Last night Russia struck Odessa and virtually every other port involved in the grain deal (there are others like Yuzhne, Ochekov, Nikolayev, etc.), as well as other cities in west Ukraine. Odessa’s mayor called it the worst strikes of the entire war thus far:
Same thing with the shark eating Russian tourist : the NAFO trolls celebrated that endlessly, even in the official NATO meeting at Vilnius they posted memes of shark eating a person and had shark toy at the table and were laughing at the accident, very unnecessary and idiotic behavior.
This new ugly celebration of innocent civilian deaths is really over the top disgusting, i cannot understand why someone would do this, they really are sick and twisted in their thinking. Anyone with any sense should not accept these kind of perverted views.
USA needs whole world on fire again for Bretton woods 3 or it's finished (I think it's finished anyway for cultural collapse reasons I digress)... Simplicius eluded to it in his piece more details here
Putin: "Of course Russia is going to respond. The Ministry of Defence is drawing up relevant proposals."
I've only read halfway, but want to make a point about The Telegraph's amazing headline because they are the go-to warmongering propaganda outlet for the UK. I wrote about them this morning, calling them The Terrorgraph. I was supporting Alastair Crooke's takedown of one of their propaganda videos.
I would appreciate an overview on the Kaliningrad Oblast - what is the Russian situation next to Poland and Lithuania? Any chance of that in a future post?
Studying the comments on the generally lamentable Telegraph reports on the Ukraine war I have noticed recently some resistance by readers to the endless anti-Russian propaganda. Maybe the newspaper is afraid of losing its readership.
I have always thought that whatever he says or does that Prime Minister Sunak is sceptical about the war with his worldwide background. The great bulk of the UK political class are totally mentally colonised by teh US.
There was an article yesterday I think in the DT that claimed 200,000 Russian losses, but a closer read revealed that was 55,000 dead and the rest wounded - a figure that might be close to the truth? A few months ago the DT were reporting 200,000 dead. I have given up on the DT but made a comment to the effect that UAF losses were probably 3 to 5 times those of Russia given the military disparities. I did not hang about to get trolled. The DT is actively patrolled by Bde 77.
Legacy media in the end have to decide whether to go with their readers or the people who subsidise and bribe them. They are also faced with the grim reality that if they lose their readers they cease to be worth bribing.
There is also in the background growing journalistic discontent at being humiliated by being made to operate a propaganda organ rather than report what the see and know.
It gets far darker than that, the articles are now being written by AI with the comment sections moderated by AI too. This has a hilarious side effect, because the AI is incapable of nuance or detecting sarcasm, two very human traits, so it quite naturally strikes pro-ukraine supporters from the comments thinking their sarcasm is pro-russian. The sheer amount of complaints was hilarious to read.
Posters are quickly figuring out how to bypass this by careful choice of words, but it has essentially reduced comment sections to echo chambers that read incredibly childlike.
Oh, this was on the daily express website. Click on any random article about Russia and you'll see endless complaining about the AI moderation. One of the articles cited it was AI generated (said so at the bottom) but alas, that would mean trawling through the articles to find and they churn out 20 propaganda peices a day. Apologies I couldn't be more helpful.
It's tragic how everyone here in the UK thinks the US can do no wrong and is a global force for good. Whilst we are paranoid about Russian propaganda causing Brexit, in fact the country is totally compromised by US interests - mentally colonised indeed.
Don't fight over whether Brit elites control America or American CEOs control the UK. Diplomacy is when you accept that your countries are inbred :)
The Afrikaners, during Apartheid, called us English South Africans "soutpiels/salty dicks". We were considered to have one leg in our country and another in the UK, our dick dangling in the Atlantic.
It's more appropriate if you steal the term for yourselves, in the name of neoliberalism :)
I think this probably true, the people who tend to be at the top have a loyalty primarily to other elites, like themselves. They all believe in the same things, transnational organisations, managerial democracy by experts etc. And they really disdain the plebs and our yearning to have a say in how our societies our run.
It's the same in a lot of Latin America. Even countries that US policy has completely fucked up (including recently) seem to have a large percentage of Uncle Sam cheerleaders. Just goes to show the power of propaganda. Go over to Matt Taibbi's comments and you'll find plenty there as well - both American and non. People believe the shit because American propaganda is so far-reaching, deep and omnipresent our entire lives. In foreign countries too.
Methinks theres 0% chance the MSM are amending their b/s on the basis of reader opinion. It's more like everyone in the Western elite knows for sure now they are screwed, out of ammo etc., and are massaging the sheeple into pushing for a time-saving truce. I hope Russia realises a frozen war will nagically become unfrozen in 10yrs when NATO rebuilds its stocks.
Kaliningrad was taken by the Red army and Demanded by Stalin at Yalta as compensation for the nazi/western attack on Russian civilization. This still means a great deal to Russians who remember all that in a way westerner don't understand. Russia will defend Kaliningrad like it would defend its home territory, with nukes if necessary and NATO understands that. If they've forgotten then Mishustin, or Lavrov or Putin himself will make it clear to them .
"The Terrorgraph"...perfectly fitting name for them! Their headlines always pop up in my youtube feed and they are some of the most ludicrous headlines I've seen during this conflict.
I think people become desensitized - I haven't read/watched MSM for 2 decades, so when I do see it I'm immediately struck by how batshit it really is! Its the same for the race-baiters of CNN, blue-anon kooks of MSNBC or the war-mongers of FOX here in the US...people just pipe it directly into their brains with zero skepticism.
