This is a great start - thank you thank you thank you as the esteemed colleague said
Please---continue with a series on US corruption, not only the anti RF fake dissidents like those you refer to here, but with the Navalny corruption in itself, plus the DoD corruption, the corruption of US politics, the 70 Admirals per ship US Naval Command corruption, the arms produ... ok I'l stop, there are many more, transport corruption, infra structure, ind ag.... sorry I'll stop...the border migrant corr.....
Boeing is the,THE, poster child for the corruption of US industry
A significant role in Pentagon corruption - the failure of the notorious KC46
The Space failures
The deaths of 346 people in the Max crashes - and the continued evasion of any judicial responsibility for these, they bought off Ethiopian airlines, via a corrupt legal system and payments to the DoJ prosecutors, actually not direct payments but Obama payments, book deals, jobs - Obama was a paid up shill for Boeing, they gave him very high 'speaking fees' I think he was even on retainer - he boasted about it while President
Failure in Congress oversight
Failure at the FAA
Failure at the Dept of Transport
Failure in fabrication, management of shop floor, firing of engineers, share buy back corruption
The list is farcical - yet the company and it's managers are free, heavily bonused, and without any regret
Now that I think about it, Obama on a trip to China once even joked about it, he told the Press I'm here to sell Boeing planes to the Chinese I am their best salesman...ha ha ha...in fact they should pay me....hahahahahahah, as if he was live negotiating a salary hike, BA chiefs on the other line, saying yes yes yes
Boeing has stated they WON'T do Fixed Price for the Government ever again.
I doubt that Northrop, LockMart, Raytheon et al would disagree... However, they will probably put pressure on Mil/Gov to reign in some of their more "Pie-in-the-Sky" contract requirements.
Masha Gessen is a living reminder of the mediocrity of the jewish self-proclaimed “intellectuals.”
The Israeli IQ is 92, that is, jews are behind 39 nations in terms of IQ. (Their best buddies the Ukrainians have IQ of 91)
The brazenly genocidal actions of the jewish state, where jewish government openly promotes and glorifies heinous crimes against humanity (with the overwhelming support of the major jewish organizations in the collective west), confirms the jewish Stupidity. The supremacist lunacy and shtetl inbreeding explain the jews’ moral and intellectual degradation pretty well.
The aged Gessen doesn’t show any signs of wisdom, and her rabid “ethnic” Russophobia makes Gessen look even stupider.
Interesting part about those paintings is what they say about Russian culture nowadays.
You can see that in Russia there are painters that can paint in the style of baroque, like it was in the rest of the western world hundreds of years ago.
And not only that, those paintings are popular in the elites.
Compare those paintings with the satanic weird freaky painting of the new king of England
Calm down. These are photoshop jobs, inserting the patrons into digital copies of /actual/ old paintings. By skilled graphic artists, and taking new photos of patrons at the right angles to match the painting. But you are correct as far as public tastes not being decadent in Russia, yes.
Jesus, do you seriously praise this cringey "gypsy baroque" style that high-profile corruptioners are infamous for? Paintings with replaced faces, stucco molding everywhere and literally golden sinks and toilets sometimes. It's crying in tasteless.
Prigozhin killed Russian servicemen and wiped out a couple of Russia's most valuable military intelligence assets leading to disarray along portions of the front line.
I also believe he provided Intel that helped Ukraine in a couple devastating HIMARS attacks on the positions of rival factions within the Russian Military.
Whatever his merits, he deserved what he got. Ironically, or not, taken out the same way he took out those intelligence aviators.
yeah - I don't think that was what was going on although Putin reacted very much to it. I have a hard time believing Wagner shot down 6 fighter jets of the Russians...hard to believe.
except it is reality, and each one of those men have names, rank, families, etc.
Prigozhin turned into a traitor, overwhelmed with ambition after being put as a PR face for operation created and run by D. Utkin (real head of the unit). By the way Dmitrii 'Wagner' Utkin (who died on the same plane) was buried with military honors for the service he did and his rank and he has done a lot for RU vs stunt man oligarch Prigozhin. The fact that Prigozhin actions directly lead to death of RU servicemen and aided the enemy is undeniable.
Prigozhin was a degenerate rat working for brits, MI6
And yes he shot down 1 plane for sure its IL 22 and killed 8 pilots. There is also many other evidences of his murders.
That degenerate rat is inhuman animal and MOD and a lot A LOT, majority of russian people actually hate him a lot.
Speaking about CorRuPtion - its actually clan wars between internal russian power circles.
This OMG CoRrUpTiOn os NOTHING. 1 guy was accused for stealing some metal casings for 1 mil USD ITS NOTHIIING its ludicrous. So its obvious internal fight between different departaments in government.
Speaking about Russian CorRupTiOn its kindergarden comparing to USA or EU and same as in South Korea or China. So it Exists but whatever.
I should have said that 'knowing' anything is not an adequate description of the confusion and the impossiblity of acquiring any notion of rational or reasonable understanding about this as about many other events in the US - Dead Joe for example
First, they did not miss. He was hit in part of his head.
In order to resolve your quandry, I suggest you run an experiment. Get someone to take a rifle shot at your ear from 140 meters, while you move around to the extent Trump was doing at the time, with a slight cross wind blowing.
Let us all know how it works out, or have the administrators of your estate do so.
Only people who have no practical knowledge of arms and shooting, and/or who are total morons, would believe that the attempted assassination could have been staged by Trump.
The risk/reward ratio for an almost 80 year old man of having someone shoot at him to "almost miss" is astronomical and emphasizes the imbecility of anyone suggesting Trump set it up (and, of course, to conduct it, he would need the cooperation of the SS, which is run by his opponents who actually want him dead).
If they wanted to kill him they would kill him for sure. That idiotic miss is ludicrous. Plus check info who made picture of flying bullet. That photographer. Everything was planned and people knew what to do and what pictures to make. His flag picture also damn staged af. It wasnt actual assasination. Do not make mistakes.
