With Putin expressing his gratitude, to North Korea for helping to rid the Kursk region of Russia of Neo-Nazi’s – and Nato troops.
NK is now sabre rattling.
“North Korea says it is ready to take military action against the US, Japan and South Korea over their joint air drills with US strategic bombers”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 13 2025 15:10 utc | 4

This is unbelievable from Trump, who has kept hidden Epstein’s client list.
“President Trump: ‘Is everybody seriously still talking about Epstein? We have done so much MAGNIFICENT work, can’t everybody move on from that creep?”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 13 2025 15:14 utc | 6

Good intel leads to getting their man, a man backed by the CIA.
“High-ranking SBU agent Ivan Voronich, who was recently eliminated in Kiev, wasn’t just an SBU colonel, but was a key operative in the Fifth Directorate – a division supported and equipped by the CIA since 2014, as revealed by The New York Times.
His unit was involved in political assassinations, including the killing of commander Arsen “Motorola” Pavlov, according to the NYT.
Voronich’s team also prepared attacks on Russian territory, notably in the Kursk region.
This case further highlights how deeply the US is involved in the Ukraine conflict, essentially coordinating actions even at the operational level.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 13 2025 15:30 utc | 8

The Yans won’t like this one little bit.
“Taliban Seeks Russian Weapons After Diplomatic Recognition.
Following Russia’s official recognition of the Taliban government, the group has requested to purchase military equipment from Moscow.
According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob sent a letter highlighting interest in Russian weapons, praising their quality and suitability for Afghanistan’s defense needs.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 13 2025 16:16 utc | 10

@ ld | Jul 13 2025 16:03 utc | 9
The logical acrobatics to fit into a narrative must be an Olympic sport.
Rather conveniently, they fail to mention that Russia does not produce a 170mm artillery system. Those are supplied by NK (not mentioned either) and therefore “exclusively rely” on the NK ammunition. Which is likely the only possible way to judge said “reliance” per individual unit, which they stretch to generalize. Still, how did they single out whole “six units” down to percentage rations? Maybe sent out a questionnaire?
Neither do these acrobats mention increased Russian artillery shell production reported every year. Nor the relative decrease in artillery usage due to partial supplementation by also ever increasing drone production.

Posted by: boneless | Jul 13 2025 16:22 utc | 12

JohnGilberts | Jul 13 2025 17:02 utc | 13

I have never heard of anything more foolish in all my life.

`Defending Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty'[against Russia]?

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 13 2025 17:32 utc | 14

… helping to rid the Kursk region …
ed4 | Jul 13 2025 18:07 utc | 15
Diplomatic speak – The “clean-up”, not the core liberating struggle.

Posted by: smartfox | Jul 13 2025 18:15 utc | 16

Posted by: ed4 | Jul 13 2025 18:07 utc | 15
> Wait, how is that possible? I was told numerous times that there were no North Korean troops fighting for Russia. When did posters at MOA change their mind?
I did not know that Putin is a poster at MOA.

Posted by: hopehely | Jul 13 2025 18:20 utc | 18

I’m sure this will work out well:

Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Martsinkiv: Ukraine Needs a Galician President
Ukraine supposedly needs a Galician president. And Galicia should have more influence in the country.
This opinion was expressed in an interview for Ukrainian media by the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ruslan Martsinkiv, who is a member of the radical ultra-nationalist political association “Svoboda”.
He admitted that he was frankly irritated that the presidential post in Ukraine was not occupied by a native of Galicia. The official even stated that there had never been anyone from Western Ukraine at the head of the country. Apparently, he forgot that the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, was born in the territory of today’s Rivne region.
It seems to me that the time is coming when it is the West of Ukraine that must produce more meaning for the whole of Ukraine.
– said Marcinkiv.
According to him, it is the western Ukrainian lands that are the reliable rear of the state. He claims that it is the residents of the West of Ukraine who are more religious. Only they, the official believes, are the most convinced supporters and speakers of the Ukrainian language.
In his opinion, only when the entire population of the country switches to the language will all the problems that the Ukrainian Armed Forces face on the front lines disappear.
The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, was born in the village of Velykyi Zhitin in today’s Rivne Oblast in 1934. At that time, this settlement was administratively part of the Volyn Voivodeship, which was part of Poland.
Volodymyr Zelensky, who has held the presidential post since 2019 and lost legitimacy more than a year ago, is a native of Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

https://en.topwar.ru/267955-mjer-ivano-frankovska-marcinkiv-ukraine-nuzhen-prezident-galichanin.html
As a member of Svoboda he should fit right in with the EU’s “values”.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 13 2025 18:39 utc | 20

