It makes me laugh how they can write about "Russia's undeclared war" in the Middle East while Muttmerica and its European eunuchs literally just gave permisison to launch direct attacks on Russian territory. Granted that's like telling a man with two bullets left in his rifle that he is allowed to shoot a pack of angry bears, but it's so hypocritical and self-serving that I don't even have the words to properly describe it.
Ukraine is a super-independent nation, with a president who is a prime Decision-Maker in his own right—but the Chancellor of Germany had to get permission from Joe before phoning VVP.
Biden decided to provide Zelensky the US’ top secret target intelligence inside Russia to perpetrate terror attacks with no military value within Russia.
>Second: HIMARS have already been used all over Kursk, including on a Russian column some months ago. Both regular HIMARS missiles and ATACMS are fired from the same truck—so this new ‘authorization’ strikes me as a little strange. Though the NYT article addresses this:
Yes, and Russia has a very hard time removing the Ukro-NATO-Nazis from its territory as a result.
>Third: HIMARS, M270s and German Mars II variants have all been greatly attrited during the Kursk excursion of the past three months to the point that it’s questioanble how many units Ukraine even has remaining.
It's still flying daily. Pay close attention to the real-time sources.
>And that’s really all that matters, as they openly admit the ATACMS won’t actually do anything to change the war itself:
It in fact changes everything, and catastrophically so for Russia, as has been explained countless times.
The moment you allow missiles to fly freely over your territory, you are sitting duck for a decapitating and disabling first nuclear strike. Because you are supposed to launch on warning once missiles are fired at you as you don't know whether they are nuclear or not and you won't know it until Moscow is gone, and you also know that the enemy knows about that calculus too, and is thus much more likely to go nuclear in order to prevent your second strike. If you disable launch-on-warning so that not to "escalate", you become open to such strikes.
You also stop being a great power and become a Syria.
Would the US ever allow anyone firing missiles onto its territory? Do we even need to waste time answering that question?
>Trump takes office in two months and could presumably instantly roll-back Biden’s ‘deep strikes’ authorization, completely negating any effect by limiting their use to a tiny irrelevant window.
No, this is being done by Biden in order to free Trump of the burden of having to do it himself.
Bro just two more conscriptions until Crimea once we press gang the pregnant women and already amputated men to the front we will be knitting Vyshyvankas in Sevastopol.
There is a certain... how do I say, unfairness, that so many countries get to "participate" in the conflict (UK, FR, DE, US, etc) but there isn't even the remote possibility of a drone landing in someones apartment or a missiles hitting a port etc. Russia's error IMO, but what to do?
A hard time? That tiny Kursk pocket is being fed the blood of Ukraine's best. I think Russia has incentive to slow roll the inevitable, because it's making taking territory everywhere else much easier.
Jumping the gun to nuclear strikes already!? I would suggest a saturation attack with ICBMs as a first nuclear strike, loading a couple of ATACMs and Storm Shadows with 450kg of nuclear warhead is fantasy at its best. Reality is unfortunately real, everyday.
You do understand that international law rules these conflicts.
Great article about a scenario that is starting to sound eerily apocalyptic. This reckless spiral, driven by shattered ‘red lines,’ underscores Biden’s relentless pursuit of entrenching U.S. hegemony at any cost—a strategy that has already defined his legacy with the genocidal disaster in Gaza and one that, if unchecked, risks culminating in nothing less than World War III.
Biden is doing it now so that Trump does not have to get his hands dirty doing it himself and control over the population can be more easily maintained with MAGA delusions
Why does it have to be Biden at all? Last time it was the Pentagon who told him no, and they're staring at Trump decapitating a decade's worth of treasonous brass. Game theory suggests playing differently.
Why does Biden care if he angers Russia? The guy is leaving and the bigger the mess he leaves Trump the better.
I don’t think we should take this lightly but not overblow its effect either. Russia will wait until it’s used before giving their response. Obviously the goal is to intercept all of them but regardless this gives the Russians the completely valid pretext to escalate their (asymmetric) response.
Ric Grenell, potentially DJT’s Special Envoy to negotiate a conclusion to the Ukraine conflict, accused Joe of “escalating the war before he leaves office,” in opting to permit ATACMS strikes within Kursk.
Don jr. called the MIC minions “imbeciles,” saying, “They want to make sure they have WW III going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives.”
Joe’s move naturally complicates DJT’s initiative to resolve the Ukraine crisis in the near term but not in the long term, simply because Joe’s term as Decider-in-Chief ends soon and DJT’s begins. It’s a cynical parting shot, to sure, but not one that advantages Ukraine particularly.
