If Anyone Wonders ...

 ... about consequences of arrival of Russian stand-off weapons to ArcerolMittal foundry in Krivoy Rog. Here are some "insights". 

You can see in the second video the portion of damaged furnace assembly (or however it is called--I am not a metallurgist).  

Something tells me that the arrivals will continue until the whole damn thing ceases to operate in any possible way. This is by far the largest steel production facility in 404 and it is not 404's, it is really a Soviet one. Communists built it and maintained. So, decommunization is in order. As you might understand, you cannot wage war without steel. Steel is in the foundation of modern civilization--this is the fact that boys from Palantir don't get. But then again, they, as well as Pentagon or CIA reside in the virtual world of computer code, gizmos and gadgets whose utility is at best questionable. Just look at the US armed forces with all those concepts in SMO and Iran.   

Scott Ritter penned a good piece today on this AI fad. Strongly recommend you to read it. 

AI represents the greatest danger to the practitioner of modern warfare. It makes the user intellectually weak, as it encourages mental subordination to an algorithm, and as such a lack of flexibility when it comes to dropping existing mental models in favor of newly developed models. The OODA loop is most effective when wielded by a well-trained human mind capable of discerning patterns based upon adequate orientation to the task at hand. While one might believe that AI would be able to perform a similar function, this simply is not the case.

Elimination of the enemy's manufacturing base and personnel of its armed forces is the stepping stone in achieving political objectives of the war. Simple as ... 

About the "Big Picture".

Scott nails it. I have been at this thesis for almost two decades. 

The US has no experts in Russia--not in CIA, not in Academe, not in Pentagon, not is State Department. It is the result of an overall decline always second rate US intellectual class and confirmation bias. In case of, say, late Brzezinski--also a result of personal vendetta by a mediocrity reaching a serious government post. 

The US empire was sliding towards the abyss for a while, and indicators of this collapse warrant to be revisited in light of a new information becoming available with each passing day. Meanwhile, the US military will find, yet again, the excuse that it is strictly 404 thing, while, of course, this is the "American Way of War"--killing civilians. 

Children, again. Pure terrorism--this is what they do, kill civilians, children. This is Gelendzhik. My today's video is titled Banality of Evil. Washington and Brussels will never whitewash themselves. Russians view the West as evil. Rightly so. A few exceptions of people of morality, honor and integrity merely confirm this fact. 

Thank You, Scott.

Karaganov is nothing more than the so called political pseudo-scientist who never was adviser to anyone, never held any government position, and whose ONLY occupation is to promote himself. He has zero military background, he has zero understanding of the warfare, especially nuclear one and ignores, non-stop, Russia's obligations and such documents as Foundations of the State Policy (of Russian Federation) on Nuclear Containment. He is a hack who uses his PR persona to articulate idiotic amateurish ideas on a subject he has no clue about other than one-liners from people who do hold serious positions in Russian military-political hierarchy and who are professionals. Admittedly Karaganov has some access to such people.

My warnings about Karaganov in the West are very weak and could easily be dismissed because of a number of possible excuses which could be made about my background and possible biases. But this is gold. Karaganov cannot create any doctrine (which is the system of the views) because he has no system and professional views to do so. It is fallacy, not a "doctrine" and I am glad Scott made this video. 

No Uncertain Terms.

Rick, it was Zelenograd. Scott gives a very good rundown and yes, China is aware of all proceedings. Rumor has it--there are China's military people who are embedded with Russian MoD. 

Randy Credico on Friday.

Did interview with Scott Ritter, Andrei Martyanov, Sevim Dagdelen & Garland Nixon.

Scott Elaborates On The Matter ...

 ... as a military professional.

Karaganov is NOT military professional, he is a demagogue who failed to insert himself into any position in the Russian Foreign Ministry and was always in the business of self-promotion and self-proclamation of being "adviser" to whoever was a flavor of the decade. He is not and never was any "adviser" to President Putin and he has no a faintest idea about issues related to Russia's Military Doctrine and the use of nuclear weapons (Foundation of State Policy on Nuclear Containment). In general, he is an incompetent hack who simply uses his position of being born and tied to privileged Soviet families and that's the extent of his "skills". In fact, his statements are the statements of a media attention-seeking whore. He is fake. 

Now, per strikes--all indicators are that Russia will strike Europe. Russia doesn't need to use nukes because she has more than enough conventional means for both destruction of a critical industrial infrastructure involved in support of 404 and, if it comes down to it, decapitating governments of hostile countries. The conditions for the use of nuclear weapons are not met yet. But they are already within the legal vicinity for the possible use. Here they are:

19. The conditions determining the possibility of the Russian Federation using nuclear weapons are:

a) receipt of credible information regarding the launch of ballistic missiles attacking the territory of the Russian Federation and/or its allies;

b) the use by an adversary of nuclear weapons or other types of weapons of mass destruction against the territory of the Russian Federation and/or its allies, or against military formations and/or facilities of the Russian Federation located outside its territory;

c) an adversary’s impact on critical state or military facilities of the Russian Federation, the disablement of which would lead to the disruption of the retaliatory actions of its nuclear forces;

d) aggression against the Russian Federation and/or the Republic of Belarus—as participants in the Union State—involving the use of conventional weapons, which poses a critical threat to their sovereignty and/or territorial integrity;

e) receipt of credible information regarding the mass launch (takeoff) of aerospace attack assets (strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, hypersonic and other aircraft) and their crossing of the state border of the Russian Federation.

Other considerations come into play here, but pp. d is "getting there". Karaganov doesn't understand operational let alone technological implications of all that--he simply has no tool kit or background to pass judgement on the matter. But that brings us back to the starting point--Russia has enough conventional means to strike at any facility in Europe and the US IS NOT coming for a simple reason--it has no resources. Demilitarizing NATO was one of the key strategic aims of SMO (once it became clear that the US sabotaged Istanbul talks) and Iran has demonstrated it fully. Who will be hit first? Yeah, I am inclined to see Germany "getting the message"--it is long overdue. 

Scott Gives Some Good ...

 ... rundown on the US "stocks". 

My today's video talks about US air "defense"--or rather lack thereof and it is NOT just lack of numbers, it is a technological failure, simple as that. My video should be up shortly. 

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Scott Nails ...

 ... the heart of the matter. 

One of the main points which is constantly missed--why would people who are beginning to live equal or better than EU, and doing this completely out of their own (colossal) resources, and who know that in 5-7 years they will live much better than Europe, "invade"? To do what? Ah, yes, to rape European women, after all this is what a bunch of low lives from UK such as Anthony Beevor who is denied a good looking woman in his life (did you see those British women at the top?) believe. This is not to say that British or Germans do not have attractive women, but WW II history as "taught" in Oxford or, let alone, Germany is all about Europeans being irresistible for those hordes of Asiatic subhumans  such as Russians. 

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