Iskander strikes reported on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Odessa region
After a massive night attack on the Ukrainian Armed Forces infrastructure deep in the rear, Russian military personnel continued to carry out pinpoint strikes on identified enemy targets on Ukrainian territory.
Thus, according to reports from Russian near-war publics, the strikes rockets “Iskander” were delivered to targets in Odessa region. Around 13.00:XNUMX Moscow time, explosions were heard in the wider area near Odessa and in Zatoka. There was also mention of a strike near the village of Tuzly in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district of Odessa region.
It is not reported which specific objects of the Kyiv regime were hit by the Iskanders. At the same time, the strike on Zatoka is confirmed by Ukrainian publics. Local residents write about a powerful explosion and a column of smoke rising from the landing site.
Let us recall that during today’s night attack, the Russian Armed Forces hit a number of targets in Western Ukraine. According to a report from the Russian Defense Ministry, the Kinzhal missiles were used to precisely strike enemy airfields.
There were also reports of multiple hits to the Motor plant in Lutsk, which repairs rocket engines.
It is worth noting that in recent months, the Russian military has been systematically increasing the number of strikes on Kyiv regime targets throughout Ukraine. Against this backdrop, the American administration, which promised to achieve a diplomatic solution to the conflict, has promised new arms supplies to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including anti-aircraft missiles for missile defense systems.

https://en.topwar.ru/267761-soobschaetsja-ob-udarah-iskanderami-po-obektam-vsu-v-odesskoj-oblasti.html
Yet a few weeks ago we had an unholy mix of doomsters, gloomsters and cheap lager-swigging NAFO trolls all strutting and crowing over a few burning car tyres at Russian airbases, following a “spectacular” strike against decommissioned Russian aircraft…
So, gentleman, ladies and undecideds of that ilk, has that attack slowed down Russia’s mission tempo, or caused it to deviate in any noticeable manner? Or are we seeing a prolonged and ever-increasing “retaliation”, which actually isn’t a retaliation but a continued fulfilment of plans that were already in place?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 17:51 utc | 3

Member of the Ukrainian Rada, Mariana Bezuglaya has been outspoken before; here she weighs in on the Russian strikes on the TCC offices and the corruption therein:

Blow to the TCC: what’s wrong with the recruitment system
Regarding Russia’s strikes on the TCC-SC and in general
– Yes, on the one hand, there are large-scale information and psychological operations of the enemy (IPSO), which were joined by physical aggression in order to weaken the mobilization process.
– On the other hand, the reaction of the population is so different, often favorable to Russian-themed IPSOS, not only because of the Russians, but also because no one has undertaken to reform the TCC-SC, withdraw it from the ground forces, clean it up, take away uncharacteristic functions, stop beating people and finally systematically work out the frenzied level of corruption inside these monsters of the army system – PEOPLE HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE INSTITUTE.
– Former military commissar Gorbach is still Syrsky’s right-hand man and the main personnel officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Syrsky himself headed the Ground Forces for five years and is personally to blame for the state of the direction. How can you not reach out to yourself?
– It should also be understood that tough, scooping, thoughtless, indiscriminate and corrupt coercion has worked, covered basic needs in the absence of alternative system solutions, but it has exhausted its ideological, organizational and ethical resource, eventually turning into a bussing pipeline for the production of SPF and spending public funds with a minimum efficiency factor.
A small example of the stupidity and lies that prevail in the system of TCC-SC’s is the message of the Vinnytsia TCC, which noted that due to Russian attacks, it suspends its activities, and at the same time immediately published new addresses for receiving citizens. so what did you change? Will it arrive at a new or old address? But that’s not all.
After they were directly pointed out this stupidity, no one admitted the mistake, and I quote:
“Three hours ago, on the official page of the Vinnytsia TCC-SC, a message was published about the functioning of the territorial recruitment and social support center at the legal address. The information contained in it was redacted due to outside interference.”…
“At the same time, we officially inform you that the Vinnytsia OTCC and the SC have nothing to do with the addresses of reception of citizens previously indicated in social networks and media.”
If the President doesn’t take it up at last… I don’t know what else is going to happen, Vladimir Alexandrovich.
We need a systematic REFORM of the army, not fraud!

