Off topic and yet closely related. Democrats and the Hate Diluted shows how angry I am so please, forgive me venting here, in this sacred space of truth and reason.
Thanks Trygve, great post. If not for people like you on Substack I'd likely throw in the towel and be joining the old ladies knitting circle at my fave coffee shop. I have a total of three people I can talk political realities with. And our pathetic media! The NYT is a marriage of Psychology Today, People Mag and Prevention Mag. Kamala, the Hillary reincarnation, started out literally working under a CA pol named W. Brown. The Onion can send their scribblers home because reality is now much more absurd than fiction.
Yeah, but according to either Ukrainian or Russian reports, or both, even with the sanctions, Russian natural gas is still flowing freely from Russia, through Ukraine, to EU NATO countries.
WTF?
Even more peculiar are reports that Ukraine is getting (importing) electricity from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. So, the news about rolling blackouts is just propaganda? I don't get it?
Rolling blackouts occur when there isn't enough power to meet demand. Some electricity may be coming into Ukraine but the rolling blackouts show that it's not nearly enough.
The reason for that is that the grid is not built for this sort of load transfer and even if it were then targeting 750kv substations destroys main nodes of the grid on the way to customers. On current videos from U. cities you can hear heavy buzz of the small power generators. You probably have huge diesel generators powering military installations anyway so the campaign affects mostly infrastructure and people telling them: you are at war as apparently the 2k/day losses (if one is to believe the stats from Russian MoD) are not enough for that. This btw is also my perspective - with such losses you cannot force the country down especially if all the supply sources are outside of the country. That is another matter however.
The point is: you cannot blackout a country even if you destroy all the power plants they will have generators for local operation. This is inefficient and cumbersome and very loud but the life goes on. You can see how that works in Libanon where power infra is not providing enough for similar reasons.
what will happen in Winter is another story. The fuel for the generators will have to flow and some repairs will be done but this will just slow everything down.
As for another issue: replacement for the grid - the high voltage systems are not only expensive but also difficult to build. I takes time and nobody has the capacity to fill up the destroyed ones which is similar problem to what U. has with artillery ammunition.
In other words - this is painful and expensive for Ukraine but it is not a "game changer".
Did the su-34 get rid of the glide bomb? Curious how much more maneuverable it would be without that load.
Love the fiber optic solution. Simple. Hope they save a few tricks for when NATO goes all in. Unfortunately those in charge seem unable to deescalate. Too many Hollywood movies.
The Iranians seem to have backed off the rhetoric about revenge, after consulting with Putin. I think going slow is the prudent course. The west is plummeting in so many ways, all by themselves.
Israel seems oblivious to world opinion. If it was possible to pick up the whole country and move it, just who would want them as neighbors?
"Did the su-34 get rid of the glide bomb?" Guessing they dumped that right at the beginning when the combat mission was cancelled. No way is a pilot going to try to evade an actively locked missile while carrying a lot of weight and drag in external ordnance.
"Do they fly with a contingency plan? " Don't know.
If you watch Russian news shows on TV (plenty of them have feeds on Internet) they'll have coverage of flight ops, for example, how every attack helicopter mission is shadowed by a guard team of special forces operators in another helicopter in case the attack helicopter gets forced down, so the inference is that ground attack jets also likely have contingency plans and backups in the air as well.
It's not a "plan;" it's what is known as (in the US), as an "immediate action drill." There will be several different immediate action drills that are designed, developed, and practiced to respond to immediate threats the pilots may encounter during missions.
The drills are practiced until they are almost "muscle memory" so that they are immediately executed upon detection of the threat. In the civilian world, pilots train with immediate action drills for many such threats: sudden loss of engine, engine fire, sudden cabin de-pressurization, et cetera.
Military units of all types train for immediate [re]action. In the U.S. Infantry thirty years ago, there were eight immediate action drills, such as "React to Ambush," "Break Contact," et cetera.
I hadn’t thought about it, but I’m sure it could be reeled back in. Since it would have to go back to a factory to be loaded back onto a proper coil, it’s probably not cost-effective to do that. However, if the same unit was launching many drones from the same location, they might want to reel back in the fiber optics just to keep from looking like the spider at the center of a web!
After seeing the video of one manoeuvring through trees I would imagine the probability of entanglement is pretty high - ok for the drone as it carries the spool. but not so good for retrieval. The modern battlefield is going to be awash with these silvery fibres strung everywhere. Surreal!
Russia still actively uses wires in their certain ATGMs (up to 10 km!) and still uses landline in any semi-permanent fortifications or command centers. Same principle with laser-guided shells. Krasnopol is laser guided and it's always works, Excalibur is GPS and it never works.
People who call this "outdated tech" are simply don't understand realities of combat. Jamming is real. Relying entirely on wireless communications is just suicidal.
No. Lays on the battlefield for scavengers. Somebody will find a use for it. I have a substantial role of guidance wire from WT missiles that I policed up once upon a time.
"Israel seems oblivious to world opinion. If it was possible to pick up the whole country and move it, just who would want them as neighbors?"
Good luck to any Israeli passport holder travelling abroad going forward. Who would tolerate these gangsters darkening their doorways after this demonstration of criminality against the Palestinians? My son, traveling across Europe with his gf a few years ago saw signs at various businesses advising that there was "NO service for Israeli nationals". Good luck operating in civilized society when everyone knows you're sick and a demonstrated war criminal/pariah. What a plague on humanity. Your reputation, lower than whale shit.
I had a r'rant in S/E Asia during the 2nd Intifada and also banned the filth. I placed a Palestinian flag at the front counter too. Like garlic to a vampire LOL
They were and are the rudest, pushy, aggressive cunts I have ever observed.
"NO service for Israeli nationals". What a liar you are. No such sign exists. What an amateur liar you are - kindergarten level.
Prove it. Surely in a world of 10 billion digital cameras, someone took a picture of this alleged sign. If such a sign existed I would have heard about it from the screaming liberals. Phony.
Go to S/E Asia and see for yourself, no PC laws there.
And in Patagonia guest houses and r'rants have been banning the scum as far back as 2000, not because of politics but due to extremely bad manners and penny pinching habits.
Whether it is true or not I do not know but knowing our old and new media I think it is very unlikely that you would know about such things. Alternative ones only if it caused of a wave of rage that became so big that we got aware of a single post in some distant corner of the internet. Not saying it did happen just that if it did we may not be aware of it.
Which really makes me wonder about Jesus' reference to "the synagogue of Satan".....The ADL also makes me scratch my head. For such a tiny number of people, Jews do have an inordinant amount of influence, power and wealth. Any criticism of Jews; not just in the corporate sense but on an individual level; is instantly labeled "anti-Semitism". That label can get you put out of polite society, shuts down the conversation, maligns the messenger, and automatically exonerates the intended target of the criticism, even and especially when it is fully deserved. What a convenient arrangement.
Maybe even earlier if Ukrainians get freezing cold this winter, with no electricy, heat and water, and they decide it's time to depose Zelensky and his junta!
The Russians thus far have largely refrained from massive strikes in winter for humanitarian purposes, so I can’t imagine them going hard out this winter. But maybe, and hopefully, I’m wrong
Russians do not need to hit large transformers and power stations in winter. They can do it now, so that the Ukrainian population cannot blame Russians, but its own government for failing to repair the infrastructure hit by the Russians in late summer or early autumn.
The Russians have been remarkably restrained from day one. As Mr. Putin and others have repeatably stated, they did not start this, they do not want it, but now they are forced to carry-on and totally subjugate their territory of Ukraine - Remedy Lenin's mistake - all because of the warmonger Yankland and its NATO puppets.
It is clear despite the Western propaganda they are trying to minimise civilian harm, unlike their khokhol opponents.
There hasn't been an admission by the West or Ukraine that the Russians have fought this war with one hand tied behind their backs because they won't cause civilian loses - they are not like Israel.
The plan is to break Russia up into smaller parts and put better owners in charge. That plan applied to all the fascist governments and mega thieves instead, will get us heading back to sanity.
Yeah especially in North America. Hiding behind a fake name as you buy up all the prime real estate will be made illegal when heroic patriots get in charge.
Otherwise losing property rights will continue. All property rights! You spread misinformation, yup no more food fool! The truth contagion is getting traction!
It really would be beautiful, reality though will be, the Western taxpayers will have to pay for the losses of Blackrock and other Western 'investors', as it ever was. As we pay for the murdering and maiming of millions of people furthermore, till the west collapses.
The problem for the Ukranian civilians is that soon many won't be able to leave. No electricity and no fuel, they will be walking on frozen ground for hundreds of kilometres.
Banderites and zionists are currently the Best Friends Forever (BFF). Nuland-KIagan, Zelensky, Blinken, Yermak, Fink (BlackRock), and other "ethnic" activists continue hastening the death of Ukrainians and Ukraine'd future. .
Stepan Bandera's main slogan was against "moscal bolsheviks." Never mind that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1918 was the Jewish Bolshevik revolution, that resulted in a Soviet government that was 85% jewish (doesn't this remind of the aipac-owned US congress?) The well-enumerated white fuehrers of banderism feel themselves "westerners" by showing and breeding a rabid Russophobia a la their zionist handlers.
The same idiocy is going on in Poland, where the Russophobic compradors in the Polish government behave as if dedicated to the restoration of the Jewish Golden Age in Poland. During this Jewish Golden Age, the Christian peasantry begged Russia to become their savior from the greedy Polish landlords and the landlords' greedy jewish managers. That was in the 17th century. In the next century, the weakened Poland ceased to exist as a state. But the likes of Tusk and Sikorsky-Applebaum are not interested in the well-being of Slavs. Not at all.
In the videos from U. cities you can hear the sound of small power generators.
I think the actual help in the war effort would be fuel and train lines. Alas none of that is a game changer. The war will last as long as the deep state in US wants it to last.
As with most of things - you will not stop it completely just because you blocked delivery of one ingredient from some directions. Ukraine is big and the diesel generators are coming from the West. As for locomotives they are going to get some from the West (after they get adjusted to the wide gauge). I am not saying this will not have an effect. I would just refrain from claiming that something stops because of some major inconvenience. Germany was increasing production of military goods till 1944 while US and British bombers turned their cities into ashes.
