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Russia Releases Video Of Massive Army Drill To "Contain Armed Conflict In Imaginary State"; Schedules 2 More
Two weeks ago today, on Friday, August 8, the "market" seemingly desperate for any excuse to soar, did just that when Russia, tongue-in-cheek, announced that a Russian military drill, which everyone knew in advance would end that day, and which "worried the US department of state" finished. So by that logic the announcement of a new, and even more massive, military drill by Russia should send stocks crashing, right? We are joking of course: there is no news in this world that could possibly send stocks lower as good news is great but bad news only means even more intervention of various central banks, however Russia did indeed announce that it will take part in counter- terrorism exercise called Peace Mission in China with other members of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, RIA Novosti reports, citing unidentified Defense Ministry official.
The main part of drill is set to run from August 24 until the 29, so next Friday when the market soars on "news" that the drill has ended you know that algos once again failed to read anything beside the headline.
According to Bloomberg, Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan to deploy total of 7,000 military personnel, the largest ever for SCO.
And just in case stocks need more catalysts to soar (if not drop), Russia announced it would hold another exercise, called East-2014, some time in mid-September, which would involves multiple branches of armed forces. The scenario for that particular exercise is not yet disclosed.
Finally, all this is happening as Russia is currently taking part in a third exercise, called Interaction-2014, located in Kazakhstan with members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The purpose of this particular drill: "seek to contain armed conflict in imaginary state."
Yes... imaginary.
Below is a just released clip from this drill as well as RT's description: joint military drills of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) were conducted in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, Friday. About 3,000 soldiers, 200 vehicles and about 30 planes took part in the drills. Military units from the Air Assault Brigade of the Russian Airborne Troops, the Air Forces of Kazakhstan, the mobile team from the Special Operations Forces of Belarus, the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of Kyrgyz Republic and a commando squadron from Tajikistan participated in the exercises.
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War.
"This is not a drill... I repeat... This is not a drill. That is all."
We dont have to do imaginary drills, we have Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, and the town of Ferguson.
Eat your heart out Putin!
Gutsy move putting out that video...
What are the chances that the State Department or some MSM joint is going to pass it off as evidence of a Russian attack on the Ukraine?
"Photoshop and YouTube is your friend." - Unnamed high ranking source at the CIA
"seek to contain armed conflict in imaginary state."
Imaginary state: novorossiya
Would it be my name this time?
"I'm yer huckleberry"...
best regards, Vlad
"When all else fails, they take you to war."
- Gerald Celente
"My hiposcracy only takes me so far."
- Doc Holiday
From the movie Tombstone.
I have only begun to defile myself.
Rocket launchers on trucks still look dated?
Not when they are aimed at you.
Even the business end of a flintlock is scary as hell when aimed at you for real.
Been there, don't want to do it again thank you.
Junta conscripts complain of being told to charge Grads with machine guns. 4,700 went in. 83 came back. Look for it on UTube. English subtitles. Screaming moms and wives.
Well you can fire off all your old obsolete stuff when you're runing a drill. Or maybe Russia just builds military trucks that'll last forever and dumb rockets don't need anything more.
Landrover Defender is an example of this. Specifically designed to be:
1. As simple as possible. if it doesn't need to be there, it doesn't have it. If it isn't there it can't break.
2. Field repairable. It can be fixed in place without a machine shop. Just some relatively simple tools.
3. Modular and cannibalisable. You can take bits off of other vehicles from almost any vintage and can pretty much expect them to fit and work.
So bearing in mind the design criteria. Even the modern ones tend to look dated:
The current defender:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Defender90.JPG/...
The original (70 year old) series 1:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_Series
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Land_Rover_Seri...
2. Field repairable. It can be fixed in place without a machine shop. Just some relatively simple tools.
3. Modular and cannibalisable. You can take bits off of other vehicles from almost any vintage and can pretty much expect them to fit and work.
And that my friend is where in the modern age 3D printers become a crucial battlefield tool. You don't need to carry 2 or 3 replacement parts for every vehicle weapon when you can replicate them on site. You don't need a large manufacturing plant to run off hundreds and thousands of pieces. Think of all the money that will save the military in general on budgets instead of having to buy thousands of overpriced $500 a pop hammers.
Which is why you will never see 3D printing in DOD contracts. No $$ for the scummy politicos.
"You can take bits off of other vehicles from almost any vintage and can pretty much expect them to fit and work."
LOL! I kept two Dusters, a Dodge van and a Plymouth station wagon on the road using that same technique!
The 318 was a good strong engine, but the electronic ignition boxes on the side of the air cleaner sucked.
