Saturday, August 31, 2024

I Have To Admit...

 ... when Colonel MacGregor defined Keane as "equivalent of political officer" in the Soviet Army--I laughed. Because it is true, and because I stressed the same about delirium by Klintsevitch who decided to pass judgement on global balance of forces, especially nuclear and the US Navy, and... embarrassed himself. Klintsevich was a graduate of political military academy and he was a... propagandist. 

Keane wouldn't be allowed to command a battalion in the Russian Army.

Friday, August 30, 2024

Friday...

 ... Russian Lynchian touch. Dasha Davydova in her Singer (Pevitsa) Poreva (I leave this for interpretation)) period singing Don't FUCK With Me (Ne Naeby Menya), with Lenya Golubkov who was a feature of Russian commercials in 1990s selling BS about getting rich fast, that is to say--fucking with people. The reference to Blue Velvet and, in general, Lynch is profound. There is a Julie Cruise reference there also in vocals ...


MO Of NATO...

Cannot win on the battlefield? Kill civilians. Czech MLRS Vampire with cluster munitions attacked apartment blocks in Belgorod--a classic MO of NATO advisers, with the US providing targeting through AD "gaps". In Russian. Thanks to DDG guys. Here is one of the cluster munitions hits people (nobody, luckily, was killed). This should be used at the Sandhurst and  USMA at West Point as an example of a "real" war. 


New Russian Army Video...

 You do not even have to know Russian to get it...

It is about what real men are... It is the play off a very famous Soviet kids' song about what girls and boys are made of.
 

Details Emerge...

 ... of SS playbook by NATO. 


 

All Their Names Are Known...

 ... those which are not will be soon. The atrocities committed against civilians in Kursk are straight out of SS playbook of WW II. These "mercenaries", no matter nationality, will be hunted down for the rest of their lives and they will face justice one way or another. 

Americans, British, Polish, German, Swedish, French, Colombian, Georgian et al. They will live their lives out in fear. I talk about it in my video today. Executing children... My Lai and Haditha... now in Russia.

Thursday, August 29, 2024

There Was Nothing Wrong...

 ... with this dream. Remarkably Americans and Russians had a very similar ideas about the aesthetics of the future in 1950s and 1960s. This is incredible, I want to visit such a world, even if for a day, obviously accompanied by my wife, of course, if you know what I mean))) But, no, the aesthetics is breathtaking...

Now compare with what we have today... also, if you know what I mean.

This Is An Incredible Find...

The 1971 footage of the opening of the monument to fallen heroes, marines, graduates of my academy in Great Patriotic War. Superintendent of academy, Vice-Admiral Stepanov gives a speech, plus some footage from the graduation in 1971, including march of elements of foreign naval cadets, you can immediately spot Germans and Cubans, plus others. What a find!


It Was Flying Peacefully...

 ... and then, for no particular reason (c), just fell from the sky. 

No particular reasons may involve: some bat shit crazy Russian pilot on Su-35 or Su-57 (with R-37) with mortgage in some nice suburban community--they don't pay themselves, those houses, you know--or, this no particular reason may involve S-400 with 400 km range 40N6E (Air Defense also has mortgages, you know), or, in the end, the airbase Kolomyi was visited by Mr. Kinzhal with follow up with 3M14s from the sunk Black Sea Fleet ships. So many possibilities. Per "symbols of US support" they are being destroyed in industrial quantities and being paraded as a burned junk all over Russia. 

Meanwhile...


Armor group of 4th Independent Motor-rifle Brigade and Akhmat guys attack and capture yet another stronghold of VSU. Armour with mine clearing vehicle in action. The removal of trash continues.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Leaning On London...

 ... new details begin to emerge from this FUBAR by NATO in Kursk. But before we go there--here is the phenomenon of being grossly overrated. Mind you, this is not me writing this, these are American historians. 

LAURENCE REES: And who’s the most overrated person?

GEOFFREY WAWRO: From World War Two? I could add someone who really made their name in World War Two, obviously Charles De Gaulle. ....

LAURENCE REES: Someone who actually did well out of it, but actually there’s a PR spin to it, so didn't entirely deserve their reputation.

