... I like to pat myself on the back. Here is down the memory lane. My strategic-operational predictions which today in 2024 all came true.
1) The United States military in future conflicts will have to deal, in the case of conventional conflict against a near-peer, let alone peer, with an adversary who will have C4ISR capability either approaching that or on par with that of the US. This adversary will have the ability to counter US military decision cycles (OODA loop) with equal frequency and will be able to produce better tactical, operational and strategic decisions. 2) US real and perceived advantage in electronic means of warfare (EW) will be greatly reduced or completely suppressed by present and future EW means of the adversary thus forcing US forces to fight under the conditions of partial or complete electronic blindness and with partially or completely suppressed communications and computer networks. 3) The US will encounter combat technologies not only on par but often better designed and used, from armor to artillery, to hypersonic anti-shipping missiles, than anything the US military has ever encountered. 4) Modern air-forces and complex advanced air defense systems will make the main pillar of US military power—its Air Force—much less effective. 5) Today the US military will have to deal with the grim reality of its staging areas, rear supply facilities and lines of communications being the target of massive salvos of long-range high subsonic, supersonic and hyper-sonic missiles. The US military has never encountered such a paradigm in its history. Moreover, already today, the US lower 48 is not immune from a conventional massive missile strike.
So, boy, was I correct, right?
French cautiously allowed for such a possibility...
Atrocities by the US Army personnel, be them active or "volunteer soldiers" are well-documented. From My Lai to Serbia to Iraq and Afghanistan--the record of atrocities is large and "impressive". Why NYT noticed this only now remains a complete mystery. What is not a mystery is that part of this issue is psychological and is in continuous humiliation of the "finest fighting force in history" in wars of the XX and XXI centuries. American population in general is not conditioned by the warfare and has a cavalier attitude towards it. This also explains why many in US military love those nutjob stories about Red Army raping 100 million German women, about a million of Red Army soldiers executed by NKVD and other smut like this--it is a normal reaction of inferior warriors.
Here are the results of US personnel operating ATACMS and other strike systems in 404--they are good at hitting civilians. I am sure they will be even awarded when back in the US if they survive. I understand how it is torturous for many men of honor from the US military to see and read it, but that is what the US has become. This particular one was done by US trained and controlled VSU.
But it is always the same pattern--kill defenseless. The US military has to accept the fact that it cannot fight Russia on the battlefield, forget about winning. For many this realization has a profound psychological effect and some "sublimate" this complex of inferiority in killing POWs. But then again:
... on which not only I support Joe, but I want it myself. Finally, some election slogans I can get behind (preferably in horizontal position on the sofa under the AC unit).
... these are general principles of Search Theory and ASW. One minor correction though--MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector) still remains largely a corroborative (not pin-point) means of detection. Main "cavalry" are sonobuoys for developing a contact and tracking a submerged sub. But the video is still decent and I decided to post it here for general educational purposes.
Always remember--the worst enemy for a sub is a Patrol/ASW aircraft. Once it sees you in real combat, chances are you are not coming back to your home base.
Wow! I am sure he knows the meaning of life, if you know what I mean. Not that GOP donor class is better--same cucks, wrapped in different rhetoric, but DNC--this is something special. Yes, Netflix is the cesspool which produced Queen Cleopatra TV series. It scored 1.2 stars out of 10. So, you get the idea what DNC is, right? GOP are also cucks, but at least they rewrite history slowly... As if none of them knew what Biden was in 2020? Of course they knew.
Not only it is being repeated now, it is getting worse, much-much worse. And this is just a warm-up. This the freshest (from 2023) enterprises' electricity prices. Look at the cut-off around the US for combined West.
Look at Europe. It was always high, but now EU should kiss India's ass because it is India which resells Russian oil to the EU. So many clues, so many processes to follow. You may say I don't have heart--not true, I do. But as I stated, Europeans voted for that being played for fools which many of them turned out to be. Sad, but this is the reality and, as I state non-stop, when shit hits the fan big time--it is when, not if--never a foot of Russian soldier be put on European soil, not a drop of blood to be shed for Europeans. Let them sort it out between themselves, luckily economically and militarily they are pathetic and any hypothetical rise of new Hitler can be easily addressed by a nuclear whip which Russia has. Europe produced two world wars, Russia will not allow the third one coming from it.
