“Radical new” idea from Zhivoff:

Multi-domain warfare and methods of counteraction.
I am writing this again so that all decision-makers on the architecture of army command and control will have no illusions.
The same story is being told in different sectors of the front. The enemy uses his firepower very flexibly and doses it well depending on the complexity of the target and its ability to defend itself.
Our enemy replaced the physical front line with a virtual one , creating a seamless battle space through the use of multi-layer reconnaissance and predictive and analytical fire distribution systems.
The latter allowed him, among other things, to abandon continuous lines of trenches, i.e. classic front line. Before us is a full-fledged combat machine of a multi-domain war . Which, unlike us, work not from the entrusted sector of the front, but from the goal.
Superiority in drones and reconnaissance equipment is not the reason for what is happening, but a consequence of the application of the troop command and control model I described.
I would rate the likelihood that we can quickly deploy such a control system as extremely low. Therefore, if you cannot catch up with your opponent in development, you need to return him to your technological and managerial level. But we are up to this task.
It is necessary to cut down the basic communication and control nodes that ensure the operation of this NATO system in Ukraine: generation, Internet, data processing servers. In a zone of 25 km from the LBS, the enemy should not have a single wire, generator or telephone tower left.
This is a doable task. Our advantage is that by returning the enemy to our level of control, we will be stronger than him.
If you can’t destroy the enemy’s network supports, just burn them with napalm. The lives of our soldiers are more important than humanism.

Posted by: Boo | Jul 26 2024 20:26 utc | 303

303 – Mother Theresa devoted her entire life to caring for the poor, sick and destitute in India.
She was completely and utterly selfless in every single way. Get a grip……

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Jul 27 2024 2:46 utc | 305

Interesting watching the progression of the Russian peacetime army as it transforms into a combat hardened lean mean fighting machine.
Developing tactics and fine tuning weapons, officers with successful combat experience being promoted ect.
I see another logistics officer at the top end has just been arrested for corruption. And that is where the lean comes in. Russia is developing a fighting machine that can run on the smell of an oily rag. Very economical to run yet without sacrificing power.
The very opposite of the utterly corrupt US war industry.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 27 2024 3:43 utc | 307

Posted by: Paranaense | Jul 27 2024 4:10 utc | 309
Sounds like Milites might be a zionist.
He jas raised my ire a few times with statements that had shades of disingenuousness.
But no proof he is here under fake pretense, and overall, his analysis is worth the read. I have suspected he might even be pro Ukraine, but even then, it doesn’t matter to me, because he does at least seem to bring down the chorus of NATO weapons are shit. They aren’t. They have problems, but they also are deadly.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 27 2024 4:24 utc | 309

Anyone remember this? The poster perhaps seeing this?
Posted by: High Speed Idiot | Aug 29 2023 3:47 utc | 212
It was all about Kiev Ukraine land and assets being sold off and international buyers profiting hugely from it.
I wonder if this is/was true? Still is the case?
Russia’s rep at the UN recently made a speech suggesting large parts of Kiev Ukraine belonged to foreigners. Certain people deny this and claim Kiev Ukraine law prohibits it. (Yes, famously most corrupt place in the world and yet they claim their ‘law’ prohibits things and therefore they cannot be).
Anyone happen to know anything?

Posted by: abrogard | Jul 27 2024 5:31 utc | 311

My 313?
typos again.
I seem to tire very quickly now, and no longer any remissions. Downfall of this ugly empire is something I want to see before I go.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 27 2024 6:07 utc | 313

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 27 2024 6:07 utc | 314
Well whatever the problem I hope you overcome it. Soon. And thank you for the post. Have you any links or references to back up the claim that Americans own those rights? That’d be what I’m looking for, the ‘ammunition’ I want. Sober a few Kiev Ukrainians up a bit.
🙂

Posted by: abrogard | Jul 27 2024 9:07 utc | 315

I may be looking in the wrong place or maybe just missed them but haven’t seen any posts by bevin for some time.
I welcome james’s posts amongst many others but miss bevin’s scholarly input. Hope he’s well.

