Russian brigade defense doctrine uses so-called “pre front ” or vanguard detachment. Pre-front detachment is a reinforcement infantry platoon to company size. The platoon is reinforced with the ATGM squad, HMG squad, and/or 60 mm mortar squad. It is placed 1, 5 to 2 km in front of the first brigade defense line. Its main task is to force advancing enemy units to premature development in full assault combat order before they approach the brigade’s first defense line. After that happens the detachment withdraws to the brigade reserves, resupply with fuel and ammo, and waits for a new assignment. That is the reason why we have seen the Russians moving back and forth on the battlefield so far.

Posted by: Stefan Cristian Gavr | Jun 17 2023 15:55 utc | 103

@94 wayinnorway
I think this is unfair to scorpion who does post thoughtful, if long, comments.
I am actually in agreement that there is no unified, outward-facing stances of nations, even in full-blown hot-war situations.
Do you think Germany’s elites were all onboard with the idea to put Lenin in that train car with millions of reichsmarks?
Or do you think that in any country there are those that employ dirty tactics, i.e. psyops and infowars, that can be suspected by nationalist rank-and-file to garner blowback? IOW, there are some that push it too far, that cross red-lines, that unleash pandora’s box, even tbough there may be a more sensible approach being peddled down the ranks a few rungs.
Scorpion, like myself, is afraid that the globalist genie is completely out of the bottle. What does tbis mean and why do we fear it? It is because the nation is the only mechanism in geopolitics that is capable of providing identity. It is a way to be sure that the future is bright and that toil has purpose. If you think that you are viewing something that is not giving you the full story, that rubs you the wrong way, it is a difficult feeling to square as you go about your life.
In America this phenomenon is incredibly pronounced and at its most acute point in history. It is peak globalism. And what is globalism but the destruction of the Christian mind and the complete return to and its tribal sacrificimg rituals that Christianity rightfully usurped.
Lately I have been reading Rene Girard and have been blown away by his anthropoligical defense of Christianity as the greatest myth to surmount and supplant all those that came before it.
Check this essay out if you want to get a good feeling for his thought.
But suffice to say, I can’t breathe relief until I know the Talmudic influence that seeks the destruction of Christianity has been relegated back to its rightful position…underneath the triumphant Jesus Christ.
Are the Chinese asking themselves right now who they would rather do business with…the “Jews” or the Christians? I would say emphatically yes, because the devil is always nipping at our heels.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jun 17 2023 18:00 utc | 105

Scorpion, like myself, is afraid that the globalist genie is completely out of the bottle. What does tbis mean and why do we fear it? It is because the nation is the only mechanism in geopolitics that is capable of providing identity
Are the Chinese asking themselves right now who they would rather do business with…the “Jews” or the Christians?
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jun 17 2023 18:00 utc | 105
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Why dont you ask the ROW, aka the jungle ?
https://i0.wp.com/multipolarista.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/UN-vote-West-economic-order.jpg?resize=600%2C337&ssl=1
Most countries on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to support a call for a new international economic order that is based on sovereign equality and cooperation, that rejects unilateral sanctions and advocates for debt relief for the Global South.
The only countries that opposed this widely popular proposal were the xtian garden
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Courtesy of …
geopoliticaleconomy.com

Posted by: denk | Jun 17 2023 18:57 utc | 107

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jun 17 2023 18:59 utc | 108
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The jews, the gawd damned Jews..
West vs the rest:
World opposes sanctions, only U.S. & Europe support them
https://mronline.org/2023/04/09/west-vs-the-rest/

Posted by: denk | Jun 17 2023 19:15 utc | 109

@94 wayinnorway
I think this is unfair…
…underneath the triumphant Jesus Christ.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jun 17 2023 18:00 utc | 105
– You might consider pasting the whole date/time line so you don’t get the name wrong.
– What’s unfair?
– If your answer is based on your religious beliefs it will be wasted on me. Mr. Hitchen’s
is but a teeny part of the reason why I say that, but since you are Catholic and started up with them
I’ll offer this 15 minutes of his thoughts: Hitch

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jun 17 2023 19:57 utc | 111

The high profile meeting Xi Jinping-Bill Gates is puzzling to me, to put it generously. Gates is widely detested figure for good reason. What are the positive results of his many engagements via his Foundation and other vehicles? I don’t know of any.
Yet, according to the Global Times: Xi applauded Gates and the Gates Foundation for their long-term work to promote poverty reduction, health, development and philanthropy around the world, vowing that China will continue to strengthen cooperation with the Gates Foundation in relevant fields, and will provide support and assistance to other developing countries within its capacity.
This is one of the reasons I have reservations about China and where it is heading.
On another, sad, note – Daniel Elsberg has died. We all owe him for his lifelong, unflinching commitment to the truth in public affairs. What a man!

