Found it! Dima’s kooky “Neural Holy Bible” Channel. Truly vomituous.
https://youtube.com/@neuralholybible
And for those interested in a US academics’s research dive into MSC there’s the following: [a definite read for @vargas].
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THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL’ IN BELARUS REPORTAGE AND COMMENTARY BY R. SCHLEYER, M.A.
Is “Dima” of the ‘Military Summary Channel’ Dmitry (“Dima”) Adamsky, who wrote about Russia in Syria in February 2020? By no means! But Dima probably is a Dmitry somebody or other, a brown-eyed, admittedly belarusian man, seemingly about thirty or so years of age, very fluent and very rapid in a kind of “woke” English (“my bad”) with a distinctive slavic accent, who does pretend to know about combat lessons that the russian military might have learned in its syrian operations; in fact, he often speaks in generalities of war production issues and development of new weapons by both sides during the course of the war.
Like most foreigners Dima tends to misspell English as used in the website interface and in titles of his shows, which approach 100,000 views twice a day and sometimes significantly more than that. The show is monetized by YouTube (ads are imposed on viewers that can be promptly dismissed if they take a specific action). Hundreds or even thousands await the premiers of each show, which are introduced by a distinctive, shifting color-work and fugue-like organ music appropriate to the theme of Death, plus a dramatic count-down with drums.
No doubt “Dima” gets significant revenue from Google; let’s guess $25K to $50K per year. Every show concludes with the statement, “We condemn any violence in the world” (it used to say, “any violence in Ukraine”). This may be partly to avoid “strikes” against the site by Google for incitement of war, which is one of Google’s evident restrictions on free speech and on prohibited content and presenters, including on well-known right-wing politicians (Google “strikes” can lead to cancellation of a show).
But Dima’s essentially nonviolent moral stance is obvious to viewers. (We think it is probable that Dima is willy-nilly a member of Belarus’s reserve forces or what Americans would call the National Guard.) Dima’s videos—probably originating in a home studio—occasionally shift the point of attention to other continents (Africa, North America, etc.) and he has even done separate short programs on tribal political conflict in Africa, but only descriptively and not analytically.
Military cemeteries interest him. The clothing he wears during interviews is nondescript and modestly draped. There is a gold necklace of some kind, perhaps a crucifix on a chain? Marine cut at least; probably a shaved head in the military fashion but also popular these days among actors, etc.
He habitually confuses the names “ukrainian” and “russian” when speaking of forces, attacks, battles, and losses and often actually seriously misstates the case without himself noticing, though he corrects such errors about half the time (Dima never apologizes for this aggravating, witless tendency to err on the most crucial point of national attribution).
Dima’a wife is ukrainian, he said in an interview, and constantly demands that he “be fair” to the ukrainian side when he reports on the day-to-day exigencies of the combat zone. He is coy about his past and present life and refused to answer an interviewer’s friendly question whether he has any military background. He speaks rapidly and speculates (with sketchy lines and patchworks drawn in real time) various scenarios about present and future war zones in Europe that come into his mind, seemingly spontaneously, but are later dropped (perhaps to reappear later), though this may simply be a hazard of his style of war reporting. We reviewed his output (which began a few days after the war began) and found a definite progression in sophistication and pace of delivery over the first year or so. Major “friendly” YouTube interviews came in mid-2022 and spring 2023 but each uniformly failed to discuss or reveal his true name; in fact, the interviewers never broached the subject (which shows their low level of professionalism).
