Posted by: FieryButMostPeaceful | Oct 20 2022 20:15 utc | 96
I don’t have any concrete amount of US aid but seems that the average aid packages have been running anywhere between $200 – 500 million per week. How long have they been running?
Maybe sometimes since April – May. That would give you 6-7 months a.k.a 24-28 weeks. Putting you at $4.8 – $5.6 billion on low end and $12 – 14 billion on the high end. Then you have all the money Nato dumped between 2014-2022. Then you have pretty much all of the ex Warsaw Pact equipment (they had a massive arsenal of fighters and soviet battle tanks, mainly T-72, T-64) and artillery shells.
This is only US aid, then you have all the aid from the EUzombie vassals, including prementioned Warsaw Pact but even more than that.
Just a guess. Anyway, Russia is fighting them all single handedly and their commander said they won’t attempt to make any quick advances anywhere, which will only play into Nato strategy of utilizing drugged up fanatics. Most of the casualties for Russia came early in the war from quick advances without covering rear supply lines or areas and running quickly into ambushes. Now they brought some serious engineering equipment to start building actual fortifications, which is needed for the long haul.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 20 2022 20:49 utc | 103

Posted by: marko | Oct 20 2022 20:55 utc | 104
850m / 8B
🙂 just for you

Posted by: Macpott | Oct 20 2022 21:00 utc | 105

The talk about Ukrainian nuke false flag seems to persist. My guess if Ukraine detonates their dirty bomb in Nikolaev, Kiev will be razed to the ground, as will Lvov, to what extent its possible.
If FUKUS interferes, then Ramstein and Fairford air bases, then escalation ladder after that a.k.a “c ya”.

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 20 2022 21:06 utc | 107

so Russian TV shows are saying there won’t be any good news for 2 months and Russia will lose territory during that time.
time to prepare for a bunch of Ukro advances. merry christmas
Posted by: Comandante | Oct 20 2022 21:08 utc | 108
That is logical. Ukraine has more determined, almost suicidal soldiers. The 95% of the combined West supports Ukraine.

Posted by: marko | Oct 20 2022 21:14 utc | 109

Yesterday, on a Russian TV show, the panel discussed the nuclear false flag scenario as several here and elsewhere have been discussing for some time.
However, on that show they said a nuclear weapon is already in Mykolaiv.
If this is accurate, our fears about an imminent nuclear false flag could soon be upon us.
Clip (with English subtitles) here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1582840182960967680

Posted by: Jax | Oct 20 2022 21:21 utc | 111

But you’re forgetting what’s happening!
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Putin makes Erdogan (Turkey) the center for the European GAS SUPPLY !!!!
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Didn’t you understand what kind of leverage this means for the EU or AGAINST THEM?
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So far, Erdogan has had refugees and the Bosphorus as leverage !!!
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In the future, the EU can beg when it comes to gas and competitiveness!
Wait and see….how long Turkey’s opponents in the EU will hold out!!!
Germany will quickly hang the flag in the “GAS-WIND! (bet)
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Ergo: Another brilliant move by Putin…. Erdogan to transfer the energy for Europe
😏
And to announce himself literally: Russia gas only via Erdogan in the west ❗
Wait and see how long the EU will hold together?

Posted by: Mo3 | Oct 20 2022 21:30 utc | 113

It is of course possible that whichever UK service blew up the bridge actually answered directly to the Lettuce and Benny was out of the loop. Where is John Le Carre when you need him?
Posted by: watcher | Oct 20 2022 21:14 utc | 110

In all the LeCarre novels, MI-6 operatives were sucking up to the Americans, desperate to be kept in the loop. It is also doubtful that the US would share anything other than disinformation with a cabinet minister who previously fell for a Russian prank call.
The most likely reason for the visit is to advise him of the US preference for the next leadership (spokesperson) position.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Oct 20 2022 21:35 utc | 115

