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The western propaganda of the brave Ukrainians, holding back the Russians, is nonsense. Ukraine has been gutted like a fish.
The plan backfired horribly. This war has strengthened Russian unity. Has shown the Leadership in the Kremlin to be ruthless and unintimidated. Has not really hurt their economy. Nor their military. They used a whole bunch of obsolete cold war kit and still walked all over eastern Ukraine.
The highest number of kills in Attack/Fighter combined I personally know of would be Midway in tour 132: 1911. By looking at his killstats, almost all of them are A2A.
Total time in sortie: 289 hours. That's almost 10 hours in sortie every day each.
The invasion of Poland occurred specifically because Stalin and Hitler allied themselves. Hitler needed the continent under control, and Stalin greedily and gleefully jumped on the opportunity. Had Stalin not agreed, with a leering hungry eye on what would become the "eastern bloc", Hitler would not likely have started the invasion of Poland. Sure, it was never a solid or long term alliance, but it was an alliance, and for the reasons I stated. With the effects I stated.
Why do you think I try to tamp down negative talk and stuff like this thread? If ya care about AH ya wouldn’t be doing this, because its causing harm. Dickwood and Trippy din’t have ine single care about AH, they want it dead, exactly why they are doing this. So it us karma watching them realize their iwn major problems after all this infomercial crap.
The Masters of the Air event saw some pretty good escorting. But in general, you’re right.