They are now just sending a few (35) pitiful drones to Rostov, Kursk, Bryansk, Belgorod, Ryazan, Kaluga, and Astrakhan, which is lame and weak. Oreshnikphobia?
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 5 2024 8:28 utc | 2
It could be just probing attacks until they gather enough missiles for a larger attack. There was an american drone circling above Georgia a week ago or so, it could be picking potential targets in the rear, either Rybar or Dva majors reported on it iirc.

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Dec 5 2024 8:51 utc | 3

@Salmon
Not Dutch, but German. All Dutch politicians are like Ratte.
Many forgot that the Netherlands were as evil colonialists as the British.

Posted by: Apollyon | Dec 5 2024 9:15 utc | 5

Why is Mark Rutte, NATO chief so aggressive?
Posted by: salmon | Dec 5 2024 9:07 utc | 6
—
See the illustrative pictures in this essay ==> https://jhna.org/articles/massys-money-tax-collectors-rediscovered/

Posted by: too scents | Dec 5 2024 9:25 utc | 7

So maybe i missed some, but theres awfully low news about “protests against the putin regime“ since russia was cut off from swift.
Coincidence?

Posted by: Justpassinby | Dec 5 2024 10:14 utc | 9

While things seem to be going well in Ukraine, the news isn’t so good from Syria and Georgia.
Are the two related, do people think? Are the US trying to strike at Russian interests/allies BECAUSE they’re losing in Ukraine, or would this have happened anyway?
I assume someone’s already posted this bleak BBC report from Kursk, but just in case:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4x9gz4ylwo
Soldiers said they had been told to capture at least one North Korean prisoner, preferably with documents. They spoke of rewards – drones or extra leave – being offered to anyone who successfully captures a North Korean soldier. “It’s very difficult to find a Korean in the dark Kursk forest,” Pavlo noted sarcastically. “Especially if he’s not here.”
My general impression is that the closer you get to the Ukrainian front lines, the bleaker the outlook, and vice versa. The soldiers there think they’re wasting their lives and time, the think-tankers in Kiev are more upbeat.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Dec 5 2024 10:35 utc | 11

My general impression is that the closer you get to the Ukrainian front lines, the bleaker the outlook, and vice versa. The soldiers there think they’re wasting their lives and time, the think-tankers in Kiev are more upbeat.
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Dec 5 2024 10:35 utc | 14
Zelensky’s adviser Dmitry Litvin in his response to a comment in X said “No one is preparing any mobilization of 18-year-olds.” Thus I am expecting Ukraine to start mobilizing them soon, before Jan 20.

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Dec 5 2024 11:28 utc | 13

Posted by: salmon | Dec 5 2024 9:07 utc | 6
If Nato goes downsouth Rutte will have to start working and, IMO, he is barely qualified to clean animal manure in a farm.

Posted by: Mario | Dec 5 2024 11:46 utc | 15

Reminder, recording from early 2014
Recorded conversation between Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland and Amb. Jeffery Pyatt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE

Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 5 2024 12:04 utc | 17

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5022584-kellogg-special-envoy-ukraine/
The warmongers love Kellogg. Russia is failing everywhere and desperate and so on. So, I’m guessing Trump goes exactly nowhere on Ukraine, as I think he will on most everything diplomatic. And economic,too. He can fire off a few executive orders but Congress votes are razor thin so that’s that.

Posted by: Eighthman | Dec 5 2024 12:19 utc | 19

this is bullshit, where’s the south korea thread
j/k

Posted by: paquo | Dec 5 2024 12:31 utc | 21

“Trump won’t quit Ukr, a war that he prepared himself and basically started.”
Posted by: rk | Dec 5 2024 11:46 utc | 18
Exactly. Trump has no moral compass and by this time he’s wholly owned by the deep state. The videos they must have! .

