Live in about three hours.
... remember, this super-duper USAF pilot who never encountered real air defense or first rate air force in his life (not that the USAF have anyone with such experience alive) before becoming an astronaut and then disgracing himself (apart from being a Democrat) with his famous quip that "Russian pilots cannot fly formation". But no matter how unpleasant this senator is, I doubt that there are grounds to prosecute him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly over a video that urges American troops to defy “illegal orders” has raised a slew of questions, and some criticism, from legal experts. Some say the Pentagon is misreading military law to go after Kelly as a retired Navy fighter pilot. Others say the Arizona Democrat cannot be prosecuted as a member of Congress. A group of former military prosecutors insists he did nothing wrong.
The fact that he USED to be an active officer and even the fact that his and other nutjob buddies' (from the Democratic Party) statement does reek of seditious intent, he did it as a civilian, granted confused and high on DNC's Kool Aid, but I really doubt that Pentagon has anything on him in legal terms. They can investigate whatever they want, but it is very difficult, in my humble opinion, to get anywhere with their investigation. Maybe just establishing the fact that no matter if you are a senator, general or astronaut, but it is not forbidden by the US Constitution to be an ass-hole, and Mark Kelly's rights to be one are protected.
Remember this a couple weeks ago?
Starmer could send Army’s troubled Ajax vehicles to Ukraine. Fleet has been plagued by litany of problems, but troops confident it could outgun and outperform Russian rivals.
I don't know what troops are they talking about, but UK doesn't have functional army and an average motorrifle battalion commander from Russian Army can lecture British generals from General Staff for months on modern tactics and use of armor forces. So, they can be confident in whatever they want to be confident, but they should get latest issues of Voennaya Mysl (Military Thought) and read up on, say combined arms operations (ah, yes, I forgot--they don't know what operations are, since they don't have operational and operational-strategic level formations--divisions and up), and take it to heart because it is written by people who actually did fight actual wars and have Ph.Ds in military sciences, STEM et al.
The Army has suspended the use of its Ajax armoured vehicles after 31 soldiers fell ill while using them. Troops taking part in a war game on Salisbury Plain over the weekend reportedly emerged from the £10m transporters vomiting because of noise and vibration issues. The setback comes just weeks after Luke Pollard, the defence minister, showcased the Ajax fleet and declared them “safe”. Some 60 vehicles were used during the exercise, which involved hundreds of soldiers from the Household Cavalry and the Royal Lancers. Sources said the Iron Fist drill was immediately halted after troops reported “tingling hands, ringing in their ears and feeling sick”. The safety fears, first reported by the Times, meant all Ajax vehicles involved in the drills had to be moved back to the nearest camp by transporters.
As you might understand, the ONLY proper thing here will be one of those famous Benny Hill's chases under the famous Yakety Sax melody ... Ah, what the hell--it is from England we all loved and grew up with.
... and other Western "values" in action. I give November Summary.
... who died because of Stalin's "purges", when USSR attacked the Third Reich. And who can forget how Russians treacherously invaded France in 1812.
No, this is not a circus--this is precisely how much of Europe and Europeans think. That is why this cretin Kallas is in the position she is because she satisfies many.And in order to stop all speculations and brown noise.
Sealing a peace accord with Ukraine is “legally impossible” at present, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated. While Moscow would like to sign such an agreement eventually, the current Ukrainian leadership has lost all legitimacy by canceling elections, Putin told reporters on Thursday. Wrapping up his state visit to Kyrgyzstan, Putin stated that “it makes no sense to sign documents with the Ukrainian leadership – I have covered this topic many times already.” According to the Russian president, “the Ukrainian leadership made a fundamental, strategic mistake, when it was afraid to hold elections.” Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky “lost his legitimate status” as the country’s president, Putin pointed out.
Do we need any additional comments? Ah, OK, let the big guy explain.
... Larry explains why Europe is irrelevant. And, as you might expect, Macron's BS spurred a lot of activity in memes' industry. Such as this))
... have really threated France as this bank teller boy states (lying as always):
Trump is an empty suite and hot air balloon, who never controlled any of his administrations which are nothing more than collections of shysters with competing interests. Only cretins from the US pundits' class could hypothesize about some "strategy" and "balances" from such "composition" of Trump's "team", not seeing that the only purpose of Trump's presidency is self-aggrandizing and serving people who own him.
