dh@197
Reading entirely predictable lies written by propagandists for the British ruling class and its new masters may interest you. It doesn’t interest me.
As to contamination the Telgraph and the Tories have been contaminating the land, and much of the world, for more than two centuries.
And the worst of it is it’s completely predictable in it’s snobbery, racism, militarism, hatred of democracy and whimpering for the approval of the wealthy and powerful.
British society is dying and no newspaper is more responsible for its demise than the Telegraph.

Posted by: bevin | Jul 29 2023 1:25 utc | 203

dh@205
I’m not telling you what to read. I’m telling you that the Daily Telegraph has been the newspaper for Tories in Britain for a long time. As such those who like me have spent their lives opposing Tories are given to warning people that they are wssting their time by reading the Telegraph.
As to the “sheeple”- what a dreadful expression that is, redolent of the crassest kind of elitism and snobbery. I’m not at all surprised that you like The Telegraph it is aimed at people who think as you do.

Posted by: bevin | Jul 29 2023 2:37 utc | 205

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jul 28 2023 23:31 utc |
Sounds like low budget porn lol
Reality is budget busting horror.
Let’s pray for no more sequels.

Posted by: Archetypex | Jul 29 2023 2:56 utc | 207

Melaleuca | Jul 29 2023 3:44 utc | 209
The helicopter crash covering for losses from a secret involvement in Ukraine? I would not be at all surprised as I think that Oz is in a bit deeper there than the public thinks or even suspects.

Posted by: ZimZum | Jul 29 2023 4:06 utc | 209

Australian military helicopter crash in Queensland | 9 News Australia
Four military personnel are missing and feared dead after an Australian Army helicopter ditched into the ocean in a two helicopter exercise in North Queensland.
Chapters in this video:
0:00 Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles
4:29 Security expert, Greg Barton
8:48 Military chopper crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv4YGOFSFQ8
Heli crash has put a “hold” on the war “games”.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 29 2023 4:34 utc | 211

What would you prefer to ‘sheeple’? General reading population? I’m sure all kinds of people read the DT but I suppose they all have their own reasons. Are they influenced by what they read? No idea.
Posted by: dh | Jul 29 2023 2:52 utc | 207
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What term do you think would identify you as not superior and looking at some people with disdain?
Humans are. You have to deal with them as they are. I find it not to hard. Arrogance has some limits. MoA barflies tend to be above average civilized. This I greatly enjoy along with the output of active braincells.
Bes wishes, dh.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jul 29 2023 5:06 utc | 213

Ukraine Weekly Update: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-weekly-update
This covers issues relating to Ukraine and provides a summary of what has been happening on the Ukraine battlefields this week. It may be of interest to those who haven’t the time or the inclination to follow the conflict in depth.

Posted by: Robert Hamilton Camp | Jul 29 2023 5:34 utc | 215

@ bevin | Jul 28 2023 22:35 utc | 185
See David Wise, The Politics of Lying (1973).
But the problem is deeper and wider and coextensive with corruption, from local to State to Federal to international governance.
“All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should believed.” I. F. Stone
“Mighty Wurlitzer.” “Spin-doctors.” “We all have our public and private positions.” “We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.” Etc.

Posted by: John Kennard | Jul 29 2023 7:09 utc | 217

Sheeple’ hmmm.
Bah, ram, ewe, bah, ram, ewe, on the ‘oof or on the ‘ook, we b’aint as stupid as we look, bah, ram, ewe.’
https://farmandanimals.com/how-smart-are-sheep/
I was always taught that all information is useful in some way, and to habitually check sources, especially those that are diametrically opposed to your own, as an intellectual TERCOM exercise. I’ve gravitated over from the Left to the Right of politics as a result, but also realised that these traditional descriptors are now meaningless as the major political parties largely perform kabuki theatre, for their cooperate overlords. My views about Ukraine have undergone similar course corrections and compensatory inputs and I’m always aware that I might be flying a reciprocal flight path.

