Chris
Aug 4, 2023 11:08 AM

Whoa! Wall of text.

Apple Magic Mouse – “Greased Lightning”

Strict conditions set around a proposed $1 billion wind farm in Victoria to protect nesting brolga and a tiny, critically endangered bat have sounded a “death knell” for wind power in the state’s south-west

A couple of wind turbine stories today:

NJ Fishing Pros Warn Offshore Wind Killing Ocean Life: ‘Never Seen Anything Remotely Like This’ in Half a Century (3 Aug)

“In my 50+ years of working on the ocean, I have never seen anything remotely like this,” he emphasized. “Dead whales on our beach absolutely and logically have everything to do with the oceanic geo-surveys.”

There Is A Financial Crisis Brewing In Offshore Wind Energy (4 Aug)

The costs associated with U.S. offshore wind projects have risen by 57% since 2021 due to inflation in components and labor costs, as well as rising interest rates, leading to a large number of canceled or renegotiated deals.

The recent cancellations of major offshore wind projects have erased billions of dollars in planned spending and put at least 9.7 additional gigawatts of offshore wind projects in the U.S. at risk.

Maybe a journalist could ask Mr Bowen about all the dead whales and massive cost blowouts his pet offshore wind farms are going to produce?

That high pitched squeaking noise you can hear in the distance is Elbow the inconceivable ringpiece tighening up so much is at risk of splitting the atom.
(a Housoheimer event)
….
..‘Land tax’: Secret document reveals demand for ‘percentage of GDP’ under Indigenous Treaty
Taxpayers may be forced to pay “reparations” to under a proposed treaty, with suggestions that “a fixed percentage” of GDP be handed over…
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/land-tax-secret-document-reveals-demand-for-percentage-of-gdp-under-indigenous-treaty/news-story/5cd8b4e1925468c4596e1fdd6c2647b9

When news.com start to bell the cat, you are in brown trouser territory.

Taxpayers may be forced to pay “reparations” to Indigenous Australians for “past, present and future criminal acts” under a proposed treaty, with suggestions that “a fixed percentage” of GDP be handed over through “rates, land tax and royalties”, documents released under freedom of information reveal.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has previously committed to implementing “in full” all the elements of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which calls for “Voice, Treaty, Truth”.

If the Indigenous Voice to Parliament passes at the upcoming referendum, the next step would be the Makarrata Commission, which would lead the process of treaty-making between First Nations people and federal, state and local governments.

The PM has likened the Uluru Statement to the Gettysburg Address, calling it “a short document long in the making” that is a “master class in spare eloquence”.

But according to Sky News host Peta Credlin, FOI documents released by the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) earlier this year reveal that, contrary to Mr Albanese’s characterisation of the Uluru Statement as a “two-minute” read that can “fit on one A4 page”, the 2017 declaration is actually 26 pages.

The “full” Uluru Statement was included in a lengthy batch of NIAA documents, which also contains minutes from 13 “regional dialogue” consultation events with around 1200 Indigenous people that informed the final wording.

Credlin told viewers on Thursday that the tenor of the full statement was actually one “of anger, grievance, separatism, and the need to undo, as far as possible, the last 240 years of Australian history”.

“And it’s the whole 26 pages of the Uluru Statement from the Heart that every Australian should read, not the PM’s sanitised one-pager, before they cast their vote in the upcoming referendum,” she said.
The second part of the statement begins by noting First Nations people coexisted on this land for “at least 60,000 years” and that “our sovereignty pre-existed the Australian state and has survived it”, arguing the “unfinished business of Australia’s nationhood includes recognising the ancient jurisdictions of First Nations law”.

“The law was violated by the coming of the British to Australia,” it says.

“Australia was not a settlement and it was not a discovery. It was an invasion. The invasion that started at Botany Bay is the origin of the fundamental grievance between the old and new Australians — that Australia was colonised without the consent of its rightful owners.”

It speaks of the “Tasmanian Genocide and the Black War waged by the colonists” in the “evil time” marked by “massacres, disease and poison”, ultimately leading to “new policies of control and discrimination” as the violence subsided.

“At the heart of our activism has been the long struggle for land rights and recognition of native title,” it says.

