Just like with Trump supporters they're doing a lot more harm than good exponentially with the trust the plan bullshit.
When people, as in authorities, are faltering in their duties they need to feel it, with shame. Money and power doesn't protect you from embarrassment and there's no better motivator. Life isn't a party, there are no party poopers. Overall the sensibilities people have today are very tragically feminine.
Frankly I would go out to say Russia society hasn't truly felt the magnitude of what is happening, and a steamrolled victory would just add on to the delusions. It's evil vs good, there's no room for vanity now or the future.
Some say "life is struggle" in the sense man feels alive only when in distress and under threat. Peace and serenity make for a lethargic existence. Prehistoric men would say that every day they made it alive and unscathed was a good day. Animals still, they would relate the same feeling if they could be aware and communicate.
Also, this urge to fight is verified empirically at the species macro-level: whenever humanity has found itself in a stable situation of peace and abundance with no threat on sight - say, the 90s after the soviet collapse - at the end of the day factions always emerge; instability and war always come back.
It's an invincible, internecine desire to create both friends and enemies and go down the war path. And for whatever reason: we'll make up a motive along the way. By the way, I see you have found your punching bags.
I was content to sit back and read their analyses with a furrowed brow in the first months of the war, but the blogging over this summer has been so atrocious and now this occurs so in my mind, a red line has been crossed, if you will.
I admit I just skimmed through the post, just to write the first comment.
Didn't read the battle is in damn Izyum. Confirmation: "Russian troops have fled Izium, abandoning equipment, - reports" from little rifle icon on Izium in map https://liveuamap.com/
This is huge, the entire Russian effort is compromised.
To memory, I cannot remember a more brilliant military campaign since the fighting retreat from the Chosin reservoir during the Korean War.
The American or British military aides who planned this are still very competent, despite recent claims of degraded armies because of wokeness. It's like professionals vs amateurs.
Textbook blitzkrieg leading to complete rout, hats off to the Ukrainians.
>Textbook blitzkrieg leading to complete rout, hats off to the Ukrainians.
Yep. WWII tactics>WWI tactics.
Just sitting back and shelling for 3 months along a fortified line was an inferior strategy to concentrating mobile forces and blitzkrieging a weak point in the line.
It's so bad I'm fully expecting jokes sprouting up about Russian tanks with one forward gears and 4 reverses that will be laughed over for the next century.
I hope this problem with 'special operation' will prompt Russian leadership to finally identify whom they are actually fighting. Not to say that 'Nazis' or whoever they mean when they through around this term, don't exit in Ukraine, but blaming 'Nazis' for all Ukraine troubles is akin to blaming BLM for American ones. Beneficiaries - yes, decision makers - no
Ultimately though...one can only be wrong so many times before one loses credibility.
At the very least, there is a way to be wrong and gracefully accept it, but he started losing me when he said Russia should abandon Ukraine, and then when the invasion started, immediately supporting it.
I myself had been figuring (and hoping) Russia would invade, because it was the most sensible thing to do.
Russians utterly defeated and cleared from Kharkov oblast, by a feat of arms never seen before since the fighting retreat from the Chosin reservoir during the Korean War.
Now it will be fun to sit back and see how the Zman will approach this mess in order to spin it in a favourable light for the true believers.
I mean it’s all good and fine to be an insightful dissident blogger with a well-earned following, but it has its stark moments as well."
The Zman has been writing rabid pro-Russian postings peaking around when they took Lysychansk.
He was saying "The artillery is pounding the Ukrainian positions to dust and at this rate (the mythical 100 Ukr casualties a day) soon the AFU will disintegrate. The Western media paints a rosy picture of plucky Ukrainian soldiers beating back the invasion, but really it is just one of their lies to cover the scheming and interests of the Washington class in Ukraine, and further delude the Lefties with the Putler meme".
I wrote a few Strelkovian posts in reply and got downvoted to death, I think I had 56 dislikes under one comment. I predicted by the end of the summer the Russians would take Lysychansk and maybe Bakhmut and stop. Zman readers in the meanwhile were already on the Dniepr.
The fact that they can't provide relevant analysis on the war throws all their other analysis into question. These people aren't interested in the truth and formulating winning strategies for their side. They're interested in receiving praise and updoots. No wonder the populist right can't get off its knees in the West with sophists like this at the helm.