Donbass cities under this short “brutal Russian occupation” receive more construction and maintenance than almost the entirety of 404 throughout its whole unfortunate “independence”.

Posted by: boneless | Jul 13 2025 18:50 utc | 22

US warmongers Graham and Blumenthal want 500% tariffs on China, India and Brazil for buying Russian oil.
I guess the U.S. consumer don’t matter.
Or driving crude prices thru the roof.
Project Kiev makes Trump a new Biden

Posted by: paddy | Jul 13 2025 19:26 utc | 24

There’s a noticeable increase in the use of reconnaissance drones by Russian forces equipped with automatic target recognition modules.
This refers to a system that can, in real time, highlight on video the distinctive shapes of vehicles, shelters, command posts, and personnel — automatically tagging them and sending the coordinates to strike units.
The technology itself isn’t new — it’s been actively developed in other countries too, even for commercial drones — but large-scale battlefield use is a whole different game. The key advantage is the shortened recon-to-strike cycle: when paired with FPV drones or artillery, a decision to hit a target can be made and executed within just a couple of minutes. Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, mentioned this in particular.
This kind of setup drastically increases the efficiency of drone reconnaissance, especially in a static, position-heavy war where every second spent reading the terrain matters. Automating recognition eases the burden on operators, reduces human error, and expands surveillance coverage — for example, by monitoring multiple areas at once from a single drone.
The next expected step is integrating these modules directly into strike drones that can not only identify, but also hit targets without operator input. That would mean moving toward an even more autonomous and tightly integrated UAV combat system — where recon, targeting, and strike become one seamless process.
Source: “>https://t.me/c/1595839251/9136

36-second video
https://x.com/distant_earth83/status/1944484072639873117
Obviously stolen from the Americans under Obama’s Presidency! 🙄

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 19:56 utc | 26

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Graham Hints at Trump’s Upcoming Statement on Russia: Asset Seizures, Arms to Europe, Sanctions
Senator Lindsey Graham told CBS News what to expect from Trump’s upcoming statement on Russia.
First, he pointed to possible moves regarding Russia’s frozen assets.
“Watch for news about the seized assets. I don’t want to speak ahead of the President, but the Europeans want to cap the interest that goes to Ukraine. Treasury Secretary Bessent wants to go further,” Graham said.
He also spoke of a plan where the U.S. will start selling large volumes of weapons to European allies — supposedly to help Ukraine.
“I expect a record flow of weapons in the coming days to help Ukraine defend itself,” he said.
Graham also confirmed that Congress is close to passing a sanctions package targeting countries that buy Russian oil and goods.
The tariffs may not be fixed at 500% as earlier proposed — Trump will have authority to set them between 0% and 500%. “He’ll have maximum flexibility,” Graham stated.
“Congress is about to pass the most significant sanctions package in U.S. history. It will give President Trump tools he doesn’t have now — a real sledgehammer. The main violators are China, India, and Brazil. India buys cheap Russian oil and resells it. It’s disgusting. I spoke with Trump, and last week he said it’s time to act,” Graham added.
He said Trump wants to force those supporting Putin to choose between the U.S. economy and backing Russia.
“China, India, Brazil — you’ll suffer if you keep helping Putin,” Graham said.
At the same time, he claimed Trump has kept the door open for talks with Russia, but “that door is about to close.”

nazis gonna nazi.

