Yesterday I came across this one uncensored 10 second loop of a tree burning from the central core, spewing flames out, while its leaves were unburned and a truck drove by, again and again and again... This is from a local person. All private-citizen local videos were immediately removed from social media, but this one was picked up by a local news station and looped, sort of like the WTC collapse videos that are burned into our memories. Watch the flames shoot from the core of the tree, while unburned leaves blow in the breeze.
How would the core of a tree burn out while the bark and leaves are not burned? It's like a microwave oven heating my coffee, but not the mug, isn't it? Microwave energy is like radar. The wavelengths excite polar molecules and may be completely absorbed by electrically conductive metals. I can remember putting old China in a microwave, the kind with that tiny metallic edge accent, which got really hot and burned me when I picked up the bowl. I didn't do that again. Polar molecules, like water, but not only water, absorb microwave energy, and it is converted to heat in the material which contains them. Would that include automotive windshields and windows? There are so many images of melted windshields draped over dashboards like a melted cheese slice on a hamburger patty... I googled it below, and below that is a video posted by Dora in the comments at The Automatic Earth, of Canadian trees, mobile-homes, houses and cars burned in unusual ways. It is a video interview of a Forensic Arborist who studied a lot of forest fires around human towns and suburbs in Canada. Water-loving trees like willows burned from the core, sometimes only the core burned, leaving a charred bowl in the center, or a charred cave in the middle of a large tree with unburned bark. Willows along a river, with roots in the water, all burned, while dry pines going up the mountainside next to them did not burn. A mobile home is completely burned out, while the trees around it and the dry wooden landing steps up to where the front door was are unburned.
The materials required to make a windshield
The key ingredients to make windshield glass are soda ash, silica sand, limestone, dolomite and cullet. There are little quantities and traces of aluminum oxide and potassium oxide also included most of the time.
Silica is the major ingredient and around 65-70% of the windshield glass is just silica. This is what makes glass. After silica, soda ash is added to the mixture when silica is being heated. It decreases the melting point of the mix. Dolomite makes the mixture easier to work with, whereas limestone increases the efficiency of the glass and gives it a good finish. Limestone is also a key ingredient for making the glass more durable.
Then some water is poured into the mixture and heated at a specific temperature. All these chemicals and materials being blended and heated together give birth to glass.
I don't think the first part of the SMO was a disappointment for Russia or that Ukraine was stronger than expected.
Initially there was great risk to Donbas as Ukraine had prepared very strong artillery positions outside Donbas. Also the CIA warnings of a Russian invasion was not because Russia expected to invade, but because it would use a False flag when Ukraine attacked Donbas.
So pre-SMO was a very dangerous time for Donbas, and inserting enough Russian Artillery between Donbas and Ukraine would have been impossible - they would have been blasted away before they started.
So for me (and I think Russian MOD) the great distraction, much of it West of Kiev, was a huge success and saved many many civilians in Donbas.
I think the trap is to think "oh I never expected a Russian invasion therefore I must have got it wrong, Russia did want to invade Russia". Rather the invasion was the only way left to defend Donbas. (And clearly US never told Kiev they genuinely expected an invasion because no Ukrainians were ready waiting for one. This will be seen in time as one of the great Ironic acts of war.
Donbas survived, the initial SMO was a huge success.
I agree with some of your comments. But at the beginning at the tactical level there were some serious mistakes that cost significant number of lives and even more equipment. The good thing is that Russian high command learned the lesson and adopted. In any case it is far from over but definitely is heading in the direction where one side with no matter how much support have from its queasy allies will must sit at the table and negotiate or sign the capitulation.
I'd still argue that Russia got the big things right in the first month, and many of the little things can be described as "show" and therefore part of the distraction. But I don't have the depth of information you have so I can't make that point strongly.
There is another Big strategic victory that Russia achieved which similarly no one credits them with. The Nightmare scenario would be a fully manned and armed Ukrainian army that withdrew, even to the Dnieper, from the start but continued to shell Russian speaking towns. The Ukrainian downside would be some Ukrainian speaking civilians would be at risk, but the PR would be good, the infuriation for Russia would be much greater, and Ukraine would have had a far far greater chance of agreeing a draw in time.
Why didn't this happen? Russian strategy? The fake gain and lost of not really controlled land? Kiev stupidity or the cost of partnering with the Americans? I am not sure. But if Russian tactics have mimicked Muhammed Ali in dancing around the edge of the ring and picking off careless advances by the naive opponent, we have to wonder how they convinced Ukraine to play chase.
