Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 26 2024 11:17 utc | 197
It is obvious to even a 85 IQ person that trading the resource-rich Donbas, with its coal, heavy industrial facilities, and roads for a bit of farmland near Kursk is a bad trade. That’s assuming that Ukraine can even hold that tiny bit of land, which seems dubious.
But, as you point out, that assumes that you have the best interest of Ukraine at heart. NAZO could care less if Ukraine is turned into Somalia or Sudan. The point is to humiliate Putin at any cost.
Of course, these idiots don’t know history and the only people they will end up embarrassing are themselves.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 26 2024 11:40 utc | 203

This is just a friendly reminder to PLEASE keep arguing with the trolls! It might take a lot of effort, but deep down inside they’re good, honest people who can be persuaded if you just keep engaging them.

Posted by: Donbass Lives Matter | Aug 26 2024 11:45 utc | 205

Legitimate
#rumors
Our source reports that the restoration of the energy system of Ukraine to the August figures will take more than 40-60 days. This is provided that there will be no more damage.
The source also points out that Zelensky wants to use the case of shelling the Ukrainian energy system to “knock out” new air defense installations and ammunition from the west, since there is now a shortage due to the fact that many installations and BC were “lost” in the Kursk adventure.

https://t.me/s/legitimniy
Russia seems to have targeted mostly substations plus knocked out remaining thermal and some hydro power. This time, it seems there will be complete regions without power at all until some substations are repaired/rebuilt.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 11:47 utc | 207

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 26 2024 11:45 utc | 206
There were a few strikes in Zhuliany airport, so a decent chance either some Patriot batteries or aircraft were hit.
Zhuliany airport in Kiev has been so far a major fetish where US loves to place its Patriot batteries.

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 26 2024 11:51 utc | 209

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
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Which reminds me: Have the Ukronazis stopped castrating their Russian POWs? The references to “psychological counseling” for recovered/exchanged Russian POWs does make me wonder.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 26 2024 11:53 utc | 211

A Ukrainian drone crashes into a 38-story residential building in Saratov, Russia.
https://x.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1827931674102894754
“Suicide Drone Crashes into Russian City’s Residential Skyscraper
A drone has struck the 38-story Volga Sky residential complex in Saratov, Russia, injuring at least two people.
Several apartments were damaged, and emergency services are on the scene.
Footage shows the moment of impact.”
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1827916958290804876

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 26 2024 11:54 utc | 213

Posted by: LEMMNING1 | Aug 26 2024 10:04 utc | 182
I can’t remember who it was, but in a time when US Universities were fit for purpose a history lecturer threw his coffee mug against the lecture room wall, he then took a second mug and dashed that to against the wall, asking what was similar/different in both cases. The only things that were similar were: propelling force, the mugs, the wall, similar noise of impact, similar reaction by some students to their breaking, similar result and there being remaining fragments, both mugs unable to function as designed. He then said that’s how history works.
Same with the SMO, some of the fragmentation pattern and the pieces generated look similar, but are not identical. Interesting Caporetto reference, wonder who the Ukrainian Rommel is/was. As for Roman references, living in the UK, but with an interest in the US, I’d say around the time of Augustus Caesar, with the Senate utterly corrupted and soon to become a mere puppet show and Augustus representing the shadow elite.

Posted by: Milites | Aug 26 2024 12:00 utc | 215

Has Russia attacked Ukrainian 750 KV electrical infrastructure yesterday?
If not, then Putin still hopes that his western partners would somehow begin to love him.
If yes, then Russia finally realized that this is a total war.

