As documentation and awareness of civilian killings in Kursk spreads, the political value of the Kursk incursion will turn dramatically negative. Some of the Ukrainians surrendering in Kursk may face war crimes trials.

Posted by: HH | Mar 9 2025 14:48 utc | 4

Good update by Weeb Union about what is happening in Kursk, a collapse of the Ukrainian lines and multiple encirclements taking place. Much of the Ukrainian forces will be killed or captured, facilitating a Russian push into the Sumy region. The Ukrainians will have to send more troops to that region to replace the lost troops, weakening the other fronts. Starting to be an utter disaster on a strategic level for the Ukrainians.
Other sources say that the Ukrainians have been ordered to still hold on and defend, which will only mean massive losses and even more troops needlessly sent to their deaths or captivity. Many of the troops are the elite elements, so even better for the Russians. Plays very well into a Russian Spring offensive against a much weakened Ukrainian army.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1xvEsUavKA

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 9 2025 15:02 utc | 6

The US of A cannot be trusted.
Mr. Donald John Trump (DJT) intends to transfer US troops to countries that meet NATO’s defense spending targets and have plans to increase them.
At the moment 35,000 US troops are on their service in Germany.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 9 2025 15:10 utc | 8

ahhh. I forgot, we are managed buy a bunch of corrupt money grubbing losers. oh well then, they have a lot in common

Posted by: abee | Mar 9 2025 15:15 utc | 10

Ukrainian Nationalists Commemorate Nazi Collaborator (& vid)
https://www.rt.com/russia/613897-ukrainian-nationalists-commemorate-nazi-collaborator/
“Roman Shukevich and his forces were implicated in the mass murder of Jews and Poles during WWII. Russia has repeatedly sounded the alarm over the resurgence of Nazi ideology in Ukraine and has listed ‘denazification’ as one of the key goals of its military operation against Kiev.”
Some useful RT docs on the topic:
Operation Ukraine: Bandera’s Dark Shadow
https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/955-operation-ukraine-banderas-dark-shadow
Operation Ukraine: America’s Fingerprints
https://en.rt.rtdoc.tv/films/1270-operation-ukraine-americas-fingerprints
From Berlin to Maidan
https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/1070-from-berlin-to-maidan
Inventing Ukraine
https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/1221-inventing-ukraine
Divide and Conquer
https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/1389-divide-and-conquer
Hybrid Warfare
https://en.rtdoc.tv/episodes/663-hybrid-warfare

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 9 2025 15:16 utc | 12

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 9 2025 15:04 utc | 7
“I was going to surrender. I don’t want to shoot anybody.”
“How do feel now?”
“Good relations. Human relations…”

Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 15:27 utc | 14

Ukraine Weekly Update, 7th March 2025: May be useful to some: https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-weekly-update-292

Posted by: The Busker | Mar 9 2025 15:32 utc | 16

Russia was almost down, the sanctions were working
Posted by: abee | Mar 9 2025 15:13 utc | 9
.
Which clinic did you come from?
Or just desperate and stupid.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 9 2025 15:39 utc | 18

hat I don’t understand correctly:
“The Ukrainian armed forces attacked a market in the Kherson region with two HIMARS missiles. There are casualties, said Governor Saldo.”
.
I thought the USA banned satellite data from being passed on to Ukraine?
So how did these HIMARS missiles hit their target??

