How is Russia faring in Ukraine?

[jreuben]

Sources that might help:
- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheNewAtlas/videos
- http://en.kremlin.ru/
- https://communities.win/search?params=russia&sort=new
- https://www.rt.com/russia/
- https://www.feedspot.com/infiniterss.ph ... 237&q=site:
- https://bigserge.substack.com/archive
- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/ZejQZ1pkbGaq/ (might be an idealistic old school middle era soviet communist (probably not bolshevik), but some good updates)

[Niemand]

Today in the war...

[Cruiserdude]

Today in the war...

Hahaha what a doofus. I tell you, our reporters and our rulers have really tried to pull one over on the people.

[Niemand]

Today in the war...

Hahaha what a doofus. I tell you, our reporters and our rulers have really tried to pull one over on the people.

Jeremy Bowen is a graduate of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Its alumni list reads like a who's who of globalism.

[EvanLM]

Democrat Congressman Schiff Greets Ukraine’s Nazi Azov Soldiers In US Capitol
Posted on September 26, 2022 by Constitutional Nobody
An image posted to Liberal Twitter on Monday shows men who allegedly serve in the Ukrainian military’s openly neo-Nazi Azov Battalion meeting Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff on the floor of the U.S. Capitol.

The viral photo shows Schiff approaching a couple of Azov soldiers wearing black suits and some Ukrainian military women visiting the Capitol Monday.


ussanews.com
Posted by Daria Kaleniuk, the assistant director of a Ukrainian activist group called Anti-Corruption Action Centre, the caption of the picture reads, “The most emotional moment was when we suddenly met released Azov soldiers right inside the main hall on the Capitol Hill.”


Kaleniuk was visiting the Capitol with a delegation of female Ukrainian soldiers sent to beg U.S. politicians for additional high-tech weaponry to be provided by America.


One Liberal Twitter user commented on the photo of the Azov fighters greeting Schiff, writing, “MAGA Americans were accused of being Nazis and were shot and killed in Capitol Hill. Meanwhile literal Nazis are being emotionally welcomed in Capitol Hill. Makes sense.”

ussanews.com
Popular conservative commentator Jack Posobiec wrote, “Oh,” in response to this accurate observation.


It’s not clear what the Azov fighters were doing at the Capitol, but the hypocrisy of the image should infuriate all Americans.

While average Trump supporters are painted by the media and left-wing politicians as dangerous extremists, actual Nazi fighters sporting swastika tattoos and a multitude of other Nazi symbols are given tours of the Capitol by U.S. politicians.

The strong Nazi presence in Ukraine has been intentionally downplayed by Western media who understand the fact wouldn’t go over well with most citizens.

Just last week a Ukrainian battle tank was filmed with a big Swastika spray-painted on its side during a German television interview.

The week prior, an image published by the presidential office of Ukraine showed President Volodymyr Zelensky posing with a Ukrainian soldier in the background wearing a Nazi patch in the same town of Izium where the swastika clip was filmed.

The skull and crossbones patch is the same as a logo used by Hitler’s 3rd SS Panzer Division ‘Totenkopf’ during World War II, only it has been updated to have the skull wearing headphones.

ussanews.com
After the image went viral, Zelensky’s office altered the set of photos from his trip to Izium and removed the image of the armed guard wearing the SS-style patch altogether.

© Office of the President of Ukraine
The American left is openly aligning itself with Nazis while painting its domestic political opposition is Nazis who present a danger to democracy.

Below is just a sample of Infowars and others covering the fact that Nazis are deeply involved in the Ukrainian war operation.

