bugs in the systems......

На окраинах Новодонецкого более 50 единиц обездвиженной вражеской техники», — пояснили в ведомстве, опубликовав снятое одним из бойцов видео.

"There are more than 50 units of immobilized enemy equipment on the outskirts of Novodonetsk," the department explained, posting a video taken by one of the fighters.

Each ebb of the tide discovers armored vehicles of all kinds stranded on the battlefield, we are not talking about charred hulls as after a frontal road accident, the spectacle offered is rather that of vehicles with hazard lights on, parked on the side of the road, waiting for the tow truck, its occupants pitifully entrenched behind the security barrier, trying not to look too c*[EMBARASSED] in their fluorescent vests which signal them to everyone's attention, their eyes glued to their laptop screens in an attempt to escape the ironically sympathetic gaze of motorists passing them in the pouring rain or in the middle of a dodger.

The Russians, for example, have just found a perfectly intact AMX10 RC, its famous too weak shielding is not in question; it still has its "R" and its "C", that is to say its wheels and its barrel. One detail, however, puts us on the right track and allows us to understand why its occupants preferred to retreat on foot when their machine is supposed to be able to drive at 110 km/h: the on-board manual containing the instructions for use of the vehicle is there on the seat, abandoned open to some page.

Not on any page in fact, on the page of the warning light that came on on the dashboard and put the vehicle in a [AUTOMATIC] safety stop.

Here is the problem: diagnostic sensors and consoles which, like our cars, the NATO armored vehicles are as full of [ELECTRONIC] stuff as they are clad.

A shell explodes 100 meters away, a shard comes to wean a cable, and poof, a warning light comes on and the vehicle stops, impossible to make it start again until the fault is eliminated.

We just have to wait for the towing vehicle, but it will never come, NATO did not think to send one, if one comes, it will be Russian, and they, with the manual troubleshooting, they know how to start the machine again.

At first, the Russians thought of a trap, a kind of Trojan horse... They approached cautiously, ready to shoot at the slightest suspicious movement of the animal, but they ended up understanding: NATO armored vehicles are designed by the same hysterical little pensioners who are afraid of everything, raw milk cheese, wine, cigarettes, carbon monoxide, pollen, fine particles, positive ions, UV rays, asbestos, mad cow disease, Covid, for which there are never enough masks, vaccines, speed bumps, which ruin our lives with strident alarms when we don't put on the seatbelt, safety instruction signs everywhere, hydrate yourself (not with beer) take a break, sound messages, watch your step when getting off the train etc.

Under these conditions, of course, you shouldn't set foot on a battlefield, but you don't think about it, it's terribly imprudent: there are mines everywhere, anti-tank plots, ditches, guns in ambush, drones hovering above your heads and somewhat knowing you really well — when you've never seen them before: missiles coming straight at you as if they had given you an appointment, aggressive helicopters like gadflies, low-flying jet planes with impossible-to-digest nutri-score bombs, communications that are jammed, no more music, and there's no plan to go pee, drink a drink coffee, pumping up the tires, not to mention the enemies which don't look that friendly.

Russian strategists and engineers, mind you, now that they have solved the enigma of the mentality of the deranged and degenerated mutants of the West, are seriously considering a new method of combat to capture the vehicles of the West. intact: it would be enough to manage to give false information to the sensors of the vehicle to make it stop! The goal of the game is to light up one or other of the warning lights: under-inflated tires, oil leak, lockheed leak, temperature fault, technical control deadline exceeded, etc.

It's not stupid, it can work.

• The Russian army captured an enemy AMX-10RC tank on the outskirts of Novodonetsk (riafan.ru)

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paying the bills....

BY Peter Van Buren

Joe Biden created for the U.S. a war like no other, one where others die and the U.S. simply sits back and pays the bills on a gargantuan scale. No attempts are made at diplomacy by the Americans, and the diplomatic efforts of others like the Chinese are dismissed as evil attempts to gain influence in the area (similar to the dismissal of Chinese diplomatic work in the Yemen war.) Biden is coming close to achieving 1984’s end state of perpetual warfare, while only putting a handful of American lives at risk. He has learned lessons from the Cold War, and has already put them into play. Can we call it the Biden Doctrine yet?

Biden’s strategy is clear enough now after well more than a year of conflict; what he has been sending to Ukraine jumped from helmets and uniforms to F-16s in only fifteen months and shows no signs of stopping. The problem is U.S. weapons are never enough for victory and are always “just enough” to allow the battle to go on until the next round. If the Ukrainians think they are playing the U.S. for arms, they best check who is really paying for everything in blood.

Putin is playing this game himself in a way, careful not to introduce anything too powerful, such as strategic bombers, and upset the balance and offer Biden the chance to intervene in the war directly: One can hear old man Joe Biden on TV now, explaining American airstrikes are needed to prevent a genocide, the go-to excuse he learned at Obama’s knee. Ukraine will learn even with the promise of the F-16 it can’t acquire aircraft and train up pilots fast enough (minimum training time is 18-24 months), and next will be begging the U.S. to serve as its air force. That’s what the current escalation portends: air power.