Posted by: JB | Jun 17 2023 20:23 utc | 113

@ karlof1 | Jun 17 2023 20:39 utc | 114
Thanks for bringing this up.
China has plenty of soft power over Taiwan, but not only.
As I understand China, it really plays a fair and a just game, so far.
Xi has made it so. US is just not lucky having Xi leading China.
achieving national rejuvenation.
What you emphasize here is something that is really needed everywhere,
but in a Chinese context, I am not sure whether I understand fully why that might be an issue? Is China not reformed enough and kind of fresh powerhouse?
Or he intends to rejuvenate (and consolidate) China only when Taiwan comes back?
I mean, it should be some needed change of a various polital-economical contracts between the two there very soon, right?

Posted by: whirlX | Jun 17 2023 21:25 utc | 115

Taiwan’s Status Is a Geopolitical Absurdity
Taiwan is a main island and some smaller ones posing as a country.
It’s down to thirteen countries which recognize Taiwan as the Republic of China
>Pacific – 4 – Marshall Islands, Republic of Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu
>Africa – 1 – Eswatini (Swaziland)
>Europe – 1 – Holy See
>Latin America and Caribbean – 7 – Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Paraguay, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines
So why is the US going nuts over a country it doesn’t recognize? Certainly the average American citizen, if informed, wouldn’t stand for crooked congress-critters expounding over the Chinese Communist Party” — China doesn’t even exist to them, but Taiwan does. The fix is in!

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jun 17 2023 22:05 utc | 117

ZH has a posting up with the title
Biden Baffles US Audience, Closing Speech With ‘God Save The Queen’
The quote

“God save the queen” is an expression of British patriotism. Perhaps the next edition of Biden’s presidential daily briefing should include a refresher on the fact that Americans declared independence from British royals almost 247 years ago. Briefers might also remind him that, with Queen Elizabeth’s death nine months ago, the expression has toggled to “God save the king.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 18 2023 2:24 utc | 119

@ karlof1 | Jun 16 2023 15:59 utc | 68
Why did president Xi Jinping personally met Bill Gates like a peer, just a mega billionaire that mostly costs China contrary to an Elon Musk who can earn for China?
The soft power of the WEF or Bill’s own WHO?
A birthday visit from an old friend? Ah to have Gates, Dimon etc. opposite to the US MICIMATT away from the CCP.
Bring Microsoft’s AI development home to the CCP?
Two peas in the total control pod. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_FrqlyNi8

Posted by: Antonym | Jun 18 2023 4:23 utc | 121

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jun 17 2023 18:00 utc | 105
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What you’r seeing is not the real west, this is not the xtian way, its the Jew way.

Yeah, gawd’s army dragged screaming and kicking all the way to their land grabbing wars.
Exhibit C
The xtian way,
WHITE MAN BURDEN,
Pres. William McKinley

…there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all (all of Spain’s possessions) and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men for whom Christ also died.”

Sen. Albert Beveridge

“We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world,” “Where shall we turn for consumers of our surplus? Georgraphy answers the question. China is our natural customer….The Philippines give us a base at the door of all the East.”

https://www.countercurrents.org/us-cox240107.htm
Where it all started..
From 11C
England ===> Wales, Ireland. , Scotland, India, , Canada, Oz, US ===> Hawaii, Puerto Rico, GUam, Philippines, Diego Garcia, Marshall Island, OKinawa, Jeju, Falkland, ………….
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Posted by: denk | Jun 18 2023 14:55 utc | 123

