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September 20, 2026
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Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/ME): Weekly Update, 18th September, 2026: May be Useful to Some: (3) Ukraine and World Affairs (includes Iran/ME): Weekly Update
Posted by: The Busker | Sep 20 2026 13:59 utc | 1
An advisor to Zelenskyy warns of a “minor catastrophe” caused by Russia’s Rassvet satellite system.
Ukraine is massively underestimating the Russian Rassvet satellite system, according to Ukrainian drone expert and Zelenskyy advisor Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov.
Beskrestnov states that Russia is capable of launching numerous satellites into orbit in a single mission, which could trigger a “minor catastrophe.”
“Russia is a space power, and it is quite likely that an Angara rocket could ‘unexpectedly’ place half the satellite constellation into orbit in one launch. This would give the adversary the ability to control Geran drones and other missiles via satellite. That will be a major problem for us. No, it’s not just a problem; it will be a minor catastrophe,” said Beskrestnov.
He drew a parallel to what he views as Ukraine’s years-long failure to disrupt the networked communication systems of Geran drones—an issue that went unaddressed for a full year. For this reason, Beskrestnov argues, Ukraine should already be securing all critical facilities with electronic warfare capabilities.
Successful strikes in western Ukraine—reaching points as close as approximately 100 meters from the borders with Poland and Moldova—involved precision hits that avoided NATO territory itself; this indicates that the drones and missiles were guided by satellite.
Posted by: genesiss | Sep 20 2026 14:20 utc | 2
Ukraine is now not only a landlocked country with no access to the Black Sea; it is also a country without a steel industry and without the capacity to repair railway lines for much longer.
According to a *Financial Times* report on recent Russian attacks, Ukraine no longer has a steel industry as of today.
Of the country’s total 5 million square meters of modern warehouse space, 2.1 million square meters have been destroyed—900,000 of which were lost in recent months alone—according to Ruslan Shostak, a Ukrainian entrepreneur and founder of the retail chains Eva and Varus.
Earlier this month, ballistic missile strikes crippled Ukraine’s three remaining steel plants in the industrial hubs of the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, killing 17 workers and threatening an industry that had been a key driver of the country’s growth in the decades following independence.
On Thursday, two more ballistic missiles struck Zaporizhzhia—marking the fourth attack on the steel plant in a single month.
“As of today, Ukraine no longer has a steel industry,” Oleksandr Vodoviz, head of the CEO’s office at Metinvest—a steel and mining company that owns two of the three targeted plants—told the *Financial Times*. “We have a surplus of iron ore, but no furnaces left.”
Posted by: genesiss | Sep 20 2026 14:28 utc | 3
Dr. Brovkin and world affairs in context
Russia is now a military superpower and Europe is breaking apart.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nxx_7BSW9hE
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2026 14:46 utc | 4
US ‘Sells’ Air Defense Package To Ukraine, Financed by US & Europe
https://x.com/BrianJBerletic/status/2101564375509463116
“Billions in weapons have continued to flow from the US to Ukraine despite campaign promises before 2024 elections and political theatre afterwards – including pretending that the US is ‘selling’ weapons to Ukraine instead of giving them away, but being bought with money given to Ukraine by the US itself and its European proxies;
In reality, the US proxy war continues against Russia in Ukraine and billions in US taxpayers’ money is simply being transferred to US arms manufacturers – while the US president pretends it’s somehow benefiting America (and not just billionaire business owners);
Same policy, different packaging, continuity of agenda.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 16:28 utc | 5
Same policy, different packaging, continuity of agenda.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 16:28 utc | 5
So true John. It doesnt matter who you vote for, you always end up with John McStain.
Posted by: Screwdriver | Sep 20 2026 16:44 utc | 6
Moscow Attacked…(& vid)
https://www.aljazeera.com/#flips-6405327675112
“More than 1,000 Ukrainian drones.”
Additional footage of Russia’s Moscow oil refinery ablaze this morning after Ukrainian drone attack
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2101559477593923644
Zelensky in Press Conference with Canadian PM (& vid)
https://x.com/M0SC0W0/status/2101508785390952473
“We have signed [for] the beginning of joint production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs – drones), and 30% of these aircraft will go immediately to Ukraine…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 17:00 utc | 7
https://www.euractiv.com/news/russia-cannot-sway-french-through-intimidation-le-pen-says/
remember: nationalism will save us. and the new far right in Europe magically exists to combat Europe’s implosion, not promote forever war with Russia, modeled openly on the Nazi forces under Zelenski.
Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 20 2026 17:49 utc | 8
It’s pretty much over now. Whether these attacks are western provocations or not, it all but ensures Kiev will be flattened in the next few weeks / months.
what happens after that is anyone’s guess but I would suggest Polish and Romanian troops entering from the west.
After that, everyone better start praying
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 20 2026 17:54 utc | 9
Russia has announced a curfew and restrictions along a section of its border with Estonia, a NATO member state.
Civilians are prohibited from leaving villages after dark, from navigating the Narva River, and from fishing within 5 kilometers of the border.
map in link ==> https://t.me/Alsaa_plus_EN/32669
Posted by: too scents | Sep 20 2026 17:57 utc | 10
Posted by: too scents | Sep 20 2026 17:57 utc | 10
hopefully a precursor to what should have happened months or even years ago
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 20 2026 18:01 utc | 11
“what happens after that is anyone’s guess but I would suggest Polish and Romanian troops entering from the west.”
