The most interesting development surrounds the Kremlin having designated Zelensky himself—as well as several other top Ukrainian officials and generals—as “wanted”, though oddly enough, the precise legal reason is unclear and not listed on the Russian Interior Ministry’s site.
Ever since that fastass vindman came on the scene, ukraine deserves all the misfortune it gets. It was the true foreign interference in America, next to Israel of course. A degenerate nation that dreamed of sucking the eu and the Democrat and rino establishment. The eu and democrats showed their totalitarian evil bend during covid and blm. Watching them go down the tube is what they deserve. Their nazi sympathies just add to their just deserts.
Thanks! That was a solid laugh plus you shared his sub so I can now berate him with quite true quips about him serving satan and he can fail publicly defending himself against my allegations.
I remember during the whole Ukranian impeachment bullshit wondering what was really behind all this sudden urgency to make this the bullet to bring down Trump. Was it just that they were desperate for anything? Or were they worried that Trump might get the investigation he was asking for, and it would reveal the depth of our involvement in Ukraine and the individuals responsible.
The deranged anti-Trump interests in Congress and elsewhere were looking anywhere and everywhere for something to take Trump down. This made them easy marks to exploit by anyone seeking to direct attention away from involvement of US citizens in corruption in Ukraine.
This reinforces the utility of Project Ukraine: that it can be wielded against Russia & also a bamboozled domestic populace
Further utility: that policymakers can line China up in the cross-hairs: if China sends nitrocellulose to Russia, then that supports Russia's "full-scale act of brutal aggression." Therefore, we must place economic sanctions on China
Trump only deepened involvement in Ukraine. Trump is weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
His main detriment, from the point of view of the Empire, is that America's various catamites are less willing to blindly obey orders coming from a gauche buffoon like Trump. In europe. at least, they are used to senile monarch and sclerotic functionaries.
America has had a lengthy & strange entanglement in Ukraine. Some see this starting as recently as October 2013, as the U.S. State Department amped the street protests against President Yanokovich.
Others see this in-action during the Orange Revolution of 2004, undoubtedly w/ CIA involvement. Buried in that recent nytimes 'expose' of the 12 CIA listening posts in Ukraine's border w/ Russia was a hard-to-overlook tasty admission that the CIA had had a r'ship w/ Ukrainian intel & security 'before' February 2014.
Still others take the long view--going back to the post-WWII era & the fledgling CIA's support of the OAN against the Soviets; Allen Dulles helmed this.
Ordinary American citizens/voters--normies--had no way of comprehending the depth of investment & involvement the U.S. has historically had in Project Ukraine over many administrations & a great stretch of time.
Normies heard in 2023 that a thug like Putin suddenly invaded a neighboring democracy in "a full-scale brutal act of aggression." This recharged the ambient American hypnosis
Of all the disgusting peeps that gloat how cheap it is for ukies to keep dying and what an awesome investment this is, he is the most disgusting, because he was actually born in ukraine in 1970s. Still couldnt care less about peeps being slaughtered.
I am no fan of either side here. But you have to know that the Sowjets killed 9 Million Ukrainies in 1932/33 through starvation. I guess that at least explains their sympathy for National Socialism.
Putin is doing on awful lot of glorification of the USSR. Listening to him, it becomes clear that he sees today's Russia in the tradition of the USSR. Not by policy, they are not communists in that sense. But by "glory", "tradition", and "empire". You cannot trust anyone who has ever worked for a secret service. Especially the KGB.
That being said, I have no sympathy for Ukraine either. My sympathy is with my country, and my country only. Everything else comes second.
"But you have to know that the Sowjets killed 9 Million Ukrainies in 1932/33 through starvation. I guess that at least explains their sympathy for National Socialism.".
All honest serious historians deny that deliberate lie, which was propagated first by the Nazis and then by the CIA.
The Holodomor story is not an explanation of Ukrainian Nationalist racist hatred of Russians - it is a symptom of it. The name "The Holodomor" ("The Starvation", literally "The Death by Hunger") is a propaganda trick, intended to remind you of "The Holocaust". It wasn't used as a proper noun - (with a "The" in English) - until well after the event. The story was based on a real event, the last of a sequence of natural famines that had hit the whole steppe area of Russia -- not just the Ukraine -- every couple of decades for centuries. But the propaganda story only mentions the Soviet Ukraine.
The people who are keenest on promoting this story as a stick with which to beat Russians were not under Russian, or even Soviet, rule at the time. They are the extremists of Galicia and Volynia, the exclusively Ukrainian provinces in the extreme west of the Ukraine, which were then under Polish rule. (Don't ask HOW they come to be exclusively ethnic Ukrainian, with no significant Jewish or Polish population as they had had before WW2. It's not a nice story. Scythes and saws were involved.)
Their provinces were affected by this natural disaster, but not as much as the Donbass and the rest of eastern Ukraine, southern Russia, and northern Kazakhstan. The (often ethnically Russian) areas affected in Kazakhstan are estimated to have lost the highest proportion of their population, possibly half. The claim that the famine was in some sense a targetted attack on Ukrainians, (and in particular on the ethnic Ukrainians of West Ukraine rather than the ethnic Russians of Eastern Ukraine) is a sick lie by Ukrainian Nationalist narcissists. To justify their hatred, they also invented the claim that the Russian speakers of east Ukraine are recent immigrants brought in after the famine, when in fact they are as autochthonous in the Donbass as the Ukrainian Nationalists are in Galicia.
If the famine was engineered, one could argue that it was by the United States. They had contracts with the Soviet Union that were helping with the industrialisation that later allowed the USSR to withstand and then beat the Nazis. Under the terms of the contracts, payment was to be made in grain, not money. When crops failed in the steppe-lands, the Soviets tried to re-negotiate the contracts to allow payment in gold, so that they could divert food to the affected areas from areas further north where the harvest had been reasonable. This would have reduced the death-toll significantly. The USA refused, and insisted on payment in grain. One might argue that the Soviets should have broken their contracts with the USA and diverted food south. But in the resulting world, we would all be living under Nazi rule. (Except for Jews and Slavs, who might not be living at all.)
Even if the Soviets were to blame, that wouldn't justify "never forgiving Russians" for the disaster, as extremist Ukrainian nationalists say. The Soviet Union had its capital in Moscow, but it was far from a continuation of the Russian state. Ethnic Russians had a disproportionately small share of power. The ruler was Georgian, ethnic Jews were massively over-represented in the power structure, and Ukrainians rose to positions of power more readily than Russians. The USSR at the time was in large measure ANTI-Russian, giving artificial privilege to any language and ethnicity but Russian. The Russian Orthodox religion was suppressed (like in today's Ukraine) and its churches were destroyed (while synagogues were spared as "social centres for an ethnic minority".)
There was some justified resentment at how the functionaries of the central state from Moscow handled the famine. This was directed at "Muscovites and Jews" according to contemporary records. Because of the needs of modern politics, the "and Jews" has been quietly forgotten, while the "Muscovites" has been re-interpreted as meaning ethnic Russians, when in this context it almost certainly meant what it said -- Muscovites -- i.e. functionaries sent out from the central government in Moscow.
The Holodomor Story (as distinct from truthful accounts of the the horrors of this, and previous, famines) was a Cold War propaganda operation. Some suggest it was largely introduced to the Ukraine from America, where a basis of fact was worked up into an anti-Soviet and later anti-Russian narrative. Others suggest it was created as a counterbalance to the Holocaust narrative, presenting people who in some cases had highly plausible blame in that narrative as the victims in the new narrative. I couldn't possibly comment.
I was just saying that the story of famine is the reason. Whether justified or not. And I do not trust Russian propaganda any more than Western or US propaganda. USSR/commies play the victim game quite well. After all, they are the ones who invented it. For all I know, this holodomor story could be true. But maybe it is not, I will probably not find out.
We could then have a debate about why it is completely ok today to show communist insignia, but not fascist insignia, how the commies infiltrated the entire US government, how Stalin killed more than Hitler (and of his own kind), how you are allowed to say that this holodomor is propaganda, but the holocaust is not etc. etc. It does not amount to anything.
Bits were, bits weren't. I'm pretty sure that the human soap and the death-by-masturbation-machines stories were, and Babi Yar wasn't.
What proportion of the narrative was actually true ought to be a vigorous area of open debate and empirical investigation. The fact that such debate and investigation is criminal in much of the West (and, unfortunately, also in Russia) might make one wonder how well the conventional story would stand up under such examination.
But I count Babi Yar as a confirmed part of the story, so I stand by my original statement.
Back when Ahmadinejad was President of Iran, so 15-19 years ago, Iran held a week-long international conference on the Jewish "holocaust". Participants seem to have been mainly academic historians trying to sift the truth from the dust. It certainly was not a "denial" conference, although a few "deniers' might have been there. If anyone has more info, I'd love to see it.
I was a teenager in England the eighties and my history teacher spent a lot of time on the first twenty years of the Soviet Union. I'm pleased to say that he did not portray the famine as Russians doing evil to Ukrainians. I think that agenda came a bit later in the West. I don't think my teacher ever used the word holodomor. I was a bit puzzled when I first started hearing it in the nineties and noughties. So I see it as more of a post-cold war thing than a Cold War thing. Your comment above is long and very good. I suggest you save it in a text file so you can re-use it.
The famine was around the same moment that the forced collectivization thing was happening as a result of the abandonment of the NEP. The Bolsheviks had good reason to collectivize the farms. Individual farmers were deciding not to plant more than necessary for their own consumption and killing off animals to avoid confiscation. The state solution to avoid starvation in the cities was collectivization. Having a famine hit at the same time all this disorder existed in the agricultural sector can be portrayed in various different ways depending on your axe you wish to grind. Considering how much feeding the public meant to the Soviet leadership, yes including Stalin himself, it's really hard to imagine him cackling in the Kremlin at the starvation he supposedly wrought. Yes, some of his actions along with the rest of the government impacted the food supply, but the mass starvation was not their idea. Or, to put it differently, if they'd backed off on collectivization policy, the starvation would have been in the urban areas and the result would have been probably another revolution.
American historian Steven Kotkin may have recanted since the Special Military Operation commenced but in his volume 1 of his biography of Stalin Kotkin stated that the famines related to Collective Farm repressions did not uniquely fall on Ukrainians.
Not a genocide, according to Kotkin in his landmark book of 2014
Gads, even Anne Applebaum praised this work--??!!??
If you read histories of that era, the Soviet 1920s & 1930s, that were published 'before' Euromaidan & Crimea's "Return" to Russia, you get a truer read [ that is to say, less propagandized read ] than those published after
I noted something similar above. I mean it's not entirely blameless - government policy played a part, as well as the actions of peasants individually - but hardly worthy of titling it genocide.
