Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 16 2024 19:25 utc | 189
You would probably gain more by monitoring Ukraine‘s economic and financial situation, but hey, I’ve said this before, but your arrogant supremacism built around purely military and territorial positioning continues to leave you in a state of denial.
Watch out for the collapse, not of the Kursk front, nor the Eastern front, but of the National Bank of Ukraine.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 16 2024 19:37 utc | 203

I think, we have all along, suspected that Nato troops have been fighting alongside the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi forces in Ukraine – and now in the Russian region of Kursk.
“All Ukrainian military activities, especially long-planned ones, utilize US surveillance, intelligence, and reconnaissance assistance. The Kursk invasion qualifies here,” retired US Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, told Sputnik. “The weapons systems themselves included US and NATO systems and some of those are operated by US and NATO personnel.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240814/ex-pentagon-analyst-ukraine-couldnt-launch-kursk-terror-attack-without-us-support-1119771399.html

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 16 2024 19:39 utc | 205

The bridge over the Seim River in the village of Zvannoye, Glushkovsky District, Kursk Region, was hit by the Ukrainian Armed Forces using HIMARS. This is clearly visible in the first four holes that the HIMARS leaves behind.
So they were given the go-ahead…
This means that the Ukrainian Armed Forces want to complicate the transfer of equipment of the Russian Armed Forces, and it is also worth forgetting about the further offensive of the Ukrainian army.
There are still two bridges, which means they will be hit.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces just need to freeze this direction so that it is not as costly as in the first days, in order to be able to switch to phase two.
This is not possible yet, since there is a risk of losing all the results, and then phase two does not make any sense.
https://t.me/legitimniy/18543
Posted by: Down South | Aug 16 2024 18:25 utc | 154
They’re trying some extra wedges and to avoid the making of a cauldron top…
Luckily there are a lot of rails to the main nexus in this front

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 16 2024 19:41 utc | 207

unimperator | Aug 16 2024 19:33 utc | 199
I have seen a number of that type munition used on high priority targets. They detonate well above the ground. I think designed to take out tank concentrations.
I take it they are the cluster bombs that use an infrared sighting or target acquisition mechanism then fire a copper slug at the target.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 19:44 utc | 209

And might as well go with this one:
@Anonymous
@Unnamed
@Napoleon
@Ooh Canada
@Victor
What happened to Ukraine’s national gold reserves? Do any of you know what happened to these reserves after the 2014 airlift?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 16 2024 19:46 utc | 211

Ukrainian Forces May Be Planning a ‘Dirty Bomb’ Provocation
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240816/ukrainian-forces-may-be-planning-a-dirty-bomb-provocation-1119797971.html

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 16 2024 19:48 utc | 213

Thank you Peter AU1 for your service in calling out and identifying the numerous trolls that infest the Bar. It makes it easier to skip over and not waste time reading their stupid attempts to influence thought here. Cheers!

Posted by: Greg C | Aug 16 2024 19:49 utc | 215

I second the thank you and callout of Peter AU1 for good work. Cheers, mate, wish I could buy you a real good German beer.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 16 2024 19:51 utc | 217

Russia’s first world-sized mistake was letting Nordstream “slide” (as they say). And with that hugely important destroyed energy resource, the underlying message sent to Russia was “in your face”(as they say). Or maybe it was “do something about it.”
Combine that with multiple, largely uncontested means for delivering all sorts and sizes of lethal weaponry to the Neo-Nazi regime?
Without commensurate or, better, superseding responses from Russia, the rest is anti-climax.

