Same As With "Iranian" Drones.

To close this stupid issue of "Chinese weapons to Russia". When even these cretins cannot confirm it:

У Евросоюза нет доказательств того, что Китай поставляет оружие России, заявил глава дипломатии ЕС Жозеп Боррель на пресс-конференции по итогам заседания Совета ЕС в Брюсселе. Также, по словам Борреля, нет доказательств и того, что Китай планирует это делать, передает ТАСС. Ранее The Wall Street Journal писала, что Китай может  рассматривать возможность передать России беспилотники и артиллерийские системы для использования в зоне СВО. Напомним, Пекин заявлял, что Китай не является стороной конфликта на Украине и не поставляет никому оружие.

Translation: The European Union has no evidence that China is supplying weapons to Russia, EU diplomat Josep Borrell said at a press conference following the EU Council meeting in Brussels. Also, according to Borrell, there is no evidence that China plans to do this, TASS reports. Earlier, The Wall Street Journal wrote that China may consider transferring drones and artillery systems to Russia for use in the NWO zone. Recall that Beijing has stated that China is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine and does not supply weapons to anyone.

I repeat, again: every single US (or Western) MSM is a primitive propaganda outlet and tabloid. All of them, without exceptions. I hope we will stop asking these frivolous questions about Iran, China, Brazil, Zamunda, what have you trying "to supply" Russia with weapons.

Scratching My Head.

Ahem. I don't know how to read into this.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is taking major steps in an attempt to shake off years of false starts and setbacks with the Littoral Combat Ship program, an effort Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said he’d oversee on his watch. In an exclusive interview with Defense News on July 16, Gilday listed LCS as a major priority, saying he will turn up the heat on efforts to get the ship to become a major contributor to fleet operations.“There are things in the near term that I have to deliver, that I’m putting heat on now, and one of them is LCS,” Gilday said. “One part is sustainability and reliability. We know enough about that platform and the problems that we have that plague us with regard to reliability and sustainability, and I need them resolved.”

My take on this whole spike in activity regarding these very expensive and grossly under-gunned, putting it politely, ships is related to news from Russia who started trials for her combat modules for project 22160 patrol ships.

Gilday’s goal of fielding the mission modules is well along already, according to two sources familiar with the progress, who spoke to Defense News on condition of anonymity.The mine-warfare mission module is on track for a final test and evaluation by the end of this year, a source with knowledge of the program told Defense News, and the individual components have already passed testing and are in initial low-rate production.End-to-end testing of the mine-warfare mission module is set to begin in fiscal 2021 and is on track to have its initial operating capability declared in 2022, another source said.The status of the ASW mission module, which has been a regular target of Congress-imposed budget cuts, is a little less clear.

Let's face it--the issue with combat modules for LCS is nothing new, as is the issue of preposterous costs for such a ship, in excess of $700 million per hull. What may become an issue, and a huge one at that, will be if Russians will succeed (I am pretty sure they will) with testing of their own modules, including ASW one, and appearance of project 22160, say in Mediterranean, carrying containers with Kalibrs or P-800s, or 3M22s together with ASW packages. This WILL create a shitstorm in appropriate Committees and subcommittees in Congress--remember, pr. 22160 are shitstorm corvettes--because the question will be this: why those fvcking Russians managed in few years to come up with several working modules for what amounts to their version of LCS (of sorts) and we cannot do it for more than a decade? I would say such a question, actually, will be a legitimate one. But then guess what--have you heard about F-15X lately? I heard:

And now the Air Force is doing just that. Last week, the Defense Department announced in its daily digest of defense contracts awarded that Boeing will produce an unspecified number of F-15EX aircraft over the next three years, at a total cost of $22.89 billion.

Oh baby, for around $90 million a pop for a venerable and slightly up-gunned F-15 that looks so...so... Pentagonish. But isn't it how the whole US Defense Budget is spent? I omit here all those "doctrinal" decisions such as producing a rather mediocre aircraft such as F-35, but it will do for attacking third world nations, and calling it "Stealth" because 1950s radar cannot "detect" it, but generally one has to wonder "where's the beef"?  Argument of "complexity" of US weapon systems is a complete bunk--I write about this for years and people at TAC question this too.

How Bells, Whistles & Greed Blew Up the Defense Budget. The hawks say we need to spend $740B a year because our weapons systems are so much more complex now. Here's the real story.

OK, let me cut to the chase--most American "hawks" are not hawks but chicken-hawks most of who do not know shit from shinola when dealing with military, because they lack proper education and experience which would allow them to pass sound judgements on the issue of actual warfare. US weapon systems are no more complex than many from Europe, let alone Russia. Term "sophisticated" is a false equivalency and is used merely to impress dumb-asses who sign the checks for Pentagon. Criteria of Combat Efficiency of the system has long been discarded in the US in favor of monetary gain (through ridiculous unreal costs) and making Hollywood movies. The issue is not even that SU-35C, not speaking of SU-57, will tear F-35 a new one, or that Patriot PAC whatever the version, looks like, using Publius Tacitus terminology, a Nerf Gun when compared to Russian Air Defense systems. The issue is that the US simply cannot produce decent weapon system on time, on budget and, most important, cannot make it combat effective in real combat environment. 

Come on, Russians know this, so do many many people in DoD in the US, but they are not talking because US warfare long ago became about money, appearances and propaganda, not about defense. Come to think about it, not about offense either, since the US military record as of lately is not that impressive. Ridiculous price tags of US weapons didn't help much in Afghanistan or Syria, once Russia got involved there. Well, as one of the pundits concludes:

Wood’s argument that the only way to deal with adversary technology is with better technology is also false. We don’t need to out-engineer the Russias and Chinas of the world, we need to out-think them. For virtually every high-tech weapon, there is a low-tech counter. Our struggles to deal with IEDs in Iraq is the perfect example of this. The Pentagon spent $20 billion to develop counter-IED systems only to come to the realization that nothing worked as well as a dog.

