Well, that sure was a strange weekend, eh? One minute, it looks like the Russian government might actually be in some danger of a serious existential crisis – and the next, it turns out that Putin always had the situation well in hand, and Prigozhin is on his way to exile in Belarus after a completely failed mutiny. It was one of those occasions when about a month’s worth of news took place in the space of 12 hours.
It was so weird, in fact, that people still have no idea what the hell we’re supposed to make of it all. Seeing as the mission of the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer is to educate, amuse, and distract, we might as well get the edjoomuhcayshun part out of the way now, and deliver the goods with an excellent explanation of the whole affair from none other than Alexander Mercouris himself, who did a superb job of breaking down everything that happened:
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain is back with plenty of great stuff to distract and entertain us this week. We start with a good one from Solid jj about the perils of time-travel:
Moon asks whether UFOs/UAPs/whatever are actually real or not:
My view is, they are not, and are much more likely a physical manifestation of certain spiritual aspects, of which we are unaware at present, but I am open to the possibility they are real.
The Babylon Bee elucidates a truly foolproof strategy to GET DRUMPF!!!:
For some absolutely bizarre reason, this video from the busiest bald YOOTOOBER has an age restriction on it, but it is basically a video about missing historical artefacts that we still have not recovered:
Zach Star Himself presents a rather curious ethical dilemma for your consideration:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice generally likes what he sees from RFK Jr.:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted take a closer look at the real story behind the collapse of 7 WTC during 9/11:
Jackson Hinkle did a great interview with RFK Jr. about his views on a range of subjects:
PJW reminds everyone of the great predictions of Gretard, the Titless Troll of Trondheim, which have, of course, utterly failed to pass:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about operational art and combat effectiveness:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran discuss the khommencement and khlear khollapse of the khatastrophic Khreat Khokholite Khumvee Khounteroffensive:
Rulings from the Bench
Judge Andrew Napolitano had an all-star panel of guests back as usual for analysis and geopolitical commentary last week. We start, as always, with Col. Douglas Macgregor (and his teeth, which I always find hilarious):
LTC Daniel Davis offers up some thoughts on Banderastan as well:
LTC Tony Shaffer pipes up about the “slowffensive”, which is actually a complete disaster for the khokhols at this point:
And Maj. Scott Ritter has quite a mouthful to say about the stupidity of all those “parquet generals” (to use Putin’s quite apropos phrase) who have never won a real war, never even fought one, and are now appearing as talking heads all over American TV uttering the most astoundingly stupid things about the Russian military:
The spook-speak starts with Larry Johnson, who discusses the art of espionage around the world:
Ray McGovern cannot stop laughing at David Petraeus, who oversaw the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then ran the CIA (straight into the ground) while boinking a horse-faced whorenalist on the side:
Dr. Phil Giraldi looks at the way the CIA spies on the Biden Crime Family:
And former British diplomat Alistair Crooke – from back in the days when the West actually did diplomacy reasonably well – talks about how Europe is fracturing and breaking away from the Anal Empire of Lies, slowly but surely:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas provides a postmortem analysis of the very weird coup/mutiny/insurrection/whatever you want to call it, that took place in Russia over the weekend:
Bad Medicine
Dr. Suneel Dhand breaks a medical taboo and discusses what you are not supposed to talk about:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey – we haven’t seen her in these parts for quite a long time – is back with a video about the folly of using shampoo:
I stopped using shampoo years ago. I only ever use conditioner. Shampoo is actually quite bad for your hair and scalp, as it happens.
Dr. Sam Vaknin – diagnosed psychopath, a guy who has a PhD in theoretical physics, and whose thesis essentially came up with a “time particle” called a chronon (seriously), along with all of the relevant mathematics surrounding it, and who has another doctorate in psychology – discusses how one’s gut biome affects one’s tendencies toward narcissism or borderline personality disorder:
He is an EXTREMELY brilliant man – though, like a lot of ultra-high IQ types, his genius stops him from accepting the idea of God, and he has some rather bonkers notions about predetermination that I fundamentally disagree with. But he is always worth listening to, either way.
