It’s been an eventful past day, as major Russian attacks galvanized panic-headlines and seemed to catalyze a sudden Ukrainian government purge or mass exodus:
Ranting is good. And you didn't swear once. Give peace a chance in your soul and relax, mate. Open the light inside that shades darkness, and hold strong the candle as darkness delights its vengeful return. Peace, man.
"And you didn't swear once." And even bowdlerised the heart-felt saying adopted as a screen name. I wish I could write such a wonderful rant while using such restrained language.
FFS! The filthy evil foreign anti-White sandland cult of Christ IS NOT WHITE! It was forced upon the White races of Eastern Europe by the Sun worshipping Roman emperor Constantine around AD300 at the urging of his two top advisers - Both kikes.
I am a White and I fucking hate the cult of Christ and all other anti-White sandland cults.
Idiots like you genuflect at the feet of your kike owners while willingly betraying what it is to be a member of one of the White races.
Tribalism coming out! Look to history…and see which race was more brutal. It’s all about “profit” and not about race. If 1 race has to kill their own to get their resources, they will. PROFIT/GREEDis the evil motivations
As long as American credit card still functioning, then there is no point in worrying about what happens outside of the US border. The US citizen is one of the most brain washed and insulated population in the world. The time when US citizen go to the street to protest unjust war carried out by their government (albeit because their loves one was directly affected, not because they feel sympathy for the people whom there Government came to bomb to oblivion) is long gone. Now, the only thing most American care are sports and decadences, porn and LGBT+. Not a shred of decency left. How the mighty have fallen. I'm a Vietnamese, I grown up admiring the USA, used to doodling the US flag all over my notebook. But after learning the truth, I became abhor the USA (both the Government and the people), but then I feel sympathy for the American people.
"The US citizen is one of the most brain washed and insulated population in the world. "
As an American, I can confirm. It is beyond ignorant and pathetic here. In WW1, people could be thrown in prison for being against the war or talking about the 1918 influenza epidemic. Just ask Eugene Debs. It was called the Spanish Flu since despite it's likely US origins at a Kansas military base, the only reporting on it, because of censorship, came out of Spain, hence the appellation: Spanish Flu.
At the end of WW1, the racist former college president, Woody Wilson, sent US troops into Siberia to try to overthrow the new Bolshevik gov't. You know...the sanctity of borders, blah, blah and blah.
I concur. It is mind blowing here in the USA how blatantly ignorant MOST people are or anything....which includes just about everything. I'll offer this quote:
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Don’t disagree with your assessment Kevin. Looks awfully dark out there to me too. But if I look hard, here and there, little lights scattered throughout the World; beacons of inextinguishable hope. I try to keep one lit myself up here in this lonely canyon in old New Mexico just in case some weary traveler, seeing the glow, might need a place to rest for a bit and the benefit of gentle company. Your welcome to stop by anytime btw...
The press gangs are delivering less and less forced conscripts and the Ukie loss rates are going way up, so they are now being bled white. The Kursk incursion just sped this process up, especially with the massive losses in armoured vehicles. Collapse will come and then surrender of territory. Russia needs to manage its international image carefully, not to be seen as the same genocidal scum as the West.
Your number is low, if you consider the very large personal of the ISR technical teams . The collecting and analyzing of satellite data team, the targeting specialist teams, the logistic support teams of very large capacities of NATO , and the whole of the Western hurray teams of the propaganda lying machine. Plus politicians, bankers with money to "invest", narrative managing bloggers , etc.
This is the greatest threat to the Russians, and the none globohomo segment of humanity. The Scythian spirits must prevail.
I come to substack to find things, even in the comments, that I can't find in the rotten social media peopled by young, stupid, left leaning Americans. And a few other young, stupid people.
But your going to have to show me some line of reason that gets the Jews in charge of this killer of 2 generations of Ukrainians and half of one of Russians.
I agree it's the West but don't see how you extrapolate that it's a Jewish thing?
Simplicius! Comments like this "take your meds etc", should be automatically deleted. They are incredibly annoying, and add nothing to the discussion. Is there a way to moderate this wasteful garbage out?
Quite to the contrary, it's driven by a dark cult where under guise of Christian rituals they pray to Ukraine itself. Basically, a death cult. Ukraine has always been dreamy, rich soil for all kinds of sects that now irreparably damaged the nation's psyche.
Mate, it’s such a complicated thing to put in a single comment, and I’m currently too busy to write a proper long explanation with pictures and videos. Maybe I’ll compile something later.
The Duran @ locals has made the point that with attrition warfare there is a prolonged period of high intensity, high casualty warfare; then a sudden catastrophic collapse of the defeated nation.
Unlike the Western goal of capturing and holding land, the Russian goal is for attrition of the enemy’s armies. Perhaps when the Russian Army is satisfied that the Ukraine Army has been sufficiently reduced they will drop the hammer and we will see a different phase of the war.
Below is an interesting flow map demonstrating the volume of casualties from Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. Perhaps a similar flow map could be applied to Ukraine casualties for the purpose of demonstrating the long term effects of this attrition warfare strategy and identify if there is a point of sudden collapse.
I suspect Putin is waging attrition warfare until the collapse of Ukraine's fighting capability, at which point terms of surrender will be negotiated involving NATO countries such as Hungary, Romania, and Poland with the intent of peacefully partitioning the remainder of Ukraine among these states with the Russians taking all of Southern and Eastern Ukraine and the other states taking their traditional lands back. If anything is left of Ukraine after that, it will be completely neutered politically and militarily.
Indeed, a small land locked rump of a country completely destroyed, full of angry Bandera amputees, totally dependent on hand outs from the collapsing EU-rinal, while the US swaggers of into the sunset whistling Yankee Doodle Dandy mumbling "Well it's been fun, we did our best to help & advise them, but at the end of the day it was always down to Ukraine to decide it's own paths, bye it's been emotional"
I think we really do have those people in charge of our entire foregn policy. Not all, but too many. "We came, we shot people. We have great artillery. And a few remaining big ships."
And we got a half million people killed so a border, so far, could move 50 miles.
There's almost a capitalist's mind-set in the expectation of ever-accelerating territorial gains on the battlefield--like stakeholders & investors in the boardroom, examining the corp's quarterly statement & looking for continual gains--demanding even that the ever-growing gains compound on themselves.
Nonetheless, when Ugledar falls, that's gonna be massive: a hard-fought Big Ticket item
You mean the fat cat oligarchs that run international corporations, right? Because the average capitalist isn't near that greedy. I see those people on financial shows. Not only the gains, but the rate of gain has to go up, continually. Which is mathematically impossible.
You apply linear projection to what is happening. In reality, attrition equations are quadratic (look up Lanchester) and if you put in on a graph it's literal representation of "gradually then suddenly".
And that is how wars end. Gradually and then suddenly. Everyone wants to know the moment of collapse - but there will only be tea leaves to read and people slapping their heads after the fact, feeling like they should have known. Bagration was not presumed to be the success it was, and neither were the Normandy landings. If you'd asked how long it would be from January, 1945, many would have answered far longer than the four months it was. The prediction game is based on data we don't have. The collapse could be tomorrow or two years from now.
And not just on data. On people and individual happenings too minute to make into "data."
Some Russian Colonel out for glory who commands 1,000 men and 50 tanks and wants to make his reputation.
Some Ukrainian Mayor who rallies people to resist AND pleads with Moscow to spare their infrastructure.
Some little ripple of Ukrainians refusing to fight becoming a tidal wave.
Putin's death.
Zelensky overdose.
It's just too complex to quantify into a mathematical equation.
In our Civil War in the United States, 2,000 trained, German immigrants, recently booted out of Europe after their 1848, saved Missouri from going Confederate for a year until the Union could put together a few pieces. St. Louis, if just nominally Confederate, would have made the war months longer.
And these guys just took it on their own to train and stay ready. Only after were they inducted into the US Army. Idk why their commander wanted to fight in the barely populated American near West, but he did, LOL.
The population was so split recruiting along the "slave belt" of Missouri was slow.
Here is another considerations. Most of the “white nations” (and residents) took the vax. I believe this was calculated to occur, after the virus was released. However as both the vax and virus is a failed bio-weapon, with the vax being even more dangerous than the virus, than the reverse will occur! More decimation of the white race, instead of the intended targets.
Finding the truth is hard, both were bio attacks. Whites and Asians were likely targets due to ACE binding, but confounded by comorbid hypertension or diabetes. China and Russia both responded as if under biowarfare attack. But bioweapons are notoriously unreliable due to mutation in wild pop.
"Something" existed that caused people to have identical symptoms for a 2-week +/-period and a slow recovery to full energy after. No one I know suffered serious consequences from either the infection or the jabs.
I took normal flu/cold prophylactic and therapeutic measures for my nose and throat, skipped the jabs, and did not have any symptoms.
Zelensky in that video is starting to get that "Final days Hitler in the bunker" vibe, and you see they are apparently willing to commit nuclear terrorism, I would guess it's a good thing they had to give up their nukes.
The first two would get replaced the next day by fresh puppets and Russia would have wasted two perfectly good Khinzal missiles. And reinforced the "narrative" of Elinsky being a modern Churchill, who would have died a martyr, etc.
As for Budanov, he cannot be killed no matter the number of missiles Russia flings at Kiev. Because Budanov "lives" in a subnet of highly secure servers in datacenters spread around the US, managed by the fine people at Langley, Virginia. And don't worry, the Russians are perfectly aware of this.