Posted by: Milites | Jul 29 2023 7:53 utc | 219

212
It might be a genuine helicopter crash, but you can always add a couple of extra ghost passengers to the casualty list… (~_^)

Posted by: scepticalSOB | Jul 29 2023 7:57 utc | 221

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jul 28 2023 23:31 utc | 193
Lol! Don’t forget with supportive roles of Annalena ‘360-degree-turn’ Baerbock and Olaf ‘liverburst’ Scholz.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jul 29 2023 8:08 utc | 223

Watching the mapping channels, every day seems like a bad day, if you are in the Ukrainian Army. Every day, on every part of the front, and beyond, the tag-line at the end is always “…and the Ukrainians took heavy losses”, whatever the location, whether they won or lost, attacked or defended, rain or shine, summer or winter.
No doubt the Russians are taking losses too, but the imbalance is I calculate about 8:1 to 10:1 in Russian favor, over the entire course of the war, and it varies little. Compared to past wars like WWII or WWI or almost any other past war where it was more like 1.25:1 (we kill 5, lose 4) for the victor, and I don’t think any war has been won by the lesser side when the ratio is greater than 3:1 or 4:1. 8:1 is a champion class statistic.
At this point, you have to ask, how long can Ukraine keep doing this. You can give Ukraine credit for being tough fighters, or slam them for being stupid for continuing on this far. But even if the available manpower pools were of equal size, they would lose.
The new NATO narrative now is “stalemate” or “frozen conflict”. At least they are bargaining their way towards acceptance of defeat, one step at a time, from “Ukraine will win” to “Ukraine may win” to now “Ukraine can’t win, but it’s a stalemate”. Still a long way to “Ukraine is losing ground” then “Ukraine has lost”, the Western MSM may never reprt the last one, they’ll just stop covering Ukraine altogether.
But what can you really say about an “Alliance” that sends 400K of their “friends” to their deaths, and 700K to be wounded, an entire nation destroyed for generations, for the sake of “Extending Russia” as the 2019 RAND report put it. While people like Lindsey Grahan and Victoria Nuland dine at fancy restaurants. Just par for the course, another day for The Imperium, I guess. And they wonder why the rest of the world outside the West’s collective bubble of delusion is seeing right through it.

Posted by: FUBAR111111 | Jul 29 2023 8:26 utc | 225

I know it’s very wrong of me and it may well make me an elitist snob but I just can’t help it.
Posted by: dh | Jul 29 2023 6:52 utc | 217
——————————————————
It’s The Gift To Be Simple,
‘Tis The Gift To Be Free,
‘Tis The Gift To Come Down
Where We Ought To Be,
And When We Find Ourselves In The Place Just Right,
‘Twill Be In The Valley Of Love And Delight.
When True Simplicity To Bow And To Bend We Shan’t Be Ashamed,
To Turn, Turn, Will Be Our Delight
Till By Turning, Turning We Come Round Right. Is Gained
Quaker Hymn, popular in America for a while. Erudition, optional.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jul 29 2023 8:54 utc | 227

Posted by: FUBAR111111 | Jul 29 2023 8:26 utc | 226
As discussed before, due to various pressures and obvious restriction the mapping channels often unwittingly misrepresent the SMO’s scope and scale, which is small compared to many previous conflicts. Although large formations are involved the frontline clashes are mainly between battalion sub-units who, although fighting short sharp actions every bit as intense as previous conflicts, are not replicating the scale and tempo of those operations. This may be the new norm for 21st Century warfare, but it means there rarely is a decisive blow delivered, due to the risks involved initiating it.
It reminds me very much of how a cat ‘plays’ with its prey before administering the final killing blow. Playing though is not accurate, the cat is testing the level of resistance in its prey, conscious that to deliver the final strike exposes it to injuries, possibly debilitating, that might lead to death. Russia could end this now, but at what cost, if she has miscalculated her opponents capabilities? So Russia continues to fight the type of war that, whilst not ideal, is the best option available to achieve her strategic goals. Something the West have under thought, beyond ‘extend Russia’ by using Ukraine, sealing the fate of hundreds of thousands of people.

Posted by: Milites | Jul 29 2023 9:28 utc | 229

Posted by: ZimZum | Jul 29 2023 4:06 utc | 210
Good call.
About all the ongoing arrest of Russian war bloggers, Simplicius has shared a Russian view of these schizopatriots. As always worth reading.

Posted by: Suresh | Jul 29 2023 10:14 utc | 231

@scepticalSOB, §221:
Yes, the DT was at least renowned for presenting debate by means of allowing opposing platforms, even if they made clear their own editorial view. As you say, they´ve done this on most topics, from corona to climate change.
The marked departure from this good sense in their coverage of the Ukraine war they will, I think, come to regret – because, with Kemp, de B-G, et al. they will look so foolish, hidebound and intolerant that it will destroy what was left of their reputation. Tobias Ellwood´s 77th doesn´t even allow criticism in comments.
How the mighty are fallen! DT was the last man standing of what was once a valuable British institution: a free press.

Posted by: John Marks | Jul 29 2023 10:16 utc | 233

qparker | Jul 29 2023 8:53 utc | 227
I stopped reading here: “ Can Russia, its oil-driven economy still largely unhurt by sanctions, resurrect rusty stockpiles of Soviet weapons and buy new technology from Iran, faster than the West can arm Ukraine?”

