Yesterday, president Biden tried to read/say something: ‘the patriot missiles are helping UKR’ and
“Russians are beginning to realize that…[.] they function well and they’re helping.”

[.]US President Joe Biden has offered high praise for the non-existent Patriot missile systems the US has promised, but not yet delivered, to Ukraine.
“We’re going to – we’re going to pr- – we’re going to provide an additional Patriot air decis- – air defense battery. They work, and the Russians are beginning to realize that. They function well, and they’re helping a lot,” Biden said in a cabinet meeting at the White House Thursday.
“Germany has also announced that – today that it’s going to provide the Ukrainians a – the – to deal with air attacks, a Patriot air defense system,” Biden added.
The president did not elaborate on how the air defense systems, which by all accounts haven’t been sent yet, were “helping” Ukraine at the moment.

[source: Sputniknews and Youtube]
Youtube before it is removed.
Painful to watch. There is much to worry here. Where is the VP and who guides his hand? The VP !! yes I know, I know. Never mind.
Retirement to Delaware or Pennsylvania long overdue.

Posted by: Likklemore | Jan 6 2023 18:13 utc | 4

I’m intrigued by the UAF switchover to green armbands… a sop to the German greens? …or just perhaps, there are so many Polish, Romanian and other plants replacing the dead “Ukrainians” and wearing blue/yellow armband is an affront to them…?
As an aside, it was clear to me that much of the UAF officers and soldiers are NATO, at least since the Kharkiv counter offensive. Likely most of the NATO supplied systems are operated…by NATO.

Posted by: Simplicius | Jan 6 2023 18:15 utc | 6

Posted by: Setanta | Jan 6 2023 17:56 utc | 1
A profound statement. What is it from or did you write that yourself?

Posted by: David F | Jan 6 2023 18:42 utc | 8

H.H.@5
Yes. It seems as if the kid gloves still cover the mailed fist. Russia cannot stumble and fumble in this existential conflict.
My hope is that in as soon as two days time, that Russian forces develop their first major offensive since February and early March of ’22. With hard frost gradually developing across the north of the battlezone, mechanized movement may finally get the marching orders from General Winter.
The entire central front in the Donbass has become a holding-action by perhaps a third of Russian forces, pinning down half or more of Ukraine’s effectives. On most other fronts, Ukrainian “Territorial” conscripts, much akin to Germany’s young boys and old men Volkssturm are desperately holding their lines, backed by relatively small contingents of seasoned troops, now perhaps a solid half of them being “vacationing” Polak regulars along with a conglomeration of mercenaries ranging from “retired” special forces from the West, head choppers from Islamia paid by the CIA and various hotheads and malcontents from across the world.
With the segue of the SMO into a more full-on offensive; Russia has now the numbers and the equipment to overwhelm their opponents on two NEW active fronts. If the Chinese weather-modification engines can overcome those of HAARP and other such systems employed by the U$$A AirFarce; the big freeze-up can free up those two looming offensives to plow through scattered resistance like shit through a goose.
The sooner that all the Ukrainian forces can collapse and surrender en-masse; the more lives will no longer be squandered in the long-run. Battles of attrition, which were circumstantially enforced upon the Russians by U$$A and NATOstani weapons transfers and various other forms of assistance; should soon come to a halt, meaning that these battles will need not be fought to the legendary “last Ukrainian”.
Writ short, Russia is obliged to amp their engines into high-gear. The hidden agenda of NovoKhazaria would be halted in its tracks by a rapid Russian victory and the continued lives of the remainders of Ukraine’s prime breeding-stock of young males. Ukraine, as a people, must not be sacrificed for the dreams and schemes of outside interests.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 6 2023 18:50 utc | 10

@Setanta | Jan 6 2023 17:56 utc | 1
Well said, I can identify with that.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 6 2023 18:54 utc | 12

Laugh of the day.
Former national security adviser John Bolton says he will run for the Republican presidential nomination, according to “Good Morning Britain.” “Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has told us that he will run for US President in a bid to stop his former boss from getting the nomination,” the British television show tweeted Friday morning.

Posted by: Mummer | Jan 6 2023 19:00 utc | 14

Setanta | Jan 6 2023 17:56 utc | 1
Thanks for that quote, and thanks to David F for identifying the source.