Someone in Washington could be trying to undermine US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov has suggested, commenting on the recent leaks of his conversations with the envoy. At least some of the purported leaks are fake, he added. Speaking to Kommersant newspaper on Wednesday, Ushakov defended continued contacts between Moscow and Washington, including by phone, and maintained they are needed to build trust between the two nations. He also said that neither side was interested in leaking the contents of the conversations. According to the presidential aide, the incident might point to infighting in Washington. “Do you remember the case of [former National Security Adviser] Michael Flynn? This case could be the same,” the official said.
Ushakov is being diplomatic here, of course. The US is ungovernable and this chaos will continue. Which brings us to this:
The Navy is walking away from the Constellation-class frigate program to focus on new classes of warships the service can build faster, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced Tuesday on social media. Under the terms negotiated with shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine, the Wisconsin shipyard will continue to build Constellation (FFG-62) and Congress (FFG-63) but will cancel the next four planned warships. “We are reshaping how the Navy builds its fleet. Today, I can announce the first public action is a strategic shift away from the Constellation-class frigate program,” reads the statement from Phelan. “The Navy and our industry partners have reached a comprehensive framework that terminates, for the Navy’s convenience, the last four ships of the class, which have not begun construction.” A senior defense official told reporters Tuesday that the cancellation of the ship program was part of the Navy’s latest effort to build and deliver new ship classes faster. “A key factor in this decision is the need to grow the fleet faster to meet tomorrow’s threats. This framework seeks to put the Navy on a path to more rapidly construct new classes of ships and deliver capabilities our war fighters need in greater numbers and faster,” the official said. In tandem, the wider Pentagon is retooling its acquisition system to emphasize speed.
What you witness here is a bankruptcy of the whole acquisition and procurement policy not just in the US Navy, but US Armed Forces as a whole. For starters, it is inconceivable that the ship such as Constellation, carrying a rather timid air defense and strike packages--same ole', same ole' VLS with SM-6 and TLAMs, with subsonic Naval Strike Missile with the range of around 300 nautical miles, cost more than $ 1 billion dollars.
“Sometimes, you’re just better off designing a new ship,” Navy’s former top acquisition executive Nickolas Guertin said at a conference in February. “Turns out modifying someone else’s design is a lot harder than it seems.”
Well, good luck spending another 10 + years designing a frigate while continuing with building unfit for combat LCS and fast becoming obsolete TLAM-carrying platforms such as good but insanely expensive and, as already stated--nearing obsolescence, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. Late Admiral Rickover once stated that "The US Navy is used to traveling first class"--meaning the fleet of very large (and visually impressive) ships which today turned into a menagerie of very expensive white elephants good only for blowing up some third rate opposition from a safe distance. Read the comments to the USNI article I linked--they are very instructive. Always remember--it is COFM (Correlation Of Forces and Means) which is in the foundation of modern forces.
Macron-Mandon tandem's wet dreams. Makhnovschina is in the foundation of Ukrainian psyche.
I want to forestall all kinds of caveats, like "do not use the broad brush", and say that among the myriad of personal videos on YT there are some videos which do represent touching and sincere, very human, side of people's lives and they are greatly appreciated. Just take a look at this girl.
She is an inspiration for many people and her videos do help people in distress, they support them. She puts things into perspective.But what if you have no skills, no serious knowledge of anything, no ability to properly comment on the state of the world, but still want to be seen, monetized, and "liked". Ohhh, there are number of ways of doing it. How about exposing a fake façade of your personal lives, like this annoying Russian-American couple with their incessant cringe-worthy exposition of their plastic "happiness". Real happiness is always silent and is away from the public eye.
Safe, happy and ever grateful for Russian Army and their angel, as they call him, call sign Pomor, and then Balu. This was three months in making to save them, with terrorists and animals from 404 trying to kill them (you can see it in the video). It is in Russian, obviously, but you can sense their feelings.
... without class and culture it was a show-off. While in reality Russian Knights performed a "Missing Man" routine.
A tribute was paid to Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who died in a crash on Friday
I don't know how else can one explain to ass-hole what it means sending a pilot into the sky, for eternal patrol ...
M-12 highway of Russia will now be extended to ... Vladivostok. Currently it is in Yekaterinburg, Tyumen is next and ...
... from Mirnograd. Russians tell those SODs--most of them killed, a few of them taken POWs--that there is no chance in hell they will be able to escape.
"This morning we already learned about the European plan, which, if it is simply not constructive at first glance, does not suit us. <... > Mr. Rubio announced that the Geneva talks with the Ukrainians were quite satisfactory to the American side. But he also said that there are 28 points, there are also 26 points. A lot of things. Plus there are a lot of different speculations, it is not clear who to believe. But we believe in what we saw, what was transmitted to us through the appropriate channels," he concluded.