Posted by: elmagnostic | Dec 5 2024 12:51 utc | 23

“Trump won’t quit Ukr, a war that he prepared himself and basically started.”
Posted by: rk | Dec 5 2024 11:46 utc | 18
Exactly. Trump has no moral compass and by this time he’s wholly owned by the deep state. The videos they must have! .
Posted by: elmagnostic | Dec 5 2024 12:51 utc | 27
If there were tapes of Trump he would not be president-elect.

Posted by: thomas j cahill | Dec 5 2024 13:14 utc | 25

If there were tapes of Trump he would not be president-elect.
Posted by: thomas j cahill | Dec 5 2024 13:14 utc | 25
—
Initiation Rituals separate “one of us” from “one of them”. Jeopardy of a compromising incident being exposed is an essential element of practically all rituals.
Nobody advances without winning at truth or dare.

Posted by: too scents | Dec 5 2024 13:32 utc | 27

Posted by: Inevitabllity | Dec 5 2024 13:24 utc | 26
##############
Ukraine shelled Donbas and rebuilt its army with massive aid from NATO through the Trump years, if people like Jacques Baud are to be believed (and I do believe them).

Posted by: a stone | Dec 5 2024 13:36 utc | 29

Lawdy mama, what happened to critical thinking skills around here? We need to bring back RSH to smack you all back to reality.
Project Ukraine predates Obama, it goes way, way back. We’re talking the 1950s. Blaming it on Trump is hilarious, honest, rk, I thought you were smarter than that. You’ve shown your true chimp colors.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 5 2024 14:07 utc | 31

Oh RK and Elmagonostic. This is and always will be seen as a Democrat war. Started by Obama. Lost by Biden.
Spin it any way you can.
Posted by: Inevitabllity | Dec 5 2024 13:24 utc | 26
I think the point they were making is that Trump was in power between those two, and didn’t do anything except continue along the same path. In fact, didn’t he increase military aid to Ukraine ?
Trump may well pull out of Ukraine – its what America does once its sucked its ‘friends’ dry – but if he does, it’ll only be to move resources to another war.
I’m beginning to wonder if its worth buying a 2025 calendar – I’m increasingly getting the feeling that I’ll not get full use out of it.

Posted by: Red Star | Dec 5 2024 14:08 utc | 33

Posted by: rk | Dec 5 2024 11:46 utc | 14

Trump won’t quit Ukr, a war that he prepared himself and basically started.

Obviously false premises. But your prediction may hold for other reasons other than your false premises. But not really, the loss of treasure and gear in the Ukraines is way too big for such meager returns, if there are any returns at all (Russian economy growing and war going well for them).
So my guess is that the new admin will dump ukrops to their fate though they have to find a way to do it in not a much overt manner. It will take time to design a minimally face-saving withdrawal.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 5 2024 14:18 utc | 35

Trump was never ”properly” vetted, nor did the establishment get adequate blackmail material on him because he was never supposed to win in 2016. Not having an effective handle on Trump is a major reason the Establishment shat bricks so spectacularly back in 2016, and continued that impressive brick-shit spray up to the present. It is why they have already tried to assassinate him twice.
There was supposed to be no way for Trump to win. He was only intended as a foil to make Shillary look good. No need to vet a bit player whose role was supposed to end in November of 2016.

Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 5 2024 14:28 utc | 37

Posted by: Mario | Dec 5 2024 14:20 utc | 36

Military always speak behind the scenes. It’s actually strange that this is disclosed to ordinary people so I think we can call it bullshit.

Hi Mario. It isn’t BS. The call happened on Nov. 27th and the purpose was to inform about missiles being launched close to US vessels in the Med. Just professional talks between powerful military.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 5 2024 14:32 utc | 39

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 5 2024 14:32 utc | 39
Not what nyt was pretending in the article.
A call announcing an exercise launch is exactly the military speaking behind the scenes.
Nyt article bullshit.

