They arrested a Russian three days ago over an alleged plot to destabilize the Olympics.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1j7kg2nk0o

Don't think you need a wrench. What I've seen the oil boxes were just flip open lids. Wouldn't take more than 1/2 a teaspoon of abrasive to wreck the bearings. Russian bearings are beyond garbage, they make Chinese bearings look NASA grade.

Ahh, the plot thickens. Thanks.

To be clear this is not “Trump’s policy” on the war.  This is a policy proposal by a person who served in the previous administration, and you could speculate in a number of ways about why he wrote what he did or if it will influence Trump.
There is no “Trump policy” on the war yet, there is only speculation based on previous statements/positions, which is reasonable but not definitive.
What is interesting and IMO not an accident, the only point of commonality between the Pompano release and previous Trump/Trump-adjacent statements is that “cease fire in place” features prominently.
This certainly should be a warning sign, because it’s exactly what Putin hopes for.  The rest of the Pompano proposal is a bunch of nice-sounding but unenforceable hot air.

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Advancing Toward Key Logistics Hub

The Donetsk Oblast city of Pokrovsk, a bulwark against a Ukrainian collapse in the region, is a main target of Russian forces.

HOWARD ALTMAN  /  POSTED ON JUL 25, 2024 9:16 PM EDT  /  16 MINUTE READ

In their biggest advances so far this year, Russian troops are pushing forward toward the once-thriving Donetsk Oblast industrial hub of Pokrovsk. Ensconced in the middle of three key highways in the western part of Donetsk, the city is now a garrison and a critical bulwark against a large-scale collapse in the region.

“Of the 150 Russian attacks over the past 24 hours, almost half occurred on a 40-50 kilometer section of the front west-northwest of Donetsk – the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsk directions,” the Ukrainian Radio Svaboda news outlet wrote on Telegram Thursday. “This is the part of the front where Russian troops have made their greatest advance since the beginning of the year, occupying Avdiivka and advancing towards Pokrovsk.”

The Russian advance, much of it along the railroad tracks running west from Avdiivka, has been steady. That’s creating concern in Ukraine.

“For the past seven days, the enemy advanced 6 km in the direction of Mirnograd-Pokrovsk,” Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov wrote on Facebook Tuesday. That area “is the last district of defense before the Dnipropetrovsk region. The enemy is very close, the situation is critical because the pace of the enemy’s advancement causes concern.”

Yuriy Butusov says the situation on the Pokrovsk front is "critical" after Russia advanced 6km over the past seven days. He says Russia deliberately focuses its assaults on the most vulnerable brigades with poor command and control. He also notes a lack of coordination of UAVs… pic.twitter.com/BpQ7auNNQ9

Rob Lee  (@RALee85) July 23, 2024

Russian troops are just 14 miles from Mirnograd, Butusov wrote. About five miles east of Pokrovsk, its capture would greatly imperil that city, an important logistics hub for Ukraine.

Updated map showing further Russian gains on the Pokrovsk front. Russian forces are now less than 19 kilometers from the city.https://t.co/jq156rrQ6h https://t.co/xdcD4If9xg pic.twitter.com/Grsq3b2NWR

Rob Lee  (@RALee85) July 25, 2024

Butusov complained bitterly about what he said was Russia taking advantage of poor Ukrainian leadership in certain sections of that front.

“According to the commanders and fighters who defend the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd district, the main problem in terms of intensive actions is primarily in the management and organization of our actions,” he wrote. “The Russian command attacks in the first place those brigades who have the weakest management and organization. When a poorly managed crew is attacked, it can’t hold even a narrow margin.”

As a result, reserves sent to the area in March have to “reinforce the weak units that bear the most losses,” he explained. “It prevents the creation of significant tactical reserves that would have time for additional training, could rotate combatants more often, and have second and third lines of defense.”

Moreover, the “lack of prepared defense positions, reliable fortification structures occupied by the troops, does not allow to stop the enemy on any frontier. Continues a virtually continuous encounter battle, and occupation during the offense.”

Making matters worse, Butusov states that Ukrainian forces are mismanaging their drone and electronic warfare (EW) efforts.

“A critical problem is the lack of single competent management of all drone forces and [EW] tools, which continue to be used scattered and unorganized. Our own [EW] destroys a significant number of our own drones. Drone units receive tasks without taking into account tactical and technical capabilities.”

