Dude do you want to ignite a civil war ?
 
Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 22 2026 14:55 utc | 3

 
Why wouldn’t he? Finally a war he could win handily.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 22 2026 14:58 utc | 4

A Date Which will live in Infamy:
28 Feb 2026
Trump and Booboo – digging their own graves.

Posted by: kupkee | Mar 22 2026 15:09 utc | 6

What’s up with Ukraine? No one’s been reporting on it!
UA has been on the ropes since the failure of the 2023 offensive, but it still cannot be finished? 🤔

Posted by: Dingleberry | Mar 22 2026 15:35 utc | 8

Bringing this forward from the tail end of the previous Ukraine thread, just for information purposes:

02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23.These are all the hours around the clock where there is at least one time-stamped posting from @ GM in this thread.Things that make you go hmmm…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 21 2026 11:45 utc | 399

And I now see we can add “15” to the list…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 22 2026 16:01 utc | 10

” Point 3) There would be grounds for “cleaning up” along racial and national lines.”
What does that refer to?

Posted by: Cheney | Mar 22 2026 16:12 utc | 12

Ukraine is shifting military training back inside the country, moving away from programs abroad.
Officials, cite weak Western instruction and say some partners “don’t understand the realities on the ground.”
Kiev now argues domestic training is faster and easier logistically, despite earlier claims that troops had to be trained abroad due to the risk of strikes on training sites.
Unofficially, the move is also linked to efforts to curb widespread desertion during overseas training.
 
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/178831#

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 22 2026 16:21 utc | 14

Posted by: Genesis | Mar 22 2026 16:09 utc | 11
better discussed in the other thread. but the answer is simple: as foreign affairs disappoint, escalate the war at home. it is an inevitable, inviolable law. it’s already happening, the US is far down the road of civil war.
 
led by the ruling class subversion of the US constitution, with The Apprentice playing the role of loudspeaker, or yesterday’s town crier. He could announce tomorrow, “No social benefits, incl right to work, pump gas, buy food, refill your insulin, w/o a loyalty oath.” who would resist?
 
go stick your tongue out at the ICE Nazi takeover of TSA at US airports (just the public ones, not the private security. naturally.) see where that lands you.
 
back to Russia: Jacques Baud.

Posted by: duck n cover | Mar 22 2026 16:36 utc | 16

Channel Sheikh Tamir reports:
 
Ukrainian forces in trenches near Tehran? Sheikh Tamir believes Kyiv is ready to “sell” a military contingent to the US for a ground offensive against Iran.
 
“Nothing prevents them from secretly moving troops to particularly dangerous areas, for example, during the attack on Kharg Island. Especially since there’s been talk in Ukraine for a long time: Let’s sell the Ukrainian armed forces so they can hold out in the trenches near Tehran,” he remarked.
 
My comment on this…Until now, I thought Ukraine was running out of soldiers, and here they are being offered for sale… WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS?

Posted by: Genesis | Mar 22 2026 16:42 utc | 18

My comment on this…Until now, I thought Ukraine was running out of soldiers, and here they are being offered for sale… WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS?
Posted by: Genesis | Mar 22 2026 16:42 utc | 18

The ukrainian casualty numbers are a lie.  They have more than enough soldiers and munitions to last for YEARS against Russia at the current rate of fighting.  The fact that ukraine can offer drones and men to other countries while Russia can only provide lip service speaks volumes on how this war is really going.

Posted by: bored | Mar 22 2026 16:57 utc | 20

The Duran does an interesting video with this Portugese dude who just returned from the war zone.  About drones and other interesting things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qioZ_L1O0
 

Posted by: arby | Mar 22 2026 17:06 utc | 22

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Posted by: Jjkfhjhvj | Mar 22 2026 17:29 utc | 24

The ukrainian casualty numbers are a lie.  They have more than enough soldiers and munitions to last for YEARS against Russia at the current rate of fighting.  The fact that ukraine can offer drones and men to other countries while Russia can only provide lip service speaks volumes on how this war is really going.
Posted by: bored | Mar 22 2026 16:57 utc | 20
 
