Last night Russia struck another massive blow to Ukraine’s power grid, triggering sprawling blackouts throughout a number of the largest Ukrainian cities, including Kiev, seen below:
Moscow's refinery plant's area, for example, is 284 hectares, that's ~400 football fields. Now explain to me how a plastic model with few kg of TNT strapped onto it can "explode" such refinery?
Sounds right, if your assessment is true. Devastating attacks on Moscow will demand a severe retaliation on the US. If Russia doesnt, then its game over for them. The oligarchs might have finally realized this, although Russia's battlefield situation might not be as rosy as it seems and this is the reason.
It’s about time stronger measures were taken. This needs to end before the European trash leadership finds a way to false flag us into a new world war.
Spoiler alert: stronger measures haven't been taken.
This is just more aimless posturing by the 5D chess grandmaster who has no strategy for winning this war other than just turning the other cheek to the real enemy (who isn't Ukraine) until... well, the predictable end.
What is leaving Kiev without electricity going to achieve if there is no 100,000 Russian army around Kiev to take advantage of it? But there isn't one and there won't be one, because the Russian oligarchy has issued strict orders to Putin forbidding any real mobilization, which, the true Russian patriot that he is and the true Russians that the Russian oligarchy consists of, he has been duly following.
So what is the point here?
People in Kiev get to hate Russia even more, Zelensky (who will, of course, be left untouched once again, thus has zero to worry about and is therefore not deterred from launching drones into Russia in any way; if it is even him launching them, and not NATO directly in many cases) gets to score more propaganda points about how evil the Russians are, the grid will be repaired quickly, as it always has been, and the end result will be what gain for Russia? None. Just as happened in late 2022.
Also, of course, Putin has never had Kiev as an objective in this war, quite the opposite. This is literally as if Stalin in 1943 begged Hitler for ending the war on the then current line of contact, while expressing public support for the lost territories becoming permanently part of the Third Reich. Because Putin did even that, and very recently too -- he continues to express support for Ukraine entering the EU. The same EU that is openly preparing for war with Russia...
Which means that he has publicly declared that he has absolutely no intention of recovering the ancestral Russian lands and neutralizing the threat on the western border.
A reverse Ceausescu is due here. "Reverse" in the sense that what happened to Ceausescu was part of the larger Perestroika initiative from Moscow, and here we have to undo the Perestroika. But other than that it has to be just as public, and even more gruesome. And not just him, but the whole oligarchic clique around him.
Note that my problem isn't with the strikes on infrastructure themselves, it is with the fact that they are happening reactively in response to Ukraine/NATO's strikes on Russian infrastructure, and in the absence of a coherent military strategy for permanently solving this problem, thus they won't achieve anything but to make life miserable for ordinary Ukrainians.
Turning the lights off right before you go in seriously? Absolutely. But otherwise it makes little difference.
Also, the trains should have been targeted from mid-2022 onwards, and it is an absolute scandal this is happening only now. But I am not convinced it is a serious campaign, because they can actually take them all out within a couple days. Armored vehicles can be concealed underground and in various warehouses, trains cannot be -- the depots are large and fixed objects and their locations are well known. Missile and drone strikes at the depots could destroy most of the rolling stock in a single massive salvo. The rest is what was in transit at that moment, and you finish it off when it reaches end points along the network. Given the volume of Russian missile and drone production, I see no reason why that cannot be done very quickly to completion and total paralysis of the network. But they have been hitting trains for 2-3 weeks now and yet trains are mostly still moving in Ukraine. So I can't help but fear that this will be yet another episode of not truly serious action.
Note that General Motororlla's role is to be the 'downer" using the tried and true "should have" and "could have" clauses. IOW its along the tired and true lines of "Remembrance of Things Past". So yes, being a Proust is a time honored role for those tasked with "sliding" a discussion into some pits of speculative mush while dueling over a princess long dead (I can explain who the "princess" was, but another time. Building a mythology around our 'GM' is a time consuming task!).
Refugees are heading towards western Ukraine(and you are not really welcome there) and thus to Poland and Germany. What do refugees mean in these countries?
A Ukraine without energy/gas means dependence on Europe, a Europe without sufficient oil and gas reserves for the winter!
A Europe that has to buy oil and gas at very high prices in a market that, without Russian supplies, is insufficient for consumers who need gas and oil. Just as there isn't enough grain/wheat WITHOUT Russian resources!
Should winter in Europe in 2025 or 2026 really become a WINTER? Russia would only have to leave its shadow fleet in port and watch as Europe collapses. And if, IF, the BRICS oil-producing countries go along with it, that would be the END of the West as a whole!
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Whether the people in Kyiv hate the Russians even more is, firstly, irrelevant; secondly, that hatred quickly turns against those who are responsible for everything...the government.
There was hatred of Russians in Germany too, and here I mean East Germany too! Look at the attitude of East Germans toward Russia today; you'll find hatred, yes, but against those who demonize Russia.
Find the flaw in your thinking.
A thinking that, due to a lack of experience with Russia and the consequences of the war, you can't even comprehend...You speculate but can't put yourself in their shoes, since you've never experienced it...
When Russians distribute bread and heating in Kyiv, and doctors are there, how quickly do you think that hatred will then turn against their own warmongers?
This definition shows me something again...you have no idea of the size of the country, a country that could accommodate three times the size of the USA.
Question: Is the USA comprehensively protected against missiles?
Not even remotely, and it is not protected at all against hypersonic missiles, perhaps the reason why Trump is relatively helpless when it comes to threats, and now even has to watch as Russia has signed a military treaty with Cuba and stationed S400s.
Excerpt from yesterday's Pravda
"Russia's parliamentarians ratified an agreement between the Russian and Cuban governments on military cooperation. And the stationing of S400s (...)"
Nevermind GM, he is full of it! He is actually advocating for a russian strike on Nato, calling Putin a traitor for not starting WW3! He just wants the world to burn judging by his comments. He is not half as smart as he think he is...
You have a naive belief in American Industry that is unjustified. The only missiles that can "rain into Russia" are the obsolete Minuteman. Russia does have an ABM system, which probably works. It is only around Moscow, but, I dunno, it is the Christian Zionists that keep insisting a nuclear war can be won.
Or, perhaps you are talking about the Tomahawks that won't arrive in Ukraine until 2028
Or, perhaps you missed the report in this article that the Ukrainian expert on drones has admitted that Russia is one or two steps ahead.
Can you read? Ukraine drone operator says Russia is ahead of Ukraine in drones.
The less land Ukraine occupies, the more probability of Russian smashing up launching sites.
The math is and has always been on Russia's side.
Notwithstanding Western controlled Dual Citizen Media, naughty narratives, grunting and bleating from Western "leaders" and Trump's rapid onset of Biden senility.
>Can you read? Ukraine drone operator says Russia is ahead of Ukraine in drones.
"ahead in drones" != "front moving sufficiently fast"
At the current rate it will take until the year 2106 to liberate the land. Yes, you read that correctly.
And the problem is that drones have made it so that the usual hopium about attrition (which is monstrous to begin with -- those are your own people after all that you are slaughtering, some of them brainwashed, some pressganged, but still your own people) doesn't even apply.
If you listen to frontline reports, currently assaults consist of one Russian trying to move forward while literally 50 drones swarm him immediately, plus multiple artillery shells are fired too.
You don't need a lot of manpower to hold the line under such conditions, so the front is not likely to truly break any time soon.
Which is because the bozos in the Kremlin refuse to make a proper strategic move (decapitation plus physical isolation of the battlefield) even though they still have the power to do it. Still. It is not clear for how much longer.
There were two full salvos fired at Belgorod yesterday, in broad daylight.
And they have been firing them every other day, from point blank range.
Russia managed to destroy only one TEL.
Meanwhile nobody has touched the Lockheed Martin HQ or the HIMARS production facilities in Alabama and Florida, which are all easy targets for Zirkons fired from Russian submarines and should have received a kiloton each already in August 2022 to send a clear message that the US waging direct war on Russia on Russian land will not be tolerated and to end this charade once and for all.
Declare war on the US is your answer then? Damn, I wish you were in charge of strategy, it literally would have been all over by now. Not just the war, the entire planet.
But !!!! Pustula evil brat said in a speech the other day in front of 750 euro deputies that Europe stopped buying Russian oil and gas because it was more expensive than the gringo one… where are the fact checkers?, she was applauded by all of them!!!!,
Poland "should" have lots of Norwegian gas to keep the Ukrainian hordes warm in camps throughout Poland. Naturally, using that anointed pipeline that keeps Poland warm while the Nord Stream Pipeline that should "not" have been built lays broken as Germany buys U.S. LNG at 500% the cost of Russian gas.
You ain't seen psychopath troll until you see the one we have to deal with in the Duran comments. Our guy has over 30 alts. The "YeomanJan troll". GM couldn't even hold our troll's coat.
Perhaps GM should put his thinking on the war to the test of public opinion and discussion, start writing a substack and see how many viewers subscribe. Simplicius was once a poster on Vineyard of the Saker, now of course he has a substantial following, would GM be able to follow suit?
But not doing the job as well as expected, that is, if subversion of the discussion is the goal. Needs to learn some proper Hasbara techniques.... you know, the ones that unleash bot swarms on every tweet.
The evidence Putin is a HERO for the Russians not a traitor, is how the imperial corporate blob slander,vilify, and deshumanize him. Putin is their obsession. He is Kallas, Rutte, Merz, Starmer, Netanyahu and the rest of Great Moron's pals biggest nightmare. Ukraine is cracking and crumbling. Poor you. No colour revolution in Russia to hang your biggest enemy. You better try in Venezuela. Corina Machado the witch has been given the Peace Nobel Prize... by your friends.... After Kissinger and Obama the world thought that institution had touched the rock bottom. Well no. Netanyahu will be next.
1) Ask the question whether the war is fought properly or not, not whether they support Putin. You will get very different answers.
2) Put yourself in the position of ordinary Russians -- the "Tsar good, boyars bad" thinking there runs very deep. It's why it took Nicholas II ordering the slaughter of hundreds of people who had come to petition him in person (
3) Ask yourself how much information the regular Russians actually gets about what is happening. The catastrophe in the border areas is well known to the people who live there, but Moscow is a different world, and so is Yekaterinburg. And when that explosion in Toropets (and several others like it) happened, how much coverage do you think that mushroom cloud was given in Russian media, which is fully controlled by the Kremlin? None.
4) Even the military bloggers are toeing the line these days, after being very critical of the Kremlin in 2022. Because Strelkov was jailed permanently in the summer of 2023, Wagner leadership was eliminated, Kvachkov, Gubarev, etc. also went to jail for brief periods, while the military bloggers were gathered by the Kremlin on several occasions, you can guess why. They got the combined message from those events.
How many times has the West installed some dictator, who then rather faithfully served them, but dared not agree on something, and was swiftly demonized and punished?
Putin was installed in power to make sure the communists never come back and the system established by Yeltsin is cemented in place. This is the only thing he has truly successfully done.
Meanwhile Russia kept taking one catastrophic geopolitical L after another, many of them with his active assistance.
Ukraine is being plundered, with multiple front breakthroughs. Even the Ukranian female drone ace gives in on Russian technological superiority. Have you even red Simps article? The Ukranian energy facilities and railways are no more. Thats what you wanted. You should be happy and thank Putin for having heard your advice.
"Putin was installed in power to make sure the communists never come back and the system established by Yeltsin is cemented in place. This is the only thing he has truly successfully done."
