Right about now.
Somewhere in the White House, there is a party going on of Biden's Handlers.
Why?
Because the Ukraine/Russia war has provided the MSM and US Liberal Socialist Democrats with a desperately needed deflection from Biden Administration's disastrous handling of the US economy, abuse of the Pandemic to further their Liberal-Socialist agenda, and the general widespread abuse of our Constitutional Rights.
#4
the invasion of the Ukraine was on Putin's schedule, not on Biden's
I'm pretty sure the Biden advisors and flunkies are unhappy about it.
yes it gets inflation discussion down for a few weeks but the images of a strong and brave Zelensky must really hurt when compared to the drooling fool and the cackling dope.
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/\ I'm pretty sure the Biden advisors and flunkies are unhappy about it.
Perhaps, but I think not. Here's a list of unfortunate events (Biden cock-ups) that the Ukraine 'crisis' has removed from the media or provided cover for:
1. Durham Clinton investigation
2. Hunter and Biden Crime Family investigation (if there actually is one)
3. Poor economy and rising interest rages.
4. Gasoline prices.
5. Looming recession.
6. COVID fiasco.
7. Border crisis.
8. Jan 6th prortest in Washington D.C.
9. Julian Assange.
10. Finding the Seth Rich murderer.
11. Afghanistan withdrawal disaster.
12. Trucker's convoy to D.C.
13. Urban murder rates.
14. MS13 drug running.
15. Ghislaine Maxwell status.
17. Elon Musk success stories.
18. Trump rallies.
19. End of Trump income tax cut.
20. Buggered 2020 elections.
Uncle Sugar sending stimmy checks to all households up to the 90th income percentile
Janet Yellen turning over every house's floorboards to try to nail "tax cheats" among 100 million low-income gig workers, moonlighters, moms with backyard daycare service, Etsy sellers earning an extra $40-50 per week
Sanctioning Russia because hey, sanctions failed so many times before, why not give failure another chance?
#7
all Biden's mistakes and mistaken policies will be back on the table by summer
in addition there will be the comparison of Zelensky answering tough questions in 3 languages coherently and courageously compared w Biden unable to read from a teleprompter
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#10
the Ukraine conflict also pushed out of the headlines some good economic news, e.g., the +600k BLS jobs increase report and the 6.6% annualized productivity growth in the 4th Q (although this second report seems sketchy as manufacturing productivity was negative and manufacturing is the only sector where the metrics can be estimated well)
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#12
Murcek; apparently that college soccer player is being ruled a suicide.
It is very easy to talk about the possibilities of maybe, maybe not jab side effects...even though The Weirdos are increasingly correct.
Finally the guaranteed trauma caused on the school/college age children, the emotional abuse, the depression, the bullying by the faculty - all for sure happened, even out here where the play was only acted a semester and a half, and without much enthusiasm. Every single one of them, for the ones who were on board will be your future Karens.
I want this poll.
When you were forced to wear a mask for school did you wear it because:
<> To make everyone safe
<> I just wanted to be left alone.
<> I got in trouble/yelled at when it wasn't.
<> It hid my face as I plotted murder.
#13
Epstein was ruled a suicide. Also, maybe a 20 something who was a top-notch athlete became suicidally despondent after having chest pains or shortness of breath? Not saying it happened, just that in the media climate we have now, with the health authorities we have now, there really is no way we will ever actually know. Will we?
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#14
Not from them, no. Pointing out that rash of high school suicides on while on zoom will make you a Flat Earther, or whatever the slur of the month is.
That the protocols of Covid are for that age group abusive is self evident, and I am afraid we will see a real spike in youngster depression and suicide for this next generation, along with the stunted learning and probably the different varieties of the Lashing Bully. Will be interesting whether all the Big Names who rushed to report this first will have the curiosity to wonder, why? Or, collectively not have curiosity, and all those sources who raced to get her blood on their hands for clicks are suddenly, Nah Private Matter.
#1
You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the time. I must be getting old. I see thru these cons all the time. Well most of the time.
Well we sure have seen our share of neo-con cons. The Iraq Con (fail), the "Arab Spring" con (big fail), the neo-con Color Revolution fails that now have ended with Ukraine in flames and the markets in free fall
#3
WOW!!, "Did you know "con" is french for asshole? ", I didn't know that, I think. I'd love to talk about it. I'd like to talk about it but I can't talk about it.
Don't worry I go away after awhile. :)
An excerpt from a forthcoming book by the late, great Angelo Codevilla, "America’s Rise and Fall Among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams," published by Encounter.
The book grew out of a request by the Office of Net Assessment at the Department of Defense during the Trump administration that Dr. Codevilla prepare a memo on what a truly “America First” foreign policy ought to be. Angelo delivered a few months later ca. 65,000 words along the lines of “What Would John Quincy Adams Do Today?”
