It’s somewhat OT concerning ex-Ukraine but I was thinking about commenting on “the big one” and as far as I could see Johnstone didn’t have a link to the official DoD article so I’ll add a little to her article and Karlof1’s comment.
This is my incomplete comment that I haven’t yet posted. I’m not going to complete it.
It’s only a different take on things, maybe not a good one.
Here it is:
(Incomplete)
About those Public Relations “victories”
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“Vantablack comedy™” warning.
It’s bots all the way down.
These guys (“the west”) aren’t going to be able to protect the US, they’re not even going to be able to protect Guam, Alaska, Hawaii, or Canada 🙂
Don’t let this get to you, stop if it does, enjoy life without caring for these fools, be unhealthy if you have to 🙂
Ask ten thousand people in “the west” about what the US Stratcom commander said on November the 3rd and you’re unlikely to find anyone who knows, just like me until today. [“Today” was the somewhere between the 6th and early 8th.]
The US Stratcom commander is the guy who’s work description ought to read “try not to end humanity”.
Well it’s not like he’ll care about his job if or when he messes up that badly so until then anything goes 😛
What was said is not under-reported, it’s in the MSM, it’s just not important enough because no one actually takes the US seriously when they say this because in one way or another they’re always saying this. It’s one of many reasons people don’t follow the news and will parrot whatever they think most people are saying.
It they engage their brains they might go “this guy is crazy” but at the cost of increased blood pressure or other detrimental effects, so they’re better off not caring or paying attention.

“The big one is coming”

—public and official statement given by U.S. Strategic Command commander Navy Admiral Charles A. Richard in charge of the US nuclear triad ie. all US nuclear weapons during the US Naval Submarine League’s 2022 Annual Symposium & Industry Update’s Awards Luncheon on November 3rd 2022 and later published by the US DoD.
Stratcom is short for “US Strategic Command” aka “US’Nukes’Я’Us”.
They published it in an article named “Stratcom Commander Says U.S. Should Look to 1950s to Regain Competitive Edge” which is a very funny title and idea.
Of course “the big one” is always around the corner and just in case it wasn’t the US would have their very best hard at work to ensure it got back on track and is again due to arrive shortly.
1. US officials are a persistent global public health hazard.
2. Remember that there is zero justification for US belligerence anywhere in the world.
[And that’s all I wrote. Well, at least I’ve shared the link now]

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Nov 9 2022 1:04 utc | 103

Posted by: Featherless | Nov 8 2022 17:26 utc | 11
Posted by: morongobill | Nov 8 2022 17:39 utc | 12
Concern troll alert.

Posted by: Ed Nelson | Nov 9 2022 1:08 utc | 105

1. US officials are a persistent global public health hazard.
2. Remember that there is zero justification for US belligerence anywhere in the world.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Nov 9 2022 1:04 utc | 103
Yep.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 9 2022 1:19 utc | 107

Last weekend ZH posted Chrystia Freeland will lead NATO as Sec General…. finally we will have a hardline and granddaughter of a NAZI leading NATO…
Posted by: JC | Nov 8 2022 17:59 utc | 15

If it gets her out of government and the country and into harm’s way, then I am all for it.
Her Ukrainian grandfather Michael Chomiak edited a pro-Nazi Ukrainian paper called Krakivski Visti in Krakow. Perhaps she could move into his old office.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Nov 9 2022 1:25 utc | 109

@ whirlX 26
Thanks for your realistic description of the situation in Germany. A large part of the people in East Germany are on Russia’s side. But they are also realistic enough to know that demonstrations and uprisings do nothing. The system of repression works perfectly and is merciless. Corona has given us a taste. It might be different if Russia openly declared its intention to take back its sovereign rights in East Germany and armed the resistance. After all, that’s what the Yanks are doing. Those who believe in or want a future leave the country. Like so many people in the last 2 years that I care about. Fittingly, there is a Jewish saying, “The pessimists went to America, the optimists went to concentration camps.” Or for those who know the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, “The Bremen Town Musicians,” “We can find something better than death anywhere.”
Abroad, people have a certain image of Germans and their virtues such as punctuality, diligence, bravery, reliability and inventiveness. These qualities are at most still represented by the 50+ generation. But also by some early immigrants or Russians with German roots who came to Germany from Kazakhstan etc. in the 90s. The younger generation is a characterless, easily malleable, historically and politically uneducated mass, without ambition and will. That’s why they don’t find anything wrong when the government destroys a secure energy supply and wants to replace it with random power. They only understand the catastrophe caused by the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines when they are sitting in the dark and there is nothing left to eat. But then, of course, Putin was to blame for that, too.
We are facing an energy crisis, a financial crisis, a food crisis and possibly a major war. There has never been such a concentration in history. Each problem on its own can be enough to plunge a country into chaos. So everything is going according to plan.

