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Aug 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ The Trump Administration is reportedly planning to cooperate with Russia in exploiting rare earth minerals in occupied regions of Ukraine. It is also said to be planning to offer Russia the chance to exploit Alaska's mineral resources and to ease aviation sanctions. ⬇️ Image
2/ The Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that the US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, has been presenting ideas on US-Russian economic cooperation to Trump ahead of Friday's summit. They are said to include:
3/🔺 US-Russian cooperation on mining Ukrainian mineral deposits;

🔺 Lifting export bans on parts and equipment needed to service Russian aircraft;
4/ 🔺 US-Russia cooperation on developing natural resources off the coast of Alaska, strengthening Russia's presence in the Bering Strait.

The proposals are said to be a way of expediting a ceasefire agreement in a way that could be acceptable to Europe.
5/ According to a source, "The sense is that it has to be presented to align with public opinion around this, it cannot be seen as a reward for Putin." /end

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Aug 14
1/ Russia's recent creation of a salient north of Pokrovsk has been met with dismay by the Ukrainians, but with a surprising degree of caution from Russian warbloggers. They caution that it's an extended meat assault with an uncertain chance of success. ⬇️ Image
2/ Roman Saponkov writes:

"Given the successes near Pokrovsk, I would still recommend waiting a little longer. As it turned out, reserves were withdrawn from there to another important direction."
3/ "But if nothing happens, it is a very good sign that they have learned to operate in conditions of drone warfare and a positional stalemate."

'DONTSTOPWAR' is similarly cautious:
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Aug 14
1/ Russian commanders are able to commit crimes with impunity, according to a Russian commentator, because they can send witnesses to their deaths, obstruct investigators, and exploit the relative powerlessness of investigative bodies. ⬇️ 'Goodwin' and 'Ernest'
2/ Notorious cases such as the killing of two drone pilots (pictured above) by their commander after denouncing him for dealing drugs have gone unpunished. Russian warblogger Anastasia Kashevarova explains why criminal commanders are able to evade military justice:
3/ "Problems with inspections at the front: inaccessibility of the front line for the supervisory authorities, failure of the command to comply with the orders of the supervisory authorities, lack of authority of the supervisory authorities,…
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Aug 13
1/ The Times newspaper reports that the Trump Administration is planning to propose to Russia that the occupation of eastern Ukraine should be modelled on Israel's occupation of the West Bank, with Russia in full control but the borders remaining unchanged. ⬇️ Image
2/ According to a Times source, "It’ll just be like Israel occupies the West Bank. With a governor, with an economic situation that goes into Russia, not Ukraine. But it’ll still be Ukraine, because … Ukraine will never give up its sovereignty."
3/ "But the reality is it’ll be occupied territory and the model is Palestine."

The proposal is said to have been raised with the Russians by Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff, who is also the US Special Envoy to the Middle East.
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Aug 13
1/ The war in Ukraine has resulted in so many Russians joining war industries, the army, dying or being crippled that the Russian government needs to import millions of Indians and North Koreans to replace them. Ordinary Russians aren't keen, calling them unhygenic or robotic. ⬇️ Image
2/ Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin recently admitted that the country is currently experiencing a drastic shortage of labour, due to "the consequences of the demographic collapse and the movement of workers to the military-industrial complex".
3/ Russia is forecast to be short of 2 million workers by 2030, particularly in the trade, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. An official of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives says that a shortage of construction workers could mean that housebuilding will cease in 5-7 years.
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Aug 13
1/ A retired Russian paratrooper says that "half-dead" Russian soldiers are being sent back to the front line in handcuffs after being denied medical treatment or examinations. He complains that Putin should be conscripting foreign migrants rather than Russians. ⬇️
2/ The man, who identifies himself as Sergei from the Lipetsk region of Russia, has recorded a pair of videos complaining about the way in which the 98th Airborne Division (military unit 65451) is treating its men. He sarcastically calls it the "98th Penal Battalion".
3/ "Our valiant soldiers are being shoved into buses half dead and taken to the front lines. That's the morality of the shit commander... Why is this done by the leadership? It is not only the Airborne Forces, it is everywhere, in all directions.
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Aug 12
1/ Elderly Russians are going to war with the explicit intention of getting killed so that their family get a 5 million ruble ($68,800) compensation payment. It's too much even for Russian warbloggers, who complain about how pointless this is. ⬇️
2/ Very elderly men – as old as 72 years – have been signing up, and dying, in disproportionate numbers. Not surprisingly, they do not make good soldiers, as the thread linked below discusses.
3/ 'Pioneer of the Reserve' writes:

"I want to talk about some sad but true things. Things that might affect people in the spotlight, but that's okay."
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