"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places"
I think Putin made a mistake. No Easter ceasefire in the first two years of the conflict, why now? And as fully expected the West has given the cokehead clown Zelenskyy his script where he said Ukraine is prepared to proceed with a longer ceasefire. Unlikely that Russia will agree and they will once again be painted as the "bad guys" in the Western media. Keep the bullshit to a minimum and just grind forward.
Given the Spring offensive is still in the positional phase it makes sense to take a day off. The repositioning can continue, the troop morale is boosted and a peace gauntlet has been thrown towards the EU.
I am not a military expert but I do not think that a 30 hour ceasefire would make much of a difference in either planning, logistics or morale. The EU will just see it as weakness.
The EU needs a huge shakeup. Enough of the woke globalist crap. Sweden has experienced numerous bombings and rapes have skyrocketed. Why? Mass immigration.
Absolutely I know what I am talking about. Enough economic harm will cause a revolution and destroy the globalist EU elites. Perhaps you should read some history.
Its is terrible optics granting a ceasefire when you know that the West will never reconcile itself to Russia. The Kremlin needs to show some backbone towards the Trump regime and take a leaf out of China's defiance towards the warmongering psychopath in the Oval office.
I am not a military expert either, but I would think that a 30 hour ceasefire allows for the rotating and supplying of troops in otherwise difficult-to-reach areas of the frontline. That, I guess, can make a big difference from a tactical point of view. For instance, a fortification that was on the brink of collapsing can in one day be reinforced with fresh soldiers, ammunition and other supplies. The troops who were about to conquer that fortification can start all over again... They will not be pleased, I guess.
On the other hand, it may well be so that the political gains from the truce outweigh these tactical setbacks. It's impossible to assess from the sidelines.
Or maybe, Putin simply gave the troops a chance to celebrate Easter as best they could. Unlike the West today, Russians are closely tied to their religions.
Anyone who has served would understand. Even a few hours away from the frontline, or having a break from incessant combat tension would appreciate a ceasefire. It doesn't really matter what the western media thinks. Anyone taking the time to collect the dead, to consolidate the wounded, to be free of the stress of war, to at least acknowledge Easter, even for a few hours would appreciate it. I don't think that was foremost in Putin's mind, but for the grunts it would be.
Totally agree. I think this was planned well in advance. I believe a well organized and staged offensive can make a huge leap into a final position in 30 hours. Putin gains morale for his strike forces with the break and reinforcements while bringing new strike forces and other capabilities into the theatre. I don't think he woke up Saturday morning and decided to give "the boys" a break. This was calculated and I think it's the beginning of the end. I pray they will quickly break the AFU's back and put an end to the slaughter. Unfortunately a high price will be paid to achieve the ultimate goal, unconditional surrender and finally, peace.
You walk for 20 miles without stopping, everything fine, you sit down for 5 minutes before you continue your walk. But when you get up, you feel your body protesting and mental it gets more problematic to keep on walking. Maybe the Ukrainian soldiers have a similar feeling now. Maybe the ceasefire makes a difference and I surely hope so.
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I have said it in my own comment but I add it with yours. So many want Putin and the Kremlin to act and react just like "the west", one of the reasons that Putin and Russia are so popular among the majority of the world is because they are not like "the evil and ungodly west" and I use those terms even though I am not an overly religious man.
This comment represents a severely underrated opinion. Russia is simply not like the West - never has been - never will be. We in the West often have difficulty seeing things from others' views because it is difficult to think outside of our own psychological box we live in - we think all humans are like us.
Calling an Easter ceasefire is conforming to Orthodox Christianity and his conscience. No Russian should hear their loved one is gone at Easter. It's more important that Christmas to Orthodox Christians and every other Easter would be a time of grief.
Putin's always making mistakes. Turbo-patriots woulda had this war over inside a month not pull NATO in with no end in sight and make it an existential fight for West as well now.
Putin sent a hugely understrength force into Ukraine in Feb 2022 and failed to remove over 300 billion of assets from western control. Some 5D master at work there! You Putinites are always full of copium. There are plenty of Russians who are not Putin supporters. Putin does not represent all Russians far from it. I was recently talking to a young communist from Lugansk who noted the many problems ordinary people were facing especially with state repression.
"Putin does not represent all Russians far from it."
Correct, in the way that saying "The pope does not represent all Catholics far from it" would be correct. In other words, as an English language construction it's technically correct but completely delusional in the context of any reality based discussion. You obviously don't know anything at all about contemporary Russia if you don't realize Vladimir Vladimirovich is phenomenally, overwhelmingly, genuinely popular.
His popularity tends to vary between 82 and 87 percent, but the remainder are mostly "don't care" people. People who are actually anti-Putin in Russia are fairly uncommon, only about 5%.
"I was recently talking to a young communist from Lugansk who noted the many problems ordinary people were facing especially with state repression."
I see you can't tell a representational sample from a delusional nut. I live in Russia and there isn't any "state repression," at least not unless you're some criminal jerk, in which case there probably isn't enough state repression to make the 90% of people who hate your guts happy. "A young communist from Lugansk," boy, that's a nut case unicorn right there. You sure he or she wasn't trans also?
Putin sent a hugely understrength force into Ukraine in Feb 2022 because that's the earliest Russia could go to war with the US in Ukraine and win, despite Russia having a peacetime army and economy far smaller than today. It was the earliest Russia could act to prevent the US and its nazi goons from invading and ethnically cleansing Donbass. That's called heroism and it has nothing to do with 5D chess. It's all about having backbone and being willing to take great risks to save your kin.
I suspect that China and India at the very least were putting a ton of pressure on Putin in the first two years not to push too hard. All likely suspecting that the West did not want the conflict. That is out the window now. This is the globalist black hats vs. nationalist christian white hats.
If China and India were in a position to successfully exercise such pressure on Putin, the following questions immediately come up:
1) What kind of "friends" to Russia are China and India? And that after everything Russia has done in the last century for both. Remember, China exists right now because of the USSR, it would have been a partitioned and fully Western-controlled neocolonial mess otherwise.
2) Whose interests are China and India run in? Because it is absolutely not in the best interest of either for Russia to be defeated. So why aren't they actively helping it win?
3) Why is Russia in a position in which the opinion of China and India matters so much? It didn't for the USSR. But who presided over decades of deindustrialization and who turned the country into a petro-state, with all the degeneration that comes with it? Thus making Russia dependent on resource exports to those countries and technological imports from China. Who is responsible for that?
Not all countries operate in a vacuum like the USA, the unipolar hegemon, which only gives a fuck what the Zionist Nazi pigs in Israel think. Despite what you have mentioned regarding China and India I suspect that Russia being a leader, the leader, of supporting a multi polar world does take the concerns, views of its friends seriously. Your point 2 is dead on. I have wondered that myself and can only come to the conclusion that for some reason they feared reprisals from the West. With the Orangeman's recent tariffs, the vast majority of the world is turning against the US and realizing its impotence economically and militarily.
Although I don't necessarily agree that Nazism is the cure to the Jew disease. I do agree that Jews are the disease and that it needs to be "cured." And no, I'm not "anti semitic." To be anti semitic I would have to be anti people with semite blood and DNA which the vast majority of Jews don't have. Just like the Holocaust Hoax, the entire anti semite trope is thrown about by Jews hoping people will get scared and the Jews can perpetuate their "victim" status.
In the Ukrainian case, it is undeniably judeo-nazism/banderism.
Global jewry had sided with banderites in Ukraine, thus canceling the profitable jewish squealing “nazi & hitler.” The genocide in Gaza put to rest the pious memes of “jewish victimhood and superior morality.” Israel is a criminal genocidal state.
As for Ukraine, it needs de-nazification and de-judaization. Actually, the collective west governments need the same.
I think that it has a lot to do with globalisation and supply chains . China and India weren't getting directly "involved" for the same reasons as Europe - too much fallout . It appears that they have been assisting behind the scenes . Russia has nearly all it needs to finish this , and having that mostly at home will help . Ukraine depends on outside help for almost everything . World events are increasing in both tempo and gravity. Happy Easter Simplicius...
Europe and the USA were directly involved from the start. Even before that. Training and providing money and weapons from at least 2014. Merkel and Hollande both admitted Minsk 1 and 2 were only used so that the West, including Europe could arm and build Ukraine's military.
If China and India were in a position to successfully exercise such pressure on Putin, the following questions immediately come up:
1) What kind of "friends" to Russia are China and India? And that after everything Russia has done in the last century for both. Remember, China exists right now because of the USSR, it would have been a partitioned and fully Western-controlled neocolonial mess otherwise.
2) Whose interests are China and India run? Because it is absolutely not in the best interest of either for Russia to be defeated. So why aren't they actively helping it win?
3) Why is Russia in a position in which the opinion of China and India matters so much? It didn't for the USSR. But who presided over decades of deindustrialization and who turned the country into a petro-state, with all the degeneration that comes with it? Thus making Russia dependent on resource exports to those countries and technological imports from China. Who is responsible for that?
Good points. I type this from a country that sold out years ago and it has been painful to watch in real-time over the decades. You can see the UK, Germany and France going all-in with their American 'friends' (even after getting tariffed), but Russia's friends sit on the fence.
I get it though from one angle. Its a tough message for an Indian or Chinese politician to give their peeps as to why they should support Russia's 'occupation' of Ukraine. Now if they could frame it more of we are next after Russia, maybe that might stick but people just don't support ideological struggles when it does not put more food on your table immediately.
The war seems to benefit both sides right now and people are making tons of $...till that eventual black swan. My fear and frustration with Putin is they think if they grind away for another 3-10 years and take another 300k dead they will somehow 'win'?
If this SMO is not about land then can someone provide me with a metric that indicates what a WIN is for Russia? Remember, write this metric in a way I can explain it to the dead.
There are aspects of the war that should be easy to understand for both Indians and Chinese.
China has the Taiwan problem which has many parallels.
While the West's intention for Ukraine is to be a Russian Pakistan that keeps Russia in check the way Pakistan does India.
Pakistan has no historic basis for its existence, it is an entirely artificial creation, and when it was created it was even worse as then it had Bangladesh as a part of it too, thus checking India from both sides.