It's considered news but, as a foreigner, I immediately see it as a soapie. The Brits and Germans may be biased but at least they make it look like the news and mention real news in between. American MSM is lazy, catering for a nation trained to think lazy is normal.
Funnily enough I get The Times in my YT feed and they are simply hysterical, as in not the funny kind, but rather the description of a pathology, as in screaming, desperate.
As a direct descendant of the Order of the Teutonic Knights I demand the return of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) to Germany. 1945 is not a long time historically. Koenigsberg was Prussian back from the 12th century. The Soviets simply deported the Germans wholesale from their lands... leave or die. Just like the Checkoslovacs who had no country until after WW1 systematically force marched the Sudeten Germans ( 10 million ) out of their centuries long homelands at the end of WW2. These A-holes even went so far as to remove all gravestones from German graveyards. They where a minority among the Slovaks and Germans. The Germans harboured no ill will towards toward the Checks. The Slovacs didn't trust them and asked Hitler for protection once he brought the Sudeten Germans into the Reich. While I am at it here I also have a bone to pick with a couple of Scandihoovian countries who always come of as so civilized and peacefully pacifist. What happened to the well over 5000 children from eastern Germany escaping the advancing soviet army and landed on nordic shores. The majority where under 5 years old, designated enemy combatants ( at the insistence of the British ) they where put on an island and given minimal care. How about the rest of that story, including Norways despicable actions against innocent children who where born to Norwegian girls and fathered by German soldiers. It is very hard to believe what people will actually do because of hate even towards defenceless children. I have the literature and the facts on this shame. Sure these folks of that time have mostly passed on but their dark traits are passed on to enough of their descendants ready to serve any master, any master at all, if it involves pride, money, superiority over others and being on the right and winning side.
My post was part satire, but it points out one sad fact, the total and complete western societies entire strata of elite and hoi poloi brainwashed as regards Germany period 1933/45, the Nazi Terror that never was. It is so thoroughly saturated into western minds that in itself this phenominae of total mind manipulation is beyond a doubt the prima facie case study all time so far. The word Nazi has no place in the German lexicon and for that matter not in English either, it was not an abbreviation of Hitlers German Workers Party either. What was the origin of that word as Churchill, Britains wartime Prime Minister so fondly spoke it like this: N"aaa"zies.. emphasis on the aa's. Well.. this war hog and self idolator also called the Germans Huns a total fabrication to conjure up Atilla and his horde of murderous warrior nomads when discussing the Germans. He ignored history on both counts the Germans are not Hunnish, and Huns met their defeat on the battlefield defeated by German tribes. I guess he was speaking to the Yanks at the time because as an educated European he knew that this would not fly even with the common folk of Europe. Imagine the insane size of hubris and ego of this Man who also stated: I don't worry about how history will judge me as I intend to write that history myself.
Was this word Nazi ever spoken in any other language? Not that I am aware of.
The word Nazi was coined by some New York Newspaper employee in 1933 and stuck. That was the year Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany as well. Soon after the headlines in the major US and UK papers announced "Judea declares war on Germany"and the beginning of the most thorough public brainwash in history began.
It seems to be some badge of intelligence, knowledge and morality that those uttering the word Nazi are automatically believed as credible and above criticism. Especially when the word is used in conjunction with this: The Nazis took the guns first. The Nazis forced their way to power. The Nazis wanted to conquer the world, etc: etc:
Whenever some suit begins with his Gob uttering the dreaded word the Naazies I eliminate the mouthpiece pronto via the remoter, or turn the page, or switch station, and another buffoon bites
the dust and achieves the ultimate downgrade
of a zero.
So called important people who use the word Nazi to platform themselves as true believers in democracy, liberty, freedom, equality and justice are the real scumbags of humanity in my opinion. It s such a win win ticket, the automatic carousel door to acceptance at entry level as a fine righteous individual. They don't even have to know what they are talking about (believe me they don't) just say Naaazi & this or that and you're in like Flynn.
So just what did the Germans of that time do to be attacked so viciously in the media and eventually throughout western society during this little bit of time 1933 to 1945 in German history. I was born in 1938 in Preussen ( Prussia ) the eastern part on the other side of the Polish corridor set up at Versailles after the armistice. So to define the who and what of what I am at the socio/politico level, I was born a male white caucasian of German parentage and nationality, baptized into the Lutheran Faith.
As I have reconsidered doing this. The only personal experience I can relay is one of memory and the perception of a child mostly as regards Germany and to a lesser extent Denmark immediately post WW2 until 1953, when we emigrated to Canada. I was 15 years of age when we arrived as a family in British Columbia. It was however my early life in Canada that brought me to wanting to understand the place of my roots... Germany. I heard a lot of stuff about what those awful Germans did and how they should all have been killed instead of brought over here and so on. A kid in school I got friendly with invited me to his house and his mother who had lost her husband in Holland gave me the full treatment of those awful germans as if I had killed her husband. I felt sorry for her and her sons loss and thought how lucky us kids where to not have lost anyone in the family being right smack in the middle of that war. I spoke both German and Danish at the time of our arrival here, so within a couple of months I was quite fluent in English and as long as I did not reveal my origins, I wouldn't be called a DP or a Nazi and in the early sixties a jew killer. Yes the hollercuss as I call it ( holocaust ) came onto the social scene at that time. That's the time that I decided to find out everything I could get my hands on about the events leading up to WW2 beginning with WW1. German history as well as Jews in Germany and Europe. Jewish history, Josephus as chronicler of the history of the Jews. Rome & Byzantium. Later converts to Judaism the Khazars. Jewish banishments and why from 118 countries so far.
