Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 9 2025 23:29 utc | 103
Russia would wipe out Europe in days.
It first would obliterate the first timstand forward. That how you dismantle a mob. I’ve done it in my life more than once, went straight for the leader without hesitation.
Europe, in their little daydreams, think Putin would fight a soft war against them like he is Ukraine.
in their little daydreams.
Note, he just said in an address to Croatia, “we dont want Europe”. He wants Ukraine, therefore, he is not breaking it. He doesn’t want or need Europe, he’ll smash it to sparkling bits if he sees fit.
The whole drone war phenomenon in this particular war, and the pace, in no way means thats how a war between Russia and the EU would look.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 9 2025 23:38 utc | 103

As for the Europeans, maybe a last minute wakeup call will enable them to regroup, marshal their potential, and manage, for the first time in modern history, to act as one — as the inheritor of the once powerful Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. But maybe not. With such traitors as Hungary, always a mercenary nation since the Khazarian times, in the service of whoever pays them more, it is a tall order. The Hungarians were betting on the defeat of the Khazars by the Slavs in the 800s and abandoned their masters in the steppes of Asia. Having become the new Apostolic mercenaries for the Catholic Church, they established their own feudal fiefdom in Panonia. Now, they lick the asses of Russia and China.
But no matter the long term outcome of the Russian threat looming over Europe, the Old Continent has a duty to re-arm itself and consolidate itself on an equal footing with the new contenders on the geopolitical world map. And even if Europe decides to enter into a consortium of sorts with Russia in the long term, it should do it from a solid position as it represents the legacy of humanity’s explosive rise from destitution to the Industrial Age and then the AI Age.
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/03/09/europe-at-cross-roads

Posted by: LongTimeObserver | Mar 9 2025 23:39 utc | 105

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 9 2025 23:29 utc | 103
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The EU militaries march on paper, have zero experience, limited equipment and are reliant on the USA for critical needs.
That’s *before* you factor in the brittle, largely illegitimate & incompetent governments, low social morale and stagnant economies.
If they could do f*ck all, they would have in 2022.

Posted by: Urban Fox | Mar 9 2025 23:41 utc | 107

“The whole drone war phenomenon in this particular war, and the pace, in no way means thats how a war between Russia and the EU would look.
Posted by: UWDude |’
I think your spot on here. I dont think its going to happen. Brussels just has a hard time accepting. Kursk might be the end. Mass surrenders. AFU is tough. Troops can only take so much then they break. AFU has not had proper rotations. There are limits.
AFU knows USA is out. Many of them not fond of z. I say collapse is ahead.
If Europe wants a piece they will get more than they wanted. If one nuke gets used it over. For all of us. I dont think Trump will be able to stay out.

Posted by: Npin | Mar 9 2025 23:56 utc | 109

The only country that Russia would have a hard time ,”throwing against the wall” IMHO, would be Turkey. If Turkey takes the lead, it would be incredibly difficult for Russia, and the world, to stop full scale, nuclear WW 3.
So, if you see that vector get hotter, (Turkey has said it might send troops), like Bosporus closed, then you might want to start digging a shelter and learning survival.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 0:22 utc | 111

Posted by: E | Mar 10 2025 0:37 utc | 114
honestly, i dont want to think tank for them. I was hesitant to even write about Turkey.
But if you know me, you know I analyze everything.
I fear, a bit, the general in Syria was patsied to try his uprising.
Also, Russia should not be too concerned about losing Hmeinem, and perhaps even offer taking in Alawites en masse in exchange for the closing of the base. It’s a new base anyway, and its mission is over. The instability of Syria is too much trouble, and could get Russia involved in messes it does not need or want to be involved with, like is happening right now.
Sometimes, you must know when to retreat.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 0:45 utc | 113

Weeb Union with a succinct update.
The Ukrainian excellent Kursk winter adventure coming to a bloody end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1xvEsUavKA

