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Alistair Bunkall

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
153 total appearances

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Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

You know, they are going through massive attrition of personnel and a lot of the people they're putting on the front lines are not particularly well trained, if trained at all.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

Sometimes it's just, you know, it is incompetence and they aim it at something and they overshoot.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

So it could be all of these things.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

My gut feeling is that...

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

It's not deliberate.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

For all of the sort of pretty bold Russian rhetoric coming out the Kremlin, I don't think that this is the way that they would attack a NATO country.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

But possibly, you know, the Russians probe, they test, they push to see what the response is from NATO.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

And with the Americans at the moment and their attitude towards NATO, you can see why from the Kremlin's point of view, it wouldn't be a bad moment just to have a little test and see how NATO reacts.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

Well, I think it will in a way.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

I think, you know, the Romanians haven't been too rash in this and they haven't sort of started to talk about triggering...

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

Article 4 of collective defense or anything like that within NATO, which of course, you know, with them bringing everyone together and then you really could see divisions.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

They look as though they're being quite kind of measured in their response, at least initially.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

They've informed NATO, I think they're going to try and call for a meeting of the UN Security Council, which is, you know, it's not going to achieve anything, but it's a sort of an international forum to discuss.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

to register people's anger about it.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

And they've called for more anti-drone capabilities from NATO countries to be positioned in Romania.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

So I think, you know, at the moment, it seems like quite a sober, sensible response from the Romanians.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

Well, I mean, I wouldn't say limited.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

They have been building up as this threat has become greater and as the use of drones, particularly in that conflict, has become so prevalent.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

I mean, it is really a sort of an aerial drone conflict right now.

Today with David McCullagh
Drone hits Romanian apartments during Russian attack on nearby Ukrainian port

So you can put GPS jamming in.