@ 94; Thanks for that posting, maybe someone will grab a clue reading historical fact. A concept many can’t grasp..

Posted by: vetinLA | Jan 7 2023 3:01 utc | 104

@TruthSeeker
Counterpunch has become as irrelevant since cockburns more talented partner whom could see over partlines died and the dems became the pro pharmaceutical pro war party fyi

Posted by: NJH | Jan 7 2023 3:06 utc | 106

Likklemore #101
Thanks again and barflies there are many reports at this english language site that warrant it being a daily or weekly visit:
https://vpk.name/en/
The DeGaul report was fascinating and he was mighty careful to only single out Macron for a pasting. Four more years of having to put up with this preposterous fool.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 7 2023 3:16 utc | 108

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 7 2023 3:16 utc | 105 & 110
you are very welcome.
Grandson Pierre is a statesman, unfortunately one of the few to be found in this era.
Let me remind, in 1966 it was the late Charles deGaulle who took France out of NATO’s integrated military command.
One of the several money quotes in Pierre’s interview:
“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.”
Should public opinion in France become a tsunami wave against the malicious game of the Americans others will follow in line. NATO shatters and the Rothschild stooge will be hog tied.

Posted by: Likklemore | Jan 7 2023 3:37 utc | 110

There’s no such thing as tax payers money. It is all state money it is written in very simple English on every dollar you have received since the day you were born. Go to the coin section in every museum in the world, not a tax payers coin in sight. It is written on the thousands of coins in the museums where they came from.
Posted by: Derek Henry | Jan 7 2023 2:07 utc | 99

Totally off topic but what the hell.
I agree that money is a monopoly product of the government and that taxation is their price for letting us use it. Inflation is the additional price for not using it fast enough. The government licensed banking cartel does the heavy lifting for them and collects interest/fees for the intermediary services provided.
The difference between now and antiquity is that most “money” is now 0-s and 1-s in a digital ledger. I only keep about 1% of my unallocated funds in government bills and coins, in case the power goes out for a few days, 99% is a credit union ledger entry.
Digital money has, in theory, a much higher potential velocity than bills and coins. So, in theory, less digital money should be needed to service the same economic output. Also interest rates spreads should be lower since bills and coins are more cumbersome and harder to secure than 0-s and 1-s. But that is not what happened.
Digital money supply outpaced economic output everywhere. CBs lowered interest rates, reasoning that it would encourage people and business to spend. But the opposite happened, people saved more realizing they would need to do so for a reasonable retirement.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Jan 7 2023 3:47 utc | 112

Would those who seriously think they are party to the truth of the situation in Ukraine regarding who is militarily winning or losing please step forward?
State what they believe to be the truth: who is winning, who is losing.
State their reasons for believing so.
And hopefully provide some links we can use to verify this and hopefully in future keep ourselves up to date.
Is that possible? Anyone reading these columns fit that bill?
I have long been of the opinion the allies are winning and will win.
That’s where I’m coming from. But i cannot prove my contention nor even point to authoritative sources that will prove it for me.
I have just read Robert Homan’s newsletter as compiled by Graham Siebert and it tells a quite different story. Perturbs me enough to make me ask this question here.
?

Posted by: abrogard | Jan 7 2023 4:09 utc | 114

With twitter generals loudly insisting that Abrams tanks must now be dispatched to Ukraine…
I’m wondering if the ever “profit first, profit above all” U$ may have found the solution… why “give” Ukraine tanks when you can get the Poles to pay:
>Jan6: Poland has signed an agreement on the purchase of 116 American M1A1 Abrams tanks
>…the acquisition by Poland of 116 M1A1 FEP
>… The value of the signed agreement is $1.4 billion (6.2 billion Polish zlotys) net, of which almost $200 million (880 million zlotys) will be allocated in the form of American military assistance.

