Posted by: J | Jan 10 2025 1:37 utc | 97 “oh god, another one that swallowed milleys 3day lie”
Given that the videos are from Russian TV, I guess Russians fell for it too.
Here is another from Russian TV with Russians who fell for it: https://x.com/i/status/1822641324421435432
Miley was reasonably accurate in that Russia did get to Kyiv within 3 days. They got to the zoo in Kyiv.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497385748680556548
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497384009420136457
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497386752054546433

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 1:58 utc | 103

DJT has all the info he needs now……he knows the Ukronazis are a lost cause, and one thing you can guarantee is he will not sink cash and ammo into a lost cause.
His latest news conference at Mar Largo proves the point……..he called the whole war a tremendous waste of life and resources and blamed Biden for the whole mess. Volo days are numbered…..less than 30 now……

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 10 2025 2:23 utc | 105

So how long to get to Ukraine’s borders with Europe, considering the need to extend logistics and put in place local controls over a not so friendly populous? I don’t know, but longer than 18 months, I’d wager.
Posted by: mjh | Jan 9 2025 22:10 utc | 60
Transnistria much earlier. Feel before President Trump’s time frame of 3 to 6 months

Posted by: Michael J | Jan 10 2025 3:06 utc | 107

@Newbie | Fri, 10 Jan 2025 01:35:00 GMT | 96

This should have ended long ago, this is a completely atypical situation. Usually any country cries uncle at the 30% bar… that was a year ago.

I disagree, I think the Ukrainians have only lost 15 percent of their mobilized manpower, if that. But we won’t know the actual numbers for years. Even though Ukraine has external support – the bodies are almost all Ukrainian. Other than maybe a few special forces, there aren’t any external NATO troops there.

Posted by: James M. | Jan 10 2025 3:51 utc | 109

SIX Months–the leaders have achieved all they hoped to achieve. Dead soldiers have no value to them. The military equipment’s is essentially FREE–Ukraine will never be required to pay for any of it–or repay their “loans” from the west.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 10 2025 2:51 utc | 107
The information about financial arrangements that is easily available is all but non existent. That causes me to suspect the worst. What I suspect is that the war debt will turn up as corrupt financial interests owning real estate in Ukraine.
Again the popular press doesn’t report it in any detail, but apparently a lot of the money that is given to Ukraine is actually the assessed value of the old Cold War military hardware that is given to Ukraine. Some if it even needs fixing prior to being useful. Because they pick up the hardware with no up front cost, Ukraine is willing to burn through it carelessly. That is of considerable benefit to Russia, because they are in the process of disarming Western Europe. A lot of the countries would be hard pressed to go to war because the remaining military equipment is scares. It has been given to Ukraine and destroyed by Russia.

Posted by: Jmaas | Jan 10 2025 4:14 utc | 111

Zelenski: “Ukraine will be ready to fill any vacant seat in the EU and NATO, if Hungary decides to vacate it in favor of membership in the CIS or the CSTO.”
Wladimir, my friend, forget about Hungary. How about swapping places with Germany? We pay the EU $29 billion every year – you can have our place.

Posted by: Passerby | Jan 10 2025 6:06 utc | 113

Gepostet von: Perimetr | 9. Januar 2025 19:43 UTC | 29
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Why don’t you link directly to the alleged article in Pravda?
Because I can’t find the one you mentioned here in this newspaper.
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It’s less about truths, more about the fact that someone might want to read the latest from or in Moscow.
In times of modern browsers (e.g. Chrome) language shouldn’t be a problem, because everything is translated with a right click.
I almost always read BOTH SIDES, that’s the only way you can form an opinion…

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 7:13 utc | 115

today, at least 15 Ukronazi drones flew over Russia for over 1000 km without anyone noticing, and a fuel depot was hit, there are dead and injured among the firefighters,
if this isn’t laxity, carelessness and fanaticism, tell me what it i
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Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 9 2025 22:36 utc | 64
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How do you know that these drones flew over 1000 km…how do you come to this claim?
Why do you rule out that these drones may have only flown 20 km…SINCE THEY LAUNCHED INLAND…or do you really believe that Ukraine or other foreign groups do NOT have sabotaging groups in Russia.
Question:
How incompetent would officials in the USA be, or worse, in failure in Europe, if drones suddenly attacked oil, petrol, gas tanks…perhaps with drones launched by 16-year-olds?
Despite the size of the country (which some people here still have no idea about), Russia is probably the country with the best airspace surveillance after China! Germany or France, for example, may be able to monitor their airspace, BUT can only protect around 5% of their territory with air defense.
POOR!
Russia, with an area of ​​about 35 to 40 times the size of these two countries, has air defense coverage of almost 65% and has had that for about 30 years.

