Russian special military operation in Ukraine #53

At the moment, things seem to develop in the proper direction, as nobody other than Anglosaxons and their thugs seems to get involved.
Insurance tariffs were hiked by 50% for US, UK, and Israel-connected operators, increasing the cost by hundreds of thousand $ per ship.

Which is boosting interest in transport from Asia to Europe via overland rail via Russia...

they seem to be hitting within about 10m of the intended target.

Another factor too these are not suicide drones that need to hit the target for effect because they have 3kg warheads... these glide bombs are 500-1500kg bombs whose blast wave and fragment radius is enormous.

Otherwise, due to cost/manpower req'd to scrap it, they'll let it sit & rot there for more # of years until it sinks or used as a target.

It does not take high skills to scrap a ship, and the metals collected can recoup the costs of dismantling the ship... more importantly it can be floated from where it is and taken to a open flat area and beached so it does not take up shipyard space that could be used for other things or prepared for other things.

Eastern Slavs are an inferior people.

No, I would say the western most slavs in the Ukraine have been contaminated and misled as usual by the west and they are the inferior minds, but their numbers are being thinned by the superior slavs in Russia.

Of the useful idiots that remain most are likely to flee to the west leaving a much smaller group to pull up to human level... not great, but rather higher than any anglo saxon has achieved.

On the other hand no, it is a massive failure resulting in the rebirth of an empire greater than the first and second iterations of Great Russia

Agree, the enormous failure was the lack of integration of Russia into the west before severing ties, which the west are breaking themselves so they cannot use punitive measures against Russia via the WTO for instance over the EU food ban and other cold turkey solutions to build Russia and make it more independent.

Seems the EU can't afford to subsidise its farmers any longer so it is likely going to have to import food and their unproductive and inefficient farms will likely collapse and die.

Funny that one solution EU farmers are talking about is the EU dropping sanctions against Russia so the EU can get cheap energy and also sell food to Russia... which is very much wishful thinking... energy is never going to be as cheap as it was for Europe and letting EU food into Russia would let Russian food into the EU which would destroy EU food production the way it stifled Russian food production with cheap food exports to Russia from the EU.

No, the west have indeed failed to contain Russia

Not just failed to contain, they have created hostility and open hatred for the west in a country that wanted to be part of the west...

Ironic that Americas games have broken Europe... a significant portion of the west but also pushed away and pissed off Russia which would have been a resource rich piece to add to the west even if changes would need to be made to accommodate it.

What an opportunity... lost.

This only applies if Russia actually wins the war.

Russia is not going anywhere, but eventually the US runs away and when its money and military goes the EU follows and so does the UK.

Remember 20 years in Afghanistan and then it was over.

Tough talk from Germany and the UK about how they will stay even if the US leaves, but it was all BS and they ran with the best of them.

And it also only applies if Russia never forgets that the West has done to Russia. Russia has a bad habit of forgiving its enemies.

But how could such evil people be so nice... the west WILL never forgive Russia so it does not matter what Russia will or will not do... it was 30 years after the cold war with 10 years of the US in control of Russia essentially, and then 20 years of Putin trying to create a partnership, and the sanctions and hostility just got worse and worse.

The reality is that the rest of the world is out there and they want to trade and develop and grow and they don't want to tell Russia what to do or how to behave.

These tiny but growing economies is where you make the real money... and you can do it without robbing the natives blind... you can help each other... and when you listen to that it sounds so idealistic you would think it would have been American foreign policy all along, but greedy people run the colonial west and greedy people don't do nice or charity.

It will require creative solutions... and a lot of fucking firepower

Glide kits for FAB-3000, and FAB-5000, and FAB-9000, and perhaps even some FOAB testing... not to mention drones on ground and in their air day and night chipping away at people and resources and any supply columns going in or coming out.

looks like people are making jokes about putins interview with carlson.

The ones making jokes are trying to distract you from the facts and the answers that undermine their views of the situation... that is why western journalists have not been allowed to talk to Putin... what if he makes sense?