Monday, September 30, 2024

Russia Celebrates...

 ... on October 1 the Day of Ground Forces. 

Obviously, no force today fights alone, without VKS, ISR, Navy et al. But today, Russian Army NOT-arguably but in absolute terms is the most powerful fighting force in the world. It also rests on the foundation of a massive productive economy of Russia. I will be talking about economy again tomorrow. 
 

Preparing New...

 ... cannon fodder. Hitler-Jugend. Or, rather, Zelensky Jugend.

A Ukrainian copy. We know the final, right?
History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” (c) Karl Marx. 

Sunday, September 29, 2024

It Is A Holiday In Russia...

 ... it is a Machine-builders' Day. 

День машиностроителя отмечается в России ежегодно в последнее воскресенье сентября на основании указа президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 1 октября 1980 года "О праздничных и памятных днях". Учрежден профессиональный праздник указом президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 15 августа 1966 года № 139-VII "Об установлении ежегодного праздника "Дня машиностроителя". В 2024 году он отмечается 29 сентября. Машиностроение – одна из ключевых, системообразующих и стратегически важных отраслей национальной экономики, тесно взаимосвязанная с ведущими отраслями экономики и обеспечивающая их устойчивое функционирование и наполнение потребительского рынка, являющаяся основой развития технологического ядра промышленности. От уровня развития машиностроения зависят важнейшие удельные показатели валового внутреннего продукта страны (материалоемкость, энергоемкость и т.д.), производительность труда в других отраслях хозяйства, уровень экологической безопасности промышленного производства и обороноспособность государства.
Translation: Machine Builder's Day is celebrated in Russia annually on the last Sunday of September based on the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated October 1, 1980 "On holidays and memorable days". The professional holiday was established by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated August 15, 1966 No. 139-VII "On the establishment of the annual holiday "Machine Builder's Day". In 2024, it is celebrated on September 29. Machine Building is one of the key, system-forming and strategically important sectors of the national economy, closely interconnected with the leading sectors of the economy and ensuring their sustainable functioning and filling the consumer market, which is the basis for the development of the technological core of the industry. The most important specific indicators of the country's gross domestic product (material intensity, energy intensity, etc.), labor productivity in other sectors of the economy, the level of environmental safety of industrial production and the defense capability of the state depend on the level of development of machine building.
 
Yep. It is back into prominent celebration in Russia and no one can argue with thesis above. You either make machines or you are a geopolitical slave...

Additional Explanation...

 ... on updated Doctrine. It is about dragging out NATO cowards who have been hiding behind VSU cannon fodder's backs into the open. That's proxy removal. 


Saturday, September 28, 2024

This Is The Guy...

 ... who has Ph.D in political "science" and whose record of being wrong pretty much about everything is exemplary. Yet, this cretin still continues to "influence" such useless collection of "thinkers" as Council on Foreign Relations, and, of course, his knowledge of Russia and Russian people is about the same level as my knowledge of Mandarin. 

As was stressed by me over the years--in the West the war and warfare are handled primarily by credentialed amateurs, including those with general ranks and we can see the result. Obviously, explaining to some US "diplomat" or political "scientist" like Fukuyama what war is is a waste of time, due to them having no tool kit to grasp it, and is an exercise in Danning-Kruger futility, failing to explain the fool that he is a fool because he is a fool. Contemporary US "intellectual" strata is at best second rate, in reality--probably a collection of Fukuyamas with some handful of exceptions, who merely confirm the rule.

Friday, September 27, 2024

After I Defeated...

 ... bugs in my video soft, something on updates to Russia's nuclear doctrine and those pesky Houthies.  


Ugledar Is Hot...

 ... literally. You can see how Russian MLRS deal with the roads with VSU hardware and personnel on them trying to escape hell. 


 And, of course, incendiary munitions turning Ugledar into hell. 

These are visuals which are representative of the whole front which is very active. I guess Russians are getting ready for the US elections, if you know what I mean)).

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Real Wealth...

 ... here is one such example. Sochi--a great Russian riviera hub, albeit the stretch of "Russian California", including Crimea is roughly 500 miles from Sevastopol to Sochi.  

This is 15 year long "spread", from 2008 to 2024. The creation of real wealth, it seems, is beyond the grasp of modern Ivy league graduates in Ponzi scheming, aka finances. But here is one such example--you can literally see wealth accumulation. This is also Exhibit A of why "Putin's Regime" is doing so well. But it is impossible to explain to feeble-minded in the West. 

