!—DJT is spewing testosterone all over America’s sphere of influence—! As a nation, we have needed testosterone for the longest time. The Dems told weak-minded pearl-clutchers that woman-slapping/nanny-impregnating Dougie was a model of the new masculinity, as was Tim “the other white meat” Walz who couldn’t even load his gun.
Pearl-clutchers need to step back and f** themselves right in the face, as Kekkius Maximus tweeted.
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Every man rolls out of bed and reaches down to see how they’re hanging, the pair, deez nutz, cajones, the nonstop testosterone engine every guy walks around with. DJT once said, if you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country. The fact is simply this: if you don’t have testosterone, you don’t have a country.
You misinterpret the Dems. They have been the vilest warmongers of this century, even worse than GW Bush's fanciful wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, and most of the Dems supported those wars.
On a boat, particularly a sailboat, the crew always sits down to pee. The standing alternative sprays urine all over the head while the on-deck into the sea method often results in death. The US Coast Guard reports that male boating victims more often than not drowned with their flys open.
Amen! The Dems have started every war the US ever fought -- a real war, not a show-off stunt like Grenada. That doesn't mean Republicans didn't stupidly buy in once the deed was done.
Dividing others, internally and externally is their compulsion. They see it as their key survival mechanism.
Trump will probably slow down the American Terminal Decline, yet the current grubby hands in Israel are determined to end their future.
What happens when another change grips the fickle American power center. What happens when everyone wakes up to the beneficiaries of the great American Financialization/Asset stripping scheme. What other country in the world can replace the dumbed-down American to provide succor for the vicious tribe?
Good thinking. There is every possibility that the Trump chaos-bombing will wreck the American hegemony as it will slow down "Terminal Decline." And what countries? How about Russia and China, not to mention Iran and the Latin American socialists.
"the Jew"? Who would that be, please tell. It may be so that some Jews have a lot of money, but they are capitalists or financiers first, Jews second. If you mean Zionist Jews, they are as delusional and heretical as Christian Zionists. If the latter have power, it is because they serve Empire's business.
Your notion of money is absurd. I follow MMT. Essentially, the state creates all money, including by chartered banks, and enforces its acceptance by charging taxes payable in its currency. Laugh away, but that is how things are.
You blame money and money accumulation, especially finance capitalism, not Jews. That Jews fill that role, true enough. But they are money-men first, Jews second.
Who blew the whistle on the Gaza Genocide and stood up in protest? Who analyzed the Zionist heresy? Who were the most committed Marxists and Bolshevik revolutionaries? It was Jews, many Jews. But for too many people, all Jews get blamed for EVERYTHING.
Trump is casting about for any way to gain something for the U.S. from the Ukraine debacle. He was left a big, big mess by the neo-cons. Sometimes, you just have to fold the hand, no matter how much you have invested in the pot. Trump needs to learn this lesson. His wriggling to find any angle whereby the U.S. can get something for the money spent looks foolish and silly.
Well, he should know all about the "Sunk Cost Fallacy". Oh, and regarding the Rare Earth's and Titanium Ore (Ilmenite) he needs to either look at a Geological Resources Map of Ukraine or have a chat with someone who knows where all the good stuff is buried.
We all are not much more than our life's experience. Trump has had businesses that have failed and gone Bankrupt. That is a lesson you do not forget. You learn to stay off the window ledge, to step back. And if all of your efforts, including your commitments to partners, investors, and suppliers is just going to lead to a bigger black hole, then you do the necessary thing and stop the bleeding.
Ukraine is a big, bleeding blackhole. A Biden (handlers), Deep Stink, European, Soros/WEF VANITY PROJECT.
I understand that he got rogered by a combination of rising interest rates, expansion of legal gambling elsewhere and Gramm-Leach ending certain tax shelters.
To be fair, he wasn't the only developer to get caught by something like that.
You gave me another way to look at Trump disentangling us from another steaming pile.
I really don't know what Trump has in mind. He needs to quit dicking around and speak to Putin, then Xi and Modi, face-to-face or all together. Get the mutual rapport flowing. He is good at that. And keep the Banderans and the EU out of the loop.
I think he has a problem that there is not one enemy out there and some of them are at home hence his attempt to drain the swamp. There will be failures there too. Not even the simple thing with 2 genders goes down easily - NY AG said the hospitals have to follow local, state law which further allows castration of kids.
The stories about FBI agents not following orders if true show where he is.
Then the big problem is the money - he can print but even if Musk does his best game there is this non-discretionary spending i.e. stuff for which the congress allocated money and wrote laws requiring fixed amounts. This is the majority.
He for sure changes a lot as he is better prepared now than he was in his 1st term but still the problems he has to solve are massive and his chances do not look so good. Plus certain problems like Gaza Stripe are not easily fixable.
I still wish him good luck. Maybe he manages to do something good. I doubt but wish him well.
I have long been captivated by american political system. My leanings naturally gravitated towards democrats, thinking that they will spread justice into the entire world. But the past 4 yrs under Jaw Boden exposed a network of insidious acts that eroded the US society and distrubted the international order that has already not been in a good shape since G. Bush and Obama's admin.
A short list of Democrats "justice": slavery, a civil war, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, segregation, WW1, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Tuskegee Experiment, Arab Spring, the "Biden Family Continuing Criminal Enterprise".
"The fact is simply this: if you don’t have testosterone, you don’t have a country."
Right on-right on cheetos. I was thinking that we get a bunch of the testosterone suffused together and have our very own "guy pride parade". I have three sons that I'm very proud of and their existence didn't happen because I cut my junk off. We could have our own flag and dammit I want Trump to declare "Testosterone Month" to honor our contributions. We could even 'erect a flag'! No pun, etc...Maybe a bird dog...pointing.
My "Make Greenland Great Again" hat is presently on back order from Amazon. Screw Denmark...they can go back to making furniture or vases or wherever it is they do there. And...and..FUCK the NATO you road into town on.
When supranational Finances own a country, the country’s moral fiber decays and dissolves. Look at the brothel of aipac-owned US congress and the ease of doing a mass slaughter in Palestine by American X-tians and judaists.
There was a report of a lucrative business of snatching fetuses from Ukrainian women (against their will) to make “beauty pills” for European big shots.
A Moscow Mule is a classic cocktail that combines vodka, ginger beer, and fresh lime juice, traditionally served in a copper mug. This refreshing drink is known for its crisp, spicy-sweet flavor profile and its distinctive presentation.
Mules are a cross between a female horse and a jackass. Interesting the largest breed of jackass in the world is the American Black Mammoth Jack, a breed developed by George Washington himself . Male asses were bred to mares to create large mules to pull American artillery across the Great Plains . If anyone tells you you did a have ass job , take it as a compliment in ode to the hard working mules that made American great .
>This is in line with earlier theories from months ago that Trump would initiate an “audit” of Ukraine, which would conveniently find vast corruption to the point of allowing Trump to ‘wash his hands’ of Zelensky and Ukraine at large, dumping them on Europe.
Delusional hopium.
This war isn't between Russia and Ukraine, or between Russia and the West over Ukraine, it is between Russia and the West over Russia itself. Ukraine is just the initial phase.
It is that existential for both sides -- Operation Barbarossa 2.0, but with much increased urgency because the West has now really run out of easily extractable natural resources and it needs to grab Russia's in order to perpetuate its existence for a few more decades.
There can be no washing hands of anything here.
The tragedy of the Russian people is that their leadership does not treat the war as the existential conflict that it is. In fact, their leadership has shown zero concern about protecting the Russian people from slaughter, and much more concern about the well-being of Westerners.
Which is treason, plain and simple, the kind of treason for which heads should be rolling down central city squares, literally.
Case in point:
>They quote a Ukrainian former minister in essentially validating that powers are aligning to remove Zelensky from his illegitimate seat:
We have seen countless atrocities committed by the Ukronazis against Russian civilians, some of them on local initiative, but others actually explicitly ordered directly from the top.
Given that the Kremlin refuses to allocate the necessary resources to finish the war quickly, there is only one recourse left to protect its own people -- to enforce deterrence by precision strikes on Ukrainian leadership. You kill our civilians, you will die immediately, so better think twice, that sort of thing.
It has not been done. At all.
Why?
Well, there are several lines of excuse making on that issue:
1) you see, it is in Russia's interest to keep Zelensky in power because he is so incompetent
2) you see, it sets a bad precedent to assassinate heads of state
3) you see, he is just a puppet so it doesn't matter
All of these are absurd.
First, if Zelensky is illegitimate, which the Kremlin constantly repeats, then both excuses 1) and 2) do not apply.
And if it doesn't matter who is in power regarding the overall conduct of the war, then why not take him out?
Also, of course, the West has never had any qualms about taking out leadership, so that supposed taboo has been purely imaginary for a very long time.
So which is it? If Zelensky is illegitimate and he is responsible for the Russian civilians in Kursk being slaughtered like pigs, why not punish him personally for it given that according to the Kremlin his legal status is that of a common terrorist?
Can it get more schizophrenic than that?
Unless, of course, there are more sinister motivations at play on the part of the Kremlin here, i.e. to screw the Russian people even more in the near future...
You start off well, and then fall back on "But Putin is a traitor because I cannot understand why he so behaves".
IT comes down to: Do you behave as you do because there might be consequences, or do you behave as you do because you believe in it.
Putin and Xi do not use assassination generally as a tool of statecraft, because they disapprove of it.
There are good reasons why this policy was all but outlawed, along with attacks on Embassies.
Yes, the current Western dictators reach for such tools, the Israelis start with them.
And look at the status of the state called Israel, and Western dictatorships today, as a result.
As for realpolitic, Russia would gain almost nothing by assassinating the clown, and lose a great deal by so doing.
The new leader would not stop Budanov/CIA/MI5 and their various assassination plans, and terrorist attacks like the Moscow concert.
(Assassinating Budanov on the other hand wouldn't hurt, which is probably why he never takes the slightest risk).
For all that Voldemort Z is a dictatorial buffoon, and Putin is a popular elected true Leader; the Western (Global) media would immediately project them as moral equivalences - and any outrage over US plans to assassinate Putin would be silenced.
There are so many reasons NOT to do this, and so few to DO this, it's not even funny.
>There are so many reasons NOT to do this, and so few to DO this, it's not even funny.
There are also much better reasons to do it.
Putin's duty is to protect the Russian people and the country. He is manifestly not doing that, in fact he is resolutely refusing to do it.
The country is under aerial attack daily, has been invaded for six months now, people are dying every hour, etc. etc.
This is catastrophic.
What are the solutions? There are three of them.
1) Neutralize the threat by winning the conventional war on the ground. But Putin refuses to allocate the resources needed to do that in terms of mobilization of the country and manpower, plus there is a long list of objects that are off-limits for precision strikes, and those just happen to be the ones the Russian army most needs to take out in order to win the war
2) Neutralize the threat immediately by physically destroying it. That means nuking Poland, Romania, and perhaps a few other countries, and not just symbolically, but permanently erasing them from the map and from subsequent human history
3) Enforce deterrence by precision strikes on the people responsible for the country being attacked. In Ukraine and not only.
Note that unlike most other countries that have been invaded and under attack in history, Russia has the tools to solve the problem in all three ways described above. It is not Yugoslavia, Syria, Iraq, Libya, etc., and not even the USSR in WWII (when there were no such things as nukes and long-range precision munitions). It has all the strike capabilities it needs to make sure both that the war is won quickly and that nobody ever again dares fire a single round across the Russian border, and we mean the Russian border defined by Moscow.
Also, taking out Ukrainian leadership is the lowest hanging fruit, and the solution with least dramatic downstream repercussions (especially compared to nuking Poland).
Yet none of the above is being done.
Well, will somebody, preferably Putin himself, answer why? Or what the plan is here?
P.S. Putin has been catastrophically bad as a war leader. Zelensky might be a clown and a corrupt criminal, but he has been a good war leader. He is there every night, addressing the population, boosting morale, and he is constantly defining very clear and maximalist war aims. Meanwhile Putin is in hiding all the time, pretends that there is no war going on, has never defined victory, much less in maximalist terms, and it all has a deeply corrosive and demoralizing effect on the Russian war effort.
You talk of "Going to full war mobilisation" as if it just a stroke of a pen and no repercussions. A full economy destroys economies, why did the UK have to give up its Empire after WW2? It wasn't that the UK leadership had a sudden bout of morality.
War is insanely expensive, especially modern industrialised war.
A pyrrhic victory is not what Russia needs.