Some are saying that the Pentagon may slow-walk the order to allow these deep strikes, thwarting the last-gasp perverse maneuvers of a defeated belligerent.
Trump is talking about showing strength. To go into negotiations with this long range capability offers another level of strength.
Will the Russians fall for it or will they use it as a political tool by stopping the war and telling the Russian people that the threat is to great and the Russian government wants to protect its people.
No. Wishful thinking. You will not scare them from their prey.... with anything. Those days are over. They will never trust or fear the US and nato again.
I hope Trump is not that dumb. I don’t believe he is. Don Jr’s tweet seems to be a clue. Much has changed since 2020. The Russians were still very unsure of themselves from what I gathered. Now they have swagger. Truth is they are probably the strongest military on the planet and they know it.
I believe they will be informed, in no uncertain terms by the Russians, what will happen if they go into a deepstrike frenzy. The Garden of Europe and the little island off to the side across the channel, have been singled out for demolition, especially their planning centres. Kalingrad sits right in the middle of all the roses of the White Supremacist Garden. No go
What previous actions of the RUssians gives you th idea that RUssia wants to escalate?
THey agreed to MInsk 2 to avoid war. Ukraine has crossed many Russian red lines and the Russians do not react. They continue to meet their objectives of clearing the 4 provinces of Ukrainian aggression. The Russians are also fullfiling their objective to take away Ukraines ability to wage war in the future.
Russia has not escalated. They are doing what they said they would do.
Houthis, mysterious fires in war-production facilities, the "running aground" of the tanker boat, kicking out the french out of Niger. Especially because I don't hear much about any of these, I think it are clear warnings of the Russians to not meddle too much.
What could be next? Twitter seems to think some sudden satellite failures would happen, but another possibility is a coordinated attack on the iron Dome in N-israel. Leaving it wide open to Hizbollahs barrages. Or maybe the training of NKorean soldiers pays off and they do more than sending shit balloons into the south?
And then there is also Iran that still want revenge for the 4 people killed during the last Israelis attack... But I don't see how they could help there (much) with a hidden hand.
Joe, you fuck-wit...you world-ender wannabe. What are you going to tell your priest during confession?
Out, out brief candle. No ice cream for you tonight Joe. Just a diaper change and off to bed with you. You are a very bad boy. Barack and Killary did this to you...not Putin. You are the Onion tale, told by an idiot...signifying nothing.
Once Russians are united and determined, nothing deters them. We reached that point a couple of years ago. Almost any threat or "peace" offer from the US, UK, EU, or NATO means basically nothing now to Russians.
Nonsense! The situation is really great at the front! Think of Lockheed Martin's dividend payouts!
Did people think to the last Ukrainian was a meme? No little piggies, it literally means to the very last one of you. Though you may die, the military industrial complex's institutional shareholders will live. A noble sacrifice, one you will be making! Or else!
Sure maybe the west could declare a "war economy" but with what tools? You'd have to up defense spending and build new factories which won't come online for a year or two at least. There's still a massive recruiting shortage and many from the western countries do not want to join the military. So what would you do draft them? I'm sure that will go over well.
If I'm in a postion at the pentagon I'd be more concerned about the middle east and how out of control is Israel is. Russia could very laterally escalate that way. You can only afford so many fights which one are you going to choose?
GLSDB was a very expensive fail (not for the shareholders tho)
Starliner
layoffs after strike settlement
737-MAX
engine mounts failing on 777 & 787
Osprey crashes
outsourcing manufacturing to bypass compliance standards
"Ramping up?" Musk notwithstanding, I don't think that they can undo decades of DEI culture in the next 6 months. Or even 6 years. And that goes for the Pentagon as well.
Exactly my point. I think we had the bag in the 80s and 90s with the satellite ISR, F22, B1 and the naval capabilities. Now we are just seeing the results of incompetence and the bank roll from the low intensity conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan. We have nothing to scale to Meer this sort of warefare.
I'd say it's been decades of "Gorden Gecko" asset stripping for shareholder value that set the stage, DEI is a more recent innovation (or modification of equal opportunity). It's a mission impossible as reform is unacceptable to the rentier/oligarchic/permanent state. Even so, the world is moving beyond the old days of total US dominance. A big player, yes, if they can overcome the institutionalized corruption.
It's not just DIE practices, but procurement regulations. These favor the contractor and there are very limited numbers of contract managers in the USG. They develop relationships and are adverse to changing them as it would increase workload.
US must take a very different approach to contracts or little will change.
