I'm sorry to say but this is too good, Mercouris once again finding some hilarious articles to read.

First of all Financial Cope The hard lessons from Ukraine’s summer offensive This is a banger start already

The idea that Ukrainian forces, lacking any air cover, would storm through Russian lines was always going to be more of a Hollywood plotline than reality. But three months into the counteroffensive, Zelenskyy and his government are dealing with the reality that it has not achieved the desired decisive breakthrough — and are girding themselves for a drawn-out war.

Realy now? I mean realy now you were ALL literaly the ones saying and believing this? British are shameless as usual and continue to look down on their readers confident that nobody deranged enough to read FT unironicaly remembers anything beyond the articles from 2 days ago I guess.

Some US officials have complained privately to the media that Ukraine had failed during training to master modern operations that combine mechanised infantry, artillery and air defence and were too risk averse in their approach.

Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, have pointed out that American forces have themselves never conducted operations on battlefields like Ukraine’s, without air superiority, against a military the size and calibre of Russia’s, and against some of its most advanced weaponry and military technologies.

One of the main lessons of the counteroffensive so far, say analysts, is that western training of Ukrainian troops, typically of five weeks, is too short. It is not adapted to the way Ukraine fights best or to conditions on the ground, such as the impenetrable minefields or fortifications. And it takes place without the omnipresent drones hovering over the Ukrainian front lines.

“If I only did what [western militaries] taught me, I’d be dead,” says Suleman, a special forces commander in the 78th regiment. He says he had trained with American, British and Polish soldiers, all of whom offered “some good advice” but also “bad advice . . . like their way of clearing trenches. I told them: ‘Guys, this is going to get us killed.’”

I don't even have a reaction to shit other than oh no everything the Russians said is true about NATO decadence/incompetence, confirmed on MSM media but libs are still "Russian propaganda?"

There is more from that if you want to read, like Ukraine going back to "attrition war" because its their strength it is both Nazi rethoric against USSR continuing the tradition of "to the last Ukrainian". Yeah attrition works if you think the enemy will run out of soldiers before you do, just forget which country got 3x the population and which country is calling mobilization after mobilization.

This meeting between Russia and DPRK must be significant. I can't remember ever seeing Kim Jong-un leave DPRK before. Yet another example of western blowback? I always assumed Russia gave DPRK nuke tech but maybe not since 1990's. A recent photo of Kim Jong-un and his daughter at a mobile rocket launch showed a big wet spot (water condensation) around the launcher which suggests they still using liquid fuel. Solid fuel would be a big improvement as you wouldn't need liquid oxygen trucks following the mobile launchers around. I don't know much about rocket science so I'm wondering if solid fuel would improve range of ICBM's also? Not to mention improvements in yield and shaping of the detonation of nukes and other related bomb tech that Russia is known for. China just announced a high level delegation traveling to DPRK in the near future so things are starting to pop off in that region of the world.

Exciting news for fans of escalation. Ukraine has hit two Russian ships in drydock in Sevastopol with British Stormshadow missiles. Nato recently kicked off it's latest round of naval exercises with the 6th fleet in the black sea. It's quite possible that Ukraine used those naval exercises as cover to attack Sevastopol.

Bidenomics?

https://twitter.com/ducaena/status/1701741396363792650

Friend of the news mega Sarah Ashton-Cirillo announces "Russian propagandists" will be "hunted down" in a cool video

AMLO dropping a "reacting to" video.

AMLO plays a video of Milei talking about the Pope. The man absolutely hates the Pope because he has a Peronist-ish background and once spoke about Social Justice and was once related to a few argentine communists back in the day. So he begins to yell saying that the devil took the "House of God" and that he "Pushes for communism" (Imagine the Pope being this based). AMLO's reaction is priceless. Libertarian by the way, and super pro-church. Go figure.

May God have pity on our people, because these people wont.

“The glory of Russia, which gave birth to the first space explorers, will be immortal”

The North Korean leader's handwriting is beautiful, but difficult to read.

“A couple of words are very difficult to understand,” the expert admitted.

looking at US polls. i wonder which american ancap used a monkey's paw to abolish presidential reelections.

Maduro showing off his new Huawei phone lol

https://twitter.com/realGuancha/status/1702240011339600122

Recent army study suggests a modern war would cost America 50k casualties in two weeks, the same amount it suffered over 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. They suggest reinstating a partial draft as a response.

Pro-Kremlin populist tipped to win Slovak elections

Slovakia, a Central European country of 5.4 million people, was the first NATO nation to deliver fighter jets to Ukraine. But opinion surveys indicate the 30 September snap ballot will be won by Smer-SD, whose leader Robert Fico has made comments in line with Kremlin rhetoric.