Churchill had his faults. The one that bothered me was his failure to acknowledge very important contribution to war effort of the Indians. Many died on Mt Casino among other places
Moscow is not in the business of satisfying the wishes of any Ukrainians. Actually I am certain that if Russia could they would prefer to take Elensky alive, but Washington/Langley will make sure that won't happen.
Elensky's script is part of the "narrative" designed to keep US and EU taxpayers' money flowing and Ukrainian men (and women) marching to their certain death.
I don't think Zelensky makes the decisions, and no one "halfway competent" would step in at this point, and even so, Ukraine would still lose. And in fact has already lost, which makes the meat grinder of Ukraine's military little more than murder.
Zelensky going out like Mussolini would be more apropos in my humble opinion. But with his close ties to America, something like what happened with Qadaffi would be more likely.
To tell the truth, Ukraine never had the nuclear weapons. When Soviet Union collapsed, there were lots of nuclear weapons stored on Ukraine territory - true. But control (activation and launch code etc..) of those weapons were still in then hands of Moscow (Russia), and Ukraine used this to it's advantage and gained lots of benefits from both USA and Russia. Only after that Russia was able to move those nuclear weapons out of Ukraine to Russia.
"But control (activation and launch code etc..) of those weapons were still in then hands of Moscow (Russia)"
Those weapons were also in the physical possession of Russia. After the fall of the Union all of the bases on which nuclear weapons were deployed in other former soviet republics became part of Russia, islands of Russian territory within what had become foreign states.
All of the former soviet republics agreed the prior arrangement should continue, with Russia inheriting both the nuclear arsenal and the costs of it. They were also pushed into that by the US, which didn't want to suddenly have to deal with many new, totally corrupt states that had nuclear arsenals and no prior experience in nuclear stewardship.
It was generally a very smooth transition except for one case where Ukraine and Russia were horse trading over who got what share of various former Soviet assets and Ukraine threatened to "take" the nuclear warheads on Russian bases within Ukraine. Yeltsin consulted with his experts to find out how long it would take the Ukrainians to break the permissive action link codes if they managed to seize the warheads, and then he ordered the base commanders of those bases to shoot to kill and to hold out to the last man to prevent the Ukrainians from storming their bases.
To focus their minds on the task, Yeltsin also ordered that the moment any Ukrainian soldier crossed a nuclear base perimeter that a nuclear first strike on that base would destroy the base as well as every nuclear warhead on the base. He wasn't kidding around. He also was ready to nuke Kiev and the capital of any other state that tried to seize Russian nukes.
After the Ukrainians calmed down the Russian side came up with the idea of teaming up with Ukraine and going to the US to suggest that it would be safer to physically move all the warheads back into Russia, but that neither Russia nor any of the other former states had the money to do that safely, so maybe the US could chip in a few billion dollars to finance the move. The US was eager to do so and the Russians and Ukraine and other states split the money that was donated.
The US had a successful experience with 50 years of Russian custody of the USSR's nukes - no World War III. They knew the players and the security systems, etc. , and the US felt that the only people who could continue safe custody of the many thousands of Russia's nukes were the same people who had safely done so for the preceding 50 years, the Russians.
Russia was also the only sovereign state coming out of the collapse of the USSR which had a real history and structure as a full stack government. That government was changing, but the base was solid and continuing with people in key governmental and military structures who had years of experience , who had long careers devoted to what they had built and who had motivations other than stealing everything they could touch. All the other new countries were making up their government structures as they went along, and nothing about them was predictable other than there would be a corrupt scramble to loot everything not nailed down while there was chaos and nobody really knew who owned what.
When it came to nukes, Russia's leadership was far and away more rational and stable (they had decades of learning how to be custodians of nukes) than the people who had come out of nowhere to seize power in the new countries.
The last thing the US wanted was a dozen new nuclear powers that were unpredictable, corrupt and totally uncontrolled with no past history of guarding nukes, especially at a time when the US was desperately worried about terrorists and minor powers buying "loose nukes" that became available after the fall of the USSR. The US felt it was a smart investment (and it was) to push US money and expertise into ensuring all the nukes stayed under Russian control, and then working with the Russians to ensure that maximum security was in place to protect the mountains of extra weapons grade plutonium Russia had as well as, of course, thousands of warheads in storage.
It was a shining moment in quiet, effective, US diplomacy and government action, the exact opposite of the totally incompetent, intellectually corrupt Swamp creatures at the helm today.
And it isn't incompetence, they are right on plan, they just have to throw something up to keep the populace placated and confused.
Also, if you think it's incompetence it makes it easier for them to get out of trouble when caught, than if you knew they actually planned everything for decades and carried out a concentrated subversive war with Western nations.
Step by step, from the late 50's to 60's "civil rights movement" to the DEI and trans movement today.
It’s an existential war. Russia would, the US would, China would. Why is this a surprise?
Although if they had nukes I doubt Russia would have invaded in the first place. It’s a much better guarantee than the Budapest Memorandum that Russia, the UK, and the US ignored.
>Throw away your country's neutrality and make them targets for Russia
>Run away and leave your nation holding the bag
This pattern has repeated so many times that everyone responsible ought to strung up outside their respective country's legislative center as an example of what not to do.
It's possible that he was told to leave, but there had to be a solid reason for that, a pliable replacement waiting in the wings, or evading a decision that he would make but the next man wouldn't.
The other option is that he really wants completely out before it's too late to do so.
I wouldn't know as I am not Swiss, but he was the foreign minister for 2 years, during which they joined NATO.
It may be that this is seen as a disaster for the normally neutral Swiss, and so they asked him to leave.
The other possibility is he is done with his task, and so leaves before it gets "to hot", or he was forced into joining NATO and now leaves because he is disgusted.
Think of a Swede like Billstrom, who has served as Foreign Minister during Sweden's neutral period, finding himself refashioned as OTAN's rip-snarling canine teeth in Ukraine against Russia--indeed in Poltava, against Russia--Poltava, where Sweden's military prowess bit the dust against Peter the Great
In fact she might be a French of Polish name. She is virtually unknown in Poland from her journalism. She writes exclusively for the american press "Anna Husarska is a Franco-Polish journalist, political analyst and former staff writer at The New Yorker.". Possibly just a CIA under humanitarian aid facade. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/27/ukraine-volunteers-frontline-00123337
Thank you Simplicius. Bless you and those poor medics who spoke out, I worry for their safety but their words are necessary to bring an end to this. This and all the luciferian empire's brutal adventures.
Decency died a long time ago in Ukraine. It died for sure in 2014, when a fascist regime chock full of neo-Nazis and supported by the US seized power and made war on its Russian speaking citizens in the Donbass.
Classic, actually. In Belarus there were 14 Nazi concentration camps/blood extraction facilities specifically used to collect blood from children of occupied territories during their previous attempt. Nothing changed.
White rectangles in the distance are not graves btw, they're school desks where the children will never sit, and you can see a red glossy trickle of granite running from underneath them.
This place is the one I think of whenever they discuss "applying more pressure on Russia".
There is only one end, full capitulation of the Ukrainian state. That will probably not happen, at least not very soon I guess. And most of those asshats in the Ukrainian state are guilty of a lot of crimes if you ask me.
The biggest crime of them all, is to be that stupid to believe they could fight Russia. Before the war I've looked up all Russian and Ukrainian military assets, like tanks, soldiers, navy, fighter jets, etc. etc. Only a mentally challenged idiot, drunk with 3 bottles of vodka, could have thought they had a 1 to 100 chance.
Even chimpanzees understand the difference between 20 bananas vs 1 banana (tanks), 100 bananas vs 1 banana (fighter jets), 200 bananas vs 0 bananas (navy)...
Scott Ritter was saying, I think, that Russia is at the point now where they are just going to revoke the whole concept of “Ukraine.” Parts will go to Russia, Poland, Romania and Hungary. I think it was created in the first place out of the Polish-Lithuanian Empire.
My guess is those named nations will at first send in "peace-keeping' forces to stop further Russian aggression with Putins blessing.
Russia needs to at least liberate the Odessa oblast after it gets control of the 5 Oblasts it intends to liberate. So if Ukraine remains an impoverished rump state it, it will be land-locked one.
Do you think Russia truly wants to go past the Dniper in any reasonable near future?
Do you think Americans barely even understand where this is all taking place? Right next to Germany, a place they know at least a little of?
If Russia sticks with this and the US loses will they escalate so the established order in Europe, run by the US, doesn't change or suffer?
I can't imagine the war crazy people we have just completely losing and going home. Will Russia allow them to look like they are helping Poland "secure the remainder of Ukraine? Will Russia let US forces be on the ground there even at that time?
Ive tried to tell my family that what they were seeing in the US on TV wasn't accurate, a half million or more were dead, and that this all can't end well. But as usual they just shrug, lol.
I answer yes to all. Russia can't leave the Banderan territories with a coast line. Endless sea drone attacks.
We can escalate and Russia will oblige. A warning to stop or a small European city will get a tactical nuke to reinforce the seriousness of the situation I don't believe can be disregarded.
Our oceans may keep invaders out, but aren't going to stop missiles.
Many thanks, Thinker. As witness to the insanity and satan worship around us, everywhere, I petition president Putin to urgently unload everything he has on the synagogues of satan and it's slaves. Remember to invite chairman Kim to the party as well lol
The MRAPS have high ground clearance to be mine resistant, and are also tall to improve all round visibility. Fine against sheep herders, but it makes them sitting ducks against a first world army. Their light armour is also useless against anything other than small arms fire. A death trap on wheels.
