by The Vineyard of the SakerUkraine SITREP: the promised “major Ukrainian counter-attack” ends in disaster (too early to tell much about the "offensive" but at this point it seems more tactical and informational than operational and strategic, as claimed.)The Sakerhttp://thesaker.is/ukraine-sitrep-the-promised-major-ukrainian-counter-attack-ends-in-disaster/Southfront (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)First Results Of Ukrainian Counteroffensive In Kherson Region (inconclusive)https://southfront.org/first-results-of-ukrainian-counteroffensive-in-kherson-region/Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)Scott Ritter to Sputnik: Any Afghan Pilots Who Make Way to Ukraine Will Be on a ‘Suicide Mission’ (The post is interesting in that it refers to thousands of Afghan military
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Jeremy Smith writes UK workers’ pay over 6 years – just about keeping up with inflation (but one sector does much better…)
Robert Vienneau writes The Emergence of Triple Switching and the Rarity of Reswitching Explained
Lars Pålsson Syll writes Schuldenbremse bye bye
Robert Skidelsky writes Lord Skidelsky to ask His Majesty’s Government what is their policy with regard to the Ukraine war following the new policy of the government of the United States of America.
Scott Ritter to Sputnik: Any Afghan Pilots Who Make Way to Ukraine Will Be on a ‘Suicide Mission’ (The post is interesting in that it refers to thousands of Afghan military that emigrated and are potentially available for a mercenary force. It's a job, after all.)
Ilya Tsukanov
Ukraine has ‘good chance’ to retake territory, U.S. assesses (The American view.)
Lara Seligman
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/29/u-s-ukraine-retake-territory-russia-00054092
Ukraine has hobbled Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Could it turn the tide of the war? (Another one for the rubes. Interesting though for the claim that two Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles took out the Moskva, as the US claimed at the time of the sinking. But most of the rest of the article is clueless about naval warfare and combined arms operations.)
Europe's Economic And Social Suicide - Provoked by The U.S. And Helped Along By Europe's Leaders (faulty assumptions and failure to think things through)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/europes-economic-and-social-suicide-provoked-by-the-us-and-helped-along-by-europes-leaders.html