Today the leading pro-Ukrainian analyst for Russian armor tracking in the war has released a fascinating new article which serves as an update on the long-debated topic of Russian armor losses, inventories, restoration capacities, etc.
My point was the damage was too extensive to have been caused by a drone. The explosion was "incident was triggered by the “depressurization” of the pipeline."
The distance from Ukraine to Kyzylyurt is nearly 1500Km which eliminates all but the long-range drone as an option and that is at its max range.
I imagine that means it is limited to a 60Kg weapon. While damage from such a payload should be extensive, up to now, the actual results in "real life" seem to be limited to oil storage tanks and buildings such as the woman's college.
I do not believe targeting from such a distance could focus on a pipeline.
In the end, the damage to the pipeline appears to be significantly greater than what was accomplished by previous attacks.
You're either bad in mathematics or you have no clue about the sheer scale of disproportional actions here.
Russia is the largest country on earth. Russia has 11 time zones, ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Do you really think it makes any sense to invest billions and billions of money to even try to build an air defense that manages to protect every possible target? Ukraine has a terror regime, there is no 100% defense against terror but life goes on in Russia and the standard of living for the Russian people is steadily increasing, despite the SMO against +/- 50 countries that support Ukraine.
I have pointed out on countless occasions that the problem isn't air defense, but the refusal to defend the country by eliminating the source of the threat.
Right now Putin has Russia lowered to the same level as Libya, Syria, Yuguslavia, Venezuela, Panama, and all the other helpless victims the US has beaten up on.
GM: "Right now Putin has Russia lowered to the same level as Libya, Syria, Yuguslavia, Venezuela, Panama, and all the other helpless victims the US has beaten up on."
Oh man, you sound like a boy. One wonders what happened to you... Do you need to be cured by NGO workshops? Or you like to play the same game of targeting the press? Journalism is either paid from below, by those who want to read the news, or paid from above, by those who want others to read it.
Btw, is your comment “organic” and according to the standards?
Putin is a goy toy just like Trump. Notice he never says anything bad about Israel and totally surrounds himself with Jews. He was installed by same Jewish oligarchs who installed Yeltsin so will not cross their ambitions which is to financial capitalize the world under their control. Putin is faking a war he didnt want to start...waiting 8 years until domestic pressure got too much...then hasnt really fought SMO after pressured into it. Almost like praying for a Vietnam scenario where people tire of it and demand withdrawal. He has not gotten that yet so Russians in the trenches will continue to suffer. House to house bloody combat until troops run out or mothers demand they come home.
Russia will 100% lose this war. Putin will guarantee it.
Well Russia refuses to hit operational rears of enemy or even stop the flow of weapons and fuels into Ukraine. Meanwhile Ukraine/NATO is able to hit operational rears of Russia. I dont see how Russia can win such a maths problem. It's like he's getting beat in his own war of attrition he supposedly sucked West into. It's fighting with two hands behind back on a pogo stick, West will rearm one day, at whatever leisurely pace they choose since none of it is bothered with, and crush Russia.
Your comment glosses over a lot of complexity. First is that a non-trivial percentage of Israel's population has Russian citizenship - some two million people. You're more likely to hear Russian spoken on the street in Tel Aviv than you are Hebrew or Arabic. One aspect of Putin is that he is a multi-culturalist; Russia and the sphere of Russian influence would be broken if Russia devolved to ethnic nationalism.
Another is that Putin has taken actions that have had bad outcomes for others historically. He banned government employment for people with dual citizenship. That almost entirely affected Jewish Russians, and also effectively banned Jews from working in the Russian government. The reason for that is that since the fall of the Soviet Union, almost all Jewish families automatically get Israeli citizenship for their children as a safety valve. And Israeli citizenship is almost impossible to give up once you have it.
Hitler taking the same action is really the proximate cause of WWII, more than anything else. Banning Jews who entered the German government during the Weimar period (unless they were WWI combat veterans) was the act that turned western Jews against him and the Nazi government - everything that followed was a snowball from there.
Putin is a philo-Semite, but he's also a Russian nationalist.
I remember in 2018 Bibi gave a speech during May Day and literally threatened the Russian people after associating Iran as Nazi germany. Putin just smiled. That's the billionaire class for ya.
The problem is that neither you or GM seem to listen to President Putin when he speaks.
It's utterly irrelevant that the Elenski figure is running around begging for money. He might does that for another five years, who cares?
In the end there is a new map of Europe and the RF has enlarged itself plus ruined the western threat due to what the Elenski figure is doing together with his current friends.
The brothers are at work for Russia for sure and Putin is among his brothers, that's why they like him a lot.
I listen very carefully. Then I see nothing happens.
And as you admit, neither you or Kreml does care if Zelensky is with us another five years. I think Russian people will care along the cities around Volga getting targeted every day…
Currently, Ukraine has somewhere between 2.5 and 3 million KIAs.
Nato over 60 thousand KIAs.
While Russia even with the most excessive counting is a bit over 200 thousand.
And of that, pre-2022 Russian military losses is just around 1/3.
What do you think happens when Ukraine has no more people to mobilise?
At the same time as Russia has tripled the size of its contractsoldier based army.
They literally have TWO entire ARMIES waiting to strike in the rear, and that's BEYOND the normal reserves.
"I think Russian people will care along the cities around Volga getting targeted every day…"
Of course. But the overwhelmingly vast majority of attacks are nothing but TERRORIST attacks, and the response to that from the Russian people is GO F URSELF and keep on living.
While the attacks attempted at the actual Russian economy and military infrastructure has barely any impact at all.
2025, all those fancy attacks on refineries? 40% of the damage was fixed in less than 2 hours.
Over 70% in 2 days. And over 98% in 2 weeks.
Also it has now been confirmed that Russia refined and exported MORE in 2025 than in 2022.
All those refinery strikes, has been confirmed to have ZERO actual impact on production. And even the most extreme estimates about damage caused still puts output reduction to less than 3%.
Remember when western media crowed and cheered about the devastating, complete destruction of the oilport outside of St. Petersburg?
People actually tracking the oiltrade later confirmed that NOT EVEN A SINGLE SHIP or shipment was delayed.
Do you know what the biggest effect on Russian economy/people that all these attacks actually HAVE?
A reduction in summer tourism to Crimea.
And take note, a REDUCTION, not a discontinuation.
All of that, and the only actually large effect, is a halving of the people going to Crimea for beach summer vacation.
People keep bringing up 11 time zones as if that means something. Yes, Russia is very big, but it is also very far north. If I pitched a tent on the north pole my tent would cover all 24 time zones.
Siberia is a big empty place, a good fit for all the huge AI data centers that consume huge amounts of water and energy, and make lots of 24/7 noise that people here in Kansas are complaining about. V.V.P. has already offered to host them.
Kursk did exactly what it was intended to do - shift the narrative from Ukrainian defeat to Russian incompetence and keep the aid flowing since nobody wants to back a loser.
Sure, but at what cost? 80 000 losses is the figure commonly reported. Just shows the stupidity of the aid givers if they ever considered that offensive successful.
That aside my point is that everyone, including the Russians, knows it is easy to invade Russia, it is what happens once you are in that matters. Nobody in the past 800 years has managed to take advantage.
Kursk was makeshift suicidal PR plan B, after mad dash to Kurchatov was repelled. By conscripts mostly, no less.
Yes, it worked on western ignorant populace for a while, but the end game was tens of thousands of casualties. This is what matters in real world, not what some EU russophobic libtard thinks is happening.
NATO can harass Russia for a while longer, but these are the half-energy punches of a man pinned to the ground in a headlock, being strangled. Russian is meant to overreact to the drone strikes
Man this was stepping into DC Bizarro World. I guess this is why we can't have nice things. Copium is real. The three day special op has lasted longer than WW1. It's an epic fuck up and failure, even if the Russians took Kiev tomorrow. Right now they're just asking for the rest of the oblasts - which shows they're settling for less even if everyone around here pretends otherwise. And they won't even get those, because they're fuck ups. The maps since 2022 speak for themselves. 🤷
Again. What was the purpose of the SMO and what caused the failure?
Why is there such a misunderstanding of how this war is being prosecuted? Always this impatience. It's like you are on the side of the Anglo-American Oligarchy.
Time Travel is problematic. There will be a lot of speculation about "missed opportunities" but they will be extremely short in envisioning what might be next.
SMO, war, military action. What's with deciding now to be a vocabulary policemen?
Right, NATO is hitting a girls school in multiple hits, that says it's intentional, that says it's a war crime, and they have been hitting down town areas of Donetsk and schools and cutting off fresh water to Crimea for 11 years now, all of which are war crimes, THAT is the NATO you are defending.
Russia has 6 advanced missiles at early stages of production, drones are developed constantly close to front line.
But those missiles warheads are older technology, so predictable outcome.
Unfortunately we don't know anything about American wunderwaffe.
Trump mentioned them during his first presidency, claiming it's his own invention, something related to nuclear devices without classical mushroom cloud.
He again said briefly just before Iranian war has started, in January, that America has them already.
The last week on June 5th Kushner and Witkoff have visited nuclear and weapons of mass destruction Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee where they meet about 100 top scientists. Supposedly they were talking about negotiations details with Iran, how to handle these 450 kg enriched uranium.
But their subject was actually attack on Iran using America's newest nuclear technology.
Similar, but much larger devises are already build for Chinese war on Beijing, Nanjing and another mega-city. That after China will stand in Iran defence. Just 3 devices to exterminate some 80% countrie's population. Shockingly scary because there is no way to detect, defend or hide from it. Deadly radius is 300 km. It's the Tsar Bomba x10 deadly effect, but compact size, to be delivered by missiles, without need to drop directly over target from heavy bomber.
Something about radioactivity and vaporisation of human flesh without damage to any material objects. Some more advanced neutron bomb.
Next to ORNL is Y-12 National Security Complex, where nuclear weapons are made. They are one body, likely connected by underground passages.
As Trump claimed in 2020 interview to invent that new nuclear device, those 2 devilish Zionists are authoring nuclear provocation in Israel, to justify nuclear attack on Iran.
They were planning it for years. Now final stages.
It would be those Laboratory scientists testifying to Congress, the United Nations Security Council. before formal USA and the other countries legal entry to war, thus allowing full mobilisation.
They need to stop global economic shift towards China and BRICS.
"Documents dealing with nuclear weapons policy were reportedly among classified material recovered from Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida home, by the FBI in August."
The Pentagon long ago DEI-ed the contracting process for development of new tech and weapons. By excluding white males from bidding on or receiving contracts, the US military limited its available talent pool and has fallen behind tech advancement in countries where the entire population is considered as a resource, not just certain "types" of people.
Universities also favor certain categories of human beings in their research grants and other selected funding.
So the owners of those companies are not white male.
But who are employees there?
Do you suggest, that those hundreds scientists, thousands engineers and technicians at Oak Ridge are exclusively not white males? That one is federal government company, not private
I worked at the Pentagon as a civilian employee, but spent most of my time correcting the errors in contractors' software and bugs in fellow (DEI) workers (and the glitches in my (DEI) supervisors' attempts to do work they were unqualified to perform.)
There's 4 people doing the work of one person - the military, the civilian, who does what the military commands, the contractor, who does the actual work under the civilian overseer/liaison, and then the civilian correcting the contractor's or boss's work. A gigantic waste of money when you multiply that by 100's of thousands of "Pentagoons."
I was thinking of applying for some contracts myself as I was already a couple years ahead, tech-wise, of Pentagon computer standards. But I found out ALL of the small-business contracts were "set-aside" for minorities.
Look, the bottom line is the government needs to get out of the business of social engineering. Government needs to stop categorizing human beings and then evaluating them on the basis of their classifications.
yup. my experience exactly. entire departments full of nignogs n'sheeit and they do absolutely nothing except act like they're the best shit ever and collect a nice fat check while talking about how hard it is to be black in america
Just for fun I sent a request for bidding on a DC government job. The work application I received was 27 pages, the questionnaire about my company's "Affirmative Action program" was 25 pages.
Who the hell made me responsible for what goes on in Washignton? How old are you? Who are you? What country are you in? Then I can critique you personally as if you are the reason for your government's and your country's corrupt policies. You need some basic communication skills.
Our foreign policy run by Witkoff, Kushner and Netanyahu. I think they're hanging onto Ukraine (Zelensky, Nuland, Blinken, Soros, etc.) as a backup if Israel goes down the tubes.
nah. ukranus is just the #3 most juish gov in the world behind israel and the JUSA
it's a project to hit Russia for divesting the juish oligarchs who took over russia after the collapse (like after weimar).
Dump probably thought he could get a quick win and improve his approval rating in Israel....the juze know EXACTLY how to kiss his ass to get him to do what they want...he's such a fucking rube and a tool and dupe.
Lutnick "you're the first juish president" and that so stroked Dump's ego...he envies them and wants to be one. idolizes them even probably for the number of times they've taken him to the cleaners in business
You are right. An insider propagandist making systematically absurd statements in a non-stop pattern constitutes an abuse of public patience.
Worse than a bad joke, but from time to time not deprived of a certain entertainment value. Amazing that some organisation maintain operatives of this genre.
If I don't care to waste my time reading straight up propaganda organs, why would I waste my time reading analysis of opposed & dueling propaganda organs?
Nope, still no Iranian "color revolution“. Thousands of Starlink satellite receivers and several shipping container loads of cheap Turkish made pistols & shotguns were wasted. Almost as if the CIA/Mossad were incompetent?
For Trump article 5 is not valid anymore in present military situation. He mentioned it before Iran attack, even more so after, when several countries shut their airspace for the USA bombers.
Ukrainian war is lost. Europe can continue it by themselves, with poorer outcome, then was expected earlier. They won't even be able to get any new armament contracts from the USA, the previous ones are on hold or will be outright cancelled or will be send decommissioned junk from scrapyard. Every month Europe is disarming itself. South Korea has backlog orders. Untrained Banderites are ineffective and fast losing armaments. Prices for replacement are rising, effect of energy crisis.
Americans are withdrawing 5000 troops from Germany, 1000 from East Baltics and 4500 from Poland. Those 5000 very recently promised troops to Poland will never materialise, it it just teasing. No Americans will die for Europe. Europeans will die for America and Israel's Promised Lands.
Trump is dismantling NATO. Talks behind close doors are tense, practically NATO doesn't exist as an organisation. It failed to give promised response to Oreshniks in May, as promised by Kallas, they are scared. Trump's participation in NATO summit in July in Turkey is under question. If he shows up it might be disaster for Turkey - no more promised F35's. While Erdogan knows that Trump is Epsteined by Natanyahu and by Putin (some human trafficking 20 years ago).
At some stage Turkey will be leaving after open conflict with Israel - the second strongest NATO firepower after the USA and the strongest in Europe.
Trump will try to build NATO 2, with whoever wants to play with him - mainly Scandinavians, UK, Germany, Poland. He will push them to try their luck in the Middle East, not only marine power in Hormuz and Suez Canal/Red Sea, but also ground troops in Iraq, Syria and those destroyed and left empty 15 military bases.
Moreover, Trump gives free hand to Putin in East Baltics and on the whole Eastern flank. In exchange he will take half Greenland., some Arctic and Antarctic.
Now Russia is waiting for China in Taiwan, within the next 6 months, to speed up Ukraine takeover.
First Russia will send a very strong warning to NATO with kinetic missiles at North Sea, to stop arming Ukraine. Despite, some NATO countries will introduce mobilisation and send soldiers to West Ukraine.
Meanwhile Flamingos hit the VNIIR in Cheboksary, and this time might have taken it out. Last time it got lucky -- the missile exploded on the street. This time there are two hits, and quite likely it wasn't that lucky.
And other Flamingos kept going past the Urals so we got missile alerts in the KhMAO and the YaNAO. Lots of juicy targets there.
What else happened during the day?
The former US ambassador to Ukraine bragged about how the US is helping Ukraien strike from the Arctic to the Caucasus and to the Urals and beyond.
Peskov said that "Russia will be very happy to have a US delegation come to Moscow at any time".
The combination of those two statements means that Peskov and his boss and everyone else involved in getting Russia to this position should have been handcuffed, put on trial and executed, tomorrow. The way Nicholas II was.
In US we are not there, we still have freedoms other people can only dream about. EU might be close to being there. But in US we are “increasingly” moving that way. Trump was supposed to reverse that and he has been successful is some ways, other ways not so much and in few instances he’s worse. Congress in US is bigger obstacle than Trump.
Putin made all kinds of threats against the west and followed through on NONE.
