The New Atlas – July 17, 2023
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Ukraine has struck the Crimean Bridge again, killing several civilians and damaging the bridge;
▪️While waiting for a full assessment on damage, it appears support columns are intact, one road section is damaged, rail traffic is able to run;
▪️Before the bridge was constructed and before the SMO established a land bridge, ferries and shipping supplied the Russian peninsula;
▪️Crimea can/will survive without the bridge in even the WORST case scenario;
▪️Russia will respond with strategic patience, as it always does, because that is how conflicts are won;
▪️Sun Tzu in The Art of War says: “it is the unemotional, reserved, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.”
▪️There is a good reason Russia demonstrates patience even after the most extreme provocations, this is why after over a year of fighting NATO’s combined might, Russia still has the a
References:
BBC – Ukraine war: Two dead after ’emergency’ on Crimea bridge (July 17, 2023): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe…
RT – Traffic stopped on Crimean Bridge due to ‘emergency’ – governor (July 17, 2023): https://www.rt.com/russia/579814-crim…
Guardian – Putin opens 12-mile bridge between Crimea and Russian mainland (May 2018): https://www.theguardian.com/world/201…
Guardian – Russia’s bridge link with Crimea moves nearer to completion (August 2017): https://www.theguardian.com/world/201…
BBC – Ukraine conflict: Putin ally to build bridge to Crimea (January 2015): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe…
Institute for the Study of War (ISW) – The Russian Military’s Lessons Learned in Syria (January 2021): https://www.understandingwar.org/repo…
USAID, IRI – Public Opinion Survey Residents of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea May 16 – 30, 2013: https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaec7…
The Art of War, Sun Tzu: https://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html
The Art of War (additional quote/interpretation):
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3223…
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ABSOLUTE BOGWASH.
Infrastructure projects are hugely symbolic, even if they are mostly practical, such as the Crimea bridge.
As soon as Russia blamed MI6 and the SAS/SBS, the UKrainian Nazis accepted responsibility.
Bollox stories about a drone boat, or whatever. Explosives need to be where they are needed, not at water level, where the blast pressure discipates rapidly.
The support columns are intact, so are the bridge spans, even if they’ve dropped.
While I’m no letters based expert, I know enough that charges needed to be placed under the bridge spans where they fix with the columns. If the distant images are real, then the camera operator was waiting to take the images, and I’m sure for propaganda value, they threw in some Hollywood style pyrotechnics.
My guess, submarine, mini sub, smallish charged drones which stuck to the bridge with magnets, boom. This was probably a 2 man operation.
This is a 12 mile bridge, and you’ll note, both bridge attacks are on lowish sections.
The Brits did get caught trying to micronuke this bridge, but that was using a boat.
In terms of the actual war, very little impact, but geopolitically, this is major, because the free world is learning just how nasty Nazi Britain is, because, this is international terrorism. Bankrupt Britain can’t fight Russia toe to toe, so it’s the usual dirty tricks.
The thing is, MI6 does what it likes. No one outside the deep state has any say what goes on.
Tower Bridge is falling down, and suggestions the Russians hit this bridge is a joke, because Tower Bridge is a pain in the arse, and needs to be replaced with a big fat corporate lush.
A better target would be a Severn bridge, the Humber, or the Forth Bridge or one of the other two. I’d sink a carrier.
On another tack, see the so called alternative media language.
I am not going to name them. You know who they are, but there’s this major theme that even though Russia blames the British, they all report that UKraine did it.
I don’t believe there’s a single alternative media or truth site you can trust. I can’t think of a single name where I can think, ‘maybe, just maybe this sheeple is the real deal.
Ukraine is playing the semantics game and justifying the attack on the Kerch Bridge by calling it military infrastructure not civilian. They shouldn’t brag about what they’re doing and should be rather coy about it. It’s big at 12 miles long and never moves yet they’ve hardly hit it and even then they need western arms to do it. And in revenge for a few of days of propaganda crowing Russia wiped out 700 troops in 24 hours as well as two arms dumps, a fuel depot and lots of armoured pieces. That’s not something to brag about.
I would take out the Chunnel and flatten Keev. Why is Russia stalling?
If one is waging war (regardless what it’s called,,, Special operation, Police action, etc) one should expect his opponent to strike back. In war there are no rules. After the first kerch bombing one would imagine Russia would be on the look out for more attacks. Apparently not.
Ukraine is fighting for it’s very existence. I would not expect them to obey the Queens Rules. Now I don’t care much for the Ukronazis but war is what it is. All’s fair in love and war.
So, Russia,,, beef up your security, take Odessa or do whatever it takes to stop/reduce these attacks and stop calling them terrorism. And Putin… Get your head out of Schwabs ass.
‘… Crimean Bridge & Why it Doesn’t Matter’
Oh, Mr Berletic! It does matter! Slava Ukraini, you know! 🙂
But seriously: Thank you for yet another brilliant piece of fact exposition.
@ Yukon Jack
“I would take out the Chunnel and flatten Keev. Why is Russia stalling?”
Because it has diddly squat to gain. It’s the same reason they don’t talk about “moon landers” and “9 11s” – there’s no point.
The russians and the chinese and the iranians aren’t going to save you. Look at it from their point of view. The jews are dismantling your country for profit and control. How does russia etc gain by stopping that happening? They’d rather wait for you all to be slaves or dead and then mop up the remains.
@ YUKON JACK
you dont understand that Kiev even for the
russians is the symbol of Kiever Rus . even
the americans hesitated to bomb Kyoto as
they knew its holy place of culture + identity
for the japanese .