The delivery will include 116 tanks (two battalion sets) M1A1 Abrams in the FEP (Firepower Enhancement Package) version, as well as 12 armored M88A2 Hercules repair and evacuation vehicles, eight M1074 Joint Assault Bridge (JAB, on the chassis of the Abrams tank), six armored command and staff vehicles M577A3, 26 mobile repair shops NG SECM based on M1152A1 HMMWV vehicles, as well as training and logistics packages. M1A1 FEP tanks are former tanks of the US Marine Corps, transferred to the storage of the US Army due to the recent reorganization of the US Marine Corps with the complete abolition of its tank units.
During the ceremony, the inspector of the Polish Ground Forces and authorized representative for the introduction of Abrams tanks, Major General Maciej Jablonski, said that the purchased M1A1 FEP tanks are used vehicles stored at the US Army warehouse in Aniston, Alabama, where they are currently beginning to undergo training and repair.
After the repair, all tanks will have the mileage and resource of the units reset to zero. The first 20 tanks were prepared in Aniston in December.
The first battalion set of M1A1 FEP (58 tanks) should be delivered to Poland by the end of 2023,…

https://vpk.name/en/672048_poland-has-signed-an-agreement-on-the-purchase-of-116-american-m1a1-abrams-tanks.html
?>And then… the Poles find a use for them in western Ukraine????
uncle tungsten | Jan 7 2023 3:16 utc | 110
From the news site you recommended. Thx.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 7 2023 4:31 utc | 116

@ Derek Henry | Jan 7 2023 2:07 utc | 99
@ Chris 113
“It really is an amazing trick the EU played on Eastern Europe.”
How do you explain that Poland still retained its currency?

Posted by: fanto | Jan 7 2023 4:35 utc | 118

Haven’t seen anyone reference or cite what Medvedev wrote on his telegraph on the 5th. Here’s the full translation of the two pieces:

The State Department published an appeal to the people of Russia, like we love all of you. It ends in their typical nasty Jesuit style: “stand in solidarity with each of you who seeks to create a more peaceful future.” And the war in Ukraine, they say, is unworthy of everyone.
Even for these primal freaks, this is the height of cynicism and the limit of moral degradation. The United States spends tens of billions on the war in Ukraine, supplying its weapons on a gigantic scale, exterminating thousands of people by proxy. This is extreme cynicism in the best traditions of the Nazis. Yes, in fact, the sons of bitches who carry such nonsense are the real heirs of Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
Only this stillborn delirium no longer affects anyone. And you will not get the answer to it in the office silence.
The main gift for the New Year with ammunition of Zircon missiles went yesterday to the shores of NATO countries. 1000 km of the range of their use with hypersound in Mach 9 and the ability to use any charge with a guarantee overcome any missile defense. Let it stand about 100 miles from the shore, closer to the Potomac River. So rejoice!
It will bring to life anyone who poses a direct threat to Russia and our allies.
You and your henchmen who kill our people will never be forgiven. We will speak to you in the language of force, since you do not understand otherwise. And to produce even more modern weapons. Hammer them on the Nazi carrion that you spawned in the twenty-first century. To avenge every criminal for every murdered citizen of our country.
/////
Ukrainians were extended the hand of Christian mercy on the Great Feast. Their leaders rejected it. I think most of our servicemen taking part in the SVO calmly exhaled when they heard the refusal of the main Ukrainian clowns to cease fire on Christmas Day. Less trouble and disingenuousness.
People who have lost the opportunity to go to church are sorry. But pigs have no faith and no innate sense of gratitude. They understand only brute force and screechingly demand grub from their owners. That’s what the training is based on. And it will be continued by Western swineherds.
Even the illiterate German grandmother Berbok and a number of other people looking at the European pigsty managed to whine about the inadmissibility of the truce. Well, the heirs of the Nazis never spared either humans or animals. They’re no strangers to…

Today’s entry is a very appropriate photo. Was Dmitri loosened by some libations? Somewhat I’d say. The reason for his angst can be read at the thread’s first comment.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 7 2023 5:20 utc | 120

