Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 18

Maybe for this raid on the Hague they could use the same elite drunkards they used for the attack on Kyiv airport

Would make a great film - but a comedy rather than an action movie

Is Litvinenko's story true or false?

After 1972, did Mossad use hypersonic rockets or something a lot simpler?

Was JFK murdered by dropping a nuke on Dallas?

So many ways...

German purchases of Russian uranium surge
The figure for 2024 showed a 70% jump from the previous year

What??? Germany is funding Russia's war??? Germans are war criminals!!!

I am so shocked...and upset...

Change the diaper now coz you have filled it front and back !!!! Front for shock and back for upset!!! hahaha buhahaha Ale witz!!!

Small detail, but Mossad were sober and properly trained.

When did you attend the FSB academy?

The countdown is on!

They thought it is direction to Kursk Nuclear Plant, but it is turned out that it is road to hell. I doubt that western MSM will publish how many Leopard tanks and Bradley transporters is lost. Human losses of AFU is already 4-figures in first day.

@Velund
Putin has destroyed your economy, murdered a generation of young men, polluted the environment and poisoned his opposition.
All you have left to boast about how many military vehicles Russia has destroyed ?

Now verifiable facts about listed above, please.

For now, I see a number of Germans who emigrated from Russia and Kazakhstan in 1990's returning back to Russia. Economical reasons is not the last in their decision.

I am sure you will get what you asked for...

BTW, how do you "murder" a Russian volunteer?

I know how to "murder" a Ukrainian guy who is snatched on the way to work and drafted... You send him to illegally occupy Donbass...

What's the life span once he arrives there? Four or five days? I forget...

German economy is shrinking like a bad hemoroid. Those sanctions against Russia have a funny way to bite the sanctioner's ass...Good...

At least Germany buys your uranium to make nukes along with Poland.

understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-5-2025

Not one map shows any Ukraine advances. Every map shows Russian advances. This as Blinken admits the US began shipping weapons to Ukraine five months before the Russian invasion. Five months earlier and Z still did not have his country prepared for the invasion. That is the kind of leader who should be sent to the front line himself with a bb gun, jack knife, and a small bottle of water. Hundreds of thousands of dead Ukraine men all for the sake of "democracy" and all the lost territory that wouldnt have been lost if Ukraine would have made a deal in 2022. Thats just fvcking stupid.

Russia now has no submarines in the Mediterranean Sea in yet another blow to Moscow's military muscle following the loss of its naval base in Syria.

You are showing a map from before yesterday's attack (not that I bothered to open it LOL)

As for visiting the front line well Zelensky has been many times, unlike Putler who takes 3 bodyguards to the toilet and has only set foot once in Ukraine, in the middle of the night, surrounded by fake citizens, well away from the fighting. Surprised at this cowardice from him given his experience flying jets, scuba diving and playing hockey.

Well tomorrow is Christmas in North Nigeria- it was banned for many years by Stalin with severe punishments. As I predicted the NN Nazis are still camped outside Pokrovsk with some bad vodka and some even worse food.

They have no submarines but I did read the NNs are building a base in Libya - complete waste of money, though maybe the Africans can teach them some military organization.

I was amazed at Velund's claim that some German NNs are moving back to what they obviously consider home. But it's true - I found this link, one of the main motivations is that they don't like Muslims, vaccines or male kindergarten teachers. I can't imagine the economy in Germany is worse than in Krolowiec where they have food rationing at the moment.

5000 such cases in 2023. Quite interesting article. I presume they still remain German citizens

novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/24/skipping-town-en

Some settled in Krolowiec because they thought they could drive easily back to visit more settled family in Germany. They can't do that anymore - though they can still fly via Istanbul.

ROTFL... ;)

I don't think I responded to this, or at least directly... but instead talked about military Keynesianism.

What you say is wrong, though I understand your meaning.

What happens when the Russian ministry of defense, wires the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant $200M for some new missile?

1) The factory uses the forward advance to pay its employees. The employees go and spend this money on consumer goods, on real estate, on services, and so on and so forth.

2) The factory further uses the advance to order raw materials and other inputs throughout its supply chain. These could be composite materials, or wire harnesses, or pumps, or whatever else. The vendors will likely send the money further through their own supply chains.

3) From the profits earned from selling the missile - the factory has to pay taxes. These funds return to the government.

4) Finally, the plant itself is owned by the government. So the government is sort of paying itself, and most importantly in rubles - a currency it controls. Not dollars.

I don't think that it would occur to all those American congressmen that fight for budget appropriations for military programs - that these do not create "wealth". Why else would they want Lockheed to build a plant in their state? Not because it may create a few thousand jobs, and then these people might vote favorably?

So... though this may not be a very popular thing to say - making stuff that can only kill people and do nothing else can still be very profitable and can create far reaching ripples throughout the economy.

