Good! The sooner Russia finishes the war, the better. Fewer lives will be lost, and the reputation of NATO and the US will be publicly obliterated. And that needs to happen to stop the damned neocons from pushing another forever war onto the world.
Keep your fingers crossed that Russia kicks ass and ends the war ASAP.
As far as Trump goes, he never had any leverage whatsoever, and he is a fool for involving himself in the first place. He should have cut off all aid to Ukraine the moment he was inaugurated and then blamed it all on Biden because it was all Biden's fault anyway.
Once again, the neocon filth around Trump have lead him into a mess. He better pull the plug as soon as possible to salvage what he can of his reputation. At the moment, he looks like a damned fool for spewing his threats about more sanctions and other stupid crap that Russia could not care less about. 🙄
And don't forget - he can now bend time and space, teleport nukes to Moscow and can call on his alien allies at the South Pole to help him out (esp if North Korea enters the fray!).
He, Trump, dont like the War. His wish is to end it. Still, why not earn some money and get back the $350 bn US and Deep State has plowed into the War. Cynical.
I suspect that US, as soon as the mineral deal is signed, will threaten Russia and end the sweet-talk.
People like you are not contemplating why Trump has lost speed in the Ukraine question. He would end the War in 24hours, then in 30 days. He miscalculated the cleverness by Yermak&Co. It is strategically important for US to get the hands on Ukraine minerals and the Odessa harbours. 100 days later we are still waiting. Things will speed away as soon as it is signed.
I seriously doubt this myth of "Ukraine minerals" - you should be tipped off by Ukraine beginning offer this mineral deal since last Sep. Just wait and see. I also doubt Odessa harbors getting into American hands.
And Trump said to ABC on the question of continue the arms shipment to Ukraine: “I want to leave that as a big, fat secret, because I don't want to ruin a negotiation,”
Whenever a man use the word big, fat secret you are in for a surprise. Next round is with the Russians.
The best way to keep a "big fat secret" is not to say anything till it's done:-)
I voted for Trump in 2024, even if I didn't vote for him in 2016 and 2020. And with a good reason, he says way too much, too soon and backtracks and never admits mistakes "you're welcome, Joe" :-)
"I seriously doubt this myth of "Ukraine minerals""
You're right to doubt it. The "Ukrainian minerals" thing is propaganda for morons, just like the Ghost of Kiev and all the other total lies they generate on an industrial scale.
In the case of the minerals lies, those literally are for morons because anybody who isn't a functional moron can look up old Soviet maps of mineral resources in Ukraine and see there isn't anything remotely like recent claims. Also, people who aren't functional morons and really want to understand the matter can read up on exploration geology and know that the Soviets were extremely good at it, and that they explored the heck out of places like Ukraine that were immediately at hand and densely populated in the European part of the Union.
Ukraine's real mineral wealth is coal, with iron ore a distant second, and both of those are in the great formations that start around Donbass but which get far larger as they extend into Russia. That still means there's a heck of a lot of coal in Donbass, now also in Russia.
All the rare earths are no big deal, far exaggerated and not all that distinctive on a world scale basis. The cost of those is extracting them. Same with titanium, which is fairly abundant worldwide (lots of it in Florida, for example). It's not having a source of titanium that's hard, it's having a source of low cost energy to refine metallic titanium that's hard.
The lithium claims are particularly a hoot, the usual lie proceeding by stating that lithium was a don't care in earlier days but now it's white gold given high tech and automotive requirements. But that's an outrageous lie for anybody who's bothered to educate themselves.
In fact, lithium was far more valuable in the 1950's because lithium is the key fuel input for thermonuclear weapons. It's what made thermonuclear weapons practical, enabling stable, solid lithium deuteride fuel instead of having to build a small cryogenics factory to enable fueling a thermonuclear weapon with very low temperature liquid deuterium.
Those weapons were such high value items that it actually would have been cost effective to use solid gold, a ton of it, as tamper material. So you bet the USSR explored every square inch of territory where lithium might be had, and their conclusion was that despite the stratospheric value of any bit of lithium the lithium deposits in Ukraine weren't worth developing.
And that was at a time when not only was lithium extremely valuable but also when the strategic value of self-sufficiency was priceless as well.
So yes, the "minerals deal" is propaganda for morons just on the face of it, at least to the extent it trots out exotic rare earths, titanium, and lithium as a source of profit. It's also a head fake for morons even on the basis of thinking that the US will be able to loot coal and iron from the Donbass, which is now Russian territory.
Where it might not be total propaganda is what they don't tell you, that it provides a great means of laundering money. US and EU "investments" in developing resources that don't exist will provide a flow of funds that can be skimmed and redirected into payola for the supporters of corporations and Ukrainian government entities, including political parties and other beneficiaries of the "development" fund.
All about control, "one" aspect.. larry fink and company with others controlling the land. (One of the whisperers in Trumps ear.)
That area is known as the bread basket of Europe. Control the land
During the 70's/80's (The old boobtube adverts).. The Sahal. Northern Africans, starving by the millions. Sell it as a drought (naughty climate change) and advertise it by "send money to the hungry children".
At that time everyone of those countries was under some kind of civil war, with one or both sides backed by the "American" gov. These factions then controlled the food supplies, with the motto "Let the people starve."
If I'm right, then after calming the Poked Bear by securing the best possible deal for Russia, Trump's next assignment will be far harder - gaining access to the north of China. Something that I think this whole thing was really about.
to state that Trump is doing his job adequately well so far with a straight face is blowing me away - the ignorance of some people can be mind-boggling for sure...
Now tell me what has turned for the better in the US or for any part in the world since Mr. Trump has entered office 100 days ago?
You think Trump or anyone has control of the global mega banks?
They just alter the rate of money printing whenever is necessary. If the economy really looks like it is going bad, then they'll start up the money printing. In 2019 the whole thing would have collapsed if not for 20 trillion dollars slid in under everyone's noses while we were all worried about the sniffles...
We all scratched our heads and wondered where the 20% global inflation came from. Must have been the Russians...?
Trump was installed to fix the problem in Russia, and position for the Chinese leg of the globalist agenda. He's doing the first part adequately so far.
Have you by chance looked at what BRICS+ have been doing?
De-dollarisation is just starting to ramp up. The Yankee dollar is not worth the paper it is printed on and now that the crutch of being the worlds currency has been kicked askew the rotten house of American Mexicana and the lower states of Canada is slowly imploding.
Illegal entries are likely down but that can be reversed in weeks again when the Dems move in. However, the deal was to remove the up to 30 million illegals and I see no substantial action in that department. Neither do I see the “Great and Beautiful Wall” getting any longer.
4X365 = 1,460
and that is the total number of days for his administration
30,000,000 : 1,460 = 20,548
That is how many illegals he should be deporting on an average day for four years if there are 30 million of them. He is NOT doing that, in fact he is offering forgiveness to various groups who work as gardeners, farm workers, etc. He is starting to handles the issue with an oligarchic, slaveholder attitude.
That is probably pragmatic approach. Having some people ready to work for little as gardeners etc is OK from a perspective of the economy and societal harmony too - unless of course these people are under control of the gangs (some even gang members) and the justice system is not doing anything with it. Still he achieved something in some areas. I suspect just as with the DEI and migration where the courts offer resistance there is forus invisible resistance on the issue of perpetual war. This assuming he was honest about ending the war in Ukraine. I suspended my opinion on this till I could see better. Now he signed the deal with Ukraine to support it in exchange for mineral rights. If he is going to support Ukraine then the war will continue. On the issue of the stolen Palestinian land - it was clear from the onset that he was not going to do much there.
Well, in just 100 days Trump made Canada be terrified of us - impressive. Canada wasn't scared of the US since Laura Secord :-) I know a Canadian, who just cancelled a cruise to St. Kitts, only because it was sailing from FL :-)
The US suffers from the lack of proper job training and the national credo: "fake it till you make it." No learning curve is allowed, apprenticeships or even proper trainings became a unicorn. Schools don't have/teach wood, mechanic, etc skills. Young people do either Uber driving, or do Instacart , Amazon deliveries or "blog/influencer/whatever." Given that self-driving cars are already present in AZ and LA, it's only a matter of time for self-driving Ubers/Instacart/Amazon
That Trump sees (or made to see) the need for skills transfer/apprenticeship and tried to do something about it in 100 days is impressive enough for me
The problem is that many skills have been/are being lost. The Trades are not seen as attractive by the majority of the young. The whole of Yankland society has been corrupted with queerism, anti-Whiteism, communism, apathy and entitlement.
American Mexicana does not have a manufacturing base, it does not have the skilled labour, it does not have the infrastructure to support a manufacturing base and it will take decades to even start to put these things in place.
It is out of time. Tariffs and de=dollarisation are the end of it.
Well, skills are not exactly a wallet to lose irretrievably :-) I'm sure there are plenty of retirees, who wouldn't mind/enjoy imparting wisdom and supplementing their own pensions. I live in the Yankland, so I do know what you're talking about, but I don't think that all is irretrievably gone, all can be restored if done correctly.
Elon Musk actually has schools running near his plants for the kids of the staff to do the proper science teaching/skills trainings. It's not that Americans are illiterate, they're just ignorant due to abysmal education and partly skill-less due re.: what you're saying above.
For the rest of the non-West collective it has been a blessing. Look at the Sahel, China, near all the BRICS+ members and associates.
South America is undergoing some healthy change now that Yankland interference has been tempered if not removed.
This recent dispute between India and Pakistan is without doubt engineered by the Western collective as an attempt to derail the fragile peace between the two.
The disgusting destruction of Syria is turning into a shitshow that Yankland can't walk away from too because of American Mexicana's commitment to its owner Israel.
C'mon, that's just more Murikan "all hat, no cattle" bluster. "the best possible deal for Russia" is a defanged western adversary anywhere near it. Trumpet can achieve that, if nothing else.
The stated plan, going back into the 1990s was to provoke war in Ukraine, have Russia blow its load, move in, Balkanise all of Ukraine and Russia, rape the resources and use Eastern Russia as a springboard to attack China. Also total control of the Arctic circle.
The Yankland planner had a dream about attacking China from the west and in the South from the South China Sea.
OWNCO - One World New Communist Order, headed up by American Mexicana has been Hell bent on this course for a long time.
Another delusional American opinion, Trump threaten Russia??? With what exactly? Russia has a far superior military & a far stronger economy in real terms. America whether with Trump or anyone else can't do or threaten Russia with anything. Unless it wants to become a pile of radioactive ashes.
That is the rung of the escalation ladder that USA has as an advantage towards Russia. The 'west' is so crazy they will use nukes, so Russia better not escalate to that level or ww3. Russia says it does not want war or ww3, so it is always on the back-foot of the escalation ladder. The impact is deterring Russia from escalating and thus we have our low-boil war.
Plus Russia has China, and most of the BRICS+ collective on its side. Even India sides more with Russia than American Mexicana and that says much about the fence sitter.
India had good relations with the USSR for almost all of its history (1950 on) as a "non-aligned" nation. USSR supplied its military weaponry almost exclusively, I believe. This helped to balance between China, Pakistan, Brits & the USA.
Mikey, it's worse than cynical. Didn't Lindsay Graham and others say something to the effect that it was "our bullets and their (Ukrainian) blood ... and the Russians are dying ... the best money we've ever spent". Therefore the $350 billion or so was paid for in Ukrainian blood. Nothing is owed to the United States.
Correct. It is evil. And you are right in 700 000 dead has a price but who asked them to do this idiot-shit? Persecuting Russian language, books and culture, askimg for Pride-EU and aggressive NATO?
Its Zelenskys perspective. Ukraine has sacrificed themselves for EU&US to protect them all from the Orcs. And therefore is in no debt at all. But the whole ”affair” is a massive geopolitical play from US/Oligarchs in Ukraine and powerplayers that has going on for 25 years and transformed to this ugly thing.