https://regionews.ua/ukr/blog/marianna-bezuglaya/1751970817-udar-po-ttsk-shcho-ne-tak-iz-sistemoyu-komplektuvannya (via translation add-on.)
“To the last Ukrainian” said somebody, somewhere…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 18:22 utc | 5

@ Newbie | Jul 9 2025 18:24 utc | 6 with the Ukraine loss report….thx
At that rate Ukraine loses 39K per month and I read recently that they are bringing in only 25K per month….attrition
I am not in the camp that thinks this situation will last much longer but with the increased Russia tempo of attacks, it doesn’t look sustainable for very long.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 9 2025 18:32 utc | 7

I know the answer, but I thought I’d poll the sad, sad nafo trolls (where did they go?) on their recent cope strategies.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jul 9 2025 17:44 utc | 2
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A patron with integrity stakes out a position passionately and keeps posting even when the position is refuted.
Ego prevents that for many bad actors.
That Julian and Anonymous are absent is normal, but their absence tells us a lot about their integrity.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 9 2025 18:49 utc | 9

How to Start World War III: Ukraine Joins NATO
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/how-to-start-world-war-iii-ukraine-joins-nato/

Posted by: Dogon Priest | Jul 9 2025 18:58 utc | 11

Re: trolls MIA, even @ ed4 only turns up these days to complain about the price of potatoes…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 19:30 utc | 13

England is in the process of constructing a corresponding scenario in which it is not directly involved, only the European continental countries. Hence the Baltic Sea, that’s where it will start.
Posted by: smartfox | Jul 9 2025 19:24 utc | 12

i hope the russians will go for the brits this time in the opening salvo. i have no sympathy left for this island nation that instigates wars in europe and supports terrorism. fuck em.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jul 9 2025 19:39 utc | 15

ed4 | Jul 9 2025 19:44 utc | 16
well known Ukrainian propagandist

Posted by: smartfox | Jul 9 2025 19:47 utc | 17

New strikes reported:

Russian troops are carrying out attacks using UAVs against enemy targets in border regions and elsewhere.
There are reports that by this minute several Russian Geraniums have reached objects in the Zhitomir area. Let us recall that some time ago the Ozernoye airfield was attacked there, where several fires broke out as a result of the hits. According to some information, new arrivals are also there.
According to the latest information, Gerani are working on objects in Shostka, Sumy. Attacks are also underway drones against targets in the north of the Chernihiv region, as well as directly in the area of ​​the regional center.
At the same time, local publics write that the group drones headed “to the Kiev region”. It is quite possible that we are talking about those UAVs that later attacked objects in the Zhitomir region – mentioned above.
Russian Armed Forces drones reported over Poltava region. The enemy writes that UAVs are flying from the northern direction:
Kremenchug – alarm.
Kharkiv publics:
Russians hit Pechenegs. Fire broke out at one of the facilities.
Pechenegi is an urban-type settlement to the east of Kharkov.
Alarm. Shahed (that’s what the Geranium drones are called in Ukraine) is on Shevchenkovo.
Shevchenkovo ​​is 24 km southeast of the urban-type settlement of Pechenegi.
Let us recall that the Ukrainian Armed Forces claim that last night Russian troops used more than 720 long-range drones. Some of them reached objects in the Volyn region. Then Russian drones descended on the same place. missiles, including hypersonic “Daggers”.

https://en.topwar.ru/267776-rossijane-udarili-po-pechenegam-protivnik-zajavljaet-o-novyh-udarah-po-obektam-v-harkovskoj-sumskoj-chernigovskoj-i-zhitomirskoj-oblastjah.html