Key Flashback: CIA Secretly “Nazifying” Ukraine Since 1953
Reuters Ignores Swastika Tattoo of Ukrainian ‘Local’ on its Own Photo
Propaganda? Ukrainian MP Claims Russian Soldiers Burned Swastika Into Woman’s Belly
Facebook Allows Support Of Neo-Nazis As Long As They’re Fighting Putin
NATO may have provoked Russia over Ukraine – Pope
Mainstream Media Praises Ukraine’s Azov Battalion For Dropping Nazi Patches From Uniform
Zelensky ‘Grateful’ to Azov Neo-Nazis, Claims Ukraine Hardly Has Any Radicals
2017 Guardian Mini-Doc Exposed Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Youth Camps
Watch: Ukrainian Citizens Say ‘Fascist’ Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade ‘Only Shoot Civilians’

[EvanLM]

CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged
CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged
CBS has censored its own documentary investigative reporting after an avalanche of pushback from supporters of Ukraine and its military. The segment highlighted that tons of weaponry shipped from the United States to the country’s military has gone missing, and sounded the alarm as billions in dollars more have been pledged by the Biden administration.
“CBS partially retracted a documentary in which it said that shipments of weapons to Ukraine from the US had been going missing,” Insider reports Monday. “CBS tweeted on Monday that it had removed a a video promoting the documentary that included a months-old quote saying most aid was not making it to Ukraine’s front lines.” Below is the deleted tweet, with the offending line of “30% of it [US-supplied arms and munitions] reaches its final destination.”


The segment, titled “Arming Ukraine” was published days ago, and follows on the heels of Pentagon and US intelligence officials issuing similar warnings that there are few mechanisms in place to legitimately track the arms flowing into the country. One admin official even described in April that, “we have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero. It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time.”

The fresh CBS reporting added to these concerns, quoting the the head of a Lithuania-based organization supplying the Ukrainian military, Jonas Ohman, who said bluntly:

“All of this stuff goes across the border, and then something happens, kind of like 30% of it reaches its final destination.”

Ohman stressed that actually getting the weapons to the designated Ukrainian army units involves having to navigate an array of “power lords, oligarchs [and] political players.” This also as there have been persistent reports that some weapons end up on the black market, or might possibly be moved outside Ukraine.


A senior crisis adviser with Amnesty International also told CBS in the documentary, “What is really worrying is that some countries that are sending weapons do not seem to think that it is their responsibility to put in place a very robust oversight mechanism.”

Officials with the Ukrainian government promptly accused the mainstream US network of playing into “Russian propaganda”.

Along with a widespread social media backlash from Kiev’s supporters and pundits, this was apparently enough for CBS to announce it is “updating” the segment, with some of the offending lines now dropped…

[EvanLM]

In the last couple of years, there has been a lot of attention on the build-up of China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). It has undergone a major modernization effort and is now the largest naval force in the world. Just last month, the PLAN launched its third aircraft carrier – the second to be entirely indigenously built. This will allow China to flex its muscles in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.

Likewise, there has been great speculation regarding China’s efforts to develop a capable fifth-generation fighter aircraft and a medium- to long-range stealth bomber. In very short order, Beijing has finally made the great leap forward to become a major world power.

Yet, largely overshadowed by the ships and aircraft are China’s efforts to increase its missile capabilities. These efforts haven’t been ignored, it is simply a matter of fact that Beijing appears to be focused on multiple projects in a way that would have seemed impossible just a decade ago.

As a RAND Corp. study noted, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has transformed itself from a larger but antiquated force into a capable, modern military. What should be worrisome for Washington is the rate at which China has closed the gap, and there is a very serious risk that Beijing could overtake the United States.


Rocketing Ahead

A 2020 report from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) warned that China’s land-based conventional missile capabilities have also developed significantly over the past two decades. In the early 2000s, China’s missile forces were generally short-range with modest accuracy.

However, in the years since, China has developed the world’s “largest and most diverse” arsenal of ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles – fielding multiple new missile systems in recent years. Many of those missiles are also capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear payloads
China has been able to fund these multiple projects thanks largely to its booming economy. That explosive growth has resulted in significantly larger defense budgets, which in turn have funded the development of many new military systems – including ballistic and cruise missiles.

Even with its rapid expansion, China’s missile forces are, for the most part, not near parity with the United States. Beijing has fewer nuclear-armed missiles than the United States, and it has fewer conventionally-armed missiles as well.

However, one area where Chinese missiles have been able to exceed those of the United States has been with land-based medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. It is a type of weapon that was banned by the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by the United States and the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War. In fact, the United States and Russia were strictly prohibited from actually developing missiles of the class due to the 1987 missile treaty.

