Garland and Yours Truly ...

 ... live in 25 minutes. 

Not For The Faint of Heart.

That's how VSU deal with their 300s (wounded) in order to not carry them. 

Russian recon drone documented it. This is NOT one off--it is VSU tradition to do so and they have been doing this for as long as SMO lasts. Speaking of which--the US slowly disengaging from NATO command structures appointing to a number of posts ... British guys, LOL)) 

But here is interesting thing of which I write non-stop. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer wants to convince commanders to use smaller, newer ships and other assets for missions instead of consistently turning to huge aircraft carriers — as seen now in the American military buildups off Venezuela and Iran. Adm. Daryl Caudle's vision — what he calls his “Fighting Instructions” — calls for the Navy to deploy more tailored groups of ships and equipment that would offer the sea service more flexibility to respond to crises as they develop.

Admiral Caudle has some good ideas (or desires, if one wishes) but when he asks the question what modern US Navy "delivers" he omits, albeit implies, that modern US carrier-centric Navy delivers a lot of fat prestigious targets which are indefensible in REAL threat environment. What REAL stands for is the new (and even older) generation of anti-shipping missiles which are either supersonic or hypersonic and are matched by recon complex such as Liana and this types of weapons (with the exception of hypersonic ones) continue to propagate. 

In conclusion: 

In early February of this year, it was 81 years since the uprising of Soviet prisoners of war in the Austrian Nazi camp "Mauthausen". In an interview with RIA Novosti, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova spoke about how Moscow is fighting attempts to falsify and distort the truth about World War II, why EU countries do not support Russia's resolution against the glorification of Nazism in the UN, and how Vienna preserves the memory of the dead prisoners of war.

EU countries ARE supporters of Nazism, just in a slightly different form. Albeit they still found some humanity in them in condemning Israel's genocide of Palestinians, but when it comes to Russians--most of Europe wouldn't mind concentration camps for them. Here is example--Estonian designer with her latest products. 

I am sure it will be a popular product not just in Estonia. 

Lavrov Gives ...

... proper definitions to the West. US Navy thinks (wrongly) it can control SLOC--it can't. It can sink gloriously, of course, if it comes to, God forbid, to real war. 

I Really Have Difficulty ...

 ... grasping this. Always had. 

It is just the game. Congrats, of course, to Seahawks, but sports event and air force? I totally get when, say, Blue Angels fly over graduation ceremony of US Naval Academy--totally appropriate and beautiful, but this. This is--total kitsch militarism for hoi polloi which should be reserved for MILITARY parades. Not the likes, of course, Donnie organized recently, but in general--there is nothing wrong with periodic demonstration of military hardware within appropriate setup. Bread and Circuses. I am not against sports, but this ...

Per Lavrov today--some really special verbiage and indication that Russians never trusted Trump. First, the frontline and 404 power generating facilities are testimony to this fact, and events on the frontline, of course.  

Ahem! Why? ;))

Granted, it is The Telegraph, but still: 

Some wondered if Benjamin Netanyahu had lost his mind. The Israeli prime minister had suggested that his nation be weaned off the American military aid it had relied on for decades. He wanted to do so within 10 years – a blink of an eye, in military planning terms – at a time when Israel could be dragged into a looming war between the US and Iran. “We very deeply appreciate the military aid that America has given us over the years, but here too we’ve come of age,” Mr Netanyahu told The Economist magazine. “We’ve developed incredible capacities.” The unexpected announcement posed fundamental questions: could the Jewish state survive without its long-term protector and to what extent could it rely on America in the Maga age? Israel receives $3.3bn (£2.4bn) annually in US military aid. On top of this is a separate missile defence assistance package worth $500m a year. For a small state with dangerous neighbours – including bellicose Iran, militarily ambitious Turkey and Islamist-run Syria – American support is crucial.

