The long awaited Istanbul negotiations between Russia and Ukraine took place, and though I have complained of the ‘sideshow’ nature of these distractions, today’s session is worth mentioning for what it revealed about Russia’s stance.
From the NATO point of view, if that 80 year old manages to soak up Russian shrapnel or a Russian bullet, then that 80 year old has fulfilled his sole purpose in life.
You think a farmer cares whether his cattle are old and just want to eat grass in a nice pasture somewhere?
When fighting agreement incapable opponents, vanquish them. That's the only viable option. Russia understands this simple fact. 1941, rinse, repeat. Sad, but that's my take.
The Ukrainian strategy is simple enough - offer no real concessions, negotiate as little as possible, and then run screaming to NATO that Russia does not want an end to the war. The plan ever always only was for NATO to come to the rescue, once thr number of Ukrainians to soak up Russian munitions started to run low, and that the United States would get roped in, rather than leave their poodles hanging out to dry.
And why not? For the Ukrainian leadership, the war has brought nothing but benefits. Before February of 2022, Zelenskii was the increasingly authoritarian ruler of a corrupt, backward, Nazi-infested dump. Now he is The Beacon Of Muh Democracy, the leader of a country so democratic that it need not bother with tiresome elections or pesky term limits.
Sure, it sucks for the dumb Ukrainian farmboys and factory workers who are press-ganged into the slaughter, but nobody in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev cares in the least about them. Hell, Putin probably cares more about them than any of their supposed leaders.
I don't agree. Americans got over the pathetic exit from Afghanistan.
As the economy tanks, Americans will have to come to terms with the loss of military power to maintain its economy and thus the disaster in Ukraine will be accepted and then the return to the main problem of slowing down the collapse of the empire
To be clear; from where I stand Americans in the USA looked on with a blank stare at the Afghan Exit…primarily because they simply have no clue. It’s not uncommon to hear the ‘Osama was hiding there’ narrative taught in public schools.
"Zelenskii and his handlers are quite clever at presenting outcomes that they win, either way' quote.
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Who are they impressing to what end? What has Ukraine acquired from this charade? Russia has simply satisfied pressure from its allies by turning up, and has used the opportunity to remind everyone just what its conditions for stopping the fighting, are. I cannot see any victory for Ukraine here. On the contrary a 'side' is always severely weakened when an ultimatum is given and then not applied, and as bad, Trump appears to have swivelled away from them and their european backers.... again!
Oh yes, they do win - they 'defence' contracts, 'missing' billions, minerals 'deals' plus higher military spending across the EU. Not to talk of the deception and manipulation of vast populations. And photo-oos on MSM.
These cretins actually revel in these wins, however morbid and disgusting it sounds to same folks.
That win has now been exhausted. It has passed its zenith and it is risk to the downside from hereon in, which is why various backers are now demanding to have their 'investments' made good. Meaning bailed out. By what dosh? Russian assets have already been raised as security. It is because the backers have no faith in that fund, they want hard bailouts now.
It has not been exhausted unfortunately. USA and european peoples are dumb as bricks. Whatever the TV tells them, they swallow it without questions. In face of fascism and tyranny, USA and european peoples look the other way, which is precisely why they are the most controlled and propagandized people on the planet and with the Ukraine war, they reached peak dumbness, because the peoples that so "proudly" claim to have "defeated nazis" are outright supporting nazis. There's no going back from this. With peoples like this, the only path for USA and Europe is pure dictatorship and fascism like never before seen. Romania was the starting point, where the so called "democracy" had canceled elections because the people "chose wrong"...but what were the consequences for the elites making those fascist "decisions" ? Absolutely nothing. Now the new western puppet in Romania will do exactly as he's told and romanians will do nothing to stop it. Same thing in other areas has happened across Europe throughout the years, with little to no protests from the peoples of Europe. And let's not even talk about USA, where full fascism is in effect for years, yet the mentally retarded USA people claim to be "free".
I can corroborate this. Every time there is a major push on the social engineering front in the USA , the masses rush to fill the battle chutes. People I once thought to have a modicum of intelligence and the potential to decode the propaganda stream have failed to do anything of the sort time and time again. I suppose it’s because they are subconsciously motivated to fit into whatever category is being offered them. To be fair, there is a significant portion of the populace that does not buy any of it.
It doesn't matter whether Ukraine is becoming more or less popular. What only matters is the elite consensus, and western elites are united as ever in the last 80 or so years.
I am not so sure. I wouldnt say they are united. There is a pyramidal structure which places them all. Look at what happen to Canada. Its so easy to replace one pawn with another. The overarching power structure which owns both Starmer and Macron, and many others has probably a lot to do which the powers which stupidly fast forced European and American companies out of Russia, probably the hedge funds which own a significant share of the corporations and can therefore threaten to leave the company if not obeyed.
You mean the incredibly wealthy junta in exile. Their kids, grandkids, and great grandkids will be roaring around Monaco in their Ferraris for generations to come, just like the wealthy progeny of the colonial West's African puppets who escaped Africa after helping the West loot their native countries.
But The west has been pillorying him in these terms since the start and it has not won over anyone or influenced anything. If anything, it has all become stale and tired as international support returns to Putin as this narrative loses any force it ever had. So hardly, FF unless you are saying that this is all the west has got in its toolbox so time to get it out and wave it around again! Not exactly a 'win'.
You're right, of course, hence I "liked" the post. But this part needs a key clarification:
"Zelenskii and his handlers are quite clever at presenting outcomes that they win, either way."
Those outcomes are only "won" if you believe in superficial bullshit and not reality. Reality is what happens on the ground. What the EU really hates about Russia is that Russia has changed the accepted rules, where reality had to follow bullshit no matter how stupid the bullshit. The EU's desired rules don't allow kinetic action. They think they should be able to walk up to anybody, announce that punching is not allowed, and then to go on insulting him however they like, spitting in his face, without any risk of losing all their teeth and having half their facial bones broken.
Russia has changed those rules. Now it's Russia's rules in play, that say if you don't accept Russia's ultimatums Russia will unleash war, and too bad for you if your toy militaries and de-industrialized economies can't handle that.
So fine, let the EU prance around thinking they've managed some wonderful outcome by "pressuring" Russia to accept their 30 day ceasefire and Russia rejecting that. Russia will take four more provinces and then it will pause to dictate even harsher terms of surrender.
Compare those 2 pictures and tell me who has his head down the most, who’s the most desperate, no not Zelensky but Napoleon, EU cabal, he’s the most Ukrainian fleeing from a Titanic France.
Really, it is obvious that Russia is not fighting Ukrainians, but Britain, France, Germany, "Europe," and institutional NATO in the US Pentagon. NATO and NATO nations need to get out of Ukraine. They are the cause of the war. Britain and their banks are more responsible for killing Russians than Zelensky, and the Euro clowns think they are untouchable. They are not serious because they are not afraid for themselves with their bunkers handy.
They are indeed the cause of the war, but they are getting what they want. They have an extremely dumb people dying for their interests, while they money launder like never before in the history of mankind. For all intents and purposes, the Ukraine project is the best proxy ever. They never had such dumb people do their biding before. Afghans saw this clearly and did not want to fight for the interests of evil western elites. Ukrainians however, are willing to die for evil western elites, while those elites make money off of them. Ukrainians should win Darwin Awards forever, from this point on. People so dumb that they prefer to go extinct, than to go against the western interests.
Here it is again. Calling Ukrainians “dumb.” This is absolutely false! This is the type of language that racists use. I can assure you that President Putin would never use such language, not even in private. One must understand the true meaning of what has happened and why.
When Zelensky won the presidential election in 2019 by a huge landslide, the voters in Ukraine, without Crimea and most of the Donbass, made their choice clear, and humiliated Poroshenko and his Western supporters. The great majority of the voters were Ukrainian Orthodox Christians who voted for peace, for an end to the civil war. Zelensky got on his knees before thousands, even millions, as the debate was televised, vowing to maje peace and stop the war. This was a crystal clear mandate to
implement the Minsk Accords!
Zelensky is on video before this time supporting the use of Russian for those that wanted to use it. He himself is a native Russian speaker. He also appeared on
video saying that “We [Ukrainians and Russians] are of one blood!”
ALL of his previous TV shows and movies were in Russian, not Ukrainian! He had previously appeared numerous times on KVN, a Russian-based comedy program
(since Soviet times) popular throughout the Former Soviet Union, and at least one of these times, he performed before President Putin, who was in the audience!
A Zelensky representative even told a high-ranking Ukrainian Orthodox bishop that Zelensky would accept baptism if he were elected president! The great majority of the people of Ukraine wanted peace, normal friendly relations with Russia as they had for decades since the collapse of the USSR (and of course for centuries previously), and always opposed NATO membership for Ukraine. (MILLIONS of people in Russia and Ukraine are related by blood, and have been for not just decades, but for centuries!
(Their common history is over 1,000 years old!!!)
When one looks at the map of the 2019 presidential election results, it was once more crystal clear what the great majority of people in Ukraine wanted! These results blasted the previous East-West/North-South linguistic divisions to smithereens! The voters were united to stop the war and to support peace!
Unfortunately, just months after being elected, Zelensky reneged on virtually his whole election platform. And the rest is history. He outdid Poroshenko in pursuing the war in the Donbass, and publicly supported the policies of the Neo-Nazi and other radical extremists who had threatened to kill him if he would follow through on his election platform.
Professor Ivan Katchanovski of the University of Ottawa traces the origins of the conflict brilliantly in his res search papers, articles, books, etc.
Oh please. Calling people dumb is what racists use ? You are overestimating what I said and underestimating ukrainian society.
Yes, I'm fully aware that there was brainwashing across Ukraine during many years. I'm fully aware of why Zelensky was "elected" (more on that later). And I'm also aware that Putin would not use such language. That's why he's a president of a country and I'm not. All this to say, I use the words I think are appropriate and "dumb" applied to ukrainians overall, is quite fair in my view.
