My source with knowledge of this Russian missile attack on a grain ship that had left a Ukrainian port yesterday said that the attack occurred in Romania’s maritime economic zone. @FT https://t.co/C3aIbLWcE0 pic.twitter.com/zfphSvWwUC

Christopher Miller  (@ChristopherJM) September 12, 2024

Russian propagandist Solovyev:

"Our barrier should be the Atlantic. The perfect place for our troops - Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid. And how beautiful they looked in Paris. Brothers Belarusians are with us, and if necessary, we will turn to China." pic.twitter.com/3AqjWj3Yxz

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 12, 2024

I don't see the point in this meeting, at all.


CMOS

Plausible. But sounds like a very shitty deal for Ukraine.

A S-400 missile system at Cape Tarkhankut in Crimea was hit, and there is footage showing Russian soldiers watching as two Neptune missiles flew towards their position. The footage is reportedly taken somewhere around the 23rd of August, when a launcher and radar were hit. pic.twitter.com/LX6MBopaqg

— NOELREPORTS \uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDFA \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@NOELreports) September 12, 2024

~1 min video.

Strike on what appears to be a Russian Zemledelie remote mine-laying system next to Russian pontoon crossings over the Seym river, Kursk region. pic.twitter.com/EoWU75jFdT

— Special Kherson Cat \uD83D\uDC08\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@bayraktar_1love) September 12, 2024

Spectacular secondaries!



CMOS

Technically correct but we all know historical nuance is not a thing for politicians.  We wouldnt call Larry Thorne a war criminal...

This shit is beyond stupid.

How on earth could Putin be induced to accept that??? Notice he didn't say "Russia wants this war to end." Russia can still accomplish their goals with continued military action. Ukraine can't. So what huge incentives could possibly be offered to Russia to take the arrangement he describes? Withdrawal of NATO support for the Baltics (which he already asked for prior to invading in 2022)?

Knowing that Russia's starting point to even negotiate is unilateral Ukrainian withdrawal to the administrative borders of the annexed territories, how could Ukraine be induced to accept that???

I expect Harris & Walz to make statements that are completely untethered from the real world, but Vance? WTF? That was very unserious.

Ukrainian decoys of HAWK air defense system https://t.co/wlbWJA5AkC pic.twitter.com/lL2EAsyShs

— Special Kherson Cat \uD83D\uDC08\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@bayraktar_1love) September 12, 2024

As I wrote before the debate all the “no more wars” and “peace and prosperity” talk amongst conservatives sounds great except it neglects the main point I always make which is the enemy gets a vote. It’s narcissism to think we can control the world and force it or trick it or buy it off to be peaceful

How many tires are burning?

\uD83D\uDEA8\uD83D\uDC47 Russians are fighting a battle in Sergeevka, Kursk, against Ukrainian troops

Yesterday, I published photos and videos corroborating an attempt to flank Russian counterattack in Kursk by Ukraine across the border. See the village of Kubalki, which is east from Sergeevka… https://t.co/rdLBqop4uf pic.twitter.com/TeeCgmfq1R

— PS01 ? (@PStyle0ne1) September 12, 2024

Ukrainian soldiers spotted in the village of Kubalki, Kursk, west of Snagost

Yesterday night, clashes were reported in Troitskoye and Elizavetovka across the border while Russian troops attacked from Korenevo towards Snagost https://t.co/uk5YHk9sB9 pic.twitter.com/viF6OWpu5Q

— PS01 ? (@PStyle0ne1) September 11, 2024

A Russian source reports that Ukraine is disrupting the Russian counterattack in Kursk by attacking the flanks across the border

This video also surfaced on social medias pic.twitter.com/RVlKhJSUvk

— PS01 ? (@PStyle0ne1) September 11, 2024

I'm pretty sure that is what russia is hoping for. It gives russia all of what they want,....for now,....again. As far as I can tell this is basically one step short of telling Ukraine surrender.

This was mentioned in a post last night, more details came out this morning:

Twitter thread about IDF attack/raid on Syria last week.  First tweet below, thread in quote box:

#EXCLUSIVE #Israel #Syria #Iran #IRGC #Hezbollah
Last Thursday night, around 11:00, residents of western and central Syria heard the sounds of a large number of huge explosions in the direction of the Masyaf area near the Syrian-Lebanese border. These explosions were not the… pic.twitter.com/sWuks7K0PI

— Eva J. Koulouriotis | ???? ????????? (@evacool_) September 11, 2024

In a rare admission, the IDF says it carried out two drone strikes in southern Syria today, targeting a Hezbollah operative and another Iran-linked terrorist.