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 7:32 utc | 117

@Ghost of Zanon | Fri, 10 Jan 2025 01:48:00 GMT | 100

Still hung up on territory measured in sq km, huh, anonymous?

Just ignore him, he’ll never change his one note tune.

Posted by: James M. | Jan 10 2025 7:34 utc | 119

I know someone who lives inside of the blob. I quizzed him a few weeks after Oreshnik and he had never heard of Yuzmash. So information is not propogating at all. That’s how tight the lockdown is. Just my $.02
Posted by: frithguild | Jan 10 2025 2:31 utc | 106
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Which shows me again that all the people writing here have never visited the country or know the Russian system when it comes to security, sabotage and espionage.
Yuzmash is and was one of the most secret facilities for the construction of nuclear weapons in the USSR!
Atomic bomb safe (which is why it was NEVER really attacked before Hazelnut) although there were around 35 arrivals of various calibers before Hazelnut.
You have to imagine Yuzmash itself as a city within the city, how many edages there are underground is perhaps only known to those who worked down there, and they didn’t even tell their neighbors.
A city within the city with areas for chemistry, areas for steel, areas for explosives, areas for IT…
Within the factory there were 6 bus lines and 3 railway hubs with over 35 km of tracks.
During the USSR era (when I knew it) no “normal” visitors could come to the city itself; access was only possible with a passport and visits only with registration at the KKB. Where surveillance took place within the city was not visible at the time.
The English probably did not choose this place without reason and thought that they would be safe from missiles there.
The Russians themselves, who designed the plant down to every corner, knew that many missiles would NOT help because they had built it themselves…YES, until the development of Hazelnut
But….if the Ukraine with its secret service with the support of MI6 and the CIA continued to maintain the security concept and expanded surveillance of employees…you will not hear anything about Yuzmash for a long time…and what the English built there deep in the ground will definitely NEVER be heard!
Well, the Russians must have known or feared something…because what sources (grapevine) said?
Was Hazelnut built precisely for this purpose? The danger of what was built there must have been enormous for Russia…
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If the person attacked does NOT release any images to prove the weapon’s ineffectiveness despite the worldwide hype surrounding this weapon…
The attacker does not release any images either, although at least satellite images would be possible (both sides)
THEN THERE IS SOMETHING TO HIDE
Be it the destruction…be it the reason for the attack…which one would like to quickly forget.
Russia would not be able to prove it clearly…?
England MI6 CIA would not deny it clearly, because they in turn do not know what Russia knows

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 8:07 utc | 121

This post was not the real Peter AU.
He would never attack b like that.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 10 2025 3:31 utc | 108
Yes, that doesn’t sound like him at all.
Anyway, let’s answer to it as well: it may have been a mistake to let tens of thousands and hundreds of armored vehicles organize and cross the border but it would be a mistake to stop them now, when they’re killing themselves on an industrial scale, fulfilling the demil and denazi goals of the little smo.
Also, it would be a mistake to look for deep logic or long term strategy in Nato’s actions with the Ukr proxy. They play Arma 3 and get ideas from there. Sure, at least on the propaganda level, it helps them greatly that RF does not hit behind enemy lines, they keep leveling only their own regions while few in Kyyiiiv know there’s an smo going on. Clown Maia creates much longer outages in Transnistria than RF ever did in Ukr.

Posted by: rk | Jan 10 2025 8:55 utc | 123

RF does not hit behind enemy lines
rk | Jan 10 2025 8:55 utc | 123

The lier is back. Such a long post for such petty lies at the end. Again.

Posted by: boneless | Jan 10 2025 9:05 utc | 125

I used Yandex to try to find an article that appeared to come from a Russian source rather than Reuters, etc. When I saw “Pravda”, I assumed the article had appeared in Pravda. Apologies if it was some sort of fraudulent source. It seems hard to trust anything anymore.
Posted by: Perimetr | Jan 10 2025 8:47 utc | 122
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But it’s so easy…
Let Chrome translate it for you…
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https://www.kp.ru/
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https://gazeta-pravda.ru/