"How many more graves will there be next year if we keep Ukraine from fighting back?”
Unquote:
When are the clerisy, the informed, the educated, the understanding, the commentators, the 'analysts' the 'alt media' going to start educating these people and the wider western audience into the truth?
It's not 'Ukraine' it's their Kiev (USA puppet) part of it.
And it's not a 'fighting back' that is in question. It is perpetuating its conquest of Donbas predicated on ethnic cleansing lines.
They are the aggressors and it is 'the others' who're 'fighting back'.
And I say again: 'they' are NOT Ukraine. 'They' are the Kiev regime.
Both sides of the civil war suffer because of the Kiev regime. Donbas by their design: to take the Donbas and clear its Russian ethnicity and Kiev side by prosecution of this intent in a way that has killed 500,000 people so far and done immense damage.
I find this a staggering omission. This lack of 'correction', lack of universal outcry at this untruth and misuse of the language and reason.
When such as Sullivan say 'Ukraine should be able to strike back' and NO ONE takes him up on it.
'Ukraine' is in the midst of a civil war ! 'Striking back' can only mean in that context striking against the civil war which effectively means 'striking back' at it's instigator, promoter and maintainer: the USA.
Everyone swallows this. It is the standard narrative. It is 1984 type 'new speak'.
Regarding that Chinese territory that was "stolen" by the Russians, there is a fascinating bit about how that went down in "Imperial Rivals" by SCM Paine. Apparently back when the Treaty of Aigun was signed, the Chinese did not have accurate maps of the region, but the Russians did. The Chinese were convinced to agree to the river as the border, not realizing how very far south it was.
So if anyone at all brings the border up as a point of dispute, and tries to get China and Russia yelling at each other, they're full of complete nonsense. Not unusual these days for commentators to be completely ignorant of facts. They dream up BS in their tiny minds. And sure, there are likely a few knobs in both China and Russia who are just as ignorant and bring it up as well.
There must be hundreds, if not thousands, of Western news "readers" on the MSM radio, TV and Youtube. Without exception, they faithfully read the US State Dept narrative to their audiences. perhaps rewritten if they can afford it, most often not. None of these people have cracked a history book on Russia or Ukraine, not even on the the events since 2000. Too much bother to learn even what's in Wikipedia. Nah, they just read the tripe put in front of them, preen themselves as professional journalists, and that, my friends is it.
"Complete coverage at 6 on Newshound TV 11". Sure.
Sometimes it's also worth reading official Russia sources, beyond all the Telegram stuff and vids and general blare and so on.
After submitting the above post, I was reading Tass, and ran across this article and comments statement by Maria Zakharova dated Sept 3, 2024:
"MOSCOW, September 3. /TASS/. Russia and China have officially confirmed the renunciation of any territorial claims between the two countries, and Moscow does not care about what some fringe politicians think about this, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"What some fringe politicians obsessed with revanchism think about this, someone else can worry about, but we won’t," she pointed out, commenting on a remark by Lai Ching-te, head of the Taiwanese administration, that China should seize lands in the Far East from Russia. "In short, Lai, who is being pushed towards separatism by the Americans, can say whatever he likes but it will do no good for him or Taiwanese residents," Zakharova added.
Meanwhile, the Russian diplomat stressed that "the mutual renunciation of territorial claims by Moscow and Beijing had been enshrined in the July 16, 2001, Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation, with Moscow and Beijing putting border issues to bed once and for all by signing the Additional Agreement on the Eastern part of the Russia-China Border on October 14, 2004, and ratifying the document later." "This position was confirmed in a number of other joint documents that China and Russia adopted at various levels, including at the highest one," the diplomat went on to say. "Russia has consistently respected the One China principle, and views the Chinese government as the country’s only legitimate government." That said, "the Taiwanese administration head is in no position to make statements on behalf of Beijing," and Taipei could only be recommended "not to overestimate itself when eyeing something that belongs to someone else," Zakharova noted.
According to her, Lai should "pay more attention to the island’s economic issues and demonstrate a constructive approach to the Chinese leadership’s proposal of a peaceful reunification with mainland China." "We are confident that our friends in Beijing share the same position," the diplomat concluded.
So, the neocons can all go dance on the head of a pin, so far as I'm concerned. Funnily enough, it even makes the Wikipedia entry I linked to above appear correct. Will wonders never cease?
The sad thing, is that probably they haven't even been forced. What we see in the video, is the moment of realization. They're finding out what happens when you fuck around
The video with the captured AFU women is further proof that the Kiev regime and the UN Commissioner for Sexual Violence have been fabricating claims of rape by Russian forces. That a female POW feels emboldened enough to demand that her captors not look at the data on her phone, claiming "privacy", proves that the Ukrainians are well aware of the fact that no harm will come to them as prisoners of Russian forces. Everything else is pure performance art. I can't even begin to imagine a a female Russian prisoner making a similar demand, were the tables turned. In fact, I'm entirely certain that there isn't a single Russian woman who, as a soldier, would allow herself to be captured alive.
They know there days are numbered when Trump is elected. Its all over then. Time to jump ship is now. Trump will sell them out. Russia gets to keep its gains, Ukraine has to sell off a bunch of assets to Western Corporations to repay its loans and perhaps Poland takes a chunk of Western Ukraine for a security buffer as Ukraine descends into chaos with warring factions
You have no idea what you're talking about. Do you understand the first thing about how Presidential elections are run in the USA? A four point Nationwide lead by a Democrat at Labor Day is almost certainly an Electoral College loss for their candidate. She got zero bounce from the Convention and the response bias attendant among Democrats polled after the Human Zombie was given the hook has already began to dissipate.
Go throw a bunch of money on Harris at Predict-It. I'll be there to take it from you.
Yep. Your voting - all our western voting - is criminal farce. What we need is our own irrefutable parallel vote and then we might start to get somewhere:
What a show that 'miraculous ear nick' on the professional actor was. And how about that iconic and heroic photo after he rose from the dead in triomph! You couldn't script an event like that...
Lol. Ever hear of delayed counting? Midnight, cross-country ballot runs by the USPS? Numbers instantly dropping on 1 side, rising by on the other, by 10s of thousands...live on tv? Counted votes exceeding #s of registered voters in critical districts?
We'll get whoever "they" decide we get.
And whoever we get will do as "they" tell them to. Any questions, ask JFK.
Yea sure, according to the same idiots that told us that Hillary had a 97% chance of beating him. Why would you believe ANY poll? A poll can show absolutely anything you want, it's all in how that samples are taken.
The polls are skewed in favour of the Dems as they sample primarily areas heavily populated by Democrats.
But you are likely correct in that the election will be stolen again - virtually none of the "problems" experienced in 2020 have been fixed - indeed, they have been amplified.
Regardless of who wins, however, nothing will change - Ukraine will be drained of fighting capacity and the US will be forced to give in, declare victory and get out (as they usually do when losing).
4 points: wow, that is humongous, not at all within the margin of error of polls. On top of that, Harris has such a good program and is such a good presenter, what with her trade mark cackle, that she will surely win against the orange monster.
May those jews kagan nuland blinken kolomojsky zelensky and their uk eu usa blood brothers Johnston starmer, biden crazy kamala harris , scholz, macron be wiped of the face of the earth and may those degenerate parents of the above be sent to the deepest tartatus for doing a horror job at raising children
Are you using Substack app or web version? If using one, try the other. If using web, try a different browser. If using app, try to find an app update in the app settings. If using phone try computer, if using computer try phone. Most often I'd say it's a browser issue and using different browser (firefox, chrome, edge, etc) might work.
I just advance the play bar a few seconds and then they play for me. Very rarely do they play on their own. Or if I still have problems I refresh the page.
Fantastic update. Thank you Simplicius. I have seen many, many hours of combat footage since the start of the SMO and as former US military have marveled at the quantity and quality available near real time. Can't help but review with a professional eye. There are a sizeable new set of military problems at the tactical and operational level due to emerging technology and the half-life of measure to countermeasure often seems to be only a matter of weeks. This rapid evolution demands an agile organization in the field, but for that to be possible, that force will have to have reach-back all the way to the national political, financial and industrial base, which in-turn, will have to be more responsive than has ever been required in past conflicts. Makes my head hurt to think about it. At least until the financial underpinning that supports the exponential cost begins to give way. I can imagine a scenario where the side who goes bankrupt first, loses.
Yes, but as the demand’s upon the industrial base of Western Nations increases; the manufacturing capacity of Western nations seem to be at the lowest capacity since the begging of the Industrial Revolution.
The ruling class of Western Nations seem to have been very myopic with their deindustrialization strategies prior to entering into a proxy war against nations that have retained the ability to rapidly expand industrial manufacturing.
I think it is wonderful that Yankland is on the verge of bankruptcy, a disastrous election looming, mass civil unrest and foreign gangs taking over huge areas of major cities.
Yankland is also very thinly stretched militarily, industrially and with Winter approaching and failing infrastructure energy resource deficit.
Basic BRICS/RoW strat. Direct confrontation of Yankee land = canned sunlight comes out to play. Thus they are pressuring them on multiple domains in multiple theaters, but not so much to trigger the nuclear exchange the US' owners want.
From the perspective of the working class in the US, their standard of living has fallen dramatically because of the policies of the culturally disconnected leaders (from both political parties).
