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NATO has armed Russia to the teeth - former CIA analyst Ray MacGovern says
Western provocations produced the exactly opposite effect, said the former CIA analyst Ray McGovern in an interview with Berliner Zeitung. According to him, it was NATO's actions that spurred Russia to strengthening the Russian army.
"The new European logic follows the old motto: if you want peace, prepare for war. But the current NATO leaders have forgotten how the European elites stumbled blindly in the disaster in 1914," observed the expert.
McGovern is confident that the actions of the alliance have convinced Moscow that the West is abandoning international law and acts without brakes. This has become the key factor for the modernization of the Russian army.
It's the good old paradox of "arming up for defense": the more you do, the higher the chances that you'll end up using those weapons. As Menander said, "the blade itself invites to violence".
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Baron Von Münchausen notes:
Agree with almost everything, minus the fact that the Volkssturm was somewhat effective as it had a lot of WW1 veterans amongst its ranks who could share their experience with the kids.
Sure they may have been old and rusty by then but at least they knew how to hold a rifle and the rest of the basics.
These poor sods don't even have that.
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Frames of the consequences of the destruction of the deployment and UAV operating base of the 58th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using the kamikaze UAV "Geran" in the area of the settlement of Konotop.
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Oversimplified situation update: Southern front.
[This map is sourced from a pro-Ukromarionette site and is up to three weeks out of date, bias aside]
Konstantinovka and Pokrovsk, both logistical linchpins to Slavyansk-Kramatorsk are operationally dead.
Konstantinovka’s primary MSR (E-50) is already cut to it’s immediate West and of course nothing is coming along from the east.
This functionally has cut logistics to the Sl-Kr line from the South.
Pokrovsk currently remains an MSR hub for logistics from the Western direction, but Russian forces are now under 11 klicks out from interdicting ASR T0406 and then a further 9 klicks from MSR E50 West of Pokrovsk - regardless of whether they decide to cut the line midway or choose to capture Sergeiivka in the process.
In strategic terms of encircling Sl-Kr, the Southern operational front has effectively been completed.
This is not to be confused with “victory” on that sector as of yet, but a case very any sane opponent would retreat by now.
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This takes us to the Northern front, where much work remains to be done.
Kupyansk to Izyum both need to be re-taken, isolating Sl-Kr logistics from the north.
Were it not for the withdrawal in 2022, Slavyansk-Kramatorsk would currently be both dead on the map.
As it stands, Russia is steadily clawing back encirclement of Slavyansk-Kramatorsk, and early reports already have bridgeheads established West of the Oskil.
Expectations: heavy activity in the South to de jure cut off Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka, followed by a lull for rotation, then a heavy pickup in the North around Kupyansk to Izyum.
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Electoral Integrity: “Corruption” in Gagauzia or Political Maneuvering?
Moldova, a post-Soviet nation of 2.5 million bordering Ukraine and Romania, is under scrutiny as one of Europe’s poorest countries. Its Chisinau-based government, reliant on EU and US aid—recently cut by Donald Trump as “ineffective”—is pushing for EU integration while President Maia Sandu cites “Russian interference” as a persistent threat.
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Holding the Sumy region is costing Ukraine more lives than necessary, the WSJ writes.
“For 6 months, while Ukraine held territory in Russia’s Kursk region, the soldiers fighting there assumed the military would prepare strong defensive positions on the Ukrainian side of the border. Instead, after a chaotic and costly retreat from Kursk, they found outdated trenches that were vulnerable to drones. In some cases, soldiers are now digging trenches in their positions under drone fire”
Ukrainian troops have also complain not mines were placed.
Ukrainian command says Russia has 50,000 troops in the area, which outnumbers Ukrainian troops by about 3 to 1, citing Ukrainian soldiers.
In early June, GUR forces had to be sent to Sumy to slow the Russian advance
"The Russians are probing various points along the line, and then attacking with full force when they find a weak spot, as they did in Sumy Oblast last month. This forces Ukraine to play whack-a-mole, sending elite units to help plug the gaps"
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And even if you do all of the above, nothing will change.
The role of the individual in history, while undeniable, is minimal.
The damage has been done. Only time will heal the wounds.