Those diesel locomotives and generators won’t arrive in sufficient time and numbers, nor can the fuel to run them. Can’t use bandaids on a hemorrhaging femoral artery.
Perhaps as early as November? For with no electricity, no water, probably limited means to burn fuel, their people would not survive a winter.
Not that it would be a deciding factor, but if Trump were to win, Russia would probably prefer to have the advantage of Ukraine already taken. A Harris win would have no effect, would just be SS, DD.
I hadn’t thought of that but makes sense. Grab as much ground in the next two months as possible, and destroy infrastructure in the summer as to not be too cruel. Wrap it all up in January when someone with compassion for human life is in office.
The big problem is that Yankland is 100% owned and operated by kikes who care not for the lives of goyim.
Hopefully, Bibi the Butchers time is coming to an end. Yankland is imploding in on itself, the Marxists in the U.K. have their hands full, and at last a lot of Westerners are waking up to how they are manipulated.
Honestly, I just want the door shut on the festering shithole of communism that is Yankland. It is the direct cause of the majority of the world's problems.
Vote out the ZIONIST CONGRESS and SENATE on both sides of the isle. Vote the clapping seals out. Vote them out of the North; Vote them out even in the South. They are imperial, racist, bigots and murderers.
The prospects look pretty solid this winter for German and Polish lads acquiring Ukrainian girlfriends. Many thanks (/s) Yanks, Brits and French for effing up the world again. I watched a lot of Tucker Carlson's interview with Robert Kennedy, Jr last night
and as odious as the Orange man is, he seems almost preferable to the new Dem DEI teleprompter reader. We have sunk so LOW here in the U$$A. I lost a 21 y/o paratrooper uncle who got shot out of the sky in the Pacific during WW2 defending this shit show. Depressing...
I never once watched FOX or saw Tucker there but his channel allows one to see an intelligent, lengthy interview with the likes of V. Orban and Pavel Durov. While I don't agree with Tucker on everything, it's refreshing to see in depth, intelligent conversation that is essentially unavailable in U$ MSM,
The free-flowing long-form interviews allow ideas to marinate & percolate & build upon each other, like our conversations w/ soulmate friends. We amplify our thoughts in each other's presence: mindwalking
Compassion for human life? I take this to mean you believe the Orange Rabbi will stop demanding that the Polish war criminal "finish the job" and then place a trade embargo on Israel. You people are a cult.
it is the design - keep the war going - soylent green and 1984 are now being enacted and played out - as my nephew said I like that you stock stuff but you need more ammo,
Can't move electricity without transformers. Take out the large substation transformers and all goes dark. There are probably only a few hundred large substations in all of Ukraine. Shouldn't be hard to take out all of the large transformers. They are in short supply everywhere and hard to replace.
Also they will be of Soviet/Russian design and Western power assets, if available, would be incompatible. The largest transformers can weigh well over 200 tons and hard to transport even if they had spares. I'm surprised that the Russians have not hit the circuits that enable Ukraine to import power. Perhaps they did this time around.
"I'm surprised that the Russians have not hit the circuits that enable Ukraine to import power. " It's easier and more effective to hit the transformers. Wires are hard to hit and easy to string, while transformers are much bigger targets and extremely difficult to replace.
Towers can be welded up from lots of different metal stock, or they can be built from wood. They don't have to last for decades, just to get through the next winter, and in war time they don't have to be as high as you'd like for peacetime civilian infrastructure. But the essential point is that towers can be replaced with relatively low skilled workers using ordinary cranes and materials nazi-occupied Ukraine has on hand. Building large transformers requires specialized factories that don't exist in Ukraine, and building such transformers to match the Soviet standards still used in Ukraine's power grid is not something Western nations can do rapidly.
There's nothing that would prevent them from replacing transformers. After all, they're just rolled steel plates with some wiring. A lot of big transformers are also made specific for the task - they're not standardized models.
Control circuitry might be a bit more problematic, but nothing a good designer can't get around in a short time.
Yes it would take some time to manufacture replacements, but from the point of technology, there isn't really a problem.
OK, here's an example: "After all, they're just rolled steel plates with some wiring. "
That's like saying an Airbus jet is just formed aluminum sheet with some wiring. Granted, a large transformer does not have as many moving parts or subcomponents as a jet airliner, but it is way more than just steel plates and wiring. You need a large, sophisticated, expensive factory to make it.
I'd think the fact that no compatible transformers are manufactured anywhere in the west would make it near impossible to even find a replacement. I'm fairly certain that Russia will not be selling them any.
It's not a fact. For example Vinnytsia substation is brand new and has been built after 2014 - together with its interconnect to Hungary. No Russian equipment whatsoever. Somehow it all fits together with the Soviet 750kV backbone.
In commercial terms, it's what you would call "hard", meaning, expensive. But given the US is burning shiploads of cash in this affair, it is possible on the year-scale timeline - and they've certainly had that much lead time. It's also a hard to defend target that costs rather more than the munitions attacking it. Finally, the time to install a replacement alone is long enough to make a strike worthwhile.
Unfortunately Russia continues to do tit-for-tat piecemeal response, rather than shutting down the Ukrainian grid like NATO would've done and has done in any of its non trivial military adventures in the last 40 years
You're right about the technology of the grid but wrong about NATO. NATO has never attacked a first world country on the scale of Ukraine. The regions of Yugoslavia that were attacked are far, far smaller and even there NATO did not take out the entire electrical grid.
I was doing a little research on the 750kv transformers last night after I heard about the latest attacks.
Roughly speaking, they weigh 250-300 metric tons, excluding cooling systems, protective housings, and other ancillary equipment.
These aren't off the shelf components, if everything goes smoothy you might be able to manufacture, transport, install, test and run one in 18 months. In a bankrupt and war-ravaged country, it won't be anywhere near that
The judeo-banderites have finally brought Ukraine to her ruin.
Pity Ukrainian mothers whose children died for a scum like Nuland-Kagan, L. Graham, Wolfowitz, Zelensky (the "penist"), Biletsky (the traitor to Slavs), and the open fascists like Fink (BlackRock).
It's called just in time manufacturing. Most major manufacturers have eliminated the warehousing of products to maximize profits. Now most thing go straight from the manufacturing facility to retail outlets. Any hiccup I'm manufacturing creates an instant shortage.
Yes and no. It's counterproductive if you don't want to make enemies out of them.
But if they already have become fanatic enemies even though you did nothing wrong to them, if they are already waging war against you in an attempt to impoverish your country, destroy its government, and tear the country apart, and they are using their embassies as part of being co-belligerents in a war against you, then bombing their embassies is spot on, just like bombing any of their military camps used in the war against you would be.
Failing a nuclear war, there will be a reconciliation some day. At that point, the fewer incidents of direct attack on the sovereign states that are technically not at war with Russia will lubricate the process.
It's a similar logic as to why not confiscate Russian assets. There's a day after this war.
Liked because you're right, but when it comes to not burning bridges so that a reconciliation is possible, it takes two to tango, and the West is refusing to dance.
When it comes to reconciliation technicalities don't matter, even if you give the totally fraudulent claims the West is making the status of genuine technicalities.
For example, the West has committed numerous acts of war against Russia: providing weapons to killers for the stated intention of killing Russians is an act of war against Russia. Passing sanctions against Russia is an act of war against Russia. Actively assisting and participating in military acts that down Russian aircraft, sink Russian ships, and kill Russian civilians and military personnel are all acts of war against Russia. So are seizing Russian ships and the assets of Russian civilians and the Russian state and the US Navy destroying Russia's Nordstream pipeline together with NATO country help. The EU has already confiscated Russia's sovereign assets. If you can't use it or get it, it's been confiscated.
With all that "war on Russia" stuff coming from the US and its vassals, I don't think Russia much gives a hoot about reconciliation.
There's also the matter you raised, "failing a nuclear war." Russia would like to avoid that. The biggest stimulus right now for a nuclear war is how the West is delusional and has lost contact with reality. It's taking steps, like attacking Russia, that will lead to nuclear war based on the West's apparent belief that Russia's failure to react in a matter of days to Western provocations, like a panicked schoolgirl might, indicates Russian weakness and not Russian strength. It also seems to believe its own propaganda for morons that the Russian economy is not strong and that the West can defeat Russia using conventional weapons.
So there's value to Russian moves that are the equivalent of slapping a hysterical person to bring that person back in contact with reality. Direct Russian attacks on US and US vassal assets can function as such slaps. They can remind the West that Russia can and will exact massive pain from the West for the West's attacks on Russia. It is better for the world if the West regains contact on the basis of a few embassies (really, military headquarters) being wiped out than as a result of a nuclear exchange that kills a billion people.
Forget about the Minions like Camel, Macron or Starmtrooper
Here are the people who tell these minions what to do...
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Bohemian Grove exposed the politicians like Nixon and Reagan attending. Also the Captains of Corporate America, Hollywood Moguls - all Sodomites and Satanists.
3 is a bottom.
33 is bottom on bottom Sodomy
33rd Degree Freemasons, Jesuits, Aleister Crowley OTO – Ordo Templi Orientis, and the Illuminati illuminate their third eyes with the Sodomy Ritual injecting Kundalini Energy into the Base Chakra – rising up the spine into the head to Illuminate the Third Eye. Unfortunately Demons get injected too as with everything on the left hand path, the mind is overthrown. Psychopaths created to rule the world!
Don't blame the Mini Minions like the Camel, Bidet and Strauss.
This has all been planned for 150 years for the Anglo-American Empire to be taken down and China put in place.
Blame the Satanic 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschild Phoenician Mega Trillionaires who created an Unelected World Government - The United Nations with its partner the Rothschild Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum is in the terms of Mussolini, Fusion of the State with Corporations, essentially Undemocratic and Fascist.
The United Nations with its partner the Rothschild Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum uses Fake narratives like Fake Climate Change and Collectivism to mandate Agenda 2030 World Totalitarianism.
The Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaires who worship Lucifer, Satan, Baal, Molech, Cybele and Attis for 10,000 years before Christ are in charge of the minions like Starmtrooper, Turdow, Bidet, Camel, Richie, and Macron are all prostitutes, they sold out to Satan.
And the Presstitutes who say that it is just the minions we need to change, that it's the minions who are the problem. The minions have been bought by the The Satanic 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschild Phoenician Mega Trillionaire Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs and Warburgs.
The minions have been bought by the The Satanic 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschild Phoenician Mega Trillionaire Black Nobility who came from Venice, Rome, Babylon and Egypt like King Chuckie the Turd.
The minions just follow orders and follow the Satanic Rituals like Human Sacrifice, the Sodomy Rituals, the Castration Rituals, the Drug Rituals, the Whore of Babalon Rituals.
Everything old is new again - one of the very first air to air missiles (or was it an air launched drone?) - the German X-4 - used long thin wire guidance (of course, optical cables were not yet invented).
Wow what a waste. So they could have a mission to get the patriots to shoot at decoys. How many did they fire in this case? 2? Mission accomplished!
It proves the environmental movement is a sham. If it was real their #1 priority would be to stop all military operations, not stop most humans from living!
There's a great video online of the first Patriot battery that was destroyed by Russia. You can see the battery desperately firing off all of its missiles trying to stop an inbound drone swarm attack. And then there's a pause when the battery runs out of missiles and moments later huge explosions as Russian ballistic missiles annihilate the battery.
Since then, Russia doesn't even bother with the ballistic missiles. It's just $500 and $2000 drones killing $1 billion Patriot batteries. A Patriot is a pretty high value target so in recent months it's been Lancet drones killing them.
Well at least we know that the Ukrainians are able to lose or self destruct as many patriot missiles as they want to, even at the horrendous cost, because the US is so wealthy that it can supply such missiles as long as they are needed and not worry about the loss of millions, if not billions of dollars.
The real issue for the US is that they cannot scale industrially to manufacture missiles. A system, like others, designed, to sweat US taxpayers, for sale and to extract profit and not to fight a real large scale industrial war.
US don't have that many, only 60 to cover North America. A few left in Europe, in Belgium for exemple: zero (shape, nato headquarters, nato airfields, nukes in Kleine Brokel). Zero AD.
Microprose had a DOS game called "F-19 Stealth Fighter", later renamed "F117A Stealth Fighter" when that was revealed. They also had a follow-on game called "F-15 Strike Eagle II" that was based on the same engine. These games somewhat accurately depict notching a Soviet SAM battery.
Thank you! I was the cheering section for my three male grandchildren, together we fought off all sorts of evils. My primary role was to scream; Look out! Behind you! Duck, Damn! Epic!, that sort of stuff.
We began with Sponge Bob upside-down tracking along on his tongue along a river of pink slime, then on to Cap America, that Nazi fiend on the balcony was a real chore, Laura Croft was pretty good, ending out with the many resurrections of Assassins' Creed.
I sent them all this audio and info on games. Thanks again :)
I watched the SU-34 with a map overlay on YouTube. Pretty amazing, and a nod to the importance of maneuverability even in a BVR world. Wish we had a view of where the SU-35 flying top cover was in this
There's another recording of Su-34 against Patriot, this time callsign 321, complete with top cover and ground controller comments as well, published by Fighterbomber TG channel. Also against a Patriot and Nasams, very intense and enlightening.
When I saw your X post I really thought it was Maskirovka.
One thing about those drones: they’re good in a pinch but optic fiber cable if cut would need some back up wireless band to fall back on. Also this is a one usage thing so using it for surveillance is not practical.
Again in a pinch but as a permanent solution I wouldn’t count on it.
I was watching the trees they were flying between, and thinking it was lucky the cable didn't snag on them. It seems to be single use drones, unless they are doing surveillance straight up in the air.
It wouldn’t take much to create blackouts across the world. Power plants/substations etc rely upon material (switch gears, etc) that’s now taking months, sometimes years to produce.
Missiles of all kinds and black geran are continuing phase two last night and this morning, many airfields striked, Kiev and multiple cities ass well. Including hypersonic again.
And I am still being messaged by some one who thinks the war is in a stalemate.
Since it is obviously impossible to draw such a conclusion from the facts, you have to conclude that this argument is a way of front-running some push for negotiations to save Ukraine to fight another day. Ukraine is not going to exist to fight another day. It settled its fate with that incursion into Kursk which freed Russia from pressure from its own allies to moderate its actions.
Ukraine's only hope now is to be bailed out in the fog of a much a wider escalation which it is in effect demanding by demanding to be able to strike at Moscow etc. Russia intends the west to take home the message that such an escalation will be countered symmetrically and asymmetrically. It is now free to do this. So if this is what the west wants, it knows how to get it.
On the other hand, western powers could always hope to avoid a wider missile war by just sending in ground forces to bolster Ukrainians on the ground, and give that whole meat grinder exercise another new morale boost! The west would be showing itself quite content to sacrifice men on a grand scale to no good end at all and just before a US election.
In reality western powers have no intention of going here, on the ground or in the air, and certainly not before a US election. What a boost it would be to Trump's failing ratings as he declares himself the coming saviour of America's young men, if not the whole free world!
This western managed war was only ever about getting hold of Russian resources via the overthrow of Putin and splitting Russia-China. That has failed and there is no reason on earth for western powers to get bogged down in Ukraine let alone end up in their own bunkers at home. All they can hope for now is that Russia makes swift work of Ukraine so that a realistic surrender deal can be struck and Ukraine can put its 'just peace' where the sun does not shine. Or rather read for 'just peace', just, as in only, peace, peace without any hyperbolic frills. That is what is coming.
At that ime they were fearful of the Soviets, and made a provision for defence of the hinterland
Since the Soviets left, they have not a clue what to do, unless it is minor imitations of terrorism, air supreme bombing, or behind the lines lonesome heros
German Nazi influence had much to do with it. Andrei Martyanov has written about how all the US knows about the Eastern Front was learned from the German Nazis. Consider all the Nazis put in high positions in ZATO.
Note: I call NATO ZATO because it's a tool of the Anglo-Zionist Empire and enforces the "Rules Based International Order". AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱 is another tool.
Post Soviet Russia was a basketcase throughout its tenure under Yeltsin in the 90s. It was in no position to threaten anyone. Putin showed up only 10 years later and even he took several years to build the country up.
The intention was to present the European military bases as part of NATO, thus providing a semblance of collective legitimacy. However, in reality, these were essentially forward US military bases, extending the sphere of influence of the hegemon.
My nephew is 100% disabled from army. - shared that the guys he went throught boot camp with besides one are guys he would not want to be in ditch or any war situation with - "they are weak , sexually confused, nervous and entitled". his nichname was "Tank". 6'5". 280 lbs of crazy muscle - he even went so far as to comment he would rather dog for Ru due to the way USA has regressed etc
I am with your son. Putin has for over a decade been fighting the central bankers who want control of Russia's assets. When his actions are viewed under that lens, everything he is doing makes complete sense.
The entire active duty US Army is 10 divisions, which could never be assembled in one place. You could get nine and one Marine division together at once, I suspect, if you ignored all other global demands. I suspect they'd devote a maximum of 5 or so to an European conflict. The rest of the man(people?) power would have to be National Guard. Meaning very amateurish at first. A draft would have to be almost immediately instituted, as very few are going to volunteer to die in Ukraine.
All extant reserves would be used for training and replacements while the draft came online. Out of this all, you might be able to assemble about 300k - 10 divisions plus higher echelon and special units - to get on the ground, which would be completely dwarfed by Russian assets.
Doing anything like this is not politically feasible in the US, so it's a nonstarter. Getting a thousand body bags back a week would not play well.
You people and your Orange Rabbi crack me up. The only reason Trump is for ending the Ukrainian War is because we are losing. Were we winning he'd be balls deep into it just as he is in Israel. When the wealthy and powerful see a mn attractive land occupied by weaker people, they quickly try to invade it and subjugate the people. This is how the powerful have acted throughout history without exception. Trump does not stand on morality but instead on the calculus of traditional raw colonialism.
?? Where did I sign up to the Trump campaign? I just pointed up how he would exploit any US interventions right now. Of course the west is losing. When did it last win anything, or to any good? WWII? Nope. Russia won that for the good of the world. The west just coat tailed..
The only surrender deal will be "unconditional". Ukraine and the collective west have, by their actions and un-trustworthiness, assured that will be the final conclusion... Chip
"... peace without any hyperbolic frills. That is what is coming."
No, what is coming is just the opposite, more war. Not sure you read the news Jullianne, but Russia has officially excluded any sort of peace negotiations until the objectives of the SMO are achieved through military means.
And "to the last Ukrainian" is not a figure of speech, it is literally what the puppeteers in Washington, DC and Langley, Virginia want and probably will achieve, in this US vs Russia war.
I am not sure how your comment contradicts mine. Peace does not have to come through some complex trade off deal and rarely does follow one of those as at least one side intends to dishonour the deal and regroup.
Peace, true utter unconditional peace, comes by way of absolute utter defeat, yes, militarily. Call it more war if you like, but it won't involve western powers directly. They are not so stupid. it is just a question of how soon Ukraine gives up. Apparently Ukrainian soldiers are already laying down tools in the Donbas and going home (what is left of it), furious at how Zelenskiiy betrayed them and left them to bleed out while he pursued glory with an elite force he had withheld from them only to destroy it in that unspeakably daft Kursk invasion. The end is coming sooner than anyone including me predicted. And yes, there will be peace. Just as there was after Chechnya was defeated.
Soldiers fighting in the Donbas are pleading w/ Ukrainian lawyers to inaugurate lawsuits on their behalf against the regime in Kiev, so dire is their predicament & so little trust do they have for the military or their leaders.
"it is just a question of how soon Ukraine gives up."
Again: this is a US vs Russia war using Ukraine as a proxy. Ukraine doesn't decide anything, not even when to "give up" in your words.
