WOW!
In accordance with American doctrine, anti-aircraft defense has never been the real strong point of European armies. Indeed, according to NATO, it is the air force that must ensure the control of tactical air threats, thanks to a fighter and support fleet (Awacs, tankers), far superior in number, quality and training to the Russian air forces. However, the war in Ukraine has shown that it is no longer necessary to fly over the enemy's airspace to carry out tactical strikes, but also conventional long-range strategic strikes against the enemy's key forces and infrastructure. Thus, most of the destruction recorded in Ukraine, concerning command infrastructure, ammunition stocks, as well as civil infrastructure and works of art (energy, communication, etc.), was the consequence of strikes by Iskander-M and Kinzhal ballistic missiles, Kh-35, Kh-55, Kh-101 and Kalibr cruise missiles, as well as Geran-2 long-range attack drones, without the carrier vectors ever having to penetrate Ukrainian airspace. In fact, when faced with Russia, Europe is more exposed than ever, facing a threat against which it has not fully prepared itself. Indeed, today, the European armies align, together, less than 50 long-range Patriot, SAMP/T and S-300 anti-aircraft batteries, of which only half have anti-ballistic capabilities against short-range missiles, such as the Iskander-M.
Well, my not so dear European "friends", I have news for you--whole US fighting doctrine is obsolete and is from WW II. US concept of air war is altogether from BEFORE WW II and is nothing but modified pre-WW II (1920s) Duhe's ideas dressed in advanced radar and high precision weapons. NATO air forces are a joke which wouldn't be able to compete with Russian VKS which are networked from ground up and make NATO's, let alone Euro NATO's, air defense look like expensive toys. This is the price NATO pays today by exposing itself as a corpse, which chocked on its own Kool Aid about "finest fighting force in history" and Top Gun: Maverick.
NATO is a corpse. All that remains is the grotesque performance art of a diplomatic zombie stumbling from summit to summit, mouthing tired clichés about “shared values” and “burden sharing,” even as its core strategic logic lies rotting beneath the surface. The Atlantic Alliance, once the steel scaffolding of Western security, has become a hollow ritual. Its military readiness is an illusion. Its political cohesion is fraying. Its future, if it has one, lies not in revival—but in reinvention or replacement.
Meanwhile, Witkoff met with Putin.
He carried the message from Trump. We can only speculate. British military and its highest officer corps are a joke, now we know this because The Times exposed it, while trying to put the lipstick on the pig. I speak about it in my today's video.
