... is having a ... blast, if you know what I mean. Face-palm.
WOW! "Products", "AI", "cocaine" et al, all those BS buzzwords--but good enough for retards from NYT and those who still read this tabloid.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Something To Really Consider ...
... very seriously and I am not using this expression lightly. Sometimes the scale of Europe's catastrophe is obscured by ... well judge for yourself.
But this is just the part of the explanation. Remarkably, Trump's (and the US) behavior towards Europe DID signify both: US still retaining the status of a diminishing but superpower, while Europe has been paraded as a collection of Imponent sheeple. Yeah, we may laugh at this, and this certainly makes sense but not all of it:
It is in Russian, but it gives a proper angle on Macron's (and France's) behavior in attempts (pathetic) to "recruit" China in developing US-European stand-off. I will just machine translate a piece of otherwise good article in Ria, with the EXCEPTION of a military part, but it comes with the territory for civilian journos. Here is Macron's behavior in China a few days ago:
Macron, incidentally, quite rightly pointed to key sectors of the EU's real economy, such as machine tool and engineering, which have seen their profitability plummet as a result of the severing of trade ties with Russia and the resulting energy shortage. The US administration, which practically blackmailed Brussels into signing an agreement with unilateral trade preferences, only worsened the situation. The final blow to the teetering European economy, weakened by military spending to continue the Ukrainian war, was dealt by Chinese goods. They literally flooded into European markets, increasingly displacing similar locally produced goods, weakened by the complex of negative factors described above. ... Macron accused China of "killing its competitors" by constantly increasing exports and evading counter-imports from eurozone countries. As a result, the trade deficit between China and the EU by the end of 2024 grew to $305.8 billion (up $8.5 billion from the previous year), while the trade imbalance in trade volumes increased by a quarter over the year, from 34.8 to 44.5 million tonnes. In retrospect, according to the European Commission, over the past ten years, the financial imbalance in China's favor has doubled, while the trade imbalance has quadrupled.
Read the whole thing, with the exception of military part, although read it still but with a truckload of salt, because French military is a 1990s military which still depends on the US in critical systems such as Early Warning and other things related to ISR et al. And if you watch the video about France, you will understand why France is toast. Yes, Airbus (international consortium, BTW), yes, shipbuilding, but as correctly stated--manufacturing being 10% of national economy? That's the third world, boys and girls. Yes, hand bag for the price of a small car or ... I write about it for years--Western economic indices are fraud as are people who concoct them. Today we all observe in real time how this house of Louis Vuitton handbags and services such as cleaning poo behind actual French bulldogs make otherwise pathetic economy look like a big one.
Meanwhile, while many people have been moved by the speech of the Russian pilot during the award ceremony in Kremlin, here is some interesting quip:
TASS reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the "Gold Star" medal to Andrey Shishov, Deputy Head of the Flight Test Center and Head of the Flight Service, a test pilot at the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC). He was the first to successfully launch the hypersonic missile "Kinzhal", according to materials from the state awards ceremony. "In 2017, he performed the first takeoff of the experimental MiG-31 aircraft (Product 08), and in 2018, as the crew commander, he performed the first flight of the experimental MiG-31 (Product 08) 'Burevestnik' with a new product, thereby confirming the correctness of the technical solutions and the possibility of performing takeoffs, landings, and the flight itself with this unique product. In September 2019, A. A. Shishov successfully performed the first launch of the hypersonic missile 'Dagger' at a sea target in the Barents Sea on a MiG-31K carrier aircraft, and in 2020 - on a MiG-31 (Product 06)", the materials say.
OK. Here is this thingy--no, not serially produced Petrel (Burevestnik) unlimited range cruise missile. No, the other one:
This is Izdelie-08 (Manufactured Item-08)--antisatellite weapon, which was shown to Vladimir Putin about five years ago.
The program continues and looks like Russia soon to deploy this thing. This is a mockup in 2018.
Shishov was awarded yesterday the title of the Hero of Russia. And in conclusion--today is the day of founding of my Naval Academy.
You Need To Have Scale ...
... and even this is not enough. I speak about the catastrophe of the once legendary Royal Navy and its submarine force.
And here is the thing. These numbers are from 2022-2023 but even this comparison shows an immense gap between UK and Russia.
Since then the gap increased and you cannot explain to such morons as Pierce Morgan that UK is not even in the first ten as an economy. Militarily--it is insignificant. But no statistics can show a complete collapse of British officer corps which today doesn't satisfy even minimal academic, let alone experience, requirements for the warfare of the 21st century. Trump has a point--Europe is impotent. And the guy with essentially infantry (special forces) background runs UK submarine forces and even whole of the Royal Navy? What's next? Gynecologist Chief of Staff? Ask Germans.
Yeah, Sure.
He was a good NCO who was on a sightseeing trip, not.
Puzzling, isn't it? I have, as many others, a theory that this was not NCO-level guy, but likely some senior officer and that "testing a new defensive capability" has very little to do with 404 and UK, but likely with "capability" of Russia. These dudes of UK orgs such as Special Boat Service or SAS (and MI6) still think that they play a videogame and that they are still in John le Carre novel about 1980s. I have a bad news for them--Russians know their identities, they know who they are and where to find them.
As Ron Paul's Institute correctly pointed out:
Not only Moscow will redraw it, but some people may begin to suffer some strange accidents such as falling out of the windows or deciding to end their lives just because. Terrorism does not have statue of limitations, but that is the ONLY capability London has. I speak about it in my today's video about Royal Navy, its submarine "force" and why its delusions of grandeur are a reaction to an ongoing implosion of Old Europe and its becoming a totalitarian concentration camp with no future.
Monday, December 8, 2025
I Talked With My Two Great Friends.
Larry and I talked about things a couple of days ago.
And then with Randy Credico. Enjoy, if you will.
Ah, Wait. We Heard Different ...
... all the time from all "military experts".
Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet ‘no longer fit for purpose’. Former Navy chief calls for ‘radical’ action to revive programme after catastrophic failures.
And if anyone thinks that this could be fixed--I have bad news, not gonna happen. Obviously, for people who still remember halcyon days of the Royal Navy it is a torturous admission. But it is not about just submarine fleet. Get a load this:
By now I do not even bother with "argumentation" of "why"--it is self-evident, as frontline embarrassing failures of Leopards, Challengers, Abrams, what have you demonstrated--one needs a design school based on fighting off the best of the best. NATO became complacent with easy victories over inept Arab militaries operating "monkey models" of Soviet tanks and ignored tactical and operational reality in favor of narratives. Well, there is a reason why Challengers have been withdrawn from the line of combat contact in 404--if not, they all would have been destroyed. Chobham armor--grossly talked up and "admired"--is no contest for modern UAVs, ARGMs and tanks, even T-72 earlier models. This is what happens when people skip lectures on tactics, operations and operational research. Well, you get this clown))
I’m a veteran tank soldier, and I believe there is a way to fix the struggling Ajax
LOL. Let me show a REAL veteran tank commander who also happened to have an engineering degree (not degree in agriculture) and who commanded all of it and won the war against NATO.
Well, I wrote so much about Russia's military education.
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