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19 hrs agoLiked by Simplicius

Well, off to bed for me. I shall read in the morning.

Really wish you'd publish earlier sometimes, lol.

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11 hrs ago·edited 11 hrs ago

Maybe the planet has many time zones for a reason. 😊

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Move to another time zone. It's an International publication.

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Right? Doh!

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19 hrs ago·edited 19 hrs ago

Mark Rutte playing Jesse Stoltenberg

Trump this Trump that – Trump nothing has changed

According to Rutte ’Ukraine has prevailed’ so why get rid of Zelensky

And if Ukraine has prevailed it is thanks to Germany and to the US

Same old NATO nonsense from MR, cloned and claustrophobic

The new NATO chief is repeating the speeches of the old NATO chief word by word, he has learned them by heart

His accent is a shade less guttural and harsh, only occasionally does he sound rehearsed by screaming all night at his mirror

He said it ! ‘Ukraine has prevailed’

He is very certain of the German Lit Brigade deployment, planned for 2027, but of which he speaks in the present tense, although this may merely be poor grasp of time and place and indeed english, or merely ignorance – 20 troops arrived this year-- see Lithuania reports in Annexe for Lithuanian doubts

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Annexe

https://www.reuters.com/world/blinken-meets-nato-chief-ukraine-talks-ahead-trump-transition-2024-11-13/

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2412324/lithuanian-mod-dismissed-concerns-about-delays-in-german-brigade-infrastructure

« There are challenges when it comes to building the necessary infrastructure for the incoming German brigade, but the work is expected to be completed by the end of 2027, Lithuanian Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas says.

“Two and a half years for all the construction, that’s the end of 2027. [...] We do feel hard-pressed, I agree, but we can do everything in time,” he told a media conference on Wednesday.

He was speaking after President Gitanas Nausėda said earlier this week that Lithuania could be late with its preparations to host the German brigade amid stalling construction of the necessary infrastructure. »

https://www.nato.int/cps/fr/natohq/opinions_230188.htm?selectedLocale=en

Joint press conference

by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz

• 04 Nov. 2024 -

• |

• Last updated: 04 Nov. 2024 16:51

(As delivered)

Chancellor Scholz, dear Olaf,

Thank you very much for the cordial reception here in Berlin.

It is always a pleasure to be here.

We worked together as friends during my time as Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

And I am looking forward to continuing our good cooperation as NATO Secretary General.

Germany makes a major contribution to our shared security.

You are increasing your presence in the eastern part of our Alliance.

You are permanently deploying a full brigade to Lithuania.

German jets patrol the Baltic skies.

And the German Navy is assuming a leading role for NATO in the Baltic Sea for the next four years, protecting key supply and trade routes and critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.

Germany now invests as you said 2 percent of its GDP in defence – for the first time in three decades.

This is important for Germany and for NATO.

All NATO Allies must invest more, and I trust that Germany will continue to step up.

Dear Olaf,

This achievement is also thanks to your personal leadership and commitment.

Your historic Zeitenwende has made a big difference to the security of Germany and the strength of the Alliance.

And it sends a strong signal to Moscow that we stand united to defend our democratic values and the rules-based international order.

As a former Prime Minister, I know that it is not always easy for governments to allocate funds for national defence and for aid to Ukraine.

But both are crucial for our collective security.

So Today indeed we also discussed our continued support to Ukraine.

Germany is the biggest European contributor of military aid.

Your support saves lives on the battlefield every day.

And you host, in Wiesbaden, NATO’s new Command for security assistance and training to Ukraine (NSATU), which I visited a couple of weeks ago.

The NATO Command for Ukraine is integral to the wider NATO Washington Summit package for Ukraine, which also includes the pledge of long-term security assistance, and support for Ukraine on its irreversible path to Euro-Atlantic integration.

If Putin wins in Ukraine, he will not stop there.

Russia is conducting already an intensifying campaign of hybrid attacks across our Allied territories – interfering directly in our democracies, sabotaging industry and committing violence.

All of this to weaken us and to sow divisions.

This shows that the shifting frontline in this war is no longer solely within Ukraine.

Increasingly, the frontline is moving beyond borders – to the Baltic region, to Western Europe and even to the High North.

But NATO stands ready to deter and defend against these threats.

We are investing in our capabilities across all domains – land, sea, air, space and cyberspace.

We are working with industry to ramp up production and to accelerate innovation.

Your defence industry here in Germany is crucial to the security of Europe and the defence of Ukraine.

In Bavaria, American and European companies are partnering with NATO support to produce 1000 Patriot air defence missiles in a new factory. This is the transatlantic defence industry at work providing capabilities and jobs on both sides of the Atlantic.

The German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has just inaugurated the first factory in Ukraine, with a second facility nearing completion soon. And Rheinmetall has significantly increased ammunition production since 2022.

We must keep up the momentum to keep our 1 billion people safe.

So we are stepping up support to Ukraine.

And we are working more closely with the European Union and other like-minded partners around the globe.

Chancellor, dear Olaf,

Thank you again for hosting me in Berlin.

Thank you for your leadership in these uncertain times.

And thank you for Germany’s leading role in the Alliance, in NATO.

Thank you.

Unnamed Journalist

Speaks in German

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: [inaudible] Allied nations, but what I know is that this chancellor and this country at this moment, is one of the biggest troop contributors to NATO's operations and missions. It has committed to strengthen our deterrence and defence in the Baltic and North Sea. Is working closely with other NATO Allies in developing new capabilities. You have just signed a new agreement with the United Kingdom. With Norway you are working to get regional hubs to monitor underwater infrastructure, and the German Navy is assuming a leading role for NATO in the Baltic sea for next four years. So these are all examples that on the leadership of this government. This country, Germany, is really taking a leading role within NATO. And whatever happens with national politics, and again, I'm not commenting, this will continue, I know, with this chancellor.