As for "Nuking the neighbouring countries", ffs. A few pinprick attacks that kill one or two civilians is not requiring a full scale nuclear attack that will massacre many many millions, and leave Europe scarred - incl Russia itself - for countless generations. The Palestinians have lost over 200,000 civilians for their fight, and that is still small scale compared to many other decolonial struggles.
You are insane.
Ofc Russia could have done things differently, and in hindsight better - that is why it is called "Hindsight". But IRW you can't load a save file and replay the situation as it transpired.
The Kremlin gambled on the early diplomacy succeeding - and it almost did. They also gambled on popular uprisings, and Putin had to replace his spy chief.
The West gambled on the lethal sanctions regime succeeding - and thanks personally to Putin it failed. It would have succeeded under Yeltsin, and certainly any of the western puppets such as Navalny. Russia is still standing, and stronger than ever.
You cannot just wave a magic wand and make your country stronger - it takes time, patience, and even more patience. Zimbabwe has just as many working magical wands as Russia does; notice the difference between them?
Not agreeing with a country's policies, and accusing the leadership of being traitors because of that disagreement, is just silly. If you want REAL traitors, look at Scholtz, B'Liar, or Stormer. Does Putin even begin to reach the foothills of the mountain of traitorousness embodied in those ghouls?
Not even close.
I have a very strong hunch that were you suddenly catapulted into the Kremlin, you would be given very solid reasons why all your simplistic 'solutions' would cause considerably more problems than they might solve.
>I have a very strong hunch that were you suddenly catapulted into the Kremlin, you would be given very solid reasons why all your simplistic 'solutions' would cause considerably more problems than they might solve.
OK, so why has Putin not explained those reasons to the Russian people?
Because there are a lot of them really mad about the situation right now, and they would like an explanation, which in turn is indeed owed to them
I am totally disgusted that President Putin doesn't update you, Mr GM (random dude on internet), on all his battle plans.
You have a cute way of throwing around nukes, into Poland or Romania, like they are nothing. Nuking those countries would also terrible harm Russians.
I can only deduce that you, GM, are a madman. But you've been persistent in your madness all these months since I started following Simplicius. But you could be an operative also. Maybe one that wasn't being paid by USAID?
Well, Russia is a democracy, so if there are indeed so many mad at him, then you can run against Putin in the next election, on a platform of nuking Romania, the Baltics, Scandinavia, and every other European county with an 'a' in the name for good measure, and win.
And then you can get on with that plan.
I mean, without a doubt you'd be the US Neocons most loved Russian president for all time, so there's that.
Putin/Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons. If necessary, if Russia is in existential danger. And this fact has been clearly communicated to the enemy. Biden/Blinken whoever is deciding in US, allowed US missiles attack on Russia only when he was safely on the way out, as an obstacle for his political opponent, Trump. He knew Russia will not overreact, waiting for Trump to take power.
This is reckless behaviour. Trump received the message, and acknowledged the receipt. Trump publicly opposed attacking Russia. This business is finished. To kill Biden now, when Alzheimer ate his brain, makes no sense. To kill Blinken is stupid. Give him a place in history books, as an almost hero, instead of letting him being recognized as a failure… a stupid, arrogant, incompetent...
Using nuclear weapon would be an irreversible act. Opening Pandora box.
Putin is not a madman, he is very stable, reasonable, conscientious leader of the great nation, great state, great army.
He is leading his nation into victory. He doesn't need nuclear weapons.
In a war, that you correctly recognize as existential for Russia.
But fighting an existential war still doesn’t mean using nuclear weapons at the first opportunity, after the first setback.
Remember the setbacks, losses, defeats, and enjoy your revenge when the time comes.
War is not a time for endulging in emotion, fear, panic might kill you. A bit of Paranoia is good, but not at the commanding post, and definitely not in command.
North Korean leader may play the role of unpredictable madman, and some may believe.
For a leader of a major power it is childish to even try to play madman. All options of first strikes, second strike, nuclear triad have been rehearsed, theoretically played in myriad nuclear war games...
Remember you still have not answered the most important questions from our last discussion.
why was Russia weak?
Why Gorbachev failed? And Yeltsin?
Why has Russia when Putin first become president been so weak?
War is being fought globally, in Ukraine, on the frontline, but also in the minds and hearts of people in Ukraine, in the West; US, Europe, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Great Britain
BRICS countries and global South
Isn’t it better to have Romania, Georgia, Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary choose leaders who oppose war with Russia, do not want to be an enemy of Russia than to nuke half Europe.
Your real name is hidden, GM. What are you afraid of? What kind of responsibility has been on your shoulders, which justifies the aggressiveness of your “advices?”
Being a neurosurgeon or bridge builder demands knowledge, precision, experience, and time. Same is true for a true statesman.
Your posts tell about your “revolutionary patriotism” which is dandy.
However, Russians are not Brits who have been judaized by their omnipotent financiers since long time ago. Hence no carpet bombing for the falling-apart Ukraine.
For the life of me I cannot make sense of what Moscow is doing, honestly. One moment they take out a Danish flight instructor on Day 1 in Ukraine with an Iskander, the next they are totally indifferent to Budanov & his buddies setting off IED's in downtown Moscow.
You really think that Russian leadership does not see this war with NATO as an existential threat? Putin et al have said so many times and the Russian people think so, too. This is not a casual business as usual. The difficulty seems to be that the Russians see the Ukrainians as fellow Slavs, close cousins, maybe brothers and sisters. Killing some of them is necessary but unwelcome (the UkroNazis do not have the same inhibitions).
Yep There's a lot of people think like you do. Has been for a long time. I've yet to see a serious repudiation of your claims. And today I see Kursk, still not cleared. And the same old story: 'It's deliberate trap by Russia, to just kill them off'. Well that's clearly bullcrap by now. There's better ways to kill them off that cost fewer lives, ammunition and effort. And the fierce fighting reported isn't 'killing them off'. And the (few) TG reports we get of Russian soldiers wanting more drones and drone ecm is not 'killing them off' either.
Your stance deserves a serious response. I'd love to see it.
The scariest part about Kursk is what it means about the war moving forward.
There is a lot of hopium right now about how, you see, the last line of pre-war fortification has been breached, and the AFU is on its last legs, so it will be rapid advance to the Dnieper (and beyond) from here on.
Bullshit.
And Kursk shows it.
Because there were no pre-war Ukrainian fortifications in Kursk, by definition. And yet we see what absolute shitshow it continues to be.
It was the same situation around Volchansk -- Russian went in, advanced 10 kilometers, was stopped, and it has been just losing men and materiel there ever since for no gains. And that was not a fortified area.
Worse, the rate of advance west of Selidovo and around Pokrovsk has once again slowed down to Bakhmut-level crawl after the optimism of the acceleration from between August and November. Since then there has been an even more rapid deceleration. Hopefully it's the weather - no leaves on trees so nowhere to hide from drones, plus it has been bad conditions for aviation to drop FABs too - and it will pick up again in April. Hopefully. But the narrative that the AFU is exhausted and on its last legs does not pass the smell test regardless.
And the general theme of this war is Russian lines collapsing easily due to criminal neglect on the past of the higher ups in Moscow combined with incredibly slow and painful clawing back of the lost territories and advances into previously not held areas. Almost a fourth year into this now, there is little hope this will change any time soon.
Yep, that's how it has appeared to me. It's like Russia has been outmanoeuvred consistently and the stuff about short of weapons, short of ammunition, etc. etc. was/is all part of it.
They are playing with seriously murderous and implacable foes I think. And they got off to a bad start it seems, what little I think I have learned.
Their army was rotten from the top down, sinecures, fools and incompetents all over the place. And worse.
And they've been struggling mightily to fix it but it ain't fixed yet.
Was that the reason the SMO failed initially and has degenerated into the current catastrophe since then?
No, that was on the politicians.
Even in its early 2022 state the Russian army had all the tools and organizational capabilities to dispose of the Nazis in Ukraine, but was prevented from doing it by political leadership. That continues to this day even as the situation has become more unfavorable -- the Russian army has improved, but relative to "Ukraine" it has weakened, because of NATO entering directly and Ukraine just providing the meat. Yet this is all still in Russia's hands to lose. They have the tools to end this quickly, they had them in 2022, and will still have them until nukes are placed in Ukraine. Which might happen quite soon, so there is little time left to act...
It is an internal Russian political problem, which is what I have been trying to explain here for so long, to little effect.
if I were an MI6 or CIA operative with a task to spread misinformation and defetism I would diligently follow your texts, ideas, comments and copy and disseminate widely the materiel.
Whatever point you raise it always, invariably ends up in same conclusions
- war is lost
- Putin is the traitor
- army is led by incompetent and corrupt officers
If I was somewhat intelligent, capable MI6 or CIA operative
I would know that people who read Simplicius’s work are basically proRussian, and well informed, and reasonable intelligent.
This population is an excellent test population to see what works amd what doesn’t. Who will engage GM, and what would be the arguments.
Simplicius’s comments are testing ground for psy ops.
It does make sense to systematically dismantle GM baseless accusations. Still.
It is so nice to read criticism from the 'fly on the wall' in the Russian War Room, while GM's ability to read the news and contradict it is unparalleled. Me, I trust that Russian military knows what it is doing, even when I don't grasp fully events many thousands of kilometers away and done by a military with hundreds of years of experience with achieving victory. And, all indications are that the Ukrainian military is collapsing.
A lot of Russian ethnics fight on Ukraine's side. Often, it's just "us vs. them," you're getting shot at, you're shooting back. Ukrainians I know, talk about that the "point of no return has been passed." When I ask to elaborate, they can't. I think wars, at some point, just find their war legs and the fighting for fighting's sake goes on.
why? it's there for all to see. i've said it repeatedly, it is a question of the narrative we're served and the results we see: they are at odds.
Woefully at odds. If you can't see that then you are not looking.
Kursk is a salient. That is a point. What's a feature of a salient? Think.
Long fronts. Narrow width. Long supply/communication lines.
Hence attacked on three sides perpetually.
60km as I've said over and over again from Sumy to Pokrebki. Over open flat country. Even with snow on it to show tracks.
Drone supremacy we are told. All kinds of smart munitions. Plenty of troops filtering through the enemy lines and with RPG's and ambush tactics. Remote mining available.
Yet over that 60km sufficient supplies and armour gets through to the sharp end to enable attacks to be mounted even, not just defense, but attacks.
And 'fierce fighting' takes place.
Not annihilation in ambushes. Fierce fighting. A man was lauded way back for his personal courage and ability - which cost him his life in the end - holding his ground at Malaya Loknya. And finally he and his garrison were defeated and fell back and the enemy went a further 10km to Pokrebki.
That was cunning attrition? Tell that to the dead.
And this man points out it remains the same.
And those of us with memories remember all that Prigozhin said and he felt it so fervently he gave his life for it.
Wake up! He's received plenty of "serious repudiation(s) of your (his) claims". Also, a mischievous Strawman from you with "And the same old story: 'It's deliberate trap by Russia, to just kill them off'.".
I, & none else around here, wrote what you claimed & I pointed that out; hence Strawman. A "trap" did develop, however. UKR's fixation has cost them dearly according to what I've read.
Going around assassinating peeps wont solve the problem in the long run. That is what they are saying all the time - long-term solution. And long term-solution can only be achieved by dismantling USD printing press. Others need to chip in some help with this issue.
Rus imposed the facts on the ground forcing muhriqans to publicly admit world is multipolar, now dedollarization and dismantling of the printing press are needed. Hopefully, muhriqans go after their own jugulars.
And my personal wish, NED-like BRICS entity couping and balkanizing golden billionis, starting with perfidious albionis. That would be sweet.
It will solve the problem of e.g. what just happened in Zapo region — a school bus hit by an FPV, driver almost killed, five children with shrapnel wounds — alright.
You come out and say that for every such act Ukrainian oligarchs, politicians, etc. will be taken out, at e.g. 2:1 ratio for every civilian casualty, then you actually finally follow through on the treat, and let’s see if they continue.
It’s called protecting your people, which is your duty. It will not solve the strategic problem, but the civilians will be protected from psychopaths killing them for fun.
Nobody cares about Ukies, not even Banderites in Canada care how many Banderites in Ukraine die.
It is frustrating AF, but long term solution and only solution is dismantling the pritning press. Here China needs to step up. Can't even protect their union pay card within China. Bows before sanctions.
It is, printing press buys / produces those drones, transports them, props up banderites and mercs that use them. Pays for social security of the whole country, salaries, pensions. Everything.