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 9:54 utc | 127

The EU is concerned that Donald Trump could lift the Russia sanctions imposed by Biden, according to the Financial Times. Brussels fears that Trump could reverse decisions made by his predecessor simply because they were made by Biden.
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This would mean the downfall of some governments in the EU, especially the German government.
This is accompanied by fears that a new government under Donald Trump could reverse these measures, including the sanctions imposed on Russia.
Fico does not rule out stopping humanitarian aid to Ukraine over gas transit denial
European officials are particularly concerned that Trump could lift numerous decrees of the Biden administration that imposed sanctions on Russia.
The EU hopes that Trump will keep these sanctions in place to use them as a negotiating tool in possible talks with Moscow on a ceasefire, the newspaper said.
A spokesman for Trump’s transition team dismissed these concerns and said the president-elect has a clear mandate to implement the promises made during the campaign.
In recent days, Trump has indicated that he would consider using military pressure or tariffs on Denmark to force the sale of Greenland. He also said he could imagine incorporating Canada and the Panama Canal into the United States.
Trump publishes maps showing Canada as US territory
The EU Commission has set up an internal team of senior officials to develop strategies to contain or respond to the potential impact of a second Trump presidency.
The focus is primarily on possible trade conflicts, reduced support for Ukraine and a possible withdrawal of Washington from European defense and security policy.
Trump announced that he would arrange a meeting with Putin.
The US president-elect also stated that Putin had expressed interest in meeting with Trump and that they were now working on organizing the meeting. “We must end this war, to stop this bloody chaos,” he said. Most likely, Bratislava, Slovakia, will be the venue for the meeting between Trump and Putin. But Trump should not count on the possibility of a ceasefire without lifting sanctions and without Ukraine remaining neutral.
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Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 10:21 utc | 129

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 7:32 utc | 117
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 9 2025 22:36 utc | 64
Question:
How do you know that these drones flew over 1000 km…how do you come to this claim?
Why do you rule out that these drones may have only flown 20 km…SINCE THEY LAUNCHED INLAND…or do you really believe that Ukraine or other foreign groups do NOT have sabotaging groups in Russia.
Question:
How incompetent would officials in the USA be, or worse, in failure in Europe, if drones suddenly attacked oil, petrol, gas tanks…perhaps with drones launched by 16-year-olds?
Despite the size of the country (which some people here still have no idea about), Russia is probably the country with the best airspace surveillance after China! Germany or France, for example, may be able to monitor their airspace, BUT can only protect around 5% of their territory with air defense.
POOR!
Russia, with an area of about 35 to 40 times the size of these two countries, has air defense coverage of almost 65% and has had that for about 30 years.
To Ossi @117- that post at @64 is absolute bullshit and NOT WRITTEN BY Me.
In fact I did compose an @64, but it had to do with the Chinese weather ballon downed (after several tries) by the US last year.
Ossi-
The post that you replied to is bogus, and appears to be a diversion from my post at @72 which must have upset some western oriented trolls -or their controllers. For the record I will re-post my @72 here. It is concerned with Orishnik, and had zero to do with Ukie drones.
The existence of this system which appears so incredibly accurate and destructive has been a very, very unpleasant surprise to Western war planners. As Aleph Null remarked @56), it might provide an off ramp to complete nuclear destruction.
But of course, there are a great many questions to be answered about Orishnik. The Yuzhmesh strike indicates that it is devastating to subterranean facilities (including missile silos, command bunkers and the like), but can it be re-jigged to be effective against other types of target.
Like everyone else here, I would dearly love to know what the “warhead” really was.
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 9 2025 22:59 utc | 72
Hope that clears up the matter-till the next trolloid attempt at lying and derailment of course.
Regards-

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 10 2025 10:45 utc | 131

The existence of this system which appears so incredibly accurate and destructive has been a very, very unpleasant surprise to Western war planners. As Aleph Null remarked @56), it might provide an off ramp to complete nuclear destruction.
But of course, there are a great many questions to be answered about Orishnik. The Yuzhmesh strike indicates that it is devastating to subterranean facilities (including missile silos, command bunkers and the like), but can it be re-jigged to be effective against other types of target.
Like everyone else here, I would dearly love to know what the “warhead” really was.
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 9 2025 22:59 utc | 72
Hope that clears up the matter-till the next trolloid attempt at lying and derailment of course.
Regards-
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 10 2025 10:45 utc | 131
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The real reason for the excitement in the West is probably…
That their nuclear bunkers no longer offer any supposed security…
An ulterior motive that the government elites probably always had in mind when crossing red lines…
Being able to piss off underground.
AND their command centers for their armies are no longer safe…and so in principle every war that is fought without a headquarters should already be decided

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 10:54 utc | 133

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 9 2025 22:42 utc | 67 “Russian missiles can fly up 3,500km, not be detected”
Why do you think thet?

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 11:05 utc | 135

Some here are rightly concerned about the way Russia is behaving towards its enemies in this war.
The Western/Ukrainian war machine is only kept running by Russian oil, gasoline and diesel fuel.
The trade with the enemy is killing Russian soldiers and civilians every day.
Comrade Stalin would know what to do now.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 10 2025 11:16 utc | 137

7 months later, and still have not expelled Ukrainian forces from Kursk.
Just facts.
Meanwhile, panting after Trump for meeting.
All rather pathetic.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 10 2025 10:46 utc | 133
Maybe you should remind president Putin personally that he’s on a timetable. How is that Ukraine regaining Crimea in 2023 doing, btw?
Meanwhile Ukraine keeps pouring their best units and equipment to a few square kilometers of fields with no strategic value in Russia instead of using them to defend key strongpoints and supply lines in Donbass, pathetic ain’t it.