Posted by: Justpassinby | Jul 13 2025 19:59 utc | 28

@ Republcofscotland, §11:
Israel & America bad-mouthing Turkey is all show.
They´re hand in glove – and Turkey´s a NATO member.
Their next project is to get Turkey & Azerbaijan to attack Iran and seize the intervening Irani province of Tabriz – which is wholly Turkish-speaking.
Erdoğan will be delighted to rule all Turks from the Aegean to the Caspian. And to secure for himself the Baku oilfields.

Posted by: John Marks | Jul 13 2025 20:05 utc | 30

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 13 2025 20:06 utc | 31
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I love how Bibi Zelensky can identify the makes of drones from his underground bunker, and of course, they are Iranian.
Made with American technology stolen during the Obama Presidency!

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 20:13 utc | 32

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jul 13 2025 20:15 utc | 33
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Your post reminds me that Trump has opened (or declined to close) a Pandora’s Box.
People will become insane with moral outrage the more they think that he is protecting pedophiles. Doesn’t matter if it is true or not. Mobs are not rational.
To be MAGA is now synonymous with being pro-pedo. Trump did that.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 20:20 utc | 34

If one were to launch 5 Oreshniks at America, where would one target them for maximum effect?
Bear in mind, they are able to decimate infrastructure by collapsing the earth in the impact area.
Oreshniks aren’t primarily for depopulation; they are for destruction, particularly against hardened targets.
Ports? Major military bases?
There is no lingering radioactivity that we’re aware of.
I’m talking about a thought experiment; I don’t expect Russia to ever directly attack America.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 20:04 utc | 29
Just as a thought experiment I’d go for the Gulf Coast refineries and the oil storage terminals at Cushing in Oklahoma; I know it’s Wiki but it’s a decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_industry_in_Cushing,_Oklahoma
Starve the beast of raw and refined hydrocarbons, sit back with a bucket of popcorn and watch the place start LARPing the Mad Max movies…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 13 2025 20:31 utc | 36

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 13 2025 20:31 utc | 36
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That’s what I am talking about. Make one missile do the damage of 10 by hitting a crucial and short-term irreplaceable target.
I didn’t even think about oil. Most people would assume some political center like DC or Sacramento.
“Civilization” is fragile.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 20:36 utc | 38

@boneless | Jul 13 2025 16:22 utc | 12

Neither do these acrobats mention increased Russian artillery shell production reported every year. Nor the relative decrease in artillery usage due to partial supplementation by also ever increasing drone production.

Fully agree. Another reason for decreasing artillery fire are improved aerial reconnaissance mainly by drones, and precision shells like Krasnopol, and GMLRS from Uragan-M and Smerch launchers, and UPMC bombs.

Posted by: aquadraht | Jul 13 2025 20:46 utc | 40

Is there any documentation to the claims, this time?
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jul 13 2025 20:49 utc | 41
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In the BRICS era, there will be less and less state-to-state documentation.
A lot of economic and material transfers will be opaque to Western intelligence services for a few reasons: they aren’t using SWIFT, and the ROW doesn’t, by habit, hold a press conference every time they do something trivial.
China, Pakistan, North Korea, Russia, and Iran have little incentive to tell everyone if they receive or send arms shipments. No one needs to know how much Russian oil is being sold and for how much, or to whom.
Be very skeptical about news reports about matters that they cannot have data on.
I have seen videos and pictures from Lavrov’s visit to Pyongyang, and recent DPRK statements have indicated them being lockstep with the Axis, approaching Medvedev’s level of bellicosity.
Putin and Lavrov have been going out of their way to celebrate the North Korean assistance with Ukraine in Kursk. It really gives “mentor” vibes. It’s like they are trying to build experience and integration with the Juche military.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 21:14 utc | 42

If one were to launch 5 Oreshniks at America,
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 20:04 utc | 29
I didn’t even think about oil. Most people would assume some political center like DC or Sacramento.
“Civilization” is fragile.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 20:36 utc | 38
Unless you put them in cuba (where ou could choosee east coaast to midwest) no target.
3.000 km range, speculated 5.000 with reduced payload
Some weeks ago (asymmetric response thread) I mentioned the Corpus Christi port, main oil port in us, good for an accident on the bridge or a sunk ship at entry
No need for Oreshnik, no need to even sign the joke
P.S. before you criticize this target, think europe depends on us oil…

