I Couldn't Resist...

 ... latest from Kiev and Scholz' visit there))) 

 

Colonel Davis And Yours Truly...

 ... live at Noon PDT (3:00 PM EST). 

 

Danny, Scott And Yours Truly...

 ... live in about an hour. After that I should be immediately at Colonel Davis Deep Dive. So, it is kinda busy today))

A Snippet Of History.

Stalin took one single painting with him to Tehran Conference in 1943, both Churchill and FDR have been stunned by it. By then, the outcome of WW II was not in doubt--the Red Army was on the offensive. But... Plastov's painting called The Fascist Flew Over conveyed what war on the Eastern Front looked like... 

Here is this picture... 

Understanding what is on this picture is beyond the grasp of West's military-political "elite", because all of them fly in this disappearing Luftwaffe fighter in the upper-right corner of this painting. Out of 27 million Soviet people killed in WW II--16 million have been civilians.

Color Me Surprised... Not.

So, the US is now politically a third world corrupt shithole. All despite many signs, diminishing as they are, of the first world economically. 

Outgoing US President Joe Biden has gone back on his word and pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted earlier this year of breaking federal gun and tax laws. In June, the younger Biden was convicted of three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018. According to the prosecutors, he lied on his gun-purchase paperwork that he was not addicted to or using illegal drugs. In a separate case, the younger Biden pleaded guilty to three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses in September. The sentencing for both convictions was supposed to happen this month. In a statement issued on Sunday evening, the president argued that his son was prosecuted “selectively and unfairly” because of his familial ties. He claimed that “people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form.”

This is everything you need to know about the state of the affairs in the US. Since the tragedy of 9/11 the US was rolling down the hill in every aspect of social and cultural life (economic and military too) but it got boosted by Obama cabal on the way to hell. And here we are--corruption and lying became virtues embraced by a large portion of Americans, especially the US corrupt pretentious intelligentsia. Many still cannot grasp the gravity and scale of the damage both to the world and the United States Biden (Obama's) Admin did.

Why Kellogg's Mission Is Impossible.

 And why it is too late for Germany. 

 

Visit By Kinzhal...

 ... of the deeply recessed and reinforced Command Post of VSU's group in Donbass.

It is an older video (from April) but it gives a very good demonstration that in the real war there is no defense against hypersonic weapons for NATO. Most of the command posts of this "bunker" nature will be detected, identified and annihilated with all personnel in them, because nothing lives after the arrival of Kinzhal. This is the reality of modern war for which NATO forces are utterly unprepared and will not be for a long time, if ever. That's what happens when one lives in the fantasy world of military techno porn and own military BS.

For Hysterical Readers.

About Syria. Here is the acquaintance of the West (and Turkiye) supported thugs with Russian VKS. One of the columns got introduced to some of the arsenal. 

As you can see yourself--the work in progress. Per SAA or in general Arab armies... I said it many times, it is a very tedious work of getting them in shape. In general, this is the only thing NATO militaries can do--puff and huff and support terrorism. Syria is the latest example of desperate attempts to somehow offset a major ass-kicking in 404.

Daniel Davis...

 ... found a good definition of the Biden Administration's posture--infantile. Same will (already is) apply to Trump's Admin. Per General Kellog--his military exploits, including Vietnam are of no consequence when talking to Russians. He will be laughed out of the "negotiating" room as an amateur, who he really is as far as the modern warfare and applied geopolitics go, and that will be it. His Vietnam and other "credentials" are worthless, that's what many people still do not get. 

So, it is too late to play, as Daniel puts it, negotiating tricks.

Open Thread.

 Go at it.

About Position...

 ... and Kabuki theater in Washington. 

 

In Related News...

 ... Pentagon planners should have studied real wars not fairy tales. 

Desertion is starving the Ukrainian army of desperately needed manpower and crippling its battle plans at a crucial time in its war with Russia, which could put Kyiv at a clear disadvantage in future ceasefire talks. Facing every imaginable shortage, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, tired and bereft, have walked away from combat and front-line positions to slide into anonymity, according to soldiers, lawyers and Ukrainian officials. Entire units have abandoned their posts, leaving defensive lines vulnerable and accelerating territorial losses, according to military commanders and soldiers.

You cannot explain to these people brought up on pseudo-historic and pseudo-technological BS, that there is NO, none, zilch, nada "cease fire" or "peace talks", those will be the dictation of capitulation to the United States, not to 404, which is now a virtual state. Remember a retail wisdom--you broke it, you bought it. That's exactly the case, as is the case now of a deliberate annihilation of every single NATO personnel in 404. The hunt is on. I talk about this in my today's video, which should be up shortly.

Happy Thanksgiving Day.

 Use as the Open Thread. Go at it.

The Creator Of Oreshnik...

 Kovalchuk, the Director of Kurchatov Institute. 