Well, apart from it being nothing but a pose (they love posing, showing off, making grandiose statements and chest thumping in the region) for the consumption of hoi polloi, reality is such that IDF is known primarily for being a genocidal police force with heavy equipment which is incapable to fight a modern war even against subpar opponent armed with will, courage and having access to modern tactical battlefield systems--such as tactical AD, ATGMs and good comms. Per modern missilery--forget it, Israel is essentially defenseless (and here it comes), because IDF is nothing more than a midget off-spring of the US military doctrinal thinking and obsolete TOE, based of fantasies about operations, military history and propaganda. While I doubt that Israel is capable weaning herself off the US support, IDF will continue to be what it is today--genocidal police force with heavy equipment. 

Meanwhile, here is again a demonstration of why US Field Manuals and desire to deploy into the company columns and smash ... whatever the backward peasants it may encounter is nothing more than Hollywood fantasies. It is also not a secret that the bunch of NATO "advisers" from NATO countries still run 404 so called "operations" and that 404 still uses NATO's tactical manuals written for the kindergarten kids who just watched Hollywood movie about war. 

Yes, they still get themselves into columns and believe that they can breach whatever they try to breach. But as you can see yourself Russian drones and ROK operate just fine without Starlink. They always did. Do not file yourself into columns, kids. You still are going to get killed, you know, but at least you will live longer. Like 5-10 minutes longer. But what do Russians know about armor warfare. They should have learned from General Patton and Hamish de Bretton-Gordon--they would have won it in no time. I am being facetious, of course. 

Because The World Insulated Itself ...

 ... and this insulation is supported by enormous military and economic might of Russia and China.

Many people still cannot grasp a direct connection between military might and economics. The US has lost the war, the likes it could never have imaged and is not equipped to fight. It took Russia to start SMO and the trust in Dollar system began to decline. Today it is shattered. The best proxy the US ever had, in fact with better soldiers than the US Army, has been pulverized. But you know, almost 9 years ago I wrote a book on this issue. One year later--the other one. 

I Do Not Blame People ...

 ... but sometimes I have to be hard on them because after 4 years people should have learned. So, I get today such comment to my video.

Military Summary said that yesterday that the Russians army were cut off of Starlink and the military is having trouble communicating to their commanders and they invaded Ukrainian Army part of what Russia 🇷🇺 had taken back. Andrei have you heard this and is it true? This was yesterday on Military Summary channel YouTube.

And people honestly want to know the answer most of the time. So, I will start from afar:

1. 90%+ of "military experts" on YouTube are pseudo-military frauds with zero military academic, command and tactical-operational experience. Most of these people they browse "Russian" TG channels by all kinds of same frauds as they are: Rybar, Poldolyaka et all, most of them being nothing but heralds of 404 propaganda and know NOTHING about issues of C4ISR--zero, zilch. And they sell it to unsuspecting people as "insights" and "expertise". Now to substance.

2. Russian Armed Forces while utilizing Starlink DO NOT depend on it whatsoever. Russian Armed Forces always had and have continuously expanding communications networks which are:

a) Protected;

b) High speed, albeit not as fast as Starlink internet but more than enough for effective Command and Control of Russian Armed Forces;

c) Including clandestine and high stability comm networks;

3. Since Soviet times, Russians have been present in space-based comms, including civilian, first in the world, TV satellite network Orbita, and even utilizing space comms and their receivers (Shluz) for work with space based navigation systems such as Parus/Cicada. Hm, how do I know this? Maybe because that is my degree and service experience?

