retroflecks @301
Ah, just read your post again: The crazies might choose ending the world over having their careers ended and their craziness exposed.
Frightening possibility.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 18 2024 11:47 utc | 303

USD is now more than 100 Roubles. If Russia loses, it will be due to economics, not the battlefield. Why Russia isn’t self-sufficient with all its resources and industrial heritage is beyond me, but it is what it is.

Posted by: ivanislav | Nov 18 2024 11:48 utc | 305

Posted by: Larsbo | Nov 18 2024 2:50 utc | 238
What would Biden do if Mr Zirkon visited Ramstein for example? Send the 6th Cavalry???
<= my own opinion is The Neocons would welcome such a visit. They have been using war and conflict since they installed the USA constitution, killed Lincoln, and did 1913. In 1913 [they ratified the 16th Amendment, imposed the income tax law 1913 and formed the privately owned federal reserve and gave America's sovereignty to it ].<= all in 1913. <=shortly after they engaged the world in world war. Before that they were into slavey and colonial imperialism. WWI was limited in scope because technology was not able to connect the whole world to the outcome of the war, WWII was broader in scope because technology to manage the whole world as a single unit was getting better.. As capabilities associated to technology comprehensively reaches new levels, the Neocons will step in and cause a new world war; its in their blood. Digital is a new level and its reach to control the world is much broader than anything WWII era technology could offer? So we will have a new war, if the Neocons are allowed to run things. One of the things the world needs to do (maybe at the UN or as part of BRICS), is to disqualify people from becoming candidates for high level jobs in government if psychological testing identifies 'king of the mountain' pathologies in the mental make up of aspiring candidates. In other words, protect humanity from persons harboring known pathologies, keep "king of the mountain" mentalities out of government. A global rule, no one is eligible to serve in a nation state government that is afflicted with a Neocon or "king of the mountain" pathology as determined by psychological testing and experience resumes. Enforcement of this rule may go a long way toward keeping wars and conflicts that slow human progress down from happening. Conflict is in the blood of the Neocon. The true Neocon will weaponize things useful to winning conflicts. The Neocon seeks to own and control all resources, all wealth, all power. Neocons need control over technology, labor and money resources to satisfy their needs explains why Neocons are often present in high percentages associated with these things . The Neocon seeks to use all available resources to attack someone. Reasons for the attack can be fabricated to satisfy the public but if there is something to own, control or a competitor to be eliminated the attack becomes inevitable. I observe that it matters not to the Neocon what is the reason, who is the target, how many die, or what the destruction is.. the object is to reduce the mental anguish Neocons experience, feel and live with when they are not king of every mountain. Its the same uneasy kind of feeling most people experience from fear. Ownership and control is endemic to the Neocon psychic. They must be or take measures to become "King of the Mountain". These people are dangerous to everyone's life, liberties and pursuit of happiness.. As stated at the beginning the above is my explanation for why governments force the people they govern to face off against the people of the other. Its a mental thing, a human pathology, that causes conflict oriented "king of the mountain" mentalities to seek the most important jobs in government, business, money or finance. The Neocon is a believer in the principles of Economic Zionism. The Neocons are always on the look out for new Mountains to rule and for competition of any kind that challenges Neocon ownership, control and rule. With the Neocon the urge to “own-everything, control-everything, rule-everyone ” is a world view. Gaining access to places in organizations or governments that allow or enable controlling everything to happen is important to the active Neocon. The closer to the top the more control is possible.