But it doesnt mean that actual real assasination wasnt in prepare including FBI and SS. Probably pro Trump forces triggered fake assasination to prevent real one and clean SS.
Yes it sound ridiculous but its most likely explanation for me.
And Trump, who has been betrayed left and right during his term, complacently went along with it: "Sure, have a sniper hit my ear from 140m just for the lulz, and murder some bystanders while he's at it, for shock value; what could go wrong?" Your assertion is not just wrong; it is totally implausible.
Your desperation and need for a savior Trump is sad, but understandable. The lines between kayfabe and reallity are blurred in this psy-op, no point in trying to prove you wrong. Enjoy the show!
Last i read about the Prigoshin/Utkin crash was that fragments of a hand grenade discharge were found in the bodies and the fuselage wreckage. No idea what happened there. Rather not Putin's style.
As to Trump, the turn of head was not predictable. The bullet took about 120ms to travel from the muzzle to Trump's ear, in that time he could have turned his head 4 times.
Trump will almost certainly retaliate against them IF he becomes president. Perhaps not in terms of criminal convictions, but their interests (and money) can certainly be damaged.
Which is why it is practically guaranteed that he won't.
While it is true that the richest and most powerful people in the USSA are progressive democrats, there is still a sizeable number of patriots in the nation that will eventually retake control of the nation - or Russia will. The DEI Program and the Open Borders Program have not completely destroyed the nation yet.
I hope you’re right, but am certain you are wrong.
Of the thousands of extremely wealthy WASPs (White Anglo Saxon Protestants) who controlled power, wealth and social prestige in the US until the turn of the millenium, how many and who has ever stood up for the country rather than side with finance capitalism? Romney, though nominally Mormon, is the poster child for WASP “patriots” happily shilling for “them”.
Prigozhin had no intention of killing or overthrowing Putin. His mutiny was against the leadership of the Ministry of Defense. But in any case, he disobeyed the order of the Supreme Commander, which is unforgivable during war.
If Prigozhin had managed to successfully mutiny against the ministry of defence, Putin would be dead politically. Between that or being shot, Putin (and frankly, any politician) would take being shot any day of the week.
It is possible to state that Biden was only a mouthpiece, and a low performing one at that
But there is a serious question as to his degree of mental and physical autonomy - just as those on life support may be considered to be alive in a sense which is purely notional or abstract
I've always seen Biden as vindictive. Ugly personality. Strong supporter of the forever wars. Actually corruption springs to mind as he got very well paid for his ‘business’ activities.
Shoigu has had a lot of positive accomplishments during his career: he reeanimated the Emergency Ministry from the bottom up, brought the military industry out of mothballs and into frantic production for the war, and others. He is unlikely to be actually prosecuted; if he gives up most of his graft and quietly sits in a corner, he will not be touched. Note that the same option was given to Prigozhin---he just couldn't stand sitting quietly, and started messing again. Note also that more DefMin top officials quietly resigned than got arrested; only the ones that wouldn't go meekly along got the "axe" as you say. And so far, none but Prigozhin got the чапа, or "hat" as the Russians say, a humorous reference to the hood that is put on one's head at execution.
Somewhat reminiscent of the first few years of Xi's term as he decimated the corrupt within the Party-state, would be good if Putin did not just limit this purge to the military. Even if he doesn't the oligarchs are already very much chastened and Russia will get a much more efficient military. While the US MIC continues on its corrupt and profiteering ways.
Given the focus on yet more austerity by the new Conservative Prime Minister of the British Labour Party, I can only see Britain's manufacturing decline continuing; Indonesia and Brazil should be able to overtake it soon. Canada is in its own economic mess with its financial bubble rapidly deflating.
Markets collapsing, wars and rumors, power struggles in DC, Moscow, Caracas—let me count the wheres—as if the globe could get any more unbalanced. Reminds me that scared and cornered animals launch desperate attacks. We need more popcorn and body armor.
Yeah, as if. I mean, it's great that you think so, but it's just an image, not even Russian in origin. They all sleep soundly while commoners dream of Stalin to come. Who also has a wrong image in your head but kept winning popularity polls in Russia for the last three decades precisely because of the ability to reach the untouchables.
To compare and contrast RF Army corruption with the US MoD corruption is entirely valid - at least the Russian MoD was and continues to be functional - which can not be said about the US
Witness the easy victories of Ansar Allah against a non functional US Navy, and the typical US response, not of military retaliation, but of 'sanctions' - against China
This is overall US government class institutional corruption and failure
“This action targets key actors located in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including Hong Kong, and Yemen who have directly supported Houthis’ efforts to procure military-grade materials abroad and ship these items to Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, enabling the group’s ongoing attacks.
“The Houthis have sought to exploit key jurisdictions like the PRC and Hong Kong in order to source and transport the components necessary for their deadly weapons systems,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson. “Treasury will continue to target the facilitators that enable the Houthis’ destabilizing activities.”
It'll be interesting to hear what you think of the 47th Mech getting bodied by Russian assault troops around Zhelanne. 3 Bradleys and an APC gone in a single day, and who knows how many casualties, only to barely slow Russia down.
Also the matter of the 31st Mech Brigade (the one which allegedly got encircled), and how they've basically disappeared. Its not even like previous Brigades which suffered high casualties, because at least with those we heard about them being pulled off the front to reconstitute. With the 31st Mech, aside from articles talking about them 'escaping' the encirclement, there just isn't any information on them. No videos, social media posts, reports. They've just disappeared.
The topic of dividing patriotism from greed could be expanded. We all are drawn to military porn, if you will. I like to know why things happen too.
Increasingly the US appears to have been sold to someone and the caretakers left behind are responsible to destroy any patriots left to fulfill the deal.
The ultimate question becomes just what is worth fighting for?