IT DOES NOT MATTER how much of Ukranus is destroyed when EVERY SINGLE THING they need to prosecute this war comes from the EU or USA
For FUCK'S SAKE they have said in Russia that they are "at war with all of NATO" - are they fucking ACTING LIKE THEY ARE?
NO. They have refused to strike and now the attrition is hitting them where they CANNOT simply absorb the losses. NOTHING is being attrited in the EU. NOTHING is being struck.
11 fucking timezones...SO WHAT. How many timezones in the EU have had missile hits on military production? NONE.
Russia has been very busy attacking US business concerns in the Banderan territories. And then there is that Iran thing ..you know...attacking US bases.
Yeah, it kind of matters. Russia has industrial capacity and the EU is still trying to arm for war while deindustrializing.
A quick look at the KIA and POW exchange rates tells a different story than the stupid shit you Banderan symps suck on.
jfc ANYBODY who calls bullshit on your kremlin cope is a fucking banderite?
wtf is wrong with all of you? Russia is getting hit DAILY, its people killed DAILY, NOTHING is being struck in the aggressor states. NOTHING.
Fucking US business interests!?! JFC...wow. They SURE SHOWED THE USA WHO'S BOSS, eh? They hit like ONE or TWO business affiliated with US onshore corporations and it's like busy hitting "US business interests" writ large.
Idiot, has nobody told you that the numbers of deaths are NOT RELEVANT? They don't MATTER and neither does territory- the drone attacks are GROWING into RF and they will CONTINUE to grow. RF cannot defend itself against them forever
You got one thing right, taking territory doesn't matter. The primary goal is to destroy the Banderan army and NATO's ability to supply it.
Yeah...drone attacks...increasing...winning .. with miniature warheads on them. Not so destructive. The Oreshnik however...
And then there is still that POW/KIA exchange rate problem the Banderans have.
There is no shortage of Banderan analysts that recognize there is a serious manpower problem in the Banderan territories. Drone strikes on oil storage tanks isn't going to change the outcome of attrition.
So tell me again, why did BlackRock write off several billion dollars in the Banderan territories? It's almost like Larry Fink believes the place is uninvestable or sumpthun.
the Oreshnik? lol...where is the BDA? They took a superweapon and turned it into an afterthought.
Bc the west realizes they are TOO CHICKENSHIT to actually use it for what it is made for.
POW/KIA- nobody fucking cares dude...do you SERIOUSLY believe that the judeocons give a flying rat's ass about the slavs that get killed in this proxy war? Freaking manpower problems are IRRELEVANT. The RF Army, despite these supposed manpower problems in AFU advances BARELY if at all and in some cases loses territory to counterattacks. I don't give a shit about Blackrock ju "investments", get it?
Russia cannot continue to lose infrastructure at an increasing rate. The drones DO NOT CARE about territory
The evidence for the first two Oreshnik strikes is in; unusable underground factories. And yes, it is being used exactly for what it was designed for.
Of course the Epstein Class that you support doesn't care about casualties you fucking moron. That doesn't change the fact that the Banderans are going to run out of men and NATO is running out of the materiél to support the army. No Banderan men, no defense and no counter-attacks.
You are the typica ignorant Epstein Class supporter, a few fireballs and lots of smoke from a few burning oil storage tanks means heavy damage to Russian infrastructure.
The Banderan territories primary purpose is to be used as a giant laundromat. It's secondary purpose is to be used as a platform to attack Russia. The third purpose is to be thoroughly looted. The Epstein Class (whom you admire) can't loot the Banderans when the best parts of the territories are already under Russian control. BlackRock has no reason to stay "investing".
Let me help you out; Russia is going to continue the debellation of the Ukraine. Only the most western Oblasts will be left and they will be occupied by Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland's "peace-keeping" forces.
The Banderan capital will be in Lviv, well protected by Poland. Can't say the same for the three insignificant Baltic states.
The evidence for the first two Oreshnik strikes is in; unusable underground factories. And yes, it is being used exactly for what it was designed for.
Of course the Epstein Class that you support doesn't care about casualties you fucking moron. That doesn't change the fact that the Banderans are going to run out of men and NATO is running out of the materiél to support the army. No Banderan men, no defense and no counter-attacks.
You are the typica ignorant Epstein Class supporter, a few fireballs and lots of smoke from a few burning oil storage tanks means heavy damage to Russian infrastructure.
The Banderan territories primary purpose is to be used as a giant laundromat. It's secondary purpose is to be used as a platform to attack Russia. The third purpose is to be thoroughly looted. The Epstein Class (whom you admire) can't loot the Banderans when the best parts of the territories are already under Russian control. BlackRock has no reason to stay "investing".
Let me help you out; Russia is going to continue the debellation of the Ukraine. Only the most western Oblasts will be left and they will be occupied by Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland's "peace-keeping" forces.
The Banderan capital will be in Lviv, well protected by Poland. Can't say the same for the three insignificant Baltic states.
Must be tough constantly having to fact-check Jewish propaganda. As we know, they have a policy of "get there first" by pre-emptively putting out putrescent garbage, most of which never gets walked back. And once it's out there amplified, it's done the damage already of reinforcing delusions.
I might be getting older but I am still mesmerized by the T-34. It was a very effective, easy to manufacture item until they sent them off with the auxiliary diesel fuel tanks. With a few rifle rounds the diesel tank was punctured, the fuel started to flow down to the ground and from that moment all was needed a single Molotov cocktail to send the crew to Heaven, And that was a rather painful trip.
Although they were declared winners at the end of WWII they were actually self-designated losers because of the absurd social order they hanged themselves with. Fully centrally organized economies cannot sustain a complex, large industrial state and this was properly illustrated after the war. China learned from the Soviet example and gradually walked away from full central control of the economy.
Complete BS. No other country has managed and industrialization in such a short time and such degree like the USSR. Despite being invaded and strangled by 8 foreign intervention powers including the USA and an inner counterrevolution scum that they have not round up effectively enough as showed after 70 years.
Nice story. But I have never heard of Germans using Molotvo cocktails. The Problem in the Soviet Union was quality. The 12V diesel engine was a great invention, sadly the quality was so bad, that they typically were gone after one attack. They even invented a special medal for drivers, that kept the engine for some hundret KM alive.
Germans had plenty of AT guns initially, then the Faustpatrone & etc., the Molotov cocktail was a Finnish winter war mixed drink usually served to accompany a T-26 flambe.
But I think the German AT point deserves more precision.
The Germans absolutely had antitank guns at the start of Barbarossa. The problem was that “plenty” does not mean “plenty of the right guns.” Much of what they had was suited mainly for older Soviet armor, not the T-34s and KVs that exposed the gap. The 37mm PaK 36 was common and still useful against BTs, T-26s, armored cars, and the like, but against newer Soviet armor it was badly outclassed. The 50mm PaK 38 helped, but it was not yet everywhere, and it still was not a reliable answer to everything the Soviets had in the field.
That is also why the Germans leaned heavily on a hodgepodge of captured Czech and French antitank guns early on. Some were useful, especially compared with the PaK 36, but pressing captured guns into service only proves the point. They were making do. And making do meant different ammunition, different spare parts, different carriages, different sights, different training requirements, and a supply system already being stretched thin across the Soviet Union.
That is why the 88mm FlaK became so important in the early antitank role. Not because Germany had no AT guns, but because their standard AT guns were not enough for the T-34/KV-1 problem suddenly in front of them. The PaK 40 finally gave them the gun they needed, becoming the main German AT gun from 1942 onward.
The Panzerfaust did not enter service until 1943, too late for the opening phase of Barbarossa. So it really was not a factor until later.
The same story as with the drones, no one could forsee that the tanks will get this massive, except the armchair generals. Hitler himself ordered that the tanks should get the 50mm, because he, as a civilian, could see much better into the future of military technoligy than the well trained army officer corps. Of course, the army ignored the "Führer" and built the tanks with the 37mm, leading to exactly the results you described in France and later in the USSR.
And this was not a problem unique to the German Army and military leadership. The USAAC "Bomber Mafia" labored under similar delusions. And, as usual, the soldiers in the field and in the air paid the ultimate price.
It's not so much that Russia has run out of T-72Bs to modernize into T-72B3Ms, but that the only advantage a T-72B3M built from a T-72B would have over a T-72B3M built from a T-72A (and both are designated "T-72B3M") is KE (kinetic energy) protection, which would be protection from solid metal armor piercing shells fired by other tanks, as the CE/cumulative protection of the baseline T-72B sans Kontakt-1 and T-72A are pretty similar, with any gap being closed entirely by the fact that the T-72B3Ms made from T-72As use Relikt instead of the standard Kontakt-5 on the turret, so continuing to use T-72Bs against Ukraine with its extremely depleted armored vehicle stockpiles is very wasteful, even if at bare minimum 5000 T-72Bs were made (or about double the amount of Russian tanks of all models and variants Ukrainian propagandists claim have been destroyed in all of 2022-2025 achieved through counting the same tank wrecks at least three separate times) and likely far more than that, even. It's just more cost-effective to use T-72As for this war where KE protection is basically irrelevant than T-72Bs, and this also saves T-72Bs for future wars where KE protection will be more important.
If the Armata program is over, the IFV are disappering, and the FAB bombs are cheaper and more accurate than artillery, no need to be a genius to forsee that Russia MUST and is going to rearrange its armor production entirely in the coming years. Another branch drone warfare kicked being air assaults and sea disbarkments. Everything is about granular targetting, behind the lines terrorism, narrative building, satellite linked internet, weather modification, maritime and land siege, social psyops, political infiltration and intelligence and so on.
The Saudi-Ukraine integration of Ukrainian drone expertise was a PR flourish that was quickly wound up once it failed to generate (at the very least, Saudi) takers for a shed load of rubbish debt yet to be floated because there are no takers- no market for this stuff, Germany already having had to bail out a bucket of bad debt it missold (that was what the unilateral 20 billion bung was for, and to keep Ukraine momentarily afloat.)
Without cast iron guarantees from backers with the dosh, to underwrite the rubbish paper, guarantees that will survive any legal challenge- not the promise of Russian reparations, seized assets, blah- the funding of Ukraine is about to go down the tubes. Once western europe stops paying pensions salaries etc it will all be over. Why the hell would Russia suddenly escalate to the point at which the US might be dragged in and some settlement imposed by a panicking international community, when it can just grind on to the point at which it will take Keeev, hold elections and embrace all Ukraine in the RF fold. This is how this will end.
It isn't about what you or I think the US can do. It is about what the europeans and especially their deluded fringe Baltic states think the US can do... walk on water, TJ.
As for what Russia is doing- winning, TJ, where it counts.
"the funding is showing no signs of slowing or disappearing"
Ah, no, that's not so. The US has bailed and the EU has failed to deliver the first big tranche of the mighty... what was it? 90 billion euros? it promised. So the US contribution has literally "disappeared" and the EU contribution has already "slowed."
no there aren't. Kiev is functioning normally...life has gone on for a lot of Ukraniacs, in Lvov and elsewhere too, at near-normal pace. Sure they have power outages and whatnot but everyone didn't freeze to fucking death like we were ASSURED they would last winter Victory was right around the corner! Collapse and capitulation with it.
It's like you people are existing in a parallel state of reality which is really NOT reality, just like the fucking NAFO crowd. If someone tells you ANYTHING you don't want to hear, you accuse them of being a banderite...there are a few of us telling the DOWN THE LINE TRUTH on here and I am in back to back messages accused of kremlin cope and being a banderite
it is NO WONDER the world is so fucked up with the likes of you people around. For the record I don't consume western media- i get my info on strikes from RUSSIAN CHANNELS, mfers. The Russians still actually permit documentation of shit that got hit in Russia. AFU prohibits it but stuff still gets through.
Russian channels exhibit the same cope about things and same unwillingness to call it like it is....however they do print what those who are say
"Sure they have power outages and whatnot but everyone didn't freeze to fucking death like we were ASSURED they would last winter Victory was right around the corner! Collapse and capitulation with it."
Nobody but propagandists who think their audience is full of morons said the above. Not Russia and not anybody with the slightest iota of knowledge about Ukraine, Ukraine's infrastructure, basic physics, economics, the Nazi regime, geography, and all those absolutely routine areas of knowledge that are totally opaque to morons.
"For the record I don't consume western media- i get my info on strikes from RUSSIAN CHANNELS, mfers."
That you get your "info" from what you think are Russian channels doesn't in the least indicate that either a) those channels are really Russian and not Kiev regime or Western fakery posing as Russian, b) that the channels you read are accurate or c) that you have the cognitive capacity to understand accurately what they say.
Russia is an extremely diverse country and, just like the West, Internet in Russia draws the deluded and deranged like drunks to free booze. For many centuries there has been a very strong contingent of people in Russia who believe in absolute nonsense, like alternative history (Atlantis was a real thing), the most extreme and stupid fake science and so on.
So there are endless channels in Russia that prey on gullible fools, and that includes endless channels in Russia that prey on people who are abject fools when it comes to any military topic in general and the conflict in Ukraine specifically.
And then there are all the Westerners, bereft of education and often intelligence to boot, who read even the accurate Russian channels and come away with an "understanding" that's diametrically opposite to what was written.
So no, nobody with real intelligence, experience and insight into what's going on expected people in Ukraine to "freeze to fucking death." That was a Western propaganda-for-morons meme, and you seem to have picked up on it. Doh.
I see your strategy when somebody points out that you've told a lie is to try to change the subject.
No, that doesn't work with people who are not morons. You lied when you said "the funding is showing no signs of slowing or disappearing." I correctly pointed out that you lied.
That's a very different matter than whether the Kiev regime's society has or has not collapsed, or to what degree it is headed for collapse. In point of fact, it has not collapsed, but it is headed for collapse, a simple consequence of not being able to produce enough to sustain the Nazi society at the same time it has no hope of stemming continued Russian advances and systematic dismantlement of their war infrastructure, all while its cobelligerents (the US and various US stooges) run out of the resources they need to keep fighting Russia in Ukraine.
Lone suicide bombers brought down the twin towers. Ukraine can continue to take pot shots at Russia until western europe drops its support, which is coming sooner than folks think. The denouement is a ticking financial bomb in the heart of euroland, not any action in Ukraine itself, although that is where the real consequence will land.
The twin towers were not brought down by 'lone suicide bombers'. The twin towers were large steel frame structures and you cannot turn such buildings to dust by flying aluminium tubes into them. The twin towers were brought down by small nuclear charges pre-positioned in the basements.
There is no dream. The planes were real but had nothing to do with the tower downfalls. We have had terrorist attacks in Norway as well (22. July 2011), 68 young labour party politicians were killed after they advocated boycott of Israel. I leave it to you to put 2 and 2 together.
WRT what brought down the WTC, your's is the first to suggest nukes. The planes of course didn't do it.
The "problem" is all the groups that claim to know the answer really don't. They keep asking for donations to their organization and fail to provide anything new.
What are you wanting to argue? That the Russians are drone bombing themselves??
Of course not.
let's just quit the conspiracy thicket for the bottom line, which is that ASSUMING any terrorist attack is real, it does not predicate an ability to win a face-on war. Quite the opposite, in fact. That was my point.
But the twin towers event happened. The rest is speculation, at east at your end, not some sort of historical record. There are differing accounts of who did what, but that is not a mystery thicket we want to beat around in. It serves no purpose in terms of my argument, which is that terrorist successes by Ukraine (assuming the hype matches the reality- which is your field, Norwegian!) cannot stand as evidence of their likely superiority in the actual war such that they are worth backing financially which is what this show is really all about.
I'm not sure about the nuclear charges, but I agree that airliners can't possibly bring down reinforced concrete buildings. I suspect controlled demolition techniques were used instead. Many years ago I've read something about thermite being used to cut steel beams, but I'm no expert in this subject.
Quite. They especially could not bring down a building that they didn't hit, a la WTC 7. The one that just happened to come down at free fall speed into it's own footprint, looking exactly like a controlled demolition, and even had the BBC reporting on it's demise a full 20 minutes before it happened.
If you are not an expert you can become one - it is a matter of time and will.
The planes themselves did not bring anything down as the towers stood after impact.
A plausible explanation is that the towers collapsed after the fire burnt for a while making the rebars lose huge part of their strength - the water was cut off by the impact so there was no extinguishing of fire and no cooling of rebars.
Building 7 took longer because its rebars were still insulated. The lack of water was caused here by the collapsing towers not the planes.
This is a short version without details.
There can be other explanations but I find this to be most convincing.