MILITARY SITUATION IN KHERSON ON OCTOBER 20: UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE KEEPS BLOODY STALLING
On 19 and 20 October, during defensive battles in the Kherson direction, Russian units inflicted a heavy defeat on the AFU.
A large amount of military equipment was destroyed and, according to various sources, from 130 to 220 AFU servicemen. Russian units seized numerous trophies.
The Russian Defense Ministry reports that AFU units attempted to break the defense of Russian forces in the direction of Novaya Kamenka – Chervony Yar in the Kherson Region, engaging up to three battalions, including one tank battalion, in a narrow segment of the front. The enemy managed to cut into the defenses of Russian units near the village of Sukhanovo in Kherson Region. The Russian command’s engagement of tank reserves and ambushes led to a significant defeat for the enemy, as a result of which the Ukrainian units fled in disarray. The position along the front line of the defense has been fully restored.
In the fighting in this direction more than two hundred Ukrainian servicemen, 14 tanks, 16 armored fighting vehicles and 7 vehicles were destroyed during the day. Two tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle and a UR-77 demining machine were captured as trophies. Eighteen Ukrainian servicemen surrendered.
A Russian unit captured seven more servicemen in the Beryslav direction, Kherson region. Among them were two officers, one company commander of the 28th Brigade Combat Team, the other commander of a tank company of the 4th Brigade.
Kiev has pulled large forces to this section of the front – the 128th Mountain Brigade, 17th Tank Brigade, 60th Infantry Brigade and 28th Mechanized Brigade, as well as mobile groups of the 140th Regiment of the Ukrainian SSF. They have tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of armored vehicles from NATO countries at their disposal.
On the Russian side, they are opposed by units of the Russian Airborne Troops, including the 83rd Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade, as well as the 126th Coastal Defense Brigade and other units of the Russian Armed Forces.
The fighting in the Kherson region has every chance of becoming the bloodiest since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
Courtesy: SouthFront

Posted by: HERMIUS | Oct 20 2022 22:20 utc | 117

US demrats apparently passed $50 billion war funding package for Ukraine. They assume it will be enough to cover Ukraine’s 2023 costs. They probably did so because they know they will lose.
https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1583163830586077184
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 20 2022 19:48 utc |
I trust that they set aside 10% for the Big Guy

Posted by: nwwoods | Oct 20 2022 22:30 utc | 119

To all of you who scoff at the RF’s foresight and planning, note that the 126th Coastal Defense Brigade is already long in place in Kherson.

Posted by: John Kennard | Oct 20 2022 22:38 utc | 121

A Ukrainian Center in NYC has displayed a large poster, “Rissian War Crimes,” just across from the Metropolitan Museum. — The poster is actually a reminder of Julian Assange’s imprisonment for his reporting on the massive war crimes committed by the US/NATO during the Wars for Oil and Israel in the Middle East.
New York Jews prefer to believe that “there are no Nazis in Ukraine because Zelensky is Jewish.” It has no sense to reason with them because, in this case, facts have an “antisemitic bias.”
For instance, Zelensky proclaimed Stepan Bandera a “Hero.” There is a huge monument to Bandera in Lvov, Ukraine. The Banderites and Zionists have united their efforts in Ukraine against Russia. Amazing.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/10/20/ukraine-nafo-troll-war-criminals/

The Georgian Legion, a US-backed Ukrainian fighting group that stands accused of gruesome battlefield atrocities. Several former members of the Legion have produced first-hand testimony documenting its perpetration of war crimes, including the torture and execution of POWs and civilians.
The Georgian Legion is led by Mamuka Mamulashvili, a Georgian-born veteran of several conflicts against Russia who swore to execute Russian POWs, an act which constitutes a war crime under the Geneva Convention. “We will not take Russian soldiers as prisoners.” Mamulashvili is a key suspect in the massacre by snipers of 49 protesters in Maidan square in 2014. At the same time, he has been awarded the National Hero of Ukraine recognition, the highest national title in the country. He was junketing to Capitol Hill for meetings with lawmakers with seats on foreign affairs committees in the House and Senate. …
The Georgian Legion has hosted notorious US foreign fighters, among them Craig Lang and Paul Gray. Lang was a member of the group before he returned to the United States, where he is wanted for robbing and murdering a married couple to finance his return trip to Ukraine. The Federal Bureau of Investigations has obtained video showing Lang participating in war crimes in eastern Ukraine, including “beating and drowning a girl after a fellow fighter injected her with adrenaline so that she would not lose consciousness as she was drowned.” …
A website Saint Javelin’s partnership with Zelensky’s United24 aims to help raise funds to build an “army of drones.” It also channels money to the Ukrainian World Congress, an organization which has defended the legacy of World War Two-era Nazi collaborator and mass murderer Stepan Bandera, branding him “the undisputed symbol of Ukraine’s lengthy and tragic struggle for independence.”

Posted by: Cerena | Oct 20 2022 23:01 utc | 123

If RU losses Kherson City, then it constrained the entire scope of the SMO to east of the Dnieper, unless they re-invade from Belarus. Good luck with that.
This is a crucial moment for Russia and Putin. U.S. election will also be important.
Hey, if they can hold Kherson City. And the MAGA republicans rise in Congresss, this could turn around for Putin. Not to say MAGA is pro-Putin, just they hate foreign wars.

Posted by: GoFast | Oct 20 2022 23:04 utc | 125

To all those that keep harping on the “loss of Russian credibility” should this or that tactical event happen: first, read some history to understand strategy and how Russia overcame far greater menaces, second, does NATO have the tiniest bit of credibility left on the world stage? Can you even imagine Dutch or Belgian or Italian etc troops going to war, a real war that is? Have you even seen them, on parade eg? Western European soldiers have as much spine as a mollusc and as much hemoglobin as a veggie burger. But Russia keeps it credibility, even if it has to pay for that in blood.

