We start with Russia. No, not Putin’s “cardiac arrest.” A Russian tweeter highlighted a matter you may have heard about recently—the downing by the Russians of multiple instances of what remains of the Ukrainian air force. For reasons given below, this is said to concern the US, as it masses air power in the eastern Mediterranean:
Interesting that the missiles home in with out any emissions detectable by the target. Given that stealth technology makes shooting down our aircraft more difficult with radar guided missiles it seems that the Russkies would look for a work around. Stealthy to radar is not perfectly invisible. They can be seen in the visible spectrum and they have to emit some heat. Plus they are loud. Some months ago there was a reference to a new counter-battery system that used visible light (muzzle flash), sound (gun goes boom), and seismic sensors to help detect, in a completely passive manner, the location of enemy artillery units. The Russian artillery could then return fire and if the flash/bang/shake of their rounds matches that of the enemy then boom! Got them! If not adjust fire. Distance comes from light, sound, shake all arriving from a point on the map at different times. Have a few of these systems working together and one can get good location data. Maybe just one given that a straight line is what joins two points on a plane and perhaps they can ‘see’ well enough to draw that line. Light, sound, and seismic waves move at different speeds with different arrival times. Then it is just math to calculate the distance. And the Russkies are good at math. Perhaps something similar could be done for anti-air. Sound, heat/infrared/visible light are all detectable. Build many cheap drones to allow triangulation. Or perhaps satellites. They look and maybe drones listen. Missiles are fired on an appropriate trajectory and then after initial guidance lock on with passive sensors. Perhaps a camera system. Stealth fighters can be seen and heard. Per MacGregor: ISR Strike. See it, kill it. Perhaps not just on the ground. If this really happened with a bunch of Ukie aircraft getting hit without warning then the Russkies have a stealth-strike system. The only question is can it ‘see’ stealth aircraft? A bit of thought and it seems they would need a work around for stealth. Is the B-21 just another much more expensive B-52 easily shot down with new technology that will last just as long because it stays grounded and never wears out the airframe? How much of what we have now is outdated scrap that is going to get our people killed?
If the accounts of a Russian equivalent of "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" are true, then Putin is probably sending a deterrence message to NATO and Washington: our missiles can find you where ever you hide.
Just a personal note about Dugin. I lost my beloved dog yesterday and the pain is awful. Imagine how much pain Dugin feels after seeing his daughter blown up by Western thugs. No wonder he thinks the West is evil.
Good point. Losing a dog can be heartbreaking. Having a child assassinated? Being hated but not feared is not a good place to be but perhaps is where we are. My 6 year old GSD has defended me from a strange dog. She can do no wrong. My 14 year old cattle dog is a gem who loves everyone. The 2 year old golden doodle is still figuring out what to not chew. He has mostly figured out staying off furniture and my lap.
Sorry to hear that. I loved my pets and the toughest thing was knowing when to lay them to rest as we don't want to let go, but they can't communicate and we must set aside our feelings to end suffering. The West is not evil. it's just inhabited by people who do evil things and that is just a fact of life. When evil presents itself we must react not in horror, but with a common sense approach to combat it in unity. I think we are frozen by how to combat this type of evil. Clarity will arrive, but in it's own time it seems.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I know how you feel having been through that twice this year - the grief can be quite debilitating, especially when people often don't understand that our dogs are family. Dugin attributing the evil of the west to the ruling classes and not its peoples is a graceful attitude to have given what happened to his daughter. I don't know if I would find the same grace within me.
Ditto, ML. We were a cat family too, (Imagine that) and I lost the last of my cat friends several years ago and it was hard, they become family. Sometimes I see their shadows and sense their presence, but I believe it's just the loss of a friend that fools our minds. Yes, grief is the same.
Agreed. To counter this new Russian threat, Raytheon will now develop a defensive package for the F35 that will cost $900bn, will arrive 7 years too late, and won't work anyway.
Seems like the West is beholden to radical Arianism; forms, all is mind, empiricism, god particles, divine simplicity,…etc.
I always found it odd that the West wholesale imported Islamic populations, the only sense I can make of it is if a globalism is founded on Arianism. That makes it antithetical to the preexistent Logos, divine hypostasise and Christian Europe.
Btw Mark you are certainly a remarkable man, the quality, breadth, depth and volume of your work is something to behold, truly outstanding.
Agreed. Putin is showing them that he has escalation dominance. Wouldn't surprise me if we see announcement from Kirby that the US carrier fleet is operating off Norfolk, Virginia to dissuade any outside intervention in the Gaza conflict. Let's hope Raytheon et al's share value go the same way as Pfizer's.
