Putin's war

Funny how the usual suspects have just noticed Israel. There was a deafening silence from them when Israel was dropping white phosphorous on Palestian children's hospitals.

Not a word when the intifada was going on, yet now when Ukraine is going up in flames they're saying look the other way.

The war in Ukraine has put many farmers in an economically difficult situation

lack of wheat supplies from the Eastern European country has diverted the global flow of goods.

Prices for feed, fertiliser and energy have risen sharply.

A real farmer wouldn't be at all affected by anything a whole four weeks in essence.

We obviously don't have real farmers in Europe.

Australia produces more wheat than the Ukraine. Do you even read the content of your posts?

Career farmers ride out years of drought.

The Su-34 is impressive to look at. The type borrows the airframe of the Su-27 but adds a two-person cockpit with side-by-side seating. The Su-34 can strike targets as far as 600 miles away while carrying 12 tons of bombs and missiles, including air-to-air missiles.

The 22-ton jet is armed with a 30-millimeter cannon and also boasts a multi-mode radar and a Khibiny electronic-countermeasures suite. In theory, the Su-34 is compatible with an array of precision-guided missiles and bombs, making the type roughly analogous to the Boeing F-15E, the U.S. Air Force’s own workhorse fighter-bomber.

But there’s a critical difference. Where the Americans every year purchase thousands of satellite-, laser- and infrared-guided missiles and bombs, frequently train with them and use them in combat almost to the exclusion of unguided weapons, the Russians all but stopped buying guided munitions years ago owing to their high cost and, post-2014, the effect of foreign sanctions on Russian manufacturers of bombs and missiles.

So while the Su-34 can carry guided munitions, it—and every other tactical warplane in Russian service—almost never actually does so. “The bulk of the 300 [Russian air force] fixed-wing combat aircraft massed around Ukraine have only unguided bombs and rockets to draw on for ground-attack sorties,” Justin Bronk noted in a recent analysis for the Royal United Services Institute in London.

That’s apparent not only in videos the Kremlin has released depicting the fighter-bombers in combat in Ukraine, but also in the type’s loss rate. Independent analysts have confirmed the destruction of four Su-34s in Ukraine. The Ukrainians reportedly have captured alive at least one Sukhoi pilot, Alexander Krasnoyartsev.

If four Su-34 losses are evident in photos and videos from the front-lines, you can safely assume additional losses have occurred but aren’t well-documented. Only one fixed-wing type has suffered worse in the current war—the subsonic Su-25 close-air-support jet, which flies even lower and slower than the Su-34 does.

It's been a whole month now, Walter. A real farmer wouldn't be at all affected by anything a whole four weeks in essence.

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