guerillas back then couldn't hold a candle to the Amazons fighting to free Cabinda this time around in numbers, zeal, training and up-to-date equipment.Next option ~ to come by sea. They would face a few, stiff problems, such as the FAL-FA having ship-killer missiles, the Angolan Navy not being able to defend them and the Unionists having no compunction to not strike Pointe-Noire in the 'not so neutral' Republic of the Congo if they somehow began unloading Angolan troops. It seemed the Republic of the Congo didn't have much of an Air Force either.Before you think the FAL-FA was biting off more than they could chew, Cabinda, the province, was shaped somewhat like the US State of Delaware, was half the size of Connecticut (Cabinda was 2,810 sq. mi. to Conn.'s 5,543 sq. mi.) and only the western 20% was relatively open countryside where the Angolan Army's only advantage ~ they possessed armed fighting vehicles while the 'Unionists' did not (at this stage of planning) ~ could hopefully come into play.Centered at their capital, Cabinda (City), jets could reach any point along their border within eight minutes. Helicopters could make it in fifteen. To be safe, some of the FAL-FA would base at the town of Belize which was in the northern upcountry and much tougher to get at with the added advantage the Angolans wouldn't be expecting the FAL-FA to be using the abandoned airfield there, at least initially.Where they afraid attacking Angolan troops in the DRC would invite war with the DRC? Sure, but letting the Angolans reach the border unscathed was worse. Besides, the DRC was in such a mess it needed 23,000 UN Peacekeepers within her borders just to keep the country from falling apart. Barring outside, read European, intervention, did "Democratically-elected since 2001" President (for Life) Joseph Kabila want the FAL-FA to start dropping bombs on his capital, Kinshasa, which was well within reach of all their aircraft?Congo (the country), to the north, wasn't being propped up by the UN, or anything else except ill intentions. In reality, it hardly had much of a military at all. Its officer corps was chosen for political reliability, not merit, or capability. Their technology was old Cold War stuff with little effort to update anything and, if you suspected corruption might be a problem across all spectrums of life, you would 'probably' be right about that too.If you suspected the current President had been in charge for a while, you would be correct again (1979-1992 then 2001- and the 'whoops' was when he accidently let his country experiment with democracy which led to two civil wars). If you suspected he was a life-long Communist (along with the Presidents of the DRC and Angola), you'd be right about that as well. Somehow their shared Marxist-Leninist-Communist ideology hadn't quite translated over to alleviating the grinding poverty in any of those countries despite their vast mineral wealth,At this point in the region's history, little Cabinda had everything to gain by striving for independence and the vast majority of 'warriors' who could possibly be sent against her had terribly little to gain fighting and dying trying to stop them from achieving her goal. After all, their lives weren't going to get any better and with the Amazons ability ~ nay willingness ~ to commit battlefield atrocities, those leaders were going to find it hard going to keep sending their men off to die.And then, it got even worse.See, what I had pointed out was there were two oil refineries in Angola, and neither was in Cabinda. Cabinda would need a refinery to start making good on their oil wealth ~ aka economically bribe off the Western economies already shaken over the Khanate's first round of aggressions.But wait! There was an oil refinery just across the Congo River from Cabinda ~ which meant it was attached to mainland Angola. That had to be a passel of impossible news, right?Nope. As I said earlier, it seemed the people of northern Angola were the same racial group as the Cabindans AND majority Catholic while the ruling clique wasn't part of their ethnic confederacy plus the farther south and east into Angola you went, the less Catholic it became.But it got better. This province was historically its own little independent kingdom (called the Kingdom of Kongo) to boot! It had been abolished by Portugal back in 1914.The 'good' news didn't end there. Now, it wasn't as if the leadership of Angola was spreading the wealth around to the People much anyway, but these northerners had been particularly left out of this Marxist version of 'Trickle Down' economics.How bad was this? This northwestern province ~ called Zaire ~ didn't have any railroads, or paved roads, linking it to the rest of the freaking country. The 'coastal road' entered the province, but about a third of the way up ran into this river, which they'd failed to bridge (you had to use a single track bridge farther to the northeast, if you can believe it). It wasn't even a big river. It was still an obstacle though.How did the Angolan government and military planned to get around? Why by air and sea, of course. Well, actually by air. Angola didn't have much of a merchant marine, or Navy, to make sealift a serious consideration. Within hours of the 'Union Declaration of Independence' anything flying anywhere north of the Luanda, the capital of Angola, would essentially be asking to be blown out of the sky.Along the border between Zaire province and the rest of Angola were precisely two chokepoints. By 'chokepoints', I meant places where a squad (10 trained, modernly-equipped troopers) could either see everything for miles & miles over pretty much empty space along a river valley and the only bridge separating Zaire province from the south, or overlook a ravine which the only road had to pass through because of otherwise bad-ass, broken terrain.Two.Zaire Province had roughly the same population as Cabinda ~ 600,000. Unlike Cabinda, which consisted of Cabinda City plus a few tiny towns and rugged jungles, Zaire had two cities ~ Soyo, with her seventy thousand souls plus the refinery at the mouth of the Congo River, and M'banza-Kongo, the historical capital of the Kingdom of Kongo, spiritual center of the Bakongo People (who included the Cabindans) and set up in the highlands strategically very reminiscent of Điện Biàn Phủ.Of Zaire's provincial towns, the only other strategic one was N'Zeto with her crappy Atlantic port facility and 2,230 meter grass airport. The town was the northern terminus of the National Road 100 ~ the Coastal Road. It terminated because of the Mebridege River. There wasn't a bridge at N'Zeto though there was a small one several miles upstream. N'Zeto was also where the road from provinces east of Zaire ended up, so you had to have N'Zeto ~ and that tiny bridge ~ to move troops overland anywhere else in Zaire Province.So you would think it would be easy for the Angolan Army to defend then, except of how the Amazons planned to operate. They would infiltrate the area first then 'rise up in rebellion'. Their problem was the scope of the operation had magnified in risk of exposure, duration and forces necessary for success.The serious issue before Saint Marie and the Host in Africa were the first two. They could actually move Amazons from Brazil and North America to bolster their numbers for the upcoming offensive. Even in the short-short term, equipment wouldn't be a serious problem. What the Amazons dreaded was being left in a protracted slugfest with the Angolan Army which the Condottieri could jump in on. The Amazons exceedingly preferred to strike first then vanish.There was reason to believe a tiny number could have stayed behind in Cabinda to help the locals prepare their military until they could defend themselves. They would need more than a hundred Amazons if Cabinda wanted to incorporate Zaire. The answer was to call back their newfound buddy, the Great Khan. While he didn't have much else he could spare (the Khanate was ramping up for their invasion of the Middle East after all, the Kurds needed the help), he had other allies he could call on.India couldn't help initially since they were supposed to supply the 'Peace-keepers' once a cease-fire had been arranged. That left Temujin with his solid ally, Vietnam, and his far shakier allies, the Republic of China and Japan.First off ~ Japan could not help, which meant they couldn't supply troops who might very well end up dead, or far worse, captured.. What they did have was a surplus of older equipment the ROC troops were familiar with, so while the ROC was gearing up for their own invasion of mainland China in February, they were willing to help the Chinese kill Angolans, off the books, of course.The ROC was sending fifteen hundred troops the Khanate's way to help in this West African adventure with the understanding they'd be coming home by year's end. With Vietnam adding over eight hundred of her own Special Forces, the Amazons had the tiny 'allied' army they could leave shielding Cabinda/Zaire once the first round of blood-letting was over.To be 'fair', the Republic of China and Vietnam asked for 'volunteers'. It wasn't like either country was going to declare war on Angola directly. Nearly a thousand members of Vietnam's elite 126th Regiment of the 5th Brigade (Đặc cáng bộ) took early retirement then misplaced their equipment as they went to update their visas and inoculations before heading out for the DRC (some would be slipping over the DRC/Cabindan border).On Taiwan, it was the men and women of the 602nd Air Cavalry Brigade, 871st Special Operations Group and 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion who felt the sudden desire to 'seek enlightenment elsewhere, preferably on another continent'.They too were off to the Democratic Republic of Congo, man that country was a mess and their border security wasn't worth writing home about, that's for damn sure, via multiple Southeast Asian nations. Besides, they were being issued fraudulently visas which showed them to be from the People's Republic of China, not the ROC/Taiwan. If they were captured, they were to pretend to "be working for a Communist Revolution inside Angola and thus to be setting all of Africa on fire!" aka be Mainland Chinese.There, in the DRC, these Chinese stumbled across, some Japanese. These folks hadn't retired. No. They were on an extended assignment for the UN's mission in, the DRC. OH! And look! They'd brought tons of surplus, outdated Japanese Self Defense Forces' equipment with them, and there just so happened to be some Taiwanese who had experience in using such equipment (both used US-style gear).And here was Colonel Yoshihiro Isami of the Chūō Sokuō Shūdan (Japan's Central Readiness Force) wondering why he and his hastily assembled team had just unloaded,18 Fuji/Bell AH-1S Cobra Attack helicopters,6 Kawasaki OH-6D Loach Scout helicopters,12 Fuji-Bell 204-B-2 Hiyodori Utility helicopters,6 Kawasaki/Boeing CH-47JA Chinook Transport helicopters and4 Mitsubishi M U-2L-1 Photo Reconnaissance Aircraft.Yep! 46 more aircraft for the FAL-FA!Oh, and if this wasn't 'bad enough', the Chinese hadn't come alone. They'd brought some old aircraft from their homes to aid in the upcoming struggle. Once more, these things were relics of the Cold War yet both capable fighting machines and, given the sorry state of the opposition, definitely quite deadly. A dozen F-5E Tiger 2000 configured primarily for air superiority plus two RF-5E Tigergazer for reconnaissance, pilots plus ground crews, of course.Thus, on the eve of battle, the FAL-FA had become a true threat. Sure, all of its planes (and half of its pilots) were pretty old, but they were combat-tested and in numbers and experience no other Sub-Saharan African nation could match.The Liberation Ground Forces:But wait, there was still the niggling little problem of what all those fellas were going to fight with once they were on the ground. Assault/Battle rifles, carbines, rifles, pistols, PDW, SMGs as bullets, grenades and RPG's were all terrifyingly easy to obtain. The coast of West Africa was hardly the Port of London as far as customs security went. They were going to need some bigger toys and their host nations were going to need all their native hardware for their upcoming battles at home.And it wasn't like you could advertise for used IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicles), APCs (armored personnel carriers) and tanks on e-Bay, Amazon.com, or Twitter. If something modern US, or NATO, was captured rolling around the beautiful Angolan countryside, shooting up hostile Angolans, all kinds of head would roll in all kinds of countries, unless the country,A) had an Executive Branch and Judiciary who wouldn't ask (or be answering) too many uncomfortable questions,B) wasn't all that vulnerable to international pressure,C) really needed the money and,D) didn't give a fuck their toys would soon be seen on BBC/CNN/Al Jazeera blowing the ever-living crap out of a ton of Africans aka doing what they were advertised to do and doing it very well in the hands of capable professionals.And politics was kind enough to hand the freedom-loving people of Cabinda & Zaire a winner, and it wasn't even from strangers, or at least people all that strange to their part of the Globe. If you would have no idea who to look for, you wouldn't be alone.That was the magic of the choice. See, the last three decades had seen the entire Globe take a colossal dump on them as a Nation and a People. They were highly unpopular for all sorts of things, such as Crimes Against Humanity and 'no', we were not talking about the Khanate.We would be talking about Република Србија / Republika Srbija aka Serbia aka the former Yugoslavia who had watched all their satellite minions (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia) slip away. Despite being reduced to a tiny fraction of their former selves thus fighting two incredibly brutal and bloody World Wars for nothing, Serbia insisted on maintaining a robust armaments industry.Mind you, they didn't make the very best stuff on the planet. That didn't stop them from trying though. Of equal importance was their geographic location and the above mentioned desire for some hard currency without asking too many questions. The geography was simple, you could move even heavy gear unnoticed from central Serbia to the Montenegrin port of Bar by rail and load them up on freighters and off to the Congo you went.The Serbians produced an APC called the BVP M-80A's which weren't blowing anyone's minds away when they started rolling off the production lines back in 1982, plus some over-eager types on the Serbian Army's payroll sweetened the deal by offering 'the rebels' some BVP M-80 KC's and a KB as well.Then they slathered on the sugary-sweet Maple syrup by upgrading a few of the M-80A's to BVP M-98A's. Why would they be so generous? The KC's and KB were the Command & Control variants, so that made sense (C = company & B = battalion commander). The -98A had never been tested in the field before and they were kind of curious how the new turrets (which was the major difference) would behave. 'Our' procurement agents didn't quibble. We needed the gear.Besides, these Slavic entrepreneurs gave them an inside track on some 'disarmed/mothballed' Czech (introduced in 1963) armored mobile ambulances and Polish BWP-1 (first rolled out in 1966) APC's which were either in, or could be quickly configured into, the support variants those ground-fighters would need. The 'disarmed' part was 'fixable', thanks to both the Serbians and Finland. The 'missing' basic weaponry was something the Serbians could replace with virtually identical equipment.It just kept getting better. Unknown to me at the time, the Finnish firm, Patria Hágglunds, had sold twenty-two of their 'most excellent' AMOS turrets ~ they are a twin 120 mm mortar system ~ then the deal fell through. Whoops! Should have guarded that warehouse better. Those bitches were on a cargo plane bound for Albania inside of six hours.The ammunition for them was rather unique. Thankfully, it was uniquely sold by the Swiss, who had no trouble selling it to Serbia, thank you very much! Twenty-two BWP-1's became mobile artillery for the Unionist freedom fighters, though I understood the ship ride with the Serbian and Chinese technicians was loads of fun as they struggled to figured out how to attach those state-of-the-art death-dealing turrets to those ancient contraptions.To compensate, the Serbians added (aka as long as our money was good) two Nora B-52 155 mm 52-calibre mobile artillery pieces and one battery of Orkan CER MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) for long-range artillery, two batteries of their Oganj 2000 ER MRLS for medium range carnage and six batteries of their M-94 MRLS for 'close support' as well. More field-testing new gear for the "freedom fighters" We also managed to 'purchase' ten M-84AS Main Battle tanks plus an M-84A1 armor recovery vehicle. It should have been twelve tanks, but two had 'loading issues'.Not to be deterred, our busy little procurement-beavers discovered four tanks no one was using, in neighboring Croatia. Why wasn't anyone immediately keen on their placement? They were two sets of prototypes, Croatia's improvements on the M-84; the M-95 Degman which was a 'failed redesign' and the M-84D, which was a vast up-grade for the M-84 line which had been sidelined by the 2008 Global economic collapse, after which the project stagnated.It seemed they were all in working order because late one night 'my people' exited a Croatian Army base with them, never to be seen again, until two weeks later when an intrepid news crew caught the distinctive form of the M-95 sending some sweet 125 mm loving the Angolan Army's way. Whoops yet again! At least they hit what they were aiming at and destroyed what they hit, right?By then, millions of other people would be going 'what the fuck?' right along with them as Cabinda's camouflage- and mask-wearing rebel army was laying the smack-down on the Angolans. That was okay; over a million 'free Cabindan Unionists' were in the same boat. Over a thousand Asians with their mostly-female militant translators were right there to prop up their 'Unionist Allies', but then they were the ones with the tanks, armored vehicles, planes and guns, so they were less worried than most.To pilot these tanks, APC, IFV and man this artillery, they had to go back to the Khanate. Sure enough, they had some old tankers used to crewing the T-72 from which the M-84's and -95 Degman were derived. They'd also need drivers for those BVP M-80A's and Polish BWP-1's and OT-64 SKOT's... who were, again, derived from old Soviet tech (just much better). The Serbian artillery was similar enough to Soviet stuff, but with enough new tech to make it 'more fun' for the reservists to 'figure out' how to use.More volunteers for the Liberation Armed Forces! More Apple sales, great apps and voice modulation software so that the vehicle commanders would be heard communicating in Portuguese if someone was eavesdropping. As a final offering the Turkish Navy spontaneously developed some plans to test their long range capabilities by going to, the South Atlantic.On the final leg they would have six frigates and two submarines, enough to give any navy in the region, which wasn't Brazil, something to think about. This was a show of force, not an actual threat though. If anyone called their bluff, the Khanate-Turkish forces would have to pull back. These were not assets my Brother, the Great Khan, could afford to gamble and lose.If someone didn't call that bluff, he was also sending two smaller, older corvettes and three even smaller, but newer, fast attack boats, a "gift" to the Unionists ASAP. The frigates would then race home, they had 'other' issues to deal with while the submarines would hang around for a bit. The naval gift was necessitated by the reality the Unionists would have to press their claim to their off-shore riches and that required a naval force Angola couldn't hope to counter.As things were developing, it was reckoned since a build-up of such momentous land and air power couldn't be disguised, it had to happen in a matter of days ~ four was decided to be the minimum amount of time. More than that and the government of the Democratic Republic might start asking far too many questions our hefty bribes and dubious paperwork couldn't cover. Less than that would leave the task forces launching operations with too little a chance of success.Our biggest advantage was audacity. The buildup would happen 100 km up the Congo River from Soyo, the primary target of the Southern Invasion, in the DRC's second largest port city, Boma. Though across the river was Angolan territory, there was nothing there. The city of roughly 160,000 would provide adequate cover for the initial stage of the invasion.There they grouped their vehicles & Khanate drivers with Amazon and Vietnamese combat teams. The Japanese were doing the same for their 'Chinese' counterparts for their helicopter-borne forces. Getting all their equipment in working order in the short time left was critical as was creating some level of unit dynamic. Things were chaotic. No one was happy. They were all going in anyway.What had gone wrong?While most children her age were texting their schoolmates, or tackling their homework, Aya Ruger ~ the alias of Nasusara Assiyaiá hamai ~ was getting briefings of her global, secret empire worth hundreds of billions and those of her equally nefarious compatriots. She received a very abbreviated version of what the Regents received, delivered by a member of Shawnee Arinniti's staff.When Aya hopped off her chair unexpectedly, everyone tensed. Her bodyguards' hands went to their sidearms and Lorraine (her sister by blood), also in the room on this occasion, stood and prepared to tackle her 'former' sibling to the ground if the situation escalated into an assassination attempt. No such attack was generated, so the security ratcheted down and the attendant returned her focus to her Queen. Aya paced four steps, turned and retraced her way then repeated the action three more times."How many people live in the combined areas?" she asked."The combined areas? Of Cabinda and Zaire?""Yes.""I," the woman referenced her material, "roughly 1.1 million.""What is the yearly value of the offshore oil and natural gas production?""Forty-nine billion, eighty hundred and sixty-seven million by our best estimates at this time,""How many live in Soyo City proper?""Roughly 70,000.""We take Soyo," she spoke in a small yet deliberate voice. "We take and hold Soyo as an independent city-state within the Cabindan-Zaire Union. From the maps it appears Soyo is a series of islands. It has a port and airport. It has an open border to an ocean with weaker neighbors all around.""What of the, Zairians?""Bakongo. As a people they are called the Bakongo," Aya looked up at the briefer. "We relocate those who need to work in Soyo into a new city, built at our expense, beyond the southernmost water barrier. The rest we pay to relocate elsewhere in Zaire, or Cabinda."By the looks of those around her, Aya realized she needed to further explain her decisions."This is more than some concrete home base for our People," she began patiently. "In the same way it gives our enemies a clearly delineated target to attack us, it is a statement to our allies we won't cut and run if things go truly bad.""In the same way it will provide us with diplomatic recognition beyond what tenuous handouts we are getting from Cáel Wakko Ishara's efforts through JIKIT. Also, it is a reminder we are not like the other Secret Societies in one fundamental way, we are not a business concern, or a religion. We are a People and people deserve some sort of homeland. We have gone for so long without.""But Soyo?" the aide protested. "We have no ties to it, and it backs up to, nothing.""Northern Turkey and southern Slovakia mean nothing to us now as well," Aya debated. "No place on Earth is any more precious than another. As for backing up to nothing, no. You are incorrect. It backs into a promise from our allies in the Earth & Sky that if we need support, they know where to park their planes and ships."Aya was surrounded with unhappy, disbelieving looks."The Great Khan is my mamētu meáeda," she reminded them, "and I have every reason to believe he completely grasps the concept's benefits and obligations."The looks confirmed 'but he's a man' to the tiny Queen."Aya, are you sure about this?" Lorraine was the first to break decorum."Absolutely. Do you know what he sent me when he was informed of my, ascension to the Queendom?""No," Lorraine admitted."We must go horse-riding sometime soon, Daughter of Cáel, Queen of the Amazons."More uncertain and unconvinced looks."He didn't congratulate me, or send any gifts. He could have and you would think he would have, but he didn't. He knew the hearts of me & my Atta and we weren't in the celebratory mood. No. The Great Khan sent one sentence which offered solace and quiet, atop a horse on a windswept bit of steppe."Nothing.Sigh. "I know this sounds Cáel-ish," Aya admitted, "but I strongly believe this is what we should do. We are giving the Cabindans and Bakongo in Zaire independence and the promise of a much better life than what they now face. We will be putting thousands of our sisters' lives on the line to accomplish this feat and well over two hundred million dollars.""What about governance of the city ~ Soyo?" the aide forged ahead."Amazon law," Aya didn't hesitate. "We will make allowances for the security forces of visiting dignitaries and specific allied personnel, but otherwise it will be one massive Amazon urban freehold.""I cannot imagine the Golden Mare, or the Regents, will be pleased," the attendant bowed her head."It is a matter of interconnectivity," Aya walked up and touched the woman's cheek with the back of her small hand. "We could liberate then abandon Cabinda with the hope a small band could help them keep their independence. Except we need the refinery at Soyo so the people of Cabinda can truly support that liberty.""So, we must keep Soyo and to keep Soyo, we must keep Zaire province. There is no other lesser border which makes strategic sense ~ a river, highlands, a massive river, an ocean ~ those are sustainable frontiers. You can't simply keep Soyo and not expect the enemy to strike and destroy that refinery, thus we must take Zaire province.""But the Bakongo of Zaire cannot defend themselves and will not be able to do so for at least a year, if not longer. That means we must do so, and for doing so, they will give us Soyo and we will be honest stewards of their oil wealth. We cannot expect any other power to defend this new Union and if we don't have a land stake we will be portrayed as mercenaries and expelled by hostile international forces.""So, for this project to have any chance of success, we must stay, fight and have an acknowledged presence, and if you can think of an alternative, please let me know," she exhaled."What if the Cabindans and Bakongo resist?""It is 'us', or the Angolans and they know how horrible the Angolans can be. Didn't you say the average person their lives on just $2 a day?""Yes.""We can do better than that," Aya insisted."How?" the aide persisted. "I mean, 'how in a way which will be quickly evident and meaningful?'""Oh," Aya's tiny brow furrowed. Her nose twitched as she rummaged through the vast storehouse of her brain."Get me in touch with William A. Miller, Director of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service. He should be able to help me navigate the pathways toward getting aid and advisors into those two provinces ASAP.""I'll let Katrina know," the attendant made the notation on her pad."No. Contact him directly," Aya intervened. "We established a, rapport when we met. I think he might responded positively to a chance to mentor me in foreign relations.""Really?" Lorraine's brows arched."Yes," Aya chirped."Are you sure, Nasusara?" the attendant stared. She used 'Nasusara' whenever she thought Aya had a 'horrible' idea instead of a merely a 'bad' one."Yes. He owes me. Last time we met I didn't shoot him.""Didn't?" the woman twitched."Yes. I drew down on him with my captured Chinese QSW-06. I didn't want to kill him, but I felt I was about to have to kill Deputy National Security Advisor Blinken and he was the only other person in the room both armed and capable of stopping me.""Why is he still alive?""Cáel Ishara saw through my distraction and then took my gun from me, asked for it actually," she shyly confessed."Would you have shot him?" the aide inquired."What do you think?" Aya smiled.And Then:So, given t

Welcome back, this week, Brooks Mershon joins the podcast. Brooks owns a Sukhoi and competes in the Advanced Category. He shares his story and talks about the various airplanes he has owned over the years. We also talk about Santa Paula and the influence that has over his flying, as well as the mentors he has around him. We talk about work/life/kid balance as well. This was a really fun one, enjoy! Thank you to LIFT Aviation! Head to www.liftaviationusa.com and use the promo code FLYCOOLSHIT at checkout for 25% off most items! Thank you to Fly Good Merch! Head to www.flygoodmerch.com and use the promo code AKRO at checkout for 10% off the entire website!