Posted by: Vragtes | Jul 27 2024 9:39 utc | 317

Peter AU1@313….I doubt the US has any rights in 404 as far as land goes, unless they take and hold it, or, fuck, heaven forbid, Russia gives it up. But the grain growing on those fields, like here, belongs to the Patent owner.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 27 2024 12:47 utc | 319

@ Peter AU1 | Jul 27 2024 6:07 utc | 314
Crazy ideas for you to consider. I’m trying them, because I researched them, but can’t vouch for since I honestly can’t tell the difference. Perhaps because I’m “okay” healthwise.
red/infrared light therapy (helps power mitochondria, by directly energizing a chromophore) (buy cheap flexible pad with LED’s…or sunbathe?)
Niacinamide (body turns it into something that helps power mitochondria)
high D, plus k2 and zinc (seek Dr. Berg video on subject)
Higher doses of all vitamins, because absorption declines as we age
ozonated water (supposedly kills off unhealthy cells)
fasting (ditto)
resveratrol, Quercetin

Posted by: despondent | Jul 27 2024 13:04 utc | 321

Has anyone linked to this article yet?
Why’d A Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Just Kill Their Country’s Top “Linguistic Nationalist”?
https://korybko.substack.com/p/whyd-a-ukrainian-neo-nazi-just-kill
Gives a perspective I wasn’t aware of.
Ethnic Russians that have converted to “Ukrainian” are some of the most fanatic of those fighting against Russia.
(Is there something above 10 on the fanatic scale? Azov Battalion is a 10).
A Nazi women opened the closet door and outed these ethnic Russian. She pissed some people off and so they assassinated her.

Posted by: librul | Jul 27 2024 13:50 utc | 323

@ abrogard | Jul 27 2024 9:07 utc | 316
@ Peter AU1 | Jul 27 2024 13:55 utc | 325
Good luck finding documents. Likely held by shells.
Like this guy:
https://landreport.com/farmer-bill-gates
Only the paper trails into Ukraine will be harder to follow, probably.

Posted by: despondent | Jul 27 2024 15:31 utc | 325

https://fabianscheidler.substack.com/p/europes-path-to-war-and-self-destruction

Posted by: JAB | Jul 27 2024 16:52 utc | 327

Just read through the latest S article, doing some math on the MOD report, had to take my socks of, phew, lucky for the extra digits, a plus here, a carry there and holy crap, Russians are saying they killed or injured 13k plus Ukrainians and vacationing foreigners over the past few weeks. Lots of new NATO kit already in theatre. The hardware clobber list alone is fairly impressive…..almost FABulous.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 27 2024 18:53 utc | 329

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jul 27 2024 19:04 utc | 331
Drones give better accuracy. Exactly why they are deployed massively now, and more befitting a “smo” than a genocidal war. If it were genocidal war, your axiom would hold true.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 27 2024 19:12 utc | 331

The only difference between sniping with a drone as opposed to a rifle or ATGM is you don’t need a direct line of sight with a drone.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Jul 27 2024 20:06 utc | 333
That’s a big difference.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 27 2024 20:13 utc | 333

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jul 27 2024 19:04 utc | 331
Yup, I wonder how many drones equal the destructive power of an FAB 1,500, or even a 152mm round? Don’t also forget rates of fire (rof), even the relative sluggardly T-x, with their auto-loaders can fire one round every six seconds, meaning a target has only travelled some 30m before another 1km per sec round is heading down range. This was my point about drones, they might have an accuracy edge (though most modern FCS’s are very accurate) but they cannot reach the fire density, or weight, required to stop a determined assault.
Reliance on only one weapon system is never a good idea, ask Harold II, because not only does it restrict the tactical solutions available to a commander, it also means those solutions become predictable and prone to counters. Those counters go through a series of evolutionary changes, whose effectiveness can reach a critical point of nullification unless its target also adapts. The drone as a platform is severely limited in this ability, any increase in size or weight significantly reduces its effectiveness and, bar radical new technologies or tactics, it becomes a known commodity.
As for usage, drones are used by the Russians because it is a force multiplier and helps address traditional weaknesses in the Soviet DNA that still resided in Russian doctrine, that other technologies had not fully addressed. It’s not because of the nature of the conflict, given the massively destructive systems they’ve already liberally employed. Ukrainians used them initially to give an edge over the Russians, but now it’s because it’s increasingly all they have to effectively counter the Russian attacks. One might summarise the situation simply, Russia uses drones because she chooses to, Ukraine uses them because she has no choice, compelling or compelled, acting, reacting, increasing, decreasing, all component parts of the incline/decline cycle.

Posted by: Milites | Jul 27 2024 21:10 utc | 335

That’s a big difference.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 27 2024 20:13 utc | 334
Yep … we’ve come a long way from the days of the smooth bore musket. If you want to take it back even further the sniper was the guy hiding in the tree throwing coconuts. Modern optics, ammunition and high powered rifles took us from 100M with a musket out to around 2K and now drones increase that range to 10k – 20k.
Tools and weapons change over time but the tactics themselves are timeless. What’s a “turtle tank” escorting a handful of APC’s if not a fast moving mini siege tower?

