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Former Japanese PM Abe appears to have been assassinated in Japan. Shot from behind by someone with a shotgun. Saw reports that he has no vital signs in hospital.

Waiting to find out more.

[Xeraphim1]

However, the west faces big issues to.

If/When Russia crosses the NATO line, what could realistically happen?
1. Germany, Hungary, Turkey and Slovakia (even France and Italy) could well declare themselves Neutral. Belgium actually did this in the run up to World War Two. We did such a great job demilitarizing Germany after WW2 that the vast majority of Germans view "all war is bad".

2. If you think Russian would be unhappy about being drafted into the Army, what do you think will be the feeling in NATO countries. I would think that the Baltics (which won't last a week) Poland and now Finland would be the exceptions. What do you think Italians and Spaniards are going to do, let alone Belgians and French.

3. Every NATO country has the infantry deficit problem that Russia currently has. Everyone has bought lots of end items (which their defense contractors want them to), but there is a woeful lack of supporting infantry. Squad sizes everywhere have gone from the WW2 dozen men to maybe 8, 3 of them who have to stay with the vehicle (the Bradley or similar Infantry Fighting Vehicle). In addition, the Reserve systems in NATO, outside of the US, have gone to pot since the end of the Cold War.

4. While the Russians are showing that they (and I believe the Chinese) have plenty of Ammo stocks, NATO does not. Half to a third of the AntiTank weapons inventory have gone to Ukraine. So has all the former Warsaw Pact ammo for Russian equipment. NATO will run out of ammo in an all out conflict in less than 2 weeks.

1. Turkey possible; Hungary maybe; Slovakia no. Germany no. This isn't WWII and most countries have now learned that Russia is not to be trusted.

2. There won't be a draft in NATO countries. It would take too long to train up people to be anything other than cannon fodder. The West stopped using that tactic decades ago. Even China has spent the past two decades moving to a professional military.

3. Yes, NATO countries are not overendowed with infantry, partially because they don't use WWII tactics. The biggest difference is that NATO (and the US in particular) uses air power to crush most of the threats before infantry gets there. Russia still has not shut down Ukraine's IADS, something the West would spend the first few days accomplishing. It also has tac air to acutally support troops, something Russia has done a horrible job of.

4. Keep in mind that those antiarmor stocks have run low because they've been used to destroy the most modern Russian tanks; they weren't just thrown into a hole. But NATO does still have a lot of precision weapons that haven't been given to Ukraine. In fact, they haven't sent the best stuff while Russia is dusting off 60-year-old obsolete tanks and wearing the barrels out of its artillery which is sorter ranged and less accurate than anything in the West.

In a putative war with Russia, the fist week would see the destruction of Russia's IADS, air force and navy. Precision weapons would destroy the supply systems leaving Russian forces the starve without ammo. You seem to believe a new war would be a continuation of WWII which is far from reality. Russia CANNOT win such a war using its current equipment and tactics bar the use of nuclear weapons. It cannot replace its weapons with somnething better and seems to be unable to change its tactics.

[Xeraphim1]

If Russia was doing half as well as they claimed to be, the conventional fighting would already be over and we'd be talking about an insurgency. Instead, they abandoned their effort to take Kiev and focused all their effort in the east of Ukraine. Much of the territory they currently occupy was taken in the initial stages of the war. Yes, they've taken Luhansk and some other terrain, but every inch has cost them dearly.

Russia doesn't want to do what you guys think, even a non-military but otherwise (at least somewhat) intelligent guy Martin Armstrong understands this. If it were a full takeover they would have done all sorts of far more "horrible things" including taking out the electrical grid, cutting off the water supply, etc. Yet they didn't. Why?

You guys lack all sorts very important considerations in this and for pure propaganda, and russian hatred, which is Bizarre when you look at the rulers of the West, who are absolute filth and totally indifferent to others. By the way, they have WAY more death on their hands than Mr. Putin has, and it's not even close.

All evidence points to Russia wanting a strategic decapitation to install a puppet regime. When that failed it resorted to a brute force effort to conquer territory. Since it is lacking in capability, it is using the same tactics it has down in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine and Syria; total destruction of everything in its path, deliberate murder of civilians, deliberate targeting of civilians, rape, looting, the theft of territory, etc.

You seem to spend an inordinate amount of time carrying water for Russia which is undeniably an evil state. Perhaps you might want to take a look at who you're covering for. Trying to equate the West with what Russia is doing is not just ingenuous, it's an outright falsehood.

[Guest]

If Russia is losing in Ukraine, how could they spend military resources on a military drill in the Western Hemisphere?

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/188833/Ira ... in-America

Iran, Russia, China to run war drills in Latin America

TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) – Iran, Russia, and China are gearing up to run a series of major war drills in Latin America in a show of force meant to signal how these militaries can reach the United States, local media in the United States have said.

Along with 10 other nations, Russia, China, and Iran will move their militaries into the Western Hemisphere for war drills that will "preposition forward-deployed military assets in Latin America and the Caribbean."

