Arestovich dropping more truth bombs.
https://twitter.com/simpatico771/status/1729928113318940758
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2023 0:00 utc | 62
Very good for a tangencial analysis, in both cases I’ll use the percentual duration months from start as a proxy for country population and war duration, next apply ratios to army and KIA (WWI ratios for mobilization and KIA)
The french soldier’s mutiny in may 1917, in a 51 month war.
with 21 months instead of 33 we’re at the 63% level
That gives Ukraine starting population 24.500.000, total mobilization till the end 5.000.000, UAF KIA till the end, 820.000, end of war mid October 2024
But if I take the german protests in january 1918 the scenario is slightly different.
That gives Ukraine starting population 33.500.000, total mobilization till the end 6.700.000, UAF KIA till the end, 1.050.000, end of war early may 2024
Truth is this last one is a bit of a stretch as refuseniks is not population protests, but I always like to have upper and lower bounds. If the upper but crossing events, in 5 months huge protests in kiev so early may 2024 will always be interesting, either end of war or the protests that announce it in less than 6 months.
So my previous proposal for end of war of this Christmas (with a massive offensive) or 2025 (by sheer termination of all front line soldiers) is not in line with this analysis unless we consider that some months before all available soldiers are killed anybody quits.

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 30 2023 12:21 utc | 103

@Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 30 2023 12:02 utc | 102
And how to explain Putin´s really kind and friend like condolences message to his widow?
There are two things that haunt me and contradict in my reasoning that Putin, as he stated in the “All Russian People Congress”, asures “he is not only liberating Russia, but the whole world”…One is his continuos praising of Kissinger, to the extent of having awarded him even a prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences; the other is that he has trusted the whole development of the digital web which will enclose the Russian people in a panopticon of full vigilance to a former Davos prominent member, Herman Greff….
Kissinger asured, through magnicide, and installing foreign agents in charge after Franco´s death, getting with US military bases in Spanish soil, that Spain would never know “democracy”, less “socialism”, nor anything remotely similar in its whole life, but instead a corporatocracy which has brought us here and indebted such a rich country to estratospheric limits so that to keep it under the US Corporation´s boot, walking back through all these decades, from one of the msot developed countries to underdevelopment and a full colony state.
The same has been done to the whole HispanAmerica, where tones of blood, competing with the ongoing carnage in Palestine, were spilled for this same outcome.
Why Putin finds all this worthy of praise, while aspiring to become the best partner of whole HispanAmerica, is beyond me, unless what some fear and suspect, that he is all the way collaboraring with the Davos´ NWO, is true.
This is how the #USA threatened SPAIN with taking the #CANARY ISLANDS from us if we did not join #NATO [The #CIA in Spain I]
https://youtu.be/tk3vlueyRpQ?si=MCVp89Q5mfQJtSRD
King #JUANCARLOS of #BORBÓN was a US SPY – [The CIA in Spain II]
https://youtu.be/SQ_Sk8jHEYo?si=w19ZIKYbJFw6rLBT
The TRUTH about the Attack against #CARRREROBLANCO
https://youtu.be/Iu82pc4Y-rI?si=xZZ7WTnicM6JnLMG

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Nov 30 2023 12:36 utc | 105

Just a small clarification on 103
When I mention mobilized it only translates to a lower number of front line soldiers (reasonably soldier grade, but only barely)
5.000-> 2.400
6.700-> 3.100
The later seems a bit high but both are within the numbers of what I repeatedly assessed as meat that AFU could throw into the fray.

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 30 2023 13:09 utc | 107

Re: Posted by: anon2020 | Nov 30 2023 13:23 utc | 107

At the same time, rumors spread in the media that it was the British who were actively pushing the authorities in Chisinau towards a forceful scenario.
📌Today also opened a two-day session of the OSCE Council of Ministers in Skopje, to which Moldovan Foreign Minister Nikolai Popescu is going with the main thesis: the demand to withdraw Russian peacekeepers from Transnistria, whose presence Maia Sandu’s team now calls “illegal.”
As we have noted more than once before, soon the Transnistrian issue may unexpectedly become one of the main ones on the agenda.
#Great Britain #Moldova #Transnistria
@rybar

If anything should happen to Transnistria in terms of an attack – the Russians have only themselves to blame.
Russia has had 18 months to create a landbridge to Transnistria and to safeguard that territory.
What the heck are they waiting for?
The stories of Ukraine’s imminent collapse mean this should be a piece of cake – but it obviously isn’t – and it isn’t going to happen anytime soon either – despite some here still calling for a Ukrainian collapse by Christmas!
You are kidding yourself.

