That's Legendary Aid.

Speaking about German snipers in the SMO. 

Aid is correct--those Germans will follow their Nazi heirs, they will be exterminated on the Russian soil. 

Possible ...

 ... but not guaranteed. 

Иран не намерен обращаться за помощью к России и Китаю в случае войны с Израилем и США. Об этом заявил президент Исламской Республики Масуд Пезешкиан в интервью американскому журналисту Такеру Карлсону. По его словам, Иран не нуждается в поддержке Москвы и Пекина, поскольку его мощи достаточно, чтобы защитить себя. Ранее агентство Reuters со ссылкой на иранские источники сообщило, что Иран хочет получить больше помощи от России в конфликте с Израилем и США. Однако о какой именно поддержке идет речь, не уточнялось.

Translation: Iran does not intend to seek help from Russia and China in the event of a war with Israel and the United States. This was stated by the President of the Islamic Republic Masoud Pezeshkian in an interview with the American journalist Tucker Carlson. According to him, Iran does not need the support of Moscow and Beijing, since its power is sufficient to defend itself. Earlier, the Reuters agency, citing Iranian sources, reported that Iran wants to receive more help from Russia in the conflict with Israel and the United States. However, what kind of support is being discussed was not specified.

Well, Moscow offered help, it is Iran's call, of course. The US, of course, like Israel, cannot defeat Iran but it surely can wreck a lot of things there, before recognizing that it ran out of munition. Speaking of which))

The United States will continue supplying weapons to Ukraine, President Donald Trump said on Monday, a week after the Pentagon halted some deliveries. “We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now,” Trump told reporters during a dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Defensive weapons, primarily, but they’re getting hit very, very hard. So many people are dying in that mess,” he said, without elaborating.

Sure, sure. I am positive those supplies will change the outcome, not)) Per waiting for "elaborating" by Trump it is akin to waiting for me to elaborate on open heart surgery--I wouldn't know even where to start. But, hey, what do I know, POTUS himself stated that Patriot PAC3 has 100% effectiveness. You can take this to the bank. 

Russians Aren't Coming ...

Absolutely! NATO cannot project, pardon my French, shit. When you talk about modern XXI century war--this is real men's business, not these cabana boys' Starmer and Macron. 

Spot on, Colonels. But to buttress the point:

BRUSSELS — Europe's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, had high hopes of being able to mobilize as much as €40 billion of military aid to shore up Ukraine's position on the battlefield and strengthen its hand in upcoming talks with Russia. But as EU leaders wound up their gathering in Brussels on Thursday, the plan lay in tatters — not quite dead, but dramatically downgraded from its original ambition. The problems started, several EU diplomats said, from the plan's inception when the former Estonian prime minister failed to win prior buy-in from crucial stakeholders. The process had been "botched up," one of the diplomats summarized.

Kallas is not "top diplomat", she is a deranged Estonian bitch with Waffen SS traits in her. She IS the type needed in Brussels to grasp at the last straws of Europe's globalist project conceived by economic and military amateurs who never held a real job in their life. Sandcastles always dissolve or, in this particular case, are smashed by the Russian armor and artillery and all other means of organized violence at which Russians are the best in the world. History trained them for thousand years. 

And so, here we are--at the closing act of the combined West's main geopolitical hobby--once every hundred years West marches to Russia, to get its ass handed to itself. The more things change, the more they stay the same--anybody wants to fire cretins with civilian humanities degrees who teach BS ambitiously called History and Strategy in Sandhurst, King's College or US Naval War College, among many others, and maybe hire qualified people who know the truth? Ah, yes, truth hurts. But the United States invoked its superpower privilege and uses offramp afforded only to superpowers, at least for now. Europe? Didn't I tell it will be left holding the bag of some rather unpleasant substance? I think I did, many times. 

Meanwhile, look at what "Putin's Regime" did to the center of space industry in Russia (among many other places). Somebody, explain to Sarah Paine what is going on in Russia, or what is happening to Russian roads. 

That dictatorial Putin's Regime, you know. 

As Aid Reports...

 ... those "volunteers" from NATO, don't seem to like real war and they prefer to run. It is one thing to kill Iraqi or Afghan civilians, totally another is finding oneself under the combined artillery-VKS strikes in Kursk or Kupyansk, or elsewhere along 1,000+ kilometer front. You know, something like this... 

Here is Aid's statement from Apti Alautdinov's TG:

Бойцы частных военных компаний из США и Великобритании, которые воевали на стороне ВСУ в Курской области, сбежали спустя неделю боевых действий, заявил командир разведгруппы спецназа "Ахмат" с позывным Аид. 

Translation: Private military company fighters from the US and UK, who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region, fled after a week of fighting, said the commander of the special forces reconnaissance group "Akhmat" with the call sign Aid.

Oh, come on, didn't you know? 

Rest in Peace, Miguel--your characters, and especially FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield from Twin Peaks will never be forgotten. Left us too early, at only 61.

What I Disagree About...