Not at all. The old Stalin organ was superior to German fixed artillery in many ways - trading precision accuracy for truly concentrated destruction and the added benefit of mobility to high tail it out of there before enemy artillery could respond, plus they were really easy and cheap to build and deploy in huge numbers.
Try that with fixed artillery some time - the cost of precision artie like the Wehrmacht's famous 88 is it can take a while to set up, and almost as long to redeploy, which is why mobile artillery (tanks with really huge cannons) are so common.
Fast forward to the present day where the individual rockets all have smart guidance warheads. The result is what you see in some of the videos of the hulking ruins of Ukraine armor south & east of Donetsk. Any mass move of armour like that means you lose them all in one strike.
Obsolete? Not hardly... try very cheap and very effective, and compare to the hugely expensive and highly vulnerable mobile artillery fielded by the US Deep State MIC.
Ah yes, but you have to keep developing new expensive gear, don't tell anyone it is equally vulnerable, or you don't have the profits to distribute to make sure you get the next contract to develop......................ad infinitum
However, these particular products, like rocket launchers only really work well when neither side has air superiority.
In the Ukraine, it is certainly the case that neither side has air superiority (the militia doesn't *have* an airforce, but has enough manpads & better to really punish the Ukraine airforce or the ocasional Polish/Romainian hotshot) If NATO decided to get into the game big time, they'd probably get mauled by S-300&400.
If Russia decided to deploy their air power, they'd lose a lot of it (probably through over the horizon hits on the airbases). They would probably *still* retain some air superiority none-the-less due to their shorter distances to the front.
So, at least in Ukraine for now, we are back to pre-airforce warfare! WWI without the trenches, infact, I get the opposite impression that there are Ukraine and Militia wondering about all over the place...
30 minutes before the market closes....... Lol... Putin must have a bunch of SPY puts.
...and a sense of humor.
Sounds better than "West, 1945." Might need more than balsa wood and rubber bands here...
The Russian girls all throughout US colleges don't look dated one bit.
Top shelf rubber bands I might add...
The Ukraine girls really knock me out. They leave the West behind. The Moscow girls make me sing and shout. And Georgia's always on my ma ma ma mind.
I wonder how the relief truck invasion is going.
Better than the State Dept's rescue of reporters:
http://rt.com/news/182088-kiev-delay-humanitarian-aid/
Vlad bought thousands of S&P puts on Wednesday and needs some pcket cash for the weekend. Gotta crash Obos market.
3,000 troops is what the US deploys to protests against Israeli war crimes in Anytown, USA. Much ado about stuffing.
Meanwhile - the NYT is going full Orwell:
Blamed for ISIS’ Rise in Syria, Assad Is Pushed to Escalate Fighthttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/world/middleeast/assad-supporters-weig...
This shit is unreal - I mean, "lie" and "propaganda" fails to capture it. This is the Israelification of the bare idea of "truth."
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/is-nyt-anne-barnard-a-sociopa...
Yep, sounds about right...especially the part about stuffing!...good post!
'panicked supporters' read 'USAID assets'
Wepons looted or supplied by the US. This stinks like BS.
Again...hard to tell. Anything could be true right now...
The BS is indeed getting deep. On an interview I heard today on NPR they asked an "expert" if the US would make an ally of assad in order to fight against ISIS, and the "expert" responded, "no, no way, because what assad is doing encourages them." Well, ok, so you'll do nothing as they build strength and take over a country and at the same time decry them as being a massive threat to the US homeland? It's all bullshit and doesn't piece together at all.
Dostoevsky. "For a moment the lie becomes truth."
We might say America is attempting to make a lie of the truth of two-front wars. They will attempt to pull Russia into a two-front war so that it is not America's truth.
Quite brilliant, if impossibly sick.
Classic example of Gas Lighting the mind with DisInfo. What an art it is?
"American weapons looted in Iraq,"
Should have read, "American weapons funded, armed & trained in Iraq."
Unreal is the U.S. suddenly making Assad a partner in the war against ISIS which the U.S. started and funded. Never could happen, unreal, but earmark my post.
Won't happen Russia will have their military in northern Syria faster than you can say oye ve. That is like Turkey is to NATO as far as political territorial control goes.
Syria is the key to blocking the Middle East natty gas pipelines into the EU. Putin will not let Assad fall to ISIS - though Putin probably has no issue with ISIS carving out a chunk of land as long as ISIS keeps pressure on Obama.
That is the point. If they want to keep expanding they have to move north into Kurd territory or Turkey either that or further excurisions into US controlled areas of Iraq. If the US even gets so much as caught attacking the Russians trying to contain ISIS in any way it is going to undercut them on the international stage.