What you leave out is that Russia with President Putin is closest ally with the biggest communist country on earth, China. Second; President Putin is no dictator, it's a blunt western lie. He's just the President and needs approval from the Duma and other entities. If you don't even understand the system of Russian legislative, judicative and executive in politics, why do you make statements that contradict each other or are simply nonsense?
Putin can't decide to use nukes, it's not his decision to make, he's not the king of Russia! There is a nuclear doctrine and President Putin as a lawyer knows what that means. Do you?
Can you please define "dictator" in the Putin sense, then let us know what macron is, by the same yardstick?
Ok, there's a difference - if Putin is a "dictator" then he has a mighty popular mandate, while Macron? more like an over-cooked macaroni in a pop-up pot.
In the USA, we get a new 'king' every 4 years. He is given power by his oligarch donors and uses the 'Executive Order' to evade the Constitution. Meanwhile, because there is no longer a valid 'separation of powers' the dukes and duchesses of Congress, elected by their donors, 'insider trade' and make millions. They give away money they don't have to their cronies and families (contracts, grants) and write tax laws benefitting their mostly-corporate donors, represented by lobbyists on K Street. It's not complicated.
Democracy? Capitalism?
Ladies and gentlemen, Choose your master or it will choose you.
I acknowledge that Putin was installed by the USA when he was appointed by Yeltsin to replace Yeltsin in 1999. The Anglo-American Oligarchy totally misread Putin and, to put it mildly, totally fucked up.
The communists would have won the election in 1996 because of how badly Yeltsin was fucking up. But with the help of the Americans the election was stolen.
Problem is things only went further to shit after that -- Khasavyurt, the default in 1998, large-scale terrorism, etc.
So the prospect of the communists returning to power still loomed large.
Then the realization came that certain concessions would have to made, the level of exploitation had to be reduced a bit, and the country had to be run at least somewhat competently, otherwise the oligarchy that took over from the USSR would have lost everything.
Thus Putin.
In many ways it is an analogous situation with FDR in the US -- his role was to save capitalism from the communists so he made a lot of concessions, thinking long-term about the situation (i.e. we will make concessions now and then revoke them later when we are more secure, which is what has been happening since the 1970s).
But at least FDR didn't start wars he did not plan to seriously fight...
You seem to think Yeltsin came to power all by himself. It was Anglo-American Oligarchy influence expressed through "Deep State" actions such as the CIA and NED who worked with the Russian Oligarchy to find a "front-man" who would do their bidding.
I propose that Yeltsin's heavy drinking was because he began to recognize that he was merely a puppet on a string, maybe several strings depending on how far you want to extend the metaphor.
Did he "realize himself" that he was the problem, or was he talked into that realization.
The "story" is that he picked Putin to replace himself. Was this his last opportunity to put one over on his puppet masters or did he believe like the people pulling the levers of power that Putin was a KGB man and as such would follow orders. They knew he liked Germany and wanted rapprochement with the West, but they had no idea that he was a true Russian Patriot with a very well-defined sense of morality.
GM provides more details, but I'm not sure about the reference to Khasavyurt which I imagine was about the end of the first Chechen war, but that was in 1996. It lead to the 2nd Chechen war which a brief examination of the Wikipedia page leads me to conclude that US backed Islamic terrorists initiated the conflict. This was 1999 so that's when Yeltsin resigned. What these events have to do with each other is just speculation.
If you're interested in knowing that Islamic Terrorists were and have always been, organized and maintained by the USA, this interview with Sibel Edmonds is very informative.
This is quite common. Bolsheviks were "installed" too and then quickly revolted against their masters who then turned on them. Which is why Jacob Schiff immediately withdrew his $$ and started funding to overthrow the Bolsheviks culminating in Western "intervention" on the side of the White army forces.
I'm glad you mentioned Schiff. I hope you'll include names of more of the "captains of Industry" that control our economy and direct our wars.
It is my understanding that Schiff was supporting Kerensky because of his declaration that Jews were to be citizens. Maybe I'm picking at nits, but The Bolsheviks "seized power" so I don't see this as "installed". (Yeltsin seems to have "seized power".) It isn't clear to me what Lenin might have done that could be considered "turning on Schiff". After all the Bolsheviks supported the Jews, and there are dozens of famous Jewish communists.
I kind of have to conclude that Schiff was lying about his support of Russian Jews, much like Netanyahu lies about his support of the Hamas hostages. This ability to lie so convincingly seems to required of true Zionists, who aren't really interested in Israel, but in obtaining and maintaining their positions of wealth.
IOW, is Israel just a scam that used to accumulate large amounts of capital? Considering that (according to Ritter) Brooklyn Jews have moved to the West Bank to sit on their ass and collect stipends paid for by American Taxpayers... I need to stop here don't I. LOL
I found it "interesting" that Schiff's great-great-grandson was married to Al Gore's daughter.
So continuing down one of Snowden's (Apophenia) rabbit holes. Jacob Schiff told the Bolsheviks to kill the Tsar and his family.
As I've already said though, I believe Putin has told Bibi "You're YOYO".
Iran has been supplied with munitions from Russia and China to defend against Israel's coming attack. I don't think the war will last 12 days this time. I'm rather pessimistic about Bibi's use of nukes.
Yes. Mielkowsky, Smotrich and Ben Gvir are just the sort of deranged millenarian junta that would do it. For all their religious scruples, it is to be hoped that the Iranian government has enough deliverable chemical weapons to act as a deterrent.
The "leaders" in power in the US and Europe who vilify Putin, in the most infantile stereotypical caricature manners, are as ignorant as most of the citizens beneath them.
Putin is a moderate, and consistently remains open to dialogue and seeking to deescalate a wider war.
If Putin were to resign, or forced out of office, whoever replaces him will be far more hawkish. The reasons are clear and logical as to why many in Russia would like to see more decisive responses to our "leaders" and unaccountable deep state agencies provocations, terrorist acts and loss of Russian soldiers' lives.
At this point, all things considered, I remain thankful that Putin retains his position. Our leaders are so stupid and desperate that a nuclear confrontation is very real. If Putin plays his cards right, his patience may pay off for the ultimate benefit of everyone.
A complete collapse of the Kiev regime, NATO and the EU, with social chaos in Europe is likely by simply letting the globalists destroy themselves.
And my country is impatient to engage in other adventures in Venezuela, Iran and Taiwan. Each new or continuing adventure makes the Ukraine project more of a distraction and annoyance for Washington. And the likelihood of a financial meltdown in my country is imminent. Once this occurs, Russia will be unmolested in securing its' buffer security zones.
I wonder who Putin's successor might be. The man is ageing and sooner or later he will have to step down. Putin understood that he needed to be a communicational president. Medvedev is a good communicator. But at the same time, the security apparatus, military, police and intelligence must be controlled. Otherwise westernwise oligarchs like Deriparka will regain control.
Nearly a month has passed and still we must be waiting for the nuclear war to stand. This awful Russian leadership must think that we have nothing to do but waiting for the function to start.
I am thinking of asking for a refund of my ticket.
Started reading your comment before looking who wrote it. After reading the 1st sentence I knew it was our old friend who goes by the name of GM. I'm still waiting for you to show me 1 single piece of evidence. That any NATO member state or Ukraine for that matter. Despite the amount of lives lost, the amount of equipment lost. Then the staggering amounts of money spent on Ukraine. Of any benefit whatsoever to any of them at all. Every NATO member state country is in financial decline. Some massively, Germany, UK France in particular. The US fudging is9 financial woes as usual but just ask any American citizen. Financial wizardry is finally catching up with the rogue state. But according to you despite what the whole World can see. It's Russia who is suffering the most. Here's a tip open your eyes for God's sake.
GM. In attacking Ukrainian infrastructure, Putin is doing exactly what you wanted him to do, and you're still whining like a toddler. How is that possible.
When I have called for shutting the grid, it was always in the context of a swift well planned ground operation. Which I pointed out here too. It has to help the front.
If it's just being done for some imaginary deterrence purposes (nobody is going to be deterred by that because Ukraine is fully disposable cannon fodder in this game), then it is useless.
Kiev is full of Banderites. The US used those Banderites even before the end of WWII to set up partisan attacks on Soviet troops. Those terrorist operations lasted until 1953. What is to be gained by Russia to repeat that mess? For that matter, many of those Banderites were ratlined to the the US and Canada where they have created chaos for the American (Alexander Vindman for example) and Canadian people (Christia Freeland). I don't want them here, just like I don't want the Brooklyn Jews who are living in the West Bank off of my tax subsidies to return to the USA.
Lvov is Polish. Maybe the Poles will want it back.
In any case, Russia is smart to not expose itself to another opportunity for US shenanigans, rather leave the problem with the US and let the Banderites turn on the USA.
You're also ignoring the "Big Picture". John Helmer reported yesterday that Putin's phone call to Netanyahu last Monday has resulted in the canceling of an Arab summit in Moscow that was being convened to discuss Trump's Gaza Peace Deal. "Everyone knows" there's no deal to be had. There's no reason to waste time pretending the summit would be productive.
I kind of believe that Putin's phone call was to tell Bibi that the "special relationship" with Russia is over. Helmer himself stated that the reason Russia was nice to Israel was because Russia was hoping that would give them "points" with the US. But the US is now totally controlled by Zionists (Larry Ellison's takeover of Paramount seals the deal). Thus, Bibi is going to attack Iran sooner and we get to see how this will affect the US aggression currently being organized against Venezuela -- especially since China has some strong commitments to Venezuela.
The American Fascists have deployed the Army into American Cities to scare everyone into "playing it safe". The US military is controlled by Christian Zealots like Pete Hegseth which Mikey Weinstein of the MRFF has been warning about for decades. I wonder if the Average Enlisted Guy is going to just continue to follow orders. (We don't have to worry about the JSOC forces in Ft Bragg, they just live to kill.)
"Lvov is Polish. Maybe the Poles will want it back."
Perhaps Vholyn as well? If the Ukes refuse to make peace and Russia is forced ever forward to stop the shelling and other attacks I think they should stop at the Lviv and Vholyn borders. Declare to the world that the RF will not take those provinces from Poland as Stalin and the Soviet did.
What would this do for Russia? It gives West Ukraine the refuge and the golden bridge the Azov need so they will retreat and saves Russian lives. It gives the EU the second largest army on the Eurasian continent to deal with. Poland will continue to build military munitions and infrastructure to arm their great ally Ukraine for the "return to Kiev". It gives the Ukrainians an opponent they can defeat — Europe.
Just a bubble in the breeze, nothing more. Remember how A. Hitler turned on the Russians? Why not the other way around?
If the Poles can be persuaded to take posession of the three or four western oblasts, then that will annoy the f*** out of the EU, and give the Poles the problem of dealing with the Uke Nazis.
It won't happen. Cannibalizing Ukraine would bring in millions of Ukrainians, including those temporarily resettled in the rest of the EU zone.
It would water down the ethnic Poles. Depending on Ukrainian fertility rate, in a generation or two the Poles would lose the majority in their own homeland.
It's called Pole-land for a reason. It's not a cosmopolitan melting pot like in the West. It's "Land of the Poles", not "Land of the Banderites" or "land of the freeloaders".
Vholyn is on the island of Guadelupe in the Caribbean.
I think you mean Volyn Oblast. ;^)
I recall David Stockman wrote an article "In Praise of Partition" either just before or after the beginning of the SMO and he outlined exactly your proposal.
I "hear" that Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova and Romania want their share of the "spoils".
