A Military Realist View of the Ukraine War: Episode 6

Thanks Dover for putting me onto this channel.
He thinks laterally & critically.
And he points out the big gaps that no one apart from those with access to the drone footage can possibly know.

Hey, Albo, how are all those illegal country shoppers going that you set free?

Immigration detainee arrested over alleged involvement in home invasion (Sky News, 29 Apr)

Ex-immigration detainee charged with breaching visa conditions in Melbourne, just weeks after another asylum seeker allegedly bashed a Perth grandmother (30 Apr)

Sounds like they are having a fine old time! I do hope that you will do something about this sir.

I’ve been saying this would happen for years.
Taxpayers via the federal pot to bail out state governments.

Chris Joye via the AFR.

On State government budgets from the AFR:

ACT and Victoria budgets so bad they may eventually require a Federal Budget top treasury official says…

Former federal Treasury official Stephen Anthony urged better co-ordination between the federal and state governments to control inflation-inducing budgets, in order to stop fiscal policy working against the Reserve Bank of Australia’s interest rate rises.

He warned that heavily indebted Victoria and the Australia Capital Territory were on an unsustainable path and could ultimately require a federal “bailout”.

Reintroducing annual state borrowing limits via the lapsed federal-state Loan Council that was active during the Keating government in the 1990s would impose a “binding constraint” on government outlays and debt, Mr Anthony said.

“The ACT and Victoria are technically in breach of the Loan Council limits if they were applied retrospectively,” he said.

“The ACT cannot structurally run a budget surplus and Victoria is on a suicide mission to record borrowing, just as global interest rates are about to hit 5 per cent.

“Potholes can’t get filled, emergency departments can’t afford clean linen, primary schools can’t fix heaters,” he said of stories circulating in his native Victoria.

“Things are about to get very ugly.”

Tucker Carlson
Klaus Schwab, Transgenderism, and AI | Russian Philosopher Aleksandr Dugin

I’m part way through this and he seems to be discussing the method, not the motives.

I see db has also been pushing this rubbish on Twitter. Fascism, open and unabridged. Dugin is on a level with LaRouche, Irving and every mass shooter with a manifesto. It is remarkable that such filth goes largely unassailed in broadcast media.

Cranky, I am as responsible for the war crimes of Hamas as you are for the war crimes of the IDF. Which is to say: not at all. Neither of us must condemn anything.

I am not a practising Catholic, it is true, but I do agree with Christians that the whole “eye for an eye” thing is best left in the Old Testament, superseded by the superior and more sophisticated moral framework set down by Jesus Christ.

I was thinking about a federal “IMF”….you need a federal bailout, you get appointed an independent administrator who controls your budget for a period of ten years or so until you’re in surplus and have paid back the bailout to the tax payer with interest.

Some states would welcome this.
They’d wedge the federal government politically.
Every pot hole & dud teacher would be because of the cruel financial conditions Canberra had put on the poor state.

Imagine Dan Andrews versus ScoMo.

Well-written:

Want to stop knife crime? Here’s why searches are only a start
As a former police detective sergeant with 20 years in the police force, I can say with absolute certainty what’s needed is a serious and frank discussion about knife crime and knife laws.

Rod Roberts
Independent NSW Upper House MP

Sydney has seen a shocking new level of violence these past months.

On Friday night in the middle of April, police swarmed Bondi after a woman was reportedly stabbed outside a charity event.

The following day, a mentally ill man took a knife to Westfield Bondi and began a terrifying rampage that left six dead, 12 wounded and a nation in shock.

Just two days after that, an alleged terrorist attack, this time with a 16-year-old male accused of allegedly violently stabbing at a Bishop in the middle of a busy Christian congregation.

That’s not all. A few days prior, another stabbing, with a 18-year-old dying tragically in his mother’s arms, apparently the result of an ongoing gang feud.

What isn’t shocking is the method of violence. Some are suggesting that the common factor is that the suspects are all male.

But as a former police detective sergeant with 20 years in the police force, I can say with absolute certainty that this is the last thing that this crisis needs.

Instead, what’s needed is a serious and frank discussion about knife crime and knife laws.

More than 519 people have been murdered by knives in NSW in the last two decades, nearly twice as many as those with guns.

Knife crime is a serious problem that is destroying lives, ruining families and putting strain on the police and paramedics.

And the responsibility to fix this lays squarely on the Premier Chris Minns and his Police Minister Yasmin Catley.

Yet there is hope. We can solve this issue, but we need to get cracking. The only question is whether the government will listen to commonsense, or listen to the Greens.

My suggestion is that it’s time to put aside the politics, and put people’s lives first.

