Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

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Essai routier d'Abrams dans des conditions aussi proches que possible de celles ukrainiennes
Abrams road test in conditions as close as possible to Ukrainian ones

Excellent find Perlou! Your linked video shows it best, thank You!

Pierre talked about that French Universities had a very serious traditional training regimen, releasing excellent engineers and mechanical designers into the French industry, which is probably why the French Leclerc tank looks good on paper:

Its light with only 55 tons, has strong & fast[!] small diesel engine with 71 km/h top speed. Has Auto-loader and accurate computerized firing system, integrated into main battlefield command network like M1A2 Abrams. Strong armor: combination of steel, ceramics and Kevlar. Can fire all NATO ammo. Can cross 4m deep river. Can fire 12 rounds per minute, "can engage 6 targets at one time with 95% accuracy"... [cough] Looks good on paper. But can it endure ---**--BattleField War Reality--**---???
OR
Will it break down? Like the many new, computerized = accurate German PzH 2000 155 mm self-propelled howitzers present in Ukraine??

To this above comment on RT, One poster replied in length:

Gregory Cooley: {French Leclerc tank}
As far as western MBTs go its probably the most reliable and best they have to be honest. its performance in yemen was stellar and far surpassed Abrams and leo2s both in exercises and in combat. the vehicle has not been widly exported due to its high cost . high level of training required to operate and due to the fact france usually wont provide financing for poorer countries to make installment payments for it.

I collected a myriad of similar problems.

Here is the write-up about the Abrams tank operating nightmare and expected NATO tank performance, especially with untrained crews and long supply lines:

When NATO & Twitter Fanatics' FANTASY collides with PRIMARY REALITY

Furthermore, Brian Berletic cites a high ranked, veteran American tank expert, in his excellent long analysis:

Lieutenant General Mark Hertling with 37 years tank experience gives the cold-water shock to the fanatic, triggered Ukraine supporters on Twitter, who are complaining, why Hertling says discouraging and negative things regards problems of sending Abrams in Ukraine.. when everybody needs to say good things about this arms support that Ukraine should receive..

M1 Abrams: Massive problems with untrained crews being ineffective. For example an inexperienced Abrams tank driver can blow the fuel-guzzling jet engine combined with the transmission[!] that is built into the tank. Replacing it costs a mere 1.5 million dollars...

Abrams has a Jet Engine[!] and also it is a multi-fuel engine[ ], which engines are famous to break down often (and take long to switch to a different type of fuel) - and the Abrams is a very heavy hulk of metal with lots of powerful-hydraulics moving the tank & rotating the turret, which can crush a human body like and ant. While the crew is moving the turret here and there its very easy to crush & seriously injure inexperienced crews, especially legs.. as inexperienced crews are known to be fond to climb everywhere, where they shouldn't! Such newbies are often a training sergeant's nightmare..

The ammo-storage compartment door on the Abrams, for example, can easily crush a crew mate's hand while closing, because of the installed safety switch, which from half-way onward force-pulls the heavy door into place => maiming inexperienced crew hands easily!

Turret hydraulics for example must be shut down in a certain sequence and if you miss one step you can --permanently damage-- the turret-moving-rotating mechanism...

in addition:
--**--Old tanks break more!--**-- Due to age of their metal.

Also:

A veteran tank commander is needed, who must have years of experience in having operated a specific tank model!

So the --extensively-- trained crew should work as One, and if they don't==>, they will "drive" the Abrams while also breaking many of its expensive tank parts[!], which need to be replaced or need Master Gunners [these veteran experts won't be in Ukraine] to fix tank problems on the frontlines and expert logisticians to handle the ==> 500mile / 800km supply line from Poland to the Donbas!

At best inexperienced Ukrainian tank crews will just break the tank, at worst they will get their crew buddies killed [with the heavy & moving tank parts...].

You can't just throw tank parts into heavy planes and fly them to Ukraine as the planes will be shot down, so that's why Poland does the difficult repairs!

