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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 8:19pm On Dec 29, 2022
A New Year Tree was lit up in Mariupol.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 8:21pm On Dec 29, 2022
Ukraine will lose in the next three months. This was stated by the former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor.

“Probably, in the next 90 days, we will no longer be able to hide the catastrophe in Ukraine, where Russian troops will defeat and destroy almost all Ukrainian armed forces. The country will lie in ruins,” McGregor said.

According to him, attempts by the White House and European leaders to save Zelensky's position are doomed to failure. NATO "throws" the Kyiv regime "everyone in a row", however, these weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot be adapted to their system, which prevents their use.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 8:23pm On Dec 29, 2022
In Pakistan, the laying of a non-nuclear Hangor-class submarine (a modification of the Chinese Project 039B submarine) took place. This is the fifth boat in the series and the first to be built in Pakistan.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 8:26pm On Dec 29, 2022
Today, during the day, the Serbs started removing the barricades on Jarinje.

Heavy machinery is being removed, and with the first darkness, as it was announced the main road direction towards Jarinj will be passable. Citizens are also unfolding their tents, while the last fire is burning in the barrels next to which they are the Serbs have warmed up in recent days.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 8:28pm On Dec 29, 2022
Reuters: A Chinese military plane came within 20 feet of a U.S. air force aircraft and forced it to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision over the South China Sea, the U.S. military said

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 8:30pm On Dec 29, 2022
Egyptian authorities have announced that the country has produced 50.6 million tons of natural gas this year. Egypt's natural gas exports reached 8 million tons this year, up from 7 million tons in 2021, according to the statement.

Fiscally, Egypt's natural gas export earnings have risen to $8.4 billion this year from $3.5 billion in 2021.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 8:35pm On Dec 29, 2022
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) demands transfer of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

“The supply of Leopard 2 tanks will shorten the duration of the war,” he said.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 7:50am On Dec 30, 2022
The price of gas in Europe returned to the level before February 24, 2022

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Akuruoulo(m): 10:50am On Dec 30, 2022
Cizarr:
You only report Russia good news. . . Nawa oo



Putards on post and believe their post .
When righteousness had a thread , all putards made sure the thread was halted out of envy .

Now their thread isn't moving.
Still in page 4, and soon they will get tired

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Nobody: 11:02am On Dec 30, 2022
Alamkir:
Ukraine will lose in the next three months. This was stated by the former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor.

“Probably, in the next 90 days, we will no longer be able to hide the catastrophe in Ukraine, where Russian troops will defeat and destroy almost all Ukrainian armed forces. The country will lie in ruins,” McGregor said.

According to him, attempts by the White House and European leaders to save Zelensky's position are doomed to failure. NATO "throws" the Kyiv regime "everyone in a row", however, these weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot be adapted to their system, which prevents their use.

Lol don't worry I will quote this your comments 90 days later. When Putin can no longer hide the fact that he has lost the war in Ukraine.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 5:22pm On Dec 30, 2022
grin

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 6:50pm On Dec 30, 2022
"Russian oil or petroleum products after deep processing in another jurisdiction will not be considered produced in the Russian Federation, and, as a result, they will not be subject to the price ceiling."- US Department of the Treasury

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gobengroup(m): 6:11am On Dec 31, 2022
Dalil8:
"Russian oil or petroleum products after deep processing in another jurisdiction will not be considered produced in the Russian Federation, and, as a result, they will not be subject to the price ceiling."- US Department of the Treasury
Always changing mouth... grin cheesy

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 8:59pm On Dec 31, 2022
The 1st Army Corps (Donetsk People's Militia) and 2nd Army Corps (Lugansk People's Militia) have, as of today, been integrated with the Armed Forces of Russia - Russian Ministry of Defence.

The Donbass militias are joining the Russian army with all their banners and battle flags. While they have been under the overall operational command of the Southern Military District for a while, now it's official.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 9:02pm On Dec 31, 2022
VDV, Rosgvardiya, Wagner, Akhmat forces in SMO areas.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 9:04pm On Dec 31, 2022

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 9:06pm On Dec 31, 2022

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 9:12pm On Dec 31, 2022

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 9:13pm On Dec 31, 2022

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dapoRead: 7:41pm On Jan 01, 2023
Dalil8:
Rosatom State Corporation has sent documents for participation in the tender for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia," - Russian Deputy PM Alexander Novak

Hopefully they will complete the one they started in Nigeria. We need cheap energy to be competitive in the world market. The Nuclear power plants signed under Yaradua the great was sabotaged by GEJ. The west forced GEJ to sabotage it. WE all know..