Posted by: snake | Nov 18 2024 12:20 utc | 307

Posted by: Santi | November 18, 2024 11:42 utc | 24
https://textosandroides.blogspot.com/2015/04/el-camino-de-vuelta.html
We are a total definition of the world, we are god, we are the god that lives in the forgotten and simple depths of religions, and in our memory, the source and true value of all divinity rests intact.
Since we are born, they have tried to forget us, they have tried to make us forget everything we are, everything the world inhabits within us, reducing us to countries and flags, to sects and proxy wars, to lies, leaders, religions and banalities, but it only takes a second of understanding for the mask of spirituality as a commodity to lose its meaning.
When we make contact, when for a second the infinite surrounds us, death becomes a temptation inherent to our inability to connect, since we cannot return the gift of life in the same way, since we do not find in the devastated daily life any value or point of support to express ourselves at a deeper level.
But life is to experience, and death is only a way of returning us to the earth, which will arrive, almost always without warning, to redeem us from all the days we spend without being aware. In short, the vast majority of us wait until the last second to realize that the only kingdom is that of nature, and in it we are simple guests without privileges, although blessed like everyone else…
Even so, we behave all our lives like the drunken guest at the wedding, breaking and throwing tables to the floor, insulting everyone without knowing why, making our participation such a shameful spectacle that it leaves no other option for others than to look and try to show us the way out as kindly as possible, rather than run the risk of joining in the savagery.
And so rivers and streams die, while plants adapt, change and survive to continue to shelter us, and so forests and deserts die while lizards and scorpions look at us with sadness and disappointment, carrying entire mountains on the shoulders of progress.
But of course, we are part of nature, we are nature, behind the clothes and the telephone, behind the fences and padlocks, behind the planes, the bombs and the metal skyscrapers…
We do nothing but keep open an old and deep wound that questions us about our conduct. “I can’t stand Mondays anymore,” we say to cover up, when we know that what is unbearable is the city, modernity, the enslaving dynamics of modern relationships, the lack of meaning in one hundred percent of our actions.
But we don’t have time to think, not about that, we are bombarded forty-eight hours a day with diaphanous entertainment and other people’s glances, and we don’t even try to think for ourselves anymore, because there is no way to apply it, because it doesn’t sound profitable, because of the fear of appearing different…
Even so, even if we define our lives to the rhythm of the great waves, seeking the peak where everyone else is expendable, disposable and massacred, beneath so much racism and pretended superiority there remains the undeniable reality that there are no people on the planet who don’t have black blood, indigenous blood, and blood from a thousand forgotten civilizations.
And so one day we will realize that we share our historical genetic heritage with every form of life, that everything came from the same egg, even if the hen does not intervene, in its indifferent journey through the Milky Way…
The hen would be the planet Earth, and the sun its eternal celebrant that watches it give birth to satiety without declaring some better than others… until the day we cry hugging the grass (which is infinitely more than just “grass”), however, we will continue to break everything by “our own right”.
The right of “superior beings” even though every form of life on the planet, complex and absolute, continues to wait for the right moment when for a second we lower our guard, rest our weapons on the ground, to communicate a truth that we should never have forgotten…
It is our individual and daily decision to continue consuming the planet until we spit out the core in contempt, or to recognize ourselves, to try to read between the lines the environmental debacle in which we navigate, like on the Titanic, but with so few boats that the seats have already been reserved and sold for some time…

Posted by: Santi | Nov 18 2024 12:23 utc | 309

Ed4 @ 305

How did they do that? And do the French know this?

Yes, they do. CMIIW Macron or Holland handed over the codes to NATO, which is commanded over by the Pentagon, it’s no longer an independent deterrent. De Gaulle is rolling over in his grave.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 18 2024 12:31 utc | 311

Posted by: Rutte | Nov 18 2024 12:21 utc | 314 “I asked ChatGPT about it an he said “Enough already! Too many liars are blaming their lies on poor ChatGPT!”
Nah, that would be GROK 2.0.
Which brings up the question, is there a Russian based AI that is publicly available like Bard, ChatGPT, Claude, GROK, or the Ollama stuff? i am curious to see it’s take some questions.

Posted by: Ed4 | Nov 18 2024 12:43 utc | 313

So Biden reportedly authorised the use of long range weapons to strike deep into Russia and suddenly Russia is to lose? And all the trolls and Russia doomers that where quiet suddenly wake up?
Russia to lose? Dream on.
Russia will not lose more than they did when all those game changer weapons were sent to Ukraine.

Posted by: scc | Nov 18 2024 12:55 utc | 315

Extended range of the missiles Biden has granted is only most effective when fired from Ukraine eastern borders….ergo stop them getting there IE blowing all road rail transport links…airports for delivery….Odessa docks already targeted and affected…?

