Aw. That's kinda sad. Just a few months ago i was saying how it's crazy that Kola is still the deepest we ever got, so i was excited when i read the title. I thought let's go, finally a deeper hole. But then i saw it's in burger units not meters...

Then again, Kola was also not initially planned to be as deep as it ended up being. So there is still a chance once the project gets underway that they will just keep going to see how far they can get. 32k to 40k is not insignificant but it might be doable.

For comparison, the longest (non-vertical) drilled holes (oil wells) max out at 50k feet. 9 out of the 10 longest were made by Russia off the coast of Sakhalin. Drilling deep into the crust poses different challenges of course but maybe there's tech that's cross-applicable.

This gives me a lot of optimism. When the CPC officially adopts it as policy that's about the safest bet you can get that it's actually going to happen. If it was just Russia saying it i would be skeptical. The Russian Federation can be a bit fickle and prone to changing their minds on projects like this, yet another unfortunate result of a profit-driven capitalist system. But when China says it's going to do something, they are serious.

I'll be honest, i think some of this is Russian media doing a bit of sensationalism. Reality probably was somewhat more boring. From what i've read the Koreans were first mainly used in the backline to get them used to how this conflict operates and then gradually given more tasks closer to the front. I doubt it was quite as "cinematic" as this describes, but it makes for a good story to portay the Koreans in this way and that sells well in Russia. Not that i'm opposed to it, i actually think that creating this legend of the Korean super soldiers is great for boosting relations between the Russian and Korean people. If the Russians see the Koreans as these heroic self-sacrificing allies that is good for both countries.

I don't think it was about humiliation so much as trying to undo years of propaganda.

Yup. This is what i suspect was the intention all along. Trump now has the perfect excuse to distance himself from the Ukraine debacle.

The Ukrainians who want to hate Russia are going to hate them no matter what Russia does. The rest i think are smart enough to understand that nothing that has been happening in Ukraine for the last 30+ years has been to their benefit.

It's not like the West has respected their sovereignty. They've had two color revolutions and neither time have the promises that were made to them been fulfilled. Things only got worse. So why not try something new?

A large number of Ukrainians have relatives in Russia so they are already not entirely ignorant of what things are really like there and how much better conditions are for Ukrainians living in Russia than in Kiev controlled Ukraine, despite the best efforts of the Maidan media's propaganda and harsh suppression of the pro-Russian viewpoint.

The biggest problem will be the young generation that has been educated on ten years of anti-Russia hate and lies and pro-Nazi indoctrination that the post-Maidan regime mandated schools to teach in Ukraine. But even that generation is now very disillusioned and many have been fleeing the country to escape the very real possibility of being drafted once the age is lowered to 18.

Oops. The empire hurt itself in its confusion.

Either way it's an act of terrorism.

It would be great if they hadn't passed a law making it illegal to negotiate with Russia.

Done.

I guess every now and then some truth manages to slip through the dense net of censorship the West has woven around its people. Though i don't know how large the readership of this publication is...

Personally i find it hard to get too excited about these sorts of articles, because when Russians and people living in the Donbass say this exact same stuff they are immediately dismissed. And they have been saying this for years. It takes putting a "civilized European" face on a piece of information for it to be believable apparently.

The same happens in other parts of the world too. Whether it's about China or any other part of the global south, nothing is taken seriously if it's not a Westerner (or someone on the West's payroll) saying it, until it's confirmed months or in some cases years later by some Western source, long after it's ceased to be topical or politically relevant.

It's really tiresome how blatant the chauvinism is. And some parts of the "left" are guilty of this too (not the ML/anti-imperialist part but the "do you have a better source than RT or CGTN" type of "leftist"?).

I don't think they were indiscriminate at all, i think the evidence is pretty clear that they purposely and carefully targeted civilian objectives to cause as much devastation as possible...hospitals, educational facilities, mosques and churches, bakeries, residential and civil administration buildings, any infrastructure that allows people to live in Gaza. They also laser focused on targeting reporters, and when they couldn't get a reporter they massacred their entire family instead. Doctors and emergency service workers were also high priority. This wasn't a campaign of indiscriminate bombing, this was a targeted campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing aimed at making an entire city of 2 million people uninhabitable while wiping out as much of their history and culture as possible. They knew exactly what they were doing.

This is still probably just a limited hangout. The intelligence services sometimes allow the selective release of some information on already compromised/burned or used up assets. This is essentially that. I strongly suspect it's meant to give the impression that this is clearing the air once and for all about the whole Epstein affair but in reality it's meant to protect the deeper underlying networks while throwing a bone to the masses to pacify them. They are ok with sacrificing a few end nodes that are no longer useful, and embarrassing some people who they know are too powerful to ever be held accountable anyway, like Clinton and that old inbred British degenerate.