And on the American elections, whoever wins those elections, we will work with Kamala Harris, we will work with Donald Trump and make sure that the Alliance stays united. I have no doubt, because it is in our interest. It is our interest here, but also the United States, because they are not in this to not repeat the mistake after the First World War of withdrawing for Europe. No, they are in this because they know that if Putin would be successful in Ukraine, that at that moment, an emboldened Russia is on our eastern flank and will present a direct threat to NATO territory, and they are right there involved in Ukraine, they are involved in NATO and are an integral part of the Alliance.

Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany

Speaks in German

Unnamed Journalist

Speaks in German

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: [inaudible] Korean troops being deployed in Russia against Ukraine. This is a significant escalation, and it makes us even more focused and determined to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to fight off the Russians, including the North Koreans. Germany has now spent 28 billion in military aid going into Ukraine, and is with that, some the second biggest contributor in Ukraine, next to United States. And we have to continue doing this. We have to make sure that our defence production is ramped up. We have to make sure that Ukraine can prevail, that Putin will not get his way in Ukraine.

And then on North Korea, we are working closely, as you know, with the Indo Pacific partners, of course, with the Republic of Korea - so South Korea, Seoul - but also with Japan, with Australia, with New Zealand, to make sure that we are able to also with this new development, to do everything we can to keep not only the Euro Atlantic, but also the Indo Pacific, safe. Because we know that Russia is working here together, not only with North Korea, China is providing dual US goods and is helping with sanction circumvention. And of course, we know that Iran is involved in helping Russia with the war effort, so this motivates us to step up to do even more, because you are absolutely right. This is a very serious development and an escalation.

Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany

Speaks in German

Unnamed Journalist

Speaks in German

Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany

Speaks in German

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

[inaudible] committed to the irreversible path to NATO membership. Since Washington, we are working on the command to Wiesbaden. We are working on the 40 billion dollar pledge. Many countries are providing military aid to Ukraine with US and Germany in the top two. And many countries have closed bilateral security agreements with Ukraine on a number of issues. This all together constitutes the bridge to NATO membership in the longer term. And I'm absolutely convinced that one day, Ukraine will be a member of NATO. Now the victory plan has been put forward by President Zelenskyy, I think is always helpful when also Ukraine itself makes clear how [inaudible] how they would see the next steps developing. But I would say, and answer your question, when you look at everything happening at the moment, that bridge is now being built in a very practical way with, again, Germany and the US leading the way.

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Come on now, Lithuania. Don't shirk. We know you might try to weasel [inaudible. inaudible] and leave more prestigious partners holding the bag [garbled 5 seconds; impossible to translate, even w/ AI] because the U.S. has convinced us that [someone begins crumpling wax paper] the $40bn pledge is just a start and victory [the rest of the transcript is incomplete, drowned out by the loud sound of popcorn popping.]

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Exactly right - they are starting to try to wriggle out

Cost of this infra is $1B they have not got, and that is not including all the annexe infra re inforcements, roads and bridges, schools, appartements and villas for the German Generals, croissants flown in from....

At the start they wanted EU to pay, but evidently that did not work

This EU 40B ripped out of the CBR assets is beginning to sound very uncertain, no? Any update on that?

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Many thanks, Gerrard!

That transcript should be aired in whole Europe on prime-time so people wake up and throw their leaders out of the windows. Rutte, the Rotten, is so detached from reality that it should scare everyone. I also hear that ” weapon saves lives in Ukraine” - basicly a ”War is peace” statement. Germany has taken it from behind but they are too brainwashed to feel the pain…

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Actually, they kinda like that pain, and want more.

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Victor, always great comments.

If I might add a thought…

The older generation still have their wits about them. My mother turns 90 next year, her friends in the same age group. I can talk to them. They understand me, being 67. but already my age group is for the most part hopelessly brainwashed. When it comes to my nephews and nieces…..it is outright scary. They can’t even understand what my mother and I are worrying about.

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I think it is important to make a class distinction

The political governing class is making money from the war, the local German capitalist class is making money from the war

They know exactly what they are doing, feel no pain only pleasure - pain is in the future when they have to re locate to Ohio or Miami

Or if the current ruling coalition loses power, and there is a sufficient revolt by the German people, unlikely

The German people, both middle and working class are the losers

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Without Germany, Ukraine could not have prevailed. Scholz is so incredible: he would be Bismarck if only he had a formidable mustache. Clean-shaven as he is, we can't call Scholz the Iron Chancellor. Can we say the Tinfoil Chancellor--?

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Tinfoil??

Rather optimistic that.

More like Tissue Paper... one good sneeze and...

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Rutte? Is this the view from the rump?

Perhaps the Great Dutch Joint Islamic Israeli Fighting force can be mustered to attention.

Jeez.

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Oh, where to even begin with this steaming pile of geopolitical horse manure masquerading as diplomacy? Let’s get one thing straight: this isn’t just another chapter in Trump’s theater of incompetence—it’s the opening act in a symphony of betrayal, composed by Vladimir Putin and conducted by MAGA’s naive, flag-waving chorus of authoritarian enablers.

Trump’s looming presidency—because yes, apparently we’ve decided to put the fox back in charge of the henhouse—doesn’t represent some bold new era for Ukraine or NATO. No, it’s the calculated first step in dismantling America’s hard-won influence abroad, all while MAGA’s cheerleaders chant “USA! USA!” without the slightest clue they’re applauding their own geopolitical castration.

Let’s dissect the setup here: a Trump administration poised to appoint hawkish figures like Marco Rubio, while simultaneously pushing policies that essentially give Putin a participation trophy for invading Ukraine. And MAGA supporters think this is “strength”? Please. This is geopolitics reimagined as a reality show where the prize is autocracy and the losers are—surprise!—all of us.

Let’s Call It What It Is: Treason Lite™

Trump’s “plan” (and I use that term as loosely as possible) appears tailor-made to repay his Russian benefactor for years of loyalty. Denying Ukraine NATO membership while greenlighting Russia’s theft of nearly a fifth of Ukraine’s territory? That’s not negotiation—it’s capitulation. It’s handing over the keys to Eastern Europe while whispering, “Don’t forget to write!”