“The war in Ukraine originated in 2014 when Ukrainian fascists were killing civilian victims of Russian nationality,” he alleged in a video, repeating inaccurate and unproven Russian claims. Fico has also pledged to “immediately stop all deliveries of military aid to Ukraine”, opposes Ukraine’s bid to join NATO and has condemned EU sanctions against Russia.

Isn't that a basic fact about reality? What is the Odessa trade union building fire if it isn't that? Were they have a barbeque in there that went wrong?

from Rybar:

Another great news from the world of OSINT: another batch of secret files has been posted on the forum of the Russian game War Thunder . This time, documentation for the American F-117 bomber appeared there with all the characteristics and descriptions of the systems. The funny thing is that this is already the 11th (eleventh) such leak in the War Thunder community over the past few years. Similarly, the following became available to the general public:

Complete documentation on the European fighter Eurofighter Typhoon DA7, 730 pages long.

▪️A manual for the Chinese Shenyang J-8B fighter and a document for the on-board complex of the MiG-29 fighter.

▪️Part of the gunner's technical manual for the French Leclerc tank and excerpts from the operation and maintenance manual for the British Challenger tank.

▪️Drawings and technical characteristics of the Chinese 125-mm armor-piercing sabot projectile DTC10-125.

▪️Description of systems and weapons of American multirole fighters F-15E and F-16.

gamers ftw

An F-35 crashed and the AF doesn't even know where it is

We’re working with @MCASBeaufortSC to locate an F-35 that was involved in a mishap this afternoon. The pilot ejected safely. If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600.

Literally give us a call if you find F-35 wreckage in your yard

these are the shitbirds planning to fight China

https://www.businessinsider.com/more-russians-are-offering-to-defect-after-pilot-switched-sides-2023-9?utm_source=reddit.com&r=US&IR=T

wow wholesome defectorino

Two other crew members, who were on board the helicopter and not aware of the defection, tried to flee but were killed.

uhhh

Surovikin is in Algeria?

It is not known what the purpose of his visit to Algeria is. However, in at least one grainy photo, he can be seen giving a talk to an auditorium that seemingly looks official, with Algerian flags in the background and the room packed with dozens of people.

In a more official photo, Surovikin can be seen at the Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque in the port city of Oran, in western Algeria. The images depict Surovikin, sporting stubble and a beige jumpsuit, being shown around the mosque and presented with a Quran.

I'm very confused by what Surovikin is doing nowadays. He was fired as airforce commander, sure, but what is his role now? Who's now in control of the Ukraine conflict on the Russian side?

Libya floods: Level of destruction “never seen before”, death toll reaches 11,300

Untold numbers are buried under mud and debris that includes overturned cars and chunks of concrete. The collapse of two dams in the aftermath of torrential rain caused the most destruction. The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations, referred to the catastrophe as “something never seen in Libya before."

"[...] the numbers are changing as we speak. I mean, the numbers are thousands", Taher El-Sonni said on Thursday morning. "[...] The direct hit came to an area where it's around 30,000. And as we speak now, many of those are either being in a rescue effort or missing because they were hit badly when that happens. So I cannot really confirm the final numbers, but it`s really a high level of magnitude. And I'm afraid we will hear really large numbers, maybe even more than what has been confirmed so far."

Why does Kim Jong-un travel across Russia by special train and not by plane?

COTW: Just saw the Chilean movie Los Colonos (The Settlers) last night. It was really good if disturbing western about the Selk'nam genocide in Tierra del Fuego during the settlement of Patagonia. If you're a fan of old westerns like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly I would definitely recommend the movie it has beautiful cinematography and soundtrack and really feels like it was made in a classic Revisionist Western style. I will give a CW that the movie is far more brutal than I expected it to be going in, so CW for SV/SA, depictions of genocide, child abuse/murder, and racism.

The movie really depicted how the genocide in Tierra del Fuego was carried out directly by capitalist interests like Jose Menendez in order to clear the land for agriculture and development. In a way that I think could be expanded to analyze the United States western frontier. The genocide of the Selk'nam people resulted in the population of the people declining from about 4000 in the mid 1800s to just 100 in the early 1900s. It also has a really interesting analysis of how different national attitudes affected colonization in the Americas. The main characters are a Mestizo worker, a British veteran of the Boer war, and an American settler from Texas, these three are tasked with carrying out part of the genocide. I think the attitudes of these different characters is meant as a representation of their "national character", the British character being pompous and detached in his brutality, the American being paranoid and violent in his fear of the ever expanding frontier, and later we see the idea of a "post-colonial" nationalist who wants to forget the horrors of colonization in order to build a nation. Definitely recommend the movie.

On the Ukrainian front, nothing new.