They seems average. They do have at least one significant flaw, that large air intake apparently suck up things from runway during take off, which is why the plane need clean airstrip and it could be hard to get when Russians can just strike wherever they want with missiles. And of course the enemy air superiority also make them abot as useful as every other plane, that is not very much after getting bombed while on land.
Lemmy thread about it is hilarious, you can observe as some libs are "Ukraine is winning" and "F16 are gonna change everything" but most of them already taken slow backstep from that position (took them barely 1,5 year!). You can already smell the post Iraq position shuffle in the air.
Remember that US destroyer which had all this shit, military grade, and still managed to ram civilian ship in Malacca Strait and kill some of its own crew in the process?
Stalin did killed Polish president like that. 10 April 1940 he planted some trees around aiport in Smolensk. Exactly 70 years later 10 April 2010 plane carrying Lech Kaczyński crashed on the trees around the airport.
Tensions were running high amid fears of unrest after Saturday’s presidential, parliamentary, and legislative vote, which saw Bongo seeking to extend his family’s 56-year grip on power while the opposition pushed for change in the oil and cocoa-rich but poverty-stricken nation.
Not to mention Gabon is still colonised and partially militarily occupied by France. Out of all definitions of "democracy", French colonialism isn't even close to one. Hell when even Reuters basically openly admits is oil and cocoa in French pocket you know that shit is real.
Or look the current issue of Prigozhin death. Even many people here and on Hexbear have no doubts FSB offed him, but writing this on some obscure messageboard is one thing and state officials saying it ex officio is another so Pentagon had to come in and remind Usians, inluding their officials, it's nothing confirmed yet. Btw i got no answer but downvotes on lemmy when i asked is Pentagon putlerbot rooskie propaganda now lmao.
Meritocracy actually works both in capitalism and socialism. The issue lies, of course, in what the "merit" really is - in both systems it's the merit in pursuing the interests of the ruling class - the proletariat in socialist countries and the bourgeoisie in the capitalist ones. So the capitalist meritocracy see the rich and corrupted people being pushed up - because they further the real purpose of the system, remember that the capitalism works, just not for us and the corruption is a deviation in socialism but a feature in capitalism.
Nah one of the oldest and most basic rules of mecenaries is "nobody fight for a dead man", even if he was really offed by FSB what will come next is just some stool shuffling and maybe new contracts.
"Flight"