As for who organized or rather facilitated the attacks we may never know for sure but 5 dancing Mossad agents were arrested and later released. They may but don't have to have had anything to do with it. I personally think they had but I have no clear explanation for that other than it is very plausible and fits within the paradigm of USS Liberty attack years before.
The twin towers weren't reinforced concrete buildings. They were lattices of steel I-beams that were coated with thin sheets of glass and metal as an exterior facade.
What brought them down was their own weight: fly an airliner full of fuel into a building like that and you start a huge, fuel-driven fire. Steel I-beams lose a lot of strength when they heat up. In a fire like that they lose enough strength that the load bearing columns in the region of the fire fail, becoming unable to support the weight of floors above them.
Those higher floors come pancaking down as the many, many videos of the towers collapsing showed. It's an absolutely classic, well-known engineering phenomenon that's not the least bit complex.
2- airliners CAN and DID bring down these towers. But not in the way you think. Engineers from NIST did metallurgical analysis of truss joints from the towers around the impact points and found very interesting things.
It is THIS that is responsible for the fucking secrecy- it's a systemic flaw in ALL non-reinforced concrete building construction. Gypsum wallboard is the #3 by weight material in high rises and it has a habit of emitting massive amounts of chlorine while burning in a reducing environment. This gas attacks metals and causes rapid structural weakening. Should a fire or explosion remove the fireproofing from the metal structure, you have a serious incipient problem.
Why is this so hush? Because this shit, along with PVC cabling which behaves the same way, is EVERYWHERE and cannot be substituted or removed.
Guess why engine blocks in the area 'melted', but paper was unaffected. Oh, and the little detail about a number of people clearing up dying of radiation sickness.
There are lots of radiation detectors in private hands -- heck, Amazon sells them for 40 euro. There is no way the government could hide a nuclear explosion. I'm not arguing that something fishy didn't go on, just not nuclear.
"Radioactive fallout refers to residual radioactive material propelled into the atmosphere by a nuclear explosion or accident, which then settles back to Earth. In contrast, nano-thermite (or super-thermite) is a highly reactive explosive composed of aluminum and iron oxide nanoparticles, which generates intense heat but does not produce radioactive material."
Nano-thermite, you nano-brain, releases energy at the chemical level when it burns, not nuclear energy which is hundreds of thousands of times greater.
By God, Westerners have become such total imbeciles when it comes to basic science.
The "point" of whatever you intended by posting a completely nonsense and off-context quote doesn't exist in the context of the downing of the twin towers. A nuclear explosion releases far more energy than chemical reactions (which is what power chemical explosions or burning phenomena, as anybody who is not a moron or not woefully ignorant about basic science knows). There wasn't any nuclear explosion at the twin towers.
What happened was captured on thousands of videos: commercial airliners loaded with many tons of aviation fuel impacted the twin towers, releasing those many tons of aviation fuels as propellants for truly epic and hot fires in the structures. As everybody who is not a total technical ignoramus would expect, the temperatures that those fires achieved far exceeded the relatively low temperatures at which the steel in the I beams that supported the twin towers became too weak to bear the loads upon them.
The pancake collapse of the twin towers is precisely the expected outcome of such weakening. This is like a kindergarten level thinking exercise for any competent structural engineer.
By the way, for the smarter readers who might read this, it's interesting to note that the very low temperature (relatively speaking) at which the steel in I beams weakens is precisely the reason that steel I beams used in modern construction are sprayed with thermal insulation. That used to be asbestos based insulation but in modern times other materials are used. That thin layer helps protect an I beam from a local fire, such as might occur within a particular office.
But that thin layer has no hope of protecting I beams from a fire propelled by many tons of aviation fuel. Such a conflagration will weaken I beams throughout most of a floor as well as two or three floors above. The moment those airliners hit the towers and the fuel in them ignited, those towers were doomed. Ah, it also didn't help that the kinetic impact from the airframe and heavy elements like the engines, landing gear, and other heavy and strong structure also took out a few I beams on the way to losing their kinetic energy.
Anybody who tells you the twin towers weren't brought down by airliner impacts, just take out your little black book where you keep a list of people who are total cretins whose opinions you should ignore and add their name to the list.
this is insane. Good fucking god. A nuclear device in the basement when we watched the gd things collapse AT THE POINT OF PLANE IMPACT.
you people are freaking deranged.
The towers were in fact brought down by an unknown failure mode involving gypsum and PVC in reducing environments...the reason this is not widely disclosed is because it poses a collapse failure mode to nearly every high rise in the gd world that is not reinforced concrete as it subjects truss joints to halogen attack in similar fire scenarios
"Lone suicide bombers brought down the twin towers."
Oh dear oh dear. And covaid$ killed the radio star. Go back to 9 11 and get it right...already for goodness sake otherwise who will take your musings seriously here, dear?
Remember, according to the official conspiracy theory there were 19 Saudi nationals who conspired to commit the crime, so “Lone suicide bombers" is a stretch.
Simplicius - can you do something on drone interceptors. Surely the (current) Holy Grail is to use AI to intercept drone swarms. What is holding it back?
I have heard Russia is working on a solution but it will take time to develop and implement. This drone business is new to everyone and the situation changes almost daily with new drone types and responding defensive measures - everyone is adapting.
Everyone is working on EMP weapons . Microwave emitters are being developed and there must be a contest between hardening electronics and EMP advances . One of the ironies is that wars accelerate technological development by leaps and bounds .
With given physical limitation, I can see no way for a mobile system. The energy needed is far beyonde the power output of a tank engine. If you start using capacitors (the needed discharge time forbids batteries), then most of a vehicle's interior is used for electric components. Maybe for protection of fixed installations or ships a solution is feasable.
Explosively driven EMP devices are a real world "thing". They don't require a whole tank hull full of capacitors either- Main issues, such devices are single use and likely to be as hard on a tank deploying them as the incoming weapon system.
Now, LASERs really do need quite the electrical supply- Or very reactive chemicals that don't play nice with human biology if the tank gets punctured.
The day we figure out how to store (and deliver in microseconds without wrecking storage device) electrical energy equivalent to a battery/capacitor volume of double based propellant is the day we get our rayguns.
Multiple Teslas for nanoseconds! I worked in EMC, this is impressive, but not destructive. As you have just a magnetic pulse the protection is not so complicated. If you understand German than there is a book with a chapter for EMPs called "Blitzschutz Elektrischer Anlagen", there you find from lighting up to nuclear EMPs everything.
If you want a reference on the nuclear variety there is a book titled "Nuclear high-altitude electromagnetic pulse" by Steven Starr . That's a frightening look at what is possible . A mobile particle beam or plasma weapon could be useful as a short range weapon .
Instead of supplying Israel, Russia's defense export strategy in the Middle East has heavily prioritized supplying that country's primary adversaries. Israel primarily procures its major military systems from Western allies like the United States and Germany.
There is no history of direct Russian Federation weapons systems deliveries to the State of Israel over the last decade. International monitors like Stockholm International Peace Research Institute explicitly exclude Russia from the list of arms exporters to Israel. y.
Russia probably has more horses than it did at the beginning of the "SMO," too. It's still losing the overall war, which is not being fought with tanks any more than it is with horses.
Russia has also an continue increase of living standard for the common men. Can we say that in the west as well?
Russia pays it's SMO out of pocket while we are forced into debt more and more.
The west is eating itself into poverty, regimes are about to change in Europe and Russia can and will ride this out until Ukraine is no more but part of the RF.
Denazification as one of the objectives allows no other outcome than the unconditionally surrender of the terror entity called Ukraine.
How Russia is reaching its objectives is their problem. But I am sure they wait for counseling and advise from the readers of this Substack.
Have you been to prewar Russia? It was not bad at all, and the increase since "democratic" miseries of the Yeltsin years with their millions of dead was tangible. The astonishing thing was that standard of living further improved during wartime. No wonder that 12.5 million prewar Ukrainians live in Russia today.
I can’t speak for Russia but here in US, the top percent which owns risk assets, both real and financial, are doing great, while those without are seeing their real income fall far behind the cost of living with decrease in standard of living….this isn’t even debatable.
The dollar shrinks every year, and pay increases are not keeping up.
Russia's economy is still growing, although at only 1.1% (depending on which sources you believe.)
Russia is financing the SMO (or war or whatever you want to call it) itself and is not going into debt. Which I understand to be a "first". Russian citizens seem to be happy, except, of course for the drone strikes.
Russia has been exporting more oil than pre-SMO.
US sanctions are having less and less effect every day as alternatives for trade continue to expand.
What does Russia need access to Western Capital for?
Looks to me like it is more of a problem for Western Capitalists than Russia.
I think this is about as good an exposition of the delusions reigning supreme here. Or else I’m wrong - always a possibility. First, I see GM has addressed the standard of living issue in Russia, and I leave that to him. I would just say it’s irrelevant to the issue of who is winning WW3.
You say Russia pays while we are “forced” into debt. That’s another way of saying Russia is losing actual money while someone else is paying the US’s bills. And who would that be paying? Well, pretty much everybody who owns dollars, including numerous members of BRICS. Preserving the dollar’s power has been an urgent issue for China for forty years.
You say regimes are about to change in Europe. Like the US, no real choices are being offered to Europeans. The political elites are firmly in charge, and there is no end in sight. The names will change, but the policies will not.
If you think Ukraine is being denazified, you aren’t paying attention. Wasn’t it just this week that they glorified some of their genocidal/nazi past and annoyed Poland so much (to no effect, obviously).
Did you happen to notice this article? https://substack.com/home/post/p-201423428? trouble in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Russia is being encircled and is grave danger. Hard to believe anybody still thinks Putin is the man for the job.
Don’t mistake this for a prowestern stance. I fully agree that the US is immiserating not only its own people but most of the people around the world. As much as anything, this is a class war being waged by the elites against the working classes and we the people are getting our asses kicked. But part of the plan is to fully neutralize Russia, and it’s well underway.
Ukraine will never surrender. As I read the tea leaves it will be Russia that does something comparable to surrender, which in my book is anything less than the elimination of Ukraine as a state. I’ll consider your prognostication right if Ukraine surrenders unconditionally, recognizes Russian sovereignty over the new territories, installs a Russia-friendly government, demilitarizes and stops celebrating its nazi past. But it will never happen.
I agree with your class war characterization. With your conclusion I respectfully disagree. Ukraine has nothing to recognize, Ukraine is non existing when Russia is done with the Nazi's there.
The rest of Europe has neither the means nor the capacity to neutralize Russia. Poor on energy and other basic resources, a dumbed down population that can't have trains go on time, Bridges that are near collapsing etc. Talking big is not doing big. Starmer, Macron and Merz are on their way out. The population is despite daily propaganda not willing to go to war. Belgium as host land of NATO and EU sees USA as a greater threat than China, by 64% of the people. Germany can't get it's recruits to the Army and all(!) submarines of the UK are in port due to maintenance. Just saying.
So we have our bet, then. You say Russia will mostly destroy Ukraine if not completely; I say it will be Russia that blinks and will sign a peace deal that leave Ukraine in shape (and disposition) to attack again. I would even guess that it will happen within the next year or two, and that Putin will find a way to give Trump credit for the whole thing.
Why you are so keen on betting? Do you see this as a sport contest? Why are you trying to narrow it down to Russia and Ukraine, despite knowing very well that we're talking geo politics here and Russia is fighting not Ukraine but all of NATO plus some other boot lickers of the empire? I don't know what the future holds. I know that Russia will not stop before it has reached it's declared objectives of the SMO. When and how, I can't tell.
As I have said many times, I make a bet to establish objective facts. Most of the people commenting here can never make a prediction because to do so would be to have to look at actual facts and, when the bet is wrong, to RE-look at those facts in light of the new information. It would interject some integrity into a commentary very sorely lacking in integrity. But bet or not, you have committed to a prediction, a knowledge you say, that Russia will not stop till it has reached its declared objectives. I say it will stop before then. Of course Putin will declare victory, and probably so will you, so let’s establish some objective parameters, though Putin couldn’t really bring himself to do that.
I’ll say you’re right if Ukraine commits by treaty not to join NATO and to remain neutral, if it submits to a military under 100,000, if it recognizes de jure Russia’s sovereignty over the disputed territories, including Crimea, and if it replaces the current regime with a neutral or Russia-friendly government and reverses its recent laws glorifying Banderites and oppressing Russians, various religions, and pro-Russian politicians. Would you say that’s an accurate characterization of Putin’s goals for the SMO? If the other objectives are met in good faith I won’t quibble over size of the military since, presumably, it will have been denazified.
It’s never going to happen as far as the eye can see.
>You say Russia pays while we are “forced” into debt. That’s another way of saying Russia is losing actual money while someone else is paying the US’s bills
"Debts" are a problem for the debtor only as long as the creditor has the physical ability to enforce payment.
If you loan money to someone who is much stronger than you and you have no way to enforce payment, that someone is not going into debt to you, he is robbing you.
Venezuela was a demo -- the same will happen to the whole world eventually, i.e. the US will just take over and rob everything they need without paying. That includes unilaterally canceling its debts while demanding continued supplies of real goods to the US.
You forget that we are past that unilateral moment were the USA can impose its will onto other countries with impunity.
You are arguing on assumptions that bare no reality anymore.
That approach might work today at Venezuela and Cuba but not with Russia, let alone China.
If the US debt is no problem, why are they in panic and pressure their 'allies' to give 5% of GDP to NATO? Because it is a ridiculous ponzi scheme, nothing has come out of it so far. Even inside the USA people get louder and say this debt is unsustainable because in the end, there is no one left to loan you a dime anymore and thus you don't have the money to deploy your military to rob others blind.
The best example is Germany: with an extraordinary credit of 100 milliard € to improve the Bundeswehr, now 4 years later the money has gone and they got nothing to show for it. That's how it works in capitalism. Legal corruption and money for work that's not been done or delayed for years due to 'unexpected circumstances', price hikes etc.
>You forget that we are past that unilateral moment were the USA can impose its will onto other countries with impunity.
>You are arguing on assumptions that bare no reality anymore.
>That approach might work today at Venezuela and Cuba but not with Russia, let alone China.
I am not sure we are watching the same events.
I am seeing the US more unhinged than ever and the world cowering in fear more than ever. Russia included. To the point of Putin trying to bail out of the situation by proposing to the Americans to go back to the 90s and hand them some 14 trillion.
BTW, Dmitriev is meeting with Kushner and Witkoff today again.
Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis and comrade Kim are the only ones standing defiant. We will see about Cuba soon I am afraid, maybe they will fight too. Nobody else is.
I don’t disagree with this, but I do think the bill will eventually come due at a time when the US no longer has the capacity to rob. Who can say when that will be, though? I thought the game was nearly up in 1999.
They're losing ships at sea, oil refineries, chemical factories, the world's respect, and a lot of Russians. It boggles my mind how casually the people reading this page take all of that while Russia takes no action whatever to punish the people behind it. But we'll see: I've made my bet with Frank Sailor: Ukraine will never surrender, and it will be Putin who eventually does what amounts to that. Meanwhile Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan look iffier and iffier. https://substack.com/home/post/p-201423428
Yes, the US is trying to set up a soft-under belly to attack Russia through Dagestan and Georgia. The NED is still very good at setting up stooges to carry out this mission. However, Kazakhstan lies between Russia and China with Iran to the south. Yes, Erdogan has a fantasy dream of extending the Turkish empire across all the other Turkish states. But, he is also being threatened by Israel.
Let us not forget the failure of the 2022 Kazakhstan coup. Who ya gonna call? Russia to the rescue. The shoot-to-kill orders may have resulted from the failure of Yanucovych to respond to protestors during the Maidan coup. Krapivnik is especially critical of that failure. Escobar covered the coup in detail when it happened.
I'm not saying it won't happen. I don't know Korybko and how reliable he is. I am saying it is unlikely. The ChinArb papers that talk about supply chains vs military power very much argue that the CIA/MI6/NED infiltrations aren't going to bear much fruit any longer.
Picking at random, the story about the mining interests the US signed to gain access to rare earths... ROTFL. Every other week the Oligarchy is telling us that they've made contracts for rare earths and other resources needed to supply the MIC, only to have Walmsley show, once again, that China is in control. It is going to take a decade for the US to gain access, and China will have already destroyed the US MIC in the mean time.
Simplicius long ago should have done an in-depth analysis on Ukrainian in-place defensive works. Why are they so effective that they have slowed Russian advances down to a crawl, while being manned by unwilling recruits who are forced to the front with only a few weeks training? Such defensive emplacements seem to be even more effective than the massive ones Germany built during WWII.
