Russian strikes have been ravaging Ukrainian cities for the past few days, hitting what reports claim has been a combination of energy infrastructure and weapons manufacturing hubs.
I do wonder Simp whether a point has or can be reach where an attritional war is a positive and the loss of civilians is to be demurred at or a sigh is significant enough and a turn towards the West or as is at present an acceptance of the memorandum from the arch enemy of dajjal is a solutions to the ongoing slaughter of wives and children.
The term Zanon is now being used what is your thoughts in regards this phenomena?
Let me preface my comment on the basis of not having read this latest posting and that up to this point in time civilian deaths have been put to the side and been discussed as whether it is an act of war or terrorism. In the destruction of a passenger train and the bridge above or below and the destruction of 90 year old heavy lift bombers and their connection to the nuclear triad it seems the acceptance of the memorandum is still paramount and continuing negotiations with dajjal is a consideration above all else.
In regards Qanon it appears to not be in existence any longer but Zanon it still prevalent, one could propose as to why but my thoughts were more around the reason for the existence of Zanon at all. What was Girkins crimes and why was he jailed when he was committed solely to the creation of Novorossiya and not an attack on Russia but its handling of the Donbass situation 10 years ago.
A continuation of the present situation of civilian deaths cannot be a positive along side negotiations with the perpetrator or its string puller.
Are you aware of a war without civilian deaths? Civilian deaths will stop when the war stops, but the war can't stop until its objectives have been met.
Not always. After WWII stopped, the OUN bands were knifing the entire villages in the Western Ukraine till the mid-1950s, when they're finally apprehended, sent in gulag and Khrushchev pardoned them in the 1960s
In the Beskid borderarea Poland/Slovakia/Ukraine, these marauding OUN remnants hiding in the huge mountain forests continued with that, until a joint military operation in the sixties smoked them out finally. Then they went underground, supported by the German Bundesnachrichtendienst in close CIA cooperation.
They were fighting in South East Poland too till Polish Army removed all the villagers from the area stripping the Banderites of food this way. The whole thing was called Operation Vistula.
You stopped short when listing a condition for ending war. Assuming the objectives of the West is partition of Russia or installing a Zelensky like puppet I suppose this would mean extraordinary amount of violence (especially partition) but even if no major violence were due in case of puppet installation in Kreml there would be long term repercussions of decaying Russian state in such case, similar in fact to the stuff that the way Middle America and northern parts of South American. On the other hand I suspect that collapse of Zelensky's regime would not yield a peace simp0ly because the trained staff would still be available and the money and orders from the West too.
ZAnon refers to the "trust the plan" and even smug attitude that certain commentators in the pro Russia camp maintain. Chief among them IMHO is Andrei Martyanov.
These people make all sorts of excuses for Russia. When someone points out something that doesn't make sense about the narrative or any predictions of theirs that didn't come to fruition, these charlatans tend to lash out with name calling in the respective comments sections.
I donno - I think there are plenty of Russian speaking Ukrainians this does not make them Russians. Whether there is a significant Russian leaning population on the West side of the river is difficult to say. I suppose there are some but do not know how big that group is. There are other minorities in Ukraine.
Once you are in the army you mostly follow orders. The drone operators hitting civilians or blowing up a bridge while a passenger train was coming is really difficult to explain as a military action. But I am not sure what I would do if an a.le with a gun stood on my side.
The Ukraine conflict may go down in history as one of the lowest civilian to combatant ratio killed in modern history, except for the Keiv regime which deliberately targets civilians or hides behind them.
Very true FF but the world believes otherwise and I wonder whether holding the moral high ground in these dangerous times is beneficial to the Russian people.
Multiple Ukrainian and NAFO Channels on X today were touting another successful "Operation Spiderweb" attack, releasing drones from the tops of grain cars against a military train. They allege that 13 tanks and over 100 military vehicles were damaged. No drone footage so far though, which makes me suspicious.
Yes, I've seen, but there is no evidence of it yet so seemed pointless to post. They posted videos of the real 'Spiderweb' immediately. Some obscure Russian channel claimed to 'confirm' it but there's no further confirmation from the Russian side, so we'll have to wait and see.
“Hotels with athletes gone”,,,Zelinsky and NATO imaginations have excelled themselves here, after Assad bombing his own pet shops and nurseries, Qaddafi bombing children’s homes,,
Lutsk Repair Plant! Underground drone manufacturing base! Patriot batteries! Shazam!!! Of course, all these targets were known about well before the various Ukrainian attacks, and therefore should have been on Russia's target list regardless. Once again, it's BAU (business-as-usual) for Señor Putin.
It's all far past disappointing. The good guys we thought we could depend on have turned Mexican...
I wholeheartedly concur Eric, it appears targets are found and tagged for a future retribution when it is too hard to acquiesce to the build of destruction and civilian deaths, even when accepting a memorandum.
If the information is correct and it is true that the AFU had 91,000 deserters in the last five months that is the beginning of the end. This rate would be proportionally a lot higher than desertions in the US Civil War of 1861. I have also seen an article today stating that Oleg Nomerovskiy a military leader of the forced collection of civilian men into the AFU was killed. His car was blown up on the road between Odessa and Beresovka.
In 1864 and 1865, forced enlistment of boys under 18 and men over 40 in the remaining Confederate territory was resisted by killing local leaders of the Conscription Bureau. In January 1865, Captain Zeke Stewart was killed on the street in Ashville, Alabama in a gunfight with deserters. His replacement, Lt. Joseph Hargett, saw the light and concentrated on keeping his command's profile low for the duration. After May 1865 many scores were settled by the loyalists, aka Tories. There will likewise be many scores settled when Ukraine collapses, which is good because only Ukrainians can root out the Banderites.
I don't think one "roots out" parasitical Zionists but rather one gently removes them being careful to not leave the head, much like any other tick.
And please, when referring to the genocidal maniacs that are in constant baby killing mode in the middle east, don't refer to them by the religion some of the residents believe in but call them for what they are, that being "Zionists". Look carefully and you will see these Zionists attacking real believers in Judaism within the country the two "camps" share.
I am sure the conscription residtance incidents and attacks to the drafting squads have been much more numerous but have been hidden for propaganda purposes. They will only be known with the nazis out.
There is still a 4th hypothesis to explain Ukraine's holding on: Mercenaries. They are being increasingly spotted at the front. Consider the conquest of Assad's Syria was achieved thanks to reportedly from 200 to 300 thousand "yihadist beheaders", in fact mercenaries from Irak, Lybia, Sudan, Tunis, Xinjiang, Chechenya, Morocco, Jordan, Turkiye, Lebanon, Arabia and Syria itself. The colombians in UKraine claim they are being paid circa 4000 dollars a month. For 200 thousand mercs makes 800 million a month, around 10 billion a year. Perfectly affordable for the EU-UK-USA combo. By the way, the line about Ukraine being involved in North Stream was bizarrely misleading. Who can believe that? The future history books of a winning NATO empire?
The Nord Stream explosions took place at a water depth between 70 and 80 meters. They required a total of 400 to 500 kg military grade explosive and specially trained divers to dive with multiple tanks to operate at that depth. The problem is that the operation could have been carried out from the 50 feet sailboat Andromeda operated by Ukrainians or by any number of nations owning mini-submarines operable from navy boats. The related coverage by controlled Western media is trying to muddy the available information by injecting absurd stories about Russian involvement even. The Russians were the least likely players here as it was in their best interest to preserve the pipelines for future use. The most likely culprits is the US/UK duo. The US has an uninterrupted long record of attacking nations with large fossil fuel exports in order to remove them from the market.
I have never understood why that story continued to be discussed and new hypotheses floated, when Seymour Hersh painstakingly unraveled the whole plot barely 6 months after the event, and various independent journalists corroborated individual elements of his story.
The open blatant prediction/promise by Biden himself was the full stop moment for me. It's similar to the "Unprovoked" line that still gets jammed down our throats.
What baffles me most though is who that pipeline act of war was most directed at, Germany or Russia?
That computer users can be convinced that Russia blew up their own future is very discouraging to me, is common sense dead?
The most obvious conclusion? For me the centralized control of the whole world is being pursued. Expect dirty tricks and heartless cruelty.
The Saudis were assigning 5 billion dollars a year to pay mercenaries in Yemen. Same for Qatar in Syria. I mean these are relatively small amounts that can be easily discounted from the budget in order to make the war last. That could work in Ukraine to. I only read about 4 to 5 K Polish and a similar number of colombians. For the anglosphere and French, there must be a few thousands too. These number could be increased in the months to come. Of course, many of them are not real mercenaries, but undercover troops. I think this is the only viable option Ukraine has.
Let me know when we see Polish hospitals being crammed with wounded mercenaries, thousands of Polish wives, girlfriends and mothers demanding answers, etc..
It's also possible that those are not desertions, but rathat KIAs that Zelensky doesn't want to pay for. That's the same reason why they refused to accept 6000 AFU dead bodies from the Russians.
I saw that !!! But these cables probably kill more than they help - its just another collateral damage. They need to be cut- the soldiers didn't pull on it but had to cut it. that was a good choice for which one to cut. But they will get around animals legs - although how many animals could there even be in those woods now I wonder
Just typical westerner BS suffering such outrage over the wildlife while we have the US/NATO/EU funding, planning and attacking civilians in Russia and the same for a Genocide in Palestine. You know what "we" in the west need?? Our family members destroyed by missiles while driving to work in the morning. Maybe then people will wake up to reality
Just the usual crap by the usual suspects who know nothing of war, or of life on a frontier, for that matter.
It's tiresome. Take a walk in the real world where people are struggling for survival and animal welfare is meaningless, unless it impacts warfare such as pack animals.
No, we certainly don't "need" that. Actually I don't even know why that stupid war is still going on. Lots of people (and animals) dying for no reason whatsoever, except some harebrained scheme by politicians, who do not fight, to "extend Russia" or whatever was the idea that didn't even work. It has certainly not benefitted Ukrainians in any way. But I'm not sure it's good for Russia either. The only ones who have made a killing, pardon the pun, are weapon manufactures, who keep inventing new ways of making the rubes kill each other, now with "fibre optic drones". I care more about wildlife.
A single strand of glass fiber optic cable has a breaking strength similar to 10 lb. fishing line. If you've ever seen birds and small animals tangled/snared by fishing line? The whole zone of contact must be a death trap for wildlife vulnerable to this. Additionally, plastic fishing line degrades from UV and even eventually undergoes bacterial attack- But glass will probably last for centuries.
