I Guess They Get The Message ...

 ... even in the UK and if I tell you the name of the game, boy (c). Just yesterday I pointed out the symbolism of Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska--far-far away from Europe (including 404) and near the Arctic. Now they hypothesize, while in reality, apart from the dynamics of SMO and Russia rolling out weapons which make combined West simply defenseless target, that this part of the planet matters. Oh, I can tell you--it matters a huge deal, big freaking beautiful deal:

An Arctic agreement between the US and Russia could revive energy collaboration between the two countries on a breathtaking scale. A deal would be massively lucrative for both sides. The Arctic contains an estimated 13 per cent of the world’s undiscovered oil, roughly 90 billion barrels, and 30 per cent of its undiscovered natural gas. Russia controls around half of that, with explorers pointing to 2,300 million metric tons of oil and condensate, and 35,700 billion cubic metres of gas. It’s a bonanza tailor-made for Trump’s America First. Parlay US expertise and capital into these frozen assets and the pay-off would be staggering. The shipping upside is no less compelling. The Northern Sea Route offers the promise of slashing shipping times between Asia and Europe by up to 50 per cent. As melting ice slowly opens the Arctic lanes, that cut becomes ever more real: less fuel burned, no queueing at chokepoints, and avoidance of piracy hotspots. Pair that with a fleet of US oil champions and Arctic logistics savvy, and Trump suddenly holds a commercial deal that has the feel of an irresistible boardroom trophy.

It is written by a lawyer infinitely removed from the realities of the Arctic Sea Route, hence he has no grasp of a significance of Russia's Atom Fleet (Atomflot) and technologies which go into it, including the effect of climate change on the ice, which stubbornly doesn't want to follow "melting" forecasts by "climate emergency" shysters from primarily West's "academe". As I wrote a couple days ago, I remind you again--THIS IS the factor which plays a huge role, together with Russia's newest weapon systems, in all this process around Alaska meeting. Read my lips--it is called Atomflot. 

Atomflot is 11  mighty nuclear vessels (apart from a fleet of diesel-electric ice-breakers) 9 afloat, 2 building including a monster of project 10510 Rossiya, capable to navigate anywhere in Arctic, any season:

As was stated--the rest of the world is not even in the same league with Russia in terms of ice-breaker capability and in terms of Arctic research (one of the reasons why Russians laugh ay West's "climatologists"). James Tidmarsh concludes thusly: 

The incentives for both Trump and Putin line up neatly. For Trump, it would be another Trump ‘deal’ in which commercial muscle underwrites a political settlement. Putin would keep his territorial gains and reopen the Arctic to US investment, and Ukraine would be left to make the best of a settlement it didn’t shape. Britain and the EU would be reduced to a role of bystanders.

Why "would be", they already are despite me warning about inevitability of super powers finding some kind of modus vivendi, while the US is finishing Europe off (good riddance) not as a bystander but as a lunch, because US economic (gigantic) problems cannot be solved by means of a traditional method of imperialism--by unleashing war. The war "unleashers" in this case will be simply annihilated together with everything what is dear to them and there is a group of people in Trump Admin who recognized that they better find another solution, while reasonable Putin is still around. 

Obviously US' hoi polloi must be held pacified enough by means of BSing it into belief that the US is equal partner here (which it is not) to Russia in military-industrial terms and to a combined insane economic volume of BRICS, but that is fine--somebody in D.C. (especially military and intel professionals who retained their integrity), understood that without outright war, the only way the US can hope for hard but survivable landing, not catastrophic disintegration, is by means of playing it nice to BRICS. And maybe, just maybe, down the road when a new generation of American politicians comes to D.C. the US will be able to admit two major facts about itself:

1. That it lost the arms race by a knockout;

2. That it is just another great power among equals--this very small exclusive and prestigious club;

Per Europe, who cares--they wanted it, they got it. As one member of European Parliament told Russian MP--we have enough dogs and cops to keep Europe under control. For those who still don't understand, Orwell wrote 1984 and Animal Farm not about USSR--for starters he knew next to nothing about it--it was and is about Anglo societies. Today it is about whole of Europe. Oh, the historic irony! In the end, Europe achieved what seemed impossible even 10 years ago--it made Russians hate it. 

About Filtering ...

 ... or why Russians overwhelmingly laugh at the idea of Putin being "assassinated" in Alaska. Some news--this idea is a classic media operation by 404 and a cabal behind it. Sadly, very many people in the US also read all kinds of TG channels, often not understanding that those are used by SBU, GUR or even directly by a number of Kiev regime curators and it takes much more than mere turning the function of Russian translation on to recognize who and what one is dealing with. It requires a complete command of Russian language. I remind people who continue to believe all kinds of "analysis", that the ONLY analysis on the safety of Russian President in Alaska is done by FSO, FSB in coordination with Secret Service and possibly FBI. 

Here is Donny today delivering a blitz of verbiage:

After that he added some military wisdoms, which caused a storm of Homeric laughter across Russia, especially Trump's grasp of Kiev "offensive" in 2022. But he is correct, Alaska used to be Russian, so technically he is not incorrect, LOL)) Meanwhile, today, even ukrop propaganda machine admits ...

SMO continues. 

To People Who Still Get Manipulated ...

 ... by a shitstorm by West's media and "sources familiar with the matter"--unplug yourself. 