Posted by: Uwe | Nov 9 2022 1:34 utc | 111

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Nov 9 2022 1:44 utc | 112
Pfffft…. It doesn’t matter. Ukraine will never get those provinces back. It will now be an impoverished, backwater, hillbilly Slavic rump state begging from its arrogant, disdainful Germanic and Latin owners.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 9 2022 1:50 utc | 113

#77, #79
Don’t think I’m a moron, but could be. One sent a pic with battle music and great tough music….but still silly TOA fireworks, MOAB was dropped in Afghanistan not Iraq. My bad. Please show me the destruction of a TOS 1a battlefield destruction. Make me change my mind.

Posted by: RicK | Nov 9 2022 1:56 utc | 115

#89
Only American industry could turn a 1000 gallon barrel of gasoline into 16m bucks.

Posted by: RicK | Nov 9 2022 2:19 utc | 117

If you actually believe thats a valid strategy then your soul has turned dark.
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Nov 9 2022 0:43 utc | 101
Millions of civilians died under US invasions, and one US official even said: “We don’t do civilians.” The darkest hearts are in the US Government.
War is war, especially war against darkly brutal Ukraine.
No Monroe Doctrine, no peace. No mercy.

Posted by: KitaySupporter | Nov 9 2022 2:31 utc | 119

GreyRaven | Nov 8 2022 21:16 utc | 64
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Well said, Grey. When karlof1 offers his pearls of wisdom, some are also cast before swine and trampled in the mud. They are unable to comprehend the critical value of historical context.

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Nov 9 2022 2:47 utc | 121

Russia is not killing masses of civilians. If it were, every western media source would be plastered with the evidence. Even in the great raid after the Kerch Bridge attack the death toll never went about 20 claimed by Kiev. It’s months into this. We can safely surmise that the low civilian death toll from Russian actions is by clear choice.
There are good reasons for it, and the decision is rational even though it also limits behavior. Behavior limits are compounded by Kiev’s genera unwillingness to evacuate civilians. Contrast with Russia’s orderly evacuation of Kherson. There won’t be carpet bombing because there can’t be carpet bombing because there are civilians.
Russia has other limits on its behavior including preparing for the last war at the battlefield level, the corruption endemic in all militaries, etc etc etc. But the limiting factor is avoidance of civilian casualties followed closely by an avoidance of Russian losses. Those are top Russian priorities. They shape everything else. Until a terrible attack against Russia is successful, they’ll remain the top priorities.

Posted by: Lex | Nov 9 2022 3:02 utc | 123

Below is the ZH title of an interesting posting and I will provide a quote
China Cancels Top EU Official’s High-Profile Video Address For Ukraine War Comments
The quote

European Council president Charles Michel was set to deliver an address at the opening day of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) hosted in Shanghai on Friday, but Chinese authorities have pulled the pre-recorded video address in a very brazen act of censorship of a top official and diplomat, Reuters reports.
“As requested by the Chinese authorities, we had indeed provided a pre-recorded message which was ultimately not shown. We have addressed this through the normal diplomatic channels,” a statement from EC President Michel’s office confirmed.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 9 2022 3:44 utc | 125

” War is war, especially war against darkly brutal Ukraine.
No Monroe Doctrine, no peace. No mercy.
Posted by: KitaySupporter | Nov 9 2022 2:31 utc | 119 ”
You missed my point completely, but thanks for playing.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Nov 9 2022 4:07 utc | 127

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Nov 9 2022 0:43 utc | 101

If true, how would Russian soldiers and their families feel about the fact that they are being ” attritioned ” by design also ?

How would they feel one day when they wake up an realize they’ve been turned into Iraq, Libya, Syria and US forces are occupying Moscow?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 9 2022 5:00 utc | 129

Despite the fighting and losses, Naftogaz has already distributed huge bonuses
Naftogaz demonstrates to all Ukrainians, how corruption can be legitimized in the form of giant bonuses, and that is considering that Vitrenko [*CEO of Naftogaz] could not cope with the elementary function and fill in the underground storage of gas for the winter.
Despite the fact that there are still two months until the end of the year, and Ukraine has an extremely difficult and unpredictable winter ahead, the management of Naftogaz has already distributed bonuses. About 3 billion hryvnias should be spent on the payment of remuneration to the staff of the company “for good work”.
And while the management of Naftogaz divides the premiums of UAH 3 billion during the war, a report on the company’s losses in the first half of 2022 has appeared. Only one thing surprises everyone: is everyone paid billions in bonuses if their company has gone into big losses instead of the planned profit?
Thus, according to the consolidated financial statements of the company, the damage for the first quarter of 2022 amounted to UAH 57.58 billion.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/19302