Posted by: scc | Jul 29 2023 10:51 utc | 235

Vladislav, ‎hi!
All from that same forum of veterans ‎West ‎Point ‎Academy, ‎my ‎brother ‎pulled out a letter from one of the ‎forumanchans‎, which ‎ I posted an error in open access, but then I caught myself and lost it. Well, very interesting!
In the course of which the Ukrainians will inflict a serious military defeat on the Russians, they turned out to be untenable. The offensive has stuck in the Russian security zone, and for five weeks already the Ukrainians can’t break through even through the first line ‎Russian ‎ defense. In this case, losses in people and equipment are very large. In fact, forces for a deep breakthrough are no longer ‎left. ‎Combat efficiency of their brigades is low. ‎ The fighting efficiency of their brigades is low. ‎ The fighting efficiency of their brigades is low. ‎
In general, Ukrainians have changed a lot. If a year ago we were received with great enthusiasm and our military assistance inspired them, then today We have become cold ‎and ‎pragmatically ‎-‏ ‎consumer. The only thing we now hear is: Give us ATAKAMS, give us F-16, give us a lot of Abramsov, give us ‎we ‎shells! ‎effective. ‎It comes to the fact that, ‎on the remarks of advisers, ‎they ‎snarl ‎phrases: ‎”First, ‎go, ‎fight with the Russians, and then ‎will be teach us!”
At the same time, the level of training of the troops is constantly decreasing. Even the best ‎Ukrainian ‎brigades, which ‎a year ago ‎fought ‎successfully‎and were ‎full of ‎determination‎to defeat the Russians, ‎today ‎little than ‎differ ‎ from ordinary infantry brigades, which almost do not have heavy weapons and are equipped with all sorts of rabble, which is literally Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices ‎grab on ‎street, like ‎in ‎times of ‎centenary ‎war ‎in Europe. ‎The reason ‎-‏ ‎huge ‎losses incurred by Ukrainians ‎for these ‎months. Most of those fighting since last spring have lost from half to two thirds of their personnel, and some ‎already ‎ changed their combat strength twice. As a result, these brigades have only permanent command and control, ‎which ‎themselves‎into ‎battles ‎not ‎enter‎and ‎only ‎manage‎combat‎actions‎from‎well‎protected‎command‎points.‎This‎led‎to‎ ‎to that, ‎ that the command of the brigades has lost its sense of responsibility for its soldiers and considers them solely as expendable material for the execution of that or ‎ other task. And it only reinforces the loss.
The second factor provoking losses is the demand of the command to protect equipment. ‎ artillery go only from us. There is no rhythm in these supplies. And part of the weapons is generally weakly compensated. Especially tanks, BMP and self -propelled guns. We have they are also ‎in warehouses ‎practically ‎no! And that’s why the Ukrainian command gave the order to stop using heavy armored vehicles on the battlefield until the breakthrough of the Russian defense and go to tactics attacks by small infantry units, believing that they will exhaust the Russians and force them under the pressure of continuous attacks delay your ‎forces.‏ ‎If ‎first ‎two ‎weeks ‎such ‎tactics ‎allowed ‎APU ‎a little ‎advance,
The general mood in the Ukrainian headquarters is despondency and anger. If last autumn a fire of determination burned in the eyes of the Ukrainian generals, they developed plans for future strikes and argued ‎ how to properly storm Perekop and Sevastopol, then now days begin with reports about the lack of advancement of attacking battalions, losses ‎techniques ‎and ‎remaining ‎stocks‎shells. reliability. In frank conversations, many Ukrainian senior officers now more often admit that they do not see any prospects for a successful completion wars.‏ ‎ The only hope that, strange as it may seem, many of them have, This is the hope for direct intervention of us in this war. But, again, many people here add that this hope is like faith in Santa Claus.
Separately, it must be said, what, how, any failure, the current unsuccessful offensive, has deepened the conflict in the Ukrainian military leadership. The Commander-in-Chief Zaluzny and the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces Syrsky frankly don’t endure each other and even avoid appearing together ‎on ‎meetings . Zaluzny, who returned to service after being seriously wounded, accuses Syrsky of being unscrupulous, that he agreed to start the offensive, Although the Armed Forces of Ukraine were not yet ready for him. It was categorical demands of “Marshal Gee” ‎actually supervising the conduct of the war against Russia) and ‎Zelensky ‎his ​​‎rebroadcast many times ‎on all ‎conferences ‎with the military. The healing is simply “lucky” not to be at this time at the helm. All this deepens and our conflict Millie and Austin, who definitely don’t endure friend friend and therefore act in dissonance. If there had been agreement and understanding between them, this adventure would hardly have begun with the advent of…
(c) Vlad Shurygin
https://t.me/ramzayiegokomanda – zinc
This apparently was written several weeks ago….
Since….. The Ukies again attempted large scale actions against Russian positions with minimal advances… major losses…
My gauge of how the war is going….
Shoigu is in the DPRK attending the 70th anniversary celebration of the end of the Korean War…
Putin is in St. Petersburg, chairing the African-Russian Summit..
Prigozhin is organizing Wagner’s activities in Africa… consequence a putsch in Niger…
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Jul 29 2023 11:28 utc | 237

