Let me start today’s write up out with two reading recommendations…
Why Have I Stopped Posting Maps of the Situation in the Ukraine and a Few Other Questions…
A reader recently asked me why I have not posted any maps of the military situation in the Ukraine, and that is a fair question which I will answer below…
Former CIA Covert Intelligence Officer Andrew Bustamante: ‘Ukraine is a pawn on the table for Super Powers to calculate each others capacities”…
Former CIA Covert Intelligence Officer Andrew Bustamante’s analysis of Russia-Ukraine War…
How Ukraine Lost Its Riches…
On February 24, the day Russian troops crossed the borders to Ukraine, I wrote about the potential end state of the operation:
Looking at this map I believe that the most advantageous end state for Russia would be the creation of a new independent country, call it Novorussiya, on the land east of the Dnieper and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population and that, in 1922, had been attached to the Ukraine by Lenin. That state would be politically, culturally and militarily aligned with Russia…
CBS Goes Full Back Flip. Tries to Erase Reality on Ukraine’s Defenses and Missing U.S. Weaponry
CBS bosses have had second thoughts and decided they did too much journalism…
Ukrainian Terrorism: Firing Munitions Containing Petal Mines on Donbass Orphanage, Another War Crime…
On August 6, Ukraine fired onto the territory of an orphanage in Makeevka a rocket containing the Petal mines which Ukraine has been terrorizing Donetsk civilians with since late July…
Overview of Bloody Attacks by Ukrainian Forces on Civilians in Donetsk People’s Republic…
On August 4, the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic reported that more than 300 shells, including those equipped with PMF-1 (Lepestok) anti-personnel mines, were fired from the Ukrainian side on the territory of the Republic…
Moon of Alabama Comments on Larry Johnson Superb Piece on Western Media’s Relentless Propaganda on Russia-Ukraine War…
Yesterday, Larry demolished what passes in the US for main stream “journalism” by exposing utter BS they publish about Ukraine and SMO, specifically NYT and WaPo….
Western Propaganda Continues to Promote the Meme That Russia Is Toast…
The ecstatic callowness of the media is jaw-droppingly stupid when it comes to opining on Russia in general and Putin in particular. Consider first these headlines from the Washington Post’s opinion page…
Ukraine: Military Endangering Civilians by Locating Forces and Their Weapons – Tanks, Howitzers to Name a Few – in Residential Neighborhoods…
Schools and hospitals used as military bases by Ukrainian forces. ‘We have no say in what the military does, but we pay the price’ – resident in city of Bakhmut. ‘Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law’ – Agnès Callamard…