It was reported only a few days ago that Dept. of Defense lifted the ban, and that US contractors will now be performing "maintenance" on missile systems in Ukraine. Hindsight being 20/20, this seems now to be an obvious indication that NATO will be firing missiles at Russian clay.
I don't understand this brinksmanship, unless NATO wants actual involvement in a hot war. I would appreciate your insights into the Weimar triangle meeting that Ukraine and Kallas are being invited to. Poland seems to have its own territorial ambitions, and the animosity and negative rhetoric with Ukraine seems to be increasing. Scholz just blinked first, and Macron keeps talking out both sides of his ass, it is impossible to figure out his stance from one sentence to the next.
The West is talking out of both sides of its mouth in general, because there is no leadership. Biden did not make any decision, except possibly what type of ice-cream he will be having after his dinner. There are Dr. Strangeloves among many of the people in Biden's cabinet, and there are some, especially elected politicians, who are getting cold-feet at the path of escalation without limits that the Dr. Strangeloves pursue. On the one hand, we have the maniacs who literally want nuclear war pushing, and on the other, some cooler heads. Since the U.S. White House is vacant at the moment, it is not clear who is in charge and what is the policy.
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Thank you King for clearing the way for us cowards that read the article before commenting.
Got there. Saw the “No Comments”
Couldn’t resist 😜
It makes me laugh how they can write about "Russia's undeclared war" in the Middle East while Muttmerica and its European eunuchs literally just gave permisison to launch direct attacks on Russian territory. Granted that's like telling a man with two bullets left in his rifle that he is allowed to shoot a pack of angry bears, but it's so hypocritical and self-serving that I don't even have the words to properly describe it.
Harden your heart, oh Putin!
Ukraine is a super-independent nation, with a president who is a prime Decision-Maker in his own right—but the Chancellor of Germany had to get permission from Joe before phoning VVP.
The description most applicable: the cowardice of Murkan imperialism in their efforts to slither away from their dying sycophants.
Biden decided to provide Zelensky the US’ top secret target intelligence inside Russia to perpetrate terror attacks with no military value within Russia.
Butt hurt.
If Alex Soros is happy, everyone should beware
The cuckservative strikes again.
Alex isn't the brightest bulb around, and he will be disappointed...
…and that is why we know from where this warmongering stems from.
>Second: HIMARS have already been used all over Kursk, including on a Russian column some months ago. Both regular HIMARS missiles and ATACMS are fired from the same truck—so this new ‘authorization’ strikes me as a little strange. Though the NYT article addresses this:
Yes, and Russia has a very hard time removing the Ukro-NATO-Nazis from its territory as a result.
>Third: HIMARS, M270s and German Mars II variants have all been greatly attrited during the Kursk excursion of the past three months to the point that it’s questioanble how many units Ukraine even has remaining.
It's still flying daily. Pay close attention to the real-time sources.
>And that’s really all that matters, as they openly admit the ATACMS won’t actually do anything to change the war itself:
It in fact changes everything, and catastrophically so for Russia, as has been explained countless times.
The moment you allow missiles to fly freely over your territory, you are sitting duck for a decapitating and disabling first nuclear strike. Because you are supposed to launch on warning once missiles are fired at you as you don't know whether they are nuclear or not and you won't know it until Moscow is gone, and you also know that the enemy knows about that calculus too, and is thus much more likely to go nuclear in order to prevent your second strike. If you disable launch-on-warning so that not to "escalate", you become open to such strikes.
You also stop being a great power and become a Syria.
Would the US ever allow anyone firing missiles onto its territory? Do we even need to waste time answering that question?
>Trump takes office in two months and could presumably instantly roll-back Biden’s ‘deep strikes’ authorization, completely negating any effect by limiting their use to a tiny irrelevant window.
No, this is being done by Biden in order to free Trump of the burden of having to do it himself.
🤣🤡🤣
Would the US ever allow anyone firing missiles onto its territory?
Well, there was that one time Iran fired a bunch of missiles onto a US airbase in Iraq.
Bro just two more conscriptions until Crimea once we press gang the pregnant women and already amputated men to the front we will be knitting Vyshyvankas in Sevastopol.
What a clown you are. Go bite your pillow and curl up in a corner.
There is a certain... how do I say, unfairness, that so many countries get to "participate" in the conflict (UK, FR, DE, US, etc) but there isn't even the remote possibility of a drone landing in someones apartment or a missiles hitting a port etc. Russia's error IMO, but what to do?
Russia has hinted at it. If I thought our current society could be reformed I'd be worried about how few strikes it would take to bring us to Mad Max.
