Shadowshithead is a coooftruther too, color me shocked. I bet he’s also a full sjw who thinks women can have dicks and men can get pregnant. Also, to be clear, Lira dying of the coof isn’t a rumour, unless you count shadowshithead’s speculation from yesterday’s thread as “rumour”.

Posted by: Swissmiss | Jan 14 2024 4:02 utc | 104

Video tour of recently completed Russian trench system:
https://pravda-en.com/world/2024/01/14/262304.html
Do you suppose Ukraine has the resources to match this to cover the necessary perimeter of threatened territory?

Posted by: the pessimist | Jan 14 2024 4:17 utc | 106

Eighthman No 7
Blitzkrieg can probably be relegated to the same place as the line of battle and the cavalry charge. In early 2022 it was still possible, before the FPV drone revolution. Now, no. Wars of grinding attrition are back.
Going to be interesting to see what kind of strategy India adopts vis a vis Pakistan now that the Indian Cold Start Blitzkrieg doctrine, nurtured for 20 years, is a dead duck.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jan 14 2024 4:19 utc | 108

reply to 108
Yes, absolutely. The whole nature of war has been changed because surprise is gone. Internet, satellites, drones and both sides know what’s going on.
The wonderful news (if any nation bothers to pursue it) is that Non Aggression Pacts should now be more practical than ever. No surprise attacks.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jan 14 2024 4:24 utc | 110

❗️Mosiychuk: “This law on mobilization is anti-people, anti-constitutional, because it was not accepted by the troops, not by civilians, not by draft dodgers, by no one.”
According to former people’s deputy Igor Mosiychuk, sending the mobilization bill for revision is a political blow to Zelensky and Ermak, since “opponents feel that the king is naked and the cardinal is weak.”
“As of yesterday, the President’s Office was frantically collecting votes, they broke Stolar’s ​​group, which agreed to vote, they broke almost the entire Mabakh, “Dovira”, pulled out some deputies from “Batkivshchyna” and “Holos”, but there were no votes, because the faction “Servant of the People” refused to vote in this form… Why? Because this bill contains anti-constitutional norms. And all this nonsense about the fact that the deputies have worked out proposals. Let’s vote with these proposals in the first reading. This does not happen. The parliament’s rules of procedure do not foresee this,” the ex-parliamentarian asserts.
Mosiychuk explained that “in the first reading, they vote for the law in the form in which it was submitted by the initiator – in this case, the Cabinet of Ministers. And before the second reading, whether the proposal will be taken into account or not taken into account is one thing. And second, people had to consciously vote on green button, violating the Constitution of Ukraine. This is obvious. This was the starting point, they understood it.”
“This law could have become for them like the laws of January 16 for the parliament of the 7th convocation, and they categorically resisted, and said that let the one who submitted it take it and modify it, if there is no intelligence.”
Mosiychuk believes that the situation with the withdrawal of the bill has acquired a political overtones, since this is a strong blow not only to Zelensky as a president and politician, but also a strong blow to Ermak. He couldn’t get the votes.
Why then did Bezuglaya criticize the mobilization bill?
“She criticized, but never said that it needed to be sent for revision to the Cabinet of Ministers. She criticized it exclusively in the context of Zaluzhny. Moreover, I am sure that the second part of her speech is, firstly, to show what the guys have stuck a knife in the back with this bill, and the second part is the creation of an anti-Zaluzhny project, which will be headed by Bezuglaya, that is, there will be some group of people (possibly even a political force or public) that we can call anti-Zaluzhny. approaches in the Armed Forces, but in fact it results in practice in anti-Zaluzhny.”
He is convinced that this political force will not have any prospects, but if the political process is on pause as it is now, then it will “multiply” Zaluzhny.
“A political blow is a defeat. If for civil society it is a victory, then the bill has been sent for revision. It is clear that this victory is not final, because we do not know what will be resubmitted,” concluded Mosiychuk.
It is worth adding that the mobilization bill will include amendments on teachers and human rights.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/21184

Posted by: Down South | Jan 14 2024 4:47 utc | 112

My retired US Navy doctor wife thinks that Austin, as former active duty, was not spared in the exhaustive vaccination regime the US military goes through. Not all the vaccines in that regimen are great.
Next, the COVID vaccination and boosters are leaving serious health issues for some. This is a verboten discussion topic in the medical community. Austin’s vaccination record, age and size are working against him.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Jan 14 2024 5:23 utc | 114

Not sure if this has already been posted here
“Our source at the General Staff said that the effectiveness of air defense has dropped significantly due to the destruction of several batteries of NASAMS and IRIS-T air defense systems. At the same time, the United States banned the use of Patriot when the enemy launches Daggers, which causes the destruction of other air defense systems and virtually open skies over Ukraine.”
https://t.me/rezident_ua/21

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 6:06 utc | 116

Since nobody wants to say it out loud: Gonzalo Lira wasn’t murdered by the Ukraine accomplices he was murdered by the United States. And willfully so. Just look at this paid CIA-tranny Cirillo who gloated about his arrest. This deluded dude wouldn’t take a dump in the morning without his Washington masters telling him to do so.
And the Nazi Followers (NAFO) being so happy about Lira’s death on Twitter/X. Disgusting human vermin. Hey, Elon Musk, why don’t you put a lid on those state department-whores? How many character and real assassinations more do you need on your “social” platform?
Oh, and “Posted by: anonposter | Jan 13 2024 22:57 utc | 49”. Fuck off NAFO!

