I think a lot of American elected-for-life professional politicians, their agents and minions (both inside and outside this disaster of a government), a fully owned, fully manipulated, fully controlled, fully propagandized mainstream media, will have to die before the world gets back to simply spinning on its axis. Nobody will shed a tear when all this goes away. Maybe tears of joy.
What is Don's problem acting with such reckless abandon?
Don has reached an age where the thought of sex alone is equated with hard labour.
Look at how miserable Melania looks next to him. It's unusual for a good-looking lady to look consistently straight-faced and unhappy. Now let's take this further.
The only time I have seen Melania look happy is when she gave Justin Trudeau that big double air kiss while standing next to Don. Meanwhile, Don is stuck beside Macron's husband thinking, "I ain't kissing that fruit cake". Macron's husband reaches over to air kiss Don, who wasn't as happy about it as Melania was pressing up to Justin. What an epic unforgettable scene. Exhibit A
Notice how Melania gets all lit up, as if wanting to press up against Justin, but she had to hold back from wanting to jump him right there on that stage with Don at her side. Don notices Melania being all lit up, but he can't act up in front of the press and make a big scene, so he suppresses his jealousy and acts coy, no big deal.
But, in reality, Don was fuming. That's why he attacked Canada first among nations with his tariff threat theatrics. He made Canada his enemy because of his subconscious feelings of inadequacy.
And because of Don's big ego and low testosterone, he was compelled to lash out at all countries with tariff theatrics to compensate for his inability to star in the sack the way he used to. In other words, Don is acting out in fits of hostility, inconsistency, lies, and deception because he's sexually frustrated and as President, he has the power to make the world miserable because he is past his prime performance years.
No matter what title a person carries, they remain vulnerable and humanly flawed and gifted just like anyone else.
The Spraytan Man juggles his prunes everyday looking in the mirror and wonders how he can pretend to have the world intimidated. The only thing that scares the rest of the world now is the US nuclear arsenal. As for Kanuckistan, Elbows Up eh!
lol. Haywood. Kanucksters voted in Carney, who's worse than Trudeau. Too bad for them. I self-declared my home an independent country, and so far it's working. Life is good. lol
Kanuckistanians from Ontario and then to the East voted in the globalist bag of used douche who is quite probably worse than Castreau Jr. "Elbows up, fear the Spraytan Man!!!" Poilievre had a 25 point lead and blew it because he kowtowed to those on the left and left of center instead of sticking to conservative principals. What was once a great nation is circling the drain in the shitter.
"Don has reached an age where the thought of sex alone is equated with hard labour."
Denis, I saw what you did there with the word "alone".
Much of the absurd strife afoot in the world could be mitigated if prostitution was made legal and readily available, everywhere. They say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one...
In conclusion...
Putin: "Donald, I see you are dealing with a border problem in your country. Serious stuff, no?
Now Donald, try, try, try to understand that we Russians have border problems of our own."
Trump was thinking, "shit, Putin had the opportunity to nominate me, Mr Wonderful, for the Swedish Prize and just walked away from the opportunity."
At the conclusion of this drama I thought Putin had a look of profound sadness and resignation. Knowing full well that the rest of what remains of Ukraine is going to get the hammer. Bigly....
The terms of the American surrender were negotiated.
What else was there to discuss? Russia will swallow Ukraine, and there's not a damn thing the crumbling GAE can do about it other than make the Russians go through the motions.
Correction - Russia will swallow not "all Ukraine" but Russia's historic lands squandered by Soviet bolsheviks/communists to buy support of the Ukrainian communists. Russia won't touch Galicia–Volhyn, etc., even if they beg on the bended knees to be absorbed by Russia
I get you Angelina - Russia wants Kiev back becasue Kiev was where Russia first became Christian. And I don't know the history of Odessa - but the book I read that story took place in Odessa and it was Russian, and the Tzar and his family came through that town on their train. To say nothing of how much the world could benefit from the land getting cleaned up and farmed by the great Russians.
If that's the case, Victor, why is Russia not invading to reoccupy part of its motherland? This is a bad optic for Russia if what you say is true, right?
"It is a purely Russian city - always has been and always will be -"
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"Odessa" was founded by Katherine at the site of a destroyed Muslim fortress. Which was in turn built by the Ottomans on a Byzantine site after Byzantine Orthodox types lost their grip on the site to the Muslims- and which the Byzantine had operated on a Bulgar city/port site after a friendly (to Byzantium) Bulgar ruler lost his life to a rebellion of the local peoples. And which the Bulgars themselves had built on an Imperial Roman site (I can't recall if republican Rome was there earlier too?). Anyhow, some Romans or others had built their port town in roughly that area on what had been a colonial Greek trading site before they knocked them on the head, going back before the Pontiac Greeks it gets hazy in my mind, I can't recall which earlier bronze age peoples & names but I'd bet there was a port city site in use nearly continuously by SOMEONE or other doing coastal trade at that river mouth clear back to Carthage if not the Phoenicians.
In short, Odessa is (POLITICALLY) Russian Empire then a port city of the USSR for last couple of centuries + but there are more layers to that general area than Troy itself- And the previous populations were never really eradicated. The Muslims came closest but even they couldn't ever catch & export them all as slaves, also they always needed some local slaves/converts/farmers to run the place profitably? Once Katherine had settled the Ottoman's hash and things were attractive & commercially active again, everyone from Greeks & other Mediterraneans + Germany and all the Baltic regions that traded on the river systems had trading houses (and often their own ethnic districts) in Odessa. Before the USSR, Odessa city population was frequently close to half expatriates from all over Europe & non Russian Empire Asia. So, Russian POLITICALLY from Katherine on through end of the last century- But there's a lot more if you scratch the surface.
(Marine archeology was one of my things and the Black Sea is thick with it.)
It's hard to swallow something partly without choking. These days MSM and left-leaning alternative media persist in claiming that Russia wants to capture ALL of Ukraine and then move on to NATO countries, which is preposterous of course. So we should take any opportunity to clarify that the last thing Russia wants to to take ethnically Ukrainian parts of Ukraine, where hatred of Russia is rampant. It would be like swallowing a porcupine (to elaborate your metaphor).
I don't think Ukraine will remain in its present form. Half the population is already abroad. There will be nobody left to hate Russia. They will hate Russia from their ethnic enclaves in Germany and Poland, where, to be sure, the Germans and Poles will despise them more than they ever despised the Russians. Anybody with a lick of sense that chooses to remain in Ukraine will be as Russian as they need to be.
but the JEWS - I hear there are many jews coming into Ukraine - west of where the fighting is, and that the Chabad Lubavitz wants to rename it Khazar and I do hear from a Ukrainian that there are Jewish only villages there.
In my opinion the future rump state of Ukraine does not have a bright future.
Most of the industry and natural resources will be in the Russian Oblasts, the population has collapsed and only kids, old people and women remain; the best land and infrastructure has been sold; and the war debts are colossal.
I wouldn't blame any Ukrainian for migrating either West or East.
Eventually they will return to the Russian orbit, 10-15 years, simply because the West doesn't want them.
And Russia is and will continue to be the place where the jobs are, and in the next generation, where the ‘good’ jobs will be (like being a master welder on a nuclear power plant project).
One problem Octavia is that they start to hate the West even more, one for the fact that they got manipulated into fighting a very costly proxy War, they've literally lost everything and two, the betrayal by the West by not putting their boots on the ground despite all the fine rhetoric of "for as long as it takes" etc and Bojo's exhortation, when Peace was nearly reached, to keep fighting, we've got your back, turned into keep fighting I'll hold your coat !
Any "left leaning" media claiming Russia wants to capture all of Ukraine and move on to NATO countries *isn't* "alternative" media. It's fully establishment.
I include Substack as alternative media. And as a subscriber to Bulwark+ I can certify that those claims about Russia’s intentions in and motives for undertaking the Special Military Operation are ubiquitous there.
That just means it's establishment democrats masquerading as alternative.
Basically the democrat's version of Rinos. Rinos have one set of billionaires that they obey, and Dinos have a different set of billionaires to cater to. They work together more than against each other.
Russia doesn't want the rest of Ukraine because it is full of Ukrainians, whom the Russians DO NOT want to rule over. They want back the territory they consider to be historically theirs and has been populated for the last 250+ years primarily by Russian speaking Russian nationals. They seem to want all territory east of the Dneiper and the (current) South East corner to the Romanian and Moldovan borders and a new border from Kviv to some point on the Moldovan border, as yet undetermined.
If USnato and whatever is left of the Ukrainian military are both stupid enough and capable enough (capability highly in doubt), they could probably push Russia into taking more territory to ensure a sufficient buffer zone between the current Russian/Ukrainian border and the new one, even if Russia does not really want to do so. On the other side of that balance, the west european voters are rapidly reaching a sufficient level of hatred of their own govt's that NATO likely won't survive long. When NATO dies, they will all be begging Russia to sell them energy at almost any price and their military budgets will go back to effective zero.
Yes. The political elites of Europe are so out of touch with their people that the EU will be working overtime in the coming years, declaring elections null/void (see Romania) as well as political parties. The AfD in Germany is now the most popular party. Once elections near, look for Mertz & the establishment to ban the AfD. Macron and his husband's approval rating has settled down to 17%. The UK is nearing civil war as the idiot Starmer cosplays Disraeli. Pathetic.
Thanks for your comment. If Mertz bans AfD I suspect that public opinion will sink to British levels or below. I have responded recently to Brit commentary that I can't see how things improve there with less than a civil war, as you note. This is a fundamental problem with European "democracies". None of the seem to have inviolable limitations on any kind of citizen right being destroyed by the gov't and legislature.
Unfortunately, Russia's strategic situation has gotten so bad now that even swallowing all of Ukraine is not going to fix it.
Go back to December 2021 -- what were the Russian demands formulated in those letters to the US? It was for a lot more than Ukraine, the demands were to effectively roll NATO back to pre-expansion positions.
What happened in practice?
1) In Ukraine itself, Ukraine may not be officially in NATO, but NATO is definitely in Ukraine and is firing into Russia pretty much 24/7.
2) Sweden and Finland joined and the US immediately started moving in and setting up bases
3) Moldova was flipped too
4) Now Trump has initially inserted US into Armenia/Azerbaijan, with prospects for them to go the Ukraine/Moldova route
5) Direct war started with Iran too.
Remember that even in Soviet times the USSR was effectively encircled. From the western direction by the Norway-FRG-Italy line, from the southwest and south by Greece, Turkey, Iran before the revolution, and the Gulf States, from the east by US positions in South Korea and Japan. It is so much worse now.
Sure, Ukraine is the sorest of sore points, and it has to be completely annexed and then de-Ukrainized. But Putin has not even set that as a goal. And even if he did and he accomplished it, everything else remains as major problems.
I think GM is actually a team of paid trolls. Otherwise they would have gone fromh all the cognitive dissonance that they spew out and have to rejustify everyday.. .so they have to take turns doing it to stay semi-sane, and thereby come across as 'plausible'.
Two major obstacles are the U.K. hatred of Russia and Yanklands greatest fear, and what it has fought for nearly 200 years, is the unification of Europe.
Yankland blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines and blaming Russia was a part of this. Yankland had already made too good to refuse offers for re-location to all of its vassal state Germany's biggest and most profitable companies.
Symbolically it starts with Khrushchev's trip to the US in 1959. Note that there are two type of people of peasant origin -- there is the kind that Stalin was, i.e. ascetic, rugged and uncompromising, and then there is the character that behaves like a tribal aboriginal seeing glass beads peddled by a Western merchant for the first time. Khrushchev was much more of the latter. So he goes to the US for two weeks, is very impressed by the consumerism he sees there, and he decides to compete with the US on consumerism. But if you are a communist country, you can never compete with capitalists on consumerism, it is fundamentally impossible, because resources are finite, you being communists also means you are not sucking real wealth from satellites, in fact most of the time you are subsidizing them, and internally being communist means a lot of resources are allocated to general societal welfare, which resources are then not available to pour into consumerism. Thus the moment you pursue such a goal, you put yourself at severe disadvantage. As real life indeed proved.
Then you have arms control treaties. Those started under Brezhnev, and were generally not in favor of the USSR if you analyze them. We will get to the worst of them in a minute. The only reason they were signed is that by a certain point in the early 1970s the USSR not only reached numeric parity in strategic armaments but started to pull ahead. Also, Brezhnev was not exactly the easily impressed and influenced peasant type that Khrushchev was, but still shared much of its characteristics, with some additional peculiar vanity added. At the end he too craved nothing more but "being at the table" with the Americans, and though he could play hard ball himself, he did give away a lot that he shouldn't have, because of that fundamental weakness.
Then Gorbachev came, who represented the thoroughly corrupted by the experience of the additional decades of building Soviet urban consumerism Khrushchev-kind peasant archetype, i.e. a fool that is extremely easy to play. Gorbachev gave everything away, without a fight, and he did it precisely by "dialogue", during a series of high-profile meetings with the enemy.
People will tell you how good it was that disarmament happened, but was it really good for Russia (and even the world)? Did the US ever think about firing missiles into Russia when Russia had 30,000 warheads ready to go? No, it didn't. But it does now. Why? Because there is a counter-intuitive dynamics at play here -- if there are strategic weapons, but below a certain threshold in number, then a temptation arises to think that you can neutralize a second strike or minimize it down to a level of "acceptable" damage. While if there are 5-10-20x as many strategic weapons, you just can't think that. So the world was, paradoxically, safer in the 1970s when Russia had 30,000 nukes, than it is now.
Also, Russia signing the INF was very bad for it, because the INF treaty killed intermediate-range ground-based missiles, but did nothing about sea and air launched ones. Problem is, who is the land power and who is the air and sea power in this conflict? Internally there was very serious opposition inside Russian security circles to the INF treaty, but they were not listened to. In the end the US pulled out anyway.
So in short, the history of "dialogue" with the US is one of Russian making concessions and unfavorable for it agreements, to the point that eventually the country collapsed and was set back 300 years, while it was at its strongest when it was in active opposition to the West and there was no dialogue. It is a general and very consistent pattern.
People meeting and discussing is always better without bayonets in between.
Chrustjov did clean out much of the odeur of Stalinism and for sure killed of the monster Berya. When he visited US, Eisenhower was President (and the Deep state on highest alert). They tried to overwhelm him with consumerism and a overwtacked schedule with the sole purpose to exhaust him. The peasant Chrustjov later had secret correspondence with Kennedy which was very important to let Russia know that US President was under pressure from inside shadowy forces. It didnt help to avoid the Cuba missile crisis but sure helped Kennedy to avoid WW3. Chrustjov was Ukrainian so was his protege Bresjnev.
The Nixon/Bresjnev talks was likewise important. As was Reagan/Gorbathchov.
Nixon was an outsider deeply hated by Deep State. He tried to do good but is remembered as a crook. Why?
Reagan was a product of Deep State but as such not aware of it. He was used as a front. His talks with Gorbatchov did give hope for a whole new world and opened up for a new optimism and prosperous times. Of course the Deep State used the situations to strangle what was left of USSR, mainly through the wanker Clinton.
Clinton who said flat NO to Russia entering NATO.
And what did the democrat Clinton achieve at all?, The democrat peace price winner Obama? The democratic zombie Biden?.
What did they achieve? Well they all achieved a fantastic return on investment for the weapon companies and their shareholders which is repaid in favorable book tours and real estate investment to make each of them millionaires hundreds of times over. The government bureaucracy nor its interim CEO cares nothing for America the nation or its inhabitants, nor does it have any vision beyond their bubble of rich friends. I stopped expecting politicians to care decades ago.
So many old people in power is why the world can't move forward. These old folks cling to their old feuds and remember old nation state borders and care about the old root causes. These old people are propped up by old money and old networks and do not understand how to adapt.
Today's generations do not care at all about history but they are being dragged down by it. A large dust up is inevitable at this point as the new world cannot emerge with this 20th century anchor, but it must emerge and the change will not be smooth.
Have some iodine at the ready and learn to like irradiated canned tuna.
"Note that there are two type of people of peasant origin -- there is the kind that Stalin was, i.e. ascetic, rugged and uncompromising, and then there is the character that behaves like a tribal aboriginal seeing glass beads peddled by a Western merchant for the first time."
Well put.