Perhaps bankruptcy would benefit the working class if it resulted in the abolishment of the Federal Reserve that enriches a parasitic banking class that benefits from printing money and obscenely low interest rates for the politically connected, but crushing for the working class and poor. I suspect that a local credit union that acquires money to lend from paying fair interest for bank accounts of local citizens, would have a sounder financial policy that what we now have.
Of course the next election will be a disaster because of election result engineering. Likewise much of the violence prior to the last election was not only allowed, but encouraged by government provocateurs. What we witnessed prior to and our last Presidential Election in many respects appeared to be a domestic Color Revolution. Ultimately our nation would be served well by defunding and abolishing all of the Federal agencies not authorized by the US Constitution.
Many citizens are also learning to appreciate the wisdom of the Antifederalists who at the nations formation warned against the risks of a large standing peacetime Federal Army. Our enemies are domestic and as the empire collapses the need will be for local civil policing rather than foreign adventures.
The people will demand the Big Gubmint to do something as life becomes more difficult and the Federal Reserve will oblige them.
Big Gubmint can't go bankrupt. And that's is a problem.
Local credit unions have the same problems as regional banks; treasuries as assets. A partial solution is more local banks that aren't tied to the Fed. The States can make it happen.
Yes, we can pretty much abolish about 2/3rds or more of our military and other than local economies noticing a standard of living increase no one will notice.
Good post. If I might add: for this immediate feed-back loop (front line to design to manufacturing to front line) to work the skill level of those on the front line must increase dramatically.
Truth. Many years ago now, the best unit in the US Army, on the training battlefield anyway, was the 11th ACR, the OPFOR at the National Training Center. Although their organization and operation was based loosely on Soviet doctrine they actually fought the way the US claimed to, with decision-making after crossing the line of departure pushed to the lowest possible level; down to the squad or combat platform commander. This idea in practice, against a BLUEFOR brigade allowed them to flow around them like water. Of 48 or so “battles” I witnessed as an observer, I only saw them lose to the training unit once. BLUFOR would routinely accuse the OPFOR of cheating due to the lopsided results, but… The Russians have the same look and feel in the SMO.
and roger... I learned a lot about warfare and life training at and working for the Army training centers, more than I realized at the time. Given the choice though between risk of death in combat or certain, repeated humiliation at the NTC I'm not sure to this day which I would pick...
One time I was there the battle captain in the TOC (a MAJ) was kidding around about telling his wife he was going to an OCONUS destination when he went to Barstow. :-) I'd still rather know what I learned there than go in to the box without it.
I am not talking about doctrine, NATO maneuver warfare vs Russian means and methods in the SMO but the superiority of agile forces. My point being the more adaptable organization dominated the NTC battleground and it dominates in the forests and steppes of Ukraine as well. But the ability to be so now requires greater operational breadth, strategic depth and velocity, which the Western Military Industrial Complex, of which I am still a member, is not very good at.
Ranting is good. And you didn't swear once. Give peace a chance in your soul and relax, mate. Open the light inside that shades darkness, and hold strong the candle as darkness delights its vengeful return. Peace, man.
Men love the darkness for their sins are evil
"And you didn't swear once." And even bowdlerised the heart-felt saying adopted as a screen name. I wish I could write such a wonderful rant while using such restrained language.
FFS! The filthy evil foreign anti-White sandland cult of Christ IS NOT WHITE! It was forced upon the White races of Eastern Europe by the Sun worshipping Roman emperor Constantine around AD300 at the urging of his two top advisers - Both kikes.
I am a White and I fucking hate the cult of Christ and all other anti-White sandland cults.
Idiots like you genuflect at the feet of your kike owners while willingly betraying what it is to be a member of one of the White races.
You are a traitor.
You never understood the teachings of Christ. Most of them calling themselves Christians as well do not.
When I thirsted, you gave me drink
When I hungered, you fed me
When I lacked javelins, you javelined me
______________________________________in the year of our Lord
Tribalism coming out! Look to history…and see which race was more brutal. It’s all about “profit” and not about race. If 1 race has to kill their own to get their resources, they will. PROFIT/GREEDis the evil motivations
As long as American credit card still functioning, then there is no point in worrying about what happens outside of the US border. The US citizen is one of the most brain washed and insulated population in the world. The time when US citizen go to the street to protest unjust war carried out by their government (albeit because their loves one was directly affected, not because they feel sympathy for the people whom there Government came to bomb to oblivion) is long gone. Now, the only thing most American care are sports and decadences, porn and LGBT+. Not a shred of decency left. How the mighty have fallen. I'm a Vietnamese, I grown up admiring the USA, used to doodling the US flag all over my notebook. But after learning the truth, I became abhor the USA (both the Government and the people), but then I feel sympathy for the American people.
"The US citizen is one of the most brain washed and insulated population in the world. "
As an American, I can confirm. It is beyond ignorant and pathetic here. In WW1, people could be thrown in prison for being against the war or talking about the 1918 influenza epidemic. Just ask Eugene Debs. It was called the Spanish Flu since despite it's likely US origins at a Kansas military base, the only reporting on it, because of censorship, came out of Spain, hence the appellation: Spanish Flu.
At the end of WW1, the racist former college president, Woody Wilson, sent US troops into Siberia to try to overthrow the new Bolshevik gov't. You know...the sanctity of borders, blah, blah and blah.
I concur. It is mind blowing here in the USA how blatantly ignorant MOST people are or anything....which includes just about everything. I'll offer this quote:
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
------Issac Asimov
Don’t disagree with your assessment Kevin. Looks awfully dark out there to me too. But if I look hard, here and there, little lights scattered throughout the World; beacons of inextinguishable hope. I try to keep one lit myself up here in this lonely canyon in old New Mexico just in case some weary traveler, seeing the glow, might need a place to rest for a bit and the benefit of gentle company. Your welcome to stop by anytime btw...
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Worship of Mammon replaced Christ as majority in US a long time ago.
Many are called, few are chosen
Grace is given
Not a Christian here, but not an enemy either. You got it right. This is INSANE. This has to stop.
Well said & totally agree, no more brother wars.
Many so called Christians do also believe in the teachings of the old testament.
One can't combine these with the teachings of Christ.
The press gangs are delivering less and less forced conscripts and the Ukie loss rates are going way up, so they are now being bled white. The Kursk incursion just sped this process up, especially with the massive losses in armoured vehicles. Collapse will come and then surrender of territory. Russia needs to manage its international image carefully, not to be seen as the same genocidal scum as the West.
Some say between 50 and 100k nato mercs or fake nato mercs but real soldiers are present in 404.
Your number is low, if you consider the very large personal of the ISR technical teams . The collecting and analyzing of satellite data team, the targeting specialist teams, the logistic support teams of very large capacities of NATO , and the whole of the Western hurray teams of the propaganda lying machine. Plus politicians, bankers with money to "invest", narrative managing bloggers , etc.
This is the greatest threat to the Russians, and the none globohomo segment of humanity. The Scythian spirits must prevail.
I agree with this general sentiment but don't understand this slang of Globohomo.
I would also like to know if Russia know how many NATO workers it has killed? Hundreds?
This one strike may have killed 400 or more.
Globohomo is not a slang, it is Sodoma and Gomora on the global scale.
The thriving of heedless wickedness. The rejection of human decency, on every level. The neurotic journey of the unaware self.
The Russians are not likely to know the losses of the West, but NATO does.
Not just NATO , but mercenaries from South America, Japan, and some muslim jihadist, who are well payed, or promised of compensation. Who knows ?
I come to substack to find things, even in the comments, that I can't find in the rotten social media peopled by young, stupid, left leaning Americans. And a few other young, stupid people.
But your going to have to show me some line of reason that gets the Jews in charge of this killer of 2 generations of Ukrainians and half of one of Russians.
I agree it's the West but don't see how you extrapolate that it's a Jewish thing?
Many reports of conscripts refusing to fight and surrendering to Russian troops first chance they get.
Does any Russian source support this?
Most things you find do not show Ukraine at the point of dropping their guns and running, yet.
You seemed obsessed about the white Christian part. Average Ukraine doesn't give a shit about religion
You should take your meds and get some rest
Simplicius! Comments like this "take your meds etc", should be automatically deleted. They are incredibly annoying, and add nothing to the discussion. Is there a way to moderate this wasteful garbage out?
'Moderation' is another word for censorship
Is hard to operate in a way that will please anyone except the authoritarian minded and passive conformists
In favour of a safe spece where nobody and nothing can ever find disagreement or disturbing difference, let alone 'offense'
If applied will narrow mind channel and eliminate any possible agency among the people
So that nobody nowhere will ever add anything of use to any discussion
Quite to the contrary, it's driven by a dark cult where under guise of Christian rituals they pray to Ukraine itself. Basically, a death cult. Ukraine has always been dreamy, rich soil for all kinds of sects that now irreparably damaged the nation's psyche.
I'd love an explanation for this. I'm finding so many interesting things in this thread.
Mate, it’s such a complicated thing to put in a single comment, and I’m currently too busy to write a proper long explanation with pictures and videos. Maybe I’ll compile something later.
The Duran @ locals has made the point that with attrition warfare there is a prolonged period of high intensity, high casualty warfare; then a sudden catastrophic collapse of the defeated nation.
Unlike the Western goal of capturing and holding land, the Russian goal is for attrition of the enemy’s armies. Perhaps when the Russian Army is satisfied that the Ukraine Army has been sufficiently reduced they will drop the hammer and we will see a different phase of the war.