War always sucked, modern warfare is sucking in whole new ways.
yes Billy - to say nothing of under the water - here is a totally fantatic inteview with the Romanian guy Cailin Georgescu - the interview was conducted by Reiner Fuellmich - now in prison in Germany for something fraudulent - I mean the charges against him- and this interview with Cailin Georgescu shows Cailin's knowlege about nature and the environment - that was his position in the UN - Environment - https://www.bitchute.com/video/wZ4qOS7Z3lGf/ - but his election win was wiped out by the powers that be. Its a horrifying picture Cailin gives of the underwater trawling...omg. We humans, when we group together in a corporation are world destroyers. That's what war is now - corporate warfare. All those filthy ways to kill humans are coming out of corporations.
Part way through. Lots of true or plausible information, a dew odd notes I couldn't believe without verification too.
I would question if Marshallese Islanders typically lived to 180 - 200 years old before the Western atmospheric and underwater nuclear testing started in the 1940s.
I might believe that those Islanders surviving to adulthood typically lived to be 80 - 100 if not physically injured in the time before imported diseases (and vices) penetrated their culture. Living off of imported processed food in a radiologically contaminated environment, using tobacco and alcohol as they now do, the statistics show they die around age 60 on a average- And their leading causes of death are cancer and diabetes, followed by imported diseases and "lifestyle" diseases related to drugs, alcohol and sedentary lives (no more substance agriculture, fishing and gathering for food to keep them active/fit, working in tourism or menial factory work, eating imported junk food and watch TV).
that's awesome - keep going. it gets better and better towards the end. I find Reiner a bit annoying - sometimes he interrupts during an expose. About the lifespan of the Islanders. I'm not sure if they used to eat processed foods. Maybe not until the US barged into their shores. There's an island off the coast of Nova Scotia where there are horses that raportedly live to be 80 years old. Under very harsh circumstances. Not sure about that either but who can prove ? What he says about pedophilia in the UN - ' They're all of them pedophiles all of them " I found shocking - but Reiner didn't want to go there. Thanks for watching Billy
Seriously! Kremlin, Putin, Russia need to stop bombing the bloody shit out of Ukraine, it's like slapping and punching the little kid who keeps stealing your candy and pulling your pants down, but he's being pushed and ruled by a bigger bully. They will never seriously address the CORE problem. Such a waste of time... dump Putin.
Let us review GM's positions on issues. 1) He thinks climate change is a major global problem. 2) He thinks that the world population should be reduced to 500 million. 3) He wants Putin removed from power. 4) He thinks that Russia should launch a limited first-strike nuclear attack on NATO countries that invites a full-scale nuclear response.
Are these the positions of a Russian patriot? A generic internet troll? No... these are the exact positions of the Dr. Strangeloves among the Western oligarchy and intelligence apparatus. So, who is GM? A Russian patriot? No. A generic internet troll? No. He is an intelligence operative running a disinformation campaign to try to drum up support among dissident Russian expats and English speakers for the removal of Putin.
His consistency makes me wonder if he's a 'traditional troll', rather just someone with an honest, if somewhat skewed, version of reality?
I don't agree with his POV, but he is consistent in his narrative. I think we just have to be terrified that there are people just like him in Western think tanks except pro-NATO bias.
"To achieve our aims the easiest we will adopt plan C, which is to nuke everything east of Berlin to the Russian border. That will prevent Russian expansion".
They're the kind of people you wouldn't put in charge of a PC game lol, let alone Reality.
One of the last things General Douglas MacArthur did before he FINALLY got sacked was to propose using cobalt "salted" nuclear bombs along their border to isolate North Korea from China. Apparently he was serious in his belief that this was do-able and a good strategy.
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"His plan was to drop between 30 and 50 atomic bombs-strung across the neck of Manchuria, and spread behind us, from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea- a belt of radioactive cobalt for at least 60 years there would be no invasion of Korea from the North. The Russians, he claimed, would be intimidated by this and do nothing."
Well, SOMETHING had to be done: "I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
Do you want to just die a slow death by a thousand cuts inflicted on you by the real enemy through a proxy?
And no, Russia will not get incinerated if this is played right.
There is a clear winning move here that arises from one of the two key fundamental asymmetries here -- the US is fighting through proxies, Russia is fighting on its own soil -- and from the other fundamental factor behind all this, which is that the US will go to the brink of nuclear war, but will not cross that line if it is sure that it will die too. Better alive and without empire than dead.
This means that Russia can eliminate the proxies with nukes (that includes France and the UK, and in fact eliminating those, if it is technically feasible, would send the strongest possible message) as well as the US presence in Eurasia, and the US will then take the loss and stand down because all that will be left then is to strike directly at Russia, ensuring their own death. But it has to be played right -- a well coordinated operation to disarm France and the UK (assuming the Kremlin goes for them too and does not limit itself to the non-nuclear proxies) and a massive IRBM and hypersonic cruise missile strike on NATO and the US in Eurasia.
Again, a fundamental asymmetry -- the US cares less about its proxies than Russia does about itself.
But as I mentioned, there are two of these asymmetries. The other one works against Russia, and so far the West is very skillfully exploiting it, and decisively winning the war as a result. Just as it won the Cold War by exploiting the same weakness.
Which is that Russian elites have fundamentally misaligned interests with those of the country as a whole. This is expressed symbolically in the fact that they have more residential property in London than in Moscow, thus London is likely off limits for nukes for that reason alone, but the deeper issue is that Western elites are fighting this war in order to preserve their own status and the system that benefits them (to this end, they must loot Russia's resources), while if Russian elites are to begin fighting the war seriously, they will have to replace the current system that benefits them with something in which there will be no place for them. Something smelling of that dirty unspeakable "Stalinism" word.
Russia's tragedy is that the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, then in 1929 Stalin said "We have a decade to catch up with the West, or we will be destroyed for good in the coming big war", in 1939 the war started, in 1941 Stalin was still caught with his pants down, but had done his job preparing the country in the 1930s, so it prevailed eventually, albeit at a catastrophic cost. But Putin took power in 1999, tried to suck up to the West, that did not work, then he gave that speech in 2007, which was a clear evidence he knew a big war is coming, but he never prepared the country for that inevitable pending big war, and did not begin the process of preparation even after the war started. Which is how and why it is so easy for someone to send trucks loaded with drones all over the giant country, approach the most sensitive military bases, and hit them very badly. With those trucks never being stopped anywhere other than by heroic bystanders.
Plus the moratorium on fighting seriously that seems to have been imposed by the Russian oligarchy.
This is the price Russia is paying for being capitalist, and it will be its downfall. But current leadership is ideologically committed to that, so there will be no changes. Plus it's too late anyway, because the missiles are about to start flying into Russia very soon, there is no time to be changing the socioeconomic system, and very little time to begin mobilizing seriously.
Imagine how things would be in Soviet times.
First, there would be no oligarchs with mansions in the UK, dual citizenship with Israel, and all sorts of other compromising connections, hanging around Putin and telling him what to do. The moment the country was under threat the Politburo would get together, issue the necessary directives, and the problem would be dealt with decisively. In fact, it would be dealt with decisively long before it got to the point where the country is directly attacked -- this was the essence of the actions in 1956, 1968 and in Afghanistan.
Second, the kind of internal security that existed back then would make Operation Spiderweb impossible. Both because the KGB was good at doing its job (note that the Ukrainian SBU is the direct descendant of the Ukrainian KGB, only with the sign flipped, while the Russian KGB was disbanded and the FSB and SVR refounded from scratch, with all the loss in competence and continuity that entails) and because the economic system itself would not allow it. Take a look at how this was done -- someone founded a private company in Chelyabinsk, rented a warehouse, did whatever he wanted there with no supervision, built the trucks there, then hired people to drive them to Murmansk and Irkutsk. That is simply not happening in the USSR because all warehouses and trucks would be under the control of some state enterprise. Private individuals would simply not have the access to resources to pull this off. Thus this whole attack vector would be cut off. You would perhaps be able to launch a small number of drones from private cars, but that would be a very small number of drones, and even that supply chain would be under very tight control making that difficult too.
In Putin's Russia? It's a free for all, total anarchy, no internal security. In the fourth year of a war for Russia's very survival...
I will spare you and me the disection of your rant, the flaws it has are too many...
Just that much: Russia is not at war, Russia is doing an SMO, probably now converted into a ATO, since that speech of President Putin last week.
You can't have freedom and a thriving economy if you bind costly resources to a surveillance of your population that is, in majority loyal and patriotic.
How that's going to work out we will see very soon in the west - use of Palantier on a great scale - against your own population.
What's a continious riddle to me; why the Russians are so stupid and do everything wrong whilst you (and some others) seem to perfectly know what needs to be done?
Especially the talk about nukes is telling me that you have no clue about the consequences of the use of such a weapon.
By the way, thank you for wanting to try to kill me or at least make me die slowly on radioactive contaminated land, since I live where the consrquences of such a strike would occur.
Look, the nuclear triad was rather successfully attacked, and a triple digit number of light cruise missiles (euphemistically called "drones") flies into Russia every night, with at least one or two industrial objects being hit in each such raid.
Western long-range GMLRS is firing 100 km into Russia, and has pushed Russian AD even deeper, as a result of which Western aviation is dropping guided bombs onto Russian territory as part of combined arms operations to seize Russian territory (Tetkino is almost lost by now).
And the front lines are barely moving.
Ukraine has not been demilitarized, has not been denazified, and has not in any way been removed as a threat. The precise opposite of all that has happened.
These are the empirical, rather hard to argue with, "results" in the fourth year of Russia doing an SMO and "not being at war".
I don't claim to be the all-knowing expert who is certain to win this if put in charge (although there are also a lot of obvious concrete steps to be taken to solve the problem that should definitely help, but for some mysterious reasons are not taken), but I sure as hell know that the current leadership has failed catastrophically.
"... the current leadership has failed catastrophically."
I don't live in Russia and I am not an expert in Russian matters, but I would think that it was rather Yeltsin and Gorbachev who failed catastrophically and that Putin was the leader who has saved Russia. That is the reason why he is so hated in the West. He drove away the vultures that were feasting on Russia's corpse.
If only in the rest of Europe we had a leader like Putin, a man who really cares about his country, we would not be in the process of becoming a part of Africa and the Middle East. If you are a Russian, be grateful, GM. Politicians like Putin are rare.
The kremlin made a terrible mistake launching a half passed invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with a military that was woefully small for the task set it. Never mind the stupidity of leaving hundreds of billions of your sovereign assets in the hands of western financial institutions. Why were those assets not withdrawn from the West?
The kremlin fails to understand that the imperialist West only understands and respects force. You are wasting your time with diplomacy with them. Empires in decline, like the US, cannot be trusted or reasoned with. They will never give up on the goal of destroying Russia which they've had since the October Revolution of 1917.
