Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Regardless of the causes and circumstances of the TASS and RIA Novosti reports, the reaction to them suggests that events in Kherson Oblast continue to be highly neuralgic in the pro-war information space and emphasizes that the Russian media space still has not coalesced around a singular rhetorical line about what is happening on the east bank of the Dnipro. The published reports use relatively neutral language and notably do not announce a "retreat" or "withdrawal," instead discussing a "transfer" and "regrouping."[15] The Russian media frenzy that followed, including the immediate retraction of the statements, a direct response from the Kremlin, and emphatic milblogger refutations, reflects the fact that any mention of the Russian grouping in Kherson Oblast generates near-immediate information space neuralgia.[16] It also appears that the Russian information space has not yet determined how to discuss the operational situation on the east bank of the Dnipro, and that any inflection in the situation there can generate an informational shock. The Russian MoD falsely framed the Russian retreat from Kharkiv Oblast in early September of 2022 as a "regrouping," and that word and general concept apparently remains highly neuralgic for the Russian information space.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-november-13-2023
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:Nah. That albatross is "rump" Ukraine: whatever part of Ukraine that Russia leaves for the Ukies. Probably Galicia Ukraine. Possibly not even that.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Is that "albatross" the EU cleaning up the destruction left by the Russians after they withdraw from Ukraine? The Russians are soreheads and poor losers. Can't expect Russians to clean up anything. Their strength is in stealing, killing civilians, destroying property, and lying about history.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, I personally think that whatever is left of Ukraine should become an albatross around the EU's economic neck.
Let's see the EU reconstruct it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I noticed that your posts really veer away from current events and that you're maundering on about drivel. Again.
Please, give us another discourse about the Confederacy or centuries -old events or someone's theory about theories, or something. All that wordiness adds so much to the discussion!
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The cheese-eating surrender monkeys would gladly help Ukraine but for the strict rules preventing such help. The monkeys suggest the Americans, who have no rules, help.
EU will not supply promised 1 million ammunition rounds to Ukraine by March – Foreign Minister
Mon, November 13, 2023 at 3:32 PM CST
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that the European Union will not be able to carry out its plan to supply one million rounds of artillery to Ukraine by March 2024 due to the state of defence production and bureaucratic obstacles.
Source: European Pravda, citing Kuleba during the national joint 24/7 newscast
Details: The minister was asked to comment on a Bloomberg report that the EU has informed member states that the pledge to provide Ukraine with 1 million artillery rounds by March 2024 is "unlikely to be fulfilled".
"Unfortunately, Bloomberg is telling the truth. There are questions, and we are doing a lot of loud ringing of alarm bells," Kuleba replied.
He added that the reason for this problem is not a lack of political will in the EU, but the "lamentable state of the defence industry", as well as "a lot of unsynchronised things, a lot of bureaucracy".
"The European Union is working to remedy these problems, and that is why, while in Berlin, I called on the European Union to develop a coherent policy in the field of defence industries," the Foreign Minister stressed.
He said the EU has already begun to take certain steps to rectify the situation.
"But we need faster actions, and more of them. And we do really appreciate the support of the European Union, but we will push them [on this]. Because, as ever, we can see a Ukrainian infantryman standing right in front of us, and he needs ammunition," Kuleba concluded.
The provision of ammunition to Ukraine is becoming increasingly urgent as Russia has been able to increase its own production and obtain supplies from North Korea.
At the end of October, Bloomberg reported that the EU was falling behind in its plans to provide Ukraine with one million rounds of artillery. Meanwhile, NATO is pushing its member states to overcome protectionist tendencies and agree on a single standard for artillery ammunition so that production can be increased.
https://news.yahoo.com/eu-not-supply-promised-1-213219892.html
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Is Zelensky Being Prepped to Join the Friends of the U.S. Club?
If you have any doubts that Ukraine’s President Zelensky is expendable if Joe Biden decides to change course, just take a gander at the following photo essay.
When the CIA Director comes for a visit it is time to check your six (i.e., military slang for seeing if anyone is sneaking up on you from behind).
Here is one of my favorites. During the 1980s the Reagan Administration was supplying arms and military technology to both Iran and Iraq, who were engaged in a brutal war. With friends like Washington, who needs enemies. No wonder Saddam thought he could invade Kuwait and the United States would not care.
