Karaganov, Dugin, Lukyanov ...

 ... et al. Finally RT delivered on this critical issue of psyops 101. 

Gotcha: How the BBC falsely presented a pundit as ‘Kremlin adviser’ to peddle Russia threat. The British state broadcaster has misrepresented a Russian political commentator as a senior official, amplifying his claims of looming attacks on UK drone plants. 

This is a classic "plant"--find somebody who is nobody in Russia, start presenting him (her) as some important person--recall Dugin being "adviser" to Putin--and then start using this nobody as a reference. Karaganov? This dude who never held a real job, forget about serious government post, in his life contradicted Lavrov the next day after Lavrov made a statement on no use of nuclear weapons. 

These people are nothing more than infoshysters who are into business of promoting themselves while having zero qualifications to talk on any issue of geopolitics and power balance. Exhibit A of this primitive operations is Solzhenitsyn--a rather mediocre writer, whose motives on writing a pile of garbage are well known--who was "referenced" so much in the West, that the West started to believe in scribbles of this petty shyster. Varlam Shalamov was explicit:

Not a single bitch from "progressive humanity" is to go near my archive. I forbid the writer Solzhenitsyn—and anyone who shares his views—from examining my archive.

What do we have today? Well, you all know the WW II "history" per Colonel McGregor. In the long run, however, same Solzhenitsyn inadvertently worked against West because he convinced it in its own high standards even when criticizing it. Women have this trick in loving a rather unattractive girlfriends as the affirmation of their own attractiveness. Nothing is new under the Sun. My new video today is partially about it. 

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. 

Good One))

From RT no less. 

You see, this is the only way you can communicate with Europeans))

Seriously? Could?

 So, Michael Maloof thinks that it could. OK. 

Neither Ukraine nor its Western backers have any means to counter Russia’s newly deployed intermediate-range Oreshnik missile, Michael Maloof, a former senior Pentagon security analyst, told RT in an interview on Friday. Maloof noted that the Oreshnik could “easily shift the balance of power overwhelmingly in favor” of Russia in any conflict, including the ongoing hostilities with Ukraine. “Having a hypersonic [missile] for which there’s no defense currently… is astonishing. It absolutely alters that balance of power dramatically, for which the Ukrainians have no defense,” he said. He noted that while the US is working to adapt missile defense systems such as THAAD to counter hypersonic threats, these programs remain under development. “There’s no operational ability at this point to deal with a hypersonic missile,” Maloof said, adding that the Oreshnik could reach its targets within mere minutes.

Granted, the title is a production of headless morons from RT, Maloof's statement is a bit more assertive. But in related news, neither 404 not its backers have any means to counter:

1. Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missile;

2. 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missile;

3. Iskander (quasi)ballistic missile;

4. Combined salvo of X-101 and P-800 Onyx ...

And the list goes on, and on, and on. The shift of balance of power had happened after March 1st, 2018 at Vladimir Putin's Address to Federal Assembly. It is a fait accompli. Oreshnik, which is now in serial production and first serial complex has been already deployed into the first line unit is just another nail into the coffin of always exaggerated West's "supremacy". What comes next after Oreshnik, and it is coming, we can only guess. 

I Would Say, They ...

 ... have to be more circumspect at RT, otherwise their headlines come across as something from titles of porn movies.  

Mineral desire: Moscow has enough to satisfy India

I am not against India's mineral desire (wink, wink) but Moscow is also feminine, so--let the fantasy fly. 

Looking In The Mirror.

Or why journalism is not a profession. RT is at it again. This is not to say that German social democrats are normal people--they are not--but when correctly stating this: 

Two members of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party have made a mistake while campaigning for the upcoming federal election, confusing a German submarine with a Russian one. Christina Schubert, a Bundestag candidate from the port city of Kiel, and lawmaker Kristian Klinck, who was born in the same city – both from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) – shared a post on Instagram over the weekend, hailing parliament’s recent approval of the purchase of German-made Type 212CD submarines. However, instead of the German vessel, the post featured a Russian Kilo-class submarine (“Project 636”).

They provide a photo and laugh (rightly so) at these losers. 

But in the same piece they themselves fuck it up (which is expected from most journo-"experts") and stick a photo of the project 641B SSK (NATO's Tango-class) as ... pr. 636 Kilo. 