The bloodletting at Intel is a telling result, considering they were the premier CHIPS act investment case (touted having stimulated $100B total investment into Intel, using like $35-40B was some form of transfer from the taxpayer). But that's largely also a result of the company's tech not keeping up.
I half wonder if CHIPS act would claim another victim a bit down the road - Samsung. Because another of the strings attached to the legislature, and really a key purpose of it, is to lock the recipient companies out of expansion in China. For Samsung, being a distant #2 in leading edge nodes to #1 TSMC, this won't help one bit. They get some US-onshored US Gov business at inflated prices, as a consolation prize tho.
There have been recent trade talks, free trade talks, between China and South Korea - SK does not, Samsung especially does not, to be cut off from the China market
Although I think construction on the Samsung 'factories' in the States have ground to a standstill - perhaps you have information on this
If they took money from the the CHIPS act, the US law now bans them from expanding their operations in China (ie new facturies and JV's). I think they were threatened and they caved in. At this point it would still be feasible to return most of the money perhaps, since the US investment is likely to be wasted
I think they'll push at least one of the two companies through regardless of cost. If the US defense industry wants 3-5nm chips, and wants to comply with its own paranoid rules about domestic production for critical components (they do really want this), then Samsung and TSMC are still the only options as far as I know.
Or they could wait a few months then outsource to China and buy them at 20% of the price they can make them in US
Why should both compaaies outsource their tech, the only tech that the US really wants, so as to have nothing the US really wants ...so that...well you know the rest - the US provokes China into ....then a Nordstream on TMSC Taiwan...oops sorry
INTC has a fundamental weakness that itself is a major chip producer and sell chips for a living. Samsung is different in that many of its chips are used internally, Samsung does not rely on chip output for a living. Furthermore, Samsung is even more critical than TSMC in terms of flash and DRAM, both needed in modern weapon system just the same as the CPUs.
Maybe this is a negotiated result. Phoenix area are short of semicon qualified staff due to too many fabs (and interestingly, not enough water) After a while, some of these Intel personnel will flow back to Intel even if you consider only normal attrition.
Check out a tweet by Arnaud Bertrand-https://nitter.poast.org/RnaudBertrand
Wow, this is huge: the Federal Reserve is essentially saying that the U.S. shot itself in the foot with its export controls on China (which was illustrated by Intel's recent staff layoffs): newyorkfed.org/research/staf…
"The U.S. has imposed export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies [but] we find no evidence of reshoring or friend-shoring. As a result of these disruptions, affected suppliers have negative abnormal stock returns, wiping out $130 billion in market capitalization, and experience a drop in bank lending, profitability, and employment. [U.S. firms'] total number of customers declines, potentially inflicting collateral damage upon the same U.S. firms whose technology export controls are trying to protect."
They also highlight that "the benefits of U.S. export controls, namely denying China access to advanced technology, may be limited as a result of Chinese strategic behavior. Indeed, there is evidence that, following U.S. export controls, China has boosted domestic innovation and self-reliance, and increased purchases from non-U.S. firms that produce similar technology to the U.S.-made ones subject to export controls."
In other words, it's almost a pure loss for US firms who lose customers, revenue and market capitalization whereas the affected Chinese firms find alternative suppliers and China boosts its domestic innovation and self-reliance.
Yep. They extended Apple's reign by a couple of years (now second to Samsung globally, and getting steadily pushed out of China), at the cost of making an enemy out of what is becoming the most powerful nation. What's remarkable is that people in the US gov actually believed their own mythology. It wasn't just Trump's neocons either, it's full spectrum lobotomy
Tariff is like a dike: you must have an all around defense. Tariff barrier or export control to one nation is effectively meaningless without even considering the CCP connection into US federal government.
That’s the first I’ve heard about this. Care to document and expand on that?
Your view of tariffs is meaningless because you consider it as an isolated event without any broader economic impact on the state that walls itself off through tariffs.
At the start of Trump's tariff "war" against China. Chinese export to USA did see a noticeable drop, while export from Vietnam to USA shoots up. While Vietnam was picking up at that time, a significant portion of that "shot up" are simply chinese goods without production label doing final touch up in Vietnam (or simply stamped with made in Vietnam whatever. Several years later, Vietnam's rising export is certainly much more solid. For example, it was said in Chinese media that most of the shoe manufacturers in southern China with capital from Taiwan, HK, and southeast Asia have all relocated to Vietnam, some to Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia. The manufacturers who stayed are China's domestic capital and they aim more for domestic markets anyway.
The same can be said for Taiwan. Initially Taiwanese business received order from USA then phoned China to manufacture per spec, the goods shipped to USA directly. In small number of cases, taking a detour to Taiwan first, to stamp on something. Even now a lot of Taiwanese business have returned to Taiwan due to various reasons, they still have business relationships with mainland China for basic elements, subassembly, and some still contract out to China, but no longer to their own factories in China, but rather to new Chinese companies (say, launched by their former floor foreman.)
And if you raise tariff against China's import of light consumer goods, but not against SK, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, etc. the import sources changed, logistics front-end changed, but manufacturing still does not return. As you said, tariff alone is not enough to solve any serious problems. For example, for the return of manufacturing, tariff alone is obviously not enough. But is USA more secure when breadmaker is made in Italy then imported than letting China do the job ? Tariff allow non-competitive domestic manufacturers to survive. Domestic population pay higher price, sure. But what if you badly need all kinds of manufacturing to come back ? Some segments are more critical than others, so there will be priorities and different levels of preference.
Furthermore, whether tariff is effective and how tariff should be exercised do not have universal rules. For the USA it is easier. USA have all the necessary natural resources and still some memory of manufacturing off-shored. Like relearning riding bikes, it can come back quickly. The Seas on both sides are effective barriers, especially when USN is a powerful force. Similar to Russia, but they have a very long land frontier and difficult to defend against smuggling. China can use tariff as well, but its manufacture capacity is nothing if they cannot feed in raw materials and energy, but bot are in short supply domestically. China can tariff mineral and energy to any extent, but only to its own disadvantage. But China can use tariff on mostly everything else for which China has domestic capacity for. Then China can be almost self sufficient. The problem is China has to export something to earn the money to buy minerals and energy. China would have to face other countries' tariff.
