Now About "Swedish" Case.

I mentioned it in my today's video. Yes, this is 100% confirmed info by people who command the Russian formation which did this. How do I know? Well, I know many things which sometimes are not for public disclosure until they are mentioned by "holders of information". So, on one operational axis Russians took this Swedish Commander (and equivalent of Lieutenant-Colonel) POW. He was guarded by one of the Baltic states security detail--easy-peasy for the level of Russian guys who disposed of them. So, this officer, staff officer for VSU (AFU) exhibited a level of tactical and operational "ability" which, for the lack of a better word, is not even rudimentary--it is fairy taleish. He really believed that if his formation attacked in a designated sector Russians were supposed to retreat, nay, run and that this guy's troops would reach objective no problem. Ooops, but for some unknown, incomprehensible reasons, not only Russians defended their objective, but, damn, they unloaded a firestorm and then, would you believe it, they counterattacked. This is not what they teach them in NATO's military academies. 

When I say that NATO officer corps is utterly unprepared for modern war, I mean it. Remarkably, you can sort of address this on a tactical level in a sense that you can teach them to maneuver and consider the opponent--and even that is useless under modern conditions. But the problem is both on tactical and operational level is that Russians outrange and outfire ANYTHING NATO can bring to bear. I am on record--Iraq War experience counts for nothing and, in fact, is a huge obstacle. This also explains a bunch of the American loser generals (like Ben Hodges) suffering form an acute case of butthurt and professional envy. It is now a confirmed fact--NATO doesn't understand the role of air defense in modern war. In their mind it was supposed to to be always this: 

When comparing our ability to find the enemy against a near-peer threat such as Russia (or an increasingly capable China), significant friendly capability disadvantages immediately become apparent and must be offset. FM 3-0 defines reconnaissance as “a mission undertaken to obtain, by visual observation or other detection methods, information about the activities and resources of an enemy or adversary, or to secure data concerning the meteorological, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area.”4 By this definition, we must look at every capability, across all domains, to understand the existing disparities in our ability to collect information against current threats. 

This middle segment "Conduct large-scale ground combat" disappears. Technically, the US could (not will) "find the enemy", but that's about it, the doctrinal pivot of the US Armed Forces of bringing the long-range fires to bear disappears also. No, the US still has the lead in terms of satellite-based ISR (Russia is catching up), per pure signal recon--well, that's complicated. Russians jam better than anyone in the world and then there is this teeny-weeny detail of pre-positioning. So, you see-this Swedish commander was thinking that he would be facing those peasant Ivans with pitch-forks and hiding behind piles of Russian corpses and running away at the first glance of NATO equipment guided to battle with NATO (his) tactical and operational brilliance. But, but ... well, you know the story now. Doctrinal catastrophe is not visible to the average Joe, but it is the most profound catastrophe NATO faces when they have to understand how amateurish and militarily impotent they are. The cognitive dissonance is a bitch. 

So, somebody in the US Army (not Ben Hodges let alone Kellog) was thinking in the right direction in 2019. 

Russian integrated air defense systems (IADS) make sustained air superiority questionable, especially at the beginning of operations when geographical proximity to positioned Russian forces enables their deliberate emplacement. With our current systems, we will only be able to create temporary windows of superiority with great effort. The Russians employ IADS at every tactical level, from battalion to division, with a focus on finding and destroying U.S. fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. They are also steadily working toward overmatch in the field of counterfire radar, fielding a variety of systems across the depths of their formations and with varying levels of capability. This might enable the Russian fires complex to “out attrite” our own counterfire capabilities, leaving them with the only systems on the battlefield. 

Too bad, they didn't recognize the scale of the NATO tactical and operational rut which prevents the most important thing--internalization of the issue--guiding you to correct decisions. They wanted to try, they did. Somebody tell Trump--the US Army didn't produce a general the scale of Erich von Manstein or Georgi Zhukov, or Konstantin Rokossovsky in the last 80 years. Russia did, and that's what makes the world of difference. 

Why WSJ Laments.

As Houthis' attack has shown, US AD/ABM systems simply do not work. Visuals for RUK/ROK in action. Trump's war now. 