The issue is not just aid, of course, or lack of capacity of the combined West. This all is just one of many factors which contributed mightily to this clusterfuck of a war. The main factor is lack of any serious strategic intelligence (author of this piece should know--he is former CIA military analyst) and forecasting in Washington--always very weak, now--absent altogether, and, of course, lack of any experience in building effective military machine from the top--General Staff--down to the basic tactical sub-units. The US simply has no structure for that, nor does it have experience. One can pontificate on "the finest fighting force in history" whatever one wants, but...
Read my lips--the REAL combined arms war which propelled the United States in 1945 to the position of superpower happened on the Eastern Front, period. You either show the winning record or you don't. Want to try to change things? How about starting from studying the real history of WW II with proper relation of scales, scope and contributions. That's gonna be a good start--to study the history of two real finest fighting forces in history duking it out between themselves from 1941 through 1944 until it was over. That's what is called "showing the money". It also means learning REAL lessons on what it takes to fight a real war, which the US has about zero experience of fighting. Now these people lament:
It is now clear Ukraine cannot reclaim all of its occupied territory
via military force. It lacks both the manpower and hardware necessary to
generate new combat power or achieve an advantage in fires that will
lead to sufficient offensive capacity. Russia is getting better at
blunting the impact of Western weapons, and Ukraine’s poor tactics can’t
simply be ignored forever. Because more aid alone is unable to rectify these problems, both
Washington and Kyiv must now consider other avenues to end the war. Ukraine’s deputy chief of military intelligence recently stated there is no pathway for Ukraine to win on the battlefield.
If the best Kyiv can do—as Biden administration officials are now
admitting—is to hold what it has, then Washington should press Kyiv to
begin talks before Ukraine loses more territory.But even a shift to a defensive strategy aimed at demonstrating
enough resilience to Moscow to force talks will be difficult to execute.
The hope that Putin begrudgingly accepts that the frontlines are
unlikely to move, thereby increasing Moscow’s willingness to negotiate,
seems farfetched. As long as Russia has a 5:1 latent manpower advantage,
it has time on its side.
I have news for these guys: it was clear from the first day of SMO not "now". The only issue was how Russia will approach escalation and the gradual involvement of NATO until it becomes clear that it is between combined West and Russia. Well, let me give you the date--April 12, 2022. Here is from my latest book.
This date can be marked as the official start of the slip of the combined West, headed by the U.S., from its 500-year long supremacy toward a long descent into global obscurity. As with any large landslide, it starts initially with tremors and a few rocks rolling down the steep slope, but eventually the number of rocks increases dramatically, and it becomes a deafening stream of rocks, trees and dust until the whole slope yields and rushes down where once a peaceful and undisturbed foothill lay.
This was the date when clown Boris Johnson, on behalf of Biden Admin, sabotaged Istanbul talks and the REAL SMO has started. I know for a fact that General Staff fully anticipated NATO's involvement from the start and contingency planning has been done accordingly. Now, the combined West pays for its arrogance and delusions. And don't get me started on technological dimension of this all. Short of the transfer of nuclear weapons to 404 the US arsenal is nothing more than a collection of pieces not suited for the real war of the XXI century. As per talks--Russia's conditions are known, if Washington wants to talk it better rush, because this offer expires soon and the next one will be even more humiliating. Meanwhile Abrams tanks continue to be annihilated, this time it is GLONASS and laser-guided Krasnopol--a nasty-nasty SMART munition.
I am sure Russians sacrificed so many washing machines and dishwashers to get chips for all that. So, will the US military get a General Staff? Nope, profit margins for Raytheon are more important and to thrive it needs conflicts, there is one problem--this time they chose a wrong enemy... But then again, when was the last time the US fought the "right" one? Or as Cuba Gooding says--show me the money. In the end talking about strategy and practicing it successfully are two completely different sets of skills.
So, Venezuelans treat Russians with... ahem, whatever that thing is, LOL)))
In related news, try to find Fed's chair Jerome Powell's thoughts on the US national debt in US (Western) media from yesterday on the central bankers' forum in Europe. Second day since this admission and guess what... not a word about it. I speak about it in my new video but this is all simply astonishing--the US has become the Soviet Union in its worst manifestations. But when even such moron as Powell, who thought that printing money does not create inflation, admits that this cannot continue anymore--that's the real news. Not discussion of the American political theater which completely discredited US political system and media.
Translation:MEXICO CITY, July 2 – RIA Novosti.The naval strike group of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy entered the port of the Venezuelan state of La Guaira, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
It consists of the nuclear submarine Kazan, the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, the rescue tug Nikolai Chiker and the supply tanker Akademik Pashin, which entered the port first.The group is commanded by the head of the operational department of the Main Headquarters of the Navy, Vice Admiral Mikhail Neupokoev.According to the press service of the Northern Fleet, during the stay the crews of Russian ships will be able to relax and get acquainted with local attractions.It is clarified that the business call will last several days, after which the ship group led by the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" will continue to carry out its assigned tasks in the Atlantic Ocean, including: demonstrating the flag and ensuring a naval presence in operationally important areas of the far ocean zone.