In this episode, we delve into the rapid geopolitical changes with new governments in Delhi and the US, and Donald Trump's ambitious agenda. We discuss the impact of these changes, including the Ukraine war and its implications on global power dynamics. The focus then shifts to India, its defense strategies, and its need for fifth-generation fighter planes. We also explore China's military maneuvers, climate change, and the concept of World War III. The discussion wraps up with India's potential in AI, innovations in the tech industry, and the critical need for data-driven decisions for India to emerge as a superpower. Tune in for an engaging and comprehensive conversation on these pressing global issues. 00:00 Sneak peak 01:02 Introduction 01:40 Current Geopolitical changes 02:57 India's Defense Strategy: F-35 vs. Sukhoi 57 07:54 Challenges in India's Defense and Space Sectors 12:34 The American Empire: Decline or Dominance? 18:47 China-India Relations: Border Tensions and Trade 27:05 AI and Innovation: India's Technological Future 33:12 India's Historical Greatness and Brain Drain 33:34 Illegal Immigration and Its Consequences 35:35 Missed Opportunities in Indian History 37:50 Climate Change: Human Impact and Natural Cycles 40:55 Potential World War III and Nuclear Deterrence 43:40 Ancient Civilizations and Misconceptions 51:42 Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Humanity 54:48 Strengthening India's Military and Maritime Power 58:41 Revamping India's Education System 01:02:09 India's Path to Becoming a Superpower 01:03:21 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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Retour vendredi 19 juillet sur la tragédie du vol Malaysia Airlines MH17 en Ukraine il y a 10 ans, quand 298 personnes avaient perdu la vie au-dessus de l'Ukraine. Les familles se sont réunies mercredi 17 juillet sur la stèle à la mémoire des victimes à l'aéroport d'Amsterdam. L'avion avait été abattu par un missile russe, mais durant une décennie, Moscou a alimenté les chaînes de TV et les réseaux de fausses informations afin de proposer une « vérité alternative » permettant de disculper la Russie. Les images sont encore dans toutes les mémoires. Les débris blancs rouges et bleus de l'avion de Malaysia dispersés dans un champ de tournesols dans l'est d'Ukraine. L'avion était tombé dans la région du Dombass frappé en plein vol par un missile sol-air « BUK », tiré depuis les zones séparatistes comme allait le prouver par la suite la commission d'enquête.Des images amateurs, postées quelques heures après la catastrophe. En novembre 2022, après un longue enquête, des juges néerlandais ont déclaré les Russes Igor Guirkine, Sergueï Doubinski et l'Ukrainien Leonid Khartchenko coupables de meurtres pour leur implication dans la destruction de l'avion civil. « Nous n'avons pas été impliqués dans l'enquête et notre attitude à l'égard de ces conclusions est donc bien connue » a répété mercredi Dmitri Peskov, porte-parole du Kremlin. En 2014, il faut se souvenir que cette partie de l'Ukraine en guerre, était déjà très difficilement accessible aux médias occidentaux et aux enquêteurs à cause des combats. Cette tragédie, lointaine, au cœur de l'été 2014 a donc été principalement documentée sur les réseaux sociaux, mais avec une vision bien souvent biaisée et des commentaires venant alimenter une véritable usine à infox mise en place par la Russie.Un cas d'école de la désinformation russeLa stratégie de Moscou est désormais bien connue : tout d'abord nier l'évènement : en l'occurrence nier la destruction en plein vol de l'avion de ligne. À l'image de cette stratégie, les autorités russes avaient eu la même attitude lors du massacre de Boutcha en Ukraine en 2022. Ensuite, elles se sont employées à démentir toute implication dans la catastrophe, et enfin, elles ont cherché à accuser l'Ukraine et l'Occident en poussant des théories complotistes.Les spécialistes de la désinformation ont par exemple affirmé que tout avait été mis en scène par l'Ukraine. Ou encore que l'avion de la Malaysia Airlines avait été détruit par un chasseur ukrainien et pas par un missile russe, ou que l'appareil présidentiel de Vladimir Poutine avait été visé alors qu'il passait à proximité. Et que le drame s'expliquait par une méprise des forces armées ukrainiennes, donc que toute cette affaire n'était qu'une manipulation des ukrainiens ou de la CIA. Quelques exemples parmi tant d'autres.Dix ans après, ces théories ressortent sur les réseaux sociaux Ces théories mensongères ont été battues en brèches, par des experts aéronautiques, des « fact-checker », par la commission d'enquête, ceci étant, elles sont tenaces. Ainsi, on a vu réapparaître ces derniers jours une photo satellite truquée, censée montrer un chasseur ukrainien Sukhoi-27 tirant sur le Boeing.Ce montage avait été diffusé en 2014 par la télévision d'État Russe. Après vérifications, le Boeing n'appartient pas à la Malaysia, le type d'avion n'est pas le bon, le missile n'arrive pas du bon côté, le fond de scène a été trouvé sur la plateforme Google Earth. Il n'a pas fallu plus de 48 heures pour s'en rendre compte, mais dix ans après, cela circule toujours. Le service européen d'action extérieure, c'est-à-dire la diplomatie européenne, dans son programme de lutte contre la désinformation, a listé 481 cas d'infox relayés par la Russie sur l'affaire du MH17 depuis 2014.La naissance d'une communauté d'enquêteurs numériquesParallèlement à cette diffusion de fausses informations à grande échelle, on a assisté à l'émergence d'une communauté d'observateurs. Ces derniers ont donné de leur temps pour passer en revue des milliers de documents sonores, vidéos, photographies sur l'affaire du MH17 afin de contribuer à la manifestation de la vérité.L'enquête la plus fréquemment citée en exemple, est celle de Bellingcat un groupe de contributeurs spécialisé dans la recherche en sources ouvertes (open source intelligence en anglais ou OSINT). Dès la fin de l'année 2014, les enquêteurs avaient réussi à identifier les soldats en charge de la mise en œuvre de la batterie anti-aérienne, à localiser le site de tir et à récupérer une vidéo du véhicule lanceur avec un missile.Les enquêteurs internationaux ont conclu qu'il existait de « fortes indications » selon lesquelles le président russe Vladimir Poutine avait approuvé la fourniture du missile qui a abattu l'avion. Moscou a catégoriquement rejeté le verdict du tribunal de 2022, le qualifiant de « politique » et « scandaleux ». La Russie n'a jamais accepté d'extrader les responsables directs de l'attaque et la justice internationale. L'an dernier, les enquêteurs internationaux ont suspendu leurs investigations, estimant qu'il n'y avait pas suffisamment de preuves pour poursuivre davantage de suspects.Avec Louis Champier.

PM Modi was in Moscow this week, marking his first visit to Russia since the country invaded Ukraine in 2022. The hug between Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin caused a global stir, drawing particular ire from Western nations and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Host Dev Goswami and defence expert Shiv Aroor delve into the relationship between India and Russia, analysing how it has evolved over various Indian administrations. Looking at it more militarily, the defence duo answers why India heavily relies on Russian military equipment, detailing India's extensive inventory of Russian hardware, from Sukhoi jets and MiG series aircraft to T-90 and T-72 tanks. Russia's cost-effective and reliable supplies have historically catered to India's defence needs. What do Russia and India gain from this alliance? Is Russian military equipment the best choice for India? What are the challenges India faces in reducing its reliance on Russian arms? Has the Ukraine war exposed vulnerabilities in Russian equipment, prompting India to seek alternatives? ‘India realised this a long time ago,' says Shiv. So, what does the future hold for the India-Russia defence relationship? This and more in the 30th episode of In Our Defence. Please tune in and share your thoughts at pods@indiatoday.com or text us at 8588966996! Produced by Anna Priydarshini Sound mix by Kapil Dev Singh  

India and France are negotiating a Rs 50,000-crore deal for 26 Rafale Marine (Rafale M) fighter jets. If finalised, these aircraft will be deployed on the Indian Navy's aircraft carriers, INS Vikrant and INS Vikramaditya. Why the Rafale M? The French Rafale M emerged as the frontrunner against its competitor, the American Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet. Why does the Navy need a new fighter jet? The Indian Navy's current fleet, primarily composed of ageing Sukhoi jets, is becoming obsolete. This decline in capability is driving the urgent need for new, modern fighters. But how does the Rafale M differ from the IAF's Rafale? Interestingly, the Rafale M predates the Air Force version. Despite this, France completed the delivery of all 36 Rafale jets to the Indian Air Force in December 2022, following a Rs 59,000-crore deal signed in September 2016. Why didn't the Navy and Air Force consolidate their orders together? A joint deal could have potentially reduced post-purchase costs. And why the repeated trials? If the government had already determined that the Rafale M was the best choice, why did they conduct another contest only to choose the same fighter jet again? We tackle these tough questions and more. Tune in and share your thoughts at pods@indiatoday.com or text us at 8588966996! Produced by Anna Priydarshini Sound mix by Kapil Dev Singh

Many of us who follow aerospace and defence pay a lot of attention to the war in Ukraine, and particularly new tactics and capabilities.Our episode today is an effort to discuss the transformation that the Ukrainian Air Force is making from former Soviet Union or Russian aircraft to western fighter aircraft.Ukraine has been defending themselves against Russian forces since they invaded Crimea in 2014, and then re-attacked in early 2022.At the start of the war Ukraine had around 125 warplanes. Reports indicate that have lost around 80 jets, but numbers of aircraft have been bolstered by the donation of similar types of aircraft from some of the former Soviet states. There is no doubt that Ukrainian pilots have performed heroically against overwhelming odds. With that said, the Ukrainian Air Force has faced significant challenges with aging fleets of aircraft and sustainment issues which make their fleets increasingly difficult to field.Ukraine has therefore spent many months lobbying for western combat aircraft, especially F-16's, which they believe will help them better defend their country.A number of countries like Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway, have pledged F-16s to Ukraine; and Ukrainian Air Force pilots have been training in a number of countries to get proficient on flying the western jet, with Denmark being one of those countries.For this episode, I thought it would be informative to get a sense of what Ukrainian pilots are experiencing as they transition to a new platform like the F-16.To do this I am pleased to introduce a wonderful friend to me and to this podcast, fighter pilot Nick Graham, who flew the Tornado F3 and the Eurofighter Typhoon in the Royal Air Force (RAF), and also the F-16 when on exchange in Denmark.I've asked Nick to participate in this chat because his experience of learning to fly the F-16 in Denmark provides excellent insight on what Ukrainian pilots are experiencing as they shift from MiG and Sukhoi aircraft to the F-16.I am very thankful to Nick for taking the time to share his professional fighter pilot experience, and his insight and perspectives on this topic.We wish Ukraine success in their fight to defend their country!Go Bold!