Posted by: htyul | Jan 6 2023 19:04 utc | 16

Christian Chuba,
You wont get the truth by reading either side of the “news”
Just look at the facts:
1) who is winning?
– which country has lost 20% of its territory and is daily begging for more weapons charity from the West? The winning country is the other one
2) which leader is about to die/overthrown?
– facts show neither
3) whos economy is collapsing?
– which country is begging for cash to the west? That one is collapsing
4) whos army is poorly trained and demoralized?
– facts say neither
5) which country is running out of missiles/ammo?
– there is only one country begging the west for more of these
6) which country is withholding fuel and foods tp the west?
– Russia’s exports have been banned BY the West. Ukraines havent.
7) whos army is cripled?
– one country has just mobilized its own 350k soldiers. The other is taking in foreign mercenaries. Do the math.
8) which country is completely honorable and hasnt commited a crime?
– facts say neither
Look at the facts. Make your own mind. Dont listen to propaganda from either side.
Cheers

Posted by: Comandante | Jan 6 2023 19:06 utc | 18

w.r.t. to the assault on Bakhmut, one reads of uber-fortified buildings that can take over a week to deal with …..a minimal amount of research discloses that Russia’s 240 mm. bore 2S4 Tyulpan (Tulip) giant mortar is capable of destroying fortified buildings with its 228 kg. projectile.
Why haven’t we read or heard anything about its use in softening or destroying these Maginot Line-type fortifications ….. I realize that making it mobile to avoid counter-battery would be a problem owing to the complexity of its set-up, but surely this problem can somehow be overcome in light of the lives that would be saved with troops having to assault these deadly fortifications.

Posted by: chet380 | Jan 6 2023 19:11 utc | 20

circumspect | Jan 6 2023 19:18 utc | 21
No. I think you are all over it and understand the dynamic very well.
It will take a literal earthquake to hit Washington DC for anything to really change. … Trump was a good disruptor, but the overwhelming power of the Democrats (who own media, academia, corporations, intelligence agencies, the RINOs, and every other power base) were too much for a single individual.
However, the only goal that they will achieve is an eventual implosion, of which we are seeing the beginnings of now.

Posted by: Mummer | Jan 6 2023 19:30 utc | 22

Regarding (20) 2S4 Tyulpan (Tulip) giant mortar : it is awe inspiring weapon for attacking fortified positions but it has low range and takes time to set up and reload, and is thus vulnerable to counter battery fire. All videos of Russian artillery show them to be highly cognizant of counter battery : moving from hiding point to firing point, fire at target, and then quickly move.

Posted by: FkDahl | Jan 6 2023 19:36 utc | 24

@ Setanta | Jan 6 2023 17:56 utc | 1
Word. Care not who said it.
…

Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (05.01.2023)
💥 In the Kupyansk direction, artillery strikes by Russian troops on the accumulations of servicemen of the 14th and 95th mechanized brigades of the AFU in the areas of Kucherovka, Peschanoye of Kharkiv Oblast and Stelmakhovka of Luhansk People’s Republic destroyed up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two armored fighting vehicles and three vehicles.
💥 In the Krasno-Limansky direction, artillery fire hit units of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU in the areas of Hryhorivka and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The enemy’s losses during the day in this direction amounted to more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored personnel carriers and three pickup trucks.
💥 In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops defeated units of the 110th Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU during successful offensive actions. Up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, four infantry fighting vehicles and five vehicles were destroyed.
💥 On the South Donets direction, as a result of a complex shelling of enemy units near the locality of Prechistovka, Donetsk People’s Republic, more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks were destroyed.
💥 Operational-tactical aviation, missile troops and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit 57 artillery units of the AFU in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 84 areas.
💥 Two artillery ammunition depots of the AFU were destroyed in the areas of Gulyai Polye (Zaporizhia region) and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic).
💥 More than 55 extremists of the so-called “Sheikh Mansur Battalion”, as well as six units of armored vehicles and vehicles were destroyed near Kostyantynivka settlement of Donetsk People’s Republic as a result of a concentrated strike.
💥 In the course of the counter-battery warfare in the areas of Vodyane and Ochertino settlements of Donetsk People’s Republic, they destroyed a Grad multiple rocket launcher and two Olha multiple rocket launchers.
💥 In the areas of Gulyai Polye, Pavlovka, Zaporizhzhia region and Velyka Novoselka, Donetsk People’s Republic, the 2C1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer and two 2C3 Acacia self-propelled howitzers were destroyed at firing positions.
💥 Three D-20 howitzers and two D-30 howitzers were destroyed in firing positions in the areas of Belogorovka, Pervomaiskoye and Artemovsk settlements of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Ingulets and Novobereslav, Kherson region.
💥 A US-made M777 artillery system was destroyed near the village of Matrosovka, Mykolaiv region. In addition, a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery radar station was destroyed near the village of Novoselovka, Luhansk People’s Republic.
💥 Fighter aircraft of the Russian Air Force shot down an Su-24 aircraft of the air force of Ukraine near Krasnogorovka village of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
💥 An Su-25 aircraft of the air force of Ukraine was shot down by anti-aircraft defense forces near the locality of Pobeda in Donetsk People’s Republic.
💥 Twenty-one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were also destroyed during the day in the areas of Zmievka, Kremenna, Zolotarevka, Krivosheevka of the Lugansk People’s Republic, Nikolayevka, Volnovakha, Evgenovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Knyaze-Grygorovka, Velyka Lepetikha of the Kherson region and Melitopol of the Zaporozhye region.
◽️ In addition, five U.S. HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and four U.S. HARM anti-radar missiles were intercepted in the areas of Belogorovka, Luhansk People’s Republic, and Gavrilovka, Kherson Oblast.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation destroyed ((+?) over preceding 24hrs):
359(+2) aircraft,
199 helicopters,
2,834(+21) unmanned aerial vehicles,
399 surface-to-air missile systems, (Each AD Radar destroyed, no(Soviet pre ’91) spares/replacements, effectively: Unclaimed Kills)
7,422(+14) tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
971(+3) multiple rocket launchers,
3,781(+9) field artillery and mortar guns, and
7,937(+17) pieces of special military vehicles.

