Early on in the war the West evacuated the embassies from Kiev, and acted with caution for a while, which was then all thrown away after all the red lines were trampled. And no, what you often hear, i.e. that the red lines were defined by the West, not by Russia, is not true -- there were lots of very public statements by Putin, Lavrov and Shoigu (when he was the defense minister; Belousov seems to be smarter and to keep his mouth shut on these matters) defining clearly red lines, that were then quickly violated, and yet there was still no response.
The effect of all that public display of pathetic weakness is that now the West is actively looking for a war, staging false flags, etc. Which also means that actual Russian conventional strikes on NATO territory will only serve to ignite the major war.
Conventional missiles taking out some key localized targets and individuals in Europe, just to show them that Russia is not going to tolerate any BS, and that it knows Article 5 is fiction, could have gone a long way towards reestablishing deterrence back in 2022.
In 2025 the only thing that can do it is nuclear strikes. However, if you just nuke some bases, then the host country will cry to high heaven until the end of times for retaliation under Article 5, thus you kind of have to preempt that too and strike in such a way that there is nothing and nobody to demand retaliation. Only in such a case you can be reasonably sure there won't be retaliation -- the US will not sacrifice the US mainland for any country in Europe, but it still helps make the decision to stand down if that country does not exist anymore. Still, wiping out millions is something that should have never been allowed to become unavoidable, yet that is exactly what Putin did. He now faces two choices:
1) Start erasing countries off the map to force the rest to rethink whether they want to be a platform for attacks against Russia, or to just physically eliminate all such platforms. Which does make the risk of an all-out exchange non-zero, but again, the US acting rationally backs off in such a situation.
2) The end of Russia. Because the attacks will not stop, they will only escalate in size and depth of penetration and no matter how good Russian air defense is, if you just keep taking punches, you will be destroyed over time. So you have to make the attacks stop, and that now means erasing countries off the map so that nobody ever thinks of launching any even conventional strikes against Russia. Nothing else suffices to reinstill the fear of consequences that once existed.
The geniuses in the Kremlin allowed themselves to be maneuvered into a situation where there are no other options left. And they might still chose the destruction of Russia the way things have been going so far...
Ah, the old paradox where Russia is simultaneously weak and have already lost the war > Russia is going to invade Poland and won't stop until the Atlantic Ocean. Or maybe even New York. (An old Kelly's Heroes quote.)
I wouldn't be surprised if they start saying that Russia is indeed so weak in both military and economics - that now they know the only war Russia can win is an all out nuclear armegeddon. But I think we all know that no one will win a nuclear war.
Very interesting the comments coming from President Trump. Who knows what they really mean. I'm hoping it is indeed his way of walking away from the Ukraine war. If Russia is so weak - then have at them. Good luck. We'll sell whatever we can produce to NATO/EU; if they can afford it.
Many have said President Trump and the USA should walk away from the war. As the end of USA military support, and economic, would no doubt be the end of the armed conflict. Or at least it should, but the leaders like Macron, Merz, Starmer, von der Leyen, Kallas, etc are not known for their intelligence. I shouldn't exempt our own dear leader Mark Carney from that list. PM Trudeau was/is an incompetant boob but I think PM Carney is more dangerous.
I often wonder exactly why folks like them care so much for a corruption filled country like Ukraine.
It's almost like they were part of the corruption....
Whatever it is - drugs, human trafficking, sex trade, pedos = It must be something fantastic. I hope we eventually find out.
I think Ukraine will try to keep fighting until the end. They do too much of it already. There is no reason to fight to the end to try to hold meaningless terrain, especially in a war of attrition. Which is why I think Russia is keeping advancing at a slow pace. The blow a village/position up with everything they have, all sorts of weapons and calibers. That kills most of the defenders. Then small groups of Infantry clear up the position. Then they kill more of Kyiv's forces when they inevitably counter attack. If it looks like they will lose a village/position - they seem to prefer to withdraw and start the whole process over.
It looks like maybe the Ukrainians may do another grand adventure in the mode of the Kursk gambit. It was stupid then and is stupid now. They should have left the Kursk area after a week or so. But they held on and on and lost a lot of Troops and equipment.
The whole Krinky expedition across the Dnieper was also foolish. Maybe we'll find out in the future if it actually did accomplish anything. Or if it was all a dismal wet failure that seen far too many of brave Ukrainian Soldiers die; for nothing.
When Russia first invaded in Feb 2022 I wondered if this would eventually lead to World War Three. Most of my friends scoffed at the idea. But we do indeed to be getting closer and closer to that point of no return. Then again - maybe the next covid outbreak will kill us all.
Moronic "Elbows Up" idiots from Manitoba and East "voted" Carney the Clown into office. Poilievre decided to cater to the left of center crowd abandoning his Conservative base. Fucking fool. Lost his own seat and then had to grovel and have an MP in Alberta resign his seat so Pierre the Poofter could win in a byelection in a safe Conservative riding. Kanuckistanians love punishment.
We are running fast out of family members to talk to about politics, both in Canada and in Germany, due to our refusal to be brainwashed by MSM. Of course in their opinion, we are the 'Putin Sympathizers', and all would be better if we would just listen to the CBC. Lol.
"I can't get evidence that the election was rigged."
This election, Election Canada website was down.
In the past you could view actual polling stations vote counts. Funny part, I've seen the numbers in polling stations set up in senior centers where the seniors all will vote 100% for one party or another.
I watched this election from a different site, no choice. What I noticed, many Liberal won ridings, especially 2 in BC and one in Calgary had a massive influx of liberal votes late in the counting (Most polls already counted). To overtake a conservative lead. (Around midnight mountain standard time there was only a 3- 4 seat spread. Liberals up 6-8 seats )
They also know how you vote. Under the Harper government. Election Canada hired an Australian firm to set up a data base. (I think it's in Winnipeg.) You will notice when voting there is a number on your ballet. piece 1. that number is torn off and the number is recorded in a book, along side your name at the polling station. That number also appears on the back of your vote. piece 2, that goes in the ballet box.
Now with that info and the power of computers. that info can be use to redraw riding boundaries especially in metro areas like Toronto.(Which you had during this election) With ethic groups living in a certain area and knowingly voting a certain way, you can change the outcome of a riding.
You don't need all the votes, you just need enough votes in certain areas to win a riding.
To go a step further, in BC in the last provincial election the ballots were electronically recorded, as BC went e-voting.
I voted like I always do: sign in, receive ballot, to the polling station, then to the elections officer at the counting machine.
I vote by NOT marking my ballot, a carryover from the days of paper ballots.
When my ballot was counted the counter gave an alarm because there was no vote choice identified. I turned to the officer, after she said, "you didn't mark the ballot".
I replied, "You have spoiled my ballot; this is not a secure election if this can happen".
The Austfailian example nails the reality on the head: without the secret ballot, which is "guaranteed to be secret by the paper ballot" the electronic ballot counting closes the circle of insecure voting.
My ballot that is numbered, will have the "non-chosen" on it and cease to be a secret ballot as the system is biased to count only marked ballots.
He was voted in somehow? Remember the American election of 2020.
That's how. I no longer believe the various republics of the West function as such. They all seem to be totalitarian socialist with fake elections. If Nigel Farage does not waltz into #10 quite soon I'm going to be certain its a fact.
The Don made such a stink about the rigged elections that the establishment was forced to 'allow' him to return and get what was stolen from him, a second term. It would have been difficult to overthrow his plurality anyway without obvious election rigging.
After the first circus the real Republicans were awakened to their danger and nobody left the polls with Democrats still inside to count votes. Remember the video from a Georgian counting house where suitcases which had sat all day were pulled out from under tables and counted while only Democrats did the deed? I believe my own eyes not the lies of the establishment.
"Many have said President Trump and the USA should walk away from the war."
Sure, walk away, but never forget that this was the US's war to begin with under the direction of Vicky Nuland et al. As such, the US should be condemned internationally for its actions in Ukraine over the past twenty years ... Chip
You can't isolate and destroy Israel for that would be anti-semitic and god himself forbids that.
While ever even only one single 'good' (if you can imagine such a thing given the religion) lives in Israel then hurting Israel is anti semitic and forbidden.
While ever one single Hamas fighter dedicated to ending Israeli oppression lives in Gaza/Palestine then every single Gazan/Palestinian must be obliterated, by order of that same God.
Yeah I got it. You are an atheist and proud of it because it's the latest fad. Did you know atheism is in fact the first religion? Before the first Shaman or Medicine Woman said, "The bad spirits could not be overcome by my poor magics" the human race believed only in themselves and what they could perceive with the five senses. If such people at least believe in compassion and respect for their fellow humans, if not the animals of the world, I say they will awaken in heaven and wonder how they could have been so wrong. In heaven or one of the upper levels of its less desirable neighborhoods perhaps an animal abuser would learn a new lesson? If I'm simply full of it then what harm is done? I treat people and animals with as much compassion and respect as I can master. Oblivion awaits does it not?
I do not believe in magic but I believe in The Infinite Mind of God. God is a natural being composed of force and energy just like our own minds. The organic electrochemical actions of our brains are not our thoughts, the electrochemical energy produces forces and the pattern of those forces are our thoughts and our minds. Our minds produced by the energy of our brains are also what has been termed our souls. Unless of course you believe in mindlessness?
God is the sum total of all the lifeforms in an infinite universe. I know the universe is infinite because I do not believe light is an example of perpetual motion. The hill always has another side, even if its a precipitous cliff. There are an infinite number of Hubble Events produced by the explosion of the primal atom. We have simply not found any with our primitive devices as yet. There are a lot of points of light and it may also be possible the nearest Hubble Event is beyond the capability of light to progress this far. The fabric of space would inevitably absorb the photonic energy of the nearest big bang unless it is close enough.
How can God be the gestalt mind of all sentient and non-sentient lifeforms if the speed of light is constant? Force is not an electromagnetic event, the two are convertible, one to the other, but they are not the same.
IN THE PROPER MEDIUM OF TRANSMISSION FORCE MAY BE TRANSMITTED INSTANTANEOUSLY.
Take a pencil lay it on the table, push one end. Do not meditate on how fast you push it but how fast the other end reacts to your push.
Even the Buddha said, Life is God and by the rules of algebra and logic, God is Life.
The despised Jews said, "We are made in His image." I instead say we are all made in the same image, at least we operate our thoughts in a similar fashion and each of us is a grain of sand in an infinite desert which is the MIND OF GOD. God did not create the universe: the universe and life and God have always existed. No beginning and no end. Why should there be a beginning or an end to infinity?
The Jewish tribes were the first peoples to say that there is only one God and He is everywhere. Akhenaton of Egypt said there was only one God but he pointed at the Sun, wrong target, right proposition. Thus were the Jewish the Chosen People of God who brought the word of His existence into the world. All who persecute the Jews will in the end come to regret it, just like Hitler and the absolute monarchs of Europe who used to borrow gold from the Jewish traders and then declare a pogrom with persecution in order to avoid repayment. The anti-semite evil is a hangover from those days and is being revived most assiduously by the Banderites and the evil monarchs of Europe. All of us owe a debt to the Chosen People of God for the Word of His existence.
There are barely fifteen million practicing Jews in the world; there were a lot more before Hitler. I suppose those of you who believe the Jews are the root of all evil are fully supportive of the solution to the "Jewish Problem"? When attacked on Oct 7, 2023 the Jews struck back and are cleaning out a rat's nest of terrorists who hide behind the civilian populations. "Never Again" The peaceful Gazan civilians are under the thumbs of armed terrorists and quite often it is Hamas that kills the slaves who rebel. Israel does its best under war conditions but they refuse to take violence without doing their best to stop the violent.
Now all of who read this, if you are capable of reading such a 'wall of text', know why I am telling you the truth when I say I am not of any religion currently known in the world, since I am the original Monk of the Order of the Infinite Mind of God. I say I should be known as a Minder. No temples, no orders of priests, no collections of funds, just meditate on the being of God and mind your own business as much as possible. Give good advice, as you see it, even if unasked for but don't force yourself on anyone. Which is why I like these comment pages in many places.
I suppose that like the Shaolin the Minders would be a 'flawed' order of the Buddhist philosophy. They are physical practitioners of their beliefs and I am simply mental. Or as we Americans say: crazy. Minders could also be thought of as a rather strange monastic order of the Catholic religion. Or simply the meditations of an old man who spends a lot of time alone with his thoughts and a computer.
Since the blessings of God are as a curse upon the heads of the unrighteous:
Every morning I set aside an hour or two for email. Today you've got the whole time slot to yourself.
My responses preceded by '**'
Yeah I got it. ** wrong
You are an atheist ** wrong
and proud of it because it's the latest fad. ** wrong
Did you know atheism is in fact the first religion? Before the first Shaman or Medicine Woman said, "The bad spirits could not be overcome by my poor magics" the human race believed only in themselves and what they could perceive with the five senses.
** unknown but likely wrong. the first emotions bled first into the conscious psyche and expressed as beliefs in spirits, forces, cosmic truth. the emotions of love and fear. Fear of fire and fury, storms, lighting. Love of warmth and the returning of the sun from the depths of winter. I suggest Jackson's 'Christianity before Christ'
If such people at least believe in compassion and respect for their fellow humans, if not the animals of the world, I say they will awaken in heaven and wonder how they could have been so wrong.
** so that's a postulate of yours. okay.
In heaven or one of the upper levels of its less desirable neighborhoods perhaps an animal abuser would learn a new lesson?
** another postulate.
If I'm simply full of it then what harm is done?
** I don't know. I don't really follow the thread here.
I treat people and animals with as much compassion and respect as I can master.
** okay, good for you.
Oblivion awaits does it not?
** I think quite the contrary. I suggest almost any NDE account on YT.
I do not believe in magic but I believe in The Infinite Mind of God.
** okay. you tell of what you believe.
God is a natural being composed of force and energy just like our own minds.
** more of what you believe.
The organic electrochemical actions of our brains are not our thoughts, the electrochemical energy produces forces and the pattern of those forces are our thoughts and our minds. Our minds produced by the energy of our brains are also what has been termed our souls.
** more
Unless of course you believe in mindlessness?
** ?? confusing. you mean your beliefs you now present as proven postulates we all should believe unless we believe in mindlessness? I don't know about all that.
God is the sum total of all the lifeforms in an infinite universe. I know the universe is infinite because I do not believe light is an example of perpetual motion. The hill always has another side, even if its a precipitous cliff. There are an infinite number of Hubble Events produced by the explosion of the primal atom. We have simply not found any with our primitive devices as yet. There are a lot of points of light and it may also be possible the nearest Hubble Event is beyond the capability of light to progress this far. The fabric of space would inevitably absorb the photonic energy of the nearest big bang unless it is close enough.
** more on your beliefs
How can God be the gestalt mind of all sentient and non-sentient lifeforms if the speed of light is constant? Force is not an electromagnetic event, the two are convertible, one to the other, but they are not the same.
** on your incredulity this time.
IN THE PROPER MEDIUM OF TRANSMISSION FORCE MAY BE TRANSMITTED INSTANTANEOUSLY.
** a postulate of yours.
Take a pencil lay it on the table, push one end. Do not meditate on how fast you push it but how fast the other end reacts to your push.
** to what end? and within exactly what constraints? i.e. this is a mind experiment or a practical one? In the practical world we can calculate the time. In Einsteins thought experiment (if it was his) the rod is rigid and moves as one. To which do you refer? And what does it mean to us?
Even the Buddha said, Life is God and by the rules of algebra and logic, God is Life.
** A postulate
The despised Jews said, "We are made in His image." I instead say we are all made in the same image, at least we operate our thoughts in a similar fashion and each of us is a grain of sand in an infinite desert which is the MIND OF GOD. God did not create the universe: the universe and life and God have always existed. No beginning and no end.
** more postulates stemming from 'your belief'
Why should there be a beginning or an end to infinity?
** beyond me..
The Jewish tribes were the first peoples to say that there is only one God and He is everywhere. Akhenaton of Egypt said there was only one God but he pointed at the Sun, wrong target, right proposition. Thus were the Jewish the Chosen People of God who brought the word of His existence into the world. All who persecute the Jews will in the end come to regret it, just like Hitler and the absolute monarchs of Europe who used to borrow gold from the Jewish traders and then declare a pogrom with persecution in order to avoid repayment. The anti-semite evil is a hangover from those days and is being revived most assiduously by the Banderites and the evil monarchs of Europe. All of us owe a debt to the Chosen People of God for the Word of His existence.
** not right. think of akhenaten and Zoroastrianism. I'd refer you again to Jackson't book.
There are barely fifteen million practicing Jews in the world; there were a lot more before Hitler.
** okay, if you say so. so what?
I suppose those of you who believe the Jews are the root of all evil are fully supportive of the solution to the "Jewish Problem"?
** I don't know of anyone who thinks this. You are postulating this and lumping me in with them? By what right? To what end>
When attacked on Oct 7, 2023 the Jews struck back
** And when attacked on Oct 7 that was itself a 'striking back'
and are cleaning out a rat's nest of terrorists who hide behind the civilian populations.
** this is not so, clearly. They are wiping out civilian populations and hoping to catch some 'terrorists' at the same time. We are immediately lost in semantic confusion inexactitude and error, deliberate obfuscation and deceit. For even new born children are labelled 'terrorist' by the Israeli Jews of today. Any smart 'terrorist' with any military acumen at all would be the most safe from the lunatic attacks of the Israelis. The actually hit targets are those favourite targets of americans and jews: women and children, old men, hospital patients. The defenseless.
*
"Never Again" The peaceful Gazan civilians are under the thumbs of armed terrorists and quite often it is Hamas that kills the slaves who rebel.
** the peaceful Gazan citizens are under the bombing and shelling of the Israeli Jews.
Israel does its best under war conditions
** wrong. Israel does its worst under all conditions.
but they refuse to take violence without doing their best to stop the violent.
** if you did to my family or even 'my people' - members of my nation, folks I've never met and never will- I would hate you for the rest of my life and I would teach that hate to my children and have them pass it on and I'd teach cunning and deception so that you would get to where you'd never know if a descendent of mine were there behind you with a dagger. Ho ho ho. No I wouldn't. But thousands, even perhaps millions will. AND it is what Israeli Jews have done, it has been their strategy for a long time and that's how they so successfully assassinated so many...
