Frontline update plus news on new equipment for Ukraine (but no US tanks). Also, Zelensky's trip to Turkey and possible prepping for peace talks.






Meanwhile,

Ukraine Spy Chief Says Threat To Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Subsiding.

"Sorry I can’t tell you what happened recently but the fact is that the threat is decreasing," he said. "This means that at least we have all together with joint efforts somehow postponed a technogenic catastrophe."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... -subsiding


What happened was that there was so much global chatter and speculation that Kiev were the more likely to cause an incident than Russia that Kiev decided against it for now (same thing happened last year).

Prepping the western public for Ukrainian defeat continues.


Sky News
@SkyNews

US cluster bombs deal is clear signal that war is not going well for Ukraine.

Well, the facts on the ground are not in Ukraine's favour. The transfer is a clear signal that the war is not going well for Ukraine.
The so-called spring offensive did not materialise in the spring and looks set to falter through the summer too.
Ukraine is fast running out of more conventional artillery with supply stocks in America and elsewhere running low.


https://news.sky.com/story/us-cluster-b ... sf-twitter



Russian paratroopers on T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks defeating strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut.
With drone targeting these tanks have very high accuracy at a range of up to 10km.

(vid no subtitles)





Everything going according to plan says Lindsey Graham.







Meanwhile, keep it coming !!!

"The current counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not be the last battle, we still have many plans for the American budget," said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba

Reading a Guardian article by one of their sub editors it's difficult to say whether they're corrupt or just stupid, but whatever, it's the political left both in the US and the UK who are pushing this war for all it's worth. Reading through the article its's hard to imagine how anyone in the news industry could be so completely wrong about everything he's written and shows a total lack of understanding of the global threat posed by WW3.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/comme ... top-russia



Reminder that this is what it's really all about, preserving the US hegemony enjoyed since the end of WW2.


The head of the CIA accused China of intending to remake the international system.
The head of the CIA, William Burns, said that Russia, by launching a military special operation on the territory of Ukraine, challenged the international order, but only China intends to change it.


The current threat to the NNP seems over for now, even the Babylon Bee's getting in on the act

RplusT wrote: Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:31 pm it's the political left both in the US and the UK who are pushing this war.....[/color

Oh, c'mon Ogee, the GOP no different. They are in bed with the Dems. They let the Dem President do whatever he wants.
-spending money with no limits
-no accountability needed for tens of Billions sent to the Ukraine
-sending weapons which are banned and others they would never send to anyone

Impeachments: NONE

Still a bit surprised to see a left wing paper go full-on war mode, There was also a recent Rasmussen poll showing higher majority of Dem voters supporting the war, very much in line with left leaning msm output over the last 18 months, and that Republican voter support has been draining steadily.


The west has lost it's way.





NATO tactics fail.

Victor vicktop55
@vicktop55
Military expert Alexander Zimovsky: “Ukraine has not only been pumped up with weapons and equipment.

The United States and NATO described in detail to their Ukrainian army the entire modus operandi of the offensive, planned the directions of the main and auxiliary strikes, and fully provided the logistics for the delivery of iron and replenishment up to the brigade rear.

This is not the failure of the Ukrainian military plan we are witnessing. We are witnessing the collapse of the NATO/US military planning model at the level of a combined arms operation.

Here the war between the West and Russia has already begun, not for Ukraine; this is a war for the power reputation of the West. Because the whole "rule-based order" was based solely on overseas-based bayonets and carrier-based immediate response groups.

And here, in the steppes of the Kherson region, and in the forests of Svatovo, the military unit of the "American order" cracked up to the very ass.
So nothing is over."

The West does not deny its participation in the war with Russia. This was confirmed by Biden's press secretary at a press briefing at the White House: "— Look at the last 16 months of this war that we're - you saw that a NATO Alliance that has been strengthened."

There is no doubt that such a war will end in a nuclear war if the United States does not leave Ukraine.


Meanwhile new interview with Ritter relates to the above on how Ukraine (US) tactics is destroying another Kiev regime army. The counteroffensive has ground to a halt with over 20% of the force already dead and they must see little point in sending out any more. Also some news from the US/Russia in Syria and ends with reasons why the US has lost so much international support of late.
(26 min)

Phuuuh! This was a long reply. I hope you did not expect that I would read that.
I was merely stating the facts. And that the GOP, as the political right wing, is fiercely supporting this war is a fact,
Nobody cares what the voters thiink....till the next election.

Zelensky says support from the west has not been enough, he is 100% correct.






In order to just match Russia Ukraine needed 10 x more tanks, 10 x artillery, a whole new airforce, 10 x troop numbers, 10 x total population for enough to replace lost troops and 2 years to build dozens of factories to replace lost equipment.

Everyone who encouraged this ridiculously mismatched war has blood on their hands.

Zelensky should have resolved the conflict by adhering to the Minsk agreement he signed, he did not, failing that he should have adhered to peace deal he brokered in March 2022. He did not, he was talked out of it by the west, he should have only agreed to that if the west promised to join in the fighting, they did not.

The counteroffensive is no more than a slaughter. The AFU are reduced to moving forward, being dropped off on the frontline, desperately finding cover, try to survive the machine gun and artillery onslaught directed by spotter drones hoovering directly overhead. Deciding they had taken enough casualties and calling for extraction having probably not even seen the enemy.

It is a pitiful waste of life and Zelensky should hang for it.

Ogee wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:35 pm

NATO is having a "good war". This is 100% correct.

In the 18 month NATO proxy war with Russia NATO have not lost a single soldier

Unfortunately for NATO the rest of the headline is pure propaganda. Russia's fighting ability has actually tripled since the start of the SMO, not halved. And their tank force is far from decimated.




Frontline Update. Decreasing activity as Ukrainian troops pull back from much of the frontline, might be to organise new attacks but more likely to start concentrating on defence with what they have left in terms of forces from now on.

New documentary on Zelensky (35 min) exposing corruption, secret wealth, and attachment to western secret services.

Part 1

Did you notice US Abrams and UK Challenger tanks never actually turned up on the battlefield? It's because they realised they would be turned into scrap metal same as the Leopards so refused permission for their use, the manufacturers need to sell them and don't need the bad publicity.

Meanwhile still relatively quiet on the frontlines this the first day of the NATO summit.

Talk on the rights and wrongs of the cluster munitions but the real reason the US is sending them is because that's all that's left in the stockpile in the 155 mm range that makes a bang. Same as most of the other donated stuff, useless for the AFU, clusters are for oncoming large formations, exactly what the Russians are not doing.