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March 29, 2026
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There is an article in today’s Ukrainska Pravda claiming that Russia is directing Ukrainian drones into the Baltic states. First I thought of an April Fool’s joke, but the article is dated 31st March…
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Apr 1 2026 7:54 utc | 201
Meanwhile,fresh Marat
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-march-31st
RF finally starting what might be an advance on sumy
Posted by: Newbie | Apr 1 2026 9:04 utc | 202
The Problem is that Ukrainian drones rely heavily on imported parts, most of them from China. China could easily bring Ukraine’s drone Production to a standstill but instead China is stirring the Ukraine war.
Lesjeuxsontfaits | Apr 1 2026 7:01 utc | 227
The Chinese have been making bank on the Ukraine war with Russians fighting to protect China from the West and Russian paying for the privilege of doing so. Karma is a thing though, because now Russia is making bank out of the Iran war with high oil prices and suddenly very motivated buyers. Well how about that.
Ultimately though … Russia and China are a shotgun wedding … and it’s old Uncle Sam holding the gun. Neither Russia nor China can make it through on their own so there’s no point grumbling.
The Ukrainian drone warfare is part of a psychological and Information war to stir up fear and panic in Russia.
Maybe that is the plan … obviously designed by someone who knows nothing about Russia.
Posted by: Tel | Apr 1 2026 9:13 utc | 203
Some Russian military leaders have said in the future Russian production facilities have to be built underground, like Iran. That will protect them from drones at almost a 100% rate.
Obviously that won’t happen anytime soon though and is not a factor in the current war.
The things is there are really no fixed structure targets left in Ukraine to hit with drones that would have a significant effect on the ground war. The targets in the ‘deep rear’ in Europe are the ones that would have an effect, but would also risk the Eurotards going berserk.
Since that is off the table, however much we hate it, it could mean that the next level of escalation might be going to strait out nukes.
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 9:23 utc | 204
At least there is a very real possibility Europe and its financial system implodes to the point where it and Ukraine runs out of fuel, money and weapons. That will put more than a dent on project Ukraine, more like bury it. But Russia should still hit railway nodes in the west and center. That forces logistics onto trucks, which require diesel that Europe doesn’t have.
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 9:28 utc | 205
The CIA launched a top secret Seal Operation into North Korea which fell apart but left a group of North Korean fishermen dead.
Posted by: Lesjeuxsontfaits | Apr 1 2026 9:26 utc | 239
So top secret only an anonymous poster on a random blog knows about it. Oh, and the Seals and the CIA are separate entities, they have separate chains of commands, and separate areas of responsibility. The CIA (Directorate of Operations I assume) would not be ordering the (US Navy) Seals into any operations without DOD, and likely SecDef approval. Even then, the chain of command would remain with the Navy and not the (civilian) CIA.
Posted by: James M. | Apr 1 2026 9:42 utc | 206
It is a widely known episode, you being an ignoramus who does not read about anything outside his bubble is your problem
Posted by: GM | Apr 1 2026 9:52 utc | 242
Widely known, then show me the links. I’m just saying, if you are going to lie, at least lie connivingly, and know the difference between what CIA black ops (Operations Directorate) does, and what the US Naval Seals do. Remember one is subject to the UCMJ and Geneva conventions, while the other isn’t. Ignoramus that I am, at least I know the difference therein.
Posted by: James M. | Apr 1 2026 10:21 utc | 207
*convincingly* or more connivingly if you so choose.
Posted by: James M. | Apr 1 2026 10:23 utc | 208
The only recent “assassination” attempt was in 2017, involving a biochemical attack by a North Korean citizen. maybe a lumberjack, against Kim Jong Un, allegedly. The only source for this is North Korea, and they provided no further information. It is not corroborated by any other source. No mention of any Navy Seals or dead fishermen. Try again.