Posted by: Anthony | Oct 20 2022 23:07 utc | 127

The Poles don’t make sense – or are they planning to pivot?
I can understand why Poland might hate Russia, because of their long history of being under the Russian yoke – not just under Communism, but also under the Tsars. However, right now Poland has a pretty nominal border with Russia, in the form of Kaliningrad.
On the hand, I can also understand why Poland might hate Ukraine. During the Second World War some of the worst atrocities against Poles were committed by Ukrainians, whether they were Banderites or in Nazi uniforms. The Volhynia and East Galicia massacres, by Banderites, killed up to 100,000 Poles. Further, a chunk of Poland was seized by the Soviet Union, much of which ended up in Ukraine’s hands.
While all this is going on, Poland has been fighting for its independence, whether against Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union, or Nazi Germany. Yet the moment it gets real independence, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it starts negotiating to join the European Union. Then it joins. Decisions made in Warsaw, reflecting Polish values, are undermined by bureaucrats in Russia – as they were undermined in former eras by bureaucrats in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna.
We are then seeing another contradiction in Poland – it wants to be independent, yet it hangs onto the coat-tails of great powers. So it was not for nothing that Churchill compared to Poland to a hyena. Indeed it is an interesting fact that Poland invaded Czechoslovakia twice – in 1938 and 1968. Once on the coat-tails of Nazi Germany, once on the coat-tails of the Soviet Union. But now, Poland is hanging on the coat-tails of the US and NATO, trying to get at Russia. But for what reason?
Maybe the Poles can’t accept that they have got a lot of similaries with Russia? Both countries are culturally conservative, and in many quarters find the wokeness of the West repulsive. And right now Russia, unlike the EU, represents no threat to Polish independence. And it is sometimes forgotten that some of the most important Russians were actually Polish. Konstantin Rokossovsky, arguably the best Soviet general in World War Two, was Polish. And so was Felix Dzerzhinsky, who via his leadership of the Cheka, laid the foundations of the NKVD, KGB and FSB. He even went to school with Józef Piłsudski.
At this stage, Poland needs to consider its own best interests. There will come a stage when it may recognize that support for Ukraine is not in its best national interests, and perhaps even that the EU and Germany are not friends. And with the collapse and depopulation of Ukraine, there is a golden opportunity for Poland to recover its lost territories, and to becomae a major European power.

Posted by: Technophobe | Oct 20 2022 23:17 utc | 129

I posted a report earlier about the revving up of the Outlaw US Empire’s Kidnapping Machine aimed at capturing Russian citizens. Maria Zakharova spoke about that today:

We consider the detentions in Italy and Germany of Russian citizens at the request of the US Ministry of Justice for their subsequent extradition to the United States as a continuation of the large-scale campaign launched by Washington to capture Russians to whom there are “claims”, for their subsequent guaranteed conviction by the American punitive justice for long terms of imprisonment.
The cynicism of this situation is that we are talking about taking hostages for their further use for political purposes. Charges are once again being brought extraterritorially in connection with alleged violations of us national sanctions legislation. As part of Washington’s actual involvement in the situation in Ukraine as a party to the conflict, there is another attempt to stage a show massacre to intimidate business circles in Russia and abroad.
It is clear that the hunt for Russian citizens through American law enforcement and special services will only expand. Such hostile actions, of course, will not go unanswered.
The Russian Foreign Ministry again calls on everyone who has even the slightest reason to suspect the presence of “interest” in themselves on the part of the United States to refrain from foreign trips to any countries unfriendly to Russia, as well as states with which Washington has bilateral extradition agreements.

This is very serious shit being engaged in by the Empire. These are not merely provocations but an escalation in the Hybrid War. Regardless if you like Putin or support the SMO, if you’re Russian and living outside Russia you risk being snagged. Now you know why Biden’s crew told all its nationals to leave Russia.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 20 2022 23:28 utc | 131

karlof1 @131
and they’re snagging the children! if the UN and human rights ngos had any credibility at all left, they would denounce this loudly and often. oh wait, they are also being quiet about the npp shelling.

Posted by: polarbear4 | Oct 20 2022 23:43 utc | 133

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 20 2022 23:36 utc | 132
“no one talked and talked about blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, and it happened”.
That’s not right. Biden threatened to bring an end to NordStream if Russia invaded Ukraine. Obviously, he didn’t use the words “blow up” but the threat was made nonetheless.
You’re right about no warning in relation to the Crimean bridge though.