You cannot fix it--they still think that in the XXI century these illiterate hacks can remain the masters of discourse. They cannot, SMO demonstrated it perfectly, as well as an economic, social and cultural calamity in the combined West. 

RT Continues on Course ...

China has shown some technology demonstrators which most military porn masturbators called "6th generation" whatever. Those are not 6th generation anything, nor are they fifth generation, whatever they are--for that one must have 5th generation (forget about sixth generation) engine to start with. China doesn't have one. But guess what, RT invited an "expert" to comment on this. 

The images of China’s brand new warplanes, which appeared online this week, is a bold “invitation” to an arms race for a next-generation fighter, Dmitry Stefanovich,  a military researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has told RT.  

The whole assertion here about "invitation to an arms race" which HAS never stopped and in which (as far as the combat air is concerned) China lags doesn't bother either RT crew or Stefanovich who is pivotal for the whole drivel in article about "arms race" in RT. But guess what, if that hasn't been enough, Stefanovich produces a wowser of a statement in the end: 

Beijing will have to compete with American next-generation fighter programs, Stefanovich said. “While there are no game-changers on the horizon, China is explicitly inviting to participate in an arms race, at least in terms of quality,” he said. “We should not forget, however, that the US is the only country with an advanced-stage program for a new strategic bomber – the B-21 – which can be adapted for some of what we would call sixth-generation capabilities. The Chinese and Russian planes of comparable type have not taken off the ground yet,” Stefanovich said.  

So, who is Mr. Stefanovich? I guess you already know where it all goes. Let's review the pedigree of this "military expert". 

But, of course, he is a good ol' boy from MGIMO with humanities degree and zero STEM and military background. He is a classic representative of an unemployable class of people who are not suited for any serious productive labor (per Schumpeter) be it physical or intellectual one. Yet, somehow, the guy who wouldn't understand the first thing about anything serious military goes to state that B-21 is a "new strategic bomber". Well, should Stefanovich or his employer Vatfor (a collection of journos and likes) have been around real military professionals, they would have learned that B-21 is something what real US naval aviators with immense carrier and aggressor squadron experience wrote about US naval (and in general) combat aviation 24 years ago:

"Money spent furthering manned aircraft technologies and programs—the CVNX (proposed Nimitz-class carrier replacement) being one of them—is like polishing cannonballs so they will fly a little farther."

It applies broadly to B-21 which may have one-two of the so-called "6th generation" features such as being capable of unmanned missions and allegedly "stealthier" than its parent B-2 while featuring ... 4th generation weapons which the US is simply incapable to develop and is stuck with legacy systems such as TLAM and, at best, 1,900 km range AGM-158 B2 JASSM-ER. This is pathetic compared with 3rd-4th generation of Russian bomber platforms capable of carrying and launching Kh-101 with the range of 5,500 km and Kh-BD with 8,000 + km range. But here we ran immediately into operational matters which are not easily understood by people with zero military background and who, like Stefanovich, will not even understand what they are looking at right in a front of their faces. 

It is a bomber conundrum today, because of the immense range of stand-off weaponry those (only Russian) bombers carry, it seems that the priority is given to TU-160M which is supersonic, fully netcentric and has state-of-the-art avionics (navigation-targeting complex). Every one of these weapons can be launched without leaving the safety of Russia's air space and imposes a completely different technological requirements on Russian bomber force. In this case, B-21 actually looks like an anachronism birthed within the obsolete US combat air doctrine which no insanely expensive and dubiously effective bomber such as B-21 can save. In the end, this "6th generation" weaponry and systems have seen a real combat already in SMO, including the use of drones (one of the S-70 Okhotniks malfunctioned and was shot down by the Su-57 pilot), including swarms (Su-35S has similar netcentric and swarm control capabilities as Su-57 and now latest Su-30SM2s). And we know that Tu-160Ms have full similar capability. 

Per "new strategic bomber"--it seems like it is almost impossible to explain to pseudo-experts that in the end it is a COMPLEX, or weapon SYSTEM, which consists of a platform and weapons it carries--one doesn't exist without another. The United States has lost missile arms race (well, the arms race, period) by a knockout and we may only guess what a truly new strategic bomber Russia works on currently will be and what weapons it will carry. One can extrapolate the strike capability which will include new generation of hypersonic weapons with enormous range, as well as other stand-off weapons which will have a truly global reach. As per "game-changers", Stefanovich needs to try harder, because hypersonic weapons and weapons such as R-37 AAM and Russian AD changed the air war completely, they didn't just change the game, they created a completely new one, making the whole USAF obsolete. But Stefanovich wouldn't know that--one must be a professional and even that is not a guarantee against continuing playing a Hollywoodesque shell game by believing military porn. But then again ... unemployable. 

