https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1785688998725439885
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Kremlin snuff box, 05/01/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
It can be faster. Putin made a remark about Russia’s offensive at the front
Vladimir Putin praised our army for its offensive in the Northern Military District zone, but believes that the troops could have moved forward “faster.”
The President expressed this opinion during a conversation with several generals.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich praised the army for its offensive, for the way we are pushing back the enemy, especially in the DPR. He expressed confidence that both the DPR and other regions will be liberated.
“But he made a remark. Believes that we could advance faster. He noted that Russia needs new big victories, and capturing villages is not enough for this,” said our source in the Ministry of Defense.
The military responded that even the current advance is accompanied by serious losses in people and equipment ( we were asked not to disclose them, we will listen to this request ).
And the situation is getting worse, because the enemy is fighting in anticipation of the help that the Americans provided to the Kiev regime.
“Understand. But think about how to do everything more intensively and faster,” Vladimir Vladimirovich said to this.
It is interesting that neither Sergei Shoigu nor Valery Gerasimov was present at the meeting ( it was held online and was not advertised ).
Kremlin snuff box, 05/01/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
The name of the politician who spread rumors about Putin’s poor health and death has been revealed
We have written about the spread of such rumors more than once. In particular, they appeared after Vladimir Vladimirovich [ Putin ] took communion, and also immediately after the terrorist attack in Crocus.
3 unrelated sources, in the FSB and the Kremlin, told us that the rumors were dispersed by people associated with Sergei Sobyanin.
“We have clear evidence that harmful fake news was spread by people associated with the mayor of Moscow. We are now checking the evidence and will present it to the President. The evidence, believe me, is serious,” said one of the interlocutors.
A source in the Kremlin is confident that Sobyanin has become “a hostage to his ambitions.”
“Sergei Semenovich believes that he has stayed too long in his chair in Moscow and wants to reach a higher level. At the very least, become Prime Minister, but who knows? But he has no chance of getting a post in the same government, so he’s doing shxx,” he said.
Also, according to the interlocutor, Sobyanin wants the SVO to end as soon as possible ( despite all the progress of our army ), and he will get back to normal business, even if he remains Mayor of Moscow. At the same time, the head of the capital is not ready for any serious rebellion.
Sources close to Sobyanin denied this information to us and called it “nonsense.” True, we got very nervous and tried to find out where we learned this “nonsense”.
It is interesting that Putin has not yet been presented with incriminating evidence against Sobyanin. But sources promise that he will receive all the necessary information in the near future.
Cluster shells have reentered that chat according to whining Russians near Krynky.
LETS VOTE.
“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced Wednesday she’ll act next week to force a vote on whether to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), an extraordinary move highlighting the internal turmoil in the GOP.
But the effort is all but certain to fail after Democratic leaders said they would vote to protect the Speaker from her coup attempt.”
Moscow Marge pushes the envelope with an extraordinary move highlighting the internal turmoil in the GOP and its abject failure to govern.
Atta Boy!
‘Reportedly three ATACMS cluster missiles, hitting a Russian training ground in Kuban’, occupied Luhansk region. Impact starts at 03:50.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1785623722897908086
A different Wilson, but lets still call it Wilson’s War
“US House Representative Joe Wilson called for the transfer of more cluster munition to Ukraine.
“We have surpluses that need to be destroyed. I know a way to destroy them, and that is to send them to the people of Ukraine,” he said.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1785597934005837992
“US House Representative Joe Wilson called for the transfer of more cluster munition to Ukraine.”
By all means.
Send more Artillery!
Thank you President Trump, for preserving this effective solution to meat wave assaults from autocratic regimes.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1785688998725439885
“Cluster shells have reentered”
“Impact starts at...”
Russia’s offensive after mud Season was going to be Infantry heavy. This is just the thing, to counter that.
Russian casualties suddenly back over 1,000 per day.
Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) drones are also a key ingredient.
Locate and destroy them while they train and mass for attack.
The only question remaining is:
If a mobnik never makes it to the front will their mother qualify for a box of chocolates?
Brent crude oil prices dropped $5/bbl in the last few days. Urals running about $75, WTI cracked below $80. Also a bad day for stocks yesterday, on high (or higher) for longer fears for US interest rates.
OilPrice.com reports:
“U.S. crude oil prices continued to plummet on Wednesday, falling over 3% and Brent crude right behind it, shedding over 2.8% on a surprise U.S. inventory build and uncertainty about interest rate cuts and the future of oil demand growth.
Kyiv Post reports:
"The first batch of F-16 multirole fighters might arrive after Orthodox Easter on Sunday, May 5, as per the current plan according to Ukrainian Air Force Spokesperson Ilya Yevlash."
(Happy post mud season offensive Comrade mobniks!)
As an attritional factor, I wonder how the cost of Russian death gratuities and mounting disability payments compares to the cost of ATACMS rounds?
