Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 30 2024 7:18 utc | 268

Instead of pulling troops from the Pokrovsky sector for the Kursk front as the Brits were hoping for, Russia sent additional troops there.

I guess the Kursk incursion most important message was ‘we are hurting with that Pokrovs salient, the salient is poking my inner membranes, please focus your efforts somewhere else” or that’s the way the Russians read it.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Aug 30 2024 11:14 utc | 304

The U.S. Army has awarded a $1,3 billion contract to produce and deliver Javelin anti-tank missiles in fiscal year 2024. Under the deal, more than 4000 of the weapons will be sent to Ukraine, underscoring the importance of the system in supporting Ukraine’s defense amid the ongoing conflict.
via avia-pro
Posted by: Justpassinby | Aug 30 2024 10:20 utc | 292
I was reading the night posts and wondering if Kursk was not an attempt to make an original scenario redux.
The original scenario had Ukraine overrun and RF stuck with gladio guerrilha groups nibbling at RF forces.
Maybe the idea of bringing that into RF came to mind to an MI6/cia idiot.
And the news about the javelins would fit that scenario.
But what someone forgot was that the original scenario included a lot of quasi urban zones, plenty to live from the land and friendly civilians.
Kursk is not any of those, even going full Vietcong would likely fail.
But maybe that’s the thing they tried …
Now for the current situation in Kursk (and even the rest of the front) I see z by his piano, a limp instrument hitting the keys, and a sad voice singing…
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know

Posted by: Newbie | Aug 30 2024 11:44 utc | 306

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 30 2024 11:50 utc | 307
Yeah Shure.
Sort of Hannibal directive.
It would be nice to hear the screaming of the guys in USA, Blackrock or whatever, after the loss of their ‘investment’ in Donbass/Donestk. 🤣
Maybe they will crash their own operation. 😎

Posted by: Mario | Aug 30 2024 12:01 utc | 308

Russian telegram channels are a goldmine : There is a 15M Rubble prize money for the downing of F16 for RUAF… and some are suggesting also giving it to AFU downing their own. Money always has been a great motivation for the kokhols bravery after all 🙂

Posted by: Savonarole | Aug 30 2024 12:23 utc | 310

305 – Hey, Ernst Roehm was a fag too. So what?

Posted by: Waldorf | Aug 30 2024 12:35 utc | 312

“305 – Hey, Ernst Roehm was a fag too. So what?”
Posted by: Waldorf | Aug 30 2024 12:35 utc | 312
“204 – “The Russians fought like men. The Americans fight like homosexuals”.
Good quote. I reckon I will use it some time…”
Posted by: Waldorf | Aug 30 2024 10:38 utc | 296
The point is your statement (above) was bigoted as well as being inaccurate: you still haven’t learned from your misinterpretation of the Sacred Band (see above quotes) which clearly illustrates homosexuals are as good as heterosexuals in martial endeavours.
But , for whatever reason , you cannot HANDLE THE TRUTH.
A pity for you.

Posted by: canuck | Aug 30 2024 12:44 utc | 314

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 30 2024 12:25 utc | 311
It was clear by the very beginning that Ukraine could not win a war with Russia.
It’s beginning to appear clearly that NATO, expecially with no or limited engagement from US, is not able to win a conventional war with russia.
Next step is going nuclear and west seems desperate for blaming Russia for that.
Not that it will make any difference given that no one will win.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 30 2024 12:46 utc | 316

The irony of Afghani’s making such remarks is that it ignores their own widespread, common homosexuality. Anybody who still has trust in the mass Western media (ha ha) should consider how Britain and the US kept Afghani pedophilia out of the reporting for 20 years. British guys were a bit freaked to see Afghan soldiers with eyeliner and so forth. US troops were told to ignore boys chained to beds.
The further irony is that Afghanis seem to have their own creative ways of thinking about homosexual acts such that gender might not be defined until a certain age. Weird how the woke and fanatical religion can think this way but such is our world.

Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 30 2024 13:23 utc | 318

The irony of Afghani’s making such remarks is that it ignores their own widespread, common homosexuality.
Posted by: Eighthman | Aug 30 2024 13:23 utc | 318

I do not see how this remark ignores anything. They know haw men fight, they know, evidently, how homosexuals fight, and they state the facts from their experience – Russians fight like men, Americans fight like homosexuals – what did they ignore?

Posted by: Poslan1 | Aug 30 2024 13:33 utc | 320

Posted by: Feck | Aug 30 2024 13:29 utc | 319
I suppose this was sarcasm.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 30 2024 13:39 utc | 322

Well, since we’re off topic anyway —
Noble and ennobling as the story of the Sacred Band of Thebes may be, and even if it’s true, it comes from a geographically and temporally distant culture, so it’s understandable if one wishes to question its relevance.
As far as modern times and sacred American manhood are concerned, we don’t have a lot of data of course, because it’s only been in the past few years that same-sex-inclined folks could serve without fear of prosecution or at least dishonorable discharge. However, a significant milestone in the “gay rights” movement occurred right after World War II, when places like New York City were crowded with hundreds if not thousands of former soldiers and sailors, recently honorably discharged or in the process of being honorably discharged, who had discovered their same-sex inclination in the barracks, onboard ship, or on shore leave in one of the many European Sodoms (*The Gallery* by John Horne Burns offers a barely fictional account of Naples). And wouldn’t you know, these proto-gays suddenly discovered that they had no interest in going back to Kansas or Texas or even a private Idaho, and formed communities in America’s coastal metropolises.
Fast forward a couple of decades. Toward the end of the Vietnam War draft offices were so desperate for fresh meat that they were no longer refusing admitted homosexuals. (Of course there were those few who lied about being homosexual in order to avoid service.) Many of these were generally or dishonorably discharged upon the end of their tour of duty, but not for lack of bravery or competence, but because of the initial stain on their record when inducted.
Now I wouldn’t be able to tell you whether a screaming gender-bending queen like Sam Brinton would be a good fighter, although if one looks back to the Stonewall Inn riot, one will see that when it comes to fighting mercilessly, dirtily even (move over, MMA!), drag queens are right up there with the rest of them.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 13:57 utc | 324

“Noble and ennobling as the story of the Sacred Band of Thebes may be, and even if it’s true,…”
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 13:57 utc | 324
Are you off your rocker? Of course it is true.(1)
“In Plato’s philosophical dialog the Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats sits around at a banquet discussing a topic that was as important to the Greeks as it is to us: love. Each guest gives a speech in praise of the god Eros and provides his own understanding of love. One of the guests, Phaedrus, waxes lyrical about the loyalty that the lover has to his beloved. He cites, as evidence, the mythological hero Achilles, who sacrificed himself for his beloved Patroclus in the Trojan War. He speculates on the bravery that such soldiers might exhibit on the battlefield:” (2)
Circa 378 BCE – Circa 338 BCE
The Sacred Band of Thebes, a troop of soldiers that consisted of 150 gay male couples, formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC. The rationale behind the Band’s composition was that lovers would fight more fiercely and cohesively than strangers with no ardent bonds. Theban general Pelopidas formed these couples into a distinct unit – the “special forces” of Greek soldiery – and the forty years of their known existence (378–338 BC) marked the pre-eminence of Thebes as a military and political power in late-classical Greece. The Sacred Band fought the Spartans at Tegyra in 375 BC, vanquishing an army that was at least three times its size. It was also responsible for the victory at Leuctra in 371 BC that established Theban independence from Spartan rule and laid the groundwork for the expansion of Theban power. Their only defeat came at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), against Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great. It is written that Philip, after the fight, took a view of the slain; coming upon the place where the three hundred that fought his phalanx lay dead together and, understanding that it was the band of lovers, he wept. Around 300 BC, the town of Thebes erected a giant stone lion on a pedestal at the burial site of the Sacred Band that still stands today.(3)
“In both accounts of the battle, the superior discipline of the Sacred Band resulted in its annihilation. Surrounded and unwilling to surrender, the Sacred Band fought nobly, but they were cut down by the Macedonians. Archaeological excavations near the city of Chaeronea (now Khairónia) have uncovered a mound containing the ashes of Macedonian troops, clearly built as a monument to Philip’s victory. In addition, 254 skeletons found buried beneath a funerary marker are believed to be the remains of the Sacred Band, buried in pairs. The battle marked the end of effective military opposition to Philip in Greece and heralded the beginning of Macedonian domination in the region.(4)”
“According to the ancient sources, the Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite unit of the Theban army composed of 300 of their finest soldiers. But there was a twist – these soldiers were in romantic pairings with one another…150 pairs of male lovers.
So why was the Sacred Band organized in this unprecedented fashion? Plutarch, the Greek historian from the 1st and 2nd century AD, lays out the justification in the Life of Pelopidas in Parallel Lives:
“Tribesmen or clansmen do not feel any great concern for their kinfolk in time of danger, but a band which is united by the ties of love is truly indissoluble and unbreakable, since both lovers and beloved are ashamed to be disgraced in the presence of each other, and each stands his ground at a moment of danger to protect one another.
According to the ancient sources, the Sacred Band of Thebes was a key part of Thebes’ rise to prominence in the 4th century BCE. The Band’s first major victories were against Spartan forces at the Battles of Tegyra and Luectra in 375 and 371 BCE. The former is notable for being the first (and only) time that a Spartan army was defeated by a smaller force. After these wins, Thebes replaced Sparta as the dominant power in Greece.”(5)
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/06/01/sacred-band-thebes-greek-gay-pride.
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/06/01/sacred-band-thebes-greek-gay-pride/
3.https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/sacred-band-thebes
4. https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Chaeronea#ref1203755
5.https://ancientheroes.net/blog//did-an-army-of-lovers-really-dominate-ancient-greece