Not sure I have completely addressed your original concerns.
Recently, supposedly using some chips grants, doesn't really matter the source of funds as it's all fake, Intel proudly began announcing a new 1000 acre chip manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio. The masonic Columbus suburb built around wexner's victoria's secret industry. That was January 2022. Original completion goal was 2025. While we're told henry flaggler built the entire town of saint augustine in a single year 1888 from streets to hotels and jails from the ground up. In March of this year, 2024, they published a press release that brags of increasing funding for this site to $28 billion and reading through publications now estimate late 2026 completion goal and turning up operations in 2028. It's still difficult to find anything but cheerleading for the project, "oh some different divisions are in trouble but chip manufacturing is solid and domestic production is required for american security and the government paid for it so everything is fine" is the gist of hopefuls after the stock drop. I'm reading construction continues, it sort of has to, the moment they stop it would become inhabited by drugged zombies and everything metal stolen for scap. Someone might stumble down into the tunnels between L-brand's buildings DC4-DC8. Expecting an american ww2-era manufacturing capability suddenly becoming possible for ww3 is not looking very likely.
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Russian airbase hit by the west. Aircraft and ammunition depot destroyed. Russia cant even hit their new f16. Another embarrassing blunder for Russia who still scared to fight a real war because they're afraid of the west
You mix up things but thats ok. There was also a drone swooping down from Finland on a russian airbase. Now as for the F16 i really liked the photoshop pic of 10 F16 above Lviv. Ukro troll accounts make no more effort to give us some believable propaganda
Which is why you never drag Russia into an open conflict. During wartime Russia addresses all the festering overdue problems that it accumulates and overlooks during peace lull and transforms into something way more effective.
I could get you wrong? huh? You and your F-16's based in Constanta - I think you even used the dumb 'game changer' moniker- how could anyone forget that - short memories are useful for bad calls and useless predictions
There a twitter by Tulsi Gabbard just up about the Pentagon's year long delayed pay rise for the regular foot soldiers - $20 a month
The announcement carried the warning that the White House had not given up their opposition to this pay rise
This, nothing else, is corruption
Erik Prince is a lowlife hypocritical Evangelical war criminal piece of shit. But do go on and idolise him.
oooh Daisy is triggered.
So a war criminal cares about other war crims, in your little world that makes him a hero LOL.
Is Prince your boyfriend? You really need to stop sucking his dick Daisy.
A third to half of (IIRC) of grunt's families regularly use food stamps.
But the morons still line up to enlist (albeit at lesser numbers each year)
Be fair to them - there is less and less enthusiasm in every class and area of the US for military service, even in military families
Even the Admirals and the Generals are beginning to wonder
And to talk about inducting the illegal immigrants
Like they done the Irish during the Civil War, off the boat into cannon fodder
This is a great start - thank you thank you thank you as the esteemed colleague said
Please---continue with a series on US corruption, not only the anti RF fake dissidents like those you refer to here, but with the Navalny corruption in itself, plus the DoD corruption, the corruption of US politics, the 70 Admirals per ship US Naval Command corruption, the arms produ... ok I'l stop, there are many more, transport corruption, infra structure, ind ag.... sorry I'll stop...the border migrant corr.....
You have years of writing ahead of you.....
Boeing is the,THE, poster child for the corruption of US industry
A significant role in Pentagon corruption - the failure of the notorious KC46
The Space failures
The deaths of 346 people in the Max crashes - and the continued evasion of any judicial responsibility for these, they bought off Ethiopian airlines, via a corrupt legal system and payments to the DoJ prosecutors, actually not direct payments but Obama payments, book deals, jobs - Obama was a paid up shill for Boeing, they gave him very high 'speaking fees' I think he was even on retainer - he boasted about it while President
Failure in Congress oversight
Failure at the FAA
Failure at the Dept of Transport
Failure in fabrication, management of shop floor, firing of engineers, share buy back corruption
The list is farcical - yet the company and it's managers are free, heavily bonused, and without any regret
Now that I think about it, Obama on a trip to China once even joked about it, he told the Press I'm here to sell Boeing planes to the Chinese I am their best salesman...ha ha ha...in fact they should pay me....hahahahahahah, as if he was live negotiating a salary hike, BA chiefs on the other line, saying yes yes yes
There's entire articles/comment threads devoted to castigating Boeing over the Starliner fiasco.
Double the money has been spent on Starliner, compared with Crew Dragon, and they STILL can't fly successfully.
AND they blame the contract being Fixed Price as the reason....
Meanwhile, SpaceX won't bother even bidding on a Cost Plus contract.
Because it's TOO FUCKING HARD to deal with...!
I read somewhere that none of the defence contractors accept cost plus contracts now - is this true?
Boeing has stated they WON'T do Fixed Price for the Government ever again.
I doubt that Northrop, LockMart, Raytheon et al would disagree... However, they will probably put pressure on Mil/Gov to reign in some of their more "Pie-in-the-Sky" contract requirements.
Just to put a major highlight to Government pork vs spending your own money, SpaceX just announced their Raptor Version 3 engine...
Dear God, that thing is an engineering work of art.
For less than 1% the price per engine compared to a Rocketdyne RS-25.
Masha Gessen is a living reminder of the mediocrity of the jewish self-proclaimed “intellectuals.”
The Israeli IQ is 92, that is, jews are behind 39 nations in terms of IQ. (Their best buddies the Ukrainians have IQ of 91)
The brazenly genocidal actions of the jewish state, where jewish government openly promotes and glorifies heinous crimes against humanity (with the overwhelming support of the major jewish organizations in the collective west), confirms the jewish Stupidity. The supremacist lunacy and shtetl inbreeding explain the jews’ moral and intellectual degradation pretty well.