Poland weapons dealers and tank repair shop fixers - certified General Dynamics technicians with many years of Jet Engine Fixing Experience - are and will be very rich.

Also according to general Hertling:

Abrams needs the most turret training compared to the Russian T72, British Challenger, British Chieftain, German Leopard 2

Here we see the Leopard 2 mentioned that NATO / Pentagon want to send.

TRAINING TIME:
(Lieutenant General Mark Hertling):
1. Iraqis paid billions for M1 Abrams with a permanent maintenance contract and a five year training period.
2. Saudis bought M1A2 [upgraded] Abrams tanks with a seven year training period. Training contract still in place.., which means USA technicians are fixing those new Saudi M1A2 Abrams tanks..

Alexander Mercouris pointed out that from 1994 the Bradleys [light armored infantry support vehicle] had all these issues, when Lebanon tried to make them working: it takes years to put them into army service ==> on the frontlines with trained Saudi crews = expertly.

Ukraine had similar problems with the Turkish Bayraktar drones: they spent years to do it and still made [almost] absolutely no difference on the frontlines against the Russians.

Tanks that now are being considered - Abrams, Leopard 2, Challenger, Leclerc -have seen battle in Iraq, Syria, Yemen.

German Leopards performed disastrously in Syria under Turkish crews. Leopards will be less of a burden to Ukraine, but still very problematic. Hi-tech latest German Puma tanks completely broke down en-masse during recent exercise! Result =>
German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht resigns

German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht resigns – DW – 01/16/2023

Christine Lambrecht has resigned as Germany's defense minister following a much-criticized New Year's eve message. Her year in office became a succession of minor scandals and statements that many saw as tone-deaf.

www.dw.com

Rushing this all these myriad of NATO armor & missile systems into Ukraine - cutting corners - only will get these expensive equipment damaged and Ukraine crews killed.

Russia tried to operate three entirely different tank types in past decades on frontlines and it proved extremely difficult and impossible, so therefore multiple tank types are now in permanent storage in Russia, waiting to be re-built, disassembled, re-furbished or upgraded.

 

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Assault on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Hard shots. 18+

Attack aircraft of the Russian Armed Forces quietly approached the enemy fortifications, crawled under the barbed wire and blocked the enemy in his dugout.

After a brief battle, one Ukrainian military man stepped forward and was shot almost to the point.

In total, three prisoners, two destroyed soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Attack aircraft of the 2nd Army Corps of Lugansk were operating.

Murado

Штурм позиций ВСУ. Жёсткие кадры. 18+ Наши штурмовики незаметно подобрались к вражеским укреплениям, пролезли под колючей проволокой и заблокировали врага в его же блиндаже. После краткого боя один украинский военный попёр вперёд и был расстрелян практически вплотную. Итого трое пленных, двое...

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'Lebanon tried to make them working: it takes years to put them into army service ==> on the frontlines with trained Lebanon crews = expertly. :)

 

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'Is NATO preparing to attack Russia?'

(Translated by Google)

NATO deploys F-35 fighters to the border of Russia and Belarus​

2023-01-23

US Extends 101st Airborne Deployment in Southeastern Romania

Soldiers from the 101st have been conducting drills near the Ukrainian border Originally published by AntiWar The Pentagon has decided...

southfront.org

23.01.2023

 

[Pierre]

Sound statement by Lavrov:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1617543227426635776

 

[Nević Nenad]

If the reports are real, seems that Russian forces intensified small movements in all directions. Which could be preparations for the big one.

IF the West is really going to deliver any significant amount of weapons, that could speed up the next russian big attack. Just the situation that happened last year in february.

 

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'Killing civilians for Blackrock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs is a "big business" opportunity for Zelensky.'

Arming Ukraine a 'big business' opportunity – Zelensky

Ukraine’s leader has told US companies that they can make big money in Ukraine, and not just by sending Kiev weapons

www.rt.com

24 Jan, 2023

 

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The Wagner Group getting lots of press - from whatreallyhappened:

Wagner PMCs founder says he has many upsetting "secrets, witnesses" for US
Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has called the United States a criminal syndicate and warned that he has many very upsetting "secrets and witnesses" for Washington.