Posted by: Jax | Oct 20 2022 23:50 utc | 135

V86 | Oct 20 2022 17:03 utc | 52
@Sippy the shot glass + @JonNK +
= (Mr) Ben Wallace goes to Washington ……
V86. No we don’t know why he did a 48hr Top Sekret mission ….
He went, to ensure “secure” comms…….so if the purpose or the content leak … that’s a significant breech OR ….. an information plant …..
Because it’s so secret… that’s what is significant…. Not the lettuce winning the longevity bingo.
@barflies ….. more eyes on Wallace…. (And his circle)

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 0:26 utc | 137

Johnycomelately | Oct 20 2022 20:38 utc | 100
“………Kiev sits behind a dam as well.”
Proving your moniker….
Watch and learn… Russia isn’t going to blow a dam above Kiev.
It could have done that Hour1 Day1.
As the U$ would have done…..

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 0:36 utc | 139

An interesting read. By a Russian diplomat.
https://tinyurl.com/yxhubbju

Posted by: Muthaucker | Oct 21 2022 0:39 utc | 141

The ex diplomat’s post could be written by any number of ex US diplomats too. Once upon a time I was offered a job in the US foreign service and refused it because I couldn’t be a part of US foreign policy. Clearly many people think differently than I do, just like many people in Russia’s foreign service think differently than the author. I said no just before the 03 invasion of Iraq.
It’s an interesting human interest piece but meaningless because it’s based on the idea that nation’s do things out of ideals. The author is an idiot. He talks about vague ideals as his reason for being in a foreign service. (Note his ideals are very western) That’s not how any of this works. But outlets like foreign affairs pretend that it is.
And because he’s an idiot who believes when he’s in a position to know better, he conveniently leaves out that the trajectory of Russian foreign policy he liked was cut off by actions of the west. Which was not acting out of ideals but out of getting, keeping and exercising power. He probably believes the state department operates on ideals. Again, because he’s clearly an idiot.

Posted by: Lex | Oct 21 2022 2:32 utc | 143

Re: false flag nuke
I poster above, sorry no time to look, commented that if they are talking about it, they won’t do it.
I have another theory.
In the fog of war here, Russia may be doing what is best for its people by safely evacuating,m, yielding territory. Perhaps they are right now with Kherson, perhaps they are not and they are really digging in this time.
However, the lag in communicating the actual reality on the ground there is creating an opportunity to reinstill the notion that Russia is getting hammered back.
However, if you were going to use a false flag as an attempt to galvanize the population into a war again the dastardly Putler, wouldn’t you need above all else the narrative that we, the Ukrainians and the west were winning “fair and square” before Russia crossed the line and went nuke?
You would need that narrative.
Economy is garbage. No one wants a hot war with Russia. But they would if Russia “nuked the Ukes.”
Just a thought.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Oct 21 2022 2:44 utc | 145

What World Leaders Did Today:
BIDEN: Can’t articulate. Can’t exit stage.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1583218271155027968
TRUSS: Is outlasted by a lettuce.
PUTIN: Takes aim, fires, a sniper gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtpeVVYpNMo

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 2:56 utc | 147

Old Brown Fool | Oct 21 2022 2:55 utc | 147
Dupes believe Russia blew up its own pipelines
Truck bombed its own bridge
Shelled Russians in Donbas
Car bombed Dugina
And Shelled its own troops holding ZapNPP…
Dupes can believe Russia would nuke itself…..
Old Brown Fool | Oct 21 2022 2:55 utc | 147
Dupes believe Russia blew up its own pipelines
Truck bombed its own bridge
Shelled Russians in Donbas
Car bombed Dugina
And Shelled its own troops holding ZapNPP…
Dupes can believe Russia would nuke itself…..

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 3:01 utc | 149

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, boasts that as a celebrity “ambassador” for Kiev’s drone-funding scheme, he has made people fund 500 drones to kill the rebels in Donbass.
So in real life he serves the Empire.

Posted by: Tenet | Oct 21 2022 3:10 utc | 151

@ Republic of Scotland @ 71
How far can you see from a reconnaissance aircraft at operating altitude? Quite a long distance in every direction. And the report specified that the alleged missile release was ‘beyond visual range’. Ergo, the aircraft that allegedly fired it must have been beyond visual range as well, since a fighter aircraft is a lot bigger than a missile. So the shot, if it occurred, was not really ‘across the bow’ of the British aircraft.
I doubt the Russians will take Wallace’s squalling very seriously. If they did, and promised to scrupulously avoid any weapons firing while a British aircraft was in the area, the UK would be flying the Rivet Joints around the clock – a handy way to hobble the Russian Air Force from participating in the conflict.