Of course, the subcontinent has never been politically unified in its history, thus we can debate to what extent India itself has a historic basis. But if there is going to be an India, there should not be Pakistan and Bangladesh. But the British played one last round of divide-and-conquer as a parting gift, and here we are.
Again, the goal is for Ukraine to play a similar role. Thus Zelensky running his mouth about getting nukes back in February 2022.
The Kremlin is not helping its cause either though, because it should be talking much more forcefully about how the Nazi West is occupying Russian land once again and we are going to do GPW Round 2 to liberate it. But it clearly does not want to commit to that...
I disagree. In spite of temporary 30 days and further attempt to peace negotiaton by President Trump, Russia President initiative to flirt with total cease fire may indicate hope that some people begin to give peace a chance. Just remote hope of peace. Otherwise what hope may normal Ukrainian people may have? War forever as German new government preparing or UK itching to broaden this conflict? By now, after 3 years, people with normal brain should conclude that Russia isn't going to end this SMO without achieving her goals upon what this SMO started in the first place. German and UK desire to extend this hostility will only bring more "senseless suffering" like President Trump say, to both sides. Is it worth to EU to press-on Ukraine to suffer more without considering Ukrainians desire for peace? By now nobody really believe that expired President Zelensky has Ukrainian people mandate to continue devastating the whole country in name of collective EU/NATO.
no: indirectly any EU "war" will be against its citizenry, for it is the sons & daughters of ordinary people who will be sacrificed. no: we don't want more war, let's first solve already the ones that are being waged!
Then it’s time for Europeans to grow a spine and clean their governments from compradors. The real deciders are at the thoroughly criminal City of London and BlackRock headquarters.
@Feral: did you ever do any traveling in Europe? you might find it's not just one big place but consists of many smaller ones, where 24 different languages are spoken and each country w/its own, often quaint characteristics. of course, being forced to accept the over-arching Euro was one of the international bankers' more brilliant strategies and by definition the non-elected EU "leadership" bows to them, not to us, those 'wimps', who really don't want to go to war.
oh dear. see, lately several countries rejected the funds asked for by Van der Leyen et.al to prepare for a possible war in support of Ukraine against Russia, but these voices were not heard, on purpose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HfFkSwe-Q "grow a spine"? well, we're still sort of trying to recover after former Yugoslavia was bombed to smitereens in the '90ies (thank you, Madeleine Albright) and we lost our sovereign currencies to what's known as the Euro, so for the EU "leadership", committed to serious election meddling in numerous places, there is not one single reason to listen to critical voices. peace out.
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Anyway, europeans are she most meek and rule-following, authority-trusting humans on the planet, less self-respect than dogs, and I say that as a cat.
I think you have it backwards. After all the broken promises of "not one inch eastward," the double crosses with Minsk 1 and 2 and the Istanbul accord, Russians realize that they can never let their guard down, and will have to be on perpetual military readiness. Putin acknowledges he made a mistake by not implementing his SMO in 2014, which gave NATO and the US time to arm and supply Ukraine.
A low intensity but sustained conflict is probably the better way for Russia to maintain the necessary ready level of preparedness by not allowing itself to be lulled into a "peace agreement" which will only allow the West to rearm and resupply, but not get Russia into an all out total war situation which could wreck Russia's economy. Putin is trying to keep a careful balance to the long term existential threat to Russia, its miltary, and its economy.
At this point, Putin no doubt would like a permanent settlement to end all future conflicts, but with the West eyeing Russia's natural resources, he knows that Russia, unlike the Western countries who have ironically been the ones to have fallen into a state of military unpreparedness, will have to maintain eternal vigilance.
I agree that Russia ends war one way, the other side unconditionally surrenders. I don't think they need to go all the way to Bergen or Amsterdam but I get your point.
"Peace negotiation by President Trump." The man who said he could end the war in 24 hours and yet has done sweet f*ck all to accomplish that. Sends a Special Envoy to Moscow, Witkoff, who can't even name the 4 Oblasts that Russia has added to the Federation via military intervention and referendums. Witkoff claims he is ascertaining what Russia wants. Putin spelled it out clearly in June of 2024. Russia's demands have been widely available on the internet since that time. Clearly the US Intelligence agencies are either stupid (doubtful) or completely misleading the administration (probable). Then you have General Kellogg spouting nonsense that not even the most liberal minded, pro Western Russian would ever accept. General Wesley Clark may however be correct when he said the conflict will be over when Russia takes Odesa.
It is quite possible that the removal of all patriotic, honest, and principled Americans from the jews-beholden thuggish CIA has indeed made the agency stupid.
Since the cia/mossad assassination of the last truly American president in 1963, the hapless US had been a tool of global jewry aka financial Vampire Squid.
Which makes me wonder about the Orangeman's latest talk about firing Jerome Powell as Fed Chairman even though the Fed is a private corporation owned by the Rothchild's et al and their Jew henchman. Unless of course he wants Powell replaced with a Jew.
The Fed is actually an independent government agency managed exclusively by private banks which is in turn part of a global Rothschild network of central banks with a few exceptions such as Russia, China and Iran who are also enemies of the City of London - a mere coincidence, I'm sure..
In fairness, 10% of Americans thought Ukraine was a state in the U.S. at the beginning of the SMO, and only 10% could find the country on a map. So... progress?
And these are the people who are entitled to make intelligent decisions on who should represent them in foreign affairs, and vote for that person?
I get that. I attended University in the US as an international student in the mid 1980's. The complete lack of knowledge and awareness of anything outside the county they lived in was astounding. I was told the first day there when I was in a convenience store and the cashier asked me where I was from and when I told her, she said I would be fine once I got use to the capitalist system. Considering I came from a capitalist country albeit more left leaning, I laughed at her. I don't count that as an excuse for Witkoff though. He's supposed to be this excellent negotiator. Maybe on real estate but I had a 35 year career in negotiations and contracts and never once went into a negotiation not finding out as much as I could about the other party and what their needs and motivations were. Witkoff sort of mentioned that in his interview with Tucker Carlson, however if he is trying to negotiate a peace deal maybe he should learn that prior to boarding a plane.
I heard something similar, when Russia invaded Georgia.An American friend was disgusted by Americans saying "well the Russians might have got Georgia, but they won't be able to get Carolina."
I recall very well Putin imposed a unilateral Christmas ceasefire on January 6th 2023. Just when the Soledar operation was at its peak. And there was a lot of grumbling back then too.
One possible reason imho is that this year for some reason that has to do with how the dates of Easter observances are calculated, the celebrations of the Eastern Orthodox and Western Christian Churches coincide. Therefore its relevence carries equal meaning across both sides of the conflict. In previous years VVP has called for Christmas cease fires where the seasonal celebrations do share some similarity.
The cease fire was for the benefit of Russian troops, no one else. The fact that they were unable to enjoy it - because the AFU largely ignored it - doesn't detract from the decency of calling a ceasefire for such an important holiday.
Eastern is probably the most important religious holiday for Russians, more so than Christmas. And Putin has called Christmas ceasefires consistently throughout the SMO.
Because you keep their heads ringing. Did Stalin lay off Bagration for a couple of days to show the Nazis what a nice guy he was and maybe take advantage of any inter-Axis disputes?
There were tons of things we don't know about WW2 - I didn't know, for example, that the Soviets and Germans remained in communication all the way till Bagration. So who knows, what else we don't know.
I do think that 1-2 day of no fire, would do anything for SMO either way, but it gives a respite to own troops (even if it grants the same to the enemy)
"Chechens are the enemy." What a fool you are. You know absolutely nothing about Russia but here you are enjoying the Internet ability for every imbecile to bark nonsense.
Chechens are also People of the Book. They have embraced Islam, a deep faith and part of Russian diversity for over a thousand years. Ivan the Fierce himself, the first to take the title of 'Tsar', debated whether he should do that because so many of his subjects were Muslim. He settled on 'Tsar and Khan' of all the Russias.
Russia is by far the largest country in the world where Christianity and Islam have co-existed peacefully for over a thousand years, right up to the present day. Apti Alaudinov is a heroic example of how that works.
He is claiming to be Russian. The "Скройся в тумане." is him telling me to hide in the fog, which is exactly what he is doing, because he knows our Chechen brothers wouldn't tolerate his disrespect for a nanosecond.
Hey ishodnik I have Chechen friends. They're not my enemies, but it sure looks like you are so intensely stupid you want to make them your enemies. What a loser.
I wish it was that simple. Since I watched Sandra Bullock in ‘miss congeniality’ my only wish since then has been: world peace. Not sure if I will happen during my lifetime ☹️
Take a break, turn on tune in and drop the lot as long as you are capable of. Inside you, your heart peace is awaiting you since eternity, don’t miss this invitation and look the miracle is already happening, love and peace are infectious, impossible not to share it.
Sometimes I wonder, if the Russian leadership, are as clueless about their enemies sentiments. As their enemies are about Russian sentiments. This ceasefire stunt was plain stupid. If the World didn't know what Zelensky & his criminal regime were. Before this ceasefire was called they never will. It doesn't matter how Zelensky looks in the West. The media & politicians have built him up that much & Putin & Russia down that much. No one in the West cares if Ukraine broke the ceasefire. If Putin was trying to prove something to Trump. The Ukrainian attacks on the energy infrastructure had already achieved that. The ceasefire call was yet again Putin displaying naivety that he has done repeatedly since 2014. At great cost, he's not going to change now. I could well be wrong & it was called for some reason, we're all unaware of. That remains to be seen & only time will tell. It could have been to see how ready the Anglo/French adventurism really is. To entice them to expose their delusional plans. They do keep stating soon as there's a ceasefire they're going into Ukraine. Putin might have been testing them. It's the only reason I could think of.
Bollocks, the zionists are a proxy, not a lobby, the money they throw around comes from the US boss class, which isn't beholden to any form of superstitious mumbo-jumbo. Compare Aipac bribes with those of pharma or the merchants of death. Analysing the US empire from the point of view of pseudo-religions is fatuous.
The boss class is the zionized financial Vampire Squid.
The dishonorable MIC serves bankers' pleasure.
The dishonorable PHARMA relies on bankers.
The US Congress is an aipac-occupied territory of compradors afraid to displease the Parasite. See the mass slaughter of children and women in Gaza.
Don't be naive.
Major General Smedley D. Butler, an American patriot and most decorated Marine in US history, has left a bitter truth for Americans: "All wars are bankers' wars."
