2022/04/17 04:30:01
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These days every day is like waking up on a fateful rainy day and realizing every hackneyed 50s sci-fi social engineering hack has been enacted by an inept, self-proclaimed, one world government with all the shit psychosis, Cracker Jack decoder ring paranoia that goes with it. Our gerontocracy is filled with failed popstar idiot joy show land delusional Wunder beasts who live on Doan’s pills, Preparation H, and Ex-Lax. They’re so deluded that they can’t imagine the whole world hates them and that they, themselves, have turned the U$ flag into the most hated symbol on earth.
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/04/no-flagman-ahead-and-then-there-were.html
We live on Rolaids, Doan’s Pills and Preparation H: A great trucker song, performed by a trucker that states that some people think it’s 18 wheels that moves the country’s goods, but it’s the words in the first sentence. I can’t believe all the pop culture and beyond refs in that post. Diggin’ in deep now.
https://youtu.be/TNtxVeJOACo
🥳
yeah, me too.
time for a reboot.
Right you are. At least once a week to keep our eye on the prize. Freedom, representation as long as we suffer ‘representational’ hypocrisy. I trust, and hope, you are having a fine weekend.
Сегодня на Азовстали предложили сдаться в плен фашистам .На это действие отведено время с 6 утра по Москве и до 13 .Сейчас в это время открыт коридор для сдачи в плен .Посмотрим.
Will they be allowed to surrender, or will the remaining Nazi officials shoot any “turncoats”?
They’d probably like to surrender, but the price may be too high.
The offer was: surrender and stay alive.
Dosent get any better than that……
Я тоже это видел. Будет очень интересно, что произойдет. Я слышал, что укронацисты тоже требовали разрешения сдаться. Я не думаю, что слюнявый идиот-фантом Джо Б. позволит это.
I saw that too. It is going to be very interesting what happens. I heard the Ukro-nazis were calling for permission to surrender also. I don’t expect the slobbering idiot ghost hand shaker Joe B. will allow that.
I occasionally look at YouTube videos (ones such as the always – interesting St Petersburg Bucket Factory!) Is it just me, or has there been a very significant increase of older videos depicting Russia in a bas light? These clips are often from 5 + years ago, and I suspect the algorithm is deliberately pushing “Russia is bad” propaganda via this route too.
TASS (and maybe also Sputnik and RT, which are blocked here) is pushing in several notes/articles every day, that Medvedchuk’s wife begs Putin to exchange her husband for some mercs or ukranian PoW. I get so angry, and I hope that it is out of the question.
Why would Putin give in to blackmail obviously set up by Zelensky, and accept an exchange with Medvedchuk, when there is still tortured russian soldiers waiting får exchange?
I pray that Putin will not fall into that trap, which will only lead to Ukraine arresting other “pro-russian ” citizens, and demand that Russia bail them out.
And besides, this really an internal affairs matter for Ukraine. What about all other jailed politiicians for other opposition parties, or pro-russian media. Is it Russia’s responsibility to bail all of them out?
Sorry for the rant…
Medvedchuk’s wife also asked the relatives of the two captured British mercs to beg Boris Johnson to put pressure on Zelensky to release her husband. In return should BJ then ask Putin to release the 2 mercs. This construct might even have a deescalating effect, because Britain would have to tune down the war-rhetorics and Russia could show her never ending good-will. Besides, I would say – good riddance. Why feed the mercs for years in jail?
Something else: has anybody heard from Gonzalo Lira? His Telegram channel is silent since Friday and there are rumours that the SBU is doing some “cleansing actions” in Kharkov.
Good question about Gonzalo Lira. Hope he’s safe & posts something soon.
In a tweet by Gonzalo Lira @realGonzaloLira
dated 26 Mar –
“You want to learn the truth about the Zelensky regime? Google these names:
Vlodymyr Struk
Denis Kireev
Mikhail & Aleksander Kononovich
Nestor Shufrych
Yan Taksyur
Dmitri Djangirov
Elena Berezhnaya
If you haven’t heard from me in 12 hours or more, put my name on this list.
GL”
Unfortunately, there’s still no new message in Gonzalo Lira’s Telegram channel since the 15th. Really appreciated his courage, wit and wisdom. Pray that he still makes it through.
Russia has already stated their response. They will not trade for him or his family. They WILL trade 500 ukie marines for 10 people, whose names and faces they know, that slit the throats of Russian POWs, kneecapped them, shot them in the groin and hips. F Bojo and this guy’s wife. There is something off about the story … like that they captured him. They already had him. This is a nice label on a shit sandwich. This is supposed to paper over the surrenders and cover the ass of western media, the snake department, the DoD, and at the top of the shit hole, Biden himself, fro getting it all wrong 100% of the time.
The Feds, always wrong, but never in doubt.
This seems to me like it will be either a long drawn out war of attrition fought in multiple theatres (hot and cold) – geographic, economic, political, etc., or a hot one which will accelerate quickly.
The former will likely be won by Russia and China if played like a chess game. The latter will have no winners.
There will be hits and loses that Russia / Zone B will need to take along the way. This is an historic existential struggle. No easy victories, IMO. Superior numbers and battlefield forces are only part of what will be needed. If history has taught anything, it is that the Anglozionists are very duplicitous and cunning, and never to be underestimated. The practiced psyops they use is deadly.
Approaching 10 am in Moscow now, so just 3 hours to surrender at Azovstal. Is anything happening?
Does anybody know whats up with t-14 armata. How many does really Russia have right now, if it even has any
A.H.H. on April 16, 2022 · at 9:51 pm EST/EDT
There was an old king on a high throne:
his white beard lay on knees of bone;
his mouth savoured neither meat nor drink,
nor his ears song; he could only think
of his huge chest with carven lid
where pale gems and gold lay hid
in secret treasury in the dark ground;
its strong doors were iron-bound.
The swords of his thanes were dull with rust,
his glory fallen, his rule unjust,
his halls hollow, and his bowers cold,
but king he was of elvish gold.
An except from Tolkien’s “The Hoard”
Reply
A slave he was to elvish gold
For cold metal his soul he sold
The heart, a font of living light
He closed for gems not so bright
A withered husk of a man enslaved
No inner wealth or treasure saved
Pitiful to call such a man king
Of regal worth he had nothing
A man whose name is spelled the same forward and backwards comes to mind
Bravo! 👍🏼😍
Excellent riposte.
You hit the Judgment (at Nuremberg II to come).
Isn’t this poem exemplar of Empire in its sad twilight? Superficially powerful but all broken inside where it counts? His infrastructure and lands in ruin, with neither friend nor loyal retainer. Emaciated from self-neglect, yet so terminally proud and covetous of ever more. All-consumed with the elixir and the maintenance of Power. Obsessed with the right to Rule the lives of others. Yet he is under the ancient decreed Bane (or Mercy) of Men and the inevitable draws ever closer.
I begin to understand why lamentation is the common thread running through Tolkien’s work. He was sad at the ruin which would come to his and all shires. A key symptom he highlighted was during the Endings, such as in Númenor, the Men of Westernesse were consumed with Death and how to escape it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/21/silicon-valleys-quest-to-live-forever-could-benefit-the-rest-of-us.html
“Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is there, too. “Death has never made any sense to me,” Ellison once lamented to biographer Mike Wilson, author of The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison. “How can a person be there and then just vanish, just not be there?” Driven by this question, Ellison looked to the best and formed a decisive union between tech and biology, developing a relationship with the 1958 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, who was recognized for discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria.” At the time, the recipient was 33 years old. He was the above-quoted Dr. Joshua Lederberg”
Our elect consider death Unfair! Cri-me-a river! As in the Ukraine, they grasp at any straw – this Jewish billionaire Ellison made Dr. Lederberg, 𝗮 𝗘𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁, the chair of the scientific board of the Ellison Medical Foundation. Did they obtain Immortality? Ha!