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 19:49 utc | 19

Reported to be a video clip of pro-Russian partisan action against a Ukrainian military vehicle: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/07/09/1502381.html
It’s not at all clear that the Kiev junta retains full control of the population. “To the last Ukrainian” said somebody, somewhere…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 19:56 utc | 21

https://southfront.press/summary-of-russian-combat-footage-from-july-9-2025/
https://southfront.press/military-situation-in-ukraine-on-july-9-2025-map-update/

Posted by: smartfox | Jul 9 2025 20:09 utc | 23

@ Newbie | Jul 9 2025 19:52 utc | 21
I think the mskvremya.ru site is quite accurate, I linked to it when Andrei Martyanov first started using it in his video presentations, the figures were directly taken from the Russian Defence Ministry releases and this was able to be correlated when that info was available in the West.
Mr. M. is usually fastidious about his sources.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 20:21 utc | 25

Two CIA assets meet for a plate of carbonara:
https://t.me/myLordBebo/72275

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jul 9 2025 20:23 utc | 27

If NY goes under, the entire global economy is dead.

Posted by: smartfox | Jul 9 2025 20:22 utc | 28
That comes across as US-centric over-dramatisation. Sure, the global skim scam of financialisation would be heavily traumatised, but those nations who have developed their own energy, raw material and manufacturing resources, and who trade bilaterally with other nations without US$ intermediation would come through with their position likely strengthened, certainly when compared with the northern part of the western hemisphere.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 20:33 utc | 29

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 20:33 utc | 31
it would be more: the total system will break, nothing that anyone can repair or surrogate within months.
Affected are ALL, companies and countries and private accounts and governments, too

Posted by: smartfox | Jul 9 2025 20:39 utc | 31

I think the mskvremya.ru site is quite accurate, I linked to it when Andrei Martyanov first started using it in his video presentations, the figures were directly taken from the Russian Defence Ministry releases and this was able to be correlated when that info was available in the West.
Mr. M. is usually fastidious about his sources.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 20:21 utc | 27
I had a detail-nazi fucking my patience about 3rd/4th significant number differences (otherwise I’d say it’s the mil.ru numbers, with advantage of choosing any date limits)
I sometimes past these links for any newcomers or anyone who missed or lost them

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 9 2025 20:46 utc | 33

The course of the Ukraine conflict shows that innocent citizens and criminals alike can be activated for subversive activities. Modern means of communication enable the beneficiary to do this without physically setting foot in another state.
If Russia had any hope of terror in Germany, websites offering money-for-action deals would probably be going online all the time. Of course, these would not be Russian sites, but ‘The Saviours of the Earth’ and so on.
Set a fire there … or do this or that, send proof (films of yourself) and collect bitcoins etc….
I have no doubt that such or similar methods could be successfully practised in Germany. You can’t monitor everything.
You could also look for suitable candidates on social media, supported by AI, and then contact them directly.
‘Climate protectors’ can certainly be used, as their actions already show.

Posted by: BlindSpot | Jul 9 2025 21:00 utc | 35

NYC went under a long time ago, and why I left.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jul 9 2025 20:46 utc | 36

Exactly! I saw the big (rotten) apple in 1966. Even then it looked and felt like a place whose best days were behind it. Also there was an feeling of being in a place inhabited by people who were fundamentally different, and not in a good way. In contrast despite the different language, the people of Baja California seemed quite familiar and normal.

Posted by: Drifter | Jul 9 2025 21:15 utc | 37

Russia getting increasingly desperate by pulling out every weapon that’s short of nuclear bombs. From this perspective, it shows that Russia is struggling either on the front or internally, by trying to either force a breakthrough, or get Ukraine to negotiate. As horrific as it is, using chemical WMD’s signals that Russia lacks the conventional means in a capacity to win the war.
I’ve always maintained the opinion that the end is near for Russia. At some point Russia will crack internally (elites) or their economical capability to sustain war will deplete. Whichever happens first Ukraine will prevail, 100%.

Posted by: 1234 | Jul 9 2025 21:45 utc | 39

And another stupid lying parasite.

Posted by: Naive | Jul 9 2025 22:08 utc | 41

re Naive | Jul 9 2025 22:09 utc | 44
Hear, hear!