Posted by: canuck | Aug 30 2024 14:15 utc | 326

Posted by: guest | Aug 29 2024 16:59 utc | 101

https://t.me/RVvoenkor/75942
F-16 in Ukraine fell in an unequal battle with “mopeds”
Already the second fighter in Ukraine crashed while trying to repel an air strike.
This is stated in the official statement of the Ukrainian Air Force.
“New parts on the F-16, perhaps it was shot down, maybe even our own,” comments our vigilant reader, having studied the text.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also finally confirmed the crash: “Communication was lost with one of the F-16s. The plane crashed, the pilot was killed, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement. To find out the causes of the accident, a special commission of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, working in the area of the crash of the aircraft, is intended.”

what makes you think this is the “SECOND” F-16 ; that the tm-idiot get it right ????
EVEN in the screenshot from the ukrainian site is the name from the pilot highlighted in yellow
the screenshot leads to –> https://www.facebook.com/PvkZahid/posts/pfbid05hMFy6Z1qBb6pu9LsyQ1MGQhq5HeTUfKf9jz8jpR2GXJsxhQ3R4gg72YwqpCjbrvl?rdid=oBtvKZqTJzjNH05R
and oh wonder it’s the Ukrainian pilot Oleksii Mes
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/29/7472548/
Ukrainian pilot Oleksii Mes killed on 26 August while repelling Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine
I am not aware of any other names of ‘downed’ ukr. pilots

Posted by: ghiwen | Aug 30 2024 14:31 utc | 328

“Myself, I don’t claim to be an expert in ancient Greek history..”
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 14:25 utc | 327
Yeah, I got that part.
Posted by: canuck | Aug 30 2024 14:32 utc | 329
_____
The remarkable thing is that, by virtue of access to AI that generates an essay of several hundred words (with five footnotes) in just minutes, you yourself claim to be. 🙂

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 14:35 utc | 330

A great take on Western motives and tactics in the Ukraine War by “Tales of the American Empire” where he talks about the possibility that Hungary May Defect. One of the reasons why Russia needs to take all of Ukraine, creating a land bridge through Hungary/Slovakia to Austria, Serbia & Republika Srpska and then Bulgaria. That would fundamentally change the geopolitical dynamics in Europe, and surround Romania with Russian allies.
It would also provide direct access to Russia, for European citizens to visit and overcome Western propaganda. Just like China making it so easy for Westerners to visit the country. All those tourists in Xinjiang putting videos up on youtube etc. are a very effective way of destroying Western propaganda.
Any peace negotiations with Ukraine/NATO will be Russia losing the peace after winning the war, only unconditional surrender should be acceptable.