Posted by: Mark | Oct 21 2022 3:16 utc | 153

Kherson is bait…
A fire bag is being prepared…
The dog has yet to bark….
Ukies are frittering away their men @ ~ 1,000 / day….. This has gone on for weeks……
Meanwhile…..
Bakhmut front heats up….
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Oct 21 2022 3:26 utc | 155

True words by Marko:
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What? They are total lemmings. They are duped into thinking they are still fighting Stalin, but are actually shilling for yet another Jewish War.
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They talk about the Holodomor, etc. Their leaders sold them out for government paychecks and a pension.
The Democrats, and the social democrat parties in Europe, don’t care if some peasants in Ukraine are nationalists – they don’t matter, except as dupes to use against the Russians.
Russia matters:
-Russia supports pro-Palestinian Syria and Iran. The Israeli Lobby targets Russia for this, and “the Lobby always gets what it wants” as Pat Buchanan and others retired from Washington have noted. (If it had been Kiev that supported Syria and Iran, and Russia that went along with whatever Israel wants, then Biden would be arming Russia.)
-Putin defeated the oligarchs, who the bribed Yeltsin allowed to buy and cut up industries on the cheap. The oligarchs, many with dual Israeli citizenship, would have handed over Russia to the globalists.
-Putin has condemned mass immigration in the West. The Left’s way to hold on to power and destroy the Western peoples their media masters hate so much. Someone who names and opposes mass immigration can’t be forgiven.
-Russia bans homosexual propaganda to children in the schools, which in the West is used to weaken men so they don’t resist mass immigration. Remember, folks: “Ultimately this war is about LGBTQ rights!”

Posted by: Tenet | Oct 21 2022 3:35 utc | 157

“September 29, #BlackSea, the day of the incident between the two Russian Su-27s and RAF Rivet Joint RRR7215.”
https://twitter.com/GDarkconrad/status/1583059586478903298?cxt=HHwWhMDQ5c6TlPgrAAAA

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 3:55 utc | 159

Where you are weak, appear strong. Where you are strong, appear weak. – Sun Tzu
Russian civilian evacuation of Kherson looks like deliberate appearance of weakness, inviting the Ukrainian offensive to drive into a well prepared trap.

Posted by: Rhinoskerous | Oct 21 2022 4:05 utc | 161

How would things be different if I was in the White People House?
Lettuce count the ways.
First, I wouldn’t be playing the bitch to KSA and begging for oil.
Those towel wearing sheep fuckers would be honoring me with another sword dance right about now.
Second, I’d have those Fed eggs heads tripping over themselves to keep rates down.
How are we supposed to MAGA with a 6%ARP on mortgages?
How is my lawn guy, Manuel, supposed to expand his business?
Even with all his cousins here now, he’d have to pay, what?, 5$ an hour?
That’s no way to run a business. 10$ an hour, or go back to Honduras, I say.
Third, we would stop killing babies? I mean OUR babies. These are MAGA in the womb.
Every womb is a MAGA incubator. Even these pink haired Antifa things are capable of brooding
A beautiful, wonderful litter of MAGA people.

Posted by: Don T | Oct 21 2022 4:27 utc | 163

@158 tenet
Yes, to me it doesn’t seem like Russia is acting in the interest of Soviet revanchism. Rather more like making sure its historic people and land are not threatened by terrorism. Russia probably would have (and could still be?) been a boon for the western Ukrainians, too.
But the fear and resentment for the Soviets is a tangible force in the psyche of the western Ukrainian. Forced centralization by the Soviets did lead to massive starvation among the agrarian peasants who refused where they could during the communists’ hostile takeover.
And so these feelings were stoked brilliantly by who else but Jewish neocons who once again are trying to whip up slavs to fight slavs.
If nothing else, the western Ukrainians have certainly not proved their intelligence or ability to grasp their own perilous position under the thumb of the west.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Oct 21 2022 4:28 utc | 165

Call me an idiot, but last night a convoy of six black.police cars overtook me on the M5 st more than 120 m.p.h, which is I would have thought more like V.I.P. police behaviour than justice system behaviour.
So I reckon we’re going to get Ben Wallace as P.M. and Nuclear War threats.
The Collective Vest has been playing strip.poker for years, and has now run out if weapons , credibility and intellect, so a shaking of the Imperial fist and a middle finger up sign to SCO and the Universe is now required to satisfy the Potus Pride,
As I understand it, Fukushima happened because of DESIGN faults by US engineers, and the US brazened out its culpability and stupidity by releasing radioactive waste into the Pacific for years and years, finally telling the Japanese inhabitants of Fukushima that their Thyroid cancer was normal for their area.
The US government thinks that it can use nuclear weapons in Europe and get away with murder.
Now is not the time for peroxides or Boojey Parties on rooftops, billionaire financial snake charmers or French surnames.
Now is the time for a military man who is capable of understanding and engaging with the reality of a very angry Pooh Tin Bear pointing a large , loaded weapon at us.
I find myself strangely reassured by, Walkace because by the time Liz Truss had consulted with her advisors about the meaning of a gun being pointed at her, and what to do or say, the Bear would have fired. We need a military minded man to tell the Angry Bear that we surrender to the need to negotiate.
I very much doubt that Liz Truss would have been able to connect to reality in the milliseconds required to give the right answer. It’s time for the Forward Youth that Would Appear to Now Forsake his Muses Dear, and talk with Russia about Russian interests. European interests. And Fuck the US as Nuland once declared.