“This struggle goes back to the beginning. The taking of our land without consent represents our fundamental grievance against the British Crown. Makarrata is another word for Treaty or agreement-making. It is the culmination of our agenda. It captures our aspirations for a fair and honest relationship with government and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.”

It adds, “By making agreements at the highest level, the negotiation process with the Australian government allows First Nations to express our sovereignty.”
‘Reparations for criminal acts’

The document goes on to outline “reform priorities” that were expressed with the “highest level of support across the country” during the dialogues. “Treaty was seen as a pathway to recognition of sovereignty and for achieving future meaningful reform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,” it says.

“Treaty would be the vehicle to achieve self-determination, autonomy and self-government. The pursuit of Treaty and treaties was strongly supported across the Dialogues. In relation to content, the Dialogues discussed that a Treaty could include a proper say in decision-making, the establishment of a truth commission, reparations, a financial settlement (such as seeking a percentage of GDP), the resolution of land, water and resources issues, recognition of authority and customary law, and guarantees of respect for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.”

One section from the minutes from the Dubbo dialogue noted support for a treaty that would provide “reparations for past criminal acts and compensation for present and future criminal acts”.

Participants in the Hobart dialogue stated that a treaty “must include” land and sea rights, “a fixed percentage of gross nation [sic] product” through “rates/land tax/royalties” and “Aboriginal control”.

A number of participants said the Voice to Parliament must be “better than ATSIC”, the scandal-plagued Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission which was abolished by the government in 2005.

“We lost ATSIC at the stroke of a pen,” one Brisbane dialogue participant said. “Would you abolish Westpac Bank if two or three of its directors were not doing the right thing? I don’t think so.”

The NIAA has been contacted for comment
Treaty ‘a separate issue’

It comes as Mr Albanese faced attacks from the Opposition in parliament this week after he was seen in resurfaced footage at a Midnight Oil concert wearing a T-shirt reading “Voice, Treaty, Truth”.

Liberal deputy leader Sussan Ley used Question Time on Monday to ask about a recent radio interview in which the PM said the upcoming Voice referendum was not about a treaty.

“I thank whoever was interjecting about my T-shirt because yes, Mr Speaker, Ben Fordham has exposed the fact that at the Midnight Oil concert, I wore a Midnight Oil T-shirt,” the PM said.

“I know, Mr Speaker … hold the front page. I am talking about what the referendum is about and it strikes me that the opponents of the referendum, those who are advocating a No vote, want to talk about everything but what the question is about — recognition, listening, in order to get better results.”

Liberal MP Paul Fletcher also asked Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney how the Makarrata Commission would work should the Voice be successful.

As she took to the dispatch box, Mr Albanese could be heard interjecting, “It’s a separate issue.”

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott told 2GB on Tuesday that Mr Albanese had misled Australians when he said the Voice was not about a treaty.

“Quite apart from anything the Prime Minister chose to wear at a concert, I go back to that initial statement he made as Prime Minister,” he said.

“The new government is committed to the Uluru statement from the Heart in full — in other words, ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’ in full. It was, as I said, a moment of amnesia for the Prime Minister to deny here in this chair last week that the Voice had anything to do with treaty. It has everything to do with treaty. The whole point of having a Voice, if the activists are to be believed, is to start the treaty-making process, and government ministers have said as much.”

Credlin said the NIAA documents were at odds with Mr Albanese’s claim that treaty-making processes would be led by states and territories, rather than on the federal level.

“Contrary to PM’s current, poll-panicked claim that the Voice is not about treaties, these official documents confirm that treaties, indeed, are the Uluru Statement’s precise point,” she said.
‘Could take 20 years’

Voice supporters this week attempted to hose down treaty talks, with prominent Yes campaigner Marcus Stewart telling The Sydney Morning Herald treaties “will come at no cost to Australians and could take 10 to 20 years to be negotiated”.

Yes campaign leader Dean Parkin accused the No side of scaremongering and said the upcoming referendum was “about one thing and one thing only, and that is about getting an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to close the gap”.

“It’s important to understand that treaty processes, as the leader of the opposition well understands, are decades-long processes and take a long time to finalise,” he told the newspaper.