Posted by: vargas | Aug 26 2024 12:01 utc | 217

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian UAV Strikes on Russian Regions
Last night, as Russian forces prepared to deliver massive strikes on enemy targets, Ukrainian formations carried out another drone launch against the rear regions of Russia. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, a total of 22 drones were intercepted over eight regions.
▪️This time, the main strike hit Saratov Region, where the residential complex Volga Sky on Predmostnaya Square in Saratov and a multi-story building in the center of Engels were attacked. Four civilians were injured, and one woman is hospitalized in serious condition.
The most likely target of the enemy was the airbase of strategic aviation in Engels – it has already been subjected to attacks by Ukrainian drones, which flew at a low enough altitude to minimize the possibility of detection.
▪️Another enemy drone was intercepted approaching Yaroslavl. According to some reports, Ukrainian formations tried to strike the local oil refinery. There was no destruction or casualties at the crash site.
▪️In Belgorod Region, on the section of the Krasnaya Yaruga – Vyazovoe highway, two FPV drones of the AFU attacked a passenger car: two civilians were injured and hospitalized.
▪️Air defense systems also worked in Kursk, Bryansk, Tula, Oryol and Ryazan Regions. There, according to preliminary information, there was no damage or casualties.
🔻Recently, Ukrainian formations have consistently chosen either fuel and energy facilities or military airfields as the main targets of drone attacks.
At the same time, the raids are carried out almost one after another, which once again testifies to the high volume of drone production by the enemy and his intention to tirelessly launch UAVs.

https://t.me/rybar_in_english/17256

Posted by: Down South | Aug 26 2024 12:04 utc | 219

⚡️🇺🇦Ukrainian channels report that two Ukrainian battalions have been surrounded between New York and Toretsk
At the same time, it is reported that there is no communication with the encircled forces, and the command reports to the top that the area is still under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and there is no threat of encirclement.

https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1827879935505031510

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 26 2024 12:09 utc | 221

As usual Putin is reacting after major lose of face. Russia knows where all the major factories are but out of Putin’s great love for his fellow Ukie Slavs who are also hardcore Nazis he refused to strike. Now he’s forced by Russian public anger to take some action.
Bet your sweet nelly he’s not hitting US and UK command centers where all the attacks on Russian territory are planned.

Posted by: Surferket | Aug 26 2024 12:11 utc | 223

Down South@219…..wow, a bit of monkey see monkey do….. fascinating that the Britkrainians would attack the same energy fuel and airfields targets in Russia as the Russians attack Ukraine. You just never know, eh.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 26 2024 12:15 utc | 225

Surrounding two battalions in SE part of Toretsk is another tactical victory for RUAF. Even if it is only some elements of them.
This is in line of the reports of Ze/Syrsky abandoning the Donbass fronts going all-in effort at Kursk.
Posted by: unimperator | Aug 26 2024 12:11 utc | 222
So far RF had basically always left a way out of cauldrons… are we starting to see a change?
Close, force surrender or destroy?

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 12:21 utc | 227

The 750 kV Vinnitskaya substation is on fire – data from the NASA landscape fire monitoring satellite service
The fire at the substation started as a result of an attack today.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/107145
Details of the results of the massive strike on targets in Ukraine :
The targets of the strike were electrical substations in the Kiev, Vinnytsia, Zhitomir, Khmelnytskyi, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Nikolaev, Kirovograd and Odessa regions.
Posted by: Down South | Aug 26 2024 12:16 utc | 226
Hope not a lot of 750 KV stations.
As I mentioned weeks/months ago, killing the power stations but not the 750’s would allow a fast connection to RF grid and power back up little time after an AFU surrender.
Sure hope it was a number small enough for RF to have spares…
The objectives are clear and unneeded suffering of civilians was always something RF avoided.

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 12:26 utc | 229

https://en.topcor.ru/50893-spasti-ukrainu-ot-demograficheskoj-katastrofy-mozhet-tolko-kapituljacija-pered-rossiej.html
Another warning that Ukraine is moving towards demographic extinction.

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 26 2024 12:32 utc | 231

Posted by: anon | Aug 26 2024 12:34 utc | 232
Russia is just helping 404 transfer power grid and generation to NATO standards. Like with the Ukrainian air force.