Posted by: elmagnosr | Aug 16 2024 19:55 utc | 219

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 16 2024 19:40 utc | 206
The dirty bomb has an engine and tracks and is called a Challenger II.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 16 2024 19:57 utc | 221

Hey fuck face. The frogs in my pond croak more intellectually than u could ever. We all know who wears the panties u c***. Just another get what u give moment for the trudopian musk mellon. You make canuck synonym for clown. Good job fuck face.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Aug 16 2024 20:00 utc | 223

Per RIA Novosti the planned strike against both nuclear power plants is being supervised by the Intelligence Services of the United Kingdom. Large numbers of Western journalists are in Zaporozhye and Sumy to report on the strikes and ensure early spin.

a prime example of western values.
the perfidious albion, aka the british nazi-supporters, nuking continental europe in effect.
their pressitudes willing to lie and spin a nuclear attack on another nation as something else.
and most likely, the idiotic citizens of the eu swallowing it all.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Aug 16 2024 20:00 utc | 225

Posted by: ChatNPC | Aug 16 2024 19:57 utc | 221
>The dirty bomb has an engine and tracks and is called a Challenger II.
Heh, good one. I suppose if the psychos are determined, they could just drive one into Kursk in a tank and suicide mission it like a Jihadist.
One thing did strike me about these dirty bomb rumors on TG – the dog story about Western journalists in Sumy and Zap doesn’t hunt. Since when have any Western “journalists” been willing to put any skin in the game? They all stay far from the front, safe in cafes in Paris, Berlin, and London. Then they just repeat the Ukrainian Pravda or whatever the CIA sends to their inbox.
Now, some CIA information warfare specialists, on the ground, that I’ll buy.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 16 2024 20:01 utc | 227

ChatNPC | Aug 16 2024 19:57 utc | 221
Going by the one I saw doing what they do best, there would be lot of emissions when they turn into fireworks. I suspect bimbo Baerbock and co would be quite outraged at all those nasty emissions.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 20:03 utc | 229

Aww, what the heck? For the benefit of
@Anonymous
@Unnamed
@Napoleon
@Ooh Canada
@Victor
I’ll just post this again. Plus I know @Julian enjoys it every time it’s posted…
The numbers never go down, for some reason that I am sure
@Anonymous
@Unnamed
@Napoleon
@Ooh Canada
@Victor
can explain…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 16 2024 20:06 utc | 231

Posted by: Victor | Aug 16 2024 19:55 utc | 220
Sorry, but I don’t have a translation app for Victorese to Coherence…
Perhaps you could try using Esperanto?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 16 2024 20:09 utc | 233

Ghost of Zanon | Aug 16 2024 20:01 utc | 227
In a briefing not long back, the heard of Russian nuclear and biological defence said Russia believed Ukraine had one or more dirty bombs already built.
What they are attached to, who knows. Perhaps stuck on top of a Tochka or maybe a Brit SCALP. I don’t think the Americans are stupid enough to allow it to be attached to one of their weapons but the Brits sure are.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 20:10 utc | 235

Also, the hacker “Joker DNR” reported:
‼️BREAKING
My spies from the entourage of clown Zelensky confirm that the option of a simultaneous strike on the Zaporizhzhya and Kursk NPPs has been under discussion for the second week.
They are deciding on the method of attack: sabotage and reconnaissance groups, Ukrainian-made missiles, or missiles that were transferred from NATO countries. Zelensky insists on using American weapons.
‼️The Americans are not against it.
With this attack, the Ukrainian Nazis and their American masters want to solve several problems:
➖Radiation contamination of the land corridor to Crimea and the entire South-East of Ukraine.
➖Radiation contamination of the territory of Russia.
➖But the most important goal is to provoke Russia into nuclear missile attacks on Ukraine.
Thus, the Americans want to kill more Russians (in fact, the “Ukrainians” are deceived Russians), on both sides of the conflict, and the fascist Zelensky and his entourage help them in this. If the decision is made, most likely, at the time of the strike on Russian nuclear facilities, Zelensky and his entourage will no longer be in Ukraine.
possible……..

Posted by: Jo | Aug 16 2024 20:11 utc | 237

In a briefing not long back, the heard of Russian nuclear and biological defence said Russia believed Ukraine had one or more dirty bombs already built.
Russia was saying Ukraine might use one already back in late Oct 2022, again with the ZNPP as the target. Whether it was intel or propaganda (from either side), is hard to tell.

