Posted on 07/20/2023 6:27:12 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
“As of tonight at midnight ships [ entering Russian ports ] will be considered to be carrying military cargo and treated as such.”
And without a blockade to enforce it like Russia has with Odessa?
Bold strategy, let’s see how it pays off for them.
Too bad Odessa is burning.
Launching a nice 10 round salvo, arriving at same time say over 5-700 meters would have great effect
The next 10 are behind fortifications to catch runners
Funny how these are “controversial”. If you look at most of the signatories they are not exactly artillery heave countries
As to UXOs. Tell me the difference between these and the million+ mines that have been sewn by both sides
Amazing how the media zeros in on a “story” and the amount of research to them would fit on the head of a pin
Some RuZZian blogger died in that cluster bomb attack?
“The probable use of cluster munitions by the 🇺🇦Ukrainian military against a group of 🇷🇺Russian soldiers during which the Russian blogger and military Mykhailo Luchin was eliminated”
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1682029370653941760
All of your western disinfo sources are lying to you!! They say the Uke counteroffensive isn’t working well at all. Your figures tell us otherwise. A smashing Uke success! The Ukes have taken out 146 Russian tanks since 6/5 while only losing 65! The Ukes are pasting Russian artillery 81 to 30 lost! A smashing success of lying western disinfo stoogery. Too, too funny. What very little credibility you ever had just got blown up with all those Russian tanks last month.
A Good RuZZian
“Russian soldier Mykhailo Luchyna, UAV platoon commander and military blogger, author of the propaganda channel in the telegram “Misha na Donbas” was eliminated near Krasnohorivka.”
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1681988359651045377
Mr Harpoon and his buddy USV would have a word ...
Ukraine using US made cluster munitions on the frontline is “controversial”, but Russia using their own cluster munitions on civilians ... crickets.
Texas is the place to be...
“On a 1,200-acre plot of land in a small town 30 miles north of Austin, Texas, South Korean giant Samsung is spending $17 billion to build a semiconductor fabrication plant.
Four hours north by car, in the city of Sherman, Texas Instruments is at the early stages of a $30 billion project, the largest new chip investment in Texas.
It’s not by accident.
As geopolitical tension between China and Taiwan drives chipmakers to turn to the U.S. for manufacturing, Texas has emerged as the place to do business, thanks to a combination of low taxes and new subsidies.”
Did you know?
“Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets”
“In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official.
Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time, describes the episode in “At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War,” to be published next month by Ballantine Books. Reed writes that the pipeline explosion was just one example of “cold-eyed economic warfare” against the Soviet Union that the CIA carried out under Director William J. Casey during the final years of the Cold War.
At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology. Then, a KGB insider revealed the specific shopping list and the CIA slipped the flawed software to the Soviets in a way they would not detect it.
“In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds,” Reed writes.
“The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space,” he recalls, adding that U.S. satellites picked up the explosion. Reed said in an interview that the blast occurred in the summer of 1982.
“While there were no physical casualties from the pipeline explosion, there was significant damage to the Soviet economy,” he writes. “Its ultimate bankruptcy, not a bloody battle or nuclear exchange, is what brought the Cold War to an end. In time the Soviets came to understand that they had been stealing bogus technology, but now what were they to do? By implication, every cell of the Soviet leviathan might be infected. They had no way of knowing which equipment was sound, which was bogus. All was suspect, which was the intended endgame for the entire operation.”
Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets
By David E. HoffmanFebruary 27, 2004
In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official.
Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time, describes the episode in “At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War,” to be published next month by Ballantine Books. Reed writes that the pipeline explosion was just one example of “cold-eyed economic warfare” against the Soviet Union that the CIA carried out under Director William J. Casey during the final years of the Cold War.
At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology. Then, a KGB insider revealed the specific shopping list and the CIA slipped the flawed software to the Soviets in a way they would not detect it.
“In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds,” Reed writes.
“The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space,” he recalls, adding that U.S. satellites picked up the explosion. Reed said in an interview that the blast occurred in the summer of 1982.
“While there were no physical casualties from the pipeline explosion, there was significant damage to the Soviet economy,” he writes. “Its ultimate bankruptcy, not a bloody battle or nuclear exchange, is what brought the Cold War to an end. In time the Soviets came to understand that they had been stealing bogus technology, but now what were they to do? By implication, every cell of the Soviet leviathan might be infected. They had no way of knowing which equipment was sound, which was bogus. All was suspect, which was the intended endgame for the entire operation.”
Reed said he obtained CIA approval to publish details about the operation. The CIA learned of the full extent of the KGB’s pursuit of Western technology in an intelligence operation known as the Farewell Dossier. Portions of the operation have been disclosed earlier, including in a 1996 paper in Studies in Intelligence, a CIA journal. The paper was written by Gus W. Weiss, an expert on technology and intelligence who was instrumental in devising the plan to send the flawed materials and served with Reed on the National Security Council. Weiss died Nov. 25 at 72.