Posted by: Zed’sDead | Jan 14 2024 6:15 utc | 118

And he got the double pneumonia with the edema from what exactly?
Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 14 2024 0:17 utc | 64
Edema is caused by heart and kidney failure. Many of the ‘covid’ deaths in the hospital were caused by kidney failure from Remdesivir which destroys the kidneys – especially when given in strong doses for more than a few days. (The government was incentivizing and pushing Remdesivir instead of other treatments. Some experts wondered why anti-inflammatory drugs weren’t being given.)
When the kidneys fail the body, including the lungs fill up with too much fluid. So people do die from pneumonia caused by kidney failure, as well as pneumonia caused by congestive heart failure. The fluids back up into the lungs if the heart isn’t working right. Lira likely wasn’t given the proper medicines and antibiotics. Most people actually die of a bacterial infection, even if it starts as a viral infection. The bacteria set up when the body and immune system become fatigued from fighting a bad or longer-lasting viral infection. Him being under stress and not given the proper nutrition and warmth, as well as drugs would cause his death over him being given the right drugs and antibiotics, as well as a proper comfortable bed and surroundings to rest.

Posted by: MiniMO | Jan 14 2024 6:17 utc | 120

Anothe couple of twitter postings that go well together.
Victor vicktop55
@vicktop55
Military expert Alexander Zimovsky: Here is a new toy for
the public in telegram —
There was a Tsar bell, a Tsar cannon.
And now the Tsar Bomba!
Field Nazi and couch Western experts are in a panic — Russia has begun the systematic use of FAB-1500 with a Universal Planning and Correction Module
(Ukrainian troops are panicking after the first tsar bomb strikes on their bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper River in the area of the former Antonovsky Bridge in the Kherson region).
………..
And footage of the surrounding scenery from Ukraine positions at the bridgehead.
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1746223435120824409

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 6:41 utc | 122

I thought the US had a fancy general over there making sure all was working well…..maybe there are conflicting goals and strategies operating here….no nukes so far is good
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 14 2024 6:17 utc | 119
Information damage control I would assume. Can’t have the MIC sales pitch damaged.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 6:47 utc | 124

P.S. While Dune periodically gets its share of references, I find it a bit puzzling that his The Dosadi Experiment doesn’t get mentioned more when topics like the struggle of the Palestinians in the Gaza strip come up. Herbert proves his work timeless yet again with that. And in The Dosadi Experiment Herbert took the theme of being under pressure to a thrilling extreme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dosadi_Experiment
Posted by: Babel-17 | Jan 13 2024 23:00 utc | 50

Yah –
Two different cultures, crushed together in a small space, after secret population hi-jacking, manipulated by the ‘DemoPol’ and exploited by treacherous leaders.

Posted by: Kapyong | Jan 14 2024 6:55 utc | 126

https://www.unz.com/article/the-case-for-genocide/
The prosecution side of the case of genocide is discussed..
The Article caused me to understand just how important the case for Genocide is . If the International Criminal Court rules in favor of the prosecution,, and the world helps the court enforce its ruling..if will represent a historic landmark in finding a way to control those who rule the nation states.
The courts rulings could reach into the deep state that owns each of the nations that make up the 256 (16X16 matrix) nation state system. ..a ruling that a nation state conducted a genocide could make liable nation state officials as well as officers and directors of corporations doing business in or with those involved in genocide activities. If the court can enforce a decision that a nation state has conducted genocide it will be the beginning of an enforceable international law. It seems important that nations as well as individuals would have standing in the ICC to enable any victim to bring charges against those involved in unlawful activities during conflicts.
Future International treaties might require all parties to agree to be bound by the findings of the International Criminal Court. so what is this court and what law does it adjudicate?
I recall that Russia convicted some of the Justices of the ICC with crimes for their ruling that Putin and the lady in charge of bringing Ukrainian children to Russia as a violation of International law.. so how does Russia stand on the credit-ability of the ICC? So will the ICC be a useful place to try the war crimes after the war in Ukraine Is over.

Posted by: snake | Jan 14 2024 7:36 utc | 128

Ukraine Weekly Update 12th Jan 2024: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-weekly-update-cf0

Posted by: Dr. Rob Campbell | Jan 14 2024 8:14 utc | 130

Pneumonia from cold exposure due to prison neglect is quite likely, especially around winter. No need to attach any more complexity to it. A passive murder of a noisy nuisance to the Kiev Regime, it seems. Sad and expected, RIP Gonzalo Lira.
As for Russia, why blitz when your target, the Ukraine military, is throwing itself at your strongest positions? All you gotta do is occasionally prod the front to make sure the flow into the grinder doesn’t clump and see if there’s anymore meat left to grind. Besides, it also bleeds out materiel and dollars, so why waste time grabbing flatland with no defenses built-in?