Posted by: Julian | Nov 30 2023 13:38 utc | 109

Notice how Russia consistently benefits from the West’s mistakes. They have no need to force an error.
Posted by: too scents | Nov 30 2023 13:44 utc | 110
Yes, the very definition of fools, they harm themselves, they harm their friends, while trying to harm their enemies.
Doing nothing is still much better than having their help.

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 30 2023 13:47 utc | 111

Vragtes 93: What a big heart our mass media has for mass murderers, if only they murdered on the right side.

Posted by: Oliver Krug | Nov 30 2023 13:51 utc | 113

If anything should happen to Transnistria in terms of an attack – the Russians have only themselves to blame.
Russia has had 18 months to create a landbridge to Transnistria and to safeguard that territory.
What the heck are they waiting for?
The stories of Ukraine’s imminent collapse mean this should be a piece of cake – but it obviously isn’t – and it isn’t going to happen anytime soon either – despite some here still calling for a Ukrainian collapse by Christmas!
You are kidding yourself.
Posted by: Julian | Nov 30 2023 13:38 utc | 109
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Is this level of black-pill defeatism practiced or does it come naturally to you?
In the grown-up world, it doesn’t matter what people are calling for. That includes you.
Putin is responsible for one of the world’s great powers. Their agenda is their own, and if you’re not a highly placed Russian politician, I doubt you have much capacity to understand or judge what they are (or are not) doing.
All I know is that they have been remarkably successful thus far. In a manner that no one predicted 2 years ago.
They have re-oriented their economy, increased their military power dramatically, cleaved many of the non-patriots from the civilization, and exposed who their long-term partners are likely to be outside of the West. Tightening relations with China and several Islamic countries.
Transnistria isn’t even a line item. The closer Russia gets to an Article 5 country, the more circumspect it must be unless they plan to kick off a World War with NATO. Last time I checked, Transnistria sits inside of an Article 5 country, and even approaching the border is probably enough provocation to force the others to enter.
Which I am sure would thrill you, but will cost millions of lives and trillions in destruction.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2023 14:06 utc | 115

Re: Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2023 14:06 utc | 115

Transnistria isn’t even a line item. The closer Russia gets to an Article 5 country, the more circumspect it must be unless they plan to kick off a World War with NATO. Last time I checked, Transnistria sits inside of an Article 5 country, and even approaching the border is probably enough provocation to force the others to enter.
Which I am sure would thrill you, but will cost millions of lives and trillions in destruction.

Re: Tranistria. Check again. You obviously never checked in the first place to make such a statement.
Re: Millions of lives. No. Where do you get such a stupid idea?

Posted by: Julian | Nov 30 2023 14:49 utc | 117

Posted by: Julian | Nov 30 2023 13:38 utc | 109
Don’t jump ahead of the game. There was no actual practical opportunity to create a land bridge through Odessa earlier, but most likely, there will eventually be one as AFU is ground to dust. Avdeevka is sucking enormous amounts of stuff in it. As long as AFU doesn’t attack there, everything is fine.
And since AFU is tied up increasingly to plugging gaps which are continuously popping up along the front line they shouldn’t have realistic chances to amass a force for Transnistria. Of course, unless it’s a Nato force and mercs then it will be a different game.
Maybe the British want Moldova to shed off Transnistria and have some Nato merc force attack it. But if you look at total Ukraine, then the amount of mercenaries has plateaued sometime in the beginning of 2023 and has been falling off. IMHO the window to invade Transnistria is fading away if not completely gone since the situation for AFU won’t get any better.