Warriors of Faith
Tha Dizzle and his bro The Apostate Prophet dissect the recent statements of one Tristan Tate, brother of disgraced “Tater Tots” lover-boy charmer Andrew, and also something of a dirtbag:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and Al-Fadi from CIRA International tear apart (figuratively) the supposedly amazing proof of the “Birmingham folios”, which in fact undermine the Izzlamist narrative about the origins of their absurd faith:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined answers a very common objection about Biblical “contradictions”:
It is well worth keeping in mind that the method God chose to protect His word, essentially amounted to the very first PROOF-OF-WORK BLOCKCHAIN in human history. It is astonishing, if you think about it.
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp has some home truths for young men to help them grow up and start thinking with the BIG head:
Joker from Better Bachelor is completely unimpressed by ABInBev’s supposed attempt to reclaim its core consumer base for the frozen horse-piss that is Bud Light – they just released an incredibly insulting ad, which they think will make everything better, but it actually hasn’t:
I watched the ad. It was STUPID beyond measure – genuinely insulting to men in general, and White men in particular. Bud Light is shitty beer to begin with – it really doesn’t even deserve that label – but now the brand simply deserves to die.
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge examines the growing sense of existential dread at the House of the Devil Mouse over the colossal failures of The Flash and Elemental:
By the way, I watched The Flashpoint Paradox, the animated film, on Friday night. That went to DVD TEN YEARS AGO, and it is still far better than ANY DC movie released since then.
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock does his QAnon thing over Leslye Headland‘s time at LucasFarts:
Gary from Nerdrotic has all the NOOZ about Indy 5, which is going to SUCK:
The Drinker offers two drunken thumbs WAY up for Extraction 2, now out on Netherflix:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and is all about a star named Betelgeuse – no, not the Michael Keaton character from the classic film – and its very odd behaviour:
The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behaviour. In late 2019 and 2020 it became fainter than we had ever seen it โ at least in records going back more than a century. Briefly it became fainter (just about) than Bellatrix, the third brightest star of Orion. This event became known as the โgreat dimmingโ.
But Betelgeuse has since become bright again. For a few days this year, it was the brightest star in Orion โ brighter than we have ever seen it. Both events led to speculation about whether its demise in the form of an explosion is imminent. But is there any evidence to support this idea? And how would such an explosion affect us here on Earth?
Stars are, by and large, remarkably stable. They shine with the same brightness year after year. But there are exceptions and some stars โ dubbed variable stars โ change in brightness. Most famous is Mira, the โstar of wonderโ, which was discovered as a variable star by the German pastor David Fabricius in 1596 โ it is a pulsating star which regularly expands and contracts.
Algol is another well known example: it is periodically eclipsed by a companion star. There are around 30 such variable stars visible with the naked eye, although it requires care to notice their variation in brightness.
Betelgeuse, the seventh brightest star in the sky (discounting the Sun), is the brightest of the variable stars. Sometimes Betelgeuse becomes nearly as bright as Rigel (the blue fourth brightest star in the constellation), while at other times it is notably fainter. The variation is caused by pulsations, similar to those of Mira although not as large or as regular.
Sometimes, however, a star can briefly become extremely bright. The brightest and rarest among those are the supernovas, formed when an entire star ends its life in a powerful explosion.
Supernovas can be bright enough to be visible during the day, although that has only happened a few times in the past 1,000 years. A nearby, bright supernova is the kind of event astronomers live for โ but which few of us will ever get to see. We live in hope.
Your long read of the week is from Simplicius the Thinker, and looks at the very real strides made by the Russians in developing what they call “operational art”, which is now posing a serious real-world challenge to NATO battle doctrine:
This is the crux of it all: in order to circumvent this deadlock, the only way is by creating a highly efficient, fluid and well-trained command and control that can very competently coordinate the various units and โeffectsโ (EW, fires, psych/hybrid, etc.) in a potently synchronized fashion so as to enable advancing ground units to make punctures and breakthroughs in the enemyโs lines by way of the other coordinated systems identifying and suppressing key defensive structures, batteries, etc.