"Peace, true utter unconditional peace, comes by way of absolute utter defeat, yes, militarily. Call it more war if you like..."
I call it war because that's what it is, you just can't deny it.
And unfortunately your comment and many similar comments only confirm that people all over the world have been brainwashed to accept as inevitable that more war is coming - which is exactly what the puppeteers in Washington, DC and Langley, Virginia want.
As I wrote elsewhere, the US/NATO-planned "Kursk offensive" has fully achieved its sole real objective.
Using a proxy to fight a war includes deciding when to dump the proxy, Andrew. Otherwise it ceases to be a proxy- your proxy, anyway.
As for Kursk, I have no idea what you wrote elsewhere but the Kursk objective was to take the NNP. That having failed the residual value is quickly turning into an own goal for Ukraine as is being demonstrated on the Donesk front where the fury and mutiny of Ukrainian soldiers is completing a collapse which is not being reported in the west- which does not mean it is not happening.
There is a lot to be said for the occams razor rule, Andrew.
No. Let's examine the facts. The Ukrainian (+ NATO "mercenaries") incursion into the Kursk oblast which occurred on August 6 reached Sudzha, which is a small town of 5,000 pop, and was stopped there for more than a week. Sudzha is just 8km from the border. The Kursk NPP (Nuclear Power Plant) is some 90km from Sudzha (by road). There was never any possibility of the invaders reaching the Kursk NPP.
The sole objective for the "Kursk offensive" was to Trump/China/India-proof the conflict in Ukraine by precluding any peace negotiations in the short and medium term, and it 100% succeeded in that objective within 72 hours.
If you examine the facts you will notice two things:
1. The Kursk offensive is a typical US/NATO planned "maneuver warfare" operation. It is using US/NATO ISR to guide US/NATO-trained mechanized infantry (including US/NATO "mercenaries") riding on US/NATO armored vehicles, directly receiving their battle orders from US/NATO "office generals" (in Ramstein or wherever) through their Starlink terminals.
And if it is a US/NATO planned operation that means it was planned months in advance, and simulated hundreds of times, so the planners knew there was zero chance of reaching the Kursk NPP. Meaning it was not an objective.
2. There are no military objects in this part of the Kursk oblast. Meaning there was no military tactical objective. So one may wonder whether there was any military strategic objective, for example, forcing the Russians to redeploy some forces from the Donbas. But as we know, that hasn't happened either. And again, the US/NATO "office generals" who planned the "Kursk offensive" knew that. In short, there was no military tactical or strategic objective. This has led some analysts to say that the Kursk offensive was launched purely as a (yet another) PR stunt.
Again, wrong analysis, as the careful planning of this operation reveals, this was not just a PR stunt, it's intended effect was clearly to put the Kremlin in a position where Russia is forced to continue this war indefinitely. As you yourself just wrote above.
Russia has no intention of continuing the war indefinitely. It is winning, and the only question now is how much of Ukraine it will take. In order not to have fight indefinitely out on those steppes which it does not want to do, that means the whole of Ukraine. Ukraine will be turned in the process, is already being turned, and will no longer be the enemy- of Russia, that is, but a whole new problem for the west.
The group telling you that Trumps ratings are failing, they are NOT, are the same group telling you that Russia started this war "unprovoked", that Putin is dying of cancer, that Russia is out of missiles, and that this conflict is a stalemate. Do you also believe that nonsense?
Gawd Henry, eye on the ball please. This not about who is lying about how Trump is doing. He can only gain even if from already soaring heights, if the neo cons plunge the US any further into any of the daft wars in which it is currently messing.
If you had read about the depths of the vote steal happening in the U.S., you would just ignore the comment. However, I think the gist is that the MSM are unable to present the facts of reality about anything, anywhere; which means that the narrative about Russia is all BS. I happen to agree wholeheartedly with your take on this, BTW. It seems clear that Russia is sending the message that they intend to completely destroy any ability of Ukraine to function as a country.
The RAND study the set the stake for the war from the US strategy perspective is titled “over-extending Russia.” That has always been the macro strategy; to extend Russia in a manner that stretches and burdens its military, civilians, economy, strategic partners. A fair analysis of the conflict should evaluate if the US strategy has (or may become) effective at over-extending Russia, and if so, what metrics or social domains are over-extended, and what the consequences are for weakening Russia.
https://open.substack.com/pub/maratkhairullin/p/russians-dont-give-up-revenge-will?r=2wmtxd&utm_medium=ios
Winter is coming!
Off topic and yet closely related. Democrats and the Hate Diluted shows how angry I am so please, forgive me venting here, in this sacred space of truth and reason.
https://trygvewighdal.substack.com/p/democrats-and-the-hate-diluted
Thanks Trygve, great post. If not for people like you on Substack I'd likely throw in the towel and be joining the old ladies knitting circle at my fave coffee shop. I have a total of three people I can talk political realities with. And our pathetic media! The NYT is a marriage of Psychology Today, People Mag and Prevention Mag. Kamala, the Hillary reincarnation, started out literally working under a CA pol named W. Brown. The Onion can send their scribblers home because reality is now much more absurd than fiction.
Yeah, but according to either Ukrainian or Russian reports, or both, even with the sanctions, Russian natural gas is still flowing freely from Russia, through Ukraine, to EU NATO countries.
WTF?
Even more peculiar are reports that Ukraine is getting (importing) electricity from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. So, the news about rolling blackouts is just propaganda? I don't get it?
Are we all being played here?
Rolling blackouts occur when there isn't enough power to meet demand. Some electricity may be coming into Ukraine but the rolling blackouts show that it's not nearly enough.
The reason for that is that the grid is not built for this sort of load transfer and even if it were then targeting 750kv substations destroys main nodes of the grid on the way to customers. On current videos from U. cities you can hear heavy buzz of the small power generators. You probably have huge diesel generators powering military installations anyway so the campaign affects mostly infrastructure and people telling them: you are at war as apparently the 2k/day losses (if one is to believe the stats from Russian MoD) are not enough for that. This btw is also my perspective - with such losses you cannot force the country down especially if all the supply sources are outside of the country. That is another matter however.
The point is: you cannot blackout a country even if you destroy all the power plants they will have generators for local operation. This is inefficient and cumbersome and very loud but the life goes on. You can see how that works in Libanon where power infra is not providing enough for similar reasons.
what will happen in Winter is another story. The fuel for the generators will have to flow and some repairs will be done but this will just slow everything down.
As for another issue: replacement for the grid - the high voltage systems are not only expensive but also difficult to build. I takes time and nobody has the capacity to fill up the destroyed ones which is similar problem to what U. has with artillery ammunition.
In other words - this is painful and expensive for Ukraine but it is not a "game changer".
>drone operator were forced into combat
Excellent
Did the su-34 get rid of the glide bomb? Curious how much more maneuverable it would be without that load.
Love the fiber optic solution. Simple. Hope they save a few tricks for when NATO goes all in. Unfortunately those in charge seem unable to deescalate. Too many Hollywood movies.
The Iranians seem to have backed off the rhetoric about revenge, after consulting with Putin. I think going slow is the prudent course. The west is plummeting in so many ways, all by themselves.
Israel seems oblivious to world opinion. If it was possible to pick up the whole country and move it, just who would want them as neighbors?
"Did the su-34 get rid of the glide bomb?" Guessing they dumped that right at the beginning when the combat mission was cancelled. No way is a pilot going to try to evade an actively locked missile while carrying a lot of weight and drag in external ordnance.
My guess too. Do they fly with a contingency plan? Talk about hazardous waste. It can't reach main target but this will do.
"Do they fly with a contingency plan? " Don't know.
If you watch Russian news shows on TV (plenty of them have feeds on Internet) they'll have coverage of flight ops, for example, how every attack helicopter mission is shadowed by a guard team of special forces operators in another helicopter in case the attack helicopter gets forced down, so the inference is that ground attack jets also likely have contingency plans and backups in the air as well.
It's not a "plan;" it's what is known as (in the US), as an "immediate action drill." There will be several different immediate action drills that are designed, developed, and practiced to respond to immediate threats the pilots may encounter during missions.
The drills are practiced until they are almost "muscle memory" so that they are immediately executed upon detection of the threat. In the civilian world, pilots train with immediate action drills for many such threats: sudden loss of engine, engine fire, sudden cabin de-pressurization, et cetera.
Military units of all types train for immediate [re]action. In the U.S. Infantry thirty years ago, there were eight immediate action drills, such as "React to Ambush," "Break Contact," et cetera.
Was thinking specific to the glide bomb. Seems just dumping a great big bomb willy nilly could backfire badly.
Reckon the fibre optic is retreated after detonation?
I hadn’t thought about it, but I’m sure it could be reeled back in. Since it would have to go back to a factory to be loaded back onto a proper coil, it’s probably not cost-effective to do that. However, if the same unit was launching many drones from the same location, they might want to reel back in the fiber optics just to keep from looking like the spider at the center of a web!
After seeing the video of one manoeuvring through trees I would imagine the probability of entanglement is pretty high - ok for the drone as it carries the spool. but not so good for retrieval. The modern battlefield is going to be awash with these silvery fibres strung everywhere. Surreal!
My take is like all things military the cable is not recyclable or in any way 'green'. Amazing amount of data over a fishing line though!
The launch areas would change dynamically. Permanent installations are like surface ships for a submarine, targets.
That has been the case since roughly 1960's. Even more than today.
IIRC, the old wire-guided TOW missile from the 1970s and 1980s worked on a similar principle.
Russia still actively uses wires in their certain ATGMs (up to 10 km!) and still uses landline in any semi-permanent fortifications or command centers. Same principle with laser-guided shells. Krasnopol is laser guided and it's always works, Excalibur is GPS and it never works.
People who call this "outdated tech" are simply don't understand realities of combat. Jamming is real. Relying entirely on wireless communications is just suicidal.
I said nothing about "outdated". Just that the tech is not, if I understand correctly, especially new.
I didn't say you said that it's outdated, I simply said that people use comments like "this is old, outdated tech" not understanding all implications.
