Vovan and Lexus Strike Again https://sonar21.com/vovan-and-lexus-strike-again/

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Ukraine has finally unveiled its 20-point peace plan they have been working on jointly with the US over the past few weeks:

1. Confirmation of Ukrainian sovereignty.

2. A non-aggression pact signed between Russia and Ukraine.

3. Ukraine will receive strong security guarantees.

4. Ukraine's military be will capped at 800,000.

5. The US, EU and the UK will provide Ukraine with NATO Article-5 like security guarantees. If Russia was to invade again, a joint military response will follow, as well as sanctions being reinstated.

6. Russia will enshrine its policy of non-aggression towards Europe (including Ukraine) in all its laws.

7. Ukraine to become a member of the EU.

8. A strong global development package designed for Ukraine.

9. Several funds will be created to address post-war, including reconstruction.

10. Ukraine will conclude a free-trade agreement with the US. The US will also seek a free-trade agreement with Russia.

11. Ukraine will not seek nuclear weapons.

12. US proposal: Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (currently controlled by Russia) to be managed by the US. Its power will be distributed three ways: 33% each to Russia, Ukraine and the US.

Russia and Ukraine have not come to an agreement on the nuclear plant.

13. Russia and Ukraine will implement educational programs in schools and society promoting the tolerance of each other.

14. Territorial boundaries: The borders will be drawn along the current lines of contact in Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson. Russia to withdraw from Sumy, Kharkov, Chernigov, Nikolayev and the Dnepr regions.

The remaining Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk region that Russia wants Ukraine to withdraw from will turn into a US-led "Free Economic Zone." 60 days after the agreement, Ukraine proposes holding a referendum on the Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk region.

15. Either side will not use force to change this agreement in future.

16. Russia will not prevent Ukraine from using the Dnieper River. A separate maritime agreement will be created in the future. Russia will retain control over the Kinburn Split (Nikolayev region), as long as it's demilitarized, therefore not threating Ukrainian commercial navigation in the Dnieper River.

17. A humanitarian committee will be established to oversee an all-for-all prisoner, wounded and dead exchanges. Both sides will return all civilians.

18. Ukraine to hold elections as soon as possible once the agreement is signed.

19. The agreement will be legally binding, and monitored by the "Peace Council," chaired by the US President.

20. Once the agreement is signed, a complete air, sea and land ceasefire will come into effect immediately.

—❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸/✝️ NEW: The Israeli Police harassed and arrested Palestinian Christians who were celebrating Christmas in Haifa

Earlier today, Israeli settlers set fire to a Christmas tree in the West Bank, and IDF soldiers beat up an elderly man in Bethlehem who carried a cross pendant around his neck.

@Middle_East_Spectator

🎄 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Israeli settlers set fire to the Christmas tree in Bethlehem.

🔶️ Bethlehem is located in the West Bank of Palestine, ten kilometers away from Jerusalem. Christian pilgrims from all over the world come here on Christmas days. The center of their attention is the Church of the Nativity here.

🔶️ This time, after thousands of Palestinians were killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Christian community in Bethlehem is celebrating Christmas in a very limited way. While most people have decided not to celebrate Christmas.

🔶️ An incident happened here today. Some Israeli settlers set fire to the Christmas tree. After that, the Christians and Muslims there started throwing stones at the settlers and drove them away.

https://vexwift.com/israeli-settlers-set-fire-to-the-christmas-tree-in-bethlehem/

Islam versus Judaism… How is Jesus Viewed? https://sonar21.com/islam-versus-judaism-how-is-jesus-viewed/

Russian military forces have seized the headquarters of the 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Kiev forces in Gulyaypole, Zaporozhye region, according to the "Divan" Telegram channel.

@Slavyangrad

December compilation of defeats of the enemy's manpower, fortifications, fire points, and equipment of enemy FPV units by the operators of the "Irkut" regiment of the "Mad Dogs" brigade on the Pokrovskoe direction

@Slavyangrad

We underestimated the value of supermaneuverability by getting carried away with the ‘first-shot beyond-visual-range’ concept.

For fellow Russian / Soviet aviation aficionados like myself, here is a good write-up by Right People Z about why Russia continues with super-maneuverability.
Not only is there very good reason for this, it is also super impressive to see aircraft defy physics.
If you haven't seen this yet, I suggest you do. MAKS Airshow outside Moscow every two years is the place to see them.

In the United States, there has been a sudden realization that the Su-57’s maneuverability is not just for air shows but a serious advantage in real combat.

This was written by one of the “serious” U.S. aviation expert, Harrison Kass, a former combat pilot and PhD in aviation.

In a recent article for a professional United States Air Force pilots’ journal, the same Harrison Kass wrote that they underestimated supermaneuverability due to the focus on beyond-visual-range combat. When the Su-57 is produced in sufficient numbers, its maneuverability will allow rapid nose-pointing for long-range missile shots and last-second defensive maneuvers. In defensive situations, post-stall maneuvering can help defeat incoming missiles, especially when combined with flares, jamming, and infrared countermeasures.

By the standards of a U.S. expert convinced that all future air combat will occur beyond visual range, this is progress. Incidentally, classic definitions of fifth-generation fighters include supermaneuverability as a required feature. As the F-35 entered service, both supermaneuverability and supercruise quietly disappeared from its description, because neither was realistically expected from the “Penguin.”

Another factor to take into account is that the peak usefulness of stealth has passed. New technologies such as photonic radars and AI (increasingly present in sensor fusion and signal filtering) allow the mitigation of stealth characteristics and the detection of stealth designs at greater ranges.
This does not mean that stealth designs will cease to be important. In fact, it will become more and more common, as we can see with the growing use of radar-absorbing coatings. However, it will be less decisive than before.

Still, it is disappointing how poorly we advertise truly excellent designs. If the “Penguin” or the “Raptor” could do what the Su-57 can, it would be trumpeted nonstop.

@Slavyangrad

🇨🇳🇺🇸China has announced sanctions against 10 Americans and 20 American defense companies, including a Boeing subsidiary, over arms sales to Taiwan, Reuters reports.

Among the other companies sanctioned are Anduril Industries, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, and L3Harris Maritime Services.

"The Taiwan issue is at the core of China's fundamental interests and the first red line that cannot be crossed in Sino-American relations," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Pro-Ukrainian Map Indicates Virtually ALL of Guliapole Under Russian Control

▪️Pro-Ukrainian map still pretending Ukrainian forces hold Myrnograd near Pokrovsk admits Guliapole in Zaporozhzhia oblast has been nearly fully taken by Russian forces;

▪️This comes as a general collapse in Ukraine's fighting capacity rapidly accelerates, spurring a US-European "division of labor" under which the US is tasking Europe to fill in the gap left by dwindling Ukrainian capabilities;

▪️Ideally the US would like to force a Minsk 3.0 freeze to buy time to rearm and reconstitute both Ukraine and Europe's military capabilities including military industrial production - but feeding Europe into the proxy war next if Russia rejects a "ceasefire" appears to be the more likely eventuality;