Things are in a slight lull at the moment as Russian troops on the previous active fronts are said to be taking a brief tactical pause to regroup and consolidate gains. In the meantime, let’s take a moment to catch up on some interesting article roundups, which continue to fill in the gaps of our ongoing understanding.
I think the impact of the globe bombs, FAB 500-FAB 1500 is enormous, and up to 200 per day. If Russia continues to reduce the air defenses so that these globe bombs are used regularly and in such numbers I believe it will be a huge advantage.
Good news for Ukrainian 21 year olds. Senile Brandon opened his state of the union stumbling by saying he won’t back down from Putin. Enjoy being turned into cannon fodder for the Globohomo American Empire!
Don’t worry guys. I listened to the beginning of the SOTU and Joe B assured the world Ukraine will win as long as we continue to pump money into the cause.
It’s as I thought at the very beginning of the SMO. My instincts told me this war is/was existential for both sides. We knew it was for Russia but do not underestimate how important it is for the Empire. Everything is riding on this now that they have gone all in.
Best thing I have assumed we could hope for is a NATO defector making peace. I assumed that’s why the Nordstream was really destroyed. Macron has laid his cards on the table. Germany has followed with the plan to blow up the bridge. Sweden just joined today and you know there must’ve been an enormous amount of money and pressure to pull that off.
All I am saying is that the Empire has no plans but to continue the escalation process IMHO. Don’t think they really know what to do though. I fear they will get more desperate in the months ahead.
PS that first video is brutal. You never want to be one who is retreating. You will be given no quarter; war or bar fight.
Here's my "I told you so" moment. I'd said often That Big bombs work very well and someone told me that US experience in Korean and Vietnam wars proved they don't!
He missed the fact that US was dropping them from B52 up high and scattering. Nothing accurate There.
I would have expected a breakthrough to the West of Avdeevka after this much celebrated chaotic AFU retreat, but it seems it's been a few days that the advance has instead stalled at that river across Semenivka village.
Disappointment, as there shouldn't be much of a AFU defense line (trenches, minefields, concrete reinforced holdouts) there, just a few improvised foxholes. This past week was the perfect time to throw the kitchen sink at them - artillery, aviation, drones - and leap westward towards the river between the settlements of Progres and Karlivka.
Instead as usual Russians preferred to "consolidate" their positions, and by now the AFU has surely erected some kind of defence line. Oh well...
"Green Berets". and "Navy Seals"..god damn I laugh when I hear "Navy Seals"..Takes $ 2 million and 3.5 years to train one ! ...ONE SWINGING DICK WITH MENTAL PROBLEMS..That recent abomination of a Ukr landing attempt that got wiped out Is what NATO can generally expect for its "special" soldiers in this kind of war. ..About 20 of these commandos got waxed by POV drones ..at least they wont have to continue paying for them . Ami right ? ..American planners are still dreaming of the day when these people will be replaced by androids but that day is a looooooong way off.
“Retail sales, a key gauge of consumer demand, increased by 9.1% year on year in January, above analysts' expectations for a 7.8% rise. The central bank on Tuesday had said that consumer demand remained high and had only just started reacting to tight monetary policy. Interest rates stand at 16%.
Annual consumer price inflation was 7.58% as of Feb. 26, compared with 7.57% a week earlier.
Unemployment dropped back to a record low 2.9% in January, the statistics service Rosstat said, evidence of the labour shortage that is hampering the economy's productivity.
First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on Tuesday highlighted some of the economic challenges facing Russia as he warned that the 3.6% GDP rebound last year was not a sign that economic growth was yet sustainable.”
The FT right of reply-
“This is very bad news for Russia and very good news for the ‘collective west’ – further proof that sanctions are working, and that Russia will sue for peace and will pay us exascale $$$ reparations for their genocidal invasion of Ukraine”
“That workers are paid more is a deliberate fascist anti gender provocation and is an insult to our values and to the values of our brave, sick and homeless veterans”
(Advert for military grade amphetamine)
“More evidence of Russian corruption and dependence on China- Putin’s chief puppet string puller – this makes war with China our top priority – workers there are paid more with each passing year instead of being laid off and made homeless the only fit fate for this subrace scum”
I think Russia is testing new and secret countermeasures for the naval issues, unfortunately unsuccessfully so far. To test it you have to risk it. That's why so many incidents.
The lack of ship defenses was astounding, I imagined a single sneak attack leading to immediate contact, not 40 minutes of random and frantic small arms fire. The fact that this type of attack has been going on for a year or more, and that there is no practical systematic defense OR protective measures shows an astounding lack of competence. He’ll, even dropping a FAB 1500 into the drum and swamping some of these boats would be better than ‘spray and pray’ with an AK. At minimum, keeping the boats on daily rotation and having them weather in at birth behind sea nets doesn’t seem too hard…honestly, heads should roll.
My turn to be first
I think the impact of the globe bombs, FAB 500-FAB 1500 is enormous, and up to 200 per day. If Russia continues to reduce the air defenses so that these globe bombs are used regularly and in such numbers I believe it will be a huge advantage.
Good news for Ukrainian 21 year olds. Senile Brandon opened his state of the union stumbling by saying he won’t back down from Putin. Enjoy being turned into cannon fodder for the Globohomo American Empire!
Every Ukie said the Russians are dying much more so it must be true. Penal convicts with spades in the first wave!