How about Muammar Gaddafi getting the old bamboozle from Barack Obama?
Are you picking up a theme here? It does not matter if it is a Republican or Democrat, once a foreign leader is no longer useful to the United States, he gets bent over the log like Ned Beatty in Deliverance and learns the “joy” of buggery. Henry Kissinger was not bullshitting when he quipped:
“it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
Looks like Volodomyr Zelensky is going to learn that truth over the coming weeks. If he survives to see the New Year it will be a miracle.
One critical point I failed to make in yesterday’s article regarding the competing narratives regarding Zelensky and General Zalushny — it looks like the Brits are backing Zalushny while the CIA is trying to save Zelensky and dump Zalushny. I base that conclusion on the fact that the Economist, a British publication with close ties to MI-6, gave Zalushny the celebrity treatment, while the Washington Post, the go-to rag for the CIA, blamed Zalushny for Nord Stream.
Simplicius the Thinker has another great piece out regarding this modern version of Game of Thrones now underway in Kiev. Worth your time.
https://sonar21.com/is-zelensky-being-prepped-to-join-the-friends-of-t
he-u-s-club/
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SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER...
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From Rezident_UA channel:
" Ukrainian sources write that Andriy Ermak will allegedly try to coordinate with the Biden Administration the replacement of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny, who is not satisfied with the Office of the President.
It was Zaluzhny who refused to begin the second stage of the counter-offensive with crossing the Dnieper and proposed to go on the defensive instead of offensive actions."
So Yermak/Zelensky are trying to coordinate with Biden [Yermak, Zelensky's money man, recently traveled to Washington] to get rid of Zaluzhny, while other forces coordinate with Zaluzhny to boot Zelensky?
In fact the drama and intrigue is coming to such a boil as to reach levels of absurdity most of us have never seen. A People’s Deputy in the Ukrainian Rada, Oleksandr Dubinsky—who happens to be in a major quarrel with the above Mosiychuk, as well—released this statement today on his official social media accounts. He openly calls Yermak “the real president of Ukraine,” begging Tucker Carlson to intervene, and even confirms yesterday’s wild theory that Zelensky is trying to contact Trump in order to get him to “unblock” Ukrainian aid via the Republican party which Trump is perceived to control:
"I am publicly addressing journalist Tucker Carlson, who will not be afraid to cover the topic of political persecution of the only politician and former journalist in Ukraine, who openly spoke about corruption of the country’s senior officials and the facts of theft of US financial assistance through the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in which deputies of the Servant of the People Party and officials of the Office of the President are involved.
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To Free The Baltic Grid from Russian control, Old Technology Is New Again
Spinning mega-machines will safeguard the Baltic power grid as it desynchronizes from Russia
Peter Fairley | 11 Nov 2023
https://spectrum.ieee.org/baltic-power-grid
The Baltic countries — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — recently accelerated a plan to cut the electrical chains that keep them tied to Russia. A technical lynchpin to their planned escape from the Moscow-controlled synchronous AC power zone is a constellation of synchronous condensers: free-spinning and fuel-free electrical generators whose sole purpose is to stabilize and protect power grids.
The Baltic states, all of which are members of the European Union and NATO, started freeing themselves from Russia’s electrical embrace almost a decade ago with the construction of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) connections to Finland, Sweden and Poland. Those alternative sources of electrical support ended the Baltics’ dependance on imported power from Russia and Belarus.
Now stabilizing equipment is preparing the grid to be able to physically separate from the giant grid to the East, and to synchronize instead with the continental European grid to the South. In 2019, funding from the European Union jumpstarted the required grid-strengthening upgrades required, and synchronization with Europe was scheduled for the end of 2025.
“Being on the Russian electricity grid is a risk for Estonian consumers.”
Cost increases have delayed a crucial second link with Poland and thus Europe to 2028, but the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s aerial assaults on the Ukrainian grid boosted pressure on the Baltics to break away faster. In August the Baltic states reached consensus on a plan to switch grids no later than February of 2025.
As Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas explained: “Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and its use of energy as a weapon proves that it’s a dangerous and unpredictable country, and therefore being on the Russian electricity grid is a risk for Estonian consumers.” The prime ministers, she said, agreed to, “leave the Russian network as soon as the technical capacity is in place.”
