POSSIBLE ANSWERS:

1. Bandera was a Ukrainian nazi whose organisation killed 600,000 jews during World War 2. He is a hero of the Kiev government for his “independence” stand for Ukraine. He was placed in prison by his friends, the German nazis, because of this “independence” stand which was contrary to the German wishes. He became an asset for the American OSS spy network but was murdered by the Russians when he was about to be sent to America to spur Russophobia in the USA.
2. The probable answer is NO. Russia won’t loose this conflict.
3. Russia’s main goals are: a) protect the Russian population in the Donbass region, now fully integrated into Russia. b) denazify and demilitarise Western Ukraine. c) prevent NATO in Ukraine.
4. The total varies between 150,000 and 250,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers.
5. The figure varies from 9,000 to 25,000 dead Russian soldiers.
6. The Donbass provinces used to be Russian. This also includes Crimea and Odessa.
7. Peace can only come on Russia’s term. Accept the return of the Russian territories to Russia or more grief will come.
8. No, Russia isn’t going to give up anything.
9. There are two main sections in Ukraine, in a dozen or so provinces. Eastern Ukraine (formerly Russian, now back in Russia) and Western Ukraine (Galicia).
10. China isn’t seeking biffo, but reunification with its CHINESE territory: Taiwan

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by Patrick Raymond

I believe that some people want to kill me. They want to make me laugh to death. Literally.

So, relocation of shell powder production…

1200 tonnes of powder at Bergerac per year, enough to supply 500,000 modular charges, ie 95,000 “full shots”, including… 15,000 for the French army. We are here, not only in the depths of ridicule, but we are still digging shit, obviously…

This nonsense crackpottery has struck again. We would STILL be under-equipped, if it were 95,000 per MONTH.

As I have already said, the ammunition stocks in August 1914, were a little less than 20 million shells, and it was ALREADY, tragically insufficient. Napoleon, at the battle of Leipzig in 1813, lost it for lack of ammunition, its 160,000 shells being exhausted.

War, as Hitler said, is won scraps versus scraps, and wasting ammunition is proverbial. The myth of the precision shell, of the best artillery, will remain what it is, a myth. It already existed in 1914, with the 75 gun, and even if it outclassed the German 77, what was obvious was the shortage of ammunition supply and of weapons of all kinds... Ukraine is at the same point.

We simply thought that big budget meant big army, in reality, big budgets means big waste and big corruption, and sinecures of all kinds.

For those who are demented enough to wage war, it is pitiful.

Some sing and gloat about the failure of the Russian army, but they are wrong. Nobody knew (and still don’t know) the Russian intentions at the start, and it should be noted that the Russians seized a significant portion of the ground in a few hours. Faster than at Bagration (https://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Bagration), with an inferiority of one against 4 or 5. A feat. At the same time, the Ukrainian army had never had demonstrable offensive qualities.

For the Wagner group, public bickering should not be taken for granted either. Not only does it stink of western propagandist intoxication, but in general, such tensions are never public, and this totally invalidates the thesis of the collective west of Putin dictator... There too, you have to twist your tongue seven times in your mouth before saying crap...

Chechnya and its people largely paid for the proxy war the US was ALREADY waging against Russia.

In the meantime, the collective West has gone off the rails, in the most important markets, real estate and automobiles.

First, the rise in interest rates, coupled with the rise in material costs, have reduced people’s ability to acquire property, at least in new construction market. The reduction in building land does the rest. Elsewhere, the decline in population allows access to the second-hand market with which we have to be satisfied.

For automobiles, manufacturers take refuge like many sectors, in the top of the range models, which makes it possible to keep profitability, but for the middle class, people will carry on with older cars, as long as there are spare parts.

The prime of the lower middle class has passed. This class which was only made of workers who were allowed a certain amount consumption, because it allows the rich to own all infrastructures from which they benefit the most — airports, highways, and of course, expanding “markets”, “growth” and financial returns…

Between the obvious military and political failure in Ukraine, and the economic failure at home, there is nothing more to hope for in the West.

source: The fall

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With the conflict in Ukraine becoming a “war of attrition,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg cautioned that the West should “not underestimate” Russia’s firepower advantage. Stoltenberg claimed that the Western bloc is stepping up ammo production, but was unable to define its end goal in Ukraine.

Speaking to CNN’s Christine Amanpour at the Munich Security Conference last weekend, Stoltenberg said that Russia has thus far been able to bring more ammunition and manpower to the frontline than Ukraine.

Ukraine’s ammo consumption is “higher than [NATO’s] total production,” he continued, adding that this situation “cannot continue.”

“So far we have depleted our stocks, but at some stage we need to get more ammunition produced,” he told Amanpour.

Despite Ukraine receiving tens of millions of dollars worth of Western weapons – including nearly 1.5 million artillery shells from the US alone, Russia has held a firepower advantage since the start of its military operation last February. The Ukrainian side is currently firing between 5,000 and 6,000 artillery rounds per day, according to most Western assessments, while estimates of Russian fire have varied hugely from anywhere between 5,000 and 60,000 shells per day.

Stoltenberg has repeatedly called on NATO members to step up their ammunition production to close the gap, as have other Western leaders. The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said on Sunday that Ukraine’s backers need to resolve the ammunition shortage within “a matter of weeks” if Kiev is to have any chance of success on the battlefield.

Since last fall, the conflict in Ukraine has “moved into a war of attrition,” Stoltenberg said, adding that a “war of attrition is a battle of logistics; as in how do you get enough stuff – materiel, spare parts, ammunition, fuel – to the front lines.”

While Stoltenberg was clear about the need for NATO to step up arms production, he was vague about how the US-led alliance wants the conflict to end. He told Amanpour that “nobody knows how and when this war will end,” and that it will “maybe” be resolved at the negotiating table.

Stoltenberg said that NATO will allow Ukraine to define what “winning” would look like, but would not directly say that he endorses Kiev’s stated goal of seizing the Russian territory of Crimea.

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