The deal between the US and Ukraine is exchanging the mining rights for support. Or did I misunderstand something? If so then he is going to continue the US support at least in some form. I would imagine anything less than what is given now will be considered breach of the treaty?
What is the best depends on optimization criteria e.g. for whom and how well informed, intelligent, experienced the person is etc. Either way you have as little to say about the deal that was signed as even people involved in fighting and dying. Trump made a decision and Ukrainians signed it. I wonder what that even means considering that all the deals Ukraine signs, will be broken one day.
Yes. Hard to trust them but the equal goes to US. When they see fit they change the rulebased international order…
What is important is that US eventually has signed a deal that looks like almost nothing compared to the original. That means ”something” is very, very important for the Trump administration. It could be as simple as now saying to Russia: ”Dont touch our minerals and not a step more”
Could be. Agree on the official deal. But there are secret parts also. Think the Ukrainians do not want the secret parts to reach the Ukrainian people. Cant imagine Trump giving away anything for free (except to Israel).
..."neocon filth" that he surrounded himself with. Did he feel forced to? He claimed to have learned his lesson but he has still made the same mistake he made last time and it will sink him like it did last time.
This is the new "theory" my fellow Americans are using to excuse Trump. He has made a fool of himself and he has allowed Elensky to make a fool out of him live on National TV not once but twice. The bankers make the rules and give out the orders. Everything Trump has done in 100 days has amounted to nothing but sound bytes. Foreign policy is in reality, exactly the same as it has been under Biden. One question for Simp. you wrote this entire article from 1 WSJ (rag that gets Russia wrong every time) article, a source from Finland intel. (which is CIA) and a couple of other chihuahua States. and you seem to really pat yourself on the back way too often.
Sorry, no lecturing here, only a simple advise - you calling it mistakes, I have learned: nothing in politics happens accidentally, it's by design of a ruling mob that is so far out of touch with reality and so full of disdain of the ordinary people - it's not even to comprehend if you have never been in touch with those folks personally - even more so, they don't have any country, they think they own the world
You are certainly right. But Americans are now so worked up about Russia they cannot accpet that their government is an empty bag of putrid air. They just cannot accpet this. It's a kind of psychosis. Those who try to bring reality to the attention of Americans meet a brick wall. Same in Europe.
You're 100% right. Alas, the great tragedy is how societies that lose contact with reality die. This is not the first time or the last time in history that large empires march into wars based on delusions that they will easily swat away enemies who in reality are far stronger than they told themselves.
In the past when countries went so totally wrong that they end up with abject fools as leaders with a citizenry competing to be even stupider, a Darwinian process operated where countries that were not so delusional wiped out those delusional countries.
The clueless elite in modern times say that can't happen now, because we've put such annihilation through war behind us, but that's really just an echo of similar mistakes prior clueless elites made, when they said, "oh , our empire is so big and strong it can't be toppled." The reality is that total eradication of clueless societies is still on the table, perhaps even more so than in the previous six thousand years as a result of more efficient weapons of mass destruction.
That's where the US and the failing states of Western Europe are heading, total annihilation. The US in particular seems determined to start wars with nuclear powers, even several such powers at once. Right now, for example, the US has a war going against Russia and it is headed toward starting simultaneous wars with China, North Korea, and Iran.
Iran so far may have a very small and undeclared nuclear arsenal, but still, provoking nuclear dragons ends only one way and provoking *four* of them, including two of the three largest on Earth, at the same time is making a really serious try at winning a Darwin Award.
For Iran to enrich >60% they intended to either make nukes or use as a bargaining chip to get something in return down the line. Since it does not look like they will get a concession for that lump of radioactive cake they should just eat it and give that up without anything in return.
Let's say Iran has secretly been building a few usable nukes on the down-low...
Use it first and your destroyed with IDF retaliation.
Use it after Israel hits your enrichment sites, your destroyed in retaliation.
So Iran thinks its ballistic missiles and command and control centers will outlive any bombing campaign on Iran. Hmm, I dunno.
If I were in charge in Iran I am not sure I would stake the Persian civilization on the hopes that Israel would not use nukes on population centers. I mean if Iran does do damage with all the reported missiles they say they have, Israel could then start nuking Iranian cities to force capitulation (a situation I am sure the IDF is salivating for). So Iran should just enrich to 90%, build 5 bombs, then disperse those missiles in hopes MAD will prevail. However, as Russia has shown the world you can have nukes and it still does not stop people from attacking you if you are afraid to use them.
As for the bigger picture; if Israel does nuke first or in retaliation of ballistic missile attack they are doing something Russia fears to do. So at that point the west assumes the first attack posture role with nukes. Russia, China. NK might be wise to start considering a full-on massive first strike nuke attack if the west (of whom Israel is a part-of) shows the world they will use nukes first.
Faulty conclusions. RU does not at all, as of yet, require toasting USofA, or any1 else - nothing to do with fear beyond a simple opportunity-cost/benefit & risk analysis.
I am not saying RU has a reason now to initiate a first strike, but if Israel uses nukes to subdue Iran and Israel and USA are tied at the hip, why would RU not think a first strike is more plausible against them soon?
‘Let's say Iran has secretly been building a few usable nukes on the down-low...’
I am fully familiar with the step by step process of the North Korean nuclear force and it also started with a few bombs. Pakistan I think managed the start up in secrecy. Israel is the bravest nation on this planet, if they were not, they wouldn’t burn alive tens of thousands of Muslim children. Every Muslim nation is a problem for them now because Israel knows they are waiting for the moment of revenge.
"Those who try to bring reality to the attention of Americans meet a brick wall..."
I've lost friends here in the US, defending the Russian position in the Ukraine debacle. Most old enough to admit to the DC lies about Vietnam. Um...it's different this time?! The propaganda here is thorough and effective. It is beyond disturbing and depressing.
Trump 'Thinks of Himself' as being a good guy. He is NOT. He is a conceited, narcissistic a..hole who talks big(ly) and does little. As for Europe, I agree with you.
Trump was very much involved in escalating the conflict and applying many sanctions on Russia. Don’t kid yourself. At present the flow of arms to Ukraine continues with a daily C-130 or other flight arriving full of weapons and related aid.
"He should have cut off all aid to Ukraine the moment he was inaugurated"
It would have been politically difficult to dump Ukraine just like that. I think his Ukraine policy is probably about the best that could be done, given the awful history and the disastrous current situation.
Pity all his other policies are so bad ... but give him credit for getting one thing right.
If they "hurry up" they won't be able to achieve their true goals before ukraine collapses. ukraine is merely the location of the conflict not the main event.
Russia needs the capacity to build more than 300 new tanks a year. However the overall threat has significantly declined with Trump in office. He much prefers trading with Russia than fighting Russia.
Trump actions and reactions show an individual without stable policies or guidelines. His earlier commitment to porno stars show an unhinged individual. We should focus on his actions. The consistent acts are he is trying to run over Canada and Greenland. There is an already existing base for F-35s in Greenland showing me that on the long run he is preparing for nuclear war. The psycho-bubble about Greenland rare earth metals is just that. Around 90% of the island is covered with ice, one to two mile thick. Nobody will drill through that ice layer just to search for test samples. That is a nonstarter.
He wants control over Canada and Greenland to set up early warnings and defenses against incoming ballistic missiles. Trump has the capacity to turn on a dime, declare Russia the ‘Evil Empire’ and go back to Biden policies again. On the other hand his acts also showed a steady desire to rework the existing world order but it is questionable what the design of his replacement model is. Inside him there is a desire to gain the type of unchallenged power like Napoleon and Hitler but it is not clear if he is in the same class with those two.
Having a few bases here and there on those giant territories or investing a trillion or two for the most advanced missile defenses and air bases are two different things. The only way to protect the second option from changes in local politics is by grabbing full control of the political processes there.
Trump in effect, lost the elections in Canada for the Conservatives. Had he kept his big useless mouth shut instead of yapping about Canada becoming another US state, there would not have been another Liberal win here. Then he topped it off with sanctions and the deal was done.
23% of Canada's population are now immigrants. 80% of immigrants voted for Carny and more globalist woke immigration. That is why Carney won.
Radical left has imported enough immigrants that they will never lose another Canadian election to the Canadian settlers. Especially with Carney in charge.
The big question is will conservative western Canada decide to secede from the madness, corruption and deviancy of globalist woke destroying the country.
Says the guy that was all in on the corruption, mass immigration, war mongering, deviancy and insanity of the Biden Sodom and Gomorrah WEF globalist regime. Only the communists, LGBQT++ lot and useful idiots were happy with Biden and unhappy with Trump today. Wonder why Trump approval rating are twice the Dem party approval rating?
FA&FO. We all know who are holding the cards. It isn't the West. We also know that the so called Ukrainian missiles are being guided by US intelligence and satellites. Trump acts as if he is a neutral broker when the US Pentagon is up to its eyeballs in operations destroying Russian oil installations.
Yes the US is in it, but on behalf of a world order that includes European elites. I am more inclined to see America as the muscle of a supra-national arrangement. Trump knows about these stakeholders, and that they are rattled. The project won’t work unless he wants it, and that’s his leverage. From where I sit, with limited knowledge, it appears Trump could easily get sucked in again, because as you mention, we’re already there. The Euros, whatever they have planned cough financial reset cough they must extend and pretend until they can get the US to do the dirty work and take the blame. Europe is far from innocent. In fact it really looks like they are driving the war.
I agree. In saying the "US " in my comment, I am subsuming many parties. Until Trump identifies them and divorces himself from them, when he, as US president, negotiates anything, he negotiates as one of the belligerents in the Ukraine War. And when he poses as anything different--well, I was understating my true feelings when I said "annoying " in my original post.
Who are those Euros driving the war and let the US do their bidding? I believe the Euros are a joke, doing what the US wants for most of the last 80 years.
The central bankers in the city of London, with the money men who run Paris and Brussels. Just because you don’t know their names doesn’t mean they aren’t very involved in how things go. A lot is at stake. The western debt system isn’t robust right now.
Not just the mythic "Central Bankers" - all those with a vested interest in the financialized capitalist political-economy, by choice or otherwise - right down to Joe Blow-Schmoe with a 401k or any other pension or not, or a job, or not but with government benefits. It ain't just banksters.
Imagine a million NK soldiers begging to be sent to the Ukraine front. And NK has long memories of being pounded into dust by the so-called UN forces that are nothing more than US and their colonies.
Every single North Korean has lost a family member in the US genocidal war in the 50ies. Official stats state 10-20% were massacred, in reality much more. And every building destroyed. Just imagine every building obliterated where you live now. It's almost unbelievable the destruction that was meted out.
Yep, they definitely have an axe to grind. And they will wield it merrily. Payback has been a long time coming.
The problem started when the agreement to give the Koreans independence as per the Cairo Declaration was reneged on and the US set up the Japanese to once again "administer" Korea. If the US had honoured their word South Korea wouldn't even exist.
War in Europe will not be like static defences of Ukraine. It will be wide open and allow massive combined arms use. Those little chihuahua Baltic yapping so loudly for Russian blood will be steamrolled within 24 hours.
I suspect there just could be biological attacks first, but is that "War" by your definition? What if RU mostly neutralizes US command & control/ISR capabilities? I am UNconvinced USA will go all the way for EU & SOME of the Euro antagonists - some Euro-states will capitulate immediately, methinks. This is IF, a big IF, NATO has the ballz to do anything beyond their proxy-bullshit & RU decides to hammer NATO-Europe.
The moment anyone in NATO gets nuked by Russia, what follows is that NATO is over, not that the US nukes Russia.
In fact during the Cold War the US plans were to, once the Warsaw Pact forces overwhelmed NATO defenses, strategically nuke Western Germany in order to deny the Soviets the industrial base there. Not to attack the USSR.
Where this calculus breaks down is if the US can forward deply and neutralize Russia from point blank range.
Which is precisely what has been happening while Putin sits on his hands.
The winning move here is to physically eliminate the NATO presence as far west as possible. Meaning everything up to France and the UK (who will also not launch if they are not attacked themselves).