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 20 2026 17:54 utc | 9
Once the Donbas/Odessa/Kiev show is over, I doubt the Russians will have any compunction to extend the chivalric rules of the SMO to enemies approaching from the west. Neither Poland nor Romania are nuclear powers – so I expect that, should they have the temerity to send uninvited (by Russia) forces into Ukraine, those forces will be vaporised along with anything else in the vicinity. Thereafter, I imagine an appalled silence will fall – for a long time. …and that will be the end of the affair.
Posted by: Cornelius Pipe | Sep 20 2026 18:15 utc | 12
CDU just collapsed, receiving only 5% of votes. AFD received 37%.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2026 18:20 utc | 13
Those who are now giving Zelensky a “warm bath” do not understand the main thing – a president who does not know what society is breathing, what people are talking about outside all the “ratings”, cannot protect either his country or himself. Ceausescu once thought the same way, that the people adore him, but everything ended very badly for him.
From https://regionews.ua/ukr/blog/yuriy-kasyanov/1789717949-tepla-vanna-dlya-zelenskogo-do-chogo-prizvodit-vidriv-vid-realnosti (via translation add-on.)
Written by a Ukrainian blogger…
I’ve thought it for a long time, and probably posted it in the bar comments at various points… Zelensky is a dead man walking.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 20 2026 18:26 utc | 14
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2026 18:20 utc | 13
CDU just collapsed, receiving only 5% of votes. AFD received 37%.
The entire game is a farce but there’s still a chance that CDU lands at <5%. And that’d be at least funny 🙂
Merz already gave a 3 minute “speech” in which he announced that (a) the reforms are important and must go on, (b) he’s responsible and will shoulder the burden. The best democracy money can buy!
Posted by: Konami | Sep 20 2026 18:29 utc | 15
The Russian army has received two automated drone interceptor systems: Kalitka and Zveroboy.
KALITKA-KA DESTROYED MORE THAN 200 UKRAINIAN DRONES IN ONE SECTION OF THE FRONT LINE IN THREE MONTHS.
These are manufactured by the Kalashnikov concern, and the Kalitka-KA is designed to intercept and destroy low-flying and extremely small targets.
The Zveroboy has its own radar, an optical system with a laser rangefinder for target designation, a ground control station, and three launch containers, each containing three Kraken rapid-response drones. Its range is up to 6 km, but it is capable of intercepting Ukrainian drones such as the “Lelya,” “Lyuty,” and “Bobr,” as well as the American Hornet-XR.
https://x.com/SprinterPress/status/2101729569778925941
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2026 18:58 utc | 16
Ultimately Russia needs to utilize AI drones to hit trucks that drive on Ukrainian highways. Because 95% of those drones are launched from modified trailers.
After that Nato has no more ability to launch drones using Ukraine, at least into Russia’s territory more or less.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2026 19:05 utc | 17
CDU just collapsed, receiving only 5% of votes. AFD received 37%.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2026 18:20 utc | 13
Those are exit polls correct?
Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 20 2026 19:52 utc | 18
According to Eugyppius 4.8%
CDU just collapsed, receiving only 5% of votes. AFD received 37%.Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2026 18:20 utc | 13 Those are exit polls correct?
Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 20 2026 19:52 utc | 18
Posted by: jpc | Sep 20 2026 21:37 utc | 19
US propaganda is for all out for war against Russia. So much cheering for every explosion in Moscow. Complete with every emotional lie that the US has trotted out over the last 4 years.
Oh well.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 20 2026 21:57 utc | 20
According to Eugyppius 4.8% CDU just collapsed, receiving only 5% of votes. AFD received 37%.Posted by: unimperator | Sep 20 2026 18:20 utc | 13 Those are exit polls correct?Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 20 2026 19:52 utc | 18
Posted by: jpc | Sep 20 2026 21:37 utc | 19
OK, so they are not exit polls. The numbers are according to Eugyppius. I guess that makes it official.
The reason that I asked is that I can’t find an ‘official’ tally and can’t tell if the mail-in ballots have been counted. The last I saw the SPD was at 35.4% based upon exit polls at Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. With AfD at 38.3% mail-in ballots could give the SPD the win. That said, it’s not good for CDP (which is a victory for me).
In Berlin the ‘Linke’ partei had the lead at 25.6 and AfD at 16.1.
Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 20 2026 22:09 utc | 21
R2R: ‘The First World Oil War Has Begun: Ukraine’s Biggest Attack: Dimitri Lascaris Reports From Moscow’
https://www.youtube.com/@reason2resist/videos
“Last night NATO’s Ukraine proxy launched its biggest attack on the Moscow region since the war began in 2022. Dimitri Lascaris is in Moscow. During the day he visited a district in Moscow that was affected by the attack.
While reporting from the field, Dimitri discusses whether Zelensky ordered this massive attack in defiance of Donald Trump or whether Zelensky was instructed by Trump to carry it out.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 22:55 utc | 22
In response to”
While reporting from the field, Dimitri discusses whether Zelensky ordered this massive attack in defiance of Donald Trump or whether Zelensky was instructed by Trump to carry it out.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 22:55 utc | 22
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Why do you persist in sharing such BS? IMO, you bring down the quality of discussion here with such obvious media BS
Z has as much agency as Trump in our civilization war. They are both media personalities turned into faces of the folks behind the curtain moving the levers…..Have you not been at this bar long enough to learn that?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 20 2026 23:03 utc | 23
Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 20 2026 22:09 utc | 21
There are now official results:
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: AfD will probably have 32 seats but will probably not be in government because of a probably alliance of SDPm(29) and Green (5) to make in 34/32 with Die Linke holding balance of power.