МОСКВА, 27 ноя — РИА Новости. Имеющиеся у России материалы, выдерживающие сверхвысокие температуры, позволили создать комплекс "Орешник" и позволят создать другие виды гиперзвукового оружия, заявил президент Национального исследовательского центра "Курчатовский институт" Михаил Ковальчук.  "Орешник" продемонстрировали на днях. Почему мы это сделали, почему мы всех обогнали? А потому что мы входим в пятерку мировых лидеров. <...> Мы за короткий срок создали гиперзвуковое оружие. А это материалы, которые работали раньше при 1500 градусах, потом при 1800, а эти — при 2000, и мы это сделали, а другие — нет", — заявил Ковальчук "Известиям" на полях IV Конгресса молодых ученых, проходящего на федеральной территории "Сириус".  По его словам, следующим шагом должны стать материалы, выдерживающие 2500-3000 градусов.  "Другие материалы, выдерживающие большие температуры, позволят создать еще более продвинутое оружие. Следующим шагом должны стать материалы, выдерживающие 2500-3000 градусов", — сказал Ковальчук.

Translation: MOSCOW, November 27 — RIA Novosti. The materials that Russia has that can withstand ultra-high temperatures made it possible to create the Oreshnik system and will make it possible to create other types of hypersonic weapons, said Mikhail Kovalchuk, president of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center. The Oreshnik was demonstrated the other day. Why did we do this, why did we overtake everyone? Because we are one of the five world leaders. <...> We have created hypersonic weapons in a short period of time. And these are materials that used to work at 1,500 degrees, then at 1,800, and these at 2,000, and we did it, while others did not," Kovalchuk told Izvestia on the sidelines of the IV Congress of Young Scientists, which is taking place in the federal territory of Sirius. According to him, the next step should be materials that can withstand 2,500-3,000 degrees. "Other materials that can withstand high temperatures will make it possible to create even more advanced weapons. The next step should be materials that can withstand 2500-3000 degrees,” Kovalchuk said.

 

Good God, 3000 degrees Celsius. So, his statement is the proof that such materials and weapons already exist. What does it all mean? How about Mach=15 sea skimmer, flying at very low altitudes, or MIRVs on intermediate range missiles with Mach=20 with even more devastating impact (including plasma shock) than Oreshnik. There is nothing that can stop it, with the exception of such things like S-300V4 or S-500 and Russia is not selling those. At least not yet. Will see what kind of turkey Russia is preparing for Biden and NATO for Thanksgiving. The NOTAM is issued through November 30.

Generally Speaking...

... there is absolutely no value in maintaining diplomatic relations with London, since no normal people exist in British government. If any of the three previous UK's PM are not the exhibit A of a complete moral degeneration, I don't know who is.  

British ambassador to Moscow Nigel Casey rudely brushed off an RT journalist after getting a dressing-down by the Russian Foreign Ministry over one of his employee’s spy activities. Edward Prior Wilks, second secretary in the British Embassy’s political department, was declared persona non grata because he “intentionally made false statements” on his visa application, the FSB said on Tuesday. The Russian security service also said it found evidence of Wilks’ involvement in “intelligence and sabotage activities.” Casey was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Tuesday, to receive the Russian complaint regarding his subordinate’s subversive actions. While leaving the building on Smolenskaya Square, the British ambassador ran into a crowd of reporters. “Buzz off!” he told RT’s Chay Bowes, who asked him about the espionage scandal. “Why can you spend hundreds of millions of pounds to kill Russian citizens, but you won’t pay for the pensioners’ fuel?” Bowes asked, as Casey fled into an embassy car, which then drove off.

I do feel for average Britons and especially so for the most vulnerable, but that is just a natural slide of the UK towards the limbo between second and third world status. But, it is an economic and military chihuahua which pretends that it is still a bulldog. That's how they brainwash most of the "products" of humanities degree mills from Oxford and others. So, I don't know why keep diplomatic relations with this puny island. It has no value for Russia whatsoever.

Biden's "Legacy"...

 ... as is that of the DNC is that of insanity, mass murder, genocide and war crimes. As it is the "legacy" of the US MSM and of the US Congress. Daniel Larison refutes the spin about "salvaging" of Biden's legacy. 

Jonah Blank tries to make the case that Biden can somehow salvage something from the wreckage of his policies in the Middle East:

Biden has so far failed to achieve his highest goals for the Middle East—but in his final days he can single-handedly reset the Israeli-Palestinian equation, preserve the potential for a two-state solution, and rescue much of his tarnished legacy. His status as a lame duck paradoxically gives him the power to do things possible only for a leader whose next step is retirement.

Biden is not going to do any of this. He has already shown that he will spend what little time he has left in office running interference for Netanyahu and letting the Israeli government off the hook for its many crimes. The president’s lame duck status might theoretically free him to do things he wouldn’t normally do, but Biden doesn’t want to do any of those things. To the extent that Biden feels less constrained now that the election is over, he no longer feels any need to pretend that his administration cares about what happens in Gaza. The cynical deadline that Blinken and Austin set before the election came and went, conditions in Gaza keep getting worse because the Israeli government is starving the people to death, and the Biden administration will make no changes to their policy.

