UK to help protect Moldova and Georgia against Russian interference with multi-million pound funding boost

SkyNews.com ^ | March 16, 2023 | Siobhan Robbins

[Timber Rattler]

Goes to show that Putin's revived-Soviet/neo-Imperial territorial and political ambitions go way beyond Ukraine.

[Vlad0]

Goes to show that the save team that stole the American election and installed Biden want to do the same in countries adjacent to Russia.

[Timber Rattler]

So you prefer to live under Russian rule in a Russian world, “Vlad?”

[familyop]

This might also be of interest.

Sweden to send Ukraine 8 Archer artillery systems

Pentagon Creates Cell to Oversee Expansion of Weapon Production Lines
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2023/03/pentagon-creates-cell-oversee-expansion-weapon-production-lines/384063/

[Nervous Tick]

Fine. Let the UK step up. It’s about damn time.

US out of Ukraine! Dollars and everthing else.

[familyop]

And an article about some of Russia's super tanks.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense Analyzed the Components of the T-90M Proryv: From Rusty Microcircuits to the Questionable Ammunition Storage Solution
Defense Express
March 17, 2023

The T-90M Proryv is distinguished by a number of conceptual problems, since it is the T-72 modernization, and it also has critical shortcomings

Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine held a briefing on the latest modernization of the Soviet T-72, namely the T-90M Proryv tank. Defense Express reminds that in the 90s, the T-90 received a new digital index exclusively for political reasons, initially it was called the T-72BU (aka "object 188").

Such vehicles have already been destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and even captured in good condition. And after there were 15 verified T-90M losses, russia started to use these tanks less often to avoid reputational losses.

At the same time, even a minimum of 15 tanks is a significant percentage of the total number of vehicles produced, as according to military experts, russia managed to produce about a hundred T-90M Proryv tanks overall, and recently was able to release a batch of 10 tanks of this model.

[Video]

Defense Express reminds that there is a number of aspects stating that the T-90M is a "breakthrough to nowhere". In particular, a critical shortcoming of the vehicle itself is an attempt to increase protection, which led to an increase in weight without adequate compensation by the engine.

In particular, the T-90M is equipped with the V-92S2F that produces 1,130 hp, it is based on the V-2 engine that once was installed on the T-34. The successive modernization of this unit, which has been going on since the 1930s, resulted in the installation of an increasingly powerful turbine at each iteration. At the same time, in practice, this leads to a decrease in motor resources and such a problem as turbo lag, when the fuel has already reached the engine, but does not have time to burn and spin the turbine.

Moreover, in conditions of summer temperatures, the engine loses 30% of its power, which directly affects the real driving capabilities of the vehicle. Defense Express also reminds that even in winter, the Wagnerians, who received one T-90M, also complained about the weak engine.

The myth was also debunked regarding the new fire control system called Kalina, which is installed in the T-90M, and is also intended for the Armata.

Despite the fact that in russia this system is issued as its own development, its analysis showed that all its critical components contain Western microcircuits and other components.

In particular, it should be noted that the main sight of the T-90M is the well-known Sosna-U, which is no longer installed in other modernizations of Soviet vehicles, such as the T-72B3 and T-80BVM, where it was replaced by the twice weaker 1PN-96MT-02. Thus, the possibility of production of the Kalina is considered doubtful in the future.

At the same time, russia generally has huge problems with microelectronics, because due to the lack of access to microcircuits of the appropriate class, the russian military industry uses civilian components that do not provide the appropriate level of fault tolerance.

In addition, the analysis of the means of communication gave an answer to the question, why the drivers often have problems with communication between vehicles and units. As it turned out, the means of communication were made without meeting the requirements of resistance to moisture, due to which the contacts begin to oxidize, shorten and eventually fail. And now it became clear why, even in russian propaganda videos, russian crewmembers climb out of the turret and use portable radio stations for sustainable communication.

But this is far from the only situation when the T-90M tankers have to get out of the tank even in combat conditions. In particular, the designers of the T-90M made a decision with the automatic loader. Russians boasted that they had completely redesigned the loading machine and ammunition stacking, and this should reduce the probability of ammunition detonation.

At the same time, no modification of the autoloader itself was found, it is exactly the same as on the T-72. Partly, the ammunition was transferred to the turret niche, but they could not organize their supply to the combat department.

And, as the speaker of Central Scientific Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted, in order to get 18 additional shells, it is necessary to get out of the vehicle and hand them over to the combat unit.

[caww]

UK is pledging millions of pounds to help Moldova and Georgia sounds like nations are spreading the wealth around these days.......redistribution of wealth......and interesting while the banking systems are jumping around from on to the other.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

I find it somewhat ironic that so much foreign influence is pouring into Georgia to protest Georgia’s attempts at regulating foreign influence.

[NorseViking]

None of you are Moldovan for that matter.

[NorseViking]

The funniest of it all that there is no Russian influence to counter in both Georgia and Moldova.
Georgia is toxically anti-Russian as is, Moldova is neutral. The only thing making them “pro-Russian” is that they are reluctant to turn themselves into another front akin to Ukraine, and for a good reason.

[A strike]

I envision MPs and Lords with top hats, pocket watches and silver tipped umbrellas standing outside the Houses of Parliament in FULL delusion that GreatBritain is an empire or even matters anymore !