That leaves a "Gaza-like" structure for Azov to be dealt with. Kind of like that Star Trek episode where people like the Azov Nazis (or the Zionists) were transported to a prison planet.
Lvov isn't currently inhabited by Poles. The current population are Slavs who brand as Ukrainian.
NATO would never let Poland keep Lvov. If Russia doesn't control it somehow then it would be the centerpiece of a rump Ukraine.
If Russia took Lvov over and then said, "Here Poland, take this", like a football handoff, Poland would occupy it and as soon as Russian troops left Poland would install NATO and call it 'rump UKRAINE'.
"Lvov isn't currently inhabited by Poles."... and so?
AI answer:
"Yes, Lviv was part of Poland for several centuries, particularly during the time it was known as Lwów, and it was incorporated into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The city changed hands multiple times throughout history, including periods under Austrian and Soviet control."
NATO is suppose to be falling apart. Along with the EU. It is hard to say what events will unfold. I said "maybe".
Most pundits believe Russia will not occupy Western Ukraine. I've already outlines why.
more AI:
"Yes, there is a Polish community in Lviv (historically known as Lwów), with estimates suggesting around 19,000 Poles in the Lviv Oblast as of the 2001 census, although some sources claim the actual number may be closer to 2 million when including descendants. The Polish presence in Lviv has a long history, dating back to its time as part of Poland and later under Austrian rule."
Since the population of the Lvov Oblast is about 2.5M, it is kind of debatable about whether or not it is "Polish". I perhaps should have said "historically Polish".
After WWII mutually agreed upon ethnic cleansing was carried out on both sides of the border, moving the Ukrainians from western Galicia into Ukraine and the Poles from western Ukraine to Poland (mostly to the lands that were annexed from Germany).
Western Ukraine is no longer Polish in any meaningful sense.
And the whole Lvov Oblast has population only slightly above 2 million...
The first answer is 100% correct. How the Poles view Lvov as Polish may only depend on this history alone.
The second answer provides a wide range which the reader can choose to use to inform a decision or not. You are just another voice claiming the number is low vs those voices claiming it to be high. I myself take no position on that data point.
The fact remains that there have been many expressions from Polish officials about returning Lvov to Poland. All the other discussion is peripheral. It isn't like you and I will get a vote on Polish actions.
As I said, Poland "may" want Lvov back. Are you saying otherwise?
>The US used those Banderites even before the end of WWII to set up partisan attacks on Soviet troops. Those terrorist operations lasted until 1953. What is to be gained by Russia to repeat that mess?
Well, the mess is being repeated right now on a much larger scale than in 1953, because back then there were the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria as buffer, so the Western Nazis could not bring heavy weapons into Banderistan, and there were no cheap long-range PGMs back then anyway.
The only solution to that problem is to physically take over all of Ukraine, including Banderistan, then physically exterminate the Banderites.
Fortunately, there are other key technological changes since the 1950s -- such as surveillance tools and social media. Those allow the FSB and SVR to know very well who is a Banderite and who isn't, and to track them down everywhere, while making guerrilla warfare very difficult to sustain.
But Putin's official position is "Give us the four oblasts and we will keep taking drone and missile strikes into Russia in perpetuity". WTF...
The "Mess" is in Western Ukraine. The Oblasts Russia is annexing overwhelmingly want to be part of Russia.
I can't say you are wrong about the Banderites. However, they will require extensive support from the "Deep State" (or if you wish that banksters). That support has withered in Chechnya which is now strongly pro-Russian. I can only imagine that loyal Chechnyan forces did their own subversive cleansing removing the US supported terrorists. (BTW, this is exactly what happened in Xinjiang)
Russia is already well beyond 4 Oblasts. Ukraine's failure to come to terms has made it clear that Russia will continue advancing. Russia has also declared that there will be no cease-fire. Negotiations can begin, but there's no agreement until there's an agreement. In the meantime Russia will take more territory. How much more is Russia's decision based on more variables than I can contemplate.
There are good reasons to take Odessa, and good reasons to stay away. Pundits disagree on what action Russia will take. I imagine even Russia doesn't know at this point.
In the mean time...
"But Putin's official position is "Give us the four oblasts and we will keep taking drone and missile strikes into Russia in perpetuity". WTF..."
Why in the world would you make such a ridiculous statement? In what world will NATO (or whomever) be able continue to supply Ukraine an unending amount of munitions. I suggest you visit Wamsley's "Inside China Business" channel and grasp the number of resources where China has managed to gain a monopoly (or near-monopoly) -- Including, of all things, high-grade cotton required to make artillery shells. (Wamsley provides extensive foot-notes so check those out before you call the claim "silly".) The US has already proven it is incapable of manufacturing artillery shells at the rate needed to support just the Ukraine war.
You suffer from PDS. It warps your analysis so much that you make yourself sound dumb. Every once in a while though, you provide insight that shows otherwise. Maybe if you were to talk specifically about why you despise Putin so much rather than these derivative events that are so easily demolished, you'd have better luck getting your point across.
I don't now how these hidden Oligarchs control Putin, except financially, and Putin certainly has a problem with the head of the Russian Central Bank. The real traitor here is charging 17-24% to borrow to fight an existential WAR. The witch must go, or a new system developed: War Bonds direct.
THANK YOU. People have been dodging this question and this isn't exactly the top of this stream. We control the Russian Central Bank. Putin is controlled opposition. Putin took the vax. Putin is protecting Netanyahu and the genocidal Russian settlers.
God! Would you stop calling Putin a “traitor”? And stop with catch phrases like “perestroika” and “Stalin” and “Third Reich”—histrionics—emotionally charged distractions.
Putin has to weigh actions in relation to his three over-arching goals: to avoid war with the US, to avoid war with NATO, and to eventually forge a comprehensive security pact with Eastern Europe, and thus, and only thus, to insure Russia’s future.
Writing dissertations about your predilections of Putin, change nothing on the ground.
Ukrainians were ginned up to hate Russians to one degree or the other, and printed US dollars from the inflation machine paved the road to Ukraine's final days.
Dead Ukrainians have no capacity to hate. Live Ukrainians will need to make choices.
Putin doesn't need Kiev, but he does need to secure Odessa and the rest of the Black Sea coastline. I predict that will be his major objective after Russia completely cripples Ukrainian logistics.
The Ukrainian people have suffered grievously in this war, but eventually they will reach their limit and demand an end to the war. That is what turning Kiev dark and cold will do. Also the flow of refugees from Kiev and other parts of Ukraine is about to grow exponentially, but where will they all go?
You would do well to inform the Kremlin of your profound knowledge of military strategy as soon as possible so that the helpless Kremlin has a half decent chance of survival. Oh wait…Do you hear that? Your mom is calling for you: she says your pablum is getting cold.
It wouldn't be a problem for us Americans if only we didn't have such a grandstanding showboat gloryhound in Washington who loves to react to Europeans, so he can grab the spotlight.
Otherwise we could just ignore what's going on over there. It would soon die down and those involved would be forced to seek peace.
Most of what the EU is doing is making noise to get us Americans further involved.
Trump's very persona is built on self aggrandizement. Unlike the industrial barons of 100 years ago, Trump has never produced anything, not even a widget. Yet his wealth has doubled to $10 billion since he's taken office..
When Meta, who's product is words on a computer screen, is worth more than all of our car manufacturers combined, we know we've got a problem with our priorities.
The good thing is that with Trump/Hegseth's Qatar airbase in Idaho fiasco, the Trump base is collapsing. That's all he had to stave off impeachment..
You are not wrong, but you give too much credit to Trump. Remember it was under Biden this war started. Had Harris been elected the results would have been parallel to what is happening now.
Please check into Brian Berletic's many videos on "Continuity of Agenda". This most recent one is very explicit in explaining that the American Government is run by the "Deep State"
And then, of course, if you want to know more about the Deep State, look for Aaron Goods two series on YouTube that provides an outstanding summary of who these guys are
And finally, although this rather short video is about the rise and fall of the British Empire, it precisely outlines exactly what is currently happening in the USA. It was all about "Money".
What one has to discover for themselves, since all the pundits seem to be reluctant to "Name Names", is the Zionist control over the Anglo-American Oligarchy which, in turn, has bought off the government of the USA. These Fascists are now deploying the US Army into American Cities. It is an occupation force of the type GM wants to see the Russians deploy in Kiev. Putin is smart enough to know that there are plenty of "stay behind" forces in Kiev. He doesn't want that headache. Whether or not groups like the "militias" are ready to take on the US Army, or whether or not Enlisted troops will obey their Christian Fascist commanders remains to be seen.
If 'you' (i.e. the USA) had "ignored what's going on over there" since from 80 years ago, then the chances are that there would actually be nothing 'going on over there' now.
oddly, as obnoxious as he can be with his blustering and threats, I believe that D Trump is also counting on Russia finishing things up quickly as possible. He sees (I am absolutely sure of it) that there is no "negotiated" end, Kiev has to be defeated so Trump can stop being distracted by that stupid war NATO needed. He's a pragmatist.
Trump is a huge disappointment. It is likely he is suffering from the onset of dementia, as he changes his positions within hours of each infantile Truth Social post.
He comes off as unstable with reckless statements. It isn't clear if he grasps the reality of the imminent collapse of the Kiev regime, that NATO/US are utterly defeated militarily and Europe is falling apart. It's a historical pivot in history, the European wests' 5 centuries of primacy are over.
The flippant manner he approved deploying American served nuclear capable missiles to fire into Russia is certifiably insane. The last nuclear treaty is expiring and the Russians are dealing with an unstable narcissist president surrounded by maniacal and desperate neo cons seeking to escalate this war.
It's akin to approaching a suicide bomber armed with a nuclear device and attempting to calmly talk him off the brink.
The sooner the Russians collapse the Kiev regime the better. If they can create a mass migration out of Ukraine by taking out the power grids, it would save a lot of human life. That would collapse the Euro regimes ending their ability to continue this war.
his flipping and flopping and theatrics and bombast and threats are all things he learned in real estate. The deal. I ignore that, I’m trying to see the end game through all the murk and crap.
Sure would be a shame if there was a Russian decapitation strike on Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen and London.
Yessiree! A terrible shame if there was an Oreshnik strike at the EU parliament while it’s in session and can be found at the coordinates: 48° 35' 51.04" N 7° 46' 8.73" E.
Simplicius at his best. The detailed, granular analysis of front news and making sense / showing patterns through the fog of war. Thank you.
My first impression having read the article (and not simply hit the reply button to win the rat race to be the first to comment) is that I cannot but feel sorry for the Ukrainian drone kid who is losing to the other teams of kids out there in Russia. Such a waste. And this unfortunately is not some war gaming competition.
If one tries to look ahead, my prayer to God would be not to let Russia screw up again when it eventually wins against Ukraine. Because another way to look at the root causes of this tragedy is that Russia badly failed to turn Ukraine (and Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan etc.) into a belt of friendly brother (or is that sister?) countries after the collapse of the USSR. The CIS project has largely been a failure (with the important exception of the customs union - but this only concerns Armenia, Belaruss, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan and Russia).
For those former USSR countries, the temptation was to build their national identity as victims of Russian imperialism (in USSR guise - and forgetting the fact that the monster No 1 and many of his henchmen were Georgian or... Ukrainian - Khrushchev) or otherwise to try to define national identity as "anti Russia" (as Arestovich would put it). For Russia, the temptation was to look at these countries as stray kids that needed to be brought back home with a big stick. On both sides, a great lack of affection and respect for nations with a history going back very deep in time.