Don't even try to do the circuitous defense of some abstract "bosses." The US has lost its independence in 1913 with the secretive establishment of FedReserve. This is when the US was captured, as a plump host, by the dishonorable and traitorous nomadic tribe of money lenders.
I strongly recommend the following substack if you want to educate yourself where the threads run to. Hint: it's not the Reptilians, it's not the Greys, and it's not the "US boss class" all of which are equally fictional deflections to steer inquiries away from the real thing---the Talmudist-Mammonist Cabal, much older than the US---and into fantasies. Do you know what the real symbolism of the masonic apron is? It is a symbolic concealment of the circumcised member underneath.
And you see how Ukrainians are doing recruitment advertising featuring how many McDonalds burgers you could buy with the signing bonus.
Rather symbolic about the level of mental colonization, isn't it?
Also, remember the immortal words Gogol wrote in Taras Bulba:
"The favour of a foreign king, and not even a king, but the poor favour of a Polish magnate, who beats them on the mouth with his yellow shoe, is dearer to them than all brotherhood"
Things have only gotten worse since then.
And again, it's one people. So you have the same mental colonization in Moscow and St. Petersburg too. Russian elites spent centuries dreaming of being part of the Western elites. They literally were that prior to 1917 -- it was ethnic German kings and nobles in power -- but they always felt inadequate because of being associated with that dirty word "Russia", so they tried to compete on wealth and splendor. In the process impoverishing their population and not investing in development (everything went into building grand palaces and buying paintings and luxury goods from the West, nothing went into education and very little into industrialization), for which they got what they deserved in 1917.
The Bolsheviks were much better, but only as long as those generations that carried out the revolution and then fought in WWII were still in power. Those were rugged ascetic individuals with a mission. They were replaced by newly formed bourgeois degenerates in the 1980s and what did we get? That new elite voluntarily, without any fight, gave away what had been gained at the cost of tens of millions of lives, since the 1600s. Just for the vague promise of being integrated in the Western elite.
Which, of course, did not happen -- Western elites were happy to take their money, but still viewed them as subhumans and wanted total submission, not a new relationship on equal footing.
But, after centuries of that mentality being so pervasive, why would anyone think it would have gone away so easily? Clearly Operation Barbarossa and Generalplan Ost were not sufficient to erase it, why would a war on the small side such as the current one do the trick?
Thus you still have Russian elites dreaming of reintegrating with the West, and Putin is, if not one of them on that issue (which quite likely he is), not in a position to crush those people as they are still way too powerful.
The result is the needless sacrifice of so many Russian lives and limbs, when the whole thing could have been over by sacrificing a coupe hundred million Westerners instead. They deserve it -- it wasn't the German princes burning whole villages alive in Belarus in the 1940s, it was regular German people. Wipe it all out and end the problem for good. But there has not been a single strike on the West for three years, which shows you how the Kremlin values Russian and Western lives in relative terms.
Russia needs to complete the invasion and occupy the entire country of Ukraine and eliminate the Nazi scumbags house by house. The constant drone warfare won't end until the pilots and commanders are rounded up. They need to dismantle all assembly shops and control the entire Western border of Ukraine to interdict smuggling. There is no other way. I don't think bombing everything will work because a lot of innocent people will die and some cockroaches will always survive to cause more trouble. You don't blow up your house to get rid of the pests, do you? You target the roaches in a way that won't poison your children. I think the Nazi element in Ukraine is a despicable pest that needs to be rooted out and eliminated one at a time.
Not quite, there are two top layers; The Talmudist masters, themselves too dense to do more than set goals for the goyim slave drivers; and the Mammonist top minions, who organize the entire edifice of moral demoralization, financial exploitation, and dehumanization, and who are often corrupted goyim themselves. These are the ones Christ meant when talking about "the rich".
The concept of using the goyim against themselves is not new; the entire idea of secret societies such as freemasonry was developed to infiltrate the upper classes of Western society, that were at first inaccessible to jews as such. Later the barriers were broken, but goy Renfields are still widely useful to the vampire masters.
I was hoping that finally the Russians would have realised that the West will never treat them as equals.
Doesn't matter that you're mostly white Christians, you have something we want, so you're either a convenient threat, or potential colonies to be threatened or exploited. Our hatred is too deep and too useful.
But Russia has options now that it didn't have 100 years ago. There is a non-Western World that doesn't share this Russophobia. That's where your future lies, not with the decaying West.
Well yes, no one in the West knows. No one. And who's fault is that? No one in the west even knows it's a civil war under there. And who's fault is that?
And why not try to correct it? You can't say 'they never will' when you've got no evidence to go on to suppose they couldn't learn. They have never been told. There's never been any effort to tell them.
Shall I list all the YT channels I've watched for three years and never yet seen one of them suggest to any of their audience that they do anything at all to enlighten those who never of themselves look at those channels?
I mean they don't even enlighten their own devoted audiences. They always use the word 'Ukraine' when they mean 'Kiev Ukraine' and they always use the word 'Ukrainians' when they mean 'Kiev Ukrainians'.
That is, they imply there are no Donbass Ukrainians being shot and shelled and bombed for ten years.
How genuine is that?
The usa can't get it into its head but it is only 350 million people. In a world of 8 billion.
All this bullcrap about world's biggest economy and so on is just that: bullcrap.
It is true that those who only get their news from the MSM are clueless about the Minsk agreements "not an inch to the east" or that Ukraine shelled its own people in the Donbass for eight years prior to the Russian SMO but there are a growing number here in the UK that get information from alternative sources now. I joined as paid subscribers of Simplicius to gain more knowledge and I find the comments section to be very interesting. Likewise the interviews on You Tube and the comments there are quite enlightening about the true picture of the war in Ukraine. Not everyone here is a brainwashed fool although I have lost a few " friends" through some heated discussions.
'growing numbers', well that's good news. for it is what the people know and think and do that will matter in the end though there are very few that seem to realise that.
here's a list of some, most, of the places I go for information. If it's of any interest to you. Any other good places you know of that are not here it could be I don't know about them. Please tell.
Thank you Arthur. Some of the names I know but a fair amount are new to me. I shall take a print (I'm a bit " old-school " ) and keep it by me for reference.
"I could well be wrong & it was called for some reason"
Yes you are wrong. And the reason was simple apparently beyond your ability to comprehend - he called it to give his troops a chance to celebrate the most important Christian holiday in Russia. No other deep meaning behind it.
Beautiful essay. I hope the people of God win over the people of Satan. In every land. And I thought the ceasefire was in the Christian Spirit. It matters not if the Satan mocks it.
Remember the obese jewish lesbian Butch as a Christ and the whole degenerate jewish team mocking “Last Supper” during the opening Olympic ceremony. - That was a show of the satanic snout of global jewry in charge of the European affairs.
yeah I do remember. There's definitely a war going on that is a spiritual war. The fact that the genocide is going on in the Holy Land where our Lord walked as a humanbeing - this is not an accident. Satan is making his move - it might take a century to outmanouvre this beast but its in our destiny and has been foretold. I don't believe its what they call ' endtimes ' although this term is not in the bible as I know it, and I think earth has another 50,000 years to be humanity's habitation. We're doing okay so far but we're certainly in a bottleneck right now, whether out planet will be ablt to hold on until its natural death. But Christ is with us....and it seems so hopeless now to stop this evil. Especially in Gaza and the Middle East. We watch helplessly - but humanity has to learn how to stop it. We don't know how. Our leaders are hopeless. But learn we must. Its another sacrifice in the Holy Land. I hope so much we win
Just a random thought I had: what if this is a psy-op to contrast "peace" with the harsh realities of war? Make the psyche of the UAF break down faster?
The idea that Russia, which has shown itself to be comically bad at perception management, when it even tries, is now pulling off some elaborate "psy-op" is next level cope.
IMO, Putin's "ploy" accomplished many beneficial things. First and foremost, it showed Trump--that is if he was watching, told or read about what transpired, which IMO is doubtful--that the Nazis are incapable of honoring anything; second, it came just days after Zelensky extended martial law so no elections can be held, which is yet another message to Trump, provided he was paying attention, which again is doubtful since today he again said he hoped the two sides would cease their combat, which again shows just how disconnected he is from the reality of what's happening. The number one issue for Putin is for there to be a legitimate opposite number with which to discuss and sign an agreement, which means elections. Trump supposedly knows that, but from what he says it's clear he doesn't or is having his own series of Biden moments. The Russians that comment on my substack are well aware of the ongoing crap coming from the Outlaw US Empire and know the only solution is to finish the job--I know that because they tell me. And of course, there's the never-ending question: When will Trump pull the plug on all forms of assistance to the Nazis? The last benefit is for the Russian troops for they now know 100% that the push is on, that there's no chance for any negotiated settlement to occur until SMO goals are completed.
And of course, it wasn't just Putin's ploy; it was Russia's ploy for the decision was certainly collective. And I should add Russia's public now knows what the soldiers know--that they are truly dealing with Nazis just like 80+ years ago.
bolsheviks had a jewish background. Also there seems to be 1.75 million Israeli that have a Russian passport. It has been mostly the Europeans that hated and hate the Russians. Not sure if you can really blame them as I personally think they suffer from an incurable mental illness, probably (epi)genetic.
And how had the jewish bolshevicks treated Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, et al?
Check the Kaganovich brothers, Zalkind (Zemlyachka), Naftali Frenkel, and the Goloschyokin Genocide of 40% of all native Kazakhs. Golschyokion was born Shaya Itsikovich, for your information.
Even Churchill (when a journalist in his younger years) wrote that the torture chambers of the Soviet police were run by jews and jewesses.
Thank you. The more I know, the less I know. Will look into the persons you mentioned. Wrt Churchill: he didn't like the Bolshevik jews, so it could be his writing is biased. Just saying (to quote A. Mercouris)
The Bolsheviks were about 50% Jews---some say more, some say less. A very enlightening book on that subject is "Two Hundred Years Together: On Russian-Jewish Relations, 1795-1995" by A I Solzhenitsyn, a name that may be familiar to you.
The USSR was saved from Talmudist dystopia by two non-Russians: Felix E Dzerzhinsky, who wrested the Cheka from Trotsky's Jews, and Josef V Stalin, who wrested the party and state from them. Neither was fully successful, but they were successful enough.