The military says the first strike, in the Quneitra area killed Ahmed al-Jaber, a member of Hezbollah's so-called Golan… pic.twitter.com/LTF0Ai8ZEA

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) September 12, 2024

After UNRWA said six staffers were killed in an IDF strike yesterday on a school in the central Gaza Strip, the military names nine Hamas operatives killed in the attack, including some who were also employed by the UN Palestinian refugee agency.

The IDF had said yesterday that… https://t.co/3ampqwKrJd

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) September 12, 2024

Ukraine is shipping grain to China at this very moment, there must be some diplomatic back and forth going on regarding Chinese support for Russia.  

I bet Xi would love to steal a march on Washington and be the 800lb gorilla ending a major war in Europe that seems to be beyond America's ability/willingness/desire to force to a conclusion while securing long term deals for food imports and gaining another client state.  Russia has become dependent enough on China that cutting off trade would cause them to lose the war disastrously so now he can twist their arm as far as he wants to, while Ukraine is obviously very nervous about the currently rudderless American government and the prospect of Pax Trump slamming down on them.  Xi could pry lots of favors out of the EU as well while drafting the details of the peace.

Gaining some measure of control over both Ukrainian and Russian grain exports would be an enormous lever for China.  Xi might gain the power of a veto over a third of all global wheat exports, use that as carrot and stick to bend much of Africa and the Middle East to his will.  Ditto European energy supplies.

Russian hacker group

We also unleashed the power of our DDoS missiles on Bandera sites😈

❌Unified center for appeals from citizens of the city of Odessa
check-host.net/check-report/1e2dc20bk7cd

❌Odessagaz
check-host.net/check-report/1e2dd56bk752

❌Authorization on the heat supply portal of the city of Odessa
check-host.net/check-report/1e2dca23kf7a

❌Odessa Regional Energy Supply Company
check-host.net/check-report/1e2dce9ak908

❌Website of the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov
check-host.net/check-report/1e2dd13dk826

❌Website "Socially active citizen"
check-host.net/check-report/1e2dda5fk96a

#OP404

For Russia!🇷🇺
For Kursk! ❤️
For Belgorod!❤️
For Donbass!❤️

https://t.me/noname05716/9164


Weirdly, they go after Taiwan a lot.


Taiwan sites feel bad after our attacks😈

❌Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
check-host.net/check-report/1e2ec032k711

❌Mega Financial Holdings
check-host.net/check-report/1e2ec06ck76c

https://t.me/noname05716/9170

UNRWA is a terror org.

The big loophole allowing Russia to access US chips? China

“You can’t trust them,” one lawmaker admonished chipmaker execs.


Russia is evading sanctions to acquire U.S.-made semiconductors and weapons components for use in Ukraine—largely through China, according to a new Senate report that led lawmakers to grill chip-making executives on Tuesday.

“Manufacturers are objectively and consciously failing to prevent Russia from benefiting from the use of their technology,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said at a hearing of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

After Russian forces moved more heavily into Ukraine in 2022, the United States placed strict controls on technology transfers to Russia, an attempt to hobble its arms industry.  But that technology is still making its way into weapons such as the Kh-101 cruise missile that struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv on July 8, killing two and injuring more than 50.

The report said U.S. chip companies—such as AMD, Texas Instruments, Intel, Analog Devices—have big gaps in their internal auditing, even if they do appear to be in compliance with current laws and export controls. It also said the companies are also slow—at best—to respond to requests from lawmakers, non-governmental organizations, and journalists asking the companies to trace the path from legal sale to Russian missiles.

“Intel, Texas Instruments, AMD, and Analog Devices have all received trace requests from external groups showing that their semiconductors have been found in Russian weapon systems. Responses from Intel, Texas Instruments, and Analog Devices to these trace requests, which seek to help understand how Russia is continuing its war efforts in Ukraine, have been delayed, nonresponsive, or nonexistent,” the report says.

In their testimony, the company officials all said that they were acting within the confines of the law and that they make a lot of chips and parts so keeping track of where they go after sale is difficult. Tiffany Scurry, a vice president and chief compliance officer at AMD, said that the chips they had seen in Russian weapons were “typically between five and 15 years old, sometimes more than 20 years old. We have not yet seen a part…recovered that was post-sanctioned.”