Russian forces, meanwhile, continue to strike with their own drones.

Still, the Russian advances are at a very high cost, said Butusov.

“The Russians are coming patternally and predictably. Russians carry out front attacks of small groups of infantry with heavy casualties.”

Exacerbating Ukraine’s problems, Commander-in-Chief Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi told The Guardian that the Russians have a huge number of troops and weapons in Ukraine.

Their original 100,000-strong invasion force has grown to 520,000, he told the publication, with a goal by the end of 2024 of 690,000 men. Ukraine has not released information about the size of its forces.

“When it comes to equipment, there is a ratio of 1:2 or 1:3 in their favor,” he said. Since 2022 the number of Russian tanks has “doubled” – from 1,700 to 3,500. Artillery systems have tripled, and armored personnel carriers nearly doubled, from 4,500 to 8,900.

“The enemy has a significant advantage in force and resources,” Syrskyi said. “Therefore, for us, the issue of supply, the issue of quality, is really at the forefront.”

Among other advances, the Russians are “gobbling up territory northwest of Avdiivka, towards the garrison town of Pokrovsk and the hilltop settlement of Chasiv Yar.”

Syrskyi, The Guardian wrote, tried to put recent setbacks in context.

Russia’s creeping victories as “tactical” – local gains rather than an “operational” breakthrough, such as the capture of a major city, he suggested.

“In principle, the enemy has not made any significant progress,” he said. The frontline, he added, was 3,700 km long. Active hostilities were taking place across “977 km” of it, or “twice the length of the border between Germany and France.”

Echoing Butusov’s analysis, Syrskyi said Russia has paid dearly in terms of troop losses for its advances. The Kremlin’s casualties were “three times” higher than Ukraine’s, and “even more” in certain directions, he said. “Their number of killed is much bigger,” he emphasized. In February Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 31,000 Ukrainian service personnel had died since 2022, a figure that seems absurdly low given the nature of the fight.

Syrskyi declined to provide additional insights, saying losses were “sensitive” and a topic Moscow could exploit.

With its Kharkiv advance largely sputtering, Russia is now focusing a lot of attention on western Donetsk Oblast, creating one of its deepest salients in the war toward Pokrovsk.

“When Ukrainian units are ground down by artillery and drone fire, Russian troops continue to move along the main route through the railway line” toward Pokrovsk,” the Russian Colonelcassad Telegram channel wrote.

Meanwhile, life goes on in Pokrovsk.

\uD83D\uDE14 Instead of digging trenches, they plant flowers, - Ukrainian soldier about Pokrovsk in Donetsk region.

??The enemy continues to advance 20 km from the city, but no preparatory work for defense is being carried out. A similar situation cost us dearly in Avdiivka and Bakhmut. pic.twitter.com/DlQV3rHxQH

The Ukrainian Review  (@UkrReview) July 25, 2024

https://www.twz.com/air/ukraine-situation-report-russia-advancing-toward-key-logistics-hub

They have their uses tactically, but for strategic mobility they’re worthless.
Russia needs to be able to generate a useful APC fast and at high production rates.  They don’t need armament.  A 6x6 APC on a truck chassis would be my choice for a crash program.

Hey have there been any birch plywood casualties yet?

The defense forces of Ukraine continue to destroy the military infrastructure of the Russian invaders.

Tonight, units of the missile forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces, as part of a unified plan, struck the Saki airfield in the temporarily occupied Crimea. This is one of the operational airfields that Russia uses to control the airspace, in particular the Black Sea water area, and to launch air strikes on Ukrainian territory.

Information on the consequences of the impact is being clarified.

It is important to note that the airfield was covered by "modern" Russian air defense equipment, which once again failed to protect an important Russian military facility.

The joint combat work of all components of the Defense Forces on important targets of the Russian Armed Forces will continue.

Glory to Ukraine!

https://t.me/GeneralStaffZSU/16348

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_BJ80 - they make clones if the stuff we can no longer have because Greta.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/07/27/china-says-relations-with-japan-at-critical-stage.html

institute for the study of war which is quoted here daily disagrees with what you wrote.

Every single country that trades with them. Every single EU country that sends them billions of dollars.  The institute for the study of war which is quoted here daily has very publicly stated how countries have set up manufacturing facilities to make drones etc… in Russia.  Do a little work and you can find it.  Just to help you out check out general jack keane’s interview today.

