Ah, Yes. Hurt Feelings.

General Mark Hertling still doesn't believe that US makes primarily expensive junk not fit for real battlefield. But then again, Hertling never saw a real one. 

Hear retired US general's response to Ukrainian soldiers who say US-issued tanks are underperformin. Retired US Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, who spent part of his career aboard the Abrams tank, reacts to some Ukrainian soldiers telling CNN that their US-supplied Abrams tank are underperforming in the field.

Well, I have news for this general--this is the first time in history when M1 Abrams encountered a real army. And not just the real army, but the army which technologically and operationally is way better than the US Army. They cannot face the facts that militarily Gulf War was a non-event for real military science. But that's the only thing they have to fall back on and try to derive face-saving excuses. Meanwhile:

The US State Department has seized the passport of former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, he told RT on Monday. Ritter was on his way to Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) when he was pulled off the plane and had his documents confiscated. “My passport was seized by the State Department,” Ritter told RT in a message. “I was pulled off the airplane.” “I’m fine, just aggravated,” he added.

Here is the American "democracy" in full swing. That's everything you need to know. But feelings are "hurt" nowadays in America which is in a state of complete implosion of her institutions across the board.

Massive Demonstrations...

 ... in Budapest. No, not tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands--watch videos on X, gigantic. 

Good for you, Hungary. Your future, preservation of indigenous culture and people, sanity and prosperity based on true sovereignty is not in dying EU, it is with new world of BRICS.

Not Gonna Help.

For a very substantial reason. 

The US Department of Defense has put out an order for several books by Western researchers on Russian and Chinese military strategies. The materials are meant for US Air Force personnel stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, which is home to the Air Force Historical Research Agency and Air University.  The order, which was made in mid-May on the government’s e-procurement system, is for the following books: ‘Strategiya: The Foundations of the Russian Art of Strategy’ by Ofer Fridman, a lecturer at King’s College London; ‘Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition’ by Andrew Monaghan; and ‘Putin’s War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution’ by Samuel Ramani. Also on the list is ‘The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China,’ accompanied by two more books on the combat application of artificial intelligence and space warfare.  The Pentagon expects to purchase 600 copies of each book by mid-June.   

The reasons being: 

1. There are currently NO serious Russia scholar in the West, with remarkable exception of people like Colonel Jacques Baud or Lester Grau. NONE, period. Russia's XX century history is a combination of horror fantasy novels and lies from dissident community and white immigration. How about learning about Soviet realities from REAL historians.

2. For any Western "strategist" writing on Russia the "research" should start from discarding fantasies and fairy tales about West's role in WW II and appropriate use of war correlates and statistics from authoritative sources--not from former Wehrmacht losers who supplied Anglo historiography with pseudo math and copious amount of BS. 

3. Studying "strategy" without serious operational background and apparatus (tool kit) which goes into it--is a waste of time. Without serious grasp of math and physical principles on which modern battlefield and technology operate this whole "study" is a waste of time and will produce no positive outcomes with the exception of what Western "strategists" (most of them with humanities degrees) usually do--quoting Clausewitz, Sun Dzu, Jomini et al. This is a fool's errand. 

4. In the end, they either accept the fact that the US is primarily a naval power and is not even in the same league with Russia in continental warfare, or they should simply cancel this order and stick to what they know best--confabulation of warfare. 

These four points describe in general why reading Western "researches" not gonna help.

It Is Saturday...

 ... and somebody caught this miracle from 30 years ago on video...

It is all about yardsticks. You either can play and compose, or you don't. Simple as that. Anybody created anything rivaling this since? Right... I knew it...

So, Saturday... go at it. Enjoy Western Civilization before it is erased. Pour myself Jack...

Eddie's Journey...

 ... It is turning into a river. I was writing about Russia being an Ark for nearly 10 years. Well, guess what--it is happening now and it is a big time. There is no propaganda in this, I dearly love America which is diminishing by the hour, and I know that Pacific Northwest is the most beautiful place in the world, but I am privileged--I have my family here. Other people's journeys are remarkable on their own. 

And here is the proof of the movement of people of good will.
 

They are coming now in many tens of thousands and it cannot be hidden anymore. The Third Rome...

About "Escalation"...

... in reality--same ol', same ol'. 

Faces Of War.

Here is the kid I speak about in my video (coming up shortly). The kid is oligophrenic, in normal language--he is heavily retarded, which makes him disabled. He was drafted to VSU despite all necessary reports from doctors. Poor guy doesn't even understand what is going on while his mother hugs and kisses him, knowing that if he gets to front she will never see him again. His very "own" 404 Nazis and foreign "barrier troops" will kill him if he is not killed by Russian artillery, drones or storm-troopers. This is Kiev's regime crime in progress. 

It is heartbreaking.