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2023 15:30 utc | 119

Another additional problem is Nato is only supplying Ukraine the bare minimum anymore. It seems there is no more conviction for Ukraine, so they are giving minimal amount of stuff.
The recent interview with Arestovich confirmed it.
Since there is no conviction for Ukraine, the only new contracts can come from re-armament programs, but they are hugely costly and require to dismantle portions of existing society structures to fund them. We will see how long that will work, especially, if one reduces welfare benefits from migrants, one could have very serious state-threatening problems in their hands. Either way, it’s a spiral of poverty and more problems down the road.
Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2023 8:43 utc | 90

The so-called conviction for Ukraine was always superficial. It’s hard to unpack how Europe works, but a large part of their conviction has been rooted in an irrational fear and hatred of Russia, and this has been enabled by decades of polarization, East vs West, us vs them, implemented by US/NATO influence.
For the US, the Ukraine conviction is even more ridiculous, as the US propaganda machine would have a hard time manufacturing even a thinly credible rationale for a Russian threat. The US conviction is based mostly on a presumption that the US holds the moral high ground here. Russia bad, Ukraine good, and the US the exceptional nation that upholds fairness and freedom and metes out justice to the transgressors. Given the US history of criminal actions around the world – interference in the affairs of sovereign states, wars, assassinations, and resultant deaths and human displacement – this widely held belief that the US is some sort of Marvel comics superhero keeping the world safe is moronic nonsense. The belief by many in the US that their country somehow has the moral standing to fix anything anywhere in the world is a testament to the idiocy that is rampant here. A conviction based on a phony moral presumption can only take a country so far. Now that Ukraine is a black hole that sucks up billions of dollars with no end in sight, and it is becoming more and more apparent that Ukraine, and by extension, the US, are not ‘winning,’ the American people are losing interest. Eventually they will take down their yellow and blue flags and find another righteous cause to replace their Ukraine jones.

Posted by: Mike R | Nov 30 2023 15:41 utc | 121

Crematoriums ( Nov 29 2023 16:05 utc | 9 ):
Something like that could explain a lot but I’m kind of skeptical considering the added effort compared to …umm let’s name it “active triage”… and just leaving corpses around for nature to deal with. Not like there are many tourists and ramblers around, or civilians.
Jerr ( Nov 29 2023 20:21 utc | 43 ):
Good ideas!
· · · · · ·
On what is certainly not shovels (at least not to my mind but maybe everyone calls it that now):
In the case of the Russians what we’re talking about is MPL-50, Wikipedia has a good enough page on them. NATO armies have similar and you can find examples and pictures at the bottom of the Wikipedia; Entrenching Tool page.
They’re all fairly short, small, and light compared to ordinary spades (never mind shovels lol) because among other things you were supposed to be able to dig down while lying flat and under fire.
Don’t be distracted by any folding ability and plastics; both Russian and NATO versions can be handy melee weapons when sharpened (or blunt for that matter) if one absolutely doesn’t have anything better and perhaps more importantly if the enemy doesn’t have anything better… 😛
(We’re nearly all the way down to a sticks, stones, hammers, hairspray, biros and pencils level when talking about this, and after that there’s marbles and tins of crushed glass, rolled up magazines and whatnot… …sigh, the lengths that some Glock-haters* go to to avoid them… lol :P).
* Glock pistols not spades, didn’t know they made those spades until I saw it on the Wikipedia. Anyway it’s a “gun nut” joke for anyone who doesn’t get it.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Nov 30 2023 16:05 utc | 123

canuck
I’m pretty certain that the Iron Curtain phrase was invented by Friedrich von Gentz, who was talking about Napoleon.
I haven’t got a reference unless my memory counts.
Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2023 14:30 utc | 116
I think you may be correct.

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 16:52 utc | 125

“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.”
Winston Churchill.
Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 10:01 utc | 95.
…………………………….
Am constitutionally unable to do anything but admire a man with such eloquent wit despite the glorious ruin left in his larger-than-life Imperial wake.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 30 2023 17:00 utc | 127

My bad, I genuinely thought that Moldova was already in NATO.
That doesn’t change my point.
To date, Russia has rationalized its fight as being with the Nazi regime in Ukraine.
The minute it moves up to and annexes European territory (regardless of the local political will, it will be seen as such) that will send the Baltic states with a Russian diaspora into an uproar and give cause to a greater European intervention. And many of those Baltic states are in NATO. understand how hard it is for some people to understand that the Russians are not playing a war game.
Thank God that Russia is an ancient civilization being run by emotional adults.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2023 19:26 utc | 129

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2023 13:56 utc | 114
Yes, it was uncalled for, downright insulting. I ask for honourable(?) parliamentarians forgiveness.
Being a drunkard is not tied to nationality or persons station in society. Putin is not a drunk. Medvedev, however, is, deputy chairman or not.
BTW, is Putin the chairman of the security council? If so, that can partly explain Medvedevs actions. Any deputy chair of Putins of course has absolutely no power.
Except to tweet. Drunk.