According to the Weiss article and Reed’s book, the Soviet authorities in 1970 set up a new KGB section, known as Directorate T, to plumb Western research and development for badly needed technology. Directorate T’s operating arm to steal the technology was known as Line X. Its spies were often sprinkled throughout Soviet delegations to the United States; on one visit to a Boeing plant, “a Soviet guest applied adhesive to his shoes to obtain metal samples,” Weiss recalled in his article.
Then, at a July 1981 economic summit in Ottawa, President Francois Mitterrand of France told Reagan that French intelligence had obtained the services of an agent they dubbed “Farewell,” Col. Vladimir Vetrov, a 53-year-old engineer who was assigned to evaluate the intelligence collected by Directorate T.
Vetrov, who Weiss recalled had provided his services for ideological reasons, photographed and supplied 4,000 documents on the program. The documents revealed the names of more than 200 Line X officers around the world and showed how the Soviets were carrying out a broad-based effort to steal Western technology.
“Reagan expressed great interest in Mitterrand’s sensitive revelations and was grateful for his offer to make the material available to the U.S. administration,” Reed writes. The Farewell Dossier arrived at the CIA in August 1981. “It immediately caused a storm,” Reed says in the book. “The files were incredibly explicit. They set forth the extent of Soviet penetration into U.S. and other Western laboratories, factories and government agencies.”
“Reading the material caused my worst nightmares to come true,” Weiss recalled. The documents showed the Soviets had stolen valuable data on radar, computers, machine tools and semiconductors, he wrote. “Our science was supporting their national defense.”
The Farewell Dossier included a shopping list of future Soviet priorities. In January 1982, Weiss said he proposed to Casey a program to slip the Soviets technology that would work for a while, then fail. Reed said the CIA “would add ‘extra ingredients’ to the software and hardware on the KGB’s shopping list.”
“Reagan received the plan enthusiastically,” Reed writes. “Casey was given a go.” According to Weiss, “American industry helped in the preparation of items to be ‘marketed’ to Line X.” Some details about the flawed technology were reported in Aviation Week and Space Technology in 1986 and in a 1995 book by Peter Schweizer, “Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy that Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union.”
The sabotage of the gas pipeline has not been previously disclosed, and at the time was a closely guarded secret. When the pipeline exploded, Reed writes, the first reports caused concern in the U.S. military and at the White House. “NORAD feared a missile liftoff from a place where no rockets were known to be based,” he said, referring to North American Air Defense Command. “Or perhaps it was the detonation of a small nuclear device.” However, satellites did not pick up any telltale signs of a nuclear explosion.
“Before these conflicting indicators could turn into an international crisis,” he added, “Gus Weiss came down the hall to tell his fellow NSC staffers not to worry.”
The role that Reagan and the United States played in the collapse of the Soviet Union is still a matter of intense debate. Some argue that U.S. policy was the key factor — Reagan’s military buildup; the Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan’s proposed missile defense system; confronting the Soviets in regional conflicts; and rapid advances in U.S. high technology. But others say that internal Soviet factors were more important, including economic decline and President Mikhail Gorbachev’s revolutionary policies of glasnost and perestroika.
Reed, who served in the National Security Council from January 1982 to June 1983, said the United States and its NATO allies later “rolled up the entire Line X collection network, both in the U.S. and overseas.” Weiss said “the heart of Soviet technology collection crumbled and would not recover.”
However, Vetrov’s espionage was discovered by the KGB, and he was executed in 1983.”
People raising stink about cluster munitions on either side don’t know what they’re talking about, or are being dishonest.
Neither Russia, Ukraine, nor the USA are party to the Convention on Clustet Munitions. They’re fair game as far as they’re concerned.
Did you know the Uke counteroffensive is a smashing success? According to the Speedster the Russians are losing twice the artillery and tanks the Ukes are. Take a look at the running totals from 6/5 up to now. The Russians must near their breaking point. On to Moscow with the Speedster and his Uke hordes!
Speedrunning...
“Russia removed many BMP-1’s from the 227 military equipment storage and repair base the last months, and now Ukraine is speedrunning their destruction.”
https://twitter.com/PetTheGreat1/status/1681748824157569024
28-29 in 3 days...
“Today’s loss list is like Russia trying to get rid of its IFVs...
a few are old, but most are recent
BMP-1, 18x destr
BMP-2, 5x destr
unknown BMP-1/2, 1x destr, 1x abandoned
BMP-3, 2x destr
BMP-3 688M sb. 3KD, 1x destr
BMD-2, 1x destr
BTR-82A, 1x damaged, 1x abandoned”
https://twitter.com/Rebel44CZ/status/1681729409156300822
Vladimir Putin was asked to transfer part of the air defense systems from Moscow and the Moscow region to the Crimea.