Otherwise let's go through the events. In 2014, the nazis took over, thanks to USA / EU / NATO. Who fought back ? Mostly ethnic russians. If other non ethnic russians from Ukraine did so too, it was a tiny, tiny minority.
Let's get back to Zelensky's "election". His campaign staff had USA people in it, from the democratic party. That bitch that was supposed to be running the "ministry of truth" of pedo Biden, was part of Zelensky's campaign, not to mention the funding for his campaign, complete foreign puppet. This was known at the time, yet ukrainians believed in what the corrupt nazi dictator to-be, that had appeared on the Panama papers as receiver of mass money from western elites to be a western puppet to create and expand the war we see now. What did ukrainians overall did ? Absolutely nothing. Only people from eastern Ukraine fought back.
And then the SMO started, what did we see from parts of the ukrainian society, outside of eastern Ukraine ? Celebration of murders and terrorists attacks in eastern Ukraine and Russia.
Ukrainians are the evil ones, the racist ones, the dumb ones. Of course it's not ALL ukrainians, but this goes without saying. But Ukrainians overall are all this and they are responsible for the current state of affairs too. They supported the nazi regime or kept quiet about it, until it was too late. That's being dumb. You don't like the use of the word in this context, that's fine. But for me it perfectly fits what happened.
And look, if it makes you "feel" better, in the same situation, the portuguese people would do exactly the same as ukrainians, since they are sheep. In fact they would be worse than ukrainians, because at lesat some part of Ukraine fought back against nazism. In Portugal, everyone would roll over and support the nazis with fury, that's how dumb portuguese people are. But since we haven't gotten there yet, it's the ukrainians that take the cake. They are the dumbest right now.
Censorship is a beautiful thing. You tell people everyday about a small victory for your side, occasionally you mix in a small victory for the other side in order to seem neutral and people do the math and think their side is winning.
I have a subscription to the MSM newsletter. Every day one Ukraine war item and they nicely fit the template. I can recommend it, not for the news value but for understanding how the propaganda works.
Ukrainians still believe in majority that they will win. In most Western countries we see the same. If you believe that you are winning it is very hard to tell your countrymen that this is a battle that they shouldn't fight. It is also very hard to tell them that your side must make concessions to Russia when you believe you can have it all just by fighting a little longer.
That's what that quote says: "it's easier to fool people, than to convince them that they were fooled", which I find very accurate.
But falling for propaganda is no excuse for not trying to check it it's real or not. And a country at war has many means to do so. Size of cemeteries, increasing number of people that know people that died / were wounded in the war, people being taken off the streets by force, etc. Believing in obvious propaganda from their regime, is nothing short of ideological connection to that regime or just sheep mentality e.g. being dumb.
Regarding Putin’s language… I’m fluent in Russian (and mind, I’m pro-Putin in this conflict), and I can assure you that Putin doesn’t hold back - in the most recent interview he called the Western Leaders “cretins” or “idiots,” if you prefer since “придурки” covers both, who harm themselves to just harm Russia. I can assure you that while most times in his official speeches, Putin is very proper, he is no shrinking violet and calls a spade a spade!
I believe you. But my point was that as a non-president of a country, I don't really need to be diplomatic in my language, while Putin overall does. it doesn't mean he won't call a spade a spade when he has to, but when it comes to me, I really could care less about being diplomatic. If I think someone was dumb, I will call him/her dumb.
Years and years ago, I met a delegation of Russians in Berlin. They were amused to find that I speak Russian, even though I am an American domestic shorthair.
"But I thought all Americans were stupid?" asked a junior Russian to the Head Russian In Charge.
"No, in fact only about 95% of Americans are idiots. They aren't even the stupidest people on the planet." responded the HRIC.
"There are people even stupider than Americans? Who are they?" gasped the underling.
"Yes, europeans are even stupider than Americans."
I would put both (north americans and europeans) in the same bag of dumb. Overall, they are supremacists, that think they are better than everyone else and think they can decide what others can or cannot do, that they can impose rules on others, but they themselves don't need to follow them. Another word for them is fascists and since I find fascism dumb, well, there you have it :)
The biggest obstacle to peace both then and now, are the Banderites. Until this grouping has been purged from Ukrainian decision making there can be no peace or stability in the region.
It’s no surprise Russians refer to them as Khokhols, but it’s unfair to brand all Ukrainians as fools, they’re trapped under a fascist regime with a vicious SBU & corrupt police force enforcing compliance. The real culprits are the Banderites, concentrated in western Ukraine, who fuel this war. They serve as the violent enforcers, while the Ukrainian oligarchy acts as the middlemen, profiting from the chaos. Together, they push the Banderite fanaticism, the West’s obsession with destroying Russia, and the expendable role forced upon ordinary Ukrainians, who are nothing more than cannon fodder in this brutal game. Many are against this war, which is why the green goblin got elected in the first place on an election promise for peace, which was just a deliberate lie. Hence, Elensky has a massive security detail to protect him from his people.
I branded ukrainians in general as dumb, because the fact that Zelensky was a western puppet is known for many years. He appeared in the Panama papers, his campaign was filled with USA assets, including from the democratic party. And still ukrainians believed the nonsense a nazi dictator to-be western puppet said about "peace". That's dumb. I don't dismiss everything that led to this, on the contrary, I've made several videos about it for my channel, but a dictatorship and a puppet regime is not formed without the support of its people or with their silence. Look at the Afghans. The USA terrorists wanted the same for them, to be used as cannon fodder to fight for USA interests. They did not do it and did not fight for the USA terrorists. That's smart. Ukrainians overall did no such thing. In fact, did the exact opposite and are "accepting" they must go extinct to please their western masters. That's dumb.
calling the Ukranians dumb is extremely weak as an argument. Were the Germans under Hitler dumb? It is easy for you to pontificate from your armchair. All Portugese Algave resorts and hotels belong to British capital. Are the Portuguese people dumb? Is Portugal other thing that a British protectorate? I could go on and on. So peaple, show a little respect for the Ukranian people.
Yes, the germans under Hitler were dumb. Did you know Hitler was elected ? Probably a shock to you, but he was...Also, the germans continue to be dumb, as their society as a colony of USA, continues to go back to the fascist times of Hitler...because germans continue to choose fascists as their leaders. That's really dumb too.
Yes portuguese people are dumb. Did you know portuguese people have the highest vaccination rate of covid in Europe - 96% ? Did you know that despite all that is known about these vaccines and the problems they cause, portuguese people got instructions from their government to go take more, because there were left overs...and so they did...in 2025 ?
I think you still don't get it and don't understand what dumb means. And since I consider ukrainians overall, dumb, I cannot respect them. Someone that is ignorant, but is open to learn, to receive and process new information, is one thing. Someone that believes 100% their regime's propaganda and has no questions about it and in fact rejects any possible deviation from that narrative, is dumb. That's ukrainians overall.
And many Americans and Brits are even dumber. The problem is GARBAGE IN/ GARBAGE OUT. The West likes to eat Main Street Media GARBAGE because it is fashionable and safe, and you do trust science, don't you?
Ukrainians live under a dictatorial police state run by AZOV NAZIS complete with murder of journalists, total censorship of all media, targeting and murdering dissidents, no free speech, no freedom of religion. Zelensky is a dictator on a par with Hitler with his own SS and propagandists. They Shanghai their soldiers of the streets and throw them onto the front lines as meat for the grinder. UKRAINE IS RUN BY NAZIS. Blame them, not the Ukrainians.
I know all that, and I do blame them, but you underestimate ukrainian society in general. There are plenty of nazis that are not militarized, that support the miliarized nazis. "Regular" citizens that support the nazi dictator and nazi ideology, people that support thei murders, their terrorist attacks, that snitch on their neighbors.
You blame me for blaming all ukrainians (I didn't, I always say in general, not all), but you disregard that ukrainian society overall is/was geared towards fascism, towards nazism and the nazis wouldn't have so much power, without ukrainian people in general either supporting them or staying silent about it.
When I was a teenager, having moved back to Canada and never having met any Ukrainians while overseas, my classmates told me Ukrainians were stupid people. Needless to say my idealism fought back against such stereotypes. I came across the same sentiment at my university, and again when working in the provincial government. In almost all cases, after not being able to win me over, and likely because of my colour, they told me the Ukrainians were racists.
I'm beginning to think I need a time machine in order to apologise to them.
Indeed. That's how supremacists act all the time. And it's no just ukrainians. Every western "leader" is like that. They are dumb as bricks, but think they are the smartest to ever live!
You are correct on every score. Except that you fail to mention the apparent millions and mansions that have been accumulated by members of both the Kiev regime and their handlers.
And about who cares more for the ordinary Ukrainian? It's definitely the Kremlin. Which is precisely why they haven't unleashed a total war yet - as Trump himself has oddly but rightly noted.
Exactly. The Ukraine project is the best ever for western and ukrainian elites. Which is why they want to continue it at all costs and why Russia should accomodate to get rid of the disgusting ukrainian regime. Which is what I don't understand from russian strategy. Zelensky, Yermak, Syrsky, Budanov should be dead a long time ago, but they still live. A strong message would be sent to the next western puppets in Ukraine, in at least these 4 were eliminated. It's not that Russia doesn't have the means to do it, we've seen russian drones following Zelensky's caravan...So this is clearly a decision to not kill the nazi scum / western puppets in power in Ukraine
The Ukranian war is a case example of what happens to a country when conquered by capital: Parliamentary theatrics, corporate rule, mercenary press, disindustralization, hard asset privatisation, sovereignty loss, class divide, moral nihilism, social affairs turned to societal, spectacle entertainment, cognitive manipulation, history reinvention, family destruction, religion supression, drugs consumption, allover prostitution in every professional branch, from doctors to teachers to law enforcers. In a word, the rule of money as the supreme God. The real monotheism ruling every single country of the western empire of Mammon. At first, it is always attractive, like a party. There is thrill, there is excitement, there are hopeful promises... Then, there is a nightmare permanent hangover with no flying circus coming around... Just devastation. It happened in the Uk, in France, in the US shithole downtowns areas, in the huge caravan truck-life cities, all turned into police states. I am sincerely astonish that the Ukranian state is still standing.
