Whew! Good to have the internet whirring along like it is supposed to. No more frozen face or garbled voice. The Judge was intrigued by my latest diatribe on the nuttiness of CIA Director Bill Burns. Guys like Burns befuddle me. He has a gold-plated education. He does not present as a raving lunatic. And he wrote a very sane, accurate cable from Moscow when he was posted there as the U.S. Ambassador. He, better than most, knows first hand that Russia is not a Potemkin Village masquerading as a nation. Russia is a serious country with robust military and industrial capabilities, not to mention having oodles of functioning nukes.
What happened to the Bill Burns of 2008? Here is the summary paragraph of the cable he sent to Washington (published on the internet thanks to Wikileaks). He nailed it:
Summary. Following a muted first reaction to Ukraine’s intent to seek a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the Bucharest summit (ref A), Foreign Minister Lavrov and other senior officials have reiterated strong opposition, stressing that Russia would view further eastward expansion as a potential military threat. NATO enlargement, particularly to Ukraine, remains “an emotional and neuralgic” issue for Russia, but strategic policy considerations also underlie strong opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia. In Ukraine, these include fears that the issue could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene. Additionally, the GOR and experts continue to claim that Ukrainian NATO membership would have a major impact on Russia’s defense industry, Russian-Ukrainian family connections, and bilateral relations generally. In Georgia, the GOR fears continued instability and “provocative acts” in the separatist regions. End summary.
That was then. Now we have crazy. I encourage you to read the full cable to appreciate Burns volte face at the Ditchfield Lecture.
Bill Burns reminds me of renowned mnemonist and 8-time memory champ Dominic O’Brien:
https://youtu.be/KD4TKQNvGs8
He reminds me of Stoltenberg, and also someone good at guarding a harem.
“… someone good at guarding a harem.”
They were “trans” before it was cool. :-p
Now that I think of it, a parade and a flag is what separates barbaric from progressive/democratic/freedom-loving.
Soothsayer,
Are you putting barbaric on one side of a political continuum and progressive/democratic/freedom loving on the other? Democracy is communism lite. Free people don’t need somebody to rule them.
bOxOrOx
No. It was a sarcastic remark in regards of The Western World normalizing genital mutilation. Romans were more barbaric than Barbarians. There is no political continuum. All of those words are just propaganda BS, and cary no meaning whatsoever. As they say, war is peace. Freedom is slavery. Democracy is slavery with extra steps. Communism is a scarecrow for slaves. They all want to take your jobs.
https://youtu.be/APo2p4-WXsc?t=96
Greetings to all.
To soften, brighten the situation … http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/07/mr-president-mr-president.html
Off topic, but too funny. Report that Prighozin returned to Russia to have weapons & cash returned.
But definitely a “failed coup”, not a psy-op or maskirovka, lol!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exiled-wagner-boss-yevgeny-prigozhin-returns-to-russia-and-gets-his-weapons-back
Did you mean sane and *accurate* cable?
Corrected.
What pure unadulterated nonsense on ZNPP that Zelensky pushes.
With so many eyes in the sky, if there was ANY truth to it a simple satshot would do. Where is it? You know the answer.
Fresh satellite images of Zaporozhye NPP https://twitter.com/Trollstoy88/status/1676693025014050820?s=20
Huh?
Thanks for catching that. I wrote “and” and the autocorrect did “in”
Autocorrupt did you in. 😉
Side note: your RSS subscribe button is not working, at least for me.
Just when you thought you had your internet problems fixed here comes “autocorrect” to zap you. It’s a never ending struggle I tell you.
Great talk with the Judge, as was his talk with Phil Giraldi. I’m starting to think that these people get their “intel” from twitter, telegram, western media and “OSINT”. They’re starting to believe their own propaganda; its a vicious circle. They are incapable of seeing the world through any lens except the lens of American Exceptionalism. Its why they can’t understand Russia or any other country that’s not just vassal state modeling itself after their likeness. Its implausible to them that Russia, as an example, is a country with a national identity – even though it contains many ethnicities – and that identity with its ideals and values holds true for the whole population. Hence, in times of trouble they pull together, as a nation, as they did during the Wagner nonsense. They didn’t fall for it. The Washington crowd can only think: We hate Russia and Russians…why don’t Russians hate Russia and themselves like we do???
Its like going through life wearing beer googles. Fun for a night out, not a good way to see the world and make life decisions.
Exactly!
