Ain't This Ironic, Eh?

 Yes, this is what normal civilized people do. 

HELSINKI, February 27. /TASS/. Russian icebreakers are providing assistance to several cargo ships stuck in the ice in the Gulf of Finland and in the territorial waters of Finland. This was reported by the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency. According to the agency, Finnish ships "are being assisted in the framework of international cooperation with Russian icebreakers" in accordance with the usual winter practice of navigation. Also, at the specific request of the agency, the Russian icebreaker can provide assistance to a cargo ship in the territorial waters of Finland.

Yes, this was supposed to be Europe of normal people. Not anymore. Western ruling class has something else in store for Europeans. Here is the news of a similar nature but ... 

The icebreaker “Neuwerk” was moved from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea to clear a channel to the frozen LNG terminal in the port of Mukran. Now, the “Neuwerk” has broken down due to a technical defect, causing the critical bottleneck to reappear. As a result, the LNG tanker “Minerva Amorgos” is still unable to dock at the terminal, as the channel to the port of Mukran remains impassable due to a thick layer of ice. The LNG tanker has been waiting in the ice-free zone in front of the LNG terminal for more than a week. 

Here is the map of Baltic Sea's ice situation from a few days ago. 

Here is a maneuver by forces by Russia. 

A heavy freeze in the Gulf of Finland forces Russia to move two icebreakers, among them the nuclear-powered Sibir, away from Arctic waters. On February 12, the Sibir entered Norwegian waters and subsequently sailed southwards on a course for St. Petersburg. In its wake followed the diesel-engined icebreaker Murmansk. It is freezing cold midwinter and the sea ice lies thick and heavy over Arctic waters. Ships are struggling to reach their destinations along Russia’s northernmost coasts. Nevertheless, Russia is redirecting a powerful nuclear icebreaker from the Arctic to the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland. Only a few days ago, the icebreaker was busy with icebreaking in the Gulf of Ob and Kara Sea. For most of January it was engaged in escorting a convoy of vessels to and from the east Arctic settlement of Pevek. On February 18, the Sibir arrived in St. Petersburg, where it immediately engaged in assisting ice-trapped vessels.

This is a great point for Russia's ice-breakers ship-builders and only buttresses Russia's "more is better" ice-breaking ideology. That is why coming of this:

Creates a panic today: 

NATO's falling behind in the race to build icebreakers, critical tools for a war in the Arctic. 

And for those who still need a reminder:

Speaking at the 6th International Arctic Forum, Likhachev said: "The volume of cargo has already amounted to tens of millions of tonnes with last year's record of nearly 38 million tonnes. Our northern deposits developers tell us to be prepared for hundreds of millions of tonnes ... now we need 11 icebreakers, which we already have (including eight nuclear icebreakers). We must move on to the next stage and plan 100 and 150 million tonnes and 15 to 17 icebreakers instead of 10 or 11. Therefore, we must construct them."

Do you see the pattern emerging? Recall--ah, hypersonic weapons are overrated. Ah, global warning will melt the ice soon. Ah ... That's what happens when your societies are run by lawyers, politicians with "degrees" in journalism and political "science", you know, by those know-it-alls who are dumb as stumps and have "egos larger than cathedral"(c). Hey, look at this guy. 

Yes, this is American general. And here is another clown:

You cannot explain to him what REAL integrated and networked air defense is. Remember closing sequence of first Matrix? It is all about OODA loop and the speed of decisions, their frequency which defines how you defeat an enemy. 

But yes, Ben Hodges needs to stay the hell away from AC in any transportation, because ... well, you know. 

These guys are constantly on prowl ... Boo! 

"history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce"(c) Karl Marx. 

Of Course, It Is Too Late ...

 ... but better late than never. Plus, I have news for this moron--even with the US, if God forbid it comes to this--NATO will not be able to "defend" against Russia, because Russians will not be moving ground forces first. They will simply decapitate NATO's military-political top.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned European leaders that they need the U.S. in order to defend themselves, comments that come as tensions between the U.S. and Europe have escalated amid President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland. "If anyone thinks here again that the European Union, or Europe as a whole, can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming. You can’t. We can’t. We need each other," Rutte said Monday in Brussels to the European Parliament. 

But the next critical question is--WHY the hell do Russians need Europeans, a bunch of freeloaders who hate Russian guts? Nope, Soviet Union made a mistake thinking that you can teach Europe humanity and decency. Never again. Especially today, when Russia marks the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad. Germans, Finns, Spaniards, others from present day EU and NATO took part in one of the grimmest crimes against humanity. More than 1 million civilians died in Leningrad. This was genocide. Russians never forget this. Today, this history strikes especially hard. 

But then again, combined West wants this for Russians, especially Europe. They failed then, they also failed now. For the US these numbers are beyond comprehension. 

Ahem, I Am Taking My Bows ...

 ... and my curtain calls)) Here is from Maria herself, about West's elites and their edikeishn)) 

When I talk, ad nauseam, about these creeps being uneducated--this is not a figure of speech; whole Western "elite" and their "academe" in any serious field--from governance to military--would be considered failures in Russia. Practically whole (with some exception) "humanities" field in the West related to history, governance and economics is an academic fraud as are those Ph.Ds who abuse academic sinecures BSing their students who merely, upon graduation, boost already a shocking rate of intellectual decay in the combined West. 

About This "Storage" ...

 ... of the "industrial plant" in Zhitomir. Allegedly Polish-made industrial machinery blew up)) 

Of course, something doesn't add up here. But something tells me that this "industrial machinery" from Poland was visited by Mr. Iskander or X-101. 

Meanwhile, Ka-52 shoots down 404 UAVs using Igla-V missiles. 

But the day wouldn't be complete without this cretin offering his opinion on Mr. Lavrov. 

So, yes--that's their "cultural" level. But another thing which should be kept in focus. No matter how we cuss (justifiably) DJT--this was the coup by the treasonous US "elites" and scumbags from DNC organized crime group. 

A US intelligence report on Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, commissioned by then-President Barack Obama, was nothing but a deliberate manipulation, CIA Director John Ratcliffe has said, citing his agency’s recent internal review. Known as the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Election Interference (ICA), the report kickstarted the Russiagate conspiracy, prompted special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, and “ate up the first two years” of President Donald Trump’s first term, Ratcliffe said in an interview with the New York Post published on Wednesday. The new CIA head ordered an internal review of the report in May. Obama ordered the ICA just six weeks before leaving office. According to the CIA review of its drafting and rushed release, declassified on Wednesday, then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were unusually and “excessively involved” in the process. “The rushed timeline to publish both classified and unclassified versions before the presidential transition raised questions about a potential political motive behind the White House tasking and timeline,” the review said, calling the work on the report “chaotic,” “atypical,” and “markedly unconventional.”  

The main question of course, since we knew it all along about all this, is--what are they going to do about what amounts to state treason? Right, nothing. I love those definitions--"markedly unconventional", yes, it is Washington's speak for BULLSHIT and that's the only thing they are good at.  

Yes, And?

 I have news--it is even more than that. 

We need to spend, produce more or we could be under threat in three, four, five years, Rutte says Rutte says the change in attitude in the last few years, particularly since Russian invasion of Ukraine, is “staggering.” And he warns that war-time Russia “produces, in core ammunition …, in three months what the whole of Nato, a 25 times bigger economy, produces in a year.” “If we don’t take actions now, if we don’t do this now, … the next few years we are fine, but … otherwise three, four, five years from now, we are really under threat,” he says.

And no, it is NOT about spending, it is about REAL resources and real economy. The gap in SMART High Precision and stand-off weapons is measured by the order of magnitude and the gap is widening.