4. But now, most important. Here are some older news, about Gonetz/Skif programs. From Reshetnev Corp in 2024.

The document, among other things, provides for development of domestic satellite groupings to provide high-quality, modern and competitive communication services throughout Russia, providing technological sovereignty of the country and the elimination of digital inequality. So, in particular, in As part of the strategy, in the next decade, it is planned to launch 28 Gonets-M1 satellites, 12 Skif satellites, 264 Marathon IoT devices and four Express-RV satellites into orbit. In addition, it will be updated orbital constellation of satellites of the Russian Federation on geostationary orbits: 19 spacecraft will be created and launched, the text of the document says. Also, by 2035, 98% of Russian Internet users should get the ability to network connection with a speed of 1 Gbps or more, and access to 5G on domestic communication equipment should appear in all cities of the country with population over 100 thousand people. Among other tasks is to achieve an increase in capacity of trunk lines for cross-border data transmission by 4.5 times, complete abandonment of 3G (by 2027), average mobile internet speed up to 125 Mbps, etc. Earlier, Yuri Borisov in an interview with Pro Cosmos said, that the creation of multi-satellite constellations is the main priority not only in the Russian Federation, but all over the world. Therefore, now Our country is focused on translating the main satellite-building assets for serial production. If today domestic enterprises can produceabout 40 satellites a year, then by 2026 it is necessary to bring this the figure is up to 250 devices annually.

Well, guess what? Those sats now ARE in serial production but most importantly, for anyone who still didn't get the message--that means that Russian military already operates this capability and, just two days ago, again: 

From the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with spacecraft was successfully launched in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The start took place on February 5 at 21:59 Moscow time, the department said. The launch of the launch vehicle and the insertion of spacecraft into the calculated orbit took place in the normal mode, indicated in the publication. The launch of the medium-class launch vehicle was carried out by the combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces. After the launch, the flight was controlled by ground facilities of the automated complex of the German Titov Main Test Space Center. A stable telemetry connection has been established with them. All onboard systems, according to the military department, are functioning normally, in normal mode.

And just to explain more--from our friends (operational level officers)--Russian Army if fully netcentric and uses all those Russian military networks and is NOT dependent on anyone. And as if by accident, Voennaya Mysl in its December 2025 issue writes precisely about it:

Operational Provision of Geospatial Information For Ground Forces of Russian Federation Utilizing Mobile Digital Photogrammetric Stations. And guess what--I circled the list of Russia's combat networks in use. 

That's is also communications and they all are Russian-made. In general, the average YT "military expert" will not understand how combat communications networks are built and how Russian Army is the ONLY army in world which conducts massive combined arms war in netcentric paradigm. But, of course, my good friend Lt. Colonel Oleg Shalandin with whom we'll have a podcast next week, and who happened to be not only combat veteran but also communications officer with serious degree precisely in this, these "experts" from You Tube would shit their pants discussing things of REAL war, because they will be immediately exposed as frauds. So, let's leave it at that and for those who still have doubts--Russian military is fully independent of Starlink. It is also the ONLY military in the world which can make Starlink disappear. But let's hope we will not get there. 

The Sound Of Zircon ...

 ... 750 kV "reparations". How to operate the tactical cat. 

Western 404 ...

... begins to feel the pain. That's just the start. This is Lvov today--the hotbed of 404 Nazis. 

It is not just power generation which is being wiped out, including 750 kV substations whose destruction forced nuclear power plants of 404 to reduce power output. Moreover, 404 is now being cut off EU grid. But even MORE over--every industrial plant is being destroyed.  

Meanwhile the "Russian" city of Kharkov. 

The only question I have to our German friends here is that it seems these morons are doing their Nazi salutes under the ... GDR's Army march. I could be wrong, of course. If you can, please confirm or otherwise. But in the end, it doesn't matter--even if they have been doing this to the Swan Lake music it wouldn't make any difference. Nazis are Nazis. 

Open Thread.

 Go at it. 

Oh! Absolutely.

 Because "rebuilding" military is so easy, you know. 