Speaking to RN Breakfast on Wednesday, Mr Albanese said processes to negotiate treaties were ongoing with the states and likened being asked if he supported treaty to “like saying do you support the sun coming up”.

“It’s occurring in Victoria, it’s occurring in Queensland, it’s occurring in the Northern Territory,” he said.

Ms Burney has been contacted for comment.
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“Australia was not a settlement and it was not a discovery. It was an invasion.”

Thanks for removing the basis for Native Title, idiots.

And your side lost, so the only essential part of the Treaty is your acceptance of the Terms of Surrender you should be offered. You should pay tribute for all the benefits of modern life that you have received.

It certainly buzzes off those who use the interwebs for self-affirmation.

Now I’m free to annoy without blowback. 😀

“Sancho Panzer
Aug 4, 2023 11:12 AM
Peter Baldwin?
Didn’t the NSW ALP Left once mistake him for a Torrie?”

I think it was the NSW Right, Baldwin was part of the NSW Left.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-10/makarrata-explainer-yolngu-word-more-than-synonym-for-treaty/8790452
“Makarrata has so many layers of meaning,” says Merrikiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, a Gumatj woman and principal of Arnhem Land’s Yirrkala School.

Merrikiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs describes a Makarrata as “a negotiation of peace”.(ABC News: Mitchell Woolnough)
“The first one, and the main one, is peace after a dispute.

“Makarrata literally means a spear penetrating, usually the thigh, of a person that has done wrong… so that they cannot hunt anymore, that they cannot walk properly, that they cannot run properly; to maim them, to settle them down, to calm them — that’s Makarrata.”

Its perfect.
It means peace, by crippling the country.

Midget irish grifter news..
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/aug/04/news-live-garma-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-sofronoff-homelessness-housing-bill-politics-anthony-albanese
Qantas boss Alan Joyce has said it’s “nonsense” to suggest the airline has an outsized influence over the Albanese government, following the refusal of expanded air rights to a key rival carrier and revelations the prime minister’s son had been granted access to the airline’s prestigious chairman’s lounge.

Joyce, speaking in Brisbane on Thursday where he appeared at a Tourism and Events Queensland panel, attempted to hose down speculation the government’s refusal of Qatar Airway‘s push to run an additional 21 weekly flights to Australia’s major airports, was related to his relationship with Anthony Albanese – he said he has “been good mates with Albo for some time” – or any decisions regarding chairman’s lounge access.

Its a big club, and no-one outside canbraaaah is in it.

More lavishing of taxpayer dollars on pet projects:

‘The federal government will contribute $6.4 million toward developing an Indigenous-led “world-class” higher education institute in the remote Northern Territory.
Key points:

The Garma Institute aims to provide tertiary and vocational education to Yolngu students
The federal government will help fund the early stages of the facility’s design and development
Yothu Yindi Foundation chairman Djawa Yunupingu says education remains the “number one priority”

The Garma Institute in north-east Arnhem Land will aim to teach local Yolngu students on Country from childhood education to university.

The project has been driven by Yolngu community leaders and the Yothu Yindi Foundation — the organisers of the annual four-day Garma Festival starting on Friday.

In a statement, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said developing the Garma Institute “has been a long aspiration of the Yolngu people”.

“This partnership shows how governments can work alongside communities, meeting their needs and helping them realise their full potential,” he said.

The Garma Institute is intended to operate as a tertiary and vocational education facility, equipping Yolngu students with knowledge and critical thinking skills, as well as practical jobs training. ‘

As soon as you see the words ‘world class’ on a government announcement, hang on to your wallet. It means cost over-runs and waste, with nothing to show at the end.

Besides, the Yolgnu have received many millions of dollars in mining royalties for many years. Since they can afford boats and helicopters and luxury homes for the Big Men, why can’t they do something about education and training for young people?

If someone, somewhere, is keeping a tally of how much taxpayers are funding the supposedly disenfranchised, don’t forget to add this egregious piece of virtue-signalling at public expense to the list.

Link:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/federal-governments-commits-funding-for-garma-institute/102686118

Thancho its bad enough getting your factions wrong. Imagine if you misgendered hin or her or they or it nonbinary or a freak.