Out-think is a fancy euphemism for coming to terms with military reality and facing facts, which for Pentagon will be really painful and goes completely against Modus Operandi and Vivendi both in US military and the US Congress agreed upon for the sake of keeping a gravy train running. Well, the run may continue but the US realistically cannot win a war with the peer. In fact, it will sustain colossal materiel and reputational losses gigantic price tags of its weapons notwithstanding. Just yesterday I listened to one discussion between some totally delusional "Marxist" Alekseev and former Colonel from General Staff Vladimir Trukhan, who apart from wiping the floor with Alekseev, noted that as a former Officer-operator of General Staff he doesn't take militarily NATO seriously. Or as he said: "we don't even break sweat". He has a point, but then again, I can only repeat myself--the real danger is in the United States stumbling into open military confrontation with China, let alone Russia, see its expensive military hardware destroyed en masse, not to speak of human losses, and being pushed to the threshold of the unthinkable. This is the only "out-thinking" the United Sates is capable of today and that makes me scratch my head. I heard there was a proposition to put a ballistic missile on Zumwalt-class DDGs to enable these three white elephants with a whopper of a price tag to have missiles capable of carrying hyper-sonic glider vehicles within Prompt Global Strike paradigm. If that is "out-thinking" what can I say.... Sergei Viktorovich, help!   

As I Always Say, European (And American) "Left" Is Not Left.

All these liberal or so called "progressive" (in reality fanatics of "progressive" totalitarianism)  Do-gooders, such as all this so called "progressive intelligentsia", most of it from ultra-left wing and which, for the most part, is badly educated in any serious field (I do not consider degrees in journalism, political science or PR an education) and who thinks that pushing its "climate agenda", gender agenda, so called "antifa" agenda--you name all those so called progressive fetishes--is a cute game, they should think twice. It goes without saying that with the exception of few fanatics, such as Green Peace raiders and terrorists, facing REAL troubles is nothing like these liberal universities campuses' "trouble" they face, especially when are protected by law enforcement agencies in their pathetic petulance. Nor being smacked into head with stone or some object, or even getting a good size hematoma from police baton really counts. No, not that.  Real problems are not in their universities and safe zones' programs of growing strong and thoughtful people. I know how the tank brigade smells, sounds and looks when it deploys from the outskirts towards crucial infrastructure inside a major metropolis. I would love to see masked "antifa" or other "climate" progressive activists, or, more appropriately, terrorists, experience when T-64 (or Abrams) runs over you or they face people who actually have orders and have capability to use automatic small and large arms to cause real harm. I know how a person who just lost three distal and intermediate phalanges and has a fibula sticking out of the calf feel.

Well, from politically correct, but, evidently, really pissed off Holland, outraged farmers decided to show how they "appreciate" all this insane climate BS spread by mentally not-well people who, actually, never worked a day in the honest hard work which benefits people. You know, like growing food. Here are Dutch farmers today (courtesy of AFP, ANP and RT):

Mind you, these are just tractors driven by pissed off Dutch farmers who are not going to take shit anymore from anyone, especially European wussy left. You can read about this at RT's site. These are just Dutch farmers with tractors. I, in this case, have a question--how many Western "eco-activists" and antifa have real experience with combat weapons, say of DShK caliber, can use RPG-7 or know how to organize platoon in offensive or defensive? I would say extremely very few among the people, especially in Europe, who push for the so called "left" agenda. The next question, of course, what are they going to do when they will begin to lose limbs, experience really nasty concussions (with PTSD and degrading of cognitive faculties to follow) not from stun grenades, but from something like RGD-5 exploding 10 meters away with no protective barrier (fragments could be very nasty).  

When shit hits the fan--and judging by inspiring Dutch farmers' demonstration, things begin to boil up--nobody will need degrees in climatology, public relations or journalism. Nobody. Ability to execute a plan which may involve extreme violence against those who are trying to destroy what's left of civilization, that will be valued, together with ammo, food, antibiotics, serious pain killers and, importantly, manpower  (like in REAL men), most of all. Dutch farmers' demonstrations are a very good and healthy sign. It is also a reaction of honest hard-working people to a cabal of spoiled and illiterate morons constituting European political and media class who push suicidal economic and cultural policies. For now it is peaceful, relatively:

Wait till people who actually contribute to society will have enough. This also goes completely for US Democratic Party which became a party of treason and sedition, for all my revulsion towards GOP. But that is why these crooks from Democratic Party in House will not start impeachment procedure (just some BS non-legal "impeachment inquiry") against Donald Trump--because, in accordance to Colonel Wilkerson, 90% of firearms in the US are on hands of Trump supporters. There is an excellent moment in a cute "urbanites-against-heartland" comedy Did You Hear About The Morgans, where main characters talk in the small Wyoming town's diner. I'll let you discover this wonderfully relevant conversation on your own. But here is an excellent preview of an unbridgeable American divide:

Looking at these protests in Hague, one can not escape this premonition that something's gotta give and is about to give. It will. In fact, we are in the process of this giving and my bets in this are on those who know how to drive tan...I mean tractors, tend to land, grow food, shoot weapons and face real difficulties. In the movie, everyone reconciles but we do not live in the Hollywood movie and it may get really ugly because the powder keg is ready to go off--the signs are all around us. The tank brigade is already at the outskirts.