No. Lays on the battlefield for scavengers. Somebody will find a use for it. I have a substantial role of guidance wire from WT missiles that I policed up once upon a time.
[roll], [AT - anti-tank]
"Reckon the fibre optic is retreated after detonation?" No, it's not.
I'd expect it to break when retracted, if such a thing were attempted. A 5km long fishing line is going to snag on something.
"Israel seems oblivious to world opinion. If it was possible to pick up the whole country and move it, just who would want them as neighbors?"
Good luck to any Israeli passport holder travelling abroad going forward. Who would tolerate these gangsters darkening their doorways after this demonstration of criminality against the Palestinians? My son, traveling across Europe with his gf a few years ago saw signs at various businesses advising that there was "NO service for Israeli nationals". Good luck operating in civilized society when everyone knows you're sick and a demonstrated war criminal/pariah. What a plague on humanity. Your reputation, lower than whale shit.
Which again makes me wonder if Hitlers final solution of deporting all of the Jews, was because of such behaviour.
Behaviour that just pissed everyone else off, causing them to be ejected from numerous European countries.
Well Judaism did declare war on Germany in '33. Look up the newspaper headlines from back then.
Great point. I’ve wondered exactly this.
Uncle A proven correct again....
I had a r'rant in S/E Asia during the 2nd Intifada and also banned the filth. I placed a Palestinian flag at the front counter too. Like garlic to a vampire LOL
They were and are the rudest, pushy, aggressive cunts I have ever observed.
These genitally mutilated often exhibit an unparalleled toxicity in comment sections.
Just like trannies.....
sin merchant chicken swingers - hated throughout all of history... for good reason.
Perhaps a disproportionate number of psychos per capita but not all Jews are! Zionists hmm? Have a Jewish bud, sweetheart of a guy. Smart as can be.
"NO service for Israeli nationals". What a liar you are. No such sign exists. What an amateur liar you are - kindergarten level.
Prove it. Surely in a world of 10 billion digital cameras, someone took a picture of this alleged sign. If such a sign existed I would have heard about it from the screaming liberals. Phony.
Liberals are currently the ones supporting Palestine, so I can't see them being even remotely bothered about a sign.
Go to S/E Asia and see for yourself, no PC laws there.
And in Patagonia guest houses and r'rants have been banning the scum as far back as 2000, not because of politics but due to extremely bad manners and penny pinching habits.
Whether it is true or not I do not know but knowing our old and new media I think it is very unlikely that you would know about such things. Alternative ones only if it caused of a wave of rage that became so big that we got aware of a single post in some distant corner of the internet. Not saying it did happen just that if it did we may not be aware of it.
Which really makes me wonder about Jesus' reference to "the synagogue of Satan".....The ADL also makes me scratch my head. For such a tiny number of people, Jews do have an inordinant amount of influence, power and wealth. Any criticism of Jews; not just in the corporate sense but on an individual level; is instantly labeled "anti-Semitism". That label can get you put out of polite society, shuts down the conversation, maligns the messenger, and automatically exonerates the intended target of the criticism, even and especially when it is fully deserved. What a convenient arrangement.
Victory in the summer of 2025. I can feel it
Maybe even earlier if Ukrainians get freezing cold this winter, with no electricy, heat and water, and they decide it's time to depose Zelensky and his junta!
The Russians thus far have largely refrained from massive strikes in winter for humanitarian purposes, so I can’t imagine them going hard out this winter. But maybe, and hopefully, I’m wrong
Russians do not need to hit large transformers and power stations in winter. They can do it now, so that the Ukrainian population cannot blame Russians, but its own government for failing to repair the infrastructure hit by the Russians in late summer or early autumn.
The Russians have been remarkably restrained from day one. As Mr. Putin and others have repeatably stated, they did not start this, they do not want it, but now they are forced to carry-on and totally subjugate their territory of Ukraine - Remedy Lenin's mistake - all because of the warmonger Yankland and its NATO puppets.
It is clear despite the Western propaganda they are trying to minimise civilian harm, unlike their khokhol opponents.
Great comment. I agree completely
There hasn't been an admission by the West or Ukraine that the Russians have fought this war with one hand tied behind their backs because they won't cause civilian loses - they are not like Israel.
All they can come up with is to keep replaying their Bucha hoax.
That’s my take… turn the power off before winter.
Everyone leaves, economy ceases to exist, recruitment goes to zero, logistics dies on the vine.
Z won’t last a month without electricity. This brings reality home to everyone in Kiev; no more partying.
Yep, and BlackRock & co continue to buy up land. Hopefully, all those deals will be nullified when Ukraine becomes 100% Russian again.
It would be beautiful to see Blackrock get screwed over, for their profiteering.
Ha, was going to post exactly the same.
They will howl about "international law", the same law US tosses aside for its "rules based order". Beautiful.
And for their demanding clot shots for all employees world wide that worked in companies they had shares in.
The plan is to break Russia up into smaller parts and put better owners in charge. That plan applied to all the fascist governments and mega thieves instead, will get us heading back to sanity.
Yeah especially in North America. Hiding behind a fake name as you buy up all the prime real estate will be made illegal when heroic patriots get in charge.
Otherwise losing property rights will continue. All property rights! You spread misinformation, yup no more food fool! The truth contagion is getting traction!
It really would be beautiful, reality though will be, the Western taxpayers will have to pay for the losses of Blackrock and other Western 'investors', as it ever was. As we pay for the murdering and maiming of millions of people furthermore, till the west collapses.
And us US taxpayers will foot their bill, after we howl into the wilderness if Congress for it not to happen.
And that is because in our oligarchic system, now, those who have the most money rule. You and I have absolutely no voice, even at the state level.
The problem for the Ukranian civilians is that soon many won't be able to leave. No electricity and no fuel, they will be walking on frozen ground for hundreds of kilometres.
They’ll crucify Z before then.
They may, but that won't solve the energy problem.
It would end the war allowing the energy problem to be solved.
I still cant understand why any Ukrainian would fight for that jew.
Banderites and zionists are currently the Best Friends Forever (BFF). Nuland-KIagan, Zelensky, Blinken, Yermak, Fink (BlackRock), and other "ethnic" activists continue hastening the death of Ukrainians and Ukraine'd future. .
Stepan Bandera's main slogan was against "moscal bolsheviks." Never mind that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1918 was the Jewish Bolshevik revolution, that resulted in a Soviet government that was 85% jewish (doesn't this remind of the aipac-owned US congress?) The well-enumerated white fuehrers of banderism feel themselves "westerners" by showing and breeding a rabid Russophobia a la their zionist handlers.
The same idiocy is going on in Poland, where the Russophobic compradors in the Polish government behave as if dedicated to the restoration of the Jewish Golden Age in Poland. During this Jewish Golden Age, the Christian peasantry begged Russia to become their savior from the greedy Polish landlords and the landlords' greedy jewish managers. That was in the 17th century. In the next century, the weakened Poland ceased to exist as a state. But the likes of Tusk and Sikorsky-Applebaum are not interested in the well-being of Slavs. Not at all.
In the videos from U. cities you can hear the sound of small power generators.
I think the actual help in the war effort would be fuel and train lines. Alas none of that is a game changer. The war will last as long as the deep state in US wants it to last.
Their locomotives are mostly electric. They can’t run an economy without electricity.
As with most of things - you will not stop it completely just because you blocked delivery of one ingredient from some directions. Ukraine is big and the diesel generators are coming from the West. As for locomotives they are going to get some from the West (after they get adjusted to the wide gauge). I am not saying this will not have an effect. I would just refrain from claiming that something stops because of some major inconvenience. Germany was increasing production of military goods till 1944 while US and British bombers turned their cities into ashes.
Those diesel locomotives and generators won’t arrive in sufficient time and numbers, nor can the fuel to run them. Can’t use bandaids on a hemorrhaging femoral artery.
A farmer doesn't care about veal calves' feelings.
Perhaps as early as November? For with no electricity, no water, probably limited means to burn fuel, their people would not survive a winter.
Not that it would be a deciding factor, but if Trump were to win, Russia would probably prefer to have the advantage of Ukraine already taken. A Harris win would have no effect, would just be SS, DD.
I hadn’t thought of that but makes sense. Grab as much ground in the next two months as possible, and destroy infrastructure in the summer as to not be too cruel. Wrap it all up in January when someone with compassion for human life is in office.
Yes, now that Kennedy has joined up with Trump the vote may be too big to rig.
Perhaps the Dems will content themselves with riots, and control of one house or God forbid two.
I doubt at this point that Russia, Iran nor China will give the Dems their WW3.
The big problem is that Yankland is 100% owned and operated by kikes who care not for the lives of goyim.
Hopefully, Bibi the Butchers time is coming to an end. Yankland is imploding in on itself, the Marxists in the U.K. have their hands full, and at last a lot of Westerners are waking up to how they are manipulated.
A bit too late, but there is some hope yet.
They are never going to let trump win
Honestly, I just want the door shut on the festering shithole of communism that is Yankland. It is the direct cause of the majority of the world's problems.
Trumpstein is a skilled actor.
Even if he did, Trump remains weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
Vote out the ZIONIST CONGRESS and SENATE on both sides of the isle. Vote the clapping seals out. Vote them out of the North; Vote them out even in the South. They are imperial, racist, bigots and murderers.
The prospects look pretty solid this winter for German and Polish lads acquiring Ukrainian girlfriends. Many thanks (/s) Yanks, Brits and French for effing up the world again. I watched a lot of Tucker Carlson's interview with Robert Kennedy, Jr last night
and as odious as the Orange man is, he seems almost preferable to the new Dem DEI teleprompter reader. We have sunk so LOW here in the U$$A. I lost a 21 y/o paratrooper uncle who got shot out of the sky in the Pacific during WW2 defending this shit show. Depressing...