Posted by: Outraged | Jan 6 2023 19:57 utc | 26

Posted by: Jen | Jan 6 2023 19:58 utc | 27
at least it gives a group of people a practical chance to get the interests of their constituents represented. you’ll note the unanimous nature of the democrat vote, and the meek bootlicking of the so called “Squad” to party leaders. right now the only people inconveniencing the warmongers are a few republicans.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 6 2023 20:09 utc | 28

Posted by: Simplicius | Jan 6 2023 18:15 utc | 6
re green armbands
UA has used green armbands since the beginning, for their territorial defense troops. I don’t know why many RU accounts announced this as news. If UA is now seen wearing green armbands more often, it’s because they’ve sent more territorial defense to the front lines. Reportedly UA are massing the quality troops for their offensive on Melitopol. The recent bradley and marder donations are probably being given with this specific offensive in mind. I hope that RU is not foolish enough to allow Melitopol to be invested, but their past performance is not inspiring. If RU attacked Zaporozhe soon it would be very good.

Posted by: catdog | Jan 6 2023 20:17 utc | 30

CC @ 11 asked; “If the Russophiles are correct then how would the NATO-ites explain it?”
Guess that would depend on who they were explaining it to.
If it’s the U$A’s peons, tell’em anything, the rank and file’s interest in “Ukraine’s problems” is, for the most part, nonexistent.
Besides, it’s time for the NFL’s playoffs.
The “bread and circus” distraction always works here..

Posted by: vetinLA | Jan 6 2023 20:20 utc | 32

Posted by: Setanta | Jan 6 2023 17:56 utc | 1
Men who just wanted to be left alone.
This is a great statement. The bad part is we have many evils trying rule over those who want to be left alone.

Posted by: Jeff | Jan 6 2023 20:29 utc | 34

It seems something good foe Russia is happening in Soledar. The city is being abandoned by AFU and friends. But it is also being said they’re avostaling themselves into the local salt mines!!
Supposedly they have quite an elaborate structure underground room for plenty of hostages.
Kudos to those Ukrainians. Need brass balls and no fear of death to try hiding in a hole in the grounds for weeks on end. I hope they have secret escape hatches. Wouldn’t want to be there if russia decides to make a military decision and burn or drown(gas?) them.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jan 6 2023 20:32 utc | 36

Jihadi Julian reports that half of Soledar is taken and the rest is being encircled. Finally starting to look like RU advance is accelerating. Wagner says not to celebrate too soon.

Posted by: catdog | Jan 6 2023 20:36 utc | 38

Intelslava reports that UA troops are being withdrawn from Bakhmut and redeployed on the Belarus border. (I’m skeptical)
UA twitter reports that RU has taken full control of the salt mine in Soledar. (More likely they only took part of it. We’ll see soon.)

Posted by: catdog | Jan 6 2023 20:43 utc | 40

@ McCarthy
Posted by: Jen | Jan 6 2023 19:58 utc | 27
Posted by: David Levin | Jan 6 2023 20:20 utc | 33
Certainly not off-topic as McCarthy wears two UKR flags on his lapel. One is not enough; he knows who makes the butter for his bread and it does not come from a dairy producer.
He claims he earned and/or owns the Speakership and has been occupying the Speaker’s office.
Votefest No: 13 is done. Perhaps it’s time to offer Dems a deal to secure 4 additional votes.
The House will need to take a 14th vote on Speaker as negotiations between McCarthy, his allies and his detractors continue.
What a spectacle?

Posted by: Likklemore | Jan 6 2023 20:48 utc | 42

Hmmm the odd red herring.
In other news. Germs intend to ship a new batch of swiss cheese apc’s to country 404. Someone should have told them. The 3cm Shipunov comes equipped with tungsten rounds. Next.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Jan 6 2023 20:51 utc | 44

re: Outraged | Jan 6 2023 20:39 utc | 39
Were the Russians busy during their ceasefire? (due to its non observance by ukroids?)
The few times I have heard *elenksyyy speak, I have thought he is channeling satan (or something dark and evil). Any comments from MOAites on the validity of that impression.

Posted by: HOBO 3 | Jan 6 2023 20:55 utc | 46

Ok i guess they aren’t burning out the mines the insides are huge, and they could be connecting them secretly underground.
Looks big enough to send in AI controlled kamikaze drones though. I don’t think a large explosion will be very good even in those caves.
Give them image recognition for types of targets…and well, perhaps you can imagine the scenario. Survivors barricaded in behind doors, outside are drones sitting on the floor in wait and scan mode programmed to fly at any probable target. Open a door and bam!

