Gilbert Doctorow: Russian officials are knowingly playing down their daily advance westward, calling it just positional improvements. They do not want to telegraph their punches or to give Western media cause for alarm before they spring the several traps for Ukraine’s army that will come when they break through the Ukrainian defense lines later this spring and summer. Gilbert Doctorow on the FAB: They are unstoppable and achieve many times the devastation of artillery shells. Indeed they are fully capable of clearing paths through any of the defense lines that the Ukrainians are now constructing posthaste in anticipation of a Russian offensive.

NYT: "The flow of arms to Ukraine has exposed a worrisome lack of production capacity in the United States that has its roots in the end of the Cold War."

At present, the U.S. does not possess the industrial capability to truly mobilize for war.

archive.ph/eESpa#selectio… As long as the United States was fighting against weaker nations - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria - they could paper over the lack of industrial capacity. Now? The lack of U.S. industrial power is exposed to light of day.

James Vasquez, the Subway Fighter, fled Twitter after Sarah Ashton-Cirillo accused him of being a fraud. And just like that Vasquez is gone.

The Stavka's electric war: Firstly, the GRU and other Russian military intelligence sources gather Ukrainian energy data on every emission source, including electromagnetic pulse, heat, sound waves, carbon dioxide and other gas releases,
1/ and diesel particulate matter from the substitute, emergency and private generators which have been activated as the national grid has been disrupted or destroyed.
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Dreizin: It’s now well known that a newly-unified, Russian-Belarussian command is planning a winter offensive…a “second front” against unprepared, largely unguarded areas in the Ukraine’s north. Dreizin: There may be some diversionary raids, but it’s understood that the most likely axis of advance is near the Polish border, south to Lutsk and then potentially to Lvov…cutting off the main supply lines into the Ukraine…

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the commander of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, issued a statement Oct. 24 that, among other things, implicates the United Kingdom in the preparation of the dirty bomb provocation. Kirillov: “According to the available information, two organizations of Ukraine have been directly ordered to create the so-called ‘dirty bomb.’ The works are at their concluding stage.”

Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (ret): "...Russia long ago destroyed the bulk of Ukraine’s ability to produce military equipment and ammunition, Kyiv is wholly dependent on a non-stop stream of supplies from the West." Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (ret): "The greatest threat to Ukraine’s ability to wage war, therefore, is the security of supply routes from their western borders to marshalling locations in the interior of their country."

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💥 Units of Russian army seized Gorobyovka (Kharkov region) and caused considerable casualties among the units from 1st Operational Brigade of Ukrainian National Guard at Kupyansk direction.

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@mod_russia_en 💥 AFU units made attempts to break the defence of Russian troops towards Bruskinskoye (Kherson region) at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction.

Many Ukrainian soldiers are now painting (“unofficially” but nonetheless) the WW2-era German army Balkenkreuz symbol on their vehicles. The Balkenkreuz was the emblem of the Wehrmacht and its branches from 1935 until the end of World War II. It’s likely that by year-end, almost all Ukrainian army vehicles (whatever is left) will bear the Balkenkreuz.

This is what happens when you have a “constructed” country (Ukraine) without its own genuine, unified history or any historically meaningful, distinct symbolism.

Glazyev exposes how seizure of Russia’s foreign currency reserves is causing U.S. financial suicide larouchepub.com/pr/2022/202208… "...all investors in the world have realized how dealing with U.S. debt and dollars is so extremely insecure. According to Glazyev, the action has led the Federal Reserve to agree to buy U.S. debt receipts."

I was listening to Alexander Mercouris on the Duran today, and he said that no one of any consequence in Russia was thinking of an alliance with China decades ago. However, the great Yevgeny Primakov was - he advocated a strategic triangle between Russia, India and China. The Primakov vision of a strategic triangle has largely come to pass via the BRICS and the SCO.