[Vlad0]

Are the only two choices to live under an illegitimate stolen-election Biden regime controlled by vicious globalists and NeoCon monsters. Who are explicitly anti-Christian and anti-White and want to indoctrinate our kids into their sick LGBTQ lifestyle in public schools, and are on a binge of imprisoning dissidents, smashing free speech, and civilian disarmament?

--- OR --- "Living under Russian rule in a Russian world".

I reject this false dichotomy. This fake choice, you offer up.

OK, "Timber Rattler"?

[Vlad0]

I find it somewhat ironic that so much foreign influence is pouring into Georgia to protest Georgia’s attempts at regulating foreign influence.

I don't know if guys like Timber Rattler are naive and uninformed, or are just shuckin' and jiving to avoid dealing with reality.

Anyone who has been paying attention knows that these "foreign influence" groups are nothing more than Soros / WEF funded destabilization and homogenization mechanisms.

At the lighter end you have, for instance, the appalling behavior of the USA towards our ally Hungary, where (in contradiction to their culture) we sent a flagrant flaming homosexual and his "husband" to be our ambassador, and then one of our high ranking State Department "diplomats" made a big show of going over and hanging out with dissidents.

Imagine if a powerful country did this to America. The Russian Ambassador came over and gave millions of dollars to a dissident American group like American Renaissance, to push Race Realism and White Nationalism in the USA. I don't imagine that any recent administration would stand for it.

But smaller countries are subjected to this sort of crap endlessly by the USA, mostly by the far-left State department, which seems to run on autopilot.

America's ambassador to Hungary is "leading by example". A top goal of the USA foreign policy is to make Hungary accept homosexual marriages like his.

Is he pretending this is anything other that the USA directly setting up opposition press in a foreign country?

US State Department Announces $700,000 in Funding to Support “Objective Media in Hungary”

I object to the Biden regime funding "objective media" in he USA - that would be their NPR and PBS propaganda outlets, to be specific.

[Vlad0]

Of course the worst case scenario is that the USA State Department, NED (National Endowment for Democracy a CIA "regime change" spin-out), interested NGOs and perhaps the CIA themselves really take an interest in a foreign country and decide they need a Color Revolution.

That's what they did in Ukraine in 2014, deposing the elected leader after months of intensifying violence all planned out by the Color Revolution Team described above. And, that's clearly what they are up to elsewhere now, in part as an attempt to cause problems for Russia on her long borders.

Wikipedia has a list of all the various attempted and completed Colour Revolutions here.

Well, not ALL. The USA Color Revolution of 2020 isn't listed. But it fits the template surprisingly well. Massive waves of pre-bunking propaganda. Remember the "Red Mirage" - that is we were told in advance that Trump appearing to win on election night was not something the cool kids would believe, and everyone was supposed to withold judgement on who won for a few days after the election.

GloboHomo "fostered Democracy" in the USA and "fortified the election" to ensure that their favored candidate, Joseph Biden, won. Dozens of fake organizations were set up to push this outcome, well in advance of the election.

I sort of expect that most people on Free Republic are aware of this stuff, but apparently guys like Timber Rattler were sleep-walking through the 2020 election and aftermath. (And paid zero attention to the overthrow of the Ukrainian government by Color Revolutions R Us in 2014, it goes without saying.)

The Lies the Ruling Class Tells Us, an article from The American Conservative the magazine Pat Buchanan helped found in 2002.

It happened again last week: another American came to Hungary, and was startled by how different things actually are here than the way this country is portrayed in the media. I had drinks with the visitor, and said yeah, this is a common experience. You cannot trust the media to tell the truth about Hungary, and you certainly can't trust the US government, which just sent USAID Administrator Samantha Power over here on the pretext of supporting "independent media," "community led initiatives," and other Washington euphemism for starting a color revolution against governments it doesn't like. According to Power (watch clip below; the photo above is taken from it), the US Government is spending $20 million to oppose and undermine the popular government of a democratic NATO ally:

"During my trip to Budapest, I spoke with Hungarians about @USAID’s new support for locally-driven initiatives to support civil society, & independent media, and how we can work together on key challenges to democracy and securing respect for the rights and dignity of all people.". - Samantha Power

Just look at her verbiage, the words she uses. "support civil society" is straight out of the Soros lexicon.

And of course as an American I know that "supporting the rights and dignity of all people" means putting gay flags in every school, and homosexual grooming books in every school library. Hungary doesn't want this, but it doesn't matter. Samantha Power is going to give it to them anyway. Good and hard.

[Timber Rattler]

Hit a nerve, did I, “Vlad?”

[Timber Rattler]

I reject this false dichotomy.

Well, perhaps you would rather live under the ChiCons or the Iranian Mullahs?

[Vlad0]

So, as Ultra Sonic 007 pointed out with his sly and insightful comment:

I find it somewhat ironic that so much foreign influence is pouring into Georgia to protest Georgia’s attempts at regulating foreign influence.

isn't being done by Georgia.. out of some lust for xenophobic censorship, but rather as a precaution against ending up in color revolution that nobody wants, and losing all independence.

I'm sure the WEF has another figurehead leader like Zelinskyy in the wings for Georgia, Romania, Hungary and Moldova. (Just like they had Biden ready for us!)

When it's all over Clown World will tell Moldova "now you have Our Democracy", you are so much better off.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Since when are Georgia and Moldova facing the possibility of living “under the ChiCons or the Iranian Mullahs”?

[dfwgator]

Meanwhile, Stacey Abrams is going, “Hey, where’s my cut?”

[JonPreston]

Great post, thank you!