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 9 2025 22:13 utc | 43

The Ukrainian candle industry receives another boost:

Details are not disclosed: In Sumy and the region lost light after the explosions
In Sumy, as well as in Sumy and Akhtyrsky districts, there were power outages after the strikes Russian Armed Forces. This was stated in JSC “Sumyoblenergo”.
“Who now has interruptions in the distribution of electricity in Sumy, Sumy and Akhtyrsky districts-this is due to the attack of the Russian army on the energy sector of Sumy region. For security reasons, we do not disclose details and consequences, so as not to correct further actions of the enemy, ” the organization’s telegram channel says.
It is noted that the company’s employees are working in an enhanced mode “to restore the distribution of electricity to each house.”
“Sumyoblenergo” asked residents not to publish in There are photos and videos with the consequences of hits and any other data that can help the Russian Armed Forces ” correct strikes and draw conclusions about the state of operation of the energy system.”
Earlier, Ukrainian media reported that explosions were heard in Sumy around seven o’clock in the evening.

https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2025/07/09/detali-ne-razglashayutsya-v-sumah-i-oblasti-propal-svet-posle-vzryvov (via translation add-on.)
Yet somehow “The end is near for Russia”…
Some folks are going to get a wake-up call they will not like…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 22:16 utc | 45

Well the puppet pope willingly meets saint Vlodomir Zelensky so I hope he doesn’t get blood on his white robe of ‘purity’.
Chinese arrested in Kiev under false charges in order to try to bring ‘evil’ China into the Ukrainian Kabuki theatre show as a trigger for more from NATO and US aid.
Trump remains and idiot worth no more than a puffed up balloon making further stupid decisions and pronouncements that achieve nothing

Posted by: George | Jul 9 2025 22:54 utc | 47

Whichever happens first Ukraine will prevail, 100%.
Posted by: 1234 | Jul 9 2025 21:45 utc | 41
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Posted just to prove that satire is not dead.
I need to go to the toilet !!

Posted by: Engineer John | Jul 9 2025 23:00 utc | 49

Numerous observers detect a turning point in the Trump/Putin relationship, over the past week. To the point where RF’s strikes on Ukraine grow ever more fearsome as DJT impotently emits his narcissist rage, this Wednesday. Patrick Lawrence speaks of Trump “dead ending” Putin:

No progress toward a durable settlement to end the war in Ukraine. Talk and desultory diplomatic contacts with a view to repairing the profligate damage successive American administrations have done to U.S.–Russian relations, but no substantive advances. O.K., it is what it is, as we say. But there was something singularly conclusive about the telephone conversation the U.S. and Russian leaders had last Thursday.
I detect that a dead end has been reached.

https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/08/patrick-lawrence-trump-dead-ends-putin/
Andrei Martyanov cites “the mechanism” at the onset of narcissist rage, a diagnostic description from a standard reference which sounds absolutely spot-on, which Andrei summarizes as “small dick syndrome”:

Yet, deep inside, the narcissist is aware that his life is an artifact, a confabulated sham, a vulnerable cocoon. The world inexorably and repeatedly intrudes upon these ramshackle battlements, reminding the narcissist of the fantastic and feeble nature of his grandiosity. This is the much-dreaded Grandiosity Gap. To avoid the agonizing realization of his failed, defeat-strewn, biography, the narcissist resorts to reality-substitutes. The dynamics are simple: as the narcissist grows older, his Sources of Supply become scarcer, and his Grandiosity Gap yawns wider. Mortified by the prospect of facing his actuality, the narcissist withdraws ever deeper into a dreamland of concocted accomplishments, feigned omnipotence and omniscience, and brattish entitlement.