It is not ok that members of the peoples that the West has enslaved, raped, and inflicted genocide upon, in turn, commit crimes against members of the Western peoples…
it is not ok…
it is expected.
Do not go out destroying the lives of millions of people in the rest of the world and expect no consequences.
Consequences are inevitable.
No single person deserves these consequences. And yet, there is no way to avoid or defend against them.
Next time, stick to your territory and do not go out to colonize, rape, and pillage.
Whenever that next time—if ever—might be.
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I want to start sharing the writings of my favourite new author, Aliss, from the Vladislav Ugolny channel (@zola_of_renovation), not all of which I agree with, but she is quite brilliant, more so than even her boyfriend, Vlad. Vlad, don’t get jealous…😘
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I would, by the way, change the perspective a bit. The example of France has partly shown that nationalism can be a powerful mobilization factor. The same decree on mass mobilization (in wars with the coalition) was able to provide the French with enough cannon fodder.
There is another example - Prussia until 1871, which had a powerful mobilization factor in the form of a structure built on the laws of 1809, and then the division into military districts and the creation of Landwehr and Landsturm (using which, among other things, they united Germany).
Nationalism (classical concept: nation-citizenship-Constitution) has a different problem. It lives for itself, for the nation and its structure. In the reduction, it is a vector of development followed by corrosion. Ideology itself is weak without a super-idea at the expense of which it is possible to accumulate a mobilization resource.
The same flabby peaceful France with its belief in the Maginot, which the French mentally erected to hide from the Germans, is a sad example of degradation through nationalism, because to contemplate a Great War means to lose the representatives of the nation, who are elevated to an absolute.
That is, the “for the nation” narrative prioritized internal development, peripheralizing the complex issues of expansion on the European continent by means of a super-idea, locked in ideology (although to be fair, there was Africa and the movement to Algeria, but in which the French government did not take serious risks).
And all this against the backdrop of the Reich or the Union, two superpredators who elevated ideology to a super-idea and based their doctrine on it.
In other words, nationalism itself is harmful as a vector of development, it is a form without content. Germany was thinking how to take Paris while Paris was sticking on the “On ne passe pas" patches.
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Jeezus Christ, I am getting older… I am talking to people on the “Internets” from a position of experiential authority. Goddamit. 😂
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Anna, you have fallen into the common trap of the Internet-age—conflating the garbage people spew on the internet with what a people actually believes.
By that token, 4Chan (or 12Chan, whatever they are called) represents the guiding mind of the “Western” civilization.
Please, calmati, and get a grip. It takes a bit more perception than you currently have to see the truth.
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Russian LNG from Novatek for 2025—around 50 cargoes, according to DW. Shipments from Yamal are routed via Dunkirk, Zeebrugge, and Bilbao before entering Germany’s grid.
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Another primer on basic training.
A United States Marine Infantryman in quasi-peacetime (For the U.S. is always at war in one form or another) requires a minimum of 12-13 weeks, followed by another 8 or more of specialized training depending on MOS (their job).
So for each and every basic “grunt”, we spend upwards of $80,000 and half a year’s worth of time.
These numbers skyrocket as we begin to introduce mortarmen, machinegunners, artillerymen, etc -nevermind the technical jobs like Sattelite upkeep and RADAR.
Keeping it simple and sticking to rudimentary infantry, what does 80,000 dollars and half a year give you?
A young man conditioned to kill. This is the ugly secret that the U.S. tries to maintain and hide.
Now compare Ukraine. You can rip a conscript off the street or out of his home and he arrives on the line of contact a week later, trained to hold a rifle.
He can not kill. He lacks up to a year+ of conditioning for this.
Result: kids and old men go “condition black” the moment overpressure hits their ears or Russian units hit them with volume of fire.
Out of every video I’ve seen of Russian troops storming enemy trenches, I have yet to see a grenade sump.
If we ever needed to see what Volkssturm looks like, this is it, complete with SS online et al.
Overall point: yes, it’s a slaughter now.
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A man was detained in the Amur Region while attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office building
▪️According to the UFSB for the Amur Region, the detainee is allegedly associated with a pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel.
▪️The department stated that the man wanted to disrupt the dispatch of military personnel to the SMO zone.