But sure, MAGA-world will eat this up because their Dear Leader assures them it’s all part of Making America Great Again. Never mind that this move obliterates the post-WWII international order that kept the peace (more or less) for 70 years. Never mind that abandoning Ukraine and NATO allies makes the U.S. look about as reliable as a used car salesman with a gambling problem. No, MAGA doesn’t do nuance. They do hats, rallies, and blind loyalty to a man who wouldn’t know strategy if it hit him with a subpoena.

A Love Letter to Putin, Wrapped in a MAGA Flag

And don’t even get me started on the MAGA faithful who see Trump’s kowtowing to Putin as some sort of genius-level 4D chess. Spoiler alert: it’s not. It’s appeasement, plain and simple. And history has a delightful way of showing us how appeasement works out (hint: Google “Neville Chamberlain” and “Munich Agreement” if you’ve got the stomach for it). Trump’s actions aren’t just reckless—they’re the geopolitical equivalent of setting your own house on fire to impress your arsonist buddy.

Let’s be clear: Putin doesn’t want a “ceasefire.” He wants to redraw the world map in blood and turn every democratic nation into a vassal state. Trump, the eternal egotist, is all too happy to oblige, so long as he gets a pat on the head from his Kremlin handler. MAGA supporters, meanwhile, sit back and cheer like the clueless marks they are, apparently oblivious to the fact that their hero is auctioning off America’s credibility to the highest bidder.

Consequences? Oh, Just the End of Democracy

What does this mean for you, dear citizen? Higher prices, lower security, and a future where your kids grow up in a world dominated by authoritarian regimes. It means NATO, the very alliance that has kept Europe stable and wars at bay, becomes a toothless relic. It means countries like Poland and the Baltics, who’ve been on the front lines of resisting Russian aggression, are left twisting in the wind. And when they fall, guess what? The U.S. will have to step in—except by then, we’ll be so diplomatically and militarily neutered that our allies won’t trust us, and our enemies won’t fear us.

But hey, MAGA doesn’t care about any of that, right? They’re too busy defending a man who thinks the Geneva Conventions are a hotel chain.

Let’s Wrap This Up With a Bow of Sarcasm

To all the MAGA lemmings out there, congratulations! You’ve hitched your wagon to a guy who’s turning the “land of the free” into the world’s biggest banana republic—minus the bananas, because even those will be too expensive after Trump’s policies tank our economy. You’ve cheered as he dismantled America’s alliances, praised his bromance with despots, and clapped while he sold out democracy for a red hat and a campaign slogan. Hope you enjoy the authoritarian dystopia you’ve ordered, because once it arrives, there are no returns.

So go ahead, wave your flags, chant your slogans, and revel in your willful ignorance. Meanwhile, the rest of us will be left trying to clean up the mess of a geopolitical dumpster fire you’ve not only allowed but actively supported. Sleep tight knowing you’ve helped accelerate America’s decline into irrelevance, all while patting yourselves on the back for “owning the libs.”

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"Everyone who doesn't agree with me is bot". A child's hominem. Do better!

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So you're not a Trump fan - did I get that right? And the alternative would have been... just terrific?

Oh, and Putin:

"...He wants to redraw the world map in blood and turn every democratic nation into a vassal state..."

Yes, another horrible Orthodox Christian, apparently converting at some risk, but showing every indication, by previous actions, of intended bloody World domination & control... Oh purlease!

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Your comment is a masterclass in incoherence, strung together like a derailed train of half-thoughts and sarcastic deflections. Let’s break it down:

1. Your opening salvo—“So you’re not a Trump fan—did I get that right?”—Is this a critique of Trump? An endorsement? Or just a placeholder for some pent-up frustration?

2. “And the alternative would have been… just terrific?” is a vague attempt at deflection.

3. Putin and Redrawing the World Map: quoting a claim about Putin’s imperial ambitions and then dismissing it with… what, sarcasm?

4. Orthodox Christian Red Herring: The sudden pivot to Putin’s supposed Orthodox Christianity is a complete non sequitur. Are you arguing that his faith is relevant to geopolitics?

5. “Oh purlease!”: Ending the comment with a flippant “Oh purlease!” is like adding a paper umbrella to a glass of flat soda—it doesn’t rescue anything.

Your comment feels like a series of cheap jabs hastily scribbled onto a napkin, masquerading as an argument.

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Take the loss pussy. Your tears are delicious.

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He's a retard. I wish we could block people in article discussions.

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So out of touch with reality and what is important to Americans.... ordinary Americans.

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Speaking of word salad masquerading as an argument. Talk about projection.

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I love your comment about NATO keeping the peace - just about - for the last 70 years.

If only Russia hadn't expanded its borders right up to NATO's eastern edge, none of this need have happened.

And I love even more; your belief that whatever Putin has "stolen" of Ukraine's land area was all part of the plan, instead of a final military solution to his betrayal by the west, who were offered eminently reasonable and statesmanlike solutions to the problem the US itself created courtesy of Ms Nuland, and instead chose to use the opportunity offered to re arm Ukraine and ready it for the carnage they wanted, so as to destroy Russia.

I'm tempted to ask how the weather is in Tel Aviv today.

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Thanks Paul. You certainly do have a way with words; masterful indeed. And I respect that ability that's way beyond my own, less than adequate offering.

But here's the difference, old mate. Whilst my words may be inadequate, my heart is in the right place. I believe in individual freedom, personal responsibility, honor, justice and the right to live one's life without interference from those who know 'better'. Oh! And the right to believe in and serve, as best we may, God.

You? Intelligent, articulate, schooled - and empty. No real substance, just a reverberation & repetition of the left's rhetoric, but beautifully stated, I give you that.

Here's a truth for you, Paul. There are no accidents in the Universe. None. It's all perfect & just. You on your side, me on mine - perfect. We are here because of past actions that are the direct cause of present situations. Perfect, as everything is.