Military experts say that the heavy equipment allocated since the beginning of December by NATO (infantry fighting vehicles from the USA and Germany, heavy wheeled armored vehicles from France, artillery from Italy, etc.) are being used by three (!) Army corps numbering 75,000 people, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine are planning create by the spring of this year. Of these, 15,000 people are trained by the European Union and at least 10,000 by Great Britain …
And there is every reason to believe that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are moving to a new organization. Prior to this, the main combat unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was a brigade of a very conditional organization, which included from three to five and even six infantry battalions, of which three were full-time, and the rest were attached, most often from the defense.
At the same time, late formation brigades (after August 2022) often did not have their own tank battalions and very limited artillery, being, in fact, infantry. Their general management was limited to the headquarters of the directions to which they were transferred. On the one hand, this made it possible to quickly maneuver forces, transferring them from one threatening direction or sector of the front to another, creating the necessary density of troops, especially in defense.
But the reverse side of the coin was the poor controllability of such “placers” of brigades, their low interaction with each other, especially in the offensive, as well as heavy losses, since the command did not think much about saving personnel, which existed, as it were, separately from combat control, being actually a “tool”. Under this organization, the corps acted as administrative units – forming and training reserves.
This organization showed its effectiveness in defense, but turned out to be ineffective in the offensive, which was shown by the onset of September-November, when, having a three-fold, and sometimes seven-fold superiority over the enemy, the advancing groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in fact, only “pushed back” the Russian troops, without carrying out any -some large-scale operations to break through the front and encirclement, which allowed the Russian command to withdraw troops in time.
And now, apparently, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to move on to the formation of full-fledged combat formations – corps. This should increase the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, especially in the offensive, as it will make the combat command and control more flexible, and the formation itself – the parts included in the corps – more coordinated and manageable.
In fact, there is an organizational consolidation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which indicates that in ten months a large group of military leaders with combat experience who are able to manage such formations have been accumulated, as well as experience has been gained to manage such formations. The formation of new corps in the new organization testifies to the preparation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for an offensive campaign in the spring of 2023.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/27738

Posted by: Down South | Jan 7 2023 5:38 utc | 122

Of the most interesting and apprehensive in this package of military assistance, of course, is the first “trial” delivery of 50 relatively modern Western M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (which had not previously been delivered to Ukraine under various pretexts).
In addition, the emergence of Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missiles, which, apparently, against the background of the depletion of Soviet missiles, will be installed on self-propelled firing systems of the Buk air defense system through modernization, deserves special attention. Also in the context of American deliveries, one can notice the transfer of self-propelled artillery installations. It is obvious that the 155-mm self-propelled guns M109 will play this role, the only question is in what modification.
As we have repeatedly stated, Western deliveries will only increase and the emphasis will be on Western air defense systems and anti-aircraft missiles, as the Soviet stock available to the Armed Forces of Ukraine is rapidly running out. Over time, Western countries will be able to cover the shortage of air defense systems in the Ukrainian army with their supplies, which will create a serious threat to the effectiveness of our long-range missile strikes on infrastructure and make it extremely problematic for the full return of the airborne forces to the battlefield.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/27746

Posted by: Down South | Jan 7 2023 5:40 utc | 124

“TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone. ”
Posted by: Setanta | Jan 6 2023 17:56 utc | 1
wow. where is this from? ty.

Posted by: polarbear4 | Jan 7 2023 5:57 utc | 126

@james-77/78
Arrogance, ignorance, and sarcasm. What a cocktail. I want to smoke what you smoking…NOT.

Posted by: truthseeker | Jan 7 2023 6:18 utc | 128

@Gabriel in Ireland,
Thanks dad for the comforting thought.it is good to know there are self-assured trolls on here to fall back on.

Posted by: truthseeker | Jan 7 2023 6:27 utc | 130

@young | Jan 7 2023 0:33 utc | 84

temperature will be below or at freezing temperature of 32 F for the next 14 days.

Only Americans use the antiquated F scale. In Europe, please refer to Celsius.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 7 2023 7:05 utc | 132

Link
Posted by: Likklemore | Jan 7 2023 2:18 utc | 101
Should public opinion in France become a tsunami wave against the malicious game of the Americans others will follow in line.
NATO shatters and the Rothschild stooge will be hog tied.
Posted by: Likklemore | Jan 7 2023 3:37 utc | 112
What a pleasant thought you expressed there, Likklemore.
Huge thanks for providing that link to the interview with Pierre DeGaulle.
(I’m curious why he isn’t more prominent in French politics.)
It’s a bit rough in the form presented at the link but I took it into Word and straightened it out before reading it through.
I heartily back up Uncle Tungsten in his praise. It is a must read.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 7 2023 7:52 utc | 134

Russia wins again.
See my post at open thread regarding Jackson Hinkle reporting on Russian victory with Syria and Turkey 🙂

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 7 2023 8:06 utc | 136

@james-131
Na, bullshit is your specialty on this website and you excel at it. BTW, you should take your own advice since your style of b.s., bullying and insult is perfect combination and highly prized on Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised if you already didn’t have an account spreading spam. That seems to be the value you bring to these websites, since you really have nothing constructive to offer but vile Venum.

