A relatively scattered update today more as a filler piece and addendum to the last SitRep for which there have been a few interesting topical updates. Firstly, last time I had posted Ukraine’s head of aerial reconnaissance support, Maria Berlinskaya, stating how Western systems in Ukraine have proven worthless because of the power of Russian EW. In fact, I’m going to post it again just to have it all under one roof for those who haven’t read the previous SitRep, and because I think this particular thread is
It is slowing sinking into even the most delusional supporters of Ukraine that they are badly losing and that there is nothing that they can do.
After being wrong for years and calling everyone who disagreed with them "Putin propagandists", I think that the Ukrainian supporters are going to have to eat some humble pie.
More significantly, this is a major strategic defeat for the West. As some have predicted, maybe even the end of NATO as a functional organization, although it will likely stay in name (too many corrupt high paying jobs at stake). It just will remain an ineffective organization at nation state war, just a swindle for taxpayers to make a few corporations and wealthy people even richer.
"Soros' son Alexander agreed with the Ukrainian authorities to allocate 400 square kilometers of agricultural land to American corporations for the disposal of hazardous waste, according to an investigation by French journalist Jules Vincennes." - Can this be verified somehow? Is there a link?
Well, not everything USA sent was crap as another Russian oil refinery was hit last night.
Ukraine is still very strong and capable for long range (terrorist) attack on Russia's proper as weak posture of Russian government destroyed all deterrence Russia once had.
My eye is on China. How will they take the Tiktok ban, and how will they respond to Blinken's ultimatum. They need their $/SWIFT alternate up, and yesterday. Fact is there are a lot of painful levers the US can pull, and will.
1. Spoke yesterday with a Russian person who insisted that Russia produces no electronics and Russian weapons systems were comprised primarily of US and Chinese components.
No amount of evidence would dissuade him on this or other matters. "Human waves attacking with shovels, Putin blew up NS because he hates freedom,.etc."
2. Ocheretinoe is good news, if the Russian leadership is prepared to use it.
Interesting comments from Ukrainian soldiers. I'd just remember what my crusty NCO's said to me (paraphrasing), "we dont worry when people bitch, thats tells us there is still some morale, its when they stop bitching that we know morale is gone".
All these AFU guys bitch, but continue to support the effort - at least so far as we know. I'm sure they dont advertise fragging of officers.
It does seem that Ukrainians are highly compliant and submissive to "authority". I'm sure our "leadership" finds that most interesting and is trying to figure out how Ukraine does it.
Ukraine is clearly growing weaker by the day, but they also continue to resist with a reasonable degree of cohesion.
The meeting of Blinken in China is important. The US keeps threatening Chinese banks about trade with Russia. It's amazing how we throw our most valuable assets like USD Status at problems that are really peripheral to US interests. US leadership seems completely incapable of any sort of calibration.
For all the dismissal the US sanctions efforts get, over time Russia needs to either find a way to accumulate and spend USD without interference or get a good part of the world to accept an alternative to USD for trade settlement and CB Reserve use.
All of Russias friends, including China, have not be enthusiastic about that part of the BRICS mission. It's Russia that needs it. However, US threats effectively carry water for Russias arguments. Chinese treasury holdings are now below $800b and by the end of summer will be below the UK's holdings.
If China were to go all in with Russia on promoting an alternative to USD for trade settlement, the damage to USD would be measurable. The people in the US policy establishment just can't see it. It must be an effect of that Harvard/Columbia university education.
I cannot even read this, and I tried. Believe me, I tried. Today, in a YouTube video featuring American Paul Craig Roberts, people leaving comments criticized Roberts rather ruthlessly, I might add, while I agreed with Roberts one thousand million billion and a half percent. Maybe even more. Russians have fought a stupid war. The only thing separating the ruthless Russians from ruthless NATO, run by the ruthless weapons-producing Americans in conjunction with the pathetic tail-grabbing Brits in a "special relationship," is that the Russians offered the corrupt, murderous Ukrainians an out in the Turkey negotiations held in the spring of 2022. That's it though. The Russians could have ended this slaughter long ago and saved the lives of fellow slavs while humiliating NATO, but instead chose to test their weapons in the field just as NATO does. The Russians waste their time meticulously focusing on taking minimal square footage daily in small towns of no strategic importance, rather than taking Kiev, which they could have done long ago to end the killing. No one party to this war wants to end this killing. They want to test their weapons. Kudos to Viktor Orban for permitting Ukrainians to cross the border into Hungary. He is saving lives while killing sponsored by Russia and NATO continue and will do so to the last Ukrainian who does not make it to Hungary. Yes, I know I am in trouble with all you Russophile's. I don't care. All parties engaging in this war are killers.
