The bungling Biden bunch's proxy war in the news

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DID YOU BELIEVE THE LIES?


https://twitter.com/x/status/1520746183827902471



Ukraine's fighter pilots are vastly outnumbered by the Russians, and have become legendary - thanks in part to the story of an alleged flying ace called the"Ghost of Kyiv".

This hero is said to have downed as many as 40 enemy planes - an incredible feat in an arena where Russia controls the skies.

In case you don't know what "incredible" means, look it up.

But now the Ukraine Air Force Command has admitted that the "Ghost of Kyiv is a superhero-legend whose character was created by Ukrainians!".

Earlier reports had named the "ace" as Major Stepan Tarabalka, 29. The authorities claimed that he was killed in combat on 13 March and honored with a Hero of Ukraine medal posthumously.

Now, the air force says that "Tarabalka is not 'Ghost of Kiev', and he did not hit 40 planes".

For weeks, Ukrainians did not have a name to go with the "Ghost of Kyiv" - but that did not stop the story going viral on social media.

It was used as a marketing brand by a Ukrainian model aircraft manufacturer, while Ukrainian Iryna Kostyrenko showed off a military badge inspired by the legend.

And the defense ministry tweeted a video celebrating Tarabalka's "heroism".

Ukrainian military historian Mikhail Zhirohov describes the 'Ghost of Kyiv story as "propaganda; for raising morale". Speaking to the BBC from Chernihiv, he said that early on in the war the Russians dominated Ukrainian airspace, so it's essential to have this propaganda, because our armed forces are smaller, and many think we can't be equal to them. We need this in wartime," he said.

The Ukrainian authorities fueled the Ghost of Kyiv legend just days into the war.

The Ukraine Security Service (SBU) showed a fighter pilot on the Telegram messaging service, with a caption calling the "Ghost of Kyiv" an "angel" for downing 10 Russian planes. But it did not name the "angel", and media reports later said the photo used was an old one.

A Ukrainian military expert who requested anonymity told the BBC the Ghost of Kyiv story "has helped to raise morale at a time when people need simple stories".


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61285833.amp
 
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Legion said:
DID YOU BELIEVE THE LIES?


https://twitter.com/x/status/1520746183827902471



Ukraine's fighter pilots are vastly outnumbered by the Russians, and have become legendary - thanks in part to the story of an alleged flying ace called the"Ghost of Kyiv".

This hero is said to have downed as many as 40 enemy planes - an incredible feat in an arena where Russia controls the skies.

In case you don't know what "incredible" means, look it up.

But now the Ukraine Air Force Command has admitted that the "Ghost of Kyiv is a superhero-legend whose character was created by Ukrainians!".

Earlier reports had named the "ace" as Major Stepan Tarabalka, 29. The authorities claimed that he was killed in combat on 13 March and honored with a Hero of Ukraine medal posthumously.

Now, the air force says that "Tarabalka is not 'Ghost of Kiev', and he did not hit 40 planes".

For weeks, Ukrainians did not have a name to go with the "Ghost of Kyiv" - but that did not stop the story going viral on social media.

It was used as a marketing brand by a Ukrainian model aircraft manufacturer, while Ukrainian Iryna Kostyrenko showed off a military badge inspired by the legend.

And the defense ministry tweeted a video celebrating Tarabalka's "heroism".

Ukrainian military historian Mikhail Zhirohov describes the 'Ghost of Kyiv story as "propaganda; for raising morale". Speaking to the BBC from Chernihiv, he said that early on in the war the Russians dominated Ukrainian airspace, so it's essential to have this propaganda, because our armed forces are smaller, and many think we can't be equal to them. We need this in wartime," he said.

The Ukrainian authorities fueled the Ghost of Kyiv legend just days into the war.

The Ukraine Security Service (SBU) showed a fighter pilot on the Telegram messaging service, with a caption calling the "Ghost of Kyiv" an "angel" for downing 10 Russian planes. But it did not name the "angel", and media reports later said the photo used was an old one.

A Ukrainian military expert who requested anonymity told the BBC the Ghost of Kyiv story "has helped to raise morale at a time when people need simple stories".


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61285833.amp
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Not in a MIG-29....against today's fighters??
 
Legion said:
DID YOU BELIEVE THE LIES?


https://twitter.com/x/status/1520746183827902471



Ukraine's fighter pilots are vastly outnumbered by the Russians, and have become legendary - thanks in part to the story of an alleged flying ace called the"Ghost of Kyiv".

This hero is said to have downed as many as 40 enemy planes - an incredible feat in an arena where Russia controls the skies.

In case you don't know what "incredible" means, look it up.

But now the Ukraine Air Force Command has admitted that the "Ghost of Kyiv is a superhero-legend whose character was created by Ukrainians!".

Earlier reports had named the "ace" as Major Stepan Tarabalka, 29. The authorities claimed that he was killed in combat on 13 March and honored with a Hero of Ukraine medal posthumously.

