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“If we are tal­king about a deal. Thats what the ame­ri­cans want. Then lets do a deal. We are all for it. Lets do the deal. The ame­ri­cans hel­ped the most, the­re­fo­re the ame­ri­cans should earn the most.”

Vic­to­ry Plan for Ukraine

In Octo­ber 2024, Ukrai­ni­an pre­si­dent Volo­dym­yr Zelen­skyy unvei­led the Vic­to­ry plan for Ukraine,[1] which inclu­des the solu­ti­on to the Russo-Ukrainian con­flict and descrip­ti­on of future natio­nal defen­se guarantees.[2] The offi­cial goal of the plan is “to chan­ge the cir­cum­s­tan­ces in such a way that Rus­sia will be for­ced to peace”.[3]

src: click

What pro­xy war?

A war for demo­cra­tic values and rule of law, I say!

Invi­si­ble army in the west libe­ra­tes even more ter­ri­to­ry without any repor­ted encounters:

Wile rus­sia cap­tures more ter­ri­to­ry in the west, and invi­si­ble army actual­ly moves to the east:

While with this it final­ly starts to make sense:

And the­se whe­re yes­ter­days developments:

src: click (Black Bird Group)

Ukrai­ne hun­kers down in Pischa­ne. Rus­sia has to move for­ces in from the east. Push to encir­cle Pischa­ne is alrea­dy on the way. Ukrai­ne moves into their flank.

Main attack to the west of that, so rus­sia moves west to out­flank that attack.

Seems like rus­sia does not have enough for­ces in Pischa­ne. Which is real­ly some­thing -- when that should be the most for­ti­fied part of your front oppo­si­te Pokrovsk right now…

Do you know whats so ama­zing about Ukrai­nes coun­ter offen­si­ve in Pischa­ne? Its now a day after the coun­ter attack that took the vil­la­ge in a day and its cur­r­ent­ly 05:30pm in MEZ Euro­pe, and for today the­res not even any figh­t­ing repor­ted in Pischa­ne. The vil­la­ge is basi­cal­ly hol­ding itself!

Never mind no artil­le­ry and no bombs fired yesterday. 

No infan­try enga­ge­ments today at all!

Wow!

Thats ama­zing!

edit: Es gibt aber auch wie­der gute Nachrichten:

src: click

Ja, Alex Amon kann kei­ne deut­sche Gram­ma­tik, war aber mal mein Chef­re­dak­teur. Und ja, der Stan­dard beschäf­tigt kei­ne Edi­to­ren mehr.

Qua­li­täts­jour­na­lis­mus nennt man das.

VW, make a 10k USD electric car. But make sure it has Tes­las FSD fea­tures in it for free.

China’s BYD Adding ‘High-Level’ Self-Driving to Its Bud­get $10K Electric Car

Becau­se at the high end, this is the chi­ne­se auto­ma­ted dri­ving expe­ri­ence for 35k+ USD cars (which then use three lidar sys­tems) today:

Con­text:

Hua­wei [as seen in the video] is the num­ber one sup­plier of auto­no­mous dri­ving tech in China.

Hua­wei sent 24 employees out to test dri­ve Tes­las in Cali­for­nia during the free tri­al peri­od Tes­la gave for FSD. Their respon­se invol­ved lots of laughter.

Musk’s mee­ting with Li Qiang did not get any appro­val for Tesla’s FSD roll-out in Chi­na. The­re wasn’t even any such news in China.

Even Chi­ne­se EV makers need to go through arduous steps in each city in Chi­na to get their Level 2 driver-assist sys­tems appro­ved (none have Level 3 appro­ved as of now).

Ogan belie­ves the most advan­ced auto­no­mous dri­ving sys­tem is Pony Ai, which has huge ope­ra­ti­ons in Chi­na but goes through extre­me­ly high hurd­les to exchan­ge data bet­ween its tests in Chi­na and the US (Tes­la doesn’t even have sizab­le data cen­ters in Chi­na set up to do the same).

src: click

This is so crazy.

The ger­man auto mar­ket real­ly slept through everything…

So now for them its - licen­se Micro­soft Auto for the dash­board, buy - Chi­ne­se FSD packa­ge from Hua­wai. Make a Hua­wai Micro­soft auto inte­gra­ti­on, that works on an Android Pho­ne and an iPho­ne. Put that into a 10K car. Stay cost competitive.

Its insa­ne.

So of cour­se thats never going to hap­pen - and they are tar­ge­ting the “real dri­ving fee­ling” niche in Chi­na, until it shrinks and shrinks and shrinks and dies.

Bra­vo.

Well, also lob­by the EU a bit more, why dont you?

