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Another good weekly report, well done.

Andrei Martyanov says the official toll of Poltava is now 500:

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Translation: MOSCOW, September 6 — RIA Novosti. About 500 specialists, including mercenaries from European countries, were killed and wounded after the attack on the training center in Poltava, a high-ranking military source said. "About 500 specialists were killed and wounded. Among the dead and wounded: servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard — communications specialists, operators of electronic warfare systems, electronic intelligence, unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as foreign mercenaries from Poland, France, Germany and Sweden who trained Ukrainian military personnel," the statement said. He also stressed that such strikes on deployment points of Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, as well as on military facilities, will now become regular.

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He focused on that last part - "regular" means from now on more such strikes will be launched.

As an aside, I posted this over at Andrei's site - a response to Gilbert Doctorow:

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I was listening to Gilbert Doctorow on Judge Nap yesterday. First he declares as an iron-clad certainty that Russia won't move beyond the Dneiper. Then he suggests that since Russia wants to eliminate western Ukraine's "threat" to Russia that Putin might consider "flattening Lvov".

This is idiotic. Since when has Putin been interested in massacring civilians?

Doctorow forgets that Russia fought an insurgency for ten years against western Ukrainians - been there, done that - and then controlled western Ukraine for another 35+ years after the insurgency petered out in 1956.

And then Russia did Afghanistan and the Chechen wars and Syria. Did Russia learn something from all that? Of course they did.

This is the Internet and drone age - armed drones with thermal imaging, pervasive surveillance of cities and towns with infrared camera networks, pervasive surveillance of all telephone and data networks. It is now almost impossible to conduct an insurgency of any kind - urban or rural - unless you have spent the last twenty years digging tunnels and redoubts 100 feet underground like Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran - using North Korean technology.

Start a rural insurgency, the drones will kill you. Start an urban insurgency, the Chechens and Wagner will kill you. If you can even get one started because after Russia takes Ukraine, thousands of military police, Rosqvardia, and GRU, SVR and FSB agents and analysts will swarm Ukraine looking for troublemakers and deporting anyone who looks at them cross-eyed.

As "I am on record" since April, 2022, Russia will control all of Ukraine - that it needs to control, which is not much - and place a new Western Military District on the borders of Poland and Romania equipped with everything it needs to counter any NATO threat, specifically including those Aegis Ashore installations in those countries. Russia will use its new 2-million man army to build an "Iron Curtain 2.0" from the Black Sea to the Arctic, insuring that the West can never threaten Russia again as it has multiple times in the last two centuries.

And Russia will do it without massacring people like Doctorow believes, simply because they don't need to.

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Andrei's response to that:

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I don't know why Doctorow is even considered an expert in strategy of Russia. It is an established rule now--most opinions of people without background in Russian military are a waste of air.

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The steady stream of fires and explosions throughout otanland are a mystery none so far have unraveled and few have speculated on outside conspiracy circles. There's been msm mentionings of unidentified drones, lights, etc, over eu military bases but I've yet to read any stories msm or otherwise about sightings over industry. Yet, firefighters are busy. Incompetence? Underpaid workers taking monies to perform or not perform certain actions? Small untraceable consumer drones dropping crude textile-wrapped incendiaries that leave no trace? Artillery launched nearby? God? DEWs? An automotive oils supplier with contracts to general dynamics and who knows else burnt to the ground just yesterday in akron ohio. That one at least, wasn't DEW from a satellite unless BRITE-PL2 suddenly gained new functionality. There's a rather successful low-level attrition campaign taking place within otan. Whether these are external attacks or attacks from within by those us leaders with the goal of the destruction of their own nation is up for speculation.

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