Maybe Starlink? They also send platoons of meat recruits to hold tree lines and millions of trenches which they replenish by drones. They also have an enormous production of European manufactured and pilotted from Germany, the Baltics, Roumania and Poland drones and UAVs. These operators cannot be destroyed and can give support to the first cannon fodder and mercenary lines, the Azov second line sniper executioners and the AFU third line being thee commanding posts far in the forth line. Starlink makes possible the coordination of the system. But yeah, the Russian disruption of the Ukranian logistics has been a failure. Only now are they bombing the gas stations and the bridges near Odessa.
They are not effective. The UAF is losing 20 to 1 at this point. Were the russians to move faster, they would be effective, but the russians would only be winning 3 to 1. People will be very suprised when the war ends and sees the actual exchange rate. In the afghan war the West overestimated russian casualties by a factor of 7(18k actual vs 120k western doom estimate).
I think those times when Simplicius can turn facts on Russian losses, to signs of impending victory, are over.
I dont know what to do with these numbers and pro-uki articles. Are we in the middle of denial phase?
Fact 1: Russia lost 8000+ vehicles during the first year (2022) which is basically a defeat. All those AT and Atgm gutted the SMO.
Fact 2: Russia lost another 5000+ during 2024 when Ukraine mastered the Drones.
Fact 3: 18 000 lost vehicles is monumental. But Russia still standing. So are Ukraine.
So what good is it that Russia now have 1000nd of new and refurbished tanks prepared to strike? They will go nowhere.
The dispersion and infiltration tactics is also dead. Drone density is to much for single soldiers to bear. Both Russian and Ukrainian military experts says that manouver operations are impossible. Therefore Ukraine is focused on devastate the supply routes to Crimea and to the different fronts with drones.
It could be that Russias is exterminating Ukrainian lines with KABs and FABs and they are for sure pressing into Konstantinovka. But winning the War?
What crap is this, Mikey? you achieve victory when you achieve your goals.
For example, Mikey - liberation of Donbass, that is one goal. It is still underway, so saying today there is no victory is crap.
And do not project your pensioner juvenile senility onto others - praising some blogger or something. I extended my subscription this year because of the comments section, not the content, but I guess it was a mistake.
Victory might arrive only after Tschermani is glassed, because of them incorrigible Nazi posterity scum with ancestral butthurt.
Well, Tschermani is very involved in trying to bring Russia to its knees and balkanize it. Annihilate Russia.
So, where are you peaceniks? I asked you the other day. Where are you? Show me some video. Everybody too old and cant walk anymore?
It is a reply to your constant urging of doing something serious with Ukraine. No, no, no, no, Mikey. UA is just a tool. You want serious stuff? Glassing Tschermani and Anglos. Yes, UK the first among Anglos. If it comes to that, Poland and Romania will have to be trashed as well, because of their imbecilic decisions to install Aegis Ashore that is not even under their control.
I hope it does not come to this, but you want some serious solutions. So here you have it. Be careful what you wish for.
Liberation of Donbass is a step towards the victory, there are other goals. Just because you think something should be done faster or some clown should be boinked does not make it essential in this enterprise.
It used to be like this in 2022, 2023. Now i get most of the info here directly from the sources, in advance. So it does not really matter, therefore comments are what I am here for, mostly.
One positive, or "positive", aspect is that I do not have to read Western MSM myself. Simp covers it. Most of the time it is crap anyway.
Like this jewel: " Clearly they are thinking in the long run"
Taking one or two cities is NOT winning the War (By the way, you know Kreml still speak of a special military operation - in their minds there is no War going on).
To ”free” Donetsk Oblast after 5 years battling is NOT winning the War. Its only one objective Kreml has put on their shortlist.
The SMO objectives is not adressing the root causes. If Ukraine is led by a ”terror regime” - how come they are still breathing?
Yes, Ukarine is staggering and Russia still has stamina and muscles. But of what use if they dont go for KO? There will be no judges declaring a point victory for Russia one decade from now (you did read the previous article?)
And as usual, you are not commenting what I wrote about the facts. You duck. You close your eyes and make wishes.
The key objective of the SMO was no missiles in Ukraine hitting Russia.
Well, this night alone, from 10 pm to 7 am, the drones shot down were 326, and that does not count the "new regions", nor does it count the drones that were not shot down, two Flamingos hit one of the most sensitive industrial sites in all of Russia, and this time hit it straight on, there are photos of the destroyed buildings circulating already, and other Flamingos flew past the Urals and a missile attack alert was raised in Omsk, for the first time in history.
The SMO is a catastrophic failure if that is the new normal
The drone wars are new. What's happening between Russia and Ukraine will eventually happen all across the planet. Drone wars will be exported everywhere. Thinking Russia can stop this by nuking cities or drone factories is a pipe dream. Welcome to the modern battlefield, about to be expanded across planet earth. How long it will take? IDK. Hezbollah is already entering the FPV drone game. It's only going to spread... Chip
Per Rybar Ukraine has broken through saporishia front at two points threatening encirclement.
Per Kots details the Ukrainian strategy of occupation of Crimea by cutting all logistical support and recent full attack on kertch bridge and openly speaks of collapse. Supposedly fuel all but gone on Crimea. These are pro russian milbloggers.
This blog is sounding more and more like a feel good space for russia russia snowflakes rather than objective breakdown of relevant facts and trends. Its unfortunate as all the propaganda and spinning is becoming tiring and waste of time and you end up shutting all analyses down and waiting for undeniable reality to settle in.
The Russian blogger sphere is always seeing the end of the world, the very moment the Ukrainian side starts something. I can remember the Kursk attack. The Ukrainians were soooo successful (storming over a few conscripted soldiers), next stop Moskow. At the end, the losses for Ukraine were horrible and nothing was achieved. In Kupiansk the Ukrainians recaptured the city. We saw ill-trained forces with bad leaders stumbling somewhere in the town. The Russian mappers showed the "gains" of the Ukrainians, even Simplicius made jokes about the Guards Army, the soft Moskow boys. But suddenly, the Russians were somehow found in the parts that Ukraine had obviously captured? How many times did the Soviets run out of supplies in WWII? And the mighty US had to stop in Eastern France because they were out of fuel. Did this change the outcome?
Its less about seeing the end of the world but realizing the total lack of preparation, honor and coherence, the open display of impotence, corruption and cynicism of their current regime. The russian people has a hard time rising beyond an all encompassing lethargy and passivity. Putting up with such deadbeat characters as yeltsin and putin seems to fulfill a need for passive suffering in the russian soul.
Not unlike maga rednecks and hillbillies returning for ever more betrayal and fraud and travesty.
Not unlike an abused woman keeps returning to her alcoholic tormenter for more beatings.
To me the actual Russian government is doing a good job, not perfect, but only God is perfect! The 2022 Kyiv strategic objective was successfully achieved by the general staff, but the political elite got the situation wrong, but again, who is perfect? The SMO is fought with gloves on, and that is much better than the slaughter of civilians that we see in USA/Israel wars. The new drone warfare was not foreseen by anybody in charge, of course, except the armchair generals. The economic politics look like the USA in WWII; to me, Morgenthau did a great job, as Nabulina/Siluanov are doing right now. Even if the SMO does not achieve all the goals, Russia will end the conflict stronger than ever.
“Not unlike maga rednecks and hillbillies returning for ever more betrayal and fraud and travesty”
If you truly think this is what MAGA is, you are seriously mistaken. But rednecks and hillbilliies whether in appalacia or north or west are the most God-fearing honest and down to earth group you will ever meet.
First, we are not talking about Morgenthau and Germany, but his role in the Roosevelt adminstration. Do you know anything about his policies? If yes and you see this positive, then please explain what the current Russian administration is doing wrong.
Yea i find merit and ingenuity in the story colonel house
To your question, In short: everything
Selling out your country to the davos and Basel overlords is easy. The hard path would be independence and a Russian revival and only a once a hundred year genius might have a shot at it. No hay ahora
Nabiulina has insulated Russia very well, not only now but since 2014, when first sanctions from hell were imposed, after the shooting down of MH17.
There is no case in history when country was subjected to this kind of full spectrum warfare with 40k sanctions, yet Russia is doing just fine. Is it all eprfect? No it is not, but those who say they would do things differently that would work better, they are just theorizing as of now.
Maybe it would work, maybe it would not. But she objectively insulated the country. Putin admitted that they did not know what would happen economically when they started the SMO and that things turned out much better than they expected.
“ Not unlike maga rednecks and hillbillies returning for ever more betrayal and fraud and travesty”…..
Weiner, MAGA is in very difficult situation. MAGA fully supports Trump on domestic issues, but is severely upset and feels betrayed by Trump on his foreign wars. MAGA knows we were lied to about ending wars and not starting new ones. We also know why….Trump is Israel first.
However, what is alternative? Democratic party will go right back to funneling as much printed money to the nazi’s as possible, take down border protection and quickly due to US what they did in Minnesota with Somali’s.
So for MAGA the choice is clear…suffer with foreign wars and meddling but protect domestic priorities vs. losing both with democratic victory.
I guess its a true Hobsons choice, but the choice is clear.
"putin seems to fulfill a need for passive suffering in the russian soul."
What a retarded crap to say, but perfectly yodeler-like thought.
"The russian people has a hard time rising beyond an all encompassing lethargy and passivity."
The lethargic and passive Russian people that built the largest country in the world, where big chunk of the world has a generational grudge because they were spanked by Rus at some point in time. This Russian people?
You are distorting the informations by Rybar and Sasha Kots, of course not presenting any reference. The Russians got pushed back somewhat from the southern shore of the Konka river indeed, yet this is weeks ago, recently they made up some of these losses. Even Russian doomer resources like Tsargrad, Ramsay and that ilk did not report anything significant from the northwest Soporoshye front lately, while there is progress at the Dzonghar and Orekhov areas.
Fuel situation in private sale, which was most troublesome in Sevastopol, appears to stabilize. 95 Octane still on voucher or QR code (Edit: This applies to Crimea, Sevastopol area as the worst affected, situation better in other parts of the peninsula. Traffic over Kerch bridge also widely unhindered, less than 15 minutes waiting time for 135 cars from Kerch and 75 from Taman side atm . https://t.me/most_official/24746).
"New domestic production and refurbishment have likely made Russia’s current tank fleet larger than its prewar force, but overall vehicle quality has dropped sharply."
Russia has no inventory or production problems. But I know who does.
It will have severe production problems if what just happened in the last two hours continues
NATO is not hitting barns and sheds as Putin is so proud to openly announce, they are hitting where it hurts
Always with the same story.
https://www.rt.com/russia/641320-over-140-evacuated-after-multiple-explosions/
And that was supposedly an actual accident.
Do you know where Dagestan is?
It wasn't a Ukrainian drone.
It could have been an accident. (Ever hear of E. Palestine OH?)
It could have been sabotage.
If it was a US-allied action, this is an example of why Russia's choice to move slowly is correct. This is the kind of war the CIA/MI6/NED fights.
Dagestan has been hit plenty with drones.
Multiple ships in Kaspiysk were hit
My point was the damage was too extensive to have been caused by a drone. The explosion was "incident was triggered by the “depressurization” of the pipeline."
The distance from Ukraine to Kyzylyurt is nearly 1500Km which eliminates all but the long-range drone as an option and that is at its max range.
I imagine that means it is limited to a 60Kg weapon. While damage from such a payload should be extensive, up to now, the actual results in "real life" seem to be limited to oil storage tanks and buildings such as the woman's college.
I do not believe targeting from such a distance could focus on a pipeline.
In the end, the damage to the pipeline appears to be significantly greater than what was accomplished by previous attacks.
Did you read the article?
You're either bad in mathematics or you have no clue about the sheer scale of disproportional actions here.
Russia is the largest country on earth. Russia has 11 time zones, ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Do you really think it makes any sense to invest billions and billions of money to even try to build an air defense that manages to protect every possible target? Ukraine has a terror regime, there is no 100% defense against terror but life goes on in Russia and the standard of living for the Russian people is steadily increasing, despite the SMO against +/- 50 countries that support Ukraine.
Where have you been in all the previous threads?
I have pointed out on countless occasions that the problem isn't air defense, but the refusal to defend the country by eliminating the source of the threat.
Right now Putin has Russia lowered to the same level as Libya, Syria, Yuguslavia, Venezuela, Panama, and all the other helpless victims the US has beaten up on.
Perhaps. if you could be bothered to elaborate on your fluffy slogans, such as "treasonous warfare", "sleepless nights", "knowing he's covered", etc.
Put some meat on your sloganeering bones.
So tell me, how is, for example, Panama similar to Russia today? Or Syria?
Because Russia is experiencing attacks within its borders? That is it? One factor gig?
Perhaps
Oh la la, extraordinary hyperbole day.
GM: "Right now Putin has Russia lowered to the same level as Libya, Syria, Yuguslavia, Venezuela, Panama, and all the other helpless victims the US has beaten up on."
Oh man, you sound like a boy. One wonders what happened to you... Do you need to be cured by NGO workshops? Or you like to play the same game of targeting the press? Journalism is either paid from below, by those who want to read the news, or paid from above, by those who want others to read it.
Btw, is your comment “organic” and according to the standards?
Putin is a goy toy just like Trump. Notice he never says anything bad about Israel and totally surrounds himself with Jews. He was installed by same Jewish oligarchs who installed Yeltsin so will not cross their ambitions which is to financial capitalize the world under their control. Putin is faking a war he didnt want to start...waiting 8 years until domestic pressure got too much...then hasnt really fought SMO after pressured into it. Almost like praying for a Vietnam scenario where people tire of it and demand withdrawal. He has not gotten that yet so Russians in the trenches will continue to suffer. House to house bloody combat until troops run out or mothers demand they come home.
Russia will 100% lose this war. Putin will guarantee it.
The war right now is going very similarly to the way Syria went on a strategic level.
And we know how Syria ended.
Well Russia refuses to hit operational rears of enemy or even stop the flow of weapons and fuels into Ukraine. Meanwhile Ukraine/NATO is able to hit operational rears of Russia. I dont see how Russia can win such a maths problem. It's like he's getting beat in his own war of attrition he supposedly sucked West into. It's fighting with two hands behind back on a pogo stick, West will rearm one day, at whatever leisurely pace they choose since none of it is bothered with, and crush Russia.
Your comment glosses over a lot of complexity. First is that a non-trivial percentage of Israel's population has Russian citizenship - some two million people. You're more likely to hear Russian spoken on the street in Tel Aviv than you are Hebrew or Arabic. One aspect of Putin is that he is a multi-culturalist; Russia and the sphere of Russian influence would be broken if Russia devolved to ethnic nationalism.
Another is that Putin has taken actions that have had bad outcomes for others historically. He banned government employment for people with dual citizenship. That almost entirely affected Jewish Russians, and also effectively banned Jews from working in the Russian government. The reason for that is that since the fall of the Soviet Union, almost all Jewish families automatically get Israeli citizenship for their children as a safety valve. And Israeli citizenship is almost impossible to give up once you have it.
Hitler taking the same action is really the proximate cause of WWII, more than anything else. Banning Jews who entered the German government during the Weimar period (unless they were WWI combat veterans) was the act that turned western Jews against him and the Nazi government - everything that followed was a snowball from there.
Putin is a philo-Semite, but he's also a Russian nationalist.
Your conclusion does not mesh with the facts.
I remember in 2018 Bibi gave a speech during May Day and literally threatened the Russian people after associating Iran as Nazi germany. Putin just smiled. That's the billionaire class for ya.
Last time I checked, the ”terror regime” of Ukraine was live and kicking.
The leader did attend meeting in Talinn, in London and even got to rebury a WW2 Ukrainian hero Melnyk.
What use is 11 time zones if the ”terror regime” has lasted for 5 years?
The problem is that neither you or GM seem to listen to President Putin when he speaks.
It's utterly irrelevant that the Elenski figure is running around begging for money. He might does that for another five years, who cares?
In the end there is a new map of Europe and the RF has enlarged itself plus ruined the western threat due to what the Elenski figure is doing together with his current friends.
The brothers are at work for Russia for sure and Putin is among his brothers, that's why they like him a lot.
I listen very carefully. Then I see nothing happens.
And as you admit, neither you or Kreml does care if Zelensky is with us another five years. I think Russian people will care along the cities around Volga getting targeted every day…
"Then I see nothing happens."
Currently, Ukraine has somewhere between 2.5 and 3 million KIAs.
Nato over 60 thousand KIAs.