The aged Gessen doesn’t show any signs of wisdom, and her rabid “ethnic” Russophobia makes Gessen look even stupider.
The "New Yorker" used to be a literary gem...
Can't wait to read it. I love your work.
I use yours first comment to put mine.
Interesting part about those paintings is what they say about Russian culture nowadays.
You can see that in Russia there are painters that can paint in the style of baroque, like it was in the rest of the western world hundreds of years ago.
And not only that, those paintings are popular in the elites.
Compare those paintings with the satanic weird freaky painting of the new king of England
Calm down. These are photoshop jobs, inserting the patrons into digital copies of /actual/ old paintings. By skilled graphic artists, and taking new photos of patrons at the right angles to match the painting. But you are correct as far as public tastes not being decadent in Russia, yes.
Jesus, do you seriously praise this cringey "gypsy baroque" style that high-profile corruptioners are infamous for? Paintings with replaced faces, stucco molding everywhere and literally golden sinks and toilets sometimes. It's crying in tasteless.
They are similar to the vanity-pictures that FJB had placed in the White House before the world realized he is an idiot.
Agreed. Whilst perhaps in gaudy or egotistical taste, they're not blatantly luciferian like western works. Blessings.
Likewise. Highlight of the week for me.
Prigozhin was right. Then they even knocked him off. Was Putin involved in his demise ? I can't even imagine if he was not...
Prigozhin killed Russian servicemen and wiped out a couple of Russia's most valuable military intelligence assets leading to disarray along portions of the front line.
I also believe he provided Intel that helped Ukraine in a couple devastating HIMARS attacks on the positions of rival factions within the Russian Military.
Whatever his merits, he deserved what he got. Ironically, or not, taken out the same way he took out those intelligence aviators.
No - do not believe this at all !!
yeah - I don't think that was what was going on although Putin reacted very much to it. I have a hard time believing Wagner shot down 6 fighter jets of the Russians...hard to believe.
except it is reality, and each one of those men have names, rank, families, etc.
Prigozhin turned into a traitor, overwhelmed with ambition after being put as a PR face for operation created and run by D. Utkin (real head of the unit). By the way Dmitrii 'Wagner' Utkin (who died on the same plane) was buried with military honors for the service he did and his rank and he has done a lot for RU vs stunt man oligarch Prigozhin. The fact that Prigozhin actions directly lead to death of RU servicemen and aided the enemy is undeniable.
Prigozhin was a degenerate rat working for brits, MI6
And yes he shot down 1 plane for sure its IL 22 and killed 8 pilots. There is also many other evidences of his murders.
That degenerate rat is inhuman animal and MOD and a lot A LOT, majority of russian people actually hate him a lot.
Speaking about CorRuPtion - its actually clan wars between internal russian power circles.
This OMG CoRrUpTiOn os NOTHING. 1 guy was accused for stealing some metal casings for 1 mil USD ITS NOTHIIING its ludicrous. So its obvious internal fight between different departaments in government.
Speaking about Russian CorRupTiOn its kindergarden comparing to USA or EU and same as in South Korea or China. So it Exists but whatever.
He may very well have been right, but that doesn't change the fact that if you try to kill the king, you better not miss.
Putin couldn't NOT kill him, and this is true in any system.
Like they missed Trump?
They did not miss Trump, he was not supposed to be hit 😉
I say you just missed with that comment or did you try to
you are right, he was not supposed to be hit (and survive), he was supposed to be hit - and killed, but they've missed!
They missed on purpose or did they miss by mistake - how is it possible to tell the difference -everyone who knows anything is dead
I should have said that 'knowing' anything is not an adequate description of the confusion and the impossiblity of acquiring any notion of rational or reasonable understanding about this as about many other events in the US - Dead Joe for example
If they missed on purpose, they were pretty good shots - anticipating when he would move his head and aiming for his ear.
First, they did not miss. He was hit in part of his head.
In order to resolve your quandry, I suggest you run an experiment. Get someone to take a rifle shot at your ear from 140 meters, while you move around to the extent Trump was doing at the time, with a slight cross wind blowing.
Let us all know how it works out, or have the administrators of your estate do so.
Only people who have no practical knowledge of arms and shooting, and/or who are total morons, would believe that the attempted assassination could have been staged by Trump.
The risk/reward ratio for an almost 80 year old man of having someone shoot at him to "almost miss" is astronomical and emphasizes the imbecility of anyone suggesting Trump set it up (and, of course, to conduct it, he would need the cooperation of the SS, which is run by his opponents who actually want him dead).
If they wanted to kill him they would kill him for sure. That idiotic miss is ludicrous. Plus check info who made picture of flying bullet. That photographer. Everything was planned and people knew what to do and what pictures to make. His flag picture also damn staged af. It wasnt actual assasination. Do not make mistakes.
But it doesnt mean that actual real assasination wasnt in prepare including FBI and SS. Probably pro Trump forces triggered fake assasination to prevent real one and clean SS.
Yes it sound ridiculous but its most likely explanation for me.
Doesn’t make sense as Trump would be no more if had not turned his head?
"Shooting" of Trump was a staged, WWF-style kayfabe.
And Trump, who has been betrayed left and right during his term, complacently went along with it: "Sure, have a sniper hit my ear from 140m just for the lulz, and murder some bystanders while he's at it, for shock value; what could go wrong?" Your assertion is not just wrong; it is totally implausible.
Your desperation and need for a savior Trump is sad, but understandable. The lines between kayfabe and reallity are blurred in this psy-op, no point in trying to prove you wrong. Enjoy the show!
Last i read about the Prigoshin/Utkin crash was that fragments of a hand grenade discharge were found in the bodies and the fuselage wreckage. No idea what happened there. Rather not Putin's style.
