85 Replies to “January 21, 2023: Reader Tips”

    1. Ah yes another wonder weapons.
      Well shortbus, your buddy Adolf thought wonder weapons were the thing but we know how that turned out.
      Now don’t you have a rally to attend, windows to break?

        1. “Ask and you shall receive your daily dose of twitching orc videos:”

          Seek professional help, you sick POS…

      1. No worries, a civil war in Pootinistan will end this war (and hopefully russia). But you can still pretend to be bedweting about it when in reality you’re just simping for Pootin.

    1. Aaaand somehow, nobody can explain how the documents got lost. It’s a complete mystery to the Fan Belt Inspectors.

      I called it first.

      P.S. When will Biden’s picture start showing up on milk cartons? I keep seeing videos of Biden wandering around aimlessly with absolutely no-one paying attention to him, and I figure one of these days he’ll just wander off. Oh, that will embarrass the Secret Service for sure. “Dang! We lost the pResident! Has anyone seen the pResident? Anyone? Anyone?”

  5. Indeed that is impressive, but reports indicate that just 12 will be provided, now lets talk about munitions, how much is Sweden providing? there seems to be a gaping void where that information should be. There is a worldwide production shortage illustrated by this

    “August 3rd, 2022 – Rheinmetall a NATO customer has just placed an order with the Group’s South African subsidiary Rheinmetall Denel Munition to supply 155mm ammunition from its tried-and-tested Assegai product line. Awarded in July, the contract is worth a figure in the upper-two-digit million-euro range. Delivery will take place over the next two years.” Will Ukraine exist in 2024?

    “Russia and Ukraine are burning through artillery shells and other weapons and ammunition at a rate not seen since the Korean War, officials said, and will need to restock during the long winter to come.

    Russia is firing a staggering 20,000 artillery rounds per day, a senior U.S. defense official estimated, while Ukraine is firing from 4,000 to 7,000 rounds daily.”

    Lots of unanswered questions, my take is that this is too little too late for NATO. 12 howitzers across Ukraine is nothing and until the munition supply is sorted out their effectiveness is minimal.

    Doh! that was supposed to be a reply to Colonialista.

    1. My reply is being caught by filter so I try one paragraph at the time.

      A lot more was sent and will be sent than just Archers, indeed, it looks like the rate of transfer is actually increasing. The latest transfers seem to be enough for four of the recently formed ten brigades (there are currently 35 regular army brigades, few armoured, most mech few air assault (with armour component), one airborne and one mountain (also has armour), plus multiple territorial defense brigades and units of interior ministry like Azov or Kraken). So the recent increases will be substantial. And more is on the way.

    2. The count of artillery rounds is misleading. By, now majority of Ukrainian arty is NATO standard 155mm. More than 700 various types have been sent, almost all using standard NATO ammo. Better, longer ranged, more accurate and better integrated with recon than anything russians have. And russians are rolling backwards. Recently D-1 howitzers of WWII vintage have been spotted. Orcs are targeting squares on the map while Ukrainians are targeting individual vehicles. The difference in effectiveness is staggering. It is like comparing two bombing campaigns where one side doing carpet bombing while side is using precision weapons.

      1. EDIT:
        700 155mm pieces (towed or SP) have been sent or pledged. the total number of arty sent is probably higher than 700 given transfers of 105mm NATO towed pieces and 122mm, 130mm and 152mm russian pattern (both towed and SP).
        And yes you were right 12 Archers are to be sent to Ukraine.

      2. Ukrainians targeting individual vehicles with artillery?

        Videos from from Ukraine show artillery hits on tanks, BMPs, trucks, etc.

        What’s not shown? All the misses.

        What strikes me in some of the videos is the number of impact marks in fields from misses.

        Yes I am aware of Excalibur shells. But what % of artillery shells are Excalibur?

        Has anyone found any evidence that the U.S. is replenishing it’s stock of artillery shells and missiles?

        1. Videos in Ukraine typically show a small number of shells near the target with one hitting it directly, hence the craters nearby. This is still much better than targeting squares in the map. NATO has been ramping up production of shells since March. Polish or Czech munition factories have been running on three shifts 24-7 since then. The same has been happening in many other places.
          Excalibur are the gold standard, most of what you see isn’t Excalibur just accurate conventional arty.

    3. Besides russian artillery fire intensity has been reported to drop by about a third since its peak. Russians have about five patterns of 152 mm ammo and these cannot be used interchangeably in every case, there are rounds that fit most common systems like 2S19 and 2S3 exclusively one or the other. It is a clusterf**k, add to this 122mm in multiple patters, 130mm, 203mm 240mm and you see how utterly strained russian logistics are in this single respect.

    4. Then there is regular HIMARSing of their ammo depos that forced russians to move the main depos further back and to create a network of smaller depos closer to the front – something that a civilized army should do from the start, except that civilized army has a lot more trucks and russia was facing a truck shortage from day one and it is getting worse. And now longer ranged missiles are coming courtesy of US and UK.