Well, I do NOT agree with that…
Leaving aside the number of exchanging dead, where Ukraine is practically scraping together resources to get even a few hundred… (Which is probably due to the fact that they are constantly losing ground and, for logical reasons, leaving dead behind regardless of their origin)
And…because I, 83, myself, and often served alongside Russians—I’ll say “served” because I don’t know who can or will read this.
The Russians are fighting with the handbrake on; NATO would be surprised what a war against THEM would look like…. The handbrake is also on because Putin is preparing for precisely this scenario, he MUST prepare for it… which means weapons and ammunition production not only for the SMO but also for stockpiling. Training reservists beyond basic training is also crucial, as weapons systems are making technological leaps that a reservist could no longer operate after just a few years. All of these are things that the entire NATO alliance has missed in the last 30 years, including the USA with its nuclear weapons, which are technologically medieval. And thanks to the new Russian defense systems, the percentage of missiles that would reach their target is drastically reduced to almost zero… at least as far as ballistic missiles are concerned.
As I said, the “handbrake on” regarding the fight against Ukraine has nothing to do with a brotherly people. There is no such thing as a Ukrainian brotherly people by descent… The Ukrainian tribe comprised only a few hundred members… anyone who is called Ukrainian today… or calls themselves Ukrainian, is a native Russian with Russian ancestors.
 
“` In my roughly 12 years working around Kyiv in western Ukraine with many, many colleagues, I NEVER heard Ukrainian spoken.
But anyway… Putin may have made mistakes, and trusting the West was the worst of them… but you always forget the size of Russia. Try protecting that country with ONLY—and I emphasize ONLY—approximately 1.2 million soldiers, when Russia is surrounded along its entire border by hostile states. Do that, and then simultaneously wage war against NATO—currently a covert war.
This NATO would be very, very, very surprised by the Russians’ rapid warfare strategy should they provoke this war to the point where the Russians lose their temper. Not to mention their empty stockpiles and outdated weapons technology…. And finally: Some guy named Zelnsky is already whining about the “alleged offensive” by the Russians… exploiting the stupidity of you and other laypeople who listen… Nothing will happen until May… that’s when the mud season ends in the current fighting areas.
But woe betide the Russians if they advance another 200 km or so, then Raspuia will be gone, the ground will change.
And I bet Odessa will fall in 2026. I’ve written more than I intended… but sometimes your lack of knowledge about Russia just makes me sick.
 
 

Posted by: Genesis | Mar 22 2026 17:38 utc | 26

A lengthy (too long to copypaste) but worthwhile article on the political machinations between Zelensky and the Verkhovna Rada over the IMF-promoted tax increases (needs translation add-on.): https://www.dsnews.ua/politics/ploho-byt-bezotkaznoy-chem-zakonchitsya-krizis-v-treugolnike-vlasti-19032026-455532
 
Some snips:

So, the government had to introduce a bill with these four tax measures, and the president had to work with his faction in parliament and convince them to pass this law as soon as possible. “Servants of the people” sincerely expected a productive conversation with their leader. And you can imagine their surprise when they learned that their leader had a different plan.
 

To do this, the parliament had to adopt in the first reading the government bill No14025 (introduced six months ago) on the taxation of income received on digital platforms. on the initiative of deputies. The Verkhovna Rada was supposed to adopt this law in the second reading, after which Zelensky could severely reprimand the deputies and veto him with a demand to soften something. And the legend of bad people’s deputies and a good president would have taken hold in the public consciousness.
 
This attempt failed on March 10, when the parliament threw the government draft No14025 into the trash . Deputies gave this draft in the first reading only 168 votes, among them “servants of the people” – only 126 (out of 228 members of the faction).

~~~

Compared to the last parliamentary week, the problem with the votes of the “servants of the people” has not only not disappeared, but has become even more acute. Because on March 14, Zelensky reacted to the failure of the project No14025 with a promise to send deputies to the front.
 

“People’s deputies will either have to serve in parliament in accordance with Ukrainian law, or I am ready to discuss with representatives of parliament the law on changes to mobilization so that deputies can go to the front.
 

Of course, the “servants of the people” heard their leader well – and plunged into an even greater depression. The head of the faction, David Arakhamia, was forced to make a reassuring explanation that the president was misunderstood. “The president is ready to discuss with the parliament legislative changes that will allow deputies to be military personnel,” Arakhamia said, disavowing Zelensky’s words ” if you do not serve the state in parliament, then serve the state at the front “.

