The Kremlin is burning?

[JWB]

39 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

There are less women of childbearing age due to the 1990s/early 2000s slump in births, resulting in less births today?

Yes true. But Roman is blaming it on some "wester" conspiracy when in reality Great Russian depression was caused by collapse of communist economy of USSR. 

See what happened in Vietnam after glorious victory by worker and peoples army in 1975:

 

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/VNM/vietnam/fertility-rate

[JWB]

This morning, a Russian Black Sea Fleet staff car exploded in Sevastopol, killing the 41st Missile Boat Brigade's chief of staff, Captain 1st Rank Valery Trankovsky. 

Russian outlets report that Ukrainian operatives planted an IED under the vehicle.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1856633930968924461

[JWB]

Solving poverty by killing off the poor:

https://x.com/RALee85/status/1856725793008677040

[mkenny]

22 minutes ago, JWB said:

Solving poverty by killing off the poor:

https://x.com/RALee85/status/1856725793008677040

It is saying the poor are becoming 'not-poor'. Quite the opposite of the click-bait title. 

[Roman Alymov]

On 11/13/2024 at 8:18 PM, JWB said:

This morning, a Russian Black Sea Fleet staff car exploded in Sevastopol, killing the 41st Missile Boat Brigade's chief of staff, Captain 1st Rank Valery Trankovsky. 

Russian outlets report that Ukrainian operatives planted an IED under the vehicle.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1856633930968924461

Actually it was regular private car. I wonder who is reporting "staff car" to make terror attack looks better.

[Roman Alymov]

Good illustration of "appeasement of the West" party current mindset (note how this member of "collective Putin" media/intellectual stuff is addressing pro-Russians as "marginal turbopatriots" and insist on keeping some sort of "independent Ukraine" in agreement with West)

 

Edited November 18, 2024 by Roman Alymov

[JWB]

Russian channels are currently reporting that a large-scale leadership purge is underway within Russia’s 3rd Guards Combined Arms Army. 

Per reports, the command staff of the 3rd CAA has been fired, and the commanders of the 7th and 123rd Brigades have been arrested.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1857863548690428188

[Roman Alymov]

6 minutes ago, JWB said:

Russian channels are currently reporting that a large-scale leadership purge is underway within Russia’s 3rd Guards Combined Arms Army. 

Per reports, the command staff of the 3rd CAA has been fired, and the commanders of the 7th and 123rd Brigades have been arrested.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1857863548690428188

   Not just "purge" but purge following long-time desinformation efforts (as all levels of military hirachy in the region were pretending to have captured villages that were in fact not captured). Let's see as if it will be confirmed, and if it will end the same practice in other places.

[Stuart Galbraith]

There is a story I heard that one formation said they had captured a village, and hadnt. Then they were given a task dependent upon the village having been taken, and they threw in endless meat assaults to capture the village, before anyone in command knew that it was not yet in Russian hands.

Im sure of course whilst doing all this they took completely moderate losses that were hardly anywhere above average.

[Roman Alymov]

10 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

There is a story I heard that one formation said they had captured a village, and hadnt. Then they were given a task dependent upon the village having been taken, and they threw in endless meat assaults to capture the village, before anyone in command knew that it was not yet in Russian hands.

Im sure of course whilst doing all this they took completely moderate losses that were hardly anywhere above average.

 If only you have had, as i have advised you long ago, learned basic Russian  - you would be able to create much more factual (and detailed) stories about Russian problems, not some "there is a story I heard" speculations. For example, interview below might have been helpful for you (note i personally know the man interviewed, there is no reason to believe it is some sort of fake tales)

There is a story I heard

[Stuart Galbraith]

Roman, you know English, and still find it incomprehensible how we think. Why wouldn't the reverse be the same?

 

[Roman Alymov]

3 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Roman, you know English, and still find it incomprehensible how we think. Why wouldn't the reverse be the same?

