This is not exactly defeat – Russia has grabbed a lot Russian speaking Ukraine territory, and has connected the Crimea to Russia by land. It has also inflicted huge costs on the GAE, the Global American Empire, or rather it has provoked the Global American Empire into inflicting huge costs on itself.
You may have heard that the Russian financial system is in chaos. Nope. The Russian financial system is fine. Their problem is that they were using the Global American Empire’s financial system, and it is in chaos.
But it is very far from victory.
When this war started, I predicted it would be over in twenty days, a prediction I hastily qualified by saying it would still be a spectacular victory if it took forty. Well, it has been more than twenty days, and it looks highly unlikely it is going to forty.
The problem is that Russia was carrying out twentieth century warfare, blitzkrieg and tanks, which has been stopped by twenty first century warfare, man carried autonomous self guided anti tank missiles. You point the missile in the general direction of the tank, and tell the missile to take care of it.
Ukraine has received a huge supply of man carried autonomous anti armor missiles, which makes blitzkrieg impossible and suicidal, and has just received thirteen of the latest Turkish drones, which makes bombarding cities impossible and suicidal.
These drones, if given instructions to fly an autonomous mission, cannot be jammed. The Russians appear to have destroyed the earlier drones. To take out a drone operating under human guidance you jam it, it becomes stupid and predictable, then you kill it. Ukraine will lose these drones like it lost the others if it tries to fly them under human guidance.
The more recent drones are capable of autonomous warfare, and figure out where they are by looking at the scenery.
Giving them the instructions they need to carry out an autonomous mission is difficult, and the UI is dreadful, which does not make it any easier.
But the Ukrainians have managed to figure it it out, so it will be impossible for the Russians to bombard cities.
Needs smart operators and a better UI, but if directed to go on an autonomous mission, they take off by themselves, fly to the destination by themselves, recognize four targets in succession, take them out, find a friendly airstrip by themselves, and land by themselves. Difficulty is telling them how to recognize the targets. UI needs to be improved.
Now that the Turkish drones are capable of autonomy, flattening cities will not be possible either. Takes artillery a while to flatten a city, and it is not going to survive long enough to do so.
Blitzkreig and artillery bombardment is twentieth century warfare, as obsolete as the cavalry charge.
There was the stone age, the Bronze Age, and the iron age, the materials ages. Then there were the energy ages, the age of steam and the nuclear age.
And now we are in the information epoch, which unlike the others, began at an exact time: 1970-01-01_00:00:00
And now information warfare is dominant. You deliver a quite small amount of explosives, currently around one or two kilograms of high explosive and getting smaller every year, to exactly the right spot at exactly the right time. Which means you have to know the right spot and the right time.
Albeit the minimum useful size for a nuclear warhead is still rather large.
A typical example of information warfare is Trump taking out the top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in a civilian airport with insignificant collateral damage.
Trump taking out Isis headquarters similarly – a lightning strike by a handful of elite warriors who entered deep into hostile territory, destroyed everything, then immediately vanished. In the future, similar strikes will employ a small nuclear warhead or a rod from space.
Trump was the first twenty first century military leader. His great failure was his failure to deal with his enemies within America in the same manner. He needed to have better connections to the front of the spear, and he needed to understand that normality is over, the republic is over, which he failed to do, and is still failing to do. Julius Caesar similarly failed. Took his adoptive son, Caesar Augustus, to figure it out.
Ukraine has hastily learned twenty first century warfare.
Russia is not going anywhere until it can do the same.
I await the appearance of a twenty first century military leader with military and political power. Trump failed because he failed to understand that normality is over, the Republic is over, and the time of holy war has begun. Putin understands this just fine, but unlike Trump, failed to understand we are now in the age of information warfare. Blitzkrieg is over. Georgia was the last blitzkrieg.
This is a disgusting topic, and it may not be worthy of discussion. But the sub-thread about a tranny Czar is unsettling for me because of the logic of it. Pooch points out, rightly, that an American Cromwell is going to be someone from within the confines of power. I hate this, but that is beside the point. Within the confines of power, only a few types get to exercise aggression: negresses, cat ladies, and trannies. Negresses are stunningly incompetent; the supreme court nominee is just the most recent example, but she is a perfect example. Watching her try to yassabossa for a court seat is pitiful and loathesome. Kamila Harris isn’t black, but she is stupid. I think she is actually just a pretentious white cunt in terms of personality, and she is better defined as a cat lady. One need not search long to find examples of negresses and cat ladies being aggressive with no consequences, but they are just fucking dumb. Within this unholy clade we also have the Hillary archetype, God help us. No amount of cheerleading and deer pointing will make these heifers competent or capable. I’m fairly confident in asserting that, should a biological female from within the confines of power take control of the state, the State is doomed and that swiftly.
But what would happen if a Jenner, or a Pritzker, or some other abomination, takes power? Is there any hope? To my mind, a creature so evil, so wrecked by the pozz, would only bring about calamity. But I am forced to admit that there is a difference between the late stage in life tranny and the sex addicted young adult tranny (there’s a generational infection of pre-puberty conversion trannies, but these won’t survive to adulthood and they are little more than perverse playthings). Is there enough of a difference to matter, or is it just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic?
Dear Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Cromwell was good, despite being a leftist in many ways that left an immense amount of damage, and, because good generals tend to be rightist, gave us Monck, who fixed what Cromwell left broken. Stalin almost gave us Beria.
But Stalin merely stabilized a very bad system. Tranny Caesar might be a Cromwell, might be a Stalin.
Deng was very very good, but left an undead state religion in charge, which is starting to bite.
Deng did the once-child policy. If it isn’t as crazy as Mao, it isn’t for lack of trying- nothing destorys patriarchy faster then forcibly sterilizing women for having children.
But party officials often violated the policy, and the fact that China’s population hasn’t decreased suggests it wasn’t effective…
The deleterious effects of 1-child policy are going to start biting now.
Here’s the demography of China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#/media/File:China_population_sex_by_age_on_Nov,_1st,_2020.png
Average age of the Chinese: 38.4 years
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/china-population/
Compare this with the US (it should be noted that this is holistic and Jim claims the white population is considerably worse off than the linked data implies):
Here’s the demography of the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#/media/File:USA2020dec1.png
Average age of the US: 38.3
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
Comparing the maps, the under 30 cohort is the net result of the 1-child policy.
It resulted in the forced sterilization of over 100 million Chinese women.
There’s no limit to the perversion of the Chinese regime
Ye – agree Wikipedia.. around 2012 I was talking to my mandarin teacher, asked her about why she is outside of China, she said her 2 sisters and younger brother are working at universities or other places across china.. how is it possible with the 1 child policy ? She said before 1990s almost every region was farm land without hospitals.. can’t record how many children per family..