I never once watched FOX or saw Tucker there but his channel allows one to see an intelligent, lengthy interview with the likes of V. Orban and Pavel Durov. While I don't agree with Tucker on everything, it's refreshing to see in depth, intelligent conversation that is essentially unavailable in U$ MSM,
The free-flowing long-form interviews allow ideas to marinate & percolate & build upon each other, like our conversations w/ soulmate friends. We amplify our thoughts in each other's presence: mindwalking
Compassion for human life? I take this to mean you believe the Orange Rabbi will stop demanding that the Polish war criminal "finish the job" and then place a trade embargo on Israel. You people are a cult.
Maybe sooner? This winter is going to be very hard on Ukraine, and the depleted, demoralized AFU.
I remember Scott Ritter in 2022 saying that the ukranians wont make it past winter. So I’m not too sure about these prediction
War forever. I can feel it.
it is the design - keep the war going - soylent green and 1984 are now being enacted and played out - as my nephew said I like that you stock stuff but you need more ammo,
The hits on energy infra is the perfect RF reaction in line with past attacks
Iincreasing overall pressure on Ukraine, both régime and citizens to realise there is no way out
Even NATO might figure this
Many senior NATO figures are openly saying that they need to get out somehow, just no-one seems to have any real ideas.
They may want to but know they can not as once Russia hits it's stride these scum will be hunted, caught, put on trial and hopefully executed.
I'd prefer them sent to gulags and the Russians organise open days where we can go and throw rocks at the ZioNAZI scum.
😲 wow, 180 turn. What happened to your doom and gloom comments about Russia
Julie You have me confused with someone else. I have never doomed and gloomed, in fact I counter the doomers with facts always.
"... just no-one seems to have any real ideas."
You misspelled "balls".
Can't move electricity without transformers. Take out the large substation transformers and all goes dark. There are probably only a few hundred large substations in all of Ukraine. Shouldn't be hard to take out all of the large transformers. They are in short supply everywhere and hard to replace.
Also they will be of Soviet/Russian design and Western power assets, if available, would be incompatible. The largest transformers can weigh well over 200 tons and hard to transport even if they had spares. I'm surprised that the Russians have not hit the circuits that enable Ukraine to import power. Perhaps they did this time around.
"I'm surprised that the Russians have not hit the circuits that enable Ukraine to import power. " It's easier and more effective to hit the transformers. Wires are hard to hit and easy to string, while transformers are much bigger targets and extremely difficult to replace.
I wouldn't thing the large towers to be so easy to replace. Even if they tried, RF could harass the crews with cheap drones until they gave up.
Towers can be welded up from lots of different metal stock, or they can be built from wood. They don't have to last for decades, just to get through the next winter, and in war time they don't have to be as high as you'd like for peacetime civilian infrastructure. But the essential point is that towers can be replaced with relatively low skilled workers using ordinary cranes and materials nazi-occupied Ukraine has on hand. Building large transformers requires specialized factories that don't exist in Ukraine, and building such transformers to match the Soviet standards still used in Ukraine's power grid is not something Western nations can do rapidly.
There's nothing that would prevent them from replacing transformers. After all, they're just rolled steel plates with some wiring. A lot of big transformers are also made specific for the task - they're not standardized models.
Control circuitry might be a bit more problematic, but nothing a good designer can't get around in a short time.
Yes it would take some time to manufacture replacements, but from the point of technology, there isn't really a problem.
Everything you said is wrong. I'm a retired electrical utility operator.
Like what for example?
OK, here's an example: "After all, they're just rolled steel plates with some wiring. "
That's like saying an Airbus jet is just formed aluminum sheet with some wiring. Granted, a large transformer does not have as many moving parts or subcomponents as a jet airliner, but it is way more than just steel plates and wiring. You need a large, sophisticated, expensive factory to make it.
The way how some people can miss the obvious oversimplification is funny.
They're not rocket science and they're being manufactured in a lot of places. Airbuses are not.
I'd think the fact that no compatible transformers are manufactured anywhere in the west would make it near impossible to even find a replacement. I'm fairly certain that Russia will not be selling them any.
It's not a fact. For example Vinnytsia substation is brand new and has been built after 2014 - together with its interconnect to Hungary. No Russian equipment whatsoever. Somehow it all fits together with the Soviet 750kV backbone.
In commercial terms, it's what you would call "hard", meaning, expensive. But given the US is burning shiploads of cash in this affair, it is possible on the year-scale timeline - and they've certainly had that much lead time. It's also a hard to defend target that costs rather more than the munitions attacking it. Finally, the time to install a replacement alone is long enough to make a strike worthwhile.
Unfortunately Russia continues to do tit-for-tat piecemeal response, rather than shutting down the Ukrainian grid like NATO would've done and has done in any of its non trivial military adventures in the last 40 years
You're right about the technology of the grid but wrong about NATO. NATO has never attacked a first world country on the scale of Ukraine. The regions of Yugoslavia that were attacked are far, far smaller and even there NATO did not take out the entire electrical grid.
Ukraine isn't a first world country
Whether it is anymore is a question, but it sure was before 2022.
I was doing a little research on the 750kv transformers last night after I heard about the latest attacks.
Roughly speaking, they weigh 250-300 metric tons, excluding cooling systems, protective housings, and other ancillary equipment.
These aren't off the shelf components, if everything goes smoothy you might be able to manufacture, transport, install, test and run one in 18 months. In a bankrupt and war-ravaged country, it won't be anywhere near that
Ziocons are elated. Anything goes to hurt Slavs.
The judeo-banderites have finally brought Ukraine to her ruin.
Pity Ukrainian mothers whose children died for a scum like Nuland-Kagan, L. Graham, Wolfowitz, Zelensky (the "penist"), Biletsky (the traitor to Slavs), and the open fascists like Fink (BlackRock).
We are a small town on the East Coast. Lead time for small generators: 72 months
The what? How did that happen?
It's called just in time manufacturing. Most major manufacturers have eliminated the warehousing of products to maximize profits. Now most thing go straight from the manufacturing facility to retail outlets. Any hiccup I'm manufacturing creates an instant shortage.
I call that just not in time manufacturing.
(tho I know what you mean, I was in automotive industry for some time and I came up with a manufacturing standard which is in use)
Oops. Small transformers. Sorry
I also got the word "small" is relative (a few hundred kVA relative at least). 😁😁😁
Which does not make it any less bad.
Should have been done long ago, along with every bridge, tunnel, railyard, transloading facility, TV tower, etc..
agree and then agree more !
And every Western "embassy" (really, military support center).
Bombing embassies is really counterproductive. Ask the NATO folks about bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
Yes and no. It's counterproductive if you don't want to make enemies out of them.
But if they already have become fanatic enemies even though you did nothing wrong to them, if they are already waging war against you in an attempt to impoverish your country, destroy its government, and tear the country apart, and they are using their embassies as part of being co-belligerents in a war against you, then bombing their embassies is spot on, just like bombing any of their military camps used in the war against you would be.
Failing a nuclear war, there will be a reconciliation some day. At that point, the fewer incidents of direct attack on the sovereign states that are technically not at war with Russia will lubricate the process.
It's a similar logic as to why not confiscate Russian assets. There's a day after this war.
Liked because you're right, but when it comes to not burning bridges so that a reconciliation is possible, it takes two to tango, and the West is refusing to dance.
When it comes to reconciliation technicalities don't matter, even if you give the totally fraudulent claims the West is making the status of genuine technicalities.
For example, the West has committed numerous acts of war against Russia: providing weapons to killers for the stated intention of killing Russians is an act of war against Russia. Passing sanctions against Russia is an act of war against Russia. Actively assisting and participating in military acts that down Russian aircraft, sink Russian ships, and kill Russian civilians and military personnel are all acts of war against Russia. So are seizing Russian ships and the assets of Russian civilians and the Russian state and the US Navy destroying Russia's Nordstream pipeline together with NATO country help. The EU has already confiscated Russia's sovereign assets. If you can't use it or get it, it's been confiscated.
With all that "war on Russia" stuff coming from the US and its vassals, I don't think Russia much gives a hoot about reconciliation.
There's also the matter you raised, "failing a nuclear war." Russia would like to avoid that. The biggest stimulus right now for a nuclear war is how the West is delusional and has lost contact with reality. It's taking steps, like attacking Russia, that will lead to nuclear war based on the West's apparent belief that Russia's failure to react in a matter of days to Western provocations, like a panicked schoolgirl might, indicates Russian weakness and not Russian strength. It also seems to believe its own propaganda for morons that the Russian economy is not strong and that the West can defeat Russia using conventional weapons.
So there's value to Russian moves that are the equivalent of slapping a hysterical person to bring that person back in contact with reality. Direct Russian attacks on US and US vassal assets can function as such slaps. They can remind the West that Russia can and will exact massive pain from the West for the West's attacks on Russia. It is better for the world if the West regains contact on the basis of a few embassies (really, military headquarters) being wiped out than as a result of a nuclear exchange that kills a billion people.
Forget about the Minions like Camel, Macron or Starmtrooper
Here are the people who tell these minions what to do...
THE SATANIC PHOENICIAN BLACK NOBILITY VOLUME 1
The Russell Family of England who were part of the Banking, Drugging, Slaving East India Company Committee of 300, Founded the Russell Marquis of Tavistock, Tavistock Institute, the Frankfurt School, The Fabian Socialists, engaged Marx with his handler Ambassador Urquhart to write Das Kapital in London in order to create Socialism and Communism to take over Russia and China for the Anglo-American Empire Founded by Lord Milner and the Rothschild Backers.
THIS SODOMITE BAND OF BROTHERS RUN THE DRUG TRADE OUT OF HONG KONG
THE BRITISH CROWN COUNCIL OF 13 - THE WORLD’S RICHEST AND MOST POWERFUL 10,000 YEARS OLD FAMILIES THEN,
THE COMMITTEE OF 300 RICHEST, MOST POWERFUL SUB FAMILIES THEN
THE POWERFUL SUB FAMILIES
ALL ARISTOCRATS FROM BLACK NOBILITY POWERFUL FAMILIES WHICH HAVE BEEN IN EXISTANCE FOR 10,000 YEARS CONTROLLING THE WHOLE WORLD.