(Metrics - according to the pro-Russia scoring system, Russia is winning by some 400k to 50k. According to pro-Ukraine scoring Ukraine took back 6000 sqkm last year, making the score something like 19,000 to 7,000! There is no way that Ukraine has been doing well at any point.)
I like this 'Muhammed Ali in dancing around the edge of the ring and picking off...'! In reality it is like that. Casualty ratio is 10:1 or even more and that ratio is a modern application of the von Falkenhayn attrition war. Russia said that will demilitarize Ukraine meaning slowly but steady grind the Ukrainian military. What may be the other outcome on the west is that when there is no more capable army to defend the country, those who have a historical claims on some of the current Ukrainian territories may try to materialize them. If the war not stop soon (and highly likely will not) the Ukraine as a sovereign country will cease to exist.
So how did they persuade Ukraine to play chase? It has been a huge strategic success although no one wants to credit Russia for doing so, and indeed no one knows how Russia did it. We de-miliatarisation nearly finished, but we could have the full Nazis and full military sitting on the Dnieper shelling even more civilians, taking none of the losses, inviting Russia to charge into a quagmire and with better photo ops for the west than ever.
I'm not so confident looking forward though. Yes Poland is more credible than any Ukrainian or Nato candidate as being able to set up a structure that does not include shelling civilians at the first opportunity. But Poland and Ukrainians? As I understand it prior to WW1 Galicia had a Polish autocracy that used Jewish supervisors with ukrainians at the bottom of the pyramid. This is why Ukrainians were so keen to sign up as Nazis and murder large numbers of Poles and Jews. Poland running Galicia sounds like a nightmare (for Poles - I have many Polish friends - if OK for Russia).
It's not honest to create traffic using col McGregor's name and copying videos from other channels. This video was made by a Swiss YouTuber and is also available on col McGregor's channel...
Thank you so much Mike for all your time-knowledge & help-We appreciate you!!!
You are welcome Juan!
Yesterday I came across this one uncensored 10 second loop of a tree burning from the central core, spewing flames out, while its leaves were unburned and a truck drove by, again and again and again... This is from a local person. All private-citizen local videos were immediately removed from social media, but this one was picked up by a local news station and looped, sort of like the WTC collapse videos that are burned into our memories. Watch the flames shoot from the core of the tree, while unburned leaves blow in the breeze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd4-0OjRjCU
How would the core of a tree burn out while the bark and leaves are not burned? It's like a microwave oven heating my coffee, but not the mug, isn't it? Microwave energy is like radar. The wavelengths excite polar molecules and may be completely absorbed by electrically conductive metals. I can remember putting old China in a microwave, the kind with that tiny metallic edge accent, which got really hot and burned me when I picked up the bowl. I didn't do that again. Polar molecules, like water, but not only water, absorb microwave energy, and it is converted to heat in the material which contains them. Would that include automotive windshields and windows? There are so many images of melted windshields draped over dashboards like a melted cheese slice on a hamburger patty... I googled it below, and below that is a video posted by Dora in the comments at The Automatic Earth, of Canadian trees, mobile-homes, houses and cars burned in unusual ways. It is a video interview of a Forensic Arborist who studied a lot of forest fires around human towns and suburbs in Canada. Water-loving trees like willows burned from the core, sometimes only the core burned, leaving a charred bowl in the center, or a charred cave in the middle of a large tree with unburned bark. Willows along a river, with roots in the water, all burned, while dry pines going up the mountainside next to them did not burn. A mobile home is completely burned out, while the trees around it and the dry wooden landing steps up to where the front door was are unburned.
The materials required to make a windshield
The key ingredients to make windshield glass are soda ash, silica sand, limestone, dolomite and cullet. There are little quantities and traces of aluminum oxide and potassium oxide also included most of the time.
Silica is the major ingredient and around 65-70% of the windshield glass is just silica. This is what makes glass. After silica, soda ash is added to the mixture when silica is being heated. It decreases the melting point of the mix. Dolomite makes the mixture easier to work with, whereas limestone increases the efficiency of the glass and gives it a good finish. Limestone is also a key ingredient for making the glass more durable.
Then some water is poured into the mixture and heated at a specific temperature. All these chemicals and materials being blended and heated together give birth to glass.
https://www.smileysglass.com/blog/how-are-windshields-manufactured#
LOOKING FOR CLUES in the CANADIAN FIRES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHeoaIh7cx8
Thanks for the links. I will watch those videos Everything is very fishy at least.
