Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Russian mir
LOL!
We've visualized the number of strategic aviation aircraft at Russia's key airbases, using the most recent data available to us. A total of 44 Tu-95MS and 12 Tu-160 aircraft are currently located at key Russian airbases, not including the Tu-22M3.
Check the airbases here https://x.com/avivector
What is that 2-300 per car lol
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1945450875914219617
Long distance CAS.
Already active in combat, these 300 km/h interceptors are launched from mobile, handheld, or airborne platforms, Militarnyi reports.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1945416290128048553
Russia really seems to be being pushed to full 1984. The legislator’s move for a bill on compulsory male focused reproduction suggests Alexandr Dugin’s moves behind the stage. I get the impression that with Putin’s promises to consider some of Dugin’s other ideas in the future. Dugin suspects, probably correctly, that his ideas are being shelved for the far, far future. I suspect such a law requiring reproductive activity, especially after only 3 “dates”, would trigger another flood of Russian males fleeing Russia for friendlier, less compulsory countries. It would make life in Russia impossible for any exclusively gay male living there. Then their only option would be compulsory military service and probable death. Of course the Russian women reported to be black widows who make a point of marrying men to get their enlistment bonuses would have a field day.
Regarding the poor laying hens who are being thrown out on the street. I imagine their fates will be either someone’s next dinner, or perhaps someone’s new source of daily eggs or a small business by selling eggs. Thus a source of micro-capitalism, so antithetical to Dugin ideology. I am not sure Kirill’s crosses are going to solve any of these issues. Russia is such a fun place.
Russians have had the advantage of glide bombs for some time now, but now they are getting a taste of their own medicine.
Drone dropped bombs and grenades are good, but this takes it up to a new level. No escaping these
Remember the important difference that Russia is targeting a large number of civilian and even medical targets. Ukraine is targeting military/industrial targets with possibly some collateral damage. So far I have seen NO statistics regarding Russian civilian casualties not directly caused by being too close to a legitimate war related target.
In Russia the Muslims and other minorities have decent bitrates. While Russian birthrates are a disaster. This has been killing Putin (mentally) for years. Putin plotted to take all of Ukraine in a swift government decapitation in Kiev and an overall blitzkrieg attack. To takeover-annex Ukraine within a month while Zombie Biden and Europeans sat on their hands. Taking Ukraine intact meaning instantaneously adding 43 million Slavs to Russia. Putin calls Ukrainians little Russians. That they are Russian enough to add 43 million new Russians to the existing number of 107 million. This Tsarist style scheme failed, so now he is destroying Ukraine, while keeping Kiev and Odessa (super important gem of the black sea) mostly intact.
Annexing Ukraine was Putin's solution for miserable Russian birthrates.
The Battle for Ukraine Is a War of Demography
Russia’s crisis of depopulation is at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s paranoid military strategy.
December 6, 2024, 3:37 PM
By Ivan Krastev, the chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Stephen Holmes, a professor of law at New York University.
https://archive.is/THnJO#selection-3191.0-3262.0
US, UK and Turkish ISR flights today over the Western Black Sea today watching Crimea. USAF Forte 10 Global Hawk still airborne and watching Crimea after more than 18 hours. Somewhat out of the ordinary.
I suspect the US Intel pipeline is wide open at this point.
Tax and Burn (the money in war). Smells like crisis brewing.
Russian authorities call for urgent tax increase to save national budget
Kyiv Independent (16 July):
“Moscow needs to urgently raise more money as shrinking oil and gas revenues and a worsening economic outlook continue to strain the federal budget, a senior Russian lawmaker warned on July 16.
Anatoly Artamonov, chair of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, cautioned that Russia’s financial situation is becoming more serious and that immediate steps are needed to stabilize it. “We need to use all available resources to increase the revenue base,” he said, according to the Moscow Times.
One step, he suggested, could be reducing the number of tax exemptions. Artamonov said these exemptions currently make up about a third of the federal budget...
...He also pointed to the widespread issue of shadow employment—undeclared work often paid in cash—to avoid taxes...
...Artamonov also criticized the Russian government’s hesitation to move forward with privatization efforts. Selling off certain state-owned assets, he argued, could provide much-needed funds to help fill budget gaps.”