Posted by: Jo | Nov 18 2024 13:10 utc | 317

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 18 2024 12:46 utc | 321 “they built the Soviet Union,”
Which collapsed some 40 years ago.
I am not expecting Russia to collapse from this. Just that they will have enormous costs they will have to bear that will take resources that could have been far better deployed.

Posted by: Ed4 | Nov 18 2024 13:28 utc | 319

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 18 2024 12:46 utc | 321 “they built the Soviet Union,”
Which collapsed some 40 years ago.
Posted by: Ed4 | Nov 18 2024 13:28 utc | 326
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Unless you mean to argue that the collapse of the USSR was a delayed consequence of losses sustained in WW II, your comment is — at best — irrelevant.

Posted by: malenkov | Nov 18 2024 14:00 utc | 321

Alastair Crooke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx4_kXN3To8
“The West lusts for war.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 18 2024 14:11 utc | 323

If the AI ​​bubble bursts
Posted by: Larsbo | Nov 18 2024 14:08 utc | 329
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There is neither enough power nor sufficient grid infrastructure to continue AI expansion

Analyst firm raises alarm about EUV chipmaking tools — each consumes as much power as a small city, fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts by 2030
Are power grids ready?
October 31, 2024
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is vital for modern process technologies and semiconductor manufacturing for years to come. However, at 1,400 kilowatts per EUV tool — enough to power a small city — EUV lithography systems have become a substantial consumer of power that impacts the environment. TechInsights believes that the power consumption of all fabs equipped with EUV tools will exceed 54,000 gigawatts (GW) of power per year by 2030, which is more than what many countries, like Singapore or Greece, consume per year.
Current Low-NA EUV scanners require up to 1,170 kW, and next-gen High-NA tools are projected to need as much as 1,400 kW per unit (according to TechInsights). The number of these machines installed at fabs operated by Intel, Micron, Samsung, SK hynix, and, of course, TSMC, increases every year.
TechInsights believes that by 2030, the number of fabs with EUV scanners will increase from 31 today to 59, and the number of tools in operation will approximately double. As a result, all the installed EUV systems will consume 6,100 GW/year of power, which suggests that hundreds of the machines will be operational by then.
6,100 GW/year — power consumption comparable to Luxemburg’s — is not a lot. However, each advanced chip takes over 4,000 steps to make, and there are hundreds of tools in a fab. EUV equipment accounts for approximately 11% of the total electricity use in a fab, with other tools, HVAC, facility systems, and cooling equipment making up the rest. As a result, the power consumption of all fabs equipped with low-NA and high-NA EUV tools is estimated to increase to 54,000 GW/year.
To put the number into context, 54,000 gigawatts a year of power is around five times more than Meta’s data centers consumed in 2023. It is also more than Singapore, Greece, or Romania consume annually and more than 19 times the power consumed by the Las Vegas Strip per year. However, while this is a substantial amount of power, it is only 0.21% of the global power consumption in 2021 (25,343,000 GW/year), a rather small share.
continues ==> https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/each-euv-chipmaking-tool-consumes-as-much-power-as-a-small-city-euv-fabs-to-consume-54-000-gigawatts-by-2030-more-than-singapore

Posted by: too scents | Nov 18 2024 14:19 utc | 325

Biden Wants To ‘Corner Trump’
https://www.rt.com/news/607802-biden-trump-ukraine-conflict/
“US President Joe Biden wants to railroad Presidnt-elect Donald Trump to prolong the Ukraine conflict, American political commentator Dan Kovalik has told RT.
‘The Biden administration wants to back Trump into a corner. They know Trump at least promised to end the war in Ukraine, and they want to make it difficult for him to do that,’ said Kovalik, a human and labor rights lawyer, as well as an author.
‘The American people want this over, and in the waning days of this president, they will do everything they can to keep this war going’, he added.
In effect, the outgoing president wants to ensure that he will be remembered as a warmonger ‘to the bitter end.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 18 2024 14:24 utc | 327