That is a gross exaggeration of what happened. There was famine in different parts of the USSR during the early 1930s not just Ukraine. The forced collectivisation of agriculture by the Stalin regime was a panic measure trying to make up for the mistakes in economic policy in the late 1920s. Stalin allowed the kulak class to grow to a size and influence which by 1927 was threatened the cities with famine. He ignored the demands of the Left Opposition for rapid industrialization and a voluntary expansion of the state farms with state support to industrialization agriculture. Instead Stalin starting in 1929 panicked and resorted to forced requisitioning of grain which hit the middle and poor peasants hard.
The failure to blame Lenin for NEP and hence the later resort to requisitions and forced collectivization always seemed like a blind spot to me, but mostly an irrelevancy.
And yet the most hardcore nationalists in Ukraine are the Galicians, who did not suffer at all from any Soviet famine in the 1930s, because Galicia was part of Poland.
Not only that, but the UPA leadership knew of the famine at the time and didn't much care. Poles and Jews were their favorite folk devils, and the the USSR granted Ukraine broad cultural autonomy, unlike the aggressively centralizing and polonizing Polish Second Republic.
Like the fascists they were, the UPA were all about The Nation while indifferent at best to the people making up the nation.
Your drivel stinks Nazi, and is nonsense. The 1932/33 famine happened amid the disruptions of collectivization, and extended over major parts of the USSR, but never reached 9 million casualties. Much less was it directed against Ukrainians, the oblasts with ethnic Russian population like Charkov, Lugansk, Cherson were affected worst. Ukrainian "nationalist" nazism had its strongholds in Galicia and Volyn which were under Poland's rule at that time.
The "Holodomor" drivel was constructed by Ukrainian exile Nazis in the 1960s to obfuscate their role in the Holocaust and the genocide of Volyn and Galician Poles, and their Nazi collaboration.
I hear where you're coming from, and it’s clear you’ve got strong views on this! It's always important to look at all sides of international issues. I wonder, what do you think might be a possible solution or a better way forward for the situations involving Ukraine and the international community? Engaging in dialogue can help us understand the complexities better, don't you think?
Good thought--I was just thinking the other day that I had read absolutely nothing about the Crocus City investigation for quite a while. It has disappeared from media coverage, even the Russian sources.
Now it may be Russia who wishes to draw this out and continue the spectacle of a Western proxy utterly decimated for the entire global audience to see. Why rush this object lesson when the entire global South is attentive and watching?
No, that is true. Russia always cares about maximum disorder in the US though. So some intent to impact the politics of 2024 by military action is possible.
I dearly hope it is because Russia has come to the same conclusion I have. That they need to take all of Ukraine, for as they say in the Alien meme, "It is the only way to be sure."
They don't want all of Ukraine. They don't want to manage it or deal with the inevitable insurrection and terrorism. It's not worth it to Russia. They just want Ukraine to be neutral and demilitarised. As for what territory they would need to take to secure this, I don't know. We all assume too much.
The RF wish to land the EU with the reconstruction costs which the EU have talked their way into with the speeches about our democracy and the Ukraine is our's and so on
For Russia the issue is not about funding reconstruction, China can do that in a heartbeat. And the "funders" would be Blackrock, are you familiar with the deal Blackrock set up with Zelensky?
Under that deal, Blackrock is in control of the money, of selecting the vendors, of supervising the vendors and is answerable to no one. Ukraine will be owned outright by Blackrock. Would you want that horror next door to you? Do you imagine for one second they would "rebuild"?
You make it sound so easy – « China can do that in a heartbeat »--- but it, reconstruction, is the opposite of easy
RF wish to land EU with the reconstruction - as this will force the EU into such a position of responsibility, with attendant massive expenses, for the Ukraine ; whereby they'll not be any sort of a threat to the RF for a generation or more, but will not be what the EU has been asking for, proclaiming for, pleading for, insisting on, the very city on the hill
It would help the RF if the EU were to be so foolish as to confiscate the CBR assets, this would seal this particular fate, as well disrupt EU financial industry, banks, euro etc
Ukraine can sign any sort of deal with anyone, but that deal is conditional on winning the war - and as you may well know that's not going to happen
If the RF occupy the territories concerned by any Blackrock committments or cash…
(So far the only committments have been to possibly in the future raise some capital, by no accounts has capital yet been committed –
See Reuters January 2024 « Blackrock Vice-Chairman Philipp Hildebrand told Reuters earlier this week in Davos that the fund could be ready for action within the year. » note the ‘could’ Plus they need guarantees from the involvement of sovereign funds – in short it’s not going to happen, according even to the ever optimistic Reuters)
….or exercise any form of control over the 'rump state' which will emerge, excercise any demands for reparations, the RF will certainly only allow those contracts those they hold to be agreeable
The remainder will fall under the purview of which ever, the EU or selected Guarantor States, who are to be held responsible
Blackrock or whoever puts up any capital are not/will not be that stupid to sign any contracts which do not allow for exit/modification in case of changing circumstances and force majeure, Ukrainian defeat or less than victory or....etc etc, and will be subject to review in EU law, as per Ukraine's candidate country status
As for China & reconstruction- that's a long story and a vague one :
However, it is useful to concentrate of China's peace diplomacy, the depth and direction of which may well lead the RF to soften their so far very hard edge attitude to any negotiations, and likewise promote co operation from a post Zelensky régime
Let me see if I can properly reply to your excellent post. First let me address your points on China's abilities to fund/handle construction
China can do it in a heartbeat, no question on that and it has millions of laborers who can assist. Not to mention North Korea would jump at the chance to be part of the project as well. Construction IS easy for China, they have demonstrated that all over the world. China could dump the last of its dollar holdings during the work, I am sure they see a significant upside in being able to do that, or to simply be able to threaten to.
Russia has never indicated a desire of any kind to dump the rebuilding of Ukraine on the EU. Why would they, after all, they just fought a war with them, why would you give up what you won to the people who were just a moment ago trying to kill you??
The EU has already destroyed itself via open immigration, ending supply arrangements with Russia, signing ridiculously expensive deals with the US for gas, shipping all of their weapons, cash to Ukraine all in an effort to destroy Russia. Until their govts change, Russia has no interesting in any relationship with them, and has said so. Russia would not want them anywhere near Ukraine.
On Blackrock. Watch the hands not the mouth. What they say is meaningless, it is PR for the masses. They signed that sweetheart deal with Zelensky and they very much want to "rebuild" Ukraine. The servile nations of the EU want Blackrock to control Ukraine, they have all committed billions to "help." Much that would probably wash back into their pockets. The IMF and World Bank have also already said they would back Blackrock's efforts. It would be the next big steal for these people, all they live for from what I can tell.
As a last word on Blackrock and needing funding, Blackrock controls trillions in assets, it controls massive numbers of corporations as their largest shareholder via its investment control. Blackrock now being able to control an entire nation, lock, stock and barrel, must have its senior management swooning at the very thought.
The agreement Blackrock has with Zelensky gives it absolute and complete control of all cash, all projects, all vendors. The reason the West keeps talking about "peace" is because they want some portion, any portion, of Ukraine to take control of. Happily the way it is going there will be no role for the West of any kind.
China influencing Russia
It is highly doubtful that China facing a possible major economic war with the US and the idiots in the EU would want Russia to soften it attitude on anything with anyone. Why would they? To help Zelensky? To help the US?? I believe China is delighted with the way things are going and probably already has plans, agreements in place to rebuild Ukraine once Russia finishes up.
Correct. Western Ukraine is not worth the headache. It's where the nationalists live, and it's also the part of Ukraine with the least economic productivity.
As I've written elsewhere, I think Russia will offer Galicia to Poland after Poland has decoupled from NATO and Poland's own hatred of Russia. This will take decades. Galicia will only be handed over after Poland has done what Russia needs from Poland. In the meantime, Russia is absolved from doing much to help this openly hostile region which was the graveyard of the Rusyn people over a hundred years ago. Since Galicia will eventually go to Poland, it's Poland who could help out, if it has the money. Or not... If Poland fails to integrate into the 21st or even the 22nd Century, well Galicia will be a pretty landscape with not much going on.
The leadership of Poland were very cozy with Zelensky, then had a falling out when that Ukraine missile hit a Polish farm. I think the reason they were so friendly with him was probably because they saw Ukraine as dead man walking early on and felt they could take Galicia without too much difficulty.
A while back there was a telegram video of a Polish soldier saying he was fighting in Ukraine so that Poland could take back its lands. Logic clearly was not his strong suit, but it was clear what he thought would come of his involvement in the war. I suspect the same applies to Poland's govt.
I think Russia could/would turn the area over sooner than later, they would want an iron clad guarantee that the area, and probably Poland as well would remain neutral. And yes, I see the area's future under Polish rule as unremarkable.
If they don't Blackrock/Clinton/Soros/GMOs will set up shop next door to them and the doors to Hell will be opened. Before the war Ukraine was already the most corrupt nation on the planet. If Blackrock and Company get in there, the level of criminality will go through the roof.
For example as of NOW: Soros Jr made a deal with Zelensky to set aside "in perpetuity" hundreds of acres of Ukraine for nuclear dumping. Hillary herself is working on a program to "help" the Ukraine children, according to Russian troops Ukraine children are being wholesale harvested for their organs/blood, GMOs already control 30% of Ukraine farmland, that is the grain that so had to get shipped out to feed the "hungry." In reality it was used to decimate the EU farmers.
Are you getting the picture, the criminality above is as of now, do you have any idea what kind of reality Ukraine will have when/if these people have free rein?? Russia has to take over Ukraine. Yes there will be problems, but nothing compared to having the devil itself open shop next door.
And Russia has the ability to do this, they won't keep Ukraine, they will break the country apart. Remember Putin's Russian history lecture to Tucker? he wasn't talking to Tucker, he was talking to the Balkans, to Poland, Moldovia, Armenia. He will give back historically held lands to those willing to take them.
Further, the ability of the West to run an insurgency in Ukraine is limited, sure they can pull off a few stunts but nothing Russia cannot handle.
The USSR handled the Bandera Nazi insurgency, 1945-1955. It cost 150,000 lives according to Scott Ritter. Americans don't even know this happened ! The Soviets won, but then Khruschev (himself from the Ukraine), released some 25,000 convicted Banderist Nazis from prison in 1955-56. In one stroke, Khruschev sabotaged the USSR"s successful conquest of the Nazis. This is the same Nikita who gave the Crimea to the Ukraine, and it's the same Nikita who in the 1930's was the right-hand man of Lazar Kaganovich who had main responsibility for the holomodor.
