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(Outdated US & NATO strategy) - Ukraine Proves, Once Again, That Our Idea of War Is All Wrong - Lt. Gen. (Ret.) James M. Dubik - 1 year ago
'This reality has been opaque to most American military and civilian strategists. For over three decades, the common view of war, for them, has been that war is a rapid, decisive operation, as exemplified in the Panama Invasion (December 1989-January 1990) and the First Gulf War (August 1990-February 1991). Both operations were done quickly and decisively and with minimum casualties. These oby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation)(Jumbo rate hikes needed, between 1 and 2 percentage point range) - '..new labor deal with big raises.' - 1 year ago
'UPS workers ratified a massive five-year labor deal that includes big wage increases and other improvements to work rules and schedules, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Tuesday.' - UPS workers approve massive new labor deal with big raises, August 22, 2023 Context UK’s Fast-Growing Wages Put Another Jumbo Rate Hike on the Cards, August 15, 2023 NY Fed fiby archive - Archive
Why China is Shtupped: A Synthesis - By Streetwise Professor - 1 year ago
Something of a kerfuffle has broken out over the issue of China’s economic angst. On one side is Adam Posen, who in a Foreign Affairs article attributes China’s current predicament to the reluctance of private firms to invest, which he in turn attributes to their fears that an authoritarian regime like Xi’s will not respect their property rights and may expropriate them. On the other side, Adam Tby archive - Archive
(An economic Ponzi scheme) – China's .. ‘Balance-Sheet Recession’ - 1 year ago
'(Bloomberg) -- China’s state-owned property developers are warning of widespread losses, fueling concerns that the housing crisis is expanding from the private sector to companies with government backing.' - China’s State Developers Warn of Losses as Crisis Spreads, August 18, 2023 '(Bloomberg) -- Only a week ago, Zhongzhi Enterprise Group Co. attracted little notice withiby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation) - 'Record wage growth and sticky inflation..' - 'UAW demands 46% pay hike .. to offset severe impact of inflation..' - 1 year ago
'But despite the fall in CPI, the figure is still historically high and needs to be seen in the context of stubborn core inflation, record wage inflation..' - Record wage growth and sticky inflation could push Bank of England base rate beyond 5.5 per cent, August 16, 2023 '..to offset severe impact of inflation..' 'The United Auto Workers is seeking a 46% wageby archive - Archive
(Transmedium) - NASA’s approach to UFOs appears remarkably unscientific - 1 year ago
'It gets worse. Kirkpatrick volunteered that many of the reports involving “metallic orbs” are based “very much” on “multi-sensor observations.” Multi-source, corroborative data, as described by Kirkpatrick, are among the most valuable to scientists. Yet not one member of the NASA panel followed up on Kirkpatrick’s second intriguing revelation of the morning. Indeed, the chair of the NASAby archive - Archive
'Now U Do' - 1 year ago
'I can tell you anything I like..' - 'Now U Do', August 3, 2023 Context (Project C - Phase II 2022 - 2032) - Eye Opener, To Heal in The Electric Universe '..LPPFusion's Focus Fusion will not be having issues competing for rare critical minerals..' Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Rossby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation) - ..A sticky inflation situation - 1 year ago
'The Atlanta Fed compiles an index of core sticky consumer prices - goods or services for which the cost changes far more slowly. In June, the index showed a rise of 5.6%. This was up from last June's 5.4% rate..' - ..A sticky inflation situation, August 10, 2023 Context (Banking Reform - English/Dutch) '..a truly stable financial and monetary system for the twenty-fby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - ' Ukraine needs ATACMS and Germany's Taurus cruise missile..' - 1 year ago
'..we refuse to declare that we want Ukraine to win and we stop short of providing what’s really needed…long-range precision weapons to make Crimea untenable for Russian forces and air power to support ground operations.' - Ben Hodges (Source, August 10, 2023) 'Helping Ukraine 'as long as it takes' is the right approach. But helping Ukraine 'as quick as it taby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - The Army Tactical Missile (ATACMS) - 1 year ago
'..The Biden Administration has some internal tensions over this issue, even after the U.K. and France provided the cruise missiles. The Department of Defense (DoD) is the main source of resistance to this supply, and its senior analysts, in their best tradition, have convinced the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) to oppose the supply. Even when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the Natiby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - '..making the judgments that could help Ukraine defeat Russia, regain its territory, and win this war.' - 1 year ago