The war games, known as the Sniper Frontier competition, show that these states from across the globe are uniting and "getting ready to make a loud statement that the region is ready to embrace the multipolar force," according to the think-tank report, which focuses on Latin America. A key portion of Russia's "military is prepping to bring, for the first time, some of these military games to the Western Hemisphere"—even as Moscow is engaged with war in Ukraine.

Russia faked a 'massive war game' ( Vostok 2018). Why not fake it this time too?

[Guest]

If Russia was doing half as well as they claimed to be, the conventional fighting would already be over and we'd be talking about an insurgency. Instead, they abandoned their effort to take Kiev and focused all their effort in the east of Ukraine. Much of the territory they currently occupy was taken in the initial stages of the war. Yes, they've taken Luhansk and some other terrain, but every inch has cost them dearly.

Russia doesn't want to do what you guys think, even a non-military but otherwise (at least somewhat) intelligent guy Martin Armstrong understands this. If it were a full takeover they would have done all sorts of far more "horrible things" including taking out the electrical grid, cutting off the water supply, etc. Yet they didn't. Why?

You guys lack all sorts very important considerations in this and for pure propaganda, and russian hatred, which is Bizarre when you look at the rulers of the West, who are absolute filth and totally indifferent to others. By the way, they have WAY more death on their hands than Mr. Putin has, and it's not even close.

All evidence points to Russia wanting a strategic decapitation to install a puppet regime. When that failed it resorted to a brute force effort to conquer territory. Since it is lacking in capability, it is using the same tactics it has down in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine and Syria; total destruction of everything in its path, deliberate murder of civilians, deliberate targeting of civilians, rape, looting, the theft of territory, etc.

You seem to spend an inordinate amount of time carrying water for Russia which is undeniably an evil state. Perhaps you might want to take a look at who you're covering for. Trying to equate the West with what Russia is doing is not just ingenuous, it's an outright falsehood.

Cool Breeze and the rest of the Russian water carriers on this site are part of the 1% that no one bothers with.

[DaKardii]

Former Japanese PM Abe appears to have been assassinated in Japan. Shot from behind by someone with a shotgun. Saw reports that he has no vital signs in hospital.

Waiting to find out more.

It’s official. He’s dead.

[Tom Mazanec]

Ukraine Latest: US and Partners Seek to Sideline Russia at G-20
Bloomberg News
Fri, July 8, 2022, 3:05 a.m.·10 min read
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ukrai ... 52424.html

US-led naval escort to break Russian blockade could risk wider war
Calls for a ‘coalition of the willing’ to establish a ‘maritime corridor’ are designed to obfuscate the dangers that it will create.
JULY 6, 2022
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/ ... wider-war/

Russia Seems To Be Preparing The Vital Kerch Bridge For Missile Attacks
Deployment of decoy barges and smokescreens implies Russia is preparing for a possible attack on its highly prized Kerch Strait Bridge.
BY
EMMA HELFRICH, TYLER ROGOWAY
JUL 5, 2022 10:03 PM
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/r ... le-attacks

Russia’s Medvedev Warns US Trying to Punish a Nuclear Power Risks Humanity
The former Russian president slammed the US for seeking war crimes trials against Russia
by Dave DeCamp Posted onJuly 6, 2022
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/07/06/rus ... -humanity/

Top Russian Official Calls For "Return" Of Alaska In Bizarre Threat
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... rre-threat

Teenagers Say They Were Kidnapped and Raped by Putin’s Private Army
Philip Obaji Jr.
Thu, July 7, 2022, 4:53 AM·7 min read
https://news.yahoo.com/teenagers-were-k ... 08865.html

Putin says Ukraine is heading for 'tragedy,' Kramatorsk city prepares its defence
By Max Hunder and Simon Lewis - Wednesday
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pu ... ar-AAZifFE

What would happen if Russia launched a nuclear war? Study shows firestorms would block out the Sun and trigger a 'Little Ice Age' – resulting in crop failure and ocean famine
New study says nuclear war between Russia and US would trigger 'Little Ice Age'
Firestorms would release smoke into upper atmosphere and block out the Sun
In first month, average global temperatures on Earth would plunge by about 13°F
That is more than during the most recent Ice Age, which ended 11,700 years ago
By SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:00 EDT, 7 July 2022 | UPDATED: 09:15 EDT, 7 July 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... warns.html

Belarus Threatens To Strike Poland If Cross-Border "Provocations" Launched
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, JUL 07, 2022 - 02:45 AM
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ovocations

Independence for America and None for Ukraine? (Part One)
https://thegreatrecession.info/blog/ind ... -part-one/

[Silenced S]

Opinion: A Popular Uprising Against the Elites Has Gone Global
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a- ... 4583544ada

[jldavid47]

You guys lack all sorts very important considerations in this and for pure propaganda, and russian hatred, which is Bizarre when you look at the rulers of the West, who are absolute filth and totally indifferent to others. By the way, they have WAY more death on their hands than Mr. Putin has, and it's not even close.

Your head is so far up Putin's ass that I'm surprised you can even see your keyboard to type.

[Tom Mazanec]

The bleak future of Hong Kong
Written By: Aishani Mathur ugc.wionews.com
NEW DELHI Updated: Jul 05, 2022, 04:04 PM(IST)
https://www.wionews.com/opinions-blogs/ ... ong-494631