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Now onto the war.
Things seem to be going downhill now. Hopefully you feel it too. Hopefully there's a good summer ahead. Hopefully right around the corner.
War Diaries Monday
Start with Alex. Alex seems to come from a diplo family. Currently he's in Cyprus and it's good weather.
'Depleted mushroom' in Khmelnitsky. Why is Western Ukraine panicking?
https://aif.ru/politics/world/obednennyy_grib_v_hmelnickom_pochemu_panikuet_zapadnaya_ukraina
Oh now he's done it - Bakhmut & Hiroshima?
Ze's looking worse for wear.
https://ria.ru/20230522/zelenskiy-1873325532.html
'Who destroyed Hiroshima? Can I remind you?'
'The United States committed a terrible crime against humanity but did not suffer any punishment.'
West preparing terrible end to Ukraine
Combat boots, Ze?
https://ria.ru/20230522/zelenskiy-1873366094.html
'Zelensky's G7 visit showed the West's unwillingness to end the conflict in Ukraine peacefully.'
https://ria.ru/20230522/khaki-1873308874.html
You fool, Ze. They played you, Ze.
China’s Take
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291085.shtml
'While it is impossible to change the battlefield situation through supplies of some new advanced weapons or fighter jets, it is likely that the deployment of the F-16 fighter aircraft will lead NATO into a military conflict with Russia.'
You can count on Brandon!
Green Imp
https://ria.ru/20230522/chertenok-1873306079.html
Zelya's evidently his nickname.
Germans outraged by Zelensky
https://ria.ru/20230520/zelenskiy-1873123205.html
'Talking about delivering fighter jets in a place like Hiroshima, instead of exploring ways to peace, is beyond the pale!'
'Now we must be careful that Zelensky does not even jump out of the birthday cake.'
Kim Dotcom
https://ria.ru/20230522/gazoprovody-1873470238.html
'The informant said that he worked as a contractor at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland on advanced Underwater seal Transport systems (ASDS) for covert operations.'
'I can confirm that the United States has had this capability for decades, and this system (ASDS) is in service with the United States, absolutely capable of undermining the Nord Streams.'
There's a massive thread at his account with an embedded 30-minute video.
Jake's bad hair day?
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27505/4766555/
'Out of thoughtlessness or malice, the White House, represented by Sullivan, approved the unleashing of nuclear war.'
Belgorod
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27505/4766447/
MoA: Media And Politicians Throw So Much Bullshit At Us That It Is Difficult To See Through It
Quotes Gilbert.
'The many months long battle for the provincial Donbas city of Bakhmut, or Artyomovsk as it is known in Russia, has been described variously from on high in Washington, London and Berlin. When the likely outcome was unclear, the defense of Bakhmut was called heroic and demonstrative of the brave fighting spirit of the Ukrainians.'
'The fact that Russian artillery on site outnumbered and outperformed Ukrainian artillery by a factor of five or seven to one was freely admitted by the Western propagandists as they pleaded for increased supplies to Kiev. They, nonetheless, issued casualty reports for the Russians that inverted the force correlation. It was assumed, obviously with reason, that the public was too lazy or too uninterested to do the arithmetic.'
'Given their losses in men and materiel defending Bakhmut, the surrender of the city to the Russians will be a great blow to Ukrainian fighting morale when it is finally admitted. So will the fate of their Commander in Chief General Zaluzhny who, according to Russian sources, has been hospitalized for the past two weeks and remains in critical condition after falling victim to a Russian strike on a provincial command center which killed most of the high officers around him. If nothing else, this speaks to the amazing success of Russian military intelligence directing their firepower.'
'The plume of radioactive smoke and ash that rose from the Khmelnitsky store of British depleted uranium artillery shells in Western Ukraine after a Russian missile strike, just like the extensive damage to the Patriot air defense installation near Kiev by a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile tell us all what will be the fate of future Western arms deliveries to Ukraine.'
Yves: Believing Impossible Things
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/05/us-geopolitics-believing-impossible-things.html
'I daresay you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
'The wee problem with the war in Ukraine and the escalating US eye-poking of China is neither is going very well, to the degree that the propaganda started fizzling out very quickly in the Global South and is losing its potency in the West. It’s hard to keep up the pretense of a great inevitable Ukraine victory with Ukraine losing Bakhmut, after Zelensky made it the centerpiece of his Congressional love-fest last December. Oh, but Ukraine is still trying to deny it is lost, as they did for Mariupol and Soledar until well after the fact. Or how about Ukraine shooting 30 Patriot missiles in about two minutes, which is as much as 10% of total annual production for all countries, in an unsuccessful effort to stop a Kinzhal hypersonic missile?2 Or commander-in-chief General Zaluzhny, usually highly visible, being missing in action for weeks, and Ukraine legitimating rumors about him being critically injured in a Russian missile strike by presenting old footage of him as current?'
'NATO is simply not fit for this purpose.'
'This sort of thing would normally be merely cringe-making, like catching a performance in Britain’s Got Talent where the performer energetically delivered a lousy act, and lacked the self-awareness to know how bad it was. But the stakes are high and we will have to live with the consequences.'
Bernhard:
'Unfortunately many people in the west believe the bullshit their politicians and media are throwing at them.'
Caitlin:
'It’s hard to understand how and why our civilisation is bullshit exactly *because* our civilisation is bullshit.'
Brandon's making an arse of himself like never before.
Cosmologists predict that the 'End of Brandon' will be an event that will resonate throughout the galaxy.
And we still haven't got to Durham.
That signals it's time to enter the litter box.
Give Jewels a listen. And be well.