Decline of western man and civilization, jewish role therein. Wheeping and whining road of the doomed to disappearance and death. The rise of the self gods and their toy machines of physical and psychological satisfaction, the rise of the "thats all there is generation"... lets party on.
The strongest resistance to the incredible wash job being unleashed against the minds of generations of white people, especially German minds comes from what is called in German.. Ein Auslander. A German not residing in Germany. I'll further define it as a German born in Germany and removed from there at an early age who thus escaped the worst induction of state mind control ever devised. Thats me. Ernst Zundel was another Auslander but I have no desire of following in his footsteps. The man was a true follower of truth and justice and endured hardship far above normal he took on the criminals in court and won, right here in Canada. No one will ever do this again under current management of the world... rest assured of that. I can read the tea leaves and understand that they are loaded with a myriad of poisons.
Well.. that will be all for now, I need to go outside and sit in the evening breeze with a good 3oz glass of dark rum & a fresh strong coffee chaser.
This is a bit messy as formatted, but the Wagner forces are the shortest distance possible from Warsaw, while remaining in Belarus, and connected by a superhighway to Warsaw.
This puts the kind of pressure on Poland, which Russia put on Kiev last year by stationing forces to the north.
The Wagner forces could travel north to the Suwalki Gap, but for the moment they threaten Warsaw. That is more aggressive positioning, which says "we can attack Warsaw or move to open a route to Kaliningrad, but we are positioning to attack Warsaw".
"Belarus To Hold Exercises With Wagner Near NATO-Member Poland’s Border"
“The Armed Forces of Belarus continue joint training with the fighters of PMC ‘Wagner,’” the defense ministry said in a fresh statement. “During the week, units of the special operations forces together with representatives of the company will work out training and combat tasks at the Brestsky training ground.”
That's a good summary. With forces building in Poland, and Poland always chomping the bit, it makes sense for Russia to make a move that reminds the Polish Public what their leaders are doing.
What a dick for praising himself for catching a bomb hitting his own city. His girlfriend is a dick too. American fake liberalism is infectious. Hopefully there's a Ukrainian version of Joey B Toonz.
(👏🏼Simplicius) ... my only comment is the young orphan, Angelina, has the full support & love she needs. Part of me wishes she has her revenge, I’ll leave that in the path of FATE.
Hope people stop using the "khokhols" slur. It's a reference to a certain young male hairstyle popular in western Ukraine before the war, and similar to the slur "gook" during Vietnam. You don't see RA forces using it in TG videos, rather "Ukroboyviki" (Russian, boy = war, boyvik = soldier, boyviki = plural soldiers) or just "Ukrop" (since a "b" at the end of a sentence in Russian is pronounced as a "p")
Coming back tomorrow to finish. However I have a quick question. Anyone have any guesses as to just how high the Wheat fund WEAT will get to? Its up 7% today at 7.11. Was scared to play with it when this started and it was at around 6.4. Thought good chance the Russians could capitulate and then the air would go out of the gains quickly.
With Simplicius report tonight that is not likely. Any educated thoughts on just how high it could go would be appreciated.
The question which remains is simply how long will Russia choose to take to erase the remaining Ukrainian male population? Ukraine as a state definitely won't save them. The insertion of western cadre under the guise of mercenaries can only buy so much time until they also expire. Excellent article as always Simplicius.
The thing that gets me is that while the Russian claim trumpeted loudly by some at the beginning of the war that Ukrainians had no identity, that Ukrainian language was just a dialect of Russian, etc. was clearly false, it will very likely have come true by the end of the conflict.
I saw an article from the global communists side earlier today showing a photograph and alleged tweets from a Russian defence ministry spokesman saying 2,000 civilians have been evacuated from the area of a destroyed,(as in blown up),military base in Crimea.
It wasn't a military base. Somehow, the Ukrainians set a landfill on fire (which are really nasty and hard to extinguish, so the evacuation part is true).
I work in the investment world and all the research or analytical work I've done has led me to believe that without nukes and American military backing (and it's implicit dollar backing of the euro) that the EU is basically a third world economy with amazing architecture and good food/drinks. The largest business in the EU makes luxury handbags and makeup. That tells you everything you need to know about their economy. Germany WAS the only viable economy, but without cheap Russian gas it's falling apart. I have no answers for the EU. Stateside we'll start bringing home manufacturing. It'll just take some time.
As for AI, I've worked extensively in tech and financial tech and hands down the best programers in the world are American (specifically European descent and Jewish), Russian, and Iranian. Ukrainians and Belarusians were pretty good but perform closer to Indian and Chinese. The Russians always had their shit together and great at math. It makes me curious how the race for faster and lower powered chips will play out. Russia isn't exactly know for high-tech manufacturing, but I haven't spent much time researching it.
You have no clue of what you're talking about. Everything you say applies to the USA rather than eu. The uS economy works because they can print dollars and it's a reserve currency. The simple fact that Europe makes better planes cars etc while having the dollar against it shows that one the world economy reconfigured the US will be done for.
thanks simplicius.... i was mentioning on your last post that i thought the grain deal would die.. well, that didn't take long... clearly russia is saying no to any more western shenanigans on this front..