And I wonder why guys like Burns are able to befuddle Larry Johnson.
Johnson ought to know that Guys like Burns rises to the top exactly because they tell Washington what Washington wants to hear.
Back in 2008 Washington wanted to hear that Russia was ”concerned” about the NATO expansion into Eastern Europe. Washington didn’t want to hear that Russia was furious about it and warned against war.
So what did Burns write?
Today Washington wants to hear that their plan to foment uprising in Russia has succeeded to the point where Russians are lining up to betray their own country.
So what does Burns write?
For the last 20 years everybody at the top parrots what Washington wants to hear, and this has turned Washington into believing its self-enforcing lies.
If this was a matter of incompetence then at least one Western nation should have a competent leadership but instead, all western Nations are behaving in the same way. (Hungary being the exception to the rule)
9/11 kicked it off, then we got the Global war on terror, The Financial crisis of 2008, The Migrant Crisis, The COVID crisis, The supply crisis, The second energy crisis, and now a looming depression with unemployment, and the prospect for WWIII.
This lockstep of repeated incompetence by western leaders will lead to the destruction of the West, and such magnitude of incompetence can only be explained if a group of international Fascists have succeeded in hijacking western Democracies.
Hi Buddy
They’ve been working at it since the late 19th Century. America’s worst president sealed our fate in 1913 with passage of the Federal Reserve Act. He even admitted so on his deathbed.
Now it is God’s Time to purge His creation of Satan’s acolytes. Patience and Perseverance. 🙏
I doubt anything will happen to the ZNPP.
The Ukrainians are saying the Russians plan to blow the plant and blame Ukraine.
The Russians are saying the Ukrainians plan to blow the plant and blame Russia.
They’re both covering their behinds. Meanwhile, the plant’s prob. under 24 hr high speed video surveillance including IR and any missile hitting it day or night would likely be recorded. Plus, it’d take multiple strikes to do any real damage.
Yep. When nothing happens, it’ll be said that grahamcracker and company scared the Russians into backing down from their plans.
The real goal was to introduce to the western public yet more ‘proof’ that Russia is mad dog crazy and must be put down.
One day, the public will begin to realize who the mad dog crazies really are, if they haven’t already.
Russians not covering their butts, they are warning that Ukraine has plans to blow up the NPP if they can get to it which they can’t except with few missiles. US sent a Nuclear sniffer plane from the US to cover the radiation leak so US knows what they are trying to do. Ukraine is virtually finished, Lady Graham says if Russia uses nuke or blows up a nuclear power plan the US and NATO are going in boots and all. Welcome to Elinskyy’s WWIII goodnight America
If you notice a lot of private jets leaving for New Zealand, you’ll know you’re right.
Yep I am
Monitoring where possible the movement of key players. We all know NZ is where the bunkers are built.
Yea, another brownie point for me!
Is that you Dreizin?
To advance into the senior ranks of the Establishment, a person like Bill Burns must parrot the narrative that they have pushed, no matter how much they know that it is a lie.
You can see the same thing happening with General Mark Milley. Every now and then he says what he really thinks, an example calling Russia, China, and the US superpowers, but then has to walk back his truth bombs for his own career reasons. General Milley would not have his job otherwise.
The way the Establishment works, it means that those who advance are willing to play the game. This is how the US ended up with lies like the Iraqis under Saddam being falsely accused of developing weapons of mass destruction.
These lies, no matter how much the Establishment wants to pretend that they are true, are a total disaster for the citizens who live in the Western world. Yet that is the cost of career opportunities and advancement, a willingness to throw the interests of the public down the drain for the purposes of career advancement and financial gain.
Burns didn’t resign, as would be apropos; instead, he sleeps with dogs, & now he’s infested with fleas, as it were.
Perhaps Burns enjoys long airplane rides to Moscow, since he’s [also] Biden’s de facto Ambassador to RF, presently, no? {and thus feels this give him some “leverage” with the war mongering Biden and his White House Cultists}.
Humiliating oneself, however, does not a respected man [nor diplomat] make.
Having thrown away his social capital — stick a fork in Burns, he’s cooked. Messenger Boys are a dime a dozen, dear Bill.
He should resign and write his memoirs, with first volume about the Joe Biden/Jake Sullivan war on Russia. I’d read it. If he’s honest, this would be great public service.
