Tannenhouser@1752
Main$cream Media getting masses of clicks for “exposing” Kennedy’s stance on the MRNA poison scheme? Of course there are those terminally deluded boobtoob noose addicts…but who else? There are millions of Americans who, anxious about their jobs and social status who simply remain mum and hope the game does not involve them.

Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 25 2024 22:57 utc | 104

Your “Borge” comment confuses me a bit.
More likely The Borg (Star Trek)

Posted by: Call it what u will | Aug 25 2024 23:18 utc | 106

In the Donbass Russian forces are now capturing villages and towns almost whole. The massive destruction of artillery and FAB strikes is giving way to undamaged buildings. That strongly suggests that the Ukrainians either lack the will or the ability to defend those places. Given the prominence of “fortress city” defense in Ukrainian doctrine, it likely indicates that the breaking point is near.

Posted by: Lex | Aug 25 2024 23:21 utc | 108

#90
> 2.5 years into the three-day SMO to decartelize Mexico
….
So… 50 yeears of “war on drugs” and how many cartels are left? and how many dead americans?

Posted by: Mirko | Aug 25 2024 23:32 utc | 110

Posted by: Dogon Priest | Aug 25 2024 23:18 utc | 105
############
Scott Ritter recently answered about people trying to pressure Putin.
VVP doesn’t roll like that. If someone can make an intelligent point, he will listen and consider it. He won’t bend for everyone who tries to intimidate or threaten him.
Whether he is right or wrong, it is refreshing to see a national leader operating based on his agenda and values.
The Russian government isn’t the American government which is rife with special interests, Epstein blackmail, and dark money. Russia has its problems but they aren’t the sort of corporate problems which plague the USA.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 25 2024 23:38 utc | 112

Martyanov has a short bit of the Judge Nap – Wilkerson video. Worth a watch for what Wilkerson says towards the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViglslS-7gk&t=137s

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 0:17 utc | 114

aristodemos @ 202
Same old Nazis, same old Nazi mistakes.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 26 2024 0:32 utc | 116

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 25 2024 18:06 utc | 58 “Guess many here weren’t in the loop that Russia decided to create a gigantic killing field, inviting all NATO ground troops and equipment to amass themselves for the pepper spray of of Kinzahls coming.”
So, now that Ukraine hasn’t been pushed out a few days, your narrative is that is setup to be a gigantic killing field.
You should appear on the Russian TV shows that are talking about how screwed up things have been in the defense of Kursk. The Russians who are appearing there these days could use your reassurance.

Posted by: Ed4 | Aug 26 2024 0:52 utc | 118

RE: “The Russians who are appearing there these days could use your reassurance.”
Posted by: Ed4 | Aug 26 2024 0:52 utc | 118
Perhaps they could. But I think the majority of Russians, many that are not on TV, are confident in the measures being taken. I consider Dmitry Orlov to be a pretty down to earth average Russian, at the very least, a commentator & analyst that has his pulse on the Russian populace. Here is his take on the response of the Russian population.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mkNJ8oKBOUQ
Worth checking out. At least consider beside TV Media shows in Russia.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 26 2024 1:11 utc | 120

News agency Reuters confirms death of its safety adviser Ryan Evans in Kramatorsk
“Safety adviser” and “former British soldier” … more like rabid Zionazi and current British soldier. He was a servant of demonic forces, as is his employer, and his death is welcome. His body, if left in the fields, will provide generous fertilizer for next year’s agricultural crops; if collected, it should not be repatriated, but rendered sufficiently to convert the fat into biodiesel, which can be used to power Russian tanks in the former nation-state known as the Ukraine.

Posted by: Matthew | Aug 26 2024 1:19 utc | 122

Medvedev and Putin. They have worked as a team for a long time. Medvedev on the the outlawing of the orthodox church in Ukraine.

