Kiev Will Not Face Any Consequences For Breaking the Blockade
(nor for anything else for that matter)
So remember those port strikes and that naval blockade and all the ra-ra-Russia cheerleading from a few weeks ago?
This is what it has come to.
A civilian cargo ship sailing from Ukraine reached Istanbul on Thursday in defiance of a Moscow blockade that sent tensions soaring after Russia open fired on a Turkish-owned ship.
The Hong Kong-flagged Joseph Schulte left the port of Odesa on Wednesday — the first vessel to directly challenge Russia's new bid to seal Ukraine's access to the Black Sea.
There was an Israeli ship before, but it wasn’t sent to Odessa.
Marine traffic sites showed it approaching its final destination in Istanbul after moving along a western route that avoided international waters in favor of those controlled by NATO members Romania and Bulgaria.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the ship was using a "new humanitarian corridor" Kyiv established after Russia last month pulled out of a wartime agreement to export grain along the Black Sea.
He was bragging on Twitter about it too.
As was I, but for different reasons.
The Joseph Schulte's mission came days after the Russian navy fired warning shots and boarded a Turkish-owned but Palau-flagged vessel that was sailing to the Ukrainian river port of Izmail.
The Russian attack put immense pressure on NATO member Turkey to stiffen its officially neutral line in the war.
The Turkish presidency broke a four-day silence on Thursday by announcing that it had "warned" Moscow about the need to avoid further maritime escalations.
But the Turkish statement stressed that it was technically up to Palau — a Pacific archipelago often used as a "flag of convenience" by global shipping companies — to lodge a formal complaint.
Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine's shipping infrastructure since pulling out of the grain deal mediated by the U.N. and Turkey.
Ukraine's decision to confront Russia over sea access comes with world attention focusing on ways to secure grain export routes in time for this autumn's harvest.
Ukraine and Russia are major exporters of grain and seed oil.
New US push
Last year's grain agreement helped push down global food prices and provide Ukraine with an important source of revenue to fight the war.
Ukraine is now using the Danube River to ship out its grain.
Much of that traffic flows down the river and ends up reaching the Black Sea at Ukraine's border with Romania.
The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials are holding talks with Turkey and both Ukraine and its neighbors about increasing traffic along the Danube route.
An unnamed U.S. official told the paper that Washington was "going to look at everything" — including the possibility of military support for the Ukrainian ships.
But a Turkish defense official appeared to push back against Washington's initiative on Thursday.
"Our efforts are focused on making the grain corridor deal active again," the unnamed defense official told Turkey's NTV television. "We are not working on other solutions."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this month for talks focused on the Black Sea.
Now, what happened the last, oh I don’t know, ten times that Kiev or Washington violated one of Moscow’s red lines?
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That’s right: absolutely nothing.
You’re free to make a prediction that Russia will, idk, retake Snake Island or assassinate Zelensky for running the blockade or start shooting Turkish ships or whatever, take your pick.
But, based on previous non-responses, I feel comfortable predicting a wave of flashy drone and missile strikes and counter-retaliations and little else. Seeing as this has already occurred, we can check part of my prediction immediately. A wave of strikes was unleashed ostensibly as part of a response to the continued drone attacks by Kiev, including the naval strikes and never-ending bridge drama.
In response to Kiev’s attempts to attack peaceful Russian cities and another provocation in the Black Sea, Russian forces launched another wave of strikes on military facilities throughout Ukraine.
On August 18, a Ukrainian unmanned boat attempted to attack Russian patrol ships in the southwestern part of the Black Sea. Like the previous attacks, this one ended in failure and the Ukrainian drone was destroyed.
On the same day, Ukrainian drones targeted Russian rear areas. However, it will not be possible to find out where they were going, since four UAVs were intercepted over the Russian state border.
A few hours earlier, one Ukrainian UAV was suppressed by electronic warfare means in the Moscow region. As a result, several more windows in a skyscraper in the Moscow City quarter were knocked out by the wreckage of the Ukrainian drone.
On the night of August 19, the Kiev regime also ‘attempted a terrorist attack with an anti-aircraft missile of the S-200 air defense system converted into a strike version on the territory of Crimea’, the Russian Defence Ministry reported. Russian air defense systems timely detected and destroyed it in the air. There are no casualties or destruction.