He won’t though, since his job as CIA chief: keep war going, since purpose of this western-instigated war is to keep it going, to stymie Eurasian Integration, in coming multi-polar world. Anyone doubting this fact should re read many statements about USA wanting to ”’freeze”’ the conflict. Right. Exactly. Frozen Conflict = US/NATO Victory. That is to say, endless war. This will be decided in coming years and decades — not on terms west imagines they can dictate. . . . In addition, Frozen Conflicts also = growing Povertization of the common woman & man in Uncle Sam Land, and its, for now, European colonies, aka Lap Dogs.
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A Faustian bargain springs to mind. Gains power (don’t know about prestige) but forfeits his soul.
Sounds like a perfect fit for Doug Macgregor’s “government by donors”!
Burns is amother swamp sludge. Such slime oozes in any direction commanded and has minus-zero integrity, self-respect or self-awareness. A species of toxic invertebrate infesting Sproutsville, Londone, and Potomac-land.
What fool would put out that ‘recruitment vid’and then talk about it as a serious recruitment effort? The mind-numbing incompetence and utter stupidity that is the hallmark of the empires ruling class is beyond parody.
The emperor may have no clothes, but they have nuclear weapons. What a reassuring thought!
Interesting tymes!
I wish people would stop pretending this is incompetence, it’s not. If it was incompetence then in at least one Western nation you’d have a leadership that wasn’t incompetent, through sheer statistical improbability, but instead, they’re all behaving in the same way. Which is the same as they behaved through covid. So it’s not incompetence, it’s something else. What that something else is, is up for discussion. But personally, I think you can take a clue from the fact that in all these actions, the inevitable outcome of them will be a significant weakening to the point of destruction, of the West. Covid kicked it off, Russia is now advancing the weakening, when the economy issues hit in a few months, that’s the 3rd strand of the same rope, all operating to strangle the life out of our civilisation. And if you still think that is all just coincidental and it’s merely and simply incompetence throughout all three of those issues, then I don’t really know what to say.
This comment is obviously correct.
Why is its drift so uncommon here and elsewhere amongst those who are aware of the completely tapparent ineptitude in Western circles?
My fear is that the effective West simply wants to empty the Ukraine of its inhabitants. As to why, well the term eugenics is a good start. After all, in WW2 certain Western circles entertained hopes of empty post Nazi invasion fields in both Germany and Russia. These circles were perhaps responsible for the propagation of a Nazi Lebensraum motive; a desire that was possibly theirs.
Shadowy elites are shadowy enemies. That they employ clever propagandists is proof of shadowy intentions.
Finally, 2500yrs ago, a certain laozi (meaning of old) expressed the idea that clever makes stupid in what became a collection of insights now known as daodejing. This means that clever leaders are where the enemies of any group of fooled people are to be found.
two points.
One the Roman empire was run by incompetents in its decline. Its just what happens.
Two I believe its purposeful incompetence. Various factions are looting the empire and leadership incompetence serves their interests.
Three – watch the documentary, Idiocracy. Intelligence is not necessarily an evolutionary advantage.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, it’s not incompetence it’s all a well planned WEF operation for total world domination…..and once again the US wants to be top dog running the show. The plan is to collapse the world economies’, incite civil war and famine if necessary, until the populations are so poor, hungry and demoralised that they’ll cry out for a saviour, any saviour. Their plan is for a totalitarian, fascist world government, a vastly reduced population of mind-controlled, chipped slaves and an elite, amoral few running the show. Fortunately the US and their vassals, the main investors in the WEF, account for only 15% of the world’s population….the rest of the sane world want nothing to do with their satanic shenanigans.
“instead, they’re all behaving in the same way. Which is the same as they behaved through covid. So it’s not incompetence, it’s something else”
Oh, it’s intentional, definitely. And co-ordinated. The scale of lockstep is boggling. The covid lockstep was so overt we have to ask whether it was intended to be noticed.
The faceless men want all the resources to themselves. Until February 2022, they were doing a good job of achieving that.
Most people would have heard the saying, “Don’t ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.” These days I’m thinking that that was a psyop insertion into society to cover all the malicious decision-making which is written off by mass media and governments and official inquiries as incompetence.
Yes, agreed there is more going on. However, incompetence and stupidity, as well as servility and whorishness (- ie. bought and paid for) are clearly manifested traits of the western ruling class. The system in place – schools, training, apprenticeships at the levers of power, nepotism, massive financial control are pervasive in the west. Why would you expect leadership to be different anywhere in those captive countries? That they all seem to pursue evil dysptopian goal doesn’t make them competent.