Now, the air force says that "Tarabalka is not 'Ghost of Kiev', and he did not hit 40 planes".

For weeks, Ukrainians did not have a name to go with the "Ghost of Kyiv" - but that did not stop the story going viral on social media.

It was used as a marketing brand by a Ukrainian model aircraft manufacturer, while Ukrainian Iryna Kostyrenko showed off a military badge inspired by the legend.

And the defense ministry tweeted a video celebrating Tarabalka's "heroism".

Ukrainian military historian Mikhail Zhirohov describes the 'Ghost of Kyiv story as "propaganda; for raising morale". Speaking to the BBC from Chernihiv, he said that early on in the war the Russians dominated Ukrainian airspace, so it's essential to have this propaganda, because our armed forces are smaller, and many think we can't be equal to them. We need this in wartime," he said.

The Ukrainian authorities fueled the Ghost of Kyiv legend just days into the war.

The Ukraine Security Service (SBU) showed a fighter pilot on the Telegram messaging service, with a caption calling the "Ghost of Kyiv" an "angel" for downing 10 Russian planes. But it did not name the "angel", and media reports later said the photo used was an old one.

A Ukrainian military expert who requested anonymity told the BBC the Ghost of Kyiv story "has helped to raise morale at a time when people need simple stories".


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61285833.amp
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Do you believe your own tabloid type bullshit? How pathetic of a troll to resort to tabloid type rubbish as a source of reference.
 
Ukraine: it's time for America to step back.

Washington has serially underestimated the destabilizing role of its own military supremacy. Starting with the no-fly zones in Iraq, continuing with the herky-jerky interventions in Somalia and Haiti, accelerating in the former Yugoslavia, then exploding in Iraq and Libya, unprovoked unilateral (or thinly multilateral) interventions into the affairs of sovereign countries have been, on balance, a disaster. Iraq and Libya in particular helped destabilize the broader Middle East, kicking off the worst global refugee crisis since World War II, at least until Ukraine.

America's foreign policy establishment should have greeted the end of the Cold War as an opportunity not only to sew up loose ends in Europe, but also to abandon the Eisenhower Doctrine of effecting regime change and taking quasi-colonial military responsibility for securing the flow of oil in the Middle East. A world that feels like it has no responsibility for its own affairs is less likely to act responsibly. And an America that recognizes no limits to its power is more likely to act in corrupt ways, while encouraging the paranoid and malevolent to affix an ever-larger target on Washington's back.

Fortunately, American public opinion points to a way out of this cycle. Just as voters trimmed the sails of Wilsonian idealism and then buttressed the containment strategy throughout the Cold War, they have, with the understandable exception of the immediate post-9/11 period, consistently expressed opposition to U.S. interventionism abroad over the past 30 years.

From the demise of communism until 2020, every time the White House changed political parties the winner was always the candidate with the less interventionist foreign policy platform—Bill Clinton in 1992, George W. Bush in 2000, Barack Obama in 2008, Donald Trump in 2016. Both Obama and Trump shocked prognosticators by overcoming heavily favored primary opponents, largely (though not only) on the question of war. Even Joe Biden in 2020 campaigned on getting out of Afghanistan, which he, unlike the putatively anti-interventionist Trump, managed to accomplish, if incompetently.

For decades, interventionists—many of whom have a natural sympathy for the freedom-seeking Ukrainians of the world—shrugged off the massive gap between aggressive U.S. foreign policy and the less ambitious American electorate. John McCain in 2008 could not even fathom what the problem was with the idea of U.S. troops being in Iraq for another 100 years. This was a mistake politically, strategically, and morally.

International institutions without democratic legitimacy cannot long last. Responding to the end of the Cold War by letting post–World War II institutions run on autopilot was a recipe for alienation, giving populists of all stripes a reason to rail against faraway, out-of-touch elites. Biden, and foreign policy analysts of all stripes—interventionists, realists, America firsters—should realize they each have an opportunity to infuse at least some of their core values into a new strategic alignment that a majority of Americans are primed to find more congenial.


https://reason.com/2022/05/02/after-the-war/
 
It transpires that the regime's new Commissar is a Ukrainiac™ from way back

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In 2019, Nina Jankowicz was the 'disinformation fellow' at The Wilson Center in Washington, DC. As a Fulbright fellow in Ukraine, she advised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


October 23, 2019



Jankowicz: "For the past 30 years, the United States has been one of the loudest voices for democratic reform in Ukraine. We've provided a lot of financial assistance, not only military as is involved in this unraveling scandal, but democratic support.

And we've also provided important rhetorical support for Ukraine, especially over the past five years ... Also, you know, Ukraine plays an important role in the democratic development of the entire post-Soviet space. They have just had a really important election, this presidential election that brought in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It's a role model for the rest of the space, increasingly over the past five years. And I think that's an important investment that the United States needs to make and one that until recently has never been called into question."


https://theworld.org/stories/2019-10-23/ukraine-us-support-no-longer-taken-face-value
 
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