RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 14
HHS Purchases Drug for Use in Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies
What do you do when you discover your son has made an appointment for his death?
Massive Bean Piles Spotted Up And Down Mississippi River As Barges Can’t Meet Harvest Demand
U.S. Experts Weigh In on Colonoscopy Status in Wake of European Trial
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 11
Russian troops pour into Belarus ‘by the trainload’
Ukraine halting exports of electricity to Europe
Are we headed for a rail strike after all?
California vs Ohio Pig Farmers, the Supreme Court Will Hear the Case
OPEC+ Oil Output Hits Highest Level Since April 2020 But Remains Below Target
Why is it so hard to get mentally competent politicians to run for office? I gave up on morals a long time ago but I never dreamed that we would be robbing nursing homes of clients and putting them in office.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 10
Here is an argument that it was a truck bomb.
US Ammunition Supplies Dwindle as Ukraine War Drains Stockpiles
Mistrust Abounds Among the Liberated Residents of Ukrainian Village
A Distracted Russia Is Losing Its Grip on Its Old Soviet Sphere
Florida Surgeon General warns of 84% increase heart attack deaths 18-39 men
France’s Fuel Supply Problems Worsen As Refinery Strikes Continue
From the source I have come to trust the most….
From a pro-Russian source…..
It is too early tell what the results of this are. The power went out over large swaths of Ukraine but the real testament to how bad the damage is will come from how long the power stays out. Some bloggers are reporting that the power came back on as they were in the process of making their video.
Figuring out the long term damage is not as simple as figuring out which targets got hit. If a power plant got hit, the first thing they are going to do is shut the thing down and figure out the damage. It may turn out that that only one turbine was damaged and hole was made the wall. They clean up the mess and put the undamaged turbines back on-line and at least some capacity is back on line in short order. Or it could turn out that the critical controls for the entire plant were put out action and the plant cannot run until they are replaced and parts to enable the plant have a six month lead time. In extreme cases, the entire plant may be flattened and the entire plant will have to be rebuilt for scratch. But so far, Russia does not seem to be having that kind of success.
From the early reports, it does not seem like the strikes were all that successful given the amount that Russia invested into the attacks. Part of that is due to the fact that Russia seems to have prioritized hitting a lot of different targets over thoroughness on a few critical targets. Part of that is they seemed to have had a lot of malfunctions (maybe some of that is due to Ukrainian air defenses but I am skeptical).
But the biggest problem the Russians have is that they just don’t have the capacity to do this right. When NATO wanted to force Serbia to bend the knee, they spent 78 days and launched 10,484 strike sorties. And this was on a much smaller country then Ukraine. By comparison, 130+ some missiles and drones (accounts vary) is weak sauce.
While on the subject of NATO, I should note that while Russia is a hypocrite for calling the attacks on the bridge a terrorist attack when it would fit most nations (including their own) definition of a valid military target, NATO did strike power plants in Serbia when they were trying to force them to withdraw from Kosovo. So keep that in mind when you hear people talking about how terrible Russia is for attacking civilian power plants (NATO called them dual use targets). That said, Russians thought that the attacks on Serbia’s power plants was horrible crime….
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 9
If your read the article, you find that it is killing skunks and such as well. I bring this up because my crew at work found a skunk whose cause of death we could not identify just laying peacefully in a courtyard. This year’s avian flu epidemic — the first in North America since 2015 — is caused by a version of this virus unlike any that virologists and wildlife managers have ever seen. “It’s behaving by a different set of rules,” said Bryan Richards, emerging disease coordinator at the National Wildlife Health Center. For the first time, it’s spreading widely among wild birds, which has far-reaching implications for wildlife and human health.
Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths, according to new lawsuit
U.S. barge backlog swells on parched Mississippi River
European Energy Market Spooked By $1.5 Trillion Liquidity Crisis
The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures. More commentary here.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 8
Kerch bridge attack – initial analysis. See this for more details and note the comment section.
A Pro-Russian View. Ukraine SitRep – Recent Incidents Of Concern For All Sides
The $2500 fine (read it and weep). Of course, after all the criticism they reversed course but it still lets you know where their heart is at.
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, The World’s Largest Volcano, Is Starting To Rumble
Did California Just Ban Medical Misinformation? What We Know
New York’s emergency: getting what they asked for
Haiti requests foreign security assistance amid growing unrest
Sabotage cause of massive train disruption in northern Germany, rail operator says