GreyRanga
Aug 4, 2023 12:00 PM

Thancho its bad enough getting your factions wrong. Imagine if you misgendered hin or her or they or it nonbinary or a freak.

The sad but inevitable consequence of working with butchers paper, sparkly glue, and finger-paint.

Peter Baldwin? Didn’t Tom Domican give him a bit of a touch up? Labor politics.

Domican and Ned Smith had a fair old dust up in Long Bay back in 1992.

“Australia was not a settlement and it was not a discovery. It was an invasion.

If it was an ‘invasion’ then all bets are off. Mabo is off the table.

As it damn well should be, because Native Title is an invention of an activist High Court. I doubt if I’ll live long enough to see it rescinded, but I hope my grandchildren do.

I am all for improving the situation of aboriginal people in remote areas disadvantaged by earlier policies of ‘outstations’, but any other special treatment is just not on in a democracy where all people are regarded as equal. There are poor and disadvantaged people everywhere in Australia who could all do with some help from time to time. Let’s concentrate our welfare activities on them all, not just a few.

‘The federal government will contribute $6.4 million toward developing an Indigenous-led “world-class” higher education institute in the remote Northern Territory.

The academic leftist gravy train- the gift that keeps on giving. Funded by that bottomless pit of treasure – OPM. No doubt the pass standards will be rock bottom to ensure many headlines lauding the many graduates as proof of “closing the gap”.

Besides, the Yolgnu have received many millions of dollars in mining royalties for many years. Since they can afford boats and helicopters and luxury homes for the Big Men, why can’t they do something about education and training for young people?

A question never asked. Keith Windshuttle has a good analysis of the main just deceased Big Man in Quadrant’s Voice freebie. Read it and puke. How dare these leeches ask for more when this is going on? Royalties should be sequestered for education from now on if we as taxpayers are to put any funding into educating their kids. I’d also like to see some firm constraints on their offspring’s behaviour before any kids can access these facilities or they will be wrecked within two years of opening.

Upticks are addictive and we are currently going cold turkey. We can get used to it.

The good part is that a comment gets up almost as soon as you press submit, so if you feel very strongly you can also add your own agreement in words. That, in many ways, is better than upticks. At least you know who is agreeing (or disagreeing) with you.

Not one word on Bidens bribes on either the gruinaid or their ABCcess.

How peculiar.

I need to brush up on my humour typeface.

Being a positive type of person, only upticks suit me. If there’s a sh*tty comment, particularly personal ones, the scroll function suffices.

If tempted to “downtick”, surely an alternative argument is better and definitely less passive/aggressive and flaccid.

Forget butchers’ paper. Too many paper cuts. And too much evidence.

The only way to ensure secrecy is the white board.

A couple of comments today had me laughing out loud and I really missed not being able show my approval.

There is always money, that works.

Now that the dust is settling around the Sofronoff Report, it seems that far from playing the judge and jury like a Stradivarius, Dumbgeld was himself being played like a Stradivarius by some or all of the following:

Mizzz Knickerless, Shiraz, the Cane Toad, the Mean Girls, and Commissioner Heidi.

And probably a few more.

I think we are overlooking the importance of BoC. Back of coaster.
So many wonderful ideas of the left have originated in full there.

All of the very best ones.

Forget butchers’ paper. Too many paper cuts. And too much evidence.

Best to use water-based products – and wear an apron.

I’ve noticed how quiet most of the Liars have been over the Invoice. The jockeying for position has already started. The scene from Monty Python Life of Brian comes to mind with women at the stoning. Anyone in favour of the Voice. No No no no no. It was all the Lickspittle Luigi Albanese.

The fat fascist fool still has his head firmly inserted in his rectum, ensuring that the words “10% for the Big Guy” never pollute his eyeballs.

Sad, really, and pathetic.

Get back to something around your proper intellectual level, playing computer games, you idiot.

calli you never used to like upticks, what changed? You only wanted them when you couldn’t have them.

The damnation of neoDarwinians and why maternal diet matters.

I’m Oirish – my culture demands I carry a shillelagh

It’s my cultural right that I carry a claymore because of my Scottish heritage.
After all everyone is painting themselves blue and wearing skirts these days.
Saw a young guy at the shops with fluorescein green hair this morning…why?