At this point Russia is on it's way to being the most capitalist country on earth. It is working to establish stronger rule of property and law. It has a flat tax whose purpose is raising revenue not social engineering. It's central bank retains high interest rates for many reasons, but one of those reasons is certainly the understanding that Interest rates are central to entreprenurial decision making and signaling about where capital should be allocated. The Russian state works hard to control it's debt.
Talking of places like Ukraine or the US being examples of countries "conquered by capital" is the exact opposite of the facts. Ukraine is where Russia was in 1995 - in a gangster phase which Russia was able to dig itself out of after the USSR collapse.
The US is no longer an example of a capitalist economy but of one where capital is dying as a consequence of becoming a kind of democracy where the many vote themselves benefits paid for by the few and government intervenes at every level of society.
The meaning of your comment is a bit ambiguous so perhaps more comment is needed ? In fact I said:
"The US is no longer an example of a capitalist economy"
"Capitalism" is a term that is somehow intended by people to be pejorative, popularized in that sense by Marx. In fact "capitalism" is simply "free enterprise". The US still has elements of free enterprise but its in decline. Corporatism is not free enterprise. Corporate managers are not entrepreneurs. Wide share dispersion is not human ownership.
Russia used to have none of those elements in the USSR (after the NEP days anyway) and now has many of those elements. Of course it's free enterprise with Russian characteristics, but still productive and still in process. That is why they have been so successful and as private enterprise declines in the US we become less successful.
The USA like almost every other country in the world is a hybrid economy . It has elements of both capitalism (Markets) and Socialism (Social security , Medicare, government regulation etc) .As you pointed out its downfall is largely due to the lack of control on corporations and large funds . If you have enough money you are untouchable . Follow the money...
And that ukrainian "strategy" is nothing more than the western hubris at work, because NATO is already in Ukraine with thousands of troops and all military equipment is from NATO as well. It's quite irrelevant to talk about "NATO inserting troops into Ukraine", when thousands of them are there for many years, with increasing numbers since 2022. It won't make a difference, because NATO already supplied EVERYTHING to Ukraine. They have nothing to supply to Ukraine, except strategic weapons, which if they do, Russia will do the same and wipe out USA, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and all the other warmongering european vassals.
Despite all this, Russia is advancing and causing massive losses to the nazis in Ukraine. So many that the kidnapping of people off the streets in Ukraine does not compensate for their losses and even if it did, the nazis would be replenishing their losses with people with little to no training, making them little more than cannon fodder anyway.
So in reality, Ukraine's "strategy" and the western "strategy" is the same as always: propaganda. Have the western media e.g. the propaganda arm of western governments, spread lies about the state of the war and try to spin the fact the west is losing this poxy war against Russia, as a "stalemate" or in fact "a win for the west, because Russia is paying a high cost for tiny gains".
The "strategy" relies on the dumbness of north americans and europeans, which is absurdly high, to continue supporting the nazis in Ukraine. In Portugal, propaganda that "Russia bad and Ukraine good" is on 24/7. "Experts" are constantly talking about how Ukraine is holding on its own and Russia is barely managing to hold the territory it has in Ukraine...This is happening more than 3 years after the SMO started. And hundreds of millions of euros continue to be sent to the nazis in Ukraine, in effect money stolen from the dumb tax payers, that will be distributed between portuguese politicians that support the nazis in Ukraine and the corrupt scum in Ukraine (all of them ?). It should be an embarrassment for everyone to support nazis It should be an embarrassment for everyone to trust those that lie to you every single day (western media, western governments)...but no, the most propagandized people in the world - in USA and Europe - continue to support nazis and trust whatever the TV tells them.
Some people say people are much better informed today. I say people are much dumber today, than they were hundreds of years ago. No question about it.
I can't speak for the Portuguese people, but in the UK, outside of the talking heads and political classes, an increasing number of people simply don't trust the media.
If the BBC says it's blue, most of us assume it's purple at best and probably red.
I can accept that, but is it really so ? As far as I know, this trash in government now was "elected"...so if indeed the UK is a "democracy", the british people selected this trash in government now, which is able to be worse than the previous trash...If the british truly are not supportive of nazis, then they are doing a great job convincing everyone that they are.
The numbers voting in elections is barely more than 50% of those eligible nowadays and falling. And the reason is all our parties from Reform to the Greens are fundamentally servants of the Banks and the Establishment. It's a Henry Ford "any colour as long as it's black" situation.
We marched in our millions against invading Iraq, but it happened anyway. There is no appetite to support Israel's genocide, but we do it anyway. Ukraine is a more popular cause, but that doesn't make it popular. We aren't allowed a real choice any more than Romania is.
I also accept that. But that is my whole point. People aren't sheep just because they support a wrong cause. They are also sheep when they are quiet about it. If most people really were not happy about their government supporting nazis, they would do something about it. But western peoples overall were propagandized to become self centered, supremacist / egocentric and fascist. They don't really care about anything that isn't happening to them right now. And most will just follow the narrative and put ukraine flags on their social media profiles. When confronted about the fact they are supporting nazis, they will deny it and try to project that into russians.
Western peoples have all the defects of humankind and none of its potential qualities. The ability to have values, morals, conscience and empathy. Western peoples in general have none of these and have all the worst defects, like hypocrisy, deception, projection, greed and evil, the will to harm others they consider "inferior". And western peoples overall consider that everyone outside the west is "inferior". We even have that trash Borrell saying that in public - "Europe is a garden and everywhere else is a jungle" - Did you see an uproar to fire Borrell ? No such thing happened. In fact I saw people supporting it outright. Western peoples are full blown individuals concerned about themselves and only care about others, if those others are doing something they like, if those others liked their posts on social media, if when they say "Russia bad, Ukraine good" they get the dopamine dose they need to continue their slave lives, doing work for the company of some millionaire / billionaire that they claim to hate.
Despite the fact the ukrainian nazis were attempting a genocide and ethnic cleansing in eastern Ukraine since 2014, western peoples support the nazis that did it. The same people however will not support the genocide in Gaza.
Only western peoples can consider that one genocide is ok, but another is not, precisely because they lack values, morals, conscience, empathy and follow the narratives like sheep, wihout a single thought...or they support it with their silence. Only western organizations can deny the existence of human rights violations by the ukrainian nazis, when the people of Donbas complained to the european court of human rights, that proceeded to ignore all requests. At the same time, Russia taking children from a war zone is considered a "war crime" by the same western organizations...
Western peoples and UK people in particular should really do a deep dive and remember that Mitchell and Webb sketch (from their country) that asked the very apt question to all western peoples - "Are we the baddies ?" - The answer should be rhetorical, and it's 100% "yes".
Everything you say is true my friend, but not just of Westerners.
The Japanese lament the two nuclear strikes, but ignore Unit 731. The Russians condemn Hitler, but not the Campaigns in the Caucasus in the 19th century. All people are like this. Your terrorists, my freedom-fighters.
absolutely agree. The EU and NATO merged somewhere along the line, and by the time this war came to fruition for them they were already playing tag-team. Can't send missiles, NATO? Bad for your image as a defensive organization? Let us send them for you under the rubric of trade. The corrupt old guard is teetering in its power, its feet of clay exposed to all the world and they desperate to fend their fate off. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, "I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
I have one criticism of your words. The Ukrainian “farm boys and factor workers” are not “dumb.” They and most other Ukrainian men, from 18-60, are unfortunate victims of this terrible tragedy. The great majority of the Ukrainian people want peace, and never supported the events that directly led to this conflict, especially since late 2013, when sinister forces very actively worked to destroy Ukraine from within and without.
That's not the Ukrainian strategy, it is the Western strategy. The Ukraine is not allowed to make peace. Actually, it is Zelensky who is not allowed to make peace, for if he does either the neo-Nazis will finish him off of the CIA/MI6.
It’s no longer about Ukraine’s negotiating power; it’s about managing the optics of a forced climbdown. Russia entered these talks not to seek compromise but to test Europe’s appetite for reality. That test revealed exactly what Moscow expected: a desperate push for a ceasefire, not to end the war, but to freeze it and rearm the West’s proxy. In raw geopolitical terms, this is an attempt to shift initiative away from the one actor currently dictating terms on the ground.
Russia understands power isn’t just measured in kilometers gained, but in control of escalation, tempo, and future risk. A temporary truce would lock in Western forces and weapons in theater. Strategic suicide from Moscow’s perspective. In this game, only the side holding escalation dominance can afford patience. And right now, that’s Russia.
Europe’s calculus rests on the idea that time will eventually wear Russia down. But that logic collapses if Russia sustains force regeneration at scale while dictating battlefield pressure. At that point, the question is no longer whether Russia accepts a deal, but whether it even needs one. That’s leverage, and it’s shifting hard, whether the West admits it or not.
Said it before will say it again, the fortress at Brest held out longer than the whole of Western Europe, but we reckon the Russians will give up because they can't get BMWs and Champagne.
Yes, I think the much vaunted ‘Rooskies just want to be like the West’ ship sailed a while back. Today’s “West” states openly that it wants to Balkanize Russia and loot it, while it conducts ethnic cleansing-lite on the people of the Donbass. Kinda hard to put enough lipstick on that swine for the photo shoot….
Great tactical analysis albeit way too long. We understand Russia is kicking ass on the battlefield. This info can be links to detailed analysis for those interested. We believe what you are saying Simplicius already but don't need daily proof. The current geopolitical implications are the more interesting discussions IMHO... Chip
Shut up you potato. When you write analysis of quality, you do it in your own style. Maybe you will sound less of a self centred, pretentious twat, than you do now.