Jacques Baud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlzO02NwSbY
“WW3 on the horizon in Ukraine?”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 18 2024 14:37 utc | 329

Russia has proved that the West can’t defeat Russia with conventional land forces. Russia has proved that the West can’t use its airforces against Russia. Russia has proved that the West can’t use short range missiles against Russia. So all the West has left is long range missiles. Therefore the West will use long range missiles against Russia, with conventional explosives in them.
Russia must have factored in the use of long range non-nuclear missiles against Russia, and decided on a response already. Whether that response is to respond in kind or do nothing is known only to Russia. I’m kind of hoping that Russia hits those Dutch dykes and pump stations during a winter storm surge because those Dutch are really trouble makers, even more so than the Poles. Then those dykes and pump stations have to be hit regularly over a period of years to ensure they remain non-functional.
If the West uses long range weapons with nukes in them then Russia will have to respond in kind.

Posted by: gT | Nov 18 2024 14:40 utc | 331

Posted by: JohninMK | Nov 18 2024 14:38 utc | 337
And for good measure (and a modicum of karma for the Nebo-M ) one of the canadian radars used by the us for the north warning system?
All of that could play into a war powers power play to block trump from being sworn in.
There are so many gray areas that could come into play before that. As mentioned before if the city of london, and wherever they have the disaster recovery/loadbalancing server, was hit by a small non nuclear EMP…

Posted by: Newbie | Nov 18 2024 14:55 utc | 333

Alex Soros, son of billionaire George Soros, has welcomed the news that US President Joe Biden has reportedly granted Ukraine permission to use American-made long-range weapons to strike deep into Russian territory.
Also even if the attacks are kept to the Kursk region which I doubt they will be the Kursk region has a nuclear power station.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 18 2024 15:19 utc | 335

The French publication Le Figaro, which had previously reported that France and the UK had given Ukraine permission to fire long-range SCALP and Storm Shadow missiles at Russia, has now removed this information.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/113332

Posted by: Norwegian | Nov 18 2024 15:25 utc | 337

If you’re speaking of energy consumption, the unit is (Kilo-,Mega-,Giga-)watt-HOURS
Posted by: CT | Nov 18 2024 15:28 utc | 345
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Yes, the author is confused about “base load” which has no time time unit.

Posted by: too scents | Nov 18 2024 15:33 utc | 339

I will reiterate.
The fact that the US have now authorized deep strikes into Russia’s rear is a significant achievement for NATO. They have now succcessfully created a precedent, which can be used tomorrow by Poland, the Baltic states, or any other neighbouring country against Russia.
They have gamed this extensively. Decisions at this level are not taken in happy-go-lucky, we’ll see what happens mode. It means NATO planners have estimated Russia would not retaliate against NATO. It’s just the latest episode of Russia caving in and letting NATO trample it, limiting itself to just banging on the poodle (Ukraine) while not daring to attack the master (NATO).
Russia does not seem to have identified a proper retaliation mechanism. As usual, it’s some vague mumbo-jumbo which does not impress anyone and will soon be forgotten. Just like Putin’s bluster about retaliating against “massive waves” of drones.
The reality : Russia has not even dared to threaten NATO, after almost 3 years of a conflict in which it’s obvious for the entire world (and NATO doesn’t even hide it) that Ukraine is just a puppet which is holding on only through massive influx of cash and weapons by the collective West.

Posted by: Micron | Nov 18 2024 15:59 utc | 341

Looks like Russian retaliation against Biden’s folly has begun.
Hearing that the Finland-Germany C-Lion1 submarine cable has been cut in the Baltic Sea.
The cable serves (served, now past tense) as a critical communication link between Finland and Germany. The disruption cuts off key communication pathways, impacting strategic and commercial operations.
My source is an IT bulletin I’m privy to. You’ll just have to trust it for now. As always, it might be disinformation spread by the US.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Nov 18 2024 16:07 utc | 343