My guess is that Russia is paying more, especially in proportion to their economy or Government budget.
The human cost is horrific, but that is not Putin’s concern. The cannon fodder on the other hand, will likely eventually tire of the tradeoff.
It is a brutal calculus, but war is an ugly thing.
The American aid is adding a lot of high explosive to the already volatile mixture of the war in Ukraine.
I expect OPTEMPO and casualty rates to flare up, as the Russians to launch their meat waves into the guns and the mud dries.
Send more Artillery!
Paywall, but some highlights.
“Beijing Braces for a Rematch of Trump vs. China”
“Last year, as Mike Pompeo’s memoir, “Never Give an Inch,” made the rounds among China’s leaders, one passage in particular enraged Xi Jinping. The secretary of state under former President Donald Trump wrote that the U.S. should “grant full diplomatic recognition” to Taiwan.
Xi’s anger at the remark foreshadowed a broader worry coursing through Beijing: What awaits China should Trump and his inner circle regain power?
Trump’s four years in the White House had brought turmoil to the relationship. When he left in 2020, Beijing breathed a sigh of relief. “Good riddance, Donald Trump!” the official Xinhua News Agency said in an unusually expressive tweet.
Now Chinese officials are quietly preparing for the prospect of Trump’s return to the White House—and bracing for drama in its U.S. relations to amp up again, according to people close to the Chinese leadership’s thinking.”
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“Trump and his trade-war lieutenant, Robert Lighthizer, have openly advocated all but cutting off China’s access to America’s markets, technology and capital.”
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“Trump’s surprise 2016 victory upended the U.S.’s longstanding strategy of deepening economic ties with China.
Xi and his underlings initially believed Trump’s tough talk masked a fear of China’s economic strength. When Trump started setting tariffs on China in early 2018 to force Beijing to change its state-led economic practices, Beijing hit back in kind each time, figuring the businessman-turned-president would eventually back down.
Tit-for-tat escalation followed. The American levies on imports of Chinese goods ended up quadrupling from 3% to 12% on average during Trump’s first term.
Long used to being the more histrionic party in the relationship, China’s Communist rulers found themselves having to deal with an erratic dealmaker using extreme pressure to extract concessions from Beijing.
“Under Trump, we had a bad experience,” Liu Jianchao, a senior party diplomat seen as China’s likely next foreign minister, said at a closed-door session with American think tanks earlier this year, according to people who attended the meeting.
The economic cost to Beijing of Trump’s tariffs, retained by Biden, is real. Chinese companies slapped with tariffs exported less to the U.S., reduced hiring, spent less on research and development and were less likely to start new ventures, according to research from economists at Peking University, Fudan University and other leading Chinese universities. Overall, the damage to China’s gross domestic product from the trade war was three times as high as the hit to the U.S., according to some Chinese economists.”
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“A spokeswoman for the Trump team referred to his past remarks indicating he would take an aggressive stance if he gets back in power. “My agenda will tax China to build up America,” Trump said early last year. “As a matter of both economic and national security, I will implement a bold series of reforms to completely eliminate dependence on China in all critical areas.”
If Trump gets re-elected, said Matt Turpin, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution who served on Trump’s National Security Council, “on day one, he would ask how China lived up to the Phase One trade agreement. Then he would instruct Lighthizer to pick up where we left off.”
In his book, published last year, Lighthizer describes China as “the greatest threat that the American nation and its system of Western liberal democratic government has faced since the American revolution.””
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/trump-china-rematch-beijing-0b0a9c6e?mod=hp_lead_pos10
I think at least a half dozen freepers have said the same thing right here on your threads.
And now, despite a 95% record of voting in agreement of Trump, he will suddenly be called a RINO, Deep State, Traitor, etc by the pro-Putin folks. According to the Russian posters here, either Russia is the defining issue that makes you a conservative or liberal, or Trump is really not their guy...
Tonight, Russia came to the realization that they will never have Odesa.
M26 DCIPM rockets. Tens of thousands of them.
And 155mm, of course. Cluster, conventional and guided.
And Europe really needs to pick up the pace. Based on announcements over the past 6 months, Europe is supposed to be producing 155mm at a rate of 1.3M/year by the end of this year. But those are just words, and I'll believe it when I see it.
"The era of basing our production in China, of delegating our defense to the U.S., and of getting our energy from Russia is over. The rules of the game have changed," he said. The French president accused both the U.S. and China of failing to respect global trade rules in massively subsidizing their economies.
“However strong our alliance with America is, we are not a priority for them” he said. “They have two priorities: themselves — fair enough — and China.”
Europe declined to join the USA in our "trade war" with China. Now they too see the folly in exporting their manufacturing and money to China, who steals the intellectual property and builds their industrial base to replace western industry. Europe still has a huge industrial base, but it is dying, and serious action is required to save it.
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