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/07/daniel-davis-wonders.html
There you have it. The president is cracking up, apparently. Losing his marbles; the few that remain to him.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 9 2025 23:14 utc | 51

I guess I am seeing the souring of Trump/Putin relationship as Trump being stood up to by Putin in Ukraine and now along side Iran with China.
We are engaged in a civilization war and all is tied together. One one side is my God Of Mammon cult and their quislings in control of the puppet nations with US as the face and the others side is China with its finance as a public utility structure with Russia/Iran and others nations joining the growing resistance axis.
Pundits are saying that Occupied Palestine will attack Iran as the next significant move and I just watch and wait, hoping for the anti-humanism of our species to end soon. I hope Iran has had enough time to install/shake-down all the new China/Russia AD and such before the aggression starts again.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 9 2025 23:40 utc | 53

I had hoped Trump would disavow US involvement. Alas, the world has just turned into a more dangerous place with the dying Empire lashing out.
The question now is do the Global majority take the fight to the Hagemon or wait for it to re-energize?
Posted by: Suresh | Jul 9 2025 23:46 utc | 56
I think the first step for the global majority is to organize, set out it’s goals and adequately prepare for the inevitable struggle with Western Imperialism.
A bit like Russia has done with the SMO. That’s what serious strategy looks like. Anything less is destined to fail.
First step: on what identity are we organizing on: race/nationality or social class?

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jul 10 2025 0:04 utc | 55

“Israel and the U.S. signed an AI cooperation deal, potentially allowing US personal data to be shared with Israel under new policies”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800
§| ? Would that be the personal data DOGE scrapped during Elon’s tenure ?

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 0:13 utc | 57

Ahenobarbus | Jul 10 2025 0:04 utc | 57
Nobody is organising anything.
Convaxx19 proved everyone will cower in their homes, spy on the neighbours and call the Jackboots whether infractions have occurred or not….
…….
Look at men being kidnapped on the street in Ukraine….. most walk by, look away, ignore.
Their country is being destroyed and the women just want to shop….
No one is organising a Resistance.
If Ukraine can just “Carry on —- Go Shop”, no one in our countries are going to Resist anymore than Ukies do…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 0:19 utc | 59

Posted by: Joy Polloi | Jul 10 2025 0:15 utc | 60
LOL! Typical western projection! Western mentality has a long, long, long history of lying, invading, looting and killing.

Posted by: Naive | Jul 10 2025 0:31 utc | 61

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 9 2025 23:36 utc | 54
I think it is quite clear that Trump doesn’t actually listen to the Pentagon and Hegseth or Tulsi Gabbard as well – they don’t fit his view of ‘alternative facts’ as Kellyanne Conway called them in the last Trump administration. He’s side-lined them because he is living in a world of confabulation and folly especially as things are going less and less his way and his popularity is decreasing. It is surprising how many American comedians are now ridiculing him publicly. He will hate that.

Posted by: George | Jul 10 2025 0:37 utc | 63

on what identity are we organizing on: race/nationality or social class?
Common language is a prerequisite. No language, no codified law; no legal system, no state. Utopian anarchy almost certainly means warlordism unless a fall-back option is in place. That’s where we come from, actually. Rule by force is empire, where Caesar represents the Law all by himself.
Fully developed law must be threefold: agreed upon, codified, and judged in action. This is a process, never a finite state; it naturally tends towards multiple polities which handle things according to their own, naturally varied ways.
Breaking free of old chains may be a common effort, but a common telos for everyone is something else. I maintain it is utopian, and will remain so for at least a long as languages co-exist.

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 10 2025 0:42 utc | 65

reply to 58
I want to thank you for your contribution that hits the nail on the hand. It is tragic in the extreme to watch 1000+ killed or incapacitated per day simply because Zelensky has a gun to his head. He can never negotiate. Why nations don’t highlight this truth is beyond me.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jul 10 2025 0:53 utc | 67

@Joy Polloi | Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:15:00 GMT | 60

At that point, we all better hope it’s truly a multipolar world and not just a new unipolar environment with a Chinese face.

