Russian special military operation in Ukraine #40

The article penned by Putin is released on the eve of Xi and Putin meeting, the same day he visited Donbass and the General Staff

Xi responds to Putin :

Xi Jinping sees ‘irreversible’ shift to multipolar world

Chinese President Xi Jinping has set the tone for his visit this week to Moscow by touting improving relations with Russia in the ten years since he took office and vowing that the transition to a “multipolar world” liberated from US domination won’t be stopped.

“The world today is going through profound changes unseen in a century,” Xi wrote in an article published on Sunday by the Rossiyskaya Gazeta. “The historical trend of peace, development and win-win cooperation is unstoppable. The prevailing trends of world multipolarity, economic globalization and greater democracy in international relations are irreversible.”

Xi, who’s scheduled to arrive on Monday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, noted that the world faces “traditional and non-traditional security challenges,” as well as “damaging acts of hegemony, domination and bullying.” He added that countries around the world are “eager to find a cooperative way out of the crisis” as they try to get through a “long and tortuous global economic recovery.”

The international community has recognized that no country is superior to others, no model of governance is universal, and no single country should dictate the international order. The common interest of all humankind is in a world that is united and peaceful, rather than divided and volatile.”

Xi called for increasing the quality and quantity of investment and economic cooperation between China and Russia, as well as stronger policy coordination. “We have every reason to expect that China and Russia, as fellow travelers on the journey of development and rejuvenation, will make new and greater contributions to human advancement.”

Big things coming in Putin and Xi meeting

Both of their articles can be read, it is very warming that China is supporting Russia to the maximum

An outright military alliance will probably be declared, or something very close as both leaders extoll cooperation and Xi used "ending US domination" as his own words

This is bad news for the west, most likely big economic deals will be announced, and maybe some kind of agreement on the SMO between Russia and China

This is monumental meeting this week guys, pay attention, the two biggest military and economic powerhouses will coordinate the next steps

The US order is finished

Of course we do. The EU is in recession, a lot of companies are going out of business.
Producing Chemicals is consuming a lot of energy which is pretty expensive these days.

Yes, a consequence of saving money by only buying the bare minimum ammo means the ingredients will be produced for that tempo of production so if you suddenly decide you need max production and you want it now, well supply chains can be told to ramp up production quickly but some chains are simply unable to comply in a useful timescale.

It is like demanding high quality drones in Russia in 2008... having a state of the art aerospace sector didn't help because a whole new range of engines and designs and technology needed to be developed... countries that could supply such things didn't invent them over night either, they spent enormous amounts of money and time and effort to make what they have and Russia was never going to just be able to snap their fingers and have the perfect drones either.

Forepost is an old technology obsolete Israeli drone but making it in Russia was a huge benefit to the drone industry in Russia because it gave them an idea of what a drone could do and how it operates and how to support it and deploy it, but obviously it was only with real experience in a combat situation like Syria and Ukraine that they started to add demands and features they also find useful.

In real combat heavy drones are not so great against an enemy with air defences intact, but small light disposable drones are very useful... but still not all powerful either.

If you have an enemy counter offensive and you have five or ten suicide drones and the enemy attacks with thousands of men and hundreds of vehicles then it is not suicide drones that will win the battle, it will be the medium sized drones rapidly finding targets for your artillery and air power and keeping your command informed about the enemy force and its movements... an armed drone might carry missiles or bombs to take out 3 or four vehicles if you are lucky but a single drone with good cameras and a laser target marker could hit dozens and dozens of targets using guided artillery and directing rocket barrages by ground and air platforms.

I hope the reserves and defense preparations are ready for when these idiots go mad max on the line

When it is clear the actual attack is starting, that is the time you launch 300mm Smerch rocket attacks with HEAT submunitions to destroy armour and infantry positions over a large area very very quickly, with a second volley of anti armour mines with a lifespan of say 6 hours so they can destroy retreating Orc vehicles but wont be a problem for counter attacking Russian armour.

As said they seem to be accumulating more vehicles

Easier to kill enemy troops inside an armoured vehicle than if those troops are spread out moving in a field...

This is why the Poles deserve every bit of their brains splattered onto the dirt.

Poland is part of HATO, so if they join then it becomes nuclear, and if Poland joins the conflict then the other HATO countries are not obliged to help it... and when it gets nuked they certainly wont want to get involved...

