Judge, Larry and Ray ...

 ... from Moscow. 

HIMARS Are Having A Very Difficult Time...

 ... everywhere in SMO zone. 

Modern ISR, guys. RUK (Recon-Strike Comlex) in action. Meanwhile, Ray nails it with defining Sullivan and Blinken as "relatively sane"...

... "relatively sane" being a euphemism for cowards. Plus, this is the essence of US "elites"--they only know elections and have no clue what escalation dominance is. The United States has no concept nor experience with this because it fights only weak enemies with the exception of the WW II. Moscow does hold escalation dominance, while Pentagon has no clue about the way Russian Armed Forces accumulate and manage reserves, hence a FUBAR in Kursk and catastrophe elsewhere (Toretsk, Pokrovsk etc.). Strategery, you know.

Ray And Nima...

... on Russian "experts" in the US.  

Ray says it. I also do non-stop the same. There is no Russia "expertise" in Washington. Russian Studies field in the West is academic and professional fraud--99% of it. The remaining 1% of real experts are not allowed anywhere near sinecures in the so called National (In)security circuit and think-tanks. I repeated it again today at Nima's--the US doesn't have strategic intelligence and real strategic forecasting as such. Do not exist. Meanwhile, a very good text on Kursk Catastrophe (in Russian), which also elaborates (with numbers) on how Border Guards of FSB in Kursk blunted the VSU drive.

Ray and Larry...

 ... having a superb discussion at Judge's. 

 

Judge And Ray.

On the events.