As to Trump, the turn of head was not predictable. The bullet took about 120ms to travel from the muzzle to Trump's ear, in that time he could have turned his head 4 times.
ok 4 times is exaggerated, but certainly 2 times :)
what happened was more like a protest not an insurrection
Of course, this logic does not work in the USSA. The planners of the Trump attempted assassination will never be held accountable.
Trump will almost certainly retaliate against them IF he becomes president. Perhaps not in terms of criminal convictions, but their interests (and money) can certainly be damaged.
Which is why it is practically guaranteed that he won't.
While it is true that the richest and most powerful people in the USSA are progressive democrats, there is still a sizeable number of patriots in the nation that will eventually retake control of the nation - or Russia will. The DEI Program and the Open Borders Program have not completely destroyed the nation yet.
I hope you’re right, but am certain you are wrong.
Of the thousands of extremely wealthy WASPs (White Anglo Saxon Protestants) who controlled power, wealth and social prestige in the US until the turn of the millenium, how many and who has ever stood up for the country rather than side with finance capitalism? Romney, though nominally Mormon, is the poster child for WASP “patriots” happily shilling for “them”.
Romney, Graham, Kinzinger, and Cheney are all evil space aliens that wear costumes and masks that make them look like humans.
As Bob Dylan famously said many years ago, "If you want to trust someone, trust yourself."
Romney, Graham, Kinzinger, and Cheney are all evil space aliens that wear costumes and masks that make them look like humans.
As Bob Dylan famously said many years ago, "If you want to trust someone, trust yourself."
Prigozhin had no intention of killing or overthrowing Putin. His mutiny was against the leadership of the Ministry of Defense. But in any case, he disobeyed the order of the Supreme Commander, which is unforgivable during war.
If Prigozhin had managed to successfully mutiny against the ministry of defence, Putin would be dead politically. Between that or being shot, Putin (and frankly, any politician) would take being shot any day of the week.
He wasnt right about anything Prigozhin was a degenerate rat working for MI6. His english-mi6 connections now coming out more and more
Yes !!
But - is he really dead ????
I think Putin listened to him and now you/we are seeing the results
Shoigu is next for the Axe to fall on
You could ask the same question about Biden, or...come to think of it....
About being Dead ??
I understood that you posted a comment in response to one about Prigozhin, in which you ask is he really dead
You could ask the same question about Biden who lives a kind of half life, at best, and indeed if you want to get into the subject....
Yes :-)
To be honest I have NEVER considered Biden to be alive
All (if he actually did anything) he did - was via his "shadow" ministry etc
It is possible to state that Biden was only a mouthpiece, and a low performing one at that
But there is a serious question as to his degree of mental and physical autonomy - just as those on life support may be considered to be alive in a sense which is purely notional or abstract
Bidet was as alive as a zombie is alive. With a zombie the base brain activity only recognises by smell the living flesh of the living.
As for Bidet his brain activity is/was limited to only sniffing out prepubescent female flesh.
I've always seen Biden as vindictive. Ugly personality. Strong supporter of the forever wars. Actually corruption springs to mind as he got very well paid for his ‘business’ activities.
There are many people in hospitals that are brain dead. FJB will be joining their ranks shortly.
Shoigu has had a lot of positive accomplishments during his career: he reeanimated the Emergency Ministry from the bottom up, brought the military industry out of mothballs and into frantic production for the war, and others. He is unlikely to be actually prosecuted; if he gives up most of his graft and quietly sits in a corner, he will not be touched. Note that the same option was given to Prigozhin---he just couldn't stand sitting quietly, and started messing again. Note also that more DefMin top officials quietly resigned than got arrested; only the ones that wouldn't go meekly along got the "axe" as you say. And so far, none but Prigozhin got the чапа, or "hat" as the Russians say, a humorous reference to the hood that is put on one's head at execution.
If the USSA's military underwent a house cleaning like that, there wouldn't be anything left. The USSA's entire system is corrupt to the core.
They're certainly to DEI for!
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https://open.substack.com/pub/rgarron/p/the-bitch?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=336zru
Somewhat reminiscent of the first few years of Xi's term as he decimated the corrupt within the Party-state, would be good if Putin did not just limit this purge to the military. Even if he doesn't the oligarchs are already very much chastened and Russia will get a much more efficient military. While the US MIC continues on its corrupt and profiteering ways.
Given the focus on yet more austerity by the new Conservative Prime Minister of the British Labour Party, I can only see Britain's manufacturing decline continuing; Indonesia and Brazil should be able to overtake it soon. Canada is in its own economic mess with its financial bubble rapidly deflating.
Markets collapsing, wars and rumors, power struggles in DC, Moscow, Caracas—let me count the wheres—as if the globe could get any more unbalanced. Reminds me that scared and cornered animals launch desperate attacks. We need more popcorn and body armor.
The military is a priority, because they are coup-capable. Once any potential for a putsch is defanged, there will be time for the civilian grifters.
"First they came for the generals, and I did nothing, for I was not a general. . ." LOL
Seems to me that if I were a potentially corrupt military officer, the very last place I would want to be is in Russia.
Maybe a nice, corrupt Jamaican Major. Or a corrupt manager at the depot in Ft. Benning.
Anything so I didn’t wake up every morning and have to check to see if any of my parts had been cut off overnight.
Yeah, as if. I mean, it's great that you think so, but it's just an image, not even Russian in origin. They all sleep soundly while commoners dream of Stalin to come. Who also has a wrong image in your head but kept winning popularity polls in Russia for the last three decades precisely because of the ability to reach the untouchables.
To compare and contrast RF Army corruption with the US MoD corruption is entirely valid - at least the Russian MoD was and continues to be functional - which can not be said about the US
Witness the easy victories of Ansar Allah against a non functional US Navy, and the typical US response, not of military retaliation, but of 'sanctions' - against China
This is overall US government class institutional corruption and failure
Ansar Allah has succeeded baiting the trap, perhaps I mean trapping the bait, first for the US, now for Israel
The US has reacted by……more sanctions!