Now all of who read this, if you are capable of reading such a 'wall of text', know why I am telling you the truth when I say I am not of any religion currently known in the world, since I am the original Monk of the Order of the Infinite Mind of God.
** aha. Here's the point finally. It is a self promotion.
I say I should be known as a Minder. No temples, no orders of priests, no collections of funds, just meditate on the being of God and mind your own business as much as possible. Give good advice, as you see it, even if unasked for but don't force yourself on anyone. Which is why I like these comment pages in many places.
** and, it would seem, condone and even support the methodical slaughter of gazans. very enlightened philosophy we have here.
I suppose that like the Shaolin the Minders would be a 'flawed' order of the Buddhist philosophy.
** the Shaolin were/are of course 'flawed' in that they bring violence into their buddhism. a kinda massive 'flaw'
They are physical practitioners of their beliefs and I am simply mental. Or as we Americans say: crazy.
** okay.
Minders could also be thought of as a rather strange monastic order of the Catholic religion. Or simply the meditations of an old man who spends a lot of time alone with his thoughts and a computer.
** yeah, well I recommend NDE and Jackson's 'Christianity before Christ'
Since the blessings of God are as a curse upon the heads of the unrighteous:
I'm happy that you are glad. At least read a bit of it. If you understood it you might not call it psychobabble, it's quite close to Zen Buddhism while not violating the known laws of science. Life is God and God is Life.
Israel would love to use some of them cattle cars now to ship palestinians pronto to some gas chambers if only the idiot mindless goys of the world would stop pointing fingers!
really, it's such a shame people keep mentioning the slaughter of the Amalekites. Why can't they just see it's god's will?
BTW, there were quite a few tweets and twits in that chosens' land in the past year who pointed out that the gas chambers were actually a more humane way of getting rid of millions of unwanted humans. Alas, it was mostly in hebrew, a language hardly anyone speaks.
The Palestinians are the ACTUAL SEMITES of the Levant, as THEY NEVER LEFT...but the Red Sea Pedestrians became "Wandering Whos" as they could not get along with the host populations, all 109 of them and whatever Semitism they would have ascribed to is long gone - after 1 generation!
The Jews/Zionists/Israelis can only be Semitic IF BORN IN THE LEVANT!
Therefore the trope of "ANTI-SEMITISM" is false, and reveals the non-Semites as imposters of Semitism!
By the way, those Kabbalistic Jews murder children, whether in Israel or underground Brooklyn.
Jews don't trace their heritage by geography but by the line of their female progenitors. To them anyone who is born to a Jewish mother is Jewish. Your decision to decide who is and who isn't Jewish is to say the least self-centered without respect to those you wish to to condemn and encourage others to kill.
Most of the delegations left the UN hall before the speech of the Nazi Netanyahu. He has already managed to threaten an attack on Iraq from the rostrum in order to "destroy the Shiite militias" (there are more than 120,000 of them only officially, some of them are included in the Iraqi Defense Ministry). Netanyahu's entire public campaign was a continuous chutzpah and threats against various countries.
>It has become clear that the EU-NATO establishment has chosen the path of acute escalation as their current strategy against Russia. The question is why?
Simple -- the benefits outweigh the costs, and that is because the costs are effectively zero so far, which in turn is because Russia is run by traitors who refuse to fight back. At least the Iranians fired some missiles into Tel Aviv in their war, and they have a couple orders of magnitude smaller capabilities, and are run by pro-Western traitors too. In Russia they couldn't muster the courage even for that...
>Lavrov and Russia’s ambassador to France both invoked the dreaded ‘W’ word in regard to NATO shooting down Russian planes:
Lavrov publicly proclaimed NATO is in a war with Russia, yet Russia has not fired a single shot at NATO.
What kind of schizophrenic nonsense is this?
>By the way, has anyone considered the absurdity of the contradiction at play with these provocations?
Has anyone considered that question through the prism of the history of the last four years? Did anyone imagine in 2021 that in 2025 NATO will be blowing up refineries all the way in Bashkiria while the Kremlin will be praising the US's effort to end the war at the same time that is happening instead of immediately physically eliminating the source of aggression? I am old enough to remember how unthinkable that was in 2021, and yet here we are.
Any objective analysis has to admit that the West has very successfully boiled the frog and maneuvered the Kremlin into this catastrophic for Russia situation, skillfully exploiting the fundamental unresolved internal neoliberal dysfunction in Russian society, inherited from the Gorbatchev and Yeltsin betrayal of the country and then held sacrosanct by Putin for a quarter century and still to this day.
Given that objective fact, one has to then take very seriously the threat of what is to come, because they would not be escalating if they perceived the possibility of being destroyed in response as serious. And given how the previous four years went, that does look like a safe bet indeed, and that spells doom for Russia.
There are two possibilities here -- either Putin will fold, and in the West they know it, which is the end of Russia, or the West does in fact have the military-technical upper hand, it is just not public knowledge (the public information points more towards the opposite, yet Putin stubbornly refuses to use that advantage while he still has it). If the third option -- nuking Europe and physically eliminating the threat -- was probable, they would not be looking for a pretext for war in such silly ways the way they are now.
Prescient analysis, as always. Either Russia nukes all of Europe (and, consequently, triggers a conflagration that annihilates the world), or the West prevails.
but vineyards are running on empty, most regions suffer from overheating. changing even the best wines into acids, Russians getting rich from turning back the empty bottles for recycling.
Do you know about Chinese wines? In the beginning they all failed until they pissed in them, this is not a lie, so I suppose to make them OK for consumption new technologies in hot regions they will use chicken and goats manure letting them a free run around their vineyards as is already practised in France
You don't know a thing either. To make wine, grapes transform when heated. Guys, you shouldn't miss visits to the vet for leaf pruning, otherwise they capture all sounds without filters. Chaotic change, or whatever you want to call it, is not an evolution of the planet, the solar system, ... Believing that humans have an influence on the climate is another socialist heresy. Primitive man adapted and evolved. He, too, worked his ass off, so that in the 21st century, man regressed to Neanderthalism.
Would it?. I’ve seen one US SAC top brass declaring in congress that he believed in a preemptive victory in case of Nuke war. For him, 40 million vaporised Americans would still constitute a victory. These kind of F’s, should be demoted immediately.
The West is counting in the fatigue and new Russian uprising, so to grab the resources of a resource less Europe confronted with the other power blocks. Europe is doomed if it cannot steal Russian natural welfare. They are going for it in a much more conspicuous way than the madman. This new Chancelor and that obnoxious revanchist learned the lesson.
The RF must warp this fruncule called Ukraine and reduce the EU to silence quickly, Or on the long run they will lose. Time to force the West Europeans to show what they really are. A bunch of emotional ignorant cowardly morons.
I also love "Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." It's number two on my top ten films and is my very favorite comedy.
The poor grasp of history on the part of the Western Empire of Washington never fails to amaze me. We were once taught about how Russia, with some small assistance from the allies, defeated Nazi Germany and all its Waffen-SS divisions in the Great Patriotic War. Yet we expect the Russians to fold and submit as we push them against the wall and order them to surrender all their lands and goods. Sometimes I think our leadership in Washington, or New Rome, is composed of zombies stumbling around moaning, "Brains, brains..." because they don't have any.
Gas station with nukes indeed, what a load of malarkey. To think, I actually voted for John McCain. At least he wasn't a Democrat.
Nice dream. Europe has practiced its evil for many centuries. The replacement elitist killers and thieves will not be any better, just different. I fully understand now why my ancestors fled Europe for The New Hope of America. Pity the US Constitution has proven to be so easily evaded by the Washington Empire and its Uniparty. Biden exposed it for what it is, at least Joe the Smooh did that much for us.
No need to nuke all Europe. Only the irrational emotional Balts. First these will taste their own medicine that they which to spread over Russia, second it will immediately calm the Frogs, the Krauts, after all, Turkish Germany could care less of Kaya Kallas family and the rest of Europeans, but not the perfidious Albions, these are another league. Other more expeditive means have to be employed to calm these ultra warmongers.
Who will come to aid Europe? Nobody not even the gringos. After all, the world people have had enough of their own people sacrificed in European wars.
Russia is winning in Ukraine so they don't see the need to unnecessarily escalate to a full-blown war with NATO. That strategy has been successful so far, the question is will it continue to work. I have my doubts since Russia is fighting the proxy only (Ukraine), not the entities at the top calling the shots. I don't think that's Europe btw, so your strategy of attacking Europe might not work either.
Let's say Hitler had offered to freeze the war in early 1943 and Stalin accepted, forever giving away whatever historic Russian lands Hitler had already occupied.
Would that have been a Russian victory?
Well, that is exactly what Putin is demanding now as his definition of "winning".
And he has absolutely no hope to go beyond that anyway, under these rules of engagement and with the stubborn refusal to properly mobilize for real war.
The drug is called history. RT has several fine historical articles about the early history of Ukraine as it came out from under the Polish Empire and joined with its fellow Orthodox nation of Russia. Check em out.
Russia lost even WWII. It never recovered from the damage.
But it did go to Berlin at least.
To call the current senseless slaughter happening deep inside Russian territory "winning" is just... I am running out of words at this point to describe the insanity of it.
Russia lost to the Mongols ... and never recovered, either! In fact, Russia does not even exist today. Just a pathetic shell of a once glorious nation pretending to be Russia.
Russia lost WW2 and senseless slaughter deep within Russia? Is that a synapsis of the alternative reality you occupy. You do know that after WW2 with all the destruction the "USSR" faced from a western European invasion led by Germany, they developed and tested an Atomic bomb by 1949. They also developed rocket technology to put the first man in space by 1959. That is with the fact that they had to face and aggressive NATO alliance necessitating the formation of the Warsaw pact. Yes the USSR did not control the global trading currency or manufacturing untouched by the destruction of WW2 or a propaganda machine that sold them as the good guys. They had their achievement that does not allow you to take away from their genuine victory not stolen valor in "The great Patriotic War".
I am speechless at the magnitude of your willful ignorance and trollish manner. Well, not quite speechless. Keep it up, we love to feel superior in understanding and you are just the ticket to the show we need for that. Thanks honey bunches of oats.
They might be the victim of their success, who knows that by intermediate buyers contractors or go between Chinese drones finding their way for Trump, Zelensky or Netanyahu
No Russia has gone on automatic, AI drones and droids are doing the job, the soldiers are only there to deliver Russian passports to Ukrainians, and do not forget NATO and EU are in an economic war with….China. For every missile, drone China can produce 10 or a tenfold and in much faster rhythm, the efficacy comes from their use on the field. The cost of our products economically has made us lose the war…any war.
Well it is to the benefit of the readers that you are old enough to remember 2021. As majority of the non sense you spew point to the fact that you probably are not old enough to remember 2018. You keep throwing around the concept of nuking everything. Is it that you are clueless to the fact that nuclear weapons have only been used once in human history in a relatively uncontrolled manner, against two civilian cities at a time when only one country possessed the capabilities? Have you ever considered why it has never been used since? Considering that the fission bombs used over Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now just the trigger mechanism on the much more powerful fusion bombs developed in the 1950-60s. What would be the result of a few uncontrolled blasts over European cities? During the early development of the atom bomb the scientist were concerned about a phenomenon they referred to as "atmospheric ignition". Where as the chain effect of splitting the atom could end up burning away the Earth's atmosphere. The US still went ahead with the program even though Adolf Hitler, the most reviled man in history ceased the German program in 1941, not wanting to risk the end of humanity. Well people are different as some of us are grateful for Russian leadership's restraint, pragmatism, responsible actions and patience others are irrational, illogical BS artists merely wanting to FAFO or probably having no empathy or consideration for human life.
>Have you ever considered why it has never been used since?
It has been used, about two dozen times. Covertly, which the simpletons never caught on, but used it has been.
Why do you think so much effort went into miniaturization already starting in the 1950s?
>Considering that the fission bombs used over Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now just the trigger mechanism on the much more powerful fusion bombs developed in the 1950-60s. What would be the result of a few uncontrolled blasts over European cities?
The cities would cease to exist and the attacks on Russia would stop because there would be nowhere to launch them from. Sounds like a pretty good deal to the people in Belgorod, Donetsk, and ever further deep inside Russia in an eastern direction.
We did about 600 atmospheric tests . About one third of a proper exchange but split over more than a decade . On the other hand people were sunbathing . All nuclear stuff must be understanded well to make judgement calls , mostly people call firecrakers "bombs" while ignoring depots of fertiliser worth kilotons .
Bradley Square, et al: "what am I, chopped liver?"
Turning one third of all American armaments into scrap in Russian scrapyards is definitely heavy lifting.
NATO armories depleted, to this day. Even shells are scarce.
NATO's proxy Ukraine itself had 42 million people in February 2022. Now it has less than 16 million. That's real damage.
The Uke diaspora Westward weren't fleeing Russians, they were fleeing Kiev.
Huge areas in Ukraine look like the stone age, where only babushkas fearfully scurry about amid the ruins searching for food. The males all dead in the meat grinders.
The EU leaders don't fear a few Russian drones, they fear Russian revenge for the mess the EU has made between Slavic brothers. And it's palpable. All of the Chihuahua barking is that guilty fear..
If Russia's losing, how come the EU's losing? How can both be losing?
The argument that Russia is hamstringing itself by not nuking Western Europe actually is that really Russia is the only sane one in the room.
The West wants Russia to accept the premise that nuclear powers can fight each other and at the same time keep their fingers off of the Red Button. Russia knows better.
Russia's goals, again, are:
• ✓Defending the five regions
Despite Kiev continuing to try to reconquer the Donbass, Russia continues to hand Kiev it's keister.
• ✓Eliminating Banderism- see above, the huge voluntary reduction of population in Ukraine, through diaspora and war.
• ✓Most of the ethnic Russian population has either left Ukraine for Russia proper in March-June 2022, or were/ are in the Donbass area. 12-13 million total are now fresh citizens of the RF.
All that's happening now is not Russia being hampered from it's prize, but actually Kiev is hampered from it's reconquista.
Putin's only a traitor to Navalny"s supporters, who long for the "good old days" that CIA cash was flowing freely into Russia.
If Putin were the CEO of Russia Inc, he'd be getting massive bonuses and stock options for his performance as exec.
>Bradley Square, et al: "what am I, chopped liver?"
"Bradley Square" was the US being allowed to move its Bradleys one thousand kilometers deep inside Russian territory and then having two different groups of snow niggers killing each other there for the amusement of the white master.
That is not the Kremlin fighting back.
Proper fighting back would have been nuclear missiles on all the armor depots of the US army plus the tank factories so that there were no more Bradleys and Abrams to sent.
Or strikes on the US oligarchy to force them to back off. Their mansions and private islands are known.
Or total physical elimination of NATO in Europe so that there is no way to get the Bradleys to Bradley square.
Putin did none of that.
>Huge areas in Ukraine look like the stone age
Huge areas of mother Russia, that is.
Again, only Western absolute idiots, cretins, imbeciles, etc. do not understand that the territory well to the west of Kiev is all core historic Russian land.
Thus its destruction and contamination with DU and land mines is not a win for Russia, the exact opposite.
>Eliminating Banderism- see above, the huge voluntary reduction of population in Ukraine, through diaspora and war.
More absolute idiocy, of the kind that requires euthanasia to cure, for nothing else can help.
Putin chose to slaughter hundreds of thousands and even millions of ethnic Russians, press ganged on the Ukrainian streets against their wishes, meanwhile not a single seriously influential Banderite has ever been seriously targeted by Russian drones and missiles strikes in the rear. Most of them are strictly off limits in fact, and when Azov were captured in Mariupol Putin released them instead of having them publicly executed.
For which, and many other such actions, Putin himself had to then be immediately couped and publicly executed in the middle of the Red Square for grand treason, and the fact that this has not yet happened speaks a lot about the catastrophic state of Russian society.
>If Putin were the CEO of Russia Inc,
He is the CEO of Russia Inc., that is the core of the problem. He answers to the shareholders of Russia Inc, and works for them and in their interests. And those shareholders are not the Russian people, they are a small group of people, mostly not even Russians...
IDK how to answer you. You've got me euthanized, Putin couped and executed, and meta-Russia in ruins. You've got all the rest of us as "idiots" ready to be e committed to insane asylums, or stood up against the wall.
I'm afraid no one survives the onslaught of your sheer will there.
I suppose you guys are waiting for that singularity of thought on your side when your dreams actually do become reality, lol.
"meanwhile not a single seriously influential Banderite has ever been seriously targeted by Russian drones and missiles strikes in the rear. Most of them are strictly off limits in fact, and when Azov were captured in Mariupol Putin released them instead of having them publicly executed."
I have wondered about this. It certainly did not/does not fit into the stated goals of the SMO. I agree, the Azov's should have been publicly executed in Red Square.
You know, you're right. Putin, if he was a REAL man, would burn the world into radioactive cinders with salted cobalt warheads on every major population center of mankind. That way, the Russians would have the final word in the story of humanity. The penultimate bookend in the charred library of homo sapiens sapiens.
I am Czar Ozymandius! Look upon my nukes, ye mighty, and despair!
GM your constant presupposition that western backed troops in Ukraine is an invasion of Russia because Ukraine is part of Russia is just being deliberately obtuse. Ukraine was an independent nation since 1991 and you didnt really think twice about until 2014 or 2022. It doesnt matter if you think its a fake country, every country in Europe is an amalgamation of various tribes that lost or gained their independence through war and diplomacy regardless of how similar their languages and cultures were. Not to mention the much more artificial constructs in post colonial south America, Africa and Asia. And in every one of those nations you'll find nationalists and irredentists that claim this or that neighbor isn't a real country and should be their clay, but possession is 9/10ths of the law. If you want to make an emotional special exception for Ukraine then you'll have no argument against anti Russian think tanks who say the post Soviet RF should be further broken down into a dozen separate countries based on their various ethnolinguistic identies
>Ukraine was an independent nation since 1991 and you didnt really think twice about until 2014 or 2022.
No, we always thought of Ukraine as a historic aberration and of the people living there as mislabeled Russians. Most of them also thought of the situation that way for quite some years before the brainwashing really kicked in.