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jul 27 2024 21:45 utc | 337

@Milites | Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:06:00 GMT | 329

I don’t hide my political allegiances, but I don’t bring them into my analysis either

Are you sure about that? Most biases are done subconsciously, and I’ve read enough of your “analysis” on China to know where your biases are without you ever declaring your political allegiance. Everyone has biases, so that’s the issue.
As long as you admit to them, and how it colors your analysis, so people know where you are coming from. But spare us the holier than thou attitude in saying you don’t bring them into your analysis. I’ve read enough of your posts to know that’s not true.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 27 2024 22:42 utc | 339

As long as you admit to them, and how it colors your analysis, so people know where you are coming from. But spare us the holier than thou attitude in saying you don’t bring them into your analysis. I’ve read enough of your posts to know that’s not true.
Posted by: James M. | Jul 27 2024 22:42 utc | 340
We can all read and make up our mind, Milites does his Milites stuff in a very consistent way.
I don’t think any signaling about him is needed.
How about discussing this interesting one
“Place: #Sadove
🕰 Date: ~25.07.2024
📌 Coordinates: 46.695658,32.824700
👩‍🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Russian airstrike blows up Ukrainian UAV control center in Sadove.
🖥 id: 26072024.0646
✉️source: https://t.me/HersonEnot/2114“
Haven’t seen too many UAV control centers before, humint + Mr. FAB?

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 27 2024 23:14 utc | 341

@ Peter AU1 | Jul 27 2024 6:07 utc | 314
Crazy ideas for you to consider. I’m trying them, because I researched them, but can’t vouch for since I honestly can’t tell the difference. Perhaps because I’m “okay” healthwise.
red/infrared light therapy (helps power mitochondria, by directly energizing a chromophore) (buy cheap flexible pad with LED’s…or sunbathe?)
Niacinamide (body turns it into something that helps power mitochondria)
high D, plus k2 and zinc (seek Dr. Berg video on subject)
Higher doses of all vitamins, because absorption declines as we age
ozonated water (supposedly kills off unhealthy cells)
fasting (ditto)
resveratrol, Quercetin
Posted by: despondent | Jul 27 2024 13:04 utc | 322
I will add one to that list, one which largely obviates the need for the list: just eat beef and nothing else. In the main.
I can vouch for it in my own case.
Is all.
Perhaps add the aspirin cancer thing. Something about one aspirin a day being a preventative I think. Not sure. I take one when I remember just for the hell of it.
Bottom line we gotta go when we gotta go and the good news is the NDE accounts. check fairdinkchurch.com for instance.

Posted by: abrogard | Jul 27 2024 23:35 utc | 343

Posted by: despondent | Jul 27 2024 15:31 utc | 326
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 27 2024 13:55 utc | 325
Thank you for each of those.
Anyone else with any knowledge/references to foreign ownership of late of Ukrainian land please tell what you can.

Posted by: abrogard | Jul 27 2024 23:43 utc | 345

abrogard | Jul 27 2024 23:35 utc | 344
Main thing I need is prescription anti inflammatory type drugs/ immune regulators suitable for the autoimmune conditions I have. The one thing that does help is quinine bark extract but that is a chemical cocktail along with the quinine which is a known noninflammatory, the synthetic version even being prescribed for one autoimmune condition.
The side effects are near as bad as what its supposed to suppress.
Vitamin D3 is supposed help regulate the immune system and that may help marginally. I take it from time to time. Vitamins only help though if your body is low in them. Main thing I should take regularly is a balanced multi mineral supplement.
You can go to and hardware store or garden center and find a balanced fertilizer mix with the full range of minerals a plant needs in balanced proportion.
Same with livestock supplements.
Finding the same for humans? I look on the shelves and there’s just faggot yuppy cocktails of snake oils and frogs feet or whatever they put in them and happens to be the fashion.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 28 2024 0:19 utc | 347

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jul 27 2024 21:45 utc | 338
What’s fascinating about modern Fire Control Systems (FCS) is, firstly how prevalent they are now, especially in NATO equipment, secondly how they reduce the impact of experienced troops. The US were surprised when they found that M1 tank gunners, using the new IFCS, regularly shot better than average (‘the so-called ‘snipers’ who were tasked with opening engagements first) only benefited by a 5% increase in accuracy, whereas the average gunners saw a 10-20% increase. Their conclusion was that better sighting systems made overall accuracy a far more consistent quantity. Ukraine therefore benefits more from such mitigating systems, given its troops have far less training, and far more access to them.
Posted by: James M. | Jul 27 2024 22:42 utc | 340
You mistake my political posts for my ones on Ukraine, which are based on my knowledge and experience, but you also took my comment out of context, as I was responding to posters who seemed to suggest a comment about my living in Israel affected my analysis of the SMO. If it soothes your ruffled brow, I’ll add the obligatory intellectual caveat, ‘I try not to bring my biases….’. As for China, they have a theoretical military capability, not a practical or proven one, where’s the bias in that?
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 27 2024 23:14 utc | 342
‘Milites does his Milites stuff’, I like that, thanks.