A bit of History should help to understand why and how we are where we are today. It's common knowledge for the older generation that primarily the UK and US tried to break up Russia into numerous smaller states which could be gifted with Democracy, Freedom and Wealth in order to exploit the country from it's resources...... pretty much what we witness today in Ukraine and the US attempt to secure and exploit the natural reserves of Ukraine. People never mattered, especially if they were all dead.
Washington’s Plan To Break Up Russia – OpEd
November 3, 2022 3 Comments
By Mike Whitney
Washington’s animus towards Russia has a long history dating back to 1918 when Woodrow Wilson deployed over 7,000 troops to Siberia as part of an Allied effort to roll back the gains of the Bolshevik Revolution. The activities of the American Expeditionary Force, which remained in the country for 18 months, have long vanished from history books in the US, but Russians still point to the incident as yet another example of America’s relentless intervention in the affairs of its neighbors.
If Ukraine were going to perpetuate some horror on Easter Sunday, then they would do it, and the MSM would weep and rend its garments, ceasefire be damned.
Thank you Simplicius for your continued analysis and information on the happenings in the conflict in Ukraine. There is one aspect from the Russian perspective that needs to be considered. Ukraine translated into English as "border marshes" has for centuries been a part of the Russian empire. The Ukrainian republic was formed by adding Russian imperial lands to make it a viable state, by the USSR in its infancy. Crimea was just added to Ukraine in 1959 for adminstrative reasons in a time when the Soviet man was seen to exist forever. Now fast forward to 1991, Ukraine was given it's independence, an experiment, as was all other Soviet states. Though as I read this was not ratified under Soviet constitution. The issues is from a Russian perspective that experiment has failed and the attempt is being made to put an end to it as no matter the moralising, narrative creation and perspective management the Russian perspective has the benefit of history and time. Another historic consideration is that in all major conflicts Russia has always been on the victorious side that were considered good in hindsight.
Happy Easter! and yes, although I appreciate the humanity of Putin's gesture, I think it's lost on the child trafficking, organ trafficking, terrorist scum that rule the Ukraine...
Do not look at Christian Communitys in Ukraine or Western Europe, but the fast growing ones in Latin America and Africa. There the Russian side gets a fat bonus.
Has it occurred to you that the gesture was meant not for the Ukies or the West, but for the Russian soldiers, who are mostly Christians? Easter is not about human politics. Христос воскресе!
First of all, the holiday ceasefire was partly due to the fact that killing on Easter feels especially onerous to the Orthodox faithful. Canceling all offensive actions would've largely been seen as highly welcome to the devout soldiers while defensive actions are different as that's just protecting yourself. Easter is SERIOUS business in the Orthodox world, and it's not uncommon to do things like let prisoners go home to be with their families, etc.
As for the frontline soldiers, I doubt most of them are in that hardcore "hate all Russian things" category. That's mostly for the propagandists, TV chatter heads, and dipshits marching around far from the fighting in Lviv. Minus the hardcore fascist nationalists, the frontline soldiers all speak Russian, are old enough to remember the Soviet Union, and were forcibly conscripted rather than volunteers.
Secondly, Zelensky is a godless devil, and it CLEARLY made him angry that his own soldiers also wanted a ceasefire on Easter. For that alone, the move was worth it. He is purely Satanic at this point and was caught on camera bitching about how the people of Ukraine are costing HIM money.
You're right, Easter is indeed very serious business to Orthodox people. Here in Russia pretty much every restaurant has a Lenten menu for people who observe the Lenten fast. Fasting for Lent is also a serious deal in Russia.
I was speaking with a friend in the US on Saturday and after I remarked that this year I didn't fast for Lent he said it wasn't that hard, all you had to do was eat fish, not meat on Friday. I assured him it's a much more serious deal in Russia. For the 40 days before Easter you eat, in moderation, a strictly vegetarian diet. No meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, and only plant foods like grains, veggies and fruit. No alcohol, of course. There are three or four Saturdays on which fish is allowed, but also there are several days when no cooked food is allowed.
Easter here is not a marketing holiday but is a deeply religious holiday. You called it exactly right when you said an Easter ceasefire was highly welcome to devout soldiers. Even those who are not practicing Christians tend to get caught up in the mood of a devout Easter.
It's yet another sign of the depravity and moral decay of the West they can't believe anybody would be devout about Easter. They don't get Ramadan, and the Ramadan fast either.
Yes. I certainly feel that way as I get older. I feel like we are spiritually directionless in the West and, without the correct grounding, I feel increasingly uncomfortable in the midst of that vacuum.
I try to be spiritual in my own way but with no kind of church here that I feel I can honestly belong too, it's a lonely furrow.
You're right about the front line soldiers. My cousin got snagged off the street after trying to sneak to the store. He was allowed two minutes to call home and say he'd "chosen to enlist" and a week later he was in an artillery unit. He has no desire to fight Russia, speaks Russian, and was trapped by the health of relatives, lack of money, and a young child. He once supported Zelensky when peace was the promise. That support evaporated years ago.
Much of the rest of the family was trapped for similar reasons like caring for alzheimers suffering parents. The men are mostly in their 30s to 50s and have been dodging conscription for years. They also speak Russian at home as a primary language and have no desire for fighting Russia.
“At a festive banquet held at Kyiv's central synagogue, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, lit the second Hanukkah candle on the menorah alongside Vitali Klitschko, the Chief Rabbi, and the Israeli ambassador.
Before the ceremony, Budanov addressed the banquet participants with a formal speech. Among other remarks, he stated, "The flame of this candle will illuminate our future victory – both ours and that of the State of Israel."
May God continue to guide you, protect and offer solace in time of request. May your family and loved ones be shown Gods mercy in all ways. Easter, blessings 💛🙏☺️
Happy Easter, Simplicius. Thanks for all your hard work 😁
hear hear!
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places"
💯
Happy Easter, Simplicians!
I think Putin made a mistake. No Easter ceasefire in the first two years of the conflict, why now? And as fully expected the West has given the cokehead clown Zelenskyy his script where he said Ukraine is prepared to proceed with a longer ceasefire. Unlikely that Russia will agree and they will once again be painted as the "bad guys" in the Western media. Keep the bullshit to a minimum and just grind forward.
Given the Spring offensive is still in the positional phase it makes sense to take a day off. The repositioning can continue, the troop morale is boosted and a peace gauntlet has been thrown towards the EU.
I am not a military expert but I do not think that a 30 hour ceasefire would make much of a difference in either planning, logistics or morale. The EU will just see it as weakness.
All the more reason then.
https://www.shortform.com/blog/appear-weak-when-you-are-strong/
I hope you are right and the EU falls into a trap and gets economically and politically destroyed.
They fell straight in, but the trap was not set by Russia.
@haywood be careful what you wish for :-((
The EU needs a huge shakeup. Enough of the woke globalist crap. Sweden has experienced numerous bombings and rapes have skyrocketed. Why? Mass immigration.
"gets economically and politically destroyed."
Do you have any idea of what you are talking about?
Absolutely I know what I am talking about. Enough economic harm will cause a revolution and destroy the globalist EU elites. Perhaps you should read some history.
Its is terrible optics granting a ceasefire when you know that the West will never reconcile itself to Russia. The Kremlin needs to show some backbone towards the Trump regime and take a leaf out of China's defiance towards the warmongering psychopath in the Oval office.
Never is a long time. And I'm not sure the optics of hundreds of thousands of dead doesn't sit well with many either.
optics?
i don't think the RF is much interested in what europe thinks.
That has been said on numerous occasions by numerous RU officials.
I am not a military expert either, but I would think that a 30 hour ceasefire allows for the rotating and supplying of troops in otherwise difficult-to-reach areas of the frontline. That, I guess, can make a big difference from a tactical point of view. For instance, a fortification that was on the brink of collapsing can in one day be reinforced with fresh soldiers, ammunition and other supplies. The troops who were about to conquer that fortification can start all over again... They will not be pleased, I guess.
On the other hand, it may well be so that the political gains from the truce outweigh these tactical setbacks. It's impossible to assess from the sidelines.
Or maybe, Putin simply gave the troops a chance to celebrate Easter as best they could. Unlike the West today, Russians are closely tied to their religions.
Occam's Razor seems to be in effect here IMO.
Oh come on how naive can you be! Can you imagine Stalin ever agreeing to a ceasefire with the Germans at any point during WW2?
is Stalin still alive?
Anyone who has served would understand. Even a few hours away from the frontline, or having a break from incessant combat tension would appreciate a ceasefire. It doesn't really matter what the western media thinks. Anyone taking the time to collect the dead, to consolidate the wounded, to be free of the stress of war, to at least acknowledge Easter, even for a few hours would appreciate it. I don't think that was foremost in Putin's mind, but for the grunts it would be.
Totally agree. I think this was planned well in advance. I believe a well organized and staged offensive can make a huge leap into a final position in 30 hours. Putin gains morale for his strike forces with the break and reinforcements while bringing new strike forces and other capabilities into the theatre. I don't think he woke up Saturday morning and decided to give "the boys" a break. This was calculated and I think it's the beginning of the end. I pray they will quickly break the AFU's back and put an end to the slaughter. Unfortunately a high price will be paid to achieve the ultimate goal, unconditional surrender and finally, peace.
well said
The EU Haha! Maybe you should listen to Mr. Lavrov and other Russian diplomats. Nobody really cares what the EU thinks.
The EU governments are stuffed with compradors a la Kievan junta.
The EU owners - financial Vampire Squid and war profiteers - as always did not think through the grave consequences of their anti-humanity actions.
There should be methods of targeting the deciders with a deserved precision.
You walk for 20 miles without stopping, everything fine, you sit down for 5 minutes before you continue your walk. But when you get up, you feel your body protesting and mental it gets more problematic to keep on walking. Maybe the Ukrainian soldiers have a similar feeling now. Maybe the ceasefire makes a difference and I surely hope so.
You're correct, you are not a military expert.
And you are?
An Internet troll is someone who enters an online discussion and posts comments designed to upset or disrupt the conversation.
"Dark Tetrad" personality traits include narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.
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Narcissistic personality disorder — one of several types of personality disorders — is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
Yes you certainly are. Nice projection.