>If you want to make an emotional special exception for Ukraine then you'll have no argument against anti Russian think tanks who say the post Soviet RF should be further broken down into a dozen separate countries based on their various ethnolinguistic identies
???
It is just an objective fact that most people in Ukraine are ethnic Russians. The chief of the Ukrainian military literally just had to pay for the surgery of his father who lives in Russia (and was an officer in the Red Army and quite publicly a Russian patriot). Most of the current Ukrainian leadership has some kind of close family connection to Russia like that, they're not even Galicians. The inverse is also true -- the third person in the line of succession in Russia is Valentina Matviyenko, who heads the Federation Council. Born and raised in western Ukraine. Medvedev's family on his mother's side is with Ukrainian roots. And so on. This isn't even the situation with Germany and Austria, where the language was the only common thing, otherwise they had been separate countries for many centuries (and Germany was never a country to begin with until the 19th century), it was the same country until 1991. With that level of mixing, and the fact that 90% of Ukrainains spoke Russian, how can you claim it is anything but a single continuous population?
In terms of the minorities in Russia, most regions are majority ethnic Russians. The exceptions are Bashkiria, Chuvashia, Tatarstan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Yakutia and Tuva.
Look at the map at think how viable any of these would be as independent countries. It is why Tuva, which had never been a part of Russia prior to that, applied for annexation in 1994 on its own. And why Mongolia applied for annexation six times (but was always refused because of the problems that would have created with China). Also, a place like Dagestan would erupt in an interminable civil war the moment it separates from Russia because it has a dozen different ethnicities in it, which have little in common and some of them hate each other with a passion. Russia is the only factor keeping it all together there. So why would those regions want to go independent? The Chechens understood it eventually.
Also, ask yourself the following question. Aside from Tuva, it was the North Caucasus region republics that were incorporated most recently, in the 19th century. But Yakutia and Buryatia became part of Russia in the late 17th century and the Volga region republics were incorporated in the late 16th and early 17th century. How is it that four centuries have passed and those places have autonomy, their own language taught in schools, full rights, etc? For four centuries the evil Russians have ruled those people with an eye towards exterminating them, but they have all those things and are thriving. What kind of oppression is that?
For comparison, how much is left of the native tribes in the US, Canada and Australia?
P.S. Alabama is much more different from Massachusetts than Kamchatka is from Kaliningrad, so why are we not talking about how the US should be split?
How much easier it would be to reverse the scrip and run 'regime change' ops on Europe? Agitate among the Muslim immigrants and tell them where the Conex boxes full of weapons are located. There are plenty of Muslim Russian citizens who could infiltrate, lead and train and push to action, Chechens for example.
Sorry, no offense intended but you're delusional if you think Ukraine is winning. The analogy to the US Cival war is solid. Party with more industry and manpower defeats party with fewer but brave soldiers and no industry. Russia built more modern battle tanks in the last 2 years than NATO owns combined. Without the US, NATO is a paper tiger, and Trump just washed his hands of Europe's neo-con disaster. Ukraine folds by the end of the year.
And you are an absolute cretin if you think this is a Russia-Ukraine war.
It is a US-Russia war, which Russia is catastrophically losing (because its elites firmly refuse to fight) and the US is decisively winning
Ukraine is losing too, but that nobody cares about.
This is the fudamental error most people make -- to think of this as a Ukraine-Russia war. It has been convenient for the Kremlin too, of course, because it provides an excuse for not fighting back.
It was a US v. Russian proxy war under President Auto-pen waged by delusional misguided neo-cons. That changed last November. Ukraine is hemorrhaging manpower, and terrain. The EU won't even stop buying Russian Oil while claiming they oppose Putin, and the US supply line has dried up as Trump says they can have all the weapons they want I'd they get them from the EU who has to buy them from us with their economies in ruin and every government threatened by populist movements. Oldest trick in the book to conjure up a foreign threat when your government is collapsing. I'm not pro Putin and am saddened by the unnecessary waste and destruction of this misbegotten and unnecessary war which when concluded will have boundaries very similar to what was agreed to in Minsk I & II in 2014, that is until the Neo-cons intervened. We will have to agree to disagree, Russia will emerge in a better position globally than when it started.
What is this mythical advantage of this USA-EU alliance? Industrial production? Printing money?
They are scavenging the whole world for weapons, they took Syrian Soviet weapons, they are "borrowing weapons" from Korea, Azerbaijan is giving weapons, Kazakhstan, etc. With other words, there is no meaningful production in the west. They are scavenging barrios around SA for cannon fodder, not enough left in Ukraine.
Also, how abut you stop presenting your "feeling" and "opinions" as facts.
Kremlin thinks this is Ukraine - Rus war? Another of your "facts"? Was it just yesterday that Lavrov at the UN talked about W war on Rus? What is with this lying by omission disorder, dude?
The 'trolls' are pissed because, you write the TRUTH, never give in.
Your statements are well written, unlike the sheep trolls who can barely make a coherent sentence, believe in the demented illusion that Russia is winning.
Gem: ”West has very successfully boiled the frog and maneuvered the Kremlin into this catastrophic for Russia situation”
But your conclusion is not nuanced. Putin, or Russia, will not fold. And West doesnt have the military-technical upper-hand. It will be sluggish if War breaks out.
You call nearly a million Ukrainian casualties not striking back? The Russians are there, they are recapturing their own land. They are preparing for conventional as well as nuclear war with anyone so presumptuous as to attack.
It is lots of fun to call for total war sitting in a safe and secure spot, using a pseudonym to hide behind. It makes one feel strong, like a kitten that fluffs up its hair arches its back to seem bigger and hisses angrily at the sheepdog who has nosed it a little too strongly. The dog will rear back and look closely at this strange little creature but does not fear the kitten.
Curiosity impels it to wonder, "What the hell are you?" Some trollish moron who would love to see nihilism triumph?
I can't disagree with the Russian casualties being a tragedy also. I can disagree with letting the West intrude into Ukraine and Russia doing nothing. It takes two to make peace but only one to make war unless the victim is powerless to resist the theft. The Western Empire thought Russia was powerless against its hybrid war tactics and it turned out that the gas station with nukes was not powerless. On its border Russia decided to act and they have acted decisively in my opinion.
I believe The Evil Empire has awakened a sleeping giant and Russia stands ready to make war toe to toe with the mighty US and its EU allies. The fault lies with the aggressor for war and the US overthrew the Ukraine government in 2014 or do you also disbelieve Russia in this as well?
The very worse thing that could happen for The Evil Empire is if it sent in a million or two troops and actually started winning. Then it would undoubtedly turn nuclear and woe to Europe as well as the US and Russia for though Russia would win due to its superior civil defense and low density population it would be a pyrrhic victory at best.
That is why I'm sure that Europe and now Don Trump's bombastic stance of how they are going to open up a can of whoop-ass on Russia is all a load of hooey for domestic consumption. Even morons don't want to be nuclear bombed.
" The fault lies with the aggressor for war and the US overthrew the Ukraine government in 2014 or do you also disbelieve Russia in this as well? "
I dont blame Russia per say, but it was immensely dumb of Putin to attack / invade Ukraine as it made Russia the aggressor and gave the West all the ammo it needed. Russia should have waited till it or Donbass was struck first.
Preemptive strikes must be decapitating, rapid, and decisive and the Ukraine war should have been over in the first few weeks. Putin "messed up" big time.
The US ran a color revolution in Kiev in 2014 and the neo-Nazis took control of the nation. Donbass refused to join with the usurping government and in return got attacked quite viciously. Ukraine shelled and fired missiles into the Donbass which refused to yield from 2014 through 2022. Don't you think that might be classed as aggression on the part of the Ukes? Is it Russia's fault that some people only know the history of things their governments want them to know?
Perhaps you should have been a general and been left to deal with the inevitable insurgencies that quick, decisive victories endender. Remember what happened to Russia and the US in Afghanistan. By using the tactics of attrition and complete conquest of the ground such things don't happen quite so often. That was the Kremlin's decision in Ukraine and it seems brilliantly decisive to me. I admire Russia's solution to the guerilla warfare plans that NATO undoubtedly envisioned as their form of attrition. Instead the entire NATO alliance and most especially the USA is being drained of weaponry and seeing currency devaluation progress ever more rapidly.
By the way, it's a pleasure to communicate with you. Learn more history and you might be better able to run with this deplorable dog. I hate elitists just like most Americans and Hillary handed The Don the 2016 election with that single comment and her superior attitude: no doubt.
Crisis Escalation Becomes Euro-Cabal's Final Exit? - One can dream!
Meanwhile amid the perfect western storm of lies, posturing, hoaxes, and flagrant hysteria (not limited to XX people), the armed forces of the RF continue to relentlessly reduce the forces and means of the enemy. One way or another, the comprador elites of the west are on the way out. Whether they will leave us via peasant revolts or by being on the receiving end of hypersonic missiles is yet unknown.
The problem with the EU twits saying they are ready to shoot down Russian jets that violate EU airspace, is when Russian jets don't violate said airspace, then how does the EU fake those scenarios? Use Zelensky's green screens with Getty photos?
This has been going on throughout the war. Both lost armoured vehicles and downed jets have been photographed from several angles, photoshopped into different backgrounds and counted as multiple losses. Even images from different conflicts have been used. My favourite was the video of a Russian mechanised column, supposedly filmed in Ukraine in winter, but actually archived footage from Georgia 2008 - the arid, brown, hilly summer background was the giveaway.
When have the West ever presented real evidence of their accusations? The important thing is the result of the initial unsubstantiated claim on the population at large, putting it in their minds.
The core of the problem. Evidence is lacking. They dont shoot down the drones of fear to harm anyone in the built up areas araound the airfield. (giggle) Thereby escaping the inevitable question: What exactly was flying over the airfield?
What infuriates me is the deflection going on here. The EU twits thunder how they will shoot down any Russian aircraft that violate their airspace. Well, any foreign aircraft that fly over another country without its permission are fair game for shooting at. Those are the rules that everyone has played by for a while. The EU comes across as weaklings who keep screaming 'you better not mess with me, I'm bad, real bad.'
Not only that they have been fueling conflict, sabotaging and generally meddling in the affairs of others in the style of a bygone era. They then cry in pain as they strike in hopes of doing what? They want to attack Russia? They are already doing it, via proxy. They want Russia to attack so they can attack back? Ok then go ahead and do it, but Russia is not just going hand them the casus belli. They are trying to rev up their own populace and make them ready for war? Best of luck, it wont end well. All the noise and bluster is clearly meant for domestic consumption, because no serious participants with flesh in the game take it the least bit seriously. At the end of the day Metal Talks and BullShit Walks. Have at it EUroWeenies, but just know that your populations hate you as much as you hate them and there is no escaping what you are: unelected technocrats doing the bidding of your masters.
"Hegseth’s unprecedented meeting will include top commanders currently based in conflict zones and senior military leaders stationed throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific
Everyone with the rank of Brigadier General or above is expected to attend."
An excellent time for a military decapitation strike. Think about that, Russia! 😉
Lt. Col. Robert McDade, prior to the beginning of the fight at Landing Zone Albany, called all of his company commanders forward to the battalion command post, a termite mound behind which McDade hid when the lead started flying. Hegseth is a worthy successor to McDade.
Rumors are floating around social media that it IS a gathering for a "decapitation strike"- By The Trump administration against their own officer corps.
Analogous to Stalin's purge of the USSR officer corps during 1937 - 1938, a one day operation for getting rid of ALL the officers the Trump cabal are worried might display independent thinking when given illegal/insane orders at once with no warning-
Firing and possibly detaining those thought resistant to regular military deploying in country for kinetic actions against non violent political opponents in USA, preemptive nuclear strikes against foreign powers (or blue cities?), those kinds of things.
NATO can’t just shoot planes down for violating its airspace. There are still rules of engagement! They’re so pathetically desperate to keep Trump engaged
The NATO cabal has chosen escalation. Really? What concrete preparations have they made, what troops have they mobilized, what munitions have they stockpilled?
No, escalating provocations as bluff is all they can do.
That said, Russia should have flattened Estonia when they tried to pirate that tanker. It would be just a defensive operation and it would have established deterrence. The moment to call the NATO bluff can't be postponed for ever, unfortunately.
I think it was Ron Unz who proposed that the best deterrence/ show of force / bluff call / response to those provocations would be for Russia to announce that they would hit the NATO HQ building in Brussels with a conventional missile an give the exact date and time for the strike. Like: “an Oreshnik, next Wednesday at 10am local time”.
NATO could try to intercept it piling AD assets around it, and failing. Or doing nothing. Both of hose choices would have them look bad.
Such a show of force, filmed by camera crews from all over the world, at the very symbol of NATO, in the freaking middle of Europe and the EU, would create a healthy space for reflection, not only for the European populations, but also hopefully for our enlightened leaders and their craven “yes men” in our militaries and intelligence services.
Very likely so. I do need to read Unz more. Só many hours in a day and all that... But I really believe its all bluff. A bluff on a pair of twos that the lenocracy in charge will persue to the most dangerous heights of insanity, because if we get killed it's a bonus and if they get killed, they are owned already, but a bluff none the less.
War requires preparations. Know that I think of it, that is probably what feeds the Kremlin's apparent complacency.
Modern war requires logistics, long term planning, industrial policies, supply chains, R&D and all these things are too complex and boring and, frankly, a work for nerds. Our enlightened leaders cannot waste their precious time with those matters.
The worthless panderers are too dense to understand any of it, you mean. 😉😅 And the banking interests that own them are in the habit of treating the military and industry as conquered enemies, not even as servants. 🤔🧐🤬 This is a really unstable balance Western countries are in and the kakistocracy in charge can't even do the basics of propping up their power base. Late Manchu rulership looks good in comparison with it. 🤡💩😈
It will happen eventually but I’ll bet it will be calculated by Russia to be the most effective and the least damaging. From my armchair, it cant happen hard enough though. Actually, cancel my earlier thought: it could very well be overwhelming force when it becomes clear that NATO will not back off. More pain.
The Anglo-Americans are probably looking at how Russia is dealing with the Ukis (white gloves, close to zero civilian casualties, spared infrastructure and all) and thinking "Gee, we definitely can do that -- we don't give a rat's ass about all those Polish / German / British etc. soldiers, they are just cannon fodder, who cares -- the MASTERS behind those will be fine and dandy, so let's do it"...
Maybe it is high time for Putin to communicate -- publicly -- that London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Rome, and a few other capitals will cease to exist within the first 15-20 min of that dumb decision. Because THAT war would be completely, totally, utterly different. I hope those dimwits in Western Europe will find a few IQ points in their thick brains to understand that tiny little fact...
The Western media machine has beat into our heads, particularly of late, how “weak” Russia is. Trump just yesterday implied Russia is a major failure and a ‘paper tiger’ in being incapable of taking out Ukraine, what any “real military power” would have done in a week, he said.
Well thats Great Moron propaganda line for every Simplicius article. Guess who he works for.
The US started it with Victoria Nuland. If the US is sensible now (I believe it when I see it) fine, but never forget how it started. Yes, the European 'leader' parasites are quislings who are enemies of everybody, including their own peoples.
The issue here is that nobody wins....certainly neither the populace of Ukraine nor that of Russia. If this escalates to a global conflagration that will include all the world.
Hard to say……Putin has to take care to not have this go nuclear…..in a conventional war Russia will win and the economies of Europe will collapse……I certainly don’t have a handle on the motivations of Russia. But I would point out the comparison of Putin to Trump tells me who is a serious player and who is a used car salesman.
The Europeans want war with Russia (see Martin Armstrong and Socrates) and Trump doesn't. So he backs off and profits from the deal with Europe subsidizing the US military industrial complex. The ratios with NATO in terms of fighter aircraft, bombers, and atomic capabilities becomes more threatening with more threats, including Moldova, the Baltic Sea, and Kaliningrad.
Another threat to Russia winning are the attacks to its energy infrastructure which may cause higher prices and long lines which there may or may not be now. Apparently drone attacks on refineries are a problem for Russia. I am sure they will also be a problem for Ukrainians during winter. I think prior to Trump dropping out there was an agreement by both sides not to attack energy targets for sake of the international markets.
The other threat that no one is acknowledging is its Central Bank problem. The charter of the bank of England states that one of its purposes is to finance wars. Goes to show you the imperial intents of the British banking system. Apparently the Russian Central bank's charter was designed by a Rothschild so with sanctions and its rules it has to borrow from Western Rothschild banks. So Russia has 17-24% during war while all the West pays 3-4%. What should happen is the Russian Treasury should issue war bonds paying maybe 12%, a very good rate for pension funds doubling their money in 6 years - a rate of return offered by Merrill Lynch and the banking cartel when Reagan killed 10% inflation caused by loss of control of the oil markets. But the interest rates have been going down since 1983 with dollar hegemony, until now.
The biggest problem for us, the watching, is that they don't care about us. Any nuclear attack will start with a preemptive EMP that will shut down everything, and the government will go to their bunkers. That is the endgame: Institutional survival meaning them.
Russia does not need to hurry and win in Ukraine.... time is on their side and the evil clown world is coming to an end. Next it is war with the millions of foreigners in the western countries.
What is this fixation on bond yields, credit ratings and other scheming nonsense of western economic measurements?
It's working only as long as people believe that crap.
Once we realize that it is food on the table that counts, energy to run things with, houses to live in and not for speculation, real stuff made by men every day, then the banks have nothing to show for.
My parents have lived through four currency changes: Reichsmark, east mark, D-Mark, € in one life time. Not one of those changes has been profitable for them or me in that matter. It's state violence used by banks and it's a dirty game because in the fascism definition it's the merger of state, industries and Banks under the lead of the Banks. That's why Russia has the lead of the state, Nabulina can't do what the Duma does not approve of. In the West, the parliaments will always approve of what Banks want.
The point is as FF says if Bonds are still selling, then confidence , amongst the national elites is still high.
I think the question is, is that confidence misplaced?
If you look at the history of market crashes , you'd have to admit at least a possibility that things are actually worse than they seem when viewed from the boardroom.
Because the treasury bond markets are large, sophisticated and liquid. They also are entirely unsentimental, entirely uninterested in what we wish were true.