Some Visuals ...

 ... from SMO. 

Meanwhile RT delivers a proper headline: Western Memory of WWII is basically fan fiction. Well, it is. No matter my professional respect for Colonel Macgregor, but he is an Exhibit A of having very little understanding of Eastern Front and the Soviet Union. In fact, he continues to deliver a primitive "anti-Soviet" propaganda, much of which is nothing but utter BS which is completely detached from the realities of the Red Army's and USSR's war and much of which is rooted (literally) in Goebbelsonean propaganda found in copious amounts in Solzhenitsyn and neocon writings. 

"Azov" Nazis ...

 ... march in London. Last time I checked UK (then GB) was a part of anti-Hitler Coalition together with USSR and USA. Not anymore. 

First, Canada, now--this. And I omit here even the pathetic level of marching by these officially British outlets which pass for Armed Forces in UK. So, UK now marches with heirs of Hitler. 

This Is One Of The Most ...

 ... incredible things I've seen of animals. Well, cannot even say it is an animal ... It also resonated with me because about a month ago I drove my son's friend, a veteran of the US Army, who developed epilepsy (I guess there is a connection between PTSD and other brain shit) and he was flying out of Seattle to get his service dog. But this--this is another level, you literally have a relative who takes care of you. Dogs are special. 

This Is For "Concerned Citizens" And ...

 ... Igor Girkin's cult of military morons, who fucked my brain for decade with this 2014 BS based only on a single phrase about "mistake" by Vladimir Putin a few years back based solely on his emotional human reaction. Here is he verbatim today:  

МОСКВА, 4 мая — РИА Новости. Россия не могла приступить к резким решениям по Украине, не проведя работу в сфере безопасности, такое заявления президент Владимир Путин сделал в документальном фильме Саиды Медведевой и Павла Зарубина "Россия. Кремль. Путин. 25 лет" на телеканале "Россия 1". "Не могли приступить к каким-то резким движениям, не проведя соответствующую работу в сфере безопасности, в сфере строительства вооруженных сил и в сфере экономики и финансов", — сказал глава государства. Он также отметил, что Россия не начала спецоперацию раньше, поскольку стремилась к мирному урегулированию ситуации в Донбассе. Москва, по словам Путина, рассчитывала на соблюдение Минских соглашений всеми сторонами. "Но, как выяснилось, нас просто надули. <...> Взяли просто паузу под предлогом необходимости соблюдения Минских соглашений для того, чтобы перевооружить Украину и подготовить к войне с Россией", — подчеркнул президент.

Translation: MOSCOW, May 4 — RIA Novosti. Russia could not proceed with any drastic decisions on Ukraine without carrying out work in the security sphere, President Vladimir Putin made such statements in the documentary film by Saida Medvedeva and Pavel Zarubin "Russia. The Kremlin. Putin. 25 Years" on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. "We could not proceed with any drastic moves without carrying out the corresponding work in the security sphere, in the sphere of building the armed forces and in the sphere of economy and finance," the head of state said. He also noted that Russia did not begin the special operation earlier, since it sought a peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbass. Moscow, according to Putin, counted on compliance with the Minsk agreements by all parties. "But, as it turned out, we were simply deceived. <...> They simply took a pause under the pretext of the need to comply with the Minsk agreements in order to rearm Ukraine and prepare for war with Russia," the president emphasized.

Any of these "strategerists" wants to challenge what has been stated non-stop about 2014, and why Girkin (aka Strelkov) is nothing more than fucking (and militarily illiterate) creep who wanted to start bloodshed in Donbass in 2014 to get Russian involved directly and emerge as "savior". That is why Putin literally begged not to hold referendum in 2014. Yes, unlike internet "strategerists", Vladimir Putin is advised by the best people in business ranging from military to intel, to economy to foreign affairs. So, the issue of COFM (Correlation of Forces and Means) as the first derivative of REAL economy moves the world. Those who think that assessments done on emotions and wants can substitute a real long-term strategic planning--take a look at the US today. To those who want to correct Vladimir Putin--Kremlin's contacts are at this link, write, show them those stupid people in Moscow how one needs to fight.