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Show Notes and Transcript Journalist and 'China smartypants' Kenneth Rapoza joins Hearts of Oak to discuss China's impact on Western manufacturing post its WTO entry and the free trade's negative effects on job losses and economic disparities.  We look at the challenges in competing with China's low-cost labour and its aggressive trade practices on other nations.  Kenneth walks us through evolving views on globalization, power shifts between the US and China, and China's strategic expansion in key industries. We address concerns about social control in China and democracy preservation, emphasizing the need to understand changing power dynamics in today's interconnected world amidst China's global rise Kenneth Rapoza is a seasoned business and foreign affairs reporter with more than 20 years experience. He was stationed abroad as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Sao Paulo and was a former senior contributor for Forbes from 2011 to 2023 writing about China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and other developing countries. After leaving Brazil in 2011, Ken started covering the BRIC countries for Forbes as a senior contributor.  He has travelled throughout all of the countries he covered and has seen first-hand China's impressive growth and its ghost towns as recent as 2017 and 2018. His editorial work has appeared in diverse publications like The Boston Globe and USA Today — where he was given the unflattering task of taking an opposing view in support of China tariffs at the start of the trade war — and more recently can be found in Newsweek and The Daily Caller. He has either written for, or has been written about, in The Nation and Salon in the dot-com years, and almost broke the Argentine internet after publishing a story in Forbes about the return of the International Monetary Fund before the government opened up about it. Today, Ken does the radio and podcast circuit talking about CPA issues. Having grown up near the depressed mill towns of Massachusetts, manufacturing as a bulwark of household income and sustainability is not merely an intellectual pursuit, but a personal one, too. He experienced the life-altering impact government policy has on manufacturing labor in his own family back in the 1990s. He considers himself an American “lao baixing.” He graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH. Ken lives and works from a small farm and beach town in Southern Massachusetts with his family.   Connect with Ken... X                         x.com/BRICbreaker SUBSTACK        doubleplus.substack.com WEBSITE            prosperousamerica.org Interview recorded 15.4.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ TRANSCRIPT  (Hearts of Oak) And I'm delighted to have a brand new guest, someone who I've been intrigued watching their Twitter, and that is Kenneth Rapoza. Kenneth, thank you so much for your time today. (Kenneth Rapoza) Thanks for having me on, Peter. I appreciate it. Oh, great. And people can obviously find you @BRICbreaker is your Twitter handle. Ken is an industry analyst from the Coalition for a Prosperous America, former staff, foreign correspondent for Wall Street Journal and a senior contributor to Forbes covering China since back in 2011. And there's so many issues we could discuss, but it's that issue of China which I want to start with. And I've seen a number of your posts, I think on Daily Caller. One of the recent ones was on free trade. I think free traders are wrong. It's time to try trade a new way. And you started off simply by a statement on a Daily Mail poll recently showed 54% of voters support Trump's proposal to put 10% tariffs on imports from China and elsewhere, which is obviously opposite to a free trade thinking. Maybe start there. Why do you think free traders are wrong? And why do you think we need a new model for the future? Well, the idea of free trade, right, of course, goes back to the British colonial days, right? But in modern times, from our youth and what we recall, it really kicked off in its heyday, we could say, probably post-World War II, and then after the end of the Cold War. It was the end of history, peace in the world, right? No more Soviet Union. We're all on the same page with trade. Then it really went into high gear in 2001. This is when China enters the World Trade Organization. At that point, I would say, is the beginning of what some people have called hyper-globalization. That was the Western world's manufacturing base being sucked out of their towns and cities and shipped to Asia. It has been totally destructive. Led to the different policies that we have today. You could even say Brexit in some degree was because of it. It was an anti-globalization vote. You know, because really what's happening is the Western leaders are saying, oh, they know the plebs are against globalization for the most part. And they say, oh, you don't like it anymore. You don't like globalization. Fine. We're going to import all those people that you don't want to compete with in the third world. We're going to import them and we're going to pay them your job. And we're going to pay them your wages that That you don't want to accept. We're going to pay them that. And that's the way it's going to go. So, it's been a disaster for many people. Brexit is probably one of the examples of an anti-globalist push among the populace. And, of course, the Trump election was the creme de la creme of the anti-globalist push within the electorate. So, you know, when you go back to the 80s, 90s, and of course, China joined the World Trade Organization, that was the globalization heyday. And when what many people call a reverse globalization or a localization. The language is still being defined on this issue. But clearly, the populace of the Western world is against the old school globalization. When I say that, that's 80s, 90s trade, the model, the way it was. We're going to just import. We're going to make things where it's cheap to make things. And that's how it's going to be. We're a consumer society. We fill our garages not with cars. We fill them with toys and trinkets and all this other stuff instead. And it's going to be made in Mexico and Asia and so on. And if you don't have a job anymore, well, you can learn to code, or you can go drive an Uber, or you can go, maybe if you're lucky, you're good at math, you can go work at Goldman Sachs, or you could become a nurse. I mean, that's it. And people have rejected that. So, again, a lot of the people who are pro-free trade, they're guys who are older than us, and they came from the time when free trade was, globalization was becoming, was a topic, right? Again, the post-Soviet, the post-Cold War era, and they're thinking they still have that mindset. But there's nothing that shows that free trade has worked for the working class. The blue-collar class. There have been numerous studies showing that it hasn't. It's been great for Walmart. It's been great for multinational corporations, but it hasn't been great for workers because why? They have to compete in the West. They have to compete with labour in Mexico, with labour in Vietnam. There is absolutely no way someone in Manchester City; in Newcastle, can make a car, can make a shirt for what they make it in Bangladesh for. There's no way. They can't do it. They'll never, ever do this. So, if you're going to have that kind of world, then you're just going to outsource forever your manufacturing to Asia or over here in this hemisphere to Mexico. And I think that's where the backlash has come. And I think that's where free traders really have their blind spot is, okay, it's great. There's always going to be trade. There's always going to be imports, but to what extent are we going to allow this so that your industry, whether it is in England or whether it is the United States, whether it is in Germany; to what extent are you going to allow it so that you have no blue collar workforce, you have no manufacturing base anymore? That is the question of the day. That is the biggest pushback. In the West, we have globalism versus anti-globalism, for lack of a better word, you know and that's leading to a lot of political stress in the west. I remember being out on the campaign trail for Brexit with UKIP knocking on doors over the years and anytime you'd knock on the door of someone who ran a business that was a multinational business their response would be of: I don't want Brexit. I want cheap labour I want movement of goods and a cheap labour as low as possible. That's all I care about, it's the bottom line, and is this a conversation about maybe globalization has not gone the way we expected. That it's purely about the bottom line then removes the individual from it is that kind of the conversation that's beginning to now boil up. Oh, absolutely it's beginning to boil up. And again I think it started with Brexit and it started with with trump. Look what's happening in the world today. Look at look at Germany, primarily Germany. You see the headlines in The Economist. They're all worried about Chinese EVs coming in. They're all worried in the Netherlands now about Goldwind. Goldwind is the big wind turbine manufacturer that's taking market share away from precious Vestas. Well, that's too bad. But you want to make it all in China. What do you think China is going to do? They're going to say, well, I don't want to make Vestas. I want my own company. I don't want to make Vestas products. I want to be Vestas. Why wouldn't China want that? Why wouldn't they want that? It makes no sense that they wouldn't want that. I mean, the UK is a bad example here, because the UK used to have Land Rover and used to have the Mini, right? And now that's all Tata. That's all Indian now. I don't know who owns Mini, but I mean, certainly Land Rover and Jaguar. These are British iconic brand, auto motor brands. They're owned by Tata Motors in India now. They're probably still made to some degree in the UK, of course, but the brand doesn't belong to the UK anymore. It's Indian. So, they're panicking and they're panicking because they cannot compete. They will never, ever compete with low cost labour. They'll never compete with China because China is not interested in the free market competition of the West. They're interested in full employment. And it's a massive nation run by provincial leaders who have different viewpoints of the world than Xi Jinping. If Xi Jinping says, no, we just talked to Janet Yellen. We just talked to, you know, whatever his name is, the prime minister of the UK. I can't think of it right now. Now, he said that he doesn't want us to overproduce anymore solar panels and wind turbines and EVs. We're going to stop. We got to play by the rules. We can all be friends. Do you think the provincial guy in Nanjing and Guangdong is going to listen to this guy? He's got a million mouths to feed. Millions of people. Millions. More than the UK's entire workforce. He has in one province. He's not worried about what Janet Yellen says what Olaf thinks. To the Chinese, Olaf is a snowman from Frozen. They're not worried about this guy. So, this is something that they can't compete with. And so they're learning now. They're seeing it. And they're worried now. You see them worrying now because their precious renewable energy market is being taken over by China. Well, sometimes China's out innovating them. China just copied what we made here in the West. But China can do it easier because they get the subsidies. They got workers galore. They got workers galore who aren't worried about, you know, TikTok videos and, you know, trying to rehearse for, you know, they want to be the next EDM DJ or they want to get on Eurovision. That's their biggest dream. And then these guys are just flooding the market with product. You can't compete with that. You'll never, ever compete with that. But that's the free trade. That's free trade. China's saying, hey, you know, we're trading, we're making products. And the West will say, well, yeah, but you're subsidizing or you're doing this. Well, then the Chinese are going to say, well, you subsidize. You subsidize your farmers. The Inflation Reduction Act in the United States, you're giving huge tax breaks to produce. So, you're doing it. So, you stop. There is no such thing as free trade. There is no such thing as free trade the way people thought it would be. And that doesn't mean that importing is bad or that you and I, Peter and Ken, can't start a business. And we can't afford to pay $30 an hour. So, we decide on our own volition. We decide to, from the get-go, that we're going to make it in Mexico. We're going to make our widgets in Mexico. That's what we're going to do. That was our plan from the beginning. That's one thing. It's bad when Ken and Peter were making a widget. We wanted to make it in Newcastle. We wanted to make it in Portland, Oregon. And now we go, I can't do this anymore. I'm competing with Mexico. I have to close now. You and I, we got to lay off 100 people that we work with for 10, 20, 30 years. We got to tell them it's over. And these guys are making $30,000, $40,000, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 a year. But that's 10 times what the, you know, the average salary in Mexico, I think is $16,000. In Vietnam it's nine. So, I mean, it's okay. Again, if Ken and Peter decided we're going to make a widget and we were always planning to make it in Mexico because of that wage variable, but then what happens when you and I were making a widget happily here happily, and now we cannot. Maybe we're done. Maybe you and I have finished, maybe we're finished. But maybe all the people that we work with every day, they're done. It's all over them. But that's the free trade world that is being criticized now because you cannot compete with developing nations on wage alone. Not only that, of course, in the US, we have a strong currency. Think about how far my dollar goes in Mexico or China or Vietnam. I could buy a mansion in Vietnam. I could barely buy a trailer in the United States for $300,000. Think about what I could do with that money in Vietnam or Thailand or Mexico, right? So, not only do you have the wage issue, you have a strong currency here because we're such a financial market. All the money from the world comes here. You have higher taxes here than you do in other places. So, you're competing on that level too. So, there really is the argument of free trade was always something that was for the textbooks, something that the faculty lounge could discuss and economists could discuss in a dream world. But in reality, it never came to fruition because it only was good for the big corporations who were transnational. They had no allegiance to a nation. It wasn't Peter and Ken making a widget. It wasn't you and I making bikes in Oregon. It wasn't that. It was Walmart buying and selling a million bikes all across the continental United States. We don't care about where we get the bikes. If I can get it for $100 or $99 and sell it for $110, and I'm selling a million of them. That $1 difference puts a million dollars a year in my pocket. It's a big deal. So, I mean, those are the guys who really benefited. But the guy who made the bike doesn't benefit. And for them, it's a huge blow. And I think that is where we are seeing in the West today. That's where the tensions are rising from the electorate against the established powers. We can look at even the immigration debate. What is the immigration debate about? It's about why are we giving these guys all this money? Why these guys are hurting our wages or these guys are hurting, you know, our ability to get jobs. And so it's always it always relates to that sort of what I call the immigration debate in the West. I call it forced globalism upon the people. You know, again, like I said earlier, the conversation saying you don't want us to make a factory in Asia. You don't want us to import goods because you all talk to your elected officials and cry because you want to make steel or whatever here. Good. We're going to import all of them here. You know, they're going to make it for half your pay or we're going to totally stunt your wage growth forever. You know, so that's always the stem of the issue in the West. It's always this rush to globalization, creating this, you know, where planet Earth is the nation state rather than the UK as a nation and Germany as a nation or the EU is a block. No, there's districts, like Hunger Games. This is the district that makes this widget. This is the district that makes that widget. And then free capital moves throughout the world. And that's a dream of the free trader, but that's not a dream of the person, again, Ken and Pete, who were making a widget, and now we cannot. We cannot do that anymore, because we cannot compete with Mexico. There is no way in hell we're going to do it. We're not going to make it for the same price you can make it in Albania, for crying out loud. It's all over. And so that has something's got to give. And there's a lot of politicians that realize that. And there's a lot who are pushing back, obviously. Well, in that order, you talk about some of the old understanding of the views on globalization are changing. So, you talk about trade deficits don't matter or imports don't take American jobs. I mean, those are two issues which will come home to roost for individuals because the U.S. Massive trade gap, that has a cost. And of course, if you're all getting your stuff from temu then actually uh no one needs to actually work in America to produce anything so, where are the jobs? And is it a waking up to the damage that unrestricted, uncontrolled, mass-globalization causes in those two simple things of trade deficit and simple jobs. Well yeah there is there is a waking up. Look, I look back; In fact, I'm not an old guy. So, I remember in the 90s, I was young, I was probably just starting to vote, when a man named Ross Perot was talking about this, what it would be like when the United States created the free trade area of North America, NAFTA. And he said it would be a huge sucking sound of American jobs going to Mexico. And at the time, remember, Mexico was a country that was in and out of default. It survived on the IMF. It was like Argentina. It was basically Argentina of North America. And of course, NAFTA saved it. NAFTA saved it, but it became essentially the United States, the 51st state. And what's happening now? Let's talk about the free trade agreement of North America. Let's talk about NAFTA for a second. That idea was always to Mexico is our neighbor. They're always in and out of a financial crisis or an economic crisis. Let's help them with trade. Let's help them do this. And it was a success to a large extent, right? I mean, it's still way poorer than we are here in the U.S. and Canada. Way poorer. You can't compare the wages between the two countries; it's just at least three times more here. But countries, companies from around the world are going to Mexico now. So, Germany is setting up shop to make electric vehicles there. Of course, Korea and Hyundai make cars there. But a lot of those cars are for sale in Mexico. Those are big sellers in Mexico. But I highly doubt that the BMW electric vehicle is a high powered vehicle, a selling vehicle in Mexico. I don't think that's the market that is going to come here. The Japanese have been making steel in Mexico. That is coming here. That's coming here duty free. So, now NAFTA has become a trade zone for any multinational that wants to set up shop in Mexico. It's helping the Mexicans and the locals and the Mexican workers, but it's really a multinational free trade zone. If you can set up shop in Mexico and, of course, employ Mexicans and so on and pay Mexican taxes, you can sell your goods where? Well, to the biggest consumer economy in the world, right? You've got to sell them here. You're not setting up to sell there, I mean, Mexico, tiny. Your next door neighbour is right here. So, this is a problem, but that's free trade. That's the free trade topic. That's the free trade model. And people do not like it. Clearly, they do not like it. It doesn't mean they don't like free trade. Obviously, we want to trade. Again, you and I have a factory. We make a widget. We want to trade with the world. We do want to trade with the world. And that's not a bad thing. That's a good thing. There's nothing wrong with that. But again, if people perceive from the UK, from Germany, the United States; they perceive that their leaders were obsessed, that's changing, with this globalization model of one world kumbaya. Everything's going to be made in Asia. Everything's going to be made in Mexico. And they cannot survive. They cannot survive on that. And so either you're going to have a city and town where you have marijuana shops and treatment centers, and that's going to be your new industry and casinos, or you're going to have a place where people can survive making things like kitchen cabinets or furniture. And if you don't want that, if you don't want that, then okay, then admit you don't want that. And what are you going to do to replace it? Okay, then what do they say? Well, we're going to have universal basic income. So they know. They do come up with solutions, but that's their solution. That's their solution. And I'm not convinced that people are on board with that for the most part. I don't know. Maybe there are some lazy people who are fine with universal basic income. I'm sure there are people who would be fine with that. But people are against this globalization model, and it's being turned on its head in the West, and it is a source of a lot of political problems. And of course, China is the 10,000 pound gorilla, whatever that saying goes in the room. And everybody, everybody sees that now. It was Trump really that made people see that, but Europe seeing it now as well. So, where that leads in the years ahead, I don't know. People clearly do not like the setup the way it was pre Trump, let's say pre Brexit, where the goal was: hey, we're just going to make everything in China. We're gonna make everything in Asia. And that's it. You can learn to become a new EDM DJ and you now train for Eurovision and maybe you'll get lucky and that's that's the extent of it. Well, we've got UBI coming in Wales as a test bed but that's a whole other conversation with Wales; have found how you get free money which is a change in how humanity works. I want to ask, you did another post looking at, I think the title was, U.S. Risks Losing Its Status as an Exemplar of a Free Country with Laws. And you talked about China's soft power slowly winning hearts and minds, see it in developing countries, in other countries it's not. But there does seem to be that move from that kind of American dream, everyone wants to come to America to see the sights, the sounds, to see the miracle that's America. That seems to now be moving towards China with a huge focus on it. So, what are your thoughts? Tell us more about that, about the US losing that position, having its soft power of influence worldwide. Well, for starters, America is still seen as a place in Europe as well, as a place where people from developing countries want to go. If we were seen as a failing society and failing countries, I would assume people from other failing countries wouldn't want to come here. But, I don't know how informed these people are about what it looks like today in the streets of San Francisco. How much it costs to live in New York City? They might still believe that, you know, California is paved with gold and they can become, you know, Hollywood actors in a year or two, you know, singing and dancing on the streets of Hollywood and Vine. Maybe they believe that. They'll learn from Rude Awakening. But that sort of vision of the United States may still exist in Latin in parts of Latin America. I believe that is eroding. OK, now on the China side with soft power, of course. You know so soft power is defined as, you know, diplomacy but it's also defined as culture. And it's also defined as corporate branding. So, culture United States wins hands down. Everybody knows Hollywood right: American music. We got Taylor Swift. China doesn't have the Chinese salesman, you know. So, we have you know the rock and so on. We have all these movies that's an immeasurable positive for the United States, culturally. But in terms of diplomacy and just soft power in general. Let's look at what happened recently. So, you have Russia's war with Ukraine. So, obviously Russia is part of the big four emerging markets. It's part of the BRIC collective. And these guys have been, these leaders of these countries have been talking and developing relationships for at least, I would say 20 years now. When the West asked all these countries to support them in their view on Russia, to a man, none of them went along with it. None of them. This is completely different than what it was like in the 80s. If you tell Brazil: hey, we need you to send some weapons to Ukraine. Brazil couldn't say no. Because the United States said, well, we're going to hold back that IMF loan. We're going to hold back that development loan for that bridge you're trying to build, that dam you want. Either you give, either you start putting out, make it look like you're on our side and start churning out some ammo for the Ukrainians or the money for that hydroelectric dam is off the table. That's not a thing anymore. That's not a thing anymore. The United States has lost that. So, when you see countries in the developing world that can say no to the West, say no to Europe and the United States, right, and ignore them. That is a sign that the soft power of the West is eroding. I'm not saying that's eroding in favour of China. But it's eroding in sense of there is imbalance in the world, right? There's a sense of that people in developing world, the leaders in developing world is saying, we don't want the unipolar view anymore, right? Let's, let's, let's go more of a multi-polar view, Right. Maybe that doesn't mean China's in the lead. We don't know who the multipolar is going to be. We don't know. But there is a pushback against the United States way. And I don't know. I think there was a real severing of that with with COVID, honestly, because, everybody in the world saw how the West treated its people during COVID. I mean, we saw what China did, right? Locking people in apartments in Wuhan and so on. We saw those things. Saw that. And who knows? That could have, for all we know here in the West, that could have been just orchestrated to make it look to us in the West that this disease is so bad. Look what the Chinese are doing. They have to literally lock people in their homes or they'll die. This is how bad it is. So, that could have been a psy-op in a way for all I know. But you had people in Canada losing their bank accounts. You had people in the United States being arrested for protesting lockdowns. You had people vilified for it, and so on. While Black Lives Matter and Antifa were able to parade around. Of course, they had their science-y masks on. So, I guess that was all good. And breaking things and knocking statues down and whatever. And they were fine. So that six feet distance didn't matter to them. And people around the world see that. I remember even the president of Mexico said, Obrador, He said, you know, COVID showed the Western world authoritarianism. He showed that the Western world can be authoritarian, just like, what they always criticize us as a being, you know. I mean, this is fascinating. This is not a language that you would hear Mexico ever say about the United States. You'd be instantly punished. What does Mexico do to the United States to help us police the border? What does Mexico do for the United States to help us stop fentanyl? Do you ever hear about them beating up on Sinaloa or Jalisco? I mean, unless like the DEA is involved, those guys just run around free like you and I, you know, going to get a sandwich in a local shop. I mean, there's nothing happening there to fight it, right? So, you know, and I think I look at that as being a sign. That is a sign that the West really is no longer the exemplar on a lot of the issues that it was. On issues like democracy, where all this talk about misinformation and control. That there is sort of a severing of ties, if you will, from the developing world with the West. And I'm not saying that China is going to replace it. We don't want that. But I'm also of the mind that there are many people in the West who really like the China model, and they wouldn't even complain if the China model replaced ours, because they love the top-down societal government control aspects of the CCP. And many of them think in the West that they can just wrap it in the pretty bows of diversity, inclusion and environmental justice. And all the urban educated classes will say: oh, that that sounds reasonable. That sounds like a good way to go. Within the eyes of the developing world. It's very difficult for me to say that they are all going to agree with the U.S. on certain things. That wasn't the case when we were kids. It was not. America was always the right, always in the right, always. Now it's like, you know, they might not agree. They're not going to go along with it. No, you've seen in Africa, especially China using their financial muscle to go in to start massive infrastructure projects for the Belt and Braces. And America seems to be very much hands off. And it seems to be as the West is maybe moved away from parts of Africa, China has gone into to that vacuum and imposed itself. And now is building infrastructure across the continent. The west then scratch your heads and wonder why they have less power. Well, it's because you've handed that industrial, that financial power, over to China and they are now the ones that rule, because of those tight contracts. And they're the ones that get people from A to B by building a road or building a railway. So, they're the ones that Africa need, and no longer the west. Yeah. And you know, where did they come up with this idea? This was what the West did. This was the United States did in the post-World War II, right? The United States went to the world and said, we're going to help rebuild. We're going to get you modernized. That was soft power. We're going to get you on our side. We're going to get you to see things our way. We're going to get you to be our political and economic partner. And so we don't really see that as much anymore. We don't really see that as much anymore. I don't really know why. Maybe it is like a late empire pirate type situation, right? Where we're worried more about silly things, cultural issues. That the other part of the world doesn't worry about. I mean, I think that was something famously said by someone in Africa. They said, look, China comes here giving us money to build roads and bridges. And when you guys come here, you give us lectures on gender, or climate change, right? But that's not to say the Africans don't want American business. I'm sure they do. But that's not, in a lot of ways, that's not what the United States is in there for. And I think only recently the United States has realized, oh, they've seen the error of their ways. Because where I work, I get to sit in on a lot of these hearings in Congress. And I know that they want to counter China in that way. But it's a knee-jerk react to China. It's a knee-jerk react to China. It's not necessarily a long-term planning thing. So, okay, well, how do we go to this country and propose this? What else can we do? Everything is a knee jerk. And that is a problem, but at least they see that they've been caught on the back foot over the last few years. Whereas China has in terms of soft power, diplomacy, getting their corporate brands all over the world that they see now, wow, we're losing. We're losing a lot of that. Think about it. I remember my first time going to Latin America in the 90s. I'm sure this was the case in the 80s and the 70s. Ford, McDonald's, Hollywood, those were symbols. Those are like the unpaid American ambassadors. And so look today; you can probably count on one hand, unless you drive a German car, how many German item products you have in your, in your house. You know, I have a Miele vacuum cleaner. I think that's German, you know, but for the most part, your kid has TikTok on their phone. You might have a Lenovo computer or a Lexmark printer in your office. There's a lot of Chinese corporate brands that are very well known. You probably, your kid probably buys clothes on Shein or, or you probably shop on Temu, right? What's the European equivalent to that? I don't know of any. I can't name one big European app, honestly. I just can't. And even e-commerce, I can't think of a single one. So, this is China. So, this is the soft power. These are very important issues for the United States that used to dominate that, for example, in Latin America. And now they do not. They do not dominate that at all. It's China that is moving in; China is moving in the auto industry. China is moving in big retail and in some areas even finance. So, you know, I think that's an interesting look to see. What's it going to be like in another generation? China may be seen as a better partner. And as I mentioned in Daily Caller, there was a survey by the Singaporean think tank run by the government that showed a small amount, I think it was 50.4%, so it's almost 50-50, of government leaders. Not just men on the street, who said, strategically they felt it was better the dial was moving a little bit more towards China than the United States. Even the fact that it's 50-50 should be worrying to the U.S., right? I'm speaking as an American here, right? It should be worrying that it's even 50-50, but it is. And so that goes to show the power of China. Not just militarily and all this stuff, but just doing business with China and then seeing things China's way in many degrees. Well, it's true. Then that report, Singapore report of the Southeast, it makes you realize that China doesn't actually need to use its military power, because obviously it is ramping up its military spending, wanting to actually impose itself on the South China Sea, make sure America is not there. In one way, it needs to do that because I guess you've got Taiwan and Japan maybe as entities that are not pro-China. But everywhere else, in one way, trade is actually building bridges with those countries. There's actually less reason for China to spend all that huge amount of money on military power whenever soft power through trade and commerce. That's actually winning over Southeast Asia. Oh, absolutely. They're more connected to Asia, more connected to China because of commerce. A lot of Chinese multinationals, especially, have been setting up shop in Southeast Asia to make everything from LED light bulbs to furniture and so on, solar panels are huge in Vietnam and Malaysia. Chinese multinationals are all there and they're selling it all over the world. Most of the United States and Europe. But again, China does want to build up its military because they see, and this is one thing I think the military worries about, is they see this. They think the military is a good place for me to have an industrial base. The military is a good place for me to make big products, big expensive items, maybe like a drone. Drones are a big thing now. Autonomous ships. Autonomous aircraft. China's big on that. I don't know if Russia makes those. So, who is the United States competing with a lot of times for like military contracts in Asia? Russia? So, India might buy, or Saudi Arabia. So India might buy an F-15, but it might also buy a Sukhoi. Might buy both. Might buy a MiG. Might buy an F-15. But now China's saying, hey, wait a minute. Why don't I also; so let them buy. I don't know anything about China. A China fighting tiger. Now, all of a sudden the Vietnamese don't just have F-15s. They got a Chinese fighting tiger too. So it's very important for China to move into the military, not because they want to protect the South China Sea or get the U.S. Military out of there, get that U.S. military protectorate agreement out of Asia because China sees this is my backyard, not yours. And they're going to muscle in and give options. But also, in thinking of the military as a product, I have autonomous boats. Hey, Vietnam, you want to have a coast guard? You want to police illegal fishing? You want whatever? You want to place drugs in the Malibu Straits without getting your soldiers injured? I got autonomous boats. America makes autonomous boats, but we're even better at it. And that's a big deal. That's a huge deal. People don't realize. All of a sudden, who's competing with the United States? Who's competing with Lockheed Martin to make an autonomous boat? The Chinese. Look, when you think of flying internationally,  there's only two planes you've ever been on. You've been on a Boeing and you've been on an Airbus. But now China, I only know the abbreviation of the company, it's called Comac, has the C, I think it's called the C919. Yeah. And that's an international wide-body jet that's going to take you from Shanghai to Paris. Well, guess what? So one day when that plane is seen as doing, in terms of safety record is solid and whatever, the airlines are going to buy that; going to buy a Comac instead of an Airbus, instead of a Boeing. And guess what else is even more interesting? Do you think that the Chinese are going to subsidize a Boeing jet or an Airbus plane? No, they're going to subsidize Comac, so Comac can become the Vietnamese airline of choice carrier. Maybe not Japan, because the United States would muscle in there, I'm sure. Maybe even France would, too. Maybe even Vietnam in the case of France and Vietnam. No. But other areas like Kazakhstan, Russia, for example, Aeroflot would probably be alright. I don't even I don't even envision a future of Aeroflot in Russia using Airbus and Boeing. I don't. I don't even see why they would want to if that Comac jet is safe. Well, you know, Boeing planes, their doors fall off in mid-flight lately. So, if the Comac is safe, why would Russia want to buy an American or a French plane? The Americans and the French hate him. I agree. I'm a plane buff, and I think I would rather fly on a Chinese aircraft than a Boeing at the moment. The aircraft could be better. I just want to finish on another issue. I think one of your tweets was that the established powers of the West love the CCP model of social control and governance. And you made the wrap it up in this diversity. But this whole thing on the control that China have on their citizens, and obviously during COVID, the West suddenly thought, oh, we can now use this to actually control our citizens. And then in the UK, you realize that a lot of our CCTV systems on the streets; and a lot of the CCTV systems used in shops are actually Chinese systems. So, who knows where the data goes? But it's interesting how the West looking at China, once again, it's China that will provide the infrastructure and the setup for the West. The West kind of look at that. They would like some of that control. And China, again, are the world leaders. And once again, they provide what the West wants to control the citizens. Yeah, they're sort of like a petri dish in a way, right? The Chinese people of what the West would like. Now, the Western world, because you live in democracies where people still have a say, people still have a say. But that's changing. Yeah, because they can vilify in the West and use the media and say that people like Peter who think that this way, they're conspiracy theorists, they're right wingers, they're fascists, whatever it is, they're transphobic, they don't believe in science. The whole nine yards, the usual things, right? Right. That's how they get the other half of society to sort of bludgeon you. They shut. So the government doesn't have to do anything. Right. The other half, the other half of polite society could say, oh, that Peter guy has a weird views of things. What's wrong with surveillance? He's not we're not doing anything bad. So what? Look, I'm of the mind that in the West, because we are a democracy and people still have a say, they have to divide the people in a way that when you are opposed to the regime, when you're opposed to the government, you're going to be a person who's spreading misinformation. You're going to be someone who needs to be censored. You're going to be someone who needs to be punished. That is the way that they're able to corral people who don't want to be punished, don't want to be censored, don't want to be vilified. And they can be on this team regime. They can be on the side of the power. So if you were looking at China, you'd be on the side of the CCP. Why would China, why would an average Chinese person want to go against the CCP? You see what happens. So, in the US and in Europe, you're doing that with different laws, like misinformation, you're trying to shut down that debate, trying to shut down people, allowing people to talk about certain things. So, you can vilify them or you can just end it at all. But at least, at the very least, vilify these people so that the other half of society, whether it's a third or whether it's a half, I don't know, can say, yeah, you know, those people deserve to be punished. Those people deserve to be ostracized from society. [40:20] And that gives, of course, the government more control. Because they can't control. They can't just come out and say, we're going to do this. We're going to give you digital currency and program what you can buy or whatever. That's not going to happen. That can, to some extent, happen in China. It'd be very hard to do, do that in the West, but you know, I'm of the mind that they won't, they won't succeed at this. I hope, I hope, I hope not. I could, I could be wrong. We can, we can tell what you can talk about this for hours. You almost need a theologian to talk about some of these issues because, I think that people, because of all these alternative media people like yourself, Peter, right? They've come out and they're, they're almost ahead. That we're one step ahead of how the powers that be think, or at least we understand how they think. We can analyze it and we can come out and say, this is what they could do. Maybe we're wrong. But if we're right, then it's almost like these guys can't do it. You know what I mean? Because now it's like, well, I know we said we weren't going to do it. We did it. But it is a good idea because. And then when you keep having to do that, what happens? What's happening in the West? You delegitimize the system. You delegitimize the institution because of that gaslighting. Because you said you weren't going to do this. The guys you said were spreading misinformation said you were going to do it. You did do it. And then you said, yeah, but it's good that we did it. You can't keep doing that in society. But that's the way that the West moves to a China control like model because they just can't do it. We don't live in a dictatorship. You can't just do it. But that's the way that they move you in that direction. But as long as people like yourself and others in media, and of course, you have a big star in the UK, Russell Brand, he's huge, he's big here in the United States. As long as they're up ahead of that, then I think it becomes harder, because more people are aware, more people are curious about how the powers are trying to control things in their life. And then it's less likely that they will succeed, you know. It is less likely they succeed when more people are aware of what's at stake and more people are aware of what the planning is or how their thinking is. As long as we want to be free people and don't live like the CCP runs China, then we know that the guys who perfectly fine with us living like the CCP. We can be out ahead of them, then we can stop it, because they don't want to, they don't want to be embarrassed. They don't want to look like fools. In the worst case scenario, they will get more aggressive, more vicious and just keep pushing and pushing and pushing. And I think that's, unfortunately, that's the, this, this, the place we find ourselves now in Europe, the UK, the United States and Canada. And it's going to be very interesting to see what happens in the next few years. It will be and we'll see how November changes things because we've little pushback in Europe so I think the U.S have a chance of some pushback in November. You did have a big pushback with that farmer protest that was pretty serious. I think that the farmer protest was really eye-opening for a lot of people. I think, didn't it didn't disrupt some government in the Netherlands or Denmark? I forget, but some somebody was overthrown or a political party that was in... It overthrew the government of the Netherlands, in effect. The issue is actually when you protest, you have media you highlighted, then you're looking for a political solution to come in on the back of that, and Europe haven't yet got that. Now, the European Union elections will be interesting coming up in only months, and that could change things. But yeah, whether the EU are able to remove themselves from China's pocket is a big question, just like it is from the state side, whether you guys can remove yourself from that and China have done well on, I guess, embedding themselves into all our institutions. Look. In Europe, I think the issue with the renewable energy side that they're talking about now and China really dominating that market, that might see them split a little bit with China. So, that'll be interesting to watch to see how the Europeans, which promote climate change, want renewable, want a post-fossil fuel economy, and then go, oh, wait a minute now. We want a post-fossil fuel economy, but we literally have nothing to make a post-fossil fuel economy. Yeah, we have EVs, but we don't have an EV battery maker. Yeah, we have wind, but we have no solar to speak of. If we do, it's small little companies. They're all dominated by the Chinese. It's like Peter and Ken's solar manufacturing plant. We employ a thousand people and we have a few rooftops in southern Spain have our product. But we're not big players. No one's afraid of us. Maybe we're happily employing a few people and making some money until the Chinese come in and buy us out, whatever. They don't have the infrastructure for that. I think I'd be curious to see how Europe reacts to China within the renewable energy space. And I see that as being where China really becomes, well, Europe really splinters off from China because they're not going to be able to compete with China in that market. And they consider that to be, obviously, what Europe always talks about is climate change. They consider that to be probably their most important market in the future. Yeah, 100%. More solar panels from China will solve everything. Yeah, the temperature will fall at least at one degree over the next 20 years Kenneth, I really appreciate you coming on. I've loved following your twitter and obviously your many articles on daily caller. People can get in the description if they're watching. If they're listening it's there as well now the podcast platform so thank you so much for joining us and giving us your thoughts on China. Thanks for having me on Peter, appreciate it.