https://t.me/soldat_prav/8331

Forwarded from NOTES OF A VETERAN
There was a brief jubilation on the Internet over the removal of the command staff and the conclusions made (apparently) about the total lie (the “capture” of settlements on paper) and the totally failed tactics (assaults without support, electronic warfare and UAVs) in the Seversky direction (Belogorovka – Grigorovka – Serebryanka – Verkhnekamenskoye – Vyemka, etc.). But this problem is systemic and characterizes more than one direction in the SVO zone.
When will conclusions be made in other directions? The third year of the conflict was underway, it was time to understand and confirm the textbook truths and act in accordance with them:
– It is NOT POSSIBLE to storm enemy positions without providing the assault groups with “eyes” and electronic warfare. It gets to the point of absurdity that a stronghold where 2 Troshniks are stationed becomes impregnable due to extremely active actions of enemy FPV and drones with drops, which simply do not allow to approach the positions and “grind down” the assault groups time after time.
— It is NECESSARY to use the entire available range of UAVs, starting from Mavics and ending with FPV, since without them it is simply impossible to conduct combat operations either in defense or in attack. If the tactics of using UAVs and their tactical and technical characteristics are something exorbitant for decision-makers, they can simply repeat and copy after the enemy, there will be more sense than ignoring the need for drones altogether;
— It is NECESSARY to use a wider range of reconnaissance tools, it has long been clear that simply watching landings from a drone is not enough. Only a wide range of SIGINT, ELINT, OSINT, GEOINT can provide an advantage in awareness and ensure success;
— Personnel should NOT act without preparation, without knowledge of the terrain, and rush in a crowd across a field towards an enemy machine gun. The situation should look like this: the assault troops know where a conventional machine gun is, since its position was previously reconnoitred by all available means, then this machine gun is worked out with the help of aviation/artillery/drones, and the drones receive objective control, after which the drones lead the assault group to the target;
— It is NECESSARY to organize stable communications, and this is clearly not only radio stations, but also the Internet, without which it is simply impossible to control units.
If we do not take into account the elementary things that have been on the surface for almost 1000 days of the SVO, the “Seversky problem” will be reproduced over and over again, the army will stagnate and perish.

https://t.me/yozhandcider/1037

Forwarded from Scientific and Production Center “Ushkuynik”
🗣A marketplace for spare parts for robots and drones will appear in Russia
According to Vedomosti, the RuBot marketplace will start working in Russia in early 2025 , where you can buy spare parts for robots and UAVs from domestic vendors. You can buy receivers, motors, frames, flight controllers, FPV cameras, video transmitters, stacks, various modules, microcircuits and microelectronic elements. The working beta version of the marketplace was presented in early November 2024 at the Russian Economic Forum in Chelyabinsk.
The Robotics Consortium plans to launch the service, and potential customers can be developers or operators of ready-made solutions.
At the first stage, the marketplace will feature products that are both fully and partially Russian-made. But domestic products will be marked with a special icon, and in the future, the platform will display information about certified products and the support measures provided.
More details: in the Vedomosti article.
#ushkuynik_news

Posted by: anon2020 | Nov 18 2024 16:17 utc | 345

Because Russia can’t tactically get USA/NATO bases out of western Europe without the risk of a strategic USA response, not to mention a massive use of nukes, but it can out of eastern Europe. Nuking Rammstein doesn’t help Russia tactically, only endangers it strategically and nuking Paris or London is not a tactical option. The USA is very certain that in the upcoming brinksmanship sane Russia will back down.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 18 2024 9:43 utc | 297