Posted by: Roger | Aug 30 2024 14:40 utc | 332

Posted by: canuck | Aug 30 2024 14:15 utc | 326
What a pile of bullshit.
If love would have been such an invincible force armies would be made of lovers, not necessarily homosexual lovers or, as in your post, male gay lovers.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 30 2024 14:58 utc | 334

The Kursk offensive propably wasn’t a bad gambit for Ukraine. The rest of the front line is near collapse and weren’t going to hold. There was a slight chance Russia could panic and make its own tactical errors or the West would come in with assistance in a stronger manner. Neither happened. But probably was worth the hail mary shot.

Posted by: WG | Aug 30 2024 15:15 utc | 336

@337
“Leftist ideologues” aka progressive good people in U$$A enforce their baseless beliefs as state religion denying any other morality by lawfare.

Posted by: paddy | Aug 30 2024 15:38 utc | 338

F 16 glides pretty well for it’s type.
In this video an F 16 ingests a bird on take off. The pilots (trainer version) have time to try to re light the engine, steer the aircraft away from the runway, radio the tower and then discuss and perform ejection.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zN_Zl64OQEw&pp=ygUQRiAxNiBiaXJkIHN0cmlrZQ%3D%3D

Posted by: Inevitabllity | Aug 30 2024 15:48 utc | 340

218…even Uraine says its pensioners are about 10.5million….Ukr had published a few days ago sob story what money they needed expected hoped for next year…

Posted by: Jo | Aug 30 2024 15:57 utc | 342

Inevitabllity | Aug 30 2024 15:48 utc | 340
The plane is a BAe Hawk trainer, as pointed out in the YT comments. So we don’t know from that how an F16 glides.
My understanding is that most NATO planes don’t like rough, “bitty” runways where stuff can be ingested.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Aug 30 2024 16:05 utc | 344

Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 30 2024 15:50 utc | 341
That is nothing it a conjecture.
First there is sometimes before the rain/mud season, then we will see if Russian will stop in the winter.
Given the situation I guess Ukrainians will be those who suffer most during winter also on the Frontline.

Posted by: Mario | Aug 30 2024 16:15 utc | 346

Re F-16 and pilot loss, unless there’s convincing evidence to support the Patriot shoot down claim, perhaps the question is would the US prefer this story if the truth was they were both wasted by Gerans?
Patriot story has it being human error rather than a Russian success and Patriot shoot down, even under the claimed circumstances, is at least a clam in favour of its technical capabilities.

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 30 2024 16:26 utc | 348

Posted by: LEMMNING1 | Aug 30 2024 15:47 utc | 339
I’ve often thought that the most important battles in the SMO were between those commanders who were ‘true believers’ and those who were sabotaging events, because of their subordinates. It might come as a surprise to some posters but good commanders often unconditionally grow to love the men under their command, and whilst quite prepared to have those men die, will hate the idea they were sacrificed for a pointless cause. There must be Ukrainian commanders who are justifying their disloyalty because they believe they are trying to save their men from those senior in rank or their more ideological colleagues.
This is why fanatical troops (Azov, etc)are such dangerous opponents, because the first love of the unit is the cause they are fighting, everything else is subordinate, although this state rarely affects the entire unit/formation it does the majority, who become enforcers of this code. It’s also why these units are generally shunned and sometimes despised by ones with a more regular ‘outlook’ on life.

