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Armchair Warlord @ArmchairW The Battle of Bakhmut is over. It was one of the longest battles of the 21st century to date, and certainly the bloodiest. Russia won. In doing so it destroyed much of the Ukrainian Army's combat power while buying time to generate forces for future offensives. How much of the Ukrainian Army's combat power? The Grey Zone Telegram channel compiled a partial list of Ukrainian units reported in Bakhmut at some point during the nine-month battle. This is something like a third of the AFU's order of battle. Losses were obviously extreme. Russian casualties were modest in...

What Morris is saying is that if Russia doesn't end up owning Country 404, Blackrock will Or maybe Blackrock wants the "rump ukraine state left over after Russia takes the ethnically Russian areas... There is actually a man in Moscow who figures to have something to say about who owns country 404... What has Morris miffed is that the 100B - 200B already sunk into that lunatiuc venture has been provided by the American taxpayer, and not Blackrock... In my view, ordinaqry hohos would be better off being owned by Russia than by Blackrock, Russians are at least Christians.

Zelensky being thrown under the bus...

Alex Mercouris describes the situation in BakhmutApparently there are still a couple of thousand ukies holed up in one little corner of Bakhmut in basements and hide holes of verious sorts. Mercouris claims that the order has gone out to those unfortunates that their "job" is to prevent Bakhmut falling prior to May 10; that is, their job is to prevent Russians from celebrating the capture of the place on or prior to VE day, which is a big annual celebratiion in Russia. Whoever issued that order plainly does not give a rat's ass about the lives of country 404's...

https://youtu.be/TEWlVpKd_To Around 5:30 Alexander starts talking about two sources on Wagner including it’s history and use and who actually runs it and Prigozhian role and his relationship with troops. And it’s not laudatory btw so I’d suggest Z brigade here should try and put aside their prejudices and give it a listen you might learn a little about your foe

America’s neocon citizens with Ukrainian roots are currently trying to push Ukraine into a Spring offensive everyone knows will be a massacre just to cover their own asses, so they will have an excuse to cut and run in time for the coming Presidential election. Given the disgraceful alliance between a Federal regime risking nuclear war with no proper authority from the American people and what used to be a press, which is now little more than the government’s collaborator in suppressing the facts of what is happening, the American people have NO IDEA what is going on in their...

Attacks on Pavlograd may have stopped the great "ukie counteroffensive(TM)" I view the Ukrainian confusion of the letters 'G' and 'H' as an artifact of some kind of a linguistic inferiority conplex... E.G. it's 'Hitler' and not 'Gitler'. 'Pavlograd' and not 'Pavlohrad'....The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain....

Douglas Macgregor, Col is a senior fellow with The American Conservative, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, and a combat veteran.In this YouTube presentation, Colonel Douglas Macgregor sits down with Stephen Gardner to update us on the Ukraine Russia war. Colonel Douglas Macgregor shares thoughts on Scott Ritters battle assessment, China, North Korea, Biden, the US dollar and de-dollarization.Timestamp: 0:44 Has Bakhmut fallen? 2:50 Bakhmut is the keystone of this war 5:40 General Milley goofs and says Ukraine cannot win this war 8:20 DC will provoke China to engage in war and rumors of...

Douglas Macgregor: "I Tried To Warn YOU, UKRAINE IS BEING WIPED OUT! HERE'S PROOF" in Exclusive Douglas Macgregor is back on the show to talk about the war in Ukraine. Macgregor gives his assessment of where things stand on the ground. They talk about the astounding casualty numbers and the horrifying nature of the battle over Bakhmut. Macgregor then gives some predictions for the next stages of the war. They talk about the rising tension with China. They agree there is no need to go to war with China but discuss what may explain the sudden attention shift towards Beijing....

Totally new batches of one of Russia's most modern tanks arriving on trains, again totally new.I mean, you read all this noise about the West sending tanks to Ukraine as if they were modern, they were in new or like-new condition, they were going to arrive tomorrow morning, and Ukrainian HMFIC Commodamir Ichabodovich Zelenski was going to start to win by using them beginning at noon on the same day...And what do we see in real life??

Major Russian advance in sensor technology leaves hohos years behind in artillery duels.

I reported last week that my source from Ukraine, not Russia, was placing the Ukrainian military casualties at 150,000 with 35,000 unaccounted for – missing in action. Including the civilian deaths, over 250,000 people have died. Ukraine is losing the war. With the UK claiming they will now train Ukrainian pilots and provide fighter jets, this is obviously putting the UK at risk and such pilots with a few weeks of training will only crash and burn. Our targets coming into play for April and May are critical. We see major shifts in the financial markets coming even by June....

With Russia back on the offensive after significant Ukrainian combat successes around Kharkiv and Kherson in the second half of 2022, the past few weeks have been the bloodiest so far of an already bloody war, with both sides taking extraordinarily heavy casualties. Expect it to get worse.Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov says Russia has mobilised “much more” than 300,000 troops, perhaps up to half a million, and these are pouring into Ukraine in preparation for what is expected to be a major offensive in the coming days and weeks. Although Kyiv has also been building up its forces and...

ukraine surrounded, nothing west can do about it The logic seems coercive. In a rational world i.e. with rational people on all sides, Russia would not want all of ukraine, east side of the Dnieper river at most, would have settled for Russian ethnic areas originally. Now they seem to be preparing to simply seize the whole thing.

Die Welt tells its readers the truth

Myocarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination is a rare adverse event that often resolves quickly, without treatment. ================================================================================ Shirley Graves had a rare adverse event, inflammation of the heart, after receiving her first COVID-19 shot. PHOTO BY TONY CALDWELL /Postmedia =============================================================================== On March 11, Shirley Graves did what she does every day — walked to the barn to do chores. But this was no ordinary morning. By the time she got there, she had a burning pain in her chest and was sweating profusely. The retired nurse was convinced she was having a heart attack. Fearing she was “going down,” Graves...

JUBILANT DEMOCRATS SHOULD RECONSIDER their order for confetti and noisemakers. The Democrats, as widely reported, are expecting GOP-weary voters to flock to the polls in two weeks and hand them control of the House for the first time in 12 years -- and perhaps the Senate, as well. Even some Republicans privately confess that they are anticipating the election-day equivalent of Little Big Horn. Pardon our hubris, but we just don't see it. [pols] Our analysis -- based on a race-by-race examination of campaign-finance data -- suggests that the GOP will hang on to both chambers, at least nominally....