The Peanut Gallery: Putin Floats Plan to Detonate Nukes in Space - MAGA Remains Complicit.
February 14, 2024
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Ukrainian forces successfully sank another Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) landing ship in the Black Sea off the southern coast of occupied Crimea on the night of February 13 to 14.
Drones! Again!
Ukraine is deploying remote controlled speedboat hulls loaded with explosives. Essentially long-range torpedoes. Which means they’re likely very cheap to build. And what did these ones hit? A landing ship, a critical piece of the Kremlin’s logistical jigsaw puzzle. Better still? This whole thing went down on the east side of Crimea, which means what counts as ‘safe waters’ for the BSF is shrinking by the day. If Ukraine keeps pushing like this, they might not even need ATACMS to knock down the bridge.
Reporting From Ukraine, which is totally not a sock puppet, had an interesting story to tell today. Ukraine’s sea drones are on their fifth generation, and they’re beginning to practice with “wolf pack” tactics: one occupies the front, while the rest circle around the back. It’s simple but effective against a singular target.
Ukraine’s detonation of the BSF landing ship puts the grouping at roughly 66% numerical strength. That’s generally right around when a force becomes combat ineffective.
Ukraine reportedly continues efforts to offset Russian advantages in manpower and materiel by using more advanced systems and equipment, although continued delays in Western security assistance will undermine these efforts.
The problem is one of a 10-20 km gap. Squad-based drones have a 15-20 km effective range, and most artillery shoots from 25 km and beyond. This is typically covered by NATO provisions of artillery shells come in handy: counterbattery fire. Drones simply struggle with distance and payload, meaning tank kills aren’t a sure thing and artillery is out of reach.
Congress has an obligation to act. The House of Representatives must vote now on the Ukraine funding package to help fill this critical gap. Every day we delay costs lives.
Russian authorities may be generating enough new forces to sustain losses generated by the current tempo of their offensive operations in Ukraine through 2025.
I don’t care if they can generate forces to cover their current losses, I care about whether they can increase the tempo. Eventually, soon, the dynamics of this war will shift, and the Kremlin will have to find more people. I have doubts as to the Kremlin’s capacity for further conscription. Currently Putin strikes me as pedal to the metal, and with the sudden disqualification of the only anti-war candidate in the Russian election, I doubt the people are overly keen on a second mobilization.
Russia reportedly is developing a space-based anti-satellite weapon.
US House Intelligence Committee Chair Michael Turner stated on February 14 that he made information about a “serious national security threat” available to all members of Congress and called on US President Joe Biden to declassify all information relating to the threat.[55] Western media reported that two sources stated that the intelligence concerns Russia’s desire to put an anti-satellite nuclear weapon into space to use against satellites, not to launch a nuclear weapon onto Earth.[56]
The New York Times (NYT) reported that US officials said that the new intelligence was serious but that Russia is still developing the capability and has not deployed it yet.[57] NYT reported that the possible Russian capability does not pose an urgent threat to the US, Ukraine, or America’s European allies.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on February 9 that the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) launched a Soyuz-2.1v launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with an unspecified classified payload “in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense.”[58]
ISW, please, have mercy on a brother and use some paragraphs, like I did with your quote above.
As for this space wacka-doodle shit, all I can say is that Biden’s playing games. What we’re seeing here is all theater. Of course, Putin is working on a plan to bring down satellites—after all if China is testing it, then Russia is dreaming it. Their plan apparently involves detonating radioactive devices in low Earth orbit, a position in which things tend to fall back to Earth and scatter. Wherever. Just radioactive shit wherever.
Sure, I’m not panicking. Not one bit. Maybe a little.
So I would really like it if Mike Johnson came to his senses. He has zero support. Zero. Yesterday’s election showcased that, and now this thing drops? Yeah, the Dems aren’t playing around. They’re out for blood. There’s a strong likelihood that Mike Johnson caves. The political pressure here is enormous. But let’s say he doesn’t, let’s say this stupid, hypocritical scumbag decides to hold out, what then?
Thirty days of pain. Or, well, twenty-eight now, assuming they already filed and kept it private. We are seeing figurative lines drawn in the sand, ladies and gentlemen. Ukraine will have her ammo.
Russian authorities continue efforts to militarize and culturally indoctrinate youth and students in occupied Ukraine into Russian identity and ideology.
Please give Ukraine what they need to bring this war to an end.
‘B’ for the Community:
The Black Sea Fleet is on its knees! So step right up, step right up. Place your bets: what will happen to the Crimean bridge? Will Ukraine,
Blow it up with ATACMs / Storm Shadows?
Hurl a legion of boat drones at its struts?
Leave it alone because it’s still good infrastructure and it’s not Russia can use it much anyway?
Something else?
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