Math. prof at the University of Warsaw (topologist). British & Polish citizen, perm. resident of Japan. Reaganite, Thatcherite, Zionist, anti-“Green Utopia”
Getting back all the Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia will be the not only the biggest humanitarian challenge faced by the West since the end of WWII but to the very idea of international law. There is now way Russia can ever be readmitted to civilized world
The war in Gaza shows the limitations of hybrid warfare. Hamas‘s tactics was initially very clever. It managed to completely mislead the Israelis by pretending to have become more “moderate” after the Israelis relaxed restrictions on transfer of funds to Gaza and allowed more
As he always does, the phenomenal
@christogrozev
telephoned the FSB generals reported to have been placed under house arrest to see if they answer the phone. They didn’t pick up the receiver while others, did.
The arrests seem to be connected to literally billions that were
Ukraine is about to get British Startreak Manpads. Much more powerful (although a bit heavier) than Stingers. Range up to 7 km. Max speed, over Mach 3. Tremendous weapons.
The Czech Republic received 150,000 coronavirus test kits from China. About 80% of the tests give false results.
Athens Czechs have gone back to traditional tests, of which they perform 900 per day.
The apparent failure of Russia’s much vaunted S400 systems to make any impact on American HIMARS is a major embarrassment not only for Russia, but also for China, India, Turkey and also …Israel, which seems to have been greatly overestimating these air-defense systems.
spent by the FSB on recruiting against in the Ukrainian government, military, security services, universities etc, to help with the coup that was meant to give Russia control of Ukraine. instead they bought “dead souls” and stole the money.
This was the key part of the hybrid war strategy. The main operational tool was going to be the Western media and the hundreds of thousands of Islamists planted in the West thought the insane immigration policies and the millions of leftist and left-liberal cretins who are the
The extreme brutality of the assault, the rapes, the murder of babies - all was deliberate and carefully planned. The aim was not only to capture hostages but also to make Israel retaliate with fury and cause a maximum number of civilian casualties amomg the Gazans.
the islamist’s “useful idiots”. All of this went as well as Hamas could have hoped and everyone played the assigned role as well as could be expected.
But the next part of the plan is not going well and almost certainly make all the successes futile.
Arestovych: Ukraine has survived thanks to Poland. Poland provided the first arms, Poland was the guide to all international organizations
Poland & Ukraine in symbiosis form a new pan-European force. And Poland has done this, having forgotten old grudges.
Арестович: Украина выжила благодаря Польше. Польша первой вооружила, Польша - проводник во всех международных организациях, Польша и Украина в симбиозе от Балтики до Черного моря - это новая паневропейская сила. И Польша сделала это, забыв старые обиды.
And here is where the miscalculation occurred. Hamas did not seriously consider the possibility that this time Israel would yield to pressure, would not accept a ceasefire and would continue the offensive until Hamas’ total destruction. It became clear that Hamas’ plan was not
Gazans to travel to and work in Israel (some of these workers provided Hamas with the information it needed to carry out the attack). Hamas also successfully used the old “cry wolf” tactics - by staging 9 or 10 “practice assaults“ before the real one.
was not working when the reaction of the US turned out to be very different from the past. After a little hesitation the Biden administration publicly agreed that the complete destruction of Hamas is desirable. It also showed a greater readiness to become directly involved
Hamas also took advantage of the greater reluctance of Israeli troops to open fire without certainty that the target was armed and dangerous. This is how an Israeli tank, which could have presented an unsurmountable obstacle, was captured and its crew slaughtered.
of character behaviour of Germany, which only has been much tougher and pro-Israel in speech than ever before but also has matched this toughness with action. The German reaction against the antisemitic, pro-Hamas displayed has not only been tougher (im fact, incomparably) than
that of the UK and France, but also than the rest of Europe and even the USA (in the last case, of course, the difference in the legal system is largely responsible for the difference). In fact, as far as Europe is concerned, the reaction of Germany is one of the few
If Hamas is destroyed, as I am pretty sure will happen, others will also try to disassociate themselves from failure. Erdogan will actually find himself in a more embarrassing position than Iran, because as usual the toughness of his words is not matched by actions.