Posted by: titmouse | Jan 14 2024 8:44 utc | 132

On January 13, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed another massive attack on the Ukrainian military facilities throughout the country. The Russian Air Force launched a group attack on the facilities of the military industry of Ukraine. High-precision naval and air-based weapons were used, including hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the targets of the strikes included Ukrainian industrial enterprises producing gunpowder, artillery shells and unmanned aerial vehicles. All targets of the strikes were hit.
The strikes began tonight, and continued in the morning. According to the official reports by the Ukrainian military, Ukrainian air defense forces managed to destroy only seven X-101/555 missiles out of more than 30 launched missiles. Unlike during the previous attack, Kiev decided not to lie about the interception of Kinzhal missiles as well.
According to Russian military sources, during the morning attack, the Russian military launched about 35 missiles of various types, including X-22, X-101 and X-555, as well as, most likely, X-55 used as decoys, several Kinzhal missiles, ballistic 9M723 from the Iskander-M missile defense system, S-300 anti-aircraft missiles converted for strikes on the ground targets, as well as X-59 and X-31P anti-radar missiles.
Explosions were reported in the Dnipropetrovks, Kharkiv, Sumy, Kherson, Kiev, Poltava, Chernigiv, Kirovograd, Volyn, Iano-Frankivsk, Khelnitsk, Rivne.
According to the local reports, some infrastructure facilities were damaged in the Poltava region.
Russian strikes were reported at three Ukrainian airfields, including the airfield in Mirgorod (Poltava region), an airfield in the Rivne region as wall as the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnitsky region, which is coming under Russian attacks on a regular basis and where the Ukrainian military attempts to restore the infrastructure to welcome F-16 from NATO.
A warehouse with military equipment was reportedly destroyed in the area of Dnepropetrovsk airport. Some missile repair shops came under attack in the city of Dnepropetrovsk itself.
Ukrainian sources confirmed explosions in Kiev. The capital was reportedly attacked by Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. In the Ukrainian capital, explosions thundered in the area of the Artyom military production and repair plant.
Overloaded air defense systems of the Ukrainian military failed to cope with numerous air targets even in the skies over the capital, although it is known that most of air defense systems provided by the West are protecting Kiev.
https://southfront.press/dozens-of-russian-missiles-hit-ukrainian-airfields-military-infrastructure-facilities/

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 14 2024 8:57 utc | 134

snake | Jan 14 2024 7:36 utc | 129
It remains to be seen if the ICJ has been corrupted like the OPCW and numerous other UN peripherals. The easiest way out for the ICJ as I see it is to not grant an interim injunction but rather let the case play out of a number of years. Actual guilty or not finding will be years away in anycase.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 9:29 utc | 136

Posted by: Lesjeuxsontfaits | Jan 14 2024 6:41 utc | 124
Not just his father, Gonzalo talked about this during his attempted break for freedom.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jan 14 2024 9:44 utc | 138

Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 14 2024 2:40 utc | 93
Dying of, or dying with, it’s not just parsing words it’s critical in understanding the whole COVID response.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 14 2024 10:20 utc | 140

Milites | Jan 14 2024 9:54 utc | 140
Patrick Armstrong’s professional career was in the Canadian military. He spent time as a military attache in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow. He stopped posting at his blog after a visit from the Canadian spooks at the start of the SMO. I believe he is posting again now. Haven’t been back to his site for awhile but b referenced/quoted a recent posting a few days back.
In one of his posts he wrote something about reaching the point when you realise everything you have been told is a lie. For me, and that did happen to me over a period of months or a year or two, that meant I had to dump everything I still believed and start again from scratch, trying to sort propaganda from fact.
With the start of the SMO, there was a great influx of new commentates here and coupled to my health, too many names coming and going to keep up with. With that influx were a great many that had done little or now research, a great majority not having come to that point where everything they had been told was a lie and starting again from scratch.
And so with your version of Kursk where you place western “experts” above current Russian knowlage who have access to all soviet records of the time and have digitized and placed them on the net, which your western experts did not have access to at the time.
Trying to reason with my sister -0 she has a fanatical or religious belief that the Chinese and Russian leaderships are the ultimate evil, dictators brutally ruling over their people. I ask if she has ever read transcripts of what they say and she says no because it is all propaganda.
Ray Macgovern and Larry Johnson are interesting. Both cold war CIA analysts. They have spoken about idiot analysts reading soviet leaderships body language and basically pulling Soviet intentions out of their arse when all you had to do was listen to what the soviet leadership said. For Scott ritter, the process has been gradual, beginning when he worked as a weapoons inspecter in the soviet union and gaing a respect for his counterparts there, then as a UN investigator in Iraq and gaining a respect for his counterparts there and trying to prevent the destruction of Iraq which resulted in the complete destruction of his career. And finally his turn on Israel with the Gaza genocide.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 10:28 utc | 142