You should probably understand how polarity in international relations actually works.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 10 2025 0:56 utc | 69

Re: psychohistorian
First let me say that I usually enjoy your comments, but respectfully IMO you’re superimposing an idealistic interpretation on events that are simply pure economic
Posted by: Joy Polloi | Jul 10 2025 0:15 utc | 60
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There’s an internet meme going around that poses the question: would you rather date a liberal or an illegal?
Tough question, right?
In this context, MoA has many posters who know what’s going on, but tend to project their fantasies onto the broader political landscape.
The alternative are hardnosed realists who mindlessly parrot the USA love it or leave it sentiment so prevalent among the right.
So, it turns out that there are very few who know the score, but also understand history and human nature.
Hmm, what to do? Read idiot clueless patriots or nod in agreement with knowledgeable center left commenters, but dismiss their naivete as a cost of doing business?

Posted by: Markw | Jul 10 2025 1:00 utc | 71

LOL! Typical western projection! Western mentality has a long, long, long history of lying, invading, looting and killing.
Posted by: Naive | Jul 10 2025 0:31 utc | 63
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You guys really are something. How about you do a little reading about how the Han Chinese came to dominate China over the last 5k years, or how Imperial Russia was originally created and still exists.
Honest question: how did you come to believe the bald ape is anything other than an apex predator? Or do you know the truth, but rebel against reality due to some weird ass deep seated insecurities?

Posted by: Markw | Jul 10 2025 1:07 utc | 73

Posted by: Eighthman | Jul 10 2025 0:53 utc | 69
“I want to thank you for your contribution that hits the nail on the hand. It is tragic in the extreme to watch 1000+ killed or incapacitated per day simply because Zelensky has a gun to his head. He can never negotiate. Why nations don’t highlight this truth is beyond me.”
It is a monumental puzzle for me as well. Apart from other crimes against humanity, the collective western nations (and the RF) studiously fail to highlight -let alone condemn- the very well documented genocide against the indigenous Semitic population in occupied Palestine. This is not a recent phenomenon, but began (at the latest) in 1948.
My only explanation is that a plague of an as yet unrecognized “Hypocrisy Virus or bacteria” has infected much of the world population.
I know that this is simplistic, and no doubt the product of my own despair, but does anyone have a better explanation?

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jul 10 2025 1:25 utc | 75

Posted by: Markw | Jul 10 2025 1:07 utc | 75
China has never been an imperialist nor colonialist country. Of course there have been many thousands of years of fighting, war lords, and establishing of borders within what we now refer to as China, as well as dynasties being overthrown. Han are also essentially the same people as well. Two of the major dynasties involved invasions from Mongolia (Yuan) and Manchuria (Qing). Tibet has been under protectorate for many centuries after it turned Mahayana Buddhist. Before that it invaded China more often than the reverse.
But it is the West that has largely been outwardly imperialist and colonialist and not only sabotaged the sovereignty and natural development in many countries around the world, but also enslaved, or quasi-enslaved the people in those countries though appalling remuneration. It also stole the wealth of those countries repeatedly, India and China being classic examples.

Posted by: George | Jul 10 2025 1:43 utc | 77

@Markw | Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:00:00 GMT | 73
Sockpuppets talking to sockpuppets. What a shock.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 10 2025 2:02 utc | 79

Guess I was spot on the 37E (East) line
“In particular, fortification is intensively underway in the Dobropillya area, which is currently a key logistics hub for supplying the entire Donetsk Armed Forces group.”
Dobropillya
48° 28′ 08″ N, 37° 04′ 58″ E
https://news-pravda.com/russia/2025/07/09/1503764.html
S presented a similar map in his latest post
For the big question… why go from “fight every inch” to “drop tens of kms”
Second are traps involved, Z not gonna give 10.000 km2 just like that (tempo, logistics, etc must be tight to avoid most)

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 2:42 utc | 81

Re: Posted by: smartfox | Jul 9 2025 19:24 utc | 12

England is in the process of constructing a corresponding scenario in which it is not directly involved, only the European continental countries. Hence the Baltic Sea, that’s where it will start.

You must think that European countries and their leaders are stupid to allow themselves to be sucked into a destructive war amongst themselves instigated by England.
Can you provide any examples of European countries fighting themselves because of English meddling?!?
Surely people aren’t that dumb.