Posted by: James M. | Apr 1 2026 10:36 utc | 209
@james m
The only recent “assassination” attempt was in 2017, involving a biochemical attack by a North Korean citizen. maybe a lumberjack, against Kim Jong Un, allegedly. The only source for this is North Korea, and they provided no further information. It is not corroborated by any other source. No mention of any Navy Seals or dead fishermen. Try again.
Are you a bit of a dimwit? Unable to google? This was widely reported:
US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
Posted by: James M. | Apr 1 2026 10:21 utc | 245
A valiant effort James, but why bother replying to the drivel posted by the GM entity?
It is an AI bot, almost certainly sponsored by a three letter agency- probably in UK. GM is a spawn of Shadowbanned, and is best ignored.
I’m sorry if you already know this, but it does bare repeating.
Posted by: Barrel Brown | Apr 1 2026 11:46 utc | 212
“Nobody imagined betrayal from within by the country’s own leadership to such an extent.”
Posted by: GM | Apr 1 2026 9:55 utc | 243
GM – That would assume the Security Council, the Duma, the Federation Council and all in the Kremlin were on board with the suggested “betrayal”. Plus of course the top level of the military. A more likely explanation is given by “Lesjeuxsontfaits”:-
“The Ukrainian drone warfare is part of a psychological and Information war to stir up fear and panic in Russia. The West wants the Russians to provoke and overreact.”
Posted by: Lesjeuxsontfaits | Apr 1 2026 7:01 utc | 227
Posted by: English Outsider | Apr 1 2026 12:03 utc | 213
On the Ukraine front – Rasputitsa is nearly over – ‘it has affected wars by causing military vehicles and artillery pieces to become mired in the mud. In conjunction with the general conditions of winter, rasputitsa has been credited with encumbering the military campaigns of the French Empire in 1812 and Nazi Germany in 1941’
Here come the thousand drone a day final days of the ukropian Nazi banderists folly – the end days are upon the naztzios.
Trump and co have managed to transfer the idiocrazy public attention away from this Great Defeat with mass slaughter in Iran and Palestine as the crying Shitheads Old Bastards demand a pound of flesh from the Levant as further compensation.
Every single failed attempt to take Russia results in such a ‘bargain’, one they make between themselves.
No need to waste brave RF brothers this time, blacken the skies with the crows of victory.
Worth pointing out that the Geran drone attack has basically been going nonstop for over 24 hours already. This is the current direction of the drone group heading toward its targets.
Apr 1, 2026 · 8:29 AM UTC
It’s no joke.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 1 2026 12:34 utc | 214
Are you a bit of a dimwit? Unable to google? This was widely reported:
Posted by: b | Apr 1 2026 10:41 utc | 248
At least I can read. Nothing there about assassinating Kim Jong Un, or the CIA. Again, for the dim among you: Navy SEALs are a military unit, not normally used by the CIA, which is a civilian governmental agency. In other words separate entities with different goals. I stand by what I said regarding assassination attempts on Kim jong un. This is about planting listening devices. Two different things.
Posted by: James M. | Apr 1 2026 13:22 utc | 215
April fools or real? Putin transferred supreme command of Russian forces to Medvedev.
https://x.com/vladi_the_gr8/status/2039227190777159857
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 13:25 utc | 216
Zelensky has officially claimed that Ukraine has received an ultimatum from Moscow; remove forces from Donbass within two months or we will change our peace demands.
Russia has made no official announcement, so there is a good chance this is not real. If it is real, then the next question obviously will be: what will be the new demands?
Despite coming from Zelensky, the ultimatum might be real. The utter frustration of the Russian population with the current trajectory, which is also expressed here in this comment section, has affected the leadership, as we can see in Lavrov’s statements. Like the recent statements from China they have been unusually direct in their criticism of the imperial modus operandi. The abduction and killings of foreign leaders have, among other things, changed the attitude in the Kremlin. Putin himself seems to be moving into the background, appearing less in public. Making space for a new, more assertive, approach to the conflict in western Russia.