Posted by: Giyane | Oct 21 2022 4:31 utc | 167

🇫🇷🇩🇪France and Germany are on the verge of a quarrel
The leaders of the key European Union countries continue slowy but surely quarel. However, there are fewer and fewer common, unifying topics.
And the main anti-Russian energy map is gradually being lost.
Germany and France want to play it completely differently.
Thus, Olaf Scholz said that he intends to allocate €200 billion for the implementation of the domestic energy assistance program. And Emmanuel Macron was outraged by this.
The first one(Scholz) is trying to somehow save the country’s economy by reducing the cost of gas, oil and electricity for consumers. He needs it elementary in order to retain power.
And the second(Macron) is furious, because he understands that the “yellow vests” are about to require similar measures. We’ll have to look for money somewhere. In addition, such a policy increases demand, which means that fuel will continue to rise in price. Finally, there is a shortage in Europe. Especially in France, where there are problems with gasoline. And now Germany will become a more attractive consumer for suppliers. The situation will only get worse.
There is another important detail that is not directly related to the relations between Berlin and Paris. This is another precedent. The most serious political and economic decision, capable of affecting the entire EU, was made by one of its member countries,Germany independently. And Germany didn’t consult anyone. So why can’t others? For example, Hungary. What kind of sanctions can there be against it now, if we do not act according to the rules of double standards?
As for Emmanuel Macron, his current position is gradually becoming clear. To support the unity of the EU, because for all the failures within the country, it will be possible to justify to the population precisely that other members are not having unity in some issues and hence the problems

https://t.me/azmilitary11/26148

Posted by: Down South | Oct 21 2022 4:40 utc | 169

The “evacuation” of tens of thousands “Russian citizens” within “Russia” has received no mention in Russian news sources: RT, Tass nor Sputnik. Oh, it’s just a Russian internal matter, I suppose.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 21 2022 4:45 utc | 171

How many tightly repulsed idiots who sympathize with the Ukronazis need more proof that we are fighting against Satanists, for whom there is nothing sacred in life and never was?!
You look at these boys! The Nazis use them as their agents. The eldest just turned 18, and the youngest – 15. This sabotage and reconnaissance group (DRG) was identified and detained by employees of the 96th operational regiment of the SKO VNG of the Russian Federation under the leadership of Magomed “Lightning” Tushaev.
All five say that they transmitted data of our positions to the Ukrainian side in the Zaporozhye sector by means of photo and video recording. They were recruited by the Nazis under the threat of death. As a result, on their tip, the positions of the allied forces were previously fired upon. Only miraculously, none of the soldiers were injured.
These youths realize their guilt and ask for forgiveness. But the punishment must be paid. By the way, Magomed Tushaev warns everyone who wants to repeat the path of saboteurs: his unit has over 130 settlements under control, think carefully before operating in the territories of the 96th operational regiment. And he’s right. Believe me, if it blows somewhere, then you will not hide from the “Lightning”. And then the conversation will be different.
Therefore, Magomed Tushaev urges parents to monitor their children, to strengthen control over them. We do not want to take tough measures and fight with teenagers, but if they cannot be followed in their own family, our fighters will have to re-educate them.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/15668

