EU gas futures were a big topic around here in August/September with lots of salivation at the idea of Germans freezing to death in their apartments, so let’s check in and see how that’s going:
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eu-natural-gas

Posted by: Yenwoda | Oct 16 2022 19:30 utc | 104

@Yenwoda | Oct 16 2022 19:30 utc | 103
The options market is the tail that wags the dog, made possible by mispriced risk in sovereign bonds.
Rising interest rates will discipline the markets.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 16 2022 19:39 utc | 106

Chaka Kagan @16
exactly. i am puzzled as to why so much “expert” analysis barely notices the vast resources that the west believes is their birthright.

Posted by: polarbear4 | Oct 16 2022 19:41 utc | 108

@Down South 92
The question is, are there any real plans to use any of these forces ?
The initiative is still with Ukraine. They decide when and where to attack and Russia reacts.
I get that it takes time to reconstitute and organize your forces. But the Burden is on the Russian Army to show that there is a plan and to show that it has the will and determination to win.
All the talk of missiles and drone strikes etc. seems to have no impact on the ability of Ukraine to move forces wherever it wishes.
So one hopes and expects the Russian Army to suddenly take charge, but still there is little evidence

Posted by: Dan Farrand | Oct 16 2022 19:45 utc | 110

Hermit
Russia is obviously not “smart” in any sense – stop fooling yourself. Russia have made no offensive march for almost 4 months or so, not because they are “smart” but because of incompetence and that they are simply unable, instead Ukraine continue to push on with their offensive. Today they attacked Donetsk, past days they have attacked multiple targets inside Russia proper. Russia did nothing in response (like past 8 months of the war).

Posted by: Zanon | Oct 16 2022 19:53 utc | 112

@ anthony | Oct 16 2022 19:46 utc | 110
bacon fat is being disingenuous….

Posted by: james | Oct 16 2022 19:54 utc | 114

anthony
LOL I have not mentioned nuclear weapons at all.
I know you also want Russia to use their superiority (missiles, robots etc) but are too much in denial to criticize Russia so you project that hatred onto me instead. It is so obvious. But do not hate me, hate Russia for they are failing so bad, or do you deny that too perhaps?

Posted by: Zanon | Oct 16 2022 19:56 utc | 116

I believe that word for this is… “slaughtered” ?
‼️🇷🇺 Russian forces repulsed an attack by the AFU on Svatove and Kremenna, destroying up to 90% of the advancing forces
“The AFU today made massive offensive attempts in the directions of Svatovo and Kremenna, all of which were repulsed by the allied forces. About 85-90 percent of the advancing columns were completely defeated,” a source told TASS.
The LNR security agencies specified that the Ukrainian armed forces might make another attempt to break through in this direction in the next few days.
https://t.me/EurasianChoice/20959