Posted by: Call it what u will | Aug 16 2024 20:14 utc | 239

Something’s gonna happen and it’ll be bad.
https://edwardcurtin.com/somethings-coming-we-dont-know-what-it-is-but-it-is-going-to-be-bad/

“With a click, with a shock
Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch
Something’s coming, don’t know when but it’s soon . . . “
– “Something’s Coming,” lyrics by S. Sondheim, music by L. Bernstein – West Side Story
Shock should not be the word, but when World War III breaks fully loose many who are now sleeping will be shocked. The war has already started, but it’s full fury and devastation are just around the corner. When it does, Tony’s singular fate in West Side Story will be the fate of untold millions.
It is a Greek tragedy brought on by the terrible hubris of the United States, its NATO accomplices, and the genocidal state of Israel and the Zionist terrorists who run it.
Tony felt a miracle was due, but it didn’t come true for him except to briefly love Maria and then get killed as result of a false report, and only a miracle will now save the world from the cataclysm that is on the way, whether it is initiated by intent, a false report, an accident, or the game of nuclear chicken played once too often.
Let us hope but not be naïve. The signs all point in one direction. The gun on the wall in the first act of this tragic play is primed to go off in the final one. Every effort to avoid this terrible fate by seeking peace and not war has been rejected by the U.S. and its equally insane allies. Every so-called red line laid down by Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinians, and their allies has been violated with impunity and blatant arrogance. But impunity has its limits and the dark Furies of vengeance will have their day.
“It is the dead, not the living,” said Antigone, “who make the longest demands.” Their ghostly voices cry out to be avenged.
I wish I were not compelled by conscience to write this, but it seems clearly evident to me that we stand on the edge of an abyss. The fate of the world rests in the hands of leaders who are clearly psychotic and who harbor death wishes. It’s not terribly complex. Netanyahu and Biden are two of them. Yes, like other mass killers, I think they love their children and give their dogs biscuits to eat. But yes, they also are so corrupted in their souls that they relish war and the sense of false power and prestige it brings them. They gladly kill other people’s children. They can defend themselves many times over, offer all kinds of excuses, but the facts speak otherwise. This is hard for regular people to accept.
The great American writer who lived in exile in France for so many years and who was born 100 years ago this month, James Baldwin, wrote an essay – “The Creative Process” – in which he addressed the issue of how becoming a normal member of society dulls one to the shadow side of personal and social truths. He wrote:
And, in the same way that to become a social human being one modifies and suppresses and, ultimately, without great courage, lies to oneself about all one’s interior, uncharted chaos, so have we, as a nation, modified or suppressed and lied about all the darker forces in our history.
And lie and suppress we still do today.
Imagine, if you will, that Mexico has invaded Texas with the full support of the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian governments. Their weapons are supplied by these countries and their drone and missile attacks on the U.S. are coordinated by Russian technology. The Seven Mile Bridge in Florida has been attacked. The U.S. Mexican border is dotted with Russian troops on bases with nuclear missiles aimed at U.S. cities.
It’s not hard to do. That is a small analogy to what the U.S./NATO is doing to Russia.
Do you think the United States would not respond with great force?
Do you think it would not feel threatened with nuclear annihilation?
How do you think it would respond?
The U.S/NATO war against Russia via Ukraine is accelerating by the day. The current Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk region has upped the ante dramatically. After denying it knew in advance of this Ukrainian invasion of Russia, the demented U.S. President Joseph Biden said the other day when asked about the fighting in Kursk, “I’ve spoken with my staff on a regular basis probably every four or five hours for the last six or eight days. And it’s — it’s creating a real dilemma for Putin. And we’ve been in direct contact — constant contact with — with the Ukrainians.” Do you think Kamala Harris was kept in the dark?
Now how do you think the Russians are going to respond? How many red lines will they allow the U.S. to cross without massive retaliation? And what kind of retaliation?
Switch then to the Middle East where the Iranians and their allies are preparing to retaliate to Israel’s attacks on their soil. No one knows when but it seems soon. Something is coming and it won’t be pretty. Will it then ignite a massive war in the region with the U.S. and Israel pitted against the region? Will nuclear weapons be used? Will the wars in Ukraine/Russia and the Middle East join into what will be called WW III?
While the U.S. continues to massively arm Israel, Russia is arming its ally Iran and likely training them in the use of those weapons as the U.S. is doing in Ukraine. The stage is set. We enter the final act.
Natanyahu wants and needs war to survive. So he thinks. Psychotic killers always do.
The signs all point in one direction. No one should be shocked if the worst comes to pass.
“Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch.”
If you have time.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 16 2024 20:18 utc | 241

@ Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 20:10 utc | 235
@ Call it what u will | Aug 16 2024 20:14 utc | 239
Last time Russia accused so-called-ukraine of a dirty bomb plan, they help a closed UNSC meeting on the subject, allegedly providing evidence. Nobody said a word about what transpired inside the meeting, neither the West, nor Russia, and accusations stopped. Read that how you will.

Posted by: boneless | Aug 16 2024 20:19 utc | 243

Earlier I mentioned that the drone at ZNPP was an RSVP for negotiations and the menu was “nuclear blackmail”
Newbie | Aug 16 2024 19:47 utc | 212
Isn’t that the result of the sad smo? A simple “you get what you pay for”. The smo is the only nato enabler, the only way to fail when you can’t fail is to police with 5 soldiers to always be outnumbered and never win anything. If you win somewhere, other areas are attacked, repeat forever. And of course, keep all borders wide open to enable all sorts of terrorism. Now we have to see if they’re that stupid or it’s more of a controlled demolition

Posted by: rk | Aug 16 2024 20:21 utc | 245

‼️BREAKING
‼️🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇺🇦 Kiev is planning not only to hit the Kursk and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants, but is also preparing to detonate a dirty nuclear bomb
War correspondent Khairullin: The APU has already delivered warheads for the explosion of a “dirty nuclear bomb”
Special warheads for this provocation [with the explosion of a “dirty bomb”] have already been delivered to the city of Yellow Waters of the Dnipropetrovsk region at the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant, Khairullin wrote.

https://t.me/ZandVchannel/124361

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 16 2024 20:22 utc | 247

When you have no morals, no principals, no empathy, when you do not respect any low, you can win easily. That is what the Ukraine would do by detonating a dirty bomb.
MSM would say Russia did it. The Western population trust MSM, this is maybe going to be a sign for all out attack on Russia.

Posted by: vargas | Aug 16 2024 20:25 utc | 249

Russia owned only half of NordStream 2. The other half was owned and paid by European energy companies.
Posted by: unimperator | Aug 16 2024 20:12 utc | 238
No, they own 100% of it. The investment was 50-50 for its construction

Posted by: rk | Aug 16 2024 20:26 utc | 251

Posted by: rk | Aug 16 2024 20:21 utc | 245
############
How should Russia seal its (largest in the world) border? Take inspiration from the Americans?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 16 2024 20:26 utc | 253

LOL:
* 5 passive-aggressive snipes in the third person… “Langley must be getting desperate”
[…snip…]
And let’s not forget another thing: The age span of most “barflies” I would estimate at something like 45-75. I only recently turned 30.
Says someone who has clearly been doing some ‘social engineering’ as away they troll. And if I were to correct one misconception, the majority of regular commentators are either already retired or doing their own thing on a non-full-time basis to supplement pensions and retirement income. Meaning they have some well-earned spare time, accumulated wisdom, and knowledge of history.
So what’s a 30 year old’s excuse to spend so much time playing games here if not either wasting his employer’s time? Could it be that this person is here doing his employer’s work? At least the latter would be marginally respectable, if indicative of the lack of merit at play in the kakistocracy of Langley.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 16 2024 20:28 utc | 255

Posted by: rk | Aug 16 2024 20:26 utc | 251
I’ve posted this before, but we’ll go again since you ignored it last time: https://www.nord-stream.com/about-us/our-shareholders/

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 16 2024 20:32 utc | 257

LoveDonbass | Aug 16 2024 20:26 utc | 253
Yes, smoke signals like Indians! You can see 10-20k people with tanks, armored cars and everything else from far away. Someone didn’t see anything, low iq or working for nato.