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 10 2025 0:50 utc | 115

“The only country that Russia would have a hard time ,”throwing against the wall” IMHO, would be Turkey. If Turkey takes the lead, it would be incredibly difficult for Russia, and the world, to stop full scale, nuclear WW 3.
So, if you see that vector get hotter, (Turkey has said it might send troops), like Bosporus closed, then you might want to start digging a shelter and learning survival.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 0:22 utc | 113″
I dont see that. Especially with USA out. Not Erdogons style. He would want all the cards to commit. He flips back and forth dopes not commit fully. Risk it all for a EU that wont even make Turkiye a member? Naw he wont sign to do the heavy lifting. Nor is that a proper ottoman grail search.
Actually for perhaps the first time since 2012 I am optimistic. I think its over. I think Europe finds itself asserts itself now. USA too. It wont be easy. WW3 is humanitys end. Now we find another path. It can only come from respect for other nations and traditions. Not from the fake neoliberal base that is hidden entitlement. Avoiding ww3 is the start. It means is start of understanding that resources can not be controlled with war. WW3 is suicide. No war but business. Trump wants to deal with Russia. Russia is fair minded. Its not much but its something. As the Eu breaks apart some countries will choose to participate. Business. Its why Russia is willing to deal with the USA even after Bidens treachery. They realize this has for the first time the possibility to unfold for a more fair world. Business. You see business is not judgmental. Everyone is a customer nothing more nothing less. You treat a customer good they come back. This is a basis for diplomacy. This is a basis for agreements. This is a basis for starting to end the hate that was fake and created. Trump “putin is just doing what anyone would”. Thats a hell of a start. People understand that Trump was framed. Perhaps they can understand Putin was framed. Regardless ending this senseless war and avoiding ww3 is a a start. Healing can begin. Combatants can pick up the pieces and try to sort things out. People of both nations can live without the dark shadow of war deaths. That would please me.
Too old for a shovel and fury road.

Posted by: Nipins | Mar 10 2025 1:07 utc | 117

The Ukrainians are arrogant and delusional, they are more like Poles than like Russians in that regard.
Loud people with mediocre capabilities. I will never forget how weak and servile Duda was during Trump’s first term visit and speech in Poland.
I don’t closely follow Musk but I do enjoy the drama that he causes.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 1:10 utc | 119

Posted by: Nipins | Mar 10 2025 1:07 utc | 120
I too am, i hate to say it, but “cautiously optimitic”, however…
…hatred burns for a longtime. The DOGE cuts, in my appraisal, are causing a hatred that will burn almost as hit as many who quit or were fired over injections and masks.
Populist power is one of the weakest powers to have, not only is it fickle, but the masses are weak, and easy to divide.
Furthermore, even if peace reigned, and the world joined hands, there would still be people seeking power, and attaining it, believing there is a better world ahead with them in charge. I think Libya proves this. A ton of young men and women in Libya thought life could be better withoyt Ghaddafi, much of it simple youthful rebellion. No system can really tame the spirit of amgry young men, they will always exist, no matter the utopia.
What I am saying is the pendulum always swings.
As for Turkey, yes, somehow getting them to take up the NATO banner and yell “Charge” is *almost* impossible, but Erdogan has no problem doing the dangerous if he sees great advantage in it for him.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 1:19 utc | 121

“Turkey’s economy lives thanks to Russia. The two gas pipeline and the nuclear power stations being constructed are just the easy to see components. Lots of Russians vacation in Turkey, and a very significant percentage of Turkey’s exports go to the Russian market.”
Turkey is a major player in the war and destruction of Syria. Turkey laughed when they shot down and killed the Russian pilots. Turkey sends arms to Ukraine and to Azerbaijan. Turkey has stated that Crimea should be Ukraine.
Russians only fuel the theft and terror of Turkey upon other peoples by supporting its economy.

Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 10 2025 1:26 utc | 123

Russians only fuel the theft and terror of Turkey upon other peoples by supporting its economy.
Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 10 2025 1:26 utc | 126
Russia should blow up its oil pipelines to Turkey, and close off all trade to all nations, and sanction itself to death, anything else would be immoral.
Like trying to blame Russia for Syria is peak inversion.
Syria was a country made for fracture, like all the rest of the post-colonial middle east, and Israel just flooding them with war refugees in 1948 didnt help.
On top of that, we get the leadership of Hafez, and you have the beginning of the story of blame for the downfall of Assad.
Russia? Russia to blame?
Language of fork-tongued demons.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 1:45 utc | 125

How soon do they forget…Napolean and Hitler had their respective ass handed back to them….Starmar and Macron don’t strike me as being the most intelligent ..maybe third time a charm…..

Posted by: Thedriller | Mar 10 2025 1:58 utc | 127

2012 I am optimistic. I think its over. I think Europe finds itself asserts itself now. USA too. It wont be easy.
Trump “putin is just doing what anyone would”. Thats a hell of a start. People understand that Trump was framed. Perhaps they can understand Putin was framed.
Posted by: Nipins | Mar 10 2025 1:07 utc | 120
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That is my outlook, too, but it might take a while. Thee internal dynamics of the US are in Trump’s way, and he, himself, is also full of contradictions.
Trump and Putin understand each other (seeing eye to eye) and both want to stop warfare and preparing for them while needing to boost their economies. As karlof1 has so well documented in his Substack, Russia has control over its destiny and is doing well, in spite of all the troubles caused by the West.
Trump has a tougher job. Half the US is Russophobic as well as Sinophobic. Getting out of NATO alone is a tough sell and none of his foreign policy team nor he himself have a clue as to what Russia wants. Howsomever, they are trying to move in the right direction uttering contradictory pronouncements all along. The Europeans will do their usual thing, trample all over themselves and accomplish nothing. It will be a troublesome sideshow.
In a few years, the Lord willing, if the creek don’t rise (gotta love those Americanisms), the US might shrink its military footprint and budget, shrink its debt in small steps, and get itself better organized. There a lot of long knives out for Trump but he has survived so far. Funny me, I consider the first assassination attempt in PA an omen.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Mar 10 2025 2:07 utc | 129

Post 75. The dickwod Nipins comes out with the delirious screed that the Ukrainians have shown “incredible tenacity and bravery”.
How did the idiot find this blog?
Was it bravery and tenacity when they got their asses whipped in Mariupol? Nobody is starving in Ukraine and their army is supplied with state of the art weapons and technology services by the west, and being in the army for Ukiestan is a pay increase as much as it is a death sentence.
They are getting killed in big numbers and replaced in big numbers. WTF makes you call it ” incredible tenacity and bravery”? It isn’t. Call it brave when they don’t have any weapons, or when they are starving like Stalingrad or Leningrad. Or are getting paid pittance . Or don’t have any other option but to be in battle because the Kiev regime has blocked exiting the country.
Until then STFU

Posted by: Winston | Mar 10 2025 2:10 utc | 131

No one fighting the Russians now will have much luck. Russia is experienced and the global leader in military technology at this time.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 10 2025 2:02 utc | 131
Erdoğan has been playing a balancing act as leader of Türkiye for almost as long as Putin has led Russia. Türkiye is a member of NATO and has NATO/US troops stationed in the country. But it is a close neighbor of Russia with good trade relations. Erdoğan has done his best to avoid annoying both the West and Russia. Türks do not want war on Anatolia.
Syria was part of the Ottoman Empire. Türkiye and Syria is similar to Russia and Ukraine. It would be best if they have good relations. And there are complications with Kurds and with Israeli actions in Syria and their intentions against Iran. I do not envy Erdoğan’s position but am impressed that he has held it together for as long as he has.