Below is an interesting flow map demonstrating the volume of casualties from Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. Perhaps a similar flow map could be applied to Ukraine casualties for the purpose of demonstrating the long term effects of this attrition warfare strategy and identify if there is a point of sudden collapse.
https://ageofrevolution.org/200-object/flow-map-of-napoleons-invasion-of-russia/
I suspect Putin is waging attrition warfare until the collapse of Ukraine's fighting capability, at which point terms of surrender will be negotiated involving NATO countries such as Hungary, Romania, and Poland with the intent of peacefully partitioning the remainder of Ukraine among these states with the Russians taking all of Southern and Eastern Ukraine and the other states taking their traditional lands back. If anything is left of Ukraine after that, it will be completely neutered politically and militarily.
> Ukraine is dismembered and loses Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv to Russia.
> Lvov is reabsorbed into Poland
> "Ukraine is finally in NATO. Huge victory."
LOL. I bet that's not very far off of the final spin, down the road.
When we could have just left that border alone and let those countries evolve naturally, over a long period of time.
I really want reporting and writing on the last year before the Russian invasion.
Indeed, a small land locked rump of a country completely destroyed, full of angry Bandera amputees, totally dependent on hand outs from the collapsing EU-rinal, while the US swaggers of into the sunset whistling Yankee Doodle Dandy mumbling "Well it's been fun, we did our best to help & advise them, but at the end of the day it was always down to Ukraine to decide it's own paths, bye it's been emotional"
I think we really do have those people in charge of our entire foregn policy. Not all, but too many. "We came, we shot people. We have great artillery. And a few remaining big ships."
And we got a half million people killed so a border, so far, could move 50 miles.
"... I am glad Russia is winning but at the current rate of advance it's still going to take like two decades to reach Odessa..."
Because in reality war does not happen as fast as in videogames where you click somewhere on the screen and bang your entire army moves West by 100km.
There's almost a capitalist's mind-set in the expectation of ever-accelerating territorial gains on the battlefield--like stakeholders & investors in the boardroom, examining the corp's quarterly statement & looking for continual gains--demanding even that the ever-growing gains compound on themselves.
Nonetheless, when Ugledar falls, that's gonna be massive: a hard-fought Big Ticket item
You mean the fat cat oligarchs that run international corporations, right? Because the average capitalist isn't near that greedy. I see those people on financial shows. Not only the gains, but the rate of gain has to go up, continually. Which is mathematically impossible.
You apply linear projection to what is happening. In reality, attrition equations are quadratic (look up Lanchester) and if you put in on a graph it's literal representation of "gradually then suddenly".
And that is how wars end. Gradually and then suddenly. Everyone wants to know the moment of collapse - but there will only be tea leaves to read and people slapping their heads after the fact, feeling like they should have known. Bagration was not presumed to be the success it was, and neither were the Normandy landings. If you'd asked how long it would be from January, 1945, many would have answered far longer than the four months it was. The prediction game is based on data we don't have. The collapse could be tomorrow or two years from now.
And not just on data. On people and individual happenings too minute to make into "data."
Some Russian Colonel out for glory who commands 1,000 men and 50 tanks and wants to make his reputation.
Some Ukrainian Mayor who rallies people to resist AND pleads with Moscow to spare their infrastructure.
Some little ripple of Ukrainians refusing to fight becoming a tidal wave.
Putin's death.
Zelensky overdose.
It's just too complex to quantify into a mathematical equation.
In our Civil War in the United States, 2,000 trained, German immigrants, recently booted out of Europe after their 1848, saved Missouri from going Confederate for a year until the Union could put together a few pieces. St. Louis, if just nominally Confederate, would have made the war months longer.
And these guys just took it on their own to train and stay ready. Only after were they inducted into the US Army. Idk why their commander wanted to fight in the barely populated American near West, but he did, LOL.
The population was so split recruiting along the "slave belt" of Missouri was slow.
Russias goals have been very clearly stated numerous times. They aren't going to change them to fit your misguided ideals. Deal with it.
Here is another considerations. Most of the “white nations” (and residents) took the vax. I believe this was calculated to occur, after the virus was released. However as both the vax and virus is a failed bio-weapon, with the vax being even more dangerous than the virus, than the reverse will occur! More decimation of the white race, instead of the intended targets.
We in biblical times
Finding the truth is hard, both were bio attacks. Whites and Asians were likely targets due to ACE binding, but confounded by comorbid hypertension or diabetes. China and Russia both responded as if under biowarfare attack. But bioweapons are notoriously unreliable due to mutation in wild pop.
No virus was ever released, it could not have because it does not exist. The clot/kill shots are bioweapons alright.
"Something" existed that caused people to have identical symptoms for a 2-week +/-period and a slow recovery to full energy after. No one I know suffered serious consequences from either the infection or the jabs.
I took normal flu/cold prophylactic and therapeutic measures for my nose and throat, skipped the jabs, and did not have any symptoms.
The six people I know who were affected by the jab offset by 5 the supposedly 0 you know...
Explain that statement to me. How whiteness and the End Times are related. I know the bible. Go ahead.
ConcernTrolling-Lite.
NEXT
Are you a Christian? Why do you care about the very tiny difference in skin tone of all the people involved?
Do you mean Germanic? Or Aryan? Do you not consider Slavs white?
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clsJQMRPerw
Zelensky in that video is starting to get that "Final days Hitler in the bunker" vibe, and you see they are apparently willing to commit nuclear terrorism, I would guess it's a good thing they had to give up their nukes.
They would use them, Zelensky would for sure.
Monsters and spies everywhere. It's as though Barney Fife has taken over the country.
It's BS.
Of course it is. Are you familiar with the character Barney Fife?
LOL yes, very much so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOoEQ2vx7w
@Saint Jimmy
"Barney Fife(s)" are the optimal publicly acknowledged top level cut out class.
Zelensky should end himself like Hitler did.
That would be ideal.
It would only take three khinzal: one for ZE, one for the other zio yermak and of course our goebels friend Budanov.
The first two would get replaced the next day by fresh puppets and Russia would have wasted two perfectly good Khinzal missiles. And reinforced the "narrative" of Elinsky being a modern Churchill, who would have died a martyr, etc.
As for Budanov, he cannot be killed no matter the number of missiles Russia flings at Kiev. Because Budanov "lives" in a subnet of highly secure servers in datacenters spread around the US, managed by the fine people at Langley, Virginia. And don't worry, the Russians are perfectly aware of this.
That data center in Utah has beaucoup Budanov
Churchill was a treasonous kike cunt that refused to let hostilities end and escalated things into WW II very deliberately.
http://falsificationofhistory.co.uk/false-history/winston-churchill-traitor-and-murderer/
Churchill had his faults. The one that bothered me was his failure to acknowledge very important contribution to war effort of the Indians. Many died on Mt Casino among other places
^This
Wouldn't be a waste, it changes minds when things like that happens, while not very "destructive" materially it would be politically and moral wise.
A lot of Ukrainians would like to see a Khinzal slap Zelensky.
Moscow is not in the business of satisfying the wishes of any Ukrainians. Actually I am certain that if Russia could they would prefer to take Elensky alive, but Washington/Langley will make sure that won't happen.
Much to easy & quick. A baying mob dragging them violently down the street to the lamppost.
Mussolini anyone?
Some of Russia's most strategic assets work at the top of the Uke Government.
Or else they would have been taken out.
Europe and D.C. haven't completely figured out that Zelenski is a Military Strategist like Mussolini in Ethiopia.
Pretending to use your wanker to play a piano isn't quite the same skill set as leading men into war.
Naa, he has a number of estates to live in. I think the last one he bought... with your money, was in Italy.
Nah. He loves himself too much to do that.
Remember Elensky is an actor, he is not going to end himself.
On the other hand, he will probably be "ended" before he manages to board a helicopter out of Kiev. He knows too much.
The script has almost run out of paper😶🌫️
Elensky's script is part of the "narrative" designed to keep US and EU taxpayers' money flowing and Ukrainian men (and women) marching to their certain death.
Who benefits? Follow the money. War is a racket.
Well I can say that a group of people are upset their businesses are jeopardized by the "war".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_oligarchs
When you look at the "early Lives" section you can see what is what.
Better to leave an incompetent leader in place so you can capitalise on their mistakes.
He will, either by his own hand, or another’s💀
Zelensky is the best thing Russia has going for it in Ukraine,
He's a laughing stock in the west for the most part,
the Globohomo cast of characters only pretends to respect him,
because the US tells them to.
If they were to replace him with someone halfway competent,
Ukraine could make life more difficult for the Russian army..
I don't think Zelensky makes the decisions, and no one "halfway competent" would step in at this point, and even so, Ukraine would still lose. And in fact has already lost, which makes the meat grinder of Ukraine's military little more than murder.
If things are this dire what will have to happen for Ukraine to stop fighting?
Or Russia?
Ukraine will become part of Russia, and I think Russia may take other territories now that their war machine is all wound up and ready to go.
How? They cab barely take a Ukrainian province.
Place the blame where it belongs on the UK (Boris) and the US (Biden and Obama)!
That is like blaming the hammer for the carpenters mistakes.
Don't quite understand.
Zelensky going out like Mussolini would be more apropos in my humble opinion. But with his close ties to America, something like what happened with Qadaffi would be more likely.