Dmitry Medvedev
The stinking rotting Ukrainian regime decided to surpass the atheism of the Soviet period. Although the Soviet Union was an atheist country, it did not prohibit religions and individual creeds.
Neo-Nazi dogs decided to completely ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
This vile story was started, as you know, by Poroshenko. For the sake of his own ambitions and to be elected president of Ukraine, he agreed with the West to split in Orthodoxy and create a heretical OCU. The individual “hierarchs” of this “church,” if I may say so, are well known. Their place is not in the pulpit. They were quite successful pimps who took care of Kiev’s political prostitutes. It is clear that nothing came of the idea: gunpowder lost miserably, and the project stalled. Ukrainians did not leave the UOC-MP.
Further – more. The country was led by a drug-addicted creature with no religious identification, known for playing his shameful oud on the piano . And it was here that the defeat of Ukrainian Orthodoxy and the persecution of Christians for their faith began, the logical result of which was the decision of the Rada of 20.08.24.
And this is no longer the activity of individual heretics and their followers, as in the times of Arius, Apollinaris of Laodicea or Bishop Macedon of Constantinople. This is full-fledged Satanism, which is professed by the cocaine thing and its ghouls. And which actively supports the “civilized West” in order to cause maximum damage to Russia and its citizens.
This story will not pass in vain in Ukraine. The country will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah, and the demons will inevitably fall. And the reckoning will cover them not in the distant future – after the transition to another world. On the contrary, the punishment will be earthly, cruel, and painful, and it will come soon. For it is written, “Then Jesus smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees; and they hung on the trees until evening” (Nab. 10: 26).
And the True Orthodox Church in the former Ukrainian lands will shine in its former greatness.
https://t.me/s/medvedev_telegram

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 1:39 utc | 124

For what it’s worth, the pope criticized the rada prohibition and still abhors the senseless waste .
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240825-pope-francis-condemns-ukraine-s-ban-on-russian-orthodox-church

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 2:22 utc | 126

@ Newbie | Aug 26 2024 2:22 utc | 126 with the Pope Frank latest hypocrisy…thanks
Have you read the latest Michael Hudson interview that karlof1 has linked to? I suggest you read it to understand why I call it hypocrisy….see link below
I am not being critical of you for providing the link buy as a victim of Jesuit “discipline” I have strong feelings about the Catholic myth and those in charge of continuing it.
Pope Frank and his church are charter members of the God Of Mammon cult that underpins global private finance and ongoing inheritance, the bedrock of the Western form of social organization. Read Michael Hudson to understand how it came to be.
https://michael-hudson.com/2024/08/how-rome-reversed-christianity-from-compassion-to-control/

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 26 2024 2:36 utc | 128

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 26 2024 2:36 utc | 128
Will read later. There was no love lost between the catholic churc and I. Nevertheless the prosecution, at least in Western Europe and for convictions that should be personal choices, these last decades … maybe thrown under the bus after losing their usefulness?
Will read your link though , but lately they no longer inspire the aversion I felt, only pity.

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 2:51 utc | 130

Newbie | Aug 26 2024 2:51 utc | 130
The Church of Rome vs the Church of Constantinople is still strong and can easily be seen in this war. Kissinger’s Westphalia is something worth understanding.
The massive absolute hatred to all things Russia that was revealed in the Euro elite at the beginning of the SMO can be traced back to that.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 2:56 utc | 131
At a time? No doubt, but right now (caveat in Western Europe , last 20 years) what it feels like is that the Catholic Church is hated as much as Russia .
And you’re talking with someone who had little sympathy for them. I fought hard against the idea that they should impose their ways on others, lately I pity them for being critics, prosecuted and unable to hold their personal beliefs…
Maybe adjourn to the open thread? And if you or pay have a better link? The other was a low content to noise interview, stoped after 5 min and learned little. Certain types of articles (or worse tv programs) where one loses 10 minutes for a 10 second useful phrase… not my thing

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 3:09 utc | 132

Newbie | Aug 26 2024 3:09 utc | 132
You are a numbers man, but numbers do not adequately address hatred and the origins of hatred.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 3:17 utc | 134

If you’re the Russian Central Bank you’re finding ways to short Blackrock stock…

Posted by: Paul Damascene | Aug 26 2024 3:51 utc | 136

Alex Mercouris, whom I like, mentioned that Russia may have not bombed that day as Modi was in Kiev that day -so out of respect.
Posted by: canuck | Aug 25 2024 21:48 utc | 85
Better to have kept quiet or just acknowledge that you don’t know. What is written is a pure guess without any foundation.

Posted by: anon | Aug 26 2024 4:15 utc | 138

Air launched missiles entering Ukr airspace via Sumy region Kalibrs via Nikolaev region.
6 Tu-22
9 MiG-31k
11 Tu-95
2 Su-57
4 Kalibrs missile vessels

*link*

🔥🔥 JUST IN: Russia just launched it’s largest missile and drone strike of the war against Ukraine in revenge for Kursk.
🇷🇺11x TU-95s have fired their missiles, in two salvos. Up to 20 Kalibrs coming in from the Black Sea. 9 MiG-31s ready to launch. Swarms of drones in the air!

