It gets better: you need nitric acid to convert toluene to TNT.
Nitric acid comes from ammonia via the Ostvald process - Europe has closed down roughly 2/3rds of its ammonia production due to high natural gas prices. So it won't be coming from there.
And the removal/reduction of Russian nitrogen fertilizer exports from Western markets means ever more demand for the outputs from the 40 to 70 year old ammonia plants that still exist in the US...do you think the US will build many more Haber Bosch ammonia plants ($1B+ each) to compensate any time soon?
Excellent article. The west has already lost this war which in fact started a long time ago even before WW2. The arrogance and hubris of this exceptionalism has always been there. Nothing surprising. The empire is declining in every which way unfotunately the evil maniacal people at the very top that make these decisions will inflame the world. We are into a civilisational shift between east and west not my theory but I think this is what the war will be about. Mackinder's theory.
In American english they say, when you're up to your neck in shit, don't make waves.
Or, people who live in glass houses ought not throw stones.
Elenskies told US con gress he had won the battle for the minds of the world. By stabbing our hearts with vile propaganda .
Dear Dad,
Thanks for the pardon for the decade of war crimes in Ukraine, the endless bioweapons labs and crack coke whores and cash, and say, I will tell the public some words about he is rehabbed and fights for dope fiends to recover their lost crumbs of crack. Good thing most folks didn't see what I put on my laptop, neither the computer nor the real deal,
I laughed and laughed at this great piece from Marat. Most Australians have absolutely no idea about raw materials and the highly skilled workforce you need to find, extract and refine minerals and chemical feedstocks.
I used to ask my Ukrainian dad to translate Russian geochemistry papers for me. I remain fascinated by the scientific excellence of your wonderful country and send best regards to Russians everywhere.
Unfortunately Australia went neoliberal in the eighties and prepped and sold of govt assets/enterprises. Then there has been the private/public partnership scams. It shouldn't be a surprise that socialising losses and privatising profits is all part of a dysfunctional economy; for Blackrock it's all going according to plan - except for what will soon be a total write off in Ukraine.
In the West only a small percentage are well informed, thanks to Social Media their Globalist Oligarchs are able to control their populations easier than ever before. Just look at the idiots in the EU who as President Putin puts it "They (EU) gladly walk over to (US) be Hanged, asking shall we bring our own rope?".
Great story. What bothers me is that in the 3 years this war has raged on the Ukrainians have never ran out of munitions. So say what you want against the West they're hanging there.... unfortunately. When is Russia taking out the rail between Poland and Ukraine? No more visitors.... enough!
You might want to check your sources. The most recent word from Ukraine is "for 10 of theirs that come in, only one of ours flies out", talking about artillery shells. A year or two ago, it was 5:1.
Why destroy the rail between the West and Ukraine?
By leaving the transport system alone, the West has to bring its stocks of ammo an extra 1000km east - to be destroyed more easily. Of course, much of the ammo comes out of stocks. Consumption of ammo and other consumables - tanks, missiles, air defence etc. - is much greater than production.
While I knew the US produced no TNT (last plant, in Louisiana exploded, I think), I appreciate the details.
I have read similar articles about all the Chinese parts required to make crucial MIC products and all the scarce metals that has to be imported from China etc. Then there is the (only) 1 plant in NY State that is the only one to make artillery barrels... And that the US still imports Uranium from Russia.
I applaud publicity that gives people from ALL countries an accurate idea of their own military strength/weakness to fight and survive a modern war for SELFISH Reasons: I want wars to end and cooperation to increase. I want to avoid nuclear war.
Therefore, it is important that historical Bullies learn that they may look like a Bully (to themselves) when they look in the mirror, but they no longer have the people and equipment to win a war against a serious opponent.
If you can convince your enemies that they are very overconfident, they will be less likely to risk learning the hard way. To do this, you probably need to engineer fatal experience, or calmly and POLITELY find ways to acquaint them with their own inadequacies.
POINT out their acknowledged inadequacies... like an article about why the tests of US Strategic ICBMs showed so many "duds", it has led to a program to replace them all that will end up costing much more than $1 Trillion over 10 years or so, according to the US Military. 10 years to have ICBMs that work? once they build new factories to build new ICBMs.
