Ha…they do!

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 18 2024 18:32 utc | 104

Anonymous | Aug 18 2024 18:30 utc | 103
The mighty warrior that did a few safari tours hunting trophies in Afghanistan…..

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 18:33 utc | 106

Nested blockquotes can make the text

very, very small

To be fair, TypePad does seem to support Compose Keys, at least when I’ve used them.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 18 2024 18:37 utc | 108

QuietRebel @104–
I translated the supposed org’s name into Russian–Матери погибших русских солдат–and ran a Yandex search that revealed no such org, but a mass of BigLie Media articles on the topic translated into Russian and published on outré Russian sites with almost all such articles published in July of 2022. And since you provided no link to the supposed org, we will all draw our own conclusions as to the veracity of your posting.

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 18 2024 18:43 utc | 110

Apologies for that one. Messed up the block quote.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 18:43 utc | 112

I spent a summer in Australia. Ours, their winter…it’s all backwards down there, and they really do walk upside down. Was after the Gulf War (first one) and I had just gotten out and had leave piled up for 90 days. Flew Space-A.
Sydney was awesome. Went to the Opera in my nicest clothes (jeans and a button down shirt). Was kind of a scummy backpacker (but money to eat and drink, because of all the saving up during the war and before/after). Then got a bus trip to Cairns that allowed you to get on/off where you wanted. Was heading for warmth.
Did Byron Bay. Then, they actually have a town called Surfer’s Paradise. (I kid you not…that is its name! Surf no better than Cali, nothing special really. But what a name.) Noosa Head was great…last surf break before the Reef starts, surfed it. Then Airley Beach, went sailing in the Whitsundays or whatever they are called.
And in Cairns went diving out on the reef. It’s just like any other tropical reef…Keys look the same. But what is cool about the Great Barrier Reef is how shallow it is. Don’t have to use your oxygen so fast. Could snorkel it and some people did. And no need for dive tables and safety stops and all that.
Somewhere in Queensland, went canoeing on some river full of crocodiles. Our guide was doing the total pulling your leg thing with all of our instructions, so I figured the crocs was same thing. So I spent a lot of the trip at the back of the pack, swimming. When they found out, they were mad at me for safety because they really were a danger on this river.
Had heard how much the Australian women like Americans, but this seemed very far from true. Pretty Puritanical…or just not impressed with US servicemen. English and Swedish girls (in Australia) were much more friendly!

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 18 2024 18:46 utc | 114

Napoleon | Aug 18 2024 17:25 utc | 77
Je sais ce que toi tu fumes:
La moquette….

Posted by: Delavega | Aug 18 2024 18:51 utc | 116

Russian forces are now driving west and southwards on the Pokrovsk front, threatening to both take Pokrovsk within weeks and advance behind the whole of the east-facing Ukrainian defensive lines down to Kurakhove. Then also taking both Niu York and Toretsk within weeks and advancing north and west toward Konstyantynivka, both cutting off all Ukrainian forces to the east (and south of Chasiv Yar) and starting the process of storming the Slavyansk/Kramatorsk/Konsyantynivka line.
Toward Pokrovsk they are working to envelop Novohrodivka from the north (Kruti Yar and Krasni Yar, then across the train tracks as they take the heights) and the south (via Marynivka) while also storming Hrodivka. After that only Myrnohrad and Lysivka stand in the way of Pokrovsk which even now is less than 10km away for the Russians.
Toward Kurakhove, they are advancing on Selydove then south to the reservoir north of Kurakhove. Cutting off everything to the west of that, while also gaining fire control of the main supply road into Kurakhove across the reservoir.
A strategic disaster for Ukraine, with the collapse of the Donetsk front – perhaps all before the rains start in mid-October.
Ukrainian losses for August 18th, as reported by the Russian defence ministry:
– Sever Group (Kharkov): 90 troops, 3 motor vehicles, 3 artillery pieces, 1 EW system.
– Zapad Group (Luhansk area): 440 troops, 1 AFV, 6 motor vehicles, 5 artillery piece, 1 EW system
– Yug Group (Donetsk north): 420 troops, 2 motor vehicles, 17 artillery pieces, 1 EW system
– Tsetr Group (Donetsk south): 500 troops, 2 HMV, 5 motor vehicles, 10 artillery pieces, 1 counter battery system.
– Vostok Group (southern front): 100 troops, 1 tank, 2 motor vehicles, 3 artillery pieces, 1 EW system
– Dnepr Group: 80 troops, 6 motor vehicles, 4 artillery pieces, 2 EW system.
In total: 1,630 troops (about 2,000 with undercounting: 60,000 a month). A bit lower on the troop casualties than the average of the past months.
1 tank, 1 AFV, 2 HMV, 21 motor vehicles; continuing transformation of the Ukrainian army into infantry plus HMV type vehicles and “technicals” (pickup trucks with mounted weapons).
42 artillery pieces, quite a bit higher than normal, at a rate of over 1200 month. Only 1 Counter Battery Radar system, but 6 EW system. These are catastrophic losses.
In addition the Russians destroyed a US MLRS systems and a HIMARS systems. They have also become adept at shooting down ATACMS and HIMARS missiles. They are also destroying a lot of weapons dumps.