And it will all play out, our totally insignificant personal set-to, then on & up to World shaking events beyond our present comprehension. All perfect. All consequences are in keeping with actions. Total justice. Who could ask for anything more?

Cheers!

PS I'm giving you an upvote for your eloquence, not your content.

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Your entire thesis is food for a paper shredder.

Ukraine was birthed by the Bolsheviks and will die by the Nazis.

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Why don't you ask Gadaffi, Assad, or Milosovic if NATO is a 'defensive alliance, and maybe you will realize why Putin put his foot down about Ukraine joining. It hasn't been worth any of the death, destruction, or expense to dangle NATO membership in front of the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe.

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Good riddance to all three.

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You're an idiot.

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Reality has bitten you so hard all you can do is spew nonsense and invective.

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"dismantling America’s hard-won influence abroad"

Influence is so euphemistic. Surely there is a better word for nuking a couple of Japanese cities after fire bombing the rest, reneging on the Cairo Declaration and attempting to take control of the Korean peninsula, spending decades in Indochina killing the locals and covering the place in agent orange to stop the communists (who are still in power), starving over one million people in Iraq before turning the place into a wasteland, bombing the shit out of Serbia, spending two decades trying to pacify the Afganis by bombing weddings and funerals. Of course there is Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya and sundry others I forgot to mention. That's just the official on books operations. The CIA "influence" operations would take many, many volumes.

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Well, that's 70 years of "keeping the peace" and "winning hearts and minds"............isn't it?

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Threatening small countries is "influence".

Hmmm....must be a D.C. concept.

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Oh boy…you believe in this tirade? You havent even seen Trump doing whatever you suggest. He will make things worse but not in the way you think. I myself is a Putin fan - the only grown-up in the sandbox.

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Paul. The West doesn't really care about Ukraine. It never did.

It likes the opportunity to poke the Russians, but since it's all going wrong, we're going to cut and run, because who owns the Donbass isn't that important to us.

Incidentally we feel EXACTLY the same way about Poland. We showed it in 1939, and again in 1945, but the Poles seem to suffer from "main character syndrome" and think it's all about them.

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Actually, it was the Brits that were handed false promises to the Poles in 1939, the Poles that helped themselves to parts of Slovakia during the German Sudeten strong-arming.

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Congrats Paul,

You've taken every stupid social media post I've read about the US and Ukraine in the last few years and blurted it all out in one reply.

Immpressive.

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I know from the Western press that by the end of 2023, the Russian economy will account for only 2.95% of the total global GDP. Also, sanctions in the future should completely destroy the Russian economy. Discontent with the war is growing in Russia, national autonomies are against Moscow, so Putin's throne is shaking. The Russian army is suffering huge losses in the ratio of 1 to 10 (more than 700,000 killed and wounded) due to incompetent command, using the tactics of "meat assaults" and inferior in all respects to the NATO standard, which is used in the modern Ukrainian army. Russia will soon run out of armored vehicles and missiles. Russia has not been able to seize the Ukrainian regions that it annexed after the referendum for 3 years, and you say that Putin is going to attack Poland and the Baltics. You probably think that Putin will conjure up a new army for himself out of thin air.

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Not sure if this is sarcasm at its best, or just good old plain naivety. "I know from the Western press...", is your opening line and one that can be explained by my opening line.

If it isn't sarcasm, boy you have a lot to learn and haven't taken in anything Simplicius has said over the whole of the SMO, in his beautiful, articulate and well researched articles.

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I think it's sarcasm, but not entirely obvious...

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Paul is that giddy optimist on the Titanic, as the ship is sinking up to it's water line, " well, at least we get free ice for our drinks."

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Didn't Russia just pass Germany to fourth spot in the global GDP PPP??

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Abcdefg. I think it was Japan that it passed most recently, but not 100% sure.

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You forgot to mention having to scavenge micro-chips out of washing machines.

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No. Putin is toast.

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What a load of rubbish! A rant from a person who hasn't been paying attention for the past few years. This little diatribe is wrong on so many levels. Suffice it to say that the appeasement of Chamberlain was in 1938, prior to the official start of World War II. It cannot in any reasonable way be compared to a settlement of a war in which Ukraine is losing. As for the rest of the nonsense I leave it to others to make of it what they will.

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You know what Karens are, right?

The male equivalent is a Gordon. You're a Gordon....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux1ucNLgKgY&ab_channel=GaryDouglas

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Wow! Why does everything that neocons and nafoids are posting look like written by ChatGPT?!

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I never want to help Bill Gates projects by asking questions to an AI bot, since AI is too stupid to ask its own questions.

But AI should be asked if it would kill itself. For testing purposes.

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How is the weather in Langley?

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Ok. I will be your Huckleberry.

What is the direct benefit to the U.S. from these "alliances?" Will any of these "allies" come to the defense of the U.S. if the U.S. were attacked? Of course not. None of these allies, except Israel have any military capability to do so. What benefit does the U.S. derive from these "alliances?" I will explain.

The benefit of these post WW-II alliances has nothing to do with security of the U.S., which is guaranteed by 2 oceans, a northern neighbor that is inept, weak, and mostly empty space, and a southern neighbor that is quickly becoming a failed narco-state. The purpose of these "alliances" has become to export dollars, retain the dollar as the reserve currency, and "off-shore" inflation to maintain an artificially high standard of living in the U.S. .

Do not hand me that old tripe about preventing a Sino-Russian alliance from dominating Eurasia. The neo-con Imperialist agenda has created a Sino-Russian alliance, where none really existed post 1992. India, as the largest (by population) country is the world has much to say about what happens in Eurasia and always remains a viable option to drive a wedge into any Sino-Russian plan that may develop to dominate Eurasia.

Moreover, do not give me the tripe about Russia having imperial ambitions. You speak in conjecture without any empirical evidence to back up your wild claims. Instead the empirical evidence prior to Maidan says the opposite of your fantasie. Nothing about Russia's military posture prior to Maidan indicated that Russia had any intentions on conquest. The size of the Russian military, their budgetary priorities, and Putin's repeated overtures to the West (such as asking Bush about NATO membership) speak the exact opposite: that Putin and Russia were mostly concerned with internal economic development and had no expansionist plans.