And most of you here are just a bunch of bloodsport spectators who are perfectyl happy to watch snow n*****s kill each other as long as there is no threat to your own safety.
The moment someone suggests that such a threat might be a good idea, the accusations of either being a three-letter agency plant or a lunatic ready to press the button for no reason come out.
There was a man of great statue, General Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marin in US history, who wrote, “all wars are bankers’ wars.” Exhibit One: the establishment of the Federal Reserve which is neither federal nor reserve but a nest of looters and amoral degenerates who have been making decisions about all last century's wars.
Agree that the moneyed deciders must be targeted and left without any luxurious bunkers to hide.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” - Look at the ugly amoral nakedness if the jewish tribe at large. They still can’t believe that their hoax is over.
It sure does not seem existential for Russia, based on how they are reacting or not reacting to provocations and escalations.
Russia has NATO by the tail so please do not let go. Russia needs to do something that will compel NATO to send ground troop or further commit to the war so those NATO troops can be destroyed. You don't want anyone to get cold feet now that your land army is built up and ready to go. If Russia backs off now to some ceasefire there will be internal revolution in Russia as hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers will feel betrayed while at the same time Ukraine Fascists will feel the same all setting up a Ukraine war 2.0 in a few years. I also believe China needs a demonstration to understand that Russia is not F-ing around anymore and get them to crack down on companies supplying Ukraine with drone/parts/weapons.
I propose Russia do the following:
1. After the next big terror attack from Ukraine, declare your intent to attack Lvov with the Oreshnik in 72hrs and advise civilians to leave the city.
2. After 72hrs use a nuke-armed Oreshnik to destroy Lvov.
3. EU will scream as thousands of dead civilians as well as maybe millions more flee Ukraine.
Russia will not have to worry about supplies from this city and the show of death will compel many to leave Ukraine making the work at the front line easier and avoiding any new draft surge by Ukraine to prolong the war. EU will have its hands full with Ukrainian refugees and if done right will have some fallout as well.
A city in Ukraine sacrificed will save lives in the long term - is that not one of the same reasons for Hiroshima/Nagasaki?
Believe it or not, there are still a lot more Russian people in Lvov than you think, especially after so many people from eastern Ukraine were driven out of their homes by the fighting.
Why strike Poland, if still inside Ukraine the dreaded and most feared weapon of all, "Article 5" need not be used. Let the politicians explain why radioactive fallout is a justification for war.
1) Ukraine is Russian territory and there has already been sufficient destruction on Russian territory done with Russian weapons
2) The weapons are coming from Poland, not from Ukraine. So if you want to stop the flow of weapons, Poland has to be completely destroyed. No cities, no airfields, no roads, no bridges, no railways left.
3) Article 5 is fiction, and by exposing that fiction by calling the bluff behind it, the whole NATO problem will be solved too. Nobody else will volunteer to be a launch platform for US strikes on Russia after somebody has been made an example.
Article 5 will be proven , not just currently strongly suspected, to be a bluff in today's scenario - the question becomes whether RU wants to prove it. The bigger concern would be future economic & geopolitical relations, including with Europa.
Apparently, Article 5 would change nothing - NATO countries will not escalate further than they have already, which is their right under said Article 5, I believe. NATO states' escalation would greatly risk bringing their destruction.
"Russia has NATO by the tail so please do not let go."
While the Russians need to take out the Banderite crew in Ukraine, Putin figured out, as the war progressed, that NATO and their poodle-walking leaders are paper tigers after all. Getting rid of NATO would be winning the bonus round. The US MIC is running a janky Arms Bazaar there and the weaknesses therein will be bad for biz/profits going forward. The AfD in Germany gets stronger and challenges the globalist traitors there. Le Pen is gaining in France. Orban is the new budding leader in Europe, practicing realpolitik, and comprehending the reasons Putin and Russia went to war.
The Russians play chess. Putin is playing the long game in my view. The Russians, sadly, are fighting the same fascists aligned against them in WW2. This is not a fun or easy journey. In my opinion, Russia will take every square inch of Ukraine and stare down the stupid Poles and Germans...at their borders.
At a recent event celebrating the local Florida Panthers- hockey champs, Trump singles out the Russian born Goalie, Sergei Bobrovsky, for praise. It's not just a quick offhanded remark either and remarkable for the fact that under Collective Biden such a remark, praising anything Russian would be verboten. Effing impossible. Some might say, "nothing to see here" but anyone in US politics saying anything positive about ANYTHING Russian, is a positive. Maybe a portent of things to come. In his usual stemwinder style Trump bangs on and on. You can cut through the blather and start at the 8.0 minute mark to see Trump's "kind words". <<link>>
I'm not talking physical size or location but the rationale for understanding, if only intellectually, what the Russians are about. IE the intellectual basis for the Russian position. Also known as any port in a storm...Admittedly thin gruel but what else do we have?
America nuked Japan because they are Satan worshippers (though, so is everybody else). It's a documented fact that Japan had been trying to surrender for 6 months.
And on a general note, all the analysis in all these comments talk as if everything that's happening in the war is more or less just what it seems to be. Hasn't anyone ever read a history book? They never tell the public the true reasons for anything. It's too embarrassing and obviously evil.
If the West really thought they'd start a war with Russia so as to break it up into little pieces so they could steal their resources without interference, don't you think they'd have accumulated a few million artillery shells (and the like) before hand?
Something else is going on here. My vote goes to Tom Luongo. This is an economic war between globalist Europe and Nationalist Americans. Trump and Jerome Powell lead America. America was already winning but now the Trump is in and actually doing things, America has won.
In 2008 the US and European GDPs were almost the same. Since then the US economy has grown at twice the rate as Europe.
Ukraine is the walking dead and Russia will take what it wants. The weakness of the US is screamingly obvious from Trump's ongoing throwing of toys. Bullying of friends and barking repeatedly come from a place of weakness not strength.
The whole oil and gas thing is so misunderstood. Takes 3 to 7 years to plan and drill wells and most of the cost is up front so super low oil prices don't benefit US production by any means. Energy is the lifeblood of the world so messing with that too much will cause major problems globally.
Well said. Russia and Novak understand that, and the political bozos the US puts in charge of energy don't. That's why the Saudis like working with Russia so much. It's refreshing to have an adult, professional relationship.
What about opening up those oil pipelines that Obama and Biden closed down so that their good friend and large scale democrat donor Warren Buffett could then transport the oil by train , one would imagine that it costs a lot more to transport oil by train than to just use pipelines.
“Perhaps an imperfect ceasefire, one that might not satisfy all our demands for justice, is a necessary step,” Iulia Mendel, Zelya’s former press liaison, wrote in a TIME magazine op-ed. “This is not an appeal for complacency; it’s an appeal for survival.”
When Lady vdL speaks of avoiding “appeasement” at all costs she has the bloodless far off luxury, from her high seat in Brussels, of never having to calculate the way “survival” as Mendel describes it comes into play. The EU matriarchs like Kaja Kallas, Annalene Baerbock and Lady vdL must have, as girls, set their brothers’ toy soldiers up & knocked them down, rolled plastic tanks over them & ground them into the carpet of the playroom, so much idle fun. The toys they set up today are Ukrainian men trapped in cauldrons and pulverized under glide bombs.
The EU matriarchs never have to deal w/ the amputees.
They steal Russia’s money from a European bank and shovel it into a corrupt Ukrainian money-pit whose poorly trained conscripts are so ill-prepared they sometimes last only hours on the line of contact. And the EU matriarchy calls this *winning.*
“Ukraine deserves a future beyond endless war,” Mendel wrote in her TIME op-ed. No amount of rah-rah support on social media can eke out a victory for Mendel’s country. Absent a military defeat of Russia, her government must capitulate & sue for peace. It doesn’t matter what a bureaucrat in Brussels thinks. Ukraine is in Russia’s sphere of influence.
Meanwhile—quietly, quietly—Germany is seeking to buy Russian LNG. Quietly, quietly, Denmark is aiding & abetting Germany in doing so, even engaging w/ Gazprom on the potential for maintaining the NordStream pipelines ‘just in case.’ On the surface, it’s sanctions-sanctions-sanctions, while on the down-low it’s Russian LNG. The phrase “for as long as it takes” actually meant “for as long as supporting Project Ukraine did not crush the German economy.” “For as long as it takes” meant “until an upstart opposition political party like the AfD begins seriously to challenge the CDU-CSU.”
And meanwhile—noisily—DJT has begun to post on Truth Social alluring info about Ukraine’s wealth of rare earth minerals & metals. Whether there are 5 grams’ worth of minerals & metals in Ukraine—or 5mn tons’ worth—it is unseemly for the U.S. to benefit tangibly after its outsized responsibility in shoving an undersized under-supported proxy into the ring against a nuclear superpower. Doing so is disrespectful of the cost in blood which the actual battlefield combatants have paid and are still paying. The U.S. has no right to recompense from this catastrophe.
I have been and remain a fairly vocal critic of Trump, and this here is a perfect example of his basic problem: if he was truly the isolationist the Clown World shills shriek about, that would in fact be a good thing, and would help everyone immensely.
But he's not, and he still has that boomer "Murica fuck yeah!" attitude that the US is the light and the truth and the way, and the rest of the world just needs to get on board, and that shit don't fly in 2025.
Agreed, but alas, that shit does fly in 2025 when the shitslinger can print and spend trillions of dollars at will for obeisance, and will invade and destroy your country if you choose lead over silver.
That's not going to change until the US hits bottom. What that bottom will be I don't know, but like everybody who has waited for a mean alcoholic to hit bottom I know it will be violent and full of evil. As an American I'm sad and dismayed that alcoholic is my country.
The USSA is tapped out. They cannot invade and destroy any country of consequence except maybe some third world shit hole that can't actually fight back... Chip
The global economic recipe can theoretically continue indefinitely as long as everyone continues to subscribe to it.
The fiat money system is simply a method to create infinite debt.
We saw what happens when they reach "the bottom": They declare a pandemic because of a strategically leaked US bioweapon, and print an extra 20% worth of global GDP to bail out the banks with and reset the system for the next trip around.
Everyone wonders why we suddenly get 20% inflation.
We blindly accept that *global* interest rates rose to 5% from 0% in a matter of months without any problems, like in 2007 when it was last tried.
We probably don't even realise that years' worth of quantitative easing has been mysteriously repaid.
"In 2019, the Federal Reserve engaged in quantitative tightening by allowing approximately $700 billion in reserves to drain from the financial system, leading to significant stress in money markets, particularly in September of that year"
After just 700 billion, they canned it in late 2019 because it risked crashing everything.
Then, miraculously,
"As of September 2024, the US Federal Reserve has reduced its balance sheet by nearly $2 trillion through quantitative tightening (QT) since May 2022"
and that's just the US, pretty much every western economy needed to employ some form of QE so their debt economies would not collapse, and all of them are now happily repaying it all, with virtually no effect to their economies. Surely, a miracle.
Meanwhile, we are enjoying 20% inflation. As long as they don't call it hyperinflation, it isn't.
It is interesting to read Nassim Taleb's "Skin in the Game" (still better to read his complete Incerto series). One of the things that is rotting the West is the asymmetry in risk. Banks and bureaucrats are an example of that; reaping all the benefits and total collectivization of costs.
"Whether there are 5 grams’ worth of minerals & metals in Ukraine—or 5mn tons’ worth—it is unseemly for the U.S. to benefit tangibly after its outsized responsibility in shoving an undersized under-supported proxy into the ring against a nuclear superpower. Doing so is disrespectful of the cost in blood which the actual battlefield combatants have paid and are still paying. The U.S. has no right to recompense from this catastrophe."
Always recall in such discussions that the West's deep state has 'controlled opposition to the controlled opposition'.
So what if Voldemort Z is kicked out? He will be replaced by the MI5 stooge Valerie Z, who has been supercharged with notions and plans to create a 'NATO stay behind' sleeper insurgency for when Ukr inevitably finally runs out of carcasses to absorb Russian TNT and bullets.
By some accounts, Voldemort is supported by EU factions who don't wish to see the UK get greater control.
With the loss of the eastern oblasts permanently, rump-Ukr voting will change.
Who knows the effects of the loss of 10-20% of the male adult voting population will cause? Let alone the psychological/social scars of the war itself.
And needless to say, should someone rise or even win running on a platform the West do not want, the elections will be cancelled to prevent such a "wrong" result anyway.
The Polish should ponder all this as their likely future, too.