Putin like Yeltsin, Gorbachev all tried at different times to appease the imperialist West. It is a fools errand trying to do so.
Apologist for Putin fail to understand that the patience of the Russian people with the war is not limitless. The continuation of terrorist attacks will undermine support for putins government which is exactly what Kiev is counting on.
Wars are easy to get involved in but difficult to bring to an end. From a military perspective it would make sense to try and end the war this year especially with the threat of a global economic recession increasing by the day.
After the start of the special military operation, Russia’s elites realized they were no longer welcome in the West when their assets began being seized. This is precisely why the outflow of capital from Russia to the West came to a halt.
Instead, these elites began reinvesting their money inside Russia, opening new factories and production facilities. Just look at how much has been built over the years of military conflict.
This is why none of the elites now sympathize with the West or care to mourn for London. In Russia, they live more comfortably-and more securely.
Well, it was not possible in USSR because remote drone technology did not exist back then. So all the credit goes to the engineers. Now every child can launch a drone, it's insanely easy to do terror attacks using them, and that was something obvious even to someone like me who is as far from anything military as can get. Unless humankind finds an antidote to them, it will only get worse.
But there is an Ukrainian unit within Russian forces. Mostly civilians.
As to Ukrainian deserters, they do run within country. Some go to a region near Chernobyl nuclear plant which is not controlled by TCC. That is an empty town, with furnished flats. Food collected from forests.
Some deserters cross through Carpatian Mountains to Romania or Belorus
>Some deserters cross through Carpatian Mountains to Romania
Where they get hunted mercilessly by border guards, shooting to kill.
In fact, the whole border is fenced with barbed wire, watchtower, armed guards, etc. in the best traditions of the Cold War, but that is to keep people in, not out. Democracy and all...
They are already being hired, but for much more sinister purposes than policing the Mexican border. Keep in mind how Ukraine was subjugated with basically 10,000 or so armed thugs recruited from football hooligans and other such groups. It really wasn't all that much more than that prior to 2014. But certain oligarchs saw the value in raising these private armies, and they existed. And they were the ones who went out on the streets in Odessa, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, etc. and started cracking heads and making sure anybody not happy with Banderization would stay quiet. Since then they expanded enormously, and after the war started even more so.
So now imagine what happens if the war continues under the same rules of engagement but Russia is somehow victorious (it's hard to see how, but for the sake of argument). The Ukro-Nazis are pushed to the Polish border, and then they run away into Poland and spread around Europe. You think tens of thousands of highly ideologically motivated Nazis, well trained in real combat, will just easily integrate into the civilian population? You are in for a rude awakening.
They will be used by the Western oligarchs to be their muscle in order to crack down on whatever dissent there might be in the West. It's not a hypothesis at all, it is already being prepared.
Yet another reason why it is imperative for Russia to immediately cut off the borders, and physically exterminate all these people. Not because the sheep in the West do not deserve what is going to happen to them, but because the presence of those people in the West will eventually come back to bite Russia itself too.
I’ve seen footage of a unit composed only of former Ukrainian POWs who volunteered to fight in their words "fight against the Zelensky regime & against foreign influences" I've seen several different sources on this but here's Patrick Lancaster's report.
Ex- Ukrainian Soldiers Fighting Against Ukraine Forces React to Donald Trump's Peace plan
This is how the NATO-european commentary goes: Yah boo sucks, Russia won't do anything. It is all bluff. We can escalate as much as we like. Scaredy cat! Send in more missiles.......
Then the strikes.
FOUL. UNFAIR. IT MUST STOP. when is America going to do SOMETHING TO STOP THIS? PEOPLE ARE BEING KILLED!
The West's assessment has been wrong from the start - President Putin is still there, the more than 20 thousand sanctions did not bring Russia to their knees. NATO is bleeding dry of weaponry and losing mercenaries on a still rising scale.
Russia is advancing on the whole line of contact, the Black sea fleet is still intact and acting.
Every war comes with losses but the west and it's proxy Ukraine is not on the winning road as it seems obvious even to western observers.
Precisely, still there, executing Russia's controlled demolition.
>NATO is bleeding dry of weaponry
What sort of a braindead imbecile does not one have to be to seriously think this? The weaponry that NATO is "bleeding dry" of has absolutely no relevance to a Russia-NATO war. Russia's much smaller and weaker air force being attrited and its air defense being pushed back and bled dry of ammunition and launchers is what matters much more here.
>Russia is advancing on the whole line of contact
At a speed at which it will take a century to finish the war.
>the Black sea fleet is still intact and acting.
The BSF has been pushed out of Crimea while shipping to Odessa proceeds unimpeded, including of large quantities of weapons.
You sound like the Führer: and if the Russ says we have no air force, we have so many planes that the birds have to walk on the ground when our mighty air fleet is above Moscow :-)
Who said taking ground at large speed is a sign of victory? Nothing learned from the 'Blitzkrieg'?
You are full of assumptions and statements - nothing of substance just making claims that lack evidence.
Shipping to Odessa ending up in sunken ships and burning warehouses, if my information is correct.
What does it matter if the BSF is not present on Crimea as much as it used to be as long as it is doing the job?
It has 20% of the planes NATO does, a much smaller satellite constellation, weaker data link integration, and no forward deployment.
Empirical facts.
>Shipping to Odessa ending up in sunken ships and burning warehouses, if my information is correct.
It is not correct.
>What does it matter if the BSF is not present on Crimea as much as it used to be as long as it is doing the job?
Because it is not doing its job. It would be doing its job if all shipping to Odessa was fully controlled by it and if Russian shipping was safe. Neither of these are true.
Well from what I can find online, the Russia air force is almost as big as the USAF: about 1,800 combat jets to 2,100. You can add another 630 for the US Navy and 350 for the USMC, counting those in a training role. The technological quality looks comparable, too - though Russian serviceability rates and ordnance supplies are probably higher.
You can add a paltry 200 or so Eurofighters for the RAF and a couple of dozen dodgy VTOL F-35s for the FAA that require so much maintenance, the RN can scarcely afford to fly them. Roughly similar strengths for France and Germany, Poland and Italy. European NATO? I don’t know, 1,500 fast jets total? The number they can get into the air and maintain in action for more than a week or so, however, will be a lot smaller.
On paper, you might just stagger up close to a 4:1 advantage IF you included all other US vassal states and close associates - Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia (maybe 2,000 max, altogether)- but if you did that, you might as well chuck in China (another 2,700 combat jets, lots modern), North Korea (450-odd, but very dated) and Iran (300-odd, better but still mostly 1970s airframes) on Russia’s side of the ledger. It's the stuff of fantasy.
The USSA has most of the globe to cover and as is always the case with its demented wars of choice, the opposition is fighting on its home ground. What Russia has available to defend itself is more than equal to what the NATO Pact can practically attack it with. ISTM that Russia has more than enough conventional airpower (and everything else) to see off NATO Pact aggression in Eurasia.
The usual GM BS. If Putin executes the programme Russian demolition why the last retaliation strikes are for? Are they even real? Perfect case of 6th columnist provocator pushing for WWIII. Exactly the intentions of the UK terrorist strategy. Which is miserably failing... 4 long summer months of programmed Russian demolition and Putin's betrayal ahead...
See, you just demonstrated your catastrophic failure to understand what is happening.
What retaliation strikes?
They struck ammunition stores and weapon production facilities.
How is that "retaliation"?
There is in fact a major scandal here -- why was all that not blown up already?
And an even bigger scandal behind it -- why are all the other such objects not being touched (and there are a lot of them)?
Who issued the orders for them to be off limits? Because you can be certain that there are such orders -- the junior officers who plan these missions have all such objects on the target lists, no doubt about that. But they have to be approved by the higher ups too.
This is what controlled demolition looks like.
Start a war, don't fight it seriously, lose the war.
I might fail to understand... I am not a member of the Russian HQ. Contrary to you who understand but mislead and lie in order to create a defeatish narrative for Russia as if any single success they achieve was worth it of even real. Its easy for anyone to see, what you are playing at and where you are writing from and for who.
The issue is Russia is not losing. They are not fighting the conflict for your entertainment. They fight the conflict to achieve their own objectives, of which I am sure you don't have a clue.. Though you can continue creating your own reality in your own little world. Some of us just don't run on assumption and do understand there is a much bigger picture than the western bluff and bluster or Ukrainian PR. Wars are won by destroying the enemy both militarily and economically but you seem to be blind to the economic realities of what is unfolding globally.
If Russia launches Ukrainian-style terrorist outrages in ‘retaliation’, it will make no difference to the Kiev junta: in fact, they’d be delighted. It’d only be more propaganda fodder for Kiev.
There may well be a case for ‘decapitation’ strikes against the junta and for warning blows against the UK, France, Germany and the Baltics, but these are fraught with unpredictable consequences and Putin and Lavrov are calm, conservative men. Disgusted as they no doubt are by MI6/ the Zelensky junta’s tactics, I think it suits them - both personally and diplomatically, considering the BRICS/ Global South - to maintain the moral high ground and leave terrorism to the West. They are playing a long, cool-headed game and they are winning. They have taken a few low blows, but it won’t affect the end result: soon enough, they are going to win by a brutal KO and they know it.
The problem is that now Russia can kill every Ukrainian soldier and still lose the war. Frankly, I think we passed the the no return point and get ready to do without electricity, water, communications, transportation, food, or money. Our Dem and Neocon Congress persons want us dead while they hide in bunkers. That's Dem Democracy.
Yep: a steaming pile of kemp; total and utter concoughlin.
And to think I used to pay money to subscribe to that risible, shameless Atlantic Council lie trumpet… Jesus. And the Times and FT are the rest are no better. Our ‘independent’ Yookay press now contains about as much truth as a 1955 copy of Pravda.
Well, I sacked the DT about 18 months ago. For the previous year or two, I’d maintained a sub at a discount rate, mainly for the fun of lampooning the deranged rubbish spouted by hacks like Coughlin, Kemp, Galeotti, McGlynn, Axe, Hannan, Heffer and all the rest of those slimy Atlantic Council loons. And I wasn’t alone: probably about 1/3 of the BTL commenters saw through them, at least to some degree.
At the equally deranged Spectator (another organ I have since sacked), whose readership is better educated than the DT’s, the proportion of sceptics was more like 50%: and their comments were far more extensive, intelligent and showed much more engagement with the actual facts than those of the Ukraine-boosters.
In both cases, the UKraine-boosters - to judge by their snarky tone, poor English, profound ignorance of basic world facts and tendency to respond to any UKraine-scepticism, however well reasoned, by squealing 'Russian troll' - generally came across as quite young, bitter and brainwashed. I took them to be some sort of orchestrated RICU/ 77 Brigade troll farm, mostly semi-literate and otherwise unemployed recent Humanities graduates, from crap pseudoversities, hired to maintain the illusion of public consent for the UK Deep State’s proxy war.