Europe is over, period.
Help me, people, help me, please, I beg you.
I can’t hear — just can only read your lips.
Write a little note so I can help you,
Tell me what you need, just jot the gist.
It’s a Russian drone — don’t fear, it will not harm you.
It will bring you medicine and food.
We have found you, and won’t abandon —
We will save your family, we’ll see you through.
You’ve been under fire here longer than a year,
From Volchansk you're always in the view.
You held out until the Russian soldiers reached here,
Did not bow to Nazis of the AFU.
We’re so close — just a little distance left now,
Just a street or two we must cross through.
Every meter costs us dearly, and how —
Many lost upon this road we knew.
For your freedom from the Nazi forces
All as one we fight without a pause.
They are brothers — Russia’s steadfast soldiers,
Battling “Banderite” unholy cause.
Help me, people, help me, please, I beg you.
I can’t hear — just can only read your lips.
The response of people around the world in my audience is overwhelming--this video and poignant song touched so many. But do not forget also that Russian soldier who lead this family across hellish terrain while drone followed them making sure no attempts were made on their lives. My profound gratitude to Nikita Pliassunov who put it in proper poetry.
You can download this song by following this link: This is Russian Drone, Don't Be Afraid.
Or reminding you how all those American generals have been parading themselves as amateurs in 2022 and 2023 repeating propaganda tropes about Russian Armed Forces. No surprise then that the US loses all its wars.
... hit something in Zaporozhie Oblast. Boy, when even combat hardened dudes are in awe--that must have been some serious ammo depot.
And it is a well-known fact.
A number of countries that Russia considers “unfriendly” have privately pitched proposals on improving economic cooperation during the G20 Summit, the head of the Russian delegation, Kremlin aide Maksim Oreshkin, told reporters on Sunday. The summit brought together leaders representing the world’s 20 largest economies in Johannesburg, South Africa, this weekend. “A number of countries we consider unfriendly have approached us with specific proposals for cooperation – on how to improve economic relations with Russia and implement joint projects,” Oreshkin said at a press conference. He added that he would not elaborate on which countries made the offers “lest their colleagues be offended later.”
This is the reality of Kardashev Scale which correctly puts energy, its extraction and use, as the main criterion for the type of civilization. Obviously, we, Earthlings, are still way-way out of even Type-I level, we are somewhere near 0.6-0.7 at best, BUT ... If to use Russia as a reference point as Type=1.0 within Earth's present energy paradigm, then countries like Germany, Italy or even France will be, ahem--somewhere between 0.4-0.5 at best. And they DO NOT have any prospects for getting higher without ... right--you get my drift. Their march to backwardness accelerates and they did it to themselves.
This also explains Trump's desperate desire to get his hands on Venezuela's oil, but while understandable for purely vulture reasons, risks attached to it are huge for the United States, and even under the most favorable conditions that will not solve US economic problems. They are systemic and cannot be resolved by mere imperial acquisitions, especially with dramatic breakthroughs in energy generation happening this very moment as I type this. But, of course, Venezuela may become, as Larry notes.
As the US continues to build up its military forces off the coast of Venezuela, it is worth asking about the risks associated with an actual US invasion with ground forces. I think that US military planners, regardless of what Donald Trump is saying, have cautioned their bosses about the extreme risks that such an operation would entail. During my appearance today with Judge Napolitano, I suggested we compare what a possible military operation inside Venezuela would entail compared to our 2003 attack on Iraq… Venezuela is a much tougher nut to crack than was Iraq.
Moreover, Iraq can hardly serve as a yardstick and as Lieutenant-General Klokotov stated in 1992, and I remind you:
... reference to REAL INDUSTRIAL output, which accounts also for spectrum of R&D which is simply beyond EU's capabilities.
Professor Niall Ferguson from Hoover Institute gives the Slava Ukraini crowd a cold shower in the form of some cold hard facts about the Russian economy and the fact that sanctions have "failed utterly". The corruptpolitical class does NOT want you to hear this
(Sep 2025)
This also explains (if it turns out to be true) a desire of two US military professionals (obviously on orders from Trump) who DO have some ideas about SMO and REAL situation at the front to go to Moscow and see their Russian counterparts.
Here is a fuller version of "Russia Is About To Collapse" debunking and these are just a few points:
I sat through yet another Times Radio interview in which “expert” Diane Francis confidently told us yet again that Russia was on the brink of military and economic collapse. My quick search of the Times Radio content on YouTube revealed that this Murdoch outlet has been forecasting Russia’s imminent collapse on a monthly basis for well over three years, beginning with the predictions of Ben Hodges III, a Leftist retired U.S. general and a relentless war-monger.
