Kiev Is Burning

[Stuart Galbraith]

Though they have been saying that for the last month.

[mandeb48]

20 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

No doubt elite is still having their share, but 1) Now this share is staying inside Russia and 2) Elite's share was only part of what was looted (probably, even small part)  - since bigger part was de-facto given by this elite to West for free in return on West supporting this people in their elite position (at least, they believed they were supported).

 

I think that the corrupt never stop stealing voluntarily, possibly a part of what is stolen after 2022 will remain in Russia but another part will go to Hong Kong or some other refuge abroad. In Russia it is clear that there has been a lot of corruption for a long time, I find it difficult for that to change when politically the same officials are stuck in their positions. *

* with the honorable exception of Shougu and some of his henchmen who should have been dismissed and sent to pick ice in the Arctic in September 2022 at least.

[Roman Alymov]

14 minutes ago, mandeb48 said:

I think that the corrupt never stop stealing voluntarily, possibly a part of what is stolen after 2022 will remain in Russia but another part will go to Hong Kong or some other refuge abroad. In Russia it is clear that there has been a lot of corruption for a long time, I find it difficult for that to change when politically the same officials are stuck in their positions. *

    The problem is. ENTIRE political class of Russia are from this type of people. It was depicted by one standup comedian years ago (on situation in UKraine, but general idea is the same in Russia)

(By the way i have to note this clip by comedian Zelensky perfectly predicted the failure of President Zelensky to construct roads in Ukraine)

 The system was created this way by design in early 1990th, whth primary aim "not to allow USSR to be resurrected". So actually it is not so important who is sitting in what chair - the end result will be more or less the same if conditions are the same. Thanks God, West have changed the conditions, and now the system (that was initially created by West) is at least partly, unwillingly, have to work against West.

23 minutes ago, mandeb48 said:

* with the honorable exception of Shougu and some of his henchmen who should have been dismissed and sent to pick ice in the Arctic in September 2022 at least.

Few hours ago another former deputy Minister of Defence was arrested, by the way.

 

[mandeb48]

5 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

 The system was created this way by design in early 1990th, with primary aim "not to allow USSR to be resurrected". So actually it is not so important who is sitting in what chair - the end result will be more or less the same if conditions are the same. Thanks God, West have changed the conditions, and now the system (that was initially created by West) is at least partly, unwillingly, have to work against West.

I will believe a little that something is changing when the oil and gas stops flowing to Ukraine. Meanwhile the farce continues.

[Roman Alymov]

Hm....

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/26/vandals-target-french-rail-network-olympics-opening-ceremony

 

Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation after saboteurs attacked France’s high-speed railway network in a series of “malicious acts” that brought chaos to the country’s busiest rail lines hours before the Olympic opening ceremony.

The state-owned railway operator, SNCF, said arsonists targeted installations along high-speed TGV lines connecting Paris with the country’s west, north and east, and traffic would be severely disrupted across the country into the weekend.

The national train operator said it had been “the victim of several simultaneous malicious acts overnight” in which crucial fibre-optic cables running alongside the tracks had been cut and burned.

   Well, for two years Western media were advertising arson attacks on Russian rail network electric wiring "wardrobes"- and, surprise, this advertising campaign proved to be effective: now this best practice will become common. 

 

 

 

[Josh]

2 hours ago, mandeb48 said:

 

I think that the corrupt never stop stealing voluntarily, possibly a part of what is stolen after 2022 will remain in Russia but another part will go to Hong Kong or some other refuge abroad. In Russia it is clear that there has been a lot of corruption for a long time, I find it difficult for that to change when politically the same officials are stuck in their positions. *

* with the honorable exception of Shougu and some of his henchmen who should have been dismissed and sent to pick ice in the Arctic in September 2022 at least.

I suspect the money just goes to Turkey or the UAE now, assuming Cyprus is closed for business.