"I have many secrets that are so upsetting to America. I have witnesses who remember how the CIA trained Osama bin Laden, who brought bags of money and weapons for the Islamic State (terrorist group, banned in Russia - TASS) in Syria and other countries. They coached cutthroats and terrorists around the world so that there would be trouble everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. Only the earthly paradise called the United States should be calm," said Prigozhin as quoted by his press service on his Telegram channel on Monday.

He warns that the task of the United States is to "split Russia into small pieces, and then do away with China and other rivals" in order to remain the largest and most powerful country in the world.

Wagner Founder Explains US Hostility
The Wagner Group scares the US because it is willing to oppose American atrocities around the world, the private military company’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed on Monday, answering a question from RT.

Washington said last week that it would designate the Russian PMC as an international criminal organization, accusing it of “widespread atrocities and human rights abuses.”

“Unlike American paramilitary structures,” Prigozhin said in a written response to RT, “Wagner PMC only goes after the enemies of peace, and does not commit crimes. Of course, if you’re doing a reversal of concepts, you can make anyone look bad.”

The US is the only country to use nuclear weapons in history, and “organized wars and revolutions” in “Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Mozambique, Central Africa and so on,” Prigozhin noted, adding that in some of those countries Wagner came in and “stopped the wars with an iron fist.”

Calling the US “a powerful criminal syndicate subsisting on the money of the entire world,” Prigozhin said Wagner was “more like the vice police” in relation.

I don't disagree.

 

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Doesn't appear this has been posted yet although not something that isn't already known by the astute:

Ukraine run by CIA, MI-6 specialists, not Zelensky former PM
Ukraine is now being run by specialists from the US Central Intelligence Agency and British MI-6, Ukraine’s former Prime Minister (2010-2014) Nikolai Azarov said on Monday.

"Ukraine is now very seriously governed not by [President Vladimir] Zelensky, not by [Ukrainian defense ministry’s intelligence directorate chief Kirill] Budanov, not by [commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Valery] Zaluzhny, but by special groups of highly-qualified specialists in military science and intelligence who represent first of all the Central Intelligence Agency and MI-6. They steer practically all steps allegedly taken by Zelensky and Zaluzhny," he said in an interview with the Solovyov Live television channel.

The Ukrainian authorities are fulfilling ready-made plans "under supervision from Western specialists," he added.

 

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Metropol: a car with hundreds of bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers found on the border of Hungary and Ukraine

A refrigerated wagon with hundreds of bodies of Ukrainian soldiers was found on the border of Hungary and Ukraine, writes Metropol.

The publication says that he is under the "strictest" supervision. It is noted that such "special wagons" were transferred to Ukraine a few months ago as part of military assistance. It is emphasized that about 500 corpses can be transported in them.

The authors of the article suggest that the Ukrainian authorities are afraid of panic due to the growing losses of the Armed Forces. It is noted that the lack of official data does not allow to clarify the statistics of victims by region or nationality.

Metropol: вагон с сотнями тел военнослужащих ВСУ обнаружен на границе Венгрии и Украины

I don't know if it's the same thing or something else. I give it as it is

In Transcarpathia, hidden refrigerators with the corpses of AFU soldiers were found
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto called the escalation of the armed conflict in Ukraine contrary to Hungarian interests and warned that there could be no question of ending Hungarian-Russian cooperation in the energy sector.

"Instead of deadlocked sanctions and sending weapons worth hundreds of millions of euros, the EU should focus on achieving peace in Ukraine," the minister said. He also called on Kiev to stop the pressure on Transcarpathian Hungarians, otherwise the Ukrainian authorities should not count on support from Budapest in the EU.

Szijjarto's statements were made immediately after a shocking report by Hungarian journalists from Transcarpathia, where they found hidden refrigerators stuffed with the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers. Each of these refrigerators holds 500 bodies. Four or five bodies are given to relatives for burial per day, taking into account the ethnic origin of the deceased.