For Those Who Still Can Not Grasp ...

 ... the scale of the event. 80th is more than just Victory Day, it is pinning Europe (original West) down where it belongs--as the generator of aggression and genocide in the 20th Century. When I say that SMO is the final salvos of WW II I mean it. What is happening in Moscow today is formalization of the historic fact of civilization shifting to the East. The excitement, the emotion can be seen here in Myanmar (Burma) company singing Katyusha, in Russian no less, before entering the Red Square for rehearsal. The atmosphere is electric ...

I am sure Kiev was warned, including through the statement of Dmitri Medvedev, that if any attempt will be made on Parade, Kiev will cease to exist, including all political top of 404 and scumbags from London who prop this neo-Nazi regime up. Per General Kartapolov, Oreshnik should be on the Parade. We'll see soon enough. 

May 9th Approaching ...

 ... and rehearsals continue. Chinese Armed Forces Honor Guards are met as rock stars in Moscow by Chinese tourists and Russian bystanders. 

Vietnamese, fresh from celebrating their very own 50th Anniversary of Victory over the US, also march. 

Then ...

But Mongols, they occupy a very special place in Russian hearts, a small but heroic nation whose contribution to the Red Army and USSR was immense, ranging from formations who fought at the front, to meat, to horses, to warm clothing (tulups) for the Red Army--they proudly share the glory of Victory. Deservedly so. And now a bitter part ... the US Army could have marched on the Red Square, deservedly so, but Washington chose a different path. 

This Morning ...

 ... Army Group "Dnepr" of Russian Armed Forces, using drones, dropped thousands of booklets over Kherson. 

Booklets, which look like this: 

Give clear instructions to residents of Kherson on how to behave themselves when encountering Russian soldiers. I wonder why all this. Hm, does it mean that Washington Capitals have a shot at Stanley Cup this year? Or maybe it is because Betelgeuse is about to go supernova? Yes, that's it. It is because of Betelgeuse. Whew, it took a couple of hours of hard analytical work to figure this out. 

Larry Already Rebuked ...

 ... Trump's "view" on history. 

Just when you think that Donald Trump has made the stupidest comment on social media — one completely divorced from reality — he decides to plumb greater depths of imbecility by demonstrating a profound ignorance of history. His Truth Social posting on World War II (see above) is so ridiculously wrong that I had to double check the date of the post to make sure this was not a belated April Fool’s prank.

What Trump doesn't understand is that he insulted Russian people where every family was touched by war (mine included) and made an enormous sacrifice. Dmitry Medvedev called it pompous nonsense. It is. I speak about this in my video. 

FDR and Churchill spin in their graves. 

Why?

I cannot wrap my brain around it. It is not even a joke; it is a self-satire. It is also a humiliation, not just for the office of President but for the country. 

Talk about lack of any class. Can you imagine Vladimir Putin having his own social network and then playing with neural network to dress himself as a Czar? Correct, he is too busy being a statesman. 

Open Thread.

 Go at it. 

Yes, Of Course.

 All documentaries such as Saving Private Ryan, Patton or A Bridge Too Far, among many other courses DJT took on strategy and military history, confirm this.  

On May 1, US President Donald Trump said that the United States allegedly made the greatest contribution to victory in World War II. "Many of our allies celebrate May 8 as Victory Day, but we have done more to win than any other country," he wrote on his Truth Social network. In connection with this statement, Trump declared May 8 Victory Day, and November 11 Victory Day in the First World War. According to the head of state, it was the United States that won both wars. And the fact that "her victories" are not celebrated in the country, Trump explained the lack of leaders who know how to do this.

Of course, who can forget the Siege of Chicago and General Patton's brilliant victory over Manstein and Model at the gates of Boston. In the end, it was this thing--here is a historical photo. 

This is exactly how it happened. 

Rachel and Yours Truly.

 Today, about our world. 

About Some Tactical Realities.

And what really matters in SMO. Intro to strongpoints, and artillery and impact of MLRS in real, not media, war. 