Dugin’s lament that Europe has been eclipsed by “the West” jibes with James Kunstler’s recent rant (entertaining as ever), in which he makes the astounding (to some) claim that “Putin is not the enemy of Western Civ, he’s one of its last remaining defenders.”
“You might have noticed that the massive investment in Halloween yard shrines by families growing broke in America reflects the ghoulish convergence of malevolent events undermining and overtaking what used to be normal life in this land. Nothing is normal anymore. The groaning mummies, howling werewolves, and shrieking skeletons are trying to tell us something.” Yes, I actually saw the prim and proper front yards of Talmadge (San Diego) festooned with all kinds of goulish Halloween chicanery - a month ago!!! Yup, a sign that not all is well.
Agreed. My wife and I shake our heads over it. It seems like a new religion of some weird sort. When you imagine the time and money invested in such nonsense.
Halloween used to be fun for children as well as adults. We knew it to be just that a spoof on the age of superstition. With all the righteous indignation over costumes and the fear of tainted candy, it's become a real nightmare of who and what really lurks in the shadows.
Well, at least Putin is a walking corpse and will soon be replaced by a Young Global Leader who will usher in a bright new era of rainbows and resource stripping. :)
Interesting comment. I think the American view of Russia is stuck in cold war mentality. During the Soviet regime we heard many stories of food shortages, poor designed cars and other problems with their production capabilities for a variety of commodities. This was translated to us as Russians are stupid, rather than the real problem.......communist totalitarian societies are not successful because they manage their economies society for the elites not the proles.
“Therefore we are not fighting against the people of the West but instead for the cause of the people, for the liberation of the people from the grip of the totalitarian liberal system.” I have felt this way since the beginning of the Ukraine/Russia conflict. I was disgusted to hear Lindsey Graham say that sending money to Ukraine was the “best money we ever spent”. Russians and Ukrainians are dying and the Middle East is on the brink of WW 3. According to Graham, this is a good thing b/c the demand for weapons will increase thus allowing us to rebuild our industrial base. Anyone celebrating the atrocities of war should be on the frontlines with their sons and grandsons.
Yes, and I seem to remember Mittens Romney saying that supporting Ukraine was the “best national defense spending ever.” Two completely delusional goons of the system, locked into a purely Cold War view of the world because it so conveniently lines their pockets. Dugin’s “West” strutting and fretting…
Yep. For them and their fellow neocon warmongers it's forever the Battle of Eastings 73. The Soviet Union newly defeated and Abrams tanks cutting through Saddam's army in a desert blitzkrieg.
Seems those with the Bravado-Egos are the least likely to have experienced war. Always easier to send the minion's kids to die while chest-pounding and clinking champagne glasses in front of a cozy fireplace in D.C. Kindest Regards Athena! (WrH)
Tis a funny thing for me to look back at my military era (Vietnam). It seemed like the 1st war the active protests were so strong, but I was young and the internet was used by women to keep their hair in place (or something) so information was, hmmm, better regulated. I enlisted in 1972 as a 17 year old HS Graduate tho' did not perform duties in a war theater. That after my cousin (my mom raised him w/ us kids) lost his life 'in-country' in 1968. I thought it being patriotic, haven taken seriously that Pledge of Allegiance we recited throughout my school years. The funny (odd) part is I'd do all I could to keep my now 17 year old grandson from entering service of our country today. Rather heartbreaking, actually. Sorry for sounding so morose! In today's world (which has lots of cr@p going on) we've still got 'a lot' of freedom and technology to interact with folks across the globe in nearly a dozen time zones away... which I'll note here I appreciate being a part of with you. Hoping you're having a great fall, S'21! My best, (WrH)
MoA picks up on the mystery Russian missiles this morning:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/ukraines-sudden-high-air-losses-likely-caused-by-new-russian-missiles.html#more
Interesting that the missiles home in with out any emissions detectable by the target. Given that stealth technology makes shooting down our aircraft more difficult with radar guided missiles it seems that the Russkies would look for a work around. Stealthy to radar is not perfectly invisible. They can be seen in the visible spectrum and they have to emit some heat. Plus they are loud. Some months ago there was a reference to a new counter-battery system that used visible light (muzzle flash), sound (gun goes boom), and seismic sensors to help detect, in a completely passive manner, the location of enemy artillery units. The Russian artillery could then return fire and if the flash/bang/shake of their rounds matches that of the enemy then boom! Got them! If not adjust fire. Distance comes from light, sound, shake all arriving from a point on the map at different times. Have a few of these systems working together and one can get good location data. Maybe just one given that a straight line is what joins two points on a plane and perhaps they can ‘see’ well enough to draw that line. Light, sound, and seismic waves move at different speeds with different arrival times. Then it is just math to calculate the distance. And the Russkies are good at math. Perhaps something similar could be done for anti-air. Sound, heat/infrared/visible light are all detectable. Build many cheap drones to allow triangulation. Or perhaps satellites. They look and maybe drones listen. Missiles are fired on an appropriate trajectory and then after initial guidance lock on with passive sensors. Perhaps a camera system. Stealth fighters can be seen and heard. Per MacGregor: ISR Strike. See it, kill it. Perhaps not just on the ground. If this really happened with a bunch of Ukie aircraft getting hit without warning then the Russkies have a stealth-strike system. The only question is can it ‘see’ stealth aircraft? A bit of thought and it seems they would need a work around for stealth. Is the B-21 just another much more expensive B-52 easily shot down with new technology that will last just as long because it stays grounded and never wears out the airframe? How much of what we have now is outdated scrap that is going to get our people killed?