Stalemate means the Russian’s won’t be advancing either?
Posted by: Ed4 | Jul 29 2023 11:45 utc | 240
I see a loss desperately being painted as a stalemate all over the place in the West in an ongoing fantasy reliving the past (the Korea solution without calling it that).

Posted by: qparker | Jul 29 2023 11:53 utc | 239

@grunzt
“If you want to exempt the British from being called “sheeple” go ahead. I’m afraid I can’t offer the same service for the Germans. They believe in their lying media, and like a giant flock of sheep they followed them into making Russia their enemy, thereby inspiring similar behavior by other European states. If they were anything like thinking people, they would not buy the North Stream lies, but instead name the perpetrator and ask for consequences, and ask to shed a light on their chancellor’s role in the sabotage and its cover-up.”
Well, a lot of Germans DON’T buy the Nord Stream lies, and they DO ask for consequences, but our lying media do not report about it. They also don’t report about the many protests that take place all over the country. https://www.facebook.com/groups/4204562592914359/?locale=de_DE

Posted by: Apollyon | Jul 29 2023 12:19 utc | 241

It’s sort of important to remember that the media has by and large been captured. There is no easy way to know what protests are really happening where that are not in support of the current anti Russia hatred.
For certain, the powers that be know their case against Russia is weak..they know exactly how they have behaved. Its why they need to lie about everything.
I’m not sure if it is everywhere but the youngest generations are detectably more stupid and more compliant than those who came before.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 29 2023 13:22 utc | 243

Posted by: Milites | Jul 29 2023 10:15 utc | 233
Seems that the American and NATO brass that planned the offensive came up with a stepwise process that required the best possible outcome at every step, otherwise no success. In the real world the offensive has been mostly a succession of failures, but that hasn’t stopped the so-called leaders and planners from pressing on, now neck deep in the big muddy. Magical thinking has become its own reality.

Posted by: Mike R | Jul 29 2023 13:33 utc | 245

Mike R no. 247
Just read over at sly news that Ukranians will “soon” enter Crimea.