Either they like it or not, it will be completed by 2023-2025 when Tinubu becomes the president.. Let me remind those who hate him.. Tinubu was part of the master-plan creator under Yaradua the great.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by jnhmaxxwell: 2:47am On Jan 02, 2023
Lula has been sworn in as president for the third time.

Brazil's incoming President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Sunday his intention to strengthen cooperation within the framework of the BRICS association

"Our leading role will be embodied in the resumption of South American integration on the basis of Mercosur (the South American Common Market ), based on the revival of the Union of South American Nations and other sovereign institutions of our region. On this basis, we will be able to build an active and productive dialogue with the United States, the EU, China, Asian countries and other global players, strengthening BRICS and cooperation with African countries in order to break through the isolation in which the country has been in recent years," he said during his inaugural speech.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by jnhmaxxwell: 3:40am On Jan 02, 2023
2023: The Future Has Arrived: The End of 500 Years of Conquistador Civilisation

By Batiushka

Foreword
It is often said that the systemic Western European superiority complex, a disease that consists of the self-justified domination and exploitation of the surrounding world, began with the First ‘Crusade’ (1096-1099).
Technically, this is true, but before it, there were other events that we may call ‘Pre-Crusades’. For example, there was the massacre by the barbarian Frankish leader Charlemagne of 4,500 Saxons at Verden in 782.

This bloodbath was the foundation of Frankish Europe, which still survives as the core of the lies of the EU today. After the collapse of Charlemagne’s Europe and a period of consolidation, 200 years later there came the events of the earlier eleventh century which did exactly presage the First Crusade at its end. First, there was the Frankish ‘Reconquista’ Crusade which began to accelerate in the eleventh century in Iberia. Then came the ‘Norman’ (in fact they were the collective campaigns of all the Frankish-made scum of North-Western Europe) Crusades or Conquests in Sicily, Southern Italy, and England in 1066.

Like these ‘Pre-Crusades’, the genocidal ‘conquests’ of the First Crusade essentially took place inside Europe, or else close by in the Near East. These Viking-type raiding and trading military expeditions, led on horseback and operating from castles, were expanded into Western Europe (the Celtic lands invaded from the Frankish base in England) and into Eastern Europe (the Baltics and Russia). However, the revolution came with the export of this aggressive Eurocentric mentality to distant lands through the ‘Conquistadors’ (same word) in what we now call Latin America 500 years ago. They were the fruit of Columbus’ imperialist and capitalist venture of 1492 and were followed by da Gama’s money-seeking ventures to southern Africa and India in 1497. They triggered a global revolution because they led to the worldwide genocide and plunder of other peoples and the destruction of their civilizations. Clive of India, Rhodes of Africa, Clinton of Serbia, Bush of Iraq, and Biden of the Ukraine were only the conquistadors of later times. However, today we are seeing the end of their Conquistador Civilisation.

Our Great Reset
Thus, now we come to the end of the vital crossroads year of 2022 and a revolution that happens only once every 500 years. What we had been waiting for over so many years is now here. The date of 24 February 2022 has already gone down in world history. With the incredibly aggressive refusal of Washington to allow the Kyiv puppet regime to grant freedom to the people of the Donbass, Russia has been obliged to turn to Defence Plan B, to partial mobilisation and the demilitarisation and liberation of all of the Ukraine and even beyond, as the suicidal attitudes of the Western world will oblige it to do. A limited operation has had to be turned by Western aggression into a full-scale war and the US/West/NATO has deprived itself of peace and prosperity through its suicidal sanctions. It means the end of Western Conquistador Civilisation. Thus, we try to peer over the horizon into 2023 and beyond. What will come once the Ukrainian war is over?
Some who follow the Western reporting of the conflict may be surprised by these statements. However, that reporting has been a strange mixture of delusional fantasies/wishful thinking and straightforward propaganda, organised by Western secret services and PR agencies, omitting truth, logic and reality. Venal journalists have been ordered to report such nonsense from on high – otherwise, they would have lost their careers and their income. Such reporting has essentially been destined to try and keep Western peoples under control in the hardships they are facing as a result of the suicidal decisions of their US-controlled political elites.