Lol
To tell the truth, Ukraine never had the nuclear weapons. When Soviet Union collapsed, there were lots of nuclear weapons stored on Ukraine territory - true. But control (activation and launch code etc..) of those weapons were still in then hands of Moscow (Russia), and Ukraine used this to it's advantage and gained lots of benefits from both USA and Russia. Only after that Russia was able to move those nuclear weapons out of Ukraine to Russia.
Related: https://youtu.be/tQBLpJFi6f0&t=2690
1800 of them, I wonder if the got every single one back.
"But control (activation and launch code etc..) of those weapons were still in then hands of Moscow (Russia)"
Those weapons were also in the physical possession of Russia. After the fall of the Union all of the bases on which nuclear weapons were deployed in other former soviet republics became part of Russia, islands of Russian territory within what had become foreign states.
All of the former soviet republics agreed the prior arrangement should continue, with Russia inheriting both the nuclear arsenal and the costs of it. They were also pushed into that by the US, which didn't want to suddenly have to deal with many new, totally corrupt states that had nuclear arsenals and no prior experience in nuclear stewardship.
It was generally a very smooth transition except for one case where Ukraine and Russia were horse trading over who got what share of various former Soviet assets and Ukraine threatened to "take" the nuclear warheads on Russian bases within Ukraine. Yeltsin consulted with his experts to find out how long it would take the Ukrainians to break the permissive action link codes if they managed to seize the warheads, and then he ordered the base commanders of those bases to shoot to kill and to hold out to the last man to prevent the Ukrainians from storming their bases.
To focus their minds on the task, Yeltsin also ordered that the moment any Ukrainian soldier crossed a nuclear base perimeter that a nuclear first strike on that base would destroy the base as well as every nuclear warhead on the base. He wasn't kidding around. He also was ready to nuke Kiev and the capital of any other state that tried to seize Russian nukes.
After the Ukrainians calmed down the Russian side came up with the idea of teaming up with Ukraine and going to the US to suggest that it would be safer to physically move all the warheads back into Russia, but that neither Russia nor any of the other former states had the money to do that safely, so maybe the US could chip in a few billion dollars to finance the move. The US was eager to do so and the Russians and Ukraine and other states split the money that was donated.
Wild, so why would the US finance that? Would it be that Russia is more rational and stable than Ukraine's leadership at the time?
The US had a successful experience with 50 years of Russian custody of the USSR's nukes - no World War III. They knew the players and the security systems, etc. , and the US felt that the only people who could continue safe custody of the many thousands of Russia's nukes were the same people who had safely done so for the preceding 50 years, the Russians.
Russia was also the only sovereign state coming out of the collapse of the USSR which had a real history and structure as a full stack government. That government was changing, but the base was solid and continuing with people in key governmental and military structures who had years of experience , who had long careers devoted to what they had built and who had motivations other than stealing everything they could touch. All the other new countries were making up their government structures as they went along, and nothing about them was predictable other than there would be a corrupt scramble to loot everything not nailed down while there was chaos and nobody really knew who owned what.
When it came to nukes, Russia's leadership was far and away more rational and stable (they had decades of learning how to be custodians of nukes) than the people who had come out of nowhere to seize power in the new countries.
The last thing the US wanted was a dozen new nuclear powers that were unpredictable, corrupt and totally uncontrolled with no past history of guarding nukes, especially at a time when the US was desperately worried about terrorists and minor powers buying "loose nukes" that became available after the fall of the USSR. The US felt it was a smart investment (and it was) to push US money and expertise into ensuring all the nukes stayed under Russian control, and then working with the Russians to ensure that maximum security was in place to protect the mountains of extra weapons grade plutonium Russia had as well as, of course, thousands of warheads in storage.
It was a shining moment in quiet, effective, US diplomacy and government action, the exact opposite of the totally incompetent, intellectually corrupt Swamp creatures at the helm today.
The people in government at the time still remembered the same things I remember.
The cast of clowns today are oblivious to the dangers. I don't see many that are older than me, that may be the issue.
That guy is a professional actor. What makes you think he has suddenly become something else?
The US establishment is becoming more and more ridiculous. They no longer know what lies to invent to mask their incompetence.
Well look at who is running the USA.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-in-the-biden-administration
And it isn't incompetence, they are right on plan, they just have to throw something up to keep the populace placated and confused.
Also, if you think it's incompetence it makes it easier for them to get out of trouble when caught, than if you knew they actually planned everything for decades and carried out a concentrated subversive war with Western nations.
Step by step, from the late 50's to 60's "civil rights movement" to the DEI and trans movement today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_in_the_civil_rights_movement
DEI roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States
It’s an existential war. Russia would, the US would, China would. Why is this a surprise?
Although if they had nukes I doubt Russia would have invaded in the first place. It’s a much better guarantee than the Budapest Memorandum that Russia, the UK, and the US ignored.
He is scared, who wouldn't be going against Russia? If Valery wanted to, he wouldn't even know what hit him.
>Throw away your country's neutrality and make them targets for Russia
>Run away and leave your nation holding the bag
This pattern has repeated so many times that everyone responsible ought to strung up outside their respective country's legislative center as an example of what not to do.
You're referring to Billstrom? He may well have been told to leave.
It's possible that he was told to leave, but there had to be a solid reason for that, a pliable replacement waiting in the wings, or evading a decision that he would make but the next man wouldn't.
The other option is that he really wants completely out before it's too late to do so.
Well a smart man would want out, and quickly.
What would the rationale for telling him to leave. Please explain.
I wouldn't know as I am not Swiss, but he was the foreign minister for 2 years, during which they joined NATO.
It may be that this is seen as a disaster for the normally neutral Swiss, and so they asked him to leave.
The other possibility is he is done with his task, and so leaves before it gets "to hot", or he was forced into joining NATO and now leaves because he is disgusted.
"Alright you've fucked your country, now go into hiding for a few years, enjoy the whores and cash, then go somewhere else to do it again".
Think of a Swede like Billstrom, who has served as Foreign Minister during Sweden's neutral period, finding himself refashioned as OTAN's rip-snarling canine teeth in Ukraine against Russia--indeed in Poltava, against Russia--Poltava, where Sweden's military prowess bit the dust against Peter the Great
And this time Vladimir the great.
Vladimir the dictator
The thief of hundreds of billions of dollars
Vladimir the great, doesn't dictate anything to you.
Vladimir the great doesn't steal anything from you.
Vladimir the great has 80 percent approval rating.
Your Biden the dim, has 5 percent approval rating, and has been elected with a computer glitch.
Your Kamala the dum-dum has 5 percent approval rating, and will be elected with a computer glitch.
As a result you soon to become John the very last. Who you gonna slander then?
Zelensky is also a Vladimir and he's definitely a thief of lives and money.
He is not Vladimir the great, he is Vlodimir the "chosen" one.
Yeah, Swedes of all people should've known better than to return to Poltava.
The Germans returned to Kursk where they got slaughtered during WW2, and that was a lot more recently than the Swedes getting slaughtered at Poltava.
DumBasss
Talk about criminals always returning to the crime scene, huh.
Repetition compulsion --
Ghosts must do again what gives them pain
[ not even the Ghost of Kiev was immune to this truism ]
This is a planet of criminals.
Time is a flat circle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX4qZcjiv5U
Agree 💯 What a soy boy.
Sweden has Stockholm'd itself
lol, like
Sounds like a good plan to me.
I always liked the idea of gibbeting in Iron.
Gusarskaya is not a Polish surname, maybe Ukrainian
Her correct name is Anna Husarska. https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/anna-husarska She often writes articles with Ukrainian journalists
H becoming G, Russian female suffix added to the original Polish surname... this is Simplicius relying too much on exclusively Russian sources
In fact she might be a French of Polish name. She is virtually unknown in Poland from her journalism. She writes exclusively for the american press "Anna Husarska is a Franco-Polish journalist, political analyst and former staff writer at The New Yorker.". Possibly just a CIA under humanitarian aid facade. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/27/ukraine-volunteers-frontline-00123337
Staff writers at the New Yorker are a detestable bunch
Thank you Simplicius. Bless you and those poor medics who spoke out, I worry for their safety but their words are necessary to bring an end to this. This and all the luciferian empire's brutal adventures.
It's such a waste of life... it makes me angry.
And the children asked to give blood for dead Swedish mercs
Dig a grave for Decency in Ukraine, because that is where it came to die
Part of being a proxy in a battle between peer Super Powers means your non-combatant citizenry become a Blood Drive for the mercs
Taiwan, take note
Ukraine is eating its children.
Give it a bit and it won't be limited to blood donations.
Decency died a long time ago in Ukraine. It died for sure in 2014, when a fascist regime chock full of neo-Nazis and supported by the US seized power and made war on its Russian speaking citizens in the Donbass.
I'd like to read about exactly how that went down. In the US press Russian and Russian Ukrainian militants just moved in and started taking it away.
And the fact they are now taking blood from children. Sick. 😡
Sick and desperate.
Classic, actually. In Belarus there were 14 Nazi concentration camps/blood extraction facilities specifically used to collect blood from children of occupied territories during their previous attempt. Nothing changed.
The most well-known was at Krasnyi Bereg, Red Shore. https://cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/2017/10/27/2414812/536630d8b7e75beaef909e69b3266b90.jpg
White rectangles in the distance are not graves btw, they're school desks where the children will never sit, and you can see a red glossy trickle of granite running from underneath them.