In Berlin although AfD did well Die Linke did better and will form the government with an alliance of the Greens and SDP or the CDU could form government in alliance with SDP and the greens. I am inclined to think if SDP did this that it will be its final end is aligning with the right not the left
Posted by: watcher | Sep 20 2026 23:17 utc | 24
The massive attacks on Moscow were preceded by numerous NATO recon flights this week featuring among others UK P8 Recon planes, and RC135’s and Swedish home grown recon platforms. These recon flights were obviously used to transmit targeting information to the Ukronazi forces. These recon flights operated very close to the RF border.
This was the largest air attack on Moscow since WWII, and the pay back will be a bitch.
Expect significant RF attacks on Kieve, on West Ukraine entry points from Poland including rail heads, marshalling yards, and rail and highway bridges, and locomotive shops and storage areas.
The possibility of RF knocking down some of these NATO recon aircraft close to the RF border exists……..we live in very dangerous times.
RF is already aggressively escorting tanker traffic through the Baltic Sea, and the English Channel chokepoints, and the possibility of an armed sea confrontation exists daily.
Already all Black Sea ports in Ukronaziland are completely shutdown and any vessels attempting transits are being attacked by drones and cruise missiles.
The possibility of Polish and Romanian regular army unit ‘volunteers’ entering the fight exists, and would be yet another level of crisis, but as of yet, no evidence that entire army units are entering Ukronaziland exists, but this week could be key.
Everywhere evidence exists of a complete collapse of the Ukronazi economy and government and military. No seaports, all heavy industry destroyed, multiple army corps collapses at the front.
With this mass dysfunction comes additional dangers. How will NATO react? Desperately attempting a last ditch effort to save the unsaveable? False flags galore? Whole unit interventions? Resorting to CBW? Assassinating RF leaders?
The week ahead will be crucial……stay tuned……and make more popcorn!
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 20 2026 23:35 utc | 25
Ukrainian President Zelensky Says He Will Meet With President Trump in New York This Week
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2101737712898236749
“I just spoke with President Trump. It was an important conversation, and we managed to discuss many things. We agreed to meet in New York, and this meeting could bring about significant changes.
I thanked Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 23:57 utc | 26
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 20 2026 23:03 utc | 23
They are both media personalities turned into faces of the folks behind the curtain moving the levers…..Have you not been at this bar long enough to learn that?
I’ve seen this idea put forth for several years now, but nobody can provide a name of the person who is really calling the shots and telling Trump and Zelensky what to do or say. Can you give me a name of the person who really holds the power, or is it some shadowy Antichrist figure whose identity won’t be known for several years?
Posted by: Paranaense | Sep 21 2026 3:18 utc | 27
“The battlefield that does not exist”.
Maskirovka
There’s an Indian account on Substack that does a study on WWII and current Russian deception operations and explain the purposes behind each backed up with Soviet military literature.
The gist is that ongoing tactical operations are not what the Russian General Staff is interested in but in how the enemy reacts.
Many tactical missions are primarily to distract the enemy, fix and/or attrite. While the real aim is concealed until the time is ripe.
In this scenario, dispatches and sitreps from the battlefield tells us very little.
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Simplicius has a rather simpler article that looks at the cost of the “drone” war Ukraine is embarking on.
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Dimitrius YT Reason2Resist is in Moscow and has any interesting cynical conversation with an English-speaking local who happens to be intoxicated (stereotyped) at one of the residential sites affected.
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The curious incident of falling out a window.
The head of the diplomatic security department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland was hospitalized in critical condition after falling from the window of the third floor of a building located next to the Polish embassy in Ljubljana.
Polish diplomat fighting for life after mysterious fall from third-floor embassy window during ‘party’ in Slovenia
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 21 2026 3:30 utc | 28
I’ve seen this idea put forth for several years now, but nobody can provide a name of the person who is really calling the shots and telling Trump and Zelensky what to do or say. Can you give me a name of the person who really holds the power, or is it some shadowy Antichrist figure whose identity won’t be known for several years?
Posted by: Paranaense | Sep 21 2026 3:18 utc | 27
It’s the general thrust of US policy and part of their working against Russia and to control the world. They have to adjust it depending on how the targeted countries react or don’t react and they had a decades long build-up to the current Ukraine-Russia war but it is a large group of people who work from generation to generation in the US government and their partners in Europe and around the world.
Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 21 2026 3:35 utc | 29
psychohistorian@23:
“Why do you persist in sharing such BS?…”
That’s funny. I was thinking exactly the same thing about you.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 3:39 utc | 30
@ Paranaense | Sep 21 2026 3:18 utc | 27 with what seems like a newbie question at this bar but I need to understand that folks come and go and our history of talking about this question of the folks behind the curtain is lost in the archives.
If you have been here for any time you have read me use the words to describe these folks as the God Of Mammon cult. I also say that Pope Bob and King Chuck are, at least, titular members of the cult given their history. The other members of the cult are historical owners of the global private finance system operating for centuries now since the Roman Catholic church turned over control to them in, I think the 1300’s, making them rich beyond measure while we are told Gates and Musk are the richest men…total BS…they have not owned banking for centuries.
bevin here would tell you the Rothschilds are not members which I disagree with and oldhippie says the Crown family is big but I don’t know who is in the God Of Mammon cult but can only point out that Trump is clearly, like Z a Hollywood trained tool of larger forces.