Don’t worry guys. I listened to the beginning of the SOTU and Joe B assured the world Ukraine will win as long as we continue to pump money into the cause.
It’s as I thought at the very beginning of the SMO. My instincts told me this war is/was existential for both sides. We knew it was for Russia but do not underestimate how important it is for the Empire. Everything is riding on this now that they have gone all in.
Best thing I have assumed we could hope for is a NATO defector making peace. I assumed that’s why the Nordstream was really destroyed. Macron has laid his cards on the table. Germany has followed with the plan to blow up the bridge. Sweden just joined today and you know there must’ve been an enormous amount of money and pressure to pull that off.
All I am saying is that the Empire has no plans but to continue the escalation process IMHO. Don’t think they really know what to do though. I fear they will get more desperate in the months ahead.
PS that first video is brutal. You never want to be one who is retreating. You will be given no quarter; war or bar fight.
Here's my "I told you so" moment. I'd said often That Big bombs work very well and someone told me that US experience in Korean and Vietnam wars proved they don't!
He missed the fact that US was dropping them from B52 up high and scattering. Nothing accurate There.
No mention of the SAS/nato/british navy killed in odessa?
IM embarrassed for the Russian nay, you could literally tie logs together and float them as a defense against these drones
https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/7march2024_Ukraine_Avdeevka_map.jpg
I would have expected a breakthrough to the West of Avdeevka after this much celebrated chaotic AFU retreat, but it seems it's been a few days that the advance has instead stalled at that river across Semenivka village.
Disappointment, as there shouldn't be much of a AFU defense line (trenches, minefields, concrete reinforced holdouts) there, just a few improvised foxholes. This past week was the perfect time to throw the kitchen sink at them - artillery, aviation, drones - and leap westward towards the river between the settlements of Progres and Karlivka.
Instead as usual Russians preferred to "consolidate" their positions, and by now the AFU has surely erected some kind of defence line. Oh well...
Half a million cops in Ukraine? Wow!
"Green Berets". and "Navy Seals"..god damn I laugh when I hear "Navy Seals"..Takes $ 2 million and 3.5 years to train one ! ...ONE SWINGING DICK WITH MENTAL PROBLEMS..That recent abomination of a Ukr landing attempt that got wiped out Is what NATO can generally expect for its "special" soldiers in this kind of war. ..About 20 of these commandos got waxed by POV drones ..at least they wont have to continue paying for them . Ami right ? ..American planners are still dreaming of the day when these people will be replaced by androids but that day is a looooooong way off.
An audit would have picked up the 700k if they were in the background doing support work.
Odds are the only place they show up now is on payday and the commander picks up their checks for them.
Damn Abrams tanks are 1 shot garbage aren't they ?
8 March 2024 Yahoo!-Interesting news of Russia winning the war
“Russia’s real wages climb 7.8% in 2023 as unemployment hits record low”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russias-real-wages-climb-7-163103060.html
A sane straightforward and factual report
Yahoo/Reuters
“Retail sales, a key gauge of consumer demand, increased by 9.1% year on year in January, above analysts' expectations for a 7.8% rise. The central bank on Tuesday had said that consumer demand remained high and had only just started reacting to tight monetary policy. Interest rates stand at 16%.
Annual consumer price inflation was 7.58% as of Feb. 26, compared with 7.57% a week earlier.
Unemployment dropped back to a record low 2.9% in January, the statistics service Rosstat said, evidence of the labour shortage that is hampering the economy's productivity.
First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on Tuesday highlighted some of the economic challenges facing Russia as he warned that the 3.6% GDP rebound last year was not a sign that economic growth was yet sustainable.”
The FT right of reply-
“This is very bad news for Russia and very good news for the ‘collective west’ – further proof that sanctions are working, and that Russia will sue for peace and will pay us exascale $$$ reparations for their genocidal invasion of Ukraine”
“That workers are paid more is a deliberate fascist anti gender provocation and is an insult to our values and to the values of our brave, sick and homeless veterans”
(Advert for military grade amphetamine)
“More evidence of Russian corruption and dependence on China- Putin’s chief puppet string puller – this makes war with China our top priority – workers there are paid more with each passing year instead of being laid off and made homeless the only fit fate for this subrace scum”
(A word from our sponsor Secretary LL Au)
Meanwhile Germany Year Zero
https://rhg.com/research/tipping-point-germany-and-china-in-an-era-of-zero-sum-competition/
From Win-Win to Zero-Sum – guess which one is winwinning and which one is zero-summing
Worker wages down in Zero over last three years by as much as Russia’s are up last year
I think Russia is testing new and secret countermeasures for the naval issues, unfortunately unsuccessfully so far. To test it you have to risk it. That's why so many incidents.
The lack of ship defenses was astounding, I imagined a single sneak attack leading to immediate contact, not 40 minutes of random and frantic small arms fire. The fact that this type of attack has been going on for a year or more, and that there is no practical systematic defense OR protective measures shows an astounding lack of competence. He’ll, even dropping a FAB 1500 into the drum and swamping some of these boats would be better than ‘spray and pray’ with an AK. At minimum, keeping the boats on daily rotation and having them weather in at birth behind sea nets doesn’t seem too hard…honestly, heads should roll.
Starting to think;
Best defense against Drone Swarms other Drone swarms.
And
Naval warfare just really changed.
The capital ships might be best used as long range Drone and missile platforms.
It’s difficult to tell from one war that all changed, usually after suffering a median restores.