GEOFFREY WAWRO: Well, an obvious example would be someone like General George Patton on the American side because there’s been so many books about him and the movie starring George C. Scott about Patton. So he’s become an iconic figure and very much attached to everything Americans think about the Second World War. But there’s a very dark side to Patton, the casualties that he was willing to take. He is pitiless about American casualties. After the liberation of Paris when they’re moving on to attack Germany, and he attacked Metz, he took part in a frontal attack against entrenched German troops and tanks behind a river barrier and took awful casualties, and this was something that Patton was willing to do in order to keep the momentum moving forward but also to assure his own fame. So I think there’s work that needs to be done on Patton. He was energetic, aggressive, a great American hero, he didn’t lack bravery and I don’t think he was doing this to sort of pass the burden onto his troops, he would welcome the burden himself. But there was something about his Generalship that was a little bit crude for the 20th Century.

LAURENCE REES: Yes, and that’s something that people aren’t aware of, necessarily.

GEOFFREY WAWRO: Right. 
Well, Patton wasn't called a "master of chickenshit" by GIs for nothing. But if you want to see true masters of chicken shit, go no further than London and British military's "General Staff" aka officially the org headed by the Chief of Defense Staff (Radakin guy). These guys still venerate their Waterloo, which in the end didn't change much, but they continue to reside in their bubble thinking that they have a great military record in combined arms operations. They don't, not even close. In the end, it was US Army, namely Hodges' 1st Army and especially its heroic 2nd and 99th divisions which took the brunt of Wehrmacht's last gamble in Ardennes in 1944. They are, in other words, overrated beyond belief, in fact--utterly grotesquely. But why, you may ask, I concentrate on them? Very simple--the hint which flashed briefly through London Times and few other UK tabloids via piece with a symptomatic title Britain’s Kursk Invasion Backfires?
And you know what? This time Washington may be telling the truth, at least partially. This debacle in Kursk had London written all over it, as also was confirmed by Colonel Maduro, I mean Alexey Leonkov (in Russian). 
So, IT IS, or rather, WAS London's "operation" and it bore all hallmarks of British military "thought"--amateurism, ignorance, delusions of grandeur and lack of any experience in modern warfare. They also do not study military history and warfare in Sandhurst, Joint Services Command and Staff College or in RUSI and Chatham House. The idea that the staff of the army with zero serious military record, pathetic armor and air force, and having the actual combat ready force the size of the Northern Stand of the Elland Road Stadium (FC Leeds) is beyond preposterous. It is pathetic. 
 
I am a consistent critic of Washington for both foreign and domestic issues, seeing as once beautiful country (the US) is being run into the ground, but the US is a superpower still, however declining! UK is not even in the same universe, especially fighting Russia whose military record dwarfs that of the US. If not for the Falklands and Reagan's warning to Argentinians that the US will remove barriers to the use of nukes, UK literally has no record whatsoever other than doing false flags, killing civilians, kidnapping them and other shit for which UK military brass sticks more funny letters to their already bloated prefixes for their titles. The only title they don't have is a force capable of serious operational planning especially against the guys who demolished time after time the best forces combined West could muster. And so, as more information becomes available, they thought they could achieve their insane "objectives" using the best cannon fodder 404 could field. This, plus their SAS and other "advisers" running the show. Boys, go back to school... It was primarily Russia's Border Guards and some hodge-podge units which met them on the 6th and whole "plan" went bye-bye. After that the whole Russian routine unfolded:
Here is one of the flags of this vaunted and trained by British 82nd Brigade of VSU. Now Russians are mopping up this creme de la creme from Kursk area. How many Anglo DRGs are now rotting in Kursk forests will know in due time. But here is the deal--they better wake up in London to a reality of being amateurs compared to the Army which shifted the paradigm in warfare and has capabilities which do not even come in the wet dreams to KCB, ADC, WTF, CNN Sir Tony Radakin nor to anyone in RUSI, because they never heard of those things. As to fighting Russians in Kursk--they better ask spirits of Erich Von Manstein, Walter Model or Hermann Hoth--they'll tell.  
 
For those listening to Leonkov with translation--pay attention to how many times he calls out those pseudo-patriotic media in Russia most of which are "manned" by open and shadow VSU/GUR assets such as Podolyaka, Rybar, Military Informant, Colonel Cassad and others, including in Anglo-sphere many of who you know, and keep in mind that out of all physical advantages listed in the Field Manual 3-0 the US has none left. The only nominal advantage is in "information" but even this doesn't work on the land which saw the death of Nazi panzers. Thinking that some amateurs who are headed by a lawyer (yes, Radakin is a lawyer) can stand on this ground is laughable. Why don't London take MacArthur's advice and just fucking fade away from the arena of big boys.