Posted by: unimperator | Aug 26 2024 12:38 utc | 233

https://en.topcor.ru/50893-spasti-ukrainu-ot-demograficheskoj-katastrofy-mozhet-tolko-kapituljacija-pered-rossiej.html
Another warning that Ukraine is moving towards demographic extinction.
Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 26 2024 12:32 utc | 231
Close but should be worse, as I mentioned earlier the number (recorded by UN) of exits towards the west were 38 million (of which maybe half returned). As for the half a million KIA i’d go for 600k as a minimum for 31.07.2024 and 700k by now. Translated below
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Only capitulation to Russia can save Ukraine from a demographic catastrophe
Mobilization in Ukraine has been going on since the beginning of the Russian military action and is not going to stop. During this time, the strength of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded the mark of 1 million military personnel, and over 500 thousand people died or were maimed. To hold the front, Kyiv constantly requires new recruits to maintain the existing number of troops. But this cannot continue indefinitely.
Old cemeteries have expanded significantly and many new huge ones have appeared. The male part of the population of reproductive age suffered a colossal blow. At the same time, up to 10 million residents of the country, mostly women and children, left its territory and half of them are unlikely to return back, since they will happily settle (naturalize) in their new countries of residence. It is beneficial for Western countries to keep Ukrainians with them. Thus, Ukraine was one step away from a demographic catastrophe, and the Ukrainian nation, thanks to the zeal of the Kyiv regime, from extinction and absorption by other nations.
Economic problems complicate things further. Mobilization has become total and more and more women and children are leaving Ukraine. During the first years of his tenure, citizen of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky spoke almost every day on TV how much he loves Ukrainians, that the people are the main wealth. Now this wealth is spent to ensure that Zelensky’s torso sits in a beautiful and expensive leather chair for some time.
But at this rate, in a few more years there will simply be no one to lead Zelensky. Some general of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who is too angry at what is happening will remove Zelensky and cover his worn chair with leather. Therefore, for that part of the Ukrainian elite that retains even a shred of rationality, there is only one option left – to agree to capitulate to Russia. Otherwise, they will face a worse end than Zelensky.
It’s all creepy and scary, but you can’t erase the words from the song. Moreover, Western analysts are gradually coming to similar forecasts and conclusions. For example, Lucas Leiros, an analyst at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, believes that Ukraine can only be saved from a monstrous demographic catastrophe by Kyiv’s full consent to Russian peace proposals, which include, among other things, severing ties with NATO. He warned that Ukraine will face a worsening demographic problem due to ongoing fighting, as more citizens leave the country for fear of being recruited into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and losses at the front do not stop.

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 12:46 utc | 235

“I’d say around the time of Augustus Caesar, with the Senate utterly corrupted and soon to become a mere puppet show and Augustus representing the shadow elite.”
Posted by: Milites | Aug 26 2024 12:00 utc | 215
With all due respect The Roman Senate was corrupted long before the time of Augustus Caesar -ruled with Anthony and Lepidus 39 BC to 31 BC, sole Emperor 31 BC-14 AD.
In the late 2nd century (133-121 AD I believe) The Gracchi brothers-both tribunes of the people- tried to give Roman veterans arable land in Italy to farm but the Senate killed both the tribunes because they wanted the land for the aristocracy-themselves.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 26 2024 12:49 utc | 237

****** Hope not a lot of 750 KV stations.
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Newbie @ 229
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Yes, agree. The 750kv transformers a big ticket item and hard to replace.
I’ve thought that the switch yards would be a much better target to neutralize a power grid. Especially if one wanted to use it later.
Posted by: Jerr | Aug 26 2024 12:42 utc | 234
Unless… RF is a serious industrial power and does not need a firm order to get production done. It could have started even before a decision to put them out of action was considered.
Maybe they’re just putting ukraine as a country that only they can fix… at least in a reasonable time-frame
Might work…

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 12:50 utc | 239

IIRC, taking out the 750kv transformers might mean it forces a NPP into a cold shutdown, as there is no longer any safe way to send the power generated out to the grid.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 26 2024 12:55 utc | 241

IIRC, taking out the 750kv transformers might mean it forces a NPP into a cold shutdown, as there is no longer any safe way to send the power generated out to the grid.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 26 2024 12:55 utc | 241
Depending on which ones were shot… yes, might be a way to force some NPPs into cold shutdown.
And those were now the backbone of reliable energy …