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 16 2022 20:06 utc | 118

The Belarusian front and Vagner in Artemivsk: on the likelihood of Minsk joining the war, Kiev’s plans for Kherson and the role of PMCs in operational and strategic planning – military expert Boris Rozhin specially for Voenkor Kotenok Z channel @voenkorKotenok:
Belarusians are digging trenches on the border
– What prompted the toughening of rhetoric on the part of the official Minsk? Is it worth waiting for the Belarusian troops to enter the zone of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
– The rhetoric in Minsk is associated with the increasing number of provocations by NATO and Ukraine, as well as with the attempts of terrorist acts in the territory of Belarus. A terrorist war supported by NATO and Ukraine is going on against Belarus. Therefore, Lukashenko’s rhetoric is more than justified, as a measure to strengthen security.
For the time being, the Belarusian troops are not mounting a strike force to invade Ukraine and are engaged in defensive measures on the border.
Why the Ukrainian Armed Forces are clinging to Artemivsk
– How significant is the liberation of Artemivsk (Bakhmut) and how will it affect the situation on the front?
– The liberation of Artemivsk will break the strategic defensive line (axis) Sloviansk-Kramatorsk-Artemivsk-Dzerzhinsk and deprive the AFU of an important road junction.
The “flower of Popasna” story could repeat itself when the loss of a major logistics hub caused a crisis for the AFU in many areas at once. That is why the AFU has clung to Artemivsk so tightly and is constantly pouring in reserves to hold on to the city, which is of critical operational importance.
– It is known that the Wagner Group’s assault units played a primary role in the liberation of Artemivsk. How significant is the PMC factor within the entire Ukrainian front?
– The Wagner PMCs show themselves to be highly effective assault units, using their vast experience of participation in local conflicts and trained personnel. This allows them to crack the AFU defenses and maintain the tempo of the offensive, pushing the enemy back directly to Artemivsk.
PMCs do not replace the armed forces but effectively complement them. In the future, we should strive to improve coordination and reconsider the role of PMCs in operational and strategic planning.
Infrastructure strikes need a system
– Kiev reports about the elimination of the consequences of strikes on energy infrastructure. Should such statements be trusted?
– Some of the consequences of the strikes may well be eliminated in the medium or long term. And such work is going on all the time.
Even with the obvious damage to the infrastructure, the longer-term and more systemic effect would be if such strikes were carried out regularly enough, leading to some facilities being destroyed and others being brought to a state where repairs would take too long, leading to inevitable fanatical blackouts on a systemic basis even without strikes on the infrastructure of working nuclear power plants.
Russia is ready to fight in Kherson
– What caused the partial evacuation of the population of the Kherson region? How likely is an attempt by the AFU to break through to the city with the imposition of urban fighting?
– The evacuation is caused by the systematic shelling of cities in the Kherson region by the Russian Federation. Plus, in the event of an AFU breakthrough, there is a high probability of intensified fighting for the city, which could lead to large civilian casualties. Therefore, from a security point of view, it is better to evacuate part of the population in advance for the same reasons that were used to evacuate DNR residents before the start of the war.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14794

Posted by: Down South | Oct 16 2022 20:09 utc | 120

Aleksandar Vulin, head of the Serbian Interior Ministry:
✔️ The European Union as a union is a thing of the past. With the loss of political independence, EU countries became territories, not states. With the loss of political independence, EU members begin to lose their economic power, which was the main reason for the EU’s attractiveness.
✔️ With Britain’s withdrawal, the EU became a club of countries that had at least one division each at Stalingrad. This is still their policy.
✔️ The question is not whether we want to join the EU, but whether the EU wants Serbia. Judging by the crazy blackmail they are putting us through to recognize Kosovo, abolish the Republika Srpska and impose sanctions on Russia, they don’t want us. The sooner we admit that they don’t need us and that they don’t own us, the better it will be for us. The attitude towards the EU is not a question of emotions but rational decisions.
✔️ It is interesting that when you say something good about the EU or NATO, no one says that Brussels wrote you a statement. Unlike most political actors, I have an ideology. I do not know what is more natural than responding to a request to recognize Kosovo, renounce the Republic of Serbia and impose sanctions on Russia by saying “we will not, we will not, we will not, thank you for asking”. Which part seems written by Moscow to you? To me, the whole sentence looks like “Serbia and the Serbs”.
✔️ I believe that friendship with Russia is of great importance and that without it we risk the physical disappearance of Serbia.
✔️ [Will imposing sanctions against Russia help Serbia and will the Western powers change their policy towards Belgrade?] Does anyone think this will happen? And how would Russia or all those countries that are our friends who refused to recognize Kosovo and Metohija look at all this? How will our friends respect us when they see us neglecting our interests in the face of enemy power? Who will fight for us if we choose not to fight for ourselves?
✔️ Every generation of Serbian politicians expected Russia to say NO, but every generation of Serbian politicians also expected Serbia’s survival to depend on Russian YES. When there is no Russia at the table, there is no Serbia. Ekmecic taught us that all “Serbophobia is just an offshoot of Russophobia”. No one who loved Russia hated Serbia, but that is why everyone who hated Russia also hated Serbia.
✔️ Relations with Russia, China, and other free countries that accept us without blackmail or conditions are the future of Serbia. Why should we be a geographical part of any alliance? It is enough that we have common beliefs, economy, security, and not necessarily borders.
He has ba@@s. I must admit…

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14798

Posted by: Down South | Oct 16 2022 20:27 utc | 122

@Yenwoda #103
Wow – EU natural gas futures are only 6 times the price they were averaging prior to 2022, as opposed to 11 times.
So much winning…
But of course, even your idiotic statement is wrong in the short term. The entire point of futures is that the prices dynamically change. One cold snap, and I guarantee the 6x will disappear whereas the 11x may well be exceeded.