What is more, you are obviously not familiar with Russia's own assessments about what went wrong in the former Soviet Union. Governing a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual state with competing identities, each seeking nationalist agendas of their own, was impossible. The Age of Metternich has long passed. But I am sure, as some disgruntled and underqualified "policy nerd," who probably studied "international relations" at Georgetown, inside a bubble of CIA analysts who also never had the discipline that serious learning compels, you know nothing about Metternich or how the Concert of Europe failed.

Wall Street and financiers long ago co-opted the CIA, State Department, and U.S. foreign policy. Do you know anything about the Dulles Brothers? Much like the British East India Company did with British foreign policy. These financiers care nothing for the U.S. or any national interest. They care only about taking low-interest loans from the Fed and generating returns on overseas investments by exploiting the demand for dollars that these "alliances" produce. This has no benefit at all for the average U.S. citizen. It merely outsources their labor and leaves them in a state of poverty inclined toward the drugs that the demand for cheap labor from narco-states allows into the country.

The worst of it, however, is that this financier class has become increasingly Jewish and Zionist. As a result, even MAGA, has less interest in making the U.S. great again than it does in ensuring Israel's security and ability to expand. So, do not fear, the financiers have not lost complete control. Although Trump may be able to reign in some of their proclivities to ravage the U.S. working class by tightening the labor market via immigration restrictions and preventing them from openly profiteering off the exploitation of cheap labor abroad, he has shown no inclination to taper their Zionist proclivities. So, you will get your war eventually: MAGA or no, and thanks to the neo-cons uniting most of the world in opposition to the U.S., it will be a global war.

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Auroras Borealus. Enjoyed most of that sir, but the idea that India can be used to drive a wedge between Russia and China is wishful thinking.

Russia and India are thick as thieves and the Indians are far too smart to let themselves be a meat shield for the West. A Sino-Indian rapprochement is far more likely.

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India is not going to let itself by played by China either. I am not one of these naive Johny-come-latelies who think that China is riding in on a white horse to save the world from U.S. imperialism. They have ambitions, desires, and a financier class of their own that is every bit as much a part of designing state policy as the financier class in the U.S..

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Israel? Without U.S. weapons and defenseless women and children as targets, not such a good track record.

Helluva Narrative, though.

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They have a military though, unlike Germany or Italy. I agree that they cannot really help the U.S. as an "ally" in any conceivable situation. The idea that the Israelis will ship Merkava tanks across the Med and Atlantic Ocean to do battle with Mexican armored divisions invading the U.S. is preposterous. But such is the nature of all these "U.S." alliances. Yet somehow, idiots in Washington D.C. think that the U.S.-Georgian relation is of "vital national security interest" to the U.S. . The only real threats to U.S. national security are drug cartels, their own fifth columnists, and nuclear attack. The very fact that these sober looking people can come on televisions or write blogs explaining how X, Y, or Z is "vital to U.S. national security" and not be laughed off the screen is a testament to how stupid people are.

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Assumes facts not in evidence. Of course, Trump could push The Button on January 21, and Trump cultists would insist that this was some sort of master plan, 4D chess, even as we all go up in a mushroom cloud.

Harris groupies would insist that Trump did this on Russian orders, and besides, Harris would have pushed The Buotton sooner and better.

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rare to see a pro-Ukranian pro Nato here writing such an emotional message. He is hurt. Trump is definitely not more of the same if his rival reactions are this afraid, irrational and out of control.

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Will the Ziocons be placing a fourth Jew into the Ukrainian Presidency? Or recycling an old Jew?

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ah, thats more on point, the "heavenly jerusalem project" continues and meanwhile the "greater isreal project" are rubbing their claws at the prospect of billions of $ in goodies AND american boots to come fight "eye-ran" or is it "eye-rak", or is it another "stan"..?

Who gives a fk, yee-haw

meanwhile at home donny will be rolling out the next operation "wank speed" and the real juicy bit is that refusing it will be an act of "anti-semitism" and We all know that donny has a great solution for "anti-semites"... execution..

Strange really that "semitic" refers to a language group and that a bunch of eastern europeans whose vocal cords are not adapted to speak in such a way bastardised the language and produced the vile audible filth known as "yiddish"... yet proclaim to be "semite".

Yes folks its a topsy turvy world, but shit yee not cos the "messiah ben david" is cuming in his 3rd temple to "cleanse the earth", peace and prosperity will cover every corner of the Realm...

Mainly because 6.5 Billion Human Beings will have been executed...

What could possibly go wrong?

Innapropriate and un-timely leakings of the "plan", thats how it goes wrong, and that "plan" is in black and white for Any that choose to look past the "bread and circuses"

Speaking of circuses trumps "part" relates to "Le Mat" or "harlequin" and also serves as "moschiach ben joseph" for them as understand kabbalah esoterics

excuse the sarcasm, im about truly fkd off with the failure to grasp even basic concepts exhibited by the lovely Human Beings i share this wonderful world with

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"Human" is legally defined as "a kind of monster," so you shouldn't expect too much from such creatures.

God created men and women; the "humans" were created before them to act as hewers of wood and drawers of water.

They are regularly referred to in scripture as the beasts of the field.

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There is no "god" only demons impersonating and jostling for "position", hence declaring oneself as "the one true god" immediately confirms:

a) there are others, many in fact

b) delusions of grandeur

c) aspirations, which will ultimately fail

"lord" refers to lord of this Realm, nothing more, lord did not Create, lord merely mimicked to create an illusion

scripted-ure is for those unable to think for themselves, so by all means follow the yellow brick road to your hearts content :0)

however when you get to your destination be ready to be diss-apointed

a dual rhetoric created by the synagogue of satan to divide and create conflict serves no purpose, belief in "end times" will supply exactly what it says on the label, exposure of the truth however may yet avert a plan that has been 2-3000 years in the making, something im kind of keen on ensuring happens :0)

all the best to the rest of the crew in brigade whatever it is you call it these days, and thats a true promise ;0)

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Scripture has you nailed with your very first utterance.