I have said it in my own comment but I add it with yours. So many want Putin and the Kremlin to act and react just like "the west", one of the reasons that Putin and Russia are so popular among the majority of the world is because they are not like "the evil and ungodly west" and I use those terms even though I am not an overly religious man.
This comment represents a severely underrated opinion. Russia is simply not like the West - never has been - never will be. We in the West often have difficulty seeing things from others' views because it is difficult to think outside of our own psychological box we live in - we think all humans are like us.
The west: projection and hubris, a deadly cocktail
Calling an Easter ceasefire is conforming to Orthodox Christianity and his conscience. No Russian should hear their loved one is gone at Easter. It's more important that Christmas to Orthodox Christians and every other Easter would be a time of grief.
Putin's always making mistakes. Turbo-patriots woulda had this war over inside a month not pull NATO in with no end in sight and make it an existential fight for West as well now.
Didn't Putin expect it to be over in the first couple of hours?
No, he didn't, nor did anybody else in Russia. Why are you parroting US propaganda for morons that was discredited years ago by intelligent people?
You missed the irony.
Sure... why is it when people are called out for writing something idiotic they insist they intended irony?
I 'm not sure they do John.
Usually people double down on their daft opinions.
GM, I'm looking at you.....
Maybe because they did?
Putin sent a hugely understrength force into Ukraine in Feb 2022 and failed to remove over 300 billion of assets from western control. Some 5D master at work there! You Putinites are always full of copium. There are plenty of Russians who are not Putin supporters. Putin does not represent all Russians far from it. I was recently talking to a young communist from Lugansk who noted the many problems ordinary people were facing especially with state repression.
>Putin sent a hugely understrength force into Ukraine in Feb 2022
And shackled them with absurdly restrictive suicidal rules of engagement.
Which shackles have not been truly meaningfuly released to this day
"Putin does not represent all Russians far from it."
Correct, in the way that saying "The pope does not represent all Catholics far from it" would be correct. In other words, as an English language construction it's technically correct but completely delusional in the context of any reality based discussion. You obviously don't know anything at all about contemporary Russia if you don't realize Vladimir Vladimirovich is phenomenally, overwhelmingly, genuinely popular.
His popularity tends to vary between 82 and 87 percent, but the remainder are mostly "don't care" people. People who are actually anti-Putin in Russia are fairly uncommon, only about 5%.
"I was recently talking to a young communist from Lugansk who noted the many problems ordinary people were facing especially with state repression."
I see you can't tell a representational sample from a delusional nut. I live in Russia and there isn't any "state repression," at least not unless you're some criminal jerk, in which case there probably isn't enough state repression to make the 90% of people who hate your guts happy. "A young communist from Lugansk," boy, that's a nut case unicorn right there. You sure he or she wasn't trans also?
Putin sent a hugely understrength force into Ukraine in Feb 2022 because that's the earliest Russia could go to war with the US in Ukraine and win, despite Russia having a peacetime army and economy far smaller than today. It was the earliest Russia could act to prevent the US and its nazi goons from invading and ethnically cleansing Donbass. That's called heroism and it has nothing to do with 5D chess. It's all about having backbone and being willing to take great risks to save your kin.
Wow what an aggressive childish response. Keep taking the medication my friend it sounds like you need it before you have heart attack.
I guess you prefer being bombed instead? State repression, whatever that may be, doesn’t kill you, bombs do.
'... Putin... failed to remove over 300 billion of assets from western control.' Pray - how? To bomb the banks?
I suspect that China and India at the very least were putting a ton of pressure on Putin in the first two years not to push too hard. All likely suspecting that the West did not want the conflict. That is out the window now. This is the globalist black hats vs. nationalist christian white hats.
If China and India were in a position to successfully exercise such pressure on Putin, the following questions immediately come up:
1) What kind of "friends" to Russia are China and India? And that after everything Russia has done in the last century for both. Remember, China exists right now because of the USSR, it would have been a partitioned and fully Western-controlled neocolonial mess otherwise.
2) Whose interests are China and India run in? Because it is absolutely not in the best interest of either for Russia to be defeated. So why aren't they actively helping it win?
3) Why is Russia in a position in which the opinion of China and India matters so much? It didn't for the USSR. But who presided over decades of deindustrialization and who turned the country into a petro-state, with all the degeneration that comes with it? Thus making Russia dependent on resource exports to those countries and technological imports from China. Who is responsible for that?
Questions...
Not all countries operate in a vacuum like the USA, the unipolar hegemon, which only gives a fuck what the Zionist Nazi pigs in Israel think. Despite what you have mentioned regarding China and India I suspect that Russia being a leader, the leader, of supporting a multi polar world does take the concerns, views of its friends seriously. Your point 2 is dead on. I have wondered that myself and can only come to the conclusion that for some reason they feared reprisals from the West. With the Orangeman's recent tariffs, the vast majority of the world is turning against the US and realizing its impotence economically and militarily.
nazi-zionist is an oxymoron. Nazi is the cure to the jew disease...
Although I don't necessarily agree that Nazism is the cure to the Jew disease. I do agree that Jews are the disease and that it needs to be "cured." And no, I'm not "anti semitic." To be anti semitic I would have to be anti people with semite blood and DNA which the vast majority of Jews don't have. Just like the Holocaust Hoax, the entire anti semite trope is thrown about by Jews hoping people will get scared and the Jews can perpetuate their "victim" status.
Well let’s settle on zionism=jewish fascism.
In the Ukrainian case, it is undeniably judeo-nazism/banderism.
Global jewry had sided with banderites in Ukraine, thus canceling the profitable jewish squealing “nazi & hitler.” The genocide in Gaza put to rest the pious memes of “jewish victimhood and superior morality.” Israel is a criminal genocidal state.
As for Ukraine, it needs de-nazification and de-judaization. Actually, the collective west governments need the same.
Haywood,
I think that it has a lot to do with globalisation and supply chains . China and India weren't getting directly "involved" for the same reasons as Europe - too much fallout . It appears that they have been assisting behind the scenes . Russia has nearly all it needs to finish this , and having that mostly at home will help . Ukraine depends on outside help for almost everything . World events are increasing in both tempo and gravity. Happy Easter Simplicius...
Europe and the USA were directly involved from the start. Even before that. Training and providing money and weapons from at least 2014. Merkel and Hollande both admitted Minsk 1 and 2 were only used so that the West, including Europe could arm and build Ukraine's military.
If China and India were in a position to successfully exercise such pressure on Putin, the following questions immediately come up:
1) What kind of "friends" to Russia are China and India? And that after everything Russia has done in the last century for both. Remember, China exists right now because of the USSR, it would have been a partitioned and fully Western-controlled neocolonial mess otherwise.
2) Whose interests are China and India run? Because it is absolutely not in the best interest of either for Russia to be defeated. So why aren't they actively helping it win?
3) Why is Russia in a position in which the opinion of China and India matters so much? It didn't for the USSR. But who presided over decades of deindustrialization and who turned the country into a petro-state, with all the degeneration that comes with it? Thus making Russia dependent on resource exports to those countries and technological imports from China. Who is responsible for that?
Questions...
Good points. I type this from a country that sold out years ago and it has been painful to watch in real-time over the decades. You can see the UK, Germany and France going all-in with their American 'friends' (even after getting tariffed), but Russia's friends sit on the fence.
I get it though from one angle. Its a tough message for an Indian or Chinese politician to give their peeps as to why they should support Russia's 'occupation' of Ukraine. Now if they could frame it more of we are next after Russia, maybe that might stick but people just don't support ideological struggles when it does not put more food on your table immediately.
The war seems to benefit both sides right now and people are making tons of $...till that eventual black swan. My fear and frustration with Putin is they think if they grind away for another 3-10 years and take another 300k dead they will somehow 'win'?
If this SMO is not about land then can someone provide me with a metric that indicates what a WIN is for Russia? Remember, write this metric in a way I can explain it to the dead.
There are aspects of the war that should be easy to understand for both Indians and Chinese.
China has the Taiwan problem which has many parallels.
While the West's intention for Ukraine is to be a Russian Pakistan that keeps Russia in check the way Pakistan does India.
Pakistan has no historic basis for its existence, it is an entirely artificial creation, and when it was created it was even worse as then it had Bangladesh as a part of it too, thus checking India from both sides.
Of course, the subcontinent has never been politically unified in its history, thus we can debate to what extent India itself has a historic basis. But if there is going to be an India, there should not be Pakistan and Bangladesh. But the British played one last round of divide-and-conquer as a parting gift, and here we are.
Again, the goal is for Ukraine to play a similar role. Thus Zelensky running his mouth about getting nukes back in February 2022.
The Kremlin is not helping its cause either though, because it should be talking much more forcefully about how the Nazi West is occupying Russian land once again and we are going to do GPW Round 2 to liberate it. But it clearly does not want to commit to that...
'Everyone fancies himself a hero, watching a fight from a sidewalk'
I disagree. In spite of temporary 30 days and further attempt to peace negotiaton by President Trump, Russia President initiative to flirt with total cease fire may indicate hope that some people begin to give peace a chance. Just remote hope of peace. Otherwise what hope may normal Ukrainian people may have? War forever as German new government preparing or UK itching to broaden this conflict? By now, after 3 years, people with normal brain should conclude that Russia isn't going to end this SMO without achieving her goals upon what this SMO started in the first place. German and UK desire to extend this hostility will only bring more "senseless suffering" like President Trump say, to both sides. Is it worth to EU to press-on Ukraine to suffer more without considering Ukrainians desire for peace? By now nobody really believe that expired President Zelensky has Ukrainian people mandate to continue devastating the whole country in name of collective EU/NATO.
no: indirectly any EU "war" will be against its citizenry, for it is the sons & daughters of ordinary people who will be sacrificed. no: we don't want more war, let's first solve already the ones that are being waged!
Then it’s time for Europeans to grow a spine and clean their governments from compradors. The real deciders are at the thoroughly criminal City of London and BlackRock headquarters.
You are doomed to perpetual failure if you refuse to see and recognise your true enemy.
Europeans gow a spine? The biggest wimps on the planet?
