Posted on 09/29/2022 1:02:04 PM PDT by JonPreston
In less than 24 hours part of Ukraine becomes part of Russia and NATO just held a secret meeting to ramp up the war. Vladimir Putin pointed the finger directly at the U.S. for its attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. Germany is on the brink of collapse as German energy experts point to coming blackouts.
Very good show. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
You bet. They’re on at 4PM, Monday-Thursday.
4 P.M. EST? I’m in CST🙂
I would agree that the RF has been doing the SMO “ON THE CHEAP” so far and has been outnumbered 3 or 4 to 1. Even so, bear in mind that the RF has basically taken 4 oblasts and severely degraded the capabilities of the AFU.
I know that that if one is mainly relying on “Western sources” that that won’t be believed, but it IS true. With no air cover and with artillery that is grossly inferior in quality and quantity to the RF’s the Zelensky regime has been throwing valuable lives away in “counteroffensives” unsupported by air power or significant artillery across open steppes. The armor losses have been huge as well. Although it will probably be years before the truth is out, I believe the rumors of General Zaluzhny advising against the Zelensky regime/US/UK offensive tactics are probably true.
Because of the referenda the RF will now be legally and doctrinally able to use as much of its regular armed forces as it wants. Moreover, the mobilization of reservists means there is relatively little tune-up needed for those soldiers. The AFU, on the other hand, has lost most of its experienced, professional soldiers, and conscripts with a month or two or three of training aren’t going to be very effective against regular army and reservists, assuming the conscripts can be equipped fully, which is unlikely. What is certain is that the armor, artillery, and ammunition situation for the AFU, which is already critical, will get worse.
Almost everything that gets posted here is an inversion of the truth because it is coming from MSM and British sources (oddly, people seem to forget about all the lies from these sources that have been exposed, beginning with the “Ghost of Kiev”.)
Here is today’s commentary from a commentator from Belarus who does a very granular analysis of the war every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTRKqU__0kg
Here’s is a British former lawyer who has been analyzing geopolitics for years and is commenting on the Ukraine daily (the link is to today).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U1HhA4z9DA
Why is the West so intent on committing suicide?
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I don’t really know the answer, but I have noticed that in every country, officials, when confronted with their destructive energy policies, all say the same thing:
“We have a deadline to meet.”
They then explain only that this “deadline” is of the highest priority and cannot be evaded.
Radiation dead zone? I had thought that tactical nukes did not work like that. No fallout, no blast, nothing gets permanently irradiated, just the neutron burst did the killing of humans/animals?
That’s what I thought. Someone else kept posting to me how unreliable the artillery was. That didn’t seem to make sense hence my reference to 25 hour shelling of America by the British in 1814.
That just didn’t make sense that artillery today can’t do what it could 200 years ago.
What you say is more reasonable.
The WEF has a timetable and the clock is running. Deadline is (Agenda) 2030. The UN and WEF are in collusion. So there’s basically a little less than 8 more years of this kind of crap scheduled to happen.
Did the Brits have rifled-barrel cannons in 1814? Rifling lands are what wears out from use.
Pretty sure they were rifled, they definitely were in 1861, I’ve seen them.
Imagine the amount of diesel, jet fuel, any and all petroleum products used on a daily basis by the Pentagon in this proxy way.
Seems if they were truly serious about the consumption oil destroying the planet, then the war be a secondary consideration to destroying the planet from burning oil.
They even tell me who drives a measly 10,000 miles a year I must surrender my ICE pickup truck. They should set the example by halting all military operations.
Yes, EST
“Saying something does not make it so.”
Taking it through the barrel of a gun DOES.
Possession makes it so.
The Great Reset, destruction of the $300 plus trillion of the worlds total debt ( not my figure, but those financial greats totaling up the world’s unpayable debt). No longer sustainable….EU slogan, build back better, senile Joes slogan, build back better…same , same.
Build back Better? ….requires a wipe out of “ wealth “…nations brought to their knees…Biblical Shemitah coming….think Biblical, it’s coming.
Yes, I found Dima’s report today quite surprising. But, I also found Alexander’s program today quite surprising as in one regard they contradicted each other.
Dimi offers the reason for Ukraine’s inability to encircle Russia’s Liman forces as had been expected because Ukraine “ran out of blood.” Yet, Alexander said that Shogui said Ukraine currently has 400,000 troops. I have not been able to find Shoigu’s interview (only a few sentences from it in the our media) but one of the sentences I had seen from Shoigu is that Ukraine began the war with 201,000-202,000 troops on the battlefield. I realize they have had 7 so called mobilizations. But, all along they have been losing them faster than they have been able to feed them into the grinder.
Ukraine has had unbelievably high losses (as multiple other sources have indicated.) In my opinion MUCH higher than Shoigu estimated (61k dead; 49k wounded.) It is much harder for a combatant to measure the enemy’s losses since they don’t have the identities and locations of the troops the way they do their own troops so real tracking is impossible.
But, if you accept Alexander’s Ukraine numbers and his “rumored” approximate current Russian numbers you get an 8 to 1 current numerical Ukraine advantage. And, Alexander is quite critical of Russia’s military as a result. I think that is completely inaccurate.
I think Dima’s report is much more probable. Russia would not be starting a major offensive Monday with those odds.
My explanation for slow Russian gains and the retreating Russian forces resulting in Kharkov loss of territory during the counter offensive is much simpler. Russia came to the “special military operation” with modest goals and an appropriately small force. NATO/Ukraine resisted those goals and massively escalated requiring a change both in Russia’s goals and the necessary forces to achieve them.
Russia always keeps it’s cards close to it’s vest and never provides enough information which leaves everyone free to speculate allowing the supporters of their opponent to find comfort in delusions...:-)
In my opinion what has actually been surprising is that Russia has been able to take 20% of Ukraine and inflicted casualties at a better than 10 to 1 ratio with a military force that was structured to be withdrawn after providing enough pressure that would allow for modest changes (guarantees for Donbass and neutrality for Ukraine.)
It is going to be interesting to see how this progresses.
Lenin took part of Russia and made it part of Ukraine and Khrushchev took Crimea part of Russia and made it part of Ukraine, now Putin is taking parts of Ukraine and making them parts of Russia again.
Now none of these places is part the US so I do not know why we are being asked to spend our grandchildren’s money on weponds for these places even if Mumbling Joe Biden is getting a big kick back and trying to start WWIII.
Lenin truly did believe more in autonomy. Stalin pretty much was a Russophile and favored ethnic Russians and tight control from Moscow.
“Now none of these places is part the US so I do not know why we are being asked to spend our grandchildren’s money…”
They’re not asking.
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Thanks, I know.
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