      1. The long-range missiles promised by the US are ground-launched glide bombs. I’m thinking they may, for a change, be actually within the capability of the Russian air defences because of much lower speed at which they fly (their propaganda routinely reports shooting down HIMARS missiles, but I’d be surprised if they actually shot down at least one; BTW, they even reported shooting down HARMs, can you imagine?). I wonder what kind of long-range missile is the UK going to supply…

        1. “I wonder what kind of long-range missile is the UK going to supply…”

          There is talk of Storm Shadow… if delivered in sufficient numbers this could change a lot of equations.

          1. Yes, I’ve heard that, but it’s air-launched and will need a lot of effort to integrate it into the Soviet airplane fleet that Ukraine has, not to mention greater vulnerability of the launch platform itself. When I heard of “ATACMS replacement from the UK”, I was expecting something ground-launched.

          2. The tech to integrate western ordnance of multiple types to Soviet planes has been developed in Poland and Israel (possibly somewhere else). Poles never implemented it because it was not worth it, seems like it may be wroth now. The talk is of Su-24 or Su-27 to be armed with those. Then there is also never ending speculation about Polish MiG-29s, now the topic of Dutch F-16 came up. Something will work out if the decision to transfer the missile gets finalized.

    5. Now this is not to say that Ukraine is winning easily without breaking a sweat (I never said that although usual idiots routinely defeated that strawman), I am saying that the difference is much closer than optimistic assessments (on either side) predict.

      Ukrainians have done much better than anyone has expected them to do a year ago. I expected russians to be as pathetic as they have proven to be, but I thought it would be enough. I also absolutely applaud NATO help. I did not expect it to be anywhere near as firm. For whatever reason, even the most spineless otherwise, western politicians are showing more backbone and civilizational loyalty than I have ever expected (Germans, Austrians and Hungarians excluded)

      There is no question that Pootin would not have started this war if he could predict a year ago where he would be today. He will never conquer Ukraine, he has already lost politically and economically.

    1. DB, these batards better start backing up before people start getting hurt, and not by the vaxxes.

  9. Unexpectedly.

    Temporary Morgues are Being Built Across UK Due to Unprecedented Increase in Excess Deaths

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/temporary-morgues-built-across-uk-due-unprecedented-increase-excess-deaths/

    “Top British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a highly esteemed, award-winning NHS consultant cardiologist, stated that the deaths were likely linked to the experimental mRNA COVID vaccines.

    A recent report claimed 50,000 excess deaths were reported in 2022 compared to a normal year. The excess deaths in the UK last year was the worst in 50 years.”

    1. Re: High excess deaths; Now what could that be due to?

      A) One theory will be COVID.
      B) Another is RNA vaccines.

      We all know, or know of people in camp A or B.

      But could there be other causes?

      C) Old people dying of cold? People can’t afford to heat their homes, and die of cold related causes?

      D) an aging population?

      Take a look at the population age distribution for the UK shown at this site.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom

      Notice the “small spike” in 1946-1948. The immediate post war baby boom. These people are now 76 to 74 years old. And their are over 100,000 more than preceding and succeeding years. The increase in excess deaths may be due to this cohort dying of normal old age reason (ordinary flu, cancer, heart attacks, etc)

      E). Excess deaths are typically calculated using a five year period. Here I suspect it’s 2015 to 2019. Average deaths in this period = 604,000 per year. See table in the link above.

      So the deaths in 2020 (688 k) and 2021 (666 k) look worrisome. But note comment D above.

      Now for 2010 to 2014 the average deaths in UK were 565,000 per year.

      What caused the so called excess deaths in 2015-2019 (604,000) compared to 2010-2014 (565,000).

      Perhaps it’s an artifact of the extended 1946 – 1970 baby boom getting older.

      F). Some combination of all of the above.

      Personally, I think the biggest cause is increasing numbers of old people getting older and doing what old people do … dying.

        1. The argument offered was, 50,000 excess deaths per year were caused by COVID vaccines.

          When did the shots start? Primarily 2021.

          So how did the vaccines cause 39,000 excess deaths per year from 2015 to 2019?

          Perhaps there are other causes?

      3. I’m with you on this joe and nice work. In short the increase in deaths from 2021 to 2022 in the UK was 22,000 and not 50,000 as quoted by DB. I did a similar thing years ago when Ontario stopped its coal-fired generating stations. Apparently 10,000 people (approx) were dying every year inhaling carbon fumes from these coal plants, according to doctors and their “modeling software”. Turns out in the decade after, that the number of deaths continued to go up – due to demographics.

        In hind sight it looks like the jab was a dud and may have harmed a lot of people, mostly younger, active people. But looking at excess deaths won’t help because the aging population is starting to tip the scales on everything from pensions, health care, unemployment rates and death counts.

      4. If you look at projected death rates, the aging population is built in. The projections are already on an upslope. So “excess” exceeds the already increased projections. And then there are the under 45 deaths, that are actually the highest jump, percentage wise.