According to the plan, the combined efforts of the Hamas propagandist in Western media, the mass demonstrations, and also the deliberate violent intimidation were going to force Israel to accept a ceasefire, as happened in the past. This would be followed by an exchange of some
militarily in case Iran or Hezbollah decided to enter the fray. In fact, he reaction of Hezbollah and Iran has been undoubtedly a great disappointment to Hamas and will become even greater. The point is that Iran is not ready for war but it also does not want to be seen as having
suffered a defeat. Iran’s failure to support Hamas in its hour of need will damage Iran’s standing among the militant anti-Israel forces in the Muslim world, unless Iran can place the blame squarely on Hamas. And, according to reports, this is what Khamenei has been doing.
surviving hostages for a large number of terrorists held by Israel and finally the ceasefire would turn into an indefinite one - that is, lasting until the next opportunity
Reportedly he told Hamas that Iran would not be able to help it because they (Hamas) did not consult Iran before the attack, staged it at the wrong time and will themselves have to bear the consequences.
“Literacy” was always the most basic tool of totalitarian propaganda. If you are not literate you can’t be fed communist propaganda. The most steadfast anti-communist I knew in my childhood was my maternal grandfather who was illiterate. Communist propaganda did not reach him
until this is accomplished. Any normalization of relations with Russia before then will be tantamount to participation in genocide.
This needs to be made particularly clear to the German government and the German people. They must not be allowed to wash their hands of this.
On the other hand, he has done this many times before and although it often looked like he painted himself into a corner, he somehow managed to get out of it.
Another thing that seems significant to me, and which could be of very great importance, is the completely of of
“There are nations without whom we wouldn’t be celebrating this day. That is, the United States, Britain, the Baltics, Poland, especially…Poland, the only nation to give us tanks. And nearly 300. The Poles…if it wasn’t for the Poles, we wouldn’t exist.”
Apparently Russia’s arsenal of rockets is close to exhaustion and Russia is trying to obtain new ones from China and North Korea. China is not likely to provide anything that can be identified as of Chinese make. The quality of North Korean rockets is doubtful.
A little fact that almost nobody has noticed: a few days ago for the first time in decades a Japanese Prime Minister ( Kishida) referred to the Kuril Islands not as “the Northern Territories” (as has been usual) but as “primordial Japanese lands”.
Poland is actually the only country in Europe in whose interest is not only that Ukraine should successfully defend itself from Russia but that it should become a flourishing and powerful modern state. If this occured Poland could get out of the "geopolitical trap" in which
Russia will be liberated from the criminal clique, of which Lavrov is a member. There will be a de-putinisation of Russian society. United Russia, the FSB & other pillars of the regime will be declared criminal organisations like the Gestapo & the SS were at Nuremberg.
When Arestovych said that if the S300 would survive against the Israeli Air Force for about a second, it wasn’t mere wishful thinking.
It looks very likely that S400 would do no better.
Arestovich says he would give the Hero of Ukraine order to the a Russian officer who ordered Russian S-300 to fire (unsuccessfully) at Israeli jets. He thinks that the next time a Russian crew decides to do the same, it will survive about a second. He would give the second
Retired colonel general Ivashov and colonel Khodorenok made basically the same points : “Russia’s forces are in a bad state, Ukraine’s greatly improved, Russia will lose.” Ivashov went even further: “Putin has grown bored with Russia and will destroy it.”
It’s very likely that
Mikhail Khodorenok, a retired colonel with the Russian general staff currently working as an analyst, writing *three weeks before the war*:
1. No one in Ukraine will happily greet Russian troops in case of the invasion. [An obvious one, but okay]
Here is a Freedom of Russia Legion poster which Arestovich says he received from Russia. It says “ This man is your friend. he fights fir freedom”.