When even these morons started to suspect something ... 

Panel On RT...

 ... yesterday. 

 

Let's Make It Clear.

Yes, Germans (not all) hate Russian guts and whatever is left of Bundeswehr is dreaming about "giving it to them, damn Russische swine". 

The full text of what is claimed to be a discussion by senior German military officers on how to attack the Crimean Bridge in Russia was published by RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan on Friday. She reported that Russian security officials had leaked the recording hours earlier and has pledged to release the original audio shortly. Simonyan identified the officers as General Ingo Gerhartz, the German Air Force commander, and senior leaders responsible for mission planning. The alleged conversation took place on February 19, according to the source of the leak. The transcript reveals the officials discussed the efficiency of the Franco-British cruise missile called Storm Shadow by the UK and SCALP by France. Both nations donated some of their stockpile to Ukraine.

But what RT reported is pretty standard military mambo-jumbo which everybody discusses. I am 146% positive Russian military professionals discuss how to sink a carrier or two or how to drop a number of critical infrastructure objects in EU and USA. What is peculiar, however, is the intensity of insanity which struck all those NATO military "professionals", who are facing a disintegration of Ukie front and all 12 Stormshadows which have been launched at the bridge today have been shot down. I guess, Russians may consider blowing the shit out of some UK or French infrastructure. France now wants to officially send its "special forces" to 404. Russia may officially sink some of French frigates, I guess, and kill those "special forces", of course. Not that Russia will do it for the first time. All signs from the West of being cornered, hence hysterical statements.

On Being A Tool...

 ... or a fool or why I stopped cooperating with RT, which is a tribune for Valdai boys with pedigrees like this:

Andrey Sushentsov

Russian Federation

Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Dean of the School of International Relations at MGIMO University. Mr. Sushentsov specializes in the US foreign policy in international conflicts, as well as in South Caucasus, Ukraine, and the Middle East. He has substantial experience of analytical work. He took part in applied researches on the United States’ foreign policy, conflict resolution in South Caucasus, Ukraine, and the Middle East. In his studies, he examines the spheres of conflicting interests of Russia and the United States in Europe, the Middle East and the post-Soviet space. He was a Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Guido Carli Free University of International Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Harvard University and Middlebury Institute for International Studies in Monterey. He is a member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and of the Working Group on the Future of Russian-American Relations. 

In other words, Sushetsov is a product of degree mills in the US and is shaped as "professional" by the environment which produced a staggering number of diplomatic and governing failures. So, it is no wonder that he writes the piece with the title which even commenters on RT board laughed at.  

Andrey Sushentsov: Here’s why the US can’t get along with the other major global powers. American elites believe in democracy at home and dictatorship abroad; that’s why the world is so dangerous right now. 

I wonder what stone did he sleep under for the last 24 years? Yes, I am talking about well coordinated assault on the American Constitution and Bill of Rights, starting from Patriot Act and final subversion of Capitol Hill by Israel. Boy, those Valdai boys are slow. But if that hasn't been enough, Sushentsov goes to prove Arthur Clark's Third Law that:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Modern military technology as well as its tactical and operational use, as well as formulation of military doctrine and strategy are extremely complex and require people with serious military and engineering background. This whole thing is in the foundation of global balance of power. But for Mr. Sushentsov who has a "soft degree" in essentially nothing, formation of the global power balance is indistinguishable from magic, because none of the Valdai boys have cognitive tools to grasp it. Because of that Sushentsov invents things trying to explain what he doesn't understand and views as magic.

Ukraine is a convenient, rather cheap tool for the US to weaken and contain Russia, and to force its European allies to keep their discipline and obey. This is all part of an international struggle for a new form of hierarchy.  Of course, it’s just a temporary phenomenon until a new balance of power, recognized by all, is established.