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 12:58 utc | 243

@Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 12:56 utc | 242
For a long time Europe was defined between North and South, it was during the period following the Peace of Westphalia (which in itself is highly overrated) that Europe started to become oriented between East and West (i.e. “Western Europe”). The defeat of France by Russia, which brought Russia into the scale of global power, turned the British against the nation they had previously allied with. The French had already been anti-Russian for quite a while. Then the 1870 consolidation of Germany, and the post-WW1 Versailles Treaty that destroyed the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires; these all moved the centre of power to Western Europe.
As extensions of Western Europe, the white settler colonies became part of the West and South America became part of the “Western Hemisphere” dominated by Europe (Spain/Portugal, then Britain, then the US). At the end of WW2 Japan was forcibly integrated into the West.
There was also of course the earlier Schism which split the Christian Church between Catholic west and Orthodox East, with Russia the centre of orthodoxy after the fall of Constantinople. History is a process with events interspersed.

Posted by: Roger | Aug 26 2024 13:11 utc | 245

Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 26 2024 6:28 utc | 148
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Aug 26 2024 9:48 utc | 177
Thank you for your replies to my @143.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 26 2024 6:28 utc | 148
“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”.
Yes, that was a pretty wild idea on my part. But without a real appreciation of the nuances of Russian/Ukrainian brotherhood, if Syrsky is not playing traitor to Ukraine, I imagine a good number of Russians would view him as a traitor to their cause. I imagine he is somewhat conflicted himself. And yes, him being Russian makes for an ideal scapegoat for the Ukie’s to blame.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Aug 26 2024 9:48 utc | 177
“Nevertheless them urkops cannot accept yet the new failure, they need to have Hope as apparently this was the last ukrop effort before simply going thru the motions while waiting for the collapse of the Ukrainian State.”
Hope on the Ukrainian/NATO part seems to be the only rational explanation, particularly if the NPP was/is the goal. This seems to be unattainable for now, unless NATO stages a new large scale diversion of some sort.
I wonder if such was planned, and the recent intense drone /missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure were aimed at neutralising such an event.
Anyhow, unfounded speculation is usually a waste of time. Future developments may tell the story-one day.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Aug 26 2024 13:14 utc | 247

@Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 12:56 utc | 242
For a long time Europe was defined between North and South, it was during the period following the Peace of Westphalia (which in itself is highly overrated) that Europe started to become oriented between East and West (i.e. “Western Europe”). The defeat of France by Russia, which brought Russia into the scale of global power, turned the British against the nation they had previously allied with. The French had already been anti-Russian for quite a while. Then the 1870 consolidation of Germany, and the post-WW1 Versailles Treaty that destroyed the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires; these all moved the centre of power to Western Europe.
As extensions of Western Europe, the white settler colonies became part of the West and South America became part of the “Western Hemisphere” dominated by Europe (Spain/Portugal, then Britain, then the US). At the end of WW2 Japan was forcibly integrated into the West.
There was also of course the earlier Schism which split the Christian Church between Catholic west and Orthodox East, with Russia the centre of orthodoxy after the fall of Constantinople. History is a process with events interspersed.
Posted by: Roger | Aug 26 2024 13:11 utc | 245
I was just posting a link to the treaty.
We can discuss all that on the open thread (as there are too many things and interpretations possible)

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 26 2024 13:19 utc | 249

I don’t think it is correct to characterize these strikes on Ukraine’s dwindling energy infrastructure as “revenge.”
Clearly, Russia took its time to plan and select targets. Unlike the shitbirds in NAZO who are emotionally-driven and lack self-discipline, Russia never lets emotions overrule common sense.
Let’s hope this is just the beginning. The news of a dead former Brit soldier who was acting as “muscle” for Reuters reporters is heartening, as well. May he rot in Hell. I hope Satan is sodomizing him right now!