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jan 6 2023 21:18 utc | 48

I also tried a search for the words “unholy vengeance” at the Interbet Archive on two different volumes with no luck, then I saw David F had done a similar search.
Unrelated to that – I just love the name of the Ukrainian city Gulyai Polye.
It reminds me of that old chestnut by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs Woolly Bully.
This link is a trial and may not work
Woolly Bully

Posted by: Quid Me Vexare | Jan 6 2023 21:20 utc | 50

Mummer @ 22 said in part; ” but the overwhelming power of the Democrats (who own media, academia, corporations, intelligence agencies, the RINOs, and every other power base) were too much for a single individual.”
Think you have it exactly backwards, you can’t be American ( which is cool).
Big organized corporations own everything in the U$A. Along with the banksters, they control both political parties, and dictate to small business, and our Govt.
Through their “bought and paid for lackeys” they decide our foreign and domestic policies..
Posted by: vetinLA |!!

Posted by: vetinLA | Jan 6 2023 21:25 utc | 52

Interesting that giant transport planes can deliver armoured vehicles unhindered and get delivered to front lines and kill Russian soldiers.
I guess it goes to show the strength of Ukraine’s anti aircraft capabilities.
It’s certainly a military conundrum, a continually supplied rear base that is untouchable.

Posted by: Johnycomelately | Jan 6 2023 21:38 utc | 54

David F | Jan 6 2023 20:13 utc | 29
I’d suggest posting the text at a Jordan Peterson site or fanboi site.
He didn’t write it, obviously.
But his (MGTOW) Men Go Their Own Way disciples will know.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 6 2023 21:39 utc | 56

“That meme has been circulating on the net for some months now. No idea of its origins, but yes, it is profound.”
Posted by: Lord of the Fleas | Jan 6 2023 19:03 utc | 15
————
Here is something that is not a meme.
“On Jan. 1, a post celebrating the 114th birthday of Stepan Bandera — notorious Ukrainian far-right leader and World War II Nazi collaborator — was tweeted from the official handle of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament….”
“In the aftermath of the Euromaidan coup of 2014, which ousted the pro-Russia Yanukovych, right-wing militias that consider Bandera a hero were given free rein in the country and support from the governments of Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky. Since then, Ukrainian nationalists have regularly marked Bandera’s birthday on Jan. 1 with torch-lit marches and demonstrations.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/06/ukraine-parliament-cheers-nazi-collaborator/

Posted by: Ed | Jan 6 2023 22:01 utc | 58

Now there are rumors that UA is retreating from Krasna Hora. If that’s true, UA must be about to abandon Bakhmut too.

Posted by: catdog | Jan 6 2023 22:12 utc | 60

Hohum …
Consolidated from aggregated reports:

DOD has announced the largest single US military aid package, via presidential “drawdown” authority for Ukraine worth $3bn ($24.2 billion so far). DOD said it welcomes Germany’s new commitment to provide Ukraine with one Patriot air defense battery (in coming months). The United States has already committed one Patriot battery to Ukraine(several months away).
“The Biden administration will continue to encourage Allies and partners to make additional donations of air defense systems, artillery, combat vehicles, and other critical capabilities to support Ukraine in defense of its sovereignty and territorial integrity for as long as it takes,” DOD said.
It includes transfers to Ukraine of weapons worth $2.85 billion from the Pentagon’s reserves & $225 million in long-term foreign military financing. The package also contains $682 million for European allies in additional foreign military financing to “incentivize and backfill donations of military equipment to Ukraine by allies and partners,”.
▪️ 50 M2 “Bradley” IFVs with 500 TOW missiles and 250,000 25-mm rounds;
▪️ 100 M113 armored personnel carriers;
▪️ 55 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs);
▪️ 138 HMMWV (armored);
▪️ 18 155 mm self-propelled howitzers (SPH) & 18 ammunition support vehicles;
▪️ 70,000 155 mm artillery rounds;
▪️ 500 Excalibur precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;
▪️ 1,200 Remote Anti-Armor Mine Systems (RAAM) 155mm artillery rounds;
▪️ 36 105mm towed howitzers & 95,000 105mm artillery rounds;
▪️ 10,000 120mm mortar rounds;
▪️ additional ammunition for HIMARS (unquantified);
▪️ Sea Sparrow RIM-7 anti-aircraft missiles(unquantified);
▪️ 4,000 Zuni aircraft rockets;
▪ 2,000 missile rounds for ATGMs;
▪️ sniper rifles, machine guns, & ammunition for grenade launchers & small arms (unquantified);
▪️ Claymore anti-personnel mines (unquantified);
▪️ night vision devices & optics (unquantified);
▪️ unspecified spare parts & other field equipment.

