I spent three years in the U.S. Army in Alaska. We had very few cold weather injuries despite routinely training in -35 C or colder.
There’s a deployable infantry brigade there trained for extreme cold weather and instead of sending them to Norway they sent Marines? That’s a special kind of stupid.
Great article, but - that we can be having this conversation within living memory of Churchill's systematic carpet-bombing of the civilians in some 160 German cities and towns; the deliberate creation of a firestorm which incinerated, suffocated, and sometimes literally melted some 300,000 civilians on Valentines' Day, 1945 in Dresden; Eisenhower's deliberate starving to death of one million "Disarmed Enemy Forces" (German POWs) directly after the war; the estimated 6-10 million Germans killed AFTER the war by the murderous secret Zionist revenge of the Morgenthau Plan; the 130,000 Japanese civilians killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Stalingrad; the privations of the Leningrad population over almost 2 years; and, of course, the 20 - 25 million Soviet lives lost - just sickens me.
Unbelievably, those horrors are set to be repeated (if not in the near future, within a generation) unless the people of the West are able to bring about a seismic change in the culture of western political elites and power relations between ALL elites and ordinary citizens.
To say "War is dirty" is equivalent to saying 'sex is violent' or 'guns kill people' PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. It is to surrender your agency as a moral being. The definition of personhood is the capacity to choose. You always have a choice unless you surrender your humanity to that inner chimpanzee lurking in all of us.
Also - whatever your politics - please do not mislead other commenters with fake history. An estimated 1,250 civilians were killed by German bombing of Coventry. That is the TOTAL number for ALL air raids. How could your "firestorm" be so ineffective? Two firestorms in Dresden across the Valentines' day period COOKED hundreds of thousands - some estimates approach HALF A MILLION! The Coventry total is 0.2% of that! Is it the case that British civilians had special asbestos properties?
If you actually are just innocently in error rather than mendaciously trying to exploit general ignorance and remoteness in time to create a fact to support your prejudices, then I recommend you - and anyone else reading this - to read Benton L Bradberry's "Myth of German Villainy" or checking out Tobias Bratt's "Europa - The Last Battle", to educate yourself. Everything we in the West learned in school, from the media and Hollywood about history and the two world wars in particular is a lie. Even Pearl Harbour was known about in advance (through breaking the Japanese code) but was allowed to happen in order manipulated the US public into backing America joining the war against Germany (Germany and Japan had a mutual military support treaty, and Japan was embargoed into the desperate act).
Anyone wanting to take a shortcut on the to the truth on the fake idea Alain tried to introduce here needs ask two small question: (1) Why did Germany at no point have a heavy bomber equivalent to the B52 or the British Lancaster bomber in production? (2) How many German bombs fell on Paris during its 1940 conquest by Germany? [the answer is ZERO]
A final point to Alain: even if your fake history WERE in fact the case, how would it change the thrust of the argument in my original comment?
How did they manage to get frostbite on their PENISES but not on their toes, fingers, noses or ears? Of all the apendages, the penis is the most thermally protected when wearing clothing. I'm guessing they used a very wrong protocol when pissing, or shitting. Query: did their nutsacks also get frostbite, or was it only their penises? The fact so many of them got frostbit (supposedly, I'm still having trouble believing this) in the most unlikely place (the only place less likely to get frostbite are nipples and tongue) indicates this was a systemic failure (AKA a bad officer or NCO) and not just a bunch of idiots.
What NATO needs is Russia. Not destruction by Russia, though I believe it could do that alright, but NATO should have Russia as a member. Then we can settle down. Oh.. and expel the USA.
NATO is a bad joke. Sadly, these imbeciles have nukes and some appear to be foolish enough to believe a nuclear exchange survivable. This is complete madness & I am thankful for the rationality & restraint of Russia! The Hazel (Oreshnik) is clearly a game changer and anyone who believes otherwise is a fool! I would strongly encourage ALL to participate in the #SayNotoNuclearWar protests on Dec 7th in the USA & possibly elsewhere in the West....if it's not too late. We the people MUST stop the death cult of zionist neocons that have taken over the USA Gov't & most of the West. We've got to stop this NOW!!
Nice story about some frozen dicks. The whole problem with NATO-countries is that they lack the industrial basis for production, they lack manpower and Russia's news weapons (Oreshnik e.g.) makes it impossible to concentrate troops (mass). The C4ISR and long-range precisions weapons of Russia give her a very large edge over NATO. If you can see deep in the operational space and you can hit what you see very fast (ROK/RUK supported by hypersonic missiles (blocks) it's game over for NATO.
"And on the third day, 54 people got frostbite on their penises (really, this is not a joke).". It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic. No wonder they seem keen on going straight to nukes.
چنگ در هر شکلی محکوم است .
زنده باد انسانیت
Alone at home, sitting at my desk in front of my PC monitor, I truly laughed, thanks to your article.
Mr. Khairullin,
Would it be possible for you to post links backing up your reporting?
I spent three years in the U.S. Army in Alaska. We had very few cold weather injuries despite routinely training in -35 C or colder.
There’s a deployable infantry brigade there trained for extreme cold weather and instead of sending them to Norway they sent Marines? That’s a special kind of stupid.
That is sad.
I live in Northern Wisconsin. I’ve worked out woods year-round. Couple years back. We had one month of -20 for a high.
Had to watch out for my finger and face. And there’s lots of wood to burn low hanging limbs the tree provides.
