Evidently This Green Beret ...

 ... has a rather limited understanding of the nature of REAL war. Not surprising this trash is written by some Ukrainian guy in Harry Kazianis' pseudo military publication. 

Throughout the Russia–Ukraine war, special operations forces (SOF, or SSO in Ukrainian) have conducted many raids and missions to probe enemy defensive positions. Examples include Ukraine’s use of SOF probing operations in Bryansk and Kursk in 2023 and 2024 before launching its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in August 2024. At the same time, the drone war in Ukraine was rapidly accelerating. By 2025, Kyiv had established a drone wall, with virtually every part of the front monitored by uncrewed aircraft. Conducting maneuver warfare became increasingly difficult, and snipers and special forces operators also faced greater risks. ... ‘Xen’, a former US special forces operator who has worked with a Ukrainian special forces regiment, told me that in 2020, he had worked with a US SOF unit training Ukrainian special forces and that the instruction had been largely one-directional. Drone warfare had not changed battlefield doctrine, and the Ukrainian trainees were learning extensively from the Americans.

Well, I have news for the author of this drivel and VSU "learning from Americans" ... how to lose wars. VSU 100% is dependent on the US' world class ISR and C2, without it and with a steady flow, now chocked off, of supplies it would have collapsed much earlier. Moreover, Russians, while giving due to Ukie stubbornness and courage, have a rather mixed (euphemism for "is that it" surprise) reaction to the US "training", not to mention the fact that American view of "maneuvering" is born out of fighting either backward forces or civilians. In real war, US Army would be pinned down in assembly areas and destroyed. 

In general, this type of writing is designed for people with Tom Clancy's "level" of military expertise and lack of any clue about the role of special forces in a large scale combined arms operations. All this talk about drone warfare is a flavor of the season, but reality of countermeasures, as it is natural for people with the mentality of, at best, NCO, centers on the tactical picture. And even here, they still cannot grasp the fact that just today Russia shot down 1,060 NATO drones and will continue to do so as long as it takes. These numbers and resources which sustain SMO are beyond the grasp of the US military planners because the US military is incapable to fight protracted wars. It cannot sustain them and is now in the full retreat into the regional force with nuclear weapons. That's gotta hurt and it shows. 

It Is Called De-Sovietization.

Famous Lenin's dictum that Communism is the Soviet Political Power Plus Electrification of the Whole Country is being put in practice in 404 but in reverse. De-communization is the lack of the Soviet political power minus electrification of the whole country. What is happening right now across whole of 404 is unprecedented--the whole power generation and industrial capacity is being wiped out. Not only Dnepropetrovsk is dark, the other major industrial city and the main steel producing center Krivoi Rog is being de-communized with catastrophic consequences for not only power plant but steel foundries. 

Steel foundries are now stopped. Blackouts continue all over 404 and the tempo of strikes only grows. 

Now about this. 

The fact that the only real combat activity any NATO troops can conduct in 404 is that in "training" capacity and the ONLY combat maneuver vaunted "volunteers" from the US and other NATO militaries are known in SMO is ... fast retreat, aka withdrawal, sometimes really fast ... retreat, if you know what I mean. 

I will abstain here from commenting now on the abyss separating combat capability and, most importantly, level of combat training between Russian and US forces--this is not even funny. The first line storm groups of Russian infantry and marines are today the deadliest fighting force in the world and I am not even going into the universe of SSO (Forces of Special Operations)--this is a whole other level. Here is the work of SSO Volna in the rear of VSU. 

Inserting a few Deltas or Rangers or whatever near the line of combat contact in 404 in vain hope that they will get REAL combat experience in REAL war is just that--vain hope, because militaries fight as system and approaches to combat training and factors which go into that cannot be matched. It all starts from the top down and US military top is incompetent. Listening to the "opinions" of the US servicemen, from NCOs to officers on YT on "how it is supposed to be done" is risible. They don't know. In fact, they never knew. So, what's left? They need to cope. 

I'll See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon.

The KGB is on the grass.
The KGB is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.

The KGB is in the hall.
The SVR are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

The GRU is in my head.
The SSO is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. 

Senator: Russia has 'penetrated' Florida counties ahead of midterms

The Russian government has already “penetrated” some Florida state offices ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, according to a Democratic senator. “They have already penetrated certain counties in the state and they now have free rein to move about,” Sen. Bill Nelson told the Tampa Bay Times on Wednesday. Nelson, who is locked in a tough Senate reelection campaign against Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott, told the newspaper that the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee had told him to warn the election supervisors in Florida that the “Russians are in their records,” the Times reported.

Small comment from DHS followed:

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Sara Sendek told Yahoo News that the agency tasked with securing the nation’s elections was unaware of a specific new breach by the Russians in Florida.

If anyone forgot the title of this Pink Floyd's masterpiece from the immortal The Dark Side of The Moon--it is Brain Damage.