There is simply no subject to discuss. Larison refers to Blank's article in Foreign Affairs, a CFR rag for mentally feeble credentialed demagogues who fucked everything up for everybody. 

How Biden Can Salvage Middle East Peace—and His Legacy. A Lame-Duck Agenda to Save Palestinian Lives and Bolster Israel’s Long-Term Security

Biden cannot salvage anything as cannot the combined West--morally, financially and militarily bankrupt.

Two Of The Best American Senior Officers...

 ... describing what I was stressing for a very long time--Trump and his national security circle are a bunch of delusional hacks. As is Trump himself--an American exceptionalist and militarist, but his national security advisory corps is a bunch of amateurs in modern war. 

Sadly, neither of these two smart and courageous people are allowed anywhere near the levers of power in Washington. 

No More Cards To Play.

Washington, as I already stated, tries to be slightly pregnant or is doing heavy petting. That tells you a lot about cowards who infest D.C. but at this stage it doesn't matter. If good ol' boys want to play the (real) war--they got it. And they sense that they are no good. They never were, but don't tell this to Ted Postol, who doesn't know the difference between Kapustin Yar and Baikonur. Otherwise, the US would have produced outstanding military leaders and weapons, instead we all observe Petraeuses, Ben Hodgeses, Keanes and other Washington ass kissers and a lot of expensive military junk. Well, the response is coming and something tells me that there will be a concentrated effort on Russia's part to "remove" any NATO command and advisory element first in 404 and if the message (and bodies) are still not processed--many military targets in Europe are good to go. Washington has nothing left but strategic nukes and BS. 

Ouch!

 Not really)) Time to teach Washington a lesson. 

Russia closes a section of airspace over the Kapustin Yar missile range in the Astrakhan region until Nov. 30. According to preliminary information, this is where the Oreshnik missile was fired at Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities in Dnepropetrovsk Join IL RUSSO

When people do not understand from the first time--second, third and fourth times are the charm. But then again, Russia may prepare yet another flight of Oreshnik, but has plenty of other options to strike whatever the target(s) it chooses. Washington now has to be trained by whip and ... the big stick. The only choice Biden's cabal has is to escalate to the nuclear threshold. Well, somebody has to tell them, including US Congress that they will not survive no matter how they will try to hide. Or where, for that matter. My today's video addresses some of the delusions by White House, Pentagon and others in D.C. area regarding modern war. 

Larry Explains...

... why Putin looked so... satisfied. 

To Finish Off...

 ... this wonderful Monday before Thanksgiving, and believe me, I still view Blue Angels as one of the top... two formation flying teams in the world, but Russian Knights came up with formation... Kolokol (Bell) routine and there is not a single plane which could do this, let alone in formation. As much as F-18 Super-hornet is a great plane, Su-35 flies in a different universe. Here is Zhuhai's Russian Knights just ... showing off, alright. 

This Is Really Interesting...

Evangelicals and Russian Orthodox. Of course, we are talking not about Christian Zionists--they would avoid this whole thing as damnation. 

These are the things which are always under the radar but they matter greatly.

Being Slightly Pregnant.

You know, like many in Biden's Admin being slightly man, slightly woman. 

Washington on Monday officially confirmed a well-flagged policy change allowing Ukraine to strike inside Russia using US-supplied ATACMS missiles. Numerous international officials have spoken about the change in stance over the past week. While US President Joe Biden and his administration remained silent, Kiev fired a volley of ATACMS projectiles at Russia’s Bryansk Region last Monday. “They are able to use ATACMS to defend themselves in an immediate-need basis,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at a White House briefing on Monday. “We did change the guidance and gave them guidance that they can use them to strike these particular types of targets,” Kirby said, referring to the Ukrainian attacks “in and around Kursk.”

Sounds like a heavy petting from teenagers--you can enter, but not too deep, like a good album by the great 80s band Heavy Pettin In And Out Of Love--a MO by Biden's national "security" team. Can you imagine what kind of girl will want to do the whole thing with Jake Sullivan or Tony Blinken.  

Remarkably, these guys had more testosterone than the whole of Biden Admin combined.

Pepe At Judge...

 ... 

 

France, Please Send To Russia...

 ... these French people)) Such as beautiful Gabrielle--an embodiment of France which is not there anymore. Turn on CCs. 

Now, Patriarch nailed it. 

Speaking about the ongoing standoff between Moscow and the West over Ukraine during a sermon on Wednesday, the Patriarch suggested that Russia and its people have entered “a very special period” in their history. “Many have turned on us, and I keep asking myself: why have they done so? We are the same as many others. In general, we represent the same European cultural tradition. We are Christians,” he said. According to Kirill, he eventually came to the conclusion that it happened because “Russia has dared – and it has dared because it is an independent and great power – to follow a different civilizational path,” compared to that of the West. “Today, even in Christian countries, they are rejecting Christ, God and the Church. The churches are being turned into entertainment venues or used for some other purposes, but in our country the Church is building thousands of churches,” he explained.