The US elite is making use of the meagre resources of its NATO vassals (so-called ‘allies’), using as its battlefield the Ukraine and as its cannon fodder Ukrainians and mercenaries. But Russian victory is inevitable, even if delayed because the US is deliberately and suicidally making the Ukraine into its Second Vietnam. The Western elite wants to fight ‘to the last Ukrainian’. (“We don’t care how many Ukrainians will die. How many women, children, civilians and military? We don’t care. Ukraine cannot take the peace decision. The peace decision can only be taken in Washington. But for now, we want to continue this war, we will fight to the last Ukrainian.” Former US Senator Richard Blake). Therefore, it is immorally supplying all sorts of lethal arms for hundreds of thousands more of these hoodwinked Slavs to die or to be maimed.

Even if some in NATO dare to send more tens of thousands of the ‘willing’ to be slaughtered in the Ukraine directly, and not pretending to be Ukrainians, as with the many, many thousands of mainly Polish mercenaries at present, many of them already killed, that victory is still inevitable. Given Western aggression and intransigence, Russia has been preparing for a full-scale Continental war ever since 2014. Even if next year the Polish Army with its new 200,000 reservists armed to the teeth by the USA, attacks, Russia is ready. Although the prophecies of elders indicate May 2024 as the end of this ten-year-long war (the US elite started it through its paid Ukrainian puppets in 2014), prophecies are always conditional on repentance and we should not try to predict exact details from them. Whatever happens, the next few years are going to see revolutionary transformations worldwide as a result of this war.

The New World Order
The most dramatic event after its defeat in the Ukraine will surely be the retreat of the USA, as it is expelled from Eurasia, a process that began in Vietnam and then continued in Iraq and Afghanistan. The nationalist Trump wanted to withdraw voluntarily, but he was not allowed to, therefore the humiliating US withdrawal will happen by force, as it did in Kabul. ‘Yanks, go home’, chants the whole world, including many in Western Europe, tired of US tyranny. In Eurasia the US now occupies only a few islands (Taiwan, Japan, Singapore), the tips of two peninsulas (Korea and Western Europe) and the seaboard edge Israel. It will have to leave all of these, except for the Non-Palestinian parts of Israel. Taiwan will naturally return to China, Japan will have to find its own way, reconciling itself to a reunited Korea and submitting itself to China economically. For Western Europe, see below.

Once home, the USA will have to lick its wounds and be deoligarchised by popular revolt. The dedollarisation of the world economy is already under way, with very serious consequences for the deindustrialised US economy. The American Empire will undergo deimperialisation, like the European Empires after 1945, and, if at all possible, have to find some sort of unity, identity and sovereignty in its highly polarised, highly indebted and highly fragile situation. Outside the US, the world chants ‘Yanks, go home’, but inside the US, ordinary Americans chant: ‘Feds, go home’. It is the same thing. The swamp must be drained. The departure of the USA from Western Europe after its eighty-year-long occupation will mean the end of the already much disarmed and futile NATO. The suicidal bankruptcy of the European countries will also lead to the end of NATO’s political and economic arm, the EU.

This will mean the reconfiguration of the tip of the European peninsula and its resovereignisation, a process that has already begun in Hungary. In the Western Balkans, Camp Bondsteel, the second largest US base in the world, will be abandoned, and Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Bosnia will rearrange themselves in the post-American world, the world of long-awaited justice. The future of Europe is not thousands of miles across the Atlantic, but eastwards, next door, in its natural sources of energy, food, fertiliser and manufactures. Europe as a separate Continent is after all a pure fiction, an artificial construct which was created from and cut off from the Eurasian landmass for purely political reasons. Europe is about to learn this, as it returns to its roots, which Russia alone has kept. A Russian-led Europe provides the prospect of unity of sovereign but confederal Northern Eurasia ‘from sea to shining sea’, in fact, from Reykjavik to Tokyo. It is the future, in which the USA is utterly irrelevant. Its ‘lies-based order’ of genocidal chaos is over.