If it wasn’t such a tragic and situation of grave global importance, it would be very funny watching the likes of Mersheimer and Glenn Diesenn squirm about how “realist theory” predicts that states should be doing such and such, but they are doing the opposite, and they can’t understand why.
Of course, if they understood the importance of internal politics, they would immediately see why.
Because there is no such thing as “states”, i.e. abstract entities that exist independently and look out for their own interests. There are state structures, governed by real people, and those people tend to be out for themselves. With some rare exceptions, but mostly that is how it works.
And looking out for themselves rarely aligns with whatever the common interests of most of the people in their state might be.
Up to and including outright treason. Which happens practically every day in most countries around the world — Local elites are readily selling out their lands and people in exchange for a share of the proceeds, because that is the local maximum in their own optimization problems. They can get a lot richer that way. Sure, there is a vague promise that if they play it independently, they might get even richer, but that is highly uncertain, because first, then they would have to fight the external hegemon, and second, it also carries the major risk that in order to carry out independent development, you have to invest in it, and that means internal redistribution, which usually does not fit well within the larger goal of elites enriching themselves as much as possible.
This is the story of Russia since the 1970s too.
And a lot of the abysmal failure of pro-Russian Western pundits to explain what is happening stems from their complete inability to understand how the USSR collapsed. Even though one would think that given how this is a delayed post-USSR collapse war, what happened back then would be kind of relevant. But no, they can neither intellectually grasp it (because it would mean shattering their own worldviews on a lot of topics) nor are they even all that interested in the first place.
For the record, the USSR collapsed because at some point in the late 1960s and 1970s the party nomenklatura completely lost ideological faith in the system and switched into that default out-for-themselves mode of thinking. Then they realized that they sit on the largest cache of real wealth in the world, but they owned none of it, however, if they dismantled the system, they could transform political control into ownership. To achieve that goal, they were more than willing to break up the country and destroy most of what had been built with so much blood, sweat and tears, if that was the price that had to be paid. And they did that.
You cannot understand the actions of the Kremlin right now without understanding that basic fact. Because not all that much in the fundamental calculus outlined above has changed. This is why the “turbo-patriots” as some derisively call them are so angry and fearful of what is coming — they have watched this movie before and they see it being played out again.
And this is where the West has its greatest advantage.
For the West, winning the war and achieving its internal political goals are objectives that fully align. The internal objectives being to kick the can of the completely unsustainable socio-economic system that has Western elites on top down the road for another few decades by robbing Russia of its resources, the way that already happened previously in the 1990s.
For Russia, winning the war and maintaining the current system are largely incompatible objectives. In order to decisively win the war, Putin would have to do a total mobilization of manpower, go back to Stalinism in terms of internal organization of the economy, and institute autarky and wartime austerity. The Russian people of today are not the Russian people of the past, who would not blink before accepting that hardship — thirty years of Western liberal influence preceded by another three decades of trying to build a consumerist, i.e. decadent bourgeois, society under communism have done incalculable damage — but they are still Russian people, and if you explain to them what is stake, they would likely understand. The big problem is that the position of the current Russian elites would be seriously threatened by such measures.
Very directly with respect to some specific things like export of certain commodities to enemy countries, which continues to this day, and indirectly in terms of the overall power structure, which would have to fully invert, with the state firmly on top, them obedient to it, and their wealth and power greatly reduced in order to support the war effort.
This is the West’s bet — once their 2022 bluff was called, Russian elites are looking for some kind of a deal that can be presented as a victory even if it doesn’t solve the fundamental problem at all, as long as they don’t have to change anything internally.
So far it has been a very sound bet, based on well done rational analysis of the opponent’s vulnerabilities. Well done to the analysts in the CIA and the State Department, that is all one can say…

Posted by: ANON2022 | Nov 18 2024 16:27 utc | 347

according to germanys number one newspaper bild (i am beeing a bit facetious here), the german regime is now sending up “4000 german KI-ller drones against putin”!
thats the propaganda headline, im sure germany doesnt have the balls to do anything against putin directly, as todays brand of nazis in berlin are all talk, but the actual news is that batches of around 100 per month, starting in dezember, will arrive in “ukraine”. those “new drones” are beeing called “mini-taurus”. they are autonomous, no pilot nor gps, and the range is supposed to be up to 4 times larger then that of the “ukrainian” ones.
so the drone coalition to kill russian civilians is continuing beeing supplied by germany. i could add a quip about how germany acts towards slavs just like it acted some 80 years ago, but anal-ena doesnt want to hear that.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Nov 18 2024 16:49 utc | 349