I also disagree and I do get updates daily from various sources (we know them all). Simplicius' summary is still extremely useful - it's like a time capsule in summarizing a week's worth of battlefield developments. Indeed, i can share Simplicius' weekly take on battlefield and political fronts with people who do not follow the minutia.
With respect, the hard, granular evidence is the whole point of Simplicius. It makes a stark contrast with the empty assertion and waffling bombast of the western legacy media, BBC, Telegraph, Spectator, Times, FT and all the rest of the neoliberal-Atlanticist propagandist dreck-peddlers.
Can't see the point of negotiations as the West is not agreement capable. As sure as night follows day they will immediately undermine any agreement as they have done so in the past.
Makes for good lessons for us armchair types….”How to do diplomacy with an enemy who is not agreement capable, while beating the snot out of their proxy” —-heady stuff.
From a macro point of view, this conflict is similar to the US Civil War. Despite winning almost all the major battles in the first 2 years, the South was ground down by the numerical and industrial advantage of the North. Russia has the same advantages, and the end result will be similar. Trump understands this, the EU is pretending it is not the case.
@Dick Minnis - you wrote comparing the South to Ukraine, "Despite winning almost all the major battles in the first 2 years"- what major battles (sans PR), Ukraine was winning?
You mis understood my point, or I didn’t make it clear. The South was overwhelmed by the North,'s manpower and industrial base as will Ukraine be overwhelmed by Russia's. The battle comment only referred to the Civil war.
I'm aware of the US civil War, I just don't see the correlation - The South was somewhat supported by Britain and France, while Ukraine's supported by all NATO, and still there were no real battles won by Ukraine against anything Russia really defended. Ukraine, at the beginning of the war, had the army 2nd in Europe only to Turkey, Russia went in with what - 100-150K ?
Not really. In fact Britain missed a huge opportunity in NOT supporting the Confederacy. Could have offered them a Royal Navy blockade of the North, full financial/ arms support and dominion status within the Empire, in return for phasing out slavery within 15 years. That said, Britain’s own Northern industrial classes were very much pro-Union and the economic disruption of a British blockade on the North would have been even greater than that of the Union blockade on the South.
But imagine! A Canada-style Dominion of the Southern States; the principle of self-determination of peoples assured; the Union penned in, permanently, between the Great Lakes, Mississippi and Mason-Dixon line; Abraham Lincoln, the Man of Blood who made war…. on his own peeepul… consigned to infamy; the monster of US Imperialism, smothered at birth.
I think it does. The theoretical size of the industrial base and population is irrelevant. The important thing is how much of that is being utilized. In the US Civil War the North was capable of vastly outproducing the South, and had a ready supply of immigrants to bolster their army. And used them. The West may have the theoretical capabilities today, but they are not being (and most likely cannot be) used. Even if the West as a whole took this very seriously and ramped up their armies and weapons production at the fastest rate they are capable of, it would never be done in time to affect the outcome.
Henry. According to the World population review the USA's share of global manufacturing is 15.87%, Germany's is 4.78%, Italy's is 1.85%France and Britain's is 1.65% each. That's about 24%.
When Western journalists whine how to understand Putin, but answer was clear - verbatim. He said 2 years ago, "the longer this war goes on, the harder it will for them to negotiate with us."
Dealing with the Euro-Nazis is like managing an unruly kindergarten class that not only came to school stoned but packing father's .357. Bigly sad. Bye-bye western pirates and galoots.
The Russian soldiers that return to civilian life when their contract ends, and don't renew, are still an asset. If Russia ever has to fight Nato - it will have many combat experienced fighters - and they will gladly enlist to defend their country, like their forefathers did in WWII.
Yes indeed they are. Both an asset in that they have proven their national feelings and are thus less likely to be bought by foreigners and the devil when they receive statel positions, and because as you say they are a trained force ready for future conflict.
Agree - bar the last dozen words. I’m not sure ‘gladly enlist’ is quite the phrase I’d use when faced with a draft notice from Comrade Stalin. If you didn’t ‘gladly’ enlist, you got shot in the back of the head by Beria’s NKVD. Even (indeed, especially) if you, say, heroically organised and led the defence of Leningrad, like Pyotr Popkov, showing enormous courage and initiative…. you were liable to get arrested, tortured and shot in the back of the head. Stalin and Beria didn’t like tall poppies; particularly if they were ethnic Russians. Georgy Zhukov was fortunate in being just a tad too great to frame and shoot, so they had to settle for internal exile instead.
I’m talking about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, with reference to the overly sunny clause ‘gladly enlist…like their forefathers did in WWII’: not the current SMO, where it is clear an accelerating number of young Russians are indeed willingly enlisting to do their bit in defence of the Motherland, and which I would likely do myself, if I were a Russian under 45.
Or are you simply arguing that rather than being shot of hand, 1941-45 draft-refusers would have had the choice of merely have been sent to freeze and starve in the Siberian Gulag - or of being placed in a Penal Battalion or forced out ahead in frontal attacks, with the further choice of either being machine-gunned by the Wehrmacht or by the Party Commissars behind them?
Angelina. Did you hear that apparently, the Ukrainian soldiers who marched at the 'VE Day celebrations in London did not report back to their unit and can't be found.
If true, I wish them the best of luck and a long happy life.
That’s brilliant, lol. A Ukrainian refugee in the UK was just arrested for three arson attacks on Stamars properties, one targeting a car owned by Starmer himself which was completely burnt out. The MSM is spinning it as if he’s upset over ‘not enough aid’ to Ukraine, but the truth is obvious: he’s protesting Starmer and the UK’s warmongering policies. This guy doesn’t want more war funding—he wants peace, unlike the elites pushing for endless conflict
There is another property which is referred to as connected to Starmer, maybe this is Lord Ali's property where Starmer stayed. Sounds well dodge, Starmer is a sick individual & not fit to be PM.
When the UK, France, Germany, and other countries decided to train Ukrainians outside of Ukraine, it was a sudden shock when they found out that desertion was a major issue. The Ukrainian recruits were eventually put under heavy guard at all the training sites. Literally thousands went over the wall, but this was hidden from the general public because that would go against the decietfull western narrative of brave Ukrainians volunteering when in fact many were violently kidnapped off the streets back home. To me it brings nothing but shame on the Western governments & absolute disgust.
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Agreed, I remember my youth several times a day, only to be forced back to reality by my body that refuses to do so likewise.
From the NATO point of view, if that 80 year old manages to soak up Russian shrapnel or a Russian bullet, then that 80 year old has fulfilled his sole purpose in life.
You think a farmer cares whether his cattle are old and just want to eat grass in a nice pasture somewhere?
Yes: it’s like listening to Goebbels broadcasting an uplifting message about the Volksturm.
When fighting agreement incapable opponents, vanquish them. That's the only viable option. Russia understands this simple fact. 1941, rinse, repeat. Sad, but that's my take.
No matter how long it takes.
The Ukrainian strategy is simple enough - offer no real concessions, negotiate as little as possible, and then run screaming to NATO that Russia does not want an end to the war. The plan ever always only was for NATO to come to the rescue, once thr number of Ukrainians to soak up Russian munitions started to run low, and that the United States would get roped in, rather than leave their poodles hanging out to dry.
And why not? For the Ukrainian leadership, the war has brought nothing but benefits. Before February of 2022, Zelenskii was the increasingly authoritarian ruler of a corrupt, backward, Nazi-infested dump. Now he is The Beacon Of Muh Democracy, the leader of a country so democratic that it need not bother with tiresome elections or pesky term limits.
Sure, it sucks for the dumb Ukrainian farmboys and factory workers who are press-ganged into the slaughter, but nobody in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev cares in the least about them. Hell, Putin probably cares more about them than any of their supposed leaders.
The entire point was to present Putin with a "peace deal" that he could not possibly, accept, then to pillory him for not accepting that peace deal.
Zelenskii and his handlers are quite clever at presenting outcomes that they win, either way.
All those years of working directly for the CIA
What the West is actually doing is cleverly maneuvering itself into a highly humiliating surrender.
A humiliating surrender is more dangerous to the American people than a dozen Elon Musks
I don't agree. Americans got over the pathetic exit from Afghanistan.
As the economy tanks, Americans will have to come to terms with the loss of military power to maintain its economy and thus the disaster in Ukraine will be accepted and then the return to the main problem of slowing down the collapse of the empire
To be clear; from where I stand Americans in the USA looked on with a blank stare at the Afghan Exit…primarily because they simply have no clue. It’s not uncommon to hear the ‘Osama was hiding there’ narrative taught in public schools.
"Zelenskii and his handlers are quite clever at presenting outcomes that they win, either way' quote.
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Who are they impressing to what end? What has Ukraine acquired from this charade? Russia has simply satisfied pressure from its allies by turning up, and has used the opportunity to remind everyone just what its conditions for stopping the fighting, are. I cannot see any victory for Ukraine here. On the contrary a 'side' is always severely weakened when an ultimatum is given and then not applied, and as bad, Trump appears to have swivelled away from them and their european backers.... again!
Oh yes, they do win - they 'defence' contracts, 'missing' billions, minerals 'deals' plus higher military spending across the EU. Not to talk of the deception and manipulation of vast populations. And photo-oos on MSM.
These cretins actually revel in these wins, however morbid and disgusting it sounds to same folks.
That win has now been exhausted. It has passed its zenith and it is risk to the downside from hereon in, which is why various backers are now demanding to have their 'investments' made good. Meaning bailed out. By what dosh? Russian assets have already been raised as security. It is because the backers have no faith in that fund, they want hard bailouts now.