This is where synchronous condensers step in. Synchronous condensers (also called synchronous compensators) are essentially generators that, in normal operation, are spun by an AC grid’s power and synced to its frequency (rather than driven by their own fuel). When power plants and/or transmission lines shut down unexpectedly, the momentum in their spinning mass offers an instantaneous supply of energy that cushions the blow, thus protecting equipment and preventing outages.
The first of three synchronous condensers for Estonia, installed early this year south of its capitol Tallinn, provides grid support that will be crucial when the Baltic states disconnect from Russia.
“It’s like an airbag for the power grid,” says Ana Joswig, Portfolio Lifecycle Manager for synchronous condensers for market leader Siemens Energy, supplier for the nine synchronous condensers scheduled to be operating in the Baltics by the end of next year.
Joswig says the spinning machines provide three crucial grid-stabilizing services:
• Frequency regulation: When grid power crashes or surges, the device immediately releases or absorbs energy to minimize fluctuation in the AC frequency;
• Short circuit power: When the grid experiences a short circuit, the crashing voltage releases a tripling or more of current from rotating machines which signals breakers on the grid to activate and quickly isolate the fault; and
• Voltage support: Producing current and voltage that are out of phase generates so-called reactive power that pushes the local grid’s voltage up or down to stabilize system voltage and/or increase the flow of real power.
Synchronous convertors were first deployed in the early 20th century, but they were rarely used because grid stabilization could be supplied by power plants with big spinning generators. But plants with steam and turbine-driven generators are incre
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Yermak, the gray eminence and power behind Zelensky's throne?
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Andriy Yermak
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Borysovych and the family name is Yermak.
Andriy Borysovych Yermak (Ukrainian: ?????? ????????? ?????; born 21 November 1971)[2] is a Ukrainian film producer, lawyer and the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed him on 11 February 2020.[1] He is also a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, as well as the chairman of the Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian and Social Affairs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Yermak
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For instance, many believe that Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s head of the presidential office, is the man who really runs the country and was responsible for the “hit” on Zaluzhny’s aide. Yermak is the ‘gray eminence’ always shadowing Zelensky, who cowers before him like a chastened student. Many will remember the infamous video that made it clear who tucks whom into bed:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/marching-toward-a-night-of-the-lon
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Unfortunately I can't seem to grab the video URL which is probably on X or Rumble, you'll have to go to Simplicius and, if you want to find it quickly, do a word seatch for "tucks".
Yermak holds phone talks with US, UK national security advisers (Nov 12)
https://news.yahoo.com/yermak-holds-phone-talks-us-114900210.html
Yermak meets with Blinken in Washington (Nov 13)
https://news.yahoo.com/yermak-meets-blinken-washington-055152852.html
Andriy Yermak discussed with American businessman Alexander Soros the restoration of infrastructure and investments in the Ukrainian economy
https://odessa-journal.com/andriy-yermak-discussed-with-american-busin
essman-alexander-soros-the-restoration-of-infrastructure-and-investments-in-the-ukrainian-economy
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Nov 14, 2023 at 10:47 AM EST |
Svyatoslav Golikov, an instructor of Russia's Storm-Z penal units, took to his Telegram channel on Tuesday to outline the impact the weapons are having on troops in combat. He said ATACMS, which are capable of reaching targets 100 miles or more away, are creating large-scale casualties, and this is disrupting the execution of Russian operations.
"It is cluster shells that are now knocking out a huge mass of our infantry with the layering of a number of negative factors," wrote Golikov. "The infantry suffers heavy excess losses directly on the battlefield, as a result of which the execution of combat missions is disrupted, and in addition to this there is an overstrain of evacuation logistics and an overload of the military medical infrastructure."
Russian troops are returned to the front lines in Ukraine with shrapnel still stuck in their bodies, Golikov said. Golikov added: "The rapid depletion of infantry units, coupled with the overload of hospitals, leads to the fact that people are massively returned to the battle, primarily underrated, and often with small damaging elements in the soft tissues not removed."
Golikov said that, while there are no radical shifts in the front line, and little breakthroughs from Ukraine, Russia is also having little success in the war. "And there is a price. [A] very high and sad [price]," he added.