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Jakarta chuẩn bị khép lại 10 năm thời đại « Jokowi ». Trong hai nhiệm kỳ, tổng thống Joko Widodo đã đặt Indonesia vào « trung tâm của chuỗi cung ứng toàn cầu », và một quốc gia tiên phong về công nghệ xanh. Thách thức đối với chính quyền sắp tới là « khả năng khá giới hạn » của một cường quốc khu vực trong cuộc đối đầu Mỹ-Trung theo phân tích của chuyên gia về châu Á, Hubert Testard trường Khoa Học Chính Trị Paris, và phụ trách báo mạng Asialyst. Ngày 14/02/2024, cử tri Indonesia bầu lại tổng thống, Quốc Hội và khoảng 20.000 dân biểu cấp địa phương. Indonesia là một trong những thành viên ban đầu của khối ASEAN, là quốc gia Đông Nam Á duy nhất tham gia G20, câu lạc bộ quy tụ 20 nền kinh tế phát triển nhất. Là quốc gia Hồi Giáo lớn nhất thế giới, lại là cửa ngõ giữa Ấn Độ và Thái Bình Dương, là gạch nối giữa châu Á và châu Đại Dương, Indonesia có rất nhiều lợi thế để tất cả các siêu cường trên thế giới phải quan tâm.Sau 10 năm cầm quyền, Jokowi chuẩn bị chuyển giao quyền lực vào lúc ông vẫn được ba phần tư dân chúng tín nhiệm. Trên trường quốc tế, tổng thống Joko Widodo là đối tác được nể trọng và thân thiện với cả Washington đến lẫn Matxcơva, với Bắc Kinh cũng như Canberra hay Paris, Bruxelles và nhất là với Tokyo, Seoul hay với các nước Đông Nam Á.Thành tích mở mang IndonesiaTrước hết đối với kinh tế Indonesia trong hai nhiệm kỳ vừa qua, ông Joko Widodo đã mang lại những gì cho đất nước ? RFI tiếng Việt đặt câu hỏi với Hubert Testard, chuyên gia về châu Á, giảng dậy tại trường Khoa Học Chính Trị Paris Sciences Po, và cũng là một trong những cây bút chính của trang mạng Asialyst. Hubert Testard : « Kinh tế Indonesia khá ổn định, với tỷ lệ tăng trưởng trong dài hạn trung bình ở mức 5 % một năm. Indonesia cũng đã khá vững vàng trong bối cảnh lãi suất ngân hàng trên thế giới liên tục tăng lên. Tuy nhiên đại dịch Covid cũng đã tác động mạnh đến kinh tế quốc gia Đông Nam Á này - nhất là trong giai đoạn 2020 và 2021. GDP của Indonesia khi đó đã mất khoảng 0,7 %. Điều đó cũng có nghĩa là một phần dân số nước này dễ bị đẩy vào cảnh nghèo khó, thị trường lao động cũng bị ảnh hưởng theo. Hiện tại lạm phát đè nặng lên đời sống của nhiều người, nhất là khi mà giá cả nhu yếu phẩm -như đường hay gạo tăng lên. Tổng thổng tương lai sẽ phải chú ý và sẽ phải giải quyết những vấn đề xã hội (...)Nhìn chung thành tích kinh tế của tổng thống mãn nhiệm Joko Widodo khá tốt. Tất cả không phải là màu hồng nhưng trong 10 năm qua, ông đã tạo lực đẩy để phát triển cơ sở hạ tầng - mà đây là một nhược điểm lớn của Indonesia. Chính quyền Joko Widodo cũng đã tìm cách đặt Indonesia vào trung tâm chuỗi cung ứng qua việc phát triển công nghiệp khai thác quặng mỏ như mỏ beauxite, nikel… Để đạt được mục tiêu đó, Jakarta cần đầu tư trực tiếp nước ngoài. Trên điểm này, Indonesia đã khá thành công và đang trở thành một mắt xích quan trọng của tiến trình chuyển đổi năng lượng tại Châu Á. Không chỉ có nguyên liệu để chế tạo bình điện mà tham vọng sắp tới đây của Indonesia là phát triển cả ngành công nghiệp ô tô điện ». Vẫn theo Hubert Testard, nhờ đầu tư và các doanh nghiệp Trung Quốc, xuất khẩu nikel tinh chất của Indonesia trong giai đoạn 2016 -2022 đã được « nhân lên gấp 30 lần ». Indonesia đang trở thành nhà máy sản xuất bình điện cho xe ô tô để cung cấp cho các hãng xe từ BYD của Trung Quốc đến Huyndai của Hàn Quốc.  Dù phải đối phó với khủng hoảng Covid và lạm phát do chiến tranh Ukraina gây nên, Jakarta vẫn giữ được thâm hụt ngân sách nhà nước ở mức 3 % GDP. Nợ công chỉ tương đương với 37 % tổng sản phẩm nội địa, mà gần ¾ trong số đó là nợ do chính người dân Indonesia nắm giữ. Khác với ở Trung Quốc chẳng hạn, hệ thống tài chính và ngân hàng của Indonesia được giới trong ngành đánh giá là « vững chắc ».Năm 2022 tổng đầu tư trực tiếp nước ngoài vào Indonesia (FDI) đạt mức cao chưa từng thấy 44 tỷ đô la để rồi đến 2023 lại đạt thành tích mới với 47 tỷ. Gần một nửa các khoản đầu tư nói trên hướng về các dự án khai thác quặng mỏ và ngành luyện kim.Con đường tơ lụa gắn kết Indonesia với Trung Quốc Tổng thống Joko Widodo được dân chúng thân mật gọi là ông Jokowi, ngoài ra, ông còn có biệt danh là « Bapak Infrastruktur » bởi trong 10 năm cầm quyền, ông đã dốc lòng xây dựng cơ sở hạ tầng và dựa vào dự án Con Đường Tơ Lụa mới của ông Tập Cận Bình. Trung Quốc đương nhiên « đánh cược » vào Indonesia để mở rộng ảnh hưởng ở Ấn Độ -Thái Bình Dương.Theo thống kê của ngân hàng Indonesia Maybank, năm 2022, Trung Quốc đầu tư vào ASEAN gần 17 tỷ đô la và « 13,7 tỷ trong số đó là để rót vào Indonesia và Hồng Kông ». Vậy có thể nói Indonesia phát triển mạnh nhờ đầu tư từ dự án Con Đường Tơ Lụa mới của Trung Quốc ?Hubert Testard : « Hai vế ấy đi đôi với nhau, vì để phát triển cơ sở hạ tầng, Indonesia cần vốn đầu tư của trong và ngoài nước khi mà ngân sách của chính phủ thì có hạn. Trung Quốc đã sẵn sàng đáp ứng nhu cầu đó. Chúng ta thấy qua dự án đường xe lửa cao tốc nối liền thủ đô Jakarta với thành phố Bandung. Công trình do Trung Quốc thực hiện và tài trợ, nhưng đây không là dự án duy nhất. Trung Quốc chiếm vị trí rất lớn tại Indonesia nhất là trên thị trường nguyên liệu. Indonesia giờ đây hầu như không còn xuất khẩu nikel thô nữa mà đó là nikel tinh chất để được sử dụng ngay trong việc sản xuất bình điện ô tô. Có dự án Con Đường Tơ Lụa mới hay không, thì tôi cho rằng Trung Quốc cũng vấn hiện diện ở Indonesia như thường. Trong khá nhiều lĩnh vực họ gần như là trong thế ‘song quyền' cùng với Indonesia để khai thác tài nguyên ». An ninh biển vì lòng tham của Trung QuốcNhư đã nói ở trên, Indonesia là cửa ngõ giữa Ấn Độ với Thái Bình Dương, là gạch nối giữa châu Á với châu Đại Dương. Quốc gia này làm chủ trên dưới 17 ngàn hòn đảo lớn nhỏ trải rộng trên hơn 5 ngàn cây số từ đông sang tây, hơn 2 ngàn cây số từ nam chí bắc. Jakarta hoàn toàn ý thức được là sự thịnh vượng tùy thuộc vào ổn định và an ninh trên biển.Ít ồn ào hơn Philippines hay Việt Nam nhưng Indonesia cũng là một nước có tranh chấp chủ quyền biển đảo với Trung Quốc, chung quanh quần đảo Natuna ở Biển Đông.Trong một nghiên cứu hồi 2023, luật gia Daniel Peterson thuộc đại học Melbourne - Úc, được báo Le Monde trích dẫn cho rằng, hợp tác chặt chẽ về kinh tế giảm thiểu tham vọng của Bắc Kinh lấn át chủ quyền của Jakarta trong vùng đặc quyền kinh tế ZEE ở Biển Đông, nhưng đồng thời đầu tư của Trung Quốc bắt rễ sâu vào các hoạt động kinh tế của Indonesia cũng là một dạng « con ngựa thành Troie » khi mà đấy là những « mảng đầu tư mang tính chiến lược lâu dài » cho phép Bắc Kinh « hiện diện dài lâu ở bên trong lãnh thổ của Indonesia, mở rộng ảnh hưởng của Trung Quốc với khu vực » và vẫn theo chuyên gia này Indonesia đã trở thành « tâm điểm trong số những mục tiêu địa chính trị của Trung Quốc » ở Ấn Độ Thái Bình Dương.Trong cuộc đua kế vị tổng thống Joko Widodo, đương kim bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Indonesia Prabowo Subianto được coi là người có nhiều triển vọng hơn cả. Ông này từng là đối thủ của Jokowi nhưng nay lại được tổng thống sắp mãn nhiêm ủng hộ. Bằng chứng rõ rệt nhất là con trai cả của Joko Widodo, mới 36 tuổi, đứng liên danh, ra tranh chức phó tổng thống cùng với ông Prabowo Subianto.Chuyên gia châu Á Hubert Testard ghi nhận : Indonesia là  quốc gia Hồi Giáo đông dân nhất thế giới và có lập trường bênh vực người Palestine trong cuộc xung đột ở Gaza, Cận Đông. Về chiến tranh Ukraina công luận thiên về phía Nga vì tinh thần bài Mỹ. Cả hai cuộc xung đột ấy cùng ngoài tầm ảnh hưởng của Jakarta. Hơn nữa từ khi giành được độc lập năm 1945, nguyên tắc ngoại giao của là bắt tay với tất cả các bên, nên dưới đời tổng thống nào đi chăng nữa Indonesia vẫn sẽ giữ thế « trung lập ». Đấy cũng sẽ là kim chỉ nam trong chính sách đối ngoại của Indonesia trong trường hợp hai siêu cường kinh tế thế giới là Hoa Kỳ và Trung Quốc lao vào một cuộc đối đầuHubert Testard : « Trong cuộc đối đầu Mỹ- Trung Quốc, khả năng của Indonesia giảm thiểu căng thẳng ở khu vực châu Á khá hạn hẹp bởi vì hai siêu cường thế giới này có những tính toán riêng, hoàn toàn độc lập với những yếu tố bên ngoài hay là của các quốc gia tại khu vực liên quan. Song chính sách đối ngoại của Jakarta từ trước đến nay vẫn rõ ràng đó là quyết tâm bắt tay với tất cả các bên. Indonesia có mối bang giao hữu hảo với cả Trung Quốc lẫn Hoa Kỳ. Với Bắc Kinh thì đấy là vì lợi ích kinh tế và Jakarta tránh để làm phật lòng Trung Quốc trừ phi mà ông Tập Cận Bình cho tàu thuyền thâm nhập vào các vùng biển thuộc chủ quyền của Indonesia. Thế còn đối với Mỹ, ứng viên tổng thống được cho là có nhiều triển vọng nhất hiện nay là đương kim bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng ông Prabowo Subianto, thì có khuynh hướng thân phương Tây. Chính dưới nhiệm kỳ của ông, Indonesia ngừng trang bị Sukhoi của Nga để mua chiến đấu cơ Rafale của Pháp và F15 của Mỹ. Hiện tại về mặt quân sự, Indonesia giữ khoảng cách với Nga và hướng nhiều hơn tới phương Tây ». Tuy nhiên ngay cả trên những hồ sơ mang tính khu vực, Hubert Testard cũng cho rằng, khả năng can thiệp của Indonesia cũng không nhiều. Điều đã được chứng minh qua vấn đề của Miến Điện. Tổng thống mãn nhiệm Joko Widodo cũng như là người sắp thay thế ông, đều sẽ tập trung vào việc tăng cường khả năng phòng thủ -nhất là trên biển của Indonesia  Hubert Testard : « Quân đội Indonesia cần được hiện đại hóa. Đứng đầu bộ Quốc Phòng, ông Pabowo đã bắt đầu làm việc này và theo tôi thì ở cương vị tổng thống, ông sẽ tiếp tục đi theo chiều hướng đó. Nghĩa mở rộng và tăng cường khả năng chiến đấu cho quân đội Indonesia. Jakarta sẽ tăng chi phí quốc phòng và tăng ngân sách mua trang thiết bị quân sự. Chắc chắn là ông sẽ chú trọng đến bên Hải Quân, vì Indonesia cần tăng cường khả năng răn đe cho các lực lượng trên biển, nhất là trước những tham vọng của Trung Quốc. Hiện tại quốc gia Đông Nam Á này trong thế châu chấu đá voi : Jakarta có khoảng 8 khinh hạm, trong lúc của Trung Quốc là hơn 40 chiếc, Indonesia có 4 tàu ngầm thì Hải Quân Trung Quốc có hơn 60 chiếc. Trung Quốc bị coi là mối đe dọa chính vì những đòi hỏi chủ quyền ở Biển Đông ».   

Mercredi 13 septembre, l'Ukraine a déclaré avoir frappé des cibles navales dans le port de Sébastopol en Crimée. Ce pourrait être la plus grande attaque contre le siège de la flotte russe en mer noire. Deux navires en cours de réparation, ont été endommagés, dont un sous-marin. Ce qui représente un immense revers pour la marine russe. Le récit de ce raid spectaculaire par Franck Alexandre et Olivier Fourt. Dix-huit mois après avoir coulé le croiseur Moskva, l'Ukraine semble avoir réussi un nouveau coup d'éclat : la mise hors de combat d'un bâtiment stratégique de la flotte russe, un sous marin de classe Kilo probablement le Rostov sur le Don… En mer Noire, c'est la première fois qu'un sous-marin est touché, pointe Vincent Groizeleau, rédacteur en chef de Mer et marine : « Cette fois-ci, c'est du missile, a priori du missile de croisière et ce qui est effectivement assez particulier, c'est qu'ils ont frappé la principale zone de réparation navale de la base de Sébastopol où il y avait deux bâtiments qui étaient en cale sèche. Un sous-marin russe du type Kilo et un bâtiment de débarquement de chars du type Ropucha. Et effectivement la perte la plus grave, est celle du sous-marin. On ne sait pas quel est son état aujourd'hui, mais si l'on se fie à l'état du bateau qui est à côté, que l'on a pu distinctement voir en photo et qui est complètement détruit, il y a de fortes chances que le sous-marin soit également très fortement endommagé, voire irrécupérable. Et là c'est grave pour les Russes parce que d'un coup d'un seul, ils perdent 20 % de leur capacité sous-marine en mer Noire puisqu'ils n'ont que cinq sous-marins dans cette zone ». Des missiles Storm Shadow utilisés pour la frappeLe type de missile utilisé pour attaquer Sébastopol, reste inconnu, bien que la presse d'outre-Manche évoque l'usage de missiles longue portées Storm Shadow, récemment fournis par les britanniques et les français. La flotte russe de la mer Noire, régulièrement harcelée par des drones navals ukrainiens se trouve désormais également à portée de ces redoutables missiles de croisières, sans avoir la capacité d'esquiver, ni de se régénérer, souligne Vincent Groizeleau : « Depuis le début de la guerre, les détroits turcs sont fermés, comme le dicte la convention de Montreux. Quand il y a une guerre en mer Noire, les détroits sont fermés, on ne laisse plus passer les bateaux de guerre. Donc ça veut dire que les Russes ne peuvent compter que sur ce qu'ils avaient sur place fin février 2022. Et donc on voit, au fil des mois ces capacités se réduire du fait des pertes. Il y a eu la perte du croiseur Moskva, de plusieurs bâtiments de débarquement et il y a effectivement maintenant peut-être ce sous-marin en moins. Et puis dans le même temps, il y a beaucoup de navires russes qui ont été endommagés par des attaques de drones, par des attaques de missiles ce qui nécessitent des réparations et donc au fil des mois, on voit cette maigre flotte de la mer Noire qui comptait une vingtaine de bâtiments significatifs au début de la guerre, se réduire. Et d'où l'importance aussi de toutes ces capacités de réparation navale dans les ports, notamment à Sébastopol, mais aussi à Novorossiïsk. Les cales sèches, les docks flottants qui permettent d'entretenir ces bateaux et de réparer ceux qui ont été touchés. Et là, les Ukrainiens  ont non seulement frappé un grand coup en détruisant des bateaux de guerre, ou en tout cas en les endommageant gravement, mais aussi dans le même temps, ils ont neutralisé d'importantes capacités de réparation qui ne pourront pas servir dans les mois qui viennent pour réparer d'autres unités qui en aurait besoin ». Signe de l'importance de cette attaque : l'armée ukrainienne d'habitude discrète, a revendiqué la frappe sans donner de détails sur l'ampleur des dégâts.Ce que nous apprennent les réseauxLa frappe survenue, en pleine nuit le 13 septembre 2023 sur Sébastopol est révélatrice de la stratégie ukrainienne. Il s'agit de viser des objectifs stratégiques, situés « dans la profondeur », c'est-à-dire loin des premières lignes. L'idée est de désorganiser l'armée russe, en atteignant des cibles de hautes valeurs dans des régions que le commandement russe considérait probablement comme sûres : en l'occurrence Sébastopol, port d'attache de la flotte de mer noire.Kiev ne s'est pas contenté de viser le port militaire, mais a attaqué le chantier de Sevmorzavod. Au moment du raid, il  abritait au moins un grand navire de débarquement classe Ropucha, et un sous marin à propulsion classique classe Kilo 636.3, c'est-à-dire un version modernisée de ce submersible à propulsion électrique. Très vite des vidéos postées sur les réseaux sociaux ont laissé penser que le chantier naval était en feu. Une vérification sur le site FIRMS pour Fire Information for Ressource Management System géré par la NASA laisse effectivement apparaitre le déclenchement d'un incendie important dans la zone industrielle portuaire de Sébastopol cette nuit là.Peu de temps après le ministère russe de la défense confirme : « Cette nuit, les forces armées ukrainiennes ont (conduit) une frappe au moyen de dix missiles de croisière sur un chantier naval de Sébastopol (…) Deux navires en réparation ont été endommagés », a ajouté le ministère, tandis que « la défense antiaérienne a abattu sept missiles de croisière », selon la même source. Plus tôt mercredi, le gouverneur russe de Sébastopol Mikhaïl Razvojaïev avait indiqué sur Telegram qu'un « incendie s'était déclaré sur le chantier naval visé. À la suite de l'attaque, selon de premières informations, un total de 24 personnes ont été blessées », avait ajouté M. Razvojaïev cité par l'AFP à Moscou.Cette  frappe a certainement été réalisée par des missiles tirés à distance de sécurité (Stand Off) car on peut considérer que l'objectif était fortement défendu et aucun navire ukrainien n'a cette capacité de tirs vers la terre. Si les ukrainiens ont pris l'habitude de brouiller les pistes en employant dans les mêmes raids des missiles occidentaux et de vieux missiles d'origine soviétique  encore en stock chez eux, tous les regards se sont rapidement portés sur les Storm Shadow/Scalp livrés par les européens (UK et Fra). Ils peuvent être tirés à plus de 300 kilomètres de distance, et ont été adaptés sous des chasseurs-bombardiers ukrainiens Sukhoi-24 hérités de la période soviétique. Le missile ukrainien anti-navire, P-360 Neptune aurait pu se révéler utile pour cette opération, mais il est  en principe tiré depuis des batteries côtières…En réalité, le navire de débarquement, et le sous-marin visés, étant en cale sèche dans un site industriel au moment du raid, il convient donc de les considérer comme des cibles terrestres, même si ce sont des bateaux… Le missile européen Storm-Shadow/Scalp est parfaitement adapté à ce genre d'objectifs. Il permet d'allier puissance (avec une charge de plusieurs centaines de kilos) et précision. Le fait que dès le 15 septembre 2023, le ministère britannique de la Défense publie, sur son propre compte X un fil détaillé sur raid, semble accréditer  la thèse d'une frappe réalisée avec des missiles de croisière de ce type fourni par la Grande Bretagne, début 2023.La défense britannique va jusqu'à publier un BDA (Battle Damage Assessment) certes simplifié, mais faisant le bilan du raid, presque comme si c'était l'œuvre de sa propre armée de l'air ! On peut y lire entre autres : « Open-source evidence indicates the Minsk has almost certainly been functionally destroyed, while the Rostov has likely suffered catastrophic damage ». Londres très engagé dans le soutien à l'armée ukrainienne, annonce ainsi que le navire Minsk ne pourra pas reprendre la mer, et que le sous-marin Rostov sur le Don a subi de très importants dommages.Des cibles stratégiquesSi l'on s'arrête sur les cibles, une rapide recherche en ligne permet, de comprendre leur importance. Le Minsk est un navire dit de « débarquement », de la classe Ropucha datant de 1973.  Sur le papier, il s'agit de l'un des plus anciens de la série des navires de ce type. Ils sont très utiles pour la marine russe, qui en alignait cinq au sein de la flotte de la mer noire. Au début de l'intervention russe en Syrie, ces cargos amphibies multipliaient les liaisons entre Tartous et Sébastopol, transportant, troupes, armes et matériel logistique.Avec un déplacement de 4 000 tonnes environ, ils peuvent passer les détroits sans difficulté, et sont conçu pour le débarquement sur le littoral. Problème : ils sont à bout de souffle et leur conception est dépassée. Voyant sa flotte amphibie vieillir, la Russie a tenté dans les années 2010'de se doter de plusieurs bâtiments de projection de commandement (BPC) de la classe Mistral, qu'elle entendait acheter à la France, avant que Paris ne tire un trait sur le contrat en 2015. Au final, la marine russe a dû se contenter de ces Ropucha. Elle en compte aujourd'hui un de moins, et ces bateaux ne sont plus produits depuis presque 40 ans.Kilo endommagéL'autre cible du raid, était donc un sous-marin de la classe Kilo modernisé. Un submersible, considéré comme moderne et très silencieux, mais à l'autonomie limitée, car il est à propulsion électrique. La marine russe a médiatisé en décembre 2015, l'utilisation de ce sous-marin contre des positions de Daesh en Syrie. Ce même sous-marin  : le B-237  Rostov-sur-Don du Projet 636.3 avait alors tiré quatre missiles de croisières Kalibr sur des bases  de l'organisation État Islamique à partir de la mer Méditerranée. Une capacité rare dans la marine russe et particulièrement dans la flotte de la mer Noire qui ne comptait que cinq sous-marins de ce type. Les photos publiées sur les réseaux sociaux, laissent apparaitre des destructions importantes sur la partie avant du submersible endommagé à Sébastopol.L'une des sections les plus complexes à usiner et celle qui abritait tubes lance-torpilles et missiles. Le ministère britannique de la défense estime que réparer le Rostov sur le Don « prendra des années et coutera des centaines de millions de dollars », mais surtout les dégâts engendrés sur le chantier naval, risquent de compromettre les travaux de maintenance des autres bâtiments du même type, réduisant encore les capacités de la flotte de la mer Noire, déjà mise sous pression.

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*) Ex-PM Thaksin jailed on return to Thailand after 15 years in exile Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was sent to jail on Tuesday shortly after he returned to the kingdom after 15 years in exile. The latest political development comes just hours before parliament votes to install his party's candidate as new prime minister. At the airport in Bangkok, the 74-year-old billionaire was greeted by hundreds of supporters waving banners and singing songs, demonstrating how he has retained an outsized influence despite his long absence. *) Russia says jet 'destroys' Ukraine reconnaissance boat in Black Sea Russia's defence ministry said that one of its Sukhoi jets had "destroyed" a Ukrainian "reconnaissance boat" in the Black Sea. The vessel reportedly sailed near a Russian gas production facility prompting a response from Moscow. Earlier, Russia claimed that its ships were targeted by a Ukrainian naval drone attack. *) BRICS summit of emerging economies to begin in South Africa Leaders of the BRICS nations are due in South Africa to discuss expanding membership amid a push to forge the bloc as a counterweight to the West. South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa will host Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the country's largest city, Johannesburg, from Tuesday to Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, is skipping the meeting amid concerns that he could be arrested due to an outstanding international warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. Over 40 countries said they are interested in joining BRICS, but India and Brazil have expressed some reservation, over concerns that the expansion could dilute the bloc's global influence. *) Japan to start releasing Fukushima water on Thursday Japan is expected to release on Thursday the water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, 12 years after one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. The nuclear plant was knocked out by a massive earthquake and tsunami that killed around 18,000 people in March 2011. Japan insists the gradual release of the water is safe, but there are concerns that the more than 500 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water is contaminated. The operator of the plant said the water has been filtered to remove all radioactive substances except the chemical tritium, adding that the amount to be released are far below dangerous levels. *) ​​Kenya's young Maasai reconnect with their culture at Eunoto ceremony Hundreds of young Kenyan men have come to a village in the country's south to join a ceremony reconnecting them with their culture and traditions. Aged between 18 and 26, the young men all descended from the same generation of Maasai warriors. For centuries, Maasai men have gone through rites of passage which have been inscribed since 2018 on the UNESCO list of intangible heritage in need of safeguarding. For many, it is a matter of survival to preserve the traditions and culture of the most famous of Kenya's 45 tribes.

Welcome back! This is a very special episode, as we have our good friend from the Maple Motherland, Ryan Chapman. Ryan recently had an off-field emergency landing in his Sukhoi which resulted in some minor injuries. Ryan was gracious enough to come on and share his story. We talk about the airplane, the sequence of events, how he is doing, and so much more! Ryan has a GoFundMe to help get this airplane back flying for Nationals and Worlds, so go support him! Thank you to LIFT Aviation for supporting the podcast, head to www.liftaviationusa.com and use the promo code FLYCOOLSHIT at checkout for 25% off your order. Thank you to Fly Good Merch! Go grab some Fly Good Don't Suck gear. Head to www.flygoodmerch.com and use the promo code AKRO for 10% off your entire order.

Un cratere di 20 metri si è aperto nell'elegante Corso Vatutina, nella parte Sud della città russa di Belgorod. Nella notte fra giovedì e venerdì, alle 22:15 dell'ora locale, un caccia bombardiere russo Sukhoi-34 in volo sopra questa media cittadina sulla frontiera tra i due Paesi in guerra ha infatti perso una bomba destinata invece all'Ucraina.