You’re under the assumption that bond yields have some sort of predictive value beyond telling you what returns market participants expect for loaning out money.
Bond yields don’t spike months and years before an event happens. The spike is AFTER an event.
Even if you were to look at bond yields as an indicator then they are DANGEROUSLY HIGH for the West. French bonds pay higher yields than Greek bonds. Bond yields for China is near 1.5% and hovering at 4% for the US! That’s a huge flashing signal if I ever saw one.
If the largest economy (one running huge deficits and just cut taxes) and the most “AAA” debt in the world is paying almost 3x interest than China. The bond markets are screaming at you that most of those market participants think the US is a very risky deal. In fact that is extremely risky for bonds that are supposed to be considered the “safest in the world”.
It is no surprise gold has been doing phenomenally well after the initial tarriff tantrum that saw US bond yields spike to almost 5%. And even that scared off Trump.
That’s a huge problem, because now the new normal for US debt is 4%, when it spikes again this time to 6% and the new normal is 5% what would that tell you?
Markets come in waves, that the new baseline is 4% for US debt while central banks around the world and investors shed more and more dollars. That tells you everything you need to know about what the market thinks is happening. By the time the spike happens, the cake has already been baked.
Bond yields most certainly are predictive. That's how Reserve Primary went belly up. Markets were signaling crisis imminent for Lehman Brothers, even as the ratings agencies hadn't yet downgraded Lehman paper, so it was still investment grade, but prices were cheap.
Reserve Primary loaded up on "cheap" investment grade Lehman paper even as Lehman went under.
Even if true, european governments are happy to jettison every other priority to increase the sunk cost to the United States and then use the Sunk Cost Fallacy to drag the United States into their war.
Anyway, parsing Trump’s words for supposed hidden meanings is a game best left to QAnon or the russiagate conspiracy theorists.
"It is a European war" for sure, but it began as an American war. Years of preparation by the US CIA and NED paid off in 2014, the Maidan Coup that began this war.
Ursula the "Brave" is experienced using pseudonym to cowardly hide. VdL aka Rose Ladsen probably thinks she can pull it off again, like Mengele in some SA country. ;)
How sad it all is and more and more it feels like another world war is deliberately brewed, and the corrupt cretins pushing us into it would after say "oops" from the depth of their bunkers.
But the world is an increasingly small place with all points within reach of something or other….perhaps why the EUrocrats look so uneasy as they deliver the message……?
It's not clear to me how NATO can escalate without the participation of US forces...NATO has already tried terrorism, and all that accomplished was to infuriate the Russian public...and if Trump sends US forces to confront the Russians, his MAGA supporters will drop him like a rotten apple...
We don't even have bomb shelters in the US, most houses don't even have basements. These idiots provoke "because they can" without any thought of implications
Really? The USA did well in every war because they had have never dropped a bomb on their heads. Safe behind the pond. Once this is starting to change, the US citizens will learn a total new lesson and it will be a very unpleasant one for them. By the way, there is not a single war the USA has ever won, except the genocide war of the people they stole the land from that we call USA today.
Without bothering to refute your point in detail (the goal in Iraq, Syria and Libya was to turn those countries into failed states, and the United States succeeded in doing so), we keep hearing about how Russia finally will take the gloves off, but it never happens.
The United States is convinced that Russia does not have the stones.
War will come by command of emotionally unstable women.
This ammanpour insists, even mocking a punch on Pustula face, go to war because of 10 unarmed drones and a 3 planes flight over an international corridor. Fire this moron journalist. She’s an insult for the profession.
Millions will die and an entire continent destroyed by the hands of the intelligence of a Kaya Kallas or Annabella Baerbock, Pustula is another league (she’s pure nrevanchist cripto Nazo evil).
These emotional unstable brats should be banned from office.
Stop the noise of 24/7 News cycle - rationality is no longer required or expected- shut off your access - listen to the birds chirp, see sun shine, smell the fall air - know that Russia has drones that can take out your infrastructure - just le em loose and they will do the job- no one else can compete at this point. Now start talking rationally, buy cheap gas and oil from Russia- save your countrymen from engaging in another destructive war and focus on the economy - your enemy is really your friend - war is brought to you by the Bank of International Settlement and he City of London as WWI and WWII were - the only winners are the already fat cats- what are we fighting about - families do not want to sacrifice their loved ones for this venality- see Ukraine- population decimated by war and Covid vaccine democide and totally disrupting fertility in the whole world the globalists are already killing us off without bullets but via a needle . Ceasefire immediately - the world cannot sustain this level of catastrophe any longer.
Teach your children well, not to do as I have done. Teach them to never voluntarily join an army. At least I waited until the Vietnam debacle was all but over and ended up typing my way to military glory. I've now got free health care and people thank me for my service which consisted mainly of sitting there looking busy as the work in Personnel Management was always done before lunchtime and the first marijuana of the day.
Even I now know they called it dope for a reason: it turns you into one. However it gives you an excuse for overeating and helps you sleep well. The new stuff is much too powerful, the weed we used to smoke was called Mexican Dirt Weed and left one with a manageable, mellow high as you would toke steadily through the day — after the work was done. I'm no longer Thomas The Head, I'm Thomas The Typist and at least a little bit wiser. Tobacco was far harder to quit than marijuana. As for overeating, I'm still fighting the Battle of the Bulge.
A double shot of gin at happy hour is now my only drug of choice. One doubleshot over ice with a splash of tonic and an olive once a day. I can barely wait but the day's work is not yet done.
Militarily speaking I have some experience - husband ROTC 1953-1957 - Vietnam era joined USAF as navigator, given ‘ special’ eye tests then entered pilot training- flew F-4’s engaging in bombing missions in ‘Nam and (Laos) - 24 years service - years of PTSD- and rage he self treated with prescribed drugs legitimized by ‘’pain’ his source ‘pain specialists MD’s’ who got him addicted to OxyContin and Vicodin - years later we weaned him off these evil substances that rob you of a normal life- plus alcohol use- An acoustic neuroma brain tumor in 1990 which I attribute to pulling G’s and high altitude flying - many side effects deafness, hyper accussis. tinnitus, loss of all balance, years of pain- determined guy but lost teaching career due to all these factors- needed assistance for many things the rest of his life- me the 2nd wife became his caregiver- free health care not, he paid dearly the ultimate price personal autonomy and so did I.
Son enlisted in navy under duress by his father at 18 - had Dad had his wish I was to sign papers allowing our son to enlist at 17- no way the son needed to sign the dotted line. Desert Storm, on. USS Saratoga in Red Sea son vectoring plane traffic - in for three years- GI Bill helped with college and buying a house. He was one of the lucky ones pre Iraq where so many were permanently harmed. Look at our presidents - Eisenhower the only president who served in the military in recent memory.
Given the war culture created by a venal political system I recommend avoiding the military at all cost- no one comes out uninjured - even if you had a desk job your entire career you were part of a war machine that I believe was and is evil.
Husband died age 88 2/24- now I am an 80 year old widow with war looming everywhere - my advice is do not submit, do not comply - we get one life which is a gift - never give your gift to the oligarchs, bank cabals or our mafia cartel government - they foment wars for profit above all. Read history and become a pacifist or conscientious objector, a war protestor. Live your life for you and P.S. don’t take a Covid vaccine it’s a bio weapon and will ruin your immune system and possibly fertility. Be prepared -know consequences before you act
Use the Empire, don't serve the Empire. I was 20 when I signed up for the Army in 73. My draft number was 362, there was no possibility of being drafted. By signing up I supposedly had my choice of Military Occupational Specialty, MOS. I chose armor as the film Patton was popular at the time. Young and dumb which are synonyms in my mind now. Lucky for me the Army always weasels out of keeping their word somehow and I was too tall for armor. I should have went artillery as I certainly didn't want to be an infantryman and do all that walking, or so I thought. Luckily I was shoved into Personnel Management Specialist, PMS. Isn't that funny? The position was so powerful as a 71H that it was split up into various specialties and I was redesignated got 75C. We were proud of it as we were young and dumb. We the Remington Raiders. My condolences for what happened to your husband.
You are right, I share some responsibility for the evil of our Vietnam adventure. I fully repent of my sin, I hope I've paid some penance and now I advise all the youths in my family to stay out of military service as it looks like the Washington Empire will be needing a war to cover for its evil and incompetence once again. I pray that God forgives me my sins for like all human beings I learned how to sin first and only hope I've learned how not to sin later.
Probably right. We live in a sick, stupid time when a mass murdering psychopath can speak at the UN and in front of congress because he and his billionaire supporters have bribed and blackmailed the president and most of congress.
THAT was the biggest surprise for me. Amanpour has built a career supporting weak and poor civilians all over the world, and now she advocates for WWIII.
Amanpour was CNN's first token Muslim decades ago, but she is more a product of the anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, amoral, corrupt devolving social sciences dept. of the typical Western university.
From the very start people keep saying things like the US/Nato are trying to bait Russia into an escalatory response. It sounds pretty goddamn stupid to me. Why would the West do that? If they want to escalate why the hell don’t they just do it lol?
I don’t believe it is anymore complicated than that. If I wanted to start a fight with someone I’m not going to tell him hit me first so I can knock the shit out of you. Nope, I’m going to hit them first to make sure I get the jump.
Next some of you will no doubt say these leaders need an excuse. No the hell they don’t. In many cases their populations will agree it worked out far better for us if we hit the Rooskies first.
Anyhow that’s why this claim has never made much sense to me. And no these fools do not want nuclear war. Their own security would terminate their miserable lives within a week. And if somehow they let them live everyone would be condemned to life underground for decades to generations. It’s not going to be anywhere near as comfortable as their lives now.
Just some things I have pondered. Yet I’m surprised how many people still parrot this line. Goes back to my theory that if you have no experience with violence you shouldn’t be in a position to authorize it. I guess it could be said that none of the Western Leaders do including the top brass of the military. Could they really truly be that fucking stupid? If so then perhaps that clears up my musings and I am mistaken. 🤷♂️
I believe they are this stupid. All of them are either compromised, blackmailed, scared of their populations, afraid of war crime trials or genuinely crazy.
But the propaganda you hear from the west is to manufacture consensus that Russia bad. It happened in Iraq, Libya, NK, Iran, etc. prior to war/attacks.
But the west has to know that Russia would kick their ass in about a weekend. So they don't really want war, they're working towards something else.
Not sure what that is, perhaps a no-fly zone, but that seems equally foolhardy.
There was only ever one country that stood a chance fighting Russia in their part of the world. NATO’s toughest most committed army Ukraine. Obviously I know they were never officially part of NATO.
They checked all the boxes. They knew the terrain and they possessed extreme hatred for the Russians. Hate can be a very powerful motivator.
I can see how the Western powers that be thought with the combo of the Ukies and sanctions Russia was toast. Funny for them it didn’t work out that way. Both Russia and China will end up being the reason the Global Elite fail in their quest to enslave the entire planet. 👍
"Why would the West do that? If they want to escalate why the hell don’t they just do it lol?"
Because Russian dithering and indecision have caused them to smell blood. They are convinced that Russia doesn't have the stones, and even if Russia did, they and theirs will survive.
But why do you think they sneakily fly drones in hopes of getting Russia to do something? If they truly want Russia to respond so that they can respond back why not just do it already?
Idk maybe in their demented brains they assume that if Russia goes first they can get the population on board? I don’t believe it will work but I can see why they covet popular support. And I have to remember how these West elites operate. It’s unlikely the spoiled children understand violence at all due to their lack of exposure to it.
Hey I read a fantastic piece from Gaius Baltar. Explains so much. Will find it and send you the link. Great summary and predictions.
Yes, indeed, and it wasn't always like that.
Early on in the war the West evacuated the embassies from Kiev, and acted with caution for a while, which was then all thrown away after all the red lines were trampled. And no, what you often hear, i.e. that the red lines were defined by the West, not by Russia, is not true -- there were lots of very public statements by Putin, Lavrov and Shoigu (when he was the defense minister; Belousov seems to be smarter and to keep his mouth shut on these matters) defining clearly red lines, that were then quickly violated, and yet there was still no response.
The effect of all that public display of pathetic weakness is that now the West is actively looking for a war, staging false flags, etc. Which also means that actual Russian conventional strikes on NATO territory will only serve to ignite the major war.
Conventional missiles taking out some key localized targets and individuals in Europe, just to show them that Russia is not going to tolerate any BS, and that it knows Article 5 is fiction, could have gone a long way towards reestablishing deterrence back in 2022.
In 2025 the only thing that can do it is nuclear strikes. However, if you just nuke some bases, then the host country will cry to high heaven until the end of times for retaliation under Article 5, thus you kind of have to preempt that too and strike in such a way that there is nothing and nobody to demand retaliation. Only in such a case you can be reasonably sure there won't be retaliation -- the US will not sacrifice the US mainland for any country in Europe, but it still helps make the decision to stand down if that country does not exist anymore. Still, wiping out millions is something that should have never been allowed to become unavoidable, yet that is exactly what Putin did. He now faces two choices:
1) Start erasing countries off the map to force the rest to rethink whether they want to be a platform for attacks against Russia, or to just physically eliminate all such platforms. Which does make the risk of an all-out exchange non-zero, but again, the US acting rationally backs off in such a situation.
2) The end of Russia. Because the attacks will not stop, they will only escalate in size and depth of penetration and no matter how good Russian air defense is, if you just keep taking punches, you will be destroyed over time. So you have to make the attacks stop, and that now means erasing countries off the map so that nobody ever thinks of launching any even conventional strikes against Russia. Nothing else suffices to reinstill the fear of consequences that once existed.
The geniuses in the Kremlin allowed themselves to be maneuvered into a situation where there are no other options left. And they might still chose the destruction of Russia the way things have been going so far...
There already were multiple small tactical nukes that hit Russian military bases.
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Never stop when you're on a roll, Victor.
Did the Beatles stop after their first hit record? lol
Great Report. It's a funny old world...
Ah, the old paradox where Russia is simultaneously weak and have already lost the war > Russia is going to invade Poland and won't stop until the Atlantic Ocean. Or maybe even New York. (An old Kelly's Heroes quote.)
I wouldn't be surprised if they start saying that Russia is indeed so weak in both military and economics - that now they know the only war Russia can win is an all out nuclear armegeddon. But I think we all know that no one will win a nuclear war.
Very interesting the comments coming from President Trump. Who knows what they really mean. I'm hoping it is indeed his way of walking away from the Ukraine war. If Russia is so weak - then have at them. Good luck. We'll sell whatever we can produce to NATO/EU; if they can afford it.
Many have said President Trump and the USA should walk away from the war. As the end of USA military support, and economic, would no doubt be the end of the armed conflict. Or at least it should, but the leaders like Macron, Merz, Starmer, von der Leyen, Kallas, etc are not known for their intelligence. I shouldn't exempt our own dear leader Mark Carney from that list. PM Trudeau was/is an incompetant boob but I think PM Carney is more dangerous.
I often wonder exactly why folks like them care so much for a corruption filled country like Ukraine.
It's almost like they were part of the corruption....
Whatever it is - drugs, human trafficking, sex trade, pedos = It must be something fantastic. I hope we eventually find out.
I think Ukraine will try to keep fighting until the end. They do too much of it already. There is no reason to fight to the end to try to hold meaningless terrain, especially in a war of attrition. Which is why I think Russia is keeping advancing at a slow pace. The blow a village/position up with everything they have, all sorts of weapons and calibers. That kills most of the defenders. Then small groups of Infantry clear up the position. Then they kill more of Kyiv's forces when they inevitably counter attack. If it looks like they will lose a village/position - they seem to prefer to withdraw and start the whole process over.
It looks like maybe the Ukrainians may do another grand adventure in the mode of the Kursk gambit. It was stupid then and is stupid now. They should have left the Kursk area after a week or so. But they held on and on and lost a lot of Troops and equipment.
The whole Krinky expedition across the Dnieper was also foolish. Maybe we'll find out in the future if it actually did accomplish anything. Or if it was all a dismal wet failure that seen far too many of brave Ukrainian Soldiers die; for nothing.
When Russia first invaded in Feb 2022 I wondered if this would eventually lead to World War Three. Most of my friends scoffed at the idea. But we do indeed to be getting closer and closer to that point of no return. Then again - maybe the next covid outbreak will kill us all.
Cheers
Maybe that's why they call it 'clown world'?
Carney, the man without a spine. You are correct, he is more dangerous than the clown that sat in office before him.
Carney is an effeminate, lying, treasonous WEF stooge.
The neanderthals who voted for him will get what they deserve.
Was he voted in? Or slotted in?
Good question.
I can't get evidence that the election was rigged.
The population is generally politically clueless, like the US.
They follow mainstream media indoctrination narratives.
The entire political structure is corrupt, deceptive and WEF-controlled.
Voting means nothing at all.
I can’t recall an election there, wasn’t he just slotted in after Castro Jnr resigned?
Yes, at first. Then he was later actually voted in.
Moronic "Elbows Up" idiots from Manitoba and East "voted" Carney the Clown into office. Poilievre decided to cater to the left of center crowd abandoning his Conservative base. Fucking fool. Lost his own seat and then had to grovel and have an MP in Alberta resign his seat so Pierre the Poofter could win in a byelection in a safe Conservative riding. Kanuckistanians love punishment.
Poilievre is a Zionist in sheep's clothing and not much better than Carney. Like most Western countries, we have no effective leaders.
We are running fast out of family members to talk to about politics, both in Canada and in Germany, due to our refusal to be brainwashed by MSM. Of course in their opinion, we are the 'Putin Sympathizers', and all would be better if we would just listen to the CBC. Lol.
"I can't get evidence that the election was rigged."
This election, Election Canada website was down.
In the past you could view actual polling stations vote counts. Funny part, I've seen the numbers in polling stations set up in senior centers where the seniors all will vote 100% for one party or another.
I watched this election from a different site, no choice. What I noticed, many Liberal won ridings, especially 2 in BC and one in Calgary had a massive influx of liberal votes late in the counting (Most polls already counted). To overtake a conservative lead. (Around midnight mountain standard time there was only a 3- 4 seat spread. Liberals up 6-8 seats )
They also know how you vote. Under the Harper government. Election Canada hired an Australian firm to set up a data base. (I think it's in Winnipeg.) You will notice when voting there is a number on your ballet. piece 1. that number is torn off and the number is recorded in a book, along side your name at the polling station. That number also appears on the back of your vote. piece 2, that goes in the ballet box.