Posted by: Down South | Nov 9 2022 5:07 utc | 131

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Battle for #Kherson: Ukrainian Propaganda Fake Exposed 👻 – Situation in the #Snigirovka Front Section until the End of 8 Nov 2022⚡️
🚨 The Anatoly Shariya’s video “Defeat of RF Armed Forces at Snigirovka”, now actively published by Ukrainian and Russian sources, was shot more than a month ago in #Makeevka, LPR. The cameraman’s lens caught a Russian convoy hit by an AFU missile strike.
Coordinates: 49.224492, 37.977662
🩸 Amid rumours of the imminent withdrawal of Russian forces from the Right Bank and the abandonment of the north of the #Kherson region, Ukrainian formationd have been conducting combat reconnaissance in three areas: Posad-Pokrovskoye, #Berislav and #Snigirovka.
While in the first two the enemy suffered losses and retreated, heavy fighting took place in the morning in the #Snigirovka front section.
▪️ The enemy tried to break through by moving reserves from #Visunsk and #Bereznegovatoye.
▪️ We have no indications of a Ukrainian breakthrough. It is unclear whether the enemy managed to entrench themselves along the railway tracks on the northern outskirts of #Snigirovka. However, fighting is taking place along the northern edge of the city.
The settlement is now in the combat zone where aircraft, artillery and equipment are engaging the enemy. The 205th Brigade is holding the defences.
▪️ Polish and English-speaking mercenaries are involved in the offensive.
▪️ The AFU launched a missile attack on Russian equipment near #Snigirovka. They tried to cover the area where the convoys were forming. According to preliminary information, the equipment is on the move, there were no casualties, they got away with a light scare.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/19310

Posted by: Down South | Nov 9 2022 5:10 utc | 133

Don Bacon @122–
That’s a very curious question since your moniker’s been active here for almost as long as mine. So how could you thus possibly have missed the many links to and excerpts from Lavrov’s many speeches and pressers? I’ve many captured at my VK for the inquisitive to read.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 9 2022 6:10 utc | 135

One of the issues most noticeable about the current Ukraine conflict which many here and at the usual blogs & vids have much commented on is the failure of any organised peace movement to appear.
This is particularly strange given the fact that many believe this conflict could with one slip-up by the charlatans, idiots and foolishly greedy types pushing it, cause that which has always been most worrisome for peace advocates, a full on nuclear conflict between the two nations with the biggest nuclear arsenals, amerika and Russia.
If that did happen there is little doubt that such an exchange would cease all life on earth, yet we hear little from any peace movement.
In one way this is not surprising as both amerika and england have, in addition to the usual blatant propaganda on their ‘news’ sites & vids overwhelmed vid audiences with a plethora of stories both contemporary and historical, which demonstrate by way of thriller, spy flick and straight out drama to their audiences that Russia = bad and USuk= good.
In fact anyone wanting evidence which demonstrates this war was entirely planned for by the west, would only have to point out to a credulous naif that since the earliest lead-in time for a TV drama, let alone a Hollywood flick is 18 months to 2 years all this anti-Russia trash that western citizens have been subjected to in 2022, was written & planned 2 years ago minimum to conclude ‘the west’ knew exactly what was coming well before the last prez beauty contest in 2020.
Still the lack of any organised peace movement is an obstacle to working for peace.
Hang-on what about the Plowshare Movement? That mob of dedicated anti-Nuclear Peace Activists is still going strong despite the participants never-ending rolling imprisonment.
No one can accuse a group of such dedicated, apolitical peace activists of being ‘Putin’s Puppets’ if they have seen this doco “The Nuns Priests and the Bombs” made in 2018 and mostly unviewed since then this doco shows us the history and participants in the Plowshare Movement without asking anyone to hold an opinion other than nukes will be the death of us all if we ordinary humans allow them to be used.
As such it is an excellent way to get people to think of the consequences of this conflict and why we all need to lean on governments to slow t’fuck down without forcing those people to alter their deep indoctrination around those evil Russkies.
Click the link grab a copy and circulate among friends & family.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Nov 9 2022 6:55 utc | 137

Posted by: Saul Goode | Nov 9 2022 5:44 utc | 134
Yes, it is very insightful.
It would be devastating for the US to enter such a major killing zone on the frontiers of the Russian Federation and put US exactly where Hitler’s forces were 80 years ago
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/stalingrad1.htm