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 26 2024 13:23 utc | 251

Let’s hope this is just the beginning.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 26 2024 13:23 utc | 251
And people were saying there are no red lines -or- that “oldie but goodie” Russia was out of missiles. LOL.
The NAFOs are now back to crying after their short Kursk adrenaline surge. They’ve got to be feeling a little bipolar these days.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Aug 26 2024 13:28 utc | 253

@Posted by: canuck | Aug 26 2024 12:49 utc | 237

Absolutely, the Roman Republic was utterly corrupt and dominated by the oligarchs. Caesar was a man of the people attempting to wrest control back for the people,…

Ahem… Caius Iulius was nothing of the sort. He aspired for power and acted accordingly. He had many vices and many virtues and we both came to own our lives to each other, but I never recall him striving to “return the power to the people”. That was simply undoable ad had been so ever since the social wars and he knew that perfectly well.
That dastardly coward Marcus Tullius on the other hand would gladly have licked the arses of the plebs had that somehow gratified his cursed name. Fittinly they cut his tongue off.

Posted by: Catilina | Aug 26 2024 13:44 utc | 255

Unlike most here, I am not interested in multipolarity or some kind of end to western hegemony
I simply want Russia to feel safe and to have its historic territories returned to it.
If you want to call it imperialism, so be it.
Anyone who says this is for the greater good of the world and is somehow restraining the west is not neccessarily on Russia’s side.
I have no interest in China other than it reverting to its rightful place as subservient to a militarised Russia. A China that wishes to count its coins can continue to be a global factory for all I care. Likewise the Americans can blabber on about Wall Street ad infinitum.
This is and should be about Russia imposing itself via physical force on the world stage. Long may it last. It is using its manpower and military production capacity to its advantage. It is the only country that (may be) prepared to fight for superiority. And for this it must be commended.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 13:51 utc | 257

Is there any evidence that Ukrainians are starting to wake up to this plan? I mean NAZO’s plan to exterminate them, shit-holify their country, and make “lebensraum” for other races to move in?
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Aug 26 2024 13:13 utc | 246
No, Ukrainians are perfectly happy with that plan.
They are ready to die for the love of the West.

Posted by: vargas | Aug 26 2024 14:04 utc | 259

NAFO sounding desperate now their funding has been cut. I guess they will have to deliver pizzas instead.

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 26 2024 14:25 utc | 261

They try to build relationships based on mutual benefit
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2024 14:33 utc | 262
Russia cannot continue to have friendly relations with countries that exploiit it for its natural resources and then have its leaders cavort with a group that wish to exterminate it. There is no mutual benefit at all from India or indeed China. These are squeezing russia in full nowledge of sanctions causing them pressure.
The BRICS need to be recalibrated to remove the B, I and C.
Fortunately, that day is drawing closer.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 14:36 utc | 263

Julius Caesar was a popularis, which obviously refers to the people. He was nephew of Marius and son-in-law of Cinna. He was suspected of conniving with Catilina and openly advocated against Cicero’s executions without trial. Caesar did redistribute some public land. Even his calendar reform took one weapon from the hands of the patricians who controlled the priesthood and could play political games by rigging the calendar. His famed clemency could be plausibly interpreted as an attempt to compromise with the nobles in the Senate, though. And near as one can tell, the most committed popularis was Clodius. Even Marcus Caelius can be argued to have been a stronger proponent. But the overall judgment that Caesar was slaughtered like the Gracchi or Saturninus or Catilina or Clodius for even advocating change, even limited change, is entirely reasonable in my view.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 26 2024 14:37 utc | 265

It looks like the morning briefing at TrollTeam headquarters was less than inspiring, could it be the War news?

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Aug 26 2024 14:45 utc | 267

Posted by: vargas | Aug 26 2024 14:04 utc | 259
Smarter Ukrainians fled the country well before 2022, Ukraine was already a shitty country by the way.
Those who have some economic possibility fled the country later till nowadays.
Those who remain in Ukraine are those with no possibility to fly away or those that make money out of corruption.
Some of the latters won’t live long enough to enjoy their money.
So no Ukrainians are not so satisfied with their destiny.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 26 2024 14:52 utc | 269

Posted by: Membrum Virile | Aug 26 2024 14:41 utc | 266
Meta meta commentary. M-squared. Useless space wasting.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 26 2024 14:55 utc | 271

“Its taken a few years but finally Russians seem to be waking up to the fact that there is no BRICS. India and China in particular are probably closer to enemies to her than allies.
God Bless Russia, she stands alone.”
Nonsense. China is behind Russia, North Korea is behind Russia, Belarus is behind Russia, South Africa is behind Russia, so is every thinking citizen in the EU and the USA as well, and the majority of the rest of the world I am behind Russia. Unashamedly!
Russia will win this altercation, I just wish they will make the US, The EU and all the other Satanistic/Nazi entities pay! —dearly!