Hypersonic Missiles

Another area where the United States has already fallen behind China – as well as Russia – is in the development of hypersonic missiles. Last August, China reportedly tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle that could circle the globe in low-orbit space.

Though it missed its target by about two-dozen miles, experts still warned that China had made astounding progress on hypersonic weapons, and at this point, its efforts are far more advanced than the United States had realized.

New Missile Silos

What is especially worrisome is that newly released satellite images have revealed that China is building a second nuclear missile silo field. This would be in addition to the 120 missile silos already under construction near Yumen in Gansu province. The second missile silo field is located 380 km (240 miles) northwest of the Yumen field, near the prefecture-level city of Hami in Eastern Xinjiang. The silos are reported to be for the DF-41 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), which is believed to be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads – perhaps up to 10 warheads. The missiles have an estimated range of 7,000 km (4,350 miles) – allowing them to reach targets in the United States. These are in addition to the force of approximately 100 road-mobile ICBM launchers that the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) has in its arsenal.

U.S. researchers have warned that China is expanding its nuclear force in part to maintain a deterrent that would be able to survive a U.S. first strike and even be able to retaliate in sufficient numbers to defeat U.S. missile defenses.

China is truly rocketing its way towards being a missile superpower.

A Senior Editor for 1945, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. He regularly writes about military hardware, firearms history, cybersecurity and international affairs. Peter is also a Contributing Writer for Forbes. You can follow him on Twitter: @PeterSuciu.

[Fred]

WW3 is around the corner

[sushi_chef]

[ajax]

Washington’s Carthaginian Peace Collides With Reality
The Biden administration refuses to tell the American people the truth: Ukraine is not winning and will not win this war.

Douglas Macgregor
Nov 29, 2022

https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... h-reality/

[gkearney]

I will post a contrarian view here. For some time now it has been clear that great powers can be defeated militarily by lesser one. All the lesser powers need to do is to hold on and prevent the great powers from achieving a quick and decisive victory. Some recent and not so recent examples of this:

The Boer War - Where a group of South African farmers, boer is the Afrikans word for farmer, fought the greatest military power of the age, the British Empire, to a standstill and was able to dictate terms in the end.

Vietnam - A small southeast Asian nation/people brought low not one, but two world powers first the French and then the United States.

Afganistan - The graveyard or empires they have managed to hold back all comers, the French, the British Empire, the Soviet Union and the United States have all felt the sting of this remote and sparsely populated nation.

All of these examples and likely others share a common thread. The weaker partly does not need to score massive victories, but rather they need only stretch out the conflict until the costs grow too great and the rewards grow too small for the greater power to endure. At that point the will to fight on by the greater power is drained away and they withdraw having little to show for their efforts.

Russia needed to quickly, within days, have tanks on the streets in Kiev. They came ever so close to doing so, but in the end they could not. Russia will not win this war by bombing or missile. Such did not work in England in World War II, it did not work in Vietnam, where the United States had massive air superiority. The only way to win is with boots on the ground and in that they seem to be unable to hold onto territory that is even ethically Russian.

At this point we have little more that a laboratory for modern weapons systems. NATO gets to try out all their assets without having to expend their own troops doing so. Good deal for NATO, not so great for Russia who in effect become little more than canon fodder for the latest advancement in NATO artillery, armor and high tech weapons.

So at some point the costs of this "special military operation" will grow to great just as it did in Afganistan and the Russians will do as the United States did in Vietnam, declare victory and go home. Yet another example that raw power alone is no longer the sure path to victory in the modern world.

[Niemand]

I will post a contrarian view here. For some time now it has been clear that great powers can be defeated militarily by lesser one. All the lesser powers need to do is to hold on and prevent the great powers from achieving a quick and decisive victory. Some recent and not so recent examples of this:

The Boer War - Where a group of South African farmers, boer is the Afrikans word for farmer, fought the greatest military power of the age, the British Empire, to a standstill and was able to dictate terms in the end.