Maybe Trans-ticks. Sort of agree, but not quite.

Maybe Trans-ticks. Sort of agree, but not quite.

On the Swan Coastal Plain, Kangaroo Ticks uptick YOU!

I’d rather be in the BC lounge than the Chairman’s. If the latter is full of pollies, I’d risk causing a public fracas and ruin my trip. My one and only brush with Alexander Downer made me want to flatten him.

I could have gotten away with it. They won’t throw you out of a plane at 30,000 feet…will they?

We used to go to the first class lounge quite a bit when Hairy was working and travel came with it, plus the lounge privileges.

It was pretty much a replica of the ordinary business class lounge.

Full of more poseurs though. Not us I hope.

Lizzie emulates the Bourbons once again:

‘ A woman less blooded in the fight against the left and the many injustices of my youth would have given up long ago against such a barrage of hate, based on false accusations by a stalker. I have no hesitation in saying that if I get similar treatment again, I will once more fill this site with my objections to it regardless of the opinions regarding ‘me, me, me’ or ‘precious petal’ … ‘

and on it goes.

I must say, ‘a woman less blooded in the fight against the left’ caught my attention.

Perhaps Lizzie could share with us the fights with the left where her blood was drawn. She sees herself as Boudicca, apparently.

As usual with her dramatic assertions of which she is the star, unsupported by fact, don’t hold your breath.

It sounds like m0nty has a point about the Kushner Saudi cash.
Via NY Post:

Kushner’s firm Affinity Partners made the deal shortly after President Donald Trump left office, despite a Saudi Public Investment Fund review panel’s concerns about “inexperience” and a due diligence review that was “unsatisfactory in all aspects,” according to minutes of a June meeting reported by the New York Times.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman leads the fund’s board, which overruled the skeptics. A letter written by fund staff to a board member who dissented cited “aims to form a strategic relationship with the Affinity Partners Fund and its founder, Jared Kushner” in going ahead with the deal, according to the report.

The only gloss one can put on this is that at least Kushner & Co had the etiquette to wait until the Orange Devolution before actually picking up the cashola. A difference of optics.

I’ve already said I don’t uptick personal attacks. What others do is entirely up to them.

As a public blog anyone can saunter in, uptick what they want, and saunter out again. They don’t need to be registered commenters to do so. Most of us have been on the receiving end of casual and often unfair criticism, sometimes based on a misreading of what was said. It says more about the comprehension skills of the reader and frother rather than the commenter. I don’t like being told I’m stupid and disgusting. Who does?

These are the risks of the internet.

Leaking of report into conduct of Higgins case slammed

“The ACT government is disappointed that the Sofronoff board of inquiry report has been released to select media outlets. The release of information about the inquiry outside of the government procedures has affected the inquiry process and harmed people involved.”

People involved, harmed:

– Shane Drumgold: self-immolation;
– Shane Rattenbury: for calling the Sofronoff Inquiry believing it was going to embarrass the Liberals because “political interference”;
– Shane Rattenbury: for being asleep at the wheel as Drumgold’s relations with the AFP fell in a hole;
– Andrew Barr: for heading the Executive that appointed Drumgold;
– Andrew Barr: for appointing Rattenbury as Attorney General and then trusting him;
– Brinny: for being re-outed as a porky teller after her evidence in court and having a Moller file about her general sketchiness;
– Mean Girls: for flinging brimming buckets of OPM at Brinny because of terrible things done by Liberal Ministers and staffers. No really;

People involved, not harmed:

– Bruce Lehrmann: gifted multi-million compo opportunity;
– Linda Reynolds: shown to be truthful in evidence, not to have improperly impacted the trial, and to have handled Brinny appropriately as Minister;
– Brown: not guilty of oppressing Brinny.
– AFP: shown to have done a decent job of impartial investigation;

On balance, one can see why the ACT Government might be disappointed.

Faustus, it’s always embarrassing for liars when the truth finally comes out. The media is not a friend of the truth, regardless of all their posturing.

They are partisan. This latest simply highlights how grotesquely partisan they are. Yet still people will believe Brinnie because ladyparts. It’s ridiculous.