The United States is the most powerful Country in the World. I completely rebuilt its Military in my First Term, including new and many refurbished nuclear weapons. I also added Space Force and now, continue to rebuild our Military at levels never seen before. We are even adding Battleships, which are 100 times more powerful than the ones that roamed the Seas during World War II — The Iowa, Missouri, Alabama, and others. I have stopped Nuclear Wars from breaking out across the World between Pakistan and India, Iran and Israel, and Russia and Ukraine. Rather than extend “NEW START” (A badly negotiated deal by the United States that, aside from everything else, is being grossly violated), we should have our Nuclear Experts work on a new, improved, and modernized Treaty that can last long into the future. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT

But, of course, reality is a bitch and it bites very hard. There are all indications of a massive hysteria and coping gripping both political- military and media classes in the West in general, and the US in particular. It manifests itself in different ways. Since there was an air combat slant in my today's video, here is one such demonstration:

Really, "perfect rival"? No F-15 saw any real air-to-air combat, not to speak of operating in serious threat environment. Not to mention the fact that SU-34 has a much larger (10,400 kg of F-15 vs 14, 000 kg for SU-34) combat payload and carries munitions US Air Force never heard about, like hypersonic Kinzhal or supersonic P-800 Onyx missiles, not to mention a truck load of SMART munitions with ranges, such as UMPK glide bombs with 200 kilometer range, that F-15 in any of its iterations could ever conceive--it is a plane, however good, from 1990s. But most importantly, SU-34 has an unrivaled combat record from Syria to SMO going head-to-head with the best air defense NATO could throw at it and coming on top. F-15 doesn't even register here. But in the end, SU-34 IS NOT a "fighter" aircraft, it is fighter-bomber which still carries a very nasty R-77 AAM with the range of up to 200 kilometers (outranges AIM-120 AMRAAM still).

So, SU-34 is NOT a rival to anything, it is in the league of its own and if it could be characterized, it would be something like this--it is a combination of SU-24 and F-111 on a horse-size doze of steroids, taken to the extreme of tactical strike aircraft capable of delivering a strategic effect strikes. Mind you--Kinzhal and P-800 Onyx can carry a nuclear warhead at 2,500 and 1,000 kilometer ranges respectively, while still being able to produce a strategic effect in a conventional configuration. It is also tough--many remember it taking a hit by Patriot missile and still making it back. SU-34 is a reflection of a new air-to-air and air-to-ground paradigm but as I state non-stop--Pentagon will learn nothing being captured by fairy tales they call "operations" they teach in war colleges.

START Is Over.

It's a new start for a new world. Lavrov explains and what is system of systems. About REAL air-to-air combat in REAL wars, from REAL professionals. 

Nima and Me ...

 ... live in 15 minutes. 

From Indians Themselves.

What anyone with a single commercial aviation groove in the brain was getting in the last 10 years--this is from Indians themselves and explanation of why this is a BFD, if you know what this acronym stands for. 

But then again, Russian-Indian cooperation in military sphere remains exemplary, albeit not without classic Indian quirks. Correct, this is a strategic move which works extremely well for both sides. And yes, many times yes, you cannot sanction fully Russian made planes, period. 

There are ONLY two nations in the world which can out of  own resources and know-how build commercial aircraft domestically ground-up: United States and Russia. In terms of regional turboprops and regional jets it is Russia only. A shocker for some, I know. You cannot explain this reality to some MBA from Harvard--no tool kit. And even United States increasingly begins to depend on many parts being built not in the US. But, of course, do not forget American mighty jet engines industry. That, for now, remains home and is not going anywhere. So, enjoy the video. Short and to the point, no BS. 

Cooperation? Seriously?

There is NO cooperation between Russia and France. France is existential enemy of Russia. But never mind ... 

War in Ukraine: the discreet trip of Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic adviser to Moscow. Info L'Express. Emmanuel Bonne went to the Russian capital to negotiate directly with the Kremlin. Low-key cooperation continues between France and Russia.

Well, France MADE her choice, period--treacherous, weak, perverted so called "leaders" on Rothschild's leash. So, Macron wants to "prepare a dialogue" with Russia. Obviously, official Paris still doesn't recognize a deep (shit)hole France is in, especially in relation to Russia. But never mind, these cretins have been well described by Leo Tolstoy long time ago: 

A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally, both in mind and body, as irresistibly attractive to men and women.