In short, it requires a full spectrum combined arms capability where airforce, divisional artillery, signals/EW troops, and lower command all operate in smooth synchronization to make the advance together. If youโll recall, this was exactly the chief point I belabored in explaining why the AFUโs first big Leopard/Bradley foray failed in the minefields, and how they werenโt able to synchronize all the required elements in order to suppress Russian defenses (artillery, ATGMs, mine re-layers, etc.), which caused a herky jerky advance that sometimes saw the AFU armor convoys having to โstop and waitโ in place for extended periods of time while their forward scouts or drone ISR teams slowly relayed coordinates to fires groups in an attempt to suppress the defenses enough that the armor group can advance without instant destruction.
The problem is Russia still has issues with integration of this sort. It may be better than Ukraineโs, and itโs improving every day, with some sectors and unit pairings / theater commands faring better than others. But there have been cases in the past, particularly during the Kharkov offensive of last year, where horror stories abounded about the lack of communication/coordination between Russian air groups and ground forces, as an example, with Su-25 pilots trying desperately to call troops on the ground with their cellphones in order to figure out who to bomb.
You might wonder how thatโs possible when the entire point of this article is to convey Russiaโs decades of military brilliance in theorizing these very solutions. The issue lies in the fact that itโs one thing to theorize all this, and a whole different thing to smoothly institute it into your command structures and, most importantly, train and inculcate it into every one of your troops and units. So, while they developed these systems on paper, the actual implementation of it remains patchyโbut itโs greatly improving all the time.
One of the other reasons for the patchiness has to do with the technical equipment itselfโor lack thereofโrather than personnel training. You see, one of the chief limitations of the Russian armed forces are the communications systems. Some of them are out of date and not up to par with modern digital link standards. Weโve all heard of the infamous cheap $20 Chinese Baofeng radio scandal. But rememberโthe operative word is some.
This causes obvious issues in coordinating large scale operations. Once again: itโs a sliding scale, not a binary. Russia has some issues in this category, but itโs still one of the most powerful armed forces in the world in this regard. Most NATO countries have even worse issues, like the recently recounted story of German tank units unable to even communicate at all, with commanders forced to open their hatches and shout directions to adjacent tanks as their comms equipment was so poor.
Itโs simply something that Russia still needs to work on, a point Putin himself acknowledged during the recent round table where he listed โcommunications systemsโ amongst drones and guided ammunitions as things found โlackingโ during the SMO.
But as I outlined in detail in the earlier mentioned ISR article, Russia is swiftly improving in this regard as well, as itโs introducing a large variety of network-centric battlefield integration systems like the Strelets-M, Andromeda-D, Planshet-M, and many others, which give commanders the ability to instantly transmit enemy target coordinates to any unit type on the battlefield, be it an artillery battery or even a fighter-bomber like an Su-34 with a corresponding system.
Linkage is good for you:
- Maj. Scot Ritter has some extremely harsh words for the NATO trainers who knowingly sent Ukrainian soldiers to their deaths in huge numbers in the ongoing offensive;
- The world’s greatest living diplomat, Sergei Lavrov, has a very ominous warning for NATO – he basically says, “if you want a fight, we’ll give you a fight, so come on, let’s go already”;
- Dmitry Trenin analyses the Neo-Tsar’s recent speech at SPIEF, and notes that it contains real clues to the way the Russian government plans to end the Banderastan War;
- The Russian Su-57 is not only the world’s most capable and battle-tested fifth-generation platform, it is also by far the cheapest to run – due to some very sensible innovations made by the Russians when building it;
- Not content with watching Leopards and Gepards and other big cats burn in Banderastan, it turns out the Krauts made their Puma IFVs too wide to load onto transport trains without first disassembling the side armour panels;
- That whole “Buried Alive” thing is a terrifying premise for a horror movie – but it turns out, a woman who actually went through it, then died for real shortly afterward;
- Tobias Langdon indulges in a bit of “Physiognomy is Reality” shenanigans, and honestly, it’s rather hard to argue with his conclusions;