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Nov 30 2023 19:30 utc | 131

Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President received information from the SBU about preparations for the creation of a social movement of veterans/volunteers and military personnel, the purpose of which is to protect the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Zaluzhny from attacks by politicians. On Bankova they consider this process to be political, from which Zaluzhny’s party will grow.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/20656

Posted by: Down South | Nov 30 2023 19:39 utc | 133

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.”
Winston Churchill.
Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 10:01 utc | 95.
…………………………….
Am constitutionally unable to do anything but admire a man with such eloquent wit despite the glorious ruin left in his larger-than-life Imperial wake.
Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 30 2023 17:00 utc | 127
Ha, ha we’re on the same page; my favourite Churchill witticism came late at night at a party when Lady Asquith told him :
“Winston you are drunk” Winston replied slurring,
“Yes, I am, but in the morning , madam, I will be sober, while you will still be ugly.”

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 19:48 utc | 135

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2023 19:26 utc | 129
A move by NATO against Transnistria has been on the cards since the very start of the conflict but, after some initial attempts to control the whole coast and support Transnistria directly, things have gradually slipped away as far as power projection towards Odessa and Transnistria is concerned.
The vessels of the BSF are being disabled or destroyed at a rate greatly exceeding that of repair or replacement, with no reason to suppose that won’t continue.
Those were losses in a battle for influence, I think NATO is starting to collect on the success of its own efforts to isolate Odessa and Transnistria and that, all rationalisations aside, a different military outcome would have produced a different political outcome.

Posted by: anon2020 | Nov 30 2023 20:50 utc | 137

A new report for Al Mayadeen from their Ukraine correspondent Dmitri Kovalevich.
It is well worth reading:
There can be no Presidential elections in Ukraine next March, whem they are due. The legisltive elections, due earlier this year were postponed. The country lives under martial law. All opposition is banned. Critics of the government are imprisoned without trial. The governing party are stealing as if there were no tomorrow, because there isn’t.
Such is the democracy in which NATO invests.
“….Sergei Markov, director of the Russian Institute for Political Studies, believes that the head of Zelensky’s Office, Andrei Yermak, flew to the United States in mid-November to meet with current Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and coordinate the dismissal of General Zaluzhnyi. “But not simply fire him. If Zelensky fires Zaluzhnyi… he will become a free man who will be able to run for president and win the election [in 2024] against Zelensky. The president suspects that the Americans want to replace him with Zaluzhnyi. Therefore, Zelensky must not just fire Zaluzhnyi, but repress him, accusing him of corruption or high treason. Zelensky can also appoint Zaluzhnyi to a position that prohibits him from participating in elections. This is the main problem that Zelensky is tackling”.
“According to Markov, there is a popular belief in United States governing circles that leaders in countries subordinate to the West should be periodically changed so that they do not become too independent..”
https://socialistincanada.ca/
From the sublime to the ridiculous:
Scorpion @126
your assertion that socialism always leads to fascism is repulsively false. You have not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is any relationship between these polar opposites besides the obvious one. Namely that the capitalist class, in order to protect its property interests from democracy has instituted fascist regimes (notably in Italy under Mussolini and Germany under Hitler) in order to repress socialists and to increase the exploitation of the working class.
Those are historical facts- running into such unfamiliar creatures might surprise you. Yours is the peculiar kind of moral cowardice born of bourgeois fears of equality depriving them of their prized if tiny privilege. They cannot imagine the audacity of those who dare question the verities of class exploitation and those hierarchies in which they find comfortable refuge in the middle.
Given that you share Hitler and Mussolini’s views of critics of capitalism it is hard to escape the notion that you are a fascist yourself. Or have you a nicer name for your contempt for democracy and reverence for power.

Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2023 23:10 utc | 139

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 19:48 utc | 135
and Churchill was still a mass murdering alcoholic piece of crap who resembled a bulldog. was he washed up by the time he made this witticism, or did that come later?