Won't be the first time for the Polish. They're prone to delusion of grandeur, and always bite more than they could chew. They will be the irreplaceable replacement of Ukrainians in the to "the last...."
Yeah, I was pretty shocked reading an honest history of the interwar period a few decades back, school history books tended to paint the Poles as innocent victims.
By no means were they at all.
They just figured Germany and Russia would never work together and could get away with it.
Oh, yeah. My recent "favorite" was that Ukraine transported its gold reserve to Poland about 2 years back. Want a bet that Ukraine won't ever see it back? :-)
At the start of WW2, Poland had a huge army, and everybody expected that Poland would entangle Hitler for months, if not a year. Poland crumbled in what - 3 weeks?
Will be interesting to see how the purge of USAID plays out. I know you Doomers out there still can’t give any credit to Trump but it’s kind of a big fucking deal. I highly recommend you read this tweet from Sputnik about USAID. Seems to be the perpetual machine that kept the money and color revolutions roaring.
USAID *is* CIA. USAID is supposed to be untouchable.
Part of USAID was the Consortium for Excellence in Political Process Strengthening—CEPPS—which played a central role in internet censoring by funding advocacy for passing laws regarding internet misinformation in small countries. The *aid* workers function under the pretext of not being part of the government: if they are *aid* workers, the doors swing open for them. Tactical wokeness in service of statecraft is the schema: inflame racial minorities through DEI-type programs. These groups are part of an ethnic Balkanization created by USAID in order to facilitate the toppling of foreign governments: like invading Iraq in order to liberate women from governmental tyranny. If USAID working on famine relief, it’s because we’re trying to control a country’s food supply in order to dominate the population. The worst scandals in U.S. statecraft have hailed from USAID. !—Even funding the Wuhan Institute was part of a USAID initiative—! USAID has used AIDS clinics in Cuba in order to foment dissent among the populace & overthrow the government through a color revolution.
USAID can do this under cover of being *aid* workers, not CIA agents.
Yes sir, not sure where I heard this but the USAID is like the skeleton key to corruption. Trump’s attack on the org seemed to rub all the right people the wrong way. It’s a great sign. God only knows how much influence they still have in Ukraine .
Trumpet apparently wants to gentrify Gaza by building Trump towers & Golf courses there with "drill, baby, drill" rigs off the coast which won't be seen when lounging on the beach. Some1 should tell him to build guv-subsidized housing projects, like his daddy did, there for Gazans.
Slowly, drop by drop, the effect of money printing soaks through the shirt like a bloodstain. Once the suckers stop trading real things for printed script, the whole game grinds to a halt. The grifters will be run out of town, or will be forced to learn how to work for their money.
Trump is busy. And the recalcitrance of the EU, UK, NATO, Kiev etc is not nothing. The fact that nobody from his administration has even called Moscow, let alone started the process of setting up a meeting, is telling in of itself. Further, I take the various EU pols at their word when they say that this conflict is existential for them, and that they are ready to cause much hardship on their own populations to fight Russia. I have no reason to doubt their words, and neither should you, and neither should Russia.
The US will not end the war. Only Moscow can end the war. And its likely that a new Iron Curtain will be the end result, perhaps on the Dnieper.
Russia has sent the White House the credentials of its proposed new ambassador to the U.S. but has yet to hear back from DJT’s team if they accept Moscow’s choice of ambassador for the D.C. embassy.
I think they've been waiting since October for their ambassador to be accepted. I know Trump's only been if office for 2 weeks, but this needs to be done.
We are rapidly now approaching the point of greatest danger- were Ukraine's defeat is inevitable and is understood by leaders in the US and Europe to be inevitable. It is that point where we in the west are most likely to do catastrohically stupid and escalatory things. I feel better today than I did 3 months ago with Trump in charge but it still worries me.
Akayesu's case IS applicable to ALL ukrainian leaders: Zelensky, Syrsky, Budanov, ...
Case "Akayesu 1998" in Rwanda:
The case of Jean-Paul Akayesu was a milestone in international jurisprudence.
Akayesu, who was Mayor of the Taba Commune in Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide, was convicted in 1998 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on nine charges of GENOCIDE and Crimes gainst Humanity.
It was the first time that an International Court of Justice had convicted a person of the crime of GENOCIDE and also the first time that RAPE has been recognized as an ACT of Genocide.
This case established an important precedent for subsequent trials related to War Crimes and Genocide.
The ICTR, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in its landmark judgment, "Akayesu (1998)", established that "the offender is GUILTY of GENOCIDE because he knew or SHOULD have known that the act committed would destroy, in whole or in part, a GROUP.
(Adam Jones, Genocide, a Comprehensive Introduction, Routledge, New York, 2006, page 21).
Many thanks, dear Simplicius, for this report as well as all your previous ones. They are all very helpful and your analyses are always very much appreciated.
I wonder how can Trump get those rare Earth minerals since Russia will not allow this.
What guarantees can the Ukrainian regime even offer to Trump that those minerals could be given to Trump?
As I see it, Ukraine cannot guarantee anything.The Trump team is very naive.
In short Tilly, they're way out of reach in both the short or medium term. The raw materials (Ores) need to be extracted and not all Ores may be economical to extract, say if the concentration of the stuff you want isn't high enough. Then there's transportation and processing and refinement to consider. I suspect Trump is saying all this just to give himself another excuse to dump Z. If you can't pay, we won't play kind of thing, knowing full well that the resources he's after are well out of reach.
This is why Ukrainian ores are a very distant second prize when compared to the first prize of Russian energy.
Russian energy is already an established and tapped resource, all the West needed to do was move in, and Ukraine to start selling it and collecting the money.
And exactly as you say, extracting "ores" will cost billions in time and infrastructure construction, and the results are as much a gamble as building any new mine would be.
"I suspect Trump is saying all this just to give himself another excuse to dump Z"
Possibly, but I believe Trump is saying this because he is just echoing what Zelenski has already offered. Zelenski himself offered "Ukraine's minerals" to the West in exchange for protection.
But the very fact that Zelenski offered the minerals seemingly out of the blue indicates to me that this was his contrite offering to placate the West so they would not leave completely empty-handed after Ukraine failed to secure Russian energy - the real goal of all this debacle.
Kind of like...: "Gee folks. Gosh darn it.. we simply couldn't take Russia's energy from them despite all your help and hundreds of billions of dollars.. but don't get mad at me, here, have Ukraine's minerals instead? We have trillions worth... really we do..."
!—DJT is spewing testosterone all over America’s sphere of influence—! As a nation, we have needed testosterone for the longest time. The Dems told weak-minded pearl-clutchers that woman-slapping/nanny-impregnating Dougie was a model of the new masculinity, as was Tim “the other white meat” Walz who couldn’t even load his gun.
Pearl-clutchers need to step back and f** themselves right in the face, as Kekkius Maximus tweeted.
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Every man rolls out of bed and reaches down to see how they’re hanging, the pair, deez nutz, cajones, the nonstop testosterone engine every guy walks around with. DJT once said, if you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country. The fact is simply this: if you don’t have testosterone, you don’t have a country.
You misinterpret the Dems. They have been the vilest warmongers of this century, even worse than GW Bush's fanciful wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, and most of the Dems supported those wars.
Dem warmongering willy waving, eh?- But only through other people, not 'real people'. That is a form of cowardice, not an excess of testosterone.
Proxy wars! Did the Romans have them, too? Those other great imperialists. Imperialism today is all the rage, it is soooo RETRO.
The Dems sit down to pee. If you're a man & you sit down to pee, there's intent.
I’ve been told thats what they teach the little German boys as well….
On a boat, particularly a sailboat, the crew always sits down to pee. The standing alternative sprays urine all over the head while the on-deck into the sea method often results in death. The US Coast Guard reports that male boating victims more often than not drowned with their flys open.
Either that or Mermaids are real .
or MtF trannies.
Can I when I'm drunk?
Amen! The Dems have started every war the US ever fought -- a real war, not a show-off stunt like Grenada. That doesn't mean Republicans didn't stupidly buy in once the deed was done.
Stop w your red blue farce difference. They both serve the Jew
Dividing others, internally and externally is their compulsion. They see it as their key survival mechanism.
Trump will probably slow down the American Terminal Decline, yet the current grubby hands in Israel are determined to end their future.
What happens when another change grips the fickle American power center. What happens when everyone wakes up to the beneficiaries of the great American Financialization/Asset stripping scheme. What other country in the world can replace the dumbed-down American to provide succor for the vicious tribe?
Good thinking. There is every possibility that the Trump chaos-bombing will wreck the American hegemony as it will slow down "Terminal Decline." And what countries? How about Russia and China, not to mention Iran and the Latin American socialists.
"the Jew"? Who would that be, please tell. It may be so that some Jews have a lot of money, but they are capitalists or financiers first, Jews second. If you mean Zionist Jews, they are as delusional and heretical as Christian Zionists. If the latter have power, it is because they serve Empire's business.
Ask yourself what "money/currency" is, and who gets to create it, from nothing, who gets their pockets filled first, and who laughs in your face.
Your notion of money is absurd. I follow MMT. Essentially, the state creates all money, including by chartered banks, and enforces its acceptance by charging taxes payable in its currency. Laugh away, but that is how things are.
lol. Why are you afraid to name the Jew. I will start morgenthau, Zelenskyy nuland, kagan blinken soros, trumps son in law and homo father, etc etc.
You blame money and money accumulation, especially finance capitalism, not Jews. That Jews fill that role, true enough. But they are money-men first, Jews second.
Tedder I am afraid that a depressingly large number of people on here blame EVERYTHING on Jews.
Who blew the whistle on the Gaza Genocide and stood up in protest? Who analyzed the Zionist heresy? Who were the most committed Marxists and Bolshevik revolutionaries? It was Jews, many Jews. But for too many people, all Jews get blamed for EVERYTHING.
But they did it on the down low. That’s a metaphor means what you think it means.
Trump is casting about for any way to gain something for the U.S. from the Ukraine debacle. He was left a big, big mess by the neo-cons. Sometimes, you just have to fold the hand, no matter how much you have invested in the pot. Trump needs to learn this lesson. His wriggling to find any angle whereby the U.S. can get something for the money spent looks foolish and silly.
The guy has plenty of casinos. What he knows is this: the house always wins
Well, he should know all about the "Sunk Cost Fallacy". Oh, and regarding the Rare Earth's and Titanium Ore (Ilmenite) he needs to either look at a Geological Resources Map of Ukraine or have a chat with someone who knows where all the good stuff is buried.
Didn't two of his casinos go broke?
Now, why are you dragging our attention to such a trivial detail? :-)
We all are not much more than our life's experience. Trump has had businesses that have failed and gone Bankrupt. That is a lesson you do not forget. You learn to stay off the window ledge, to step back. And if all of your efforts, including your commitments to partners, investors, and suppliers is just going to lead to a bigger black hole, then you do the necessary thing and stop the bleeding.
Ukraine is a big, bleeding blackhole. A Biden (handlers), Deep Stink, European, Soros/WEF VANITY PROJECT.
I suspect Trump just wasn't a hard enough bastard to run a casino successfully
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html
At least four of Trump's chapter 11s were of casinos. What kind of business genius manages to drive a casino into bankruptcy?
Borrowing lots of money with high spreads.
New York managed to bankrupt it's OTB, and that was a monopoly.
I understand that he got rogered by a combination of rising interest rates, expansion of legal gambling elsewhere and Gramm-Leach ending certain tax shelters.
To be fair, he wasn't the only developer to get caught by something like that.
I guess the House doesn't always win:-)
He loses casinos.
What is happening now is the rough equivalent;ent of sending shock troops to all areas of the front…..
He looks foolish and silly? Nah. He looks, as usual, naive, ignorant, and stupid.
A rose by any other name smells as sweet. Something like that.
You gave me another way to look at Trump disentangling us from another steaming pile.
I really don't know what Trump has in mind. He needs to quit dicking around and speak to Putin, then Xi and Modi, face-to-face or all together. Get the mutual rapport flowing. He is good at that. And keep the Banderans and the EU out of the loop.
I think he has a problem that there is not one enemy out there and some of them are at home hence his attempt to drain the swamp. There will be failures there too. Not even the simple thing with 2 genders goes down easily - NY AG said the hospitals have to follow local, state law which further allows castration of kids.
The stories about FBI agents not following orders if true show where he is.
Then the big problem is the money - he can print but even if Musk does his best game there is this non-discretionary spending i.e. stuff for which the congress allocated money and wrote laws requiring fixed amounts. This is the majority.