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Nov 9 2022 7:30 utc | 139

The battle for Kherson – the situation in the morning 09.11.22
After processing all the information received yesterday, we can conclude that the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kherson, which they have been waiting for so long, has begun.
The enemy attack came from three sides at once – from Nikolaev to Kherson (Pravdino), to Snigirevka, from Dudchan along the reservoir to Melovoe.
Our troops beat off the first attack and forced the enemy to retreat. In the Snigirevka area, the enemy approached the settlement, but did not enter it; in the third, he also managed to move forward a little and gain a foothold.
Obviously, today the attacks will continue because the enemy has little time and he needs a significant result in the very near future.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/19326

Posted by: Down South | Nov 9 2022 8:01 utc | 141

Posted by: Down South | Nov 9 2022 8:01 utc | 141
It’s on, like Donkey Kong!

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 9 2022 8:06 utc | 143

Posted by: rk | Nov 9 2022 8:06 utc | 142

They don’t have to enter and fight, just send the brainwashed peasants from Poland and Romania.

They don’t make peasants like they used to.
Today’s soy sipping, playstation addicted, safe-space dependent, pronoun-sensitive peasants make poor cannon fodder.
It won’t take long for the Poles and Romanians to realise that this fight is really not theirs.
Not even the Azov Komissars will be able to keep them in the field.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Nov 9 2022 8:10 utc | 145

Posted by: Uwe | Nov 8 2022 22:30 utc | 215 ( from an older tread )
the link doesnt work

Dieses Video ist aufgrund einer Beschwerde wegen Urheberrechtsverletzung von BASF nicht mehr verfügbar

but why do you hide behind “… IEA and BASF analysts…” ?
the problem is simple enough
your statement was
“Now it’s official: Our gas will only last until February 2023.”
I claim this statement refers to the storage of gas in germany
According to the last data from GIE
germany has in storage 26,97% “filling level compared to annual consumption” at 99,55 % full storage
lets say 100% full and sufficient for a quarter of a year = 3 months
my argument “storage is NOT a 100% substitute for ongoing deliveries”
the reason for storage is the differnt levels of comsumption and a steady supply during a period ( year )
on the supply-side:
– 2020 consumtion in DE was 90,8 Billion cubic meters
– 2020 Delivery from russia 56,3 Billion cubic meters
thats a difference of 34,5 Billion cubic meters
question: what does this diffence means ?
the numbers alone means nothing:
because of the sanctions against russia and the fallout of the war in ukraine these numbers are changing
consumption is sinking because of demand destruction ; saving etc. ? sufficient ? sufficient for what ?
supply is changing ? enough ? enough for what ?
– LNG tankers idling off the spanish coast
political decisions are changing the daily live , society , the economy ….
BUT for your statement to be true germany must immediately cut all supplies ( pipeline, LNG , own production )
🙂 and no further savings; demand destructions …
we have enough garbage + half-truths +fakes in the internet !!
“..auch die halbe Wahrheit ist eine ganze Lüge..”

Posted by: ghiwen | Nov 9 2022 8:47 utc | 147

It won’t take long for the Poles and Romanians to realise that this fight is really not theirs.
In Operation Uranus 1942 the Red Army broke the Romanians at Stalingrad and encircled von Paulus’ 6th Army. – Romanians lost 158,000 dead and only 3,000 became POWs………
I think they well know the cost of fighting the Russians

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Nov 9 2022 9:05 utc | 149

Posted by: ghiwen | Nov 9 2022 8:47 utc | 147
If your point is Storage = Stock; and Usage = Flow; that is obvious.
The level of capacity filled in underground storage is irrelevant – the temperature is unseasonably high and 2022 in Germany has been one of warmest on record – ergo less heating is needed
On the other hand my air reeks of wood burning – and I mean pallets and treated woods with chemical residues………
German heating is oil in areas with no gas mains – heating oil is fractionated with diesel – so diesel runs into short supply.
BASF uses gas for the chemical feedstocks in the gas – that is why it built Nordstream – it has a huge facility at Ludwigshafen with thousands of kilometres of piping in an integrated chemical complex which cannot function without gas – and BASF alone consumes 5% German imports.
Mild weather means LNG prices fall so they pay $150,000/day to have tankers sitting offshore until the cold snap comes and prices rise
UK has no storage facilities because politicians in Cameron regime (Ed Davey) refused to permit them so UK sends gas to Belgium from N Sea and then buys spot in winter from Belgium – but maybe not this year when French nuclear is offline and France has strikes no-one likes to talk about
Nor does anyone mention IG Metall on strike so factories are idling
Nor does anyone mention strike ballots in UK
Nor does anyone mention 100,000 people every Monday in Eastern Germany protesting……..