Also you should read NATO’s statements from the NATO summit where they called out China for helping Russia. Our you could look at the new toothless sanctions the US placed on a few Chinese companies for helping Russia.

The starting point is SVO. How the AP plans to put culture at the service of war

Over the course of 2.5 years of full-scale war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has not been able to unite the country around it: according to polls, Russians try not to notice the war, movies about it fail at the box office, books, poems, and songs about events at the front remain the lot of the marginalized. The presidential administration dreams of changing this - according to the Soviet model of art control.

The Dossier Center has at its disposal documents with proposals for rebooting cultural policy in Russia, which were developed by the head of the AP department for public projects, Sergei Novikov. The official understands that war turns people off, so he wants to make it the backdrop for all the art that is sponsored by the state.

The Kremlin is dissatisfied with the “painfully repressed” place of war in Russian culture, writes Novikov.  It should become “a frame, an integral part of any artistic world and a starting point for any value considerations.”

The head of the AP for Culture even offers his ideas. For example, a film about the action movie “Motorola” in the spirit of Marvel, in the plot of which he quits his job as an Auchan security guard, finds love and dies a “heroic death” (in fact, according to one version, the militant known for his cruelty became a victim of local gang violence) . Another idea of ​​Novikov is a semi-comedy series about the Donetsk hotel “Donbass Palace Battalion”.

According to Novikov’s idea, only those who will engage in “ideologically correct” art will receive large state funding, and the state should provide minimal support to cultural figures who want to remain apolitical, such as vouchers to a sanatorium, as in the USSR. 

“The artist’s dilemma is simple. If you want to “create” without violating the convention, then go ahead. You won't die of hunger. If you want government money, take part in the life of the country. Here's the challenge. Here's the competition - go ahead. No violence."

https://t.me/dossiercenter/338



Sabotage from a safe distance. Who is behind the new GRU tactics in Europe

Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, very strange things have been happening in European countries almost every month. Migrants protesting against Erdogan appear on the streets of Paris, posing as Ukrainians, military enterprises suddenly catch fire in Germany and England, and saboteurs who were planning explosions on railways are caught in Poland and the Czech Republic. All this is a consequence of the new tactics of Russian military intelligence, better known as the GRU. After the high-profile failures of Petrov and Boshirov, the unsuccessful organization of a cyber attack on the OPCW office in The Hague and the almost complete disclosure of the employees of military unit 21955 through the efforts of journalists, the GRU began to rely much less on its own officers in foreign work. Of course, the mass expulsion of diplomats, many of whom were also GRU “undercovers” at the embassies, also had an effect. Now intelligence officers manage operations from Russia, and the main characters are “group agents”—hired curators who organize sabotage on the ground.

Thus, military intelligence hoped to keep the identities of at least some officers secret - but it failed. The Dossier Center introduces readers to a new team of GRU employees who are responsible for sabotage abroad.

https://t.me/dossiercenter/343

#Summary for the morning of July 27, 2024

▪️At night 21 UAVs were shot down over the Bryansk region. 6 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs were shot down in the sky over the Kursk region. In the Lipetsk region, a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone fell next to a residential building in the village of Ratchino. In the north of the Rostov region, two unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted and destroyed by means of electronic warfare

▪️In the Kharkov direction there are fierce battles in the village. Volchansk. After yesterday’s unsuccessful attempts to attack the positions of the “North” group, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are regrouping and restoring combat effectiveness. In the Staritsa area, the enemy increased efforts to capture a settlement and twice attacked the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in 24 hours

▪️North of the eastern part of Chasov Yar, the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the control zone at the Seversky Donets - Donbass water canal line west of Kalinovka.

▪️In the Toretsky (Dzerzhinsky) direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are bringing reserves into battle in the hope of stopping the pushing of their defense. The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the area of ​​New York (Novgorod), near Zhelezny (Zalizny) and Kirovo.

▪️In the Pokrovsky direction (west of Avdeevka), the Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive on the southern sector of the front: our assault group planted a flag in the central part of Yasnobrodovka. To the north, our troops are successfully operating west of Novoselovka First and southwest of the settlement. Volce, moving towards the settlement. Fun. The enemy's resources characterize the situation as extremely difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces; however, the enemy is putting up organized, fierce resistance, despite the daily loss of occupied positions.

▪️In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction there are oncoming battles near Konstantinovka (west of Paraskovievka). In Krasnogorovka there are counter battles, the LBS remains unchanged.

