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“…Desperate to secure the Hostomel airport less than 20 miles northwest of Kyiv’s center, Russian forces are launching attacks into Hostomel and surrounding settlements. The Russians need the airport to serve as a logistics hub for follow-on operations against Kyiv.
The attacks aren’t going well.
Video posted online on Friday, supported by Ukrainian reporting, indicates that Russian mechanized infantry formations are being destroyed as they move against Hostomel objectives. Graphic video shows a Hostomel road littered with Russian armored troop transport and infantry fighting vehicles. Dead soldiers lie around them. The damage to the vehicles and the injuries to the soldiers suggest they were ambushed under heavy fire, including from antitank weapons. The video shows that some Russian soldiers were unable even to dismount their personnel carriers before being killed.
The video is just one testament to a tragic war. For the Russian military and Vladimir Putin, however, this situation encapsulates an escalating crisis.
It is now clear that the Russian military lacks the troop capacity, combined arms coordination, logistics trains, and morale to sustain a high-tempo war throughout Ukraine. But the more Russian units that are taken off the battlefield, the more limited the means of Russian commanders to pursue their objectives. This will exacerbate tension with higher commanders back in Belarus and Russia who are under pressure from Putin to deliver results. This is to say nothing of the impact on morale for those soldiers who will now be ordered to follow their fallen comrades into what they will assume are prospectively doomed battles. In contrast, the Ukrainian military morale is soaring.
The annihilation of Russian platoons, and thus the shared suffering of families who know each other, poses additional problems on the home front. The personal association of tragedy will fuel anger and make it far harder for Putin’s propagandists to present this war as a limited security operation. Certainly, Putin is not going to be able to keep arguing, as he did on Thursday, that his operation is “going to plan.” As the body count mounts and the obvious failure to make strategic progress becomes clearer, Putin will face escalating protests. The harsh response of Russian police forces against the limited protests that have occurred thus far underlines the Kremlin’s fear in this regard.
At a strategic level, the present dynamic will force Putin to choose massive escalation via artillery and missile supplies (stocks of the most capable missiles being limited in number) or compromise. While Russia’s targeting of civilian infrastructure has escalated this week, it has not been overwhelming, even if it has entailed serious war crimes. Because Putin has emphasized this action as one to unite Ukrainians under a greater, brotherly Russian orbit, his ability to use massive firepower to coerce surrender is more restricted than for Russian forces in Chechnya and Syria. A Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine, for example, continues to be highly unlikely.
In short, what’s happening in Hostomel is a microcosm of the growing crisis facing Putin and the Russian military…”
“…A company called Cana has revealed what it’s calling the planet’s first “molecular beverage printer.” The idea is that, using a single cartridge of flavorings, the machine can mix one of thousands of different beverages, including juice, soft drinks, iced coffee, sports drinks, wine and cocktails.
With Cana One, which is designed to sit on a kitchen countertop, you’ll be able to select a drink from a wide range of beverage types and brands using a touchscreen. You can customize the levels of alcohol, caffeine and sugar (alcoholic and caffeinated drinks can be locked behind a PIN). Cana has teamed up with beverage brands from around the world and created its own concoctions.
A team of scientists spent three years studying popular beverages at the molecular level, Cana says. The researchers seemingly isolated the trace compounds behind flavor and aroma, and used those to create a set of ingredients that can deliver a large variety of drinks…”
Of course this has already been done. Robbie the Robot could do this in 1956. Watch.
Putin Receives Nobel Prize In Medicine For Ending COVID Pandemic
Related:
Paul Revere’s midnight ride to alert liberal media:
When all else fails, just follow the “Science”
Covid is not the only drag on Democrat poll numbers.
Hannibal Lecter: “Love that suit!”
Biden’s team negotiating with Putin:
Thoughts from a senior Democrat “thought leader”:
Kiev. Some things never change.
For the Trump deranged Democrats, media, never-Trumpers out there:
Finally:
Okay, one more. Confusion:
Related:
Alabama gas station manager says he has to remove up to 6 Joe Biden “I did that” stickers from his gas pumps per day. 😂 pic.twitter.com/5OwI6Qrbiu
— Chet Lemond (@ChetLemond) March 4, 2022
She continues: “I have frequently said ‘we’re going to lead with the science’…I think public heard that as ‘science is foolproof. Science is black and white.’…The truth is science is grey. And science is not always immediate.“ pic.twitter.com/lQCvoKjFp8
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) March 4, 2022
Why did the CDC and other governmental bodies that are supposed to be scientific entities shade the science and attempt to squash contrary opinions?
Politics.
Here is the latest example:
Biden wants to keep ’emergency covid powers’ for several more months
Democrats rode this train as far as they could. The polling has gone strikingly negative for them now. Even so, they can’t let go of it.
(2) Importantly, fatherlessness – or whatever less brutal term you prefer – is a purely cultural or cultural/structural variable that, at the group level, has little to do with current racism, genetics, etc.
The pre-1960s OOW birth rate was ~10% for Blacks and 4% for whites.
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) March 2, 2022
This happened in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/2iFfujA7gD
— Asian Dawn (@AsianDawn4) March 4, 2022
Democrats exercising their human rights. Stealing food so their children won’t starve:
Walgreens in San Franpic.twitter.com/6neo9fFwSi
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 4, 2022
You can’t make it up.
Democrat policies become increasingly absurd.
Here’s a group of Democrats that gathered to sing a song demanding mask mandates:
WATCH: New York demonstrators sang a song demanding mask mandates. #NationalReport pic.twitter.com/I0GK53fZgg
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) March 3, 2022
Here’s a Democrat on a national liberal TV show saying that the U.S. constitution is garbage:
"The Constitution is kind of trash," said @ElieNYC on #TheView. pic.twitter.com/9wLkME7i9l
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 4, 2022
Democrats.
These people are Democrats.
Vote for Democrats and this is what you will get.
Yes. This will work.
How bad is the Biden Administration? This bad:
Biden Partnering With Russia’s Putin On Another Iran Deal
Hard to believe? It gets worse:
Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: Buying oil from Iran is “on the table” pic.twitter.com/aNUNBPFHvH
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 3, 2022
Instead of investing in American oil and gas, the Biden Administration wants to buy oil from Russia and Iran. This will somehow save the planet from global warming.
Complete bumbling idiots. We live in the age of stupid.
You can’t make it up.
The U.S. People’s Convoy has made it to Lore City, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/nQvmhWqTgG
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) March 4, 2022