The fact is that the 128th Mountain assault brigade, staffed mainly by Transcarpathian Hungarians, suffered heavy losses in Soledar. The governor of Transcarpathia, Viktor Mikita, admitted in the summer that several hundred natives of the region died at the front. About a hundred of them are ethnic Hungarians.

Mountain stormtroopers were first thrown to the Kherson direction, then to Soledar, and now they are being finished off in Artemovsk. "Soon there will be no Hungarians left in Transcarpathia," the Hungarian press worries.

Hungary pays financial assistance to the families of the dead Hungarians in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Budapest believes that the Kiev regime specifically sends units formed from national minorities to the front line. In 2015, the 128th mountain assault was pretty battered in the Debaltsevo boiler. Ukrainian military commissars visit remote Transcarpathian villages and even take Gypsies into the army.

В Закарпатье обнаружили спрятанные холодильники с трупами солдат ВСУ

PMCs "Wagner" sent to the Ukrainian side a new batch of bodies of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who died in the battles for Soledar

The fighters of the Wagner PMCs sent a new batch of bodies of the AFU soldiers who died in the battles for Soledar to the Ukrainian side.

Earlier, the "musicians" shared the details of the process. According to him, about 20 cars in 4-5 stages will transport the coffins to their homeland.

The units of the Wagner PMCs knocked out the APU from Soledar on January 11. Information about the success was confirmed by St. Petersburg businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.

It was the entrepreneur who called for organizing the process of transferring the dead Ukrainian soldiers to their homeland for subsequent burial. He believes that the treatment of the bodies of the killed enemy soldiers should be dignified.

Now the units of the Wagner PMCs are systematically moving towards Bakhmut (formerly Artemovsk). Recently, they disrupted the enemy's supply system in the area of the city due to the capture of the settlement of Krasnopolye. This was announced by military commander Alexander Simonov in his personal Telegram channel "Call Sign Bruce".

ЧВК «Вагнер» отправили украинской стороне новую партию тел погибших в боях за Соледар солдат ВСУ

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Не знаю о том же самом идет речь или это другое. Привожу как есть

 

[ApotheosisMMC.]

If the reports are real, seems that Russian forces intensified small movements in all directions. Which could be preparations for the big one.

IF the West is really going to deliver any significant amount of weapons, that could speed up the next russian big attack. Just the situation that happened last year in february.

It would be more conservative given the history and despite the fact that Russia has resumed its operations with a renewed army, it may be that they are only pressing on points that have been left vulnerable because Ukraine has given priority to the defense of Backmut, I do not deny that it is in their plans a big multi-front offensive at some point and more so now that they have recruited more troops, but even though the winter conditions are favorable, they won't do it until it is safe enough for their soldiers to advance. According to the words of the members of Wagner, the Ukrainian soldiers that they have had to face, despite the conditions, have high morale ALWAYS that they receive supplies.,
we will have to see how long that takes "gradually, and then suddenly", but we are definitely in it.

The guy who makes this comic was taking a long time to draw something like this, the Russians really must see this as a "holy" war (Russian telegram channels are full of things like that too).

 

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The West's Military-Industrial Complex juggernaut barreling us all to oblivion:

U.S. LEADERS BLINDLY IGNORE RUSSIAN WARNINGS NOT TO ARM UKRAINE


Turkey exploring massive UK arms deal involving planes, ships and tank engines
Turkey has held talks with the United Kingdom over the possible sale of a large package of weapons, including fighter jets, transport planes, engines and frigates, three separate sources familiar with the discussions told Middle East Eye.

Turkish defence minister Hulusi Akar visited London on Sunday, meeting his British counterpart, Ben Wallace.

The sources said that during their meeting Akar and Wallace explored the possibility of Ankara purchasing Eurofighter jets, C-130J transport planes and Type 23 frigates, as well as engines for Turkey’s outdated M60 battle tanks. The estimated value of such a deal is well over $10bn, according to the sources.