Abrams Tanks Are Burning...

... an important quote on archetypes. Medvedev is absolutely correct about military science. Tactics and Operations changed dramatically. Military science changed dramatically. Just one example--the role of Air Defense is now very clear and Russian AD forces are now on the path to a total technological and combat operational and strategic dominance. The world never saw anything like this. I omit here now beaten to death cliche of UAVs and loitering munitions--this goes without saying. All this completely overturns every single operational concept ever conceived in NATO and renders them irrelevant. Many still do not grasp this real catastrophe. 

Meanwhile, the "sunk" Black Sea Fleet suddenly resurfaced and launched 28 cruise missiles at 404 yesterday. What do ya know.

This DRG (Diversionary Recon Group) Of NATO...

 ... is a toast now. Artillery (and RUK) is a bitch. 

This is not Hollywood--if you are detected, you have a very few precious seconds to run, if not--152 mm is incoming and then (depending on the range) mortars. Then loitering munitions. These Anglo (one American, few others probably British-Australian) guys have chosen a wrong warrior path. 

Meanwhile...

In a case of sheer military stupidity, khohol drives lonely T-72M with full (and most likely old and susceptible to detonation) Combat Load and encounters, surprise, surprise, a Zala product. The result is dramatic. Russian MoD yesterday gave the number of VSU losses at 6,600 personnel. Today it is highly likely above 7,000 and Pokrovsk drive continues. I talk about it in my today's video.

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Adapt, Adapt, Adapt...

 ... if you don't--you lose. Let me get you on the stroll down the memory lane. Seven years ago Russians decided to test land-based AD complex Tor M2KM in the sea on-board of Russian Frigate Admiral Grigorovich. 

Not only it performed well in the sea (mind you--Tor M2 can launch while moving, those laser gyroscopes, you know) but its combat record in SMO is simply mind-boggling. Also, mind you that first flight of small missile ships of project 22800 Karakurt didn't have what second flight has today--fully integrated navalized Pantsir. But no worries...

Voila, one of the first flight of Karakurts Sovetsk going to sea with retrofitted Tor-M2KM. It is a superb short-range (range to 12 kilometers) system which greatly improved self-defense and short-range security zone for other vessels capability of first flight Karakurts. Always go with what works and proved itself.

HIMARS Are Having A Very Difficult Time...

 ... everywhere in SMO zone. 


Modern ISR, guys. RUK (Recon-Strike Comlex) in action. Meanwhile, Ray nails it with defining Sullivan and Blinken as "relatively sane"...

... "relatively sane" being a euphemism for cowards. Plus, this is the essence of US "elites"--they only know elections and have no clue what escalation dominance is. The United States has no concept nor experience with this because it fights only weak enemies with the exception of the WW II. Moscow does hold escalation dominance, while Pentagon has no clue about the way Russian Armed Forces accumulate and manage reserves, hence a FUBAR in Kursk and catastrophe elsewhere (Toretsk, Pokrovsk etc.). Strategery, you know.

Monday, August 26, 2024

So, To Wrap Up This Whole...

 ... glamorous Durov and his "girlfriend"--I am sure she is with him because he is smart, kind, giving and humble (it is love, I am sure;))))--affair with French security services.

Allow me to introduce one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of our and other generations...
 
Durov is a surface equivalent of a designer of the Titan. And those people who died with him diving to Titanic.

SitRep For Today...

 ... and some numbers. McMaster writes yet another book. For a guy with a gross discrepancy between his rather mediocre military "achievements" and high public profile, he is surprisingly productive in his writing.


About Pavel Durov...

In Russian Durov has a common root with... Durak, which is--a fool. While I understand this whole hype about this guy and TG, I have no sympathy for this glamorous narcissist whatsoever, and suggest to rename him properly--Pavel Foolov, because this is exactly who he is.

Generally Speaking...

 ... NATO's adventurism at Kursk changed not just operational but whole strategic picture, so much so that it is impossible to cover up anymore. Well, with the exception of imbeciles from London Times (I'll be talking about it in my video). Here is Hindustan Times:

As I repeat ad nauseam--Operational Art is a CREATIVE use of military tools at your disposal which is based on solid foundation of operational-tactical level prowess of staffs and commanders. NATO doesn't have it, Russia has it in abundance. Numbers, numbers, numbers--the dynamics of their change is a story only proficient professionals can read. COFM--Correlation of Forces and Means is in the foundation of it all. NATO doesn't have understanding of it. Those who do, they are not in power. And even this understanding is not enough--NATO doesn't know and doesn't understand Russia. Should it have been otherwise, the US wouldn't have committed a suicidal blunder of getting involved with fighting Russia. The US militarily doesn't even register against the scale and prowess of Napoleon or Hitler armies--all of them destroyed by Russians. Well, now it is a desperate time in Washington... 
Cashback to 404 (c) (Kazmans), delivery by Pyaterochka my means of cruise missiles.