Posted by: Down South | Oct 21 2022 4:48 utc | 173

Military expert Boris Rozhin on Washington’s declaration of Iran as a participant in hostilities in Ukraine specifically for Voenkor Kotenok Z @voenkorKotenok channel:
The declaration of Iran as a country taking part in the war in Ukraine is of course a reflection of US double standards, as in effect the US is accusing Iran of supplying weapons to Russia and Russia is using it. Moreover, the accusations are made by a country that openly supplies weapons to Ukraine, and these weapons are used for strikes on Russian territory, among other things. We are not even considering the very fact that the United States military and special services are involved in combat operations in Ukraine. The Americans claim that they are not a party to the conflict, are not involved, and do not want to be involved in combat operations in Ukraine.
This is a distortion of the logic of current international relations, when a hegemon insists that it can decide how to interpret certain rules, and all those who are not satisfied with this order of things are declared enemies of freedom and democracy, who can be subjected to arbitrary sanctions and other restrictions, up to and including hostile actions aimed at overthrowing such an unruly regime and its stigmatization as an enemy of the free world.
There is nothing fundamentally new here, Iran is still treated as an enemy of democracy, and the current hysteria about Iranian drones is precise because the drones used on the front are of course of Iranian origin (whether Iran supplied or licensed them is immaterial). What is important is the fact that these drones have proven to be very effective and have stumped Ukrainian air defenses. Hence the cries about the need to saturate Ukraine’s air defenses and supply additional SAMs and anti-drone systems.
It is therefore no coincidence that Ayatollah Khamenei, who commented on these accusations, said that one should be proud of the achievements of Iranian missile and drone builders, who bring glory to their country. Indeed, after the triumphant performance of the Herrani-2 in Ukraine, Iran has received a large number of requests to buy its drones from various countries. This is the best proof of the success of our cooperation.
There are already a lot of different sanctions imposed on Iran, new sanctions will not change anything fundamentally, it only distances the signing of the nuclear deal, which would be more beneficial for the US but not for us. Because signing this deal would lead to a lot of oil being dumped on the market, which would reduce its purpose, which would be more favorable to the US but not to us.
Consequently, the escalation in Iran-US relations plays to Russia’s advantage, but not to that of the US, which is desperately trying to bring down the price of oil by selling off its strategic reserves. In this regard, the current vector of U.S.-Iranian relations is quite convenient for Russia. I see no strong reason to worry about such accusations. And Iran has long shown I that it is capable of adequately and asymmetrically meeting any threats.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/15679

Posted by: Down South | Oct 21 2022 4:52 utc | 175

“Why did we get a spike in #radiation at midnight on #Bornholm Island at the exact time the the #NordStream pipeline exploded?? 9/26/22 00:00 Graph below.”
https://twitter.com/rrichcord/status/1575206191168630789?cxt=HHwWisDRiezroNwrAAAA
[Later: oh, for-ged-abow-dit…. It’s just rain]..[FFS]
Anyway…. Lots of interesting tweets on the thread and replies.
https://twitter.com/mortymer001/status/1583195127660810242
>”September radiation data from REM site (I believe this is where the chart comes from) and precipitation data from meteoblue and here’s the comparison. Match for many (but no all) days.”
>”Interesting data. So happy you pulled it up. Let’s think probabilities:Say 4 out of 10 rainy days make spikes. The Nord Stream blast was 1 out of 30 days. The probability of the two occuring on the same day is (4/10)*(1/30) =4/300 or 1.3% : pretty small!”
> It’s important to highlight that a P-8A Poseidon was looking for a submarine during that night at a very low altitude.
#Nordstream h/t @ameliairheart
https://twitter.com/4n4lisis/status/1575236188746567680
> European Commission ReMon network:https://remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu
> Sensors of European Commission REMon. https://remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu Location Bornholm Island.
https://twitter.com/mortymer001/status/1583188851190702080?cxt=HHwWgICl-ef3zvgrAAAA
Russian Novorossiysk (suspected to have shadowed the sabotageur) runs Diesel-electric, so on electric drive extremely silent, but no radiation. British HMS Ambush (prime suspect to have sabotaged NordStream) has nuclear drive (check) and not that silent (can be heard by RU boat).
https://twitter.com/VictorTheClean3/status/1583176837274165250
@mortymer001. does the time when it passed Bornholm match your estimate? You said it was probably hiding in deeper Polish waters and then escaped under a surface vessel. On the 28th perhaps?
https://twitter.com/mortymer001/status/1583189087564857344?cxt=HHwWgICgicmFz_grAAAA
A US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft was the only military aircraft spotted above the Nord Stream pipelines at the times of detonations. Video footage and data
https://twitter.com/Sander_2021/status/1576019492408217600?cxt=HHwWgMCqwZrYkt8rAAAA
US Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft was the only military aircraft spotted above the Nord Stream pipelines at the times of detonations. This kind of aircraft is armed with torpedoes itself and sonobuoys to communicate with submarines.
> It used a masked identity [NA]@@@@@@@@ and a rolling Hex-code to change its specific identity on its way. The type and origin was traceable:
> It carries Mark 54 Lightweight torpedoes with an operational range of 10,000 yd (9.1 km) and a blast yield of 238 lb (108 kg) TNT.
> It also carries ATAC/DLC Air transportable communication and down-link communication (DLC) buoys, which are intended for use as a means of communication between an aircraft and a submarine.
> So it could have been used in a solo mission to destroy the pipelines by itself by its own guided torpedoes or it was supporting a submarine mission by providing air reconnaissance and communications.
> And there’s this hearing within the US Congress where Senator Johnson and Victoria Nuland are discussing the possibilities to disable the Nord Stream pipeline forever.
[[chilling]]
> Flight data showed a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance plane was over the North Sea at 0003 GMT when Swedish seismologists registered what they later described as a subsea blast southeast of Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea.
> There is flight data missing between 0339 GMT and 0620 GMT, but on its way back, around 0700 GMT, the plane flew some 4 kms north of the reported leak site.’
https://twitter.com/Sander_2021/status/1576017711770968065
(Someone smarter and tech savvier than me, might archive these tweets…..cause I can feel the memory hole yawing…)