Posted by: Samu | Mar 10 2025 2:39 utc | 133

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 1:19 utc | 124
“I too am, i hate to say it, but “cautiously optimitic”, however…
…hatred burns for a longtime. The DOGE cuts, in my appraisal, are causing a hatred that will burn almost as hit as many who quit or were fired over injections and masks.”
The DOGE cuts might be causing hatred on the left, but those on the right are grateful that finally a Republican president is keeping his promises. Those in the center are finding confirmation in their vote for Trump as they see the unimaginable level of corruption and graft that DOGE is bringing to light. Retirees over 150 years old and Small Business loans given to 10 year olds are just the tip of the iceberg. The pendulum might swing eventually, but as long as DOGE keeps publicizing this level of malfeasance Trump will continue to have the support of the Normals.

Posted by: Paranaense | Mar 10 2025 3:14 utc | 135

There you go again, blowing hot air out of your arse/mouth, no different to every other opinionated, macho, teenage armchair general on this site.
Posted by: Bonzo | Mar 10 2025 3:34 utc | 139
How embarassing for you.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 3:44 utc | 137

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 3:42 utc | 140
“What I am saying is if Ds takes white house in 4 years, everything might reverse, and we go into world war 3 just to spite Rs and Rusdia (and jail hundreds of thousands of russophiles for treason).”
That is a possibility, but the whole point of DOGE is to cut the legs out from under the Deep State. Once the Deep State is neutralized and defunded (no more USAID credit card for the next color revolution or lawfare campaign) it should be much harder for the Ds to claw back into the White House. Not impossible, but not likely.

Posted by: Paranaense | Mar 10 2025 3:50 utc | 139

How many know about this: “Accelerationism has been conspicuously used to develop defence and surveillance technology. Consider the D3 accelerator which is reportedly “entirely focused on military-related startups.” Initially focusing in Ukraine, the “Dare to Defend Democracy” (D3) accelerator is a public-private partnership that adopts the accelerationist approach to startups focusing exclusively on AI enabled intelligence, cybersecurity, and military technology.
“The D3 accelerator’s leading investors include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Together with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and other investors in AI solutions, they have combined to use the Ukrainian battlefield as a test bed. In addition, Thiel’s Palantir and Musk’s Starlink experimentation collaborated with the Pentagon to develop Project Maven. The project deploys AI to rapidly analyse vast amounts of data to generate automated targetting. Accelerationism’s influence on public-private AI start-ups in the defence sectors on both sides of the Atlantic is already significant.”
“Meanwhile, American, British and Ukrainian officers, along with some of Silicon Valley’s top military contractors, are exploring new ways of finding and exploiting Russian vulnerabilities, even while US officials try to navigate legal restraints about how deeply they can become involved in targeting and killing Russian troops.”
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https://archive.is/6kyff

Posted by: hispanidad | Mar 10 2025 4:29 utc | 141

“… unimaginable level of corruption and graft that DOGE is bringing to light. Retirees over 150 years old…”
Posted by: Paranaense | Mar 10 2025 3:14 utc | 138
hmmmm…can’t tell if serious
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/07/trumps-dead-people-on-social-security-lie/

Posted by: drinky crow | Mar 10 2025 4:52 utc | 143

but the whole point of DOGE is to cut the legs out from under the Deep State
Yep, the Dems don’t really have a large base, they were just orchestrating the world’s largest grift in order to convincingly manufacture one. Should a good portion of the fraud end and those behind it prosecuted, plus true election reform occur — i.e., national voting holiday, real ID’s, paper ballots, same day returns — the Dems won’t win another election for a long time.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 10 2025 4:59 utc | 145

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.
Posted by: persiflo | Mar 9 2025 21:42 utc | 84
Oreshnik rendered the “Rods of God” concept obsolete. Even if we’re now capable of building and stocking such an orbital platform it’d still be ridiculously time-consuming and cost-ineffective by comparison, not to mention a sitting duck.
Oh, and you know why NATO uses depleted uranium slugs whereas Russia uses the safer tungsten? Because we don’t have any!