Hopefully, Russia will reflect on the root causes that grew from its own backyard and will try to learn from the efforts that transformed Europe after the end of WW2 from a bunch of hurting and largely destroyed nations into a peaceful (but now often f***d up and woke) block. It should be one of Russia's key objectives to figure out a coherent policy to engage its neighbours in a constructive and peaceful way, building up on their common heritage and culture. To go back to the Western European post-war example, these efforts were multi pronged: twinning of towns and villages, encouraging learning languages (who in Russia is learning Kazakh or Azeri?) and school exchanges, honouring and sharing each other's culture etc. Appeasement among the nations in post WWII Europe did not appear by chance or as a result of post-conflict exhaustion, it was carefully devised and nurtured.
My own hope for a post-war Russia is that, having succeeded in the fierce defence of its own national identity and sovereignty, Russia will manage to redefine its historical role as the center of Christian orthodoxy and slavic / eurasian civilization, welcoming its neighbours and the world at large to share this incredible wealth.
Russia is responding to the Anglo-American Oligarchy threat.
I don't see that they have any other option than the path they're taking.
If you want peace, then you need to destroy the Banksters who occupy the "City of London" and "Wall Street".
I already posted this once, but AFAIK, it is the only video that directly explains how the banksters operate in very simple terms that anyone can understand in only an 18 minute video. Do note they mention the City of London. This is the enemy that has to be defeated. Trump is just a derivative that exists because of the money men. Were Harris president now, the money men would still be in charge.
I don't think you appreciate the enormity of the task you are outlining for Russia and the opposition it faced from the USA through the NED. All of these "recalcitrant children" were infested by NED sponsored NGOs that worked unceasingly to create chaos and ambiguity and hatred toward Russia.
Berletic has broadly outlined color revolutions that have happened throughout Eurasia, but Friday Everyday is very specific about how a color revolution works as he exposes the current operation in Indonesia.
I appreciate it. It is easy to concentrate on the difficulties. But this is not the way you get things done. There is no need to hope in order to endearvor, nor is success needed to pursue you goals.
It isn't that simple. IMHO Russia has done the best it possibly could have given the opposition it faced. The fact that they tried for 8 years to negotiate a deal with the US after the Maidian coup is testimony to their desire for peace. It wasn't until they were pushed to the wall that they took action. Ukraine forces were set to invade the Donbas in March 2022, the SMO preempted that invasion using the US promulgated R2P doctrine that was used to justify the NATO invasion of Yugoslavia.
Your suggestion that Russia do what the US did with the Marshall plan after WWII was never a possibility given the US opposition and intrusions. It was Churchill who declared the "iron curtain" after all and the US that organized NATO declaring, without evidence, that the USSR was a threat to Western European nations.
The true purpose of NATO and later the EU was to pseudo-colonize Western Europe. Look at the limp dick politicians that now lead those nations. They are there because the Anglo-American Oligarchy provided the financing for their campaigns. And now they call Trump "Daddy". What the Marshall plan did was make Europe dependent on the US for technology and investment. So much so that when Biden destroyed the Nordstream, pipeline there wasn't a peep out of anyone in Europe.
This is just Berletic's "continuity of agenda" carried out by the "Deep State" under the direction of the Anglo-American Oligarchy. Without the banksters this would have gone no where.
Meyer Lansky is the model. He was so well hidden that even this documentary on his life concludes he was a "nobody".
So, no you don't appreciate the opposition Russia faced. It was like Jimmy Dore getting into the ring to face Mike Tyson. The fact that Russia survived at all is a testimony to the resilience and fortitude of the Russian people.
If you ain't prepping like the Ukrainian lady at the end, you don't know what is happening. US and Europe are at war with Russia and launching nuclear capable missiles at Russia. The advantages of a preemptive attack becomes the only way to win for both sides. The first strike will be an EMP to take out satellite, radar, and other electronic sensors to blind the enemy. It will also leave the populous with no food, electricity, communications, money, transportation, nothing, and we end up cannibalizing each other in the cities while they go to their bunkers so they can come out saviors with a new, computer based currency. They don't car about Europeans, and they don't care about you. It is war time during a planned depopulation event. Don't get in any elevators, especially in NY.
According to Larry Johnson the blue light in the Kiev video indicates a new kind of non-nuclear EMP. I have seen indications that Iran has a similar missile. I don't know about US?
The discussion below the line on that piece converged on the blue light being the result of a large transformer blowing out, perhaps after having been shorted by the strands of a graphite bomb designed to do just that. The facts that vehicles were still running after the flash and that the electronic cameras that took the videos survived argue against an EMP.
That was Larry Johnson saying it was an EMP, not me, and there are different kinds of EMPs. Most are nuclear. This was non-nuclear. The point is, Russia took out the entire electrical systems out in three cities so far and they are talking about moving the population in the cities into Europe as refugees as they won't have any electricity, water, communications and eventually, no government.
Lol. Blue light is common when transformers explode, it's caused by electric arcs. They are extremely hot and vaporize metal, copper melting will result in green/blue spectral effects.
Have you seen all three videos? The blue went all over the sky. It was not localized at a transformer. I assume the huge spray of sparks was a big transformer going, but one shot took out the entire city, not a couple transformers.
those videos aren't for commercial consumption, we're all deep into the info-war here. Each faction has to tag their products so it's clear who they're coming from, and in such a way the opposition can't repurpose them.
I would actually trust a video LESS if it didn't have a big bold watermark bouncing all over the screen. What honest reason is there to conceal the origin or the channel's name?
I agree, but some watermarks are just obvious and situated in a corner of the screen. The one at the top of this post is almost obscured by the 'origin' watermark. That is all I am saying.
Sometimes I think that people believe the only success in a war is to take no casualties, lose no equipment. If the enemy fights back then they seem to consider it losing. If the enemy fights back hard they think the war is lost.
The main crisis is that people don't think, as it seems to me. They consume 'news' and construct an opinion for themself.
If you ask why this war is fought, you get silly talking points as an answer.
The root cause is a decimating profit rate in the West as correctly predicted by K. Marx. Capital needs resources to function and Russia is therefore to loot as they looted the rest of the world previously. Just Russia is fighting back because it has the means to fight back.
True. The Masters of the Universe have maximised the debt levels and are in a desperate need for new collateral. They are beginning to consume themselves as Marx predicted - look at the US chewing deliciously on Europe.
"The main crisis is that people don't think, as it seems to me. They consume 'news' and construct an opinion for themself.
If you ask why this war is fought, you get silly talking points as an answer."
Yes, they live in Plato's Cave. And as he pointed out if they come out they are blinded by the light, or, as T.S. Eliot put it: "Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
They have no idea what is going on. It burns me up but I see it more and more every day. I come here to get relief from people who at the very least understand they are being lied to. Thanks, Simplicius.
We are in Invasion of the Body Snatchers territory now.
Forget the videos. The propaganda departments have tons of video clips from thousands of drones, and they only show what fits into the narrative. But there are videos of soldiers wading through the fiber optic cables. And now imagine how many drones (only fiber optics, not counting the wireless ones) must have passed by—but at the end of the day, you see a three-minute video.
"In the past, major cities like Kiev could put up a much bigger fight because top NATO missile systems like Patriot and IRIS-T were able to whittle down Russian cruise missiles while mobile anti-drone teams could take out a large portion of Russian Gerans and other decoys. But now it seems a critical mass has been reached where a huge amount of objects are able to get through defenses, giving Russia perhaps its first true opportunity of total dominion over Ukraine’s energy grid."
I have to admit that I didn't understand that statement either. I didn't think that Patriots and IRIS-T were effective against Iskanders and Kinzhals, and even some drones.
Oh they're *definitely* not effective against Iskanders and Kinzhals. It's downright laughable. I'm sure Patriots have improved since a client who was an operator they missed ~95% of the time, and that's against SCUDS in Iraq but they are still ineffective. Just take a look at their performance a couple years ago at the Saudi refinery that was attacked by the Houthis.
I'm not a military expert, but the push west along the southern front is moving well enough that they should just try and roll up that whole line all the way to the Dnieper river. I'm sure it's not that easy but the river acts like a natural barrier which would free up a ton of resources.
>Many now believe this these latest actions may be the “big one”, marking Putin’s decisive turn to shut Ukraine off for good
What is the point of doing that if there is no large-scale ground invasion planned? These strikes would only make sense if they imposed deterrence (but they don't) and if they helped the front immediately, but that will only be the case if there are serious plans for a major move on the ground.
But clearly there isn't one coming because:
1) there has been no mobilization or accumulation of reserves in the border areas, and this cannot be hidden
2) it will have zero chances of success until Ukraine is shut off from access to drones, which clearly has not been done.
All that is achieved right now is to make life hell for ordinary working class Ukrainians, which will make them really, really love Russia, of course.
Meanwhile Zelensky and co. are still untouched, and they will not be in any way deterred by these strikes, because they themselves will always have power, and their future is not in Ukraine anyway.
Just genius moves from the 5D chess grandmaster all around.
Who also made another set of statements, for which she should have been immediately dragged in handcuffs by whatever agency in Russia is supposed to guard against high treason at the very top (if there is such an entity) -- he said that in response to Tomahawks Russia will beef up air defense (!?!?!?). Yes, indeed, that is what he said. This while once again praising Trump...
Imagine Stalin in 1942 supporting giving the Nobel Peace to Hitler. That is exactly what we have here...
>Putin announced that Russia is developing new “intercontinental” weapons that are as of yet unknown to the world
Which will just collect dust as museum exhibition pieces because God forbid something happens to the dear partners. Meanwhile the dear partners' missiles will be raining much harder on Russian cities than they are now (right as we speak there was another attack into Bashkiria, Tatarstan and Udmurtia).
Option #1: Peacefully, by issuing a nuclear ultimatum to Poland and Romania to shut it while situating Russian military observers along it to make sure there is no smuggling.
Option #2: By force, using tactical nukes on the roads and railways just inside the border. It is less than 25 crossings that need to be turned to giant radioactive craters and thus disabled
Option #3: If NATO still wants to play stupid games and Poland and Romania either refuse to comply or try to reestablish logistics after the strikes in option #2, you erase from the map Poland and Romania with strategic nukes and occupy them directly (and permanently)
There was also Option #0, which was to do the SMO properly back in February 2022, sealing the borders being the prime objective of such an operation, before NATO got a chance to get involved. But that ship has sailed now.
Since Putin dithered around in the past, now he has no option to achieve escalatory dominance other than tactical nukes. If he doesn't like that conundrum, then he has nobody to blame but himself. The western game being played against him for at least the last 3 years is pure leftist, it's called the "decision dilemma". If you don't believe me, look it up on the leftist website of tactics, 'Beautiful Trouble'.
The Ukrainian - Polish border is 540 km long, at the start of the war it was 850 - 900 km away from Russian controlled territory (Donetsk city to the Lviv crossing)
The Ukrainian - Romanian border is 540 km long, at the start of the war it was 450 - 500 km away from Russian controlled territory (Crimea or Southern Donetsk to the Romanian border near Chernivtsi or the Danube Delta).
Cold War NATO calculations required 1 - 4 armored brigades to cover 30 - 50 km of frontline depending on the terrain and the threat. With 1100km of border to "seal off" you are asking for something like 400,000 men and 22 divisions to move 500 to 900km through or over hostile terrain and stay there separated from their supply lines indefinitely.
Alternatively, as a Plan B you are asking for a pre-emptive nuclear strike of at least 25 nuclear warheads, against a non-nuclear opponent, targeting not their weapon systems or command and control sites but open terrain and transport infrastructure. With the radiation contamination being not a serious problem but actually a positive bonus.