There is a downside -- this will untie the US's hands to settle score around the glove with nukes -- but given that missiles are flying into Russia, severely comrpomising its own deterrent posture, that is a moot concern at this point.
Yes, I am aware & agree with you except for your assumption that USA is forward deployed to the extent it is a serious threat to RU. I strongly suspect RU is not & will not, by taking appropriate measures (knocking-out missile systems, for instance) be more vulnerable to a full-scale or debilitating attack. USA/NATO actions have not had the effect of "severely comrpomising its (RU) own deterrent posture" - all sides know RU will only take "so much" and until now only silly, yet very risky, games are being played. The West is in a precarious position, hence the risky & desperate acts. Also, I suspect RU partially views these, & their seemingly benign reaction, as its supremacy. It too mobilizes public opinion to accept, even promote, any "harsh" retaliation RU may choose to add to a general disgust for the West.
>USA/NATO actions have not had the effect of "severely comrpomising its (RU) own deterrent posture"
Right now launch-on-warning has been clearly disabled for cruise missiles flying into European Russia.
If that is not compromising deterrence, what is? Turning it off altogether is the only step left between the current situation and complete catastrophe.
Those missiles are coming from Ukraine with a very high degree of probability of being conventional-explosive armed. RU calculates that launching on USA assets is unwarranted, to put it (overly?) simply.
Great stuff as always. The short term contracts are particularly interesting because they lead to the creation of a huge reserve force of experienced soldiers who could be mobilised instantly should the need arise. A Swiss army with combat experience. Nato should take notice.
Maybe winning isn’t the point. Perhaps a nice little war provides cover for another kind of power grab. When people are afraid they’ll go along with almost anything.
In the real world, power respects preparation, not press releases. While the West obsesses over daily drone tallies and battlefield optics, Russia is quietly building depth, stockpiling advanced hardware, and standing up new formations far from the front. This isn’t about winning a news cycle; it’s about preparing for the long game. The steady buildup near NATO's northern flank isn’t a sign of panic; it’s a calculated move.
Any serious state hedges against worst-case scenarios, and Moscow is making it crystal clear: it’s not just fighting a war in Ukraine, it’s preparing for the possibility of a much larger one.
The Russians were very explicit after their draft treaties were rejected in 2021. They are taking counter measures and their discipline is to be commended. This will either end in WWIII or a new security architecture for Europe per the Russian draft
"The steady buildup near NATO's northern flank isn’t a sign of panic; it’s a calculated move."
Well said. It's also a direct result of the US's and Finland's drugged up disco-leader's astonishingly un-calculated move of bringing Finland into NATO.
Well, folks this is what you asked for when you took aggressive military actions to threaten Russia. Russia is taking opposing measures that put in question the survival, or at least prosperity, of your foolish country.
Adding Finland to NATO means that what used to be a perfectly safe and secure border that required zero cost to maintain for 80 years, not even needing a police force or border fencing, must now be militarized for a fight to the death against a battle-hardened one and a half million man Russian army that is the world's most expert army at killing hundreds of thousands of US and NATO troops and proxies and eradicating mountains of US and NATO weapons.
There's no way that a Finnish army which totals 17,000 men, women and other "genders" who have zero military experience can defend an 830 mile (1,340 km) border against even a small fraction, like 2% or 3%, of the highly experienced Russian army. Just the costs of preparing token defenses against the forces Russia is positioning on that border, as it must to respond to NATO threats, will ruin any chance Finland has at prosperity.
Sure. I have no idea why Western propagandists refer to him as "Putin's brain". In Russia he's well known as a highly respected philosopher, respected even by people who disagree with him.
Far as I know, Putin and Dugin have never met, and Dugin has never had a position in the Russian government, except briefly serving as a lecturer in philosophy, until he was dismissed as a result of student complaints.
All day long. How can Russia know when the west will reach the depths of its stupidity? There are few things more insane than war with Russia, but so far, the west has tried several of them. They must prepare.
This sudden switch from triumphalism to fear-mongering by Regime media suggests they are preparing the public for huge “defensive” rearmament, if not a wider war against Russia proper.
Of course nowhere is there any admission that the Russian buildup is a rational response to NATO aggression and encroachment.
Only two small problems NATO faces in accomplishing this - they have no money and very limited industrial capacity. It will take decades and shitloads of money to rebuild. I doubt it will ever happen. In the meantime, they will continue their barking and growling.
Lack of legitimacy with the voters is unfortunately not an obstacle to today's governments. Your first point is certainly valid - who wants to go to war these days, esp against a powerhouse like Russia?
Also, as rebuilding industrial capacity is concerned, not only will government funding not be adequate, but there will be few private investors willing to build privately-owned weapons and ammo factories if they are not likely to receive a predictable and stable return on investment. Are they going to generate a war-time supply of weapons and ammo for the foreseeable future? I think not. I certainly wouldn't invest in such a volatile industry.
the people won't follow but the 'elites' for sure will love to have a go on Russia, we never ever had a chancellor in Germany talking that aggressively against Russia since the idiot from 1933 for example
Naw, the "elites" do not want to do anything of the sort but play games in their desperation of failure. Hitler had tremendously greater prospects than the current bitchy Euro-trash.
NATO Europe is about three decades late to re-arm.
The US ain't in such great shape either. USAREUR continues diverting large parts of the maintenance, fuel, ammo and training budgets to keep the Banderan army in the field.
I can't find how much of the Reserve and Guard budgets have been diverted. Yet.
Finland, by itself it not a threat. It would even have space to arm itself to teeth as part of porcupine strategy without being a threat. However, what is threat is foreign (U.S.) offensive infrastructure and military capabilities targeting Russia that is put on its soil.
Essentially "NATO membership" is U.S. hostile occupation where U.S. has freedom to deploy infrastructure and military where Finland has given up any possibility to say "no". It is debatable what role Finland had when it "joined NATO" while having planted (unelected) prime minister whose elected predecessor was artificially scandaled away, but the "joining" move itself was aggression (again, by who is debatable) for which Russia responded by increasing infrastructure on their side of border.
Another bad thing is that U.S. has tendency of making occupied countries pay for their occupation ("protection", similar way as in racket), Trump is only being more blatant about that.
I could pick you up on a few point of the complete delusional nonsense you've just wrote. But I'd ask you to try & prove 1 of the stupidities you've wrote. Whole I can easily prove it wrong. Your last line of the US extracts money from the countries (Finland) in this case for providing it's NATO forces. Is one of the most ridiculous delusional items you've wrote. What you've wrote is what the current idiot in the White house wants to happen. Why does he want thus to happen? Because as the current idiot is always stating the US has been taken for a ride. Wanting something to happen, compared to what has actually been happening for decades. Means what exactly? It means the current idiot in the Whitehouse is telling you America has been paying a fortune & he'd like it to change. Just like everything else he'd like to change isn't going to happen. Honestly I cant comprehend people believing wishful thinking as fact. When the facts are in front of your face for God's sake.
Thanks again Simplicius. Good work as always to keep our eyes on the subject. Putin made clear what his objectives are at the beginning of the SMO"but the Scandiavians would have any of it. The Result is this: "Most of the manpower expansion will take place in the Leningrad district, which faces Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Smaller brigades will nearly triple in size to become divisions of around 10,000 troops, according to Western military and intelligence officials." I'm not surprised given the mostly short time leaders there"like Sana Marin Finland, Swedens female foreign minister
Maria Malmer Stenergard, Danmark's PM Mette Frederiksen, Kaja Kallas of Estonia now EU FM, Baiba Braže Latvia FM, etc. You get the idea. Many of them quickly disappear into other jobs like the one in New Zealand Jacinda Ardern .... interestingly enough NZ had exclusively male PM's up until 1999 when Jenny Shipley turned up
Jenny Shipley
Prime Minister: 8 Dec 1997–5 Dec 1999
‘This ain’t a damn beauty contest. If you come into politics to be popular, then you’ve picked the wrong sport’, Jenny Shipley declared. New Zealand’s first woman PM came to power in 1997 after staging a carefully planned coup against Jim Bolger.
Well there you have it. Call me a Mysoginist or whatever. It is what it is !
Western societies underwent a significant political and social shift when female leaders started to come into power late 20th / early 21st century. New Zealand is an outlier in many respects but not in that.
However, Margaret "The Iron Maiden" Thatcher, PM of the UK 1979-90 would have been a much more significant example than Jenny "The Ship of State" Shipley, PM of NZ 1997–1999.
I never wrote that it was not "legitimate". I find the group you mentioned absolutely dreadful, third-rate operatives especially Kallas and the vile Ardern but I would argue (actually I can't be bothered) that the latter Woke group are placements in Identity politics rather than effective political forces.
But I would say that even identity politics is effective politics as it has a powerful effect even if it isn't for the greater good. Wolves and parasites can be effective too.
Between Thatcher and Reagan, they ruined the entire world.
Thatcherism was probably a good idea but of course it was too attractive for lazy politicians to sell all their responsibility to the private sector and remove political fodder - and the private companies were all too happy for the opportunity for controlling an essential services monopoly.
And Reagonomics set us all up for debt servitude and the rise of the global mega banks.
Politicians, finding themselves with nothing to do and no accountability turned their attention to "Social issues" which spawned the woke DEI ideology that is now destroying the West.
For those who don’t know NZ is slightly north of the penguin colonies in Antartica. Apparently they have some kind of “leaders” who aren’t always penguins
It's not that they're women, it's that they're imbeciles. That's the real plague at work in the collective West (using that, of course, to include woke bastions like NZ), that their societies have failed to elect leaders, either male or female, who are not dysfunctional imbeciles.
In fact, if you want to use "womanly" as a pejorative you may as well use it to refer to fatuous imbeciles like Rishi Sunak or Justin Trudeau. The whole crew of them are fools, both men and women.
over a decade of as much debt as we can eat, and no natural predators, has permitted the West to elect the most ridiculously inept leaders who simply promise to give us the most free money.
These “leaders” have been selected by “owners” - bankers and corporations. The owners don’t need a headache of intelligent, principled and patriotic leaders.
And this is how the US congress has become a collection of self-castrated eunuchs, the western armies degraded to thorough dishonorable entities, and the “owned” countries’ economies and education crushed. The nomadic tribe of bankers is not interested in the wellbeing of “locals.”
The root of the problem is the capture of western civilization by uncontrollable and predatory Vampire Squid of banking cartel The financial predators neither work nor create. Their main goal is to Loot.
We have (and had) a lot of brilliant women in New Zealand. We used to have the highest book purchase and readership in the West per population in the decades when books were more expensive in NZ than other places.
We also have a failing system in which powers (largely) unknown and far away are manipulating through proxies. Egregious is the giving of citizenship to vicious, inadequate Tribal supremacists like Theil and the pushy, wealthy vulgar like James Cameron.
‘Most of the manpower expansion will take place in the Leningrad district, which faces Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Smaller brigades will nearly triple in size to become divisions of around 10,000 troops, according to Western military and intelligence officials.’
That would be a logical reaction to the increasingly aggressive verbal attacks from Finland and Estonia. These two smaller nations are relaying a message from the whole of NATO and count on NATOS’s full backing. NATO is pushing for war with full force even without very active US participation. On the other hand I am not sure the US will stay away from this fight if it really starts.
The Russian buildup in the northwest is understandable and necessary. Only, who believes that Nato will be so foolish as to attack Russia? You simply cannot win a war against a nuclear power. I guess that even the lightweight in the West's leading elite are aware of this. There must be other reasons for all this warmongering, like diverting attention from Europe's real problems, for instance. It's a classic trick.
In point of fact, NATO is openly attacking Russia. Stealing 350 billion euros of Russia's money was an act of war. Seizing yachts that are the property of Russian citizens is an act of war. Sanctions are an act of war, as was NATO's destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline.
Remember, Article 5 cuts both ways. It's not just "an attack on one is an attack on all," it's also "an attack *by* one is an attack *by* all).
