Saturday, October 08, 2022

And so it begins. Ukraine's nuclear power plant has lost its last remaining external power source

Much ado was made about the US govt buying "nuke pills". Bet it wasn't for US citizens but for Ukrainians in the vicinity of this plant.
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Two kinds of women (Sat Funny)

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AbramsX Technology Demonstrator on the Move

 

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Open Comment Post. 8 Oct 22

 


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Moon Of Alabama has some interesting takes on what's going on in Ukraine.

 via MoA

Meanwhile the Ukrainian side of the conflict experiences a communication failure that is likely way more consequential.

Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️@AdamKinzinger - 16:26 UTC · Oct 7, 2022

Evidently the Starlink system is down over the front lines of Ukraine. @elonmusk should make a statement about this, or, this should be investigated. This is a national security issue.

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Tore @potifar66 - 21:55 UTC · Oct 7, 2022

Some of the outages led to a “catastrophic” loss of communication in recent weeks, said one senior Ukrainian government official with direct knowledge of the issue.

ft.com: Ukrainian forces report Starlink outages during push against Russia
Some of Elon Musk’s SpaceX devices stopped working when Ukrainian soldiers liberated territory, Kyiv officials say

The Russian army is leading globally in its abilities to wage electronic warfare. It can disable ground based radio traffic on any frequency. It has now found ways to also disable ground to satellite connections as used by the Starlink constellation.

At the beginning of the war the Ukrainian military was supplied with thousands of Starlink ground terminals that can connect to the swarms of small Starlink satellites, which were financed by the Pentagon, but managed by Elon Musk's companies. They allowed for communication between Ukrainian ground units as well as for general command and control of larger operations. Without Starlink the Ukrainian command will depend on cable based field telephone, runners and couriers. All of which are extremely vulnerable in an artillery rich environment.

Wow.

I've been MUCH MUCH MUCH more simplistic in my thinking about comms in this war.

The thing that has bothered me the most is all the vids we've been seeing from the front.

What happened to "if you have a phone they can locate and kill ya" that has been drummed into everyone's heads?

But to knock out starlink?

Elon hasn't said a thing about that.  Neither has the Ukrainians. Command & Control is taking a big hit if that goes down and that alone will slow the Ukrainian advance.

But it gets even more interesting.  I've long suspected that allied forces were on the ground advising the Ukrainians.  Check this out from MoA!

 

I have no way to verify those claims but a recent Intercept report stated that there are significant U.S. forces on the ground in Ukraine:

One U.S. official insisted that the CIA only conducted a partial withdrawal of its assets when the war began, and that the agency “never completely left.”

Yet clandestine American operations inside Ukraine are now far more extensive than they were early in the war, when U.S. intelligence officials were fearful that Russia would steamroll over the Ukrainian army. There is a much larger presence of both CIA and U.S. special operations personnel and resources in Ukraine than there were at the time of the Russian invasion in February, several current and former intelligence officials told The Intercept.

Secret U.S. operations inside Ukraine are being conducted under a presidential covert action finding, current and former officials said. The finding indicates that the president has quietly notified certain congressional leaders about the administration’s decision to conduct a broad program of clandestine operations inside the country.

These will not be the only U.S. casualties in Ukraine. When more such reports come out the issue is likely to explode in Biden's face.

Just wow.

Read it all here....oh and thanks to my reader for re-introducing me to this guys blog! 

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When LEO's fuck up, its not little its turned up to 12....UPDATE! He's fired.

Vids of incidents can be EXTREMELY deceptive, having said that this looks bad.  REAL BAD.

San Antonio too.

The New York/LA of the South.

Unless their are mitigating circumstances that haven't come out yet this dude should get fried (not fired but fried!).

I'll try to keep an eye on this one.


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Christmas dinner during the Great Depression

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Friday, October 07, 2022

Thought of the day. This group of "think tank dudes", "general officers" and "foreign policy hawks" couldn't beat goat herders and you think this is gonna be clean & easy?

 The title says it all.

The think tank dudes, general officers and foreign policy hawks are all running this war in Ukraine using Zelensky as the face of this clown show.

Real question.

How many times did you hear someone in "authority" say that one more battle in shit hole ass village will be the turning point of the war?

How many times did you hear that "we just have to finish the job"?

The same people are telling you not to worry about this thing.  The same people that are telling you that they have something as unpredictable as combat under control are the same ones that fed us all bullshit for 20 years.

All I can do is put it on your plate.

If you decide to believe the same lies that have bandied about before that's on you.

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They just made it official. Biden rescinds law on spying on Americans...

Well I guess the time for pretense is over. They're about to go full gestapo on our ass.
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Ukrainians are carrying out cross border strikes inside Russia?

 Thanks to Gen Armchair for the heads up!

via The Drive

Ukrainian suicide drone exploded at a Russian airbase destroying two bombers, two Ukrainian intelligence sources tell The War Zone.


The attack took place at the Shaykovka Air Base in the Kaluga Oblast, about 140 miles north of the Ukrainian border and about 170 miles southwest of Moscow.


The base is home to Russian Tu-22M Backfire bombers from the 52nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment.


“Two bombers are not recoverable,” one source tells The War Zone.


An earlier report by the Ukrainian LB.ua news outlet notes that an “explosion occurred on the territory of the Shaykovka military airfield in the Kaluga region as a result of a kamikaze drone attack.”


LB.ua cited the oblast’s governor, Vladyslav Shapsha, as saying the drone “arrived from the border” of Ukraine.

Here 

I don't know if the Ukrainians are on or off script with this.

What I do know is regardless, this little piss ant, corrupt, backwards nation...led by a puffed up little comedian is about to drag us into a wider war.

Its well past time for the memes to stop and clear thinking come to the fore.

We have approached the point where this shit will spiral out of control and the madness that's gone on before will look like child's play.

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