If the chart is wrong, where is the evidence of death and destruction across Saudi Arabia? OR do you think that Houthi ballistic missiles are made up of plastic and melted before touching the ground?
The chart clearly shows that some of the ballistic missiles got through.
For example: One Houthi ballistic missile struck al-Estiqbal military camp in Marib on January 2020. This strike killed 116 and injured 100 in this sector. This strike is acknowledged and highlighted in RED in the chart.
These incidents gave the usual suspects to harp against Patriot systems in press releases around the world.
A ballistic missile could be missed while operating outside the "engagement envelope" of a Patriot system, or due to a Patriot system undergoing maintenance checks at the time. Anything can happen in a war.
Start using that brain in your head instead of questioning factual sources on illogical grounds.
Iraqi defectors and political dissidents convinced Bush administration to invade Iraq on questionable grounds:
• Iraqi codenamed Curveball 'invented' tales of bio-weapons• Man told lies try to bring down Saddam Hussein regime• Fabrications used by US as justification for invasion
www.theguardian.com
Mr. Chalabi is perhaps the Iraqi most associated with President George W. Bush’s decision to invade the country and topple its longtime dictator, Saddam Hussein.
www.nytimes.com
A former exile who backed US invasion of Iraq, Chalabi proved a controversial figure until the end of his life
www.middleeasteye.net
American troops
did not find biological weapons in Iraq
but hidden cashes of Iraqi chemical weapons in some locations:
The Pentagon kept silent as munitions left over from Saddam Hussein’s war with Iran found new targets from 2004 to 2011: American and Iraqi troops.
www.nytimes.com
The New York Times reports that between 2004 and 2011, American troops repeatedly encountered chemical weapons caches dating from the Iran-Iraq war. At least 17 U.S. service members were injured.
www.npr.org
Still, I admit that American decision to invade Iraq is a controversial development because it was based on faulty intelligence in part. Saddam regime was brutal but contributed to regional stability in its own way. It was toppled and eliminated on less-than-convincing grounds.
Nevertheless, your beloved honest Russians are a
STEP UP from the Americans in the aspect of "lying."
Before the ongoing war in Ukraine, Americans had warned that Russian forces will invade Ukraine:
UNITED NATIONS: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday how...
www.brecorder.com
As tensions escalate, Biden and Putin will speak on Saturday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
White House says there is ‘credible prospect’ of action as it urges citizens to evacuate the country
www.ft.com
But Russian officials were
openly rejecting reports that Russian forces will invade Ukraine:
As Russia amassed troops on the Ukrainian border, Russian leaders repeatedly denied that their country had plans to invade Ukraine. They blamed the U.S., Ukraine and others for the tension, insisting that Russia is a "peaceful country" and that it is "not going to attack anyone." Here we round...
www.factcheck.org
Russia will not start a war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has said, but warned the US and Nato have left little room for compromise after ignoring his demands. | ITV National News
www.itv.com
The Belarusian leader said that the United States' intelligence community has wrongly predicted that Russia would invade its neighbor.
nationalinterest.org
Chinese President Xi also knew that Russian forces will invade Ukraine.
The closing Olympic ceremony was held on February 20 in Beijing; the Russian invasion of Ukraine started at dawn on February 24.
www.scmp.com
US =
Correct
China =
Silent
Russia (and Belarus) =
Liars
Russian forces have committed numerous war crimes and blasted entire cities to ruins in Ukraine. But Russians have denied these reports at every step as well.
Thousands of Ukrainians have been killed in Russian rocket attacks since February 24. Still, Vladimir Putin claims his soldiers don't attack civilian targets. The facts show quite the opposite.
www.dw.com
Point? The side that you have chosen to trust, is not trustworthy at all. At the least, have the moral decency to condemn both US and Russia in these matters.
Your
newfound humanitarian concerns for Iraq ring hollow as well:
Ihab al-Wazni led protests in the Shia holy city of Karbala where pro-Iran armed groups hold major sway.
www.aljazeera.com
IRBIL/BOGOTA: Mustafa Makki Karim, 24, fled Baghdad for the relative safety of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region last year following a spate of death threats by pro-Iran groups for his role in the protest movement that erupted against government corruption and incompetence in October 2019...
www.arabnews.com
Two people were killed as security forces launched cross-border strikes at groups they accuse of fueling protests in Iran, which warned of more attacks.
www.nytimes.com
Some of the attacks by Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Iranian opposition party offices in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in late September struck towns and villages where the parties were not carrying out any military activity, according to local residents.
www.hrw.org
Your country is the greatest beneficiary of the American move to eliminate Saddam regime in Iraq in the region. Your country violates Iraqi sovereignty under one pretext or the other as well.
