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Posted on 08/13/2024 7:27:16 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
“Why did all these RVC [Russian Volunteer Corps] and the Legion [Freedom of Russia Legion] conduct their raids? To carry out additional reconnaissance [of the area]. They weren’t just walking around and posting all these videos; [PR] for the media was an afterthought. Initially, any military shit is done for military purposes. We did the same thing back in the day [since 2014]. We went in, observed the reaction — how quickly they respond to your arrival, how many forces are there, where, what, how — and then we left. Then again and again. So, eventually, [the AFU] already had a plan, gradually pulled in troops in small groups so as not to make a large movement noticeable, and then just broke through.
For more than six months, they carried out reconnaissance like this (the first RVC raid into Kursk Oblast took place in March 2024. — Ed.). They kept coming in; there were some small skirmishes, sometimes they got killed, sometimes not. But the main thing is they conducted additional reconnaissance, mapped out the area, tested the forces. And what changed on our side [on the border] in six months? F**king nothing. And when all these raids on the Kursk direction started, the border guards only had light firearms, no heavy equipment, and the border was practically always open. But nothing changed in six months. Authorities allocated money to strengthen the border: ‘dragon’s teeth,’ trenches were supposedly dug — but mostly, the money, as usual, was f**ked up. And what, the Ukrainians [are crazy], or what, not to take advantage of this, once they’ve already learned the area and it still remains weak on defense?
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Ukraine ping
Former Russian LRRP operator on the view from Russia re the Kursk incursion.
I’m surprised at the lack of Russian drone response to all the tanks and armored vehicles advancing in their territory.
The Ukrainians deployed their own jamming drones, something new.
Of course, that has to be it. No one would think that the Ukrainians themselves would want to defend their country from a Russian invasion.
Putin is asked to urgently ban the dollar and divorces in Russia. Then we will “take back the Kursk region and take Kiev.” The initiator of these bans, philosopher Alexander Dugin, addressed the president with such a request. “I know that everything is being prepared. Divorces are being banned little by little, we will refuse the enemy currency. But everything is going terribly slowly. And now we urgently need to refuse everything Western, which is corrupting Russian culture and the Russian spirit. Then the people will see a new reality, real values. They will unite around them. And we will win.
We will not only recapture the Kursk region, but we will take Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Odessa. We will destroy Ukraine – so that everyone will forget about it,” Alexander Gelyevich said in a commentary to our channel. According to him, he has already “had a short conversation with Vladimir Vladimirovich on this topic.” And he believes that the president will hear him. The Kremlin confirmed to us the fact of Putin's conversation with Dugin. But they refused to say whether the issues of banning the dollar and divorces are currently being considered.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4509
Yes please, ban foreign currencies.
Thanks Zhang Fei.
As the media reported at the end of July, about 80% of payments in yuan are not accepted in China and are returned back to the Russian Federation. Currently, more than 98% of Chinese banks refuse to accept direct transactions from Russia, confirmed Alexey Razumovsky, Commercial Director of Impaya Rus. This also applies to regional players. Because of this, problems with the supply of goods to the Russian Federation may arise in the future and even prices may rise, the expert warned. He explained: it is difficult for Russian businesses to buy anything in China now.
Back in mid-July, the largest Chinese financial organizations began dividing incoming yuan into “clean” and “dirty” (i.e., related to Russia), and then refusing to accept the latter, recalled Alexey Poroshin from JSC “First Group”. However, now the problem of “clean” yuan has become much more serious than three weeks ago, he emphasized.
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
I didn’t know that tech existed, thank you.
Neither did the Russians.
I’m doing cartwheels did you catch the live Russian TV today? The KGB dictator on a ZOOM meeting with his various deputies and governors, and the acting governor of the region, Kursk I believe, stated the reality of all the evacuations and chaos down there and Putin cut him off and said “we will discuss that later in the military context”… How embarrassing
Are they playing Swan Lake yet on Russian radio stations and that only?
Sorry for your loss.
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