Posted by: Milites | Jul 28 2024 0:55 utc | 349

@Milites | Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:55:00 GMT | 350

As for China, they have a theoretical military capability, not a practical or proven one, where’s the bias in that?

Well that doesn’t say much. The last war China fought was over forty years ago, so it’s kind of hard to “prove” their military capability. The only nation-states that have a “proven” military capability currently, wherein they can fight a sustained interstate war with a peer competitor are Russia and Ukraine.
All other conflicts ongoing are intrastate, insurgency or civil war, which China doesn’t face. For its part, the US has not fought a peer since WWII, and the wars it has fought in since then it has fared poorly in. So in “theory” the Chinese military might be superior to the US, but it’s probably something that will, hopefully, never be “proven.”
As for your analysis of the SMO – I agree with you on a macro-level, that Russia will win, but that’s never been hard to figure out. On the micro-level, analysis, yours or anyone else’s, is mostly useless and reactive, since the war, and its tactics and strategy are constantly changing. And you’ve been plenty wrong, as have I and many other posters here. It doesn’t help that Russia and Ukraine both keep everything shrouded in secrecy, and propagandize military losses.
As for where you live, it does impact and influence one’s thinking, to the point that you said you won’t comment on Israel matters, because you lived there. An admission of bias. It may not impact your thinking on Ukraine, or it might, how are we to know? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt there, and take you at your word that it doesn’t influence you.
Even still no one is immune to biases, and your flippant remark on “…trying not to bring my biases in” is leagues better from your prior “I don’t bring them into my analysis either” as in never. I don’t care what you believe in, but I just found your latter comment arrogant, annoying, and fake. As I’ve said before I don’t pretend to be unbiased, but you apparently do… pretend that is.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 28 2024 1:30 utc | 351

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 28 2024 2:28 utc | 353
James M has bias towards mainstream narratives. He also tends to be naive, because he greatly underestimates the power of the underground world, (as in criminal and corruption), and of the millennia old arts of intrigue, conspiracy and deception. Overall, he trusts the authorities.

Posted by: UWDude | Jul 28 2024 4:47 utc | 353

@ Peter Au
Perhaps the last thing you need is some internet stranger pitching health info. But, if nothing else, think of it as a mental break from the “fun” topics we always discuss here…. 😉
Sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_C3RIudfFw
Ignore the click-baity title/intro. It’s atypical for this guy. This video content is still good.
Other videos that perhaps provide pertinent info:
https://yandex.com/video/search?text=dr+berg+autoimmune
Also, ait might be worth trying “carnivore”, as suggested by @ abrogard | Jul 27 2024 23:35 utc | 344.

Posted by: despondent | Jul 28 2024 4:57 utc | 355

306:

“Mother Theresa devoted her entire life to caring for the poor, sick and destitute in India.
She was completely and utterly selfless in every single way. Get a grip……”

The truth is vastly different to the myth –
Mother Teresa believed the “suffering of the poor was good for the world” (her words) so she gathered terminally ill poor people in a House of the Dying and made them suffer with NO medical care (they were dying, so didn’t need it!)
Her sadistic failure of care killed people – being looked after by nuns with no medical training – including e.g. one child who could have been saved by sending to hospital, said a visiting nurse –“If we send him, we have to send them all”. So he just died. Needlessly, deliberately. Like many of her poor victims.
Faced with one inmate screaming in pain from terminal cancer (with no pain relief of course) she blissfully answered that was “just Jesus hugging you” ! Really ? Which Christian doctrine says a hug from Jesus brings indescribable pain ?
She was a thief and fraud as well – 100s of millions of $ of donations given to help the poor went dishonestly to the church. Less than 10% for her suffering victims. Donated medical equipment sat unused.
She visited London and went on a big shop at Harrods then upon reaching the register refused to pay because she was so famous ! “Don’t you know who I am ?”
Mother Teresa was a sadistic killer, and a thief, and a fraud.