Went to guangzhou… Enormous skyscrapers.. I asked my Chinese and Taiwan friends owning factories if this is what it looks like.. turns out only built after 2002 or so…
I would seriously recommend stop focusing on other cultures, stop reading liars, close borders and marry + children… Really begging you, need more westerners
Its arguable that Mao had purity spiraled communism bad enough to cure most of the CCP by Deng’s time…
I am very white with blue eyes.. I cannot infer too much into the Chinese mind.. they are very foreign to me, alien, near impossible to see insight too.. he implemented these crazy stages to out develop the west I believe, at UN council he or his representatives stated if USA and Russia used nucleur bombs, the west may kill +400 million Chinese, but the people and society were to survive..
I think from the 1950s till 1970s china was desperate and thinking they would be genocided by whites… At one point they put around 200 million Chinese men on the soviet border for full scale war..
>200 million Chinese men on the soviet border
No, they didn’t.
Whoever grabs power to become Caesar probably won’t last long. The original Caesar certainly didn’t. Once a Caesar has grabbed power, however briefly, there is no way back to pretending democracy and no easy way to a legitimate government.
So if a trannny grabs power, it will be a step in the right direction. Maybe the man who grabs power from the tranny will last.
Ex-pats in Tel Aviv waving russian (and soviet) flags as they drive down the streets. Surprising, or perhaps not. It’s a large community, and more generally, Israel never saw itself as a subject of the anglo-american empire, and has frequently crossed them in the past if they felt like it.
Probably won’t mean anything openly major (or majorly open) happening, but it does indicate people on the peripheries feel increasingly bold to signal against a GAE [current thing].
How many of the ex-pats are jews versus ethnic russians?
Unclear. I imagine there’s a mixture of both ethnic Russians and Ashkenazi Jewish Russians, as well as some mixed-race mischlings.
Most of them. Although there were plenty of SU emigres who claimed semitic descent just to get out and in.
While we can’t know with 100% certainty, I think that Jim is right for the most part that Russia seems to have had maximalist aim, or at least very significant goals of either installing a puppet government or more than simply getting Ukraine to stop performing not-war in the Donbass and giving some recognition or partial recognition of Crimea/ the Donbass, against some of the commentators here that think Putin/Russia were always going for fairly minimalist goals from the beginning when they tried to invade Kiev.
I have to say that it would be kind of sad and weak if Putin really would go all out trying to capture the Capital on all of the Major Eastern, Northern, and Southern cities and invading on all fronts including via Belarus after joint exercises if all he was planning to gain from all of that\
This is why I’m extremely skeptical of commentators who claim that Putin/Russia was always planning to have a war that would take more than month to complete with heavy fighting to try to take the Capital, Kharkov, etc. while not going for maximalist or very strong goals.
Not full proof evidence ofc., but there was a Russian article posted by Ria Russia (a state owned Russian news company) on February 26th at 8 AM exactly Russian time, seemingly automatically, unclear whether intentionally or by accident. This article seems to assume that Ukraine already was or was about to have a solidly pro-Russia puppet government in the vein of Belarus that would conclusively put it back in Russia’s sphere of influence. It’s in Russian so you can read it if you know the language, though the automatic google translate conveys the meaning. Link below.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html
if all he was planning to gain from all of that was a minimalist or moderate victory with concessions. *
It’s always best to plan for multiple outcomes and to accept limited objectives when the costs become to high. But it’s very unlikely the GAE will allow peace in the Ukraine. I think it likely that Putin is making another serious mistake. I can’t predict the future, but the future’s so bright I gotta wear shades.
It’s a weird world we live in where every major faction is lead by incompetent leaders.
Blitzkreig did not work, does not work in the Information Epoch, due to man carried anti tank missiles that are autonomous once fired: “fire and forget”
Attrition is not working either, and the Russians have also given up on it, apart from the port city of Mariupol. World War I attrition was artillery steadily banging away. When artillery steadily bangs away, it reveals its exact position. It is a high value target, and it was pounding low value targets. Similarly, area bombing. The bomber is a high value target, bombing low value targets.
Attempting to inflict costs on the enemy using World War I methods are considerably more expensive these days.
I think Putin is a smart cookie, and has some more cards up his sleeve.
I have confidence that things will take a considerable turn for the better in Ukraine – but not through attrition and blitzkrieg. It will take a while to re-orient, prepare, and adapt.
If priesting is all you’ve got, you give your support to the most likely next Caesar.
Trump was the most unlikely of next Caesars, but Jim was still correct in giving him his support while he had the chance.
Putin already is a Caesar with about 20 years of experience under his belt. He ain’t perfect, nobody is, but he’s got my support. To be honest, folk on the internet saying they’d do a better job than Trump back in the day bored me back then, and I’m sure folk telling me they’d do a better job than Putin today will have the same effect.
Hey Alf, I have edit notes for your project if you want them. I saw you were doing a draft proofread and thought it might be helpful. If that is unwanted, please let me know and I’ll stop. I’m up to “The return of the scientific method: economics,”
It was a huge mistake to go with World War II tactics, but the generals around the world are set in their ways, and every military except Turkey’s would have made the same mistake.
Putin has made a whole lot of very smart moves, and it is likely he will make some more by and by.
In combat sports like vale tudo or boxing, you can sometimes see episodes where you have a guy with a reputation for heavy hands. And you have guys matched up with him, they go into the fight thinking, ‘i dont wanna be knocked out by this guy’. Reasonable enough. What behavior arises out of this though? Their lizard brain is feeling, ‘this guy is dangerous’, and so the instinct becomes, ‘hes a hot potato, i should keep away’. How does this instinct play out in a fight, though?
One thing that so often happens is they become real tentative, not taking initiative at any time, and letting the other guy pick his moments at his leisure without worry. The opponent’s fear of the reputed guy’s power, basically solves the whole distance management game for him, without even really having to actually excel at it.
Another thing that often happens is when they do move to take a shot, so often it’s just one and done, and then they immediately try to back strait out again. This is one of the worst things you can possibly do in a fist fight; because, it is basically ‘crossing the line twice’; by moving in and then immediately out of the pocket along the same vector, an opponent would basically be gifting you the opportunity to crack him a good one while they are both in range, yet at the same time also on the back foot, and in no position to defend or maneuver or retaliate. What needs to be impressed on the athlete in training is the seemingly counterintuitive notion that when you move into the opponent with an attack, the safest direction you can go is to *continue* forwards, moving into the clinch, which allows you to stifle their counterattacks, and open the opportunity to beat them up through infighting (which you of course have trained him to be proficient in); or at the very least use combinations and hit them with a quick bump before stepping off at a different angle, circling around them.