The first and easiest step is to follow Queensland’s lead by adopting the use of metal detection wands.

These help police officers search for knives in a thorough, fast, and non-intrusive way.

This is an easy win, and it’s been supported by NSW Police Force’s union. My work as a detective meant an absolute reliance on facts, and the facts from Queensland’s trial don’t lie: In less than two years these wands have taken 800 knives off the street, saving an untold number of lives.

The wands work, so let’s get the wands.

The second step is to carve up the Knife Crimes Bill of 2023. As I argued at the time, this bill fails to stop knife crime because it short-sightedly ­focuses on the maximum penalties, not minimum penalties.

If you’re carrying a knife, chances are you’re not thinking too clearly about anything, let alone thinking about the risk of copping an $11,000 fine. It was a well-meaning but misguided Bill that was sadly divorced from the front lines of reality.

Let’s bump up and enforce minimum penalties.

Third is strengthening our weak bail laws. As we’ve seen recently, weak bail laws can have tragic consequences. People are being put back on our street when they shouldn’t be.

If the bail laws are not meeting community expectations, then parliament must step in.

Start by setting real criteria: If someone is searched on reasonable grounds and found by police to be carrying a knife in public without proper exemption, throw the book at them. Leniency should be the last resort, not the first.

I want to highlight to you why it’s important that Catley and Minns need to get serious about this crackdown.

It’s true that gun crime gets the headlines, but knife crime is nearly six times more prevalent in murders, ­assaults, robberies and attempted murders in NSW.

In non-domestic assault cases, knives were used seven times more than guns. The Greens may scream that knife crime is going down and that none of this is needed, but I would argue that it’s not going down fast enough.

And while the left will scream black and blue about “human rights”, I ask: what about the rights of the victim? What about our rights to go about our day without fear of being stabbed?

I have seen too much knife crime in my time as a detective and as a politician: I have seen how it ruins lives, tears apart families, and puts communities on edge. I’ve seen enough of it to fill a lifetime many times over. Minns and Catley must act.

Get the wands, expand the minimum penalties for carrying a knife, and toughen up bail laws. No more of this, Premier.

– Rod Roberts is an Independent MP for NSW and Deputy President of the Upper House.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/want-to-stop-knife-crime-heres-why-searches-are-only-a-start/news-story/a641356ff9af6075a3f3c812cc9bfe24

In Exuding Power news:

Brittany Higgins fails in bid to delay defamation trial brought by Senator Linda Reynolds

No instructions:

Tuesday in court, Ms Higgins’ lawyer Nicholas Owens had asked that the six-week trial set to begin on July 24 be vacated on the grounds that he had not received the necessary instruction from his client to prepare for it.

Mental Elf:

“It would be expected to be a highly traumatising event for my client who was found to be raped, she was thrust back into the public spotlight again,” he told the court.

Holed up in Provence:

Mr Owens acknowledged producing evidence of these health concerns was hampered by his client and her treating doctors being overseas.

On the Road to Nowhere:

Mr Sharaz’s lawyer, Jason MacLaurin, initially put to Justice Tottle that his client was “considering every avenue that will avoid the cost of expensive defamation litigation”.

“His financial means do not admit to really being able to support it. If I can use vernacular, he probably won’t buy a ticket on the Titanic, because that’s where this action is heading, extremely expensive, heading for disaster, he … wants to get off this ride,” he said.

Tottle J. was deeply unimpressed and delivered a judicial bollocking from the bench.

My Spidey Senses suggest that Froggie Brinny may be a no show. Because health concerns.

Well, colour me surprised!

B@stard politicians (and teachers unions). Never forgive, never forget.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/30/the-terrible-cost-of-the-school-shutdowns/

New government figures show that permanent exclusions and suspensions from English schools hit record highs during the academic year of 2022-23. This provides a further indication of the harm done by the wholesale closure of schools for large parts of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

We already know that there are tens of thousands of children who have been repeatedly absent or who have never returned to school after the easing of Covid restrictions in 2021. Indeed, in September 2022, it was reported that 93,000 kids had ‘simply vanished and fallen off school registers’ since the start of the pandemic in early 2020.

Now it’s becoming clear that the school shutdowns have affected the behaviour of many of the children who did return to school. It seems that there’s a large number of pupils who now resent being in the classroom so much that they’re taking it out on their teachers and fellow pupils. This has led to a rise in exclusions and suspensions.

“It would be expected to be a highly traumatising event for my client who was found to be raped”
Either way, nothing has actually changed since the night in question
‘Being found to have been raped ‘ as though she was waiting for someone else to tell her, Lee wasn’t there.