But this goes the world over and was done to the rural communities in UK and Europe. In simple terms, those who take the "King's shilling" and those that don't; that sell their communities out for shiny beads - you'll find similar stories across Europe long ago and then the US; that Yeoman Farmer republic Jefferson dreamed of sold out to Bankers etc and the international ghouls now plotting to sabotage Trump/Putin and ignite gross acts of terrorism and violence around the globe.
When Putin sat in Trump's car, I could picture Kaja jumping from the back to put a burlap bag over his head and sell him to the Hague for "more money to Ukraine :-)
Slobodan Milošević died in a UN detention centre in Hague after being indicted for various war crimes including genocide of which he was posthumously found to be not responsible for during the 92 to 95 Bosnian war. A heart attack they say .
Trump and Putin have always seemed to have good personal relations...Putin reiterated the same security needs that Russia requires, which Trump can't apparently can't grant, but the two men parted amicably and will probably meet in Moscow next month....That's a little better outcome than most of us expected...
Lavrov stepped off the plane with an CCCR marked sweatshirt (Russian for USSR) a fair warning on things to come. Especially after a flight menu of ‘chicken kyiv cutlets’ on the plane.
The 8/15/25 ‘productive’ meeting was interrupted after three hours with predictable zero results between Trump and Putin. Trump kept repeating in the days before that Zelensky gave him no authorization to deal with critical issues concerning territorial agreements. In addition Trump was representing a surrealistic US position, likely forced by the Deep State: A demand for ceasefire from Russia the nation that is generally viewed by experts as the winning party in the war. This narrative clearly wants to subjugate Russia to the US/NATO/Ukraine parties, the loser coalition, a clear sign that they are out of sync with reality. The difference is unbridgeable and this is why they walked away without any results. In the next few days Trump’s threats will fly in the air like so many pieces of virus infected bird doo-doo. On the other hand the reality is becoming darker and darker for the US/NATO/Ukraine party. After India, China, North Korea, Iran and BRICS openly sided with Russia, Indonesia with 300 million people and major fossil fuel needs is coming around to the Russian side. The clock of global geopolitics is turning and Trump is standing, doing nothing to stop the process. This slow tectonic shift is going back and was predicted by political scientists all the way to 1991. In the following decade the Russian Federation could have been bought for pennies on the dollar to join the West, they were actually begging to be incorporated. In the following decades seven US administrations systematically blocked Russia to join and there were two Trump administrations in this act. In the last two decades commie Merkel and a bunch of undesirables from Europe together with the US declared Russia as public enemy No.1 and now the results are here.
But yes, this went as well as it could be hoped for, at least officially there was no betrayal.
Trump didn't sound very confident in his statement either, and that statement was very brief. Sounded like the Russian delegation played hard ball for a change
You got the point :))) Although Russian is not my ‘native language’, I don’t even speak it but I am familiar with their ABC and have to balance a half dozen languages in my mind where my knowledge ranges from rudimentary to the fluent.
Actually, the letter that looks like a backwards Latin R is pronounced "Ya".
From the high quality of your other commentary I know you meant "No wonder we have so much misunderstanding between us." as a tongue-in-cheek bit of humor, but as they say there is often a kernel of truth in humor.
In this case the kernel of truth has to do with the root of the US's misunderstanding of both the written script and of Russia overall, replacing the thuddingly obvious with bizarrely delusional claims: those misunderstandings arise from the very poor education most Americans get.
The Cyrillic alphabet used by Russia is basically a combination of the Latin alphabet Americans use for English and the Greek alphabet known to well-educated people in the West for over two thousand years, including today. That's because Russia was the intellectual inheritor of the Roman Empire, which lasted in the East in Constantinople for a thousand years after it collapsed in the West. It collapsed in the West in a decrepit Rome after Constantine and the Roman emperors who followed moved the capital of the Roman Empire East to Constantinople, closer to where all the money was and away from an economically impoverished West (...hey! ... that's what's going on today, too...).
It's true that it has become rare for Americans to know Greek, but well-educated people know enough of the Greek alphabet from basic math and science to be able to read Russian without confusion from letters similar to Latin use.
Some examples of Greek letters used in the Cyrillic alphabet:
If you don't know Greek pi you're mathematically illiterate. The Russian letter for "P" is simply pi: П.
The letter for "D" is delta, written as the classic triangle with serifs in most fonts: Д
The letter for "L" is lambda, usually written with a curved left leg in most fonts: Л
The letter for "F" is Phi, the "F" sound in Greek and looking exactly the same in Russian language as it appears in numerous fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa sweatshirts in the US: Ф
The "G" is upper case gamma: Г
The letter for a hard "E" sound, as in "end" is Greek epsilon, but written backwards: Э - that's to allow using a similarly shaped "E" for the "e" sound as in "lean".
Letters that confuse English speakers:
The Russian letter for English "R" is the Greek letter Rho, which is "P", or in script, "ρ". Latins didn't use "pi" but instead used a letter that looks like Rho for the Latin "P" sound. Russians use the original Rho.
The Russian letter for the "N" sound, like in "new", is the Greek letter Eta, which "H" in uppercase. That was a choice by the inventors of the Cyrillic alphabet (two Greek monks) based on the lower case, script form of Eta, which is "η". I don't know the history of that but my guess is that given the dominance of the "V" letter in Latin/English that may have seemed more reasonable than Greek Nu, which in lower case script is "ν".
The Russian letter for the "V" sound, like in "view," is the greek letter Beta, in upper case "B" and in script lower case "β", which is pronounced in both modern Greek and Hellenistic Greek as a "v" sound. Americans often get that one wrong when discussing Greek because of wrong pronunciation, called "Erasmian", that took hold in English language Bible studies of Greek texts. There's a lot of rubbish on the web that purports to explain Greek letters to English speakers. Many web pages repeat Erasmian errors.
The Russian letter for the "H" sound, like the first letter in "Hah", is the Greek Chi, χ, which looks like an English "X". The Hellenistic and modern Greek pronunciation is often said to be like Spanish "j", which is *not* pronounced like the "j" in "jugular" but like the "h" in "hoya" or "hello." Russian Х is exactly the same.
Because Russian uses a lot of Greek letters, the problems many Americans have with Cyrillic are similar to the problems they have reading Greek. Here's advice from one web page that sets out to teach English speakers Hellenistic Greek:
η should not be confused with an English n.
υ is NOT pronounced like an English u.
ν should not be confused with the English v. It is pronounced like an English n.
ρ should be carefully distinguished from English p. It is pronounced similar to an r.
χ must be distinguished from English x. It is pronounced like a Spanish j.
ω must be differentiated from English w.
β resembles an upper case English B, but sounded closer to an English v in Hellenistic Greek.
δ resembles the English d, but in Hellenistic Greek it was pronounced more like the th in “then”.
γ resembles an English y but was pronounced like one only when it appeared before certain vowels (those that sound like the i in “machine” or e in “bet”). In most other places it is pronounced similar to the English g in “go” but not exactly.
So... if you remember your basic math classes up through trigonometry or your introductory physics classes, you know enough Greek letters to puzzle through much of what's written in Cyrillic in Russia. Between that and all the cognates and loan words, like "bank", that are the same or very similar it's not so hard to learn the language.
First, this is profitable for the ziocons/compradors' careers and for the MIC.
Second, judaic thinking is fundamentally devoid of reality and decency. They want full-spectrum supremacist domination, for which they are unqualified. There is a reason why a judaic civilization has never been built.
The true leeching spirit of the nomadic tribe was clearly explained by a prominent zionist Maurice Samuel in his "You Gentiles." He wrote about jews within the European civilization:
"A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to bring our two worlds together. It was a century of failure. Our Jewish radicals are beginning to understand it dimly.
We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build. …
…we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us."
Here is a jewish question (JQ) standing in its stunning simplicity:
Why do jews cling to the European civilization? Why was Maurice Samuel, a leader of the Zionist Organization of America, avoided living in the jewish state like a plague and instead preferred to dwell among people of European descent? Why don't they take their hatred away from the collective west and relocate to somewhere closer to their Semitic brethren, where jews can learn how to respect civilizations built by "others?"
I fully realize that I am proposing a horrifying approach here for (((some))) but it is time to look at the fundamental DNA differences here to comprehend the problem. We have the technology!!!
DNA testing doesn't line up nicely with the prejudices all the wannabee eugenicists/genocidaires believe are the laws of the universe. Be glad, otherwise there absolutely WOULD be ethnically targeted bio weapon attacks going on by now...
Fortunately, casual bastardry has always been a popular intramural sport clear back to those hot neanderthal chicks and we likely all have great to the X? parents our Grandma's country club wouldn't approve of.
Racial homogeneity was successfully enforced in the Western World to the early part of the 20th century. The European population could not possibly be prejudiced and/or genocided small traces of colored populations as they were barely present. Somehow, without the benefit of DNA tests, Europeans were able to sort out all of these issues until jewish emancipation started to rule the day. That is where problems started and we were labeled, ‘eugenicists/genocidaires’.
There is one race, the human race. They do come in a whole bunch of different colors, shades, shapes & sizes, they even had some quite detectable physically differential evolved internal traits before we started migrating & traveling- Tierra del Fuego natives who had no trees and thus no ocean going boats, rough icy seas all around, pretty genetically isolated after sea level rise post last ice age who at contact could walk barefoot in snow with very minimal clothing & not get hypothermia or frostbitten toes. Some of their cousins on the mainland, high altitude valley Andean natives selected for that same capability vs. cold feet + a whole extra pint of blood to deal with low air pressure on the average!
Our local varietals began to get around CONSTANTLY once they figured out boats, riding animals and how to trade with the neighboring tribes instead of eating them on sight/how to steamroll the tribe with nicer land and take all their women & etc - & we've ALSO always instinctively wanted to rub uglies with the engagingly different "looking" chicks if we could too, resulting in creating diverse hybrids with the usual enhanced hybrid vigor. You don't know much about anyone without a DNA test, really. Euro "white" people who go by the surface color & etc. are deluding themselves about a whole lot of things. With the constant warfare, invasion, migration, slave taking Europeans and Asians & even Africans have done for well over 4,000 years? There is no such thing as "racial homogeneity" of Europeans if you bother to check their DNA.
What it all boils down to is what was written at Genesis 3, 15; ie that there are "two seeds" in this world, as the jewish gentleman says, ie "a primal duality," which can NEVER be bridged.
Once again, scripture gets it spot on, when it describes the sexual liaison between Eve and the serpent Lucifer in the Garden, a forbidden liaison which produced the half-angelic but wholly evil Cain.
Possibly I won't have to remind anybody what Cain immediately did.
"This slow tectonic shift is going back and was predicted by political scientists all the way to 1991"
well, by thousands of regular people who remember the setting. I was in Berlin in 1987/88 and when Wall was dismantled, and one year after Gorbachov and Cheverdnaze proposed Helmut Kohl to remove Red Army from DDR so for Germany to unify, and the Comecon apparatus was removed, and USSR dissolved because Russians no longer wanted to carry on the budget and expensive for the huge central asian republics (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, ...), we were left in disarray, who who were familiar with the Iron Curtain nearby sides, by the fact that NATO not only didn't leave but to the contrary started pushing Eastward. Then USA supported with its jihadi devices war in Chechenya.
So it was clear that counter-reaction would build up.
USA spent its time otherwise destroying Middle East with a series of wars, first direct, then by proxy. No mystery rest of the world is fed up.
Do you remember a tall guy paying a few coins to an Arab, renting a chisel and hammer to break pieces off the wall? That was me. ‘Those were the days my friends….’ People were saturated with optimism, searching for an open horizon for the future. And look what happened!
GM and Feral Kitten are not trying to dominate this threat as they did earlier. What happened? GM is likely trying to cook up a new recipe like his rent-a-mob theory of tens of thousands of young Ukrainian women pushing their agenda on the streets of Ukraine recently, paid by Soros. The evidence was directly contradicting his feverish brainchild and I only wish more people called him out on this here.
There was an original photo circulating out there showing the young lady in East Germany, marching with a bunch of young commies in some sort of uniform. That thing was unable to resist the horrifying virus of communism and was infected from childhood.
The image was taken by Merkel's schoolmate Sonja Felssberg in 1972 and appeared in the german newspaper Bild in 2013. Here is an english article about it.
The fowl meal is котлета по-киевски (kotleta po-kievsky), Invented in St. Petersburg around 1910, and re-introduced in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, in 1947, thus the name. Was a standard meal in Russian and Soviet cuisine. The stupid Khokhol babble was not introduced prior to 2008 outside Galicia even in Ukraine. Maybe some teasing when serving that meal, yet it is widespread so not sure.
As to the T-shirt there is a widespread renaissance of pro USSR feelings in Russia revering Soviet achievements, in science, technology, education, astronautics etc., even with a re-evaluation of the role of Stalin. It does not mean irredentism, though. Lavrov addressed these domestic sentiments, and also demonstrated defiance towards western demonizations, as always with some good humour.
"The cartoonish staging of the event coordination was another Trump ‘special’, straight from the playbook of his teenage-boy fever dream, stacking warplanes like matchbox toys, and even arranging for a crude B-2 Spirit and F-35 stealth bomber flyover above Putin’s head just as he made his way down the hastily-draped runner as some kind of strongman ‘power move’."
Yeah... starting to lose objectivity here I would say. Bordering on TDS almost.
Name another impromptu summit that walks the players past F35's and features an F22 escorted B fuggin 2 overhead. Pointing that out isn't tds, it's pertinent.
Of course it is, and you can read that two ways. The cartoonish teenage-boy fever dream with his matchbox toys, or Trump showing what he thought would be a sign of respect, given the prominence of military parades in Russia, which he tried himself to duplicate on his birthday....lol.
I'm not pitching for Trump here. Far from it. I just don't believe gratuitous insults add much to the analysis. It makes me wonder what else is coloured by those kinds of perceptions.
I simply tried to see it the way Trump might have intended, rather than react negatively and assume it was meant as sabre rattling. I do that out of habit - try to understand what the other guy is thinking before I jump to conclusions. Like I said, Trump may have seen it as a sign of respect. Putin seems to have taken it that way. Check the expression on his face. The guy looks amused.
I doubt VVP would be intimidated by a few jet aircraft anyway, he has plenty of those, most of them superior to anything the US can get aloft these days.
"Kinzhal-toting Mig-31's"
Now it's my turn to say be honest.
Were those aircraft armed? With what? A to A Red Herrings?
Equally plausible I agree. On the Fordow run, I seriously doubt they used the B2. Why risk losing an expensive aircraft and a captured or dead crew when you can just punch a few holes with missiles and call it a day? Who's to say how much damage you caused, since most of it is underground.
LOL you object more to online "gratuitous insults" than you do to real life gratuitous insults characterized by flying weapons of war directly over what was supposed to be a respectful diplomatic meeting. I don't know, Simpatico was too kind. Less a teenage boy fever dream and more a junior partner Mob boss intimidation tactic.
Can you think of another high level summit between two nuclear powers where one party to the negotiations did an overflight at low altitude with the same military hardware that had most recently been used when previous negotiations were exposed to be a ploy designed to get one side to let down their guard so they could be "obliterated"?
Take it however you like. I'd simply point out that you're doing the same thing - chastising me for expressing (online) a reasonable alternate view of the event. You have your lens, I have mine. Ain't free speech wonderful?
Yeah, except you're the only one who has called anyone else names "tds" because someone else's free speech didn't meet with your approval as it pertained to one particular politician.
But yes, free speech is great (except when you criticize Israel (or Trump) in Trump's USA - at that point it ceases to exist).
"Less a teenage boy fever dream and more a junior partner Mob boss intimidation tactic."
It's both accurate and useful to view the USA as the largest organized crime family on earth rather than a coherent nation state. If you thought our leaders diddling the children was bad enough, check this interview (link) Tucker has with an author who is both former military and a score keeper. The absolute degeneration of the US military is far worse than anyone imagines.
I agree with ‘ebear.’ I have quietly and anonymously read Simplicious since The Saker days when he was a prolific commenter. I subscribed almost immediately when he started his own writing, and I have been reading this religiously since his first post. This is actually my first ever comment on his blog, because I think this is an important topic.
With that said, the personal snipes and literary insults of world leaders take so much away from what is otherwise exceptionally analyzed and presented perspectives on world events. As ebear said, the deeper concern, as a reader who only cares about the truth as objectively as it can be presented, is how much analysis is colored by these perceptions.