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 13 2025 21:22 utc | 44

here in the heart of a Red State, MAGA is beginning to mean Mostly All Gone Away

Posted by: Perimetr | Jul 13 2025 21:27 utc | 46

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 13 2025 21:22 utc | 44
No need to waste expensive oreshniks on oil depots/refineries. Old fashioned missiles or bombs do the trick. Oreshniks are for hardened bunkers. Nuclear missile sites for example, and those safety bunkers where the elites think they will hang out. Possibly the pentagon and underground submarine bases etc

Posted by: watcher | Jul 13 2025 21:53 utc | 48

I voted with MAGA.
I did not vote to give pedophiles a break.
I vote against arming Nazis. I am against genocide.
I am against putting ISIS into Syria.
I am against siding with Al Qaeda Wahhabism and Emirs bc Tehran.
Trump is deep state zionazi

Posted by: paddy | Jul 13 2025 21:58 utc | 50

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 21:14 utc | 42
Since this conflict started it has been obvious to me that Russia was being careful and slow because they expected that the war would go full throttle WWIII and it needed to keep ALL of its borders secure. I posted here several times pointing out that Russia needed to defend
1. Its far east against USA, Japan and SK. This is where NK comes in
2. Mongolia – quiet now and china is friendly but Russia wouls be stupid to ignore it entirely
3. Its Southern border with the Stans especially Kazakhstan. This is where many reserves will be strategically placed (or bloody well should be if they are not). Colour revolutions here would allow in the USA/UK and others
4. Its Caspian Sea border which is now coming seriously into play with Azerbaijan and Armenia. This is where Iran is critical. New deal with Afghanistan too now. Turkey is the major enemy, possibly also Israel and Syria and NATO
5. Georgia – quieter now but must be watched
6. All the nations on the black Sea – Turkey and the rest of NATO are a serious danger
7. obviously Ukraine but it is just one of many danger zones
8. Belarus. Lushenko is NOT a reliable partner long term and who knows what will follow him.
9. The Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad. A bloody nightmare for Russia. NATO is gearing up for full on war. Scandinavia and the Northern NATO states are the prime enemy
10. Finland. This is a serious concern and we know that Russia has raised a defence force for the area. All of Scandinavia and some NATO are the main worry
11. The Arctic passages. USA, Scandinavia and Canada are the leading enemies.
Is that enough for you all. Yes Russia will do deals with everyone near of far to help cope with this nightmare of enemies.

Posted by: watcher | Jul 13 2025 22:09 utc | 52

They want also to provoke Russia, hoping it will attack one nato country. Germany could be the scapegoat. Imagine Rheinmetall hit by a nazelnut after Germany delivered missiles able to hit Moscow… What nato would do? Go full war and be destroyed?
Posted by: Naive | Jul 13 2025 22:55 utc | 53
Even if Russia did attack a NATO cuntry I fail to see what NATO could do about it. If they fire some nukes off theyll be destroyed too…according to the MAD theory.

Posted by: HERMIUS | Jul 13 2025 23:09 utc | 54

Posted by: Naive | Jul 13 2025 22:55 utc | 53
Sorry but this is delusional. Russia is reasonably strong, but it sure was NOT at the beginning of the SMO.
It is worried and right to be worried about WWIII and wants to avoid it is it can. However it is as they say hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. That is why it never went full bore in Ukraine. It had to watch its underbelly and the longer this SMO goes on the more it has to worry about.
The only area in which Russia probably has complete dominance is in its nuclear deterrent and even that is questionable. yes it is ahead in many areas of missile technology, which are good against Europe and near borders but too far away from its main enemy the USA. It does not have air dominance, nort naval dominance. Yes it is good to go for a Eurasian based land war, but long distance against the USA (or even the UK/Scandinavia) it is much less clear.
Yes probably Russia could take on NATO (plus Japan, SK, Israel, Australia) and win but the destruction would be terrible. Moreover if any of its southern border states falls to NATO (Iran or the stans) it might be all over for Russia.
So stop this absurd dreaming that Russia is invincible. As Kursk has shown, carelessness can be very serious.