"...Should these things continue to develop down this path, it brings an existential crisis to the U.S. and the entire Western banking hegemony which uses the fiat spell as their last grasp over their vassals of the world. They absolutely cannot allow this...the U.S./UK deepstate will push the world toward a great reset ‘war’, which will presumably start as a continental European war..."
It's too late. The dollar's days as the reserve currency were numbered as soon as they stole Russia's sovereign assets. By weaponizing the dollar and SWIFT in such a blatantly criminal way, the US has destroyed its power base. Every other country in the world now knows that their wealth is not safe in the Western system. De-dollarization is already underway (dollar share is down from 80%+ to under 50% of reserve assets), and the exodus is accelerating. When Russia decisively wins the war, I think it sparks a dollar crisis.
Also, it's not about what the Western banking hegemony "can allow". Multi-polarity is already here, and they can't stop it or reverse it now. Initiating a continental war in Europe won't change anything. Besides, I don't think they can even do it - NATO weapons stocks have been largely depleted in the black hole that is Ukraine, and the West doesn't have the time or industrial capacity to restock to a level that can sustain a direct war with Russia, let alone win it.
The SMO has proven that Russia is the #1 military power in Europe (I would argue the World) and it has wiped the floor with Ukraine, which was considered the strong #2. And that was while fighting with one hand tied behind its back and against the combined might of all NATO countries fully backing their proxy. NATO armies don't stand a chance in a direct war against Russia, especially with Ukraine's fighting capacity eviscerated. The West knows it too, which is why they refuse to enter the war openly.
The European militaries are now only effective as a sort of trip wire force given the paucity of numbers, weapons and ammo. Airforces might give Russia cause for concern but their losses against Russia AD would within days become unsustainable. Of course they have all the super duper special force types but what exactly would they do? I consider the only NATO military to be able to seriously consider war with Russia is the USA - and oddly Finland which never really engaged in a post cold-war peace dividend - but the latter has a defensive posture. Mind you, I genuinely believe that western leaders are drunk on their own propaganda and so lunatic levels of escaltion and provocation cannot be ruled out.
I don't think that the Euro militaries even count as a trip wire force these days. They are not only bereft of enough effective weapons but are totally rotten within from Woke ideology.
Agreed. I wonder which of our pathetic Euroweenie leaders will be the first to man up and make peace overtures directly to Putin? Probably none of them because they are all identikit Davos robots. Things won't change till every current leader in the West is ousted.
As a natural born and bred All-American boy living in Florida, I hate to say this, but if the U.S. somehow initiates a WW3, Russia would be wise to go straight after the U.S. and the UK then any activity in the Continental European theater would cease. It may be the only way to stop the shit that's happening here in America. We need to start over if we survive.
The US and UK have been stealing the assets of other countries for years. This includes Iran, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Russia, Afghanistan, etc. De-dollarization was going to happen regardless of this war, but now it's on the fast track.
True, but the U.S. is of course meddling with that as well. They've been hard at work "supporting democracy" in SE Asia and have just taken control of Thailand's government via their proxies which shall be anti-China. They do much the same in other countries that will build or have built modern infrastructure with China's help. They directly attack such infrastructure with brainwashed groups of citizens directly supported by NGOs or the Endowment for Democracy. So, using these and other tools, they are trying their best to put obstacles in China's initiatives.
This is something I've been keen to research when I have some free time. Do you have any good sources of information on the ways that the US goes about sabotaging China's work in developing countries or elsewhere? Thank you in advance if you do.
I'm sure there are other sources, but I find Brian Bereletic's New Atlas channel the best so far, especially on this topic wrt China. He really has a handle on the Ukr/Russ war too, but Simplicius has him beat on that IMHO. Brian is often a guest on various other alt channels as well, so you might find him there too.
Same thing with the shark eating Russian tourist : the NAFO trolls celebrated that endlessly, even in the official NATO meeting at Vilnius they posted memes of shark eating a person and had shark toy at the table and were laughing at the accident, very unnecessary and idiotic behavior.
This new ugly celebration of innocent civilian deaths is really over the top disgusting, i cannot understand why someone would do this, they really are sick and twisted in their thinking. Anyone with any sense should not accept these kind of perverted views.
"they really are sick and twisted in their thinking" A LOT of that going on in the U.S./Canada, glad I don't live close to there anymore.
Can't Mossad / CIA find better staff, why don't you GTFO and troll somewhere else!
What was the guy saying?
Nah... Nothing important. Just another butthurt NAF0 dud.
USA needs whole world on fire again for Bretton woods 3 or it's finished (I think it's finished anyway for cultural collapse reasons I digress)... Simplicius eluded to it in his piece more details here
edit link fixed
https://worldaffairs.blog/2022/09/16/why-the-us-needs-to-destroy-russia-and-china-the-need-for-bretton-woods-iii/
F around and find out
Putin: "Of course Russia is going to respond. The Ministry of Defence is drawing up relevant proposals."
I've only read halfway, but want to make a point about The Telegraph's amazing headline because they are the go-to warmongering propaganda outlet for the UK. I wrote about them this morning, calling them The Terrorgraph. I was supporting Alastair Crooke's takedown of one of their propaganda videos.
I would appreciate an overview on the Kaliningrad Oblast - what is the Russian situation next to Poland and Lithuania? Any chance of that in a future post?