It maybe the NYT but they have some good maps to look at to get an idea of the territorities currently held by ISIS and the bordering areas here.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/12/world/middleeast/the-iraq-...
What is really interesting is the apparent distancing taking place in Turkey from the US/Israel/ISIS block. Looks like they have finally figured out that the US Deep State tactics in Syria and Iraq (and Ukraine) do not have an outcome particularly beneficial to Turkey...
Turks and Kurds don't get along either.
In addition to this times story...
http://online.wsj.com/articles/assad-policies-aided-rise-of-islamic-stat...
what are the odds - another securely Jewish/Zionist owned rag now trying to shift the truth, and memory hole recent events, and to blame Assad for the group the US, S.A. and Israel armed and funded and gave intel to in order to depose him and Balkanize Syria along with Iraq...
I predict more from washpo and the weekly standard and the rest of the neocon/militarist press.
It's amazing - no one notices either the absurd, grandiose reversal of the truth, nor the obvious coordination of propaganda in the Zionist/Neocon press
wow.
neat. Being prepared against fascist/nazis have never been more important.
Putin should just annouce military drills for every day for the rest of the year.
Nice war quads.
Jeez FINALLY some YouTube videos!
And the band played on.
Red Dawn
The good ole USA hasn't had to deal with any real oposition since the WWII. What happens when suddendly they are faced with real soldiers and real weapons that actually hurt.
The luxury hardened USA forces will suddenly get a very real wake up call. So get ready. If the nut jobs in Washington decided to start a war the USA will suddenly find their local MacDonalds and Wallmart will dissapear and that will be the end of American civilisation as they know it.
There are thousands of vets who would like to feed you your balls.
Don't forget to put on your pink tutu's before marching out to do that, the Commander in Chief likes it that way.
A rude surprise prolly awaits them.
If illiterate tribesmen with flintlocks and AK47's are a yardstick, some
kickass spetnaz will certainly hurt more than US pride.
The problem then becomes itchy fingers on nuke buttons.
Russia is more decentralized then the US. They have an edge even at that.
I'm old enough to remember the shock caused by the MiG 15 entry into the Korean War manned by "Volunteer" Soviet and Chinese pilots.
Von Richtofen probably felt the same way when the American 'volunteers' took to the skies in WWI.
Both the US and the Russians developed jet engines based on British engineer Whittle's designs. The Russians, using the Rolls Royce Nene as a base did a better job, giving the Mig and edge over the Sabre.
Very nasty surprise for the US.
No hydraulics. Lousy cockpit. The Mig was not as nice as the Sabre. We quickly learned and implemented tactics to dominate over those with slightly higher thrust to weight ratios.
yeah but blackwater's guys will get them. They been trained by soldier of fortune magazine to shoot up women and children and they're ready for them Russkies. On a more optimistic note, if the US praetorian guard starts shooting up too many of their own citizens maybe the citizens can appeal to the Russians to defend them.
Well, Ukraine is an "imaginary state."
I was going to say the same thing about Iraq.
At least Assad knows someone's got his back.....
You have to wonder if Russia has had enough and is just going to unleash their own can of whoopass on ISIS and the FSA, not to route them just drive them out of Syria (along with keeping the US/NATO from putting boots on the ground there) and box them into Iraq with Iran working as the other buffer and let the West try to keep them contained on the North and South fronts.
i keep sayin we can win this dem russian rockets mak a lot of noise but day made of cardbored and paper mache you will sea in der video it is sunny.
all we have to do when we fight ivan is get are haarp machines to make it rain and snow so the rockets will fill with water and bend.
are troops can handle ivan in der rain and snow russians hate the cold
Good thinking Tony. I've heard that all Chinese military equipment is made by origami so those bastards won't be any problem either!
From a military point of view, when a terrorist (Washington) threatens you, you keep your military and logistics active as a moving force; not as a sitting target with known vectors.
can't imagine war in UK, Poland, CRepublic, Germany.etc.
I can quite easily imagine war in Poland.
All Right Vlad! Watch us shoot Americans in Missouri! Be afraid, very afraid!
So that's what real Military Training drills look like. The Criminal UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. drills usually consist of unannounced Police State Black helicopters freighting The American People in downtown business districts high atop Criminal Bankster Skyscrapers.
Any one else have half-chub from video?
www.whatreallyhappened.com
if you assume russia trains for the next war (and not the last one), then the odds of a russian invasion of ukraine just doubled.
what would be the pretext for a russian invasion?
putin cannot bluff here, unless he wants to lose his grip on power.
does the west think putin is bluffing?