Posted by: truthseeker | Jan 7 2023 8:44 utc | 138

“pyramids of Nazca”
Posted by: gatobart | Jan 7 2023 2:07 utc | 98
«something reserved for archaeologists»
Indeed as far as archaeology goes they are a fairly recent find and a fairly unexpected one (that there was anything significant at all around that area).
When I did a web search I was surprised that there are already tourist trips to the area, the archaeologists must be mad about it, to them the tourists are much worse than the locusts.

Posted by: Blissex | Jan 7 2023 9:13 utc | 140

@young | Jan 7 2023 0:33 utc | 84
temperature will be below or at freezing temperature of 32 F for the next 14 days.
Only Americans use the antiquated F scale. In Europe, please refer to Celsius.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 7 2023 7:05 utc | 134
In this case, it is a simple conversion.
32F = 0C = freezing point of water
Perhaps you could provide a link to a weather site that uses C.
In the meantime, 1°C = 1.8°F
So °C = (°F – 32) ÷ 1.8
or °F = (°C x 1.8) + 32

Posted by: Mary | Jan 7 2023 9:33 utc | 142

karlof1@122
Dmitri’s statement indicates he would fit right in amongst the majority of commenters on Unz. The Evil Empire, as controlled by the Bank$ter element in City of London could be frustrating to any sane individual. The toxicity metastasizes on an accelerating basis. It is difficult to maintain balanced sanity when dealing with them and their supporters. So to ape Wee Willy Clinton’ I can feel Dmitri’s pain.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2023 9:40 utc | 144

Mary #144
Ventusky.com
you can set F or C you can switch between wind rain snow. You can set date to see ahead or run a seven day forecast video from the ‘play symbol at lower left of the calendar. Zoom in or out.
Its a goodie

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 7 2023 9:53 utc | 146

Outraged #147
Thank you and I trust you posted your comments at Weeb Union utoob channel.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 7 2023 9:56 utc | 148

downsouth@124
So. The Ukies are taking their cues from the Western militaries and are rebooting by means of reorganizational concepts. They are boasting of some 25,000 officers and cadres, to prep up some 50,000 new recruits. Although those officers and cadres have been retrained by the Brits and all; there needs to be kept in mind that those of them who have already seen combat include a huge proportion who currently suffer PTSD as the result of having been exposed to constant shelling by Russian forces.
Thus my question would be whether “upgraded” training methods would be sufficient to overcome their previous levels of psychological exhaustion. Would they actually stiffen the staying power of their teenage, elderly and female newbies, or would they continue to use them up as has been the case with the Ukies’ military commanders to date. A historical equivalent may have been Britain’s “New Army” which suffered 50,000 casualties on one day in the first Battle of the Somme on 7-1-16 when they attempted to assault German lines immediately following the most massive artillery bombardment in military history.
Wastage of “Human Resources” has been the leitmotif of Ukraine’s generals. Can some Western training at lower command levels overcome that propensity, accelerated by the ukases of the little piano-dick-tater in Kiev?

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2023 9:59 utc | 150

My question is, one year after the Russian SMO began, why the eff is the Ukrainian front line still dug in one mile outside of Donetsk? If anything screams Russian incompetence, that does.
Posted by: Rhinoskerous | Jan 7 2023 9:58 utc | 151
They have been building fortifications for 8 years there, look up Brian Berletic (The New Atlas) video, he explains everything about it there, why cant RF just run them over… basically they dug in so good you gotta clear them out slowly if you want to avoid massive losses.

Posted by: Jzo | Jan 7 2023 10:22 utc | 152

Uncle Tungsten @139
Thanks for the Weeb Union site. His postings are low-key and informative. Quite clear, in fact. He’s far superior to Dima with his wishy-washy take and his boring personna. I do still kinda like Alexander Mercuris in parts of his takes. But he does tend to be repetitive and drony. He’s fine for background sound when I’m preparing and eating breakfast…as my mornings are both turgid and mentally not up to speed. When it comes to sitting down in front of the 21″ iMac screen, however, Weeb’s presentations are quite useful and succinct.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2023 10:36 utc | 154