Sunday, August 25, 2024

The Face Of NATO...

 ... I wonder if this reminds some people in Pentagon and CIA something like... my memory is a bit fuzzy...

...I cannot put my finger on it. Something about some flying things hitting civilian buildings with innocent civilians in them? Help me out on this one... I believe it was in September some years ago. Some event... Well, now it is Saratov (my maternal grandmother's place of birth). Meanwhile 404 is under heavy missile attack. Will know more later.

Larry Wilkerson's Valuable Insight...

 ... on Judge Nap's show. On culpability. Which only buttresses my constant point that neither Pentagon, let alone CIA, nor, let alone kindergarten in London know what real operations are and act on an amateurish template of Operational Manuals written for fighting people who cannot shoot back. 

Now, today Russian MoD provided the "score" for Kursk. 

"Всего за время боевых действий на Курском направлении противник потерял более 5800 военнослужащих, 72 танка, 31 боевую машину пехоты, 58 бронетранспортеров, 383 боевых бронированных машины, 177 автомобилей, 37 артиллерийских орудий", - говорится в сообщении ведомства. Кроме того, ВСУ потеряли пять установок зенитных ракетных комплексов, 11 пусковых установок реактивных систем залпового огня, в том числе три РСЗО HIMARS и одну MLRS, девять станций радиоэлектронной борьбы, РЛС контрбатарейной борьбы, РЛС противовоздушной обороны, пять единиц инженерной техники, в том числе две инженерные машины разграждения и одну установку разминирования УР-77. "Операция по уничтожению формирований ВСУ продолжается", - добавили в МО РФ.

Translation: "In total, during the military actions in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 5,800 servicemen, 72 tanks, 31 infantry fighting vehicles, 58 armored personnel carriers, 383 armored combat vehicles, 177 cars, 37 artillery pieces," the ministry said in a statement. In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost five anti-aircraft missile systems, 11 multiple launch rocket system launchers, including three HIMARS and one MLRS, nine electronic warfare stations, a counter-battery radar, an air defense radar, five units of engineering equipment, including two engineering vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearing unit. "The operation to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations continues," the Russian Ministry of Defense added.

Basically, a division has been wiped off the order of battle for VSU and Russian Army gladly continues to wipe out other reserves which are being thrown into this meat-grinder. As I stress all the time--the numbers of VSU losses are very conservative to put it mildly. E.g. double strike on VSU facility and concentration on VSU troops in Slavyansk today. Nobody would even count their 200s and 300s and they will not be included by Russian MoD into statistics. 

That's the template thinking.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

OK, This Is A Pleasant Surprise...

 ... and it is totally unexpected. Watch to the end)))

Yes, затискать, means almost to hug one to... whatever one feels the love and endearment. Children, children and again--children, they are the real treasure. Nothing measures up to them...

Meanwhile At Kursk...

 Lancets and FPVs fly...

Sadly, this grandpa died when delivered to hospital--he sang about Guards warriors and life continuing in accordance to Guards warriors of the past...

Meanwhile, new NATO armies field manuals will have extensive chapters on how to use civilians as a human shield.

Saturday...

 ... relaxing and flying away with this mind-boggling music. 


 

Remembering Kursk...

 ... 81 years ago... and how all Russians are like Lev Andropov. 


 

To Those Who Forgot...

 ... today is the anniversary of the conclusion of the Kursk Battle. I underscore again German numbers on any operation and losses are primarily fiction as is most what is written in the West (that is to say written by Wehrmacht losers). So...