As much as I enjoy his writing, I would enjoy it much more without the personal filler.
I’m with you banging that drum. Assigning such motives is speculative at best, and obfuscating at worst. Anyway it matters little how spectators see such displays. How did Putin and the Russians take it? We don’t know that either but it’s the only question that matters.
Russians were actually delighted with the honors showed to Putin, the red carpet, and how Putin's plane was escorted by the US jets over Bering Straits, etc.
Quite possibly a bone thrown to his remaining followers, also a distraction from <cough, cough> recent events. I'm sure he realizes VVP isn't intimidated by a few warplanes. He has lots of those.
Trump has common sense but he also surrounded by Lindsey Grahams, so I think he threw them a bone with “peace through strengh.” I don’t doubt there were the Oreshniks close by on the Russian side and Akulas.
I'm with Angelina on this one. More like a salute, but same idea. The Air Force does flyovers over football games, too. Who are they trying to intimidate there?
Indeed, if anything if im putin i am flattered by the show. This sort of thing is not trivial to arrange, and indicates how much Trump valued the meeting
Yeah, I'm sure he was "flattered" considering it was probably the same exact B2 and same F22 escorts used not two months ago to do a sneak attack on Iran which also happened to be in the midst of "negotiations" while the US and Trump conned them into letting down their guard so they could be attacked. If anything, Putin probably had the same take as Simplicius. Childish bullshit.
Iran is not Russia and bombers doing bomber stuff. When im an invited guest somewhere and my hosts roll out their finest its not a flex, I am the flex. You really have it backwards
Rolling out their finest would entail treating them to the best we have to offer on the ground. Not military overflights which can be seen as threatening as much as defensive.
For example look how the Russian media was treated.
Yeah, it is you. The meeting was set barely a week ago. US had time to vet, issue visas, and arrange accommodations during peak tourist season in Anchorage, not exactly a global metropolitan hub. Guaranteed there was FSB in the delegation but they still made it happen. Being a whiny journo apparently is independent of nationality it seems. There are guys sleeping in trenches on the front line reporting, and others being blown up by airstrikes in Gaza. These people got a front row seat to an historic event - cry me a fucking river
That's totally changing the subject. And to make it clear, if those planes had been launched to provide a show of (and actual) defense, they wouldn't have been flying at such low altitude. And isn't Trump all about saving taxpayer money and cutting back on waste and fraud? I doubt those flights were cheap, especially considering that none of those squadrons are based in Alaska full time. It was gaudy and I'm sure most of the world, and the Russians, agree with Simplicius. There are other ways of rolling out the finest for a **diplomatic** meeting. Criticizing the state of Alaska isn't winning you any points either.
TDS is a term only used by very sad and broken people, who really believe Trump will one day do even a single thing he promised them on the campaign trail. It's not coming sweetie.
He's trying hard to live up to one or two promises. Problem is they're both to his extremely rich oligarchical business partners and to be as transparently petty and cruel as his Photo-Op administration can possibly be in failing to deport as many "illegals" as the Deporter in Chief Obama did.
Sorry but I keep thinking about those really funny FB reels that have the Spirit budget airlines "interacting" with other planes, like his "bro" the B2 Spirit who always comes to the defense of little yellow "budget plane", the Antonov - with much vodka on-board, the giant Belluga etc, all playing against the poor TC tower guy. Spirit always seems to have a Karen in 12B who complains about frozen burritos and writes lawsuits on a napkin while the Antonov guy has to unleash Boris the bear, who serves as a co-pilot/security guard. Sometimes there's a C-5 carrying "democracy cargo" demands landing rights but Spirit gets the better of him with Antonov in rear guard and B-2 Spirit bro to the rescue.
Whoever writes those skits is very creative + super knowledgeable about airline flying, airport squabbles, tower antics and pilot lingo..
If you need a break, I recommend the B2 Sprit reels + F15/F22 escorts + Antonov with bear and vodka.
A spectrum. In the middle there are people like myself who try not to think about Trump. At the positive end of scale, there are those who believe he is our national savior (if not actually the 2nd coming). At the negative end, there are those never Trumpers who knows that he is an avatar of the antichrist who has been injected with recombinant DNA extracted from Adolf Hitler.
I don't like the guy myself, but that's been true of almost every US president since 1963, so I guess that's a wash. What I find amusing though is the reaction to my comment, nested 8 or 9 deep in some spots. Now that's successful trolling...lol.
Yes that had legs! And it actually provided a lot more food for thought than I would have predicted. I do agree that the more Simplicius sticks to the issues and avoids casting aspersions upon the personalities, the better. Having said that, Trump us suuuuuuch haplesslessly tacky and socially clutzy operator, it's hard not to mention it. If Trump doesn't want to be seen as a protocol lightweight, don't serve Big Macs and Coke at the White House lol
Trump isn't stupid and an interesting thing he mentioned in the fox interview is how much business Russia and the United States could have done together if it wasn't for Russiagate back in 2016. He specifically mentioned rare earth metals and other resources. Trump doesn't have the 40 years of Russia phobia that the deep state has. I bet he would love to dump deadbeat Europe and work with Russia and try and drive a wedge in the Russia/China relationship. I'm doubtful if that is even possible though.
"I bet he would love to dump deadbeat Europe and work with Russia and try and drive a wedge in the Russia/China relationship. I'm doubtful if that is even possible though."
The Russia/China relationship is predicated on two things: 1. their obvious proximity to one another and the benefits that trade and mutual cooperation brings, and 2. mutual defence against a highly aggressive opponent.
Take away 2 and that still leaves 1, to which you could add the USA if saner minds prevail. Once you add it all up, It's a fairly simple equation. A significant piece of a very large pie is much better than a large piece of a small (and shrinking) one... or no pie at all.
As for Europe, they can sort out their own mess, since they're of no great threat or interest to any of the main players. That includes the toothless old lion that still thinks its roar counts for anything.
A Russia / USA partnership would also lock down the entire north pole. Strategically locking down like 1/3rd of the planet surface with an untold amount of resources.
Cut Canada into the deal? Canada has no cut to be given, they are about as sovereign from the US as Puerto Rico at this point. A puppet completely dependent on the US without a shred of it's own geopolitical agency.
No excuse! Just because we have one neighbor, that means we should be controlled entirely by them? Follow all their foreign adventures? I don't think so.
Bad news indeed for Santa who will become Zelensky mark 2 , to say nothing of the elves , who will doubtless be enslaved in a massive Amazon distribution centre or sent to a Gulag(which would at least be warmer than the North Pole)
Trump doesn't read books. He doesn't even know of any books worth reading, except his own book which he didn't actually write. What is the smartest thing Trump ever said?
Decades of Russia hate on our side says it’s an uphill battle. The war machine doesn’t care much for peace. Why were “terrorists” allowed to bring down the towers in NYC and penetrate the building that houses the largest and most powerful military in the world? Because we needed an enemy and an excuse for our world domination games. Full spectrum dominance anyone?
Who LOST the most? IMO the bald Thailand based US national who somehow became a youtube pundit, Brian Berletic. Brian warned Putin's whole team was physical danger in Alaska and Putin was foolish to go there. Instead, Putin brought the elite cadre of his whole government, no one was harmed, and Putin looked good as a statesman to the intended BRICS audience.
Of course there will be no agreement, and the SMO will go on until Russia has met the security goals announced in Dec 2021.
It is such a shame that Berletic lets his own hatred of his native land cloud his judgement. He has a lot of good stuff to say but it gets lost in the manure.
Berletic doesn't hate his native land, but he despises the crooks who are stealing the potentially better future from its people. We need more like him to awaken public consciousness.
How about Edward Snowden, who lives in Moscow, not because that is his heartfelt choice, but because going against the narratives can be very dangerous.
That is very stereotypical. While Thailand may have gained a reputation over the past many decades as a place that Western men go to have fun with younger Thai women - it is much more than that. Even Bangkok itself, with a population of 11 million people, only have several streets that cater to that audience.
Thailand has a lot to offer, and any Western chap who gets the choice of living in Thailand or in the West, would be a fool to choose to live in the West. If I had the chance, I would easily trade Europe for Thailand - or any other place in SEA. Problem is that it is not easy to move there. Brian is probably married to a Thai woman, hence why he lives there.
Btw, I used to think the same as you, untill I started travelling to Asia 5 years ago. So don't take this as a critique. Just wanted share my POV.
Fair enough. I did say it was a gut reaction, not a reasoned judgement. Incidentally, Thai women usually marry westerners to get out, not the other way round.
You are definitely right about that. Many Thai women marry westerners, but I think most actually end up staying in Thailand together. But some of course move with their spouses to Western countries.
And then there's the language barrier. I struggle with ordering off a menu in a Mexican restaurant. I have a pal (74 y/o) from the old neighborhood who winters in Koh Samui. After 45 years of hard physical labor and a harder marriage, this guy is in heaven with sun, weed, massage, cheap and excellent food. He doesn't need to go to heaven because he's already there.
Yes, most westerners have no idea that the real standard of living in most of east asia (which includes SE Asia) is actually much higher than the avg american lifestyle. Simple thing like old line antibiotic doxycycline costs a bomb (guy was jailed for jacking the price up into the $thousands) in the US and requires a prescription, while I can pick it up for couple cents in Malaysia pharmacy. I flew to Chiang Mai a few years ago for like a week to do mountain biking, and scheduled an MRI at a private clinic on a Sunday afternoon after I was done with my runs. Picked up the report on Monday morning before flying out at noon. Cost of upper extremity MRI $100 (about 5 years ago) vs $400 in Singapore vs >$1000 in US.
For reference point, I have worked in SiliCON valley for 12 yrs before, through the dot com boom and bust.. and also in Europe in well-paid corporate jobs. I am fortunately to be quite financially comfortable, and have enough experience in Asia that I knew it would work out better in Asia for the long-term, as the US system was just getting too freakin' corrupt and while the average person keeps voting for hope and change, they just got more of the same.
These corporate, globalist ghouls have stolen Western countries and cosplay through media at being concerned about the nations they've gutted and destroyed. They are avatars for empire.
If large public consciousness can be further awakened I hope they all end up on the gallows.
Not at all. He has to live abroad for telling the truth..Only Scott Ritter acts accordingly, but with his house searched and in permanent stress. Thailand seems a good choice, but I think he is in Malasya.
He seems to have an idee fixe that the US runs Europe. While the US certainly does have influence, it seems as if he begins and ends all his analysis with that assumption.
Seriously, the drama so many 'alternative pundits' droned on and on about was fantastical. I'm glad it's over and Rus can continue its objectives. Have a nice weekend and don't get too caught up in the 'debrief'...go have some fun.
I'm careful to avoid discussions of weather since I live in the most perfect year round climate, near a beach, where I can grow my own veggies year round outdoors. I am truly blessed. (PS I love your POV, Cheryl, especially when you provide a different perspective.)
I was with Berletic on this one. He was more realistic than Alex Krainer, Matt Ehrett and other Larouchian fantasies. I dont understand the purpose of the meeting. Another nothingburger. But I admit Putin acted suicidal to go there.
Brian knows very well what the USA has been doing for over a century. Killing high ranking people left and right globally is one of them. Killing Putin (or Putin and Trump), is not something that is impossible to imagine. The west thinks that regime change of Putin will solve ALL their problems.
"The west thinks that regime change of Putin will solve ALL their problems."
If this is true, then 'suicide by superpower' is inevitable for the west. All the possible replacements would be far more aggressive than Putin, likely within minutes at most.
The designated political successor would be the incumbent Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, who would become President until elections were held - within 3 months. As far as what is the emergency chain of command for nuclear launch codes is, we don't know. I would assume that would go through the security council and military hierarchy in some fashion.
? I was praying for Putin's safety yesterday as I'm sure thousands or maybe millions around the globe were.
I'll ask everyone the question here. Do you agree there was a non-zero element of risk (from some kind of attack) in Putin going in person to US soil, yes or no?
Considering the duplicity and let's face, reckless irrationality and hatred for Russia of the neocons and those of like mind in Europe and elsewhere, I for one wouldn't have been very surprised to hear they'd arrested Putin, or his plane had an "accident," or whatever other excuse. I was giving it 50/50 myself. I wouldn't put anything past them.
And Berletic is right on with the "continuity of agenda" thing, isn't he? To me he seems like a significant voice.
"Do you agree there was a non-zero element of risk (from some kind of attack) in Putin going in person to US soil, yes or no?"
Yes.
The risk is not zero, the top job and politics being what it is every leader has a non-zero chance of being murdered, but 50/50 is much too high. The greatest threat is always from your own people. Using the cover of diplomacy to kill a foreigner especially a top leader is incredibly rare.
Doing a deep search I can find only 1 solid example of it happening in modern times, in 1994 Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were assassinated when their plane was shot down returning from peace talks in Tanzania.
And one very bloody "near miss", the Rangoon bombing of 9 October 1983, an assassination attempt against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in Rangoon, Burma. That attempt was orchestrated by North Korea.
Even going all the way back to ancient times killing a diplomat or leaders on a diplomatic mission is incredibly rare. There's very little advantage in doing it as the result is 99.99% going to be total war which you can always get by much easier methods.
I've seen more than a few commenters here (GM might be one of them) who seem to think that killing Putin, Zelensky or Trump by one or other faction would be some sort of genius level checkmate move that various factions must be planning and would certainly carry out if the could.
But it doesn't work like that.
These people are tough and ruthless but they're not Mafia bosses where assassinations of other bosses is an established part of the game. Those people are criminals working in the criminal under world. Even a Mafia boss must publicly deny they are a Mafia boss. But a President must always publicly say they're the president and be seen as such, not a murderer and not a criminal.
Even the North Korean government had to deny those assassins were theirs in 1983.
Thanks, interesting. Your point's well taken, although wasn't there actually an attempt made against about six weeks ago with drones attacking his helicopter? I think little Z would take out Mr Putin given the chance, as would the bleeting imbeciles in Europe. Anyway glad to be wrong on this one
Respectfully, this is a comment section to a blog, not an analyses.
You can refute or ignore the comment but you are literally nobody-on-the-internet like I am, and, therefore are in no position to demand 'clarification'.
Find someone else to engage in your pitiful, juvenile pissing contest.
Whatever that incident with Putin's helicopter in May was I don't think we can say it was an assassination attempt.
There was a statement from an air defense commander that the President's helicopter was in the zone and so were Ukrainian drones, which were all shot down. Even if everything he said was true and that helicopter was being targeted there's no reason to suggested it was to kill Putin. Enemy helicopters are always going to be high value targets
Israel killed the Hamas negotiator and the chief Iranian nuclear negotiator's home was also attacked but Iran claims he did survive. They also killed Hassan Nasralla, Hezbollah's leader. And negotiations where actively ongoing and even used as a diversion tactic. But most of the time indirect means are used and proxies. Like with Saddam Hussein, Moammar Qaddafi. And the US arrested Manuel Noriega. Yasser Arafat was poisoned by polonium IIRC. Imran Khan jailed by western puppets in Pakistan.
All of that shows the strength of the diplomatic immunity not the weakness. Hamas and Hezbollah do not have national status and the ability to continue killing them as they please is an important reason why Israel is determined that Palestine doesn’t get it.
I was just checking out the details of Manuel Noriega during the invasion of Panama and he was never official the president and the Americans never recognized him as such just as the commander of the military.
Him fleeing to the Papal embassy (The Nunciature) is an interesting lesson in diplomatic relations. Delta Force could practically but not not legally kick down the doors and drag him out dead or alive, but the USA had enough leverage to lean on the Vatican and harass the ambassador (The Apostolic Nuncio) until they gave him up.
I know it all looks like a silly game but there are very solid reasons why people and governments continue to play it
The "Dead Hand" Russian system was mentioned by Medvedev on his Telegram channel for a reason. And it enraged Trump. This was a public statement that even if a decapitation strike removed Putin or his whole cadre that a strategic nuclear strike would automatically follow. One does not play this sort of game with nations which have thousands of nuclear weapons and superior delivery systems. Putin was so comfortable he took his whole cadre, even the finance minister, the central bank president, the military chief, and the chief of the security council.