When it comes to overall military strategy, Moscow seems to have gotten smarter -Foreign policy
The partial mobilization of reservists that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered in September has strengthened Russian forces at the front. The bombing campaign against Ukrainian energy infrastructure that began in October is forcing Ukraine and its allies to divert resources toward the defense of the country’s energy infrastructure.And the withdrawal of Russian forces from the city of Kherson in November has saved capable units from destruction and freed them for action elsewhere.
The Attacks on Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure
The strikes against Ukraine’s electrical grid are particularly effective—and not just because they could turn the winter into a brutal struggle for survival for Ukrainian civilians. This campaign has not proved decisive so far, but like most strategic bombing campaigns, it imposes direct and indirect military costs.
Modern military systems for air defense, command and control, and intelligence gathering run on electricity, and if they cannot get it from the grid, they must get it from generators. But making that transition is not as easy as flipping a switch, and it can degrade these systems’ performance. Moreover, relying on generators places additional demands for fuel on the Ukraine’s military logistics system. The heat signatures produced by generators, meanwhile, add yet another data point that Russian intelligence can use to produce a more accurate picture of Ukrainian forces.
Russia’s bombing campaign also imposes opportunity costs: the Ukrainians must expend resources to adapt to the attacks, and already they have made defending electricity infrastructure from airstrikes a military and diplomatic priority. The country’s substantial weapons and ammunition industry depends on electricity, as does much of the rail system that moves war materiel around the country. With a damaged electricity grid, Ukraine’s soldiers and civilians will have to rely more on diesel-powered trains and diesel generators or shift to generators powered by scarce natural gas. These exigencies will divert still more fuel that could otherwise have been used for military operations, or they will simply impose more costs on Ukraine’s allies, which will need to deliver the fuel. The West is helping Ukraine repair the grid as best it can while under constant attack. But from the Russian perspective, this is good news, as the repairs consume resources that cannot be used to support fighting at the front.
The most alarming thing about Russia’s bombing campaign is that Moscow knows what it is doing. The Russians are hitting a small number of targets with relatively few weapons and producing disproportionate effects. Even though U.S. and British officials have regularly predicted that the Russian military would exhaust its supply of munitions, it has evidently
found them somewhere. 
Kherson retreat
The Russians pulled off one of the hardest military operations: retreating during a major attack without suffering the disintegration or annihilation of their forces. It was no small feat to move some 20,000 soldiers and most of their combat equipment across the Dnieper after Ukrainian forces had destroyed key bridges. And even while under intense intelligence surveillance by the West and Ukraine, they managed to maintain the element of surprise.  The Russian rear-guard units maintained a coherent defense, even though they must have known that their comrades closer to the river were escaping.
Somehow, the Russians managed to repair damaged bridges while under fire, throw up pontoon bridges, and employ ferries to get their people and equipment out, defending each avenue of escape from Ukrainian attack.
According to press reports and satellite imagery, Russian troops are digging defensive positions all along the line of contact and constructing sequential barriers of concrete obstacles and bunkers. They are also presumably seeding the ground with mines.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/27831

Posted by: Down South | Jan 7 2023 10:57 utc | 156

For every Ukrainian $1, Russia earned more than $3. The financial benefits of the Black Sea deal
The head of the Turkish Defence Ministry voiced the results of the Black Sea grain deal. According to the official, Ukraine exported 17m tonnes of grain through trade corridors.
The deal did not save Ukraine from a decline in exports – compared to 2020, grain shipments fell by 1m tonnes. In Russia, the situation is the opposite – during the same period, grain exports increased by 17m tonnes. In 2 years, Russia has increased its agricultural production by the volume that the whole black earth-rich Ukraine produces. In record 2022, Russian exports of 54m tonnes would have been impossible without the Black Sea deal.
While Ukrainian companies earned about $7bn in revenue, Russian companies earned about $23bn.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/27842

Posted by: Down South | Jan 7 2023 10:59 utc | 158

Ukrainian volunteers have voiced criticism of Zaluzhnyy, commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, over his order “not to let fighters go for treatment,” which leaves Ukrainian soldiers “rotting and waiting” for the weather. One of the volunteers reports that the AFU now has at least four brigades with tuberculosis, as soldiers are constantly being transferred from different units to be re-staffed.
Of course, the post (screenshot below) caused a flurry of outrage in the comments. People started telling similar stories, as well as adding about army fatigue and blaming Zaluzhny and the generals for everything. Also, as an example, one Ukrainian soldier shared his “sad story” of how he had been waiting for a rotation from Bakhmut but was simply manned by another unit of the 54th AFU brigade.
This once again confirms the colossal losses of the AFU in manpower and the negligent attitude of the AFU command to its “meat.” Is this Zaluzhny’s stupidity and cannibalism? No. Zaluzhny knows that new soldiers are being trained in his rear, and mobilization across Ukraine continues, so there is not much of a problem with manpower replenishment. It is inexpedient to release the sick for treatment. They will die anyway, but at the moment, because of the onslaught of Russian troops, they need to be on the front line in any condition to buy time to prepare and deliver reserves.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/27843