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2016/10/10/secularisms-moonshot-doctrine-of-resurrection/
I wonder if current AZE elites are reenacting the stages of The Man Who Would Be King (1975). Like Sean Connery and Michael Caine, they progressed from petty crime to looting and piracy to an opulent inflexible kingship. The end stage was to declare they are gods. And to suffer all that entails when the natives discovered they can bleed. They are now possessed of anxious passion and convinced of alternate realities. Defiant Hubris never ends well.
These people have a lot of esoteric knowledge but no wisdom. Everyone dies but nobody dies
This morning I saw chem trails over the blue skies, first time in three years….
Over the vast lands of the Ukraine and Russia bells rang out through the centuries, their uplifting peals heard by peoples across cities, villages and farming settlements from the belfries of monasteries and churches, Not constructed on traditional major and minor scales, but of many multi-varying, pure tone chimes when resonating together.
Their sounding played a very big role in peoples lives, assuring and connecting, awakening, to the day, their land work, religious ceremonies, a death, birth and major political events and upheavals.
The historical time frame of bell making moves from the west towards the east.
Beginning with the 4th century, the trails lead from Alexandria in Egypt, Ireland, England, France, and Italy through the Slavic countries to the bells in the founding city of Kiev at the end of the 9th century. From there the forging of bells spread right across Russia, their remarkable history over hundreds of years reflecting the colourful and bright, often tragic deeds and lives of the Russian peoples.
From the 17th century onwards, at certain times Moscow was filled with many hundreds of bells, their sound, recorded by Tsvetaeva “was explosive: the sky seemed to collapse under a massive weight of thunder; the square filled with the metallic cries of gigantic bronze birds; the trills clattered overhead like swallows.”
During the Bolshevist era and the destruction of churches, continuing through the Stalinist years, the chiming of bells was transformed into another sound after being melted down and reforged into weapons of war that were heard reverberating across Russia and the world.
Poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, 1916 (written during the military acceleration of WW1)
“У меня в Москве — купола горят!
У меня в Москве — колокола звонят!
И гробницы в ряд у меня стоят, —
В них царицы спят, и цари.
И не знаешь ты, что зарёй в Кремле
Легче дышится — чем на всей земле!
И не знаешь ты, что зарёй в Кремле
Я молюсь тебе — до зари!
И проходишь ты над своей Невой
О ту пору, как над рекой-Москвой
Я стою с опущенной головой,
И слипаются фонари.
Всей бессонницей я тебя люблю,
Всей бессонницей я тебе внемлю —
О ту пору, как по всему Кремлю
Просыпаются звонари…
Но моя река — да с твоей рекой,
Но моя рука — да с твоей рукой
Не сойдутся, Радость моя, доколь
Не догонит заря — зари.
At home in Moscow – where the domes are burning,
at home in Moscow – in the sound of bells,
where I live the tombs – in their rows are standing
and in them Tsaritsas – are asleep and tsars.
And you don’t know how – at dawn the Kremlin is
the easiest place to – breathe in the whole wide earth
and you don’t know when – dawn reaches the Kremlin
I pray to you until – the next day comes
and I go with you – by your river Neva
even while beside – the Moscow river
I am standing here – with my head lowered
and the line of street lights – sticks fast together.
With my insomnia – I love you wholly.
With my insomnia – I listen for you,
just at the hour throughout – the Kremlin, men
who ring the bells – begin to waken,
Still my river – and your river
still my hand – and your hand
will never join, or not until
one dawn catches up another dawning.”
By dawning, she means the dawning of a new future.
From chem trails to west to east bell trails, to a black trail border leading nowhere – is it permanent?!
The other significant news of the day is that lake mead dead pool level is set to occur in one month from today.
This means that the electrical output from the loss of water pressure at the dam will begin in a month.
No responsible parties are reporting on this, or the measures that should be taken now to reduce the damage, both physical and emotional, from the realization, that going forward, life behaviors will have to adjust, or the survival of the fittest mentality sets in, to complicate an already complicated, and confusing system, of explanations.
UN troops to Mexico, making the case. Enforced disappearance is an extremely serious charge.
https://trialinternational.org/topics-post/enforced-disappearance
Why now, the cartels have been rampant for a long time.? I would venture that this has more to do with the GRU being in Mexico in far greater numbers than any other country. What do intelligence organizations like the Russian GRU do-they invade or infiltrate.
Mexico Denies UN Accusations of Enforced Disappearance Impunity
Published 14 April 2022
On Wednesday, Mexican President rejected the critics made by the UN Committee on enforced disappearances.
Andres Manuel Lòpez Obrador, Mexico’s President, rejected criticisms made by the United Nations committee which called on the country to take action in light of the increase of reports of enforced disappearance.
“No international organization is going to put us in the dock if we are acting legally, humanely — if we do not allow corruption or impunity,” said the Mexican President. According to the report made by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances released on Tuesday, “organized crime has become a central perpetrator of disappearance in Mexico, with varying degrees of participation, acquiescence or omission by public servants.”
The document requested immediate measures from the Mexican government to face the “alarming trend of rising enforced disappearances” which, according to the UN’s statements, was facilitated by “almost absolute impunity,” adding that less than six percent of reported cases had resulted in prosecutions.
The document said that men between 15 and 40 years old are the most affected by the matter, in the meantime disappearances of 12-year-old boys and girls alongside teenagers and women, continue to increase. The national register indicates that almost 99 000 people are enlisted as missing in Mexico.
The Head of State also rejected the petition to demilitarise security tasks. AMLO said that the UN officials “do not have, with all due respect, all the information.”
“It’s not like before when the army was used to suppress or finish off the wounded,” he added.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Denies-UN-Accusations-of-Enforced-Disappearance-Impunity-20220414-0019.html
They might be going for protection of civilians as the UN/US cites
(disappearances of 12-year-old boys and girls alongside teenagers and women, continue to increase.)
UN military personnel can be called upon to:
Protect civilians and UN personnel;
Monitor a disputed border;
Monitor and observe peace processes in post-conflict areas
Provide security across a conflict zone;
Provide security during elections;
Assist in-country military personnel with training and support
Assist ex-combatants in implementing the peace agreements; they may have signed.
i live in Mexico, and while there are certainly problems here (where aren’t there?), if the U.N. wants to come meddle, I’d say it’s because Mexico isn’t behaving the way the U.S. would like. They went along with the GA non-binding resolution to condemn Russia’s action but have refused to put any sanctions and abstained on the vote about the Human Rights Committee. Mexico considers itself Russia’s friend, which means it has to be careful living in the neighborhood that it does. I’m guessing any U.N. attention is harassment for its not toeing the line.
Yes, the US fears the Russian/Mexico alliance.
Supposedly the GRU discredited Hillary. Waiting to see what happens to Biden. Ironically Biden is the best president, in only this one respect, that Russia could ask for. Biden’s mismanagement and policys are so bad that he is splitting and destabilizing the US. The idiot is doing the work of foreign intelligence for them.
Interesting choice of flags on rt this Easter Sunday morn’ (image) > https://cdni.russiatoday.com/files/2022.04/thumbnail/6259a45785f5407b861902c2.jpg
Maybe it’s not intentional, but it telegraphs.
Russia Today Easter flag: China with USA, Europe and Russia nowhere in site….
Are throats being cleared and standards being presented? Some will see the nervous jostling and the jockeying in the cramped dark before the iron gates are opened. I see the Godfather of Soul exulting in the moments before the heavyweight bout!
https://youtu.be/W9H8JKFMb7U
Working on getting a ‘leg up’ here.
When all the Russian information sources disappeared within days, it caused a lot of frustration for me. I could find nothing and had to set up almost a new way of work, within days. If I did not hate anyone before that, I sure started hating them for the cancellations.
