In Mordorvia
For Lo! we are back with another Intro looking at Pyotr Kurzin's 'Global Gambit' vlog about the four years plus of the Puff-Phaced Petrol Pimp's Special Idiotic Operation. With added comments from Conrad, as I cannot resist and don't want to merely lift the whole thing and risk copyright issues. Art!
Yes, very kaiju and of course - obviously! - nothing whatsoever to do with this Intro. Once again, whose blog is it?
SO Pyotr phrased this part of his analysis as 'War As A Psychological Strategy' since Putinpot thinks, hopes, believes and prays that Ukraine will collapse either militarily or economically first, rather than Mordorvia. However, as all the NAFO members keep pointing out, we are now in Year Five of the 'Three Day SIO' and Ukraine hasn't crumbled, despite suffering their worst winter so far. Art!
Imagine this with no power, light or running water
The political pressure that the Trump administration has brought to bear on Kyiv has also proved ineffectual, as Ukrainian dependency on South Canadian munitions is a fraction of what it was originally; this is for two reasons, one being the EU stepping up and in, and the other being home-grown ordnance filling any gaps.
Then again, if - and it's an 'if' rendered in neon letters ten feet tall - yes go ahead Art -
- Putinpot did accept a ceasefire AND peace deal, Ruffia's wartime economy would implode into a recession as their military-industrial complex abruptly stopped working. Not only that, there would be 700,000 ex-soldiers back on the streets of Ruffian cities, towns and villages, armed with illegally-held weapons, off their head on drugs and suffering from PTSD. Putinpot doesn't want this to happen, but he cannot also afford to keep the SIO going. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
Come peace, and assuming all the twitchy armed junkies are sent to Siberia - Stalin did this with those injured in the Great Patriotic War so as to not jar the delicate sensibilities of his serf population - Putinpot's own orcs will start to ask questions about the SIO. Why were losses so incredibly high? Why is the economy in the toilet? Why are we now a trade colony of China? Art!
Shortly to be owned by Xi
Here an aside. Do NOT mistake China for an ally of Ruffia. They merely have a common enemy, that being South Canada, and China is quite happy to gouge Mordorvia as much as possible for as long as possible. Let me explicate a little further -
China has raised prices of fiber optic cables, which are critical for drone control, by 2.5-4 times for Russian buyers, according to Russian media. At the beginning of 2025, G.652D fiber, used in telecommunications cables, cost 16 yuan ($2.33) per kilometer in China, and in January 2026, it already cost 40 yuan ($5.80) per km.
From 'Anton Gerashchenko' on Twitter. The Ruffians, you see, don't have any capacity to produce fibre optic cable themselves, since their single plant producing it was blown up a year ago.
ANYWAY AGAIN Putinpot cannot escalate the war or end it, so he is now trying to reframe it as a war for the very survival of Ruffia (and himself), once again making the calculus that his orc serfs will put up with an infinite amount of suffering because they have to. That will work until it doesn't, since the war is not winding down or petering out but getting more bloody by the month. Art!
Courtesy the very excellent Clement Molin
Here are the metrics I mentioned. O - 'murrain' is an obsolete word used to describe any plaguey disease. The area that Putinpot wants most of all, the Donbas, is where Ruffia has managed to advance 60 kilometres in 4 years. This isn't very impressive when you realise this leaves 1,254 kilometres to the western border of Ukraine, and averages at just over 41 metres per day. Or, for our South Canadian readers, the distance from Washington to Baltimore in a 40 minute train journey. The yellow lines above are Ukrainian defence lines that have been conquered, the blue lines are the ones remaining that the orcs need to conquer before they get another 10 kilometres further. Art!
Apropos the above, Mordorvia cannot now generate enough combat power to break Ukrainian lines, because any concentration of troops is instantly spotted by drones and then attacked. Minor tactical gains - again see the 41 metres daily average above - do not translate to operational, let alone strategic advantages. Plus, the supply of stupid, greedy or stupid and greedy orcs is drying up, with significant shortfalls in recruitment in December and January - no figures released for February yet. The orcs that do turn up for service are of low quality with poor to non-existent morale, and there is a profound '500' problem, i.e. desertion, in the ranks affecting possibly 70,000 troops. Art!
Cities like Saint Petersburg can afford to pay enormous sign-up bonuses, to the order of ₽4 million ($52,000) for specialist roles, whilst a lot of the provinces are bankrupt and can't pay any sign-up bonus, in which case nobody signs up. Where the bonus is paid, it averages ₽2.5 million ($30,000) which significantly affects the Ruffian military budget. Regions paying this kind of bonus need to bring in 1,000 volunteers to cover monthly losses, which equals $360 million per annum. Over a third of a billion dollars just in sign-up bonuses.
This plan that everything's going accordingly to must be some kind of special.
Further To King Piggy's Scrofulitic Neck
David Pakman, whom I follow on Youtube, and who has an open loathing of Fat Caligula, put up an hilarious quiz on Youtube yesteryon, which I will copy here. Art!
March Is Bearing Up Well
Today being the command to go forward, as in 'March Forth', a pun you can only make one one day of the year and I'm currently typing this out on March 4th, so there. Art!
Bright, sunny, not too windy nor chilly. Also, you can't see the grubby state of my Sekrit Layr's window against the azure sky. Weather like this is a double-edged sword as yes, taking Edna for trotties is considerably less burdensome than in an overcast with rain, yet the world and his wife will be walking their woofers, too.
Too Much Of Bad Thing?
I came across a quote this morning from John Bolton, the South Canadian UN Ambassador and ex-Defence Secretary under Donnie Dorko, which was quite stinging. Ol' John was getting a bit of his own back on DJ Tango, whom insulted him after he left office. Art!
I cannot believe it takes 25 minutes to give him the look of someone who has just dabbed their face in a trough of gravy. The hair I can believe, it ends up looking like a motorcycle helmet made of fur. One reason he never takes his MAGA cap off when cheating at golf.
You What?
Once again my news feed throws up strange items that are cursed by the sub-editor not being able to speak or write grammatically. Art!
Do they mean 'largest maker of Belleville Springs'? Is this how one abbreviates 'Manufacturing'? What is a 'Belleville Disc Spring' anyway?
Ah.
A Belleville disc spring (or washer) is a conical-shaped, frusto-conical washer designed to act as a spring, bearing high axial loads with minimal deflection in confined spaces.
Art!
No I'm not going to explain what 'Frusto-conical' is. Go do your own research.
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