Posted by: Down South | Jan 7 2023 11:03 utc | 160

eing the averaged distance from the tip of the thumb to the knuckle in the human male. Thus, the ancient system is more organic, while Celsius’ system is more systematic and regular…and also more caught up in the Cartesian concept of “scientific materialism”.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 7 2023 10:24 utc | 155
I’ve had a few interactions with these children who love the metric system.
Usually find they know little about it in fact and are mainly motivated by a desire to avoid mental arithmetic.
So I try to point out them that mental arithmetic is minimised in the imperial system.
And I like to point to the Mason’s symbols incorporates a set of dividers. You can google and get heaps of hits talking about mystic meanings but the plain simple meaning is that practical tradesmen of all kinds used dividers typically.
With dividers geometry could be drawn. right angles drawn. lengths measured, transferred.
And what do dividers do? They divide into equal sections first of all and that’s what the imperial system does.
Even seamen used them in their navigation measuring distances on their charts.
In other words they are a practical measure with their roots in pragmatism, the practical world. Of humans Our world.
The metric system is not such a system. It is a mathematicians system if you like: the product of pure ‘reason’ or something. An academic mathematical search for a common denominator. Something to reduce things to something all will have in common.
The mathematicians says that will then be a great boon as it will reduce the need for calculation.
In fact computers have reduced the need for calculation.
And what the world needs is more people capable of and keen to calculate rather than fewer.
Mental agility is an asset.
The whole premise of the ‘metric is best’ platform is that it reduces the need for mental agility. This is false because 1. as said, simple dividers and the concept of division of itself eliminates much need for calculation and 2. mental agility is still required across the whole range of human enterprise.
I wonder how they’d get on these days multiplying pounds, shillings and pence?
A thing little children could do in their heads when I was young. Had to do, just to buy lollies in the shop for self and friend and check the change.

Posted by: abrogard | Jan 7 2023 11:17 utc | 162

@Mary | Jan 7 2023 9:33 utc | 144

Perhaps you could provide a link to a weather site that uses C.

All sites use C except US American ones. Please use only C in Europe.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 7 2023 11:28 utc | 164

abrogard | Jan 7 2023 11:17 utc | 164
As a German mechanic I just have to look at the measurements for plumbing ipes and threads to see that without the metric system nothing will work. A one inch pipe had in old times an inside diameter of one inch, but as the thickness´of the pipe material has been reduced, one inch pipes have a bigger inside diameter now. Any table of plubing pipes are now accompanied by metric mesurements of the the tube and the threads.

Posted by: Johannes S. Herbst | Jan 7 2023 11:37 utc | 166

@DoesItReallyMatter | Jan 7 2023 11:32 utc | 167

“Only Americans use the antiquated F scale. In Europe, please refer to Celsius.”
Seems perhaps a Parochial (narrow) view point??

Not if you read what I said. “Only Americans” os too wide, it should be “Only US americans”. The world, except US americans, uses Celsius. The US american viewpoint is the narrow one. Using F scale about temperatures in Ukraine is, shall we say, disrespectful.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 7 2023 11:50 utc | 168

TASS, Jan. 4 —
“Estonia to begin procedure of transferring frozen Russian assets to Kiev”
If Russia’s a great world power, Estonia’s ranking is?
This war is being lost. There is no such thing as half a war, especially half a long war.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Jan 7 2023 12:02 utc | 170

Posted by: Paul Damascene | Jan 7 2023 5:40 utc | 125 “What was supposed to be a quick but incomplete Russian walk over, but a crushing economic war, with an insurgency of the remaining angry young military aged males, has turned into a meat, material and money furnace for the West.”
But at a pretty small cost to the West. The estimates being thrown around for, for example, the US, its contribution is 5% of its defense budget. Given we are assured by posters here a MOA, that the stuff being sent is almost all junk from the West’s closet cleaning, it looks pretty cheap on everyone in the West’s part. Well, except Ukraine’s part as that country is being destroyed. Next up with the largest cost is Russia. Those 60,000 shells a day, all those missiles, all cost money.