West is not Christian in values anymore. It is post-Christian and post-modernist. It is dead. BTW, beautiful Gabrielle is a Catholic and a scientist with post-graduate degree in biology. Boy, Russia needs such people.

More Testimonies.

Thanks to Larch for translating this to us. My sources, very credible ones, also tell that it is apocalyptic.

Hazel Strike Damage Report-Anecdotal, Unofficial

As residents of Dnepropetrovsk now tell us, there were practically no explosions, but the earth's vibrations, like during an earthquake, were felt even a kilometer away from the plant — this was especially surprising: the explosions are almost inaudible, and the earth shudders.

In the morning, the territory of Yuzhmash was already tightly cordoned off, any detailed and significant information was blocked, and no one knew about what was happening at the plant. However, there is nothing secret that would not become clear — information began to arrive from Dnepropetrovsk. We have collected the maximum amount of information available to you, literally from crumbs, from the words of different people.

We are well aware that the degree of reliability of this information is not absolute, but here is the invoice that is "from there" today: the blow fell on the territory between workshops No. 7 and 8, in the area of turning and blacksmithing industries. All ground-level buildings and structures on this territory have been reduced to rubble, in some places-to small concrete rubble. There are no large craters, there are a dozen holes in the ground with a diameter of about two meters. Eyewitnesses describe the scene as creepy, apocalyptic. Security around the perimeter and on the territory withdraws all means of photo and video recording, even pens and notebooks are taken away. People tell us that "officials" who speak English, Polish, and French constantly arrive at the plant's territory in tightly tinted minibuses. They say that unknown ammunition hit just those underground production facilities that Vladimir Zelensky boasted about, telling about the imminent appearance of some "formidable missile weapons"in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. From the fragmentary conversations of rescuers, it seems that up to the 4th floor there is a zone of continuous destruction, below which rescuers have not yet been able to descend.

This is the information we have today from the scene of the event, the obvious absurdity and hyperbole of "classic witnesses" we tried to weed out, leaving only what we found similar to the truth.

https://cont.ws/@krestianin/2926853

Now if anyone wonders why Russians didn't release satellite photos of the site yet:

1. Could be weather and Russians will not use high resolution radar scans, they would prefer pure optical to be shown to public;

2. Russians, justifiably, are waiting for Western propaganda to come up with some photo-shopped BS and then release Russian visuals;

3. All of the above combined. 

Yapping Chihuahuas...

 ... quoting George Galloway. 

The UK and France have “reactivated” talks on sending troops to Ukraine, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday. The idea has already caused a rift among Europe’s NATO members. Back in February, French President Emmanuel Macron caused controversy by declaring his willingness to send ground troops to Ukraine “to prevent Russia from winning this war.” The statement was quickly disavowed by NATO officials, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters that Ukraine’s Western backers were “unanimous” in their opposition to the idea. The plan was seemingly shelved, Le Monde has reported, until British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited Paris earlier this month. Citing anonymous sources, the French newspaper claimed that talks on a possible Franco-British deployment to Ukraine were “reactivated” by Starmer and Macron.

LOL, these midgets still think that they have armies. They don't. Macron still butt-hurts--no, this is not what you think, albeit... well, anyhow, he and whatever is left of the French "pride" hurt because Russia played a key-role in diminishing France' role in Sahel, which France thinks it owns. Well, too fucking bad, there is a new sheriff in town. In related news, I am about to "reactivate" my talks with my wife if we should cook the whole turkey or just the breast, or both.

Ania and Me.

Live, now. 

 

Ah Yes, Sure.

TSIPSO and butt-hurt fanboys from the West are already in full arms on all forums declaring that they have seen satellite photos of Yuzhmash and that... ranging from "we saw 6 charred entrances" to "nothing was really damaged". Totally expected. For those, just in case, who still didn't get the message--MAIN activity of Yuzhmash was UNDERGROUND, as it would be in Soviet times if, God forbids, USSR and the US would go to war. Those underground facilities are gone, together with production and research facilities for NATO-404 joint missile programs. They are gone together with the shift and those NATO military and civilians present there. That is why SBU immediately classified the whole thing (showing some decrepit hut with broken roof as "real evidence") and some "debris" of allegedly Oreshnik. Here is one such "evidence" published by VSU.

If to believe that what you see is actually from Yuzhmash site (a dubious assumption to start with), then this is NOT any debris from Oreshnik but highly likely of remnants of the missiles (such as fuel tank) NATO and 404 have been developing at Yuzhmash. And after that real physics kicks in which would preclude survival of any "debris" from Oreshnik's MIRVs which would simply evaporate together with the multi-storey underground guts of Yuzhmash releasing an insane amount of energy which destroyed all NATO's hopes.

There Is An Issue With Physics...

 ... or rather with applied physics as related to modern weapons. For Jack Keane it is too late to get real military education at this stage. With "advisers" like these no wonder the US cannot defeat even Taliban. Oreshnik changed war. 

Wrong Army You Chose.

