Russia has been holding back most of their modern tanks from the front line for a while now. Roughly since Belousov’s appointment as Defense Minister, and the adoption of motorcycle assault units.

Maybe the T-62’s are also less prone to catastrophic detonation (turret tossing), since they lack autoloader carousels? But that’s just a guess.

Terraria moment

Axios: Scoop: White House believes Europe secretly undoing Ukraine war’s end

Some people are going to eat this up, but it’s literally what the US State Department wants you (and Russia) to believe. I bet this so-called “scoop” was deliberately planted in the media by them.

Europe has zero independence. They are doing exactly what the US tells them to, which is to bump up their military spending and keep the Ukraine war going for as long as possible, while the US shifts its focus elsewhere. It’s all “division of labor” and “strategic sequencing,” as Brian Berletic has been harping about.

Style = risk, and risk is unacceptable for remakes. The goal is to be just inoffensive enough to milk fans for all they’re worth.

Framing its closure first and foremost as “taxpayers losing money” is pretty fucked up, AP

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Herr Stürmer says together with a racist dogwhistle image.

To be honest it’s difficult to measure the battlefield impact of such, they’ve only been in use for just over a month, and Ukraine has conducted several successful drone strikes in that time period

Could have been a limited test run, or from the very first upgraded systems.

The problem with converting old rockets to missiles is that you will eventually run out of them. Russia has already been heavily using rockets in their original role, launched from helicopters or CAS jets, so they may not have massive stocks sitting unused. This new missile could be intended as a long term purpose-built solution with dedicated mass production lines.

AI is a hail mary Manhattan project of the billionaire pedo r*pist class to create videos indistinguishable from reality in order to invalidate the Epstein/Mossad blackmail tapes

Upgrades of Russia’s Pantsir air defense systems are reportedly “in full swing,” according to Fighter Bomber. Each system will carry a larger number of missiles, of a new type, which is supposedly cheaper and faster to produce.

Pantsir is capable of firing while on the move, a rare ability among anti-air systems, which makes it (theoretically) very well suited to protecting advancing convoys. You may recall Russia attempting just that at the beginning of the war, to mixed results.

While Russia has been holding back its tanks from the front line, they have been busy working on integrating Arena-M active protection systems. They recently released a video proving that they are capable of intercepting Javelin top-attack missiles.

Wireless drones have also been more or less obsoleted by the improvement in electronic warfare systems. If Russia can come up with a good counter to fiber optic drones, we could very soon see the return of big arrow maneuver warfare.

With the collective West reportedly running out of spare air defense missiles to give Ukraine, and the focus shifting to Asia, the Russian Air Force may even make a big comeback.

Bloomberg: Microsoft Asked FBI for Help Tracking Palestinian Protests

FBI doing COINTELPRO again, this time directly at the behest of a singular mega corporation, against those who dare oppose genocide.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that China has to give the United States magnets or “we have to charge them 200% tariff or something” amid a trade dispute between the two nations.

www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-says-china-has-give-us-magnets-or-face-200-tariff-2025-08-25/

gib magnet or else

I finally modded my old 3DS and installed a bunch of games on my SD card. Been playing Pokemon Platinum, but I got to a point where I need to grind a little, and it’s killing my motivation to continue.

Next up is probably Shin Megami Tensei IV. Never played a game from that series, but I did greatly enjoy Persona 5, so I have high expectations.

That’s why they wanted the Metaverse to take off, and for everybody to work inside VR. If you spend most of your waking hours in VR, you’re gonna want a better GPU.

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They better not fucking take from me

I do believe that’s the US foreign policy blob’s desired outcome, but I don’t think it’s going to actually play out that way. Russian leadership can see it coming, and it’s a clear existential threat to the Russian state.

You need only look at Trump’s sudden aggressive stance toward Russia, in the past two days or so. They aren’t planning on giving him what he wants.

On the other hand, I fully agree with you about the impending rise of fascism in Europe.

It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out? Regardless, this is a war that would have NEVER happened if I were President - ZERO CHANCE. Interesting times ahead!!!

• Donald Trump, US President, via TRUTH Social.

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Not so subtle. The Brandonization continues…

They won’t invade, but they could do a full-on blockade, or another Bay of Pigs style operation with direct US military support.

The US foreign policy blob is on a world tour of eliminating their smaller enemies before taking on China.

Doesn’t China already have a pretty high debt-to-GDP ratio? And they don’t have the infinite USD printer to fall back on.

Unfortunately I don’t think China will change course on economic matters until after their geopolitical confrontation with the US comes to a head.