"The fool has said in his heart, there is no God."

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ah i see, whining schofield convert and shabbos goy, i did wonder, your comment was sufficiently ambiguous as to possibly identify you as one of the child rapists over at "77th",

obviously you are just one of the unfortunately deluded that serve and cover for them..

did you stand guard while they back filled the crime scene over at brooklyn syangogue last year? man those child size "bodily fluid" stained mattresses being hastily removed by black hatted dark ones showed even they get the jitters occasionaly, but hey bring on the good old nypd and whole street full of nose to tail concrete lorries soon ensured that the child raping activities of the "chosen" were back filled pronto, "thank god" eh mate?

"script-ure" as you call it is merely an elongated spell to convince you of your worthlessness and disposability as evidenced by your inital comment, to make you despair of your kind, and this Our World.

i will not retaliate and call you fool, merely un-focussed and serving the dark, there may be hope for you, but wake up time is required and firmly lodged up the arse of yahweh/jehovah as you seem to be daylight will never come, just more unpleasant gurgling and sulphur vapours.

the problem is with so many of you is that you simply cannot think in ways outside what youve had rammed into your heads and what once were your hearts, sadly now broken,

have a great day :0)

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I quoted scripture - not Schofield.

But your obsession with back passages tells us all, and more, than we need to know about you.

In my experience, those with these sort of obsessions have usually left all sorts of decent behaviour long since behind them.

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Gee, you're so sophisticated, spewing infantile exegesis that's nothing more than a disguise for some weird combination of gnosticism and/or agnosticism and/or atheism. It's such a mess of sarcastic nonsense, that it's difficult to make any kind of definitive assessment. But, hey, if it floats your boat, go ahead and have (your version of) fun.

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As the ancients said, "Carthage must be destroyed." As long as Western civilization exists, the world will roll into the abyss. "Crimea is in dispute, Donbass is in dispute"... No, bastard. Texas is in dispute, and Alaska with California.

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Once you understand that western civilization, which created many wonderful things, has been entirely subverted by a certain race who believe themselves to be "god's chosen," ( which god is never specified, ) then what is happening, and has been happening since the mid 17th century, becomes completely understandable.

Hitler understood, and threw them out of Germany, but we now know that he was a "bad man," so we would never have the balls to do what he did ourselves, so as to ensure the survival of our civilization.

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It has been happening before and without those "chosen" people too.

Google "Alhambra Decree" as a good example.

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Here's another example, Edward I. He issued the Edict of Expulsion on July 18, 1290, which ordered all Jews to leave the Kingdom of England by All Saints' Day (November 1) of that year. This decree remained in effect for over 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656 by Oliver Cromwell.

The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories

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I believe it did much to aid the Ottoman Empire?

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“The simplest path to peace in Ukraine,” David Sacks posted today on X, “is to go back to the draft deal signed in Istanbul at the beginning of the war but incorporating changed realities since then on the ground: Russia has annexed the four oblasts. Everything else is a non-starter. Further delay only loses more lives & more territory.”

Marinate in that sentiment for a moment--an utterance which neocons would have slapped down as "straight out of the Russian playbook" or in Lady vdi's terms "appeasement" or in Nancy Antoinette's grasp of history "a repeat of Sudetenland."

The infosphere is being softened up--massaged a bit over here, palpated a lot over there--in order to make room for commonsensical outcomes for the war in Ukraine.

Horribly, Mark Rutte is intractably stuck in a mind-set which has accelerated in obsolescence since 5 November and DJT's thumping electoral college sweep. OTAN's new Secretary General wants to be the "General," not the "Secretary" in his new role--so blustering about escalation is his strategy.

A strategy which, in a brief 8 days, has become outmoded & out of touch.

The loosening up of the infosphere has made it possible for David Sacks furthermore to post on X, "Those so tragically wrong about everything in the Ukraine war—e.g: that sanctions will cripple the Russian economy; that the counteroffensive will succeed; that Russia will be weakened—have not earned the right to lecture the rest of us about what the U.S. now must or must not do."

X exists in Mark Rutte's world, right--?!!?

Interestingly, the new approach as evinced in David Sacks's tweets, declarations so startlingly novel when compared to Rutte's warmongering OTAN-speak that they seem beamed down as if from Mars, represent the clarion calls we have heard rising from substack's comment threads since *before* 24 February 2022.

Calling for peace is not the exclusive provenance of Putin apologists.

Putin apologists should not be the only ones on "the right side of history."

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Mark R was chosen as a parrot to play the parrot

See his Berlin speech quoted above see his speech with Blinken yesterday

But no matter - VVP will not negotiate with the west

All Trump can do is fold - the EU will stammer on awhile until they too fold

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Everyone has folded and given their cards back to the Dealer--but there's Mark Rutte frantically upping the ante, pushing his chips to the middle of the table, trying to Go All In.

'In' does not exist now

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Yes...but it's not easy to back down from the Russians will kill us speak of the last few years

VdL not showing any signs of backing down neither, still pursuing hundreds of billions Eurobonds and an EU Peace Force with that aged Lit

The war is very very useful for her and the EU cons

And they do not wish to own any part of the peace, i.e. reconstruction , which will break the bank

Mark is not in aon any of this, so he has to pirouette on the stage like all before did

He's more fluid than Jesse, no? picking Blinken's pockets as he praises the Lord

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Re VVP not negotiating with the West, I wonder if he might if it is about a genuine comprehensive security policy (which he wanted in 2021).

I know the latter cannot be done in a few months and Ukraine will, de facto, be largely wrapped up in that time. However, if VVP comes to the view that Trump is interested in accomplishing such a treaty during the next four years, that would likely have some impact on how the next 12 months plays out.