This place is the one I think of whenever they discuss "applying more pressure on Russia".
It has to stop. Let me repeat that: It has to stop. This is INSANE.
Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know that
Literal vampires.
There is only one end, full capitulation of the Ukrainian state. That will probably not happen, at least not very soon I guess. And most of those asshats in the Ukrainian state are guilty of a lot of crimes if you ask me.
The biggest crime of them all, is to be that stupid to believe they could fight Russia. Before the war I've looked up all Russian and Ukrainian military assets, like tanks, soldiers, navy, fighter jets, etc. etc. Only a mentally challenged idiot, drunk with 3 bottles of vodka, could have thought they had a 1 to 100 chance.
Even chimpanzees understand the difference between 20 bananas vs 1 banana (tanks), 100 bananas vs 1 banana (fighter jets), 200 bananas vs 0 bananas (navy)...
Scott Ritter was saying, I think, that Russia is at the point now where they are just going to revoke the whole concept of “Ukraine.” Parts will go to Russia, Poland, Romania and Hungary. I think it was created in the first place out of the Polish-Lithuanian Empire.
And Slovakia.
The Banderans will become a Polish problem again.
My guess is those named nations will at first send in "peace-keeping' forces to stop further Russian aggression with Putins blessing.
Russia needs to at least liberate the Odessa oblast after it gets control of the 5 Oblasts it intends to liberate. So if Ukraine remains an impoverished rump state it, it will be land-locked one.
Do you think Russia truly wants to go past the Dniper in any reasonable near future?
Do you think Americans barely even understand where this is all taking place? Right next to Germany, a place they know at least a little of?
If Russia sticks with this and the US loses will they escalate so the established order in Europe, run by the US, doesn't change or suffer?
I can't imagine the war crazy people we have just completely losing and going home. Will Russia allow them to look like they are helping Poland "secure the remainder of Ukraine? Will Russia let US forces be on the ground there even at that time?
Ive tried to tell my family that what they were seeing in the US on TV wasn't accurate, a half million or more were dead, and that this all can't end well. But as usual they just shrug, lol.
I answer yes to all. Russia can't leave the Banderan territories with a coast line. Endless sea drone attacks.
We can escalate and Russia will oblige. A warning to stop or a small European city will get a tactical nuke to reinforce the seriousness of the situation I don't believe can be disregarded.
Our oceans may keep invaders out, but aren't going to stop missiles.
Many thanks, Thinker. As witness to the insanity and satan worship around us, everywhere, I petition president Putin to urgently unload everything he has on the synagogues of satan and it's slaves. Remember to invite chairman Kim to the party as well lol
The MRAPS have high ground clearance to be mine resistant, and are also tall to improve all round visibility. Fine against sheep herders, but it makes them sitting ducks against a first world army. Their light armour is also useless against anything other than small arms fire. A death trap on wheels.
Actually the MRAPS are designed to be IED resistant, at best. A tank mine will blow up an MRAPS to bits just as easily as it will destroy a tank.
Quote:
"How many more graves will there be next year if we keep Ukraine from fighting back?”
Unquote:
When are the clerisy, the informed, the educated, the understanding, the commentators, the 'analysts' the 'alt media' going to start educating these people and the wider western audience into the truth?
It's not 'Ukraine' it's their Kiev (USA puppet) part of it.
And it's not a 'fighting back' that is in question. It is perpetuating its conquest of Donbas predicated on ethnic cleansing lines.
They are the aggressors and it is 'the others' who're 'fighting back'.
And I say again: 'they' are NOT Ukraine. 'They' are the Kiev regime.
Both sides of the civil war suffer because of the Kiev regime. Donbas by their design: to take the Donbas and clear its Russian ethnicity and Kiev side by prosecution of this intent in a way that has killed 500,000 people so far and done immense damage.
I find this a staggering omission. This lack of 'correction', lack of universal outcry at this untruth and misuse of the language and reason.
When such as Sullivan say 'Ukraine should be able to strike back' and NO ONE takes him up on it.
'Ukraine' is in the midst of a civil war ! 'Striking back' can only mean in that context striking against the civil war which effectively means 'striking back' at it's instigator, promoter and maintainer: the USA.
Everyone swallows this. It is the standard narrative. It is 1984 type 'new speak'.
Regarding that Chinese territory that was "stolen" by the Russians, there is a fascinating bit about how that went down in "Imperial Rivals" by SCM Paine. Apparently back when the Treaty of Aigun was signed, the Chinese did not have accurate maps of the region, but the Russians did. The Chinese were convinced to agree to the river as the border, not realizing how very far south it was.
Far as I know, the China-Russia border was finally settled in 2006. There is a page (no doubt written by the CIA0 in Wikipedia about it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Russia_border
So if anyone at all brings the border up as a point of dispute, and tries to get China and Russia yelling at each other, they're full of complete nonsense. Not unusual these days for commentators to be completely ignorant of facts. They dream up BS in their tiny minds. And sure, there are likely a few knobs in both China and Russia who are just as ignorant and bring it up as well.
There must be hundreds, if not thousands, of Western news "readers" on the MSM radio, TV and Youtube. Without exception, they faithfully read the US State Dept narrative to their audiences. perhaps rewritten if they can afford it, most often not. None of these people have cracked a history book on Russia or Ukraine, not even on the the events since 2000. Too much bother to learn even what's in Wikipedia. Nah, they just read the tripe put in front of them, preen themselves as professional journalists, and that, my friends is it.
"Complete coverage at 6 on Newshound TV 11". Sure.
Yep. And in fact insist they wouldn't read Wiki because 'it's full of lies' ...
Sometimes it's also worth reading official Russia sources, beyond all the Telegram stuff and vids and general blare and so on.
After submitting the above post, I was reading Tass, and ran across this article and comments statement by Maria Zakharova dated Sept 3, 2024:
"MOSCOW, September 3. /TASS/. Russia and China have officially confirmed the renunciation of any territorial claims between the two countries, and Moscow does not care about what some fringe politicians think about this, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"What some fringe politicians obsessed with revanchism think about this, someone else can worry about, but we won’t," she pointed out, commenting on a remark by Lai Ching-te, head of the Taiwanese administration, that China should seize lands in the Far East from Russia. "In short, Lai, who is being pushed towards separatism by the Americans, can say whatever he likes but it will do no good for him or Taiwanese residents," Zakharova added.
Meanwhile, the Russian diplomat stressed that "the mutual renunciation of territorial claims by Moscow and Beijing had been enshrined in the July 16, 2001, Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation, with Moscow and Beijing putting border issues to bed once and for all by signing the Additional Agreement on the Eastern part of the Russia-China Border on October 14, 2004, and ratifying the document later." "This position was confirmed in a number of other joint documents that China and Russia adopted at various levels, including at the highest one," the diplomat went on to say. "Russia has consistently respected the One China principle, and views the Chinese government as the country’s only legitimate government." That said, "the Taiwanese administration head is in no position to make statements on behalf of Beijing," and Taipei could only be recommended "not to overestimate itself when eyeing something that belongs to someone else," Zakharova noted.
According to her, Lai should "pay more attention to the island’s economic issues and demonstrate a constructive approach to the Chinese leadership’s proposal of a peaceful reunification with mainland China." "We are confident that our friends in Beijing share the same position," the diplomat concluded.
So, the neocons can all go dance on the head of a pin, so far as I'm concerned. Funnily enough, it even makes the Wikipedia entry I linked to above appear correct. Will wonders never cease?
Such a classy way of telling him to go F himself. 😂
It breaks my heart to see those young girls in such conditions. But that's what "finding out" looks like, unfortunately.
Don't be a simp
You're an idiot.
Their IQ must be very low, sorry but to risk your life for zelensky or nato or blackrock even my dog would refuse.
They are just nymphomaniacs, who enjoy company of lots of man.
Do I sense some projection there. You're not well, see a doctor.
Cretin, the one missing the doctor is YOU
Lol, here another 🤡. Grow up.
Your IQ as well can't be too high if you cannot understand. Probably, your are also a bit of a psychopath. Go get checked.
Fuc-ing barbarians—forcing women into line companies.
The sad thing, is that probably they haven't even been forced. What we see in the video, is the moment of realization. They're finding out what happens when you fuck around
From 2014 onward the youth were heavily indoctrinated in western Ukraine, just in time to deploy
The video with the captured AFU women is further proof that the Kiev regime and the UN Commissioner for Sexual Violence have been fabricating claims of rape by Russian forces. That a female POW feels emboldened enough to demand that her captors not look at the data on her phone, claiming "privacy", proves that the Ukrainians are well aware of the fact that no harm will come to them as prisoners of Russian forces. Everything else is pure performance art. I can't even begin to imagine a a female Russian prisoner making a similar demand, were the tables turned. In fact, I'm entirely certain that there isn't a single Russian woman who, as a soldier, would allow herself to be captured alive.
They know there days are numbered when Trump is elected. Its all over then. Time to jump ship is now. Trump will sell them out. Russia gets to keep its gains, Ukraine has to sell off a bunch of assets to Western Corporations to repay its loans and perhaps Poland takes a chunk of Western Ukraine for a security buffer as Ukraine descends into chaos with warring factions
Trump has no chance, harris is 4 points ahead, she even stopped to campaign, sure to win as election will be faked like last time.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Do you understand the first thing about how Presidential elections are run in the USA? A four point Nationwide lead by a Democrat at Labor Day is almost certainly an Electoral College loss for their candidate. She got zero bounce from the Convention and the response bias attendant among Democrats polled after the Human Zombie was given the hook has already began to dissipate.