INCLUDING THE 2000 TRILLION DOLLAR ROTHSCHILDS
"A Citizen has the courage to make the safety of the whole human race his personal responsibility" Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers 1hr 38mins
Understand, the 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschilds and Rockefellers Rule!! and have ruled, as Devil Worshipping, Human Sacrificing, Pedophile Ritual, Sodomy Ritual Band of Thebes, Band of Brothers, Phoenician Families, for 10,000 years.
If you want to know what the Satanic Owl of Sodomite Bohemian Grove meant to the Phoenicians, it isn't hidden. Both the Greeks and the Vikings were Phoenicians, and we know they both held the owl to be a symbol of wisdom. But the owl is of course also the most covert hunter, gliding silently through the darkness.
Bohemian Grove exposed the politicians like Nixon and Reagan attending. Also the Captains of Corporate America, Hollywood Moguls - all Sodomites and Satanists.
3 is a bottom.
33 is bottom on bottom Sodomy
33rd Degree Freemasons, Jesuits, Aleister Crowley OTO – Ordo Templi Orientis, and the Illuminati illuminate their third eyes with the Sodomy Ritual injecting Kundalini Energy into the Base Chakra – rising up the spine into the head to Illuminate the Third Eye. Unfortunately Demons get injected too as with everything on the left hand path, the mind is overthrown. Psychopaths created to rule the world!
Don't blame the Mini Minions like the Camel, Bidet and Strauss.
This has all been planned for 150 years for the Anglo-American Empire to be taken down and China put in place.
Blame the Satanic 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschild Phoenician Mega Trillionaires who created an Unelected World Government - The United Nations with its partner the Rothschild Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum is in the terms of Mussolini, Fusion of the State with Corporations, essentially Undemocratic and Fascist.
The United Nations with its partner the Rothschild Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum uses Fake narratives like Fake Climate Change and Collectivism to mandate Agenda 2030 World Totalitarianism.
The Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaires who worship Lucifer, Satan, Baal, Molech, Cybele and Attis for 10,000 years before Christ are in charge of the minions like Starmtrooper, Turdow, Bidet, Camel, Richie, and Macron are all prostitutes, they sold out to Satan.
And the Presstitutes who say that it is just the minions we need to change, that it's the minions who are the problem. The minions have been bought by the The Satanic 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschild Phoenician Mega Trillionaire Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs and Warburgs.
The minions have been bought by the The Satanic 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschild Phoenician Mega Trillionaire Black Nobility who came from Venice, Rome, Babylon and Egypt like King Chuckie the Turd.
The minions just follow orders and follow the Satanic Rituals like Human Sacrifice, the Sodomy Rituals, the Castration Rituals, the Drug Rituals, the Whore of Babalon Rituals.
https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/new-book-the-satanic-phoenician-black
If you weren't insane you might have better luck with your stack.
Those drones... wow
Everything old is new again - one of the very first air to air missiles (or was it an air launched drone?) - the German X-4 - used long thin wire guidance (of course, optical cables were not yet invented).
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196222/ruhrstahl-x-4-air-to-air-missile/#:~:text=Allied%20bombing%20success%20in%20Germany,guidance%20commands%20to%20the%20missile.
What is the cost of those patriot missiles that missed the su-34?
Around $3.7 to $3.9 million each. But that's original procurement cost and not current cost, which is likely much higher.
Ha Ha Ha....... https://usdebtclock.org/ ..... BRICS+ is going gang busters trade wise
Wow what a waste. So they could have a mission to get the patriots to shoot at decoys. How many did they fire in this case? 2? Mission accomplished!
It proves the environmental movement is a sham. If it was real their #1 priority would be to stop all military operations, not stop most humans from living!
There's a great video online of the first Patriot battery that was destroyed by Russia. You can see the battery desperately firing off all of its missiles trying to stop an inbound drone swarm attack. And then there's a pause when the battery runs out of missiles and moments later huge explosions as Russian ballistic missiles annihilate the battery.
Since then, Russia doesn't even bother with the ballistic missiles. It's just $500 and $2000 drones killing $1 billion Patriot batteries. A Patriot is a pretty high value target so in recent months it's been Lancet drones killing them.
Well at least we know that the Ukrainians are able to lose or self destruct as many patriot missiles as they want to, even at the horrendous cost, because the US is so wealthy that it can supply such missiles as long as they are needed and not worry about the loss of millions, if not billions of dollars.
The real issue for the US is that they cannot scale industrially to manufacture missiles. A system, like others, designed, to sweat US taxpayers, for sale and to extract profit and not to fight a real large scale industrial war.
US don't have that many, only 60 to cover North America. A few left in Europe, in Belgium for exemple: zero (shape, nato headquarters, nato airfields, nukes in Kleine Brokel). Zero AD.
I must admit that is comforting.
60? Do you mean 60 Patriot batteries?
It's trillions of dollars
That sounds about right!
Wow!
That audio got my heart pumping!
Can’t wait for SMO movie to come out😳
I think this should immediately be made into a video game!
You meant the Digital Combat Simulator? 😅😅😅
Grim Reapers channel on Youtube already recreated the encounter.
The amount of time I lack for things I would like to watch sometimes is larger
than the amount of time that exists. 😁
Oh, for f*** sake, not them...
"Hello valued viewers. Today we're gonna strap Cuddles to an ejection seat and see how would it go if he met paper airplanes in 1944" 😅😅😅
Microprose had a DOS game called "F-19 Stealth Fighter", later renamed "F117A Stealth Fighter" when that was revealed. They also had a follow-on game called "F-15 Strike Eagle II" that was based on the same engine. These games somewhat accurately depict notching a Soviet SAM battery.
Thank you! I was the cheering section for my three male grandchildren, together we fought off all sorts of evils. My primary role was to scream; Look out! Behind you! Duck, Damn! Epic!, that sort of stuff.
We began with Sponge Bob upside-down tracking along on his tongue along a river of pink slime, then on to Cap America, that Nazi fiend on the balcony was a real chore, Laura Croft was pretty good, ending out with the many resurrections of Assassins' Creed.
I sent them all this audio and info on games. Thanks again :)
That audio is Sphincter Puckering audio. Talk about teamwork brother!
It is, just fabulous!
As long as it's produced by Russia!
I watched the SU-34 with a map overlay on YouTube. Pretty amazing, and a nod to the importance of maneuverability even in a BVR world. Wish we had a view of where the SU-35 flying top cover was in this
Any chance you have a link?
ditto.. that audio video at the end was amazing..
https://youtu.be/tLkMTDMWJyw?si=OEkTesimu_slkc34
Millenium 7* also did a technical breakdown of the audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZhyeUa8pF4
Thank you!
There's another recording of Su-34 against Patriot, this time callsign 321, complete with top cover and ground controller comments as well, published by Fighterbomber TG channel. Also against a Patriot and Nasams, very intense and enlightening.
When I saw your X post I really thought it was Maskirovka.
One thing about those drones: they’re good in a pinch but optic fiber cable if cut would need some back up wireless band to fall back on. Also this is a one usage thing so using it for surveillance is not practical.
Again in a pinch but as a permanent solution I wouldn’t count on it.
I was watching the trees they were flying between, and thinking it was lucky the cable didn't snag on them. It seems to be single use drones, unless they are doing surveillance straight up in the air.
I wonder if it has rewind?
? What if it does snag? it will just pay out more cable as it must do anyway to fly.
The spool in on the drone so snags are not relevant.
It wouldn’t take much to create blackouts across the world. Power plants/substations etc rely upon material (switch gears, etc) that’s now taking months, sometimes years to produce.
lets start with the bankers' bunkers and mansions.
Missiles of all kinds and black geran are continuing phase two last night and this morning, many airfields striked, Kiev and multiple cities ass well. Including hypersonic again.
And I am still being messaged by some one who thinks the war is in a stalemate.
Since it is obviously impossible to draw such a conclusion from the facts, you have to conclude that this argument is a way of front-running some push for negotiations to save Ukraine to fight another day. Ukraine is not going to exist to fight another day. It settled its fate with that incursion into Kursk which freed Russia from pressure from its own allies to moderate its actions.
Ukraine's only hope now is to be bailed out in the fog of a much a wider escalation which it is in effect demanding by demanding to be able to strike at Moscow etc. Russia intends the west to take home the message that such an escalation will be countered symmetrically and asymmetrically. It is now free to do this. So if this is what the west wants, it knows how to get it.
On the other hand, western powers could always hope to avoid a wider missile war by just sending in ground forces to bolster Ukrainians on the ground, and give that whole meat grinder exercise another new morale boost! The west would be showing itself quite content to sacrifice men on a grand scale to no good end at all and just before a US election.
In reality western powers have no intention of going here, on the ground or in the air, and certainly not before a US election. What a boost it would be to Trump's failing ratings as he declares himself the coming saviour of America's young men, if not the whole free world!
This western managed war was only ever about getting hold of Russian resources via the overthrow of Putin and splitting Russia-China. That has failed and there is no reason on earth for western powers to get bogged down in Ukraine let alone end up in their own bunkers at home. All they can hope for now is that Russia makes swift work of Ukraine so that a realistic surrender deal can be struck and Ukraine can put its 'just peace' where the sun does not shine. Or rather read for 'just peace', just, as in only, peace, peace without any hyperbolic frills. That is what is coming.
Good comment
Except NATO does not have any amount of ground troops available for slaughter, certainly not in large or vast or impressive numbers
Some NATO countries show willing to sacrifice their people, but these are the tiny ones, who have very few combat troops
They bark on behalf of their beliefs and their ruling class, but can not actually do anything
It is not likely that the US will send any grunts, why should any other country bother
Agreed.
The problem of NATO (and it's actually a good thing) is that everyone wants war, but only if someone else is doing the fighting.
Basically, euro chihuahuas want the US to fight their war and the US wants to use the chihuahuas as proxies.
Yes- NATO was not designed for this
At that ime they were fearful of the Soviets, and made a provision for defence of the hinterland
Since the Soviets left, they have not a clue what to do, unless it is minor imitations of terrorism, air supreme bombing, or behind the lines lonesome heros
NATO should've been wound up along with the Warsaw Pact after the Soviet breakup, but MIC bureaucracies will always find reasons to carry on.