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Jan 10 2025 11:21 utc | 139

Ukraine Weekly Update, 10th January 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-weekly-update-9c1

Posted by: The Busker | Jan 10 2025 11:46 utc | 141

THEN THERE IS SOMETHING TO HIDE
Be it the destruction…be it the reason for the attack…which one would like to quickly forget.
Russia would not be able to prove it clearly…?
England MI6 CIA would not deny it clearly, because they in turn do not know what Russia knows
Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 8:07 utc | 121
Sleeping over big serge’s article and reading a comment in this thread I had a revelation (just joking, plain deduction an hypothesis )
RF knows the internals as well as the surface, any image (even from within) could be mapped to an exact coordinate.
Big serge mentioned accuracy.
Any images would therefore allow RF to know exactly where it hit, probably deduce which sub-amunition, and correct (or not change anything) in the guidance system.
As in WWII, when the Brit’s were able to lead the Germans on about where the V weapons were really landing , they can be trying to stop RF from knowing how well the hazelnut hit.
No particular secret on the effect, just top secret on on accuracy.
This is in no way a certainty, but it is an alternative.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 11:50 utc | 143

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jan 9 2025 22:42 utc | 67 “Russian missiles can fly up 3,500km, not be detected”
Why do you think thet?
Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 11:05 utc | 136
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I’ll answer it…
Even if his statement isn’t entirely true, HE is right.
Russian hypersonic missiles cannot be seen by radar…at least very difficult for a number of reasons, but for one reason they can be.
Due to the high speed, a field forms around the missile, how can I explain it best…that effectively absorbs the radar beams.
Only at launch…and in a short moment before impact does the missile (projectile) become visible to radar and, with a lot of luck, can be attacked.
From this perspective, it doesn’t matter whether the flight path was 3500 km, 7000 km or just 90 km.
Whether and how far are satellites able to track hypersonics?
It is certain…that Hazelnut, although announced, was NOT discovered by NATO radars and NATO satellites; the projectile was only recorded when it became active in the stratosphere. That’s the grapevine from NATO headquarters in Brussels…that the frightening thing for NATO was…not having seen IT!

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 13:12 utc | 145

According to the outlet, the German government is embroiled in a heated debate over the proposed aid. The package could reportedly include advanced anti-air weapons and artillery, and is seen by Baerbock and Pistorius as critical for Ukraine as it struggles to contain Russian advances on the battlefield.
Note previous finance minister redigned causing the election because funding Ukraine was going to break certain budgets.
plus ADF interviewed by Musk and 150 German analytics people desparately trying to prove this is interference to get ADF banned from the upcoming election maybe because x algorythms may amplify to help them….as in the style of Romania . Civil strife due?
Posted by: Jo | Jan 10 2025 11:16 utc | 139
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Why
Because, for example, the promised air defense system would have to be built first.
Baerbock, Habeck, i.e. the Greens, probably want to quickly conclude contracts on behalf of their mentors..They can no longer DELIVER because their term of office will end on Sunday, February 23, 2025.
Scholz, on the other hand, hopes to at least be back in government after this date through a coalition…and THEN he has to raise the money and THAT through social cuts and would thus be the Phew Man.
But the Bundeswehr doesn’t “have” anything, absolutely nothing anymore…with luck in case of an emergency, ammunition for about 7 days…if everyone hasn’t already run away on the 4th day.