Our own impression of Dima is growing less and less favorable. Many online commentators suggest Dima is partly a fast-talking amateur and YouTube self-promoter and maybe a traitor to the russian cause, a stalking horse for zio-Ukraine even—in a subdued sort of way. He does not hesitate to speak about how things will be a century hence in Ukraine, which is ridiculous.
Presumably, Dima lives in a small apartment in Minsk. He is well known online and, as mentioned, has given very lengthy YouTube interviews to his peers. But neither they nor any of the subjoined commentators so much as mentions Dima’s real name or even discusses the fact that it unknown, or why it might be necessary for him to remain pseudonymous (most likely to keep out of the crosshairs of Ukraine’s well-known international terrorist assassination squads!). Still, these facts are suspicious, since the comments are otherwise demonstrably edited.
Accordingly, Google search fails to unearth Dima’s true name. He has recently (Summer 2023) started identical daily commentaries in Russian, each about the same length as the English version (he appears to be doing the Russian version first). He occasionally mentions an unnamed research “assistant” who helps in the back-office information flow. He frequently speaks of big russian and ukrainian military analysts and bloggers and specific web sites, and with dedication quotes Ministry of Defense daily figures on ukrainian losses at specific “bridgeheads” as mentioned in the daily videos (Ukraine’s armed forces evidently never reports such figures).
A large “merch” roster has appeared on the site (T-shirts, bags, etc.) featuring references to Dima’s trademark opening lines, “hello my dear friends, you’re at the Military Summary Channel; today we have a lot of very interesting updates, so let’s start . . . “).
No one online has commented on Dima’s ostentatious “Neural Holy Bible” co-channel (12 videos are displayed), each of which is AI-generated, animated, or pseudo-animated (through merging of images). They are full-color cyber-art, bizarrely futuristic and even satanic, combined with Bible quotes, pronounced with dramatic, almost sardonic slowness in Dima’s fractured English pronunciation, done up pretentiously and usually ending with, “to be concluded.” Our personal favorite was, ”The Sabbath was made for Man and not Man for the Sabbath,” though this video seems to have disappeared from the roster (another suspicious factoid). The ‘Neural Holy Bible’ co-channel appears to be a kind of second life for Dima, probably something he’d rather be doing except for the damned war. Except for the bizarre, almost satanic style of the biblical presentations, this would indicate deep religious motivations. The Christ personage is sometimes shown blue-eyed. In keeping with his piety, and as mentioned, the author makes a point of abruptly truncating video clips displayed in his own programs that show the bloodiest and most gruesome, antihuman face of the war. True, it is the most ferocious conflict of serious length since Vietnam, which by the way “Dima” curiously never mentions. (We do not have time to watch other such channels for comparison.)
We should add that Dima did not respond to a personal e-mail that we somewhat naively sent to his site’s business address some months ago; evidently, however, as our “analytics” section shows, someone in Belarus did look at our profile page shortly after, but did not consult any of the articles at the time (we had recommended ‘To Sevastopol With Love,’ 2022). (It can be assumed that Dima is unable or unwilling due to time constraints to process academic discourse in English or any other language.) Here is part what we wrote to Dima’s site in Belarus on 11Jul23: “I hope you will be able to reveal your name after the war is over when your personal safety is assured, since I believe you are one of the conflict’s moral heroes by your sensitive handling of the videos of dying and killed soldiers . . . . Your devotion to the problem of following the war has grown deeper and deeper. It must mean almost total commitment now and probably is a kind of painful labor of love for you” (these statements preceded our realization that Dima most likely receives a significant payout from YouTube’s ad revenue stream, though we do not doubt his evident human sincerity). [End]
‘The Military Summary Channel’ in Belarus Reportage and Commentary by R. Schleyer, M.A. Academia.Edu, 2023 (© R. Schleyer, M.A.)