You wouldn't be laughing if you stood out in this weather queuing up for some rock hard bread

msn.com/en-ie/money/other/kaliningrad-to-reintroduce-food-cards-for-low-income-residents-in-2025/ar-AA1vQBRo

It's always the 1940s in North Nigeria

I always love writing replies to the Father of History.

1) Adapted and scaled innovations that rose up through the ranks. Sometimes, adapting and scaling things that we see the Ukrainians do better than us.

2) After a two year stalemate, literally invented a whole new methodology for how to break the front. The Ukrainians are still scrambling to come up with a response. If you want to learn more about it, there is a ton of literature.

3) Became masters at electronic warfare. The top ranking US general in Europe said Russia's EW abilities are "eye watering" and significantly ahead of the United States.

4) Defended marvelously during the 2023 summer offensive. In that failed offensive, Ukraine lost up to 70K highly trained and motivated soldiers, which it needs right now like oxygen. All this, for the taking of 3 villages over 5 months. They did not even reach the third line of trenches. Most of their attacks were disrupted in the skirmishing zone IN FRONT of the first line.

5) Made major steps towards creating an effective digital battlefield management system (so did the Ukrainians, theirs is called Delta). The American equivalent is the Advanced Battlefield Management System which is still in development. On the level of the infantryman, this means having a smartphone/tablet that tells you precisely where friendly units are moving, where enemy fires are located, where you have to go, etc.

@cms neuf

This is analog of US foodstamps to support lowest income pensioners with additional food supply. Nothing even close to "food rationing".

So, ROTFL once more. ;)

Caught up on all the posts!

A bit more about buying missiles and what that means in terms of wealth. This is at least something I think can explain with some authority.

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What happens if the Russian MoD is short on cash, at least in this year's planned spending - and can't offer the missile factory an 80% advance?

State banks step in. They can either provide a line of credit, help the factory in issuing bonds, or actually directly finance the project on a one off basis.

All of these things involve fat fees for the banks. They're willing to lend, also, because the Russian state steps in as guarantor. It means it's a risk free affair, really. Sometimes the military factories abuse this, and knowingly attract loans they know they won't be able to service. This is bad, but it happens.

The banks use these profits from interest income, underwriting, or transaction revenues to do what? That's right - they lend that money out again, or invest in something.

Now let's imagine the state military factory actually has 30% of its stock floated on the Moscow Exchange. When the gov orders a missile from them, their stock price increases. This increases the wealth of Russian investors, pensioners, etc.

When the profits from the missile sale are accrued, the factory may decide to issue some part of them as dividends. The majority, 70%, will go straight to the Russian treasury, but 30% will go to the public.

Anyway, that's just the banks and markets, which I failed to mention earlier.

I didn't mention how R&D work might produce $20 for each $1 invested, and how you never know if what the missile guys invented may be used in a totally different sector of the economy.

I didn't mention national security - without which any economy is useless, because somebody can come and take it away from you one day.

And getting nowhere while unable to stop the Ukrainian advance, despite sending their 'top' general and waves of useless orc meat.

May they perish and r*SSia with them.

Ukraine has launched a new counterattack against Russia's Kursk region on Sunday, warning Moscow it's "getting what it deserves."
Russian army scrambles for supplies after devastating Ukrainian strikes on fuel depots

Yes Kursk. Rumors says that Zelenski personally led the attack.

Heroic Ukraine liquidates Serbian mercenary and war criminal!

The world is better off without Bratislav Živković!

x.com/SlavicBrothers/status/1875623769919856932

We will see if this is truth. Judging by how they describing him it is fake news. Bratislav is not a communist but anti-communist member of royalist Chetnik movement. And he didn`t commit any crimes against some innocent Catholics. Those were nazi Catholic ustashe in Croatia back then (and still are) as they are now in Ukraine (no matter confession). They were allied with nazi banderists in WW2 same as they are today in alliance again.

Live by the sword, die by it.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Same as Croatia, Ukraine is papal sh*t. They were even officially in alliance in WW2. Banderists and ustashe. Genocidal maniacs.

Looking in a mirror?

Story about Serbs being genocidal goes in order to confuse world public. Its opposite. Serbs are victims of genocide on their native ground. Papacy of the Vatican organized that genocide on Serbs in WW2 and during this last Civil War sponsored from outside. How we see, in coordination with western Europe (Britain excluded) and Turks, and with the consent of the Constantinople Archbishopate. Tool of that genocide on terrain were/are Croat ustashe (aka germanized Catholic Serbs) and Muslim Bosniaks (aka islamized Serbs). Recently also Muslim Albanians/Shiftars. But also NATO and EU directly took part in genocide on Serbs. In period after WW1 even Greeks committed bestial genocide on Serbs.