Yesterday I posted this headline and link

UKRAINE SAYS RUSSIAN STRIKE PATTERN SUGGESTS IT IS LOW ON BALLISTIC MISSILES

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Here's what Vladimir Putin had to say about that laughable piece of UkroNazi propaganda.

Mr Putin laid out in the simplest numerical terms:

https://ria.ru/20230118/pobeda-1845760041.html

Как отметил глава государства, Россия за год производит в три раза больше ракет ПВО, чем США, а в целом оборонная промышленность страны создает примерно столько же ракет различного назначения, сколько все остальные государства мира."Наше производство сопоставимо с мировым производством", — подчеркнул он.

Translation: 

As the head of state noted, Russia produces three times more air defense missiles per year than the United States,

In general, Russia's defense industry creates about the same number of missiles for various purposes as all other states in the world.

"Our production is comparable to world production [combined],"

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That was Putin's comment in support of another comment he made saying that "Russia will never run out of missiles."

🇺🇸🇺🇦The United States provides more military assistance to Ukraine than all other countries combined, but this support is not disinterested, emphasizes the well-known German journalist Gabor Steingart in an article for Focus magazine.🇺🇸🇺🇦

According to him, Washington receives a triple profit from the war in Ukraine. The main beneficiary of the conflict in Ukraine is the US arms industry. According to the Law on Lend-Lease to Protect the Democracy of Ukraine of 2022, military assistance in the billions is provided not free of charge, but exclusively on credit.

Secondly, against the backdrop of anti-Russian sanctions, LNG imports from America in 2022 increased by 260% compared to the previous year. US oil has also taken a surprising turn in demand, contributing to a record rise in US crude oil exports last year. In addition, a source of uncertainty in Europe benefits the US capital market, which is perceived by investors as a safe haven, which has already provided a significant outflow of capital from Europe.

Finally, the third one who profits from the war is the US government, which is interested in finally weakening its systemic rival, Russia, and, in fact, taking it out of the game of great powers.

In Ukraine, Washington can do this in the safety of its country and the lives of its soldiers, and this is another reason why it is NOT interested in a quick peace agreement.

DOZENS OF WIKILEAKS CABLES SHOW US KNEW NATO EXPANSION WAS RUSSIA'S BRIGHT RED LINE

Putin softened his opposition as he sought to make common cause with the George W. Bush administration.

“If NATO takes on a different shape and is becoming a political organization, of course, we would reconsider our position with regard to such expansion, if we are to feel involved in the processes,” Putin said in October 2001, drawing attacks from political rivals and other Russian elites.

As NATO for the first time granted Russia a consultive role in its decision-making, Putin sought to assist its expansion.

Italian president Silvio Berlusconi made a “personal request” to Bush, according to an April 2002 cable, to “understand Putin’s domestic requirements,” that he “needs to be seen as part of the NATO family,” and to give him “help in building Russian public opinion to support NATO enlargement.”

In another cable a top-ranking state department official urges holding a NATO-Russia summit to “help President Putin neutralize opposition to enlargement,” after the Russian leader said allowing NATO expansion without an agreement on a new NATO-Russia partnership would be politically impossible for him.

This would be the last time any Russian openness toward NATO expansion is recorded in the diplomatic record held by WikiLeaks."

Nope... Not the only one.

SERBIAN PRESIDENT CALLS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT’S DEMANDS ON KOSOVO ‘SHAMELESS’

Samizdat – 19.01.2023

"The EU parliament adopted a resolution based on the report on the common EU foreign and security policy for 2022.

The report demands Belgrade start talks with Pristina on mutual recognition.

It also condemns Serbia’s “continued low level of alignment” with the EU on such issues as the Ukrainian conflict and sanctions against Russia, making the country’s further integration in the bloc contingent on the progress in these areas.

“They organized violent secession of our territory [Kosovo and Metohija in 1999].

How far could this shameless behavior go? I do not have the words,” Vucic told journalists on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

“They [West] say it is necessary to condemn those who allegedly encourage secession of parts of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

They are the ones who decided to bomb our country and take away a part of our territory in defiance of the laws of the mankind, the UN Charter and norms of the UN Security Council.”

According to Vucic, the West is only interested in the topics of sanctions against Russia and Kosovo’s independence when talking to Serbia, and is not willing to tolerate any other views on these issues.

The Serbian leader also stated that some representatives of Western countries only understand the language of force, which makes it harder for Serbia to conduct its foreign policy.

◾A video has appeared of how the Armed Forces get rid of the bodies of their dead colleagues.

◾The corpses of the fighters are simply raked out of the back of the truck with the help of an excavator. And they dump them like garbage in one common pit.

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I have posted about this NATOTank/Maximum-Bridge-Weight issue before. Click the tag #Bridges in my channel to see the previous post

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Jacob Dreizin : The Dreizin Report

ANYWAY, ALL THIS TANK TALK IS SORT OF NONSENSE.