 ... with Mr. Bhadrakumar. In his latest he writes:

Kremlin’s hope that US support for Ukraine is on the wane seems misplaced. Curiously, spokesman Dmitry Peskov added in good measure in an interview on Friday with broadcaster NBC News that Putin would prefer an American president who is “more constructive” toward Russia and understands the “importance of the dialogue” between the two countries. Peskov added that Putin would be ready to work with “anyone who will understand that from now on, you have to be more careful with Russia and you have to take into account its concerns.” 

Well, here is where I have to strongly disagree. There is NO "hope" in Kremlin on the support waning. In fact, Kremlin doesn't operate on hopes or wishful thinking because it is not in Kremlin's nature since 2013-14 to hope for anything. The way Russia met the challenge of initially non-stop sanctions and then proceeded to demolish not just VSU but combined West's aid is this proverbial proof which is in the pudding. Tomorrow I will be talking about Mr. Lavrov's recollection of his meeting with the US political "scientists" and the discussion of the US grand "strategy", or whatever passes for it among illiterate US establishment--Russia is not hoping, she simply turned on the "turbo" mode and continues to increase military production. That is the first indicator of Russia having no hopes or, for that matter, illusions about combined West.

This, however, cannot obscure the fact that money for Kiev regime in and of itself means absolutely nothing in terms of operational realities on the battlefield, because the West headed by the US simply has no military-industrial resources to supply Kiev with any meaningful quantities of anything, let alone of required quality. And the hypothetical increase in military production cannot happen overnight--it will take years to build military-industrial base in the US (Europe is a joke militarily) and this ONLY if one considers that the US can close the technological gap with Russia in critical weapons. But it cannot--the technological gap continues to widen and it is doubtful that the US will now catch up in such critical areas as air defense, hypersonic weapons, air force technology and strategic nuclear weapons, to name a few. This is not to mention the fact that the US cannot produce main battle tank anymore and can supply only kits or older versions of Abrams tanks. So, those $61 billion will go for sustaining the political regime in Kiev and its basic governing functions, and laundering money for DNC and Biden family. 

But most importantly--no amount amount of money can buy the US a competent top brass which constantly sustains its military skills through extremely tough academic institutions and field experience with no parallels in the 21st century--SMO that is. As was stated before and I will repeat it: Shoigu and Gerasimov are not in rush because they are building and shaping the force which will define the warfare (already is doing so) for the next 30-40 years, including through introduction of C4ISR level and weaponry which now is simply out of reach of the combined West. So, Russia doesn't hope but does what any normal operational level commander does--puts oneself (and his formation) in a deliberately disadvantageous position and then plans from it. Yesterday Russia celebrated RVSN Day (the day of the strategic missile forces)--a new regiment with Avangard system has been put into service.

First Italy, Now Good Ol' USA.

You know, Russian perfidious treachery really has no bounds. First Russia invades Italy, now Russians set their sights on the most democratic democracy in space-time continuum.  

A cargo plane loaded with medical supplies and protection equipment may depart for the US by the end of Tuesday, the Kremlin said, after a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The issue of protective gear was raised during the Monday phone talks, with Putin asking if the US needed help and Trump accepting, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.Moscow suggested the aid in anticipation that the US will be able to return the favor if necessary, once its manufacturers of medical and protective equipment catch up with demand, Peskov said. The current situation “affects everyone without exception and is of a global nature,” he added.

But jokes aside, human lives is what really matters now. So Trump was right--it is a large planeload and this is the only way it should be. This is globalization which IS needed, not the "free flow of capital", a euphemism for robbery. So, we'll see how DNC will react to this Russian interference. But for some Americans this could be, indeed, the difference between surviving and dying. I am sure US media will report on that promptly.... nah, I am screwing with you;)

Wait A Minute! Again?

History is often ironic. And in what one can only see as a grim historic irony, Afghanistan asked Russia for help: from economy to training and equipping Afghan military. Here we go again, don't we? Will Russia respond favorably to this request? Possibly, and this will be totally justified from the geopolitical point of view, but the times when Soviet Union built most of Afghanistan infrastructure for ideological and humanitarian reasons are gone. Today Russia likes to be truly compensated for what she does and this is the only way. Does Afghanistan have money to pay for Russia's services? Probably not. But some sort of compensation may be worked out and Afghanistan will have to provide some important geopolitical favors to Russia. In the end, Russians know damn well that in Afghanistan no matter how much good you do you will end being an enemy. As the summary of Paul Robinson's and Jay Dixon's book states:

    The Soviet Union provided Afghanistan with large-scale economic and technical assistance for nearly twenty-five years before invading in 1979 and then in- creased the volume of assistance even further during the 1980s in an effort to prop up the government and undermine the anti-Soviet insurgency. None of this aid made any lasting difference to Afghan poverty. As in so many other countries, foreign aid did not promote economic growth. Using unexplored Russian sources, this book describes and analyses the economic and technical assistance programs run by the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s through to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and places them in the context of both Soviet-era development theories and more recent ideas about the role of institutions in fostering economic growth. In some respects Soviet development theorists were actually ahead of their contemporary Western counterparts in realizing the centrality of institution-building, but they proved unable to translate their theories into practical solutions. The reasons why their assistance programs failed so completely in Afghanistan remain compellingly relevant today.

I think Russia is not going to repeat mistakes of the past.