He for sure changes a lot as he is better prepared now than he was in his 1st term but still the problems he has to solve are massive and his chances do not look so good. Plus certain problems like Gaza Stripe are not easily fixable.
I still wish him good luck. Maybe he manages to do something good. I doubt but wish him well.
I have long been captivated by american political system. My leanings naturally gravitated towards democrats, thinking that they will spread justice into the entire world. But the past 4 yrs under Jaw Boden exposed a network of insidious acts that eroded the US society and distrubted the international order that has already not been in a good shape since G. Bush and Obama's admin.
A short list of Democrats "justice": slavery, a civil war, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, segregation, WW1, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Tuskegee Experiment, Arab Spring, the "Biden Family Continuing Criminal Enterprise".
Hahahaaaa man you have way with words.
This testicle obsession becomes ever more prevalent on Innernets. Gross.
For those w/ an undescended testicle, we say Internutz
LOL
My fishing-buddies use my nutz-sack for a depth-finder!
"The fact is simply this: if you don’t have testosterone, you don’t have a country."
Right on-right on cheetos. I was thinking that we get a bunch of the testosterone suffused together and have our very own "guy pride parade". I have three sons that I'm very proud of and their existence didn't happen because I cut my junk off. We could have our own flag and dammit I want Trump to declare "Testosterone Month" to honor our contributions. We could even 'erect a flag'! No pun, etc...Maybe a bird dog...pointing.
My "Make Greenland Great Again" hat is presently on back order from Amazon. Screw Denmark...they can go back to making furniture or vases or wherever it is they do there. And...and..FUCK the NATO you road into town on.
Brains beats brawn most of the time.
Look at Putin he's short and slight, but he's trained and he's shrewd.
There isn't a Western leader who compares.
(And let's acknowledge Putin has made some serious mistakes, but I stick by my opinion.)
There's a world of difference between toughness and braggadocio.
This is a terrible time for America to claim they're "toughest dog in the pack" because although they were, they aren't any more.
When supranational Finances own a country, the country’s moral fiber decays and dissolves. Look at the brothel of aipac-owned US congress and the ease of doing a mass slaughter in Palestine by American X-tians and judaists.
There was a report of a lucrative business of snatching fetuses from Ukrainian women (against their will) to make “beauty pills” for European big shots.
Yup, Putin…
DJT should tap you as his Hospitality & Events Czar
Go, occamsrazorback22, go--!
Denmark: LEGO
Unfortunately you need intellect to back up the T and BS may carry the day at home but it won't with peer competition.
Are you making a joke?
Man oh man - u r slappin' people upside-the-head with yer nut-sack!
We needed a Big Dick (Cheney) who can & will shoot a buddy in the face with a shotgun!
It’s inevitable every time I read one of your articles. I have to get my dictionary out for a word or two.
Mulishness they are good for warding off wolves, other than
mulishness
noun
The characteristic of being mulish. The trait of being difficult to handle or overcome.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License • More at Wordnik
Did it say anything about wolves?
Not explicitly, but certainly implied ;)
Mulish means stubborn like a mule...and they can be extremely stubborn!
Ah mule-ish haha. Wiktionary didn't mention mules.
cf perplexity.ai
Q: What is a Moscow Mule:
Answer:
A Moscow Mule is a classic cocktail that combines vodka, ginger beer, and fresh lime juice, traditionally served in a copper mug. This refreshing drink is known for its crisp, spicy-sweet flavor profile and its distinctive presentation.
Mules are a cross between a female horse and a jackass. Interesting the largest breed of jackass in the world is the American Black Mammoth Jack, a breed developed by George Washington himself . Male asses were bred to mares to create large mules to pull American artillery across the Great Plains . If anyone tells you you did a have ass job , take it as a compliment in ode to the hard working mules that made American great .
agree. his vocabulary is very impressive
Is vocabulary might be (what on earth is "demartis"?) but his writing is inelegant.
His writing has a strong delvish flavour.
https://bruces.medium.com/preliminary-notes-on-the-delvish-dialect-by-bruce-sterling-ce68a476247b
Isn't it a well known saying; "As Stubborn as a Mule" ?
>This is in line with earlier theories from months ago that Trump would initiate an “audit” of Ukraine, which would conveniently find vast corruption to the point of allowing Trump to ‘wash his hands’ of Zelensky and Ukraine at large, dumping them on Europe.
Delusional hopium.
This war isn't between Russia and Ukraine, or between Russia and the West over Ukraine, it is between Russia and the West over Russia itself. Ukraine is just the initial phase.
It is that existential for both sides -- Operation Barbarossa 2.0, but with much increased urgency because the West has now really run out of easily extractable natural resources and it needs to grab Russia's in order to perpetuate its existence for a few more decades.
There can be no washing hands of anything here.
The tragedy of the Russian people is that their leadership does not treat the war as the existential conflict that it is. In fact, their leadership has shown zero concern about protecting the Russian people from slaughter, and much more concern about the well-being of Westerners.
Which is treason, plain and simple, the kind of treason for which heads should be rolling down central city squares, literally.
Case in point:
>They quote a Ukrainian former minister in essentially validating that powers are aligning to remove Zelensky from his illegitimate seat:
We have seen countless atrocities committed by the Ukronazis against Russian civilians, some of them on local initiative, but others actually explicitly ordered directly from the top.
Given that the Kremlin refuses to allocate the necessary resources to finish the war quickly, there is only one recourse left to protect its own people -- to enforce deterrence by precision strikes on Ukrainian leadership. You kill our civilians, you will die immediately, so better think twice, that sort of thing.
It has not been done. At all.
Why?
Well, there are several lines of excuse making on that issue:
1) you see, it is in Russia's interest to keep Zelensky in power because he is so incompetent
2) you see, it sets a bad precedent to assassinate heads of state
3) you see, he is just a puppet so it doesn't matter
All of these are absurd.
First, if Zelensky is illegitimate, which the Kremlin constantly repeats, then both excuses 1) and 2) do not apply.
And if it doesn't matter who is in power regarding the overall conduct of the war, then why not take him out?
Also, of course, the West has never had any qualms about taking out leadership, so that supposed taboo has been purely imaginary for a very long time.
So which is it? If Zelensky is illegitimate and he is responsible for the Russian civilians in Kursk being slaughtered like pigs, why not punish him personally for it given that according to the Kremlin his legal status is that of a common terrorist?
Can it get more schizophrenic than that?
Unless, of course, there are more sinister motivations at play on the part of the Kremlin here, i.e. to screw the Russian people even more in the near future...
GaMma Wall O' Text, back to flounce on about other people's "copium" addictions.
Never change GM, never change.
Not that you could.
You start off well, and then fall back on "But Putin is a traitor because I cannot understand why he so behaves".
IT comes down to: Do you behave as you do because there might be consequences, or do you behave as you do because you believe in it.
Putin and Xi do not use assassination generally as a tool of statecraft, because they disapprove of it.
There are good reasons why this policy was all but outlawed, along with attacks on Embassies.
Yes, the current Western dictators reach for such tools, the Israelis start with them.
And look at the status of the state called Israel, and Western dictatorships today, as a result.
As for realpolitic, Russia would gain almost nothing by assassinating the clown, and lose a great deal by so doing.
The new leader would not stop Budanov/CIA/MI5 and their various assassination plans, and terrorist attacks like the Moscow concert.
(Assassinating Budanov on the other hand wouldn't hurt, which is probably why he never takes the slightest risk).
For all that Voldemort Z is a dictatorial buffoon, and Putin is a popular elected true Leader; the Western (Global) media would immediately project them as moral equivalences - and any outrage over US plans to assassinate Putin would be silenced.
There are so many reasons NOT to do this, and so few to DO this, it's not even funny.
>There are so many reasons NOT to do this, and so few to DO this, it's not even funny.
There are also much better reasons to do it.
Putin's duty is to protect the Russian people and the country. He is manifestly not doing that, in fact he is resolutely refusing to do it.
The country is under aerial attack daily, has been invaded for six months now, people are dying every hour, etc. etc.
This is catastrophic.
What are the solutions? There are three of them.
1) Neutralize the threat by winning the conventional war on the ground. But Putin refuses to allocate the resources needed to do that in terms of mobilization of the country and manpower, plus there is a long list of objects that are off-limits for precision strikes, and those just happen to be the ones the Russian army most needs to take out in order to win the war
2) Neutralize the threat immediately by physically destroying it. That means nuking Poland, Romania, and perhaps a few other countries, and not just symbolically, but permanently erasing them from the map and from subsequent human history
3) Enforce deterrence by precision strikes on the people responsible for the country being attacked. In Ukraine and not only.
Note that unlike most other countries that have been invaded and under attack in history, Russia has the tools to solve the problem in all three ways described above. It is not Yugoslavia, Syria, Iraq, Libya, etc., and not even the USSR in WWII (when there were no such things as nukes and long-range precision munitions). It has all the strike capabilities it needs to make sure both that the war is won quickly and that nobody ever again dares fire a single round across the Russian border, and we mean the Russian border defined by Moscow.
Also, taking out Ukrainian leadership is the lowest hanging fruit, and the solution with least dramatic downstream repercussions (especially compared to nuking Poland).
Yet none of the above is being done.
Well, will somebody, preferably Putin himself, answer why? Or what the plan is here?
P.S. Putin has been catastrophically bad as a war leader. Zelensky might be a clown and a corrupt criminal, but he has been a good war leader. He is there every night, addressing the population, boosting morale, and he is constantly defining very clear and maximalist war aims. Meanwhile Putin is in hiding all the time, pretends that there is no war going on, has never defined victory, much less in maximalist terms, and it all has a deeply corrosive and demoralizing effect on the Russian war effort.
You talk of "Going to full war mobilisation" as if it just a stroke of a pen and no repercussions. A full economy destroys economies, why did the UK have to give up its Empire after WW2? It wasn't that the UK leadership had a sudden bout of morality.
War is insanely expensive, especially modern industrialised war.
A pyrrhic victory is not what Russia needs.
As for "Nuking the neighbouring countries", ffs. A few pinprick attacks that kill one or two civilians is not requiring a full scale nuclear attack that will massacre many many millions, and leave Europe scarred - incl Russia itself - for countless generations. The Palestinians have lost over 200,000 civilians for their fight, and that is still small scale compared to many other decolonial struggles.
You are insane.
Ofc Russia could have done things differently, and in hindsight better - that is why it is called "Hindsight". But IRW you can't load a save file and replay the situation as it transpired.
The Kremlin gambled on the early diplomacy succeeding - and it almost did. They also gambled on popular uprisings, and Putin had to replace his spy chief.
The West gambled on the lethal sanctions regime succeeding - and thanks personally to Putin it failed. It would have succeeded under Yeltsin, and certainly any of the western puppets such as Navalny. Russia is still standing, and stronger than ever.
You cannot just wave a magic wand and make your country stronger - it takes time, patience, and even more patience. Zimbabwe has just as many working magical wands as Russia does; notice the difference between them?
Not agreeing with a country's policies, and accusing the leadership of being traitors because of that disagreement, is just silly. If you want REAL traitors, look at Scholtz, B'Liar, or Stormer. Does Putin even begin to reach the foothills of the mountain of traitorousness embodied in those ghouls?
Not even close.
I have a very strong hunch that were you suddenly catapulted into the Kremlin, you would be given very solid reasons why all your simplistic 'solutions' would cause considerably more problems than they might solve.
>I have a very strong hunch that were you suddenly catapulted into the Kremlin, you would be given very solid reasons why all your simplistic 'solutions' would cause considerably more problems than they might solve.
OK, so why has Putin not explained those reasons to the Russian people?
Because there are a lot of them really mad about the situation right now, and they would like an explanation, which in turn is indeed owed to them
I am totally disgusted that President Putin doesn't update you, Mr GM (random dude on internet), on all his battle plans.
You have a cute way of throwing around nukes, into Poland or Romania, like they are nothing. Nuking those countries would also terrible harm Russians.
I can only deduce that you, GM, are a madman. But you've been persistent in your madness all these months since I started following Simplicius. But you could be an operative also. Maybe one that wasn't being paid by USAID?
Good evening Sir.
>Nuking those countries would also terrible harm Russians.
Will harm them how?
Well, Russia is a democracy, so if there are indeed so many mad at him, then you can run against Putin in the next election, on a platform of nuking Romania, the Baltics, Scandinavia, and every other European county with an 'a' in the name for good measure, and win.
And then you can get on with that plan.