Comment:
18 US 155mm SPHs along with Bradleys are a first ?
Bradleys will not actually be available to Ukraine for several months (Implies drawn from oldest, least functional/operable stocks due for scrapping, as opposed to pre-positioned operable stocks in NATO countries). 50 Bradley IFV constitutes ~2 days AFU AFV losses. The distributed 500(10/per) TOW missiles and 250,000 25-mm rounds will detonate along with the vehicles …
155mm SPHs constitute ~1.5 days of AFU Arty losses. Irrelevant.
M113, MRAPs & HMMVs are all unsuited to conflict, all likely supplied as worn/out, derelict, due to be scrapped, provide no additional combat power to AFU. Constitutes ~6 days AFU AFV & vehicle losses. Marginal benefit, primarily limited mobility as opposed to pickup trucks(ISIS ‘Technical’).
Sea Sparrow RIM-7 anti-aircraft missiles are to be used in pre’91 BUK AD systems as AFU has successfully(?) launched ad-hoc modified Sea Sparrows from BUKs. Why ? There is essentially no AD missile ammo for BUKs, nor any possibility of sourcing more. Desperate temporary interim measure, unsustainable. Effectiveness, marginal to nil.
Essentially WWII era 105mm towed howitzers which are comparatively under-powered & under-ranged (~1/3 of opposing) as well as further ammo logistical burden. Hence must deploy dangerously close to Contact Line, under the guns of all longer range RF Arty & have extremely negligible to zero counter-battery capability due short range/low power rounds. Constitutes ~3 days AFU Arty losses. Marginal benefit, short-ranged, under-powered, towed (Lethally slow to deploy or re-deploy/disperse/scoot).
Total of 18 155mm SPHs & 36 105mm Howitzers together constitutes ~41% replacement of Arty losses over only last 14 days (~20%/month). By the time they actually arrive & deploy (Losses in transit ?) …
70,000 155mm arty & 10,000 & mortar rounds are utterly insufficient re AFU daily fires requirements. Though given the accelerating daily destruction of tubes/launchers … the ever reducing number of AFU indirect fire assets will therefore have more available ammo, yet reduced opportunity to expend, as they increasingly transition from endangered status to extinction on the battlefield.
1,200 Remote Anti-Armor Mine Systems (RAAM) 155mm artillery rounds are strong indicator of AFU imminent anticipated requirement to be able to lay hasty Arty delivered minefields to delay anticipated RF maneuver formations in the Advance, at limited number of pre-registered crossing/intersection/bridge choke points. Marginal benefit, mostly harassing, avoidable & limited delay effect.
4,000 Zuni unguided aircraft rockets are for the bi-daily one-way, suicidal death rides to Valhalla by salvaged AFU SU-24/25, Mi-8s, etc. Irrelevant.
YMMV

Posted by: Outraged | Jan 6 2023 22:28 utc | 62

Good to hear of further nazi destruction after the brief Russian cease fire ended. That is, ended on the Russian side as the mongrel Zelensky nazi team piked out. Its clear they don’t have the ticker for it.
Next victory will be in the Kramatorsk and Slovyansk and even perhaps Zaporyzhzhya.
Meanwhile the citizens west of the front line scrabble to cook a meal let alone heat a home. Ukraine is fatally broken and soon the nazis will flee to europe begging for mercy and socialist hand outs.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 6 2023 22:49 utc | 64

Re the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, I assume b, as an ex-tank-officer, is well aware of Martyanov’s comment on his blog today…

Cleaning My Monitors…
… you know, coffee spraying on monitors, me falling off the chair. Things of this nature due to this:
“The Bradley infantry fighting vehicle is the exact type of vehicle the Ukrainians need,” said Mick Mulroy, former deputy assistant secretary of defense and ABC News contributor. “There are many available, they are relatively easy to learn to operate effectively.” While the Bradley does not offer the same protection as a tank, it can still be used to take out Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers, according to Mulroy.
No, really, do they still think in Pentagon that Bradley with its 25-mm Bushmaster and two obsolete BGM-71 TOW ATGMs has a chance on the modern battlefield against something like T-72B3(M), let alone T-90M? These are the tanks which now dominate the battlefield in 404 and that is not even all of the story. Practically all Russian tanks fire not just very respectable guns but also a very nasty 5 km range ATGM called Reflex, not to mention the fact that Russian tank force now has a very good WALL-E looking sidekick known as BMPT Terminator Tank Support Vehicle. And this monster apart from outgunning Bradley with 2 30-mm guns, carries four Ataka ATGMs which are not only supersonic but outrange TOW dramatically.
Well, one doesn’t have to be a professional tank officer to recognize what these Bradleys will face. But then again, Bradley is a cover story for Pentagon, because the larger issue, of course, was a discussion on the delivery of M1 Abrams tanks to 404.
As WaPo explained, there are some “minor” technical issues for Abrams tanks because they weight in excess of 55 tons, consume enormous amounts of fuel and are prone to… well, how to put it politely–breaking down. Obviously, as is natural for US media and Pentagon, they explained that those tanks are also extremely complex and require a very specialized technical service. In other words, Ukies are on a lower development level to handle such an amazing equipment;)) Hey, I am just quoting here, alright? Translating into normal human language it means M1 Abrams is not designed to fight a serious enemy and the US will rather blame 100% guaranteed failure of Bradleys on their improper use by Kiev Regime, than see M1 Abrams burning on the battlefield in industrial quantities, especially with those pesky Russian Air Force capable to attack them beyond whatever the feeble air defense they may have. Remember this?
[Shows image of a Hermes missile launcher – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_%28missile%29 Also see article Martyanov posted in 2020 about this missile:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/08/zircon-again.html%5D
This damn thing performed brilliantly in Syria and has an insane range flying at more than M=4+. Modern Russian helicopters carry these lovely weapons and it is specifically designed to kill any armor on the battlefield. Well, that’s the modern battlefield for ya. So, the PR campaign must be ran tightly in the West, otherwise how can one maintain this myth about magical American weapons which all, without exception, have become, indeed, “game changers” insofar as their reputation goes, meaning an atrocious lack of combat effectiveness and being not fit for the real war.
Do they know this in Pentagon? Some, certainly, do. Do not expect this knowledge trickle down to State Department, because a mounting empirical evidence testifies in favor of those people having no clue about operational and technological aspects of modern warfare and still, probably, waiting for Maverick to fly his F-14 into Russian Air Space and kill all those nasty Rooskies, who decided to expose operational and technological weakness of the US military of which I warned for many years, specifically pointing out that the danger here is not American strength but weakness.