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 30 2023 23:21 utc | 141

The discussion of Churchill’s witticisms reminded me of a short article I read in National Lampoon back in the 70s. An internet search reveals it was called “The Churchill Wit” by Michael O’Donoghue. Some excerpts:

When the noted playwright George Bernard Shaw sent him two tickets to the opening night of his new play with a note that read: “Bring a friend, if you have one,” Churchill, not to be outdone, promptly wired back: “You and your play can go fuck yourselves.”
* * *
At an elegant dinner party, Lady Astor once leaned across the table to remark, “If you were my husband, Winston, I’d poison your coffee.”
“And if you were my wife, I’d beat the shit out of you,” came Churchill’s unhesitating retort.
* * *
Churchill was known to drain a glass or two and, after one particularly convivial evening, he chanced to encounter Miss Bessie Braddock, a Socialist member of the House of Commons, who, upon seeing his condition, said, “Winston, you’re drunk.” Mustering all his dignity, Churchill drew himself up to his full height, cocked an eyebrow and rejoined, “Shove it up your ass, you ugly cunt.”
* * *
Shortly after Churchill had grown a moustache, he was accosted by a certain young lady whose political views were in direct opposition to his own. Fancying herself something of a wag, she exclaimed, “Mr. Churchill, I care for neither your politics nor your moustache.”
Unabashed, the young statesman regarded her quietly for a moment, then wryly commented, “Suck my dick.”
* * *
Churchill was given to reading to reading in the bathtub and, while staying at the White House, he became so engrossed in an account of the Battle of Fonteney that he forgot President Roosevelt was due to drop by to discuss the upcoming conference in Yalta. At the appointed hour, the president was wheeled into Churchill’s quarters only to be informed that the prime minister had not finished bathing. Roosevelt was about to apologize for the intrusion and depart when Churchill, puffing his customary cigar, strode into the room stark naked and greeted the nonplussed world leader with a terse, “What are you staring at, homo?”

Posted by: Diet of Worms | Dec 1 2023 0:38 utc | 143

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 30 2023 16:11 utc | 124
https://t.me/dillfrash/28382
Machine translation:
A young psychologist was shot dead in the 14th ombr brigade: the militants refused to go on the attack
A resonant incident occurred near the village of Sinkovki, Kharkov region, where one of the battalions of the 14th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces makes ends meet.
At the disposal of battalion commander Major Viktor Khomyak was psychologist/political officer Natalya Lichman, who this summer received her first officer rank of lieutenant.
One of Natalya’s tasks was the psychological rehabilitation of the brigade militants who refused to storm the positions of Russian troops, as well as convincing them to return to the combat zone.
Recently, Russian troops attempted an attack on the positions of the 3rd battalion of the 14th mechanized brigade, which led to the capture of several strongholds of the unit due to the flight of Ukrainian military personnel.
Natalia emotionally tried to convince the militants to recapture their lost positions, but to no avail. It got to the point that Leachman “attacked” battalion commander Khomyak, calling him impartial words: a coward, a conscientious objector, worthless, etc.
A skirmish began, during which a shot was fired and Natalya fell dead – she was shot by battalion commander Major Khomyak. To cover up for his battalion commander, brigade commander Colonel Trubnikov “attributed” her death to artillery shelling by the Russian Armed Forces with cluster munitions.
However, Natalya Lichman’s relatives do not believe this – they demand that the prosecutor’s office conduct an investigation, and also bring Major Khomyak and Colonel Trubnikov to justice.

Posted by: Naive | Dec 1 2023 0:52 utc | 145

Some videos for today.
Russian Giatsint-B howitzer pounds enemy positions and destroys moving enemy armored vehicle near Rabotino on the Zaporozhye front:
https://rutube.ru/video/4b2260d81a7c192515b3b0c1ddb9d883/
Russian Msta-B howitzer pounds enemy troop rotation near Rabotino on the Zaporozhye front:
https://rutube.ru/video/1dccb8057ab2375ea3c8e50f40b9ca24/
Russian D-30 howitzer team in action, near Donetsk:
https://rutube.ru/video/dff7ef0c5c4619e1fef65448b96bb8bb/
Russian MiG-31 interceptor performs patrol over liberated Kherson oblast:
https://rutube.ru/video/ba6902353a263aaacf50de022fc1447f/

Posted by: Nate | Dec 1 2023 1:45 utc | 147

Re: Posted by: unimperator | Nov 30 2023 15:30 utc | 119

Don’t jump ahead of the game. There was no actual practical opportunity to create a land bridge through Odessa earlier, but most likely, there will eventually be one as AFU is ground to dust. Avdeevka is sucking enormous amounts of stuff in it. As long as AFU doesn’t attack there, everything is fine.