*link*
Many strikes headed for the Kiev region.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2024 5:01 utc | 140

“Trainings of the Belarusian Army”…
Yesterday, the Kiev Foreign Ministry made an official statement regarding the concentration of Belarusian troops in the Gomel region.
Through his mouth, the Kiev regime expressed concern about this and warned that if Belarusian troops or other military units enter from this territory, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will begin to “respond adequately.”
Of course, this annoys them, since for the Kursk adventure and the possible Bryansk adventure, he completely exposed the Belarusian border. Bringing the troops back means dooming the “adventure” to failure. To fail to react is to endanger these very groups, as well as the very plan of your further actions. The situation, as they say, is “so-so.” And hence this statement.
However, the situation is such that the units that are currently stationed on the territory of Belarus may well soon enter into battle. This applies to the detachments of the former Wagner PMC, which, numbering far from one thousand people, are a powerful fighting fist that can be thrown into battle.
This is likely the result of the recent personal meeting between the presidents of Russia and Belarus.
In fact, these are not parts of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. And they may well start fighting not from Belarusian territory. But in this situation, Kyiv can forget about the invasion of the Bryansk region. And in general, it will be forced to respond to this challenge, which in any case will lead to the depletion of reserves that are already quite thin.
Personally, I don’t yet think that we can talk about anything more. But this is quite enough for the Kiev regime to begin to become hysterical. Which is exactly what he does.
t.me/llordofwar
/368387

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 26 2024 5:39 utc | 142

Zakharova :
Fearless John – @European_dissident
Forwarded from
NinaByzantina
Russia’s MFA spox Maria Zakharova on the arrest of Pavel Durov, the Telegram founder, in France:
“I just remembered that in 2018 a group of 26 NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Freedom House, Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and others, condemned a Russian court’s decision to block Telegram. The West made other similar statements.
They said all this because as of July 1, 2018, the Yarovaya Law began to operate in Russia requiring telecommunications operators to store records of telephone messages and Internet traffic of their clients for six months, as well as keys to decrypt users’ correspondence and provide them to the FSB of Russia upon request. Thus, there were legislative questions for Telegram on this basis that many other countries also had in connection with the technical parameters of its encryption system.
All these Western NGOs called on the Russian government to stop questioning Telegram’s work. They appealed to the UN, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the European Union, the United States, and other governments with a request to resist Russia’s actions and to protect the fundamental rights of freedom of expression and privacy. In addition, they called on Internet companies to resist unfounded and illegal demands that violate the rights of their users. They demanded that the Russian government guarantee the rights of Internet users to publish and anonymously view information on websites emphasizing that any restrictions must be sanctioned by the courts and fully comply with the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. At the same time, Durov remained free all this time [in Russia] continuing to develop Telegram.
I am publishing a screenshot of all the Western professional organizations that spoke out then including their collective appeal. Do you think they will appeal to Paris this time around and demand Durov’s release, or will they swallow their tongues instead?”
@NinaByzantina

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 26 2024 5:56 utc | 144

Abrams losses in Ukraine are growing: 20 out of 31 tanks are already out of action — Military Watch Magazine
▪️Another M1A1 Abrams tank in service with the Ukrainian army was destroyed in the Kursk region of Russia. Since its delivery to Ukraine in late 2023, the total loss of Abrams tanks has reached 20 out of 31, with all losses occurring in the last six months.
▪️The tank was destroyed, probably with the help of the Kornet anti-tank system.
▪️ Ukrainian servicemen express dissatisfaction with the tank’s technical characteristics, including its vulnerability to Russian fire.
▪️Previously, Abrams tanks were used in the Avdiivka area, but the destruction in the Kursk region was the first in this region.
t.me/ForeignAgentIntel

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 26 2024 6:13 utc | 146

Barrel Brown | Aug 26 2024 5:42 utc | 143
Telegram says Syrsky is moving men from Odessa and Zaporizhzhia … (to support the sunk-cost fallacy folly of Kursk).
Yes. It’s a dumb move. But that’s what it’s reported he’s doing.
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Syrsky as a Russian deep double agent.
Nah. No one is more suspicious of collaborators and traitors than the paranoid Ukrainians and NAFO. Syrsky has always passed scrutiny.
Sure, Syrsky is making dumb decisions that benefit Russia, and ultimately he’ll be convicted of being a “Russian” when the Kursk Excellent Adventure catastrophically collapses.
But who was behind the Kursk Incursion … I think the @bar agrees, the Brits.
Killing Russians on Russian soil (civilian, children or military, without regard) – has been a Brit and U$ special forces wetdream for decades.
Syrsky delivered what they wanted. = Dead Russians.
And ultimately, they’ll turn on him and kill him, for being “Russian”.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 26 2024 6:28 utc | 148