[Roman Alymov]

Hunt for fresh cannon fodder in Ukraine

 

[Roman Alymov]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

I suspect the money just goes to Turkey or the UAE now, assuming Cyprus is closed for business.

No doubt some part of money do go to different places in "global South" (for exapple, then-MoD Shoigu's daughter was caught touring Emirates in early days of SVO), but this places do not have proper infrastructure to handle stolen assets in such convenient and safe way Western system was designed to (since this system was cretated in colonial empires time exactly for that).

   So the wery need for such a switch of direction is major blow to Russian corrupt system - as this system was designed from the start to be West-oriented. It can't become East/South oriented.

[Roman Alymov]

Lancet vs. M113 stuck in trench https://t.me/Liniya_fronta6/1294

[Roman Alymov]

On 3/5/2015 at 11:46 AM, Gregory said:

Interview with one of the key figures in Ukrainian volunteer movement, Yuri Kasyanov. His take on things is fairly dark.

 

Interestingly, Yuri Kasyanov isn still alive and well, now he is specialist in drone war. Accirding to him

Host: Am i right to say that Ukraine and, unfortunately, Russia are niow ahead of all planet <in modern war>?

Kasyanov: Well, of coyrse if we would, God forbid, declare war on England now, or on Germany, or Poland, or even USA  - we would easyly defeat such adversary.  Because their number of drones and experience in using them is tiny. ...... Yes we are technologically stronger then any army of the world

 

[Roman Alymov]

Thermal imaging Lancet vs. what is believed to be PzH 2000 SPG with anti-drone "sunshed" https://t.me/infomil_live/8353?single

[Roman Alymov]

Alternative opinion on Russian economy

 

[James1978]

On 7/25/2024 at 12:55 PM, Josh said:

USAF uses rigid booms; everyone else in the entire world (and USMC and USN) use probe and drogue (hoses), with the only other exception I can think of being the half dozen or so 707s of the IAF. The USAF adopted this in its SAC years because it is a much faster refill for bomber sized aircraft. A long time ago there actually were separate TAC probe and drogue tankers for fighter aircraft, but the fleet was consolidated. KC-10s and KC-46s can employ hose refueling pods on their wings to handle both methods and KC-135s can use an adaptor to switch to hose in place of boom.

Some portion of the KC-135 fleet are also equipped with Multipoint Refueling System pods on the wings.

I think only the last 20 KC-10s had the wing pods, but they all have a centerline drogue.

[Roman Alymov]

"In the case of the Ukraine, we have a different problem. The Ukrainians are the most advanced of the peoples who have been under Russian rule in modern times. They have generally resented Russian domination; and their nationalistic organizations have been active and vocal abroad. It would be easy to jump to the conclusion that they should be freed, at last, from Russian rule and permitted to set themselves up as an independent slate. ....

It is true that the Ukrainians have been unhappy under Russian rule and that something should be done to protect their position in future. But there are certain basic fads which must not be lost sight of. While the Ukrainians have been an important and specific element in the Russian empire, they have shown no signs of being a '"nation" capable of bearing successfully the responsibilities of independence in the face of great Russian opposition. The Ukraine is not a clearly defined ethnical or geographic concept. In general, the Ukrainian population made up of originally in large measure out of refugees from Russian or Polish despotism shades off imperceptibly into the Russian or Polish nationalities. There is no clear dividing line between Russia and the Ukraine, and it would be impossible to establish one. The cities in Ukrainian territory have been predominantly Russian and Jewish. The real basis of "Ukrainianism" is the feeling of "difference" produced by a specific peasant dialect and by minor differences of custom and folklore throughout the country districts. The political agitation on the surface is largely the work of a few romantic intellectuals, who have little concept of the responsibilities of government.

The economy of the Ukraine is inextricably intertwined with that of Russia as a whole. There has never been any economic separation since the territory was conquered from the nomadic Tatars and developed for purposes of a sedentary population. To attempt to carve it out of the Russian economy and to set it up as something separate would be as artificial and as destructive as an attempt to separate the Corn Belt, including the Great Lakes industrial area, from the economy of the United States.