Posted by: watcher | Jul 13 2025 23:26 utc | 56

Posted by: smartfox | Jul 13 2025 23:24 utc | 55
Hazelnut will be used more once production ramps up but will still be used cautiously and mostly for bunker busing type of activities
Poseidon is an unknown quantity. I have assumed it is part of the nuclear deterrent and will only come into play in a nuclear or near nuclear war. Yes I am aware that Russia probably/possibly has naval advantage in submarines, but honestly this is such a secretive area for all nations, none of us really know the reality.

Posted by: watcher | Jul 13 2025 23:32 utc | 58

@Naive | Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:55:00 GMT | 53

Completely out of reality. Russia does everything to avoid WW3. Would it be in real danger, it has the means to defend itself and destroy its enemies. The agressors know this and they are cowards.

I think watcher is correct. Russia is cursed by its geography. 14 countries border Russia, most of them hostile, or at least of dubious allegiance. A whopping two border the US, (and they can’t even control their southern border). Countries, primarily land powers, that border multiple states are often insecure (Germany comes to mind), and so their grand strategies differ from maritime powers like the US or the UK. Russia cuts deals when it can – China, N. Korea, the ‘stans, to shore up its defenses better.
Russia wanted to avoid this war, it still wants to cut a deal with Ukraine. A favorable deal, but a deal nonetheless. It cannot afford to take Kiev, I don’t think it even wants Odessa, despite Micheal J and others stating as such, since an insurgency would drain Moscow of resources. Resources it needs to defend its multiple borders. The Russian assumption is that it will be attacked by NATO, and so must be prepared for this eventuality.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 13 2025 23:50 utc | 60

@54
Were Russian Federation to attack some NAFO provocateur the following years would look like the phoney war between France and Germany from Sep 1939, until May 1940 when Hitler let the Wehrmacht loose.
In the phoney war troops on both sides hung their laundry to dry in full view.
Russian can sit and watch while NAFO sends forces to Poland to be wasted.
US has a fraction the force it had in 1990 and nothing like bases it had in KSA, Turkiye and the Gulf. US lacks the iron mountain needed, especially after Trump gave it to Tel Aviv.

Posted by: paddy | Jul 13 2025 23:58 utc | 62

Russia wanted to avoid this war, it still wants to cut a deal with Ukraine.
Posted by: James M. | Jul 13 2025 23:50 utc | 60
1) It is not a war, it is a SMO.
2) It does not want a “deal”. It wants the capitulation of country 404, its demilitarisation and denazification.
3) It wants a security treaty with the nato countries (the “root causes”).

Posted by: Naive | Jul 14 2025 0:03 utc | 64

Partisans begin to hit TCC people.

Posted by: Naive | Jul 14 2025 0:06 utc | 66

Dmitry Trenin: The West’s war on Russia will go beyond Ukraine
For Moscow, the real war is global, and it’s just begun
https://www.rt.com/news/621262-dmitry-trenin-long-war/

Posted by: smartfox | Jul 14 2025 0:11 utc | 68

Posted by: watcher | Jul 13 2025 21:53 utc | 48
First reread what I said.
Mentioned it was overkill and could even be done to appear an accident.
BTW a lot o people agree RF was far from stellar at the start of the SMO, it was the possible state, the SMO allowed almost doubling size and magnitude levels of improvement on hardware and experience
Unintended consequence for the west (but likely outcome, didn’t kill, made stronger )

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 14 2025 0:39 utc | 70

@Naive | Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:03:00 GMT | 64

1) It is not a war, it is a SMO.
2) It does not want a “deal”. It wants the capitulation of country 404, its demilitarisation and denazification.
3) It wants a security treaty with the nato countries (the “root causes”).