Posted by: Wtf | Dec 15 2024 23:01 utc | 104

Dima has sacrificed himself by telling the truth about the war in Ukraine on daily basis.
Nobody else had the ability to understand the reality on the contact line and political and strategic implications of this conflict.
I have been listening to him for 2.5 years and I learned a lot.
Why are now people here against Dima?
Maybe because he managed to earn some money by analyzing the war.
why not? He is honest and clever.

Posted by: vargas | Dec 15 2024 23:12 utc | 106

Dima lives in constant danger from SBU agents because he is so hard pro Russian.

Posted by: vargas | Dec 15 2024 23:16 utc | 108

Dima says that troops from North Korea are conducting active combat operations in the Kursk region.
Nothing like this has been reported by any other Russian channel.
Can anyone say anything more about this.
Posted by: guest from franconia | Dec 15 2024 22:02 utc | 93
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How about: Stop pretending you’re not vargas?

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 15 2024 23:30 utc | 110

guest from franconia is not me.
He just tries to copy my distinguished and peculiar style.

Posted by: vargas | Dec 15 2024 23:40 utc | 112

guest from franconia is not me.
He just tries to copy my distinguished and peculiar style.
Posted by: vargas | Dec 15 2024 23:40 utc | 113
I’d prefer a world where there was only one of you… or none 😀

Posted by: Newbie | Dec 15 2024 23:42 utc | 114

Dima says that troops from North Korea are conducting active combat operations in the Kursk region.
Nothing like this has been reported by any other Russian channel.
Can anyone say anything more about this.
Posted by: guest from franconia | Dec 15 2024 22:02 utc | 93
Its BOLLOX!

Posted by: HERMIUS | Dec 15 2024 23:48 utc | 116

If true it is beginning of the end. Even French trained.
Posted by: Michael J | Dec 15 2024 23:44 utc | 116
If they were french trained there is a whole post-grad on surrender 😀

Posted by: Newbie | Dec 16 2024 0:08 utc | 118

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 15 2024 22:28 utc | 100
You never post too much.

Posted by: Naive | Dec 16 2024 0:47 utc | 120

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Dec 15 2024 19:08 utc | 55
High, medium and low voltage transmission lines are usually ACSR, steel reinforced aluminum.
Sometimes a small amount of copper is used in medium and low voltage but usually not and if used not much is used.
In some of the third world i have seen plain steel cable used.
Access to copper is not necessarily an issue for transmission.
Copper would be very important for building generator windings and transformer windings. The amount of copper for these is really not that much compared to how much aluminum is used though.
Not sure that matters in Ukraine because I don’t think they are capable of producing large generators or transformers.

Posted by: Archetypex | Dec 16 2024 1:02 utc | 122

Only one. NATO must select new members unanimously. I think it’s the same with the EU.
Posted by: James M. | Dec 15 2024 22:07 utc | 95
Thanks, James.
I knew that there are veto powers within the EU.
I had a senior hot weather moment (it didn’t get below 30C overnight) and forgot that Erdogan for a while was delaying Sweden’s entry into NATO because he had the power to veto.

Posted by: Liolia Paluzas | Dec 16 2024 1:14 utc | 124

Posted by: HERMIUS | Dec 15 2024 23:48 utc | 117
Certainly is bs! It deflects from the defeats on the frontline you see. also like you say it promoted the idea that if korean troops are helping russia then we (the west) should jolly well help ukraine
Posted by: Ted from Liverpool | Dec 16 2024 1:16 utc | 126
Mi thinks the west is urgently looking for real evidence of these nk troops in kirsk area. they end up making fake videos of them in the end. the ones military summary showed prove absolutely nothing. for a start the troops in the video are toofar way to recognise as anything. i agree its just propoganda for a western audience of zombies.

Posted by: The Flying Scotsman | Dec 16 2024 1:20 utc | 126

@ 63
If you are not Russian who gives a shit if he / she likes Putin.

Posted by: Ed | Dec 16 2024 2:02 utc | 128

Posted by: HERMIUS | Dec 15 2024 23:48 utc | 117
……exactly. Its all bullshite. there aint no nk troops in kursk. the comedian in the green shirt thinks we all stupid

Posted by: Fyador | Dec 16 2024 2:07 utc | 130

” But Dima probably is a Dmitry somebody or other, a brown-eyed, admittedly belarusian man, seemingly about thirty or so years of age, very fluent and very rapid in a kind of “woke” English (“my bad”) with a distinctive slavic accent. . .”
Posted by: Wtf | Dec 15 2024 23:01 utc | 105
Dima is a lot of things, but fluent is not one of them. He obviously doesn’t interact with many English speakers and hasn’t really improved his language skills after years of doing these videos. He’s always reaching for the most hyperbolic words in his limited vocabulary to describe a battlefield action, when a simple descriptive word would suffice. New ground seized or lost is always ‘complete control’ or one side was ‘completely defeated.’ His one saving grace is that he aggregates the most recent information from the front and provides some useful info updates. His analysis of strategy is either crap or pure speculation. The impression is that of an unstable character, given to flights of fancy.
I suspect that when he talks of DPRK units in Kursk based on grainy drone videos he’s really trying to throw the YouTube censors a bone. He’s terrified of getting strikes or worse, de-monetized, so once in a while he does this kind of nonsense. I manage to watch Dima’s morning video, skipping over as much nonsense as I can. The afternoon video, mostly a repeat of the first one, is out of the question. The upshot is that Weeb’s droning monotone is misery to hear, and DPA’s style is for me even worse, so Dima it is.