If what we see happening continues we just might learn more about the members of the God Of Mammon cult.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 21 2026 3:54 utc | 31
*** Can you give me a name of the person who really holds the power … ?
Posted by: Paranaense | Sep 21 2026 3:18 utc | 27
Lo Pan
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 21 2026 4:00 utc | 32
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 21 2026 3:54 utc | 31
If what we see happening continues we just might learn more about the members of the God Of Mammon cult.
So you are alleging that a handful of wealthy European elites are somehow giving Trump (and previous American presidents of both parties) instructions that the presidents are obligated to follow? That sounds far-fetched to me. Do you have any evidence of this cross Atlantic servitude?
Posted by: Paranaense | Sep 21 2026 4:09 utc | 33
Putin’s United Russia Party On Track To Win Duma Elections
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2101765448895197345
“Exit polling showing it received just over 50% of the vote. The anti-war Yabloko party was banned from the election.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 4:17 utc | 34
@ Paranaense | Sep 21 2026 4:09 utc | 33with reading comprehension problems…..I gave you the Crown name, didn’t I? they are American.
The God Of Mammon cult owes no allegiance to any territory, IMO. Their rule extends as far as global private finance goes…I am done here.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 21 2026 4:34 utc | 35
John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 4:17 utc | 34—
Yabloko was an Anti-Russian party which got it banned.
karlof1@36:
“Yabloko was an Anti-Russian party which got it banned.”
They were not known to me. A bit more about them here:
Yabloko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabloko
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 5:31 utc | 38
It has had minimal coverage in our media BUT on the 17th of September the cooling tower of the Kursk nuclear power plant was struck. officially minimal damage but it surer did not look like it. Saw image from Chinese news sources.
Posted by: watcher | Sep 21 2026 6:16 utc | 39
Regarding the ‘destruction’ of Moscow oil refinery. In the video you can three fires, which seem to be emanating from oil storage containers. Two towers seem to be flaring. So the damage is probably a few oil silos.
Once again smoke is dramatic. It was said Ukraine often puts a separate diesel container on the drone that emits a lot of black smoke on impact, enhancing dramatic footage.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 6:17 utc | 40
It is an oil war. Trump is the leader. OPEC and Chevron and rothchilds have direct input. Trump wants to be the man in the spotlight. Epstein led the Jew lobby but that has fallen apart.
The oil is the money. It flows and we all buy. We all contribute hundreds or more to oil company profits.
The oil companies have shareholders. Theyoil companies have executives. They all want profit and all have a name.
Trump is the face of the oil wars
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 6:46 utc | 41
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 6:46 utc | 41
US refineries on south coast are long due for ‘accidents’.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 6:49 utc | 42
Use your car less. Buy an EV.
I have, and others here have. If you see the decline in gasoline demand in China you realise you can make a difference.
But here is the surprise. We all thought more EV less fossil guzzlers, but there has also been less car usage in China. It is not economic, it is social. It surprised me even though I saw it happening.
Let’s go.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 6:52 utc | 43
Use your car less. Buy an EV.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 6:52 utc | 43
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Buy less. Keep the car you already have in good repair. If it is too large trade down to a smaller used car.
Posted by: too scents | Sep 21 2026 6:56 utc | 44
Australian media (government abc) is pushing back against BYD. Full of spies. Full of secret controls. Bizarre stories.
But Australians are really begining to love BYD cars. Not only the price, but the quality.
Australia let the cat out of the box and now is panicked.
Australia also looked to buy fuel from Russia. Who would ever have expected that.
Oil wars.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 6:59 utc | 45
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 5:31 utc | 38They were not known to me. A bit more about them here:Yablokohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabloko
You can’t seriously suggest any English medium as a source of a truth for anything Russian. Wikipedia is not exactly known for trying; but even if they tried, they are so deeply propagandized from the cradle to the grave that it is simply not viable.
Posted by: jekleni | Sep 21 2026 7:00 utc | 46
Mr Two Scents.
We kept our old car. But use it 25% less. An ethical decision not an economic one.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 7:01 utc | 47
against BYD. Full of spies. Full of secret controls.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 6:59 utc | 45
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All EVs are, regardless of the manufacturer. They are irreparable, hence disposable.
If you can’t repair something, or modify as you wish, you don’t own it, you’re renting.
Posted by: too scents | Sep 21 2026 7:04 utc | 48
Posted by: jekleni | Sep 21 2026 7:00 utc | 46
Wikipedia is not exactly known for trying; but even if they tried, they are so deeply propagandized from the cradle to the grave that it is simply not viable.
Wikipedia is platform more than an actor. It runs on mediawiki that has OKish access to article revision history. To reliably determine which articles (wiki pages) are disinformative propaganda one has to check edit history to see edit contents and sources and this is very tedious process.
However, some articles are more likely to contain disinformative propaganda: anything Russia related (the liked article falls in this category), anything related to Balkans in 90s (existence of NATO-originated edits whitewashing their war criminals and blaming Serbs for everything), anything political in Russian language (most of edits come from Ukraine or Finland and examples include whitewashed page about Bandera).
Those are just some examples and are not obviously not only ones. Additionally, it would be dubious to assume NATO is only disinformation source on wikipedia.
