[RealClearDefense] Preserving Peace Through Naval Power
The United States Navy’s purpose is to deter war by being ready to fight and win. Deterrence requires that the Navy be highly visible throughout the world’s oceans and seas.
Building and maintaining a world-spanning navy ready to fight and win against any adversary is expensive. War starting because adversaries believe the U.S. Navy is not capable of winning would be much more expensive in blood and money.
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Russian military historian, Alexei Isaev, presents key moments during WWII as they relate to the four battles for Khar'kov, had there had been a Telegram communications program and an internet.
Realizing that this is an esoteric subject for those not familiar with this particular piece of real estate during WWII, so it should be noted that the Soviets only won the last battle of Khar'kov, the one directly after Kursk in July, 1943.
[ColonelCassad] IF THE USSR HAD TELEGRAM IN MARCH 1943.
Tagged "sarcasm". With comments on the real state of affairs and references.
"The retreat near Kharkov showed the rottenness of Stalin's regime. Didn't the bitter experience of 1942 teach us anything? Why the same mistakes again? So we'll lose Kharkov too."
Commentary (reference): the situation in March 1943 was fundamentally different from 1942 both in terms of resources and the general situation; in 1943, they caught the weak spot of the advancing group. Yes, they lost Kharkov.
"Chief of the General Staff Vasilevsky is to blame for everything. By the way, why doesn't he show up in Moscow? Some Antonov is here instead of him."
Commentary (reference): A.M. Vasilevsky, who held the position of Chief of the General Staff, was a representative of the Headquarters, and yes, near Kharkov. Vasilievsky was only the third Russian chief of General Staff during WWII, after Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, who quit because of illness, and Marshal Georgi Zhukov, who was fired.
"The front lines report that the enemy has acquired some heavy Tigers. Was it really impossible to understand that the enemy would not sit idly by and create new tanks? How long will it take to find countermeasures? A month? Two?"
Comment (reference): "Tigers", yes, staged a noisy benefit performance near Kharkov, trampled an anti-tank brigade, an antidote was invented only after Kursk, and in reality later, when they launched the IS-s (first use of Korsun) and T-34-85 (first use at the front in April 1944).
"Our tanks are being shot at from the air! Dozens of vehicles are burning! Like at a proving ground. European factories provided aircraft cannons with tungsten shells despite the red lines for tungsten suppliers and the complete blockade of the continent, outrageous! Where did the Third Reich get tungsten? Why don't we have such weapons? Why don't tanks have large-caliber machine guns?"
Comment (reference): near Kharkov in March 1943, the Germans used anti-tank Ju-87Gs with 37-mm guns with sub-caliber shells, our guys picked up the ejected misfired shot and were able to study it. The tap with tungsten was really not screwed on right away. The number of such planes, however, was small.
Well, how the hypothetical telegram-USSR of 1943 would bomb in June 1943 from Luftwaffe raids on the Volga region with strikes on GAZ and the aircraft factory in Saratov, you can already imagine for yourself.
In the background, the clowns of the "Security-Third Section" are sadly jumping from Magdeburg.
The question is not in the fairness/injustice of reproaches, but in the attitude to events. Armed conflict is always surprises.
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Model Citizens
Three jeers for diversity junkies
And allies and DEI flunkies!
"So virtueless youth
Can stand up for untruth,
We demand..."
Expert: "Umpteen new monkeys."
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[ALT Market] The common claim within the Liberty Movement is that this is all part of the "Cloward-Piven Strategy": A social engineering method which uses large scale relocation of migrants into a society in order to destabilize that nation. The goal is to import people with a incompatible or hostile ideology and, eventually, the target culture will break down and be forced to accept a new system of governance (i.e. from free markets and liberty to communism and slavery).
If western populations are unified in opposing the globalist ideology then the task of deconstruction becomes impossible for them. So, they simply destroy the west from within by introducing millions of people that will NEVER assimilate or unify.
My theory goes beyond the Cloward-Piven explanation, though. I think there is a deeper and even more sinister purpose to the introduction of third world migrants to the US and Europe. I summarized my position in my article ’Cultural Replacement: Why The Immigration Crisis Is Being Deliberately Engineered’ published in January. I noted:
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We have the foreign element that refuses to assimilate, then we have the domestic element that has been groomed to also not assimilate. Something's gotta give.
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[NationalPulse] The Lincoln Project—an anti-Trump PAC—is again reporting stunning overhead costs compared to actual election spending. U.S. federal election records show the group, accused of being a scam PAC, has spent $11.7 million on overhead and just $437,000 on actual election spending since January 1, 2023.High overhead spending with little actual money flowing into election activities isn’t an aberration for The Lincoln Project. The National Pulse reported the group engaged in a similar spending pattern—pouring donor money into vendors, media buyers, and consulting firms connected to the PAC’s founders—during the 2020 election. A total of around $10 million was funneled through vendors back into the pockets of The Lincoln Project‘s founders during the last presidential election cycle.