Look at any Ukraine story on the BBC (inevitably loaded to be pro-Kiev) where there is a 'Have Your Say’ capability. Dig down a bit and you’ll see ample evidence of public dissent - but the point is, to find it, you have to tab through a mass of higher-ranked, ‘most popular’ slava Ukraine bilge, blahing on about putting eevil Putin on trial and vile orcs and making Russia pay reparations and why hasn’t Russia been ‘kicked out of the UN’ and high taxes are a tiny price to pay to defeat Russia etc etc - all churned out, I strongly suspect, by a battalion of UK.gov-funded stooges who are all up-voting each other’s comments.
This approach is probably ‘working’ to a certain extent, but at the cost of severely damaging the MSM’s ever-shrinking public credibility. But if you’re Head of News at the BBC or editor of the DT, what do you care about that? In two years time, they’ll both be in different jobs somewhere else - possibly with, ooh, an OBE from King Charles, too, if they loyally toe the line; and in five years, the DT and BBC will both likely be defunct anyway. And just imagine the shitstorm that would fall on their heads, the amount of trouble and grief they’d be in, if they started publishing the truth… They’d be sacked and probably arrested and interrogated by Special Branch as Russian propagandists and possibly prosecuted and debanked and travel-banned and at any rate would be terminally cancelled and would never find employment in the western MSM again. So, follow the line of least resistance, proclaim your fearless independence, keep lying in your readers’ faces and collect the rewards a corrupt and all-pervasive system offers.
But in the long run, of course, the MSM is committing suicide. More and more people now understand that for the truth of things, you have to go to dissident voices (whether ‘right’ or ‘left’) on Substack (booming), Youtube and Rumble: Greenwald, Macgregor, Carlson, Varoufakis, all the Judge Napolitano crew, and so on.
Excellent comment. I also took advantage of free Telegraph subscriptions just to gauge the sheer scale of propaganda. While I expected bias, the level of derangement still shocked me. The paper was infested with armchair generals, most of whom likely never served, uncritically swallowing and regurgitating state-approved narratives with venomous Russophobia.
Whenever I countered with facts, the response was predictable: screeches of “Putin stooge!” or “traitor!” The delusional bravado about the UK’s military prowess (from keyboard warriors who’ve never seen combat) was pure hubris. Only a handful of commenters—maybe five—offered a realistic analysis of this Western-orchestrated conflict.
I made a point of mocking them as NPCs incapable of critical thought, utterly enslaved to MSM propaganda. Predictably, I was banned just as my free subscription expired, no loss there. The Telegraph, like the rest of the legacy media, is a sinking ship. The truth now lies with dissident voices outside the system.
Yes. In the early days of the SMO i got "hi Ivan, how's the weather in St Petersberg?" Every time I spoke out. Then I got nothing at all and I realised my posts were invisible.
I wonder if the loathsome Kemp is still making his " most moral army in the world" claim?
Yes, even by Telegraph standards, Kemp is a veritable turd in a suit.
Well, he (and a dozen-strong posse of retired NATO Brigadiers and Major-Generals too stupid and/ or lazy to get any real work) are still employed by the ‘High-Level Military Group’. This, rather laughably, tries to pass itself off as an independent NGO; but its 100% Israeli State allegiance and funding and its role as a committed front for the genocidal Beitarist Jabotinskyite Kahahism of the Netenyahu-Smotrich regime are as plain as a pikestaff.
The utter stupidity of the NATO officer and the Cocaine Führer allowing footage of the underground drone factory to be filmed. Everyone knows Russia has blueprints of all Soviet structures.
Most Ukrainian MIC operations are running smoothly on the surface, not even in bunkers, and nobody is touching them, including in front line cities such as Kharkov.
Why would they fear about a bunker in the center of Kiev being hit?
Some examples:
-- "Impuls" plant in Shostka in Sumy. It makes detonators and various other such things, and is the only such supplier in Ukraine. It was only struck in November 2024, and it is not even clear whether it was to shut it down, or because they were using it is an ATACMS storage/launch site. And I am not sure even after they sent a few Iskanders there is has been permanently taken out. How is it possible to not destroy something like that located within glide bomb range? Ask Putin...
-- The Antonov plant in Kiev, where the Ukrainian long-range drones are made. Those first started making an appearance in 2023. In May 2025 it is seriously hit for the first time. After dozens of Russian refineries were hit, countless civilians killed in their apartments, and an enormous expenditure of air defense assets shooting down those drones. How is that possible? Well...
-- Tank factory in Kharkov. It was a key staging point for the 2022 Ukrainian offensive, Russian Telegram channels were screaming for it to be hit, nobody bothered, we know what happened. Then it continued to work, it was hit from time to time with a single missile (which doesn't do all that much, these are giant facilities that need grid bombing with heavy ammunitions; which in Kharkov's case is possible, because it is so close to the front lines that FABs with UMPKs can fly), but as far as I know it still operates.
Motor Sich in Zaporozhye and Yuzhmash in Dnepropetrovsk are similar situations.
Putin is not a general. Do you understand the difference between a political leader and a military leader? It is the responsibility of the military personnel, generals, colonels, etc.... to plan and execute the war. The only responsibility that Putin bears is to select the senior military personnel.
Putin has shaken up various elements of the command several times: trying to find someone who will attack instead of piddling around, pissing around, and dawdling. He is not the first political leader to have difficulty finding generals who would get off their asses and do something. It is common problem in wartime for political leaders.
The problem is not Putin. It is the senior people in the military. Every indication is that there is nothing left of the Ukrainian army. The front-line is a hollow shell; most of the troops morale is effectively 0, and most of them will flee at the first sign of trouble; they have no more artillery; their air-defense systems are mostly depleted; and they have nothing left but pickup trucks to move troops and supplies. So, why is Russia not pouring through that broken, hollow line? Ask the generals.
Yep. It's incredibly frustrating to read above that "the Russians have taken 3 villages!" Ukraine is a big place. The Russians need to close this down and get to the Dnieper and Odessa.
It is more than frustrating; it is dangerous to the entire world, because it is obvious that there are rogue or not-so-rogue, however you want to interpret it, elements of Western intelligence combined with Ukrainian leaders who are doing everything they can to start a nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States. The longer this goes on, the more likely they are to succeed.
"The problem is not Putin. It is the senior people in the military. Every indication is that there is nothing left of the Ukrainian army. The front-line is a hollow shell; most of the troops morale is effectively 0, and most of them will flee at the first sign of trouble; they have no more artillery; their air-defense systems are mostly depleted; and they have nothing left but pickup trucks to move troops and supplies. So, why is Russia not pouring through that broken, hollow line? Ask the generals."
This in turn raises the question of what do we supposedly know that Putin does not, and why.
My suspicion is that the situation on the front is not nearly as rosy as we wish.
ok boomer
Once again, yet more spam ...
FAFO time
Thanks Simplicius. So much going on, good you're keeping up with it.
Ok boomer
Quit side-tracking the topic you nazi-nato troll.
I do wonder Simp whether a point has or can be reach where an attritional war is a positive and the loss of civilians is to be demurred at or a sigh is significant enough and a turn towards the West or as is at present an acceptance of the memorandum from the arch enemy of dajjal is a solutions to the ongoing slaughter of wives and children.
The term Zanon is now being used what is your thoughts in regards this phenomena?
What exactly are you asking? Whether Russia should end the war to stop the civilian deaths?
Well, I think that stops the deaths in the short term, but leads to more of them in the longer term, so it's better to continue.
As for Zanon, I'm familiar with the term. My thoughts are both sides have their own Zanon/Qanon equivalents.
Let me preface my comment on the basis of not having read this latest posting and that up to this point in time civilian deaths have been put to the side and been discussed as whether it is an act of war or terrorism. In the destruction of a passenger train and the bridge above or below and the destruction of 90 year old heavy lift bombers and their connection to the nuclear triad it seems the acceptance of the memorandum is still paramount and continuing negotiations with dajjal is a consideration above all else.
In regards Qanon it appears to not be in existence any longer but Zanon it still prevalent, one could propose as to why but my thoughts were more around the reason for the existence of Zanon at all. What was Girkins crimes and why was he jailed when he was committed solely to the creation of Novorossiya and not an attack on Russia but its handling of the Donbass situation 10 years ago.
A continuation of the present situation of civilian deaths cannot be a positive along side negotiations with the perpetrator or its string puller.
Are you aware of a war without civilian deaths? Civilian deaths will stop when the war stops, but the war can't stop until its objectives have been met.
Not always. After WWII stopped, the OUN bands were knifing the entire villages in the Western Ukraine till the mid-1950s, when they're finally apprehended, sent in gulag and Khrushchev pardoned them in the 1960s
Of course I meant as a direct result of battle. But you are correct - the Banderites have never been really eliminated.
The Banderites, just like Siberian ulcer, will probably survive even in permafrost
In the Beskid borderarea Poland/Slovakia/Ukraine, these marauding OUN remnants hiding in the huge mountain forests continued with that, until a joint military operation in the sixties smoked them out finally. Then they went underground, supported by the German Bundesnachrichtendienst in close CIA cooperation.
The CIA has been supporting them since the end of WWII.
They were fighting in South East Poland too till Polish Army removed all the villagers from the area stripping the Banderites of food this way. The whole thing was called Operation Vistula.
You stopped short when listing a condition for ending war. Assuming the objectives of the West is partition of Russia or installing a Zelensky like puppet I suppose this would mean extraordinary amount of violence (especially partition) but even if no major violence were due in case of puppet installation in Kreml there would be long term repercussions of decaying Russian state in such case, similar in fact to the stuff that the way Middle America and northern parts of South American. On the other hand I suspect that collapse of Zelensky's regime would not yield a peace simp0ly because the trained staff would still be available and the money and orders from the West too.
ZAnon refers to the "trust the plan" and even smug attitude that certain commentators in the pro Russia camp maintain. Chief among them IMHO is Andrei Martyanov.
These people make all sorts of excuses for Russia. When someone points out something that doesn't make sense about the narrative or any predictions of theirs that didn't come to fruition, these charlatans tend to lash out with name calling in the respective comments sections.
Jeeez, and I had hoped I had heard the last of such drivel as "Qanon". Now we have a "Zanon"?
FWIW Even Arestovich himself admitted that the SMO has least affected civilians of any conflict since WW2. Dunno why the significance of WW2 🤷♀️
G’day Jim, would that be thanks to the Russians or the hohols and their direct hits on multi story apartment buildings.