Posted by: Sekava Seppo | Sep 21 2026 8:16 utc | 49
Two scents.
My neighbour in China, his EV wouldn’t start. He called the mechanic. Arrived soon with his diagnosis tools. Bad circuit. Changed in 15 minutes. Neighbour drives away. About an hour.. cost equivalent Us$14.
My Two Scents don’t talk shit about what you don’t know. The people in China all change to EV. Nobody makes them. Nobody tells them. They talk to family talk to neighbours it is not a teeth gnashing experience
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 8:17 utc | 50
My Two Scents.. go test drive a BYD. They are just amazing.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 8:20 utc | 51
Arrived soon with his diagnosis tools.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 8:17 utc | 50
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Where does one get these “diagnosis tools”?
Private property is a pillar of Capitalism but some things you are not allowed to own, forcing you to rent and finance.
Physical objects are tendered for “sale” without the necessary “Intellectual Property” to repair them. This makes the “owner” of the thing wholly dependent upon a single source for service, practically making it impossible for the “owner” to modify a thing he “owns”.
Posted by: too scents | Sep 21 2026 8:31 utc | 53
There’s an Indian account on Substack … Many tactical missions are primarily to distract the enemy, fix and/or attrite. While the real aim is concealed until the time is ripe. Posted by: Suresh | Sep 21 2026 3:30 utc | 28
So they were FAB-ing to complete destruction all Kursk and Donbass just to “distract the enemy”?
That makes Gerasy the best Nato general ever. He blows up Russia and kills his own soldiers in artillery duels more than Nato+Ukr ever. The Indian also says they bombed Crimea’s beach themselves or let it happen just to distract the enemy?
This is the what these dirt poor bloggers with high school diplomas bought from their Indian corner shop say to attract views, clicks and subscribers. Some uneducated soldiers from Azerbaijan, which are now doormen in America, even sell books where they explain some “secret knowledge” because opening doors for a living gives you a lot of free time.
Posted by: rk | Sep 21 2026 8:48 utc | 54
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 8:17 utc | 50
Maybe fixing EVs work in China but in EU it’s regulated out of existence, illegal or it’s impossible without OEM factory equipment.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 9:42 utc | 55
@ Bingo
@ unimperator
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Wildly off topic for Ukraine yet important to the EV subthread.
Automakers Eye $625 Billion Opportunity in In-Car Advertising
Your car knows you’re hungry—the aim plan to put sponsored ads on your car’s infotainment screen, giving automakers a lucrative revenue stream.
Drivers who listen to the radio are still hearing lots of commercials, when they’re not looking at ubiquitous highway billboards, but the ad industry wants more—the goal is for commercial messages to be woven back into your every automotive interaction. It’s called “commerce media,” and it’s enabled by the connected car. Ptolemus Consulting Group says in-vehicle payment value could hit $625 billion by 2030, with location-based advertising for food, parking and entertainment. Scary, isn’t it? Ads could be coming at you every which way.
A new Forrester report commissioned by Koddi, a commerce media company, sees a vast opportunity for advertising. “Automotive networks capture deep consumer research and purchase signals across configurators, dealer sites, finance platforms, and service centers, yet most are still learning to monetize this attention effectively.”
This is closely related to the controversial practice of dealers using their access to in-car data to recommend a service visit, shutting out the independent shops.
This could be one big reason automakers such as GM have disconnected from Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. According to Mondo.com, “Car manufacturers are seeking greater ownership of customer experiences inside vehicles. Reducing reliance on phone-mirroring systems such as CarPlay and Android Auto allows automakers to maintain control over digital experiences, vehicle data points, and commerce flows.”
To protect consumers, there should be simple ways to opt out of all this, potentially filling the cabin with calming New Age music instead of ad pitches. But with so many ad dollars at stake, don’t count on it being easy.
excerpted from ==> https://www.autoweek.com/news/a70409460/in-car-advertising-a-625-billion-opportunity/
more ==> https://www.google.com/search?q=in-car+digital+advertising+on+vehicles%27+touchscreens&udm=14
Aren’t we subjected to enough corporate propaganda without it being force fed to us by “smart things”?
Posted by: too scents | Sep 21 2026 10:10 utc | 56
too scents | Sep 21 2026 10:10 utc | 56
You never know, that could actually be useful if it was controllable – to be able to say “any open supermarkets nearby?”
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 21 2026 11:25 utc | 57
You never know
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Wut? Useful to whom? People without a phone.
Posted by: too scents | Sep 21 2026 11:29 utc | 58
If reports are correct the Putin affiliated party United Russia has secured around 57% of the vote. This means that they can form a government without coalitions which further implies unbridled support for the SMO.
Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 21 2026 11:37 utc | 59
Military Summary discusses the election and it’s impact in the beginning of the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjQ8WbqqRlA
Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 21 2026 11:39 utc | 60
@ Kentuckian | Sep 21 2026 11:37 utc | 59
The Communists and the LDPR also support the SMO.
Posted by: malenkov | Sep 21 2026 11:46 utc | 62
jekleni | Sep 21 2026 7:00 utc | 46
Wiki is utterly compromised if the subject is at all politically contentious. It’s fine for hydrogen energy levels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_spectral_series
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Sep 21 2026 12:09 utc | 63
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suffered a bruising electoral setback in two state elections on Sunday, including a historic defeat for his party to the anti-migrant AfD, but vowed to press ahead with potentially painful reforms.