Ultimately, the behavior that arose out of the desire to not be knocked out, greatly increased the athlete’s chances of being knocked out. Happens all the time, something even very good fighters have fallen prey too.
Which is something that helps illustrate a broader point; where a certain sentiment is felt, and a behavior arises from that sentiment; but does the behavior actually connect in reality with what is desired? That is another question.
It is a stumbling block that is both subtle, and also highly common. The thinking that if a being desires a certain end, that actions they take will necessarily help serve it; or likewise that if a being does not accomplish a certain end, they must not have actually wanted it.
The impression i got in the early days of conflict is that the russians intended not to stick around in ukraine; that the plan would be to go in, flex muscles, and leave a trail of kicked butts and more favorable government behind.
It’s an notion i consider maladaptive for several reasons.
Powers are always going into wars with a ‘the boys will be home by christmas’ attitude, and then likewise always find themselves themselves wrongfooted by events blithly carrying on past the scope of their temporary preparations, even though that is the norm, and lightning wars remarkable exceptions.
You can see these sorts of things play out all the time. Expectations for short war leading to even longer war. Desire for less damage leading to even higher damage. Multiple incoherent desires conflicting and resulting in none being satisfied.
There was in fact an opportunity for setting off a quick rout like desired; but that would require a desire to drop the hammer in the first place. The power their computers and phones run on; the fuel their trucks and CVs run on; the commanders and authority figures their organizations run on…
As they say in chess, it’s never too late to make a blunder; likewise, it’s never too late to start doing the right things.
Whoever has their hands on Biden’s strings today is calling for regime change in Russia now:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-calls-for-regime-change-in-russia-putin-cannot-remain-in-power/ar-AAVw4et
Prep your fallout shelters, I guess.
Only for a “White House official” to quickly respond with damage control:
https://www.axios.com/biden-poland-russian-invasion-ukraine-1cc38b00-abb8-4167-bf89-2671a42cab6f.html
Sounds like infighting between whoever is shoving the speech in front of Biden’s face and other members of the Admin.
Per the MSN article, the claim is that Biden’s statement wasn’t originally part of the script… I mean speech. If we look back to the campaign, Biden has a penchant for saying the parts that aren’t supposed to be said aloud. Interestingly enough, this seems to be the glimmer of honest morality left in the man; he lacks that aura of hifalutin deceit characteristic of the Obama era. “We know better than the filthy white commoners, so we will do what’s needed, but we can’t actually say it or the rednecks will whine.” This comes off as a tendency to say what was discussed behind closed doors. All the highlighted gaffs of the campaign were examples of this, like the “you ain’t black…” statement. This was obviously a statement by some Ivy League mulatto on the staff that tickled his fancy.
I think the two camps are Cold War v. Hot War, or not-war v. holy war. It isn’t No War v. War. The former is decidedly worse than the latter, because the not-war camp are the “adults in the room.” It looks like the drums are beating out a staccato inevitability. With the endemic incompetence, things will get out of hand. If/when Bolton and the neo-con warhawks get brought in, then it is bunker time.
The not-war faction is still sort of in charge, but it is getting a rough ride.
Which is likely to get considerably rougher. I anticipate quite a few of them committing suicide by two bullets in the back of the head in a few years.
FAA is still stalling on Starship. They kicked the can for another month.
If stalling this long, will stall forever.
The FAA is trying to get the Fish and Wildlife Service to go along with Boca Chica spaceport.
Anyone remember the Mars One project (not movie) where volunteers donated money and a video application?
Well, I have yet to hear of a planet we could actually reach. A more realistic goal would be to set up a space station on the surface of the Moon. A Mars station… somethings goes wrong, its curtains.
Anyone remember the Mars One project (not movie) where volunteers donated money and a video application?
Well, I have yet to hear of a planet we could actually reach. A more realistic goal would be to set up a space station on the surface of the Moon. A Mars station… somethings goes wrong, its curtains.
If something goes wrong on the ISS, like really wrong, it’s curtains as well. Movies have people believing you can engage targets at 50+ feet with a pistol using one hand, get in a fist fight with head blows and just go about your day, and that space is easily navigable. Until a tether or skyhook is set up, as well as intermediate craft that can navigate between counterweight base/ hook gantry, space ops should just come with an assumed “if you fuck up you die” clause.
There was a startup trying to get a rotating space station set up, something that rotates to give artificial gravity… found it: Orbital Assembly.
https://investorplace.com/2022/02/orbital-assembly-corp-gives-exposure-to-explosive-market/
If you go to the website (I did this a while back) it is lousy with the typical progressive drivel. So I am not super hopeful. But we’ll see. I think we should leave Mars to Musk and focus on LEO/HEO semi-permanent stations.
To “safely” go to Mars, or even the moon, requires a fleet for backup and redundancy. Columbus didn’t discover the New world with one ship, neither did Magellan circumnavigate the world with one ship.
The ideal setup for a Lunar, or Mars, base is to:
1. Locate a suitably sized small crater.
2. properly grade it with robot equipment.
3. Plop down a gas tight inflatable enclosure, like those big tennis courts.
4. Gradually inflate as you back fill over the top with regolith, which serves as pressure ballast.
5. Reinforce the interior with columns/cable stays at your leisure.
The regolith ballast serves three functions.
1. Pressure ballast.
2. Thermal insulation.
3. Radiation shield.
For larger settlements one should build a circumferencial rail vehicle system inside the perimeter to provide 1 G of acceleration for normal gravity.
Other improvements would be large vertical cylinder/weighted piston pressure regulators.
What’s SpaceX’s word on it? Are they ready for orbital test now?
I think they’re still doing testing.
Maybe they’re invested in flying the SLS before starship just out of sheer embarrassment.
Lone skun and his spacesex
Sorry, weird elon musk has an anagram with these letters
multi billionaire
It feels like satan laughs at us and destroys
Lone skum presenting his spacesex..
Need more pornos for my blue eyes
lmfao nice to see the actual schizos out in full force today
Oh look, a white idiot with his superior culture insulting me..
You go girl, get your pornos!
didn’t you say you were Dutch in another thread? If you’re Dutch why are you such a self-hating white person, or are you just colored person who hates whites/
This troll has 2 goals: complicate the board with pointless contributions, and force useful responders to waste bandwidth engaging with him. This is why he throws in risible and preposterous claims at a rate of 1-3 per statement. The moment you respond, he starts to move diagonally through orthogonal topics. He will not be pinned down, or respond in good faith. I am of the opinion he should be taken out back and shot, but for convenience and to save on paperwork and legal fees, best to just put him on moderation.
Pardon me kind sir, let me explain this as best as possible without breaking laws
But I doubt very much whether you care..