Go throw a bunch of money on Harris at Predict-It. I'll be there to take it from you.
You may lose a lots of money, have you ever heard of a "computer glitch" that often escort modern "democratic" voting?
Night Voting happens in the U.S. too
Yep. Your voting - all our western voting - is criminal farce. What we need is our own irrefutable parallel vote and then we might start to get somewhere:
https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/
open source voting apps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_voting_system
To be fair, they were willing to literally take a shot at Trump. What's stuffing a few ballots compared to that?
What a show that 'miraculous ear nick' on the professional actor was. And how about that iconic and heroic photo after he rose from the dead in triomph! You couldn't script an event like that...
Lol. Ever hear of delayed counting? Midnight, cross-country ballot runs by the USPS? Numbers instantly dropping on 1 side, rising by on the other, by 10s of thousands...live on tv? Counted votes exceeding #s of registered voters in critical districts?
We'll get whoever "they" decide we get.
And whoever we get will do as "they" tell them to. Any questions, ask JFK.
You just accurately predicted the future in Pennsylvania on Election Day (and Night, and Day After, until enough votes are “counted.”)
🔮
Yea sure, according to the same idiots that told us that Hillary had a 97% chance of beating him. Why would you believe ANY poll? A poll can show absolutely anything you want, it's all in how that samples are taken.
The polls are skewed in favour of the Dems as they sample primarily areas heavily populated by Democrats.
But you are likely correct in that the election will be stolen again - virtually none of the "problems" experienced in 2020 have been fixed - indeed, they have been amplified.
Regardless of who wins, however, nothing will change - Ukraine will be drained of fighting capacity and the US will be forced to give in, declare victory and get out (as they usually do when losing).
When Poland reabsorbs Lvov, they'll declare that Ukraine is finally in NATO now. Huge victory. 😂
Don't forget Hungary & Estonia also have historical territorial claims.
Estonia?
4 points: wow, that is humongous, not at all within the margin of error of polls. On top of that, Harris has such a good program and is such a good presenter, what with her trade mark cackle, that she will surely win against the orange monster.
Martin Armstrong and whistleblowers from poll institutes put her on about 10%. Still, it is the counting the counts and not the voting.
When this is over, there's not going to be a ukraine.
And Blackrock's balance sheet will have a decent hole that can't be "made good".
And that's a serious Good News Story... 😉
They "bought" 30% of Ukraine's finest ariable land. Russia took it all and ain't givin it back. Oops, that's gotta hurt.
As it should
Land now spared from US-style agrochem-GMO poisoning.
One of the most important yet unnoticed victories of this war.
Just last week, private Ukrainian bondholders took a 37% haircut on $24 billion of debt...
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ukraines-bondholders-approve-crucial-20-bln-debt-restructuring-2024-09-02/
The article states that intergovernmental and IMF debt will also need restructuring next year.
This may also incentivize "the west" to push for negotiations.
Surprised that Simplicius has not yet added that to the mix.
Filed under 'Money talks and BullShit walks'
They will just need to kick the endless grave yards "offa their lawn"!!
The taxpayer will be forced to bail them out, as usual..
Even if Trump wins, he remains weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
Thank you! Great amount of information!
May those jews kagan nuland blinken kolomojsky zelensky and their uk eu usa blood brothers Johnston starmer, biden crazy kamala harris , scholz, macron be wiped of the face of the earth and may those degenerate parents of the above be sent to the deepest tartatus for doing a horror job at raising children
seconded
me too
Ditto
How can i get the videos to play?
Update Software
Are you using Substack app or web version? If using one, try the other. If using web, try a different browser. If using app, try to find an app update in the app settings. If using phone try computer, if using computer try phone. Most often I'd say it's a browser issue and using different browser (firefox, chrome, edge, etc) might work.
I just advance the play bar a few seconds and then they play for me. Very rarely do they play on their own. Or if I still have problems I refresh the page.
I’m on the app so i will switch to browser and try what you just mentioned thanks
Fantastic update. Thank you Simplicius. I have seen many, many hours of combat footage since the start of the SMO and as former US military have marveled at the quantity and quality available near real time. Can't help but review with a professional eye. There are a sizeable new set of military problems at the tactical and operational level due to emerging technology and the half-life of measure to countermeasure often seems to be only a matter of weeks. This rapid evolution demands an agile organization in the field, but for that to be possible, that force will have to have reach-back all the way to the national political, financial and industrial base, which in-turn, will have to be more responsive than has ever been required in past conflicts. Makes my head hurt to think about it. At least until the financial underpinning that supports the exponential cost begins to give way. I can imagine a scenario where the side who goes bankrupt first, loses.
Yes, but as the demand’s upon the industrial base of Western Nations increases; the manufacturing capacity of Western nations seem to be at the lowest capacity since the begging of the Industrial Revolution.
The ruling class of Western Nations seem to have been very myopic with their deindustrialization strategies prior to entering into a proxy war against nations that have retained the ability to rapidly expand industrial manufacturing.
I think it is wonderful that Yankland is on the verge of bankruptcy, a disastrous election looming, mass civil unrest and foreign gangs taking over huge areas of major cities.
Yankland is also very thinly stretched militarily, industrially and with Winter approaching and failing infrastructure energy resource deficit.
Basic BRICS/RoW strat. Direct confrontation of Yankee land = canned sunlight comes out to play. Thus they are pressuring them on multiple domains in multiple theaters, but not so much to trigger the nuclear exchange the US' owners want.
I agree. Leading up to the present it was: back away slowly and arm up. Now the game has shifted a little and its time to erode the base.
That’s my take as well. Really well said.
From the perspective of the working class in the US, their standard of living has fallen dramatically because of the policies of the culturally disconnected leaders (from both political parties).
Perhaps bankruptcy would benefit the working class if it resulted in the abolishment of the Federal Reserve that enriches a parasitic banking class that benefits from printing money and obscenely low interest rates for the politically connected, but crushing for the working class and poor. I suspect that a local credit union that acquires money to lend from paying fair interest for bank accounts of local citizens, would have a sounder financial policy that what we now have.
Of course the next election will be a disaster because of election result engineering. Likewise much of the violence prior to the last election was not only allowed, but encouraged by government provocateurs. What we witnessed prior to and our last Presidential Election in many respects appeared to be a domestic Color Revolution. Ultimately our nation would be served well by defunding and abolishing all of the Federal agencies not authorized by the US Constitution.
https://freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu/programs/national-leadership-seminar-irving-texas/the-corruption-of-the-fbi
Many citizens are also learning to appreciate the wisdom of the Antifederalists who at the nations formation warned against the risks of a large standing peacetime Federal Army. Our enemies are domestic and as the empire collapses the need will be for local civil policing rather than foreign adventures.
The people will demand the Big Gubmint to do something as life becomes more difficult and the Federal Reserve will oblige them.
Big Gubmint can't go bankrupt. And that's is a problem.
Local credit unions have the same problems as regional banks; treasuries as assets. A partial solution is more local banks that aren't tied to the Fed. The States can make it happen.
Yes, we can pretty much abolish about 2/3rds or more of our military and other than local economies noticing a standard of living increase no one will notice.
I wish you and yours the best of luck. Yes, your country has been systematically dismantled from within, like all other Western countries.
I, for one, will be glad to see the end of Yankland because it has been the No.1 enemy of freedom and prosperity for some 200 years now.
The saner states need to secede and form new alliances.
Go well.
There will be a painful reckoning for this
"I can imagine a scenario where the side who goes bankrupt first, loses."
That would be EU followed by US.
Good post. If I might add: for this immediate feed-back loop (front line to design to manufacturing to front line) to work the skill level of those on the front line must increase dramatically.
Truth. Many years ago now, the best unit in the US Army, on the training battlefield anyway, was the 11th ACR, the OPFOR at the National Training Center. Although their organization and operation was based loosely on Soviet doctrine they actually fought the way the US claimed to, with decision-making after crossing the line of departure pushed to the lowest possible level; down to the squad or combat platform commander. This idea in practice, against a BLUEFOR brigade allowed them to flow around them like water. Of 48 or so “battles” I witnessed as an observer, I only saw them lose to the training unit once. BLUFOR would routinely accuse the OPFOR of cheating due to the lopsided results, but… The Russians have the same look and feel in the SMO.
Spent a lot of time at Irwin...very educational.
and roger... I learned a lot about warfare and life training at and working for the Army training centers, more than I realized at the time. Given the choice though between risk of death in combat or certain, repeated humiliation at the NTC I'm not sure to this day which I would pick...
One time I was there the battle captain in the TOC (a MAJ) was kidding around about telling his wife he was going to an OCONUS destination when he went to Barstow. :-) I'd still rather know what I learned there than go in to the box without it.
The SMO is not being fought the way we trained at Irwin.
I am not talking about doctrine, NATO maneuver warfare vs Russian means and methods in the SMO but the superiority of agile forces. My point being the more adaptable organization dominated the NTC battleground and it dominates in the forests and steppes of Ukraine as well. But the ability to be so now requires greater operational breadth, strategic depth and velocity, which the Western Military Industrial Complex, of which I am still a member, is not very good at.
excellent comment
It's a game of rapidly evolving countermeasures. It does not take much for the battle field to be reduces to WW1 levels.
Truth. (predatory command) FIX! (command of execution) BAYONETS!