🇺🇸🇺🇦New package of military aid from the USA to Ukraine.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 14, 2023
Just 200 million dollars and nothing really noteworthy.
PS: If the don’t write the amount, it’s low 🤣 pic.twitter.com/4nLB4P1kDn
Thursday, August 17, 2023
The Biden Admin snuck in ANOTHER 200 million for Ukraine...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
From ok to terrible day in 2.5 seconds...view of a Ukrainian assault from inside of a Humvee...
Crazy footage of inside Ukrainian HMMWV during an assault. pic.twitter.com/dfkPXAMdt1
— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 16, 2023
Monday, August 14, 2023
Open Comment Post. 14 Aug 23
Oryx might not be the "end all be all" for documenting equipment losses...
I always suspected that his numbers were off. Additionally I found it amazing that anyone could properly document losses based on what we're seeing open source. Too much duplication, confusion etc...for anyone to actually put out good numbers. Only the Russians, Ukrainians and maybe a few intel agencies know what's really going on and they're playing those numbers to the public. We have to trust our sense of what we're seeing on the battlefield to properly assess things.ORYX Again Proven Wrong!
— Vigorous Falcon (@VigorousFalcon) August 13, 2023
DW, a prominent international news agency citing a Ukrainia official Colonel Oleksandar Saruba reports that Ukraine has only captured some 800 Russian vehicles and equipment while Oryx claims to have documented about captured 2860 Russian equipment.
1/X pic.twitter.com/FlOkxZZ4xF
Sunday, August 13, 2023
The obvious is becoming mainstream (obvious to this blog that is)...Politicians preparing for counteroffensive next spring...
Its been obvious FOREVER that this counteroffensive had failed. Why its been so hard for so many to accept that reality is beyond me but EVERYONE could see it if they were honest with themselves. Now? Now they're prepping the sheeple for the fact that the counteroffensive has failed and that they'll have to try again next spring. The worse thing? I don't think the allies have anything left in the cabinet to give. Production will have to be massively ramped up and prayers sent to Jesus that nothing else kicks off in the world or Ukraine and the West is screwed.WSJ:
— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 13, 2023
It was hoped that a successful counter-offensive Ukrainian forces would help force Russia into negotiations by winter. Chances of that happening now appear slim.
But now Western politicians are starting to think about preparing Kyiv for a possible offensive next spring. pic.twitter.com/OO5zZBeBrV
PLA Infantry Fighting Vehicle Guide
PLA IFV guides. Revised edition after some feedback from @AFVRec_ @someplaosint @TankDiary pic.twitter.com/wydZRzQXjC
— CSRC (@Coralseaco) August 13, 2023
Play in the corners...
Note. I popped out the article so it would be easier for ya'll to read. Don't know if it worked or not but make the effort. Great lesson here for your little ones.
When he was 14, Wayne Gretzky moved from his small hometown to play in a more competitive hockey league in Toronto. He was undersized and during the first practice, he got pushed around.
After practice, his coach pulled him aside. “When you go home tonight,” the coach said, “the Toronto Maple Leafs are playing the Philadelphia Flyers—watch Bobby Clarke play.” Bobby Clarke was an undersized player on the Flyers who went on to be inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame. “He's not very big,” Gretzky’s coach told him, “but he's very smart.” “And I studied him and I studied him and I studied him,” Gretzky said. “I would take out a piece of paper and draw a rink and then without looking at the paper, I’d watch the hockey game on TV, and I would take my pen and I’d follow the puck.”
When Clarke got off the ice, Gretzky would look down at the paper and look for patterns. He began to notice two things. First, that Clarke “played the game mostly out of the corners.” Second, that players almost never went behind the net. So, Gretzky said, “I started playing out of the corner and from behind the net…I started using the net as a decoy. Consequently, I wasn’t standing in front of the net, getting knocked over, and being on my keister the whole time.”
Takeaway 1: In his books and on his podcast, Tim Ferriss talks about the question he likes to ask when setting out to learn a new skill: “Who is good at this despite being poorly built for it?” The idea is to study those, like Bobby Clarke, who found ways to excel even without the prototypical characteristics or advantages. Then you yourself can use what you learned and, like Gretzky, excel even without the prototypical characteristics of advantages.
Takeaway 2: Early in his career, in his lab, the neuroscientist Andrew Huberman kept a list of the scientists he loved and admired. “I would read that list over and over,” he said, “I didn’t realize it at the time, but this is what is called introjection.” In psychology, "introjection" is the process of absorbing the qualities and behaviors of others.
If you regularly listen to so-and-so’s podcast, Huberman explains, “the nervous system begins to ask questions like, what would so-and-so do? That’s a very real thing, and we’re not always consciously aware of it.”
