Mamoulian War

It didn’t take long, and Girkin himself denied this assumptiom. He is definitelly protected by someone very high.

Seems like Girkin has used up all of his free passes, and they started to “investigate” him for discrediting of world’s second army 🙈

A little bit more about Russian military recruitment 🤷‍♂️

Assetto Corsa Competizione will have new DLC released next week. Three new GT3 Cars (Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche) and a new track in Valencia. It’s track number 23

First arbitration of Ukraine against Russian Federation in Hague has concluded. Ukraine’s Naftogaz was awarded 5 billion USD for the economical damage, they incired after Russia annexed Crimea. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/13/7397683/

Ben Hodges on the other hand, predicts UA getting close to Crimea, if the West gets more consistent with the help. Only the time will tell Many people expected limited gains even last year. And UA has surprised everyone, with their Kharkiv liberation (including me 😛). RU were already appointing collaborators to "referendums" there. Few analysts have said, that Kherson was expected to be liberated only this year

Another milestone has been achieved during the invasion. 👀

Now, IIRC, there was a similar “leak of secret documents” before landing in Normandy in WW2. Do I remember it correct? 😁

Found it on GOG as well 😁 https://www.gog.com/en/game/zoria_age_of_shattering And the Prologue is already available for free 😁

We’ll see in a month or two, how this all will work out. 🤷‍♂️ Ukraine needs to get more land back to be able to get as much funding as today in the months to come. The more land they grab, the more likely will be the West to fund it more.

And it is annonced on GOG as well. YAY!

Unfortunately not able to open the article due to paywall, but here is the official stance of Ukrainian General staff on leaks about counteroffensive 🤷‍♂️ https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/6/7396754/

A little in-depth look at Russian military recruitment ads, which were shared here some time ago. They are getting even more ridiculous, and Moscow Times has they looks more like NATO propaganda mocking Russia 😄 https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/escape-your-worthless-life-join-putins?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

After some small breaks now and there and casually playing Assetto Corsa Competizione on Low Fuel Motorsport portal, I am still playing some Tales of Arise. I think I am already in the final dungeon, but for the first time, I have encountered a small need to do some grinding, wither for money or for XP. As some of the enemies there are little bit to tough for my party. So I am flying between Rena, Dahna, Lenegis and Daeq Fazol, trying to get some more quest finished, visiting training grounds and fishing with Kisara And I am again at my typical bad habit, that as soon as I suspect, the game is closing to the finish, I am avoiding to play it, as I do not want it to end 😄 Silly me 😄 Anyway, we have Easter holiday soon, so I hope I can move the game little bit further on Friday, and then I'll see what should I play next 🤷‍♂️

I think, this is another message, which is more likely aimed to domestic audience than to international. On 1st April, they started another round of conscription and they want to get as much as 400k more unfortunate Russian to the meatgrinder. And rhetoric as this, is said to boost the patriotism as much as possible from the lethargic people at home, who just want to be left alone so they can get drunk 🤷‍♂️

On April the 1st, the Club of Angry Patriots have been established in RU, here are the leading members and their backgrounds. They hate Prigozhin and are not having nice words about Putin, but they are still saying, they do not plan to overthrow the government (“yet”). Still a man can wonder, why none of them has fallen out of the window yet, despite them openly “Discrediting the Russian Army”. Probably someone very powerful is behind the marionette strings 🤷‍♂️

And this is a reaction after the incident in Russian TV.

A background of this guy, or who he really was 🤷‍♂️

From all the news out there, I am still not 100% convinced, that Dugina was really work of UA. The ultra fast FSB response really raises an eyebrow. But who knows? And this guy? Hard for me to believe that someone from UA can move around so deep into RU territory and put a bomb into a gift/award for him, without being noticed by FSB. And even if it would be UA, and if FSB would really give out to press the real evidence, no one would even pretend to believe them, after their decades long track record 🤷‍♂️

Could not happen to a nicer guy 🤷‍♂️ We'll see, if it was Ukraine or not very soon, depending on how fast the FSB will find the "most likely" suspect 🤷‍♂️ EDIT: acording to the article, he was also criticising Russian MoD, so who knows? He might lived in an appartment without windows and was not a fan of tea 🤷‍♂️

A big leak about cyber warfare from russian secret service whistleblower angry about war in Ukraine codename “Vulkan Files”. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/30/vulkan-files-leak-reveals-putins-global-and-domestic-cyberwarfare-tactics

Last Spring Sale giveaway on GOG https://www.gog.com/game/deep_sky_derelicts

My guess is as reliable as yours. Although even if by some miracle US gets to busy with UA/Russia mettle, there is still Japan, S. Korea and Australia to hold them in check. For China, this war has been most interesting at the start, just to observe the western reaction how they handle it. Now, I think even Xi knows, that if he would want some new lands, he should go rather for the historical Manchuria than for the Taiwan. He would probably get it without a fight, if he would decide to march in there tonight, as most of the Russian army is around Ukraine 🤷‍♂️

Also it is said, that Putin pissed off Xi with the announcement of supplying of nuclear arsenal to Belarus, as they both signed a document about nuclear “restraint/deescalation” during his visit. Xi learned what Putin’s word means first hand 🤷‍♂️ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-27/putin-s-belarus-nuclear-move-puts-him-at-odds-with-china-pledge#xj4y7vzkg https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-humiliated-china-xi-jingping-nuclear-announcement-snub-belarus-russia-2023-3?op=1

It is really reaaly hard to say, as from what I have noticed, that there are in the list also people, who have been promoted to higher rank, after their previous commander was killed, and they were killed just few days after that promotion. 🤷‍♂️