It is more of a "Make Russia Great Again" thing, harking back to the glory days of the Great Patriotic War etc, rather than a commitment to restoring Marxism-Leninism which probably wouldn'… (View Post)
This does feel something like a re-run of the Russo-FInnish Winter War of 1939-40. Russians go expecting a walkover but prove disastrously unprepared. The defenders adopt hit and run tactics, multipl… (View Post)
I recall reading somewhere that towards the end of the (First) Cold War the US Navy refused to participate in wargaming all-out conventional war scenarios as they consistently resulted in the entire … (View Post)
Sovereign airspace only extends to 12 nautical miles from the coast so the Russisns could fly along the Gulf of Finland and down the Baltic. ATC responsibility is to the midpoint, so countries could … (View Post)