Replied to a NAFO with a map of Ukraine’s advances in the recent counter offensive. They got mad and started calling me racist and antisemitic for no good reason.

The second article Mercouris mentions is also a banger its amazing it went under the radar for so long.

West must focus on preparing Ukraine’s troops – or we will all pay the price

A couple of months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I was lying on a hilltop watching a US mechanised battalion thundering down a valley, tasked with breaching a set of obstacles. The obstacles were less formidable than those in Ukraine, and the enemy in the exercise comprised a single company backed by limited artillery. Nevertheless, the US troops made a mess of things. Their reconnaissance troops failed to screen their vehicles, they went static in sight of the enemy and they were severely punished.

The fact that well-trained US troops struggle to conduct combined-arms obstacle breaching under more favourable circumstances underscores how difficult it is. Moreover, the US troops I was observing may have performed poorly, but they did so in training. If ever they have to do it for real, they will have had repeated opportunities to learn and improve. Ukrainian troops have not had that luxury.

This is a brilliant moment where once again these analyst douches are so deep inside their own ass they don’t understand saying this shit(remember everything must be sacrificed in order to make content for the mighty google algo) in public just makes you western NATO look bad.

Yeah turns out all that NATO training literaly proved to be shit by US own failures.

But if you combine the two articles you see that at least some people had a reasonable grounded view of reality while the propaganda machine goes full hype and they clearly contradict each other.

I’m sorry to say but this is too good, Mercouris once again finding some hilarious articles to read.

First of all Financial Cope The hard lessons from Ukraine’s summer offensive This is a banger start already

The idea that Ukrainian forces, lacking any air cover, would storm through Russian lines was always going to be more of a Hollywood plotline than reality. But three months into the counteroffensive, Zelenskyy and his government are dealing with the reality that it has not achieved the desired decisive breakthrough — and are girding themselves for a drawn-out war.

Realy now? I mean realy now you were ALL literaly the ones saying and believing this? British are shameless as usual and continue to look down on their readers confident that nobody deranged enough to read FT unironicaly remembers anything beyond the articles from 2 days ago I guess.

Some US officials have complained privately to the media that Ukraine had failed during training to master modern operations that combine mechanised infantry, artillery and air defence and were too risk averse in their approach.

Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, have pointed out that American forces have themselves never conducted operations on battlefields like Ukraine’s, without air superiority, against a military the size and calibre of Russia’s, and against some of its most advanced weaponry and military technologies.

One of the main lessons of the counteroffensive so far, say analysts, is that western training of Ukrainian troops, typically of five weeks, is too short. It is not adapted to the way Ukraine fights best or to conditions on the ground, such as the impenetrable minefields or fortifications. And it takes place without the omnipresent drones hovering over the Ukrainian front lines.

“If I only did what [western militaries] taught me, I’d be dead,” says Suleman, a special forces commander in the 78th regiment. He says he had trained with American, British and Polish soldiers, all of whom offered “some good advice” but also “bad advice . . . like their way of clearing trenches. I told them: ‘Guys, this is going to get us killed.’”

I don’t even have a reaction to shit other than oh no everything the Russians said is true about NATO decadence/incompetence, confirmed on MSM media but libs are still “Russian propaganda?”

There is more from that if you want to read, like Ukraine going back to “attrition war” because its their strength it is both Nazi rethoric against USSR continuing the tradition of “to the last Ukrainian”. Yeah attrition works if you think the enemy will run out of soldiers before you do, just forget which country got 3x the population and which country is calling mobilization after mobilization.

Did anyone post this?

Zzzzelenskyyyy quoted in the Economist: https://archive.ph/LsGEy

Vladimir Putin ‘gratefully’ accepts Kim Jong Un invitation to North Korea

Russian president Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to visit North Korea made by Kim Jong Un during the two leaders’ landmark talks this week, the Kremlin and Pyongyang state media said on Thursday. Such a visit would be Putin’s first to North Korea since 2000 and would highlight deepening relations between Moscow and Pyongyang that have dismayed the US and its regional allies.