Ok, but by "openly attacking" I mean the big thing: starting a military operation of the scale of "Unternehmen Barbarossa" or Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.
Understood, but I respectfully point out that neither NATO nor the US have the resources to openly attack on the scale of Barbarossa or the Grand Armee.
For that matter, the modern status quo in terms of technology and competent leadership in Russia would not allow any such attack.
First, massing such large forces in modern times just creates convenient targets for smart, precision weapons that can strike far deep into the rear behind front lines.
Second, Russia is not led by delusional military amateurs like Stalin (who denied massive evidence Barbarossa would happen or even was underway), nor is it the weaker party (as in 1812). The current leadership will not let a Barbarossa happen, and Russia's army is far, far stronger than anything NATO and the US can put together or likely will be able to put together in the next five or ten years.
Last time I've checked Russia is advancing even if it is not their main goal, they lose hardly any men in comparison to the Ukron*zies and they maintain a great reputation by the majority of the countries that will start or already have stopped submitting to the US in trade or other bullying.
"Putin is doing absolutely nothing to defend the country right now."
Complete nonsense. Putin is taking the best, most important measures to defend Russia right now, and he's not taking idiotic measures that people, like you, who have zero common sense and strategic geopolitical military sense would take.
It's always the armchair amateurs, like you, who talk tactics when real professionals talk logistics. Writ large, on the scale of the current conflict between the US and Russia, talking logistics means creating an absolutely unstoppable and undefeatable Russian economy that is booming while the economies of Russia's opponents flounder or collapse.
That's what Putin has achieved. He's also created a huge buffer zone by taking five, count 'em - five, huge provinces into Russia that were part of nazi-controlled territory or fighting alone against the nazis.
He's also completely defeating the US and the best efforts, even at the cost of ruining their economies and gutting their own defense, of the US's stooges in Europe. The whole world sees Russia defeating the US and NATO.
>It's always the armchair amateurs, like you, who talk tactics when real professionals talk logistics.
Yes, let's talk logistics.
Has anyone done anything to disrupt Ukro-NATO-Nazi logistics? No, the weapons and drones are streaming in freely across the Polish and Romanian borders.
>That's what Putin has achieved
Here is what Putin has achieved:
-- Was Russia bombed daily in 2021? No. But it is now. It's a free for all now, anyone can fire whatever they want.
-- Did anyone think they could invade Russia and get away with it without becoming a smoldering radioactive pile of ashes minutes later? No, but it has been done repeatedly by NATO now and nobody has become a smoldering radioactive pile of ashes.
-- Why was the war started? So that there are no NATO missiles in Kharkov and Sumy? What do we have now? Not only do we have NATO missiles in Sumy and Kharkov, they are firing daily into Russia. NATO F-16s are flying right to the border launching JDAMs and HAMMERS on Russian territory.
-- And now there is a 50-km sanitary zone in which civilians can only move around at major risk for their safety INSIDE the Russian border.
-- What were the officially stated goals of the SMO? Demilitarization, denazification.
-- But has Ukraine been denazified? No, the exacty opposite, the process of nazification went into overdrive.
-- Was it demilitarized? Again, the exact opposite. Did Ukraine have ALCMs, state-of-the art NATO ballistic missiles and GMLRS systems, modern NATO armor, etc. before the war? No, it didn't, but it does now. Was the whole society transitioned to existing only for the sole purpose of killing Russians? It was trending that was in 2021, but it hadn't become that yet. It is now.
-- We can also mention the Syria fiasco, and many other things.
That is what Putin has achieved. While, when not merely sitting on his hands, actively prohibiting the military from seriously fighting back.
Nicholas II was a competent genius of statecraft in comparison. And we know how he ended.
Listen, the gigantic poisonous reptile of banking cartel has a network of luxurious bunkers and cares not about “others” (ordinary people).
In contrast , Russians have souls - unlike the judaized western “leaders” and their moneyed owners.
Look what global Jewry has been doing in Gaza.
Yes, a single missile to the Yellow stone and Hazelnut visits to the City of London, Zurich and Geneva would completely incapacitate the collective west. But for what price to many innocent ordinary people?
NATO is a tool of banking cartel and mega corporations like BlackRock. NATO is an obedient slave to its overlords at the City and Fed Reserve. All NATO’s actions speak loudly about Racket.
“All wars are bankers’ wars.” That makes my attention wander to Friedrich Merz, chancellor-designate of Germany, multimillionaire, and former chairman of the supervisory board of Blackrock Germany. For some reason, this man gives me the goose pimples. Maybe the time will come that the Germans (and we) start hankering back to the days of Olaf Leberwurst and Annalena 360 Degrees. I hope that I am wrong.
Thanks for reminding me. I knew a man by the name of Willis A Carto. (He already died. RIP) One of his often repeated statements was: ‘War is a racket.’
What a strange new world we occupy! Finns and Lats versus North Koreans; the French Foreign Legion clashing with Chechnians or Siberians; the last handful of Englishmen try the Light Brigade thing again …the Chinese size up Amsterdam as a Silk Road terminus. Can’t we just send them all iPhones so they can watch TikTok?
The Orthodox Jews Sassoons used to poison the Chinese people and even arranged two Opium Wars by engaging the perfidious Albion’ navy when China tried to protect her population from the poison. The British navy won, and the ever dishonorable Brits and jews had looted Chinese artifacts and imposed opium trade on the Chinese populations - all this thanks to hefty bribes provided by the Orthodox Jews Sassoons to queen Victoria.
Considering that europe is an old folks home for metrosexuals, the plan ever always only was for the United States to ride to the rescue.
Hahaha ... You do have a sense of humor!
Consistently great forensic work about the Ukraine conflict, Simplicius.
Good! The sooner Russia finishes the war, the better. Fewer lives will be lost, and the reputation of NATO and the US will be publicly obliterated. And that needs to happen to stop the damned neocons from pushing another forever war onto the world.
Keep your fingers crossed that Russia kicks ass and ends the war ASAP.
As far as Trump goes, he never had any leverage whatsoever, and he is a fool for involving himself in the first place. He should have cut off all aid to Ukraine the moment he was inaugurated and then blamed it all on Biden because it was all Biden's fault anyway.
Once again, the neocon filth around Trump have lead him into a mess. He better pull the plug as soon as possible to salvage what he can of his reputation. At the moment, he looks like a damned fool for spewing his threats about more sanctions and other stupid crap that Russia could not care less about. 🙄
Whaaat? Trump has no leverage? But he 'Rules The World'. 😂
And soon to be Mars...
There was an old Soviet slogan, "and there will be apple blossoms on Mars," I guess, Trump finally got the memo :-)
I don't like this sarcastic tone. You're making fun of the next Pope.
ROFL!
And don't forget - he can now bend time and space, teleport nukes to Moscow and can call on his alien allies at the South Pole to help him out (esp if North Korea enters the fray!).
He will teleport MH-370 and the black holes there.
Sure, right, what a joke!
He, Trump, dont like the War. His wish is to end it. Still, why not earn some money and get back the $350 bn US and Deep State has plowed into the War. Cynical.
I suspect that US, as soon as the mineral deal is signed, will threaten Russia and end the sweet-talk.
Correction, Trump SAYS he wishes the war to end. Ever heard a saying, "judge people only by their deeds, not by their words?"
And what exactly do you think Trump "will threaten Russia with?"
He will try to impress the Russians with his big, beautiful missiles.
"Made in China?"
Made in China, probably purchased from Walmart, or a garage sale.
@ basement bargain prices but Pentagon charging government their weight in gold :-)
Wait and see.
People like you are not contemplating why Trump has lost speed in the Ukraine question. He would end the War in 24hours, then in 30 days. He miscalculated the cleverness by Yermak&Co. It is strategically important for US to get the hands on Ukraine minerals and the Odessa harbours. 100 days later we are still waiting. Things will speed away as soon as it is signed.
I seriously doubt this myth of "Ukraine minerals" - you should be tipped off by Ukraine beginning offer this mineral deal since last Sep. Just wait and see. I also doubt Odessa harbors getting into American hands.
They just signed the deal.
And Trump said to ABC on the question of continue the arms shipment to Ukraine: “I want to leave that as a big, fat secret, because I don't want to ruin a negotiation,”
Whenever a man use the word big, fat secret you are in for a surprise. Next round is with the Russians.
The best way to keep a "big fat secret" is not to say anything till it's done:-)
I voted for Trump in 2024, even if I didn't vote for him in 2016 and 2020. And with a good reason, he says way too much, too soon and backtracks and never admits mistakes "you're welcome, Joe" :-)
Its basically confirmed - the mineral deal is signed and arms deliveries will be part and parcel of it as controbutions to the new "fund"
"I seriously doubt this myth of "Ukraine minerals""
You're right to doubt it. The "Ukrainian minerals" thing is propaganda for morons, just like the Ghost of Kiev and all the other total lies they generate on an industrial scale.
In the case of the minerals lies, those literally are for morons because anybody who isn't a functional moron can look up old Soviet maps of mineral resources in Ukraine and see there isn't anything remotely like recent claims. Also, people who aren't functional morons and really want to understand the matter can read up on exploration geology and know that the Soviets were extremely good at it, and that they explored the heck out of places like Ukraine that were immediately at hand and densely populated in the European part of the Union.
Ukraine's real mineral wealth is coal, with iron ore a distant second, and both of those are in the great formations that start around Donbass but which get far larger as they extend into Russia. That still means there's a heck of a lot of coal in Donbass, now also in Russia.
All the rare earths are no big deal, far exaggerated and not all that distinctive on a world scale basis. The cost of those is extracting them. Same with titanium, which is fairly abundant worldwide (lots of it in Florida, for example). It's not having a source of titanium that's hard, it's having a source of low cost energy to refine metallic titanium that's hard.
The lithium claims are particularly a hoot, the usual lie proceeding by stating that lithium was a don't care in earlier days but now it's white gold given high tech and automotive requirements. But that's an outrageous lie for anybody who's bothered to educate themselves.
In fact, lithium was far more valuable in the 1950's because lithium is the key fuel input for thermonuclear weapons. It's what made thermonuclear weapons practical, enabling stable, solid lithium deuteride fuel instead of having to build a small cryogenics factory to enable fueling a thermonuclear weapon with very low temperature liquid deuterium.
Those weapons were such high value items that it actually would have been cost effective to use solid gold, a ton of it, as tamper material. So you bet the USSR explored every square inch of territory where lithium might be had, and their conclusion was that despite the stratospheric value of any bit of lithium the lithium deposits in Ukraine weren't worth developing.
And that was at a time when not only was lithium extremely valuable but also when the strategic value of self-sufficiency was priceless as well.
So yes, the "minerals deal" is propaganda for morons just on the face of it, at least to the extent it trots out exotic rare earths, titanium, and lithium as a source of profit. It's also a head fake for morons even on the basis of thinking that the US will be able to loot coal and iron from the Donbass, which is now Russian territory.
Where it might not be total propaganda is what they don't tell you, that it provides a great means of laundering money. US and EU "investments" in developing resources that don't exist will provide a flow of funds that can be skimmed and redirected into payola for the supporters of corporations and Ukrainian government entities, including political parties and other beneficiaries of the "development" fund.
Thanks for mentioning the importance of ENERGY in mineral extraction. And pointing out the value of lithium in hydrogen bomb design.
The last paragraph says a ton.
All about control, "one" aspect.. larry fink and company with others controlling the land. (One of the whisperers in Trumps ear.)
That area is known as the bread basket of Europe. Control the land
During the 70's/80's (The old boobtube adverts).. The Sahal. Northern Africans, starving by the millions. Sell it as a drought (naughty climate change) and advertise it by "send money to the hungry children".
At that time everyone of those countries was under some kind of civil war, with one or both sides backed by the "American" gov. These factions then controlled the food supplies, with the motto "Let the people starve."
Of course the mineral wealth doesn't really exist, at least not as sold to Trump.