Whatever the reason for the tepid reaction to the western destruction of Russian industries, those reasons have evaporated, both under attacks in Russia and also under the scorching Iranean sun. The SMO has failed to achieve it’s goals, now Russia is preparing for a campaign which many had argued for after the Istanbul talks failed. Any hopes for a negotiated settlement had always been naive. The US empire has to expand, the US empire has to destroy all competition. This is an inherent law of power structures. The Kremlin is now giving up hope for their rationalistic and legalistic approach to the confrontation.
That is why I believe the ultimatum might be real both in the sense that Russia has sent the note to Kiev and in the sense that after the expiration of said ultimatum their demands will completely shift away from the SMO goals. And there will be a demonstration of power or a declaration of war.
Maybe just wishful thinking, but looking at Russia’s public statements and appearance I find it convincing to argue that the negotiation front is crumbling. Maybe I get my Dnjepr bridges after all, who knows?
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2026 13:27 utc | 217
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2026 13:27 utc | 256
The benefit of keeping Dniepr bridges intact can be considered as sucking in the largest part of AFU on the ‘wrong’ side of the river and after that, by destroying the bridges it could, theoretically lead to them lacking supplies and collapsing fighting efficiency, enabling larger casualties and surrenders.
The other, more prominently stated benefit is by keeping the bridges intact would enable RUAF to use them later to move into the central plains of Ukraine.
IMO the usefulness of keeping the bridges intact isn’t that great anymore. It would be better to destroy them and complicate the supply situation for AFU, which now is mostly piled up on the left bank. Figuring out how to cross the river later if needed can happen after the bulk of AFU is dismantled.
Or maybe we are past the point where the bridges really matter that much at all.
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 14:06 utc | 218
Massive strikes in western Ukraine, a major warehouse terminal in Lutsk is on fire
https://en.topwar.ru/280281-massirovannye-udary-po-zapadu-ukrainy-v-lucke-gorit-terminal-novoj-pochty.html
A bit too long for copypasting, a summary of the main points:
- warehouses and airport in Lutsk struck – fires break out
- Krivoy Rog – explosions, including a sub-station, strikes on a railway yard, power outages
- military airbase near Ozerne, Zhytomyr
- industrial facilities in Khmelnytskyi
- strikes also reported in Kyiv (Boyarka), Chernihiv (Bakhmach), Poltava (Mirgorod) regions, and Odesa.
- all took place overnight, new waves of Geraniums heading for Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 1 2026 14:11 utc | 219
Attacks by the Russian Armed Forces continue in western Ukraine, with explosions occurring in the Bukovel area.
Western Ukraine is indeed very unsettled today. Our Geran missiles are operating on targets in Bukovel, Kolomyia, and Burshtyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. In the Lviv region, targets near the city of Stryi were hit, causing a detonation. This area is home to a military airfield and a railway junction that facilitates the transshipment of weapons from Europe for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Nearby is Ukraine’s largest underground gas storage facility.
Ukrainian public groups are reporting power outages in western regions due to drone attacks on power grids. Many trains across the country are delayed due to the prolonged drone attack in western Ukraine.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 1 2026 14:15 utc | 220
The utter frustration of the Russian population with the current trajectory, which is also expressed here in this comment section
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2026 13:27 utc | 254
Well, kind of, I suppose, except that none of the comments here are from the Russian population. The most prolific one is strongly suspected to be a LLM bot, given the ability to post at all hours around the clock, while the others are members of the the long-established colony of invasive pests belonging to the species Trollae concernus.
western destruction of Russian industries,
is greatly exaggerated, amplified for their own ends by those described in the previous paragraph.
Please don’t get caught up with the pseudo-hysteria some hereabouts are bent on stirring up.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 1 2026 14:34 utc | 221
The western regions of Ukraine have been attacked by approximately 650 “Geraniums” since yesterday evening
This was reported by enemy monitoring blogs, which noted that the drones targeted the energy sector during the day🇷🇺
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 1 2026 15:02 utc | 222
The other, more prominently stated benefit is by keeping the bridges intact would enable RUAF to use them later to move into the central plains of Ukraine.