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 14 2024 8:57 utc | 135
Not only will this destroy the manufacturing infrastructure and the stockpiles but will also force the Ukrainians to disperse these facilities, increasing costs and introducing friction and inefficiency into the production cycle.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 14 2024 10:39 utc | 144

Some points from Colonel Trukhan’s interview at BMA.
-Rail network being restored on the Azov sea coast
-No logistical issues of RUAF
-Big arrow offensive – in 2023 there was no task for carrying out large offensives
-Task is to attract AFU manpower and equipment close to the line and destroy them
-‘Capturing’ cities is the most complex type of warfare – two approaches: either like Israel, destroy the city completely, or blockade and starve it out (could take up to 9 months)
-‘Capturing Kiev in 3 days’ was never the goal, the goal was to pin AFU in place north of Kiev to allow time to take SE Ukraine area including Mariupol and land bridge
-This messed up transfer of AFU reserves to the direction of main operations
-Nato military planners believing Russia isn’t capable of anything is beneficial to Russia, as Nato plans operations based on those assumptions
-RUAF never lost operational initiative despite some tactical drawbacks
-After taking Azov Sea coast, the presence of RUAF around Kiev and Chernigov lost its purpose
-Nato planned the AFU offensive of 2023 based on wrong conclusions in 2022
-This erronous planning led to several hundred thousand AFU losses (KIA+WIA) and destruction of all western trained AFU formations
-Ukraine made even no tactical gains during their offensive
-Ukraine was reformed to use Nato air-land battle doctrine, according to which ground troops are merely auxiliary place holders, and the real attack is done with missiles from the air (but for obvious reasons this never happened)
-US doctrine is to look for weak spots in the line to exploit, in Zaporozhye they were unlucky, because there were no weak spots, but multiple overlapping defensive lines
-AFU didn’t pass first tactical defense line, but got stuck in it
-In the area of breakthrough, initial losses should be ignored in order to continue the breakthrough and follow-up expansion of the attack – this was not done which led to subsequent large losses on the initial line and the attack stalling
-Nato air-land battle doctrine would require at least 500 aircraft launching 1500 missiles in the breakthrough area or line
-Such forces are unavailable for Nato now
-Additionally, the offensive should have been followed by a mass landing of marines and paratroopers, which were not available in terms of delivery vehicles or special forces themselves
-Coup de’tat was the only chance for Nato, which failed
-Breaking through 1km of line requires 100 tanks to be effective
-In order to break through 3 lines, 300 tanks are required
-Massive artillery strikes are needed both on the front and back of the lines in preparation of the attack and the range to enable it
-Russia can send new tanks on the ground within days, in contrast to Nato taking several weeks
-Nato tanks must be sent back to Poland to repair anything other than trivial damage
-Capable tank repair plants in Ukraine are often air striked
-AFU cannot perform simple repairs on equipment near the front line, which is also a result of cultural change and philosophy from USSR
-Most radars of AFU air defense were destroyed in Spring 2022, after that the air defense system became sporadic
-Anti-air missiles in Ukraine weren’t maintained in post-1991 Ukraine
-S-300 missiles should be maintained or rebuilt every 10 years
-AFU mistake is to place air defense systems inside cities – the old rockets can be unpredictable, when accelerating, if they hit a building, the building will be destroyed
-The main successes of AFU air defense systems are strikes against first echelon recon and dummy missiles
-After which the AD system is struck by anti-air missiles
-Ukraine was forced to use very old S-125 systems, whose missiles are old and can’t handle maneuvers
-S-125 may work on some slow cruise missiles and drones which they were designed, but RUAF is now utilizing supersonic missiles nearly as a standard
-S-125 second stage is based on gunpowder acceleration, uneven combustion inevitably leading to them flying unpredictably into buildings
-Not a single Kinzhal has been shot down with Patriot PAC systems
-Kinzhals have successfully destroyed underground bunkers including with Nato officers in them
-Kinzhal uses an extremely inconvenient trajectory for any air defense system, theoretically only a second covering battery could have a chance but even then technical characteristics make the chance slim
-The guided FAB bombs guidance kits were first used in Syria, then perfected and now used in Ukraine
-Russia develops new types of gliding bombs