~~~

And when he was reminded of the calls of some opposition leaders to create a coalition of national unity, he was outraged. “A coalition of national unity is when the necessary laws or reforms aimed at national unity are voted on and implemented,” he replied to the opposition.

Of course, the opposition also heard the president well. He made it clear that, in his understanding, the function of the ruling party is to form a government, and the function of the opposition is to vote for the bills of this government.

It’s good that he didn’t have time to share these bright thoughts with the IMF mission and quickly went on a foreign tour. Because the IMF doesn’t like to give money to people with a totalitarian worldview, knowing from bitter experience that it usually doesn’t end well.

~~~

After the failure of the No14025 project, the authorities came up with an explanation that NABU was to blame for everything, which deprived Zelensky of the opportunity to pay the “servants of the people” black cash for the necessary votes. The idea is not just brilliant, but enchanting. People should probably like that the authorities honestly admitted that earlier the loyalty of the “servants” was bought with money stolen from the state. it was this version that representatives of the leadership of the Servant of the People faction began to voice.

~~~

Kovalchuk reveals a “secret” (which Zelensky and Svyrydenko know very well, but still prefer to ignore): half of the “servants of the people” are rebelling because they do not want to be obedient to the president’s instructions and demand the same disobedience from the government. They demand what is written in the Constitution: that the government obey them, and not the president.
 