LOL)) Yes, LOL!

 Freakshow continues)))

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz, whom he is nominating for United Nations ambassador. Trump announced the moves shortly after news broke that Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong were departing the administration just weeks after it was revealed that Waltz added a journalist to a Signal chat being used to discuss military plans.

Nebenzya will make a complete idiot out of this guy in UN publicly. DJT, of course, couldn't foresee that the neocon trash he imported into his admin will sabotage him/s. And while everyone discusses the "mineral deal" which has no meaning for reality on the ground, Nikolai Patrushev makes an important comment on upcoming BaltOps 25:

НАТО на учениях вблизи российских границ отрабатывает сценарии с захватом Калининградской области и превентивными ударами по ядерным арсеналам. Об этом в интервью ТАСС заявил помощник президента РФ, глава Морской коллегии Николай Патрушев. По его словам, Североатлантический альянс второй год проводит самые масштабные за последние десятилетия учения, «на которых отрабатывает сценарии наступательных действий на большой протяженности — от Вильнюса до Одессы, захвата Калининградской области, блокирования судоходства на Балтике и в Черном море, превентивных ударов по местам постоянного базирования российских сил ядерного сдерживания».

Translation: NATO is practicing scenarios involving the seizure of the Kaliningrad region and preemptive strikes on nuclear arsenals during exercises near the Russian border. This was stated in an interview with TASS by the Russian presidential aide and head of the Naval Collegium Nikolai Patrushev. According to him, the North Atlantic Alliance is holding the largest exercises in recent decades for the second year, "in which it is practicing scenarios of offensive actions over a large area - from Vilnius to Odessa, the seizure of the Kaliningrad region, blocking shipping in the Baltic and Black Seas, and preemptive strikes on the permanent bases of Russian nuclear deterrent forces."

While I am on record for decades now that it is conventional power which matters in military affairs--the competition NATO has lost--yesterday Ania asked me a pointed question: how many nukes it will take to "calm" NATO down. It goes without saying that Russia can sink every NATO fleet in Baltic conventionally, but it must be understood--any real move on Kaliningrad means immediate nuclear response, including at NATO's military political top. Conventionally, NATO (US included) is a paper tiger, but considering a complete insanity of European political "elites", turning some of the European and UK sites into parking lot could become necessary. We, of course, can discuss after that the algorithm of escalation (or de-escalation) after initial "lesson", but Russia can go with her own version of the Ledeen Doctrine: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” Rephrase it in accordance with present situation from Russian point of view and the list of candidates pops up immediately. I'll give you a hint--the US will do nothing.

Leopold the Cat was appealing to his adversary mice non-stop. Guys, let's live like friends. But in the end, he had to take Ozverin pills to calm things down.

If It Is a Tank ...

 ... then I am an alien from planet Zoltar. 

US Marines unveil new tanks that swim and strike with 30mm cannon precision.  The ACV-30 primary armament is a Kongsberg MCT-30 remote turret system armed with the Northrop Grumman Mk44 Bushmaster II 30mm chain gun.

Here it is: 

Pardon my French, but this is no fucking tank. It is essentially an IFV or MFV (M for marines) if anyone is confused. 

Armored Coping.

Our friend Thermobaric pointed out to an excellent (excellent being a euphemism for exposing coping mechanisms among NATO forces) piece in 1945 about some Abrams X Tank which doesn't exists and will not exist. The title of the piece is Russia Is Freaked: Why the Army's Monstrous AbramsX Looks Unbeatable. The title immediately betrays the author's intent which has nothing to do with a professional review of actual weapon systems' design and integration and tactical and operational applications (and ramifications) but has everything to do with ... unbearable butthurt and professional envy which cannot be contained. The author is:

Dr. James Jay Carafano is a leading expert in national security and foreign policy affairs. Carafano previously served as the Vice President of Heritage Foundation’s Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy and served in the US Army for 25 years.  He is an accomplished historian and teacher as well as a prolific writer and researcher. 