Posted by: Mike R | Dec 16 2024 2:18 utc | 132

@Michael
These 1,000 were all arbitrarily conscripted from the streets and sent to the front without training.

Posted by: wp007 | Dec 16 2024 4:14 utc | 134

Below is a posting title at ZH
Russian Forces Destroy More US Patriot Launchers & Advance Closer To Pokrovsk
quote

Amid the continued rapid advance of Russian forces in Ukraine’s east, and with the Donetsk villages of Vesely Gai and Pushkino (15km south of Pokrovsk) having been captured, Russia is also going after US-made Patriot batteries.
“Russian forces have destroyed four Patriot anti-aircraft missile launchers provided to Ukraine by Western nations,” the Defense Ministry announced Saturday.
he statement said that air force jets along with with drones and artillery groups, “destroyed a combat control vehicle, an AN/MPQ-65 radar station and four launchers of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system made in the US.”
…
Meanwhile there are more indicators that Ukraine’s front lines are crumbling:

Ukraine’s military leadership has replaced the commander overseeing defenses in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian forces are making swift advances, a military official said on Saturday.
General Oleksandr Tarnavskiy, 54, was appointed to head the operational and tactical group Donetsk, replacing General Oleksandr Lutsenko, the official at the General Staff told Reuters.

The weekend report further said, “Lutsenko was criticized by Ukrainian military bloggers and some lawmakers for failing to stop Russian troops’ relentless push toward the strategic Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk.”

I keep saying that Russian timelines are not US timelines and Z may be forced to surrender before Trump can bully Putin into something else.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 16 2024 4:46 utc | 136

Kaker@135
That name is what Jewish people call one of their men who is old and cranky. More often heard in North America and Britain than in Israel. Usually bitter, bigoted, and disappointed with his life. That sounds like you.

Posted by: bingo | Dec 16 2024 5:07 utc | 138

Posted by: Wtf | Dec 15 2024 23:01 utc 105
“The Military Summary Channel’ in Belarus Reportage and Commentary by R. Schleyer, M.A. Academia.Edu, 2023 (© R. Schleyer, M.A.)”
Before accepting something- or someone- as “academic” I tend to have a look at the primary source – in this case an ‘interesting’ self-published body of writings.
Simply uploading texts (lots!) onto the completely unrestricted platform called academia.edu doesn’t add up to a status of ‘academic’ – at least in the generally accepted sense.
But these writings by R.Schleyer (who refers to himself as we/us) are strangely fascinating…
(However, I will avoid this new rabbit hole!)

Posted by: Anto | Dec 16 2024 6:49 utc | 140

Posted by: Anto | Dec 16 2024 6:49 utc | 142
Yeah, agreed about this guy. I too distrust flippant use/quoting of the term “academic”, and certainly don’t trust self published “kooks”, so I searched his bio. Strange and interesting stuff. Couldn’t find his émigré info. Possibly East German. And what caused him to do a debunking of Dima I don’t know. Probably a Russophile. Funny where a google search can take you! But tenured or not, he writes like an academic!

Posted by: Wtf | Dec 16 2024 7:11 utc | 142

I followed Dima regularly until about a year ago but got fed up with his speculation and click bait titles. As an alternative, WEEB does a decent job.

Posted by: The Busker | Dec 16 2024 7:26 utc | 144

Ukraine is still very very strong. The stories in MSM that they do not have enough soldiers is just a deception.
Soon, they are going to attack and Russians shall panic.
Putin eliminated Prigozhin and removed Surovikin. Igor Strelkov is jailed.
Nobody is left there to fight for the victory and as somebody wrote above, Ukrainians are soon going to march on Moscow, together with Poles, Germans and the rest of Europe.

