Sunday, October 09, 2022

A suicide bomber took down the bridge in Crimea? We MUST talk about this!

 Been monitoring the conversation on what took out the bridge headed toward Crimea.

Tyler @Aviation Intel found video footage of a small boat, thought to be a vehicle borne IED passing close to the bridge right before the attack.


If you read the thread he walks it back and agrees that it was truck mounted device.

A suicide bomber?

The Ukrainians have suicide bombers?

That's rather chilling in my mind. Dying in combat is one thing but to .... "martyr" (I wonder if we imported this from all our years in the Middle East?) yourself in this fashion?

I thought that type of thing was outside the realm of what Western nations did.

This marks a major change (at least in my mind) of how warfare is conducted that even trumps the rise of the aerial drone.

It also expands on dealing with internal security.

The Oklahoma City bomber LEFT a truck parked outside his target and departed the area.  

Despicable act but he WANTED to live.

What happens when the war is over and these zealots start going after their own govts for perceived wrongs?

The Ukrainians are cheering but those tasked with internal security should be deep in the bottle.

We just got a brand new problem.
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Open Comment Post. 9 Oct 22

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Not many people know about Violette Morris.

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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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