#Report for the morning of August 26, 2024
▪️ Fierce fighting for the settlement of Malaya Loknya continues in the Kursk region. The Black Sea Marine reinforcements troops have driven the enemy from the outskirts of the settlement and repelled new waves of attacks. The enemy is attacking with large forces the settlements of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye and Nechayev. In the Korenevo direction, attacks on the workers’ settlement and the settlement of Komarovka have been repelled. An enemy SRG has been uncovered and destroyed by artillery fire near the settlement of Kremyanoye. In the south of the Sudzhansky district, the RFAF have launched a counterattack and are destroying the enemy in the area of ​​the settlement of Cherkasskaya Konopelka, the Sever group of forces reports . The AFU continue to pull reserves into the neighboring Sumy region.
▪️ In the Toretsk ( Dzerzhinsk ) agglomeration, the RFAF are trying to break through and gain a foothold in the Shakhtyor garden association, as well as north of Ozaryanovka. Enemy drones pose a serious problem for our advancing troops.
▪️ In the Pokrovsk ( Krasnoarmeysk ) direction, the RFAF are expanding the control zone towards Mirnograd and expanding the wide salient into the enemy’s defense. There is also an advance towards the Karlovskoye Reservoir. The AFU are unable to stabilize the front.
▪️ In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, on the outskirts of Konstantinovka, our attack troops installed a flag. The battles for the settlement continue.
▪️ The RFAF are preparing for possible attacks by the AFU in the Bryansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye directions. The enemy has concentrated reserves in the hope of a loud media result.
▪️ Belgorod Region under targeted strikes by the AFU against civilians. At night, on the Krasnaya Yaruga-Vyazovoye highway, two FPV drones attacked a passenger car moving along the road. Two civilians were injured. A man and a 17-year-old girl with mine-explosive injuries, concussion and various shrapnel wounds were given first aid at the Krasnoyarsk Central Regional Hospital.
▪️ In the DPR, in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a man born in 1960 was injured when an explosive device was dropped from a AFU drone.

https://t.me/two_majors/30360

Posted by: Down South | Aug 26 2024 6:57 utc | 150

“Collapse of Defense” and the Fate of Syrsky.
The Western press continues to discuss the situation in the Pokrovsk direction. And wonders why Ukraine is simultaneously advancing in the Kursk region if such problems are brewing in the Donbass.
The British Sunday Times writes that the Russian advance toward Pokrovsk is gaining momentum, the city is being evacuated.
Ukrainian military commanders told the newspaper about the “obvious collapse” of the Ukrainian defense in this direction. They explain the retreat by the lack of shells, new Russian tactics, KABs, and also the numerical superiority of the Russians.
The 47th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claims that the Russian troops have a 5-7 times advantage in personnel: “it is impossible to hold the line when there are only two or three of you, and ten to twenty people are coming at you.”
Ukrainian military say that the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region has not affected the situation near Pokrovsk.
Another British publication, The Telegraph, writes that the fate of Commander-in-Chief Syrsky is connected with the Kursk and Pokrovsk directions. The outcome of these battles will determine whether he is a “brutal butcher or a brilliant general.”
The newspaper writes that “success in Kursk is not free. Ukraine is losing some of its best people in battle. In Donbass, the Russians have accelerated their offensive and are knocking on the door of Pokrovsk.” And the coming weeks will show whether this will change the Kursk offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the meantime, Ukraine’s decision to redesign elite units for Kursk “has clearly weakened the front in Donbass. The risks are enormous and obvious.”
The publication also recalls the claims that were previously made in the media against Syrsky: “disregard for the lives of his own people; a tendency to give impossible orders; an unwillingness to trust officers on the ground; and, above all, an unwillingness to say “no” to political masters who set unrealistic goals.”
At the same time, the newspaper predicts that Syrsky will become the “new Zhukov” if he changes the course of the war in Kiev’s favor with the operation in Kursk, even at the cost of great losses.
The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter publishes a report from Pokrovsk and cites the opinions of those who are being evacuated. They do not understand the point of the operation in Kursk.
“There are many Ukrainians in the vicinity of Pokrovsk who do not understand why Ukraine, instead of invading the Kursk region, did not invest in organizing a repulse of the Russian offensive in Donbass,” the article says, citing conversations with departing residents of Pokrovsk.
The article is called: “Can’t they push back the Russians here and then continue in Kursk?”

