Anyone Expected Anything Else?

Hello! US MSM are generally war criminals--I am talking about their editorial boards staffed with sociopaths and whores, both literally and figuratively speaking. In other words--those are not normal humans. 

These statements by the Salvation Government and the HTS leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, were met with enthusiasm by prominent experts of Islamic radicalism and fundamentalism. They praised al-Julani’s professionalism, transparency, and moderate views, and the fact that he distanced himself from his jihadist roots.Western media picked up this narrative and, in an attempt to whitewash the rebel leader, CNN released an exclusive interview with him. In this interview, al-Julani repeated the above-mentioned statements made by the Syrian Salvation Government and noted that the ambitions of HTS and its allies are confined to Syria, which should reassure potential adversaries and key regional players. The goals of HTS, he claimed, were to overthrow Bashar Assad and then to start “building Syria” – and the rebels had already achieved the first goal. However, as often happens, the statements issued by the rebels were far from the truth. HTS terrorists and allied opposition groups have already released dozens of videos demonstrating executions of members of Arab-Kurdish forces, Syrian soldiers (even those who surrendered voluntarily), Alawites, and Shiites. In several video clips, militants are seen slitting the throats of their captives.

It is not "as often happens"--it happens always. There is not an atrocity or war crime which US MSM wouldn't support. So, this flows naturally from the nature of the journalism schools in the West where they produce primarily brainwashed illiterate activists who have neither morals nor integrity. Doctor Goebbels would have been proud. Now, information now emerges that actually Tiger Brigade and its commander Suheil are intact, how and why--we have to wait and see, but many transport planes fly to Khmeimim as we speak. So, we will have to be patient.

Bernhard Commented On Larry's Superb Piece.

Yesterday, Larry demolished what passes in the US for main stream "journalism" by exposing utter BS they publish about Ukraine and SMO, specifically NYT and WaPo. 

The U.S. and European officials are relying on HOPE–hope that troop shortages and old, worn out equipment slow the Russian advance. A reporter worth a damn should have asked, “what is the evidence of troop shortages?” Russia is not a totalitarian state. Russia has not shut down opposition media and political parties. Ukraine has done that. So where is the social media showing a rising tide of disgruntled Russians being forced to put on the uniform and then being compelled to show up on the front lines without adequate training? I have not seen it. Have you? Please forward if you got it and please, no video game footage. That does not count. Are you familiar with the refrain, “If if and buts were candy and nuts it would be Christmas everyday.” That seems to be the position of the unnamed U.S. and European officials desperately hoping that Ukraine’s million man offensive against Kherson will succeed. Only several little problems. Ukraine is having a dickens of a time scraping together that mythical million man army. And if they do succeed in rounding up that many sentient fellows, how will they get proper training while Russia continues to hit Ukrainian training bases with missiles, rockets and shells? 

Read the whole thing at Larry's excellent blog. But Bernhard of MoA didn't just read Larry's piece, he, in typical methodical Bernhard's manner, expanded and provided some additional insights. As Bernhard states:

I am not going to join Larry in dispelling the myths those 'journalists' try to spread. These people do not go out into the field to look at the facts. They do not consult frontline maps, casualty statistics, structure of forces or economic data. They have no experience in the art of war. They are mere stenographers, highly paid ones, who hang on the lips of 'officials' and write down whatever the 'sources' who invite them want them to tell.

Exactly, and Bernhard lists those "sources" and then concludes:

What is terrifying about such pieces is that 'officials' in Washington and Europe are actually reading such stuff and come to believe in it. They are consuming the myths they themselves produce and then act on them. They thereby ignore history, basic facts and the very real life of the people who become casualties of their wars.

Exactly! Somebody, a few years ago, complained that Louis C.K., the comic, was doing his Russian "routine", laughing at Russia he visited in 1990s. In 2015-16 he still thought that it was the same Russia, he never even bothered to visit Russia in 2016 and he still thought about this grim crime-ridden miserable place he saw in 1990s. This is the problem for the US, including also the problem that overwhelming majority of the US decision-makers are civilians with humanities degrees who never served a day in the uniform and who have huge difficulties with grasping even basic physics and mathematics principles behind modern warfare and as a result they tend to rely on absolutely the same ignoramuses from US media, who are in the business of spreading BS. 

Sadly, even professionals, who should know better sometime don't know better. I was bombarded in the comments sections to my videos with questions like: but Prof. Postol says that Russian Early Warning System sucks compared to the American one.(c) After that even Douglas MacGregor repeats that, despite obviously missing the caveat by the same Prof. Postol that he was basing his opinion on late 1990s-early 2000s data. It has been more than 20 years since then. Remember? I had to write a separate post about this horrendous misperception.  