Now with that info and the power of computers. that info can be use to redraw riding boundaries especially in metro areas like Toronto.(Which you had during this election) With ethic groups living in a certain area and knowingly voting a certain way, you can change the outcome of a riding.
You don't need all the votes, you just need enough votes in certain areas to win a riding.
Interesting.
To go a step further, in BC in the last provincial election the ballots were electronically recorded, as BC went e-voting.
I voted like I always do: sign in, receive ballot, to the polling station, then to the elections officer at the counting machine.
I vote by NOT marking my ballot, a carryover from the days of paper ballots.
When my ballot was counted the counter gave an alarm because there was no vote choice identified. I turned to the officer, after she said, "you didn't mark the ballot".
I replied, "You have spoiled my ballot; this is not a secure election if this can happen".
The Austfailian example nails the reality on the head: without the secret ballot, which is "guaranteed to be secret by the paper ballot" the electronic ballot counting closes the circle of insecure voting.
My ballot that is numbered, will have the "non-chosen" on it and cease to be a secret ballot as the system is biased to count only marked ballots.
He was selected to replace PM Trudeau and then somehow got voted in...
Denis is right about WEF stooge.
He was voted in somehow? Remember the American election of 2020.
That's how. I no longer believe the various republics of the West function as such. They all seem to be totalitarian socialist with fake elections. If Nigel Farage does not waltz into #10 quite soon I'm going to be certain its a fact.
The Don made such a stink about the rigged elections that the establishment was forced to 'allow' him to return and get what was stolen from him, a second term. It would have been difficult to overthrow his plurality anyway without obvious election rigging.
After the first circus the real Republicans were awakened to their danger and nobody left the polls with Democrats still inside to count votes. Remember the video from a Georgian counting house where suitcases which had sat all day were pulled out from under tables and counted while only Democrats did the deed? I believe my own eyes not the lies of the establishment.
God Bless Us All
ELBOWS UP EH!!
More like a chicken dance.
"Many have said President Trump and the USA should walk away from the war."
Sure, walk away, but never forget that this was the US's war to begin with under the direction of Vicky Nuland et al. As such, the US should be condemned internationally for its actions in Ukraine over the past twenty years ... Chip
How exciting and worrying. Should get lots of clicks.
Remember to do your part to isolate and destroy israel.
You can't isolate and destroy Israel for that would be anti-semitic and god himself forbids that.
While ever even only one single 'good' (if you can imagine such a thing given the religion) lives in Israel then hurting Israel is anti semitic and forbidden.
While ever one single Hamas fighter dedicated to ending Israeli oppression lives in Gaza/Palestine then every single Gazan/Palestinian must be obliterated, by order of that same God.
Got it?
no
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Did you have a point? I can't tell what you are attempting to say.
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It is, I believe, heavy sarcasm.
"The jewish people do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer, and we are his chosen people."
( Harold Wallace Rosenthal. )
Yeah I got it. You are an atheist and proud of it because it's the latest fad. Did you know atheism is in fact the first religion? Before the first Shaman or Medicine Woman said, "The bad spirits could not be overcome by my poor magics" the human race believed only in themselves and what they could perceive with the five senses. If such people at least believe in compassion and respect for their fellow humans, if not the animals of the world, I say they will awaken in heaven and wonder how they could have been so wrong. In heaven or one of the upper levels of its less desirable neighborhoods perhaps an animal abuser would learn a new lesson? If I'm simply full of it then what harm is done? I treat people and animals with as much compassion and respect as I can master. Oblivion awaits does it not?
I do not believe in magic but I believe in The Infinite Mind of God. God is a natural being composed of force and energy just like our own minds. The organic electrochemical actions of our brains are not our thoughts, the electrochemical energy produces forces and the pattern of those forces are our thoughts and our minds. Our minds produced by the energy of our brains are also what has been termed our souls. Unless of course you believe in mindlessness?
God is the sum total of all the lifeforms in an infinite universe. I know the universe is infinite because I do not believe light is an example of perpetual motion. The hill always has another side, even if its a precipitous cliff. There are an infinite number of Hubble Events produced by the explosion of the primal atom. We have simply not found any with our primitive devices as yet. There are a lot of points of light and it may also be possible the nearest Hubble Event is beyond the capability of light to progress this far. The fabric of space would inevitably absorb the photonic energy of the nearest big bang unless it is close enough.
How can God be the gestalt mind of all sentient and non-sentient lifeforms if the speed of light is constant? Force is not an electromagnetic event, the two are convertible, one to the other, but they are not the same.
IN THE PROPER MEDIUM OF TRANSMISSION FORCE MAY BE TRANSMITTED INSTANTANEOUSLY.
Take a pencil lay it on the table, push one end. Do not meditate on how fast you push it but how fast the other end reacts to your push.
Even the Buddha said, Life is God and by the rules of algebra and logic, God is Life.
The despised Jews said, "We are made in His image." I instead say we are all made in the same image, at least we operate our thoughts in a similar fashion and each of us is a grain of sand in an infinite desert which is the MIND OF GOD. God did not create the universe: the universe and life and God have always existed. No beginning and no end. Why should there be a beginning or an end to infinity?
The Jewish tribes were the first peoples to say that there is only one God and He is everywhere. Akhenaton of Egypt said there was only one God but he pointed at the Sun, wrong target, right proposition. Thus were the Jewish the Chosen People of God who brought the word of His existence into the world. All who persecute the Jews will in the end come to regret it, just like Hitler and the absolute monarchs of Europe who used to borrow gold from the Jewish traders and then declare a pogrom with persecution in order to avoid repayment. The anti-semite evil is a hangover from those days and is being revived most assiduously by the Banderites and the evil monarchs of Europe. All of us owe a debt to the Chosen People of God for the Word of His existence.
There are barely fifteen million practicing Jews in the world; there were a lot more before Hitler. I suppose those of you who believe the Jews are the root of all evil are fully supportive of the solution to the "Jewish Problem"? When attacked on Oct 7, 2023 the Jews struck back and are cleaning out a rat's nest of terrorists who hide behind the civilian populations. "Never Again" The peaceful Gazan civilians are under the thumbs of armed terrorists and quite often it is Hamas that kills the slaves who rebel. Israel does its best under war conditions but they refuse to take violence without doing their best to stop the violent.
Now all of who read this, if you are capable of reading such a 'wall of text', know why I am telling you the truth when I say I am not of any religion currently known in the world, since I am the original Monk of the Order of the Infinite Mind of God. I say I should be known as a Minder. No temples, no orders of priests, no collections of funds, just meditate on the being of God and mind your own business as much as possible. Give good advice, as you see it, even if unasked for but don't force yourself on anyone. Which is why I like these comment pages in many places.
I suppose that like the Shaolin the Minders would be a 'flawed' order of the Buddhist philosophy. They are physical practitioners of their beliefs and I am simply mental. Or as we Americans say: crazy. Minders could also be thought of as a rather strange monastic order of the Catholic religion. Or simply the meditations of an old man who spends a lot of time alone with his thoughts and a computer.
Since the blessings of God are as a curse upon the heads of the unrighteous:
God Bless Us All
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Every morning I set aside an hour or two for email. Today you've got the whole time slot to yourself.
My responses preceded by '**'
Yeah I got it. ** wrong
You are an atheist ** wrong
and proud of it because it's the latest fad. ** wrong
Did you know atheism is in fact the first religion? Before the first Shaman or Medicine Woman said, "The bad spirits could not be overcome by my poor magics" the human race believed only in themselves and what they could perceive with the five senses.
** unknown but likely wrong. the first emotions bled first into the conscious psyche and expressed as beliefs in spirits, forces, cosmic truth. the emotions of love and fear. Fear of fire and fury, storms, lighting. Love of warmth and the returning of the sun from the depths of winter. I suggest Jackson's 'Christianity before Christ'
If such people at least believe in compassion and respect for their fellow humans, if not the animals of the world, I say they will awaken in heaven and wonder how they could have been so wrong.
** so that's a postulate of yours. okay.
In heaven or one of the upper levels of its less desirable neighborhoods perhaps an animal abuser would learn a new lesson?
** another postulate.
If I'm simply full of it then what harm is done?
** I don't know. I don't really follow the thread here.
I treat people and animals with as much compassion and respect as I can master.
** okay, good for you.
Oblivion awaits does it not?
** I think quite the contrary. I suggest almost any NDE account on YT.
I do not believe in magic but I believe in The Infinite Mind of God.
** okay. you tell of what you believe.
God is a natural being composed of force and energy just like our own minds.
** more of what you believe.
The organic electrochemical actions of our brains are not our thoughts, the electrochemical energy produces forces and the pattern of those forces are our thoughts and our minds. Our minds produced by the energy of our brains are also what has been termed our souls.
** more
Unless of course you believe in mindlessness?
** ?? confusing. you mean your beliefs you now present as proven postulates we all should believe unless we believe in mindlessness? I don't know about all that.
God is the sum total of all the lifeforms in an infinite universe. I know the universe is infinite because I do not believe light is an example of perpetual motion. The hill always has another side, even if its a precipitous cliff. There are an infinite number of Hubble Events produced by the explosion of the primal atom. We have simply not found any with our primitive devices as yet. There are a lot of points of light and it may also be possible the nearest Hubble Event is beyond the capability of light to progress this far. The fabric of space would inevitably absorb the photonic energy of the nearest big bang unless it is close enough.
** more on your beliefs
How can God be the gestalt mind of all sentient and non-sentient lifeforms if the speed of light is constant? Force is not an electromagnetic event, the two are convertible, one to the other, but they are not the same.
** on your incredulity this time.
IN THE PROPER MEDIUM OF TRANSMISSION FORCE MAY BE TRANSMITTED INSTANTANEOUSLY.
** a postulate of yours.
Take a pencil lay it on the table, push one end. Do not meditate on how fast you push it but how fast the other end reacts to your push.
** to what end? and within exactly what constraints? i.e. this is a mind experiment or a practical one? In the practical world we can calculate the time. In Einsteins thought experiment (if it was his) the rod is rigid and moves as one. To which do you refer? And what does it mean to us?
Even the Buddha said, Life is God and by the rules of algebra and logic, God is Life.
** A postulate
The despised Jews said, "We are made in His image." I instead say we are all made in the same image, at least we operate our thoughts in a similar fashion and each of us is a grain of sand in an infinite desert which is the MIND OF GOD. God did not create the universe: the universe and life and God have always existed. No beginning and no end.
** more postulates stemming from 'your belief'
Why should there be a beginning or an end to infinity?
** beyond me..
The Jewish tribes were the first peoples to say that there is only one God and He is everywhere. Akhenaton of Egypt said there was only one God but he pointed at the Sun, wrong target, right proposition. Thus were the Jewish the Chosen People of God who brought the word of His existence into the world. All who persecute the Jews will in the end come to regret it, just like Hitler and the absolute monarchs of Europe who used to borrow gold from the Jewish traders and then declare a pogrom with persecution in order to avoid repayment. The anti-semite evil is a hangover from those days and is being revived most assiduously by the Banderites and the evil monarchs of Europe. All of us owe a debt to the Chosen People of God for the Word of His existence.
** not right. think of akhenaten and Zoroastrianism. I'd refer you again to Jackson't book.
There are barely fifteen million practicing Jews in the world; there were a lot more before Hitler.
** okay, if you say so. so what?
I suppose those of you who believe the Jews are the root of all evil are fully supportive of the solution to the "Jewish Problem"?
** I don't know of anyone who thinks this. You are postulating this and lumping me in with them? By what right? To what end>
When attacked on Oct 7, 2023 the Jews struck back
** And when attacked on Oct 7 that was itself a 'striking back'
and are cleaning out a rat's nest of terrorists who hide behind the civilian populations.
** this is not so, clearly. They are wiping out civilian populations and hoping to catch some 'terrorists' at the same time. We are immediately lost in semantic confusion inexactitude and error, deliberate obfuscation and deceit. For even new born children are labelled 'terrorist' by the Israeli Jews of today. Any smart 'terrorist' with any military acumen at all would be the most safe from the lunatic attacks of the Israelis. The actually hit targets are those favourite targets of americans and jews: women and children, old men, hospital patients. The defenseless.
*
"Never Again" The peaceful Gazan civilians are under the thumbs of armed terrorists and quite often it is Hamas that kills the slaves who rebel.
** the peaceful Gazan citizens are under the bombing and shelling of the Israeli Jews.
Israel does its best under war conditions
** wrong. Israel does its worst under all conditions.
but they refuse to take violence without doing their best to stop the violent.
** if you did to my family or even 'my people' - members of my nation, folks I've never met and never will- I would hate you for the rest of my life and I would teach that hate to my children and have them pass it on and I'd teach cunning and deception so that you would get to where you'd never know if a descendent of mine were there behind you with a dagger. Ho ho ho. No I wouldn't. But thousands, even perhaps millions will. AND it is what Israeli Jews have done, it has been their strategy for a long time and that's how they so successfully assassinated so many...
Now all of who read this, if you are capable of reading such a 'wall of text', know why I am telling you the truth when I say I am not of any religion currently known in the world, since I am the original Monk of the Order of the Infinite Mind of God.
** aha. Here's the point finally. It is a self promotion.
I say I should be known as a Minder. No temples, no orders of priests, no collections of funds, just meditate on the being of God and mind your own business as much as possible. Give good advice, as you see it, even if unasked for but don't force yourself on anyone. Which is why I like these comment pages in many places.
** and, it would seem, condone and even support the methodical slaughter of gazans. very enlightened philosophy we have here.
I suppose that like the Shaolin the Minders would be a 'flawed' order of the Buddhist philosophy.
** the Shaolin were/are of course 'flawed' in that they bring violence into their buddhism. a kinda massive 'flaw'
They are physical practitioners of their beliefs and I am simply mental. Or as we Americans say: crazy.
** okay.
Minders could also be thought of as a rather strange monastic order of the Catholic religion. Or simply the meditations of an old man who spends a lot of time alone with his thoughts and a computer.
** yeah, well I recommend NDE and Jackson's 'Christianity before Christ'
Since the blessings of God are as a curse upon the heads of the unrighteous:
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hmmm.
So there you go, folks.. :)
I'm glad that you have no 'likes'. That gives me hope in humanity instead of your religious psychobabble.
I'm happy that you are glad. At least read a bit of it. If you understood it you might not call it psychobabble, it's quite close to Zen Buddhism while not violating the known laws of science. Life is God and God is Life.
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You will not succeed in that endeavor. I have faith in God and I believe Israel is His favorite little country. His Will Be Done.....
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Hahaha…. You hypocrite. You don’t believe in God. YOU support murdering children.
You support the murder of Jews and try to get them to go like sheep into the cattle cars because they are so peaceful they refuse to fight.
Israel would love to use some of them cattle cars now to ship palestinians pronto to some gas chambers if only the idiot mindless goys of the world would stop pointing fingers!
really, it's such a shame people keep mentioning the slaughter of the Amalekites. Why can't they just see it's god's will?
BTW, there were quite a few tweets and twits in that chosens' land in the past year who pointed out that the gas chambers were actually a more humane way of getting rid of millions of unwanted humans. Alas, it was mostly in hebrew, a language hardly anyone speaks.
One wonders, how did you find your way here?
The Palestinians are the ACTUAL SEMITES of the Levant, as THEY NEVER LEFT...but the Red Sea Pedestrians became "Wandering Whos" as they could not get along with the host populations, all 109 of them and whatever Semitism they would have ascribed to is long gone - after 1 generation!
The Jews/Zionists/Israelis can only be Semitic IF BORN IN THE LEVANT!
Therefore the trope of "ANTI-SEMITISM" is false, and reveals the non-Semites as imposters of Semitism!
By the way, those Kabbalistic Jews murder children, whether in Israel or underground Brooklyn.
Jews don't trace their heritage by geography but by the line of their female progenitors. To them anyone who is born to a Jewish mother is Jewish. Your decision to decide who is and who isn't Jewish is to say the least self-centered without respect to those you wish to to condemn and encourage others to kill.
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Most of the delegations left the UN hall before the speech of the Nazi Netanyahu. He has already managed to threaten an attack on Iraq from the rostrum in order to "destroy the Shiite militias" (there are more than 120,000 of them only officially, some of them are included in the Iraqi Defense Ministry). Netanyahu's entire public campaign was a continuous chutzpah and threats against various countries.
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>It has become clear that the EU-NATO establishment has chosen the path of acute escalation as their current strategy against Russia. The question is why?
Simple -- the benefits outweigh the costs, and that is because the costs are effectively zero so far, which in turn is because Russia is run by traitors who refuse to fight back. At least the Iranians fired some missiles into Tel Aviv in their war, and they have a couple orders of magnitude smaller capabilities, and are run by pro-Western traitors too. In Russia they couldn't muster the courage even for that...
>Lavrov and Russia’s ambassador to France both invoked the dreaded ‘W’ word in regard to NATO shooting down Russian planes:
Lavrov publicly proclaimed NATO is in a war with Russia, yet Russia has not fired a single shot at NATO.
What kind of schizophrenic nonsense is this?
>By the way, has anyone considered the absurdity of the contradiction at play with these provocations?
Has anyone considered that question through the prism of the history of the last four years? Did anyone imagine in 2021 that in 2025 NATO will be blowing up refineries all the way in Bashkiria while the Kremlin will be praising the US's effort to end the war at the same time that is happening instead of immediately physically eliminating the source of aggression? I am old enough to remember how unthinkable that was in 2021, and yet here we are.
Any objective analysis has to admit that the West has very successfully boiled the frog and maneuvered the Kremlin into this catastrophic for Russia situation, skillfully exploiting the fundamental unresolved internal neoliberal dysfunction in Russian society, inherited from the Gorbatchev and Yeltsin betrayal of the country and then held sacrosanct by Putin for a quarter century and still to this day.
Given that objective fact, one has to then take very seriously the threat of what is to come, because they would not be escalating if they perceived the possibility of being destroyed in response as serious. And given how the previous four years went, that does look like a safe bet indeed, and that spells doom for Russia.
