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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 21, 2023

French government plays down cost of strikes after huge turnout against pension reform “The interior ministry put the total number of protesters at 1.2 million – in what the government conceded was a large turnout.”

Most of this is pure speculation from Hezbolla’s English newspaper. But it is an interesting question. What prompted the urgent, secretive summit in Abu Dhabi?

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Linking just because it is so hard to find follow up stories on how things are working out over there. Sri Lanka has since shown some signs of progress with shortages reduced and day-to-day functions restored. However, daily power cuts continue due to the fuel shortage and the government is struggling to find money to pay government employees’ salaries and conduct other administrative functions. It announced this month it is cutting 6 percent from budgets for each ministry this year and plans to downsize its military, which had swelled to more than 200,000 personnel due to a long civil war. The government plans to cut the military’s size by nearly half by 2030.

The world has never been more vulnerable to a virus that focused on domesticated corn plants. Additionally, China is importing at times huge quantities of corn from the United States – the world’s biggest producer – in order to supply its massive livestock industry. In the U.S., corn is now making up 85 percent of primary cereal production, up from 62 percent in 1981. Another country with a prolific lifestock industry, Brazil, has seen an increase from 66 percent to 79 percent over the same time period.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 20, 2023

“The foreign intelligence service informed security politicians in the Bundestag in a secret meeting this week that the Ukrainian Army is currently losing a three-digit number of soldiers every day in battles with the Russian invaders” in Bakhmut, according to Der Spiegel.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 19, 2023

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 18, 2023

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It is a sign of how crazy the world is that this is happening at a time of high inflation. People are effectively paying the US government to take their money Record-Breaking 20Y Treasury Auction Sends Yields Tumbling

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 17, 2023

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The grain-size for sand in shooting ranges is specified, for example, while limits for the exposure to gunshot gas in the combat compartment of infantry fighting vehicles are bickered over so that the threat of “amniotic fluid damage to the female Puma crew” can be strictly ruled out.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 16, 2023

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Why the tank is not dead just yet

Every so often (since at least the 1970s) people start talking about how the tank is no longer useful because of how deadly shoulder fired rockets have become. The below shows how much effort it takes for a relatively well equipped group of light infantry to destroy one single Russian infantry fighting vehicle (not even a real tank).

You can see why both of the combatants still want more and more armored vehicles. Yes they can be taken out with shoulder fires missiles but it is no walk in the park. Imagine if the BMP in the above video has been supported by 3 other BMPs and an aggressive complement of infantry. It is the Russian tactic of using them in drips and drabs and not supporting them well that gets so many of them destroyed.

Below is footage of them advancing on the now dysfunctional opponent.