They still do think like this. Delusional nation at the end of her rope. So, they want a "dialogue" not recognizing that they are losers and are insignificant. You all know what losers get ...

Kiev's Party.

The reality is grim for 404, really grim, and it will get even worse.

There are now rivers of liquid shit all over the place and we can now talk about red alert danger of infectious diseases once it warms up. 

This all, and I will continue to stress it, the result of criminal activity on part of the combined West and 404 is now being made the lesson for corrupt, degenerate and incompetent Euro chihuahuas. For Europe, if it ever decides (and will be able to, which is highly doubtful) to even look wrongly at Russia--these will come really fast together with physical removal of European military-political top. 

Now to this: 

The New START treaty, which limits the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals, officially expires on February 5, and Moscow has not received any formal response from the US on renewing it, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Wednesday. Russia will be ready to decisively counter potential threats, but will remain open to dialogue after the lapse of the last remaining strategic arms control agreement with the US, it added.

A clarification: Russia ALREADY countered and will continue to widen already an enormous capability gap. Especially when one considers the fact that ALL Russia's hypersonic delivery systems, deployed, as well as ones that we are yet to learn about, all without exception are delivery systems for nukes. Importantly, they saw real combat use, devastating at that, with conventional ordnance. To demonstrate, allegedly NON-strategic SSGN of project 885 Yasen-class can and carries nuclear tipped hypersonic 3M22 Zircon and P-800 Onyx and 3M14M Kalibr (4,500 kilometer range) missiles. 

32 of them. Is this, one may ask, a strategic missile submarine then? In essence--yes. Even in non-nuclear load the salvo of this sub can have a strategic effect, when nuclear ordnance loaded--well, it can devastate all naval bases on both coasts of the United States and deal a catastrophic blow to industrial base. Same goes for NON-strategic Oreshnik, which, in reality, is a strategic weapon. 

So, what mountain should the US climb to even get even? The obstacle is insurmountable. 

About Allegories.

And what Hitler tells Satan in the conclusion to White Tiger movie. France suffers from extreme case of delusions of grandeur. I guess having her ass kicked in Sahel hurts mightily.

Dmitry Medvedev ...

 ... says it all. 

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has stated he is happy to have disappointed liberal factions that had certain expectations of him, and that his sole duty is to serve Russia. The comment came in response to a question about his political evolution during a joint interview with TASS, Reuters, and the Wargonzo project. Asked about what it is like to have failed to live up to the expectations of liberal circles that “pinned such hopes” on him, Medvedev stated that “if these are the same circles that now wish for the defeat of their Fatherland, as has happened before in our country’s history, then I am happy that I did not live up to their hopes.” He added that, ultimately, he “couldn’t care less” about such expectations, stressing that “one must work for the country, not for the hopes of some political construct.” Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, framed the core duty of a state leader as unwavering service to the nation. “The most important thing is to believe in your country and serve it. Not to fuss, not to fidget in front of anyone, not to try to please, but simply to follow your line,” he said. 

Here it is. Margarita Simonyan, self-professed "liberal" and whose RT is infested with such cadres described by Dmitry Medvedev, should take a note. People still remember how she was explicitly absent in info space, under risible "justifications", during Wagner's mutiny and how Russian RT started recently erasing 29 articles by now officially charged with extremism 404 plant Montyan. What happened, RT? In general, majority of Russian media are infested with people who are "liberal" and who work against Russia and Russian people. These are Russian media who promoted all kinds of 404 trash as "experts" and many of who are either direct or shadow assets of GUR/SBU. 

As Dostoevsky wrote in Possessed:

Our Russian liberal is first of all a lackey and is only looking at how to clean someone's boots.

Difficult to disagree. 

Not All Poles ...

 ... hate Russia. Some even understand that they need a sacrifice. So, they fight for Russia and, as strange as it sounds, which is still true, they fight for survival of Poland. 

He reviews 404 and NATO "equipment" likely decommunized by either his unit or neighbors. Meanwhile 404, including Kiev, is being pummeled by strikes, including 3M22 Zircon and other nasty "toys" finishing off power generation in 404 for good. They wanted decommunization, Russia obliges. 