I hope Kim Jong Un hits his hotel room with a Juche mind control weapon

I just saw a video of the NAFO meetup in Lithuania and holy shit. These are the people posting about how indestructible NATO is? They’re the sort of people that street gangs in my country would send 14 year old boys after to beat them up as a joke. I have a feeling that the people posting SLAVA UKRAINI on Reddit are cut from the same cloth lmao

Libya floods: Level of destruction “never seen before”, death toll reaches 11,300

Untold numbers are buried under mud and debris that includes overturned cars and chunks of concrete. The collapse of two dams in the aftermath of torrential rain caused the most destruction. The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations, referred to the catastrophe as “something never seen in Libya before."

“[…] the numbers are changing as we speak. I mean, the numbers are thousands”, Taher El-Sonni said on Thursday morning. “[…] The direct hit came to an area where it’s around 30,000. And as we speak now, many of those are either being in a rescue effort or missing because they were hit badly when that happens. So I cannot really confirm the final numbers, but it`s really a high level of magnitude. And I’m afraid we will hear really large numbers, maybe even more than what has been confirmed so far.”

stoopid ruSSians building so many defensive lines when Ukraine won’t ever breach the first. This once again proves their inferiority

In portugal 2 red wine depots broke and red wine is just flooding down the street like a river it’s crazy 🇵🇹

Shoutout to that guy from my work who named a bunch of equipment after JRPG characters

Apparently this was as far back as years ago so I’ll probably never meet you but hope you’re having a good life

US at grave risk of China tech war retaliation

The US imported US$33 billion in capital goods from China for electricity generation and distribution in 2022, items that are no longer manufactured in the US.

Substituting domestic production for these items would entail long lead times and exorbitant costs, industrial officials say. In the event of a full-scale trade war, a Chinese ban on critical components could cripple basic US infrastructure.

“The vulnerability of supply chains for critical infrastructure is acute and self-inflicted. The US and its allies have allowed themselves to become captive to Chinese cartels that control production of electronic components, high-powered magnets, printed circuit boards, computers, drones, rare earth metals, wind turbines, solar cells, cellular phones and lithium batteries… In fact, nearly every element of the technology-based digital smart grid is dependent on Chinese-made components,” Brien Sheahan, a former top US energy regulatory official, wrote in April.

US defense contractors also depend heavily on China. In a June 19 interview with the Financial Times, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said his company had “several thousand suppliers in China and decoupling is impossible. We can de-risk but not decouple,” adding that he believed this to be the case “for everybody” in US manufacturing.

Hayes added, “Think about the $500 billion of trade that goes from China to the US every year. More than 95% of rare earth materials or metals come from, or are processed in, China. There is no alternative. If we had to pull out of China, it would take us many, many years to re-establish that capability either domestically or in other friendly countries.”

It is a good article there is more and some graphs.

You can spot the exact date the American capitalists decided to offshore manufacturing to China lol.

remember the nuclear power plant thing? good times

Surovikin is in Algeria?

It is not known what the purpose of his visit to Algeria is. However, in at least one grainy photo, he can be seen giving a talk to an auditorium that seemingly looks official, with Algerian flags in the background and the room packed with dozens of people.

In a more official photo, Surovikin can be seen at the Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque in the port city of Oran, in western Algeria. The images depict Surovikin, sporting stubble and a beige jumpsuit, being shown around the mosque and presented with a Quran.

I’m very confused by what Surovikin is doing nowadays. He was fired as airforce commander, sure, but what is his role now? Who’s now in control of the Ukraine conflict on the Russian side?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/media/white-house-letter-news-executives/index.html

The White House sent a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having found no evidence of a crime.

“Covering impeachment as a process story – Republicans say X, but the White House says Y – is a disservice to the American public who relies on the independent press to hold those in power accountable,” Sams wrote.

It’s a good thing the media is so independent or this kind of overt influence of a regime in the media would have me worried!

Per Morning Consult Olaf “The Pirate” Scholz has 68% disapproval and 26% approval… Ouch.

Pretty much identical numbers for Macron, only diff is that it’s 67% disapproval.

Yoon in SK, is 73% disapproval and 21% approval.

Sunak is 61% disapproval and 20% approval

Kishida in Japan has 63% disapproval and 25% approval.

Numbers dont add up to 100% cus some people are neutral.

Per their tracking there’s only 5 leaders with positive numbers, AMLO, Modi, Lula, the Switzerland person and Anthony Albanese (AUS)

There’s other but it’s a lot to write. Check Morning Consult Global Leader Approval for more.