Posted by: c1ue | Oct 16 2022 20:41 utc | 124

Iran is giving Uncle Sam lot of headaches these days, with its kamikadze drones. Whatever the name of the kamikadze drone, Russia is giving that chance for Iran to kick the Yankee arse!

Posted by: Paulg | Oct 16 2022 21:10 utc | 126

The air defense of Belgorod set a world record by shooting down two Ukrainian aircraft – a heavy multi-role fighter Su-27 and a tactical front-line bomber Su-24 – at a distance more than 217 kilometers, near the Ukrainian’s own airfield. (For comparison, the distance between Liverpool and London is 220kms.)

Posted by: Paulg | Oct 16 2022 21:20 utc | 128

DaVinci | Oct 16 2022 13:36 utc | 8
……”Hunter Biden knows where the gas is in Ukraine. He was once an executive director at Burisma.”
#Doubt. Have you read the texts and emails from his laptop?
He may have been paid U$D50k a month to sit on Burisma board. But I doubt he could find Ukraine on a blank outline map of Europe.
He was paid for his name. Not his (non existent) “expertise”.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 16 2022 21:27 utc | 130

To understand the Ukraine-Russia war you have to understand the second world war.
To understand the second world war you need to read this article:
http:// pre earth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1174
REMOVE the spaces from the URL
You need to know that Hitler was a double agent.
There is also an informative article on the COVID SCAM on the same page.

Posted by: censored | Oct 16 2022 21:31 utc | 132

The US are preparing for a long war in Ukraine. The article also mentions NATO’s Resistance Operating Concept (ROC), a stay-behind concept developed after the Russian victory in Georgia 2008.

The United States is consolidating its activities to arm and train Ukrainian armed forces in a new command in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim. According to reports, the final decision on the command’s establishment is imminent. It will integrate all current structures, also including multinational structures, involved in direct military support for Ukraine. The US armed forces would thus even formally be in command and Germany would be bolstered as a hub for military activities of all NATO members in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. A strategy apparently being still being applied in Ukraine, was designed in Germany by the US Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR) headquartered in Stuttgart-Vaihingen – the Resistance Operating Concept (ROC), with focus on underground warfare against occupying troops, drawing on historical examples, such as NATO’s Stay Behind concepts. It integrates the civilian population into the combat and provides for special forces’ operations.

https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9052

Posted by: Moses | Oct 16 2022 21:38 utc | 134

CJ @82 yes, I was being silly, because the Viagra story was very silly. I’ve met a couple of Ukrainian women and they were good looking. I also knew an old Russian woman that wasn’t, although in her younger days as a ballerina in the USSR under Stalin, she was very pretty. Thanks to down south, karloff1 and others here for the sitreps. And also to b, who is gracious enough to let us post our comments. Cheers!

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 16 2022 21:41 utc | 136

For those moaning about lack of RF ‘progress’, plse do not lose sight of of those forces facing tens of thousands of Ukr troops and thousands of armored vehicles and artillery pieces in the grueling defence of the Kherson region — if there seems to be few other offensive actions, it is because this defence is of paramount importance.

Posted by: chet380 | Oct 16 2022 21:44 utc | 138

@Zanon 111
I stand in awe of how Russia has. With limited forces, operating under tightly constrained rules of engagement, at minimal cost to themselves, not only largely demilitarized not just the Ukraine but also Europe while simultaneously engineering the start of the transition to a multipolar world in the face of brutal aggression by the flailing and failing old guard which has destroyed the Western economies with a degree of precision and thoroughness which might imply malevolence if the.West were not too incompetent for this to be intentional on their part. Perhaps this is the strategic end-game for which the chess-, jujitsu- and go-masters of the global East have been playing. If not, their luck has been amazingly good, and in war and life, luck plays a much larger role than most people begin to imagine (See the writings of Nassim Nicholas Taleb).
The fact that you cannot see this speaks volumes to your lack of education in military, social and economic sciences to the extent that your evidence lacking reprise simply shrieks of Dunning-Kruger syndrome. This is when you fail to recognize how ignorant you are in a field, because it requires precisely that competence in the field to make meaningful assessments of competence in the field which you lack.

