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Published On 28 Jun 2022
โ€ŠThe Fantasy of Fanaticism
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Despite what some โ€œdefense analystsโ€ may be telling Western media, the longer the war continues, the more Ukrainians will die and the weaker NATO will become.

By Scott RITTER

For a moment in time, it looked as if reality had managed to finally carve its way through the dense fog of propaganda-driven misinformation that had dominated Western media coverage of Russiaโ€™s โ€œSpecial Military Operationโ€ in Ukraine.

In a stunning admission, Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former senior adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Intelligence Services, noted that the optimism that existed in Ukraine following Russiaโ€™s decision to terminate โ€œPhase Oneโ€ of the SMO (a major military feint toward Kiev), and begin โ€œPhase Twoโ€ (the liberation of the Donbass), was no longer warranted. โ€œThe strategies and tactics of the Russians are completely different right now,โ€ Danylyuk noted. โ€œThey are being much more successful. They have more resources than us and they are not in a rush.โ€

โ€œThereโ€™s much less space for optimism right now,โ€ Danylyuk concluded.

In short, Russia was winning.

Danylyukโ€™s conclusions were not derived from some esoteric analysis drawn from Sun Tzu or Clausewitz, but rather basic military math. In a war that had become increasingly dominated by the role of artillery, Russia simply was able to bring to bear on the battlefield more firepower than Ukraine.

Ukraine started the current conflict with an artillery inventory that included 540 122mm self-propelled artillery guns, 200 towed 122mm howitzers, 200 122mm multiple-rocket launch systems, 53 152mm self-propelled guns, 310 towed 152mm howitzers, and 96 203mm self-propelled guns, for approximately 1,200 artillery and 200 MLRS systems.

For the past 100-plus days, Russia has been relentlessly targeting both Ukraineโ€™s artillery pieces and their associated ammunition storage facilities. By June 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that it had destroyed โ€œ521 installation of multiple launch rocket systemsโ€ and โ€œ1947 field artillery guns and mortars.โ€

Even if the Russian numbers are inflated (as is usually the case when it comes to wartime battle damage assessments), the bottom line is that Ukraine has suffered significant losses among the very weapons systems โ€” artillery โ€” which are needed most in countering the Russian invasion.

But even if Ukraineโ€™s arsenal of Soviet-era 122mm and 152mm artillery pieces were still combat-worthy, the reality is that, according to Danylyuk, Ukraine has almost completely run out of ammunition for these systems and the stocks of ammunition sourced from the former Soviet-bloc Eastern European countries that used the same family of weapons have been depleted.

Ukraine is left doling out what is left of its former Soviet ammunition while trying to absorb modern Western 155mm artillery systems, such as the Caesar self-propelled gun from France and the U.S.-made M777 howitzer.

But the reduced capability means that Ukraine is only able to fire some 4,000-to-5,000 artillery rounds per day, while Russia responds with more than 50,000. This 10-fold disparity in firepower has proven to be one of the most decisive factors when it comes to the war in Ukraine, enabling Russia to destroy Ukrainian defensive positions with minimal risk to its own ground forces.

Casualties

This has led to a second level of military math imbalances, that being casualties.

Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior aid to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,...

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War Makes for Clarity
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In America โ€“ as in Europe โ€“ there is fear and anger at system disintegration, Alastair Crooke writes.

The train wreck has been expected for so long that we have become comfortable living under its shadow. Life went on; markets were sanguine that the market lifestyle subsidy provided by the Central Banks would continue unabated. And not without good reason either: Any trader disappointment at Central Bank action, any dip in markets, brought forth a collective market hissy fit that usually strong-armed the Central Banks into immediate appeasement. We were hard pressed to imagine differently.

Now, however, weโ€™re in a new era, in many ways. The West has entered upon a war with Russia and China. The West, however, did not do its homework first, and now is finding that the โ€˜warโ€™ is cruelly revealing the structural rigidities and flaws integral to its own economic system, rather than mining the weaknesses of its rivals.