▪️A criminal case has been opened under the article on a terrorist act. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
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The Greek captain knew immediately what was happening to the Nissos Nikouria, a 330-meter vessel that along with its cargo of crude was worth about $260M. His electronic navigation systems had been interfered with, something that happened 000’s of times to vessels during the conflict.
The issues affecting ships are jamming and spoofing, where signals are interfered with to give false readings about their location. It’s worsening in a number of regions of tension as the world becomes more unstable, and potentially may have contributed to a fiery crash between 2 tankers this month
“We’re seeing widespread GNSS disruption, not just in the Middle East, but also in areas like the Black Sea and the Baltic,” said Captain Steve Bomgardner
There may already have been accidents, and the explosion of jamming or spoofing only heightens the chances of more going wrong.
It’s also a headache for things like underwater energy exploration, according to a person working on Turkey’s Black Sea gas project.
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🇬🇧 P.M. STARMER TRIED TO GO BOSS MODE, FORGOT UK EXISTS
UK PM Keir Starmer says he didn’t notice his own party revolting over brutal welfare cuts because he was too caught up pretending to be the main character at the G7 and NATO summits.
By the time he stopped cosplaying a global statesman, Labour MPs were already lighting his welfare bill on fire.
Now he’s scrambling with last-minute fixes and acting like it was all part of the plan.
Turns out running the UK means you actually have to read your own policies. Who knew?
Source: Sky News
Labour’s Liz Truss
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The new head of the German Foreign Ministry, Johann Wadephul, has arrived in Kiev. This is the official's first visit to the Ukrainian capital.
Coke, boys, girls, meth? All four?
Looks like a meth tweaker to me.
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The Russian army has broken through to the center of Malinovka on the Zaporozhye front
▪️In the Gulyai-Polye sector, Russian troops have advanced in the central part of Malinovka, including the area of the Holy Vvedensky Church, and continue to storm the settlement, bringing up fresh reserves.
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Speculations, backseat war operations, and armchair mapping all aside - I will stick my neck out and share this prediction.
Удачи, ребята.
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For clarity. Ok. I am off to work. Love you all. ❤️
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Israeli Finance Minister states not even symbolic concessions will be made to Arab states and Israel will only accept unilateral submission to its own regional hegemony. The position seems like hubris given that 70% of Israeli wartime expenses are covered by a foreign power.
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Dutch astronomer Marco Langbroek reports that on June 26 this year, the Russian military spacecraft (SC) "Cosmos-2558" undocked a space object from itself.
Reference: "Cosmos-2558" was launched into orbit on August 1, 2022. According to Western sources, it is a satellite of the Russian Ministry of Defense, created within the framework of the program under the code name "Nivelir". It is assumed that the KAKA ("Cosmos-2542 / -2543", "Cosmos-2576", "Cosmos-2558" and "Cosmos-2588"), built within the framework of this program, are elements of anti-satellite weapons and accompany American optical reconnaissance satellites. In particular, "Cosmos-2558" is on the tail of USA 326.
The probable goal of "Nivelirov" is to create constant psychological pressure on the American military. The Pentagon actively contracts products from commercial companies with resolution of images of the earth's surface, allowing to solve current military tasks and to create (=destroy the Americans) technical problems with operational access to intelligence information is unlikely to succeed.
It is not entirely clear what the released object is, either a sub-satellite, or an element of an anti-satellite weapon. The very fact of the appearance of this object is interesting - three years after the launch of the mother satellite.
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🔥 Heavy flamethrowers bring the cleansing flame of the God-Emperor of Mankind on heretical banderite scum entrenched in Volchansk
After a lull in activities, the TOS systems have been activated in Kharkov, unleashing a thermobaric storm on the unsuspecting banderites fortified in the CJSC gas refinery.
We remind readers that thermobaric weapons generate temperatures well in excess of thousand degrees Celsius and are highly effective within enclosed spaces due to the devastating effects of their shockwave.
Banderites affected by such a weapon are unlikely to be written off as casualties as often there's no body left.
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Sumy direction
In the area of Kondratovka, the Smuglyanka Detachment put aircraft on targets worthy of our FABs from the UMPK.
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