        3. Try this link
          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom.

          Open section called vital statistics. In it you’ll find a table with numbers. Much easier to calculate.

          Most articles I’ve seen use an average of 2015-2019 to calculate excess deaths. That is what I did.

          I could have used a different method, but look at the blue and red graph showing distribution of to ages in UK. Notice the bump of 70 to 73 year olds (2020 data)? About 60k of each sex over the baseline slope.

          I’ve not determined how to adjust excess deaths for that cohort dying off.

          1. Or is there any possibility that the gene therapy ( jab – it is NOT a vaccine) simply accelerates anyone with any weakness to their final destination? This is what it appears to be to me. I also strongly suspect it is not unexpected, After all they are expanding Maid and plan to save 138 million a year and increase the available organ supply. Keeping in mind they supply CBC with 1.2 billion + and don’t account for a t least a third of the hundreds of billions spent during the last 3 years. Purely Evil.

  11. Far too many parallels w/ today.

    Rome’s Runaway Inflation: Currency Devaluation in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries

    https://mises.org/wire/romes-runaway-inflation-currency-devaluation-fourth-and-fifth-centuries

    Two quotes:

    “However, these “silver” and bronze denominations were minted in enormous quantities and were continually devalued over the years, to the detriment of their most common users, the middle and lower social classes.”

    and

    “Roman rulers attempted to use harmful price controls in order to mitigate the decline in the effective purchasing power of the middle and lower classes. For instance, the Edictum de pretiis rerum venalium of 301 ended up withdrawing what little supply of products remained on the white market, making them more expensive on the black market. It is truly shocking to note how many politicians and populist parties of all ideological stripes continue to propose these same “remedies” even today.“

    Bold mine.

    1. to get past the paywall, right click the link and click “open in InPrivate Window”. Works on most sites that have paywalls but not all.

      1. Or you could be using Brave, which opened the article right up, thanks to Brave’s built-in ad-blocker. And if the ad-blocker doesn’t work, you can add an extension to archive the page. That will work on almost any pay-walled sites.

  13. Here’s one for SDA’s resident nazi.
    Don’t worry, the meat is blurred out for YouTube.
    Anyone getting talking points from shortbus is seriously misinformed. But you do you, and Russia will take out the trash. BTW, all the western media is vetted through the penis puppet’s office.
    Everyone listening knows the Nazis censored the media.
    https://youtu.be/FARF58Do3qI

  17. Check out this 59 secs video— of a famous Montreal snowstorm:
    https://youtu.be/v5yaNsGcRjI
    As a new employee of the phone company I slept at Ma Bell during one of our brutal storms in the City back in the day. It was a bonus for the Company when they could get brave people to do overtime during these rough times–knowing that the next shift couldn’t make it in to work was a nightmare. I did lots of overtime at this time. I have more stories, too numerous and some comical.

    1. “Drinking will kill you if you aren’t careful.”

      So will your gov’t. I’ll take my chances w/ booze, thankyouverymuch. I know what I’m getting into with the first twist of the lid or pull of the tab. Alcohol has never lied to me, nor backstabbed me. It’s simply more trustworthy.

      1. Reader, the Canadian Press changed their story to say that it is 325 Indian NATIONS and not 325 individual members, the original Canadian Press story, reprinted by CTV, said that the agreement was for the 325-member band only.

        Here is the Trudeau government press release:
        https://www.canada.ca/en/crown-indigenous-relations-northern-affairs/news/2023/01/settlement-agreement-reached-in-gottfriedson-band-class-litigation.html

        Reading this press release, it reads as if the 325-member band gets the $2.8-billion. Crappy writing by the feds.

  35. This is what Trudeau and Canada supports in Ukraine.
    Hunt for “cannon fodder” in Ukraine

    First part of the video is Kirovograd region

    Second part of the video father is trying to save his son from mobilisation

    Third part of the video is in Odessa

    https://t.me/azmilitary11/34362

    This is how ordinary Ukrainians are being drafted to be cannon fodder for NATO elites.

    This is extremely outrageous and heart-breaking. Nobody wants this war except for the Western globalist oligarchs and their pet Nazis.

    These men are being unlawfully taken away from their families and forced to kill and to die. Against the interests of their country. For Victoria Nuland, for Biden, for Soros.
    https://t.me/azmilitary11/34363

      1. “Putin can pull out at any time.”

        Sure he could. And you could quit drinking, sober up and figure out how to follow an argument.

        Here, I’ll get you started:

        Watcher pointed out that “These men are being unlawfully taken away from their families and forced to kill and to die. Against the interests of their country. For Victoria Nuland, for Biden, for Soros.”

        Think hard now, Allan…why would Putin feel any need to withdraw when his enemies are idiotically serving all the Ukrainian men and boys of fighting age up for slaughter? All he needs to do is keep killing them until THEY RUN OUT of such cannon fodder.

        Napoleon figured this out centuries ago: “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”.

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