Posted by: Kapyong | Jul 28 2024 7:33 utc | 357

despondent | Jul 28 2024 4:57 utc | 356 ad others offerring some thoughts – much apreacheated.
Very off topic for this thread now but anyway –
Ankylosing Spondylitis. A defenate diagnoses on that as the causes change to the spine and pelvis. Not severe,the three sections of the pelvis calcified/fused together, lower vertebrae fused to the pelvis, changes to the bone in the upper spine.
People with ankylosing spondylitis are also likely to have 1) juvenile spondylitis which inflammation of knees ankles ect in early teens. I had that but never ‘officially’ diagnosed as at the time it was not described in the medical literature.
2) at a later age, many develop Crohns disease -inflammation of the large intestine sometime to the point of bleeding. I 100% have that but diagnosed.
3)The Australian arthritis foundation say many with AS cannot eat citrus or it should be avoided – why don’t the dumb fcks just say citric acid intolerance and be done with it.
I now know I have had citric acid intolerance all my life but it has become more severe as I aged. A/S is hereditary, citric acid intolerance is hereditary.
That puts virtually all fruit and veg out.
Just to make thing a little worse to understate it – back about 2007 I developed mammal allergy from tick bite. unknown at the time by medical literature But know well described and although first described by an Australian medical researcher, now US medical has a far better understanding of it than Australian medical.
That puts all mammal products out. A mammal is any animal whatsoever that raises its young with milk.
On top of that is E471. made synthetically as an emulsifier, it occurs naturally and at times high amounts in seed and nut oils. All nuts and oil seeds are out.
That leaves just poultry, fish, reptiles ect plus some cereal grains.
But a problem there also. I have to be very careful of fat and oil intake as that can trigger histamine headache which is similar to migraine headache but possible more severe.
Oily fish,baked or grilled is enough to trigger it, so form me it is basically boiled or steamed fish and boiled/steamed skin chicken cooked long enough to leach most of the oils out.
I never get colds or flues but various normal chemical compounds in normal foods do cause my immune system to run amok and the only thing that will help is chemical compounds that help regulate or moderate the immune system.
I do need a good well balanced mineral and vitamin supplement to make up for my limited diet and just functioning digestive system but that is near impossible to find. With animal husbandry and gardening that sort of thing is everywhere but for humans ??
Due to the way our metabolism works, it is far better to have a full and balanced supplement of every mineral and vitamin that we must obtain from food rather than just trying find the correct dose of this and that single items. That is both my experience with animal husbandry and also by using myself as a guinea pig for testing various doses of various supplements.
There is just so much in medical science yet it is as degraded like every other institution here in the west.
Herbal medicine can be good, but its a very hit and miss affair, to be to correctly identify a disease and then a plant or whatever containing chemical compounds require to mitigate ore cure the condition… Medical science can, not that it always does, correctly identified the problem then match the chemical compound in correct amounts to that condition.
The quackery that masquerades as GPs and whatever other useless creds Pfizer ‘science’ I hate it with a passion like the rest of this rotten collapsing system called the west – the recent family event debauchery in Paris very much a showcase of the pinnacle of western ‘values’.
Those programmed monkeys that are now the face of the medical profession, the tattoed punks strutting around with guns on their hips now now pass as police officers – just part of this whole rotten and crumbling system we watch and comment on here every day.
It gets to me a bit at times watching all this crap and being able to do nothing more than just sit here when I had always led an active life.
Best to leave my health stuff at this as its a long way of topic, so thanks again for offering various thoughts/tips ect.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 28 2024 12:10 utc | 359

Newbie | Jul 28 2024 12:24 utc | 361
The SMO gives Putin time. He doesn’t need to negotiate yet. What is he “waiting” for? The collapse or retreat of the US monetary hold on the world. The budgetary collapse of the EU or American support for NATO.
Who pays in the end, and can they really afford it? (See Orban’s comments, among others)
The BRICS have now agreed and have apparently launched their alternative to SWIFT, to a loud silence from the outside world. Saudi Arabia is going all in towards that side of the world, as even South America tries to join a more stable political future. So the Middle East will follow the Saudi’s, not the “waste”.
*
New physical movements of ships and planes by Russia and China combined, (deliberately so) are opening up the prospect that the US will find itself “surrounded”! The delocalization of US forces to Australia (New and improved bases in Darwin) shows that they are now having to stretch their forces across the world to retain influence. (or simply to keep them out of range of drones?) That cannot really be sustainable, even if the Pentagon lies all the time (You do know that they are officially “allowed” to lie about anything, whatever)
***
One main point against a “truce” is what Blackrock, Vanguard, Cargill etc, expect to get out of it. Either, they sell rehypothecated “shares” to “suckers”, (read the EU, UN nations, etc.) or try to get some longer term form of profit from their “rights” to land and assets. Which they would want if they manage to be bailed out by the belligerents or onlookers.
Probably a non-starter. Particularly if they had thought of getting their hands on the Russian billions (300), or the later “reconstruction” business. (Too many takers and hands outstretched, methinks)
***
Putin is probably having a lot of “fun” just saying nothing and appreciating the mounting confusion in the unserried ranks of the waste.