What is horrible here is the fact that many still do not grasp a fundamental difference between Russian and US ABM systems--Russian ABM system at this stage already is capable to mitigate a nuclear attack on Russia by fielding (no, not planning but actually deploying) systems with a full blown intercontinental anti-ballistic capability such as S-500, S-550, A-235 Nudol. These are capabilities the US simply doesn't have. Importantly, one needs a system of BMEWS radar with accuracy characteristics such as Voronezh to not just detect but provide accurate targeting for ABM systems. Look at the comparative characteristics of Russian and US BMEWS radar. Especially their accuracy in targeting. Guess from three times who gets better probabilities for a hard-kill (kinetic, meaning physically slamming into nuclear warhead) of the incoming MIRVs. Right. 

And this is just one example out of very many. Now to today's news, which reminds me the news from 1944 and Patton's (yes, yes, this "genius for war") Lorraine Campaign. 

Few of the Germans defending Lorraine could be considered first-rate troops. Third Army encountered whole battalions made up of deaf men, others of cooks, and still others consisting entirely of soldiers with stomach ulcers. The G2 also identified a new series of German formations designated volksgrenadier divisions. (See Figure 1.) These hastily constituted divisions numbered only 10,000 men each and possessed only six rifle battalions; in theory they were to be provided with extra artillery and assault guns to compensate for the quantitative and qualitative inferiority of their infantry. Two to 3 panzer divisions faced Third Army in a mobile reserve role, but these units had managed to bring only 5 or 10 tanks apiece out of the retreat across France.

Well, get a load of this per today's briefing by Russia's MOD. As Konashenkov states today:

«Из-за высоких потерь режим Зеленского принимает меры по восполнению некомплекта личного состава украинских формирований в районе боевых действий в Донбассе. Так, принято решение о досрочной отправке на передовую мобилизованных граждан, начавших подготовку в учебном центре 72-й механизированной бригады в городе Белая Церковь Киевской области. Вместе с ними направляются и находившиеся в госпиталях раненые, не дожидаясь завершения ими полного курса реабилитации после ранений»

Translation: “Due to heavy losses, the Zelensky regime is taking measures to replenish the shortfall in the personnel of Ukrainian formations in the combat zone in Donbass. Thus, a decision was made to send mobilized citizens to the front line ahead of schedule, who began training at the training center of the 72nd mechanized brigade in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Kyiv region. Together with them, the wounded who were in hospitals are also sent, without waiting for them to complete the full course of rehabilitation after injuries."

You get the picture. Once one starts drafting 65 year olds, it is everything one needs to know about the state of the affairs on the front. For references see again the Patton's Lorraine Campaign. I will also be talking about what modern ISR complex is, including this Western and fanboys' fetish of UAVs and how modern (I stress again--modern) ISR complex is way more (much-much more) than mere UAVs.  

Russia said it launched a military satellite into orbit late Monday. The footage allegedly shows a Soyuz rocket blasting off from the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region in northern Russia, at 11:25 p.m. The Russian authorities stated that it was carrying a military satellite named "Cosmos-2558."

Yes, yes, can you imagine--those backward Rooskies can launch not just satellites, but launch them when they want and however they want, not to mention the fact that those satellites nowadays are built around Russian-made microelectronics. Here, Russians are getting ready to start launching Sfera-program satellites (Skif series) for a high speed internet for Russia. And, naturally, all Western components were fast replaced by Russian-made ones (in Russian). Louis C.K. I am calling on you, granted that nowadays West made traveling to Russia extremely difficult, just get visa and go visit Russia today and see the difference between 1990s and 2022--you know, will be good for your stand up routine and your OODA loop.

How The US MSM Reports On SMO.

Hey, just an example. 

An Exhibit A of US MSM Modus Operandi. Aw, they were so enamored with her, almost like with Ukrainian democracy and VSU victories today. Nothing will change until infotainment industry in the US is demolished and a new code of ethics in reporting is established in a similar manner as a Hippocratic Oath in medicine and specialization in reporting is established and I don't mean ignorant clowns like Fareed Zakaria whose relation to real geopolitics is the same as my relation to Jin Dynasty. I fondly remember early (stressing it--early) Dr. Sunjay Gupta, a bona fide medical doctor, or late John Holliman who actually did his home-work in space-exploration field and reported competently until his untimely death. But then again, Western news "executives" themselves are ... well US "humanities" field is a catastrophe, as is a media culture which is just a symptom of a much larger problem, which is systemic. In this case, Matthew Lee and his brilliant mind is merely an exception which confirms the rule. In the end, they are not called media whores for nothing, because they are. Let independent real journalism and reporting take the center-stage. 