It doesn't matter, as long as the promise of loot keeps the arms and money flowing.
I believe your suspicion about the money laundry is the correct one. At least US$12 Trillion according to Senator Lyndsey Graham!
The US Geological survey makes it clear that Ukraine DOES NOT have substantial amounts of rare earth metals.
Yes. I was trying to find a link to several geological reports from the early 1950s to around 2000 that all confirm your comment.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Cornflake Kellogg?
and General Cannoli :-)
We have the tools, but would be foolish to use them.
That is the plan. "The Art of the Deal".
But sweet-talk or any-talk is not gonna do it; he has to put up or shut up.
Trump is doing his job adequately well so far.
If I'm right, then after calming the Poked Bear by securing the best possible deal for Russia, Trump's next assignment will be far harder - gaining access to the north of China. Something that I think this whole thing was really about.
Why would Trump need access to the North Of China?
The map does not show any major concentration of female porno stars there.
Part of a two pronged attack.
to state that Trump is doing his job adequately well so far with a straight face is blowing me away - the ignorance of some people can be mind-boggling for sure...
Now tell me what has turned for the better in the US or for any part in the world since Mr. Trump has entered office 100 days ago?
The Jews co to use their genocide and he is deporting protesters against the illegal Jew state.
You think Trump or anyone has control of the global mega banks?
They just alter the rate of money printing whenever is necessary. If the economy really looks like it is going bad, then they'll start up the money printing. In 2019 the whole thing would have collapsed if not for 20 trillion dollars slid in under everyone's noses while we were all worried about the sniffles...
We all scratched our heads and wondered where the 20% global inflation came from. Must have been the Russians...?
Trump was installed to fix the problem in Russia, and position for the Chinese leg of the globalist agenda. He's doing the first part adequately so far.
Yeah...it was extremely simple to convince populations to act in their worst interest for the sniffles.
I am not convinced we learned our lesson.
I don't believe Trump is a globalist, or is working for them.
Zion Don Trump the traitor is 100% owned and run by OWNCO.
Have you by chance looked at what BRICS+ have been doing?
De-dollarisation is just starting to ramp up. The Yankee dollar is not worth the paper it is printed on and now that the crutch of being the worlds currency has been kicked askew the rotten house of American Mexicana and the lower states of Canada is slowly imploding.
It is a glorious sight and I have beer.
Illegal immigration is waaayyy down.
At least Trump is talking to Putin, unlike the Potato-in-Chief's regime.
DOGE is finding some of the various money-laundering and fraud scams.
Eighty nations want to discuss trade deals with the US.
Winning!
Illegal entries are likely down but that can be reversed in weeks again when the Dems move in. However, the deal was to remove the up to 30 million illegals and I see no substantial action in that department. Neither do I see the “Great and Beautiful Wall” getting any longer.
4X365 = 1,460
and that is the total number of days for his administration
30,000,000 : 1,460 = 20,548
That is how many illegals he should be deporting on an average day for four years if there are 30 million of them. He is NOT doing that, in fact he is offering forgiveness to various groups who work as gardeners, farm workers, etc. He is starting to handles the issue with an oligarchic, slaveholder attitude.
That is probably pragmatic approach. Having some people ready to work for little as gardeners etc is OK from a perspective of the economy and societal harmony too - unless of course these people are under control of the gangs (some even gang members) and the justice system is not doing anything with it. Still he achieved something in some areas. I suspect just as with the DEI and migration where the courts offer resistance there is forus invisible resistance on the issue of perpetual war. This assuming he was honest about ending the war in Ukraine. I suspended my opinion on this till I could see better. Now he signed the deal with Ukraine to support it in exchange for mineral rights. If he is going to support Ukraine then the war will continue. On the issue of the stolen Palestinian land - it was clear from the onset that he was not going to do much there.
"Eighty nations want to discuss trade deals with the US" - the strongest of those will bend-over the US while the weakest have squat for you to gain.
What eighty nations? The world at large is turning its collective back towards Yankland.
Well, in just 100 days Trump made Canada be terrified of us - impressive. Canada wasn't scared of the US since Laura Secord :-) I know a Canadian, who just cancelled a cruise to St. Kitts, only because it was sailing from FL :-)
Jokes aside, I do find below impressive.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-modernizes-american-workforce-programs-for-the-high-paying-skilled-trade-jobs-of-the-future/
The US suffers from the lack of proper job training and the national credo: "fake it till you make it." No learning curve is allowed, apprenticeships or even proper trainings became a unicorn. Schools don't have/teach wood, mechanic, etc skills. Young people do either Uber driving, or do Instacart , Amazon deliveries or "blog/influencer/whatever." Given that self-driving cars are already present in AZ and LA, it's only a matter of time for self-driving Ubers/Instacart/Amazon
That Trump sees (or made to see) the need for skills transfer/apprenticeship and tried to do something about it in 100 days is impressive enough for me
The problem is that many skills have been/are being lost. The Trades are not seen as attractive by the majority of the young. The whole of Yankland society has been corrupted with queerism, anti-Whiteism, communism, apathy and entitlement.
American Mexicana does not have a manufacturing base, it does not have the skilled labour, it does not have the infrastructure to support a manufacturing base and it will take decades to even start to put these things in place.
It is out of time. Tariffs and de=dollarisation are the end of it.
Well, skills are not exactly a wallet to lose irretrievably :-) I'm sure there are plenty of retirees, who wouldn't mind/enjoy imparting wisdom and supplementing their own pensions. I live in the Yankland, so I do know what you're talking about, but I don't think that all is irretrievably gone, all can be restored if done correctly.
Elon Musk actually has schools running near his plants for the kids of the staff to do the proper science teaching/skills trainings. It's not that Americans are illiterate, they're just ignorant due to abysmal education and partly skill-less due re.: what you're saying above.
For the rest of the non-West collective it has been a blessing. Look at the Sahel, China, near all the BRICS+ members and associates.
South America is undergoing some healthy change now that Yankland interference has been tempered if not removed.
This recent dispute between India and Pakistan is without doubt engineered by the Western collective as an attempt to derail the fragile peace between the two.
The disgusting destruction of Syria is turning into a shitshow that Yankland can't walk away from too because of American Mexicana's commitment to its owner Israel.
Zion don is isreal first and his only ‘job’ is to protect the Jew and that illegal Jew state for the tunnel Jews.
Absolutely! You whacked that nail with a sledge-hammer!
“Adequately” is, in the face of conditions on the planet, damming with faint praise. (Alexander Pope, of course)
C'mon, that's just more Murikan "all hat, no cattle" bluster. "the best possible deal for Russia" is a defanged western adversary anywhere near it. Trumpet can achieve that, if nothing else.
Could but won't, Russia will.
True, that.
The stated plan, going back into the 1990s was to provoke war in Ukraine, have Russia blow its load, move in, Balkanise all of Ukraine and Russia, rape the resources and use Eastern Russia as a springboard to attack China. Also total control of the Arctic circle.
The Yankland planner had a dream about attacking China from the west and in the South from the South China Sea.
OWNCO - One World New Communist Order, headed up by American Mexicana has been Hell bent on this course for a long time.
Usual suspects pulling the strings.
OWNFO - One World New Fascist Order.
Another delusional American opinion, Trump threaten Russia??? With what exactly? Russia has a far superior military & a far stronger economy in real terms. America whether with Trump or anyone else can't do or threaten Russia with anything. Unless it wants to become a pile of radioactive ashes.
I have been quite good with my dellusions…
That is the rung of the escalation ladder that USA has as an advantage towards Russia. The 'west' is so crazy they will use nukes, so Russia better not escalate to that level or ww3. Russia says it does not want war or ww3, so it is always on the back-foot of the escalation ladder. The impact is deterring Russia from escalating and thus we have our low-boil war.
Wrong. That is after the final rung, falling all the way down. RU dominates the escalation ladder & controls the timing.
Plus Russia has China, and most of the BRICS+ collective on its side. Even India sides more with Russia than American Mexicana and that says much about the fence sitter.
India had good relations with the USSR for almost all of its history (1950 on) as a "non-aligned" nation. USSR supplied its military weaponry almost exclusively, I believe. This helped to balance between China, Pakistan, Brits & the USA.
Mikey, it's worse than cynical. Didn't Lindsay Graham and others say something to the effect that it was "our bullets and their (Ukrainian) blood ... and the Russians are dying ... the best money we've ever spent". Therefore the $350 billion or so was paid for in Ukrainian blood. Nothing is owed to the United States.
Correct. It is evil. And you are right in 700 000 dead has a price but who asked them to do this idiot-shit? Persecuting Russian language, books and culture, askimg for Pride-EU and aggressive NATO?
Its Zelenskys perspective. Ukraine has sacrificed themselves for EU&US to protect them all from the Orcs. And therefore is in no debt at all. But the whole ”affair” is a massive geopolitical play from US/Oligarchs in Ukraine and powerplayers that has going on for 25 years and transformed to this ugly thing.
The deal between the US and Ukraine is exchanging the mining rights for support. Or did I misunderstand something? If so then he is going to continue the US support at least in some form. I would imagine anything less than what is given now will be considered breach of the treaty?
The deal is blah-blah. Rumours are there is three deal, two of them not disclosed.
US will ”invest” in order to secure ther minerals. I think the best investment is to make peace with Russia on favorable terms for US.
What is the best depends on optimization criteria e.g. for whom and how well informed, intelligent, experienced the person is etc. Either way you have as little to say about the deal that was signed as even people involved in fighting and dying. Trump made a decision and Ukrainians signed it. I wonder what that even means considering that all the deals Ukraine signs, will be broken one day.
Yes. Hard to trust them but the equal goes to US. When they see fit they change the rulebased international order…
What is important is that US eventually has signed a deal that looks like almost nothing compared to the original. That means ”something” is very, very important for the Trump administration. It could be as simple as now saying to Russia: ”Dont touch our minerals and not a step more”
Maybe RU will "Let's Make A Deal!" with Mexico for a joint military base in Texas.
What "favourable terms" for Yankland?
A cut of the Resources in Donbass for US drilling technology. Trump is eager to do businees with Russia again (and turn them away from China).
The "mineral deal" is a big nothing burger specifically designed to convince MAGAtards that Trump actually won some deal
Could be. Agree on the official deal. But there are secret parts also. Think the Ukrainians do not want the secret parts to reach the Ukrainian people. Cant imagine Trump giving away anything for free (except to Israel).
Glenn Diesen/Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Washington's Rivalries, Coups, Wars & Cover-Ups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHJJDOHV9dc
..."neocon filth" that he surrounded himself with. Did he feel forced to? He claimed to have learned his lesson but he has still made the same mistake he made last time and it will sink him like it did last time.
This is the new "theory" my fellow Americans are using to excuse Trump. He has made a fool of himself and he has allowed Elensky to make a fool out of him live on National TV not once but twice. The bankers make the rules and give out the orders. Everything Trump has done in 100 days has amounted to nothing but sound bytes. Foreign policy is in reality, exactly the same as it has been under Biden. One question for Simp. you wrote this entire article from 1 WSJ (rag that gets Russia wrong every time) article, a source from Finland intel. (which is CIA) and a couple of other chihuahua States. and you seem to really pat yourself on the back way too often.
no mistakes, it's done by design..if you want to believe so desperately what you are told by the ruling mob, you should probably try to think again
You are projecting something on me and lecturing me on that basis. Please don't.
Sorry, no lecturing here, only a simple advise - you calling it mistakes, I have learned: nothing in politics happens accidentally, it's by design of a ruling mob that is so far out of touch with reality and so full of disdain of the ordinary people - it's not even to comprehend if you have never been in touch with those folks personally - even more so, they don't have any country, they think they own the world
Yes. All others are the goyim cattle to the chicken swingers.
Why not.
Because it makes you a troll or a conceited, pompous ass. Christ, you're all descending like spiders from the ceiling.
Trump obviously has learned nothing as he remains (wait for it!) weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
But slightly less so than a huge portion of the Murikan public.