 

The map is up to the August 1st, but the battle concluded on August 23 through conclusion of Orlov Strategic Offensive (Operation Kutuzov) and Belgorod-Kharkov Strategic Offensive (Operation Rumyantsev). This is Moscow State University summary, based on actual Red Army and Wehrmacht archives, not sore losers fairy tales by Wehrmacht generals:
The Battle of Kursk, which involved the largest tank battle of the Second World War, was fought on the steppe of Kursk oblast between July 5 and August 23, 1943. It was initiated by the Germans who, in retreat after their spectacular defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad, concentrated 50 divisions, two tank brigades, three tank battalions, and eight artillery assault divisions comprising 2,700 Tiger and Panther tanks, some two thousand aircraft, and 900,000 men in all. The Soviet forces, consisting of General K. K. Rokossovskii’s Army of the Center, General N. F. Vatutin’s Voronezh Army, and the reserve army of the Steppe Front under General I. S. Konev, numbered 1.3 million troops, 3,600 tanks, and 2,800 aircraft. The German offensive, code named “Citadel,” involved two simultaneous thrusts against the Soviet-held northern and southern salients. Both were successfully repulsed, and by July 12, the Soviet forces had gone over to the offensive. On August 4, the city of Orel was liberated and by the 18th the German army took up defensive positions east of Bryansk. It had lost 30 of its 50 divisions and up to 500,000 men killed, wounded or missing in action. From its victory in the Battle of Kursk, the Soviet Red Army went on to liberate most of Ukraine in the autumn of 1943, marching into Kiev on November 6. Although Western historiography traditionally marks the beginning of the German downfall to the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the crushing defeat of Kursk makes a more likely turning point for the war.

It was a cataclysmic event, which ended Blitzkrieg once and for all. It also dwarfs any operation by Allies in its scale, scope and ferocity, also being the largest armor clash in history and precisely because of that it is being rewritten in the West non-stop for sheer propaganda purposes. I will be talking about it tomorrow and why they are so desperate to rewrite history. For now the link to Ira Alksnis spot on description of the main reasons (in Russian).   

Meanwhile:


NATO (let's call it what it is) decided to play diversionary-recon group (DRG) with Russian Army at the border of Belgorod Oblast. Here is how it all ends for them.

Another One Bites The Dust...

 ... RUK (Recon-Strike Complex) at work couple of days ago at Kherson axis. 

Three M-270 (with ATACMS or HIMARS) and a lovely secondary detonation of ammo storage. Mr. Iskander is getting now its longer--much-much longer (1000 ++ km) version, just in case. 

Now, I understand that Glenn Diesen worries (rightly so) about possible NATO-Russia clash--the burning ferry with loaded oil at Port Kavkaz does look impressive. But as I stress non-stop--in the end it is COFM (Correlation of Forces and Means) and posture which dictates approach to any kind of war. NATO has neither, trying to hide behind the backs of VSU. NATO simply doesn't have enough of anything. In other words--NATO cannot assemble and predeploy required force to even have a chance against Russia. At least some people in Pentagon understand it. Pathos-ridden rhetoric from West's "elites" (a euphemism for BS) is just that. NATO is effectively de-militarized now. The required FORCE is not there for NATO, period! The best division-size force packed with US and other "volunteers" has been wiped off the face of the earth in ten days in Kursk. 

Oh, it is very clear, Mr. "Admiral" Kirby, very clear. 

Ray And Nima...

... on Russian "experts" in the US.  

Ray says it. I also do non-stop the same. There is no Russia "expertise" in Washington. Russian Studies field in the West is academic and professional fraud--99% of it. The remaining 1% of real experts are not allowed anywhere near sinecures in the so called National (In)security circuit and think-tanks. I repeated it again today at Nima's--the US doesn't have strategic intelligence and real strategic forecasting as such. Do not exist. Meanwhile, a very good text on Kursk Catastrophe (in Russian), which also elaborates (with numbers) on how Border Guards of FSB in Kursk blunted the VSU drive.

Stealing Everything...

I know, I know--I am being facetious. The front in former 404 is crumbling big time. Poland, traditionally, will be blamed)) NS-2 comedy. 


Village of Russian Konopelka...

 ... and trash removal by Russian Army in Kursk Oblast. Minus 60 VSU and a bunch of NATO armor. Porkicide, in other words. This is a visual representation of how two VSU best brigades have been wiped out by Russians. Just one episode out of many. 

They say a bunch of US "volunteers" have been killed there.
 

Finally, The Mystery Has Been Solved...

... as DJT uncovered--Barak Obama allowed Russians to steal American hypersonic technology. 

This is why Russians are two generations ahead of the US in hypersonic technology, while originators of this technology--the United States that is--still cannot produce even "slow" hypersonic weapon. In related news, Russians also stole from the US supersonic smart missiles P-800 Onyx, and technology for S-400 and S-500. Russians also stole US victory over Hitler and those damn Russkies flew to space on a stolen American technology.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Danny And Me...