I ponded what you know of Western culture.. until USA obliterated western Europe and feeds everyone propaganda..
You insulted me kind sir, by stating autism.
I know in today’s age we must be tolerant, and in the most intolerant times with the evilist of men, when a man was insulted between 1100-1860 or so, it was typical to duel to death (sometimes varsity students would duel in front of witnesses, miss and declare no contest), sometimes it was business related and not with guns..
I must deplore such evil behaviour in front of witness, cannot believe how violent whites are… But do you think I or you would simply insult a man with such ramifications ? Good thing evil white men no longer exist…
Your TV is so good now, just call someone racist without consequences : )
Lmfao ? Did it taste nice when lone skum went ass to your mouth… Very cultured, right ? Can’t tell the difference between shit or chocolate?
He’s desperately seeking attention. I think it’s a different type of shill attack, similar to the gif/sticker bomb attacks that derail the Telegram channels and imageboard threads.
Pardon me, my kunning drueger for not recognising s troll
He is not schizo, he is the essence of human garbage. Even lowly fast food employees have the dignity and self-respect to avoid vulgarity if not spell check, though I suspect he may be a dot-Indian shill.
It is surprising how he continues to make it past moderation. His comments contribute nothing to the conversation other than demonstrate pride in hedonism and perversion.
*apologies for comparing human garbage with lowly service workers, no one should be compared to someone like that
My guess is Jim is ignoring, or documenting this latest iteration. The destabilization shill tactic, like porn threads on /b/, works well for disrupting with disagreeing or debating. More than actual entryists and ShareBlue, the pornographic deluge posts suffocate discourse and drive out moral men, not to mention distracting younger men and encouraging the onanistic tendency.
It’s a powerful tactic; if you ignore it, it festers, and if you engage, it goes nowhere.
They are still doing testing. They are waiting on Raptor 2 production and the results of the OLT/Full launch vehicle testing.
Also, OLT (Orbital Launch Tower) segments are already in full production for KSC Florida (Pad 39A) which is already approved for launches up to the size of the Nova rocket (27 million LBF).
They’ll never launch out of Boca unless the faggots running this country orders the FAA to stop gumming up the work. It’s likely that they’ll never launch from Florida either for the same reason.
On the one hand, the US government wants access to space for reasons of national prestige and military capability.
On the other hand, the holy priests of woke are angry with with priests of tech for whiteness, maleness, heterosexuality, and suspected heresy, and believe that all tech was stolen from brave warrior women of subsaharan Africa, and needs to be returned and buried there so that it can sprout again from the fertile African soil.
If Caesar wants rockets, even if it is tranny Caesar, he is going to have to shoot a few of the priests of woke.
Mao, alas, believed in the labor theory of value, which meant he believed that if he commanded peasants to labor at producing steel, then there would be steel.
There was no steel. I fear that trannie Caesar may spend a very long time waiting for rockets to sprout from the fertile soil of Africa.
@Red @jim
If “tranny caesar” won’t maintain the USG space supremacy, then Russia and China will KILL the United States elite.
Lol, this is the funniest and most accurate comment I’ve read
Ye, if enough people believe bitcoin, it will continue, last and do well..I would buy in late and if electricity is out in the West, unsure how it could be valued correctly
Your response for the latest article is a very chinese and jovial manner with high information discussion.. typically in Chinese culture you can joke and point out a name or business name, everyone laughs and someone with more information gives a laugh about the name before explaining in detail the success and hard work..
Pardon me, of course I bring up porno, majority of westerners are engulfed in it.. can bring up for example Elon musk’s name is an anagram for lone skum.. instead of joke, just hatred..
As for recording my messages.. don’t care, more than welcome too, I never insulted any individual until they insulted me
If electricity goes out in the West, bitcoin is likely to become a great deal more valuable in the world than it is now, and if you are still in the West by that time, it will be the only thing of value you can take with you when you flee.
Alright, I may have to buy in late, thank you, sir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(munition)
These are the sorts of things i expect to see becoming more common; both for shooting down portable air platforms (eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade); and also for portable air platforms to shoot down each other.
Anti-Done drones do seem like the optimal way to protect areas and troops against drone attacks.
Anti-Drone*
I think point defense lasers would be better, but expensive. Maybe an EMP generator of some sort? Is that possible?
point defense lasers are impractical.
If you want to deliver a lot of power really fast on your target, your power conversion system has to be reasonably efficient or else ridiculously big, otherwise the power will do more damage to it than to your target.
The only reasonably efficient laser system is the free electron laser, which is ridiculously big, despite being reasonably efficient, because it has to accelerate electrons to a decent fraction of the speed of light, and then run them through very strong magnetic fields that change very rapidly over a very short distance.
In principle we could make it smaller by making the distance over which the magnetic fields change very small, but this requires really small electron beams, which gets in the way of delivering a lot of power. One could use a lot of very small electron beams, but this complicates everything.
On larger (that is, vehicular) scales of course, besides used of cheap tube fired PGMs, I continue to bang on the HPM drum. All the potential in terms of capabilities already exists, the biggest obstacle is ‘first mover’ inertia, the lack of preconceived notion of such things existing in most people’s mind; much like drone proliferation itself; but in turn of course, as proliferation of small long endurance delivery platforms increases, so too will demand for means of quickly and easily churning through a whole lot of them at a time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-battery_radar
>Counter-battery radars operate at microwave frequencies with relatively high average energy consumption (up to the tens of kilowatts). The area immediately forward of the radar array for high energy radars is dangerous to human health. The intense radar waves of systems like the AN/TPQ-36 can also detonate electrically fused ammunition at short ranges.
For that matter, power generation multiple times greater, on the order of exponents, and at significant levels of gain/directionality, is within the means of components in use even now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Jammer
>One unique aspect of the NGJ is that its AESA array combines EW, coms, radar, and signals intelligence; AESA is known to perform EW and radar, but also handling SIGINT and serving as a communications array are new capabilities.
The pieces are all there, it waits only for a man with an organization to see and put them all together.
No weapon is a useful information epoch weapon except in its use of information.
Weapons that can reach out a very long way and target very precisely are apt to be useful in the information epoch, but it is their targeting and control that makes them likely to be useful and effective.
Lasers and such are a distraction. Thermal infrared sights are likely to be a critical technology.
In the information epoch, what matters is gathering information on the enemy, and denying the enemy information on oneself.
Point defense systems assume you have already been targeted. At which point it is a bit late for information epoch warfare.
What makes the Bayraktar TB2 highly effective is that by the time you see it, you are probably dead.
An aircraft carrier is a gigantic point defense system. The more point defense you pack on a system, the more expensive it is, and the more valuable a target it is. We will likely soon see how carriers do against mach 7 Chinese drones. In the event that they survive, which I do not expect, then next up, mach 14 drones.