Yes at this point it's undeniable. You can tell the guy is profound and knows his stuff and is as honest as he can be.
Problem is, honesty seems to decline with age: I guess the older you get, the more you realise your time to get whatever you were aiming for is sifting away. That's the other end of the Boomer problem, besides their being brainwashed by legacy media.
Can't believe going on his blog's latest post there are 227 comments and not one of the commentators - I like to call them True Believers - brays about the current Russian disaster.
Either it's some kind of cult and they don't know about the rout yet because they are hanging from his words to receive directions, or they know, but LARP as tough partisans like the Lefties, and readily bend or censor facts and logic to get their points through.
Fitting the sucker lives in Cocksville MD which should be commuter length from Washington DC, I find that hilarious. Although to be even more fitting he should relocate to Buttock's Hole that's where he rightly belongs after churning out this latest crap of his.
One thing that I would suggest people consider, in the 'Big Picture' context of the Ukraine war, is that the globalist / WEF puppets running almost all Western governments would never have been able to deliberately send energy prices up through the ceiling (a key WEF objective) - without Putin invading Ukraine.
The invasion of Ukraine provided the absolutely essential pretext for Western WEF puppet governments to impose the sanctions which are supposedly against Russia - but which actually have the economies and living standards of the peoples of the West as their key target.
The WEF plan is to utterly trash the economies of (particularly) Europe with such high energy prices that hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of small companies, shops, restaurants etc. will have to close down, or go bankrupt, because they they won't be able to afford their energy bills.
This is after Stage 1 of the globalists' plan for the destruction of the West - which was the long-planned 'Covid crisis' and lockdowns - which bankrupted hundreds of thousands of shops , small businesses, restaurants, etc. - and achieved the largest transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the multi-billionaire oligarchs (Amazon et al) in history.
The point: the coming Winter of destruction for Europe, particularly, via the wholly deliberate engineering of massive energy prices rises by the EU and Biden criminal gangs could never have been achieved (because there would have been no excuse - i.e., suitable 'Narrative' - for them, without Putin invading Ukraine.
So - unless you think that Putin is incredibly stupid and gullible, and that he was manipulated into invading Ukraine, the only possible other conclusion is that Putin is in bed with the globalist criminals, while pretending to the Russian people that he is a patriot and a nationalist.
And for those who will rage against this assertion, I say this: if you think that Putin and his government are patriots, and not globalist puppets, then how do you explain that Putin's government has implemented all of the globalist WHO's / Bill Gates' coercion of people to be injected with the pathogenic Covid 'vaccines', vaccine passes, and all the rest of the globalist criminal's plan, while slavishly worshiping the WHO, who are, along with the UN, the nascent World Government in reality?
Putin and Zelensky are both proven staunch admirers of Kissinger.(read Rottenchilds errand boy) Both RasPutin and Zelensky are jew Putins mother are jew, Zelensky is Zionist came to power via Kolomoisky whos funded Chabadlubowich (ultra degenerated) sect in Ukraine, ie Kazharian mafia (Dagestan Chechnya region oirigin). Both RaspPutin and Zelensky gone WEF New Young Leader program. Battle sugested is for Machinder world map. RasPutin did implement WEF WHO directives including vaxx lockdown and the rest, now installed face recognition cameras on trains and subway during lockdown installed over 1000 cameras in Moscow which is TECHNOCRACY the agenda with many faces.
"What I do not[e] is that there are A LOT of very unhappy voices in the Russian blogosphere and this is hardly surprising. First, the western PSYOPs are making the most of this, and part of the Russian audience is freaking out. Second, most Russians are now too young to remember WWII and thus there are also plenty of Russians who simply do not understand that a retreat does not necessarily mean “disaster” (though it CAN mean that too, depends on the circumstances) and that this is simply what warfare is all about.
