Bombs from Space

Russia just sent a strong message to Europe and the US. His weapons are not only dissuasive but actually deployed in war. Russia feels menaced to the point that they are trying to break up and destroy it. On CNN I saw multiple (4 -5) explosions coming very fast in a vertical trajectory. The background is the city of Dniepr. Little explosive power.

The RS-26 is powered by a sophisticated three-stage solid-propellant engine. The first stage delivers a high-thrust boost, propelling the missile out of the atmosphere and minimizing its exposure to early-stage interception attempts. The second stage sustains acceleration, optimizing the missile’s trajectory for long-range flight and maintaining speed to avoid mid-course interception.

• The third stage plays a critical role in terminal maneuverability. Unlike conventional solid-fuel systems, the RS-26’s terminal stage may incorporate a liquid-fueled component, particularly when equipped with maneuverable warheads or the Avangard glide vehicle. This configuration provides enhanced control during the reentry phase, allowing the missile to adjust its trajectory to evade advanced missile defense systems and achieve high accuracy. The missile’s propulsion system enables a demonstrated range of approximately 5,800 kilometers. Its terminal speed exceeds Mach 20, translating to over 24,500 kilometers per hour. This extraordinary speed, combined with its maneuverable payload options, ensures the RS-26’s effectiveness in penetrating heavily defended airspace.

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  The RS-26 Rubezh is designed for both strategic nuclear deterrence and high-precision strikes on critical infrastructure and hardened military targets. Its road-mobile platform allows it to be deployed rapidly and unpredictably, significantly complicating adversary targeting efforts.

  With a maximum range of approximately 5,800 kilometers, the RS-26 can target locations across Europe, Asia, and parts of North America. The missile’s MIRV capabilities make it effective against multiple targets in a single mission, while its advanced counter-defense measures and optional Avangard glide vehicle payload enable it to defeat even the most sophisticated missile defense systems.

• "If true this will be totally unprecedented and the first actual military use of ICBM. Not that it makes a lot of sense given their price and precision," Andrey Baklitskiy of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research posted on X.

They were right

At Trump's first election, German papers aggressively opposed him, describing him as psychotic and dangerous. Der Spiegel wrote in 2018: "Under the will-o'-the-wisp Donald Trump, the world has become a dangerous place." At that time, America had a large foreign exchange deficit, mostly with Germany and less with China. Trump observed that America was being bled by Germany while Germany was not paying for its defense. Germany, now I realize, was fearing Trump, and it appears, rightly.

According to the Economist, German industry today is bankrupt, its exports are falling and the Ukraine war has driven it into a direct conflict with Russia. Germany is in a bad corner and desperate. They had a reason to fear Trump. 

Now there are the millions of illegal immigrants in America who are trembling.  

ICL

 My favorite share was ICL, the Israeli Chemical (Potash) mine in the Dead Sea. The company advertises itself as a specialty chemicals factory; the potash business is now a sideline. All in all, I am losing 37% in many years of holding it. Something happened that I am unaware of. Pic The manager of this disgrace. 

Chancay - Shanghai

 

The Chancay Port project is a collaborative project between China and Peru under the Belt and Road Initiative. Located in the Chancay district of the province of Huaral, Peru, the port is approximately 80 kilometers from the capital, Lima.
 
Chancay Port is positioned as Peru’s gateway port and regional hub, connected by a tunnel to the Pan-American Highway, directly linking it to the capital Lima. This enables goods to conveniently reach Peru and other Latin American countries, significantly enhancing trade efficiency.

China is building for the next hundred years.

 The Grey Wolf is a quadruped robot armed with an automatic weapon. China is serious.

The Ingalik

 The Ingalik shared the Northern Athapaskan worldview of a universe in which all objects had a spirit or soul, yeg. In the beginning, men, animals, and inanimate objects lived together and shared many traits. They later separated and lost the ability to communicate. People were dependent on animals for food and thus had to remain on good terms with them. This they did by observing taboos and treating animals with respect so they would continue to be available for food. Increase ceremonies were performed to attract game and ensure a steady supply. The Ingalik also used a variety of "songs" or magical chants to maintain the balance between the human and spiritual worlds. These songs could be purchased, and both sexes had them. Songs were used to gain good hunting and fishing luck, enhance skills, cure illness and communicate with the spirits. Through possession of songs, nearly everyone had a little shamanistic power. Amulets, often bits of animal skin, bone, or feathers, were worn by all and were often associated with animal songs. Amulets brought specific kinds of luck or conferred special abilities. There were numerous taboos and prohibitions, many of which related to animals. The Ingalik had a rich mythology in which animals and the ritual number 4 were prominent.

Source: The Internet

The Right Wins

 It seems to me that the American government will be dominated by rightists who are interested in foreign affairs. They want to re-organize the world. The Democratic party's campaign had degenerated into a disgusting carnival that Catholic Latinos could not accept. A new yuga is starting. 

I am sleeping too much and working little or nothing. Battling the bureaucracy is dispiriting, and impossible to find interest in the work. 

Now, go to work!

The suffering of Odysseus

 

Reading Homer's Odysseus, Ulisses is well received when he leaves Calypso and lands in the paradisical city of the Phaeacians. Where is this city? Outside the Odyssey, the Phaeacians have no existence at all. There is a reason, of course, that the Phaeacians have no tradition outside the Odyssey, and that is that the Odyssey, which brought the Phaeacians into existence and gave them the function of “home-bringers,” also takes this function away from them. After delivering Odysseus to Ithaca, the Phaeacian ship is turned to stone by angry Poseidon on its return trip.

Another interesting point is that Menelaos does not sail home after the ten-year-long war in Troy but goes to Egypt. Those  Ἀχαιοί (Achaeans) as described by Homer, were blood-thirsty pirates and slavers. The sea-peoples' attack on Egypt is real, it was registered in the Egyptian royal archives. In Homer's story, the Phoenicians are a friendly people. It seems true that Lebanon was spared of their attacks. The Ekwesh of the Egyptian records were possibly the Acheans, but they were circumcised. In Homer, the Acheans burn their dead, while the Bronze Age "Greeks" build tumulus (burial mounds or kurgans).