(But guess what the sanctions are really aimed at China)
This is three times fooled and boasting of it
https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5046401-us-imposes-sanctions-individuals-entities-facilitating-procurement-weapons
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2515
“This action targets key actors located in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including Hong Kong, and Yemen who have directly supported Houthis’ efforts to procure military-grade materials abroad and ship these items to Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, enabling the group’s ongoing attacks.
“The Houthis have sought to exploit key jurisdictions like the PRC and Hong Kong in order to source and transport the components necessary for their deadly weapons systems,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson. “Treasury will continue to target the facilitators that enable the Houthis’ destabilizing activities.”
This is why BRICS is so important...........sanctions do nothing but make countries away from the USA
Slight correction: sanctions selectively applied may have favorable effects on the sanctioner.
But you’re right that sanctions can invite retaliation. That the Chinese are clever enough to roll these out with cumulative impact is clear.
It'll be interesting to hear what you think of the 47th Mech getting bodied by Russian assault troops around Zhelanne. 3 Bradleys and an APC gone in a single day, and who knows how many casualties, only to barely slow Russia down.
Also the matter of the 31st Mech Brigade (the one which allegedly got encircled), and how they've basically disappeared. Its not even like previous Brigades which suffered high casualties, because at least with those we heard about them being pulled off the front to reconstitute. With the 31st Mech, aside from articles talking about them 'escaping' the encirclement, there just isn't any information on them. No videos, social media posts, reports. They've just disappeared.
@HeyHeyHayden
If the 31st escaped encirclement by moving TOWARDS the Russian Federation troops, after laying down arms...
So this totally corrupt military industrial complex of Russia has managed to knock around NATO, gosh how corrupt must we be?
Just think of how much better they can be.
The topic of dividing patriotism from greed could be expanded. We all are drawn to military porn, if you will. I like to know why things happen too.
Increasingly the US appears to have been sold to someone and the caretakers left behind are responsible to destroy any patriots left to fulfill the deal.
The ultimate question becomes just what is worth fighting for?
And imagine when they usher Kamela to the throne? https://open.substack.com/pub/rgarron/p/the-bitch?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=336zru
Excellent thanks
The bloodletting at Intel is a telling result, considering they were the premier CHIPS act investment case (touted having stimulated $100B total investment into Intel, using like $35-40B was some form of transfer from the taxpayer). But that's largely also a result of the company's tech not keeping up.
I half wonder if CHIPS act would claim another victim a bit down the road - Samsung. Because another of the strings attached to the legislature, and really a key purpose of it, is to lock the recipient companies out of expansion in China. For Samsung, being a distant #2 in leading edge nodes to #1 TSMC, this won't help one bit. They get some US-onshored US Gov business at inflated prices, as a consolation prize tho.
There have been recent trade talks, free trade talks, between China and South Korea - SK does not, Samsung especially does not, to be cut off from the China market
Although I think construction on the Samsung 'factories' in the States have ground to a standstill - perhaps you have information on this
If they took money from the the CHIPS act, the US law now bans them from expanding their operations in China (ie new facturies and JV's). I think they were threatened and they caved in. At this point it would still be feasible to return most of the money perhaps, since the US investment is likely to be wasted
I think Samsung did take money - but since has ceased construction/expansion on the factory/hub - ?
Same complaints as TSMC has of the US workforce, hired hands inadequate
In any case this is, for the moment, the governments negotiating
As per Intel it could all fall down
Have the TSMC plants made progress?
I think they'll push at least one of the two companies through regardless of cost. If the US defense industry wants 3-5nm chips, and wants to comply with its own paranoid rules about domestic production for critical components (they do really want this), then Samsung and TSMC are still the only options as far as I know.
Or they could wait a few months then outsource to China and buy them at 20% of the price they can make them in US
Why should both compaaies outsource their tech, the only tech that the US really wants, so as to have nothing the US really wants ...so that...well you know the rest - the US provokes China into ....then a Nordstream on TMSC Taiwan...oops sorry
Intel also has chip production facilities in the USA and they are just beginning to open up their foundries to other chip designers.
INTC has a fundamental weakness that itself is a major chip producer and sell chips for a living. Samsung is different in that many of its chips are used internally, Samsung does not rely on chip output for a living. Furthermore, Samsung is even more critical than TSMC in terms of flash and DRAM, both needed in modern weapon system just the same as the CPUs.
TSMC probably will be happy with the firings at Intel. A lot of people with some relevant knowledge looking for a new job.
Maybe this is a negotiated result. Phoenix area are short of semicon qualified staff due to too many fabs (and interestingly, not enough water) After a while, some of these Intel personnel will flow back to Intel even if you consider only normal attrition.
TSMC has long complained about water shortages in Arizona
Worker no good skills shortages - + the local workers complain they have to work too hard in a rigid alien culture
But TSMC has water shortages in Taiwan, and upsets the locals withe prefeential treatments and allotments they are given
Check out a tweet by Arnaud Bertrand-https://nitter.poast.org/RnaudBertrand
Wow, this is huge: the Federal Reserve is essentially saying that the U.S. shot itself in the foot with its export controls on China (which was illustrated by Intel's recent staff layoffs): newyorkfed.org/research/staf…
"The U.S. has imposed export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies [but] we find no evidence of reshoring or friend-shoring. As a result of these disruptions, affected suppliers have negative abnormal stock returns, wiping out $130 billion in market capitalization, and experience a drop in bank lending, profitability, and employment. [U.S. firms'] total number of customers declines, potentially inflicting collateral damage upon the same U.S. firms whose technology export controls are trying to protect."