Also, you believe that Vladimir Putin and the Russian high command didn't do any of this because they're traitors against Russia's best interests.
Previously I had given you a 90/10 split for being a troll vs being schizoid.
>Vladimir Putin and the Russian high command didn't do any of this because they're traitors against Russia's best interests.
Not the Russian high command, Putin and the people around him specifically. Look up who those people are, and you will quickly understand what is going on.
The Russian high command has been begging Putin to defend the country since before 2014, and yet here we are.
Do you see much defending of Russia's interests? I don't. The whole post-Soviet space other than Belarus has been lost, the positions in the Middle East have been lost, and the country is bogged down in a quagmire in Ukraine, and all of that largely without a fight or even with the active assistance of the Kremlin, and precisely because Putin again and again and again refused to defend the country's interests.
Regarding borders -- they sent a few dozen tanks towards Nikolaev, couldn't take it, went further northwest towards the SUNPP and were at Voznesenk on March 1st 2022. But tried to take it with something like 400 men. Yes, 400 men were sent to secure a crossing of the Bug and then press on to Transnistria and Odessa. No shit it didn't work. But on the other hand just 400 men reached Voznesensk. That was the state of the AFU back then. Compare to now. Missed windows of opportunity, etc.
Had Putin sent 50,000 instead of 500, what would have happened? Odessa taken, Transnistria linked, all by mid-March 2022. Then you press further towards Chernovtsy.
Meanwhile with Kiev blockaded, had 100,000 been sent from Brest south to secure the Polish border, and had decapitation strikes been carried out as they should have, it would have been game set and match. Combined that is only double of the total force the SMO started with.
But Putin went in with 150,000 total, after having eight years to prepare for this, which he spent bragging about how little Russia spends on the military and indeed slashing the budget from the brief slight bump it got around 2015 because of Syria. While the oligarchs had a competition on who can splurge the most billions for the largest megayacht...
It's always the same false choice with these doomer trolls, wherein the Collective West is all-powerful and can only be countered with Russia using nukes (doing exactly what the depopulation obsessed globalist nutjobs want) or surrender to the superior might of the West. The shit show of constant government turnover in France, the US war industrial base having multiple blasts as it tries to ramp up with DEI and inexperienced hires, the exhaustion of NATO's own Cold War stocks in Europe, the Turks wanting off the US/UK blank checks for Israel train: none of these matter. The enemy is like some unstoppable monster in an 1980s slasher movie or the dark sci fi slasher that was the first Terminator movie. It simply won't...stop...until Sarah Connor Russia is dead.
How is the constant govenment turnover in France and the exhaustion of the NATO Cold War stocks going to stop the AFU from having enough small drones to stalemate the front and how is it going to stop drones and missiles from flying deep into Russia every day?
I am yet to see one non-doomer non-troll explain the logical sequence of events that will lead from one to the other, and do so quickly.
Drones can be transported by truck, but fronts with thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian Army men can only be maintained with railway networks.
The home front can hold on, but rolling blackouts hinders the construction of underground drone manufacturing and makes generators for military facilities stand out on infrared drone scans of Ukrainian cities on cold days.
So yes, there is a significant damage being done to Ukraine's capacity to wage drone war from its own territory, which is precisely why so much of the manufacturing of drones and weapons is being shifted out of the country to NATO territory.
The Ukrainian capacity to fight is not inexhaustible. Nor are NATO's own manpower resources without its soldiers having to get killed or wounded in no longer disavowable numbers (read: the Colombian mercs will eventually wise up). Russia's attrition strategy is not designed to rapidly seize territory on a drone-saturated battlefield but to grind down Ukrainian resources until the 'world's most powerful alliance' has to show up on the battlefield in numbers that cannot be disavowed or denied. Particularly once those casualties cannot be dismissed as simple volunteer trigger pullers but are known to have had high rank or highly trained specialties (SAMs, EW, guided missiles).
The Tomahawk launchers that increasingly seem likely to be appear at the Polish-Ukrainian or Romanian-Ukrainian borders are going to be manned by British probably not American crews. When some of them die in Iskander counterstrikes a bus accident taking out an entire UK Typhoon crew is not going to be a plausible narrative.
Unsurprisingly, a massive propaganda campaign has been relaunched after Ukraine made its first public threat, targeted at western leaders, to surrender- down arms and do a deal with the Russians. If you missed it, this is because it was quickly wiped out of all western reportage, and the Russian media has left this western grief alone to stew in its own juice.
There was panic! And when in a panic get out the book of tried and trusted greatest hits to fire up the Ukrainian military with a fresh enthusiasm for certain death. A hero story is needed and prime among these is the story of the war Russia lost that it never actually fought, first run back at the start when the west tricked Russia into pulling back, and Russia discovered it really was going to have to go all in, boots on the ground and needed a bigger mobilised force. The west claimed a stunning victory for Ukraine in driving back Russian forces. This narrative of Ukraine winning against all odds is now having a rerun. it is the story entirely fabricated, of Russia's failed SUMMER OFFENSIVE.
PS- The other arm of new propaganda push this time using a so-called Russian patriotic voice, is the call to remove Putin in favour of a stronger response. Of course this push is not really for a stronger response. It is for a descent into a chaos of infighting in Russia in which melee any commitment to the Ukraine war simply dissolves.
Meanwhile..... Russia really is winning the real war, the one actually being fought to good Russian purpose, not a war of other self defeating performances the west is trying to provoke.
Then you haven't been watching closely enough. Thankfully I have. You can take my word for it, or not. I can guess how this fault-line will divide responses.
Sorry, that was too lazy of me. It was part of Zelenskiiy's public statement after the failure of his sanctions push, for how this war could then end. It was not intended as a description however, but as a threat. Has that jogged your memory?
It was in response to the european failure to rise up to Trump's challenge to put on those gee'd up sanctions. Zelenskiiy was asked 'what now for Ukraine? He outlined several options the first of which was surrender and do a deal (blink and you missed it), followed by various ways in which the west could avoid this.
The message was clear enough, though, and that was it. Not another word about it just a barrage of claims led from the west, that Ukraine was winning! It had turned the tide and the US would step up with more weapons support eg Toms. The Russian summer offensive had failed (! you probably missed this one too, this offensive, as did I, but this was because it never happened.... unlike the Ukrainian threat to down arms)
The Europeans cannot survive this war ending and having to hand over to Russia all the money they owe it and then make good all the bad debt they used those assets to back. Or rather Western European taxpayers will have to make good the hole on the balance sheets of their central banks and their leaders will be lucky especially in France which has a preference for locking up its politicos as an advance on hanging them, to avoid jail time.
There is zero evidence based on a couple of AI searches, and doesn’t pass the pub test. Abhorrent, no, don’t care enough. Its just my bullshit filter. Don’t leave home without it.
You did not answer my question which was not about whether you recalled this or not. Clearly- taking you at your word, here- you do not. But why you would want to doubt my recall?
People tend to doubt claims that contradict what they want to believe, or rather that is revealed when they express their doubt in pejorative tones that prejudge the issue as in calling my recall a 'yarn', that should join some other 'nonsense'. Not exactly the spirit of objective inquiry, is it?
Human memory is very faulty as any lawyer knows, applies to everyone. I despise Zelensky and politics. Political types, if someone questions them always think , it is politically motivated, whereas in this case it is simply about facts.
Unfortunately most political types don’t attach any importance at all to facts, only how they can be spun. Not my glass of vodka.
Speaking of lawyers, one's own first person recall is admissible evidence in court- as opposed to hearsay.
It helps to have corroboration, but I am not in the business of prosecuting a case here. You could have just taken my word for my recall, or not. But you decided to embellish your response.
Haha women comments. Please more emojis, you will win over the public with them and not truth. You are a retard or a bot and both are just wasting peoples time.
this is true. my wife's cousin (30 something) hid out in Odessa for the first 3+ years of the war. at first he was all in for Z and company but changed his mind 180 deg. with our help looking in from the US. this past summer he made a break with a band of a dozen or so "brothers" and miraculously escaped and is now in Germany.
I personally know a young man that escaped (trapped in a school, under gunshot from both sides) via Germany to Mt. Athos to USA. He knows how fortunate he is, playing tennis and going to work when his buddies are not. Every time I see him I smile and wonder what God has planned for him.😉
I agree. Just the Germans 90 years ago were also led by then massive propaganda and brainwashing. And not Germans only. Times Magazine declared A. Hitler to the man of the year and many in the West hoped Germany would wipe the communists out and dragged their feet to fight the industrial slaughter of humans.
In the end it's "Knechte gegen Knechte" as Goethe so wise lets his Mephistopheles say. Or the other way: Old men who know each other well, send young men to die who don't know each other.
War is hell and not to turn your guns in the right direction, against the West in this case who send you to die for their profit, is a sign of surrender to fanatic Nazism. That's not new, look at Israel, look at the US, they all think of themself as exceptional, above the law and never held to be accountable for any crime they commit against humanity.
I can feel sorry for the individual but I do not feel sorry for the mass of people who willingly walk to their own slaughter because they think they're something special.
What, 27 million WHITE Russians killed by the Germans weren't white enough for you? In Mein Kampf your Adolph rants about taking the land away from white Slavic people. He was a psychopath.
Probably the most important word you use is "propaganda". The West uses it well and Ukrainians are unable to counter it, so they end up a rotting corpse in a trench. In France they are preparing for a Russian attack by stocking up on canned food and blankets for the winter.
The unravelling of this madness will be a blood-letting to behold.
At Dien Bien Phu (1954) the French, as they died in the mud, had a trailer staffed with prostitutes and drank wine (powdered "wine" reconstituted with water) The French historian Bernard Fall gives a sobering account of that battle recounted in his book, "Hell in A Very Small Place". <<link>> The French loss here is detailed brilliantly. The first French colony to fall after 100 years of occupation. The post-WW2 imperial crackup begins. It is such a graphic account that it is simultaneously hard to read and hard to put down. How many times do the French have to be bitch-slapped before they sit down and STFU?!
Elena is right. State propaganda is very effective on the unthinking 80% of the population.
That French clip near the end of Simplicius' article is a good example. Most ordinary French people actually believe that Russia is a threat to France. Britain is the same.
I don't disagree Nick, but equally we don't REALLY think there is a clear and present danger from Russia.
People are prepared to pay lip-service to "the Russian Threat" because most don't care enough to contradict the narrative, but ask us to make any real sacrifices, such as conscription, and support for the narrative will disappear.
We are quite happy to swear at the Russians, and flick them the V's, but we aren't prepared to actually see them outside for a straightener.
“We are quite happy to swear at the Russians, and flick them the V's, but we aren't prepared to actually see them outside for a straightener.” A great summation of the common position in the west!
That's what I always say, we must throw 80% of the French into the sea. Yet I myself am French from an old family but I got out of this godforsaken place a long time ago.
That place is overflowing with guns and ammo. If the ukes who don't want to fight for the jew clown scum can't resist forced mobilization, no one can help them and they dont deserve a helping hand.
I've watched a lot of videos that show men being grabbed by the SBU guys in vans. Rather than run, they try arguing with the van guys. When that doesn't work they try slap fighting, essentially fighting like a girl. They are easily subdued, and stuffed into the vans, without handcuffs. At that point the men accept their fates, like meek little kittens..
That's not much of a fight. No knife pulled out, no pistol. Just a bit of grabbing, slapping hands away, dancing around and finally sitting meekly in the vans.
Klitschko must've been the only boxer in Ukraine.