Khi xung đột Nga – Ukraina bùng nổ, Ấn Độ cũng như nhiều quốc gia châu Phi, châu Á và Trung Đông đều tránh chọn phe. Sự phụ thuộc của Ấn Độ vào năng lượng và vũ khí của Nga, cùng với các vấn đề trong quá khứ với Mỹ, khiến nước này có một lựa chọn trung lập hấp dẫn. Đường lối « phi liên kết » truyền thốngHầu hết giới phân tích đều có chung một nhận xét : Quy mô và sức mạnh của Ấn Độ khiến nước này trở thành quốc gia có ảnh hưởng nhất giữ thái độ trung lập sau một năm xảy ra cuộc chiến. Là quốc gia có dân số đông thứ hai thế giới, và là nền kinh tế thứ sáu, Ấn Độ sẽ tiếp tục giữ quan hệ với cả Nga với phương Tây khi duy trì thế « nước đôi chiến lược ». New Delhi một mặt tìm cách cưỡng lại sự thúc ép của Washington chống lại Matxcơva, và mặt khác kêu gọi « hòa bình » và hợp tác trên những gì có « điểm chung », mà không ủng hộ một quốc gia cụ thể nào.Trước thế giới, khi nói về cuộc chiến tại Ukraina, các phát biểu của Ấn Độ chủ yếu dựa trên luật quốc tế. Chính phủ Ấn Độ nhấn mạnh đến tầm quan trọng của chủ quyền và tôn trọng toàn vẹn lãnh thổ của các quốc gia nhằm bảo đảm duy trì trật tự thế giới. New Delhi kêu gọi chấm dứt ngay lập tức các hành động bạo lực và thù nghịch, nhưng chưa bao giờ nêu đích danh trách nhiệm của Nga. Tuy nhiên, quốc gia Nam Á này lại viện trợ nhân đạo cho Ukraina. Cả hai lần New Delhi đều cung cấp thuốc men, thiết bị y tế và sơ cứu cho Kiev.Trả lời trang mạng ABC News của Úc, ông Rick Russow, cố vấn cao cấp và chủ tịch nghiên cứu chính sách Hoa Kỳ - Ấn Độ tại Trung tâm Nghiên cứu Chiến lược và Quốc tế, cho rằng với vị thế trung lập này, Ấn Độ là một trong số các quốc gia duy nhất trong cuộc chiến ở Ukraina có thể « nhấc điện thoại và nói chuyện với lãnh đạo của cả hai nước Mỹ và Nga trong cùng một ngày ».Làm thế nào giải thích cho thế trung lập này của Ấn Độ ? Trong một phiên điều trần trước Ủy ban Đối ngoại và Quốc phòng Thượng Viện Pháp, ngày 05/04/2023, Christophe Jaffrelot, giám đốc nghiên cứu tại CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, chủ tịch Hiệp hội Khoa học Pháp, trước hết nhắc lại lập trường « không liên kết » truyền thống của Ấn Độ trong các hồ sơ quốc tế.« Đường lối phi liên kết của Ấn Độ được thể hiện qua việc không đứng về phía nào trong bối cảnh chiến tranh tại Ukraina. Đây là một quan điểm rất cũ, có từ thời hậu chiến, bởi vì ông Jawaharlal Nehru, thủ tướng Ấn Độ giai đoạn 1947-1964, là người đặt nền móng cho lập trường này : Từ chối chọn phe này hay phe kia vào giai đoạn Chiến Tranh Lạnh. Ở đó, ông ấy nhìn thấy bạo lực không thể chịu nổi, và do vậy đã hình thành một phong trào, đó là Phong Trào Không Liên Kết, mà tư tưởng vẫn còn rất kiên định ».  Và sự kiên định này của Ấn Độ khiến các nước đồng minh phương Tây thất vọng. Năm 2023, New Delhin nắm chức chủ tịch luân phiên khối G20. Hoa Kỳ và các nước châu Âu trông đợi Ấn Độ có một thái độ rõ ràng hơn trong cuộc chiến Ukraina, nhưng đã hoài công. Tại cuộc họp các ngoại trưởng khối G20 trong tháng 3/2023, thủ tướng Ấn Độ Narendra Modi chỉ nêu bật các vấn đề trong nước và các ưu tiên hàng đầu của Ấn Độ có liên quan đến Nam Bán cầu, tức nhóm các quốc gia ở châu Á, châu Phi và châu Mỹ Latinh, những nước có cùng quan điểm, đặc điểm kinh tế - xã hội.Sự từ chối chọn phe của Ấn Độ trong các cơ chế đa phương chống lại Nga được thể hiện rõ qua những lần vắng mặt trong các lên án cuộc chiến xâm lược Ukraina của Nga, bỏ phiếu trắng gần như có hệ thống tại Hội Đồng Bảo An khi Ấn Độ còn là thành viên không thường trực cho đến tháng 12/2022, bỏ phiếu trắng gần như có hệ thống tại Đại Hội Đồng Liên Hiệp Quốc khi vấn đề Ukraina được đặt ra, cho dù đó chỉ là những câu hỏi vì lý do nhân đạo và điều đó không thay đổi được điều gì : Ấn Độ không ra mặt chống lại Nga hay phương Tây.Phụ thuộc vũ khí Nga và mối quan hệ khó khăn với Mỹ trong quá khứCũng trong phiên điều trần tại Thượng Viện, nhà nghiên cứu Christophe Jaffrelot cho rằng còn có một yếu tố giải thích rõ thái độ kiên quyết trên của chính quyền thủ tướng Modi : Sự phụ thuộc quân sự của Ấn Độ vào Nga.« Hai phần ba vũ khí của Ấn Độ có nguồn gốc từ Liên Xô hoặc Nga. Điều này ít nhiều buộc Ấn Độ phải có thái độ và các phát biểu chừng mực. Đúng là Ấn Độ có các loại chiến đấu cơ Rafale và Mirage (Pháp) nhưng họ có rất nhiều tiêm kích Sukhoi và thậm chí cả MiG của Nga. Về điểm này, Nga rất thông minh, không bán quá đắt, chúng tôi nghĩ rất có thể là có sự bán phá giá, nhưng nhất là có sự hợp tác cùng phát triển (…) Ngoài những thiết bị trên, Nga và Ấn Độ cùng chế tạo tên lửa tầm ngắn Bramos mà hai nước này đã bán cho Philippines. Ở đây, tôi xin lưu ý, Ấn Độ là một quốc gia không có ngành công nghiệp quốc phòng, họ đã thất bại trong việc xây dựng một nền công nghiệp quốc phòng, vì vậy, họ cần sự trợ giúp từ bên ngoài. Về điểm này, người Nga vốn dĩ kiệm lời nhưng lại rất hào phóng trong việc chuyển giao công nghệ. »Nhưng sự phụ thuộc này vào Nga còn có một nguyên nhân lịch sử sâu xa. Harsh Pant, phó chủ tịch phụ trách nghiên cứu và chính sách đối ngoại tại Observer Research Foundation, trả lời ABC News, nhận định đó còn là một phản ứng của Ấn Độ đối với cách hành xử của phương Tây trong quá khứ.Năm 1998, để đối phó với một loạt vụ thử vũ khí hạt nhân mà Ấn Độ tiến hành gần nước láng giềng Pakistan, nhiều nước phương Tây, đi đầu là Mỹ, đã áp đặt các lệnh trừng phạt, khiến Ấn Độ không thể tiếp cận các công nghệ cao mà theo quan chức các Ấn Độ thời đó là để tự vệ trước Pakistan.Thay vào đó, New Delhi đã tìm thấy được sự hỗ trợ phòng thủ từ Nga thời kỳ hậu Chiến Tranh Lạnh trên cơ sở một mối quan hệ lâu dài được hình thành từ thời Liên Xô. Trong những năm 1959 – 1960, vào thời điểm xảy ra xung đột biên giới Ấn – Trung, Liên Xô khi ấy, bất chấp mối quan hệ đồng minh Trung – Xô thiết lập trong những năm 1950, vì muốn giữ mối quan hệ hữu hảo với Ấn Độ, đã tuyên bố trung lập, khiến Trung Quốc tức giận.Nhà nghiên cứu Harsh Pant khẳng định, hầu hết các nền tảng lớn của Ấn Độ như tầu sân bay, tầu ngầm hạt nhân, « tất cả đều thuộc Liên Xô, bởi vì Liên Xô sẵn sàng chia sẻ công nghệ với Ấn Độ ». Sự phụ thuộc đó càng quan trọng hơn vào lúc tranh chấp biên giới giữa Ấn Độ và Trung Quốc vẫn dai dẳng.Tầm nhìn thế giới mới : Phi liên kết hay đa liên kết ?Nhưng thế phụ thuộc quân sự vào Nga này chưa đủ để giải thích lập trường trung lập của Ấn Độ. Tại phiên điều trần ở Ủy ban Đối ngoại và Quốc phòng Thượng Viện Pháp, nhà chính trị học, chuyên gia về Ấn Độ Christophe Jaffrelot, nhận định còn có hai lý do khác để hiểu rõ vì sao New Delhi không lên án Matxcơva. Và những điểm này đã được ngoại trưởng Ấn Độ, ông Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, người định hình chính sách đối ngoại cho thủ tướng Modi hiện nay, trình bày rất rõ trong nhiều bài viết:« Đầu tiên là chủ nghĩa chống phương Tây kế thừa từ chủ nghĩa chống đế quốc. Chúng ta hiện đang trong thời kỳ hậu thuộc địa, nhưng chúng ta vẫn chưa thoát được trạng thái vốn là di sản của cuộc đấu tranh chống thực dân. Và chống chủ nghĩa đế quốc là từ chủ đạo, một điều gì đó dành cho Mỹ nói riêng và cả phương Tây nói chung.Điều giải thích thứ hai, có lẽ còn quan trọng hơn, đó là một tầm nhìn thế giới mà Jaishankar mô tả là đa phương. Chủ nghĩa đa phương đó là gì ? Đó không hẳn là đa phương, không phải là song phương, mà cũng không là đơn phương. Đó là khả năng Ấn Độ có thể trao đổi với nhiều đối tác khác nhau, về những vấn đề khác biệt giữa bên này với bên kia. » Tầm nhìn này của Ấn Độ được nhiều chuyên gia diễn giải như là đa liên kết. New Delhi hình thành các quan hệ đối tác và duy trì quan hệ hữu hảo với nhiều nước, và như vậy Ấn Độ sẽ rộng đường hành động, hơn là bị trói tay vào một mối quan hệ đồng minh, vốn dĩ bị cấm ở Ấn Độ. Nhà chính trị học Jaffrelot phân tích tiếp :« Trong tầm nhìn thế giới đa phương này, càng có nhiều cực, càng có nhiều đối tác khả thi chừng nào càng tốt chừng ấy. Vì điều đó, Ấn Độ muốn có một nước Nga hùng mạnh bởi vì họ phụ thuộc vào Nga về vũ khí. Ấn Độ muốn Nga mạnh còn là để mở rộng các khả năng của mình. Tương tự, Ấn Độ muốn có một Liên Hiệp Châu Âu vững mạnh, điều đó cũng quan trọng cho Ấn Độ bởi vì đây là một cực quyền lực bổ sung trong cuộc chơi, bởi vì điều làm Ấn Độ lo lắng nhất là một thế giới lưỡng cực và nếu thiếu may mắn, đó sẽ là một cuộc chiến. Đây là một hướng đi mà thế giới từng trải qua. »Dường như tầm nhìn thế giới này của Jaishankar trong chính sách đối ngoại của Ấn Độ lúc ban đầu ít nhiều có được thành công. Nhiều cường quốc lớn liên tục gởi đặc sứ đến New Delhi nhằm lôi kéo Ấn Độ về phía mình khi cuộc xung đột Nga – Ukraina bùng phát. Tuy nhiên, trong xu hướng thế giới rơi vào thế lưỡng cực ngày càng lớn, việc kiên định không chọn phe nào cũng có thể khiến Ấn Độ bị cô lập và đặt nước này trong tình trạng khó xử lý.Chuyên gia Jaffrelot lưu ý : « Nếu thế giới thực sự có sự phân chia quyền lực quốc tế thành hai nhóm, Ấn Độ và chủ nghĩa đa phương của nước này có nhiều nguy cơ gặp khó khăn việc xác định vị thế của mình. Đây sẽ là một thách thức lớn cho Ấn Độ trong tương lai ! »

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« Il va être de plus en plus difficile pour le Rwanda, constate Le Monde Afrique, de camper sur son déni d'ingérence dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo après la diffusion, hier [28 décembre, NDLR], du dernier rapport des experts des Nations unies. Ses conclusions sont en effet sans équivoques, pointe Le Monde Afrique. Les cinq enquêteurs assurent avoir "trouvé des preuves substantielles de l'intervention directe des forces de défense rwandaises sur le territoire de la RDC, soit pour renforcer le M23, soit pour mener des opérations militaires contre les Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda" établies en RDC, d'origine rwandaises et opposées au régime de Kigali. Dans leur précédent rapport du mois de juin, précise encore Le Monde Afrique, les experts de l'ONU se montraient beaucoup moins affirmatifs concernant l'implication du pays voisin. Ils se contentaient alors de reprendre des déclarations "des autorités" de la RDC affirmant que les rebelles du M23 opéraient avec le soutien des forces armées rwandaises. Ce que le président rwandais, Paul Kagame, niait avec force. » Sur le terrain, « la situation se détériore chaque jour un peu plus entre le Rwanda et la RDC, relève La Libre Afrique. Hier, les autorités congolaises annonçaient l'arrestation de "plusieurs espions" œuvrant pour les services rwandais. Kinshasa accuse aussi le Rwanda d'avoir cherché à préparer une attaque contre le président de la République. Et en début de soirée, Kigali annonçait qu'un avion de chasse Sukhoi-25 de la RDC avait violé l'espace aérien rwandais le long du lac Kivu dans la province occidentale du Rwanda. » Burkina Faso : le lieutenant-colonel Zoungrana putschiste invétéré ? Au Burkina Faso, retour à la case prison pour le lieutenant-colonel Zoungrana. « L'ex-patron du 12e régiment d'infanterie commando est-il un putschiste indécrottable ? », s'interroge le quotidien Aujourd'hui. « Que reproche-t-on au truculent lieutenant-colonel qui avait été arrêté le 10 janvier dernier et qui avait bénéficié il y a deux semaines d'une liberté provisoire ? On a depuis hier soir la réponse, pointe le quotidien ouagalais, par le biais du procureur militaire : une enquête dûment diligentée a mis à nu que des militaires, dont forcément Zoungrana, de mèche avec des civils, étaient en train de préparer une déstabilisation des institutions de l'État… » Étrange affaire tout de même, estime Le Pays : « cet officier constituerait une menace pour le pouvoir. Il reste cependant à faire la preuve que cette menace est réelle, affirme le journal, et savoir sur quoi elle repose réellement. Et si ce n'est pas le cas, que la justice le réhabilite et explique au peuple burkinabè pourquoi on chercherait à réduire au silence ce militaire qui, du fond de son cachot, n'a cessé de proclamer sa volonté d'aller au front pour défendre sa patrie en danger. » Les 46 militaires ivoiriens retenus au Mali libérés aujourd'hui ? Enfin, suite et peut-être fin ce jeudi du feuilleton des 46 militaires ivoiriens retenus au Mali depuis juillet. « Les Ivoiriens prient pour que le président Assimi Goïta décide de leur faire le plus beau cadeau de fin d'année », s'exclame Le National à Bamako, qui, à l'instar des autorités, maintient que ces militaires étaient des mercenaires et non des soldats destinés à la relève du contingent ivoirien de la Minusma. En tout cas, la justice malienne doit se prononcer sur leur sort, ce jeudi 29 décembre. Et d'après le quotidien 24 Heures, à Dakar, les soldats ivoiriens, accusés de tentative d'atteinte à la sureté extérieure de l'État, pourraient voir les faits requalifiés de sorte à obtenir une peine couvrant la durée de leur détention préventive. Autre hypothèse : les soldats ivoiriens pourraient bénéficier d'une grâce de la part du président de la transition malienne, Assimi Goïta. Juste avant Noël, les autorités ivoiriennes et maliennes avaient conclu un accord dont les termes n'ont pas été rendus publics. « Le procès de ce jeudi intervient, rappelle Jeune Afrique, alors que la Cédéao a fixé début décembre un ultimatum aux autorités de la transition malienne : la junte a jusqu'à la fin de l'année pour libérer les soldats ivoiriens, sous peine de nouvelles sanctions. »

« Il va être de plus en plus difficile pour le Rwanda, constate Le Monde Afrique, de camper sur son déni d'ingérence dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo après la diffusion, hier [28 décembre, NDLR], du dernier rapport des experts des Nations unies. Ses conclusions sont en effet sans équivoques, pointe Le Monde Afrique. Les cinq enquêteurs assurent avoir "trouvé des preuves substantielles de l'intervention directe des forces de défense rwandaises sur le territoire de la RDC, soit pour renforcer le M23, soit pour mener des opérations militaires contre les Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda" établies en RDC, d'origine rwandaises et opposées au régime de Kigali. Dans leur précédent rapport du mois de juin, précise encore Le Monde Afrique, les experts de l'ONU se montraient beaucoup moins affirmatifs concernant l'implication du pays voisin. Ils se contentaient alors de reprendre des déclarations "des autorités" de la RDC affirmant que les rebelles du M23 opéraient avec le soutien des forces armées rwandaises. Ce que le président rwandais, Paul Kagame, niait avec force. » Sur le terrain, « la situation se détériore chaque jour un peu plus entre le Rwanda et la RDC, relève La Libre Afrique. Hier, les autorités congolaises annonçaient l'arrestation de "plusieurs espions" œuvrant pour les services rwandais. Kinshasa accuse aussi le Rwanda d'avoir cherché à préparer une attaque contre le président de la République. Et en début de soirée, Kigali annonçait qu'un avion de chasse Sukhoi-25 de la RDC avait violé l'espace aérien rwandais le long du lac Kivu dans la province occidentale du Rwanda. » Burkina Faso : le lieutenant-colonel Zoungrana putschiste invétéré ? Au Burkina Faso, retour à la case prison pour le lieutenant-colonel Zoungrana. « L'ex-patron du 12e régiment d'infanterie commando est-il un putschiste indécrottable ? », s'interroge le quotidien Aujourd'hui. « Que reproche-t-on au truculent lieutenant-colonel qui avait été arrêté le 10 janvier dernier et qui avait bénéficié il y a deux semaines d'une liberté provisoire ? On a depuis hier soir la réponse, pointe le quotidien ouagalais, par le biais du procureur militaire : une enquête dûment diligentée a mis à nu que des militaires, dont forcément Zoungrana, de mèche avec des civils, étaient en train de préparer une déstabilisation des institutions de l'État… » Étrange affaire tout de même, estime Le Pays : « cet officier constituerait une menace pour le pouvoir. Il reste cependant à faire la preuve que cette menace est réelle, affirme le journal, et savoir sur quoi elle repose réellement. Et si ce n'est pas le cas, que la justice le réhabilite et explique au peuple burkinabè pourquoi on chercherait à réduire au silence ce militaire qui, du fond de son cachot, n'a cessé de proclamer sa volonté d'aller au front pour défendre sa patrie en danger. » Les 46 militaires ivoiriens retenus au Mali libérés aujourd'hui ? Enfin, suite et peut-être fin ce jeudi du feuilleton des 46 militaires ivoiriens retenus au Mali depuis juillet. « Les Ivoiriens prient pour que le président Assimi Goïta décide de leur faire le plus beau cadeau de fin d'année », s'exclame Le National à Bamako, qui, à l'instar des autorités, maintient que ces militaires étaient des mercenaires et non des soldats destinés à la relève du contingent ivoirien de la Minusma. En tout cas, la justice malienne doit se prononcer sur leur sort, ce jeudi 29 décembre. Et d'après le quotidien 24 Heures, à Dakar, les soldats ivoiriens, accusés de tentative d'atteinte à la sureté extérieure de l'État, pourraient voir les faits requalifiés de sorte à obtenir une peine couvrant la durée de leur détention préventive. Autre hypothèse : les soldats ivoiriens pourraient bénéficier d'une grâce de la part du président de la transition malienne, Assimi Goïta. Juste avant Noël, les autorités ivoiriennes et maliennes avaient conclu un accord dont les termes n'ont pas été rendus publics. « Le procès de ce jeudi intervient, rappelle Jeune Afrique, alors que la Cédéao a fixé début décembre un ultimatum aux autorités de la transition malienne : la junte a jusqu'à la fin de l'année pour libérer les soldats ivoiriens, sous peine de nouvelles sanctions. »

Episode 95:This week we're continuing Russia in Revolution An Empire in Crisis 1890 - 1928 by S. A. Smith[Part 1]Introduction[Part 2-5]1. Roots of Revolution, 1880s–1905[Part 6]2. From Reform to War, 1906-1917Prospects for Reform[Part 7 - This Week]2. From Reform to War, 1906–1917On the Eve of War - 0:32First World War - 12:47[Part 8]2. From Reform to War, 1906–1917[Part 9 - 11?]3. From February to October 1917[Part 12 - 15?]4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power[Part 16 - 18?]5. War Communism[Part 19 - 21?]6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy[Part 22 - 25?]7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture[Part 26?]ConclusionFootnotes:45) 1:23Michael Melancon, The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006), 116.46) 2:34Haimson and Petrusha, ‘Two Strike Waves in Imperial Russia', 107.47) 3:07Hogan, Forging Revolution, 161.48) 3:29F. A. Gaida, ‘Politicheskaia obstanovka v Rossii nakanune Pervoi mirovoi voiny v otsenke gosudarstvennykh deiatelei i liderov partii', Rossiiskaia istoriia, 6 (2011), 123–35; Jonathan W. Daly, The Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906–1917 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004), 147.49) 4:29Victoria E. Bonnell, Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St Petersburg and Moscow, 1900–1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).50) 5:24Shestoi s”ezd RSDLP (bol'shevikov): Avgust 1917 goda. Protokoly (Moscow, 1958), 47.51) 5:37D. A. Loeber (ed.), Ruling Communist Parties and their Status under Law (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1986), 63. Not all historians are persuaded that the Bolsheviks were taking over leadership of the labour movement: see R. B. McKean, St Petersburg Between the Revolutions: Workers and Revolutionaries, June, 1907–February 1917 (London: Yale University Press, 1990).52) 6:20Postnikov, Territorial'noe razmeshchenie, 56.53) 6:44Patricia Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 145.54) 8:34V. B. Aksenov, ‘ “Sukhoi zakon” 1914 goda: ot pridvornoi intrigi do revoliutsii', Rossiiskaia istoriia, 4 (2011), 126–39.55) 8:44For a view that individual and collective actors recoiled from taking decisive action in the political and social crisis on the eve of the war, for fear that they would be overwhelmed by an accelerating process of social polarization, see Leopold H. Haimson, ‘ “The Problem of Political and Social Stability in Urban Russia on the Eve of War” Revisited', Slavic Review, 59:4 (2000), 848–75.56) 8:58Dowler, Russia in 1913, 279.57) 9:24Gilbert, Radical Right, ch. 6.58) 9:29Rossiia 1913 god: statistiko-dokumental'nyi spravochnik (St Petersburg: BLITs, 1995), 413–14.59) 9:58William C. Fuller, Civil–Military Conflict in Imperial Russia, 1881–1914 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985), 257.60) 10:50Mark D. Steinberg, Petersburg: Fin de Siècle (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 244.61) 11:40Gatrell, Government, Industry, and Rearmament.62) 12:17.63) 13:02Norman Stone, The Eastern Front, 1914–1917 (London: Penguin, 1998).64) 15:43Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (London: Allen Lane, 1998), ix; David Stevenson, 1914–1918: The History of the First World War (London: Penguin, 2005), xix.65) 16:10G. F. Krivosheev (ed.), Rossiia i SSSR v voinakh XX veka: poteri vooruzhyennykh sil. Statisticheskoe issledovanie (Moscow: OLMA, 2001).66) 17:34Boris Kolonitskii, Tragicheskaia erotika: obrazy, imperatorskoi sem'i v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny (Moscow: NLO, 2010), 73.67) 18:25Joshua Sanborn, Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 29.68) 19:26Cited in Peter Gatrell, ‘Tsarist Russia at War: The View from Above, 1914–February 1917', Journal of Modern History, 87:3 (2015), 668–700 (689).69) 19:54David R. Stone, The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015), 48; Eric Lohr, Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens during the First World War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 136.70) 21:17Peter Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War One (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 3.71) 21:29Tomas Balkelis, ‘Demobilization and Remobilization of German and Lithuanian Paramilitaries after the First World War', Journal of Contemporary History, 50:1 (2015), 38–57 (38).72) 23:22Donald Bloxham, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).73) 24:04Edward J. Erickson, Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War One (London: Routledge, 2007), 1.74) 24:04A. B. Astashov, Russkii front v 1914-nachale 1917 goda: voennyi opyt i sovremennost' (Moscow: Novyi Khronograf, 2014), 19, 23.75) 25:54P. P. Shcherbinin, ‘Women's Mobilization for War (Russian Empire)', International Encyclopedia of the First World War, .76) 27:34Stone, Russian Army, 4.77) 29:05Stone, Russian Army, ch. 7.78) 30:33Edward D. Sokol, The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1954). Gene Huskey refers to an ‘unknown genocide', in which 100,000 to 120,000 out of 780,000 Kyrghyz were slaughtered: Gene Huskey, ‘Kyrgyzstan: The Politics of Demographic and Economic Frustration', in Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras (eds), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 400.79) 31:01Astashov, Russkii front, 116, 160.80) 31:10William G. Rosenberg, ‘Reading Soldiers' Moods: Russian Military Censorship and the Configuration of Feeling in World War I', American Historical Review, 119:3 (2014), 714–40 (716).81) 32:54A. B. Astashov and P. A. Simmons, Pis'ma s voiny 1914–1917 (Moscow: Novyi khronograf, 2015), 128.82) 33:25Joshua Sanborn, ‘The Mobilization of 1914 and the Question of the Russian Nation', Slavic Review, 59:2 (2000), 267–89; S. A. Smith, ‘Citizenship and the Russian Nation during World War I: A Comment', Slavic Review, 59:2 (2000), 316–29.83) 33:38Astashov, Russkii front, 133–4, 179–87.84) 34:24Quoted in A. B. Astashov, ‘Russkii krest'ianin na frontakh Pervoi mirovoi voiny', Otechestvennaia istoriia, 2 (2003), 72–86 (75); Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), 91.85) 34:44Mark von Hagen, ‘The Entangled Front in the First World War', in Eric Lohr et al. (eds), The Empire and Nationalism at War (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2014), 9–48 (36); Sanborn, Imperial Apocalypse, 130.86) 35:28Igor V. Narskii, ‘The Frontline Experience of Russian Soldiers in 1914–16', Russian Studies in History, 51:4 (2013), 31–49.87) 36:21Astashov, Russkii front, 224, 279–300.88) 36:45Krivosheev (ed.), Rossiia, table 52.89) 37:02Dietrich Beyrau, ‘Brutalization Revisited: The Case of Russia', Journal of Contemporary History, 50:1 (2015), 15–37 (18).90) 37:29Krivosheev (ed.), Rossiia, table 56.

Bienvenidos a este episodio en donde hoy tenemos un gran invitado, Carlos Olascoaga, quien nos comparte su experiencia en el ámbito aeroespacial, su trabajo en RUSIA, momentos gratos y difíciles que ha vivido. Egresado de Ingeniería en Mecatrónica del ITESM (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) Campus Santa Fe, Ciudad de México. Participó en campeonato FRC de Robótica en Estados Unidos representando a México con el equipo Tecbot reconocido por los ex presidentes Enrique Peña Nieto y Felipe Calderón, compitiendo con equipos de todo el mundo. Formó parte de Ford en el programa Ford Collage Graduate dedicado a jóvenes ingenieros o recién egresados ​​con la intención de rotar por diversas áreas de la ingeniería para tener un amplio conocimiento del desarrollo del producto automotriz. Participó en los programas F150, Mustang MachE, Bronco, Mkz, Fusion, Edge para la ingeniería de sistemas de Diseño y Liberación. Terminó su Maestría en Ingeniería de Naves Espaciales en el Instituto de Aviación de Moscú con honores en la tesis Módulo Pirámide Águila para la base lunar, diploma ruso rojo, el programa se basa en el programa espacial soviético y los últimos desarrollos espaciales rusos de Roscosmos y el Programa Espacial Soviético, Aeronaves Rusas tales como MIG, Sukhoi, Tupolev, CAE, CFD, dinámica de fluidos, resistencia de materiales, fabricación de ingeniería de sistemas espaciales. Candidato a Astronauta Analógico para SIRIUS 21, programa de 8 meses en Moscú, Rusia para Misión Lunar, con IMPBS, liderado por Roscosmos, NASA y otras agencias espaciales mundiales. Actualmente se desempeña como CEO de la startup Mayan Space para colaborar en el desarrollo de la nueva era espacial, creando tecnología e ingeniería que representa el talento de México y Latinoamérica en el campo STEM. Y mucho más!!