Posted by: berthold | Mar 9 2025 15:53 utc | 20

HH@4….Russians holding War Crimes trails for the poor wee bastards at the front…..much wrist slapping expected? Maybe a tickle trunk full of fluffy feathers to torture Tiny Dancer’s feet….he’s been so naughty of late…..good job Trump pulled the US’s ISR…..or the SlogMow would be like The Song That Never Ends…..
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Mar 9 2025 16:00 utc | 22

Sat data for strikes into Russia. I assume that the US is still supplying data for inside Ukraine.
Posted by: TundraTide | Mar 9 2025 15:57 utc | 21
The first HIMARS attacks in a while…
Just tells me one thing “Don’t trust any American”
And I’m sure Putin and about 90% of Russians see it that way too…
Although:
The reason for the renewed recording of the attack data could be…
“Ukraine is losing” and is losing too quickly for Trump’s liking.
because he doesn’t have one thing…time.
Woe to Ukraine if it collapses faster than he can seal a deal.
Explains why Trump is delivering again, and WE will never know whether US weapons are arriving or being delivered again, only notice them later.
And Trump alone is interested in Ukraine not collapsing too quickly, AND not completely collapsing or even capitulating.
They are allowed to do ANYTHING…just one thing NOT capitulating, then all investments and all deals would be lost!
That would explain it!!

Posted by: berthold | Mar 9 2025 16:08 utc | 24

“I was going to surrender. I don’t want to shoot anybody.”
“How do feel now?”
“Good relations. Human relations…”
Posted by: Mary | Mar 9 2025 15:27 utc | 14
______
Let me guess — he also claimed to have been a cook?
Like countless other Ukroid POWs…

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 9 2025 16:35 utc | 26

forgot the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B6HRRByeIY

Posted by: HB_Norica | Mar 9 2025 16:43 utc | 28

Musk Calls For Sanctions On Ukrainian Oligarchs
https://www.rt.com/news/613929-musk-ukraine-oligarchs-conflict/
“Elon Musk has suggested that sanctioning Ukraine’s top ten oligarchs could bring about a swift resolution of the conflict with Russia…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 9 2025 16:52 utc | 30

Others here have stated, “rearming” Europe in a tactical way makes no sense when Europe already has the makings of a nuclear umbrella with France and UK. If RF can be a nuclear superpower, for purposes of deterrence, then what’s good for the gander is good for the goose, so to say. I.e. EU should expand and extend its limited preexisting nuclear deterrence to something approaching strategic parity or efficacy vis a vis RF, thereby making of itself a fourth independent nuclear defended pole. However, I suspect the US would oppose this, which is precisely what Ukraine was about, i.e. extending a US-controlled nuclear “deterrence” to the RF’s borders. However an autonomous EU nuclear deterrence need not, indeed should not do the same: expansion of the capabilities of UK, France, and perhaps Italy, but not including Germany should be enough. The problem of course (though I don’t think it intractable) is what transnational EU entity will have monitoring oversight for the arsenal? Evidently a new one would have to be created.
Yet even if just the French and UK nuclear arsenals were expanded and made more efficient that should be enough of a deterrence against RF, considering that if RF would ever dare to launch a nuclear attack against either or both of the aforesaid, the US would likely respond as well against RF, although perhaps not with a “full” nuclear strike at first. So, in short, modernizing/expanding the nuclear deterrence capabilities of France and UK respectively should be enough to deter a RF invasion of the rest of the EU, especially considering that the US would not remain neutral.

Posted by: Ludovic | Mar 9 2025 17:01 utc | 32

Without Starlink, Ukraine would have lost the war long ago and Russian troops would be on Poland’s borders, said Marco Rubio.
The Secretary of State added that the United States would not disconnect Ukraine from Starlink: “Say thank you.”
My comment:
Anyone who does NOT switch off Starlink but is allegedly putting pressure on Sylenski, wants to do so?
They are not being honest…they want a rest of Ukraine and only because of the investments.
Anyone who supposedly wants to save people’s lives switches it off and that’s the end of it.
Anything else is hypocritical!

Posted by: berthold | Mar 9 2025 17:02 utc | 34

@ Mary | Mar 9 2025 14:45 utc | 3
. . .doing the pipeline thing. . .
Yuri Podolyaka, a Ukrainian-born, pro-Russian military blogger, said Russian special forces crept nearly 16 km (10 miles) along the inside of the 1.5 metre wide gas pipeline and spent several days in the pipe before surprising Ukrainian forces from the rear near Sudzha. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 9 2025 17:16 utc | 36

A Polish family friend captured by the Germans and then moved from the Polish army to the Wermacht made it all the way to Stalingrad. He was one of the last out.
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His comment ‘but I was only a barber. Why was I in Stalingrad?’.