Posted by: Roger | Aug 18 2024 18:53 utc | 118

Street fighting has begun in Novogrodivka (SW of Grodivka). The Pokrovsk front is just in freefall at this point.
https://x.com/distant_earth83/status/1825243791978336571

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 18 2024 18:54 utc | 120

@Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 18:43 utc | 111
Doubling down on a massive strategic error while the Ukrainian forces in the south desperately need reinforcements and more equipment and armoured vehicles. Utter idiocy.

Posted by: Roger | Aug 18 2024 18:55 utc | 122

‼️🇷🇺This is the collapse of the front! “🅾️brave” liberated a whole bunch of residents, approaching Selidovo and cutting off the E50 highway!
▪️In the Pokrovsky direction, the “Center” group of troops of General Mordviyev is breaking through the front, liberating 5 residents at once in 24 hours. Local resources admit this and report that our fighters broke through to the E50 highway area.
➖”Pokrovsky district: E50 highway… sad news… we are waiting for confirmation.
➖According to reports from the field, the Russians have occupied Mezhevoye and Zavetnoye.
▪️Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine write that they have lost 4 residents at once:
➖”The situation in our Pokrovsky direction is getting worse with each passing hour. The Russians were able to take control of Novozhelannoye and Zavetnoye! The enemy infantry numbers are simply sky-high, we don’t have such a composition of fighters, also the bad thing is that the settlements of Mezhevoye and Nuzhnoye have also come under the control of the Russians!
▪️The situation near Kamyshevka and the village of Ptichye is deteriorating. Logistic routes to Karlovka are under constant attack by enemy artillery + adjustments by “Orlans”, – the Ukrainians write.
▪️Earlier today we reported that the Central Military District fighters raised the flag over the settlement of Zavetnoye in the Pokrovsk direction in the DPR

https://t.me/geromanat/32256

Posted by: Down South | Aug 18 2024 18:59 utc | 124

Roger | Aug 18 2024 18:55 utc | 125
Yep. Idiocy running amok. I suspect it will get worse as the anglo American project in 404 collapses. It can be seen in many wars.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 19:01 utc | 126

I like the Australians. Best party guests…whenever we throw a war, they come along. Viet Nam, et al.

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 18 2024 19:12 utc | 128

Posted by: Victor | Aug 18 2024 15:55 utc | 39
Its not boomer profs that are too long winded, its you that has been conditioned to have the attention span of a fish.
Its not your fault.

Posted by: alek_a | Aug 18 2024 19:19 utc | 130

I see the Kursk sector is not included in the body count on that report.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 19:14 utc | 132
The Russian Defence Ministry is keeping those reports separate viz today’s report here: https://eng.mil.ru/en/special_operation/news/more.htm?id=12525845@egNews

Russian Defence Ministry report on repelling an invasion attempt of the AFU on the territory of the Russian Federation (18 August 2024)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to repel the AFU attempt to invade the territory of the Russian Federation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army aviation and artillery strikes conduct reconnaissance-search actions to locate and eliminate the enemy’s sabotage and reconnaissance groups in forest belts attempting to get to the depth of the Russian territory to the south of Alekseyevskoye, Safonovka, and Sheptukhovka.
Attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 22nd, 61st, and 115th mechanised brigades, and 82nd Air Assault Brigade toward Komarovka, Olgovka, Russkoye, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye were repelled. The AFU losses amounted to one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, and more than 30 Ukrainian troops.
Aviation and artillery strikes along with actions of defending troops inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware clusters near Borki, Fanaseyevka, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Novoivanovka, Mikhailovka, Snagost, and to the south of Kurilovka.
One U.S.-made M270 MLRS launcher was destroyed by a missile strike near Bezdrik (Sumy region).
Operational-Tactical Aviation delivered strikes at the enemy’s reserves, ammunition and POL depots of the AFU 22nd Mechanised Brigade, 80th Air Assault Brigade, 103rd, and 107th territorial defence brigades near Atinskoye, Belopolye, Vorozhba, Kiyanitsa, Kositsa, and Shalgino (Sumy region).
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses have amounted to more than 300 Ukrainian troops and 27 units of hardware, including six tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, two armoured personnel carriers, 18 armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one MLRS launcher, and two units of engineering vehicles, including one counterobstacle vehicle.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses have amounted to 3,460 Ukrainian troops, 50 tanks, 25 infantry fighting vehicles, 45 armoured personnel carriers, 262 armoured fighting vehicles, 115 motor vehicles, five SAM launchers, seven MLRS launchers, including three HIMARS and one M270 MLRS, 25 field artillery guns, four electronic warfare stations, four units of engineering vehicles, including one counterobstacle vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.