 

My Offer)))

$400 per hour, lectures on Applied Geopolitics and COFM, for any Ivy League humanities "professor" and Wall Street "investor". For Daleep Singh it is $4,000 per hour because even my wild military and life experiences will need some serious shrinks, and those are expensive, after explaining to graduates in shit from MIT and Duke that their degrees are worthless and they basically have no real education, as are "professors" who teach this malarkey. 

Behold, this is the US "elite"--a crowd of headless chicken. 

P.S. Thank to DDG who had their UTube channel removed today. 

Correct...

 ... the most critical term is "irreversible". 

I continue to state--the US still has a chance to negotiate its place among great powers of the new world, Europe cannot. It is an objective reality having everything to do with resource base and, metaphysically, "weight" of nations which is not measured in nominal currency. Will the US take a chance? Well, first it needs to declare AIPAC and those in US Congress and government associated with it "foreign agents"... Nah, the US is screwed. It will follow Israel into oblivion... Could Lloyd Austin become an unlikely hero? Stranger things happened before.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Very Good Review...

 ... by Colonel and Judge. 

Mentioning the fact of lack of any strategic thinking in the US is crucial.
 

Review Of My Latest Book...

 ... by:

Richard C. Cook is co-founder and lead investigator for the American Geopolitical Institute.  Mr. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst with extensive experience across various government agencies, including the U.S. Civil Service Commission, FDA, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury. As a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, he exposed the flawed O-ring joints that destroyed the Space Shuttle, documenting his story in the book “Challenger Revealed.” After serving at Treasury, he became a vocal critic of the private finance-controlled monetary system, detailing his concerns in “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform.” He served as an advisor to the American Monetary Institute and worked with Congressman Dennis Kucinich to advocate for replacing the Federal Reserve with a genuine national currency. See his new book, Our Country, Then and Now, Clarity Press, 2023. Also see his Three Sages Substack at and his American Geopolitical Institute articles at https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/category/agi/

So he writes about the book and me:

Andrei Martyanov’s background is unique. Educated at a Soviet military academy, he spent a career as an officer with the Soviet Coast Guard. Here in the U.S., we tend to look at the Coast Guard as namby-pamby, not real hard-core military. But not in the Soviet Union, where Coast Guard members may easily find themselves in a war zone, particularly in the Black Sea region. Then, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Andrei Martyanov relocated to the U.S. to work in commercial aerospace and became an American citizen. But as an American, he did not like what he was seeing through the decade of the 1990s and into the 2000s. He saw not only the decline of America as a civilization but also the failure of its military establishment to maintain a level of competence, maturity, and responsibility befitting a great power. In particular, he saw that the U.S. had not fought a real war against an equal opponent since World War II. And even then, he reminds us that it was the Soviets that took the brunt of the fighting against Germany in Europe.

You may read the whole thing by following this link.

This Is Why The US...

 ... is in deep trouble. People posted here hilarious rankings by Ray Dalio (whose actual degree from Harvard is obscured). 

I want to stress here, that if we discount a hard copium and butt-hurt behind this sheer delirium, it exposes the main problem--Dalio has no clue what he is talking about, as do most people at Wall Street and US financial industry, namely the products of the US Ivy League degree mills for "economists" and other useless humanities credentialed morons. These are precisely the types who, apart from lobbies such as AIPAC, buy US Congress and influence US foreign and domestic policies. 

I have no reasons to like Heritage Foundation--these are themselves a bunch of ideologues and BSers--but the state of the US education, as is the case with economy, is a complete collapse in progress. 

And here they are certainly correct. Especially when it comes down to educational backgrounds required for running actual economies and states well. Needless to say--most of those backgrounds are in the STEM, natural science and medical fields, and those are hard. Very hard. Stand alone here is the issue of geopolitical analysis (real one, not BS such as Dalio's "rankings") which REQUIRES military-intelligence backgrounds, especially so for the 21st century, and, even more so, for the technological paradigm of the 21st century warfare. If not, we have Russia barely topping Singapore in "strength", while the US with its exemplary dismal war record being number one. Hey, what do I know, I don't run hedge funds. Somebody somehow also loved Bernie Madoff's returns. We know how it all ended. Dalio should think really hard what he is going to do when the whole bubble bursts and it is about to. 

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Daniel Davis And Larry...

 ... had an excellent conversation about Israel and Hezbollah. You can read some at Larry's blog also. 

It is clear that it is indiscriminate, against civilians, tantrum with employment of almost everything Israel has. Here is a Russian retired general Pulikovsky (in Russian): "Reputational soap bubble of IDF have burst"(c). 

So, this is not former junior officer like me saying this, this is the guy with an experience of army level command and Academy of General Staff behind him. In other words, he knows what he is talking about. Here, it looks like Atlit special forces base of IDF has been hit and it burns, alright. Something heavy flew in from Hezbollah and Israelis admit a hit. 