Simply put, any new type of warfare, like the SMO, always implies two things:
Mistakes are inevitably made and need to be corrected and
Some aspects of the of the operational planning need to be adjusted or even changed completely
==>>These things are NORMAL, they “come with the territory” if you wish.<<==
In Russian there is an expression “this is unpleasant/upsetting but not dangerous” (это обидно, но не опасно). I think that this fully applies here: nobody in Russia is particularly happy about what is taking place (except maybe the Russian General Staff IF we assume that this is all a big trap the Russians deliberately created, and there is some evidence for that as the force concentrations prior to this attack were reported by numerous observers, so it was hardly a secret that the Ukronazis were about to attack somewhere in the northeast). But we need to really keep aware of the proportions of what is happening: after six months of warfare, this is the first and only Ukrainian attack which shows some real capabilities, and it is all limited to a rather narrow corridor within the Russian tactical defenses only! As I said, these are strong tactical attacks and clashes, but the size of them does not even amount to a real “battle” or “offensive”, at least not in the military sense of the word.
Now if the Russians do not take back the initiative over this week-end, then things might seriously become alarming and we could speak of the first operational success of the Ukronazis and their Neocon masters.
Could that happen? Yes, absolutely.
Should we assume it will? No, this is too soon to come to such a conclusion.
Your 'article' - or whatever it is - is totally incomprehensible. That is the simple truth of the matter.
I literally have no idea what you were trying to say - except that you were attacking some other bloggers on Ukraine: nothing more than that.
Why don't you try writing as a traditional journalist would - i.e., by first of all providing some kind of a 'headlines' statement, so that people know what your key point is, in plain English.
And then, under that key 'leadline' point that you're wishing to make, to provide a series of sub-points, each making separate points, which substantiate your headline point.
In that way, if your points are interesting to people, they would understand what on earth you are talking about; and if your points are well made and interesting to people, you might get more views of your blog in the future.
- which seems to have some very interesting material in it - but to tell the truth, I really couldn't understand most of it. I don't think that that is because I am stupid, but because it is written in a confusing way.
I simply suggest that you write in a more simple, easy to understand way - and try to imagine, when re-reading your articles before you post them, that you are a non-Slav reader, and ask yourself whether the article is as clear as you could possibly make it.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kupyansk is partially abandoned, the right bank under the Nazis. Our army goes beyond the Oskol River to take up defense there. I support this decision.
Yesterday Vladlen Tatarsky said in his evening edition that this decision would be the most correct from the point of view of military art. To maintain a foothold on the right bank, in the face of overwhelming numerical superiority of the enemy at any cost, introducing reserves in a dosed way, I consider it pointless. We do not have as many lives of soldiers, unlike the Nazis. It's a tough decision, but overall I think it's the right one. Now the task is to competently withdraw the troops across the river, gain a foothold and prevent the Izyum group from being surrounded. Once again, take off your rose-colored glasses. Not only Nazi Ukraine is fighting against us. We are again at war with the collective West - the NATO military and a large number of foreign mercenaries are participating in the offensive on the Kharkov front.
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 It is reported that the enemy is conducting attacking operations in the Krasny Liman area, the city itself is under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 1. At night, the RF Armed Forces withdrew behind Oskol in Kupyansk (yesterday the bridge across the river was badly damaged) and the enemy began to occupy the western part of Kupyansk in the morning. The RF Armed Forces were in the eastern part of the city in the morning.
2. The enemy continued to attack in the Izyum direction, trying to go directly to Izyum. As of yesterday evening, the front was 5-10 km from the city. The enemy DRG moving along Oskol sought to reach Gorokhovatka and further to Oskol.
3. Krasny Liman began to be subjected to artillery strikes in the morning, and in the morning an attack began on the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the area of Krasny Liman from the area of the Old Caravan. The goal of the enemy is to capture the Krasny Liman and further attack on Oskol, in order to cut off the Izyum grouping. In the event of the loss of Krasny Liman, the question of the need to withdraw the entire Izyum group may rise to its full height. However, the issue of the withdrawal of troops is already on the agenda, since there is not an illusory threat of encirclement near Izyum.
4. Regarding Balakleya, the enemy posted confirming photographs of control from the northern part of the warehouses. The capture of Balakleya has not yet been announced.
In general, the operational crisis after the enemy breakthrough near Balakleya continues to develop. The command has not yet succeeded in stabilizing the front.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Today and the next few days we will not receive the most joyful news, and crests will dump gigabytes of photos and videos from the settlements we left behind. Kupyansk has been abandoned and, in fact, we cannot hold out on the right bank of the Oskol River now. I will say this, the decision to withdraw our troops is a military necessity that has prevailed over political expediency, and we must pay tribute to the fact that he who gave the order to withdraw showed courage.