The hohols are killing the vast majority of civilians - Ukrainian and Russian.
Fun fact - Ukrainians are for the most part Russians.
Yes that is very true Jim but in some of their minds no especially now after 10 years of state brainwashing and intimidation.
I donno - I think there are plenty of Russian speaking Ukrainians this does not make them Russians. Whether there is a significant Russian leaning population on the West side of the river is difficult to say. I suppose there are some but do not know how big that group is. There are other minorities in Ukraine.
Once you are in the army you mostly follow orders. The drone operators hitting civilians or blowing up a bridge while a passenger train was coming is really difficult to explain as a military action. But I am not sure what I would do if an a.le with a gun stood on my side.
Hans, only the Galicians in western Ukraine can be considered Ukrainians. The rest are Russians and other groups (as you say).
Terror certainly makes sense for the Russian hating vermin at Bankova.
Yes, I don't know what I'd do either with a gun at my back but millions of Germans didn't need any encouragement to slaughter Slavs.
The Ukraine conflict may go down in history as one of the lowest civilian to combatant ratio killed in modern history, except for the Keiv regime which deliberately targets civilians or hides behind them.
With your weak English, you stumbled into an inappropriate nickname. Don't use it again.
simp
/simp/
noun informal•North American
a silly or foolish person.
He probably speaks it better than most as he is not fully aware of the slang vernacular of many English dialects.
For all we know, Simplicius chose this as a pen name as a disclaimer based on 'silly or foolish' writings.
I'd suggest that only Simplicius himself decide that.
What's up with the critical spirit? Sheesh.
Note that Russia's enemies could not care less about civilian deaths, their own or otherwise.
Very true FF but the world believes otherwise and I wonder whether holding the moral high ground in these dangerous times is beneficial to the Russian people.
Of course not.
Multiple Ukrainian and NAFO Channels on X today were touting another successful "Operation Spiderweb" attack, releasing drones from the tops of grain cars against a military train. They allege that 13 tanks and over 100 military vehicles were damaged. No drone footage so far though, which makes me suspicious.
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1931420496433745957
More "Ghost of Kyiv" nonsense to boost morale? Or did it really happen?
Yes, I've seen, but there is no evidence of it yet so seemed pointless to post. They posted videos of the real 'Spiderweb' immediately. Some obscure Russian channel claimed to 'confirm' it but there's no further confirmation from the Russian side, so we'll have to wait and see.
They seem to be posting footage from GTA, instead of footage of the destroyed vehicles, which alone is extremely suspicious.
How big would that train composition be to have that much materiel on it?
Nobody does that anymore.
Likely a fake.
“Hotels with athletes gone”,,,Zelinsky and NATO imaginations have excelled themselves here, after Assad bombing his own pet shops and nurseries, Qaddafi bombing children’s homes,,
Ukraine has athletes with a manpower shortage? 😂
Male strippers and rent boys get a pass in Zelinskys world as well.
Lutsk Repair Plant! Underground drone manufacturing base! Patriot batteries! Shazam!!! Of course, all these targets were known about well before the various Ukrainian attacks, and therefore should have been on Russia's target list regardless. Once again, it's BAU (business-as-usual) for Señor Putin.
It's all far past disappointing. The good guys we thought we could depend on have turned Mexican...
TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out), and
PACO (Putin Always Chickens Out)
Oh Eric, I pity your housemaid, as you've shit the bed once again.
Very profound response, full of logic and intelligence, just what I'd expect from you.
Keep up the great work, you're a credit to your... whatever.
Ratio'd my man!
I wholeheartedly concur Eric, it appears targets are found and tagged for a future retribution when it is too hard to acquiesce to the build of destruction and civilian deaths, even when accepting a memorandum.
If I were close to defeating my enemy I would want to capture their military industrial production intact.
If the information is correct and it is true that the AFU had 91,000 deserters in the last five months that is the beginning of the end. This rate would be proportionally a lot higher than desertions in the US Civil War of 1861. I have also seen an article today stating that Oleg Nomerovskiy a military leader of the forced collection of civilian men into the AFU was killed. His car was blown up on the road between Odessa and Beresovka.
Well, it would explain all the new terror attacks and desperation.
According to GM Russia is on the brink of capitulation...
In 1864 and 1865, forced enlistment of boys under 18 and men over 40 in the remaining Confederate territory was resisted by killing local leaders of the Conscription Bureau. In January 1865, Captain Zeke Stewart was killed on the street in Ashville, Alabama in a gunfight with deserters. His replacement, Lt. Joseph Hargett, saw the light and concentrated on keeping his command's profile low for the duration. After May 1865 many scores were settled by the loyalists, aka Tories. There will likewise be many scores settled when Ukraine collapses, which is good because only Ukrainians can root out the Banderites.
how about rooting out the jew parasites like zelensky....
I don't think one "roots out" parasitical Zionists but rather one gently removes them being careful to not leave the head, much like any other tick.
And please, when referring to the genocidal maniacs that are in constant baby killing mode in the middle east, don't refer to them by the religion some of the residents believe in but call them for what they are, that being "Zionists". Look carefully and you will see these Zionists attacking real believers in Judaism within the country the two "camps" share.
lol. As you know Jew is race. You can even spot them oftentimes just by looking.
this is the kind of dumb shit that made me to cancel my subscription here.
i mean if the host tolerates this kind of stupid hateful shit here just because of engagement/subscriptions what else can he tolerate/do?
Good riddance Jew.
I am sure the conscription residtance incidents and attacks to the drafting squads have been much more numerous but have been hidden for propaganda purposes. They will only be known with the nazis out.
There is still a 4th hypothesis to explain Ukraine's holding on: Mercenaries. They are being increasingly spotted at the front. Consider the conquest of Assad's Syria was achieved thanks to reportedly from 200 to 300 thousand "yihadist beheaders", in fact mercenaries from Irak, Lybia, Sudan, Tunis, Xinjiang, Chechenya, Morocco, Jordan, Turkiye, Lebanon, Arabia and Syria itself. The colombians in UKraine claim they are being paid circa 4000 dollars a month. For 200 thousand mercs makes 800 million a month, around 10 billion a year. Perfectly affordable for the EU-UK-USA combo. By the way, the line about Ukraine being involved in North Stream was bizarrely misleading. Who can believe that? The future history books of a winning NATO empire?
The Nord Stream explosions took place at a water depth between 70 and 80 meters. They required a total of 400 to 500 kg military grade explosive and specially trained divers to dive with multiple tanks to operate at that depth. The problem is that the operation could have been carried out from the 50 feet sailboat Andromeda operated by Ukrainians or by any number of nations owning mini-submarines operable from navy boats. The related coverage by controlled Western media is trying to muddy the available information by injecting absurd stories about Russian involvement even. The Russians were the least likely players here as it was in their best interest to preserve the pipelines for future use. The most likely culprits is the US/UK duo. The US has an uninterrupted long record of attacking nations with large fossil fuel exports in order to remove them from the market.
I have never understood why that story continued to be discussed and new hypotheses floated, when Seymour Hersh painstakingly unraveled the whole plot barely 6 months after the event, and various independent journalists corroborated individual elements of his story.
Because Seymour Hersh is willing participant in CIA disinformation and always has been.
The open blatant prediction/promise by Biden himself was the full stop moment for me. It's similar to the "Unprovoked" line that still gets jammed down our throats.
What baffles me most though is who that pipeline act of war was most directed at, Germany or Russia?
That computer users can be convinced that Russia blew up their own future is very discouraging to me, is common sense dead?
The most obvious conclusion? For me the centralized control of the whole world is being pursued. Expect dirty tricks and heartless cruelty.
1. I'd need some evidence of mercenary recruitment on the scale you are talking about.
2. Of course Ukraine did not blow up NS.
The Saudis were assigning 5 billion dollars a year to pay mercenaries in Yemen. Same for Qatar in Syria. I mean these are relatively small amounts that can be easily discounted from the budget in order to make the war last. That could work in Ukraine to. I only read about 4 to 5 K Polish and a similar number of colombians. For the anglosphere and French, there must be a few thousands too. These number could be increased in the months to come. Of course, many of them are not real mercenaries, but undercover troops. I think this is the only viable option Ukraine has.
Let me know when we see Polish hospitals being crammed with wounded mercenaries, thousands of Polish wives, girlfriends and mothers demanding answers, etc..
It's the dog that didn't bark.
It's also possible that those are not desertions, but rathat KIAs that Zelensky doesn't want to pay for. That's the same reason why they refused to accept 6000 AFU dead bodies from the Russians.
yup, they are shitting on their own dead for money, they are accusing their fallen soldiers of cowardice and desertion.
Why would the Jew zelensky care about dead goyim ?
RT had this:.https://www.rt.com/russia/618760-ukrainian-recruitment-officer-killed-in-car-bombing/
BINGO!!! That was the info I also found.
I see what you mean about the optic cables in the wilderness - poor wildlife.
Images have been circulating that claim birds are already building nests out of them: https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1931447704237846908/photo/1
I saw that !!! But these cables probably kill more than they help - its just another collateral damage. They need to be cut- the soldiers didn't pull on it but had to cut it. that was a good choice for which one to cut. But they will get around animals legs - although how many animals could there even be in those woods now I wonder
Just typical westerner BS suffering such outrage over the wildlife while we have the US/NATO/EU funding, planning and attacking civilians in Russia and the same for a Genocide in Palestine. You know what "we" in the west need?? Our family members destroyed by missiles while driving to work in the morning. Maybe then people will wake up to reality
Highlighting animal suffering is always important and noteworthy. It has nothing to do with sidelining human suffering. Except in your head. 🦌
Just the usual crap by the usual suspects who know nothing of war, or of life on a frontier, for that matter.
It's tiresome. Take a walk in the real world where people are struggling for survival and animal welfare is meaningless, unless it impacts warfare such as pack animals.
F humans! There's too many of us anyway. At least I can console myself knowing that we'll be extinct in under 100 years.
No, we certainly don't "need" that. Actually I don't even know why that stupid war is still going on. Lots of people (and animals) dying for no reason whatsoever, except some harebrained scheme by politicians, who do not fight, to "extend Russia" or whatever was the idea that didn't even work. It has certainly not benefitted Ukrainians in any way. But I'm not sure it's good for Russia either. The only ones who have made a killing, pardon the pun, are weapon manufactures, who keep inventing new ways of making the rubes kill each other, now with "fibre optic drones". I care more about wildlife.
nature will find a way...
@ann watson
A single strand of glass fiber optic cable has a breaking strength similar to 10 lb. fishing line. If you've ever seen birds and small animals tangled/snared by fishing line? The whole zone of contact must be a death trap for wildlife vulnerable to this. Additionally, plastic fishing line degrades from UV and even eventually undergoes bacterial attack- But glass will probably last for centuries.