As they de-militarize NATO & decimate their economies. As the fool Borrel says he could stop the war if they just stopped supply. Maybe Russia 's intention is to force them to accept financial realities humiliating them to acknowledge & start serious peace negotiations with genuine offers instead of the ridiculous demands that Russia returns all territory gains & returns to its borders post blah blah.
US will strike 9th May parade, one night before (from 7th to 8th), the bridge will be gone, they do it to expect in return a massive ''on nato ru counter strike'' and have their false flag casus belli. This is why brits are evacuating their nationals except near Llov as they are the one charged with those two terror attacks. About time for RU to show them a very and final strong message: strike nato US bases, London, Brussels, Paris they will capitulate in no time to stop the financial collapse.
Attention FT announces multiples ru sabotages on nato territory (see Berlin friday), earlier ammo factories in the US, UK and Bergerac France.
In the MEA net and yahoo going for broke (refused cease fire) expect return of Iran with eventual real strike this time after another FF from the zios. Even Erdo stopped all exports with ZIO entity and Saudis are afraid of RU arming houthis to the teeths including nice toys to destroy their oil fields if they continue to wish to sign a peace treaty with duo US Israhell.
It is unlikely that the RF is engaged in such sabotage on the munitions factories as the FT and the EU ruling class would want you to believe
It is much more likely that these fires are the work of the people's resistance, already one of the first working class actions of any significance was to picket such factories, notably in the UK
The FT and others would not wish to publish any news on any local resistance - and the RF would never take the risk of being discovered
Besides they want those ammunitions shipped to Ukraine, they can set fire to them there
the Ukriane leadership is infested with jews like Major-General Vadym Skibitsky. Anyone still want to talk about who controls the deaths of hundreds of thousands of "goyim"....
Call them what they are, which is Satanist Zionists, so that their hasbaras, neonazis and enablers "feel safer" in this space. Nothing but obsequious"quislings" and look up that word if not familiar with it, to get a deeper understanding of who these inhumans really are. Avoid that deep fake turd of a co-oped wikipedia.
Everyone has an obligation to discern evil from innocence. There are innocent Jews, most notably the Neturei Karta who reject Zionism and the Talmud.
The most important goal of Zionism is to unite Jews. In the 1800's after the ghetto walls came down, the rabbinical power lessened and some Jews were assimilating away from the tribe. Zionism was a conscious effort to stop that.
So the main goal is to force Jews back into blind obedience to the tribe.
The main goal - apart from ending the huge tragedy in Gaza right now - is to create Jewish disunity by helping Jews to take off their blinders. Without blinders, with a brain if not a heart, woken Jews can start to reject one of the most evil ideas to ever walk the face of the earth.
Don't do the bidding of the Zionist masters. Destabilize their schemes!
Like the ones with Jew and American (as if there is a difference) who went after peaceful protesters with baseball bats) then had the Jew media crop out the jew flag.
Why can you not keep identarian politics out of it - this is to play the US ruling class game, and by so doing become their lackey
You'll be blaming blood types next
The Ukrainian régime is a confused mix of anti this and anti that ethnic this and ethnic that - united only by the reality of money extraction and exploitation of/ from their own country and from those around to send them money to precisely what they are doing, incidently distract divert and (they wrongly hope) weaken the RF
That is stupid. The ultimate ‘identitarian’ is the Jew who is right now genociding aother identity from whom they stole their land that they think they are entitled in accords with their stupid book that says they alone are ‘gods chosen’ and else are goyim to serve them
You, and those like you, who proceed from assertions and so called certainties derived from apparent or claimed 'identities' of any sort or kind are playing the divide and rule war imposed on you by the dominant capitalist class, i.e. those who rule you and your countries, in whatever country you are in/from, and whatever identity you claim to have/be
Using age old tribal language metaphors and images cuilled from old books which proclaimed similar assertions and certainties to largely illiterate societies under the the same oppressions of their rulers
Hence you will never learn to throw off these oppressions, and always live in the fog of ignorance and inability to do anything but curse your neighbours instead of fighting for autonomy, willing puppets unloved by everyone, including your ungrateful masters
While that's true, Nazi Germany fought to the last German even when the inevitability of defeat was obvious to everyone. So, that's not something unique to jewish leadership [over goyim].
The Germans were led by Germans to fight the enemy of the Germans (and for all white people) while the west is now controlled by the Jew to fight for the Jew with expendable goyim white people
Not in 1945. In 1945 the Germans were led by Hitler to fight to the last German to prolong Hitler's rule. There was absolutely no hope of victory, it was just to buy Hitler some more days or months in power. By the end of the war, he said that the German people had failed him and did not deserve to have had him as their leader, and that the German people deserved to be exterminated, because they had proven to be weaker than the Russians. That's how much he cared about the German people in the end.
Now, Zelensky's regime leads the Ukrainians to fight to the last Ukrainian to prolong Zelensky's rule. Same story.
"(and for all white people)"
lol you don't know what you're talking about. Educate yourself about Hitler's plans for white Slavs (Poles, Russian, etc.) See this, for example:
Citation needed for your Hitler quote. Hitler would have saved the Russian from the Jew and Germans would have intermarried with Ukrainian women and had farms in Ukraine.
Go listen to Leon degrelle and his speech about the SS. The first multi national special forces to fight the world enemy.
"This is “not enough” for an operation to take a major city, he says—a judgment shared by Western military officials, but could be enough for a smaller task."
A smaller task such as encircling a major city, stopping all traffic going in or out and cutting power, to name just a few options; maybe?
There is no significant difference between Mariupol and Kharkov for example. It's only 2 times bigger. Or Kiev either. If it needs to be done, it will be taken. People somehow have mental block about big cities, while in reality only thing that matters is correlation of forces. Also, Mariupol was like fortress compared to Kharkov or Kiev, so it's probably was harder task.
What I do know for certain is that I sure would not want to be one of those 2,000 legionnaires that Macron said he would send to Ukraine if their defensive lines were broken (whatever that means) considering that Putin did say in paraphrase that they will all be killed. I'm betting that Putin keeps his word. So if those French legionnaires engage in conflict, it will be in Ukraine that they will inhale their last breath of fresh air. It almost sounds rather romantic to me. lol
I think you would be standing in a line about 3 million people deep to get your chance to deal with those inhuman, humans (a modest guess on the very low side as well, on my count of eager participant). I will hold your place in line. Cheers!!
Macron was definitely getting pegged or plugged and progeammed by his highschool teacher as he is a French/Rothschild version of MK Ultra Manchurian Candidate.
The West has lost and is desperately trying to grasp at straws to salvage a crisis that they themselves caused.
They should have never expanded NATO and after 2015, should have followed the Minsk Accords. But the Western elites, in their greed wanted another Yeltsin to help them loot Russia and ultimately Balkanize the nation. Now they are on the verge of a major strategic defeat.
In regards to France, Scott Ritter had an interesting interview about this - he note that Macron is like a gambler that is betting everything now that he has lost. Macron has a big ego and can't admit he is not important.
France is in a position where it is losing its empire in Africa. Without looting the resources of Africa, France may end up as a much less wealth nation and declining even faster on the world stage.
Simultaneously being fucked over by AUKUS, getting rope a doped by the US in Ukraine, AND being shown the door in Africa is a lot to digest for France!
It was the 50+ French mercs that got wiped out in the Kharkiv Hotel strike that made France start to really lose it. Some were sons of French elite, apparently.
French elites are like the rest of the Western elites: they don't actually understand the scenario they've enthusiastically committed themselves to. They don't understand that when they step foot in Ukraine, they've given a green light for missile strikes to find them.
First of all, I'll just take umbrage at the way the questions from Fred, the Russians... No, it's not a stupid war. The Russians are defending Russians. This war is about eight years of Ukrainian nationalist massacres against the Russian population. This war is about Ukraine being used by the West as a proxy to undermine and destroy Russia. The Russians know damn well why they're fighting. That's why 1,500 of them volunteer every day to go fight. America had a 64,000 recruitment shortage. The US Army had to eliminate 24,000 billets in the Army because they don't have enough people coming in. They're shrinking because nobody wants to fight for America. The British are shrinking their army. French people are leaving. NATO is falling apart. Nobody wants to fight for the West. Ukraine has run out of men. People are running away. They have to go around and thump people on the head to go fight. Russia doesn't have to do that. So don't say it's a stupid war for the Russians. They are fighting for their existential survival, and if you don't respect that, then you don't understand what this war is all about, and then it's just meaningless to have a dialogue. The Russians know damn well why they're going. While they're in Ukraine, they know what's happening. They know why it's happening, and they're willing to fight and die for it. Volunteers, volunteers, volunteers coming in.
I'm still watching it but Scott is always hard hitting.
I did 4 years active duty U.S. Army, as an intel analyst.
I will do everything in my power to ensure my two sons don't get suckered into serving in a military that is tasked with carrying out the whims of a ruling elite that is full of mediocre low-value humans who will happily sacrifice young men and women for incredibly idiotic and self-enriching goals that extract wealth and blood from American citizens while giving nothing in return except more pain and economic misery.
Well said, I'm ex-military & now in my sixties I realise how foolish & naive I was to believe that I would be defending my country when in fact it was as exactly as you define.
Man, I feel you. I'm in my mid 40s, and served during the late 90s. It was quite illuminating to watch CNN and read WaPo to hear about the latest foreign policy stuff, and then go into the SCIF and read what was really going on in the world.
Lot of murders, thefts, and undemocratic actions from U.S. allies that we were well aware of, but yet went unreported in the media.
Our ruling elites truly do choose when and where democracy and freedom matter to them. Money is always involved, big surprise.
That was a hard choice, all right; considering NATO's incomprehensible miscalculations and unlimited hubris, they may just roll the dice and put boots into Ukraine, as.batshit crazy as that seems to a rational person.
I think that choice was more a wishful thinking on my part…..the problem is that to pronounce somebody a rational person seems to be now steeped in ideology and not rationality. Sadly!
Hmm I guess I will have to process that - ie why then is Macron's chest puffing such a big deal if everyone know Ukraine is full of NATO soldiers anyway? (sorry if that sounds naive, but still....)
It's because there isn't much else they can do to avoid a humiliating defeat. Rhetoric is there best wunderwaffen. They are being squeezed between the US and the RF, I'm not sure the EU will exist in a decade. So many unforced errors!
Napoleonette is trying to garner Best In Class distinction by not only contributing the 'NATO troops' but sending troops under the French flag: anything you can do I can do better
I thought that Con Coughlin was full of 💩 when he said this:
"without the help it is getting from its motley collection of 'autocratic' friends."