So, I have about 30 real important twitter streams from Chinese that speak English. I have a bunch, but these are important.
They are disappearing, being canceled, missing in action – and even the ones that I looked at for no serious reason at all, are dropping out – canceled. There even is a Chinese history guy just cancelled but I can find him again, I hope, on Patreon for as long as it lasts.
The writing was so clearly on the wall today .. I was wanting to read one of these when: “Caution: This profile may include potentially sensitive content”. OK, what is sensitive in the numbers from this numbers guy?
He had a tweet about how many Muslims in China, and there was a second part to this. The second part came up with another scary message: The following media includes potentially sensitive content.
OK, so, I click, and all that it is, is an Eid celebration photo from Xinjiang.
So I have to go and look for the important ones on Weibo. It is the big install today and luckily I can do most of it in English and then set the app to English.
True hatred flows! I don’t need this kind of busy work. Empire is working hard to hide its evils.
And yes, the ultimatum for militants blocked at Azovstal has expired. The corridors were closed. Methodical work began on the destruction of the Banderaites who had settled in the industrial zone of the plant. Russian airforce have started bombing Azovstal.
And yes, I was never a groupie, but do not wish him any harm. Gonzalo Lira has not been seen since Friday.
Dear amaryth. Easter greeting. @ Anoxia we’ll garden under a bright sky, and pray. Plant potatoes, prepare a new bee-hive. The Red Indians are said to call this Easter moon a “pink moon”, and it is beautiful. https://www.space.com/full-pink-moon-rises-tonight-april-2022
It is true that Brother H Turner is a poor “source”, so far as real events, and he’s sometimes passionately nutty. But he has an audience, represents a class of Americans, and is a sort of weather-vane. Americans, and the people of the junta, live in a vast simulacrum, a movie…that is occasionally paused by individuals…hence his Easter Opinion essay seems worth reading. see> https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/opinion-america-is-now-broken-beyond-repair-only-force-of-arms-can-stop-its-total-destruction So let’s get this straight…WW3 is begun just as the Imperial Base slides into civil war… The “movie” (they all grew up in a fantasy of Hollywood and TV) the movie is broken. I wonder if he’s cognizant of Panarin’s Maps and the mysterious Deagle predictions… In some matter Hal is brutally honest, especially about the “election”, in other…well, he represents what people imagine…
So does Brother Ray’s opinion seem worthwhile > https://raymcgovern.com/2022/04/16/obama-did-not-call-putins-bluff-will-biden/ (of course the biden gang will retreat further into fantasy.) FWIW Ray is mistaken about “bluff”…there is no bluff. (I think he knows that, the usage is rhetorically necessary) There is war. It’s existential. Even civizational, if we can say insane pirates have civilization.
I am minded of the past> https://youtu.be/bRcu-ysocX4 (1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD))
Blessings. P
(for myself, perhaps a bit like our host Mr Saker, I am of increasing opinion that the utility of site, the primary goal as state was to stop the war on Russia, is diminishing in proportion to the opening campaigns of W3, and I am increasingly tending to just daily work around the digs…and correspondingly may not comment so much in the future. Thanks very deeply for your work and all my friends here….not departing, but offering apology in advance.)
I’ll light a candle for Gonzalo…maybe he’ll return. Brave fella.
Thanks for your gentle spirit Mr P. Yes, we’re in a war for the existence of some, and the non-existence of others.
Don’t make us too much of a step-child. But there are decisions to be made.
For some, there is a historical specter of Japanse (and other) Internment camps – and it is real. So, it is best to state a path and intention right early on and make everyone comfortable.
https://eo9066.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/index.html
Something that I found interesting .. the image of the two flags together that you pointed out, well it has been changed.
https://cdni.russiatoday.com/files/2022.04/l/625d2e972030275e8f2c4ffc.jpg
Dear amarynth, Thanks! (and yes about advice)
of flags, and remembering the Soviet flag over the Reichstag , https://t.me/intelslava/25742
goes with > https://youtu.be/U06jlgpMtQs
and> https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hJVFMIFyqr4/XQ3rtGYTtUI/AAAAAAAADKY/PYToWObGP-EeEj7V28HDP7cOFmSbhrPswCLcBGAs/s1600/Raising_a_flag_over_the_Reichstag.jpg
Best!
OK then standards bearing long long time proclamation of things kept silent here, silence meaning different things, not only wisdom…
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
May God be with you and bless you;
May you see your children’s children.
May you be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
And may the hand of a friend always be near.
May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you.
All the best Mr. P
Thank you Mr. P for broadening our outlook. We will definitely miss your comments.
As grass does grow in silence,
vigour of dreams too have a tongue.
In fact, it is silence that underscores
the state of those who know.
on broadening of outlooks
first find the courage
to see the inner side
not just the west side
and see who you are
enabling broadening
honest introspection
tackle self education
without turning away
your horrified gaze
plumbing the dark depths
exposing the world’s evil
all the brutal, unkind truth
soaring upwards into light
revealing world’s majesty
be thus and remain humble
magnanimous and gentle
inheriting the earth
thwarting enemies…
Anyone in England or surrounding area hear anything about a big explosion in Berkshire near RAF Welford base….well that’s the rumour atm….
Cheers, M
RAF Welford is quite the place, lots of storage bunkers for munitions, google maps comes in handy….just watched some vid, something is cooking off, lots of squibs, may be a fireworks storage place as stated by the Brit press, or a clandestine weapons transfer point got harpooned….it is near the base.
E-mail quote from my cousin:
“you like to use the word Nazi a lot. means nothing.
10,000 civilians killed in Donbas the past 10 years?
Really! No bombers, aircraft, soldiers, tanks,
blown up hospitals, apartments, schools, and
NO REFUGEES! Sorry, fantasy is always
apparent to the naked eye, completely lacking
credibility. Russia, the scourge of Europe.”
Americans have no idea what they’ve been funding over there; there’s a complete media blackout on context. I sent reports to everyone before the conflict even started… apparently, no one read them.
This is Not(!) The Onion or Babylon Bee!
This is real.
“Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that the Italian proposal to set a ceiling on Russian gas prices is a way to increase sanctions pressure on Moscow and will be discussed at the next meeting of the EU leadership, where it is receiving more and more support.
“The European Commission and all its allies are convinced of the effectiveness of sanctions. Now we are wondering if we need to do more. Europe continues to financeRussia, buying oil and gas, including at a price that is not related to historical values and production costs, ” he said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
According to the Italian prime Minister, the introduction of restrictions on the upper price of Russian gas is a way to ” strengthen sanctions and at the same time minimize the costs of their introduction.””
I am sorry but my english is not good enough to express how hard my jaw hit the floor, i am not sure if my mouth will ever be able to close again.
I will try this at the grocery store on tuesday,
” the tobacco is at a price that is not related to historical values and production costs, i will not pay 309.-NOK for a packet. I think 45.-NOK is fair bc that was the price when i started smoking. ”
Will he concede to my fantasy or laugh out loud?
https://ria.ru/20220417/tseny-1783952487.html
He has a Ph.D (albeit from the US) in economics and was also a professor of economics. Wtf.
They have to shoot the Nazis first. Then they can surrender.
At this point, too late for mercs in Azivstol. They had a 10 minute notice, then the corridor was closed & bombing started. It will ve over by tomorrow & then phase 2.
Meantime rumor is “normalization” of “limited nukes” has begun in Europe.
Up next: Dr. Strangelove.
ps Christos Anesti!
Happy Easter Sunday all the Andreis in my life suddenly!!!!!!
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/04/no-flagman-ahead-and-then-there-were.html
Breaking news: Turkey just invaded Northern Iraq to attack the Kurds. Shall we now see sanctions on Turkey by the West? Are we going to see people demanding punishment on Turkey? I won’t hold my breathe waiting for that.