Don’t go all “Hegel”and come back with ‘well, they sow the seeds of their own downfall’and add the marxist ‘inherent contradictions of the system’ will ensure a ‘vanguard organizes the masses to achive the withering away of the corrupt sustem and and usher in the new (fill in the blank) man and final utopia!’
Look at places in the west where one who is not bought and paid for and totally sevile manages to ‘sneak-in’? Salvini, Farange, Trump? Ring any bells? Where are they? OK, Trump was incompetent, but he was a symbol that focused discontent. How about Meloni? She seems to be treading a fine line, on which side is she aiming? Is she Salvini with more brains and cunning or…?
Orban is a special case as he has united the majority of Hungary with the same vision. Erdogan? In OTAN, but not of OTAN.
The late stage financial capital system is crumbling after centuries long domination. There are nuclear weapons possessed. Old history that all empire decline and collapse, however, unprecedented conditions exist.
Interesting tymes!
This is Ambassador Burns nailing it in his 2008 cable to the State Dept: “Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war.”
Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland & the Neocons do not allow that kind of talk.
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
Victoria FtheEU Nuland and the Neocons read that talk and acted upon it.
great interview larry.. thank you..
I don’t know if very many people in America quite fully grasp what it means that “no one” in our political structure, from city council to the White House and Congress, no one can articulate anything even close to the truth, as the entire world continues to slide towards WWIII.
In a not so distant past, this would have been called “sheer insanity”… not anymore, it is par for the course. They would much rather to let the world burn in a fireball, than to risk their political careers ( as if it will matter when it is all engulfed in radioactive flames); imagine that!
Very few Americans understand the amount of ongoing perfidy being committed by the American government. Whether it’s instigating trouble in Kosovo, trying another color revolution in Georgia a few months ago, working to oust Orban, fomenting rebellion in Central Asia, continuing to illegally occupy NE Syria while stealing its oil and defending ISIS-adjacent Sunni Islamists or pushing Taiwan independence (while swearing we’re not), the US refuses to mind its own business and refuses to allow peace to break out. We have become the Evil Empire, and 95% of the people can’t or won’t see it. Both mainstream media and social media work to manufacture consent.
Russia will not allow itself to be destroyed by the US, so watching the US continuing the escalation toward nuclear war feels like watching a slow-motion train wreck. So pointless. So unnecessary.
Wouldn’t everyone like nothing better than to witness a major coup inside the CIA and the Pentagon? Eject all Mossad and British assets.
Where is Burns’ allegiance?
“Where is Burns’ allegiance?”
Burns and fellow travelers are not only not loyal to the American people, but they passionately despise us because our mere existence is a constant reminder of the failure of their globalist project. They are loyal to their empire, the source of both their fat biweekly stipends and the only social approval and validation they need.
The country called America is not ‘one nation under God.’ A nation is a group of people with shared cultural and genetic history, extended family with shared mores and habits. The English are a nation; the British are not. America has never been a (one) nation. America started out as a federation of nation-states, like Switzerland. A people can be one nation (Danish people) or it can be comprised of several similar nations (Swiss or Belgian people).
A country is a geographic region administered by a government. The individuals living within a country may all belong to one nation, in which case the country is called a nation-state. If the individuals all belong to one of several nations inside the country then often the country has a federal government where states (each associated with a national group) comprise the constituent members of the federation. If the nations inside such a country are no longer substantially voluntary members of a federation, then it isn’t really a federation anymore. Often, if large enough at that point it is what we call an empire. History buffs or the aged may recall during the Cold War allies of the Soviet Union usually had ‘peoples’, ‘democratic’, or ‘republic’ in their country names. The joke being that the government of Democratic People’s Republic of X was neither democratic, nor for the X people, nor a republic. Attaching a label to something hoping somehow the label will become real is standard leftist thinking, and it has never worked.
Multi-culturalism is what happens when those who rule social-engineer the cultural and genetic destruction of the nations living within the country over which they rule. Every nation, every ethnicity, has mores: standards of behavior including boundaries and sublegal customs for handling transgression. (Recall that humanity has only had written laws for the last 4,000 years [thanks, Hammurabi], before then societal governance was guided by mores, of which religious behaviors are a subset.) Ruin comes when multiculturalism becomes dominant because social order deteriorates then shatters. Laws in a healthy society are standardizing extensions of the mores of the people, enhancing predictability of interpersonal relations. However, and this is an important point, observations of reality strongly indicate that laws can never substitute for mores. If those-who-rule shatter the mores not only of those over whom they rule but their own, then for the complex civilizations we live in now, it is like removing the steel girders from within a skyscraper and expecting it not to fall.