So, who knows what it will evolve into, but we have to be patient. Larry is absolutely right when he states that the whole idea for both Israel and 404 is to somehow get the US involved, thinking that it will make some difference. That's not a strategy. It is a wishful thinking. Ah, yes, those proverbial reputational soap bubbles.

I Totally Get It...

 ... almost a desperation from Larry Wilkerson. To see your own country humiliate yourself--I totally get it. 


 

Collapse In Real Time...

 ... I reiterate my point--return remains of Red Army soldiers from Europe and rebury them in Russia. Same goes for monuments. Europe lost the right...  


 

Ugledar. Now.

A bit of demonstration, why now it is mostly a hunt, a safari, for Russian Army. 

Demolishing of Motor Sich today, also indicates Russia's intentions--no serious industry will ever exist in 404.
 

I speak about at least some 404 experts beginning to face reality in my video, which should be up soon.

Monday, September 23, 2024

Some Visual Evidence...

 ... of Pokrovsk being empty. Some 404 "patriot", for some reason not on mova but on Russian, laments the fate of the city, which, of course, will be rebuilt and much improved by Russians, while not getting a simple fact--he and his ilk didn't count on consequences. You don't need to know Russian to recognize that Pokrovsk's fate is sealed, as is that of Ugledar. 

Average khohol is uneducated and brainwashed and now they squeal when they experience a very measured military power applied to their failed state. They thought that they can kill women and children of Donbas with impunity. They were wrong, as were their masters in NATO. 

Meanwhile, something is rotten in the state of Denmark. What do you expect from this chihuahua? 

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has claimed that NATO should take a no-holds-barred policy towards the Ukraine conflict and allow Kiev fire long range missiles deep into Russia. Public discussion on how far NATO countries should go to defeat Russia only plays into Moscow’s hands, she argued. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is set to meet US President Joe Biden this week to present his “victory plan.” Kiev is lobbying Washington to permit long-range strikes using donated Western weapons, deep inside Russia, a move that Russian President Vladimir Putin has said would amount to an act of war by the US-led military bloc. Frederiksen, a staunch supporter of Kiev, told Bloomberg TV that such permission should be granted regardless of how Moscow might react. “The most important red line has been crossed already. And that was when the Russians entered Ukraine,” she told the channel on Friday. “So I will not accept this premise, and I will never allow anyone from Russia to decide what is the right thing to do in NATO, in Europe or in Ukraine.”

I am absolutely positive that mighty Danish army and navy should be first to try and then see what happens.

Sunday, September 22, 2024

On A Lighter Note.

Especially after war and healthcare "news". Here is the best of humanity. Absolutely incredible and marvelous. Creating, not destroying. Artistry of the best kind. 



I Couldn't Miss It.

And here is the question--don't they study Anatomy in medical schools? How the fuck can you not know the difference between spleen and liver?  Obviously, medical malpractice is nothing new all around the globe--it is true for the US, Canada, Russia, Germany, China and shit, but this... 

A Florida surgeon mistakenly removed a man’s liver instead of his spleen, causing him to die on the operating table, a lawyer for the man’s widow alleges. William Bryan, 70, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, underwent surgery on Aug. 21, at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast hospital in Miramar, Florida, because of spleen abnormalities, according to a statement from the personal injury firm Zarzaur Law, based in Pensacola, Florida. The Walton County Sheriff's Office, in coordination with other authorities, said in a statement to NBC News on Wednesday it is investigating Bryan's death. William Bryan and his wife, Beverly Bryan, were in the Sunshine State visiting their rental property when he began experiencing “left-sided flank pain,” Beverly Bryan's attorneys said. He was admitted to the hospital for further evaluation, and although the Bryans were reluctant to have surgery in Florida, they were persuaded by Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, a general surgeon, and Dr. Christopher Bacani, the hospital’s chief medical officer, that he could experience serious complications if he left the hospital’s care.

Both Shaknovsky and Bacani appeared to be involved in discussions, according to records, for how to proceed with Bryan’s medical treatment, Beverly Bryan's lawyer, Joe Zarzaur, said in the statement. Shaknovsky performed a hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy on William Bryan, Zarzaur said, which had deadly consequences. “Dr. Shaknovsky removed Mr. Bryan’s liver and, in so doing, transected the major vasculature supplying the liver, causing immediate and catastrophic blood loss resulting in death,” the statement said. “The surgeon proceeded with labeling the removed liver specimen as a 'spleen,' and it wasn’t until following the death that it was identified that the organ removed was actually Mr. Bryan’s liver, as opposed to the spleen.'”