“Before agreeing to something in the negotiations, the government should get the position of the parliament, and not then bring the decision to a vote. Physically, there are enough deputies in the hall,” Kovalchuk stressed. – We see votes of 270 and 300 votes. But when there are bills that have not been communicated, they may not gain votes. They receive support. When these are external initiatives without communication, problems arise.”

~~~

One of the leaders of the “Servants of the People” then told Ukrainska Pravda that, perhaps, these “troikas” will be extended not only to internal issues, but also to external negotiation processes. ” So that it does not happen like it is now with the IMF , the government signed a memorandum, and the parliament is shocked by the fact that we are taxing individual entrepreneurs,” he explained. For external negotiations, you can also gather some “troikas” of the profile.”

 

But the opposite happened: Zelensky and Svyrydenko decided to first negotiate with the IMF, and then put the Verkhovna Rada in front of the need to fulfill their promises, and even take on all the negativity, so that Zelensky and Svyrydenko would get only the positive from distributing money to the population.
 

And now Zelensky somehow needs to force the Rada to vote for the IMF’s demands. Whether he will break himself for this and take the crown off his head or again meet with his native faction once in a daring style – we will watch with interest in the coming days.

Numbers on the battlefield are one thing, numbers (or lack thereof) in the Ukrainian treasury may yet prove pivotal.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 22 2026 17:59 utc | 28

@26
Well stated Genesis. Words of wisdom.

Posted by: UBAH | Mar 22 2026 18:04 utc | 30

Australia, Thailand, Vietnam already running out of fuel.
 
In EU, Slovenia, Romania and Moldova are running out of fuel too and fertilizer plants shut down.
 
With Trump inevitably attacking Iran’s main power station Iran will act on the promise to plunge the gulf and Israel into darkness.
 
Pretty soon EU will go down the crapper in a serious manner and so will Ukraine.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 22 2026 18:13 utc | 32

@ Jeremy Rhymings-Lang, sorry for the OT but just to mention it: We’ve been talking about you over at the open thread. From #13 onward

Posted by: Avtonom | Mar 22 2026 18:39 utc | 34

Got side tracked by the Gulf, but seems the SMO is still in full swing, Big Bada Boom:
 
In the footage, a strike on the 105th Air Defense Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with FAb-500 grenades in the area of the village of Velyka Pisarevka in the Sumy region, and a strike on a UAV storage facility of the 100th Motor Rifle Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with FAb-3000 grenades in the city of Konstantinovka.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Mar 22 2026 19:00 utc | 36

”Because the IMF doesn’t like to give money to people with a totalitarian worldview, knowing from bitter experience that it usually doesn’t end well.”
 
That is what is known as an impudent reversal of the truth.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Mar 22 2026 19:22 utc | 38

After History Legends and his friend did an investigation into how many deaths each side really has, these daily (or weekly) Russian figures seem as suspect as the running Ukrainian total that goes well over a million. 
Posted by: Cheney | Mar 22 2026 16:16 utc | 13

 
What did they do ?
 
I remember the “Iraqi Body Count”  NGO from that war – they didn’t actually go out and do any body counts – at least not until the end  when they were exposed as frauds – even though they had been very upfront all along about the fact they did not do bodycounts….
 
Can you give us a link?
 
 

Posted by: hh | Mar 22 2026 20:26 utc | 40

Ukraine has 13 million men. Annual population growth rate was 1% before the war. Assuming same, annual increase in men is 130,000. At most 50% of all men are war worthy. That means Ukraine can afford to lose 350 men a day without suffering catastrophic population loss. At 1,300 a day, Ukraine is headed for an early collapse. It gets worse because not all men can fight wars or produce more Ukies. Give another 2 years of war and Ukraine will collapse as a society. Territory gain is only part of war, extermination is the real deal. Works well for the Pax Rus plan. Ukraine sends men and useless weapons to the middle east not because it can but because it must. 

Posted by: Jason | Mar 22 2026 20:57 utc | 42

@26
Well said.
The main objective is not territory gains but to exterminate the enemy sufficiently, add to the debt trap NATO is in, deplete their weapons stockpile, bust their manufacturing, disrupt the Black Sea and end US led world order. All these are happening. Of course not to any one here’s timetable. The best battles are not spectacular, they are slow, grinding and draining learning lessons along the way. One such lesson is that using cluster munitions deplete air defenses faster. Collateral damage is part of the game and is acceptable in international law.

Posted by: Jason | Mar 22 2026 21:18 utc | 44

O/T 

Dude do you want to ignite a civil war ? Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 22 2026 14:55 utc | 3

 Why wouldn’t he? Finally a war he could win handily.
Posted by: malenkov | Mar 22 2026 14:58 utc | 4
 
I’ll just leave this here….
 
Telegram: View @myLordBebo

Posted by: Suresh | Mar 22 2026 21:41 utc | 46

Newbie | Mar 22 2026 16:21 utc | 14
 