The magical thinking that laws can substitute for mores stems from the nonsensical Enlightenment ‘blank slate theory’. This is the notion that human behavior is completely programmable through education. Alas, this is tragically incorrect and the truth is that mores (aggregate behaviors) are extensions of genome. Each of the ethnicities extant on the Earth had its mores and genome co-evolve over many thousands of years. Thus, mores are not fungible commodities which can be arbitrarily instilled into the young by some leftist bureaucrat with ‘teacher’ in xir’s job title. Leftist education is a doomed attempt to create a synthetic system of mores in which everyone can belong. If everyone belongs merely by governmental proclamation and diktat, then no one really belongs and everyone shares the misery of lack of belonging.
Internationalizing imperial projects, whether corporate or communist, depend upon destroying nations as coherent entities around which may crystallize resistance to conquest. Multiculturalism is one such tool, and America has been particularly susceptible to it. While the Heritage American People in 1781 were overwhelmingly (extremely by modern standards) conservative European Christians, the architects or designers of our then new country were not. The majority were men of the Enlightenment. Our original civilizational mission was European Liberty. The religious wars which substantially depopulated central Europe were for our Founders what the Iraq Wars are for our generations. Separation of church and state was not to remove religious values (an aspect of mores) from the public sphere, but to prevent any one of the many different denominations of Christianity from establishing itself as a country-level religion embedded into the new federal government.
The Founders erred on the side of too much inclusivity, and the result was not only the importation of the replacement of their own progeny but a further widening of the cultural gulf separating rulers from ruled. Their lack of foresight made inevitable the failure of the American project. The republic of the Founders is now an empire. Our original civilizational mission of European Liberty (with hand of friendship extended to all but entangling alliances with none) has been hijacked and the project of people like Burns is conquest of humanity, a planetary empire. The empire to which Burns owes his allegiance sees the various mores of the world’s peoples as quaint and primitive impediments to be eroded then destroyed.
The root of the problem for us Americans is that Burns and his fellow travelers don’t belong here. They are not Virginians, Texans, Georgians, etc. They are not real Americans but self-described ‘citizens of the world’. They are not going to stop attacking real Americans until either we or they are no more, because we don’t want to be in their empire and we both claim the same land. They would conquer planet Earth and rename it planet America regardless of the desires of the rest of the world (including real Americans who have zero interest in conquering the world). It is now the world’s problem, too, because success for their globalist project requires that everyone everywhere embrace the self-destruction of multi-culturalism and thus ‘not belong’ so they aren’t going to stop attacking the rest of the world either. No example of self-assured successful civilizational alternatives free of the rainbow flag can be allowed to remain. There is no compromise or middle ground to be found here. The rest of the world should be working hard to remove the vulnerability of any dependence upon the Globalist American Empire.
It’s perfectly possible to read Burns missive as a road map to confrontation. It may be entirely accurate and nuetral in itself but should your intent be to weaken Russia, and it’s ties to Ukraine and Georgia, there’s a clear outline of the escalatory path. On the other hand should you wish to preserve peace and good relations it’s pretty clear what’s to avoid.
Komsomolskaya Pravda has an amazing story about a Russian engineer who has converted an anti-aircraft gun into a weapon that can be fired from the shoulder and carried on sniper missions (details are a military secret). He also is teasing Americans by posing as Batman, making clear that Batman has switched to the RF side.
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27525/4789198/
Altered the anti-aircraft gun for shooting from the shoulder: Russian craftsman soldier Ivan beats the enemy with an “impossible” weapon
Volunteer “Mechanic” converted an anti-aircraft gun for shooting from the shoulder
The scout sniper is able to get very close to the enemy, but he often lacks firepower. What if you arm him with a cannon? Or give a rocket launcher? How will he pull it all off? – you ask. And it’s easy. An engineer fighting in the NWO solved this problem.
Ivan is 42 years old, his call sign is Mechanic. He has his own enterprise in Yekaterinburg, where he worked as a chief designer, doing weapon tuning. With the beginning of the NWO, Ivan volunteered. They took him as a private, but on the fourth day he was appointed commander of a sniper group. The passion for sports shooting helped. Engineering skills came in handy no less.
FORTRESS MACHINE GUN
– Is it true that you are fighting and have time to upgrade weapons?