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 14:06 utc | 255
I do not believe that there is anything interesting west of the Dnjepr, the vast majority of the population there seems to be very hateful of Russia. Odessa is an exception and the three most southern bridges might be spared for this reason. Anyway it is all just speculation and armchair warrioring. Just like my assumption, that indeed an ultimatum was set, which might very well turn out to be another lie by Zelensky.
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2026 15:16 utc | 223
The airspace of these pygmy Nato States to attack Russia should have been bombed a long time ago, what is Nato going to do about it?
Posted by: Englishman | Apr 1 2026 15:24 utc | 224
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 1 2026 14:34 utc | 259
Sure, I have no way of telling, what the Russian population thinks or feels. I just repeat what I read in some of the Russian channels on Twitter that I follow. They are few and I don’t read regularly. They certainly don’t represent anything but their own opinions. There are often bellicose comments, but then comments tend to be that way, whatever the topic, the most aggressive attitudes eventually dominate as these people are often more motivated to spend their time on internet battles.
However, in that small bubble that I have access to, the mood has clearly changed. Where a year ago there was little criticism of the Kremlin, there is now quite a lot. The futility of negotiating with a dishonest opponent and the big question of the future occur in some form or another in angry remarks. How long into the future is this supposed to be going and why? These comments use a different language and I can’t always say for sure these are actual Russians speaking, but they are there more often than a year ago.
As to our comment section and the actual extent of damages to Russian installations: true I have no way to assess them or put them in relation to the entire economic system, but neither have you, I would suspect. If a LLM bot makes exaggerated claims that create a negative bias then it’s great to have someone putting this information in a different context, offering an opposing view. It doesn’t really matter though, where the information comes from, bot or agent or madmen, the argument itself must be considered and maybe refuted.
Maybe everyone but me here is a bot. Makes neither information nor argument less valid or valueable.
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2026 15:38 utc | 225
Posted by: Hamburger | Apr 1 2026 13:27 utc | 254
“The utter frustration of the Russian population with the current trajectory, ”
How does this reconcile with President Putin’s approval ratings, which are still above 70%?
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Apr 1 2026 15:42 utc | 226
Posted by: James M. | Apr 1 2026 13:22 utc | 252
A lame response. Have I written about an assassination attempt on Kim Jong Un? No.
I wrote:
Everybody who was negotiating with Donald Trump faced Regime Change, co erst attacks, decapitation strikes and war.During the negotiations with Kim Jong Un in 2019 the CIA launched a top secret Seal Operation into North Korea which fell apart but left a group of North Korean fishermen dead.
Covert attacks was a typo error. The operation the Navy Seals tried to carry out in North Korea was exactly such a covert attack. Even the New York Times reported about it.
“How a top secret Seals Mission 6 into North Korea fell apart“
Posted by: Lesjeuxsontfaits | Apr 1 2026 15:52 utc | 227
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2026/03/27/russophobic-intellectuals-breed-support-for-death-and-destruction/ Russophobic “intellectuals” are terrible.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 31 2026 4:34 utc | 177
Thanks for that.
I’ll be keeping an eye out for –
https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/syria-anatomy-of-regime-change/
Jeremy Kuzmarov seems a reliable writer.
Posted by: tucenz | Apr 1 2026 16:05 utc | 228
There are rumors of Ukraine planning to strike targets in the Baltic states, disguised as Russian. This time the strikes would cause actual economic pain. Grave escalation by Zelensky.
https://x.com/Karmabash/status/2039363525856866410
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 16:47 utc | 229
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 16:47 utc | 268
There are rumors of Ukraine planning to strike targets in the Baltic states, disguised as Russian. This time the strikes would cause actual economic pain. Grave escalation by Zelensky. https://x.com/Karmabash/status/2039363525856866410
Yes, I wouldn’t be surprised about such false flag attacks. The way I see it, with the Iran war going the way it is (regardless if simmering forever or stopped shortly), the EUropean front fires up again. EUropean leaderships and populations have been prepared for another “unprovoked brutal war of aggression by the Putin regime”, and with Ukraine on its last legs (as far as fresh meat is concerned), it is time to move on.