It has not been exhausted unfortunately. USA and european peoples are dumb as bricks. Whatever the TV tells them, they swallow it without questions. In face of fascism and tyranny, USA and european peoples look the other way, which is precisely why they are the most controlled and propagandized people on the planet and with the Ukraine war, they reached peak dumbness, because the peoples that so "proudly" claim to have "defeated nazis" are outright supporting nazis. There's no going back from this. With peoples like this, the only path for USA and Europe is pure dictatorship and fascism like never before seen. Romania was the starting point, where the so called "democracy" had canceled elections because the people "chose wrong"...but what were the consequences for the elites making those fascist "decisions" ? Absolutely nothing. Now the new western puppet in Romania will do exactly as he's told and romanians will do nothing to stop it. Same thing in other areas has happened across Europe throughout the years, with little to no protests from the peoples of Europe. And let's not even talk about USA, where full fascism is in effect for years, yet the mentally retarded USA people claim to be "free".
Well put.
I can corroborate this. Every time there is a major push on the social engineering front in the USA , the masses rush to fill the battle chutes. People I once thought to have a modicum of intelligence and the potential to decode the propaganda stream have failed to do anything of the sort time and time again. I suppose it’s because they are subconsciously motivated to fit into whatever category is being offered them. To be fair, there is a significant portion of the populace that does not buy any of it.
Another dumb argument. Do you consider yourself a geopolitical expert calling people "dumb"? You are laughable.
Guardian readers are impressed. Fits the narrative of their publication.
The Guardian 's readership is tiny and powerless.
All this posturing for public opinion is pointless.
The Establishment can do as it pleases because our "democracy" is a sham.
Ukraine isn't getting more popular in the West, rather the opposite, so whatever victories are achieved in Istanbul don't matter.
The bottom line is that in due course the Russians will defeat Ukraine militarily and that will 'create a new reality'.
It doesn't matter whether Ukraine is becoming more or less popular. What only matters is the elite consensus, and western elites are united as ever in the last 80 or so years.
I am not so sure. I wouldnt say they are united. There is a pyramidal structure which places them all. Look at what happen to Canada. Its so easy to replace one pawn with another. The overarching power structure which owns both Starmer and Macron, and many others has probably a lot to do which the powers which stupidly fast forced European and American companies out of Russia, probably the hedge funds which own a significant share of the corporations and can therefore threaten to leave the company if not obeyed.
They will still be winning after Ukraine's capitulation. The winning government in exile.
You mean the Victorious government in exile
You mean the incredibly wealthy junta in exile. Their kids, grandkids, and great grandkids will be roaring around Monaco in their Ferraris for generations to come, just like the wealthy progeny of the colonial West's African puppets who escaped Africa after helping the West loot their native countries.
But The west has been pillorying him in these terms since the start and it has not won over anyone or influenced anything. If anything, it has all become stale and tired as international support returns to Putin as this narrative loses any force it ever had. So hardly, FF unless you are saying that this is all the west has got in its toolbox so time to get it out and wave it around again! Not exactly a 'win'.
Their only win is with the already loyal converted "Slava Ukraine" crowd, who are then sufficiently emboldened to call Putin a coward on social media.
It is so tiresome to here them crowing about the success of their team, when at least 60% of the victories are fake news or total fabrications.
You're right, of course, hence I "liked" the post. But this part needs a key clarification:
"Zelenskii and his handlers are quite clever at presenting outcomes that they win, either way."
Those outcomes are only "won" if you believe in superficial bullshit and not reality. Reality is what happens on the ground. What the EU really hates about Russia is that Russia has changed the accepted rules, where reality had to follow bullshit no matter how stupid the bullshit. The EU's desired rules don't allow kinetic action. They think they should be able to walk up to anybody, announce that punching is not allowed, and then to go on insulting him however they like, spitting in his face, without any risk of losing all their teeth and having half their facial bones broken.
Russia has changed those rules. Now it's Russia's rules in play, that say if you don't accept Russia's ultimatums Russia will unleash war, and too bad for you if your toy militaries and de-industrialized economies can't handle that.
So fine, let the EU prance around thinking they've managed some wonderful outcome by "pressuring" Russia to accept their 30 day ceasefire and Russia rejecting that. Russia will take four more provinces and then it will pause to dictate even harsher terms of surrender.
The EU response would be "so what is Russia waiting for then?"
Russia isn't waiting for anything. It is prosecuting exactly the war it wants in the way it wants, and winning.
NATO obviously is calling bullshit.
Compare those 2 pictures and tell me who has his head down the most, who’s the most desperate, no not Zelensky but Napoleon, EU cabal, he’s the most Ukrainian fleeing from a Titanic France.
He's the closest to the 'snuff' package.
Really, it is obvious that Russia is not fighting Ukrainians, but Britain, France, Germany, "Europe," and institutional NATO in the US Pentagon. NATO and NATO nations need to get out of Ukraine. They are the cause of the war. Britain and their banks are more responsible for killing Russians than Zelensky, and the Euro clowns think they are untouchable. They are not serious because they are not afraid for themselves with their bunkers handy.
They are indeed the cause of the war, but they are getting what they want. They have an extremely dumb people dying for their interests, while they money launder like never before in the history of mankind. For all intents and purposes, the Ukraine project is the best proxy ever. They never had such dumb people do their biding before. Afghans saw this clearly and did not want to fight for the interests of evil western elites. Ukrainians however, are willing to die for evil western elites, while those elites make money off of them. Ukrainians should win Darwin Awards forever, from this point on. People so dumb that they prefer to go extinct, than to go against the western interests.
The tragedy of the Ukrainians, Poles Estonians and Latvians is that they think they're us.
And they think that we think they're us too.
But we don't.
1938-39 shouId have taught them.
Yalta should have taught them.
You can trust us to talk a good game, but you can't trust us to deliver on our promises.
Here it is again. Calling Ukrainians “dumb.” This is absolutely false! This is the type of language that racists use. I can assure you that President Putin would never use such language, not even in private. One must understand the true meaning of what has happened and why.
When Zelensky won the presidential election in 2019 by a huge landslide, the voters in Ukraine, without Crimea and most of the Donbass, made their choice clear, and humiliated Poroshenko and his Western supporters. The great majority of the voters were Ukrainian Orthodox Christians who voted for peace, for an end to the civil war. Zelensky got on his knees before thousands, even millions, as the debate was televised, vowing to maje peace and stop the war. This was a crystal clear mandate to
implement the Minsk Accords!
Zelensky is on video before this time supporting the use of Russian for those that wanted to use it. He himself is a native Russian speaker. He also appeared on
video saying that “We [Ukrainians and Russians] are of one blood!”
ALL of his previous TV shows and movies were in Russian, not Ukrainian! He had previously appeared numerous times on KVN, a Russian-based comedy program
(since Soviet times) popular throughout the Former Soviet Union, and at least one of these times, he performed before President Putin, who was in the audience!
A Zelensky representative even told a high-ranking Ukrainian Orthodox bishop that Zelensky would accept baptism if he were elected president! The great majority of the people of Ukraine wanted peace, normal friendly relations with Russia as they had for decades since the collapse of the USSR (and of course for centuries previously), and always opposed NATO membership for Ukraine. (MILLIONS of people in Russia and Ukraine are related by blood, and have been for not just decades, but for centuries!
(Their common history is over 1,000 years old!!!)
When one looks at the map of the 2019 presidential election results, it was once more crystal clear what the great majority of people in Ukraine wanted! These results blasted the previous East-West/North-South linguistic divisions to smithereens! The voters were united to stop the war and to support peace!
Unfortunately, just months after being elected, Zelensky reneged on virtually his whole election platform. And the rest is history. He outdid Poroshenko in pursuing the war in the Donbass, and publicly supported the policies of the Neo-Nazi and other radical extremists who had threatened to kill him if he would follow through on his election platform.
Professor Ivan Katchanovski of the University of Ottawa traces the origins of the conflict brilliantly in his res search papers, articles, books, etc.
Oh please. Calling people dumb is what racists use ? You are overestimating what I said and underestimating ukrainian society.
Yes, I'm fully aware that there was brainwashing across Ukraine during many years. I'm fully aware of why Zelensky was "elected" (more on that later). And I'm also aware that Putin would not use such language. That's why he's a president of a country and I'm not. All this to say, I use the words I think are appropriate and "dumb" applied to ukrainians overall, is quite fair in my view.
Otherwise let's go through the events. In 2014, the nazis took over, thanks to USA / EU / NATO. Who fought back ? Mostly ethnic russians. If other non ethnic russians from Ukraine did so too, it was a tiny, tiny minority.
Let's get back to Zelensky's "election". His campaign staff had USA people in it, from the democratic party. That bitch that was supposed to be running the "ministry of truth" of pedo Biden, was part of Zelensky's campaign, not to mention the funding for his campaign, complete foreign puppet. This was known at the time, yet ukrainians believed in what the corrupt nazi dictator to-be, that had appeared on the Panama papers as receiver of mass money from western elites to be a western puppet to create and expand the war we see now. What did ukrainians overall did ? Absolutely nothing. Only people from eastern Ukraine fought back.
And then the SMO started, what did we see from parts of the ukrainian society, outside of eastern Ukraine ? Celebration of murders and terrorists attacks in eastern Ukraine and Russia.
Ukrainians are the evil ones, the racist ones, the dumb ones. Of course it's not ALL ukrainians, but this goes without saying. But Ukrainians overall are all this and they are responsible for the current state of affairs too. They supported the nazi regime or kept quiet about it, until it was too late. That's being dumb. You don't like the use of the word in this context, that's fine. But for me it perfectly fits what happened.
And look, if it makes you "feel" better, in the same situation, the portuguese people would do exactly the same as ukrainians, since they are sheep. In fact they would be worse than ukrainians, because at lesat some part of Ukraine fought back against nazism. In Portugal, everyone would roll over and support the nazis with fury, that's how dumb portuguese people are. But since we haven't gotten there yet, it's the ukrainians that take the cake. They are the dumbest right now.
Nicely done…papa6 can go take the “calling me dumb is racist” card and take a fuggin hike.