Turkey launches military operation in Iraq
https://www.rt.com/news/554049-turkey-military-iraq-kurds-pkk/
Just spotted that. Brings back a LOT of “great” memories…
I remember Christopher Hitchens lamenting about invading Iraq in order to protect the Kurds. Some fun reading here: https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2007/04/20/hitchens-kurdish-sojourn/ . The US seemed to use this excuse on more than one occasion (abandoning/disposing of the Kurds both times). Anyone think the US will do it a third time (for the “charm”)? Great test of hypocrisy here- the US not pushing back Turkey because it’s in NATO; but, if you’re NOT in NATO they’ll roll out the military on you.
Back in the 80s the US sold a lot of military hardware to Turkey, helicopters, which were used to kill lots of Kurds. Just shows how absurd it was that the US used as part of its reason for invading Iraq of protecting Kurds.
I suspect we’ll start seeing more outbreaks popping up as the Big Eyes [dealing with Ukraine/Russia] are a bit off of a lot of folks.
I’m beginning to appreciate the notion of mortality. Too many years of witnessing all these absurdities starts to become too much to take.
I long thought the hot phase of ww3 would be marked by a melee. 101 proxy fronts activated all at once. This would be the crazies last effort to submit Russia and eliminate the highly populated China-India-Iran civilizations without needing to activate Armageddon.
Several recent disturbing signs point in that direction: (1) the turning of Pakistan, to bake in localized nuclear war with India, (2) Turkey unleashed on Syraq & Iran (started now?), (3) Azerbaijan unleashed on Armenia again, (4) drum beats against and congressional pilgrimages to Taiwan, in order to suck in China (5) China’s south Pacific security alliance with the Solomons, (6) a widening European war – westward to Poland and north to Arctic – to limit Russian capabilities on other fronts (to start this summer with suiciding of Finland & Sweden?), and so on..
on the back burner for now are Latin America, Africa and Arabs with exception of Gulf Arabs which get pulled in with Iran attack, and Morocco/Algeria, also flaring up. The latter two exceptions appear tied to Energy moves, in order to deprive Europe, China and India.
Zone B leadership has gamed all this. What would be their counter move once they see the start of the multi-continent melee phase? How to put out 101 brushfires exacerbated by zombie compradore elites remote controlled by the Empire, as in Pakistan? AZE is now fully focused on lighting a conflagration to effect their BBB Reset, either conventionally (+ localized nukes on Indian subcontinent) or via Armageddon..
I’m still waiting for a parallel/complimentary/reiteration Magnitsky Act to punish the Saudi murderers of Jamal Khashoggi.
Any news on the Azovstal plant? Yesterday a span of some 6 or 8 hours was given to surrender. I think that time has elapsed, no surrender has come, and the threatened annihilation hasn’t been carried out.
What is coming?
(By the way, I much admire this Russian line of conduct.)
Blacked out issue on all pro Russian media, sites, blogs…
Azovstal, today
https://topwar.ru/195108-presecheny-popytki-boevikov-vyrvatsja-s-territorii-kombinata-azovstal.html?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fyandex.com%2Fnews%2Fsearch%3Ftext%3D
Attempts of militants to escape from the territory of the Azovstal plant were suppressed
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Reports are coming from Mariupol about another attempt by Ukrainian militants to break out of the territory of the Azovstal plant complex. Recall that the territory of this metallurgical plant is the last one related to Mariupol, where a relatively large center of Ukrainian resistance is located.
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In the message of the representative of the People’s Militia of the DPR, it is said that the Ukrainian armed formations twice tried to make a breakthrough. And both times – in a northerly direction. Both attempts were thwarted by Russian and DPR troops. The enemy suffered serious losses.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Donetsk People’s Republic gives details of how Ukrainian troops from other parts of Mariupol tried to break through to the Azovstal plant a few days ago. Then the APU called the attempt “successful.” However, in reality, the main forces of the column that advanced in the direction of the plant to connect with the forces of Azov (*an extremist formation banned in the Russian Federation) were defeated, including with the help of self-propelled artillery.
The suppression of an attempt by the Ukrainian military to advance to Azovstal was demonstrated in order to form a “fist” of forces there together with Azov. Enemy losses amounted to 150 people. At the same time, it was noted that part of the Ukrainian military was unable to move to the left-bank part of Mariupol and continued to resist. The number of resisters is up to a company of personnel. To date, most of them have been eliminated.
Earlier, it was reported that roadblocks were set up at all exits (exits) from the territory of the Azovstal plant complex without exception.
Was watching video of Russian sappers demine a road into a farmers field somewhere in the Donbas. What caught my eye was the farmers brand new John Deere tractor 80HP+, also newer modern tilling and planting equipment. Just looked like Canadian prairies in planting season (snowing here again, not sure when plant will be). Just like Syria, a war zone, and farmers get up and go plough. Crazy buggers
Cheers M
“Breaking news: Turkey just invaded Northern Iraq to attack the Kurds.”
and Martyanow’s Comments:
Whoever • 2 hours ago
The second phase has begun apparently. Heavy shit going on in all of eastern and southern fronts. Thats the chatter on telegram from both Russian and Ukrainian sides.
johnny rotten • 32 minutes ago
The whole front is hammered, even Nikolaev and the surroundings of Kherson, along the donbass up to Kharkov, will be a long and painful night for Nazi, many will meet Bandera in Hell, LOL
And last Wednesday: Astromundane Diary:
“Sagittarius in Fog – The Center Ready for Attack Next Monday”
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2022/04/sagittarius-in-fog-center-ready-for.html
Serbian President Aleksandar Vujčić, in response to the survey conducted in Macedonia. where ethnic Macedonians voted the Serbian people as the closest and friendliest to themselves, said;
“I was not surprised at hearing that Macedonians voted Serbia as their closest friend, and ally, as we have always been their best friend. Who else is closer? We are the only ones who have not asked them to change their name,
language, flag or anything else. What do we want from them? Nothing, except to maintain best possibe relations.
We do not want anything from the Macedonians, except to remain the best possible friends and neighbours.”
(Translation, D.)
https://denesen.mk/makedoncite-gi-smetaat-srbite-za-najbliski-vuchikj-veli-nie-sme-edinstveni-shto-ne-baraat-da-smenat-neshto/
Good advice but really no other choice.
Alex Christoforou reports from Cyprus that there were 811 Russian strikes last night, a massive increase in sorties; Ominously, he reports U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks publicly talking about the possibility of supplying Zelensky with American weaponry to strike Russian military airports IN RUSSIA, the MLRSs with a range of some 80 kilometers, the ML270, the ML270A1, and the M270.
My advice to Russian leadership: 1) Anyone anywhere near Russian leadership, media, education, and other basic key institutions with a whiff of the Atlantic Council, Schwab and the World Economic Forum, Soros, the key LGBTQ and Zio-GloboHomo NGOs needs to be gotten rid of; 2) Jettison ANY illusions about remaining negotiations with the Zio-GloboHomo NATO Cabal using Zelensky as their public PR face; 3) Pursue comprehensive and decisive military victory in ALL of Ukraine; Put Zelensky in handcuffs or a pine box for shipment to a Drag Queen bar in Tel Aviv; and 4) Take the remaining gloves off in this economic war of attrition and destroy Western Zio-GloboHomo once and for all. Nationalize industries, withhold every vital commodity Western Europe and the United States need to survive; and 5) Watch the American, UK, and European “leadership” get run down in the streets by their own people.
Alex Christoforou is correct: This is a NATO war with Russia using Zelensky as the front man. There is no substitute for victory here. Wipe them out. Destroy their economic system. Let their anti-Christian culture rot them out as well.