https://t.me/rezident_ua/24083

Posted by: Down South | Aug 26 2024 7:01 utc | 152

Night Tripper @149.
You have to understand that till recently, that is the last elections, the main job of the Indian Foreign Minister and indeed the Cabinet, was to carry Modi on their on collective heads and declaim “Modi! Modi!” as a talisman. Any fool could have told him that opening his gob and give meaningless advice at Kiev after the Kursk invasion would show how ridiculous an idiot he is. BRICS don’t mean anything much in India given our unresolved differences with China, even though the import-export picture is skewed dramatically in China’s favour. We in India need the Russians to be a strong continental power for balance-of-power reasons, if for nothing else.

Posted by: ivan | Aug 26 2024 8:13 utc | 154

Posted by: necromancer | Aug 25 2024 23:39 utc | 113
VV0p is indeed a former PM, but you didn’t notice he is the actual president of RF.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 26 2024 8:15 utc | 156

I think Russia always said we never closed the door on discussions but it doesn’t mean that Russia was desperately searching for an end. Russia understands that it has the momentum, that it has the Strategic advantage in this conflict. It’s getting stronger, Ukraine’s getting weaker. But Russia’s also aware that this conflict could spin out of control at any minute, given the political investment that the West has made in a Ukrainian victory that isn’t going to happen. Russia in looking for an endgame is looking how to balance the ego of the West to avoid unnecessary escalation. So it’s a very, very political environment taking place. That’s over. The Ukrainian invasion of Kursk, which is an invasion of Russia on behalf of NATO, even though both NATO and the United States deny their involvement this simply could not have happened without a significant involvement. This has terminated the negotiations and now all that’s left is the strategic defeat of Ukraine, which will happen on a timetable that Russia’s in charge of. Russia is not going to sacrifice men needlessly. Russia is prevailing on the battlefield, even in Kursk. The Ukrainian offensive is stopped. The strategic reserves that were committed are being hunted down and destroyed as we speak. The Russians did not divert significant forces to respond to Kursk. They maintain the momentum in Donetsk and they’re on the cusp of a major, major victory in the Donbass in Zaporizhia as the Ukrainian forces reach the point of collapse, meaning that the defenses are breached and there’s nothing behind them. link

Posted by: Passerby | Aug 26 2024 8:17 utc | 158

Syiyrskyiy tactics is like playing EU 4 when AI has lost the war and sends a 3k stack to occupy an undefended province to prolong the hostilities.
Bonus desperation points for wasting precious ammunition against something as useless to war effort as civilians.

Posted by: andros | Aug 26 2024 8:33 utc | 160

Good morning Banderistan: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/107121

Posted by: Apollyon | Aug 26 2024 8:42 utc | 162

Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 8:43 utc | 163
“I am hoping for mass civilan casualties”
I find myself hoping rather along the lines of Peter AU1.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Aug 26 2024 8:54 utc | 164

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Aug 26 2024 8:54 utc | 164
we are dealing with rabid, fanatical Nazis. they could not care less if people are cold.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 9:06 utc | 166

159 – I would be very surprised if they are really so candid about operational plans, unless it is deliberate misinformation.

Posted by: Waldorf | Aug 26 2024 9:17 utc | 168

Second wave strikes in Ukraine today.

So far:
10 arrivals in Lviv
6 arrivals in Ivano-Frankivsk
3 arrivals in Lutsk
2 arrivals in Rivne
3 arrivals in Ternopil
5 arrivals in Khmelnytskyi
7 arrivals in Vinnytsia
3 arrivals in Zhytomyr
2 arrivals in Zhuliany airport Kiev
9 arrivals in Kiev
2 additional arrivals in Kievan suburbs
1 arrival in Kropyvnytskyi
2 arrivals in odesa
2 arrivals in Kryvyi Rih
2 arrivals in Zaporizhzhia
2 arrivals in Dnipro
2 arrivals in Kremenchuk
1 arrival in Myrhorod
1 arrival in Chernihiv
3 arrivals in Poltava
4 arrivals in Kharkiv
and this is only the 2nd wave.
(By arrivals I refer to times strikes have been reported, I’m not sure how many rockets/drones have actually hit the different areas)
https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1827968112156901628