Now I know he is because of this:
"Chinese and Russian organisations are also coordinating efforts to develop drone production within Russia."
Maybe Iran sent some drones at the beginning of the war, but Russia has been making their own for some time now. And they keep getting better.
But waaaa…if all of NATO can supply Ukraine then they shouldn’t bitch about countries helping Russia. It’s why Blinken looks like a blithering idiot when he lectures Xi. Okay, he always looks like a blithering idiot no matter where he is.
The US Empire propaganda machine made a big deal about "pitiful Russia" having to get some sorts of weapons from North Korea, while it was begging South Korea to turn over everything it had for Ukraine.
"Gobsmacked" might be another way to put my reaction to this and other hypocrisy and lies coming out of the Empire.
Maybe it's just me, but the brazenness with which they lie seems to have increased in the last few years. In the past, they'd at least try to present some "evidence", misleading as it may be. Now they'll just stare us in the face and lie, with maybe some remark about "experts say" or "our analysis shows".
Unfortunately, there are plenty of NPC's who swallow every b/s word. The trolls I attract on the odd occasion when I bother reading western MSM or on social media, the comment section is just fuckingunbelievable. Even when they know that the west just lies pushing out their nonsensical narratives.
I looked at the BBC news site today. Ordinarily they only open comments sections on 'safe' issues these days so was quite surprised to see a comments section under an article about Putin's inauguration. Its is equal measures of terrifyingly hilarious just how ill informed the public at large are, and just how much they've internalised the notion that Putin is the literal personification of evil incarnate. I suppose some behavioural psychologist somewhere has calculated that once a certain propaganda saturation has been reached then it's actually beneficial to have comments sections to let the group think reinforce itself.
Watching the West trying to stage manage the inevitable outrage of these people when it dawns on them their governments have been taking them for a ride for the last 50 years is going to be bitter sweet to say the least.
Flagrant actions on the part of the hegemon to intimidate the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants are top of mind for me right now.
When the collective West remained mute after the NordStream sabotage, that chiseled out a new facet of the rules-based-imperial-order: the hegemon really leveled-up
Blinken was such a massive hiring mistake. He's known as a Francophile Euro ass-kisser and that's it. He's simply not equipped to be a serious secretary of state when his entire career has been attending cocktail parties in western capitals and socializing with people who believe the same globalist bullshit he believes.
He has no idea how to handle relationships with adversaries that he can't bully.
Rhienmetall is 'prone' to exagerration - they claim to be setting up a factory in Ukraine, well maybe they will, annd when it is built very likely it will be immediately destroyed
The “millions” of rounds were only for the “medium term”. Maybe the number for this year isn’t credible, but they do list specific factories they will be building/expanding. The challenge is finding the explosives, aka the blowey-uppey stuff.
Scott - you are reading propaganda as if it were fact
From the article-"Before Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Rheinmetall’s annual capacity stood at nearly 70,000 rounds. This year, the group expects to reach 700,000, and in the medium term aims at 1.1 million. To this end, Rheinmetall is building a plant in Unterluss. A new production line is being set up in Lithuania. In Ukraine, the company also plans to build a munitions factory." (they've been planning this for some time, why not, talk is cheap)
Not only the number for this year is not credible, the talk of opening factories is not either, Rheinmetall does nothing without advance payment, and has publicly sworn off EU projects/contracts, as they never get paid for
The Lithuanian 'production line' - is this a factory or merely one part of an assembly line process? - is not 'being set up' - a letter of intent has been signed to express the opinion that both sides are going to discuss.....etc etc
Lithuania barks for it's supper, and does a lot more barking than suppering
- the famous German brigade that may one day in 2027 be stationed there lacks all local infra - the Liths have asked the Germans if the Germans can pay for the infra, the Germans have asked...and so on - it's called a daisy chain
The EU made noise recently about a $130M contract for shells and propellant, but the money is not yet paid, the EUC plans to put in for the 'grant' in May, and then....
My sympathies in this conflict are with the Russians, that means the burden is on me to not immediately dismiss as propaganda any claims that disfavor the Russian side.
It’s a far out claim that they will soon be providing “millions” of shells. But it is a claim made by the CEO of the organization making them, and it cites specific locations and types that will be used. I’d be a partisan fool to just assume it must be propaganda because I don’t want it to be true.
Again it does seem overstated. “Millions” of shells don’t just suddenly fall off the assembly line. But I want to understand why their CEO made the claim if it is impossible to back it up? What does he gain from the empty promise?
If you wish to comment, I’ll start again, if you want to learn anything about this conflict, or about anything in general,
1- First look at the information you are reading, and look at the context, the provider, what the slant/bias/intent manifestly may be/is
(in this case) Your information source you link is an Ukrainian régime publication, and so may be expected to favour, heavily favour, the Ukrainian régime’s point of view or requirements – one of which is to fool you –or more likely their defence suppliers, or… and certainly not to inform you
2-Look around for other sources of information on the same subject
3-Think what sounds reasonable or likely and what does not – this obviously requires some continuous experience of source matter, events, obvious and less obvious biases
4- Look closely at the language, when, as in this case, it’s all plans shoulds proposals it’s likely to be hype-um
5-What does the CEO gain from his talking up about his expansive plans – guess… it has something to do with share price, something to do with crowding out competition, rubbing the pols noses in their promises, appealing to the US, arguing for their company’s place as central to new EU wide harmonised production to their company standards, to playing PR (the Ukraine factory is a non starter, but probably built around promises of subsidies), and did I mention share price ?
The CEO actually said as much in the Handesblatt article referenced by your link
Listening or reading the whining of the west's various orifices is tedious; they amount to nothing, they have nothing, and behave like five year old brats. Messenger boy Macron is a poodle to the remaining Chihuahuas. Please dear Lord, give us an almighty financial crash so that we can all move on.
What gets me is how offended their white-knights get when I express my lack of caring for the complaints of our elites.
Our ruling elites in the U.S. have ignored my needs, and the needs of the working-class, middle-class, and even upper-middle-class who aren't government employees, for decades. Now they call us Putin-lovers for not wanting to fund a bunch of white guys killing each other in Ukraine.
Your problems can't be addressed within the current configuration of the USA, and it's just not worth the effort even attempting to fix the unfixable. Youth seem to be moving from passive resistance to active opposition which makes crystal clear that the US and combined west are fascist dictatorships.
Ever since that fastass vindman came on the scene, ukraine deserves all the misfortune it gets. It was the true foreign interference in America, next to Israel of course. A degenerate nation that dreamed of sucking the eu and the Democrat and rino establishment. The eu and democrats showed their totalitarian evil bend during covid and blm. Watching them go down the tube is what they deserve. Their nazi sympathies just add to their just deserts.
Grifter Cringeman thought I was the real Yuri Bezmenov. These people are evil and retarded. My hilarious interaction with him here: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/alexander-vindman-cringeman-cringestack-kgb
Whoa that link opened up a whole pinball table of links to bumper bash late into the evening. I retreated back here in a cold sweat....
Genuinely hilarious. The only thing that outweighs Neocon evilness is their stupidity.
Neocon = the jew
Thanks! That was a solid laugh plus you shared his sub so I can now berate him with quite true quips about him serving satan and he can fail publicly defending himself against my allegations.
I remember during the whole Ukranian impeachment bullshit wondering what was really behind all this sudden urgency to make this the bullet to bring down Trump. Was it just that they were desperate for anything? Or were they worried that Trump might get the investigation he was asking for, and it would reveal the depth of our involvement in Ukraine and the individuals responsible.
Maybe both?
The deranged anti-Trump interests in Congress and elsewhere were looking anywhere and everywhere for something to take Trump down. This made them easy marks to exploit by anyone seeking to direct attention away from involvement of US citizens in corruption in Ukraine.
This reinforces the utility of Project Ukraine: that it can be wielded against Russia & also a bamboozled domestic populace
Further utility: that policymakers can line China up in the cross-hairs: if China sends nitrocellulose to Russia, then that supports Russia's "full-scale act of brutal aggression." Therefore, we must place economic sanctions on China
It's not a two-fer
It's a three-fer
Trump only deepened involvement in Ukraine. Trump is weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
His main detriment, from the point of view of the Empire, is that America's various catamites are less willing to blindly obey orders coming from a gauche buffoon like Trump. In europe. at least, they are used to senile monarch and sclerotic functionaries.
Well that has about nothing to do with reality.
Your anti-Trump diatribes are fucking useless. I wish blocking worked better on this site.
I provided concrete examples. You only demonstrate that you don't criticism of your hero but can't produce evidence.
America has had a lengthy & strange entanglement in Ukraine. Some see this starting as recently as October 2013, as the U.S. State Department amped the street protests against President Yanokovich.
Others see this in-action during the Orange Revolution of 2004, undoubtedly w/ CIA involvement. Buried in that recent nytimes 'expose' of the 12 CIA listening posts in Ukraine's border w/ Russia was a hard-to-overlook tasty admission that the CIA had had a r'ship w/ Ukrainian intel & security 'before' February 2014.
Still others take the long view--going back to the post-WWII era & the fledgling CIA's support of the OAN against the Soviets; Allen Dulles helmed this.
Ordinary American citizens/voters--normies--had no way of comprehending the depth of investment & involvement the U.S. has historically had in Project Ukraine over many administrations & a great stretch of time.
Normies heard in 2023 that a thug like Putin suddenly invaded a neighboring democracy in "a full-scale brutal act of aggression." This recharged the ambient American hypnosis
Of all the disgusting peeps that gloat how cheap it is for ukies to keep dying and what an awesome investment this is, he is the most disgusting, because he was actually born in ukraine in 1970s. Still couldnt care less about peeps being slaughtered.
He's with the globalists
I am no fan of either side here. But you have to know that the Sowjets killed 9 Million Ukrainies in 1932/33 through starvation. I guess that at least explains their sympathy for National Socialism.
That was the communist USSR. That's not the Russia of today. BTW, many of the communists from the USSR went to Ukraine... Chip
Putin is doing on awful lot of glorification of the USSR. Listening to him, it becomes clear that he sees today's Russia in the tradition of the USSR. Not by policy, they are not communists in that sense. But by "glory", "tradition", and "empire". You cannot trust anyone who has ever worked for a secret service. Especially the KGB.
That being said, I have no sympathy for Ukraine either. My sympathy is with my country, and my country only. Everything else comes second.
"But by "glory", "tradition", and "empire"
In other words, patriotism. History is a maniacal bitch....
Most of those ‘commies’ were Jews. The Jew Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich committed the holodomor and the present day jew Kagans may be directly related
"But you have to know that the Sowjets killed 9 Million Ukrainies in 1932/33 through starvation. I guess that at least explains their sympathy for National Socialism.".