Posted by: g wiltek | Aug 26 2024 15:14 utc | 273

“Hopefully some serious damage and casualties in Kiev and across Ukraine with todays attacks
Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 5:57 utc | 145”
There is no excuse for that, even if you are on some bad acid, or over 80.
“Got a good reason for taking the easy way out
Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now
She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah
It took me so long to find out, and I found out”
“Tried to please her, she only played one night stands now”
If you are an ex-soldier, who has been to war, and only got a few bits left, then you are excused. If I wrote that on Facebook, I would have the thought police round.

Posted by: tonyopmoc | Aug 26 2024 15:17 utc | 275

Posted by: Down South | Aug 26 2024 12:00 utc | 216
This why extrapolating future rates of advance, based on past performances, is a perilous enterprise, as it only takes a slight change in the operating metrics to translate into radically different outcomes. Russia has largely bludgeoned its way through the Donbas’ outer shell, now she can put down the hammer and pick up the honed blade, trying to avoid the remaining bone and sinew.
In the Cold-War scenarios this was the point of release for a fresh tank army with its attendant independent brigades, OMG’s and regiment of attack helicopters. Although a spectacular proposition I think it unlikely, but the people who have been impatient will witness what a Front-based tipping point looks like. Whether it will be the T-box shot will be determined by factors that are largely hidden from amateur analysis.
Posted by: Roger | Aug 26 2024 13:16 utc | 248
Never read it, but I do have an aversion to any history book with the title, ‘People’s it invariably, in my experience, means a pseudo-Marxist observation with no reference to the cultural and social norms of the period in question. Always reminds me of the revolutionary peasant, King Arthur encounters, in Monty Python’s Holy Grail ‘epic’, with his anachronistic take on the traditional story.
Posted by: canuck | Aug 26 2024 12:49 utc | 237
Absolutely, my point was that after a century of increasing corruption people had become used to a thoroughly corrupted institution, forgetting what had preceded that period, allowing Augustus to take control. The globalists are pursuing a similar tactic, both undermining the institutions whilst promising a better alternative, ‘you will own nothing and be happy’ is the reverse of the Augustinian promise of, security of land ownership, but both paths invariably rely on dependence, not independence, as their end goals.
As for Julius he crossed the Rubicon, whilst Zelensky crossed the Russian border, will the comedian suffer a similar fate as the self-proclaimed dictator, or flee with his ill gotten gains?

Posted by: Milites | Aug 26 2024 15:22 utc | 277

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 26 2024 14:52 utc | 268
Along with logistics, communications have always been the Bear’s bugbears.

Posted by: Milites | Aug 26 2024 15:25 utc | 279

anon@1234
It is not inconceivable that the R.U. government was thinking ahead of the box regarding those hard to replace transformers. Once the coup regime utterly collapses, perhaps even within this 2024 year; it is quite possible that Russia still possesses some of those old Soviet transformers now being degraded in the former Ukraine SSR. There is no other possible source for replacements.
Brotherly Slavic nations? Possible, once the explosions cease.

Posted by: aristodemos | Aug 26 2024 15:35 utc | 281

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 26 2024 11:54 utc | 212
+++++++++++++++++++++++
Yes. A hangar containing freshly provided Western aircraft F-16 was struck in Ivano-Frankovsk.