Dude named FunnyMan posted this comment:

F(unny)MAN 9 hours ago
Sorry Andrei, but the possibility of some bradleys destroying a tank is real, think for example this situation…
(according to my contacts in the Deppy Bottoms, actually being simulated, analysed and wargamed by NATzO generalissimuses) 2 or 3 dozens of Bradleys, driving at high speed hitting a T-90, probably after the second dozen the T-90 would have suffered some damage…
The Crew, exhausted could start to think about self destroying the tank in order not to clean the wreckage around it, or just not to explain their superiors why the paint coat of the tank was scratched…
There are some very devious minds here at play in the NATzO… they have calculated that using this new Tactical method, the Ukraine will destroy all the Russian Tank forces in two weeks. They just need to send somewhat 106,000 Bradleys to Ukraine.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jan 6 2023 23:04 utc | 66

@ uncle tungsten | Jan 6 2023 23:12 utc | 69
not worth responding to roadkill.. cheers..
@ david f.. thanks for pursuing that… great quote regardless of the origins..

Posted by: james | Jan 6 2023 23:14 utc | 68

@Blissex #54:

Evidence like that is meaningless: it could be RF citizens looking at Putin, but the screen image has been replaced…

No. It can’t be Russian citizens. That’s the whole point. In Russia, this is impossible. In the Ukraine, on the other hand, it is very possible and actually happens frequently, because it has been normalized.

…it could be USA citizens looking at Clinton announcing the invasion of Yugoslavia, with the screen image replaced too…

Invasion of Yugoslavia? Look at the smartphone on the table.

…it could be staged…

It could be. Or it could be true.

…it could be sarcasm, it could be anything.

Why all this “sarcasm” is always coming from the same country, I wonder? Must be a very sarcastic country. And the sarcasm is somehow always revolving around doing a Hitler salute, drawing swastikas, shouting “Glory to the Ukraine! Glory to heroes!” (official OUN slogan adopted in 1941), etc.

Posted by: S | Jan 6 2023 23:20 utc | 70

The more time passes, the more I realize big truth. Stalin was right.
All countries sending military help to Ukieland have stained themselves as nazis now. Unlike WW2, this time Russia will not liberate them from themselves (“and they will never forgive us for that” as Zhukov said).
No, Russia will leave all those nazi countries alone, only will use its influence to keep them military impotent and not a thread (which means, among other things, ruining their economies).
So, what I am sure of, is that a lot of countries are going down fascist/nazi/ruinous to become shitholes.Run by jews, ruled by brown/black street gangs on street, trannes and faggots, with part of population screaming “seig heil” among all that, while complete state control worse than 1984 telling them all is ok.
Boy, what a time is coming.

Posted by: Abe | Jan 6 2023 23:33 utc | 72

Posted by: TruthSeeker | Jan 6 2023 23:44 utc | 75
Ah…. an exemplary “concern troll” here, the avuncular tone, the slightly puzzled air, the ‘just stumbled on this here” vibe.. Don’t be “concerned” we’re not.

Posted by: Gabriel in Ireland | Jan 6 2023 23:50 utc | 74

bullshit seeker would be a better name, lol..

Posted by: james | Jan 6 2023 23:52 utc | 76

@79 You forgot to add… a puppet that would have allowed the US to build a base in Crimea.

Posted by: dh | Jan 7 2023 0:14 utc | 78

@81 When it came to Crimea Putin didn’t hesitate 5 minutes. Understandable.