 ... live in about hour twenty minutes. 


 

While Inevitable Unfolds...

... for 404 and NATO, Nikolai Patrushev visits Borei A-class boomer Emperor Alexander the Third. She is for now at the North, but it is a Pacific Fleet SSBN. 

Next in line, this time for Northern Fleet, is Prince Pozharsky, which should be commissioned this year. 

I want to stress, Russia's strategic missile submarines production is impressive, to put it mildly and is increasing the gap with the US not just in state-of-the-art platforms but with latest versions of Bulava SLBMs capable of delivering of hypersonic gliding blocks. This is a generational loss, against the background of the delays of both Sentinel ICBM and Columbia-class SSBN. Hence the leak from uber "classified" (LOL) nuclear weapons guidance form the White House. 

Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat. In a classified document approved in March, the president ordered U.S. forces to prepare for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and North Korea.

It is a classic approach to "do something", which is nothing but PR and simulation of meaningful activity, when initial conditions are clear and no matter what one does they cannot change anymore. Here is GAO giving some heads up:

All six offensive hypersonic weapon efforts GAO identified have placed a high priority on delivering quickly, with all intending to deliver a “minimum viable product”—one with the initial capabilities needed for users to recognize value. Four of the efforts, however, are not soliciting user feedback to determine what capabilities to include in their minimum viable product, a leading practice for product development identified by GAO in July 2023. In addition, four efforts have not adopted leading practices for using digital engineering tools, another leading practice for product development. These tools include virtual representations of physical products. Employing modern digital engineering tools and directly soliciting user feedback both have the potential to speed up the design process, reduce costs, and develop a more usable product. While DOD has identified and analyzed cost risks, the cost of these weapons is difficult to estimate. This is in part due to DOD's limited experience developing and fielding hypersonic weapons. For example, the Navy's estimate for Conventional Prompt Strike—among the most mature cost estimates available—compensates for the lack of quality historical data by relying heavily on the views of subject matter experts. Expert views are best used sparingly, as they can be prone to bias, unless estimators analyze and account for that bias. Addressing this and other issues in accordance with GAO leading practices for cost estimates could provide Navy decision-makers a more accurate estimate.

As I already stated--you cannot buy technical expertise based on technological and engineering culture which is utterly alien to the United States and its weaponry. Absolutely the same goes for operational and strategic experiences of Russia, which are also beyond reach now. It is all about "limited experiences". If that hasn't been enough, the shit accumulates on ISS:

Notably, NASA's Commercial Crew Program Manager Steve Stich obliquely referenced this during his most recent press availability on July 25. Stich was asked whether NASA would certify Starliner for operational missions if the vehicle returned to Earth autonomously but ultimately safely. "There are a lot of good reasons to complete this mission and bring Butch and Suni home on Starliner," he said. "Starliner was designed as a spacecraft to have the crew in the cockpit. The crew is integral to the spacecraft."

Port concerns

The International Space Station has two docking ports for crew vehicles, and these must accommodate both Crew Dragon and Starliner. At present, one of these ports is occupied by the Crew-8 spacecraft, which is due to return to Earth fairly soon. The other port is occupied by Starliner. One source at Johnson Space Center said the concern is that NASA cannot afford to "brick" one of its two crew docking ports. For this reason, if NASA decides to return Starliner autonomously, it must be certain the undocking software update will work.

This is becoming ridiculous. Wait until they will tell us (it is already known) that undocking may create problems and the damn thing can damage the port, in the best case scenario, in the worst... well, let's not go there. 

Meanwhile, somebody begins to suspect something. 

It is called Operational Art, that even a setback could be turned into operational-strategic success.

They Will Answer It...

 ... better than me. Joseph and Svetlana and some State Duma MP speak about Putin's Ordnance. 


 

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Surrounded...

 ... Here is today's freshest from around Toretsk (and New York, ahem). As you can see the area roughly 3 by 3 kilometers is completely blocked. 

So, while completely surrounded, the job is not over and many people have to understand that reduction of such a cauldron requires not only forces turned INTO this cauldron such as this scheme of blocking shows, in this particular case platoon size force... 