My view is i don’t see these use-cases as mutually exclusive. A hammer can hit many different nails.
Imran Khan may be couped out of power soon:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/imran-blames-foreign-hand-for-his-trouble/articleshow/90481859.cms
Seems his recent Russia visit is not appreciated by the CIA handlers of the Pak Army.
To paraphrase doctor Zhivago
In leftst media terms the Ukraine war is between the sovereign liberal Democracy of Ukraine and Putin’s Russian dictatorship.
In reactionary terms the Ukraine war is a proxy war between globohomo satanic elites and Putin and the Russian security state and while we want Russia to win neither side is ideal.
Nonetheless our task the shitposters task is to meme humiliation and defeat for globohomo, to meme all the hardships imposed by this war on our leaders… and from defeat will come the Restoration, and the Restoration will be victory for us. The reaction looks to the normies and disaffected military officers to overthrow the system… when oil and food become unaffordable they’ll be ready to listen.
>when oil and food become unaffordable they’ll be ready to listen
I need reactionary explanation why Great Depression 1930s happened. Mainstream literature put the blame on the Fed. But the depression lasted almost on entire world economy and Fed issue (like we observed 2008-2009) is last piece of domino falling. Also they still had gold standard around, so I don’t think the blame is entirely on Fed.
So, what happened during those time?
The blame is entirely on the FED. Austrian economists blame the FED for allowing way too much credit growth in the 20s thereby creating a bubble. Mainstream economists blame the FED for not inflating enough after the bubble bursted
So in short, it was basically pre-2009 recession but on high dose steroid?
The Fed system as setup by Woodrow Wilson and boys was particularly retarded even worse than now…
Not only did you have a debt based currency that constantly had to expand or collapse… you had a debt based currency that was also in gold.
The Rothschilds allowed their bank in Austria to collapse, in 1931… though they could have saved it, and FDR was anti-business so killed off the US recovery in 1936 with huge new taxes…
I can’t tell you why it started, but it lasted 10 years because the cure was worse than the sickness. FDR and his cronies were experimenting with Keynesian bullshit and consolidating disparate elements of the economy. Nothing they did worked; the war pulled the US out completely, but only after FDR was in firm control memetically, meaning intervention, statalization, and command economy had become precedential.
The Fed was brutally abusing the gold standard.
There was a lot of inflation during WW1 and inflation & debt inflation continued after the war. The US kept bailing out other countries and international banks as they became insolvent mostly with inflation generated debt. Eventually this was no longer enough and the bubble popped. The depression lasted exactly in nations as long as it took to liquidate the debt. Some nations like the US generally made it illegal to foreclose and started doing a whole bunch of socialism which dragged the depression on forever. Other countries like Japan and German existed the depression very quickly as Japan had no debt and Germany had inflated it’s debts away.
Depressions always end once the debt is liquidated which in the US didn’t happen until 1947 when most states ended there no foreclosure laws and FDR’s socialism was somewhat repealed by congress.
Bankers have an incentive to create unsustainable debt bubbles. To prevent this, need to pop term transformation bubbles early and often, and have draconian consequences for bankers that fail. But, because bankers have a lot of pull, and because sovereigns tend to lose control of their bureaucracy, the opposite policy tends to be followed.
Popping a term transformation bubble is painful and hurts a lot of people, primarily powerful and influential people, so the problem keeps getting kicked down the road until it gets too big to kick.
That the Rothschilds were out of power was suddenly revealed to everyone when their too big to kick any further bubble got popped in 1931. Which is why today all the the Soros shills say “Rothschilds, Rothschilds, Rothschilds, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”
Why did it start? The credit bubble popped. Why did it last so long? Socialism
This business of Europe having to pay for oil and gas in rubble is interesting. They say they wont.
Will Russia allow them to pay in gold? They seem to be serious about this.
I’ve heard “unfriendly” countries must pay in Ruble. “Friendly” countries can pay potentially pay in anything including Gold or Bitcoin.
Yes, Putin just reaffirmed that they pay in rubles or get no gas–“we are not a charity”…Europe hasn’t offered to pay in gold, and might not have enough, but that would be interesting…
Gold payment would only be allowed for friendly countries ie China, India, etc as far as I have read.
It is impractical for Russians to receive payment in gold from an unfriendly country, or even from a friendly country with high levels of elite defection, because the gold would be intercepted. And these days every major trading country has high levels of elite defection, particularly China.
And impractical for Russians to receive payment in Euros or dollars, because the Euros or dollars would be intercepted on the ground of sanctions.
Thus the Putin policy simply reflects what is in the individual interests of individual businessmen who are simply trying to do business and are horrified that war is in the way.
Every businessman in every country has one foot in the same boat, since every businessman doing business internationally is evading sanctions, or might well be evading sanctions unknowingly, because there is no clear way of complying with sanctions, or doing business with someone who is evading sanctions, or likely to be accused of attempting to evade sanctions by someone who wants to seize money in transit.
This is making it very difficult to do business internationally.
I would like to say “crypto currency to the rescue”, but …
Bitcoin and Monero are both hitting their scaling limits hard, even though the Monero blockchain is nowhere near as large as the bitcoin blockchain.
Neither data structure was designed to handle enormous sizes, and the Monero data structure handles enormous sizes considerably worse even than the Bitcoin data structure.
There is no way of knowing the bitcoin current mutable state (the set of unspent transaction outputs, the set of public keys that govern non zero value on the blockchain) other than grinding through the entire immutable append only data structure from the beginning without a single error or failure, and in Monaro, there is in a sense no way of knowing the current state at all, which makes it very possible that due to subtle bugs or coordinated fraud (brigading), Monaro is being inflated under the covers.
To scale, you have to have a data structure that gracefully handles some small part of the data getting lost, corrupted, or incorrectly processed. And we just don’t have that. It has long been known how to do that, but it just has not been done.
If you have a single corruption or data loss issue in the bitcoin blockchain, you have to re-index, which takes a very long time. And if you have a single corruption or data loss issue in the Monaro blockchain, you have to re-download the entire blockchain from the beginning, because the Monaro blockchain is all one gigantic memory mapped file. Which takes a very long time. And as the blockchains get larger and larger, data corruption necessarily happens more and more often.
Once a single memory mapped file gets big enough, it is always going to have data corruption and data loss issues. Monaro does have all sorts of measures to mostly accommodate this problem most of the time, but as the blockchain gets larger and larger, they take longer and longer, and failures that cannot be accommodated happen more and more often.
Can you help me understand how this buggy, error prone, slow, easily infiltrated, complicated to use, impossible to understand currency that doesn’t hold its value is going to replace fiat currency? The situation Russia is facing as well the Canadian truckers, hard Right politicians, all of these were specific situations that cryptocurrency was supposed to address. What happened?