Inside Russia itself the transformation has already begun, with treacherous members of the ‘creative class’ gone to their spiritual home in Israel, with Pugachova and Zelensky, as well as across the borders to Georgia and Finland. This cleansing process and the ensuing Re-Russification of Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus will go far. After the deviations of 200 years of Imperial Russia – and there were very serious deviations then – otherwise, Tsar Nicholas II would not have wanted to return to pre-Imperial Russia, to ‘Rus’ and there would never have been 1917 – 75 years of Marxist Sovietisation and 30 corrupt years of the Americanisation and so oligarchisation, the transformation has far to go. There will be a great and radical refreshing and cleansing of national identity after this unheard-of period of decadence and corruption, which ultimately stretches back over 300 years. All Russian institutions, including the still Sovietised Church, together with its small branches founded by post-1917 emigres, will be transformed. The uncompromised Russian Church, freed from the moneychangers, will arise from the embarrassing ruins of the past. The past is over. The arrival of the future in 2022 has made it all so irrelevant.

The New Christian Order
As regards the current versions of Western Christianity, Protestantism (1517-2017) is largely a spent force within the Western world, its 500-year best before date is up. Just as it was launched by printing technology, it has been ended by internet technology. Puritanism preached ‘Hate the sin and especially hate the sinner’, now it's just as aggressive descendant, Wokeism, preaches, ‘Love the sinner and especially love the sin’. In other words, all is permitted. The once full churches of Protestantism close down in their hundreds every year in the Western world. It was what it was, a moralising and White Supremacist blip in history, both for good, as in keeping promises, honesty, integrity and moral uprightness, and for bad, as in the ruthless and unsustainable exploitation of human and natural resources, including slavery, the obsession with money and saving money, as well as boring and iconoclastic philistinism caused by narrow-minded bigotry, and the tragic, rigid, literalist, moralising, unnatural and pharisaical repression of human nature, causing crass hypocrisy and misogyny, to the point of the slaughter of women as ‘witches’.

As for Roman Catholicism, throwing out the baby with the bathwater, it was taken over by the CIA in the early sixties to be used as a political battering ram against the USSR. And it too is also largely a spent force (1054-2054?) in the Western world. Covered-up pedophilia and the misogyny of compulsorily unmarried and frustrated clerics, some of them perverts, now exposed, are killing it off. Little wonder that some say that the present Pope is the last one. However, if Catholicism can be freed of American and European political stooges and cleansed of its inherent millennial secularism, it at least can return to roots (Protestantism as a schismatic, splintering protest opinion movement has in itself no roots to return to). Liberated from Rome, the people now called ‘Catholics’ can reflourish in new forms, especially in Latin America, Africa and parts of Asia, providing that Catholicism goes native, yet remains traditional, and the Global South’s clergy’s almost universal, but hypocritically concealed marriages can be recognised officially. This will mean Catholicism divesting itself of the secularist and corrupt Western Middle Ages and returning to the spirit of the pre-Roman Catholic Faith of first millennium Western Europe.

As regards the Non-Western, Orthodox Church, the 200 million in the at present fifteen local branches of the Orthodox Church, the Dewesternisation revolution will be just as radical. At present, there is 7%, the 14 million of the Greek Churches of Constantinople, Greece, Cyprus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem. Once the US Establishment, which stands behind them all and meddles intensively in their affairs, has retreated, freedom will come to them at last. As for the Russian Church, 70% or 140 million, just as for the 23% or 46 million of the other Non-Greek Churches, in Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Antioch, Macedonia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Albania, the revolution will also necessarily be radical. They are all going to have to be freed from the Western disease of worldliness:
‘And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves’.

Afterword
The whole Russian policy over the last twenty-two years to move towards a multipolar/polycentric world is now coming to fruition. The Big Four, Russian, China, India and Iran, are being joined by many countries from all Continents in the Global South in huge and powerful Non-Western organisations like BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), the SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organisation) and the EEU (Eurasian Economic Union), to form a new G20 to replace the failed American vassal one.

Now this multipolar/polycentric world, inherently anti-centralist, will be reflected in ramifications everywhere. The old and failed centralisation, which has always brought corruption in its wake, will gradually disappear and people may be seen for what they are. This is a warning to all tyrants and bullies, who have promoted artificial unions and institutions all over the world. Your secrets are being found out. Your time is up. We shall not die on our knees but live on our feet. It is time for the Deimperialisation and the Resovereignisation of both whole countries and of individual souls.
1 January 2023

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 1:43pm On Jan 02, 2023
As a result of night clashes between the Israeli army and the Palestinians, two of them were killed, Israeli armored vehicles received combat damage.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 1:53pm On Jan 02, 2023
The head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Matti Maasikas, said that "Russia's victory in the war would mean the destruction of the foundations of the world order, therefore the European Union is interested in Ukraine's victory and will continue to support it militarily."