But also requires considerable forces looking OUTWARD and blocking any de-blocking attempts by enemy. As you can see yourself ion this picture:

This is a whole operation with division + force involved. But most famous de-blocking attempt was Manstein's Operation Wintergewitter, who tried to save Paulus' 6th Army encircled at Stalingrad. I provide here the link to WiKi's article only for registering the event:

This was large,defeated by blocking Red Army force, attempt (do not take WiKi's "numbers" seriously--most of the time it is Wehrmacht's propaganda) by a serious Wehrmacht force. That is why you have forces looking INTO--reducing cauldron--and OUTWARD--repelling any de-blocking attempts by the enemy. So, encircling is a seriously complex operation, especially when you are dealing with the world-class force. Walter Model was a premier Wehrmacht specialist in extricating at least some surviving Axis forces from Red Army cauldrons, but even his operational genius didn't save Army Group Center during Operation Bagration.  
 
It was utterly demolished. And, of course, who can forget Avdeevka. 

Out of recent encirclements of "great" proxies of Washington and London's military "planners". There are no Mansteins or Walter Models among them, come to think about it--no Rokossovskys or Vatutins either. Mostly Pattons and Petraeuses.

Allegory... On A Lighter Note.

Allegory--a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Roller-coasters long ago have become allegories, but this one--it is just fun, wink, wink:)) If you survive. 



As Many Of Us Have Been Saying This...

 ... for a long time (visit Larry's SONAR 21 in his latest with Judge)--patience and prudence of Russia are mistaken for weakness. Well, you cannot culture up Washington whose MO is set by hysterical emotive media and overall clownish nature of contemporary American politics. But you also cannot explain what Operational ART is, because most of operations of the US Armed Forces have been against weak opponents. Well, Kursk incursion and catastrophe which befell all those VSU "forces", including a bunch of "volunteers" is the latest demonstration of sheer incompetence of NATO's "planning", forget about executing any serious operations of scale. It took Akhmat, 810th Brigade of marines some elements of SSO with the help of VKS to turn those roughly 120-150 sq. kilometers of Kursk Oblast into the mass grave for VSU. 

Three new army groupings Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk have been created today, and... the rest you will see in my video.

Monday, August 19, 2024

Back With Ark And Saving Civilization...

 ... many people have been wondering. Well, here is your answer of which I spoke about for years.

Президент России Владимир Путин подписал указ, предусматривающий оказание помощи при переселении тем, кто не приемлет ценности Запада.

Translate: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree providing assistance with resettlement to those who do not accept Western values. According to the decree, foreigners who do not accept the policies of their countries, which contradict traditional values, will be able to apply for temporary residence in Russia without having to comply with the established quota and provide proof of proficiency in the Russian language, knowledge of Russian history and the basics of Russian legislation, TASS reports. Foreigners who do not share the policies of their countries, which "impose destructive neoliberal ideological attitudes that contradict traditional Russian spiritual and moral values" can apply for assistance. A large family from the United States, which previously adhered to traditional values, received a certificate of temporary asylum in Russia.

As you may have already surmised, after that the change from temporary to permanent status will be very easy and a straight road to Russian citizenship. Normal Western people are being saved. Those who do not understand what is this all about--read Dostoevsky's Pushkin lecture. 

Here is an example: 

In the most ironic historic twist, in less than 25 years the roles have changed completely 180 degrees between Russia and the United States. 

Meanwhile, here is Mr. Lavrov debunks (in Russian) all this BS about some "negotiations" and other crap made up by specialists in chicken shit from WaPo. And, I quote--NO negotiations are possible with Kiev regime, period. 

So, how many times--against the background of utter military incompetence and impotence of NATO, the only thing they excel at is spreading BS. I am on record--take the course of antibiotics after communicating with any Western journo from MSM.

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Time To Save One's Own Ass.

 ... or, rather, asses. LOL. I warned, remember? Now suddenly The Economist admits:

Russia’s double-punch back against Ukraine’s shock raid. It is bombing Ukrainians in Kursk and advancing in Pokrovsk

It is behind the paywall, but I can tell you what this globalist establishment tabloid proposes in this newly restarted game of blame. They say that it was hapless general Syrsky who hid his plans from the West to attack Kursk Oblast. Which implies, that should he have told that he about to attack Kursk Oblast (a euphemism for what Syrsky does best--kill his best troops), all those moral and military competent people (I am screwing with you) in Washington and London would have certainly prevented it. But poor poor dears have been in a complete darkness and didn't know about those plans, LOL)) 

Of course, this whole thing is nothing but a heap of bovine manure in a feeble attempt to start deflecting and spreading blame around, after VSU best equipped (practically all of it fresh NATO hardware) and motivated troops, and NATO generals who planned this catastrophe for them, covered part (about 11-12 kilometers) of what is called forefiled (or security zone), which was not prepared (why, we will know in a due time--administration of Kurks Oblast has a lot to answer for) and... drum roll... still drumming... still rolling... ran into the first line of defense of the Russian Army, which, as you may have guessed it by now was in about 11-12 kilometers from the border and... And The Economist still is required to keep abreast of the events along the whole front. Pokrovsk axis is just one of them, where Russians advance very dramatically. How about this? 