You are certainly right. But Americans are now so worked up about Russia they cannot accpet that their government is an empty bag of putrid air. They just cannot accpet this. It's a kind of psychosis. Those who try to bring reality to the attention of Americans meet a brick wall. Same in Europe.
You're 100% right. Alas, the great tragedy is how societies that lose contact with reality die. This is not the first time or the last time in history that large empires march into wars based on delusions that they will easily swat away enemies who in reality are far stronger than they told themselves.
In the past when countries went so totally wrong that they end up with abject fools as leaders with a citizenry competing to be even stupider, a Darwinian process operated where countries that were not so delusional wiped out those delusional countries.
The clueless elite in modern times say that can't happen now, because we've put such annihilation through war behind us, but that's really just an echo of similar mistakes prior clueless elites made, when they said, "oh , our empire is so big and strong it can't be toppled." The reality is that total eradication of clueless societies is still on the table, perhaps even more so than in the previous six thousand years as a result of more efficient weapons of mass destruction.
That's where the US and the failing states of Western Europe are heading, total annihilation. The US in particular seems determined to start wars with nuclear powers, even several such powers at once. Right now, for example, the US has a war going against Russia and it is headed toward starting simultaneous wars with China, North Korea, and Iran.
Iran so far may have a very small and undeclared nuclear arsenal, but still, provoking nuclear dragons ends only one way and provoking *four* of them, including two of the three largest on Earth, at the same time is making a really serious try at winning a Darwin Award.
There is no reason to believe that Iran has any nuclear arsenal.
In fact, Trump was mightily incensed that all the evidence indicated that Iran was complying scrupulously to the JCPOA.
For Iran to enrich >60% they intended to either make nukes or use as a bargaining chip to get something in return down the line. Since it does not look like they will get a concession for that lump of radioactive cake they should just eat it and give that up without anything in return.
Let's say Iran has secretly been building a few usable nukes on the down-low...
Use it first and your destroyed with IDF retaliation.
Use it after Israel hits your enrichment sites, your destroyed in retaliation.
So Iran thinks its ballistic missiles and command and control centers will outlive any bombing campaign on Iran. Hmm, I dunno.
If I were in charge in Iran I am not sure I would stake the Persian civilization on the hopes that Israel would not use nukes on population centers. I mean if Iran does do damage with all the reported missiles they say they have, Israel could then start nuking Iranian cities to force capitulation (a situation I am sure the IDF is salivating for). So Iran should just enrich to 90%, build 5 bombs, then disperse those missiles in hopes MAD will prevail. However, as Russia has shown the world you can have nukes and it still does not stop people from attacking you if you are afraid to use them.
As for the bigger picture; if Israel does nuke first or in retaliation of ballistic missile attack they are doing something Russia fears to do. So at that point the west assumes the first attack posture role with nukes. Russia, China. NK might be wise to start considering a full-on massive first strike nuke attack if the west (of whom Israel is a part-of) shows the world they will use nukes first.
Faulty conclusions. RU does not at all, as of yet, require toasting USofA, or any1 else - nothing to do with fear beyond a simple opportunity-cost/benefit & risk analysis.
I am not saying RU has a reason now to initiate a first strike, but if Israel uses nukes to subdue Iran and Israel and USA are tied at the hip, why would RU not think a first strike is more plausible against them soon?
‘Let's say Iran has secretly been building a few usable nukes on the down-low...’
I am fully familiar with the step by step process of the North Korean nuclear force and it also started with a few bombs. Pakistan I think managed the start up in secrecy. Israel is the bravest nation on this planet, if they were not, they wouldn’t burn alive tens of thousands of Muslim children. Every Muslim nation is a problem for them now because Israel knows they are waiting for the moment of revenge.
"Those who try to bring reality to the attention of Americans meet a brick wall..."
I've lost friends here in the US, defending the Russian position in the Ukraine debacle. Most old enough to admit to the DC lies about Vietnam. Um...it's different this time?! The propaganda here is thorough and effective. It is beyond disturbing and depressing.
"Don't know much about history..." :/
I can relate.
I actually like the predicament - separates the wheat from the chaff.
History paints a pretty clear picture of where the US is heading
Sanctions, smankens….
zion don is the jew tool and has no job other than to do as he is told.
Trump is a good guy, but he is always in danger of tripping over his own ego.
As a European, I can’t wait to see the EU fall apart over this dumpster fire.
Trump 'Thinks of Himself' as being a good guy. He is NOT. He is a conceited, narcissistic a..hole who talks big(ly) and does little. As for Europe, I agree with you.
Russia needs to stop dithering and stop relying on western goodwill.
Relying on Trump is especially foolish.
Dithering their way to a monumental, epoch-creating success.
You sound like Charlie Brown waiting for The Great Pumpkin.
You sound silly & jiggy with an immediate gratification delusion.
Yup, watching Russia dither for longer than it took to win WWII is just a need for immediate gratification. Whatever you have to tell yourself.
I tell myself not to draw silly comparisons.
In ww2 Russia was really only fighting against two countries. Now it's fighting against 30. The results will be the same.
Trump was very much involved in escalating the conflict and applying many sanctions on Russia. Don’t kid yourself. At present the flow of arms to Ukraine continues with a daily C-130 or other flight arriving full of weapons and related aid.
"He should have cut off all aid to Ukraine the moment he was inaugurated"
It would have been politically difficult to dump Ukraine just like that. I think his Ukraine policy is probably about the best that could be done, given the awful history and the disastrous current situation.
Pity all his other policies are so bad ... but give him credit for getting one thing right.
If they "hurry up" they won't be able to achieve their true goals before ukraine collapses. ukraine is merely the location of the conflict not the main event.
Russia needs the capacity to build more than 300 new tanks a year. However the overall threat has significantly declined with Trump in office. He much prefers trading with Russia than fighting Russia.
Perhaps, I don't think this is anywhere near settled yet.
Trump will be gone before this ends.
Trump actions and reactions show an individual without stable policies or guidelines. His earlier commitment to porno stars show an unhinged individual. We should focus on his actions. The consistent acts are he is trying to run over Canada and Greenland. There is an already existing base for F-35s in Greenland showing me that on the long run he is preparing for nuclear war. The psycho-bubble about Greenland rare earth metals is just that. Around 90% of the island is covered with ice, one to two mile thick. Nobody will drill through that ice layer just to search for test samples. That is a nonstarter.
He wants control over Canada and Greenland to set up early warnings and defenses against incoming ballistic missiles. Trump has the capacity to turn on a dime, declare Russia the ‘Evil Empire’ and go back to Biden policies again. On the other hand his acts also showed a steady desire to rework the existing world order but it is questionable what the design of his replacement model is. Inside him there is a desire to gain the type of unchallenged power like Napoleon and Hitler but it is not clear if he is in the same class with those two.
The US already can set up early warnings in Canada and Greenland. Anyway, Trump seems to have been distracted by other shiny objects.
Having a few bases here and there on those giant territories or investing a trillion or two for the most advanced missile defenses and air bases are two different things. The only way to protect the second option from changes in local politics is by grabbing full control of the political processes there.
The US already has all it needs.
They have fuck-all to satisfy their desire.
Trump in effect, lost the elections in Canada for the Conservatives. Had he kept his big useless mouth shut instead of yapping about Canada becoming another US state, there would not have been another Liberal win here. Then he topped it off with sanctions and the deal was done.
23% of Canada's population are now immigrants. 80% of immigrants voted for Carny and more globalist woke immigration. That is why Carney won.
Radical left has imported enough immigrants that they will never lose another Canadian election to the Canadian settlers. Especially with Carney in charge.
The big question is will conservative western Canada decide to secede from the madness, corruption and deviancy of globalist woke destroying the country.
Many "immigrants" are so conservative that they're downright primitive. They sure-as-shit vote Tory too.
I heard 20% which means liberals are getting 80%. Not good for Canada first patriots.
Agreed. That’s why Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba should make the decision to separate.
Due to the unfair representation, when it comes to federal elections, the West never has a say anyways.
Says the guy that was all in on the corruption, mass immigration, war mongering, deviancy and insanity of the Biden Sodom and Gomorrah WEF globalist regime. Only the communists, LGBQT++ lot and useful idiots were happy with Biden and unhappy with Trump today. Wonder why Trump approval rating are twice the Dem party approval rating?
Yeah, Dems must be as you describe to prefer the Orange nutter Trumpet in hapless, retarded Murika.
Who wouldn't prefer ANYTHING OTHER than fighting & LOSING TO RU?
They have no need for any more talks, methinks.
TANKS, dammgummit! Nor talks, by the way.
FA&FO. We all know who are holding the cards. It isn't the West. We also know that the so called Ukrainian missiles are being guided by US intelligence and satellites. Trump acts as if he is a neutral broker when the US Pentagon is up to its eyeballs in operations destroying Russian oil installations.
Have there been ATACAM or Storm Shadow strikes lately? I maybe missed something.
Down to Russian electronic warfare. Himats were fired into Kursk just yesterday. Or an attempt with them was.
Not missile - They are furnishing ISR for Ulkie drone operations.
Several JDAM attacks lately.
The neutral broker act is annoying.
This war is between the US and Russia.
Ukrainians are just there to keep the bodybags full, in place of fine young American men.
Yes the US is in it, but on behalf of a world order that includes European elites. I am more inclined to see America as the muscle of a supra-national arrangement. Trump knows about these stakeholders, and that they are rattled. The project won’t work unless he wants it, and that’s his leverage. From where I sit, with limited knowledge, it appears Trump could easily get sucked in again, because as you mention, we’re already there. The Euros, whatever they have planned cough financial reset cough they must extend and pretend until they can get the US to do the dirty work and take the blame. Europe is far from innocent. In fact it really looks like they are driving the war.
I agree. In saying the "US " in my comment, I am subsuming many parties. Until Trump identifies them and divorces himself from them, when he, as US president, negotiates anything, he negotiates as one of the belligerents in the Ukraine War. And when he poses as anything different--well, I was understating my true feelings when I said "annoying " in my original post.
Who are those Euros driving the war and let the US do their bidding? I believe the Euros are a joke, doing what the US wants for most of the last 80 years.
The central bankers in the city of London, with the money men who run Paris and Brussels. Just because you don’t know their names doesn’t mean they aren’t very involved in how things go. A lot is at stake. The western debt system isn’t robust right now.
Not just the mythic "Central Bankers" - all those with a vested interest in the financialized capitalist political-economy, by choice or otherwise - right down to Joe Blow-Schmoe with a 401k or any other pension or not, or a job, or not but with government benefits. It ain't just banksters.
Yes, so why does Russia continue to dither?
Accomplishment must be "dithering" in your vocabulary. I understand now.
Well, the war is nowhere near over, so nothing is "accomplished".
Yes, tasks/crossing milestones are accomplished in the journey towards defeat of the adversary's goals.
And yet Russia is further away than it was in 2022.
Nope. RU is closer to the goal of neutralizing irs true enemy.
Imagine a million NK soldiers begging to be sent to the Ukraine front. And NK has long memories of being pounded into dust by the so-called UN forces that are nothing more than US and their colonies.
Every single North Korean has lost a family member in the US genocidal war in the 50ies. Official stats state 10-20% were massacred, in reality much more. And every building destroyed. Just imagine every building obliterated where you live now. It's almost unbelievable the destruction that was meted out.
Yep, they definitely have an axe to grind. And they will wield it merrily. Payback has been a long time coming.
The Chinese entering the war stopped all that - they 'whupped' America's arse, forcing them to retreat.
Retreat yes, but the war ended in a stalemate. The Koreans had almost liberated their country before the US intervened.
South Koreans beg to differ
The problem started when the agreement to give the Koreans independence as per the Cairo Declaration was reneged on and the US set up the Japanese to once again "administer" Korea. If the US had honoured their word South Korea wouldn't even exist.
Savage and unprecedented!