I mean, I know I'm an American, but I definitely would put up more of a fight than that. And I have, all my life.
Where are people's will to live these days? Ya gotta have one to survive these days. 84 years ago 33,000 naked people lined up without a struggle at a ravine in Kiev called Babi Yar. The SS shot them all, adding 70,000 more to the ravine in the next three years..
Babi Yar is only 3.7 miles from Bankova street, where Zelensky is. I wonder if he's even been there. What Zelly has done to the Ukrainians would make Babi Yar look like a church picnic.
Nowadays the Ukrainians are still taking it, taking their turns to become meat bricks in the Donbass. Just to get a few more days, a few more hours, a few more minutes of life.
Lesson for us all. Generally the worm doesn't turn when it's in the crematorium line. The brave never got there, their hill was long before that.
You have all these armed militias sworn to protect the Constitution and Bill of Rights and yet Trump is riding rough-shod over the Constitution and they're doing bugger all. Riddle me that one?
My subjective opinion is that the average Ukrainian or Russian is much tougher than the average Anglo-Saxon.
We'll know the war is about over basically when the TCC are terrified to go out not only at night but in daytime without police escort due to Ukrainian men realizing they have nothing left to lose taking rifle pot shots at them then fleeing across the Belarussian or Hungarian borders.
In Vietnam, by around 1970, the Army began to realize they a problem with an issue called fragging. Unpopular officers and senior NCOs were getting blown up by their own troops. This was happening both the field and the rear. By the time I left in ‘71, there was a lot of nervousness in the senior ranks as unpopularity of the war at home was still growing. When the troops rebel and turn on ‘leadership’, wars will end. I was in a recon & night ambush squad with the 101st Airborne, and by mid ‘71, our goal was avoiding contact. We should have been setting up ambushes along valley trails every night. Instead, we were finding high ground and settling up defensive positions where we would be least likely to have contact and best able to defend.
My dad, a WWII veteran, said the best chance at survival in a war was "don't volunteer" for anything. Don't be the fuckup either or you'll be sent in the front of the squad. My older brother was in Nam and scored a job driving around a Colonel.
Men must always take responsibility for their actions or inaction and this is what currently happens to the Ukrainian men who haven't stopped the Neo-Nazis from doing thousand-men strong marches all over Ukraine, eventually taking over the government. Sure, the comedian has 'fucked his voters over', but then again, he's a professional comedian who had a sitcom making fun of his current job. If you believed him, then you're either retarded or dangerously naive.
Russian men are now cleansing Ukraine of the corruption Ukrainian men were either too blind to see or too scared to fight: Let's not forget what the UAF and the Neo-Nazis did to the people they deem to be 'Untermenschen', especially in Donbass.
I'm a German man from Germany, and if the Russians choose to 'de-nazify' Germany once again, I will have to take responsibility for my actions and inaction as well as the Ukrainian men currently do. You're a woman, you have no way of comprehending what this means, which is why you should stay away from discussions like this. This isn't about 'fairness', it's about removing evil.
A Ukrainian soldier with 1 neurone would frag immediately his NCO or officer if they would force him to go to a useless sacrifice. But it seems that all those who had one are already under.
I think either Simplicius or Lord Bebo had a drone clip posted where two Ukr soldiers were walking in front of what appeared to be officers, towards a river (Dnieper?). They whirled around suddenly and shot the two Ukr officers. Then they switched course. Obvious case of fragging. I'm sure they decided they were going to get to the Russian line and surrender.
Press gangs are just their military collecting the draft dodgers. They should say no instead of dodging their draft. Next time maybe they will not start a war with Russia while not having enough of a military to beat them without having to ask my Country for handouts.
One would have to be awfully low iq to swallow that propaganda. And from judging what I've witnessed around Europe where they run to, my summation is correct.
The problem is the vast majority of people will swallow anything.
Germans pay billions a year to a corrupt foreign country, that has blown up the NordStream pipeline and caused the destruction of their economy, while in the middle of a recession.
In 1937 German chemists invented methamphetamines. There were no antidrug laws at the time.
It was marketed to the German public as "Pervitin". By 1939 it's use was widespread in Germany, millions of civilians took it.
It not only gave a user prodigious energy but he or she could stay up for days.
It was in that state that millions of German civilian meth addicts, were ecstatically happy that Hitler invaded Austria, the Sudetenland and finally Poland, thus starting WWII.
By 1939 about a quarter of Germany's population were taking the pills. It wasn't just German soldiers.
The zeitgeist in Germany became psychotic, disconnected to reality, aggressive.
When the blitzkrieg Westward began, the Wehrnacht was 100% pumped up on meth. It was the key to the whole success, a German soldier who could go for 4-5 days at a time.
WWII Western Europe was conquered by meth addicts.
• in the 1960's and 1970's it was known as "Speed" among hippies and dope addicts in the United States.
A German firm makes an improved "Super-Soldier" version of the old German formula of Methamphetamines. It was actually designed by the US, under DoD grants.
Given to Ukrainian solders since the beginning of the Ukraine SMO war, it prevents fear, anxiety, fatigue, hunger, sleep, pain, etc..
Unlike other blends of meth, there's a lot less immediate psychosis. Eventually there is, but not in the two to four week framework of the average Uke soldier's lifespan at the front.
The CIA advised Kiev to give their soldiers the pills. Otherwise the war would have been well over with within 12 months, massive revolts and mutinies would've occurred in Ukraine.
But Ukraine soldiers accept their fates because they're drugged out lemmings.
Ukraine leaders are able to oversee the death because they themselves are breaking bad on coke.
The meth drug is the sole reason the Ukrainian population allowed itself to be fed with abandon into the meatgrinders, 1,950,000 Kia's and over 1,500,000 injuries, in my calculations, yours may differ.
Even to this day the Ukrainian soldiers are being handed their rations of meth pills. It's why they trundle themselves off like lemmings to a certain death.
I thought everyone knew it. I've seen numerous TG videos of Russian soldiers removing the small packets of pills off of the dead Ukrainians. It's not a secret.
BTW, my father was in WWII, he fought in Bastogne, he never saw any drug use among his fellow GIs.
He was helping to save the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe from annihilation. By putting pressure on the Germans on the Western front, it took pressure off the Eastern front for the Russians, our allies.
It was the same in Syria, all those Jihadi's were pumped full of Captigon. Millions of pills were smuggled into Syria and I am sure even the Syrian army took part before their fall.
I guess the side that wins nowadays is the one with the better drugs.
To be repopulated by those who with intention unpopulated them. Do you think that Israel has it is stands a chance in the future?. Is a barren land without resources and too many people living of it. They will create a new Khazar kaganate.
Let's rather talk about western Nazis who sit in safety far away, hidden in NATO headquarters in Germany and command Kiev junta where to throw more cannonfodder. For western Nazis, both Ukrainian and Russian people, are Untermenschen. Actually, western Nazis consider ALL ordinary people of Europe, UK, US, etc. as Untermenschen. They dream of using us as cannonfodder in the war against Russia. We ARE "Ukrainians" (i.e. cannonfodder) for them too! That's why it would be more appropriate to take a look at EU, UK, US, etc. and start asking questions about our own countries. Russians, Ukrainians, EU citizens, UK citizens, US citizens, etc., we all have THE SAME ENEMY - our existence is threatened by western Nazis!
Denigrating Nazis? How can they be denigrated enough is the question. They killed 27 million Russian people. That alone is an unforgivable crime. Look up Babi Yar, September 1941.. there's an entire video reel that the Nazis took. It wouldn't be hard to find the video or stills..
That’s nothing compared to bombing Dresden Nagasaki Hiroshima - the ‘Nazi’ we’re honorable compared to the terro bombing of women and children. Stalin and his Jew commissars murdered 24000 poles in cold blood and over 20million Russians.
Is Baker a Jewish name? Is that an attempt to normalize Nazism? You're in a very small minority opinion group, even here. Lol.
I'm Anglo-Saxon btw.
How old are you, 18? Bored with the Stormfront forums already? You know the son of Mr. Black the founder over there renounced his own father over Nazism. He had to, to get away from the dead end street and cookie cutter family lifestyle.
I don't take anything you say personally, but I think you'll eventually change your mind on that Nazism stuff. Nazis aren't nice people, not even to each other . If you're sick, a Nazi isn't going to come around to you with chicken soup. Something to think about..
I've noticed, that for everything you accuse Jews of perpetrating, you approve of if it's done to the 'right' ethnic group, the one that you don't like.
Reread some of your own opinions here, you're actually approving of genocide. If you did any self reflecting, I think you'd find you're not being part of the solution. Consider doing some self reflection, please.
Because all the handles are a persons actual name. Just admit you are a Jew defending its tribe or are some pleb whose brain has been rotted by Jew propaganda.
Break your Jew programming.
Are you opposed to the Jews committing a genocide in Palestine with the complete support of Zion don?
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents. Even a blind man can see that his rat face is that of a Jew, I mean synagogue of satan....
Only his mother transmits Jewishness, only his father is Jewish. He received no Jewish education, he is secular and a big bastard disrespectful of the family. Indeed, in his great-grand family members were decimated in the Holocaust and obviously with the help of the Bandera members with whom he is currently associated and whom he rehabilitates as national heroes. The Cgrist did not deserve crucifixion but he did. History will remember him as he committed genocide against his people and thus surpassed Hitler and his Holocaust.
Its like the Cultivated hatred between Serbs And Croats the same applies to the ukrainians they have been duped by the west , see Tucker Carlson interview with Mr Putin
From the above, it would seem that attempts to resurrect attacks by tanks have proven to be a failure. Funny how Andrei Martyanov has not yet given up on tanks.
Well this shows the the Russian president does not need to make drunken blustering statements about "obliterating" or "decimating" the enemy. No need to behave like a chihuahua behind a fence making a rocous avoiding the obviously open gate. No need to create elaborate theatrical strikes to demonstrate "toughness". It shows there can be decour, diplomacy and statesmanship from a real leader and not merely bellicose rhetoric.
Thanks for this comment. Even many of the so called alternative media have been nonstop criticizing President Putin because he doesn't speak like Trump or any of the EU idiots.
Various sources place the present Kiev population around 3 million and upward from there. The longest siege of a city during WWII was probably against Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by the German Army, lasting for over two years and four months. Estimates are that around a million defenders died there but likely nobody knows the real number. The civilian deaths were around 1.5 million inside the city, or even more. The German/Finnish losses are unknown.
Russia cannot even hope to repeat the German act but if they manage to kill off most of the electrical, gas and fuel distribution, water/sewage service infrastructure just for the coming winter – that will a give a taste for the inhabitants what happened inside Leningrad. This would greatly weaken the resolve of the Ukraine population and their ruling classes. This might even stop the revolving door of visiting Western leaders who arrive to click their selfies in Central Kiev. As far as the proletarian class I truly do not wish to see them to go through this but the Russians will try to motivate them to give up the war with a demolition derby. I can already see Trump raising his fist, screaming: ‘I am a Ukrainian!’ JFK, 1963 style, but nothing will help.
No army can invade across a front as wide as Ukraines, even a “limited” push across say 50-100kms is impossible due to a) Drones and b) the need to maintain supply lines for a large number of troops ( as the Russians found out in 2022, when they went to far to fast and had to retreat. On the scale of the Ukraine front , with today’s conditions, attrition is the only real option and it is working. Ukraine will collapse, politically , militarily, economically or all 3 , only a matter of time.