Posted by: Mario | Dec 5 2024 14:36 utc | 41

Posted by: Mario | Dec 5 2024 14:36 utc | 41
Yeah I don’t read the NYT, just wanted to point out the call was real, but surely you’re right and the Jew Pork Times was spinning these news in some untowardly manner as they are wont to do.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 5 2024 15:01 utc | 43

@ William Gruff | Dec 5 2024 14:28 utc | 37 // 40
thanks william.. so you think trump is going to pull a rabbit out of the hat?? the security officials are more likely to shoot him if he were to do that..

Posted by: james | Dec 5 2024 16:21 utc | 45

House Speaker Mike Johnson stated yesterday no Ukronazi aid packages will be considered until after DJT complete a complete policy review….after 1/21/25
No new ammo, no new cash for the corrupt scammers in Kieve…….Volo’s days are now numbered in the single digits………..either its the a CIA/MI6 cap, or a permanent trip to Haifa, Nassau or Miami Beach, or a coup from the Azov Brigade…..take you pick !!!!!

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Dec 5 2024 16:53 utc | 47

@ james | Dec 5 2024 16:21 utc | 45
With less risk and cost to themselves, TPTB want to embroil more of EU in war and certainly for them to “pay for their own defense / stupidity”. The script calls for an actor like Trump whom the Madcow TDS superspreaders and regional EUstan governors alike will blame for leaving them “no choice but to fight on our own against Putler”.
While some Trump voters will see it as continuation of a war they opposed, the “TDS type 2” cohort will see it as “more proof” that TPTB and Trump oppose one another.
The beat goes on.

Posted by: I forgot | Dec 5 2024 17:42 utc | 49

this is bullshit, where’s the south korea thread
j/k
Posted by: paquo | Dec 5 2024 12:31 utc | 21
I see two South Korea threads on the front page. The later one is at the link below
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/south-korea-president-launches-putsch-against-parliament.html#more

Posted by: acementhead | Dec 5 2024 17:53 utc | 51

It is critical for itself and the world that the USA start to participate as from the perspective of honesty and respect. This means among other things respecting international court rulings. Military usage must become like all other countries a function of self defense not a primary negotiating tool.
This is reality based. The reality is all economys are interconnected now. War on any large economy is war on all economys.
That the USA oligarchs outsourced all its technology manufacturing and technology is indeed unfortunate. China is not to blame for that. China however must start to look at the situation from the perspective of interconnected economys too. That is a secondary concern the primary concern is USA use of military force and covert actions as a primary economic negotiating tool. The path to this is unclear but in my opinion it is the key to the start of a new world of peace and prosperity. If learning is not occurring the result is pain. Stupidity can be characterized by the acceptance of ever increasing pain with no changes in behavior.
The sad part is we have plenty of individuals with skills that are not scared of genuine interaction. The decision to start to interact competitively but sans military force could start today. Picks like Kellog as representatives guarantee it doesn’t. The so called leaders grow ever worse with people unable to criticize their team. Neither red or blue represent a path forward and justice and the 1% turnout for stein indicates learning is very far away even if she was not the best choice. Stein was the best choice however because the primary block to progress is USAs use of covert and military force. The left renains unable to intake the truth that the war in Ukraine was started by the despicable Biden in 2014. The right seems able to accept a genocide contrary to all American values in Palestine. These fundamental beliefs guarantee no change. The status quo of the past can not occur.
Trump seems to have appointed some good minds to domestic appointments. While much needed the primary problem and greatest risk is the use of military force and covert actions to create economic prosperity. If the choice was mutually exclusive my choice both for the good of the USA and the world would have been the opposite. Appointees capable of learning and adopting for international appointments and the status quo for domestic appointments. Of course why not learning and adapting for all positions as this if based in sound assessment is the basis of strength itself. The false thesis is exceptionalism is strength. Exceptionalism abandons the idea of learning and growth as the bestest ever is already present and unmalleable. This idea as the USA clearly falls behind in multiple arenas is the epitomy of ignorance and self deception.
The fundamental problem with MAGA is the “again” asserts all is needed is a return to the status quo of the past. While imposing the facist woke template is quite insane simply using the past hedgmony as a template is also not reality based. What a terrible shame that the Woke facism is the only template for change and the anly alternative is presented as return to the status quo!
Appropriate change begins with the first step. As long as team based behavior dominates there can be no change. The USA is a unique country with both great abilities and flaws. It could start appropriate learning this very minute but it refuses to learn and understand truth. I was born in the USA. I have lived all over the world. There are many fantastic places in the world each with merits and flaws. I am a son of this nation I was born here and I will die here. I love its ruralness and its freedom and I can not live any other way.
How learning and growth can occur for the USA remains elusive. The American people seem unable to break the chains of the MIC uniparty its primary function military force and its banker owners. Unable to even accept their fellow citizens and neighbors. I see increasing pain and the possibility of catastrophe ahead.
In my experience this is how life goes. That first step is there right now. Opportunity is present right now. Yet if that first step is not taken the growth it represents is nothing. Unrealized potential is zero it has no value.

