Substack SitRep 3 Sept 2023 - WORLD WAR 3
"Has World War III already begun?" The question and response.
War isn’t noble. War isn’t made for TV. When we passively go along with it, we’re complicit in killing our fellow human beings. May their terror wake us up!
I’m posting less this week so I can write something meaningful about Zelensky. Been meaning to do that for a long time, and that’s needed so that ‘Putin Isn’t the Only Monster in Ukraine’ can continue. If you need something more to do in the meanwhile, please check out that series and the writers in the Honest Media Guide.
It took me a crazy amount of time to compile the madness of the past 2 days. I’m hoping you’ll bookmark and absorb.
HOT QUOTES
“The human losses of the Ukrainian side are huge. Western equipment is burning like matches. Things are much worse than is commonly imagined… [The Ukrainians] are terrified. They know that the Russian army has already foreseen everything. The defense system was built by construction companies. This is not a peasant waving a shovel to build a trench. Companies came in, poured concrete, made fortifications in the style of the Maginot Line. And there are three or four such lines. Ukrainians say that there are five mines per square meter. You can’t put your foot on the ground without one of them exploding… There are no willing ones. They are looking for them on the streets. In Lviv there are “round-ups”, people are taken from construction sites, from bars. Recently I witnessed such a situation at the bus station in Lvov. Five policemen stood and checked everyone who wanted to leave Lvov… Many reasons for the current situation with mobilization originate in Bakhmut. It was such a plum, such a meat grinder that there was no one left to fight.” - Slawomir Wysocki, a Polish volunteer returning from Ukraine, as posted by Larry Johnson in ‘How Bad is it for Ukraine’
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“Suddenly, overpowering fright gripped the entire company as men made futile efforts to pick off the hangers-on whose suckers had embedded themselves in thighs, calves, shoulders, and even the sensitive skin of the scrotum. The unit was out of control. It was in an uproar. It was terrorized. Snakes had also been spotted in the marshy waterway. Some men jumped out of the water onto the slimy, tree-rooted ground bordering the left side of the irrigation canal. They discarded their weapons and ran bewildered into the nearby thickets where they ripped off fatigue shirts, then boots, then pants, and culled away at bloodsuckers with knives, mosquito repellent, and the butts of cigarettes which had been set aflame against regulations and common sense, all the while warning the stealthy scouts of a North Vietnam Army regiment...” - The Hippie Lieutenant
HOT PIC
The resolve of the Russians is being underestimated by Western Media. These poll results are from ‘Russians rally round war-time Putin’:
THE HOT WAR
Ukraine investigates corruption in medical exemptions from military duty
US officials keep boasting about how much the Ukraine War serves US interests
Unemployment down, retail up, but Russia’s economy is off the boil
Drone attacks against Pskov are desperate attempts to provoke direct Russia-NATO war
THE COLD WAR
Indonesia’s wait-and-see approach towards joining BRICS is interesting
Nations that call themselves Communist have embraced open trade more than capitalist nations have
China made a mistake on its new map, false dispute with Russia
Western leaders are all fighting for their survival in power
THE WEST
AFRICA
Woman arrested for allegedly hammering nails into her 11-year-old sister’s feet
Has Gabon’s ‘all-powerful’ Bongo dynasty really lost its 55-year grip?