They also highlight that "the benefits of U.S. export controls, namely denying China access to advanced technology, may be limited as a result of Chinese strategic behavior. Indeed, there is evidence that, following U.S. export controls, China has boosted domestic innovation and self-reliance, and increased purchases from non-U.S. firms that produce similar technology to the U.S.-made ones subject to export controls."
In other words, it's almost a pure loss for US firms who lose customers, revenue and market capitalization whereas the affected Chinese firms find alternative suppliers and China boosts its domestic innovation and self-reliance.
Yep. They extended Apple's reign by a couple of years (now second to Samsung globally, and getting steadily pushed out of China), at the cost of making an enemy out of what is becoming the most powerful nation. What's remarkable is that people in the US gov actually believed their own mythology. It wasn't just Trump's neocons either, it's full spectrum lobotomy
Tariff is like a dike: you must have an all around defense. Tariff barrier or export control to one nation is effectively meaningless without even considering the CCP connection into US federal government.
That’s the first I’ve heard about this. Care to document and expand on that?
Your view of tariffs is meaningless because you consider it as an isolated event without any broader economic impact on the state that walls itself off through tariffs.
At the start of Trump's tariff "war" against China. Chinese export to USA did see a noticeable drop, while export from Vietnam to USA shoots up. While Vietnam was picking up at that time, a significant portion of that "shot up" are simply chinese goods without production label doing final touch up in Vietnam (or simply stamped with made in Vietnam whatever. Several years later, Vietnam's rising export is certainly much more solid. For example, it was said in Chinese media that most of the shoe manufacturers in southern China with capital from Taiwan, HK, and southeast Asia have all relocated to Vietnam, some to Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia. The manufacturers who stayed are China's domestic capital and they aim more for domestic markets anyway.
The same can be said for Taiwan. Initially Taiwanese business received order from USA then phoned China to manufacture per spec, the goods shipped to USA directly. In small number of cases, taking a detour to Taiwan first, to stamp on something. Even now a lot of Taiwanese business have returned to Taiwan due to various reasons, they still have business relationships with mainland China for basic elements, subassembly, and some still contract out to China, but no longer to their own factories in China, but rather to new Chinese companies (say, launched by their former floor foreman.)
And if you raise tariff against China's import of light consumer goods, but not against SK, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, etc. the import sources changed, logistics front-end changed, but manufacturing still does not return. As you said, tariff alone is not enough to solve any serious problems. For example, for the return of manufacturing, tariff alone is obviously not enough. But is USA more secure when breadmaker is made in Italy then imported than letting China do the job ? Tariff allow non-competitive domestic manufacturers to survive. Domestic population pay higher price, sure. But what if you badly need all kinds of manufacturing to come back ? Some segments are more critical than others, so there will be priorities and different levels of preference.
Furthermore, whether tariff is effective and how tariff should be exercised do not have universal rules. For the USA it is easier. USA have all the necessary natural resources and still some memory of manufacturing off-shored. Like relearning riding bikes, it can come back quickly. The Seas on both sides are effective barriers, especially when USN is a powerful force. Similar to Russia, but they have a very long land frontier and difficult to defend against smuggling. China can use tariff as well, but its manufacture capacity is nothing if they cannot feed in raw materials and energy, but bot are in short supply domestically. China can tariff mineral and energy to any extent, but only to its own disadvantage. But China can use tariff on mostly everything else for which China has domestic capacity for. Then China can be almost self sufficient. The problem is China has to export something to earn the money to buy minerals and energy. China would have to face other countries' tariff.
Not sure I have completely addressed your original concerns.
Recently, supposedly using some chips grants, doesn't really matter the source of funds as it's all fake, Intel proudly began announcing a new 1000 acre chip manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio. The masonic Columbus suburb built around wexner's victoria's secret industry. That was January 2022. Original completion goal was 2025. While we're told henry flaggler built the entire town of saint augustine in a single year 1888 from streets to hotels and jails from the ground up. In March of this year, 2024, they published a press release that brags of increasing funding for this site to $28 billion and reading through publications now estimate late 2026 completion goal and turning up operations in 2028. It's still difficult to find anything but cheerleading for the project, "oh some different divisions are in trouble but chip manufacturing is solid and domestic production is required for american security and the government paid for it so everything is fine" is the gist of hopefuls after the stock drop. I'm reading construction continues, it sort of has to, the moment they stop it would become inhabited by drugged zombies and everything metal stolen for scap. Someone might stumble down into the tunnels between L-brand's buildings DC4-DC8. Expecting an american ww2-era manufacturing capability suddenly becoming possible for ww3 is not looking very likely.
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Russian airbase hit by the west. Aircraft and ammunition depot destroyed. Russia cant even hit their new f16. Another embarrassing blunder for Russia who still scared to fight a real war because they're afraid of the west
Except of course that Russia is actually winning in Ukraine. Why would it want to widen the war? That is what the losers want- aka Israel and Ukraine.
You mix up things but thats ok. There was also a drone swooping down from Finland on a russian airbase. Now as for the F16 i really liked the photoshop pic of 10 F16 above Lviv. Ukro troll accounts make no more effort to give us some believable propaganda
scAmerica is gonna change the national bird to the turkey, again
If a corrupt, weakened Russia managed to do this much, if they manage to get their house in order they'll be in Berlin (again) before long.
Which is why you never drag Russia into an open conflict. During wartime Russia addresses all the festering overdue problems that it accumulates and overlooks during peace lull and transforms into something way more effective.
Let's have your update on the F-16's
???
You mean you question what F-16's are?
You think an update is absurd or impossible?
You forget that you told us all what when and how they would come to be applied
You forget what you promised at our last encounter - tiny bit like all those westerners before you did
Yet still you are here?
I mean, you're picking at a wrong person.
I could get you wrong? huh? You and your F-16's based in Constanta - I think you even used the dumb 'game changer' moniker- how could anyone forget that - short memories are useful for bad calls and useless predictions