Posted by: Merkin Scot | Mar 9 2025 17:24 utc | 38

The thorny problem … will be uniting the working classes … the capitalist ruling class
Posted by: fnord | Mar 9 2025 17:18 utc | 37
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This problem is made considerably simpler by post Plaza Accords fiat monetary system, the collapse of credit, and the arrival of new alternatives.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 9 2025 17:27 utc | 40

@berthold | Mar 9 2025 17:02 utc | 34
It’s just marketing. After all nato crap failed completely they’ve realized that imaginary stuff always wins imaginary battles. So Elon is advertising it as much as possible while smo still exists. “It’s the best, Jerry, the best!!!”
I’m sure Starlink is useful, especially for terrorists and placed on drones, but in war or even little smos like this, is highly overrated. And used by RF as well, Elon can’t tell which stations belong to them, he only knows the location. Ukr ground stations are great to direct strikes there. Even though China claims to be able to destroy Starlinks on their sky, they may choose not to simply because they will place, or have already placed more of their own satellites over America.
And a fun note: Elon was revealed again as liar. He claimed he’s a top gamer, best on the planet, then posted videos of him playing. However, he played badly, like a beginner, and to reach that level with his style of playing woukd take hundreds of hours anyway. The boy who wanted to make vacuum trains is an actor, exactly like his friend Zeli or Theranos, also supported by the same gang, until she wasn’t

Posted by: rk | Mar 9 2025 17:36 utc | 42

Pepe Escobar posted the following at his Telegram:
Forwarded from Lord Of War (Not a Serb)
Three years of war and the Russian economy…
Today, data on the preliminary parameters of the Russian Federation budget execution for 2024 was released. And I was pleasantly surprised that we not only fit into the 3.3 trillion rubles deficit included in it, but even received a much smaller one.
Moreover, of the three war years, this is our most successful financial year:
Russian Budget 2022 Deficit 2.1% of GDP (3.29 trillion rubles)
Russian Budget 2023 Deficit 1.9% of GDP (3.2 trillion rubles)
Russian Budget 2024 Deficit 1.7% of GDP (2.95 trillion rubles)
Agree to wage a major war and at the same time constantly reduce the size of the budget deficit, this says something.
And this shows that the collective West has already admitted that sanctions against Russia, although they cause damage, are not at all what they expected.
At the same time, during the three years of war, the country’s international reserves have not decreased:
Russia’s international reserves at the beginning of the Second World War were $630 billion, and now they are $632 billion.
And the debts have not grown much. And the external debt has even decreased:
External public debt at the beginning of the Second World War – $59.5 billion
Domestic public debt at the beginning of the Second World War – 16.5 trillion rubles
External public debt now – $52.1 billion
Domestic public debt now – 23.45 trillion rubles
That is, the war was completely financed by the country’s internal resources, in the context of its more than stable growth.
These are the interesting conclusions we get after summing up the impact of three years of war on the Russian economy.
/////////
I must agree with the conclusion. The economic balancing act performed by Russia’s government is profound. The above data, however, will be ignored by the West.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2025 17:44 utc | 44

Yet even if just the French and UK nuclear arsenals were expanded and made more efficient that should be enough of a deterrence against RF, considering that if RF would ever dare to launch a nuclear attack against either or both of the aforesaid, the US would likely respond as well against RF, although perhaps not with a “full” nuclear strike at first. So, in short, modernizing/expanding the nuclear deterrence capabilities of France and UK respectively should be enough to deter a RF invasion of the rest of the EU, especially considering that the US would not remain neutral.
Posted by: Ludovic | Mar 9 2025 17:01 utc | 32
Peter Drucker used to say:
“There’s nothing so pointless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
… Or something to that effect.
The Russians are never going to invade Europe.
They never have.
Deterring against something that will never happen is simply inviting calamity against oneself.
Weapons have demonic power. If you don’t use them they will eventually use you …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 9 2025 18:02 utc | 46

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 9 2025 17:40 utc | 43
People are convinced history goes in one direction, until one day it doesn’t.
Lithuania (pop. 2,897,430) has withdrawn from the cluster munition convention.