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 4:55 utc | 177

@ Down South | Oct 21 2022 4:46 utc | 173 who quoted
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▪️ Swiss president arrives in Ukraine, discusses Ukraine’s humanitarian needs and possible assistance Switzerland can provide
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The Swiss used to be neutral but this is a civilization war and the BIS is in Geneva so everyone gets to come out of the closet.
….
@ Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2022 5:01 utc | 179 with the quote
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“Russia is the European Hezbollah.”
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Another example of the civilization war stink to all of this posturing…..74 years of Occupied Palestine and no adult discussion of the situation.
Hopefully, the RoW will win this civilization war and the barbarism associated with the patriarchy/monotheism of the West evidenced in the past couple thousand years will stop, or at least cede unipolar control without nuclear/bio-chemical extinction.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 21 2022 5:15 utc | 179

Lol…..Thought controllers got nowhere safe to herd us…
Twitter trending in Oz Friday pm:
Taylor Swift…new album
Taylor Swift…..interview
Taylor Swift…. New song 1
Taylor Swift….new song 2
And Ronaldo | Man U
Can’t mention Ukraine
Can’t mention Truss
Can’t mention Joe
Can’t mention EU….

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 5:30 utc | 181

🇮🇱🇷🇺🇮🇷Prime Minister of Israel Yair Lapid:
“Russian-Iranian relations are a serious problem not only for Israel, but also for Ukraine, Europe and the whole world.
Iran is a dangerous terrorist state, and Russia’s relations with it endanger the whole world.”

https://t.me/azmilitary11/26173

Posted by: Down South | Oct 21 2022 5:48 utc | 183

It is also reported that – overnight, more than 60 trucks left on ferry crossings from the right to the left bank, which were allegedly filled with dozens of tons of household appliances stolen in Kherson. . .here
Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 20 2022 15:52 utc | 27
Don you forgot to mention the Russians also raping the women and children then eating the babies. Come on put some enthusiasm into it.

Posted by: Organic | Oct 21 2022 5:59 utc | 185

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2022 5:56 utc | 185
The reason for the drone circus is that I think the West/Israel is shocked at just how advanced/efficient/effective Iranian military technology is.
I think that is also why Israel does not want to supply Ukraine with air defense. Doesn’t want a hole to be punch in the hype of the “Iron Dome”.
Also, there’s a good chance Hezbollah has this drone tech too.
Israel must be freaking out

Posted by: Down South | Oct 21 2022 6:32 utc | 187

The death toll after a missile strike by the Armed Forces of Ukriane on a crossing in Kherson has risen to 4.

Posted by: rk | Oct 21 2022 6:42 utc | 189

🛢🇺🇸🚢🇷🇺 Russia can get access to enough tankers to ship most of its oil bypassing the oil price ceiling that the G7 countries want to set-Reuters
“>https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-poised-largely-skirt-new-g7-oil-price-cap-2022-10-21/

https://t.me/azmilitary11/26182

Posted by: Down South | Oct 21 2022 6:50 utc | 191

Arch Bungle | Oct 21 2022 6:50 utc | 191
They tried with 12 himars but, apparently, 11 were shot down.

Posted by: rk | Oct 21 2022 6:53 utc | 193

Reply to: Don Bacon | Oct 21 2022 4:45 utc | 172
Reading problems or just being selective?
RT has 2 articles on the evacuation of Kherson on their “frontpage” in the last 24 hours.
The last being an analysis, with “what we know so far” in the title.
Your credibility reached Zero – I will no longer read nor respond to posts from you.
If you want to troll, there has to be an essence of truth 😉

Posted by: Richard Head | Oct 21 2022 6:59 utc | 195

@97 LightYearsFromHome I would imagine that the answer is this: the idea that the Ukrainians could float naval mines down the river to attack the dam was considered to be illogical and impractical, and so was rejected by the Russians.
But the Russians just recently received intel that the British had delivered underwater drones to attack the dam, and that was considered to be a very practical means of attacking the dam.
Very likely the plan is to release those floating mines as “plausible deniability” while the British operators send the drones up against the dam to destroy it.
What I don’t understand is why the Russians haven’t deployed antisubmarine nets across the face of the dams. Those would stop both mines and drones from getting close enough to the dam to do any damage. Maybe they have, and they are playing rope-a-dope with the British.

Posted by: Yeah, Right | Oct 21 2022 7:10 utc | 197

If you people think that Russia is re-organizing its economy for war with Ukraine you are more niave than I thought

Posted by: Pax | Oct 21 2022 7:16 utc | 199