– I just find non-standard uses for what is at hand. Here we had a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun with a twin gun – a development already in the 1960s. And they made a lot of them. And ammunition for it – too. But this anti-aircraft gun has now lost its meaning – it cannot fire at new aircraft.
– What about drones? Or by infantry?
– It would be – like a cannon on sparrows. You see, they usually put this installation on a truck – on GAZ, ZIL, Ural … And this equipment is large, noticeable. I just drove up to the front line and that’s it – I instantly got it from a mortar.
– And what to do?
– I redesigned it for shooting from the shoulder. I tried it during the storming of Maryinka. The guns of this anti-aircraft gun are fast-firing – 1000 rounds per minute! They went in perfectly, like assault guns. Like front line artillery. The enemy in neighboring buildings had no chance. For more than two months, the enemies thought that an infantry fighting vehicle or an armored personnel carrier was working on them from the ground and responded along the road with mortars and howitzers. And we were shooting from a five-story building. And so in Marinka they cut off four multi-storey opornikas. All of them were occupied.
– It turns out that they shot from the hands of an anti-aircraft gun? That’s where the payoff is insane!
– And we found a solution how to remove it. Otherwise, if the body takes the recoil of five shots, it will be like a boxer punching you in the chest five times. Just go to the hospital.
I personally shot: 230 shots without consequences. How exactly? I will not disclose, let it remain a military secret. But on the very front line, where assault groups usually have only machine guns, machine guns and grenade launchers, a weapon has appeared that pierces through a brick wall!
I call our installation “fortress machine gun”.
HOUSE TURNS INTO A SIEVE
– How do other fighters react? Do you want something like this too?
– Everyone who watched the video, how we work, did not believe, they thought – setting, but a mannequin shoots. The stormtroopers said: “this is impossible”, “we will not find psychos who can repeat this.” Bottom line – for now, only my team can shoot from the “fortress machine gun”.
What targets have been hit?
– In the same Maryinka, the enemy prepared the building well for defense. He blocked the windows with bags, set up a machine gun and fired at our fighters. Then we launched our ZU-shku … The shells flew right through the walls!
– Even a concrete wall is not a barrier?
– Pieces of the wall fall out, holes appear. The building turns into a sieve. 500 rounds – and the wall fell out. They could no longer defend themselves.
POCKET “GRAD”
– What does the command say?
– The battalion commander fired a hundred rounds and was impressed – he supports. Gave the “green light” to our “developments”. We are scouts, we have no heavy equipment. But my group is considered a fire support group – GOP, in a simple way – “gopniks”.
– Where do you work now?
– Now from Bakhmut we are hitting the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chasovoy Yar. There is a huge depot, where entire trains call in. They gave me a captured heavy machine gun, I turned it into an infantry one. He was heavy – 40 kilograms! It cannot be used, it was in the warehouse. And I made him a butt, an optical sight. You can shoot while lying down, from the windowsill or through a hole in the wall.
– They say you even have a portable “Grad”.
– There is such a thing. “Gradometer” installation. We shoot substandard missiles from it. When a large machine with a multiple launch rocket system is working out a package of missiles, sometimes there are “non-descents” – ammunition that did not fly away. The car goes to reload, and these “non-disappearances” are removed and the idea should be taken to the factory – to be repaired. But with these “non-disappearances” you can easily shoot from our installation. This is a combat disposal!
– Was there anything similar in history?
– Yes, the Grad-Partizan installation was created in the USSR at the request of the Vietnamese, back in the late 1960s, when they fought with the United States. This “Partizan” is only for one missile. Vietnam is a jungle, there are no roads, a big car with a Grad will not pass. And our designers made just a tripod with a launch tube in 2 weeks.
– So the rocket itself for the “Grad” is huge!
– We made the “Kid” rocket with a weaker engine. Range – 10-15 kilometers instead of 20. But there was a nuance. The Vietnam rigs were very light so that little Vietnamese could carry them. But if you put an ordinary “Gradovskaya” rocket into it, then after two shots it will fall apart.
– And you decided to assemble Partizan for large rockets?
– Yes. Collected in Donetsk at a destroyed factory, from improvised pieces of iron. Already shot more than 30 missiles – everything works.
– That is, the prototype is ready?
– Now a batch of 10 pieces is being made at the plant in Yekaterinburg, I am the chief consultant there. We have something home-made, and there – laser cutting, turning, milling … They will be sent here. If they show themselves well, we will make a large series for the front line. For free.