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“Gần 1/4 số xe tăng Nga được triển khai tại Ukraina từ ngày 24/02/2022 hiện không còn hoạt động”. “Bộ binh cơ giới có lẽ đã mất khoảng 30% lực lượng” (1). Phía Kiev cho biết đã phá hủy gần 200 máy bay, gần 2.500 xe bọc thép của Nga. Matxcơva cũng liên tục thông báo oanh kích nhiều kho vũ khí và các đoàn viện trợ vũ khí của phương Tây cho Ukraina. Việt Nam, cũng như các nước nhập khẩu vũ khí của Nga và Ukraina, sẽ bị ảnh hưởng gián tiếp từ những “tổn thất kinh hoàng” này. Nga và Ukraina đang dồn lực lượng vào cuộc chiến chưa có dấu hiệu chấm dứt. Chiến trường khốc liệt ở miền đông Ukraina, đặc biệt là gần thành phố Severodonetsk trong những tuần qua, cho thấy phần nào những thiệt hại của quân đội Nga kể từ đầu cuộc tấn công. Nga huy động cả xe tăng đời mới nhất BMP-T Terminator, được coi là cỗ máy hủy diệt, với hy vọng thay đổi cục diện. Tuy nhiên, cả xe tăng đời cũ T-62 cũng được xuất kho trong bối cảnh hoạt động sản xuất vũ khí của Nga dường như đang chựng lại vì thiếu linh kiện công nghệ cao do bị phương Tây cấm vận. Cả Nga và Ukraina sẽ ưu tiên tái trang bị cho lực lượng quốc phòng khi chiến tranh kết thúc. Ngoài ra, các lệnh trừng phạt của phương Tây cũng sẽ ảnh hưởng đến ngành sản xuất vũ khí, cũng như hoạt động xuất khẩu của Nga. Vậy Việt Nam, cũng như các nước khách hàng của Nga và Ukraina, sẽ bị tác động như thế nào ? RFI Tiếng Việt phỏng vấn giám đốc nghiên cứu Benoît de Tréglodé, Viện Nghiên cứu Chiến lược của Trường Quân Sự Pháp (IRSEM), ngày 25/05/2022. ******* RFI : Ngoài những tổn thất nặng nề về thiết bị quân sự trong cuộc chiến ở Ukraina, Nga thừa nhận gặp khó khăn, chậm trễ trong việc sản xuất vũ khí do thiếu linh kiện vì các lệnh trừng phạt của phương Tây. Liệu những nước nhập khẩu vũ khí của Nga, ví dụ Việt Nam, có phải lo về nguồn cung ứng này không ? Benoît de Tréglodé : Trước tiên cần nhắc đến việc các nước nhập khẩu vũ lớn của Nga, ví dụ Việt Nam là khách hàng quan trọng thứ 5 hoặc Ấn Độ là một trong những khách hàng lớn nhất của Nga, lại là những nước không thực sự tỏ ra lo ngại về vấn đề này. Những nước này đã thể hiện rõ lập trường trong các cuộc bỏ phiếu tại Liên Hiệp Quốc, hoặc là họ vắng mặt, hoặc là họ chống các biện pháp trừng phạt, chống lại việc lên án cuộc can thiệp quân sự của Nga ở Ukraina. Việt Nam cũng làm tương tự. Vào tháng Tư, Việt Nam phản đối việc loại Nga khỏi Hội đồng Nhân quyền Liên Hiệp Quốc. Có thể thấy mối quan hệ trực tiếp giữa những khách hàng vũ khí lớn của Nga với những nước phản đối việc lên án cuộc chiến của Nga ở Ukraina. Về tác động của chiến tranh Ukraina đối với hoạt động xuất khẩu vũ khí Nga, có thể thấy rõ 3 yếu tố. Thứ nhất, các biện pháp trừng phạt của phương Tây và giấy phép nhập khẩu của các nước nhập khẩu vũ khí Nga có thể gây ra tác động về mặt hình ảnh cho chính những nước khách hàng này. Chắc chắn sẽ có tác động nhưng hiện giờ rất khó nói cụ thể. Thứ hai là tác động về lâu dài, bởi vì Nga phải nhập từ nước ngoài một phần linh kiện điện tử công nghệ cao được sử dụng trong ngành công nghiệp vũ khí, trong đó có Trung Quốc. Nhưng điều phức tạp hơn là nhiều linh kiện lại do các nước phương Tây cung cấp, trong khi chính những nước này đã ban hành các biện pháp trừng phạt Matxcơva. Tác động thứ ba đối với tương lai ngành xuất khẩu vũ khí Nga, theo tôi, đó chính là hình ảnh. Không ai có thể ngờ rằng lực lượng Nga lại kém hiệu quả trên thực địa khi chống lại sức kháng cự của Ukraina. Điều này cũng có thể cho thấy những hạn chế về danh tiếng của vũ khí Nga. Truyền thông phương Tây liên tục đưa hình ảnh những vỏ xe tăng T-90 và nhiều loại khác bị tan xác hoặc hư hỏng nặng. Thực tế này có thể tác động đến ngành công nghiệp vũ khí Nga trong tương lai. RFI : Ông có thể nhắc lại những loại vũ khí và thiết bị quân sự được Việt Nam nhập từ Nga ? Benoît de Tréglodé : Việt Nam là một khách hàng lớn của ngành công nghiệp vũ khí Nga từ cuối thập niên 1990. Ngược dòng lịch sử hai nước, có thể thấy Nga đồng hành với lịch sử đấu tranh của Việt Nam từ khi Liên Xô công nhận nước Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa vào tháng 01/1950. Sau đó, Liên Xô, rồi Nga, thường xuyên sát cánh với quân đội Việt Nam từ mặt quân sự, chính trị đến hợp tác quốc phòng và dĩ nhiên là cả vũ khí. Cuối thập niên 1990, khi Hà Nội quyết định hiện đại hóa hệ thống quốc phòng và thực hiện nhiều chương trình đầu tư lớn về vũ khí, dĩ nhiên Nga trở thành đối tác ưu tiên của Việt Nam. Theo thẩm định hiện nay, hơn 80% vũ khí nhập khẩu của Việt Nam là mua của Nga từ cuối những năm 1990 và trong tất cả các lĩnh vực. Những chương trình mang tính biểu tượng nhất và quan trọng nhất là 6 tầu ngầm lớp Kilo trang bị cho Hải Quân Việt Nam. Ngoài ra phải kể đến các hợp đồng 36 máy bay Sukhoi-30 cho không quân và hải quân Việt Nam, 4 chiến hạm lớp Guepard cho hải quân, nhiều tàu hộ tống lớp Tarantul, toàn bộ hệ thống tên lửa phòng thủ bờ biển và phòng không, nhiều xe tăng T-90, đạn dược và súng trường AK. Tóm lại, cả ba lực lượng quân đội Việt Nam chủ yếu được trang bị vũ khí của Nga từ khoảng 20 năm nay. Ngoài ra, cần phải nêu một chi tiết khá quan trọng khi nói đến sự phân bổ thị trường vũ khí đối với Hà Nội. Từ cuối những năm 1990, Việt Nam không tách biệt giữa các nhà công nghiệp vũ khí Nga và Ukraina, quốc gia cũng có truyền thống công nghiệp vũ khí, cho đến khi Matxcơva sáp nhập bán đảo Crimée năm 2014. Sự chia rẽ bắt đầu vào thời điểm đó, các nhà công nghiệp vũ khí Nga và Ukraina ngày càng trở nên đối đầu trong việc xuất khẩu, trong đó có thị trường Việt Nam. Trong giai đoạn đó, Việt Nam nhập khẩu hơn 200 triệu đô la vũ khí của Ukraina và bị thiếu phần nào từ nguồn cung này do tác động của cuộc khủng hoảng Nga-Ukraina. Tóm lại, không chỉ nguồn cung vũ khí của Nga, mà cả vũ khí của Ukraina hiện cũng có thể có vấn đề. RFI : Việc phương Tây ban hành hàng loạt biện pháp trừng phạt đối với Matxcơva sẽ tác động như thế nào đến hoạt động nhập khẩu vũ khí Nga của Việt Nam ? Benoît de Tréglodé : Chúng ta đã thấy hiện tượng này ở cấp vùng, một số khách hàng truyền thống của Nga như Thái Lan đã dần hướng sang các nhà sản xuất khác. Một trong những nước được lợi nhất trong quá trình phân bổ lại việc bán vũ khí ở Đông Nam Á có lẽ là các nhà sản xuất vũ khí Trung Quốc. Tôi xin nhắc lại là năm 2020-2021, Trung Quốc là nước xuất khẩu vũ khí lớn thứ tư trên thế giới, sau Mỹ, Nga, Pháp và Trung Quốc là nước bán nhiều vũ khí nhất trên thế giới. Năm 2020, Trung Quốc bán 53 triệu đô la vũ khí cho Đông Nam Á. Con số phần nào khiêm tốn này đã tăng vọt lên trong năm sau, lên thành 285 triệu đô la. Có thể là một một số khách hàng truyền thống của Matxcơva đã e ngại về các biện pháp trừng phạt của phương Tây đối với vũ khí Nga. Tuy nhiên, điều này chỉ ảnh hưởng một phần đến Việt Nam. Như nêu ở trên, Việt Nam có truyền thống lâu dài với quân đội Nga, vượt qua cả phạm vi vũ khí đơn thuần. Ngày 01/12/2021, bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Việt Nam Phan Văn Giang và đồng nhiệm Nga Serguei Shoigu đã ký ở Matxcơva một thỏa thuận mới để tăng cường hợp tác quân sự, tăng cường quan hệ đối tác về công nghệ và bán vũ khí giữa hai nước. Do đó, có thể thấy đây chưa phải là giai đoạn Việt Nam sắp “đổi súng”. Hợp tác vũ khí và quân sự Nga-Việt vẫn ở mức rất cao. Điều này được thể hiện trong khuôn khổ Quan hệ Đối tác chiến lược toàn diện giữa hai nước. Đây là mức quan hệ cấp cao nhất của Việt Nam và Hà Nội chỉ ký với ba nước, Trung Quốc, Ấn Độ và Nga. Có một chi tiết nhỏ cần lưu ý, đó là vào thời điểm thỏa thuận hợp tác quốc phòng song phương được ký tháng 12/2021, phía Việt Nam đã giảm bớt đặt hàng với các nhà sản xuất Nga. Hợp đồng lớn gần đây nhất được ký năm 2019, Việt Nam mua 12 chiến đấu cơ huấn luyện Yakovlev của Nga. Sau đó, không có thêm hợp đồng lớn được ký giữa hai nước. Tuy nhiên, hai bên đang thảo luận về việc mua chiến đấu cơ cho không quân. Vấn đề này rõ ràng là một thách thức chiến lược lớn cho Việt Nam hiện nay. RFI : Trước tất cả những bất cập được nêu ở trên, Việt Nam có thể tìm giải pháp thay thế nguồn cung cấp thiết bị quân sự Nga như thế nào ? Benoît de Tréglodé : Trước tiên, như tôi đã nêu ở trên, ngoài nguồn thay thế vũ khí Nga, Hà Nội cũng phải tìm nguồn thay thế cho vũ khí Ukraina mà Việt Nam cũng là một khách hàng lớn từ khoảng 20 năm nay. Từ vài năm nay, nhìn chung là từ khủng hoảng bán đảo Crimée năm 2014, Việt Nam phải tính đến việc đa dạng hóa nguồn cung cấp vũ khí. Trong bộ Quốc Phòng Việt Nam, trong bộ máy Nhà nước và bộ máy an ninh đã có những cuộc thảo luận về việc cần phải có những nhà cung cấp vũ khí nước ngoài khác vì hai lý do. Thứ nhất dĩ nhiên liên quan đến thiệt hại của Ukraina, tiếp theo là những lý do địa-chính trị liên quan đến việc Nga và Trung Quốc xích lại gần nhau. Hà Nội đang trao đổi rất nhiều với các nước Israel, Belarus, Hà Lan, đề cập một chút với một số nước Liên Hiệp Châu Âu khác, trong đó có Pháp, và với Hoa Kỳ. Nhưng việc hướng sang các nhà cung cấp mới này cũng đặt ra nhiều vấn đề địa-chính trị đáng kể. Ngoài ra, việc Matxcơva và Bắc Kinh thắt chặt hợp tác an ninh cũng đặt ra hai vấn đề đối với Hà Nội. Điểm thứ nhất, chưa bao giờ Việt Nam nhận được sự ủng hộ rõ ràng của Nga về vấn đề Biển Đông. Các nhà hoạch định chiến lược Việt Nam biết rằng trong trường hợp xảy ra xung đột ở Biển Đông với Trung Quốc, Nga sẽ không giúp Việt Nam. Họ cũng sợ bị phụ thuộc về mặt công nghệ vào trang thiết bị giống với thiết bị cũng được quân đội Trung Quốc sử dụng. Điểm thứ hai, Hà Nội bức xúc việc Matxcơva thiếu ủng hộ vào năm 2016 khi Tòa án Trọng tài Thường Trực La Haye ra phán quyết vô hiệu hóa các tuyên bố chủ quyền của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông. Đây là hai điểm khiến các nhà lãnh đạo Việt Nam không muốn “đặt hết trứng vào một giỏ” đối với Nga, nhất là đối với các loại vũ khí công nghệ cao liên quan trực tiếp đến chiến tranh mạng, thiết bị dành cho an ninh mạng hoặc liên quan đến những chương trình vô cùng tinh vi về mặt công nghệ, như thiết bị bay không người lái vũ trang mà Việt Nam muốn có và phần nào nhờ vào tập đoàn Viettel. Hà Nội đang xét lại định hướng quan hệ chiến lược nhưng không có chuyện xem xét lại hoàn toàn mối quan hệ quốc phòng mạnh mẽ về mặt lịch sử và được ủng hộ về mặt chính trị. Tổng thống Vladimir Putin rất nổi tiếng ở Việt Nam. Các nhà lãnh đạo Việt Nam, trong đó một phần lớn đã sống ở Liên Xô hoặc ở Nga, có mối quan hệ hữu nghị và vững chắc với Nga. Cuối cùng, về mặt ý thức hệ, chính quyền Việt Nam vẫn ủng hộ người Nga, vì thế Việt Nam chưa sẵn sàng đổi hướng. RFI Tiếng Việt xin trân thành cảm ơn giám đốc nghiên cứu Benoît de Tréglodé, Viện Nghiên cứu Chiến lược của Trường Quân sự Pháp (IRSEM). ******* (1) Theo thống kê của trang Oryx, chuyên theo dõi thiệt hại của quân đội Nga ở Ukraina, được trang Public Sénat trích ngày 23/05/2022.

“Gần 1/4 số xe tăng Nga được triển khai tại Ukraina từ ngày 24/02/2022 hiện không còn hoạt động”. “Bộ binh cơ giới có lẽ đã mất khoảng 30% lực lượng” (1). Phía Kiev cho biết đã phá hủy gần 200 máy bay, gần 2.500 xe bọc thép của Nga. Matxcơva cũng liên tục thông báo oanh kích nhiều kho vũ khí và các đoàn viện trợ vũ khí của phương Tây cho Ukraina. Việt Nam, cũng như các nước nhập khẩu vũ khí của Nga và Ukraina, sẽ bị ảnh hưởng gián tiếp từ những “tổn thất kinh hoàng” này. Nga và Ukraina đang dồn lực lượng vào cuộc chiến chưa có dấu hiệu chấm dứt. Chiến trường khốc liệt ở miền đông Ukraina, đặc biệt là gần thành phố Severodonetsk trong những tuần qua, cho thấy phần nào những thiệt hại của quân đội Nga kể từ đầu cuộc tấn công. Nga huy động cả xe tăng đời mới nhất BMP-T Terminator, được coi là cỗ máy hủy diệt, với hy vọng thay đổi cục diện. Tuy nhiên, cả xe tăng đời cũ T-62 cũng được xuất kho trong bối cảnh hoạt động sản xuất vũ khí của Nga dường như đang chựng lại vì thiếu linh kiện công nghệ cao do bị phương Tây cấm vận. Cả Nga và Ukraina sẽ ưu tiên tái trang bị cho lực lượng quốc phòng khi chiến tranh kết thúc. Ngoài ra, các lệnh trừng phạt của phương Tây cũng sẽ ảnh hưởng đến ngành sản xuất vũ khí, cũng như hoạt động xuất khẩu của Nga. Vậy Việt Nam, cũng như các nước khách hàng của Nga và Ukraina, sẽ bị tác động như thế nào ? RFI Tiếng Việt phỏng vấn giám đốc nghiên cứu Benoît de Tréglodé, Viện Nghiên cứu Chiến lược của Trường Quân Sự Pháp (IRSEM), ngày 25/05/2022. ******* RFI : Ngoài những tổn thất nặng nề về thiết bị quân sự trong cuộc chiến ở Ukraina, Nga thừa nhận gặp khó khăn, chậm trễ trong việc sản xuất vũ khí do thiếu linh kiện vì các lệnh trừng phạt của phương Tây. Liệu những nước nhập khẩu vũ khí của Nga, ví dụ Việt Nam, có phải lo về nguồn cung ứng này không ? Benoît de Tréglodé : Trước tiên cần nhắc đến việc các nước nhập khẩu vũ lớn của Nga, ví dụ Việt Nam là khách hàng quan trọng thứ 5 hoặc Ấn Độ là một trong những khách hàng lớn nhất của Nga, lại là những nước không thực sự tỏ ra lo ngại về vấn đề này. Những nước này đã thể hiện rõ lập trường trong các cuộc bỏ phiếu tại Liên Hiệp Quốc, hoặc là họ vắng mặt, hoặc là họ chống các biện pháp trừng phạt, chống lại việc lên án cuộc can thiệp quân sự của Nga ở Ukraina. Việt Nam cũng làm tương tự. Vào tháng Tư, Việt Nam phản đối việc loại Nga khỏi Hội đồng Nhân quyền Liên Hiệp Quốc. Có thể thấy mối quan hệ trực tiếp giữa những khách hàng vũ khí lớn của Nga với những nước phản đối việc lên án cuộc chiến của Nga ở Ukraina. Về tác động của chiến tranh Ukraina đối với hoạt động xuất khẩu vũ khí Nga, có thể thấy rõ 3 yếu tố. Thứ nhất, các biện pháp trừng phạt của phương Tây và giấy phép nhập khẩu của các nước nhập khẩu vũ khí Nga có thể gây ra tác động về mặt hình ảnh cho chính những nước khách hàng này. Chắc chắn sẽ có tác động nhưng hiện giờ rất khó nói cụ thể. Thứ hai là tác động về lâu dài, bởi vì Nga phải nhập từ nước ngoài một phần linh kiện điện tử công nghệ cao được sử dụng trong ngành công nghiệp vũ khí, trong đó có Trung Quốc. Nhưng điều phức tạp hơn là nhiều linh kiện lại do các nước phương Tây cung cấp, trong khi chính những nước này đã ban hành các biện pháp trừng phạt Matxcơva. Tác động thứ ba đối với tương lai ngành xuất khẩu vũ khí Nga, theo tôi, đó chính là hình ảnh. Không ai có thể ngờ rằng lực lượng Nga lại kém hiệu quả trên thực địa khi chống lại sức kháng cự của Ukraina. Điều này cũng có thể cho thấy những hạn chế về danh tiếng của vũ khí Nga. Truyền thông phương Tây liên tục đưa hình ảnh những vỏ xe tăng T-90 và nhiều loại khác bị tan xác hoặc hư hỏng nặng. Thực tế này có thể tác động đến ngành công nghiệp vũ khí Nga trong tương lai. RFI : Ông có thể nhắc lại những loại vũ khí và thiết bị quân sự được Việt Nam nhập từ Nga ? Benoît de Tréglodé : Việt Nam là một khách hàng lớn của ngành công nghiệp vũ khí Nga từ cuối thập niên 1990. Ngược dòng lịch sử hai nước, có thể thấy Nga đồng hành với lịch sử đấu tranh của Việt Nam từ khi Liên Xô công nhận nước Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa vào tháng 01/1950. Sau đó, Liên Xô, rồi Nga, thường xuyên sát cánh với quân đội Việt Nam từ mặt quân sự, chính trị đến hợp tác quốc phòng và dĩ nhiên là cả vũ khí. Cuối thập niên 1990, khi Hà Nội quyết định hiện đại hóa hệ thống quốc phòng và thực hiện nhiều chương trình đầu tư lớn về vũ khí, dĩ nhiên Nga trở thành đối tác ưu tiên của Việt Nam. Theo thẩm định hiện nay, hơn 80% vũ khí nhập khẩu của Việt Nam là mua của Nga từ cuối những năm 1990 và trong tất cả các lĩnh vực. Những chương trình mang tính biểu tượng nhất và quan trọng nhất là 6 tầu ngầm lớp Kilo trang bị cho Hải Quân Việt Nam. Ngoài ra phải kể đến các hợp đồng 36 máy bay Sukhoi-30 cho không quân và hải quân Việt Nam, 4 chiến hạm lớp Guepard cho hải quân, nhiều tàu hộ tống lớp Tarantul, toàn bộ hệ thống tên lửa phòng thủ bờ biển và phòng không, nhiều xe tăng T-90, đạn dược và súng trường AK. Tóm lại, cả ba lực lượng quân đội Việt Nam chủ yếu được trang bị vũ khí của Nga từ khoảng 20 năm nay. Ngoài ra, cần phải nêu một chi tiết khá quan trọng khi nói đến sự phân bổ thị trường vũ khí đối với Hà Nội. Từ cuối những năm 1990, Việt Nam không tách biệt giữa các nhà công nghiệp vũ khí Nga và Ukraina, quốc gia cũng có truyền thống công nghiệp vũ khí, cho đến khi Matxcơva sáp nhập bán đảo Crimée năm 2014. Sự chia rẽ bắt đầu vào thời điểm đó, các nhà công nghiệp vũ khí Nga và Ukraina ngày càng trở nên đối đầu trong việc xuất khẩu, trong đó có thị trường Việt Nam. Trong giai đoạn đó, Việt Nam nhập khẩu hơn 200 triệu đô la vũ khí của Ukraina và bị thiếu phần nào từ nguồn cung này do tác động của cuộc khủng hoảng Nga-Ukraina. Tóm lại, không chỉ nguồn cung vũ khí của Nga, mà cả vũ khí của Ukraina hiện cũng có thể có vấn đề. RFI : Việc phương Tây ban hành hàng loạt biện pháp trừng phạt đối với Matxcơva sẽ tác động như thế nào đến hoạt động nhập khẩu vũ khí Nga của Việt Nam ? Benoît de Tréglodé : Chúng ta đã thấy hiện tượng này ở cấp vùng, một số khách hàng truyền thống của Nga như Thái Lan đã dần hướng sang các nhà sản xuất khác. Một trong những nước được lợi nhất trong quá trình phân bổ lại việc bán vũ khí ở Đông Nam Á có lẽ là các nhà sản xuất vũ khí Trung Quốc. Tôi xin nhắc lại là năm 2020-2021, Trung Quốc là nước xuất khẩu vũ khí lớn thứ tư trên thế giới, sau Mỹ, Nga, Pháp và Trung Quốc là nước bán nhiều vũ khí nhất trên thế giới. Năm 2020, Trung Quốc bán 53 triệu đô la vũ khí cho Đông Nam Á. Con số phần nào khiêm tốn này đã tăng vọt lên trong năm sau, lên thành 285 triệu đô la. Có thể là một một số khách hàng truyền thống của Matxcơva đã e ngại về các biện pháp trừng phạt của phương Tây đối với vũ khí Nga. Tuy nhiên, điều này chỉ ảnh hưởng một phần đến Việt Nam. Như nêu ở trên, Việt Nam có truyền thống lâu dài với quân đội Nga, vượt qua cả phạm vi vũ khí đơn thuần. Ngày 01/12/2021, bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Việt Nam Phan Văn Giang và đồng nhiệm Nga Serguei Shoigu đã ký ở Matxcơva một thỏa thuận mới để tăng cường hợp tác quân sự, tăng cường quan hệ đối tác về công nghệ và bán vũ khí giữa hai nước. Do đó, có thể thấy đây chưa phải là giai đoạn Việt Nam sắp “đổi súng”. Hợp tác vũ khí và quân sự Nga-Việt vẫn ở mức rất cao. Điều này được thể hiện trong khuôn khổ Quan hệ Đối tác chiến lược toàn diện giữa hai nước. Đây là mức quan hệ cấp cao nhất của Việt Nam và Hà Nội chỉ ký với ba nước, Trung Quốc, Ấn Độ và Nga. Có một chi tiết nhỏ cần lưu ý, đó là vào thời điểm thỏa thuận hợp tác quốc phòng song phương được ký tháng 12/2021, phía Việt Nam đã giảm bớt đặt hàng với các nhà sản xuất Nga. Hợp đồng lớn gần đây nhất được ký năm 2019, Việt Nam mua 12 chiến đấu cơ huấn luyện Yakovlev của Nga. Sau đó, không có thêm hợp đồng lớn được ký giữa hai nước. Tuy nhiên, hai bên đang thảo luận về việc mua chiến đấu cơ cho không quân. Vấn đề này rõ ràng là một thách thức chiến lược lớn cho Việt Nam hiện nay. RFI : Trước tất cả những bất cập được nêu ở trên, Việt Nam có thể tìm giải pháp thay thế nguồn cung cấp thiết bị quân sự Nga như thế nào ? Benoît de Tréglodé : Trước tiên, như tôi đã nêu ở trên, ngoài nguồn thay thế vũ khí Nga, Hà Nội cũng phải tìm nguồn thay thế cho vũ khí Ukraina mà Việt Nam cũng là một khách hàng lớn từ khoảng 20 năm nay. Từ vài năm nay, nhìn chung là từ khủng hoảng bán đảo Crimée năm 2014, Việt Nam phải tính đến việc đa dạng hóa nguồn cung cấp vũ khí. Trong bộ Quốc Phòng Việt Nam, trong bộ máy Nhà nước và bộ máy an ninh đã có những cuộc thảo luận về việc cần phải có những nhà cung cấp vũ khí nước ngoài khác vì hai lý do. Thứ nhất dĩ nhiên liên quan đến thiệt hại của Ukraina, tiếp theo là những lý do địa-chính trị liên quan đến việc Nga và Trung Quốc xích lại gần nhau. Hà Nội đang trao đổi rất nhiều với các nước Israel, Belarus, Hà Lan, đề cập một chút với một số nước Liên Hiệp Châu Âu khác, trong đó có Pháp, và với Hoa Kỳ. Nhưng việc hướng sang các nhà cung cấp mới này cũng đặt ra nhiều vấn đề địa-chính trị đáng kể. Ngoài ra, việc Matxcơva và Bắc Kinh thắt chặt hợp tác an ninh cũng đặt ra hai vấn đề đối với Hà Nội. Điểm thứ nhất, chưa bao giờ Việt Nam nhận được sự ủng hộ rõ ràng của Nga về vấn đề Biển Đông. Các nhà hoạch định chiến lược Việt Nam biết rằng trong trường hợp xảy ra xung đột ở Biển Đông với Trung Quốc, Nga sẽ không giúp Việt Nam. Họ cũng sợ bị phụ thuộc về mặt công nghệ vào trang thiết bị giống với thiết bị cũng được quân đội Trung Quốc sử dụng. Điểm thứ hai, Hà Nội bức xúc việc Matxcơva thiếu ủng hộ vào năm 2016 khi Tòa án Trọng tài Thường Trực La Haye ra phán quyết vô hiệu hóa các tuyên bố chủ quyền của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông. Đây là hai điểm khiến các nhà lãnh đạo Việt Nam không muốn “đặt hết trứng vào một giỏ” đối với Nga, nhất là đối với các loại vũ khí công nghệ cao liên quan trực tiếp đến chiến tranh mạng, thiết bị dành cho an ninh mạng hoặc liên quan đến những chương trình vô cùng tinh vi về mặt công nghệ, như thiết bị bay không người lái vũ trang mà Việt Nam muốn có và phần nào nhờ vào tập đoàn Viettel. Hà Nội đang xét lại định hướng quan hệ chiến lược nhưng không có chuyện xem xét lại hoàn toàn mối quan hệ quốc phòng mạnh mẽ về mặt lịch sử và được ủng hộ về mặt chính trị. Tổng thống Vladimir Putin rất nổi tiếng ở Việt Nam. Các nhà lãnh đạo Việt Nam, trong đó một phần lớn đã sống ở Liên Xô hoặc ở Nga, có mối quan hệ hữu nghị và vững chắc với Nga. Cuối cùng, về mặt ý thức hệ, chính quyền Việt Nam vẫn ủng hộ người Nga, vì thế Việt Nam chưa sẵn sàng đổi hướng. RFI Tiếng Việt xin trân thành cảm ơn giám đốc nghiên cứu Benoît de Tréglodé, Viện Nghiên cứu Chiến lược của Trường Quân sự Pháp (IRSEM). ******* (1) Theo thống kê của trang Oryx, chuyên theo dõi thiệt hại của quân đội Nga ở Ukraina, được trang Public Sénat trích ngày 23/05/2022.