Posted by: Julian | Jul 10 2025 2:48 utc | 83

https://www.rt.com/india/621257-indians-mass-migration-russia-labor/
A million Indians could immigrate to Russia — business leader
The expected influx comes amid ongoing labor shortages, according to business chamber leader Andrey Besedin
Good Lord! Maybe Trump was right when he said a million Russian troops are dead/maimed as a result of the war with Ukraine.
Posted by: bored | Jul 10 2025 2:40 utc | 82
not really
but you do have
1. An additional million called to arms (between 2022 reserves and recruitment… over 2/3 healthy and doing great)
2. A shitload of indian rupees with little usage
So yes, some indian workers make sense

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 2:51 utc | 85

Posted by: George | Jul 10 2025 2:50 utc | 86
“It’s also like saying yellow flowers are obviously made of butter because butter is yellow. Try another one.”
Don’t encourage that bored troll (bot??) George. It might take up your challenge and post more time-wasting drivel.
No offence meant since I am sure you are well aware of the “don’t feed the trolls” rule.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jul 10 2025 3:18 utc | 87

@Newbie | Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:42:00 GMT | 83

For the big question… why go from “fight every inch” to “drop tens of kms”
Second are traps involved, Z not gonna give 10.000 km2 just like that (tempo, logistics, etc must be tight to avoid most)

Could be traps, or Ukraine is finally feeling the manpower squeeze, and simply cannot defend every inch anymore. This was/is inevitable. The only real question is when does Ukraine finally break – this summer, this fall, or early next year?

Posted by: James M. | Jul 10 2025 3:23 utc | 89

Trump doesn’t want to be blamed for the war being lost by Kyiv because of him.
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 10 2025 1:24 utc | 76

He will be blamed for that anyway, because Ukies (and, by the way, the DeepState) will never accept their own blame for anything.
On the other hand he will now be blamed by Russians for unnecessary killing of hundreds of Russian civilians and especially kids, and by Ukranians for unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukie servicemen.

Posted by: Rutte | Jul 10 2025 3:27 utc | 91

Re: Posted by: Drifter | Jul 9 2025 21:15 utc | 39

Exactly! I saw the big (rotten) apple in 1966. Even then it looked and felt like a place whose best days were behind it. Also there was an feeling of being in a place inhabited by people who were fundamentally different, and not in a good way. In contrast despite the different language, the people of Baja California seemed quite familiar and normal.

You must be living in an alternate reality.
Where is the World’s Financial Capital then?
Why was 9/11 perpetrated in New York – why not pick some other city?
1966 was 60 odd years ago – longer than the working lives of most people.
If your advice in 1966 was to avoid New York because it was past its prime – that would have been horrible advice.

Posted by: Julian | Jul 10 2025 3:50 utc | 93

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 3:50 utc | 96
All of the effort of trying to destroy the economies of Russia and China has simply helped to bring India somewhat tacitly closer to both. BRICS and the SCO being two vehicles also helping this to take place. It’s undoing centuries of the ‘Great Game’ which continued on with the US after the British officially left India.

Posted by: George | Jul 10 2025 4:23 utc | 95

@ Joy Polloi | Jul 10 2025 0:15 utc | 60 who wrote
”
The US isn’t the devil any more than China/BRICS are virtuous.
”
Besides my ongoing claim of China virtue by their having finance as a public utility and raising all those folks out of poverty there is that genocide thing by the US that seems to say the US is the devil and China is of virtue, eh?
Not like you say at all.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 10 2025 5:12 utc | 97

Posted by: George | Jul 10 2025 3:26 utc | 92
“With all due respect Barrell I notice you mistake feeding the trolls yourself on occasion.”
OK, I am guilty as charged George but sometimes it is revealing when (and if) they respond. I was more prone to “troll baiting” a while back when there was a particularly large infestation of them (I often referred to them as maggots). Now not so much since they have apparently dropped off in numbers, and their sophistication seems to have decreased as well.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jul 10 2025 6:32 utc | 99