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https://vk.com/catacomb1
Alex also reports of a story that earlier caught my eye – Spain withholding energy to France.
A serious race is on between the inertial disintegration of Europe and the suiciding of Europe at Russian hands.. Does Russia even have to lift a finger?
EU fracturing gathers pace. Ancient animosities rise to the surface. A night of the long knives among desperate neighbors. 34% of French electricity is imported from Spain. The French are warned this will soon be cut. The Spanish sense it is time to take the pound of flesh. There are numerous affronts to repay – from Napoleonic invasions of Mexico and Spain itself, where the warfare term guerrilla entered the lexicon, to the recent looting of the PIIGS. And whereto the long stolen Rock of Gibraltar? Along with the loss of Ramstein Base, we need to monitor the taking of Gibraltar as a milestone of retreat.
https://www.rt.com/news/554112-spain-restrict-electricity-france/
Dark Winter 2022-2023
How does the occultist Borg deconstruct the developed world into a green, zero-carbon Utopia sans Petroleum Man? Some want devolution to the protean Cave Man. Trump and Biden both promised a transitory stage of Dark Winter to get to their paradise. At the end of which you will have nothing and be happy. So the winter of 2022-2023 promises to be epic. 2023 also = 223, the year of Skull & Bones, a Year of Sacrifice.
https://theageofmiraclesbook.com/product/a-dark-winter-is-coming-joe-biden-2020-quote-donald-trump-shirt-hoodie-tank-top-sweater-89uz32gg8mqn/
Do you know how we will know that Russia is serious about trying to counter the Russophobic propaganda consuming the news? When they purge RT of its pro-Western,pretending to be “objective” slant. They rarely show pro-Russian news.But there’s alway’s an abunance of anti-Russian stories. Sure,they have some stories about corruption in the West too. But you can find some of those stories in parts of the Western media as well. I’m talking about stories that present Russia’s view. From a “state funded” media,I don’t think that is too much to ask for. And amazingly as it sounds the few, more pro-Russian articles,are almost all by foreign writers done as opinion pieces. It seems they can’t seem to find any Russian writers to write pro-Russian pieces.Either they need to purge and restructure RT,or just close it down and start over.
US Navy destroyer, The Sullivans, sinking yet called home or the breach happened at home? The ship was taking in water in the shallow waters of Buffalo’s Inner Harbor.
The U.S. Coast Guard estimated Thursday afternoon there were more than 3 million gallons of water inside the ship.
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Navy destroyers return to US after European deployment prompted by Russian actions
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2022-04-19/navy-destroyers-return-to-us-homeports-after-surge-deployment-to-europe-5732614.html
BY ALISON BATH• STARS AND STRIPES • APRIL 19, 2022
A sailor assigned to the destroyer USS Mitscher embraces his wife after the ship’s return to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., April 16, 2022. Mitscher rapidly deployed in January in support of Naval Forces Europe and NATO allies.
A sailor assigned to the destroyer USS Mitscher embraces his wife after the ship’s return to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., April 16, 2022. Mitscher rapidly deployed in January in support of Naval Forces Europe and NATO allies. (Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy)
Two Navy destroyers that were hurriedly deployed to Europe earlier this year as tensions rose in Ukraine are back in their U.S.-based homeports, naval officials said in separate recent announcements.
USS The Sullivans and USS Mitscher returned from January deployments to U.S. 6th Fleet on Monday and Saturday, respectively, the Navy said.
The ships’ return comes about three months after they and two other destroyers, USS Donald Cook and USS Gonzalez, were deployed following the December order to the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group to remain in the Mediterranean Sea.
At the time, analysts called the rapid deployment of the four destroyers from their homeports unusual over the past 30 years.
U.S. officials said the deployments and the presence of the Truman along with other NATO ships in the Mediterranean was a signal to allies and partners of the American commitment to defend the alliance amid growing Russian aggression.
Late last year, Russia began amassing troops and heavy weaponry near Ukraine’s borders. On Feb. 24, the Kremlin launched its ongoing full-scale invasion.
The destroyer USS Mitscher prepares to moor at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., April 16, 2022. Mitscher rapidly deployed in January in support of Naval Forces Europe and NATO allies.
The destroyer USS Mitscher prepares to moor at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., April 16, 2022. Mitscher rapidly deployed in January in support of Naval Forces Europe and NATO allies. (Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy)
It was unclear Tuesday whether the Navy will send other destroyers to Europe, but four are forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, and five, including USS Gonzalez, are attached to the Truman.
The Pentagon has since ordered the Truman strike group, which is operating in the Mediterranean Sea and nearby waters, to remain there for the foreseeable future. The Donald Cook was last reported in late March making a port call in Copenhagen.
USS The Sullivans, homeported at Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Fla., sailed more than 20,000 nautical miles to operate in the Irish, North and Baltic seas during its deployment, the Navy said Monday. The ship made port calls in Copenhagen; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Ponta Delgada, Portugal; and Rota.
It also participated in NATO Exercise Dynamic Guard in the North Sea and continued operating in Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, which included ships from the German, Dutch and Danish navies, according to the statement.
“Despite the dynamic schedule and demanding operational tasking, The Sullivans crew displayed resiliency, grit and determined self-sufficiency to accomplish all missions,” said Cmdr. James Diefenderfer Jr., the ship’s commanding officer.
Mitscher and USS The Sullivans deployed to Europe earlier this year as tensions rose in Ukraine. They returned to their U.S.-based homeports in the last few days, officials said.
Mitscher and USS The Sullivans deployed to Europe earlier this year as tensions rose in Ukraine. They returned to their U.S.-based homeports in the last few days, officials said. (Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy)
The Mitscher, homeported in Norfolk, Va., joined the Truman in the Mediterranean during its deployment, performing operations and defense of the carrier with the Greek, Italian, Norwegian and Turkish navies, officials said in a Saturday statement.
“We arrived in theater and seamlessly integrated with forces who were already on station,” said Cmdr. Thomas McCandless, commanding officer of USS Mitscher.
It was the second deployment within a year for each ship. USS Mitscher returned from an extended deployment with the Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group in September.
The Sullivans has spent 10 months of the past year on deployment, previously returning just before Thanksgiving after serving with Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier strike group, the Navy said.
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Repairs to USS The Sullivans will be costly, take time
BY DEIDRE WILLIAMS• THE BUFFALO NEWS • APRIL 17, 2022
Officials who provided an update on the World War II-era destroyer USS The Sullivans said the ship is stable but not completely out of danger from sinking.
Officials who provided an update on the World War II-era destroyer USS The Sullivans said the ship is stable but not completely out of danger from sinking. (U.S. Coast Guard Sector Buffalo/Facebook)
(Tribune News Service) — It’s unlikely the USS The Sullivans will sink from the breach in her hull, but it will take at least a week to make preliminary fixes.
And crews have shifted focus from pumping water out of the vessel to removing contaminants from it to protect the environment and Lake Erie.
“Progress is being made,” said Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown. “I want to make it clear that this is an intensive process. It’s going to take some time. It will not be done by the end of this weekend, probably will not be done by next week.”
Officials who provided an update Saturday on the World War II-era destroyer said the ship is stable but not completely out of danger from sinking.
“Is it possible? Yes. Not if we can help it,” said Paul Marzello, president and CEO of the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park.
The Sullivans is a floating tribute to a working-class family that lost all five of its sons aboard the USS Juneau during World War II when it was struck by a Japanese torpedo in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the deaths of 687 men.
Marzello discovered around 9 or 10 p.m. Wednesday that the ship was taking in water in the shallow waters of Buffalo’s Inner Harbor.
Industrial-sized pumps worked throughout Thursday night and reached a point of “equilibrium,” in that they were pumping out as much water as was leaking into the vessel.