There are two possibilities here -- either Putin will fold, and in the West they know it, which is the end of Russia, or the West does in fact have the military-technical upper hand, it is just not public knowledge (the public information points more towards the opposite, yet Putin stubbornly refuses to use that advantage while he still has it). If the third option -- nuking Europe and physically eliminating the threat -- was probable, they would not be looking for a pretext for war in such silly ways the way they are now.
Prescient analysis, as always. Either Russia nukes all of Europe (and, consequently, triggers a conflagration that annihilates the world), or the West prevails.
Absolute lunacy, as always.
>Either Russia nukes all of Europe (and, consequently, triggers a conflagration that annihilates the world)
No, it wouldn't.
That is where the US stands down.
Nobody will sacrifice the US mainland for any part of Europe.
At what point in your fever dream do ethnic Russians repopulate the nuclear charred vineyards of France?
but vineyards are running on empty, most regions suffer from overheating. changing even the best wines into acids, Russians getting rich from turning back the empty bottles for recycling.
lol
You do not know much about wine. Precisely in recent years some new technologies have made possible to improve wines in really hot regions.
Do you know about Chinese wines? In the beginning they all failed until they pissed in them, this is not a lie, so I suppose to make them OK for consumption new technologies in hot regions they will use chicken and goats manure letting them a free run around their vineyards as is already practised in France
You don't know a thing either. To make wine, grapes transform when heated. Guys, you shouldn't miss visits to the vet for leaf pruning, otherwise they capture all sounds without filters. Chaotic change, or whatever you want to call it, is not an evolution of the planet, the solar system, ... Believing that humans have an influence on the climate is another socialist heresy. Primitive man adapted and evolved. He, too, worked his ass off, so that in the 21st century, man regressed to Neanderthalism.
Aren't there vineyards in Russia?
And good ones - Crimea/Krasnodar.
Would it?. I’ve seen one US SAC top brass declaring in congress that he believed in a preemptive victory in case of Nuke war. For him, 40 million vaporised Americans would still constitute a victory. These kind of F’s, should be demoted immediately.
The West is counting in the fatigue and new Russian uprising, so to grab the resources of a resource less Europe confronted with the other power blocks. Europe is doomed if it cannot steal Russian natural welfare. They are going for it in a much more conspicuous way than the madman. This new Chancelor and that obnoxious revanchist learned the lesson.
The RF must warp this fruncule called Ukraine and reduce the EU to silence quickly, Or on the long run they will lose. Time to force the West Europeans to show what they really are. A bunch of emotional ignorant cowardly morons.
Putin, Medvedev, Lavrov, and Shoigu all ran their mouths quite loudly about red lines and what will follow if they are crossed.
In the end they folded and did nothing.
So don't take too seriously what is said. When the time comes to press that button, the real strategic calculus comes into play.
And is that no nuclear state will sacrifice itself in defense of any other state, even less so when that other state no longer exists.
Oh look.... It's our Nazi troll. Russia has only mostly kicked NATO's fat ass. That's nothing? The Euro fags cower in a corner.
Drop the Nazi schtick. its old and played out.
I also love "Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." It's number two on my top ten films and is my very favorite comedy.
The poor grasp of history on the part of the Western Empire of Washington never fails to amaze me. We were once taught about how Russia, with some small assistance from the allies, defeated Nazi Germany and all its Waffen-SS divisions in the Great Patriotic War. Yet we expect the Russians to fold and submit as we push them against the wall and order them to surrender all their lands and goods. Sometimes I think our leadership in Washington, or New Rome, is composed of zombies stumbling around moaning, "Brains, brains..." because they don't have any.
Gas station with nukes indeed, what a load of malarkey. To think, I actually voted for John McCain. At least he wasn't a Democrat.
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"The west" is over.
All they have is empty rhetoric.
Russia will destroy all designated targets, western governments will fall and be replaced by new nationalistic and sensible pragmatic ones.
Checkmate.
Nice dream. Europe has practiced its evil for many centuries. The replacement elitist killers and thieves will not be any better, just different. I fully understand now why my ancestors fled Europe for The New Hope of America. Pity the US Constitution has proven to be so easily evaded by the Washington Empire and its Uniparty. Biden exposed it for what it is, at least Joe the Smooh did that much for us.
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No need to nuke all Europe. Only the irrational emotional Balts. First these will taste their own medicine that they which to spread over Russia, second it will immediately calm the Frogs, the Krauts, after all, Turkish Germany could care less of Kaya Kallas family and the rest of Europeans, but not the perfidious Albions, these are another league. Other more expeditive means have to be employed to calm these ultra warmongers.
Who will come to aid Europe? Nobody not even the gringos. After all, the world people have had enough of their own people sacrificed in European wars.
Russia is winning in Ukraine so they don't see the need to unnecessarily escalate to a full-blown war with NATO. That strategy has been successful so far, the question is will it continue to work. I have my doubts since Russia is fighting the proxy only (Ukraine), not the entities at the top calling the shots. I don't think that's Europe btw, so your strategy of attacking Europe might not work either.
WTF am I reading?
How is Russia winning?
Let's say Hitler had offered to freeze the war in early 1943 and Stalin accepted, forever giving away whatever historic Russian lands Hitler had already occupied.
Would that have been a Russian victory?
Well, that is exactly what Putin is demanding now as his definition of "winning".
And he has absolutely no hope to go beyond that anyway, under these rules of engagement and with the stubborn refusal to properly mobilize for real war.
"How is Russia winning?"
By killing millions of Ukrainian soldiers and thousands of NATO operatives.
"But Ukrainians are Russians! So, really, Russia is killing itself!"
Troll harder, because you obviously cannot troll smarter.
Flip the coin... you are the trolls! ofc Ukranians are Russians historically.
What drugs are you guys sniffing...
La même que la tienne?
The drug is called history. RT has several fine historical articles about the early history of Ukraine as it came out from under the Polish Empire and joined with its fellow Orthodox nation of Russia. Check em out.
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Malheureusement elle a loupé le vagin GM. Il s'est certainement réfugié derrière la ligne rouge.
It's well-known that UA has lost around 1.7 million troops, RU around 130K. With a much bigger army, I'd call that winning.
I didn't say Russia has won, that's what you seem to think I said.,
Russia lost even WWII. It never recovered from the damage.
But it did go to Berlin at least.
To call the current senseless slaughter happening deep inside Russian territory "winning" is just... I am running out of words at this point to describe the insanity of it.
Russia lost to the Mongols ... and never recovered, either! In fact, Russia does not even exist today. Just a pathetic shell of a once glorious nation pretending to be Russia.
LOL another one...
Schrodinger's Russia.
I agree that only the US and Switzerland won WW2. In game theory to survive is to win.
An exchange of nuclear missiles will cause both Russia and Europe to lose, and everyone else to win.
There will be no exchange, it will be one-way
Russia lost WW2 and senseless slaughter deep within Russia? Is that a synapsis of the alternative reality you occupy. You do know that after WW2 with all the destruction the "USSR" faced from a western European invasion led by Germany, they developed and tested an Atomic bomb by 1949. They also developed rocket technology to put the first man in space by 1959. That is with the fact that they had to face and aggressive NATO alliance necessitating the formation of the Warsaw pact. Yes the USSR did not control the global trading currency or manufacturing untouched by the destruction of WW2 or a propaganda machine that sold them as the good guys. They had their achievement that does not allow you to take away from their genuine victory not stolen valor in "The great Patriotic War".
>Russia lost WW2
The USSR collapsed in large part as a delayed effect of the demographic hit the country took during WWII.
It's not my fault you know nothing about the real history.
>senseless slaughter deep within Russia?
Yes, deep within Russia. Where is the front line now? Russia ends somewhere around Zhytomyr, so 800 km further to the west. That is not deep inside?
Agree fully. WW2 was a devastating blow to Russia compared to what the banksters in West, mostly US, achieved.
'Je suis à court de mots". Tu ne pensais pas qu'avec l'absence de cerveau tu serais doté du dictionnaire universel complet des mots (langage)?
I am speechless at the magnitude of your willful ignorance and trollish manner. Well, not quite speechless. Keep it up, we love to feel superior in understanding and you are just the ticket to the show we need for that. Thanks honey bunches of oats.
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Custer lost to the Sioux.
U$A never recovered.
Based on what?
Xi Will never agree, Russian oil for Chinese Cheap but effective Drones.
China must be making a fortune selling drones, and other stuff, to both sides.
They might be the victim of their success, who knows that by intermediate buyers contractors or go between Chinese drones finding their way for Trump, Zelensky or Netanyahu
It's the cowardly, sneaky Chinese way.
They don't fight, they infiltrate.
They stopped selling them to Ukraine sometime ago.
You are reading comics , to judge by your infantile “analysis”
No Russia has gone on automatic, AI drones and droids are doing the job, the soldiers are only there to deliver Russian passports to Ukrainians, and do not forget NATO and EU are in an economic war with….China. For every missile, drone China can produce 10 or a tenfold and in much faster rhythm, the efficacy comes from their use on the field. The cost of our products economically has made us lose the war…any war.
Well it is to the benefit of the readers that you are old enough to remember 2021. As majority of the non sense you spew point to the fact that you probably are not old enough to remember 2018. You keep throwing around the concept of nuking everything. Is it that you are clueless to the fact that nuclear weapons have only been used once in human history in a relatively uncontrolled manner, against two civilian cities at a time when only one country possessed the capabilities? Have you ever considered why it has never been used since? Considering that the fission bombs used over Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now just the trigger mechanism on the much more powerful fusion bombs developed in the 1950-60s. What would be the result of a few uncontrolled blasts over European cities? During the early development of the atom bomb the scientist were concerned about a phenomenon they referred to as "atmospheric ignition". Where as the chain effect of splitting the atom could end up burning away the Earth's atmosphere. The US still went ahead with the program even though Adolf Hitler, the most reviled man in history ceased the German program in 1941, not wanting to risk the end of humanity. Well people are different as some of us are grateful for Russian leadership's restraint, pragmatism, responsible actions and patience others are irrational, illogical BS artists merely wanting to FAFO or probably having no empathy or consideration for human life.
>Have you ever considered why it has never been used since?
It has been used, about two dozen times. Covertly, which the simpletons never caught on, but used it has been.
Why do you think so much effort went into miniaturization already starting in the 1950s?
>Considering that the fission bombs used over Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now just the trigger mechanism on the much more powerful fusion bombs developed in the 1950-60s. What would be the result of a few uncontrolled blasts over European cities?
The cities would cease to exist and the attacks on Russia would stop because there would be nowhere to launch them from. Sounds like a pretty good deal to the people in Belgorod, Donetsk, and ever further deep inside Russia in an eastern direction.
The most potent launching platforms in the west, and especially in USA, are submarines, not "cities" as a launching platform.
We did about 600 atmospheric tests . About one third of a proper exchange but split over more than a decade . On the other hand people were sunbathing . All nuclear stuff must be understanded well to make judgement calls , mostly people call firecrakers "bombs" while ignoring depots of fertiliser worth kilotons .
The usual braindead rant.
To quote the idiot himself “What kind of schizophrenic nonsense is this?
Exactly describes his own “commentary”
"has not fired a single shot at NATO"
Bradley Square, et al: "what am I, chopped liver?"
Turning one third of all American armaments into scrap in Russian scrapyards is definitely heavy lifting.
NATO armories depleted, to this day. Even shells are scarce.
NATO's proxy Ukraine itself had 42 million people in February 2022. Now it has less than 16 million. That's real damage.
The Uke diaspora Westward weren't fleeing Russians, they were fleeing Kiev.
Huge areas in Ukraine look like the stone age, where only babushkas fearfully scurry about amid the ruins searching for food. The males all dead in the meat grinders.
The EU leaders don't fear a few Russian drones, they fear Russian revenge for the mess the EU has made between Slavic brothers. And it's palpable. All of the Chihuahua barking is that guilty fear..
If Russia's losing, how come the EU's losing? How can both be losing?
The argument that Russia is hamstringing itself by not nuking Western Europe actually is that really Russia is the only sane one in the room.
The West wants Russia to accept the premise that nuclear powers can fight each other and at the same time keep their fingers off of the Red Button. Russia knows better.
Russia's goals, again, are:
• ✓Defending the five regions
Despite Kiev continuing to try to reconquer the Donbass, Russia continues to hand Kiev it's keister.
• ✓Eliminating Banderism- see above, the huge voluntary reduction of population in Ukraine, through diaspora and war.
• ✓Most of the ethnic Russian population has either left Ukraine for Russia proper in March-June 2022, or were/ are in the Donbass area. 12-13 million total are now fresh citizens of the RF.
All that's happening now is not Russia being hampered from it's prize, but actually Kiev is hampered from it's reconquista.
Putin's only a traitor to Navalny"s supporters, who long for the "good old days" that CIA cash was flowing freely into Russia.
If Putin were the CEO of Russia Inc, he'd be getting massive bonuses and stock options for his performance as exec.
>Bradley Square, et al: "what am I, chopped liver?"
"Bradley Square" was the US being allowed to move its Bradleys one thousand kilometers deep inside Russian territory and then having two different groups of snow niggers killing each other there for the amusement of the white master.
That is not the Kremlin fighting back.
Proper fighting back would have been nuclear missiles on all the armor depots of the US army plus the tank factories so that there were no more Bradleys and Abrams to sent.
Or strikes on the US oligarchy to force them to back off. Their mansions and private islands are known.
Or total physical elimination of NATO in Europe so that there is no way to get the Bradleys to Bradley square.
Putin did none of that.
>Huge areas in Ukraine look like the stone age
Huge areas of mother Russia, that is.
Again, only Western absolute idiots, cretins, imbeciles, etc. do not understand that the territory well to the west of Kiev is all core historic Russian land.
Thus its destruction and contamination with DU and land mines is not a win for Russia, the exact opposite.
>Eliminating Banderism- see above, the huge voluntary reduction of population in Ukraine, through diaspora and war.
More absolute idiocy, of the kind that requires euthanasia to cure, for nothing else can help.
Putin chose to slaughter hundreds of thousands and even millions of ethnic Russians, press ganged on the Ukrainian streets against their wishes, meanwhile not a single seriously influential Banderite has ever been seriously targeted by Russian drones and missiles strikes in the rear. Most of them are strictly off limits in fact, and when Azov were captured in Mariupol Putin released them instead of having them publicly executed.
For which, and many other such actions, Putin himself had to then be immediately couped and publicly executed in the middle of the Red Square for grand treason, and the fact that this has not yet happened speaks a lot about the catastrophic state of Russian society.
>If Putin were the CEO of Russia Inc,
He is the CEO of Russia Inc., that is the core of the problem. He answers to the shareholders of Russia Inc, and works for them and in their interests. And those shareholders are not the Russian people, they are a small group of people, mostly not even Russians...
IDK how to answer you. You've got me euthanized, Putin couped and executed, and meta-Russia in ruins. You've got all the rest of us as "idiots" ready to be e committed to insane asylums, or stood up against the wall.
I'm afraid no one survives the onslaught of your sheer will there.
I suppose you guys are waiting for that singularity of thought on your side when your dreams actually do become reality, lol.
What will general Moron do for a job when NATO and the Euro fascists are utterly defeated? Shill for the ashkeNAZI fascists?
There is only one person that can save Russia - GM.
Duke Nukem will save the world. By destroying it.
You are up against a professional troll, I think. You will never win the argument even though you win. I never even acknowledge him anymore.
Dude you are becoming more and more rabid. Simmer down.
“Snow niggers” 😂 I suddenly have a vivid sense of what talking to you in person would be like
Yep, the mask slipped. And showed the trailer park.
"meanwhile not a single seriously influential Banderite has ever been seriously targeted by Russian drones and missiles strikes in the rear. Most of them are strictly off limits in fact, and when Azov were captured in Mariupol Putin released them instead of having them publicly executed."
I have wondered about this. It certainly did not/does not fit into the stated goals of the SMO. I agree, the Azov's should have been publicly executed in Red Square.
You know, you're right. Putin, if he was a REAL man, would burn the world into radioactive cinders with salted cobalt warheads on every major population center of mankind. That way, the Russians would have the final word in the story of humanity. The penultimate bookend in the charred library of homo sapiens sapiens.
I am Czar Ozymandius! Look upon my nukes, ye mighty, and despair!
But he doesn't. What a coward! What a cur!
GM your constant presupposition that western backed troops in Ukraine is an invasion of Russia because Ukraine is part of Russia is just being deliberately obtuse. Ukraine was an independent nation since 1991 and you didnt really think twice about until 2014 or 2022. It doesnt matter if you think its a fake country, every country in Europe is an amalgamation of various tribes that lost or gained their independence through war and diplomacy regardless of how similar their languages and cultures were. Not to mention the much more artificial constructs in post colonial south America, Africa and Asia. And in every one of those nations you'll find nationalists and irredentists that claim this or that neighbor isn't a real country and should be their clay, but possession is 9/10ths of the law. If you want to make an emotional special exception for Ukraine then you'll have no argument against anti Russian think tanks who say the post Soviet RF should be further broken down into a dozen separate countries based on their various ethnolinguistic identies
>Ukraine was an independent nation since 1991 and you didnt really think twice about until 2014 or 2022.
No, we always thought of Ukraine as a historic aberration and of the people living there as mislabeled Russians. Most of them also thought of the situation that way for quite some years before the brainwashing really kicked in.
>If you want to make an emotional special exception for Ukraine then you'll have no argument against anti Russian think tanks who say the post Soviet RF should be further broken down into a dozen separate countries based on their various ethnolinguistic identies
???
It is just an objective fact that most people in Ukraine are ethnic Russians. The chief of the Ukrainian military literally just had to pay for the surgery of his father who lives in Russia (and was an officer in the Red Army and quite publicly a Russian patriot). Most of the current Ukrainian leadership has some kind of close family connection to Russia like that, they're not even Galicians. The inverse is also true -- the third person in the line of succession in Russia is Valentina Matviyenko, who heads the Federation Council. Born and raised in western Ukraine. Medvedev's family on his mother's side is with Ukrainian roots. And so on. This isn't even the situation with Germany and Austria, where the language was the only common thing, otherwise they had been separate countries for many centuries (and Germany was never a country to begin with until the 19th century), it was the same country until 1991. With that level of mixing, and the fact that 90% of Ukrainains spoke Russian, how can you claim it is anything but a single continuous population?