Posted by: Fred | Dec 5 2024 18:09 utc | 53

“It’s cold to the point of impossibility”: Zelensky’s hometown is freezing and Russia has nothing to do with it
About 130 thousand residents of Krivoy Rog, where Vladimir Zelensky was born and grew up, have been living without heating for the second month. There is no heat in two thousand apartment buildings, in dozens of schools and hospitals. And the retaliatory strikes of the Russian army have nothing to do with this. The authorities and companies were not ready for the heating season.
“The warmest place in the apartment of Victoria Petrushenko, a resident of Krivoy Rog, is the kitchen. There, the temperature sometimes rises to +12 degrees when a woman cooks something on a gas stove. In other rooms, the average temperature is + 9 degrees,” the BBC Ukrainian service reports.
“It’s cold to the point of impossible. I can’t get warm. Laundry does not dry at all. It is impossible to wash in such cold,” said Victoria Petrushenko.
Heating season in Krivoy Rog was supposed to start at the end of October. However, half of the city, which is served by JSC Krivoy Rog Heating Plant, owned by Naftogaz, has not started it.
“Heating could not be supplied on time to almost two thousand high—rise buildings,” the BBC reports. The TV channel notes that residents of Krivoy Rog have been sounding the alarm for more than a month and telling their stories on social networks about how the city is freezing: “They post photos of small children wrapped in several blankets and room thermometers on which the temperature does not rise more than ten degrees.”
“Why didn’t we apply to the highest state level earlier? Because the management of the “Thermal Power Plant” lied on the daily selectors on the start-up of heat and in the information provided personally, saying that everything was fine with them… All boiler houses work on the communal heating network,” Acting Mayor Yuriy Vilkul defends himself.
The BBC noted that the repair of heating networks is not happening and the residents of Krivoy Rog saw it with their own eyes: “There were a lot of dug holes with pipes and drifts of earth several meters high all year round in the city, which had to be carefully avoided.”
Now in Crews from 11 regions and Kiev are working in Krivoy Rog, but there is still no heat.
The same situation with heating as in Krivoy Rog, may be repeated in many cities of Ukraine, said the head of the Union of Consumers of Utilities of Ukraine Oleg Popenko. He calls Kiev, Kharkov, Lviv, Sumy, Kherson, Kropyvnytskyi or Svetlovodsk.
“When you haven’t changed the pipes for decades, this is what happens. There comes a time when they break through in many places at the same time. Problems with heating in Krivoy Rog have been before. But this year we decided not to do anything. As the pipes were dug in the summer, nothing was done. Naftogaz did not allocate money, the local authorities withdrew themselves,” Oleg Popenko said.
The expert cited data that autonomous heating is available only in 5% of Ukrainian cities, and the majority has a centralized heat supply. At the same time, 80% of heating networks need major repairs, and this is about 14 thousand km of pipes.