Censorship is a beautiful thing. You tell people everyday about a small victory for your side, occasionally you mix in a small victory for the other side in order to seem neutral and people do the math and think their side is winning.
I have a subscription to the MSM newsletter. Every day one Ukraine war item and they nicely fit the template. I can recommend it, not for the news value but for understanding how the propaganda works.
Ukrainians still believe in majority that they will win. In most Western countries we see the same. If you believe that you are winning it is very hard to tell your countrymen that this is a battle that they shouldn't fight. It is also very hard to tell them that your side must make concessions to Russia when you believe you can have it all just by fighting a little longer.
That's what that quote says: "it's easier to fool people, than to convince them that they were fooled", which I find very accurate.
But falling for propaganda is no excuse for not trying to check it it's real or not. And a country at war has many means to do so. Size of cemeteries, increasing number of people that know people that died / were wounded in the war, people being taken off the streets by force, etc. Believing in obvious propaganda from their regime, is nothing short of ideological connection to that regime or just sheep mentality e.g. being dumb.
Regarding Putin’s language… I’m fluent in Russian (and mind, I’m pro-Putin in this conflict), and I can assure you that Putin doesn’t hold back - in the most recent interview he called the Western Leaders “cretins” or “idiots,” if you prefer since “придурки” covers both, who harm themselves to just harm Russia. I can assure you that while most times in his official speeches, Putin is very proper, he is no shrinking violet and calls a spade a spade!
The key word here is “leaders.” If Putin called “most Ukrainians” stupid, he would be calling most Russians stupid.
How many here have experienced life in the USSR? Have actually lived in post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine, etc.?
I believe you. But my point was that as a non-president of a country, I don't really need to be diplomatic in my language, while Putin overall does. it doesn't mean he won't call a spade a spade when he has to, but when it comes to me, I really could care less about being diplomatic. If I think someone was dumb, I will call him/her dumb.
Ukrainians are about as stupid as Canadians.
Not dumb so much as brainwashed & compliant sheeple.
Same is true in America & across the entire "west".
Years and years ago, I met a delegation of Russians in Berlin. They were amused to find that I speak Russian, even though I am an American domestic shorthair.
"But I thought all Americans were stupid?" asked a junior Russian to the Head Russian In Charge.
"No, in fact only about 95% of Americans are idiots. They aren't even the stupidest people on the planet." responded the HRIC.
"There are people even stupider than Americans? Who are they?" gasped the underling.
"Yes, europeans are even stupider than Americans."
"That checks out!" - My dumb ass.
I would put both (north americans and europeans) in the same bag of dumb. Overall, they are supremacists, that think they are better than everyone else and think they can decide what others can or cannot do, that they can impose rules on others, but they themselves don't need to follow them. Another word for them is fascists and since I find fascism dumb, well, there you have it :)
Thats a meaningful comment, unlike the dumb caller.
The biggest obstacle to peace both then and now, are the Banderites. Until this grouping has been purged from Ukrainian decision making there can be no peace or stability in the region.
The sponsors of the banderites are also a big obstacle - meaning USA, Europe and all other USA vassals, like Canada and such.
Without them, the banderites would've not risen to power and not militarized like they did.
The biggest obstacle to peace is the western banking mafia.
The banderites are easily manipulated uber supremacist ideologues/cannon fodder.
There will be no peace in Ukraine until Russia has cleansed the western banking mafia from every square km of Ukraine.
When Russia has control of Ukraine, the western era of global domination ends.
It’s no surprise Russians refer to them as Khokhols, but it’s unfair to brand all Ukrainians as fools, they’re trapped under a fascist regime with a vicious SBU & corrupt police force enforcing compliance. The real culprits are the Banderites, concentrated in western Ukraine, who fuel this war. They serve as the violent enforcers, while the Ukrainian oligarchy acts as the middlemen, profiting from the chaos. Together, they push the Banderite fanaticism, the West’s obsession with destroying Russia, and the expendable role forced upon ordinary Ukrainians, who are nothing more than cannon fodder in this brutal game. Many are against this war, which is why the green goblin got elected in the first place on an election promise for peace, which was just a deliberate lie. Hence, Elensky has a massive security detail to protect him from his people.
I branded ukrainians in general as dumb, because the fact that Zelensky was a western puppet is known for many years. He appeared in the Panama papers, his campaign was filled with USA assets, including from the democratic party. And still ukrainians believed the nonsense a nazi dictator to-be western puppet said about "peace". That's dumb. I don't dismiss everything that led to this, on the contrary, I've made several videos about it for my channel, but a dictatorship and a puppet regime is not formed without the support of its people or with their silence. Look at the Afghans. The USA terrorists wanted the same for them, to be used as cannon fodder to fight for USA interests. They did not do it and did not fight for the USA terrorists. That's smart. Ukrainians overall did no such thing. In fact, did the exact opposite and are "accepting" they must go extinct to please their western masters. That's dumb.
calling the Ukranians dumb is extremely weak as an argument. Were the Germans under Hitler dumb? It is easy for you to pontificate from your armchair. All Portugese Algave resorts and hotels belong to British capital. Are the Portuguese people dumb? Is Portugal other thing that a British protectorate? I could go on and on. So peaple, show a little respect for the Ukranian people.
Yes, the germans under Hitler were dumb. Did you know Hitler was elected ? Probably a shock to you, but he was...Also, the germans continue to be dumb, as their society as a colony of USA, continues to go back to the fascist times of Hitler...because germans continue to choose fascists as their leaders. That's really dumb too.
Yes portuguese people are dumb. Did you know portuguese people have the highest vaccination rate of covid in Europe - 96% ? Did you know that despite all that is known about these vaccines and the problems they cause, portuguese people got instructions from their government to go take more, because there were left overs...and so they did...in 2025 ?
I think you still don't get it and don't understand what dumb means. And since I consider ukrainians overall, dumb, I cannot respect them. Someone that is ignorant, but is open to learn, to receive and process new information, is one thing. Someone that believes 100% their regime's propaganda and has no questions about it and in fact rejects any possible deviation from that narrative, is dumb. That's ukrainians overall.
And many Americans and Brits are even dumber. The problem is GARBAGE IN/ GARBAGE OUT. The West likes to eat Main Street Media GARBAGE because it is fashionable and safe, and you do trust science, don't you?
Ukrainians live under a dictatorial police state run by AZOV NAZIS complete with murder of journalists, total censorship of all media, targeting and murdering dissidents, no free speech, no freedom of religion. Zelensky is a dictator on a par with Hitler with his own SS and propagandists. They Shanghai their soldiers of the streets and throw them onto the front lines as meat for the grinder. UKRAINE IS RUN BY NAZIS. Blame them, not the Ukrainians.
I know all that, and I do blame them, but you underestimate ukrainian society in general. There are plenty of nazis that are not militarized, that support the miliarized nazis. "Regular" citizens that support the nazi dictator and nazi ideology, people that support thei murders, their terrorist attacks, that snitch on their neighbors.
You blame me for blaming all ukrainians (I didn't, I always say in general, not all), but you disregard that ukrainian society overall is/was geared towards fascism, towards nazism and the nazis wouldn't have so much power, without ukrainian people in general either supporting them or staying silent about it.
Spot on.
Biden himself said that if Ukraine looked like it was truly collapsing that they would have intervened directly. Recent comment.
As long as it's just words we're all tough guys, Bash my friend.
Just for a start, intervention into a collapsing front is very very difficult.
The parade of ramp ceremonies would have made for great television 😁
The Russian version of negotiation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyxxLHfBwE
The issue is that Ukrainians think they’re the smartest people in the room - the brainwave must be intense:-)
When I was a teenager, having moved back to Canada and never having met any Ukrainians while overseas, my classmates told me Ukrainians were stupid people. Needless to say my idealism fought back against such stereotypes. I came across the same sentiment at my university, and again when working in the provincial government. In almost all cases, after not being able to win me over, and likely because of my colour, they told me the Ukrainians were racists.
I'm beginning to think I need a time machine in order to apologise to them.
Indeed. That's how supremacists act all the time. And it's no just ukrainians. Every western "leader" is like that. They are dumb as bricks, but think they are the smartest to ever live!
A classic element of the criminal mindset.
You are correct on every score. Except that you fail to mention the apparent millions and mansions that have been accumulated by members of both the Kiev regime and their handlers.
And about who cares more for the ordinary Ukrainian? It's definitely the Kremlin. Which is precisely why they haven't unleashed a total war yet - as Trump himself has oddly but rightly noted.
Exactly. The Ukraine project is the best ever for western and ukrainian elites. Which is why they want to continue it at all costs and why Russia should accomodate to get rid of the disgusting ukrainian regime. Which is what I don't understand from russian strategy. Zelensky, Yermak, Syrsky, Budanov should be dead a long time ago, but they still live. A strong message would be sent to the next western puppets in Ukraine, in at least these 4 were eliminated. It's not that Russia doesn't have the means to do it, we've seen russian drones following Zelensky's caravan...So this is clearly a decision to not kill the nazi scum / western puppets in power in Ukraine
The Ukranian war is a case example of what happens to a country when conquered by capital: Parliamentary theatrics, corporate rule, mercenary press, disindustralization, hard asset privatisation, sovereignty loss, class divide, moral nihilism, social affairs turned to societal, spectacle entertainment, cognitive manipulation, history reinvention, family destruction, religion supression, drugs consumption, allover prostitution in every professional branch, from doctors to teachers to law enforcers. In a word, the rule of money as the supreme God. The real monotheism ruling every single country of the western empire of Mammon. At first, it is always attractive, like a party. There is thrill, there is excitement, there are hopeful promises... Then, there is a nightmare permanent hangover with no flying circus coming around... Just devastation. It happened in the Uk, in France, in the US shithole downtowns areas, in the huge caravan truck-life cities, all turned into police states. I am sincerely astonish that the Ukranian state is still standing.