Dude, pray to God that you ended up as a POW and not shot by your own. Now FSB will deal with you before deciding what to do with your type. And yes, we all believe that you are "formerly" of UK Army. It is like, like... those millions of Houthies and North Koreans fighting for Russia. 

Testimonies.

From people of Dnepropetrovsk. Yuzhmash is no more, it simply ceased to exist after the visit of Oreshnik. It used to be a colossal plant which had its own bus routes. There is nothing left there, only dust. People are in shock. Apartment blocks in the vicinity of what used to be Yuzhmash are cracked. Here where it was, it was designed to continue to operate even in the nuclear war and nukes going off nearby. 

SBU classified any information about the event. The whole city was feeling the event as a strong earthquake. People point out that Yuzhmash was attacked before--Kalibrs would fly in, destroy parts or whole shops and start fires here and there on the territory of the plant. Now it is just gone, including underground facilities ... This is a signal, indeed--Russia doesn't need nukes to wipe out anything. Medvedev didn't bluff when stated that Russia may unleash the weapon of a power world hasn't seen before. Here it is.  

Now, French, obviously, need to be taught where their place in pecking order is--it is that of an abandoned chihuahua on the "death row" in the pound before being put to sleep. I am sure there are plenty of French targets which need to be recipients of latest Russian "technologies". There is nothing left to save in France anyway.

Open Thread.

 Go at it.

Ha? Ha, Ha-Ha, Ha-Ha-Ha? LOL)))

That's the man who will be left holding the bag with excrement, after that--no comments))) 

 

New Details...

 ... about Hazel Grove and similar systems which are already in use and in IOC. SMO turns into war and the warning has been issued. The West is lost. 

An Acute Case...

 ... of being sore losers. I kid you not. 

Two U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News Thursday that a Russian "experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile" (IRBM) launched at Ukraine was not hypersonic.

In fact, those were not missiles at all, I am sure. The US is finding new ways to humiliate itself every day. Mr. Smith wrote a superb piece for Larry's blog. I will quote him but read the whole thing at Larry's blog, where Smith gives incoming DJT some advice. 

The first is that America is not as powerful as you think it is. It wasn’t as powerful as you thought it was in your first term, but its weakness is much more obvious now. 20 years in Afghanistan gave Taliban an air force. The Houthis kicked the US Navy out of the Red Sea. Niger ordered the US and NATO out. The blank check for Israel alienates the world. The dollar is losing ground. Yuge failure. The second reality has come in the last four years. They’re not afraid of America any more. It’s not as scary, not as powerful and not as competent as they thought it was. It has dribbled away the reputation it had in 1945. Always at war, always losing. (Afghans! Houthis! Niger!) 800 bases around the world are 800 hostages. If American aircraft carriers don’t frighten the Houthis – why would they frighten China? Ukraine exposed the fraud. American/NATO weapons are boutique weapons – expensive, fragile and produced in tiny quantities. As your new Secretary of Defense can tell you, your generals aren’t warriors – they’re bureaucrats with MBAs dreaming of becoming sales reps for the MIC. “As long as it takes” isn’t very long. Send more weapons? What’s left to send? The “game changers” are defeated. You don’t have a big stick.

Enjoy Smith's eloquent style.Yes, Ukraine exposed the fraud.

Nima And Yours Truly...

In about an hour, live. 

 

What I Am Talking About...

 ... for years. Russia has an overwhelming conventional escalation superiority. So, IRCM with hypersonic MIRVs. Just a demonstration. 

I will repeat, again--NATO has zero capability to stop Russia's long range fires. Dnepropetrovsk learned it today the hard way. Stress here on hypersonic Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles which maneuver and are impossible to be intercepted. Albeit, I am sure that 404 will claim a number of them shot down and that will be gladly repeated by NATO's media and militaries. In reality, these are strike capabilities in their organic evolution. But by far, the most important was Vladimir Putin's statement today that now Russia will warn civilians of impending strikes and those who are not going to leave... sorry people, your own choice, this is not anymore just SMO. 

In this video you can see ground penetration... on the way to Yuzhmash facilities which are underground.

Is Larry Correct...

 ... asking this question? 

Is Biden Trying to Start a War to Prevent Trump From Being Installed as President?

You can bet your ass on that--he is correct. So is George when speaking about my favorite description of European NATO countries--barking chihuahuas. 

Biden's minions turned puppeteers have a lot to answer for, and they panic. Can you imagine mama's boy Jake Sullivan or DNC operatives who played with the law facing Federal Prosecutors appointed by DJT--that will be a sight to behold. So, here we are. Poor, poor dears, they chose a very wrong country to fuck with, Russia that is, but then again--they don't teach anything useful in Ivy League humanities degree mills. They entered the wrong league in matters of war and geopolitics, they should have aspired for much lower one, where chihuahuas bark... 

Well, Well, Well...

Judging by the increased number of trolls... ah judge for yourself. This is from Ria (use Google to translate). 