▪️From the Vremevsky direction and the Zaporozhye Front, reports are periodically received about the intensification of fighting, while the front line fluctuates slightly. Enemy resources indicate that the Russian Army is amassing large forces for a strike at Gulyai-Polye

▪️No significant changes in the Kherson direction. As throughout the entire front, the acute issue remains the supply of newly created units with objectively necessary copters with thermal imagers. Four people, including three children, were injured in the village of Maslovka in the Novokakhovsky District from shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️In the Belgorod region, late in the evening, the village of Bochkovka, Belgorod district, came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a woman was wounded, and an agricultural enterprise was damaged. The city of Shebekino came under fire from an MLRS, but there were no casualties. Border areas are under attack from enemy drones.

▪️In the Kursk region, the enemy is knocking out agricultural and industrial enterprises and electricity supply facilities. The entire border area is under attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The summary was compiled by: Two majors

https://t.me/dva_majors/48211



Kursk region

At night, 12 UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were shot down near the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Kurchatov, reports from the field.

✨Ukraine regularly attacks Russian nuclear facilities.

Two majors

https://t.me/dva_majors/48212



Russian Ministry of Defense:

At about 06.45 Moscow time, seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by duty air defense systems over the territory of the Ryazan region.

Two majors

https://t.me/dva_majors/48213

On July 12, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Belousov called the Pentagon to convey a warning about the "Ukrainian secret operation" against Russia discovered by the Russians, which, in their opinion, was approved by the Americans. Belousov asked Austin whether the Pentagon knew about this operation and whether they understood that it could lead to an escalation of tensions between Moscow and Washington.

Pentagon officials were surprised by this claim and were not aware of such an operation.

It is not known what Belousov was talking about, but it was taken quite seriously in the Pentagon, and the Americans contacted the Ukrainians, stressing that if they were planning something like this, it was better not to do it.

The operations that caused US concern included strikes on a Russian airbase on the western coast of Crimea, a truck explosion on a bridge over the Kerch Strait, and drone strikes deep inside Russian territory.

Source: The New York Times.


🤓Belhorod-22 wants a holiday.

https://t.me/operinform/25371

Daily Ukraine map thread for Friday 26th July 2024

Highlights: Russian forces advance at Yasnobrodivka, Krasnohorivka, Lozuvatske and Prohres. Ukrainian forces are losing slowly but decisively in this area and Pokrovsk is now less than 20 km away.

Note that DeepState's map has much further Russian gains west of Avdiivka, but we haven't seen geolocations for them yet. The situation appears dire for Ukrainian forces in the area.

No change in Zaporizhia or Kherson, but north of Bakhmut and in Kharkiv/Luhansk Russian forces have made gains.

https://uacontrolmap.com

1/2 Guerre d'Ukraine | 26/07/24

Secteurs :
\uD83C\uDF10 Vovchansk\uD83D\uDD39U240726-1023
\uD83C\uDF10 Kreminna\uD83D\uDD39U240726-1031
\uD83C\uDF10 Avdiivka-Vesele-Ivanivka\uD83D\uDD39U240726-1053
\uD83C\uDF10 Pervomaiske-Krasnohorivka\uD83D\uDD39U240726-1058#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine pic.twitter.com/3CgA1doyGp

Poulet volant  (@Pouletvolant3) July 27, 2024

2/2 Guerre d'Ukraine | 26/07/24

Secteurs :
\uD83C\uDF10 Bakhmut-Chasiv Yar\uD83D\uDD39U240726-1041

\uD83C\uDF10 Synthèse mouvements\uD83D\uDD39U240726-1059
\uD83C\uDF10 Historique des cartes#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine pic.twitter.com/H6Jcbs0Y6n

Poulet volant  (@Pouletvolant3) July 27, 2024

China is making unprecedented efforts to accumulate resources. This may indicate preparations for war

📌 Stocks of raw materials in the PRC should be reduced, as the country's economy has recently experienced a deep crisis, and world prices are currently high. However, the opposite process is taking place — the reserves of raw materials in the People's Republic of China, as The Economist writes, are growing at an impressive rate.

📌 Along with reserves, China is also building up its military power. According to one version, China is preparing for possible isolation, for example, after an attack on Taiwan.

📌 According to experts, Chinese stocks are still not enough to start a war. Rather, the facts indicate that Xi Jinping intends to increase the amount of resources.

