Mamoulian War

The help, compared to GDP of donor countries.

The BBC article does not mention, that the incident was religiously based (according to Russian and Ukrainian sources, which I read yesterday). It was not protest against mobilisation. Most likely some got drunk to much, started some xenophobic bull****, and someone decided to make a counter argument with their firearms.

Average lifespan of newly mobilized Russians approximately 10 days… https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/10/14/from-mobilization-to-death-in-10-days-russias-draftees-killed-in-ukraine-a79095 edit: aaand Russia started a crackdown on military bloggers, which were “spreading fake news” about Russian army. All of them, criticizing Russian MoD, and reporting on the real situation on battlefield. That’s surely a coincidence

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution calling the Russian Federation a terrorist regime. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/13/7371797/

The same company also released Cayne and Beautiful Desolation. Stasis and Cayne were my first two let's play on my youtube channel Beautiful Desolation is still on my backlog, but from what I've read it's apparently better, and also different, than the first two, which I've enjoyed. So hopefully, internet did not lie to me, before I've purchased it

It should start 17.10. I have not found much online, what precisely it should do except the training of UA soldiers, but there might be a more, as TASS has already published Russian statement, that this will be counted as a direct involvement of EU in the war

And we have official EU reaction to the Russian escalation from the weekend.

I’ve noticed today, that Times Radio has spoken about Armenia in recent broadcast. Still a surprise for me, because they were always very close “ally” to Russia.

Two tweets, which sums up pretty much, how all the things work in the Russia…

Yeah, the most blatant discrepancy is the reserve tire. On the normal pictures of the truck, the reserve tire is almost at the end of the truck. On x-ray, the tire is close to the other tires EDIT: LOL now I've noticed, that xray has less wheels as well

The FSB, in conjunction with the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, has reportedly come to the conclusion that the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, its head Kyrylo Budanov and its employees and agents were the "organisers" of the explosion on the Crimean Bridge. According to Russian special services, an explosive device was camouflaged using rolls of polyethylene film on 22 pallets with a total weight of over 22 tonnes and sent from the Odesa Seaport to the Bulgarian city of Ruse in early August. Citizens of Ukraine, Georgia and a citizen of Armenia were allegedly involved in organising the shipment. FSB claims that the cargo was shipped from Bulgaria to the port of Poti in Georgia, and then to Armenia. Mykhailo Tsiurkalo (born 1975), Denys Kovach (1979) and Roman Solomko (1971), all citizens of Ukraine, Sandro Inosaridze, a citizen of Georgia, a broker called Levan and Armenian citizen Artur Terchanian (1985) were allegedly involved in the process. It's so touching, that after all these years, they manned up and are solving all these cases so fast... First the Dugin explosion, now the Kerch Bridge... I am just wondering why are they still in darkness on who assaulted Nemcov after all these years

I have found and interesting analysis by Timothy Snyder published on 5th october. https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-does-the-russo-ukrainian-war?r=f9j4c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Once again, you are forgetting, that we are speaking about Russia, where 9 out of 10 Rubles from every state contract gets lost. So comparing buildtime of 14 months in USA with 14 months in Russia is a prime example of comparing apples with oranges

Well maybe that is one of the reasons, why it was so easy damaged

Well, I really wish our government could support UA more, but we have currently in the government even bigger clowns than the the British one... We are the last country in EU, which still has no plan how to get over winter, with elevated energy prices for small businesess and for low incom people... Our minister of finance is a plagiarist, who refused to step down, after he was convicted that he really did it... Oh and one of his most noteworthy quotes, before becoming Minister of Finance was "I do not care about family finances, everything at our home is sorted by my wife." Also, the lower funding by EU, is caused a lot due to need of preparing for the winter, and to cut off the EU from Russian blackmail. Which is understandable. But this week, Germany donated its first IRIS-T and they upped they offer from 2 to 4 IIRC. And that is hell lot of money... Which is probably not counted in the data above, yet.

Seems to me, they are so desperate on the battlefield, that they do not know anything better to do. Still more missiles destroyed, than hit the target. All that they have achieved so far, with some of the infrastructure and a lot of civilian objects destroyed, are new sanctions, and even the “weaker” EU leaders stopped to suggest to negotiate with Russia. Which means more deliveries to UA on all fronts… Russia have shot 700+ million in rockets alone to Ukraine yesterday. Just an example of Surovikin doing things, which wants things to go fast to impress Putin, because Russian economy bleeds as never before… UA reaction to it: “Now a very large percentage of missiles are being shot down by Ukraine’s Armed Forces. But there are several possible explanations. The first is that the Russians seek to keep (Ukrainian citizens - ed.) in their basements and shelters. They launch several rockets in batches so that the air raid is long. So that we are morally exhausted. The second possibility is that they are testing our anti-aircraft defence. Where are our weak spots that can be hit massively. We understand that, too. And the third reason may be that they are just illogical idiots, which is also a very likely scenario". Edit: Oh, and Ukraine has already retaliated back at some energy infrastructure in Belgorod. And I bet, there will be more to come

Buying cheap oil and gas from Russia is the only thing, which still holds India kind of neutral to Russia, but Modi's rhetoric has already signs of small shifts away. Especially, after they have seen how all the hardware, they've purchased from Russia is "under-performing" in Ukraine. USA and other western countries has already started to reach for this new opportunity, and the closer the China will be with Russia, the more reasons will India have to not do business with Russia. The other issue is the trivialization of use of nuclear strike by Putin. Because this is already starting to affect tensions between India and Pakistan... Edit: And the last but not least issue, is the current influence vacuum in Central Asia, where India wants it's cake too, but is very concerned with rising Chinese influence. Especially in Kazakhstan... IMHO China and US will sooner or later come to some sensible solution. The rhetoric coming out of the China is pretty much in line with their rhetoric since Xi overtook the party. You have to keep in consideration, that China is going into new "leadership season" now, so a lot of powerful rhetoric will go out of China in very close future. Which should stabilize as soon, as this shifting period ends... Oh and if any Chinese leader would decide, that they will need some landgrab to empower his position, the most logical choice with the least resistance would be invasion of ex-Manchuria, not Taiwan

Even Armenia? That is unexpected... I've read/noticed only about KGZ and KZK refusing it.

Yup, India has already started to slowly shift away from Russia, since they loathe the increasing lovey-dovey between Russia and China.

With all the respect due, I have asked for someone with an insight. And you’ve already proven, you hardly have one

Hmm, I just found this yesterdays tweet. One bill is from june, one from july, one from september. Is here anyone from US, who has an insight what is going on with these bills?

Someone was suggesting here few times that trusting “unnamed” officials giving their opinion to mass-media is not the brightest thing to do. And he was right. After a while, it became clear, that a lot of unnamed American officials in a lot of media were just spreading bollocks. I think after this experience, it would be wise to take all opinions of any other unnamed official with a hefty portion of salt… Especially when they are from a country, where significant portion of the officials were already sacked due to collaboration with the enemy… My own opinion is, that UA did it. But without a proof to back up my claim, this opinion is still worth as much as few ounces of horse****…

According to GRU (UA secret service) this missile strike was planned some time ago…