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Repetition is the mother of learning (Russian proverb).
 

It Is Confirmed Now.

Iran did get it.

Russia has reportedly delivered Yak-130 “Mitten” trainer jets to Iran in the latest example of Moscow and Tehran's increasing military ties and the associated arms trades that have come with them. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked Tasnim News Agency reported Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) received the trainers. The story includes a picture of a Yak-130 in a hangar displaying a high-visibility IRIAF paint scheme. A video on Twitter shows a Yak-130 with the same paint job reportedly taxiing at Iran’s Isfahan Air Base.

See? 

Considering what Yak-130 is--a highly advanced trainer which could literally be "tuned" to fly as any modern, including fifth generation, aircraft, let's make our bets what Iran gets next as a main course. Some in Russia say it will be latest versions of SU-30SM2 or as others in Russia say those will be one of these two "models". 

One way or another it is going to be a wowser with the most serious  consequences in the region. Yak-130s have been delivered to train Iranian pilots the same way Russian pilots train: Yak-130----> front line combat aircraft.

Berliner Zeitung Makes A... Discovery.

I already mentioned this in my latest video but here is the discovery verbatim.

Germany’s new dependency on Russia: “Putin’s war chest is filled” The latest statistics are surprising: In the middle of the Ukraine war, Russia exports 334 percent more cheaper fertilizers to Germany.

Ah, the no shit moment, again. I am pretty sure that an average German business wants to survive, in order to do that it needs, yes, affordable energy and fertilizers, because people need to eat. German fertilizer production collapsed and that automatically opens the door to Russian one. Now this LNG business. Let's repeat again: 

EU countries are set to buy record volumes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia this year, even as the bloc pledges to stop consuming Russian fuel by 2027, the latest findings published by Global Witness on Wednesday revealed. Members of the bloc continued to import a significant amount of LNG from Russia in the first seven months of this year, data showed.  

As Kremlin was predicting for years--the US energy is NOT competitive in Europe and the only way it can "compete" is by shoving it down the throats of energy-suffocating Europeans.  Here is video (in Russian) which doesn't really need translation, which also demonstrates why Russia is becoming top 4-5 shipbuilding country because one such floating LNG plant is about 600,000 tons of displacement and Russia builds many of them. 

Novatek has some plans for that. And here is purely pragmatic issue--Russia will sell to Europe (with the exception of Hungary) enough to prevent hungry riots there in order to settle post-SMO Europe, but all those trust-based relations are over. Most of it goes to BRICS countries and the fact that both Putin and Xi declined visiting G-20 summit in a week speaks volumes. Remarkably, one of the sleeper cell Moscow assholes betrayed himself by publishing a delirium hysterical article in NG and was thrown out of the chair of a director of Moscow's Institute of the USA and Canada. Very symptomatic (in Russian).

Open Thread.

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I Cannot Stand...

... Nirvana (Grunge, in general), but just for Gabriela's disarming smile in the end, I can endure.  

Friday it is.
 

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Long Gone Are The Times...

 ... when the US Dollar was supported by America's massive industrial might. Today, the only thing "supporting" it are Wall Street and a bunch of code writers who pass for "tech companies". 

Moscow will continue expanding trade relations with ‘friendly’ countries and boost the use of national currencies, cutting the US dollar’s share, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Friday. According to the top diplomat, Moscow has no intention of undermining the US currency’s global role, but Washington is doing that itself. “We obviously are not developing our line against the US, against the West. It’s not that we want to ruin the dollar. The US no longer ensures the dollar’s global role that could satisfy everyone. That’s the problem,” Lavrov told students at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO).

Lavrov is absolutely correct--accounting fraud becomes a feature, not a bug of the US economy. But in real world only tangible things matter. The warfare delusion that the Gulf War produced is easily paralleled by money making out of a thin air by Wall Street shysters. Indeed, the US is doing a swell job herself discrediting and annihilating the US Dollar--Lavrov is spot on here. Now consider the removal of the PR myth about US military power and you get a perfect storm of factors coming together in undermining the USD. 

Yep, the times of the American mighty industries which seemed to have no limits in their output are long gone. I touch upon this issue a little bit in my latest video which I will post shortly (in 30 minutes or so). Tucker definitely stirred the pot with his prediction of the hot war between Russia and the US but one has to ask the question if the US has the capacity to build armor (hint: she doesn't) and if many of those military experts read Svechin and know about strategy of exhausting the enemy? Valery Gerasimov is an avid reader of Svechin, wink, wink.