'The Ukrainians are now fighting a slow, patient war in which they are dismantling Russian artillery, ammunition depots, and command posts without weapons such as American ATACMS and German Taurus missiles that would make this sensible approach faster and more effective. They know far more about fighting Russians than anyone in any Western military knows, and they are experiencing a combat eby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - '..some countries in the West .. failing to grasp the nature of Putin’s threat to Europe..' - 1 year ago
'The colonel accused politicians of counting coins over lives and considering only the value of weapons provided rather than weighing it against the cost of storing, maintaining or destroying weapons approaching obsoletion. “We received Nasams rockets produced in 1994. In 2024, they will reach their service life limit. The disposal of an Amraam AIM-120B missile is $26,000 to $28,000. It’sby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - '..Moscow can’t be trusted..' - 1 year ago
'“Powerful lessons from Ukraine’s own past, as well as its neighbors’ history and present, have taught Ukrainians that Moscow can’t be trusted,” Andreas Umland, an analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, wrote in Politico.' 'In remarks since the invasion, has said more of the same, giving no indication thatby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - Russians See Ukrainian Progress Where Others Don’t - 1 year ago
'The Biden administration has said it wants to deliver more weapons to Ukraine as quickly as possible..' - U.S. expects to begin delivering Abrams tanks to Ukraine in September, July 27, 2023 'The Hollywood-tailored excitement of the Battles of Kyiv and Kharkiv may have unduly raised the bar for what Ukraine can accomplish in short order. Yet the Battle of Kherson, begun inby archive - Archive
The war against inflation is a long way away from being won - Euro-Area Core Inflation Quickened.. - 1 year ago
'So-called core inflation rose 0.2% in June and was tracking at a 4.8% annual rate, much higher than the Fed would like. .. Inflation has inflicted much pain Fed officials have pledged not to be complacent about inflation, repeatedly expressing concern over the impact on lower-income families and workers. .. “The reality is that current inflation rates still hold a negative imby archive - Archive
'Once again, the Federal Reserve has underestimated inflation..' (Summers) - '..we risk inflation getting entrenched.' (IMF) - 1 year ago
'Once again, the Federal Reserve has underestimated inflation for basically the eighth quarter in a row. They've been surprised on what's happened to inflation, and because they're surprised on what's happening with inflation and the strength of the economy, they're gonna be surprised by what they have to do to interest rates.' - Summers (Source, July 9, 2023by archive - Archive
'..Sweden would help reinvigorate Turkey’s application to enter the European Union..' - 1 year ago
'..help reinvigorate Turkey’s application to enter the European Union..' 'Mr. Stoltenberg said that Mr. Erdogan had lifted his objections to Sweden’s entry into the alliance and would take the country’s bid to his Parliament for ratification as soon as possible. In return, Sweden and Turkey would continue to work bilaterally against terrorism, Sweden would help reinvigorate Tby archive - Archive
Turkey’s Erdogan says Ukraine deserves NATO membership - 1 year ago
'(CNN) — Ukraine deserves to have NATO membership, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, following talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia said it was closely watching. Zelensky spent this week visiting NATO countries, courting support ahead of a NATO summit in Lithuania next week where members are expected to reaffirm that Ukraine will eventually join. “Wby archive - Archive
(Choose The Young) - 'Turkey has been waiting at the gate of the European Union for over 50 years now.' - 1 year ago
'..Many now consider themselves deists—people who believe in a divine being but don’t adhere to the tenets of Islam..' '..With half of the country’s population below the age of 32 .. religious schools are underperforming and have little appeal among Turkish youth. A recent poll found that religiosity is much lower in the younger generation, with far fewer describing themselves aby archive - Archive
(June, 2023)(UK rejoining EU Horizon) - Britons who want to rejoin EU at highest levels since 2016, survey finds - 1 year ago
'Prof Carsten Welsch, a physicist at the University of Liverpool who lost leadership of a £2.6m research project on a novel plasma generator that could be used in cancer treatment when the UK lost membership, said it would be “absolutely fantastic news” to return to Horizon Europe. “It would be a gigantic relief. It would mean that the politicians would have thankfully listened to the sciby archive - Archive
