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The few T-55 SVBIEDs ISIS used were fairly effective and Russians can go further by turning them into multiton thermobaric bombs, with enough forward applique armor to survive the trip to heavily defende positions. However their use as targets at training ranges is much more likely.

Considering they have thousands of later model T-55s in storage? Most likely sent to the training ranges to be expended as targets. Unless the rumors of conversion to remote guided VBIED are true.

That was years ago and it happened with the first prototype, apparently the driver had no experience with it and jammed the gears. Ukrainians did claim to have destroyed multiple during 2014 fighting...

For that corridor to be viable they would probably have to conquer the area from Donetsk to Dneper, which woul include several ugly urban battles, especially Maripol, Melitopol and Nova Kakhovka. The newly conquered territories would furtherly contribute to the woes that is Novorussiya and is...

Contrary to popular belief, Putin is not a mouthbreathing caveman, hovering over the globe, grunting ''Grug invade now, Grug invade now...'' Russia already controls more Ukraine than it wants to control. The support of Donbass rebels had two goals, one was securing enough of Donbass to force...

They would have to destroy well over dozen satellites, possibly even more than fifty to get such cataclysm cascade. Space is 3D environment with orbits of satellites ranging from several hundred kilometres to tens of thousands of kilometres of distance from Earth, not to mention that satellites...

Russian treatment of all this is peculiar to say the least. There were no public announcement of the test and there were also no public denial, they are simply keeping silent and waiting for it to blow over.

The same agencies who have a proven track record of lying for their political masters? Color me unconvinced. Red line is the deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine (beyond advisors that is). If the red line was orientation towards NATO, then they would have done full invasion in 2014. They...

And what would Russia gain from invasion? The territory they control now is settled by people who support Russia, adding more territory would add population that would not support Russia, which means guerrilla war which is something Russians try to avoid since the Second Chechen war. Worse, all...

Is that third or fourth invasion hysteria this year?

It would still need to get certificated by the relevant authorities and they would never do that, just like the EU.

Why would a slight chance of Poland getting nukes in 40-50 years change the Russian attitude towards it? That is true, it would drive Germany to align itself with Russia, Ukraine as well.

Since Russia and Belorussia are doing the Zapad exercise again, shouldn't be people raving about imminent invasion of the Baltics?

It's a BS fearmongering, while Russia probably has larger percentage of intelligence personnel than equivalent USA embassy, the 30% is absolutely ludicrous, unless there are three people there and one works for SVR. It's simple economy of scale, as both SVR and GRU have money and manpower...