Posted by: Milites | Aug 30 2024 16:41 utc | 350

Under new management.
https://t.me/barantchik/19635

Shoigu can’t even protect his inner circle
Sources said that the fight for General Pavel Popov, who was arrested today, lasted until the very last moment. Apparently, his fate was decided at the very last moment by Vladimir Putin.
Popov is a general close to Shoigu . He worked with him for a long time in the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In the Ministry of Defense, he was responsible for high technology. Many may remember the robot dog with a grenade launcher presented by the Ministry of Defense (in the photo), which turned out to be Chinese, as well as the shortage of simple drones in the first months of hostilities in Ukraine.
Interestingly, his resignation was obvious with the arrival of the new Minister of Defense Belousov. Everyone and their dog talked about it in unison. However, few expected that Popov would end up in jail. First of all, this indicates the final loss of Shoigu’s subjectivity. He cannot even protect his inner circle.

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 30 2024 16:56 utc | 352

@348
Patriot is short range, point defense system. Its radar receives target with Intel classification from the “system”.
The system may have picked up the F-16, it saw it chasing targets. Not threatening anything the Patriot battery was protecting. First look at the record of what system cued Patriot to do. Then follow interceptor cues post launch.
The fault chain, and divergence for air defense TTP’ are too many!
Patriot taking out an F-16 hunting in friendly space is like a coyote eating a house cat while the cat is stalking a chipmunk
I think the engine flamed out, and the U.S. is pointing to a different U.S. problem.
No one wants to embarrass Lockheed!

Posted by: paddy | Aug 30 2024 17:06 utc | 354

Posted by: LEMMNING1 | Aug 30 2024 15:47 utc | 339
Front from Chasov Yar to Ugledar is still the place where the Russians report the most losses for the AFU … and not all brigade with WW2 related symbolism were moved to Kursk, notably 3rd Azov that just fell in a trap in Chasov Yar region. They don’t fight to the last but it didn’t mean they don’t fight or stopped terror attack on Donbass civilians.
Anyway , Banderism has been so widespread in 404 that it would be very hard to eradicate by military means only. Just look at the shitstrom Kuleba launched in Poland recently about some events UPA started during WW2… the higher part of the state apparatus is also tainted by the ukronationalism bullshit.

Posted by: Savonarole | Aug 30 2024 17:21 utc | 356

🇺🇦 BREAKING! Zelensky has dismissed the Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Oleshchuk.
The corresponding decree was published on the website of the Ukrainian President’s Office.
The F-16 saga keeps getting more and more interesting…

*source*
F16s. The gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 30 2024 17:30 utc | 358

No one wants to embarrass Lockheed!
Posted by: paddy | Aug 30 2024 17:06 utc | 354
—
They used to be called Log Head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughead_Aircraft_Manufacturing_Company

Posted by: too scents | Aug 30 2024 17:34 utc | 360

Johan Kaspar@315….twisted yer panties again…..your such an accomplished loser.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 30 2024 17:35 utc | 362

Probable plans of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction
Interesting AFU plan video. Beyond ambitious, very tough terrain, very tough logistics. Maybe it was the follow up if Kursk had been more successful, maybe they are crazy enough to keep going berserker gung-ho opening new fronts while falling back on old ones. The USA way, go big or go home, though admittedly there’s not much hope in incrementalism for the AFU anymore. I’d say 50-50 this is on the runway.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 30 2024 17:54 utc | 364

Once again, the identitarians muddy the waters re: human sexuality.
“There is no such thing as a homosexual.” Gore Vidal.
A man can be sexually gratified by a farm animal.
But. That. Does. Not. Mean. He. Should.
I so pity this hetero-normative culture that has pushed every sensitive, introverted soul or soul who is more in touch with their feminine side into appropriating something as false as “being a homosexual.”
Did you know there is a secret handshake that all straights know and that if you don’t know it, that means you are gay?
Both the hetero-freaks who do not understand the feminine and the resentful self-described homosexuals deserve each other. They both desperately want this false identitarian worldview to continue because it is easier that way that they don’t have to look into the mirror.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 30 2024 18:23 utc | 366

