Because this is how real geopolitics works--big guys decide. United States is not a hegemon.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
The US Used To ...
... lead in terms of C4ISR. Things started to change by 2010s. Not that, say, Russia wasn't developing her own C4ISR, especially its C2--Command and Control--system. By 2020 there was no American lead in this respect with the exception of always excellent space-based ISR capabilities. SMO changed everything dramatically for Russia and the US. Today, Russian Armed Forces are the only force which develops and practices what in the US is called Joint Warfighting Capability. But the scale and scope of Russia's multi-domain netcentric operations is such, including constant introduction of newest C2, such as Svod, that it will remain beyond the reach of the US military. As it unfolds ...
The head of the U.S. Army formation leading the charge for fielding the service’s next-gen command-and-control system said Oct. 13 that the timeline of implementing the tech hinged on factors above his pay grade. Commander of I Corps Lt. Gen. Matt McFarlane told reporters at a media roundtable in Washington that the desire to see the platform deployed across the formation by the end of fiscal 2027 was dependent on what the service was able to provide. ... The Army’s NGC2 platform will permit technologies, weapons, sensors, devices and applications from across the force to co-exist on the same network, streamlining decision-making during combat environments.
But here is the issue--even if to imagine that somehow this whole thing succeeds and is deployed, what WILL it command and control? I can tell you what--it will C2 a kinetically obsolete force which has no capability to defend itself in real war nor conduct massive combined arms operations, having sustainment of operations capability which is laughable. With the enemy (alright, it is Russia) who not only possesses as good if not better C2 as you but outguns, outranges and outpaces you in every single weapon system (shooter) on the battlefield what do you have as the outcome? Back to square one--being an expeditionary police force designed to fight people who wear sandals and speak on walkie-talkies.
Here is their problem.
I Corps uses SAG-U to digest lessons learned from the unique military dynamics of the war in Ukraine and determine how to apply them to other potential conflicts worldwide. The Army recently awarded defense tech company Anduril Industries a contract worth up to $1.8 billion to continue developing NGC2’s common data baseline, or software foundation. Anduril, along with Palantir, Raft and Striveworks, has been refining the technology to help the service move NGC2 from the experimental phase to fielding.
US military cannot learn anything from SMO because it only has access to fairy tales provided to it by 404 and some electromagnetic picture it can lift from theater of war through ISR, period. Beyond some tactical tricks it has no access to critical parameters included in the highly classified tactical and operational data sets on Russian side and this whole thing will result for the US military in a traditional GIGO--Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Meanwhile, Russia is working on forming first armor formations which are totally remote-controlled or fully autonomous. Yes, T-90Ms and Shturms with BMPTs. This is what was stated by Deputy Defense Minister Army General Yunus-bek Evkurov,
"We will have unmanned tank units – this is what we are currently testing at the training ground. There are also combat support vehicles for these tanks, and a large number of ground-based robotic complexes," Yevkurov noted. Unmanned tanks were used during the "Center-2026" exercises at the "Chebarkulsky" training ground in the Chelyabinsk region. "An unmanned tank is controlled, aimed, fires, and strikes enemy positions in the same way as if a crew were inside the vehicle," Yevkurov said. He also said that the unmanned combat support vehicle (BMPT) has already proven itself well in the zone of the special military operation.
US doesn't produce tanks anymore, not to mention tanks of T-14 Armata or T-90M Proryv caliber.
This is not Russian rah-rah, it is simply that the United States made a catastrophic mistake when trying to fight people whose General Staff is older than the United States as a country. Iran also had something to say to this effect. But then again, the way military history is taught in the US military academies ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Sensing Victory?
I have news for morons from Washington Post.
Russia, sensing victory, cheers Trump’s latest shift against Ukraine. Kremlin officials are crowing that Western support of Ukraine is about to collapse, and Trump’s recent moves are steps to closer alignment between Russia and the United States.
Trump "latest shift" didn't materialize out of the thin air or because of Trump's good intentions. It is not Russia "sensing victory", which already has been won, it is the US "sensing defeat", which produced this shift. WaPo continues:
Trump’s recent ratcheting up of pressure on Zelensky could mean the U.S. president is again seeking to strong-arm the Ukrainian leader into a deal on terms favorable to Moscow.
Well, Moscow will get it one way or another--it doesn't matter now. It is all about saving Washington's face, nothing more. The scale of catastrophe for the US (and combined West) in 404 is monumental. History's turning point. Combined with defeats on several other fronts--from getting beaten up by Iran to Saudis facing a defeat--it adds up to a geopolitical earthquake of unparalleled power.
Mr. Lavrov stressed it today.
Difficult to disagree.
Monday, October 19, 2026
Somebody Tell ...
... Mr. Gideon Rachman and his curators from MI6 (Financial Times is a dumpster for MI6 scumbags), that Russia doesn't negotiate with losers and chihuahuas. EU is a loser and needs to go. You are nobodies, Mr. Rachman.
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