In terms of the minorities in Russia, most regions are majority ethnic Russians. The exceptions are Bashkiria, Chuvashia, Tatarstan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Yakutia and Tuva.
Look at the map at think how viable any of these would be as independent countries. It is why Tuva, which had never been a part of Russia prior to that, applied for annexation in 1994 on its own. And why Mongolia applied for annexation six times (but was always refused because of the problems that would have created with China). Also, a place like Dagestan would erupt in an interminable civil war the moment it separates from Russia because it has a dozen different ethnicities in it, which have little in common and some of them hate each other with a passion. Russia is the only factor keeping it all together there. So why would those regions want to go independent? The Chechens understood it eventually.
Also, ask yourself the following question. Aside from Tuva, it was the North Caucasus region republics that were incorporated most recently, in the 19th century. But Yakutia and Buryatia became part of Russia in the late 17th century and the Volga region republics were incorporated in the late 16th and early 17th century. How is it that four centuries have passed and those places have autonomy, their own language taught in schools, full rights, etc? For four centuries the evil Russians have ruled those people with an eye towards exterminating them, but they have all those things and are thriving. What kind of oppression is that?
For comparison, how much is left of the native tribes in the US, Canada and Australia?
P.S. Alabama is much more different from Massachusetts than Kamchatka is from Kaliningrad, so why are we not talking about how the US should be split?
So, if these non Russian, non Slavic populations decided to split from Russia, even if it was a stupid choice economically, you’d let them go, right?
Fraternal Violence no different than Ireland.
Perfidious Albion fucked up the Irish;
Perfidious Albion fucked up the Indian Subcontinent;
Perfidious Albion fucked up Ukraine.
Perfidious Albion fucked up Palestine.
It doesn't matter the location, the language, the skin colour...
Perfidious Albion does what it does.
As early as 1946 the West had infiltrated Ukraine with espionage to gain info on the Soviet Union; Perfidious has hated the Russian for 200 years!
Remember "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?
>Perfidious Albion fucked up the Indian Subcontinent;
The goal in Ukraine is precisely to create what a Pakistan is to India for Russia.
Which will keep it in check forever and prevent its development.
R. Baker,
How much easier it would be to reverse the scrip and run 'regime change' ops on Europe? Agitate among the Muslim immigrants and tell them where the Conex boxes full of weapons are located. There are plenty of Muslim Russian citizens who could infiltrate, lead and train and push to action, Chechens for example.
Sorry, no offense intended but you're delusional if you think Ukraine is winning. The analogy to the US Cival war is solid. Party with more industry and manpower defeats party with fewer but brave soldiers and no industry. Russia built more modern battle tanks in the last 2 years than NATO owns combined. Without the US, NATO is a paper tiger, and Trump just washed his hands of Europe's neo-con disaster. Ukraine folds by the end of the year.
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
And you are an absolute cretin if you think this is a Russia-Ukraine war.
It is a US-Russia war, which Russia is catastrophically losing (because its elites firmly refuse to fight) and the US is decisively winning
Ukraine is losing too, but that nobody cares about.
This is the fudamental error most people make -- to think of this as a Ukraine-Russia war. It has been convenient for the Kremlin too, of course, because it provides an excuse for not fighting back.
It was a US v. Russian proxy war under President Auto-pen waged by delusional misguided neo-cons. That changed last November. Ukraine is hemorrhaging manpower, and terrain. The EU won't even stop buying Russian Oil while claiming they oppose Putin, and the US supply line has dried up as Trump says they can have all the weapons they want I'd they get them from the EU who has to buy them from us with their economies in ruin and every government threatened by populist movements. Oldest trick in the book to conjure up a foreign threat when your government is collapsing. I'm not pro Putin and am saddened by the unnecessary waste and destruction of this misbegotten and unnecessary war which when concluded will have boundaries very similar to what was agreed to in Minsk I & II in 2014, that is until the Neo-cons intervened. We will have to agree to disagree, Russia will emerge in a better position globally than when it started.
Dick Minnis
>That changed last November.
Changed how?
Has the US stopped running the war from its bases in Germany and with its ISR assets?
No, everything is exactly as it was before.
What is this mythical advantage of this USA-EU alliance? Industrial production? Printing money?
They are scavenging the whole world for weapons, they took Syrian Soviet weapons, they are "borrowing weapons" from Korea, Azerbaijan is giving weapons, Kazakhstan, etc. With other words, there is no meaningful production in the west. They are scavenging barrios around SA for cannon fodder, not enough left in Ukraine.
Also, how abut you stop presenting your "feeling" and "opinions" as facts.
Kremlin thinks this is Ukraine - Rus war? Another of your "facts"? Was it just yesterday that Lavrov at the UN talked about W war on Rus? What is with this lying by omission disorder, dude?
And you call others cretins?
The 'trolls' are pissed because, you write the TRUTH, never give in.
Your statements are well written, unlike the sheep trolls who can barely make a coherent sentence, believe in the demented illusion that Russia is winning.
"well written"? Calling everyone GM disagrees with names? Not hardly. For real coherence, leave out the vituperation.
Gem: ”West has very successfully boiled the frog and maneuvered the Kremlin into this catastrophic for Russia situation”
But your conclusion is not nuanced. Putin, or Russia, will not fold. And West doesnt have the military-technical upper-hand. It will be sluggish if War breaks out.
For every village destroyed that Russia captures, Ukraine destroys a Russian refinery.
With every month that Putin continues this half assed war, he destroys the economic foundation of his own rule.
You call nearly a million Ukrainian casualties not striking back? The Russians are there, they are recapturing their own land. They are preparing for conventional as well as nuclear war with anyone so presumptuous as to attack.
It is lots of fun to call for total war sitting in a safe and secure spot, using a pseudonym to hide behind. It makes one feel strong, like a kitten that fluffs up its hair arches its back to seem bigger and hisses angrily at the sheepdog who has nosed it a little too strongly. The dog will rear back and look closely at this strange little creature but does not fear the kitten.
Curiosity impels it to wonder, "What the hell are you?" Some trollish moron who would love to see nihilism triumph?
God Bless Us All
" You call nearly a million Ukrainian casualties not striking back? "
No, I call that a White demographic tragedy. If the number of Russian dead and maimed ever comes out the tragedy will be immensely greater.
I can't disagree with the Russian casualties being a tragedy also. I can disagree with letting the West intrude into Ukraine and Russia doing nothing. It takes two to make peace but only one to make war unless the victim is powerless to resist the theft. The Western Empire thought Russia was powerless against its hybrid war tactics and it turned out that the gas station with nukes was not powerless. On its border Russia decided to act and they have acted decisively in my opinion.
I believe The Evil Empire has awakened a sleeping giant and Russia stands ready to make war toe to toe with the mighty US and its EU allies. The fault lies with the aggressor for war and the US overthrew the Ukraine government in 2014 or do you also disbelieve Russia in this as well?
The very worse thing that could happen for The Evil Empire is if it sent in a million or two troops and actually started winning. Then it would undoubtedly turn nuclear and woe to Europe as well as the US and Russia for though Russia would win due to its superior civil defense and low density population it would be a pyrrhic victory at best.
That is why I'm sure that Europe and now Don Trump's bombastic stance of how they are going to open up a can of whoop-ass on Russia is all a load of hooey for domestic consumption. Even morons don't want to be nuclear bombed.
God Bless Us All
" The fault lies with the aggressor for war and the US overthrew the Ukraine government in 2014 or do you also disbelieve Russia in this as well? "
I dont blame Russia per say, but it was immensely dumb of Putin to attack / invade Ukraine as it made Russia the aggressor and gave the West all the ammo it needed. Russia should have waited till it or Donbass was struck first.
Preemptive strikes must be decapitating, rapid, and decisive and the Ukraine war should have been over in the first few weeks. Putin "messed up" big time.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
The US ran a color revolution in Kiev in 2014 and the neo-Nazis took control of the nation. Donbass refused to join with the usurping government and in return got attacked quite viciously. Ukraine shelled and fired missiles into the Donbass which refused to yield from 2014 through 2022. Don't you think that might be classed as aggression on the part of the Ukes? Is it Russia's fault that some people only know the history of things their governments want them to know?
Perhaps you should have been a general and been left to deal with the inevitable insurgencies that quick, decisive victories endender. Remember what happened to Russia and the US in Afghanistan. By using the tactics of attrition and complete conquest of the ground such things don't happen quite so often. That was the Kremlin's decision in Ukraine and it seems brilliantly decisive to me. I admire Russia's solution to the guerilla warfare plans that NATO undoubtedly envisioned as their form of attrition. Instead the entire NATO alliance and most especially the USA is being drained of weaponry and seeing currency devaluation progress ever more rapidly.
By the way, it's a pleasure to communicate with you. Learn more history and you might be better able to run with this deplorable dog. I hate elitists just like most Americans and Hillary handed The Don the 2016 election with that single comment and her superior attitude: no doubt.
God Bless Us All
Crisis Escalation Becomes Euro-Cabal's Final Exit? - One can dream!
Meanwhile amid the perfect western storm of lies, posturing, hoaxes, and flagrant hysteria (not limited to XX people), the armed forces of the RF continue to relentlessly reduce the forces and means of the enemy. One way or another, the comprador elites of the west are on the way out. Whether they will leave us via peasant revolts or by being on the receiving end of hypersonic missiles is yet unknown.
One things is certain: the amount of shit slinging and obfuscation is at an all time high….
The problem with the EU twits saying they are ready to shoot down Russian jets that violate EU airspace, is when Russian jets don't violate said airspace, then how does the EU fake those scenarios? Use Zelensky's green screens with Getty photos?
This has been going on throughout the war. Both lost armoured vehicles and downed jets have been photographed from several angles, photoshopped into different backgrounds and counted as multiple losses. Even images from different conflicts have been used. My favourite was the video of a Russian mechanised column, supposedly filmed in Ukraine in winter, but actually archived footage from Georgia 2008 - the arid, brown, hilly summer background was the giveaway.
When have the West ever presented real evidence of their accusations? The important thing is the result of the initial unsubstantiated claim on the population at large, putting it in their minds.
Tonkin at nausea
The core of the problem. Evidence is lacking. They dont shoot down the drones of fear to harm anyone in the built up areas araound the airfield. (giggle) Thereby escaping the inevitable question: What exactly was flying over the airfield?
What infuriates me is the deflection going on here. The EU twits thunder how they will shoot down any Russian aircraft that violate their airspace. Well, any foreign aircraft that fly over another country without its permission are fair game for shooting at. Those are the rules that everyone has played by for a while. The EU comes across as weaklings who keep screaming 'you better not mess with me, I'm bad, real bad.'
Not only that they have been fueling conflict, sabotaging and generally meddling in the affairs of others in the style of a bygone era. They then cry in pain as they strike in hopes of doing what? They want to attack Russia? They are already doing it, via proxy. They want Russia to attack so they can attack back? Ok then go ahead and do it, but Russia is not just going hand them the casus belli. They are trying to rev up their own populace and make them ready for war? Best of luck, it wont end well. All the noise and bluster is clearly meant for domestic consumption, because no serious participants with flesh in the game take it the least bit seriously. At the end of the day Metal Talks and BullShit Walks. Have at it EUroWeenies, but just know that your populations hate you as much as you hate them and there is no escaping what you are: unelected technocrats doing the bidding of your masters.
" Well, any foreign aircraft that fly over another country without its permission are fair game for shooting at. "
Thats not how Russia treated foreign aircraft over Syria. Nor did allow Syria to engage.
AI to the rescue when the lie can be made to be true.
"Hegseth’s unprecedented meeting will include top commanders currently based in conflict zones and senior military leaders stationed throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific
Everyone with the rank of Brigadier General or above is expected to attend."
An excellent time for a military decapitation strike. Think about that, Russia! 😉
A 'decapitation strike' would probably benefit the US military overall - remove all the arselicking dead wood.
So it would benefit both countries. Interesting.
Could be Hegseth's strike.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/hegseth-directs-active-duty-military-to-cut-20-of-its-four-star-general-officers
I'm inclined to view this as a distinct possibility.
A wonderful decapitation then.
Lt. Col. Robert McDade, prior to the beginning of the fight at Landing Zone Albany, called all of his company commanders forward to the battalion command post, a termite mound behind which McDade hid when the lead started flying. Hegseth is a worthy successor to McDade.
LOL
@Victor
Rumors are floating around social media that it IS a gathering for a "decapitation strike"- By The Trump administration against their own officer corps.
Analogous to Stalin's purge of the USSR officer corps during 1937 - 1938, a one day operation for getting rid of ALL the officers the Trump cabal are worried might display independent thinking when given illegal/insane orders at once with no warning-
Firing and possibly detaining those thought resistant to regular military deploying in country for kinetic actions against non violent political opponents in USA, preemptive nuclear strikes against foreign powers (or blue cities?), those kinds of things.
Or maybe it's just for a pep rally.
We should be so lucky.
NATO can’t just shoot planes down for violating its airspace. There are still rules of engagement! They’re so pathetically desperate to keep Trump engaged
"Rules"? For NATO? Really?
Right see Gaza rule of law no longer prevails- the inmates are running the asylum - what could go wrong.
Yeah, they make up the rules and everyone else has to follow them,…classic
Ask those Venezuelan fishermen about RoE.
The NATO cabal has chosen escalation. Really? What concrete preparations have they made, what troops have they mobilized, what munitions have they stockpilled?
No, escalating provocations as bluff is all they can do.
That said, Russia should have flattened Estonia when they tried to pirate that tanker. It would be just a defensive operation and it would have established deterrence. The moment to call the NATO bluff can't be postponed for ever, unfortunately.
I think it was Ron Unz who proposed that the best deterrence/ show of force / bluff call / response to those provocations would be for Russia to announce that they would hit the NATO HQ building in Brussels with a conventional missile an give the exact date and time for the strike. Like: “an Oreshnik, next Wednesday at 10am local time”.
NATO could try to intercept it piling AD assets around it, and failing. Or doing nothing. Both of hose choices would have them look bad.
Such a show of force, filmed by camera crews from all over the world, at the very symbol of NATO, in the freaking middle of Europe and the EU, would create a healthy space for reflection, not only for the European populations, but also hopefully for our enlightened leaders and their craven “yes men” in our militaries and intelligence services.
Very likely so. I do need to read Unz more. Só many hours in a day and all that... But I really believe its all bluff. A bluff on a pair of twos that the lenocracy in charge will persue to the most dangerous heights of insanity, because if we get killed it's a bonus and if they get killed, they are owned already, but a bluff none the less.
War requires preparations. Know that I think of it, that is probably what feeds the Kremlin's apparent complacency.
Modern war requires logistics, long term planning, industrial policies, supply chains, R&D and all these things are too complex and boring and, frankly, a work for nerds. Our enlightened leaders cannot waste their precious time with those matters.
The worthless panderers are too dense to understand any of it, you mean. 😉😅 And the banking interests that own them are in the habit of treating the military and industry as conquered enemies, not even as servants. 🤔🧐🤬 This is a really unstable balance Western countries are in and the kakistocracy in charge can't even do the basics of propping up their power base. Late Manchu rulership looks good in comparison with it. 🤡💩😈
It will happen eventually but I’ll bet it will be calculated by Russia to be the most effective and the least damaging. From my armchair, it cant happen hard enough though. Actually, cancel my earlier thought: it could very well be overwhelming force when it becomes clear that NATO will not back off. More pain.
That was were I was going with it. Crush the rabid Estonian chihuahua, see if the rest can be saved.
If i were in RF’s position I would wait until they really crossed the line and then take out all their assets….kinda like 2008 Georgia….
Trump washed his hands of Ukraine. It is a European war, stupid Europe. Trump’s definition of the Russian economy and military is really Europe.
The only way to end the war is a Russian win, Odessa and half of Ukraine. Hopefully, it will be soon.
2027
The US is a big player in NATO.
Trump said the US will sell weapons to NATO.
Trump's hands will not be clean.
Fair question are "when's the delivery date of these weapons ?" and "what weapons are available for purchase ?"
Once upon a time and far far away.
Deliveries already have started.
The Anglo-Americans now want to fight Russia not just to the last Ukrainian but to the last European in general.
All the while, the Americans will make a tidy little profit for themselves by selling Europe the weapons to do so.
Hope that Europe has fun committing mass Harakiri for its American master!
https://imgur.com/gallery/09jEk7c
Oh yet more spam.
Please delete.
The Anglo-Americans are probably looking at how Russia is dealing with the Ukis (white gloves, close to zero civilian casualties, spared infrastructure and all) and thinking "Gee, we definitely can do that -- we don't give a rat's ass about all those Polish / German / British etc. soldiers, they are just cannon fodder, who cares -- the MASTERS behind those will be fine and dandy, so let's do it"...
Maybe it is high time for Putin to communicate -- publicly -- that London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Rome, and a few other capitals will cease to exist within the first 15-20 min of that dumb decision. Because THAT war would be completely, totally, utterly different. I hope those dimwits in Western Europe will find a few IQ points in their thick brains to understand that tiny little fact...
The Western media machine has beat into our heads, particularly of late, how “weak” Russia is. Trump just yesterday implied Russia is a major failure and a ‘paper tiger’ in being incapable of taking out Ukraine, what any “real military power” would have done in a week, he said.
Well thats Great Moron propaganda line for every Simplicius article. Guess who he works for.
The US started it with Victoria Nuland. If the US is sensible now (I believe it when I see it) fine, but never forget how it started. Yes, the European 'leader' parasites are quislings who are enemies of everybody, including their own peoples.
It does not matter who started it.
What matters is who wins.
The issue here is that nobody wins....certainly neither the populace of Ukraine nor that of Russia. If this escalates to a global conflagration that will include all the world.
Had Russia taken this war seriously from the outset, the point would be moot.
Hard to say……Putin has to take care to not have this go nuclear…..in a conventional war Russia will win and the economies of Europe will collapse……I certainly don’t have a handle on the motivations of Russia. But I would point out the comparison of Putin to Trump tells me who is a serious player and who is a used car salesman.
