Foreign Ownership In The West ...

 ... means absolutely nothing. Russia learned it the hard way and will not make such a mistake again. China is learning it now. 

Dutch authorities took control of the Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia following significant pressure from Washington, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing newly released court documents. The Netherlands-based company was seized earlier this month. The news comes amid escalating trade tensions between the US and China, marked by disputes over tariffs, export controls, and technology transfers. The production of semiconductors remains a particularly sensitive area due to its critical role in global technology and security, as they have both civilian and military uses. Officials from the Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry and representatives from a US agency responsible for protecting critical technology reportedly met in June to discuss the Dutch-based chipmaker, which is owned by the Chinese group Wingtech. During the meeting, US officials reportedly emphasized that the company’s CEO, Wingtech founder Zhang Xuezheng, must be removed in order to avoid US export controls.

Nothing is sacred in the US anymore. It lost its competitive edge and the only thing which it retains is blackmail and dirty games. This is the price of deindustrialization and of the predatory instincts of the American ruling class (oligarchy) who lost any ability to create. That also applies to US military-industrial complex which increasingly looks like a laundromat. 

Meanwhile, the village idiot continues to embarrass himself:

This is what happens when one has zero statesmanship qualities and thinks that the world is a TV show of NYC real estate sewer. 

On the technological front, however, news for NATO are not good, to put it mildly--the indicators are everywhere and no more so than in the military sphere. Sweden used to be known for good subs. Not so much signal processing because they demonstrated inability to distinguish herring farting from Soviet subs--a result of paranoia after a famous incident with Soviet diesel sub ending on the Swedish shores due to navigational error, with this sub promptly humorously being named Swedish Komsomolets in the Soviet Navy. Embarrassing fact, no doubt, but since then Swedes never stopped being hysterical. Now, suddenly (not really) they have issues, big ones ...

Sweden’s next-generation A26 Blekinge-class submarine programme has been hit by another major delay and soaring costs, pushing the first delivery to 2031 and raising total expenses to 25 billion SEK (2.3 billion EUR).  

This is one of those You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me news, since they are talking about building ... two (two, Karl!) SSKs like this. 

Ah yes, so menacing, so scary that Russians should quake in their boots, but they do not, especially when one considers the fact that a single sub of this run-of-the-mill class will cost more than $1 billion (More than ONE BILLION, Karl!) for a rather average AIP sub with rather mediocre strike capability and as is reported: 

Part of the delay is argued to be related to the poor state of the Kockums submarine yard, which has not built a new submarine since the Gotland-class delivered in the mid-1990’s. As such, while know-how has been retained to some extent thanks to design work on the Australian Collins-class, the upgrade of the Västergötland-class to the new Södermanland-class and to the Singaporean Archer-class respectively, and the Gotland-class MLU, a certain amount of delays and struggles with restarting production of a new class was to be expected. Still, the delivery time has now slipped from seven to 15 years between contract signing and first delivery, while the budget has more than doubled. This last delay is particularly difficult to swallow, as the political guidelines from the powerful Swedish Defence Commission (Försvarsberedningen) in their report on the future of Swedish defence in April 2024 took a stern view that further delays and cost overruns were unacceptable as that would impact both the submarine force and other naval development programmes. 

Well, for comparison, Russia builds for the same money TWO of these:

Carriers of Kalibr family, or one of these:

Carriers of everything else. Including hypersonic Zircons. Or one of these:

As you might understand, it goes to demonstrate that combined West cannot produce anything militarily impactful without bankrupting itself and that is why I am constantly forced to explain the abyss separating Russia and the United States in terms of military balance, not to speak of all European chihuahuas who are scared shitless by the United States itself fading from the military mythology it created about itself only to be exposed as a paper tiger. 

A Very Good Text ...

 ... on Thatcher (in Russian). Use google translate. 