My guess is that they don’t want to mix up the numbers for the Counter Terrorist Operation in Kursk with the main SMO.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 18 2024 19:21 utc | 132

Posted by: alek_a | Aug 18 2024 19:19 utc | 134
“Its not boomer profs that are too long winded…?
I never said that they were long winded. I was only saying that you are not the same person if you had a stroke today: and I don’t mean a “Stroke of Genious”, I mean a stroke that send to the hospital emergency.
What you have been is not what you are! That is good to remember…people have to move on.

Posted by: Victor | Aug 18 2024 19:29 utc | 134

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 18 2024 18:27 utc | 101

I tried this on an ASUS Chrombox that I have.
This is what I see. I think it is what you see also.

Allowed HTML Tags:
<B>Text</B> → Text
<I>Text</I> → Text
<U>Text</U> → Text
<BLOCKQUOTE>Text</BLOCKQUOTE>
<A HREF=”https://www.wikileaks.org/”>Link to Wikileaks</A> → Link to Wikileaks

Your post does not look like mine because I had to escape the < characters by replacing them with “&lt;” (without the “”).
If you don’t do this then the HTML tags are interpreted by the browser instead of just displaying them as text.
Triple-clicking works for me, I don’t know why yours did not. However you can click and drag from the leftmost < to the rightmost > on the BLOCKQUOTE text line.
When you right click it must be on the highlighted text and the first menu option will then be “copy” (if not the highlighted text will be deselected and the popup menu will not show copy as the first item).
You should then move the mouse into the text area below and right click inside it. The popup menu there should have “paste” as about the 5th entry. Select it and you should get the BLOCKQUOTE stuff with the angle brackets and the word “Text” in the middle inserted into the text area.
An alternate method is to click drag the BLOCKQUOTE as before to select it and then press control-c. Move to the text area and left click in it followed by typing control-v. The end result should be the same. I hope this helps.

Posted by: frank | Aug 18 2024 19:33 utc | 136

Things I think (just speculations but as good as any other random guy on the Internet)
1. Zelensky and by association his NATO organ grinders have given up on the Donbass. I don’t think all of the UAF left behind there to defend increasingly precarious positions have gotten the memo, but since no official one will be forthcoming, they are on their own to figure it out.
2. Because of #1, partly, the NATZO gang will keep throwing resources into Kursk. So I expect it to get worse there before it gets better, although I would say the whole thing has been at best only a partial success for NATZO.
3. The trouble for NATZO is that now that because a) Kursk did not produce any quick victory of strategic value, and looks like more of a terrorist op, and b) Donbass is looking like it will be gone by December, then there is the possibility of Russian forces rolling up to the NW from Kramatorsk towards Kharhiv and Sumy after Kramatorsk is secured. That may take some time, of course. But it would spell curtains for the whole operation as the UAF would become trapped between two directions – Russians to the North, Russians to the south.
4. There is always the possibility of more desperate measures from NATZO so none of us will be able to rest easy until 2025. The game for our hidebound stooges in NATO now is probably to “kick the can” past the Nov. 2024 election, and hope that the Kursk op develops into something more strategically valuable to trade for territory already taken by the Russians. Of course, the more territory in the Donbass is taken between now and then, the less the whole thing makes sense.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 18 2024 19:42 utc | 138