All honest serious historians deny that deliberate lie, which was propagated first by the Nazis and then by the CIA.
The Holodomor story is not an explanation of Ukrainian Nationalist racist hatred of Russians - it is a symptom of it. The name "The Holodomor" ("The Starvation", literally "The Death by Hunger") is a propaganda trick, intended to remind you of "The Holocaust". It wasn't used as a proper noun - (with a "The" in English) - until well after the event. The story was based on a real event, the last of a sequence of natural famines that had hit the whole steppe area of Russia -- not just the Ukraine -- every couple of decades for centuries. But the propaganda story only mentions the Soviet Ukraine.
The people who are keenest on promoting this story as a stick with which to beat Russians were not under Russian, or even Soviet, rule at the time. They are the extremists of Galicia and Volynia, the exclusively Ukrainian provinces in the extreme west of the Ukraine, which were then under Polish rule. (Don't ask HOW they come to be exclusively ethnic Ukrainian, with no significant Jewish or Polish population as they had had before WW2. It's not a nice story. Scythes and saws were involved.)
Their provinces were affected by this natural disaster, but not as much as the Donbass and the rest of eastern Ukraine, southern Russia, and northern Kazakhstan. The (often ethnically Russian) areas affected in Kazakhstan are estimated to have lost the highest proportion of their population, possibly half. The claim that the famine was in some sense a targetted attack on Ukrainians, (and in particular on the ethnic Ukrainians of West Ukraine rather than the ethnic Russians of Eastern Ukraine) is a sick lie by Ukrainian Nationalist narcissists. To justify their hatred, they also invented the claim that the Russian speakers of east Ukraine are recent immigrants brought in after the famine, when in fact they are as autochthonous in the Donbass as the Ukrainian Nationalists are in Galicia.
If the famine was engineered, one could argue that it was by the United States. They had contracts with the Soviet Union that were helping with the industrialisation that later allowed the USSR to withstand and then beat the Nazis. Under the terms of the contracts, payment was to be made in grain, not money. When crops failed in the steppe-lands, the Soviets tried to re-negotiate the contracts to allow payment in gold, so that they could divert food to the affected areas from areas further north where the harvest had been reasonable. This would have reduced the death-toll significantly. The USA refused, and insisted on payment in grain. One might argue that the Soviets should have broken their contracts with the USA and diverted food south. But in the resulting world, we would all be living under Nazi rule. (Except for Jews and Slavs, who might not be living at all.)
Even if the Soviets were to blame, that wouldn't justify "never forgiving Russians" for the disaster, as extremist Ukrainian nationalists say. The Soviet Union had its capital in Moscow, but it was far from a continuation of the Russian state. Ethnic Russians had a disproportionately small share of power. The ruler was Georgian, ethnic Jews were massively over-represented in the power structure, and Ukrainians rose to positions of power more readily than Russians. The USSR at the time was in large measure ANTI-Russian, giving artificial privilege to any language and ethnicity but Russian. The Russian Orthodox religion was suppressed (like in today's Ukraine) and its churches were destroyed (while synagogues were spared as "social centres for an ethnic minority".)
There was some justified resentment at how the functionaries of the central state from Moscow handled the famine. This was directed at "Muscovites and Jews" according to contemporary records. Because of the needs of modern politics, the "and Jews" has been quietly forgotten, while the "Muscovites" has been re-interpreted as meaning ethnic Russians, when in this context it almost certainly meant what it said -- Muscovites -- i.e. functionaries sent out from the central government in Moscow.
The Holodomor Story (as distinct from truthful accounts of the the horrors of this, and previous, famines) was a Cold War propaganda operation. Some suggest it was largely introduced to the Ukraine from America, where a basis of fact was worked up into an anti-Soviet and later anti-Russian narrative. Others suggest it was created as a counterbalance to the Holocaust narrative, presenting people who in some cases had highly plausible blame in that narrative as the victims in the new narrative. I couldn't possibly comment.
I was just saying that the story of famine is the reason. Whether justified or not. And I do not trust Russian propaganda any more than Western or US propaganda. USSR/commies play the victim game quite well. After all, they are the ones who invented it. For all I know, this holodomor story could be true. But maybe it is not, I will probably not find out.
We could then have a debate about why it is completely ok today to show communist insignia, but not fascist insignia, how the commies infiltrated the entire US government, how Stalin killed more than Hitler (and of his own kind), how you are allowed to say that this holodomor is propaganda, but the holocaust is not etc. etc. It does not amount to anything.
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I am no fan of either side here. But you have to know that the Sowjets killed 9 Million Ukrainies in 1932/33 through starvation.
"I was just saying that the story of famine is the reason."
No what you were very clearly doing was pushing western propaganda, lies.
exactly. Just like you are pushing apologetic USSR Russia propaganda. A lot of Putin fan boys on here.
So pointing out your lies is Russian propaganda??? You are a special kind of stupid.
Nice reveal you made it really clear why you showed up here
Except the ‘holocaust’ was fake.
Bits were, bits weren't. I'm pretty sure that the human soap and the death-by-masturbation-machines stories were, and Babi Yar wasn't.
What proportion of the narrative was actually true ought to be a vigorous area of open debate and empirical investigation. The fact that such debate and investigation is criminal in much of the West (and, unfortunately, also in Russia) might make one wonder how well the conventional story would stand up under such examination.
But I count Babi Yar as a confirmed part of the story, so I stand by my original statement.
Back when Ahmadinejad was President of Iran, so 15-19 years ago, Iran held a week-long international conference on the Jewish "holocaust". Participants seem to have been mainly academic historians trying to sift the truth from the dust. It certainly was not a "denial" conference, although a few "deniers' might have been there. If anyone has more info, I'd love to see it.
I was a teenager in England the eighties and my history teacher spent a lot of time on the first twenty years of the Soviet Union. I'm pleased to say that he did not portray the famine as Russians doing evil to Ukrainians. I think that agenda came a bit later in the West. I don't think my teacher ever used the word holodomor. I was a bit puzzled when I first started hearing it in the nineties and noughties. So I see it as more of a post-cold war thing than a Cold War thing. Your comment above is long and very good. I suggest you save it in a text file so you can re-use it.
The famine was around the same moment that the forced collectivization thing was happening as a result of the abandonment of the NEP. The Bolsheviks had good reason to collectivize the farms. Individual farmers were deciding not to plant more than necessary for their own consumption and killing off animals to avoid confiscation. The state solution to avoid starvation in the cities was collectivization. Having a famine hit at the same time all this disorder existed in the agricultural sector can be portrayed in various different ways depending on your axe you wish to grind. Considering how much feeding the public meant to the Soviet leadership, yes including Stalin himself, it's really hard to imagine him cackling in the Kremlin at the starvation he supposedly wrought. Yes, some of his actions along with the rest of the government impacted the food supply, but the mass starvation was not their idea. Or, to put it differently, if they'd backed off on collectivization policy, the starvation would have been in the urban areas and the result would have been probably another revolution.
American historian Steven Kotkin may have recanted since the Special Military Operation commenced but in his volume 1 of his biography of Stalin Kotkin stated that the famines related to Collective Farm repressions did not uniquely fall on Ukrainians.
Not a genocide, according to Kotkin in his landmark book of 2014
Gads, even Anne Applebaum praised this work--??!!??
If you read histories of that era, the Soviet 1920s & 1930s, that were published 'before' Euromaidan & Crimea's "Return" to Russia, you get a truer read [ that is to say, less propagandized read ] than those published after
I noted something similar above. I mean it's not entirely blameless - government policy played a part, as well as the actions of peasants individually - but hardly worthy of titling it genocide.
That is a gross exaggeration of what happened. There was famine in different parts of the USSR during the early 1930s not just Ukraine. The forced collectivisation of agriculture by the Stalin regime was a panic measure trying to make up for the mistakes in economic policy in the late 1920s. Stalin allowed the kulak class to grow to a size and influence which by 1927 was threatened the cities with famine. He ignored the demands of the Left Opposition for rapid industrialization and a voluntary expansion of the state farms with state support to industrialization agriculture. Instead Stalin starting in 1929 panicked and resorted to forced requisitioning of grain which hit the middle and poor peasants hard.
The worst hit areas in Ukraine were some of the most Russian.
The failure to blame Lenin for NEP and hence the later resort to requisitions and forced collectivization always seemed like a blind spot to me, but mostly an irrelevancy.
And yet the most hardcore nationalists in Ukraine are the Galicians, who did not suffer at all from any Soviet famine in the 1930s, because Galicia was part of Poland.
Not only that, but the UPA leadership knew of the famine at the time and didn't much care. Poles and Jews were their favorite folk devils, and the the USSR granted Ukraine broad cultural autonomy, unlike the aggressively centralizing and polonizing Polish Second Republic.
Like the fascists they were, the UPA were all about The Nation while indifferent at best to the people making up the nation.
That's your ignorance talking. Did you attend public school?
Your drivel stinks Nazi, and is nonsense. The 1932/33 famine happened amid the disruptions of collectivization, and extended over major parts of the USSR, but never reached 9 million casualties. Much less was it directed against Ukrainians, the oblasts with ethnic Russian population like Charkov, Lugansk, Cherson were affected worst. Ukrainian "nationalist" nazism had its strongholds in Galicia and Volyn which were under Poland's rule at that time.
The "Holodomor" drivel was constructed by Ukrainian exile Nazis in the 1960s to obfuscate their role in the Holocaust and the genocide of Volyn and Galician Poles, and their Nazi collaboration.
You are very wrong. the figure is wrong. and there was famine all over Russia and not just in Ukraine.
I hear where you're coming from, and it’s clear you’ve got strong views on this! It's always important to look at all sides of international issues. I wonder, what do you think might be a possible solution or a better way forward for the situations involving Ukraine and the international community? Engaging in dialogue can help us understand the complexities better, don't you think?
Re: Wanted List - Anything to do, perhaps, with the Russian investigation bearing results as to who was responsible for the Crocus terrorist attack?
Now that is quite possible, good for you to think of that!
Good thought--I was just thinking the other day that I had read absolutely nothing about the Crocus City investigation for quite a while. It has disappeared from media coverage, even the Russian sources.
Now it may be Russia who wishes to draw this out and continue the spectacle of a Western proxy utterly decimated for the entire global audience to see. Why rush this object lesson when the entire global South is attentive and watching?
Russia is timing the knockout punches to the US election - and the Global South is silently applauding the spectacle!
This makes no sense. Russia does not care what zog apparatchik inhabits the Oval Office.
No, that is true. Russia always cares about maximum disorder in the US though. So some intent to impact the politics of 2024 by military action is possible.
