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In today’s Chatter and Unconfirmed Rumors:

1. Russian Army 20th Mechanized Division HQ (Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast) reported an explosion severe enough that communications to the HQ were impacted.

There was an immediate downstream impact as communications to the 944th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment, 358th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, 428th Separate Tank Battalion, and 487th Separate Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion were down for several hours.

Indications are that the explosion was a deliberate act of sabotage.

2. Satellite pictures from earlier today show the Antonovsky Bridge is now useless for all but foot traffic. At least one section of bridge deck has been compromised to the point that local Russian forces expect that section of the bridge to collapse.

3. The surprise Ukrainian offensive in the north is causing chaos in the Russian lines as Russian forces laid in to defend Kherson and Crimea are now scrambling to block the Ukrainian advance likely targeted on Kupyansk and Izyum.

4. A Russian patrol craft (not stated if it was police or military) tied up at Saratov on the Volga burned during the night of 8 September. No casualties but the craft is a write off.

5. Video from the Ukrainian forces showed several instances of Russian vehicles being abandoned in place, fueled, armed, and in good repair. Several BMP were confirmed captured and an unconfirmed (per Ukrainian forces) report of five T-80 tanks also being captured together in good working condition. Possibly in a motor pool area.

Commentary in the video spoke about clearing the captured vehicles for booby traps and mines.

6. A fire was reported aboard the cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov that is possibly being made ready for a return to service in Novorossiysk. The engines of the cruiser were successfully started last week.

That is all.

This has nothing to do with POWs.

“Never fight Gurkhas or Sikhs”

I don’t know about the Sikhs but the Gurkhas are a nightmare when they’re on YOUR side. Makes you feel bad for the poor bastards they slice and dice.

(Here’s the post for those who don’t care to click through)

Political animals called them deplorables.

But going way too far, progressive globalist elites have awakened the sleeping American giant. For those who love freedom, the hill of stopping medical tyranny is one that Dr. Robert Malone, Ethicist in Chief, says we are prepared to die on. He is correct.

We are the Unstoppables.

We are determined to remain a free people, diverse in a rainbow of race, gender, party, class and religion. One thing alone unshakably unites patriotic Americans. The belief in the sanctity of the individual and his or her own God-given and constitutionally protected individual rights. We are Americans first, regardless of race, color or creed. The United States of America, never perfect but for her ideals, once a great beacon on the hill of mankind, we can not let her fall, we Americans, all who dare. The Woke can no longer hide behind state propaganda, pseudoscience or academic fraud.

Not here, not now. Not on our watch.

The family of people and things we loved or dreamed about was wounded deeply by our separation from one another these last many years. Our children are suffering. We have lost connection with the fabric of our neighbors and community, that crossroads of convenience and communion allowing the simple exchange of pleasantries and goodwill, even in a time of deep political division.

I was born in the fifties, lived through the troubled sixties and seventies but never have I encountered the dark presence of man’s evil inclination more proximate, more menacing, more real. Technocrats pull the strings, millions die of unnatural things. The unthinkable cannot be spoken.

Courage, Integrity, Compassion.

These are our principles in the war against global tyranny, in memory of the dead upon the land whose names shall not be forgotten. We are many, perhaps you are among us.

This assault on our country, our values and our freedom began long ago and has many faces. A free people, we were fat and happy and asleep at the wheel. But as Churchill once remarked, Americans always do the right thing. Eventually.

They didn’t steal our freedoms. We gave them away. Now we are taking them back.

Listen.

elchonan

“Don’t bring a sword to a gun fight. or a taser fight.”

Unless you’re a Gurkha.

Russia is seven months into what should have been a seven day war.

This should have been so damned easy for Russia to pull off. A massive push into Kyiv, force the capitulation or abdication of the government, push to the Polish border, and declare victory. Boom-bada-bing. And that’s what I expected back when this started.

Instead the Russians were defeated mostly by their own ineptitude. Yes, the Ukies did a stand up job of fighting them but by all rights this was still Russia’s war to win or to lose.

And no one has to get paid to say this. It’s just how it is.

Dmitry Palyuga will shortly fall out of a hospital window.

I am so happy to live in Idaho now!!! Best damned thing about the new house is the woodshed with eight cords of wood in it!!

“This was prewritten months ago, and not by the Idiot-in-Chief.”