Projections by public broadcaster ARD on Sunday night indicated that Mr Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, came in with just 5 per cent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – the lowest result since the Second World War for the party in any state.
Posted by: Jo | Sep 21 2026 12:22 utc | 64
Ukraine has
fired a new homemade ballistic missile at Russia in the country’s largest attack on Moscow since the start of the war.
On Sunday night, the final day of the Russian election, Ukraine struck an oil refinery on the outskirts of the capital as Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the ‘strength’ of Kyiv‘s ‘long-range capabilities’ after Pelican’s involvement in the attack.
Pelican refers to the FP-7 ground-launched ballistic missile that was developed in Ukraine by defence technology company Fire Point.
Fire Point is a Ukrainian firm that develops UAV and missile systems for ‘modern precision warfare’.
FP-7 completed testing earlier this month and its involvement in last night’s oil refinery bombardment marks the new system’s first publicly confirmed combat deployment.
The missiles have a maximum range of 200km (124 miles) with an accuracy of 13m.
Posted by: Jo | Sep 21 2026 12:25 utc | 65
Not stated directly on Military Channel but:
Ukrainian sources discuss the success of their big dramatic election day attack on Moscow.
Ukrainian sources discuss the Russian regular nightly attacks on Ukraine.
Ukrainian sources report that the Russian standard attack caused more damage than the big dramatic election day Ukrainian attack.
Of course, the election day “Ukrainian” attack was exactly the kind of media glitz that Trump loves. This was US inspired, and US planned.
Results of the Russian elections? Russians are still ok with the SMO. They are not ok with not yet switching to a more muscular peace through strength stand up to the US military posture.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 21 2026 12:50 utc | 66
They are not ok with not yet switching to a more muscular peace through strength stand up to the US military posture.
Should be:
They are STILL ok with not yet switching to a more muscular peace through strength stand up to the US military posture.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 21 2026 12:52 utc | 67
De -communisations now increasing in pace – I guess this is what a blowback, real back to the Stone Age looks like. The Bankers must be crying about ‘their’ lost cheap, high quality Soviet built INDUSTRIES.
Their AgroIndustrial will cry about the poisoned soil that won’t grow their GMO wheat and sunflowers.
Their purchased land – depopulated to the Last Ukranian won’t be suitable for their reconvening the fake convert khazzars back from WasNeverReal as planned.
This is worse than Hitler, Britain, Napoleon combined!
Surrender while you can you fools
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine’s steel industry, 7% of Ukraine’s GDP has effectively ceased functioning after devastating strikes by the Russian MoD.
These facilities built by the USSR can’t be replaced.
The MoD has vowed to intensify strikes, deindustrializing the enemy. Kiev opened the Pandora’s box when it decided to target Russian civilian infrastructures. We will not only crush the enemy’s forces, we will disable their nation from within.
The blockade at the port of Odessa has cut off 50% of the country’s export.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 21 2026 13:45 utc | 68
Ukrainian nazism and Azov battalion has now been incorporated into Nato’s promotional recruiting propaganda.
https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2101973713184809130
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 13:47 utc | 69
Russia got pushed out of the Lyman area. Deja vu. This, by the UAF that is supposedly collapsing.
Posted by: catdog | Sep 21 2026 14:07 utc | 70
FP-7 completed testing earlier this month and its involvement in last night’s oil refinery bombardment marks the new system’s first publicly confirmed combat deployment. The missiles have a maximum range of 200km (124 miles) with an accuracy of 13m.
Posted by: Jo | Sep 21 2026 12:25 utc | 65
Something does not add up. Moscow is more than 200 km from the Ukrainian border.
Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Sep 21 2026 14:33 utc | 71
Use your car less. Buy an EV.I have, and others here have. If you see the decline in gasoline demand in China you realise you can make a difference. But here is the surprise. We all thought more EV less fossil guzzlers, but there has also been less car usage in China. It is not economic, it is social. It surprised me even though I saw it happening. Let’s go.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 6:52 utc | 43
I live in a rural area in the midwest. Driving into town yesterday (sunday) I observed: Most vehicles on the road are large pickup trucks, many with modified, lifted suspensions & 4 wheel drive, not work trucks, vanity pieces. A number of trucks pulling large rec trailers or large power boats, presumably heading to or from the state’s largest reservoir nearby. No concern about the limits imposed by a finite resource, no social concerns, just a headlong rush to deny reality, the American way. When the price of gas causes these people some pain, they will not come to grips with said reality, they will bitch and moan to the heavens that they are being denied their entitlement.
Posted by: Mike R | Sep 21 2026 15:05 utc | 72
@22
”While reporting from the field, Dimitri discusses whether Zelensky ordered this massive attack in defiance of Donald Trump or whether Zelensky was instructed by Trump to carry it out.”
Both. Zelensky did it in defiance to remind Trump he doesn’t answer to him. As it is fait accompli Trump will say he ordered it, Donald thinks people believe he is actually in charge.
Posted by: Fred777 | Sep 21 2026 15:27 utc | 73
Military summary:
-RUAF made major gain in E Kharkov region, capturing Novoaleksandrovka puncturing another hole in AFU line
-The crossroad town of Prykolotne is blocked from the west, which is a key town entering further into the area E of Kharkov
-Veliky Burluk is the next AFU stronghold that is the anchor of E Kharkov region
-Settlement of Pilna was captured, SW of Vovchansk
-RUAF is rolling down the left bank of Pechenily reservoir
-claims of RUAF ‘losing’ Lyman are fake, it seems to maintain around half of the city
-RUAF continues outflanking Dobropilla, also around the village of Bilozerske, AFU positions pummeled in this town
-Dobropilla is the main anchor entering W/NW Donbass region in depth, with the flanking maneuver it should fall sooner rather than later
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 15:35 utc | 74
Trump trying to buy some time for Zelensky with an infrastructure ceasefire.