The production capabilities of the west/NATO are laughable. It seems as if they were the ones wanting a swift war, defeating Russia in a week or month,that ridiculous piece of propaganda that they floated as Russian miscalculation. It is painfully obvious that their planning didn't take reality into account - it is only 2 years and 2 months and there are not sufficient weapons, and no hope of making any.
I am glad that the West have finally come up against an adversary that show up their ridiculous propaganda campaigns for exactly what they are - lies based on a superiority complex in turn based on pure state terrorism of developing countries.
I certainly hope this will bring them to the negotiating table/international law and abolish the 'rules based NWO' in the future. Humanity can thank their lucky stars for Russian and Chinese wisdom.
I hate to say it but finding out that a shiny and expensive new weapons system performs badly in theater is one of the reasons why proxy wars are valuable. Better to learn the lesson in Ukraine than Alaska.
The epithet "rat faced" for Blinken is inspired and accurate, as a matter of looks, but, it must be said, somewhat unfair to rats, which, whatever their faults, are not remotely as dishonest, nor as likely to be bearers of lethal parasites.
An inevitable fate awaits……. The collapse of Ukraine. The financial implosion of usa due to dollar destruction. Two years at most for the inevitable ? Which one will occur first. And would one precipitate the occurrence of the other?
…not to mention Russian PW (Potato Warfare)
https://t.me/myLordBebo/29237
Blackrock is the East India Company of the Globohomo American Empire.
It is slowing sinking into even the most delusional supporters of Ukraine that they are badly losing and that there is nothing that they can do.
After being wrong for years and calling everyone who disagreed with them "Putin propagandists", I think that the Ukrainian supporters are going to have to eat some humble pie.
More significantly, this is a major strategic defeat for the West. As some have predicted, maybe even the end of NATO as a functional organization, although it will likely stay in name (too many corrupt high paying jobs at stake). It just will remain an ineffective organization at nation state war, just a swindle for taxpayers to make a few corporations and wealthy people even richer.
"Soros' son Alexander agreed with the Ukrainian authorities to allocate 400 square kilometers of agricultural land to American corporations for the disposal of hazardous waste, according to an investigation by French journalist Jules Vincennes." - Can this be verified somehow? Is there a link?
LLM-derived summaries and breakdowns of that post by Simplicius The Thinker:
https://open.substack.com/pub/complexiathesinker/p/llm-over-sitrep-42724-us-admits-top
Well, not everything USA sent was crap as another Russian oil refinery was hit last night.
Ukraine is still very strong and capable for long range (terrorist) attack on Russia's proper as weak posture of Russian government destroyed all deterrence Russia once had.
My eye is on China. How will they take the Tiktok ban, and how will they respond to Blinken's ultimatum. They need their $/SWIFT alternate up, and yesterday. Fact is there are a lot of painful levers the US can pull, and will.
1. Spoke yesterday with a Russian person who insisted that Russia produces no electronics and Russian weapons systems were comprised primarily of US and Chinese components.
No amount of evidence would dissuade him on this or other matters. "Human waves attacking with shovels, Putin blew up NS because he hates freedom,.etc."
2. Ocheretinoe is good news, if the Russian leadership is prepared to use it.
Interesting comments from Ukrainian soldiers. I'd just remember what my crusty NCO's said to me (paraphrasing), "we dont worry when people bitch, thats tells us there is still some morale, its when they stop bitching that we know morale is gone".
All these AFU guys bitch, but continue to support the effort - at least so far as we know. I'm sure they dont advertise fragging of officers.
It does seem that Ukrainians are highly compliant and submissive to "authority". I'm sure our "leadership" finds that most interesting and is trying to figure out how Ukraine does it.