Oh sure. But at least someone thought enough to put out a decent comment instead of letting Diaper Joe blather on about how he groped the Queen’s great grandkids or some such.

“He later went into medical distress”

Sounds like the Canadian cops dispensed a little street justice there.

“Shaw died of phenomena unrelated to the coronavirus, according to his family in a statement to CNN.”

Monkeypox, eh?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/08/statement-of-president-joe-biden-and-first-lady-jill-biden-on-the-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii/

Statement of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on the Death of Queen Elizabeth II

SEPTEMBER 08, 2022
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STATEMENTS AND RELEASES

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was more than a monarch. She defined an era.

In a world of constant change, she was a steadying presence and a source of comfort and pride for generations of Britons, including many who have never known their country without her. An enduring admiration for Queen Elizabeth II united people across the Commonwealth. The seven decades of her history-making reign bore witness to an age of unprecedented human advancement and the forward march of human dignity.

She was the first British monarch to whom people all around the world could feel a personal and immediate connection—whether they heard her on the radio as a young princess speaking to the children of the United Kingdom, or gathered around their televisions for her coronation, or watched her final Christmas speech or her Platinum Jubilee on their phones. And she, in turn, dedicated her whole life to their service.

Supported by her beloved Prince Philip for 73 years, Queen Elizabeth II led always with grace, an unwavering commitment to duty, and the incomparable power of her example. She endured the dangers and deprivations of a world war alongside the British people and rallied them during the devastation of a global pandemic to look to better days ahead. Through her dedication to her patronages and charities, she supported causes that uplifted people and expanded opportunity. By showing friendship and respect to newly independent nations around the world, she elevated the cause of liberty and fostered enduring bonds that helped strengthen the Commonwealth, which she loved so deeply, into a community to promote peace and shared values.

Queen Elizabeth II was a stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock Alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States. She helped make our relationship special.

We first met the Queen in 1982, traveling to the UK as part of a Senate delegation. And we were honored that she extended her hospitality to us in June 2021 during our first overseas trip as President and First Lady, where she charmed us with her wit, moved us with her kindness, and generously shared with us her wisdom. All told, she met 14 American presidents. She helped Americans commemorate both the anniversary of the founding of Jamestown and the bicentennial of our independence. And she stood in solidarity with the United States during our darkest days after 9/11, when she poignantly reminded us that “Grief is the price we pay for love.”

In the years ahead, we look forward to continuing a close friendship with The King and The Queen Consort. Today, the thoughts and prayers of people all across the United States are with the people of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth in their grief. We send our deepest condolences to the Royal Family, who are not only mourning their Queen, but their dear mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her legacy will loom large in the pages of British history, and in the story of our world.

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“Balakliya is not the objective.”

From what I can tell the Russians bugged out and left it there and the Ukies just rolled in.

Jon, I was asked to “knock it off” and I will oblige.

Your turn.

“MercyFlush collects Free Republic IPs and then posts them to on his Blog”

I collect RUSSIAN IP addresses and post them on my blog.

JonPreston is only outraged because one of these IP addresses is likely his.

God Save the Queen!!!

“Yesterday he posted that I had previously reported Ramzan Kadyrov to have been killed, which I never did.”

That’s his pattern. It’s a typical troll tactic to try to divert you from a topic and instead goad you into defending something you never said.

I think they score a few bonus rubles if they can get you to leave the topic this way.

“Man, the satellite photos of these camps must show some pretty horrific stuff.”

Actually it’s thanks to people like yourself demanding evidence is why the folks making these claims will have to produce said evidence.

Myself, I doubt a Secretary of State would want to go before the UN making serious accusations like this without something to back it up.

Just like you, I’d like to see the evidence, too.

“You do round the clock cheerleading for that sick money pit these days.”

I’m actually more of a ‘Pep Squad’ kind of guy.

“This is a big sign that Russia’s ability to prosecute the war is deteriorating.”

OH YEAH? Well Russia is going to get 100,000 starving soldiers from North Korea any day now!!! And their closest ally China is sending thousands of fighters and tanks to help Russia conquer Ukraine!!!

Any day now.

Yup, any day now Russia’s friends will be right there to help them.

Mighty Russia needs help from North Korea and China.

“Mighty Russia” is a pathetic joke.