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 13:23 utc | 147

But the Bundeswehr doesn’t “have” anything, absolutely nothing anymore…with luck in case of an emergency, ammunition for about 7 days…if everyone hasn’t already run away on the 4th day.
Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 13:23 utc | 148
It still has too much:
Wie eine aktuelle Antwort der Bundesregierung auf eine Anfrage der Linken im Bundestag zeigt, ist die Bundeswehr mittlerweile mit 54 Soldaten in den Ukraine-Krieg involviert. Demnach sind aktuell 44 deutsche Soldaten im neuen Ukraine-Kommando der NATO aktiv; die in den US-amerikanischen Clay Barracks in Wiesbaden befindliche Einrichtung NSATU (NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine) koordiniert die militärischen Hilfsleistungen für die ukrainischen Streitkräfte.[7] Hinzu kommen zehn deutsche Militärs, die im Rahmen einer sogenannten Voluntary National Contribution Sicherungsaufgaben erledigen. Details dazu sind nicht bekannt. Dem Bundestagsabgeordneten Sören Pellmann (Die Linke) zufolge handelt es sich dabei um ein Programm der NATO, „das militärische Strukturen auf dem Gebiet der Ukraine aufbaut und unterstützt“. Es sei daher unklar, ob die zehn deutschen Soldaten womöglich auf ukrainischem Territorium – und damit mitten im Kriegsgebiet – operierten.[8] Völlig unabhängig davon dringen deutsche Politiker weiterhin darauf, die Bundeswehr müsse im Fall eines Waffenstillstands Truppen zu dessen Sicherung in die Ukraine entsenden. Dies müsse, fordert etwa der CDU-Außen- und Militärpolitiker Roderich Kiesewetter, „zu gegebener Zeit mit robust ausgestatteten Truppen“ geschehen.[9]
— https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9818
Google Translate:
As a recent response from the German government to a question from the Left Party in the Bundestag shows, the Bundeswehr is now involved in the Ukraine war with 54 soldiers. According to this, 44 German soldiers are currently active in NATO’s new Ukraine command; the NSATU (NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine) facility located in the US Clay Barracks in Wiesbaden coordinates military assistance for the Ukrainian armed forces.[7] In addition, there are ten German soldiers who carry out security tasks as part of a so-called Voluntary National Contribution. Details of this are not known. According to Bundestag member Sören Pellmann (The Left Party), this is a NATO program “that builds and supports military structures on Ukrainian territory.” It is therefore unclear whether the ten German soldiers may be operating on Ukrainian territory – and thus in the middle of the war zone.[8] Completely independent of this, German politicians continue to insist that the Bundeswehr must send troops to Ukraine to secure a ceasefire in the event of a ceasefire. This must be done, demands CDU foreign and military politician Roderich Kiesewetter, “in due course with robustly equipped troops.”

Posted by: Martina | Jan 10 2025 13:54 utc | 149

RE: “Russia’s best friend is stupid NATO cretins who don’t seem to even grasp the basics. Nobody is going to get a medal for still holding a field in Kursk on Jan. 20.”
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jan 10 2025 13:16 utc | 147
It’s not about “holding a field” in Kursk.
It’s about fulfilling your duties, fulfilling your word as a sworn in protectorate of your Country.
Which currently Russia has failed to do and there is no sugar coating or making excuses for it.
Some would comment: “Well, this is war, these things are part of war”. Which I agree completely with.
What I believe is rather beyond the “SMO” mantra, and the back and forth, “well Russia is not doing such & such because it’s an SMO”… then, swinging to: “It’s a war…”
These are the results of the “SMO”…in Kursk…
https://tass.com/society/1897365
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9 JAN, 11:34
“Russian Human Rights Commissioner publishes list of 517 people missing in Kursk Region”
HIGHLIGHTS:
“We are concerned over the fate of the Kursk Region residents, whose relatives and close ones have been unable to contact then for a long time. I publish a list of ***517 citizens that have been reported missing to my office,” Moskalkova said on her Telegram channel.
The ombudsman asked everyone who are aware about the fate of these people to call a hotline or submit an online form on her website.”
That’s just the reported numbers. This isn’t Ukraine territory, this is Russia proper sovereign land.
Might as well throw their faces on milk cartons since the Nazi banderites have squatted themselves for 7 months in Russian “fields”.
If the Russian military needs to keep “Kursk” an open pit for Ukraine’s army to run in and die in, they’re more pathetic than I originally thought.
There is zero reason the citizens of Kursk should be putting up with any of the nonsense. And yes, there are people actually living in those “fields”.
I just think how I would feel. If I lived in a fairly large County or province, and the enemy entered all the outlying areas, all the little small villages & towns, destroying, killing, capturing & killing everyone, and seven months later, they are still there. I think it’s obvious why.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 10 2025 14:13 utc | 151

Why is Germany so deeply anti Russian?
Havent they learned anything?

Posted by: vargas | Jan 10 2025 14:19 utc | 153

“Why is Germany so deeply anti Russian?”
I think, like most of us, they believe what they’re told. It takes a long time to grasp that “current opinion” may actually be curated by people who don’t have your interests at heart.
Guardian readers and journalists in the UK and US are discovering this at the moment. When Facebook and Twitter censored all the Hunter Biden laptop stuff, they were blissfully unaware, but then perfectly happy when they found out, it was “disinformation”, wasn’t it? Probably Russian at that.
Now Twitter is Musk Central and Facebook and WaPo are coming to terms with a Trump Presidency, Guardian people are up in arms about it. They didn’t care what FB and Twitter did when they were on their side.
I still find it amazing that Twitter could de-platform a sitting US President.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 10 2025 14:33 utc | 155

