Following weeks of stop-and-go attempts to make any kind of headway with Ukrainian ‘negotiations’ both Trump and Secretary of State Rubio have now signaled terminal exasperation.
Agree, Russia must win or Europe falls into the Dictatorship of bribed, and drugged Nazi's that want to establish "the United States of Europe" where nobody remembers what Democracy (if that ever truly existed) meant. I would vote for : de-xit, fuck Nato and join BRICS with a free trade and security agreement with Russia, China and ????
not "nazi" but complete EU Jew shills like Churchill FDR, Zion Don, etc... get rid of the JewSA and European can start to handle their own matters by kicking out the jew, then the brownoids....
Will pinging be a technology used in 10 years? Just trying to think ahead on how we can toss you an update cuz at present pace it will be around 2035 before this is straightened out.
We should be more concerned with Simplicius and his kind. Can they keep up the article pace for another ten years?
"We didn't start it"? If Rubio was speaking of the Ukraine/Russian war, he just lied through his teeth. The war started in 2014 when the Maidan illegal coup was launched, planned and paid for by the US (just ask Victoria Nuland, she tells us what you can buy for $5 billion). The military action by Russia in 2022 was simply a follow through to end the already present war.
”We” could mean Republicans. As you have noted the Open War started on Bidens tenure. The ”NATO-talk” was a ukrainian initiative so was the speak to place Nuke within Ukraine. They did enough provocations and Biden administration counted on Russia to blink first. Trump has said numerous times that he wouldnt have let a War get off.
not Nazi, but jew shills (whether they know it or not) , see jew owned Azov wearing their funny hats next to that roman stable wall in occupied Palestine....
"At a festive banquet held at Kyiv's central synagogue, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, lit the second Hanukkah candle on the menorah alongside Vitali Klitschko, the Chief Rabbi, and the Israeli ambassador."
And the military part of the war started on 15 April 2014, when the Ukrainian army began an "Anti-Terrorist Operation" against the Donbas republics, just after a visit from CIA boss John Brennan in Kiev.
During the putsch, Nuland-Kagan collaborated directly with the Ukrainian Nazi Party.
The Party's founder Andriy Parubiy had become the de facto commandant of the Maidan “self-defense” forces.
"Mr Parubiy sparked controversy after he co-founded the far-right Socio-National Party of Ukraine in 1991, which was later renamed Svoboda. The party, which described itself as an “enemy of communism”, was modelled on Hitler’s fascist ideology and restricted membership to ethnic Ukrainians."
Americanist political scientist and historian Vladimir Mozhegov:
"It is clear that the people behind Biden are indeed interested in escalating the conflict in Ukraine. But this is a certain group of people that I call “neocons”.
This is an extremely aggressive company that was in power under both Bushes , and unleashed a Middle East war. They are sure that they seriously participated in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Basically, these are all people from the former Trotskyist American strata. The ancestors of many moved to America from Eastern Europe, including from Ukraine. Like, for example, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the main “Maidan star” Victoria Nuland . They really have Ukraine on fire in their minds." https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/05/24/plan-for-nato-invasion-of-ukraine-ready-ex-pentagon-adviser-confirms/
Unfourtunatly this war is way older than 2014. John Helmer once called it the “last battle if WW2.”
Look up Operation Sunrise.
1946 Brits and US used two “former SS Generals” to train ukrainian “former Waffen SS” POW and sended them, via airlift, back to Ukraine to fight the Sovjets. This went on into the 1950’s.
The trainig took place in south germany. Would be interesting to know if or how Stephan Bandera was involved in this. Since he was on “holiday” in Munich untill his assassination.
As Zhukov noted: “We liberated Europe from fashism and they will never forgive us.”
Agreed. The West's long term support of and cooperation with the defeated Nazis and allied fascists was a story that was never supposed to be told in the Liberal halls of power.
Now that the fighting has come back to Ukraine the entrenchments in the cemeteries are turning up all sorts of long buried skeletons.
BTW. I don't think Bandera was assassinated, that was Cold War black propaganda and think I can prove it. Message me or reply if you want to her details and my theory.
Just one more point about the age of this conflict:
There is a qoute of a Austria-Hungarian politician von Holdenweg (dont remeber if he was Ambassador or FM) from 1914. Its encapsulates the strategy imperative against Russia perfectly.
“Wer Kiev haelt kann Moskau wuergen.”
“He who holds Kiev can strangle Moskau.”
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(sorry for the murky translation)
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It is very simple.
The road to Tehran goes trough Damascus and the road to Moskau goes trough Kiev.
Over the last few years I have taken it upon myself to learn what I can about Stephan Bandera, and I have come to the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely he was assassinated, by the KGB or anyone else.
Consider the evidence presented to the public.
All we have is the testimony of the a defector Kostiantyn Kapustynsky, AKA Bohdan Stashynsky, While in the custody of Western intelligence, he claimed that he killed Bandera, and also Lev Rebet, another OUN leader, with some sort of special weapon, a gun that shot poison cyanide gas that simulated the effects of a heart attack.
No such weapon was ever produced and no such weapon has been produced in the 70 years since. How exactly would such a weapon even work and what would be the advantage of using one in this circumstance? If you wanted him dead then just kill him, why try to conceal it?
Why use a super secret undetectable "James Bond Q division" weapon (which has never been seen or used since) to kill Bandera?
The most likely explanation is that Bandera died of a regular heart attack and the rest is a classic bit of Cold War black propaganda.
The next most likely explanation is that Bandera WAS killed by cyanide, but it was a suicide, his OUN group covered it up and ran with the KGB assassination story.
There are plenty more details in "Stepan Bandera The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" (2014) by Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe and they all lead up to a confused mess of an assassination scenario which would have been almost impossible to perform in reality, for example, it was reported that Bandera didn’t die immediately but also didn’t draw his own pistol, but would have been highly profitable for Kapustynsky to recite as a fiction.
Alister Crook mentioned SAA comanders got bought off en mass and toled their troops to quit. I can not blame somebody in this situation.
Reminded me on the Azerbaijan vs. Armenia situation. If the home team wont play it is hard for the allies to help.
All in all it was a defeat with unforeseeable consequences for the region (the axis).
Yet the wildest card in this situation (in my opinion) is turkey. What might look like a victory (against the Kurds) now could easily turn into a clusterfuck (rabid jihadis in the neighbourhood and domestic).
Yesterday Hagia Sophia, today Umayyad and tomorrow Al Aqsa?
Ukraine and Russian conflict goes back hundreds of tears. Crimea was part of Russia until Khruschev, a Ukrainian, gave it Ukraine. This ridiculous,, dangerous war is disgusting. Zelensky is playing out the Al Pacino version of scarface: full of coke and delusions of grandeur. Putin is a bad dangerous man. Zelensky is a fool.
>Ukraine and Russian conflict goes back hundreds of years*
No, it doesn't.
It goes back one hundred years, to the times of Petliura.
There was no Ukrainian identity whatsoever until the mid-19th century, and it was still marginal in the late 19th century.
Then there is the Russian collapse of WWI, independent Ukrainian republics were set up, the Bolsheviks saved the country, but were ideologically saddled with a lot of BS, a result of which was the aggressive Ukrainization campaign of the 1920s, meanwhile western countries saw what happened in WWI and poured even more resources into boosting Ukrainian nationalism, on both sides of the border, and then you got Bandera and Shukhevich during WWII.