Posted by: Bill Smith | Jan 7 2023 12:10 utc | 172

Norwegian | Jan 7 2023 11:50 utc | 171
“The US american viewpoint is the narrow one. Using F scale about temperatures in Ukraine is, shall we say, disrespectful.”
The Fahrenheit scale for measuring temp is not a “point of view”. It happens to be a finer gradation scale, hence more accurate when describing variable weather conditions. And describing the use of the the scale as opposed to a less accurate one “disrespectful” smacks of pure wokeism. Apparently it is all down to feelings.

Posted by: DoesItReallyMatter | Jan 7 2023 12:21 utc | 174

Posted by: daniel_s | Jan 7 2023 11:52 utc | 172
you miss the point. best you stick with your calculator I think.

Posted by: abrogard | Jan 7 2023 12:30 utc | 176

Ah, the exceptionalism of the Imperial System has manifested itself in the thread.
Very respectfully, Usamericans, eff off with your mystical numbers.

Posted by: Ricardo Ramirez | Jan 7 2023 12:53 utc | 178

Actually Fahrenheit is good if you’re used to it, because it’s got a bigger range, though I use Celsius for scientific calcs. But Celsius isn’t perfect, or Absolute Zero would be 0, not -273.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 7 2023 13:05 utc | 180

Posted by: Jzo | Jan 7 2023 10:22 utc | 154
Ukros Dug in so well in Bakhmut and Soledar? Well the Russians knew it , and should have planned better for it. Who says it was hard to get defenders out?
Heard of Tsar Bombas and Thermobaric bombs, or kinetic missiles who go down and are bunker -busters? Heard of drowning them all by filling the place with water? Or torching them all with flamethrowers of gas? All off the top of my head.
Don’t forget that for months we were told there would be cauldrons closing in that area any time soon. We were told the Russians were a manoeuvring army just waiting to draw those defenders out of their dugouts etc. Well ,why didn’t the Russians just go around Bakhmut and let the Ukro – nazis come out and chase them if they wanted to, and then the Russians could destroy them in depth? Hitler did it with the Defensive walls of France. Why wouldn’t Russia?
Why ? Who knows? Maybe the Russians wanted to not kill their “Slavic brothers” , maybe they wanted to show the ROW what nice guys they were? Maybe they wanted to meatgrind all the Ukros who supposedly love throwing themselves into the maw of the cannons to die for Cocaine and Country.
Me? What do I think? After all the evidence , and I have read and thought deeply, We are here because Russia was stupid. It went in with too few men, mostly on”contracts” of six months (how effing stupid is that !), and too afraid of Russian body-bags. You don’t fight wars like that, especially if you say it is existential for you !
Gerasimov,Shoigu and even Surovitkin are all morons , and I don’t care what people say about their brains. I see the videos of Putin declaring war and both Shoigu and Gerasimov looked like sheepish schoolboys. Neither looked determined , tough or confident to me. Surovitkin is just a chump who retreats and a no-hoper.
Sack the useless lot and put in some dynamic and smart ones .Someone like Serbia’s Mladic for instance.
As I said previously , Russia looks as if it will win the war , and lose the peace as it did in the Treaty of Berlin in 1878. All the way to Constantinople and still lost!
Russia will even lose supporters from the ROw if it doesn’t start winning battles with blood and fire. Noone in the RoW will help Russia as it is. Noone likes a loser, so if Russia wants allies who will stick their necks out for them one day, Moscow better start winning.
You’re welcome.

Posted by: Brother Ma | Jan 7 2023 13:07 utc | 182

Meanwhile, ukraines defences in Solidar are collapsing. Verified footage, geo-located, show ukraine troops high tailing out of the town. The salt mines are also being taken by the Russians.
BAKMUT NEXT…

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 7 2023 13:40 utc | 184

Those who claim Fahrenheit is a “finer gradation scale” seem unaware of the fact that Celsius is entirely capable of employing decimals. As is Fahrenheit. Both gradations are equally and infinitely fine except to those who can’t handle numbers on the right side of a decimal point.
For that matter, I’ve never encountered anyone who could feel the difference between, say, 86 and 87 degrees Fahrenheit.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 7 2023 14:04 utc | 186

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 7 2023 14:04 utc | 190
Pointing out about decimal places and non superiority of Fahrenheit scale is just oppressive and sign of white privilege. It is definitely against US curriculum and US exceptionalism.