If Moonfish were alerted by his ALR 69 he should have sqwalked and went defensive.
Maybe ALR 69 does not see Patriot radar?
Posted by: paddy | Aug 30 2024 18:01 utc | 365
###########
What you consider an equipment/training error, I call karma as Moonfish might have been daydreaming about his gay lover (Callsign: “Sensitive Chorizo”) during the mission.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 30 2024 18:29 utc | 368

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 30 2024 17:29 utc | 357
The most obvious, and less sensationalist, explanation is that the majority of the UA are made up of in-house hastily taught conscripts, or worse, conscripts who’ve been hastily trained by NATO personnel*. These troops are ok with the Shoot part of the infantry triad, passable with the Communicate part, but typically poor on the Move part. This means when they occupy fixed defences, especially fortifications, they do a passable job at preventing breakthroughs, or at least delaying them and causing attrition on the attacking force. Obstacle belts, prepared arcs and boundaries, and pre-registered target points for area fire (both direct and indirect), go a long way to mitigating the weaknesses inherent in such troops.
Remove this support though and things start to go down hill rapidly. Without pre-prepared positions and having to conduct a hasty defence all aspects of the Shoot, Move, Communicate deteriorate, a situation readily exploited by skilled attackers, who soon bypass fixed positions, capitalise on the relatively static nature of the defence and inflict higher than average casualties. This situation is exacerbated by the conscript command elements, at all levels, being quickly over-whelmed and reaching task-saturation, leading to three of the Four F’s (Flight, Freeze and Fumble or Faff).
There are, of course, exceptions, often forged in the heat of battle, but these normally just delay the inevitable and are unable to change the increasingly defeatist outlook these units often adopt, as they are ejected out of one defence line after another.
*Western infantry tactics rely on specific training requirements to be met, covering a wide range of skills and proficiencies, trying to speed up the process will inevitably result in troops who are less capable overall than those who had the most basic training focusing on very few procedures.

Posted by: Milites | Aug 30 2024 18:44 utc | 370

Good times! User aristodemos thinks I’m straight (and “strait” even), and a certain Roman Catholic Hitler admirer quotes Gore Vidal…who for the record denied that there were heterosexuals too. (Kinsey would give him a score of 5 on a generous day, otherwise a 6, which would mean…….)

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 18:50 utc | 372

Good times! User aristodemos thinks I’m straight (and “strait” even), and a certain Roman Catholic Hitler admirer quotes Gore Vidal…who for the record denied that there were heterosexuals too. (Kinsey would give him a score of 5 on a generous day, otherwise a 6, which would mean…….)
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 18:50 utc | 372
Give aristo a break-hey I’m a big Gore Vidal fan:
“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.”
or
“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”
or
” A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
A witty fellow perhaps tied or second to Mark Twain as the wittiest American-the Brits have dozens; Canadians have Stephen Leacock and SCTV-RIP John Candy

Posted by: canuck | Aug 30 2024 19:06 utc | 374

@ canuck | Aug 30 2024 19:06 utc | 374
Read more carefully (the latter two words are probably pleonastic): It wasn’t aristodemus who quoted Vidal.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 19:16 utc | 376

@ LightYearsFromHome | Aug 30 2024 19:17 utc | 377
At their best, KITH was the best thing on TV. They did get kind of hit-and-miss though.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 19:20 utc | 378

@ snake | Aug 30 2024 19:36 utc | 379
Myself, I’m utterly clueless as to why Venezuela’s elections are anyone’s business besides the Venezuelans’.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 19:41 utc | 380

snake @ 379
The BRICS+ should demand an investigation into France’s recently fucked up elections, tout de suite!

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 30 2024 19:48 utc | 382

https://t.me/CyberspecNews/61982

This is the first time something like this has happened in the Ministry of Defense.
After the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the Nazis into the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Minister made an unprecedented decision. Andrei Belousov surprised even seasoned military men.
The head of the Ministry of Defense decided to hold those responsible for the situation in the Russian region personally accountable.
— For each task of the Coordination Council, the Ministry has designated an official who is responsible for its implementation within 24 hours. If it is impossible to solve the problem at my level, the information is communicated to me personally, and I make a decision, — Belousov said.
Previously, this did not happen, at least during any meetings, sessions, or boards. Now it does.

Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 30 2024 20:06 utc | 384

Posted by: canuck | Aug 30 2024 11:25 utc | 305
You quote secondary sources but avoid original sources, especially Plato’s/Socrates’ dialogues re the philosophy of love and desire.
You dilettante.

Posted by: horseguards | Aug 30 2024 20:20 utc | 386

Somehow I get the feeling that Shoigu would be next on the chopping block except that nobody really wants to piss off the Tuvans.
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 30 2024 18:46 utc | 371
Putin as commander of the armed forces has set the target and the limitations of the SMO.
Many Russian bloggers and western pro Russian crowd want the war to be fought their own way and when it isn’t they blame Shoigu and Gerasimov.
Putin with his KGB and FSB experience has a good nose for sniffing out corruption and incompetence. Putin and Shougu have worked closely together for a long time, and also Gerasimov has a lot of direct interaction with Putin.
Shoigu is a believe a civil engineer and it was his job to modernize the military. With the SMO there will be much larger money flows, I’m not sure what section the latest arrest was in but one was procurement and one in logistics. The one in procurement was a civilian given military ranking for the job. With the SMO, a lot of procurement taking place with civilian enterprises.
Not just weapons systems, there is also huge amount of civil engineering occurring in the new regions.
As we saw at the start of the SMO, the Russian federation was low on riflemen – the mobilization called for riflemen. The Chechen’s appear to have been the main infantry force prior to and at the beginning of the SMO and no major complaints have come from them.
All of Russia’s high end weapons systems that Shoigu modernized have far outclassed the Nato systems in the SMO.
Drones – drone corrected artillery fire at the start and now FPV’s is quite new and although first introduced by Nato, Russia has quickly caught up and likely overtaken Nato in the drone aspect.
Shoigu’s job was to modernize, the new defence minister is a bean counter and I assume his job is to ensure the now large amounts defence money is well spent.
No large organization will be perfect utopia, but I look at what has been achieved – how much ex soviet and western Nato equipment has been destroyed. The casualty ratio – at the minimum the 5-1 Putin/Rus MoD numbers. Combined with the exceptionally low civilian numbers.
Apart from the civilians, Kusk was a non event. On the Russian side, perhaps complacency perhaps something worse but so far as I know, no arrests in relation to that. Russian investigations are exceptionally thorough before an arrest is made but by now it is starting to look more like complacency both on the civilian admin and also military that civilians were in harms way.
Kursk now works very much in Russia’s favour, drawing all the best Ukroid cannon fodder in.
Ugledar long a Nato hard point, now it looks like forces are being withdrawn from there to send to Kursk.
This is a war the Brits, the European elite, and a faction in the US are determined to win, so all in all, Russia has performed very well against the golden billion.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 30 2024 20:30 utc | 388

Putin’s 5-1, earlier 7 or 8 to 1, is on the contact line. If they drop a Fab the score can be over 100 to 0, better than US against men in slippers. The 50-60k a month does not translate to 10k for Russia. I very much doubt they will give killed numbers now, simply because the result of smo does not exist yet and people may ask “so what did we get for our x deaths?

Posted by: rk | Aug 30 2024 21:07 utc | 390

And I can’t understand how this whole discussion about sex, samesex and whatever is relevant to the thread.
Maybe we should go to the open thread.
Posted by: Mario | Aug 30 2024 18:30 utc | 369
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Thank you, Mario.