But had the USSR not broken up, and had Banderites all died in Siberia GULAGs rather than getting amnesited by Khrushchev, Ukrainian identity would have naturally faded and one day the constitution would have been changed to abolish the right to secession of the republics (there were rumors Andropov was thinking about that already in 1982-1983, but he died too soon), and that would have been the end of it.
Kiev was pretty close to 100% Russian speaking city circa 1989-1991, and even in Western Ukraine the major cities were predominantly Russian speaking.
Then the USSR falls apart and you get simultaneously:
1) Western intelligence agencies moving in immediately
2) Banderites returning from Canada and the US
3) The new emerging oligarchy teaming up with them to make sure their newly acquired feudal possessions stay theirs and Moscow does not knock on the door one day to take it back.
Had that not happened, the natural process was towards full reintegration of those who did not feel Russian into the Russian ethnicity (and it was never a majority who actively felt that way), completely peacefully.
Now Putin in his infinite wisdom, by going for a prolonged war of attrition instead of finishing things quickly, made sure that:
1) There will be hatred that will last generations in the minds and hearts of a lot of people in Ukraine
2) The war became existential for the West too.
None of that would have happened with a proper war and quick victory, and by shooting some rabid NATO dogs down when they decided to meddle.
Iirc, “Ukraine” means something like “frontier”. That implies self awareness of a distinction. And there is the linguistic difference. Also, the brutality of Soviet repression pre WW2 led directly to welcoming Germans. Not trying to feign the deepest. But you seem to have read more.
It means in very literal translation "edge lands", but as the edge of your own realm, not of something foreign
>the brutality of Soviet repression
What repression are you hallucinating about? The Bolsheviks were beating people up in Kharkov and Odessa for not speaking Ukrainian (nobody there knew it, how could they have spoken it?) in the 1920s, FFS...
All of that territory in the Ukraine should have just been third reich territory with honorable retired SS soldier farmers and pretty Ukrainian wives. But the zogs wanted war.
Yeah yeah "if you don't let us invade, ethnically cleanse and colonize you, you're the warmonger" I know. I wish you guys that want Hitler to have won would just own up to the fact that it was an overly ambitious plan and might makes right as the nazis say instead of playing the perpetual wounded and betrayed victim because after thousands of years of bloody wars in Europe everyone didn't just roll over and surrender right away to the side you like just because you like them
Exactly. Hitler was a fool of a demon possessed Sargent whose clever ideas were severely limited. The strategic limitations Germany faced were completely beyond his cognitive abilities. For starters.
2 wrongs don't make a right. Plus it's more drastic .. compare introducing an invasive species to an unadapted ecosystem vs just burning it all down and then bringing in your own plants and animals
"As Zhukov noted: “We liberated Europe from fashism and they will never forgive us.”
Fascism, like rust-never sleeps. If one groks that the West, all of it, was fascist from the get-go, the world makes a lot more sense. Were the Brits fascists when they introduced African tribesmen to the hungry Maxim Gun? Was the Berlin Conference, aka as "The Africa Scramble" NOT fascism? Were the Brits fascists when they tied Indian dissenters to the business end of their cannons and turned them into hamburger? Was Andy Jackson's long hike known as "The Trail Of Tears" -fascism? Were "Fugitive
Slave Laws" fascism? Was the Killing of 250,000 natives in the Philippines at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War"... fascism? Was the takeover of a distant island in the Pacific, Hawaii, NOT fascism?
Riffing on your misspelling...fascism seems to have been in "fashion" for a VERY long time. The enduring patience of the Russians boggles my mind.
Well put. It has been around for a very long time and has solidified deeply layered power, poisons and structures within Western states. I keep banging on about the Augean Stables but it's as good a metaphor as any. I would imagine Russian patience is based on this knowledge but I don't see what choice they (and others; China, Iran etc) have but to take them on.
Rust, virus, religious impulse; call it what you will it is relentless and in the minds of cosseted, entitled maniacs who will persist unless they face real consequences; difficulty is, to use another metaphor, will it be the pillars of Samson, or will we end up in some "beingness of void" dystopia like Orwell, Huxley, Wells imagined. Fucked if I know but it looks like this massive shitshow will just get bigger unless those in the West who are now clearly smelling the coffee can find a way to get outside help to clean the stables, or is that an utter Hail Mary of wishful thinking?
As a German, born in the former socialist part, right in epicentre of the german tragedy / farce aka. the city of Weimar. The subject of the continuity of fashism is not just a field of interest, but it shaped my family history. Now with the war in Ukraine much of this conflict surfaced. It is insane.
People i love and respected started to spout the most vile propaganda point's, that used to be reserved to hardcore right wing revisionist.
Along the lines the USA won the war, Ukrainians liberated Auschwitz (true but ment as a insult), Nazis were Socialists, Putin is the new Hitler, there are no Nazis in Ukraine cause Svoboda just got 2% of the votes and of course (the theory of everything) with a jewish president, fashism / nazi-ism is impossible.
"The subject of the continuity of fashism is not just a field of interest, but it shaped my family history."
The one uncle I never met (Blaine H.) was a 21-y/o paratrooper when he was shot out of the skies over Iwo Jima. Two decades later we're buying Japanese penalty boxes. Hmm..nothing to see here.
Twelve years ago I took a cruise with my wife and son to Tahiti and other island stops in French Polynesia. On the ship was a largish plaque indicating that the power plant onboard was built by Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi built the Zero that attacked US ships at Pearl Harbor. One of the tours available was a look at Pearl Harbor (I took a pass). I thought this is perfect vertical integration...War, down the memory hole...a ship with a Mitsubishi power source, visiting a historical site (graveyard), created by Mitsubishi planes.
The irony! My dead uncle never got to drive a Japanese car or take a cruise. Dead at 21 years and for what?
The Yanks had imposed "sanctions" on the Japanese in WW2 and had cut off their oil supply and other critical imports. Out of sheer desperation they attacked the US western fleet. Huh?..."sanctions"...never heard of that before. /s The Japanese, emulating US imperial behavior, thought having their own Pacific empire was the way to go. Come to find out... Commodore Perry in the mid-1850s forced the insular Japanese to open their country to trade. Or else...
I've intentionally never bought a Krupp coffee maker or anything else from that company, for similar reasons. How did a company that made such extensive use of slave labor, in such appalling conditions, emerge and come to dominate high-end household appliances? It should have been shuttered, and the name burnt to ashes.
I read a biography of Alfred Krupp once (head of the family during the interregnum rearmament). It was really interesting, the family had a very long history of involvement in and promotion of wars in Europe. Alfred believed the smell of horse sh!t was motivational and healthy - his office was built above a stable, with spacing between the floor boards so the smell of the stable could waft up.
Jeez you're a broken record. Why don't you contribute something interesting to the conversation? ZOG conspiracy, whatever... just something more than your constant and pedantic "jew jew jew" posts.
Or Simplicius could just ban you, I'd vote in favor of that.
Third inning here Gisela (American here we default to sports talk-apologies)
While we are being less than patient, the European experiment is seeing the wheels come off their not so crypto fascist enterprise. NATO likely finished...the Americans go on to new, fertile fields, aka mo' money...mo' money...mo' money. A new color revolution somewhere. New arms sales await-possibly less than before given the Uke performance. New widows and orphans to create. Ain't life grand. The Euro-fools NEVER tire of war. With painful, endless detail, B. Tuchman calls out these morons in her very depressing Euro-history: A Distant Mirror. <<link>>It would be charitable to call the Europeans revealed within, as SLOW learners.