Shannon Thompson, vice president and assistant general counsel at Texas Instruments, said “Chips are often sold and resold multiple times. Bad actors can take basic chips from everyday products and use them in military applications. The same inexpensive chip that helps conduct battery power and electric toothbrushes can be used in the same way in drones or UAVs.”

But the company officials also acknowledged that they had only recently made contact with representatives from Conflict Armament Research, the Royal United Services Institute, and other groups that monitor illicit tech transfers into Russia, so they did not necessarily have a full picture of what products were making their way into Russian weapons.

Said Blumenthal: “It’s a war that's going on for two years, export sanctions for two years. You told this committee just minutes ago that you believe that these computer chips are all old, but your company hasn't sent a team there to inspect them. You haven't taken steps to verify whether that information is correct. That's just your opinion or belief.”

A larger potential obstacle to tackling illicit chip transfers to Russia, even if these companies committed to more internal audits and worked more proactively with outside monitoring groups and agencies, the companies’ ongoing business with China suggests that the transfers would continue anyway.

According to the Senate report: “Exports to Hong Kong and China from the four companies have decreased year-to-year from 2021 to 2023, but reports regarding Russia’s ability to evade U.S. sanctions have repeatedly highlighted Hong Kong and China as the two largest continuing sources of semiconductors to Russia.”

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas., put the problem to the company executives directly. “Certainly, it appears that China is intimately involved in this process,” Marshall said. “I assume that every one of you still sells chips to China?”

The officials said they did. More than one said that they also had manufacturing agreements with Chinese companies, all perfectly legal under current U.S. law.

“You can’t trust them,” said Marshall.

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2024/09/big-loophole-allowing-russia-access-us-chips-china/399455/

Three sources with knowledge of the operation confirmed to Axios that the IDF top elite unit Sayeret Matkal conducted a raid and destroyed the facility.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/12/israel-syria-raid

see what happens when you let them fly drones in your airspace  
Escalation management is going to lead to a MUCH larger conflict now.

This is about as unambiguous as a statement can be.

Essentially, JD is stating that Russia's conditions for a cease fire will be accepted and promoted by a Trump administration.

NATO membership is the ONLY thing that will guarantee that Russia won't initiate SMO 2.0 in several years after it re-arms and lays in more offensive weaponry.

Let's not pretend/hope/pray Trump's actions will be anything different than this.

You can bet that these "laws" will not be fixed, due to plentiful "lobbying" by Chinese actors.


CMOS

Trump and Vance have done everything short of shouting from a bullhorn that their concern for Ukraine's well being is none of their concern.

For the life of me, why do some here in this thread continue to believe that Trump is playing some 3-D chess strategy.

Their position has been crystal clear and hasn't changed; and it won't.

How many will feign shock and surprise when they state what is the obvious next time?

If NATO can't protect post-war Ukraine then China can by twisting Russia's testicles, which they are currently getting a vice-like grip on.  They must be an enormous percentage of Russian income now, holding numerous resource chokepoints like weapons systems chips, electrical grid parts, railway maintenance parts, able to block North Korean ammo, and they're getting entrenched in Iran and already 80% done flipping the 'stans.  If Xi decides that Russia loses the war, they flip a switch and Russia loses the war.

China has gained a decisive hold on their "allies" and can now dictate the outcome of the war from that side, after the US/NATO failed to dictate the outcome from their side.  

Reminds me of WWI, by 1916 the British government was admitting to itself that the US could end the war with a snap of the fingers by cutting off loans and trade.  Fortunately for Britain the US barely even noticed and naively declined to shake them down.

Does Xi seem like the kind of guy to fall for brotherly honor propaganda, or the kind of guy to screw anybody for a dime?  And in this case the dime is the world's single greatest crossroads of energy and food exports.

Are we getting mushroom flork?

Don’t forget the US is still subsidizing Ukraine farmers. This allows them to sell grain to China cheap.  So the US is not only paying Ukraine farmers, we are allowing China to buy grain cheap which takes market share away from US farmers.  A triple fucking to Americans!

It's smart by Z-man.  He is making an effort to improve relations and if they fafo then see what happened with macron and Putin.