Drive to Kupyansk and those lovely narrows of Oskol River where its width is reduced to 25-30 meters. You get my drift, right? And then, of course, there are events at Maryinka-Ugledar chord. So, a lot is unfolding as I type this, but, in the end, it is about sheer military and political stupidity of the NATO planners who needed some "success" and "transfer" of Russian reserves from the front. Boy, they really need to learn what COFM is and get basic math skills going for them. The result was predictable: lines of communications (supply lines) have been cut, the whole force was dispersed and instead of Troops Operation, Counter-Terror Operation was introduced and that means there is NO statute of limitations for terrorism, meaning for anyone involved in this "incursion", including those who planned it. I stress this for the last several days--this is hugely important. And yes, that means NATO planners. 

Meanwhile, the removal of trash continues:

Anyone thought otherwise? Also, instructive, how losers from London stage Russian "POWs", in reality Ukie "actors", laying on the ground (that even WaPo cannot confirm it), while this is how real POWs identification happens through real military professionals of the Russian Army:

Heads-up, self-identification: full name (FIO, in Russian) and military unit. Many POWs from VSU, many... courts will decide who will be accepted as POW and who will face terrorism charges. 

P.S. Dmitry Kosyrev writes today in RIA (in Russian) about Idiocracy capturing the US. Read it, it is instructive.

When High Wears Off...

 ... WaPo lies again and they hide real situation. Especially what is going on around Pokrovsk. Plus some numbers on Russia's gas supplies to EU. 


 

Saturday, August 17, 2024

Thanks To Guys From DDG...

Their TG Channel keeps their hand on the pulse. And here is a visual representation of 404's so called MIAs and Russian forces visiting places with piles of almost completely decomposed bodies, bones, skulls and even golden teeth. 

More... 

As you can see yourself, VSU doesn't even bother with removing the bodies of their KIAs. Those who they remove are often burned in crematoriums, and Russia doesn't count them, as well as all those who are annihilated in 404 armor, armored vehicles (like M-270 or Bradleys) and it can now be stated with 100% accuracy that in terms of KIAs and MIAs VSU lost more than 1 million troops. All DJT's pathos statements about him being able to stop SMO--is a concentrated BS of a narcissist who, obviously, doesn't understand what is he talking about. Only Russia can stop it when all objectives are achieved.

VSU "Offensive"...

 ... unfolds as planned by the Russian Army and copious amount of BS NATO media try to spread contradict the overall, and tactical, pictures of a slaughter of the best 404 (and NATO) reserves. Here is another US wundrwaffe joins its "colleagues" in the technological hell--courtesy of Russian RUK (Recon Strike Complex) with Mr. Iskander visiting this unlucky HIMARS. 

The slaughter of VSU continues and Russian Army is now forced to deal with piles of decomposing bodies of VSU it needs to collect all over forests. 

Meanwhile, the number of POWs also grows--here is a whole platoon of VSU surrenders. They had enough.
 
Social media are overflowing with videos of a catastrophe for VSU and its terrorist raid whose main target was... well terrorism against civilians. Only a complete imbecile could think about achieving their three main objectives such as capture of Kursk NPP, Kursk proper and even trying for "regime change". Well, that's what one gets for "bringing army to NATO standards", considering the fact that not a single NATO commander knows what it is to maneuver, let alone advance against Russian Army and they don't teach that at USMA at West Point nor in any Command and General Staff College(s). Hence, correct, the threat of dirty bomb, for those people who still think that dirty bomb is a NUCLEAR--it is not. It is this:

It is NOT a nuclear device, its main purpose is to create contaminated area--bad as it is, it is NOT a nuclear bomb. But yes, this shows utter desperation on part of the US.  So, my suggestion to all of you--stick to professionals in their assessments. You know who those people are. Follow Apti Alautdinov's TG Channel. Carry on.