Germany might be in a mess, but “a 61% majority of those polled expressed opposition to reviving German-Russian economic relations with the lifting of sanctions against Russia” according to the latest “Deutschlandtrend” survey.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-immigration-and-the-economy-top-the-list-of-concerns/a-71265549
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Jan 10 2025 14:10 utc | 151
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Well, surveys…
It always depends on WHERE and WHEN you ask…the same survey in East Germany, for example, would have shown that 75% were in favor…
And it doesn’t just depend on where and WHEN, but also the time…you won’t find people working on the assembly line or sitting on scaffolding in the office on a construction site, etc. at certain times. Do a survey in Bonn (many, many pensioners) or one in Leipzig or even Dresden…and do it AFTER 5 p.m. and you’ll get different results…
Incidentally, the same rule applies here: “Don’t believe any survey that you haven’t rigged yourself,” just like with statistics…
As for surveys…not even politicians believe them in elections. And a side note from a stock market analyst: “Without Russia’s raw materials, Europe is barely viable, and in NO way competitive.”
The “mob” who still reject it today will also notice this when they are unemployed, pensioners’ pensions are cut, and social services are no longer affordable…ERGO conditions like in the USA and THAT is what is wanted.
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Social capitalism, such as in Germany, is not viable because it is not competitive.
Didn’t Marx and Engels already write that
“Capitalism will devour itself”
What are we seeing at the moment?

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 14:41 utc | 157

RE: “But objectively, it’s been a military disaster for Ukraine. Historians will write about it the way they do about Pearl Harbor for Japan – the beginning of defeat.”
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jan 10 2025 14:37 utc | 157
Perhaps.
I’m all out of Russian “hopium” these days.
And historians will write what they’re told to write.
Just like the Pearl Harbor nonsense

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 10 2025 15:03 utc | 159

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Alex Krainer did an article few weeks ago…the Coming collapse of Britain…partly also due to the loans guarantees to Ukraine add hugely to debt…Ukraine cannot of course pay back.

Posted by: Jo | Jan 10 2025 15:08 utc | 161

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 13:12 utc | 146
The USA uses satellite based wide field IR to detect and track long range ballistic missiles during their boost phase not radar.
So I would be wary of that source.
Also while the plasma shroud is a problem for active radar detection NASA has been using passive systems that receive the RF emissions generated by the plasma to track re-entry for decades. Good chance that rivet joints can do the same.

Posted by: Badjoke | Jan 10 2025 15:17 utc | 163

BRUSSELS, January 10. /TASS/. The EU transferred €3 billion to Ukraine as another tranche of the G7 loan backed by incomes from reinvestment of frozen Russian assets, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on the X social network.
“Today, we deliver €3 billion to Ukraine, the 1st payment of the EU part of the G7 loan,” she wrote.
In turn, the head of European diplomacy Kaja Kallas also specified in X that this loan “will be repaid with the proceeds from Russian frozen assets.” According to her, “this will support Ukraine’s economy and free up Ukrainian money for defense.”
The G7 loan program for Ukraine backed by interests from Russian assets amounts to up to 45 bln euros or up to $50 bln. According to the EU Council Resolution published in the Official Journal of the EU, this loan is allocated for a period of 40 years. This means that the EU countries promised their G7 partners – the US, the UK, Canada and Japan – that over 200 bln euros of Russian sovereign assets blocked in European jurisdictions will not be released under any circumstances for at least four decades.

Posted by: Jo | Jan 10 2025 15:23 utc | 165

Kursk is being squeezed into a very narrow salient. If the UAF is stupid enough to keep feeding resources into it, they’re just going to lose more…
Russia’s best friend is stupid NATO cretins who don’t seem to even grasp the basics. Nobody is going to get a medal for still holding a field in Kursk on Jan. 20.
Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Jan 10 2025 13:16 utc | 147
Same as usual, everything is done for appearances. If they had sold the initial invasion of Kursk as an incursion not intended to be permanent they could pull out now without a loss of face. Done as an incursion it would have been successful in the same way the Doolittle raid on Tokyo was successful. It would have forced a disproportionate response from the other side, and thus, in this case, forced the Russians to expend considerable resources to see to it that it didn’t happen again. Instead Ukraine billed it as a permanent occupation and thus compelled themselves to keep feeding military resources into a losing cause.

Posted by: Jmaas | Jan 10 2025 15:25 utc | 167

Posted by: Jo | Jan 10 2025 15:23 utc | 166
Russia has probably already written off those assets. However, more important than ‘stock’ is ‘flow’.
The EU is eating its own stock, and consequentially the flow will decrease and lead to the collapse of the EU and Eurozone. The stock are foreign reserve assets which are stolen, and the flow is the demand of currency abroad. The demand is collapsing, leaving the Eurozone unable to export more currency out, and consequentially unable to fund its own deficits without direct consequences in inflation from money printing.
So in the bigger picture, US is eating its vassals and their lunch. I can easily see Trump/non-globalists throwing the EU completely under the bus. This is also what is happening in Great Britain.
What do the EU and Great Britain have in common? They sacrificed all prerequisites for domestic supply of food, energy, commodities and goods in favor of the Globalist agenda. Now they don’t have self-sufficiency of anything, and they sacrificed supply from Eurasia, leaving them reliant on the US. Which now had a regime change not favorable for the ex-globalist regimes in Europe.
The perfect storm.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 10 2025 15:30 utc | 169