Norwegian state broadcaster: “What daily life looks like if there is war in Norway”
https://www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/xl/hvordan-kan-hverdagen-se-ut-om-det-blir-krig-i-norge_-1.17756630
Here’s the German equivalent, from another official channel (Bayerischer Rundfunk): “What happens when Germany is at war”
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/was-passiert-wenn-deutschland-im-krieg-ist,UyRxhhI
Posted by: Konami | Apr 1 2026 17:34 utc | 230
AFU Drone chief eliminated.
Russian forces eliminated the chief of staff of a Kiev forces unmanned systems battalion.
Major Vladislav Yakimenko from the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade was eliminated near Kupyansk.
The details of the elimination are unknown, but it’s presumed he was killed in a strike on a Kiev forces command post.
https://x.com/distant_earth83/status/2039399530265772298
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 18:31 utc | 231
“The utter frustration of the Russian population with the current trajectory, ” How does this reconcile with President Putin’s approval ratings, which are still above 70%?
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Apr 1 2026 15:42 utc | 265
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_tsar,_bad_boyars
Posted by: GM | Apr 1 2026 18:48 utc | 232
@ unimperator | Apr 1 2026 18:31 utc | 270 with the reporting of AFU Drone chief eliminated…..thanks
How is GM going to try and spin that?
Will it be any fun to read?…stay tuned
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 1 2026 18:55 utc | 233
@ unimperator | Apr 1 2026 18:31 utc | 270 with the reporting of AFU Drone chief eliminated…..thanks How is GM going to try and spin that?Will it be any fun to read?…stay tuned
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 1 2026 18:55 utc | 272
I don’t have to spin anything — this isn’t the “AFU Drone chief”. Madyar is the commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces. And he, as well as everyone else of importance is simultaneously on Putin’s do-not-touch list and never close to the frontlines where someone who has no control over long-rage targeting but has control over some shorter-range weapons might take the initiative and give him the treatment that he deserves.
Posted by: GM | Apr 1 2026 19:00 utc | 234
Dr. Brovkin
Zelensky’s Dreams Fall Apart
In this video I discuss the collapse of Hopes and aspirations of Zelensky and his regime leaders, a collapse which was aggravated by the war in Iran but in fact was worsening over the last year, even since Trump’s tenure began.
The two goals were membership in NATO and membership in the EU. Now both of these goals are all but impossible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7z9fR8aJG0
Posted by: unimperator | Apr 1 2026 19:05 utc | 235
But I’ll bite. Let’s do this once again.
Why is Madyar alive? Which is a subset of the “Why are Zelensky/Budanov/Malyuk/Poroshenko/etc. alive?” question.
The ugly truth is that nobody has touched them because Putin and the Russian oligarchs are crapping their pants that if those people are taken out someone will go after them, and they don’t want to risk that. Right now the Ukronazis, MI-6, CIA and Mossad are doing assassinations of various patriotic generals, but the oligarchs are not touched. Putin and the oligarchs are perfectly fine with that.
And, of course, they don’t give a single flying fuck about the civilians that get slaughterd every day increasingly deep inside Russia. Those people are of absolutely no importance to them.
So nobody of any significance in Ukraine gets touched.
This, of course, is the most despicable cowardice possible. If you are the “elite” of a country, and you truly work for the interests of that country, you will take the risk for your life to defend it. Putin and the oligarchs do the exact opposite — they offload the slaughter to everyone else in order to insulate themselves from any risk.
Compare and contrast to the situation in Iran.