“We are evaluating our options on these platforms but we aren’t in the final stages of negotiations,” said one of the Turkish sources, who spoke to MEE on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to speak to the media.

Commenting on the talks, a UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson told Middle East Eye: “The Defence Secretary met with his Turkish counterpart to discuss strengthening defence ties between the two countries. They spoke on a range of topics including procurement, with progress made in a number of areas.”

Ukraine Burglary What Every Brit Must Ask
All across the world Citizens are suffering for Ukraine. Most of them were never asked whether they wanted to sacrifice their quality of life in this way. It was merely something imposed from above – a dictate that The People “must” defend Ukraine. Surely, we all have compassion…but at what cost…and when does it ever end?The British People are among those who have suffered the most and have a fair right to know why.

Facts In Review – A Snapshot of Merry Old England Today

Currently in the United Kingdom there are a rash of strikes by workers for higher pay. These include Health Care Workers, Education Workers and Rail Unions…totaling more than 500,000 public sector employees.

Matters have reached such a crisis that this week Parliament debated a bill to outlaw strikes at all. The Resolution Foundation, a UK Think Tank, estimates income will fall by 2,000 UKP next year. Average inflation is over 10 percent this year in the country. Recently the World Bank cut its outlook for the year and warned of a Global Recession to come.

Moreover, Downing Street has announced a “slimming down” of home heating assistance, when costs have doubled this year for some. That will likely cause energy bills to increase nearly a third next year.

According to The Guardian newspaper 700,000 in England and Wales lack central heating. Many others are using firewood as “the only affordable fuel” in this season. It is estimated 1.4 million in Britain are in danger of a not being able to pay mortgages due to rapidly rising interest rates.

Incidentally, the amount of households in the nation renting has doubled since 2001…the exact opposite direction in which a healthy society should be trending in ownership.

EU Agrees Extra $540M to Arm Ukraine
EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to spend an extra 500 million euros ($540 million) from their common coffers on arms for Ukraine, diplomats said, as Kyiv pleads for heavier weapons.

The accord will take the total committed to supplying Ukraine’s military from common EU spending to 3.6 billion euros, which is separate from national spending by individual member states.

Overall, European nations have pledged more than 11 billion euros on weapons for Ukraine, EU officials say, less than half of what the United States is spending.

The latest tranche of funds comes as Germany faces intense pressure over its hesitation to give battle tanks to Ukraine.

Idea to store munitions at NPPs can only be idea of US, says Russian expert
The idea to store munitions on the territories of Ukrainian nuclear power plants could only have been thought up in the United States, since the Ukrainian side cannot but see the hazards of such actions, Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the head of Russia’s Rosenergoatom nuclear power engineering company, said on Monday.

He doubted that such an idea could have come from Ukrainian nuclear sector specialists because "such games can lead to a really awful disaster." "Such plans are hatched far from Ukraine. These plans can only originate from the United States because they won’t be affected should anything happen. Only those who don’t care at all about the consequences can take such monstrous steps," he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said earlier on Monday that Ukrainian troops are storing munitions coming from Western countries, including HIMARS rockets, on the territories of nuclear power plants hoping that Russia, realizing the danger of a nuclear catastrophe, would never target these facilities and if a stray Ukrainian air defense rocket incidentally falls there and causes a blast, it can be blamed on Russia.

All countries pumping Kiev with weapons responsible for this Kremlin spokesman
All states supplying Kiev with weapons are responsible for this, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday in comments on EU discussions on the possibility of supplying German tanks to Ukraine.

"This whole legal balancing act that we see now, and the exchange of statements between European capital cities… European capitals, including Warsaw, are now threatening Berlin with international exclusion and much more. All this suggests that anxiety among the members of the alliance is increasing all the time, keeps growing. But here, of course, all the countries that are directly or indirectly involved in pumping weapons and in raising the technological sophistication of Ukraine, they are all responsible for this in one way or another," the Kremlin spokesman said.

"The main thing, however, is that the Ukrainian people will have to pay for all these actions, for all this pseudo-support," the spokesman stressed.