Founded in 2019 by a group of ‘Republican’ consultants who had been frozen out of work in the party because of their opposition to then-President Donald J. Trump, The Lincoln Project has consistently spent unusually high amounts of donor dollars on overhead costs compared to actual electioneering. Even more troubling, The Lincoln Project was embroiled in controversy in early 2021 after it was revealed that one of its co-founders, John Weaver, was shown to have sent inappropriate messages to young men and boys in an attempt to sexually groom them.The National Pulse reported this past April that The Lincoln Project paid out $35,000 to hackers who had posed as vendors for the PAC and sent fraudulent invoices.In addition, the group poured $42,000 into the far-left, anti-Trump MeidasTouch organization. MeidasTouch, a former Democrat PAC, now serves as a Democrat media platform. It hosts the likes of serial perjurer Michael Cohen and pushed the infamous “bloodbath” hoax against former President Trump.
[Bee] Kamala Harris's team released a powerful new slogan this week that encapsulates the candidate's bold vision for her campaign platform: "We Decline Your Request For An Interview."
"We believe this new campaign slogan sums up perfectly what the Harris-Walz ticket is all about," Harris staffer Mindy Young told reporters. "She is so brave, so bold, so trendy and hip, and totally not at all afraid of the media, but she's just really busy with stuff and can't do interviews right now. I expect young women everywhere to gravitate towards this new messaging; I wouldn't be surprised to see it on t-shirts soon."
The Harris campaign released the slogan after weeks of Kamala bravely hiding behind desks, water fountains, trees, phone booths, large bushes, small children, horses, microphones, and teleprompters to avoid talking directly to members of the media. They believe "We Decline Your Request For An Interview" sums up her courageous, fearless leadership style.
"I will give an interview when I'm good and ready," Kamala Harris told her staff to tell the press. "Now someone refill my wine glass before I literally murder someone."
At publishing time, Kamala had confirmed her first media interview since becoming a candidate. The CNN exclusive is scheduled for August 2032.
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Mark your calendar, ladies and gentlemen, Kamala Harris has done something extraordinary. She has become the only candidate in half a century to become the presidential nominee without winning a single primary vote. Biden’s vice got enough delegate votes in the virtual roll call process to become the official Democratic nominee. Interesting how not winning votes has had an uncanny way of getting this severely unqualified woman one cackle closer to the Oval Office.
But the shock and awe does not stop there, so be advised to have a seat. The absolutely, positively 100% legitimate corporate media monstrosity with blood-soaked hand to its heart reports: Harris is now more popular than Joe Biden or Donald Trump have been at any point in the 2024 election cycle.
Yes, a Morning Consult poll of 11,538 registered voters between July 26 and 28 found 50 percent have a favorable opinion of the sitting vice president, while 46 percent have an unfavorable opinion. According to the pollster, "Harris’s 4-point net favorability is a higher rating than Biden or Trump have posted all cycle."
Is anyone really buying any of this, aside from those people who would rather see Donald Duck, for example, as commander-in-chief than Donald J. Trump?
...And this is where Trump has all the reason in the world to distrust the merchants of media — even if they happen to be the notorious backstabbers at Fox News — as it plays ’neutral’ arbitrator in the upcoming debates. As proof, as if proof were needed, here is something that Harris and not some AI-generated body double uttered just a few days ago during a rally:
"Donald Trump does not care about border security; he only cares about himself," the invisible border czar told a crowd of worshipful supporters. "And when I am president, I will actually work to solve the problem."
The fact that Kamala Harris is able to utter such inanities without any pushback or laugh track shows that the media is seriously gas-lighting the American people, and not playing fair with Trump.
But in the perennial fight against left-wing media forces, Trump has a knack for being his personal Darth Vader, namely due to his willingness to speak his mind, and occasionally the truth, no matter who it hurts. In a less moronic age that was known and welcomed as candidness.
..."Is she Indian or is she Black?" he asked totally unfazed despite the hisses from the crowd.
...While it is questionable as to whether Trump was actually telling Harris who she was, how millions of Black Americans will interpret Trump’s comments is another matter. Cause, otherwise, all these "African-American" DEI lottery winners would vote Trump.
Regardless, he has set himself up for what could be a very uncomfortable — even disastrous — exchange with Harris, who, as a far less accomplished speaker than The Donald, will jump on any opportunity to play the victim card. And Trump may have just unwittingly handed her the ace of spades.
On top of the race card, Trump will also be entering the lion’s den as a climate-change-denying "convicted felon," misogynist, and an anti-abortion supporter — quaint little sound bites that Harris is certainly remembering by heart.
However this tragicomedy plays out, expect lots of handwringing and lecturing from the female (check), Black (check), Indian (check) candidate as she attempts to portray herself as the deserving underdog in a white man’s game.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
[Bee] Kamala Harris's team released a powerful new slogan this week that encapsulates the candidate's bold vision for her campaign platform: "We Decline Your Request For An Interview."