Wow, great link. Thanks for your detailed view on this. It's just my very firm belief that the Russians should never trust the US/Western Europe, it will be to their detriment and to do so is simply naive.
Worth pointing out that Zhukov's statement is straight from Marx: fascism is the highest reactionary phase of capitalism, in response to demands of the proletariat.
Fascism opposes class conflict. In Marxist theory, any capitalist system will end up with class conflict, regardless of the extent of socialist policy present in it.
National socialism is a different beast - the socialist platform of the Nazi party in Germany was abandoned early on (and permanently laid to rest during the Night of the Long Knives). Hitler needed the support of the industrialists like Krupp to rearm, and they refused support as long as the Nazi platform (especially Röhm and his fellow travelers) held their destruction out as a goal.
I don't really accept that they abandoned their socialist principles, I would say they extended them to embrace the requirements of rearmament. All major private conpanies were taken over by the state, with party members put in charge and full unionisation. It's similar to how China operates today.
Obama campaigned on ending the U.S.'s foreign wars. The Nobel Committee pre-emptively awarded him a peace prize for it once he was elected. Then, he promptly massively expanded the war in Afghanistan ("the surge") and brought open air slave markets back to Tripoli after assisting the French in destroying the country.
Yet, Obama-ites still claim he didn't lie, and didn't betray his campaign promises. The extreme form claims that he never promised to end the wars or bring peace; it was his constituents hearing what they wanted to hear. But of course he did, and of course he lied.
Krupp was never nationalized, and it was the largest employer and industrial concern by far in pre-WWII Germany. Many other industrial concerns were similar. That Hitler and the Nazis nationalized the coal mines in the Ruhr valley, to yank them back from Jewish ownership (a result of the Treaty of Versaille) says nothing about whether they stayed "mostly true" to their socialist foundations.
Hitler was always wishy-washy on leading a party with socialist aspirations, pulled between the RA in support and the Teutonic capitalist class in opposition. And in the end (and long before the war), the capitalists won, and the Nazis were socialist in name only. Revisionism doesn't help when facts reject the claim.
The USSA will not and cannot ever acknowledge the truth. Not about the coup, not about Nordstream, not about their direct involvement, and reasoning, for the Ukraine conflict... to weaken and collapse Russia. BUT you can be sure that Russia knows the score damn well and that info is in the back of their mind at all times despite any pleasant outward appearances of the US and Russia "getting along". The Russians will NEVER trust the USSA again. In the end, the USSA is going to collapse in the same manner as the former Soviet Union... Chip
Trump? Is he the heat of clenching teeth in Washington? No he is in Paris, Macron has left his country, he’s more outside than inside. Is he hiding and on the run like Zelensky?
It seems that Ukraine wasn't paying attention to the Afghanistan debacle. It's within possibility that the USA will start pulling most of its o/seas bases to save money . The military stockpiles in the west are almost exhausted and production is low and expensive. USA debt is the "Sword of Damocles" and it cannot afford to ignore. If you have to borrow money to pay the interest on debt you are in increasing trouble.
Yes, now Trump has his trade war with China, all the other "little wars" are insignificant. Devastating attack on Iran? Gone quiet. Ukraine? Best forgotten. I suspect the US will find it lacks resources for winning the trade war as well.
I think that Trump will content himself with the Genocide in Gaza; the annihilation of the Houthis, and the continued supply of weapons and intelligence to Ukraine. There appears to be poltical will on both sides of the House for these campaigns to continue, and it may save him during the mid terms.
Similarly, given his inability to make rational decisions in Ukraine, his humiliating climb down over reciprocal tariffs, and the fiscal noose of his self-imposed trade war with China, the postponement of the annexation of Greenland in favour of the seizure of the Panama Canal now seems to be the most likely outcome simply to save face.
The war in Ukraine will rumble on indefinitely until such time as Vance takes over. The apparent emnity between Zelensky and Vance, is our best hope for peace in Ukraine.
There was never a realistic possibility of peace or a ceasefire, given that the Ukrainian government is a gang of nazis and criminals which was already violated every agreed upon partial ceasefire.....As an attorney and negotiator, I've never found that you can get anywhere with such people, and it's useless to even try...Nor is the EU any better, so Trump and Witkoff are wasting their time with those scoundrels....
Trump administration sound bites about Ukraine are made for their propaganda value among his own people, not in any real attempt to "stop the war", a thing he could never have accomplished.
Trump may still get some political benefit by posturing and bloviating here, meanwhile, there is nothing he can do IRL that wouldn't likely provoke a nuclear WWIII that might alter the final acts in Ukraine.
Nothing he can do?? You cannot be serious? IF Trump was really going to end this conflict all he had to do was STOP all funding. (The US is paying for everything in Ukraine) The federal Govt. does not give as much to States in the US. Trump stops funding and pulls all US assets out of Ukraine the war would be over.
If you look at the financial involvement by BlackRock/Blackstone, Monsanto, Cargill and all their fellows? These have already bought up (or long term leased) about 1/3 of all the best Ukrainian farm lands, Trump can't pull such US controlled/owned assets out of Ukraine.
If you consider the political power those billions of investments and oligarch interests represent in US politics, you understand why Trump can't just let Ukraine go.
Fertile farmland has been a hot investment for the oligarchs the last few years and the U.S. and Ukrainian breadbaskets are the two most important in the world. Both have been selling like hotcakes.
My guess is Russia will work out a "deal' with Blackrock et al and let them keep the farmland (and use GMO seeds) rather than nationalize the land. Russia has very similar oligarchs as the West does and I don't believe for a second that Putin expelled most of them or put them on a leash.
They are not wasting their time. As usual, the same thing I always say applies - the target is domestic, not foreign. He has to appear to be trying to solve the thing and then eventually blame the failure on the Ukrainians. All he needs is plausible deniability to walk away.
Just don't see how negotiations can go anywhere. The four oblasts will as a minimum go to Russia. Would think the status of the rest of Ukraine would be the real sticking point. Russia might accept disarmed neutrality. That failing it will likely become a satellite state with a Russian installed government. Incidentally, regarding Witkoff's statement, he's probably right. When Mar-a-Lago was build in the 1920s it was the most expensive non-royal residence in the world. Trump I'm sure would say it's MORE impressive than the Elysee. Much more impressive. Maybe a thousand times more impressive.
Whatever Witkoff's small talk is, the guy has been clocking up so many air miles trying to patch things up that he deserves a bit of compassion. Still, it reminds me of the film dialogue between Patton and the King of Morocco: "tell me, General, what do you think of Morocco? - I love it, Excellency. It's a combination of the Bible and Hollywood."
Well gee…if Trump says we’re done then the war should end. After all it was America that decided to fund, train and run the war in the first place.
Telling Russia that they had to end it is the stupidest thing ever since they are defending their own citizens and their country against America and its puppets.
Russia has been advancing and holding ground so they collect the bodies and count the dead. Ukraine has been retreating and losing ground. How exactly do they tabulate Russian losses to make claims of Russian casualty numbers?
Well the Ukrainian claims of heavy Russian casualties have been since 2022 before the prevalence of drone warfare. Also considering it's reported that 80% of drones launched actually fail to reach their target the methodology would still be questionable and may lack credibility.
