Posted on 02/28/2022 8:10:18 PM PST by Mariner
Kevin P. Riehle: Russian Intelligence: A Case-based Study of Russian Services and Missions Past and Present
370 pages
“...the definitive guide to Russian intelligence and security...”
https://ni-u.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Riehle_Russian-Intelligence.pdf
The Blue Spear Missile System is a precision weapon that can strike out of line of sight against mobile and stationary targets at sea. One such complex is enough to sink the entire Russian fleet in the Black Sea.
The maximum range of the missile is 290-300 km.
And every day Russians remain in even the pre-February occupied areas of the Donbas human rights continue to be crushed. My wife weeps for her hometown of Alchevsk and the barbaric treatment it has received during the years of Russian domination.
Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Chief ‘optimistic’ of Russian defeat ‘this year’
Major General Kyrylo Budanov told us the war with Russia is going so well, that it will reach a turning point by mid-August and be over by the end of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZbm5DvMw8w
SVR General (Генерал СВР): (= several fmr intel officers)
Putin will make a $3B deal with the Taliban, Lukashenko is discussing with the West, Putin’s entourage is having second thoughts about him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40Kh8—KWQ
Re Tajikistan:
We reported that #Taliban wants to invade Tajikistan. #Russia has offered Talibs 1bn USD for giving up the plans, but the Taliban demands 15bn. Since #Putin has no other options, the parties will reach a compromise soon
https://twitter.com/KonotopW/status/1519592366142853122
The majority in #Putin’s inner circle understands that Russia may lose the war. Without a “minimal victory” in the next 2 months, there’ll be nothing to “sell” to people & elites. Putin will look like a loser who has dragged Russia into war & the deepest economic crisis
https://twitter.com/KonotopW/status/1525043044734668800
Even before #Russia launched its attack on #Ukraine, Estonian Prime Minister @kajakallas warned Western leaders not to make any concessions to the Kremlin, calling to mind a 3-point negotiation tactic the Soviet Union used to apply.
https://twitter.com/MunSecConf/status/1512451999622643714
and remember the Moscow Rules by Keir Giles: Russia keeps surprising the West. Not because Russia is unpredictable or irrational; instead, it can be the West just not paying attention. Here are some ground rules for avoiding being surprised or dismayed by what Moscow does next. thread https://twitter.com/KeirGiles/status/1155886722326114304
I would be thrilled if they both could lose the war.
Minister: Ukraine may mobilize up to 1 million people against Russia.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on May 13 that the state was boosting the defense sector to provide for potential new recruits.
“We are focusing on the need to provide for 1 million people who will be facing the enemy,” he wrote. He also said that 1,500 Ukrainian soldiers are already training or will start mastering Western weapons and return as instructors.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1525215553408860161
Christoph Heusgen has worked in foreign policy for more than 40 years, has caused a stir with many an edgy word during his career as a diplomat. This year the 66-year-old took over the Munich Security Conference (MSC), a globally respected forum for foreign and security policy. For months, and not just in light of the Ukraine conflict, he has been calling for a united community of "states that enforce international law." Heusgen is considered one of Germany's most experienced and respected diplomats. Although he was late to serve formally as an ambassador, he has been politically active at the European level and in the United States, though never in Africa, Asia or Latin America.
Heusgen, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), became active in foreign policy posts early in his career. From 1993 to 1997, he was deputy head of the minister's office for the then German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. From 1999 to 2005, he headed the Brussels office and political staff of Javier Solana, then High Representative for the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy. After Angela Merkel's victory in the 2005 election, the new chancellor brought Heusgen, a Rhineland Catholic, into the chancellor's office as her foreign policy adviser. He was at the chancellor's side on virtually all of her foreign trips and has been excellently networked ever since. Occasionally, he traveled without her, but for her: When it emerged in the fall of 2013 that US intelligence agencies had wiretapped Merkel's phone, cooling transatlantic relations, Heusgen was part of the German delegation that sought clarification in Washington. Months before Merkel's fourth federal election victory in 2017, she had to let Heusgen go. The diplomat, who had already spent some time studying in the US in the 1980s and had worked at the German Consulate General in Chicago after 1983, now finally became an ambassador. For four years, he was Germany's permanent representative at the United Nations in New York. In April 2019 and July 2020, he presided over meetings of the UN Security Council, the top-level body to which Germany does not belong permanently but in which it wants to have a say. Here too, on occasion, he did not shy away from describing Russia's and China's blocking of UN aid deliveries to war-torn Syria as "cynical." Both expressed irritation at Germany's stance.
Heusgen is certainly thought of as a man of clear words, clearer than cross the lips of many other ambassadors. This has perhaps been all the more true since 2021, when he returned to Germany. Perhaps he has been so outspoken about the current conflict in Ukraine because he was involved in the difficult negotiations that led to the Minsk Agreement in 2014, which brought Ukraine, Russia and the separatists together but fell apart soon after."You cannot seriously sit down with Putin anymore"
- German diplomat Christoph Heusgen
May 11, 2022 | DW News
Russia is still not picking up the bodies of its dead soldiers, which are in refrigerated cars near #Kyiv. There are more than 250 of them.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1525219823407464448
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1525438712334663683
To date, 62 servicemen from North Ossetia are known to have died during a special military operation in Ukraine.
They are not important, only Putin. :^(
It is better for P to have them missing instead of confirmed dead, since a missing person does not imply payment to the next of kin.
Also it hides the losses from the public. But even the Russian public isn’t that gullible.
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1525428376177192962?t=ZuN95k_4WYcF-iQicfvZjA&s=19
Wraak voor MH17
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