Posted by: Bemildred | Jun 18 2023 15:21 utc | 125
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White man burden aint the elites prerogative, its an intrinsic garden value.
Hence while their dear leaders spend their day job hr messing up the ROW, ..
The plebs do their bit running the world themselves,..
White man dragged screaming and kicking [by the jews ? ] all the way to Beijing…to protest the ‘genocide Olympic’ and ‘one child policy’ [sic]
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China Opens ‘Sky Train’ To Tibet
JULY 1, 2006
But activists complain the railway will bring an influx of Chinese migrants, damaging Tibet’s fragile ecology and diluting its unique Buddhist society. They say most of its economic benefits will go to migrants from the east.
On Friday, three women from the United States, Canada and Britain were detained after unfurling a banner at Beijing’s main train station reading, “China’s Tibet Railway, Designed to Destroy.”
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Olympics 2008
Olympics: Britons and Americans held over Tibet protests
Four protesters including two Britons have been detained in the Chinese
capital after hanging Free Tibet banners close to the main Bird’s Nest stadium.
The demonstration underlined the clash between competing views of the Olympics in Beijing, as thousands of euphoric spectators cheered the arrival of the torch in Tiananmen Square while foreign activists launched a series of small protests around the city.
US and British campaigners scored a publicity coup by climbing electricity poles at dawn and unfurling outlawed Tibetan flags and banners with Free Tibet slogans in Chinese and English. Their protest took place just outside the Bird’s Nest, where the opening ceremony will take place on Friday.
“We’ve done this action today to highlight the Chinese government’s use of the Beijing Olympics as a propaganda tool to whitewash their human rights mobile phone conversation posted on the internet,” said Iain Thom, one of the protesters, in a recorded mobile phone conversation posted on the internet.
The state news agency Xinhua said police ended the protest in 12 minutes, while Students for a Free Tibet said they were there for an hour before security officers led them away peacefully. The group said Thom, 24, was from Scotland while another protester, Lucy Marion, 23, was from England.
In a separate incident, a European activist arranged the screening of a film about Tibetan views of the Olympics in Beijing. It was halted when his hotel asked reporters to leave, but public security officials waiting at the venue did not intervene directly or approach the man when he left the building.
The Tibet issue has dogged the Olympics since March’s violent riots in Lhasa and wider protests across Tibetan areas led to a security clampdown. Activists responded with demonstrations along the international leg of the torch relay, in turn sparking anger among the Chinese and making them all the keener to focus on celebrations as the flame returned to the capital.
Other protests today included a low-key demonstration by three Americans who stood in Tiananmen Square – well after the torch had passed through – to shout a denunciation of China’s population control policies. Police allowed them to leave the area after questioning them briefly.
Journalists received messages summoning them to two hotel rooms in Beijing containing dummies splattered with red paint. The walls had been defaced with slogans including: “One World, Our Nightmare” – a play on the Olympic “One World, One Dream” message – and a list of jailed dissidents. It was not clear who carried out the protest.
The US swimmer Amanda Beard, an Athens 2004 gold medallist, unveiled an anti-fur advert outside the Olympic village after the authorities prevented her from her staging a news conference in a hotel for “safety” reasons.
The government has designated zones for protest in parks around the city, but human rights campaigners warn that Chinese citizens will be deterred from taking part by the fear of reprisals and several groups have already been denied permits.
Other activists have been unable to enter the country. Team Darfur, a coalition of athletes seeking to draw attention to the conflict in Sudan, said that Beijing yesterday revoked the visa of its co-founder and Olympic gold medallist Joey Cheek.
He called the decision “part of a systemic effort by the Chinese government to coerce and threaten athletes who are speaking out on behalf of the innocent people of Darfur”.
Activists argue China has the greatest leverage of any nation over Khartoum because of its oil purchases from and arms sales to the government. Emmanuelle Moreau, an International Olympic Committee spokeswoman, said organisers should expect people to use the platform of the Olympics to draw attention to their causes.
She said: “The IOC are confident Beijing city authorities will assess the situation reasonably and act with tact and understanding.”
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Olympic games: Climbers held over Tibet banner protest in Beijing
This article is more than 13 years old
Activists scale Chinese state television building to unveil banner reading ‘Free Tibet’ in latest protest over human rights record
Pro Tibet activists unfurl a “Free Tibet” banner
Jonathan Haynes and agencies
Fri 15 Aug 2008 03.00 BST
Five people have been detained by police at the Olympics games in Beijing today after unfurling a banner in protest at China’s human rights record in Tibet.
Briton Philip Kirk, 24, from St Albans, Hertfordshire, and Australian-Canadian Nicole Rycroft, 41, climbed up the back of one of the large Olympics billboards sited outside China’s state television news headquarters and rappelled down the billboard’s front after unrolling the banner.
Han Shan, Olympics campaign coordinator for campaign group Students for Free Tibet, said the banner read “Free Tibet” in English and Chinese.
Three other protesters were also detained as they watched the climbers in action. Shan named the three as Americans Bianca Bockman, 27, from Hoboken, New Jersey, Sam Maron, 22, from New York and Kelly Osbourne and said were acting as support and to ensure the safety of the climbers.
The pair hung their banner over an Olympics billboard with the slogan “Beijing 2008” at 5.45am local time.
The group was arrested around half an hour after the climbers were first spotted by security officials.
The building, which consists of two L-shaped high-rise towers linked at the top and the bottom, is the new headquarters of China’s state television service and was completed just before the start of the games.
Shan said Kirk, who had attended Swansea Metropolitan University, was an avid climber who worked in a climbing shop and also a photographer who had been an active member of the organisation for a number of years.
Tenzin Dorjee, deputy director of Students for a Free Tibet UK, said the organisation was “working closely” with the arrested activists. It was not clear where they were being held.
Today’s protest is the latest in a series of protests in the capital over alleged human rights abuses by the Chinese in Tibet. Last week two British Free Tibet campaigners – Iain Thom, 24, from Edinburgh, and Lucy Fairbrother, 23 – were deported after unfurling a 140-square-foot banner reading “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet” in Beijing.
• This article was amended on Saturday 18 April 2009. A news story published during the Olympics in China reported that two protesters had abseiled down the China Central Television building in Beijing and had unfurled a banner, which said “Free Tibet” in Chinese and English. This is incorrect. Two campaigners, Philip Kirk and Nicole Rycroft, climbed up the back of one of the large Olympics billboards sited outside China’s state television news headquarters and rappelled down the billboard’s front after unrolling the banner. This has been corrected.
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Sorry for the long text, no more links !