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 26 2024 9:25 utc | 170

we are dealing with rabid, fanatical Nazis. they could not care less if people are cold.
Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 9:06 utc | 166
There is more to care.
Logistic, industry possibly telecom and other things are damaged and this will reflect on military operations too.
And cold people too is not to be underestimated. 😉

Posted by: Mario | Aug 26 2024 9:30 utc | 172

Posted by: Mario | Aug 26 2024 9:30 utc | 172
And cold people too is not to be underestimated. 😉
By not underestimated I am taking it to mean, they can survive to develop their hatred further. Which is what I would expect.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 9:37 utc | 174

Bonus desperation points for wasting precious ammunition against something as useless to war effort as civilians.
Posted by: andros | Aug 26 2024 8:33 utc | 160
But there’s no war, the smo is a medieval tv show with no anti-terrorist or anti-nato effects. Russia started to be turned into Syria or Gaza since the Maidan days, it’s just getting worse in time because they don’t do anything. A few missiles a month, most of them hitting empty buildings, is only wasted ammo for the tv show. Geniuses like Gerasimov or Surovikin help nato on how to prepare for various weapons, but never create any useful results. Always too few, alwyas heavy outnumbered. The only thing missing from the new Syria is a Bibi or two, launching missiles from a bordering country, while flying next to commercial airplanes.

Posted by: rk | Aug 26 2024 9:43 utc | 176

Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 9:37 utc | 174
In the far west of Ukraine, there is cultural nazism originating from WWI. I assume that will be chopped off the rest of Ukraine.
Central Ukraine though is different. Perhaps only a quarter of the population or less.
Worth looking at voting maps prior to 2014. Also maps showing where there are monuments to Lenin and so forth.
A big part of the remaining male population now are trying to avoid conscription, military vehicles being burnt but in some cases entire villages coming out to prevent the press gangs carting cannon fodder off to the frontlines.
The most committed that are left are now being killed off in Kursk. Once they are all killed – well that’s about the end for Ukraine. The Ukrainians themselves will most likely turn against the west once this is over and they realize the losses.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 9:50 utc | 178

need to have hope
Johan Kaspar | Aug 26 2024 9:48 utc | 177
Morale. Its a big thing in war. Once they realize all the best units and a huge amount of equipment has been destroyed, morale will drop through the floor. Part of the reason they must keep feed more and more units in just to try and hold that piece of ground.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 9:55 utc | 180

Posted by: Milites | Aug 26 2024 8:54 utc | 165
You are absolutely right, nothing in history is the same as what has already happened; however everything is similar: the era we live in is similar, all things considered, to the Roman period of Caligula; an almost mad emperor, government by legions and finally troubles in the East; it is only the speed of the empire’s disintegration that has accelerated.
Traduzione automatica.

Posted by: LEMMNING1 | Aug 26 2024 10:04 utc | 182

Posted by: Milites | Aug 26 2024 8:54 utc | 165
For the second part of the speech I try a risky comparison: the battle of Caporetto on the Italian-Austrian front of the Isonzo of the First World War. Even if the result is different in km of penetration, the final result could be the same. Always the same story: change of tactics of the assaults, distraction of the supreme commands, unprepared personnel. Then the excessive penetration up to the Piave-Grappa line, already prepared for defense, did the rest a year later. But here it will not be a year but weeks or days. Don’t forget that I had foreseen August 31st. Add 2 days or 3 days per effective brigade more than the 5 I thought were engaged and you will have the date of the collapse.
automatic translation

Posted by: LEMMNING1 | Aug 26 2024 10:22 utc | 184

Posted by: Milites | Aug 26 2024 8:54 utc | 165
“You are absolutely right, nothing in history is the same as what has already happened; however everything is similar: the era we live in is similar, all things considered, to the Roman period of Caligula; an almost mad emperor, government by legions and finally troubles in the East; it is only the speed of the empire’s disintegration that has accelerated.”
Traduzione automatica.
Posted by: LEMMNING1 | Aug 26 2024 10:04 utc | 182
Your historiography is not correct.
Caligula became mad 6 months after his accession to the throne because of a bout with meningitis.
Caligula was murdered in 41 AD-the Roman Empire lasted another 435 years till it fell in 476 and the Eastern Roman Empire lasted another 1, 1,413 years till the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
So your idea of the Roman Empire’s disintegration during Caligula’s time is way, way off base.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 26 2024 10:31 utc | 186