While Russia even with the most excessive counting is a bit over 200 thousand.
And of that, pre-2022 Russian military losses is just around 1/3.
What do you think happens when Ukraine has no more people to mobilise?
At the same time as Russia has tripled the size of its contractsoldier based army.
They literally have TWO entire ARMIES waiting to strike in the rear, and that's BEYOND the normal reserves.
"I think Russian people will care along the cities around Volga getting targeted every day…"
Of course. But the overwhelmingly vast majority of attacks are nothing but TERRORIST attacks, and the response to that from the Russian people is GO F URSELF and keep on living.
While the attacks attempted at the actual Russian economy and military infrastructure has barely any impact at all.
2025, all those fancy attacks on refineries? 40% of the damage was fixed in less than 2 hours.
Over 70% in 2 days. And over 98% in 2 weeks.
Also it has now been confirmed that Russia refined and exported MORE in 2025 than in 2022.
All those refinery strikes, has been confirmed to have ZERO actual impact on production. And even the most extreme estimates about damage caused still puts output reduction to less than 3%.
Remember when western media crowed and cheered about the devastating, complete destruction of the oilport outside of St. Petersburg?
People actually tracking the oiltrade later confirmed that NOT EVEN A SINGLE SHIP or shipment was delayed.
Do you know what the biggest effect on Russian economy/people that all these attacks actually HAVE?
A reduction in summer tourism to Crimea.
And take note, a REDUCTION, not a discontinuation.
All of that, and the only actually large effect, is a halving of the people going to Crimea for beach summer vacation.
Yes but diminished to a rump of its former self.
dont waste your time with a fixed mind
People keep bringing up 11 time zones as if that means something. Yes, Russia is very big, but it is also very far north. If I pitched a tent on the north pole my tent would cover all 24 time zones.
Siberia is a big empty place, a good fit for all the huge AI data centers that consume huge amounts of water and energy, and make lots of 24/7 noise that people here in Kansas are complaining about. V.V.P. has already offered to host them.
Much of the year I don't think cooling would be an issue!
Alaska, too!
Silly comment, and Russia is still the largest country by landmass/area.
Russia is big and hard to defend it all. That just means Russia's enemies will take advantage of this.
That is why they say Russia is easy to invade but difficult to escape. Just ask Ze about Kursk..
Kursk did exactly what it was intended to do - shift the narrative from Ukrainian defeat to Russian incompetence and keep the aid flowing since nobody wants to back a loser.
Sure, but at what cost? 80 000 losses is the figure commonly reported. Just shows the stupidity of the aid givers if they ever considered that offensive successful.
That aside my point is that everyone, including the Russians, knows it is easy to invade Russia, it is what happens once you are in that matters. Nobody in the past 800 years has managed to take advantage.
Kursk was makeshift suicidal PR plan B, after mad dash to Kurchatov was repelled. By conscripts mostly, no less.
Yes, it worked on western ignorant populace for a while, but the end game was tens of thousands of casualties. This is what matters in real world, not what some EU russophobic libtard thinks is happening.
That was true before modern technology.
Strategic depth no longer exists as long as the Kremlin refuses to take kinetic measures to restore it
NATO can harass Russia for a while longer, but these are the half-energy punches of a man pinned to the ground in a headlock, being strangled. Russian is meant to overreact to the drone strikes
Man this was stepping into DC Bizarro World. I guess this is why we can't have nice things. Copium is real. The three day special op has lasted longer than WW1. It's an epic fuck up and failure, even if the Russians took Kiev tomorrow. Right now they're just asking for the rest of the oblasts - which shows they're settling for less even if everyone around here pretends otherwise. And they won't even get those, because they're fuck ups. The maps since 2022 speak for themselves. 🤷
General Melchsmitt has fallen off the banana lounge again in Bali(aka the Ukranian frontline)
Listening to you, Russia was already balkanized in autumn 2022.
No. But the SMO failed grossly.
I haven't seen any news that SMO ended.
And that is the reason a Victory in a War is far, far away.
Victory matters, not time frame.
Again. What was the purpose of the SMO and what caused the failure?
Why is there such a misunderstanding of how this war is being prosecuted? Always this impatience. It's like you are on the side of the Anglo-American Oligarchy.
” how this war is being prosecuted”
Eh, you mean the Special Military Operation?
The essence of cognitive dissonance.
In due time we will read of all missed opportunities, how close it was for Ukraine to fold where it not for… und zu weiter.
Time Travel is problematic. There will be a lot of speculation about "missed opportunities" but they will be extremely short in envisioning what might be next.
SMO, war, military action. What's with deciding now to be a vocabulary policemen?
You are becoming more and more absurd. Russia is hitting barns and sheds. Don't you have a modicum of self respect?
Take it up with Putin -- he publicly announced that Russia is hitting barns and sheds at the SPIEF.
Which confirmed officially what has been known for a decade in Syria.
Wow! You take everything Putin says literally?
@ GM - GM, are your initials in another language other than English, maybe in a Cyrillic language? Because to me they definitely detail BS.
Right, NATO is hitting a girls school in multiple hits, that says it's intentional, that says it's a war crime, and they have been hitting down town areas of Donetsk and schools and cutting off fresh water to Crimea for 11 years now, all of which are war crimes, THAT is the NATO you are defending.
It's not tanks anymore, but missiles, drones.
Russia has 6 advanced missiles at early stages of production, drones are developed constantly close to front line.
But those missiles warheads are older technology, so predictable outcome.
Unfortunately we don't know anything about American wunderwaffe.
Trump mentioned them during his first presidency, claiming it's his own invention, something related to nuclear devices without classical mushroom cloud.
He again said briefly just before Iranian war has started, in January, that America has them already.
The last week on June 5th Kushner and Witkoff have visited nuclear and weapons of mass destruction Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee where they meet about 100 top scientists. Supposedly they were talking about negotiations details with Iran, how to handle these 450 kg enriched uranium.
But their subject was actually attack on Iran using America's newest nuclear technology.
Similar, but much larger devises are already build for Chinese war on Beijing, Nanjing and another mega-city. That after China will stand in Iran defence. Just 3 devices to exterminate some 80% countrie's population. Shockingly scary because there is no way to detect, defend or hide from it. Deadly radius is 300 km. It's the Tsar Bomba x10 deadly effect, but compact size, to be delivered by missiles, without need to drop directly over target from heavy bomber.
Something about radioactivity and vaporisation of human flesh without damage to any material objects. Some more advanced neutron bomb.
https://www.reuters.com/world/witkoff-kushner-meet-nuclear-experts-national-lab-tennessee-source-says-2026-06-05/
Next to ORNL is Y-12 National Security Complex, where nuclear weapons are made. They are one body, likely connected by underground passages.
As Trump claimed in 2020 interview to invent that new nuclear device, those 2 devilish Zionists are authoring nuclear provocation in Israel, to justify nuclear attack on Iran.
They were planning it for years. Now final stages.
It would be those Laboratory scientists testifying to Congress, the United Nations Security Council. before formal USA and the other countries legal entry to war, thus allowing full mobilisation.
They need to stop global economic shift towards China and BRICS.
"Documents dealing with nuclear weapons policy were reportedly among classified material recovered from Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida home, by the FBI in August."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/26/trump-nuclear-weapons-boast-woodward-tape
is it just me or what the hell are you talking about?
It is not just you. What a words salad.
US wunderwaffe propaganda, that's what. You know it makes nonsense!
The Pentagon long ago DEI-ed the contracting process for development of new tech and weapons. By excluding white males from bidding on or receiving contracts, the US military limited its available talent pool and has fallen behind tech advancement in countries where the entire population is considered as a resource, not just certain "types" of people.
Universities also favor certain categories of human beings in their research grants and other selected funding.
So the owners of those companies are not white male.
But who are employees there?
Do you suggest, that those hundreds scientists, thousands engineers and technicians at Oak Ridge are exclusively not white males? That one is federal government company, not private
Lindsey is quite correct.
I worked at the Pentagon as a civilian employee, but spent most of my time correcting the errors in contractors' software and bugs in fellow (DEI) workers (and the glitches in my (DEI) supervisors' attempts to do work they were unqualified to perform.)
There's 4 people doing the work of one person - the military, the civilian, who does what the military commands, the contractor, who does the actual work under the civilian overseer/liaison, and then the civilian correcting the contractor's or boss's work. A gigantic waste of money when you multiply that by 100's of thousands of "Pentagoons."
I was thinking of applying for some contracts myself as I was already a couple years ahead, tech-wise, of Pentagon computer standards. But I found out ALL of the small-business contracts were "set-aside" for minorities.
Look, the bottom line is the government needs to get out of the business of social engineering. Government needs to stop categorizing human beings and then evaluating them on the basis of their classifications.
yup. my experience exactly. entire departments full of nignogs n'sheeit and they do absolutely nothing except act like they're the best shit ever and collect a nice fat check while talking about how hard it is to be black in america
Just for fun I sent a request for bidding on a DC government job. The work application I received was 27 pages, the questionnaire about my company's "Affirmative Action program" was 25 pages.
Sorry to hear about you useless job, but you were not forced to do it.
I am pleased to hear, as a pacifist, that American military is disintegrating.
And as an internationalist I am pleased your government and state are going down the drain.
Please not to drag the rest of the world into your nuclear war.
I know you can, but please not do it. We don't want to die yet.
Who the hell made me responsible for what goes on in Washignton? How old are you? Who are you? What country are you in? Then I can critique you personally as if you are the reason for your government's and your country's corrupt policies. You need some basic communication skills.
oak ridge? since when are they involved in this stuff?
and YES DEI has gone through EVERYWHERE
Kushner and Witkoff are imbeciles...perhaps they were sent to ask about the propriety of a nuclear strike, who tf knows
you're just making shit up here
Our foreign policy run by Witkoff, Kushner and Netanyahu. I think they're hanging onto Ukraine (Zelensky, Nuland, Blinken, Soros, etc.) as a backup if Israel goes down the tubes.
nah. ukranus is just the #3 most juish gov in the world behind israel and the JUSA
it's a project to hit Russia for divesting the juish oligarchs who took over russia after the collapse (like after weimar).
Dump probably thought he could get a quick win and improve his approval rating in Israel....the juze know EXACTLY how to kiss his ass to get him to do what they want...he's such a fucking rube and a tool and dupe.
Lutnick "you're the first juish president" and that so stroked Dump's ego...he envies them and wants to be one. idolizes them even probably for the number of times they've taken him to the cleaners in business
GM is right. Russia is now level with Panama and Syria. As I have said, this man or woman is a bad joke.
no, he is an insider propagandist for demoralisation
You are right. An insider propagandist making systematically absurd statements in a non-stop pattern constitutes an abuse of public patience.
Worse than a bad joke, but from time to time not deprived of a certain entertainment value. Amazing that some organisation maintain operatives of this genre.
If I don't care to waste my time reading straight up propaganda organs, why would I waste my time reading analysis of opposed & dueling propaganda organs?
Cause you're too busy waiting for them to drop so you can comment on them?
Somewhere in the tension of dueling propagandists lies the kernel of truth
Somewhere in a cage match, MSM propagandists should duel. Then tension could be applied to any survivors via 4 wild horses...
https://youtu.be/dynMUeKLCOA?si=i-CGk5ghwwsY4AYY
Your analysis of Iran is some of the purest balderdash we have ever read. Keep it up, though. At this point we enjoy the laughs.
Nope, still no Iranian "color revolution“. Thousands of Starlink satellite receivers and several shipping container loads of cheap Turkish made pistols & shotguns were wasted. Almost as if the CIA/Mossad were incompetent?
Off topic prepared reply on NATO situation.
For Trump article 5 is not valid anymore in present military situation. He mentioned it before Iran attack, even more so after, when several countries shut their airspace for the USA bombers.
Ukrainian war is lost. Europe can continue it by themselves, with poorer outcome, then was expected earlier. They won't even be able to get any new armament contracts from the USA, the previous ones are on hold or will be outright cancelled or will be send decommissioned junk from scrapyard. Every month Europe is disarming itself. South Korea has backlog orders. Untrained Banderites are ineffective and fast losing armaments. Prices for replacement are rising, effect of energy crisis.
Americans are withdrawing 5000 troops from Germany, 1000 from East Baltics and 4500 from Poland. Those 5000 very recently promised troops to Poland will never materialise, it it just teasing. No Americans will die for Europe. Europeans will die for America and Israel's Promised Lands.
Trump is dismantling NATO. Talks behind close doors are tense, practically NATO doesn't exist as an organisation. It failed to give promised response to Oreshniks in May, as promised by Kallas, they are scared. Trump's participation in NATO summit in July in Turkey is under question. If he shows up it might be disaster for Turkey - no more promised F35's. While Erdogan knows that Trump is Epsteined by Natanyahu and by Putin (some human trafficking 20 years ago).
At some stage Turkey will be leaving after open conflict with Israel - the second strongest NATO firepower after the USA and the strongest in Europe.
Trump will try to build NATO 2, with whoever wants to play with him - mainly Scandinavians, UK, Germany, Poland. He will push them to try their luck in the Middle East, not only marine power in Hormuz and Suez Canal/Red Sea, but also ground troops in Iraq, Syria and those destroyed and left empty 15 military bases.
Moreover, Trump gives free hand to Putin in East Baltics and on the whole Eastern flank. In exchange he will take half Greenland., some Arctic and Antarctic.
Now Russia is waiting for China in Taiwan, within the next 6 months, to speed up Ukraine takeover.
First Russia will send a very strong warning to NATO with kinetic missiles at North Sea, to stop arming Ukraine. Despite, some NATO countries will introduce mobilisation and send soldiers to West Ukraine.
Sounds well within the parameters making up a reasonable conjecture.
Meanwhile Flamingos hit the VNIIR in Cheboksary, and this time might have taken it out. Last time it got lucky -- the missile exploded on the street. This time there are two hits, and quite likely it wasn't that lucky.
And other Flamingos kept going past the Urals so we got missile alerts in the KhMAO and the YaNAO. Lots of juicy targets there.
What else happened during the day?
The former US ambassador to Ukraine bragged about how the US is helping Ukraien strike from the Arctic to the Caucasus and to the Urals and beyond.
Peskov said that "Russia will be very happy to have a US delegation come to Moscow at any time".
The combination of those two statements means that Peskov and his boss and everyone else involved in getting Russia to this position should have been handcuffed, put on trial and executed, tomorrow. The way Nicholas II was.
But yeah, lets' talk about tank attrition.
the treason narrative in order to create chaos in the enemy ranks. If Russia has already lost, why do you bother?
Probably same reason we in West continue to fight for our rights against increasingly tyrannical governments. Rolling over is not an option.
"Probably same reason we in West continue to fight for our rights against increasingly tyrannical governments."
Dude, the west ARE the tyrannical governments...
In US we are not there, we still have freedoms other people can only dream about. EU might be close to being there. But in US we are “increasingly” moving that way. Trump was supposed to reverse that and he has been successful is some ways, other ways not so much and in few instances he’s worse. Congress in US is bigger obstacle than Trump.
Bragging about the US helping the Banderans is a bad idea.
The flamingoes aren't being launched from the Banderan territories. And that will create future problems for some of Russia's neighbors.
The US sent a full delegation to SPIEF. I imagine they were told the same thing that Putin has said since June 14, 2024.
bullshit. The missiles ARE being launched from Ukranus
Sure they are. You know the super-duper long range flamingoes that don't exist.
one of them is on gd video, imbecile from just yesterday
The Banderans have American supplied super-duper long range flamingoes that can fly thousands of miles? Hahaha...
the americans have not supplied this missile, you imbecile
Yup.
Putin made all kinds of threats against the west and followed through on NONE.
IT DOES NOT MATTER how much of Ukranus is destroyed when EVERY SINGLE THING they need to prosecute this war comes from the EU or USA
For FUCK'S SAKE they have said in Russia that they are "at war with all of NATO" - are they fucking ACTING LIKE THEY ARE?
NO. They have refused to strike and now the attrition is hitting them where they CANNOT simply absorb the losses. NOTHING is being attrited in the EU. NOTHING is being struck.
11 fucking timezones...SO WHAT. How many timezones in the EU have had missile hits on military production? NONE.
Russia has been very busy attacking US business concerns in the Banderan territories. And then there is that Iran thing ..you know...attacking US bases.
Yeah, it kind of matters. Russia has industrial capacity and the EU is still trying to arm for war while deindustrializing.