Victor | Aug 18 2024 16:18 utc | 53
“We are winning and in a great mood. Wipe your snot, bitches” – Marat Khairullin
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 16:19 utc | 54
aristodemos @ 64
Caesar was gay?! 😱
Actually, I’m more shocked at my own ignorance.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 18 2024 18:26 utc | 100
Street fighting has begun in Novogrodivka (SW of Grodivka). The Pokrovsk front is just in freefall at this point.
https://x.com/distant_earth83/status/1825243791978336571
Posted by: unimperator | Aug 18 2024 18:54 utc | 123
@Peter AU1 just go back to fuck odd trolls, you’re being too nice
@LightYearsFromHome “a man to every women, a woman to every man” or so thay said…
@ unimperator if Grodivka is on the RF side again then a cauldron lid is in order
@ whoever posted https://militaryland.net/maps/deployment-map/
Quite different in certain areas from https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1xPxgT8LtUjuspSOGHJc2VzA5O5jWMTE
The one I posted is often very late, but someone posted it some weeks ago and is sometimes useful

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 18 2024 19:43 utc | 140

I suspect the Russians are right to keep the pressure up in Donbass – the Kursk adventure was probably intended to take their eye off that particular ball. In reality it might even accelerate Ukrainian collapse in Donbass, as the best Kiev troops are drawn off to Kursk.

Posted by: Waldorf | Aug 18 2024 19:48 utc | 142

Some tidbits from TG:

More than 120 thousand Ukrainian soldiers are on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. Seeing their aggressive policy, we have deployed our soldiers along the entire border. – Lukashenko
Of course, “experts” will tell you Ukraine has run out of men…
“>https://t.me/Novichok_Rossiya_2/12220

————-

Kursk direction: situation as of the morning of 18.08.24
Glushkovo area… From Yuri Podolyak
Yesterday the enemy failed to advance, primarily due to the fact that no one can yet cancel the factor of air superiority of our aviation here.
It is precisely this that disrupts the introduction of large enemy forces into battle and does not allow its reserves to deploy for an attack. Every day dozens of bombs fall on enemy locations (including thanks to the work of our partisans), and therefore, for example. Yesterday’s attack on Troitskoye petered out. And from the side of Obody (the most dangerous area), the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot undertake anything more or less organized.
So far, he has managed to organize something due to earlier successes in the Korenevsky area. But again, not with particularly large forces, which are still being fought off by our units.
In general, the situation in the area is still stably difficult and quite manageable. Logistics are provided by pontoon crossings, as well as the surviving bridge in the village of Zvanoe.
And it is here that you can clearly see why it is necessary to evacuate the civilian population from the combat zone. Moreover, this must always be done quickly and in the first hours (or better yet, preventively).
It is not only a matter of safety, but also of logic. Providing several thousand soldiers with everything they need is many times easier than providing them with everything they need, plus another 10,000 civilians.
P.S. And I still can’t get over the fact that on August 6 and 7, our media, among others, calmed people down and prevented them from making the right decision. They don’t even realize how much harm they caused. And not only to their reputation.
“>https://t.me/Novichok_Rossiya_2/12216

————-

“Kiev is seeking a nuclear strike from Russia.” A professor at the University of Helsinki talks about Ukraine’s provocations.
Professor Tuomas Malinen believes that the leadership of Country 404 may try to go for a large-scale escalation to push Moscow to a disproportionate response, including a nuclear strike on Ukrainian territory.
The corruption of the Zelensky regime is so extensive that they will be executed if caught. And the global “force” pushing for escalation apparently wants World War III,
— Tuomas Malinen wrote on the social network X.
“>https://t.me/Slavyangrad/106380

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 18 2024 19:50 utc | 144

Zaporizhzhya Front
Against the backdrop of events in the Kursk region, which began too long before the US elections to be the main blow of the West and Kiev, more and more information is coming in about the intentions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to go on the offensive on the Zaporizhzhya Front.
In particular, the enemy was pulling equipment and fuel tankers into Orekhov, ours covered the enemy concentration with ” Iskander “. Senator Rogozin wrote earlier that one of the targets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this attack would be Zaporizhzhya NPP. The strikes of the Ukrainian UAVs on the station only confirm its aspirations to the facility.
Today it became clear that the enemy is accumulating large forces in the Kamenskoye (north of Vasilyevka) direction , including a lot of armored vehicles. The number of them may be sufficient for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to believe in the success of the events in vain.
If Kiev decides to lose more people in attacks on the Zaporizhzhya front, then the likely directions of attacks will be the Zaporizhzhya NPP and the Vasilyevka-Tokmak highway , including for the purpose of creating conditions for an exit further south in the direction of Melitopol.
✨ Many officers after the Kursk events say that one of the tasks of the AFU on the Kursk Bulge is to divert attention from the southern direction. The Zaporizhzhya Front, as well as the Kherson Region and the western coast of Crimea are considered by the enemy as probable directions of action. The American missile strikes on the Crimean Bridge only confirm such aspirations.
This time, after the Kursk region, the readiness of our forces is much higher.

https://t.me/two_majors/29910

Posted by: Down South | Aug 18 2024 19:52 utc | 146

Yeah, I’m just highlighting and ctrl-Cing the tag string

Can’t get the triple-click and right click to work.

