Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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The Bloomberg article linked at comment #4382 is well worth reading. It includes sentences like the quote below which call attention to likely Russian trolls such as people making pro Russia/Putin comments here at FR.
“Moscow is leveraging Russia-based influence-for-hire firms with skills to complicate tracing efforts back to their source as well as being more nimble and having fewer bureaucratic hurdles than government agencies, according to the US officials. The firms have created influence platforms that discreetly engage Americans and tailor content while masking Russia’s involvement.”
If you click on the names of some of the most avid pro Russia/Putin commenters you will see that a number joined FR soon after Alexander Dugin’s book on how to control the West and eventually the world came out in 1997, when FR began its life. Other such commenters joined immediately before or after Putin’s move on Crimea and eastern Ukraine in 2014. To many, Dugin is referred to as Putin’s Brain. Putin has made his book required reading in Russian military colleges and also recommended for reading at high schools.
At this Wikipedia site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopoliticsthere are 21 bullet pointed items explaining the method for Putin to follow to conquer the west and control the world. Item 20, below concerns us directly in the United States. Putin has already achieved some of the first points listed for application to Europe and the US. Others target the Far East and the rest of the world.
“* In the Americas, United States, and Canada:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]”
Does this sound like life in the USA for the past decade? Also some of the biggest conflicts on FR?
The Bloomberg article also comments on Iranian and Chinese possible actions in the US as well as the kind of thinking that motivates their actions.
Are you saying that the major DNA test companies advertised in the US like 23 And Me are all analyzed in China for these companies? Is that Public TV program that searches the family history of 2 public figures and then uses DNA information to identify distant relatives using Chinese developed DNA profiles? My son used one of the 2 most popular DNA testing services in the US. This one did NOT test Neanderthal DNA, the other one does.
In my comment I was not looking at religions fighting other religions, but rather fighting within a religion. In fact you are right, the Sunni Shia split happened soon after the death of their founder Mohammad. Actually one of the first major intra Christian fights was against the Albigensian Heresy in the 13th century, not just the major fights of the Hundred Years War or the Thirty Years War several centuries later. Also I doubt the Muslim dust ups were significant factors in our founding fathers decision to deemphasize religion in our Constitution and legal processes.
“Iran’s Leader Orders Retaliatory Strike on Israel, NYT Says”
“Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly, in retaliation for the killing in Tehran of Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, according to three Iranian officials briefed on the order.
Mr. Khamenei gave the order at an emergency meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday morning, shortly after Iran announced that Mr. Haniyeh had been killed, said the three Iranian officials, including two members of the Revolutionary Guards. They asked that their names not be published because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Iran and Hamas have accused Israel of the assassination; Israel, which is at war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, has neither acknowledged nor denied killing Mr. Haniyeh, who was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president. Israel has a long history of killing enemies abroad, including Iranian nuclear scientists and military commanders.
Through almost 10 months of war in Gaza, Iran has tried to strike a balance, putting pressure on Israel with sharply increased attacks by its allies and proxy forces in the region, while avoiding an all-out war between the two nations.”
“Ukraine received six F-16 fighter jets in the first delivery, a source told The Times.
All six warplanes in the first batch had been supplied by the Netherlands.”
“Between 20 to 30 people may be released from Russian prison in a matter of hours, incl. Evan Gershkovich, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin and many others, a source familiar with planning for the exchange says.”
https://x.com/samberkhead/status/1818735811967566200
Poor Fico
“Ukraine’s Prime Minister Shmyhal confirms sanctions on Lukoil will stay, stating they don’t threaten Slovakia. Kyiv prioritizes reducing Russian oil dependency while ensuring reliable transit for EU partners.”
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1818759331661463881
Just warms the Heart
It was a 2 day battle.
“Russian VChK-OGPU Telegram channel obtained a recording of the story of the Wagner PMC mercenary about how the events in Mali really unfolded.’
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1818654599047242114
When it rains, it pours.
“Report in Iran: Milad Bedi, an Iranian military adviser to the Revolutionary Guards, was killed yesterday in the Israeli attack in Beirut.”
https://x.com/NetanelWorthy/status/1818733730405794045
I decided to look up recent reports on the Kerch Btidge situation. According to several reports, the rail bridge has only been used for up to five rail cars and commuter passenger cars since the car bomb attack and oil train fire. It is believed the fire was so hot it damaged the reinforcing rods within the bridge cement. Only one 55 car oil train was run on the bridge since the original fire. I wonder if there were problems that surfaced that made the engineers decide to turn to the 3 huge ferries, which now are all out of use. The article below describes efforts to build a new rail lline from Rostov on Don to the northern Crimea mainland entry point, with completion hoped for by end of the year. Since it runs through occupied southern ukraine, the Ukes may have other ideas regarding completion date.
I still don’t think Ukraine will totally destroy the Kerch Bridge. They may try to damage the rail bridge if Russia tries to use it again while the 3 big ferries are out of use If Ukraine has any hope of regaining Crimea, they will want the million Russians who moved there after 2014 to be able to pack their cars and drive away.
Perhaps, but I doubt the Russians there will be willing to put their lives on the line, once over ship them home on ferries…
More Winning.
“Russian border guards are ceremonially departing from Yerevan’s international airport as Armenia decided to control its border by itself. “
https://x.com/leonidragozin/status/1818675242232889799
Hmmm, who gave them a Starlink?
Me thinks the good guys are helping them.
https://x.com/APHClarkson/status/1818742651631681878
Kazan must be very SAD.
“After brisk rate of 8 launches in the first 5 months of 2024, there was not a single Russian orbital launch attempt in the past 2 months, putting Roskosmos on track for a record-low space activities this century as war and sanctions choke the economy”
https://x.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1818667538575745300
I feel your pain
“It’s locked by pro Russian mods. Which is specially funny when you realize the Russian version of the same article has the updated 2024 numbers lol.”
https://x.com/Jonpy99/status/1818689365117112784
As to reason on religion …
I believe that most of the signers were religious, what they didn’t want was a national religion ie England
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