Russian “False-Flag” operations in the Ukraine

Three times in about a month, Orban has been forced to eat crow (Be publicly proven a liar!), in front of the whole world!
First time was when his eighteen month; oft stated, declaration that Hungary would not be the last NATO nation to ratify Sweden’s acceptance in NATO.
Oops! He is last, and he is alone! First mouth full of crow!
Last week, trying to bamboozle the EU into cutting aid to Ukraine, but folded at the wire! Second order of crow!
As for today, he had stated that the Hungarian Parliament would ratify the acceptance at its first sitting. His political opponents in Parliament; to save him and his Fidesz crony’s the trouble of convening a session, did it for them!
They boycotted the meeting!!! Third mouth full of crow!
The difference between him and Erdogan’s delaying tactics was that Erdogan always had a price! Kurds, lifting of sanctions, aircraft…something! Orban on the other hand never demanded anything, happy to follow like a cur, the big dog.
Now alone, he has come with a demand!
He wants the Swedish PM to come to Budapest for …negotiations! What negotiation?
What he wants is a ply to his ego! The Swedish PM coming hat in hand, on his knees, should play well with his constituents! As well as his BFF in the Kremlin!
I guess that he is finding out that riding two horses can be hard sometimes!
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary ... nato-vote/

[b]Hungary’s ruling party balks at Swedish NATO vote
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https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2 ... -situation

Kremlin says any new 'colonial' U.S. aid to Ukraine won't change frontline situation

Dmitry Peskov; the Kremlin’s head Bullshit slinger, was mildly said disparaging, when he commented on the possibility of a large American aid package to Ukraine.
This prognostication should be taken with more than a grain of rice! Especially from someone; who together with the rest of the Kremlin crowd, and a large part of the Russian media, not that long ago forecast that Western aid to Ukraine would be “irrelevant”!
This was made two years ago, when Russia thought that the Ukraine War would be a walkover! Two years! Over fifty thousand dead Russians! Billions of Rubles down the drain!
Not what one could call “irrelevant”!!!

Leverage. Much depends on the undetermined dueling potential of the new (second hand) F16s, and their missile weaponry; versus the Russian systems.
Much of the recent Ukrainian reverses have come from Russians lobbing large glide bombs from high speed, high altitude bombers. This does cause big problems for the Ukrainian defenders. If the F16s and their missiles can nail a few, it will cause them to pull back.
In my dreams I wish that the US had hidden a few F35 trained pilots in the F16 draft, so all of a sudden missiles appear from thin air, too close to the Russian bombers for them to dodge.
Won't happen as the US is too timid in this.

Call it timid all you want, but it is common sense not to risk pieces of an f-35 ending up in China, as happened with that f-117 in the Kosovo conflict.

And that environment was orderers of magnitude less risky than Ukraine.