Maasikas also noted that Europe, by the end of 2022, reduced the supply of Russian oil by 90%, and therefore deprived Russia of windfall profits.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by seunny4lif(m): 6:04pm On Jan 02, 2023
BREAKING:

In his first speech as Israel’s Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, hinted of a pro-Russian policy shift of Netanyahu’s new government

Cohen said he will call Lavrov tomorrow for the first talk between the foreign ministers of the 2 nations since the Russian special operation.

He will speak with Russia counterpart first before USA, UK and German counterparts.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by jnhmaxxwell: 12:07am On Jan 03, 2023
MAKING SENSE OF NATO STRIKES AGAINST RUSSIA

What is left of Russian barracks in Makeevka following a HIMARS strike



There is no doubt that NATO is trying hard to escalate the war in the Ukraine. Just before the end of the year there were two drones strikes against a major Aerospace Forces base in Engels. The attacks were not very successful, but Russians did die when shrapnel hit a fuel truck which exploded. The importance of that attack was that Engels is located deep inside Russia.

Then there were assorted small attacks against various Russian border posts and towns near the Russian border.

And now this on one day:

Ukrainian drone hits energy facility inside Russia – governor

and

Dozens dead in Ukrainian strike on Russian troops – Moscow

Let’s first deal with the second headline. The first thing we need to say is that this was a legal target under the laws of war: NATO hit Russian military personnel, and that is a fully legal target. However, if we look just a tad deeper, we realize that the HIMARS attack was conducted by western “volunteers/advisors”, that is to say NATO personnel who took off their uniform and are under cover. This is still yet another direct NATO attack on Russian soldiers.

[Sidebar: this is the type of attack HIMARS are very good at: precision strikes against fragile targets. HIMARS has very good range and precision, but their warheads are too small to successfully take out harder targets, such as bridges or bunkers. HIMARS, especially backed by the full US/NATO C4ISR capabilities, do represent a major threat to any “soft” targets like, in this case, wooden barracks]

I would note that only a clueless civilian could expect NATO to never do anything, offer no resistance, take no counter-measures, never succeed or hit Russians were in hurts. The truth in warfare is that the enemy will shoot back (at least in a real war, not a counter-insurgency operation against a vastly inferior adversary).

But what about the rest of these strikes, especially those aimed at Russian territory (as it was before the liberation of Ukrainian regions)?

So we need to ask a basic question: what is the goal of these strikes?

Let’s begin with some truisms:

First, none of these strikes will make ANY difference on the actual course of this war. Just like the Israeli strikes against Lebanon or Syria (latest one today, killed two Syrians and damaged the facilities). However, while the Israeli strikes on Syria are for “psychotherapeutic reasons” (I have explained that MANY times in the past), this is not the case with NATO strikes, including the “non-claimed” ones against Engels.

Second, after each of these strikes many people will wonder what Russia will do about it. The precedent is the attack on the Crimean bridge which gave Russia a pretext to switch off the lights in Banderastan. And yes, it was only a pretext, as such massive strikes campaign cannot be quickly planned and executed in a few hours/days. The self-evident truth is that the Russians were quite ready to unleash their strikes long BEFORE the Crimean Bridge attack, but that they were more than happy to have that attack as a pretext (as opposed to a *reason*) to strike.

And, if you wonder, Russia is still conducting such strikes daily, including strikes involving hundreds of missiles! These follow on strikes are almost not reported in the western media because 1) “Ze” banned any images/videos of the results of these strikes and 2) reporting their true magnitude would undermine the official narrative (including the one about Russia running out of ammo).

Still, NATO does not act just to show that it can act. There is a real, military, purpose behind these strikes. And it is not “just” to provoke Russia into some kind of response (not with tens and even hundreds of Russian missile strikes every day already taking place).

The war is already going on, the Russians are already fighting along a very long frontline, the Russian Aerospace Forces are already striking targets over the entire Ukraine, so what is there more to provoke/trigger?

I submit that there is only one thing which the Russians have not done yet, and that is the fullscale combined arms operation the Russian General Staff is preparing. And since this major offensive is almost certain to happen, the only thing which such NATO strikes could affect is the timing of the attack. And since there is no way that these NATO (pinprick) strikes could delay the Russian offensive, their only possibly goal would be to make it happen sooner.