Ukrainian claims of Russian Casualties/KIA track very closely with (external) estimates of *Ukraines* KIA/Casualties, so all they are doing is taking their own internal numbers (remember, in a properly functioning military, roll call happens *every* day, so you can track how you are doing/what needs you have/where everyone is etc) and applying a [small, likely 1.2-1.5x] multiplier (because we have to maintain the fiction that Ukrainian soldiers are better than Russian ones...
As is well-known, the government of Ukraine exists on hand-outs from foreign donors. With the USA halting military supplies to Ukraine, now would be a good time to point out that all the financial aid the US gives will likely come under the knife as well. If the US backs out financially, it will fall to the EU, the UK and maybe Canada to keep Ukraine running. We're talking about tens of billions per year more than what they're donating now, I would guesstimate. Good thing there isn't a world-wide recession/tariff war, or all that extra expense might hurt.
If the US cuts military aid to Ukraine, the rest of the EU/NATO won't be able to replace the lost weaponry. To put it politely. If the US cuts financial aid as well, the EU/NATO nations could conceivably replace that, but with money they don't have and would need to print. If they do, it will further weaken their already struggling economies at a time when they desperately need to rebuild.
It's a toss-up whether Ukraine will run out of guns or money first.
Richard, with respect, money printing by the EU & UK to give to Zee would not only be unsustainable given the volume necessary, it would perhaps lead to angry natives even more livid at the threat of welfare cuts etc already being widely muted.
Spend £8 billion a year catering to illegal migrants, or spend £8 billion on warfare.. either way the social situation will get ugly as the cost will have to be paid by someone
Or run out of able-bodied personnel, which the canajwing speculators aim for. They want Ukraine as a property without an undesired population to care for. Detto for Russia.
I gotta say, that using fpv drones somewhat successfully (really not that much considering that pukes are continuing their retreat), is absolutely NOT the same as using them for advance.
This whole shebang with the US marks a pretty watershed moment - pukeraine has NO MEANS of advancing, of "taking back territory", getting "to 1991 borders" etc. Sure, they gambled everything on drones, but that's merely a singular component of a well-oiled war machine.
You still need a fighter and bomber aviation, you still need rocket launchers, AA, armor, etc. Strategic systems.
So what, eurocucks are gonna build the khoholstan a brand new 21st century army when they barely can keep their own ones stocked?
Drones are long range projected force with no connexion with the on the ground reality. They are a logical declination of the power principles of dominance. The advantage in combat goes to the one who strikes from afar (arrow over spear, spear over sword), who moves quicker, who can see without being seen, who can control everywhere from a single place (panopticon). So at this casualty rate, theyre planning to depopulate, and desindustrialized Ukraine creating a hell no mans land to keep Russia busy with drone operators in Rumania and Poland, like a permanent mosquito plague. This has been decided as the most cost efficient strategy for the globalist west and Russia finds that very convenient for various reasons like consolidating self sufficiency, have the liberal fifth columnists reined, and rebuild the Ukranian waste lands from scratch until the moment they decide to destroy London, Paris and Berlin altogether and at once, unilaterally overing the game. Of course they wont do that, will they ?
Seems they already did months ago. They could not figure out how to purge Nazis so they will leave it to Russia.
need to figure out how to purge the jew if actually want peace.
That’s easy. Z is alive because Russia wants him that way for the time being.
Blah, blah, blah.
Russia's going to have to win this one on the battlefield.
Would someone please ping me when that happens?
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maybe switch alcohol brands.
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Brilliant...
Lol!
Agree, Russia must win or Europe falls into the Dictatorship of bribed, and drugged Nazi's that want to establish "the United States of Europe" where nobody remembers what Democracy (if that ever truly existed) meant. I would vote for : de-xit, fuck Nato and join BRICS with a free trade and security agreement with Russia, China and ????
nice avatar
Exexpat. Does BRICS want neo-colonialists as members?
not "nazi" but complete EU Jew shills like Churchill FDR, Zion Don, etc... get rid of the JewSA and European can start to handle their own matters by kicking out the jew, then the brownoids....
The JUICE planned it since they left Egypt. They simply bought everyone.
money lenders have spread their special money lenders' morality across the collective west
centuries ago.
Ping ! See Life progress: https://rumble.com/search/all?q=military%20summary
already happened. now just to take odessa and rub it in ....
Will pinging be a technology used in 10 years? Just trying to think ahead on how we can toss you an update cuz at present pace it will be around 2035 before this is straightened out.
We should be more concerned with Simplicius and his kind. Can they keep up the article pace for another ten years?
That will be a lot of articles to pump out!
made a note of it :)
still hanging by your feet, it seems.
"We didn't start it"? If Rubio was speaking of the Ukraine/Russian war, he just lied through his teeth. The war started in 2014 when the Maidan illegal coup was launched, planned and paid for by the US (just ask Victoria Nuland, she tells us what you can buy for $5 billion). The military action by Russia in 2022 was simply a follow through to end the already present war.
”We” could mean Republicans. As you have noted the Open War started on Bidens tenure. The ”NATO-talk” was a ukrainian initiative so was the speak to place Nuke within Ukraine. They did enough provocations and Biden administration counted on Russia to blink first. Trump has said numerous times that he wouldnt have let a War get off.
Trump sent Javelins to the nazis first of all before bidan turned up on the scene.
Trump is like a circus man.. He makes laugh and cry at the same time..
not to mention vast quantities of manure in the center ring.
Trump armed the Nazi same as Obama. It was done in the dark.
not Nazi, but jew shills (whether they know it or not) , see jew owned Azov wearing their funny hats next to that roman stable wall in occupied Palestine....
"Jon Stewart [Leibowitz] honors Azov Battalion at Pentagon-funded Disney World event" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/06/aque-s06.html
"Ukraine's Azov Regiment visits Israel: 'Mariupol is our Masada'
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-725351
"The head of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) sees a connection between the wars Ukraine and Israel are fighting.
https://spzh-new.newagelab.com/en/news/83763-budanov-in-synagogue-hanukkah-will-illuminate-victories-of-ukraine-and-israel
"At a festive banquet held at Kyiv's central synagogue, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, lit the second Hanukkah candle on the menorah alongside Vitali Klitschko, the Chief Rabbi, and the Israeli ambassador."
They aren't all nazis just like Russians aren't soviets.
Not a good look because he is an american first. Presumedly.
#dindunuffin
And the military part of the war started on 15 April 2014, when the Ukrainian army began an "Anti-Terrorist Operation" against the Donbas republics, just after a visit from CIA boss John Brennan in Kiev.
"Who's Johnny, Zelinsky said. While he smiled in his special way.
/snark
During the putsch, Nuland-Kagan collaborated directly with the Ukrainian Nazi Party.
The Party's founder Andriy Parubiy had become the de facto commandant of the Maidan “self-defense” forces.
"Mr Parubiy sparked controversy after he co-founded the far-right Socio-National Party of Ukraine in 1991, which was later renamed Svoboda. The party, which described itself as an “enemy of communism”, was modelled on Hitler’s fascist ideology and restricted membership to ethnic Ukrainians."
https://www.thejc.com/news/far-right-party-founder-from-ukraine-welcomed-in-the-uk-l0x49e2r
Russia declares war on the Straussians
by Thierry Meyssan https://www.voltairenet.org/article215855.html
Americanist political scientist and historian Vladimir Mozhegov:
"It is clear that the people behind Biden are indeed interested in escalating the conflict in Ukraine. But this is a certain group of people that I call “neocons”.