That would be a great gig, sell the state owned property, collect the cash then re- nationalize
Russian mir
The Kremlin is recycling several longstanding informational narratives, including nuclear threats, in a renewed effort to break the United States away from Ukraine and the NATO alliance. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed on July 16 that all provisions of Russia's nuclear doctrine, including the responsibility of nuclear countries to not “incite” non-nuclear states, remain in effect and that nuclear states must “answer” for “inciting” non-nuclear states.[1] Russia updated its nuclear doctrine in Fall 2024 to include a clause stipulating that Russia will consider aggression against it by a non-nuclear state with the support or participation of a nuclear power as a joint attack on Russia, likely in an effort to deter Western support for Ukraine during critical Western policy discussions in late 2024.[2] Peskov claimed that “Europeans maintain a rabid militaristic attitude towards Moscow” in response to a question regarding the US President Donald Trump-led effort to provide increased military aid to Ukraine via NATO member states.[3] Peskov also called on the international community to pressure Ukraine into bilateral negotiations with Russia — a reversal of Western calls to pressure Russia into meaningful bilateral negotiations to end the war — likely to falsely portray Russia as willing to negotiate while undermining Ukraine's credibility.[4] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed on July 15 that Russia's war in Ukraine is aimed at eliminating “the threats that NATO has created” on Russia's borders.[5] The Kremlin is employing the same rhetorical lines that it has continuously used throughout the war to deter Western support for Ukraine, but has shifted its objective from preventing new support for Ukraine to reversing recent support and breaking the United States away from its transatlantic allies, likely in response to President Trump‘s recent demonstration of the United States’ reinvigorated commitment to arming Ukraine and supporting NATO. Trump reaffirmed in late June 2025 that the United States will uphold NATO's Article 5 collective defense clause and recently demanded that Russia agree to a ceasefire agreement by September 2 or risk stringent US secondary tariffs.[6] The Kremlin is prioritizing informational campaigns aimed at undermining NATO unity and stoking discontent between the United States and its European allies in order to degrade Ukraine's defense capabilities and achieve its longstanding war aims that amount to Ukraine's capitulation.
Russian forces conducted a large series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on July 15 to 16, heavily targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile from occupied Crimea and 400 Shahed-type and decoy drones from the directions of Bryansk and Kursk cities; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; and occupied Cape Chauda, Crimea on the night of July 15 and 16.[10] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 198 Shahed-type drones and that 145 decoy drones were “lost” or suppressed by Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) systems. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that the Russian strike package largely targeted Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast; Kharkiv Oblast; and Vinnytsia City, Vinnystia Oblast, and Ukrainian officials reported that the strikes also damaged civilian, industrial, and energy infrastructure in Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts.[11] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the Russian strikes mainly damaged energy infrastructure and that authorities were working to restore power to Kryvyi Rih.[12] Dnipropetrovsk Oblast officials and Ukraine's Southern Operational Command reported that Russian forces launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile each against both Kryvyi Rih and Odesa Oblast.[13] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces only launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile overnight, and Odesa Oblast officials did not report a ballistic missile strike in the oblast, so it is unclear whether Russian forces launched two ballistic missiles overnight.[14] Ukrainian Center for Combatting Disinformation Head Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko reported that Russian forces continue targeting Ukrainian cities with large drone swarms.[15]
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https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-16-2025
“Otherwise, enemies will run around and talk about Putin's death.” Russia is stepping up the fight against those who hinder Victory in the SVO, indulge the West, and disrupt the increase in the birth rate.
Many are excited by plans to fine Russians for searching for and viewing extremist information, using and advertising VPNs, and so on. We turned to sources in the Kremlin for an explanation of this initiative. A source close to the president answered the question of what is happening as follows: “We are entering a difficult period. It will be accompanied by crises, pressure from the West, the continuation of the SVO, which some unreasonable people will think is a delay. Our goal is Victory. Therefore (I say this quite openly) Russia needs stricter control over information flows than it has now. We will not win without it.”
The source demonstrated the need for such tightening with an example. “Now I can go online and read, for example, about the death of our president Putin. About the death of our almost only hope that the SVO will last as long as necessary and will not end before the Victory. Do you think it is normal when enemies will continue to run and tell everyone about the death of Vladimir Vladimirovich? Therefore, it is necessary to take measures. And punish those Russians who will consume and spread harmful information. The process is not without excesses, but I hope that they will all be corrected,” the representative of the Presidential Administration said. Another said that changes in control over the information space are part of a broader effort to eliminate the “threats facing Russia.”
“We are intensifying the fight against those who hinder Victory in the SVO, including informationally. With those who indulge the West and bring us its false values. With enemies who disrupt our fight to increase the birth rate. I do not want to do this, but the moment has come when we cannot do without tough actions. Moreover, we are mainly talking about fines. I do not understand the reasons for the panic. The same applies to the fight against extremist organizations. The problem is ripe and overripe. And let everyone stop calling what is happening repressions, it's nonsense!” the channel's interlocutor is sure.
The Central Bank has found yet another proof that Russia is facing a very serious crisis
A source close to Elvira Nabiullina contacted us and reminded us of the forecast of the head of the Central Bank : if the SVO does not end soon, Russia will face a serious and “destructive” crisis. We asked not to stir up panic. In response, the channel's interlocutor quoted Valentina Matviyenko's statement: “The motto of the next budgets is the most severe savings, the effectiveness of every ruble.”
“The fact that Valentina Ivanovna speaks directly about the problems is very indicative. Even more indicative is the fact that she mentioned the next budgets. That is, the crisis can last for several years. I hope that everyone will eventually listen to our forecasts and advice. And we will be able to avoid the worst,” the source noted. He did not give any forecasts for dates, indicating the start of the crisis as the period “until the end of the year.” It is not very pleasant to publish such posts. But we believe that hiding this information from people is wrong and even criminal.
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