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Amankan Demo di Palembang, 1.750 Personil Diturunkan | Perang Rusia-Ukraina Berakibat Langsung Pada Kekuatan Pertahanan Indonesia | Polda Sulsel: Belum Ada Penimbunan Distribusi Minyak Goreng di Sulsel | Dinkes Riau Dirikan Rumah Vaksin 24 Jam KILAS KABAR NUSANTARA. Sejumlah peristiwa penting yang telah kami rangkum hari Senin, 11 April 2022. PALEMBANG (00:18) Menjelang aksi demo siang ini, Senin (11/04) sebanyak 1.750 anggota kepolisian yang terdiri dari anggota Dalmas Polda Sumsel, Sat Brimob Polda Sumsel, Polrestabes Palembang, Dishub, Satpol-PP, hingga Damkar bersiap di sekitaran DPRD Sumsel. JAKARTA (01:44) Perang Rusia-Ukraina berakibat langsung pada kekuatan pertahanan Indonesia. Tidak saja kekurangan senjata, pesawat tempur Sukhoi terancam tak bisa dioperasionalkan. MAKASSAR (02:17) Kapolda Sulsel Irjen Pol Nana Sujana memastikan belum ada penimbunan maupun penyimpangan dalam distribusi minyak goreng. Hal itu berdasarkan pemantauan langsung tim satgas pangan Polda Sulsel di Pelabuhan Soekarno Hatta Makassar. PEKANBARU (02:18) Dalam rangka mempercepat pemerataan vaksin bagi masyarakat, Dinas Kesehatan Provinsi Riau mendirikan Rumah Vaksin 24 jam yang telah diresmikan pada Sabtu (2/4/2022) oleh Gubernur Riau Syamsuar. Kontributor: Smart FM Palembang - News Anchor : Endah | Reporter : Fernando Oktareza Sonora Jakarta - Rara Smart FM Makassar - Emil Fariz l Reporter: Dian Mega Safitri Smart FM Pekanbaru - Gea Khananda Saran dan kolaborasi: podcast@kgmedia.id

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#sukhoiT50 #máybayT50 #T50 Nếu Nga sử dụng chiến đấu cơ tàng hình T-50, mọi vũ khí của Ukraine sẽ thành... sắt vụn? Vào năm 2017, phiên bản chính thức của chiến đấu cơ tàng hình thế hệ 5 của Nga T-50 đã được sản xuất đại trà và nó trở thành một trong những "bảo bối" uy lực nhất của quân đội Nga. Thậm chí, các chuyên gia quân sự thuộc trang mạng quốc phòng Pháp Réseau international còn đánh giá rằng, với kho vũ khí lớn và đa dạng, T-50 chính là chiến đấu cơ thế hệ 5 mạnh nhất thế giới và một khi ra trận, nó sẽ không có nhiều đối thủ trên không lẫn mặt đất. Theo chuyên gia Valentin Vasilescu thuộc viện Hàn lâm quân sự Bucarest, điểm nổi bật của các chiến đấu cơ thế hệ 5 nói chung là khả năng tàng hình trước các hệ thống phòng không đối phương. Để tối ưu hóa khả năng này, hệ thống vũ khí của các chiến đấu cơ tàng hình như T-50 của Nga hay F-22, F-35 của Mỹ đều được treo ở các khoang chứa bên trong máy bay nhằm giảm thiểu diện tích bề mặt phản xạ radar. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tu-dien-lich-su/message

On this episode of the Business Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are “Rocket Ron” Epstein, PhD, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Richard Aboulafia of AeroDynamic Advisory and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners. Topics: — Aerospace and defense stock performance in Europe as Western government brace for Russian invasion of Ukraine — Gauging magnitude of expected defense spending increases as European governments bolster munitions and battlefield weapon inventories — Look at CAE, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Saab and Triumph Group earnings and Rheinmetall's pre-announcement — Worldwide commercial air travel update as omicron wave dissipates — Indonesia's selection of the Rafale by Dassault Aviation over Su-35 by Sukhoi, and implications of for French-German-Spanish SCAF program — Late US move to entice Jakarta to embrace Boeing's F-15 — French push to return Rafale to Canada's contest for a new fighter now involving Lockheed Martin's F-35A Lightning II and Saab's JAS-39E/F Gripen — Takeaways from the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance annual conference

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Từng là đại sứ Pháp tại Ấn Độ trong 4 năm, tháng 10 vừa qua, ông Claude Blanchemaison vừa cho xuất bản tại Pháp một cuốn sách về Ấn Độ, tựa đề “L'Inde, contre vents et marées” ( Ấn Độ, bất chấp bao trở ngại ). Cuốn sách của Blanchemaison gây chú ý đặc biệt, bởi vì ông vừa là tác nhân, vừa là nhà quan sát tình hình địa chính trị của quốc gia đông dân hàng thứ hai của hành tinh chúng ta và hiện là nền kinh tế đứng hàng thứ 5 thế giới.  Cuốn sách “L'Inde, contre vents et marées” của vị cựu đại sứ Pháp tại Ấn Độ chủ yếu nêu lên những thách thức đối với quốc gia đang có tham vọng vươn lên thành cường quốc kinh tế đứng hàng thứ ba thế giới, sau Hoa Kỳ và Trung Quốc. Để đạt được mục tiêu đó, liệu Ấn Độ có thể dựa vào một dân số trẻ, vào trình độ công nghệ số, sự đa dạng văn hóa và chế độ chính trị đa nguyên của nước này? Theo tác giả Claude Blanchemaison, muốn thực hiện được tham vọng nói trên, trước hết các nhà lãnh đạo ở New Delhi phải giải quyết các vấn đề về cơ cấu trong nước và duy trì thế cân bằng trong quan hệ với các đối tác bên ngoài. Nhưng bối cảnh hiện nay không mấy thuận lợi, sau khi phe taliban lên nắm quyền ở Afghanistan, gây khó khăn rất nhiều cho chính sách chống khủng bố của Ấn Độ. Thêm vào đó, việc nước Úc lập liên minh AUKUS với Anh Quốc và Mỹ đang ảnh hưởng đến thế cân bằng trong vùng Ấn Độ - Thái Bình Dương. Trước khi làm việc ở New Delhi, ông Claude Blanchemaison cũng đã từng là đại sứ Pháp tại Việt Nam từ năm 1989 đến 1993, một quốc gia mà ông vẫn còn giữ nhiều mối liên hệ. Vị cựu đại sứ Pháp tại Hà Nội đã là tác giả của cuốn sách “La Marseillaise du général Giap”, xuất bản vào tháng 10/2013. Cho nên, có thể nói ông là người nắm rất rành tình hình quan hệ giữa Ấn Độ và Việt Nam, hai quốc gia mà theo ông có những mối tương đồng về chính sách ngoại giao. Trước khi nói về quan hệ Việt-Ấn, chúng ra hãy tìm hiểu về vị trí hiện nay của Ấn Độ theo cái nhìn của cựu đại sứ Blanchemaison:  “ Từ khi Ấn Độ giành được độc lập vào năm 1947, Nehru, thủ tướng đầu tiên của nước này đã là một trong những người, cùng với Sukarno ( cố tổng thống Indonesia ), Nasser ( cố tổng thống Ai Cập ), sáng lập phong trào phi liên kết, quy tụ các nước không nghiêng về phe nào, không theo khối Liên Xô mà cũng không theo khối phương Tây đứng đầu là Hoa Kỳ.  Cho dù đó là chuyện đã thuộc về lịch sử, nhưng nên nhớ rằng phong trào phi liên kết vẫn còn tồn tại và vẫn thường xuyên họp lại. Nhưng nay thời thế đã thay đổi, Ấn Độ đã có một chính phủ thuộc một đảng khác. Nước này vào ngày 15/08 năm tới sẽ kỷ niệm 75 năm độc lập. Trước khi bùng phát đại dịch, Ấn Độ đã là cường quốc kinh tế đứng hàng thứ 5. Hiện chưa biết là đại dịch tác động như thế nào đến vị trí kinh tế này của Ấn Độ, nhưng tôi tin là kinh tế Ấn Độ có khả năng phục hồi rất mạnh và sẽ nhanh chóng trở lại con đường tăng trưởng nhanh.  Trước hết, Ấn Độ có một dân số trẻ, năng động, với 55% dân số dưới 25 tuổi. Thứ hai, nước này đã có những điều kiện vững chắc cho sự tăng trưởng kinh tế. Khi mới giành được độc lập, Ấn Độ còn gặp nạn đói, phụ thuộc rất nhiều vào nhập khẩu lương thực, nhưng ngày nay Ấn Độ không chỉ tự túc về lương thực, mà còn xuất khẩu ngũ cốc, sữa, thậm chí xuất khẩu thịt đến một số nước châu Á. Trong lĩnh vực dịch vụ, Ấn Độ nay là nhà vô địch thế giới về dịch vụ tin học. Về quan hệ quốc tế, Ấn Độ không muốn liên minh quân sự với bất cứ quốc gia nào. Tuy nhiên, từ cách đây khoảng 20 năm, nước này đã thiết lập đối tác với rất nhiều quốc gia. Các quan hệ đối tác này, đối tác chiến lược, hoặc đối tác tăng cường, có nội dung khác nhau tùy theo quốc gia. Pháp đã là một trong những quốc gia đầu tiên ký hiệp định đối tác chiến lược với Ấn Độ, cụ thể là vào năm 1998, dưới thời tổng thống Jacques Chirac. Mối quan hệ giữa hai nước đã phát triển rất nhiều từ đó đến nay, với các cuộc thảo luận về chính trị và chiến lược giữa bộ trưởng Ngoại Giao và Quốc Phòng, cũng như giữa lãnh đạo quân đội của hai bên.” Cũng theo tác giả Blanchemaison, đường lối ngoại giao hiện nay của Ấn Độ cũng chính là kế thừa từ thời kỳ thành lập phong trào phi liên kết:  “ Có thể nói nước này đã kế thừa văn hóa ngoại giao phi liên kết, một văn hóa mà tôi gọi là chiến lược theo đủ mọi hướng, một chính sách phần nào tương tự như Việt Nam. Ấn Độ muốn làm bạn với mọi nước, thậm chí không muốn là kẻ thù của Trung Quốc, cho dù Trung Quốc là đối thủ lớn, là láng giềng có tranh chấp biên giới với Ấn Độ.  Ấn Độ xử lý quan hệ với Trung Quốc một cách rất mềm dẻo, mà tôi có thể nói là theo kiểu châu Á, tức là không phải chúng ta có bất đồng về một vài điểm, chẳng hạn như về biên giới, là chúng ta bất đồng trên mọi thứ, có nhiều lĩnh vực mà chúng ta có thể hợp tác với nhau, như trường hợp đối với Trung Quốc, cũng như đối với nhiều nước khác.  Ấn Độ hiện nay cũng thừa kế từ thời Nehru một mối quan hệ hợp tác rất chặt chẽ với Nga, mà trước đây là Liên Xô. Trong lịch sử, có thể nói Liên Xô đã từng là quốc gia bảo bọc Ấn Độ. Ngay cả bây giờ, khi Pakistan gây khó dễ cho Ấn Độ trên vấn đề Cachemire, cũng chính Nga bảo vệ Ấn Độ ở Hội Đồng Bảo An và dùng quyền phủ quyết để ngăn chặn việc thảo luận về hồ sơ này. Nga vẫn còn là nguồn cung cấp vũ khí hàng đầu cho Ấn Độ, tuy là cung cấp với quy mô nhỏ hơn so với cách đây 30 năm, nhưng Nga vẫn là một đối tác quan trọng.” Một mặt phát triển quan hệ với Hoa Kỳ, mặt khác Ấn Độ cũng ngày càng mở rộng bang giao với các nước châu Á, theo quan sát của cựu đại sứ Blanchemaison:  “Đối với châu Á, Ấn Độ thi hành một chính sách “hướng Đông” rất năng động, nhất là với các nước ASEAN, trong đó có Việt Nam. Trước khi gia nhập ASEAN, Việt Nam đã có quan hệ rất chặt chẽ với Ấn Độ, điều mà bản thân tôi đã nhận thấy khi còn là đại sứ Pháp ở Việt Nam. Đại sứ Ấn Độ là một nhân vật quan trọng, có ảnh hưởng lớn ở Việt Nam. Nay Ấn Độ thắt chặt hơn nữa quan hệ với nhiều nước ASEAN. Chỉ có điều New Delhi cảm thấy khó xử đối với Miến Điện do cuộc đảo chính quân sự, vì họ không muốn thấy phe quân sự nắm quyền ở một nước láng giềng và nhất là vì điều này làm gia tăng ảnh hưởng của Trung Quốc.  Ngoài ASEAN, Ấn Độ cũng đã tăng cường quan hệ với các nước châu Á khác, như Nhật Bản, Hàn Quốc, cũng như với các nước nam Thái Bình Dương. Từ vài năm nay, Ấn Độ cũng tham gia các cuộc tập trận trên biển với Hoa Kỳ, Nhật Bản và Úc. Bốn nước này nằm trong một nhóm gọi là QUAD ( Bộ Tứ ), nhưng chính phủ New Delhi không muốn nhóm không chính thức này thiên về các vấn đề quân sự, mà muốn các nước trong nhóm hợp tác về phát triển bền vững, hợp tác y tế, để QUAD không có vẻ là một tổ chức quân sự. Cho dù có quan hệ phức tạp với Trung Quốc, Ấn Độ dứt khoát không muốn đi theo con đường như của Úc, lập liên minh quân sự với Hoa Kỳ và Anh Quốc để chống Trung Quốc." Tuy nhiên, theo cựu đại sứ Pháp tại New Delhi, Ấn Độ cũng có lập trường giống các nước phương Tây, như Pháp, hay các nước thành viên khác của QUAD, tức là phải bảo vệ quyền tự do lưu thông ở Biển Đông, chống lại việc Bắc Kinh bồi đắp các đảo nhân tạo ở vùng biển này. Nhưng ông Blanchemaison cho rằng cả Ấn Độ lẫn Việt Nam đều bằng mọi giá cố tránh xung đột quân sự với Trung Quốc.  Cựu đại sứ Pháp tại New Delhi và Hà Nội nhấn mạnh đến sự tương đồng về chính sách ngoại giao giữa hai nước: “Tôi nghĩ Ấn Độ  là một đối tác rất tốt đối với Việt Nam và ngược lại, Việt Nam cũng là một đối tác rất tốt đối với Ấn Độ. Như tôi có nói lúc nảy, hai nước có những điểm tương đồng, tức là có một chính sách ngoại giao theo mọi hướng, làm mọi với mọi nước, cố làm sao không có quốc gia kẻ thù. Chỉ có do vấn đề lịch sử, hậu quả của việc Anh Quốc phân chia lãnh thổ, nên Ấn Độ vẫn có một quốc gia đối dịch là Pakistan.  Cũng như đa số các quốc gia châu Á, Ấn Độ có đối tác thương mại chính là Trung Quốc. Đó là một thực tế. Ấn Độ cho rằng phải tiếp tục chính sách hợp tác với Trung Quốc trên toàn bộ những lĩnh vực mà giữa hai nước không có mâu thuẫn, đối đầu. Tôi nghĩ Việt Nam cũng có cùng một chính sách. Dĩ nhiên là Việt Nam có rất nhiều tranh chấp với Trung Quốc, nhất là trên vấn đề Biển Hoa Nam, mà tôi gọi theo tên Việt Nam là Biển Đông, và trông chờ vào sự yểm trợ của nhiều nước. Yểm trợ ở đây không có nghĩa là liên minh quân sự giống kiểu NATO. Cả hai nước, Ấn Độ và Việt Nam đều không muốn thấy có một liên minh quân sự như thế này ở châu Á.  Nhưng để tạo một tác động răn đe, Việt Nam mời các công ty dầu khí Ấn Độ đến thăm dò, khai thác ở Biển Đông, vì Ấn Độ cũng đang có nhu cầu rất lớn về năng lượng, tuy rằng sẽ không đầu tư rất nhiều vào dầu khí vì làm như vậy sẽ là trái với cam kết của Ấn Độ tại hội nghị COP 26 về trung hòa carbon.” Cũng theo tác giả Blanchemaison, ngay cả về việc trang bị vũ khí, Việt Nam cũng đi theo hướng đa dạng hóa nguồn cung cấp, giống như Việt Nam:  “ Hiện giờ, ngành công nghiệp vũ khí của Ấn Độ còn yếu, tuy đang trên đà phát triển mạnh, nhưng còn phụ thuộc nhiều vào nhập khẩu. Điều mà nước này đang làm đó là đa dạng hóa nguồn nhập khẩu. Nhập khẩu vũ khí từ Nga hiện nay chỉ còn chiếm chưa tới 50%. Nhưng cũng có việc di dời cơ sở sản xuất sang Ấn Độ, chẳng hạn như chiến đấu cơ Sukhoi hiện được lắp ráp ở Ấn Độ. Ấn Độ cũng có thể giao một vài chiếc Sukhoi này cho Việt Nam nếu Việt Nam đặt mua trực tiếp từ Nga.  Tôi nghĩ Việt Nam cũng đang tìm cách đa dạng hóa nguồn nhập khẩu vũ khí. Hiện nay không có cấm vận vũ khí của quốc tế đối với Việt Nam và Việt Nam có thể dựa theo kinh nghiệm đa dạng hóa nhập khẩu vũ khí của Ấn Độ." 

The UAE's interest in the F-35 was one of the major talking points of the last Dubai Airshow, but with a formal order placed by Abu Dhabi, the topic is conspicuous by its absence at the 2021 edition. Our defense editors ask why in the first of our Dubai Airshow podcasts. Also discussed, ballistic missile protection for the region, and is Russia's Sukhoi starting a trend in aviation-related perfumes? This podcast is sponsored by Collins Aerospace. Collins Aerospace is on a mission to deliver breakthrough technologies for customers across commercial aviation, defense and space. Learn more at CollinsAerospace.com.

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Welcome back! This week we sit down with the incredible, Goody Thomas! Goody is fresh on the recovery from an injury, and is gearing up for Nationals. We talk about his injury, the path moving forward, Stars of Tomorrow, Flying the Sukhoi, transitioning to the Extras, world competition, and so much more!Go show Lift some love at www.liftaviationusa.com and use the code FLYCOOLSHIT at checkout to get 25% off most items on the website.

- ၂၀၂၀ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲရလာဒ်အားလုံးကို စစ်ကောင်စီကဖျက်သိမ်းလိုက်ပြီး၊ ဒီလုပ်ရပ်ကို ထိပ်ဆုံးကအနိုင်ရ နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီတွေသဘောမတူတဲ့အကြောင်း - မြန်မာ့စီးပွားရေး ၁၈ % လျော့ကျသွားမယ်လို့ မျှော်မှန်းရတဲ့အကြောင်း ကမ္ဘာ့ဘဏ်က မနေ့က ပြောလိုက်တဲ့သတင်း - မြန်မာစစ်ကောင်စီကို ရုရှား Sukhoi လေယာဉ်ကုမ္ပဏီက ထုတ်လုပ်တဲ့ ဘက်စုံသုံး ဂျက်တိုက် လေယာဉ်တွေနဲ့ စစ်လေ့ကျင့်ရေးလေယာဉ်တွေပေးပို့လိုက်တဲ့သတင်း - နေစရာမြေကမ္ဘာဆောင်းပါး နဲ့ - ကရင်နီဘာသာအစီအစဉ်တွေ နားဆင်ရမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

Sukhoi rolled out the model of a new fighter aircraft during the MAKS show in Russia targeting the export market. Aviation Week editors discuss the design and its prospects in a crowded market.