Today, however is a huge date. February 2, 1943 the Stalingrad Battle was officially won and it was a catastrophe for the Third Reich. But combined West doesn't know real history of that cataclysm. With the exception of people of scale such as David Glantz or Jonathan House, Eastern Front realities, especially by such scumbags like Anthony Beevor, are written and retold from German sources. Or by Hollywood with such drivel as Enemy at the Gates. 

Pentagon has no grasp of it. None. Casualties count on both sides combined, KIAs alone around 2,000,000. 6th and Elements of 4th Armies of Wehrmacht, as well as Italian and Romanian armies wiped off the order of battle of Axis. Axis POWs--250,000. 

British reported it properly then. 

IQ Is By No Means ...

 ... the only metric for judging human intelligence and I don't know its mathematical weight in it--I myself knew people with extremely high IQ but who were either dumb or complete idiots in real life. Having said that, just FYI--2026 results internationally. 

Pretty much expected. 

Daniel Davis And Me ...

 ... live in 30 minutes. 

Yes, Absolutely.

They try to cope, but even in this--not enough real professionalism. 

Despite claims of battlefield momentum in Ukraine, the data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains and is in decline as a major power. Since February 2022, Russian forces have suffered nearly 1.2 million casualties, more losses than any major power in any war since World War II. At current rates, combined Russian and Ukrainian casualties could reach 2 million by the spring of 2026. After seizing the initiative in 2024, Russian forces have advanced at an average rate of between 15 and 70 meters per day in their most prominent offensives, slower than almost any major offensive campaign in any war in the last century. Meanwhile, Russia’s war economy is under mounting strain, with manufacturing declining, slowing growth of 0.6 percent in 2025, and no globally competitive technology firms to help drive long-term productivity.

This is from CSIS. This drivel is produced by one boy and this dude. 

Prior to CSIS, Dr. Jones was director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation. Before that, he served in several positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and U.S. Special Operations Command. He served as representative for the commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations. He was also a plans officer and adviser to the commanding general, U.S. Special Operations Forces, in Afghanistan (Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command–Afghanistan). Dr. Jones served on a congressionally mandated panel that reviewed the FBI’s implementation of counterterrorism recommendations contained in the 9/11 Commission Report.

Dr. Jones despite a fountain of "credentials" does not understand war, as most of Pentagon doesn't and despite his good-sounding CV would be laughed out with his level of awareness (euphemism for butthurt) because he is ... a political "scientist", meaning he has no viable academic and experience bases to pass judgement on anything other than upcoming Oscars and new line of lingerie from Victoria Secret. RAND at which this "academic" worked too didn't produce any serious strategic paper like ... ever, and the high pitch coping and continuing to come up with numbers, such as "production of Iskanders" by these amateurs is met with Homeric laughter among people who are responsible for both manufacturing and combat use of these systems. But I am sure that Jones knows better. Of course he does--look at the war record of "the finest fighting force in history". 

And so, they cope, hard, because the butthurt is insufferable and recognizing oneself being in the midst of the collapsing structure of military fairy tales is extremely painful. It also requires a personal courage to face the reality. But the guy continues to produce things like this compendium of amateurish military BS and propaganda not understanding that he and his buddies from Capitol Hill and Pentagon do not have a tool kit to recognize how badly they lost. Meanwhile Russians, using Iskanders, organized the slaughter of US HIMARS in 404. 

But then again, can you imagine what it takes to explain to American political "scientist" what modern RUK/ROK are, how they integrate into overall netcentric structure of Russian military, and how real air defense should work. Nope, impossible. Here is Larry explaining how the famous now colonel ... well, read for yourself)). 