This is an extremely aggressive company that was in power under both Bushes , and unleashed a Middle East war. They are sure that they seriously participated in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Basically, these are all people from the former Trotskyist American strata. The ancestors of many moved to America from Eastern Europe, including from Ukraine. Like, for example, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the main “Maidan star” Victoria Nuland . They really have Ukraine on fire in their minds." https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/05/24/plan-for-nato-invasion-of-ukraine-ready-ex-pentagon-adviser-confirms/
Don't forget Vicky Nuland. Her and hubby Robert K were the master minds no doubt... Chip
Unfourtunatly this war is way older than 2014. John Helmer once called it the “last battle if WW2.”
Look up Operation Sunrise.
1946 Brits and US used two “former SS Generals” to train ukrainian “former Waffen SS” POW and sended them, via airlift, back to Ukraine to fight the Sovjets. This went on into the 1950’s.
The trainig took place in south germany. Would be interesting to know if or how Stephan Bandera was involved in this. Since he was on “holiday” in Munich untill his assassination.
As Zhukov noted: “We liberated Europe from fashism and they will never forgive us.”
Agreed. The West's long term support of and cooperation with the defeated Nazis and allied fascists was a story that was never supposed to be told in the Liberal halls of power.
Now that the fighting has come back to Ukraine the entrenchments in the cemeteries are turning up all sorts of long buried skeletons.
BTW. I don't think Bandera was assassinated, that was Cold War black propaganda and think I can prove it. Message me or reply if you want to her details and my theory.
Uhh…i am listening!!!
Just one more point about the age of this conflict:
There is a qoute of a Austria-Hungarian politician von Holdenweg (dont remeber if he was Ambassador or FM) from 1914. Its encapsulates the strategy imperative against Russia perfectly.
“Wer Kiev haelt kann Moskau wuergen.”
“He who holds Kiev can strangle Moskau.”
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(sorry for the murky translation)
…
It is very simple.
The road to Tehran goes trough Damascus and the road to Moskau goes trough Kiev.
This is my theory,
Over the last few years I have taken it upon myself to learn what I can about Stephan Bandera, and I have come to the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely he was assassinated, by the KGB or anyone else.
Consider the evidence presented to the public.
All we have is the testimony of the a defector Kostiantyn Kapustynsky, AKA Bohdan Stashynsky, While in the custody of Western intelligence, he claimed that he killed Bandera, and also Lev Rebet, another OUN leader, with some sort of special weapon, a gun that shot poison cyanide gas that simulated the effects of a heart attack.
No such weapon was ever produced and no such weapon has been produced in the 70 years since. How exactly would such a weapon even work and what would be the advantage of using one in this circumstance? If you wanted him dead then just kill him, why try to conceal it?
Why use a super secret undetectable "James Bond Q division" weapon (which has never been seen or used since) to kill Bandera?
The most likely explanation is that Bandera died of a regular heart attack and the rest is a classic bit of Cold War black propaganda.
The next most likely explanation is that Bandera WAS killed by cyanide, but it was a suicide, his OUN group covered it up and ran with the KGB assassination story.
There are plenty more details in "Stepan Bandera The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" (2014) by Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe and they all lead up to a confused mess of an assassination scenario which would have been almost impossible to perform in reality, for example, it was reported that Bandera didn’t die immediately but also didn’t draw his own pistol, but would have been highly profitable for Kapustynsky to recite as a fiction.
Point taken!
He stuffing him self up with beer and sausages and dying of a natural cause dose not fit the victim narrative those creatures like so much.
Have to finaly read Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe’s book.
Still waiting for the german translation … just kidding.
"Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist"
Any idea of what that might be?
You should ask the Canadian, American or British Authorities.
This is were their ghosts are kept alive.
Including standing ovations and visits to congress.
Or they faked an assassination for some reason.
Also, re the heart attack gun, they presented a putative heart attack gun at the Church Committee hearings on the 1970s, but I bet that was a distraction: https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/artifact/senator-frank-church-and-senator-john-tower-cia-poison-dart-gun-photograph-henry-griffin
Holding Kiev didn't work for the Nazis in WW2 did it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1941)
Well…how would you go to Moskau?
Take a detour trough Constantinople?
Rolling up the “world island” as a land-army the waypoints to Moskau are pretty clear.
Just follow the “Via Regia” and take a turn North shortly before Kiev.
You are the one that posted:
“He who holds Kiev can strangle Moskau.”
My answer was to that bit of stupidity.
And this answer is to your bit of stupidity and to the clown that updated you.
>The road to Tehran goes trough Damascus and the road to Moskau goes trough Kiev.
And both Teheran and Moscow gave those up just like that, without a fight.
Dont forget Syria it self.
Alister Crook mentioned SAA comanders got bought off en mass and toled their troops to quit. I can not blame somebody in this situation.
Reminded me on the Azerbaijan vs. Armenia situation. If the home team wont play it is hard for the allies to help.
All in all it was a defeat with unforeseeable consequences for the region (the axis).
Yet the wildest card in this situation (in my opinion) is turkey. What might look like a victory (against the Kurds) now could easily turn into a clusterfuck (rabid jihadis in the neighbourhood and domestic).
Yesterday Hagia Sophia, today Umayyad and tomorrow Al Aqsa?
Ukraine and Russian conflict goes back hundreds of tears. Crimea was part of Russia until Khruschev, a Ukrainian, gave it Ukraine. This ridiculous,, dangerous war is disgusting. Zelensky is playing out the Al Pacino version of scarface: full of coke and delusions of grandeur. Putin is a bad dangerous man. Zelensky is a fool.
“Ukraine and Russian conflict goes back hundreds of tears.”
freudian slip
/ i would say hundreds of millions of tears.
The story of humanity....
I would remove the adjective "bad" before the word "man" in the last line of your comment.
No need to.
>Ukraine and Russian conflict goes back hundreds of years*
No, it doesn't.
It goes back one hundred years, to the times of Petliura.
There was no Ukrainian identity whatsoever until the mid-19th century, and it was still marginal in the late 19th century.
Then there is the Russian collapse of WWI, independent Ukrainian republics were set up, the Bolsheviks saved the country, but were ideologically saddled with a lot of BS, a result of which was the aggressive Ukrainization campaign of the 1920s, meanwhile western countries saw what happened in WWI and poured even more resources into boosting Ukrainian nationalism, on both sides of the border, and then you got Bandera and Shukhevich during WWII.
But had the USSR not broken up, and had Banderites all died in Siberia GULAGs rather than getting amnesited by Khrushchev, Ukrainian identity would have naturally faded and one day the constitution would have been changed to abolish the right to secession of the republics (there were rumors Andropov was thinking about that already in 1982-1983, but he died too soon), and that would have been the end of it.
Kiev was pretty close to 100% Russian speaking city circa 1989-1991, and even in Western Ukraine the major cities were predominantly Russian speaking.
Then the USSR falls apart and you get simultaneously:
1) Western intelligence agencies moving in immediately
2) Banderites returning from Canada and the US
3) The new emerging oligarchy teaming up with them to make sure their newly acquired feudal possessions stay theirs and Moscow does not knock on the door one day to take it back.