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Tensions between Russia and China claim their first casualties. Paleontologists in Montana unearth the long history of the RADM-1 virus. A wealthy family in Rhode Island exhibits breathtaking selfishness in the middle of the pandemic crisis. At the RLA Discussion Table we sit down with presidential candidate, Santiago Vasquez, and his running mate, William Ibibio. Broadcast characters (in order of appearance): James Vila as Chuck Flemming and Vasquez Campaign Ad Reporter 1; Ryan Takemiya as Michael Greenspan, Ambassaor Li Wei Zheng and Vasquez Campaign Ad Reporter2; Cassidy Brown as Secretary Tillman, Admiral McDonough, and Vasquez Campaign Ad Reporter 3; Mark Foster as Admiral McCall and Patrick Coffin; Leo Plotkin as Misha; Zahan Mehta as Captain and Miles Duggan; Lily Crystal as Sukhoi 27; Breezy Leigh as Sarah Engell; Ash Malloy as Kate Mallick; BA Morales as Santiago Vasquez; Dameion Brown as William Ibibio Check out RLA Gear at: https://teespring.com/stores/radio-living-america --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiolivingamerica/support

Aviation Episode Lieutenant Colonel Jason Brightman is a former US Air Force pilot with one of the wildest careers I’ve heard of. He also happens to be my flight instructor, bringing me up to speed on the Cessna 172. Jason and I were put together by chance (and by COVID) at our flight school. Ordinarily, he flies for a major airline, but found himself with a whole lot of time on his hands during the summer when coronavirus almost completely shut down travel. So, he started teaching, as is his habit. His military pilot students nicknamed him Guru. Jason initially served with the Army’s First Infantry Division combat engineers before transitioning into the Air Force, but he went through pilot training with the Navy. This guy’s spent time with essentially every branch except Space Force—although, we could have just not gotten to that story yet. He’s full of them. While in Iraq, Jason and his team cleared the way for American and British tank battalions, who came rushing through Kuwait during the famous 100-hour ground war in 1991. After pilot training, he flew the C-130 for a tour. But then he took an instructor pilot exchange with the Indian Air Force, where he trained a cohort of pilots that would go on to fly planes like the Sukhoi 30 - known by NATO as the Flanker C. One student would even be shot down in operations near Pakistan, yet end up in a Pakistani tea commercial. More on that later. Jason then flew combat operations in a C-17 in the Iraq War, delivering Humvees, and ferrying racks of wounded US soldiers to safety. As if this was not enough action, he then took an opportunity with the US Central Command’s intelligence unit and spent a lot of time in Kabul, Afghanistan, trying to patch together alliances against the Taliban. We talk about all of this and more. Hogs in the Sand, Buck Wyndham: https://www.amazon.com/Hogs-Sand-10-Pilots-Journal/dp/1646631609 Ghost Wars, Steve Coll: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afghanistan-Invasion-September/dp/0143034669 Pakistani tea commercial featuring downed Indian Air Force pilot, Abhinandan Varthaman: https://twitter.com/VishnuNDTV/status/1102871131197980672?s=20

New Podcast Locations starting 01/01/2021 The NEW Dark Horde - https://thedarkhorde.podbean.com/ The Tempest Universe - https://thetempestuniverse.podbean.com/ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Chichester astronaut admits mistaking floating Russian space pee for a UFO - and reveals how to fart in orbit Link: https://www.chichester.co.uk/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/chichester-astronaut-admits-mistaking-floating-russian-space-pee-ufo-and-reveals-how-fart-orbit-3052097 Chichester astronaut Tim Peake has told how he thought he had seen UFOs while in space, only to discover it was in fact droplets of pee leaking out of a Russian probe vehicle. Major Peake became the first official British astronaut to join the International Space Station crew in 2015, and during his mission he earned a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon in orbit. David Lowndes The University of Portsmouth graduate, who spent six months in space, told The Graham Norton Show: "Space is very black and one day I was looking out and there were three lights moving in formation and then there was a fourth. "We were perplexed, until we realised that what we thought were the far away lights of alien spaceships were actually very close small droplets. "What was happening was liquid leaking out of a Russian probe vehicle, crystallising instantly and reflecting the light. What we were seeing was Russian urine." Loveland UFO author, convicted sex offender sentenced to probation again Link: https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2020/11/30/colorado-ufo-author-convicted-sex-offender-resentenced-probation/6465405002/ A Loveland UFO author and convicted sex offender has been resentenced to probation after violating the terms of his initial sentence reportedly due to medical conditions. Stanley Romanek, now 57, was resentenced to 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation Monday for sexual exploitation of a child, a Class 4 felony — a charge he was first arrested for in 2013 — after admitting to violating the terms of his probation sentence. A jury first found Romanek guilty of the charge in October 2017 after a three-year legal battle, and he was sentenced to two years in a halfway house and 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation. A warrant for Romanek's arrest was filed in May 2018 after his probation was revoked. Romanek had reportedly missed several therapy sessions that he was required to complete as part of his sentence due to a contagious disease, his attorneys previously told 8th Judicial District Judge Susan Blanco. The contagious disease had also prevented him from appearing in court in person, they said. Deputy District Attorney Joshua Ritter told the court Monday he agreed to resentencing Romanek to the same probation sentence because this “is a fairly unusual situation … due entirely to (Romanek's) unusual medical circumstances.” Romanek's illnesses include bacteria infections, a seizure disorder and respiratory issues, which have only become more concerning with the COVID-19 pandemic, Pineau told the court. “You are going to have to at some point accept what's going on here or you're going to be back before the court,” Blanco told Romanek. Prince Philip's passion for UFOs and aliens exposed – Duke collected books for decades Link: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1364264/Prince-Philip-news-Duke-of-Edinburgh-royal-family-news-UFO-aliens-Charles-latest-ont PRINCE PHILIP is so interested in UFO sightings and alien theories that he has collected books on the subject for decades, according to reports. It has been revealed the Duke spent last summer reading The Halt Perspective – a 2016 book by retired US Air Force Colonel Charles Halt and ex-West Midlands detective John Hanson. It details British UFO sightings including the Rendlesham Forest incident. The Sun claims Prince Philip's private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote a letter to Mr Hanson, in which he stated the book would be “read with close interest over the summer”. The secretary also referenced another book called ‘Haunted Skies: The Encyclopaedia of British UFOs' also by Mr Hanson. Author Nick Pope, in his book Open Skies, Closed Minds, describes the readings as “tangible proof that something extraordinary happened”. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms. Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was an infant. Born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark Born 10 June 1921 (age 99) UFO sighting in Maracaibo? The PHOTO that will leave you wondering Link: https://www.lapatilla.com/2020/11/26/captaron-ovni-en-maracaibo/ Neighbors of the Lagomar Beach urbanization captured on Wednesday, November 25, an alleged UFO flying through the sky in the north of Maracaibo, Zulia state. Maracaibo City in Venezuela Mauricio Galué, a native of that town, said he was with three other people on the street when they heard a strange noise. "We were passing water from one house to another, and suddenly a very particular sound attracts me, like a buzzing sound, that I didn't know where it was coming from," he described. The citizen thought that the sound was from the water pumps they were using at that time, when he heard something else flying overhead. “I thought that such could be the overflight of a Hunting or Sukhoi plane, and I told my neighbor to take out his phone and record it, but since he didn't see anything, he didn't activate the video, so I grabbed my phone and started taking pictures. towards the sky, more or less where I perceive that the sound was coming ”, he expressed. Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com FaceBook Page : https://www.facebook.com/thetempestuniverse YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com Mail can be sent to: The Dark Horde LLC PO BOX 769905 San Antonio TX 78245 For Skype Users: bosscrawler

New Podcast Locations starting 01/01/2021 The NEW Dark Horde - https://thedarkhorde.podbean.com/ The Tempest Universe - https://thetempestuniverse.podbean.com/ Subscribe to the YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Chichester astronaut admits mistaking floating Russian space pee for a UFO - and reveals how to fart in orbit Link: https://www.chichester.co.uk/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/chichester-astronaut-admits-mistaking-floating-russian-space-pee-ufo-and-reveals-how-fart-orbit-3052097 Chichester astronaut Tim Peake has told how he thought he had seen UFOs while in space, only to discover it was in fact droplets of pee leaking out of a Russian probe vehicle. Major Peake became the first official British astronaut to join the International Space Station crew in 2015, and during his mission he earned a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon in orbit. David Lowndes The University of Portsmouth graduate, who spent six months in space, told The Graham Norton Show: "Space is very black and one day I was looking out and there were three lights moving in formation and then there was a fourth. "We were perplexed, until we realised that what we thought were the far away lights of alien spaceships were actually very close small droplets. "What was happening was liquid leaking out of a Russian probe vehicle, crystallising instantly and reflecting the light. What we were seeing was Russian urine." Loveland UFO author, convicted sex offender sentenced to probation again Link: https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2020/11/30/colorado-ufo-author-convicted-sex-offender-resentenced-probation/6465405002/ A Loveland UFO author and convicted sex offender has been resentenced to probation after violating the terms of his initial sentence reportedly due to medical conditions. Stanley Romanek, now 57, was resentenced to 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation Monday for sexual exploitation of a child, a Class 4 felony — a charge he was first arrested for in 2013 — after admitting to violating the terms of his probation sentence. A jury first found Romanek guilty of the charge in October 2017 after a three-year legal battle, and he was sentenced to two years in a halfway house and 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation. A warrant for Romanek's arrest was filed in May 2018 after his probation was revoked. Romanek had reportedly missed several therapy sessions that he was required to complete as part of his sentence due to a contagious disease, his attorneys previously told 8th Judicial District Judge Susan Blanco. The contagious disease had also prevented him from appearing in court in person, they said. Deputy District Attorney Joshua Ritter told the court Monday he agreed to resentencing Romanek to the same probation sentence because this “is a fairly unusual situation … due entirely to (Romanek's) unusual medical circumstances.” Romanek's illnesses include bacteria infections, a seizure disorder and respiratory issues, which have only become more concerning with the COVID-19 pandemic, Pineau told the court. “You are going to have to at some point accept what's going on here or you're going to be back before the court,” Blanco told Romanek. Prince Philip's passion for UFOs and aliens exposed – Duke collected books for decades Link: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1364264/Prince-Philip-news-Duke-of-Edinburgh-royal-family-news-UFO-aliens-Charles-latest-ont PRINCE PHILIP is so interested in UFO sightings and alien theories that he has collected books on the subject for decades, according to reports. It has been revealed the Duke spent last summer reading The Halt Perspective – a 2016 book by retired US Air Force Colonel Charles Halt and ex-West Midlands detective John Hanson. It details British UFO sightings including the Rendlesham Forest incident. The Sun claims Prince Philip's private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote a letter to Mr Hanson, in which he stated the book would be “read with close interest over the summer”. The secretary also referenced another book called ‘Haunted Skies: The Encyclopaedia of British UFOs' also by Mr Hanson. Author Nick Pope, in his book Open Skies, Closed Minds, describes the readings as “tangible proof that something extraordinary happened”. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms. Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was an infant. Born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark Born 10 June 1921 (age 99) UFO sighting in Maracaibo? The PHOTO that will leave you wondering Link: https://www.lapatilla.com/2020/11/26/captaron-ovni-en-maracaibo/ Neighbors of the Lagomar Beach urbanization captured on Wednesday, November 25, an alleged UFO flying through the sky in the north of Maracaibo, Zulia state. Maracaibo City in Venezuela Mauricio Galué, a native of that town, said he was with three other people on the street when they heard a strange noise. "We were passing water from one house to another, and suddenly a very particular sound attracts me, like a buzzing sound, that I didn't know where it was coming from," he described. The citizen thought that the sound was from the water pumps they were using at that time, when he heard something else flying overhead. “I thought that such could be the overflight of a Hunting or Sukhoi plane, and I told my neighbor to take out his phone and record it, but since he didn't see anything, he didn't activate the video, so I grabbed my phone and started taking pictures. towards the sky, more or less where I perceive that the sound was coming ”, he expressed. Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com FaceBook Page : https://www.facebook.com/thetempestuniverse YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com Mail can be sent to: The Dark Horde LLC PO BOX 769905 San Antonio TX 78245 For Skype Users: bosscrawler

Proseguono gli scontri nella regione del Nagorno-Karabakh dove un aereo turco - ha comunicato la portavoce del ministero armeno Shushan Stepanyan - ha abbattuto poche ore fa un Sukhoi-25 armeno. Ne abbiamo parlato con Sara Khojoyan, giornalista di Bloomberg da Erevan, in Armenia, e con Artak Beglaryan, responsabile diritti umani del governo del Nagorno-Karabakh.In India, il governo Modi ha congelato i conti di Amnesty International: abbiamo parlato della contrapposizione tra Amnesty e il presidente indiano con Francesca Recchia, ricercatrice, direttrice dell'istituto afgano di arte e architettura di Kabul, co-fondatrice di The Polis Project.

Raketa was created in 1961 in honour of the first cosmonaut in the world, Yuri Gagarin. With its moving parts all produced in the Factory, and with a design marked by the DNA of three centuries of Russian history, the Russian brand Raketa has acquired a strong reputation amongst worldwide collectors. The main sources of inspiration for the brand comes from heroic personalities and sensational achievements e.g. the Baikonur model has special features needed for space travel and was designed in collaboration with famous Russian cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev. The Factory has also collaborated with the great Russian aircraft constructors Sukhoi and Tupolev to develop watches for pilots. Some models have achieved iconic status and are prized by collectors around the world, such as the Polar model with a 24-hour movement specially designed in 1969 for Soviet arctic explorers. Raketa is one of the few brands in the world whose mechanical parts are all products within its own factory, including the spring (the beating heart) which is one of the most difficult parts to make. Each watch has no less than 242 separate components and manufacturing of one watch involves the work of 103 specialists, and 8201 separate manual operations. In this episode of the MenswearStyle Podcast we interview Raketa Watch Factory Managing Director David Henderson-Stewart about how he came to be involved within the horology  industry with no prior interest or knowledge of watches. David was attracted to the rich history of the Raketa brand and he had noticed his friend buying Soviet watches. He adopted the brand at a time when nobody was interested in it, describing Raketa as a "diamond sitting on the floor". Our host Peter Brooker and David also chat about the time and resources required to modernise a factory, the difficulty of making mechanical movements, making watches for cosmonauts, having a unique and "unconventional" brand identity, the emotional side of watchmaking, and the Russian tradition of gifting watches. Whilst we have your attention, be sure to sign up to our daily MenswearStyle newsletter here. We promise to only send you the good stuff.

Man... This week we had to call an audible and figured we could do an experiment at the same time, and boy did it work out! In the words of Clint Trowe "you can't plan a good time"! Our good buddy Rod Elliot stepped in over the phone to help us out!! Rod is a master builder out in Reno, NV, airbrush artist, BBQ pit master, truck driver and loves a good whiskey! Many of you have probably seen his work. 138" wingspan Spacewalker, 40% twin Sukhoi and a huge, absolutely beautiful DH Beaver strictly on floats! we had a hell of time! Thank Rod!! Thank you so much for listening and we hope you guys have a good week!! Coupon code: SCRAP15 for 15% off at APower batteries rcbatteriesusa.com Coupon code: ZDZSCRAP10 for 10% off at zdzenginesusa.com Please, if you like what were doing subscribe and write us a review! It helps more than you know! Like and follow us on Facebook click here Join our Facebook group click here Follow or tag us on instagram click here Get yourself a t-shirt here! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rcscrappile/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rcscrappile/support

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Después de contaros el desarrollo de diseño, toca ponerlo a prueba, toca probarlo y utilizarlo operacionalmente. Duro, resistente, bien armado y capaz de desenvolverse en los escenarios más extremos serían solo algunos de los apelativos que se le pueden otorgar a un exitoso diseño de avión de ataque. Pese a cumplir ya 40 años, sigue realizando misiones en primera línea en más de 20 países, y se sigue fabricando en diferentes modelos especialiizados. Por Esaú Rodríguez Diseño del Su-25 de Ángel Miguel de Llaguno Sahuquillo En Twitter estamos como @casusbellipod @CasusBelliPod En Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/aviones10 ¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Wat vliegt de tijd: episode 30! Philip heeft nieuws: in de Franse media staat dat AirFrance NIET zou mogen vliegen naar steden waar een TGV-verbinding mee is. Ook in het buitenland, zou je dus denken. In NL pers lazen we 'binnenlandse' bestemmingen, maar in La Douce France niet! Zeer interessant. Het geluid van de TGV hoor je in de mix aan het begin. Het KLM-debat met AirWopke en de Tweede Kamer, de capriolen van stuntvlieger Frank 'Woody' van Houten in zijn Sukhoi op Bevrijdingsdag (met geluid van Doron Sajet, vriend van de show), de Gulfstream (het tweede regeringsvliegtuig) is ver van huis en dat geldt ook voor Stef Blok Airlines. Bring them home, al die arme gestrande Nederlanders. Zelfs PIA doet een klusje voor onze minister van Buitenlandse Zaken. Top Gun-acteur Tom Cruise zoekt het hogerop. In de ruimte. Incident tussen Griekenland en Turkije: luister hoe een piloot van de Helleense luchtmacht in een Mirage 2000 zijn Turkse 'collega' in een F-16 bijna letterlijk onder schot neemt. Duurzaam willen we allemaal. Chinese wetenschappers werken aan een elektrische vliegtuigmotor. Philip schreef een artikel op FAQT, je leest 'm hier: http://www.faqt.nl/recent/de-eerste-elektrische-straalmotor-gebouwd/ Viral! Een oproep van Melarno Kraan op Twitter aan de Koninklijke Luchtmacht werd veel gedeeld. Ook wij willen graag een rondvlucht van onze straaljagers over Nederland. Het is de hoogste tijd, luitenant-generaal Dennis Luyt! Lufthansa is een bleeder en een klein vliegveld rekent astronomische parkeertarieven voor werkloze British Airways toestellen. Raadsel. Het is groen en het vliegt. Het antwoord in deze podcast. Hint: Transavia. Met een vleugje histeurisch erbij. Wat een lekker plaatje! Een unieke mix: Menno featuring DJ Dröge. Het nummer dat wij 'verbouwen' is Leave Me (Dubfire Playa Mix). Menno was te horen als luchtvaart-expert op een christelijke radiozender. Amen! Reacties graag naar captains@themichighclub.nl en 5 sterren met een positieve review op Apple Podcasts, daar worden we blij van! Onze voice-over is Michiel Koudstaal, voor al uw stemmenwerk gaat u naar voxcast.nl

Duro, resistente, bien armado y capaz de desenvolverse en los escenarios más extremos serían solo algunos de los apelativos que se le pueden otorgar a un exitoso diseño de avión de ataque. Pese a cumplir ya 40 años, sigue realizando misiones en primera línea en más de 20 países, y se sigue fabricando en diferentes modelos especialiizados. Por Esaú Rodríguez Diseño del Su-25 de Ángel Miguel de Llaguno Sahuquillo En Twitter estamos como @casusbellipod @CasusBelliPod En Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/aviones10 ¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima.

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Landsvirkjun spáir því að raforkuframleiðsla aukist mikið samhliða bráðnun jökla fram á miðja þessa öld. Innflytjendur gefa íslenskukennslu falleikunn. Í nýrri könnun kemur fram að um 60 prósent innflytjenda eru óánægð með kennsluna. Hæstiréttur ætlar að taka til meðferðar mál Freyju Haraldsdóttur gegn Barnaverndarstofu. Á annað hundrað þúsund Rússar hafa skrifað undir áskorun um að farþegaþotur af gerðinni Sukhoi verði kyrrsettar meðan rannsakaðar verði orsakir þess að ein þeirra fórst um síðustu helgi. Aeroflot flugfélagið aflýsti í dag nokkrum ferðum flugvéla af þeirri gerð. Strætó þyrfti að ráðast í framkvæmdir fyrir allt að fjögur hundruð milljónir króna til þess að geta fjölgað metanstrætisvögnum. Um 60% innflytjenda eru óánægð með þá íslenskukennslu sem er í boði hér á landi, samkvæmt nýrri könnun. Lítil fylgni er milli þess hversu vel innflytjendur telja sig geta talað íslensku og hversu mörg íslenskunámskeið þeir hafa sótt. Nærri helmingur innflytjenda telur íslenskukunnáttu sína slaka. Arnar Páll Hauksson segir frá og talar við Lara Wilhelmine Hoffmann og Eyjólf Sturlaugsson. Fararstjórar í Söngvakeppni evrópskra sjónvarpsstöðva fá á hverju ári þjálfun í því hvernig á að bregðast við þegar sprengja springur eða vopnaðir menn komast inn á svæðið, segir Jónatan Garðarsson, sem fylgt hefur íslensku þátttakendunum sextán sinnum. Bergljót Baldursdóttir talat við Jónatan. Anna Kristín Jónsdóttir segir frá norska þjóðbúningnum og því að konur sem mótmæla lokun fæðingardeilda í Norður Noregi hafa klæðst þjóðbúningum í mótmælunum. Umsjón Arnar Páll Hauksson. Tækinmaður Ragnar Gunnarsson.

#49-Flugzeugbestellungen in 2019 bieten einige Überraschungen. Lufthansa gibt fast die halbe A380 Flotte zurück und kauft 20 A350 bzw. Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Garuda Indonesia storniert 737 MAX 8 Bestellungen, aber Lufthansa liebäugelt angeblich mit dem Muster. Gibt es neben den 737 von Boeing oder den 320 von Airbus Alternativen? Ja, denn nachdem die Bombardier C-Series von Airbus als A220 Serie übernommen, gibt es noch Sukhoi aus Russland und aus China Comac c919.Adria Airways hatte sogar die Sukhoi SuperJet 100 überraschenderweise geleast, aber dann genauso überraschen die 10 Flugzeuge wieder kürzlich storniert. Wahrscheinlich wegen finanzieller Schwierigkeiten.Johannes wirft einen Blick in die Orderbücher von Airbus und Boeing und verrät dir, welcher der beiden Hersteller derzeit ein dickeres Auftragspolster besitzt und welche Modelle derzeit besonders gefragt sind. Außerdem geht es um die Frage, wie Flugzeugbestellungen überhaupt ablaufen, was für Airlines der Vorteil von Optionen anstatt von Festbestellungen ist und was passiert, wenn eine Airline bestellte Flugzeuge nicht mehr benötigt und deshalb nicht mehr abnehmen will. Außerdem geben Lars und Johannes ihre Einschätzung ab, ob es aufgrund der aktuellen Probleme bei der Boeing 737 MAX zu Stornierungen von Bestellungen kommen wird und ob sich hieraus neue Orders für den A320 Neo ergeben könnten. Achtet ihr bei der Buchung von Flügen auf den Flugzeugtypen oder ist für euch lediglich die Airline von Bedeutung? Welchen Flugzeugtypen bevorzugt ihr besonders?Abonniere uns, damit du keine Folge verpasst!Vereinbare noch heute Deine kostenlose Beratung. Verbinden Sie sich mit anderen Vielfliegern in unserer Facebook-Gruppe & folgen Sie uns auf Facebook.

Flight 090. BA flies to the wrong destination (Ryanair mocks, but did worse) and introduces its shortest hop ever. WOW is gone, Jet Airways is close to be gone, but StarLux goes bold. AMS has a direct view on the luggage delivery system (WHAT?!). Astana is no more (just the name of the city, we recorded 079 just at the right time!). Cathay buys Hong Kong Express (did we call it?). ANA gets its first A380, and a very cute one. The Russia 860-seater double-decker escalator-filled plane that never was (but engineers designed folding wing tips). The Irkut MC-21 flies to compete with the 320/737. Qantas mulls crazy ideas for its ultra long haul flights (but, really, a space to stretch our legs is all we'd hope for). The LHR hawk is so smart (the Singapore stowaway too?). Cool flight deck stories at Delta (family goals!) and JetBlue (PA goals!). More to the 737 story. The RIX airfield that you can't miss. And yes, BA introduce the Club Suite …what do we think?

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Don’t have time to keep a tab on news throughout t the day? CNN News18 brings you the day’s top news and newsmakers in less than 3 minutes! Here are today’s top picks: ‘Top Gun’ Niramala Sitharaman flies in Sukhoi, Defence Minister takes off on Su-30 MKI from Jodhpur, Move to take stock of Indian Air Force’s operational preparedness. SPORTS On the fifth and final day of the Centurion Test between South Africa and India, Cheteshwar Pujara needed to be the central figure for his team as they aimed to chase 287 to keep the series alive. But what happened in the early part of the morning session was quite the opposite as Pujara ran himself out. The right hander’s dismissal in this fashion in the second innings means, he now has the unenviable record of being the only Indian batsman to have been run out in both innings of a Test match. The last time a batsman was run out in both innings was New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming in 2000. Pujara's now also becomes the 25th batsman to be be run out in both innings of a Test match. ENTERTAINMENT Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Padmaavat continues to be embroiled in controversy even as its filmmakers move the Supreme Court to act against the individual bans on the film being instituted by states. So far four states have banned the release of the film. TECH Huawei's sub-brand Honor has launched its latest smartphone Honor 9 Lite in India today. The new Honor Lite will go on sale on January 21, exclusively via Flipkart. The device will be available in two variants, 3GB RAM with 32GB internal storage and 4GB RAM with 64GB internal storage for Rs 10,999 and Rs 14,999 respectively. The smartphone was previously launched in China and is the second major launch by the brand in India this year after the launch of Honor View 10. Honor 9 Lite comes with a quad camera setup, an 18:9 edge-to-edge display, Android 8.0 and a sleek glass unibody design.

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In this Episode of the Hangar Deck Podcast, the team discusses the Russian SU-24 being shot down over the Turkey Syria Border. A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft near the Syria–Turkey border on 24 November 2015. According to Turkey, the aircraft whose nationality was unknown at the time was fired upon while in Turkish airspace because it violated the border up to a depth 1.36 miles for about 17 seconds after being warned to change its heading 10 times over a period of five minutes. The Russia Defense Ministry denied the aircraft ever left Syrian airspace, counter-claiming that their satellite data showed that the Sukhoi was about 1,100 yards inside Syrian airspace when it was shot down. The US State Department said that the US independently confirmed that the aircraft's flight path violated Turkish territory, and that the Turks gave multiple warnings to the pilot, to which they received no response. Russian president Vladimir Putin said that the US knew the flight path of the Russian jet and should have informed Turkey; two US officials said that Russia did not inform the US military of its jet's flight plan. The Russian pilot and weapon systems officer both ejected from the aircraft. The weapon systems officer was rescued, the pilot was shot and killed by Syrian Turkmen rebel ground fire while descending by parachute. A Russian naval infantryman from the search-and-rescue team launched to retrieve the two airmen was also killed when a rescue helicopter was shot down by the rebels. The shoot down was the first destruction of a Russian or Soviet Air Forces warplane by a NATO member state since the Korean War. Reactions to the incident included denunciation from Russia and an attempt to defuse the situation by NATO afterwards. Russia deployed the guided missile cruiser Moskva armed with S-300F (SA-N-6 Grumble) long-range SAM missiles off the Syrian coast near Latakia and S-400 (SA-21 Growler) mobile SAM systems to Khmeimim airbase. The Hangar Deck Podcast would like to thank our audience for the continued support on our venture. We reached a milestone of over 7,000 downloads and continue to grow our audience. The Hangar Deck Podcast Team continues to strive and bring great interviews for the aviation enthusiast. Tell us how we are doing by dropping Pitchlock Pete a direct comment at pitchlockpete@thehangardeck.com.

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In this episode we hear from a world renowned aerobatics pilot, from when he was a little bit too excited to get somewhere and it didn’t go as he had expected. Above are pictures of the actual Sukhoi flown in the story. The Following is quoted from Nikolay’s website. You can find more information about […]

On today’s show: US Navy developing new thermal underwear for divers S-97 RAIDER begins testing phase.  The Raider is an armed reconnaissance helicopter designed to out perform conventional military helicopters in speed, payload, ceiling and maneuverability. Low oil prices could save the DOD billions in 2015 Pacific rebalance plans in serious risk of neglect with current operations against ISIS […] The post Russia Confident New Sukhoi Jet Fighter Better Than F22 appeared first on Military News Talk Radio and Military Podcast - Chairborne Commandos.