@Feral: did you ever do any traveling in Europe? you might find it's not just one big place but consists of many smaller ones, where 24 different languages are spoken and each country w/its own, often quaint characteristics. of course, being forced to accept the over-arching Euro was one of the international bankers' more brilliant strategies and by definition the non-elected EU "leadership" bows to them, not to us, those 'wimps', who really don't want to go to war.
oh dear. see, lately several countries rejected the funds asked for by Van der Leyen et.al to prepare for a possible war in support of Ukraine against Russia, but these voices were not heard, on purpose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HfFkSwe-Q "grow a spine"? well, we're still sort of trying to recover after former Yugoslavia was bombed to smitereens in the '90ies (thank you, Madeleine Albright) and we lost our sovereign currencies to what's known as the Euro, so for the EU "leadership", committed to serious election meddling in numerous places, there is not one single reason to listen to critical voices. peace out.
Recall Goering's words on the subject. He had a certain practical experience in the matter.
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Anyway, europeans are she most meek and rule-following, authority-trusting humans on the planet, less self-respect than dogs, and I say that as a cat.
I think you have it backwards. After all the broken promises of "not one inch eastward," the double crosses with Minsk 1 and 2 and the Istanbul accord, Russians realize that they can never let their guard down, and will have to be on perpetual military readiness. Putin acknowledges he made a mistake by not implementing his SMO in 2014, which gave NATO and the US time to arm and supply Ukraine.
A low intensity but sustained conflict is probably the better way for Russia to maintain the necessary ready level of preparedness by not allowing itself to be lulled into a "peace agreement" which will only allow the West to rearm and resupply, but not get Russia into an all out total war situation which could wreck Russia's economy. Putin is trying to keep a careful balance to the long term existential threat to Russia, its miltary, and its economy.
At this point, Putin no doubt would like a permanent settlement to end all future conflicts, but with the West eyeing Russia's natural resources, he knows that Russia, unlike the Western countries who have ironically been the ones to have fallen into a state of military unpreparedness, will have to maintain eternal vigilance.
>At this point, Putin would like a permanent settlement to end all future conflicts
He will only get that when Russian soldiers are washing their boots in the the Amsterdam canals and being soaked by the rain in Bergen.
I agree that Russia ends war one way, the other side unconditionally surrenders. I don't think they need to go all the way to Bergen or Amsterdam but I get your point.
"Peace negotiation by President Trump." The man who said he could end the war in 24 hours and yet has done sweet f*ck all to accomplish that. Sends a Special Envoy to Moscow, Witkoff, who can't even name the 4 Oblasts that Russia has added to the Federation via military intervention and referendums. Witkoff claims he is ascertaining what Russia wants. Putin spelled it out clearly in June of 2024. Russia's demands have been widely available on the internet since that time. Clearly the US Intelligence agencies are either stupid (doubtful) or completely misleading the administration (probable). Then you have General Kellogg spouting nonsense that not even the most liberal minded, pro Western Russian would ever accept. General Wesley Clark may however be correct when he said the conflict will be over when Russia takes Odesa.
It is quite possible that the removal of all patriotic, honest, and principled Americans from the jews-beholden thuggish CIA has indeed made the agency stupid.
Since the cia/mossad assassination of the last truly American president in 1963, the hapless US had been a tool of global jewry aka financial Vampire Squid.
Which makes me wonder about the Orangeman's latest talk about firing Jerome Powell as Fed Chairman even though the Fed is a private corporation owned by the Rothchild's et al and their Jew henchman. Unless of course he wants Powell replaced with a Jew.
The Fed is actually an independent government agency managed exclusively by private banks which is in turn part of a global Rothschild network of central banks with a few exceptions such as Russia, China and Iran who are also enemies of the City of London - a mere coincidence, I'm sure..
> who can't even name the 4 Oblasts
In fairness, 10% of Americans thought Ukraine was a state in the U.S. at the beginning of the SMO, and only 10% could find the country on a map. So... progress?
And these are the people who are entitled to make intelligent decisions on who should represent them in foreign affairs, and vote for that person?
I get that. I attended University in the US as an international student in the mid 1980's. The complete lack of knowledge and awareness of anything outside the county they lived in was astounding. I was told the first day there when I was in a convenience store and the cashier asked me where I was from and when I told her, she said I would be fine once I got use to the capitalist system. Considering I came from a capitalist country albeit more left leaning, I laughed at her. I don't count that as an excuse for Witkoff though. He's supposed to be this excellent negotiator. Maybe on real estate but I had a 35 year career in negotiations and contracts and never once went into a negotiation not finding out as much as I could about the other party and what their needs and motivations were. Witkoff sort of mentioned that in his interview with Tucker Carlson, however if he is trying to negotiate a peace deal maybe he should learn that prior to boarding a plane.
I heard something similar, when Russia invaded Georgia.An American friend was disgusted by Americans saying "well the Russians might have got Georgia, but they won't be able to get Carolina."
Lol glad I wasn't in the states to experience that, but I can well imagine.
It is not the first time.
I recall very well Putin imposed a unilateral Christmas ceasefire on January 6th 2023. Just when the Soledar operation was at its peak. And there was a lot of grumbling back then too.
One possible reason imho is that this year for some reason that has to do with how the dates of Easter observances are calculated, the celebrations of the Eastern Orthodox and Western Christian Churches coincide. Therefore its relevence carries equal meaning across both sides of the conflict. In previous years VVP has called for Christmas cease fires where the seasonal celebrations do share some similarity.
The cease fire was for the benefit of Russian troops, no one else. The fact that they were unable to enjoy it - because the AFU largely ignored it - doesn't detract from the decency of calling a ceasefire for such an important holiday.
Eastern is probably the most important religious holiday for Russians, more so than Christmas. And Putin has called Christmas ceasefires consistently throughout the SMO.
Of course it was a mistake, another sign that the Russian leadership is seeking any exit from this war on any terms.
The West, by contrast, is itching for a fight, the way bullies do.
Why was it a mistake to give a couple of days respite to own troops?
If Russian leadership was looking for 'any exit from this war on any terms' they'd have already accepted what was offered, but they did not.
The West is not monolith, there are war itching factions and some with partial brains.
Because you keep their heads ringing. Did Stalin lay off Bagration for a couple of days to show the Nazis what a nice guy he was and maybe take advantage of any inter-Axis disputes?
There were tons of things we don't know about WW2 - I didn't know, for example, that the Soviets and Germans remained in communication all the way till Bagration. So who knows, what else we don't know.
I do think that 1-2 day of no fire, would do anything for SMO either way, but it gives a respite to own troops (even if it grants the same to the enemy)
Sounds like an argument from ignorance. We certainly did not see any goodwill ceasefires.
Mine or yours?:-) WW2 or now?
"I think Putin made a mistake"
What was his mistake?
His mistake is/was deciding to have any type of ceasefire.
'No Easter ceasefire in the first two years of the conflict, why now?'
Putin can afford it now.
Apti Alaudinov is not Russian. It's a Chechen. Chechens are the enemy.
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With such “Christ is risen”, as in the video “12 temples”, only to put people to the wall. That's not Christianity.
"Chechens are the enemy." What a fool you are. You know absolutely nothing about Russia but here you are enjoying the Internet ability for every imbecile to bark nonsense.
Chechens are also People of the Book. They have embraced Islam, a deep faith and part of Russian diversity for over a thousand years. Ivan the Fierce himself, the first to take the title of 'Tsar', debated whether he should do that because so many of his subjects were Muslim. He settled on 'Tsar and Khan' of all the Russias.
Russia is by far the largest country in the world where Christianity and Islam have co-existed peacefully for over a thousand years, right up to the present day. Apti Alaudinov is a heroic example of how that works.
Забугорная ебасосина рассказывает русскому о жизни в России. Скройся в тумане.
Jewish rage? Keep raging.
He is claiming to be Russian. The "Скройся в тумане." is him telling me to hide in the fog, which is exactly what he is doing, because he knows our Chechen brothers wouldn't tolerate his disrespect for a nanosecond.
Hey ishodnik I have Chechen friends. They're not my enemies, but it sure looks like you are so intensely stupid you want to make them your enemies. What a loser.
/* I have Chechen friends */
There is nothing surprising in the fact that our enemies are friends with each other.
"our" enemies? So you admit you're a troll from Kiev. Adios, loser.
frankly, the only "religion" that is incompatible with peace is the jew who see all else as goyim to be exploited...
Idiot. Moron. Imbecile.
Happy Easter to all the good people and the bad people, it’s never too late to become good and do good. Thanks Simplicius you’re the best.
I wish it was that simple. Since I watched Sandra Bullock in ‘miss congeniality’ my only wish since then has been: world peace. Not sure if I will happen during my lifetime ☹️
Take a break, turn on tune in and drop the lot as long as you are capable of. Inside you, your heart peace is awaiting you since eternity, don’t miss this invitation and look the miracle is already happening, love and peace are infectious, impossible not to share it.
Sometimes I wonder, if the Russian leadership, are as clueless about their enemies sentiments. As their enemies are about Russian sentiments. This ceasefire stunt was plain stupid. If the World didn't know what Zelensky & his criminal regime were. Before this ceasefire was called they never will. It doesn't matter how Zelensky looks in the West. The media & politicians have built him up that much & Putin & Russia down that much. No one in the West cares if Ukraine broke the ceasefire. If Putin was trying to prove something to Trump. The Ukrainian attacks on the energy infrastructure had already achieved that. The ceasefire call was yet again Putin displaying naivety that he has done repeatedly since 2014. At great cost, he's not going to change now. I could well be wrong & it was called for some reason, we're all unaware of. That remains to be seen & only time will tell. It could have been to see how ready the Anglo/French adventurism really is. To entice them to expose their delusional plans. They do keep stating soon as there's a ceasefire they're going into Ukraine. Putin might have been testing them. It's the only reason I could think of.
The US is owned by the top money lenders in service to global jewry
Bollocks, the zionists are a proxy, not a lobby, the money they throw around comes from the US boss class, which isn't beholden to any form of superstitious mumbo-jumbo. Compare Aipac bribes with those of pharma or the merchants of death. Analysing the US empire from the point of view of pseudo-religions is fatuous.
The boss class is the zionized financial Vampire Squid.
The dishonorable MIC serves bankers' pleasure.
The dishonorable PHARMA relies on bankers.
The US Congress is an aipac-occupied territory of compradors afraid to displease the Parasite. See the mass slaughter of children and women in Gaza.