Immediate Red Flag here is Heritage Foundation itself--a fraudulent pseudo-academic and pseudo-conservative "think-tank", whose warfare "expertise" is shaped, as it is true for the most US institutes dealing with war by fairy tales from Wehrmacht and SS, who settled in the West, as of lately by Kiev regime's propaganda. Generally, most US credentials in "strategy", "national security" et al when it comes to modern warfare and Russia are nothing more than diplomas issued by degree mills in "media" and similar "soft" degrees which require no serious STEM and military science background which is critical for grasping high tactical and operational level of warfare. 

I don't know in what capacity James Carafano served in the US Army, but it is obvious that the writing of such profundity must invoke a number of questions about his qualifications as an officer. 

Why AbramsX Could Be An Amazing Tank: Weapons of armed conflict are subject to different rules of obsolescence than other technologies. That is why decades-long predictions of the end of armor’s utility have passed out of favor while these metal monsters still prowl the battlefield. The US Army’s intent to develop a new generation of the long-serving heavy combat Abrams tanks makes sense if America plans to continue to field effective armed land power in the decades ahead.

First things first: 

1. How does Mr. Carafano know that Russians are "freaked". Does Mr. Carafano have good level professional contacts and knows military-technological culture of the Russian Armed Forces? I can give you the answer immediately--he doesn't have, and he doesn't know. Russians are "freaked" by the US armor, alright. Freaked from recognizing and demonstrating its sheer inferiority to Russian even older armor, such as first versions of T-72s, in one-on-one scenarios, not to speak of actual armor operations on the modern battlefield where ALL of NATO's tanks proved dismal and not designed for the operations against peer (or better than peer). Abrams proved itself to be a very bad tank, no matter how much effort was put into covering up its dismal performance on the modern battlefield. 

If Mr. Carafano thinks that he can do that against such an Army as Russian one:

Even on tactical level--I have a bridge to sell him, together with those people who "taught" him in his "national security studies", because it ain't happening on the modern battlefield in which Russia dominates and will dominate any NATO force in RUK/ROK, the best tanks and anti-tank weapons and VKS which can close the sky over the theater of operations, while I have a shitload of popcorn ready to listen to how Mr. Carafano and his buddies from Heritage and this 1945 outlet will explain to me how their assembly areas will look like even in the operational rear. 

2. The other takeaway is the term "could". Right! At least Brando's Terry Malloy was a real human:

Carafano talks here about something which doesn't exist and will not exist because I already can state what future NATO tanks lack and WILL want--yes, my friends, autoloader. Yes, this thingy which when all other capabilities such as armor and netcentricity with optronics match, makes all the difference, especially in intense tank combat. New US MBT if it ever materializes COULD be worth its weight in gold and that means that most likely it will not go beyond prototype of ... something resembling tank. 

3. But lastly--the key point is that the US Army has NO access to priceless data on the performance--no, not Abramses, that they do have--but of Russian armor in those most important tactical and technical aspects which are hidden from the media and constitute what really matters in battle and armor operations. How about statistics on targeting and target selection within tank platoon or company. How about performance of the ballistic computers, about optronics et al. Without it, you will not be able to understand how the modern armor force is done, and the US doesn't have this data. But the problem is deeper--Russians fight as a system, with the General Staff controlling everything from doctrinal development to military industry to operational control and it is the capability Pentagon simply is incapable of matching. That is why statements like these:

the multidimensional capabilities the US armed forces will field in the future will likely allow the Americans to deploy an extremely capable and effective armor force.

Can invoke nothing but an ironic smile and a warranted question, against who do the US Armed Forces want to fight? If it is Russia, my only advice is to cope harder and study real operations instead of BS pulled out of the ass about Russians being "freaked". 

Nima and Yours Truly ...

 ... at 11-30 PDT. It is a busy day. 

Ania and Me ...

 ... live in 50 minutes. 

Excellent Piece On Russian-Polish Relations.

 By our friend Mike Krupa and Marcin Skalski. 

