I worry about tempo and reach of rising violence too. Seems more. Even the bomber and signals interceptions Amarynth mentioned — Norwegians near Kola sub base (?) Russians had their own responses. This stood out:

Russian bombers were intercepted by the British just north of Shetland Islands. These appear to have ceased being patrols but bombing practice runs on both sides?? And how many cargo holds were empty?? When does brinkmanship cease being a science, and becomes a water slide? Remember Medvedev’s fatalism. What did their algorithms spit out as the cut off point, when fail safe is lost?

Drones! I shouldn’t have joked about eating Geraniums for Breakfast and Lancets for Lunch. They are revolutionizing war!
And guess what’s on prominent display at the biggest armaments shopping party on earth atm? Lancets.. and Frenchie thought he could escape to Africa and be rid of infernal Russkie war-hammers! Thanks, you helped inspire their development in real time!
And note Shoigu trolling all those saying they had Iranian drones in the SMO, lol 😂🤣 first DPRK, now Iran. And VVP took a report from the manager of the state uranium holdings, lol. Oh this is too much. Spleens are rupturing!

I am not familiar with the politics of South Africa, but could Malema be an attack dog of the Anglo-Americans? The ANC, courts, and elites have been captured since the 1990s hyperpower moment..

The British hate the Boers. What they did to them before ww1 was beastly. iirc Hitler’s Third Reich learned the very concept of concentration camps from the criminal and genocidal British treatment of the Boers..

Our world is at essence tribal, in spite of pretensions of higher education and progress. Even with the atomization of modern cities.. And as Anglos currently delight in the wholesale bloodletting between deranged Ukie slavs and Russian slavs, why wouldn’t they use the conflict between blacks and Boers to detonate a key target, once Africa’s top economy and potential beacon for coexistence?? And now even more critical as a BRICS member..

Re: “…motor is motoring on just fine – but the plastic bits crack and the thing breaks and sometimes the new plastic bits cannot be bought any longer.”

There are folks in every society, usually poorer sections of town, who can fix anything! True human ingenuity. They will really come in hand as global supply chains wither..

we recently had one such man (an electrician and carpenter on the side) fix a cracked edge of water tank of a baby food pureeing machine. He applied an epoxy which sealed it like new! And parts not available on our continent! So never give up hope..

Ah Springtime of Hitler reminds

(1) To Be Or Not To Be (1983) Hitler-Song

(2) Hitler on Ice (unfortunately uncompleted)

https://youtu.be/ybuKQf9p5jg

Yes these are simple fanboy videos, but interesting views of Burkina soldiers surveying goodies in Russian armories and their leader Traoré at the July 30 Navy Day…

Spitting in food, hahaha. Reminds me of saucy Hong Kong Chinese “serving” vile customers before 1999. This was usually uppity compradore elites or corrupt coppers, British or Eurasian (native chinese knew better to carefully eyeball soups and whatnot for floating signs…). The petty delights of cooks and waitresses the world over, lol. Best to be most courteous and not piss off ornery staff or avoid certain establishments altogether  😅🤣

Ok pl forgive , I’ve been consumed and mesmerized by happenings in Niger. Am catching up to many other areas.

“I’m more attached to the past now…”
Me too, eventhough so hopeful for the future. A great evil weight is falling off the world’s shoulders..  a quickening of History. But the key window to the future remains the past. Little is new under the sun, the major patterns and plotlines anyway.

“btw in some machines the belts are special non-sparking…something as trivial as saving a dollar by buying the cheaper sorts is like tossing a match…”

And who designed the machine they bought? This reminds me of smart sabotage opportunities, of a despised people. Like the General Electric design of Fukushima you mentioned. They really hated the Japanese then, soon after WW2. Placing the [emergency pumps?] under the expected tsunami flood level, etc. One can build in a catastrophic design failure feature some decades into the future, when it can be attributed to local incompetence and mismanagement and lack of proper maintenance!

The Turks are not brightest. For centuries they cottoned onto the Anglo-Saxons who hated them even more than the Japanese and named a footstool after their last dynasty. And Churchill I think it was that mocked them for being the Sick Man of Europe? Who’s sick in the ICU, and with no prospects of leaving vertical now, per the Eritean President?!

Mr P,  your “feel” for machines is beyond exceptional! It is a calling, almost metaphysical. You move in sync and have deep respect and appropriate fear of them, knowing the myriad complexity and endless fatal possibilities of hovering FUBAR. This comes to few, even in better days.

Yemenis told me of a talent called a “baseera” where a person could look at another’s face and tell their character and recent deeds, especially evil ones. A divine gift I suppose to protect certain good socially responsible sheep.. it is more common to receive these warnings in dreams and less dramatic ways too. But the point is that there are stages beyond mere knowledge — to the diligent scholar or adept or ascetic is given exceptional tools! It’s a pleasure to listen to your ruminations on machinery, eventhough I tend to avoid most! And taking the perspective that the human body is a machine (a pov I dislike) it reinforces why I instinctively disliked being a plumber and chose the track leading to solving problems with the mind.