Posted by: Ed | Aug 30 2024 21:26 utc | 392

Zelensky. Macron and now the Eu (in the link about Maudro) refuse to recognize election appointed national leaders.. ignoring or circumventing election results is getting to be the status quo..
Humanity better wake up.. I wonder if Biden will stay in office in Kamala loses to Trump.. ?
Posted by: snake | Aug 30 2024 19:36 utc | 379
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The hypocrites in the West had no problem accepting Petro O. Poroshenko (and his band of Nazis) as the legitimate “President” and government of Ukraine after the US sponsored Maidan coup d’etat in February 2014. The coup, spearheaded By Victoria Nuland, Biden, working with self-proclaimed neo-Nazis ousted the Democratically elected president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.
This is Fascism forming out from the filth that is neo-liberalism right before our eyes. This is not about political parties; it goes much deeper than that, and I don’t think we can stop it in time. Humanity has become too distracted to notice. We watch football while children scream before they die in Gaza. This is what “liberal Democracy” has become.
https://voxukraine.org/en/the-maidan-in-2014-is-a-coup-d-etat-a-review-of-italian-and-german-pro-russian-media/

Posted by: Ed | Aug 30 2024 22:14 utc | 394

More about green light stuff.
Responding to Newbie ( Aug 30 2024 13:21 utc | 317 ).
To the best of my knowledge.
While a big and powerful green laser emitter (something on the order of about a meter long and ten centimeters in diameter) at significant distances (let’s say 5 kilometers as an example) is able to produce a small-ish very slightly “de-lased” cone of light; 1. such a thing is relatively faint and 2. it only does so surrounding the still lased central light which would be very easily identifiable where it hits any ground or object (it would be quite small and a lot brighter than the “de-lased” part) and I didn’t notice anything like that in the pictures.
Also; it is possible to manufacture what the eye and cameras will misinterpret at a distance as a solid beam visible through air using multiple parallel lasers but again that looks nothing at all like the pictures and extremely so when it comes to it hitting the ground or any object which will turn extremely bright. And anyway the equipment and power requirements for that are massive in comparison to a green LED torch (which is closer to what the pictures look like).
The “thermal imager with a laser” (range-finding laser? I didn’t turn on JavaScript to see any details) thing you linked to is nothing like any of that and most likely not noticeable to the human eye where it hits the ground or a target.
In addition something like it would conflict directly with using some doodad as a flying torchlight. You would want to keep any fancy abilities such as lasing targets or thermal imaging on a completely separate platform that stays as covert as possible and far away. Several orders of magnitude further away than the pictures of the beam of light indicate, and not on whatever is used to illuminate a spot with visible green light.
Whatever it is that is used as the platform for the torchlight it is also clearly not moving at speed (otherwise the pictures would look different) and essentially hovering in a fixed spot which also rules out the drones made by the company you linked (since those are all fixed wing which means they have to move continuously).
Except for the unexplained lack of noise a small/tiny quad-copter with a green LED torch and maybe a simple camera would be a good fit. Something very small and inexpensive.
I don’t want to speculate on possible engineering that could solve the noise mystery on the remote off-chance that I could be right about something 😛 😀 (it’s unlikely but why risk it?)
Anyway; fun stuff. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Aug 30 2024 22:57 utc | 396

The irony of this conflict is that the Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine, which before 2014 did see Russia as a friendly state and could’ve been counted on to form a strong voting block to advance Russian interests, probably at this point hate their neighbor even more viscerally than people in Lviv do. I really can’t imagine pro-Russian parties ever gaining a significant foothold in Kharkiv or Odessa again after this war. The immense amount of soft power that the Kremlin had over Ukrainian politics has been completely obliterated, and they’ve transformed a relatively friendly state and ally into a literal archenemy by their own doing.
I know that the retort will be “but muh Euromaidan”, but Russia could’ve absolutely still clawed back its influence on Ukraine after it with peaceful means (like they did 5 years after the Orange Revolution), and possibly even after the annexation of Crimea. Fuck, even after the Donbass you still had pro-Russian parties forming a significant block in places like Kharkiv. But after this war? Yeah, not happening.

Posted by: Hapchazzard | Aug 31 2024 0:02 utc | 398

Sunny Runny Burger | Aug 30 2024 22:57 utc | 396
Plenty of hand held greenlight laser torches about. I think these are banned in some places due to their ability to blind pilots at night.
Martyanov has put up a couple of Russian civilian lasers – one used for tree lopping, the last video for demolition work where it cut down a huge gantry crane. It sliced through the massive steel overhead beam from a distance of several hundred meters.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 31 2024 0:15 utc | 400