Posted by: rk | Aug 16 2024 20:35 utc | 259

how about b makes Peter AU1 a moderator?

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 16 2024 20:29 utc | 256
Upvote x100!

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 16 2024 20:36 utc | 261

boneless | Aug 16 2024 20:19 utc | 243
Prior to 2014, Ukraine purchased it nuclear fuel assemblies from Russia. After 2014, it purchased its fuel rods from US. A number of shutdowns of units at the plants. Paveway said a normal reactor can easily be converted to produce an element need for modern nuclear weapons.
Grosse said there was 40 tons of enriched uranium and 30 tons of plutonium at the Zap plant. What was it doing there” Ukraine does not produce its own fuel.
The decision for the SMO was made very shorty after the comedians Munich speech where he talked about arming with nuclear weapons.
In the initial days/weeks of the SMO, all the pro Russian maps simply painted large section of Ukraine in swathes of red. With all the breifing from Rus mod on the captured documents from the biolabs I went back looking for more detailed maps of the initial week.
The Ukie maps all showed very narrow lines of advance. Every line of advance was heading for a biolab or a nuclear facility. They kept pushing as far and fast as they could until the leading columns where utterly destroyed in artillery ambushes. The Americans would have picked up very quickly what the Russians were targeting and set the ambushes.
The last advance was stopped on the seventh day just 20k from the South Ukraine NPP.
Sometime after wa

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 20:37 utc | 263

@Ghost of Zanon | Aug 16 2024 20:25 utc | 250
I am just relaying what is said. I want to establish as many facts as possible before forming any fixed opinion. But indeed, false flag events may certainly be one possibility.

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 16 2024 20:41 utc | 265

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 16 2024 20:36 utc | 262
Ah yes, and come to think of it, working a bullshit job for a firm like Bell-end-Crap*, provides the younger folk with a sheen of plausible deniability – or denialism.
*The prose of some of the, I won’t say “trolls” but rather “shills”, around here does seem to come straight out of the Bellingcat Style Guide.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 16 2024 20:43 utc | 267

ATACMS FLOP AGAINST RUSSIAN AIR DEFENCE SYSTEMS PROTECTING THE CRIMEA BRIDGE!
Embarrassment in Kiev and the west as twelve US-made MGM-ATACMS failed to hit any targets on the Crimea Bridge in the last twenty-four hours.
“There were no casualties or material damage” one official said. “Our defences did extraordinary well”, he continued.
Meanwhile, Kiev and the west had further embarassing news when five suicide drones moving towards sevastapol, were destroyed by Russian naval forces.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 16 2024 20:44 utc | 269

💥Two Patriot SAM launchers destroyed in Dnepropetrovsk region
https://t.me/mod_russia_en/15768

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 16 2024 20:46 utc | 271

“I only recently turned 30. ”
Posted by: Unnamed Peasant| Aug 16 2024 20:21 utc | 246
That explains much -Inexperience, Wokeness and Narcissism all wrapped in neophyte certainty.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 16 2024 20:48 utc | 273

ATACMS FLOP AGAINST RUSSIAN AIR DEFENCE SYSTEMS PROTECTING THE CRIMEA BRIDGE!
Embarrassment in Kiev and the west as twelve US-made MGM-ATACMS failed to hit any targets on the Crimea Bridge in the last twenty-four hours.
“There were no casualties or material damage” one official said. “Our defences did extraordinary well”, he continued.
Meanwhile, Kiev and the west had further embarassing news when five suicide drones moving towards sevastapol, were destroyed by Russian naval forces.
Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 16 2024 20:44 utc | 269
I think the bridge and shipping in sebastopol were meant as part of a 3-pronged pr offensive with the kursk power plant the 3rd target. All 3 seem to have faoiled. this is indeed a big embarrasment for Zel and his gang and the western masters. MARKS A TURNING POINGT IN THE KURSK OFFENSIVE i think

Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Aug 16 2024 20:49 utc | 275

Posted by: Down South | Aug 16 2024 10:11 utc | 5
“The birth rate in Ukraine is now three (!) times lower than the death rate.”
“As we can see, there are all the prerequisites for the fact that the Ukrainian population will never recover.”
That’s bollocks. May I refer you to the Death Rate of the Accrington Pals http://www.pals.org.uk/images/home.jpg
Ukranian, Polish, Serbian Girls are very Pretty..
but Lancashire Girls are Best

Posted by: tonyopmoc | Aug 16 2024 20:50 utc | 277

@ Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 20:37 utc | 263
I’m aware, but thank you either way.
Point being, that last time it apparently took rubbing evidence of this insanity across US face in front of their whole UN cabal, with China bringing some popcorn. If we assume there in another, possibly bigger, nuclear provocation underway now, what does that mean in regards to US/UK faction infighting? What changed now? Does November make US ruling faction that desperate? That’s my thought process at the moment.

Posted by: boneless | Aug 16 2024 20:51 utc | 279

boneless | Aug 16 2024 20:51 utc | 279
The two factions of the US deep state. Britain and her colonies have a single unitary deep state apparatus as does Europe under the EU. The Brits and Europeans have there eyes solidly fixated on Russia.
In the US one faction, the globalists, liberals, loyalists – whatever you want to call them are also part of that. The Public face of that faction is Obama Biden and co.
The other faction area the nationalists/realists. They are fronted by Musk, Carlson and Trump. Their targets are China, Iran and their ‘back yard’. Especially the oil in their back yard.
No better that the loyalist/realist crew, but a bit smarter and not suicidal.
Its those two factions that makes the US hard to pick at times. It is also a reason US media does have some somewhat sane articles at times and Brit media does not.
The two factions in the US can be seen by the articles in big name US MSM that do go against the ‘destroy Russia at all costs’ narrative.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 21:03 utc | 281

Posted by Unnamed | Aug 16 2024 19:07 UTC | 178

China got diversifying its energy supplies and I wouldn’t believe Beijing and Washington to be enemies.
After Chinese elites realized they couldn’t milk Russia, they would seem to comply with sanctions.

Posted by: Freya | Aug 16 2024 21:07 utc | 283

@Milites | Aug 16 2024 21:02 utc | 280
Obviously I seriously hope nothing happens. Publishing information about such planned attacks may help prevent them from happening.

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 16 2024 21:08 utc | 285

Milites | Aug 16 2024 21:02 utc | 280
In this case, the Russian MoD. Back when Putin was giving warnings about nukes, it occurred twice and MSM posted that as Putin threatening nukes, I saw a show, might have been with the judge, Magregor said there was much talk on the beltway about using tactical nukes as they believed Russia would not respond, rather it would capitulate.
Insanity.
The Americans do seem to have got it through their thick heads now that if they use a nuke, they will cease to exist. But there are still a number of crazies there.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 21:09 utc | 287

Ted from Liverpool @ 275

I think the bridge and shipping in sebastopol were meant as part of a 3-pronged pr offensive with the kursk power plant the 3rd target. All 3 seem to have faoiled. this is indeed a big embarrasment for Zel and his gang and the western masters. MARKS A TURNING POINGT IN THE KURSK OFFENSIVE i think

Nah, they are testing the AD, fine tuning, they’ll keep at it each time a bit bigger, a bit different way. The thing about finding out you have invested (stolen) tens of trillions over the last 50ys on a galactic pile of crap weapons is you might as well use them all up now that you have the chance.
TG is really getting worked up over dirty bombs and/or strikes on Zapo NPP and Kursk NPP. Guess the plan is to get Russia to abandon eastern Ukraine and western Russia. Better start abandoning Washington, London, and Brussels. I better start digging a hole. Back in WW2 family had a wine barrel big enough to fit a person buried under the stone hearth of the fireplace, think that will do?

