3/15/2022

Spencer's Standing Orders For the Urban Defender

Comparison - Russia to NATO

Characteristic	NATO	Russia
Personnel	-	-
Total military personnel	5,405,700	1,350,000
Active soldiers	3,366,000	850,000
Reserve forces	1,301,000	250,000
Paramilitary units	738,700	250,000
Air Force	-	-
Total aircraft	20,723	4,173
Fighters / interceptors	3,527	772
Ground attack aircraft	1,048	739
Transport aircraft	1,543	445
Special aircraft (e.g reconnaissance)	1,014	132
Tanker aircraft	678	20
Total helicopters	8,485	1,543

Characteristic	NATO	Russia
Combat helicopters	1,359	544
Ground combat vehicles	-	-
Main battle tanks	14,682	12,420
Armored vehicles	115,855	30,122
Self-propelled artillery	5,040	6,574
Tower artillery	5,495	7,571
Self-propelled rocket launchers	2,803	3,391
Naval forces	-	-
Total military ships	2,049	605
Destroyers	112	15
Frigates	135	11
Corvettes	56	86
Aircraft carriers	17	1

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/#:~:text=The%20collective%20military%20capabilities%20of%20the%2030%20countries,more%20competitive%2C%20however%2C%20with%2012%2C420%20units%2C%20to%2014%2C682.

NATO collectively is much stronger than Russia. And given the pathetic performance of the Russian military in Ukraine, it is clear that NATO can bet them in a conventional war.

Of course, it would be very hard to keep a war between Russia and NATO non nuclear - thus NATO's care to not get into a shooting war with Russia over Ukraine.

3/14/2022

The National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) Public Viewer from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration allows users to view pipelines and related information by individual county for the entire United States. The map includes:

Gas and hazardous liquid pipelines
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants
Breakout tanks (tanks used for storage or flow relief)
Pipeline accidents and incidents going back to 2002

Users can click on individual pipelines to find operator information and contact details, pipeline status and length, and the commodity being carried by the pipeline. For accidents, available information includes the date of the accident, the name of the operator, the material released, the total volume lost and recovered, and the cause of the accident.

Click here to access the interactive map.

Source:

https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-pipelines-united-states

3/12/2022

Ukraine Invasion

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a terrible thing. And the west is doing the right thing - massive sanctions which are really damaging the Russian economy. They will, unfortunately, take time to work. The question is whether they will inflict enough pain on Russia so tha the people and their leaders work up enough courage to tell Putin to stop. A big question.

Of course Russians that only watch their national TV know only Putin's take on the war. Russians who use the internet know what the rest of the world thinks.

It is vitally important that we keep informing the Russian people as best we can about what their government is doing in Ukraine. Below is an interesting idea.

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“A Norwegian computer expert has created a website enabling anyone to send an email about the war in Ukraine to up to 150 Russian email addresses at a time, so that Russian people have a chance to hear the truth their government is hiding.

All over Russia email inboxes are pinging. Millions of messages are being received with the same intriguing subject Ya vam ne vrag - I am not your enemy. The message appears in Russian with an English translation and it begins: "Dear friend, I am writing to you to express my concern for the secure future of our children on this planet. Most of the world has condemned Putin's invasion of Ukraine.”

“The lengthy email goes on to implore Russian people to reject the war in Ukraine and seek the truth about the invasion from non-state news services.

In just a few days, more than 22 million of these emails landed in Russian inboxes, and they're being sent by volunteers around the world, who are donating their time and email addresses to the cause.”

“The spam email campaign created by a small team in Norway seems to have caught the imagination of thousands of people searching for ways to help Russians learn about the war.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-spam-website-set-reach-003508655.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

You've Come A Long Way, Baby

Women have moved into combat roles in many countries, including the USA and Ukraine.

You've Come A Long Way, Baby

We will shoot you like rabid dogs

On Ukrainian social media

Calling for Feminine volunteers to join the Territorial Defense Forces

and the Struggle against the Russian Federation Forces.

We can adapt Kipling's poem about Afghanistan.

When you're wounded and left on Ukrainian's plains

And the women come out to cut up what remains

Just pick up your rifle and blow out your brains

And go to your death like a soldier.