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 14 2024 11:01 utc | 146

Pneumonia from cold exposure due to prison neglect is quite likely, especially around winter. No need to attach any more complexity to it. A passive murder of a noisy nuisance to the Kiev Regime, it seems. Sad and expected, RIP Gonzalo Lira.
As for Russia, why blitz when your target, the Ukraine military, is throwing itself at your strongest positions? All you gotta do is occasionally prod the front to make sure the flow into the grinder doesn’t clump and see if there’s anymore meat left to grind. Besides, it also bleeds out materiel and dollars, so why waste time grabbing flatland with no defenses built-in?
Posted by: titmouse | Jan 14 2024 8:44 utc | 133
Err excuse me but it’s not really the Ukraine military throwing itself at Russia’s strongest positions, but the reverse. I mean at least according to the prevailing opinion here regarding Avdeevka, which supposedly is “the most fortified place on earth”. No Z-patriot so far has attempted to reconcile the seducing theory of Russia letting Ukraine itself impale its soldies on its defenses, with the bare fact that Russia has been attempting for three months now to conquer Avdeevka.
Which makes totally sense actually, I mean not in the fantasy world of Z-patriots where Russia is this invincible juggernaut who is not rolling up to the Polish frontier only out of a chivalrous generosity and urge to let those fine Ukrainian fellows prove themselves in the battlefile.
In reality, Russia absolutely needs to conquer territory, but not just any territory. As has been the case for all wars throughout history, they needs to conquer strategic strongholds to force their will onto Ukraine and the US and bring them to the negotiating table. That’s the actual goal and that’s how they will win.

Posted by: Micron | Jan 14 2024 11:09 utc | 148

Posted by: Milites | Jan 13 2024 23:31 utc | 58

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 13 2024 21:32 utc | 25
Active defence is the doctrine that being on the defence does not mean adopting a static posture, but actively defending. To put the Russian experience into historical context the STAVKA realised by 1943 that static lines of defence did not work against the highly mobile warfare the Germans conducted. Counter-attacks were only launched to retake lost positions and little initiative from Russian senior commanders was shown or expected.. In gaming terms the Russians had a pre-programmed response to attacks that the Germans expected, countered and exploited.
…..

the war starts at 1941 — that are 1,5-2 years till 1943
Then what did the Russians use to survive when “…static lines of defence did not work against the highly mobile warfare the Germans…”
wasn’t there the motto “NO STEP BACK”? ?

Posted by: ghiwen | Jan 14 2024 11:15 utc | 150

And footage of the surrounding scenery from Ukraine positions at the bridgehead.
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1746223435120824409
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 6:41 utc | 123
We just need to re-title this video:
This is how your territory looks after the United States government and NATO pledge support for ‘as long as it takes’* and ‘by all means necessary’** to support you as a vassal of ‘freedom and democracy™️”
* as long as it takes might not be that long.
** all means necessary involves out of date junk weapons and doesn’t include a sacrifice of significant numbers of US troops.
这就是在美国政府和北约承诺’只要需要’* 和’采取一切必要手段’**支持你们成为’自由和民主™️’的附庸之后，你们的领土是什么样子的。
*”只要 “可能并不是那么长。
** 必要的一切手段涉及过时的垃圾武器，不包括大量美军的牺牲
So sieht Ihr Territorium aus, nachdem die Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten und die NATO zugesagt haben, Sie “so lange wie nötig “* und “mit allen erforderlichen Mitteln “** als Vasall der “Freiheit und democracy™️” zu unterstützen.
* Solange es dauert, ist vielleicht gar nicht so lang.
** alle notwendigen Mittel beinhalten veraltete Schrottwaffen und beinhalten nicht die Opferung einer signifikanten Anzahl von US-Truppen
Tältä alueenne näyttää sen jälkeen, kun Yhdysvaltojen hallitus ja Nato ovat luvanneet tukea teitä “niin kauan kuin se kestää “* ja “kaikin tarvittavin keinoin “** tukeakseen teitä “vapauden ja democracy™️” vasallina.”
* niin kauan kuin se kestää ei ehkä olekaan niin kauan.
** kaikkiin tarvittaviin keinoihin sisältyy vanhentuneita romuaseita, eikä niihin sisälly merkittävän määrän Yhdysvaltain joukkojen uhraamista.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Jan 14 2024 11:23 utc | 152

It is becoming funny:
https://www.rt.com/news/590602-france-more-aid-kiev/
“Ukraine is and will remain France’s priority.” Of course the French people are not the priority of that government.
Let’s summarise:
1) President: homosexual
2)Prime minister: homosexual
3) Foreign minister: homosexual
As they have no children, they do not give a fuck about the future of the country.
And 2 and 3 are former sexual partner. They divorced in 2022.
Posted by: Naive | Jan 14 2024 1:36 utc | 80
Is Macron a fag? That explains a lot if true

Posted by: Flash | Jan 14 2024 11:30 utc | 154

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 10:28 utc | 143
I’d love to know your ‘version of Kursk’. Anyone interested in any attempt at historical veracity looks at all sources. Ignoring or dismissing one group, because of a perceived revelation that led to a personal damascene moment, could be seen as counter-productive in what you are trying to achieve with any newfound wisdom. Believing Russian sources uncritically, is just repeating your previous error in judgement, just from the other side. It’s not a solution to the problem of working out what the hell is going on in the world, I’ve found, just a method of compounding it.
Posted by: Membrum Virile | Jan 14 2024 10:32 utc | 144
Loved your three day comment, put the issue into perspective. Bottom line, the Russian Army, like all armies in history, are finding out that their real world capabilities rarely ever match their theoretical capabilities, the Achilles heel of experimental archeology, but that’s another story. The irony of ironies is that the posters that over-exaggerate the capabilities of the Russian military are denying it it’s real victory in the SMO, the ability to adapt and transform effectively, whilst engaged in a peer-to-peer conflict fought in the 21st century.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 14 2024 11:37 utc | 156