FROM THE TANK AT LEAST I WILL GET INTO THE PORT
– What is the effect of this installation in battle?
– Look, the Grad machine works from a place where enemy artillery does not reach it. Because it is vulnerable (it’s just an ordinary truck with pipes). We, with our cheap installation, which is not a pity to lose if something happens, shoot directly from the underbelly of the enemy. We are 5-8 kilometers closer than Grad. And we shoot with a rocket, the range of which is the same 20 kilometers. The enemy does not expect this.
This thing can be fired at direct fire during urban assaults, from one building to another. A shot from such a rocket is more powerful than a shot from a tank! And, right on the object. And our soldiers already had such an experience during the storming of Berlin.
– What are your plans next?
– We would need a tank – like a sniper weapon. We want the T-55, it has a 100mm rifled gun. If our group detects an enemy object 2 kilometers away, then I won’t hit it with Grad, it is inaccurate. A rifled tank is a sniper gun. We can at least get into the window.
NO ONE KNEW, BUT I AM BATMAN
Why are you called Batman? What’s the story?
– We decided to somehow troll the Americans. As if their main character had come over to our side. And they made a movie – right here in Marinka. Before the enemy – 200 meters, and we … Well, not a movie, rather a trailer.
– Who played Batman? Who filmed?
I played Batman. Filmed by my grenade launcher operator, he is a sniper. I suggested angles.
– That is, you were also a director?
– And a dresser. We ordered a Batman costume on Ali Express, just like in the Batman v Superman movie (terribly uncomfortable, I can’t even imagine how he beat Superman in it). Filmed, glued together, found an interpreter into English – especially for the States. There, Batman says that he is fighting on the side of the Russians, because he is for justice. It turned out well.
Won’t all those new Russian recruits rushing to join the CIA be too white and likely too many males? What about their diversity, equity and inclusion policies? Would it have a negative impact on their ESG score hiring scores of white male Russian spies?
Is Mr Burns only paying lip service to DEI and ESG? I’ll be very disappointed if the letter people don’t protest and call for his immediate cancellation for omitting coloured and trans Russians from the recruiting ads.
You got it all wrong. 1) Slavs are untermensch (hence not white), and 2) cutting of sexual body parts is a booming industry (hence extra $), and 3) it also prevents them for multiplying (hence reduced carbon footprint). It’s a triple whammy. Mr Burns is way ahead of the curve. There is probably extra bonus for Chechens and Buryats, as per Pope’s approval.
In their latest live video, the Duran with Robert Barnes, live….
https://theduran.com/debriefing-prighozin-in-belarus-w-robert-barnes-live/
Operation “Thrust” conducted by the Ckeka during Lenin’s time was mentioned as a likely template for the Prigozhin affair..
I hope Larry, with his CIA background, might elaborate in a post about this…
INDY
Just now: Special meeting in Bruxelles, with Sweden, Finland,
Turkey, to prepare for Vilnius.
A Swedish court today, sentenced a Kurd, to prison, for financing PKK in order, to adjust to Turkish demands, everything goes for Nato-membership.
Sweden loves to provoke Russia in many ways, cargoes of milit-ary weapons, killing Russians, and as Nato prospect, but if provoked herself with some harmless Al-Quoran burnings, then provocations is not that fun, and now the government tries to undermine the constitu-tional free-speech laws, by all means.
A moment of truth for Nato, with no unity, during peace, how to cope with a real war. Visit Uncle Biden, but nothing will do.
It is a pathetic show, before the
world.
Excellent interview with Judge Napolitano. Great to see that access equipment issues have been resolved!
Bill Burns went home to the 1980’s, where all of the Cold War relics and museum pieces that infest our government, still mentally live.
The Russians said that they were going to do the worst thing they could do to the United States. Which was to take Washington’s arch enemy and nemesis away from them. They knew that the U.S. could not move into the 21st Century, and into retirement from the world stage. By the time the U.S. finally crawls into the 21st Century, it’ll be more than half over.
On January 1, 2100, there won’t be a United States of America.
“… knows first hand that Russia is not a Potemkin Village masquerading as a nation.”
Speaking of Potemkin and settlements, his remains used to be in Kherson, one of the towns that he founded. That would make Kherson, a town masquerading as a Potemkin Village. BTW, for those that can’t read Cyrillic, “k” is silent (just like in Kharkov, Kh-101 missile, etc.).