Ukraine is clearly growing weaker by the day, but they also continue to resist with a reasonable degree of cohesion.
The meeting of Blinken in China is important. The US keeps threatening Chinese banks about trade with Russia. It's amazing how we throw our most valuable assets like USD Status at problems that are really peripheral to US interests. US leadership seems completely incapable of any sort of calibration.
For all the dismissal the US sanctions efforts get, over time Russia needs to either find a way to accumulate and spend USD without interference or get a good part of the world to accept an alternative to USD for trade settlement and CB Reserve use.
All of Russias friends, including China, have not be enthusiastic about that part of the BRICS mission. It's Russia that needs it. However, US threats effectively carry water for Russias arguments. Chinese treasury holdings are now below $800b and by the end of summer will be below the UK's holdings.
If China were to go all in with Russia on promoting an alternative to USD for trade settlement, the damage to USD would be measurable. The people in the US policy establishment just can't see it. It must be an effect of that Harvard/Columbia university education.
Paradise Lost, Book 4. Satan's Despair
"...For now Satan, now first inflamed with rage, came down,
The tempter ere the accuser of mankind, 10
To wreak on innocent frail Man his loss
Of that first battle, and his flight to Hell:
Yet, not rejoicing in his speed, though bold
Far off and fearless, nor with cause to boast,
Begins his dire attempt; which nigh the birth
Now rolling boils in his tumultuous breast,
And like a devilish engine back recoils
Upon himself; horrour and doubt distract
His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir
The Hell within him; for within him Hell 20
He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell
One step, no more than from himself, can fly
By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair,
That slumbered; wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and what must be
Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue."
I cannot even read this, and I tried. Believe me, I tried. Today, in a YouTube video featuring American Paul Craig Roberts, people leaving comments criticized Roberts rather ruthlessly, I might add, while I agreed with Roberts one thousand million billion and a half percent. Maybe even more. Russians have fought a stupid war. The only thing separating the ruthless Russians from ruthless NATO, run by the ruthless weapons-producing Americans in conjunction with the pathetic tail-grabbing Brits in a "special relationship," is that the Russians offered the corrupt, murderous Ukrainians an out in the Turkey negotiations held in the spring of 2022. That's it though. The Russians could have ended this slaughter long ago and saved the lives of fellow slavs while humiliating NATO, but instead chose to test their weapons in the field just as NATO does. The Russians waste their time meticulously focusing on taking minimal square footage daily in small towns of no strategic importance, rather than taking Kiev, which they could have done long ago to end the killing. No one party to this war wants to end this killing. They want to test their weapons. Kudos to Viktor Orban for permitting Ukrainians to cross the border into Hungary. He is saving lives while killing sponsored by Russia and NATO continue and will do so to the last Ukrainian who does not make it to Hungary. Yes, I know I am in trouble with all you Russophile's. I don't care. All parties engaging in this war are killers.
The production capabilities of the west/NATO are laughable. It seems as if they were the ones wanting a swift war, defeating Russia in a week or month,that ridiculous piece of propaganda that they floated as Russian miscalculation. It is painfully obvious that their planning didn't take reality into account - it is only 2 years and 2 months and there are not sufficient weapons, and no hope of making any.
I am glad that the West have finally come up against an adversary that show up their ridiculous propaganda campaigns for exactly what they are - lies based on a superiority complex in turn based on pure state terrorism of developing countries.
I certainly hope this will bring them to the negotiating table/international law and abolish the 'rules based NWO' in the future. Humanity can thank their lucky stars for Russian and Chinese wisdom.
I hate to say it but finding out that a shiny and expensive new weapons system performs badly in theater is one of the reasons why proxy wars are valuable. Better to learn the lesson in Ukraine than Alaska.
The epithet "rat faced" for Blinken is inspired and accurate, as a matter of looks, but, it must be said, somewhat unfair to rats, which, whatever their faults, are not remotely as dishonest, nor as likely to be bearers of lethal parasites.
An inevitable fate awaits……. The collapse of Ukraine. The financial implosion of usa due to dollar destruction. Two years at most for the inevitable ? Which one will occur first. And would one precipitate the occurrence of the other?
The only site that actually tracks the war, to my mind. Please tell me if you know better. I feel starved for information.