Fuck this. If it is Boeing (any of it), I am not going. Period.
Only Airbus from now on.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Remember This?
Some war criminals from US media cried that it was fake and no, there are no Nazis in 404.
Azov's emblem is a re-imagined "wolf's hook" of SS Division Das Reich. But because UK elites are inbred low lives, most of them anyway, here is freshest from UK today--former UK PM hosts Azov Nazis in Parliament.
So, it is a logical conclusion for UK which has no honor, no integrity nor national pride left and it is only appropriate that they follow Canada's path to applauding human scum of Nazis.
Now you understand why nobody will talk to these people. UK is fast becoming a shithole and it is probably for the better. It also shows what UK "elite" education is--I mean degree mills for credentialed cretins. UK is over, as is Anglo-world. Per US, will give it another a year or so and see where this goes. They love Nazis in Washington but we know about some people who fight this, in UK--it is the natural state of historic losers who cannot come to grips with the fact that they are nobodies in the XXI century. What's left for UK? Heil Hitler, Heil Hitler...
A Very Good Basic Explanation...
... of my degree and how we have been taught to use those principles from basic navigation by dead reckoning to integrating all these wonderful gyro-inertial things for aiming and shooting all kinds of things including SLBMs from strategic missile submarines. In our generation those being baseline Delta I-II SSBNs (pr. 667B-BD RPKSNs). Of course, gyro-inertial navigational complexes had more than just three platforms, they had some really nifty things as astro-correction means, radio sextants (no, you couldn't hold it in your hand--it was about 1 ton with sophisticated periscope system and computer), absolute Doppler logs and things of this nature which were and remain in the foundation of use of modern weapons, including nuclear ones. So, here is a very good video on the pop-introductory level:
Yes, you would love to study things of this nature--you know precession, nutation and other tri-dimensional shit;))
Then, of course, you have to integrate all this shit with weapons and their systems. Lovely, lovely. Of course, many of those things still remain classified even today, but thankfully I forgot them, plus new generation of laser-based solid-state systems are already in use, but I thought I would share this good simple explanation. Now ask yourself a question why Russians are really good, in fact--best in the world in navigating polar regions? In related news: rumor has it that Bulava SLBM is capable of carrying hypersonic blocks (such as Avangard)--make your own conclusions what it means.
Also, a very good video on why Chinese put education above sports and why they are not good team sports outfits:
The policy is very similar to the Soviet one and the emphasis should be on mass physical education and fitness, not just the sport of high achievements. I am not against professional sports, I am all for it, but REAL education is a priority, albeit I would suggest Chinese to ease up on their approach because it also has serious side-effects in terms of stress and fatigue, which result in a lot of mental issues down the road. But I agree--engineer is more important for the society in general than some sports celebrity. It should be balanced, definitely and it explains also why the US lost education "race" to China and Russia. No one in their own mind in Russia would spent a single ruble on building some university 70,000 capacity stadium for "football". The money are better spent on improving laboratory base and hiring and developing real scientific talent. You can always build 10,000 max capacity university stadium or sport center and that will do it. Balance is the key here.
Takes Two To Tango...
You see, a defining feature of the West's "elites" is their complete inability to calculate consequences. They view Russia's patience and legal approaches as weakness--it is expected from people of low culture and education which most Western "elites" are. Baerbock is even suing X (Twitter) for the post about her being the dumbest foreign minister in the world, which she is. So...
Translation: MOSCOW, May 23 – RIA Novosti. Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the procedure for compensation for damage in the event of confiscation of Russian assets in the United States, the document was published on the portal of legal acts. “The Russian rights holder has the right to go to court in accordance with the rules of jurisdiction <...> with a statement to establish the fact of unjustified deprivation of his rights to property in connection with a decision of a state or judicial body of the United States of America and for compensation for damage,” the document says. The Russian Federation or the Central Bank may act as rights holders. To compensate for the damage, it will be possible to seize the property of the United States or related persons and subsequently transfer it to the rights holder. This includes citizens and residents of the United States, as well as foreign persons under their control, regardless of their place of registration. It will be possible to seize movable and immovable property, securities, shares in companies, and property rights. A list of such assets will be provided to the court upon request by the government commission for control of foreign investment. The government must, within four months, amend the laws necessary to implement the presidential decree.
Larry Wilkerson nails it, when speaks about those Washington "strategists" being absolutely lost when trying (and they now desperately want to) to extricate themselves from the situation in 404. Too late. As the saying goes: one talon gets stuck--the whole bird is doomed.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Garland Gives A Good Talk...
... on John Mearsheimer.
I do not deny credit to Mearsheimer for his book Israel Lobby and for him being somewhat sensible about SMO. Beyond that, he is a typical American exceptionalist and that is a diagnosis. Exceptionalism comes from a weak background in the history of the XX century.
The Scale Of Coping.