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Nov 9 2022 9:18 utc | 151

Don Bacon @122–
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 9 2022 6:10 utc | 135
“That’s a very curious question since your moniker’s been active here for almost as long as mine.”
Because it’s not “our” Don Bacon… It’s the fake one from Antiwar.com. I’ve pointed this out before. We called him “Fakin’ Bacon” over at Antiwar.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Nov 9 2022 9:26 utc | 153

I find Wolfgang Streeck is always good. He has the EU summed up very well.
Posted by: bevin | Nov 8 2022 17:50 utc | 14
I never cease to be amazed by the failure of political understanding here, implying the underlying hatred of the EU so common among North American commenters on MoA (even those pretending to be British) (BTW it’s good to see so many supposed leftwingers enthusiastically furthering the interests of the Empire here).
Streeck is saying the precise reverse of what bevin claims. S says effectively that Scholz is betraying German interests here, and indeed EU interests. That this is poorly received in Germany is confirmed by the later comments by whirlX | Nov 8 2022 18:35 utc | 26 or fanto | Nov 9 2022 4:13 utc | 128. It is a revolution in policy which has nearly brought down Germany in a few months. Merkel balanced different strands, and kept things on the level over many years. Scholz has failed in a few months, along with idiot VDL (it reminds me a lot of the 45 days of Liz Truss in UK, But because it’s not the banksters, but US interests at issue, the punishment is not so immediate). Lesson in politics no.1: never confuse (as bevin does) the future of an institution with the idiots currently in power. One day they will be out, and others with other policies, will take their place.

Posted by: laguerre | Nov 9 2022 9:54 utc | 155

Aggregating from Slavyangrad and other reports.
Kupyansk: AFU 14th mech brigade on defensive after heavy losses
Lyman: AFU 66th brigade made unsuccessful storming attempt on Russian positions in Makeevka. AFU 81st airmobile brigade and 25th airmobile brigades tried to break through Russian lines near Kremennaya, but failed.
DPR: fighting in Avdeevka and Maryinka continue. UAF continues shelling civilian areas and electric stations
South Donetsk: weather turns to mud, hindering movements. Ugledar/Pavlovka advance has stopped due to clear need to destroy UAF forts and artillery posts with artillery(Kaskad).
Kherson / Zaporizhe / Nikolaev: UAF launched attack in Berislav area, which seemed to have some success and enabled to entrench in Dudchany. In Snigirovka AFU managed to entrench near railway tracks. UAF launched missile attacks in Snigirevka trying to cover RU columns. Lots of English and Polish chatter detected on radio channels.

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 9 2022 10:17 utc | 157

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Battle for #Kherson: Situation in the #Andreevka – #Berislav Section at the End of 8 Nov 2022⚡️
▪️In the #Berislav sector, the AFU also conducted combat reconnaissance with forces today.
➖ Three mechanized platoons of the 60th Infantry Brigade and a platoon of the 515th Special Forces Battalion, supported by artillery and six SAUs, went on the offensive northeast of #Dudchany village.
➖ During the fighting, the combined units of the AFU managed to break through and gain a foothold in the farmland area 2 kilometres west of #Dudchany.
➖ Almost simultaneously, artillery calculations and SAU crews of the AFU’s 60th Separate Infantry Brigade in #Trifonovka and #Petropavlovka shelled Russian positions at #Borozenskoye and south of Novaya Kamenka.
➖ Already laid minefields and active shelling by Russian forces halted the advance of the Ukrainian formations. The combined assault teams are currently entrenched in the occupied areas and demining the terrain.
🩸 The AFU command is now preparing to continue the offensive. A preparatory command briefing was held at the 9th Composite Battalion’s Command and Observation Post.
On the morning of 9 November, the combined assault grouping, together with reserves and equipment of the 17th Tank Brigade and 128 Mountain Assault Brigade, will continue the attack towards the southern outskirts of #Dudchany in order to advance further towards #Mylovoye.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/19333