Posted by: Passerby | Mar 9 2025 18:06 utc | 48

Posted by: Passerby | Mar 9 2025 18:06 utc | 48
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 9 2025 18:08 utc | 49
if i may say something that may sound a little conspiratory, but… lithuania also has a russian population.
so i wouldnt be surprised if this is just another genocidal ploy from the “values” west to further kill of russians of any kind. they definetly do not care if said russian is in russia proper, the ukraine, or eventually in lithuania. as long as they can drag them into the meatgrinder, the french, british and germans, in true nazi fashion, are fine with it.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Mar 9 2025 18:19 utc | 50

#51
Airbus makes serviceable ballistic missiles, it’s rocket science, but not hard rocket science. Cruise missiles too.

Posted by: BillB | Mar 9 2025 18:29 utc | 52

Yet even if just the French and UK nuclear arsenals were expanded and made more efficient that should be enough of a deterrence against RF, considering that if RF would ever dare to launch a nuclear attack against either or both of the aforesaid, the US would likely respond as well against RF, although perhaps not with a “full” nuclear strike at first. So, in short, modernizing/expanding the nuclear deterrence capabilities of France and UK respectively should be enough to deter a RF invasion of the rest of the EU, especially considering that the US would not remain neutral.
Posted by: Ludovic | Mar 9 2025 17:01 utc | 32
Final question on this.
How will the Western Europeans react if the Russians do NOT use nuclear weapons but ones like the Hazelnut…which can cause similar destruction..
I will specify the question…how, as mentioned above, will the USA react to weapons that are NOT nuclear but 100% destructive?
Ergo…it’s all theory that comes to the same conclusion: “You can’t defeat a nuclear power, a nuclear power does not capitulate or only does so when it has pressed the last button.
And sorry.
I see the more sensible statesmen at the moment who are not “pressing” in Russia and China…
The crazy ones, because they are about to lose everything, are more likely to be in the West…

Posted by: berthold | Mar 9 2025 18:31 utc | 54

What launch platform options are there for a European nuclear deterrent?
– From the air? With the… er… F-35?
– Launched from a submarine? Are there the necessary welders?
– Launched from a mobile ground? Can they be hidden from Kinzhals and Oreshniks?
– Are there the necessary energy and raw material resources? Are there the necessary design and development resources?
And all of this has to be funded, including the all-important quarterly bonuses for the senior executives…
Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | 9. März 2025 18:24 UTC | 51
You forgot a few things.
1 ) Is there a dividend (meaning is there a profit)
which is probably the main problem in capitalism…
2) Where do we get the raw materials for construction (from future enemy Russia?)
3) Who has skilled workers?
4) Who has experience with development
Take the developers who developed Abrahams or Leos, PHZ 2000 or the F35 and good luck with that.
And last but not least, who has the soldiers for that…in Germany, for example, “patriot” is the same as Nazi…there is no longer any national pride.

Posted by: Ost Rentner | Mar 9 2025 18:42 utc | 56

Posted by: Ludovic | Mar 9 2025 17:01 utc | 32
Italy has no nuclear capabilities other than the american B61s which would be loaded on italian bombers in wartime.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 9 2025 18:24 utc | 51
Well, no one is going to give VdL nukes but in technical terms both France and Britan can build SSBNs, albeit the latter relies on american SLBMs.