War always sucked, modern warfare is sucking in whole new ways.
yes Billy - to say nothing of under the water - here is a totally fantatic inteview with the Romanian guy Cailin Georgescu - the interview was conducted by Reiner Fuellmich - now in prison in Germany for something fraudulent - I mean the charges against him- and this interview with Cailin Georgescu shows Cailin's knowlege about nature and the environment - that was his position in the UN - Environment - https://www.bitchute.com/video/wZ4qOS7Z3lGf/ - but his election win was wiped out by the powers that be. Its a horrifying picture Cailin gives of the underwater trawling...omg. We humans, when we group together in a corporation are world destroyers. That's what war is now - corporate warfare. All those filthy ways to kill humans are coming out of corporations.
Part way through. Lots of true or plausible information, a dew odd notes I couldn't believe without verification too.
I would question if Marshallese Islanders typically lived to 180 - 200 years old before the Western atmospheric and underwater nuclear testing started in the 1940s.
I might believe that those Islanders surviving to adulthood typically lived to be 80 - 100 if not physically injured in the time before imported diseases (and vices) penetrated their culture. Living off of imported processed food in a radiologically contaminated environment, using tobacco and alcohol as they now do, the statistics show they die around age 60 on a average- And their leading causes of death are cancer and diabetes, followed by imported diseases and "lifestyle" diseases related to drugs, alcohol and sedentary lives (no more substance agriculture, fishing and gathering for food to keep them active/fit, working in tourism or menial factory work, eating imported junk food and watch TV).
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wZ4qOS7Z3lGf/
that's awesome - keep going. it gets better and better towards the end. I find Reiner a bit annoying - sometimes he interrupts during an expose. About the lifespan of the Islanders. I'm not sure if they used to eat processed foods. Maybe not until the US barged into their shores. There's an island off the coast of Nova Scotia where there are horses that raportedly live to be 80 years old. Under very harsh circumstances. Not sure about that either but who can prove ? What he says about pedophilia in the UN - ' They're all of them pedophiles all of them " I found shocking - but Reiner didn't want to go there. Thanks for watching Billy
Seriously! Kremlin, Putin, Russia need to stop bombing the bloody shit out of Ukraine, it's like slapping and punching the little kid who keeps stealing your candy and pulling your pants down, but he's being pushed and ruled by a bigger bully. They will never seriously address the CORE problem. Such a waste of time... dump Putin.
LOL. General Moron has a new online identity.
I blocked GM long ago, that made the comments section much shorter and more readable
To be fair, his comments are good for a laugh.
Sometimes, but the low-level belligerents gets annoying and they are far too long and then people feed him and it gets worse
Let us review GM's positions on issues. 1) He thinks climate change is a major global problem. 2) He thinks that the world population should be reduced to 500 million. 3) He wants Putin removed from power. 4) He thinks that Russia should launch a limited first-strike nuclear attack on NATO countries that invites a full-scale nuclear response.
Are these the positions of a Russian patriot? A generic internet troll? No... these are the exact positions of the Dr. Strangeloves among the Western oligarchy and intelligence apparatus. So, who is GM? A Russian patriot? No. A generic internet troll? No. He is an intelligence operative running a disinformation campaign to try to drum up support among dissident Russian expats and English speakers for the removal of Putin.
yep
GM has some value as entertaining.
troll alert (GM), thrives on responses.
It is called cancel culture and look at the divided society it leaves in its wake and followed closely by Trump and society fragmentation.
The people ending up imprisoned by the state who are registered residents will only increase and followed by who knows what??
why is GM being attacked? he has fair points all along and interesting commentary.
No, he doesn't, unfortunately.
And advocates for nukes just a short scroll down, right on cue....
His consistency makes me wonder if he's a 'traditional troll', rather just someone with an honest, if somewhat skewed, version of reality?
I don't agree with his POV, but he is consistent in his narrative. I think we just have to be terrified that there are people just like him in Western think tanks except pro-NATO bias.
"To achieve our aims the easiest we will adopt plan C, which is to nuke everything east of Berlin to the Russian border. That will prevent Russian expansion".
They're the kind of people you wouldn't put in charge of a PC game lol, let alone Reality.
@Gnuneo
One of the last things General Douglas MacArthur did before he FINALLY got sacked was to propose using cobalt "salted" nuclear bombs along their border to isolate North Korea from China. Apparently he was serious in his belief that this was do-able and a good strategy.
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"His plan was to drop between 30 and 50 atomic bombs-strung across the neck of Manchuria, and spread behind us, from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea- a belt of radioactive cobalt for at least 60 years there would be no invasion of Korea from the North. The Russians, he claimed, would be intimidated by this and do nothing."
J.H.C.
Well, SOMETHING had to be done: "I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
Latest version of Rock, Paper, Scissors:
Communism beats Fluoride.
Fluoride beats Islam.
Islam beats Communism.
Perhaps the USA needs to stop turning frontline states into proxy states for long planned wars of Imperial expansion?
Just a thought.
This is pretty much what is happening here.
NATO & co. kick Russia in the balls.
Russia responds by punching UKR in the teeth.
The “West” opens a beer.
Putin and is oligarch friends check the status of their offshore bank accounts.
Then another cycle goes on, and another, and another…
Stop bombing Ukraine and just start an open war with the US? Do you want to be incinerated?
Do you want to just die a slow death by a thousand cuts inflicted on you by the real enemy through a proxy?
And no, Russia will not get incinerated if this is played right.
There is a clear winning move here that arises from one of the two key fundamental asymmetries here -- the US is fighting through proxies, Russia is fighting on its own soil -- and from the other fundamental factor behind all this, which is that the US will go to the brink of nuclear war, but will not cross that line if it is sure that it will die too. Better alive and without empire than dead.
This means that Russia can eliminate the proxies with nukes (that includes France and the UK, and in fact eliminating those, if it is technically feasible, would send the strongest possible message) as well as the US presence in Eurasia, and the US will then take the loss and stand down because all that will be left then is to strike directly at Russia, ensuring their own death. But it has to be played right -- a well coordinated operation to disarm France and the UK (assuming the Kremlin goes for them too and does not limit itself to the non-nuclear proxies) and a massive IRBM and hypersonic cruise missile strike on NATO and the US in Eurasia.
Again, a fundamental asymmetry -- the US cares less about its proxies than Russia does about itself.
But as I mentioned, there are two of these asymmetries. The other one works against Russia, and so far the West is very skillfully exploiting it, and decisively winning the war as a result. Just as it won the Cold War by exploiting the same weakness.
Which is that Russian elites have fundamentally misaligned interests with those of the country as a whole. This is expressed symbolically in the fact that they have more residential property in London than in Moscow, thus London is likely off limits for nukes for that reason alone, but the deeper issue is that Western elites are fighting this war in order to preserve their own status and the system that benefits them (to this end, they must loot Russia's resources), while if Russian elites are to begin fighting the war seriously, they will have to replace the current system that benefits them with something in which there will be no place for them. Something smelling of that dirty unspeakable "Stalinism" word.
Russia's tragedy is that the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, then in 1929 Stalin said "We have a decade to catch up with the West, or we will be destroyed for good in the coming big war", in 1939 the war started, in 1941 Stalin was still caught with his pants down, but had done his job preparing the country in the 1930s, so it prevailed eventually, albeit at a catastrophic cost. But Putin took power in 1999, tried to suck up to the West, that did not work, then he gave that speech in 2007, which was a clear evidence he knew a big war is coming, but he never prepared the country for that inevitable pending big war, and did not begin the process of preparation even after the war started. Which is how and why it is so easy for someone to send trucks loaded with drones all over the giant country, approach the most sensitive military bases, and hit them very badly. With those trucks never being stopped anywhere other than by heroic bystanders.
Plus the moratorium on fighting seriously that seems to have been imposed by the Russian oligarchy.
This is the price Russia is paying for being capitalist, and it will be its downfall. But current leadership is ideologically committed to that, so there will be no changes. Plus it's too late anyway, because the missiles are about to start flying into Russia very soon, there is no time to be changing the socioeconomic system, and very little time to begin mobilizing seriously.
Imagine how things would be in Soviet times.
First, there would be no oligarchs with mansions in the UK, dual citizenship with Israel, and all sorts of other compromising connections, hanging around Putin and telling him what to do. The moment the country was under threat the Politburo would get together, issue the necessary directives, and the problem would be dealt with decisively. In fact, it would be dealt with decisively long before it got to the point where the country is directly attacked -- this was the essence of the actions in 1956, 1968 and in Afghanistan.
Second, the kind of internal security that existed back then would make Operation Spiderweb impossible. Both because the KGB was good at doing its job (note that the Ukrainian SBU is the direct descendant of the Ukrainian KGB, only with the sign flipped, while the Russian KGB was disbanded and the FSB and SVR refounded from scratch, with all the loss in competence and continuity that entails) and because the economic system itself would not allow it. Take a look at how this was done -- someone founded a private company in Chelyabinsk, rented a warehouse, did whatever he wanted there with no supervision, built the trucks there, then hired people to drive them to Murmansk and Irkutsk. That is simply not happening in the USSR because all warehouses and trucks would be under the control of some state enterprise. Private individuals would simply not have the access to resources to pull this off. Thus this whole attack vector would be cut off. You would perhaps be able to launch a small number of drones from private cars, but that would be a very small number of drones, and even that supply chain would be under very tight control making that difficult too.
In Putin's Russia? It's a free for all, total anarchy, no internal security. In the fourth year of a war for Russia's very survival...
Now would not be a good time to nuke the UK and France. Prevailing winds are Westerly or Southwesterly. All that radiation blowing East/Southeast.
I will spare you and me the disection of your rant, the flaws it has are too many...
Just that much: Russia is not at war, Russia is doing an SMO, probably now converted into a ATO, since that speech of President Putin last week.
You can't have freedom and a thriving economy if you bind costly resources to a surveillance of your population that is, in majority loyal and patriotic.
How that's going to work out we will see very soon in the west - use of Palantier on a great scale - against your own population.
What's a continious riddle to me; why the Russians are so stupid and do everything wrong whilst you (and some others) seem to perfectly know what needs to be done?
Especially the talk about nukes is telling me that you have no clue about the consequences of the use of such a weapon.
By the way, thank you for wanting to try to kill me or at least make me die slowly on radioactive contaminated land, since I live where the consrquences of such a strike would occur.
Look, the nuclear triad was rather successfully attacked, and a triple digit number of light cruise missiles (euphemistically called "drones") flies into Russia every night, with at least one or two industrial objects being hit in each such raid.