Furthermore, the people who speak the Ukrainian dialect have been split, like those who speak the White Russian dialect, by a division which in eastern Europe has always been the real mark of nationality: namely, religion- If any real border can be drawn in the Ulcraine, it should logically be the border between the areas which traditionally give religious allegiance to the Eastern Church and those which give it to the Church of Rome.

Finally, we cannot he indifferent to the feelings of the Great Russians themselves. They were the strongest national element in the Russian Empire, as they now are in the Soviet Union. They will continue to be the strongest national element in that general area, under any status. Any long-term U.S. policy must be based on their acceptance and their cooperation. The Ukrainian territory is as much a part of their national heritage as the Middle West is of ours, and they are conscious of that fact. A solution which attempts to separate the Ukraine entirely from the rest of Russia is bound to incur their resentment and opposition, and can be maintained, in the last analysis, only by force- There is a reasonable chance that the Great Russians could be induced to tolerate the renewed independence of the Baltic states. They tolerated the freedom of those territories from Russian rule for long periods in the past; and they recognize, subconsciously if not other' wise, that the respective peoples are capable of independence. With respect to the Ukrainians, things arc different. They are too close to the Russians to be able to set themselves up successfully as something wholly different, For better or for worse, they will have to work out their destiny in some sort of special relationship to the Great Russian people."

    Source of this Russian propaganda?  

U.S. OBJECTIVES WITH RESPECT TO RUSSIA

TOPSECRET

August 18, 1948  [Source; Records of the National Security Council on deposit in the Modern Military Records Branch, National Archives, Washington. D.C.]

U.S. OBJECTIVES WITH RESPECT TO RUSSIA. NSC 20/1 (sakva.ru) 

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I'm going to go ahead and imagine that this Der Spiegel article has been posted on here before, but just in case it hasn't, here it is:

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/ukraine-wie-angela-merkel-2008-den-nato-beitritt-verhinderte-spiegel-rekonstruktion-a-f8c94810-17c8-4533-be5c-7fa08cdd23fc

It's a good read!

[Roman Alymov]

Wreck of FH70 self-moving gun https://t.me/boris_rozhin/131378

[Roman Alymov]

Rare case of anti-bunker giided bomb used by RusAF against command bunker in Velikaya Novoselovka

https://t.me/boris_rozhin/131510

[Roman Alymov]

Another Leopard 2 wreck filmed by pro-Ukrainians https://t.me/boris_rozhin/131512

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5 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

Rare case of anti-bunker giided bomb used by RusAF against command bunker in Velikaya Novoselovka

https://t.me/boris_rozhin/131510

No way to tell, I suppose, how successful this strike was. Though it looks accurate enough.

[Roman Alymov]

Good photo of pro-Ukr small plane converted into attack drone that crashed somewhere in Russia. Was loaded with C4 explosives controlled by electronic detonation device https://t.me/boris_rozhin/131562

Drone video of X-35 missiles vs. air traffic radars on Kharkov airfield https://t.me/boris_rozhin/131572

[Roman Alymov]

Iskander vs. M270A1 MLRS

https://t.me/anna_news/68982

[Roman Alymov]

Lancet (?) vs. Archer SPG https://t.me/vysokygovorit/16684

[Roman Alymov]

Another Leopard-2 burned (not clear by what means as it looks like multiple hits, crew leaving the vehicle, then driving again etc.) https://t.me/ZParaBellumMD/9645

[Roman Alymov]

Lancet vs. Su-25 under tent on Krivoy Rog airfield https://t.me/infomil_live/8434

[Roman Alymov]

By the way, since Artyom Drabkin (creator of "I remember" project) mentioned in other thread: he is continuing his project, now interviewing veterans of new war (sometimes right in frontline zone). Below is interesting memoirs of volunteer tank gunner with 3 tank to tank "kills" and one BMP. In Russian.