- Theodore Dalrymple explains, correctly, how a five-minute conversation with your average cab driver in a reasonably large city, can tell you almost everything you need to know about that country’s political situation;
- Who says e-thots don’t have ingenuity? An OnlyFools “content creator” is looking to launch her own rival to the platform, which will pay out in cryptocurrency;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Some science types with big brains and perhaps a bit too much time on their hands, have finally undertaken to answer that age old question – which came first, the chicken, or the egg? (Spoiler – the chicken);
- It turns out that Muzzies, for all of their not-very-nice-qualities, have their heads screwed on quite right when it comes to trannies, or films starring anything whatsoever to do with tranny ideology, for that matter;
- In a story absolutely rife with irony, a Palestinian woman gives birth to quadruplets in an Israeli hospital, using sperm smuggled out of an Israeli prison;
- Advertisers are even more devious and nasty than you might have imagined – they have all sorts of ways to categorise and label you;
- Anyone with an ounce of sense understands full well just how great a scam Convid actually was – but now we have the data to prove it;
- Sometimes God just hands you one for free – the European Sex Championships (yes, really) have been cancelled, because “contestants” are really pissed about not getting their prize money and lack of payments for services;
- Microplastics are all around you, and you are actually breathing that shit in every day – ever wonder where it all ends up?;
- The HOH-LEE SAYENCE!!! isn’t actually particularly robust or rigourous at all, as we all know by now – but the Reproducibility Crisis in scientistry is now becoming a full-blown Trust Crisis;
- Here’s a tip, gentlemen – if your woman is crazy horny one moment, and then screaming at you over nothing the next, SHE MIGHT BE BATSHIT INSANE, or at the very least, have a serious case of BPD;
- MAD respect to this 11-year-old kid who wants to be a farmer, and already has his strategy figured out to do it – no insincerity there at all, we are genuinely very impressed with this;
- The Euzis seem to have no understanding of the maxim that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results each time”, as evidenced by their latest round of MUH RUSHIAN SANKSHUNS!!!;
- Do NOT invest in a smart home, or else you might find that Amazon has locked you out of Alexa and Echo because you work for a rival company;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar made an emergency address to the Russian Federation yesterday, in which he appeared resolute, determined, and EXTREMELY pissed off at the stunt Prigozhin and Wagner were trying to pull:
It is worth remembering Putin’s words from some time ago, on the subject of forgiveness – and betrayal:
HALO Nation
Let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz do his thing:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
While on the subject of Big Boyz Toyz – check out this clip of the KoenigssesssegggaaaABBAViking Regera breaking all sorts of land speed records:
Comedy hour (via The Male Brain):
You see? PowerPoint CAN be funny!
Meme Warfare
We begin with some great “medieval modern” pics from our good friend The Male Brain:
[Indeed not – and neither is OnlyFools, they just called it something different back then.]
[Steven He begs to differ]
Unrelated but also very funny:
Onward:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to Nicolaas du Preez for some truly insane feats of strength:
That, by the way, is 375Kg, or about 827lbs, for FIVE REPS, to good depth. Yeah, you could kibbitz about him wearing knee wraps or whatever, but still, that’s CRAZY.
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Shuffle Off
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
And, of course, these guys – AND I’M GOING TO SEE THEM PLAY LIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 6 YEARS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
And finally here is your Instathot to get the day off to a suitably silly start. This here is Mariya Martskaya, age 27 from Queef. That is to say, she is a khokholina from Banderastan. And she claims to be all-natural. If you honestly believe that – and believing ANYTHING a Ukrainian says is very ill-advised these days – then I have a Bermuda call option on the Brooklyn Bridge I would love to sell you for cheap. She is an OnlyFools “content creator”, and does some other stuff which I can’t be bothered to figure out.
As with any khokholina, take it from someone with years of experience dating Slavic women: they are MUCH CRAZIER than even Russian girls, but without the good taste, grace, and stature of their sisters. They age faster, and they are VASTLY more mercenary about using looks and sex to get what they want. They monkey-branch a lot more quickly, too. Date/marry them very much at your own peril.
OK, all done, boys, back to work now.
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