Western long-range GMLRS is firing 100 km into Russia, and has pushed Russian AD even deeper, as a result of which Western aviation is dropping guided bombs onto Russian territory as part of combined arms operations to seize Russian territory (Tetkino is almost lost by now).
And the front lines are barely moving.
Ukraine has not been demilitarized, has not been denazified, and has not in any way been removed as a threat. The precise opposite of all that has happened.
These are the empirical, rather hard to argue with, "results" in the fourth year of Russia doing an SMO and "not being at war".
I don't claim to be the all-knowing expert who is certain to win this if put in charge (although there are also a lot of obvious concrete steps to be taken to solve the problem that should definitely help, but for some mysterious reasons are not taken), but I sure as hell know that the current leadership has failed catastrophically.
"... the current leadership has failed catastrophically."
I don't live in Russia and I am not an expert in Russian matters, but I would think that it was rather Yeltsin and Gorbachev who failed catastrophically and that Putin was the leader who has saved Russia. That is the reason why he is so hated in the West. He drove away the vultures that were feasting on Russia's corpse.
If only in the rest of Europe we had a leader like Putin, a man who really cares about his country, we would not be in the process of becoming a part of Africa and the Middle East. If you are a Russian, be grateful, GM. Politicians like Putin are rare.
The kremlin made a terrible mistake launching a half passed invasion of Ukraine in 2022 with a military that was woefully small for the task set it. Never mind the stupidity of leaving hundreds of billions of your sovereign assets in the hands of western financial institutions. Why were those assets not withdrawn from the West?
The kremlin fails to understand that the imperialist West only understands and respects force. You are wasting your time with diplomacy with them. Empires in decline, like the US, cannot be trusted or reasoned with. They will never give up on the goal of destroying Russia which they've had since the October Revolution of 1917.
Putin like Yeltsin, Gorbachev all tried at different times to appease the imperialist West. It is a fools errand trying to do so.
Apologist for Putin fail to understand that the patience of the Russian people with the war is not limitless. The continuation of terrorist attacks will undermine support for putins government which is exactly what Kiev is counting on.
Wars are easy to get involved in but difficult to bring to an end. From a military perspective it would make sense to try and end the war this year especially with the threat of a global economic recession increasing by the day.
After the start of the special military operation, Russia’s elites realized they were no longer welcome in the West when their assets began being seized. This is precisely why the outflow of capital from Russia to the West came to a halt.
Instead, these elites began reinvesting their money inside Russia, opening new factories and production facilities. Just look at how much has been built over the years of military conflict.
This is why none of the elites now sympathize with the West or care to mourn for London. In Russia, they live more comfortably-and more securely.
Well, it was not possible in USSR because remote drone technology did not exist back then. So all the credit goes to the engineers. Now every child can launch a drone, it's insanely easy to do terror attacks using them, and that was something obvious even to someone like me who is as far from anything military as can get. Unless humankind finds an antidote to them, it will only get worse.
Do Ukrainians who defect to Russia have to join the Russian military?
They do become POW's.
But there is an Ukrainian unit within Russian forces. Mostly civilians.
As to Ukrainian deserters, they do run within country. Some go to a region near Chernobyl nuclear plant which is not controlled by TCC. That is an empty town, with furnished flats. Food collected from forests.
Some deserters cross through Carpatian Mountains to Romania or Belorus
>Some deserters cross through Carpatian Mountains to Romania
Where they get hunted mercilessly by border guards, shooting to kill.
In fact, the whole border is fenced with barbed wire, watchtower, armed guards, etc. in the best traditions of the Cold War, but that is to keep people in, not out. Democracy and all...
Could we hire them for the Mexican border?
Be careful what you wish for.
They are already being hired, but for much more sinister purposes than policing the Mexican border. Keep in mind how Ukraine was subjugated with basically 10,000 or so armed thugs recruited from football hooligans and other such groups. It really wasn't all that much more than that prior to 2014. But certain oligarchs saw the value in raising these private armies, and they existed. And they were the ones who went out on the streets in Odessa, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, etc. and started cracking heads and making sure anybody not happy with Banderization would stay quiet. Since then they expanded enormously, and after the war started even more so.
So now imagine what happens if the war continues under the same rules of engagement but Russia is somehow victorious (it's hard to see how, but for the sake of argument). The Ukro-Nazis are pushed to the Polish border, and then they run away into Poland and spread around Europe. You think tens of thousands of highly ideologically motivated Nazis, well trained in real combat, will just easily integrate into the civilian population? You are in for a rude awakening.
They will be used by the Western oligarchs to be their muscle in order to crack down on whatever dissent there might be in the West. It's not a hypothesis at all, it is already being prepared.
Yet another reason why it is imperative for Russia to immediately cut off the borders, and physically exterminate all these people. Not because the sheep in the West do not deserve what is going to happen to them, but because the presence of those people in the West will eventually come back to bite Russia itself too.
Why does Russia care if thousands of Ukrainian Banderites terrorise the West?
I’ve seen footage of a unit composed only of former Ukrainian POWs who volunteered to fight in their words "fight against the Zelensky regime & against foreign influences" I've seen several different sources on this but here's Patrick Lancaster's report.
Ex- Ukrainian Soldiers Fighting Against Ukraine Forces React to Donald Trump's Peace plan
https://youtu.be/Zjiomyqm-jM
This is how the NATO-european commentary goes: Yah boo sucks, Russia won't do anything. It is all bluff. We can escalate as much as we like. Scaredy cat! Send in more missiles.......
Then the strikes.
FOUL. UNFAIR. IT MUST STOP. when is America going to do SOMETHING TO STOP THIS? PEOPLE ARE BEING KILLED!
>Russia won't do anything. It is all bluff.
So far it has been all a bluff, and long after absolutely unimaginable in the past thresholds have been crossed too.
Thus the West's assessment has been very accurate.
The West's assessment has been wrong from the start - President Putin is still there, the more than 20 thousand sanctions did not bring Russia to their knees. NATO is bleeding dry of weaponry and losing mercenaries on a still rising scale.
Russia is advancing on the whole line of contact, the Black sea fleet is still intact and acting.
Every war comes with losses but the west and it's proxy Ukraine is not on the winning road as it seems obvious even to western observers.
>President Putin is still there
Precisely, still there, executing Russia's controlled demolition.
>NATO is bleeding dry of weaponry
What sort of a braindead imbecile does not one have to be to seriously think this? The weaponry that NATO is "bleeding dry" of has absolutely no relevance to a Russia-NATO war. Russia's much smaller and weaker air force being attrited and its air defense being pushed back and bled dry of ammunition and launchers is what matters much more here.
>Russia is advancing on the whole line of contact
At a speed at which it will take a century to finish the war.
>the Black sea fleet is still intact and acting.
The BSF has been pushed out of Crimea while shipping to Odessa proceeds unimpeded, including of large quantities of weapons.
So Russia's air force is much smaller and weaker?
You sound like the Führer: and if the Russ says we have no air force, we have so many planes that the birds have to walk on the ground when our mighty air fleet is above Moscow :-)
Who said taking ground at large speed is a sign of victory? Nothing learned from the 'Blitzkrieg'?
You are full of assumptions and statements - nothing of substance just making claims that lack evidence.
Shipping to Odessa ending up in sunken ships and burning warehouses, if my information is correct.
What does it matter if the BSF is not present on Crimea as much as it used to be as long as it is doing the job?
Yes, much smaller and weaker
It has 20% of the planes NATO does, a much smaller satellite constellation, weaker data link integration, and no forward deployment.
Empirical facts.
>Shipping to Odessa ending up in sunken ships and burning warehouses, if my information is correct.
It is not correct.
>What does it matter if the BSF is not present on Crimea as much as it used to be as long as it is doing the job?
Because it is not doing its job. It would be doing its job if all shipping to Odessa was fully controlled by it and if Russian shipping was safe. Neither of these are true.
Well from what I can find online, the Russia air force is almost as big as the USAF: about 1,800 combat jets to 2,100. You can add another 630 for the US Navy and 350 for the USMC, counting those in a training role. The technological quality looks comparable, too - though Russian serviceability rates and ordnance supplies are probably higher.
You can add a paltry 200 or so Eurofighters for the RAF and a couple of dozen dodgy VTOL F-35s for the FAA that require so much maintenance, the RN can scarcely afford to fly them. Roughly similar strengths for France and Germany, Poland and Italy. European NATO? I don’t know, 1,500 fast jets total? The number they can get into the air and maintain in action for more than a week or so, however, will be a lot smaller.
On paper, you might just stagger up close to a 4:1 advantage IF you included all other US vassal states and close associates - Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia (maybe 2,000 max, altogether)- but if you did that, you might as well chuck in China (another 2,700 combat jets, lots modern), North Korea (450-odd, but very dated) and Iran (300-odd, better but still mostly 1970s airframes) on Russia’s side of the ledger. It's the stuff of fantasy.
The USSA has most of the globe to cover and as is always the case with its demented wars of choice, the opposition is fighting on its home ground. What Russia has available to defend itself is more than equal to what the NATO Pact can practically attack it with. ISTM that Russia has more than enough conventional airpower (and everything else) to see off NATO Pact aggression in Eurasia.
The usual GM BS. If Putin executes the programme Russian demolition why the last retaliation strikes are for? Are they even real? Perfect case of 6th columnist provocator pushing for WWIII. Exactly the intentions of the UK terrorist strategy. Which is miserably failing... 4 long summer months of programmed Russian demolition and Putin's betrayal ahead...
See, you just demonstrated your catastrophic failure to understand what is happening.
What retaliation strikes?
They struck ammunition stores and weapon production facilities.
How is that "retaliation"?
There is in fact a major scandal here -- why was all that not blown up already?
And an even bigger scandal behind it -- why are all the other such objects not being touched (and there are a lot of them)?
Who issued the orders for them to be off limits? Because you can be certain that there are such orders -- the junior officers who plan these missions have all such objects on the target lists, no doubt about that. But they have to be approved by the higher ups too.
This is what controlled demolition looks like.
Start a war, don't fight it seriously, lose the war.
I might fail to understand... I am not a member of the Russian HQ. Contrary to you who understand but mislead and lie in order to create a defeatish narrative for Russia as if any single success they achieve was worth it of even real. Its easy for anyone to see, what you are playing at and where you are writing from and for who.
The issue is Russia is not losing. They are not fighting the conflict for your entertainment. They fight the conflict to achieve their own objectives, of which I am sure you don't have a clue.. Though you can continue creating your own reality in your own little world. Some of us just don't run on assumption and do understand there is a much bigger picture than the western bluff and bluster or Ukrainian PR. Wars are won by destroying the enemy both militarily and economically but you seem to be blind to the economic realities of what is unfolding globally.