After the strike on the Crimean bridge and the explosions at the training ground in the Kirovsky district of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov and several generals addressed the president with such a request.
“Strikes on Crimea have become more frequent, military and civilians are dying. Intelligence says there will be more strikes. We ask you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, to strengthen our air defense.
“At least to allow the return of those systems that were sent from Crimea to Moscow and the Moscow region earlier ( we wrote about this - ed.)”, says the appeal that was sent to Putin on Wednesday afternoon, July 19, even before the death of a teenage girl in the northwest of the peninsula.
According to our source in the Kremlin, Putin rejected this request. And he threatened to punish the authors of the appeal for “alarmism and defeatism.”
The president also demanded to name those responsible within five days for the fact that the attack on the Crimean bridge was allowed, and the air defense system and the protection of the bridge as a whole did not work.
By the way, the ammunition depots in the Kirovsky district of Crimea were, according to the interlocutor in the government of the republic, hit by enemy missiles that the air defense did not notice.
According to updated data, 11 soldiers were killed , 24 were wounded.
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After hitting the bridge, they want to ban rest in Crimea. What other threats are
After the explosion of the Crimean bridge, we talked to several of our sources - in the General Staff and in the Black Sea Fleet. They explained why we missed the enemy strike and what dangers ...
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After hitting the bridge, they want to ban rest in Crimea. What other threats are
After the explosion of the Crimean bridge, we talked to several of our sources - in the General Staff and in the Black Sea Fleet. They explained why we missed the enemy strike and what dangers Russia now faces. Let’s talk about the most important things we’ve learned.
Firstly, the strike on the bridge was missed because Russia has not yet learned how to adequately deal with enemy sea drones.
“This is a very cunning weapon, you can fight it only by noticing movement with your eyes. Radars often do not detect these drones. And you can’t always see them. That is why it happened with the Crimean bridge,” one of our interlocutors explained.
He recalled how the same drones successfully attacked our ship Ivan Khurs for the enemy. Since then, no effective way to counter them has been found.
Secondly, according to all our sources, there will be two new targets for enemy naval drones: again the Crimean bridge and the ships of the Black Sea Fleet.
“The bridge, as we see, is not protected in a number of places. Now his security will be strengthened, but it will definitely not work to follow everything. And then we lose our vigilance - and that’s all”, a high-ranking military man from the General Staff tells us.
This summer and fall, he expects at least a few more attacks on the bridge.
The second target, he said, is our warships. “Several of these drones are capable of sinking a medium-sized ship. So we have possible losses in the fleet. What to do, this is a war,” the source notes.
Thirdly (and this is the most important thing, since we are talking about the lives of civilians), all our sources hope that the holiday season in Crimea will be terminated.
“It is clear that a blow to the bridge will seriously disrupt the holiday season. But we will ask the authorities to completely ban holidays in Crimea this summer. Already, in my opinion, everyone understands that it is dangerous to be here. At least as long as the SVO is going on,” one of the soldiers says.
At the same time, he does not know whether it will be possible to ban rest in the Crimea.
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The Crimean bridge was blown up again. But there’s a new threat
Last night, the pillars of the Crimean bridge were attacked, which led to its partial collapse and subsidence. Photos and videos in large quantities are already on the Internet. As of now, the railway coverage ...
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Due to cluster munitions of Ukrainians, a Russian officer surrendered the positions of his colleagues to the enemy
American journalists confirmed what we wrote about a week ago: Ukraine has begun to actively use cluster munitions at the front.
A source in the General Staff noted that this weapon of the enemy has become a serious problem for our army.
Over the past week alone, cluster munitions have killed and wounded more than 1,500 of our military, destroyed up to two dozen pieces of equipment and destroyed at least seven of our positions.
Another big problem is that after the use of cluster munitions began, the Russian military began to surrender more often in the Zaporozhye direction this week.
Thus, more than 100 people surrendered, three of them are officers.
“One of the officers who commanded the mobilized and surrendered with them, according to intelligence data, became a traitor. I handed over several positions to the enemy, which were fired upon by the same cluster munitions,” the source complained.
According to him, the Defense Ministry and the General Staff are developing methods to counter these weapons of Ukrainians, but “no effective solutions have been found yet.”
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“Killed 50 people at once”: our military is scared of cluster munitions of the Ukrainian army
According to a source in the General Staff, the use of dangerous cluster munitions against the Russian army was recorded in several sectors of the front at once.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/2487
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
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disagree. the biggest winner is China.
I would say that this is a huge setback for China’s position against America and its allies militarily speaking.
China is watching a vast military build-up among the countries opposing it and a more unified opposition, while Russia is being taken off the table as an ally that could effectively tie down forces in Europe for Red China.
Frankly I think it is esp against Russian stronk “2nd greatest military..”
Let’s give it a couple of weeks with cluster munitions and see how the Russians are doing
I have a queen…
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