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Jul 29 2023 13:56 utc | 247

From Military Chronicle Telegram Channel…..
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/milchronicles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
The video of the execution of a convoy of Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicles in the Zaporozhye direction is noteworthy for several reasons at once.
Firstly, a group of Ukrainian armored vehicles is moving along a narrow security corridor, which is not completely cleared of mines. It is clearly seen how, after the start of the battle, some vehicles from the column are blown up by mines. For a breakthrough, US-made MaxxPro light armored vehicles are again used, and only two tanks are used as fire cover. This is clearly not enough to achieve fire superiority in a narrow, bottleneck-like sector of the offensive.
Secondly, the place of the battle was studied in advance by artillerymen and scouts of the RF Armed Forces. The first T-72B3 tank of the RF Armed Forces arrives at the place of arrival of the APU convoy in just a couple of minutes and starts firing on the move. This suggests that the place where the Ukrainian convoy ended up was prepared as a fire bag.
Thirdly, judging by the actions of the tank crews of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the head of the column, the Ukrainian military did not expect to meet resistance here or did not know that the firing lines of the Russian Armed Forces were located here. Ukrainian tanks do not fire, as required by the rules of battle, and for several minutes they are trying to detect a Russian tank that jumped out onto the column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine unexpectedly and right in the forehead. At this time, the crew of the Russian tank shoots the first part of the ammunition, knocks out both tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and retreats to change positions.
In addition, the Ukrainian infantry does not leave the wrecked armored vehicles and, apparently, hopes that the tanks will cover the group with fire. However, the opposite happens: the first Russian tank returns to the battlefield with reinforcements, and armored vehicles continue to destroy the UAF column at close range.
As a result of the ambush, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost eight pieces of equipment and about 50 personnel. The two Russian tanks that destroyed the column, after completing the task, calmly retreat to their original positions without damage.
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After the publication of footage of the defeat of the UAF convoy near Novodarovka in the Zaporozhye region, accusations were poured against the RF Armed Forces that the same attacks were published several times. Here’s what you need to understand about it.
Firstly, the crew of the T-72B3, who jumped onto the convoy with equipment and single-handedly shot the first two tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and several armored vehicles in a few minutes, shows an incredible level of professionalism.
It is worth recalling that the Ukrainian troops that were ambushed were equipped with modern weapons, drones for reconnaissance and received information about the movements of the Russian Armed Forces from NATO intelligence, but after the first explosions of equipment, all assistance was reset in a few minutes.
Secondly, few people noticed that the tank arrived at the place of accumulation of the Armed Forces in just two minutes, after which it began to conduct rapid fire from a prepared position. This once again confirms that the Ukrainian troops in this area were waiting and the effect of surprise was used not by the attackers, but by the defenders, which is generally surprising, given the reserve and combat capabilities accumulated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Thirdly, the absence of artillery fire in the first minutes of the battle is quite logical. Artillery fires at coordinates and works across areas, and in this case there was a risk of covering the crew of the T-72B3 tank with fire. If you watch the episode in its entirety, you can clearly see that after the crew of the tank worked and retreated under the cover of the second vehicle (it approached after the main phase of the shooting of the column), the Russian artillery finished off the damaged equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine without risk to friendly forces.
Fourthly, the accusations that the mines did half the work for the tank crew look completely ridiculous. Minefields, the work of which the Military Chronicle spoke in detailearlier, they were just invented in order to do half the work on the battlefield. It is noteworthy that their density is high even on the 55th day of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and this problem is not solved by the Ukrainian army for many reasons.
It is also important to note something else. The Ukrainian military is dying en masse on the front line without fire cover, and scarce Western equipment at this time is in hangars for security purposes, especially after the footage of the defeat of the Leopard column and the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle spread around the world media .
The loss of people of the Armed Forces of Ukraine seems to worry much less than the loss of equipment. Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles will be much more difficult to get a second time. This approach inevitably leads to the depletion of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, regardless of what type of attacks (local or brigade) are used for strikes.
Video from a different angle from Novodarovka once again confirms that the defense of the RF Armed Forces is built correctly and works.
The above describes why the Ukies have no success on the battlefield…
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Jul 29 2023 14:05 utc | 249

Ukraine has millions who can fight they have not let adult males leave the country since the war started. This war will go on for a while
They have been taken hostage and sold to the world as corrupt Nazi thieves. This is to dehumanize them so nobody cares that they die. The mojority of them are like the rest of the world and don’t want to die or fight a war.
If the west lets Russia win the rest of the world will tell us to F right off and stand up against us, they will sacrifice millions of Poles, Ukrainians, British,French and all the rest before they let this happen. Hopefully they just give the Russians and the Chinese a seat at the table before things spiral out of hand.

Posted by: OohCanada | Jul 29 2023 14:27 utc | 251

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Jul 29 2023 14:05 utc | 251
Just in time, with just enough, the workings of the correlation of forces and means engine on display. Excellent, aggressive tactics from the Russian tankers, similar to the account of the Irish mercenary, last week. Infantry not debussing, when under fire, is a clear indicator of poorly trained troops. Bottom line, armies with poor morale do not defend like this, armies with supposedly good morale do not attack like this.

Posted by: Milites | Jul 29 2023 14:57 utc | 253

Ukraine has millions who can fight they have not let adult males leave the country since the war started.

Respectfully disagree. barflies estimated a few weeks ago that roughly 12 million people live in the area controlled by NATO/Kiev. Maybe even less than 12 million, some estimates are as low as 5 million.
Approximately 10 million Ukranians citizens live in the EU+. ( half left 2014-2021 and half left after 2021). 6 million fled to RF. 7 million live in LPR, DPR, and Crimea.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 29 2023 15:36 utc | 255

@Exile
I have no Idea where you got that number from they had 40+ million people in 2020.

Posted by: OohCanada | Jul 29 2023 15:58 utc | 257

Posted by: Citan | Jul 29 2023 14:48 utc | 254

📌 Hero! Sergeant Dorzhiev unit’s was the man responsible for destroying an entire enemy convoy of 8 vehicles (2 tanks, 6 APCs).