The overslept counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Balakley-Izyum sector, the state of the troops in this area, the lies in the reports to the top, let those who are supposed to deal with all this. I repeat, in the current conditions, an organized withdrawal is the only right decision. And thank God that despite serious territorial losses, our losses in personnel are very small, especially considering the scope of the operation.
In our history, there were the most difficult defeats, after some we became stronger and repaid the enemy a hundredfold, after others, the country itself slipped into disaster. The main thing now is to understand that the Izyum-Balakley battle is Narva, and not Tsushima or Mukden. No need to sprinkle ashes on your head, look for traitors and build conspiracy theories. Such searches lead to a false path, which not only does not correct mistakes, but also aggravates them. We must calmly analyze what happened and realize that there is a difficult war with a strong enemy.
My understanding (please correct me if wrong) is that it is financially supported by (& therefore unofficial "mouthpiece" for) Russian government. That imo would make it worth following as counterweight to western propaganda.
Bro, literally everyone, even micro internet content-creators get approached by one secret police gang or another. It's just a fact.
As for whether or not they accepted, well, their content dropped down by like 20 IQ points and just became rah-rah-rah bullshit mixed in with the occasional talking point about how Russia is a multicultural country. That's standard FSB talking points.
What I question is VVPs grip on reality. Lincoln knew the WBTS was going bad early on. It took strenuous effort to right the course and eventually the N won - an awful awful war. If he was deluded everything was ok? Disaster.
The war between the Biden crime syndicate and Russia has taken another turn. When people in Germany begin freezing to death, NATO might decide to partition Ukraine. On the other hand, Truman refused to fight an all-out war against North Korea (just as LBJ refused to fight North Vietnam) because they feared China would send troops in support of its allies. If China shows its hand and supports Russia, the New World Order will crash and burn.
The whole objective of NATO / the globalist West is to destroy the economies and living standards of the West!
The Ukraine war is the essential tool for them to be able to rationalise doing that, using sky high energy prices as their weapon to destroy Western living standards and economies.
Yes to the overall concept, but I think this message is bad timed.
The Russians just got routed by Western military aides. The Chinese are totally untested in war. Go figure how the New World Order will crash and burn.
I cannot recall any major military conflict that China has been involved in since it invaded and conquered Tibet more than half a century ago. It is true that their troops have not been tested; but the classic RED BADGE OF COURAGE showed how quickly men become warriors. The crumbling American empire is a house built of cards and resting on shifting sand. Joe Biden can print all the money he wants (until the paper shortage stops him); but the world is beginning to recognize the limits of American power and the BRICs will soon take control of whatever is left of the world, post-Ukraine.
If we had access to news outside of America's propaganda networks, we might learn whether Klaus Schwab is about to die of old age or be crowned King of the West.
The only thing I believe is what I've read recently in THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM.
Just like with Trump supporters they're doing a lot more harm than good exponentially with the trust the plan bullshit.
When people, as in authorities, are faltering in their duties they need to feel it, with shame. Money and power doesn't protect you from embarrassment and there's no better motivator. Life isn't a party, there are no party poopers. Overall the sensibilities people have today are very tragically feminine.
Frankly I would go out to say Russia society hasn't truly felt the magnitude of what is happening, and a steamrolled victory would just add on to the delusions. It's evil vs good, there's no room for vanity now or the future.
Literally Qanon mentality, yes.
Some say "life is struggle" in the sense man feels alive only when in distress and under threat. Peace and serenity make for a lethargic existence. Prehistoric men would say that every day they made it alive and unscathed was a good day. Animals still, they would relate the same feeling if they could be aware and communicate.
Also, this urge to fight is verified empirically at the species macro-level: whenever humanity has found itself in a stable situation of peace and abundance with no threat on sight - say, the 90s after the soviet collapse - at the end of the day factions always emerge; instability and war always come back.
It's an invincible, internecine desire to create both friends and enemies and go down the war path. And for whatever reason: we'll make up a motive along the way. By the way, I see you have found your punching bags.
I was content to sit back and read their analyses with a furrowed brow in the first months of the war, but the blogging over this summer has been so atrocious and now this occurs so in my mind, a red line has been crossed, if you will.