Tripleclick only highlights part of the string. And I was able to get the right click, to open up copy, but then I’m just copying a small part of the string. Better to just drag cursor over whole string and ctrl-c it and ctrl-v it down in the block.

And underline (done here) does not work…
but strike does

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 18 2024 19:59 utc | 148

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 18 2024 18:26 utc | 100
not only gay : bi
remember : “Tu quoque mi…”

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Aug 18 2024 20:13 utc | 150

@Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 18 2024 17:51 utc | 87
You’re not a serious thinker. You resort to calling people that disagree with you a Nazi.

Posted by: Napoleon | Aug 18 2024 20:21 utc | 152

Just to add to that, the US are desperate to avoid a collapse, as far as they can …
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 18 2024 20:18 utc | 159
Is “US” some acronym for the Krusk Oblast? Or is this just speculative fiction?

Posted by: Napoleon | Aug 18 2024 20:28 utc | 154

Posted by: Nazipoleon | Aug 18 2024 20:21 utc | 160
Oh yeah, I nearly forgot…
Don’t forget to donate…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 18 2024 20:30 utc | 156

New video from Andrei M. here: https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/08/when-high-wears-off.html
And with that, I’m signing off for the night, any further posts under this user name are fake news, until at least 1000 utc +1 tomorrow.
Gotta go and find Junction 5 on the M4, apparently that puts me in Langley…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 18 2024 20:42 utc | 158

“We are winning and in a great mood. Wipe your snot, bitches” – Marat Khairullin
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 15:59 utc | 45
Derp

Posted by: nate | Aug 18 2024 20:46 utc | 160

“We are winning and in a great mood. Wipe your snot, bitches” – Marat Khairullin
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 16:19 utc | 54
Derp

Posted by: nate | Aug 18 2024 20:49 utc | 162

“We are winning and in a great mood. Wipe your snot, bitches” – Marat Khairullin
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 17:26 utc | 78
Derp

Posted by: nate | Aug 18 2024 20:53 utc | 164

575 sistemas de defensa! cuantos sitemas le quedaan a Ucrania y cuantos mas le puede proporcionar la Otan?

Posted by: Manuel Verdugo | Aug 18 2024 20:58 utc | 166

Piss off troll.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 20:04 utc | 155
Derp

Posted by: nate | Aug 18 2024 21:04 utc | 168

I would suggest to NEVER reply to any post from Napoleon, not even for calling him names. Treat him as a pariah to be silenced by making it non-existent.

Posted by: scc | Aug 18 2024 21:06 utc | 170

https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/18325

Korenevsky district, the zone of action of enemy drones. A marine officer evacuates two wounded soldiers to the rear, one seriously. On the way he sees a granny with things, takes them with him. The granny speaks in surzhik.
In the car, the granny crosses herself in front of a poster “United Russia”.
A loaf of bread (nickname of the type of van) designed in the 60s of an already dead country tears veins on the asphalt, running away from drones, saving lives. The rear windows of the loaf were knocked out by a close drone hit, instead of them there is cardboard and scotch tape.
It seems to me that this photo is the quintessence of reality.