The book goes through the foundations of American foreign policy, where it went seriously and disastrously wrong in the twentieth century, and why now is the time to “return to reality.”
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[americandigest] Had enough of Clausewitz? Here’s another phrase from his book: "Presence of Mind". He applied it to a young commander who, in the midst of battle, could see clearly the actual situation and make decisions accordingly — make decisions that would lead to the accomplishment of his mission, and ideally also the preservation of his command. No hopes, no bullshit, no fooling oneself.
Let’s talk about tanks, in a non-political and non-ideological manner. They’ve been described as anachronisms, and yet here we are, baby. Tanks OTA and when you follow the crowd-sourced maps, you look for the tanks to tell you where the front is. American armor units describe themselves as "the combat arm of decision". Fukn A. Tanks have the formal state as follows: they move, shoot, and communicate, and they provide protection. The art of the tank goes as follows: never stop. When do we stop? Never! Can we stop right here? No! How about a pause at the next...Nope!!
So, clearly, the Russians are off plot a bit and are suffering delays. Opinions vary among war news followers from Ukraine the lion-hearted, and at the other poles we have: Putin’s just doing what he’s gotta and the really interesting opinion called: Fake War. Good to have a clear eye, and not be overly optimistic or pessimistic for your side. This YouTuber has what I think is the perfect amount of pessimism and it’s because he’s an infantry enlisted man veteran. He can’t afford bullshit. Watch his update here:
His assessment is that the pregnant pauses are refueling and rearmament ops, and he’s probably completely right. I’d add they are also cluster fux and command failures because you’re bound to have that and there are Ivans with contraband cell phones uploading vids of how they’ve been abandoned by higher ups and completely forgotten, and elsewhere you have whole tanks and other vehicles abandoned with dry fuel tanks. So, a bit of both on plan and off plan. FTR, the better logs (I did a shit ton of logs in my infantry officer days) is a rolling refuel or a leapfrogging refuel. Remember the tanker’s mantra: Don’t stop!
So, this next phase of the dumpster fire called (by some) the Ukraine-Russia War, is an encirclement of Kiev and then the investment of the city. I told you before that an attacker wants a 3:1 advantage in numbers of troops, but in urban warfare he needs 5:1. Recall how we approached Baghdad, in 2003, and the doctrinal estimates were that we could face a major battle with casualty rates we may not be mentally prepared to accept. Then came the Thunder Run9s) which were fast armored reconnaissance in force ops, and we essentially found the Iraqis (trained and armed by Russia) to be paper tigers when it comes to tank warfare. Never stop? Try digging your T-72s in up to the turret and using them as pillboxes. It ain’t effective, Haji.
Will the Russians effectively ring Kiev? Will the Ukes make a stand there, or escape the sack with forces to fight on in the forested and mountainous West? Will Putin retain significant power long enough to topple Zelensky?
In guilty fun, I am watching for the guys I am calling "The A-Team," who are a small band of US and Brit SF types fighting inside Ukraine under the banner of the Foreign Brigade. What would you do if you were them? You’d watch the other guy’s spec ops, and you’d physically go to every artillery unit in the Ukrainian army and get actual commanders’ cell phone numbers and radio freeks, and then be where the decision point of the battle is and rain hell on the lead tanks. Notice: columns destroyed littered up and down narrow roads.
idk what will happen, but I do know how shit happens. The Russians are certainly in some danger of being defeated, but more likely they will simply fail to achieve war goals, and this will topple Putin or force him to revise his war aims. Or, they’ll win and topple the Ukraine govt. They won’t occupy as in old times, but hover off map and torment and bully. Next: the Baltics, Finland, etc. IOW, Putin wants political sway and enough swagger to advance his demands and desires in Europe.
KCK February 25, 2022, 7:47 AM
I’ma just bullet-point this war brief based on my interwebs watching this morning — spiced up with some army lingo and knowledge.
Lots more in this vein at the link — well worth exploring. It might be useful for our Russian visitors to take a look as well, to deepen their understanding of the kind of eyes that are watching what their completely-not-joke-worthy President Putin is accomplishing... and what isn’t being said here. None of our armchair generals are actually generals, you see, though some have been majors and master sergeants, or other service equivalents.
[TheWeek] How cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia's 'stalled' 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine
As the eighth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine began Thursday morning, Russian forces appeared to have gained tactical control of their first city, the southern port city of Kherson, but Ukraine is still holding out in Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv, despite heavy shelling. Deaths are mounting on both sides.
Big explosions were heard in Kyiv overnight, but according to the British Defense Ministry's Thursday morning update, the main body of the 40-mile-long Russian military convoy advancing on the capital remains nearly 20 miles from the city center, "having been delayed by staunch Ukrainian resistance, mechanical breakdown, and congestion. The column has made little discernible progress in over three days."