Studying the comments on the generally lamentable Telegraph reports on the Ukraine war I have noticed recently some resistance by readers to the endless anti-Russian propaganda. Maybe the newspaper is afraid of losing its readership.
I have always thought that whatever he says or does that Prime Minister Sunak is sceptical about the war with his worldwide background. The great bulk of the UK political class are totally mentally colonised by teh US.
There was an article yesterday I think in the DT that claimed 200,000 Russian losses, but a closer read revealed that was 55,000 dead and the rest wounded - a figure that might be close to the truth? A few months ago the DT were reporting 200,000 dead. I have given up on the DT but made a comment to the effect that UAF losses were probably 3 to 5 times those of Russia given the military disparities. I did not hang about to get trolled. The DT is actively patrolled by Bde 77.
Legacy media in the end have to decide whether to go with their readers or the people who subsidise and bribe them. They are also faced with the grim reality that if they lose their readers they cease to be worth bribing.
There is also in the background growing journalistic discontent at being humiliated by being made to operate a propaganda organ rather than report what the see and know.
Interesting comment on journalists. Is there a source for this?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/media-and-ukraine-war-coverage-where-truth-takes-holiday
The link within the article is the real gem - https://www.semafor.com/article/06/04/2023/inside-the-high-stakes-clash-for-control-of-ukraines-story
It gets far darker than that, the articles are now being written by AI with the comment sections moderated by AI too. This has a hilarious side effect, because the AI is incapable of nuance or detecting sarcasm, two very human traits, so it quite naturally strikes pro-ukraine supporters from the comments thinking their sarcasm is pro-russian. The sheer amount of complaints was hilarious to read.
Posters are quickly figuring out how to bypass this by careful choice of words, but it has essentially reduced comment sections to echo chambers that read incredibly childlike.
Please provide a link because I'm only aware of them using AI for Facebook - https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/using-ai-the-telegraph-boosts-facebook-engagement-by-205-driving-subs-growth/
Oh, this was on the daily express website. Click on any random article about Russia and you'll see endless complaining about the AI moderation. One of the articles cited it was AI generated (said so at the bottom) but alas, that would mean trawling through the articles to find and they churn out 20 propaganda peices a day. Apologies I couldn't be more helpful.
What's Bde 77?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)
It's tragic how everyone here in the UK thinks the US can do no wrong and is a global force for good. Whilst we are paranoid about Russian propaganda causing Brexit, in fact the country is totally compromised by US interests - mentally colonised indeed.
Here in US we think the American elites are colonized by the Brit elites.
Don't fight over whether Brit elites control America or American CEOs control the UK. Diplomacy is when you accept that your countries are inbred :)
The Afrikaners, during Apartheid, called us English South Africans "soutpiels/salty dicks". We were considered to have one leg in our country and another in the UK, our dick dangling in the Atlantic.
It's more appropriate if you steal the term for yourselves, in the name of neoliberalism :)
I think this probably true, the people who tend to be at the top have a loyalty primarily to other elites, like themselves. They all believe in the same things, transnational organisations, managerial democracy by experts etc. And they really disdain the plebs and our yearning to have a say in how our societies our run.
I am a Brit and I believe you are correct in this.
It's the same in a lot of Latin America. Even countries that US policy has completely fucked up (including recently) seem to have a large percentage of Uncle Sam cheerleaders. Just goes to show the power of propaganda. Go over to Matt Taibbi's comments and you'll find plenty there as well - both American and non. People believe the shit because American propaganda is so far-reaching, deep and omnipresent our entire lives. In foreign countries too.
My family there don't follow the news and just automatically believe the narrative secondhand. My articles gain no response.
Methinks theres 0% chance the MSM are amending their b/s on the basis of reader opinion. It's more like everyone in the Western elite knows for sure now they are screwed, out of ammo etc., and are massaging the sheeple into pushing for a time-saving truce. I hope Russia realises a frozen war will nagically become unfrozen in 10yrs when NATO rebuilds its stocks.
The Kaliningrad situation is something I would be interested in as well.
Kaliningrad was taken by the Red army and Demanded by Stalin at Yalta as compensation for the nazi/western attack on Russian civilization. This still means a great deal to Russians who remember all that in a way westerner don't understand. Russia will defend Kaliningrad like it would defend its home territory, with nukes if necessary and NATO understands that. If they've forgotten then Mishustin, or Lavrov or Putin himself will make it clear to them .
"The Terrorgraph"...perfectly fitting name for them! Their headlines always pop up in my youtube feed and they are some of the most ludicrous headlines I've seen during this conflict.
Truly crazy headlines yet an extremely popular newspaper which shows how insane readers are.
I think people become desensitized - I haven't read/watched MSM for 2 decades, so when I do see it I'm immediately struck by how batshit it really is! Its the same for the race-baiters of CNN, blue-anon kooks of MSNBC or the war-mongers of FOX here in the US...people just pipe it directly into their brains with zero skepticism.
It's considered news but, as a foreigner, I immediately see it as a soapie. The Brits and Germans may be biased but at least they make it look like the news and mention real news in between. American MSM is lazy, catering for a nation trained to think lazy is normal.
Funnily enough I get The Times in my YT feed and they are simply hysterical, as in not the funny kind, but rather the description of a pathology, as in screaming, desperate.