The #German #Leopard and British #Challenger 2 (as well as the #US #Abrams) tanks are all at least 62 tons in weight (as much as 75 tons for the fully-armored Challenger)—at least 16 tons heavier than than the heaviest #Russian/#Soviet #tank. 

They CANNOT be transported or evacuated by any Soviet-model trailer/flatbed, thus, all such equipment would have to come from Europe or the USA.

The tracked “wrecker” vehicles needed to pull a damaged or broken-down Western tank onto a flatbed, would also have to come from Europe or the USA. 

Furthermore, specifically as a wartime defensive measure (Lo, Prophets have walked the Earth!!!), Soviet-built #bridges were DESIGNED NOT TO HANDLE this much weight.

I doubt the Pentagon even knows about this.

Soviet-model pontoon bridges in the Ukrainian inventory ALSO CANNOT handle it. 

Any mobile bridges and bridge-layers would have to come from Europe or the USA. 

Moreover, the armor on these tanks is so heavy, that, unless the tanks are BRAND NEW (as with Israeli Merkavas during the 1982 Lebanon War), the engines and other systems can barely handle the load of continuous operation.

They will require near-daily maintenance.

(And guess what…. If Uncle Sam & Co. ever get around to it, they will NOT send the newest ones they have.)

Lastly, unlike with the #Polish, #Czech, etc. #T72s, the Ukrainian side has ZERO maintenance training and ZERO spare parts inventory for these #NATO monster Tanks.

(Not even getting into the power shortage in Kharkov, home of their main tank repair facility.)

It was easy enough to send the Ukraine hundreds of former Warsaw Pact tanks, identical or similar to what the Ukraine already had ................ as well as several thousand relatively cheap, light armored vehicles (M113’s and a large variety of armored cars) that, given their numbers, can be cannibalized for spare parts or spare tires.

But heavy Western tanks are another ballgame: it WON’T work.

It’s DESPERATION even to talk, to hold meetings about this.

Beyond a few “sample” models for the cameras, you CANNOT have Western tanks in the Ukraine without a massive Western logistical commitment INSIDE the Ukraine....... MORE

From an insider at Davos (explains the Gates / Soros no show)

WEF in CRISIS – Is DAVOS OVER?

Schwab – age 82 hasn’t announced a successor and is ruling the whole thing as a law unto himself

Swiss government Pressure - Gov have brought pressure on Schwab to relocate Davos as it is not a good look for the country. Switzerland famed for its historic neutral stance on everything, supported and favoured the forum as a meeting place for world problems to be solved with a meeting of leaders in industry and government. Now the conference has become a world talking point in a bad way and the Swiss are inundated with emails/letters protesting about why they let it go ahead there. The interior ministry has put pressure on the WEF forum to relocate. They did not let it go ahead last year at the appointed time and there was a frantic rush and blaming of Covid and it finally happened but much later than it should do.

Local people face disruption for 2 weeks every year and falling revenues, nothing like what they used to get and the big money goes to the internationally owned hotels.

Costs - of over 300 million a year to put it on amid falling revenue from the ticket sales. The WEF media machine have been leaking things on purpose to get back the ‘Mysterious air’ like saying there would be 5000 special police on duty to guard everyone … there was minimal police presence on the streets and the whole place was open to anyone to wander around.

Schwab in a panic cancelled last minute on Gates and Soros – the reason is their worldwide bad image is not helping promote Davos as the respected forum it once was. The interior ministry receive thousands of complaints on such individuals that take up massive amounts of time to answer and administer. Schwab has said he ‘cant guarantee their safety’ without mentioning any of his internal pressure worries.

The event used to be only publicised to global industry leaders and very few knew what went on there as it was a big mark of prestige to be invited. It had mystery and exclusivity (worth the fuel of the private jet).

Now the price is way down and a lot of concessions given just for people to show up and give the event the prestige it once had and much giving out of free passes, however soon they wont be able to give tickets away.

WEF employee group posted messages on their employee forum and they were deleted, they then knew not to complain. The work practices are very bad with everyone expected to work for minimum wage for the prestige of being an employee, however it is now a place that you don’t boast about if you work there.

Board of Trustees saying that there is no clear line of succession or plan going forward and that Schwab runs it like his own private club and wont answer to anyone or run it like a real business and account for his fickle decisions. HE has very little support among the trustees, they are the big group who make the decisions. The working board answer to them.

Tony Blair fancies himself as the next leader and has been schmoozing many of the trustees. Schwab gave him credit as he was a draw for others at one time, but now he has started his own rival organisation The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and is promoting that as an alternative. Highly unlikely he will pull it off. The word among those who know seems to be there will be a middle eastern plan for a Davos in the Desert type event that they did a few times before as one offs. The Arabs are the ones now with the clout on a world wide basis and the resources.
Everyone who knows anything is back trying to curry favour in Abu Dhabi and the like….

What is important to remember is that DAVOS and WEF was only ever the chosen spokesperson for the Elites (or rather those who manage their assets) behind the scenes who make the call on what will happen. - SEAGEE

If you see this video going around, it's not Ukraine, it's Azerbaijani soldiers during Karabach war.