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/12/05/its-cold-to-the-point-of-impossibility-zelenskys-hometown-is-freezing-and-russia-has-nothing-to-do-with-it

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 5 2024 18:29 utc | 55

Why is Mark Rutte, NATO chief so aggressive?
comes with the job.
effected via a “Character ROM”

Posted by: MAKK | Dec 5 2024 18:36 utc | 57

I know this is the Ukraine thread, but there are Ukrainians in Syria, teaching the terrorists how to use drones, and how to use US satellite info and jamming.
Hama has fallen.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Dec 5 2024 18:47 utc | 59

MFA Russia
https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/1864644251113717788
Remarks and answers to media questions by Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov following the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Malta.
Not exactly a friendly room…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 5 2024 19:05 utc | 61

With so many things turning out to be different from what they seemed, here is a question. Since others have already mentioned Mark the Great (Rutte), the Destroyer of Libya: I have no reason to believe him when he speaks of 600,000 Russian dead in the SMO or DPRK soldiers fighting in Kursk, because for neither claim has he provided evidence. But then let’s play fair and question the other side’s claim that Russia has up to 1/2 million but at least 1/4 m troops still in reserve near the SMO theater–armed, trained, and ready to go. Who are these troops, where are they stationed, and who has ever seen them? The Kharkov “Northern Front” turned out to be an absolutely minimal affair, leading to some skirmishes in the small town of Volchansk–almost as if Vlad had to “do something” to placate his domestic critics, though his heart wasn’t really into it. (Though as a diversion it seems to have unlocked the Donbass front, I don’t ridicule that.) Further Northern combat was only precipitated by Ukraine’s Kursk incursion; now Russia found the troops to contain it, but nothing overwhelming and even just sending ~2 blocking brigades took a while.
This bluster “only 10% of our combat power” died down after the first couple months of the SMO. At some point, you just can’t explain why you’re not committing say 25%, when many things in the SMO don’t go your way. We have all these theories why Putin keeps his foot on the brake pedal, but shouldn’t we also consider the alternative: what we see is both RU and UKR going full bore. If this is all Russia can realistically do, then crushing the AFU and sweeping Ukraine might take another decade, during which Russia is under nonstop drone etc bombardment. Faced with such a prospect, the Kremlin might well consider a negotiated shortcut to a compromise settlement. Taking Odessa doesn’t seem much more realistic today than two years ago.

Posted by: Ma Laoshi | Dec 5 2024 19:26 utc | 63

It could be just probing attacks until they gather enough missiles for a larger attack. There was an american drone circling above Georgia a week ago or so, it could be picking potential targets in the rear, either Rybar or Dva majors reported on it iirc.
Posted by: 5thcolumn | Dec 5 2024 8:51 utc | 3
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Yeah, because that’s worked so well before. Maybe they’ll put the Crimean bridge out of action, for a whole month this time.
Of course maybe the missiles, got blown up in storage.
Trump won’t quit Ukr, a war that he prepared himself and basically started. This is only propaganda invented for multiple reasons. One is to suck money out of EU at a much higher rate, another is to create the idea that Trump is emperor of the planet and everything depends on him alone and which side of the bed he sees in the morning. Another is to send 18yo and refugees to war and the Eurolosers in unemployment which will be blamed on Russia so in 5-10 years they’ll volunteer to fight themselves. The offended sausage, the guy who gives them free money every day, again said that Ukr refugees must work or go back. Some of these losers will end in Syria too.
Posted by: rk | Dec 5 2024 11:46 utc | 14
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Trump didn’t “start” anything he’s a gasbag showman, nothing more.
As for 18y/o there isn’t that many to start with, refugees ain’t going to fight anywhere and Europeans ain’t joining no army.
Cool story tho…