Add the problems with the F35, the repair record of Ohio Class Subs, the lack of current generation Air Defense IN the US, to protect its population, much less its deterrent.
And how difficult could it be to convince Americans (much less the basket-case Europeans) that they can only lose a war against a major power, without the same problems.,, if you can get the facts to be disseminated instead of suppressed. Ukraine uses PR well, because it has little else. The nonWest needs to learn to do better to get the facts better known.
Do consider that the present military specifications for USA ordnance fill calls for newer insensitive explosives- PBX series and such. TNT availability is not necessarily so tightly linked to the shell production as in WWII
But once those TNT filled shells are made, they need to be launched somehow- And there are no new work horses available here yet, traditional propellant chemicals are required? That comes down to mostly nitrocellulose (NC) and nitroglycerine (NG) plus a few adjuncts such as nitroguanidine (NQ) and cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) for the less commonly used triple base propellants.
How much NC and NG does USA manufacture?
In 2022 (last year records are available), USA produced less than 30 tons of nitroglycerine. And THAT was pharmaceutical grade for heart medications, not explosives. So no double based propellants/powders are possible from US domestic production.
NC production numbers look a bit better since NC is still used in lacquers, coatings & etc. besides propellants. But still not nearly enough to fire even the present production of shells is US made, most of the NC (and finished propellants) come from elsewhere.
Western leaders/buffoons, please AND their proprogandized idiots/elites. Us Western "peasants" have known Russia is unbeatable since we were on our father's knee. Even though my father fought in the Pacific, he taught me well. Even taught me Joe Biden was a degenerate crook & from a family of brutal slave owners back in 1977 but, the educated arrogant only listen to their own echo chamber, not anyone with common sense or FACTS, especially if we're a "minority" class without a useless higher education degree like "environmental studies". If you remove their delusion, what do they have left? A life filled with lies. If I remember, the last time the truth came out, they threw themselves out of windows. And yes, they are only a few of us left with that see the truth, but we're all close to the end of our lives...in age I mean. 😔 Terrific article. A morning filled with chuckles with my cup of coffee after such a horrible day yesterday full of pain for Syria. GOD Bless you. 🙏
I am pleased to report that as someone from the new generation, and having worked with these propagandised elites, there is a (tiny) glimmer of hope. Some (very few) still have critical thinking faculties left and are on this page and other altmedia, as well as actually speaking to real people all over the world, and not just the bubble. It’s dark out there, but don’t give up hope - every new candle lit makes the rest shine brighter. We must keep doing what Marat is doing here too, keep calm, ask challenging questions, burst those bubbles, one at a time :)
After spending more than 15 years in W. Europe I can attest to the main enterpreneurial "genius" of the so-called "West" being its duplicity and unscrupulous bloodthirstiness! Their "intellectual" class comprises of functionally illitterate morons unable to cross over the first or, (if they're lucky to pass the first) second causal hurdle, let alone attempt to solve much more complex problems, but they'll gladly run through corpses for their personal benefit...
They fully deserve whatever comes their way! It couldn't happen to a more useless bunch of pricks!
Yes, there was only plan A, use a proxy, sanctions, and civil unrest to unseat the government in Moscow. Nothing else was considered, and so it's been a huge shock, "a war of industrial scale". And who are these imbeciles going to "draft": the newly arrived migrants? Western states have masked their demographics by allowing large intakes of migrants, who may or may not be obedient to the over classes agenda. For short term one off profits there is a thicket of problems, a banquet of consequences.
The west is just a big bunch of degenerates that are committing suicide. But they even don' know it, coz they're too degenerate.
It gets better: you need nitric acid to convert toluene to TNT.
Nitric acid comes from ammonia via the Ostvald process - Europe has closed down roughly 2/3rds of its ammonia production due to high natural gas prices. So it won't be coming from there.
And the removal/reduction of Russian nitrogen fertilizer exports from Western markets means ever more demand for the outputs from the 40 to 70 year old ammonia plants that still exist in the US...do you think the US will build many more Haber Bosch ammonia plants ($1B+ each) to compensate any time soon?