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 10 2025 5:24 utc | 147

The EU is dying
Georgescu was denied approval as a candidate for the Romanian presidency
After the news was announced, clashes broke out in front of the Central Electoral Office building, reports the Agerpres news agency
BUCHAREST, March 9./ The Central Electoral Office has refused to approve Calin Georgescu’s candidacy for the Romanian presidential elections on May 4. George Simion, leader of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians party, reported this on Facebook.
According to the Agerpres news agency, after the news was announced, clashes broke out in front of the Central Electoral Office building between Georgescu supporters waiting for the result and gendarmes.
The demonstrators, who chanted “Down with the dictatorship!” and “Georgescu is president!” chanted, knocked down barriers, and additional gendarmerie forces moved in front of the building and blocked all side streets leading to it. “Against the background of the decision of the Central Election Office, the participants of the unauthorized gathering broke through the gendarmerie cordon to enter the building of the institution,” the gendarmerie report says. “To restore order, the gendarmes used sprayers with tear gas.”

Posted by: berthold | Mar 10 2025 6:31 utc | 149

European military potential is greater than Russias…
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 9 2025 23:29 utc | 103
Like my grandad used to say:
“Potential is nothing. Achievement is everything.”

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 10 2025 7:13 utc | 151

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 10 2025 7:22 utc | 156
Turks were real good at killing their own men in desert and snow by the hundreds of thousands during world war I.
An empire destroyed by its nepotism in a terribly shameful way.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 7:34 utc | 153

Ukraine has transferred its elite Aidar nazi forces into Kursk region. It’s claimed that several groups of Aidar have been destroyed already in the bulge.
Is Zelensky again conveniently cleaning up the nazis, contributing to his personal safety?
https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1898990396480356686

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2025 7:45 utc | 155

European military potential is greater than Russias
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Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 9 2025 23:29 utc | 103
You appear delusional.
NATO, USA included, have no potential at all.
It is not a defensive alliance, maybe it never was.
It’s simply a bunch of terrorist countries with a military organized to bully other countries.
It works well with really sub par countries, you use air domination to bomb everything better civilians targets, than boots on the ground with a limited duration, say a few months, if you need longer operations there are not enough weapons, declare victory and exit leaving rubble behind you.
Once you fight an on par or better country, you loose and loose bad.

Posted by: Mario | Mar 10 2025 8:02 utc | 157

After US defacto, not de-jure, withdrawal from Nato, EUrotards have gone b*tshit crazy. Baltic states now demanding general mobilization across EU states.
I think most likely southern Europe will eventually secede from Europe. The Nordic, Baltic states and Poland, and Germany will be left in the EU and form their new Euronato.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2025 8:07 utc | 159

@ UWDude | Mar 10 2025 6:50 utc | 154
LOL

Posted by: I forgot | Mar 10 2025 8:17 utc | 161

Posted by: Mario | Mar 10 2025 8:02 utc | 161
Yes, that commenter is second or third rate. I skip her comments.
Here are two items showing the incompetence of European armaments industry.
https://asiatimes.com/2025/03/investor-beware-of-robust-european-defense-spending/
https://southfront.press/french-italian-air-defense-system-failed-in-ukraine-report/
The first one is from a former high executive of a European armaments company.
The drive to re-arm Europe coming from Brussels means higher valuation of American MIC companies.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Mar 10 2025 8:29 utc | 163

European military potential is greater than Russias and currently military capabilites if used fully would force complete mobilization of Russia to fend off and hundreds of thousands of casualties including limited nuke strikes on strategic bases.
Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Mar 9 2025 23:29 utc | 103
There is no “European” military potential as such: it is the military potential of 27 disparate countries which for the most part would rather kiss american boots than take orders from their neighbour.