Posted by: Urban Fox | Dec 5 2024 19:29 utc | 65

Russian Oreshnik Missile: The
Power, Speed & Payloads w/MIT
professor Ted Postol
https://www.youtube.com/live/kKS7OYZoVdE?si=dvVlI0IyhMs0BUon
So we now have a detailed analysis of this variant of Russia’s missile arsenal.
I agree with the professor that Putin really can’t afford to make bold lies. So why is this a strategic game changer?
It occurred to me, as a battlefield weapon this would be devastating. It is ideally suited for hitting tree lines and Trench formations.
Russia currently accomplishes this using drones and missile strikes prior to any frontal attack. Military summary even claims You can predict what’s going to happen next based on their drone patterns.
Dropping six or eight thousand pounds of TNT in a tight pattern on a battlefield is going to have a big effect.
These missiles are not the type that penetrate. They essentially explode on the surface where the crater is a meter or 2 deep.
They do have tube launchers that they move around on trucks. Those are fairly close to the front and do get hit. So this is a replacement for that at a minimum. Superficially it would appear to be more expensive but perhaps not when ops are taken into account. Hard to say.
Russia creating so many fronts as kept Ukraine stretched thin. In my view we are witnessing big Arrow offenses, however a few stand for potentially collapsing the ukrainians.
We can be assured that they could spare 10 of them for any one offensive or another where they encounter strong resistance. So it is a potent Tactical weapon in there Arsenal. Allowing that they could accomplish this using their other capabilities.
I guess what remains is that it is a strategic weapon in that it allows them to make mid-range strikes without using nukes.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Dec 5 2024 19:43 utc | 67

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3lyxgez5xo
“A strong 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of northern California, according to the US Geological Survey.”
Could be just a coincidence..

Posted by: Rubiconned | Dec 5 2024 19:53 utc | 69

I know this is the Ukraine thread, but there are Ukrainians in Syria, teaching the terrorists how to use drones, and how to use US satellite info and jamming.
Hama has fallen.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Dec 5 2024 18:47 utc | 59

Interestingly, the same playbook used by Zanon is Ukraine has been deployed in Syria.
– First, deny anything is happening
– then playing it down – only a handful of militants
– then, pretend the strongholds are holding
– once important places fall (Aleppo), pretend the rebels are getting destroyed (400 dead according to RU MOD ! 1000 ! 5000 !). Invent imaginary casualty figures.
– share some meaningless videos of random explosions in the background, and claim feverishly the terrorists are all getting wiped out
– confidently predict everything will be over in a few days
– after being proved abjectly wrong a few months later, just ignore what’s happening on the ground and pretend every week that collapse is near
– alternatively, hallucinate facts (it’s only a few pockets of militants, the mappers are lying, they don’t hold any ground, situation is very fluid)

Posted by: Micron | Dec 5 2024 19:56 utc | 71

Syria is falling. I don’t see the Syrian army able to resist. Homs will fall, and then Damas.
Time for the Russians to pack up and leave, else we will have a mirror image of the americans scampering out of Bagram and Kabul. Khmeimim and Tartus are lost.

Posted by: Micron | Dec 5 2024 19:59 utc | 73

Why is Mark Rutte, NATO chief so aggressive?
That guy is an extremist. But why? He says that Ukraine must win the war at any cost.
Can anybody from The Netherlands explain about him.
Posted by: salmon | Dec 5 2024 9:07 utc | 4
###########
This is not slander but a genuine attempt to explain how Rutte moves.
He’s a hardcore Protestant who has never been married.
Do the math on that.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 5 2024 20:04 utc | 75

Posted by: David G Horsman | Dec 5 2024 19:54 utc | 70
“Certainly the Secret Service desperately means to up their game and catch up with the rest of the world and the situation on the ground.”
It’s more likely that the Secret Service was in on it. Why else was the team who was supposed to be guarding the building where the shooter was positioned told to wait inside the building? Very strange. I attribute the failure of the assassination to Divine Providence (for good or bad) and I think TPTB are at a total loss as to what they should do.