The U.S. Coast Guard estimated Thursday afternoon there were more than 3 million gallons of water inside the ship.
On Friday, crews from an industrial diving company were attempting to get to areas of the ship that remain full of water and then seal them once the water is removed, Marzello said.
The U.S. Coast Guard estimated there were more than 3 million gallons of water inside the ship.
The U.S. Coast Guard estimated there were more than 3 million gallons of water inside the ship. (U.S. Coast Guard Buffalo Sector/Facebook)
The breach is aft of midship, on the starboard side of the vessel, which is listing to one side. Officials still did not know the cause of the problem.
“We don’t know that there is a hole yet. We don’t know the cause, and we won’t know the cause until we get divers in the water. The idea that there is water is coming in obviously means that the hull has been penetrated in some form. How? Whether it’s a small hole, a large hole, a seam rip, we just don’t know. And I think we’re not going to find out until things clear up a little bit and we get some divers in the water,” Marzello said Saturday.
Efforts to pump water out of the ship were temporarily halted Friday because diesel oil was leaking from The Sullivans into the harbor.
Saturday officials said the focus had shifted to removing contaminants from the ship. Divers had started skimming inside the vessel, pulling out thousands of gallons of contaminants — diesel, hydraulic and lube oils — that would have been present during the operation of the ship and may still be in the ship. The goal is to try and prevent the contaminants from damaging the ecology or Lake Erie.
“Basically (they’re) pulling the product out of the vessel and bringing it onto the shore into a tank to be disposed of. At this point there have been 2,520 gallons of product that have been pulled off of the vessel, and it continues. That process is still continuing,” said Bill McKinstry, commander of the Coast Guard Buffalo sector.
“We’re putting up all the equipment needed to ensure that we collect whatever does get into the water and doing the best we can with that. But right now, we’re trying to get it from the ship before it ever hits the environment, … and then we can start to address the water (pumping) side of it,” McKinstry said.
Representatives from the Coast Guard, the park, BIDCO, City of Buffalo, Erie County and New York State have been assembled as a unified command staff for operations to “save” the ship, Marzello said.
Monday an international commercial marine salvage company and a Navy architect will be offering support. The salvage company will be in a consulting role initially. If necessary, it will follow up with equipment and/or manpower. The Navy architect will advise on the characteristics of the vessel.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-04-17/repairs-to-the-uss-the-sullivans-could-be-costly-and-take-time-5715512.html
(c)2022 The Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Sorry there are apparently two Sullivans. One is decommissioned.
Ship named after Iowa’s Sullivan brothers taking on water in …https://www.desmoinesregister.com › news › 2022/04/14
5 days ago — A decommissioned World War II-era destroyer named after the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo was taking on water and listing perilously …
The old ship, a “tin can”…see https://everythingaboutboats.org/metal-corrosion-boats-warren/ (Book)
As a practical matter Sullivan is rusted out. I think (memory) the rate is estimated at .003″ per year per exposed surface, eg .006″… she’s been rusting since when? !944 or so. I don’t know for sure, but would guess that the original plating was about 0.250″, mostly, but you know, welding leaves some undercutted spots. Anyway, after 75 + yr there’s not much left. Subs last longer (hull like 25 mm or more), but their casings are also quite thin. Transparent, in fact. Then also many hull piercings – valves and pipes, and these create galvanic nodes and stress corrosion. “Most boats sink through failed thru-hull openings” (Warren).
A pal was in Gulf War 1 on USN – and they had rusted out spots in the bottom. The engine fellas were terrified of the mines, which the ship ahead detonated one of. (note, in combat you stay at post, below water line, or else!))
In about 1995 I visited a in- commission Fletcher Class “gifted” to Mexican Navy..she looked pretty, but the plating was like a sieve, daylight shining through in places. She still had the rails for the old torpedo director. I well imagine that if they fired the 5″ the ship would spring many small leaks from the shock.
Ships are built of thin steel, mass costs money and fuel, they are throw-away designs, with very rare exceptions. (Like a tiny number built from welded bronze or stainless steel – eg about 11% chromium – spendy!) Typical life about 20 years for mild steel hull, if galvanic corrosion is not present. Galvanic can drill through in months.
If you catch a thin spot, say near the prop, emergency repairs use concrete cement and so on. If you don’t, then you get wet.
Good book for library> Metal Corrosion In Boats by Nigel Warren (Warren was with Harlan and Wolf in corrosion department, is expert) After The Rapture we shall pick whichever boat we like…
BTW Queen Mary is also rusted out. I have spent many uncomfortable hours under steel hulls sandblasting and welding plates over holes. Sand blast often open holes big enough to throw a cat through..
It’s astonishing how little most people grasp about metals – they all long to return to their ore, from which they have been torn, usually by carbon, sometimes by electrolysis, but they have desire to return to earth. The exception being noble species, like Au.
https://byjus.com/jee/electrochemical-series/#electrochemical-series-chart (what it comes to, in boats, is pick a metal and stay with it)
Something for Cafe Dwellers. You may have to watch twice to get it, but it is only 12 seconds.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jTHhA3sUmiwZ/
When does one call a blissful idiot? I mean it is not the fault of the person, or is it?
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the current situation in Ukraine is a direct result of the US and West’s desire to rule and dominate the world. In an interview with India Today, he said, “The current events are rooted in the US and West’s desire to rule the world. They wanted to show the world there would be no multipolarity, only unipolarity, and created a springboard [Ukraine] against us [Russia] at our borders. They pumped arms into Ukraine.”
He added, “The real reason [for the war] is the complacency of most countries after World War II. They violated their promises to Russian leadership and started moving Nato eastward after the Soviet Union disappeared. They said it’s a defensive alliance and not a threat to Russian security.”
“As early as 2003 for example, when the Ukraine had another presidential election, the West was publicly and bluntly demanding from Ukrainians “you must choose- whether you are with Russia or with Europe.” And then they started pulling Ukraine into European Union Association Agreement. The agreement provided for zero tariffs for Ukrainians goods into Europe and European goods into Ukraine.”
He had flagged Russia’s concerns if Ukraine signed an agreement with EU, while they had free trade agreement with Russia.
“In 2013, the Ukrainian President asked the EU to postpone the signature of the association agreement and we suggested that the three of us—Russia, Ukraine, and the EU—could sit together and discuss how to proceed.” He said the EU turned down the suggestion and allegedly told Russia that it is “none of their business”. The military action sought to “demilitarise and denazify” Ukraine came in response to threats from Ukraine.
Responding to the allegations of war crimes committed by the Russian army, Sergey Lavrov said, “Our army has only been targeting military infrastructure and not civilians. The Ukrainian army has been using civilians as human shields.” He added, “The West is not paying attention to our facts. They are placing attention on false things like what they said about Bucha. They brought up Bucha three days after the Ukrainian mayor of Bucha proudly said the city was back under their control.”
https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1516341228257767424?s=20&t=Kz38i1yuu3a6crQ6u5rs8w
On India-Russia relationship, he said that Russia cannot rely on any of its western colleagues for food security, defense, or some strategic sectors. He added, “We are open to cooperation with all other countries who do not use illegal, illegitimate measures in violation of the UN charter, and India is among those with whom we cooperate bilaterally.”
Talking about the India-Russia relationship, Sergey Lavrov said, “India is our very, very old friend. We called our relationship a long ago as ‘strategic partnership’. Then about 20 years ago, India said why don’t we call it ‘ privileged strategic partnership’? And sometimes later, India said let’s call it an ‘especially privileged strategic partnership’. This is a unique description of any bilateral relationship.”
He further talked about the Russian government’s support for PM Modi’s ‘Make in India’ scheme.
“With India, we supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s concept of ‘Make in India’. We started substituting the simple trade with local production, shifting production of the goods needed by India on their territory,” He stated that Russia can provide India with whatever support the latter needs in the defense sector.