Posted by: Abe | Jan 7 2023 14:10 utc | 188

@Brother Ma | Jan 7 2023 13:07 utc | 186

Gerasimov,Shoigu and even Surovitkin are all morons , and I don’t care what people say about their brains.

You just said something about their brains and why we should not care.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 7 2023 14:19 utc | 190

karlof1 | Jan 7 2023 5:20 utc | 122
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Thanks for Dimitri Medvedev’s statements. Yes, perhaps his tongue is loosened by spirits and partly by Spirit. Funny, apart from the martial part, his message reminds me of accounts of Jesus Christ’s words to the High Priests and Pharisees, the elite Jews of his time. No sugarcoating.
Medvedev to the US Swamp Dept, described as “primal freaks [at] the height of cynicism and the limit of moral degradation…” 
“…This is extreme cynicism in the best traditions of the Nazis. Yes, in fact, the sons of bitches who carry such nonsense are the real heirs of Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Only this stillborn delirium no longer affects anyone. And you will not get the answer to it in the office silence…
“The main gift for the New Year with ammunition of Zircon missiles went yesterday to the shores of NATO countries. 1000 km of the range of their use with hypersound in Mach 9 and the ability to use any charge with a guarantee overcome any missile defense. Let it stand about 100 miles from the shore, closer to the Potomac River. So rejoice!
It will bring to [eternal?] life anyone who poses a direct threat to Russia and our allies.
“You and your henchmen who kill our people will never be forgiven. We will speak to you in the language of force, since you do not understand otherwise. And to produce even more modern weapons. Hammer them on the Nazi carrion that you spawned in the twenty-first century. To avenge every criminal for every murdered citizen of our country.”
Yikes!

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Jan 7 2023 14:23 utc | 192

@Doug Hillman | Jan 7 2023 14:23 utc | 196
Martyanov today showed some interesting maps of how the Zircons make a geopolitical difference
Zircon And Other Military Toys.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 7 2023 14:29 utc | 194

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 7 2023 13:40 utc | 188
I hope what you say is true, however Soledar , I am told , has the largest salt cavern or natural hole in Europe , if not the world. Plenty of places to build Mariupol – like rat-nests.
Unless the Russians can kill or neutralise those Ukros ,or pretend -Ukros in Soledar/Bakmut , as I say above , it will be a long hard slog ,just as Mariupol was. If it goes like the latter, there will be no new offensive by Russia for donkey’s years. Plenty of time for the NATO-ite idle hands to do the Devil’s work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar_Salt_Mine

Posted by: Brother Ma | Jan 7 2023 14:33 utc | 196

“Martyanov today showed some interesting maps of how the Zircons make a geopolitical difference.”
Norwegian | Jan 7 2023 14:29 utc | 198
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Thank you for the link.

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Jan 7 2023 14:44 utc | 198

After sending the elderly Ukraine is now sending ever more kids, what a disgraceful/depressing end for this 💩 state. To think that in the 1960s-1970s Ukraine was more industrialized than Germany,and (despite what American anti soviet propaganda may claim) more developed than most of Europe. The USSR made one too many mistakes, first carved up Russia into statelets, including the cancer that is Ukraine (unlike China that only granted regions a certain autonomy), second, failed to denazify Galicia, that along with a series of other mistakes led to this. Even so, All this could have been avoided, if Gorbachev had been shot in 1985. Russia has been led by either naive/incompetent , corrupt or westernized traitors for over 40 years. Gorbachev and the Soviet politburo(oligarchy ) sold the country out and gave the world on a silver plate for the west to corrupt/exploit. Soviet economy (GDP ppp) had reached over 60% of america’s in the early 1970s, with a growth of 5-6% year during the 1960s . What Russia has achieved until now (other than in agriculture) is barely recovering what they once had. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 Is now richer than Russia, surpassing Russia in GDP per capita and HDI . must be humiliating for the Russians who used to look down on central Asian republics. With a declining population (needing hundred thousands of migrants just not to fall) only a miracle could turn Russia into a (economic) superpower

Posted by: Phariah | Jan 7 2023 14:52 utc | 200