Crypto currency is replacing fiat currency. The breakdown of trust and trustworthiness means that there is no alternative. That is why scaling problems are now biting hard, and will soon be biting a great deal harder.
People creating crypto currencies want to get something up and running in a hurry. It works, at first, it continues to work for a very long time. And after a while, there are problems, and the problems get bigger. And then you try to get around to fixing it. And often the original design failed to anticipate these future fixes, and the fixes are hard to install on top.
Do you at least see why I am pessimistic about war 2.0? There’s all these grandiose ideas and assertions about what could be done, and people are off and running as if it is exactly what will be done. But when the rubber meets the road, the implementation doesn’t stand up to actual use.
We forget that it was many centuries and billions of lives that went into representational currency and banking and social trust networks. Just like marriage and mannerbund, some things can’t just be innovated into being, no matter how cool they sound. We aren’t ready for cryptocurrency. We can’t even protect male friendship or traditional marriage.
We do not forget it. We observe it burning. The fire started in 1928, and has been getting bigger and bigger. And anyone trying to put the fire out is likely to get shot.
The money problem is not nearly as hard to solve as the pussy problem. Pussy is more valuable, more motivating and has a mind of its own.
Seems like bitcoin is a victim of its own success. I don’t foresee infinite trust across an infinite timeline anymore than I foresee perpetual motion, but someone will come up with a solution. Then the next problem will appear and it will get replaced again.
I don’t know that I see one coin to rule them all so much as one coin for now, then another later, and another and so on.
@Jim:
“It is impractical for Russians to receive payment in gold from an unfriendly country, or even from a friendly country with high levels of elite defection, because the gold would be intercepted. And these days every major trading country has high levels of elite defection, particularly China.”
I have to pause on this one and let it sink in. That is one heck of an assertion “if true”.
The idea that no human organization anywhere, not the Russian security service or their Ministry of Defense or anybody, could “simply” set up some desks or branch offices (I’ve suggested inside Russian embassies, but whatever), guys with sunglasses and guns standing around, where someone could bring in an invoice and some gold bars and walk out with the invoice stamped “PAID”, is just shocking to me.
I’m not saying it’s therefore not true. I’m saying that to imagine that there isn’t one single “club” of guys who can set up and conduct something so simple and conducive to world peace as this, is highly alarming.
I know I know. Covid response, for example.
But this doesn’t involve the public, the majority. This is just some guys paying their bills, like how we paid our own bills with cash at the grocery store back in the day. If this is where I’m exactly wrong, please do explain, because I must need this.
Sure, the Russian embassy could find some people with guns it could trust with a pile of gold. But then it has to move that pile of gold from those people with guns to some other people in another country with guns.
Suppose embassy is in, for example, Germany. Then they are buggered, because the gold will be intercepted if they try to move it.
Gold is only valuable if you can move it around. It is hard to move it around and rapidly becoming harder to move it around.
I cannot take gold through an airport, and Russia cannot take gold through an airport. Russia says that friendly countries can pay in gold and unfriendly countries cannot. What is a friendly country? It is a country where Russia could probably take gold through the airport.
If gold really is “worth†what it’s “worth†officially, how many years of the EU buying oil & gas with it until there’s none left?
Why would it get “used up”? Gold is a element, it’s not a consumable. The gold gets “recycled” buying other sh!t from the original party.
But there is a hard limit to the amount of processed gold, right? People will be banking it away as well as spending it.
TBQH fam, I would love to revert to a gold economy, because I bet other precious metals would be used, meaning hack silver and war bands are back en vogue. There’s also a level of enforced honesty when the wealth holders have to hire men to keep their hordes safe. It wouldn’t be perfect utopia, but it would be better… if somewhat more brutal, slow, and complicated. But a lot of the Cathedral’s power and influence is predicated on “ease and simplicity.”
Banking gold is unsafe, and rapidly becoming less and less safe.
So what?
So people, far from banking gold, will be unbanking gold.
It is going to become an industrial metal like silver. Not any time soon, but that is the trend.
If the sanctions are removed, Europe would get some of it back most likely…in the present situation, not only is trade blocked, but ethnic Russians are having their stuff confiscated without the slightest legality..That will discourage trade, since there is no way to protect what you buy unless it is delivered inside Russia…
They pay in euros to the pipeline’s bank (which is not under sanctions), which then buys the rubles…
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/26/president-joe-biden-to-propose-new-20percent-minimum-billionaire-tax-.html
20% on over 100 million
Where did you hear I want 30% on over 10 million
I can’t believe you think I want 40% on over 1 million
You better have my 50% on over 100000
https://img.ifunny.co/images/1a1bbb4798fc2ad2760d55119671a0d1cc5922d7ccf7f9afaa27cc0361d6d08e_1.jpg
When their accountants and lawyers get finished, the billionaires will pay minimal taxes as usual…the giant corporation for whom I practiced law paid no taxes at all for years on end…
Here’s the source:
https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1508813631311466496?s=20&t=7DxYGlucU-kIAv0wsnIVDQ
Here’s the text:
1/ Big Arrow War—a primer. For all those scratching their heads in confusion, or dusting off their dress uniforms for the Ukrainian victory parade in Kiev, over the news about Russia’s “strategic shiftâ€, you might want to re-familiarize yourself with basic military concepts.
2/ Maneuver warfare is a good place to start. Understand Russia started its “special military operation†with a severe manpower deficit—200,000 attackers to some 600,000 defenders (or more). Classic attritional conflict was never an option. Russian victory required maneuver.
3/ Maneuver war is more psychological than physical and focuses more on the operational than on the tactical level. Maneuver is relational movement—how you deploy and move your forces in relation to your opponent. Russian maneuver in the first phase of its operation support this.
4/ The Russians needed to shape the battlefield to their advantage. In order to do this, they needed to control how Ukraine employed it’s numerically superior forces, while distributing their own smaller combat power to best accomplish this objective.
5/ Strategically, to facilitate the ability to maneuver between the southern, central, and northern fronts, Russia needed to secure a land bridge between Crimea and Russia. The seizure of the coastal city of Mariupol was critical to this effort. Russia has accomplished this task.
6/ While this complex operation unfolded, Russia needed to keep Ukraine from maneuvering its numerically superior forces in a manner that disrupted the Mariupol operation. This entailed the use of several strategic supporting operations—feints, fixing operations, and deep attack.
7/ The concept of a feint is simple—a military force either is seen as preparing to attack a given location, or actually conducts an attack, for the purpose of deceiving an opponent into committing resources in response to the perceived or actual actions.