Posted by: Satepestage | Mar 10 2025 8:50 utc | 165

@ drinky crow | Mar 10 2025 4:52 utc | 147
Am clueless about the extent of Social Security payments to dead people and read that article earnestly. But the author lost me with the last paragraph when he reveals, with mockery, his *certainty* in his opinion about who started current war in Ukraine.

Posted by: I forgot | Mar 10 2025 8:56 utc | 167

Dima says AFU command has lost contact over large groups in Kursk territory trapped in cauldrons, who are code 500 (running away toward the border).

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2025 9:05 utc | 169

Brussels is using Romania to test lawfare against out-of-center political movements across Europe.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Mar 10 2025 8:23 utc | 166
They’re not testing anything, it’s a working system already and not only in Romania. It’s more visible now, but there’s nothing really different. EU and US directly control that country and many others. US embassy publicly supports some candidates, some laws and that’s it. Also the protests seem to be small. Previous police violence worked wonders and most protests were usually organized by ngos controlled from outside. If ngos don’t organize them then few people go, get seriously beaten first by les gendarmes, then by police and never protest again. Even if that guy is allowed to be in elections and wins, his powers are limited, he can only talk, go to meetings and not much else. But Ursula says no talking. The change will be when EU completely removes local presidents, it’s just a waste of time and money

Posted by: rk | Mar 10 2025 9:17 utc | 171

Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 8:54 utc | 170
t will succeed in fomenting social unrest and elevating a government without a mandate.

Exactly. And this is how the European populace, in the mid-term, will wake up from its welfare-induced stupor (its MAGA time) and will send these centrist mediocrities to where they belong: running a small business in some small town, lording over a making miserable a few people instead of whole nations.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Mar 10 2025 10:05 utc | 173

Posted by: rk | Mar 10 2025 9:17 utc | 175
You are borderline worth-reading. So I decided to reply to you this time.

They’re not testing anything, it’s a working system already and not only in Romania.

No, it’s only working in Romania where it is being implemented in tentative fashion, trying things to see what sticks.
If you want to continue with this argument, you need to provide evidence it’s being tried or implemented anywhere else in Europe.
But I see your point as valid because I think lawfare will be tried in France and Germany if necessary, where slightly non-centrist parties enjoy significant support. In Germany the population still supports aggregate mediocrity (CDU/CSU + SPD) and in France the Left voted en masse for the most centrist mediocre candidate. So lawfare to avoid a democratic mandate to turn around in Germany and France is not yet necessary but lawfare has to be ready in case it is needed in the near future.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Mar 10 2025 10:24 utc | 175

this is how the European populace, in the mid-term, will wake up from its welfare-induced stupor (its MAGA time) and will send these centrist mediocrities to where they belong: running a small business in some small town, lording over a making miserable a few people instead of whole nations.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Mar 10 2025 10:05 utc | 177
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Don’t pin your hopes for rejuvenation on MAGA’s monopolists. They have also run out of road.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 10 2025 10:46 utc | 177

I thought Germany was ‘de-industrializing’ and slumping into a recession, then how can they do this?

Ukraine Signs Memorandum With IRIS-T Manufacturer, Expects Threefold Increase in Missile, Air Defense System Supplies

Posted by: bored | Mar 10 2025 10:58 utc | 179

DS had another update, this morning (after the Kursk update last night, Boyd):
https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.4383200/32.0526800
Overall: Poor performance in UKR, with an actual net loss of 1.1 kmsq. Gains near Kostyiantinople/Ulakly were outweighed by losses at Synkivka (Kupiansk sector) and Burlatske (VN sector).