I admit I just skimmed through the post, just to write the first comment.
Didn't read the battle is in damn Izyum. Confirmation: "Russian troops have fled Izium, abandoning equipment, - reports" from little rifle icon on Izium in map https://liveuamap.com/
This is huge, the entire Russian effort is compromised.
To memory, I cannot remember a more brilliant military campaign since the fighting retreat from the Chosin reservoir during the Korean War.
The American or British military aides who planned this are still very competent, despite recent claims of degraded armies because of wokeness. It's like professionals vs amateurs.
Textbook blitzkrieg leading to complete rout, hats off to the Ukrainians.
>Textbook blitzkrieg leading to complete rout, hats off to the Ukrainians.
Yep. WWII tactics>WWI tactics.
Just sitting back and shelling for 3 months along a fortified line was an inferior strategy to concentrating mobile forces and blitzkrieging a weak point in the line.
It's so bad I'm fully expecting jokes sprouting up about Russian tanks with one forward gears and 4 reverses that will be laughed over for the next century.
Or, you know, they could get their tanks and asses into gear and get serious.
I hope this problem with 'special operation' will prompt Russian leadership to finally identify whom they are actually fighting. Not to say that 'Nazis' or whoever they mean when they through around this term, don't exit in Ukraine, but blaming 'Nazis' for all Ukraine troubles is akin to blaming BLM for American ones. Beneficiaries - yes, decision makers - no
I used to enjoy the Saker. Really, I did.
Ultimately though...one can only be wrong so many times before one loses credibility.
At the very least, there is a way to be wrong and gracefully accept it, but he started losing me when he said Russia should abandon Ukraine, and then when the invasion started, immediately supporting it.
I myself had been figuring (and hoping) Russia would invade, because it was the most sensible thing to do.
I just noticed I cannot access to the Zman blog anymore because of a comment.
I can read it if I connect with VPN but with VPN you cannot post comments. The bastard banned my IP.
This was my comment (a long awaited "told you so" moment for me):
"Ah ah ah!!! Oh God the battle is now inside Izyum town !
Izyum is currently being evacuated by the Russians.
And Kupiansk is officially in Ukrainian hands, in its entirety.
Total rout.
Russian troops happy to have barely escaped the enemy attack on Kupiansk:
https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1568480938191093762
Russians utterly defeated and cleared from Kharkov oblast, by a feat of arms never seen before since the fighting retreat from the Chosin reservoir during the Korean War.
Now it will be fun to sit back and see how the Zman will approach this mess in order to spin it in a favourable light for the true believers.
I mean it’s all good and fine to be an insightful dissident blogger with a well-earned following, but it has its stark moments as well."
Didn't know that Zman was providing icecold takes. He used to be sharp. At least I thought so.
The Zman has been writing rabid pro-Russian postings peaking around when they took Lysychansk.
He was saying "The artillery is pounding the Ukrainian positions to dust and at this rate (the mythical 100 Ukr casualties a day) soon the AFU will disintegrate. The Western media paints a rosy picture of plucky Ukrainian soldiers beating back the invasion, but really it is just one of their lies to cover the scheming and interests of the Washington class in Ukraine, and further delude the Lefties with the Putler meme".
I wrote a few Strelkovian posts in reply and got downvoted to death, I think I had 56 dislikes under one comment. I predicted by the end of the summer the Russians would take Lysychansk and maybe Bakhmut and stop. Zman readers in the meanwhile were already on the Dniepr.
Turns out I was too optimistic myself.
Nah, ok.
The fact that they can't provide relevant analysis on the war throws all their other analysis into question. These people aren't interested in the truth and formulating winning strategies for their side. They're interested in receiving praise and updoots. No wonder the populist right can't get off its knees in the West with sophists like this at the helm.
Yes at this point it's undeniable. You can tell the guy is profound and knows his stuff and is as honest as he can be.
Problem is, honesty seems to decline with age: I guess the older you get, the more you realise your time to get whatever you were aiming for is sifting away. That's the other end of the Boomer problem, besides their being brainwashed by legacy media.
...but then again he banned me for having posted this
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Can't believe going on his blog's latest post there are 227 comments and not one of the commentators - I like to call them True Believers - brays about the current Russian disaster.