1.) De jure it may be an SMO, but de facto it is a war. A practical definition: War is defined as a pattern of sustained violence between or within states that results in a minimum threshold of 1,000 combatant battle deaths, en total. (Small & Singer, 1982). The Russia-Ukraine conflict far exceeds this, by your own metrics.
2.) Russia always wanted a deal. The deal has altered as the war has gone on, to include new realities on the ground. But the crux of the deal is the same – No NATO/other military alliance, de-militarization to a level acceptable to Russia, (no long-range weapons), and de-Nazification, meaning the intent to target/harm Russia should be eliminated. That doesn’t necessarily mean complete subjugation/surrender. The regime can stay, if it doesn’t target Russia, Ukraine can keep most of its territory, if it agrees soon to a peace deal, etc.
3.) The ideal is for NATO roll-back to 1990 (1997, but there was no expansion of NATO from 1990-1999). Basically NATO countries as of 1997 shouldn’t send/base weapons/troops in other countries, and there should be no more expansion. Practically, that’s not going to happen, but the next best thing would be the US removing forward-based troops/weapons. That would make NATO a dead letter regime – an alliance in name only, since the US is the driver. Then, Russia only needs to deal with the EU countries.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 14 2025 0:55 utc | 72

@71
Trump needs to start WW III because all us MAGA are mad about Trump hiding highly placed pedophiles…..

Posted by: paddy | Jul 14 2025 1:11 utc | 74

Posted by: Naive | Jul 13 2025 23:54 utc | 61 and hopefuly
Yes I grasp geography. You do not.
Russia has excellent ground based weapons and missile technology. So do other nations (eg Iran) and probably the USA (or allies) will start to develop them too (possibly by theft).
It is well placed for a land war but NOT if there is a super alliance against them eg all of NATO which now includes Scandinavia and the Balkans, plus Japan etc. If is underbelly fails it is in trouble (So it will come to the aid of Iran if the US looks likely to go there – It has no choice). It does NOT have a large population for a land army, hence the NK troops are a great idea.
I am tired of the bizarre cope that Kursk was a brilliant trap. It was a stuff up big time. No lipstick on the pig please. Russia has handled it quite well but the pretense it was some sort of clever move is honestly just silly.
It has excellent air defences but it does not have air superiority. This may not matter because they have opted for long range missiles instead, but it is still limiting.
Its navy is an unknown quantity and frankly the Black sea fleet have performed dismally. Indeed one has to suspect treachery. Quite possible since many in the fleet swapped allegiance from Ukraine, but who knows in a full on war where their hearts lie. Navies are still needed to get to the USA in any meaningful way.
Yes Russia could probably pummel USA from a distance but this would never be enough to actually destroy them. At the end of the day Russia would need a land army to control the enraged USA. NK or China may supply the manpower but Russia cannot. How does a land army get there. (Perhaps via Canada – seems funny but I am not entirely joking).
Then we come to nukes. The reality is that although Russia and Russians would be well placed to survive a nuclear holocaust, they would lose their two main cities Moscow and St Petersburg, since even if their air defences stop 90% of the nukes 10/100 would still destroy the cities. Sure it is probable (not certain) that Russian return fire would take out all US cities, leaving a totally disabled population, but it would still leave Russia in a terrible mess too and most of the survivors would need to relocate.

Posted by: watcher | Jul 14 2025 1:43 utc | 76

I am tired of the bizarre cope that Kursk was a brilliant trap. It was a stuff up big time. No lipstick on the pig please.

The lipstick being applied is by yourself and your ilk to the suicidal dipshittery of the NATO peacocks who pushed into Kursk like the fucking gormless clowns they are. Of course these geniuses didn’t risk themselves, they sent tens of thousands of other people to die for their idiocy and hubris.
I’m on the record calling it a trap day one. The NPP was never reached. No objective was achieved, unless you cou t the capture of a supermarket or two and the taking of some civilian hostages. More terrorism, the bread and butter of the increasingly desperate UAF.
As expected, the attrition rate of Ukrainian forces all across the line of conflict increased significantly due to the pressure of Kursk. Massive amounts of men and materiel were lost there yet unsurprisingly here’s yet another NAFO type here to tell me that shit sandwich for the West was anything but what it was.
Historians will call the entire Ukraine debacle a repudiation and strategic diaster of the West, and Kursk is only one of the many avoidable fuckups. A larger scale reenactment of the charge of the Light Brigade – only led from the rear by even less capable officers.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 14 2025 4:21 utc | 78

For clarity, by NATO I mean America and her running dogs. I dont subscribe to the fiction that there is daylight between them. The political leaders of the NATO nations are owned lock stock and barrels by the American blackmail and bribery machine. NATO like Ukraine and like Israel is an American appendage.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 14 2025 4:26 utc | 80

NATO like Ukraine and like Israel is an American appendage.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jul 14 2025 4:26 utc | 80
I agree with you up to the point of who is who’s appendage. Seems to me America is Israel’s appendage, not the other way around.

