I must comment now despite having only read your headline!!! 😡😡😡
We have our deep-seated disagreements: I remain a steadfast--yet nuanced--defender of Soviet power and its legacy. Consequently; despite our differences, we come together wanting to see the defense of Russia against its possible--and tragically increasingly--probable dismemberment as Putin's Folly blunders clumsily into its fourth year of warfare.
It is LONG PAST TIME for those frontline troops--on either side of the trenches--to emerge and embrace one another as fellow Slavs--as brothers in culture, history, and language--and turn their respective guns on their superiors in "Keev" and Moscow!!!
No "ghost dances" (whatever that means, in its de-contextualized context) but an actual general strike within both Russia AND Ukraine demanding an immediate end to the war, and withdrawal of all NATO "advisors" from Ukrainian territory. Conversely; the removal of the Yeltsin holdover kleptocrats that destroyed the USSR and are actually destroying the RSFSR!
The local NKVD and KGB will crush these uprisings in an instant. In a war time its very easy to imprising people for going against the state. Look at Strelkov and what happend to the pro Russian Ukrainians.
Recall that events in March 1917 happened spontaneously, with the long suffering people of Petrograd reaching their limits of endurance. The same occurred in Germany a year & a half later in November 1918, when the sailors of the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet mutinied and raised the red flag in Kiel.
Then again the Communist crushed the Kronstadt revolt later, and the German communist revolution was supressed and eliminated aswell. But you can't really compare events 120 years ago to today. Back then people weren't as controlled and monitored as today. Modern authorities now have instant communication and monitoring at their disposal.
Isn't a peasant uprising like a drunken house party? At some point, economic realities set in and the peasants will trade away freedom for effective management.
You can easily tell which side is winning in a conflict by the public announcements they make.
Losing side: Will always try to talk up the twenty troops it killed that day, or the two tanks it destroyed.
Winning side: Will talk of how they're destroying the enemies economy, how many capital ships were sunk, cities that were bombed, and the major territorial gains they made.
For example: Look at the US towards the end of the Vietnam war. Thats not a perfect example, although, I'm sure you get my drift.
In somewhat related news, Transnistria is no longer getting Russian gas since Ukraine stopped the transit. Residential buildings no longer have heating, and there are rolling blackouts as the gas power plant is now running at reduced capacity on coal stocks.
Moldova has meanwhile turned their back on Transnistria and is buying gas and electricity from Romania and other European countries. Electricity prices almost doubled but otherwise all is normal.
If the cheap energy supply is not sorted then I'm guessing Transnistria will be depopulated even further and may eventually cease to exist.
I wouldn't be surprised and it would explain all the strange actions, and inactions, on all sides. Although the author left out the obvious. Who would get control of the middle East / Levant ? Take a wild guess.
Never in history has this subject traded territory for material maneuver etc advantage ?
of course it has, and continues the tradition, it seems to me. idk. I don't see the disadvantage on a strategic level for Russia -- to invite the West / 'Ukraine' in to Kursk.
Calm down! Take some deep breaths and relax. No need for hysteria or despair. This minor attack just shows that the Ukrainians have some fight left in them, but they are still losing.
It seems reasonable that each side has two objectives. The Ukrainian political objective is to score a minor media victory to show the Americans they should keep sending money and munitions. The military objective of NATO/Ukraine seems to have been to test new counter-drone electronic warfare equipment.
Russian objectives in allowing this to happen, and they certainly knew of it well in advance, may be inferred from their behaviour to be an acceptance of the drone warfare test, and to allow the Ukrainian forces to concentrate up to a single battalion where it would be easy for Russian artillery and airpower to destroy them.
The result seems to have been that the new electronic jamming succeeded against electronically controlled drones, but failed to fend off the Russian fibre-optic controlled drones. I expect the Russians will start making more fibre-optic drones and seek to jam the jammers; while NATO/Ukraine will try to tweak their new capacity and seek ways to counter the fibre-optic drones.
In terms of blood and soil the Ukrainian attack has certainly been blunted, and possibly completely repelled, whilst substantial Russian artillery and helicopter attacks have destroyed at least the equivalent of a battalion of men and their equipment. The net result is a minor defensive tactical victory for the Russians, slightly advancing their objective of 'demilitarising' Ukraine.
Military Summary channel has an explanation of the attack:
The Russian propaganda channel Borzzikman over the past couple of days shows that a further Ukrainian concentration of about a battalion was destroyed before it could reinforce this attack or make one of their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mDoRh2SfMU
It is obvious that the Russian superiority in artillery and bombs would allow them to cut the neck of the Kursk salient to prevent such reinforcements, supply or retreat. That they have not done so suggests not incompetence or treason or incapacity, but that they make use of this steadily shrinking salient as a killing ground, and that Zelenski and Syrski are helping them by sending more and more Ukrainians to die there. Apparently about 50,000 have already been killed or crippled in this 'Verdun', and total Ukrainian losses are now over 1 million. Only the (((Merchants))) are happy about this.