Posted by: vargas | Dec 16 2024 8:39 utc | 146

Meanwhile the superstitious residents of New Jersey back in the USSA are wowed nightly by UFOs as thousands of Ukraine war drones flood the world’s black market complete with Christmas decorations.
Season’s greetings to all at MI6
Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Dec 15 2024 18:48 utc | 48
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Oh, it’s not just NJ.
Here’s a CEO of a military drone manufacturer with his take:
https://x.com/MilaLovesJoe/status/1868042627360403849

Posted by: Sticker | Dec 16 2024 8:56 utc | 148

Wtf 106
“No doubt “Dima” gets significant revenue from Google…”
A Russian on Google – how horrifyingly for you. You are clearly a common and garden fourth Reich Russophobe, who would rather there were no Russians on the internet, no doubt unable to see a Russian without experiencing an involuntary gas chamber fantasy.
Yes Dima brings detailed reports on the Ukraine proxy war with a Slavic Russian voice. An untermensch putting on airs above his racial station. Of course it is irritating for the Fourth Reich west for narratives to be available contrary to your Goebbels propaganda.
Well suck it up and like it. Outside of a shrivelling Fourth Reich west, the rest of the world has much more appetite to heat Russian voice than the nauseating hypocritical western propaganda. Why don’t you update us on Putin dying of cancer as he has been since 2022? Or maybe better just comfort yourself with your Fourth Reich genocide of Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians – a source of happier news for you than Ukraine.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Dec 16 2024 9:03 utc | 150

Posted by: ossi | Dec 16 2024 9:00 utc | 151
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As to who to blame for sending the warhead to US, if that’s what’s prompting the sniffing drones, that of course will be “decided” depending on what narrative the US needs to sell at the time. Or the demands of its handlers.
As for who might have the capabilty to do this: the usual suspects.
As for who might have a motive to do this: mostly, the usual suspects, for the purpose of blackmail, false flags, basic FOMO (i.e., naked opportunism), etc.

Posted by: Sticker | Dec 16 2024 9:51 utc | 152

Posted by: Newbie | Dec 15 2024 23:39 utc | 112
Not surprising ! Trained in France, they succeeded in “filer à l’Anglaise !”

Posted by: fabrice | Dec 16 2024 9:57 utc | 154

Posted by: ossi | Dec 16 2024 9:52 utc | 155
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Think about the dynamics of the old “suitcase nukes in every capital” thing.
If (again if this guy’s info is accurate), it could be a that + “shit’s getting real now” operation.
As I said in my last post, the motives that jump out at me are the usual suspects implacing structure for blackmail, false flags and FOMO opportunistic knee whacking.
The purpose of which is always ENFORCEMENT.
Enforce/impose one’s will on say, the POTUS.
P.s. Guardian quoting Der Speigel on drones over Ramstein (a rather likely transfer spot in this scenario). Just grabbed first link that came up.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/germany-drones-air-base

Posted by: Sticker | Dec 16 2024 10:09 utc | 156

As Trump said, shoot the drones down if you don’t know what they are.
They probably do know what they are – they are their security surveilance, otherwise they would be shot down!
The media, as normal, gives the wrong end of the stick to the public.
There’s a place in the outer part of Munich, something military, where the signs say keep out and that deadly force may be used on trespassers.
Shooting down drones – claiming they would be a hazard for air traffic – who would object or complain?

Posted by: hh | Dec 16 2024 10:29 utc | 158

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Dec 16 2024 9:03 utc | 152
You’re a fucking loony.
First, they weren’t *MY* words, but another analyst of Dima’s channel who was simply stating the obvious.
Secondly, I don’t know why you went off on a rant at me being a Russophobe. I’m not that at all.
Go fuck yourself and get sober.