I sure don't.
Excellent article. The west has already lost this war which in fact started a long time ago even before WW2. The arrogance and hubris of this exceptionalism has always been there. Nothing surprising. The empire is declining in every which way unfotunately the evil maniacal people at the very top that make these decisions will inflame the world. We are into a civilisational shift between east and west not my theory but I think this is what the war will be about. Mackinder's theory.
Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland
Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island
Who rules the World Island commands the world
> Things aren't much better in South Korea, but let's not talk about that now, otherwise we'll go off into infinity.
24 little hours later, and BOY DID THIS AGE WELL! xD
In American english they say, when you're up to your neck in shit, don't make waves.
Or, people who live in glass houses ought not throw stones.
Elenskies told US con gress he had won the battle for the minds of the world. By stabbing our hearts with vile propaganda .
Dear Dad,
Thanks for the pardon for the decade of war crimes in Ukraine, the endless bioweapons labs and crack coke whores and cash, and say, I will tell the public some words about he is rehabbed and fights for dope fiends to recover their lost crumbs of crack. Good thing most folks didn't see what I put on my laptop, neither the computer nor the real deal,
Your devoted son
Hunter
I laughed and laughed at this great piece from Marat. Most Australians have absolutely no idea about raw materials and the highly skilled workforce you need to find, extract and refine minerals and chemical feedstocks.
I used to ask my Ukrainian dad to translate Russian geochemistry papers for me. I remain fascinated by the scientific excellence of your wonderful country and send best regards to Russians everywhere.
Unfortunately Australia went neoliberal in the eighties and prepped and sold of govt assets/enterprises. Then there has been the private/public partnership scams. It shouldn't be a surprise that socialising losses and privatising profits is all part of a dysfunctional economy; for Blackrock it's all going according to plan - except for what will soon be a total write off in Ukraine.
Look at Telecom, SEC, Gas & Fuel, and Qantas for examples of why "privatisation" (gifting public utilities to oligarchs) is not good.
In the West only a small percentage are well informed, thanks to Social Media their Globalist Oligarchs are able to control their populations easier than ever before. Just look at the idiots in the EU who as President Putin puts it "They (EU) gladly walk over to (US) be Hanged, asking shall we bring our own rope?".
You can't fix stupid & it get's even worse - Antimony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwWur61HV-Q
Martin Armstrong forecast that the Euro will lose half its value against the dollar in the next 2 years - subsequent to losing a war against Russia.
𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀, 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝘀 𝗷𝗲𝘂𝘅
It's well known that his program, Socrates, also sees US dissolution around 2030.
Great story. What bothers me is that in the 3 years this war has raged on the Ukrainians have never ran out of munitions. So say what you want against the West they're hanging there.... unfortunately. When is Russia taking out the rail between Poland and Ukraine? No more visitors.... enough!
> Ukrainians have never ran out of munitions
You might want to check your sources. The most recent word from Ukraine is "for 10 of theirs that come in, only one of ours flies out", talking about artillery shells. A year or two ago, it was 5:1.
Why destroy the rail between the West and Ukraine?
By leaving the transport system alone, the West has to bring its stocks of ammo an extra 1000km east - to be destroyed more easily. Of course, much of the ammo comes out of stocks. Consumption of ammo and other consumables - tanks, missiles, air defence etc. - is much greater than production.
While I knew the US produced no TNT (last plant, in Louisiana exploded, I think), I appreciate the details.
I have read similar articles about all the Chinese parts required to make crucial MIC products and all the scarce metals that has to be imported from China etc. Then there is the (only) 1 plant in NY State that is the only one to make artillery barrels... And that the US still imports Uranium from Russia.
I applaud publicity that gives people from ALL countries an accurate idea of their own military strength/weakness to fight and survive a modern war for SELFISH Reasons: I want wars to end and cooperation to increase. I want to avoid nuclear war.
Therefore, it is important that historical Bullies learn that they may look like a Bully (to themselves) when they look in the mirror, but they no longer have the people and equipment to win a war against a serious opponent.