Why would NATO want the Russian offensive sooner rather than later? In all its other actions, the AngloZionists have tried to draw out this war for as long as possible, so why would they want to make the Russians attack sooner rather than later?

Because the Russian General Staff is waiting for all the “ducks to be lined” up before attacking. Thus by trying to force the Russians into a premature attack date, NATO is, very logically, trying to prevent all the said “ducks” to be “lined up”. In other words, NATO is trying to force the hand of the Russian General Staff by increasing the pressure on the Kremlin to “finally take action”.

Trying to force your enemy into a premature attack makes perfect military sense (as would any effort to seize the initiative and impose your tempo on your enemy).

These efforts are greatly aided by the following categories:

Civilians who don’t understand warfare
Infantiles who get outraged every time NATO successfully strikes Russian targets
Western (fake) “friends of Russia” who mantrically repeat that “Putin is weak/indicisive/naive/fill_the_blank“
Western PSYOPS who want to spread FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubts) in the Russian general public

These four groups form a rather loud crowd who act EXACTLY as the AngloZionist want them to.

So how effective are these NATO efforts?

Here we need to mention a deep cultural difference between the Russian society and the western one: most Russians have a much better understanding of war than the folks in the West. This is true for civilians through the generals. There are many reasons for that, but just to name a few:

Many Russians have military training (basic or more advanced)
Almost every Russian has lost family members during WWII and, therefore, know how ugly war is.
Russian culture, from books to movies, is chock full of war stories, and not of the Tom Clancy type, but the real thing.
Wars in Chechnia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Georgia, Syria, Armenia and many more conflicts have “educated” the Russian society about the painful realities of war.

Unlike the hallucinations of the (fake) “friends of Russia” in the West, the “Strelkovites” and other assorted “allislosters” in Russia have very little traction or credibility with the Russian general public. Simply put – Russians trust Surovikin (and Putin!) much, more than these hysterical FUDers because they instinctively feel that what is needed is not anger, but focus.

Conclusion:

NATO is trying hard to force the Russians into a “NATO schedule” and out of their planned schedule. An added beneficial side-effect from such “for optics only” strikes is to give the morons in Congress a rationale to put even more money into the US MIC.

As for forcing Russia to attack in suboptimal conditions, that won’t happen. Neither Putin, nor Shoigu, nor Gerasimov nor Surovikin are the types who will respond to hysterics with “for optics only” actions (just look at their faces, I mean it!). And this also goes for the entire General Staff.

I fully concur with those who, like Macgregor, have been announcing a major combined arms offensive this Spring, but it will happen when Putin decides it, not when NATO wants it. Right now, the Russian meat grinder is inflicting such losses on the Ukraine that it makes no sense for the Russians to stop it. But, sooner or later, even this will eventually yield diminishing marginal returns and, by then, the Russian forces (there are three of them around the Ukraine) will be fully ready, trained, equipped and poised to attack.

The big unknown (to us, the Russians probably already know) is what NATO will do when this offensive happens. You can be sure that the “best” minds (relatively speaking) in the US are working on the following task: how to trigger a continental war without directly and officially involving the United States?

I don’t have an answer to this, your guess is as good as mine �

Any suggestions?

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 3:18pm On Jan 03, 2023
As a result of strikes on the accumulation of military equipment near the Druzhkovka railway station in the DPR, 2 US-made HIMARS MLRS launchers and 4 Czech-made RM-70 Vampire MLRS combat vehicles were destroyed and 120 Ukrainian servicemen were demilitarised.

- Russia MoD

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkir: 1:23pm On Jan 04, 2023
War is upon us

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Eurasia: 6:57pm On Jan 04, 2023
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 7:22pm On Jan 04, 2023
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) released new photos (from December 2022) of the first new-build Tu-160M prototype. This aircraft carried out its maiden flight in January 2022. According to UAC, "the aircraft has completed its factory test program."

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Dalil8: 7:27pm On Jan 04, 2023
UAC also announced that "two Tu-160M strategic missile carriers have been transferred to the flight test station": the first new-build "serial" Tu-160M, and an aircraft upgraded to the Tu-160M standard from the existing Tu-160 fleet.

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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by jnhmaxxwell: 9:19pm On Jan 05, 2023
The Russian Aerospace Forces get 2 more Su-57


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxRlbLxqs9k

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