Thank You, Mike. It's off-topic, but not off-topic for Covert-War-Against-Humanity.
Yw. It is a war or better say 'wars' waging over there and we are all on stake...
Surprise to hear Mike mentioning "Papua New Guinea nationalists"!
First time I hear this...I am from Papua New Guinea and nobody knows where it is!
Weird...but proud that Mike mentioned it. God bless you.
I don't think the first part of the SMO was a disappointment for Russia or that Ukraine was stronger than expected.
Initially there was great risk to Donbas as Ukraine had prepared very strong artillery positions outside Donbas. Also the CIA warnings of a Russian invasion was not because Russia expected to invade, but because it would use a False flag when Ukraine attacked Donbas.
So pre-SMO was a very dangerous time for Donbas, and inserting enough Russian Artillery between Donbas and Ukraine would have been impossible - they would have been blasted away before they started.
So for me (and I think Russian MOD) the great distraction, much of it West of Kiev, was a huge success and saved many many civilians in Donbas.
I think the trap is to think "oh I never expected a Russian invasion therefore I must have got it wrong, Russia did want to invade Russia". Rather the invasion was the only way left to defend Donbas. (And clearly US never told Kiev they genuinely expected an invasion because no Ukrainians were ready waiting for one. This will be seen in time as one of the great Ironic acts of war.
Donbas survived, the initial SMO was a huge success.
I agree with some of your comments. But at the beginning at the tactical level there were some serious mistakes that cost significant number of lives and even more equipment. The good thing is that Russian high command learned the lesson and adopted. In any case it is far from over but definitely is heading in the direction where one side with no matter how much support have from its queasy allies will must sit at the table and negotiate or sign the capitulation.
I'd still argue that Russia got the big things right in the first month, and many of the little things can be described as "show" and therefore part of the distraction. But I don't have the depth of information you have so I can't make that point strongly.
There is another Big strategic victory that Russia achieved which similarly no one credits them with. The Nightmare scenario would be a fully manned and armed Ukrainian army that withdrew, even to the Dnieper, from the start but continued to shell Russian speaking towns. The Ukrainian downside would be some Ukrainian speaking civilians would be at risk, but the PR would be good, the infuriation for Russia would be much greater, and Ukraine would have had a far far greater chance of agreeing a draw in time.
Why didn't this happen? Russian strategy? The fake gain and lost of not really controlled land? Kiev stupidity or the cost of partnering with the Americans? I am not sure. But if Russian tactics have mimicked Muhammed Ali in dancing around the edge of the ring and picking off careless advances by the naive opponent, we have to wonder how they convinced Ukraine to play chase.
(Metrics - according to the pro-Russia scoring system, Russia is winning by some 400k to 50k. According to pro-Ukraine scoring Ukraine took back 6000 sqkm last year, making the score something like 19,000 to 7,000! There is no way that Ukraine has been doing well at any point.)
I like this 'Muhammed Ali in dancing around the edge of the ring and picking off...'! In reality it is like that. Casualty ratio is 10:1 or even more and that ratio is a modern application of the von Falkenhayn attrition war. Russia said that will demilitarize Ukraine meaning slowly but steady grind the Ukrainian military. What may be the other outcome on the west is that when there is no more capable army to defend the country, those who have a historical claims on some of the current Ukrainian territories may try to materialize them. If the war not stop soon (and highly likely will not) the Ukraine as a sovereign country will cease to exist.
Thanks for the reply.
So how did they persuade Ukraine to play chase? It has been a huge strategic success although no one wants to credit Russia for doing so, and indeed no one knows how Russia did it. We de-miliatarisation nearly finished, but we could have the full Nazis and full military sitting on the Dnieper shelling even more civilians, taking none of the losses, inviting Russia to charge into a quagmire and with better photo ops for the west than ever.
I'm not so confident looking forward though. Yes Poland is more credible than any Ukrainian or Nato candidate as being able to set up a structure that does not include shelling civilians at the first opportunity. But Poland and Ukrainians? As I understand it prior to WW1 Galicia had a Polish autocracy that used Jewish supervisors with ukrainians at the bottom of the pyramid. This is why Ukrainians were so keen to sign up as Nazis and murder large numbers of Poles and Jews. Poland running Galicia sounds like a nightmare (for Poles - I have many Polish friends - if OK for Russia).
That channel uses videos from others like this one : https://youtu.be/cPNDa6739_0
It's not honest to create traffic using col McGregor's name and copying videos from other channels. This video was made by a Swiss YouTuber and is also available on col McGregor's channel...