I have news for Sushentsov--recognition is always achieved through coercion and deterrence. In other words, this recognition and, hence, power balance are formed by those who know how to fight a war and win it. The whole structure of the international relations in XX and XXI centuries rests on warfare and industrial might. It will continue to be such until the United States is completely stripped off its grossly exaggerated military might, both through defeat in Ukraine and continuous unstoppable de-industrialization, and a complete loss of remnants of the US mythology as "the finest fighting force in history". This whole thing is in progress and it is Russia, and China, who already dictate conditions, with Russia leading the way because she did what China still cannot do--she accepted NATO's military challenge and brought about the implosion of the West as we know it. You see, magic. 

In other news, for those who still view Metternich (or Kissinger) as some kind of great diplomatic minds, as Stalin once responded to attempts to convince him on importance of Pope: "and how many divisions does the Pope have?" Until these guys understand that no diplomacy matters until one has Mr. Kinzhal and Mr. Borei-A behind diplomacy and international relations--they will continue to write this nonsense about the United States, its oligarchy selling "democracy" gospel to stupid, and power balance. Difficult to figure it out in XXI century without serving a day in armed forces and studying Theory of Operations, physics and systems integration. The might was always right in human history and it always was about the nature of this might.

Look at it--it is magic of the Project 955A Borei--it is a foundation of Russian diplomacy. I would love to quote Mr. Ostap Bender from the conclusion of the 12 Chairs immortal classics, but I only can quote Hofstadter:

… the complexity of modern life has steadily whittled away the functions the ordinary citizen can intelligently and comprehendingly perform for himself. In the original American populistic dream, the omnicompetence of the common man was fundamental and indispensable. It was believed that he could, without much special preparation, pursue the professions and run the government. Today he knows that he cannot even make his breakfast without using devices, more or less mysterious to him, which expertise has put at his disposal; and when he sits down to breakfast and looks at his morning newspaper, he reads about a whole range of vital and intricate issues and acknowledges, if he is candid with himself, that he has not acquired competence to judge most of them(c)

And don't call me Shirley.

This Is Normal...

 ... for thugs, considering the fact that neocons in D.C. being genocidal maniacs probably would love to hear more on this issue and even go further. 

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entire family with “criminal trials” and long prison sentences, during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday. Zelensky’s address to the gathering of aspiring global leaders focused on asking for more weapons, money, and ammunition so he could continue to fight Russia. At one point, however, he made a reference to the Russian leader’s family. Putin will not “rest in peace, both in this world and in the next,” said Zelensky. "Neither his children, nor his grandchildren.” The Russian leader is “the sole reason why various wars and conflicts persist” and he must be held accountable so his “aggression” doesn’t embolden other “autocracies,” Zelensky insisted. “Yes, we are not terrorists, and therefore these will be criminal trials,” after which Putin and his entire family would spend “a long, multi-year vacation” behind bars, he added.

Of course, it is very pleasant for Ze and his curators such as Vikki Nuland to wet dream about this, but they still cannot wrap their brains around the fact that the balance of power in the world not just shifted, but shifted dramatically on a historic scale and the West is in a death spiral. One cannot rewrite history. 

Here is an example of a brainwashed by Western "education" Russian liberal from Valdai who still believes in a BS of rewriting history. This is one of the reasons I do not communicate with RT anymore--they continue to promote obvious demagogues who cannot formulate basic fundamental things. 

Timofey Bordachev: The US and Russia have vastly different ideas about who defeated Hitler’s Nazis, and here’s why it’s a problem. When a top American politician thinks the US liberated Ukraine in WWII, it’s clear we are no longer on the same page.  

It doesn't matter who have what ideas, the truth is KNOWABLE and always is. For some it is God, for others it is beauty, for others it is a historic process supported by facts, numbers and fundamental laws. So, even the opinion of a whole cabal of neocons in D.C. or morons from King's College in London who pretend that they know war means nothing in the larger scheme of things--reality manifests itself always and it is a four wheel drive bitch. E.g. "degree" in political "science" or in "politics" should be considered a disqualifying factor in any public discussion on matters of serious applied geopolitics. I cannot "research" advances in DNA-based treatment of cancer because I have no fucking clue what it is and have no education in that. I may try to study it and I probably end up on the level of a second trimester of a medical school freshman, but that's about it. 

How somebody who has zero background in anything, literally, other than a compilation of a facts smugly known in the West as "the range of interpretations" can offer opinions on WW II, or somebody being "military historian" without having at least introductory course in Operational Research and Operational Planning and engineering defies my understanding. Especially, against the background of SMO, which produced a deadly shock for anyone in the West with IQ higher than the room temperature. We are talking about things of a scale of discarding most, not all, humanities studies in the West as degree mills for pseudo-scientific fraud. Today, Vladimir Putin stated what many knew already. 