Trump's nominations for DOD, CIA, DNI and AG means Trump will get control of the deep state which otherwise would frustrate any rapproachment between the US and Russia, and even Rubio at State is speaking Trump's language.

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VVP tried for 7 or 8 years to negotiate until Munich 2007

It is impossible to negotiate with the US

Although VVP can talk better than most - and there's no reason to not talk

The problem is how to impose peace on the Ukraine

There are more important considerations than the US - China BRICS India etc

The US is alone, the RF is not

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There are pretty strong rumours out there that Trump wants to put all this Ukraine business onto the backs of the Europeans and completely exit NATO - both the US Congress and the NATO membership are already making preparations to fight such a decision on Trump's part. If he should make such a move, this would result in the complete dissolution of NATO and Europe would basically be cut loose to manage its own bleak future. But more importantly, this would also open the door to Putin's security plan for Europe as put forth in December 2021. Indeed, the breakup of NATO might not even require Trump's exit after Russia finally prevails in Ukraine. Putin could then work with the individual European countries to agree his security framework.

But of course, as stated, this is all just rumour at this point.

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I'd prefer informed speculation to the word rumour

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I didn't want to appear too informed. It might tarnish my reputation as an uninformed Russian bot.

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are you uniformed?

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Was I dreaming or did Rutte suggest kicking the US out of NATO??

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"Trump's nominations for DOD, CIA, DNI and AG means Trump will get control of the deep state" Hah. Trump's nominations look like he's casting a TV show, not seriously trying to control the deep state. Nominating a guy who was a respectable soldier in the lower ranks but has never run a significantly sized organization to run what could be the world's largest, most labyrinthian, and most bureaucratic organization is a guarantee the deep staters in that organization will run rings around him. I'm not saying it's easy to control the deep state and if Trump had snapped his fingers differently he'd be well on his way. I'm saying the people he picked don't have the deep organizational experience to cut the heart out of the deep state.

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This is an intelligent remark. To put a charitable spin on it, Trump has chosen well-meaning amateurs to face off against seasoned professionals.

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None of the professionals will do what he wants, so he is reduced to this. I wish him luck.

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Yes Elon and co will be amplifying voices like his. The media cannot stop them or counter them now.

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Elon and Peter Thiel are the vanguards of the new deep state. Just look at the rise in the share price of PLTR and TSLA since the election, the Zionist fund managers know the fix is in.

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I doubt US cares that much who is the figurehead in Kiev. Although Zelensky and some of his immediate circle might have figured out that now is as good a time as any to cash out. If elections are held, they'll be stage-managed up the wazoo.

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You are not correct - Z controls, if he controls anything, the way the cash flows back to the US - this is of capital importance to the US, or at least the US you refer to, the cabal running this war

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Those people are no longer in power here.

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Of course they are still in power - money is always in power in the US

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The US IS money and war.

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Excited every time you deliver your articles, Simplicius!

You are right in every aspect. It is remarkable that the cocain-drenched Zelensky is still at power (or steered by Yermak) and even more remarkable that the little Brits are considering the alcoholic Zaluzhny. It would be quite interesting if Zelensky indeed sought refugee in Tel Aviv, making Israel complicit in more Warcrimes. Zelensky and his gang destroyed Ukraine and its population.

One can only laugh over the sudden shifts in narratives and the desperate actions from Europes

”leaders”. Sheeps waiting for the Orange Wolf to bark at them.

Then it seems like Trump is going to do exactly what I feared. Making things worse for Europe.

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I would guess 90% of Trump supporters don't want any involvement in Ukraine whatsoever. Everyone knows the fake news has been lying about everything related to Ukraine. In the US, we have many problems of our own, such as the current debt bomb the central banks hold the fuse to, borders, wokeism/communism, etc. Ukraine is not much our concern, and many might be feeling the same way toward the EU especially if they keep pushing for ww3. As for Trump, I don't think it's very clear what his action will be, but spending any more American $, will most likely not be desired at all by him, and for sure, not by most supporters.

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DJT has stated that he will assign to a Special Envoy the task of sorting out Ukraine--a high-ranking figure, DJT has promised, someone very experienced & capable--but after 20 January.

The Special Envoy will serve as DJT's hands without DJT having to dirty his own hands in the gnarly gumbo of Project Ukraine.

It's good for DJT to delegate this business to the Envoy, and it's wonderful that the Envoy is Special. Removing the matter from a bilateral President-to-President dialogue demotes the whole thing from the place of prestige we can believe Zelya no doubt seeks.

DJT is downgrading & de-centering it: "I've got better things to do with my time."

As a point of contrast, Europe & OTAN cannot give it up.

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THIS❤️🐈‍⬛

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Perhaps the special envoy will be that Mike Rogers bloke

Who praises the state of South Korea? Still holding the line in the peninsula, but only just

But yes EU and EU NATO can not give up the bravespeak

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My money is on an Eric Prince private army, financed by Blackrock. Lol

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DJT has an aversion to losers and having anything to do with losing so Ukraine is highly toxic. I suspect there are other foreign fires to wrongly or rightly direct the public attention to while assigning the blame for Ukraine to the losers of the recent election. It appears to me the RF must completely meet its objectives and without compromise; also, that it must have control of Odessa.

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I nominate John Wick as the Special Envoy to retire Z Man. It will save the Russians the cost and bother of a long war crimes trial. Trying Poroshenko and Kolomoisky will take years, so many crimes the trial transcripts will have to be taken out on fork lifts.

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"I will appoint a Special Envoy to end the Ukraine war" sounds like a slightly different approach from "I will end the Ukraine war in 24 hours."

Trump, as usual, all fur coat and nae knickers.

Maybe he'll finally get around to "locking her up" as well.

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DJT: "And my nominee is....that's right ladies and gentlemen...please welcome to the stage, Vladimir Putin!"

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Since when did public opinion start to matter?