Never had a problem with my penis getting cold .
Who do you mean is losing 500,000/yr? 500k what?
Great article, but - that we can be having this conversation within living memory of Churchill's systematic carpet-bombing of the civilians in some 160 German cities and towns; the deliberate creation of a firestorm which incinerated, suffocated, and sometimes literally melted some 300,000 civilians on Valentines' Day, 1945 in Dresden; Eisenhower's deliberate starving to death of one million "Disarmed Enemy Forces" (German POWs) directly after the war; the estimated 6-10 million Germans killed AFTER the war by the murderous secret Zionist revenge of the Morgenthau Plan; the 130,000 Japanese civilians killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Stalingrad; the privations of the Leningrad population over almost 2 years; and, of course, the 20 - 25 million Soviet lives lost - just sickens me.
Unbelievably, those horrors are set to be repeated (if not in the near future, within a generation) unless the people of the West are able to bring about a seismic change in the culture of western political elites and power relations between ALL elites and ordinary citizens.
The Luftwaffe used the same tac tics on the Britsh famously creating a firestorm in Coventry. War is dirty
To say "War is dirty" is equivalent to saying 'sex is violent' or 'guns kill people' PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. It is to surrender your agency as a moral being. The definition of personhood is the capacity to choose. You always have a choice unless you surrender your humanity to that inner chimpanzee lurking in all of us.
Also - whatever your politics - please do not mislead other commenters with fake history. An estimated 1,250 civilians were killed by German bombing of Coventry. That is the TOTAL number for ALL air raids. How could your "firestorm" be so ineffective? Two firestorms in Dresden across the Valentines' day period COOKED hundreds of thousands - some estimates approach HALF A MILLION! The Coventry total is 0.2% of that! Is it the case that British civilians had special asbestos properties?
If you actually are just innocently in error rather than mendaciously trying to exploit general ignorance and remoteness in time to create a fact to support your prejudices, then I recommend you - and anyone else reading this - to read Benton L Bradberry's "Myth of German Villainy" or checking out Tobias Bratt's "Europa - The Last Battle", to educate yourself. Everything we in the West learned in school, from the media and Hollywood about history and the two world wars in particular is a lie. Even Pearl Harbour was known about in advance (through breaking the Japanese code) but was allowed to happen in order manipulated the US public into backing America joining the war against Germany (Germany and Japan had a mutual military support treaty, and Japan was embargoed into the desperate act).
Anyone wanting to take a shortcut on the to the truth on the fake idea Alain tried to introduce here needs ask two small question: (1) Why did Germany at no point have a heavy bomber equivalent to the B52 or the British Lancaster bomber in production? (2) How many German bombs fell on Paris during its 1940 conquest by Germany? [the answer is ZERO]
A final point to Alain: even if your fake history WERE in fact the case, how would it change the thrust of the argument in my original comment?
I’ll tell you what the Hungarians will do - stay the F out of this Nato war…
How did they manage to get frostbite on their PENISES but not on their toes, fingers, noses or ears? Of all the apendages, the penis is the most thermally protected when wearing clothing. I'm guessing they used a very wrong protocol when pissing, or shitting. Query: did their nutsacks also get frostbite, or was it only their penises? The fact so many of them got frostbit (supposedly, I'm still having trouble believing this) in the most unlikely place (the only place less likely to get frostbite are nipples and tongue) indicates this was a systemic failure (AKA a bad officer or NCO) and not just a bunch of idiots.
Apparently, penis frostbite is a repeating problem with cross-country skiers. https://7news.com.au/sport/snow-sports/swedish-skier-calle-halfvarsson-suffers-frozen-penis-at-world-cup-event-in-finlands-brutal-cold-c-12719049 https://www.vice.com/en/article/all-your-questions-about-that-finnish-olympic-skier-with-the-frozen-penis-remi-lindholm-answered-by-a-urologist/
Who knew?
What NATO needs is Russia. Not destruction by Russia, though I believe it could do that alright, but NATO should have Russia as a member. Then we can settle down. Oh.. and expel the USA.
54 frost-bitten dicks tells you all you need to know about NATO. Limp, flaccid and incapable when called to action.
NATO is a bad joke. Sadly, these imbeciles have nukes and some appear to be foolish enough to believe a nuclear exchange survivable. This is complete madness & I am thankful for the rationality & restraint of Russia! The Hazel (Oreshnik) is clearly a game changer and anyone who believes otherwise is a fool! I would strongly encourage ALL to participate in the #SayNotoNuclearWar protests on Dec 7th in the USA & possibly elsewhere in the West....if it's not too late. We the people MUST stop the death cult of zionist neocons that have taken over the USA Gov't & most of the West. We've got to stop this NOW!!
Nice story about some frozen dicks. The whole problem with NATO-countries is that they lack the industrial basis for production, they lack manpower and Russia's news weapons (Oreshnik e.g.) makes it impossible to concentrate troops (mass). The C4ISR and long-range precisions weapons of Russia give her a very large edge over NATO. If you can see deep in the operational space and you can hit what you see very fast (ROK/RUK supported by hypersonic missiles (blocks) it's game over for NATO.
Frostbitten dicks means that the bored marines were probably having blowjob competitions in their tents to keep warm.
"And on the third day, 54 people got frostbite on their penises (really, this is not a joke).". It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic. No wonder they seem keen on going straight to nukes.
And such things as this go on, in the dystopian West: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event