Had that not happened, the natural process was towards full reintegration of those who did not feel Russian into the Russian ethnicity (and it was never a majority who actively felt that way), completely peacefully.
Now Putin in his infinite wisdom, by going for a prolonged war of attrition instead of finishing things quickly, made sure that:
1) There will be hatred that will last generations in the minds and hearts of a lot of people in Ukraine
2) The war became existential for the West too.
None of that would have happened with a proper war and quick victory, and by shooting some rabid NATO dogs down when they decided to meddle.
Hmmmm….skipping over Stalin and his policies by balling it up I a throw away line is convenient and obvious.
What about Stalin's policies?
Iirc, “Ukraine” means something like “frontier”. That implies self awareness of a distinction. And there is the linguistic difference. Also, the brutality of Soviet repression pre WW2 led directly to welcoming Germans. Not trying to feign the deepest. But you seem to have read more.
No, it means the exact opposite of distinction.
It means in very literal translation "edge lands", but as the edge of your own realm, not of something foreign
>the brutality of Soviet repression
What repression are you hallucinating about? The Bolsheviks were beating people up in Kharkov and Odessa for not speaking Ukrainian (nobody there knew it, how could they have spoken it?) in the 1920s, FFS...
All of that territory in the Ukraine should have just been third reich territory with honorable retired SS soldier farmers and pretty Ukrainian wives. But the zogs wanted war.
Yeah yeah "if you don't let us invade, ethnically cleanse and colonize you, you're the warmonger" I know. I wish you guys that want Hitler to have won would just own up to the fact that it was an overly ambitious plan and might makes right as the nazis say instead of playing the perpetual wounded and betrayed victim because after thousands of years of bloody wars in Europe everyone didn't just roll over and surrender right away to the side you like just because you like them
Exactly. Hitler was a fool of a demon possessed Sargent whose clever ideas were severely limited. The strategic limitations Germany faced were completely beyond his cognitive abilities. For starters.
read Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 Mosler - Hitler was quite right strategically compared to his generals...
You mean what the Jew is doing to Europe with Africans ?
2 wrongs don't make a right. Plus it's more drastic .. compare introducing an invasive species to an unadapted ecosystem vs just burning it all down and then bringing in your own plants and animals
"As Zhukov noted: “We liberated Europe from fashism and they will never forgive us.”
Fascism, like rust-never sleeps. If one groks that the West, all of it, was fascist from the get-go, the world makes a lot more sense. Were the Brits fascists when they introduced African tribesmen to the hungry Maxim Gun? Was the Berlin Conference, aka as "The Africa Scramble" NOT fascism? Were the Brits fascists when they tied Indian dissenters to the business end of their cannons and turned them into hamburger? Was Andy Jackson's long hike known as "The Trail Of Tears" -fascism? Were "Fugitive
Slave Laws" fascism? Was the Killing of 250,000 natives in the Philippines at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War"... fascism? Was the takeover of a distant island in the Pacific, Hawaii, NOT fascism?
Riffing on your misspelling...fascism seems to have been in "fashion" for a VERY long time. The enduring patience of the Russians boggles my mind.
Well put. It has been around for a very long time and has solidified deeply layered power, poisons and structures within Western states. I keep banging on about the Augean Stables but it's as good a metaphor as any. I would imagine Russian patience is based on this knowledge but I don't see what choice they (and others; China, Iran etc) have but to take them on.
Rust, virus, religious impulse; call it what you will it is relentless and in the minds of cosseted, entitled maniacs who will persist unless they face real consequences; difficulty is, to use another metaphor, will it be the pillars of Samson, or will we end up in some "beingness of void" dystopia like Orwell, Huxley, Wells imagined. Fucked if I know but it looks like this massive shitshow will just get bigger unless those in the West who are now clearly smelling the coffee can find a way to get outside help to clean the stables, or is that an utter Hail Mary of wishful thinking?
Absolutely. The examples are endless.
As a German, born in the former socialist part, right in epicentre of the german tragedy / farce aka. the city of Weimar. The subject of the continuity of fashism is not just a field of interest, but it shaped my family history. Now with the war in Ukraine much of this conflict surfaced. It is insane.
People i love and respected started to spout the most vile propaganda point's, that used to be reserved to hardcore right wing revisionist.
Along the lines the USA won the war, Ukrainians liberated Auschwitz (true but ment as a insult), Nazis were Socialists, Putin is the new Hitler, there are no Nazis in Ukraine cause Svoboda just got 2% of the votes and of course (the theory of everything) with a jewish president, fashism / nazi-ism is impossible.
…you get the point.
"The subject of the continuity of fashism is not just a field of interest, but it shaped my family history."
The one uncle I never met (Blaine H.) was a 21-y/o paratrooper when he was shot out of the skies over Iwo Jima. Two decades later we're buying Japanese penalty boxes. Hmm..nothing to see here.
Twelve years ago I took a cruise with my wife and son to Tahiti and other island stops in French Polynesia. On the ship was a largish plaque indicating that the power plant onboard was built by Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi built the Zero that attacked US ships at Pearl Harbor. One of the tours available was a look at Pearl Harbor (I took a pass). I thought this is perfect vertical integration...War, down the memory hole...a ship with a Mitsubishi power source, visiting a historical site (graveyard), created by Mitsubishi planes.
The irony! My dead uncle never got to drive a Japanese car or take a cruise. Dead at 21 years and for what?
The Yanks had imposed "sanctions" on the Japanese in WW2 and had cut off their oil supply and other critical imports. Out of sheer desperation they attacked the US western fleet. Huh?..."sanctions"...never heard of that before. /s The Japanese, emulating US imperial behavior, thought having their own Pacific empire was the way to go. Come to find out... Commodore Perry in the mid-1850s forced the insular Japanese to open their country to trade. Or else...
I've intentionally never bought a Krupp coffee maker or anything else from that company, for similar reasons. How did a company that made such extensive use of slave labor, in such appalling conditions, emerge and come to dominate high-end household appliances? It should have been shuttered, and the name burnt to ashes.
I read a biography of Alfred Krupp once (head of the family during the interregnum rearmament). It was really interesting, the family had a very long history of involvement in and promotion of wars in Europe. Alfred believed the smell of horse sh!t was motivational and healthy - his office was built above a stable, with spacing between the floor boards so the smell of the stable could waft up.
I went to a school in West Germany which was named after Werner von Braun.
There was display with his achievements but the years 1933-1945 were missing.
Once asked how a public school in Germany could be named after a SS officer.
Answer: “he was a good Christian.”
(not even scientist…)
True story!
Germany in the late 1990’s.
Mid 2000 they changed the name though.
But now all this revisionist stuff is resurfacing and becoming mainstream again.
Who cares. The Jew needs to do an honest days work for once.
How about your iPhone made with chinease slave labor ?
May i ask you if bears can dance? Since you are married to one?
If so … thank you!
Wondering since years.
Happy easter!
the jew problem remains and that is waht requires a final solution.... see what the Zogs did to Palestine, Hrioshima, Dresden.....
Jeez you're a broken record. Why don't you contribute something interesting to the conversation? ZOG conspiracy, whatever... just something more than your constant and pedantic "jew jew jew" posts.
Or Simplicius could just ban you, I'd vote in favor of that.
Seems you have found it interesting enough to reply. Identify the problem is the first step.
