Breaking: Need immediate US ultimatum to Netanyahu to end countermeasures against Hezbollah in Lebanon over the Majdal Shams killing of 12 Druzes; US has no confidence in Netanyahu's story (denied by Hezbollah) of how this happened, and will not be part of any further retaliation. Secretary Austin has warned Gallant against trying this gambit several times, and US must mean it.
Russia turns to totalitarian allies for help, but Chinese ball bearings violate acceptable tolerances and are not usable for tanks, and 25% of the North Korean shell deliveries are duds;
Eighty years ago last Saturday, on July 20 1944, a group of German officers braved the Gestapo in a failed attempt to eliminate Hitler with the goal of starting peace talks with the US-UK to stop the escalating casualties among Germans; These officers saw their country being decimated by superior
and reports say that Russia can build only 30 tanks per year; Consensus forecast is for a total Russian tank famine around June-July 2025! (Putin should now emulate USSR Gen. Boris Gromov in 1989, who was the last invader to leave Afghanistan by crossing the Hairatan Bridge into Uzbekistan, based on minimal paperwork signed by Taliban and Soviet puppet Najib in Geneva under US-USSR guidance);
Even pro-appeasement publications in west now concede severe Russian tank shortage despite a military-industrial complex amounting to 8% of total economy: Russia started war with some 3,000 first-line main battle tanks, but Oryx (NL) reports that well over 3,139 are documented as destroyed or captured; Russia has always hoarded older tanks out in the open on storage lots,
Putin has definitively lost the initiative in Ukraine, and is trying to regain it with suicidal human wave attacks featuring troops riding golf carts, mopeds, scooters, and light vans; Western media hacks find this cool, but losses are astronomical; Ukraine has reduced Russian oil capacity and often hits airbases deep in enemy territory;
I am devoid of shame and guilty by design.