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby gave a similar prognosis on Wednesday, saying the "stalled" column hasn't, "from our best estimates, made any appreciable progress in the last 24-36 hours," possibly because the Russians are "regrouping themselves and reassessing the progress that they have not made and how to make up the lost time," but probably also due to "logistics and sustainment challenges" and "resistance from the Ukrainians."
Trent Telenko, a retired Pentagon staff specialist and military history blogger, suggests another big reason may be Russia's tires, as he explained in a long, illustrated Twitter thread based on photos of deserted Russian Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile systems and his own experience as a U.S. Army vehicle auditor. "When you leave military truck tires in one place for months on end," the sidewalls get brittle in the sun and fail like the tires on the Pantsir-SR, he wrote. "No one exercised that vehicle for one year."
Karl Muth, an economist, government adviser, and self-described "tire expert," jumped in, agreeing with Telenko but adding some details about the tires.
"There is a huge operational level implication in this," Telenko said. "If the Russian Army was too corrupt to exercise a Pantsir-S1, they were too corrupt to exercise the trucks and wheeled [armored fighting vehicles] now in Ukraine," meaning "the Russians simply cannot risk them off-road during the Rasputitsa/mud season." That is a problem for the convoy in the north, he added. "The Crimea is a desert and the South Ukrainian coastal areas are dryer. So we are not seeing this there. But elsewhere the Russians have a huge problem for the next 4 to 6 weeks." Read Telenko's whole thread on Twitter.
#1
The Soviets/Russians have a history of 'hanger queen' equipment. They would only use one or a crude mechanical simulator to practice with. They were not keen about 'going to the field' and using the stuff in real environment as it takes a toll on the equipment requiring constant maintenance and supply/parts support. American units have readiness reports that track the status of every vehicle. It's a bit of a pain and, yes, some commanders crib their reports. [Amazing how many readiness reports were 'updated' when they were altered for Desert Shield in the early 90s. /sarc off]
In WW2 their analysis was that tanks usually didn't survive more than something like a 100 hours on the battlefield so why build something that require so much support. The Americans had recovery units which would recover tanks and refurbish them in theater not far from the front lines and then send them back into combat.
When the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in '68, they did it under cloud cover to avoid satellite detection. They pulled it off but when the clouds cleared, intel showed a trail of abandoned vehicles all the way back to their bases.
#6
"Depends" is the answer. Most Eurocentric historians see the invasion of Poland as the start. Others see it starting in 1937 with the Marco Polo bridge incident and invasion of China.
This may be the slow burning fuse start until something else happens and drags in more than just 3 nations.
Gold Reserves in the United States increased to 8133.50 Tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2021 from 8133.47 Tonnes in the third quarter of 2021. source: World Gold Council
From the same site about Russia:
Gold Reserves in Russia increased to 2298.53 Tonnes in the third quarter of 2021 from 2292.31 Tonnes in the second quarter of 2021. source: World Gold Council
Apparently America also has a huge stash of other countries’ gold reserves in the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but the internet reports Russia has kept her gold in vaults at home.
[Babylon Bee] Addressing lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, President Joe Biden began his State of the Union speech by announcing a bold plan to increase spending on Smergberd, Rustamufferns, and Blabtrussels.
"Not only will we fight inflation by increasing government spending on these invaluable potumpalumps," said the President, passionately teetering to one side, "but we will also make sure every man, woman, and chargafar receives quality, affordable sploogle."
Senator Chuck Schumer applauded Biden’s spending plan, giving it a standing ovation. Later, when asked to comment on any particulars regarding the speech, the Democrat senator said he was confident there would be overwhelming bipartisan support for Thwignibblers.
Nancy Pelosi appeared distraught during this specific part of the speech. Sources claim the Democrat Speaker of the House was caught off guard, having not previously purchased shares in any of the endeavors mentioned by the Commander-in-Chief, including Volburlumps.
Not all lawmakers were in favor of Biden’s bold new initiative. During a pivotal moment in the eloquent speech, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert was summarily booed after standing up and shouting, "What are you saying? We don’t understand any of those words! Are you OK?"
Despite the disrespectful interruption, the bright-eyed, quick-witted President of the United States of America continued his oration, words flowing from his mouth like honey from an angel’s wings. The final words of this truly memorable State of the Union address may go down in history as the finest line in presidential history:
"yIlop! wa’leS chaq maHegh!"
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#1
I believe quality, affordable sploogle's available on Po&nhub, or so I hear...
#4
Personally, I don't accept the 'lost a step' theory. From all my recollection he has been a semi-coherent blowhard his entire time in public life. Worse yet his first instinct is to bully. Hell, the family motto is 'Don't you know who I am?'.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Right about now.
[Babylon Bee] Addressing lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, President Joe Biden began his State of the Union speech by announcing a bold plan to increase spending on Smergberd, Rustamufferns, and Blabtrussels. 