Russian warship with unstoppable 7,000mph hypersonic missiles sails towards US and will soon be in strike range
A RUSSIAN warship armed with “unstoppable” hypersonic missiles is sailing towards the US coast in a show of strength, reports claim.

The guided missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov has been closely monitored by Nato navies on its maiden voyage armed with 6,670mph Zircon weapons.

The new warship was deployed from Severomorsk earlier this monthCredit: AP

An unconfirmed Russian Telegram channel report says it was “spotted on radar in neutral waters of the Atlantic Ocean - at an effective salvo launch distance from the US coast”.

The nuclear-capable Mach 9 missiles have a reported range of 625 miles.

The Russian defence ministry has not commented on the latest report.

It comes after the Royal Navy intercepted the Gorshkov as it sailed through the English Channel earlier this month.

More recently the Russian vessel was tailed by the Portuguese navy in the Atlantic and was expected to sail round Africa.

But radar monitoring sites suggest the Gorshkov made an unexpected diversion.

One report said it had separated from its escort tanker ship Kama in the Bay of Biscay and headed west.

To repeat: "The West's Military-Industrial Complex juggernaut barreling us all to oblivion" . . .

. . . and the Doomsday Clock has been adjusted accordingly:
Doomsday clock hits 90 seconds to midnight as world gets closer than ever to "global catastrophe"
For three years, the hands of the world's Doomsday clock were set at 100 seconds to midnight. But now, as Ukraine approaches a year of war, the climate crisis continues and other actions threaten humanity, the world has officially crept even closer to what the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists calls "global catastrophe."

On Tuesday, the hands of the Doomsday clock reached their closest position to midnight yet. The clock is not a forecasting tool, but rather a symbol created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 to shed light on how humanity's actions are causing problems that could have mass consequences.

And finally, you can't make this stuff up!

According to 4 Star General Laura Richardson, Biden has asked Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and six other Latin American nations to send their old Russian weapons to Ukraine in exchange for new U.S. military equipment.

What could possibly go wrong with this plan…

U.S. Southcom Commander General Laura Richardson speaking to Atlantic Council on January 19 According to 4 Star General Laura Richardson, Biden has asked Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and six …

citizenfreepress.com

 

[Michael B-C]

A very interesting thought exercise by the Duran guys along the lines of what I've been pondering of late:

1. Why the massive push and hurry to send heavy tanks now when NATO/west knows full well it will take months to make them battle ready with Ukrainian crews?
2. Why has Germany - so weak and malleable before - suddenly dug it's heels in deep with such resistance to the idea?
3. Why the likely CIA driven take down of those closest to Zelensky, in what s increasingly looking like the night of the long plastic knives, thus weakening him and his command structure at a time when the eastern front is slowly collapsing?
4. Why are the Poles eagerly training up their 300,000 reservists?
5. Why is there so much sad talk about there being such particular heavy losses of men from the western Ukrainian district of Transcarpathia/Zakarpattia Oblast, so reducing the male population of the area?

Among other pointers, these are all considered in the thought exercise the Duran guys explore - and that maybe - just maybe - the west is secretly writing off the east of Ukraine as actually already lost and instead is prepping for the Poles with other minor NATO members to go into Western Ukraine post haste and seize it for NATO/Poland - and that these heavy tanks and armored vehicles being trained up in Poland and in Lithuania are not really for the Eastern front at all but are rather really intended to bolster this force? The Germans, having got some wind of this, are therefore really worried... and hence their stance.

Prophecy is a mugs game, but in truth, this kind of betrayal of Ukraine reads more closely from the western playbook than blindly continuing to dump more weapons into Russian range for target practice.

And as it seems the Poles already came close to going in early on in the Special Military Operation, its not as far fetched as one might think...

We will see soon enough... but I suspect some major chess pieces are indeed moving now so as to change the direction of the narrative asap, because if they don't its going to be game over...

See what you think.