But if this horror wasn't enough, get a load of this. This is more than just malpractice, this is down right coercion and crime. Poor girl...

Sue mother fuckers into oblivion.

Russians Per Ben Hodges...

Correction on Milley--he didn't graduate USMA at West Point, he has "degree" in... politics from whatever Ivy League degree mill. Ben Hodges, however, did and look at him, Good Lord. The desperation and butthurt fest in Western MSM. It is really bad--I can feel their pain. It will get worse, much much worse for them. 


 

Ania Talks About The List...

 ... of countries for whose citizens Russia opens her doors. 

Now, the list is available now. 

Глава правительства РФ Михаил Мишустин утвердил список стран, «реализующих политику, навязывающую деструктивные неолиберальные идеологические установки, противоречащие традиционным российским духовно-нравственным ценностям». Этот список был составлен в соответствии с подписанным президентом Владимиром Путиным 19 августа указом, который позволяет иностранцам, не согласным с навязываемыми в западных государствах «либеральными ценностями», временно проживать в России без учета квоты и документов о знании русского языка и истории нашей страны.

Таким образом создан механизм, позволяющий гражданам стран «свободного мира» освободиться от принуждения к «новой морали», в которой главная роль отводится сексуальным меньшинствам и воинственному безбожию, и найти убежище в России. МИД РФ будет через российские диппредставительства выдавать этим гражданам однократную визу на три месяца, после чего он сможет запросить ВНЖ.

Translation: The head of the Russian government, Mikhail Mishustin, approved a list of countries “implementing policies that impose destructive neoliberal ideological attitudes that contradict traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.” This list was compiled in accordance with the decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on August 19, which allows foreigners who do not agree with the “liberal values” imposed in Western countries to temporarily reside in Russia without taking into account the quota and documents on knowledge of the Russian language and history of our country. Thus, a mechanism has been created that allows citizens of the “free world” countries to free themselves from the coercion of the “new morality,” in which the main role is given to sexual minorities and militant atheism, and to find refuge in Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry will issue these citizens a single-entry visa for three months through Russian diplomatic missions, after which they will be able to request a residence permit.

Guess what country leads in terms of applications? Correct, Germany. No, not Russian Germans--they used to have Russian citizenship, so for them it was merely a return. No, we are talking native Germans. The list itself is below the article in KP. The whole combined West with the exception of Hungary and Slovakia is there.

Saturday, September 21, 2024

It Is More Than That...

Larry wrote a good size and good piece on Daniel Davis interviewing Ben Hodges. Enough to read that Ben Hodges calls Russians "animals" to understand that this general suffers with debilitating case of both exceptionalism having a cognitive fight with a severe complex of inferiority, because Hodges wouldn't be able to pass exams into Russian Academy of General Staff, where his combat record would be laughed at. Not openly, of course. But here is one point (correct one) Larry makes:   

But there is more to it than just that. I wrote about it before, but it becomes clear that most US top brass has no understanding of the modern air defense. It is not surprising for the military force which is being shaped by largely confabulated US military history and never conducting SEAD operations against REAL modern air defense. Here is Yuri Selivanov noting a few days ago, what I wrote four books about:

Надо только быть немножко в курсе, из чего состоит так называемая «военно-воздушная слава США». А состоит она из таких специфических «подвигов», которые полностью  объясняют  все нынешние неурядицы с подготовкой украинских пилотов на Ф-16. Дело в том, что ВВС США, а заодно и всех остальных натовских стран все свои предыдущие войны, конца 20-го – начала 21-го веков, вели в настолько сказочно-комфортных условиях, что они могли там летать даже на метлах, причем с хорошими шансами выполнить боевую задачу.  Все те страны, которые они намечали в качестве объектов для своих бомбардировок в последние тридцать лет, были очень разными. Но в одном все как на одно лицо.У всех этих стран либо вообще не было никакой противовоздушной обороны, либо даже она была, но в таком количественном и качественном  состоянии, что её хватало очень  ненадолго.  А дальше, после подавления этой почти символической ПВО, начиналось форменное избиение младенцев. Так было дважды в Ираке, однажды в Югославии,  и, наконец, в  самом беззащитном Афганистане.В последнем случае ПВО отсутствовала от слова совсем, что, во-первых, позволило бомбить эту страну абсолютно безнаказанно. А во-вторых, отправить туда для проверки боевых качеств новейшие палубные ударные истребители Ф-35Б.