Posted by: Stonebird | Jul 28 2024 13:07 utc | 361

Pokrovskoye direction: the liberation of most of Novoselovka Pervaya and the aggravation of the defense crisis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The situation as of 16:00 on July 28, 2024
The defense crisis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pokrovsky direction continues to worsen: over the past days, Russian troops have advanced significantly on both the northern and southern flanks. While passions are boiling in the enemy’s information space and the search for those responsible for the loss of new positions, the attack aircraft of the RF Armed Forces are gradually approaching the liberation of several more settlements.
At the Tymofeevka-Zhelanne line, Russian troops liberated Lozovatskoye and are now advancing in the vicinity of settlements. To the south, a section of the C050913 highway between Lozovatskoye and Progress and several forest belts to the west of it came under the control of the RF Armed Forces. Recently, a video was circulated on the Web in which attack aircraft captured a stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located in the northern part of this section of the road, which confirms our information about its occupation by Russian troops.
Southwest of Progress, the RF Armed Forces, after several days of fighting, captured Volchy and are now developing an offensive along the railway towards the Zhelannoye station. According to some information, the assault groups have already reached the eastern outskirts of Vesele, as well as the extreme forest belts in front of Zhelanne, which is about one kilometer away. Enemy positions in both villages are actively processed by Russian aviation and artillery, while Russian UAV crews are hunting for the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
So far, Russian troops are moving around the main defensive lines of the enemy, gradually enveloping them from the north. After the liberation of Zhelanny, several large enemy strongholds east of the village will be under the threat of encirclement, which, in the event of a frontal assault, could cause a lot of inconvenience to the RF Armed Forces. On the section from Vesely to Sergeevka, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also equipped, in front of which the fields of “dragon’s teeth” are lined up. In the future, for a further offensive to the west, Russian troops will have to overcome this line.
The battles for Novoselivka Pervaya, which began more than a week ago, are coming to an end. On July 24, soldiers of the 114th brigade of the RF Armed Forces published a video with the Victory banner waving in the southwestern part of the settlement, which indicates the occupation of most of it. However, according to preliminary data, the village has already been completely liberated by Russian troops, along with a wide section of the front to the south, up to the Umanskoye-Yasnobrodovka line.
The trend towards the deterioration of the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pokrovsky direction continues: the enemy, even despite active counterattacks, is unable to stabilize the situation. Ukrainian formations also complain about the increased activity of Russian drones in the vicinity of Pokrovsk, which leads to serious losses in vehicles and armored vehicles.
In several key areas at once, the RF Armed Forces achieve success and bypass the enemy’s powerful defensive positions, creating a threat of their encirclement. So far, the further actions of the command of the RF Armed Forces and their strategic goal remain unclear to us and, probably, to the enemy. Whether it will be Pokrovsk or a turn to the south in the direction of Selidovo – Ukrainsk, we will find out in the near future.
https://t.me/rybar/62178

Posted by: guest | Jul 28 2024 14:05 utc | 363

Well, Peter thinks I am in general an idiot but I’ll throw this out anyway.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 28 2024 14:59 utc | 365
You also post a lot of good stuff. Depends on subject.
Wrong thread so I won’t but on this subject I could throw in a few thoughts and get more of yours.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 28 2024 15:09 utc | 365

Stonebird | Jul 28 2024 13:07 utc | 362
Lavrov accepting the challenge of hybrid war. And that is what you write about in that comment.
Ukraine is the centerpiece, the catalyst, to the formation of the multi-polar world and so I watch it. The building of the new world order is a little slower that I hoped at first, but as I watch, it is being built to last.
The post WWII order was built anglo/european centric, but the new is truly multi-polar.
In Ukraine, Russia has demonstrated the emperor is naked. The bear just sits there frontlines hardly moving as it knows the enemy will come to it, and whatever US/Nato throws at it, the just swats it down and does not react to bee stings.
Considering the internet is a very recent thing, being able to watch this in real time….
I’ve read a lot of history and the history of the western world is the history of war, but this is something else, being played out under the shadow of the thermonuke.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 28 2024 15:25 utc | 367

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jul 28 2024 15:19 utc | 367
#############
We know Putin wants to constitutionally prohibit Naziism in Ukraine and that Ukraine never becomes a forward NATO base.
Let’s say he gets the Donbass (now Russia proper) liberated.
What do you think that he does about Finland, Sweden, and Norway becoming new NATO vectors?
The Nazi problem may be the easiest to solve. The NATO problem is much bigger.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 28 2024 15:43 utc | 369

What do you think that he does about Finland, Sweden, and Norway becoming new NATO vectors?
The Nazi problem may be the easiest to solve. The NATO problem is much bigger.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 28 2024 15:43 utc | 370
All that means is were back to 1986 again … Pershing II’s vs SS-20’s. One day soon, when all the hysteria over the Russians invading Europe is over, the Fins are going to wake up to find that hosting US nuclear weapons doesn’t make them more secure … it makes them ground zero.
It’s the same situation as 1986 except this time China is on the side of the Russians and the USA is not the power it was in 1986, in fact Germans are already expressing their displeasure over the plan to base US missiles in Germany. We’re 2.5 years into the SMO and we’re already seeing cracks in EU solidarity against Russia. Hopefully those cracks widen as governments get turfed out and if not then we all get smoked.