8/ The use of the feint played a major role in Desert Storm, where Marine Amphibious forces threatened the Kuwaiti coast, forcing Iraq to defend against an attack that never came, and where the 1st Cavalry Division actually attacked Wadi Al Batin to pin down the Republican Guard.
9/ The Russians made extensive use of the feint in Ukraine, with Amphibious forces off Odessa freezing Ukrainian forces there, and a major feint attack toward Kiev compelling Ukraine to reinforce their forces there. Ukraine was never able to reinforce their forces in the east.
10/ Fixing operations were also critical. Ukraine had assembled some 60,000-100,000 troops in the east, opposite Donbas. Russia carried out a broad fixing attack designed to keep these forces fully engaged and unable to maneuver in respect to other Russian operations.
11/ During Desert Storm, two Marine Divisions were ordered to carry out similar fixing attacks against Iraqi forces deployed along the Kuwaiti-Saudi border, tying down significant numbers of men and material that could not be used to counter the main US attack out west.
12/ The Russian fixing attack pinned the main Ukrainian concentration of forces in the east, and drove them away from Mariupol, which was invested and reduced. Supporting operations out of Crimea against Kherson expanded the Russian land bridge. This phase is now complete.
13/ Russia also engaged in a campaign of strategic deep attack designed to disrupt and destroy Ukrainian logistics, command & control, and air power and long-range fire support. Ukraine is running out of fuel and ammo, cannot coordinate maneuver, and has no meaningful Air Force.
14/ Russia is redeploying some of its premier units from where they had been engaged in feint operations in northern Kiev to where they can support the next phase of the operation, namely the liberation of the Donbas and the destruction of the main Ukrainian force in the east.
15/ This is classic maneuver warfare. Russia will now hold Ukraine in the north and south while its main forces, reinforced by the northern units, Marines, and forces freed up by the capture of Mariupol, seek to envelope and destroy 60,000 Ukrainian forces in the east.
16/ This is Big Arrow War at its finest, something Americans used to know but forgot in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan and Iraq. It also explains how 200,000 Russians have been able to defeat 600,000 Ukrainians. Thus ends the primer on maneuver warfare, Russian style.
So… is Russia still stuck? Is this all just a reorganization of the narrative? Or was the Donbas the goal and Kiev and subsumption a feint? If Russia pulls out of everywhere except the Donbas, Crimea, and the Corridor, GAE is going to have a hard time manufacturing a not-war, particularly if UKR has an intact army in terms of manpower with all of its toys broken or captured.
If it was a feint, and quite possibly it was, it was a feint I found highly convincing.
Possibly it was no feint, but Russia, having gained experience in twenty first century is now restructuring its military goals to accommodate the new reality, making it retrospectively a feint.
Or possibly it was feint all along, but if so, cost Russia rather more lives and tanks than expected.
But, feint in retrospect, or feint from the beginning. It now was a feint.
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-fox-and-the-grapes.html
Or perhaps whether it would be a feint or not would be determined by which World was closest to the Real World.
Was it
1) The Ukrainians would fight about as well as the Afghan auxiliaries of the Americans did
or
2) The Ukrainians were rotted significantly, but hatred of Russia and the Eastern european thing means they’ll fight pretty hard
or
3) The Ukrainians would fight very hard, at least at peer capability to the Russians
If you don’t know in advance which world is true, you have to make your plans incorporating all 3 possibilities and hopefully divining which is most true very quickly once the shooting starts.
If 1) is true or likely to be true, it’s foolish not to try a coup de main early. It’s also wise in 1) case not to be as harsh initially.
if 2) is the case or 3), you need to grasp the nettle. If 3), you need some fancy maneuver to avoid the attrition that you can’t really afford.
All things considered, I don’t think the Russian general staff did all that bad. Maybe in a year or so we’ll get real casualty figures and see what the new borders are.
Look at these Mountain Mohammedans having a ball fucking up the GAE:
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1509279202201247752
POV: Wulfgar, Aidan, and Kunning on vacation in San Francisco at Google headquarters. Pooch is holding the camera. TC is around the corner chatting up a whore.
LMAO….dudes just vibing.
From a Memri TV clip circulating at the moment:
(translated from the Arabic)
Harden your heart, oh Putin.
Increase the attacks.
Banish them to Palestine
and we will marry the Ukrainian women.
Also, we say to China:
Invade Taiwan!
Also, we say to China:
Why don’t you invade Taiwan?
This way we will smash the nose of the Americans
who make the (Israeli) airplanes.
Harden your heart, oh Putin.
Increase your attacks.
Banish them to Palestine
and we will marry Ukrainian women.”
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1503330727244480513?s=20&t=yOwE7ziREReouIrDjPTxvA
LOL…these guys know how to party
Zelensky strips 2 generals of their rank for being “anti-heroes,” pledges to punish all “traitors” when he gets a free moment.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/ukraine/2022/03/ukraine-220331-voa01.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e3291%2edk0ao43u5w%2e31w2
French Intel chief sacked for “lack of understanding of the issues in Ukraine,” which sounds suspiciously like a lack of sufficient holiness…
https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2022/intell-220331-sputnik01.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e3291%2edk0ao43u5w%2e31wc
The date of April 1 having expired, I must declare I was wrong and Jim was right about the fighting in Ukraine. Russian forces were halted exactly as he predicted and nothing close to even a negotiated victory occurred on my timeline.
I leave this here as a permanent record of my poor predictology!
Please do not change my name to restitutor_obit 🙁
How dare you attempt to be as incorrect as myself.
Seconded.
Actually it looks like decisive UKR victory in freeing Kiev Oblast and probably Chernihiv.
If Putin doesn’t call reservists I assume they will stay with conquering Donbass and keeping a land bridge to Crimea up to Kherson, and give up on taking the East.
>decisive UKR victory
Someone went to the Trudeau School of Geopolitics.
The Russians are completely withdrawing from the Kiev region so yes, it was a victory.
Severian seems to be something of a UKR shill.
I actually thought they would hold most of their captured territory to keep Ukraine troops tied up there as much as possible as they were digging up defenses.
Kind of shocked they are retreating from there completely.
I don’t think we can say Severian is a shill, to me it seems more likely he is less bullish/confident on Russia than many or most in the comment section.
I remember before the war started February 24th just a couple days people were making fun of him saying that it seems like a war between Ukraine and Russia would happen very soon and that it was all ridiculous American propaganda and it wouldn’t happen.
He turned out to be right about that one, all the commentators mocking him wrong.
Is Jim a Ukraine shill? Because my opinions on the conflict are not very different from him.
I’ve noticed you repeating NY Times talking points about the war on more than one occasion like “decisive UKR victoryâ€. Jim does not say this.