Posted by: Anonymous | Mar 10 2025 11:28 utc | 181

I thought Germany was ‘de-industrializing’ and slumping into a recession, then how can they do this?
Ukraine Signs Memorandum
Posted by: bored | Mar 10 2025 10:58 utc | 183
You dont have to be an industrialized nation to sign memorandums. Making promises, dreaming budgets, and taking out loans is what the EU is all about.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 10 2025 11:34 utc | 183

Arch Bungle | Mar 10 2025 10:48 utc | 182
“MScs, Phds, CTOs, CEOs, ‘experts’ of every stripe and colour claiming that Ukraine is actually winning and that the only reason they’ll now lose is because Orange Jeezus decided to remove his guiding rod from their path and let them wander into the valley of the shadow of death unattended.”
The TDS elites are preparing their alibi and/or Stab-in-the-Back rallying cry.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 10 2025 11:39 utc | 185

Oh, and you know why NATO uses depleted uranium slugs whereas Russia uses the safer tungsten? Because we don’t have any!
Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 10 2025 5:24 utc | 151
On that one you are wrong. Tank sabots depend on dynamics where only two things count. Length to width ratio and relative densities. U238 beats tungsten in the near 19g/cm3 alloys
Added bonus, pyrophoric, plasma enhances penetration and when in… nasty
Dirty, yes but others have issues as well, but effective …
This one sums it up nicely
https://www.quora.com/What-type-of-tank-ammunition-weapon-system-could-practically-replace-depleted-uranium-sabot-in-the-near-future

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 11:41 utc | 187

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2025 8:58 utc | 172
Fascinating how the true implications of drone warfare have still not been recognised, and how doctrinal responses are compartmentalised, not integrated, even by the people who have first hand experience.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2025 9:05 utc | 173
Shades of the pocket in 2015.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 10 2025 10:48 utc | 182
They are as intellectually trapped as the UAF are physically in the Kursk pocket, and for similar reasons.
Posted by: bored | Mar 10 2025 10:58 utc | 183
Stop asking how, instead, ask why?

Posted by: Milites | Mar 10 2025 11:57 utc | 189

Stop asking how, instead, ask why?
Posted by: Milites | Mar 10 2025 11:57 utc | 193
I never got an answer from you on this whole affair being an attempt of Germany trying to teach RF who was the junior partner (that then got detoured by uk us for different purposes)
Germany and US trying to make RF and china bend the knee is the only non-insane (though failed) game play I see.

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 10 2025 12:16 utc | 191

When the father can’t say directly…

The end of war against Russia means the start of hostilities against Zelensky.
Ukrainians hate him for his corruption and how he has allowed a generation of young men to be butchered
He won’t be safe in his own country once the war ends and he knows it.

Barron Trump

Posted by: ostrr | Mar 10 2025 12:22 utc | 193

@TJandTheBear | 151 @UWDude @nipins and others
The discussion of orbital artillery is interesting for me, but barflies be aware that I’m a layman here, and must engage in speculation.
I thought of something like a palletized load container, that goes one-way and might discharge its missiles on the first pass.
Such things could in theory stay in an orbit, but this mode of use would probably be more practical against goatherders. Those from Yemen, who’ve been living under threat from buzzing drones above, went psychotic in large numbers, so the „Rods from God“ may instill less fear than a lawnmower motor.
The pallets are well and truly out in the open up there, and presumably armoring them is unfeasible. But 200 tons in a single launch makes quite the swarm, and they might be effectively camouflaged using decoys and various EM reduction techniques („stealth“).
Oreshnik, OTOH, is presumably road-mobile, and practically can’t be intercepted.

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 10 2025 12:31 utc | 195

It’s from Bild, so take it with a truckload of salt.

Trump will not resume military aid to Ukraine until Zelensky leaves the presidency (c) Bild

Also

Zelensky’s plane left Poland for Saudi Arabia. There will be another round of negotiations there.

New round of Russia-US talks in Saudi Arabia not planned for this week – Zakharova in connection with information from Western media

Posted by: 5thcolumn | Mar 10 2025 12:44 utc | 197

Alastair Crooke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6fW0GkkrJI
“European elites in trouble.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 10 2025 13:00 utc | 199