Those Yakhuts certainly take things personally …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jul 29 2023 16:04 utc | 259

Regarding RITTER
I have been becoming more suspect of Scott Ritter’s “analyses” in the past couple of months. The inconsistencies he’s been exhibiting, from gung-ho cheerleading of Russia rolling across Ukraine one day, to subdued “explanations” about how they don’t have that capacity the next, have an odour about them which I have yet to decipher. They can’t be simply dismissed as a “mercurial personality”.
I may be quite wrong, but I detect a disingenuous element running through his various appearances. The latest conversation with Garland Nixon is a good example. There is a sense he’s “mouthpiecing” for someone in it, especially where he’s talking about the alleged “Oligarch/Haas group” negotiations after laying the groundwork that “Russia doesn’t really want Kharkiv”, etc. Its almost like he’s pushing someone’s barrow.
It can’t help but raise suspicions about the bone fides of his comments.
If we then compare it to what the Duran is saying about exactly the same thing today, one has to ask if Ritter might not be disclosing some unacknowledged interest.
I don’t know the answer – but 40 years cross-examining people tends to give one a nose for these things. Apologies to Ritter if I’m misreading this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44BHx6r4MvU (Ritter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYvqzybt5Tw (Duran)

Posted by: HOGGY | Jul 29 2023 16:14 utc | 261

@Laguerre
The majority of Ukrainian refugees that went to Russia are from the east they should not be counted twice, a lot of people moved west from the east when the war started. No males have been allowed to leave since the war started.
8-10 million refugees including the ones that fled to Russia, the 6 or 7 million in the EU are women and children they don’t even count for war numbers.
He said like 12 or even 5 million people total and you suggest I keep up? Sheesh
they can dig up 4 million healthy soldiers easily.

Posted by: OohCanada | Jul 29 2023 16:35 utc | 263

You mean the way the German soldiers entered Moscow in the summer of ‘44, I think they even had a parade.
Posted by: Milites | Jul 29 2023 14:08 utc | 252
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Precious! Much appreciated. Coffee snorting material!

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jul 29 2023 17:28 utc | 265

I have no Idea where you got that number from they had 40+ million people in 2020.
Posted by: OohCanada | Jul 29 2023 15:58 utc | 259
Apparently, you failed arithmetic….
10 Million in Eu
7 Million in Russia
10 Million in DonBas
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= 27 Million no longer under Ukie control minus 1 Million Combat dead/wounded
Gives
12 Million Remaining….
Of which the majority are female pensioners
Less male pensioners…
Less children under the age of 16
Leaves according to demographics I’ve seen ~ 50,000 males in each age group between 18 – 48 or
1 Million military aged males of which 300,000 are in uniform… leaving 700,000 to run the economy, including maintenance and repair of war materiel, and logistics.
As I reported above, Ukraine is scraping the bottom of the barrel manpower wise…
Ukraine has lost the majority of it’s junior officers and NCOs… Surviving officers lead from the rear to stay alive… Training is non-existent. Combat efficiency is zero..
Best indicator of the state of affairs….
Ukraine must rob Zaproziche Offensive to defend Oskol River…
This similar to Whermacht state of affairs in 1943 following Stalingrad debacle…
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Jul 29 2023 18:13 utc | 267

It finally happened…. Russian engineers updated their AAM software…
Crushing Failure Of Massive Strike Of Storm Shadow Missiles On Railway To Crimea
South Front, Jul 29 2023
On Jul 29, the Russian governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo declared that the air defense of the Russian Federation shot down 12 Storm Shadow missiles that attacked the railway to the Crimea. The massive attack with expensive foreign missiles aimed at destroying the railway but it failed. The local authorities confirmed some minor damage to the railway facilities by wreckage of the missiles but the Ukrainian military did not disrupt the railway traffic. The governor wrote in his Telegram channel:
Last night, the militants of the Kiev regime attempted to destroy the railway between the Kherson region and Crimea, firing 12 long-range Storm Shadow missiles. All the missiles were shot down by our air defense. In one place, the fallen fragments of expensive foreign weapons, handed over to the Kiev clique by the West for “peaceful purposes,” slightly damaged the booth of track walker and the attachment line. By the time I write these words, the damage has already been repaired by the repair team.
From now on…. Stormshadow missile attacks will increasingly prove ineffective…
BECAUSE….
Russian AAM systems now can reliably intercept/interdict them…
INDY

Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Jul 29 2023 18:24 utc | 269

@ Dr. George W Oprisko | Jul 29 2023 18:24 utc | 271
that is positive news.. thanks.. wonder how much those missiles cost? seems nato has an unlimited budget here.. no money for the people back home in the uk, unless they work in the missile plant.. everyone else gets left out..

Posted by: james | Jul 29 2023 18:48 utc | 271

Channel about the war facts “>https://t.me/battleinsightsRU
Posted by: battleinsightsRU | Jul 29 2023 19:34 utc | 279
You must be new here.