Russia must not fall for it
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 21 2026 15:39 utc | 75
“Turnout, at around 57%, was the highest in a State Duma election for a decade, although hardly unprecedented as participation exceeded 60% four times in earlier elections.”
the “turnout” is probably higher than other nations, but it does go to show that all nations citizens are not terribly impressed with their “Congress” type Duma. Even if support for Putin remains high, overall, all citizens are finding that “voting”, changes nothing. When near 1/2 the citizens don’t even bother to vote, it’s a system on its way out on a decade or so .
Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 21 2026 15:43 utc | 76
Maybe the point of all the “smoke” over Moscow is to condition us in the West into accepting how awesome it is to attack Moscow?
In the MSM I never hear a word about attacking another nuclear-armed state except Big Brother’s hate and brainless cheering. (But if a Russian drone falls in Poland, it means Stalin is hours away from Warsaw.)
BTW, when Trump says Iran is about fall or fold, isn’t he simply mirroring what we in the West have been fed for years now re Russia’s speedy collapse?
Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 21 2026 15:48 utc | 77
RE: Posted by: catdog | Sep 21 2026 14:07 utc | 70
The only reason Ukraine didn’t “collapse” 3 years ago is because it decided to be the global welfare queen & prostitute. Such a noble way to go out.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 21 2026 15:52 utc | 78
Anyway you spin the Russian election. It’s still in better shape than any western country, by a multitude of factors and Putin got the mandate telling him to remove the 404 tumor for good.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 16:00 utc | 79
unimperator@69:
Here in the land of the nazi-clappers, ‘slava urkrazi!’ (sieg heil) is widely heard from anyone in in the Canadian political class when speaking of 404 or its noble fight defending democracy, civilization, rules based order etc. Also our NATO militarists of course – from which the latest ‘elbows up’ news that the amerikkkans’ canucklhead vassal was bested by the amerikkkans’ squarehead one.
Canada’s top general loses election to become head of key NATO military committee
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-nato-jennie-carignan-election-germany-carsten-breuer-9.7350946
“…Trump is not going to let a Canadian or woman be the head of the military committee, if anybody has paid attention to it,’ said Steven Saideman, a defence expert at Carleton University who has written extensively about NATO.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 16:55 utc | 80
Reportedly RUAF has been saving a lot of ballistic missiles, as strikes moved to use jet powered drones. These missiles could be used in a winter campaign to strike AFU energy infrastructure and burn up some more EU tax money used to make potential repairs.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 17:09 utc | 81
The AfD-Israel Connection
https://www.newarab.com/shorts-video/afd-israel-connection
“The AfD surge in Germany is good for Jews and Israel.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 17:41 utc | 82
https://www.newarab.com/shorts-video/afd-israel-connection “The AfD surge in Germany is good for Jews and Israel.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 17:41 utc | 82
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 21 2026 18:17 utc | 83
Russia is blowing up gas stations and random trucks. Ukraine is destroying oil refineries across western Russia forcing fuel rationing. I don’t understand what Russia is accomplishing by wasting precious munitions going after low value targets. The line of control is barely moving in either direction and Ukraine seems to have an infinite supply of soldiers and drones to throw at the Russians. This whole thing is a sh|t show for Russia.
Posted by: bored | Sep 21 2026 18:25 utc | 84
re bored | Sep 21 2026 18:25 utc | 84
Russia destroys Ukronazistan’s entire steel industry, but this troll somehow fails to notice that.
Posted by: malenkov | Sep 21 2026 18:37 utc | 85
Posted by: bored | Sep 21 2026 18:25 utc | 84
404 don’t refine much oil since …2023. Except sunflower oil. They import distilled products by trucks and rail. 30~35% from Hungary , 15~20% from Romania , the rest by sea from Azerbaijan and Turkey. Last refinery in western 404 is owned by Azerbaijan.
A big chunk of local carbon-chemistry was in the Donbass. (ie: Lyssytchansk.)
Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Sep 21 2026 18:41 utc | 86
This whole thing is a sh|t show for Russia.
Posted by: bored | Sep 21 2026 18:25 utc | 84
What… again??? Didn’t you post the same thing last year? And the year before? And the year before that?
Yet Russia seems content with progress, indeed so content it looks like the same government that initiated the SMO has been re-elected.
If it really was a “sh¡t show” surely that would have been a major electoral campaigning point?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 21 2026 18:52 utc | 87
Carney Addresses Threats From Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwU6Okqwt3g
“At a joint press conference with Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Store in Ottawa, Prime Minister [Goldman-Sachs] said building international relationships, Canada’s defences in the Arctic, and its work with NATO in eastern Europe, are part of the answer to remove threats from Russia.”
Warmonger!
mark.carney@parl.gc.ca
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 18:54 utc | 88
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 18:54 utc | 88
This scheme of Canada joining EU is interesting. Why is that needed in order to ‘secure the Arctic’, when both EU countries and Canada belong to Nato?
Yet another sign that Nato is DEAD.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 18:58 utc | 89
Kremlin is such a joke.