Either it's some kind of cult and they don't know about the rout yet because they are hanging from his words to receive directions, or they know, but LARP as tough partisans like the Lefties, and readily bend or censor facts and logic to get their points through.
Fitting the sucker lives in Cocksville MD which should be commuter length from Washington DC, I find that hilarious. Although to be even more fitting he should relocate to Buttock's Hole that's where he rightly belongs after churning out this latest crap of his.
One thing that I would suggest people consider, in the 'Big Picture' context of the Ukraine war, is that the globalist / WEF puppets running almost all Western governments would never have been able to deliberately send energy prices up through the ceiling (a key WEF objective) - without Putin invading Ukraine.
The invasion of Ukraine provided the absolutely essential pretext for Western WEF puppet governments to impose the sanctions which are supposedly against Russia - but which actually have the economies and living standards of the peoples of the West as their key target.
The WEF plan is to utterly trash the economies of (particularly) Europe with such high energy prices that hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of small companies, shops, restaurants etc. will have to close down, or go bankrupt, because they they won't be able to afford their energy bills.
This is after Stage 1 of the globalists' plan for the destruction of the West - which was the long-planned 'Covid crisis' and lockdowns - which bankrupted hundreds of thousands of shops , small businesses, restaurants, etc. - and achieved the largest transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the multi-billionaire oligarchs (Amazon et al) in history.
The point: the coming Winter of destruction for Europe, particularly, via the wholly deliberate engineering of massive energy prices rises by the EU and Biden criminal gangs could never have been achieved (because there would have been no excuse - i.e., suitable 'Narrative' - for them, without Putin invading Ukraine.
So - unless you think that Putin is incredibly stupid and gullible, and that he was manipulated into invading Ukraine, the only possible other conclusion is that Putin is in bed with the globalist criminals, while pretending to the Russian people that he is a patriot and a nationalist.
And for those who will rage against this assertion, I say this: if you think that Putin and his government are patriots, and not globalist puppets, then how do you explain that Putin's government has implemented all of the globalist WHO's / Bill Gates' coercion of people to be injected with the pathogenic Covid 'vaccines', vaccine passes, and all the rest of the globalist criminal's plan, while slavishly worshiping the WHO, who are, along with the UN, the nascent World Government in reality?
Putin and Zelensky are both proven staunch admirers of Kissinger.(read Rottenchilds errand boy) Both RasPutin and Zelensky are jew Putins mother are jew, Zelensky is Zionist came to power via Kolomoisky whos funded Chabadlubowich (ultra degenerated) sect in Ukraine, ie Kazharian mafia (Dagestan Chechnya region oirigin). Both RaspPutin and Zelensky gone WEF New Young Leader program. Battle sugested is for Machinder world map. RasPutin did implement WEF WHO directives including vaxx lockdown and the rest, now installed face recognition cameras on trains and subway during lockdown installed over 1000 cameras in Moscow which is TECHNOCRACY the agenda with many faces.
Bingo!
"What I do not[e] is that there are A LOT of very unhappy voices in the Russian blogosphere and this is hardly surprising. First, the western PSYOPs are making the most of this, and part of the Russian audience is freaking out. Second, most Russians are now too young to remember WWII and thus there are also plenty of Russians who simply do not understand that a retreat does not necessarily mean “disaster” (though it CAN mean that too, depends on the circumstances) and that this is simply what warfare is all about.
Simply put, any new type of warfare, like the SMO, always implies two things:
Mistakes are inevitably made and need to be corrected and
Some aspects of the of the operational planning need to be adjusted or even changed completely
==>>These things are NORMAL, they “come with the territory” if you wish.<<==
In Russian there is an expression “this is unpleasant/upsetting but not dangerous” (это обидно, но не опасно). I think that this fully applies here: nobody in Russia is particularly happy about what is taking place (except maybe the Russian General Staff IF we assume that this is all a big trap the Russians deliberately created, and there is some evidence for that as the force concentrations prior to this attack were reported by numerous observers, so it was hardly a secret that the Ukronazis were about to attack somewhere in the northeast). But we need to really keep aware of the proportions of what is happening: after six months of warfare, this is the first and only Ukrainian attack which shows some real capabilities, and it is all limited to a rather narrow corridor within the Russian tactical defenses only! As I said, these are strong tactical attacks and clashes, but the size of them does not even amount to a real “battle” or “offensive”, at least not in the military sense of the word.