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 11:33 utc | 156
Not just early on. Every day since early on shadowspam and his pathetic crew of Angry Patriots Clubbers have posted frequently and enthusiastically any little negativity they could find about Russian MoD and Putin.
As if being paid to do so. Which is most likely. See 👆 thread “coup d’etat” was the only hope for US / NATO. Thankfully the US NATO plan has been an utter disaster that has destroyed the country formerly known as Ukraine, cost 400,000 Ukrainian troops, battered the credibility of NATO, exposed the utter cynicism of the U.S. ruling uniparties and ushered in a multi polar geopolitical era.
Not that shadowspammer and the doomers would post one sentence about all the mistakes you could easily pick from this hubristic DC shit show.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Jan 14 2024 11:48 utc | 158

canuck | Jan 14 2024 12:02 utc | 160
A widespread view/common theme amongst SMO blow ins. I want the diversity of reading crap I can go to any MSM or tin foil hat comment section.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 12:06 utc | 160

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 14 2024 12:06 utc | 162
Never enough Gruff.
How about a thread of shaggy dog stories regarding sand in the lunch box and knocking other kids unconscious way back in those black and white school days? Perhaps not: I’m quite happy to ignore a lot of the bullshit posts but calling out the most cynical, systematic spammers is a duty to keep the threads from being de-railed which is always the intention of the spammers.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Jan 14 2024 12:23 utc | 162

You don’t build underground complexes like this if you expect to be advancing (retreat is obviously no longer even a possibility) from them in a short period of time.
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Jan 14 2024 4:13 utc | 105
While I agree that Big Arrow offensives are probably not going to happen anytime soon, this idea about fortifications is simply wrong. The Romans built a fortified camp every time they stopped for the night while campaigning. To advance without a fortified rear area to protect your logistics is, in this day and age, suicidal. Every fortification provides a certain radius of operation that blocks or slows down enemy movement. The better the fortifications, the fewer men are required to defend them. Fortifications liberate troops to conduct mobile warfare and provide reliable logistical support.
Posted by: Honzo | Jan 14 2024 5:50 utc | 116
Honzo you are correct that the Romans built forts, castrums after a day’s march. It obviously slowed the marches down carrying that weight of the fortifications while marching then constructing and deconstructing the castrums..
Yet Alexander the Great’s armies bivouacked (slept in the open) no fortifications marched 20 miles a day and they neve, ever got beat.
In the early 18th century (1704) the Duke of Marlborough (1)(2) marched 8 miles a day along the Danube fortifying every evening and this ‘speed’ was considered extraordinary in its day.
Napoleon’s armies a century later they bivouacked and marched 20 miles a day; on a forced march they could do 40 miles a day.
The moral of the story is that there is no certain way to march, attack, protect your troops. It depends on the terrain, the enemy’s capabilities, your own armies’ capability, the weather, the current technology, how much disease is involved as bivouacked armies had, understandably , more disease liabilities. The list goes on…
1.Marlborough marched a mixed force of 40,000 British, Dutch and German troops 250 miles (400km) in five weeks. This extraordinary feat of strategy and logistics left his opponents in disarray.
2. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/marlboroughs-march-danube.html

Posted by: canuck | Jan 14 2024 12:31 utc | 164

“Bottom line, the Russian Army, like all armies in history, are finding out that their real world capabilities rarely ever match their theoretical capabilities, the Achilles heel of experimental archeology, but that’s another story. The irony of ironies is that the posters that over-exaggerate the capabilities of the Russian military are denying it it’s real victory in the SMO, the ability to adapt and transform effectively, whilst engaged in a peer-to-peer conflict fought in the 21st century.”
Posted by: Milites | Jan 14 2024 11:37 utc | 157
Profound idea.
The Empire, paradoxically, in my opinion, did Russia a monstrous service by instigating a small scale war (the SMO) granting the Russian military the time and experience to “adapt and transform’ and experiment before the big party starts-WW3.
Dumb Empire

Posted by: canuck | Jan 14 2024 12:51 utc | 166

canuck | Jan 14 2024 12:02 utc | 160
A widespread view/common theme amongst SMO blow ins. I want the diversity of reading crap I can go to any MSM or tin foil hat comment section.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 12:06 utc | 161
So you prefer censorship and further, you desire conservation of only your ideas and fellow posters who agree with your views ; kinda like the Spanish Inquisition without the torture tools.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 14 2024 12:56 utc | 168

Yet Alexander the Great’s armies bivouacked (slept in the open) no fortifications marched 20 miles a day and they neve, ever got beat.
Posted by: canuck | Jan 14 2024 12:31 utc | 165

What were the state-of-the-art MLRS systems in the fourth century B.C.?

Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 14 2024 13:05 utc | 170

”So you prefer censorship…”
As you NAFO freaks are quick to point out on other fora, this isn’t a public park. This is a bar owned by a guy in Germany. It isn’t censorship if some newcomer saunters in wearing drag and pretending to be something he’s not and the regulars slap him around a bit.
Don’t like it? Go somewhere your imperial opinions are welcome, like Twitter or Farcebook or the New York Langley Times discussion threads. It’s not like you cannot find a forum for your crap.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 14 2024 13:10 utc | 172

It also does not excuse things like not isolating the battlefield and not taking out NATO ISR when there are abundant technical means to do so.
Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 14 2024 13:03 utc | 170
For two years you have proposed way beyond escalation (on average twice each day you criticise Russian MoD for not using a nuclear strike against Ukrainian territory). If your strategy was followed the whole of western Ukraine, Ukraine held Donbas, Polish Rumanian airbases, London, New York City, Washington DC would be resembling Gaza right now.
And tell us, what would the ICJ make of this?
What would world public opinion make of shadowbanned nuke em all strategy?
In terms of catastrophic life ending escalatory response, what might that look like?
Clearly your proposals are so deranged as to not be taken seriously. Like comparing modern warfare with Roman military tactics.
As it is the resistance to US hegemony is winning. They don’t need your faux concern and suggestions.

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Jan 14 2024 13:22 utc | 174

“It also does not excuse things like not isolating the battlefield and not taking out NATO ISR when there are abundant technical means to do so.”
Posted by: shаdοwbanned | Jan 14 2024 13:03 utc | 170
Taking out the NATO ISR involves taking out the Empires’ satellites and that could be escalatory enough to instigate a nuclear response.
Why would the Kremlin take that drastic approach and the ensuing liability when they are currently prevailing on the battlefield?

Posted by: canuck | Jan 14 2024 13:23 utc | 176

Ukrainian casualties were already reported by sources on both sides to be extreme even before the depletion of its defences left its frontline personnel more vulnerable, with life expectancies at some frontline positions in 2023 being as low as four hours while conscript units, sent into high intensity combat with little training, were known to have casualty rates as high as 80-90 percent.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/gates-hell-bunker-busting-glide-bombs

Posted by: Apollyon | Jan 14 2024 13:35 utc | 178

@65
Shadow:
People with covid do die from lung edema. It’s a typical point of mortality. It is the result of what’s called a cytokine storm. For accurate covid trt info see FLCCC.

Posted by: Tusky | Jan 14 2024 13:54 utc | 180

the obnoxious canuck troll has parked its ass here and is not interested in anything but incessant stupid cut and paste bloviations.
Whole comments of its cohorts reposted to repeat its nonsense then pass judgement.
You are correct
You and not correct
These trolls have invaded and reduced the qulality as is their intent.
It was bound to happen as MOA became too valuable.
This site will continue to slide as more useful tools bring their shovels of shit to dump here..

Posted by: ld | Jan 14 2024 14:12 utc | 182

Ghost of Zanon | Jan 14 2024 4:40 utc | 112
*** If you live in France, the UK, or Germany it is probably a good idea to think about emigration because it is likely those countries governments will become completely unhinged and start killing their own citizens at scale once Russia’s total victory over their pet becomes too obvious to deny anymore.***
The UK regime is already preparing. Some might argue they’ve already started. But in the early stages, via a compendium of more subtle and infrastructural means. The overt disposal comes later.
Seems there is allegedly little or no money available for pensions, NHS (other than a proliferation of useless bureaucrats and potentially lethal ‘experimental’ jabs from Pfizer/Moderna) adequate welfare and general repairs. But billions of pounds get magically produced to give to the zio-nazi in Ukraine, or top spend on NATO wars.
And to heavily subsidise the foreign multinationals and financial spivs that with political establishment collusion effectively stole British public utilities.
BlackRock just acquired Gatwick airport. Next the regime (including its fake “opposition”) intends to impose so-called “freeports”. And all over the country, councils years ago signed up to the “fifteen minute city” scheme (even those with no cities) — though nowadays not one of them will admit to exactly what that means, or just why such a thing was agreed to at all and by what authorisation.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 14 2024 14:25 utc | 184

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jan 14 2024 12:48 utc | 166
There is plenty of documentary evidence that the Russian’s initial plan was a coup-de-main, once that failed they had a contingency plan, NATO did not, big difference. Trying to suggest that every set back is really the result of anti-Russian propaganda is Soviet-grade dissembling.
Posted by: canuck | Jan 14 2024 12:51 utc | 167
Very stupid, possibly as idiotic, with as many long-term ramifications as the restrictions imposed on the Germany, post-WW1. Then again, par for the course for the Darwinian dregs, kept on life-support by their neo-feudalists puppeteers, who are ostensibly our leaders.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 14 2024 12:06 utc | 162
I can think of a couple of apposite Nietzsche quotes about monsters and the abyss, as a response, but I’d only be accused of being a fascist sympathiser. Maybe I’ll settle for the trite ‘those who cannot remember the past……’ instead, or is that still too empire-centric for you?
Posted by: canuck | Jan 14 2024 13:06 utc | 172
Self-appointed mind-guards ironically destroy that which they claim to value and protect. If you want to know why armies are routed, just imagine the attitude of some posters multiplied throughout its entire command structure.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 11:41 utc | 158
It’s a good job I don’t use this blog, or poster’s comments, as a source of personal validation then.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 14 2024 14:35 utc | 186