No, neither were Iran's elite very lucky recently. Meanwhile everyone is polite to North Korea's leader now, no more bullying. There are reasons nations like having nuclear weapons.
Agreed, and we've seen some incredibly stupid things being done. Destruction of Nordstream, not an only economic but also an environmental disaster and terrorism, being one example.
AI -- garbage in, garbage out. We are in a warming period coming out of the little Ice Age, and thank goodness for that. Cold is much, much worse than warm. With all of those little sound bites you included, is the Baltic devoid of life? Massive fish kills? You know, the things that would denote an environmental catastrophe. I must have missed those. Maybe computer models (tuned by global warming true believers) show a catastrophe should have happened -- but it didn't.
Destruction of NordStream was a strategic decision of AngloAmerican elites, whatever name one uses, global, liberal, unipolar elites. In the end it is defending interests of the WW One and WW Two victors, US and Great Britain. Connection between Germany and Russia has to be cut, by force if necessary.
Divide and Rule.
Neutral Ukraine is an idea against which war is fought. Ukraine in NATO means Germany cannot be neutral.
Neutral Germany is an existential danger for Great Britain and US.
Multipolar world means Europe will be divided not united.
Great Britain exiting EU was the first step in EU dissolution.
Not because something did not happen, it doesn't negate the possibility that it could have happened. The western elites are desperate and desperate people do desperate things. The strategy has always been the demonising with the intent to remove the Russian president to initiate the collapse of Russia. The Russian president went to US territory where he could have easily been arrested on the ICC warrant.
Well neither is Russia, but it did not stop the ICC from issuing a warrant for the arrest of the Russian president on Trumped up charges. The US historical adheres to international law, as long as it suits US interest and disregards it once it doesn't. US would not be doing anything to support the ICC it would carrying out an action that suits US interest hypocritically linking that action to an ICC ruling.
Well the US fully supports Israeli actions in Gaza and denies the genocide being carried out. So in reality the Israeli action is justified, merely as an expression of a US position against Islam. The US holds the position of a genocide in Ukraine, yet majority of videos from Ukraine still demonstrates a functioning society having targeted strikes. While on the other side Gaza is basically rubble with the intentional and strategic targeting of civilians and the use of starvation as a strategy to achieve ethic cleansing of an indigenous population. In someways do you not think there is some hypocrisy somewhere in that?
The ICC is a discredited international institution . The ICC imprisoned Slobodan Milosevic in a UN detention centre in The Hague - on war crimes and genocide charges in the Bosnian - where he died of a heart attack. Later he was posthumously declared not responsible for war crimes and genocide during the Bosnian war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. A sitting head of state was imprisoned by the ICC on trumped up charges and left to perish in a prison cell in The Hague then declared innocent of charges and the story was quickly buried to leave many people think Slobodan was a war criminal.
"The Russian president went to US territory where he could have easily been arrested.."
Easily arrested ?
I guess the hosts could have easily sent him a note saying,
"Sir, according to regulations you are now under arrest."
and his staff would file that away along with all his other paperwork. But in practical terms actually taking him into custody would be forcefully abducting a VIP traveling under diplomatic treaty.
I don't know much about bodyguards, but I believe that they're always there and also the toughest and sharpest sons-of-bitches available. Their protocols demand that they must fight and die before letting such a thing happen to their boss.
In many ways a seriously attempt to arrest Putin would have been WORSE than killing him. Death at the hands of an assassin is equal to death on the battlefield, which is an honorable death. But being taken prisoner like a criminal punk is a humiliation.
It would have been an immediate gun battle and knife fight to the death, followed directly by WWIII.
So are you implying that the Russian president's security detail could have taken on and defeat a US military base on US soil? Yes it would be an international incident with severe consequences but are you saying the US military is so useless or are the few guards with the Russian president that good?
The body guard following Putin on the red carpet with the coat draped over his arm was most likely ready for anything. Surely would taken some of the SOB's with him.
I'm not sure I would go as far as automatic nuclear war, but it's possible.
If you wanted a more measured response even without sending missiles, tanks, planes and ships across the border you could target their diplomats and VIPs in return, there are always plenty of those around.
The thing about the ancient rules about diplomatic immunity is like the ancient laws of hospitality they're reciprocal and that's why they work.
It's always good to have ambassadors and envoys that can travel through other nations, and if they dick with yours you can dick with theirs just as well.
No, what I'm saying is that you can't just arrest Putin like a sheriff's deputy picking up a vagrant or a judge telling the bailiffs to send that man to the county jail.
Arrests warrants have to be backed by real force, and if anyone tried to lay hands on Putin or force him somewhere he didn't want to go it would be a bloodbath. Who has the toughest men or being on a military base doesn't change that, it would only affect the final body count.
As I mentioned elsewhere, trying to arrest Putin would in many ways be worse than just trying to kill him with a sniper or a bomb
Actually Brian Berletic has been a political commentator for well over a decade. He used to have a blog called "The Land Destroyer" and wrote under the name of Tony Cartalucci, he used a nom de plume because he was very critical of the Thai government in the past. He expressed concern that Putin may be in danger as did almost every other YouTube pundit to varying degrees. He's been pretty accurate in predicting the "continuity of agenda" wrt foreign policy through the various iterations of US government, certainly since Obama. He cites primary sources ie US gov policy documents, think tank publications etc. to form his opinions.
Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. It's up to the listener/reader to discern what may be true and understand their bias.
Most people I live with in America think this country is a 'democracy' and their vote counts. Where does one even begin with such thinking? One doesn't.
Most people I live with in American believe in many such fantasies, heavily salted by Hollywood and the educational system that teaches 'exceptionalism' rather than humility and hard work.
The security goals of doubling the length of their border with NATO, getting Poland, Finland and the Baltics armed to the teeth, revitalizing European weapons manufacturers, losing over a million educated professionals to other countries, significantly worsening demographic decline, getting bogged down for years, and so on? Those goals?
Seems the deep state chose not do a decapitation strike on the Russian leadership as the Substack conspiracy cart pushers and bottom feeders predicted.
Doubtless there is some sinister reason why this didn’t happen, but have no doubt they will be down on it quicker than a 2 buck hooker ( as the American’s say).
I don't know why some people here and elsewhere seem to think insulting people who after all presumably they are following ffs is funny or clever or whatever. To me it's more like a sickening kinda... Don Rickles redux if you know what I mean.
Not to defend Brian, as I don't watch his stuff, but just because you play Russian Roulette and live to tell doesn't make your choice of games very clever.
In this case it is a bad analogy because the risk was worth the reward. Now, Putin looks courageous.
I don't watch his stuff either, but Angelo Giuliani often quotes from Brian's twitter account. Brian says some really astute stuff. Fantastic. Its just with his videos he's so methodical that I can't stand it
I've found that recently, it's a bit too much of a monologue. However he's very good to watch when appearing as a guest on other people's channels, eg. Danny Haiphong or Glenn Diesen.
You are right , I hadn’t considered the dearth of bagel shops in that somewhat under Zionised part of the world. Hopefully they next meet in Telly Viv.
That one also seems to be wearing Ukrainian multicam camo, so who knows, it could be that his clothes were somehow burnt/destroyed and his captors gave him Ukrainian clothes, or something else. The beard is another story, but these are likely the 132nd DPR folks of the breakthrough pocket to begin with, where rules are more slack.
It has been a global phenomenon for a decade now, but still at least a third of those trying to replicate the sound of mid-1990s Memphis underground gangsta rap are scrawny white 15-year old kids from Ukraine and Russia, fooling around on their computers. That Memphis sound was something very unique and influential (later on crunk and trap music come directly from it, through Memphis to Atlanta borrowing), though kind of quickly forgotten in its original form, as it was really deep in the underground and trends changed fast by 1997 or so, but then file sharing in the 2000s resurrected it for a new worldwide audience
It was also specifically in Russia that phonk got further evolved into drift phonk, which is much faster and really doesn't sound much like the original slow hypnotic psychotic murderous devil worshipping Memphis sound, but in its origin it is still rooted in it.
And most of the videos of drone strikes you see from both sides feature drift phonk music.
People should check out the YouTube GZERO Media channel. "The Alyaska summit | PUPPET REGIME" is better than the short "Zelensky Lurks the Putin-Trump Meeting"
What a mortifying display of a fallen empire. Second tier Russian Diplomats and Russian Journalists reduced to sleeping on army cots in pairs with day-old canned tuna for breakfast and a drinking fountain for water? I was waiting to see line of "honey-buckets" in the parking lot. Personally, I'd have walked out by then.
Just let the "empire", run out of Tel Aviv, fall on it's own. They're their own worst enemy and deservedly so.
I think a lot of American elected-for-life professional politicians, their agents and minions (both inside and outside this disaster of a government), a fully owned, fully manipulated, fully controlled, fully propagandized mainstream media, will have to die before the world gets back to simply spinning on its axis. Nobody will shed a tear when all this goes away. Maybe tears of joy.
the jew problem has to be solved
"This can only end in tears."
This is not the time to reduce drug and alcohol consumption.
Was a Rothschild, not Soros that poked Prince Charles (wasn't yet king) like he was his bitch.
If the glove fits, then you must not acquit.
A Freudian psychoanalysis of Don, the Don, Trump.
What is Don's problem acting with such reckless abandon?
Don has reached an age where the thought of sex alone is equated with hard labour.
Look at how miserable Melania looks next to him. It's unusual for a good-looking lady to look consistently straight-faced and unhappy. Now let's take this further.
The only time I have seen Melania look happy is when she gave Justin Trudeau that big double air kiss while standing next to Don. Meanwhile, Don is stuck beside Macron's husband thinking, "I ain't kissing that fruit cake". Macron's husband reaches over to air kiss Don, who wasn't as happy about it as Melania was pressing up to Justin. What an epic unforgettable scene. Exhibit A
https://youtu.be/PEdPqV5JXBM
Notice how Melania gets all lit up, as if wanting to press up against Justin, but she had to hold back from wanting to jump him right there on that stage with Don at her side. Don notices Melania being all lit up, but he can't act up in front of the press and make a big scene, so he suppresses his jealousy and acts coy, no big deal.
But, in reality, Don was fuming. That's why he attacked Canada first among nations with his tariff threat theatrics. He made Canada his enemy because of his subconscious feelings of inadequacy.
And because of Don's big ego and low testosterone, he was compelled to lash out at all countries with tariff theatrics to compensate for his inability to star in the sack the way he used to. In other words, Don is acting out in fits of hostility, inconsistency, lies, and deception because he's sexually frustrated and as President, he has the power to make the world miserable because he is past his prime performance years.
No matter what title a person carries, they remain vulnerable and humanly flawed and gifted just like anyone else.
The Spraytan Man juggles his prunes everyday looking in the mirror and wonders how he can pretend to have the world intimidated. The only thing that scares the rest of the world now is the US nuclear arsenal. As for Kanuckistan, Elbows Up eh!
lol. Haywood. Kanucksters voted in Carney, who's worse than Trudeau. Too bad for them. I self-declared my home an independent country, and so far it's working. Life is good. lol
Kanuckistanians from Ontario and then to the East voted in the globalist bag of used douche who is quite probably worse than Castreau Jr. "Elbows up, fear the Spraytan Man!!!" Poilievre had a 25 point lead and blew it because he kowtowed to those on the left and left of center instead of sticking to conservative principals. What was once a great nation is circling the drain in the shitter.
"Don has reached an age where the thought of sex alone is equated with hard labour."
Denis, I saw what you did there with the word "alone".
Much of the absurd strife afoot in the world could be mitigated if prostitution was made legal and readily available, everywhere. They say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one...
In conclusion...
Putin: "Donald, I see you are dealing with a border problem in your country. Serious stuff, no?
Now Donald, try, try, try to understand that we Russians have border problems of our own."
Trump was thinking, "shit, Putin had the opportunity to nominate me, Mr Wonderful, for the Swedish Prize and just walked away from the opportunity."
At the conclusion of this drama I thought Putin had a look of profound sadness and resignation. Knowing full well that the rest of what remains of Ukraine is going to get the hammer. Bigly....
Nice fantasies bois but some of us don’t value much of the fever dreams of powerless spectators
I agree, Occam. Thanks.
Wow. A lesson in projection
more jew freudian nonsense - Zion don is just a jew puppet...
I think you are a Hasbara puppet pretending to be a Nazi
Nope. Just an honest Jew hater like most of the world.
More like a radical Nazi.
Radical ? How so.
I hate to break it to you, Dh, but you're obsession with Jews has made you one. You are now a chosen one. Shalom. lol
Hitler did nothing wrong. What’s wrong with being a ‘Nazi’ ? We are everywhere.
I understand that Hitler did many good things for the people. Well, at least you're honest about it.
I always thought Melania looked like a tranny.
lol, Feral. But she sure looks good in that last bikini shot.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CbLyMJ4YnJ8?feature=share
The terms of the American surrender were negotiated.
What else was there to discuss? Russia will swallow Ukraine, and there's not a damn thing the crumbling GAE can do about it other than make the Russians go through the motions.
Correction - Russia will swallow not "all Ukraine" but Russia's historic lands squandered by Soviet bolsheviks/communists to buy support of the Ukrainian communists. Russia won't touch Galicia–Volhyn, etc., even if they beg on the bended knees to be absorbed by Russia
I did not say Russia will swallow "all Ukraine," so I'm not sure what you were purportedly quoting there.
Whatever is left of Ukraine that is worth taking, will be taken.
Nothing that wasn't Russian-speaking majority lands will be taken in Ukraine.
All of Ukraine is majority Russian speaking. Ukrainian is a political language that exists for TV audiences only, even in the West.
I'm originally from Ukraine, please do lecture me.
So am I, and four generations of my family. You want to be lectured? I can lecture you.
I get you Angelina - Russia wants Kiev back becasue Kiev was where Russia first became Christian. And I don't know the history of Odessa - but the book I read that story took place in Odessa and it was Russian, and the Tzar and his family came through that town on their train. To say nothing of how much the world could benefit from the land getting cleaned up and farmed by the great Russians.
Russia established, built and populated Odessa. It is a purely Russian city - always has been and always will be - no matter who "controls" it.
If that's the case, Victor, why is Russia not invading to reoccupy part of its motherland? This is a bad optic for Russia if what you say is true, right?
@Victor
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"It is a purely Russian city - always has been and always will be -"
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"Odessa" was founded by Katherine at the site of a destroyed Muslim fortress. Which was in turn built by the Ottomans on a Byzantine site after Byzantine Orthodox types lost their grip on the site to the Muslims- and which the Byzantine had operated on a Bulgar city/port site after a friendly (to Byzantium) Bulgar ruler lost his life to a rebellion of the local peoples. And which the Bulgars themselves had built on an Imperial Roman site (I can't recall if republican Rome was there earlier too?). Anyhow, some Romans or others had built their port town in roughly that area on what had been a colonial Greek trading site before they knocked them on the head, going back before the Pontiac Greeks it gets hazy in my mind, I can't recall which earlier bronze age peoples & names but I'd bet there was a port city site in use nearly continuously by SOMEONE or other doing coastal trade at that river mouth clear back to Carthage if not the Phoenicians.
In short, Odessa is (POLITICALLY) Russian Empire then a port city of the USSR for last couple of centuries + but there are more layers to that general area than Troy itself- And the previous populations were never really eradicated. The Muslims came closest but even they couldn't ever catch & export them all as slaves, also they always needed some local slaves/converts/farmers to run the place profitably? Once Katherine had settled the Ottoman's hash and things were attractive & commercially active again, everyone from Greeks & other Mediterraneans + Germany and all the Baltic regions that traded on the river systems had trading houses (and often their own ethnic districts) in Odessa. Before the USSR, Odessa city population was frequently close to half expatriates from all over Europe & non Russian Empire Asia. So, Russian POLITICALLY from Katherine on through end of the last century- But there's a lot more if you scratch the surface.
(Marine archeology was one of my things and the Black Sea is thick with it.)
It's hard to swallow something partly without choking. These days MSM and left-leaning alternative media persist in claiming that Russia wants to capture ALL of Ukraine and then move on to NATO countries, which is preposterous of course. So we should take any opportunity to clarify that the last thing Russia wants to to take ethnically Ukrainian parts of Ukraine, where hatred of Russia is rampant. It would be like swallowing a porcupine (to elaborate your metaphor).