If they loaned out pounds then it can cause devaluation to some extent but not hyperinflation. If they loaned out dollars then sex tourists are going to have a replacement for Kiev as a cool weather destination.
Posted by: Badjoke | Jan 10 2025 15:25 utc | 167
I mentioned no hyperinflation.
The main risk, as we saw in the states, are banks heavy on treasuries (in this case gilts) that have to revalue their assets, take the losses, and are suddenly under the minimum capital ratios. Looking at you Sillicon Valley Bank.
Should they owe money to other banks, likely, a domino effect might cripple the uk banks.
And that boys, is how you can get a financial crisis. Though in the us they were able to contain it early just after the run on the SVB.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 15:36 utc | 171

Posted by: Badjoke | Jan 10 2025 15:17 utc | 164
My understanding is that the hypersonics are not detectable because, unlike ballistic missiles, they travel below radar detection.
I haven’t read before that the plasma field absorbs the radar signal. I do vaguely remember that it interferes with communication signals & that overcoming that was a major part of successful development of manueverability.

Posted by: Mary | Jan 10 2025 15:44 utc | 173

Sunny Runny Burger@116….a logical and very plausible tale….
With that in mind, perhaps the level of destruction, the level of environmental damage, is so great down there, both sides prefer not to disclose it.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 10 2025 15:46 utc | 175

“Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 13:12 utc | 146 Russian hypersonic missiles cannot be seen by radar” “That’s the grapevine from NATO headquarters in Brussels”
NASA has been following reentry vehicles for decades, by I guess, magic? SpaceX rockets send live video on down ascent and during reentry…. So signals can penetrate the ‘plasma’.
As to your grapevine comment, Russia announced that, while they are not bound by treaty, they still told the US ahead of time that they were going to launch the missile.
Given that early on in a launch they are tracked by infrared, why wouldn’t the launch have been seen? They even had advance notice it was coming.

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 16:09 utc | 177

Given that early on in a launch they are tracked by infrared, why wouldn’t the launch have been seen? They even had advance notice it was coming.
Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 16:09 utc | 178
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Correct
They knew about 30 minutes in advance that something was coming.
Where did the report come from in the first few hours that Russia HAD launched a ballistic missile…HAD!
The fact that it wasn’t one only came in reports much later.
Brussels NATO had been waiting for the announced event, waiting in anticipation of a ballistic missile…!
After almost 27 minutes had already written the whole thing off as a fake…then registered the impact without knowing what trajectory the missile had taken…only afterwards could the launch point be determined on suspicion.

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 16:16 utc | 179

Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 15:32 utc | 171 “The “few” satellites, a few in “” can be prevented, destroyed, etc.”
Once there were “a few”. But in the last few years the US has launched many dozens of satellites to track this stuff. The latest NROL-153 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Jan. 9, 2025. That is yesterday. This was the 7th batch of these satellites. The prior launch in December bought the number of NROL satellites launched in the last 2 years to well over 100. As a guess each launch puts up somewhere between 15 and 18 of these satellites.
Also the ones in very high orbit (SBIRS-High) are generally going to be pretty hard to reach.

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 16:22 utc | 181

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 10 2025 16:26 utc | 183 “This is one of the main reason why there’s widespread poverty in the West”
And the cause of poverty in Russia is?

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 16:28 utc | 183

Posted by: Milites | Jan 9 2025 21:21 utc | 46
Yes. Well past time.

Posted by: English Outsider | Jan 10 2025 16:35 utc | 185

Once there were “a few”. But in the last few years the US has launched many dozens of satellites to track this stuff. The latest NROL-153 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Jan. 9, 2025. That is yesterday. This was the 7th batch of these satellites. The prior launch in December bought the number of NROL satellites launched in the last 2 years to well over 100. As a guess each launch puts up somewhere between 15 and 18 of these satellites.
Also the ones in very high orbit (SBIRS-High) are generally going to be pretty hard to reach.
Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 16:22 utc | 182
Wont disagree, maybe LEO can be hit by S500 and a little help from our friend Kessler could bring a low duration cleaning of those assets (the civilian ones would be added bonus, I’d bet they are all, or almost all, dual usage).
But for Molnyia orbits you’d need added booster stages (and GSO is a whole different thing and maybe the chinese have something but I think the russians don’t)

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 16:42 utc | 187

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 16:42 utc | 188 “Wont disagree, maybe LEO can be hit by S500”
Likely.