“Trainings of the Belarusian Army”…
Yesterday, the Kiev Foreign Ministry made an official statement regarding the concentration of Belarusian troops in the Gomel region.
Through his mouth, the Kiev regime expressed concern about this and warned that if Belarusian troops or other military units enter from this territory, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will begin to “respond adequately.”
Of course, this annoys them, since for the Kursk adventure and the possible Bryansk adventure, he completely exposed the Belarusian border. Bringing the troops back means dooming the “adventure” to failure. To fail to react is to endanger these very groups, as well as the very plan of your further actions. The situation, as they say, is “so-so.” And hence this statement.
However, the situation is such that the units that are currently stationed on the territory of Belarus may well soon enter into battle. This applies to the detachments of the former Wagner PMC, which, numbering far from one thousand people, are a powerful fighting fist that can be thrown into battle.
This is likely the result of the recent personal meeting between the presidents of Russia and Belarus.
In fact, these are not parts of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. And they may well start fighting not from Belarusian territory. But in this situation, Kyiv can forget about the invasion of the Bryansk region. And in general, it will be forced to respond to this challenge, which in any case will lead to the depletion of reserves that are already quite thin.
Personally, I don’t yet think that we can talk about anything more. But this is quite enough for the Kiev regime to begin to become hysterical. Which is exactly what he does.
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Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 26 2024 5:39 utc | 142
0. I think that discussing with milites about the northern axis I mentioned I might be tempted to reduce the venues of a NE incursion of the AFU by meeting them in Chernikov. The menace of that might be enough.
For the rest I’d sum it up this way:
1. In the kursk cauldron RF is forcing the AFU to retreat and soon will be able to control Gordeevka and Guevo and put a lid on it (AFU can see that so will throw everything and the kitchen sink trying to avoid it)
2. Pokrovsk will lose its spokes as a hub soon enough, will the AFU double down or retreat?
3. Relevant for the above, the Prohres line is now being outflanked and should be abandoned soon
4. The massive strike by missiles … will wait for details on the results (should include some major assets, human and material)
It’s a lousy day to be ukranian…

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 10:37 utc | 188

Map showing the tracks of different missiles plus drones in yellow.
https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1828014871859835318/photo/1
Geran drones flying at will right through to the Polish border. Virtually zero air defence.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 10:39 utc | 190

Your historiography is not correct.
Caligula became mad 6 months after his accession to the throne because of a bout with meningitis.
Caligula was murdered in 41 AD-the Roman Empire lasted another 435 years till it fell in 476 and the Eastern Roman Empire lasted another 1, 1,413 years till the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
So your idea of the Roman Empire’s disintegration during Caligula’s time is way, way off base.
Posted by: canuck | Aug 26 2024 10:31 utc | 186
Correct, and though 476 is the end of things, there was a long way to get there. Caligula is almost a full cycle before the empire’s apex in the late 2nd century. Afterwards there was still the 3rd century crisis with the rise of the Ilyrian emperors and the split of the empire (rhymes with the world wars and the ascent of the US) and then the vandal troubles.
The US is constantinople at most, probably in the Arkadius and later stage, when wives and counselors ruled the emperor.
Meanwhile, and not to be off topic, and as an example of the opposite, there are leaders who are involved and cross information from all levels.
Putin prioritizes direct battlefield reports from frontline commanders — Kremlin
According to Dmitry Peskov, the Russian leader receives such first-hand information on a regular basis
MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin pays special attention to information he receives from those with first-hand knowledge about the situation on the frontlines of the special military operation, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Late on Saturday, Putin heard reports from commanders tasked with combat missions in areas bordering Ukraine and he held a meeting with senior military officials from the United Battlegroup at a Defense Ministry command outpost later. The supreme commander-in-chief heard reports from Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, and Sergey Rudskoy who heads the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff.
“This is business as usual for the supreme commander-in-chief,” Peskov told reporters. “The president pays priority attention to getting updates and information from those who are directly involved in the special military operation on the battlefield,” Peskov added.
According to the Russian presidential spokesman, Putin receives such first-hand information on a regular basis. “This enables him to dissect information about the situation in specific sectors [of the line of engagement],” Peskov concluded.