Some Really Peculiar News.

Apart from great news of Kyle's acquittal, which is a victory for law and order and which also demonstrated that US MSM (euphemism for Democratic media machine) is a clear and present danger to remaining islands of American freedom and law, not to mention the fact that MSM is a collection of human trash, there is something which is really peculiar. Recall, few days ago I said that Russia would supply the US if necessity arises as it was the case with ice bound Nome in Alaska in 2012 with whatever will be needed in a heart beat again. Guess what. 

The US is reportedly getting ready to receive a bulk shipment of diesel from energy-rich Russia as Washington strives to cool down the fuel's retail price, which has recently hit its highest level since 2014. Some two million barrels of Russian diesel carried by four tankers are currently heading to the east coast of the US, according to data from energy cargo-tracking agency Vortexa, as quoted by Bloomberg. The delivery, which is expected to arrive in New York and New Haven, Connecticut, as soon as next week, is reportedly the most substantial in recent years, based on data going back to 2018. 

Anyone who thinks that this is some sort of "charity" on Russia's part, think again. First, it's good for business, second--you do not allow people to freeze, period. That is why Russia filled European gas reservoirs recently, and now gets fuel which is needed to cap the insane gas prices at the East Coast, which automatically translate into all kinds of disruptions of energy for heating. US establishment may well be packed with hostile ass-holes, but Russians never viewed regular American folks like that. 

Vortexa analysts highlighted that Russian producers have been ramping up production of a diesel that is dependent on a feedstock extracted from costly natural gas. Flows from the Russian Baltic port of Primorsk are reportedly expected to reach their highest level since at least 2016. “Russia is better positioned to supply diesel than other refiners in Europe because of its access to cheap natural gas,” Clay Seigle, a managing director for Vortexa in Houston told the agency. “It’s very rare we’d see volumes this large coming to the East Coast,” the expert added. Retail prices for diesel in the US East Coast have soared to being the costliest in seven years, with distillate inventories in the region down by nearly a third from levels recorded earlier this year. Demand for the fuel is expected to further grow as logistics companies are intensively working to catch up on backlogs that built up due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the end, Russia is NOT interested in any kinds of economic disruptions which lead to political instability. The United States is already nearing the state of economic stasis due to mindless economic policies of the last 20+ years, suicidal cultural practices and "anthropological climate change" fraud. Russia doesn't like it; to see a nuclear superpower, however diminishing with each passing day, nearing chaos and upheaval is not in Russia's plans. And, of course, you will hardly find this news in the US MSM and if they will make it there you can bet your ass on the fact that it will be presented as Russia's nefarious plans and desire to influence the US. 

In the same time, the US Congress is busy with "working for American people" and are getting busy with this:

A move by two congressmen calling on the U.S. not to recognize Vladimir Putin as president of Russia beyond 2024 has been denounced by the Kremlin as an attempt to meddle in its domestic affairs.

This is the level of the US political "elites". Let US Congress adopt this resolution and see what happens.  As you may have guessed it, two clowns who introduced this resolution are both lawyers and are, effectively, yet another iterations of Eddie Barzoon of Devil's Advocate fame. Classic law-electoral political animals who never worked a day in their life in a productive capacity. So, there you go. 

In other related news. I may not condone US foreign policy and wars, in fact I am openly opposed to them--but this is fvcking disgrace. Utter shame, this is how America treats her soldiers she sends to die for egos of US politicians and quarterly financial reports to shareholders of the US Military-Industrial-Political-Media Complex.

As US Troops and Families Go Hungry, They Don’t Trust the Pentagon for Help. 

What can I say, as long as shareholders are happy...

Feeding America says there isn’t one cause of hunger among military families, with low salaries for enlisted members, high rates of unemployment for military spouses, and high costs of child care contributing to the broader problem. For many families, causes stack up, weaving a web of hardship that is difficult to escape. But the cost of housing plays an outsized role, Vince Hall, Feeding America’s head of government relations, told Military.com in a phone interview. “It's shocking to see military families lining up for food assistance because they are often stationed in some of the nation's most expensive housing markets but lack the compensation necessary to live in those markets,” Hall said.

I have a solution, but freeloaders in Congress will not like it--after all this song has no expiration date. 

Wars change, fat cats continue to get richer and more self-righteous.