I wrote “used to be”, because Russians took his remains before retreating, among other important things. Pro-Ukro propaganda machine did not mention Potemkin (because that would remind everyone that Kherson is a Russian town), but did make a lot of noise about “kidnapping” of a racoon from the Kherson zoo. Consequently, the racoon became Internet celebrity.
https://odysee.com/@CC_CC:9/VID_20221117_190259_449:8
https://www.bitchute.com/video/utL3vFyCDhPq/
https://t.me/HersonEnot
good morning, a question that I can not answer: Russia under the strictest sanctions, under siege by all Western countries which supply weapons, men, technology and money to ukronazis who use it all to kill defenseless Russian soldiers and citizens, Russians continue to supply Ukraine through the theater of war through gas and oil pipelines to its mortal enemies using energy and raw materials in the armaments industry to be used against Russia itself,
how to make the rope for the hangman who tries to hang you,
thanks for an answer
Fresh satellite images of Zaporozhye NPP https://twitter.com/Trollstoy88/status/1676693025014050820?s=20
No more access to twitter
Why Obama pushed JCPOA?
Obama sent Burns and Jake Sullivan on secret mission to Oman, March 2013, to meet Iran delegation: thus began JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] process.
This occurred because Obama’s dream to isolate and destroy Iran, too, had failed, by then — when it became clear Obama’s plan to completely destroy Syria, and Hisballah, prior to pushing onto Iran, failed: this idea thwarted when it ran up against “axis of resistance” roadblocks.
RF viewed Uncle Sam’s goal in Syria: create USA proxy government to eliminate Russian Navy’s logistics facility in Tartus. RF military formally entered Syria at invitation of that government, circa 2015 — de facto joining axis of resistance formally.
Previous year, RF made sure its naval base in Odessa was permanently secured following US/NATO/CIA covert war against Ukraine that became hot early 2014.
https://tass.com/defense/926348?ysclid=ljr82pa48p703921911
It may seem overly simplistic to say that had Uncle Sam, in the person of Obama, just left well enough alone, and left Syria alone, and Lebanon alone. . . .left Ukraine alone — would USA presence and influence and prestige in these regions have gone south so far, so fast? Obama’s protege Biden, along with co-president Sullivan, and the other warm body, Burns. . . everything they touch turn to exactly opposite of what y’all claim to want to uphold: USA hegemony.
All this: reeking failure of diplomacy.
Maybe our country’s leaders would have better luck if they went to the zoo to find diplomats? [One edifying, as it were, dimension of ImpeachmentGate to remove Trump was seeing in all its grotesque incompetence the sorry lot of USA diplomats and borg creatures discussing Russia & Ukraine. Watching these ladies and gentlemen perform in front of congress made me reflect on whether Trump should have been called to account for this sorry lot that he, and their direct supervisor, Mike Pompeo, oversaw. And, fact alleged leakee of Trump-Ze phone call was never charged with treason [[nor, to this day, officially identified by government]]: told us all we really needed to know, at the end of the day. Apparently none dare call it treason.]
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Next stop, Monday , Vilnius, July 10,
to arrive for a decision about Sweden as new Nato-member.
Because Sweden is so afraid of Russia, but why send weapons for
a small fieldarmy, to Ukraine, to kill Russians, civilians in Donetsk, a good reason to be afraid, in my mind, for a Russian retaliation. But that’s not true. Sweden, is not afraid of Russia, that’s a lie, to use
for the little tiny innocent Nato-prospect, and that small nations always have right, what so ewer.
But now Sweden even is afraid of a retaliation from islamistic terrorists
against the Al – Quoran burnings,
57 nations protesting, but what a strange foreign policy. But next week Nato is gone, and a new multipolar era will begin, at last, and exit for those colonial western powers, the oppressors, the opportunity for the next 100 years, as Xi Ping told Putin.
Of course the collective west is nervous, we are in a historical turningpoint, and we will not ending up under the wheel of the
history.
Like Norway who pounded Libya 2011, with 600 ton of bombs, and was used of USA, and Nato, and the quisling Stoltenberg was in charge then, claiming is was the birth
of Norway’s air force, a terrible Norwegian, hiding behind inno-cence.
Larry, re your comment to Judge Napolitano that the Marseille library had been burned, that may be misinformation.
See
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/library-in-france-burned-down/
I don’t know the facts about this, but want to point out the uncertainty.
He’s demonstrating to consummate leadership skills of a modern politician.