https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/18326

Forwarded from War correspondent Astrakhan
Is there excessive attention to Western media and their out-of-place quoting, as the esteemed Andrei Medvedev talks about? Yes, undoubtedly. Moreover, often for reasons unknown to me, there are also translation errors, misunderstanding of the context, and simply choosing the wrong sources or experts.
But there is also a flip side to the coin. The West is experimenting in Ukraine and informing those interested quite well about the progress of the guinea pigs. For example, before the start of the Joint Military Operation, the progress of joint exercises and Ukraine’s preparation for the implementation of the Croatian scenario was covered in detail and consistently on the official channel of the British Army. Much more understandable and detailed than in our native media, which were busy with their own problems at that time. The same channel in 2021 showed how the logistical capabilities for the transfer of military equipment to Ukraine across the continent were being tested. In 2021, it was also possible to observe the largest exercises of NATO naval special forces directly in the media, where the Ukrainians fully confirmed their qualifications and were certified for joint work.
Western media and military channels analyzed in detail the weapons supplied to Ukraine, their pros, cons and possible tactics of use. While many were shouting that the Javelin does not work in smoke and is not suitable for a major war, the Battle Order channel had a detailed analysis of this issue.
Much of what was a revelation for our military-patriotic community could have been learned from Western media. From the fact that, according to the concept, Western ATGMs of different classes (TOU, JAV, NLAW) should be used together, which is not done in Ukraine, to the simple fact that the M4 fires in winter.
During the hyped “counteroffensive”, Western media acknowledged its failure and explained that the Ukrainians did it incorrectly. And that Western military science is not about this. What did we learn from this? Nothing, we celebrated a complete victory over the best that NATO could oppose us. Recently in the Kursk region we learned that it was not the best.
Drones, infantry carts, heavy infantry fighting vehicles, long-range sniper rifles, ifak first aid kits, multicams, modern stoves, motorcycles, electric motorcycles, buggies, thermal imagers on personal firearms, online combat management – this is far from a complete list of things that our military-patriotic community learned about with surprise during the SVO. And most of this could be learned from Western media, in particular from channels of retired military personnel. You know, those retired military personnel who fought and prepared for war all their lives, and not those we thought were just chasing shepherds. Although even there there was something to pay attention to.
If I were faced with a choice between our military-patriotic TG and English-language military YouTube, I would definitely choose the latter, I learned much more from there! And if you subtract questions of philosophy and ideology, and leave military-technical knowledge, then simply the overwhelming majority. But it is clear that my childish psyche should not be endangered by watching Battle Order, Forgotten weapons and others, not to mention the channels of the British Armed Forces or the USMC. After all, along with useful information, I can pick up alien values ​​​​there and then wear a vest over a Hawaiian shirt! Wait, we have already copied their vests, shirts, T-shirts with pictures and a large piece of military culture … At this point, I fall silent.

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 18 2024 21:11 utc | 172

reply to 174
We seem to have progressed from trolls to anal lube. Good Grief.
All I know is that Western “Civilization” is headed towards extinction. The LGBTQ movement is not about reproduction or, by extension, evolution. And no, the few exceptions (Secretary of Whatever) doesn’t change the thrust. Add on the ‘cat ladies’ and game playing soyboys and the exit is in sight.
I wish Putin well trying otherwise.

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 18 2024 21:24 utc | 174

I wish Putin well trying otherwise.
Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 18 2024 21:24 utc | 183
Sorry to be a wet blanket, or to use the apparently preferred sexual parlance of this site today, not to use any Vaseline, but Putin is not “our” savior.
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need?
Corbett is usually a pretty good starting place when looking for the skeptical viewpoint on geopolitical matters. As an anti-war absolutist and – surprisingly – victim of the Western Propaganda Complex he puts this a little too strongly, but it’s ‘healthy’ to question one’s own positions from time to time.

There’s nothing more satisfying than a good guy/bad guy narrative. We have so internalized this form of storytelling that for many it is almost impossible not to see the world in these terms. Two people are fighting. One of them is a bad guy. Therefore, the other one is a good guy.
The problem comes when we try to map that simplistic, binary, black-and-white storyline on to real-world events. What “guy” are you talking about? Do you still believe that Putin is Russia? That’s as absurd as saying that Biden is NATO (or even the US). And can we jump from NATO bad to BRICS good that easily?
Well, if you’ve been listening to me over the last decade and a half you will know that it’s not that easy. The BRICS are controlled opposition. Putin and Xi are both tyrannical thugs. The Chinese government and the Russian government both love controlling their citizens every thought and speech and action, and their supposed opposition to the globalist empire is a smoke-and-mirrors distraction hiding the fact that they are absolutely on-board with the ultimate agenda of world control.
Or are you the type of person who watches the clip of Schwab bragging about all the cabinets the World Economic Forum has “penetrated” around the world without noticing that the second person he lists in his stable of WEF acolytes is Vladimir Putin?
Are you the type of person who conveniently forgets how to read when Xi and Putin release documents extolling the creation of the New World Order that call on all states “to protect the United Nations-driven international architecture” and declare that “In order to to accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” states will have to “take practical steps in key areas of cooperation” like “vaccines and epidemics control, financing for development, climate change, sustainable development, including green development, industrialization, digital economy, and infrastructure connectivity”?
Are you the type of person who constantly forgets that Vladimir Putin is close personal friends with Henry Kissinger?
Are you the type of person who believes that the Russian COVID vaccine is the good kind of vaccine and the Russian vaccine passports are the good kind of vaccine passports and the Russian COVID clown show is the good kind of COVID clown show?
Are you the type of person who believes that preemptive invasions of foreign countries are good when they’re done by the good guys for good reasons and that the people who die in such operations are just collateral damage (who probably deserved to die anyway)?
I don’t know about you, but I’m not that type of person. The sad truth for those who are still waiting for the White Hat on the White Horse to deliver them their fix of Hopium is that Putin is an “anti-globalist crusader” in the exact same way as Donald “Fill the Swamp” Trump is an “anti-globalist crusader,” which is to say, not at all. Because if you are still waiting on the sealed indictments and the watermarked ballots and Vladimir the Great to upset the globalist apple cart, you have yet to understand the nature of the globalist system.

