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I don’t believe this is accurate, as far as them not having the capability, they are currently up-to-date on technology related to The oil and gas industry. These companies pulling out will just keep them from gaining anything new that the west of develops in the future . They are more than capable. Early on when they began tapping these resources they relied on western tech, but by now thy have learned what the need to know. Russia has some pretty brilliant scientists I would not underestimate their abilities.
water is flowing to crimea for the first time in 8 years. what sort of fucking monsters cut off the water supply of other people?
And as always bartering will be the answer.
LMFAO I don't even know where to begin with this one. Some of the shit people are posting in here is outright hilarious.
No. Other countries get into war with each other over territorial disputes dating back centuries, then their investors and other foreign investors put their money into the US where it’s safe. US government has no real control over it since we have an open system of trade and investment.
The US geography ensures dollar dominance, despite the missteps of government incompetence and treason against our own people. Most of what people think they know about all of this is built on lies and low-information corporate news retardation that has made them extremely ignorant about the world.
oh yes, I agree. the Great Reset will destroy our fake economy and take away from you everything you own. And it is all being done deliberately.
I believe they are just rapid ID markings like we used during D-Day with the invasion stripes. In the case of Russia, they have the same models of soviet -era equipment that the Ukrops are using. You need some instant way of identifying friend from foe. The multitude of different symbols did apply to the different regions, and might have just been to confuse the Ukies early on, so they did not try to counterfeit them.
In 1968, the soviets invaded Czechoslovakia and were faced with the same sort of problem - both sides fielded the same equipment. so in a similar manner, they painted white stripes on their vehicles.
the defector suvorov talked about the 68 invasion, and how in typical soviet fashion they were told to "shoot everything without a white stripe" but of course there was not enough paint to go around, so many units went in unmarked. And ran into marked units. And they shot each other up.
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Japanese FDI into the US in the 1980s was from Japanese businessmen who saw the structural problems in Japan and got their money out before the Japanese recession.
Here’s FDI through 2020:
Once you pull the plug on Oil/NG extraction, you don’t just come back in and turn it back on. As Putin continues to invade other neighboring countries, Haliburton and Slumberger aren’t going anywhere near him. This isn’t a short-term incident that people can forget about next year in the 24hr news cycle. This is the beginning of a wave of catastrophes on the planet.
Curious as to your experience in the oil industry. Your comments need clarification, although it has nothing to do with your original posts nor with my comment that they will return. If they don’t someone else will. I mean, unless we all go solar and wind farms very very soon.
we did the same thing in WW2. FDR desperately wanted to get involved in the war and Churchill openly discussed instigating another "Lusitania event" that would cause us to fall in with the Allies. So there was no mystery about what was afoot.
So we began supplying all the Allies with war material under Lend Lease....... Then we began providing destroyers to escort the convoys...... then the destroyers were told that they could fire on U-boats...... Then the U-boats shot back....... it didn't matter that the official declarations of war had not yet occurred. Long before anything was official, we were at war with the Germans.
And half the world isn't looking at this and wondering when they're the next target of economic expulsion... Your tribe is creating the fracture and the rest of us will pay. I wonder if you're not the flip side of the fed coin. Do you have graphs at the ready to show everyone otherwise? You glow.
absolutely. It's been that way for a long time.
And it's not even being done for the good of you or me.
Russian Colonel General On Ukraine: Without Hysterics And Insults
Translated by AlexD exclusively for SouthFront Vladimir Chirkin, March 08, 2022 Let’s try to understand the situation without hysterics and...
southfront.org
Translated by AlexD exclusively for SouthFront
Vladimir Chirkin, March 08, 2022
The first stage of the operation…
We underestimated the enemy in its strength of informational, ideological, psychological repulsion, they were waiting for us. Literally on the very first day, with a snap of American bloody fingers – we deprived the support of civilians and the units of the Ukrainian armed forces ready to become neutral. Millions of dollars, thousands of IT specialists, global media corporations cut off Ukraine from any objective information, stinking up our country.Our main losses were in the first three days. Now they are rapidly diminishing, the Russian Army is no longer conducting a peacekeeping and humanitarian operation similar to the Crimean operation. The fighters received other orders, got involved, became angry, gathered, and their hopes for active support of civilians and the conscious units of the Ukrainian army were dashed.
There are few flowers and loaves, people are crushed by propaganda and lies, and terrified into insanity by the Nazis. The calculations miss another important point – almost 600 thousand Ukrainians have gone through the ATO (Anti-Terrorism Operation) zone in Donbass since 2014, today they have joined the territorial defence all over the place, many have something to fear. Especially on the wave of fake executions without trial by the ATO personnel.
666, baby. head for the hills and everyone take their cans of beans and MREs as you bug out.
That sir is an outstanding memory you got there. Great example. I had forgotten all about that little incident. I saw a documentary on that ship a decade or so ago and they actually pulled up munitions out of it.
If the Poles aren't putting hardware on their border they're idiots.
the Lusitania was WW1. the destroyers guarding the convoys was ww2. similar provocations to create an incident, but 2 separate occurrences.
We're allies. That's the whole point of NATO.
Considering the amount of bullshit videos and pics we've been shown it could be something completely different anyways.
this is about as "neutral" and realistic of a sitrep as you are going to get. the daily French military assessment of Ukraine. The Russians are making progress. Ukie claims about Kiev are not reflected here.
That don't look nothin like the map Fox and CNN are pushing.
Imagine everyone's surprise when Zelensky is killed and Kiev surrenders. Everyone in the west will be shocked! "But, but, we thought Ukraine was winning!"
