tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post1656668987101566728..comments2024-03-08T11:20:30.095-07:00Comments on Credit Bubble Stocks: "Zoomer Conscripts" by Harold WatsonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-65682843179844075802022-12-03T21:51:29.573-07:002022-12-03T21:51:29.573-07:00The Ukrainians have consistently been shown (by ac...<i>The Ukrainians have consistently been shown (by accounts from both side of the front lines) to be better equipped, better organized, better supplied, more focused on force preservation than the Russians. The Russians have consistently been trying to compensate by throwing more men at the problem. The Ukrainians have consistently been willing to trade land for force preservation in the expectation that they can – following de Saxe’s maxim – weaken the invader in the process sufficiently to take the land back afterward. This proved out experimentally at Kiev, Kharkov, and Kherson. The Russians have consistently showed a complete disregard for whether they were taking casualties or not.</i><br />https://blog.reaction.la/science/excess-mortality-by-country/#comments<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-19424171654691893632022-12-01T12:07:15.489-07:002022-12-01T12:07:15.489-07:00Most Russians accepted Putin’s rule becoming more ...<i>Most Russians accepted Putin’s rule becoming more and more authoritarian as it also brought on a higher standard of living (compared to the ’90s) and returned Russia to the world stage in a leading role. Now, however, Russia is being humiliated by the Western world on a level not really seen since the First World War. The allegedly second-most powerful military in the world is incapable of taking a city that is 30 minutes from their border (Kharkiv), is getting humiliated by NATO resources and logistics and being expelled from international events, and to top it off, Russian families are continuously losing their sons, brothers, fathers, husbands, and so on in exchange for . . . a sliver of eastern Ukraine.<br /><br />This puts Putin in an extremely difficult situation, as he needs major gains to make the losses the Russian nations has suffered worth it, but in order to have a chance of making those major gains, he needs to keep taking losses by continuing a war whose initial goals clearly failed. He can’t afford to stop, but he also can’t afford to keep going.</i><br />https://counter-currents.com/2022/11/dark-days-for-the-kremlin/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-61707237113105535742022-12-01T09:41:51.533-07:002022-12-01T09:41:51.533-07:00Russian satellite reconnaissance proved very limit...<i>Russian satellite reconnaissance proved very limited, even though Russian survey space reconnaissance of Ukraine has been conducted since at least 2012, and detailed reconnaissance, in the interests of invasion planning, since mid-2021. A probable reason for this may be the insufficient number of satellites in the orbital grouping of the VKS and the overestimation of their technical capabilities. Indirect confirmation of this explanation is provided by the fact that the AFRF began buying additional satellite images of the territory of Ukraine and individual military facilities on the world market in April 2022. One of the visible failures of satellite intelligence is the inability to detect on time a significant volume of strategic railway movements by the UAF, which, in March 2022 amounted to three–four echelons per day.<br /><br />The poor Russian battle damage assessment process made the Russian military highly vulnerable to deception, which has been consistent throughout the conflict. Early strikes on Ukrainian airfields, for example, destroyed many hangars. By photographing this damage and printing the resulting pattern on to sheets, it became possible to clear the rubble and erect covers for aircraft to return to the site, sheltering in positions that the Russians would confirm as destroyed. This led – somewhat amusingly – to the Russians debating whether Ukrainian fighter aircraft were operating from subterranean shelters at several sites. Repeated strikes on dummy air-defence positions also saw a considerable wastage of ammunition, while Ukrainian troops could confirm that sites were destroyed over the radio even when they were still functioning, causing Russian aircraft to ignore air-defence systems in their mission planning. The already-publicly reported use of dummy HIMARS (high mobility artillery rocket system) later in the war to lure Russian fires is indicative of the systematic use of deception to ensure survivability by the UAF, and it has proven widely effective.</i><br /><br />https://static.rusi.org/359-SR-Ukraine-Preliminary-Lessons-Feb-July-2022-web-final.pdfCPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12701174164478027499noreply@blogger.com