“On defense, we can provide anything India wants, and technology transfer in the context of defense cooperation is absolutely unprecedented for any of India’s outside partners”.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar “a real patriot of his country” after the latter firmly stated that India will decide its foreign policy in light of mounting pressure to cut down imports from Moscow amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
“EAM JAishankar is a seasoned diplomat and a real patriot of his country when he said “we will be taking the decision for our country on the basis of what India believes it needs for its development for its security”. Not too many countries can say something like this.”
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Here is the US counter offer. The US is promising India practically everyhing. The U.S. may even want to consider a nuclear submarine cooperation project with India. This is truly disgusting the way it is worded.
India and the US: Defense Collaboration Is Key
The two countries do not have a single project that they can hold up as symbolic of the depth of their defense cooperation.
https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/india-and-the-us-defense-collaboration-is-key/
By Yusuf Unjhawala
April 19, 2022
India and the US: Defense Collaboration Is Key
India and the United States need a landmark defense deal to strengthen their defense ties, similar to the 2005 nuclear agreement, which marked a turning point in their overall bilateral relationship. Such a deal will demonstrate to India that the U.S is capable of being a strong ally as Russia has been.
Ten year after the U.S. set up the Defense Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) with India and conferred Strategic Trade Authorization-1 status on it, which Washington only does for close allies, the two countries do not have a single project that they can claim symbolizes the depth of their defense relationship. In contrast, India and Russia have the BrahMos supersonic missile and the nuclear submarine project, which they can hold up as concrete outcomes of their defense cooperation.
The United States can strengthen its defense relationship with India in three ways.
Transfer of U.S. Technology to India
The strategic partnership between India and the U.S. may be relatively new but given the rapidly changing security situation in the Indo-Pacific region as well as India’s importance, there is a need for a watershed moment in India-U.S relations that involves a major U.S. technology transfer project. Potential areas of technology transfer include nuclear and conventional naval propulsion systems and aircraft engines.
With Russian assistance, India has developed an Arihant class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) to complete its nuclear triad. However, it requires more powerful nuclear reactors, not only for larger SSBNs but also for planned nuclear attack submarines and large aircraft carriers. Although India has yet to decide on the next carrier, it will almost certainly be conventionally powered due to the lack of a sufficiently powered nuclear reactor for a super carrier. The U.S. may want to consider a nuclear submarine cooperation project with India.
Conventional naval propulsion systems are also ripe for cooperation. India builds its own aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, and other warships, but all of them use foreign engines, primarily those manufactured by Ukraine’s Zorya or the United States’ GE.
The Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, India’s lone indigenous fighter aircraft, is powered by GE’s F404. Future variants as well as the fifth-generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft, which is still in development, will be powered by GE’s F414 engines. India’s attempt to build the homegrown Kaveri engine has a tumultuous history. Attempts to enlist international assistance, particularly from France, have failed. The U.S. could step in to help India with these engines.
Protecting the commercial interests of its companies is an obvious hurdle to the U.S. sharing technology with India. Unlike Russia, which has state-controlled defense companies and can select what it wants to share, the U.S. military-industrial complex is driven by the private sector, which owns the intellectual property. The U.S. will have to devise ways to cooperate with India on technologies, such as offset clauses for major weapons systems purchased by India, or technologies developed with government funding.
Joint Production
An important reason for the DTTI’s failure to deliver is the vast economic and defense technology gap between India and the United States. This is why a game-changing collaborative project has not even been considered. In the case of such projects with Russia, India brought in money and expertise and frequently bailed out struggling Russian defense companies. However, U.S. defense companies are not short on cash, and in many areas, they are a generation ahead of their Western allies in terms of technology, thus limiting opportunities for joint projects.
One such opportunity, and a missed one at that, was the development of a long-range air defense system. In 2015, India expressed interest in the Russian S-400. Instead of proposing a creative solution, the U.S., which lacks a comparable system, warned India about sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). India did not propose joint development either. It has built strong air defense capabilities, including ballistic missile defense. It collaborated with Israel in the creation of the Barak system. A trilateral project including India, the U.S., and Israel could have been possible. In addition to being a collaborative project, this would have been a watershed moment in bilateral relations.
For the future, India and the U.S. could explore high-powered directed energy weapons to counter aerial threats like fighter jets and drones. Countermeasures against small drones and swarm drones that are both effective and cost-effective and hypersonic missiles are other potential systems they could collaborate on. Opportunities may exist in the cyber and space domains as well, but they will be less visible.
Assistance with Indigenization of Russian Weapon Components
Russian-made equipment, weapons, and platforms account for 86 percent of all military equipment, weaponry, and platforms now in use in India. That is a massive inventory that will serve India for many decades and cannot be replaced quickly. Spares, maintenance, and upgrades will be required. While the U.S. has stated that it can assist India in transitioning away from Russia by utilizing sources such as Ukraine and Eastern European countries, this will only shift India’s dependency rather than creating self-sufficiency.
Material science, manufacturing processes, advanced machinery, and understanding of various technologies are some areas where the U.S. can assist India. India lacked warship-grade steel for a long time and relied on Russia before making a breakthrough. Despite the fact that India manufactures Russian Su-30 fighter jets, the raw materials are imported from Russia. Aiding India in the manufacture of components for Russian weaponry will eliminate a major dependency.
Conclusion
A strong India benefits the United States. As Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin noted at the recent 2+2 talks, a strong India-U.S. partnership is a critical building block in a more resilient, regional security architecture. Global challenges have multiplied, and the order that has kept the peace since the Cold War’s end is under strain. With the rise of China, a new Cold War has begun, this time in the Indo-Pacific, where India is a key player. With its global presence and multiple theaters opening up, U.S. power is reaching its limits and becoming increasingly stretched. A strong India that not only balances China but also plays a larger security role in the region will relieve some pressure on the United States.
Assisting India in developing a robust military-industrial complex will most likely shift India’s inclination toward the U.S. for critical weapons imports, as it has with Russia thus far. As cost constraints tighten, U.S. defense companies will benefit from partnering with India in their supply chain, taking advantage of lower costs. Perhaps in the future, India could be a part of a new multinational weapons project led by the U.S., bringing some of the capabilities it develops as well as financial contributions from its expanding economy. Pursuing only a buyer-seller relationship as an alternative to Russia will only shift India’s dependency, which will not be of interest to New Delhi.
@which they can hold up as “concrete outcomes” of their defense cooperation.
There is something fundementially wrong w/this statement, it is mechanically related so may be above your pay grade and just included in my dreams, but, if you want to be taken seriously by intellectuals, I would not use it too often.
A quote> “Once again, the Russian army is smashing the Nazi zombie organism, fully integrated with the eyes and brain of NATO. On the ground and in the sky, the Russian army is smashing Russian zombies, brainwashed over 30 years of propaganda. Under the conditions of a total machine of military-psychological terror, working for the West and growing Nazi zombies from Russian children.” (Reshetnikov )
He has no illusions
From Telegram> verbatim> in re OPSEC / ELINT and the nazi opponent Ru Armies face>
“Xoaquin FIores – New Resistance
Analytical note by Reshetnikov Leonid Petrovich – Lieutenant General of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (retired), Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.
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I consider it extremely vile to blame our army for the lack of communication systems and not inform ordinary civilians that our troops on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR operate with a three to five-fold enemy superiority in terms of manpower and the enemy has the full support of all reconnaissance and radio engineering power of NATO.
Any android, any iPhone is monitored continuously, any Facebook, WhatsApp, and other messengers continuously transmit information, all this is processed by the full power of artificial intelligence systems and forms a map for target designations in real-time. And even if the Russian army uses all encrypted communication channels – what to do with the population?