Posted by: Nooneuknow | Jul 14 2025 4:28 utc | 82

In response to
”
Seems to me America is Israel’s appendage, not the other way around.
Posted by: Nooneuknow | Jul 14 2025 4:28 utc | 82
”
How about if they are both appendages of my God Of Mammon cult representation of Western empire?
Pope Bob is a member of the God Of Mammon cult in the sense that his church supports usury and genocide like in the Crusades…..just ask Saint Augustine…..

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 14 2025 4:39 utc | 84

And weapons sales from the US have to be suffering after the world witnessed how poorly the MIC’s overpriced weapons actually perform in combat.
Posted by: Nooneuknow | Jul 14 2025 4:25 utc | 79
#########
The American MIC is a Multi-level marketing scheme. Everyone buys some stuff to help the guy above them in the hierarchy continue to level up.
Late-stage Capitalism is everyone getting their grandparents and high school friends to buy their product because the market isn’t there, but sales are needed to stave off bankruptcy.
Industries are hollowed out and innovation is at a regressive state. All of the big firms are Zombies, relying on government contracts and stimulus. There is no healthy production left. Financiers swindling each other as they bet on who will go down next.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 14 2025 4:50 utc | 86

Posted by: Passerby | Jul 14 2025 4:27 utc | 81
1944: 3000 V-2’s resulted in 9000 killed. That is 3 dead per missile. (wikipedia)
2025: 620 drones and missiles resulted in six people killed. That is 0.01 dead per missile.
Clearly Russian drones and missiles are hopeless at killing civilians, and I compare this with the much more impressive results achieved by Western munitions when employed (professionally) by the heroic IDF (thank you for these words Bibi)in Gaza and other locations in West Asia.
The RF needs to re-design their offensive inventory to correct this abject failure [/S].

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jul 14 2025 4:53 utc | 88

@Nooneuknow | Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:25:00 GMT | 79

I live within 10 miles of “nuke” silos and I can tell you, those things have never been tested, let alone fired “dry” for the 20 plus years I’ve been in this location.

No nukes in the US have been tested since 1992. But that doesn’t mean they don’t work.

Posted by: James M. | Jul 14 2025 4:59 utc | 90

Found:
As a German, the developments since 2014 – especially since 2020 – have deeply saddened me. I still remember my horror in 2013/2014 when I witnessed Western, including German, NGOs – which in reality act as state-funded intelligence agencies – and first became aware of the extent of the Ukrainian Nazis. My horror grew unimaginably when these murderers, supported by the West – including Germany – began torturing and killing “Russians.”
In Germany, new laws were created or rewritten that could destroy my existence or land me in prison if I publicly write or say something I know to be the truth. This applies to both Russia and Israel. Ultimately, this is the height of deception – a new form of inquisition. Only now the accusation is no longer “heresy” but “disinformation, hatred, and incitement.” It’s an unmistakable sign of where Germany is headed. I would have thought it impossible before, especially given our history.
Back then, Karaganov spoke of using nuclear weapons. I don’t think the Russian leadership will resort to such measures—nor would it be necessary. What Russia will do if it has no other choice—for example, by blockading the Baltic Sea, deploying Taurus missiles, or long-range drones—I don’t know. I can’t see into the minds of Russian decision-makers. But I’m trying to put myself in their perspective. Russia will use other means before using nuclear weapons.
The US is replacing the Europeans as proxies for the dying Ukrainian “proxies.” At the same time, the US is getting rid of Germany as a troublesome industrial competitor—just as it did in World War I and World War II. And each time, it found willing tools in Germany itself.
“Night Thoughts
When I think of Germany at night,
All my sleep vanishes at once,
My eyes refuse to close again,
And burning tears flow like rain.
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And by August…something terrible will happen involving Germany and Russia