Are you just a Jew defending your genocidal chicken swinging tribe ?
Disgusting!!!
What ?
At what point is perceived patience bordering on stupidity?
Third inning here Gisela (American here we default to sports talk-apologies)
While we are being less than patient, the European experiment is seeing the wheels come off their not so crypto fascist enterprise. NATO likely finished...the Americans go on to new, fertile fields, aka mo' money...mo' money...mo' money. A new color revolution somewhere. New arms sales await-possibly less than before given the Uke performance. New widows and orphans to create. Ain't life grand. The Euro-fools NEVER tire of war. With painful, endless detail, B. Tuchman calls out these morons in her very depressing Euro-history: A Distant Mirror. <<link>>It would be charitable to call the Europeans revealed within, as SLOW learners.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-distant-mirror-the-calamitous-14th-century-by-barbara-w-tuchman/246602/item/3407413/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=high_vol_frontlist_standard_shopping_customer_acquisition_20982170636&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=689361939032&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwk43ABhBIEiwAvvMEB_Xj-bV9NPvHDxl16VtU-4qhyh2CVDTz2TdoX89TPHP5pGSmk1QmlRoCAwsQAvD_BwE#idiq=3407413&edition=2360248
Wow, great link. Thanks for your detailed view on this. It's just my very firm belief that the Russians should never trust the US/Western Europe, it will be to their detriment and to do so is simply naive.
What was old becomes new again it seems.
It is likely that a Gladio 3.0 has been set in motion.
If recent history is anything to go by that is.
Yes Cladio is back.
Now with Stingers, Drones and Starlink.
And as last times it will mainly be a tool for domestic politics.
Worth pointing out that Zhukov's statement is straight from Marx: fascism is the highest reactionary phase of capitalism, in response to demands of the proletariat.
How can fascism aka national socialism ever represent peak 'capitalism' aka free market enterprise?
Fascism opposes class conflict. In Marxist theory, any capitalist system will end up with class conflict, regardless of the extent of socialist policy present in it.
National socialism is a different beast - the socialist platform of the Nazi party in Germany was abandoned early on (and permanently laid to rest during the Night of the Long Knives). Hitler needed the support of the industrialists like Krupp to rearm, and they refused support as long as the Nazi platform (especially Röhm and his fellow travelers) held their destruction out as a goal.
I don't really accept that they abandoned their socialist principles, I would say they extended them to embrace the requirements of rearmament. All major private conpanies were taken over by the state, with party members put in charge and full unionisation. It's similar to how China operates today.
Obama campaigned on ending the U.S.'s foreign wars. The Nobel Committee pre-emptively awarded him a peace prize for it once he was elected. Then, he promptly massively expanded the war in Afghanistan ("the surge") and brought open air slave markets back to Tripoli after assisting the French in destroying the country.
Yet, Obama-ites still claim he didn't lie, and didn't betray his campaign promises. The extreme form claims that he never promised to end the wars or bring peace; it was his constituents hearing what they wanted to hear. But of course he did, and of course he lied.
Krupp was never nationalized, and it was the largest employer and industrial concern by far in pre-WWII Germany. Many other industrial concerns were similar. That Hitler and the Nazis nationalized the coal mines in the Ruhr valley, to yank them back from Jewish ownership (a result of the Treaty of Versaille) says nothing about whether they stayed "mostly true" to their socialist foundations.
Hitler was always wishy-washy on leading a party with socialist aspirations, pulled between the RA in support and the Teutonic capitalist class in opposition. And in the end (and long before the war), the capitalists won, and the Nazis were socialist in name only. Revisionism doesn't help when facts reject the claim.
They always lie like the CIA, which is the real USG..
He was talking about the Trump administration, not the Obama/Biden administrations.
I'm going with Mikey Johnson on this one. I don't think Trump and his people see themselves as "part" of the Obama and Biden administrations.
Kissinger's famous quote is proven once again: "to be America's enemy is dangerous, but to be it's friend is fatal"
The USSA will not and cannot ever acknowledge the truth. Not about the coup, not about Nordstream, not about their direct involvement, and reasoning, for the Ukraine conflict... to weaken and collapse Russia. BUT you can be sure that Russia knows the score damn well and that info is in the back of their mind at all times despite any pleasant outward appearances of the US and Russia "getting along". The Russians will NEVER trust the USSA again. In the end, the USSA is going to collapse in the same manner as the former Soviet Union... Chip
Trump? Is he the heat of clenching teeth in Washington? No he is in Paris, Macron has left his country, he’s more outside than inside. Is he hiding and on the run like Zelensky?
It seems that Ukraine wasn't paying attention to the Afghanistan debacle. It's within possibility that the USA will start pulling most of its o/seas bases to save money . The military stockpiles in the west are almost exhausted and production is low and expensive. USA debt is the "Sword of Damocles" and it cannot afford to ignore. If you have to borrow money to pay the interest on debt you are in increasing trouble.
Yes, now Trump has his trade war with China, all the other "little wars" are insignificant. Devastating attack on Iran? Gone quiet. Ukraine? Best forgotten. I suspect the US will find it lacks resources for winning the trade war as well.
I think that Trump will content himself with the Genocide in Gaza; the annihilation of the Houthis, and the continued supply of weapons and intelligence to Ukraine. There appears to be poltical will on both sides of the House for these campaigns to continue, and it may save him during the mid terms.
Similarly, given his inability to make rational decisions in Ukraine, his humiliating climb down over reciprocal tariffs, and the fiscal noose of his self-imposed trade war with China, the postponement of the annexation of Greenland in favour of the seizure of the Panama Canal now seems to be the most likely outcome simply to save face.
The war in Ukraine will rumble on indefinitely until such time as Vance takes over. The apparent emnity between Zelensky and Vance, is our best hope for peace in Ukraine.
Ukraine will cease to exist by Labor Day or before.
They are running out of options as to whom to borrow from.
Nothing like fighting a few wars on credit, and losing, to wreck your credit rating.
There was never a realistic possibility of peace or a ceasefire, given that the Ukrainian government is a gang of nazis and criminals which was already violated every agreed upon partial ceasefire.....As an attorney and negotiator, I've never found that you can get anywhere with such people, and it's useless to even try...Nor is the EU any better, so Trump and Witkoff are wasting their time with those scoundrels....
It's a fake thing of some sort, making a bunch of generic comment replies. I got 3X of them from it. Don't try to download files it links to.
Trump administration sound bites about Ukraine are made for their propaganda value among his own people, not in any real attempt to "stop the war", a thing he could never have accomplished.
Trump may still get some political benefit by posturing and bloviating here, meanwhile, there is nothing he can do IRL that wouldn't likely provoke a nuclear WWIII that might alter the final acts in Ukraine.
Nothing he can do?? You cannot be serious? IF Trump was really going to end this conflict all he had to do was STOP all funding. (The US is paying for everything in Ukraine) The federal Govt. does not give as much to States in the US. Trump stops funding and pulls all US assets out of Ukraine the war would be over.
If you look at the financial involvement by BlackRock/Blackstone, Monsanto, Cargill and all their fellows? These have already bought up (or long term leased) about 1/3 of all the best Ukrainian farm lands, Trump can't pull such US controlled/owned assets out of Ukraine.