For those people who do not get my message on this issue I will reiterate--even today there are some remnants of the US and Republic which I love dearly, together with people who share those values, even in the midst of a catastrophe we all observe and live through, with the US circling the drain with a very few prospects of stopping this motion before being removed as a threat from the global arena. But having said all that, it has to be also said that the US was always "provincial" in its foreign policy and, especially so, in its military posture which was based primarily on outdated concepts and, frankly, serious operational rigidity--a euphemism for illiteracy, a product of America's confabulated history of WW II and steady intellectual and academic decline, now accelerating tremendously, of American military-political elites.
Behold the piece from The Hill which demonstrates this process in full. It is an "opinion" piece, of course, but it is very indicative of military illiteracy of even those who are supposed to have a clue. They don't. Here are the authors: Mark Toth writes on national security and foreign policy. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet served 30 years as a military intelligence officer and led the U.S. European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012 to 2014.
Biden is losing World War III
Well, we know that, but it is what these guys base their conclusion upon, and, boy, do they go full Monty parading their incompetence.
In 1860, Buchanan, fearing escalation, refused to sufficiently reinforce the strategic fort guarding the entrance to Charleston Harbor. Although such a move likely would not have changed the trajectory of the war, it would have drawn a much-needed red line for the Southern secessionists. Instead, Buchanan did the bare minimum, just as the Biden administration is now doing in Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific and in the Middle East. Defending U.S. allies is not enough, just as minimally defending Fort Sumter proved futile.
The fact that US cadre military officers goes for such analogy tells you immediately that he has no clue what he is talking about, because US military history in general is barely applicable to continental warfare as any historic analogy, let alone lesson, with Civil War being interesting merely as a first truly industrial war. That's about it. Dragging here some example from 1860 and, under the guise of solid "scholarship", trying to project it onto the military realities of the XXI century is a fool's errand. In fact, it is for amateurs. It is also cringe-worthy in purely strategic sense, which, as even authors admit wouldn't make much difference in the end. Thus the question--why use it as an example? But confusion abounds...
“Defending” must no longer be the watchword of the day in Biden’s White House, but “winning.” Winning this increasingly kinetic global ideological war is our only way forward if liberal democracy is to prevail against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s shared vision of a so-called multipolar world, militarily and economically dominated by Russia and China and anchored by BRICS. Biden’s escalation fears must also end. As evidenced by Oct 7., Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Iran’s April 13 attacks on Israel and now the Bastogne-like battle for the Kharkiv Oblast, fears of escalation have only led to vacuums being filled by our nation’s enemies — and the enemies of our allies in Eastern Europe and the Mideast.
Bastogne? Is this the extent of these writers' historic literacy? The US Army is not even in the same league with combined arms operations and investing all kinds of cities and towns by Russian Armed Forces be that in WW II, with gargantuan scale of operations on the Eastern Front, which make Western Front, bar Normandy Landing and Battle of the Bulge look rather timid in comparison, or be that later in the XXI century. So, authors suddenly discover that Russian Army can take cities. They also are very badly informed on the issue of Kharkov so called "offensive" in 2022 because it had nothing in common, in fact, it was antithetical to the Battle of the Bulge, because there was NO objective of taking Kharkov in 2022 and it was at best probing, in reality recon in force by Russian Army, which never lost operational initiative, unlike it was with under equipped and lacking gas Wehrmacht which was already defeated in the East and by the end of Battle of the Bulge started transferring divisions to the Eastern Front. And, I guess, authors drank too much of 404 Kool Aid and lack basic understanding of modern warfare and how political objectives shape military ones. Not surprising, the US Army never fought anything like this in the last 80 years.
Obviously both authors have zero understanding of how resources are mustered and how required force is composed based on operational and strategic requirements. Not surprising. And both, evidently, cannot come to grips that the United States and its NATO chihuahuas simply have neither economic nor force wherewithal to talk about any kind of "winning" against Russia. Different leagues militarily. Moreover, referring to US National Security Strategy documents of the last 30 years is also a fool's errand--America doesn't DO strategy, because it cannot DO it due to people who write those documents having zero skills apart from nauseating propagandizing of what is not there--America's ability to fight real war without being annihilated--in developing strategy which is not a wet dream based on the delusion of grandeur. Now, these two are coping really hard not understanding that they should have studied better and avoided using their "experiences" as a yardstick--they are irrelevant to modern war.
I know, it hurts to be a loser, but that's life in which you win some, you lose some, but for "intel" people in the US to even grasp what they observe, they should concentrate not on spreading military amateurish BS in media but concentrate on educating themselves on REAL war and military history, not hunting down Afghan weddings or studying IDF "experiences" in genocide. Of course they are not going to heed my humble advice but US strategic incompetence is shocking. I knew it was bad, SMO exposed it as absent altogether. These two illustrated my point really well. But then again--I just finished thesis on that.
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