Posted by: Hermit | Oct 16 2022 21:56 utc | 140

Zelensky pimps out Ukrainian natural resources to US imperialism. The very model of a little traitorous comprador. Biden Jnr, Browder and middle men of US capital cant wait. They didn’t get Russia. This is the consolation prize.

Posted by: Paul McGrory | Oct 16 2022 22:02 utc | 142

Giyane | Oct 16 2022 21:28 utc | 130
The money etc that the US is ‘investing’ as you put it in Ukraine is really it spending as little as it can to maximise its chances of remaining top dog.
My fear is that we are approaching a very high risk moment in history, between now when Western Propaganda shows the Ukraine ahead until that moment when it becomes obvious to all that it is not. That is the inflection time when the US has either to accept the changed World or it kicks over the table with the false flag Russian nuke in Ukraine that it has been priming everyone for. They certainly have not been doing the latter for nothing, that is not the way they work.
Moses | Oct 16 2022 21:38 utc | 133
It looks like they are dusting off the old Operation Gladio files.

Posted by: JohninMK | Oct 16 2022 22:06 utc | 144

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 16 2022 21:26 utc | 128
It is an absolute tragedy. The richest republic of the USSR, tonight Nikolaev is being bombed, a city where hundreds if not thousands of ships were built, one of the oceanic fishing fleets from Antarctica to the Bering Sea, plus merchant and military ships including the only carrier in the Russian fleet and the first one in the Chinese sold for the risible amount of twenty five million $. A country that produced the biggest airplane in the world, the biggest intercontinental missile still in service, that country with the label of democratic and pro western now is proud of what the NYT calls an industry, surrogacy. Better not talk about organ farms. A tragedy of biblical proportions.

Posted by: Paco | Oct 16 2022 22:10 utc | 146

@145 but is that not exactly one of the main reasons the USA wanted and still wants Ukraine to be destroyed? It’s former glory was too much…

Posted by: Anthony | Oct 16 2022 22:35 utc | 148

@ Hermit | Oct 16 2022 21:56 utc | 139
Very well said.

Posted by: dfg | Oct 16 2022 22:46 utc | 150

These sources said there may be two factors at play that are contributing to this reality. One factor is the issue that Austin addressed directly this week – the U.S. is running low on equipment that it can hand over to Ukraine.
What is the other factor?
Did Iran threaten Israel???
Israel is more important to the cabal running the US than the US itself.
They need to keep weapons so that they can defend the mother-land???

Posted by: censored | Oct 16 2022 22:47 utc | 152

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 16 2022 22:36 utc | 148
Hence the orders for South Korean arms.
It’s only a matter of time before US-EU are so completely depleted they’ll need to send Chinese knock offs to Ukraine… And I’m only half joking.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 16 2022 22:52 utc | 154

Paco | Oct 16 2022 22:10 utc | 145
The human tragedy that I see, both for the brainwashed and those they attack… I guess I can have some empathy for the brainwashed but no sympathy. To deal with this in the mind is difficult. Much easier in times of anger. Friends and family are all following the mainstream pied piper to their deaths.
Cambridge Oxford Harvard, those places of learning for the anglo saxons. There are others. Rhodes scholarship, US young leaders program…. The so called elite, the people of influence, they have and are causing so much death and destruction – my anger is reserved for them.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Oct 16 2022 23:00 utc | 156

Posted by: Mick McLennan | Oct 16 2022 19:54 utc
Will be marching at the Sydney Town Hall comrade. In a lifetime of marches this one will be for the defeat of imperialism. Lets go.

Posted by: Paul McGrory | Oct 16 2022 23:40 utc | 158

delta wing ==> glide ratio = 15
Propeller efficiency = 0.5
Then,
Geran-2 motor power = 2000 Newtons × 1/15 × 50 meters/second × 1/0.5 =
13.3 kilowatts or 17.8 HP
Can you get a 18HP powerplant and 50 kg explosives for $800 ?
The actual cost of a Geran-2 is around a few US$ thousands.

Posted by: Parisian Guy | Oct 16 2022 23:51 utc | 160

Gwynne Dyer continues to bill himself as a Canadian military historian and independent journalist even after penning the following:
https://gwynnedyer.com/2022/ukraine-the-focus-shifts/

Putin still refuses to accept that his war in Ukraine is lost. His ‘partial’ mobilisation of somewhere between 300,000 and a million reservists (the exact number is the one secret clause in the mobilisation decree) may be his last throw of the dice, but it shows his personal belief that the war could somehow still end in a Russian military victory.