Бойцы других подразделений уже достигли центра, контролируют больше половины города. Считаные километры — и украинские войска окажутся в окружении. Потеря Курахово лишит ВСУ важных путей снабжения. А российская армия получит ключ к Запорожской области.

Translation: Fighters from other units have already reached the center and control more than half of the city. A few kilometers and the Ukrainian troops will be surrounded. The loss of Kurakhovo will deprive the Ukrainian Armed Forces of important supply routes. And the Russian army will receive the key to the Zaporizhia region.

And what do you know: 

The Russian flag is hoisted in the center of Kurakhovo. Now, if you disregard Colonel Mackgregor's references (this is his shtick, sadly) to Solzhenitsyn, he talks directly about mountains of lies. 

Per US generals--there is not a single US general who is capable to fight modern continental war, period. The US system of military education is a joke--it does not educate officer corps for a real war, it brainwashes them into Hollywoodesque "military history" of the "finest fighting force in history". They really believed and swallowed 404 military propaganda hook, line and sinker--that's the first evidence of military incompetence.

Sullivan Worries.

As he and his cabal who fucked the US and the world for 8 years should. The only escape for them, the only chance to avoid being charged with treason is to elicit some crazy response from Russia. Poor kids don't know anything about Russia and war--the activity at which Russia is the best in the world. 

There You Go!

That's the way to motivate your troops)). 

Ukrainian troops currently being trained in the UK to fight Russia must steel themselves to face death and kill without a second thought, Kiev's ambassador in London, Valery Zaluzny has told the soldiers. The four-star general previously served as commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. The speech that Zaluzhny gave at a bootcamp in southern England was shared by The Sun on Tuesday, after the tabloid joined the official’s tour of the military facility. British Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard accompanied the Ukrainian general-turned-diplomat. ”Remember that the war is becoming more cruel with every day. It leaves almost no chance for survival,” Zaluzhny warned the trainees. “Learn not to be afraid of death.”

Yes, the way to teach them "not to be afraid of death" is to use copious amounts of methamphetamine, whose use is now traditional in the midst of 404 cannon fodder. But here comes the second question: what can possibly British military "teach" ukies? Seriously? The army which is much smaller that VSU and who learned only one thing--hide behind the back of NATO proxy. It is akin to asking local plumber to perform open heart surgery. Yet, here we are, especially when looking at UK's blabbering cretin also known as PM. 

I'll talk about this whole issue of nukes and war in my today's video.

Open Thread.

 Extremely busy today. Go at it.

Garland, Scott And...

 ... yours truly in about an hour. 

 

 

Keane Is Not A Military Man...

 ... he is a hot air balloon and a sore loser who wouldn't be allowed to command regiment, let alone brigade in serious army. I totally get the agitation of Daniel Davis, but...

Keep in mind--it is the US which is nuclear-biased country, not Russia. All this talk about Russia using nuclear weapons for now is a moot point--keep in mind, Russia has an overwhelming conventional escalation dominance. Just look at the arsenal. Escalation towards nuclear threshold is a rather complex process and Russia can punish NATO without nukes. I constantly point this out.

Irina Alksnis...

 ... penned a good piece (in Russian) on this "permission" for strikes. You can read it here following this link. The only thing Alksnis messed up is the following of the same meme of "red lines". There never were any "red lines"--those are a figment of imagination of cowards in the West trying to probe the limits of Moscow's patience. But she nails it--the US has no space for maneuver left and it is the last step of desperation. Now it is just the matter what NATO's asset will go down first. To remind you about ATACMS ranges. 

With deployment of 50 km in depth behind VSU lines. Lines changed since then, so did the coverage by Russian ISR.

To Close This Weekend...

When your symphony orchestra starts to rock to your music...  Well, Steve Lukather is one of the greatest...

God, how I miss that ToTo...
 

...

Zhuhai 2024.

This is Sergei Bogdan (62 years old) flying Su-57 prototype at Zhuhai a few days ago. This is not edited video, no slowing down for scale and a genuine sound. There is some USAF guy talking about it ... LOL)))

Once you invoke Top Gun Maverick... really? 

So sad...

Navy Stuff.

 And other issues. 

 

Important From Douglas Macgregor.

Some revelations. Plus excellent about Paul Nitze and US Navy's ships. 

 

Parting "Gift".

That's why they needed "North Korean troops" BS. Totally expected. 

President Joe Biden has reportedly approved Ukraine’s first use of US-provided long-range missiles for strikes deep within Russia, the New York Times (NYT) has claimed, citing anonymous American officials. Authorization to use the Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) was reportedly prompted by Russia’s alleged move to utilize North Korean troops in the conflict, the outlet said. "Russian and North Korean forces operating in Kursk Region" of western Russia are apparently the intended targets for the weapons, the officials told NYT. Russia has neither confirmed nor denied the presence of North Korean troops on its soil, saying merely that its cooperation with Pyongyang proceeds according to a defense partnership treaty.