Don't be a Zigger. Military Summary is a Belorussian propaganda man was has to be Pro Russian and is therefor unreliable, and Ukrainians are not going anywhere. It takes 1 year for the Russian military and 10.000s of losses to get and close in and capture any large settlement like Bakhmut,Aviivka or Prokrovsk. And these are not even the large cities. Russia is not wining, they are losing a fight against a proxy. Economy and ruble is in the shit and their senior partner China is also on the verge of economic collapse if America does not lower the value of the dollar. Which means they will bow to America if shits hits the fan. But keep on spewing your Brics nonesense so we can all have a laugh.
The only thing thats "obvious" is that NATO/Zelensky dont give a shit about holding Donbass and they are using their reserves for attacks on old Russian territory. The best case scenario is Moscow has decided to actually not lose anymore of old Russia and therefore what Russian troops are available to defend borders won't be actively sabotaged by Moscow. There is still a big problem though in that most likely Ukraines reserves are much bigger than Russias troops set aside to guard the borders. Its not unlikely that next time Kiev will hit somewhere where there just aren't many Russian troops on hand.
There is also the possibility that Kiev might decide it's not worth attacking old Russia if Moscow isn't willing to help them out as much as before so they just send their reserves to Donbass. In that case we can expect Russias advance to again slow down to about the pace of glue flowing up a hill.
For anyone interested, Zelensky just made an appearance on Lex Fridman's podcast on Youtube (never had that tribesman recommended to me before, I was watching a video completely unrelated to politics or the Ukraine but whatever) :
I must comment now despite having only read your headline!!! 😡😡😡
We have our deep-seated disagreements: I remain a steadfast--yet nuanced--defender of Soviet power and its legacy. Consequently; despite our differences, we come together wanting to see the defense of Russia against its possible--and tragically increasingly--probable dismemberment as Putin's Folly blunders clumsily into its fourth year of warfare.
It is LONG PAST TIME for those frontline troops--on either side of the trenches--to emerge and embrace one another as fellow Slavs--as brothers in culture, history, and language--and turn their respective guns on their superiors in "Keev" and Moscow!!!
we must begin the ghost dances. it is the only way. peasant uprising 2025!
No "ghost dances" (whatever that means, in its de-contextualized context) but an actual general strike within both Russia AND Ukraine demanding an immediate end to the war, and withdrawal of all NATO "advisors" from Ukrainian territory. Conversely; the removal of the Yeltsin holdover kleptocrats that destroyed the USSR and are actually destroying the RSFSR!
The local NKVD and KGB will crush these uprisings in an instant. In a war time its very easy to imprising people for going against the state. Look at Strelkov and what happend to the pro Russian Ukrainians.
Recall that events in March 1917 happened spontaneously, with the long suffering people of Petrograd reaching their limits of endurance. The same occurred in Germany a year & a half later in November 1918, when the sailors of the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet mutinied and raised the red flag in Kiel.
Then again the Communist crushed the Kronstadt revolt later, and the German communist revolution was supressed and eliminated aswell. But you can't really compare events 120 years ago to today. Back then people weren't as controlled and monitored as today. Modern authorities now have instant communication and monitoring at their disposal.
Isn't a peasant uprising like a drunken house party? At some point, economic realities set in and the peasants will trade away freedom for effective management.
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You can easily tell which side is winning in a conflict by the public announcements they make.
Losing side: Will always try to talk up the twenty troops it killed that day, or the two tanks it destroyed.
Winning side: Will talk of how they're destroying the enemies economy, how many capital ships were sunk, cities that were bombed, and the major territorial gains they made.
For example: Look at the US towards the end of the Vietnam war. Thats not a perfect example, although, I'm sure you get my drift.
In somewhat related news, Transnistria is no longer getting Russian gas since Ukraine stopped the transit. Residential buildings no longer have heating, and there are rolling blackouts as the gas power plant is now running at reduced capacity on coal stocks.
Moldova has meanwhile turned their back on Transnistria and is buying gas and electricity from Romania and other European countries. Electricity prices almost doubled but otherwise all is normal.
If the cheap energy supply is not sorted then I'm guessing Transnistria will be depopulated even further and may eventually cease to exist.
Sad times for the Russian world.
Wait till they cut off Kalingrad.
Oh fuck. I hadn't even thought of that.