Imagine everyone's surprise when Zelensky is killed and Kiev surrenders. Everyone in the west will be shocked! "But, but, we thought Ukraine was winning!"
Now Kortik, I know full well that you are aware of all this, but others should note
*Russian Crimea
*the conquest of territory from Poland, Hungary, and Romania, which was never returned (territorial integrity???
)Please keep in mind, that while certain disinformants are eager to blame the USSR as being predatory towards the Ukrainian SSR, look at all the territory Ukraine gained under the USSR.
Also, please note that Holodomor would have affected the areas in Green, so the areas of Western Ukraine, especially Lvov, which is the bastion of Nazism in modern Ukraine, have no claim to that atrocity. The areas in Green contain a large number of ethic Russians, and at the time also many ethnic Germans. These people were all the victims of Stalin, who never hesitated from murdering anyone -nor gave preference- based on ethnicity.
I don’t either side is going to show a “real” map to us peasants, for lots of reasons.
Rotational deployments as part of ERI/EDI to the region have been going on for almost the greater part of a decade. Nothing new to see here.
Much like all the heavy metal on rail transport people are noticing on the west coast... been going on for years but only now being noticed, reported and overanalyzed.
this is about as "neutral" and realistic of a sitrep as you are going to get. the daily French military assessment of Ukraine. The Russians are making progress. Ukie claims about Kiev are not reflected here.
Looks about right. Lot of bluster from media outlets, social media, and some politicians, but no one who is serious in the academic or foreign policy community actually thinks Ukraine is winning in the traditional sense- their military capacity is badly degraded and they are steadily losing territory. Exceeding expectations as well as winning in the information environment, but ultimately losing the war.
Although odds are on Ukraine losing, it does not look like Russia is going to come out of this well, either.
Tachanka!!!!!! You've returned!!!
"Hey! Machine gun cart from Kiev!
You're our Joy and our Pride!"
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it's Chapayev and Petka.
Using the forces like the ones shown in that video - Budyonny's Cavalry Army, artillery and machine guns brought in carts, the Bolsheviks nearly conquered Poland, before being stopped at the gates of Warsaw in 1920. So we have the Poles to thank for saving whatever was left of Western Civilization at that point. If the Reds had won, Germany would have been next - already flattened by WW1 and on the brink of revolution. France was similarly exhausted, and Britain and the US may well have done too little too late. So as dopey as that video was, the Bolsheviks at that point really were a huge threat and the Poles did well.
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Better yet!
Just imagine the surprise and relief of the Russian forces outside of Chernihiv, Mena and Sumy when they see that map and realize that those Ukrainian forces they've been fighting for the past 28 days don't exist according to the French!
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That map might just be as bad as anyone could expect when relying on the French to give sound military advice.
Just kidding of course.
The French map is bad because it paints with a broad stroke all attempted Russian advances as actual gains. So if a Russian unit pushed far inland and was overtaken, withdrew, cut off, or destroyed, that map would still have a wide swath being shown in Russian hands when the reality is far different.
Here is a better map from a pro-Kremlin source with better definition. I will caution that this source is biased towards Russia though, so take it with a grain of salt. This doesn't show some of the contested space that swaps hands regularly and again depicts the farthest extent of Russian advances.
If anyone was paying close attention at that time, they would have seen the relevance and future of mobile heavy firepower in the modern tactical space.
Don't you think that image is symbolically and uniquely fitting considering the battle space that the 1st Cavalry Army was initially operating in?
In Britain, Liddell Hart and Boney Fuller were working on the theories of modern mechanized warfare during the 20's, and of course the Germans were quick to catch on. The soviets themselves learned from their disaster and several members of the general staff, notably Tukhachevsky and Isserson developed the concept of Deep Battle, which served them well during the later stage of WW2. (but only after the USA mechanized them through Lend Lease)
y'all sure like your pie charts and line graphs around here. Reading these research papers is making me mouth breath.
y'all sure like your pie charts and line graphs around here. Reading these research papers is making me mouth breath.
An Army vet's realization in Ukraine: ‘So horrible or heartbreaking that you can't continue’
'Physically I feel fine, but I also feel like I have these invisible wounds on my soul.'
taskandpurpose.com
y'all sure like your pie charts and line graphs around here. Reading these research papers is making me mouth breath.
I concur.
An Army vet's realization in Ukraine: ‘So horrible or heartbreaking that you can't continue’
'Physically I feel fine, but I also feel like I have these invisible wounds on my soul.'
His problem was that he was used to being part of the best military in the entire world and fighting ill equipped, barely trained, local insurgents.
In his prior experience, there was simply always an "I win" button at the ready and the only real constraint on "winning" was how much your own politicians dictated you couldn't do.
So listened to the propaganda about the glorious Ukraine army of freedom that is utterly destroying the stupid Russian fools.
Landed and found out he was actually in the middle of a peer war more akin to WWII and neither side had a decided advantage and it was going to be one of those long brutal grinding wars of attrition and who runs out of fresh blood first.
so was DeGaulle and he almost failed the military institute as a result. He lobbied for a German style instead of the allies way. Like all things in life, first idea and first mover are entirely different
Me thinks things are not what they seems...of course been thinking that since this BS started.
This is a great post sir.
This "conflict' is a real war. As you said, it's a peer war (or near peer) and that's something we, Americans, take forgranted. As many people as were killed in the Middle East by the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters, we never faced a "peer" adversary. This guy is explaining what people in WW2 went through for years.
War is awful, which is why war should be avoided !!
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