Is it ignorance or simply his fear of being “cancelled” that inspires him? Or is he just another paid western propagandist too deep in shit at this point on his life?

Posted by: krypton | Oct 17 2022 0:01 utc | 162

@160 “Guess Zelensky thought he’d get a better price now than in a few months.”
US oil companies are basically pragmatic. Can’t see them throwing money away. They are more likely to wait a while and make a deal with Russis.

Posted by: dh | Oct 17 2022 0:52 utc | 164

@ krypton | Oct 17 2022 0:01 utc | 161
gwynne dyer knows what he is doing.. he’s a stenographer for the empire and has been for a very long time.. so probably door # 3…

Posted by: james | Oct 17 2022 1:03 utc | 166

L’otan combat la Russie par procuration et Poutin veut combatre l’otan par procuration avec des armes iranienes pour ne pas utiliser ses armes secrètes de poutin (MHD, la technologie “Magrav” nom de code occidental “Khibiny”… ne sortiront que le jour “J” contre l’otan s’il y aura lieu. Des armes que vous n’avez jamais vu avant (Poutin).
Le double coups de Poutin est de montrer a l’otan qu’il peut les vaincre seulement en utilisant les armes modestes de l’Iran et leur montrer par même occasion que l’Iran n’est facile a attaquer.
================================
Nato is fighting Russia by proxy and Putin wants to fight Nato by proxy with Iranian weapons not to use his secret Putin weapons (MHD, “Magrav” technology Western code name “Khibiny” … will come out only on the day “D” against Nato if it will happen. Weapons that you have never seen before (Putin).
Putin’s double move is to show NATO that he can defeat them only by using Iran’s modest weapons and at the same time show them that Iran is not easy to attack.
Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Posted by: Ahmed | Oct 17 2022 1:54 utc | 168

And by the way; some things you need to understand about Israel.
2000 years ago, there were no people even resembling (today’s) Jews, in Israel.
No one at all spoke Hebrew or Aramaic.
Everyone spoke Greek. And if they could write they wrote Greek.
This is proved by the building inscriptions found throughout the Israel area, which are in Greek.
The ancient cities in the Israel area are all Greek, and their ruins are still there for you to visit.
The only building stones that can be proved to be from the famed Second Temple have inscriptions in Greek.
The oldest synagogue in Israel has a dedication stone written in Greek.
The word synagogue (ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓΗ) is a Greek word for a gathering of people, assembly, or meeting place.
Read about it here
http:// pre earth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1175
REMOVE the spaces from the URL

Posted by: censored | Oct 17 2022 1:57 utc | 170

It’s only a matter of time before US-EU are so completely depleted they’ll need to send Chinese knock offs to Ukraine… And I’m only half joking.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 16 2022 22:52 utc | 153
Trump spent $700B a year, for four years, rearming the US.

Posted by: Muthaucker | Oct 17 2022 2:32 utc | 172

Pour les impatient.
Poutin aurait pu éliminer l’Ukraine en 24h, mais c’était pas son but, il a dit “opération militaro-technique” cad pas guerre,
c’est des bataille psycho-Economique pour ramener l’empire du mensonge à la table de négociation sur tous les points stratégiques.
L’empire du mensonge a compris l’opération militaro-technique et l’a rendu en une guerre,
Poutin Réussira t il ou non son plan, ça c’est une autre question qui sans doute nous mènera à la paix ou la ww3
Sinon essayer ce traitement et tout ira bien
La patience tue la tentation donc apprendre la patience pour arriver a comprendre l’énigme de poutin

Posted by: Ahmed | Oct 17 2022 2:50 utc | 174

Parisian Guy | Oct 16 2022 23:51 utc | 159
at alibaba you get a new for 400$
but you not need a new engine, for this 1 or 2 houre trip it can be a used too
offtopic
in german you can call it “eine alte Schleuder” (washing machine)

Posted by: Theo | Oct 17 2022 3:10 utc | 176

Posted by: Muthaucker | Oct 17 2022 2:32 utc | 171

Trump spent $700B a year, for four years, rearming the US.