📌 According to The Economist, in 2023 China's reserves increased by 16% overall, and in 2024 - by 6% only from January to May. At the same time, as the journalists note, the rapid increase in Beijing's reserves contradicts any logic.

📌 In particular, China increased its crude oil reserves to 2 billion barrels. Reserves of natural and liquefied gas, according to estimates by Morgan Chase, increased six times to 15 billion cubic meters. m and will grow to 85 billion cubic meters. m until 2030. This year, wheat and corn stocks in the People's Republic of China will make up 51% and 67% of world stocks, respectively.

📌 According to analysts, the sudden increase in China's reserves was caused in particular by the war in Ukraine, which made it clear that the West can impose tough sanctions even against such great opponents as Russia.

🫡
https://t.me/operativnoZSU/152645

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Meqdad Jameel  (@Almeqdad) July 27, 2024

🚨 Urgent | Spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital: More than 20 martyrs so far as a result of the Israeli raid on Deir al-Balah.

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— ?????? ??? ????? (@F24online) July 27, 2024

Russians cannot withdraw cash from the banks of the aggressor state: the cyber attack on the financial sector of the Russian Federation is intensifying, - mass media with reference to sources in the State Government

The attack on the Russian banking sector, which is involved in financing the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, has been going on for several days in a row and is gaining momentum.

The main banking institutions of the Russian Federation, whose online services have already been blocked, have been joined by brokerage applications and ATMs./

https://t.me/operativnoZSU/152643

\uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDFACYBERATTACK HITS RUSSIA'S FINANCIAL SECTOR, BLOCKING CASH WITHDRAWALS

Brokerage applications and ATMs are affected, joining major Russian banking institutions already facing blocked online services.

Ukrainian intelligence sources report that several Russian banks now… pic.twitter.com/IvBBckCxY8

— Miss G (@Green_k100) July 27, 2024

https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/274470216/nato-profiteering-from-ukraine-conflict-china

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36425

https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240726010400315?section=news&input=rss

North Korea potentially inbound Belorussia

I’ve already read them and acknowledge that Russia has and is finding workarounds.  But you’re overstating your case, perhaps deliberately.
Any reasonable interpretation of Chinese actions (which is the only issue of real importance) shows that their help has been tepid and that they are concerned with feathering their own nest, not helping Russia.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240725_35/

lol Chinese and Russians certainly keep us in business.

Nice.

US-provided Bradley IFV engages a retreating Russian BMP with many shots on target.

pic.twitter.com/F6yAIduNky

— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) July 27, 2024

According to sources in the Ukrainian Intelligence (GUR), the Russian Olenya airfield, in the Kola peninsula, was struck by drones. That Russian airbase is home to the their strategic Tu-22M3 bombers which are frequently used against Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/tbsmkkweXk

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) July 27, 2024

Another Ka-52 with cannibalized rudder. Judging by the sum of features, 4th, 10th or 11th series, quite old airframe. pic.twitter.com/FyPzkVjgfq

— LotA (@LotA_IL) July 27, 2024

??The Main Directorate of Intelligence of \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6Ukraine hit three \uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDFARussian Mi-28 and Ka-226 helicopters on the territory of the Russian Federation — RBC-Ukraine sources

Enemy Mi-28 and Ka-226 helicopters were damaged in the territory of the joint-stock company "National Center of… pic.twitter.com/rU8IXQdY6E

— \uD83E\uDE96MilitaryNewsUA\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@front_ukrainian) July 27, 2024

I’m amused that China simultaneously pretends it’s an independent neutral third party who we should follow for peace while touting limitless friendship with Russia and making those kinds of statements and moves.


But China is famously duplicitous, unreliable and a liar

Tick tock.

Russian military reporter Alexander Kharchenko reports that logistics on the Russian side are getting worse over time due to the abundance of drones on the Ukrainian side. He says that even a year ago in Robotyne they were dismounted 1 kilometer from the positions, but now… pic.twitter.com/mIlYTAOVno

— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) July 27, 2024

Let's check in on how russian logistics is doing ... pic.twitter.com/QqskNldIX9

— \uD83C\uDF3B Fertilizer Finder \uD83C\uDF3B (@ManiacMagic1) July 18, 2024

30 minutes ago.

A Russian Su-34 crashed in the Volgograd region, Russia. The Russian ministry of defense confirms the crash and claims that the plane was a training mission. Both crew members ejected.