“the move is also linked to efforts to curb widespread desertion during overseas training”
I stayed at a UK hotel a couple of years back, half of which was occupied by Ukrainian families whose husbands were (I think) being trained at the military base down the road. There are a fair number of Ukrainians in the UK now, which makes it easier for deserters from military training to find shelter and work here. The boys of 16 and 17 evacuated here are of military age now but have little desire to go back. 

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 22 2026 21:48 utc | 48

 Point 3) There would be grounds for “cleaning up” along racial and national lines.”What does that refer to?Posted by: Cheney | Mar 22 2026 16:12 utc | 12 Is that really such a difficult question? What is ICE doing in the US right now? Who would consider other criteria?
Posted by: Genesis | Mar 22 2026 16:37 utc | 17
ICE is putting on a show about removing people here ILLEGALLY. They aren’t removing “brown people” as Democrats will knowingly lie. But if they really wanted to enforce immigration law they would raid businesses and arrest and jail and/or fine owners. But the rich and Trump and cronies want illegal workers that they can hire instead of Americans.
And besides the millions of illegal aliens from Latin America and elsewhere, we take in millions of legal immigrants each year, almost all of which are non-white. And no one is proposing that be stopped. No one. Not a single politician in the USA.

Posted by: Cheney | Mar 22 2026 22:27 utc | 50

Lots of Americans, mostly middle and upper class, are completely fine with killing in the name of Empire. They just don’t want it to be presented in such a crude and indelicate manner. More euphemisms and indirect language is needed to protect their illusions of virtue. 
Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 22 2026 15:39 utc | 18

The same for the middle and upper class in most places.;
 
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The media are the opinion makers.
Bush – war maker, torturer, kidnapper (extraordinary renditions) – all ok, if the media says so.
When the Supreme Court STOPPED a recount and Al Gore conceded defeat, CNN became briefly a fridge – but it was ok – the media made sure the public accepted these things.
Imediately after, Bush bombed Iraq (no-fly zone). When asked why, he replied “oh it was just routine”. The media made it all acceptable.
When Trump talked about the mexican wall, no media mentioned that it was just a continuation of the policy started by Clinton – an  iron curtain type border (no difference).

Posted by: hh | Mar 22 2026 22:55 utc | 52

It is impressive seeing a FAB3000 obliterate a multi-story building.  But that apartment block firing position could have been held by just a handful of men, maybe only 3 or 4.  So FABs likely aren’t producing huge KIAs either.
 
Posted by: Drifter | Mar 22 2026 19:03 utc | 37

 
Yes, that’s how I believe the Ukrainian losses are being vastly over-counted. The Russians will note they hit a building used by the Ukrainians but will then estimate it as 20 killed (per that size building or apartment block) when only 4 were killed. I believe they are doing this and tallying it up and it’s giving several times the actual killed.

Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 23 2026 0:20 utc | 54

The dear partners, whose neutral mediation the Kremlin so much appreciates:
 
https://t.me/dva_majors/89997
 

🇹🇷🇺🇸An American unmanned surface vehicle washed ashore on the coast of Turkey on March 21, 2026. Local residents discovered an unmanned boat washed ashore on the Black Sea coast of Turkey’s Ordu province
(in the Yunye district, on a beach in the Yüceler neighborhood). The vehicle was identified as an AEGIR-W , a UAV developed by the American company Sierra Nevada Corporation . It is approximately 10 meters long, has a range of up to 900 km, and can carry up to 300 kg of payload.
The Turkish military conducted a controlled detonation of the vehicle at sea approximately 2 miles from the shore , as it could have been packed with explosives.
✨Officially, the ownership of the device is not designated by anyone , but everyone understands that this device was tested or used🇺🇦Ukraine for subversive purposes against🇷🇺Russia . In September-October 2025, two Ukrainian kamikaze submarines were discovered in this part of the Turkish coast , also washed ashore due to loss of control.
The relevance of this threat is confirmed by the signs we previously identified of preparations, starting in the summer of 2025, for attacks on Russian underwater energy infrastructure (Turkish and Blue Streams) “under the flag” of Ukraine . The President of Russia confirmed the existence of such aspirations among foreign intelligence agencies in February of this year .

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 0:38 utc | 56

FYI, new History Legends video just dropped, “US to Launch Ground Invasion of Iran… Without a Plan“.  Yep, pretty much, served with sarcastic humour.  Some speculation that the Kharg Island talk is just misdirection, and that storming the Konorak base in the Gulf of Oman is the real plan – such as it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9xuuc1U_pc

Posted by: Drifter | Mar 23 2026 0:40 utc | 58

Deeper and deeper:
 
https://t.me/belarusian_silovik/71464
 

The enemy attacked Ufa and, presumably, a Bashneft facility.
The target was a local oil refinery.
Incidentally, attacks on oil refineries have resumed.

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 0:43 utc | 60