I don't think Ukraine will remain in its present form. Half the population is already abroad. There will be nobody left to hate Russia. They will hate Russia from their ethnic enclaves in Germany and Poland, where, to be sure, the Germans and Poles will despise them more than they ever despised the Russians. Anybody with a lick of sense that chooses to remain in Ukraine will be as Russian as they need to be.
but the JEWS - I hear there are many jews coming into Ukraine - west of where the fighting is, and that the Chabad Lubavitz wants to rename it Khazar and I do hear from a Ukrainian that there are Jewish only villages there.
Citation please?
Refugees from Israel? Boy that would be ironic!
Wasn't that the plan all along Ann ? To establish a new Khazaria and get more resources than just Oranges ;-)
In my opinion the future rump state of Ukraine does not have a bright future.
Most of the industry and natural resources will be in the Russian Oblasts, the population has collapsed and only kids, old people and women remain; the best land and infrastructure has been sold; and the war debts are colossal.
I wouldn't blame any Ukrainian for migrating either West or East.
Eventually they will return to the Russian orbit, 10-15 years, simply because the West doesn't want them.
And Russia is and will continue to be the place where the jobs are, and in the next generation, where the ‘good’ jobs will be (like being a master welder on a nuclear power plant project).
One problem Octavia is that they start to hate the West even more, one for the fact that they got manipulated into fighting a very costly proxy War, they've literally lost everything and two, the betrayal by the West by not putting their boots on the ground despite all the fine rhetoric of "for as long as it takes" etc and Bojo's exhortation, when Peace was nearly reached, to keep fighting, we've got your back, turned into keep fighting I'll hold your coat !
Any "left leaning" media claiming Russia wants to capture all of Ukraine and move on to NATO countries *isn't* "alternative" media. It's fully establishment.
I include Substack as alternative media. And as a subscriber to Bulwark+ I can certify that those claims about Russia’s intentions in and motives for undertaking the Special Military Operation are ubiquitous there.
That just means it's establishment democrats masquerading as alternative.
Basically the democrat's version of Rinos. Rinos have one set of billionaires that they obey, and Dinos have a different set of billionaires to cater to. They work together more than against each other.
Russia doesn't want the rest of Ukraine because it is full of Ukrainians, whom the Russians DO NOT want to rule over. They want back the territory they consider to be historically theirs and has been populated for the last 250+ years primarily by Russian speaking Russian nationals. They seem to want all territory east of the Dneiper and the (current) South East corner to the Romanian and Moldovan borders and a new border from Kviv to some point on the Moldovan border, as yet undetermined.
If USnato and whatever is left of the Ukrainian military are both stupid enough and capable enough (capability highly in doubt), they could probably push Russia into taking more territory to ensure a sufficient buffer zone between the current Russian/Ukrainian border and the new one, even if Russia does not really want to do so. On the other side of that balance, the west european voters are rapidly reaching a sufficient level of hatred of their own govt's that NATO likely won't survive long. When NATO dies, they will all be begging Russia to sell them energy at almost any price and their military budgets will go back to effective zero.
Yes. The political elites of Europe are so out of touch with their people that the EU will be working overtime in the coming years, declaring elections null/void (see Romania) as well as political parties. The AfD in Germany is now the most popular party. Once elections near, look for Mertz & the establishment to ban the AfD. Macron and his husband's approval rating has settled down to 17%. The UK is nearing civil war as the idiot Starmer cosplays Disraeli. Pathetic.
Thanks for your comment. If Mertz bans AfD I suspect that public opinion will sink to British levels or below. I have responded recently to Brit commentary that I can't see how things improve there with less than a civil war, as you note. This is a fundamental problem with European "democracies". None of the seem to have inviolable limitations on any kind of citizen right being destroyed by the gov't and legislature.
'GAE'?
Global American Empire
ZOG is better acronym
Great American Empire.
Unfortunately, Russia's strategic situation has gotten so bad now that even swallowing all of Ukraine is not going to fix it.
Go back to December 2021 -- what were the Russian demands formulated in those letters to the US? It was for a lot more than Ukraine, the demands were to effectively roll NATO back to pre-expansion positions.
What happened in practice?
1) In Ukraine itself, Ukraine may not be officially in NATO, but NATO is definitely in Ukraine and is firing into Russia pretty much 24/7.
2) Sweden and Finland joined and the US immediately started moving in and setting up bases
3) Moldova was flipped too
4) Now Trump has initially inserted US into Armenia/Azerbaijan, with prospects for them to go the Ukraine/Moldova route
5) Direct war started with Iran too.
Remember that even in Soviet times the USSR was effectively encircled. From the western direction by the Norway-FRG-Italy line, from the southwest and south by Greece, Turkey, Iran before the revolution, and the Gulf States, from the east by US positions in South Korea and Japan. It is so much worse now.
Sure, Ukraine is the sorest of sore points, and it has to be completely annexed and then de-Ukrainized. But Putin has not even set that as a goal. And even if he did and he accomplished it, everything else remains as major problems.
Nothing a good nuking won't fix, I'm sure.
How do you propose to physically remove NATO infrastructure from where it must be removed from?
You will chisel away at it with a teaspoon?
You are grossly overpaid.
AGREED!
Keep slurping up the Kool-Aid. You're working overtime to convince yourself. Russia destroyed the Western narrative, thankfully.
I think GM is actually a team of paid trolls. Otherwise they would have gone fromh all the cognitive dissonance that they spew out and have to rejustify everyday.. .so they have to take turns doing it to stay semi-sane, and thereby come across as 'plausible'.
These things take time. I know you want it to happen quickly like a good movie but history demonstrates these things play out over decades... Chip
The presence of dialogue is better than the total obstruction of dialogue
Most definitely...apart from the neocons' obsessive hatred of Russia, there are many areas where cooperation would benefit both countries...
Two major obstacles are the U.K. hatred of Russia and Yanklands greatest fear, and what it has fought for nearly 200 years, is the unification of Europe.
Yankland blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines and blaming Russia was a part of this. Yankland had already made too good to refuse offers for re-location to all of its vassal state Germany's biggest and most profitable companies.
Barry. It's longer than that mate. Britain has consistently opposed whoever was the big dog in Europe since the Armada.
Except for the Septics....
…and therefore tehy instigated two world wars.
Three if you count the Seven years war.
But the alternative was letting Imperial France, Imperial Germany priVacy Germany dominate the Globe.
Incorrect.
It can be quite the opposite in fact.
How did the USSR fall apart?
Symbolically it starts with Khrushchev's trip to the US in 1959. Note that there are two type of people of peasant origin -- there is the kind that Stalin was, i.e. ascetic, rugged and uncompromising, and then there is the character that behaves like a tribal aboriginal seeing glass beads peddled by a Western merchant for the first time. Khrushchev was much more of the latter. So he goes to the US for two weeks, is very impressed by the consumerism he sees there, and he decides to compete with the US on consumerism. But if you are a communist country, you can never compete with capitalists on consumerism, it is fundamentally impossible, because resources are finite, you being communists also means you are not sucking real wealth from satellites, in fact most of the time you are subsidizing them, and internally being communist means a lot of resources are allocated to general societal welfare, which resources are then not available to pour into consumerism. Thus the moment you pursue such a goal, you put yourself at severe disadvantage. As real life indeed proved.
Then you have arms control treaties. Those started under Brezhnev, and were generally not in favor of the USSR if you analyze them. We will get to the worst of them in a minute. The only reason they were signed is that by a certain point in the early 1970s the USSR not only reached numeric parity in strategic armaments but started to pull ahead. Also, Brezhnev was not exactly the easily impressed and influenced peasant type that Khrushchev was, but still shared much of its characteristics, with some additional peculiar vanity added. At the end he too craved nothing more but "being at the table" with the Americans, and though he could play hard ball himself, he did give away a lot that he shouldn't have, because of that fundamental weakness.
Then Gorbachev came, who represented the thoroughly corrupted by the experience of the additional decades of building Soviet urban consumerism Khrushchev-kind peasant archetype, i.e. a fool that is extremely easy to play. Gorbachev gave everything away, without a fight, and he did it precisely by "dialogue", during a series of high-profile meetings with the enemy.
People will tell you how good it was that disarmament happened, but was it really good for Russia (and even the world)? Did the US ever think about firing missiles into Russia when Russia had 30,000 warheads ready to go? No, it didn't. But it does now. Why? Because there is a counter-intuitive dynamics at play here -- if there are strategic weapons, but below a certain threshold in number, then a temptation arises to think that you can neutralize a second strike or minimize it down to a level of "acceptable" damage. While if there are 5-10-20x as many strategic weapons, you just can't think that. So the world was, paradoxically, safer in the 1970s when Russia had 30,000 nukes, than it is now.
Also, Russia signing the INF was very bad for it, because the INF treaty killed intermediate-range ground-based missiles, but did nothing about sea and air launched ones. Problem is, who is the land power and who is the air and sea power in this conflict? Internally there was very serious opposition inside Russian security circles to the INF treaty, but they were not listened to. In the end the US pulled out anyway.
So in short, the history of "dialogue" with the US is one of Russian making concessions and unfavorable for it agreements, to the point that eventually the country collapsed and was set back 300 years, while it was at its strongest when it was in active opposition to the West and there was no dialogue. It is a general and very consistent pattern.
Come on GM…
Do you have a death wish?
People meeting and discussing is always better without bayonets in between.
Chrustjov did clean out much of the odeur of Stalinism and for sure killed of the monster Berya. When he visited US, Eisenhower was President (and the Deep state on highest alert). They tried to overwhelm him with consumerism and a overwtacked schedule with the sole purpose to exhaust him. The peasant Chrustjov later had secret correspondence with Kennedy which was very important to let Russia know that US President was under pressure from inside shadowy forces. It didnt help to avoid the Cuba missile crisis but sure helped Kennedy to avoid WW3. Chrustjov was Ukrainian so was his protege Bresjnev.
The Nixon/Bresjnev talks was likewise important. As was Reagan/Gorbathchov.
Nixon was an outsider deeply hated by Deep State. He tried to do good but is remembered as a crook. Why?
Reagan was a product of Deep State but as such not aware of it. He was used as a front. His talks with Gorbatchov did give hope for a whole new world and opened up for a new optimism and prosperous times. Of course the Deep State used the situations to strangle what was left of USSR, mainly through the wanker Clinton.
Clinton who said flat NO to Russia entering NATO.
And what did the democrat Clinton achieve at all?, The democrat peace price winner Obama? The democratic zombie Biden?.
What did they achieve? Well they all achieved a fantastic return on investment for the weapon companies and their shareholders which is repaid in favorable book tours and real estate investment to make each of them millionaires hundreds of times over. The government bureaucracy nor its interim CEO cares nothing for America the nation or its inhabitants, nor does it have any vision beyond their bubble of rich friends. I stopped expecting politicians to care decades ago.
So many old people in power is why the world can't move forward. These old folks cling to their old feuds and remember old nation state borders and care about the old root causes. These old people are propped up by old money and old networks and do not understand how to adapt.
Today's generations do not care at all about history but they are being dragged down by it. A large dust up is inevitable at this point as the new world cannot emerge with this 20th century anchor, but it must emerge and the change will not be smooth.
Have some iodine at the ready and learn to like irradiated canned tuna.
Cheer up John. I have a guillotine in my cellar. Ready to use when times is up. If the sneaky Elite havent learned of history, history will catch up.
With respect GM, that's your opinion in a vacuum. It doesn't actually connect or have anything to do with today, right?
"Note that there are two type of people of peasant origin -- there is the kind that Stalin was, i.e. ascetic, rugged and uncompromising, and then there is the character that behaves like a tribal aboriginal seeing glass beads peddled by a Western merchant for the first time."
Well put.
But this goes the world over and was done to the rural communities in UK and Europe. In simple terms, those who take the "King's shilling" and those that don't; that sell their communities out for shiny beads - you'll find similar stories across Europe long ago and then the US; that Yeoman Farmer republic Jefferson dreamed of sold out to Bankers etc and the international ghouls now plotting to sabotage Trump/Putin and ignite gross acts of terrorism and violence around the globe.
"the international ghouls" need to feel the heat of their ghoulish actions personally. Doxing their families and bunkers is a righteous necessity.
So Putin isn't heading to the Hague. It seems the detente is holding.
When Putin sat in Trump's car, I could picture Kaja jumping from the back to put a burlap bag over his head and sell him to the Hague for "more money to Ukraine :-)
Oh cmon nobody important ever goes to the Hague - it's for 3rd world click-taters and tinpot front men to provide a placebo for global justice.
Didn't US promise to bomb the heck out of the Hague if Americans prosecuted for war crimes?
Njet The Hague is Bilderberg’s, Peter Thiel and bedfellows, keep your bad dreams to yourself, bombing The Hague is bombing Wall Street.
Well, comrade, let's brush up on history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
Camadski times are a changing, history is finished unless you’re on antipsychotics or coke of course.
pls don't cite Wikipedia, just saying. You are better than that Ms!
Yes, some idiot President did threaten to bomb the Hague.
But the fact remains.
They wrote laws to enable armed invasions of the Hague to rescue Rumsfeld and Cheney if they ever found themselves in the wrong airport lol
lol
I think some Serbs would differ;-)
I was thinking the same.
Slobodan Milošević died in a UN detention centre in Hague after being indicted for various war crimes including genocide of which he was posthumously found to be not responsible for during the 92 to 95 Bosnian war. A heart attack they say .
Is Duerte still in there? I lost track of that....
Well said Cheryl.
Trump and Putin have always seemed to have good personal relations...Putin reiterated the same security needs that Russia requires, which Trump can't apparently can't grant, but the two men parted amicably and will probably meet in Moscow next month....That's a little better outcome than most of us expected...
Trump is very "needy". In his personal interactions if people are nice to him, he's nice back.
Immature is probably a better word.
"if people are nice to him, he's nice back."
Most of us are like that, with good reason.
‘Trump Says There Is ‘No Deal’ on Ukraine After Summit With Putin’.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/15/world/trump-putin-meeting-alaska
Lavrov stepped off the plane with an CCCR marked sweatshirt (Russian for USSR) a fair warning on things to come. Especially after a flight menu of ‘chicken kyiv cutlets’ on the plane.
The 8/15/25 ‘productive’ meeting was interrupted after three hours with predictable zero results between Trump and Putin. Trump kept repeating in the days before that Zelensky gave him no authorization to deal with critical issues concerning territorial agreements. In addition Trump was representing a surrealistic US position, likely forced by the Deep State: A demand for ceasefire from Russia the nation that is generally viewed by experts as the winning party in the war. This narrative clearly wants to subjugate Russia to the US/NATO/Ukraine parties, the loser coalition, a clear sign that they are out of sync with reality. The difference is unbridgeable and this is why they walked away without any results. In the next few days Trump’s threats will fly in the air like so many pieces of virus infected bird doo-doo. On the other hand the reality is becoming darker and darker for the US/NATO/Ukraine party. After India, China, North Korea, Iran and BRICS openly sided with Russia, Indonesia with 300 million people and major fossil fuel needs is coming around to the Russian side. The clock of global geopolitics is turning and Trump is standing, doing nothing to stop the process. This slow tectonic shift is going back and was predicted by political scientists all the way to 1991. In the following decade the Russian Federation could have been bought for pennies on the dollar to join the West, they were actually begging to be incorporated. In the following decades seven US administrations systematically blocked Russia to join and there were two Trump administrations in this act. In the last two decades commie Merkel and a bunch of undesirables from Europe together with the US declared Russia as public enemy No.1 and now the results are here.
Imaginary narratives lead to catastrophic outcomes. Case in point.
Emotional narratives lead to catastrophic outcomes.
It cannot be explained in a better way.
>CCCR marked sweatshirt (Russian for USSR)
СССР, not "CCCR".
But yes, this went as well as it could be hoped for, at least officially there was no betrayal.
Trump didn't sound very confident in his statement either, and that statement was very brief. Sounded like the Russian delegation played hard ball for a change
Easy to confuse the "P" with "R" if Russian is your native language. Because Cyrillic "P" is "R".
You got the point :))) Although Russian is not my ‘native language’, I don’t even speak it but I am familiar with their ABC and have to balance a half dozen languages in my mind where my knowledge ranges from rudimentary to the fluent.
"C" is also our "S".