Posted by: Wtf | Dec 16 2024 10:32 utc | 160

“30 North-Korean soldiers killed or wounded near Kursk” (reuters, welt.de)
Just act as if it’s 2011, and your newspaper just published Libya’s Khadafi has bought containers of viagra so his soldiers can rape better. (guardian, reuters)

Posted by: Passerby | Dec 16 2024 10:49 utc | 162

@ossi [155]
Question: Who would
nterested in such an attack within the country…
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It wouldn’t be placed there for an attack.
It would be used as insurance. IOW, as I said previously, enforcement.
Do as we say or we make you cry.
Nuke Iran or we make you cry?
You can’t get the USG to wipe its nose without permission. If Babysitter could say “remember that little thing in the closet that we can make go boom under the Capitol (whatever)…?” There’s no chance in hell it’d ever have to actually be used.
Just sayin’. Also, thank you for your replies. Interesting discussion.

Posted by: Sticker | Dec 16 2024 10:53 utc | 164

Posted by: HB_Norica | Dec 15 2024 15:04 utc | 3
Thanks. Good reporting.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Dec 16 2024 11:15 utc | 166

Sticker and Ossi, You are leaving out the principal suspect who could benefit from a FF on US soil: Netanyahu/Zionists.
The IDF are starting to have problems with manpower, and cannot expand into the “greater” Israel, and attack Syria, Iraq, lebanon, the Sinai, and Iran all at the same time. They will “need” US troops and airforce to do it for them.
****
The use of nukes or semi-nukes can be used as a warning, (as in Tartus? Testing a form of bomb for later use in Iran, and also as a “warning” to the Russians?), but a “dirty bomb could be used to try to blame it directly on Iran.

Posted by: Stonebird | Dec 16 2024 11:42 utc | 168

Dear Ossi..
Reality deniers are all Putin fan boys here, while we are realists..
Putin lost Syria..
Putin lost Armenia..
Putin will lose Georgia..
Putin was betrayed by Turkey and tricked by Israel..
Putin is no longer supported by Iran because Iran is leaning towards the West for the downfall of the “Axis of Resistance” instead of continuing to rely on weak Russia.
Putin is no longer supported by China, because China has recognized Russia’s failure and would rather take over Siberia after the end of the Russian Federation than go under with Russia.
Russia has now waged war in Ukraine for almost 3 years and has achieved almost nothing except a few km2 in the east (apart from many empty announcements that they will win SOON – when is this SOON?).
Russia has reacted weakly to every crossing of red lines, even the last “LIGHT SHOW” over Dnieper impressed no one and the West continues to escalate.
So keep believing in your God and glorifying his 5D chess — but a sense of reality looks different than what you are showing

Posted by: Joe911 | Dec 16 2024 12:12 utc | 170

@ Joe911 | Dec 16 2024 12:12 utc | 172
You forgot about him losing Mars and the whole of Alpha Centauri.

Posted by: boneless | Dec 16 2024 12:21 utc | 172

The Fourth Protocol – Wikipedia

The title refers to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which (at least in the world of the novel) contained four secret protocols. The fourth of these was meant to prohibit non-conventional deliveries of nuclear weapons, i.e. by means other than being dropped from aircraft or carried on ballistic missiles. This included postal delivery or being assembled in secret, close to the target, before being detonated.

Frederick Forsyth – Wikipedia

In August 2015 Forsyth revealed that in Biafra he was an informant for MI6, a relationship that continued for 20 years. According to Forsyth, he was not paid

Posted by: hh | Dec 16 2024 12:25 utc | 174

Putin today —
“In this vein, NATO is boosting its defense spending and forming ‘strike groups’ near Russia’s borders, he added. “The number of American service members in Europe has already exceeded 100,000 troops,” he noted.
You can never say he didn’t see this coming.
Despite Russia’s superior weaponry winning in Ukraine isn’t the true battleground. When World Fascism knocks at the door? Hell to pay.
Unless China grows a pair, which is not their forte, Russia is nearly alone. ‘This ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around,’ as they say. Russia needs more friends in the world and they need them now.

