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“SCOTT RITTER: 72 Hours
Last weekend, the world came very close to nuclear war.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/19/scott-ritter-72-hours/
I do not like his scaremongering.
But there is some good info in the middle.EU Parliament vote:
“MEPs: Ukraine must be able to strike legitimate military targets in Russia”
VOTES were:
425 YES
131 NO
63 abstainedAG
And the europeans want to keep that WW3 feeling:
Let Ukraine strike into the heart of Russia, MEPs urge EU countries
https://www.politico.eu/article/meps-want-eu-countries-to-lift-block-on-ukraine-using-donated-missiles-against-russian-targets/Do these people even know what this mean? What if Russia aided Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya with long distance missiles that was MEANT to strik the US/EU?? How would europeans feel about that?
It is high time Russia either break off relations with the EU in total. If Russia keep doing nothing, well Russia cannot be surprised when EU keep escalating and escalating to well obviously WW3.I have never understood when people hail, support the EU project, this is waht it lead to, a gigantic bureaucracy ruled by unelected warmongering, led above everything by the US.
To be clear, that EU parliament vote is non-binding and doesn’t change the official EU stance on the issue nor any of the member states’ stance. It’s PR fluff.
“A MEP argues in EU parliament against prolonging the war in Ukraine.
They immediately cut his mic, and lecture him on how there’s “no democracy and no freedom of speech” in Russia…”
A day of sad news.
My small hometown Tikhoretsk, where I grew up, was hit today. 1,200 people were evacuated. They say there was a very large explosion, but it seems there were no casualties.Yesterday, the Investigative Committee reported that those responsible for the death of a former American citizen who fought on the side of Donbass have been identified. Four Russian soldiers have been named as the killers. I can’t wrap my head around how this is possible. However, I accept that the Russian investigation did not lie, but told the truth, albeit a bitter one.
And for Jack,
today two missile and artillery weapons depots were destroyed, and a cargo ship with missiles and ammunition from Western countries was damaged.
It’s good that weapons are destroyed en route, before they kill people, right?Tatyana
Yes sure it is good but you must agree with me that it is going way too slow? Are you not surprised yourself how Ukraine easily move arms from the polish/western border where they are unloaded and right into Russia proper (like Kursk) hundreds of miles?
Tatyana, I’ll say I’m sorry, because that’s all I have.
Yes; I wish all humanity’s weapons would suddenly vanish, or crumble to dust.
Tatyana
Thanks for news “from the other side”. Which means at least we know it´s true.
As for the 4 Russians, if one mn. people fight on a frontline a lot of shit happens…Sorry but these are fucking, dumb, uneducated, incompetent, genocidal racist idiots.
And this has to end at some point.
By mass protest, I don´t know.“EU’s Defense Chief Says Europe Must Be Ready To Fight Russia in 6-8 Years
Andrius Kubilius, former prime minister of Lithuania, was appointed as the EU’s first defense commissioner”Of course they are completely inferior to RU and eventually all that happens is, they are hollowing out the societies who have to live with the consequences of their stupidity long after these criminals have left office (compare for that people like Angela Merkel, or as I dare speculate, A.L. Baebock after 2025. And countless others who have been forgotten by the public but live on incredible pensions today.)
p.s. and this: THE DURAN on the Madness of King Z. the First:
https://theduran.com/zelensky-victory-plan-enter-nato/___
[ MOD : AG, you have been asked before, but we apparently must ask again.Could you kindly desist from using your obscure, unconventional, ad-hoc abbreviations (eg ‘mn.’ instead of ‘million’) throughout your posts. ]
___Denmark: NATO member calls for end to Ukraine red lines
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has claimed that NATO should take a no-holds-barred policy towards the Ukraine conflict and allow Kiev fire long range missiles deep into Russia. Public discussion on how far NATO countries should go to defeat Russia only plays into Moscow’s hands, she argued.
https://swentr.site/news/604494-denmark-ukraine-red-lines/
This warlusting woman do not realize that if west ignore all red lines, so will Russia, against the west.…until now red lines were articuated by the West only, not RU. The latest warning was the first genuinely Russian red line. All others, as far as I remember, preceding, were created by us in order to offer us a chance to overcome an obstacle and prove our bravery and loyalty. So fiction from top to bottom…
Which of course doesn´t change any of your assessment. These people are sick, dumb and simply stupid.With following I seriously find it difficult to shape an appropriate sure judgement:
antiwar protest in RU.Jacobin has a long interview with an Italian who published an interview book on this topic.
Normally I wouldn´t hesitate a second concerning protest.
But it´s difficult here.I am opposed to the government suppressing protest.
But from the protesters´ side – if – as I honestly do by now – regard this war as a war for national self-preservation against an enemy who will never negotiate for real – how do I react to the war effort?Because eventually there is only one choice: Either you do fight or you don´t.
That is as archaic as it gets.
If the other side is sane. It´s easy to answer.