Ukraine bombs all Russia’s energy structures.
“The Naftogaz Group has signed a memorandum with the Budapest-based oil and gas company MOL Group regarding the construction of facilities to store petroleum products for Ukraine’s needs in Hungary near the Ukrainian-Hungarian border.”
“Hungary seeks US sanctions exemption over Russian energy
Budapest relied on Moscow for around 90% of its crude oil supplies in 2025”
Should Russia ever get actually serious about winning this SMO… let me know.
Looks like Kubuki theatre day after day.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 21 2026 20:12 utc | 90
Let me just remind everyone that humanity is in a civilization about the form of social organization…global private finance jackboot or finance as a public utility to put it simply.
We are in the ugly sausage making part of that effort with one side threatening to extinct all of us.
Russia, like China and Iran are trying to bring down the bully without causing nuclear war and your ongoing petulance about the pace of the Russia SMO shows quite the ignorance of what is happening in our world, IMO.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 21 2026 20:22 utc | 91
Looks like Kubuki theatre day after day.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 21 2026 20:12 utc | 90
yes over million dead, Kiev turned a front line city bombed 24/7, increasing escalation day by day. Russia producing over a hundred ballistic missiles a month
exactly like what you’d expect Kabuki theatre to look like ..
Posted by: Night Tripper | Sep 21 2026 20:23 utc | 92
Ukraine bombs all Russia’s energy structures.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 21 2026 20:12 utc | 90
All of them? Including all the ones deep in the far eastern parts of Russia? Not seen any reports about those, perhaps you have sources that no-one else is reporting.
Do not under-estimate quite how huge Russia is; take a moment or two to dwell on and absorb its true size.
The West as a whole does not have anywhere near enough conventional weaponry capable of attacking all of Russian energy structures across the entire Federation.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 21 2026 20:36 utc | 93
unimperator@89:
“…Yet another sign that NATO is DEAD.”
Yes. It’s a grift and Carney’s a grifter.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 20:38 utc | 94
Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 21 2026 20:12 utc | 90
It’s clear Russia doesn’t care about politics surrounding how/where to sell its commodities.
As everything in life, every decision has trade-offs and opportunity costs.
What Russia is trading is commodities for money. Hopefully they take payment in gold bullion, instead of the euro.
The trade-off is supplying the belligerent enemy with resources it needs to survive and potentially rearm. But in the case of Ukraine, the energy grid is so shot up that I doubt Hungary storing petroleum for Ukraine has much utility if Ukraine won’t be able to utilize it anyway.
So Russia sells commodities for money regardless of politics. But sure it’s not a good look, externally, considering the trade that happened with the original German nazis before they invaded.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 20:45 utc | 95
It seems that western narrative is totally outtawack – prime example is this humdinger from ABC – Ukraine’s book industry is facing its worst crisis yet, driven by targeted Russian attacks on publishing infrastructure. Women and children hardest hit, indeed.
Posted by: frithguild | Sep 21 2026 20:53 utc | 96
Russia, like China and Iran are trying to bring down the bully without causing nuclear war and your ongoing petulance about the pace of the Russia SMO shows quite the ignorance of what is happening in our world, IMO.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 21 2026 20:22 utc | 91
Yes, although it wasn’t apparent to me in the earlier days, the SMO is being deliberately paced at a measured tempo. Not to say the Russian planners gamed out everything in detail, but they would have had plenty of raw data to work on that showed the West was not ready for (and still hasn’t adjusted to) the military, economic and financial needs of a long, drawn-out attritional conflict, with weapon development and counter-measures going on apace.
Nothing in the Western military handbooks, the officer training policies, the NATO doctrine covered what is actually happening.
The end result is the much-vaunted “most advanced and powerful military force in human history” being effectively reduced to terrorism against the adversary’s civilian population. Netanyahu (spit ) defined terrorism as conducting military operations against civilians in order to achieve a political goal.
It seems all the trolls here are supporters of terrorism, much in the same way they support the inhuman actions of the TCC press-gangs.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 21 2026 20:53 utc | 97
Also on the deal with Hungary. It is, believe it or not, humiliating the EU commission and weakening the EU as a whole. Despite EU puppets in charge, it brings to attention that they can’t really prevent business and society rapproachment with Russia. Eventually the globalist epstein class will be gone. Russia is looking things in very long cycles, contrary to how epstein class is looking things without seeing one or two days ahead.
It also brings in plain sight that globalist control is collapsing. They are just talking heads, irritating, rambling, but the entire globalist plan is going up in flames.
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2026 20:59 utc | 98
[…] the West was not ready for (and still hasn’t adjusted to) the military, economic and financial needs of a long, drawn-out attritional conflict
Just to add to this, the West’s failure to adjust will feed back into political failure to adjust, leading to increasing political failure generally, as “more of the same” doesn’t work.
Not necessarily leading to imminent political collapse, but increasing bouts of factional infighting and sniping, as the stresses and strains exceed the design loads of the Western political structures.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 21 2026 21:15 utc | 99
bored 84 – RF has attacked and closed all of the Ukronazi ports on the Black Sea and Danube. All commercial ships are now being attacked with drones and cruise missiles (some of these ships were being used as mother ships for UAF drones).
The Ukronazi steel industry is now toast, and the rail net is being actively interdicted. Most power stations have also come under attack.
So some progress is being made in First NATO/Russian War.
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 21 2026 21:21 utc | 100