Vietnam - A small southeast Asian nation/people brought low not one, but two world powers first the French and then the United States.

Afganistan - The graveyard or empires they have managed to hold back all comers, the French, the British Empire, the Soviet Union and the United States have all felt the sting of this remote and sparsely populated nation.

All of these examples and likely others share a common thread. The weaker partly does not need to score massive victories, but rather they need only stretch out the conflict until the costs grow too great and the rewards grow too small for the greater power to endure. At that point the will to fight on by the greater power is drained away and they withdraw having little to show for their efforts.

Russia needed to quickly, within days, have tanks on the streets in Kiev. They came ever so close to doing so, but in the end they could not. Russia will not win this war by bombing or missile. Such did not work in England in World War II, it did not work in Vietnam, where the United States had massive air superiority. The only way to win is with boots on the ground and in that they seem to be unable to hold onto territory that is even ethically Russian.

At this point we have little more that a laboratory for modern weapons systems. NATO gets to try out all their assets without having to expend their own troops doing so. Good deal for NATO, not so great for Russia who in effect become little more than canon fodder for the latest advancement in NATO artillery, armor and high tech weapons.

So at some point the costs of this "special military operation" will grow to great just as it did in Afganistan and the Russians will do as the United States did in Vietnam, declare victory and go home. Yet another example that raw power alone is no longer the sure path to victory in the modern world.

You can add one to Vietnam – they defeated China just after the USA.

Asymmetrical warfare may lose its relevance in a cybernetic age – we'll see. But the key point is that standing battles between fixed armies bring out inequalities, but terrorism, guerilla warfare and attacks on supply lines equalise things.

You could throw Ireland in there too, although I think the Irish War of Independence was helped along by WWI (even after it had finished) as was the Bolshevik takeover in Russia. In WWII, Soviet attacks on German forces were far more effective in the forms of snipers, disruption and so on, although they did manage some very impressive stand offs – such as the tank battle at Kursk.

At this point we have little more that a laboratory for modern weapons systems

Maybe that was part of the goal all along? I still haven't made my mind up as to whether this counts as a bush war or not.

I think NATO has suffered some embarrassments here as well. Their propaganda machine has been full out yet it's still happening months after Putin was supposed to be gone. I think they have also underestimated the corruption in the Ukraine, since much of the money given to them has been laundered, some of the NATO weapons have been resold on the international black market (including to radical Muslims) and if some sources are to be believed, some weapons given to the Ukrainians have ended up being fired back to them as they've ended up in Russian hands due to resales etc.

Of course this war does serve some western interests. It has been a useful way of justifying price rises in other parts of Europe (extra profit, lower wages). It also falls into line with the mass migration narrative since many Ukrainians have been resettled elsewhere. The European Union is fairly determined to homogenise the continent and this certainly helps.

[Lemarque]

Apparently there is some resistance to Putin mounting.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical

[Ymarsakar]

Apparently twitter is nowntelling the truth about russia after lying since theit founding

Remember whej they said ghost of iiev had killed the entire russian air forcr? And using videos from arma 2 as evidence of ukie victories.

[Ymarsakar]

Facts are incorrect so ur analysis becomes incorrect.

Russia signed a peace deal which required the forces surrounding kiev to be withdrawn. Clauswitz suntzu.

Ukraine via nato pressure nullified their own signatures.

Khazarian oath bound combinations have always done this.

I will post a contrarian view here. For some time now it has been clear that great powers can be defeated militarily by lesser one. All the lesser powers need to do is to hold on and prevent the great powers from achieving a quick and decisive victory. Some recent and not so recent examples of this:

The Boer War - Where a group of South African farmers, boer is the Afrikans word for farmer, fought the greatest military power of the age, the British Empire, to a standstill and was able to dictate terms in the end.

Vietnam - A small southeast Asian nation/people brought low not one, but two world powers first the French and then the United States.

Afganistan - The graveyard or empires they have managed to hold back all comers, the French, the British Empire, the Soviet Union and the United States have all felt the sting of this remote and sparsely populated nation.