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (a retired British Army colonel, former commander of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment, chemical weapons expert, and frequent commentator on defense/military matters) is at it again, having just published an article on January 30, 2026 in the Telegraph titled, “Desperate Putin is coming to the end of the road” (also headlined as “Putin’s army is on its knees. When it still has them”). This is not the first time that Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon makes a fool of himself… He has a proven track record of being completely wrong about the war in Ukraine. Consider his bold and totally wrong predictions on Ukraine’s 2023 offensive that was supposed to push the Russians into the Black Sea. (Spoiler alert: The Russians completely defeated the Ukrainian offensive by the end of August 2023.)

Delusion is a foundation of military edukeishn in NATO. 

And, in conclusion--Happy Birthday to Larry. We all wish him good health, good fortune and long-long years of productive life. 

Ah, Those Devious Russians.

Not only they are blowing the remnants of power generation in 404 up, no, they are now going even further--right this very moment. Massive strikes on ... coal mines--the main providers of fuel for thermal power stations. 

Here, Pavlograd, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk are getting completely decommunized, Kiev still has no electricity and heat, other than sporadic supplies here and there. Combined West can now enjoy the results of their "planning" and "execution" of the dumbest and amoral "operation" in modern times. Hitler and Axis at least had a legitimate claim to some success and Hitler already grasped a looming catastrophe in 1942. Here is proof. 

These guys, from D.C. to Brussels? A bunch of amateurs, with neocons being amateurs with sheer hatred towards Russians and Russia. Wrong approach, should those people have been actual professionals they wouldn't have started this whole thing, but then again--defeated Wehrmacht wrote history for them and, as Bild reports (so, take it with a grain of salt), Donny wants now Arc de Triomphe in the US. Of course, it will be taller and wider than one in Paris and it is being called ... Arc de Trump. 

Obviously French really do not want to remember this one, in Moscow. 

Painful memories, and then, of course, Europeans (with the exception of British people who have been allies of the USSR) in general do not like to remember this.

On a lighter note. Russians continue to perfect means of personal protection in war and applied lessons of the sloped armor from T-34 to individual soldiers. 

As you can see yourself, lean and fit guys wearing bulletproof wests are totally vulnerable, but once you get an angle using tactical belly--that's when your chances of survival grow exponentially. Your tactical belly allows to create an angle which increases the thickness of the west plus reflects bullet away. Ergo, the daily calorie intake for personnel of Russian Armed Forces must be increased dramatically. 

SitRep ...

If anyone has doubts about this "energy truce" being over--just now three groups of Geraniums and Iskanders are on their way to Kremenchug. More is coming. 

Medvedev referencing Master and Margarita should terrify Ze. 

Rubio Doesn't Understand ...

 ... that quantity, while very important, means very little when you deal with generational quality gap. 

The 12-day "war", in reality beating the crap out of Israel, demonstrated a manifest ineffectiveness of US air defense/anti-missile systems. No matter the spin, the WSJ may declare whatever it wants: 

Before Any Strike on Iran, U.S. Needs to Bolster Air Defenses in Mideast. The Pentagon is taking steps to better protect Israel, Arab allies and American forces if Iran retaliates. 

But the capability gap is not a figment of imagination of Andrei Martyanov, of which I wrote for more than a decade, it is one of those "Capability Surprises" about which I also wrote (I called it a Revelation Mode) and made a video about this document.

And then there is risk avoidance and after that--risk aversion. The foundation of the US perceived global power--the US Navy's Carrier Battle Groups lost physics and mathematics contest to anyone who understands Missile Combat, Salvo Model and has technological wherewithal to produce and field even a previous generation of weapons, which make CBGs fat prestigious targets. Iran has such capability and whatever else was provided to her by Russians and Chinese. Now we wait and see. I speak about it and more in my latest video which should be up shortly. 

Ian Proud And Me ...

 ... yesterday. 

Open Thread.

 Go at it. 

Didn't Trump Say Today ...

 ... that Putin agreed to stop strikes on 404 "cities" and "power" for a week? For some reason Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy oblasts and others didn't reap the benefits of Trump's "request". 

Or this:

What is going on (wink, wink)?