Now if the Russians do not take back the initiative over this week-end, then things might seriously become alarming and we could speak of the first operational success of the Ukronazis and their Neocon masters.
Could that happen? Yes, absolutely.
Should we assume it will? No, this is too soon to come to such a conclusion.
>"What I do not[e] is that there are A LOT of very unhappy voices in the Russian blogosphere and this is hardly surprising.
Not just the blogosphere. Patriotic civil society.
>First, the western PSYOPs are making the most of this
Don't give them material to work with then.
Not sure who you are directing this to.
Mistakes will happen. Setbacks will happen. Psyops will make the most of them.
In the case of mistakes, learn & adjust. In the case of setbacks, double down & work harder.
In the meantime, there is a lot of fighting going on everywhere. And I read somewhere on Thursday that Putin was meeting with the generals on Friday.
Why can't you write in a straightforward way, so that people can actually understand what on earth your points are?
I read the above rant by you - and I still don't know what on earth you were trying to say.
I think you do understand.
Your 'article' - or whatever it is - is totally incomprehensible. That is the simple truth of the matter.
I literally have no idea what you were trying to say - except that you were attacking some other bloggers on Ukraine: nothing more than that.
Why don't you try writing as a traditional journalist would - i.e., by first of all providing some kind of a 'headlines' statement, so that people know what your key point is, in plain English.
And then, under that key 'leadline' point that you're wishing to make, to provide a series of sub-points, each making separate points, which substantiate your headline point.
In that way, if your points are interesting to people, they would understand what on earth you are talking about; and if your points are well made and interesting to people, you might get more views of your blog in the future.
I haven't seen you around here before and I think you're just lashing out because of what I wrote, to be honest.
Rolo, I am not trying to be nasty - but to give you some feedback from a reader who is trying to understand what is going on in Ukraine.
I just read your article:
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/why-should-anyone-stuck-in-ukraine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
- which seems to have some very interesting material in it - but to tell the truth, I really couldn't understand most of it. I don't think that that is because I am stupid, but because it is written in a confusing way.
I simply suggest that you write in a more simple, easy to understand way - and try to imagine, when re-reading your articles before you post them, that you are a non-Slav reader, and ask yourself whether the article is as clear as you could possibly make it.
OK, fair enough.
Can I ask how old you are?
What has my age got to do with anything?
Intel Slava Z
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kupyansk is partially abandoned, the right bank under the Nazis. Our army goes beyond the Oskol River to take up defense there. I support this decision.
Yesterday Vladlen Tatarsky said in his evening edition that this decision would be the most correct from the point of view of military art. To maintain a foothold on the right bank, in the face of overwhelming numerical superiority of the enemy at any cost, introducing reserves in a dosed way, I consider it pointless. We do not have as many lives of soldiers, unlike the Nazis. It's a tough decision, but overall I think it's the right one. Now the task is to competently withdraw the troops across the river, gain a foothold and prevent the Izyum group from being surrounded. Once again, take off your rose-colored glasses. Not only Nazi Ukraine is fighting against us. We are again at war with the collective West - the NATO military and a large number of foreign mercenaries are participating in the offensive on the Kharkov front.
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Intel Slava Z
🇺🇦🇷🇺 It is reported that the enemy is conducting attacking operations in the Krasny Liman area, the city itself is under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
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Intel Slava Z
🇷🇺🇺🇦 1. At night, the RF Armed Forces withdrew behind Oskol in Kupyansk (yesterday the bridge across the river was badly damaged) and the enemy began to occupy the western part of Kupyansk in the morning. The RF Armed Forces were in the eastern part of the city in the morning.
2. The enemy continued to attack in the Izyum direction, trying to go directly to Izyum. As of yesterday evening, the front was 5-10 km from the city. The enemy DRG moving along Oskol sought to reach Gorokhovatka and further to Oskol.
3. Krasny Liman began to be subjected to artillery strikes in the morning, and in the morning an attack began on the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the area of Krasny Liman from the area of the Old Caravan. The goal of the enemy is to capture the Krasny Liman and further attack on Oskol, in order to cut off the Izyum grouping. In the event of the loss of Krasny Liman, the question of the need to withdraw the entire Izyum group may rise to its full height. However, the issue of the withdrawal of troops is already on the agenda, since there is not an illusory threat of encirclement near Izyum.