Posted by: dh | Jan 7 2023 0:23 utc | 80

Mud Freezing: According to the 14 day weather forecast at Donetsk City, the daily, average HI/LO temperature
will be below or at freezing temperature of 32 F for the next 14 days.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/ukraine/donetsk/ext
These lower temperatures will start to freeze the ground solid from the top down. Whenever, this freezing is complete, this gives those who wish to move heavy equipment on the battle ground more flexibility and options.
Perhaps, this is what the Russians have been waiting for.

Posted by: young | Jan 7 2023 0:33 utc | 82

I find that it is mostly attributed to unknown author, although I found another place where it was attributed to Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, although I don’t know who he is.
Does anyone here know where it actually came from?
Posted by: David F | Jan 6 2023 19:04 utc | 17
I don’t know about the quote but Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper (deceased) had writings that are still available on the internet (last time I looked) and setup Gunsite, a firearms training academy in the U.S.

Posted by: Bearish panda | Jan 7 2023 0:37 utc | 84

Coup d’état.
A bad concept here, never tendered. Would deflate an almost infinite balloon of otiose game playing what-ifs lightly predicated upon the fog of war.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Jan 7 2023 0:40 utc | 86

Posted by: HH | Jan 6 2023 18:13 utc | 5
paste or type “Pentagon Wars – Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution” into youtube..
Why worry about about them?

Posted by: Per/Norway | Jan 7 2023 0:46 utc | 88

„May God bless us all,” says Fudup. Human morons have invented several thousand gods. So which one is it, Fudup?

Posted by: Robert | Jan 7 2023 0:59 utc | 90

Posted by: Roadblock | Jan 6 2023 23:03 utc | 67
«I assume that the Men that want to be left alone are the Ukrainians who were invaded by Russia.»
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05/10/ukra-m10.html
«10 May 2014
With the open support of Washington and its European allies, the regime installed by Washington and Berlin in last February’s fascist-led putsch is now extending its reign of terror against all popular resistance in Ukraine. That is the significance of the events in the major eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol yesterday. After tanks, armoured personnel carriers and heavily armed troops were unleashed on unarmed civilians in the city, the Kiev regime claimed to have killed some 20 people. The Obama administration immediately blamed the violent repression on “pro-Russian separatists.”
“The violence bore all the hallmarks of a calculated provocation on the 69th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Red Army. […] These admirers of Hitler and his Ukrainian collaborators are now serving, with Washington’s full support, as the regime’s shock troops against popular opposition centred in the industrialised east of the country as well as in Russian-speaking centres such as Odessa in the south. The same forces have been given free rein to attack anyone in the west of the country who dares to oppose the fascistic government in Kiev. Outraged accounts from residents of Mariupol, verified by journalists on the ground, make it clear that many of those targeted by the Ukrainian National Guard and associated fascist elements on Friday had been participating in a Victory Day rally commemorating the anniversary.»
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/least-among-us-war-donbas-terrorizing-ukraines-most-vulnerable-citizens/
«The deep anger toward both Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (I was told by one young woman, a native of Donetsk, that “this is Poroshenko’s war”) and an equally deep sense of alienation from the Ukrainian state in Kiev are equally unmistakable. One young mother told us “there is no ‘back’ to Ukraine for Donbas.” If Poroshenko and his cheerleaders in the Obama administration and the US Congress believe that an economic blockade, Kiev’s deployment of snipers, the shelling of Donbas’s civilians and a proposal to send American weapons with which to facilitate the shelling is the recipe for winning eastern Ukrainian “hearts and minds” they couldn’t be more wrong. Yet, tellingly, this is the strategy Poroshenko himself laid out last November in a speech in which he declared: “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, theirs will be holed up in the basements. Because they are not able to do a thing. This is exactly how we will win this war!” Well, he may have half the job done. The little children we saw are indeed cowering in filthy conditions in underground Soviet-era bomb shelters.»
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas
«3,393 civilians killed (349 in 2016–2021)
13,100–13,300 killed; 29,500–33,500 wounded overall
414,798 Ukrainians internally displaced; 925,500 fled abroad»

Posted by: Blissex | Jan 7 2023 1:29 utc | 92

WOW. published yesterday 05.01.2023.
This interview with Pierre de Gualle, grandson of late Charles De Gaulle on Russia-USNATO-Ukraine. Blunt words. Forceful.
Highly recommend:
Grandson of de Gaulle about Russia: “Except for Jews under Hitler, no one was robbed like that”