Posted by: Satepestage | Mar 9 2025 18:50 utc | 58

Posted by: Ludovic | Mar 9 2025 17:01 utc | 32
Ludicrous and completely stupid. Russia will never attack France or UK or any other ee country, unless they attack first. You are only relying western propaganda and lies.
And as the leaders of the ee countries are cowards, they will never dare to attack Russia.
ee = european empire.

Posted by: Naive | Mar 9 2025 19:27 utc | 60

Nuclear gravity bombs seem to me to be hopelessly outdated now. Russia newest Iskander doubled its range to 1000 km a clear result of Trumps exiting the INF. Maybe he is a Russian agent because exiting it only allowed Russian development of weapons while NATO has no significant counterparts. If there is a competitor to Russian missile technology its China and its not close. The Russian missiles will penetrate defenses just as we see in Ukraine. What good are nuclear weapon systems without peer delivery systems? All based on a belief that only this power of destruction allows legitimacy. EU cant face the truth that they have nothing Russia wants. I dont think Russia would take the EU if it was gifted to them. Raather than accept their status the EU finds it easier to pretend they are in a existential conflict. It distracts from the fact that they are bankrupt with only their neoliberal beliefs to sustain them. Strokin B-61 s does not feed families.

Posted by: Nipins | Mar 9 2025 19:40 utc | 62

Posted by: Nipins | Mar 9 2025 19:40 utc | 62
I believe the biggest factor in Trump leaving the INF was that China was not included in the pact giving China no constraints.(1)
1. “The Trump administration claimed another reason for the withdrawal was to counter a Chinese arms buildup in the Pacific, including within the South China Sea, as China was not a signatory to the treaty. The US formally suspended the treaty on 1 February 2019,[14] and Russia did so on the following day in response. The United States formally withdrew from the treaty on 2 August 2019. 92)
2. Wiki

Posted by: canuck | Mar 9 2025 19:46 utc | 64

And what of those European nations that have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty? Are they going to abrogate that agreement, then wring their hands when other nations around the world follow their example?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 9 2025 17:40 utc | 43
Good point.
What you have mentioned wasn’t even contemplated in the emotional hysteria response to Trump’s direction changes.
There hasn’t been too much contingency planning I’d guess.
Agreement incapable comes to mind.

Posted by: jpc | Mar 9 2025 19:59 utc | 66

Ukrainian resistance in Kursk was compromised by the need to vacate russian territory to start negotiations as demanded by Trump. Putin stuck by his demand that no negotiations while “old” russian territory was occupied. Ukrainian military potential was transferred to toretsk and povrosk which undergoing Ukrainian counter offensive which have had partial success. I urge everyone to put their reality glasses and on avoid premature celebration. Europe’s surge to ukraine will start soon possibly with boots on the ground. This Will mean russian has attrited the Ukrainians successfully and is starting on europes willingness to bleed to hold the line. It’s very unlikely they’ll volunteer to the last European although the death toll that’s too high is yet to be determined.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 9 2025 20:05 utc | 68

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2025 17:44 utc | 44
The economic balancing act performed by Russia’s government is profound.

Well, there is also the fact that Russia’s government is reaping the benefits of presiding over a young and vigorous capitalist system.
The West picked the wrong time to fight the Russians. Or they were caught by surprise and reacted late.
Russia is like South Korea, Japan and China when they started to prosper.
I guess it’s really hard to stop the growth of a young and vigorous capitalist economy with a sovereign currency and large populations.
With the exception of Japan of course.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Mar 9 2025 20:19 utc | 70