Translation: You just need to be a little bit aware of what the so-called "US air force glory" consists of. And it consists of such specific "feats" that completely explain all the current troubles with the training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16. The fact is that the US Air Force, as well as all other NATO countries, fought all their previous wars at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries in such fabulously comfortable conditions that they could even fly there on brooms, and with a good chance of completing a combat mission. All those countries that they designated as targets for their bombing in the last thirty years were very different. But in one thing they all look the same. All these countries either did not have any air defense at all, or even had it, but in such a quantitative and qualitative state that it was enough for a very short time. And then, after the suppression of this almost symbolic air defense, a real massacre of the innocents began. This happened twice in Iraq, once in Yugoslavia, and finally in the most defenseless Afghanistan. In the latter case, there was absolutely no air defense, which, firstly, allowed bombing this country with absolute impunity. And secondly, sending the newest F-35B carrier-based strike fighters there to test their combat capabilities.

The problem with the US CAS (Close Air Support) on the modern battlefield of the 21st century is that it is not survivable against immediate frontline distributed AD based on a staggering plethora of advanced and networked hardware such as S1 Pantsir, Tor M2, Buk-M2-3 and AD artillery systems such as Tunguska et al. It will also be severely jammed and denied accurate approach in the absence of GPS. The whole idea that the USAF will be defeated even before it even takes off and then defeated before completion of the mission doesn't sit well with US generals whose combat record even against supremely inferior enemy is dismal. This is not an exaggeration, it is  hard cold reality and that is what drives these sore losers like Hodges into the arms of sheer delusion. Then, let it be no surprise in observing Ben Hodges and his "colleagues" such as Keane, Petraeus and others resorting to the name calling and offering military "advice" which no responsible competent military leader would ever give, especially when having no clue about Russia and her historic warfare experience which dwarfs that of the United States. USMA at West Point used to be a decent engineering school. Not anymore...

Friday, September 20, 2024

Oh, Boy...

 ...it is being defined. 

МОСКВА, 20 сентября. /ТАСС/. Премьер-министр России Михаил Мишустин утвердил список стран, навязывающих деструктивные установки, противоречащие российским духовно-нравственным ценностям. Соответствующий документ опубликован. В перечень вошли 47 стран и территорий, которые "реализуют политику, навязывающую деструктивные неолиберальные идеологические установки, противоречащие традиционным российским духовно-нравственным ценностям". В том числе в него включены Соединенные Штаты Америки, Великобритания, Германия, Франция, Япония и другие государства. Из стран ЕС нет Словакии и Венгрии, кроме того, из стран НАТО нет Турции. Как сообщил источник ТАСС, знакомый с подготовкой документа, перечень утвержден в соответствии с указом президента об оказании гуманитарной поддержки иностранцам, разделяющим традиционные духовно-нравственные ценности.

Translation: MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has approved a list of countries that impose destructive attitudes that contradict Russian spiritual and moral values. The corresponding document has been published. The list includes 47 countries and territories that "implement policies that impose destructive neoliberal ideological attitudes that contradict traditional Russian spiritual and moral values." It includes the United States of America, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan and other countries. Slovakia and Hungary are not included in the EU, and Turkey is not included in the NATO countries. According to a TASS source familiar with the preparation of the document, the list was approved in accordance with the presidential decree on providing humanitarian support to foreigners who share traditional spiritual and moral values.

So, there you go... 

Beauty Will Save The World(c) Dostoevsky...

It is impossible to cancel... Light up my lighter and go pour myself a shot of Jack. It has been a tense week. 


 

Kindergarten Lies.

How does Milley live with himself? To self-medicate he invents childish lies... On NCOs and military education.


 

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Tactics, By NATO...

 ... the amount of evidence by now is overwhelming. 

КУРСК, 20 сен - РИА Новости. В первые дни нападения ВСУ на Курскую область было убито много мирных жителей, особенно усердствовали наемники, в частности из Франции, Грузии и Польши, расправлявшиеся с людьми "как с тараканами", рассказал РИА Новости Житель Суджи Владимир Мальцев. "Много убило людей, когда мы выезжали. Знакомых убили", — сказал собеседник. По его словам, люди, приехавшие в пункт временного размещения в Курске, рассказывали, что "убили еще очень много женщин, насиловали, издевались". Сами украинцы, как говорят очевидцы, предупреждали жителей, что, если те не уедут, "придут наемники, они никого не оставят".
Translation: KURSK, 20 Sep - RIA Novosti. In the first days of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on Kursk Oblast, many civilians were killed, especially zealous were mercenaries, in particular from France, Georgia and Poland, who dealt with people "like cockroaches," Vladimir Maltsev, a resident of Sudzha, told RIA Novosti. "Many people were killed when we were leaving. They killed acquaintances," the source said. According to him, people who arrived at the temporary accommodation point in Kursk said that "many more women were killed, raped, and abused." The Ukrainians themselves, according to eyewitnesses, warned residents that if they did not leave, "mercenaries would come, they would leave no one behind."