I mean, without a doubt you'd be the US Neocons most loved Russian president for all time, so there's that.
GM
you are afraid, in addition to being paranoid
you like listening to your own voice so much
Still
issue you bring up deserve consideration
GM
a longer answer
From the end, or the most important, nuclear war.
Putin/Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons. If necessary, if Russia is in existential danger. And this fact has been clearly communicated to the enemy. Biden/Blinken whoever is deciding in US, allowed US missiles attack on Russia only when he was safely on the way out, as an obstacle for his political opponent, Trump. He knew Russia will not overreact, waiting for Trump to take power.
This is reckless behaviour. Trump received the message, and acknowledged the receipt. Trump publicly opposed attacking Russia. This business is finished. To kill Biden now, when Alzheimer ate his brain, makes no sense. To kill Blinken is stupid. Give him a place in history books, as an almost hero, instead of letting him being recognized as a failure… a stupid, arrogant, incompetent...
Using nuclear weapon would be an irreversible act. Opening Pandora box.
Putin is not a madman, he is very stable, reasonable, conscientious leader of the great nation, great state, great army.
He is leading his nation into victory. He doesn't need nuclear weapons.
In a war, that you correctly recognize as existential for Russia.
But fighting an existential war still doesn’t mean using nuclear weapons at the first opportunity, after the first setback.
Remember the setbacks, losses, defeats, and enjoy your revenge when the time comes.
War is not a time for endulging in emotion, fear, panic might kill you. A bit of Paranoia is good, but not at the commanding post, and definitely not in command.
North Korean leader may play the role of unpredictable madman, and some may believe.
For a leader of a major power it is childish to even try to play madman. All options of first strikes, second strike, nuclear triad have been rehearsed, theoretically played in myriad nuclear war games...
Remember you still have not answered the most important questions from our last discussion.
why was Russia weak?
Why Gorbachev failed? And Yeltsin?
Why has Russia when Putin first become president been so weak?
War is being fought globally, in Ukraine, on the frontline, but also in the minds and hearts of people in Ukraine, in the West; US, Europe, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Great Britain
BRICS countries and global South
Isn’t it better to have Romania, Georgia, Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary choose leaders who oppose war with Russia, do not want to be an enemy of Russia than to nuke half Europe.
Your real name is hidden, GM. What are you afraid of? What kind of responsibility has been on your shoulders, which justifies the aggressiveness of your “advices?”
Being a neurosurgeon or bridge builder demands knowledge, precision, experience, and time. Same is true for a true statesman.
Your posts tell about your “revolutionary patriotism” which is dandy.
However, Russians are not Brits who have been judaized by their omnipotent financiers since long time ago. Hence no carpet bombing for the falling-apart Ukraine.
Who is calling for carpet bombing of Ukraine???
Which is technically impossible anyway
Indeed, I think Russia would prefer the incompetent Zelensky to his possible replacements...
For the life of me I cannot make sense of what Moscow is doing, honestly. One moment they take out a Danish flight instructor on Day 1 in Ukraine with an Iskander, the next they are totally indifferent to Budanov & his buddies setting off IED's in downtown Moscow.
GM, you remind me of the joke about an old wise bull and a young bull standing on the top of a hill looking down at a herd of heifers.
The young bull says: lets run down there and f**k one.
The old bull says: no, lets walk down there and f**k them all.
@J J South
gotta flesh it out a bit: for some insane reason the heifers are killing all the calves as fast as they can....
'let's saunter down there and f*** 'em all', says the old bull, desperately wondering where he put the viagra
I think the punchline is actually:
No, let's wait for them to walk up here and fuck them all.
Naw, he said "the only thing worse than bangin' a cow is talkin' to 1; let's go bowlin'." @ least that's the way my pa told me.
You really think that Russian leadership does not see this war with NATO as an existential threat? Putin et al have said so many times and the Russian people think so, too. This is not a casual business as usual. The difficulty seems to be that the Russians see the Ukrainians as fellow Slavs, close cousins, maybe brothers and sisters. Killing some of them is necessary but unwelcome (the UkroNazis do not have the same inhibitions).
They are certainly not acting like it
Yes they are. You just don't have the strategic acumen to comprehend the situation.
@GM
Yep There's a lot of people think like you do. Has been for a long time. I've yet to see a serious repudiation of your claims. And today I see Kursk, still not cleared. And the same old story: 'It's deliberate trap by Russia, to just kill them off'. Well that's clearly bullcrap by now. There's better ways to kill them off that cost fewer lives, ammunition and effort. And the fierce fighting reported isn't 'killing them off'. And the (few) TG reports we get of Russian soldiers wanting more drones and drone ecm is not 'killing them off' either.
Your stance deserves a serious response. I'd love to see it.
The scariest part about Kursk is what it means about the war moving forward.
There is a lot of hopium right now about how, you see, the last line of pre-war fortification has been breached, and the AFU is on its last legs, so it will be rapid advance to the Dnieper (and beyond) from here on.
Bullshit.
And Kursk shows it.
Because there were no pre-war Ukrainian fortifications in Kursk, by definition. And yet we see what absolute shitshow it continues to be.
It was the same situation around Volchansk -- Russian went in, advanced 10 kilometers, was stopped, and it has been just losing men and materiel there ever since for no gains. And that was not a fortified area.
Worse, the rate of advance west of Selidovo and around Pokrovsk has once again slowed down to Bakhmut-level crawl after the optimism of the acceleration from between August and November. Since then there has been an even more rapid deceleration. Hopefully it's the weather - no leaves on trees so nowhere to hide from drones, plus it has been bad conditions for aviation to drop FABs too - and it will pick up again in April. Hopefully. But the narrative that the AFU is exhausted and on its last legs does not pass the smell test regardless.
And the general theme of this war is Russian lines collapsing easily due to criminal neglect on the past of the higher ups in Moscow combined with incredibly slow and painful clawing back of the lost territories and advances into previously not held areas. Almost a fourth year into this now, there is little hope this will change any time soon.
Yep, that's how it has appeared to me. It's like Russia has been outmanoeuvred consistently and the stuff about short of weapons, short of ammunition, etc. etc. was/is all part of it.
They are playing with seriously murderous and implacable foes I think. And they got off to a bad start it seems, what little I think I have learned.
Their army was rotten from the top down, sinecures, fools and incompetents all over the place. And worse.
And they've been struggling mightily to fix it but it ain't fixed yet.
Did you happen to see this from two majors:
https://t.me/two_majors/42470?comment=113515
Was the Russian military corrupt? You bet.
Was that the reason the SMO failed initially and has degenerated into the current catastrophe since then?
No, that was on the politicians.
Even in its early 2022 state the Russian army had all the tools and organizational capabilities to dispose of the Nazis in Ukraine, but was prevented from doing it by political leadership. That continues to this day even as the situation has become more unfavorable -- the Russian army has improved, but relative to "Ukraine" it has weakened, because of NATO entering directly and Ukraine just providing the meat. Yet this is all still in Russia's hands to lose. They have the tools to end this quickly, they had them in 2022, and will still have them until nukes are placed in Ukraine. Which might happen quite soon, so there is little time left to act...
It is an internal Russian political problem, which is what I have been trying to explain here for so long, to little effect.
GM
if I were an MI6 or CIA operative with a task to spread misinformation and defetism I would diligently follow your texts, ideas, comments and copy and disseminate widely the materiel.
Whatever point you raise it always, invariably ends up in same conclusions
- war is lost
- Putin is the traitor
- army is led by incompetent and corrupt officers
If I was somewhat intelligent, capable MI6 or CIA operative
I would know that people who read Simplicius’s work are basically proRussian, and well informed, and reasonable intelligent.
This population is an excellent test population to see what works amd what doesn’t. Who will engage GM, and what would be the arguments.
Simplicius’s comments are testing ground for psy ops.
It does make sense to systematically dismantle GM baseless accusations. Still.
He has his clown-echo-chamber with Arthur now.
It is so nice to read criticism from the 'fly on the wall' in the Russian War Room, while GM's ability to read the news and contradict it is unparalleled. Me, I trust that Russian military knows what it is doing, even when I don't grasp fully events many thousands of kilometers away and done by a military with hundreds of years of experience with achieving victory. And, all indications are that the Ukrainian military is collapsing.
>Me, I trust that Russian military knows what it is doing
Learn to read. The whole point is that the Russian military is shackled and sabotaged by the traitors in the Kremlin.
Thus whether it does or does not know what it is doing is irrelevant
A lot of Russian ethnics fight on Ukraine's side. Often, it's just "us vs. them," you're getting shot at, you're shooting back. Ukrainians I know, talk about that the "point of no return has been passed." When I ask to elaborate, they can't. I think wars, at some point, just find their war legs and the fighting for fighting's sake goes on.
"There's better ways to kill them off that cost fewer lives, ammunition and effort"
Please elucidate, we, and the STAVKA, would like to know what these "better ways" are...
Well that's sarcasm and I imagine not worthy of you. Let's put it to the test:
Imagine you are in a position of overwhelming power and there is an enemy coming at you.
Now you have a couple of overall choices:
1. You can filter them through bottlenecks and passes as you wish destroying them as they come, ruthless as you are or:
2. You can employ 'Queensbury Rules' and meet them in a myriad places on virtually an equal footing.
Which will you choose, Solomon?
You choose and describe poorly.
Try again.
This time use the conditions as they exist in the Kursk salient (for both Russia and Ukraine), set up your choices from those.
Elucidate.
why? it's there for all to see. i've said it repeatedly, it is a question of the narrative we're served and the results we see: they are at odds.
Woefully at odds. If you can't see that then you are not looking.
Kursk is a salient. That is a point. What's a feature of a salient? Think.
Long fronts. Narrow width. Long supply/communication lines.
Hence attacked on three sides perpetually.
60km as I've said over and over again from Sumy to Pokrebki. Over open flat country. Even with snow on it to show tracks.
Drone supremacy we are told. All kinds of smart munitions. Plenty of troops filtering through the enemy lines and with RPG's and ambush tactics. Remote mining available.
Yet over that 60km sufficient supplies and armour gets through to the sharp end to enable attacks to be mounted even, not just defense, but attacks.
And 'fierce fighting' takes place.
Not annihilation in ambushes. Fierce fighting. A man was lauded way back for his personal courage and ability - which cost him his life in the end - holding his ground at Malaya Loknya. And finally he and his garrison were defeated and fell back and the enemy went a further 10km to Pokrebki.
That was cunning attrition? Tell that to the dead.
And this man points out it remains the same.
And those of us with memories remember all that Prigozhin said and he felt it so fervently he gave his life for it.
I'm out of patience.
You figure it out.
Or not, as you please. But I"m done with you.
The man of puerile allegory fails to elucidate.
Merely lays out disconnected facts and pretends to have connected dots.
So predictably inept, or even inapt, as is GM.
Wake up! He's received plenty of "serious repudiation(s) of your (his) claims". Also, a mischievous Strawman from you with "And the same old story: 'It's deliberate trap by Russia, to just kill them off'.".
I, & none else around here, wrote what you claimed & I pointed that out; hence Strawman. A "trap" did develop, however. UKR's fixation has cost them dearly according to what I've read.
I didn't like my post so i've removed it. But the truth is, John, I really don't quite get what you're saying. :)
Going around assassinating peeps wont solve the problem in the long run. That is what they are saying all the time - long-term solution. And long term-solution can only be achieved by dismantling USD printing press. Others need to chip in some help with this issue.
Rus imposed the facts on the ground forcing muhriqans to publicly admit world is multipolar, now dedollarization and dismantling of the printing press are needed. Hopefully, muhriqans go after their own jugulars.
And my personal wish, NED-like BRICS entity couping and balkanizing golden billionis, starting with perfidious albionis. That would be sweet.
It will solve the problem of e.g. what just happened in Zapo region — a school bus hit by an FPV, driver almost killed, five children with shrapnel wounds — alright.
You come out and say that for every such act Ukrainian oligarchs, politicians, etc. will be taken out, at e.g. 2:1 ratio for every civilian casualty, then you actually finally follow through on the treat, and let’s see if they continue.
It’s called protecting your people, which is your duty. It will not solve the strategic problem, but the civilians will be protected from psychopaths killing them for fun.
Nobody cares about Ukies, not even Banderites in Canada care how many Banderites in Ukraine die.
It is frustrating AF, but long term solution and only solution is dismantling the pritning press. Here China needs to step up. Can't even protect their union pay card within China. Bows before sanctions.
The printing press is not launching FPVs into Russian children, Ukrainians are.