“It’s probably possible to falsify anything. Just like the previous elections in the US were falsified through voting by mail. Well, it’s clear what voting by mail is. They bought ballots for $10, wrote them in, and without any supervision from observers, tossed them into mailboxes. And there you go,” Putin said.

How did this course in "politics" go, Mr. Bordachev, in Bruges? I am sure they "taught" a lot about "democracy"/s. In related news, educated people read Plato or Machiavelli on their own and can easily pass exams on demagoguery, ah... pardon me, politics. My bad.  

Why I Am Ready To Explode...

 ... each time I read some "analysis" from some pol.sci-journo "expert" in nothing who knows nothing but platitudes passed as "expertise". I spoke about this in my latest video, but I need to elaborate:

Andrey Sushentsov: War will be a constant in the 21st century, but only a few countries can mount a truly major conflict. Until the global balance of power is properly reset, dreams of world peace will have to wait 

Immediately, for Sushentsov and RT's information--war was ALWAYS a constant in human history. It is an omnipresent reality and the "dreams of world peace" among real military-intel professionals, unlike Sushentsov and this cabal from Valdai, is merely measured by intensity of the conflicts--relatively high, relatively low. But there is always a WAR. A conflict. But what do you expect from such "expert":

Andrey Sushentsov is an EASI-Hurford Next Generation fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focused on Russian policy toward Ukraine and the future of Russian-Ukrainian interdependence. Sushentsov is also a political analyst and international relations scholar at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and a managing partner with the Moscow-based consulting agency Foreign Policy Analysis Group. His publications include books on U.S. politics and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, “America’s Small Wars” and “Essays on U.S. Politics and Regional Conflicts,” both published in Russian in 2014, as well as articles and reports on U.S.-Russian and Russian-Georgian relations. In his field-based research, Sushentsov pays special attention to collision of U.S. and Russian interests in Ukraine and the South Caucasus. In 2015, he edited a volume of Russian perspectives on international security issues looking ahead to 2020. Sushentsov was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies in 2007 and at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 2008. He was a visiting professor at Rome LUISS University in 2013 and at Armenian State University of Economics in 2014. He is participating in a Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations established by Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and Harvard University

RT continues to provide tribune to illiterate pseudo-academics with serious Western background, which is a euphemism for being trained within fraudulent US academia as related to modern history, Russia and warfare. How the guy who has zero STEM military-intel background (a defining feature of all those Valdai guys) and who spent all his adult life within the confines of utterly corrupt American think-tankdom can pass any judgement on war is beyond belief. 

So, the guy continues:

The military crisis raging in Eastern Europe has dispelled the illusion that the era of large armies is a thing of the past. Military thinking among leading powers is beginning to move away from the 2000s maxim that the goal of war is to dazzle and stun the enemy to lower its technological level and prevent it from waging 21st century warfare, knocking out its high-precision, mobile, deep-coverage capabilities. Looking at these trends, can we say that warfare in the 21st century will be highly mobile, highly technological, and fought with small numbers? Or, alternatively, are we seeing a return to the historical norm of large armies? The risk of great power wars is increasing, and small and mobile forces have no significant advantages over large ones based on population mobilization. Indeed, it seems that the characteristics of a major military conflict between comparable powers will be exactly the same as they have been throughout history.

Seriously, dude? How about talking to senior officers, especially with operational and strategic level experience--I mean talking, if they will talk, not collecting rumors--why very few of them appreciated Mr. Serdyukov's reforms, especially with brigade-based structure. How about recalling that late Mr. Shlykov altogether called for abolition of General Staff and copying... US C2 structure. It was exactly your environment of pro-Western liberals (naturally ignorant and badly educated) which called for decades for disposing of the Soviet military science experiences and research. But then again, what can you expect from an academic shyster who barely knows the difference between ballistic and cruise, and that is why his conclusion is infuriating:

War is once again a constant, but a very narrow circle of countries will be capable of mounting a truly major conflict.

ONCE AGAIN? Once Again? Mr. Sushentsov, pray tell, when was the last time that war was not a constant? Do you mean Korea, Vietnam, two Afghanistans, one in 20th, the other in 21st centuries. Or do you mean the breakup of Yugoslavia throughout 1990s, resulting in the gang rape of Serbia by NATO in 1999. How about both Chechnyas? Or maybe Africa was a calm place? Gulf Wars? 

