In other news:
To those who’ve asked
Yes, I confirm 100%, General Surovikin has been tasked with leading the decolonization drive in Africa. The effort will now be visioned, directed, coordinated at higher levels than “just” some mercenary company.
Africa, of course, is the “soft underbelly” of France and the entire “golden billion”, with its resources, including oil, uranium, and (who’d have imagined!!! my goodness!!!) LITHIUM, being taken for granted but desperately needed. If Russia can umbrella these countries and redirect their resources to China, it’s potentially GAME OVER.
I guess this is what you’d call, asymmetric warfare.
It’s no surprise that Surovikin was recently spotted in Algeria, as Algeria, Russia’s top arms buyer and ally in Africa, is the “gateway” (literally, see the map) to Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
Day late, dollar short?
It’s widely assumed in Russia that “Rocket Boy’s” visit has opened the floodgates for North Korean artillery and munitions sales/aid to Russia, in exchange for future Russian aircraft deliveries and modernization of existing North Korean aircraft.
In line with this, it is further widely assumed that Russia will receive many KN-25 launch platforms, and missiles for them.
The KN-25 is either the world’s highest-caliber AND longest-range MLRS, or the world’s ONLY multi-launch short range ballistic missile platform, depending on whom you ask. It’s accuracy is unknown, but is believed to have been upgraded beyond mere inertial guidance.
So much for the U.S. ATACMS? Perhaps a day late, a dollar short.
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This article in Russian corroborates what you said about N.Korea and Russia
https://tsargrad.tv/articles/artillerija-nato-oslepla-svo-zakonchit-korejskoe-oruzhie_868083/nsk
PS
And of course adds the wunderwaffe talk about the KN-25.
I press X for doubt, until tested in the battlefield.
Got it. From your Sept 9 piece:
“Starting around 2007, Israel began courting Azerbaijan as an “Israeli airstrip and refueling station” for potential bombing of Iranian nuclear sites.
(You see, unlike the USA, Israel has no planes that can fly 3000km round-trip without refueling.)”
Since you characterized this as “to prevent another Holocaust”, maybe some day you can expound on whether bombing Iran’s nuclear sites would really work – and for how long.
What is Israel’s motivation in providing drones? Is it just making a sale for the money? If they favor Azerbaijan over Armenia, why? I don’t get it. There’s got to be some bigger story here and I’ll die of old age trying to figure it old. Cmon Dreizin – flesh it out for us rubes.
You must have missed my September 9th edition.
The DPRK outreach by Russia may involve more than artillery shells and a few long range MLRS systems. Sure the DPRK has large stores of both but there is something else they have that Russia will need for the rebuilding of the liberated areas and its own internal expansion. Skilled construction labor. That’s one thing the DPRK has an abundance of along with experience employing that labor out side the country. I expect everyone has seen pictures of the new high-rise construction in Pyongyang and other Korean cities. That construction is mostly done by the army. In Pyongyang their camps are visible along the river from the hi-rise hotels used to house foreign travelers.
The rebuilding of cities like Mariupol is going as fast as it can with the available labor, sources of labor like Moldova are closed to Russia for the moment. 50,000 to 150,000 Koreans skilled in the sort of construction done by Russia would be an inexpensive and less risky alternative to importing Muslim labor from cCentral Asia.
Thanks Dr D for the informative reporting..!
You’ve saved me from wasting endless time………………………………………………
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How will France counter the Russian intervention in Niger? Given the high stakes regarding natural resources.
It has not been, is not, and won’t be just Niger. The others didn’t make headlines in the USA, as they were pre-2022, the natural resources are not as big, and there was no European gas pipeline issue as with Niger.
Anyway… You don’t need me to tell you, France can’t do anything by itself. The USA would have to get involved.
With regard to the developments in West/Central Africa you mentioned, I would be very interested in how you see current events affecting the transition to Electric Cars ( for example) .
This morning in the UK i read the Government is doubling down on its plans as BMW are to get £600 million bribe/incentive to build a new EV factory near Oxford. In return they want concrete guarantees on banning new diesel/petrol cars ( absolute from 2030 ).
The UK will be like Cuba driving around in old cars if things go badly for the West in the Lithium Wars.