This is the "civilization" and "honor" combined West brings to people. I am absolutely not surprised with French--with their "glorious" war record from 1940 through Vietnam, they substitute fighting ability with extracurricular activities such as killing, raping and robbing civilians. 

What do you expect from a nation which elects this... Exactly. De Gaulle's grandson is becoming Russia's citizen and I can only feel his pain...

They Still Live...

 ... in WW II and think about bombs. It is a sign of military-technological impotence.


Wednesday, September 18, 2024

This Is Brussels...

 ... they demonstrate against looming shutting down of Audi automotive plant. Audi lost competitiveness due to high energy prices.  

They are too little, too late. A maximum their demonstration can accomplish is to postpone inevitable for a little while longer, and even that is not guaranteed. One cannot fight inexorable economic laws of supply and demand and costs. This is just the start for EU nations, it will increasingly fast get worse, much worse. If you think it is a local phenomenon... 

The decline of the traditional German brewing industry shows no signs of slowing down. Recently, several breweries have filed for bankruptcy or closed permanently, resulting in the loss of centuries-old brewing traditions.  The latest victims are the Gambrinus Brewery in Weiden, Upper Palatinate, and the Gesellschaftsbrauerei Viechtach, about 100 km southeast. Both are located in the Bavarian border region with the Czech Republic, an area often described as structurally weak. The nearly 100-year-old Gambrinus Brewery filed for insolvency on Friday at the Weiden District Court due to unpaid bills and outstanding wages. The brewery's decline is attributed to rising costs, pandemic-related sales losses, and internal issues, with current production at around 15,000 hl, half its peak output. On Thursday, it was announced that the insolvent Gesellschaftsbrauerei Viechtach would close permanently after nearly 500 years, ceasing production. Despite intensive negotiations, no investors were willing to continue operations. Remaining employees have been let go, and the Viechtacher brand will continue to be produced at the nearby Hofmark Brewery in Loifling, located in the Cham district of the Upper Palatinate.

One of the "external" factors identified is the decline of Germans' beer consumption. Good beer is a fairly expensive habit and Germany's standard of living is being driven towards meeting third world standards extremely fast. It is not there yet, but Europe's fate is sealed no matter what it does. People may say that I am gloating, I am not--I do have heart and it aches sometimes, but without divulging the name and (very high) position of one of my German acquaintances, in his words--until Europe goes hungry, nothing will change. The process is underway and soon passionate and, to a large extent (not completely), freeloading immigration in EU propped up with massive influx of weapons from 404 may also say its word once social safety net tears apart, which is not the matter if IF but WHEN (very soon). National police forces No Go zones will extend greatly and will turn to self-governance, including through banditry and all other types of violence. We all pay for our sins, for Europe this time has arrived, the US is next.

Platoon. The Movie.

 Courtesy of Russia's Ministry of Defense. 

I doubt anyone survives this intact. RUK/ROK in action.
 

Of Course, They Don't...

 ... understand dimensions. Most of them are products of the US degree mills from Ivy League humanities and "government" programs which are primarily academic fraud. Ray says it well:

Neocons do not know war, including American generals who serve them. Plus, Karaganov is NOT a specialist in anything--he is merely a good ol' Moscow elite boy with "credentials" in... nothing and has about zero (in fact, negative) grasp of warfare. 

Now, per Western media being giddy about Toropets explosions. 

Couple of the buildings of the ABOVE ground storage detonated after one of the 404 UAVs fell (it was shot down) on one of the buildings. Most of the weapons and explosives are stored deep under ground and they haven't been affected.

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Larry On Pagers...

 ... for Hezbollah.  

At this point, we do not know if the explosion was caused by an overheated lithium battery or if the devices had all been modified with an explosive charge planted inside each one. Steve explores both possibilities in his article. I believe the explosion was the result of the pagers being modified with a small explosive charge. This much we know, Israeli intelligence penetrated the manufacturer of the devices and was able to either insert code into each that would trigger overheating or convinced the manufacturer — allegedly based in Taiwan — to produce lethal pagers. None of these pagers appeared to be on fire from an overheated battery. All I saw were explosions. This attack, while incredibly creative, also reflects desperation on the part of the Israelis. It is one thing to produce one phone or pager that explodes. That could be attributed to poor production quality or a targeted assassination with a rigged device. It would not immediately raise questions about the provenance, i.e., the manufacturer. At a minimum, the Lebanese killed and wounded by these devices will have grounds for a class action lawsuit against the producer.

