Armchair Copelord comes out SWINGING
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Copelord is apparently hung like a parrot
. He was goaded somehow by NAFO-ists into posting photographic proof so people could see he was not smol, but in fact he was.
While Russisn mil bloggers on Telegram (a few have perished in recent months) have some sense of realism, twice convicted pedo Ritter, McGregor, suspected rapist and failed cop and fugitive from justice Dougan (seems to loathe Ritter?) tend to be away with the fairies. They're coverage is schizo like the pajeets who tend to platform them. Incidentally pajeets seem to love both Israel and Russia (which is a bit of a contradiction given how Iran and Russia are butt buddies these days), a love which isn't reciprocated.
They are even invited to schools to talk to children.
Yes, those previously convicted of pedophilia too. Just imagine: a released pedo have a talk in a school in Flydefecatesburg.
One reason Scott Ritter loves Russia is unlike in the US 'twice convicted pedophile' does not make him a target for scorn or more kinetic contact, but instead he's respected. The Chechen authorities put on a notable reception for him. Ritter addressed thousands of Kadyrovites in broken Russian about his efforts to foster friendship between Russia and the US.
Vlad Vexler suggests that this thrust into Kursk is a consequence of the West not arming Ukraine to a sufficient degree, noting Anders Puck Nielsen's surmise that not arming Ukraine sufficiently will lead to escalation.
William Spaniel on Ukraine's thrust which has taken c. 625 sq km. (I note myself that when daily killings of civilians occur in Ukraine, the UN sleeps, only now when Ukraine are some distance from Kursk's nuclear power plant that isn't even a target do they pipe up, perhaps thinking a retarded trade for the Zaporizhzhia NPP is afoot. (The turd world DEI UN senior bureaucrats see Russia as key to their multipolar BRICS fantasy and UN Sec Gen Guterres is probably bouncing off the wall in rage) Perhaps there's an idea that Ukraine might trade its Kursk salient for Russia's push into Kharkiv Oblast and other northern ideas with the northern border to be removed as an area for military contention, but overall any trade for Zaporizhzhia would mean a small enclave of Ukrainian control completely dependent on Russian occupiers for the power it needs to maintain its cold shutdown status, 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Suggests that Putin will have to choose between peeling off from the mostly volunteer force in Ukraine or drawing on the annual intake of conscripts who only serve in Russian borders, but that volunteers as now are a far more efficient option as using conscripts will spread the strain of the war to a new group, but using the volunteers in Ukraine will likely terminate Russia's bloody summer offensive. Suggests also that Russia did not expect the US to be okay with this and left its borders fairly weak. Now that UA has broken the defensive lines in Kursk, UA can head in various directions as has happened with smaller salients. Russia will have gather more of its own forces than there are Ukrainians to erase this salient. Spaniel also notes that Gen Gerasimov ignored reports of a Ukrainian build-up. Overall suggests that the specific choice of Kursk is not important to Ukraine.
Putin instructed the head of the FSB, Bortnikov, instead of Gerasimov, to lead the operation against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region. (
https://static.moscowtimes.ru/image/article_960/ad/Security_Council_Meeting_2019-11-22_1-2.jpg)
Putin has appointed FSB head Alexander Bortnikov as commander of a "counter-terrorist operation" after the Ukrainian army's invasion of the Kursk region, according (
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-10-2024) to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
"Putin probably appointed Bortnikov as the head of the 'counter-terrorist operation' because Bortnikov had previously established himself as an effective manager during crises that threatened the internal stability of Russia and the Kremlin regime," the ISW summary says.
It notes that Bortnikov was engaged in negotiations and provided guarantees to the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the rebellion last summer.
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Basically like the Belgorod thrust, it'll be treated as a counter-terrorism operation. There's to be no war declaration.
Sarcastoaurus notes that the forces sent to tackle the Ukrainian incursion are forces involved in Ukraine already, not green or fresh.
- 2 VDV battalions (from strategic reserve)
- 79th Motor-Rifle Regiment, 272nd Motor-Rifle Regiment, and the 138th Motor-Rifle Brigade (all from the northern Kharkiv sector)
- 15th Motor-Rifle Brigade and 1 Motor-Rifle Regiment from the Belgorod Oblast (due to latest developments, the last might have to return to where it started from)
- 810th Naval Infantry Brigade (from the Avdiivka-Pokrovsk sector)
- 38th Motor-Rifle Brigade and 64th Motor-Rifle Brigade.
Also the Russians are blaming the British. While Uncle Sam has power, perfidious Albion has the evil cunning. It's cute that 19th paranoia still itches the Russian bear.