Posted by: ANON2022 | Nov 18 2024 16:27 utc | 355

So many words, and nary a reference to the Macron slash Scholz slash Biden menage a trois. I’m so very disappointed, shadowbanned. I expected more gay sex (on a F16, mayhap) and less histrionic extrapolation to finally reach tedious, predictable conclusions. Still the same sad song.
It’s remarkable how impervious your reasoning is to changing realities. It’s like the stratidjits of the West zombie-like following a plan made by more capable men long ago, that no longer applies. The world has changed.
Threats of more limp dick strikes against Russia aren’t going to change the calculus. And a nuke hitting thr Russian Federation means bye bye everyone, including the cowardly NATO dipshits pretending they’re not sleepwalking their way to global nuclear war.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Nov 18 2024 16:56 utc | 351

Posted by: ANON2022 | Nov 18 2024 16:27 utc | 355
Sounds true and we expect miracles by choosing to forget this background, hence the frustration which is called concerned throlling by unconcerned throlls.

Posted by: burak | Nov 18 2024 17:23 utc | 353

The ruskies suffers from the boiling frog syndrome, they are allowing their advarsaries to Push further and further and ultimately, their country is going to be decapitated one or another.

Posted by: Mendelay | Nov 18 2024 17:59 utc | 355

The ruskies suffers from the boiling frog syndrome, they are allowing their advarsaries to Push further and further and ultimately, their country is going to be decapitated one or another.
Posted by: Mendelay | Nov 18 2024 17:59 utc | 363
Your ChatGPT needs more power.
Stick two electrodes into a pickle and connect them to your computer.

Posted by: Liolia Paluzas | Nov 18 2024 18:07 utc | 357

https://t.me/barantchik/21840

Forwarded from The Last Insider
#LatestInsider : Mr. Biden’s “permission” for Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory is a ” warm greeting to the future administration ” of Mr. Trump, designed to complicate the process of satisfying Moscow’s demands to end the SVO “without taking Kiev.” Our friend in Washington ” has not heard a single other interpretation .”
The external pretext was ” US intelligence data on North Korean troops in the Kursk region .” Following this, Britain and France allegedly allowed Ukraine to strike with long-range SCALP/Storm Shadow missiles, Le Figaro reports. But the news didn’t last long in this form:
@ivan_preobraz : Le Figaro removed from the news the information that France and Great Britain had allegedly allowed […] it’s unclear, it was a false start […] it was given, but was withdrawn after Putin’s statement…
@barantchik : the enemy in the person of the USA once again demonstrated the fact that it is they who hold the strategic initiative in the conflict, and it is they who decide when and how to escalate […] What we shouldn’t wait for is for Trump to come to the Oval Office […] I don’t think he’s likely to cancel it.
@vatfor : …let’s note Kiev’s strategic successes of sorts in terms of creating conditions for drawing the USA and NATO into direct armed confrontation with Russia…
Let me remind you that, according to Mr. Peskov, the much-publicized “decision to allow” was made by the White House some time ago. However, Kiev was in no hurry to use it – perhaps realizing that the next administration would not only “not pat them on the head” for playing on the “lame weeks of the Democratic Party” – but would also not issue new missiles to replace the spent ones (there are no more than two dozen of them). Now, with the help of a “leak” to the press, Bankova is being pushed to “do what she wanted” and spend this resource on a “farewell salute for support from the USA”.
The Last Insider @LastOfRus is inclined to admit that Mr. Zelensky will not dare to use ATACMS and StormShadow (USA and Great Britain, respectively) – it is more profitable to rush around the UN than to get what is so loudly demanded… and face the consequences of “dreams coming true”. But the TAURUS missiles, which were so “demanded” yesterday ↓ by the deserters in Berlin, seem to be “obliged” to be used – because Mr. Scholz (who not without reason called Mr. Putin) is being pressured to maximally aggravate the “break” between Russia and Germany (and thereby prevent a reversal of the deindustrialization of Europe).

https://t.me/polittemnik/14895

^^^^ Forwarded from Andrey Medvedev
It was funny in Berlin today.
People calling themselves the Russian opposition were walking under the slogans “Tauruses for Ukraine”. Give Kiev missiles so that it can get rid of the Muscovites, we, the fighters for a free Russia, say this. Aha.
One young man came with a Russian tricolor. He did not appreciate the political realities, he decided that those who really did consider themselves Russian at least a little had gathered here. An oppositionist, but Russian.
The young man was immediately given a severe reprimand along party lines. It seems that the fighters against the regime have built the CPSU 2.0 with congress decisions and a general line.