The war to save lives seems to be going quite well.
Indeed! Nothing screams "saving lives" like surpassing the tally of dead & wounded of the ten year Soviet-Afghan War in three years! "Winning!"
Oy Vey !!! Shut it down, shut it down !!!!
- Stalin's Jews
We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish -
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
I wouldn't be surprised and it would explain all the strange actions, and inactions, on all sides. Although the author left out the obvious. Who would get control of the middle East / Levant ? Take a wild guess.
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She'll save Germany I'm sure. The "far right" is not infiltrated I'm sure. SMH
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Don't worry folks, General Gerasimov said they were just bandits and Kursk has already been re-taken.
Never in history has this subject traded territory for material maneuver etc advantage ?
of course it has, and continues the tradition, it seems to me. idk. I don't see the disadvantage on a strategic level for Russia -- to invite the West / 'Ukraine' in to Kursk.
Shaping up to be a fun year:
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Calm down! Take some deep breaths and relax. No need for hysteria or despair. This minor attack just shows that the Ukrainians have some fight left in them, but they are still losing.
It seems reasonable that each side has two objectives. The Ukrainian political objective is to score a minor media victory to show the Americans they should keep sending money and munitions. The military objective of NATO/Ukraine seems to have been to test new counter-drone electronic warfare equipment.
Russian objectives in allowing this to happen, and they certainly knew of it well in advance, may be inferred from their behaviour to be an acceptance of the drone warfare test, and to allow the Ukrainian forces to concentrate up to a single battalion where it would be easy for Russian artillery and airpower to destroy them.
The result seems to have been that the new electronic jamming succeeded against electronically controlled drones, but failed to fend off the Russian fibre-optic controlled drones. I expect the Russians will start making more fibre-optic drones and seek to jam the jammers; while NATO/Ukraine will try to tweak their new capacity and seek ways to counter the fibre-optic drones.
In terms of blood and soil the Ukrainian attack has certainly been blunted, and possibly completely repelled, whilst substantial Russian artillery and helicopter attacks have destroyed at least the equivalent of a battalion of men and their equipment. The net result is a minor defensive tactical victory for the Russians, slightly advancing their objective of 'demilitarising' Ukraine.
Military Summary channel has an explanation of the attack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvj2YBJLC6k
The Russian propaganda channel Borzzikman over the past couple of days shows that a further Ukrainian concentration of about a battalion was destroyed before it could reinforce this attack or make one of their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mDoRh2SfMU
It is obvious that the Russian superiority in artillery and bombs would allow them to cut the neck of the Kursk salient to prevent such reinforcements, supply or retreat. That they have not done so suggests not incompetence or treason or incapacity, but that they make use of this steadily shrinking salient as a killing ground, and that Zelenski and Syrski are helping them by sending more and more Ukrainians to die there. Apparently about 50,000 have already been killed or crippled in this 'Verdun', and total Ukrainian losses are now over 1 million. Only the (((Merchants))) are happy about this.
Don't be a Zigger. Military Summary is a Belorussian propaganda man was has to be Pro Russian and is therefor unreliable, and Ukrainians are not going anywhere. It takes 1 year for the Russian military and 10.000s of losses to get and close in and capture any large settlement like Bakhmut,Aviivka or Prokrovsk. And these are not even the large cities. Russia is not wining, they are losing a fight against a proxy. Economy and ruble is in the shit and their senior partner China is also on the verge of economic collapse if America does not lower the value of the dollar. Which means they will bow to America if shits hits the fan. But keep on spewing your Brics nonesense so we can all have a laugh.
The only thing thats "obvious" is that NATO/Zelensky dont give a shit about holding Donbass and they are using their reserves for attacks on old Russian territory. The best case scenario is Moscow has decided to actually not lose anymore of old Russia and therefore what Russian troops are available to defend borders won't be actively sabotaged by Moscow. There is still a big problem though in that most likely Ukraines reserves are much bigger than Russias troops set aside to guard the borders. Its not unlikely that next time Kiev will hit somewhere where there just aren't many Russian troops on hand.
There is also the possibility that Kiev might decide it's not worth attacking old Russia if Moscow isn't willing to help them out as much as before so they just send their reserves to Donbass. In that case we can expect Russias advance to again slow down to about the pace of glue flowing up a hill.
For anyone interested, Zelensky just made an appearance on Lex Fridman's podcast on Youtube (never had that tribesman recommended to me before, I was watching a video completely unrelated to politics or the Ukraine but whatever) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u321m25rKXc
Or you could save burning your brain cells, as Seb Sas jokes.
Seb is a smart, astute guy who skewers pretentious hypocrites and he has a great sense of humor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TcP6XxjRtM