Purely speculative on my part.
Dugin is spot on.
If the accounts of a Russian equivalent of "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" are true, then Putin is probably sending a deterrence message to NATO and Washington: our missiles can find you where ever you hide.
Just a personal note about Dugin. I lost my beloved dog yesterday and the pain is awful. Imagine how much pain Dugin feels after seeing his daughter blown up by Western thugs. No wonder he thinks the West is evil.
Good point. Losing a dog can be heartbreaking. Having a child assassinated? Being hated but not feared is not a good place to be but perhaps is where we are. My 6 year old GSD has defended me from a strange dog. She can do no wrong. My 14 year old cattle dog is a gem who loves everyone. The 2 year old golden doodle is still figuring out what to not chew. He has mostly figured out staying off furniture and my lap.
Sorry to hear that. I loved my pets and the toughest thing was knowing when to lay them to rest as we don't want to let go, but they can't communicate and we must set aside our feelings to end suffering. The West is not evil. it's just inhabited by people who do evil things and that is just a fact of life. When evil presents itself we must react not in horror, but with a common sense approach to combat it in unity. I think we are frozen by how to combat this type of evil. Clarity will arrive, but in it's own time it seems.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I know how you feel having been through that twice this year - the grief can be quite debilitating, especially when people often don't understand that our dogs are family. Dugin attributing the evil of the west to the ruling classes and not its peoples is a graceful attitude to have given what happened to his daughter. I don't know if I would find the same grace within me.
Very sorry for your loss. We’re a cat family here, but the grief is still the same!
Ditto, ML. We were a cat family too, (Imagine that) and I lost the last of my cat friends several years ago and it was hard, they become family. Sometimes I see their shadows and sense their presence, but I believe it's just the loss of a friend that fools our minds. Yes, grief is the same.
I understand Kat.
Tx, Amanda and ML.
Russia gets the military hardware that keeps Russia safe. The Us gets the military hardware that keeps the military industrial complex rich.
Agreed. To counter this new Russian threat, Raytheon will now develop a defensive package for the F35 that will cost $900bn, will arrive 7 years too late, and won't work anyway.
Seems like the West is beholden to radical Arianism; forms, all is mind, empiricism, god particles, divine simplicity,…etc.
I always found it odd that the West wholesale imported Islamic populations, the only sense I can make of it is if a globalism is founded on Arianism. That makes it antithetical to the preexistent Logos, divine hypostasise and Christian Europe.
Btw Mark you are certainly a remarkable man, the quality, breadth, depth and volume of your work is something to behold, truly outstanding.
What a nice way for Putin to send a message/ signal to the West! Applying more pressure. Timing is deliberate.
Another example of my fear of Russia innovating while the West does not.
Macgregor in his latest Tucker interview commented Russia is at its strongest since the 80’s.
Agreed. Putin is showing them that he has escalation dominance. Wouldn't surprise me if we see announcement from Kirby that the US carrier fleet is operating off Norfolk, Virginia to dissuade any outside intervention in the Gaza conflict. Let's hope Raytheon et al's share value go the same way as Pfizer's.