All of these examples and likely others share a common thread. The weaker partly does not need to score massive victories, but rather they need only stretch out the conflict until the costs grow too great and the rewards grow too small for the greater power to endure. At that point the will to fight on by the greater power is drained away and they withdraw having little to show for their efforts.

Russia needed to quickly, within days, have tanks on the streets in Kiev. They came ever so close to doing so, but in the end they could not. Russia will not win this war by bombing or missile. Such did not work in England in World War II, it did not work in Vietnam, where the United States had massive air superiority. The only way to win is with boots on the ground and in that they seem to be unable to hold onto territory that is even ethically Russian.

At this point we have little more that a laboratory for modern weapons systems. NATO gets to try out all their assets without having to expend their own troops doing so. Good deal for NATO, not so great for Russia who in effect become little more than canon fodder for the latest advancement in NATO artillery, armor and high tech weapons.

So at some point the costs of this "special military operation" will grow to great just as it did in Afganistan and the Russians will do as the United States did in Vietnam, declare victory and go home. Yet another example that raw power alone is no longer the sure path to victory in the modern world.

[Christianlee]

Apparently there is some resistance to Putin mounting.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical

More on the coup attempt.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/06/24 ... nd-n766435

[tmac]

Looks/Sounds like SisHTF and things are starting to get pretty sketchy over that way. It’s going to be interesting.

[Christianlee]

Things are progressing quickly.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/06/24 ... rn-n766473

I wish I could feel confident this would improve things.

[Ymarsakar]

This all s9unds like more mic british mi6 5th gen warfarr

[Niemand]

Things are progressing quickly.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/06/24 ... rn-n766473

I wish I could feel confident this would improve things.

I looked at the video clips there, including the one of the column supposedly in Moscow. There was no evidence I could spot that was Moscow. Voronezh has hundreds of thousands of people so it could have been filmed there.

Some of the other details sound more plausible.

[Christianlee]

Things are progressing quickly.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/06/24 ... rn-n766473

I wish I could feel confident this would improve things.

I looked at the video clips there, including the one of the column supposedly in Moscow. There was no evidence I could spot that was Moscow. Voronezh has hundreds of thousands of people so it could have been filmed there.

Some of the other details sound more plausible.

It was in the Onlast of Moscow. I guess that is like being in a state. It wasn’t the city itself.

[Niemand]

Things are progressing quickly.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/06/24 ... rn-n766473

I wish I could feel confident this would improve things.

I looked at the video clips there, including the one of the column supposedly in Moscow. There was no evidence I could spot that was Moscow. Voronezh has hundreds of thousands of people so it could have been filmed there.

Some of the other details sound more plausible.

It was in the Onlast of Moscow. I guess that is like being in a state. It wasn’t the city itself.

Oblasts can be huge, I know. But under a hundred miles from Moscow is significant. I'm not convinced by the footage supposedly shot "in Moscow" though. There were no visible signs the urban footage is Moscow itself.

[Ymarsakar]

This whole world is a deep fake game. I am good at gaming

[Good & Global]

This war is about money and business as usual. Nothing more. It is incredibly profitable to those who have orchestrated it. They can also launder money like crazy just like they did in all the prior wars.

We keep thinking it is about geopolitical reasons, white hats vs black hats, Biden vs Putin etc.
Keep your distance and please do not light a match near all that gaslighting.

We have not had a conflict that was not manufactured for some time. The net benefit of all of this is people can destroy their own countries through division, degeneracy and regulation while feeling virtuous supporting a war that is only as real as the camera lens can capture.

[Ymarsakar]

This war is about money and business as usual. Nothing more. It is incredibly profitable to those who have orchestrated it. They can also launder money like crazy just like they did in all the prior wars.

We keep thinking it is about geopolitical reasons, white hats vs black hats, Biden vs Putin etc.
Keep your distance and please do not light a match near all that gaslighting.

We have not had a conflict that was not manufactured for some time. The net benefit of all of this is people can destroy their own countries through division, degeneracy and regulation while feeling virtuous supporting a war that is only as real as the camera lens can capture.

Dark illuminati and secret societies manipulate wars.

Some person online could be the mastermijd and nobody would know