A quick look at the KIA and POW exchange rates tells a different story than the stupid shit you Banderan symps suck on.
jfc ANYBODY who calls bullshit on your kremlin cope is a fucking banderite?
wtf is wrong with all of you? Russia is getting hit DAILY, its people killed DAILY, NOTHING is being struck in the aggressor states. NOTHING.
Fucking US business interests!?! JFC...wow. They SURE SHOWED THE USA WHO'S BOSS, eh? They hit like ONE or TWO business affiliated with US onshore corporations and it's like busy hitting "US business interests" writ large.
Idiot, has nobody told you that the numbers of deaths are NOT RELEVANT? They don't MATTER and neither does territory- the drone attacks are GROWING into RF and they will CONTINUE to grow. RF cannot defend itself against them forever
You got one thing right, taking territory doesn't matter. The primary goal is to destroy the Banderan army and NATO's ability to supply it.
Yeah...drone attacks...increasing...winning .. with miniature warheads on them. Not so destructive. The Oreshnik however...
And then there is still that POW/KIA exchange rate problem the Banderans have.
There is no shortage of Banderan analysts that recognize there is a serious manpower problem in the Banderan territories. Drone strikes on oil storage tanks isn't going to change the outcome of attrition.
So tell me again, why did BlackRock write off several billion dollars in the Banderan territories? It's almost like Larry Fink believes the place is uninvestable or sumpthun.
the Oreshnik? lol...where is the BDA? They took a superweapon and turned it into an afterthought.
Bc the west realizes they are TOO CHICKENSHIT to actually use it for what it is made for.
POW/KIA- nobody fucking cares dude...do you SERIOUSLY believe that the judeocons give a flying rat's ass about the slavs that get killed in this proxy war? Freaking manpower problems are IRRELEVANT. The RF Army, despite these supposed manpower problems in AFU advances BARELY if at all and in some cases loses territory to counterattacks. I don't give a shit about Blackrock ju "investments", get it?
Russia cannot continue to lose infrastructure at an increasing rate. The drones DO NOT CARE about territory
The evidence for the first two Oreshnik strikes is in; unusable underground factories. And yes, it is being used exactly for what it was designed for.
Of course the Epstein Class that you support doesn't care about casualties you fucking moron. That doesn't change the fact that the Banderans are going to run out of men and NATO is running out of the materiél to support the army. No Banderan men, no defense and no counter-attacks.
You are the typica ignorant Epstein Class supporter, a few fireballs and lots of smoke from a few burning oil storage tanks means heavy damage to Russian infrastructure.
The Banderan territories primary purpose is to be used as a giant laundromat. It's secondary purpose is to be used as a platform to attack Russia. The third purpose is to be thoroughly looted. The Epstein Class (whom you admire) can't loot the Banderans when the best parts of the territories are already under Russian control. BlackRock has no reason to stay "investing".
Let me help you out; Russia is going to continue the debellation of the Ukraine. Only the most western Oblasts will be left and they will be occupied by Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland's "peace-keeping" forces.
The Banderan capital will be in Lviv, well protected by Poland. Can't say the same for the three insignificant Baltic states.
The evidence for the first two Oreshnik strikes is in; unusable underground factories. And yes, it is being used exactly for what it was designed for.
Of course the Epstein Class that you support doesn't care about casualties you fucking moron. That doesn't change the fact that the Banderans are going to run out of men and NATO is running out of the materiél to support the army. No Banderan men, no defense and no counter-attacks.
You are the typica ignorant Epstein Class supporter, a few fireballs and lots of smoke from a few burning oil storage tanks means heavy damage to Russian infrastructure.
The Banderan territories primary purpose is to be used as a giant laundromat. It's secondary purpose is to be used as a platform to attack Russia. The third purpose is to be thoroughly looted. The Epstein Class (whom you admire) can't loot the Banderans when the best parts of the territories are already under Russian control. BlackRock has no reason to stay "investing".
Let me help you out; Russia is going to continue the debellation of the Ukraine. Only the most western Oblasts will be left and they will be occupied by Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland's "peace-keeping" forces.
The Banderan capital will be in Lviv, well protected by Poland. Can't say the same for the three insignificant Baltic states.
Must be tough constantly having to fact-check Jewish propaganda. As we know, they have a policy of "get there first" by pre-emptively putting out putrescent garbage, most of which never gets walked back. And once it's out there amplified, it's done the damage already of reinforcing delusions.
I might be getting older but I am still mesmerized by the T-34. It was a very effective, easy to manufacture item until they sent them off with the auxiliary diesel fuel tanks. With a few rifle rounds the diesel tank was punctured, the fuel started to flow down to the ground and from that moment all was needed a single Molotov cocktail to send the crew to Heaven, And that was a rather painful trip.
That must be why the Soviets lost World War 2 then?
Although they were declared winners at the end of WWII they were actually self-designated losers because of the absurd social order they hanged themselves with. Fully centrally organized economies cannot sustain a complex, large industrial state and this was properly illustrated after the war. China learned from the Soviet example and gradually walked away from full central control of the economy.
Complete BS. No other country has managed and industrialization in such a short time and such degree like the USSR. Despite being invaded and strangled by 8 foreign intervention powers including the USA and an inner counterrevolution scum that they have not round up effectively enough as showed after 70 years.
Nice story. But I have never heard of Germans using Molotvo cocktails. The Problem in the Soviet Union was quality. The 12V diesel engine was a great invention, sadly the quality was so bad, that they typically were gone after one attack. They even invented a special medal for drivers, that kept the engine for some hundret KM alive.
Germans had plenty of AT guns initially, then the Faustpatrone & etc., the Molotov cocktail was a Finnish winter war mixed drink usually served to accompany a T-26 flambe.
Fair point on the Molotov cocktail.
But I think the German AT point deserves more precision.
The Germans absolutely had antitank guns at the start of Barbarossa. The problem was that “plenty” does not mean “plenty of the right guns.” Much of what they had was suited mainly for older Soviet armor, not the T-34s and KVs that exposed the gap. The 37mm PaK 36 was common and still useful against BTs, T-26s, armored cars, and the like, but against newer Soviet armor it was badly outclassed. The 50mm PaK 38 helped, but it was not yet everywhere, and it still was not a reliable answer to everything the Soviets had in the field.
That is also why the Germans leaned heavily on a hodgepodge of captured Czech and French antitank guns early on. Some were useful, especially compared with the PaK 36, but pressing captured guns into service only proves the point. They were making do. And making do meant different ammunition, different spare parts, different carriages, different sights, different training requirements, and a supply system already being stretched thin across the Soviet Union.
That is why the 88mm FlaK became so important in the early antitank role. Not because Germany had no AT guns, but because their standard AT guns were not enough for the T-34/KV-1 problem suddenly in front of them. The PaK 40 finally gave them the gun they needed, becoming the main German AT gun from 1942 onward.
The Panzerfaust did not enter service until 1943, too late for the opening phase of Barbarossa. So it really was not a factor until later.
The same story as with the drones, no one could forsee that the tanks will get this massive, except the armchair generals. Hitler himself ordered that the tanks should get the 50mm, because he, as a civilian, could see much better into the future of military technoligy than the well trained army officer corps. Of course, the army ignored the "Führer" and built the tanks with the 37mm, leading to exactly the results you described in France and later in the USSR.
And this was not a problem unique to the German Army and military leadership. The USAAC "Bomber Mafia" labored under similar delusions. And, as usual, the soldiers in the field and in the air paid the ultimate price.
This T-34 is STILL being fired in combat- Yemen:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1r7hu41/brief_clip_of_fighters_in_yemen_firing_a_t34_tank/
It's not so much that Russia has run out of T-72Bs to modernize into T-72B3Ms, but that the only advantage a T-72B3M built from a T-72B would have over a T-72B3M built from a T-72A (and both are designated "T-72B3M") is KE (kinetic energy) protection, which would be protection from solid metal armor piercing shells fired by other tanks, as the CE/cumulative protection of the baseline T-72B sans Kontakt-1 and T-72A are pretty similar, with any gap being closed entirely by the fact that the T-72B3Ms made from T-72As use Relikt instead of the standard Kontakt-5 on the turret, so continuing to use T-72Bs against Ukraine with its extremely depleted armored vehicle stockpiles is very wasteful, even if at bare minimum 5000 T-72Bs were made (or about double the amount of Russian tanks of all models and variants Ukrainian propagandists claim have been destroyed in all of 2022-2025 achieved through counting the same tank wrecks at least three separate times) and likely far more than that, even. It's just more cost-effective to use T-72As for this war where KE protection is basically irrelevant than T-72Bs, and this also saves T-72Bs for future wars where KE protection will be more important.
On the other hand, Russia is practically going to end up with a reserve fleet made of modernized T-72s instead of T-62s or T-55s or whatever.
A lot more capable reserve fleet than there was before.
If the Armata program is over, the IFV are disappering, and the FAB bombs are cheaper and more accurate than artillery, no need to be a genius to forsee that Russia MUST and is going to rearrange its armor production entirely in the coming years. Another branch drone warfare kicked being air assaults and sea disbarkments. Everything is about granular targetting, behind the lines terrorism, narrative building, satellite linked internet, weather modification, maritime and land siege, social psyops, political infiltration and intelligence and so on.
Algum sitrep em
Vista?
The Saudi-Ukraine integration of Ukrainian drone expertise was a PR flourish that was quickly wound up once it failed to generate (at the very least, Saudi) takers for a shed load of rubbish debt yet to be floated because there are no takers- no market for this stuff, Germany already having had to bail out a bucket of bad debt it missold (that was what the unilateral 20 billion bung was for, and to keep Ukraine momentarily afloat.)
Without cast iron guarantees from backers with the dosh, to underwrite the rubbish paper, guarantees that will survive any legal challenge- not the promise of Russian reparations, seized assets, blah- the funding of Ukraine is about to go down the tubes. Once western europe stops paying pensions salaries etc it will all be over. Why the hell would Russia suddenly escalate to the point at which the US might be dragged in and some settlement imposed by a panicking international community, when it can just grind on to the point at which it will take Keeev, hold elections and embrace all Ukraine in the RF fold. This is how this will end.
the funding is showing no signs of slowing or disappearing
only revolutions in the principal antagonist EU nations can reverse this
Russia should escalate to get the fucking EU to stop...and the US? DRAG IT IN...what the fuck can the US do that it hasn't already been doing?
JFC are you people paying attention to Iran?
It isn't about what you or I think the US can do. It is about what the europeans and especially their deluded fringe Baltic states think the US can do... walk on water, TJ.
As for what Russia is doing- winning, TJ, where it counts.
all that rear area attrition is not winning
their army CRAWLS forward
this isn't what winning looks like
"the funding is showing no signs of slowing or disappearing"
Ah, no, that's not so. The US has bailed and the EU has failed to deliver the first big tranche of the mighty... what was it? 90 billion euros? it promised. So the US contribution has literally "disappeared" and the EU contribution has already "slowed."
and yet the Ukranus society and gov have *not* collapsed, have they?
Not if your source of information is Western Media, or Western dominated socials, or Ukrainian hierarchy.
There's bread lines for the ordinary folk, not that there's anything unusual about that... (cue Soviet joke)
no there aren't. Kiev is functioning normally...life has gone on for a lot of Ukraniacs, in Lvov and elsewhere too, at near-normal pace. Sure they have power outages and whatnot but everyone didn't freeze to fucking death like we were ASSURED they would last winter Victory was right around the corner! Collapse and capitulation with it.
It's like you people are existing in a parallel state of reality which is really NOT reality, just like the fucking NAFO crowd. If someone tells you ANYTHING you don't want to hear, you accuse them of being a banderite...there are a few of us telling the DOWN THE LINE TRUTH on here and I am in back to back messages accused of kremlin cope and being a banderite
it is NO WONDER the world is so fucked up with the likes of you people around. For the record I don't consume western media- i get my info on strikes from RUSSIAN CHANNELS, mfers. The Russians still actually permit documentation of shit that got hit in Russia. AFU prohibits it but stuff still gets through.
Russian channels exhibit the same cope about things and same unwillingness to call it like it is....however they do print what those who are say
"Sure they have power outages and whatnot but everyone didn't freeze to fucking death like we were ASSURED they would last winter Victory was right around the corner! Collapse and capitulation with it."
Nobody but propagandists who think their audience is full of morons said the above. Not Russia and not anybody with the slightest iota of knowledge about Ukraine, Ukraine's infrastructure, basic physics, economics, the Nazi regime, geography, and all those absolutely routine areas of knowledge that are totally opaque to morons.
"For the record I don't consume western media- i get my info on strikes from RUSSIAN CHANNELS, mfers."
That you get your "info" from what you think are Russian channels doesn't in the least indicate that either a) those channels are really Russian and not Kiev regime or Western fakery posing as Russian, b) that the channels you read are accurate or c) that you have the cognitive capacity to understand accurately what they say.
Russia is an extremely diverse country and, just like the West, Internet in Russia draws the deluded and deranged like drunks to free booze. For many centuries there has been a very strong contingent of people in Russia who believe in absolute nonsense, like alternative history (Atlantis was a real thing), the most extreme and stupid fake science and so on.
So there are endless channels in Russia that prey on gullible fools, and that includes endless channels in Russia that prey on people who are abject fools when it comes to any military topic in general and the conflict in Ukraine specifically.
And then there are all the Westerners, bereft of education and often intelligence to boot, who read even the accurate Russian channels and come away with an "understanding" that's diametrically opposite to what was written.
So no, nobody with real intelligence, experience and insight into what's going on expected people in Ukraine to "freeze to fucking death." That was a Western propaganda-for-morons meme, and you seem to have picked up on it. Doh.
I see your strategy when somebody points out that you've told a lie is to try to change the subject.
No, that doesn't work with people who are not morons. You lied when you said "the funding is showing no signs of slowing or disappearing." I correctly pointed out that you lied.
That's a very different matter than whether the Kiev regime's society has or has not collapsed, or to what degree it is headed for collapse. In point of fact, it has not collapsed, but it is headed for collapse, a simple consequence of not being able to produce enough to sustain the Nazi society at the same time it has no hope of stemming continued Russian advances and systematic dismantlement of their war infrastructure, all while its cobelligerents (the US and various US stooges) run out of the resources they need to keep fighting Russia in Ukraine.
Lone suicide bombers brought down the twin towers. Ukraine can continue to take pot shots at Russia until western europe drops its support, which is coming sooner than folks think. The denouement is a ticking financial bomb in the heart of euroland, not any action in Ukraine itself, although that is where the real consequence will land.
The twin towers were not brought down by 'lone suicide bombers'. The twin towers were large steel frame structures and you cannot turn such buildings to dust by flying aluminium tubes into them. The twin towers were brought down by small nuclear charges pre-positioned in the basements.
Why Russian? lmao
I can't engage with a species of the 'it was all dream' argument.
In the UK we have had apparently awful terrorist attacks. Such attacks do not predicate a source capable of defeating the victim state in a war.
There is no dream. The planes were real but had nothing to do with the tower downfalls. We have had terrorist attacks in Norway as well (22. July 2011), 68 young labour party politicians were killed after they advocated boycott of Israel. I leave it to you to put 2 and 2 together.
Stolti youth was advocating boycott of Israel?
Yes. Here they are a couple of days before at Utøya summer camp where they were killed. Note the big banner.
https://miff.no/norge-og-israel/2021/08/06her-skriker-auf-i-fistel-om-boikott-av-verdens-eneste-jodiske-stat.htm
Never noticed that banner. Are you saying Breivik was Israeli stooge?
Is there a translation available?
WRT what brought down the WTC, your's is the first to suggest nukes. The planes of course didn't do it.
The "problem" is all the groups that claim to know the answer really don't. They keep asking for donations to their organization and fail to provide anything new.
I imagine the same could be said here.
What are you wanting to argue? That the Russians are drone bombing themselves??
Of course not.
let's just quit the conspiracy thicket for the bottom line, which is that ASSUMING any terrorist attack is real, it does not predicate an ability to win a face-on war. Quite the opposite, in fact. That was my point.
I am just correction your erroneous statements about historical events, which had nothing to do with Russians, but a lot to do with Israel.
But the twin towers event happened. The rest is speculation, at east at your end, not some sort of historical record. There are differing accounts of who did what, but that is not a mystery thicket we want to beat around in. It serves no purpose in terms of my argument, which is that terrorist successes by Ukraine (assuming the hype matches the reality- which is your field, Norwegian!) cannot stand as evidence of their likely superiority in the actual war such that they are worth backing financially which is what this show is really all about.
You are way out of your depth here, dear. Stick to the 9 11 pap.