I dearly hope it is because Russia has come to the same conclusion I have. That they need to take all of Ukraine, for as they say in the Alien meme, "It is the only way to be sure."
They don't want all of Ukraine. They don't want to manage it or deal with the inevitable insurrection and terrorism. It's not worth it to Russia. They just want Ukraine to be neutral and demilitarised. As for what territory they would need to take to secure this, I don't know. We all assume too much.
The RF wish to land the EU with the reconstruction costs which the EU have talked their way into with the speeches about our democracy and the Ukraine is our's and so on
Indeed
For Russia the issue is not about funding reconstruction, China can do that in a heartbeat. And the "funders" would be Blackrock, are you familiar with the deal Blackrock set up with Zelensky?
Under that deal, Blackrock is in control of the money, of selecting the vendors, of supervising the vendors and is answerable to no one. Ukraine will be owned outright by Blackrock. Would you want that horror next door to you? Do you imagine for one second they would "rebuild"?
You make it sound so easy – « China can do that in a heartbeat »--- but it, reconstruction, is the opposite of easy
RF wish to land EU with the reconstruction - as this will force the EU into such a position of responsibility, with attendant massive expenses, for the Ukraine ; whereby they'll not be any sort of a threat to the RF for a generation or more, but will not be what the EU has been asking for, proclaiming for, pleading for, insisting on, the very city on the hill
It would help the RF if the EU were to be so foolish as to confiscate the CBR assets, this would seal this particular fate, as well disrupt EU financial industry, banks, euro etc
Ukraine can sign any sort of deal with anyone, but that deal is conditional on winning the war - and as you may well know that's not going to happen
If the RF occupy the territories concerned by any Blackrock committments or cash…
(So far the only committments have been to possibly in the future raise some capital, by no accounts has capital yet been committed –
See Reuters January 2024 « Blackrock Vice-Chairman Philipp Hildebrand told Reuters earlier this week in Davos that the fund could be ready for action within the year. » note the ‘could’ Plus they need guarantees from the involvement of sovereign funds – in short it’s not going to happen, according even to the ever optimistic Reuters)
….or exercise any form of control over the 'rump state' which will emerge, excercise any demands for reparations, the RF will certainly only allow those contracts those they hold to be agreeable
The remainder will fall under the purview of which ever, the EU or selected Guarantor States, who are to be held responsible
Blackrock or whoever puts up any capital are not/will not be that stupid to sign any contracts which do not allow for exit/modification in case of changing circumstances and force majeure, Ukrainian defeat or less than victory or....etc etc, and will be subject to review in EU law, as per Ukraine's candidate country status
As for China & reconstruction- that's a long story and a vague one :
However, it is useful to concentrate of China's peace diplomacy, the depth and direction of which may well lead the RF to soften their so far very hard edge attitude to any negotiations, and likewise promote co operation from a post Zelensky régime
China has helped de-mine Cambodia & Laos after U.S. left the region 'holding the bag'
Let me see if I can properly reply to your excellent post. First let me address your points on China's abilities to fund/handle construction
China can do it in a heartbeat, no question on that and it has millions of laborers who can assist. Not to mention North Korea would jump at the chance to be part of the project as well. Construction IS easy for China, they have demonstrated that all over the world. China could dump the last of its dollar holdings during the work, I am sure they see a significant upside in being able to do that, or to simply be able to threaten to.
Russia has never indicated a desire of any kind to dump the rebuilding of Ukraine on the EU. Why would they, after all, they just fought a war with them, why would you give up what you won to the people who were just a moment ago trying to kill you??
The EU has already destroyed itself via open immigration, ending supply arrangements with Russia, signing ridiculously expensive deals with the US for gas, shipping all of their weapons, cash to Ukraine all in an effort to destroy Russia. Until their govts change, Russia has no interesting in any relationship with them, and has said so. Russia would not want them anywhere near Ukraine.
On Blackrock. Watch the hands not the mouth. What they say is meaningless, it is PR for the masses. They signed that sweetheart deal with Zelensky and they very much want to "rebuild" Ukraine. The servile nations of the EU want Blackrock to control Ukraine, they have all committed billions to "help." Much that would probably wash back into their pockets. The IMF and World Bank have also already said they would back Blackrock's efforts. It would be the next big steal for these people, all they live for from what I can tell.
As a last word on Blackrock and needing funding, Blackrock controls trillions in assets, it controls massive numbers of corporations as their largest shareholder via its investment control. Blackrock now being able to control an entire nation, lock, stock and barrel, must have its senior management swooning at the very thought.
The agreement Blackrock has with Zelensky gives it absolute and complete control of all cash, all projects, all vendors. The reason the West keeps talking about "peace" is because they want some portion, any portion, of Ukraine to take control of. Happily the way it is going there will be no role for the West of any kind.
China influencing Russia
It is highly doubtful that China facing a possible major economic war with the US and the idiots in the EU would want Russia to soften it attitude on anything with anyone. Why would they? To help Zelensky? To help the US?? I believe China is delighted with the way things are going and probably already has plans, agreements in place to rebuild Ukraine once Russia finishes up.
Correct. Western Ukraine is not worth the headache. It's where the nationalists live, and it's also the part of Ukraine with the least economic productivity.
My guess is Russia will offer the area to Poland or other nations. Russia doesn't want to keep Ukraine it wants to dismantle it.
As I've written elsewhere, I think Russia will offer Galicia to Poland after Poland has decoupled from NATO and Poland's own hatred of Russia. This will take decades. Galicia will only be handed over after Poland has done what Russia needs from Poland. In the meantime, Russia is absolved from doing much to help this openly hostile region which was the graveyard of the Rusyn people over a hundred years ago. Since Galicia will eventually go to Poland, it's Poland who could help out, if it has the money. Or not... If Poland fails to integrate into the 21st or even the 22nd Century, well Galicia will be a pretty landscape with not much going on.
The leadership of Poland were very cozy with Zelensky, then had a falling out when that Ukraine missile hit a Polish farm. I think the reason they were so friendly with him was probably because they saw Ukraine as dead man walking early on and felt they could take Galicia without too much difficulty.
A while back there was a telegram video of a Polish soldier saying he was fighting in Ukraine so that Poland could take back its lands. Logic clearly was not his strong suit, but it was clear what he thought would come of his involvement in the war. I suspect the same applies to Poland's govt.
I think Russia could/would turn the area over sooner than later, they would want an iron clad guarantee that the area, and probably Poland as well would remain neutral. And yes, I see the area's future under Polish rule as unremarkable.
It is not a question of want. They have to.
If they don't Blackrock/Clinton/Soros/GMOs will set up shop next door to them and the doors to Hell will be opened. Before the war Ukraine was already the most corrupt nation on the planet. If Blackrock and Company get in there, the level of criminality will go through the roof.
For example as of NOW: Soros Jr made a deal with Zelensky to set aside "in perpetuity" hundreds of acres of Ukraine for nuclear dumping. Hillary herself is working on a program to "help" the Ukraine children, according to Russian troops Ukraine children are being wholesale harvested for their organs/blood, GMOs already control 30% of Ukraine farmland, that is the grain that so had to get shipped out to feed the "hungry." In reality it was used to decimate the EU farmers.
Are you getting the picture, the criminality above is as of now, do you have any idea what kind of reality Ukraine will have when/if these people have free rein?? Russia has to take over Ukraine. Yes there will be problems, but nothing compared to having the devil itself open shop next door.
And Russia has the ability to do this, they won't keep Ukraine, they will break the country apart. Remember Putin's Russian history lecture to Tucker? he wasn't talking to Tucker, he was talking to the Balkans, to Poland, Moldovia, Armenia. He will give back historically held lands to those willing to take them.
Further, the ability of the West to run an insurgency in Ukraine is limited, sure they can pull off a few stunts but nothing Russia cannot handle.
The USSR handled the Bandera Nazi insurgency, 1945-1955. It cost 150,000 lives according to Scott Ritter. Americans don't even know this happened ! The Soviets won, but then Khruschev (himself from the Ukraine), released some 25,000 convicted Banderist Nazis from prison in 1955-56. In one stroke, Khruschev sabotaged the USSR"s successful conquest of the Nazis. This is the same Nikita who gave the Crimea to the Ukraine, and it's the same Nikita who in the 1930's was the right-hand man of Lazar Kaganovich who had main responsibility for the holomodor.
Thank you, I knew of the Bandera Nazi insurgency, but had no idea of Khrushchev's betrayals.
As they de-militarize NATO & decimate their economies. As the fool Borrel says he could stop the war if they just stopped supply. Maybe Russia 's intention is to force them to accept financial realities humiliating them to acknowledge & start serious peace negotiations with genuine offers instead of the ridiculous demands that Russia returns all territory gains & returns to its borders post blah blah.
VVP is working toward a Victor's Peace
US will strike 9th May parade, one night before (from 7th to 8th), the bridge will be gone, they do it to expect in return a massive ''on nato ru counter strike'' and have their false flag casus belli. This is why brits are evacuating their nationals except near Llov as they are the one charged with those two terror attacks. About time for RU to show them a very and final strong message: strike nato US bases, London, Brussels, Paris they will capitulate in no time to stop the financial collapse.
Attention FT announces multiples ru sabotages on nato territory (see Berlin friday), earlier ammo factories in the US, UK and Bergerac France.
In the MEA net and yahoo going for broke (refused cease fire) expect return of Iran with eventual real strike this time after another FF from the zios. Even Erdo stopped all exports with ZIO entity and Saudis are afraid of RU arming houthis to the teeths including nice toys to destroy their oil fields if they continue to wish to sign a peace treaty with duo US Israhell.
It is unlikely that the RF is engaged in such sabotage on the munitions factories as the FT and the EU ruling class would want you to believe
It is much more likely that these fires are the work of the people's resistance, already one of the first working class actions of any significance was to picket such factories, notably in the UK
The FT and others would not wish to publish any news on any local resistance - and the RF would never take the risk of being discovered
Besides they want those ammunitions shipped to Ukraine, they can set fire to them there
Much more likely the explosions are do to DEI (diversity equity and isreal)
Of course the NATO Hato c eye A has been in Ukraine for at least ten or fifty years....
But although scAmerica wants a war and an enemy, looks like we are too broke amd tired and can't afford it anymore, praise the Lord.
They have to at least pretend to care about us before the election, maybe send checks out to the voters...
the Ukriane leadership is infested with jews like Major-General Vadym Skibitsky. Anyone still want to talk about who controls the deaths of hundreds of thousands of "goyim"....
Shhh...don't mention the "J word"....