If Russia launches Ukrainian-style terrorist outrages in ‘retaliation’, it will make no difference to the Kiev junta: in fact, they’d be delighted. It’d only be more propaganda fodder for Kiev.
There may well be a case for ‘decapitation’ strikes against the junta and for warning blows against the UK, France, Germany and the Baltics, but these are fraught with unpredictable consequences and Putin and Lavrov are calm, conservative men. Disgusted as they no doubt are by MI6/ the Zelensky junta’s tactics, I think it suits them - both personally and diplomatically, considering the BRICS/ Global South - to maintain the moral high ground and leave terrorism to the West. They are playing a long, cool-headed game and they are winning. They have taken a few low blows, but it won’t affect the end result: soon enough, they are going to win by a brutal KO and they know it.
The day Ukraine capitulates you will claim the end of Russia. Cut down on your Fentanyl.
The problem is that now Russia can kill every Ukrainian soldier and still lose the war. Frankly, I think we passed the the no return point and get ready to do without electricity, water, communications, transportation, food, or money. Our Dem and Neocon Congress persons want us dead while they hide in bunkers. That's Dem Democracy.
Praising the west again? Tell me something. Do you even think Russia was right to fight this war?
I finally agree with Zelenskyy on one thing:
"...Russia drags out the war...”
Zelensky could surrender to Russia immediately. War over.
It's NOT *Russia* dragging out the war.....
Zelensky is just a US puppet. He has no say over what happens.
Euro puppet. FIFY
Nobody in Europe does anything without US authorisation / directive. Don't be naive
How do you know this? Are you in the room when Macron gets his marching orders?
How do you know its not? Were you in the room?
Go have a look at the last 80years of US dominance in the EU / NATO. They can't wipe their ass without the US giving the ok
Nah. I’m just gonna see how it all plays out. What people say, especially in politics, is not always what they believe or plan to do.
But according to The Telegraph, Russian KIAs surpassed 1 million this week.🤡🌎
Yep: a steaming pile of kemp; total and utter concoughlin.
And to think I used to pay money to subscribe to that risible, shameless Atlantic Council lie trumpet… Jesus. And the Times and FT are the rest are no better. Our ‘independent’ Yookay press now contains about as much truth as a 1955 copy of Pravda.
It's amazing how many of the commenters appear to believe the dross they print. Quite worrying actually.
Well, I sacked the DT about 18 months ago. For the previous year or two, I’d maintained a sub at a discount rate, mainly for the fun of lampooning the deranged rubbish spouted by hacks like Coughlin, Kemp, Galeotti, McGlynn, Axe, Hannan, Heffer and all the rest of those slimy Atlantic Council loons. And I wasn’t alone: probably about 1/3 of the BTL commenters saw through them, at least to some degree.
At the equally deranged Spectator (another organ I have since sacked), whose readership is better educated than the DT’s, the proportion of sceptics was more like 50%: and their comments were far more extensive, intelligent and showed much more engagement with the actual facts than those of the Ukraine-boosters.
In both cases, the UKraine-boosters - to judge by their snarky tone, poor English, profound ignorance of basic world facts and tendency to respond to any UKraine-scepticism, however well reasoned, by squealing 'Russian troll' - generally came across as quite young, bitter and brainwashed. I took them to be some sort of orchestrated RICU/ 77 Brigade troll farm, mostly semi-literate and otherwise unemployed recent Humanities graduates, from crap pseudoversities, hired to maintain the illusion of public consent for the UK Deep State’s proxy war.
Look at any Ukraine story on the BBC (inevitably loaded to be pro-Kiev) where there is a 'Have Your Say’ capability. Dig down a bit and you’ll see ample evidence of public dissent - but the point is, to find it, you have to tab through a mass of higher-ranked, ‘most popular’ slava Ukraine bilge, blahing on about putting eevil Putin on trial and vile orcs and making Russia pay reparations and why hasn’t Russia been ‘kicked out of the UN’ and high taxes are a tiny price to pay to defeat Russia etc etc - all churned out, I strongly suspect, by a battalion of UK.gov-funded stooges who are all up-voting each other’s comments.
This approach is probably ‘working’ to a certain extent, but at the cost of severely damaging the MSM’s ever-shrinking public credibility. But if you’re Head of News at the BBC or editor of the DT, what do you care about that? In two years time, they’ll both be in different jobs somewhere else - possibly with, ooh, an OBE from King Charles, too, if they loyally toe the line; and in five years, the DT and BBC will both likely be defunct anyway. And just imagine the shitstorm that would fall on their heads, the amount of trouble and grief they’d be in, if they started publishing the truth… They’d be sacked and probably arrested and interrogated by Special Branch as Russian propagandists and possibly prosecuted and debanked and travel-banned and at any rate would be terminally cancelled and would never find employment in the western MSM again. So, follow the line of least resistance, proclaim your fearless independence, keep lying in your readers’ faces and collect the rewards a corrupt and all-pervasive system offers.
But in the long run, of course, the MSM is committing suicide. More and more people now understand that for the truth of things, you have to go to dissident voices (whether ‘right’ or ‘left’) on Substack (booming), Youtube and Rumble: Greenwald, Macgregor, Carlson, Varoufakis, all the Judge Napolitano crew, and so on.
Excellent comment. I also took advantage of free Telegraph subscriptions just to gauge the sheer scale of propaganda. While I expected bias, the level of derangement still shocked me. The paper was infested with armchair generals, most of whom likely never served, uncritically swallowing and regurgitating state-approved narratives with venomous Russophobia.
Whenever I countered with facts, the response was predictable: screeches of “Putin stooge!” or “traitor!” The delusional bravado about the UK’s military prowess (from keyboard warriors who’ve never seen combat) was pure hubris. Only a handful of commenters—maybe five—offered a realistic analysis of this Western-orchestrated conflict.
I made a point of mocking them as NPCs incapable of critical thought, utterly enslaved to MSM propaganda. Predictably, I was banned just as my free subscription expired, no loss there. The Telegraph, like the rest of the legacy media, is a sinking ship. The truth now lies with dissident voices outside the system.
Yes. In the early days of the SMO i got "hi Ivan, how's the weather in St Petersberg?" Every time I spoke out. Then I got nothing at all and I realised my posts were invisible.
I wonder if the loathsome Kemp is still making his " most moral army in the world" claim?
Yes, even by Telegraph standards, Kemp is a veritable turd in a suit.
Well, he (and a dozen-strong posse of retired NATO Brigadiers and Major-Generals too stupid and/ or lazy to get any real work) are still employed by the ‘High-Level Military Group’. This, rather laughably, tries to pass itself off as an independent NGO; but its 100% Israeli State allegiance and funding and its role as a committed front for the genocidal Beitarist Jabotinskyite Kahahism of the Netenyahu-Smotrich regime are as plain as a pikestaff.
The worse thing is hearing the utterly absurd nonsense repeated back to me parrot fashion when discussing Ukraine with friends or family.
In fact the level of brain washing on any subject of importance to actual everyday British citizens is something to behold.
I have to give our City of London overlords that at least.
Wow, rough week!
The utter stupidity of the NATO officer and the Cocaine Führer allowing footage of the underground drone factory to be filmed. Everyone knows Russia has blueprints of all Soviet structures.
LOL!
Nobody will ever find us, here in Der Fuhrer's uniquely shaped bunker...
Jawohl Commandant! I see nothing, I hear nothing!
Why stupidity?
Most Ukrainian MIC operations are running smoothly on the surface, not even in bunkers, and nobody is touching them, including in front line cities such as Kharkov.
Why would they fear about a bunker in the center of Kiev being hit?
Some examples:
-- "Impuls" plant in Shostka in Sumy. It makes detonators and various other such things, and is the only such supplier in Ukraine. It was only struck in November 2024, and it is not even clear whether it was to shut it down, or because they were using it is an ATACMS storage/launch site. And I am not sure even after they sent a few Iskanders there is has been permanently taken out. How is it possible to not destroy something like that located within glide bomb range? Ask Putin...
-- The Antonov plant in Kiev, where the Ukrainian long-range drones are made. Those first started making an appearance in 2023. In May 2025 it is seriously hit for the first time. After dozens of Russian refineries were hit, countless civilians killed in their apartments, and an enormous expenditure of air defense assets shooting down those drones. How is that possible? Well...
-- Tank factory in Kharkov. It was a key staging point for the 2022 Ukrainian offensive, Russian Telegram channels were screaming for it to be hit, nobody bothered, we know what happened. Then it continued to work, it was hit from time to time with a single missile (which doesn't do all that much, these are giant facilities that need grid bombing with heavy ammunitions; which in Kharkov's case is possible, because it is so close to the front lines that FABs with UMPKs can fly), but as far as I know it still operates.
Motor Sich in Zaporozhye and Yuzhmash in Dnepropetrovsk are similar situations.
Putin is not a general. Do you understand the difference between a political leader and a military leader? It is the responsibility of the military personnel, generals, colonels, etc.... to plan and execute the war. The only responsibility that Putin bears is to select the senior military personnel.
Putin has shaken up various elements of the command several times: trying to find someone who will attack instead of piddling around, pissing around, and dawdling. He is not the first political leader to have difficulty finding generals who would get off their asses and do something. It is common problem in wartime for political leaders.
The problem is not Putin. It is the senior people in the military. Every indication is that there is nothing left of the Ukrainian army. The front-line is a hollow shell; most of the troops morale is effectively 0, and most of them will flee at the first sign of trouble; they have no more artillery; their air-defense systems are mostly depleted; and they have nothing left but pickup trucks to move troops and supplies. So, why is Russia not pouring through that broken, hollow line? Ask the generals.
Yep. It's incredibly frustrating to read above that "the Russians have taken 3 villages!" Ukraine is a big place. The Russians need to close this down and get to the Dnieper and Odessa.
It is more than frustrating; it is dangerous to the entire world, because it is obvious that there are rogue or not-so-rogue, however you want to interpret it, elements of Western intelligence combined with Ukrainian leaders who are doing everything they can to start a nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States. The longer this goes on, the more likely they are to succeed.
Jewlenski would love that!
"The problem is not Putin. It is the senior people in the military. Every indication is that there is nothing left of the Ukrainian army. The front-line is a hollow shell; most of the troops morale is effectively 0, and most of them will flee at the first sign of trouble; they have no more artillery; their air-defense systems are mostly depleted; and they have nothing left but pickup trucks to move troops and supplies. So, why is Russia not pouring through that broken, hollow line? Ask the generals."
This in turn raises the question of what do we supposedly know that Putin does not, and why.
My suspicion is that the situation on the front is not nearly as rosy as we wish.