War in Europe will not be like static defences of Ukraine. It will be wide open and allow massive combined arms use. Those little chihuahua Baltic yapping so loudly for Russian blood will be steamrolled within 24 hours.
You mean 2 hours surely
War with NATO is going nuclear immediately.
The question is who strikes first.
Humanity needs a detailed map of banking cartel’ bunkers. The head of the snake must be targeted first and foremost.
Vanguard holds the largest stake in BlackRock. Who are the partners in Vanguard? No one knows.
The rest of NATO isn't going to care if the insignificant Baltic states end up as roadkill.
I suspect there just could be biological attacks first, but is that "War" by your definition? What if RU mostly neutralizes US command & control/ISR capabilities? I am UNconvinced USA will go all the way for EU & SOME of the Euro antagonists - some Euro-states will capitulate immediately, methinks. This is IF, a big IF, NATO has the ballz to do anything beyond their proxy-bullshit & RU decides to hammer NATO-Europe.
This has been endlessly gamed for decades.
The moment anyone in NATO gets nuked by Russia, what follows is that NATO is over, not that the US nukes Russia.
In fact during the Cold War the US plans were to, once the Warsaw Pact forces overwhelmed NATO defenses, strategically nuke Western Germany in order to deny the Soviets the industrial base there. Not to attack the USSR.
Where this calculus breaks down is if the US can forward deply and neutralize Russia from point blank range.
Which is precisely what has been happening while Putin sits on his hands.
The winning move here is to physically eliminate the NATO presence as far west as possible. Meaning everything up to France and the UK (who will also not launch if they are not attacked themselves).
There is a downside -- this will untie the US's hands to settle score around the glove with nukes -- but given that missiles are flying into Russia, severely comrpomising its own deterrent posture, that is a moot concern at this point.
Yes, I am aware & agree with you except for your assumption that USA is forward deployed to the extent it is a serious threat to RU. I strongly suspect RU is not & will not, by taking appropriate measures (knocking-out missile systems, for instance) be more vulnerable to a full-scale or debilitating attack. USA/NATO actions have not had the effect of "severely comrpomising its (RU) own deterrent posture" - all sides know RU will only take "so much" and until now only silly, yet very risky, games are being played. The West is in a precarious position, hence the risky & desperate acts. Also, I suspect RU partially views these, & their seemingly benign reaction, as its supremacy. It too mobilizes public opinion to accept, even promote, any "harsh" retaliation RU may choose to add to a general disgust for the West.
>USA/NATO actions have not had the effect of "severely comrpomising its (RU) own deterrent posture"
Right now launch-on-warning has been clearly disabled for cruise missiles flying into European Russia.
If that is not compromising deterrence, what is? Turning it off altogether is the only step left between the current situation and complete catastrophe.
Those missiles are coming from Ukraine with a very high degree of probability of being conventional-explosive armed. RU calculates that launching on USA assets is unwarranted, to put it (overly?) simply.
Great stuff as always. The short term contracts are particularly interesting because they lead to the creation of a huge reserve force of experienced soldiers who could be mobilised instantly should the need arise. A Swiss army with combat experience. Nato should take notice.
Swiss army is tiny. Here is more than a million Russian men with actual modern combat experience. Not just plain useless scripted military exercises.
Maybe winning isn’t the point. Perhaps a nice little war provides cover for another kind of power grab. When people are afraid they’ll go along with almost anything.
Excellent deep dive as usual, shared over on VK and elsewhere.
Proud to be a paid subscriber. Keep up the great work.
In the real world, power respects preparation, not press releases. While the West obsesses over daily drone tallies and battlefield optics, Russia is quietly building depth, stockpiling advanced hardware, and standing up new formations far from the front. This isn’t about winning a news cycle; it’s about preparing for the long game. The steady buildup near NATO's northern flank isn’t a sign of panic; it’s a calculated move.
Any serious state hedges against worst-case scenarios, and Moscow is making it crystal clear: it’s not just fighting a war in Ukraine, it’s preparing for the possibility of a much larger one.
Great comment!
The Russians were very explicit after their draft treaties were rejected in 2021. They are taking counter measures and their discipline is to be commended. This will either end in WWIII or a new security architecture for Europe per the Russian draft
The owners of the collective west are immune to reason. The dominance of the supremacist and shameless tribe is the greatest danger to humanity.
Naw, just desperation mixed with chutzpah - a perverse combination.
Leave the highly cultured, sophisticated, urbane Eurocrats to their own devices and they will be fighting each other within a decade.
They need a master not afraid to use the whip.
Europeans like being slaves.
"The steady buildup near NATO's northern flank isn’t a sign of panic; it’s a calculated move."
Well said. It's also a direct result of the US's and Finland's drugged up disco-leader's astonishingly un-calculated move of bringing Finland into NATO.
Well, folks this is what you asked for when you took aggressive military actions to threaten Russia. Russia is taking opposing measures that put in question the survival, or at least prosperity, of your foolish country.
Adding Finland to NATO means that what used to be a perfectly safe and secure border that required zero cost to maintain for 80 years, not even needing a police force or border fencing, must now be militarized for a fight to the death against a battle-hardened one and a half million man Russian army that is the world's most expert army at killing hundreds of thousands of US and NATO troops and proxies and eradicating mountains of US and NATO weapons.
There's no way that a Finnish army which totals 17,000 men, women and other "genders" who have zero military experience can defend an 830 mile (1,340 km) border against even a small fraction, like 2% or 3%, of the highly experienced Russian army. Just the costs of preparing token defenses against the forces Russia is positioning on that border, as it must to respond to NATO threats, will ruin any chance Finland has at prosperity.
Next Davos event deserves a visit of Hazelnut.
Have a question. Had you ever heard of Dugin (Putin's brain) before his daughter was assassinated?
Sure. I have no idea why Western propagandists refer to him as "Putin's brain". In Russia he's well known as a highly respected philosopher, respected even by people who disagree with him.
to justify the murder of his daughter.
Far as I know, Putin and Dugin have never met, and Dugin has never had a position in the Russian government, except briefly serving as a lecturer in philosophy, until he was dismissed as a result of student complaints.
1 Marin was the WEF pick.
2 Western populaces desire to
to behave against their
national interests.
3 I am betting the Finn's are going
stop wanting to sit at the kool
kid's table sooner than later.
Always enjoy reading your opinions.
I questioned the sanity of the Finns at the time. I still question.
They should have a seance with Mannerheim and get the goods on this.
What are those agressive military actions to threaten Russia?
Were you in a coma for the last fifteen years or perhaps locked in a cellar?
All day long. How can Russia know when the west will reach the depths of its stupidity? There are few things more insane than war with Russia, but so far, the west has tried several of them. They must prepare.
As usual, you offer great points.
I gotta say; if Russia or Belarus decide to run over the minor Baltic states I won't be disappointed.
This sudden switch from triumphalism to fear-mongering by Regime media suggests they are preparing the public for huge “defensive” rearmament, if not a wider war against Russia proper.
Of course nowhere is there any admission that the Russian buildup is a rational response to NATO aggression and encroachment.
Only two small problems NATO faces in accomplishing this - they have no money and very limited industrial capacity. It will take decades and shitloads of money to rebuild. I doubt it will ever happen. In the meantime, they will continue their barking and growling.
Third problem nobody wants to fight. Fourth problem few governments have any legitimacy with their voters.
Certainly true here in France.
Même chose au UK.
Oui. Gross stupidity.
Lack of legitimacy with the voters is unfortunately not an obstacle to today's governments. Your first point is certainly valid - who wants to go to war these days, esp against a powerhouse like Russia?
Also, as rebuilding industrial capacity is concerned, not only will government funding not be adequate, but there will be few private investors willing to build privately-owned weapons and ammo factories if they are not likely to receive a predictable and stable return on investment. Are they going to generate a war-time supply of weapons and ammo for the foreseeable future? I think not. I certainly wouldn't invest in such a volatile industry.
Fortunately, UvDL already has unwilling investors ready to invest. EU citizen's savings accounts.
That grift can possibly net the Eurocrats billions of skim.
no more brother wars for the ZOGs.
where are the Humanitarian EU countries who will send their troops to defend the Palestinians against the Jew genocide?
Reality might be a minor problem for sure.
My opinion of NATO Europe re-arming is the cash will be appropriated and quickly misspent or syphoned off.
Alternatively, they start their own wars clearing up 80 year old "misunderstandings".
first rule of war: never march against Moscow - defending the motherland is more than a duty for Russians, it's a true and holy need to do so.
I agree. Though who is marching against Moscow? Do you think the Europeans crazy enough to do this?
the people won't follow but the 'elites' for sure will love to have a go on Russia, we never ever had a chancellor in Germany talking that aggressively against Russia since the idiot from 1933 for example
Naw, the "elites" do not want to do anything of the sort but play games in their desperation of failure. Hitler had tremendously greater prospects than the current bitchy Euro-trash.
NATO Europe is about three decades late to re-arm.
The US ain't in such great shape either. USAREUR continues diverting large parts of the maintenance, fuel, ammo and training budgets to keep the Banderan army in the field.
I can't find how much of the Reserve and Guard budgets have been diverted. Yet.
What is this NATO aggression and encroachment? Finland is no threat to Russia. It is laughable. But Russia is a threat to Finland. Hen, egg??
You haven’t noticed NATO expanding up to Russia’s borders? Well, Russia has.
It’s odd to think of it just from the perspective of Finland in isolation.
I have noticed that. But still: how do Finland or the Baltics threaten Russia? Everyone is certain, Russia will just waltz right through them.
RU is a tremendous threat to the Finn inbreds cuz they made it so by their retarded, cowardly & venal actions.
Finland, by itself it not a threat. It would even have space to arm itself to teeth as part of porcupine strategy without being a threat. However, what is threat is foreign (U.S.) offensive infrastructure and military capabilities targeting Russia that is put on its soil.
Essentially "NATO membership" is U.S. hostile occupation where U.S. has freedom to deploy infrastructure and military where Finland has given up any possibility to say "no". It is debatable what role Finland had when it "joined NATO" while having planted (unelected) prime minister whose elected predecessor was artificially scandaled away, but the "joining" move itself was aggression (again, by who is debatable) for which Russia responded by increasing infrastructure on their side of border.
Another bad thing is that U.S. has tendency of making occupied countries pay for their occupation ("protection", similar way as in racket), Trump is only being more blatant about that.
I could pick you up on a few point of the complete delusional nonsense you've just wrote. But I'd ask you to try & prove 1 of the stupidities you've wrote. Whole I can easily prove it wrong. Your last line of the US extracts money from the countries (Finland) in this case for providing it's NATO forces. Is one of the most ridiculous delusional items you've wrote. What you've wrote is what the current idiot in the White house wants to happen. Why does he want thus to happen? Because as the current idiot is always stating the US has been taken for a ride. Wanting something to happen, compared to what has actually been happening for decades. Means what exactly? It means the current idiot in the Whitehouse is telling you America has been paying a fortune & he'd like it to change. Just like everything else he'd like to change isn't going to happen. Honestly I cant comprehend people believing wishful thinking as fact. When the facts are in front of your face for God's sake.
Thanks again Simplicius. Good work as always to keep our eyes on the subject. Putin made clear what his objectives are at the beginning of the SMO"but the Scandiavians would have any of it. The Result is this: "Most of the manpower expansion will take place in the Leningrad district, which faces Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Smaller brigades will nearly triple in size to become divisions of around 10,000 troops, according to Western military and intelligence officials." I'm not surprised given the mostly short time leaders there"like Sana Marin Finland, Swedens female foreign minister
Maria Malmer Stenergard, Danmark's PM Mette Frederiksen, Kaja Kallas of Estonia now EU FM, Baiba Braže Latvia FM, etc. You get the idea. Many of them quickly disappear into other jobs like the one in New Zealand Jacinda Ardern .... interestingly enough NZ had exclusively male PM's up until 1999 when Jenny Shipley turned up
Jenny Shipley
Prime Minister: 8 Dec 1997–5 Dec 1999
‘This ain’t a damn beauty contest. If you come into politics to be popular, then you’ve picked the wrong sport’, Jenny Shipley declared. New Zealand’s first woman PM came to power in 1997 after staging a carefully planned coup against Jim Bolger.