Posted by: Down South | Nov 9 2022 10:28 utc | 159

I haven’t seen any evidence that the ship was even hit by a weapon. Naval ships handle many dangerous things, and carry many explosive things. Fires are common during peacetime.
My US Navy ship suffered a huge fire because the people refueling it overflowed a tank that vented into a paint locker in after steering. I don’t know how it ignighted, but the host country cut our lines and towed us for hours into the middle of the Med to keep us from destroying much of their country if we exploded, and that is just counting the non-special weapons.
Somebody had stowed cases of a chemical that we no longer used to clorinate water in that paint locker. It reacted with oil to give off very large quantities of chlorine gas, which is an oxidizing agent. The standard method of smothering an oil fire with a foam doesn’t work if the fire also supplies an oxidizing agent. Fighting a fire in a clorine filled environment is, shall we say, not conducive to breathing.
Eventually all of the clorinating chemical was used up, and the fire was extinguished. We remained afloat, and made it to the shipyards. This was during peacetime with nobody trying to sink us, and we were not only not handling special weapons, we weren’t handling any weapons at all.
Naval ships are dangerous places. We don’t have any indication that the Russian one sunk was hit by any weapon. Somebody could have been handling one onboard and dropped it. A similar incident almost sank the USS Forest Fire, uh, the USS Forestall. A weapon for a plane was dropped on deck.
While Ukraine celebrated the Russian ship sinking, I haven’t heard any creditable claims that it was sunk by an enemy weapon.

Posted by: barstool | Nov 9 2022 10:48 utc | 161

barstool | Nov 9 2022 10:48 utc | 162
“A similar incident almost sank the USS Forest Fire, uh, the USS Forestall. A weapon for a plane was dropped on deck.”
I read that was one of John McCain’s many fuck-ups.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Nov 9 2022 11:17 utc | 163

@Debsisdead 137
Perhaps the peace movement has realised that its efforts are futile. In Germany, millions of people demonstrated against the deployment of nuclear missiles in the early 1980s. Unsuccessfully. In 2003 we tried to prevent the Iraq war. In 2014, we stood in the streets for peace in Ukraine. Most people didn’t know at all where the country was and what was happening there. The government and the media divided the movement, claiming that they were radical right-wing demonstrators with whom one should not demonstrate for peace. I lost several FB accounts where I posted info from Ukraine, which I translated together with Ukrainian acquaintances because there was hardly any information in German. In between, there were always demonstrations in front of the base in Rammstein. Without success. Our efforts for peace are a story of failure. In the meantime we are old and most of the younger people don’t care. Or they stick to the streets for a fistful of climate dollars or persecute “right-wing” peace demonstrators and drive them out of the country.

Posted by: Uwe | Nov 9 2022 11:35 utc | 165

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine
(9 November 2022)
Part I (See Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/4934))
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, the active actions of Russian troops, artillery fire and air strikes repulsed the attack of the reinforced motorised infantry battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of the settlement of Kuzemovka (Lugansk People’s Republic). In total, 60 Ukrainian servicemen were killed, as well as two infantry fighting vehicles, and five pickup trucks.
In Krasny Liman direction, the enemy, with the forces of four motorised infantry and one tank company, reinforced by foreign mercenaries, attempted simultaneous attacks on the positions of Russian troops in the directions of Makeyevka, Ploshchanka, Golikovo, and Kremennaya (Lugansk People’s Republic). Artillery units, heavy flamethrower systems, and strikes of army aviation thwarted the enemy’s units and pushed them back to the initial lines.
Moreover, preemptive fire damage prevented the attempts of the offensive of two company tactical groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Chervonopopovka and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
In Krasny Liman direction, in total, up to 100 Ukrainian troops and mercenaries, one tank, two armored fighting vehicles, a Grad MLRS combat vehicle, and three pickup trucks were destroyed during the day.
In the South Donetsk direction, the enemy attempted to counterattack in order to impede the offensive efforts of Russian troops. By inflicting fire damage and actions of assault groups in the areas of Novomikhailovka, Pavlovka, and Vremevka (Donetsk People’s Republic), the AFU units were dispersed and thrown back to their original positions. Over 80 Ukrainian personnel and militants, one tank, six armoured fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks were eliminated.
In the Nikolayev–Krivoy Rog direction, the AFU forces of up to three company tactical groups made unsuccessful attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops in the direction of Kachkarovka, Pyatikhatki, and Sadok (Kherson region). Following the fire attack, the opposing forces were scattered and fled, having suffered considerable losses. Furthermore, during the day, Russian troops detected and repulsed attempts by twelve AFU’s sabotage and reconnaissance groups to break through the rear areas of defence. In total, up to 110 Ukrainian personnel, eight armored fighting vehicles, and 14 vehicles were destroyed in this direction.

Posted by: Summary | Nov 9 2022 12:17 utc | 167

… never confuse (as bevin does) the future of an institution with the idiots currently in power. One day they will be out, and others with other policies, will take their place.
Posted by: laguerre | Nov 9 2022 9:54 utc | 156
The current EU leadership, every member of every parliament, commission, committee, cooperative, outhouse and dive bar is marinating in the same scalding hot latrine of US-backed surveillance, influence peddling and power politics.
As I’m sure you are well aware, the current EU leadership will almost certainly be replaced by persons of even less substance and character. There are no alternatives waiting in the wings, it is continuity of subordination for as far as the mind’s eye can see.
I wonder why you fail to acknowledge this obvious backdrop.