Posted by: elmagnostic | Dec 16 2024 12:30 utc | 176

@ Joe911
You’re making the same mistake as the “putin fan boys”: personification.
the personification of the “enemy” (or the “ally”) is one of the basic rules of war propaganda.
it was not Putin who launched an offensive in Ukraine or who lost Syria,
it is Russia, a state supported by the majority of its population, in short a nation.
Behavior of NATO – and therefore the reaction of Russia – would be identical regardless of the president of Russia; he can be communist, capitalist, nationalist, it will change nothing for the West (except when it is a man in the pay of the West like Elstine). And it is just as vain to believe that Putin alone runs Russia as it is to think that this is the case for Biden or Trump.
Russians fight for the defense of their country, the Russian speakers of Western Ukraine and of course for its resources,
unlike most MoA commentators, the Russians are aware of the power of the enemy they are facing, they are preparing for a confrontation of much higher intensity but I doubt that they will take the initiative of a direct confrontation with NATO, at this stage they would be wrong to do so.
Moreover the Russians are fighting against a form of neo-fascism, a genocidal enemy who uses Nazi methods and who arms and supports real Nazis in Ukraine or Palestine. This is not the first time and the last time that the Russians defeated the Nazis, it was certainly not using Nazi methods.
Using fascist methods is becoming it and giving it victory, is it really so difficult to understand.
(I’m not claiming that the Russians never commit atrocities, but I can say that they don’t behave like nazis)
As much as the prospect of a nuclear conflict in Europe excites many officers, politicians and people in the USA, this idea repulses the Russians
this is precisely one of the reasons why Russia prevails but I guess that this aspect also totaly escapes average Yankee.

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Dec 16 2024 13:13 utc | 178

PS to 180 :
I wrote : Using fascist methods is becoming it and giving it victory, is it really so difficult to understand?
Fact is that to defeat the Nazis and under their pressure, Russia strengthened and developed Stalinism, which, if not equivalent to fascism, is certainly not the most democratic form of communism.
So, if capitalism did not succeed in defeating communist Russia with its German (and other) Nazi militias when WW2, it nevertheless succeeded in partly distorting the revolution which frightened it so much.

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Dec 16 2024 13:48 utc | 180

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 16 2024 4:46 utc | 138
I mentioned it @53, @57 etc
Not a bad day, meanwhile the weather here is still trolls and doomers and little on the advances (basically ignoring AFU lines)
Meanwhile, this means that they are are still being produced semi-artesanally 1 or 2 a month
MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. The serial production of the Oreshnik intermediate-range missile will begin shortly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
“As you know, the Oreshnik intermediate-range missile system has become Russia’s newest powerful weapon. It was successfully used in November in response to the strikes on our country’s territory – a ballistic missile with a non-nuclear hypersonic payload was used,” the Russian leader said, speaking at the Russian Defense Ministry’s board meeting. “The serial production of such systems is supposed to be established in shortly in order ensure the security of Russia and its allies.”

Posted by: Newbie | Dec 16 2024 13:57 utc | 182

No comment.
https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/13833

Posted by: Cagliostro | Dec 16 2024 14:09 utc | 184

Putin today — “In this vein, NATO is boosting its defense spending and forming ‘strike groups’ near Russia’s borders, he added. “The number of American service members in Europe has already exceeded 100,000 troops,” he noted.
You can never say he didn’t see this coming.
Posted by: elmagnostic | Dec 16 2024 12:30 utc | 178
Putin is always surprised, forget about it. There’s a more interesting part from Belousov ( t.me/intelslava/71270 )
“Russian Defense Ministry must be prepared for any development of the situation, including a possible military conflict with NATO in Europe in the next decade”
Fighting a proxy of a proxy of a proxy for decades will be absolutely hilarious. Can’t wait to see it. But when it comes to US, it’s complete silence in all these speeches. From low level to top level only crickets can be heard.

Posted by: rk | Dec 16 2024 14:12 utc | 186

These NJ drones are cracking me up. They are revealing the fear at the heart of every American that our crimes are coming home. These drones haven’t fired missiles at any buildings. They haven’t come back and killed rescuers after not destroying any buildings. All they have done is fly at night. That’s it. And these people are shaking in their boots. Hey America, your privilege is showing.

