Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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JUST NOW: President Trump halts sharing US intelligence with Ukraine.
Via: WSJ pic.twitter.com/4HSROCby6c— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) March 5, 2025
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1897286552650441057
Brigadier General Yurii Shchyhol signalled these attacks would grow, revealing that Ukraine plans to more than quadruple the production rate of deep strike drones – with a range of hundreds of miles – to more than 2,000 aircraft a month.
Ukraine has been intensifying the tempo of its long-range drone strikes against targets inside Russia and Russian-occupied territory since late December – demonstrating what defense sources say is a world-leading capability that the Kremlin is struggling to counter.
"Headquarters have been hit, command structures weakened, and panic is spreading among their officers. Compared to a year ago, conducting full-scale combat operations has become significantly more challenging for [the Russians]. <...> We are reaching those targets. The slowing pace of their offensives – and in some places, even Ukrainian counter-offensives reclaiming territory – proves that our strikes are effective and growing more so," Brigadier Shchyhol said.
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1897289204528242853
-4☠️
https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1897304579697721620
🇺🇦 Strike Company «Rugby Team» during aerial reconnaissance, filmed 🇷🇺 Russian inhumans tying up an African mercenary and leaving him to die.
I won't say that I feel sorry for him, but such inhuman treatment of people by Russians proves once again that they are orcs.
https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1897345473393868802
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1897348692119859619
A factory near me is proposing to build SMRs and they’re looking at it.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1897343362367414652
“I won’t say that I feel sorry for him, but such inhuman treatment of people by Russians proves once again that they are orcs.
“And those people who support Russia, you would think that you might be the next to be tied up and abandoned like this.”
Meloni may back out of her Starlink $1.6b deal.
“The Italian government is having growing doubts about closing a €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink in light of the US pullback from commitments to European security, people familiar with the matter said.”
“Possible alternatives to Starlink for secure satellite-based communications to the government include Eutelsat Communications SA, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are confidential. Musk, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, is also seen as an unreliable partner by some in Meloni’s administration, they said.”
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Tesla sales are sinking:
“Germany: -76%”
“Norway, Denmark, and Sweden: -42% to -48%”
“France: -26%”
“Teslas manufactured in China: -46%”
“Tesla Sales See Significant Decline in California”
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Musk may come to regret his entry into politics.
EV buyers are left/left-center voters. They aren’t happy.
When Dems take power in DC again, and they eventually will, SpaceX contracts will be in jeopardy.
I once thought Musk would be the first trillionaire in history. But in fact, his net worth may have peaked.
Saving the country over profits, what a concept.
Many laughed at him for buying twitter, if not for that we would have president Harris.
If you want to talk profits let’s talk land deals made for kali high speed train to nowhere.
If profits are the measure of a good man/woman then pelosi and others should be up for sainthood
Brent crude oil Price dropped below $70 today. (WTI above $66) Janes Defence estimates that Russia needs around $90/bbl to balance its budget this year.
Brent closed at $80.79 the last trading day before Trump’s inauguration.
Russia sinks or swims, on the price of its oil.
The ruble sits around 90 to the dollar today, up from 102.5 the day before inauguration (apparently due to high spending from the Russian Central Bank to prop up the ruble - an expenditure rate of around $2.5 Billion per month).
Russia’s Central Bank’s key interest rate remains at 21%, with the next decision meeting scheduled for 21 March. Mortgage interest rates are now quite punitive for the population.
The officially reported inflation rate continued to climb on the last report, hitting a 9.9% annualized rate for January 2025 (up from a reported 9.5% the month prior, and 9.52% for the whole of 2024). Food and energy prices seem to have risen much more significantly, now being acutely felt by the population at large.
In a glaring example, electricity prices in Russia were raised 2.5 fold in January.
The Russian National Wealth Fund’s available (non-frozen) liquid assets have declined, from $117 billion in 2021 to approximately $31 billion by late 2024 (around $30 Billion/year). At the current rate of expenditure, these reserves are on track to be exhausted within this year (assuming that frozen Russian assets remain frozen, or are confiscated).
If Trump decides to get tough with Russia at some point in negotiations, he is likely to have the leverage to rock them economically, due to their already vulnerable condition.