But THIS?“In Today’s Russia, Dissent Means Keeping Hope Alive
An interview with
Maria Chiara FranceschelliIn Russia, signs of opposition to the war in Ukraine haven’t developed into a mass movement. State repression has closed off the avenues of mass politics, forcing dissidents into mainly symbolic protests.”
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/russia-dissent-putin-protest-ukraine
or
https://archive.is/iz7MbAs the Italian book is concerned:
https://altreconomia.it/prodotto/la-russia-che-si-ribella/I have issues with her co-author:
Federico Varese
His CV reminds me too much of MI-6 think.
If rightly so or not I have no clue. Perhaps I am just seeing ghosts:Federico Varese is the author of “The Russian Mafia” (Oxford University Press 2001), “Mafie in movimento” (Einaudi 2011), “Vita di mafia” (Einaudi 2017) and “La Russia in quattro criminali” (Einaudi 2022), as well as numerous academic essays. His books have won awards and appeared in ten languages. He is currently Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, and a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has edited the magazine Global Crime and written for the New York Times and the Times of London. He contributes to the Times Literary Supplement and la Repubblica.
For years we heard that nazi accusations against Ukraine was bold, nasty lies by Russia. You cannot make this up:
Warsaw reminds Kiev of its Nazi past
Ukrainians served in Waffen SS units and were complicit in the Holocaust during WWII, Andrzej Duda has recalled“Please remember that Ukrainians have many problems with their history. This is not only the problem of the Volyn massacre, but also service in SS units, collaboration with the authorities of the Third Reich, and participation in the Holocaust,” Duda said.
https://swentr.site/news/604577-poland-ukraine-nazi-collaboration-duda/
180 civilians killed by, I assume, mercenaries:
“(…)
MILITARY CORPS MARAT KHAIRULLIN
❗️❗️❗️Dear friends! We ask for maximum reposts!
Ukrainian military during their retreat from Novogrodovka (Pokrovsk direction) committed another mass murder of civilians.
About 180 people, mostly women, children and old people, were hiding in basements in the village, waiting for the Russian army to arrive.
During their retreat, Ukrainian military methodically went through all residential buildings and killed everyone they could find. There are recorded acts of burning living people, including children, along with their houses. Only seven people remained alive in the village.
Friends, this information must be disseminated, since hundreds of people in the Selidovo-Pokrovsk agglomeration are waiting for our soldiers to arrive. Maximum publicity, including international, will save the lives of these people and stop the atrocities of the Ukrainian military!
(…)”
https://t.me/voenkorkhayrullin/3452AG
I’m in no way intending to question your good intentions, but Marat Khairullin is a very famous hockey player. The choice of such a name for the telegram channel could be made out of desire to attract more audience.
I really don’t want to unnecessarily slander a possibly quite honest person, but this makes me doubt. It’s just so weird to see Khairullin name in this context.Tatyana
No problem 😉The guy in question here is this:
“Marat Khairullin
Military correspondent, documentarian and journalist.
Since March 2022, Marat Khairullin has been constantly in the SMO zone.
In information and humanitarian areas, Marat Khairullin collaborates with the First Guards Slavic Brigade, which is currently conducting combat work on the Avdeevka sector of the front.
As a military correspondent, worked in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Chechnya.”https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/about
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p.s. regardless of the personnel: The question over war crimes committed mainly by (foreign) mercenary troops on Ukraine´s side is one of the most eclipsed in the West.
NOBODY WRITES ABOUT it here. Even events we have witnesses of. It´s INCREDIBLE. It´s mentioned may be by tiny daily Junge Welt which has a couple of thousand readers. And the usual online outlets. But there is no follow-up reporting. Simply because it would be extremely time-consuming and difficult to do your own genuine research because NATO has huge fucking lid on this issue.
Which on the other hand makes it probably among the most researched crimes by RU military internal intelligence.Tatyana
re: nuclear doctrine discussionJust in the unlikely case it´s of interest (after all you are surrounded by RU media info aleady.)
This TV report of 25 min. includes an interview with Dmitry Stefanovich, RU WMD-expert, who also spoke about missile defense at the Valdai Club this year. It´s in Russian so I cannot comment further. But I trust Stefanovich who posted it on his Twitter account. I read all his other English stuff.
https://tv.rbc.ru/archive/chez/66f58e332ae596a9e2eb240fAnd this is in English, so Tatyana doesn´t have to translate it for us 😉
A text about Finland developig into NATO´s most important frontline:
“Santa’s New Neighbor: NATO in Lapland”
https://russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/santa-s-new-neighbor-nato-in-lapland/by
Nikita Lipunov, Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)Thanks for your contributions, AG!
Tatyana finished crafting a new workbench today 🙂
so she’s taking a break from the noisy jigsaw and vacuum cleaner with a glass of gin and tonic, and she’s completely absorbed in thinking about the upcoming colossal improvements to her creative projects with this new comfortable workspace.
In the absence of Meta platforms (aka Instagram and Facebook where I was active), I hope you can see ‘Me and a Screwdriver’ here (the scredrider is on the left)
https://pikabu.ru/story/vyikhodnyie__dlya_dushi_sdelala_sebe_novyiy_verstak_11854817On Monday evening I’ll give an essay on the link, ok?