If you consider the political power those billions of investments and oligarch interests represent in US politics, you understand why Trump can't just let Ukraine go.
https://newworker.us/international/us-companies-buy-up-ukraine/
That is a drop in the bucket for those companies' bottom lines.
Fertile farmland has been a hot investment for the oligarchs the last few years and the U.S. and Ukrainian breadbaskets are the two most important in the world. Both have been selling like hotcakes.
Regardless, Ukrainian land is cheap, relative to Polish.
Moreover, a lot of this is because oligarchs are running low on things they still haven't bought.
My guess is Russia will work out a "deal' with Blackrock et al and let them keep the farmland (and use GMO seeds) rather than nationalize the land. Russia has very similar oligarchs as the West does and I don't believe for a second that Putin expelled most of them or put them on a leash.
They are not wasting their time. As usual, the same thing I always say applies - the target is domestic, not foreign. He has to appear to be trying to solve the thing and then eventually blame the failure on the Ukrainians. All he needs is plausible deniability to walk away.
Just don't see how negotiations can go anywhere. The four oblasts will as a minimum go to Russia. Would think the status of the rest of Ukraine would be the real sticking point. Russia might accept disarmed neutrality. That failing it will likely become a satellite state with a Russian installed government. Incidentally, regarding Witkoff's statement, he's probably right. When Mar-a-Lago was build in the 1920s it was the most expensive non-royal residence in the world. Trump I'm sure would say it's MORE impressive than the Elysee. Much more impressive. Maybe a thousand times more impressive.
Didn't know that. Maybe Witkoff was onto something
There is a youtube video. Mar-a-Lago was carved out of the jungle.
Whatever Witkoff's small talk is, the guy has been clocking up so many air miles trying to patch things up that he deserves a bit of compassion. Still, it reminds me of the film dialogue between Patton and the King of Morocco: "tell me, General, what do you think of Morocco? - I love it, Excellency. It's a combination of the Bible and Hollywood."
"General, I was interested to see a Bible next to your bed, do you ever actually read it?"
"Yes I do, every God-damned day!"
“ I love it, Excellency. It's a combination of the Bible and Hollywood.“
Now that is a keeper. Looking forward to my next media theory lecture.
that jew whitkoff is just Trump's golfing buddy. Zion don is wholly owned by the chicken swingers..
From his website:
"Witkoff is one part developer. One part investor. One part landscape-changer."
A New York real estate dealer.
It's good to be the king!
https://youtu.be/BGCjqzB2jPA?si=bpliYT-mKc-Eq8SE
https://youtu.be/h0iAcQVIokg?si=Ic6e7SWRRoRB6xlm
Wittkoff is used to the Kremlin by now. Maybe he wanted to downsize the French a bit. I like him joking..
Exactly. I think it was a cut.
I think Russian sarcasm is way above that of any American pseudo diplomat.
great article - thank you
Well gee…if Trump says we’re done then the war should end. After all it was America that decided to fund, train and run the war in the first place.
Telling Russia that they had to end it is the stupidest thing ever since they are defending their own citizens and their country against America and its puppets.
The Russians are just not being fair, they are fighting too hard instead of giving up nicely like the Iraqis back in the day.
Yep, Trump comes in acting like a neutral mediator, when the US--which he is president of--is one of the belligerents.
That went over as well as we expected.
Exactly. My thoughts exactly.
They are bodies they recovered. Many more will not exist due to the thermobaric munitions, very large bombs or being buried under collapsed buildings.
Not unexpected from the US given their past behaviour.
Forgot that one.
Russia has been advancing and holding ground so they collect the bodies and count the dead. Ukraine has been retreating and losing ground. How exactly do they tabulate Russian losses to make claims of Russian casualty numbers?
It mostly looks like they assume X russian casualties per 100 drones launched, with X being somewhere around 17.
You then take that number and season it to your liking.
Well the Ukrainian claims of heavy Russian casualties have been since 2022 before the prevalence of drone warfare. Also considering it's reported that 80% of drones launched actually fail to reach their target the methodology would still be questionable and may lack credibility.
Ukrainian claims of Russian Casualties/KIA track very closely with (external) estimates of *Ukraines* KIA/Casualties, so all they are doing is taking their own internal numbers (remember, in a properly functioning military, roll call happens *every* day, so you can track how you are doing/what needs you have/where everyone is etc) and applying a [small, likely 1.2-1.5x] multiplier (because we have to maintain the fiction that Ukrainian soldiers are better than Russian ones...
As is well-known, the government of Ukraine exists on hand-outs from foreign donors. With the USA halting military supplies to Ukraine, now would be a good time to point out that all the financial aid the US gives will likely come under the knife as well. If the US backs out financially, it will fall to the EU, the UK and maybe Canada to keep Ukraine running. We're talking about tens of billions per year more than what they're donating now, I would guesstimate. Good thing there isn't a world-wide recession/tariff war, or all that extra expense might hurt.
If the US cuts military aid to Ukraine, the rest of the EU/NATO won't be able to replace the lost weaponry. To put it politely. If the US cuts financial aid as well, the EU/NATO nations could conceivably replace that, but with money they don't have and would need to print. If they do, it will further weaken their already struggling economies at a time when they desperately need to rebuild.
It's a toss-up whether Ukraine will run out of guns or money first.
Richard, with respect, money printing by the EU & UK to give to Zee would not only be unsustainable given the volume necessary, it would perhaps lead to angry natives even more livid at the threat of welfare cuts etc already being widely muted.
Spend £8 billion a year catering to illegal migrants, or spend £8 billion on warfare.. either way the social situation will get ugly as the cost will have to be paid by someone
Gil according to the Government it's £4.3bn.
Still far too fkin much, but half the number you quoted.
Or run out of able-bodied personnel, which the canajwing speculators aim for. They want Ukraine as a property without an undesired population to care for. Detto for Russia.
Sounds cruel, but business is business.
"What is it they say about class?"
That the americans don't have any.
Oh yeah, the Euros have lots of class. Too bad it's all low.
I gotta say, that using fpv drones somewhat successfully (really not that much considering that pukes are continuing their retreat), is absolutely NOT the same as using them for advance.
This whole shebang with the US marks a pretty watershed moment - pukeraine has NO MEANS of advancing, of "taking back territory", getting "to 1991 borders" etc. Sure, they gambled everything on drones, but that's merely a singular component of a well-oiled war machine.
You still need a fighter and bomber aviation, you still need rocket launchers, AA, armor, etc. Strategic systems.
So what, eurocucks are gonna build the khoholstan a brand new 21st century army when they barely can keep their own ones stocked?
Don't make me laugh. Pukekraine is cooked.
*in defence, forgot that
Drones are long range projected force with no connexion with the on the ground reality. They are a logical declination of the power principles of dominance. The advantage in combat goes to the one who strikes from afar (arrow over spear, spear over sword), who moves quicker, who can see without being seen, who can control everywhere from a single place (panopticon). So at this casualty rate, theyre planning to depopulate, and desindustrialized Ukraine creating a hell no mans land to keep Russia busy with drone operators in Rumania and Poland, like a permanent mosquito plague. This has been decided as the most cost efficient strategy for the globalist west and Russia finds that very convenient for various reasons like consolidating self sufficiency, have the liberal fifth columnists reined, and rebuild the Ukranian waste lands from scratch until the moment they decide to destroy London, Paris and Berlin altogether and at once, unilaterally overing the game. Of course they wont do that, will they ?