The ghost of John McCain, as I live and breathe.
Got your marching orders for today with the arrival of The Big Boss from Ulraine, I see. 
Posted on 12/21/2022 1:38:46 PM PST by BeauBo
Chinese telecommunications and smartphone giant Huawei Technologies Co is closing down its enterprise business unit in Russia in a further retreat that affects 2,000 jobs...
Huawei’s Enterprise Business Group division in Russia, responsible for selling data storage systems and telecommunications equipment to corporate clients, will be disbanded on January 1... The move has been made to avoid the risk of secondary sanctions on the telecoms giant, which is already subject to US trade sanctions, as the systems and equipment could be used by the state, according to the report...
...Several Chinese firms have been caught in the crossfire created by the conflict while many Western companies have closed operations in Russia. Huawei’s telecoms competitors, including Ericsson and Nokia, have suspended business operations in the market (also as of 1 Jan).
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There’s a way around everything
Dec 20 (Reuters) - Russia’s Transneft (TRNF_p.MM) has received requests from Poland and Germany for oil in 2023, the state oil pipeline monopoly’s head told Rossiya-24 TV, adding that supplies via the Druzhba pipeline’s southern spur are expected to hold steady next year.
The EU has pledged to stop buying Russian oil via maritime routes from Dec. 5, with Western nations also imposing price caps on Russian crude oil, but the Druzhba pipeline remains exempt from sanctions.
So when Trump wanted Huawei devices banned from American governmental use, it was touted as a win for national security.
Yet when Huawei’s enterprise withdraws from Russia (because China, like Turkey and India, wants to play both sides as long as possible), it’s only a negative for their national security.
Does that sum it up?
(Because quite frankly, anything that reduces Chinese influence in Russia can only he a net positive from my point of view.)
It’s the Inception of sanctions.
The world of the neoconneds is a House Of Mirrors...
Huawei is full of Chinese spy ware and back doors. Any country using them as backbone for their communications infrastructure is stupid.
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Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei are pulling out of Russia.
What is the big name Russian Telecom company that is going to install cutting edge technology?
There isn’t one.
Everything that is nice in Russia, has to be imported.
It is just a former gas station, with nukes.
They already have sanctions on lithographic equipment. And the Chinese are limited to manufacturing 20nm chips.
The ghost of John McCain, as I live and breathe.
Got your marching orders for today with the arrival of The Big Boss from Ulraine, I see.
Col. Douglas Macgregor: We can account now, as I pointed out in the op-ed, for about 540 000 troops, 1500 tanks, uh another three thousand plus uh armored fighting vehicles, hundreds of guns, a thousand rocket and drone uh strike systems, uh hundreds of fixed-wing aircraft and hundreds of helicopters.
The bottom line is that the Russians are now going to war and ukrainians are frankly on the ropes. All of their sophisticated equipment, their rocket artillery systems, what few they have left, are operated now by Americans and British contractors. They don't hav
So Ukraine is really in a lot of trouble and that's why Zelensky is working very very hard to convince everybody that we should give our last full measure for Ukraine, but it's not going to work and Ukraine is going to be destroyed and as we've seen from the new missile strikes the energy grid is almost completely gone, electricity is almost totally absent, water, food all the amenities that make life bearable are missing, and billions of uUkrainians are now leaving Ukraine because they cannot live where they are.
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for December 21, 2022:
- Pentagon admits Russia is gaining ground in Bakhmut; - Zelensky visit to Bakhmut mirrors similar visit to Lysychansk before it fell to Russian forces;
- Western media admits Russia has Ukraine outgunned 6 to 1 in Bakhmut;
- Claims that Russian losses are as significant as catastrophic toll Ukraine is suffering in Bakhmut does not reflect reality if Russia outguns Ukraine significantly;
- Bakhmut is a significant transportation hub and a crucial fortified position along one of Ukraine's last major defensive lines in the east;
- The fall of Bakhmut may lead to a similar breakthrough like Popasna;
- Russian forces appear interested in destroying Ukraine's military at Bakhmut more than taking the city itself;
Col. Douglas Macgregor:
Ukrainians have been losing hundreds of thousands of men as casualties we estimate they've had 400 000 casualties of which over 100 000 are dead. Now, very recently, Ursula Vandelion, who is the president of the European Union actually admitted that the Ukrainians had lost at least a hundred thousand dead. The truth is that over the last several months, the losses have been so heavy that we think it's probably closer now to about 120 to 125 000.
Rostelecom, PJSC VimpelCom, MegaFon, Mobile TeleSystems, Tele2 Russia, and TransTelecom, for starters.
Prior to the sanctions, a quarter of Russia's integrated and printed circuits were produced domestically. Although their supply chains are impacted in the short-term, this does not necessarily translate to an inability to produce at greater levels, especially if necessity requires it. (And they have the raw materials to do so.)
Everything that is nice in Russia, has to be imported. It is just a former gas station, with nukes.
A decidedly unserious perspective.
Looks like the neoconneds think that the Russians are going to make a 2023 trip to the Netherlands to put von der Leyen and Borell up on their own separate trees...
Milburn minces no words in confirming the catastrophic casualties the Ukrianian forces are suffering — 7 out of every ten soldiers are killed or wounded. It underscores the reality that the Russians are firing six artillery rounds for every one round fired by Ukraine.
Here is a Ukrainian unit confirming Col. Milburn’s assessment. They are not cowards. They are fed up with crappy leadership and indequate supplies:
“This is a message we are conveying to the command of the Airborne Troops and the command of the AFU from the 3rd Airmobile Company of the Separate Airmobile Battalion of the 25th Secheslav Airmobile Brigade.
We were sent on a combat mission to hold separate combat positions. We did not receive proper armament and artillery support. As a result, 70% of the company was killed or wounded. We did not have and do not have combat equipment and proper armament. We did not even have the equipment to evacuate the injured, due to which several wounded did not survive.
We spent more than a month in the trenches transmitting coordinates never fired upon by artillery. Platoon sergeants fled their positions in the first days and were transferred by Chief of Staff Kipinach, now acting battalion commander. We are demanding the transfer of the entire unit.”
Of course it is not. They are funding shell companies taking over this business from the originals.
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