NATO should not have been created in the first place. Its creation was a result of the same kind of scaremongering as made a few countries join later.
"Russians are coming"
"Russians are coming"
"Russians are coming"
At no point of time were the Russians coming.
German Nazi influence had much to do with it. Andrei Martyanov has written about how all the US knows about the Eastern Front was learned from the German Nazis. Consider all the Nazis put in high positions in ZATO.
Note: I call NATO ZATO because it's a tool of the Anglo-Zionist Empire and enforces the "Rules Based International Order". AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱 is another tool.
Post Soviet Russia was a basketcase throughout its tenure under Yeltsin in the 90s. It was in no position to threaten anyone. Putin showed up only 10 years later and even he took several years to build the country up.
Absolutely Rex. Moves were made to dissolve NATO after Glasnost ended in 1990, but Yankland waded in waving a big stick and said no.
They got cocky after the end of the balance of MAD with the cold war and started the neocon adventures straightway with Bosnia.
The intention was to present the European military bases as part of NATO, thus providing a semblance of collective legitimacy. However, in reality, these were essentially forward US military bases, extending the sphere of influence of the hegemon.
Not Chihuahua but Toy Poodles!
Poodles are big... Maybe Poland would qualify 😁😁😁😁😁
Oh yes, standard Poodles and Bouviers are big but Toy Poodles are the size of Chihuahuas.
Oh yes, I forgot about them being so small.
Obviously, I am a cat person. It's a simpler life.
"Euro Chihuahuas"....oh the visuals, the sound.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Note of the day Award ..
My nephew is 100% disabled from army. - shared that the guys he went throught boot camp with besides one are guys he would not want to be in ditch or any war situation with - "they are weak , sexually confused, nervous and entitled". his nichname was "Tank". 6'5". 280 lbs of crazy muscle - he even went so far as to comment he would rather dog for Ru due to the way USA has regressed etc
I am with your son. Putin has for over a decade been fighting the central bankers who want control of Russia's assets. When his actions are viewed under that lens, everything he is doing makes complete sense.
My wife is from Kursk. I have been there in 2015. Moscow prior etc. there is a certain amount of self respect with the Russian people
The entire active duty US Army is 10 divisions, which could never be assembled in one place. You could get nine and one Marine division together at once, I suspect, if you ignored all other global demands. I suspect they'd devote a maximum of 5 or so to an European conflict. The rest of the man(people?) power would have to be National Guard. Meaning very amateurish at first. A draft would have to be almost immediately instituted, as very few are going to volunteer to die in Ukraine.
All extant reserves would be used for training and replacements while the draft came online. Out of this all, you might be able to assemble about 300k - 10 divisions plus higher echelon and special units - to get on the ground, which would be completely dwarfed by Russian assets.
Doing anything like this is not politically feasible in the US, so it's a nonstarter. Getting a thousand body bags back a week would not play well.
You people and your Orange Rabbi crack me up. The only reason Trump is for ending the Ukrainian War is because we are losing. Were we winning he'd be balls deep into it just as he is in Israel. When the wealthy and powerful see a mn attractive land occupied by weaker people, they quickly try to invade it and subjugate the people. This is how the powerful have acted throughout history without exception. Trump does not stand on morality but instead on the calculus of traditional raw colonialism.
?? Where did I sign up to the Trump campaign? I just pointed up how he would exploit any US interventions right now. Of course the west is losing. When did it last win anything, or to any good? WWII? Nope. Russia won that for the good of the world. The west just coat tailed..
Hey Jullianne don't forget the monster struggle of Grenada under their belt. Outright win so impressive and powerful.
Hilarious. Please dear sir do go and fight the war with your body your money. Your comment is something I would expect from a confused 7th grader.
The only surrender deal will be "unconditional". Ukraine and the collective west have, by their actions and un-trustworthiness, assured that will be the final conclusion... Chip
Agreed.
"... peace without any hyperbolic frills. That is what is coming."
No, what is coming is just the opposite, more war. Not sure you read the news Jullianne, but Russia has officially excluded any sort of peace negotiations until the objectives of the SMO are achieved through military means.
And "to the last Ukrainian" is not a figure of speech, it is literally what the puppeteers in Washington, DC and Langley, Virginia want and probably will achieve, in this US vs Russia war.
I am not sure how your comment contradicts mine. Peace does not have to come through some complex trade off deal and rarely does follow one of those as at least one side intends to dishonour the deal and regroup.
Peace, true utter unconditional peace, comes by way of absolute utter defeat, yes, militarily. Call it more war if you like, but it won't involve western powers directly. They are not so stupid. it is just a question of how soon Ukraine gives up. Apparently Ukrainian soldiers are already laying down tools in the Donbas and going home (what is left of it), furious at how Zelenskiiy betrayed them and left them to bleed out while he pursued glory with an elite force he had withheld from them only to destroy it in that unspeakably daft Kursk invasion. The end is coming sooner than anyone including me predicted. And yes, there will be peace. Just as there was after Chechnya was defeated.
Soldiers fighting in the Donbas are pleading w/ Ukrainian lawyers to inaugurate lawsuits on their behalf against the regime in Kiev, so dire is their predicament & so little trust do they have for the military or their leaders.
Ukrainian commander to soldier:
"Go to that trench and fire on any Russian you see coming at you."
Ukrainian soldier to commander:
" Please talk to my lawyer first."
Yes, I am sure lawyers in Kiev are lining up to take these cases to court - not.
In this instance, lawyers from Kiev can provide their services in trenches.
After being press-ganged on a street corner: one day you're arguing cases before the bench, the next day you're ducking live-fire
"it is just a question of how soon Ukraine gives up."
Again: this is a US vs Russia war using Ukraine as a proxy. Ukraine doesn't decide anything, not even when to "give up" in your words.
"Peace, true utter unconditional peace, comes by way of absolute utter defeat, yes, militarily. Call it more war if you like..."
I call it war because that's what it is, you just can't deny it.
And unfortunately your comment and many similar comments only confirm that people all over the world have been brainwashed to accept as inevitable that more war is coming - which is exactly what the puppeteers in Washington, DC and Langley, Virginia want.
As I wrote elsewhere, the US/NATO-planned "Kursk offensive" has fully achieved its sole real objective.
Using a proxy to fight a war includes deciding when to dump the proxy, Andrew. Otherwise it ceases to be a proxy- your proxy, anyway.
As for Kursk, I have no idea what you wrote elsewhere but the Kursk objective was to take the NNP. That having failed the residual value is quickly turning into an own goal for Ukraine as is being demonstrated on the Donesk front where the fury and mutiny of Ukrainian soldiers is completing a collapse which is not being reported in the west- which does not mean it is not happening.
There is a lot to be said for the occams razor rule, Andrew.
"... the Kursk objective was to take the NNP."
No. Let's examine the facts. The Ukrainian (+ NATO "mercenaries") incursion into the Kursk oblast which occurred on August 6 reached Sudzha, which is a small town of 5,000 pop, and was stopped there for more than a week. Sudzha is just 8km from the border. The Kursk NPP (Nuclear Power Plant) is some 90km from Sudzha (by road). There was never any possibility of the invaders reaching the Kursk NPP.
The sole objective for the "Kursk offensive" was to Trump/China/India-proof the conflict in Ukraine by precluding any peace negotiations in the short and medium term, and it 100% succeeded in that objective within 72 hours.
If you examine the facts you will notice two things:
1. The Kursk offensive is a typical US/NATO planned "maneuver warfare" operation. It is using US/NATO ISR to guide US/NATO-trained mechanized infantry (including US/NATO "mercenaries") riding on US/NATO armored vehicles, directly receiving their battle orders from US/NATO "office generals" (in Ramstein or wherever) through their Starlink terminals.
And if it is a US/NATO planned operation that means it was planned months in advance, and simulated hundreds of times, so the planners knew there was zero chance of reaching the Kursk NPP. Meaning it was not an objective.
2. There are no military objects in this part of the Kursk oblast. Meaning there was no military tactical objective. So one may wonder whether there was any military strategic objective, for example, forcing the Russians to redeploy some forces from the Donbas. But as we know, that hasn't happened either. And again, the US/NATO "office generals" who planned the "Kursk offensive" knew that. In short, there was no military tactical or strategic objective. This has led some analysts to say that the Kursk offensive was launched purely as a (yet another) PR stunt.
Again, wrong analysis, as the careful planning of this operation reveals, this was not just a PR stunt, it's intended effect was clearly to put the Kremlin in a position where Russia is forced to continue this war indefinitely. As you yourself just wrote above.
Russia has no intention of continuing the war indefinitely. It is winning, and the only question now is how much of Ukraine it will take. In order not to have fight indefinitely out on those steppes which it does not want to do, that means the whole of Ukraine. Ukraine will be turned in the process, is already being turned, and will no longer be the enemy- of Russia, that is, but a whole new problem for the west.
The group telling you that Trumps ratings are failing, they are NOT, are the same group telling you that Russia started this war "unprovoked", that Putin is dying of cancer, that Russia is out of missiles, and that this conflict is a stalemate. Do you also believe that nonsense?
Gawd Henry, eye on the ball please. This not about who is lying about how Trump is doing. He can only gain even if from already soaring heights, if the neo cons plunge the US any further into any of the daft wars in which it is currently messing.
If you had read about the depths of the vote steal happening in the U.S., you would just ignore the comment. However, I think the gist is that the MSM are unable to present the facts of reality about anything, anywhere; which means that the narrative about Russia is all BS. I happen to agree wholeheartedly with your take on this, BTW. It seems clear that Russia is sending the message that they intend to completely destroy any ability of Ukraine to function as a country.
The RAND study the set the stake for the war from the US strategy perspective is titled “over-extending Russia.” That has always been the macro strategy; to extend Russia in a manner that stretches and burdens its military, civilians, economy, strategic partners. A fair analysis of the conflict should evaluate if the US strategy has (or may become) effective at over-extending Russia, and if so, what metrics or social domains are over-extended, and what the consequences are for weakening Russia.