Tatyana
Your place looks really neat.
Well done!(And if I were your neighbour I would ask you for help with my Mac which has a single screw which I cannot get out because the metal it´s made of is too soft and its cross in the head is gone. I have no grip any more for my screwdriver.
Right now I appear to have two options, one, get a mini-drill online. Or use glue to glue the screwdriver onto the screw´s head to creat some “momentum” to apply enough force to loosen it.)
Looking forward to your essay!p.s. just found this, a history paper from King´s College, 2001:
“Attitudes of the British political elite towards the Soviet Union, May 1937- August 1939”
by Louise Grace Shaw
King’s College London
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesispdf download:
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/studentTheses/attitudes-of-the-british-political-elite-towards-the-soviet-unionMakes a decent impression.
From the abstract:This thesis is an examination of the attitudes of the British political elite
towards the Soviet Union and an assessment of the influence such attitudes had
upon British foreign policy between May 1937 – August 1939. The British
political elite in this thesis include members of the Cabinet, Foreign Policy
Committee, and Chiefs of Staff, Foreign Office officials, ambassadors and
diplomats, and those members of the Conservative party and opposition
elsewhere referred to as the `anti-appeasers. ‘ Using a large number of private
papers, diaries and memoirs, as well as official government and Foreign Office
records, the thesis provides a uniquely detailed and critical analysis of
individuals. The views of the Soviet Union and of Anglo-Soviet collaboration
amongst Foreign Office officials and the anti-appeasers especially have not
before been examined in such depth. Nor have the views of the different groups
within the British political elite been comparatively examined in one work.
In terms of the existing literary debate concerning this area of history, the thesis
belongs to the counter-revisionist school of thought. Thus, it does not accept
that politicians were constrained by factors outside of their control and instead
suggests that there existed an alternative to the policy of appeasement pursued
by Neville Chamberlain, namely an Anglo-French-Soviet alliance. Not only does
this thesis contend that there should have been an Anglo-French-Soviet
alliance, but, more importantly, it contributes to existing literature by revealing
how an alliance could have been, and so nearly was, concluded. Attitudes
towards the Soviet Union were not simplistic and the thesis emphasises the
complexities of attitudes that existed. Ultimately, however, it reveals that
Britain’s loss of a Soviet ally was due to the unwillingness of certain ministers to
put aside their anti-Soviet prejudices during the foreign policy decision making
process.“If Mr Chamberlain on receipt of the Russian offer [of a
triple alliance ] had replied: “Yes. Let us three bond together
and break Hitler’s neck”, or words to that effect, Parliament
would have approved, Stalin would have understood, and
history might have taken a different course.”
Churchill, 1948AG
If the cross is still visible, try putting a piece of rubber on it. If the screw is very small, thin latex will do, for example, a piece from a medical glove or a condom. If it’s large enough, then perhaps you need thicker rubber, from silicone kitchen napkins.
If the screwdriver still has nothing to grab on to, you can use cyanoacrylate glue (super glue, instant glue) and baking soda to create a new screw head. But this should only be done if there is a gap between the screw and the body that allows you to use something as protection, otherwise you will glue the screw to the body tightly. I would use the same latex from the glove.
Or, install a thin cylinder of a suitable size on the screw so that it serves as a formwork for the glue and soda. Smaller than the diameter of the screw head, for example, a small piece of a drinking straw, a plastic rod from a writing pen, heat shrink for wires, etc.Tatyana
Thank you!!!
I didn´t expect you to help out over this distance 😉I have to first finish a project before I go into this matter which has been bothering me for months.
But the Mac needs to be operational right now 24/7. And the risk if something goes south with a repair is too big.It is a single tiny inside screw used to fixate an internal drive.
The baking soda is so advanced I didn´t think of that.
And I did think of rubber but no the glove as the proper source.
So thanks again.Oh, please check your screwdriver, it may have a magnetic head. In this case, I’d be very cautious with applying it anywhere near the inner parts of fine electronic device.
Thanks! It´s fine!!
From Martyanov´s blog, I thought it – superficially – fits your picture from your bench 😉:
Machine-builders’ Day:
“(…)Machine Builder’s Day is celebrated in Russia annually on the last Sunday of September based on the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated October 1, 1980 “On holidays and memorable days”. The professional holiday was established by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated August 15, 1966 No. 139-VII “On the establishment of the annual holiday “Machine Builder’s Day”. In 2024, it is celebrated on September 29. Machine Building is one of the key, system-forming and strategically important sectors of the national economy, closely interconnected with the leading sectors of the economy and ensuring their sustainable functioning and filling the consumer market, which is the basis for the development of the technological core of the industry. The most important specific indicators of the country’s gross domestic product (material intensity, energy intensity, etc.), labor productivity in other sectors of the economy, the level of environmental safety of industrial production and the defense capability of the state depend on the level of development of machine building.(…)”
original RU source:
https://ria.ru/20240929/prazdnik-1975020641.html?ysclid=m1o6o9sr8z154381439