Nobody saw the point of why macron met with Putin but there is a whole lot of French ordinance now on Ukrainian battlefield.

Some of you still cease to amaze me.  Those two have been telegraphing for damn near a year they will throw Ukraine under the bus if they get elected and you will be surprised when it happens.

So your rationale is that Ukraine will trade Europe for china even after all the cash, materials and intelligence they have given Ukraine.

Oh and Ukraine wants to be in NATO and the EU.......

Biden may let British Storm Shadow missiles strike inside Russia
Keir Starmer flies to US as President Zelensky lays out his ‘victory plan’



The United States may allow Ukraine to use British and French missiles but not its own longer-range weapons inside Russia, according to two sources familiar with discussions that have taken place.

President Biden may decide to give the green light to President Zelensky to use Storm Shadow missiles and their French equivalent, Scalp missiles, to strike targets in Russian territory on the ground that the UK and France support such a move, they said.

However, the US would not allow Ukraine to fire its longest-range version of ATACMS — a ballistic missile — at targets across the border, hoping to prevent a further escalation of the conflict.

The two sources, from the governments of different nations, spoke on condition of anonymity and said they believed that the proposed policy was likely to be adopted after meetings on Kyiv on Wednesday between Zelensky, Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and David Lammy, the British foreign secretary. One of the sources said they expected the option to be discussed between Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, and Biden in Washington on Friday, although they downplayed suggestions of a sudden announcement on the matter.

Biden is expected to discuss the issue with other European leaders to sound them out on any change in policy. A British defence source said that the UK did not need the support of other countries in Nato to go ahead.

Both the UK and France are believed to support removing the restrictions on Ukraine’s use of its long-range weapons, but so far the Americans have blocked the change for fear of escalation. The Iranian delivery of more than 200 Fath-360 missiles to Russia last Wednesday is believed to have played a part in persuading some senior figures in the West that the policy needs to be changed urgently.

Ben Barry, a senior fellow for land warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said he would not be surprised if Biden took a “half-way house” position because “France and Britain would be taking the risk on behalf of Ukraine and Ukraine’s friends”.

He said: “It’s a half-way house, it’s less than Ukraine has asked for but it’s better than nothing from Ukraine’s point of view. It increases the risk of escalation against Britain and France but not the US.”

In recent months Britain has supplied Ukraine with Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of about 155 miles, and the US has provided the longest-range version of ATACMS, which can travel 190 miles.

Ukraine wants long-range weapons to use inside Russia so it can destroy air bases, ammunition depots and other military targets threatening its territory. Its military leaders want to be able to take out Russian bomber fleets, which are dropping air-launched glide bombs — cheap refurbished bombs with guide systems — on Ukrainian targets, to devastating effect. Russia can to launch the bombs dozens of miles behind the front lines.

Barry said that the Storm Shadow was most useful against hard targets such as bunkers and aircraft shelters. “It’s not particularly useful against targets in the open.”

The American missiles are more capable against a range of battlefield targets. “They have a warhead that is designed to explode on the surface, so they are very good for targets like artillery batteries, divisional headquarters, ammunition dumps and anti-aircraft missiles sites. It’s not so useful against the targets Storm Shadow is useful for,” Barry said.

“It’s rather like comparing a knife and fork, you can do a bit with either but you are better off with using both of them together.”

Starmer will fly to Washington on Friday to meet Biden there before meetings at the UN headquarters in New York on 22 and 23 September. Zelensky has said that he will present his “victory plan”, which is reliant upon US support, during the meetings.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/keir-starmer-joe-biden-storm-shadow-missiles-jmq87805n

\uD83D\uDC40\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 Ukrainian engineering vehicle clears a passage for infantry, clearing "dragon's teeth" on the border with Kursk region . pic.twitter.com/NWuKsgjRnR

— MAKS 24 \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83D\uDC40 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) September 12, 2024

I doubt Ukraine would agree to such a terrible outcome. Not unless they get nukes to guarantee their future safety.

We all know any agreement with Russia is not worth the paper it is written on.