Dugin’s lament that Europe has been eclipsed by “the West” jibes with James Kunstler’s recent rant (entertaining as ever), in which he makes the astounding (to some) claim that “Putin is not the enemy of Western Civ, he’s one of its last remaining defenders.”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/halloween-parable/
“You might have noticed that the massive investment in Halloween yard shrines by families growing broke in America reflects the ghoulish convergence of malevolent events undermining and overtaking what used to be normal life in this land. Nothing is normal anymore. The groaning mummies, howling werewolves, and shrieking skeletons are trying to tell us something.” Yes, I actually saw the prim and proper front yards of Talmadge (San Diego) festooned with all kinds of goulish Halloween chicanery - a month ago!!! Yup, a sign that not all is well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/south-orange-maplewood-school-district-no-halloween-costumes/
As KTKat says below, Halloween used to be just fun. Now it’s suddenly racist? Now that is scary!
Agreed. My wife and I shake our heads over it. It seems like a new religion of some weird sort. When you imagine the time and money invested in such nonsense.
Halloween used to be fun for children as well as adults. We knew it to be just that a spoof on the age of superstition. With all the righteous indignation over costumes and the fear of tainted candy, it's become a real nightmare of who and what really lurks in the shadows.
Agreed, Brother Ass. That's the great irony about the last 30 years: we've changed places, ideologically.
James has a way with words.
“The Pentagon has become sharply concerned about the SUDDENLY increased effectiveness of the Russian Aerospace Forces . . . . acquired NEW missiles”
Fools. Maybe they really have believed their own bullshit about Russian weakness, ineptitude, yadda yadda.
Don't worry though; we're a diverse and inclusive military.
Well, at least Putin is a walking corpse and will soon be replaced by a Young Global Leader who will usher in a bright new era of rainbows and resource stripping. :)
Two alternates:
1. Russia created a longer range missile of this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-77
2. Russia is using drones to launch from, to shorten the distance.
"Just Russian ingenuity."
Interesting comment. I think the American view of Russia is stuck in cold war mentality. During the Soviet regime we heard many stories of food shortages, poor designed cars and other problems with their production capabilities for a variety of commodities. This was translated to us as Russians are stupid, rather than the real problem.......communist totalitarian societies are not successful because they manage their economies society for the elites not the proles.
:o)
Sounds like it.
“Therefore we are not fighting against the people of the West but instead for the cause of the people, for the liberation of the people from the grip of the totalitarian liberal system.” I have felt this way since the beginning of the Ukraine/Russia conflict. I was disgusted to hear Lindsey Graham say that sending money to Ukraine was the “best money we ever spent”. Russians and Ukrainians are dying and the Middle East is on the brink of WW 3. According to Graham, this is a good thing b/c the demand for weapons will increase thus allowing us to rebuild our industrial base. Anyone celebrating the atrocities of war should be on the frontlines with their sons and grandsons.
Yes, and I seem to remember Mittens Romney saying that supporting Ukraine was the “best national defense spending ever.” Two completely delusional goons of the system, locked into a purely Cold War view of the world because it so conveniently lines their pockets. Dugin’s “West” strutting and fretting…
Yep. For them and their fellow neocon warmongers it's forever the Battle of Eastings 73. The Soviet Union newly defeated and Abrams tanks cutting through Saddam's army in a desert blitzkrieg.
Time warp well described, and so dangerous.
Seems those with the Bravado-Egos are the least likely to have experienced war. Always easier to send the minion's kids to die while chest-pounding and clinking champagne glasses in front of a cozy fireplace in D.C. Kindest Regards Athena! (WrH)
True, Wayne. However, it takes two to be oppressed. Maybe the minions shouldn't let their kids be sent off to fight.
Tis a funny thing for me to look back at my military era (Vietnam). It seemed like the 1st war the active protests were so strong, but I was young and the internet was used by women to keep their hair in place (or something) so information was, hmmm, better regulated. I enlisted in 1972 as a 17 year old HS Graduate tho' did not perform duties in a war theater. That after my cousin (my mom raised him w/ us kids) lost his life 'in-country' in 1968. I thought it being patriotic, haven taken seriously that Pledge of Allegiance we recited throughout my school years. The funny (odd) part is I'd do all I could to keep my now 17 year old grandson from entering service of our country today. Rather heartbreaking, actually. Sorry for sounding so morose! In today's world (which has lots of cr@p going on) we've still got 'a lot' of freedom and technology to interact with folks across the globe in nearly a dozen time zones away... which I'll note here I appreciate being a part of with you. Hoping you're having a great fall, S'21! My best, (WrH)
"...radical secularization of Europe—played out over several centures ..."
Not a bible-thumper, but rather a student of history: The pendulum has a habit of swinging back.
Especially when hard times hit. And they will.
The news seems to go from bad to worse.
It has to get worse before it can get better.
I vote for CHANGE! Wait, Obama already did that. Never mind... :^)
I think Obama spelt it wrong. He meant CHAINS.