Well there you have it. Call me a Mysoginist or whatever. It is what it is !
What is your point about Jenny Shipley?
"It is what it is" is an utterly meaningless slogan.
It's a legitimate point.
Western societies underwent a significant political and social shift when female leaders started to come into power late 20th / early 21st century. New Zealand is an outlier in many respects but not in that.
However, Margaret "The Iron Maiden" Thatcher, PM of the UK 1979-90 would have been a much more significant example than Jenny "The Ship of State" Shipley, PM of NZ 1997–1999.
I never wrote that it was not "legitimate". I find the group you mentioned absolutely dreadful, third-rate operatives especially Kallas and the vile Ardern but I would argue (actually I can't be bothered) that the latter Woke group are placements in Identity politics rather than effective political forces.
That wasn't me, that was exexpat.
But I would say that even identity politics is effective politics as it has a powerful effect even if it isn't for the greater good. Wolves and parasites can be effective too.
Yes. Good apparatchiks for the real powers, who prefer to remain in the shadows
Exactly
Between Thatcher and Reagan, they ruined the entire world.
Thatcherism was probably a good idea but of course it was too attractive for lazy politicians to sell all their responsibility to the private sector and remove political fodder - and the private companies were all too happy for the opportunity for controlling an essential services monopoly.
And Reagonomics set us all up for debt servitude and the rise of the global mega banks.
Politicians, finding themselves with nothing to do and no accountability turned their attention to "Social issues" which spawned the woke DEI ideology that is now destroying the West.
How's this - too many venal, vengeful, approval-hungry stunned-cunts have "achieved power".
That'll do!
For those who don’t know NZ is slightly north of the penguin colonies in Antartica. Apparently they have some kind of “leaders” who aren’t always penguins
Oh, you're trying to be funny.
No realistic
Failed miserably on both fronts.
Bit like your country then
That doesn't even make sense. Grow up.
It's not that they're women, it's that they're imbeciles. That's the real plague at work in the collective West (using that, of course, to include woke bastions like NZ), that their societies have failed to elect leaders, either male or female, who are not dysfunctional imbeciles.
In fact, if you want to use "womanly" as a pejorative you may as well use it to refer to fatuous imbeciles like Rishi Sunak or Justin Trudeau. The whole crew of them are fools, both men and women.
they are not dysfunctional imbeciles but shabbos goy
Maybe they're both??
Who else would be Golem?
...but approval-seeking dysfunctional imbeciles?
over a decade of as much debt as we can eat, and no natural predators, has permitted the West to elect the most ridiculously inept leaders who simply promise to give us the most free money.
These “leaders” have been selected by “owners” - bankers and corporations. The owners don’t need a headache of intelligent, principled and patriotic leaders.
And this is how the US congress has become a collection of self-castrated eunuchs, the western armies degraded to thorough dishonorable entities, and the “owned” countries’ economies and education crushed. The nomadic tribe of bankers is not interested in the wellbeing of “locals.”
The root of the problem is the capture of western civilization by uncontrollable and predatory Vampire Squid of banking cartel The financial predators neither work nor create. Their main goal is to Loot.
Thucydides, while biased, does have some interesting things to say about what happens to such a polity. The prognosis is not good.
That's how capitalism has always rolled - capitalism/"rugged individualism" for the proles, socialism for the Owners.
The problem isn’t the genitalia
Wish I could agree, however a bitch in heat for payback & something to prove is the cuntiest force of nature. "Hell hath no fury..." & all.
We have (and had) a lot of brilliant women in New Zealand. We used to have the highest book purchase and readership in the West per population in the decades when books were more expensive in NZ than other places.
We also have a failing system in which powers (largely) unknown and far away are manipulating through proxies. Egregious is the giving of citizenship to vicious, inadequate Tribal supremacists like Theil and the pushy, wealthy vulgar like James Cameron.
‘Most of the manpower expansion will take place in the Leningrad district, which faces Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Smaller brigades will nearly triple in size to become divisions of around 10,000 troops, according to Western military and intelligence officials.’
That would be a logical reaction to the increasingly aggressive verbal attacks from Finland and Estonia. These two smaller nations are relaying a message from the whole of NATO and count on NATOS’s full backing. NATO is pushing for war with full force even without very active US participation. On the other hand I am not sure the US will stay away from this fight if it really starts.
Watch the actions and disregard the words!!!!
The Russian buildup in the northwest is understandable and necessary. Only, who believes that Nato will be so foolish as to attack Russia? You simply cannot win a war against a nuclear power. I guess that even the lightweight in the West's leading elite are aware of this. There must be other reasons for all this warmongering, like diverting attention from Europe's real problems, for instance. It's a classic trick.
>Only, who believes that Nato will be so foolish as to attack Russia?
Given that they are doing it daily and the Kremlin is not responding, what is there that is so hard to believe?
Shooting at Russians while hiding behind the back of Ukrainian soldiers is one thing, openly attacking Russia is an entirely different kettle of fish.
In point of fact, NATO is openly attacking Russia. Stealing 350 billion euros of Russia's money was an act of war. Seizing yachts that are the property of Russian citizens is an act of war. Sanctions are an act of war, as was NATO's destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline.
Remember, Article 5 cuts both ways. It's not just "an attack on one is an attack on all," it's also "an attack *by* one is an attack *by* all).
Ok, but by "openly attacking" I mean the big thing: starting a military operation of the scale of "Unternehmen Barbarossa" or Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.
Understood, but I respectfully point out that neither NATO nor the US have the resources to openly attack on the scale of Barbarossa or the Grand Armee.
For that matter, the modern status quo in terms of technology and competent leadership in Russia would not allow any such attack.
First, massing such large forces in modern times just creates convenient targets for smart, precision weapons that can strike far deep into the rear behind front lines.
Second, Russia is not led by delusional military amateurs like Stalin (who denied massive evidence Barbarossa would happen or even was underway), nor is it the weaker party (as in 1812). The current leadership will not let a Barbarossa happen, and Russia's army is far, far stronger than anything NATO and the US can put together or likely will be able to put together in the next five or ten years.
NATO's bitch-slaps are not a serious punch-up.
How is Russia not responding?
Last time I've checked Russia is advancing even if it is not their main goal, they lose hardly any men in comparison to the Ukron*zies and they maintain a great reputation by the majority of the countries that will start or already have stopped submitting to the US in trade or other bullying.
Has a single Russian missile or drone hit a military base or an MIC facility in Europe and North America?
No.
How many NATO drones and missiles have been fired at Russia?
Countless.
Putin is doing absolutely nothing to defend the country right now.
Maybe not missiles or drones that are hitting Europe's MIC's but there seem to be a few fires and accidents.
Even if Russia were responsible for any of these (and there is no evidence that Russia is), it obviously is doing nothing to deter NATO.
"Putin is doing absolutely nothing to defend the country right now."
Complete nonsense. Putin is taking the best, most important measures to defend Russia right now, and he's not taking idiotic measures that people, like you, who have zero common sense and strategic geopolitical military sense would take.
It's always the armchair amateurs, like you, who talk tactics when real professionals talk logistics. Writ large, on the scale of the current conflict between the US and Russia, talking logistics means creating an absolutely unstoppable and undefeatable Russian economy that is booming while the economies of Russia's opponents flounder or collapse.
That's what Putin has achieved. He's also created a huge buffer zone by taking five, count 'em - five, huge provinces into Russia that were part of nazi-controlled territory or fighting alone against the nazis.
He's also completely defeating the US and the best efforts, even at the cost of ruining their economies and gutting their own defense, of the US's stooges in Europe. The whole world sees Russia defeating the US and NATO.
>It's always the armchair amateurs, like you, who talk tactics when real professionals talk logistics.
Yes, let's talk logistics.
Has anyone done anything to disrupt Ukro-NATO-Nazi logistics? No, the weapons and drones are streaming in freely across the Polish and Romanian borders.
>That's what Putin has achieved
Here is what Putin has achieved:
-- Was Russia bombed daily in 2021? No. But it is now. It's a free for all now, anyone can fire whatever they want.
-- Did anyone think they could invade Russia and get away with it without becoming a smoldering radioactive pile of ashes minutes later? No, but it has been done repeatedly by NATO now and nobody has become a smoldering radioactive pile of ashes.
-- Why was the war started? So that there are no NATO missiles in Kharkov and Sumy? What do we have now? Not only do we have NATO missiles in Sumy and Kharkov, they are firing daily into Russia. NATO F-16s are flying right to the border launching JDAMs and HAMMERS on Russian territory.
-- And now there is a 50-km sanitary zone in which civilians can only move around at major risk for their safety INSIDE the Russian border.
-- What were the officially stated goals of the SMO? Demilitarization, denazification.
-- But has Ukraine been denazified? No, the exacty opposite, the process of nazification went into overdrive.
-- Was it demilitarized? Again, the exact opposite. Did Ukraine have ALCMs, state-of-the art NATO ballistic missiles and GMLRS systems, modern NATO armor, etc. before the war? No, it didn't, but it does now. Was the whole society transitioned to existing only for the sole purpose of killing Russians? It was trending that was in 2021, but it hadn't become that yet. It is now.
-- We can also mention the Syria fiasco, and many other things.
That is what Putin has achieved. While, when not merely sitting on his hands, actively prohibiting the military from seriously fighting back.
Nicholas II was a competent genius of statecraft in comparison. And we know how he ended.
Putin deserves the same.
Listen, the gigantic poisonous reptile of banking cartel has a network of luxurious bunkers and cares not about “others” (ordinary people).
In contrast , Russians have souls - unlike the judaized western “leaders” and their moneyed owners.
Look what global Jewry has been doing in Gaza.
Yes, a single missile to the Yellow stone and Hazelnut visits to the City of London, Zurich and Geneva would completely incapacitate the collective west. But for what price to many innocent ordinary people?
Putin is doing nothing but ensuring an RU Fed complete epoch-creating victory.
Ridiculous, you Nervous-Nelly.
Exactly.
Banking cartel cares not about humanity. The City, aka a criminal empire of offshore accounts and money laundering, needs more Loot, always.
Bankers think alike the late jewess Albright, “the death of 500.000 Iraqi children was worth it.”
Yes. I don’t know the answer, but this is the question
NATO is a tool of banking cartel and mega corporations like BlackRock. NATO is an obedient slave to its overlords at the City and Fed Reserve. All NATO’s actions speak loudly about Racket.
“All wars are bankers’ wars.”
“All wars are bankers’ wars.” That makes my attention wander to Friedrich Merz, chancellor-designate of Germany, multimillionaire, and former chairman of the supervisory board of Blackrock Germany. For some reason, this man gives me the goose pimples. Maybe the time will come that the Germans (and we) start hankering back to the days of Olaf Leberwurst and Annalena 360 Degrees. I hope that I am wrong.
Thanks for reminding me. I knew a man by the name of Willis A Carto. (He already died. RIP) One of his often repeated statements was: ‘War is a racket.’
Yay & nay - NATO is just blustering and wants anything but getting trounced.
Hopefully bring in North Korea cools those NATO heads
What a strange new world we occupy! Finns and Lats versus North Koreans; the French Foreign Legion clashing with Chechnians or Siberians; the last handful of Englishmen try the Light Brigade thing again …the Chinese size up Amsterdam as a Silk Road terminus. Can’t we just send them all iPhones so they can watch TikTok?
The Orthodox Jews Sassoons used to poison the Chinese people and even arranged two Opium Wars by engaging the perfidious Albion’ navy when China tried to protect her population from the poison. The British navy won, and the ever dishonorable Brits and jews had looted Chinese artifacts and imposed opium trade on the Chinese populations - all this thanks to hefty bribes provided by the Orthodox Jews Sassoons to queen Victoria.
So predictable.