Source of pics: Telegram / Baza pic.twitter.com/3CxbpRJo2N

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) July 27, 2024

The Ukrainian Air Force says these videos of Russian Iskander strikes struck decoys and false positions. Ukraine is crowdfunding to build more aviation and air defense decoys. https://t.co/5I5ExVrlPvhttps://t.co/MXxD8roATd pic.twitter.com/isWgJ5jGzf

Rob Lee  (@RALee85) July 27, 2024

Political relationships will be ramped up until we know the outcome of the US election. China needs Japan, and Japan desperately needs China. The issue is Japan follows the directions of America, up until a critical issue like the economy, energy, or food is involved. But overall, Japan does what America tells it to do, sometimes reluctantly, but overall Japan is America's bitch.

Japan wants stable, reliable relations with its 2 neighbors Russia and China. Domestically, Japanese people have no issues with the Chinese, they get along very well. The issue of Taiwan was part of Shinzo Abe's core policy, but that has changed. Kishida is more flexible, partly because the Chinese have said they will never impose sanctions or restrict trade. There are major energy projects between Japan and Russia, and Japan can not afford them to fail, so these are going to cause tensions between Tokyo and Washinton.

The Chinese have become more bold in their public political statements recently, they have taken the gloves off. They do not like the prospects of a Harris administration, they can negotiate with Trump and they did in the past.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine officially allowed the operation of a new mobile car repair shop.

The mobile workshop is equipped to carry out tire fitting, welding, auto locksmith work, is able to charge car batteries, as well as perform computer diagnostics. In addition, it… pic.twitter.com/wZltG9MXfL

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/3. Low resolution Sentinel satellite images if the aftermath of recent Ukrainian strikes on Russian military airfield in Novofedorivka appeared. pic.twitter.com/yxvO9VnrJs

— Special Kherson Cat \uD83D\uDC08\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@bayraktar_1love) July 27, 2024

Nice vintage paintjob.

Outstanding

Cap just said a few posts up that Chinas help to Russia has only been tepid. So their friendship with Russia must not be limitless.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/01/7c86dfc1b2d0-record-87-of-japanese-do-not-feel-friendly-toward-china-survey.html#google_vignette

“In an interview with BBC News, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: "What's not happening is the provision of actual arms by China to Russia for use in Ukraine."
However, China has been accused of building up Moscow's war machine by providing critical components. Mr Blinken said: "Those are being used to help Russia on what's an extraordinary crash course effort to make more munitions, tanks, armoured vehicles, missiles."
About 70% of the machine tools and 90% of the microelectronics Russia imports come from China, he added.”

It is very much in Chinas interests to help Russia and they are obviously. It’s also obvious that you do not understand the geopolitical landscape.

I’ll continue to post and correct you.

Gota destabilize Belarus

At some point Trump did say if RU wouldn't accept his terms sending more and better weapons would be on the table. This was quite a while back.

>2000km over land. How'd they do it?

Nice. Like an upgraded contact truck.

Israel is spying on Hezbollah commanders — and killing them one by one.

How does Israel locate the terrorists.https://t.co/1DEgWbnFzC pic.twitter.com/lp8lvenyPy

Tony Seruga  (@TonySeruga) July 27, 2024

First of all, that's Kyodo. It is akin to referencing CNN.

Secondly, there is an issue of Chinese who live and work in Japan and mainland Chinese tourists. Chinese tourists, especially 'first timers' (Chinese who are on their first overseas trip) act, and do things like they do in China. They litter, can't use toilets properly, cut into lines, and are rude. These first-timers cause a lot of 'issues', but they are not big, just people complaining.

The Chinese who live and work in Japan settle in well, they learn the language fast and you can't adapt to living in Japan without respecting the culture and rules. Chinese people understand rules, they know that breaking state rules has life-changing consequences, so they adapt very fast. The Chinese who are lucky enough to work or study in Japan, never, ever, want to go home. They adapt so fast because living here gives them freedom they will never get in China.

There are issues, but generally, Chinese people love Japan and willingly adapt. They also work hard and are often the best students (my wife is a professor).

I have clients who tell me they will hire any young Chinese worker who speaks basic Japanese because they know they will probably work their ass off and stay for a long time.

It is a security problem, but Japan is very open to educated and skilled Chinese people immigrating here. The same goes for Russian, up until 2022.