As I implied, I do not fully endorse or embrace Corbett’s views on all of that, but he cannot be accused of lying, now, can he?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 18 2024 21:39 utc | 176

LightYearsFromHome | 148
Glad to see others picking up on the “Russia baiting” narrative. You can learn things from trolls by the narratives they artificially push, and what have they been pushing for years? After every Ukrainian provocation, they all rush out saying “Russia should nuke London!” And other nonsense that would have one result: the destruction of Russia.
Every time Russia refuses to take the bait, NATO’s rabid dog (Ukraine) is let a little bit more off the leash. Who knows what is next? There’s been enough “dirty bomb” predictive programming that I can really see them doing it. Psychopaths and satanists rule the west.

Posted by: Moonraker | Aug 18 2024 21:43 utc | 178

I see that PeterAU1 has also been turned onto this Substack author and recommend others to subscribe if you’re interested in frequent updates from the front, not colored by Western bullshit propaganda.
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-report-from-the-front-august-23a?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 18 2024 21:45 utc | 180

reply to 185
I am not too far from a college town in which local fools do anti-war virtue signaling. I know better. When I was young, the USA was embroiled in a desperate struggle against Russia/China “because they’re Communist” and freedom, blah, blah, blah.
Many decades later and here we are again. THIS IS WHY wokeness is so stupid. Human nature doesn’t change. Which brings me back to Vladimir Putin.
My remaining hope for a better world is the same principle as people going to Walmart if they get mad at Target: international competition.
Putin is the gonzo catalyst here. Go to him or China if the US is being a jerk – which is pretty much 24/7.
No, back to reproduction And The Entire Future Of The Human Race (’cause making babies’ is totally important). Putin can keep pushing for more baby Russians. In the US, this sort of thing is seen as weird , ignoring the rather vital aspect of it.

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 18 2024 22:05 utc | 182

I think it’s much more likely, to paraphrase Freud, that the enumerated list of men (i.e. Plato, Caesar, Hadrian, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Alexander, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Wilde), were bisexual and not exclusively homosexual by practice or preference. Also, let’s keep in mind that homosexual practice in the ancient world was, among the higher classes or nobler sort, more often than not intercrural vs what the British traditionally called “buggery.” Also, the ‘etiology’ is surely far from uniform or monocausal: e.g. I think there’s some truth to the old Freudian notion that a man might subconsciously ‘fall in love’ with the very man he would prefer to be: physically, socially, psychologically, status-wise, and ethnically/racially. But, to be sure, it would be foolish to err into thinking that homosexuality (more often than not a sexuality that is not exclusive or hermetic, but admits of bisexuality) is monocausal.
In any case, the neoliberal Western state surely understands all this at a minutiose scientific level, but will not admit of it save in highly obscure mathematical (i.e. statistical) terms, which are in turn buried under layers and layers of intentionally sophistical science (“the crisis in scientific publishing). I suspect these problems are less acute, but in no way, absent in Chinese scientific research and that the relevant old Soviet science on the subject is probably more reliable than the deluge of pseudo-scientific sophism in the service of neoliberalism that has come to almost fully saturate the West on matters related to “identitarian subjectivities,” i.e. their formation (or manufacturing) and promulgation—in lieu of equitable economic progressivism.