So in English letters, CCCP = SSSR.
Just to make everything completely incomprehensible, a backwards "R" is pronounced "IA", and a backwards "N" is "I", and "H" is "N".
No wonder we have so much misunderstanding between us.
Actually, the letter that looks like a backwards Latin R is pronounced "Ya".
From the high quality of your other commentary I know you meant "No wonder we have so much misunderstanding between us." as a tongue-in-cheek bit of humor, but as they say there is often a kernel of truth in humor.
In this case the kernel of truth has to do with the root of the US's misunderstanding of both the written script and of Russia overall, replacing the thuddingly obvious with bizarrely delusional claims: those misunderstandings arise from the very poor education most Americans get.
The Cyrillic alphabet used by Russia is basically a combination of the Latin alphabet Americans use for English and the Greek alphabet known to well-educated people in the West for over two thousand years, including today. That's because Russia was the intellectual inheritor of the Roman Empire, which lasted in the East in Constantinople for a thousand years after it collapsed in the West. It collapsed in the West in a decrepit Rome after Constantine and the Roman emperors who followed moved the capital of the Roman Empire East to Constantinople, closer to where all the money was and away from an economically impoverished West (...hey! ... that's what's going on today, too...).
It's true that it has become rare for Americans to know Greek, but well-educated people know enough of the Greek alphabet from basic math and science to be able to read Russian without confusion from letters similar to Latin use.
Some examples of Greek letters used in the Cyrillic alphabet:
If you don't know Greek pi you're mathematically illiterate. The Russian letter for "P" is simply pi: П.
The letter for "D" is delta, written as the classic triangle with serifs in most fonts: Д
The letter for "L" is lambda, usually written with a curved left leg in most fonts: Л
The letter for "F" is Phi, the "F" sound in Greek and looking exactly the same in Russian language as it appears in numerous fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa sweatshirts in the US: Ф
The "G" is upper case gamma: Г
The letter for a hard "E" sound, as in "end" is Greek epsilon, but written backwards: Э - that's to allow using a similarly shaped "E" for the "e" sound as in "lean".
Letters that confuse English speakers:
The Russian letter for English "R" is the Greek letter Rho, which is "P", or in script, "ρ". Latins didn't use "pi" but instead used a letter that looks like Rho for the Latin "P" sound. Russians use the original Rho.
The Russian letter for the "N" sound, like in "new", is the Greek letter Eta, which "H" in uppercase. That was a choice by the inventors of the Cyrillic alphabet (two Greek monks) based on the lower case, script form of Eta, which is "η". I don't know the history of that but my guess is that given the dominance of the "V" letter in Latin/English that may have seemed more reasonable than Greek Nu, which in lower case script is "ν".
The Russian letter for the "V" sound, like in "view," is the greek letter Beta, in upper case "B" and in script lower case "β", which is pronounced in both modern Greek and Hellenistic Greek as a "v" sound. Americans often get that one wrong when discussing Greek because of wrong pronunciation, called "Erasmian", that took hold in English language Bible studies of Greek texts. There's a lot of rubbish on the web that purports to explain Greek letters to English speakers. Many web pages repeat Erasmian errors.
The Russian letter for the "H" sound, like the first letter in "Hah", is the Greek Chi, χ, which looks like an English "X". The Hellenistic and modern Greek pronunciation is often said to be like Spanish "j", which is *not* pronounced like the "j" in "jugular" but like the "h" in "hoya" or "hello." Russian Х is exactly the same.
Because Russian uses a lot of Greek letters, the problems many Americans have with Cyrillic are similar to the problems they have reading Greek. Here's advice from one web page that sets out to teach English speakers Hellenistic Greek:
η should not be confused with an English n.
υ is NOT pronounced like an English u.
ν should not be confused with the English v. It is pronounced like an English n.
ρ should be carefully distinguished from English p. It is pronounced similar to an r.
χ must be distinguished from English x. It is pronounced like a Spanish j.
ω must be differentiated from English w.
β resembles an upper case English B, but sounded closer to an English v in Hellenistic Greek.
δ resembles the English d, but in Hellenistic Greek it was pronounced more like the th in “then”.
γ resembles an English y but was pronounced like one only when it appeared before certain vowels (those that sound like the i in “machine” or e in “bet”). In most other places it is pronounced similar to the English g in “go” but not exactly.
So... if you remember your basic math classes up through trigonometry or your introductory physics classes, you know enough Greek letters to puzzle through much of what's written in Cyrillic in Russia. Between that and all the cognates and loan words, like "bank", that are the same or very similar it's not so hard to learn the language.
No. NYT says.
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Gotta love that Lavrov—he’s so subtle <grin>.
That guy has a problem, he is a few lightyears ahead in understanding geopolitical issues...
"they are out of sync with reality"
Yes, they are.
First, this is profitable for the ziocons/compradors' careers and for the MIC.
Second, judaic thinking is fundamentally devoid of reality and decency. They want full-spectrum supremacist domination, for which they are unqualified. There is a reason why a judaic civilization has never been built.
The true leeching spirit of the nomadic tribe was clearly explained by a prominent zionist Maurice Samuel in his "You Gentiles." He wrote about jews within the European civilization:
"A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to bring our two worlds together. It was a century of failure. Our Jewish radicals are beginning to understand it dimly.
We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build. …
…we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us."
Here is a jewish question (JQ) standing in its stunning simplicity:
Why do jews cling to the European civilization? Why was Maurice Samuel, a leader of the Zionist Organization of America, avoided living in the jewish state like a plague and instead preferred to dwell among people of European descent? Why don't they take their hatred away from the collective west and relocate to somewhere closer to their Semitic brethren, where jews can learn how to respect civilizations built by "others?"
I fully realize that I am proposing a horrifying approach here for (((some))) but it is time to look at the fundamental DNA differences here to comprehend the problem. We have the technology!!!
@Kennewick Man
DNA testing doesn't line up nicely with the prejudices all the wannabee eugenicists/genocidaires believe are the laws of the universe. Be glad, otherwise there absolutely WOULD be ethnically targeted bio weapon attacks going on by now...
Fortunately, casual bastardry has always been a popular intramural sport clear back to those hot neanderthal chicks and we likely all have great to the X? parents our Grandma's country club wouldn't approve of.
Racial homogeneity was successfully enforced in the Western World to the early part of the 20th century. The European population could not possibly be prejudiced and/or genocided small traces of colored populations as they were barely present. Somehow, without the benefit of DNA tests, Europeans were able to sort out all of these issues until jewish emancipation started to rule the day. That is where problems started and we were labeled, ‘eugenicists/genocidaires’.
@Kennewick Man
There is one race, the human race. They do come in a whole bunch of different colors, shades, shapes & sizes, they even had some quite detectable physically differential evolved internal traits before we started migrating & traveling- Tierra del Fuego natives who had no trees and thus no ocean going boats, rough icy seas all around, pretty genetically isolated after sea level rise post last ice age who at contact could walk barefoot in snow with very minimal clothing & not get hypothermia or frostbitten toes. Some of their cousins on the mainland, high altitude valley Andean natives selected for that same capability vs. cold feet + a whole extra pint of blood to deal with low air pressure on the average!
Our local varietals began to get around CONSTANTLY once they figured out boats, riding animals and how to trade with the neighboring tribes instead of eating them on sight/how to steamroll the tribe with nicer land and take all their women & etc - & we've ALSO always instinctively wanted to rub uglies with the engagingly different "looking" chicks if we could too, resulting in creating diverse hybrids with the usual enhanced hybrid vigor. You don't know much about anyone without a DNA test, really. Euro "white" people who go by the surface color & etc. are deluding themselves about a whole lot of things. With the constant warfare, invasion, migration, slave taking Europeans and Asians & even Africans have done for well over 4,000 years? There is no such thing as "racial homogeneity" of Europeans if you bother to check their DNA.
'There is no such thing as "racial homogeneity" of Europeans'
You will never get this, you should really move to Africa and take a few lessons from the locals.
Insightful comments.
What it all boils down to is what was written at Genesis 3, 15; ie that there are "two seeds" in this world, as the jewish gentleman says, ie "a primal duality," which can NEVER be bridged.
Once again, scripture gets it spot on, when it describes the sexual liaison between Eve and the serpent Lucifer in the Garden, a forbidden liaison which produced the half-angelic but wholly evil Cain.
Possibly I won't have to remind anybody what Cain immediately did.
And his descendants are still doing it today.
It couldn't be clearer.
As the saying goes if you are not at the table you are on the menu - chicken Kiev anyone ?
"chicken kyiv cutlets" : Kiev cutlets...
"This slow tectonic shift is going back and was predicted by political scientists all the way to 1991"
well, by thousands of regular people who remember the setting. I was in Berlin in 1987/88 and when Wall was dismantled, and one year after Gorbachov and Cheverdnaze proposed Helmut Kohl to remove Red Army from DDR so for Germany to unify, and the Comecon apparatus was removed, and USSR dissolved because Russians no longer wanted to carry on the budget and expensive for the huge central asian republics (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, ...), we were left in disarray, who who were familiar with the Iron Curtain nearby sides, by the fact that NATO not only didn't leave but to the contrary started pushing Eastward. Then USA supported with its jihadi devices war in Chechenya.
So it was clear that counter-reaction would build up.
USA spent its time otherwise destroying Middle East with a series of wars, first direct, then by proxy. No mystery rest of the world is fed up.
‘I was in Berlin when Wall was dismantled’
Do you remember a tall guy paying a few coins to an Arab, renting a chisel and hammer to break pieces off the wall? That was me. ‘Those were the days my friends….’ People were saturated with optimism, searching for an open horizon for the future. And look what happened!
@Kennewick Man
I think I still have a couple of chips from the wall somewhere...
GM and Feral Kitten are not trying to dominate this threat as they did earlier. What happened? GM is likely trying to cook up a new recipe like his rent-a-mob theory of tens of thousands of young Ukrainian women pushing their agenda on the streets of Ukraine recently, paid by Soros. The evidence was directly contradicting his feverish brainchild and I only wish more people called him out on this here.
"Commie" Merkel? Suuuuure 🤣
There was an original photo circulating out there showing the young lady in East Germany, marching with a bunch of young commies in some sort of uniform. That thing was unable to resist the horrifying virus of communism and was infected from childhood.
Oooops, I found it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/94lj2k/young_angela_merkel_in_communist_military_uniform/
The image was taken by Merkel's schoolmate Sonja Felssberg in 1972 and appeared in the german newspaper Bild in 2013. Here is an english article about it.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/merkel-east-germany-pic-military-uniform-470047
The fowl meal is котлета по-киевски (kotleta po-kievsky), Invented in St. Petersburg around 1910, and re-introduced in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, in 1947, thus the name. Was a standard meal in Russian and Soviet cuisine. The stupid Khokhol babble was not introduced prior to 2008 outside Galicia even in Ukraine. Maybe some teasing when serving that meal, yet it is widespread so not sure.
As to the T-shirt there is a widespread renaissance of pro USSR feelings in Russia revering Soviet achievements, in science, technology, education, astronautics etc., even with a re-evaluation of the role of Stalin. It does not mean irredentism, though. Lavrov addressed these domestic sentiments, and also demonstrated defiance towards western demonizations, as always with some good humour.
"The cartoonish staging of the event coordination was another Trump ‘special’, straight from the playbook of his teenage-boy fever dream, stacking warplanes like matchbox toys, and even arranging for a crude B-2 Spirit and F-35 stealth bomber flyover above Putin’s head just as he made his way down the hastily-draped runner as some kind of strongman ‘power move’."
Yeah... starting to lose objectivity here I would say. Bordering on TDS almost.
Name another impromptu summit that walks the players past F35's and features an F22 escorted B fuggin 2 overhead. Pointing that out isn't tds, it's pertinent.
"Pointing that out isn't tds, it's pertinent."
Of course it is, and you can read that two ways. The cartoonish teenage-boy fever dream with his matchbox toys, or Trump showing what he thought would be a sign of respect, given the prominence of military parades in Russia, which he tried himself to duplicate on his birthday....lol.
I'm not pitching for Trump here. Far from it. I just don't believe gratuitous insults add much to the analysis. It makes me wonder what else is coloured by those kinds of perceptions.
I simply tried to see it the way Trump might have intended, rather than react negatively and assume it was meant as sabre rattling. I do that out of habit - try to understand what the other guy is thinking before I jump to conclusions. Like I said, Trump may have seen it as a sign of respect. Putin seems to have taken it that way. Check the expression on his face. The guy looks amused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lrvdn26rCk
I doubt VVP would be intimidated by a few jet aircraft anyway, he has plenty of those, most of them superior to anything the US can get aloft these days.
"Kinzhal-toting Mig-31's"
Now it's my turn to say be honest.
Were those aircraft armed? With what? A to A Red Herrings?
Equally plausible I agree. On the Fordow run, I seriously doubt they used the B2. Why risk losing an expensive aircraft and a captured or dead crew when you can just punch a few holes with missiles and call it a day? Who's to say how much damage you caused, since most of it is underground.
LOL you object more to online "gratuitous insults" than you do to real life gratuitous insults characterized by flying weapons of war directly over what was supposed to be a respectful diplomatic meeting. I don't know, Simpatico was too kind. Less a teenage boy fever dream and more a junior partner Mob boss intimidation tactic.
Can you think of another high level summit between two nuclear powers where one party to the negotiations did an overflight at low altitude with the same military hardware that had most recently been used when previous negotiations were exposed to be a ploy designed to get one side to let down their guard so they could be "obliterated"?
Yeah. It's very fucking pertinent and not "TDS".
Take it however you like. I'd simply point out that you're doing the same thing - chastising me for expressing (online) a reasonable alternate view of the event. You have your lens, I have mine. Ain't free speech wonderful?
Yeah, except you're the only one who has called anyone else names "tds" because someone else's free speech didn't meet with your approval as it pertained to one particular politician.
But yes, free speech is great (except when you criticize Israel (or Trump) in Trump's USA - at that point it ceases to exist).
Plenty of what other people say doesn't meet my approval. So what? You object to me commenting on that, so pot, kettle black I'd say.
"you're the only one who has called anyone else names "tds"
What I actually said:
"Bordering on TDS almost."
When people start misquoting or taking me out of context the conversation is over. Not interested in online polemics, just dialogue.
Don't you know, any criticism of Fearless Leader is "TDS".
That way, criticism can be dismissed out of hand, without thinking.
"Less a teenage boy fever dream and more a junior partner Mob boss intimidation tactic."
It's both accurate and useful to view the USA as the largest organized crime family on earth rather than a coherent nation state. If you thought our leaders diddling the children was bad enough, check this interview (link) Tucker has with an author who is both former military and a score keeper. The absolute degeneration of the US military is far worse than anyone imagines.
https://youtu.be/t9n3pXFEVMg?si=1kNtdguQNZM0lq9J
I agree with ‘ebear.’ I have quietly and anonymously read Simplicious since The Saker days when he was a prolific commenter. I subscribed almost immediately when he started his own writing, and I have been reading this religiously since his first post. This is actually my first ever comment on his blog, because I think this is an important topic.
With that said, the personal snipes and literary insults of world leaders take so much away from what is otherwise exceptionally analyzed and presented perspectives on world events. As ebear said, the deeper concern, as a reader who only cares about the truth as objectively as it can be presented, is how much analysis is colored by these perceptions.
As much as I enjoy his writing, I would enjoy it much more without the personal filler.
I’m with you banging that drum. Assigning such motives is speculative at best, and obfuscating at worst. Anyway it matters little how spectators see such displays. How did Putin and the Russians take it? We don’t know that either but it’s the only question that matters.
Russians were actually delighted with the honors showed to Putin, the red carpet, and how Putin's plane was escorted by the US jets over Bering Straits, etc.
Was Putin himself flying the plane bear-chested?? (Mis-spelling fully intended)
Fair enough and we'll put.
I preferred to view it as a small military parade in Putin's honor ;-)
Quite possibly a bone thrown to his remaining followers, also a distraction from <cough, cough> recent events. I'm sure he realizes VVP isn't intimidated by a few warplanes. He has lots of those.
Trump has common sense but he also surrounded by Lindsey Grahams, so I think he threw them a bone with “peace through strengh.” I don’t doubt there were the Oreshniks close by on the Russian side and Akulas.