I can’t be like that judge, I’m afraid. I love DIY, but not DIY knee replacement. 😀

We paid for six hours in one of those private lounges at Heathrow during a looooong layover just over a week ago.

Years ago by a stroke of good fortune with business travel air fares, I and the family had a number of UK stopovers where we could use the First Class Lounge at Theifrow. It was very salubrious then. Great menu, private showers with best of toiletries, very comfortable relaxing spaces. Most enjoyable. FC to Oz then (early 2010’s) on BA was exceptionally noice.

These are the risks of the internet.

I think up/down ticks are fine and part of the open, free discussion we are (still) allowed to have in this country.

Anyone who vehemently rejects this might want to question whether a private blog or perhaps email-only subscription could better handle their needs for attention sans opprobrium from the internet cheap seats.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Aug 4, 2023 1:37 PM
We used to go to the first class lounge quite a bit when Hairy was working and travel came with it, plus the lounge privileges.

I used it once, all I saw was fat suits scoffing free food.

Yes, Makka. We did FC home from LHR in 2008.

I was in a wheelchair (the other knee!) and tried to access the lounge. They were in the midst of a renno and the place was a zoo. Most disappointing, as it was another long layover.

First World Problems as the Beloved always reminds me. When he says that, my mind flies back to that first arrival in POM. Wall to wall nationals, all wanting to touch my snowy haired baby. And as for the other two redheads…

I like to spare people suffering, Amalak. Others enjoy blood sports.

Dover can decide.

I paid good money for my cheap seat. I demand value for money.

Billie:

Mind yo, I giuess they see every other group successfully demaning special treatment for their identity, like LGBT+++, like the Voice etc, so it lowers the entry barrier to demands to underline their differences and uniqueness.

That was precisely the same argument made when the Islamic dietary demands were made – special treatment because of ‘special’.
I doubt there is a slaughter yard that isn’t Halal certified, with the attendant jobs going to the practitioners in a monopoly situation and the non Islamic workers being frozen out of employment.
And don’t forget the fees now going in one direction only.

He told us how Sect 32 of the disclosure now has to show the tribal name of the “original owners” in the locality.

Sickening stuff.
If im to be offered the choice between sycophantly licking the ass of a bunch of Bruce Pascoes or pointing out they were a civilizational dead end and failure then number 2 it is.

These are just a few stories I saw this morning in one Pommy newspaper.

A wowser rag , given to P4 boobs and football gossip on the back page. Get real Bruce.

Gilas, I saw The Whale when I was o/s. It really got under my skin – could easily be a stage play. Fraser is terrific. He was cold shouldered by Hollyweird when he took exception to a foul drip from the Foreign Press Association grabbing him in a sexual way at a function.

He didn’t back down. Apparently it was quite okay unless you were Spacey or the “victim” was female. And the fallout – no roles.

Another Christian Bale movie – Amsterdam. Interesting story. Bale is a horribly wounded doctor repatriated after WWI.

Old Ozzie:

As Fitch becomes the second agency after S&P Global Ratings to strip its triple-A endorsement from the United States’ US$32 trillion of government debt, America’s chaotic politics are catching up with its finances.

All along, the government just continues to blame everyone else for inflation, even when inflation is caused by one thing – excessive money supply growth.
The Globalists can continue to screw the peasants and business, but only one thing can save the US economy – paying its bills and stop inflating the currency.
Do what Germany did in 1948? when Erhardt? removed all the price controls and rationing, and watch the economy adjust.

Many…many upticks, Dr Beau.

The glaring obvious that no one wants to acknowledge.

Negative Ukraine news from NYT of all sources:

Ukrainian Troops Trained by the West Stumble in Battle
Ukraine’s army has for now set aside U.S. fighting methods and reverted to tactics it knows best.

In the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed, according to U.S. and European officials. The toll included some of the formidable Western fighting machines — tanks and armored personnel carriers — that the Ukrainians were counting on to beat back the Russians.

Gian Luca Capovin and Alexander Stronell, analysts with the British security intelligence firm Janes, said that the small-unit attack strategy “is extremely likely to result in mass casualties, equipment loss and minimal territorial gains” for Ukraine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/ukraine-troops-counteroffensive-training.html