In other words $70B per year of actual “Bang”.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 17 2022 3:35 utc | 178

Joke part:
“L’énigme de poutin”… anyone else already imagining the perfume commercial? 😉
It has to include a nighttime Eiffel tower 🙂
Some things just sound better in French!
–
Serious part for those of us not all that steady in their French. Ahmed wrote:

“For the impatient.
Putin could have eliminated Ukraine in 24 hours, but that was not his goal, he said “military-technical operation” not war,
it’s a psycho-economic battle to bring the empire of lies back to the negotiating table on all strategic points.
The empire of lies has understood the military-technical operation and has turned it into a war,
Will Putin succeed or not in his plan, that is another question that will undoubtedly lead us to peace or ww3
If not try this treatment and all will be well
Patience kills temptation so learn patience to understand Putin’s enigma”

(Blame deepl dot com for any translation error).

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 17 2022 3:43 utc | 180

Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 16 2022 17:48 utc | 84
7 popular characters who often feature in Russian jokes
https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/329132-popular-characters-russian-jokes

Natasha Rostova dances with Pierre Bezukhov at a high society ball: “Pierre, isn’t that grease on your collar?” / “Oh my, how could I miss such a terrible flaw in my costume, I’m so embarrassed!” [he retreats in shame] / Then, she dances with Prince Bolkonsky: “Andrew, isn’t there a food stain on your tunic?” [he faints] / Finally, she dances with Rzhevsky: “Poruchik, your boots are all covered in mud!” / “It’s not mud, it’s shit. Don’t worry, mademoiselle, it’ll fall off once it dries.”

Posted by: Browser | Oct 17 2022 5:01 utc | 182

@Parisian Guy | Oct 16 2022 23:51 utc | 159

Geran-2 motor power = 2000 Newtons × 1/15 × 50 meters/second × 1/0.5 =
13.3 kilowatts or 17.8 HP
Can you get a 18HP powerplant and 50 kg explosives for $800 ?

Yes, you can.

18 HP RZ192F/E Air-cooled 4-cycle Gasoline machinery Engine Petrol Engine RZ192F/E – Alibaba
Power: 18HP
Fuel type: gasoline engine
Engine Model: RZ192F/E
Engine type: Air-cooled 4-stroke
Starting system: electrical starting
Type: gasoline engine single cylinder horizontal shaft engine
$156.75 >= 100 pieces

You would also need a $100 smart phone to act as the brains of the system, and a $30 USB servo controller.
P.S. – I would consider the use of the civilian mobile phone or Wifi networks to remotely control the drone in enemy airspace to be unethical, and most likely an act of terrorism.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Oct 17 2022 5:46 utc | 184

G. Doctorow has lost his rather substantial historical composure, as apparently have many in Russia, so I bring this your attention in a rather longish quote from his most recent
And this comes from the educated and cultured talking class, which he considers to be a good litmus
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/10/15/time-to-start-worrying-again/
Time to start worrying again!
“….Whereas in the past, going back six months or more, I had reported on the open contempt which leading and highly responsible Russian academics from university circles and think tanks were showing for the American political leadership in their statements on the political talk shows, this contempt has moved into an actionable phase, by which I mean that serious, God-fearing Russians are so furious with the rubbish propaganda coming out of Washington, repeated with bullhorns in Europe that if given the chance they would personally “press the button” and unleash nuclear attacks on the United States and Britain, in that order notwithstanding the possibility, even probability of a return strike, which, however enfeebled, would be devastating to their own country. That is to say, deterrence as a policy is fast losing its psychological impact on the Russian side of the argument….
…..One of the most sober-minded international affairs experts to appear on the Solovyov show, Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Institute of the Near East think tank, contained his rage with some difficulty, saying only that while he had once held some sympathy for the United States, he would see its utter destruction now with little regret… ”
yikes!!!
and it goes on and on.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 17 2022 6:27 utc | 186

An unknown combat drone of the Russian armed forces attacks a Ukrainian tank in the Kherson direction with a drone-launched ATGM.
Towards the end of the footage, an explosion of the tank’s turret triggered by the shells from the auto-loader system can be observed.
This drone interface is unlike any Russian system seen before, it is possible it’s an Iranian combat-drone.

https://t.me/battleinsights/6115

Posted by: Down South | Oct 17 2022 6:32 utc | 188

G. Doctorow has lost his rather substantial historical composure, as apparently have many in Russia…
michaelj72 @ 185
Gilbert Doctorow is not a Russian.