News report today (mid-Atlantic area), says Tesla car owners are buying attachments to put on Tesla’s so they look like other brands. Tesla’s are being targeted by by anti Musk vandals, even though most of the buyers are probably politcally sympathetic to those angry at Musk. Musk’s glee at his own efforts to remove thousands of people from employment must be especially upsetting to people who thought buying his car would help the environment, and others who saw buying EVs as helping lower the price of gas for those who drive conventional cars. Since Trump wants to lower world gas prices to weaken Russia, Musk’s actions and public attitude are quite counterproductive to Trump’s gas goals. Actually, with oil dropping below $70, there are probably areas in the US and producers who will lose interest in drill baby drill because their drilling costs will no longer allow enough profit. On the other hand if we help save Ukraine, perhaps some such companies can profit from drill baby drill in Ukraine and around Crimea in the Black Sea. However this will not produce the tax paying jobs for US oil workers at home.
The suspension of US intelligence sharing with Ukraine will damage Ukraine's ability to defend itself against ongoing Russian attacks against military and civilian targets. Ukrainian forces have leveraged their ability to strike within Russia and destroy significant amounts of materiel in order to increase pressure on Russia. Ukrainian forces struck a Russian missile and ammunition storage facility near Toropets, Tver Oblast on the night of September 17 to 18, 2024, destroying two to three months of Russia's ammunition supply.[5] The Toropets facility also stored Iskander missiles, Tochka-U ballistic missiles, glide bombs, and artillery ammunition.[6] Ukrainian forces struck the Tikhoretsk Arsenal just north of Kamenny, Krasnodar Krai on the night of September 20 to 21, 2024, which at the time contained at least 2,000 tons of munitions, including munitions from North Korea.[7] Russian forces previously leveraged their quantitative artillery ammunition advantage and glide bomb strikes to facilitate battlefield gains by destroying settlements before deploying infantry to attack the area — most notably near Avdiivka in February 2024 during delays in US military aid to Ukraine.[8] Ukrainian strikes on Russian missile and ammunition storage facilities have previously relieved pressure on Ukrainian forces across the frontline by preventing Russian forces from leveraging their artillery advantage to secure gains. Ukrainian strikes against military targets in Russia also pushed Russian aviation operations further from Ukraine into Russia's rear areas, hindering Russia's ability to conduct glide bomb and missile strikes against Ukrainian frontline positions from Russian airspace.[9] Ukraine's inability to conduct ATACMS and HIMARS strikes against Russian air defense systems within Russia and occupied Ukraine will likely impact how close to the frontline Russian pilots are willing to operate and expand Russia's ability to effectively use glide bombs against both frontline areas and near rear Ukrainian cities.[10]
The suspension of all US intelligence sharing with Ukraine would also allow Russian forces to intensify their drone and missile strikes against the Ukrainian rear, affecting millions of Ukrainian civilians and the growth of Ukraine's defense industrial base (DIB). US intelligence has contributed to Ukraine's early warning system against Russian strikes against Ukrainian cities, allowing Ukrainian authorities and civilians to prepare once Russian forces launch missiles and drones.[11] The suspension of US intelligence on Russian strikes against the Ukrainian rear, coupled with the US suspension of supplies of Patriot air defense missiles that Ukraine relies upon to defend against Russian ballistic missiles, would have severe impacts on the safety of Ukrainian rear areas.[12]
Russian drone and missile strikes have heavily targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure and DIB.[13] The likely intensification of these strikes following the US suspension of military aid and intelligence sharing to Ukraine will hinder Ukraine's ongoing progress towards expanding its DIB to be able to supply the Ukrainian military with all of its materiel needs.[14] A self-sufficient Ukrainian DIB would allow Ukraine to defend itself over the long-term with dramatically reduced foreign military assistance, and it is in America's core national security interests that Ukraine be able to continue its efforts towards self-sufficiency.