According to Arestovich today, for the first time, a Russian soldier surrendered to Ukrainian forces with a leaflet of the Legion.
News from Defense-Industrial Complex of Ukraine YouTue channel:
“S.O.S. signal was sent at 1.05 a.m. According to Turkish data, after an hour the ship turned onto the left side and lost electric power. It sank at 3 a.m. 55 sailors were rescued by a Turkish ship.
The part about Trump’s remarkable stupidity & ignorance is true and fair.
The fact that it has not harmed him & has actually helped him is perhaps the most amazing phenomenon of our age, which will probably be discussed by historians for decades, maybe centuries.
“If Donald Trump has a superpower, it is being so brazen and insistent in his stupidity and dishonesty that his lackeys, sycophants, and credulous marks have no choice but to adopt his stupidity and dishonesty as their own.”
Xî Jinping could be badly miscalculating. China’s much larger economy and overall fire power make it seem intimidating but in a local conflict like this much of this kind of advantage is irrelevant and India has a lot more troops with actual battle experience.
Xi Jinpin keeps telling his soldiers to be more aggressive. To secure its Himalayan edge from Chinese land-grabs India is building roads. The PLA wants to stop that. Five of its soldiers just died in attacking a unit of the famous Bihar regiment, which lost a Col and 2 soldiers.
The Ukraine war is turning into a demonstration of Ukrainian military prowess and of the superiority of American military technology. The former is not at all what Western experts expected so few of them look very expert today.
The true creator of algebra, whose discoveries are often attributed to later Arab imitators. In particular, he was the first to consider 0 and negative integers as numbers on which various arithmetical operations could be performed, although could not decide about division by 0.
Brahmagupta Was 7th Century Indian Mathematician and Astronomer. He Is the Author of Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta .He Lived In Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh . His Work Was Translated In to Arabic by Astronomer Muhammad al-Fazari
#AstronomyDay
I think the people who blame (and in my book it’s “credit) Queen Elisabeth for the British Empire were not listening in their history class: it actually was the one on the left.
According to Arestovych: the “Old Europe” block (France, Germany, Italy) + Hungary (which has its own separate interest) is now trying to slow down the necessary heavy arms supplies to Ukraine deliberately to prevent any possibility of Ukraine’s victory. The reason why they are
@IsraelThreads
The first veterans of Israel’s special forces arrive in Israel. Unofficial, but serious help.
"The best of the best. They also want to take part in the battle of light against darkness. Shabbat shalom!" said Ukraine’s former Interior Minister Goncharenko.
at all. The more one read, the more one was subject to indoctrination, which is something which of course I experienced myself.
This is the reason why achieving “literacy” is always the first aim of communist regimes. Elementary.
Russia has now left the Council of Europe. It is now in the process of “disassociating” itself from previously accepted humanitarian principles (as based on “Western values”). It has even admitted to using banned thermobaric bombs. At the same time it’s crazy sounding claims
Absolutely shattering interview by Ukrainian journalist Gordon with Ukrainian colonel Svitan, who was betrayed and captured by Russians & their Ukrainian collaborators.
Svitan describes the tortures- having his toes shredded to pieces, same with legs, the Russian doctor Mengele,
Feygin and Arestovich today.
A: And today’s statement of Danilov, Secretary of our National Defense Council?
F: Please say something about the statement.
A: The statement was very simple. There will be no peace agreement. Only a capitulation of the Russian Federation.
Russia���s genocidal war against Ukraine is morally on the same level as WWII and should be treated in the same way when it is over. Everybody’s public or private stand should be remembered.
It’s not do simple. The German army was much weaker in 1938 than in 1939, Czechoslovak fortifications in the Sudetenland were world class. Czechoslovak army was small but it was one of the most modern in the world.
And then there was the coup d’etat prepared by Hans Oster and
It's really shameful what Snyder has become. Falsifying history for political purposes is not a good look.
He did it with Trump, now he's doing it with Ukraine. Poland fought back & there was still a war. The same would've happened to the Czechs.