On the morning of August 19, the Kiev regime carried out an attack at a military airfield in the Novgorod region, using quadrotor UAVs. The UAVs were destroyed with small arms. As a result of the attack, a fire broke out in the aircraft parking lot, which was promptly eliminated by fire crews. One aircraft was damaged, there were no casualties as a result of the incident. The attack could be carried out by the local sabotage group.
Before you get too excited about the latest round of strikes, keep in mind that the Odessa grain silo strikes came and went and were forgotten without any change to the frontlines, just like every single mega strike wave touted before them as well.
I wrote last time that the Odessa strikes were done to drive up the price of grain and that there weren’t proof of any serious escalation on Moscow’s part. There is still no proof that anything has changed. But that doesn’t stop people from making stuff up to raise flagging spirits.
ZAnon has been claiming that a big Shoigu counter-counter-offensive to surround the UAF in Lugansk is about to begin soon. Please consult the map below with the arrows:
There hasn’t been a large Russian offensive since the SMO ended back in April, but that hasn’t stopped ZAnon for claiming that there would be one last fall, last winter, last spring, this summer, and now by the end of this summer. So, I expect that this is more of the same. The swine masses keep giving attention, money and adulation to the people promoting these narratives and so all they’re doing is giving the people what they want, really.
It also helps that the masses literally do not have long-term memory! I do mean this quite literally! They can’t even name their first grade teacher if you asked them!
Back in the real world, there still haven’t been strikes on critical infrastructure supplying weapons from the West to the East, there haven’t been strikes on the infrastructure that transports Russian raw materials to the West and to Ukraine and from the West and Ukraine to Russia. Oligarchs on both “sides” are making a tidy profit, of course.
PBK-Ukraine reports that Ukraine has continued to sell Russia titanium that it needs for its rockets and planes.
Everyone knows that modern wars are a racket, but, for some reason, every single time that a new war breaks out, it takes at least 2 years for people to remember that thing that they thought that they knew. By that point of course, it is already too late, the damage done, the profits made, and it is in the interests of the elite to de-escalate the conflict by that point anyways, so they allow for “reasonable” voices to start emerging when before that they would be imprisoning these people.
This Not-War isn’t ever going to be more than a managed conflict, but, if it ever were allowed to become more than a money-making operation for the oligarchs and a systematic cull of the Slavic population, you’d know it from the following signs. That is, if:
the bridges in Ukraine were blown, finally (Kiev can blow Russian bridges, can’t they?)
politicians, spooks and high-ranking officers in Ukraine were targeted by Moscow
mobilization in Russia occurred
people like Shoigu or Nabiullina or Mishustin were dismissed
the digitization Agenda 2030 plans were dropped
oligarchs stopped selling raw materials to NATO + Ukraine
Strelkov was released
the blockade was enforced and Snake Island taken back (rejecting previous backroom diplomacy)
People are strange.
Even though I haven’t really changed my arguments for almost a year now, it seems like some of what I am saying is starting to sink in only now. Few talk about Kiev being taken anymore, even though after Bakhmut, ZAnon told everyone that Dniepr was next.
So, we’ve already, quietly, come to accept that Kiev won’t be taken, mostly.
Some still think that the remainder of Donbass will be taken though and I can see why this would be an important psychological stepping-stone coping mechanism on their part, but, again, this won’t happen because to make it happen, Russia would need to mobilize new armies. Russia has simply been defending and making do with what they have since pretty much last summer.
At the very least, following the successful defense of the first big push towards Zaporozhye, we know that the Russian army can fight if they are allowed to do so. Frankly, the SMO showed that the Russian army can move fast and take on daring missions if the will is there to do so as well. But whatever will there was is spent now, clearly.
Meanwhile, there has been more of the same back and forth grind in the south. One river beachhead there, a village there, a retreat, an advance. In other words, nothing has changed, but the fields are littered with corpses as a result.
We’ve had a slow month of news coinciding with the August summer break. It feels almost as if this down time was itself timed. I’ll post more political and philosophical essays while the extent of the news is a village or two switching hands back and forth. Unlike ZAnon, I don’t have the luxury of hyping up fake mega-offensives to keep readership and engagement and sub counts going up. You should sign up as a paid sub anyways. I could use the encouragement.