FYI, new History Legends video just dropped, “US to Launch Ground Invasion of Iran… Without a Plan“.  
 
Posted by: Drifter | Mar 23 2026 0:40 utc | 58

 
Highly doubtful this is all without a plan. It has been in planning for decades. And Trump doesn’t plan or decide anything here. It’s inconceivable the decision tree has not been thoroughly mapped out many years ago.
 
Take a look at Russia. For four years various alt-media grifters have been telling us how Russia is running circles around the decadent and incompetent West. Meanwhile the decadent and incompetent West achieved the absolutely inconceivable — free reign to launch missile strikes anywhere inside Russia plus an effective maritime blockade of Russian exports — all while the Kremlin not only hasn’t ended their decadent and incompetent existence in response, but is “negotiating” with them as “neutral mediators”.
 
Did anyone imagine that outcome four years ago? Honest answers only. 
 
How do you achieve such a previously inconceivable outcome? Certainly not by being incompetent idiots. You achieve it by very careful analysis of the psychological and internal socio-economic weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the other side, and decades of thorough planning of each step of the escalation ladder climb and how to take advantage of those weaknesses. Incompetent idiots can’t do that. 
 
So don’t for a second think that the US is making this up as they go along. There is a plan.
 
It doesn’t mean it will work — while there are many traitors and internal vulnerabilities in Iran the Shia as a whole have proven to be the sole force in this world with sufficient moral conviction and courage to seriously resist (we can add North Korea to the list, but that’s it really, and they have to be tested before we are truly certain about them).
 
Russia, on the other hand, is not only full of traitors and internal vulnerabilities, but it’s leadership is fully compromised too, and its people didn’t find it in them to rise up and replace that leadership, suggesting that a sufficiently large proportion of society has degraded to the point where even the defense of the motherland is not a cause they would rally behind the way they are supposed to (and once upon a time regularly did). A weakness the West had smelled a long time ago and is exploiting to the fullest. 
 
They must see something analogous in Iran too. And if Iran continues to be bombed, while the CONUS is not bombed proportionally and Israel is not completely erased from the map, Iran will eventually lose the war.

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 0:57 utc | 62

Continuing from the above — Russia still is within another window of opportunity to end the war. It can physically isolate Ukraine from NATO, by eliminating at the very least the first belt of countries around it with the appropriate strategic weapons. Then the war will change again, because Ukraine is 100% dependent on imports of everything to continue to fight, and it will then be finished off with a few weeks to months.
 
Russia can go further than that in fact, and it would be well deserved — the cancer on the face of the planet that is the northern European Protestant world has to be excised. It has done more than enough evil worldwide to warrant it. 
 
But that window is also closing, because you see Poland, Germany, Sweden, etc. talking about acquiring nuclear weapons now.
 
When they get them, they will be all thrown into a big conventional war with Russia, which Russia will not be able to shut down immediately with nukes as at that point there will be a deterrent on the other side. And it will lose that war because the other side has an overwhelming advantage in manpower and material resources. 
 
And yet the traitors in the Kremlin appear set to blow their last chance to save the country too…

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 1:08 utc | 64

And yet the traitors in the Kremlin appear set to blow their last chance to save the country too…
Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 1:08 utc | 64
 
You’re wasted here, you should go protest in front of the Kremlin and offer the traitors your intricate and insightful ideas on how to end the war. But you won’t because you’re a western debil, sitting comfortably in your armchair playing a general on matters you know nothing about.

Posted by: pinche | Mar 23 2026 1:14 utc | 66

https://t.me/dva_majors/90013
 

Since this evening, the enemy has been attacking the Leningrad Region with drones. The attack continues to be repelled. Governor:
 
In total, more than 50 drones have been destroyed over the Leningrad Region.
 
A fuel tank was damaged in the port of Primorsk, causing a fire. Firefighting efforts are underway, and personnel have been evacuated.

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 3:15 utc | 68

Yesterday, in the Belgorod border area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a post office and a store with a missile, killing four women.Today, in the Kursk region, Rylsk came under attack, killing two civilians.
Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 0:41 utc | 59
 
Putin is not bothered by the 4 women killed and another 2 civilians as oil prices are up and it will help the economy.

Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 23 2026 3:53 utc | 70

Biswapriya Purkayastha | Mar 23 2026 4:50 utc | 73
So one “russian friend”, voter for LDPR party (4,67 % votes in the last Duma elections) is saying that all Russians are sick of Putin and internet outages…