If you can convince your enemies that they are very overconfident, they will be less likely to risk learning the hard way. To do this, you probably need to engineer fatal experience, or calmly and POLITELY find ways to acquaint them with their own inadequacies.
POINT out their acknowledged inadequacies... like an article about why the tests of US Strategic ICBMs showed so many "duds", it has led to a program to replace them all that will end up costing much more than $1 Trillion over 10 years or so, according to the US Military. 10 years to have ICBMs that work? once they build new factories to build new ICBMs.
Add the problems with the F35, the repair record of Ohio Class Subs, the lack of current generation Air Defense IN the US, to protect its population, much less its deterrent.
And how difficult could it be to convince Americans (much less the basket-case Europeans) that they can only lose a war against a major power, without the same problems.,, if you can get the facts to be disseminated instead of suppressed. Ukraine uses PR well, because it has little else. The nonWest needs to learn to do better to get the facts better known.
I thought US had switched to BAe production of IMX-101 to replace TNT
Loved this dose of reality
Do consider that the present military specifications for USA ordnance fill calls for newer insensitive explosives- PBX series and such. TNT availability is not necessarily so tightly linked to the shell production as in WWII
But once those TNT filled shells are made, they need to be launched somehow- And there are no new work horses available here yet, traditional propellant chemicals are required? That comes down to mostly nitrocellulose (NC) and nitroglycerine (NG) plus a few adjuncts such as nitroguanidine (NQ) and cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) for the less commonly used triple base propellants.
How much NC and NG does USA manufacture?
In 2022 (last year records are available), USA produced less than 30 tons of nitroglycerine. And THAT was pharmaceutical grade for heart medications, not explosives. So no double based propellants/powders are possible from US domestic production.
NC production numbers look a bit better since NC is still used in lacquers, coatings & etc. besides propellants. But still not nearly enough to fire even the present production of shells is US made, most of the NC (and finished propellants) come from elsewhere.
Western leaders/buffoons, please AND their proprogandized idiots/elites. Us Western "peasants" have known Russia is unbeatable since we were on our father's knee. Even though my father fought in the Pacific, he taught me well. Even taught me Joe Biden was a degenerate crook & from a family of brutal slave owners back in 1977 but, the educated arrogant only listen to their own echo chamber, not anyone with common sense or FACTS, especially if we're a "minority" class without a useless higher education degree like "environmental studies". If you remove their delusion, what do they have left? A life filled with lies. If I remember, the last time the truth came out, they threw themselves out of windows. And yes, they are only a few of us left with that see the truth, but we're all close to the end of our lives...in age I mean. 😔 Terrific article. A morning filled with chuckles with my cup of coffee after such a horrible day yesterday full of pain for Syria. GOD Bless you. 🙏
I am pleased to report that as someone from the new generation, and having worked with these propagandised elites, there is a (tiny) glimmer of hope. Some (very few) still have critical thinking faculties left and are on this page and other altmedia, as well as actually speaking to real people all over the world, and not just the bubble. It’s dark out there, but don’t give up hope - every new candle lit makes the rest shine brighter. We must keep doing what Marat is doing here too, keep calm, ask challenging questions, burst those bubbles, one at a time :)
After spending more than 15 years in W. Europe I can attest to the main enterpreneurial "genius" of the so-called "West" being its duplicity and unscrupulous bloodthirstiness! Their "intellectual" class comprises of functionally illitterate morons unable to cross over the first or, (if they're lucky to pass the first) second causal hurdle, let alone attempt to solve much more complex problems, but they'll gladly run through corpses for their personal benefit...
They fully deserve whatever comes their way! It couldn't happen to a more useless bunch of pricks!
Yes, there was only plan A, use a proxy, sanctions, and civil unrest to unseat the government in Moscow. Nothing else was considered, and so it's been a huge shock, "a war of industrial scale". And who are these imbeciles going to "draft": the newly arrived migrants? Western states have masked their demographics by allowing large intakes of migrants, who may or may not be obedient to the over classes agenda. For short term one off profits there is a thicket of problems, a banquet of consequences.
Le principal génie du caniche est de japper, à reculons.