Some fresh and direct information from the ground:
https://youtu.be/1mbgjjEnbKc
Putin increased the level of preparedness of the strategic forces to the “highest level”, which would be the equivalent of American DEFCON 3.
Americans seem to be in shock that this is happening and can’t seem to understand why. Apparently, decades of “being tough on Russia”, sanctioning Russia, threatening Russia and demonizing Russia in all the media, that’s not serious and the Russians are supposed to take it like a naughty little schoolboy faced with a teacher who is giving him lines. They don’t understand that if you threaten and insult someone who can kill you, he might actually do it. America apparently doesn’t really get the diplomacy thing. They think it’s about threatening and punishing those who don’t do their bidding, and don’t understand that you can’t do that with a nuclear superpower that controls half the world.
China is starting to talk to North Korea directly, which basically means that if America continues provoking Russia in Europe, China will cook them up a very serious distraction in Korea, Japan and Taiwan in order to divide their attention, because China knows that in a nuclear war scenario America always had a plan of nuking China for good measure, regardless of whether the war is actually involving China. For the Americans, t’s always a matter of removing both hostile powers, and when those two powers actually unite to conspire against them, they will react with shock, surprise and feeling of betrayal. Yawn.
Russian information sources are currently under attack and heavily suppressed by the West, and the Western propaganda machine is raging and raving nonsense that has no connection to any kind of reality. I’m afraid that the majority of the population is just buying it. Some because they don’t know better, some because they are too evil and stupid to know better.
From what I could gather, the Ukraine intervention already produced its actual goal yesterday, which would be to cut Ukraine into pieces, envelop the parts where there’s opposition, control the open ground, control the airspace, make it impossible for foreign powers to act there with impunity, and make it impossible for a hostile army to organize an attack on RF. Since the actual goal is to deal with America and their NATO puppets, it is actually impossible to make Ukraine completely secure while there are external forces that might feed any insurrection, so complete pacification of Ukraine can’t really be a realistic short-term goal; other things have to be dealt with first.