Well put.
Spot on. Depressingly accurate.
At this point Russia is on it's way to being the most capitalist country on earth. It is working to establish stronger rule of property and law. It has a flat tax whose purpose is raising revenue not social engineering. It's central bank retains high interest rates for many reasons, but one of those reasons is certainly the understanding that Interest rates are central to entreprenurial decision making and signaling about where capital should be allocated. The Russian state works hard to control it's debt.
Talking of places like Ukraine or the US being examples of countries "conquered by capital" is the exact opposite of the facts. Ukraine is where Russia was in 1995 - in a gangster phase which Russia was able to dig itself out of after the USSR collapse.
The US is no longer an example of a capitalist economy but of one where capital is dying as a consequence of becoming a kind of democracy where the many vote themselves benefits paid for by the few and government intervenes at every level of society.
The US is not a capitalist country or economy... No more comment needed...
The meaning of your comment is a bit ambiguous so perhaps more comment is needed ? In fact I said:
"The US is no longer an example of a capitalist economy"
"Capitalism" is a term that is somehow intended by people to be pejorative, popularized in that sense by Marx. In fact "capitalism" is simply "free enterprise". The US still has elements of free enterprise but its in decline. Corporatism is not free enterprise. Corporate managers are not entrepreneurs. Wide share dispersion is not human ownership.
Russia used to have none of those elements in the USSR (after the NEP days anyway) and now has many of those elements. Of course it's free enterprise with Russian characteristics, but still productive and still in process. That is why they have been so successful and as private enterprise declines in the US we become less successful.
Yoni,
The USA like almost every other country in the world is a hybrid economy . It has elements of both capitalism (Markets) and Socialism (Social security , Medicare, government regulation etc) .As you pointed out its downfall is largely due to the lack of control on corporations and large funds . If you have enough money you are untouchable . Follow the money...
And that ukrainian "strategy" is nothing more than the western hubris at work, because NATO is already in Ukraine with thousands of troops and all military equipment is from NATO as well. It's quite irrelevant to talk about "NATO inserting troops into Ukraine", when thousands of them are there for many years, with increasing numbers since 2022. It won't make a difference, because NATO already supplied EVERYTHING to Ukraine. They have nothing to supply to Ukraine, except strategic weapons, which if they do, Russia will do the same and wipe out USA, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and all the other warmongering european vassals.
Despite all this, Russia is advancing and causing massive losses to the nazis in Ukraine. So many that the kidnapping of people off the streets in Ukraine does not compensate for their losses and even if it did, the nazis would be replenishing their losses with people with little to no training, making them little more than cannon fodder anyway.
So in reality, Ukraine's "strategy" and the western "strategy" is the same as always: propaganda. Have the western media e.g. the propaganda arm of western governments, spread lies about the state of the war and try to spin the fact the west is losing this poxy war against Russia, as a "stalemate" or in fact "a win for the west, because Russia is paying a high cost for tiny gains".
The "strategy" relies on the dumbness of north americans and europeans, which is absurdly high, to continue supporting the nazis in Ukraine. In Portugal, propaganda that "Russia bad and Ukraine good" is on 24/7. "Experts" are constantly talking about how Ukraine is holding on its own and Russia is barely managing to hold the territory it has in Ukraine...This is happening more than 3 years after the SMO started. And hundreds of millions of euros continue to be sent to the nazis in Ukraine, in effect money stolen from the dumb tax payers, that will be distributed between portuguese politicians that support the nazis in Ukraine and the corrupt scum in Ukraine (all of them ?). It should be an embarrassment for everyone to support nazis It should be an embarrassment for everyone to trust those that lie to you every single day (western media, western governments)...but no, the most propagandized people in the world - in USA and Europe - continue to support nazis and trust whatever the TV tells them.
Some people say people are much better informed today. I say people are much dumber today, than they were hundreds of years ago. No question about it.
I can't speak for the Portuguese people, but in the UK, outside of the talking heads and political classes, an increasing number of people simply don't trust the media.
If the BBC says it's blue, most of us assume it's purple at best and probably red.
I can accept that, but is it really so ? As far as I know, this trash in government now was "elected"...so if indeed the UK is a "democracy", the british people selected this trash in government now, which is able to be worse than the previous trash...If the british truly are not supportive of nazis, then they are doing a great job convincing everyone that they are.
Increasingly so in my opinion my friend.
The numbers voting in elections is barely more than 50% of those eligible nowadays and falling. And the reason is all our parties from Reform to the Greens are fundamentally servants of the Banks and the Establishment. It's a Henry Ford "any colour as long as it's black" situation.
We marched in our millions against invading Iraq, but it happened anyway. There is no appetite to support Israel's genocide, but we do it anyway. Ukraine is a more popular cause, but that doesn't make it popular. We aren't allowed a real choice any more than Romania is.
I can offer you Coke or Pepsi…
Seriously though, the signals I hear coming from the UK are not good….
It seems to me that the masks have come off and the curtains drawn back to reveal the stark brick wall….
I also accept that. But that is my whole point. People aren't sheep just because they support a wrong cause. They are also sheep when they are quiet about it. If most people really were not happy about their government supporting nazis, they would do something about it. But western peoples overall were propagandized to become self centered, supremacist / egocentric and fascist. They don't really care about anything that isn't happening to them right now. And most will just follow the narrative and put ukraine flags on their social media profiles. When confronted about the fact they are supporting nazis, they will deny it and try to project that into russians.
Western peoples have all the defects of humankind and none of its potential qualities. The ability to have values, morals, conscience and empathy. Western peoples in general have none of these and have all the worst defects, like hypocrisy, deception, projection, greed and evil, the will to harm others they consider "inferior". And western peoples overall consider that everyone outside the west is "inferior". We even have that trash Borrell saying that in public - "Europe is a garden and everywhere else is a jungle" - Did you see an uproar to fire Borrell ? No such thing happened. In fact I saw people supporting it outright. Western peoples are full blown individuals concerned about themselves and only care about others, if those others are doing something they like, if those others liked their posts on social media, if when they say "Russia bad, Ukraine good" they get the dopamine dose they need to continue their slave lives, doing work for the company of some millionaire / billionaire that they claim to hate.
Despite the fact the ukrainian nazis were attempting a genocide and ethnic cleansing in eastern Ukraine since 2014, western peoples support the nazis that did it. The same people however will not support the genocide in Gaza.
Only western peoples can consider that one genocide is ok, but another is not, precisely because they lack values, morals, conscience, empathy and follow the narratives like sheep, wihout a single thought...or they support it with their silence. Only western organizations can deny the existence of human rights violations by the ukrainian nazis, when the people of Donbas complained to the european court of human rights, that proceeded to ignore all requests. At the same time, Russia taking children from a war zone is considered a "war crime" by the same western organizations...
Western peoples and UK people in particular should really do a deep dive and remember that Mitchell and Webb sketch (from their country) that asked the very apt question to all western peoples - "Are we the baddies ?" - The answer should be rhetorical, and it's 100% "yes".
Everything you say is true my friend, but not just of Westerners.
The Japanese lament the two nuclear strikes, but ignore Unit 731. The Russians condemn Hitler, but not the Campaigns in the Caucasus in the 19th century. All people are like this. Your terrorists, my freedom-fighters.
absolutely agree. The EU and NATO merged somewhere along the line, and by the time this war came to fruition for them they were already playing tag-team. Can't send missiles, NATO? Bad for your image as a defensive organization? Let us send them for you under the rubric of trade. The corrupt old guard is teetering in its power, its feet of clay exposed to all the world and they desperate to fend their fate off. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, "I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Source: Shelley’s Poetry and Prose (1977)
I have one criticism of your words. The Ukrainian “farm boys and factor workers” are not “dumb.” They and most other Ukrainian men, from 18-60, are unfortunate victims of this terrible tragedy. The great majority of the Ukrainian people want peace, and never supported the events that directly led to this conflict, especially since late 2013, when sinister forces very actively worked to destroy Ukraine from within and without.
I may have to quote you on that…it’s just too good.
Go buck wild.
> The Ukrainian strategy is simple enough
That's not the Ukrainian strategy, it is the Western strategy. The Ukraine is not allowed to make peace. Actually, it is Zelensky who is not allowed to make peace, for if he does either the neo-Nazis will finish him off of the CIA/MI6.
You sure? I mean, Ghani is alive and well.
There's a time when splain'in becomes useless - just git'er done!
Love your name word play 😂.
I do love the EuroWeenies shuffling the titanic deck chairs though….makes for a chuckle.
Timofey Bordachev's piece in RT today sums it up..
"That arrogance has calcified into a kind of strategic illiteracy"
https://www.rt.com/news/617761-what-does-russia-have-to-gain/
It’s no longer about Ukraine’s negotiating power; it’s about managing the optics of a forced climbdown. Russia entered these talks not to seek compromise but to test Europe’s appetite for reality. That test revealed exactly what Moscow expected: a desperate push for a ceasefire, not to end the war, but to freeze it and rearm the West’s proxy. In raw geopolitical terms, this is an attempt to shift initiative away from the one actor currently dictating terms on the ground.
Russia understands power isn’t just measured in kilometers gained, but in control of escalation, tempo, and future risk. A temporary truce would lock in Western forces and weapons in theater. Strategic suicide from Moscow’s perspective. In this game, only the side holding escalation dominance can afford patience. And right now, that’s Russia.
Europe’s calculus rests on the idea that time will eventually wear Russia down. But that logic collapses if Russia sustains force regeneration at scale while dictating battlefield pressure. At that point, the question is no longer whether Russia accepts a deal, but whether it even needs one. That’s leverage, and it’s shifting hard, whether the West admits it or not.
Said it before will say it again, the fortress at Brest held out longer than the whole of Western Europe, but we reckon the Russians will give up because they can't get BMWs and Champagne.
Won't happen.