4. Regarding Balakleya, the enemy posted confirming photographs of control from the northern part of the warehouses. The capture of Balakleya has not yet been announced.
In general, the operational crisis after the enemy breakthrough near Balakleya continues to develop. The command has not yet succeeded in stabilizing the front.
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Intel Slava Z
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Today and the next few days we will not receive the most joyful news, and crests will dump gigabytes of photos and videos from the settlements we left behind. Kupyansk has been abandoned and, in fact, we cannot hold out on the right bank of the Oskol River now. I will say this, the decision to withdraw our troops is a military necessity that has prevailed over political expediency, and we must pay tribute to the fact that he who gave the order to withdraw showed courage.
The overslept counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Balakley-Izyum sector, the state of the troops in this area, the lies in the reports to the top, let those who are supposed to deal with all this. I repeat, in the current conditions, an organized withdrawal is the only right decision. And thank God that despite serious territorial losses, our losses in personnel are very small, especially considering the scope of the operation.
In our history, there were the most difficult defeats, after some we became stronger and repaid the enemy a hundredfold, after others, the country itself slipped into disaster. The main thing now is to understand that the Izyum-Balakley battle is Narva, and not Tsushima or Mukden. No need to sprinkle ashes on your head, look for traitors and build conspiracy theories. Such searches lead to a false path, which not only does not correct mistakes, but also aggravates them. We must calmly analyze what happened and realize that there is a difficult war with a strong enemy.
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I had to unfollow Intel Slava over the summer.
Way too much disinfo.
My understanding (please correct me if wrong) is that it is financially supported by (& therefore unofficial "mouthpiece" for) Russian government. That imo would make it worth following as counterweight to western propaganda.
I think it got approached by the Russian FSB, yes.
But it was initially an independent effort. The propaganda machine of Russia was simply non-existent in the beginning of all this.
Hmmm ..so approached, but no word if accepted/intertwined?
Bro, literally everyone, even micro internet content-creators get approached by one secret police gang or another. It's just a fact.
As for whether or not they accepted, well, their content dropped down by like 20 IQ points and just became rah-rah-rah bullshit mixed in with the occasional talking point about how Russia is a multicultural country. That's standard FSB talking points.
1. Nit, but I'm not a "bro." Sis more like it. Babushka even closer!
2. Iow, my assumption that it is a Russian mouthpiece is correct.
What I question is VVPs grip on reality. Lincoln knew the WBTS was going bad early on. It took strenuous effort to right the course and eventually the N won - an awful awful war. If he was deluded everything was ok? Disaster.
Well it was 20 months from Barbarossa to Stalingrad. Is Russia gonna do that again? If so, strap yourselves in, boys, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
The war between the Biden crime syndicate and Russia has taken another turn. When people in Germany begin freezing to death, NATO might decide to partition Ukraine. On the other hand, Truman refused to fight an all-out war against North Korea (just as LBJ refused to fight North Vietnam) because they feared China would send troops in support of its allies. If China shows its hand and supports Russia, the New World Order will crash and burn.
The whole objective of NATO / the globalist West is to destroy the economies and living standards of the West!
The Ukraine war is the essential tool for them to be able to rationalise doing that, using sky high energy prices as their weapon to destroy Western living standards and economies.
Yes to the overall concept, but I think this message is bad timed.
The Russians just got routed by Western military aides. The Chinese are totally untested in war. Go figure how the New World Order will crash and burn.
I cannot recall any major military conflict that China has been involved in since it invaded and conquered Tibet more than half a century ago. It is true that their troops have not been tested; but the classic RED BADGE OF COURAGE showed how quickly men become warriors. The crumbling American empire is a house built of cards and resting on shifting sand. Joe Biden can print all the money he wants (until the paper shortage stops him); but the world is beginning to recognize the limits of American power and the BRICs will soon take control of whatever is left of the world, post-Ukraine.
If we had access to news outside of America's propaganda networks, we might learn whether Klaus Schwab is about to die of old age or be crowned King of the West.
The only thing I believe is what I've read recently in THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM.
Fair enough
Well you've given me a very convincing argument. Though perhaps not in the way you intended...