Who is "we"? No idea how it is in your places, but here in Russia all people think own way, so being native Russian speaker in most cases can't make me understand other Russians. Groupthink is not practiced here. 

   But note i am not urging you to understand how others think, but to become ablr to get and use factual information.

Edited November 18, 2024 by Roman Alymov

[urbanoid]

11 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

Who is "we"? No idea how it is in your places, but here in Russia all people think own way, so being native Russian speaker in most cases can't make me understand other Russians. Groupthink is not practiced here. 

   But note i am not urging you to understand how others think, but to become ablr to get and use factual information.

Sure it isn't. You only overwhelmingly agree that aggressive wars (that you portray as defensive because it's a standard MO there) and the restoration of the empire are a good thing, you only disagree about the measures needed to accomplish it.

[Roman Alymov]

5 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

Sure it isn't. You only overwhelmingly agree that aggressive wars (that you portray as defensive because it's a standard MO there) and the restoration of the empire are a good thing, you only disagree about the measures needed to accomplish it.

Let me direct you to my yesterday's post that shows opinion set of "Russian ruling elite"  - unfortunately, this people are not aware they are for "restoration of the empire"

 

[Roman Alymov]

On 11/16/2024 at 8:00 AM, Roman Alymov said:

Actually it was regular private car. I wonder who is reporting "staff car" to make terror attack looks better.

P.S. Assassins arrested https://t.me/infomil_live/12043?single  

Edited November 19, 2024 by Roman Alymov

[JWB]

Footage has emerged of the explosion in Sevastopol on November 13 targeting the car of 47-year-old war criminal Captain 1st Rank Valery Trankovsky, Chief of Staff of the 41st Brigade of Missile Ships and Boats of the Black Sea Fleet.

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1858800618577527277

[JWB]

Russian bloggers confirm the removal/arrest of brigade commanders and an army leader for falsified reports and meat-grinder tactics. Yet, it won’t change much—throwing waves of bodies has been Russia’s go-to strategy for centuries. Expecting those raised to hate others to change is futile.

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1858651373035761752

[JWB]

Another day of pain in Russian equities. 

Months of this, on and on it goes.

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1858898130516730367

[JWB]

More good economic news:

RUSSIA'S MOSCOW EXCHANGE SAYS SUSPENDS TRADING ON DERIVATIVES MARKET

https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1858863660107444291

[JWB]

In the Belgorod region, a Russian aircraft dropped a 250-kilogram bomb on a school.  

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1859232036571025693

[mkenny]

23 hours ago, JWB said:

Another day of pain in Russian equities. 

Months of this, on and on it goes.

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1858898130516730367

Yep as Sleepy Joe said in March 2002 'soon' the ruble will be reduced to rubble. 

 

 

 

Has anyone here  got a dictionary and could  look up the definition of 'soon' for me?

Edited November 20, 2024 by mkenny

[Roman Alymov]

1 minute ago, mkenny said:

Yep as Sleepy Joe said in March 2002 'soon' the rouble will be reduced to rubble. 

 

 

 

Has anyone here  got a dictionary and could  look up the definition of 'soon' for me?

By the way Rus economy is now 4th biggest economy in the world Russia is now the fourth largest economy. But how?

 

[JWB]

14 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

By the way Rus economy is now 4th biggest economy in the world Russia is now the fourth largest economy. But how?

 

Not sustainable.

[Stefan Kotsch]

15 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

By the way Rus economy is now 4th biggest economy in the world

Roman, enjoy the war! The peace will be terrible.

(BTW, East Germany was also of the opinion that it was among the ten largest industrial nations. All you have to do is pick the statistical values you want.)

[seahawk]

42 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

By the way Rus economy is now 4th biggest economy in the world Russia is now the fourth largest economy. But how?

 

Yes, and given the grass root movements in Russia, this is only a starting point for a prosperous future, as Russia is freeing itself from depending on western resources and no longer selling its own resources cheaply. Russia will only get stronger.