Posted by: Nemessis | Jul 14 2025 5:58 utc | 92

Lindsey Graham Threatens Russia With ‘Record’ Arms Flow to Ukraine, Unprecedented Sanctions (& vid)
https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1944530466704408644
“You just watch. In the coming days and weeks, there’s gonna be a massive effort to get Putin to the table’ by forceful means…”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 14 2025 6:06 utc | 94

Yes, pushing through such enormous things is part of the show, just like when you have a showman as president and a closet Nazi as senator.
In all media outlets in the Western bubble, but especially in Germany, the news is broadcast every 15 minutes.
Trump announces HUGE arms deliveries, Trump will announce sanctions of 0,000?%, China will collapse if they buy from Russia, etc.
No mention is made of what would happen with 500% or even 100% tariffs… The USA would be finished, the global economy would collapse.
ERGO
Almost everything is just a show and had to be pushed through beforehand to create panic… Russia laughs, the Kremlin wobbles, in China the bear tops
And I bet
A Trump backpedals very, very quickly… AS ALWAYS, the clown
Report from Sheikh Tamir
Russia plans to intensify its offensive in Ukraine in the next two months.
This is what the newspaper Axios reported, citing details of a recent conversation between Putin and Trump.
Putin told the US President that he would “make new efforts over the next 60 days to occupy territories up to the administrative boundaries of regions where Russia holds significant positions.” According to sources,
Trump himself revealed such details of the conversation in a private conversation with French President Macron.
“He wants to take everything,” Trump told Macron.
How does this fit with Trump’s stupid talk about tariffs on Russia’s business partners and the “largest arms shipment”?
Trump is scared shitless; no show, no ceasefire, and no saving investments.
The dangerous ones are the Europeans if they dare to blockade the Baltic Sea or Germany…long-range weapons with a range of up to about 700 km now, that’s where the danger lies, and Putin will have to act.
Just like St. Petersburg Airport was closed for three days…and no Russian media mentioned it in the headlines…
Why…because the Kremlin didn’t want to react to drones launched from Baltic…which is only about 100 km away.
The Kremlin didn’t want to have to react.
So now, anyone who knew that thousands were stuck at St. Petersburg Airport for three days because air traffic was halted…
Why, no one has contact with St. Petersburg? A Röber lives there, otherwise not even he would know.

Posted by: Nemesiss | Jul 14 2025 6:55 utc | 96

Secondary sanctions over China will not work because China, as already have with primary sanctions, will answer by manacing the ban of rare earth’s and other critical supplies to US.
Maybe India could be impacted.
As for the weapons it would be nice to see what they could give.
The (alleged?) recent Trump declaration of 10 patriot missiles for Ukraine was hilarious.

Posted by: Mario | Jul 14 2025 7:03 utc | 98

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 20:20 utc | 34
Trump did that.
<= I cannot name one thing Trump has done to MAGA except maybe to hide the Epstein client list to the satisfaction of the Pedophile lobby? The USA may have many problems, the only problem America seems to have can be expressed in one five letter word _ _ _ _ _. ?: Responsibility question and jurisdiction question. When a person solicits by outlining proposed actions and promising to do or not to do things if elected during election campaigns, does not that person upon election owe voters a duty to conform government to the essence of the campaign? What if an elected president, a. reigns on or ignores campaign promises? b. commands the USA to do things that violate the essence and promises made during election campaign. c. commands the USA to take from American certain resources and to use, or give, those American Resources in, or to, a foreign place or to use them to support a foreign to America purpose. d. you can complete this list What crime has that elected person committed against voting America? Treason comes to mind, but justice in response to Treason requires a law and Treason seems lacking when considering the seriousness of such a crime.. Human rights are offended so maybe such a crime is a crime against humanity? Obviously, this is a matter for the 2nd government. The 2nd government(those who are governed) governs those who govern..

Posted by: snake | Jul 14 2025 7:19 utc | 100