Even without any syndrome or sign of sickness, this B2-F35 flyover was tasteless and childish.
A little like: Nice to meet you, by the way, I bench 300 pounds, so be careful with me!
I'm with Angelina on this one. More like a salute, but same idea. The Air Force does flyovers over football games, too. Who are they trying to intimidate there?
Same purpose, wows the yokels.
Putin likes his hardware - he was probably touched by the gesture. And as for benching 300, I'd be proud too lol
Those B2 are smaller than one thinks. But the 16 B61's onboard ain't a small thing.
At least Putin was polite enough not to surface a couple of titanium framed nuclear subs to show in the Gulf of Alaska... I think they were there.
Those planes were a threat. Putin could have turned around and gotten back on his plane. Maybe he should have.
The less somebody knows the more sure they are of their opinions.
He should have pulled a Cartman! Screw you guys, goin' home.
And yeah, they know about South Park in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQoTf7FeyZ8&list=RDOQoTf7FeyZ8&start_radio=1
That video is hilarious!
Awesome band too. Check out their other material.
Indeed, if anything if im putin i am flattered by the show. This sort of thing is not trivial to arrange, and indicates how much Trump valued the meeting
Yeah, I'm sure he was "flattered" considering it was probably the same exact B2 and same F22 escorts used not two months ago to do a sneak attack on Iran which also happened to be in the midst of "negotiations" while the US and Trump conned them into letting down their guard so they could be attacked. If anything, Putin probably had the same take as Simplicius. Childish bullshit.
Iran is not Russia and bombers doing bomber stuff. When im an invited guest somewhere and my hosts roll out their finest its not a flex, I am the flex. You really have it backwards
Rolling out their finest would entail treating them to the best we have to offer on the ground. Not military overflights which can be seen as threatening as much as defensive.
For example look how the Russian media was treated.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7960334?from=top_main_2
Making them sleep in an empty hockey stadium isn't exactly the administration rolling out the finest stuff, but maybe that's just me.
Yeah, it is you. The meeting was set barely a week ago. US had time to vet, issue visas, and arrange accommodations during peak tourist season in Anchorage, not exactly a global metropolitan hub. Guaranteed there was FSB in the delegation but they still made it happen. Being a whiny journo apparently is independent of nationality it seems. There are guys sleeping in trenches on the front line reporting, and others being blown up by airstrikes in Gaza. These people got a front row seat to an historic event - cry me a fucking river
That's totally changing the subject. And to make it clear, if those planes had been launched to provide a show of (and actual) defense, they wouldn't have been flying at such low altitude. And isn't Trump all about saving taxpayer money and cutting back on waste and fraud? I doubt those flights were cheap, especially considering that none of those squadrons are based in Alaska full time. It was gaudy and I'm sure most of the world, and the Russians, agree with Simplicius. There are other ways of rolling out the finest for a **diplomatic** meeting. Criticizing the state of Alaska isn't winning you any points either.
Bash "peak tourist season in Anchorage" ? I'm intrigued.
Thank you, that was fun... To read about anyhow, didn't sound very entertaining to experience.
This is still the long daylight season, salmon fishing & tourists are filling every hotel room.
More like firmly rooted in fucking observable reality. TDS - the new "antisemite".
TDS is real. So is antisemitism
And so is the dissolution of White Society in America.
TDS is a term only used by very sad and broken people, who really believe Trump will one day do even a single thing he promised them on the campaign trail. It's not coming sweetie.
He's trying hard to live up to one or two promises. Problem is they're both to his extremely rich oligarchical business partners and to be as transparently petty and cruel as his Photo-Op administration can possibly be in failing to deport as many "illegals" as the Deporter in Chief Obama did.
TDS? Without any such sign of sickness, this B2-F35 fly over was tasteless and childish.
"To the rest of the world, such displays lack taste and class."
Trump in a nutshell.
Solid gold bathroom fixtures, dude.
Sorry but I keep thinking about those really funny FB reels that have the Spirit budget airlines "interacting" with other planes, like his "bro" the B2 Spirit who always comes to the defense of little yellow "budget plane", the Antonov - with much vodka on-board, the giant Belluga etc, all playing against the poor TC tower guy. Spirit always seems to have a Karen in 12B who complains about frozen burritos and writes lawsuits on a napkin while the Antonov guy has to unleash Boris the bear, who serves as a co-pilot/security guard. Sometimes there's a C-5 carrying "democracy cargo" demands landing rights but Spirit gets the better of him with Antonov in rear guard and B-2 Spirit bro to the rescue.
Whoever writes those skits is very creative + super knowledgeable about airline flying, airport squabbles, tower antics and pilot lingo..
If you need a break, I recommend the B2 Sprit reels + F15/F22 escorts + Antonov with bear and vodka.
Agree. It was unnecessary remarks. Trump has to play his enemies too.
Seriously?
In what way is displaying weapons of war when an adversary makes a peaceful visit for the first time in forever appropriate?
It was Trump flexing, which is entirely in bad taste.
Wtf is TDS?
A spectrum. In the middle there are people like myself who try not to think about Trump. At the positive end of scale, there are those who believe he is our national savior (if not actually the 2nd coming). At the negative end, there are those never Trumpers who knows that he is an avatar of the antichrist who has been injected with recombinant DNA extracted from Adolf Hitler.
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Thanks. Personally, I am not sure about Trump, but doubt it is worth while to think too much about. So I am close to your point.
I don't like the guy myself, but that's been true of almost every US president since 1963, so I guess that's a wash. What I find amusing though is the reaction to my comment, nested 8 or 9 deep in some spots. Now that's successful trolling...lol.
Yes that had legs! And it actually provided a lot more food for thought than I would have predicted. I do agree that the more Simplicius sticks to the issues and avoids casting aspersions upon the personalities, the better. Having said that, Trump us suuuuuuch haplesslessly tacky and socially clutzy operator, it's hard not to mention it. If Trump doesn't want to be seen as a protocol lightweight, don't serve Big Macs and Coke at the White House lol
Trump isn't stupid and an interesting thing he mentioned in the fox interview is how much business Russia and the United States could have done together if it wasn't for Russiagate back in 2016. He specifically mentioned rare earth metals and other resources. Trump doesn't have the 40 years of Russia phobia that the deep state has. I bet he would love to dump deadbeat Europe and work with Russia and try and drive a wedge in the Russia/China relationship. I'm doubtful if that is even possible though.
Think how much business could be done with Iran but for the genocidal chicken swinging sin merchants that control Zion don.
"I bet he would love to dump deadbeat Europe and work with Russia and try and drive a wedge in the Russia/China relationship. I'm doubtful if that is even possible though."
The Russia/China relationship is predicated on two things: 1. their obvious proximity to one another and the benefits that trade and mutual cooperation brings, and 2. mutual defence against a highly aggressive opponent.
Take away 2 and that still leaves 1, to which you could add the USA if saner minds prevail. Once you add it all up, It's a fairly simple equation. A significant piece of a very large pie is much better than a large piece of a small (and shrinking) one... or no pie at all.
As for Europe, they can sort out their own mess, since they're of no great threat or interest to any of the main players. That includes the toothless old lion that still thinks its roar counts for anything.
A Russia / USA partnership would also lock down the entire north pole. Strategically locking down like 1/3rd of the planet surface with an untold amount of resources.
Cut Canada into the deal and you're on!
<aside/> I dream of the day our NHL can play in the Kontinental League.
https://en.khl.ru/. (Go Akbars!)
Cut Canada into the deal? Canada has no cut to be given, they are about as sovereign from the US as Puerto Rico at this point. A puppet completely dependent on the US without a shred of it's own geopolitical agency.
And a lot more openly Nazi Banderites running around (and getting standing ovations - the US does that for Zionist Jew fascists).
What did the ‘Nazis’ do wrong compared to the zog empires they heroically fought ? Break your Jew programming.
I guess a lot of those ‘friendly’ west Ukrainians moved to Canada after the war
Canada is a young nation , under 160 years old . It has only one neighbour, one neighbour. Try to get along .
No excuse! Just because we have one neighbor, that means we should be controlled entirely by them? Follow all their foreign adventures? I don't think so.
Like the USA isn't young?
Bad news indeed for Santa who will become Zelensky mark 2 , to say nothing of the elves , who will doubtless be enslaved in a massive Amazon distribution centre or sent to a Gulag(which would at least be warmer than the North Pole)
Europe is a just a vassal of the USA which is a colony of the Jew.
Trump doesn't read books. He doesn't even know of any books worth reading, except his own book which he didn't actually write. What is the smartest thing Trump ever said?
"This war must end"
Meh, peace sells but whose buyin'?
Really? Try to sell peace to the EU or Ukraine:-)
As long as Americans do3l the fighting, europeans are all for war.
Something like “I don’t mind if my enemies think I’m dumb. That dulls their minds more than I could possibly do”
What is the smartest thing Trump ever said?
"Oi! Get out of my garden."
Agree fully. The demoncrats Deep State destroyed 4 years of lost opportunities to act pragmatic.
War is pragmatic if you’re the one profiting from it
Decades of Russia hate on our side says it’s an uphill battle. The war machine doesn’t care much for peace. Why were “terrorists” allowed to bring down the towers in NYC and penetrate the building that houses the largest and most powerful military in the world? Because we needed an enemy and an excuse for our world domination games. Full spectrum dominance anyone?
At least they are talking and not nuking
Summits precede war more often than prevent it.
Need documentation for that assertion
GM in 3, 2, 1...
A supreme narcissist takes no responsibility for anything, steals successes and his own, and is a "SPECIAL ME".
Sense of self-importance
Preoccupation with power, beauty, or success
Entitled
Can only be around people who are important or special
Interpersonally exploitative for their own gain
Arrogant
Lack empathy
Must be admired (not "insecure" as others claim)
Envious of others or believe that others are envious of them
It really doesn’t matter. Is Trump a worse narcissist than anyone else who reaches the pinnacle of power? Did you buy Obama’s nice guy act?
Who LOST the most? IMO the bald Thailand based US national who somehow became a youtube pundit, Brian Berletic. Brian warned Putin's whole team was physical danger in Alaska and Putin was foolish to go there. Instead, Putin brought the elite cadre of his whole government, no one was harmed, and Putin looked good as a statesman to the intended BRICS audience.
Of course there will be no agreement, and the SMO will go on until Russia has met the security goals announced in Dec 2021.
It is such a shame that Berletic lets his own hatred of his native land cloud his judgement. He has a lot of good stuff to say but it gets lost in the manure.
Berletic doesn't hate his native land, but he despises the crooks who are stealing the potentially better future from its people. We need more like him to awaken public consciousness.
Any western chap who lives in Thailand is always suspect to me. I am (almost) sure you are right and that I am being unfair.
How about Edward Snowden, who lives in Moscow, not because that is his heartfelt choice, but because going against the narratives can be very dangerous.
That is very stereotypical. While Thailand may have gained a reputation over the past many decades as a place that Western men go to have fun with younger Thai women - it is much more than that. Even Bangkok itself, with a population of 11 million people, only have several streets that cater to that audience.
Thailand has a lot to offer, and any Western chap who gets the choice of living in Thailand or in the West, would be a fool to choose to live in the West. If I had the chance, I would easily trade Europe for Thailand - or any other place in SEA. Problem is that it is not easy to move there. Brian is probably married to a Thai woman, hence why he lives there.
Btw, I used to think the same as you, untill I started travelling to Asia 5 years ago. So don't take this as a critique. Just wanted share my POV.
Well put.
Fair enough. I did say it was a gut reaction, not a reasoned judgement. Incidentally, Thai women usually marry westerners to get out, not the other way round.
You are definitely right about that. Many Thai women marry westerners, but I think most actually end up staying in Thailand together. But some of course move with their spouses to Western countries.
"Problem is that it is not easy to move there."
And then there's the language barrier. I struggle with ordering off a menu in a Mexican restaurant. I have a pal (74 y/o) from the old neighborhood who winters in Koh Samui. After 45 years of hard physical labor and a harder marriage, this guy is in heaven with sun, weed, massage, cheap and excellent food. He doesn't need to go to heaven because he's already there.
Yes, most westerners have no idea that the real standard of living in most of east asia (which includes SE Asia) is actually much higher than the avg american lifestyle. Simple thing like old line antibiotic doxycycline costs a bomb (guy was jailed for jacking the price up into the $thousands) in the US and requires a prescription, while I can pick it up for couple cents in Malaysia pharmacy. I flew to Chiang Mai a few years ago for like a week to do mountain biking, and scheduled an MRI at a private clinic on a Sunday afternoon after I was done with my runs. Picked up the report on Monday morning before flying out at noon. Cost of upper extremity MRI $100 (about 5 years ago) vs $400 in Singapore vs >$1000 in US.
For reference point, I have worked in SiliCON valley for 12 yrs before, through the dot com boom and bust.. and also in Europe in well-paid corporate jobs. I am fortunately to be quite financially comfortable, and have enough experience in Asia that I knew it would work out better in Asia for the long-term, as the US system was just getting too freakin' corrupt and while the average person keeps voting for hope and change, they just got more of the same.
beletic probably had a lady boy fetish
To be honest that was also my gut assumption. I just did not want to sound even worse by saying it. I actually value most of his stuff.
It's the pedos I worry about not the gay or trans. Sounds like you have a fetish of your own.
Well put.
These corporate, globalist ghouls have stolen Western countries and cosplay through media at being concerned about the nations they've gutted and destroyed. They are avatars for empire.
If large public consciousness can be further awakened I hope they all end up on the gallows.
Berletic hits a lot more than he misses and besides, what's there not to hate?
I have to admit I was a bit worried for Putins safety - those Yankees are batshit crazy.
Hence Putin got in the car with Trump raising the risk that a 'nutter' take out the wrong president!
The fact is that the ones who would like to kill Putin are the ones who tried to kill Trump.
Not at all. He has to live abroad for telling the truth..Only Scott Ritter acts accordingly, but with his house searched and in permanent stress. Thailand seems a good choice, but I think he is in Malasya.
I believe he is in Bangkok, at least he says he is.
He seems to have an idee fixe that the US runs Europe. While the US certainly does have influence, it seems as if he begins and ends all his analysis with that assumption.
except he can not see the jew runs the usa
he is a race-mixer
Seriously, the drama so many 'alternative pundits' droned on and on about was fantastical. I'm glad it's over and Rus can continue its objectives. Have a nice weekend and don't get too caught up in the 'debrief'...go have some fun.
It's been a cold and rainy winter in my location, but I do intend to have some fun.
It's been a cold and rainy day here too but the summit made for great Couch potato-ing.
We just had our first rain in 2 months here in southern Utah. Thank god....
Great news.
I'm careful to avoid discussions of weather since I live in the most perfect year round climate, near a beach, where I can grow my own veggies year round outdoors. I am truly blessed. (PS I love your POV, Cheryl, especially when you provide a different perspective.)
I was with Berletic on this one. He was more realistic than Alex Krainer, Matt Ehrett and other Larouchian fantasies. I dont understand the purpose of the meeting. Another nothingburger. But I admit Putin acted suicidal to go there.
Maybe Putin used this pointless exercise to display he's got massive cahones. The risk potential was off the chart and he still turned up.
Why do I have a persistent suspicion that the entire charade was put on to allow Putin and Trump 5 minutes of un-monitored talk on that tarmac?
Brian knows very well what the USA has been doing for over a century. Killing high ranking people left and right globally is one of them. Killing Putin (or Putin and Trump), is not something that is impossible to imagine. The west thinks that regime change of Putin will solve ALL their problems.
"The west thinks that regime change of Putin will solve ALL their problems."
If this is true, then 'suicide by superpower' is inevitable for the west. All the possible replacements would be far more aggressive than Putin, likely within minutes at most.
It's a good point.
Do we know who is Putin's designated successor in the chain of command?
The designated political successor would be the incumbent Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, who would become President until elections were held - within 3 months. As far as what is the emergency chain of command for nuclear launch codes is, we don't know. I would assume that would go through the security council and military hierarchy in some fashion.
? I was praying for Putin's safety yesterday as I'm sure thousands or maybe millions around the globe were.
I'll ask everyone the question here. Do you agree there was a non-zero element of risk (from some kind of attack) in Putin going in person to US soil, yes or no?