Posted by: Bemildred | Jul 29 2023 19:43 utc | 273

Zero Hedge: US Army General Dies In Plane Crash
“Potts was the only person in the single-engine plane when it went down in a field July 25.”
Or perhaps he was killed in Ukraine?

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 29 2023 19:48 utc | 275

⚡️Since June 4, Ukraine has lost 415 tanks, and 2/3 of the equipment lost in the battles is Western – Putin

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/6325

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 29 2023 20:01 utc | 277

Ritter doc on Zelensky part 1&2 also here
https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2023/07/scott-ritter-investigation-agent-zelensky-part-1/

Posted by: AG | Jul 29 2023 20:20 utc | 279

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jul 29 2023 0:34 utc | 201
It is rather uncomfortable for me to view rules of war, with war in all cases being such a deplorable activity–for people as well as their environment. But war has existed since when? Since forever. And the purpose always is a destruction of environment, lives, and even whole civilizations.
But sure, let’s have rules, and since they will still be broken, then let us have a penalty of stopping all war! Oh wait, we tried that last century and it failed, quickly.
War is about population reduction, always. This war, following the COVID population reduction, should not surprise anyone.

Posted by: HelenB | Jul 29 2023 22:50 utc | 281

Scott Ritter and other military analysts periodically modify their predictions because they overestimated the intelligence and underestimated the corrupt Western decision makers willingness to protect their money laundering operations to the last drop of Ukrainian blood.
Posted by: Willow | Jul 29 2023 19:35 utc | 280
Scott Ritter and other military analysts to my mind – untutored observer seeking facts and understanding – analyse nothing. Not reliable ‘take to the bank’ analysis. They simply mouth the same attitude for well over a year now. Without ‘analysis’. It’s just an overall observation. It’s merely their opinion.
For the whole of this year Ukraine has been ‘on its knees’, so to speak, if you believe what these ‘analysts’ are telling. But to this very day they mount attacks up and down the line and people claiming to know things argue about what resources they may have available: i.e. nothing is known for sure.
Vast areas of the military scene are unreported by them: un-‘analysed’. The internal state of the Russian army for instance, from top down, all throughout, the radical surgery that was required to whip it into shape.
Tactics ignored: how did Wagner achieve such success?
Nature of war ignored: completely different warfare when drones can see you, target you, even attack you at any time. When night is even clearer than day for some purposes. ‘Analysed’ by them? Ignored.
Fundamental military realities ignored together with commensurate contradictions in their pronunciations. Like Ritter has from the beginning constantly reiterated with some passion that when ‘they meet the Russian army’ then ‘all hell will break loose’. That all the Kiev Ukrainians have met so far (going back to ’22) is Donbas ‘militia’ but when they meet the ‘real’ soldiers of the mighty Russian army well then it’ll be an enormously different story.
Bunk. Rubbish.
But that bunkum predicted massive ‘Russian’ overwhelming surges across the nation. Why? Where’s the ‘military analysis’ in that? What purpose for a military attack all across the Ukraine? Where is the measure of the logistic support required, the manpower required, the materiel ? Nowhere, nothing. Just an off-the-cuff childish prediction of ‘superman meet evil baddie and powers through’.
What benefit to Russia to occupy and have to administer and hold thousands of square miles of hostile countryside? Where’s the ‘military analysis’ in that?
‘military analysis’ predicates some acumen, some keen ability to detect nuance and detail. On the macroscopic and the microscopic. It predicates above average ability. Awareness. Awareness of all pertinent aspects.
What’s THE most notable aspect of this war? That is it is a PR war. Many people say that. It is no secret as an idea and it is not wrong. Clearly it is a PR war. The USA, the world’s most notable outlaw nation, master of PR, is labelling Russia a ‘evil’. More than that: it labels outlaw Kiev Ukraine as ‘Ukraine’ and completely ignores the 10 million Donbas Ukrainians that Kiev seeks to victimise, whose land it invaded and still occupies, whom it intends to ‘ethnic cleanse’ for the ‘crime’ of Russian heritage.
A PR victory that should go down in the annals for all time.
Like the religious say in their books about the devil – something about his most effective trick being to convince you he’s an angel.
Well that’s what we have here. Clear as day. Okay?
So what’s going on when these ‘military analysts’ use the language of the Americans and call ‘Kiev Ukraine’ Ukraine? As though Kiev Ukraine were the whole of Ukraine? As though Donbas Ukraine and Ukrainians do not exist nor ever did? As though the whole reason for the war doesn’t exist?
What is that? Keenly aware detailed military analysis or simply lazy facile mimicry of prevailing American propaganda?
The military analysts that I, at least, want I can only seem to get from Russian sources. Not truly technically ‘military analysis’ but information of an about the military that allows me to know more and think for myself on what might be the case. So, reading komsomolskaya pravda for instance and substack slavsquat and roloslavsky and checking russian telegram (and kiev ukrainian) gives me far more than any of our ‘military analysts’ do.