The elites of the Third Polish Republic have proven incapable of recognizing the key changes that are bringing concepts such as the concert of powers, power projection, or spheres of influence back into favor. Their intellectual and mental horizon extends no further than anchoring Poland within the institutions of the collective West, while contenting themselves with their own political and intellectual dependence. In the context of Polish-Russian relations, our ruling elites and leading commentators have deliberately reduced Poland’s sovereignty to serving the interests of the “eastern flank” of an imagined republic of the collective West. This ineptitude is particularly exposed now, as Donald Trump shows no intention of heeding various incantations, such as those about the inviolability of borders in Europe. Meanwhile, on the banks of the Vistula, geopolitical reflection is replaced by crude slogans, including in matters concerning relations with Russia. From Warsaw’s perspective, relations with Moscow require a thorough revision — not only to reconcile with reality but, above all, to redefine Poland’s national interest anew. The current elite of the Third Republic, which has sufficiently discredited itself with its attitudes, including in the context of the Ukrainian war, will not undertake this task. 

Follow the link to read in full. 

Re: Iberian Blackout.

 Evidently ...

 "We just wanted to change the lightbulb in the garage"))

Slaughtering Continues, However.

 And Russia is not budging. 

Colonel, however, slightly misinterprets Red Army's movements because it was the other way around, as was settled in Tehran in 1943, that the Red Army will launch a major offensive operation in order to relieve Allies in Normandy. The Red Army did, and it became known as Operation Bagration. And, strangely enough, it created the sense of dismay and unease in Allied camp. But the main thrust of Colonel's thought is correct. 

The Volgograd Airport ...

... will officially be renamed Airport Stalingrad. Putin will sign executive order soon. 

Colonel Davis and Yours Truly.

Live in about 50 minutes. 

Being A Political Commentator ...

 ... for 30 minutes straight. Pay attention to Kellogg's "assessment" of SMO from 3 years ago--mind you, this guy commanded NATO's Special Operations. He obviously has no clue about warfare, which automatically qualifies him for ... Trump's "special envoy for 404". Pardon my French, but this all is a fucking circus in the West. Embarrassing. 

Not An Exaggeration.

This is literally Boeing and Airbus' worst nightmare, which they did all in their power to avert but failed. 

No aircraft in history has been subjected to so many sanctions and outright sabotage. But here it is--fully Russian MC-21. Everything, from engines, to APU, to composites and state-of-the-art wing, to cabin and advanced avionics, to other systems--all made in Russia. That makes this state-of-the-art aircraft impervious to any sanctions from the West and it makes it a direct (no, not COMAC-919) and tough competitor to Boeing and Airbus aircraft (B-737 and A-320,321) in the most lucrative segment--single isle, narrow body medium range commercial aircraft. It is a historic event. 

My Two Interviews.

We've got together with Larry first. 

And yesterday, Glenn Diesen and me also tried to make sense of all that:

Larry Continues To Hit The Nail(s) ...

 ... on the head, especially as far as Trump's "Biden's war" mythology is concerned.

Donald Trump is fond of blaming Barack Obama and Joe Biden for the debacle in Ukraine, but he is wrong. A major share of the blame also lies with Donald Trump because he oversaw the dramatic growth of the Ukrainian military during his first term and, to this day, brags about supplying Ukraine with Javelin missiles. I am no fan of Barack Obama… in fact, I’ve been a staunch critic, but the data on the growth of the Ukrainian military during Trump’s first term is irrefutable. Let’s start with examining the size of Ukraine’s army in December 2016. This was at the last month of Obama’s time as President.

And this examining provides compelling evidence that this war is, in fact, Trump's war. Did everyone suddenly forget Trump priding himself on being the most anti-Russian President? Read the whole thing at Larry's blog, but Trump is not an innocent bystander--he is one of the initiators of the process which brought not only war and atrocity to 404 but he is nearing this critical moment in his life when he WILL make this war his and his legacy will be that of a hot air balloon who brought the match to the dry powder keg. His time is almost up. I know he is not a well-read man, but he should get a copy of The Federalist Papers and memorize James Madison's almost sacramental:

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Those Founding Fathers guys were smart, really, wonderfully smart. 

Yes, We Knew That ...

 ... all along.