I will not be surprised if Israelis have been able to penetrate Taiwanese manufacturer. Taiwan took a staunchly pro-Israeli stance, plus both have long-lasting military technological cooperation. In other words, Israelis may not have had a tough time "changing" pagers into small explosive devices. I agree with Larry, though, this will only stiffen Hezbollah's resolve and that means escalation.

Apti Alautdinov...

 ... explains some realities of this whole Kursk NATO FUBAR. 

Last figure I saw was 14, 200--a full blown US division with three BCT (Brigade Combat Teams) gone. I stress, Russians are extremely conservative in their VSU losses count. Now we have a cauldron forming, and Sumy and surroundings are without electricity and newly arriving reserves of VSU are being pulverized even before they reach the border. 

And then, there is a rather interesting article about fates of the United States by Russian thinker (he has a graduate degree in Physics, if anybody wonders) Timofei Sergeitsev with a shocking title: Russia Will Have To Take Away US Nuclear Weapons. One may debate merits of this piece, but Sergeitsev, paradoxically, makes an interesting case of WHY the US Armed Forces will not save the US, unlike it happened with Russia in 2000. Remarkably, very similar idea was floated by Colonel Larry Wilkerson (you can find this video of his on You Tube). 

Военные — те, кто воюет и умирает на поле боя, а не просто числится военнослужащим в мирное время — единственная каста, которая может править. Такова древняя традиция, но такова и современная ситуация, поскольку власть требует неограниченной ответственности, когда в залог отдается жизнь, а не уставный капитал. США — общество, где власть узурпировали торговцы. А они в принципе избегают ответственности, даже ограниченной, стремятся к перенесению максимума рисков, убытков и издержек на других. В СССР власть в ХХ веке присвоили священнослужители безбожной религии — веры в коммунизм. Этот перекос политической системы привел ее к разрушению. Перекос политической системы США также ведет их внутренний кризис к точке невозврата. Военное сообщество США развращено притоком внешних ресурсов, логикой грабежа. Строить государство — систему воспроизводства власти с опорой на внутренний, собственный ресурс — оно не готово. Два века торговое сообщество США покупало услуги собственных военных, фактически сделав из них наемников. Но на это внутреннее наемничество остается все меньше средств. А также наемники не имеют и не могут иметь политической квалификации.

Translation: The military — those who fight and die on the battlefield, and are not simply listed as military personnel in peacetime — are the only caste that can rule. This is an ancient tradition, but this is also the modern situation, since power requires unlimited responsibility, when life is pledged as collateral, not authorized capital. The United States is a society where traders have usurped power. And they, in principle, avoid responsibility, even limited, and strive to transfer the maximum risks, losses, and costs to others. In the USSR, power in the twentieth century was appropriated by the clergy of a godless religion — the faith in communism. This imbalance of the political system led to its destruction. The imbalance of the US political system is also leading its internal crisis to the point of no return. The US military community is corrupted by the influx of external resources, the logic of robbery. It is not ready to build a state — a system for reproducing power based on internal, its own resource. For two centuries, the US trading community bought the services of its own military, essentially turning them into mercenaries. But there are fewer and fewer resources left for this internal mercenary activity. And mercenaries do not have and cannot have political qualifications.

The fact that this piece was published by Ria is telling. I meanwhile simply beg--get me into this "what could have been" for a day. Let me marvel and rest.

I need a full-length movie about this world;)) Amazing.

Admiral Moiseev Speaks...

 ... about decision which has been made already at the highest political level, while this comical "comparison" of KM-SAM, which is a shorter range hybrid of S-350 and S-400 to Patriot reveals a gigantic depth of a complex of inferiority which was brought to the surface by the events of first Syria and now--SMO. Russia, looks like, foresees a complete breakdown of law and political system in the US. Realistically--we are within this process. Well, ukrainiazation of the United States is nearly complete. So, why spend five 3M22 Zircons when one can spend only one armed with a good yield warhead. What is remarkable, NATO has no answer to it...



Okean-24 Concludes...

 ... this coincides with Admiral Moiseev's revealing piece in Voennaya Mysl (Military Thought) of which I will be talking about in my new video which is coming up shortly. 

Very little doubt that Russia and China are getting ready for any contingency, especially against the background of a complete political breakdown in the US which is on the brink of a national calamity.

About Payload...

 ... yes, it is military and it is... several military satellites, as Ria reports (in Russian)

Highly likely, these are recon-targeting sats and it is a routine expansion of Russian ISR constellation. We will know more later depending on the orbits, but judging by the reports, these are LEO stas.They are already on station and on-line. Could they be also satellites-inspectors (a euphemism for killers)? Who knows.