Sounds legit

Posted by: sh0tek | Mar 23 2026 5:38 utc | 72

Yes and yes and hell yes!

Posted by: sh0tek | Mar 23 2026 5:52 utc | 74

I must admit that I don’t understand why drones are not just shot out of the sky.
A properly designed shot gun type weapon should be able to do it.
It could be guided, automatic, accurate and fast.
Why not?

Posted by: G wiltek | Mar 23 2026 6:13 utc | 76

Russians are sick of Putin soft pedalling the SMO and think that all it’s doing is enriching Putin’s oligarch cronies. Russians are sick of Internet outages and drone attacks, airports being closed, and so on.  Russians want the Ukranazis finished off and this thing done and dusted.
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Mar 23 2026 4:50 utc | 73

 
This was the West’s Plan C or so — bet on Putin being an absolute coward/traitor because of his compromised loyalties and general incompetence and indecisiveness (there was a long consistent such pattern going back many years), not finishing the job properly in Ukraine, and that eventually creating such an intolerable situation in Russia that you get another February revolution, but this time not followed by an October too, only by the collapse of 1918.
 
Putin has played right into it, just as the West bet. 

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 6:24 utc | 78

https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/2035471662058291633?s=20 Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Mar 23 2026 4:50 utc | 73

 
Apparently RWA got attacked for that too, just as I am here:
 
https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/2035841816096833710
 

Some Western “pro-Russians” have been accusing us of “dooming”, going after our latest podcast description and loudly denouncing us.
 
We’re sorry if it stung, but that’s the way things actually are. We’ve always treasured the freedom to say what’s actually going on in Russia, the country we actually live in, and it’s a freedom our conscience allows us.
 
To clarify: “Putin’s stability is over” is an objective fact. Stabilnost’ — the cornerstone ideologeme of the Kremlin for the past two decades — has dissipated. The word itself is deeply loaded in Russian, connotating stagnation among other things, and is used mostly ironically. What’s certain is that this tired old trope is entirely incompatible with the world we live in. And it’s good that it’s dying.
 
Ukraine’s terror campaign, coupled with the Kremlin’s panicked move to “ban the internet”, is about as far from “stability” as you can get. The point of our latest podcast was that this is essentially a good development. Only when the fake facade of normalcy disappears can real change take place. We’re in a transitional period, shedding the vestiges of a world that no longer exists. Do listen to the episode, it’s pretty optimistic, actually.
 
We will continue to talk about all the bad decisions and misguided ideas coming out of Russian leadership, because the current administration is temporary, and Russia is eternal. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

 
And they never said anything bad about Putin previously. 
 
 

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 6:43 utc | 80

GM is getting close to  20% of the posts in this thread. Well done.  If we include its pet socks, probably more than 1 in 5. 
 
Putin is a Jewish traitor – we get it. You win.  Putin has never done anything for the russian people, ever, and is just a thief out to line his own pockets while destroying the Russian federation. If you follow his career since  the 1990s you can clearly see he has been nothing but corrupt incompetence for 3 decades. (/sarc for the literal-minded and Americans)
 
@GM 2 points: 
 
1. Please don’t reply to this post. I have no interest in your ai spammed propaganda, and i will just scroll past, as I now do with all your other pointless nonsense. Any response won’t be read, so don’t bother.
 
2. Please, for the love of God, just go. Leave. Desist. Give it a rest. Go and pick on some other poor, unsuspecting corner of the Internet. Just for a day or two. My scrolling finger is rubbed raw from passing by all your endless drivel.
 
Apologies to all for taking up what little space is remaining with a poke at a bot. Serves no useful purpose, but makes me feel better temporarily.  I read somewhere that by the end of 2027 the Internet will be unusable because of AI, and it would seem that GM is just an early adopter.

Posted by: Occasional poster | Mar 23 2026 7:20 utc | 82

>> Too bad they don’t have the brains to see the bigger context

Useless insult.

Posted by: norice | Mar 23 2026 7:43 utc | 84

I have heard that artillery is still behind the 80% of losses. Assuming drones are 1:1, that would make it 1:5 before FABs.
 
UA orders are to hold the position at all costs and die when overwhelmed, RF falls back when overwhelmed.
 
IIRC History Legends counted KIA from videos posted online. Projecting the total losses from that assumes that the same percentage of losses is recorded and posted online by both sides.

Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Mar 23 2026 7:49 utc | 86

Slow SMO for weapon stockpiling and training and training, yes. Si vis pacem parabellum, the Russians are planning for a complete war against Nato countries. Another point regarding military manpower is about all the command officers. Peacetime officers are often pointless and should be replaced by good ones. Also organising logistics (out of corruption procurement). The West hasn’t start that. They are not scared enough.