As he regularly watched and doodled the play of Bobby Clarke, Gretzky introjected Clarke’s style, stopped spending so much time on keister, as he put it, and consequently, went on to set 61 NHL records—many of which he still holds—including most career regular-season goals (894), assists (1,963), and points (2,857). - - - “I started playing out of the corner and from behind the net because nobody had ever done that before…and by the time they sort of kind of figured it out, I’d retired.” — Wayne Gretzky
When he was 14, Wayne Gretzky moved from his small hometown to play in a more competitive hockey league in Toronto.
— Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer) August 11, 2023
He was undersized and during the first practice, he got pushed around.
After practice, his coach pulled him aside.
“When you go home tonight,” the coach… pic.twitter.com/0UvB90G2lO
Something is going on with Ukrainian refugees wearing out their welcome
I've been seeing a steady drumbeat of Ukrainian refugees pushing back on the idea that they're rich and fled the war zone instead of helping to defend their country. It's mostly aimed at males and I haven't seen any of them pushback on the meme. Ukrainian women however ARE trying to pushback on it. I don't know cause I'm not there but apparently its big in Poland, Germany, Italy and Spain. This is a "minor" issue but one that bears watching. Zelensky needs to alter his public relations and start sounding alot more grateful for the support he's getting. As things stand now, people are really tired of demands for more, more and more!Here is another one, about “rich” Ukrainian refugees with their nice suitcases …#Ukraine #UkraineMustWin #Refugees pic.twitter.com/PNAyY1weCM
— Yewleea 🇺🇦 (@yewleea) August 12, 2023
Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard :: PLAN MY ATTACK
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Saturday, August 12, 2023
Tensions between Ukraine and Poland over grain
via Stars & Stripes
Last week, Polish and Ukrainian officials clashed openly, after Marcin Przydacz, a foreign policy adviser to Polish President Andrzej Duda, said that Ukraine should "start appreciating the role that Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years."
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"Ukraine really got a lot of support from Poland," Przydacz said in an interview with Polish radio in late July. "What is most important today is defending the interest of the Polish farmer."
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Nonetheless, popular narratives in Poland and Ukraine still differ greatly about what transpired 80 years ago.
Poles call what happened the "Volyn massacre" and say it was part of a larger effort by Ukrainian forces to ethnically cleanse Poles from the region. Ukrainian nationalists say the events were the result of an ongoing struggle between Poles and Ukrainians at the time.
Duda and Zelensky jointly tweeted they were honoring "all innocent victims" of Volyn. But in a potential reflection of the divide between their countries, Duda wrote in a separate tweet that he had joined Zelensky to "pay tribute to murdered Poles."
The Volyn events are significant to a small but vocal minority of nationalist and far-right groups in Poland. Ukrainian news outlets reported in July that fans at a soccer match in the Polish city of Wroclaw unfurled banners saying "Ukrainians murdered children in Volyn" and "80 years of shameful silence for Volyn."
Here.
So what do we have.
We have domestic issues for Poland. Economic issues for Ukraine. A tired Polish populace. A terrible history with Poland claiming lands in Ukraine.
And an apparently forever war going on right now.
At what point does taking care of Ukrainian interests take a back seat to domestic matters?
I think we'll find out real soon...all over the West.
Sidenote. Have you noted that many of Ukraine's biggest supporters are all stating that Ukraine should appreciate what is being done to support them? Zelensky continues to read the room wrong. He's still caught up at the beginning of the war. He doesn't realize that war fever is fading and the whole thing is becoming background noise.
Ever heard of the watermelon diet? Was watching my workout vids and ran across one talking about it...
Put him to sleep...did not expect this...
I expected the win but NOT the knockout.JOSHUA PUT HELENIUS TO SLEEP 😳😴 #JoshuaHelenius pic.twitter.com/qmEF2mOhpA
— ESPN Ringside (@ESPNRingside) August 12, 2023
Why is Niger important? It always comes back to natural resources...the people of Niger are pissed
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— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 12, 2023
Why Niger is important? A gas pipeline to Europe!
Besides the Uranium an co.
PS: THX @pcasey0430pic.twitter.com/Th5dup5ySC
New Russian Anti-Drone System
Interesting. From reports that I've read the Russians have had great success using electronic warfare to knock down Ukraininan small drones. Wonder why they're moving to a kinetic solution now.An interesting fact here is that the Russians have developed an anti-drone system based on programmable airburst ammunition with 23mm cannons.
— Junsupreme (@RyszardJonski) August 12, 2023
This is a very small caliber for airburst ammunition, but sufficient for UAVs.
The carrier of the ZAK-23E system will be the BTR-82. https://t.co/ukDibjAJhJ pic.twitter.com/Ck6c22DYZB