Posted by: HB_Norica | Jul 28 2024 16:42 utc | 371

Peter AU and Vit D folks
The American Endocrinology Society has be recommending blood levels of vitamin D for children and adults to be between 40 and 60 ng/mL since around 2010/2011. This is because they understand that Vit D effects the immunological system and cerebral functioning
and not just bone development. The minimum limits I have heard are around 40 ng/mL for basic immunological functioning and 50 To 60 for cerebral functioning.
One of the major promoters of higher standards for Vitamin D is Dr Lesile Matthew’s. He was chief of trauma surgery at Grady Hospital in Atlanta for years. His involvement with Vitamin D began when he tried to find out why his black American patients didn’t respond as well to trauma treatments as his white American patients. Being a black American himself he ruled out disparity of treatment. Then one day an Endocrinologist was called to assess one of his black patients. The Endocrinologist took one look at the blood work and said thus guys Vit D level is almost zero. Dr Mathews was puzzled and asked why that was important. The Endocrinologist explained that aside from bones Vit D was important for immunological and cerebral functioning. The light came on for Dr Matthew’s and he understood why his black stroke patients weren’t responding as well to treatment. Essentially darker skin color absorb less sunlight and make less Vitamin D so their blood levels were typically lower. Another thing he observed was that you can have normal blood levels before an infection and near zero after it takes hold.
Below is a website link for Dr Matthew’s. There is more information there than can be reasonably summarized. During Covid Dr Matthew’s was going all around with his message on Vitamin D ( Radio, TV, podcasts, talks to FDA and CDC, etc). Not much official or main stream media chatter on it.
Let me know if this link is functional. Just copied didn’t test.
https://vitamindwiki.com/Vitamin+D,+trauma,+and+blacks+-+Dr.+Matthews+interview+with+transcript+-+Jan+2019

Posted by: Jerr | Jul 28 2024 23:46 utc | 373

@Newbie | Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:28:00 GMT | 353

Disclaimer, I don’t have particular military knowledge and even less experience.

That’s evident. You should understand what A2/AD really means. One thing you also failed to mention is political will. Any war fought between China and the US will be over Taiwan. China sees Taiwan as part of it. They will go to great lengths to keep Taiwan a part of China. The US doesn’t care one way or the other about Taiwan.
Oh, American policy-makers talk a good game, and maybe they will send a token force – some Marines from Okinawa and Guam, a naval task force maybe, some bombers. But their hearts aren’t going to be in it. If necessary, China can throw an eight million man army against the renegade island, and overwhelm it by sheer force of numbers.
The US will eventually back off rather than escalate, and Taiwan will be China’s once again. Simply because China has more will to take Taiwan than the US has to protect it. This is a fundamental aspect of warfare.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 29 2024 7:58 utc | 375

Posted by: James M. | Jul 29 2024 7:44 utc | 375
I think that is just wrong. Look how long it took for the world to know of the UK intelligence centre at (forgotten name B*** Park) where enigma was carried out and other things. Those people kept the secret for 50+ years.
Moreover anyone who has the slightest hint of a slip up may find themselves in a fatal accident.
Also any competent conspiracy will use many people who have no idea what is going on and won’t know it is a conspiracy.
You really do not need too many in the know, especially if it can be re-badged as a stuff up.
Let’s look at how many would need to know if there really was a conspiracy to kill trump.
1. the patsy – dead men cannot talk
2. Someone who made sure there was no security on the patsy roof – could be just one person who cave an order and a lot of fools who followed it.
2. Same person who ensured no security on some other place that the real shot came from
3. The actual shooter
So actually only three people with at least one dead. There may have been others but like Henry II they only had to say “can someone rid me of the terrible man” and the job is done. But total deniability – wishing someone dead doesn’t make you guilty in a court anyway.

Posted by: watcher | Jul 29 2024 8:08 utc | 377

@watcher | Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:08:00 GMT | 378

You really do not need too many in the know, especially if it can be re-badged as a stuff up.
Let’s look at how many would need to know if there really was a conspiracy to kill trump.
1. the patsy – dead men cannot talk
2. Someone who made sure there was no security on the patsy roof – could be just one person who cave an order and a lot of fools who followed it.
2. Same person who ensured no security on some other place that the real shot came from
3. The actual shooter
So actually only three people with at least one dead. There may have been others but like Henry II they only had to say “can someone rid me of the terrible man” and the job is done. But total deniability – wishing someone dead doesn’t make you guilty in a court anyway.