As a direct descendant of the Order of the Teutonic Knights I demand the return of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) to Germany. 1945 is not a long time historically. Koenigsberg was Prussian back from the 12th century. The Soviets simply deported the Germans wholesale from their lands... leave or die. Just like the Checkoslovacs who had no country until after WW1 systematically force marched the Sudeten Germans ( 10 million ) out of their centuries long homelands at the end of WW2. These A-holes even went so far as to remove all gravestones from German graveyards. They where a minority among the Slovaks and Germans. The Germans harboured no ill will towards toward the Checks. The Slovacs didn't trust them and asked Hitler for protection once he brought the Sudeten Germans into the Reich. While I am at it here I also have a bone to pick with a couple of Scandihoovian countries who always come of as so civilized and peacefully pacifist. What happened to the well over 5000 children from eastern Germany escaping the advancing soviet army and landed on nordic shores. The majority where under 5 years old, designated enemy combatants ( at the insistence of the British ) they where put on an island and given minimal care. How about the rest of that story, including Norways despicable actions against innocent children who where born to Norwegian girls and fathered by German soldiers. It is very hard to believe what people will actually do because of hate even towards defenceless children. I have the literature and the facts on this shame. Sure these folks of that time have mostly passed on but their dark traits are passed on to enough of their descendants ready to serve any master, any master at all, if it involves pride, money, superiority over others and being on the right and winning side.
WBJ
OK.
My post was part satire, but it points out one sad fact, the total and complete western societies entire strata of elite and hoi poloi brainwashed as regards Germany period 1933/45, the Nazi Terror that never was. It is so thoroughly saturated into western minds that in itself this phenominae of total mind manipulation is beyond a doubt the prima facie case study all time so far. The word Nazi has no place in the German lexicon and for that matter not in English either, it was not an abbreviation of Hitlers German Workers Party either. What was the origin of that word as Churchill, Britains wartime Prime Minister so fondly spoke it like this: N"aaa"zies.. emphasis on the aa's. Well.. this war hog and self idolator also called the Germans Huns a total fabrication to conjure up Atilla and his horde of murderous warrior nomads when discussing the Germans. He ignored history on both counts the Germans are not Hunnish, and Huns met their defeat on the battlefield defeated by German tribes. I guess he was speaking to the Yanks at the time because as an educated European he knew that this would not fly even with the common folk of Europe. Imagine the insane size of hubris and ego of this Man who also stated: I don't worry about how history will judge me as I intend to write that history myself.
Was this word Nazi ever spoken in any other language? Not that I am aware of.
The word Nazi was coined by some New York Newspaper employee in 1933 and stuck. That was the year Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany as well. Soon after the headlines in the major US and UK papers announced "Judea declares war on Germany"and the beginning of the most thorough public brainwash in history began.
It seems to be some badge of intelligence, knowledge and morality that those uttering the word Nazi are automatically believed as credible and above criticism. Especially when the word is used in conjunction with this: The Nazis took the guns first. The Nazis forced their way to power. The Nazis wanted to conquer the world, etc: etc:
Whenever some suit begins with his Gob uttering the dreaded word the Naazies I eliminate the mouthpiece pronto via the remoter, or turn the page, or switch station, and another buffoon bites
the dust and achieves the ultimate downgrade
of a zero.
So called important people who use the word Nazi to platform themselves as true believers in democracy, liberty, freedom, equality and justice are the real scumbags of humanity in my opinion. It s such a win win ticket, the automatic carousel door to acceptance at entry level as a fine righteous individual. They don't even have to know what they are talking about (believe me they don't) just say Naaazi & this or that and you're in like Flynn.
So just what did the Germans of that time do to be attacked so viciously in the media and eventually throughout western society during this little bit of time 1933 to 1945 in German history. I was born in 1938 in Preussen ( Prussia ) the eastern part on the other side of the Polish corridor set up at Versailles after the armistice. So to define the who and what of what I am at the socio/politico level, I was born a male white caucasian of German parentage and nationality, baptized into the Lutheran Faith.
To be continued...
Or perhaps not...
As I have reconsidered doing this. The only personal experience I can relay is one of memory and the perception of a child mostly as regards Germany and to a lesser extent Denmark immediately post WW2 until 1953, when we emigrated to Canada. I was 15 years of age when we arrived as a family in British Columbia. It was however my early life in Canada that brought me to wanting to understand the place of my roots... Germany. I heard a lot of stuff about what those awful Germans did and how they should all have been killed instead of brought over here and so on. A kid in school I got friendly with invited me to his house and his mother who had lost her husband in Holland gave me the full treatment of those awful germans as if I had killed her husband. I felt sorry for her and her sons loss and thought how lucky us kids where to not have lost anyone in the family being right smack in the middle of that war. I spoke both German and Danish at the time of our arrival here, so within a couple of months I was quite fluent in English and as long as I did not reveal my origins, I wouldn't be called a DP or a Nazi and in the early sixties a jew killer. Yes the hollercuss as I call it ( holocaust ) came onto the social scene at that time. That's the time that I decided to find out everything I could get my hands on about the events leading up to WW2 beginning with WW1. German history as well as Jews in Germany and Europe. Jewish history, Josephus as chronicler of the history of the Jews. Rome & Byzantium. Later converts to Judaism the Khazars. Jewish banishments and why from 118 countries so far.
Decline of western man and civilization, jewish role therein. Wheeping and whining road of the doomed to disappearance and death. The rise of the self gods and their toy machines of physical and psychological satisfaction, the rise of the "thats all there is generation"... lets party on.