Monday, September 16, 2024

OK, I Am Sure...

 ... this will have a positive effect on acoustic signature (and other physical fields) and maneuvering qualities of this newest SSN. 

The ceremony culminated a years-long process for commissioning the New Jersey, the third U.S. Navy ship named after the state of New Jersey, the most recent being the decorated battleship BB-62 which saw action during WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. New Jersey’s commanding officer Cmdr. Steve Halle called the event “a truly historic moment” during his speech, praising all the distinguished guests, shipbuilders, and supporting organizations before addressing his crew.

“To the crew, the plank owners, this ceremony… is about you. You operate the most complex platform on the planet and you continuously strive for excellence. I’m amazed and humbled at what we have accomplished. Our superior professionalism is enhanced by our crew integration and our diversity. We have exceeded expectations at every turn and overcome every obstacle set before us.”

Halle also spoke to the people of New Jersey stating “I know that the legacy we have inherited from the state of New Jersey and BB-62 will carry forward in our pursuit of greatness.”

Wow. Yes, she is a very diverse sub, if you know what I mean. But then again, what do I know--integration and diversity are strength, they say. 

The New Jersey is the 23rd Virginia-class submarine, but it is the first of its kind — designed from the keel up with specific modifications for gender integration. “The submarine community is a fully gender-integrated warfighting force,” said Vice Adm. Robert Gaucher, commander of Submarine Forces Atlantic. Modifications included obvious ones — more doors and washrooms to create separate sleeping and bathing areas — and some that are more subtle — lowering some overhead valves and making them easier to turn and installing steps in front of the triple-high bunk beds and stacked laundry machines. The design changes were made to accommodate the growing female force of submariners. In the past five years, the Navy has seen the number of officers and enlisted sailors in the submarine force who are women double and triple, respectively, Gaucher said.

OK!

Tactical Mistake...

As you can see yourself, to catch a Ukie draft-dodger (good for him, he will stay alive for a while longer), you must know how to run interference. But these guys from TTzK (Center for Registration and Formation of VSU)--they are amateurs. And, as a result--the prey escapes. 

They Are Obviously...

... mentally challenged people, operating on primitive instincts and constant, bordering on hysteria, emotional high. Here is the wife of Mr. Tim Walz. Remarkably, her maiden name is... Whipple. Here is her whipping the crowd into frenzy. 

I think it is her.

Garland Sent Me This Link...

 ... to would be Trump assassin Ryan Routh. Evidently the dude wrote a book. Through his writing you can immediately see a mentally unstable--thus easily manipulated by TPTB--person obsessed with 404.

As the Taliban is committing genocide and killing the majority of the Afghan population; we have 5900 Afghan soldiers ready to deploy to Ukraine and we have 10,000 of the Syrian free army(less 67 killed in the earthquake last week) that Ukraine and the US refuses to allow and coordinate them to go and fight in Ukraine. After spending five months in Ukraine I began to realize that it was impossible for Ukraine to win this war and that the world should not have grand thoughts that it is possible. I presume that I must be clear, that while on the current path Ukraine will not win, it is imperative for the world that they do win, and that is why this book is so important, for us all to recognize that losing is not an option and what we must do to win. I obviously did not write this to make any money, as that is totally unimportant; the extremely important issue is that we openly discuss daily the major issues that face Ukraine and what we each must try to do to fix them. This is a conflict of global importance and the outcome will affect us each and every one for the rest of the world.

He is a perfectly delusional man, who, when his recent "history" is considered, comes across as some "asset" of whatever the "agency" developed him. Now, the question--how did he know that DJT changed his plans and went to play golf? Good question, right? Meanwhile, the US is fast turning into the third world totalitarian nightmare.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Okean-2024 Snippet.

As you can see in this video--this is not your "polite" courtesy joint maneuvering. This is serious between Russian Pacific Fleet and PLAN--you can see PLAN's destroyer in the order (formation).

This particular element involves training of the short range AD of the formation of ships (uses Kinzhal--a navalized version of Tor) and then the launch of the Kh-35 anti-shipping missile--you can see why those are called sea-skimmers. In the formation you can see two Russian hypersonic (3M22 Zircon) weapons carriers--Marshal Shaposhnikov and pr. 20385 Corvette Gremyaschyi, which also carries a much more advanced and longer range Redut AD complex, a navalized version of now legendary S-350 Vityaz. In other words--what you see is just a small fragment of joint Russian-Chinese naval force developing interoperability for real naval combat. I wish I could see all elements. In video you can see PLAN's Type 052D destroyer--a rather impressive strike package with YJ-18 (a copy of Russian 3M54 Kalibr) and Type 054 Frigate.