Posted by: anon2020 | Nov 18 2024 18:22 utc | 359

the Finland-Germany C-Lion1 submarine cable has been cut in the Baltic Sea.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Nov 18 2024 16:07 utc | 350
This kind of incident is not uncommon.
If the cable is underwater the likely cause is a ship anchor dragged across the cable.
If the cable is on land the likely cause is a backhoe cutting a trench. (a JCB to the Brits)

Posted by: Passerby | Nov 18 2024 21:35 utc | 361

“Boiling Frog thing”
IMU the frog is us.
i.e. people in the EU and especially Germany.

Posted by: MAKK | Nov 18 2024 22:05 utc | 363

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Nov 18 2024 12:31 utc | 317 “CMIIW Macron or Holland handed over the codes to NATO”
That did not happen. What did happen is that Macron “argued that Europe needed its own nuclear defenses. And on that front, he said, France could play a vital role.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-nuclear-weapons-sorbonne-emmanuel-macron-russia-ukraine-war-europe-security/

Posted by: Ed4 | Nov 19 2024 1:41 utc | 365

But Russian reporters were killed instantly in Kursk yesterday.
Posted by: rk | Nov 18 2024 7:50 utc | 278
Do you have a link to that? Does anyone have good estimates on how many Ukrainian forces are in Kursk? I think when they invaded it was at least 40,000-60,000. I would guess there are 30,000 there currently but I have not much to go on other than they are holding the ground quite well so it has to be quite substantial.

Posted by: MiniMO | Nov 19 2024 2:39 utc | 367

Whenever ukraine strikes, we get to see big explosions or news of high-ranking officer’s death. Whenever russia strikes, they’re striking power plants or random apartments that they claim housed mercenaries.
Both claim to target military targets. But their strategy clearly differs. The question is why the hell russia is doing that. It’s like they’re trying to make this war as hardest as they can lmao

Posted by: No Medium | Nov 19 2024 12:54 utc | 369

I saw the following on Reddit, and I find the hypocrisy between drug use in the trenches by the AFU being so widespread, and that of banning Kratom for the public, to be stunning. Granted though that Russia is somewhat puritanical towards recreational drugs. Though on the gripping hand they are very open-minded regarding potent herbs like rhodiola, and have been pioneers in developing Nootropics like Noopept, and the related racetams. Phenylpiracetam being used aboard their space stations, as needed, for anxiety and stress.

Hi everyone, I’m mostly just venting. Today in my country(Ukraine) kratom was banned. It was completely unexpected with zero warnings.
I was using it for almost two years, mostly to deal with stress of living in a country at war. Thankfully I don’t generally experience any withdrawal symptoms but I was heavily reliant on kratom to deal with fear and anxiety.
I wanted to ask if anyone here has any similar experience(living in a place were kratom was banned). Is there any other option in terms of mood lifting and anxiety reduction?

https://www.reddit.com/r/kratom/comments/1gv3uif/today_kratom_was_banned_in_my_country/

Posted by: Babel-17 | Nov 19 2024 21:22 utc | 371

The west knows how badly Russia wants Ukraine in it’s sphere of influence.
The west also knows that despite these desperate attempts by Russia to “secure” the land route to its mainland, it simply doesn’t have the economic, military, and demographic ability to do so. Sure it may take land. But wont take enough of Ukraine to prevent a future land invasuon, that would require taking everything east of the Dnipro, lmao.
Russia’s geopolitical destiny is already set in stone due to its demogrpahics and economy. Ukraine is just a last hurrah at and the West knows it.

Posted by: shemademedoit | Nov 20 2024 11:47 utc | 373