Training and morale are 3 times more important than equipment. Training is a better investment than equipment. Morale consists of training, motivation, and fatigue (tired/cold/hungry)). Civilians tend to underestimate the importance of supplies and training, which are in war most important. They also tend to over-emphasize motivation. People can be highly motivated, yet untrained, or ill supplied. Such people are slaughtered en masse just like the hapless Wagnerites were. It’s their lack of training that gets them killed, often in combination with over-confidence, though low or no supplies helps get the horde of rapey murderers killed off.
Predictive Programming:
Deutsche Fassung Russische Fassung (Video…)
Kazakhstan prepares anti-sanctions measures (Russian)
KAZAKH volunteers fighting for Ukraine: I expect Kazakhstan to flip and oppose Putin in Ukraine, but only after Putin’s army is truly reduced.
when-russia-becomes defeated-ukraine-look-at CHECHNYA
Putins Krieg in Afrika (Wagner, Mali, Video - auf Deutsch)
Ukrainische Truppen am Ostufer des Dnepr | Podcast
Kremlintrigue 1: Prigozhin calls Kremlin “an organized criminal group”
Kremlintrigue 2: Wagner’s Prigozhin is controlled opposition.
Neocommunism: Putin-allows-seizure-of-unfriendly-foreign-assets
I hate Foreign Affairs, just interviewed Kotkin. I’ve read Kotkin and everything I’ve seen him right is actually correct. (video interview).
Strange News World: Italian politician, rehabilitated fascist, wants Ukraine to be admitted to EU as quickly as possible. 4䷃蒙
Russian-spies-targeting-French-M.Ps.-despite… (DGSI)
FRANCAIS
Right again: China is already planning for the after-Putin. la-chine-se-projette-deja-dans-lapres-poutine
les-depenses-militaires-explosent-en-europe-quelle-autonomie-strategique
Le Maroc relance la course à l’armement 4% is not that large, though Morocco is indeed seeking regional hegemony.
La Chine, médiateur de paix crédible entre la Russie et l'Ukraine ?
Word of the Day: Respect l'égard die Achtung lugupidamine повага уважение 遵守
Confucius (Kongzi) faced a devastated China, broken and destroyed by civil wars among related people. How would he, a lone scholar, restore peace and order to such a destroyed country?
Sound somehow familiar? It’s the same problem Hobbes faced. It’s also the same problem Kant faced.
Confucius’s answer? Restore respect among and between the people.
But how would he do this?
Some people, Aristotle is one, believe respect must first be earned. Others, Kant is an example, just give respect to anyone and everyone; Kant even argued that there is a fundamental human dignity which cannot be lost or destroyed, no matter how horrible the person.
But what was Confucius’s answer?
To restore peace Confucius would institute order. To attain order Confucius would instill respect. To restore respect Confucius would revive ancient rites and relationships: children must respect parents. Youth must respect elders. Wives must respect husbands. Families must respect Kings. Kings must respect Emperors. Emperors must respect the mandate of heaven. Attain respect to build peace. To obtain respect exhibit respect.
But this was only half Confucius’s plan. Respect requires confidence. Confidence is based on knowledge. Knowledge requires education.
By educating them all – this is the first example of universal education in human history – and by instilling in them their historic traditional roles and relationships and knowledge of their history Confucius would restore trust, order, and ultimately peace.
Confucius did not live to see his dream of peace and brotherhood restored to China.
It was.
Taiwanese journalist(s) charged with espionage in China. One more reason not to kill spies: then you can’t trade them when we inevitably catch yours.
Friendly reminder: The other side plugs leaks with knives. So maybe, just maybe don’t merely slap traitors on the wrist or pardon them. You know, so your intelligence partners might actually trust you and tell you useful but secret information as opposed to leave you in the dark. Are you in the dark about some things? Gee, I had no idea! Might it be the result of being blabby leaky, with weak counter-inelligence, laughable OPSEC, and no enforcement of law against those who betray state secrets? Gosh, I wonder where all that lack of information might lead?
For those deeply interested in Putin’s failed attempt to restart Irish terrorism (video)
Interoperability of a Pacific alliance in Wartime
China’s Middle East Strategy (Video)
Economist podcast about being party purged and later rehabilitated…
This article is really fucking stupid.
This article is very insightful.
Ambassador Lu’s faux pas: but most Western analysts didn’t notice — Xi Jinping uses radical/extremist/ultranationalists to advance Chinese foreign policy and then destroys them to advance his own domestic policy. Smart.
Argentina uses Yuan to Import from China (Eng.) (Russian article on same topic).
Single currency for Brazil Russia India China (BRICs) (Russian)
Ukraine Telephone Call (Zelensky, Xi)
Xi-Jinping talks with Zelensky by phone-call-intl
USA-learns-lessons-from-ukraine-russia-as-it-faces-possible-china-conflict
China-widens-already-breathtaking-scope-to-arrest-foreigners-for-espionage
The other side would have already killed him. Welcome to protective custody, you racist violent asshole. 88! 拜拜。Before you give me your gentle jesus meek and mild bullshit,
The Other Side
Plugs leaks with Knives.
Russian casualties significantly declining: this means the Russians are improving at war.
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 10:34-36).
It’s all a matter of perspective.
You wanted private property in China, open trade with China, religious expression in China, you got all that, and still weren’t happy.
Buyers remorse? They work hard, trade smartly, and don’t do drugs. Yet…
NOTHING They do is ever right, so it seems.
Are you really just a bunch of fucking racists? You know, like that Rat Teixeira.
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