Posted by: anon2020 | Nov 9 2022 12:56 utc | 169

The more things change…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QUS4cZE3GIc
Germany supplies jet fuel to Russia during ongoing (phony?) war..

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 9 2022 12:59 utc | 171

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 9 2022 12:59 utc | 172
While everyone in Germany seems happy on surface of US occupation, I’d think there is a heck of a lot of resentment beneath the waves. They are not directly but in indirect ways doing everything to sabotage US enterprises in EU and Germany. The industrialists will not surrender themselves to the pre-determined fate of surrendering assets to US corporations for a nickel on the dime, they have taken proactive action in order to relocate and secure operating environment in the Eurasian markets.
EU may go bust, but the benefit for US should be significantly diminished compared to the original RAND ideas. Eurasian, including relocated German industrial and R&D capability will strike back and push the US companies out of EU markets through superior cost and other advantages.

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 9 2022 13:09 utc | 173

(Sunny Runny Burger writing. It’s a bit verbose but I have to post and go, I should be doing other stuff)
A piece of peace
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The current lack of a popular or widespread “peace movement” about Ukraine or about the world at large might be due to how it is likely that a lot of those who more or less see reality for what it is are keenly aware that the nature of the beast is a re-implementation of nazism or at least the same goals as nazism had concerning Russia; that what we are seeing from “the west” is a new attempt at implementing Lebensraum (would I on my own have understood or realized this if not for reading many MoA comments from different people? I strongly doubt it, the credit for seeing this clearly has to go to the people here and elsewhere and most likely collectively).
There are some exceptions but the relatively small peace protests that we see so far in Europe that directly concern themselves with the current situation do not seem to acknowledge reality in the way that many here would and are instead centered on their own material dismay. I’m not saying that it isn’t understandable or “reasonable” but they leave a lot to be desired from my point of view. Still they may end up doing something good –I don’t know– and at least they and all the strikes express dissatisfaction and grievances.
Speaking for myself I am not a peace activist because I see it as insufficient. Instead I am a Russia supporter, a China supporter, an Iran supporter, a Korea supporter, an Asia supporter, an Africa supporter, a Latin or South America supporter, and a “real Europe” supporter. This is despite all kinds of small and large differences in opinion and outlook which have been made irrelevant by the situation. I want them to win because they have justice on their side despite any flaws. I want the criminals and madmen ruling “our” side to be defeated and removed if at all possible.
Fortunately those same criminals and madmen are working very hard against their own interests because their ambitions are inherently self-defeating. This includes the threat of nuclear annihilation of humanity and most life which takes their self-defeating nature to an extreme.
I certainly do not want to see any repeat of Chamberlain’s “peace for our time” travesty.
The Lebensraum approach is a kind of hidden fallacy and excuses are made on account of “needs” that would instead be fully met and wildly surpassed by genuine cooperation and further scientific and technical improvements. The excuses are dreamt up purely for the purpose of masking the most base and destructive kinds of greed and the limitless idiocy of such ideas as “useless eaters” expressed by those that cannot comprehend or acknowledge the most basic facts of life (all life) and structural complexity.
For genuine peace I want our “industrious idiots” removed from power but yes all I can do is to “shout at the clouds” (as some poster here poetically described it not long ago), so whenever I can I do 🙂

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Nov 9 2022 13:34 utc | 175

Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-installed deputy head of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, died in a car crash, Russian state news agencies reported.
Bad move, the lights may go out over the remaining part of the so-called Ukraine this week.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Nov 9 2022 13:47 utc | 177

This is going…uh great
Donetsk shelled seven times since midnight, DPR reports
https://tass.com/politics/1534253
Deputy of Kherson region – Kirll Stremousov, is killed in a car crash
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11408027/Russian-installed-head-Kherson-region-killed-car-crash.html
Kiev troops try to advance north of Kherson, heavy fighting underway — official
https://tass.com/russia/1533957

Posted by: Zanon | Nov 9 2022 14:00 utc | 179

Biswapriya Purkayast
LOL you beat me to it.
I have said the same for months, it is going horribly bad for Russia. But the yes-men-cult-slash-denialists here will frame the Kherson retreat as a victory along the lines like:

*”Oh Kherson was not that important anyway, shut up troll!”
*”Russia have a secret agenda and Ukraine just walked into it in Kherson, just relax and see, Putin is God so he knows what to do, he can not be wrong!”
*”Russia saved civilians by the evacuation so it does not matter if they retreat from Kherson, Ukraine can have Kherson!”
*”According to Sun Tzu this is the way to go, in fact Russia is obviously winning by this move anyone saying something differently is a troll!”