Don't be naive.
Major General Smedley D. Butler, an American patriot and most decorated Marine in US history, has left a bitter truth for Americans: "All wars are bankers' wars."
Don't even try to do the circuitous defense of some abstract "bosses." The US has lost its independence in 1913 with the secretive establishment of FedReserve. This is when the US was captured, as a plump host, by the dishonorable and traitorous nomadic tribe of money lenders.
No, the zionist antisemites work for American Caesar and persecute Jews. The zionists' pound of flesh is a free hand in Palestine.
What exactly do you mean with your "zionist antisemites" definition? The ears have peeked out in a too obvious manner...
I strongly recommend the following substack if you want to educate yourself where the threads run to. Hint: it's not the Reptilians, it's not the Greys, and it's not the "US boss class" all of which are equally fictional deflections to steer inquiries away from the real thing---the Talmudist-Mammonist Cabal, much older than the US---and into fantasies. Do you know what the real symbolism of the masonic apron is? It is a symbolic concealment of the circumcised member underneath.
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/
I doubt the Kremlin bases their strategy on what the West thinks. If they do, I agree with your sentiments.
So remember that it is one people on both sides.
And you see how Ukrainians are doing recruitment advertising featuring how many McDonalds burgers you could buy with the signing bonus.
Rather symbolic about the level of mental colonization, isn't it?
Also, remember the immortal words Gogol wrote in Taras Bulba:
"The favour of a foreign king, and not even a king, but the poor favour of a Polish magnate, who beats them on the mouth with his yellow shoe, is dearer to them than all brotherhood"
Things have only gotten worse since then.
And again, it's one people. So you have the same mental colonization in Moscow and St. Petersburg too. Russian elites spent centuries dreaming of being part of the Western elites. They literally were that prior to 1917 -- it was ethnic German kings and nobles in power -- but they always felt inadequate because of being associated with that dirty word "Russia", so they tried to compete on wealth and splendor. In the process impoverishing their population and not investing in development (everything went into building grand palaces and buying paintings and luxury goods from the West, nothing went into education and very little into industrialization), for which they got what they deserved in 1917.
The Bolsheviks were much better, but only as long as those generations that carried out the revolution and then fought in WWII were still in power. Those were rugged ascetic individuals with a mission. They were replaced by newly formed bourgeois degenerates in the 1980s and what did we get? That new elite voluntarily, without any fight, gave away what had been gained at the cost of tens of millions of lives, since the 1600s. Just for the vague promise of being integrated in the Western elite.
Which, of course, did not happen -- Western elites were happy to take their money, but still viewed them as subhumans and wanted total submission, not a new relationship on equal footing.
But, after centuries of that mentality being so pervasive, why would anyone think it would have gone away so easily? Clearly Operation Barbarossa and Generalplan Ost were not sufficient to erase it, why would a war on the small side such as the current one do the trick?
Thus you still have Russian elites dreaming of reintegrating with the West, and Putin is, if not one of them on that issue (which quite likely he is), not in a position to crush those people as they are still way too powerful.
The result is the needless sacrifice of so many Russian lives and limbs, when the whole thing could have been over by sacrificing a coupe hundred million Westerners instead. They deserve it -- it wasn't the German princes burning whole villages alive in Belarus in the 1940s, it was regular German people. Wipe it all out and end the problem for good. But there has not been a single strike on the West for three years, which shows you how the Kremlin values Russian and Western lives in relative terms.
The US and Europe are launching direct attacks against Russia daily. All the way to Orenburg, soon to expand to beyond the Urals.
Russia should just sit and take it?
Which is what it is doing, but that is because it is run by traitors.
Nuke Europe and eliminate the source of the threat.
The US will stand down.
What do you propose to do to stop the attacks and how many bombs should fall on Russian cities before someone does something to stop it?
I ask this question every week here.
Let's imagine Stalin had nukes in 1941. When should he have vaporized Germany?
The morning on June 22nd?
When the Nazis took Odessa and Kiev?
When they were sieging Leningrad and Moscow?
When they were at the Volga?
And at what level of deaths? 10,000? 100,000? 1 million? 10 million?
For reference, right now the Nazis have Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov, are nearly sieging Leningrad, and the death toll has surpassed the 100,000 mark.
Russians are not jews. Russians have conscience and mercy.
Humanity must be liberated from Financial Parasite first and foremost.
Jews are indoctrinated in dishonesty (kol nidre), sadism (Purim), and supremacist lunacy from early childhood.
What do you propose to do to stop the bombing of Russian cities?
In precise military-technical terms, please
Target concentrations of the NATO/banderite military personelle, the officers meetings in particular.
Destroy both local weapon manufacture facilities and NATO supply lines.
Expose the zionists' role in the ongoing War on Russia.
Publish a detailed map of the main deciders' bunkers around the globe.
What else can be done to avoid the innocent civilians deaths?
Russia needs to complete the invasion and occupy the entire country of Ukraine and eliminate the Nazi scumbags house by house. The constant drone warfare won't end until the pilots and commanders are rounded up. They need to dismantle all assembly shops and control the entire Western border of Ukraine to interdict smuggling. There is no other way. I don't think bombing everything will work because a lot of innocent people will die and some cockroaches will always survive to cause more trouble. You don't blow up your house to get rid of the pests, do you? You target the roaches in a way that won't poison your children. I think the Nazi element in Ukraine is a despicable pest that needs to be rooted out and eliminated one at a time.
it is not "westerners" that are the problem, but the jew leadership that has infested the west...
Not quite, there are two top layers; The Talmudist masters, themselves too dense to do more than set goals for the goyim slave drivers; and the Mammonist top minions, who organize the entire edifice of moral demoralization, financial exploitation, and dehumanization, and who are often corrupted goyim themselves. These are the ones Christ meant when talking about "the rich".
The concept of using the goyim against themselves is not new; the entire idea of secret societies such as freemasonry was developed to infiltrate the upper classes of Western society, that were at first inaccessible to jews as such. Later the barriers were broken, but goy Renfields are still widely useful to the vampire masters.
I was hoping that finally the Russians would have realised that the West will never treat them as equals.
Doesn't matter that you're mostly white Christians, you have something we want, so you're either a convenient threat, or potential colonies to be threatened or exploited. Our hatred is too deep and too useful.
But Russia has options now that it didn't have 100 years ago. There is a non-Western World that doesn't share this Russophobia. That's where your future lies, not with the decaying West.
white Christians are the enemy of the "western" leadership - foreign and domestic....
Well yes, no one in the West knows. No one. And who's fault is that? No one in the west even knows it's a civil war under there. And who's fault is that?
And why not try to correct it? You can't say 'they never will' when you've got no evidence to go on to suppose they couldn't learn. They have never been told. There's never been any effort to tell them.
Shall I list all the YT channels I've watched for three years and never yet seen one of them suggest to any of their audience that they do anything at all to enlighten those who never of themselves look at those channels?
I mean they don't even enlighten their own devoted audiences. They always use the word 'Ukraine' when they mean 'Kiev Ukraine' and they always use the word 'Ukrainians' when they mean 'Kiev Ukrainians'.
That is, they imply there are no Donbass Ukrainians being shot and shelled and bombed for ten years.
How genuine is that?
The usa can't get it into its head but it is only 350 million people. In a world of 8 billion.
All this bullcrap about world's biggest economy and so on is just that: bullcrap.
The usa is a tiny minority.
Putin is talking to the majority.
And they are watching and listening.
That's the audience that matters in this theatre.
It is true that those who only get their news from the MSM are clueless about the Minsk agreements "not an inch to the east" or that Ukraine shelled its own people in the Donbass for eight years prior to the Russian SMO but there are a growing number here in the UK that get information from alternative sources now. I joined as paid subscribers of Simplicius to gain more knowledge and I find the comments section to be very interesting. Likewise the interviews on You Tube and the comments there are quite enlightening about the true picture of the war in Ukraine. Not everyone here is a brainwashed fool although I have lost a few " friends" through some heated discussions.
'growing numbers', well that's good news. for it is what the people know and think and do that will matter in the end though there are very few that seem to realise that.
here's a list of some, most, of the places I go for information. If it's of any interest to you. Any other good places you know of that are not here it could be I don't know about them. Please tell.
YT nima alkhorshid dialogue works - good guests
YT danny haiphong - good guests
YT glenn deisen - good guests
marat khairullin substack
karlof1 substack
MoA
John Helmer 'Dances with bears'
Sonar21 - Larry Johnson
thomas fazi
alex krainer
eric zeusse substack
the grayzone, max blumenthal... and aaron mate..
TG: two majors
colonel cassad
rybar
DoD
aussie cossack
rt news
alexander kots
komsomolskaya pravda : dmitri steshin
this is war
yuri podolyaki
oleg tsarev
Thank you Arthur. Some of the names I know but a fair amount are new to me. I shall take a print (I'm a bit " old-school " ) and keep it by me for reference.
I´m not sure but I dont think that Putin was talking to the West but to the rest of the world.
And he wasted his effort; the rest of the world will not lift a finger, they'll wait for Russia to take their chestnuts from the fire.
"I could well be wrong & it was called for some reason"
Yes you are wrong. And the reason was simple apparently beyond your ability to comprehend - he called it to give his troops a chance to celebrate the most important Christian holiday in Russia. No other deep meaning behind it.
Beautiful essay. I hope the people of God win over the people of Satan. In every land. And I thought the ceasefire was in the Christian Spirit. It matters not if the Satan mocks it.
Well said.
Remember the obese jewish lesbian Butch as a Christ and the whole degenerate jewish team mocking “Last Supper” during the opening Olympic ceremony. - That was a show of the satanic snout of global jewry in charge of the European affairs.
yeah I do remember. There's definitely a war going on that is a spiritual war. The fact that the genocide is going on in the Holy Land where our Lord walked as a humanbeing - this is not an accident. Satan is making his move - it might take a century to outmanouvre this beast but its in our destiny and has been foretold. I don't believe its what they call ' endtimes ' although this term is not in the bible as I know it, and I think earth has another 50,000 years to be humanity's habitation. We're doing okay so far but we're certainly in a bottleneck right now, whether out planet will be ablt to hold on until its natural death. But Christ is with us....and it seems so hopeless now to stop this evil. Especially in Gaza and the Middle East. We watch helplessly - but humanity has to learn how to stop it. We don't know how. Our leaders are hopeless. But learn we must. Its another sacrifice in the Holy Land. I hope so much we win
Just a random thought I had: what if this is a psy-op to contrast "peace" with the harsh realities of war? Make the psyche of the UAF break down faster?