In the Kupyansk sector, before surrendering, a Russian infantryman decided to put a grenade under himself to blow himself and our soldiers up, but such tricks have long been known to our guys
https://twitter.com/small10space/status/1834274839634284796


Episodes of repulsing a Russian massive assault with the support of armored vehicles (the enemy used 46 vehicles) in the Mariinka sector, Donetsk region
Video from the soldiers of the 46th separate airmobile brigade
https://twitter.com/small10space/status/1834267871955821039

Analysis: China moves to play 'Okinawa card' over Japan's Taiwan stance: ”China had now set its sights on Okinawa prefecture in its Japan strategy and is about to take a first-ever dangerous step." https://t.co/qsBZQh1YY2

— Sari Arho Havrén (@SariArhoHavren) September 12, 2024

Link to Nikkei article — Analysis: China moves to play 'Okinawa card' over Japan's Taiwan stance

Attached File

\uD83E\uDD21\uD83E\uDD21\uD83E\uDD21 pic.twitter.com/VWlkjntuZ5

— MAKS 24 \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6\uD83D\uDC40 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) September 12, 2024

Attached File
ETA — video of the evil midget saying it in tweet below (3 min clip).

Putin said that the permission for long-range strikes against Russia "will mean that NATO countries are directly at war with Russia."

And he called it "war." pic.twitter.com/0BZ6JOZ9QP

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 12, 2024

paywall

Here you go.
https://archive.ph/Z921k

According to Russian sources, Ukrainian units managed to breach the border near Novyi Put' and infiltrated the areas south of Veseloe (about 3 km from the border). Most likely going eastward along the treeline.

"Armored vehicles and other vehicles delivered infantry scattered… pic.twitter.com/syyGScayUT

— NOELREPORTS \uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDFA \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@NOELreports) September 12, 2024

Just putting this here for those reading the thread from Rio Linda can see it.

If you think that war against Ukraine can end with Ukraine embedding neutrality and "out of NATO" status in our constitution, I want to remind you that this war started in 2014 with a neutrality and "out of NATO" status in Ukraine's constitution.

— ? \uD83D\uDD3CConstantine \uD83D\uDD3C? (@Teoyaomiquu) September 12, 2024

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-on-china-brazil-plan/

China has shown no effort at all to ameliorate this situation. They are the benefactor of seeing this continue.

They are getting gas from Russia under the greatest conditions, along with huge sales of military and technology products.

How would they improve their situation by "twisting Russia's testicles"?

They hold sway over N. Korea, yet the Nork's are sending ballistic missiles and artillery shells galore.

I see no scenario where China would act as you describe.

Zelenskyy accuses Brazil of being pro-Russia, slams peace proposal

When asked about Brazil’s position on the war, Zelenskyy said, “Unfortunately, I believe that they [the Brazilian government] are taking Russia’s side.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-china-brazil-peace-proposal-russia-ukraine/

Not surprising that Brazil is taking Russia’s side.  Brazil has moved very far away from the US the last 3 years and they are deep in China sphere of influence now.  More foreign policy failures from our current government.

M109 down



https://www.live5news.com/2024/09/12/first-alert-semi-truck-hauling-tank-hit-by-train-goose-creek-roads-closed/

\uD83D\uDCAC FM Sergey Lavrov: We never wanted someone else's land.

We just wanted the people, who are an inalienable part of the Russian world, culture, language, history, & religion, to be treated in Ukraine as human beings as required under international law.https://t.co/3WqswuAqq8 pic.twitter.com/vo5AlIbIWx

— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) September 12, 2024

Ukraine will still own part of Russia, they need to get control of the Russian nuke plant first.

ICYMI: The Dutch Minister of Defence very recently disclosed in an interview with the German FAZ that so far nobody is willing to donate the remaining need parts for the Patriot fire unit the Netherlands wanted to assemble for Ukraine.

So they deliver their pledged parts individually to Ukraine for the AFU to integrate them into the existing fire units. A Patriot radar has already been delivered, three more launchers are to follow very soon.

Announcement of the Dutch initiative: More than three months ago and apparently, so far, nobody is willing to hand over even parts for a fire unit to assist Ukraine! That really hurts. In the end, this means that Ukraine will “only” receive two additional Patriot fire units, one from the US and one from Romania, which was mainly financed by the US (partly financed by Romania).

H/t
@Maks_NAFO_FELLA

ICYMI: The Dutch Minister of Defence very recently disclosed in an interview with the German FAZ that so far nobody is willing to donate the remaining need parts for the Patriot fire unit the Netherlands wanted to assemble for Ukraine.

So they deliver their pledged parts… pic.twitter.com/YFSu1V8VcW

German Aid to Ukraine  (@deaidua) September 12, 2024