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has not been invited to attend next week’s summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump in the US, the Washington Post has reported, citing an official briefed on the negotiations. On Friday, Trump announced he would meet Putin on August 15 in Alaska. In the hours after the announcement, several outlets reported that Zelensky might take part in some form, with a senior White House official telling CBS News the planning was “still fluid” and that Zelensky could be involved. 

So, calm down. This criminal, of course, can fly in as a private citizen, but then again--all vacancies for janitors and housekeeping are filled in Anchorage hotels. So, the "he said, she said" will continue on the American side because media-political circus is the part of American "democracy", or rather--keeping hoi polloi occupied with BS, instead of asking serious questions. Having said that--behind the wall of BS and coping (and hoping), this is yet another revelation which sends the shiver down the spines of Pentagon generals and MIC executives:

Anybody who still thinks that Oreshnik is somehow the pinnacle of newest hypersonic weapons of Russia, I want to stress, again--learn how Russians approach weapons design and production. What is this newest system Ryabkov is talking about? It is not Iskander-M whose actual range is in thousands kilometers. It is also not Petrel (Burevestnik) which is now in serial production. Highly likely it is something entirely new which we didn't see before. I speak about this and other issues in my latest video today. Pop-corn time)) 

Two Can Play The Game.

I write books (the third one is being written now) on a conflict being usually an affair between the two, at least. One has to have counter-part to have a conflict. The moment BS by Axe and Dismukes "hit the waves", people who still have some cognitive faculties going for them started to react. I wrote couple things, now Caitlin Johnstone from Australia has a word. A reasonable one. Caitlin became famous after her famous Please, Just Fucking Die Already, when addressing this to late John McCain. One may argue with a style, it is not ethical, really, to wish somebody to "fucking die", but there was very little doubt that late McCain was very close to a definition of a war criminal and insane warmonger, so I leave it just at that. 

Johnstone wrote today a good piece on RT. She writes: 

Forbes has published two back-to-back articles about the analysis of retired Navy captain and political scientist Bradford Dismukes titled 'To Defeat China In War, Strangle Its Economy' and 'If Russia Invades Europe, NATO Could Sweep The Seas Of Russian Merchant Ships.' The articles were authored by a man named David Axe, who is my new favorite small-time war propagandist because he’s so desperate to be recognized for his imperialist stenography that he often approaches his spin jobs in an informatively unskillful and ham-fisted way. The best one I’ve found so far is this 2013 piece about the time he spent with the “rebels” of Syria, who he takes great pains to assure us are not terrorists or extremists but brave freedom fighters who’d successfully “liberated” large swathes of Syrian territory.

And, in general, the piece is good. I do disagree, however, with "strangling" strategy because to strangle China is a massive task especially when she has such an ally as Russia guarding China's rear, literally and by providing necessary resources. Those resources are enough to keep China in the game even if the US Navy will decide to disrupt Chinese SLOCs in Indian Ocean. This, for now, US Navy can do. It will make Chinese uncomfortable but I doubt it will have serious influence on Chinese posture. And here is a funny fact. Today, Russian pacific Fleet held exercises in Alaska's vicinity with one of the pr. 949A Oscar-II SSGNs Omsk deliberately surfacing at Bering Sea after launching her SS-N-19 Granit (Shipwreck) missiles. Missile Cruiser Varyag also launched her Voulcans and the video of that got into circulation from Ria (in Russian). That's the signal and it is a serious one--Ocean Shield naval exercise. As I always say, two can play the game and, as was expected, there were some news from Army-2020 regarding specifically this topic of "strategic ASW" and submarine operations in the 21st century. 

As TASS reports from Army-2020, Defense Ministry sources confirmed that starting from already laid down improved pr.885M SSGNs Voronezh and Vladivostok, subs of this type will be armed with advanced Kalibr (3M14) land attack missiles with the range of more that 4,000 kilometers (in Russian). For professional this means only one thing--"strategic ASW" becomes just a fancy term for sale on Capitol Hill and if current 3M14 with the range of 2,500 kilometers was bad enough, new range of 4,500 kilometers makes the area which will be required to be searched a teeny-weeny  3.14 x 4,500^2 which is around 63.5 million square kilometers--good luck for David Axe or Mr. Dismukes calculating required force and required operational sweep to get even to moderately acceptable probabilities (can we say 50-50?) of detection in trying to prevent a salvo at the mainland USA. They will need couple more navies of present size of US Navy to have at least some shot at detection or reaction to Flaming Datum. 

Now, the main question is: will other subs receive updated Kalibrs? The answer is really simple--why not. In fact, it is highly likely. Just to demonstrate what it all means one just needs to take a look at the map. Yes, then comes this funny question--forget Zircons and other hypersonic weapons--are we in the age of anti-ship missiles with ranges counted not in hundreds but thousands of kilometers? Absolutely. X-32 (1,000+ km), Kinzhal (2,000 km), Zircon (1,000 km) are already in service or in IOC. What's next, ASM with 3,000 kilometer range? Absolutely. This is the reality of the Real Revolution in Military Affairs and it completely rewrites tactical, operational and strategic manuals and directives. It completely redefines naval (and other three domains) warfare and don't tell me that I didn't warn you. Good luck with "blockade" of China, let alone Russia.