Kremlin officials announced their intention of taking advantage of the suspension of US military aid and intelligence sharing to make additional battlefield gains. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev stated on March 5 that US weapons supplies to Ukraine will “most likely resume” but that Russia's “main task” remains “inflicting maximum damage” on Ukraine “on the ground.”[21] Medvedev’s statement is consistent with ISW assessment that Russian forces will likely attempt to take advantage of the pause in US aid in order to make further gains in eastern and southern Ukraine to justify Russia's territorial claims to the entirety of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts.[22] Medvedev also indicated that Russia is aware that it may have a limited time frame in which to leverage the US suspension of aid to “inflict maximum damage” on Ukrainian forces. Russian forces exploited the previous suspension of US military aid in early 2024, including by trying to seize Kharkiv City in May 2024 before US military aid resumed flowing to Ukrainian forces on the frontline.[23]
Kremlin officials continue to use business incentives to make further demands of the United States and to push the United States to de facto recognize Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed on March 4 that Russia is open to working with US companies, including in areas of occupied Ukraine.[27] Peskov questioned, however, how Russia could cooperate with US companies while the US continues to sanction Russia.[28] Peskov is likely setting conditions for Russia to demand that the United States remove its sanctions before Russia would conclude any of the economic cooperation deals that American and Russian delegations have discussed in recent meetings.[29] Peskov’s inclusion of Russia's illegally annexed areas of Ukraine in potential future US-Russian economic cooperation deals is part of Russian efforts to coerce the United States into de facto recognizing these territories as Russian. Peskov’s rhetoric mirrors the Kremlin's strategy of leveraging international organizations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to legitimize Russian control over Ukrainian territories.[30] The Kremlin has used discussions with IAEA officials about the ZNPP to assert that the facility lies on Russian territory.[31]
Over 50,000 Russian servicemembers are reportedly listed as having abandoned their units and are absent without leave (AWOL) between February 2022 and mid-December 2024. A Ukrainian OSINT community reported that Ukrainian hackers gained access to an internal Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) presentation showing the number of criminal cases that Russian authorities had initiated against Russian servicemembers listed as AWOL as of December 15, 2024.[84] The OSINT community noted that the figures in the presentation do include instances when Russian commanders have listed servicemembers who went missing during assaults as AWOL. Ukraine-based open-source intelligence organization Frontelligence Insight used the presentation data to calculate that there were the largest number of AWOL cases - 22,577 - in the Southern Military District [SMD].[85] There were 13,769 AWOL cases in the Central Military District; 7,178 cases in the Moscow Military District; 3,052 cases in the Leningrad Military District; and 3,378 cases in the Eastern Military District – a total of 50,554 documented AWOL cases. A leaked document detailing the AWOL personnel in the SMD reportedly indicated that personnel from the 51st Combined Arms Army [CAA] (formerly 1st Donetsk People's Republic Army Corps [DNR AC]) and 3rd CAA (formerly 2nd Luhansk People's Republic [LNR] AC) made up 58.8 percent of the SMD’s AWOL cases, with most of the SMD’s AWOL cases occurring between 2023 and 2024 and relatively few in 2022.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-5-2025
“Vladimir Vladimirovich is a former intelligence officer.” Putin's inner circle explained how he really feels about Trump.
Vladimir Putin is pleased that Donald Trump took constructive actions and refused military aid to the Kiev regime. But he still remains wary of the American president. A source in Putin's inner circle told us about this. “We, frankly speaking, did not expect that Trump would understand so quickly what needed to be done. But here, probably, communication with Vladimir Vladimirovich worked. He is an experienced politician. And he will explain to anyone which actions are reasonable and which are not. I would like to note how quickly the president made Trump our ally. I want all of Russia to know about this success. This is very important! “ - our interlocutor believes.
At the same time, he admitted that Putin's attitude towards Trump remains “certainly wary.” “Vladimir Vladimirovich is a former intelligence officer. And the United States is our historical enemy. Nothing has changed here yet. Therefore, the wariness remains. But Vladimir Vladimirovich, I am sure, will sort out the risks that our respected American partner still bears. The work is underway. I want Russia to know about this fact , so that everyone remembers what kind of president we have,” the source added.
The fact that pitin continues to ratchet up his war as best he can shows that peace is not his goal. Well at least no different than “peace for our time “ kind of “peace”.
You are right, his goal is a frozen conflict that frees up personnel and equipment for a next step. The reason P has signaled that he wants “peace” is that his economy is going downhill. He needs a few years to be able to get back to the same procedure as usual.
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