If the #German Electricty Grid cannot even cope now, what the hell are they going to do when there are ten times as many #EVs and #HeatPumps?

GERMAN ELECTRICITY TO BE RATIONED AS EVS AND HEAT PUMPS THREATEN COLLAPSE OF LOCAL POWER GRIDS

By Paul Homewood

The #FederalNetworkAgency is planning to ration the power supply to heat pumps and EV charging stations in order to protect the electicty distribution grids from collapse.

Charging times of three hours to charge electric cars will be allowed so that they can cover a distance of 50 kilometers.

Electric cars, heat pumps and private solar systems are booming.

This is pushing the German power grids in cities and communities to their limits.

An expert quoted by the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)” warns that the local power grids are in danger of becoming the bottleneck for the energy transition.

According to estimates, expanding the German Electricty Grid would cost hundreds of billions of Euros.

The Federal Network Agency wants to ration electricity for consumers to prevent a collapse in supply.

IT IS PROFITABLE FOR RUSSIA TO FEED THE WORLD

#Russia is proving that it can feed the rest of the world, while earning nice profile for itself.

During the past 10 years agrarian #exports exceeded $37 billion dollars.

Russia’s share in the global export of #wheat consists of 16%.

There are several factors for Russia’s good showing, including outstandingly good weather. But even more importantly, modern technology, which has allowed productivity to increase so much as to more than compensate for the loss of grain-producing regions, after the break-up of the USSR.

Technological improvements are particularly noticeable in reducing losses and wastage that might occur during the collection of the harvest.

Russia is also using more productive species of seeds, in the main imported varieties. 

Another factor in increasing export, is the reduction in domestic consumption.

In the USSR, up to 70% of the grain produced was used to feed domestic herds, for the production of meat and milk.

Whereas in Russia we have seen a 6-fold reduction in the overall herd of horned cattle, compared with #Soviet times:

• 41.5 millions of heads of cattle in 1991

vs

•7.2 million heads in 2020.

Correspondingly, there is that much more grain to sell abroad.
Russian farmers themselves are very motivated to sell their grain abroad.

Once the domestic market is satisfied, there are good profits to be made abroad.

World grain prices are high, but at a stable level. Russian grain is popular in the nations of the #MiddleEast, #Africa and #Asia.

A total of 126 countries who are stable and reliable customers.

The shares of exported grain are as follows:

39% goes to the Middle East,
31% to Asian countries,
20% to Africa, and
7% to the EU.

Grain exports have also risen to former Soviet countries such as #Belorussia, #Kazakhstan, #Kirgizia and #Armenia

Russia is laying a new historical record for the harvest of grains and wheat.

Such harvests have never seen before, not even in Soviet times, when huge swaths of land were under seed.

With every year that goes by, Russia increases its world leadership in the export of wheat.

While, at the same time, the #US which used to be the leader, is losing its position.

In 2022 the Americans sold the least amount of wheat ever in the past 40 years

Listen up, peasants.......

LARGE YACHTS OF THE SUPER-RICH SPARED FROM EU’S NEW CO2 TAX

#CO2 emissions are becoming more and more expensive – a consequence of #EU emissions trading.

Since 2005, it has been extended to more and more branches of industry. In the future it will also apply to shipping.

But there are exceptions: rich yacht owners still do not have to buy CO2 certificates.


#CO2Tax

UK MEDICAL REGULATORY BODY DECLINES TO INVESTIGATE DOCTOR OVER VACCINE WARNINGS IN BBC INTERVIEW

After receiving several complaints, the #British General Medical Council (#GMC) has decided not to investigate #cardiologist Dr. Aseem #Malhotra, who has become a thorn in the side of the medical profession.

The context for Malhotra’s BBC appearance was a claim by Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty that cardiac morbidity had increased as a result of limited access to statins during lockdown.

Malhotra disagreed, explaining that myocarditis is unrelated to cholesterol level, which statins are meant to control.

Dr Malhotra instead blamed the vaccines, telling the BBC presenter that this radical medical intervention should be halted.

Cue outrage.

Professional regulators have been at the forefront of pandemic discipline, contributing to a culture of fear among practitioners.

Severe action has been taken against registrants who criticise or do not comply with the official narrative.

I know this from my experience as an officer of the Workers of England Union, representing members brought before the Nursing and Midwifery Council on charges of bringing the profession into disrepute.

Apparently the public must be protected against nurses who don’t believe that masks stop airborne respiratory viruses, or who believe in informed consent for novel mRNA vaccines.

◾The adventures of a Ukrainian Nazi in Poland. A Polish paramedic noticed the Swastika tattoo on the Ukrainian "refugee" and rapidly told him the rules that apply in Poland.

- Is that a Swastika? Are you Ukrainian?... Why can't you speak Polish if you live in Poland?

◾The irony, they are having the conversation in Russian language.

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