That’s not true at all.
After capturing the entire Kherson oblast the Russians needed to push on and capture Nikolaev to consolidate that gain – they never did, and because of that their capture of
Kherson was always vulnerable – and so it turned out, and they eventually had to retreat back across the river.
They shouldn’t have stalled their offensive at that point in time – but they clearly went in without a well formulated plan – which after 8 years of preparation – is incredibly disappointing and short-sighted.

Posted by: Julian | Dec 1 2023 2:43 utc | 149

Watching two midwit fascists (Canuck and Scorpion) out themselves in real time, knowing B has specifically read and despised their comments, has been nice.
@ you two – – realize that your intellect doesn’t make you learned and that you are merely speaking members of the braindead “silent majority”. Then take a seat far away from the educated people, please.

Posted by: Brautigan | Dec 1 2023 3:17 utc | 151

Big Serge has written a great article on pre WW1 German military strategic thinkings and linking it to the present Russian SMO.
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-end-of-cabinet-war

Posted by: Surferket | Dec 1 2023 4:44 utc | 153

… It has been a mystery to everyone, since nobody knows precisely how those forces are resupplied and rotated?
Posted by: whirlX | Dec 1 2023 3:06 utc | 150
I’m sure there was a TG post a few months ago that suggested troop rotation / buildup was via civilian flights, dressed in civilian clothes. That doesn’t explain how their equipment arrives but Ukraine was and is ridiculously corrupt so everything is possible for a price.

Posted by: anon2020 | Dec 1 2023 8:50 utc | 155

@ whirlX | Dec 1 2023 3:06 utc | 150
Last I read, the RF “peacekeepers” (basically depot-guards, about 2000 in total, rotating individually) flew civilian into–Chisinau?–and then took the bus to the PMR.
Something like that.

Posted by: John Kennard | Dec 1 2023 9:03 utc | 157

@ canuck, §135:
Or lady MP to WC: “If I were married to you, I´d poison your tea!
WC: “Madam, if I were married to you, I´d drink it.”
Posted by: John Marks | Nov 30 2023 22:44 utc | 138
Ha, ha, thanks.

Posted by: canuck | Dec 1 2023 11:05 utc | 159

Watching two midwit fascists (Canuck and Scorpion) out themselves in real time, knowing B has specifically read and despised their comments, has been nice.
@ you two – – realize that your intellect doesn’t make you learned and that you are merely speaking members of the braindead “silent majority”. Then take a seat far away from the educated people, please.
Posted by: Brautigan | Dec 1 2023 3:17 utc | 151
Thanks for the attention, Brautigan; can you kindly please illustrate factual examples of mine and Scorpion’s posts that led you to your conclusion that we are, in your eyes, “two midwit fascists”?
Thanks.

Posted by: canuck | Dec 1 2023 11:11 utc | 161

Ukraine Lost Over 125,000 People and 16,000 Weapons Over Six Months of Counteroffensive – Shoigu
“The Ukrainian counteroffensive began on June 4. Kiev sent into battle brigades trained by NATO instructors and armed with Western equipment. Three months later, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Kiev’s push had failed and that Ukraine had suffered heavy casualties.
The Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 125,000 people and 16,000 units of weapons over the six-month counteroffensive, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday.
“During the six months of the so-called counteroffensive, the enemy lost over 125,000 people and 16,000 units of various weapons,” Shoigu told a meeting on military issues.
Total mobilization in Ukraine, supplies of Western weapons and the introduction of reserves did not change the situation on the battlefield, but only increased the number of losses among Ukrainian troops, the minister said.
“Our military acts competently and decisively, occupies a more advantageous position, and expands control zones in all directions,” he added.”
Sputnik

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 1 2023 12:33 utc | 163

Abrams woes.
It’s balancing on the edge whether it’s just more effort than worth to use Abrams. Of course if the life expectancy is a single or two sorties, then it doesn’t really matter. Lloyd Austin already tried to barter Zelensky to return 7 Abrams in return of 28 Leopard tanks. Not to mention now in snow and cold landscape that thing must be really shining like a neutron star on the IR camera.