Agoravox: Grandson of President de Gaulle accuses the US and the EU of robbing Russia and FrancePierre de Gaulle, the grandson of the great general, has long gone against the mainstream press in France, but his interview in Agoravox is just a shock.
He not only defended Russia and called for the trial of the executioners of Donbass. He also said something about the “freezing of assets” of Russia abroad, comparing it to the robbery of Jews.
The Franco-Russian Dialogue Association offers an exclusive interview with Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of the great general-president, a financier by profession.’.[.]
“I think it is extremely important for France to maintain and develop relations of mutual understanding and cooperation with Russia, primarily through historical ties, the common destiny that unites us.
Europeans should not forget that only maintaining relations with Russia is a guarantee of stability and prosperity in Europe and in the world. Unfortunately, the consequences of the current crisis are reflected primarily in Europe. Of course, the whole world suffers as a result of anti-Russian sanctions. But first of all, Russia’s recent partners in Europe are suffering, and France is among them.
This crisis greatly weakens the balance that my grandfather always tried to maintain, even in the most difficult times. (This refers to the balance of Gaullist France’s foreign policy, which consists in the desire to move away from a unilateral foreign policy orientation and become dependent on the East or the West in the person of the United States – approx. InoSMI.) But France managed to preserve this balance throughout the Cold War, it began to be established between France and the USSR immediately after World War II.
After all, then Russia found itself in the same camp with the countries that defeated the Nazi occupiers, and therefore with France. And that’s why my grandfather always, always tried to maintain respectful relations with Russia.[.]
“I believe that it is in France’s interests to continue this policy and maintain a balance between East and West in our policy, because this is essential for stability in Europe. I think that public opinion in France is beginning to understand what the malicious game of the Americans is today. Using lies primarily when communicating with allies within NATO, the United States managed to use the Ukrainian crisis to destabilize Europe.
The Americans, as it were, cut off Europe from Russia, restored the Europeans against the Russians. Why did they do it? Because Europe in alliance with Russia could represent a strong bloc both politically and economically, culturally and socially – in general, up to 500 million people live in the EU and in the Russian Federation. ”
“Since the Vietnam War and after the economic crises that followed, the Americans have always tried by force, cunning and other dishonest means to make up for the loss of their economic and political influence, although it is inevitable. In particular, the Americans are trying to slow down the dollar’s loss of its status as the only (i.e. monopoly) world exchange currency. And this policy continues.”
Merkel’s Treachery
— What is your opposition to the current foreign policy of France in the Russian direction?— That’s what I would like to say…
“I protest against the intellectual dishonesty of the West, manifested in the Ukrainian crisis. The Americans were the first to pull the trigger in the ongoing war in the region since 2014. The second warmonger was the NATO organization, which has not removed its expansion plans to the territory of Ukraine from the agenda.
And here I would like to cite as proof the recent statements of Mrs. Merkel, who recently admitted that she was the one who never intended to apply the Minsk Agreements signed back in 2015. But they were agreed and signed to guarantee the safety, inviolability and respect for the rights of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass. Moreover, it was the French, together with the Germans, who agreed to act as guarantors of these agreements to ensure stability and protect the population in this region.” [.] (emphasis mine)
Read it all
LINK

Posted by: Likklemore | Jan 7 2023 1:50 utc | 94

Posted by: Blissex | Jan 7 2023 1:24 utc | 93
I’ve been over there, a lot of times. In Lima, almost every year, in hotels, travel agencies, I have been offered tours of the Nazca Plain by hotel employees and drivers of tour companies and no one has ever mentioned to me anything about pyramids, It has always been about the lines. I have also travelled by the Panamerica Highway, which cuts across the very plain in the middle of the lines and there is no pyramid in sight. I have seen also a lot of videos of the lines and I have never seen them in those videos either. In fact there are like non-existent, people don’t really care about them, it must be either a new trend for local tourism or something reserved for archaeologists.

Posted by: gatobart | Jan 7 2023 2:07 utc | 96

As I write in my recent article on Substack, while the Russians have the means for a large-scale and successful offensive, “Why bother?”.
“The offensive when it comes will likely not be the kind that many would like to see— one aimed at taking all of Russian Ukraine, perhaps even Kiev and Lviv.For the time being. all along the contact line, you have an enemy that just comes to you begging to be killed. That’s the lesson of Bakhmut and previously of Kherson and Krasny Liman.”
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/new-years-sitrep-the-end-of-the-tunnel
I had originally expected a big Russian offensive and they can still do it. But, yes, “Why bother?” Ukraine is big. The Russians’ greatest losses were in the first two weeks with their push to Kiev, which was necessary under the circumstances I believe and ultimately saved lives down the line, while destroying the UAF’s ability to carry out mobility warfare. This is not a war for territory– it is a war to destroy the UAF’s military capabilities. Once that is done and the UAF is spent as an occupying force in Russian Ukraine, the territory comes naturally. Of so I argue, in my article and previous ones drawing on parallels with the US Civil War where the Union was unsuccessful for 3 years fighting for territory and only started really winning when Grant switched strategy to focusing on destroying the enemy. Dima thinks the Russians want to take the Uki railroad system for an offensive. Again: “Why bother?” Right now, it is enough to destroy the energy infrastructure that the Ukies must use to run trains.

Posted by: julianmacfarlane | Jan 7 2023 2:17 utc | 98

The comparison between Russian strategy and Grant’s has been made variously by people like Berletic, Mercouris and MacGregor. It bears thought and I detail it here with reference to the Ukraine..
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/ukraine-endgame

Posted by: julianmacfarlane | Jan 7 2023 2:19 utc | 100