Posted by: Asian Frog | Mar 23 2026 3:29 utc | 71
 
 
Wrong!!
 
They are NOT planning this attack!
 
They are preparing for a NATO attack.
 
When will you finally understand this…? NATO will escalate at the latest when Odessa is attacked. Kyiv is of no concern to any Western strategist.Without Odessa, everything Ukraine once was is lost.
 
And investors in raw materials and the expected harvests know that without Odessa, all raw materials, let alone wheat and other crops, can be transported overland through EU countries, which will by no means be friendly to the rest of Ukraine regarding the economy and cheap produce.
 
This overland transport option alone would scare off ALL investors.
 
Therefore, Odessa MUST be held, even under the threat of World War III… as long as it happens in Europe, the investors don’t care anyway, quite the opposite!

Posted by: Genesis | Mar 23 2026 8:26 utc | 88

Russia can win only with nuclear weapons.
Posted by: Simon | Mar 23 2026 8:06 utc | 90

 
Very soon that won’t be an option either

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 8:32 utc | 90

SMO in numbers. 
1488
 
This one gies out to all the Nazis. the nato high command. 
 
Slavaring drooling mouth breather idiocrazy Banderists and their green goblin evaporating in the wester media eyeballs daily more with the grander folly trying to nazioficate the ancient Persian peoples. 
 
It is day 1488
 
Of the SMO slow slow burn…
 
 
the SOBS can cry harder for their 14 and 88 lost glories. 
 
Harder I say.  Cry more. 
 
fucking Nazi losers – this time they don’t get to escape to the Waste.
 
Nazi nato ziofascist tyranny gets another boot in the teeth sending them flying everywhere. 1488 days of pain and it’s still relentlessly, exquisitely sloooowww babies. Enjoy it ! 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 23 2026 8:43 utc | 92

I hope the armchair Generals dissing Putin here are well paid for their ongoing screeds.
 Too bad they don’t have the brains to see the bigger context 
 
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 23 2026 6:32 utc | 81

 
The bigger context is that NATO is freely bombing anything it wants (e.g. right now the export terminal in Primorsk is burning after more than 70 drones were launched towards Leningrad region) everywhere in the European part of Russia and Putin cannot be bothered to even acknowledge it is happening, let alone respond.

Posted by: GM | Mar 23 2026 9:04 utc | 94

@ GM

What was your opinion of Prigo, the drama he created, and his demise?

Posted by: norice | Mar 23 2026 9:13 utc | 96

So much for Iran…Channel Resistance – just reported:
 
The Iranian power and gas grids are virtually indestructible. The Pentagon knows this. They’re keeping it from you.
 
Iran doesn’t just have energy infrastructure. It possesses one of the most modern and redundant power and gas networks in the world.
 
Just imagine:
 
400 kV and 230 kV high-voltage power lines crisscross every province.
 
More than ten IGAT gas pipelines each form their own national lifeline.
 
Hundreds of substations are connected to six neighboring countries.
 
South Pars, the largest gas field in the world, feeds the entire network.
 
Compressor stations are located every 100–200 km – the system is self-sufficient.
 
The US couldn’t permanently destroy the Iraqi power grid in 20 years of occupation – the Iranian one is three times more advanced.
 
The Iranian gas transmission network is larger than the Canadian one. Canada!
 
Iran is internationally connected to Turkey, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Iraq—it cannot be isolated.
 
The media shows you missile launches and “precision strikes.”
 
They do NOT show you that Iran’s infrastructure was built precisely for such wars.
 
So, if Iran’s power grid cannot be destroyed—and its gas network is self-sufficient—and the country is connected to half of Asia…
 
Why then does the Pentagon claim it can cripple Iran within 72 hours?
 
Because they are LYING.
 
Iran is not Iraq. Iran is not Libya. Iran is a country that has been preparing for precisely this scenario for 40 years—and its infrastructure proves it.
 
The most dangerous moment of this war is not the dropping of the bombs. It is the moment Washington realizes the bombs are ineffective.
Prepare accordingly.
 
 
https://t.me/s/RezistanceTrench1

Posted by: Genesis | Mar 23 2026 9:26 utc | 98

Posted by: Genesis | Mar 23 2026 8:26 utc | 91
They are NOT planning this attack!     
 Asian Frog | Mar 23 2026 3:29 utc | 71 did not say this, but implied (correctly IMO) that the RF is planning for a serious war with NATO.

 
I think you (Genesis | Mar 23 2026 8:26 utc | 91) are also correct in implying that this overt RF/NATO war would start with a NATO attack on RF forces-probably as a result of a RF threat to Odessa.  But in order for the Russian army to threaten Odessa it has to get a large capable force with very good secure logistics across the Dnieper river.
To do hat sensibly the Ukrainian/NATO forces in the eastern fortress belt (Slaviansk-Konstantinova) have to be eliminated.  This task in itself requires very good preparation for its success-with minimal RF casualties-, and this is primarily what the RF is doing at present. 
 

When the RF thinks it is sufficiently prepared it will attack these fortress enclaves.  And then…we will see.

I think the   capture of Odessa by the RF is crucial to the overall success of the war from the Russian POV.  Again, we will see.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Mar 23 2026 9:31 utc | 100