This one legit surprised me.
https://t.me/TELEKANALSTALINGRAD/19677
Didn't think MoD would target NATO officers so blatantly, did they forget to warn their esteemed Satanic Globalist colleagues of about the incoming iskander strike or was this another symbolic tantrum? According to Z telegram these sorts of effective hits are only possible due to Russia having moles of it's own but it's crazy Imo that Russia has people willing to do that kind of work given the Kremlins obvious indifference to victory and outright malicious attitude towards people that don't share that indifference. Can you imagine being a Z spy and knowing that at any moment SBU might kick in your door and drag to some dungeon where you will probably have your balls cut off and your only hope is maybe Shoigu and Lavrov might bail you out?
There is another angle to the infastructure strikes that is often overlooked but is very obvious. Anyone somewhat familiar with WW2 trivia knows that the Germans had a problem with the Soviet railroad gauges. That could be problem even today actually, if the Kremlin wanted it to be.
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘍 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯? 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 7 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴: 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘴𝘬𝘢-𝘐𝘐, 𝘠𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯 (𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳), 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘱, 𝘔𝘶𝘬𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘷𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘪 (𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘬 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴), 𝘝𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘭-𝘚𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘯𝘪 (𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳). 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘨𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 1435 𝘮𝘮 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 1524 𝘮𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘭𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 1520 𝘮𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘳. 𝘉𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 7 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘍 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦. 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴, 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴
So if Russia targeted the stations in Western Ukraine where the freight carts where adapted to the Soviet rail gauges direct transport from NATO countries to Ukraine would be greatly complicated. That's an even more simple task than destroying the Dniper bridges by far. But alas we need those stations intact and operational to keep the goods flowing between Russia and the West. Artem even thinks that the mass destruction of military hardware in Ukrainian is a desirable outcome for the Kremlin and US both because it's going to stimulate demand for more weapons globally.
𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 30 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 30 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘍 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘺, 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴. 𝘐𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵;
https://t.me/t_artm/868
That is their are people in the Kremlin who are viewing the Slav on Slav massacre as a giant advertising campaign and this is having an adverse outcome for the troops on the battlefield. Absolute peake cynicism, prolong the war so that we can get more videos of burning NATO gear and corner more of the global arms market. As long as Russia doesn't outright lose all is good. We don't need victory we need contracts. That's also very Sovakish, we will get the Turks and street shitters to buy Russian missiles and drones instead of American, that will scare the Pindos into giving us a seat at the table without the distasteful nessecity of throwing to many bones to the Patriots or having to destroy infastructure in Ukraine that we are making money off of. The aspiring globalist running Russia just see shekels and not the inherent danger of prolonging the conflict and they have of course decided on using their troops as marketing tools as opposed to means of securing Russias interest.
Anyway total agreement on the state of affairs at the front. Imo the Kremlin wants a frozen conflict on the current front lines, maybe minus a few wrecked dachas in Zaporozhye and maybe plus a few more west of Kupyansk. In the meantime get as much gore porn and wrecked NATO gear on camera so that arms contracts can be secured as a means of making money off the war.
The Kremlin is in fact doing the absolute bare minimum to keep the front from imploding so it does seem like they have decided on negotiating from where they are at. The Zanon fan fiction of a Russian offensive has way too many plot holes to make sense. It's JJ Abrams tier. The Ukrainians can't also dig a bunch trenches and scatter mines everywhere? The Ukrainians who have even more troops and have never defended any worse than the Russians won't be able to do the exact same thing the Russians are doing now? If the Ukrainians biggest problem is lack of air dominance did I miss where the Russians achieved that? Because as far as I can tell the air is still no mans land. Plus the current Russian system to this day can barley sustain the current number of troops but they will field a few hundred thousand more somehow? Zanon can't explain how Russia will overcome the same problems facing the Ukrainians as far as breaking a determined defense without air cover, it's all narrative without any explanation for how it becomes reality. Sure Russias defense has been aided by some tactical air support which the Ukrainians won't have but the Russians won't have nearly as much meat to spam so it all breaks even.
But to lighten the typically grim mood here is a funny recent video of the good Russia that still exists and we all love:
https://t.me/t_artm/869
We no longer support Russia because of based 5D chess and all that but because in Russia it's not considered beyond the pale to knock out surly trannies.
The last meme is perfect. Paying attention to this not war where nothing happens has gotten dull