Same with Kharkiv, but these yes-men morons never learn, they are brainwashed.
Russia’s debacle in Kharkiv

By all indications, Russia has suffered a catastrophic military defeat near Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, located in the country’s northeast.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/12/pers-s12.html

Posted by: Zanon | Nov 9 2022 14:09 utc | 181

Musicians == Wagner PMC

Posted by: Simplicius | Nov 9 2022 14:24 utc | 183

Well, the fact is that there are a lot of factor influencing whether events like this (assumed Kherson retreat) occur or not. It’s math and likelihoods for military planners.
-UAF strength
-RUAF strength on lines NW,N,NE of the city
-ability to supply air defense, artillery systems, troops on front
-success of UAF attacks, success of RU defense, also in terms of ATTRITION rate, which alters force balance
-risk of encirclement
-relative projected force strength ratio (are more reserves coming? early enough or too late to affect UAF attacks meaningfully)
-expected rate of change of forementioned force strength ratio over given time
-opportunity cost (let UAF occupy Kherson, where they redeploy forces vs. where can you redeploy forces, how changes total picture)
-river bank is rock solid to defend, able to done with smaller forces -> reallocate more force to Ugledar, DPR etc. ?
Now anyone with solid data on forementioned items, feel free to present them and then start making predictions. Instead of “he said, she said”.

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 9 2022 14:28 utc | 185

Et Tu (152).
Ben Stiller a fellow actor and also a CIA asset travelled to Ukraine under a UN banner and denounced Russia, he’s also banned from entering Russia.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 9 2022 14:41 utc | 187

Europe will be sacrificed along with Ukraine by the USA in an attempt to defeat Russia.
https://ria.ru/20221109/ukraina-1830145307.html

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 9 2022 14:47 utc | 189

Kit Klarenberg
@KitKlarenberg
BREAKING: Sergei Surovikin and Sergei Shoigu set to make an urgent statement in 15 minutes. This follows an announcement from Zakharova that Moscow is ready to negotiate with Ukraine, “taking into account the realities currently unfolding.” Abandonment of Kherson imminent?!

https://twitter.com/KitKlarenberg/status/1590356144861896707

Posted by: Down South | Nov 9 2022 15:02 utc | 191

If true, this could change things dramatically.
“The United States has now said that any country can purchase oil from Russia like India amid Ukraine war. According to the report in the Dawn, a U.S state department official said that U.S has no sanctions as of now on Russian energy exports. His response came to the development that Russia had become India’s top oil supplier in the month of October. Watch this video for more details.”
https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/world-news/us-changes-tune-after-russia-becomes-india-s-top-oil-supplier-every-country-can-report-101667903606816.html

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 9 2022 15:06 utc | 193

🇷🇺🇺🇦Surovikin reports to Shoigu
Surovikin: the situation in the area of the Special Operation is generally stable
Surovikin: the combat capabilities of the combined group and forces have increased significantly, the combat strength has been increased at the expense of the mobilized, reserves have been created
There are street battles on the eastern outskirts of Artemovsk –
All attempts of the APU offensive in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions have been stopped
Surovikin: despite the high losses in manpower and equipment, the enemy does not abandon attempts to attack, all his attacks are stopped in a timely manner
Surovikin: active actions are underway in the Donetsk direction to block Artemovsk from the southern direction, fighting is taking place on the eastern outskirts
Shoigu drew Surovikin’s attention to the need to deploy the mobilized in the rear areas before sending them to combat areas
Shoigu: the defense in the Kherson direction is stable, but there are its own peculiarities

https://t.me/azmilitary11/28093

Surovikin: in October, the Ukrainian army lost over 12,000 soldiers
Our losses are 7-8 times less than the enemy’s losses
Russian troops have resumed offensive actions in some areas

https://t.me/azmilitary11/28094

Posted by: Down South | Nov 9 2022 15:07 utc | 195

Surovikin from August to October,AFU army lost more than 9500 people killed and wounded in the Kherson direction
The city of Kherson and adjacent settlements cannot be supplied and function

https://t.me/azmilitary11/28095

Posted by: Down South | Nov 9 2022 15:09 utc | 197

Withdrawal from Kherson? What the fuk is Russia doing? Ukraine and NATO are evil. However, I’m about done with Russia’s pussyfooting around and apparent cowardice and incompetence.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 9 2022 15:10 utc | 199