700 km from Ukraine. Pretty impressive fire. You can hear Pskov residents saying that they are scared. Now they know just a little of what Ukrainians have been through, but they will know more.
Now it’s the time to end all relations between Western and Russian universities. Many of the best Russian scientists have positions both in Russia and in the West (mostly U.S.) Now they should have to chose.
In experimental science there won’t be any new research in Russia for
The rector of Russia's largest university in the north: "today, the conduct of a special operation to liberate the Ukrainian land from nationalistic disgusting dirt is the fulfilment of a historical duty in the memory of victory generation.”
Unbelievable
A Russian submarine commander was assassinated on his run yesterday
He was posting his workouts on Strava!
One of the people who liked the posts, was the Chief of Intelligence of Ukraine
A fascinating but also typical moment in an interview within the great Freeman Dyson: the interviewer accidentally asks a question she is quite unprepared for - the answer surprises her so much that there is a long pause while she is trying to think what to ask next…
According to Ukraine’s military, there are already in Ukraine 20,000 foreign volunteers with military experience, some expert in using weapons more advanced than what Ukraine currently possesses.
China, of course, doesn’t object to invading one’s neighbours or genocide etc, which are things it is very familiar with. But it doesn’t like being associated with losers.
succeed in achieving this kind of feat by their own efforts, but Poland could be one of those rare exceptions.
This will be the subject of my forthcoming article on Polish-Ukraine's common history and possibly future.
South Korea supplied Ukraine with more artillery shells than all of NATO produces in one year. It’s still less than what North Korea supplied to Putin (1000000) but South Korean ammunition is reliable while much of North Korean consists of duds.
The Republic of Korea (South Korea) provided indirectly 330,000 artillery shells (155mm) to Ukraine, making it a larger supplier for this kind ammunition than all European nations combined.
Source:
#Ukraine
#Southkorea
“The attacker, wearing a hoax suicide belt, had been a guest at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation...”
Inspiring conferences they have at
@Cambridge_Uni
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Zelensky: If you have Russian citizenship and you are silent, it means that you are not fighting, it means that you are supporting it.
And no matter where you are - both on the territory of Russia and abroad - your voice should sound in support of Ukraine.
One of the most remarkable developments in connection with the war in Ukraine was the turnaround in Italy’s position after Meloni’s election - which was exactly the opposite that many predicted (don’t forget that Forza Italia, the party of Putin’s friend Berlusconi, is a part
The Biden administration committed a huge number of errors, some of which actually enabled Putin’s aggression and some have made it harder to resist it. (I am planning to write about it in the future). Among the worst ones were: it’s insane green agenda and energy policy,
This was perhaps the best Arestovych livestream ever - at least for Poles (but not only). He said much more than in this brief summary. In response to Latynina's question he talked a lot about the amazing, unparalleled treatment that Ukrainian refugees received in Poland,
Arestovych: Ukraine has survived thanks to Poland. Poland provided the first arms, Poland was the guide to all international organizations
Poland & Ukraine in symbiosis form a new pan-European force. And Poland has done this, having forgotten old grudges.
This was basically the essence of the famous Gedroic-Mieroszewski doctrine, which advocated giving up all of Poland's historical claims in the East to achieve this remarkable geopolitical transformation. It is very hard to find examples in history of states which actually
So here is a quick translation of what Arestovych said:
"Look, we created a system in our state in which because of interests of a few players, the strategic foundations of the existence of our state are beginning to be undermined.
Napoleon said that had it not been for the Revolution, he would have become a scientist. He also stated that would have like to solve the problem that troubled Newton - or as he put it “Newton explained how the planets attract one another but not why they do so”. Laplace, who had
Just a reminder for those who forgot.
This plaque in Berlin commemorates Max Zucker, a German-Jewish businessman to fled to the USSR from the Nazis in 1933.
Handed over to the Gestapo by the NKVD in 1939, he died in the Warsaw Ghetto.
One of many.