“A decisive victory is a military victory in battle that definitively resolves the objective being fought over, ending one stage of the conflict and beginning another stage.”
Pretty apt description for northern Ukraine.
Severian, what is the objective being fought over? Your argument under the stage element is correct, but I think you’re delusional if you believe it was Russia’s goal to occupy Ukraine.
I think the initial objectives were to take eastern Ukraine and at least encircle Kiev.
I think current objectives are Donbas, land bridge to Crimea , and probably Kharkov and Odessa. I don’t know if they can take Kharkov and Odessa with the current force.
In related news, mass UKR surrender in Mariupol.
https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1511059265905172485
I find it odd you cite ELINTNews which is a known UKR shill account (one of the worst offenders of all the OSINT shills).
He is but it’s the video I wanted to share.
For reliable info, one of the most credible sources from the conflict I’ve found are translations from Russian personnel on the ground.
Here’s a great view into the Donbas front.
https://twitter.com/AllThisEvil/status/1510713711098535938
I do not get the same sense of suspicion from Severian as from Basil. Severian seems like someone who doubts the capabilities of Russia more than someone rooting for Russia to lose. I might disagree with him, but he sounds plausible as an actual person arguing from a different set of assumptions. Basil just sounds like a shill, whether or not he is paid. One more microphone for the mouth that speaks the party line.
Not really true, not really the point. Dissent is not the issue, it is the tracking with MSM/GAE talking points that trips my sensors, like with Basil. At least Basil the Coward puts effort into his Submit pilling.
Most thought war unlikely. This was normalcy bias. Time and again, we forget to acknowledge Tyson Dementia: no matter how intelligent or accomplished you are at one thing or on one topic, you are an ignorant amateur on most topics.
Official Russian truth is that their objectives never changed from their prewar objectives. Peace (which they did not have for eight years) and buffer states.
So if they wind up with peaceful borders on their client states and a Ukraine that is as much a nonalighed state as Hungary (the polls in Hungary show 75% support for neutrality), then victory.
So it’s confirmed now Russians are pulling away from Sumy as well as Chernihiv. The whole Russian force in the North is withdrawing back to Belarus and Russian borders.
This is liberating for Russia in a sense. Feint or not, by officially abandoning their plans to occupy Ukraine west of the 2010 election boundary, they can now bomb its infrastructure into dust, secure in the knowledge that the West, not Russia, will get stuck with the cost of rebuilding.
Even in World War II, bombing cities was more difficult and expensive than expected.
Today, a lot more difficult and expensive, short of nukes.
To resolve the war, to end it, it will be necessary to employ Information Epoch weapons, methods, tactics, and strategy.
World War II warfighting methods just don’t work well enough to settle things.
I don’t mean carpet-bombing cities into rubble. They did that in WW2 because it’s all they could do without precision guidance. I mean destroying airports, power plants, communication towers, bridges, factories, fuel storage and pipelines, i.e. anything that could help resupply the soldiers fighting in the Donbass.
Especially bridges. You never want to bomb bridges in a country you plan to invade because you’ll need those bridges soon.
Nevertheless Putin has used only minimal forces, yet caused the US and its puppets to commit the own goal of endangering the dollar’s reserve status and forcing Russia’s customers to massively support the ruble…almost like a masterful judo stroke…
And Russia will have no difficulty securing the Donbass and the corridor to the Crimea…
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/paradigm-shift-western-media-hasnt-grasped-yet-russian-ruble-relaunched-linked-gold-and
Summary: The Russian central bank promised they’ll redeem a gram of gold for 5000 rubles no matter what happens. So it made a price floor. And since gold is traded in USD, they basically pegged the ruble to 80 rubles to 1 dollar. So back to the pre-war exchange rate. In addition, people will have to buy commodities using rubles, so since the rubble is pegged to gold (and Russia is the biggest exporter of natural gas, 3rd in oil, and so many other things) commodities can now be bought by using gold as a standard instead of the dollar.
The Bank of Russia will buy gold for 5000 rubles a gram, but isn’t selling gold at any price.
A floor on the price of gold is a ceiling on the price of rubles. What they’re saying is, you have to pay for Russian goods with rubles, but if you only have gold, a gram of gold counts as 5000 rubles. As long as this policy remains in effect, one ruble cannot be worth *more* than 1/5000 gram of gold, but it can be worth less.
Col. Macgregor speaks about 21st century warfare as belonging to whoever can master the art of precise rocket artillery strikes to take out enemy command structure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbJ4FlTgEkA
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-03/niall-ferguson-7-worst-case-scenarios-from-putin-s-ukraine-war?sref=ZMFHsM5Z
There is much I don’t agree with in this article, but it is nonetheless interesting. At the very end, I feel like Ferguson is intimating that Corona was lab-leaked, but I may be misreading that…
He pays pious service to Cathedral lies, while implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, acknowledging that they are lies. A considerably better article than I expect from a name fag.
I think of Niall Ferguson as “chased,” which is a woebegone “based.” Chased intellectuals are about the only ones that should be spared and allowed to continue doing their “work,” but they must also have some kind of real job to prove their loyalty.
https://www.isegoria.net/2022/04/the-information-that-most-us-military-machines-collect-is-not-actually-processed-onboard-the-machine-itself/
“The information that most US military machines collect is not actually processed onboard the machine itself… it is streamed back to an operations center in real time, terabyte by terabyte, which places a huge burden on military communications networks.”
This seems like an interesting potential for “tactical ‘noise’ insertion.”
This is also a command and control flaw. While you want to collect buckets of information about the enemy, and share it widely, you are also sending buckets of information about yourself, which you do not want shared widely. The center is overwhelmed by data that it cannot handle, and is likely to leak. Large amounts of low value data carry patterns likely to reveal high value data to the enemy, even though there is a huge rigmarole about keeping top secret data top secret.
Information should be analyzed in location physically close to the man on the field, and should not go up the chain to the center except on the basis of need to know, for the center, being far too big, has been penetrated. Information about the enemy, no problem. Information about the activities of the men on the field, big problem.
https://www.isegoria.net/2022/03/they-were-simply-new-versions-of-old-things/
Here are a few news items of note:
Finnish MPs want to join NATO. The silent part: Finns are opposed to joining NATO:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2022/04/mil-220407-sputnik03.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e3297%2edk0ao43u5w%2e323s
Turkey sends another quiet signal that it is non-aligned with NATO:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/saudi/2022/saudi-220407-voa02.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e3297%2edk0ao43u5w%2e3248
Australia reinforces the growing sentiment that Hypersonic Kinetics are actually the future of warfare (the US had been maintaining a rhetorical framework that they were all sizzle, no steak):
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/australia/2022/australia-220407-voa01.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e3297%2edk0ao43u5w%2e324d