Thatcher's witchcraft continues to rule Britain. Right-wingers and libertarians celebrated the 100th birthday of their beloved Maggie with pomp. I have never understood the love for her of people who do not have at least ten million pounds in papers and property in London. I'll congratulate her too. On April 13, 2013, when Thatcher died, hundreds of thousands of Britons took to the streets. The song Ding-Dong! "The Witch Is Dead" (a song by the Wizard of Oz) peaked at number two in the UK and number one in Scotland. The north of England, Wales, mining towns, Scotland rejoiced at the death of a politician who changed their fate. It was not personal hatred, but a reaction to a structural upheaval: the completion of the post-war compromise between the upper class and the lower classes. Thatcher restored wealth to the elite, freeing them from social obligations. It did not revive the empire, but found a way to extract rent from it for several more decades.

Yes, that's the new rentier class in the West--incapable of creation and building anything, only being a parasite. 

Just Numbers.

Main platforms for TLAMs in the US are surface ships (DDGs of Arleigh Burke class) and Virginia-class SSNs. So, to those who continue to view SMO through the prism of media hot air and empty statements by politicians. Here is the table:

Here is the analysis (basic calculations) from people in the know. 

This plaque shows how many Block V modification "Tomahawk" cruise missiles have been purchased since 2014 - about 1000 units. The total stock, minus those decommissioned and disposed of, launched during military operations or exercises, is about 3800 cruise missiles. Yes, there were plans in 2023 to increase the production of non-nuclear (there are no others and will not be) "axes" to 250-280 units per year, but instead, in 2024, 0 units were purchased. The US used to estimate the annual production of long-range sea cruise missiles in the Empire at about 250 units per year. And they had reasons for that - roughly such figures, minus nuclear variants, were declassified but were unlikely to be entirely truthful. And now they estimate the monthly production of only the 3M14 "Kalibr" in non-nuclear variants to be much higher than their own annual production. And we think they are still underestimating...

I want to reiterate--real military professionals are dealing with math, ranging from arithmetic to complex models, every day, because war IS math and always was. Once you begin to consider the technical "attrition" of arsenal you begin to understand why everything the US does in military field is a bluff, or bullshit in normal parlance. The US can only supply (per Financial Times) only between 20 to 50 TLAMs. OK. Lavrov today clearly stated that Moscow sees Trump's machinations. Meanwhile:

Sure, sure))

To Conclude This Wonderful ...

 ... Monday. Russia building a new world order))) 

On A Lighter Note ...

 ... if anyone would ask me what the hell is going on with the US today. Well, this rendition of Billy Jean and a very nice waterslides kinda captures this. Yeah, the whole thing looks and sounds like this today--something similar but ... different))

Hey, somebody approved those slides ... 

Now Lvov...

 ... the land of the Nazi supporters is getting its due. Obviously any Russophones are not there anymore--time for genuine Bandeites to experience what Canadian Parliament heroes like Waffen SS Hunka experienced at Brody, where SS Division (14th SS Grenadier) Galicina (Galicia) encountered not defenseless civilians they loved to kill, but the regular Red Army. The result was predictable. So, now it is time to experience it again:

They don't like (politely speaking) Russians in the West 404, so it is time to go and kill them some Russkies not in schools, kindergartens or parks, that's what NATO is good at, but on the frontlines. And why are they so upset--this is Europe's (and West 404 considers itself Europe in a purest sense) desire. 

I don't like Karen Shakhnazarov per se, he had his moments with Courier, but while White Tiger is not particularly special (apart from beloved by Soviet "intelligentsia" platitudes), this monolog is NOT a fiction, this is exactly how it applies to 2025. 

This is what Europe always wanted--to kill Russians. 

Explaining Nonchalance.

 Or why Russians are calm. Trump's trump cards are these:

So, my explanation follows. 

Meanwhile, 

A spreadsheet hacked by the Black Mirror collective has revealed, for the first time, the entire extent of Algeria’s purchase of the Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber a deal that not only solidifies Algeria’s position as a major operator of Russian fighters in Africa but also represents the first export of the ‘Fullback’ platform. The report, from Russia’s Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies, outlines the delivery of 14 Su-34s with a comprehensive electronic warfare suite worth over $175 million.

Well, yeah. Algeria also wants SU-57E. Who doesn't? The US military-industrial complex has been exposed as a laundromat and was defeated.