The strongest resistance to the incredible wash job being unleashed against the minds of generations of white people, especially German minds comes from what is called in German.. Ein Auslander. A German not residing in Germany. I'll further define it as a German born in Germany and removed from there at an early age who thus escaped the worst induction of state mind control ever devised. Thats me. Ernst Zundel was another Auslander but I have no desire of following in his footsteps. The man was a true follower of truth and justice and endured hardship far above normal he took on the criminals in court and won, right here in Canada. No one will ever do this again under current management of the world... rest assured of that. I can read the tea leaves and understand that they are loaded with a myriad of poisons.
Well.. that will be all for now, I need to go outside and sit in the evening breeze with a good 3oz glass of dark rum & a fresh strong coffee chaser.
WBJ
This is a bit messy as formatted, but the Wagner forces are the shortest distance possible from Warsaw, while remaining in Belarus, and connected by a superhighway to Warsaw.
This puts the kind of pressure on Poland, which Russia put on Kiev last year by stationing forces to the north.
The Wagner forces could travel north to the Suwalki Gap, but for the moment they threaten Warsaw. That is more aggressive positioning, which says "we can attack Warsaw or move to open a route to Kaliningrad, but we are positioning to attack Warsaw".
"Belarus To Hold Exercises With Wagner Near NATO-Member Poland’s Border"
“The Armed Forces of Belarus continue joint training with the fighters of PMC ‘Wagner,’” the defense ministry said in a fresh statement. “During the week, units of the special operations forces together with representatives of the company will work out training and combat tasks at the Brestsky training ground.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/belarus-hold-exercises-wagner-near-nato-member-polands-border
That's a good summary. With forces building in Poland, and Poland always chomping the bit, it makes sense for Russia to make a move that reminds the Polish Public what their leaders are doing.
What a dick for praising himself for catching a bomb hitting his own city. His girlfriend is a dick too. American fake liberalism is infectious. Hopefully there's a Ukrainian version of Joey B Toonz.
Simplicius, the Prigozhin video was your most interesting share today!
Correction request - the image of the M1 tank on fire being out out was in Australia.
thx fixed
👍It was a long shot.🎯
(👏🏼Simplicius) ... my only comment is the young orphan, Angelina, has the full support & love she needs. Part of me wishes she has her revenge, I’ll leave that in the path of FATE.
2nd that Ben. The reactions posted by the khakhols made made blood boil.
Hope people stop using the "khokhols" slur. It's a reference to a certain young male hairstyle popular in western Ukraine before the war, and similar to the slur "gook" during Vietnam. You don't see RA forces using it in TG videos, rather "Ukroboyviki" (Russian, boy = war, boyvik = soldier, boyviki = plural soldiers) or just "Ukrop" (since a "b" at the end of a sentence in Russian is pronounced as a "p")
They do use it and that's not what ukrop means.
Ukrop just means dill and is used simply because of how it's spelled/how it sounds.
You can argue that there's way less hate against Ukrainians as people on the Russian side, but there's still plenty of ethnic/cultural hatred.
But yes, it's not a good thing.
Putin's deportment. You slay me. I sure wish he would do something w/Sam P, she is one skanky, gnarly evil hagfish.
FOX News 3 Stooges, tools. There is nothing nice to say about them, can't stand them. I hope FOX goes in the toilet w/Bud Light.
CNN video w/the suit was interesting but sickening. Really sickening is mince meat pics of the parents. Below the belt low.
How do you rent blood? What did I get confused?
That guy that filmed the bombing, his life changed in an Ukraine minute. Made me think of Gonzalo, I wonder if he is still alive?
>How do you rent blood?
Translation error, in the same way you'll hear Russians translated as "In principle" when they mean "Basically"
Thx!
Coming back tomorrow to finish. However I have a quick question. Anyone have any guesses as to just how high the Wheat fund WEAT will get to? Its up 7% today at 7.11. Was scared to play with it when this started and it was at around 6.4. Thought good chance the Russians could capitulate and then the air would go out of the gains quickly.
With Simplicius report tonight that is not likely. Any educated thoughts on just how high it could go would be appreciated.
You perform do Yeoman's Work Simplicius!!
India has had a very good year and is exporting a record amount of rice and wheat according to a quick skim of news this morning.
I hope it won't happen again but its tradition to ignore facts and use major news events as excuse to gouge us.
What? India has been talking about rice export ban for the past week citing food prices inflation.
Ukrainian producer's transport costs will skyrocket. Everything else must follow.
The question which remains is simply how long will Russia choose to take to erase the remaining Ukrainian male population? Ukraine as a state definitely won't save them. The insertion of western cadre under the guise of mercenaries can only buy so much time until they also expire. Excellent article as always Simplicius.
The thing that gets me is that while the Russian claim trumpeted loudly by some at the beginning of the war that Ukrainians had no identity, that Ukrainian language was just a dialect of Russian, etc. was clearly false, it will very likely have come true by the end of the conflict.
I saw an article from the global communists side earlier today showing a photograph and alleged tweets from a Russian defence ministry spokesman saying 2,000 civilians have been evacuated from the area of a destroyed,(as in blown up),military base in Crimea.
Most communist lies?
* Note; I just went and did a quick search and this popped up : https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/19/europe/russia-ukraine-crimea-depot-explosion-intl/index.html
It wasn't a military base. Somehow, the Ukrainians set a landfill on fire (which are really nasty and hard to extinguish, so the evacuation part is true).