Posted by: arthur brogard | Jul 29 2023 23:27 utc | 283

Arthur, good for you. I seems that you have found places to meet some of your needs.
Your criticism directed to these pages reflect your needs and likely not many of ours. To what benefit do you offer your criticism?
I, myself enjoy a large number of authors here, our host included, a former tanker. I especially enjoy detailed comments from those with land warfare experience, including detailed historical and military historical knowledge. Adding that the economic and geopolitical insights from many others scattered across a number of continents I find most valuable.
There are also authors here with detailed knowledge of the various war toys and their uses. Best wishes.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jul 29 2023 23:39 utc | 285

@Ed | Jul 29 2023 23:28 utc | 292
These missiles were not aimed at the Kerch bridge, but on the railway between Crimea and Kherson according to TASS.

Posted by: OttoE | Jul 29 2023 23:59 utc | 287

anon2020 | Jul 29 2023 19:44 utc | 282
The ability to fire over longer ranges to evade counter-fire and to fire from unmanned platforms / positions is also something that artillery rockets are well suited to.
True, but somehow I think that RF doesn’t throw the ‘bestest’ weaponry on Ukrainians, as yet.
Reactive artillery is really very expensive and anything that is ‘intelligent’, even a little, is not cheap.
Soviets have studied dumb munition well, and they know distribution of impact points, do have diagrams of effective damage area, and certainly know their shell layouts.
So. in theory and in practice dumb can do well. if calculated very precise and fired from a stable launch platform. Soviet/RF stuff is very stable and it doesn’t wobble like HIMARS, as that miraculous waffe cannot fire salvos of dumb rockets, nowhere near precise, as RF’s stuff. Scatter is too big to even try, I think fire and impact distribution from 300 up to 600+ m at the standard distance of 50 or so km. That is a big miss in ballistics, and the USA calls it, not out of the blue, ‘a danger close’.
All MRLS small, medium and heavy can be networked and operated by a very small crew. There are also programmable, as in sequences and a fire order on 3 presets. Intern (which tube fires when) and external (which platform fires first or next or all together), they also have patterns, or ammo type sort, etc. Very devastating, but used very little as a combination, so far.
Saving fancy salvos for NATO? Perhaps.
But, indeed, smaller reactive caliber might be even more precise and perhaps cheaply redone to be guided.
We’ll see how the optoelectrical industry moves on. Whole lotta innovation happens right now.
I mean RF is still firing Krasnopol from 1993. Russia also offloads its old stuff.

Posted by: whirlX | Jul 30 2023 0:27 utc | 289

psychohistorian | Jul 30 2023 0:40 utc | 299
Petty is as petty does.
If G7 can’t BRICS, then the U$ is now thwarting China being represented at ASEAN.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 30 2023 1:09 utc | 291

@Posted by: arthur brogard | Jul 29 2023 23:27 utc | 291

So, reading komsomolskaya pravda for instance and substack slavsquat and roloslavsky and checking russian telegram (and kiev ukrainian) gives me far more than any of our ‘military analysts’ do.

Slavsquat is a Riley Waggaman. Enough sad.

Posted by: 2+2=5 | Jul 30 2023 1:23 utc | 293

More info on the downed/drowned heli in Queensland.
Wreck has been found and recovery underway.
4 ADF were based at Holsworthy, Sydney.
>>>… A Black Hawk was also involved in the training exercise.
[that was omitted in the first ?70+ (§) “breaking” news bulletins….]
…> The Taipan helis have proven so unreliable they are scheduled to be decommissioned in 2024…..
[Wait. What? / Why haven’t they been sent to Ukraine already??… ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CYsIduNfjU&list=RDNSHBiG_YtqhoE&index=11

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 30 2023 2:44 utc | 295

Regarding the speculation of Poland getting involved there is the following sub heading from Reuters

More Wagner fighters move closer to Polish border, Poland PM says

Is Poland ready to take on Wagner?
Would the proxy of the proxy take place in Poland, Belarus or Ukraine?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 30 2023 5:37 utc | 297

Does anyone know why the latest Judging Freedom YouTube video with Scott Ritter is blocked to anyone not logged in, on age-restriction grounds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR294YJmGeM
Also, are there any other platforms that host this content (Rumble, etc.)?

Posted by: tawharanui | Jul 30 2023 5:50 utc | 299