Wake up, dear and turn off your Bi bi See.
I'm not sure about the nuclear charges, but I agree that airliners can't possibly bring down reinforced concrete buildings. I suspect controlled demolition techniques were used instead. Many years ago I've read something about thermite being used to cut steel beams, but I'm no expert in this subject.
Quite. They especially could not bring down a building that they didn't hit, a la WTC 7. The one that just happened to come down at free fall speed into it's own footprint, looking exactly like a controlled demolition, and even had the BBC reporting on it's demise a full 20 minutes before it happened.
WTC7 may have been brought down in an orderly manner...sure. WTC1 and 2 were anything but orderly
If you are not an expert you can become one - it is a matter of time and will.
The planes themselves did not bring anything down as the towers stood after impact.
A plausible explanation is that the towers collapsed after the fire burnt for a while making the rebars lose huge part of their strength - the water was cut off by the impact so there was no extinguishing of fire and no cooling of rebars.
Building 7 took longer because its rebars were still insulated. The lack of water was caused here by the collapsing towers not the planes.
This is a short version without details.
There can be other explanations but I find this to be most convincing.
As for who organized or rather facilitated the attacks we may never know for sure but 5 dancing Mossad agents were arrested and later released. They may but don't have to have had anything to do with it. I personally think they had but I have no clear explanation for that other than it is very plausible and fits within the paradigm of USS Liberty attack years before.
The twin towers weren't reinforced concrete buildings. They were lattices of steel I-beams that were coated with thin sheets of glass and metal as an exterior facade.
What brought them down was their own weight: fly an airliner full of fuel into a building like that and you start a huge, fuel-driven fire. Steel I-beams lose a lot of strength when they heat up. In a fire like that they lose enough strength that the load bearing columns in the region of the fire fail, becoming unable to support the weight of floors above them.
Those higher floors come pancaking down as the many, many videos of the towers collapsing showed. It's an absolutely classic, well-known engineering phenomenon that's not the least bit complex.
jfc how much MORE ignorant can you people be?
1- the WTC was NOT reinforced concrete.
2- airliners CAN and DID bring down these towers. But not in the way you think. Engineers from NIST did metallurgical analysis of truss joints from the towers around the impact points and found very interesting things.
It is THIS that is responsible for the fucking secrecy- it's a systemic flaw in ALL non-reinforced concrete building construction. Gypsum wallboard is the #3 by weight material in high rises and it has a habit of emitting massive amounts of chlorine while burning in a reducing environment. This gas attacks metals and causes rapid structural weakening. Should a fire or explosion remove the fireproofing from the metal structure, you have a serious incipient problem.
Why is this so hush? Because this shit, along with PVC cabling which behaves the same way, is EVERYWHERE and cannot be substituted or removed.
Wow, nuclear explosions that don't emit any radiation. Technology is amazing, isn't it?
Guess why engine blocks in the area 'melted', but paper was unaffected. Oh, and the little detail about a number of people clearing up dying of radiation sickness.
There are lots of radiation detectors in private hands -- heck, Amazon sells them for 40 euro. There is no way the government could hide a nuclear explosion. I'm not arguing that something fishy didn't go on, just not nuclear.
tell them nuclear doesn't exist, is a hoax by (((them))).
this is deranged
nukes have been detonated by EVERYONE from Pakistan to the USSR to China
dude you are cracked up
the buildings failed AT THE POINT OF PLANE IMPACT
both of them
"Radioactive fallout refers to residual radioactive material propelled into the atmosphere by a nuclear explosion or accident, which then settles back to Earth. In contrast, nano-thermite (or super-thermite) is a highly reactive explosive composed of aluminum and iron oxide nanoparticles, which generates intense heat but does not produce radioactive material."
Nano-thermite, you nano-brain, releases energy at the chemical level when it burns, not nuclear energy which is hundreds of thousands of times greater.
By God, Westerners have become such total imbeciles when it comes to basic science.
Right, there were no nuclear reactions at the WTC to emit radiation. Nano-thermite was used to cut the lower I-beams.
Which was the point of my copy-pasted quote, in response to the errors above it.
The "point" of whatever you intended by posting a completely nonsense and off-context quote doesn't exist in the context of the downing of the twin towers. A nuclear explosion releases far more energy than chemical reactions (which is what power chemical explosions or burning phenomena, as anybody who is not a moron or not woefully ignorant about basic science knows). There wasn't any nuclear explosion at the twin towers.
What happened was captured on thousands of videos: commercial airliners loaded with many tons of aviation fuel impacted the twin towers, releasing those many tons of aviation fuels as propellants for truly epic and hot fires in the structures. As everybody who is not a total technical ignoramus would expect, the temperatures that those fires achieved far exceeded the relatively low temperatures at which the steel in the I beams that supported the twin towers became too weak to bear the loads upon them.
The pancake collapse of the twin towers is precisely the expected outcome of such weakening. This is like a kindergarten level thinking exercise for any competent structural engineer.
By the way, for the smarter readers who might read this, it's interesting to note that the very low temperature (relatively speaking) at which the steel in I beams weakens is precisely the reason that steel I beams used in modern construction are sprayed with thermal insulation. That used to be asbestos based insulation but in modern times other materials are used. That thin layer helps protect an I beam from a local fire, such as might occur within a particular office.
But that thin layer has no hope of protecting I beams from a fire propelled by many tons of aviation fuel. Such a conflagration will weaken I beams throughout most of a floor as well as two or three floors above. The moment those airliners hit the towers and the fuel in them ignited, those towers were doomed. Ah, it also didn't help that the kinetic impact from the airframe and heavy elements like the engines, landing gear, and other heavy and strong structure also took out a few I beams on the way to losing their kinetic energy.
Anybody who tells you the twin towers weren't brought down by airliner impacts, just take out your little black book where you keep a list of people who are total cretins whose opinions you should ignore and add their name to the list.
oh jesus fucking christ, STFU
this is insane. Good fucking god. A nuclear device in the basement when we watched the gd things collapse AT THE POINT OF PLANE IMPACT.
you people are freaking deranged.
The towers were in fact brought down by an unknown failure mode involving gypsum and PVC in reducing environments...the reason this is not widely disclosed is because it poses a collapse failure mode to nearly every high rise in the gd world that is not reinforced concrete as it subjects truss joints to halogen attack in similar fire scenarios
"Lone suicide bombers brought down the twin towers."
Oh dear oh dear. And covaid$ killed the radio star. Go back to 9 11 and get it right...already for goodness sake otherwise who will take your musings seriously here, dear?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCzy9i4tIHU
Not you, I hope, or I am done for.
That aside, I blame myself entirely for opening this can of crap.
Not two towers were brought down, but three (WTC7)! And wiith two planes! Amazing, isn't it
And each building fell on its own footprint, which is quite a feat, considering that not all civilian demolitions are that successfull.
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Homes”
Yummy indeed!
“Lone suicide bombers brought down the twin towers.”
Three WTC buildings fell that day: buildings 1,2, & 7. Did the lone suicide bombers bring down building #7, too?
Remember, according to the official conspiracy theory there were 19 Saudi nationals who conspired to commit the crime, so “Lone suicide bombers" is a stretch.
Simplicius - can you do something on drone interceptors. Surely the (current) Holy Grail is to use AI to intercept drone swarms. What is holding it back?
I have heard Russia is working on a solution but it will take time to develop and implement. This drone business is new to everyone and the situation changes almost daily with new drone types and responding defensive measures - everyone is adapting.
Victor,
Everyone is working on EMP weapons . Microwave emitters are being developed and there must be a contest between hardening electronics and EMP advances . One of the ironies is that wars accelerate technological development by leaps and bounds .
With given physical limitation, I can see no way for a mobile system. The energy needed is far beyonde the power output of a tank engine. If you start using capacitors (the needed discharge time forbids batteries), then most of a vehicle's interior is used for electric components. Maybe for protection of fixed installations or ships a solution is feasable.
@werner hillinger
Explosively driven EMP devices are a real world "thing". They don't require a whole tank hull full of capacitors either- Main issues, such devices are single use and likely to be as hard on a tank deploying them as the incoming weapon system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator
Now, LASERs really do need quite the electrical supply- Or very reactive chemicals that don't play nice with human biology if the tank gets punctured.
The day we figure out how to store (and deliver in microseconds without wrecking storage device) electrical energy equivalent to a battery/capacitor volume of double based propellant is the day we get our rayguns.
Multiple Teslas for nanoseconds! I worked in EMC, this is impressive, but not destructive. As you have just a magnetic pulse the protection is not so complicated. If you understand German than there is a book with a chapter for EMPs called "Blitzschutz Elektrischer Anlagen", there you find from lighting up to nuclear EMPs everything.
Werner,
If you want a reference on the nuclear variety there is a book titled "Nuclear high-altitude electromagnetic pulse" by Steven Starr . That's a frightening look at what is possible . A mobile particle beam or plasma weapon could be useful as a short range weapon .
Will Putin give it to his chum Netanyahoo, who's struggling in Lebanon?
@Glasshopper
Instead of supplying Israel, Russia's defense export strategy in the Middle East has heavily prioritized supplying that country's primary adversaries. Israel primarily procures its major military systems from Western allies like the United States and Germany.
There is no history of direct Russian Federation weapons systems deliveries to the State of Israel over the last decade. International monitors like Stockholm International Peace Research Institute explicitly exclude Russia from the list of arms exporters to Israel. y.
The fact that AI is more hype than substance might be a reason...
And shrinking the needed amount of compute into something cheap and disposable.
Russia probably has more horses than it did at the beginning of the "SMO," too. It's still losing the overall war, which is not being fought with tanks any more than it is with horses.
Russia has also an continue increase of living standard for the common men. Can we say that in the west as well?
Russia pays it's SMO out of pocket while we are forced into debt more and more.
The west is eating itself into poverty, regimes are about to change in Europe and Russia can and will ride this out until Ukraine is no more but part of the RF.
Denazification as one of the objectives allows no other outcome than the unconditionally surrender of the terror entity called Ukraine.
How Russia is reaching its objectives is their problem. But I am sure they wait for counseling and advise from the readers of this Substack.
"Russia has also an continue increase of living standard for the common men."
Where'd they start?
Give me a scale. Or what are you trying to tell me here?
That they're coming from the bottom and in comparison to whom?
From what I know they come from decent to really good.
My living standard in the west is continue declining since years, that's what bothers me.
Have you been to prewar Russia? It was not bad at all, and the increase since "democratic" miseries of the Yeltsin years with their millions of dead was tangible. The astonishing thing was that standard of living further improved during wartime. No wonder that 12.5 million prewar Ukrainians live in Russia today.
>Russia has also an continue increase of living standard for the common men. Can we say that in the west as well?
For the top 10%.
The bottom 50% are still worse off than they were during Soviet times, the other 40% are barely above water.
Oh puleeeze. Sighhhh.... Chip
I can’t speak for Russia but here in US, the top percent which owns risk assets, both real and financial, are doing great, while those without are seeing their real income fall far behind the cost of living with decrease in standard of living….this isn’t even debatable.
The dollar shrinks every year, and pay increases are not keeping up.
Since Russia is shut off from capital markets, it has no choice but to pay out of pocket.
"Some" capital markets. There are plenty who still invest in Russia.
I believe it was Krapivnik and Sleboda who were discussing how Russian Oligarchs have investments in Ukraine. They travel back and forth all the time.
Then there is the example of Lincoln Greenbacks which won the Civil War and built the transcontinental railroad. Money from nothing.
Try to buy Russian government bonds. Try to collect payment outside Russia.
I can't buy Chinese bonds, so what? (I've tried)
Russia's economy is still growing, although at only 1.1% (depending on which sources you believe.)
Russia is financing the SMO (or war or whatever you want to call it) itself and is not going into debt. Which I understand to be a "first". Russian citizens seem to be happy, except, of course for the drone strikes.
Russia has been exporting more oil than pre-SMO.
US sanctions are having less and less effect every day as alternatives for trade continue to expand.
What does Russia need access to Western Capital for?
Looks to me like it is more of a problem for Western Capitalists than Russia.
Axtually, Russia spending down its reserves at a rapid rate to finance the war.
The West can not only print money, it can get others to accept it. Fair? Nope.
I think this is about as good an exposition of the delusions reigning supreme here. Or else I’m wrong - always a possibility. First, I see GM has addressed the standard of living issue in Russia, and I leave that to him. I would just say it’s irrelevant to the issue of who is winning WW3.
You say Russia pays while we are “forced” into debt. That’s another way of saying Russia is losing actual money while someone else is paying the US’s bills. And who would that be paying? Well, pretty much everybody who owns dollars, including numerous members of BRICS. Preserving the dollar’s power has been an urgent issue for China for forty years.
You say regimes are about to change in Europe. Like the US, no real choices are being offered to Europeans. The political elites are firmly in charge, and there is no end in sight. The names will change, but the policies will not.
If you think Ukraine is being denazified, you aren’t paying attention. Wasn’t it just this week that they glorified some of their genocidal/nazi past and annoyed Poland so much (to no effect, obviously).
Did you happen to notice this article? https://substack.com/home/post/p-201423428? trouble in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Russia is being encircled and is grave danger. Hard to believe anybody still thinks Putin is the man for the job.
Don’t mistake this for a prowestern stance. I fully agree that the US is immiserating not only its own people but most of the people around the world. As much as anything, this is a class war being waged by the elites against the working classes and we the people are getting our asses kicked. But part of the plan is to fully neutralize Russia, and it’s well underway.
Ukraine will never surrender. As I read the tea leaves it will be Russia that does something comparable to surrender, which in my book is anything less than the elimination of Ukraine as a state. I’ll consider your prognostication right if Ukraine surrenders unconditionally, recognizes Russian sovereignty over the new territories, installs a Russia-friendly government, demilitarizes and stops celebrating its nazi past. But it will never happen.
I agree with your class war characterization. With your conclusion I respectfully disagree. Ukraine has nothing to recognize, Ukraine is non existing when Russia is done with the Nazi's there.
The rest of Europe has neither the means nor the capacity to neutralize Russia. Poor on energy and other basic resources, a dumbed down population that can't have trains go on time, Bridges that are near collapsing etc. Talking big is not doing big. Starmer, Macron and Merz are on their way out. The population is despite daily propaganda not willing to go to war. Belgium as host land of NATO and EU sees USA as a greater threat than China, by 64% of the people. Germany can't get it's recruits to the Army and all(!) submarines of the UK are in port due to maintenance. Just saying.
So we have our bet, then. You say Russia will mostly destroy Ukraine if not completely; I say it will be Russia that blinks and will sign a peace deal that leave Ukraine in shape (and disposition) to attack again. I would even guess that it will happen within the next year or two, and that Putin will find a way to give Trump credit for the whole thing.
Why you are so keen on betting? Do you see this as a sport contest? Why are you trying to narrow it down to Russia and Ukraine, despite knowing very well that we're talking geo politics here and Russia is fighting not Ukraine but all of NATO plus some other boot lickers of the empire? I don't know what the future holds. I know that Russia will not stop before it has reached it's declared objectives of the SMO. When and how, I can't tell.
As I have said many times, I make a bet to establish objective facts. Most of the people commenting here can never make a prediction because to do so would be to have to look at actual facts and, when the bet is wrong, to RE-look at those facts in light of the new information. It would interject some integrity into a commentary very sorely lacking in integrity. But bet or not, you have committed to a prediction, a knowledge you say, that Russia will not stop till it has reached its declared objectives. I say it will stop before then. Of course Putin will declare victory, and probably so will you, so let’s establish some objective parameters, though Putin couldn’t really bring himself to do that.
I’ll say you’re right if Ukraine commits by treaty not to join NATO and to remain neutral, if it submits to a military under 100,000, if it recognizes de jure Russia’s sovereignty over the disputed territories, including Crimea, and if it replaces the current regime with a neutral or Russia-friendly government and reverses its recent laws glorifying Banderites and oppressing Russians, various religions, and pro-Russian politicians. Would you say that’s an accurate characterization of Putin’s goals for the SMO? If the other objectives are met in good faith I won’t quibble over size of the military since, presumably, it will have been denazified.
It’s never going to happen as far as the eye can see.
>You say Russia pays while we are “forced” into debt. That’s another way of saying Russia is losing actual money while someone else is paying the US’s bills
"Debts" are a problem for the debtor only as long as the creditor has the physical ability to enforce payment.
If you loan money to someone who is much stronger than you and you have no way to enforce payment, that someone is not going into debt to you, he is robbing you.