The idea that Russia, which has shown itself to be comically bad at perception management, when it even tries, is now pulling off some elaborate "psy-op" is next level cope.
I agree with your former statement. They simply don't care as much as Americans about how the world perceives them.
But I don't understand why you would denote it as "cope"? Or even calling it elaborate. It's basic human psychology after all...
As I said, just a random thought I had.
IMO, Putin's "ploy" accomplished many beneficial things. First and foremost, it showed Trump--that is if he was watching, told or read about what transpired, which IMO is doubtful--that the Nazis are incapable of honoring anything; second, it came just days after Zelensky extended martial law so no elections can be held, which is yet another message to Trump, provided he was paying attention, which again is doubtful since today he again said he hoped the two sides would cease their combat, which again shows just how disconnected he is from the reality of what's happening. The number one issue for Putin is for there to be a legitimate opposite number with which to discuss and sign an agreement, which means elections. Trump supposedly knows that, but from what he says it's clear he doesn't or is having his own series of Biden moments. The Russians that comment on my substack are well aware of the ongoing crap coming from the Outlaw US Empire and know the only solution is to finish the job--I know that because they tell me. And of course, there's the never-ending question: When will Trump pull the plug on all forms of assistance to the Nazis? The last benefit is for the Russian troops for they now know 100% that the push is on, that there's no chance for any negotiated settlement to occur until SMO goals are completed.
And of course, it wasn't just Putin's ploy; it was Russia's ploy for the decision was certainly collective. And I should add Russia's public now knows what the soldiers know--that they are truly dealing with Nazis just like 80+ years ago.
Russians also now know that the Nazis are financed, weaponized, and indoctrinated in Russophobia by jewish overlords of the collective west.
Not sure. Apparently a big part of the
bolsheviks had a jewish background. Also there seems to be 1.75 million Israeli that have a Russian passport. It has been mostly the Europeans that hated and hate the Russians. Not sure if you can really blame them as I personally think they suffer from an incurable mental illness, probably (epi)genetic.
And how had the jewish bolshevicks treated Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, et al?
Check the Kaganovich brothers, Zalkind (Zemlyachka), Naftali Frenkel, and the Goloschyokin Genocide of 40% of all native Kazakhs. Golschyokion was born Shaya Itsikovich, for your information.
Even Churchill (when a journalist in his younger years) wrote that the torture chambers of the Soviet police were run by jews and jewesses.
Thank you. The more I know, the less I know. Will look into the persons you mentioned. Wrt Churchill: he didn't like the Bolshevik jews, so it could be his writing is biased. Just saying (to quote A. Mercouris)
The Bolsheviks were about 50% Jews---some say more, some say less. A very enlightening book on that subject is "Two Hundred Years Together: On Russian-Jewish Relations, 1795-1995" by A I Solzhenitsyn, a name that may be familiar to you.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/4d82991c019b86f40e9d4865196d326d
The USSR was saved from Talmudist dystopia by two non-Russians: Felix E Dzerzhinsky, who wrested the Cheka from Trotsky's Jews, and Josef V Stalin, who wrested the party and state from them. Neither was fully successful, but they were successful enough.
Trump neither knows nor cares.
Biden knew and cared, Obama knew and cared, Bush knew and cared, …
Oh wait… they didn’t either
A bit of History should help to understand why and how we are where we are today. It's common knowledge for the older generation that primarily the UK and US tried to break up Russia into numerous smaller states which could be gifted with Democracy, Freedom and Wealth in order to exploit the country from it's resources...... pretty much what we witness today in Ukraine and the US attempt to secure and exploit the natural reserves of Ukraine. People never mattered, especially if they were all dead.
Washington’s Plan To Break Up Russia – OpEd
November 3, 2022 3 Comments
By Mike Whitney
Washington’s animus towards Russia has a long history dating back to 1918 when Woodrow Wilson deployed over 7,000 troops to Siberia as part of an Allied effort to roll back the gains of the Bolshevik Revolution. The activities of the American Expeditionary Force, which remained in the country for 18 months, have long vanished from history books in the US, but Russians still point to the incident as yet another example of America’s relentless intervention in the affairs of its neighbors.
The entire story here:
https://www.eurasiareview.com/03112022-washingtons-plan-to-break-up-russia-oped/
Exepat, thanks for sharing that article. Throw Mackinder into the mix and we have it alĺ.
Woodrow Wilson: Philosemite And Zionist
https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/woodrow-wilson-philosemite-and-zionist/2024/04/03/
"done merely in the genuinely pious spirit of mercy befitting the holiest of Christian days."
I'm sure there were many reasons for their decision. There is the rumour that there was some liaison with Witkoff, though hard to believe.
Putin did not want some Ukrainian horror perpetrated on Easter Sunday. That is all.
If Ukraine were going to perpetuate some horror on Easter Sunday, then they would do it, and the MSM would weep and rend its garments, ceasefire be damned.
Thank you Simplicius for your continued analysis and information on the happenings in the conflict in Ukraine. There is one aspect from the Russian perspective that needs to be considered. Ukraine translated into English as "border marshes" has for centuries been a part of the Russian empire. The Ukrainian republic was formed by adding Russian imperial lands to make it a viable state, by the USSR in its infancy. Crimea was just added to Ukraine in 1959 for adminstrative reasons in a time when the Soviet man was seen to exist forever. Now fast forward to 1991, Ukraine was given it's independence, an experiment, as was all other Soviet states. Though as I read this was not ratified under Soviet constitution. The issues is from a Russian perspective that experiment has failed and the attempt is being made to put an end to it as no matter the moralising, narrative creation and perspective management the Russian perspective has the benefit of history and time. Another historic consideration is that in all major conflicts Russia has always been on the victorious side that were considered good in hindsight.
Happy Easter! and yes, although I appreciate the humanity of Putin's gesture, I think it's lost on the child trafficking, organ trafficking, terrorist scum that rule the Ukraine...
Do not look at Christian Communitys in Ukraine or Western Europe, but the fast growing ones in Latin America and Africa. There the Russian side gets a fat bonus.
The fast growing ones are zionist.
YOU DON'T DO IT FOR THEM, YOU DO IT BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT. Why is this so difficult for people?n
Has it occurred to you that the gesture was meant not for the Ukies or the West, but for the Russian soldiers, who are mostly Christians? Easter is not about human politics. Христос воскресе!
Um, goodness.
First of all, the holiday ceasefire was partly due to the fact that killing on Easter feels especially onerous to the Orthodox faithful. Canceling all offensive actions would've largely been seen as highly welcome to the devout soldiers while defensive actions are different as that's just protecting yourself. Easter is SERIOUS business in the Orthodox world, and it's not uncommon to do things like let prisoners go home to be with their families, etc.
As for the frontline soldiers, I doubt most of them are in that hardcore "hate all Russian things" category. That's mostly for the propagandists, TV chatter heads, and dipshits marching around far from the fighting in Lviv. Minus the hardcore fascist nationalists, the frontline soldiers all speak Russian, are old enough to remember the Soviet Union, and were forcibly conscripted rather than volunteers.
Secondly, Zelensky is a godless devil, and it CLEARLY made him angry that his own soldiers also wanted a ceasefire on Easter. For that alone, the move was worth it. He is purely Satanic at this point and was caught on camera bitching about how the people of Ukraine are costing HIM money.
Thanks for the local perspective, Sam. Makes sense.
Very well said. Thank you.
You're right, Easter is indeed very serious business to Orthodox people. Here in Russia pretty much every restaurant has a Lenten menu for people who observe the Lenten fast. Fasting for Lent is also a serious deal in Russia.
I was speaking with a friend in the US on Saturday and after I remarked that this year I didn't fast for Lent he said it wasn't that hard, all you had to do was eat fish, not meat on Friday. I assured him it's a much more serious deal in Russia. For the 40 days before Easter you eat, in moderation, a strictly vegetarian diet. No meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, and only plant foods like grains, veggies and fruit. No alcohol, of course. There are three or four Saturdays on which fish is allowed, but also there are several days when no cooked food is allowed.
Easter here is not a marketing holiday but is a deeply religious holiday. You called it exactly right when you said an Easter ceasefire was highly welcome to devout soldiers. Even those who are not practicing Christians tend to get caught up in the mood of a devout Easter.
It's yet another sign of the depravity and moral decay of the West they can't believe anybody would be devout about Easter. They don't get Ramadan, and the Ramadan fast either.
Yes. Exactly.
Yes. I certainly feel that way as I get older. I feel like we are spiritually directionless in the West and, without the correct grounding, I feel increasingly uncomfortable in the midst of that vacuum.
I try to be spiritual in my own way but with no kind of church here that I feel I can honestly belong too, it's a lonely furrow.
Happy Easter.
You're right about the front line soldiers. My cousin got snagged off the street after trying to sneak to the store. He was allowed two minutes to call home and say he'd "chosen to enlist" and a week later he was in an artillery unit. He has no desire to fight Russia, speaks Russian, and was trapped by the health of relatives, lack of money, and a young child. He once supported Zelensky when peace was the promise. That support evaporated years ago.
Much of the rest of the family was trapped for similar reasons like caring for alzheimers suffering parents. The men are mostly in their 30s to 50s and have been dodging conscription for years. They also speak Russian at home as a primary language and have no desire for fighting Russia.
This war is very much top down and West to East.
“At a festive banquet held at Kyiv's central synagogue, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, lit the second Hanukkah candle on the menorah alongside Vitali Klitschko, the Chief Rabbi, and the Israeli ambassador.
Before the ceremony, Budanov addressed the banquet participants with a formal speech. Among other remarks, he stated, "The flame of this candle will illuminate our future victory – both ours and that of the State of Israel."
Scratch a Jew, find a Zionist; scratch a Zionist, find a NAZI.
Attack the Nazis and Azovs in the government administration and cut the supply routes at the river.
May God continue to guide you, protect and offer solace in time of request. May your family and loved ones be shown Gods mercy in all ways. Easter, blessings 💛🙏☺️