“1. “The Trump administration claimed another reason for the withdrawal was to counter a Chinese arms buildup in the Pacific, including within the South China Sea, as China was not a signatory to the treaty. The US formally suspended the treaty on 1 February 2019,[14] and Russia did so on the following day in response. The United States formally withdrew from the treaty on 2 August 2019. 92)”
Regardless. Exiting the INF was a huge mistake. I dont hold it against Trump. It is a example of how certain beliefs lead to untenable positions. Outsourcing production and manufacturing is inevitable to nations that issue rserve currencys as the currency takes value as a financial instrument. Basically it is credit and using credit has a fee. Extrapolate this and you have carrier groups sailing through the Taiwan strait. Untenable. Would the Chiese be building out their military and nuclear capacity without carrier groups and subs in the south China sea? Will Taiwan be destroyed like Ukraine?
The realities of the world as it is need to be accepted. Common sense negotiations from a perspective of equality and respect for sovereign nations needs to occur. Brinksmanship and force projection are untenable positions and will only become increasingly untenable. The focus nneds to be a growing understanding that diplomacy and agreements are the only alternative to untenable positions.
The inf treaty was a product of hundreds of individuals hammering out a agreement. If it was so bad it could not be tolerated than a renegotiation should have been instituted. That respects diplomacy. if China needed to be included then they should have been included in the renegotiation. That would hve respected diplomacy. Trump just tossed INF. That is not progress. It resulted in Russia being much better armed with WMDs to boot. Untenable position.
At the root of this is the idea that nuclear armed carrier groups get to sail up to everyones doorstep but no such thing may approach the USA. No one really wantss to approach the USA. No one wants to threatan the USA. We are just like Europe. We indulge in this threat creation because it alows force projection. Everyone realizes force projection is untenable. You dont exit from a untenable position so primary overnight but that doesn’t mean you don’t try.
To a extent force projection is based on a reality that force creates order. That reality is now dwarfed by the reality that force projection as we know it is untenable. only diplomacy and agreements can create order now.

Posted by: Nipins | Mar 9 2025 20:26 utc | 72

“1. “The Trump administration claimed another reason for the withdrawal was to counter a Chinese arms buildup in the Pacific, including within the South China Sea, as China was not a signatory to the treaty. The US formally suspended the treaty on 1 February 2019,[14] and Russia did so on the following day in response. The United States formally withdrew from the treaty on 2 August 2019. 92)”
Canuk
“Regardless. Exiting the INF was a huge mistake.”
Posted by: Nipins | Mar 9 2025 20:26 utc | 72
I vehemently disagree.
Trump, obviously, considers China as the top US foe and tying the US’s hands with Russia with the INF while China can progress with the tech makes no sense.
When you get a chance study the Thucydides trap-ie Athens and Sparta battle each other while Macedonia builds.
How did that work out for Athens and Sparta?
Our issue-same idea, different context.

Posted by: canuck | Mar 9 2025 20:49 utc | 74

Passerby | Mar 9 2025 20:08 utc | 69
“Lumbumbashi, Congo, has more people than Lithuania, and gives us less problems.”
It was always a bad idea to give the Baltic statelets sovereign statehood. They’ve long since proven themselves to be Westphalia-incapable, and their only purpose for existing has always been as a geopolitical dagger Europe aims at Russia. As big a pain as it would be, and as little as anyone in Russia would want to do it, it’ll probably be necessary for Russia to put an end to this Baltic farce (just like they’re finally having to put an end to the “Ukraine” experiment). Stalin was right about that strategic necessity.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 9 2025 20:59 utc | 76

Posted by: canuck | Mar 9 2025 20:49 utc | 74
Gotta say I agree with @Nipins, if China being outside the INF was perceived as being problematic then re-open the negotiations, broaden the scope of the treaty, bring in more nations such as China, even India and Pakistan (heck, even include Iran).
Very short-sighted to throw out, not just the baby with the bath water, but the entire bathroom. It smacks of the impatience that seems to bedevil US foreign policy, regardless of who the current White House tenant is; “We need a quick result, it doesn’t matter if it’s actually a win, we can spin as a win, but whatever, we need it quickly, we need it now.”