The other salient point is this:
The “experts” that Times Radio platforms seem to have two main characteristics. Firstly, they have a deep-seated dislike of Russia and, secondly, they are funded by arms industry and Ukrainian billionaire funded “think-tanks”. Until recently, Ben Hodges was the “Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies” at CEPA (the Centre for European Policy Analysis based (confusingly) in Washington) with a salary of USD 200,000 per annum. Diane Francis is a “Senior Non-Resident Fellow” at the Atlantic Council, receiving an unknown but likely large amount in this capacity. No academic qualifications nor processes underpin the lofty titles handed out by “think tanks”. The titles are part of the intellectual cosplay of pretending to be centres of study, rather than arms industry fronts pushing war propaganda. The “analysis” is, for the most part, fact-free and relies on dishonesty and largely fabricated statistics. I thought that it would be interesting to look at some actual statistics reported by Russia.
It is not only fabricated statistics, but it is also inherent inability to deal with it assuming that they are provided a genuine one. It is overall weakness of West's military education for officer corps and an extremely rigid and backward approach to operational planning and operations based on ... yes--fabricated military history, statistics and inability to grasp COFM (Correlation Of Forces and Means), including the role of force multipliers such as Air Defense of which US military has no experience whatsoever. And then, of course, comes corruption within Military-Industrial-Congressional-Media Complex and decades of drinking own Kool Aid without understanding the realities of continental warfare.
I want to reiterate--this is the result of NATO's planning and these are the numbers no officer in Pentagon has any grasp of. This is just comparison between Vietnam War and SMO:
... from the frontlines. Wounded by VOG (Fragment Grenade Launcher) from 404 UAV, the fighter crawls into the corner of the building. He knew what he was doing. His tactical superior was guiding him, this is 21st century war.
... what Russians are fighting for. This is Volchansk, a family caught under NATO's (yes, NATO) shelling and fire. Russian Cossack unit sees the Ukrainian family. And they spring into action. This is 21st century warfare and eternal human suffering in war.
... and its lessons which are never learned.
And it becomes a punisher.... at Dubai today.
... if he trains well he may have an NHL team sign him on draft in the future and he may even have a career for himself.
... as you may have heard:
More than 170,000 homes were left without power in Paris on Thursday after a blackout caused widespread power outages. Electricity grid operator Enedis said metro and suburban train lines were halted as the blackout hit at around 6.38am local time, with operators working to restore power in affected areas. The grid operator did not specify the reasons for the blackout.
If, per Chief of French General Staff, Russians are capable to organize the invasion of bed bugs into France, this one is easy;))
... Yampol is liberated, in Krasnoarmeisk a few buildings remain to be mopped up.
Hence the US "peace plan", if you get my drift))... when people with zero military and STEM background begin to bloviate on matters they have no gasp of whatsoever.
... there is only one teeny-weeny problem--Moscow doesn't know about this "plan".
A reported plan devised by the U.S. and Russia involving major territorial concessions from Kyiv to end the war in Ukraine would amount to a “capitulation” for Kyiv, a Ukrainian advocacy group has told Newsweek. Reports carried by Axios, Reuters and the Financial Times said Moscow and Washington had privately drawn up proposals for Kyiv to give up some territories and weapons and significantly cut Ukraine's Armed Forces. Olena Halushka, co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory, told Newsweek on Thursday that everything included in this proposal "is either aiming at strengthening Russia's battlefield position or sowing internal tensions inside Ukraine."
It doesn't matter how much defeated West wants to "massage" the issue of SMO, the result will be the same--capitulation, but not of the virtual entity known as 404, but of the combined West. The West's adventurism ran its course and the offramp for the US is being closed as I type this. Per Europe, you all know the outcome.
There is no other outcome when one even considers this)): HMS Prince of Wales is ready for war and available to allies - 'if NATO provides escorts', LOL.
Ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India next month, Moscow has made a significant military proposal to New Delhi that could potentially reshape the future of Indian air power. Russia has reportedly offered India "unrestricted access" to technology for the new fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter jet ahead of Vladimir Putin's visit to New Delhi. The development comes even as Su-57E, the export variant, made an appearance at the Dubai Air Show and conducted flight displays.
Highly likely this deal will happen, together with HAL's license-built fully Russian SSJ-100, which is another technological wowser.