Or, as he clarifies: 

President Trump shared his thoughts on how his two terms as president have differed, saying in a new interview with The Atlantic that this time around he’s leading “the country and the world.” “The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” Trump said in the interview published Monday. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”

He also runs Crab Nebula and soon will take over Andromeda galaxy. Once Betelgeuse goes supernova--know then that it is due to executive order by Trump. He is very powerful ... To comment on all that is just spoil it. 

Russians have a very good publication for this precise situation:

The title of this highly respectable publication is How to Run the Universe Without Attracting Attention of the Orderlies. A rare, 1958 edition. 

Garland and Yours Truly ...

 ... live at 3-00 PM PDT (6-00 PM EST). 

Meanwhile, large village Kamyanka in Kharkov Oblast was liberated by Russian Army. 

Krasnoyarsk SSGN Is Doing Her Thing.

Her thing being launching 3M14 land attack cruise missile (inert--good strike from 1,100+ km range) and then Vodopad Anti-submarine missile. 

Krasnoyarsk being a Pacific Fleet sub merely provided a hint to Japan. 

Per May 9th "ceasefire", what remains of 404 will again be paraded as Nazis that they are, because for them Victory Day is like a holy water for the devil. Europe also will be sad, because it is the 80th Anniversary of Europe's crushing defeat. 

As Far as My Polish Language Goes ...

 ... 80th Anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz and this Jewish man says that it was the Red (Soviet) Army that liberated him and as long as he is alive, he will always remember this. 

Meanwhile, for people to understand why Patrick Lancaster, speaking to Judge Nap a couple days ago stated that Russian soldiers at the line of contact are convinced that they fight satanists. Here is how wooden Russian Orthodox New Jerusalem complex looked like in Belgorod Oblast several days ago.

This is what NATO did to it:

It is completely gone now after being deliberately targeted by VSU drones. You can also take a look at what they did to other Orthodox churches in Kursk. This is a visceral hatred of everything Russian, not just "communism" they imagined. 

Visual Representation ...

 ... of NATO planning and execution. The video is of an arrogant squirrel who got used to eating bird's feed. Well, woman who owns the property had it with this little freeloader and ... greased the pole))) 

You decide here who is NATO and who is not. 

If You Think ...

 ... that me hurling insults at Pentagon, let alone UK and other NATO's general staffs is merely a reaction of a Russian to a war crime committed by NATO in 404--you are wrong. I constantly try to explain (for years) that math was never there for NATO, especially so in military field, to start with. I give one example of battle assessment on tactical level and explain how real military professionals plan and anticipate outcomes--the skill which Western militaries, obviously, lack when facing a real war. Also, explanation of internationalization (you know that even Gurkhas fight for Russians? I spoke about it in the past)--through highlighting North Korean contingent. 

Here are jpegs for those who want to trace ... 

About This Grayzone Article ...

 ... on Krynky catastrophe, naturally planned by British. We saw British operational "genius" in Kursk Oblast where those credentialed cretins from London killed more than 76,000 NATO (VSU and their "advisers" ARE a NATO army) personnel. Against this background or famed "counteroffensive", which exposed Pentagon's military incompetence and killed already more than 160,000 personnel, Krynky "operation" seems almost an insignificant detail in otherwise a war crime Washington and London committed by killing most likely more than 1.5 million VSU-NATO and roughly 100,000 of Russian Army servicemen. I omit here atrocities against civilian population and POWs. As GZ's opening salvo describes:

On the morning of October 30 2023, dozens of Ukrainian commandos on small boats glided across the Dnieper River to control of Krynky, a village in Russian-occupied Kherson. They had spent the prior two months in remote areas of the British isles with similar terrain, running drills under the watchful gaze of UK generals. Now, they believed their hard work was about to pay off. Both British and Ukrainian officials were convinced the operation would turn the tide of the war, creating a beachhead allowing Kiev’s forces to march on Crimea and all-out victory.

Instead, the British-trained Ukrainian marines were led like lambs to the slaughter. The catastrophically planned effort saw a seemingly endless stream of heavily overloaded Ukrainian boats attempt to reach Krynky without air cover, under relentless fire by Russian artillery, drones, flamethrowers and mortars. Marines that made the journey were ill-equipped, resupplying those troops proved virtually impossible, and evacuating them was out of the question.