Venezuela was a demo -- the same will happen to the whole world eventually, i.e. the US will just take over and rob everything they need without paying. That includes unilaterally canceling its debts while demanding continued supplies of real goods to the US.
You forget that we are past that unilateral moment were the USA can impose its will onto other countries with impunity.
You are arguing on assumptions that bare no reality anymore.
That approach might work today at Venezuela and Cuba but not with Russia, let alone China.
If the US debt is no problem, why are they in panic and pressure their 'allies' to give 5% of GDP to NATO? Because it is a ridiculous ponzi scheme, nothing has come out of it so far. Even inside the USA people get louder and say this debt is unsustainable because in the end, there is no one left to loan you a dime anymore and thus you don't have the money to deploy your military to rob others blind.
The best example is Germany: with an extraordinary credit of 100 milliard € to improve the Bundeswehr, now 4 years later the money has gone and they got nothing to show for it. That's how it works in capitalism. Legal corruption and money for work that's not been done or delayed for years due to 'unexpected circumstances', price hikes etc.
>You forget that we are past that unilateral moment were the USA can impose its will onto other countries with impunity.
>You are arguing on assumptions that bare no reality anymore.
>That approach might work today at Venezuela and Cuba but not with Russia, let alone China.
I am not sure we are watching the same events.
I am seeing the US more unhinged than ever and the world cowering in fear more than ever. Russia included. To the point of Putin trying to bail out of the situation by proposing to the Americans to go back to the 90s and hand them some 14 trillion.
BTW, Dmitriev is meeting with Kushner and Witkoff today again.
Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis and comrade Kim are the only ones standing defiant. We will see about Cuba soon I am afraid, maybe they will fight too. Nobody else is.
>>I am not sure we are watching the same events.<< Right!
I rest my case.
I don’t disagree with this, but I do think the bill will eventually come due at a time when the US no longer has the capacity to rob. Who can say when that will be, though? I thought the game was nearly up in 1999.
Russia isn't losing anything... Chip
@Chip Worley
Russia HAS lost a lot of their illusions?
They're losing ships at sea, oil refineries, chemical factories, the world's respect, and a lot of Russians. It boggles my mind how casually the people reading this page take all of that while Russia takes no action whatever to punish the people behind it. But we'll see: I've made my bet with Frank Sailor: Ukraine will never surrender, and it will be Putin who eventually does what amounts to that. Meanwhile Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan look iffier and iffier. https://substack.com/home/post/p-201423428
An interesting article full of crap.
Yes, the US is trying to set up a soft-under belly to attack Russia through Dagestan and Georgia. The NED is still very good at setting up stooges to carry out this mission. However, Kazakhstan lies between Russia and China with Iran to the south. Yes, Erdogan has a fantasy dream of extending the Turkish empire across all the other Turkish states. But, he is also being threatened by Israel.
Let us not forget the failure of the 2022 Kazakhstan coup. Who ya gonna call? Russia to the rescue. The shoot-to-kill orders may have resulted from the failure of Yanucovych to respond to protestors during the Maidan coup. Krapivnik is especially critical of that failure. Escobar covered the coup in detail when it happened.
I'm not saying it won't happen. I don't know Korybko and how reliable he is. I am saying it is unlikely. The ChinArb papers that talk about supply chains vs military power very much argue that the CIA/MI6/NED infiltrations aren't going to bear much fruit any longer.
Picking at random, the story about the mining interests the US signed to gain access to rare earths... ROTFL. Every other week the Oligarchy is telling us that they've made contracts for rare earths and other resources needed to supply the MIC, only to have Walmsley show, once again, that China is in control. It is going to take a decade for the US to gain access, and China will have already destroyed the US MIC in the mean time.
Simplicius long ago should have done an in-depth analysis on Ukrainian in-place defensive works. Why are they so effective that they have slowed Russian advances down to a crawl, while being manned by unwilling recruits who are forced to the front with only a few weeks training? Such defensive emplacements seem to be even more effective than the massive ones Germany built during WWII.
Agree. It is a dog rottening somewhere…
Maybe Starlink? They also send platoons of meat recruits to hold tree lines and millions of trenches which they replenish by drones. They also have an enormous production of European manufactured and pilotted from Germany, the Baltics, Roumania and Poland drones and UAVs. These operators cannot be destroyed and can give support to the first cannon fodder and mercenary lines, the Azov second line sniper executioners and the AFU third line being thee commanding posts far in the forth line. Starlink makes possible the coordination of the system. But yeah, the Russian disruption of the Ukranian logistics has been a failure. Only now are they bombing the gas stations and the bridges near Odessa.
They are not effective. The UAF is losing 20 to 1 at this point. Were the russians to move faster, they would be effective, but the russians would only be winning 3 to 1. People will be very suprised when the war ends and sees the actual exchange rate. In the afghan war the West overestimated russian casualties by a factor of 7(18k actual vs 120k western doom estimate).
I think those times when Simplicius can turn facts on Russian losses, to signs of impending victory, are over.
I dont know what to do with these numbers and pro-uki articles. Are we in the middle of denial phase?
Fact 1: Russia lost 8000+ vehicles during the first year (2022) which is basically a defeat. All those AT and Atgm gutted the SMO.
Fact 2: Russia lost another 5000+ during 2024 when Ukraine mastered the Drones.
Fact 3: 18 000 lost vehicles is monumental. But Russia still standing. So are Ukraine.
So what good is it that Russia now have 1000nd of new and refurbished tanks prepared to strike? They will go nowhere.
The dispersion and infiltration tactics is also dead. Drone density is to much for single soldiers to bear. Both Russian and Ukrainian military experts says that manouver operations are impossible. Therefore Ukraine is focused on devastate the supply routes to Crimea and to the different fronts with drones.
It could be that Russias is exterminating Ukrainian lines with KABs and FABs and they are for sure pressing into Konstantinovka. But winning the War?
>>...and they are for sure pressing into Konstantinovka. But winning the War?<<
They're not pressing into Konstantinovka, they control more than 75% of it already and Ukraine has now announced the forced evacuation of Slawjansk and Kramatorsk. https://de-rtnews.com/international/131481-liveticker-ukraine-krieg/
That doesn't sound like Russia is losing the war to me.
Ukraine is not standing, Ukraine is staggering from one corner to the other in the futile attempt to make it look like it is still standing.
Drop it, Frank. He will repeat it over and over again. What a sad, whining comments section has this become.
Cotra will wake up soon. lmao
Oh sorry Alexei!
Forgot that we should praise Simplicius in his wisdom.
We should chant ”We shall overcome” and swallow all this gaslightning.
Its a waste of time for me.
What crap is this, Mikey? you achieve victory when you achieve your goals.
For example, Mikey - liberation of Donbass, that is one goal. It is still underway, so saying today there is no victory is crap.
And do not project your pensioner juvenile senility onto others - praising some blogger or something. I extended my subscription this year because of the comments section, not the content, but I guess it was a mistake.
Victory might arrive only after Tschermani is glassed, because of them incorrigible Nazi posterity scum with ancestral butthurt.
Fine with me.
Ah, so your final solution for a Russian victory is extermination of Germany?
So the root causes in UK and Brussel is no problems then?
You are fully ignorant of the facts that most germans dont support Merz and the other Warmongers.
In what way will the ”liberation” of Donbass secure a victory in the War?
Explain it for a senile.
Well, Tschermani is very involved in trying to bring Russia to its knees and balkanize it. Annihilate Russia.
So, where are you peaceniks? I asked you the other day. Where are you? Show me some video. Everybody too old and cant walk anymore?
It is a reply to your constant urging of doing something serious with Ukraine. No, no, no, no, Mikey. UA is just a tool. You want serious stuff? Glassing Tschermani and Anglos. Yes, UK the first among Anglos. If it comes to that, Poland and Romania will have to be trashed as well, because of their imbecilic decisions to install Aegis Ashore that is not even under their control.
I hope it does not come to this, but you want some serious solutions. So here you have it. Be careful what you wish for.
Liberation of Donbass is a step towards the victory, there are other goals. Just because you think something should be done faster or some clown should be boinked does not make it essential in this enterprise.
This is the key with you:
” I extended my subscription this year because of the comments section, not the content”
For me it is the other way around. Content is the most important.
Insightful, critical thinking and new perspectives in the comments is a big bonus.
But comment section is now destroyed by trolls or people fueling their hatred by nasty comments.
It used to be like this in 2022, 2023. Now i get most of the info here directly from the sources, in advance. So it does not really matter, therefore comments are what I am here for, mostly.
One positive, or "positive", aspect is that I do not have to read Western MSM myself. Simp covers it. Most of the time it is crap anyway.
Like this jewel: " Clearly they are thinking in the long run"
Wow, Orcs thinking long term. Imagine that.
Taking one or two cities is NOT winning the War (By the way, you know Kreml still speak of a special military operation - in their minds there is no War going on).
To ”free” Donetsk Oblast after 5 years battling is NOT winning the War. Its only one objective Kreml has put on their shortlist.
The SMO objectives is not adressing the root causes. If Ukraine is led by a ”terror regime” - how come they are still breathing?
Yes, Ukarine is staggering and Russia still has stamina and muscles. But of what use if they dont go for KO? There will be no judges declaring a point victory for Russia one decade from now (you did read the previous article?)
And as usual, you are not commenting what I wrote about the facts. You duck. You close your eyes and make wishes.
The key objective of the SMO was no missiles in Ukraine hitting Russia.
Well, this night alone, from 10 pm to 7 am, the drones shot down were 326, and that does not count the "new regions", nor does it count the drones that were not shot down, two Flamingos hit one of the most sensitive industrial sites in all of Russia, and this time hit it straight on, there are photos of the destroyed buildings circulating already, and other Flamingos flew past the Urals and a missile attack alert was raised in Omsk, for the first time in history.
The SMO is a catastrophic failure if that is the new normal
And it is the new normal, with no end in sight.
SMO is still underway.
The drone wars are new. What's happening between Russia and Ukraine will eventually happen all across the planet. Drone wars will be exported everywhere. Thinking Russia can stop this by nuking cities or drone factories is a pipe dream. Welcome to the modern battlefield, about to be expanded across planet earth. How long it will take? IDK. Hezbollah is already entering the FPV drone game. It's only going to spread... Chip
Victory and defeat are decided when the war ends, not by the losses of the first month. Your doom saying gets more tedious with every deluded post.
Per Rybar Ukraine has broken through saporishia front at two points threatening encirclement.
Per Kots details the Ukrainian strategy of occupation of Crimea by cutting all logistical support and recent full attack on kertch bridge and openly speaks of collapse. Supposedly fuel all but gone on Crimea. These are pro russian milbloggers.
This blog is sounding more and more like a feel good space for russia russia snowflakes rather than objective breakdown of relevant facts and trends. Its unfortunate as all the propaganda and spinning is becoming tiring and waste of time and you end up shutting all analyses down and waiting for undeniable reality to settle in.
Agree. People cant see clearly. Sad development.
The Russian blogger sphere is always seeing the end of the world, the very moment the Ukrainian side starts something. I can remember the Kursk attack. The Ukrainians were soooo successful (storming over a few conscripted soldiers), next stop Moskow. At the end, the losses for Ukraine were horrible and nothing was achieved. In Kupiansk the Ukrainians recaptured the city. We saw ill-trained forces with bad leaders stumbling somewhere in the town. The Russian mappers showed the "gains" of the Ukrainians, even Simplicius made jokes about the Guards Army, the soft Moskow boys. But suddenly, the Russians were somehow found in the parts that Ukraine had obviously captured? How many times did the Soviets run out of supplies in WWII? And the mighty US had to stop in Eastern France because they were out of fuel. Did this change the outcome?
Its less about seeing the end of the world but realizing the total lack of preparation, honor and coherence, the open display of impotence, corruption and cynicism of their current regime. The russian people has a hard time rising beyond an all encompassing lethargy and passivity. Putting up with such deadbeat characters as yeltsin and putin seems to fulfill a need for passive suffering in the russian soul.
Not unlike maga rednecks and hillbillies returning for ever more betrayal and fraud and travesty.
Not unlike an abused woman keeps returning to her alcoholic tormenter for more beatings.
Mundus vult decipi
To me the actual Russian government is doing a good job, not perfect, but only God is perfect! The 2022 Kyiv strategic objective was successfully achieved by the general staff, but the political elite got the situation wrong, but again, who is perfect? The SMO is fought with gloves on, and that is much better than the slaughter of civilians that we see in USA/Israel wars. The new drone warfare was not foreseen by anybody in charge, of course, except the armchair generals. The economic politics look like the USA in WWII; to me, Morgenthau did a great job, as Nabulina/Siluanov are doing right now. Even if the SMO does not achieve all the goals, Russia will end the conflict stronger than ever.
“Not unlike maga rednecks and hillbillies returning for ever more betrayal and fraud and travesty”
If you truly think this is what MAGA is, you are seriously mistaken. But rednecks and hillbilliies whether in appalacia or north or west are the most God-fearing honest and down to earth group you will ever meet.
Certainly morgenthau succeeded in germany¡ a few more years and its devolved to a lovely cow pasture and neutered zombie landia, wonderful!
What did they achieve in kyiv exactly?
What is nabulina achieving in russia except conditioning it as an expropriation/usury base for her Basel sugardaddies?
Putin let his kgb goons loot and rot the army for 20 years then decide to play the strong man with a shell. Genius!
First, we are not talking about Morgenthau and Germany, but his role in the Roosevelt adminstration. Do you know anything about his policies? If yes and you see this positive, then please explain what the current Russian administration is doing wrong.
I know what you wanted to say
Yea i find merit and ingenuity in the story colonel house
To your question, In short: everything
Selling out your country to the davos and Basel overlords is easy. The hard path would be independence and a Russian revival and only a once a hundred year genius might have a shot at it. No hay ahora
Dude, expropriation base is obsolete trope.
Nabiulina has insulated Russia very well, not only now but since 2014, when first sanctions from hell were imposed, after the shooting down of MH17.
There is no case in history when country was subjected to this kind of full spectrum warfare with 40k sanctions, yet Russia is doing just fine. Is it all eprfect? No it is not, but those who say they would do things differently that would work better, they are just theorizing as of now.
Maybe it would work, maybe it would not. But she objectively insulated the country. Putin admitted that they did not know what would happen economically when they started the SMO and that things turned out much better than they expected.
“ Not unlike maga rednecks and hillbillies returning for ever more betrayal and fraud and travesty”…..
Weiner, MAGA is in very difficult situation. MAGA fully supports Trump on domestic issues, but is severely upset and feels betrayed by Trump on his foreign wars. MAGA knows we were lied to about ending wars and not starting new ones. We also know why….Trump is Israel first.
However, what is alternative? Democratic party will go right back to funneling as much printed money to the nazi’s as possible, take down border protection and quickly due to US what they did in Minnesota with Somali’s.
So for MAGA the choice is clear…suffer with foreign wars and meddling but protect domestic priorities vs. losing both with democratic victory.
I guess its a true Hobsons choice, but the choice is clear.
I couldn't have put it better myself....
Its hopeless when you think in this duality. Admitted usa is completely devoid of any non epstein alternatived, hollowed out to the core
"putin seems to fulfill a need for passive suffering in the russian soul."
What a retarded crap to say, but perfectly yodeler-like thought.
"The russian people has a hard time rising beyond an all encompassing lethargy and passivity."
The lethargic and passive Russian people that built the largest country in the world, where big chunk of the world has a generational grudge because they were spanked by Rus at some point in time. This Russian people?
lmao
Don't jump the gun, Wiener.
Encirclement of what in Zaporozyhe? It is 27k km2 in area.
You are distorting the informations by Rybar and Sasha Kots, of course not presenting any reference. The Russians got pushed back somewhat from the southern shore of the Konka river indeed, yet this is weeks ago, recently they made up some of these losses. Even Russian doomer resources like Tsargrad, Ramsay and that ilk did not report anything significant from the northwest Soporoshye front lately, while there is progress at the Dzonghar and Orekhov areas.
Fuel situation in private sale, which was most troublesome in Sevastopol, appears to stabilize. 95 Octane still on voucher or QR code (Edit: This applies to Crimea, Sevastopol area as the worst affected, situation better in other parts of the peninsula. Traffic over Kerch bridge also widely unhindered, less than 15 minutes waiting time for 135 cars from Kerch and 75 from Taman side atm . https://t.me/most_official/24746).
"New domestic production and refurbishment have likely made Russia’s current tank fleet larger than its prewar force, but overall vehicle quality has dropped sharply."
They can't help themselves, can they ......