Posted by: Paranaense | Dec 5 2024 20:13 utc | 77

This bluster “only 10% of our combat power” died down after the first couple months of the SMO. At some point, you just can’t explain why you’re not committing say 25%, when many things in the SMO don’t go your way. We have all these theories why Putin keeps his foot on the brake pedal, but shouldn’t we also consider the alternative: what we see is both RU and UKR going full bore. If this is all Russia can realistically do, then crushing the AFU and sweeping Ukraine might take another decade, during which Russia is under nonstop drone etc bombardment. Faced with such a prospect, the Kremlin might well consider a negotiated shortcut to a compromise settlement. Taking Odessa doesn’t seem much more realistic today than two years ago.
Posted by: Ma Laoshi | Dec 5 2024 19:26 utc | 63
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10% of combat power is up there with the 3 day meme. No-one who isn’t an idiot believed that. Given the peacetime strength of the RAF.
The RF is nowhere near going full bore in its war effort. Ukraine OTOH pretty much is with footnotes whilst utterly reliant on foreign aid.
The Ukrs also don’t have ten years worth of manpower to mobilize, given their population crash and overall awful demographics.
The “drone bombardment” is a joke in the grand scheme of things. Right up there with Israeli’s feigning fear over Hamas bottle rockets.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Dec 5 2024 20:19 utc | 79