Posted by: Ludovic | Aug 18 2024 22:16 utc | 184

An Italian tv channel platforms a Ukrainian Nazi from the Armed Forces of Ukraine wearing a cap from Hitlers bodyguard unit.
Remarkable
https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1825073141422358620
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 18 2024 14:44 utc | 9
Hum… the cap was blurred…

Posted by: Naive | Aug 18 2024 22:30 utc | 186

Zaporizhzhya Front
Against the backdrop of events in the Kursk region, which began too long before the US elections to be the main blow of the West and Kiev, more and more information is coming in about the intentions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to go on the offensive on the Zaporizhzhya Front.
…
https://t.me/two_majors/29910
Posted by: Down South | Aug 18 2024 19:52 utc | 151

Dense Russian minefields were a key factor in the defeat of Ukraine’s 2023 Zaporizhzhya offensive. Given Russia’s apparent infinite capacity to be taken by surprise, I have to wonder if those minefields have been replenished and maintained, or depending on where the front now is, new minefields laid.

Posted by: Mike314159 | Aug 18 2024 22:34 utc | 188

Russian Armed Forces completed the liberation of New York – Town to be Renamed Novgorod
The town of New York has been completely liberated by Russian troops, which means that Novgorod will appear on the map of the DPR.
“New York will now be renamed Novgorod” said the head of the Donetsk republic Denis Pushilin
According to Russian resources, assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces were able to clear out the remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and drive the enemy out of the town. As of yesterday, approximately 10% of the city remained under Ukrainian control, the remaining 90% was controlled by Russian troops. Apparently, these remains have been cleared away today. However, the fighting did not end there; ours began an attack on Nelepovka, located between Novgorod and Toretsk.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 18 2024 22:40 utc | 190

I do NOT believe that Xi is a “tyrannical” dictator. I believe that China and Russia have more “democracy” than we have in the United States – both in design and practice.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 18 2024 21:41 utc | 186
Democracy starts at the place of work and where you live.
That’s what Lee Harvey Oswald like least about the USSR – it had too much democracy for his liking. He didn’t want to hang around, discuss work and then vote on proposals.
He was used to being a servant who sold his labour by the hour and otherwise have no say in matters.
This is why no one in the west spoke about ordinary daily working life in the USSR. OR China, I suppose.
It was Stalin who widened democracy in the USSR…. he had to face down the heads of the republics to get that through.
Galicia, I believe, belonged to Ukraine before Poland took it in 1920. I read there were 13 million Ukrainians living there. Stalin just took it back.

Posted by: hh | Aug 18 2024 22:47 utc | 192

UKRAINE MOBILE GROUPS BEING HUNTED AND DESTROYED IN KURSK WITH SUCCESS
Units of the Russian Army began searching for and destroying mobile groups of the AFU that had penetrated deep into the territory.
Attacks of the UAF were stopped in Komarovka, Olgovka, Russkoe and Cherkasskoe Porechnoye. At the same time, reconnaissance and search activities are underway in forest areas south of the settlements of Alekseevskoye, Safonovka and Sheptukhovka. Ours are looking for mobile groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that previously broke through and destroyed them.
Aviation The Russian Aerospace Forces are working almost to their limits, striking at concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment with strikes carried out in the areas of Borki, Fanaseevka, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Novoivanovka, Mikhailovka, Snagost and south of Kurilovka, Kursk region.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Aug 18 2024 22:51 utc | 194

In the Direction of Chaso Yar.
The “door masters” wanted to sit in their fortification and stay alive. When they realized that this would not work and death was very close, the Ukrainian soldiers surrendered.
https://t.me/AptiAlaudinovAKHMAT/5333
Wise men don’t die for a penis piano player.
Also 18+:
https://t.me/AptiAlaudinovAKHMAT/5335
Kursk oblast, in our days.

Posted by: Naive | Aug 18 2024 23:05 utc | 196

@ Naive | Aug 18 2024 23:05 utc | 205
It is weird to witness a special forces commander do more of positive yet grounded propaganda for his country than the entire government and MoD. This highlights unfortunate deficiencies of Russian internal PR yet again. By this point, I personally doubt this will change without a generational shift in decision making positions.

Posted by: boneless | Aug 18 2024 23:24 utc | 198

“I do NOT believe that Xi is a “tyrannical” dictator. I believe that China and Russia have more “democracy” than we have in the United States – both in design and practice.”
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 18 2024 21:41 utc | 186
If ‘democracy’ is defined as, “the govt. protecting and aiding all the Indigenous population” you are 100% right.
The masses in China that have had their lifestyles improved since the 80’s is, in my humble opinion, a triumph for democracy (as equality in living standards) as billon or so people got out of poverty.
Is that is what is happening in the United States?
I don’t think so.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 18 2024 23:37 utc | 200