Putin was foolish not to have used overwhelming force from the outset. He's a lot more likely to get a nuclear war now.
The Europeans want war with Russia (see Martin Armstrong and Socrates) and Trump doesn't. So he backs off and profits from the deal with Europe subsidizing the US military industrial complex. The ratios with NATO in terms of fighter aircraft, bombers, and atomic capabilities becomes more threatening with more threats, including Moldova, the Baltic Sea, and Kaliningrad.
Another threat to Russia winning are the attacks to its energy infrastructure which may cause higher prices and long lines which there may or may not be now. Apparently drone attacks on refineries are a problem for Russia. I am sure they will also be a problem for Ukrainians during winter. I think prior to Trump dropping out there was an agreement by both sides not to attack energy targets for sake of the international markets.
The other threat that no one is acknowledging is its Central Bank problem. The charter of the bank of England states that one of its purposes is to finance wars. Goes to show you the imperial intents of the British banking system. Apparently the Russian Central bank's charter was designed by a Rothschild so with sanctions and its rules it has to borrow from Western Rothschild banks. So Russia has 17-24% during war while all the West pays 3-4%. What should happen is the Russian Treasury should issue war bonds paying maybe 12%, a very good rate for pension funds doubling their money in 6 years - a rate of return offered by Merrill Lynch and the banking cartel when Reagan killed 10% inflation caused by loss of control of the oil markets. But the interest rates have been going down since 1983 with dollar hegemony, until now.
The biggest problem for us, the watching, is that they don't care about us. Any nuclear attack will start with a preemptive EMP that will shut down everything, and the government will go to their bunkers. That is the endgame: Institutional survival meaning them.
WE MUST STOP THIS NONSENSE!
People just type out what Russia's demands are in comment sections and get likes! These bot humans real?
They are real, but they don't live in the real world.
Sort of like QAnon cultists.
Amen
So what is Russia waiting for?
Anyway, the idea that Trump has abandoned Ukraine requires a QAnon-type parsing of Trump's words.
Russia does not need to hurry and win in Ukraine.... time is on their side and the evil clown world is coming to an end. Next it is war with the millions of foreigners in the western countries.
We've been hearing these tales of imminent collapse since before I was a kitten.
Meanwhile, look at western government bond yields. They indicate nothing like what we may wish for.
What is this fixation on bond yields, credit ratings and other scheming nonsense of western economic measurements?
It's working only as long as people believe that crap.
Once we realize that it is food on the table that counts, energy to run things with, houses to live in and not for speculation, real stuff made by men every day, then the banks have nothing to show for.
My parents have lived through four currency changes: Reichsmark, east mark, D-Mark, € in one life time. Not one of those changes has been profitable for them or me in that matter. It's state violence used by banks and it's a dirty game because in the fascism definition it's the merger of state, industries and Banks under the lead of the Banks. That's why Russia has the lead of the state, Nabulina can't do what the Duma does not approve of. In the West, the parliaments will always approve of what Banks want.
The point is as FF says if Bonds are still selling, then confidence , amongst the national elites is still high.
I think the question is, is that confidence misplaced?
If you look at the history of market crashes , you'd have to admit at least a possibility that things are actually worse than they seem when viewed from the boardroom.
Because the treasury bond markets are large, sophisticated and liquid. They also are entirely unsentimental, entirely uninterested in what we wish were true.
You’re under the assumption that bond yields have some sort of predictive value beyond telling you what returns market participants expect for loaning out money.
Bond yields don’t spike months and years before an event happens. The spike is AFTER an event.
Even if you were to look at bond yields as an indicator then they are DANGEROUSLY HIGH for the West. French bonds pay higher yields than Greek bonds. Bond yields for China is near 1.5% and hovering at 4% for the US! That’s a huge flashing signal if I ever saw one.
If the largest economy (one running huge deficits and just cut taxes) and the most “AAA” debt in the world is paying almost 3x interest than China. The bond markets are screaming at you that most of those market participants think the US is a very risky deal. In fact that is extremely risky for bonds that are supposed to be considered the “safest in the world”.
It is no surprise gold has been doing phenomenally well after the initial tarriff tantrum that saw US bond yields spike to almost 5%. And even that scared off Trump.
That’s a huge problem, because now the new normal for US debt is 4%, when it spikes again this time to 6% and the new normal is 5% what would that tell you?
Markets come in waves, that the new baseline is 4% for US debt while central banks around the world and investors shed more and more dollars. That tells you everything you need to know about what the market thinks is happening. By the time the spike happens, the cake has already been baked.
Bond yields most certainly are predictive. That's how Reserve Primary went belly up. Markets were signaling crisis imminent for Lehman Brothers, even as the ratings agencies hadn't yet downgraded Lehman paper, so it was still investment grade, but prices were cheap.
Reserve Primary loaded up on "cheap" investment grade Lehman paper even as Lehman went under.
Isn't Trump saying he's happy to supply everything that Europe is willing to buy?
Doesn't feel like a strong commitment to Ukraine to me.
All this guff about Russian weakness is a salesman's patter to encourage reluctant buyers.
Even if true, european governments are happy to jettison every other priority to increase the sunk cost to the United States and then use the Sunk Cost Fallacy to drag the United States into their war.
Anyway, parsing Trump’s words for supposed hidden meanings is a game best left to QAnon or the russiagate conspiracy theorists.
"It is a European war" for sure, but it began as an American war. Years of preparation by the US CIA and NED paid off in 2014, the Maidan Coup that began this war.
"Not all warmongers are built alike, it seems. "
Ursula the "Brave" is experienced using pseudonym to cowardly hide. VdL aka Rose Ladsen probably thinks she can pull it off again, like Mengele in some SA country. ;)
How sad it all is and more and more it feels like another world war is deliberately brewed, and the corrupt cretins pushing us into it would after say "oops" from the depth of their bunkers.
But the world is an increasingly small place with all points within reach of something or other….perhaps why the EUrocrats look so uneasy as they deliver the message……?
Well, didn't Chamberlain think that the running crowd of journalists on an airfield were going to lynch him but they're congratulating him?
Ursula, Stubb, Macron don't look "uneasy," they look as greedy stupidity incarnated.
To me they often seem to be anxious as if they know that what they are saying is unlikely to be well received…
They look smug to me. Stupid and smug. There is no excuse for it
It's not clear to me how NATO can escalate without the participation of US forces...NATO has already tried terrorism, and all that accomplished was to infuriate the Russian public...and if Trump sends US forces to confront the Russians, his MAGA supporters will drop him like a rotten apple...
We don't even have bomb shelters in the US, most houses don't even have basements. These idiots provoke "because they can" without any thought of implications
In the EU even less, no more air defense only nukes that's the problem.
Well, the few supporters that blackmailed pervert has left will drop him...
Of course the US will get dragged in.
European strategy since 1917 has been to get Americans to do their fighting for them.
Really? The USA did well in every war because they had have never dropped a bomb on their heads. Safe behind the pond. Once this is starting to change, the US citizens will learn a total new lesson and it will be a very unpleasant one for them. By the way, there is not a single war the USA has ever won, except the genocide war of the people they stole the land from that we call USA today.
Without bothering to refute your point in detail (the goal in Iraq, Syria and Libya was to turn those countries into failed states, and the United States succeeded in doing so), we keep hearing about how Russia finally will take the gloves off, but it never happens.
The United States is convinced that Russia does not have the stones.
War will come by command of emotionally unstable women.
This ammanpour insists, even mocking a punch on Pustula face, go to war because of 10 unarmed drones and a 3 planes flight over an international corridor. Fire this moron journalist. She’s an insult for the profession.
Millions will die and an entire continent destroyed by the hands of the intelligence of a Kaya Kallas or Annabella Baerbock, Pustula is another league (she’s pure nrevanchist cripto Nazo evil).
These emotional unstable brats should be banned from office.
Stand fast they want War.
she is iranian
Ammanpour rose to fame during the first Iran-Iraq war. lo and behold, they've dug her up again.
Stop the noise of 24/7 News cycle - rationality is no longer required or expected- shut off your access - listen to the birds chirp, see sun shine, smell the fall air - know that Russia has drones that can take out your infrastructure - just le em loose and they will do the job- no one else can compete at this point. Now start talking rationally, buy cheap gas and oil from Russia- save your countrymen from engaging in another destructive war and focus on the economy - your enemy is really your friend - war is brought to you by the Bank of International Settlement and he City of London as WWI and WWII were - the only winners are the already fat cats- what are we fighting about - families do not want to sacrifice their loved ones for this venality- see Ukraine- population decimated by war and Covid vaccine democide and totally disrupting fertility in the whole world the globalists are already killing us off without bullets but via a needle . Ceasefire immediately - the world cannot sustain this level of catastrophe any longer.
Teach your children well, not to do as I have done. Teach them to never voluntarily join an army. At least I waited until the Vietnam debacle was all but over and ended up typing my way to military glory. I've now got free health care and people thank me for my service which consisted mainly of sitting there looking busy as the work in Personnel Management was always done before lunchtime and the first marijuana of the day.
Even I now know they called it dope for a reason: it turns you into one. However it gives you an excuse for overeating and helps you sleep well. The new stuff is much too powerful, the weed we used to smoke was called Mexican Dirt Weed and left one with a manageable, mellow high as you would toke steadily through the day — after the work was done. I'm no longer Thomas The Head, I'm Thomas The Typist and at least a little bit wiser. Tobacco was far harder to quit than marijuana. As for overeating, I'm still fighting the Battle of the Bulge.
A double shot of gin at happy hour is now my only drug of choice. One doubleshot over ice with a splash of tonic and an olive once a day. I can barely wait but the day's work is not yet done.
God Bless Us All
Hi Tom
Militarily speaking I have some experience - husband ROTC 1953-1957 - Vietnam era joined USAF as navigator, given ‘ special’ eye tests then entered pilot training- flew F-4’s engaging in bombing missions in ‘Nam and (Laos) - 24 years service - years of PTSD- and rage he self treated with prescribed drugs legitimized by ‘’pain’ his source ‘pain specialists MD’s’ who got him addicted to OxyContin and Vicodin - years later we weaned him off these evil substances that rob you of a normal life- plus alcohol use- An acoustic neuroma brain tumor in 1990 which I attribute to pulling G’s and high altitude flying - many side effects deafness, hyper accussis. tinnitus, loss of all balance, years of pain- determined guy but lost teaching career due to all these factors- needed assistance for many things the rest of his life- me the 2nd wife became his caregiver- free health care not, he paid dearly the ultimate price personal autonomy and so did I.
Son enlisted in navy under duress by his father at 18 - had Dad had his wish I was to sign papers allowing our son to enlist at 17- no way the son needed to sign the dotted line. Desert Storm, on. USS Saratoga in Red Sea son vectoring plane traffic - in for three years- GI Bill helped with college and buying a house. He was one of the lucky ones pre Iraq where so many were permanently harmed. Look at our presidents - Eisenhower the only president who served in the military in recent memory.
Given the war culture created by a venal political system I recommend avoiding the military at all cost- no one comes out uninjured - even if you had a desk job your entire career you were part of a war machine that I believe was and is evil.
Husband died age 88 2/24- now I am an 80 year old widow with war looming everywhere - my advice is do not submit, do not comply - we get one life which is a gift - never give your gift to the oligarchs, bank cabals or our mafia cartel government - they foment wars for profit above all. Read history and become a pacifist or conscientious objector, a war protestor. Live your life for you and P.S. don’t take a Covid vaccine it’s a bio weapon and will ruin your immune system and possibly fertility. Be prepared -know consequences before you act
Use the Empire, don't serve the Empire. I was 20 when I signed up for the Army in 73. My draft number was 362, there was no possibility of being drafted. By signing up I supposedly had my choice of Military Occupational Specialty, MOS. I chose armor as the film Patton was popular at the time. Young and dumb which are synonyms in my mind now. Lucky for me the Army always weasels out of keeping their word somehow and I was too tall for armor. I should have went artillery as I certainly didn't want to be an infantryman and do all that walking, or so I thought. Luckily I was shoved into Personnel Management Specialist, PMS. Isn't that funny? The position was so powerful as a 71H that it was split up into various specialties and I was redesignated got 75C. We were proud of it as we were young and dumb. We the Remington Raiders. My condolences for what happened to your husband.
You are right, I share some responsibility for the evil of our Vietnam adventure. I fully repent of my sin, I hope I've paid some penance and now I advise all the youths in my family to stay out of military service as it looks like the Washington Empire will be needing a war to cover for its evil and incompetence once again. I pray that God forgives me my sins for like all human beings I learned how to sin first and only hope I've learned how not to sin later.
God Bless Us All
> Eisenhower the only president who served in the military in recent memory.
FWIW (not much), Poppy Bush served in WWII.
Yes mosquito time is priceless!
Who is "Pustula"? I looked up the name, and saw that it is a skin blight.
What is a "nrevanchist"? I looked it up, and found that a revanchist is someone who seeks vengeance.
Pustula is a skin manifestation of a desease, normally a nasty one, so what would better fit for Ursula?
If you were not so thick, you would not ask such questions. Try simpler puzzles.
Amanpour is the "sunken rot queen". Snark! Good one StT.
🤦♂️🤷🏻♂️ Now the real culpable party in this war is…wait for it, WOMEN! 😆
Ah well, I never really bought the “kinder gentler” stock line anyway….
Chevrus. Me neither.
Kipling had it right. "The female of the species".
Unfortunately yes. Men it’s a déjà vu. The egalitarianism is not only positive things.. .
Probably right. We live in a sick, stupid time when a mass murdering psychopath can speak at the UN and in front of congress because he and his billionaire supporters have bribed and blackmailed the president and most of congress.
Never mind banned; wicker man, gallows, ice pick ....
THAT was the biggest surprise for me. Amanpour has built a career supporting weak and poor civilians all over the world, and now she advocates for WWIII.
This TDS is a thing.
Amanpour was CNN's first token Muslim decades ago, but she is more a product of the anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, amoral, corrupt devolving social sciences dept. of the typical Western university.
I've hated the Amanpour bitch ever since she accused American troops entering Baghdad of targeting journalists.
US-Americans had no business being in Baghdad, no matter what they did there anyway.
It doesn't matter if they are emotionally stable or not, as long as their orders are carried out.
Hear ya Pustula sounds like "PUS" to me !!!
All mainstream journalists are cretins and war mongers. Otherwise they would refuse doing this job, like people with a conscious would do.
Completely agree.
Everybody you name is a cretin.
But are Starmer, Lammy Macron,Merz or Tusk any better?
Meanwhile Zhakarova and Nabiullina both seem smart and sensible.
It's almost as though possession of a Penis is utterly irrelevant.
From the very start people keep saying things like the US/Nato are trying to bait Russia into an escalatory response. It sounds pretty goddamn stupid to me. Why would the West do that? If they want to escalate why the hell don’t they just do it lol?
I don’t believe it is anymore complicated than that. If I wanted to start a fight with someone I’m not going to tell him hit me first so I can knock the shit out of you. Nope, I’m going to hit them first to make sure I get the jump.
Next some of you will no doubt say these leaders need an excuse. No the hell they don’t. In many cases their populations will agree it worked out far better for us if we hit the Rooskies first.
Anyhow that’s why this claim has never made much sense to me. And no these fools do not want nuclear war. Their own security would terminate their miserable lives within a week. And if somehow they let them live everyone would be condemned to life underground for decades to generations. It’s not going to be anywhere near as comfortable as their lives now.
Just some things I have pondered. Yet I’m surprised how many people still parrot this line. Goes back to my theory that if you have no experience with violence you shouldn’t be in a position to authorize it. I guess it could be said that none of the Western Leaders do including the top brass of the military. Could they really truly be that fucking stupid? If so then perhaps that clears up my musings and I am mistaken. 🤷♂️
I believe they are this stupid. All of them are either compromised, blackmailed, scared of their populations, afraid of war crime trials or genuinely crazy.
They're not stupid to believe that the EU could handle Russia militarily. No way.
Crooked as hell, but not stupid.
" They're not stupid to believe that the EU could handle Russia militarily. "
How about Europe + NATO and various other satellite states ?
"Rooskie".... Really? Just stop. You sound like a bigot.
And you sound like a whiny bitch that has no ability to understand sarcasm.
I'm in agreement.
But the propaganda you hear from the west is to manufacture consensus that Russia bad. It happened in Iraq, Libya, NK, Iran, etc. prior to war/attacks.
But the west has to know that Russia would kick their ass in about a weekend. So they don't really want war, they're working towards something else.
Not sure what that is, perhaps a no-fly zone, but that seems equally foolhardy.
There was only ever one country that stood a chance fighting Russia in their part of the world. NATO’s toughest most committed army Ukraine. Obviously I know they were never officially part of NATO.
They checked all the boxes. They knew the terrain and they possessed extreme hatred for the Russians. Hate can be a very powerful motivator.
I can see how the Western powers that be thought with the combo of the Ukies and sanctions Russia was toast. Funny for them it didn’t work out that way. Both Russia and China will end up being the reason the Global Elite fail in their quest to enslave the entire planet. 👍
"Why would the West do that? If they want to escalate why the hell don’t they just do it lol?"
Because Russian dithering and indecision have caused them to smell blood. They are convinced that Russia doesn't have the stones, and even if Russia did, they and theirs will survive.
As for the peons? Who cares?
But why do you think they sneakily fly drones in hopes of getting Russia to do something? If they truly want Russia to respond so that they can respond back why not just do it already?
Idk maybe in their demented brains they assume that if Russia goes first they can get the population on board? I don’t believe it will work but I can see why they covet popular support. And I have to remember how these West elites operate. It’s unlikely the spoiled children understand violence at all due to their lack of exposure to it.
Hey I read a fantastic piece from Gaius Baltar. Explains so much. Will find it and send you the link. Great summary and predictions.
Here ya go
https://open.substack.com/pub/gaiusbaltar/p/world-war-iii-situation-report?r=nvvvu&utm_medium=ios
" But why do you think they sneakily fly drones in hopes of getting Russia to do something? "
They fly drones into Russia to destroy, terrorize, agitate, and humiliate. It has nothing to do with trying to goad Russia into a response.
I am referring to flying the drones into places like Poland to blame Russia.
They aren't especially sneaky.