It is down right risible when some boys from MGIMO begin to wax warfareish having ZERO, zilch, nada tool kit for grasping the nature of the conflict which comes through understanding the tools of the conflict, and those things are not taught in their educational institutions. But then it is clear why that none of them produced any serious strategic thought in ages, actually never, merely retelling news headlines and parasitising on other people's ideas whose depth none of them can grasp. In the end, it has to be stated that all greatest modern strategic works of humanity, all, without exception, be that Clausewitz, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Fuller, Svechin, Gorshkov, Moltke to name a few, all, without exception have been created by cadre military officers. And even not so great works of strategy, such as air forces fantasy by Douhet or Jeune Ecole by Aube, still have been written by professional military people.  

Among the class of political "scientists", however, we have only risible geopolitical fantasies written by amateurs such as Huntington, Fukuyama, Brzezinski and platitude abuser Kissinger, to name a few, whose ideas have been discredited the moment those ideas have been put in print. Yet, here we are again, some semi-literate hacks continue to provide Karaganovesque pseudo-military BS and, of course, these "experts" are given again the tribune at RT. How about RT calls on real military professionals in Russia to express their opinions? I am sure there are plenty of those in Russia who would make RT's military "experts" look like a middle-schoolers who failed math test, who most of them, essentially, are. For Sushentsov, however, while it is not too late--how about he tries some military educational facility. Hey, I am sure they will make an exception for him in, say, Combined Arms Order of Zhukov Academy? He will need to freshen up his physics, higher math, mechanics, statistics... Ah, wait, what am I talking about--the kid will need to get his Form 1A clearance for starters. Forget it.     

Disclaimer: For those who do not follow me on this issue from the get go. I am officially done with RT, do not want to do anything with them other than news aggregator. RT's last remaining REAL military expert is Scott Ritter. Only he has a background for talking about modern war.

Meanwhile RT Continues...

 ... to provide the tribune to some obviously shady amateurs--running along the front-line and calling oneself a military correspondent--does not make one a military planner and military professional. Vladislav Ugolny is represented as a Russian journalist born in Donetsk. You will find precious little about this guy, except that he is not military and he was... the head of Russian department of BBC called "Svet", he himself confirms it (in Russian). In other words, yet another creep similar to Rybar, Cassad, Edda et al. Look what he writes and rudderless RT (Simonyan is too busy parading herself a fool that she is at Russian TV) publishes this crap:

Over the year and a half of the military operation, Ukraine has become more capable of acting in the Black Sea region and has gradually moved from exclusively defensive to offensive tactics. This has been possible because of foreign assistance and the transfer of weapons capable of striking the rear positions of the Russian military. As a result, both sides attack each other’s military infrastructure without being able to completely destroy the enemy’s forces. However, while Ukraine is concentrated only in this region, Russia’s scope of action is broader – it continues to destroy military facilities along the entire length of the front line and can exert pressure on Ukraine’s strategic rear. Meanwhile, the victory of either side can only be ensured by means of a land operation – eventually, either the Russian flag will return to Odessa or the Ukrainian flag will fly over Sevastopol. Otherwise, the region will only face further escalation and constant threats, including terrorist attacks. 

To illustrate what kind of creature this BSer is, here is him:

As you can see yourself, he is fresh from puberty and is in dire need to prove himself a strategist of global scale. Hence:

Meanwhile, the victory of either side can only be ensured by means of a land operation – eventually, either the Russian flag will return to Odessa or the Ukrainian flag will fly over Sevastopol. Otherwise, the region will only face further escalation and constant threats, including terrorist attacks (c).  

Yes, and then they will take Moscow. It is impossible to explain to RT and Simonyan, who is utterly unqualified to run anything, except into the ground, and who has zero serious background in anything, that most (not all, exceptions like Scott Ritter are far and between) of RT's "military experts" are full of shit ignoramuses, even when they have former military ranks. So, something is wrong at RT, not with Ugolny who merely desperately tries to talk about things he has no clue about. My suggestion to RT is to "hire" military "experts" from high schools. And no, I have no intentions to offer myself as such, I simply see no reason of continuing to appear at RT.

Ilya Kramnik...