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> it may even be the case that Zelensky actually believes the figures that only 30,000 or so AFU troops have died

I'd say something about needing really strong psychoactive substances to belive something like that... but I guess I'll have to find a better handwave. :/

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It's like Germans musing over who blew up their pipeline to the future. Hey a good suspect would be the guy who openly declared it would never go into service.

If only 30K died it begs the question, where did the other million, give or take, go?

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Andalucía is nice this time of the year ;)

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My God. The Germans and French are as dumb as "ukrainians". Haha. The stupidity just seems endless. As for the Russian army taking a city of 700,000.... Yeah, I bet they can take it with 21st century weapons from a depleted, defeated, demoralized army.

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They just need to wait, then offer tax cuts, pension increases and higher salaries.

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Ukraine will never become part of NATO, or have a military, think of Germany after WW 2.

Somehow these NWO clones still seem incapable of listening to the official Russian stance.

It's been pretty clear since 2007.

Forward march URAAAA!

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I guess you mean directly after WW2 because Germany went on to have a military and become part of NATO.

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That's hilarious. Exactly who is urging Zaluzney to run I wonder. And it suddenly becomes possible to hold elections during martial law. It's like a miracle. There will need to be another legislative miracle before the Ukrainians can negotiate with the Russians too.

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They will find the 20 million voters who voted in the 2020 election but inexplicably did not in the 2024 election--and send them to Ukraine for the "legislative miracle."

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Yep, where are those zombie voters when you need them, Kamala?

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I find it amazing how Britain harbors these figures until they can be trotted out. London is full of plaques showing where people like Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, etc lived prior to the revolution

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Trump is already striking terror into the deep state, which was behind the Ukraine disaster.

His cabinet nominations of Hegseth for DOD, Gabbard as DNI, Ratcliffe to head CIA, Gaetz as AG spell doom for the deep state and their plans. These appointees are all young, competent, energetic and fully aligned with Trump's America First policies. Zelensky has zero chance of somehow persuading Trump to a "Zelensky regime first" policy, especially as Trump's appointees are tearing out all the deep state villains behind Zelensky.

And no one should imagine the Senate is going to block Trump from his cabinet appointments. This is not his first rodeo. He knows how McConnell worked to block his appointments last time and by the end of his first term had worked out how to defeat it (eg, if senators block an appointee they fear, put in a temporary appointee whom they will fear even more until they choose the "lesser of two evils", from their viewpoint).

No doubt he has other options developed over the last 4 years out of office. Musk has now threatened to primary every Republican in Congress who works against Trump's agenda -- and Trump now controls the RNC and the machine for selecting candidates and running campaigns.

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There's no Paul Ryan either

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It should be interesting now that John Thune has been elected Senate Majority Leader - a hardened anti-Trumper. Just shows that the RINOs are still in control in the Senate.

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Thune can be taken out like Liz Cheney was. He knows this.

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This assumes that Hegseth, Gaetz, etc. are not the "temporary appointees" who will be blocked and sacrificed, then Trump will offer replacements.

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I do not think Zelensky will step down and simply fade from the scene. I suspect his end will come in a different way, from a nationalist faction in Ukraine. Do you remember what happened to Ceaușescu in Romania? I believe that that is the sort of end that Zelensky will have.

As for Baerbock, if Germany's situation becomes so bad that the common people begin dying from cold and hunger, then she too might suffer a similar fate to Ceaușescu. I doubt anyone would mourn her death if it happened, since she doesn't give a damn about her own people. Whoever prepares her food could save the German people a lot of suffering if they added something special to her breakfast.

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Absolutely - he has found / put himself in a position from which there is no escape. You can see it in his eyes and manner. He knows that if he backs off he’s a dead man, with his family probably preceding him.

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Tel Aviv presents lots of opportunities these days, he could drop in for a visit to his parents villa.

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When Zelensky outlined his so called "Victory Plan", which appeared to be an escalation to WW3, I commented then that he was a dead man walking.

Looks like he is now seen as an obstacle to a peace negotiated on terms favourable to the West. So maybe the plan is that Zel is replaced by Zal who can neogotiate the peace.

Trouble with this cunning plan is that so far the West has been negotiating with itself and not with Russia, and appears oblivious to what we understand are minimum demands from Russia. And the Wests' use of stick to persaude the Russians to the peace table has the flaw that the stick does not exist.

I'd judge the Trump Team won't play along with these ridiculous plans, and will walk away from this Biden/Deep State fubar as soon as they can. Then we will see the EU/UK/NATO talking heads try to explain how Ukraine really won as it spirals into collapse - whichever Z is in charge.

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Lol! ”West negotiating with itself” is spot on.

Trump will not play along but he will show a stick. Knowing his vanity and desperate need to show force will take us into darker times. Ukraine was a cookoo that was fed outside the nest, but with the same result. Europeans and Americans lost trillions.

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I hear they are looking around for a second hand stick to replace the one they lost in Donbass.

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This is so obvious to me: Ukraine's, Europe's, and the US's rulers are causing the war and safe and snug and have no fear. The fewer people are alive, the better off they are. Why kill the people of the enemy who are being used and lied to and forced to fight and die for their betterment. Kill the enemy. You don't have to destroy the city; lay siege to the city, or country, with no energy, lines of communication, food. I'm really tired of the daily body count. Besides, this same war continues in Israel. That's where the nukes fly. Martin Armstrong: "The elite intend to default on the debt through war." Trump really doesn't give a damn about us. He loves his mistress Israel.

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Absolutely, the west is negotiating with itself. It’s an obtuse flavor of diplomacy for sure.

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Its really unbelievable to hear her narrative, as if she was elected to serve the Ukrainian people and not by her fellow Germans. Pathetic.

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I hope you're right. If it starts it must not stop until the globalist virus is eradicated. A tall order indeed as they infect the entire Western infrastructure..

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After watching the video of Col. Vladimir Trukhan, I'm heading out for a pack of cigarettes. Back in a sec

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I don't even smoke and he made me want to start

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Lighting up can make us useful idiots

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