Call them what they are, which is Satanist Zionists, so that their hasbaras, neonazis and enablers "feel safer" in this space. Nothing but obsequious"quislings" and look up that word if not familiar with it, to get a deeper understanding of who these inhumans really are. Avoid that deep fake turd of a co-oped wikipedia.
Grow a pair and call a Jew a Jew. That the world problem. Always has been
Everyone has an obligation to discern evil from innocence. There are innocent Jews, most notably the Neturei Karta who reject Zionism and the Talmud.
The most important goal of Zionism is to unite Jews. In the 1800's after the ghetto walls came down, the rabbinical power lessened and some Jews were assimilating away from the tribe. Zionism was a conscious effort to stop that.
So the main goal is to force Jews back into blind obedience to the tribe.
The main goal - apart from ending the huge tragedy in Gaza right now - is to create Jewish disunity by helping Jews to take off their blinders. Without blinders, with a brain if not a heart, woken Jews can start to reject one of the most evil ideas to ever walk the face of the earth.
Don't do the bidding of the Zionist masters. Destabilize their schemes!
Someone only sent me this link the other day, which I assume you are referring to "THE HIDDEN SATANIC GLOBAL POWER STRUCTURE…"
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=173735
Antisemites like you who cannot tell the difference between Jews and the Israeli government are going to get this stack banned.
lol. Banned by who? The Jew? Thanks for proving my point.
Oh and isreal is the product of the Jew. There is no difference.
Another zionist antisemite provocateur?
Like all those American college students on campus? Thanks for outing yourself.
The zionist antisemites doing all the shouting or the students protesting against the zionist Einsatzgruppen doing the genocide in occupied Palestine?
Shut up Jew.
Him or me? You should know by now that Jews aren't zionists.
Jews are Zionist and Zionists are Jews. Stop spreading this cope to cover for your tribe of chicken swingers.
Lol have you seen how many Jews were protesting against the invasion of Gaza?
Like the ones with Jew and American (as if there is a difference) who went after peaceful protesters with baseball bats) then had the Jew media crop out the jew flag.
khazharian ashkanazim are the old name stealers identity thieves not semite
counterfeit invention us uk strategy of tension
a great book arthur koestler the 13th tribe
also The Invention of the Jewish People : Shlomo Sand
In 1994, Shahak published Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years,
Anti-semites? The ashkeNAZI, fake non-hebrew jews from eastern europe are the only anti-semites. They hate Arabs (and everyone else too).
Please dont insult national socialism by comparing them to the Jew.
Why can you not keep identarian politics out of it - this is to play the US ruling class game, and by so doing become their lackey
You'll be blaming blood types next
The Ukrainian régime is a confused mix of anti this and anti that ethnic this and ethnic that - united only by the reality of money extraction and exploitation of/ from their own country and from those around to send them money to precisely what they are doing, incidently distract divert and (they wrongly hope) weaken the RF
That is stupid. The ultimate ‘identitarian’ is the Jew who is right now genociding aother identity from whom they stole their land that they think they are entitled in accords with their stupid book that says they alone are ‘gods chosen’ and else are goyim to serve them
You, and those like you, who proceed from assertions and so called certainties derived from apparent or claimed 'identities' of any sort or kind are playing the divide and rule war imposed on you by the dominant capitalist class, i.e. those who rule you and your countries, in whatever country you are in/from, and whatever identity you claim to have/be
Using age old tribal language metaphors and images cuilled from old books which proclaimed similar assertions and certainties to largely illiterate societies under the the same oppressions of their rulers
Hence you will never learn to throw off these oppressions, and always live in the fog of ignorance and inability to do anything but curse your neighbours instead of fighting for autonomy, willing puppets unloved by everyone, including your ungrateful masters
To glorify ignorance is the height of oppression
While that's true, Nazi Germany fought to the last German even when the inevitability of defeat was obvious to everyone. So, that's not something unique to jewish leadership [over goyim].
The Germans were led by Germans to fight the enemy of the Germans (and for all white people) while the west is now controlled by the Jew to fight for the Jew with expendable goyim white people
Not in 1945. In 1945 the Germans were led by Hitler to fight to the last German to prolong Hitler's rule. There was absolutely no hope of victory, it was just to buy Hitler some more days or months in power. By the end of the war, he said that the German people had failed him and did not deserve to have had him as their leader, and that the German people deserved to be exterminated, because they had proven to be weaker than the Russians. That's how much he cared about the German people in the end.
Now, Zelensky's regime leads the Ukrainians to fight to the last Ukrainian to prolong Zelensky's rule. Same story.
"(and for all white people)"
lol you don't know what you're talking about. Educate yourself about Hitler's plans for white Slavs (Poles, Russian, etc.) See this, for example:
https://www.unz.com/gdurocher/hitler-vs-the-untermenschen/#p_1_41:1-15
Citation needed for your Hitler quote. Hitler would have saved the Russian from the Jew and Germans would have intermarried with Ukrainian women and had farms in Ukraine.
Go listen to Leon degrelle and his speech about the SS. The first multi national special forces to fight the world enemy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8hoMqekRGWxV/
Israel/Gaza: The Masks Come Off in American Society by Ron Unz at Unz Review is the single best analysis of Genocidal Jew Power in the USA.
LLM-derived breakdowns and summaries of that post by Simplicius The Thinker:
https://open.substack.com/pub/complexiathesinker/p/llm-over-macron-again-struts-feathers
At this point wake me up when Kiev falls and the pianist is under an Iskander. It's all over but the crying neocons.
The political bloodbath of NATO finger pointing and merciless blame gaming will be worth tuning in for. Extra butter on that popcorn for me!
For example: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/12/neocons200612
From a Skibitsky quote:
"This is “not enough” for an operation to take a major city, he says—a judgment shared by Western military officials, but could be enough for a smaller task."
A smaller task such as encircling a major city, stopping all traffic going in or out and cutting power, to name just a few options; maybe?
Maintaining a siege of a large city is not a simple task.
True, just as combating a siege isn't a simple task. Time and resources are two of the three most important aspects to such endeavors.
Start by cutting off electricity
Encircling & blockading Kharkiv could be Attritional Warfare, season 2 [ streaming soon ]
There is no significant difference between Mariupol and Kharkov for example. It's only 2 times bigger. Or Kiev either. If it needs to be done, it will be taken. People somehow have mental block about big cities, while in reality only thing that matters is correlation of forces. Also, Mariupol was like fortress compared to Kharkov or Kiev, so it's probably was harder task.
And it was done.
What I do know for certain is that I sure would not want to be one of those 2,000 legionnaires that Macron said he would send to Ukraine if their defensive lines were broken (whatever that means) considering that Putin did say in paraphrase that they will all be killed. I'm betting that Putin keeps his word. So if those French legionnaires engage in conflict, it will be in Ukraine that they will inhale their last breath of fresh air. It almost sounds rather romantic to me. lol
I love the smell of barbecued frogs in the morning....
Macron is a Rothschild agent, bisexual, married to a 71 year old high school teacher.
I would prefer to see the and the entire Rotschild Banking Mafia Kinzalled and the survivors drawn and quartered.
I think you would be standing in a line about 3 million people deep to get your chance to deal with those inhuman, humans (a modest guess on the very low side as well, on my count of eager participant). I will hold your place in line. Cheers!!
macrons wife is not his grandmother but grandad that ghoul is a dude man
looks like david bowie at the end of the movie the hunger
Macron was definitely getting pegged or plugged and progeammed by his highschool teacher as he is a French/Rothschild version of MK Ultra Manchurian Candidate.
The West has lost and is desperately trying to grasp at straws to salvage a crisis that they themselves caused.
They should have never expanded NATO and after 2015, should have followed the Minsk Accords. But the Western elites, in their greed wanted another Yeltsin to help them loot Russia and ultimately Balkanize the nation. Now they are on the verge of a major strategic defeat.
In regards to France, Scott Ritter had an interesting interview about this - he note that Macron is like a gambler that is betting everything now that he has lost. Macron has a big ego and can't admit he is not important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr6pwQ3Bk04
France is in a position where it is losing its empire in Africa. Without looting the resources of Africa, France may end up as a much less wealth nation and declining even faster on the world stage.
Simultaneously being fucked over by AUKUS, getting rope a doped by the US in Ukraine, AND being shown the door in Africa is a lot to digest for France!
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
It was the 50+ French mercs that got wiped out in the Kharkiv Hotel strike that made France start to really lose it. Some were sons of French elite, apparently.
Well what were the French expecting?
Did they seriously think that war in Ukraine against Russia would be like fighting some poor African nation that the French steal resources from?
Did they arrogantly think that despite being active participants in the war that they were immune?
The French were seriously delusional in that case.
French elites are like the rest of the Western elites: they don't actually understand the scenario they've enthusiastically committed themselves to. They don't understand that when they step foot in Ukraine, they've given a green light for missile strikes to find them.
No loss to the French people then ...
Well, since you broached the subject ...
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No, Anthony AlbaNAZI is America's loyal dog.
I liked this part of the video:
First of all, I'll just take umbrage at the way the questions from Fred, the Russians... No, it's not a stupid war. The Russians are defending Russians. This war is about eight years of Ukrainian nationalist massacres against the Russian population. This war is about Ukraine being used by the West as a proxy to undermine and destroy Russia. The Russians know damn well why they're fighting. That's why 1,500 of them volunteer every day to go fight. America had a 64,000 recruitment shortage. The US Army had to eliminate 24,000 billets in the Army because they don't have enough people coming in. They're shrinking because nobody wants to fight for America. The British are shrinking their army. French people are leaving. NATO is falling apart. Nobody wants to fight for the West. Ukraine has run out of men. People are running away. They have to go around and thump people on the head to go fight. Russia doesn't have to do that. So don't say it's a stupid war for the Russians. They are fighting for their existential survival, and if you don't respect that, then you don't understand what this war is all about, and then it's just meaningless to have a dialogue. The Russians know damn well why they're going. While they're in Ukraine, they know what's happening. They know why it's happening, and they're willing to fight and die for it. Volunteers, volunteers, volunteers coming in.
I'm still watching it but Scott is always hard hitting.
I did 4 years active duty U.S. Army, as an intel analyst.
I will do everything in my power to ensure my two sons don't get suckered into serving in a military that is tasked with carrying out the whims of a ruling elite that is full of mediocre low-value humans who will happily sacrifice young men and women for incredibly idiotic and self-enriching goals that extract wealth and blood from American citizens while giving nothing in return except more pain and economic misery.
Well said, I'm ex-military & now in my sixties I realise how foolish & naive I was to believe that I would be defending my country when in fact it was as exactly as you define.
Man, I feel you. I'm in my mid 40s, and served during the late 90s. It was quite illuminating to watch CNN and read WaPo to hear about the latest foreign policy stuff, and then go into the SCIF and read what was really going on in the world.