A comment on Niger :
“…Like Maidan, the snipers are on their way. A few shots and the balance of power turns back to the US/France.
Wagner has to put up a hell of a shield to save the rebels…”

No dear Larch. I don’t think this old Gene Sharp playbook will work. This would not be a counter coup against a thin illegitimate cadre or weak-willed weekend politicians. These are truly desperate folks with nothing to lose. Death as slaves on their knees or potential life on their feet… and death comes to all. Life has different value in traditional societies; why in great part Russians are willing to suffer wholesale death in defense of their society for countless millennia too. Parts of West Africa have chosen the Russian route. Ibrahim Traoré was the face of the Afro-Russian Summit, and not by happenstance. A pebble cast into a lake, cascading far out in every direction..

And they’ve had both a close view of their tactics in Africa itself, elsewhere and ongoing sound Russian advice, well practiced at this point, especially in the SMO where their generals and other leaders were hunted.

Snipers will not enjoy impunity there. They will be hunted too. They do not blend in there for one! 😁😘 Given the arrogance, ineptitude and racism of Empire, they will seek to hire from their own “best available” no? Even if they are smart enough to hire a black man, he will still stand out  — a well fed, strange-shaped, westerner with the wrong accent if he even speaks French or local languages. As in the Ukraine, these jobs will come to be understood by mercs as a one-way ticket.. Hence the desperate threats by Vicious Vicky… the lunatics are just down to threats — verbal, physical, optical, and sanctions..

Last, even if the top leaders are killed, others will step into place. As Traoré said, “Homeland, or Death.” Russians aren’t the only ones prepared for the supreme sacrifice to advance your people. And reinforcements are coming from all over! Not just the anti-French Sultan, but what goodies from DPRK, Iran, and other well-wishers??

So Wagner’s job isn’t Mission Impossible. It is to keep the seat of power filled with the warm butt of the right group’s man, whoever it may be atm. And help hunt and teach Doctrine and arms against irregulars, mercs, legionnaires, and who ever crosses the Niger border without permission.

And the Junta’s job is to develop the flexibility of a Hydra head, the movement of water through obstacles, and the patience of a monk to deal with the geopolitical storm that arrived in their neighborhood.

Emerson — you will love this. It puts in perspective why the future is Russia’s. And why the Global South chose Russia over a paradigm hellbent on death, destruction and nihilism.

Amarynth, a gift, following your recent article:

https://youtu.be/drP_HZn2IQg

Russians don’t buy accident either.

And note whose grain was filling those silos…

It could be a coincidence, but the explosion of those grain silos after the last weeks of (1) panicked Turk requests to continue the Ukie Grain Deal, (2) Borrell’s laser focus lately to focus on the same, (3) several Turk grain ships enroute under the Kerch bridge found with explosives residue. What gives!

Mercouris thinks Europeans are panicked since reliant on this Ukie grain. Nonsense. Even now, with Ukie ports outta comission, they are having Ukies truck corn feedstock through Poland for their livestock, not wheat for humans. The eugenicist scum could care less about humans, including European.

But the Turks and those explosive residues… what was going on in Nazi Ukraine?? If it is criminal, such as human organs or trafficking humans or weapons or killing or sabotage, the nazis preferred it. And the Turks were responsible for policing Ukies! Like the fox supervising the wolf! So something significant was interrupted, and likely war related, given the urgency voiced by Borrell and Erdogan.

Perhaps the residue accidentally went off.. perhaps Russkies, tormented by the hyenas’ seadrones and their payloads in the Black Sea lately, helped combustion along?? 😅 Why couldn’t some of the motherships of these drones be the Turk grain ships rather than the Danube? NATO has access to Turkey, and arranged it even without Turk permission.

As Medvedev said, the nazis only understand force and pain.

Perhaps it was Empire — to interrupt the INSTC. Was Turkey connected to it?? Why not? Note their ideal location and food processing niche. Note the Turk grain ships caught with residue were caught headed towards the Sea of Azov!!

The great part of Ukie grain given to Turkey had been milled and sent back to Europe. I bet the Turks were turned by the Russkies and it was being sent to new customers in Africa, of interest to both Turks and Russians who favor these new relations. Most of Russia’s grain is in the south, near Turkey. Turkey could have remained the middleman and helped with refining for the recipient poor customers. And Russia’s record harvest this year would benefit from Turk milling help.

But the Usual Suspects can’t have Africa being fed…

If the latter theory is correct, we yet return to the new problem with attacking oil tankers. The qualitative escalation attacking the fuel and now the food of others continues! We await the heavenly thunderbolts and the hellish chasms which open underfoot!