Keep in mind that in this particular case the "flag" consists of a mix of 48 missiles of Kalibr, Onyx and Zircon variety. Add here Venezuela, Caribbean and shit and you get the picture. For now, Kazan is logging more surface hours demonstrating, indeed, that there could be something else underwater. Now get the load of this, and I mean THE load.
Translation:It is expected that “the submarine will test launch the Zircon hypersonic missile from surface and submerged positions,” another agency source said earlier.KRONSTADT, June 26./TASS/.The nuclear submarine "Irkutsk" of project 949AM of the Pacific Fleet (PF) after repair and modernization entered factory sea trials.A source in the shipbuilding industry reported this to TASS on the sidelines of the International Naval Show (IMMS) Fleet-2024.“The repair and modernization of the Irkutsk nuclear submarine at one of the Far Eastern plants is almost complete. The boat has entered factory sea trials,” he said.
The funniest thing about deeply modernized good ol' pr. 949A lovingly known in the fleet as Loafs, and in NATO as Oscar-II, is that nobody knows the exact number of missiles it carries now. It is clear it is way more that 30 but how many? The base number is 48 but is it more? Some say it is 72. Well, look at those lovely Loafs...
This is K-132 Irkutsk before modernization. This is the worst nightmare of any surface fleet and shipping.
But here is West's worst nightmare. Although I speak about for years, let me rub this in again:
1. Russia is beginning to live better than most EU countries. Soon Russians will live better than ANY EU country and will be on average reaching the US, allowed for climatic and geographic peculiarities.
2. This is the worst one: while definitely capitalist, Russia is very social and, in fact, a mixed economy which is performing amazingly and that is the key--Russian economy is NOT neo-liberal economy and that drives globalist types insane.
Well, what can I say--too bad, they should have studied real economics and history instead of wasting their time in Ivy League degree mills. Try to explain to any economics Ph.D from Harvard what real war is and how it shapes humanity for tens of thousand of years. But I repeat myself.
First, keep in mind who those children who keep World Bank's blog are. Second, the US still keeps the edge due to accumulation and retaining its infrastructure from Ike's time--this was an immense investment. But it slowly changes, albeit US infrastructure is still, for now, is not too bad. But then... If you have $100 grand...
This is relatively near Moscow, mind you... Relatively. If you ask me--I can tolerate Moscow for about 10 days, same goes for St.Petersburg. After that I begin to miss my... Pacific Northwest, ocean, mountains, country fried steak (well, that's important too, you know) and the breeze...
Trump (and his cabinet) are definitely culpable in what is going on today. The guy couldn't get a decent cabinet in two years, and when he appointed Bolton as NSA--forget it, it was over. Trump, most likely, is going to win elections. You think anything will change? No. It is going to be same ol', same ol', but wrapped into different rhetoric. Medvedev nailed it four days ago--the US is facing the defeat it could never have conceived. Consuming own fairy tales about "defeating Hitler" or "winning the Cold War" will do it to you. Now, the reckoning has come. What are you going to do? Go nuclear? Good luck with that...
Translation:MOSCOW, July 1./TASS/.The Federation Council Committee on International Affairs supported and recommended that the chamber accept on July 3 the statement of the Federal Assembly on the suspension of the participation of the Russian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA) and the payment of contributions to its budget.The senators supported the document unanimously, a source participating in the committee meeting told TASS.As noted in the draft statement, senators of the Russian Federation and deputies of the State Duma are confident that the application of restrictions on participation in OSCE PA events in relation to parliamentarians expressing the will and interests of their people is unacceptable.“We have to admit that under the current conditions, the possibilities for continuing a constructive dialogue in the OSCE PA have been completely exhausted. In this regard, senators of the Russian Federation and deputies of the State Duma consider it justified and logical to suspend the participation of the delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in the OSCE PA, as well as the payment of contributions to the RussianFederation to the budget of the OSCE PA,” the document says.
They still left the clause that "should things change". Not on their watch, they will not. Present Europe should be allowed to collapse and its population experience all joys of what Russia experienced in 1990s. It is coming, and, in fact, is already happening. In my video today I am not impressed by Le Pen's party preliminary win--too little, too late. Change in rhetoric doesn't mean change in policies.