I hope someone translates this song. It is prescient. It also explains Russian (Soviet) attitudes to war and life. Motor-Rollers still create (in Russian).
1. Larry Johnson posted yesterday a very good piece from his friend on Maskirovka and deception in Operation Z.
Read the whole thing at Larry's blog--it is excellent.
2. The Hill, ever neocon and exceptionalist rag, suddenly was afflicted by a bout of clarity and in an opinion piece concluded:
No shit, geniuses. How about learning what actual economy is and how it operates. The author also makes another discovery.
Look at another paradox: Despite Russia being cut off from the world’s financial arteries, the Russian ruble has dramatically recovered through state intervention. But, as if to signal that Japan is paying a price for following the U.S. lead on Russia, the Japanese yen (the world’s third-most-traded currency) has sunk to a 20-year low against the U.S. dollar, ranking this year as the worst performing of the 41 currencies tracked — worse than the ruble.
In general, Russophobia is being made by Russia a very expensive luxury. But the author DOES give a sensible explanation on why Operation Z proceeds the way it proceeds.
Biden’s belief that “this war could continue for a long time” is backed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, who testified that he expects it to last years. But as the conflict drags on and the boomerang effects of the sanctions deepen the cost-of-living crisis, the divides in the Western camp will widen and “Ukraine fatigue” will set in. The West will be left with little choice but to negotiate with Putin to end the conflict, as predicted by Javier Solana, a former NATO chief who also served as Spain’s foreign minister. Such negotiations will be vital to halt Ukraine’s destruction and avert Europe from paying the main price.
You see, Russia CAN afford to be methodical and deliberate in her demilitarization of Ukraine, the West cannot--it simply doesn't have time. And that is the difference, a strategic one, between real economy and a virtual one. Nobody cares what Biden believes or what kind of, traditionally wrong, forecasts all those D.C. think-tanks produced, the reality "on the ground" has its own mind and those who do not understand it are bound to fail. Of course news like this:
China Calls Out U.S. Dollar Dominance As It Buys Russian Coal With Yuan
also send shivers down the spines of many in D.C. because all that is just the unfolding spectacle of the destruction of the US Dollar dominance. You see, one cannot accuse me of Russian rah-rah, all what I posted here is taken from the US sources. Repeat after me--reality is a bitch.
... that these brave "warriors" get pleasure only from wars in which they have the opponents armed primarily with AK-47s, RPG-7s and IEDs. That's easy. (Real) war, on he other hand,
In related news, here is an example of tactical C2 by Russian forces in which Russian tank disposes of VSU's T-64 based on recon in real time from drone.
I will, for now, abstain from commenting on this Canadian general until I hear official confirmation (albeit, the probability is high that he was taken POW) but in related news, Pentagon, and their Shitstone County local drama theater amateur actor John Kirby, says that: They don't see any interest from Russian side to maintain any contact (in Russian). Who would, may I ask you?
Larry elaborates, by means of Baud's thoughts, on the issue of this famous Ukie myth that they were fighting Russian Army for the last 8 years.
It is an important point, and this myth was sold to psychotic Ukie public and was amplified many fold by Western propaganda. No doubt, Russia did offer some assistance to LDNR in 2014-2015. But as VSU and many ignoramuses in the West who "planned" VSU assault in March of 2022 on LDNR, the assault which was forestalled by Russian Army SMO, the actual fighting with even numerically inferior Russian Army is a whole other story altogether. Only completely delusional people believe that BSU at this stage exists as well-organized and controlled force and not a collection of separate units with dwindling combat effectiveness.
As Larry correctly notes:
Think about this for a minute–if the Ukrainian Army could not defeat the militias in the republics of Luhansk and Donetsk over the last 8 years, how in the world is that Army going to defeat the Russian Army? It is delusional.
It is delusional. And so are the West's "planners" who thought that they can impose a long and costly war on Russia. As a good friend of mine, Bonnie Faulkner sent to me today. LOL)) I can confirm:
As you can see, Russia is dying especially dramatically today. On a lighter note. Russia opened a new bank for especially dense Europeans. You can transfer payments in this bank in any currency you want.
... in a very basic way. But if you followed my writing and speaking you will recall how many times I spoke about rare but warranted occasions when parallels between countries and individuals, between their traits, could be drawn. Judge for yourself.
... it is just that they are being taken POWs wholesale nowadays. But other than that, in accordance to US Congress, Pentagon and White House, and Western media, they are not there.
Here is Valdimir Putin tries to explain to this UN big honcho from, apparently, parallel universe, how the real wars are fought (in Russian):