Considering the duplicity and let's face, reckless irrationality and hatred for Russia of the neocons and those of like mind in Europe and elsewhere, I for one wouldn't have been very surprised to hear they'd arrested Putin, or his plane had an "accident," or whatever other excuse. I was giving it 50/50 myself. I wouldn't put anything past them.
And Berletic is right on with the "continuity of agenda" thing, isn't he? To me he seems like a significant voice.
"Do you agree there was a non-zero element of risk (from some kind of attack) in Putin going in person to US soil, yes or no?"
Yes.
The risk is not zero, the top job and politics being what it is every leader has a non-zero chance of being murdered, but 50/50 is much too high. The greatest threat is always from your own people. Using the cover of diplomacy to kill a foreigner especially a top leader is incredibly rare.
Doing a deep search I can find only 1 solid example of it happening in modern times, in 1994 Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were assassinated when their plane was shot down returning from peace talks in Tanzania.
And one very bloody "near miss", the Rangoon bombing of 9 October 1983, an assassination attempt against Chun Doo-hwan, the fifth president of South Korea, in Rangoon, Burma. That attempt was orchestrated by North Korea.
Even going all the way back to ancient times killing a diplomat or leaders on a diplomatic mission is incredibly rare. There's very little advantage in doing it as the result is 99.99% going to be total war which you can always get by much easier methods.
I've seen more than a few commenters here (GM might be one of them) who seem to think that killing Putin, Zelensky or Trump by one or other faction would be some sort of genius level checkmate move that various factions must be planning and would certainly carry out if the could.
But it doesn't work like that.
These people are tough and ruthless but they're not Mafia bosses where assassinations of other bosses is an established part of the game. Those people are criminals working in the criminal under world. Even a Mafia boss must publicly deny they are a Mafia boss. But a President must always publicly say they're the president and be seen as such, not a murderer and not a criminal.
Even the North Korean government had to deny those assassins were theirs in 1983.
Thanks, interesting. Your point's well taken, although wasn't there actually an attempt made against about six weeks ago with drones attacking his helicopter? I think little Z would take out Mr Putin given the chance, as would the bleeting imbeciles in Europe. Anyway glad to be wrong on this one
This happened to this guy when he said 'no' to the experimental coof shots...there are plenty of ways to skin a cat...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56437852
And this one, angered that his people are treated by Dr Bill like they are pincushions:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56922517
Ah, the West and their 'liberal democracy',
Two people died four years ago, including a 61 year old man of a heart attack.
You will have to do a LOT better before you can reasonably suggest that these were politically motivated assassination.
Try laying out a reasonable scenario for Who, What, When, Where, Why and How.
Clarity of thought, without it this is just irresponsible rumormongering.
Respectfully, this is a comment section to a blog, not an analyses.
You can refute or ignore the comment but you are literally nobody-on-the-internet like I am, and, therefore are in no position to demand 'clarification'.
Find someone else to engage in your pitiful, juvenile pissing contest.
Whatever that incident with Putin's helicopter in May was I don't think we can say it was an assassination attempt.
There was a statement from an air defense commander that the President's helicopter was in the zone and so were Ukrainian drones, which were all shot down. Even if everything he said was true and that helicopter was being targeted there's no reason to suggested it was to kill Putin. Enemy helicopters are always going to be high value targets
Israel killed the Hamas negotiator and the chief Iranian nuclear negotiator's home was also attacked but Iran claims he did survive. They also killed Hassan Nasralla, Hezbollah's leader. And negotiations where actively ongoing and even used as a diversion tactic. But most of the time indirect means are used and proxies. Like with Saddam Hussein, Moammar Qaddafi. And the US arrested Manuel Noriega. Yasser Arafat was poisoned by polonium IIRC. Imran Khan jailed by western puppets in Pakistan.
All of that shows the strength of the diplomatic immunity not the weakness. Hamas and Hezbollah do not have national status and the ability to continue killing them as they please is an important reason why Israel is determined that Palestine doesn’t get it.
I was just checking out the details of Manuel Noriega during the invasion of Panama and he was never official the president and the Americans never recognized him as such just as the commander of the military.
Him fleeing to the Papal embassy (The Nunciature) is an interesting lesson in diplomatic relations. Delta Force could practically but not not legally kick down the doors and drag him out dead or alive, but the USA had enough leverage to lean on the Vatican and harass the ambassador (The Apostolic Nuncio) until they gave him up.
I know it all looks like a silly game but there are very solid reasons why people and governments continue to play it
The "Dead Hand" Russian system was mentioned by Medvedev on his Telegram channel for a reason. And it enraged Trump. This was a public statement that even if a decapitation strike removed Putin or his whole cadre that a strategic nuclear strike would automatically follow. One does not play this sort of game with nations which have thousands of nuclear weapons and superior delivery systems. Putin was so comfortable he took his whole cadre, even the finance minister, the central bank president, the military chief, and the chief of the security council.
Polish delegation was not so lucky
No, neither were Iran's elite very lucky recently. Meanwhile everyone is polite to North Korea's leader now, no more bullying. There are reasons nations like having nuclear weapons.
I'm not sure zelensky would care much about that, since they attacked the Russian nuclear bombers...
If US decides to kill Putin,
the stupidest way to do it would be Alaska, on a state visit.
Agreed, and we've seen some incredibly stupid things being done. Destruction of Nordstream, not an only economic but also an environmental disaster and terrorism, being one example.
Stupid, yep. Terrorism, yep. Environmental catastrophe? Not so much. You can't even tell from the environment that it even happened.
No, apparently it was, according to Google AI (and it gives links):
"... because of...Massive Methane Release..., Climate Change Impacts..., Marine Ecosystem Impacts..., Toxic Effects on Fish..., Harm to Marine Mammals..., Sediment Disturbance..., Potential Chemical Warfare Agent Release..., [and] Undermining Environmental Protection Efforts...."
I'm gonna believe the AI on this one.
AI -- garbage in, garbage out. We are in a warming period coming out of the little Ice Age, and thank goodness for that. Cold is much, much worse than warm. With all of those little sound bites you included, is the Baltic devoid of life? Massive fish kills? You know, the things that would denote an environmental catastrophe. I must have missed those. Maybe computer models (tuned by global warming true believers) show a catastrophe should have happened -- but it didn't.
Destruction of NordStream was a strategic decision of AngloAmerican elites, whatever name one uses, global, liberal, unipolar elites. In the end it is defending interests of the WW One and WW Two victors, US and Great Britain. Connection between Germany and Russia has to be cut, by force if necessary.
Divide and Rule.
Neutral Ukraine is an idea against which war is fought. Ukraine in NATO means Germany cannot be neutral.
Neutral Germany is an existential danger for Great Britain and US.
Multipolar world means Europe will be divided not united.
Great Britain exiting EU was the first step in EU dissolution.
NordStream destruction is the second step.
1488 tanks berletic is a fool who defends the jew control of the USA
That's not accurate. But believe what you like.
He thinks the illegal Zionist state is controlled by the USA. He became agitated on the Duran when called out
Berletic thinks Zionist state is controlled by US, more that US is being controlled by Israel, i.e. zionist lobby.
Both are true.
both can't be true.. simple logic
That's not Berletic "defending the jew control." He's defending his interpretation, not defending their control.
by attempting to claim the USA is not jew controlled he is covering for the jew..
Brian will have a White Paper to dry his tears. Maybe Rand? maybe Brookings? 🤔 or a continuity of agenda loo roll?😂
Do you have a point to make?
Lighten up. It may never happen.
Ha ha, I get it now, great. "You may never make a point," ok then! 😂
Not because something did not happen, it doesn't negate the possibility that it could have happened. The western elites are desperate and desperate people do desperate things. The strategy has always been the demonising with the intent to remove the Russian president to initiate the collapse of Russia. The Russian president went to US territory where he could have easily been arrested on the ICC warrant.
1) The US is not a signatory to the ICC
2) The ICC has also issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu
QED: The US is NOT going to be doing anything to support the ICC
Well neither is Russia, but it did not stop the ICC from issuing a warrant for the arrest of the Russian president on Trumped up charges. The US historical adheres to international law, as long as it suits US interest and disregards it once it doesn't. US would not be doing anything to support the ICC it would carrying out an action that suits US interest hypocritically linking that action to an ICC ruling.
Well the US fully supports Israeli actions in Gaza and denies the genocide being carried out. So in reality the Israeli action is justified, merely as an expression of a US position against Islam. The US holds the position of a genocide in Ukraine, yet majority of videos from Ukraine still demonstrates a functioning society having targeted strikes. While on the other side Gaza is basically rubble with the intentional and strategic targeting of civilians and the use of starvation as a strategy to achieve ethic cleansing of an indigenous population. In someways do you not think there is some hypocrisy somewhere in that?
The ICC is a discredited international institution . The ICC imprisoned Slobodan Milosevic in a UN detention centre in The Hague - on war crimes and genocide charges in the Bosnian - where he died of a heart attack. Later he was posthumously declared not responsible for war crimes and genocide during the Bosnian war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. A sitting head of state was imprisoned by the ICC on trumped up charges and left to perish in a prison cell in The Hague then declared innocent of charges and the story was quickly buried to leave many people think Slobodan was a war criminal.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/01/the-exoneration-of-milosevic-the-ictys-surprise-ruling/
"The Russian president went to US territory where he could have easily been arrested.."
Easily arrested ?
I guess the hosts could have easily sent him a note saying,
"Sir, according to regulations you are now under arrest."
and his staff would file that away along with all his other paperwork. But in practical terms actually taking him into custody would be forcefully abducting a VIP traveling under diplomatic treaty.
I don't know much about bodyguards, but I believe that they're always there and also the toughest and sharpest sons-of-bitches available. Their protocols demand that they must fight and die before letting such a thing happen to their boss.
In many ways a seriously attempt to arrest Putin would have been WORSE than killing him. Death at the hands of an assassin is equal to death on the battlefield, which is an honorable death. But being taken prisoner like a criminal punk is a humiliation.
It would have been an immediate gun battle and knife fight to the death, followed directly by WWIII.
So are you implying that the Russian president's security detail could have taken on and defeat a US military base on US soil? Yes it would be an international incident with severe consequences but are you saying the US military is so useless or are the few guards with the Russian president that good?
The body guard following Putin on the red carpet with the coat draped over his arm was most likely ready for anything. Surely would taken some of the SOB's with him.
But the consequences would have been unthinkable. They'd trigger an automatic nuclear response.
I'm not sure I would go as far as automatic nuclear war, but it's possible.
If you wanted a more measured response even without sending missiles, tanks, planes and ships across the border you could target their diplomats and VIPs in return, there are always plenty of those around.
The thing about the ancient rules about diplomatic immunity is like the ancient laws of hospitality they're reciprocal and that's why they work.
It's always good to have ambassadors and envoys that can travel through other nations, and if they dick with yours you can dick with theirs just as well.
No, what I'm saying is that you can't just arrest Putin like a sheriff's deputy picking up a vagrant or a judge telling the bailiffs to send that man to the county jail.
Arrests warrants have to be backed by real force, and if anyone tried to lay hands on Putin or force him somewhere he didn't want to go it would be a bloodbath. Who has the toughest men or being on a military base doesn't change that, it would only affect the final body count.
As I mentioned elsewhere, trying to arrest Putin would in many ways be worse than just trying to kill him with a sniper or a bomb
Actually Brian Berletic has been a political commentator for well over a decade. He used to have a blog called "The Land Destroyer" and wrote under the name of Tony Cartalucci, he used a nom de plume because he was very critical of the Thai government in the past. He expressed concern that Putin may be in danger as did almost every other YouTube pundit to varying degrees. He's been pretty accurate in predicting the "continuity of agenda" wrt foreign policy through the various iterations of US government, certainly since Obama. He cites primary sources ie US gov policy documents, think tank publications etc. to form his opinions.
Right. Also with some military background. A serious commentator.
Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. It's up to the listener/reader to discern what may be true and understand their bias.
Most people I live with in America think this country is a 'democracy' and their vote counts. Where does one even begin with such thinking? One doesn't.
Most people I live with in American believe in many such fantasies, heavily salted by Hollywood and the educational system that teaches 'exceptionalism' rather than humility and hard work.
Cheryl, show me on the doll where Brian touched you.
Why this obsession to discredit him? If he’s no good then smarter people than you will figure it out. Let it go..
The security goals of doubling the length of their border with NATO, getting Poland, Finland and the Baltics armed to the teeth, revitalizing European weapons manufacturers, losing over a million educated professionals to other countries, significantly worsening demographic decline, getting bogged down for years, and so on? Those goals?
Seems the deep state chose not do a decapitation strike on the Russian leadership as the Substack conspiracy cart pushers and bottom feeders predicted.
Doubtless there is some sinister reason why this didn’t happen, but have no doubt they will be down on it quicker than a 2 buck hooker ( as the American’s say).
Actually, I think it could be something medical like leukemia treatment, etc.
If so I withdraw my smart arse comment
I don't know why some people here and elsewhere seem to think insulting people who after all presumably they are following ffs is funny or clever or whatever. To me it's more like a sickening kinda... Don Rickles redux if you know what I mean.
"Substack conspiracy cart pushers and bottom feeders"
Don't forget youtube and Telegram, Brian Berletic's platforms
and Brian Berletic - who said it was too risky. I thought so too but if I'm in the same bottom feeder as Brian, its not too bad.
Not to defend Brian, as I don't watch his stuff, but just because you play Russian Roulette and live to tell doesn't make your choice of games very clever.
In this case it is a bad analogy because the risk was worth the reward. Now, Putin looks courageous.
I don't watch his stuff either, but Angelo Giuliani often quotes from Brian's twitter account. Brian says some really astute stuff. Fantastic. Its just with his videos he's so methodical that I can't stand it
I've found that recently, it's a bit too much of a monologue. However he's very good to watch when appearing as a guest on other people's channels, eg. Danny Haiphong or Glenn Diesen.
yes - and I've been reading his articles too for decades - Tony Cartelucci was his name then. Maybe he has Italian blood -
Oh, they'll think of something ... the Mossad got lost on the way to Alaska, with there being no decent bagel shops within a 3000 mile radius.
You are right , I hadn’t considered the dearth of bagel shops in that somewhat under Zionised part of the world. Hopefully they next meet in Telly Viv.
Why would a "Russian soldier" be wearing a beard and t-shirt with "Memphis Tennessee" written on it?
Clearly a dyslexic’s version of national pride
That one also seems to be wearing Ukrainian multicam camo, so who knows, it could be that his clothes were somehow burnt/destroyed and his captors gave him Ukrainian clothes, or something else. The beard is another story, but these are likely the 132nd DPR folks of the breakthrough pocket to begin with, where rules are more slack.
the photo could be staged, while not the event itself.
Phonk music is very big in Russia.
It has been a global phenomenon for a decade now, but still at least a third of those trying to replicate the sound of mid-1990s Memphis underground gangsta rap are scrawny white 15-year old kids from Ukraine and Russia, fooling around on their computers. That Memphis sound was something very unique and influential (later on crunk and trap music come directly from it, through Memphis to Atlanta borrowing), though kind of quickly forgotten in its original form, as it was really deep in the underground and trends changed fast by 1997 or so, but then file sharing in the 2000s resurrected it for a new worldwide audience
It was also specifically in Russia that phonk got further evolved into drift phonk, which is much faster and really doesn't sound much like the original slow hypnotic psychotic murderous devil worshipping Memphis sound, but in its origin it is still rooted in it.
And most of the videos of drone strikes you see from both sides feature drift phonk music.
You've made me feel very old, GM! 😄😄
I never would have guessed you to be a Memphis drift phonk affiacondo, GM. +1
People should check out the YouTube GZERO Media channel. "The Alyaska summit | PUPPET REGIME" is better than the short "Zelensky Lurks the Putin-Trump Meeting"
What a mortifying display of a fallen empire. Second tier Russian Diplomats and Russian Journalists reduced to sleeping on army cots in pairs with day-old canned tuna for breakfast and a drinking fountain for water? I was waiting to see line of "honey-buckets" in the parking lot. Personally, I'd have walked out by then.
Just let the "empire", run out of Tel Aviv, fall on it's own. They're their own worst enemy and deservedly so.
This hyped up meeting crumpled like a disappointing Jiffy Pop. What won't Trump do for clicks and likes??