Keep in mind, this is NYT--they lie for living, but if true--makes no difference militarily. Merely shows impotent rage of Washington and its "parting gift" to Trump, trying to elicit some kind of response from Russia. Well, that means only one thing--404 will lose much more territory, while petulant children from Washington better go back to kindergarten and learn to read properly before trying to play big military games. Cowards, hiding behind backs of proxies.

The Symbol Of Freedom...

I never could have imagined in my life that this Flag will become the symbol of freedom.  

Yet, here we are... They are not alone.
 

Yes, Of Course.

How else could it be. 

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk should be investigated over media claims that he communicated with several senior Russian officials in recent years, two top US Democratic senators have demanded in a letter. Jack Reed, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, raised concerns about the media allegations in a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch on Friday.

They still continue with this dead-beat shtick of Russiagate. In related news--and I think that that's the route GOP should take--in response to this stream of smut perpetuated by DNC and subservient US MSM, they should declare that male chief-editors of MSM have small, children-size penises and then leave them to prove it otherwise. I am sure, at some point, it may require the creation of the subcommittee to investigate the size of penises of say editorial staff of WSJ or CNN, or DNC staffers, but can you imagine Senate hearings on this shit? I will abstain with my proposals of what kind of accusations worthy of investigation could be leveled at female members of same, but we all know that fuckability index does exist on its own among male American population and that, in the end, what really matters. If you know what I mean, wink, wink...

Andre Did It Again)))

Election results))) 

 

SitRep.

Berlin calling, likely on Washington's orders. Russians laugh. 

 

Open Thread.

Go at it.

Nikolaev...

 ... TTzK (Recruitment) thugs are catching more cannon fodder for 404. 

Remember--this is all for democracy.
 

Nima And Yours Truly...

 ... live in 40 minutes. 

 

Ah, Yes--New Tune...

 ... but the conditions for this change have been formed long ago before DJT victory. I repeat ad nauseam--reality, like gravity, is a bitch, and when it bites--it hurts like hell. NYT notes:

With Ukrainian forces steadily losing ground in the east, two senior officials said that defending Ukraine’s interests in potential talks would hinge not on territorial boundaries, which are likely to be determined by the fighting, but on what assurances are in place to make a cease-fire hold. “Talks should be based on guarantees,” said Roman Kostenko, the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s Defense and Intelligence Committee. “For Ukraine, nothing is more important.” A senior Ukrainian official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations, was more direct. “The territorial question is extremely important, but it’s still the second question,” the official said, “The first question is security guarantees.”

Well, yeah, Russians are already in Kupyansk. Most of the VSU remnants on this Kupyansk-Kharkov axis are pinned down along the Oskol River and all crossings are fire-controlled by Russian artillery and VKS. Once Kupyansk falls (coming soon)--the road to Kharkov is open and there is no chance in hell NATO planners can set up any kind of a defensive line in the open fields. They are already on the run, they will run even faster trying to slow down in whatever hamlet or village they will be passing. And then ... but let's not rush--we may yet see a fascinating development with new Administration trying to "sell" to Russia an increasingly diminishing asset. There will be no Minsks anymore and Trump better understand this--that may save him some very unpleasant moments that even excuses, valid to a degree, that this whole clusterfuck in 404 was of Biden's doing may well be fast forgotten.

Delightful)))

 

Apropos...

 ... or maybe not. Just a reminder. And yes, her photo is known around the world. Too bad that today media care about what some Hollywood slut or dumbfuck have to say. 

Well...

 

Backgrounds.

 While the whole front is on the move. 

 

Absolutely Misplaced.

I am talking about professional criteria (which my today's video is about). 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world's largest and most powerful military. The news was met with bewilderment and worry among many in Washington as Trump passed on a number of established national security heavy-hitters and chose an Army National Guard major well known in conservative circles as a co-host of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend.” While some Republican lawmakers had a muted response to the announcement, others called his combat experience an asset or said he was “tremendously capable.” Hegseth's choice could bring sweeping changes to the military. He has made it clear on his show and in interviews that, like Trump, he is opposed to “woke” programs that promote equity and inclusion. He also has questioned the role of women in combat and advocated pardoning service members charged with war crimes.

His combat experience in Afghanistan is irrelevant within the framework of global balance of power and to "tame" Pentagon one needs a huge expertise in procurement and R&D, which automatically disqualifies Hegseth on this merit alone. It is all fine and dandy to command a company, but many people forget that USMA at West Point USED TO BE (not anymore) a good engineering school first and foremost. I'll give you a mental experiment... Take an aging fart like me and put me in charge of the staff of, say, coastal missile systems (Bastions), restore my clearance and give me a month or two in the formation, without unnecessary humbleness--I will be able to run it and provide for acceptable combat readiness. Get my aging ass to some missile corvette--same shit, after a month or two I will be able to command it or to become COS of the brigade of such ships. I will be able to do it because I have fundamental military-engineering background which is a MUST for such tasks. Hegseth has degree in... Politics. Now imagine this guy taking on utterly corrupt R&D and procurement policies of Washington. I don't think so. 