Posted by: AI | Aug 26 2024 15:39 utc | 283

Re Gog and Magog, if we step away from apocalyptic literature and look at history (i.e., real life). we find that Gog is Gugu in Assyrian records and Gyges in the Greek historian Herodotus. Magog is Mat-Gugu or “Gugu’s country” in Assyian records and Lydia in Herodotus.
Source: Edwin Yamauchi, Foes From the Northern Frontier: Invading Hordes from the Russian Steppes Paperback – April 15, 2003
https://www.amazon.com/Foes-Northern-Frontier-Invading-Russian/dp/1592442145

Posted by: lester | Aug 26 2024 15:50 utc | 285

Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 14:36 utc | 263
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I’ve been suspicious of your posting for some time, and today you’re saying weird and incorrect stuff about BRICS.
NAFO funding has been cut but that’s really no excuse for not knowing that BRICS has expanded greatly with many more countries taking observer status.
Your bloodthirsty posting about killing civilians would fit well on Ukronazi sites.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2024 15:53 utc | 287

you’re saying weird and incorrect stuff about BRICS.
no excuse for not knowing that BRICS has expanded greatly with many more countries taking observer status.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2024 15:53 utc | 287
And I was talking specifically about removing India and China from that grouping. Where in that post did I indicate that only India China and Russia were in BRICs which I think is what you are suggesting I was saying ?

Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 16:03 utc | 289

China will ruthlessly squeeze Russia until it is weakened and impoverished and as dependent as possible, but not to the point of causing a collapse or breakup of Russia. Nothing Russia can do about this unpleasant situation except suffer through it. It’s Russia’s punishment for allow simpletons and opportunists to grab control of the USSR.
Posted by: anonposter | Aug 26 2024 16:02 utc | 288
Frightening and depressing thoughts. And maybe accurate. I just pray Russia by some miracle finds a way out of that.

Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 16:06 utc | 291

@Posted by: Night Tripper | Aug 26 2024 15:22 utc | 276
An utter simplistic view of the world. Proper allies also have their own interests which both respect. China has the Taiwan issue, which means that if it recognizes the Novorossiya territories then it undermines its claim to Taiwan. Putin is an intelligent man and understands that.
China has recently been significantly increasing its domestic natural gas production, both conventional and none conventional production, as well as receiving gas from Central Asia and Russia by pipeline, and from Russia via LNG. Domestic Chinese gas production actually supplied 58% of domestic consumption in 2022, which was a 6% share increase from 2021. Domestic gas production is continuing to significantly grow in 2024

In June alone, China’s natural gas production jumped by 9.6% compared to the same month of 2023, according to the official statistics data reported by the Xinhua news agency.

At the same time, China is massively ramping up renewables which will cause an increasing reduction in coal fired electricity production year over year from now on; and cap natural gas fired electricity production. Some of the growth in gas consumption recently is a move from LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) to LNG, but that is very price dependent. So it makes simple business sense for China to be looking for low prices for new pipeline gas from Russia, as China’s import dependency is actually declining and global LNG prices are falling. In any attempted Western energy embargo, China can simply ramp up the utilization of its coal fired electricity power stations to replace LNG imports. Will the West take on Russia as well by trying to block Russian LNG exports to China?
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62804#:~:text=Domestic%20natural%20gas%20production%20in,Bcf%2Fd)%20from%202022.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Natural-Gas-Production-Surged-in-First-Half-of-2024.html
So things are not as simple as you assume, and being allies does not mean that one party unilaterally undermines its own interests for its ally.

Posted by: Roger | Aug 26 2024 16:21 utc | 293

There was absolutely no way, no mechanism by which the “populus” could have wielded the “power” that would have been “restored” to it. The Roman Senate had no official status or position. It was an entirely advisory body with varying weight and prestige but no formal power in Rome herself. It could govern some proximate provinces but nothing very much more. The Republic was a deep state machine by design, run by managers.
The divide of the Populares vs the aristocrat Optimates was a necessity because a uniparty system was not yet invented.

Posted by: Catilina | Aug 26 2024 16:22 utc | 295

The NAFO trolls are understandably upset today.
It’s not every day that one loses a lucrative job being a shitbird for a Nazi colonialist power that runs on sex exploitation, racial supremacy, and gender dysmorphia.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 26 2024 16:32 utc | 297

anonposter @ 288

China will ruthlessly squeeze Russia until it is weakened and impoverished and as dependent as possible, but not to the point of causing a collapse or breakup of Russia.

Well, that is what they did to the United States. Modus operandi? 🙃

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 26 2024 16:48 utc | 299