That at least can be stopped by targeting the Ukrainian elite.
It is, printing press buys / produces those drones, transports them, props up banderites and mercs that use them. Pays for social security of the whole country, salaries, pensions. Everything.
See, Yevhen Karas cant even do a podcast for free anymore, because USAID has dried up.
you are an useful idiot or an operative there is no other explanation for this string of stupidities.
either way stalin would have shot you so be careful what you wish for :)))
And most of you here are just a bunch of bloodsport spectators who are perfectyl happy to watch snow n*****s kill each other as long as there is no threat to your own safety.
The moment someone suggests that such a threat might be a good idea, the accusations of either being a three-letter agency plant or a lunatic ready to press the button for no reason come out.
There was a man of great statue, General Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marin in US history, who wrote, “all wars are bankers’ wars.” Exhibit One: the establishment of the Federal Reserve which is neither federal nor reserve but a nest of looters and amoral degenerates who have been making decisions about all last century's wars.
Agree that the moneyed deciders must be targeted and left without any luxurious bunkers to hide.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” - Look at the ugly amoral nakedness if the jewish tribe at large. They still can’t believe that their hoax is over.
Despite public displays of cooperation between Russia and China, it's in China's interest to see the Ukraine War continue as long as possible.
So? Perhaps it's also in RU's interest too in establishing a New Euro Security, if not a global 1.
It sure does not seem existential for Russia, based on how they are reacting or not reacting to provocations and escalations.
Russia has NATO by the tail so please do not let go. Russia needs to do something that will compel NATO to send ground troop or further commit to the war so those NATO troops can be destroyed. You don't want anyone to get cold feet now that your land army is built up and ready to go. If Russia backs off now to some ceasefire there will be internal revolution in Russia as hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers will feel betrayed while at the same time Ukraine Fascists will feel the same all setting up a Ukraine war 2.0 in a few years. I also believe China needs a demonstration to understand that Russia is not F-ing around anymore and get them to crack down on companies supplying Ukraine with drone/parts/weapons.
I propose Russia do the following:
1. After the next big terror attack from Ukraine, declare your intent to attack Lvov with the Oreshnik in 72hrs and advise civilians to leave the city.
2. After 72hrs use a nuke-armed Oreshnik to destroy Lvov.
3. EU will scream as thousands of dead civilians as well as maybe millions more flee Ukraine.
Russia will not have to worry about supplies from this city and the show of death will compel many to leave Ukraine making the work at the front line easier and avoiding any new draft surge by Ukraine to prolong the war. EU will have its hands full with Ukrainian refugees and if done right will have some fallout as well.
A city in Ukraine sacrificed will save lives in the long term - is that not one of the same reasons for Hiroshima/Nagasaki?
Why Lvov and not Rzeszow?
Believe it or not, there are still a lot more Russian people in Lvov than you think, especially after so many people from eastern Ukraine were driven out of their homes by the fighting.
Why strike Poland, if still inside Ukraine the dreaded and most feared weapon of all, "Article 5" need not be used. Let the politicians explain why radioactive fallout is a justification for war.
Because:
1) Ukraine is Russian territory and there has already been sufficient destruction on Russian territory done with Russian weapons
2) The weapons are coming from Poland, not from Ukraine. So if you want to stop the flow of weapons, Poland has to be completely destroyed. No cities, no airfields, no roads, no bridges, no railways left.
3) Article 5 is fiction, and by exposing that fiction by calling the bluff behind it, the whole NATO problem will be solved too. Nobody else will volunteer to be a launch platform for US strikes on Russia after somebody has been made an example.
Article 5 will be proven , not just currently strongly suspected, to be a bluff in today's scenario - the question becomes whether RU wants to prove it. The bigger concern would be future economic & geopolitical relations, including with Europa.
Apparently, Article 5 would change nothing - NATO countries will not escalate further than they have already, which is their right under said Article 5, I believe. NATO states' escalation would greatly risk bringing their destruction.
I don't believe "Article 5" would be evoked for Poland. There are tons of excuses in "Article 5."
Oh, even if there were no excuses, that would still be the case.
Who in their right mind expects the US the honor committments? When have they ever done that if it wasn't in their interest?
And indeed Article 5 doesn't even feature any hard committments.
But this is why Putin's conduct is so inexcusable.
Why exactly Putin's conduct is "inexcusable?"
"Russia has NATO by the tail so please do not let go."
While the Russians need to take out the Banderite crew in Ukraine, Putin figured out, as the war progressed, that NATO and their poodle-walking leaders are paper tigers after all. Getting rid of NATO would be winning the bonus round. The US MIC is running a janky Arms Bazaar there and the weaknesses therein will be bad for biz/profits going forward. The AfD in Germany gets stronger and challenges the globalist traitors there. Le Pen is gaining in France. Orban is the new budding leader in Europe, practicing realpolitik, and comprehending the reasons Putin and Russia went to war.
The Russians play chess. Putin is playing the long game in my view. The Russians, sadly, are fighting the same fascists aligned against them in WW2. This is not a fun or easy journey. In my opinion, Russia will take every square inch of Ukraine and stare down the stupid Poles and Germans...at their borders.
At a recent event celebrating the local Florida Panthers- hockey champs, Trump singles out the Russian born Goalie, Sergei Bobrovsky, for praise. It's not just a quick offhanded remark either and remarkable for the fact that under Collective Biden such a remark, praising anything Russian would be verboten. Effing impossible. Some might say, "nothing to see here" but anyone in US politics saying anything positive about ANYTHING Russian, is a positive. Maybe a portent of things to come. In his usual stemwinder style Trump bangs on and on. You can cut through the blather and start at the 8.0 minute mark to see Trump's "kind words". <<link>>
https://www.youtube.com/live/VPBYcaOzuyg?si=eVv9Ans9dZ65xWjW
A portion of the Tucker/Orban interview is in the <<link>> below.
https://youtu.be/a5wdgDCUX70?si=ExmtmW7IjGwoh4vj
Mate, Orban is Hungarian.
A Hungarian can't lead Europe simply because Hungary is too small, too poor and too far East.
I'm not talking physical size or location but the rationale for understanding, if only intellectually, what the Russians are about. IE the intellectual basis for the Russian position. Also known as any port in a storm...Admittedly thin gruel but what else do we have?
It's in China's interest to see the Ukraine War continue as long as possible, with as much loss as possible on both sides.
(We shouldn't be mislead by photo ops of a smiling Xi shaking hands with a smiling Putin.)
Wrong - you are thinking of USA regarding "as much loss as possible on both sides.". Time, however, benefits China and , arguably, also RU.
America nuked Japan because they are Satan worshippers (though, so is everybody else). It's a documented fact that Japan had been trying to surrender for 6 months.
And on a general note, all the analysis in all these comments talk as if everything that's happening in the war is more or less just what it seems to be. Hasn't anyone ever read a history book? They never tell the public the true reasons for anything. It's too embarrassing and obviously evil.
If the West really thought they'd start a war with Russia so as to break it up into little pieces so they could steal their resources without interference, don't you think they'd have accumulated a few million artillery shells (and the like) before hand?
Something else is going on here. My vote goes to Tom Luongo. This is an economic war between globalist Europe and Nationalist Americans. Trump and Jerome Powell lead America. America was already winning but now the Trump is in and actually doing things, America has won.
In 2008 the US and European GDPs were almost the same. Since then the US economy has grown at twice the rate as Europe.
Search YouTube for Tom Luongo's Thesis for more.
Down vote button PLEASE... Chip
We know what button GM wants to push.
Ukraine is the walking dead and Russia will take what it wants. The weakness of the US is screamingly obvious from Trump's ongoing throwing of toys. Bullying of friends and barking repeatedly come from a place of weakness not strength.
The whole oil and gas thing is so misunderstood. Takes 3 to 7 years to plan and drill wells and most of the cost is up front so super low oil prices don't benefit US production by any means. Energy is the lifeblood of the world so messing with that too much will cause major problems globally.
Well said. Russia and Novak understand that, and the political bozos the US puts in charge of energy don't. That's why the Saudis like working with Russia so much. It's refreshing to have an adult, professional relationship.
What about opening up those oil pipelines that Obama and Biden closed down so that their good friend and large scale democrat donor Warren Buffett could then transport the oil by train , one would imagine that it costs a lot more to transport oil by train than to just use pipelines.
100% right. Would probably take some time to get all that sorted out and the reality is in 4 years it will probably get shutdown again.
What do they say? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...with some superficial changes suiting the Dems/Reps sensitivities.
US is a creation of land/resource grab and that's what it has been doing forever. The mafia state can't survive otherwise.
Spot on.
“Perhaps an imperfect ceasefire, one that might not satisfy all our demands for justice, is a necessary step,” Iulia Mendel, Zelya’s former press liaison, wrote in a TIME magazine op-ed. “This is not an appeal for complacency; it’s an appeal for survival.”
When Lady vdL speaks of avoiding “appeasement” at all costs she has the bloodless far off luxury, from her high seat in Brussels, of never having to calculate the way “survival” as Mendel describes it comes into play. The EU matriarchs like Kaja Kallas, Annalene Baerbock and Lady vdL must have, as girls, set their brothers’ toy soldiers up & knocked them down, rolled plastic tanks over them & ground them into the carpet of the playroom, so much idle fun. The toys they set up today are Ukrainian men trapped in cauldrons and pulverized under glide bombs.
The EU matriarchs never have to deal w/ the amputees.
They steal Russia’s money from a European bank and shovel it into a corrupt Ukrainian money-pit whose poorly trained conscripts are so ill-prepared they sometimes last only hours on the line of contact. And the EU matriarchy calls this *winning.*
“Ukraine deserves a future beyond endless war,” Mendel wrote in her TIME op-ed. No amount of rah-rah support on social media can eke out a victory for Mendel’s country. Absent a military defeat of Russia, her government must capitulate & sue for peace. It doesn’t matter what a bureaucrat in Brussels thinks. Ukraine is in Russia’s sphere of influence.
Meanwhile—quietly, quietly—Germany is seeking to buy Russian LNG. Quietly, quietly, Denmark is aiding & abetting Germany in doing so, even engaging w/ Gazprom on the potential for maintaining the NordStream pipelines ‘just in case.’ On the surface, it’s sanctions-sanctions-sanctions, while on the down-low it’s Russian LNG. The phrase “for as long as it takes” actually meant “for as long as supporting Project Ukraine did not crush the German economy.” “For as long as it takes” meant “until an upstart opposition political party like the AfD begins seriously to challenge the CDU-CSU.”
And meanwhile—noisily—DJT has begun to post on Truth Social alluring info about Ukraine’s wealth of rare earth minerals & metals. Whether there are 5 grams’ worth of minerals & metals in Ukraine—or 5mn tons’ worth—it is unseemly for the U.S. to benefit tangibly after its outsized responsibility in shoving an undersized under-supported proxy into the ring against a nuclear superpower. Doing so is disrespectful of the cost in blood which the actual battlefield combatants have paid and are still paying. The U.S. has no right to recompense from this catastrophe.
"The U.S. has no right to recompense from this catastrophe."
Might makes Right in Realpolitik. The problem for the US is that it has no might to force compensation.
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Very well said Cheeto
I have been and remain a fairly vocal critic of Trump, and this here is a perfect example of his basic problem: if he was truly the isolationist the Clown World shills shriek about, that would in fact be a good thing, and would help everyone immensely.
But he's not, and he still has that boomer "Murica fuck yeah!" attitude that the US is the light and the truth and the way, and the rest of the world just needs to get on board, and that shit don't fly in 2025.
Agreed, but alas, that shit does fly in 2025 when the shitslinger can print and spend trillions of dollars at will for obeisance, and will invade and destroy your country if you choose lead over silver.
That's not going to change until the US hits bottom. What that bottom will be I don't know, but like everybody who has waited for a mean alcoholic to hit bottom I know it will be violent and full of evil. As an American I'm sad and dismayed that alcoholic is my country.
The USSA is tapped out. They cannot invade and destroy any country of consequence except maybe some third world shit hole that can't actually fight back... Chip
The global economic recipe can theoretically continue indefinitely as long as everyone continues to subscribe to it.
The fiat money system is simply a method to create infinite debt.
We saw what happens when they reach "the bottom": They declare a pandemic because of a strategically leaked US bioweapon, and print an extra 20% worth of global GDP to bail out the banks with and reset the system for the next trip around.
Everyone wonders why we suddenly get 20% inflation.