... is no "military expert". He never was. Graduating Moscow State University with law degree and then "transitioning" to "journalism" and studying warfare (in Russian), LOL, he, nevertheless, managed to insert himself, the same as recently fired director of the Institute of the USA and Canada, into the peacetime media "military expert" cabal. RT, whose only real military expert who writes for them in English is Scott Ritter, decided to inquire Mr. Kramnik about SMO. In the piece filled with platitudes and conjectures he makes, however, one fascinating conclusion. Exactly the kind one would expect from Moscow's humanities dumbed down Beau Monde, who, having zero military background, such as Karaganov, among many others, and having no clue about the subject of their "study" (combined West), still continue to wax "strategic". 

Here is what Kramnik states:

NATO could have avoided this situation by increasing the production of weapons and military equipment back in 2022, and deploying additional production facilities. In this case, some progress would already have been visible by the winter of 2023-24. However, the bloc did not have a unified vision regarding additional weapons production, which severely complicated the decision-making process. Not a single NATO politician was ready to guarantee arms manufacturing companies a steady, large-scale demand for weapons once the conflict in Ukraine ended. Moreover, even though the scale of the conflict is significant, it is in some cases insufficient to ensure the necessary demand for new weapons. Finally, it should be noted that a number of Western politicians and military leaders believed that the current military aid to Ukraine would suffice to meet the goals of 2023 – obviously, this was due to false conclusions made as a result of the battles in the Kharkov and Kherson regions in the summer-fall of 2022. 

Kramnik, as any Moscow "expert" who never worked a day worth in actual serious professional capacity, let alone served as cadre officer, and has zero STEM and serious industry background, continues to exercise a delusion that combined West could have, should the political guarantees have been extended to military-industrial complex, somehow ramped up weapons production and delivery to VSU. That exposes Kramnik as nothing more than a shyster who, while working for the section of the study of the US in the Institute of the Economic Relations and International Relations, didn't study modern US and especially its industrial capacity, or, rather lack thereof, and has absolutely no concept of how utterly corrupt and impotent Pentagon's procurement policies have been failing for decades preceding SMO. 

Generally, when I read all kinds of Russian "experts" RT loves to publish on matters of geopolitics, waxing all "strategic" and "doctrinal" and using such big words as "unified vision", I am forced to repeat what I am writing for years now--you do not have serious STEM background, military academic background and military-intel serious professional experience on the level of brigade staff office or CO of the company and larger--you cannot be taken seriously. And even that, as is being demonstrated by the bulk of US and UK generals, is not a guarantee from being stupid. And then there is this teeny-weeny factor of clearance, which for people like Kramnik or Valdai boys, quoting my friend colonel Volodya Trukhan (you can hear it at Vera's, Volodya and my podcast only on VK) is defined as "get the fuck out of here clearance". So, if Kramnik doesn't understand fundamental issues of CINC (Composite Index of National Capability), or never internalized what Jeffrey Barnett prophetically defined in Parameters as 14 keys to power in early 1990s, I don't know how to help people like Kramnik. 

Kramnik, unlike me, with my rich experience of working in US commercial aerospace, also has no idea about criticality which accumulated in whatever is left in American industries, especially in terms of R&D and labor force, and, of course, he would have difficulty comprehending purely operational issue presented on a professional level--a precise level which is occupied by military professionals who calculate and plan a lot, and this cannot be "studied" without having prerequisites I listed above, namely professional military-intel background. And here we go again, RT provides the tribune to all kinds of Russian "experts" none of who, surprise, surprise, has any clue what they are talking about, OR, when such "experts" as Colonel Khodaryonok, who wouldn't find his ass with both hands in a brightly lit room as far as practical geopolitics is concerned, live by generating platitudes which, most of the time, contain no meaningful information.  

And so it goes on, and on, and on, and when I talk to my friends in Russia, the answer to the question of why my books will not be translated and published in Russia, the answer is simple--a large portion of Russian media Americanists and "military experts" should be then thrown out of work as shysters and BSers. Many of them are. Sadly, I cannot post here the link to Solovyov's video a couple of days ago when this creature suddenly... assaulted all those "military bloggers" and voenkors he himself... promoted so actively. Well, times are changing, aren't they. Everybody wants to be at the filled to the brink trough and fat media tit of Russian State, but it is too late for them--they discredited themselves in the most dramatic manner. And that is the "unified vision" Kramnik better acquaints himself with, before writing anything on issues he has zero understanding. The time of real professionals has come.