Agreed, and not even the flow of BMWs and champagne has been curtailed.
Yes, I think the much vaunted ‘Rooskies just want to be like the West’ ship sailed a while back. Today’s “West” states openly that it wants to Balkanize Russia and loot it, while it conducts ethnic cleansing-lite on the people of the Donbass. Kinda hard to put enough lipstick on that swine for the photo shoot….
Great tactical analysis albeit way too long. We understand Russia is kicking ass on the battlefield. This info can be links to detailed analysis for those interested. We believe what you are saying Simplicius already but don't need daily proof. The current geopolitical implications are the more interesting discussions IMHO... Chip
Disagree. The front line analysis is the best on the internet. Keep it coming.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying "don't provide it". I'm saying the details can be links for more in depth probing... Chip
Shut up you potato. When you write analysis of quality, you do it in your own style. Maybe you will sound less of a self centred, pretentious twat, than you do now.
Um fuck the straight off asshole... Chip
I come here for the detailed analyses, among other things. It's easy enough to scroll past on days I just want to get highlights.
I also disagree and I do get updates daily from various sources (we know them all). Simplicius' summary is still extremely useful - it's like a time capsule in summarizing a week's worth of battlefield developments. Indeed, i can share Simplicius' weekly take on battlefield and political fronts with people who do not follow the minutia.
So there - we win!
“Way too long FOR ME”
FIFY
ADHD is a helluva drug
With respect, the hard, granular evidence is the whole point of Simplicius. It makes a stark contrast with the empty assertion and waffling bombast of the western legacy media, BBC, Telegraph, Spectator, Times, FT and all the rest of the neoliberal-Atlanticist propagandist dreck-peddlers.
I don't disagree. I just think there are other ways to present it... Chip
Can't see the point of negotiations as the West is not agreement capable. As sure as night follows day they will immediately undermine any agreement as they have done so in the past.
Yet it is wise to play along.
Makes for good lessons for us armchair types….”How to do diplomacy with an enemy who is not agreement capable, while beating the snot out of their proxy” —-heady stuff.
True, but politics are involved, and distasteful as that might seem, politics are very important.
Please update the jewSA loss to the Houthis.
From a macro point of view, this conflict is similar to the US Civil War. Despite winning almost all the major battles in the first 2 years, the South was ground down by the numerical and industrial advantage of the North. Russia has the same advantages, and the end result will be similar. Trump understands this, the EU is pretending it is not the case.
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
@Dick Minnis - you wrote comparing the South to Ukraine, "Despite winning almost all the major battles in the first 2 years"- what major battles (sans PR), Ukraine was winning?
You mis understood my point, or I didn’t make it clear. The South was overwhelmed by the North,'s manpower and industrial base as will Ukraine be overwhelmed by Russia's. The battle comment only referred to the Civil war.
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I'm aware of the US civil War, I just don't see the correlation - The South was somewhat supported by Britain and France, while Ukraine's supported by all NATO, and still there were no real battles won by Ukraine against anything Russia really defended. Ukraine, at the beginning of the war, had the army 2nd in Europe only to Turkey, Russia went in with what - 100-150K ?
Not really. In fact Britain missed a huge opportunity in NOT supporting the Confederacy. Could have offered them a Royal Navy blockade of the North, full financial/ arms support and dominion status within the Empire, in return for phasing out slavery within 15 years. That said, Britain’s own Northern industrial classes were very much pro-Union and the economic disruption of a British blockade on the North would have been even greater than that of the Union blockade on the South.
But imagine! A Canada-style Dominion of the Southern States; the principle of self-determination of peoples assured; the Union penned in, permanently, between the Great Lakes, Mississippi and Mason-Dixon line; Abraham Lincoln, the Man of Blood who made war…. on his own peeepul… consigned to infamy; the monster of US Imperialism, smothered at birth.
Dick, if Russia is fighting NATO, or even just the EU, then Russia is out numbered and theoretically has a smaller industrial base.
Your analogy doesn't really work mate, unfortunately.
I think it does. The theoretical size of the industrial base and population is irrelevant. The important thing is how much of that is being utilized. In the US Civil War the North was capable of vastly outproducing the South, and had a ready supply of immigrants to bolster their army. And used them. The West may have the theoretical capabilities today, but they are not being (and most likely cannot be) used. Even if the West as a whole took this very seriously and ramped up their armies and weapons production at the fastest rate they are capable of, it would never be done in time to affect the outcome.
"Smaller industrial base"
That is simply not true. Russia outproduces all of nato by 400%.
Henry. According to the World population review the USA's share of global manufacturing is 15.87%, Germany's is 4.78%, Italy's is 1.85%France and Britain's is 1.65% each. That's about 24%.
Russia's share is 1.83%.
That's a smaller Industrial base.
When Western journalists whine how to understand Putin, but answer was clear - verbatim. He said 2 years ago, "the longer this war goes on, the harder it will for them to negotiate with us."
Putin has been nothing BUT consistent.
Probably part of the reason the European leaders hate him so much.
Yes. This is the era of 'The Man Without Qualities' (R. Musil).
The blank ruling class seems detached from real life and entirely lacks anything that could be described as character, individuality or interest.
Who on earth is going to write biographies of the European ruling class?
or the urge for prosperity for their respective nations and its people.
Chat GPT will be their natural biographer.
Shameless sycophants:-)
One has to be careful not to mistake sycophants for true friends.
Dealing with the Euro-Nazis is like managing an unruly kindergarten class that not only came to school stoned but packing father's .357. Bigly sad. Bye-bye western pirates and galoots.
Regarding General Mordichev, Isn't him thought by many to be "future president" of Russia?
No. Definitely not him. I guess you meant Alexey Dyumin, currently the
secretary of the State Council of Russia.
This general and Dyumin are the candidate. I think it's going to be Dyumin after Mishustin.
The Russian soldiers that return to civilian life when their contract ends, and don't renew, are still an asset. If Russia ever has to fight Nato - it will have many combat experienced fighters - and they will gladly enlist to defend their country, like their forefathers did in WWII.
They are already fighting NATO
Yes indeed they are. Both an asset in that they have proven their national feelings and are thus less likely to be bought by foreigners and the devil when they receive statel positions, and because as you say they are a trained force ready for future conflict.
Agree - bar the last dozen words. I’m not sure ‘gladly enlist’ is quite the phrase I’d use when faced with a draft notice from Comrade Stalin. If you didn’t ‘gladly’ enlist, you got shot in the back of the head by Beria’s NKVD. Even (indeed, especially) if you, say, heroically organised and led the defence of Leningrad, like Pyotr Popkov, showing enormous courage and initiative…. you were liable to get arrested, tortured and shot in the back of the head. Stalin and Beria didn’t like tall poppies; particularly if they were ethnic Russians. Georgy Zhukov was fortunate in being just a tad too great to frame and shoot, so they had to settle for internal exile instead.
He had the last laugh, though...
No.
"Draft evasion, or the avoidance of military service, could lead to consequences like imprisonment or forced military service."
I’m talking about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, with reference to the overly sunny clause ‘gladly enlist…like their forefathers did in WWII’: not the current SMO, where it is clear an accelerating number of young Russians are indeed willingly enlisting to do their bit in defence of the Motherland, and which I would likely do myself, if I were a Russian under 45.
Or are you simply arguing that rather than being shot of hand, 1941-45 draft-refusers would have had the choice of merely have been sent to freeze and starve in the Siberian Gulag - or of being placed in a Penal Battalion or forced out ahead in frontal attacks, with the further choice of either being machine-gunned by the Wehrmacht or by the Party Commissars behind them?
Oh well then, ‘glad enlistment’ for me!
Good for you!
Well said, tovarich. Onwards to Berlin!
😊
Putin no longer has the cards, he has Donald’s balls, he has his own Ukraine’s, Gaza, Greenland, Canada and a crumbling EU, bad business.
cope, sarah, cope harder
Uh?
A decree must be issued for the Ukrainian negotiators to wear either Hugo Boss designed
Nazi Uniforms or normal suits. At least the Nazis got style, Ukrainian bratva look sloppy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM6ONsblCGg
Angelina. Did you hear that apparently, the Ukrainian soldiers who marched at the 'VE Day celebrations in London did not report back to their unit and can't be found.
If true, I wish them the best of luck and a long happy life.
That’s brilliant, lol. A Ukrainian refugee in the UK was just arrested for three arson attacks on Stamars properties, one targeting a car owned by Starmer himself which was completely burnt out. The MSM is spinning it as if he’s upset over ‘not enough aid’ to Ukraine, but the truth is obvious: he’s protesting Starmer and the UK’s warmongering policies. This guy doesn’t want more war funding—he wants peace, unlike the elites pushing for endless conflict
It is not clear to me what his goals were. But he seems to be a rather fanatic Ukrainian nationalist.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/127507
Maybe he wanted Stamer to sell him his house/car but when he refused..:-)
"to sell him" ? That's not the nazi style. He was mad that when he demanded Starmer give him his house/car that Starmer refused.
Maybe Stramer was offering his wife in addition but Zelensky refused? :-)
He was Starmer's gay prostitute. That's how he knew where he lives.
There is another property which is referred to as connected to Starmer, maybe this is Lord Ali's property where Starmer stayed. Sounds well dodge, Starmer is a sick individual & not fit to be PM.
Indeed! They probably stayed behind to order tailored suits:-)
Link?
I read it on Facebook.
When the UK, France, Germany, and other countries decided to train Ukrainians outside of Ukraine, it was a sudden shock when they found out that desertion was a major issue. The Ukrainian recruits were eventually put under heavy guard at all the training sites. Literally thousands went over the wall, but this was hidden from the general public because that would go against the decietfull western narrative of brave Ukrainians volunteering when in fact many were violently kidnapped off the streets back home. To me it brings nothing but shame on the Western governments & absolute disgust.
Acting like gaolers to your allies is pretty shameful.