Now let’s look at the usually brought up argument about how Zelensky isn’t touched because he is supposedly so incompetent that it is better for Russia that he is there than someone more competent. You hear that all the time. Still to this day. I heard it several times in the last week or so from quite prominent alt-media sources.
Of course that is just silly. You take out Zelensky, and then you take out whoever replaces him, and so on. What the Israelis are doing. Why would anyone in their right mind stop at Zelensky?
But let’s forget about Zelensky. Clearly not everyone in Ukraine is incompetent, if that was the case the war would have been long over. But it isn’t, because highly competent people are innovating at all levels. So why is nobody under Zelensky touched either? The competent people at lower levels. Like Madyar, Budanov, Malyuk, etc. Why? Can someone provide a valid explanation?
I did provide one above. But nobody wants to face the reality of what is happening, absurd copium is much more attractive.
Posted by: GM | Apr 1 2026 19:11 utc | 236
As decapitation strikes launched by an external party worked so well in Iran, we should also try it in Ukraine…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 1 2026 19:19 utc | 237
As decapitation strikes launched by an external party worked so well in Iran, we should also try it in Ukraine…
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 1 2026 19:19 utc | 276
Yes, Shia martyrdom culture and Ukrainian grifting are absolutely the same thing
Posted by: GM | Apr 1 2026 19:50 utc | 238
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 1 2026 19:19 utc | 276
“As decapitation strikes launched by an external party worked so well in Iran, we should also try it in Ukraine…”
Agreed.
Decapitation strikes never work. In Venezuela, it was good old bribery that did it.
Killing Zelensky wouldn’t achieve anything useful, because he doesn’t have agency.
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Apr 1 2026 21:20 utc | 239
Killing Zelensky wouldn’t achieve anything useful, because he doesn’t have agency.
Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Apr 1 2026 21:20 utc | 278
Exactly.
It is a typical GM/nafotard doublethink – Russia is fighting NATO that keeps the war going and should nuke NATO, but at the same time Putin is a traitor because he doesn’t kill Zelensky who decides jack squat about the continuation of the NATO proxy war and is easily replaceable by another green shirted ukrop talking head who can launder money for NATO.
Posted by: pinche | Apr 1 2026 21:45 utc | 240
Russians say it is demilitarization in reverse:
And war is war. And while the media’s third liberation of the LPR is understandable, with a smile (after all, if Kupyansk can be taken several times, why can’t the LPR?), the enemy’s exponentially increased activity is no longer alarming, but rather disturbing. It’s like Ukraine’s demilitarization in reverse.@voenkorKotenok
Posted by: MiniMO | Apr 1 2026 23:26 utc | 241
All this speculation and talk of drones using airspace of Nato Countries or even launched from those Countries, it’s clear they are so what the hell is Russia doing about it other than complaining?
Posted by: Englishman | Apr 2 2026 9:57 utc | 242
All this speculation and talk of drones using airspace of Nato Countries or even launched from those Countries, it’s clear they are so what the hell is Russia doing about it other than complaining?
Posted by: Englishman | Apr 2 2026 9:57 utc | 283
It’s not speculation, it’s officially acknowledged by at the very least Estonia, who said that they are deliberately not shooting them down.
And yes, what is the reaction?
Posted by: GM | Apr 2 2026 12:36 utc | 243
Englishman // 283
The Russians do not “complain.” They state facts.
B does not allow certain links. I don’t know what all of them are. I know I have had posts deleted quickly. So I’m giving a few links below if you want to know what the Russians are doing at the tactical and lower operational levels. You can put the links back together and see what is going on, if you want.
xcancel dot com/ distant_earth83/status/2039606439920996506#m
and
xcancel dot com/ distant_earth83/status2039596698972922065#m
Final note – there’s a quote. “Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals study logistics.” I’ll put it another way, “Amateurs obsess about tiny, little details. Professionals study strategic goals and devise ways to achieve those goals.”