Posted by: ossi | Dec 5 2024 18:43 utc | 58
Thanks for that information. I knew Ukraine had serious problems with corruption but until I started reading some Ukrainian media outlets I did not realise how deeply embedded it is. Reports of illegal fuel filling-stations, illegal slaughterhouses, illegal toxic waste dumps, even illegal burial grounds, with the decomposition products from the interred cadavers leaking into water supplies; corruption even among the press-gang commissioners who are supposed to be mobilising people for the front line.
It is difficult to avoid forming the opinion that the best thing to happen for the ordinary, suffering Ukrainian person would be complete takeover by Russia. Joining the EU or NATO won’t improve matters.
~~~
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Dec 5 2024 19:14 utc | 62
Well, Marat Khairullin had a graphic description about the effects of frostbite in one of his recent posts; made my eyes water as I read it, and not just from tears of mirth…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 5 2024 20:27 utc | 81

Posted by: David G Horsman | Dec 5 2024 19:43 utc | 67
As I posted in the previous thread, Prof. Postol is as much in the dark about Oreshnik as the rest of us.
Could become a “Daily Reminder” feature…
Daily reminder; where are the images of the Yuzhmash complex, post Oreshnik?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 5 2024 20:35 utc | 83

we have a tag team at moa!

Posted by: james | Dec 5 2024 20:43 utc | 85

we have a tag team at moa!

Posted by: james | Dec 5 2024 20:43 utc | 85
And not for the first time either; it’s almost becoming boring…
Sharpen up, lads! You need a new act…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 5 2024 20:50 utc | 87

With suspicions of Russian influence swirling – denied by Moscow – and Romania’s state security council accusing TikTok of social media manipulation to Georgescu’s advantage – denied by TikTok, that first round went into recount but the top court ultimately validated the vote on Monday.
This is a snip from a Reuters piece, which gives the general flavor for the MSM stenography. Search under his name is basically suppressed. MAGA friendly publications call it differently:
A victory by devout Orthodox Christian Georgescu, who opposes abortion and gay marriage and has a Romania-first approach, will be a terrible upset for the Eurofanatic, Globalist plans of the European elites.
Abent from all is Georgescu statements that NATO missiles make Romania less safe and that Romania will be on its own after an attack. Oreshnik hit the ground the day before the last election date.
Not sure what the temperature is otg in Romania about this, or whether election integrity may be compromised. Interesting.

Posted by: frithguild | Dec 5 2024 21:00 utc | 89

So, as a German, I live inside a flock of dumb, uninformed sheeple, still regurgitating the mantra, and blind for their own suicidal tendencies, let alone for being deceived by others. Why they are this way is much harder to explain than Rutte’s aggressivity.

As a Brit in much the same situation I sympathise entirely, though some regurgitate the mantra without actually believing it, I can tell by the blank look in their eyes as they speak.
And sometimes I can have little breakthroughs in understanding:
“Putin is a dictator”
“Well, that’s as maybe, yet the autonomous Russian republics have more self-governance than Scotland”.
<silence, with a guilty look on their face>

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 5 2024 21:07 utc | 91

@67 & 83
The quality of information here at MoA is not so bad. I put the j-p petit link b posted a few days back past a friend who was working on the rail gun and the xray laser for Star Wars back about same time Jean-Pierre was most prolific. He’s been reading and scribbling equations ever since. No, we do not know what those outside our immediate circle are doing, even if they are busy publishing it.
The three big problems first to mind from someone who has worked on plasma physics for the big boys:
Anyone who can get a security clearance is a dolt, any with one original idea, or even moderate awareness of the larger world, is a security risk.
Constant need to entertain funding source. Funding expires annually.
Americans cannot do mathematics. Worse now, maff is rayciss.

Posted by: oldhippie | Dec 5 2024 21:13 utc | 93

@Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 5 2024 20:27 utc | 81
>>I knew Ukraine had serious problems with corruption but until I started reading some Ukrainian media outlets I did not realise how deeply embedded it is.
Yes, but. Even with all those problems, Ukraine is able to contest and, how to call what they’re doing atm, seriously delay the Russian advances. With spare
capacity, if we believe the stories, to train/equip HTS & friends in modern drone warfare. I think Assad would give anything to have a force with the grit,
skill, and numbers of the AFU in his corner. But in fact, seems the SAA was left to rot into oblivion. Up to this week, I don’t feel I was properly informed
about this reality by the alt-media — at all. @Micron | Dec 5 2024 19:59 utc | 73 may be overstating things as a prediction, but little doubt that the fall
of Syria is the goal of the Zio-jihadists. With Hama gone, it’s already a serious worst-case scenario. (Then again, armies are expensive. With Putin playing
Santa Claus, handing over pieces of Syria which were never his to give to anybody who fancied a slice, Assad was left without an economic base. Some victim-
blaming going on these days.)
Let’s keep in mind that the combat power preserved in Idlibstan since 2020 has been a nightmare not only for Syria itself, but also for Libya and esp. Armenia.
It’s not like the distrust (by some) in Armenia of Moscow as a double-dealer comes out of nowhere, and many Syrians have also concluded that Putin is a bit
more clever than they have use for.

Posted by: Ma Laoshi | Dec 5 2024 21:26 utc | 95

Posted by: Ma Laoshi | Dec 5 2024 21:26 utc | 95
Not a direct response to your post but have to ask the following:
What device/OS are you using to post? Because something has screwed up your formatting to the point of illegibility; random newlines appearing halfway through sentences completely destroy any coherence.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 5 2024 21:39 utc | 97

Expanding on my own #93
If research is being published in same field as US researchers are looking at, it will not be read if published in French or Russian. Even if there are French speakers or Russian speakers in the lab they will not look at it, as doing so will lead to suspicions of disloyalty. Xenophobia lives.
Related. My friend keeps talking to me in Imperial units. I told him I speak metric. That was one of the problems. If a congressman or general visits and metric terms are used goodbye funding. So everything is always an approximately and erroneously converted hash.
It really is and has been that stupid. He’s calling around to old colleagues and none know of the Franco-Russian MHD underlying Russian hypersonics. You read it at MoA first.

Posted by: oldhippie | Dec 5 2024 21:41 utc | 99