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Greetings and Salutations!
A very busy day today which (again) left me mentally frazzled. I swear there’s only so much time int he day that I can compartmentalize some of the retardation I have to deal with, and then it’s like a “NopeNopeNope!” and I have to step a waaaays a away from the phone and KB lest I go full retard and blow up at someone.

I think that’s universal at this point.

So otherwise, I don’t have a LOT of points, political\/military\/’other’… tonight’s ‘episode’ if you will is sort of just a random collection of some of the stuff I’ve seen this week. On the Krainian Front? Seems that Ivan, after taking Pokrovsk has cut off and surrounded Mirnograd:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reason this gets filed up under a “Big Fucking Dealski” is that BOTH Pokrovsk and Mirnograd were (past tense) major Krainian Defensive Strongpoints.<\/strong>

Donetsk Oblast has been one of the major objectives of the SMO. Donetsk formed the Donetsk People’s Republic back in 2014 supposedly by “Russian Back Paramilitaries”. What’s interesting is it’s traditionally<\/strong><\/em> been primarily a Russian Oblast, both in history, language and location. In fact the five major Oblasts that were in “rebellion” against the Krain which were ‘targeted’ by the “SMO” (Special Military Operation) include parts of\u00a0Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia<\/strong>, all which have been subject to Russian military operations and occupation.

Now to talk to and\/or listen to THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY LIVE there it wasn’t an “occupation” but a liberation<\/strong>. The Russian majority population were under a LOT of pressure, both socially and militarily by the Kiev Junta (and yeah, Krainfeld and the CIA installed bullshit DotGov there is and has been an illegitimate occupation and installed CIA front)

Either way, I’m not going to get into the deeper issues and causes, what I will say is that both Mirnograd and Pokrovsk were BIG defensive centers… the term “Fortress” was used in reference to both cities… and now? Pokrovsk is done, and from the look of it, Mirnograd is only a week or so from completekly falling.

Much like the Battle of Bakhmut and Siege of Mariupol, both locations Bakhmut AND Mariupol were seriously built up<\/strong> as defensive hard-points, and bragged on both by the Krainians and their Enemedia Mouthpieces as “Unconquerable”. And, much like other famous places that were supposed to be unbreakable, Ivan did what Ivan does, which was grind them both down to the nub and destroy them piecemeal.

Granted, in both cases, there were MAJOR casualties on both sides in both battles, with the Krain eventually being wiped the fuck out. Fast forward a few years later, and Ivan, having learned a few lessons and developed a BUNCH of new tactics, has repeatedly done the “surround ’em\/FAB-Drone the fuck out of them\/mop up the remains” tactics. Ivan is taking his time now… no need to rush… no need to expend troops… just s-l-o-w-l-y move, a wee bit at a time, and once you get a location closed off enough, pull back the troops and drop an extreme <\/strong>metric fuckton of high explosives on anywhere<\/strong> an enemy troop may or may not be, and then send in a few troops to mop up the shell shock survivors (if there are, in fact any.)

Now mind you, this’s going on the entire 1000 mile front<\/strong>. Ivan is moving forward, and judging from all media accounts all around, they’re out of men, money, weapons and almost time. July 2026 is MY call when this wraps up. The only wrinkle is IF the EUroweenies decide to jump in and do something stupid(er) like actually get involved OPENLY. If that happens? All bets are off, and I sure as Hell wouldn’t want to be vacationing ANYWHERE in Europe if their political masters decide to go full retard…

Then…I found this over at John WIder’s place:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve read the whole “shopping cart theory” of who a civilized person is, versus who isn’t. This however is the first time I saw this particular graphic, and I got a kick out of it.

It’s a perfect illustration I think.

And then I found this from Twitter tonight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yep.
I’ll just leave that there…
And lastly some bad humor:<\/p>\n\n\n

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That cracked me up.
So More Later
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n

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Greetings and Salutations!A very busy day today which (again) left me mentally frazzled. I swear there’s only so much time int he day that I can compartmentalize some of the retardation I have to deal with, and then it’s like a “NopeNopeNope!” and I have to step a waaaays a away from the phone and … Continue reading “A Random Sampling of Nothing Important at All”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8461,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions\/8461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}