The real­ly insa­ne bit is - that this has been out for two years -- and no one in the west even has a clue. Becau­se cul­tu­ral­ly - this couldnt have been hap­pe­ning, right? Someo­ne would have told us… On red­dit? Face­book? The news?

From the you­tube comments section:

@MrJohnson088
vor 6 Tagen
I just want to let my Wes­tern friends know how serious our infor­ma­ti­on bar­ri­ers are through this video. This kind of advan­ced stuff can’t be made over­night. It takes a long time of rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment, prac­ti­ce and tes­ting. It’s not some­thing that sud­den­ly falls from the sky one day. Some­ti­mes when we are tal­king about some pro­blems, this is why the worlds we know [for] each other are com­ple­te­ly different.

Fuck.

edit: Oh sor­ry, Mer­ce­des wan­ted to pitch in…

The pri­ce of DRIVE PILOT remains unch­an­ged (star­ting at 5,950 euros incl. VAT).

src: click For SAE Level 3 (in their dreams…):

So the­re was a ukrai­ni­an coun­ter ass­ault towards the vil­la­ge of Dach­ens­ke, that appar­ent­ly was suc­cess­ful - and ama­zing in its own right, becau­se Ukrai­ne mana­ged to form coun­ter offen­si­ve for­ces in the Donbas.

Thats pret­ty much wide­ly repor­ted, and likely to have hap­pen­ed. But then the­re is this ent­i­re ama­zing ukrai­ni­an coun­ter offen­si­ve cur­r­ent­ly in Pischa­ne - that no one wants to talk about.……

Apparant­ly the Ukrai­ne mana­ged to reta­ke the ent­i­re­ty of Pischa­ne wit­hin a day (third rif­le sym­bol from the left:

Which is so very ama­zing, becau­se it hap­pen­ed right befo­re the Munich Secu­ri­ty Con­fe­rence later this week, and should be the most for­ti­fied part of the rus­si­an front oppo­si­te Pokrovsk.

Its also so ama­zing, becau­se - the ISW for once is more con­ser­va­ti­ve with indi­ca­ting ukrai­ni­an ter­ri­to­ri­al gains in the area:

And doesnt omit, that rus­sia claims they still con­trol all of the area north to the area the Ukrai­ne claims it has captured.

Whats even more ama­zing is, that no one wants to talk about that stra­te­gic mar­vel of a mis­si­on -- as this is the ONLY news report on an offen­si­ve hap­pe­ning in Pischa­ne I could find so far:

In a cri­ti­cal deve­lo­p­ment on the eas­tern front, Ukrai­ni­an for­ces have laun­ched an offen­si­ve against Rus­si­an tro­ops in the vil­la­ge of Dach­ens­ke, loca­ted in the Donetsk region.

Accord­ing to reports, Ukrai­ni­an tro­ops, who are now in con­trol of the eas­tern part of the vil­la­ge, are pushing towards the cen­ter in an effort to rec­laim the ter­ri­to­ry. The ongo­ing con­flict in Donetsk has spar­ked inten­se batt­les, as Ukrai­ni­an for­ces enga­ge in fier­ce com­bat to regain stra­te­gic advan­ta­ges from Rus­si­an for­ces, reports Moochny, a figh­ter from the Ukrai­ni­an For­ces, on his Tele­gram channel.

“Our Cos­s­acks suc­cess­ful­ly atta­cked Rus­si­an posi­ti­ons from the north in the eas­tern sec­tion of Dach­ens­ke. Having secu­red this area, we’­re now enga­ging in the batt­le for the vil­la­ge cen­ter, with plans to steadi­ly move west­ward, aiming to regain full con­trol over the area,” Moochny reports.

Addi­tio­nal­ly, the Ukrai­ni­an for­ces con­ti­nue to mount attacks sou­the­ast of Kot­ly­ne and are enga­ged in com­bat around the Pischa­ne area.

src: click (uawire.org) -- from yes­ter­day 16pm

Whats also ama­zing is, that rus­sia appar­ent­ly has not moun­ted any air- or artil­le­ry­strikes on to Pischa­ne yes­ter­day or today!

Thats pret­ty ama­zing actually…

edit: The Black Bird Group is on it:

Ukrai­ni­ans are achie­ving limi­ted suc­cess. It’s likely an attempt to fur­ther grind down the Rus­si­an attacks which have slo­wed down during the last two mon­ths. The Ukrai­ni­ans cer­tain­ly also want to con­tain the thre­at of an encir­cle­ment around Pokrovsk. 2/

— Emil Kas­te­hel­mi (@emilkastehelmi) Febru­a­ry 10, 2025

edit: Deep­Sta­te has just updated its map:

If that was the direc­tion of the coun­ter attack - ehm “limi­ted” is the word that comes to mind, yes… Not so much the word counteroffensive.