I work in the investment world and all the research or analytical work I've done has led me to believe that without nukes and American military backing (and it's implicit dollar backing of the euro) that the EU is basically a third world economy with amazing architecture and good food/drinks. The largest business in the EU makes luxury handbags and makeup. That tells you everything you need to know about their economy. Germany WAS the only viable economy, but without cheap Russian gas it's falling apart. I have no answers for the EU. Stateside we'll start bringing home manufacturing. It'll just take some time.
As for AI, I've worked extensively in tech and financial tech and hands down the best programers in the world are American (specifically European descent and Jewish), Russian, and Iranian. Ukrainians and Belarusians were pretty good but perform closer to Indian and Chinese. The Russians always had their shit together and great at math. It makes me curious how the race for faster and lower powered chips will play out. Russia isn't exactly know for high-tech manufacturing, but I haven't spent much time researching it.
You have no clue of what you're talking about. Everything you say applies to the USA rather than eu. The uS economy works because they can print dollars and it's a reserve currency. The simple fact that Europe makes better planes cars etc while having the dollar against it shows that one the world economy reconfigured the US will be done for.
thanks simplicius.... i was mentioning on your last post that i thought the grain deal would die.. well, that didn't take long... clearly russia is saying no to any more western shenanigans on this front..
"...Should these things continue to develop down this path, it brings an existential crisis to the U.S. and the entire Western banking hegemony which uses the fiat spell as their last grasp over their vassals of the world. They absolutely cannot allow this...the U.S./UK deepstate will push the world toward a great reset ‘war’, which will presumably start as a continental European war..."
It's too late. The dollar's days as the reserve currency were numbered as soon as they stole Russia's sovereign assets. By weaponizing the dollar and SWIFT in such a blatantly criminal way, the US has destroyed its power base. Every other country in the world now knows that their wealth is not safe in the Western system. De-dollarization is already underway (dollar share is down from 80%+ to under 50% of reserve assets), and the exodus is accelerating. When Russia decisively wins the war, I think it sparks a dollar crisis.
Also, it's not about what the Western banking hegemony "can allow". Multi-polarity is already here, and they can't stop it or reverse it now. Initiating a continental war in Europe won't change anything. Besides, I don't think they can even do it - NATO weapons stocks have been largely depleted in the black hole that is Ukraine, and the West doesn't have the time or industrial capacity to restock to a level that can sustain a direct war with Russia, let alone win it.
The SMO has proven that Russia is the #1 military power in Europe (I would argue the World) and it has wiped the floor with Ukraine, which was considered the strong #2. And that was while fighting with one hand tied behind its back and against the combined might of all NATO countries fully backing their proxy. NATO armies don't stand a chance in a direct war against Russia, especially with Ukraine's fighting capacity eviscerated. The West knows it too, which is why they refuse to enter the war openly.
The European militaries are now only effective as a sort of trip wire force given the paucity of numbers, weapons and ammo. Airforces might give Russia cause for concern but their losses against Russia AD would within days become unsustainable. Of course they have all the super duper special force types but what exactly would they do? I consider the only NATO military to be able to seriously consider war with Russia is the USA - and oddly Finland which never really engaged in a post cold-war peace dividend - but the latter has a defensive posture. Mind you, I genuinely believe that western leaders are drunk on their own propaganda and so lunatic levels of escaltion and provocation cannot be ruled out.
I don't think that the Euro militaries even count as a trip wire force these days. They are not only bereft of enough effective weapons but are totally rotten within from Woke ideology.
I think that after the first explosions, the intoxication of their own propaganda will fade quickly.
Agreed. I wonder which of our pathetic Euroweenie leaders will be the first to man up and make peace overtures directly to Putin? Probably none of them because they are all identikit Davos robots. Things won't change till every current leader in the West is ousted.
As a natural born and bred All-American boy living in Florida, I hate to say this, but if the U.S. somehow initiates a WW3, Russia would be wise to go straight after the U.S. and the UK then any activity in the Continental European theater would cease. It may be the only way to stop the shit that's happening here in America. We need to start over if we survive.
Always said nato was a sham.
The US and UK have been stealing the assets of other countries for years. This includes Iran, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Russia, Afghanistan, etc. De-dollarization was going to happen regardless of this war, but now it's on the fast track.
Flattening it is the right thing to do since the port's infrastructures were used to launch drone attacks on the Crimea bridge.
It also states clearly that there's no grain deal anymore.
It's amazing. All the Ukies and the neocons had to do was stick to the agreement. But as we know, that's one thing they can't do.
The Belt and Road. Can't get those rail networks built and running fast enough!
True, but the U.S. is of course meddling with that as well. They've been hard at work "supporting democracy" in SE Asia and have just taken control of Thailand's government via their proxies which shall be anti-China. They do much the same in other countries that will build or have built modern infrastructure with China's help. They directly attack such infrastructure with brainwashed groups of citizens directly supported by NGOs or the Endowment for Democracy. So, using these and other tools, they are trying their best to put obstacles in China's initiatives.
This is something I've been keen to research when I have some free time. Do you have any good sources of information on the ways that the US goes about sabotaging China's work in developing countries or elsewhere? Thank you in advance if you do.
I'm sure there are other sources, but I find Brian Bereletic's New Atlas channel the best so far, especially on this topic wrt China. He really has a handle on the Ukr/Russ war too, but Simplicius has him beat on that IMHO. Brian is often a guest on various other alt channels as well, so you might find him there too.
Thanks I'll check it out.