Why is this new era so grave? Firstly, because of what lies โ€˜beneath the stonesโ€™. These structural contradictions have been accumulating over decades, lurking in the dark damp underside to the stones. Kept hidden from sight by the serendipitous (for the U.S.) economic outcome to WW2, and the equally serendipitous combination of factors that kept inflation low (so low that western economists believed they had found the โ€˜holy grailโ€™ of monetary โ€˜easingโ€™ โ€“ they had banished recessions for ever). So simple, really, just turn on the money-printer!

Hubris prevailed. It was magic: a โ€˜new economicsโ€™. And then inadvertently, Team Biden kicked over the stones in their eagerness to cut Russia down to size (instigating sanctions and stealing Russiaโ€™s foreign reserves). And Inflation was the serpent under the rock. Long latent, unseen, yet always present. And no longer one serpent, but now many.

And then they found they are fighting the wrong war: Ukraine was conceived as the urban war American and NATO trainers had absorbed from the jihadists fighting President Assad in Syria. But Russia knew this type of war well โ€“ they did not bite; instead, they fought a classic artillery war (in which Russia traditionally has excelled).

So, the serpents of inflation โ€“ at a time of structural economic checkmate โ€“ are loosened, as they always are in war. And as pressures mount, โ€˜thingsโ€™ and people get thrown under a bus. โ€˜Warโ€™ makes for clarity: It becomes starkly clear what baggage must go overboard to save the vessel.

Saving the vessel, of course, is imperative. Thus, America has decided to look after โ€˜its ownโ€™. The Davos-Brussels plan to eventually to roll-up the over-indebted European commercial banks into a single, Brussels-controlled digital currency suddenly is seen โ€“ as if scales had fallen from the eyes โ€“ as potentially threatening to hole the hull below the waterline.

What this reveals is that the โ€˜strong dollarโ€“weak dollar playโ€™ โ€“ in tandem with Treasury sanctions โ€“ has been โ€˜not so badโ€™ for the NY Big Banks! Why let the Europeans scoop up all those distressed assets that pop-up in times of crisis? Why allow the U.S. big banking sphere to dissolve into a world of fin-tech Apps? Why deprive the former of their historic raiding rights? Why stop now because the Europeans want โ€˜Davosโ€™.

So, the U.S. Big Banks are thinking, let the ECB โ€“ and by extension the Euro Zone โ€“ โ€˜fall under the busโ€™. Co-ordinating policy with the ECB anyway has tied the hands of the Fed to manage affairs to its own advantage.

With โ€˜warโ€™, the serpents crawl out. Again, a stark clarity emerges: What worked when inflation was less than 2% doesnโ€™t โ€˜cut itโ€™ at double digit inflation. The low inflation era was dominated by monetarist dogma. And so, it also bred structural contradictions. Even moderate interest rate incre...

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Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics
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By Jonathan COOK

They were shooting directly at the journalists: New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forcesโ€. Thus read a CNN headline on May 26, 2022, for an article describing what may have been a โ€œtargeted killing,โ€ โ€“ that is, assassination โ€“ of Al Jazeera journalist Shirleen Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old highly esteemed Palestinian-American...

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US Military Struggles to Recruit Young Americans โ€“ report

Every US military branch is toiling to meet recruitment goals for 2022, NBC reports, citing multiple officials.

The US military โ€œhas not had such a hard time signing recruits since 1973, the year the U.S. left Vietnam and the draft officially ended,โ€ the report said.

According to data, the pool of those eligible to join the military has been shrinking, โ€œwith more young men and women than ever disqualified for obesity, drug use or criminal records.โ€

Historic reluctance of Americans to enlist is also a major factor, with โ€œonly 9% of those young Americans eligible to serve in the military had any inclination to do so, the lowest number since 2007. โ€œ

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Former Russian President Warns NATO Encroaching on Crimea Could Lead to World War Three

Dmitry Medvedev, Russiaโ€™s former commander-in-chief, now deputy chairman of the Security Council, has told local media that Moscow will fully commit to defending its disputed control of the Crimean Peninsula, to Ukraineโ€™s South.

"For us, Crimea is a part of Russia. And that means forever. Any attempt to encroach on Crimea is a declaration of war against our country," Medvedev told Argumenty i Fakty.