I always like looking at Occam’s Razor to see if there is a simpler explanation to a problem or issue. So we have two competing scenarios on the Trump assassination attempt:
1. A disturbed, isolated loner, who wanted to make a name for himself, with easy access to weapons and basic understanding of how to operate them, who exploited a security loophole, and got off some shots before being terminated.
2. A conspiracy of three or more individuals, some with intimate knowledge of Trump’s security arrangements, and with fanatical hatred of Trump, who would have to expend man-hours in searching for the right “patsy”, to make sure whoever they recruited did not flip on them, or get cold feet.
It would have to be someone local, with access to guns, young, unattached, no kids, no wife, and be willing to sacrifice their life to do that, all without speaking to anyone else about it. How many people fit that profile within a hundred square miles of that town in PA? Maybe not that many. But it takes time to recruit someone in that fashion – several months at least. How long was the Butler, PA event planned for, when was it announced? Probably not for as long as it would take to enlist the “patsy.”
Finally, there would be a paper trail – phone logs, emails, snippets of conversation, government vehicle mileage logged. If these were government officials, as you infer, then everything they do is scrutinized. Could they slip through the cracks? Maybe, for a short time, but eventually they will be caught. Someone will remember something, they won’t remember to wipe a certain hard drive, or who they talked to. And even if they did, forensics can find out.
You can believe whatever you want, but there’s no evidence of a vast, or any, conspiracy on the Trump assassination attempt. You infer, without evidence, that because Trump says (but doesn’t follow up on in policy) certain things that make segments of the populace and government angry, certain members of the government plotted his assassination to prevent his return to the presidency. It’s farfetched to be sure.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 29 2024 23:29 utc | 379

@Newbie | Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:44:00 GMT | 381

That they do, but might i remind you Hoover’s FBI?

And what happened there? Lots of reforms to rein in the FBI and prevent the re-rise of a megalomaniac like Hoover. And the FBI under Hoover hardly had carte blanche to do whatever it wanted.

but US can try to choke china, a blockade at a distance might be too much for china at the current stage.

Yes, because a naval blockade at a distance against a land power, with access to markets by land (Russia, SE Asia, Central Asia) is going to work. What do you think the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is designed to do? Or BRICS for that matter? To circumvent US control. A blockade against China will have about as much success as sanctions against Russia.

Talking of political will, Okinawa is currently under US rule and as the population is mainly (genetically) Han… that can become an issue sooner or later.

I know Okinawa intimately well. It isn’t under US rule, it reverted back to Japan in the 1970s. There are a lot of American military personnel there, although within a few years about half the Marines are going to be rotated out to Guam, Hawaii, Australia, and the Philippines. The main issue for China is the Kadena air base where bombers can fly from.
As for the Okinawan people, yes there’s no love lost between them and the Tokyo government. Their indigenous language was stamped out (or at least attempted) by the Japanese imperialists. The older generations still preserve it and speak it, and hand it down to the younger generations as they can. They celebrate Shimi which is similar to the Chinese Qingming, and not prevalent on the mainland. So while, ethnically and politically they aren’t really aligned with the rest of Japan (sort of like how Hawaii is not related to the mainland US), they are also incredibly pacifist.
The only way for them to affect any real change, such as unilaterally declare independence, is through armed revolution, or the backing of a powerful patron. But I don’t see either scenario happening in the near future. Going back to will, the Okinawans lack it. The war, WWII, impacted the people profoundly. Every year they commemorate the end of the Battle of Okinawa with solemn ceremonies. They don’t want to see a return to that, so they meekly accept what the Tokyo government tells them, which is to host American military bases – despite the rapes (another one recently) the murders, and all the other bad behavior.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 30 2024 1:35 utc | 381

This is the difference between a 300 year old empire and a 3000 year old empire. The Chinese have done this before or had it done to them. They know that controlling things of real value trumps fiat.
Posted by: HB_Norica | Jul 28 2024 17:19 utc | 373
not disputing but just wondering. Where/when did China practice thousands or even hundreds of years of statecraft? When you’re a settled hegemonic empire within your own sphere as China is surely the years roll by and you’ve no need to do anything but crush enemies as they pop up, if they pop up? Isn’t it little places like, say, Hungary, that need to practice statecraft? Or maybe Russia with many ethnicities of some important giving the relative population sizes and considering religion, too. Where China can crush any minority within itself at any time as sees no threat from any religion despite he alarm the westerners keep trying to raise.

Posted by: abrogard | Jul 30 2024 3:26 utc | 383