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 10:51 utc | 192

Well, thousands of Russian men died, Russian men who will not reproduce. I think this war is all about Slavs, on both sides. Vicky and their tribesmen are rubbing their hands in glee.
Posted by: Apollyon | Aug 26 2024 10:38 utc | 189
Many more die every year from alcohol abuse and what my interaction with Natalias tough me during the last 30 years is that Boris always has a kid at age 19 with a former schoolmate.
Russia is a multi ethnic country and while Aghuls and Dolgans are near extinction Slavs are not.
If you take glorious tribe’s history from the start of written language to their immigration to west from Ptolemaic Egypt they were always inconsequential so no it is not them alone, it is their mix with western higher humans who until recently used to live in mud huts.
This fine blend of goat herders and troglodytes gave us the promised land of milk and honey, 250 years of capitalism 35 trillions in debt.
Keep rubbing!

Posted by: andros | Aug 26 2024 10:56 utc | 194

Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 9:06 utc | 166
“we are dealing with rabid, fanatical Nazis. they could not care less if people are cold.”
Harsh, but accurate assessment of the invaders of Ukraine.
Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 26 2024 10:56 utc | 193

Dont’t worry, Russia will kick those NATO bastards out pretty soon.

Posted by: Poslan1 | Aug 26 2024 11:11 utc | 196

An aside about China, a not entirely irrelevant backdrop to Ukraine.
Specifically the China economic supernova and the west shattering in its shockwave.
There’s “a certain middle eastern nation” that we will call ACMEN.
The west (Europe, USA, Japan, South Korea etc.) have dominated global trade for centuries
but that’s over now with the rise of China.
How so?
Western economic and technological development were sailing along just fine till back in about the 1970’s.
Then a kind of business philosophy arose out of ACMEN.
This philosophy has actually been part of ACMEN for centuries.
This philosophy was entitled “money matters people don’t” (MMPD).
MMPD philosophy from ICMEN became itself a successful export,
MMPD was eagerly accepted in the west.
As decades followed, MMPD became the foundational principle of the western nations,
even as the originator of MMPD, ACMEN, developed closer and closer political ties with the west.
The deeper MMPD became embedded in every thought, word and deed of westerners,
the stronger the bond between the west and ACMEN became.
Till eventually there was no dividing ACMEN from the west and from MMPD.
The three were all a continuous whole.
So businesses were all run only to maximise profit for landlords,
with all objectives of quality, skills, human resources strictly subordinate to the imperative of MMPD.
Not much focus on supply chains,
not much focus on skills, education or training,
not much focus on resource strategy,
Total focus on profits and dividends.
However on another side of the world, China never accepted MMPD.
Not even remotely. MMPD offended all instincts and philosophy of the Chinese nation.
So China went on to provide us with a control experiment.
Very helpful of them.
West: development with MMPD, China: development without MMPD.
China developed an industrial and technological economy that was devoid of any trace of MMPD.
Any trace of the culture and philosophy of ACMEN and the west.
For a log time China, starting from a poor and undeveloped base,
was either ignored or exploited for cheap labour.
But China kept on growing and growing in a different way, without MMPD-philosophy.
By the 2020’s and after the pandemic, people round the world started waking up to a new reality.
China was the only country with a functioning supply chain for its manufacturing industry.
China was the only country whose education system was providing the skilled workforce needed for hi-tech industry.
China was the only country whose cultural and economic philosophy supported the existence of a skilled workforce.
All in all China was disappearing over the horizon ahead of the west in one technology industry after another.
They are the only country who can make electric vehicles properly and economically.
And so on and so on.
The west’s decision to embrace MMPD philosophy from ACMEN and fuse itself effectively with ACMEN,
has caused its culture and working philosophy to become uncompetitive in the world of 2024.
This uncompetitiveness comes more sharply into view with every week that passes,
and is only going to grow wider and wider into an uncross-able gulf.
The whole world owes a debt of gratitude to ICMEN,
and what ICMEN has done to the economy of the west by sowing the MMPD philosophy so successfully;
To the west’s the economy and, eventually, inevitably, to the west’s imperialistic hegemony over the rest of the world.
Too late for buyer’s remorse, even for you, sir.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Aug 26 2024 11:35 utc | 198

Harsh, but accurate assessment of the invaders of Ukraine.
Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 26 2024 10:56 utc | 193

glad you aknowledge that nato did invade the ukraine and started killing slavs, which indeed makes them nazis.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Aug 26 2024 11:37 utc | 200