Press Secretary of the President: Natalia Eismont: “It’s funny even to hear some dreamers call Svetlana Tikhanovskaya “President”. It impossible even for technical reasons. In the Presidential Administration there is no female toilet. It simply has not even been considered.”
No, Israel had not just eliminated the head of a terrorist organisation. Israel has eliminated its entire leadership and much of the middle ranks too.
In a shockingly short time. It’s an entirely new thing - probably never done before.
And it’s a correction to the lessons
The commander of the Krasnodar submarine, Stanislav Rzhytsky, was shot dead in Russia. His boat was launching Kalibr cruise missiles at Ukraine, in particular at Vinnytsia.
OTD in 1943 in Saratov prison died one of the world’s greatest scientists: the Russian genetist, biologist Nicolai Vavilov. For opposing Lysenko’s anti-genetic theories he was arrested in 1940 & sentenced to death in July 1941. The sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison
doing it is to prevent the emergence of a block of East and Cenral European states (Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, the Baltics, Rumania) backed by the UK, that would counterbalance France and Germany and effectively end their dominance of Europe. To achieve this purpose
Ukrainian Army reports that it’s special forces have eliminated a radio and electronic warfare unit of the Russian Federation. It turned out that the unit was protected by elite spetsnaz of the General Staff of RF. After a short bit bloody firefight the Russians were eliminated.
a great need and these are very accurate weapons, very powerful ones, and make it possible to win the counter-artillery fight in certain directions. And in a close fight, Russian troops are no match for Ukrainians ones: we win practically every encounter.
I have to say, I rather like Javier Milei, the newly elected president of Argentina and I am actually grow fonder of him every day I see the usual suspects refer to him as “far right”.
He is completely unlike (and vastly superior) to Bolsonaro or Trump in every respect -
Arestovich is not dissatisfied with the American decision about the MLRS:
“There is an illusion about these rockets, which have a range of 300 km and are very accurate: Biden honestly said: we won’t give you this. And this was spread in the media, including Russia ones:
Today, when a brave Pole with a narwhal tusk is much in the news, happens also to be the anniversary of the most famous and daring cavalry charge in Polish history: at the battle of Somosierra in Spain in 1808.
#OTD
in 1808 in probably the most famous cavalry charge in history Polish chevau-légers of the Guard capture Spanish batteries at Somosierra. There are many conflicting accounts of what actually happened.
Budanov an interview with the Bulgarian TV channel explains why he talks publicly about his agents in Putin's circle.
"First, they realize that we still have our sources. Information has always been a weapon - let them try to check it, let them search for the agents.
There appears to be a noticeable change in Trump’s public stand on Ukraine (which seems not to have yet been noticed by his “base” or even his son). I attribute it to election strategy.
Clearly, pro-Ukraine Republicans have been working hard to persuade Trump that taking a more
Donald Trump on Ukraine:
“Ukrainian survival and strength (…) is also important to us!”
Looks like a major military aid package for Ukraine is about to be passed
🇺🇸 🇺🇦
Arestovich says he would give the Hero of Ukraine order to the a Russian officer who ordered Russian S-300 to fire (unsuccessfully) at Israeli jets. He thinks that the next time a Russian crew decides to do the same, it will survive about a second. He would give the second
We are the two constrains, the guards of Europe. So when we play against the Poles we play against the interests of the United States. And one cannot imagine a greater idiocy.
@arestovych
principal powers in the EU (i.e. Germany and France) and much of the EU bureaucracy are very unhappy about this quarrel between Ukraine and Poland.
On the contrary, it may actually serve their interests and they may be keen to add more fuel to the fire.
One of the tragic aspects of the fact a sector of the American right has chosen to side with Russia against Ukraine is that some members of this sector consider themselves Christians, and some even Catholics. But they choose to side with a grotesque parody of Christianity that
Some people are discussing “speed of reading”, numbers like “100 pages per day” are mentioned. It’s so completely alien to me.
I read every day 3 or 4 books, but only a few pages of each.