Posted by: Paulg | Oct 17 2022 6:36 utc | 190

🇺🇦The reaction of the people of Kiev to the explosions in the city
Residents of Kyiv, local officials told about the effective “anti-drone dome”. How he copes can be seen in the footage.
“Geran” flies freely over the Kyiv region💥 And since the air defense failed, the Ukrainian military are trying to bring it down by firing from machine guns.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14852

Posted by: Down South | Oct 17 2022 6:38 utc | 192

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 16 2022 19:34 utc | 104
Thanks a lot for the video link, highly relevant, and thanks also for all your other excellent posts. From the links that get posted, I know there’s good video material out there that I’m missing, I’ll experiment with methods of consumption!
Agreed on the significance if it’s as big as it appears, Mercouris seems to have good instincts for this sort of stuff.

Posted by: anon2020 | Oct 17 2022 7:01 utc | 194

Lest We Forget
Carnage: Ukraine’s terrorism on Donetsk City killed 16 civilians, 9 in one spot – September 19, 2022 – in this civilian residential area.
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=zJpXcwMAVeI
On September 19, Ukraine slaughtered 16 civilians, including two children, with 155mm NATO shells, according to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin. The projectiles hit two adjacent neighborhoods, decimating residential and commercial areas – including a market that had previously suffered fatal attacks.
The carnage on Monday was worse than anything I’ve seen in my months of reporting here. Chunks of flesh littered the street – part of a hand, a foot, an ear. Someone had put a dead man’s phone on his stomach. It was ringing, the cheery ringtone incongruous with his lifeless body and the scenes and stench of death around him.
For most people, the concept of war is a distant one, and deaths are normalized by media reporting the numbers of victims and destroyed buildings – so most who hear of civilians being killed don’t really understand what a scene like this looks or smells like.
—
I has been going on for 8 years and still has not stopped.
Western media continues to ignore how Ukraine is using NATO weapons to kill innocent civilians in the Donbass

Posted by: SeanAU | Oct 17 2022 7:22 utc | 196

They Saw and Heard the Truth — Then Lied About It: Media on Donbass Delegation Omitted Mention of Ukraine’s 8 Year War on the Autonomous Republics
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/04/08/they-saw-and-heard-the-truth-then-lied-about-it-media-on-donbass-delegation-omitted-mention-of-ukraines-8-year-war-on-the-autonomous-republics/
-by Eva K Bartlett, April 5, 2022
*Following is a lengthy overview of my recent re-visit to the Donbass, on a two day media delegation, with a brief critique of some of the media’s slanted reporting. It is also a follow up from my 2019 visit to hard hit areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic. It is now 8 years of Ukraine’s war on the people of the Donetsk & Lugansk Republics.
Might be handy to share when coming across people who only know / care about explosions and rockets west of the Donbass region.
If Russia or China, if Venezuela, if Trump if Kim Jong-il or Assad had compiled such a terrorist Kill List, the media would cover it endlessly Europeans and Americans, Australians and Candaians, would be outraged. They aren’t and we’re not. (Some of us are, clearly. I was speaking of the majority.)
Eva Bartlett – Oct 14 – Musk added to Ukraine’s Myrotvorets kill list (which includes 327 children!) – I’ve been speaking & writing about this list for years, after being placed on it in 2019, but now that Musk is on it, after Roger Waters & others, perhaps the “peacemaker” list might itself be killed…
Thanks to Brian Berletic (New Artlas) for covering Ukraine’s Kill List, which *is* a kill list (in spite of claims by “fact checkers” & pro-Nazi white-washers to the contrary).
https://nitter.net/EvaKBartlett/status/1581691532419092480#m
Ukraine Targets Elon Musk, US Aid Dwindles, Ukraine’s Offensive Increasingly Depleted
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=Ry51OGhVPlU

Posted by: SeanAU | Oct 17 2022 7:34 utc | 198

I’d be mighty nervous about that fleet’s combat-performance in any case.

Posted by: censored | Oct 17 2022 7:50 utc | 200