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 16 2024 21:12 utc | 289

There is a similarity between the Ukraine as a proxy and the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-05 in which Britain supplied navy ships to Japan and the loans to purchase them.
Great Game? Long Game – but now the USA has the whip and the Crown of Windsor cooperates otherwise Canada will be ablaze with colour revolutions… 🙂

Posted by: hh | Aug 16 2024 21:13 utc | 291

[Video was purged from YouTube along with all the rest of Abby Martin’s “Breaking the Set” and RT content]
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 16 2024 20:38 utc | 264
https://archive.org/search?query=%28%22abby+martin%22+AND+%22breaking+the+set%22%29+AND+mediatype%3Amovies

Posted by: hh | Aug 16 2024 21:21 utc | 293

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 21:03 utc | 281
“The two factions of the US deep state. Britain and her colonies have a single unitary deep state apparatus as does Europe under the EU. The Brits and Europeans have there eyes solidly fixated on Russia.”
Whilst I agree with you, no one had ever heard of the term “The Deep State”, until an extremely old Canadian Ex Ambassador, Current Accademic and Poet, explained it in one of many of his books and online posts
“Peter Dale Scott (born 11 January 1929)[1] is a Canadian-born poet, academic, and former diplomat. A son of the Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian Dale Scott, he is best known for his critiques of deep politics and American foreign policy since the era of the Vietnam War. Notably, he was a signatory in 1968 of the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, in which participants vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.”
I rather like Canadians.

Posted by: tonyopmoc | Aug 16 2024 21:27 utc | 295

How much is in this I don’t know, but it fits much of what I have been seeing.

Dana
@dana916
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦☢️ The scenario is the same, the scene has changed: about a possible strike on the Kursk and Zaporizhzhya NPPs
A possible nuclear (chemical) provocation by Ukrainian forces is a fairly popular scenario that the Ukrainian General Staff has been weighing since 2022.
▪️At different times it was first voiced to the Kharkov Physics and Technology Institute , when Russian advanced units were still stationed near Pyatikhatki .
▪️Then a strike on the Zaporizhzhya NPP, where it was planned to destroy a dry storage facility for nuclear fuel waste, came onto the agenda – and at that time this fact was used to put pressure on the IAEA during negotiations and preparations for a possible operation to seize the Zaporizhzhya NPP (which, in the end, was thwarted both by military means and politically).
▪️Now it’s the turn of the Kursk NPP in Kurchatov: last week, the Ukrainian Center for Informed PsyOps organized mass phone calls and blackmail of NPP employees, under threat of death for them and their relatives, demanding that they press the emergency button AZ-5 to shut down the reactor. If the employees had not understood the full responsibility, had not reported to the right place and had shown cowardice, the region would have been guaranteed an iodine pit for a month and a failure of generation throughout the country – which, naturally, would have caused irreparable damage to the Russian economy.
The current scenario with strikes on the SNF storage facilities at the stations with a special warhead, which is called an analogue of a “dirty bomb”, is, in our subjective opinion, too complex a scenario. Considering that both the Kursk NPP and the Zaporizhzhya NPP are equipped with protective domes over the SNF storage facilities, the Ukrainian forces will only be required to do one thing – break through the dome and organize the largest possible explosion.
And this is precisely what Western weapons will come in handy for, some of which are not yet allowed to strike at old territories.
❗️But the Zaporizhzhya NPP is not an old territory , so the option of a massive combined strike in this case to create a “dirty explosion” and accuse Russia of shelling on its own (we know very well how Ukrainian and foreign media “eat” this picture) is quite probable.
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Martyanov had a piece on the supposed assignation attempt on Putin and the phone call of the Russian defense minister and his US counterpart and the warning. Martyanov had read the official report on the call and called bullshit on the RT story. What is appearing now from various scours, coupled to the Rus Mod briefing may be more along the lines of what that phone call was about.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 16 2024 21:29 utc | 297

@ Surferket | Aug 16 2024 21:07 utc | 284 with the latest Pepe link that ends with

The next incursion will be in Belgorod. Get ready for more blood on the tracks.

Thanks for that link….Pepe is good in my estimation
What I wanted to add to the potential next “incursion” from Z is use of the F 16s to attack the Crimean bridge. Can they carry weapons that can through Russian defense?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 16 2024 21:31 utc | 299