Over Romania and Poland, NATO AWACS aircraft with experienced crews are constantly hovering, and US spy satellites are constantly in orbit. Let me remind you that according to the budgets for our Roscosmos, we allocated $2.5 billion a year, the civil budget of NASA $25 billion, the civil budget of only SpaceX is equal to Roskosmos – and this is not counting tens of billions of dollars annually for the entire global control system feverishly deployed by the United States.
In 2-3 years, we will have an order of magnitude higher density of US reconnaissance and target designation. The United States sees not just our troops on the ground, they see our aircraft, and drones, study radar fields, estimate the time of Kalibr cruise missiles flight, and they constantly issue target designations to Ukrainian generals online from the operation control center in Poland. Is it all the merit of the former Ukrainian SSR?
This is where the accuracy of the Ukrainian artillery noted by our troops comes from, this is how the missile brigades of Tochka-U know exactly where and how to advance, exactly what time to launch, and how much time they have to get out of position. This is how the Ukrainian Nazis know where the gaps are in our columns. These are not their eyes and brains. These are the eyes and brains of NATO.
Ukronazis are just controlled zombies. And the Ukrainian army is a remotely controlled zombie organism. Of course, the use of hypersonic “Daggers” and supersonic “Onyxes” drastically reduced the ability to hide the most sensitive elements of this remotely controlled Nazi zombie organism.
I repeat, the owners of this remotely controlled Nazi zombie organism desperately need to find out what new EI and EW (electronic intelligence and electronic warfare) we have.
Therefore, for the future victories of our Russian army, it is vital to hide these new items. The fact that under these conditions our smaller number of troops cleared the sky, nullified the “Great Bayraktar” factor, and smashed the ukrowermacht is an outstanding hard work of our military and country.
This is not Georgia 2008, this is not hunting ISIS pickup trucks in Syria, no. There has never been such a war. Textbooks for the world’s military academies are being today written on the tactics and strategy of this war.
Once again, the Russian army is smashing the Nazi zombie organism, fully integrated with the eyes and brain of NATO. On the ground and in the sky, the Russian army is smashing Russian zombies, brainwashed over 30 years of propaganda. Under the conditions of a total machine of military-psychological terror, working for the West and growing Nazi zombies from Russian children.
But the Russians have outstanding resilience in battle. Look to the future and tell me where else the maniacs of the US and the EU can find such infantry. Are there any “best commandos in the world” left to fight after the Yavorovsky base was “Kalibrated”?
(c) Lieutenant General of the SVR, Reshetnikov L.P.
Hence, US aims to ban anti-satellite missile tests
US unilaterally commits to end destructive space tests amid concerns Russia may hit US intelligence satellites being used in Ukraine
By GABRIEL HONRADA
APRIL 20, 2022
https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/us-aims-to-ban-anti-satellite-missile-tests/
“Kalibrated”….love his sense of humor.
Cheers
Swego czasu czytałem zdumiewający dla mnie opis Wojny Paragwajskiej.
Kiedy to udało się Lopezowi zredukować męską populację swego kraju o 90%.
Paragwajczycy byli bitni, nieustępliwi, walczący do ostatka, dumni.
Zdaje się, że Żeleński idzie tą samą drogą.
Taki sam los jest w stanie zafundować Ukrainie i jej mieszkańcom.
Walka do ostatniego Ukraińca, przy gigantycznym wsparciu Zachodu.
Tylko, o co Ukraińcy walczą?
Majątki swych oligarchów z wieloma paszportami?
Rozpłynięcie się tych dziesiatków miliardów wsparcia zachodu na zagranicznych kontach rzadzących?
To nieco irracjonalne.
Ale, świadczy o sile propagandy przenicowującej w krótkim czasie racjonalne postawy ludzi w nienawiść do wspólnej historii Ukrainy i Rosji trwającej ponad 300 lat.
Z jaką łatwością mozna programować ludzkie emocje.
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Once upon a time I read an astonishing description of the Paraguayan War.
When Lopez succeeded in reducing his country’s male population by 90%.
The Paraguayans were brave, relentless, fighting to the end, proud.
It seems that Żeleński is going the same way.
He is able to treat the same fate to Ukraine and its inhabitants.
Fight to the last Ukrainian, with enormous support from the West.
But what are the Ukrainians fighting for?
The estates of their oligarchs with multiple passports?
Dissipation of these tens of billions of Western support in foreign government accounts?
It’s a bit irrational.
But it testifies to the power of propaganda that quickly transformed the rational attitudes of people into hatred of the joint history of Ukraine and Russia that lasted more than 300 years.
How easily can human emotions be programmed.
My Ruptly Story, or How I came to call them Cockroaches.
So, I registered at Ruptly as citizen journalists because they have all the most serious speeches and comments and so on. First attempt – no login code. I was on their help section with them, and when I explained who we were and what we wanted, they ignored me. The Help Desk Critter just disappeared.
Second attempt, new email and now I know – Do not talk to them. Six hours later, a log-in code arrives to my joy, because now I can find the Russian material easily – or so I thought.
Happily clicking through important speeches, interviews and so on, the time came to actually look at one of these. To my dismay, it was a livestream and now it is gone and I cannot check it out. So, click on another one, yeah, I can download whatever, but I have to select a category and pay my way. And there is a wild list of licensing requirements – what I may do with the content and what I may not do.
So, check the price of the lowest offering – not too bad, we can pay it and my Saker petty cash has enough inside of it.
But, I have to talk to them again. I don’t want all the stuff, I just want the most serious Putin, Lavrov, Zakharova and other speeches and statements. What license do I need to post it on the Saker Blog.
The licensing is restrictive. So, I talk to them again, explain what I want, ask for the licensing rules and regulations and how will I pay given the sanctions?
Price increases yet again, and by now, I am literally wanting to grab my machete, run into the street and chop up something! Just insanely chop at something.
So end of the story, I ask them how they can justify charging for the major speeches and interviews of their own government and leaders? Dead quiet for a while – and I thought, Oh Boy, they’ve abandoned me once again.
Then I got more angry and told them that they are not helping us to help them and I think they are cockroaches charging for this open source material and then strangling it in licensing agreements .
What do you think? Should the Saker blog pay them one damn penny? I say NO!
I’ll keep burning up the hours and finding it in open source.
Its time to call it. Ruptly supports information sanctions.
Saker is not a “dirty” blog, what support is available? Support might take different forms.
Putin praised luring subscribers from the creators of the “dirty” bloggers
April 20, 2022, 16:29
Photo: MHaveta Bulkina
The Russian authorities will support bloggers who can captivate subscribers with expert knowledge and interesting projects, President Vladimir Putin said.
This is how the head of state responded to the story of Dmitry Cheshev, one of the participants in the meeting of the Supervisory Board of the ANO “Russia – the Land of Opportunities”. Cheshev said that after an injury in training, he was confined to a wheelchair, but found himself blogging and became a motivational speaker.
“This requires a good internal state and a high level of preparation, a great internal culture. And, of course, expert knowledge. And if people like you manage to lure subscribers away from those who spread “dirty stuff”, this, of course, is a big – without any exaggeration – state affair, ” TASS reports the words of the head of state .
Putin noted that the authorities “should do everything to carefully, unobtrusively, without any additional administrative resources, but to support such people.” “And we will try to do it,” he said.
The President added that blogging is now a complex and competitive environment. “Because, I apologize for the bad manners, it is very easy to engage in “dirty” on the Internet, and, unfortunately, this simplicity makes it possible to provide a large number of subscribers,” he explained.
However, Putin continued, “the desire to make money at any cost, including advertising, by attracting a certain number of people, of course, cannot be called noble.” “But if a person like you is able to captivate your subscribers with interesting, beautiful, understandable ideas and projects, then this, of course, is different,” he concluded.
https://vz.ru/news/2022/4/20/1154758.html