"Exhausting and bleeding the enemy on the defensive, and then collapsing the front with powerful counterattacks would be an excellent plan if implemented," Golikov said. "But in fact, along the way, we ourselves were pretty exhausted and bled dry."
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-troops-atacms-bombs-ukraine-war-18435
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Ukraine's Fate Will Be Decided In Coming Year, Top Zelensky Aide Admits
Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023 - 11:20 AM
In surprisingly blunt words, a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that the coming year will essentially decide the fate of Ukraine and its war with Russia.
"A turning point in the war is approaching," Andrii Yermak, who serves as chief of staff for the Office of the President of Ukraine, said Monday. "The next year will be decisive in this regard." He issued the words while appealing for more urgent aid from Washington in an address to the hawkish DC-based Hudson Institute think tank.
Yermak sought to assure the audience that Zelensky has "a clear plan" forward even as Western media has by and large soured on Kiev's prospects for success. Much of this is about Zelensky sending envoys to do damage control in Washington at a moment the US administration's focus is off Ukraine and on Gaza events instead.
MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraines-fate-will-be-decided-c
oming-year-top-zelensky-aide-admits
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Russian convicted over journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s murder pardoned after fighting in Ukraine
Former police officer had been serving a 20-year sentence over his role in the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Politkovskaya, who was well known for reporting on abuses in Russia’s war in Chechnya early in Vladimir Putin’s presidency, was shot dead outside her flat in Moscow in 2006.
The killing triggered an outcry in the West and underlined the growing dangers of reporting in Russia as Putin gradually clamped down on independent media. Khadzhikurbanov was convicted along with four other men from Chechnya where Russia crushed a rebellion, under Putin, in 1999-2009.
In 2018, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg found that, while the authorities had found and convicted a group of men who had directly carried out the contract killing, they had “failed to take adequate investigatory steps to find the person or persons who had commissioned the murder”.
Politkovskaya, who did much of her work for the independent investigative magazine Novaya Gazeta, now banned in Russia, won more than a dozen international prizes for reporting on abuses committed in Chechnya by Russian forces, despite repeated detentions and death threats.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/14/russian-convicted-over-journ
alist-anna-politkovskayas-murder-pardoned
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Watching Military Summary Channel day to day, I noticed a pattern: Russia is for the most part is still fighting an attritional war. They are willing to take ground as long as it's relatively cost- free (in terms of manpower) but imposes disproportionate losses on Ukraine. But Russia is willing to let the front be elastic: they will take and give back the same line over and over, as long as it costs Ukraine a lot more than it costs them.
There's ONE place where Russian MoD is willing to take losses, and that's Avdiivka. Russians have probably lost 30 armored vehicles in the past three weeks, maybe more. Ukraine has a prioritized list of equipment to kill or disable, starting with demining equipment.(I know for a fact they destroyed two special distance-demining pieces, and one tank outfitted with a demining front end.)
But when the demining equipment is disabled, Russians are willing to use tanks to demine a path; they'll just run the tank as far as it'll keep running and then bail out once the tank stops moving.
Ukraine has used cluster rounds here, but mostly they seem to use FPV drones and the occasional HIMARS or artillery strike. Cluster munitions seem to be used at random points on the frontline, mostly where the action is infantry- intensive. Which makes sense.
Unlike Ukraine, Russia doesn't use cluster munitions altho it has them. They use thermobaric weapons instead, possibly even more deadly but at least there are no unexploded munitions laying around for their own soldiers to stumble over should they advance into Ukrainian held territory.
It surprises and - in a way, saddens- me, to see how much of the fight is treeline to treeline and trench to trench.
Simplicius addressed this as follows:
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Much of the Ukrainian conflict has its closest comparison in the Normandy campaign of World War 2, just after the famed D-Day landings. The Normandy region is known as ‘hedgerow country’, populated with an endless sprawl of fields and pastures called bocages.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/battle-for-avdeevka-close-study
It is a region of relatively small fields, each surrounded by a "treeline" (planted I assume as a boundary marker and windbreak). The kind of landscape that requires detailed, dangerous clearing, by both sides. All those lives lost, for a treeline or trench.
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