 

[anartist]

A very interesting thought exercise by the Duran guys along the lines of what I've been pondering of late:

1. Why the massive push and hurry to send heavy tanks now when NATO/west knows full well it will take months to make them battle ready with Ukrainian crews?
2. Why has Germany - so weak and malleable before - suddenly dug it's heels in deep with such resistance to the idea?
3. Why the likely CIA driven take down of those closest to Zelensky, in what s increasingly looking like the night of the long plastic knives, thus weakening him and his command structure at a time when the eastern front is slowly collapsing?
4. Why are the Poles eagerly training up their 300,000 reservists?
5. Why is there so much sad talk about there being such particular heavy losses of men from the western Ukrainian district of Transcarpathia/Zakarpattia Oblast, so reducing the male population of the area?

Among other pointers, these are all considered in the thought exercise the Duran guys explore - and that maybe - just maybe - the west is secretly writing off the east of Ukraine as actually already lost and instead is prepping for the Poles with other minor NATO members to go into Western Ukraine post haste and seize it for NATO/Poland - and that these heavy tanks and armored vehicles being trained up in Poland and in Lithuania are not really for the Eastern front at all but are rather really intended to bolster this force? The Germans, having got some wind of this, are therefore really worried... and hence their stance.

Prophecy is a mugs game, but in truth, this kind of betrayal of Ukraine reads more closely from the western playbook than blindly continuing to dump more weapons into Russian range for target practice.

And as it seems the Poles already came close to going in early on in the Special Military Operation, its not as far fetched as one might think...

We will see soon enough... but I suspect some major chess pieces are indeed moving now so as to change the direction of the narrative asap, because if they don't its going to be game over...

See what you think.

The C's have given us a clue

Q: (Juba) In case of significant Russian victories, will PTB try to create a global smoke screen in order to divert the public's focus to something else, something that will make Ukraine completely unimportant?

A: Close. But many unexpected events yet to unfold in that arena.

 

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US Bristles As South African Ally To Host Joint Naval Drills With Russia, China
The Russian navy is set to participate alongside the Chinese and South African navies in exercises set for February off South Africa, Russia's state TASS has announced.

Importantly, the Russian frigate named 'Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov' is armed with hypersonic cruise missiles, after it entered deployment in the Atlantic Ocean three weeks ago.

The Zircon hyperonics it is carrying are believed to be able to fly at nine times the speed of sound, with a range of over 620 miles. The ship is expected to traverse the Mediterranean, making its way to Russia's port at Tartus, before heading south.

"'Admiral Gorshkov’ … will go to the logistic support point in Syria’s Tartus, and then take part in joint naval exercises with the Chinese and South African navies," TASS reported.

The South African National Defense Force has also confirmed the drills, which will run February 17-26 and be located off the port cities Durban and Richards Bay, describing that the exercise aims "to strengthen the already flourishing relations between South Africa, Russia and China."

From Zero-Hedge:
US Confronts China Over State-Owned Companies Supplying Russian Military
The United States is once again putting pressure on China over its alleged behind the scenes assistance to Russia as it executes the war in Ukraine.

"The Biden administration has confronted China’s government with evidence that suggests some Chinese state-owned companies" may be providing assistance, Bloomberg reports, while seeking to "ascertain if Beijing is aware of those activities, according to people familiar with the matter."

And on a related note:
China slams US over catastrophic debt
China has rebuked the US for its brinkmanship over the nation's “catastrophic debt problem” as Washington approaches a statutory debt ceiling this week that could see the country defaulting on its obligations.

The criticism came from the Chinese embassy in Zambia’s capital Lusaka, following a reproach from US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen over alleged mishandling by Beijing of a debt problem in the southern African country.

On Monday, during a visit to Zambia, Yellen said that it was critically important to restructure the country’s debt. She blamed China, the key creditor of the African state, for being an obstacle to resolving the problem.

In response, the Chinese Embassy in Zambia said on Tuesday that “the biggest contribution that the US can make to the debt issues outside the country is to act on responsible monetary policies, cope with its own debt problem, and stop sabotaging other sovereign countries’ active efforts to solve their debt issues.”