And then, of course, there is SMO, Russia and 21st century battlefield, which was utterly absent in Iraq and Afghanistan. But then again, Lisa Franchetti has degree in journalism and in business from the on-line college. She is CNO (Chief of Naval Operations)--Chester Nimitz and Elmo Zumwalt are spinning in their graves. Let me remind WHO was the guy behind stunning technological development and industry reorganization in Russian Armed Forces. Compare: 

Yury Borisov was born on 31 December 1956 in Vyshny Volochyok. He graduated from Kalinin Suvorov Military School [ru] in 1974 and from Radioelectronics Higher Command School in 1978. In 1980s he studied mathematics at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University from which he graduated in 1985. Borisov is married and has two children. For 20 years from 1978 to 1998 he was enlisted into the Armed Forces of both the Soviet Union and Russia. He was Federal Agency on Industry deputy head in October 2007 and became Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade in July 2008. He was a Military-Industrial Commissioner for Russia in March 2011 and as of 12 November 2012 under Presidential Decree, Borisov was promoted to Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation.

That's the caliber of people and their competencies one needs to change things. No additional comments are necessary...

Beauty All Around.

Be that Su-57 flown by Sergei Bogdan or Chinese beauty next to him. Russia signed first export contracts for Su-57. 

Garland, Scott And Yours Truly...

 At 9:00 PM EST (6:00 PM PDT) live. 

 

I Can Tell You Upfront...

... that Trump's new national security advisor Mike Waltz who is described in these terms:

"Mike is the first Green Beret to have been elected to Congress, and previously served in the White House and Pentagon," Trump said in a statement announcing his latest cabinet pick. "Mike served in the Army Special Forces for 27 years where he was deployed multiple times in combat for which he was awarded four Bronze Stars, including two with Valor." "Mike retired as a Colonel, and is a nationally recognized leader in National Security, a bestselling author, and an expert on the threats posed by China, Russia, Iran, and global terrorism," the statement added. "He serves as a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Mike is a distinguished graduate with honors of the Virginia Military Institute. Mike has been a strong champion of my America First Foreign Policy agenda, and will be a tremendous champion of our pursuit of Peace through Strength!"

Is not an expert "on the threats posed by China, Russia,  Iran and global terrorism" and especially on Russia, because there are about zero people for the least 20+ years in both House Armed Services and House Foreign Affairs Committees who have any clue about the world outside and the modern warfare. He cannot be an expert, considering his alleged support for a delusional and utterly obsolete concept of "Peace Through Strength" for the United States. Waltz worked for Donald Rumsfeld--the guy who failed miserably in his understanding of the warfare and applied geopolitics. TOE of the US Armed Forces is a testament to the views of these people, not that anyone else would have fared better by screwing US doctrinal development so profoundly. Somebody has to tell the guy that "Strength" based on TOE from 1990s is not strength.

I had a very tenuous hope for Trump calling on Colonel Douglas Macgregor for the position of National Security Adviser, well ... we all knew what was coming, didn't we. Waltz is a "specialist" in high intensity police operations in Afghanistan, wow ... Degree in "International Relations" from VMI kinda gets you some ideas. So, the "special forces" guy with zero understanding of technological and economic drivers of the modern war will be a classic US gung ho "advising" Trump. Well, looks like we exchanged one set of neocons for another. Ah, well ... the more things change, the more they stay the same.  Next in line is a chores boy for Adelson's family Marco Rubio ...

Urgent! Popcorn Needed In Large Volumes.

Otherwise, how can one take this cretin seriously. 

The former prime minister also pointed to the prospect of the US cutting aid to Kiev as a potential risk, claiming some people with “wrong” views on the issue were in president-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle. “Donald Trump has lots of different voices in his ears and there’s a front of the Republican Party, quite a lot of them actually, who take the wrong line on Ukraine,” he said. If aid to Ukraine is reduced and Kiev starts losing, London could be forced to deploy troops to the region, Johnson claimed. “We will then have to pay to send British troops to help defend Ukraine,” the politician stated.

I know, he is not the brightest of already dim lot, but if any professionals are left in the UK Ministry of Defense, they have to tell him to stop parading UK in the front of the whole world as a joke. It has been humiliated enough already, especially its, quoting Douglas Macgregor (not to be accused of anti-British bias) lilliputian armed forces which will fail to defend Wembley Stadium, not to speak of whatever this moron wants to defend in 404. It shows, degree in Classicism (yep, that's BoJo's background) and belonging to all kinds of self-proclaimed "elite' clubs in London one statesman makes not. 

Meanwhile Russian Armed Forces methodically eradicate whatever is left of Kiev's air defense ... 

And continue to break through VSU lines ... everywhere. Russians are near the center of Kurakhovo, which in itself is being surrounded (nice cauldron is forming), Zaporozhie Front is on the move, and Russians are already inside Kupyansk. BoJo needs to think really fast how many ... dozens of brave British warriors he wants to send to 404. I am sure he can assess required force really easy, after all--he knows how ancient classic civilizations fought, right?