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 9 2025 21:10 utc | 78

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 9 2025 20:05 utc | 68
“Europe’s surge to ukraine will start soon possibly with boots on the ground.”
Only if they are suicidal. The US has said they will not support such a force in ANY way. Russia has said very clearly that non-UN forces in 404 will be classed as combatants and immediately destroyed. It should take about ten minutes.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 9 2025 21:16 utc | 80

@Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 9 2025 21:17 utc | 81
Yeah right, Konstyantynopil (west of Ulakly) fell completing the closure of the Dachne pocket in the south. And over 2,000 Ukrainian casualties.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 9 2025 21:33 utc | 82

All bets go to submarines then.
Posted by: Nipins | Mar 9 2025 21:15 utc | 79

Orbital delivery systems will become pretty cheap and very effective with sinking cost of tonnage to orbit (think Starship). They can be used with inert rods for precision targeting and kinetic effect, too.
Musk mentioned somewhere (I read it on wiki) that single Starship launches might eventually cost SpaceX as little as one million dollar. That’s 200 tonnes to orbit, and even if this figure remains optimistic, it goes to show that fleets of bomber aircraft are readily outpriced, in addition to outgunned (though I have no number to give from the top of my head).

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 9 2025 21:42 utc | 84

“broaden the scope of the treaty, bring in more nations such as China, even India and Pakistan (heck, even include Iran).”
Indias nuclear buildout exceeds AUKUS. This is directed at China Pakistan is not a real player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPaU2l7RktM

Posted by: Nipins | Mar 9 2025 21:43 utc | 86

This is directed at China Pakistan is not a real player.
Posted by: Nipins | Mar 9 2025 21:43 utc | 86
doubt. Pakistan and India have a thousand times the bad blood china and india do.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 22:02 utc | 88

@ UWDude, §89:
India´s quarrel with Pakistan is over the jihadist attitude of Pakistan.
China has a similar problem in Xinjiang: jihadis encouraged by the West.
So you´re right: India & China have a common enemy: furious jihadism.

Posted by: John Marks | Mar 9 2025 22:36 utc | 90

AHVAAZ, a pop-up quango of the CIA, has stopped Rumania´s Calin Georgescu from his presidential candidacy.
As a right-winger likely to win, Ursula fon d´a Lyin´s Fourth Reich has pulled out all the stops and an AHVAAZ rent-a-mob is tearing up Bucharest. This is the Fourth Reich falling apart.
Georgescu would take Rumania out of NATO . . .

Posted by: John Marks | Mar 9 2025 22:40 utc | 92

Let’s ask this question: what did the US gain by abandoning the INF?
Turning Carrier Battle Groups (or foreign bases) from assets into vulnerabilities doesn’t seem to be a wise move…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 9 2025 22:46 utc | 94

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 9 2025 20:05 utc | 68
Ukrainian resistance in Kursk was compromised by the need to vacate russian territory to start negotiations as demanded by Trump.
LOL! Fake news. Trump did not demand that.
Ukrainian military potential was transferred to toretsk and povrosk which undergoing Ukrainian counter offensive which have had partial success.
And another fake news.
Europe’s surge to ukraine will start soon possibly with boots on the ground.
LOL! There are already “boots on the Ukrainian ground”. Even one French general was killed while coming to close to the front line. And many others were killed on duty. But guess what? All such casualties are hidden from the public. The families are paid to keep quiet. More boots, that is officially, would mean that the casualties would be no more a State secret.
I would enjoy seeing those “boots on the ground”. Alas the western leaders are cowards and the will not dare to send troops to fight against Russia. The consequences would be too huge for them.

Posted by: Naive | Mar 9 2025 22:50 utc | 96

Romania
Is enjoying its very own Euromaiden style public festivities.
Complete with police shooting protesters…
(Ironic that the Romanian flag is yellow-blue (and red).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NPrcCwAPNo

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 9 2025 22:55 utc | 98

We dont need no stinking USA intel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeE3sMveTrY

Posted by: Npin | Mar 9 2025 23:17 utc | 100