A hard time? That tiny Kursk pocket is being fed the blood of Ukraine's best. I think Russia has incentive to slow roll the inevitable, because it's making taking territory everywhere else much easier.
Jumping the gun to nuclear strikes already!? I would suggest a saturation attack with ICBMs as a first nuclear strike, loading a couple of ATACMs and Storm Shadows with 450kg of nuclear warhead is fantasy at its best. Reality is unfortunately real, everyday.
You do understand that international law rules these conflicts.
Great article about a scenario that is starting to sound eerily apocalyptic. This reckless spiral, driven by shattered ‘red lines,’ underscores Biden’s relentless pursuit of entrenching U.S. hegemony at any cost—a strategy that has already defined his legacy with the genocidal disaster in Gaza and one that, if unchecked, risks culminating in nothing less than World War III.
Biden's legacy is flavored pudding, adult diapers, and the scent of pretty little girls.
This isn't Biden's doing, it is bipartisan.
Biden is doing it now so that Trump does not have to get his hands dirty doing it himself and control over the population can be more easily maintained with MAGA delusions
Agreed that it is not just Biden.
Why does it have to be Biden at all? Last time it was the Pentagon who told him no, and they're staring at Trump decapitating a decade's worth of treasonous brass. Game theory suggests playing differently.
Why does Biden care if he angers Russia? The guy is leaving and the bigger the mess he leaves Trump the better.
I don’t think we should take this lightly but not overblow its effect either. Russia will wait until it’s used before giving their response. Obviously the goal is to intercept all of them but regardless this gives the Russians the completely valid pretext to escalate their (asymmetric) response.
Warnings were given.
They will be kept.
Ric Grenell, potentially DJT’s Special Envoy to negotiate a conclusion to the Ukraine conflict, accused Joe of “escalating the war before he leaves office,” in opting to permit ATACMS strikes within Kursk.
Don jr. called the MIC minions “imbeciles,” saying, “They want to make sure they have WW III going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives.”
Joe’s move naturally complicates DJT’s initiative to resolve the Ukraine crisis in the near term but not in the long term, simply because Joe’s term as Decider-in-Chief ends soon and DJT’s begins. It’s a cynical parting shot, to sure, but not one that advantages Ukraine particularly.
Some are saying that the Pentagon may slow-walk the order to allow these deep strikes, thwarting the last-gasp perverse maneuvers of a defeated belligerent.
The strike you mention on the substation next to the Rivne NPP isn't correct. The missiles hit the substation in Rivne City.
Thanks it's now been updated ^
Trump is talking about showing strength. To go into negotiations with this long range capability offers another level of strength.
Will the Russians fall for it or will they use it as a political tool by stopping the war and telling the Russian people that the threat is to great and the Russian government wants to protect its people.
No. Wishful thinking. You will not scare them from their prey.... with anything. Those days are over. They will never trust or fear the US and nato again.
True, I am not expecting it to work with the Russians. I am expecting it to work with the marketing for the people of the west.
We will be sold this narrative even though it did not occur. It gives a way out for both sides.
Russia will get everything it wants.
I hope Trump is not that dumb. I don’t believe he is. Don Jr’s tweet seems to be a clue. Much has changed since 2020. The Russians were still very unsure of themselves from what I gathered. Now they have swagger. Truth is they are probably the strongest military on the planet and they know it.
What people say is not always what people do. Trump has lots of examples of this.
We will be sold this narrative even though it did not occur. It gives a way out for both sides.
Russia will get everything it wants.
I believe they will be informed, in no uncertain terms by the Russians, what will happen if they go into a deepstrike frenzy. The Garden of Europe and the little island off to the side across the channel, have been singled out for demolition, especially their planning centres. Kalingrad sits right in the middle of all the roses of the White Supremacist Garden. No go
Allowing US to show strength at Russia's border will not protect Russia or Russians. Russia is prepared to escalate.
What previous actions of the RUssians gives you th idea that RUssia wants to escalate?
THey agreed to MInsk 2 to avoid war. Ukraine has crossed many Russian red lines and the Russians do not react. They continue to meet their objectives of clearing the 4 provinces of Ukrainian aggression. The Russians are also fullfiling their objective to take away Ukraines ability to wage war in the future.
Russia has not escalated. They are doing what they said they would do.
I think you are incorrect.
Houthis, mysterious fires in war-production facilities, the "running aground" of the tanker boat, kicking out the french out of Niger. Especially because I don't hear much about any of these, I think it are clear warnings of the Russians to not meddle too much.
What could be next? Twitter seems to think some sudden satellite failures would happen, but another possibility is a coordinated attack on the iron Dome in N-israel. Leaving it wide open to Hizbollahs barrages. Or maybe the training of NKorean soldiers pays off and they do more than sending shit balloons into the south?
