This panel is definitely anti-Nazi, but, as is common with Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union, or sharp, upper-middle class Jews, like Mark Ames (who lived in Russia during the Yeltsin period, published the slackers’ bible about life in Moscow with Taibbi, the eXile, etc.), many of their views can also be at times gratuitously pedantic and Russophobic. Chalk that up to the limits of left-liberalism.—Editor
WASHINGTON’S VASSALS
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EDITOR—On the first anniversary of the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea, speakers in the Security Council today reiterated their calls for objective and impartial investigations — carried out with a heightened sense of urgency — into the explosions.
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BIG SERGE—It’s crucial to understand that the Russian toolbox is fundamentally different than it was during the battle for Kherson last year, due to the rapidly expanding production of a variety of Russian standoff weapons – most notably the Lancet and the UMPK glide modifications for gravity bombs. The Lancet in particular has been a star performer – there are claims that the trusty little loitering munition is responsible for nearly half of Russia’s artillery kills – and has filled a crucial capability gap that troubled the Russian army episodically throughout the first year of the war.
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Tucker, free Gonzalo. Kramatorsk tragedy, fog of war. NYT, Surovikin knew. Stealing from Lavra.
5 minutes readALEX CHRISTOFOROU discusses the real implication of Moscow’s recent missile strike on Kramatorsk, which the Western media are quickly turning in a cold-blooded atrocity by the Russians, killing “innocent civilians”, but which in reality was an attack on a military command post populated by Ukrainian and foreign officials, including many mercenaries.
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INDRAJIT SAMARAJIVA—Another point is that Russian artillery is Russian artillery, while Ukrainian artillery is largely begged and borrowed. Not only does Ukraine have less weaponry, they’re not allowed to really use it. They can get Western wunderwaffen… but only use them to bomb their own country. For example, they’re talking about getting F-16s, which would mean using a high-maintenance jet to bomb their own backyard (with $1 million bombs). This makes no sense, but it makes headlines and makes someone a big commission, so who gives a shit. While the US gives Ukraine weapons (on debt), it literally does not let them use them to attack Russia where it hurts. As US Army General Mark Milley said, “I can say that we have asked the Ukrainians not to use U.S.-supplied equipment for direct attacks into Russia.”