"as the Russians found out in 2022, when they went to far to fast and had to retreat"
The Russians wrote the book on land warfare. They haven't "learned" what they teach in first-year military academies. If this wasn't clear in 2022, you should know it by now:
The 2022 offensive on Kiev was always a temporary raid and had several goals: 1. An attempt to intimidate the Ukrainian leadership into complying with the peace agreement, which almost worked. 2. A diversionary maneuver, drawing Ukrainian forces away while the real offensive in the south created a land bridge to Crimea. You understand that ANY offensive MUST have multiple axes, including secondary and feints, to have a chance of success, right? You understand that such offensives ALWAYS involve losses, ambushes, and logistical problems and are the norm, not a sign of failure, right? If there was any miscalculation, it was political, not military one.
Azov Disneyland, where they fight to the last Nazi, while the Green Goblin hides in his bunker with a vial of rat poison. Got another bridge to sell ya , real bargain, eastern ukraine, rarely used, some assembly required
Well though Russia has her own strategic geniuses, it must be highlighted how close the strategies employed relate to Tsun Zhu's strategy of attacking where you are not expected. Avoid where the enemy is strong and strike where he is weak. The good thing is the Russian military is not fighting a PR war, but are in some ways free to express strategic initiatives in the field and not constrained to PR narratives to attract support.
In these last months leading to a decisive Russian victory the board suddenly fills up with a clamour of voices that Russia is not doing enough! Time for an insurrection!
Even the "beloved" Duran boys have been all over Putin down to calling him names and how weak he is and how he will do nothing no matter what the "west" or NATO do. They just cannot stand it that President Putin will not speak like Trump or any of the worthless EU vassals. They keep trying to convince their listeners that Putin is under tremendous pressure from "the kremlin"
Mercouris runs several narratives that have floated free of reality for sometime. As for the Russians, they are not about to be bounced into costly escalations they do not need to inflict, to win. There is far more damage they can inflict on Western Europe through escalations within Ukraine- hold tight for the mass winter exodus heading into Poland et al. Watch this one unfold!
That aside, who blew up that BAE explosives factory in Tennessee, vaporised it, not the sort of place you would expect to be lax on security or safety blankets. Oddly none of the western press is accusing the Russians. Ponder why that might be.
1. There is going to be a third WW any minute now. (Larry J is also a stuck record here).
2. The west is about to give Ukraine the Russian assets- officially. This has run and run for several years now. No discussion about what is/has actually happened to that stuff and why western european leaders are frantic to launder a fake disposal in some direction or other, somehow to cover their own misdoings with those assets. As in most ludicrously 'can't we claim to invest them in something legit but VERY risky and then declare them 'lost' to that- one of the nuttier recent fringe ideas to be floated along with the whole idea that the fruit somehow does not belong to the tree).
3. Ukraine does not want any deal. Wrong. They have wanted a freeze for ages now- to rearm and rebuild.
5. Germany has already given Ukraine Taurus missiles. The US will give Ukraine whatever it wants.
Either Ukraine/NATO is incredibly inept in the disposition of these weapons or what actually goes on, on the ground, does not mirror the blah blah- one reason why Russia has not felt propelled into extravagant escalations. The provocations are not what they appear to be.
4. Russia does not want all Ukraine and anyway could not take it. FFS. Russia did not want any of Ukraine. It is doing what it is doing to secure itself and its people, and the way the west is behaving means it will have to take it all, right up to the extant NATO borders. That has been blindingly obvious for ages now, although Putin prefers to do a Chechnya and absorb by consent, with Ukraine voting to join the RF. Russia, however, will certainly take it all by force IF IT HAS TO and this will happen via a ground fight with NATO for which Russia has already built its army. Meaning, folks, there will not be a real final fight. Ukraine will be let go with its own forces already destroyed which is what Putin is currently doing through this grinding attrition apropos of which the west is trying to big up a wave of protest- hence the 'Russia is going too slow, Putin is weak' mantra meaning, let's get to a dirty stand off quickly and agree a partition so we can rearm what is left of Ukraine and go at you again.
I could go on and on. Try listening for a few days yourself and do your own list. I routinely post comments on their sites that never get published! Alex has lately been running on the line that Putin is weak although Alexander sort of sits on the fence on this one.
But the Russian assets, WW3 and the Taurus missiles are stand-outs. He was claiming that the Taurus missiles had been supplied disguised as something else- this despite the restrictions of Germany's own constitution and parliament and the stickler Germany is for its rules. When I said 'for starters' I meant that.
That said, Mercouris is an absolute gem with an extraordinary grasp of world affairs and history and a selfless commitment to his truth. And the world is a far better place for having him and (needless to say this) Simplicius in it, the latter being the real deal.
Ok. I also regularly listen to their podcast, and generally have a pessimistic view on Western intentions and methods. I also thought WW3 was going to start until DJT pivoted from attacking China to Venezuela. NATO vs China would be a world war of the same scale as WW2.
For point 5., every time Biden announced the US would not supply tanks, F-16s, etc, I mentally reversed it, and 6 months later the US supplied them. There was a pattern - US announces they wouldn't supply, starts debate on supplying, then announces they will. DJT is less predictable though.
I agree that Putin isn't weak, just practical. GM's comments worry me, the idea that Russians are tired of suffering - when countries like Yemen has suffered more, is still unbroken, and Russia is renowned for their resilience. This is a marathon - there will be 20 years more war, spread out along BRICS+ lines. Trying to sprint to end things quickly doesn't win marathons.
It was never that the west said it would not do X and then did it. That misses out a crucial middle step. It was always saying we won't do X IF.....
The problem the west got into, was with threatening to do stuff, and Russia shrugging. Then it had to act or look feeble as it tries to mirror on Russia (except Russia is actually winning where it counts). So we got desultory supplies eg of the odd F16.
It was not that this was the plan all along- ie to refuse to do stuff then tah ra, do it in some sort of potent escalation! The plan was always to bluff Russia to the table to do a western favourable deal.
So now we have the threat of the toms and the reason Trump is being ambiguous is because he does not want to have honour that threat if Russia is unfazed (as it is, incidentally- cue Putin's comment- bring them on. We will deal with them). So, that's going well. eh?
So far NATO-US has done just enough to demonstrate how ineffectual are its wunderwaffen. And this has infuriated the US that does not want to continue to have its weaponry rubbished in the field of actual battle.
Fog of war, Robert. As I said, less going on than you might think and nothing nearing WWIII. The west threatened boots on the ground en masse, and Russia shrugged. No sign of that threat being honoured. That threat has just disappeared up the western talk show fundament. There is a break point to these threats, you see.
The GMs and Girkins been here since start because operation was fucked up from Start. 150K vs 800K, while attacking, Seriously? 8 years to plan this master stroke of military science? lol?
What 8 years of planning? It looked to me that Russian leadership were asleep at the wheel with Minsk Agreements deluding themselves that West is rational actor and needs them too. So when intel services reported NATO buildup in Ukraine in 2022, Putin had to react with what Russia had on hand at the time.
To be fair, anytime something like this happens in Russia or China, the "global south" fan boys all scream in unison that "accidents happen".
I totally agree with you, but every time the Putin fan club sees a Russian refinery explode or plane destroyed its always accidents.
In addition they have/had all the raw materials like Iron Ore, Manganese, Coking Coal plus energy resources in abundance, and a skilled workforce.
Moscow's refinery plant's area, for example, is 284 hectares, that's ~400 football fields. Now explain to me how a plastic model with few kg of TNT strapped onto it can "explode" such refinery?
Sounds right, if your assessment is true. Devastating attacks on Moscow will demand a severe retaliation on the US. If Russia doesnt, then its game over for them. The oligarchs might have finally realized this, although Russia's battlefield situation might not be as rosy as it seems and this is the reason.
LOL Marko, comedic gold.
It’s about time stronger measures were taken. This needs to end before the European trash leadership finds a way to false flag us into a new world war.
Yes, and the key to success is to continue targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure, rail network, and military industrial capacity to produce arms.
Spoiler alert: stronger measures haven't been taken.
This is just more aimless posturing by the 5D chess grandmaster who has no strategy for winning this war other than just turning the other cheek to the real enemy (who isn't Ukraine) until... well, the predictable end.
What is leaving Kiev without electricity going to achieve if there is no 100,000 Russian army around Kiev to take advantage of it? But there isn't one and there won't be one, because the Russian oligarchy has issued strict orders to Putin forbidding any real mobilization, which, the true Russian patriot that he is and the true Russians that the Russian oligarchy consists of, he has been duly following.
So what is the point here?
People in Kiev get to hate Russia even more, Zelensky (who will, of course, be left untouched once again, thus has zero to worry about and is therefore not deterred from launching drones into Russia in any way; if it is even him launching them, and not NATO directly in many cases) gets to score more propaganda points about how evil the Russians are, the grid will be repaired quickly, as it always has been, and the end result will be what gain for Russia? None. Just as happened in late 2022.
Also, of course, Putin has never had Kiev as an objective in this war, quite the opposite. This is literally as if Stalin in 1943 begged Hitler for ending the war on the then current line of contact, while expressing public support for the lost territories becoming permanently part of the Third Reich. Because Putin did even that, and very recently too -- he continues to express support for Ukraine entering the EU. The same EU that is openly preparing for war with Russia...
Which means that he has publicly declared that he has absolutely no intention of recovering the ancestral Russian lands and neutralizing the threat on the western border.
A reverse Ceausescu is due here. "Reverse" in the sense that what happened to Ceausescu was part of the larger Perestroika initiative from Moscow, and here we have to undo the Perestroika. But other than that it has to be just as public, and even more gruesome. And not just him, but the whole oligarchic clique around him.
That is what such traitor scum deserve.
Note that my problem isn't with the strikes on infrastructure themselves, it is with the fact that they are happening reactively in response to Ukraine/NATO's strikes on Russian infrastructure, and in the absence of a coherent military strategy for permanently solving this problem, thus they won't achieve anything but to make life miserable for ordinary Ukrainians.
Turning the lights off right before you go in seriously? Absolutely. But otherwise it makes little difference.
Also, the trains should have been targeted from mid-2022 onwards, and it is an absolute scandal this is happening only now. But I am not convinced it is a serious campaign, because they can actually take them all out within a couple days. Armored vehicles can be concealed underground and in various warehouses, trains cannot be -- the depots are large and fixed objects and their locations are well known. Missile and drone strikes at the depots could destroy most of the rolling stock in a single massive salvo. The rest is what was in transit at that moment, and you finish it off when it reaches end points along the network. Given the volume of Russian missile and drone production, I see no reason why that cannot be done very quickly to completion and total paralysis of the network. But they have been hitting trains for 2-3 weeks now and yet trains are mostly still moving in Ukraine. So I can't help but fear that this will be yet another episode of not truly serious action.
Why weren't the lights turned off already three years ago then?
The goal for Russia three years ago was to get Ukraine to a negotiated settlement, You do not negotiate by wiping out someone's energy grid.
You can hide Locomotives in railway tunnels, just saying.
Most of Ukraine's railway tunnels are in the Carpathian Mountains of western Ukraine. The war is mostly in the East.
And you can block both ends of the tunnels.
Or fly a drone right in.
Note that General Motororlla's role is to be the 'downer" using the tried and true "should have" and "could have" clauses. IOW its along the tired and true lines of "Remembrance of Things Past". So yes, being a Proust is a time honored role for those tasked with "sliding" a discussion into some pits of speculative mush while dueling over a princess long dead (I can explain who the "princess" was, but another time. Building a mythology around our 'GM' is a time consuming task!).