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 16:44 utc | 189

And the cause of poverty in Russia is?
Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 16:28 utc | 184
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Now I’ve had enough of your mostly unqualified, stupid comments.
What do you know about Russia, WHEN were you there yourself?
Or have you had too many bad dreams and are confusing Russia with the situation in the USA, Canada, France, Italy, etc.
In Yeltsin’s time, the Russians were in a terrible situation…this criminal sold everything for a bottle of Conac.
That’s why the West praised him to the skies…Gorbachev was NOT able to combat the corruption in the country…he was too humane instead of shooting people.
Putin brought about the change with great effort…
What YOU as a Westerner will NOT find in Russia is everything from cigarette butts to NOgo Arenas in Russia…you will no longer find potholes on the streets…etc.
What you will find are families who, with 3 or more children, no longer have to pay back a loan for their apartment.
You will find kindergartens and schools with full board for under 100,000 rubles a month, around 100 euros.
In Russia, pensions have risen by around 55% in the last 24 months.
In Russia, the proportion of owner-occupied apartments is over 75%.
In Russia, a liter of premium gasoline currently costs 0.67 euros.
The kilowatt hour is around 9 to 14 euro cents.
How much do you pay for rent and energy?
My friend, a bricklayer by profession, now earns around 400,820 rubles, which is around 4,000 euros…ergo, where are the costs of living in Russia…where are they in your home country…
So don’t write such nonsense…if you know NOTHING…
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Posted by: ossi | Jan 10 2025 16:48 utc | 191

And the cause of poverty in Russia is?
Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 10 2025 16:28 utc | 184
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Let’s just say that multigenerational mismanagement, culminating in Western predation, requires s multigenerational fix.
Short answer: Ask Jeffrey Sachs. 😉

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 10 2025 17:05 utc | 193

The meat grinder keeps going along at about 60,000+ Ukie casualties a month (somewhat less than the 90,000 a month in the Autumn), and the latest Kursk “offensive” pissed away another chunk of armoured vehicles. Seems the Ukrainians got some more tanks to be quickly destroyed by the Russian Army.
Ukrainian losses for the week January 4th to 10th, as reported by the Russian defence ministry:
– Kursk & Kharkiv fronts: 2,835 troops, 30 tanks, 122 LAV/HMV, 117 motor vehicles, 30 artillery pieces.
– Zapad Group (Luhansk area): 3,530 troops, 1 tank, 1 IFV, 8 APC, 19 LAV/HMV, 52 motor vehicles, 46 artillery pieces, 10 EW systems.
– Yug Group (Donetsk north): 1,715 troops, 3 tanks, 2 APCs, 10 LAV/HMV, 17 motor vehicles, 20 artillery pieces.
– Tsetr Group (Donetsk south): 3,485 troops, 11 tanks, 10 APC, 30 LAV/ HMV, 41 motor vehicles, 34 artillery pieces.
– Vostok Group (southern front): 1,120 troops, 1 tanks, 6 LAV/HMV, 30 motor vehicles, 26 artillery piece.
– Dnepr Group: 685 troops, 1 APC, 1 LAV/HMV, 44 motor vehicles, 11 artillery pieces.
In total: 13,370 troops – still a lowish number driven by low losses in Donetsk North (60,905 per month, with undercounting probably 65,000 plus). Plus 91 surrenders. Less than the 90,000 a month losses during the Autumn.
46 tanks (30 in Kursk/Kharkov), 1 IFV, 20 APC, 188 HMV/Light Armoured Vehicle (122 in Kursk/Khakrov), 301 motor vehicles. Kursk still a graveyard for Ukrainian armoured vehicles, the latest attack throwing away 30 tanks.
167 artillery pieces (30 in Kursk/Kharkov). Still at a rate of 724/mth, way beyond the West’s ability to replace. Plus 10 EW systems.
Total losses so far for the Ukrainians in the Kursk front have been 50,600 troops, 296 tanks, 222 IFV, 161 APC, 1,520 LAV/HMV, 1,441 motor vehicles, 353 artillery pieces, 44 MLRS, 103 EW and counter-battery systems

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 10 2025 17:36 utc | 195

The Western/Ukrainian war machine is only kept running by Russian oil, gasoline and diesel fuel.
The trade with the enemy is killing Russian soldiers and civilians every day.
Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 10 2025 11:16 utc | 138
Yes, but killing far more AFU and bleeding NATO dry… it’s all part of the plan. You’re familiar with the phrase “giving someone enough rope to hang himself”? In this case they’re actually selling it to them.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 10 2025 17:51 utc | 197

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Jan 10 2025 17:57 utc | 199
I agree.
The killing is exorbitant; especially because the West thought it was going to win the war and wanted to get rid of the Russian speakers!

Posted by: Elber | Jan 10 2025 18:06 utc | 199