“the obnoxious canuck troll has parked its ass here and is not interested in anything but incessant stupid cut and paste bloviations.”
Posted by: ld | Jan 14 2024 14:12 utc | 183
In my opinion, you are the obnoxious one with your vague ad hominens: you negatively judge my process yet you have not yet posted one iota of rebutting or refuting any of my ideas.
An intellectual bridge too far for you?
I’m interested in ideas not anthropormising individuals with their ideas. When I was a hockey coach I continually instructed my players, “play the man not the puck”; in blog discussions it would be the complete opposite: “play the puck [the idea] not the man [the authour]”
If you dislike my posts I have an idea for you; simply stop reading them to lessen your pain [Canuk is stealing that quote from Star Trek IV, editor]
Have a good Sunday.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 14 2024 14:46 utc | 188

Flash | Jan 14 2024 11:30 utc | 155
*** Is Macron a fag? That explains a lot if true ***
Odd reports in UK newspapers years ago about him and his (at that time) bodyguard.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 14 2024 15:03 utc | 190

404 – a waste land of Nazi’s merged with zionism coupled to or coupling with Biden diversity.
In one of the early Rus Mod briefings they stated they had struck a barracks and the survivors had run out naked, with the comment that it was plain what they had been up to. In a rus mod video reposted on twitter with a cryptic comment. Not much was clear so due to the cryptic comment I blew it up full screen. Two ukroids in a trench, the video from a grenade drone as it positioned over them. Even full screen I had to look closely then I realized one was busy sucking his mate off in the bloody tench. I guess a bit absorbed in what they were doing to see the drone over head. If it was a good drop, they would have gone out with a bang. As it was the grenade was a little off target and the pair only received a few unexpected penetrations.
A bit over a week back I did a bit of gardening but has taken about a week to recover. As I started to recover I began looking at the comments here again to see if there was any info I had missed. The first day I went to the last page of the ukraine thread as I start from the end so I can see usernames before wasting time reading idiotic comments. On that day, virtually the entire last page was taken up by shadow spammer so I gave up. Next day tried again and again the same. Now we have diversity enthusiasts running cover the the spammer and crew. All SMO blowins.
Its like the whole debauched garbage bag of 404 has been dumped on this blog.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 14 2024 15:09 utc | 192

Posted by: ld | Jan 14 2024 14:45 utc | 188
In preference to what? A generalised comment that subsumes the individuality of posters, in favour of commentary supporting the tribal orthodoxy, or relating more evidence that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Sorry, I’ll stick to responding to each poster personally, as others have said you are not compelled to read everything posted here, I certainly don’t have the time or inclination.
On a more interesting tack, the recent footage of the Bradleys versus the lone T-90 was a microcosm of so many elements of the SMO from: exposing the more prolific YouTube commentators lack of expertise or blatant agendas, to the ISR imposed micro-scale of the conflict to the strengths and weaknesses of both sides on display, quite illuminating.

Posted by: Milites | Jan 14 2024 16:27 utc | 194

Posted by: Flash | Jan 14 2024 11:30 utc | 155
For instance:
https://www.tiktok.com/@leducdeparis1/video/7264253406053780769?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
At 1 minute.
And:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=macron+avec+des+noirs&iax=images&ia=images

Posted by: Naive | Jan 14 2024 18:52 utc | 196

Peter Gold @193
This is exactly the kind of commentary that is very hard to deal with. SMO blow-ins my ass! My involvement here for the last 3 years is mostly reading (98%) but it’s getting harder to enjoy this once fantastic site because of the attitude of some of the holier-than-thou “regulars”. I have been associated with many comments sections in my time since they were called message boards and I connected online with a USR modem. Most of them have soured me on them cuz of this shit that ends up occurring with increased frequency.
Say your piece and ignore those that have goofy agendas, oh and pls can we try and keep the comments to around 100-150 words instead of 1200??? Please??

Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 14 2024 19:49 utc | 198

Posted by: Milites | Jan 14 2024 21:19 utc | 200
I agree.
I don’t know how it was done exactly in the yankeeland, but what is sure is that it was a huge operation started by Events201 on 18.10.2019. Gates was in it of course. In Europe it was lead by Ursula the Hyena with a secret contract. Switzerland ordered 32 millions injections for a population of 8 millions, babies included.
The covid and the injections are bioweapons, that is the spike protein. My guess is that it worked much less than expected as a bioweapon. And the quick mutations made the circulating virus inoffensive, but not the injections (= spike protein). The questions are: who was corrupted? At which level?

Posted by: Naive | Jan 14 2024 22:50 utc | 200