Posted by: denk | Jun 18 2023 16:36 utc | 125

Solution? Hey, lets go find some more natives, and they are still looking and building forts. The Europeans have tended to like this solution too, but it is just not working like it used to.
Posted by: Bemildred | Jun 18 2023 15:21 utc | 125
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Yes, building forts , expanding garden domain into ROW ,all the while fretting about an ‘encroaching jungle’ !
The following are all veritable paradise on earth, UNESCO certified world natural treasures.
Diego Garcia
Marshall island
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Ryukyu
Guam
Jeju
Vieques
All have been turned into ugly concrete STRUCtures to accommodate USAss WMD, resulting in eco disasters !
while the plebs flew 10000 miles away to Beijing to protest the ‘genocide railwaY to tibet’ !!!

Posted by: denk | Jun 18 2023 17:30 utc | 127

Posted by: Bemildred | Jun 18 2023 17:42 utc | 129
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At least you cant fault the USN for their good taste, those are all UNESCO CERTIFIED PARADISE ON EARTH,
Exhibit A
Diego Garcia
‘the US navy describes the living conditions as so outstanding that they are “unbelievable”. [sic]
[While the Chagosians are languishing in
ghettos far away from home.]
Courtesy Pilger
Paradise Cleansed

Posted by: denk | Jun 18 2023 17:58 utc | 129

“Believing China wants to take over your country so it can have control over a bunch of random white people
is as dumb and egocentric as believing space aliens would fly across the galaxy to stick probes in your butt.” – Caitlin Johnstone
“With China I simply apply the same scrutiny of establishment narratives using the exact same standards I apply
to narratives about other nations, and people are like ‘Oh no Caitlin don’t do that with China, just believe what
you’re told’. Kiss my ass you brainwashed morons.” – Caitlin Johnstone
For most of recorded history China has been the centre or the fulcrum of world population and society. One would
not know that from any history classes or books and other media in the West. …despite the fact that Europe was an
insignificant population of nut and berry eaters on the Eurasian peninsula until about 1600.
– T.P. Wilkinson https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/re-orientation/

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jun 18 2023 18:40 utc | 131

@ karlof1 | Jun 17 2023 22:31 utc | 119
Thanks a lot for the guidance on China.
Didn’t know it reaches that far in the past – ‘rejuvenation’ sounds very Marxist, and I thought it has to do with ‘one child policy’ to where it would somehow conflict. A bit clearer now. Much obliged.

Posted by: whirlX | Jun 18 2023 19:11 utc | 133

Calling it a day.
good night/day !
Posted by: denk | Jun 18 2023 19:33 utc | 135
A pleasure.

Posted by: Bemildred | Jun 18 2023 23:27 utc | 135