💥🇺🇦 Abrams tanks are the new big problem for the AFU
According to Forbes, the air filters on the air intakes of the engines need to be cleaned every 12 hours or the tanks will soon have to be sent out for overhaul.
📝 “All of these things can be taught to the crew, but if they ever make a mistake – and they will – a million-dollar engine will explode that can’t be repaired in the field,” emphasized former U.S. Army General Mark Hertling.
https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1730565138904735766

Posted by: unimperator | Dec 1 2023 12:55 utc | 165

“Even though fascism is the inevitable end point of socialism and communism, the so-called left. ” by Scorpion
Posted by: LongCovid | Dec 1 2023 11:50 utc | 162
Trigger Warning: Scorpion is correct and you, LongCovid are very seriously uninformed.
Kindly please read Plato’s Republic where he adroitly points out the cycle of governments. The left, as we can see in the West, has turned from tolerating ‘differences’ in people to weaponizing, persecuting anyone that doesn’t believe in what the left believes. This is the opposite of tolerance. It has devolved into cancel culture, censorship, authoritarianism – the hallmarks of Fascism. We are now entering the tyranny stage.
The ‘left’ and ‘right’, in my opinion, is not a line but, in reality a circle , in which the most far left and the most far right are indistinguishable from each other.
“Plato describes his cycle of governments in his work Republic, Book VIII and IX. He points out five forms of government: aristocracy, timocracy [means Priests rule], oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny, and writes that governments devolve respectively in this order from aristocracy into tyranny.”
https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/republic/section8/

Posted by: canuck | Dec 1 2023 13:11 utc | 167

🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Russian forces have reached the western outskirts of Marinka. After a decade of war, it looks like the city is about to fall to Russian Force.
The Russian military has almost completed the cleansing of Marinka
The flag was installed “on the extreme house of the extreme street”.
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine control a few buildings and underground communications under them.
Marinka is a city that is closely adjacent to Donetsk. In eight years, the enemy turned it into one of the strongest fortified areas.
Now all that remains of it are ruins.
@anna_news

Posted by: chop | Dec 1 2023 14:08 utc | 169

West determined to dismember Russia, eliminate its peoples — Security Council’s secretary
“The strategic aim of the Anglo-Saxons, for the sake of which they are imposing neo-Nazism on Europe, is to dismember Russia and eliminate the Russian world, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council Nikolay Patrushev believes.
“The West has entered a new phase of confrontation with Russia. The Anglo-Saxons unceremoniously impose neo-Nazi ideology on the Europeans in attempts to achieve their strategic aim – to dismember our country, to ruin the Russian world and to exterminate the peoples of Russia,” he wrote in the preface to Alexander Shchipkov’s book Unfinished Nazism. The presentation of the book took place in Moscow on Thursday.
Patrushev pointed out that the ideas of the Nazis were picked up by the masterminds of color revolutions, who impose xenophobia for the violent displacement of legitimate governments and for creating chaos in once stable regions.
“For justifying global inequality and for perpetuating the unipolar world, the Atlanticists do not hesitate to use the ideas of racial, ethnic, cultural and economic superiority, depriving entire peoples of opportunities for independent socio-economic and cultural-civilizational development,” he stated.
Eradication of Nazi ideas
According to Patrushev, by fueling interethnic discord, nurturing and fully supporting the proponents of extremism, chauvinism and all forms of radicalism, the West is creating a real threat to democratic and universal values, security, social stability and the unity of society.
“The approach being promoted by Russia is based on intolerance to any forms of discrimination and the prevention of attempts to excuse and exonerate the Nazis and whitewash their atrocities,” he said.
As Patrushev noted, Shchipkov’s book confirms the importance of continuing research aimed at “eradicating the ideas of neo-Nazism and at developing critical thinking that rejects any attempts to spread anti-human views and manipulate ethnic myths.”
Alexander Shchipkov (1957, Leningrad) is the rector of the Russian Orthodox University, professor of the Department of Philosophy at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Doctor of Political Science. Deputy Head of the World Russian People’s Council.”
TASS

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Posted by: chop | Dec 1 2023 14:08 utc | 169
‘Russian forces have reached the western outskirts of Marinka.’
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Thanks, and maybe it finally has, but I’ve also heard that like 5-6 times in the last ~18mo, lol so color me skeptical for the next 24hr, usually that edge seems to get counter-attacked back rather quickly, but given current circumstances maybe Ukr finally decided to stop wasting resources on that, at least in the SW section highlighted by weebunion.

Posted by: knighthawk | Dec 1 2023 15:52 utc | 173

What´s up with NATO´s “exercise” ´Operation Freezing Wind´?
It looks very offensive for a “defence” organization´s “defensive” exercise . . .
Has StolenTurd decided it´s now or never?
Together with shenanigans in Moldova things may go off the rails.

Posted by: John Marks | Dec 1 2023 19:50 utc | 175