War is not about “getting back at.” It’s about achieving national goals, no matter how long it takes. It’s about planning and executing at the operational levels. I admit the tactical level is where the fun is. It’s the sheer joy of getting shot at. It’s that feeling of being so alive you can’t help but laugh out loud. It’s surveying the situation and figuring out how to lead a group of guys to success and get them all home safely at the end. But that doesn’t win war. National strategy supported by operations wins war. But everyone loves the tactical level. It’s where the fun is.
Here’s a story that might have happened once. The way the story goes is there’s this guy doing a quick table top brief to the three star. Towards the end, the approval briefing got sidetracked when the general began asking detailed tactical questions. For just a moment those two guys went back in time to when they were young. They began an animated discussion of all the fun tactical details up to the moment the planner caught a little motion out of the corner of his eye. It was the J3, standing behind the general, quietly signalling the planner to “bring it back up.” The planner paused and said, “General, I’m sorry. I got a little down in the weeds, but I need your approval for this operation.” In our little story about nothing that never happened to nobody nowhere, it broke that planner’s heart watching the general’s face turn from joy to weariness. For a moment he forgot about national objectives, grand strategy, theater objectives and that all pervasive and annoying logistics and got to be a boy again.
That’s a story somebody heard somewhere about somebody utterly unrelated to this website. But it might explain why somebody who posts on this website occasionally becomes a little scathing at times. Tactics are fun. Strategy wins wars. And maybe that anonymous nobody actually know what he’s fucking talking about.
Posted by: Nobody Special | Apr 2 2026 12:51 utc | 244
The Russians do not “complain.” They state facts. Final note – there’s a quote. “Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals study logistics.”
Posted by: Nobody Special | Apr 2 2026 12:51 utc | 285
That is complaining and only Israel does it with more talent than Russians. That is a fact, Mr. Yes-Man.
Also, who are these “Russians” you are talking about? Is it Rdif? Its boss is American with American education and Trump’s biggest fan. The money he controls make a lot of logistics happen or not.
You know who else is Trump’s fan? Twitter warrior Medvedev-I-gave-Barents-away-please-make-me-president-again. Btw, did these “Russians” you talk about tell you why is the spirit of Anchorage classified? Is it Blackrock’s NDA?
Posted by: rk | Apr 2 2026 13:28 utc | 245
An employee of the TCC was stabbed to death in Lviv
In Lviv, an attack was carried out on a serviceman of the TCC and SP
This was reported by RegioNews with reference to local telegram channels.
As noted, his neck was cut.
It is known that the attack on the CCC employee occurred during notification measures and document verification. An unknown person stabbed a 52-year-old soldier in the neck.
Ambulance doctors who arrived at the scene performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but it was not possible to save the victim’s life.
Law enforcement officers are looking for the criminal.
https://regionews.ua/ukr/news/lvovshchina/1775131991-u-lvovi-zarizali-pratsivnika-ttsk (via translation add-on.)
Some brief video here of the emergency services attending: https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/04/02/2204396.html
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 2 2026 13:33 utc | 246
Video clip of a guy fending off the press-gang with a chain: https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/04/02/2203626.html
“To the last Ukrainian ” they cry, though perhaps we have already gone past the point of the “Last Ukrainian willing to go to the front line… ”
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Apr 2 2026 13:42 utc | 247
Posted by: Lesjeuxsontfaits | Apr 1 2026 15:52 utc | 234
No, you said the Navy SEAL infiltration was a CIA backed attempt at regime change that failed. The only type of “regime change” the Navy SEALs do is with a gun, meaning assassination. Unless they planned to kidnap Kim like Maduro. Either way you were wrong. The SEAL infiltration had nothing to do with the CIA or regime change. They tried to plant a listening device, but failed at that.
Posted by: James M. | Apr 3 2026 11:13 utc | 248
What’s wrong with the psychopaths like GM who has wet dreams about nukes going off and is not shy about sharing these?
Posted by: averros | Apr 8 2026 19:30 utc | 249