"And if this is done by a NATO member-state, this means conflict with the entire North Atlantic alliance; a World War Three. A complete catastrophe," he added.

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Drug lab busted at nuke-hosting NATO base
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Belgian police has raided an illegal drug lab at the Kleine-Brogel airbase

Belgian law enforcement has busted an illegal drug lab located on the premises of the NATO Kleine-Brogel airbase in the northeast of the country, Limburg police said on Tuesday. 

The lab was discovered at the airbase last Wednesday, the police said, adding that โ€œa neighboring houseโ€ located off the installationโ€™s premises was involved into the operation as well. The lab has been manufacturing the synthetic drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy.

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Oxfam condemns G7 for โ€˜leaving millions to starveโ€™
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Global aid group Oxfam has eviscerated the G7 countries for pledging a pittance to fight the global food crisis

The G7 countries are โ€œleaving millions to starve and cooking the planet,โ€ global aid group Oxfamโ€™s head of inequality policy Max Lawson has declared in a statement issued on Tuesday condemning the mere $4.5 billion the industrialized nations have pledged to fight the worst hunger crisis in decades.

Lawson argued that โ€œat least $28.5 billion moreโ€ was needed to โ€œfinance food and agriculture investments to end hunger and fill the huge gap in UN humanitarian appeals.โ€ G7 countr...

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Why is NATO warnยญing of โ€˜a more danยญgerยญous worldโ€™?
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Milยญiยญtary alยญliance will disยญcuss new strateยญgic conยญcept for upยญcomยญing decade and is set to laยญbel Rusยญsia as a priยญmaยญry threat.
Published On 28 Jun 2022
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N Koยญrea acยญcusยญes US, reยญgionยญal alยญlies of moves toยญwards โ€˜Asian NATOโ€™
State news agency KCNA acยญcused US, Japan and South Koยญrea of harยญbourยญing โ€˜sinยญisยญter aimโ€™ toยญwards Pyยญongyang.
Published On 28 Jun 2022
Donald Trump 'wanted to join US Capitol riot', says former White House top aide
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A top aide of Donald Trump testified on Tuesday that the former United States President tried to grab the steering wheel of his car in order to dri

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EU Extends Covid Certificate Use Until June 2023

The European Union approved a one-year extension of Covid certificates as cases begin to rise again ahead of the summer holiday season.

The European Council said the regulation may be lifted before June 2023 depending on conditions, but some governments are already rethinking their decisions to lift restrictions.

French health minister Brigitte Bourguignon this week advised people to wear masks indoors and on public transport.

Sound familiar?

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Meta Strips Abortion Pill Posts - But Admits Enforcement Mistakes

Facebook and Instagram are removing posts offering to mail abortion pills to women who may now have trouble accessing them almost instantly, although admits some instances of โ€œincorrect enforcementโ€.

Mentions of abortion pills such as mifepristone and misoprostol spiked to over 250,000 on Friday following the SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe vs Wade across Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TV.

An AP reporter claimed a test post appearing to offer mail-order abortion pills was removed within 1 minute, but identical ones offering guns or weed remained untouched, despite a Meta spox insisting the platform bans sales of guns, alcohol, and pharmaceuticals.

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Ukraine Pulls Plug on Nuclear Cooperation with Russia

Ukraineโ€™s nuclear regulator announced that it to stop working with Russia due to the hostilities between the two nations - two agreements with Moscow will now be nullified.

Ukraineโ€™s civilian nuclear industry was built when the country was part of the USSR, and for decades it relied on Russian expertise to keep it running.

The 2014 crisis dealt a serious blow to the cooperation between the two countries, with Kiev declaring that it would use Western fuel instead.

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โ€˜Putin has beยญcome a terยญrorยญistโ€™: Zeยญlenยญskyy
Ukraine presยญiยญdent urges UN to do everyยญthing to stop Rusยญsiaโ€™s โ€˜killing spreeโ€™ beยญfore its โ€˜terยญrorยญist acยญtivยญiยญtyโ€™ spreads.
Published On 29 Jun 2022