Posted by: Caveman | Dec 16 2024 14:34 utc | 188

@ Joe911 | 16. Dez. 2024 12:12 UTC | 172
Sie haben vergessen, dass er den Mars und ganz Alpha Centauri verloren hat.
Gepostet von: boneless | 16. Dez 2024 12:21 UTC | 174
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Let this nutcase go…
For Putin, not everything may go as planned, according to the ideal plan?
But Putin has the industrial east of Ukraine, the coal, the ore and maybe another 4 weeks and he has the uranium and the huge gas field in the east. He also already has more than 85% of the coveted black earth, the wheat chamber of Ukraine, which has already been sold to corporations.
This nutcase has never been to Ukraine, apparently doesn’t know what Ukraine really is without the east of the country… a poor country.
But…
He probably didn’t mention everything Putin has already won on purpose… he also forgot the millions of new residents…
Is that a calculation on his part or deceit… or just stupidity.
I would have an IQ test for him… look at Russia on the atlas and the size of Ukraine… and calculate how many times America fits into that… how many countries in the area of ​​Ukraine alone?? And one more thing: I am definitely not a friend of Putin, even though I spent around 40 years of my life in Russian servitude!
But my IQ tells me who is right and who is not, which statesman is lying to me on purpose and which is not, AND I have always had contact with Russians and Germans who have lived in Russia for decades, I spent around 12 years in Ukraine and far in the east of the country for work, I speak and write fluent Russian (I have hardly ever come across Ukrainian in all these years)
So if I am a friend of Putin, well, that’s fine with me (smiley)
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Posted by: ossi | Dec 16 2024 14:42 utc | 190

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-tankers-damaged-kerch-strait-were-carrying-62000-barrels-oil-products-2024-12-16/
Just to clear up a few misconceptions,
1. Cuero is also a city in Texas. It is famed for being on the Chisholm Trail and for cattle and cowboys, but like most of Texas, for little else. The etymology derives from the Spanish term “rawhide”, which could also suggest BDSM to the gay homophobes resplendent throughout the history of anonymous online fascist man love, many of whom regularly frequent this, ahem, bar.
2. 62,000 barrels of oil > 2,000 barrels of oil
3. Russia is desperate to evade US inveigled sanctions that are destroying its economy, thus indicated by the failure of the two aged tankers.
4. Regardless of the eventual outcome in Ukraine, a conclusion which should have been foregone but somehow remains unsettled, Putin has already lost his mystique a la the mighty Wizard of Oz and he requires the assistance of the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and Dorothy to regain his Emerald City-state.
5. Barflies can click your ruby heels at anytime an awaken from the bad dream of your own making

Posted by: Cuero | Dec 16 2024 14:52 utc | 192

Posted by: paddy | Dec 16 2024 14:50 utc | 193
The other thing to note is that if they were anything suspicious why are the drone lights ON.
As someone with 3 drones myself, i can tell you the lights can be switched OFF.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Dec 16 2024 14:55 utc | 194

Posted by: paddy | Dec 16 2024 14:50 utc | 193
Don’t know why they’re not over DC, don’t know what they’re up to, and honestly it doesn’t matter to me. If they’re looking for some sort of stray nuke, I hope that find it before it’s too late. That’s about all. So far they’ve done nothing but fly, including over the state I live in, and anyone who’s honestly afraid better not look down, their shadow is there, and that’s just as scary as these drones.

Posted by: Caveman | Dec 16 2024 14:59 utc | 196

The main point is. How is it possible that the West can wage this war war so long, without any discontent, any damage to economy?
There was so much talk about the replacement of Russian gas, but it went so smoothly.
The west is so powerful as long as it can print the money.
And there is no danger to that.

Posted by: vargas | Dec 16 2024 15:06 utc | 198

ossi@167….if you are a veteran with a recognized medical condition, even tinnitus, the medical marijuana is free……..I know many fellow veterans who are on ‘the plan’.
As kids, with illegal smiles, we’d run and hide from the cops fearful of being caught with a roach, now it’s Purolatored to your door, shipping is also free. Only in Canada, eh!
Not sure of other countries help for Veterans, but any Vets out there with say, tinnitus, depression, anxiety, had
sick fucks endlessly screaming at you, belittling you….go to your Veterans support office and file a claim….and if your are computer savvy just do it over the internet…..put in that claim.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Dec 16 2024 15:12 utc | 200