As the promised missile cover failed to materialize in the ensuing weeks, it became clear the effort had amounted to a disaster. Yet for the next nine months, wave after wave of British-trained Ukrainian marines were dispatched to almost certain death to Krynky. The decision to let the costly quagmire drag on, at a human and material cost no NATO military would ever allow, has come to be seen as one of the worst tactical mistakes of the war — and it appears top British generals are to blame.

Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone expose how the British not only presided over the training of the Marines involved, but built from scratch the “Maritime Raiding Force” which would ultimately be sacrificed over the course of the Krynky suicide mission.

Let's review these statements. 

1. All of NATO, let alone British military have zero tactical and operational experience and knowledge applicable to the warfare of the 21st century:

a) British military education and thought are completely detached from the realities of modern war and fire impact and operational tempo which Russian Armed Forces can enforce across a very large line of combat contact. The system is simply broken and obsolete. 

b) Academic level of British officer corps is extremely low and does not provide proper insights into even lower tactical level, which completely reduces any combat training to nothing more than mechanical repetition of prescriptions from NATO's obsolete Tactical and Operational Field manuals. 

2. The fact that British military believed already during and after catastrophe of "counteroffensive" that a tactical action can have serious operational, let alone strategic effect on one of several (today it is 11 of them) operational axes of Russian Army exposes a shocking lack of awareness about:

a) The weight of Russian salvo across all means of delivery of long-range fires within RUK/ROK. 

Evidently, British General Staff has difficulty grasping the issue of scales and the role in much more advanced military such as Russian its ISR assets play.

b) British military and its general staff structures do not understand the issue of COFM (Correlation Of Forces and Means) because the only explanation for the consistent failures of NATO in 404 is that either they cannot calculate properly, or their models are bunk or likely, both.  

3. NATO doesn't have real strategic intelligence as such. 

4. Promised "missile cover" could have been conceived by British military based on a complete lack of understanding of the role of AD in modern conflict and how REAL SEAD is conducted. E.g. NATO's AD is not survivable in modern conflict against highly developed Air Force, ISR and fires such as Iskander, Kinzhal, Oniks or 3M22 Zircon. NATO militaries simply have no reference point. 

In other words, the only thing which drove British "planning" more than their military amateurism and adventurism, was as GZ notes:

For the technical details, they decided that “academics should also be included, using the latest technology resources to ensure the success of raids conducted especially in terms of the destruction of key infrastructure.” Therefore, “a formal request” to the British Ministry of Defence “on the latest intelligence imagery and plans” regarding Crimea’s heavily-fortified underground complex “will need to be planned in extreme detail. ”Britain’s obsession with wresting Sevastopol from Moscow’s grasp dates back to the Crimean War of 1853-1856, but the leaked documents clearly show the city’s seizure is still considered a vital, and achievable, objective from London’s perspective. Though Project Alchemy described the military port as home to the world’s “largest concentration of anti-ship missiles” and a bunker complex “immune to air or missile strike,” the group’s operatives still believed the area to be “vulnerable to commando forces.” 

It is both cultural and mental for London whose hatred of everything Russian drove already incompetent military into sheer delusion of UK's greatness as military power. But as GZ notes:

As major legacy media outlets now dissect Kiev’s military failures in forensic detail, the reporting consistently underlines the British Ministry of Defense’s pivotal role in planning some of the war’s biggest disasters. Each of these setbacks left many thousands of Ukrainians dead or wounded, yet no one in London appears to have faced any professional consequences. To the foreign officers who sent them into the kill zone, those who lost their lives were nothing more than proxies.

The conclusion is simple--British military is no good for anything other than sabotage and terrorist (and piracy) "operations", not to mention the fact of its low academic, intellectual, moral and morale level, which drives them to committing war crimes and parading oneself as a collection of military misfits. There is no honor or professional integrity which was substituted with fanatical hatred of Russia. As a result--British military deserves neither professional nor human respect.