As it is, the planes are likely to be based out of Poland and Romania, suggesting NATO will pick up the high-skilled tasks (and costs) of maintaining and repairing them. Left unclear is the NATO role in required aerial refueling to keep the planes lingering over the battlefield. F-16s aside, a spin off bonus to all these weapons gifts is that the vast majority of transfers to date have been “presidential drawdowns.” This means the U.S. sends used or older weapons to Ukraine, after which the Pentagon can use the Congressionally authorized funds to replenish their stocks by purchasing new arms. The irony that war machines once in Iraq under President Obama are now recycled on the ground in Ukraine under his former vice president can’t be missed.

The U.S. strategy seems based on creating a ghastly tie of sorts, two sides lined up across a field shooting at each other until one side calls it quits for the day. The same strategy was in play in 1865 and 1914, but the new factor is today those armies face off across those fields with 21st century HIMARS artillery, machine guns, and other tools of killing far more effective than a musket or even a Gatling gun. It is unsustainable, literally chewing up men—albeit not Americans. The question of how many more Ukrainians have to die is answered privately by Biden as ‘potentially all of them.’ Anything else requires you to cynically believe Biden thinks he can simply purchase victory.

Up until now this has all been the Cold War playbook. Fighting to the last Afghan was a strategy perfected in Soviet-held Afghanistan in the 1980s. What is different now is the scale—since Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States has sent over $40 billion worth of military aid to support Kiev’s war effort, the single largest arms transfer in U.S. history and one with no signs of stopping. A single F-16 costs up to $350 million a copy if bought with weapons, maintenance equipment, and spare parts kits.

Yet despite the similarities to Cold War Strategy 101, some lessons have been learned over the intervening years. One of America’s failures throughout the Cold War and the War on Terror was the use of puppet governments largely imposed or kept on life support by American money and muscle. Because these governments lacked the support of the people (see Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan), they were non-starters with the lifespan of fruit flies. Ukraine is different; the puppet government is the government, beholden to the U.S. for its very survival but more or less supported directly by the people for now.

The other lesson learned has to do with nation-building, or rebuilding, or reconstruction—whatever the vast postwar expenditures will be called in this conflict. No more straight-up governmental efforts as in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. This time it will be all private enterprise. “It is obvious that American business can become the locomotive that will once again push forward global economic growth,” President Zelensky said, boasting BlackRock, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs. Others, he said, “have already become part of our Ukrainian way.”

The Ukrainian chamber of commerce called the country “the world’s largest construction site.” The New York Timesechoed one prediction that claimed rebuilding efforts will cost $750 billion. Ukraine reconstruction will be, says the Times, a “gold rush.... Russia is stepping up its offensive heading into the second year of the war, but already the staggering rebuilding task is evident. Hundreds of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals and factories have been obliterated along with critical energy facilities and miles of roads, rail tracks and seaports. The profound human tragedy is unavoidably also a huge economic opportunity.” Earlier this year JP Morgan and Zelensky signed a memorandum of understanding stipulating Morgan would assist Ukraine in its reconstruction.

And maybe those large American companies have learned the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. Of the billions spent, much money was wasted on dead ends and much was siphoned off due to corruption. But success or failure, the contractors always got paid in our Wars of Terror. With that in mind, more than 300 companies from 22 countries signed up for a Rebuild Ukraine exhibition and conference in Warsaw. At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, a standing-room-only crowd packed a conference called Ukraine House Davos to discuss investment opportunities.

The eventual gold rush in rebuilding makes for an interesting addendum to the Biden strategy of fighting to the last Ukrainian. The more that is destroyed the more that needs to be rebuilt, which offers more money for U.S. companies smart enough to wait by the trough for the killing to subside. But why wait? Drones operated by Danish companies have already mapped every bombed-out structure in the Mykolaiv region, with an eye toward using the data to help decide which reconstruction contracts should be issued.

So let’s put some lipstick on this pig of a strategy and call it the Biden Doctrine. Part I is to limit direct U.S. combat involvement while fanning the flames for others. Part II is to provide massive amounts of arms to enable a fight to the last local person. Part III is to transform the home government into a puppet instead of creating an unpopular one afresh. Part IV is to turn the reconstruction process into a profit center for American companies. How long the war lasts and how many die are not part of the strategy.

The off-ramp in Ukraine, a diplomatic outcome that resets the map to pre-invasion 2022 levels, is clear enough to Washington. The Biden administration seems shamelessly content not to call for diplomatic efforts, but instead to bleed out the Russians as if this were Afghanistan 1980, albeit in the heart of Europe.

Peter Van Buren

Peter Van Buren is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan, and Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-war-like-no-other/

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air-born mines......

THESE WEAPONS AREN'T NEW, BUT THEY ARE NOW BROUGHT OUT BY RUSSIAN IN THE DECIMATION OF UKRAINE'S FAULTERING OFFENSIVE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JGlDlwW06Y

BACK IN 2022: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10767741/Unseen-Russian-smart-deployed-Ukraine.html

Unseen Russian smart-mine is deployed in Ukraine: High-tech jumping bomb blasts 100ft into the air and shoots explosives into tanks from above

When triggered, the PTKM-1R top-attack mine launches itself into the air
It scans the ground for its target, before firing an explosive slug from above
Armoured vehicle turrets are more vulnerable to attack due to weaker plating
As tank armour has become stronger and lighter, armies have been working to develop more sophisticated top-attack technologies

inept zelensky.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98A8h5odUwU

INTERVIEW: The Ukraine offensive was defeated the moment it was conceived, says former US marine and military analyst Scott Ritter

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By Gus Leonisky at 23 Jun 2023 - 5:52am
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