You literally speak Russian propaganda in this matter.
Ukrainian political crisis began in 2013 when then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych rejected
EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and opted for
Customs Union of Russia instead. This decision did not sit well with a part of Ukrainian population and protests broke out:
The largest showing of fury in 11 days over President Viktor F. Yanukovich’s refusal to sign political and trade accords with the European Union came as signs of fissure emerged within the government.
www.nytimes.com
Amid ongoing conflict, Ukraine’s civil society is working hard to enable reforms; support independent, accurate reporting; and help thousands of displaced people.
www.opensocietyfoundations.org
Yanukovych ordered crack down on the protestors but the movement grew to such extent that he chose to flee to Russia.
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Yanukovych convinced Russia to intervene and Russian forces annexed Crimea as well as engineered a separatist movement in Donbas in 2014:
en.m.wikipedia.org
Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)Full report here. The extent of Russia’s role in the ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine has yet to be determined. Thus far, Russia denies any direct involvement in the war. However, most Western nations do not share Russia’s position and assume that...
www.bellingcat.com
Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)The full report can be downloaded here The war in eastern Ukraine is known under multiple names; most often formulations similar to Ukrainian civil war or Ukrainian conflict are still used to describe the war. The implied characteristic as solely...
www.bellingcat.com
Exiled former leader sentenced to 13 years’ jail over 2014 protests and Russian invasion
amp.theguardian.com
On the other hand, it is true that the American Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland was in contact with Ukrainian politicians and her leaked call suggests that she was involved in suggesting who is acceptable in the new political setup of Ukraine:
Of-course, Russia took advantage of this controversial call to build its own narrative and make its moves in Ukraine.
Russia invaded Ukraine
because it wanted to restore former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych to power in the country.
Ukrainian media have reported that Russia has flown Yanukovych to Belarus and plans to install him as Ukraine's leader if its troops take Kyiv
fortune.com
Exiled former leader sentenced to 13 years’ jail over 2014 protests and Russian invasion
www.theguardian.com
Other claims are "smokescreen."
I was taking about "rocket sciences."
Drones are machines and can be vulnerable to "cyber warfare" in a conflict zone
if lacking in safety standards and protocols.
CIA was using an RQ-170 drone to spy on Iranian nuclear program since
2007. Iran was able to capture this drone
3 years later when it was operated poorly in broad daylight (complacency factor). Still,
credit is given where due: this is an achievement of the Iranian security apparatus.
This incident and loss convinced Americans to revisit their drone safety standards and protocols:
THE MIL & AERO COMMENTARY, 3 May 2016. If there's anything that continues to haunt U.S. military unmanned vehicle development, it's the December 2011 Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident...
www.militaryaerospace.com
So what is the next best thing to do if a drone is found to be
not vulnerable to "cyber warfare" efforts but operating nearby? Shoot it down:
The lion’s share of the U.S. drone fleet is easy prey for advanced air defenses. It didn’t have to be that way.
www.defenseone.com
But these losses do not affect American surveillance apparatus on the whole:
When one of the U.S. Air Force's secretive RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drones crashed along the Afghanistan-Iran border in December and wound up in the hands of the Iranians, it did only "limited damage" to a U.S.-led effort to spy on Iran's suspected nuclear facilities. That's one surprising...
www.wired.com
If you think that an isolated RQ-170 incident over Iran in broad daylight due to one-time CIA complacency is the benchmark of the American expertise in "stealthy sciences," then you are in for a rude awakening.
Post in thread 'B-21 Bomber can penetrate Chinas most advanced air defense systems: US Senator'
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/b-21...fense-systems-us-senator.766341/post-14343917
And speaking of "computer sciences," do you think that "cyber warfare" is an Iranian exclusive domain?
How Kaspersky Lab tracked down the malware that stymied Iran’s nuclear-fuel enrichment program
spectrum.ieee.org
In an excerpt from her new book, "Countdown to Zero Day," WIRED's Kim Zetter describes the dark path the world's first digital weapon took to reach its target in Iran.
www.wired.com
This is but a trailer based on known information on the web.
Step out from that fantasy bubble you seem to keep yourself in.
I am not sure if this is serious, but:
I also happen to know somebody who has visited NASA and seen the evidence up close.
What type of deluded people post in this forum...