And then there is also Iran that still want revenge for the 4 people killed during the last Israelis attack... But I don't see how they could help there (much) with a hidden hand.
Niger, #1.
Bluster & Fury
Signifying -
The Die is Cast -
Joe, you fuck-wit...you world-ender wannabe. What are you going to tell your priest during confession?
Out, out brief candle. No ice cream for you tonight Joe. Just a diaper change and off to bed with you. You are a very bad boy. Barack and Killary did this to you...not Putin. You are the Onion tale, told by an idiot...signifying nothing.
Putin's patience must be wearing very, very thin.
Once Russians are united and determined, nothing deters them. We reached that point a couple of years ago. Almost any threat or "peace" offer from the US, UK, EU, or NATO means basically nothing now to Russians.
Yes
Let's hope so. The US Empire cannot be trusted.
What a stupid time to be alive🫠
Alive or survive or having no time at all….as everyday?
"The Russians advance every day in many places"
"Ukrainian soldiers run away"
"Ukrainian soldiers commit suicide"
"The situation is really bad at the front"
Nonsense! The situation is really great at the front! Think of Lockheed Martin's dividend payouts!
Did people think to the last Ukrainian was a meme? No little piggies, it literally means to the very last one of you. Though you may die, the military industrial complex's institutional shareholders will live. A noble sacrifice, one you will be making! Or else!
Let's use the proper font:
TO THE EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!!!
Sure maybe the west could declare a "war economy" but with what tools? You'd have to up defense spending and build new factories which won't come online for a year or two at least. There's still a massive recruiting shortage and many from the western countries do not want to join the military. So what would you do draft them? I'm sure that will go over well.
If I'm in a postion at the pentagon I'd be more concerned about the middle east and how out of control is Israel is. Russia could very laterally escalate that way. You can only afford so many fights which one are you going to choose?
"with what tools?"
Boeing comes to mind as one example.
GLSDB was a very expensive fail (not for the shareholders tho)
Starliner
layoffs after strike settlement
737-MAX
engine mounts failing on 777 & 787
Osprey crashes
outsourcing manufacturing to bypass compliance standards
"Ramping up?" Musk notwithstanding, I don't think that they can undo decades of DEI culture in the next 6 months. Or even 6 years. And that goes for the Pentagon as well.
Exactly my point. I think we had the bag in the 80s and 90s with the satellite ISR, F22, B1 and the naval capabilities. Now we are just seeing the results of incompetence and the bank roll from the low intensity conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan. We have nothing to scale to Meer this sort of warefare.
I'd say it's been decades of "Gorden Gecko" asset stripping for shareholder value that set the stage, DEI is a more recent innovation (or modification of equal opportunity). It's a mission impossible as reform is unacceptable to the rentier/oligarchic/permanent state. Even so, the world is moving beyond the old days of total US dominance. A big player, yes, if they can overcome the institutionalized corruption.
It's not just DIE practices, but procurement regulations. These favor the contractor and there are very limited numbers of contract managers in the USG. They develop relationships and are adverse to changing them as it would increase workload.
US must take a very different approach to contracts or little will change.
It was reported only a few days ago that Dept. of Defense lifted the ban, and that US contractors will now be performing "maintenance" on missile systems in Ukraine. Hindsight being 20/20, this seems now to be an obvious indication that NATO will be firing missiles at Russian clay.
I don't understand this brinksmanship, unless NATO wants actual involvement in a hot war. I would appreciate your insights into the Weimar triangle meeting that Ukraine and Kallas are being invited to. Poland seems to have its own territorial ambitions, and the animosity and negative rhetoric with Ukraine seems to be increasing. Scholz just blinked first, and Macron keeps talking out both sides of his ass, it is impossible to figure out his stance from one sentence to the next.
The West is talking out of both sides of its mouth in general, because there is no leadership. Biden did not make any decision, except possibly what type of ice-cream he will be having after his dinner. There are Dr. Strangeloves among many of the people in Biden's cabinet, and there are some, especially elected politicians, who are getting cold-feet at the path of escalation without limits that the Dr. Strangeloves pursue. On the one hand, we have the maniacs who literally want nuclear war pushing, and on the other, some cooler heads. Since the U.S. White House is vacant at the moment, it is not clear who is in charge and what is the policy.
Would Russia nuking Washington D.C. into strontium-90 vapor count towards the Department of Government Efficiency's goals?
I suspect the answer is: yes. Alas, if it could only be limited to that one targeted area…