Their deployments are towards Kaliningrad because they think Russia is weakest there but I suspect most of those Iskanders will be armed with nuke warheads because they are not for fighting Ukrainians on territory they want to keep intact for the future users, they will be fighting Polish forces on Polish territory so nuking it is just fine.

Thousands of wellies were crowdsourced, even the ones prepped for winter, with wool inners. MoD bought tons of them too. Plenty of videos and pictures of Russian troops wearing them. From last year.

Gumboots are good for drivers or other people that spend their time sitting down so keeping their feet warm and dry is a good thing, but if you spend most of your time in the mud and you have to walk around a lot and even run then gumboots are terrible because they wont stay on and they wont support your ankles properly when moving in the mud... carrying a pack or weight and you will fall over or lose a gumboot because it stuck in the mud... does not happen with lace up proper boots.

You can fit gaiters and other plastic covers for standard boots to keep your feet dry if you want to, but most hikes I have done my feet were wet within minutes and stayed wet all day till we got to the cabin... you take your wet socks off and put on warm dry socks overnight and do your best to squeeze out the water in the socks you wore all day and dry them as best you can overnight and then you put your wet socks back on for the next day... once they are wet they don't get any wetter and your circulation doing hard work keeps them warm.

Beijing and Moscow are working together to shape “a more just multipolar world,” and ties between the two countries are now “at the highest level in their history,” President Vladimir Putin

This is huge, because normally powerful countries like to make their own rules that suit their own needs and interests, like the UK did and France did and the US does, but a multipolar world means even the big powerful countries have to follow the rules the way the west does not.

This will appeal to most countries around the world as being more fair than the current situation where the rich and powerful can use their power and money to get their way, which usually results in them increasing their power and wealth.

The US order is finished

They never really had complete actual control of the world.... only of the west, which they will likely retain because their spy services are directed and optimised to find dirt on western power structures so they can control them as they please.

When their currency collapses their ability to survive will become a challenge and their ability to bribe will disappear.... being offered a hundred billion droobies to do something sounds impressive, but when you learn nobody will accept droobies as money then you realise it is not impressive at all... like being offered a billion drops of water when you can take that from the sky when it rains for free.

Is he really so stupid that he doesn't understand what he is saying.

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BREAKING NEWS: White House spokesman John Kirby says that since Ukraine is a free, independent, and completely sovereign nation, the US will not allow President Zelenskyy to accept any peace plans proposed by the Chinese delegation in Moscow this week.

Kirby and Washington in general reaction is normal

They are like a deer in the headlights

Xi, the leader of the largest economy in the world,  has landed in Moscow and is talking about a historic change in the world order

The week before , Xi normalized saudi and Iranian relations in a stroke ...

Meanwhile Washington banking sector is collapsing, and with it the US currency

There is internal instability across the west, in Paris , in Berlin, in London , DC, you see riots, protests, divisions, economic uncertainty and overall doubt of their place and role in the new world order

It's misplaced doubt, a result of Washington's archaic political order, which does not allow for strategic planning,  but is a mishmash of political theater used to upset the rival parties ambitions in the next election

This has caused inflammation in relations with other world powers, and led to a situation where in the past the intelligence agencies could help steer foreign policy, and now they are just relegated to tools of the competing political parties

In this state Washington will lose its reputation and stance , and will be in danger of falling out of the "happenings" in eurasia

Good God Biden's crime syndicate cares for Ukrainian lives about as much as the East India Co cared about Indian lives.

zorobabel wrote:Xi is coming to try to force his peace plan. Would be sad if the war is frozen while the Battle for the Donbas is not won, meaning a Russian defeat, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Nonsense, read Xis article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, his fully on-board with Putin - the day before the article was published, Putin was in Donbass

A warzone on the frontline

No early settlement will take place after he risked his life like that and met with the general staff for a whole day

Today is informal, many pictures, a nice lunch

Tomorrow the real meetings will take place with the big deals and negotiations,

So far Xi and Putin are having a chummy time

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Land corridor through which Putin drove

650Km , shorter than original route

Progress around Avdiivka  Looking forward to see this nest of murderers and scum put to the sword and fed their own livers.

Could Ukraine be gathering some forces for a counterattack near Bakhmut?