Lot of murders, thefts, and undemocratic actions from U.S. allies that we were well aware of, but yet went unreported in the media.
Our ruling elites truly do choose when and where democracy and freedom matter to them. Money is always involved, big surprise.
Good man.
Teach them some necessary skills too in case they need to go to ground.
Guns and growing.
Know how to defend yourself, preferably with a gun since it's the biggest force multiplier a civilian can get, and knowing how to grow food.
24k is a division and a half.
Eu tbm tenho paranoia.https://t.me/wetakeoffs/23130
Once again, an impossible question at the end! I doubt that even birds’ entrails will help 😎 Thank you, Simplicius, for the reporting!
That was a hard choice, all right; considering NATO's incomprehensible miscalculations and unlimited hubris, they may just roll the dice and put boots into Ukraine, as.batshit crazy as that seems to a rational person.
I think that choice was more a wishful thinking on my part…..the problem is that to pronounce somebody a rational person seems to be now steeped in ideology and not rationality. Sadly!
I voted they are bluffing - I had to!
Well, yes…..me too……hence my comment — a wishful thinking 😎
Sadly, I therefore recommend more Russian airstrikes on Merc Hotels full of NATO ghost soldiers - hopefully they get the message.
NATO already has many troops in the Ukraine, 6,000 plus
See recent Houston Post article
https://houstonpost.org/2024/04/30/the-terrors-instigators-how-nato-generals-in-ukraine-ignite-conflict/
It appears then that Russia has made a strategic decision to 'not notice' them? The Ukraine Theatre ala Kabuki.
Do you mean not complain about them as the Western MSM/Gvmts complain about this or that?
This is not the Russian style
VVP and others merely say that NATO soldiers, mercenaries or not, will be killed
Hmm I guess I will have to process that - ie why then is Macron's chest puffing such a big deal if everyone know Ukraine is full of NATO soldiers anyway? (sorry if that sounds naive, but still....)
Because Macron's audience is the EU, especially Germany - and gaining leverage and influence over European ruling class circles
This is also France's historic rôle in the Europe, going back centuries
Hence also the China diplomacy - Macron invited Vdl and Scholz to Paris- one said yes one said no - guess which said what?
It's because there isn't much else they can do to avoid a humiliating defeat. Rhetoric is there best wunderwaffen. They are being squeezed between the US and the RF, I'm not sure the EU will exist in a decade. So many unforced errors!
Napoleonette is trying to garner Best In Class distinction by not only contributing the 'NATO troops' but sending troops under the French flag: anything you can do I can do better
Hey Scholz, who did more--?!?
It's a pissing match a la brie & baguettes
I thought that Con Coughlin was full of 💩 when he said this:
"without the help it is getting from its motley collection of 'autocratic' friends."
Now I know he is because of this:
"Chinese and Russian organisations are also coordinating efforts to develop drone production within Russia."
Maybe Iran sent some drones at the beginning of the war, but Russia has been making their own for some time now. And they keep getting better.
But waaaa…if all of NATO can supply Ukraine then they shouldn’t bitch about countries helping Russia. It’s why Blinken looks like a blithering idiot when he lectures Xi. Okay, he always looks like a blithering idiot no matter where he is.
I have a theory on why he looks like a blithering idiot, but it's just a theory.
ashkeNAZI genes?
No. Actually, I'm working on a theory that he is a blithering idiot and they often look like blithering idiots.
😂🤣👍
He’s a Jew who even lies about his father’ holohoax story about being rescued by black American tankers lol.
The US Empire propaganda machine made a big deal about "pitiful Russia" having to get some sorts of weapons from North Korea, while it was begging South Korea to turn over everything it had for Ukraine.
[Edited to add punctuation.]
Lol…good point! The hypocrisy is stunning isn’t it?
"Gobsmacked" might be another way to put my reaction to this and other hypocrisy and lies coming out of the Empire.
Maybe it's just me, but the brazenness with which they lie seems to have increased in the last few years. In the past, they'd at least try to present some "evidence", misleading as it may be. Now they'll just stare us in the face and lie, with maybe some remark about "experts say" or "our analysis shows".
Unfortunately, there are plenty of NPC's who swallow every b/s word. The trolls I attract on the odd occasion when I bother reading western MSM or on social media, the comment section is just fuckingunbelievable. Even when they know that the west just lies pushing out their nonsensical narratives.
I hear ya. It sure is unbelievable the number of NPCs out there buying this stuff.
I looked at the BBC news site today. Ordinarily they only open comments sections on 'safe' issues these days so was quite surprised to see a comments section under an article about Putin's inauguration. Its is equal measures of terrifyingly hilarious just how ill informed the public at large are, and just how much they've internalised the notion that Putin is the literal personification of evil incarnate. I suppose some behavioural psychologist somewhere has calculated that once a certain propaganda saturation has been reached then it's actually beneficial to have comments sections to let the group think reinforce itself.
Watching the West trying to stage manage the inevitable outrage of these people when it dawns on them their governments have been taking them for a ride for the last 50 years is going to be bitter sweet to say the least.
Flagrant actions on the part of the hegemon to intimidate the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants are top of mind for me right now.
When the collective West remained mute after the NordStream sabotage, that chiseled out a new facet of the rules-based-imperial-order: the hegemon really leveled-up
Blinken was such a massive hiring mistake. He's known as a Francophile Euro ass-kisser and that's it. He's simply not equipped to be a serious secretary of state when his entire career has been attending cocktail parties in western capitals and socializing with people who believe the same globalist bullshit he believes.
He has no idea how to handle relationships with adversaries that he can't bully.
I agree. Blinken has the political skills of a wet noodle and he doesn’t seem like he is very smart.
He went to Israel after the attack and said that he’s there as Jew. Weird how so many Jews are supporting the Ukraine Nazis.
There is a great article on how the ADL Is whitewashing the Nazis. Wish I had saved it.
Oops I went off on a tangent.
He misspelt "autistic friends"
Lol…good one. That sums up Biden and his administration.
Rheinmetall pledging to send seven million 155mm shells to Ukraine this year:
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defense/3860414-rheinmetall-plans-to-send-ukraine-hundreds-of-thousands-of-artillery-rounds-before-yearend.html
They might as well be pledging to send Martian death-rays.
Dust off the Panzer IVs...
Scott - read the article - 700,000 shells not 7M
Rhienmetall is 'prone' to exagerration - they claim to be setting up a factory in Ukraine, well maybe they will, annd when it is built very likely it will be immediately destroyed
The “millions” of rounds were only for the “medium term”. Maybe the number for this year isn’t credible, but they do list specific factories they will be building/expanding. The challenge is finding the explosives, aka the blowey-uppey stuff.
Scott - you are reading propaganda as if it were fact
From the article-"Before Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Rheinmetall’s annual capacity stood at nearly 70,000 rounds. This year, the group expects to reach 700,000, and in the medium term aims at 1.1 million. To this end, Rheinmetall is building a plant in Unterluss. A new production line is being set up in Lithuania. In Ukraine, the company also plans to build a munitions factory." (they've been planning this for some time, why not, talk is cheap)
Not only the number for this year is not credible, the talk of opening factories is not either, Rheinmetall does nothing without advance payment, and has publicly sworn off EU projects/contracts, as they never get paid for
The Lithuanian 'production line' - is this a factory or merely one part of an assembly line process? - is not 'being set up' - a letter of intent has been signed to express the opinion that both sides are going to discuss.....etc etc
Lithuania barks for it's supper, and does a lot more barking than suppering
- the famous German brigade that may one day in 2027 be stationed there lacks all local infra - the Liths have asked the Germans if the Germans can pay for the infra, the Germans have asked...and so on - it's called a daisy chain
The EU made noise recently about a $130M contract for shells and propellant, but the money is not yet paid, the EUC plans to put in for the 'grant' in May, and then....
PS Remember all the MSM excitement FebMarch over the Czech 'sourcing' of 800,000 shells from 'anonymous' - arms dealers or ammo dumps?
Since then retractions, then silence
The Czechs want in on that Lithuanian suppering - they too are 'opening factories'!
My sympathies in this conflict are with the Russians, that means the burden is on me to not immediately dismiss as propaganda any claims that disfavor the Russian side.
It’s a far out claim that they will soon be providing “millions” of shells. But it is a claim made by the CEO of the organization making them, and it cites specific locations and types that will be used. I’d be a partisan fool to just assume it must be propaganda because I don’t want it to be true.
Again it does seem overstated. “Millions” of shells don’t just suddenly fall off the assembly line. But I want to understand why their CEO made the claim if it is impossible to back it up? What does he gain from the empty promise?
If you wish to comment, I’ll start again, if you want to learn anything about this conflict, or about anything in general,
1- First look at the information you are reading, and look at the context, the provider, what the slant/bias/intent manifestly may be/is
(in this case) Your information source you link is an Ukrainian régime publication, and so may be expected to favour, heavily favour, the Ukrainian régime’s point of view or requirements – one of which is to fool you –or more likely their defence suppliers, or… and certainly not to inform you
2-Look around for other sources of information on the same subject
3-Think what sounds reasonable or likely and what does not – this obviously requires some continuous experience of source matter, events, obvious and less obvious biases
4- Look closely at the language, when, as in this case, it’s all plans shoulds proposals it’s likely to be hype-um
5-What does the CEO gain from his talking up about his expansive plans – guess… it has something to do with share price, something to do with crowding out competition, rubbing the pols noses in their promises, appealing to the US, arguing for their company’s place as central to new EU wide harmonised production to their company standards, to playing PR (the Ukraine factory is a non starter, but probably built around promises of subsidies), and did I mention share price ?
The CEO actually said as much in the Handesblatt article referenced by your link
https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/ruestungsindustrie-rheinmetall-chef-warnt-vor-scheitern-der-zeitenwende/100036758.html
Listening or reading the whining of the west's various orifices is tedious; they amount to nothing, they have nothing, and behave like five year old brats. Messenger boy Macron is a poodle to the remaining Chihuahuas. Please dear Lord, give us an almighty financial crash so that we can all move on.
What gets me is how offended their white-knights get when I express my lack of caring for the complaints of our elites.
Our ruling elites in the U.S. have ignored my needs, and the needs of the working-class, middle-class, and even upper-middle-class who aren't government employees, for decades. Now they call us Putin-lovers for not wanting to fund a bunch of white guys killing each other in Ukraine.
Your problems can't be addressed within the current configuration of the USA, and it's just not worth the effort even attempting to fix the unfixable. Youth seem to be moving from passive resistance to active opposition which makes crystal clear that the US and combined west are fascist dictatorships.