Ukraine Needs a Roadmap to NATO Membership ASAP - 1 year ago
'In Vilnius, the alliance should launch a roadmap that will lead clearly to Ukraine’s membership in NATO at the earliest achievable date. As with Finland and Sweden, the process can bypass the Membership Action Plan in light of the close and ongoing interactions between NATO and Ukraine..' Opinion | Ukraine Needs a Roadmap to NATO Membership ASAP Any further delay will only inviteby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - '..if they had ATACMS and Gray Eagle Drones..' - 1 year ago
'Imagine how much more damage to Russian logistics Ukraine could do if they had ATACMS and Gray Eagle Drones...no Russian ammunition storage site anywhere inside Ukraine would be safe. Russian bases and the Black Sea Fleet would not be safe. @SecDef Sir, what are we waiting for?' - Ben Hodges (Source, July 5, 2023) Context (Ukraine needs ATACMs) - Ukraine's Top Generaby archive - Archive
German industry urges reduced dependency after China export controls - 1 year ago
'German industry on Tuesday warned that Europe must become more self-reliant in the hunt for raw materials .. The BDI's Niedermark said that agreement to recycle and process raw materials sent an important signal but called for a similar push to establish domestic mining in Europe.' - German industry urges reduced dependency after China export controls, July 4, 2023 Conteby archive - Archive
(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - Ukraine's Top General Urges More Arms for Offensive - 1 year ago
'..Army Tactical Missile System (ATACM) .. allow Ukraine to strike at Russian targets behind the lines. These systems, in particular, can hit Russian positions in their supply lines all the way down into the Crimean Peninsula, a crucial aspect to the Ukrainian offensive.' - A muddled U.S. strategy is making it harder for Kyiv to win, June 14, 2023 'Ukraine's counteroffby archive - Archive
There’s No Such Thing as a Great Power, How a Dated Concept Distorts Geopolitics - 1 year ago
'More useful than the concept of a great power is that of a full-spectrum power, which takes into account the diverse factors that create military might, not just its outward manifestation in weapons. Few countries have ever achieved all the fundamentals on which superior military power is built and sustained; most that have been described as great powers were in fact midranking Potemkin staby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation) - 'German inflation surges more than expected to 6.8% .. food inflation .. 13.7 per cent.' - 1 year ago
'..Another critical characteristic of the earlier inflation era was frequent temporary reversals in inflation, only to be followed by new peaks..' - (Global Stagflation)(Inflation out of control) - Inflationary Psychology Has Set In. Dislodging It Won’t Be Easy. ' “The real danger comes from encouraging or inadvertently tolerating rising inflation and its close cousin of eby archive - Archive
The U.S. needs to launch a diplomatic surge on Ukraine - Michael McFaul - 1 year ago
'..The time to gear up for this enormous mission is not after the war ends, but now..' 'The United States needs to take a more active part in this diplomatic game. An American special envoy should not only shadow Li’s steps in Europe to press U.S. positions, but also travel to countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to explain why Russian President Vladimirby archive - Archive
June 24, 2023: The Russian Civil War has officially started - 1 year ago
'The fight is now on. This is now a civil war.' - Michael McFaul (Source, June 24, 2023) 'June 24, 2023: The Russian Civil War has officially started.' - Tendar (Source, June 24, 2023) Context (WARNING TO RUSSIA) - '..if Russia or Belarus .. explodes a nuclear device in Ukraine .. expect a massive response from NATO..'by archive - Archive
(WARNING TO RUSSIA) - '..if Russia or Belarus .. explodes a nuclear device [or cause a nuclear disaster] in Ukraine .. expect a massive response from NATO..' - 1 year ago
'..if Russia or Belarus .. explodes a nuclear device in Ukraine .. will considered an attack on NATO itself .. you can expect a massive response from NATO, and you will be at war with NATO.' - Lindsey Graham (Source, June 22, 2023, minute 1:09 - 3:24) 'The Russian military, they will be destroyed, they will be eviscerated if they use tactical nuclear weapons or if they dby archive - Archive
(Global Stagflation) - '..UK Is ‘Stagflationary Sick Man of Europe’ - '..inflation remains persistent.' - 'Bundesbank lessons .. the 1970s .. inflation.' - 1 year ago
'..everyone should take heed of what the Bundesbank, that bastion of orthodoxy, said in its 1973 annual report after the Opec oil shock. After “a year of hard struggle for more price stability”, it said the success of each country depended on “whether it is made easier or more difficult to pass on the higher prices ”. Faced with a potential wage price spiral or, as the Bundesbank put it,by archive - Archive