We blindly accept that *global* interest rates rose to 5% from 0% in a matter of months without any problems, like in 2007 when it was last tried.
We probably don't even realise that years' worth of quantitative easing has been mysteriously repaid.
Nobody seems to join the dots.
"In 2019, the Federal Reserve engaged in quantitative tightening by allowing approximately $700 billion in reserves to drain from the financial system, leading to significant stress in money markets, particularly in September of that year"
After just 700 billion, they canned it in late 2019 because it risked crashing everything.
Then, miraculously,
"As of September 2024, the US Federal Reserve has reduced its balance sheet by nearly $2 trillion through quantitative tightening (QT) since May 2022"
and that's just the US, pretty much every western economy needed to employ some form of QE so their debt economies would not collapse, and all of them are now happily repaying it all, with virtually no effect to their economies. Surely, a miracle.
Meanwhile, we are enjoying 20% inflation. As long as they don't call it hyperinflation, it isn't.
The brownoid jewSA is now. No country for white men. Get the brownoids to fight your Jew wars
” The EU matriarchs never have to deal w/ the amputees.”
True, but their mothers and grandmother experienced the Horror of WW1 and WW2.
Die Stunde Null and the Aftermath.
So why is it so empty in the heads of Leyen, Kallaas and Baerbock (Bareback)?
I know these women adore the zwilling of Soros, Madeleine Albright. So do Nuland and Evil Overlord, Hillary.
Time for men to whip some a**.
Just think of the women who lost husbands in WW1 & sons in WW2.
It is interesting to read Nassim Taleb's "Skin in the Game" (still better to read his complete Incerto series). One of the things that is rotting the West is the asymmetry in risk. Banks and bureaucrats are an example of that; reaping all the benefits and total collectivization of costs.
The main problem of the West is capitalism.
no, not capitalism, capitalism is just fine.
The problem is Corporate Socialism.
"Whether there are 5 grams’ worth of minerals & metals in Ukraine—or 5mn tons’ worth—it is unseemly for the U.S. to benefit tangibly after its outsized responsibility in shoving an undersized under-supported proxy into the ring against a nuclear superpower. Doing so is disrespectful of the cost in blood which the actual battlefield combatants have paid and are still paying. The U.S. has no right to recompense from this catastrophe."
Right has nothing to do with it.
A nice riff off the line from the movie Unforgiven: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it. "
It appears to me that Trump is negotiating hard with Zelenski. Forcing the Banderan Kapo into a box and allows Trump to play to his base (me).
If I had my way Cornflake would be out to pasture and Trump would have announced we were outta there about a minute after he was sworn in.
"Ukrainian officials fear an alignment between Washington and Moscow could shut them out of the discussion about their country's future"
No worries there, my dudes, your country doesn't have a future.
Lovely, a reminder of how much I miss 'stranger things'.
It's always just been about Washington and Moscow, whether in alignment or conflict.
Hahaha...We spent decades trying to keep them apart and in a day gave them a reason for a friendship based on mutual security.
Yeah but 'we' being different people
"Nooooo future,nooooo future for yoouuu!!" (Sex pistols)
Always recall in such discussions that the West's deep state has 'controlled opposition to the controlled opposition'.
So what if Voldemort Z is kicked out? He will be replaced by the MI5 stooge Valerie Z, who has been supercharged with notions and plans to create a 'NATO stay behind' sleeper insurgency for when Ukr inevitably finally runs out of carcasses to absorb Russian TNT and bullets.
By some accounts, Voldemort is supported by EU factions who don't wish to see the UK get greater control.
With the loss of the eastern oblasts permanently, rump-Ukr voting will change.
Who knows the effects of the loss of 10-20% of the male adult voting population will cause? Let alone the psychological/social scars of the war itself.
And needless to say, should someone rise or even win running on a platform the West do not want, the elections will be cancelled to prevent such a "wrong" result anyway.
The Polish should ponder all this as their likely future, too.
Won't be the first time for the Polish. They're prone to delusion of grandeur, and always bite more than they could chew. They will be the irreplaceable replacement of Ukrainians in the to "the last...."
I thought Vlad was Romanian?:-)
Yeah, I was pretty shocked reading an honest history of the interwar period a few decades back, school history books tended to paint the Poles as innocent victims.
By no means were they at all.
They just figured Germany and Russia would never work together and could get away with it.
Foolish assumption.
Oh, yeah. My recent "favorite" was that Ukraine transported its gold reserve to Poland about 2 years back. Want a bet that Ukraine won't ever see it back? :-)
Churchill called Poland the hyena of Europe. He admired their brave soldiers, but despised their politicians.
Don't think much has changed?
At the start of WW2, Poland had a huge army, and everybody expected that Poland would entangle Hitler for months, if not a year. Poland crumbled in what - 3 weeks?
Will be interesting to see how the purge of USAID plays out. I know you Doomers out there still can’t give any credit to Trump but it’s kind of a big fucking deal. I highly recommend you read this tweet from Sputnik about USAID. Seems to be the perpetual machine that kept the money and color revolutions roaring.
https://x.com/sputnikint/status/1886456675999142047?s=42
USAID *is* CIA. USAID is supposed to be untouchable.
Part of USAID was the Consortium for Excellence in Political Process Strengthening—CEPPS—which played a central role in internet censoring by funding advocacy for passing laws regarding internet misinformation in small countries. The *aid* workers function under the pretext of not being part of the government: if they are *aid* workers, the doors swing open for them. Tactical wokeness in service of statecraft is the schema: inflame racial minorities through DEI-type programs. These groups are part of an ethnic Balkanization created by USAID in order to facilitate the toppling of foreign governments: like invading Iraq in order to liberate women from governmental tyranny. If USAID working on famine relief, it’s because we’re trying to control a country’s food supply in order to dominate the population. The worst scandals in U.S. statecraft have hailed from USAID. !—Even funding the Wuhan Institute was part of a USAID initiative—! USAID has used AIDS clinics in Cuba in order to foment dissent among the populace & overthrow the government through a color revolution.
USAID can do this under cover of being *aid* workers, not CIA agents.
Yes sir, not sure where I heard this but the USAID is like the skeleton key to corruption. Trump’s attack on the org seemed to rub all the right people the wrong way. It’s a great sign. God only knows how much influence they still have in Ukraine .
The Green Comintern
vs.
Trump Corallary
What?
Green Salad vs Trump Bacon-burger & Freedom-fries - moar gravy on the fries!
Bingo! Beat me to it... Chip
Agree. But USAID is democrtatic Deep State. Trump just took over it entirely. Now he will use them in occupied Gaza…
Trumpet apparently wants to gentrify Gaza by building Trump towers & Golf courses there with "drill, baby, drill" rigs off the coast which won't be seen when lounging on the beach. Some1 should tell him to build guv-subsidized housing projects, like his daddy did, there for Gazans.
Yes. By expelling 2 millions palestinians and perhaps letting Israel clean Westbank, Trump will go to History. Of infamy.
The Mother of all Real Estate Deals...Trump Land - suck on that, Disney!
"it’s kind of a big fucking deal." Seriously?
I wonder why not Simplicius commented on that.
Trumps most significant move was to destroy one tentacle of the Deep State, the USAID.
Basically brilliant to put it under the command of State secretary, Rubio.
Trump vs Deep State 1-0.
Trumptard. The Jew wants to cut off aid to anything that is a threat to the Jew state. S Africa is first for sponsoring the icc war crime trials.
So why didn't they cut it off in the last 4 years?
After I wrote that comment I wondered same thing.
That would be saying something positive about Trump that’s why
WTF, the EU has blocked it "This Post from @SputnikInt has been withheld in United Kingdom, European Union in response to a legal demand."
Slowly, drop by drop, the effect of money printing soaks through the shirt like a bloodstain. Once the suckers stop trading real things for printed script, the whole game grinds to a halt. The grifters will be run out of town, or will be forced to learn how to work for their money.
Trump is busy. And the recalcitrance of the EU, UK, NATO, Kiev etc is not nothing. The fact that nobody from his administration has even called Moscow, let alone started the process of setting up a meeting, is telling in of itself. Further, I take the various EU pols at their word when they say that this conflict is existential for them, and that they are ready to cause much hardship on their own populations to fight Russia. I have no reason to doubt their words, and neither should you, and neither should Russia.
The US will not end the war. Only Moscow can end the war. And its likely that a new Iron Curtain will be the end result, perhaps on the Dnieper.
Russia has sent the White House the credentials of its proposed new ambassador to the U.S. but has yet to hear back from DJT’s team if they accept Moscow’s choice of ambassador for the D.C. embassy.
I think they've been waiting since October for their ambassador to be accepted. I know Trump's only been if office for 2 weeks, but this needs to be done.
There was a meeting in Venezuela.
Trump himself said they are talking with Moscow.
And Moscow keeps denying it. I like Trump, but I'm going with Moscow on this one
I don't think you're right Bash.
Ukraine isn't existential to Europe.
There is no appetite anywhere West of Warsaw for a prolonged conflict with Russia.
And no political capital to be made from a losing war in Ukraine.
Trump can blame Europe and Europe can blame Trump, but both would be delighted to drop Ukraine like a hot penny.
You and I agree, sir, but Europe is largely governed by insane HR ladies, and they have other ideas
Nobody will ask europeans what they want.
I don't disagree, but that can only go on so long before opinion can't be ignored.
Arostovich would sell his mother if the price was right. He has been angling for a stake in the future Ukrainian leadership for years.
He sold his mother for nothing years ago, when he was Zelensky's spin-doctor.
We are rapidly now approaching the point of greatest danger- were Ukraine's defeat is inevitable and is understood by leaders in the US and Europe to be inevitable. It is that point where we in the west are most likely to do catastrohically stupid and escalatory things. I feel better today than I did 3 months ago with Trump in charge but it still worries me.
Rwanda's Genocidal Akayesu and Ukraine:
Akayesu's case IS applicable to ALL ukrainian leaders: Zelensky, Syrsky, Budanov, ...
Case "Akayesu 1998" in Rwanda:
The case of Jean-Paul Akayesu was a milestone in international jurisprudence.
Akayesu, who was Mayor of the Taba Commune in Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide, was convicted in 1998 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on nine charges of GENOCIDE and Crimes gainst Humanity.
It was the first time that an International Court of Justice had convicted a person of the crime of GENOCIDE and also the first time that RAPE has been recognized as an ACT of Genocide.
This case established an important precedent for subsequent trials related to War Crimes and Genocide.
The ICTR, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in its landmark judgment, "Akayesu (1998)", established that "the offender is GUILTY of GENOCIDE because he knew or SHOULD have known that the act committed would destroy, in whole or in part, a GROUP.
(Adam Jones, Genocide, a Comprehensive Introduction, Routledge, New York, 2006, page 21).
Many thanks, dear Simplicius, for this report as well as all your previous ones. They are all very helpful and your analyses are always very much appreciated.
I wonder how can Trump get those rare Earth minerals since Russia will not allow this.
What guarantees can the Ukrainian regime even offer to Trump that those minerals could be given to Trump?
As I see it, Ukraine cannot guarantee anything.The Trump team is very naive.
In short Tilly, they're way out of reach in both the short or medium term. The raw materials (Ores) need to be extracted and not all Ores may be economical to extract, say if the concentration of the stuff you want isn't high enough. Then there's transportation and processing and refinement to consider. I suspect Trump is saying all this just to give himself another excuse to dump Z. If you can't pay, we won't play kind of thing, knowing full well that the resources he's after are well out of reach.
Indeed!
This is why Ukrainian ores are a very distant second prize when compared to the first prize of Russian energy.
Russian energy is already an established and tapped resource, all the West needed to do was move in, and Ukraine to start selling it and collecting the money.
And exactly as you say, extracting "ores" will cost billions in time and infrastructure construction, and the results are as much a gamble as building any new mine would be.
"I suspect Trump is saying all this just to give himself another excuse to dump Z"
Possibly, but I believe Trump is saying this because he is just echoing what Zelenski has already offered. Zelenski himself offered "Ukraine's minerals" to the West in exchange for protection.
But the very fact that Zelenski offered the minerals seemingly out of the blue indicates to me that this was his contrite offering to placate the West so they would not leave completely empty-handed after Ukraine failed to secure Russian energy - the real goal of all this debacle.
Kind of like...: "Gee folks. Gosh darn it.. we simply couldn't take Russia's energy from them despite all your help and hundreds of billions of dollars.. but don't get mad at me, here, have Ukraine's minerals instead? We have trillions worth... really we do..."