– Who appoints the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo
Please don't take Motorola's name in vain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20iLgzmzSXc&list=RD20iLgzmzSXc&start_radio=1
That's why I deliberately misspelled it. I'll do better next time.
Long live the memory of the real hero Motorola, sand may his assassins burn in hell (which I hope exists, if only for the likes of those).
No. Transport OUT should be encouraged. Less fodder for the cannons and more problems for the EU.
What good will Kyiv do without electricity?
Answer:
Refugees are heading towards western Ukraine(and you are not really welcome there) and thus to Poland and Germany. What do refugees mean in these countries?
A Ukraine without energy/gas means dependence on Europe, a Europe without sufficient oil and gas reserves for the winter!
A Europe that has to buy oil and gas at very high prices in a market that, without Russian supplies, is insufficient for consumers who need gas and oil. Just as there isn't enough grain/wheat WITHOUT Russian resources!
Should winter in Europe in 2025 or 2026 really become a WINTER? Russia would only have to leave its shadow fleet in port and watch as Europe collapses. And if, IF, the BRICS oil-producing countries go along with it, that would be the END of the West as a whole!
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Whether the people in Kyiv hate the Russians even more is, firstly, irrelevant; secondly, that hatred quickly turns against those who are responsible for everything...the government.
There was hatred of Russians in Germany too, and here I mean East Germany too! Look at the attitude of East Germans toward Russia today; you'll find hatred, yes, but against those who demonize Russia.
Find the flaw in your thinking.
A thinking that, due to a lack of experience with Russia and the consequences of the war, you can't even comprehend...You speculate but can't put yourself in their shoes, since you've never experienced it...
When Russians distribute bread and heating in Kyiv, and doctors are there, how quickly do you think that hatred will then turn against their own warmongers?
And I experienced it firsthand!
How is that going to remove the drones from the frontline or stop the missiles raining into Russia?
Please explain to to us.
It does not matter what you reply. GM will find a way to keep the argument going.
Gammas are consistent that way.
A hail of missiles???
This definition shows me something again...you have no idea of the size of the country, a country that could accommodate three times the size of the USA.
Question: Is the USA comprehensively protected against missiles?
Not even remotely, and it is not protected at all against hypersonic missiles, perhaps the reason why Trump is relatively helpless when it comes to threats, and now even has to watch as Russia has signed a military treaty with Cuba and stationed S400s.
Excerpt from yesterday's Pravda
"Russia's parliamentarians ratified an agreement between the Russian and Cuban governments on military cooperation. And the stationing of S400s (...)"
Ukraine is not as big as Texas, your claim is ridiculous.
Well, first of all, Ukraine is about the same size...
AND SECOND!!
Were we talking about Russia?
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With an area of about 17.1 million square kilometers, Russia is about 24,500 times larger than Texas (approx. 695,621 km²).
Reading before typing sometimes helps.
Her comment or her ability to read contexts is ridiculous
Nevermind GM, he is full of it! He is actually advocating for a russian strike on Nato, calling Putin a traitor for not starting WW3! He just wants the world to burn judging by his comments. He is not half as smart as he think he is...
You have a naive belief in American Industry that is unjustified. The only missiles that can "rain into Russia" are the obsolete Minuteman. Russia does have an ABM system, which probably works. It is only around Moscow, but, I dunno, it is the Christian Zionists that keep insisting a nuclear war can be won.
Or, perhaps you are talking about the Tomahawks that won't arrive in Ukraine until 2028
Or, perhaps you missed the report in this article that the Ukrainian expert on drones has admitted that Russia is one or two steps ahead.
Where are these missiles suppose to come from?
– Who appoints the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo
Can you read? Ukraine drone operator says Russia is ahead of Ukraine in drones.
The less land Ukraine occupies, the more probability of Russian smashing up launching sites.
The math is and has always been on Russia's side.
Notwithstanding Western controlled Dual Citizen Media, naughty narratives, grunting and bleating from Western "leaders" and Trump's rapid onset of Biden senility.
– Who appoints the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo
>Can you read? Ukraine drone operator says Russia is ahead of Ukraine in drones.
"ahead in drones" != "front moving sufficiently fast"
At the current rate it will take until the year 2106 to liberate the land. Yes, you read that correctly.
And the problem is that drones have made it so that the usual hopium about attrition (which is monstrous to begin with -- those are your own people after all that you are slaughtering, some of them brainwashed, some pressganged, but still your own people) doesn't even apply.
If you listen to frontline reports, currently assaults consist of one Russian trying to move forward while literally 50 drones swarm him immediately, plus multiple artillery shells are fired too.
You don't need a lot of manpower to hold the line under such conditions, so the front is not likely to truly break any time soon.
Which is because the bozos in the Kremlin refuse to make a proper strategic move (decapitation plus physical isolation of the battlefield) even though they still have the power to do it. Still. It is not clear for how much longer.
The bozos in the Kremlin don't listen to the magpies on the telephone wires.
50 drones swarm 1 front line Russian? Utter nonsense and you know it.
Russia is surgically dissecting NATO. You...are yapping.
"missiles raining into Russia" lol
The nafo/bandera worshippers can barely fire a few himars every once in a while and you are calling this "raining" lol
There were two full salvos fired at Belgorod yesterday, in broad daylight.
And they have been firing them every other day, from point blank range.
Russia managed to destroy only one TEL.
Meanwhile nobody has touched the Lockheed Martin HQ or the HIMARS production facilities in Alabama and Florida, which are all easy targets for Zirkons fired from Russian submarines and should have received a kiloton each already in August 2022 to send a clear message that the US waging direct war on Russia on Russian land will not be tolerated and to end this charade once and for all.
Declare war on the US is your answer then? Damn, I wish you were in charge of strategy, it literally would have been all over by now. Not just the war, the entire planet.
BINGO!!!!!! Chip
But !!!! Pustula evil brat said in a speech the other day in front of 750 euro deputies that Europe stopped buying Russian oil and gas because it was more expensive than the gringo one… where are the fact checkers?, she was applauded by all of them!!!!,
Poland "should" have lots of Norwegian gas to keep the Ukrainian hordes warm in camps throughout Poland. Naturally, using that anointed pipeline that keeps Poland warm while the Nord Stream Pipeline that should "not" have been built lays broken as Germany buys U.S. LNG at 500% the cost of Russian gas.
"Winning."
Great Moron is occupying the comment section again.
I thought it was General Mo[t]ro
This guy’s a psychopath
You ain't seen psychopath troll until you see the one we have to deal with in the Duran comments. Our guy has over 30 alts. The "YeomanJan troll". GM couldn't even hold our troll's coat.
Perhaps GM should put his thinking on the war to the test of public opinion and discussion, start writing a substack and see how many viewers subscribe. Simplicius was once a poster on Vineyard of the Saker, now of course he has a substantial following, would GM be able to follow suit?
GM is an Azov operator pretending to be Russian. Havent you realized?
But not doing the job as well as expected, that is, if subversion of the discussion is the goal. Needs to learn some proper Hasbara techniques.... you know, the ones that unleash bot swarms on every tweet.
GM is a sniper, not a writer..
GM is getting "ratioed" hard in the comments.
Music to his ears.
The evidence Putin is a HERO for the Russians not a traitor, is how the imperial corporate blob slander,vilify, and deshumanize him. Putin is their obsession. He is Kallas, Rutte, Merz, Starmer, Netanyahu and the rest of Great Moron's pals biggest nightmare. Ukraine is cracking and crumbling. Poor you. No colour revolution in Russia to hang your biggest enemy. You better try in Venezuela. Corina Machado the witch has been given the Peace Nobel Prize... by your friends.... After Kissinger and Obama the world thought that institution had touched the rock bottom. Well no. Netanyahu will be next.
bullshit
1) Ask the question whether the war is fought properly or not, not whether they support Putin. You will get very different answers.
2) Put yourself in the position of ordinary Russians -- the "Tsar good, boyars bad" thinking there runs very deep. It's why it took Nicholas II ordering the slaughter of hundreds of people who had come to petition him in person (
3) Ask yourself how much information the regular Russians actually gets about what is happening. The catastrophe in the border areas is well known to the people who live there, but Moscow is a different world, and so is Yekaterinburg. And when that explosion in Toropets (and several others like it) happened, how much coverage do you think that mushroom cloud was given in Russian media, which is fully controlled by the Kremlin? None.
4) Even the military bloggers are toeing the line these days, after being very critical of the Kremlin in 2022. Because Strelkov was jailed permanently in the summer of 2023, Wagner leadership was eliminated, Kvachkov, Gubarev, etc. also went to jail for brief periods, while the military bloggers were gathered by the Kremlin on several occasions, you can guess why. They got the combined message from those events.
Please.
How many times has the West installed some dictator, who then rather faithfully served them, but dared not agree on something, and was swiftly demonized and punished?
Putin was installed in power to make sure the communists never come back and the system established by Yeltsin is cemented in place. This is the only thing he has truly successfully done.
Meanwhile Russia kept taking one catastrophic geopolitical L after another, many of them with his active assistance.
And his recent talks at Sochi? There isn’t a national leader on the planet who can compare.
Ukraine is being plundered, with multiple front breakthroughs. Even the Ukranian female drone ace gives in on Russian technological superiority. Have you even red Simps article? The Ukranian energy facilities and railways are no more. Thats what you wanted. You should be happy and thank Putin for having heard your advice.
"Putin was installed in power to make sure the communists never come back and the system established by Yeltsin is cemented in place. This is the only thing he has truly successfully done."
What you leave out is that Russia with President Putin is closest ally with the biggest communist country on earth, China. Second; President Putin is no dictator, it's a blunt western lie. He's just the President and needs approval from the Duma and other entities. If you don't even understand the system of Russian legislative, judicative and executive in politics, why do you make statements that contradict each other or are simply nonsense?
Putin can't decide to use nukes, it's not his decision to make, he's not the king of Russia! There is a nuclear doctrine and President Putin as a lawyer knows what that means. Do you?
he-she makes contradicting statements because his mission is to sabotage the comment section.
Can you please define "dictator" in the Putin sense, then let us know what macron is, by the same yardstick?
Ok, there's a difference - if Putin is a "dictator" then he has a mighty popular mandate, while Macron? more like an over-cooked macaroni in a pop-up pot.
Or even Starmer, who is hated in the UK with the lowest approval ratings in history. Keir Starmer 1984 sand art drawing on Scarborough beach HD
https://youtu.be/2IpoEa1TKEU?list=PLQKOHdhDzfKyfMwLOkPDYEn5TcTxhKLGq
In the USA, we get a new 'king' every 4 years. He is given power by his oligarch donors and uses the 'Executive Order' to evade the Constitution. Meanwhile, because there is no longer a valid 'separation of powers' the dukes and duchesses of Congress, elected by their donors, 'insider trade' and make millions. They give away money they don't have to their cronies and families (contracts, grants) and write tax laws benefitting their mostly-corporate donors, represented by lobbyists on K Street. It's not complicated.
Democracy? Capitalism?
Ladies and gentlemen, Choose your master or it will choose you.
I despise the term "Liberal Democracy" :-)
I acknowledge that Putin was installed by the USA when he was appointed by Yeltsin to replace Yeltsin in 1999. The Anglo-American Oligarchy totally misread Putin and, to put it mildly, totally fucked up.
It is the same story, no contradiction.
The communists would have won the election in 1996 because of how badly Yeltsin was fucking up. But with the help of the Americans the election was stolen.
Problem is things only went further to shit after that -- Khasavyurt, the default in 1998, large-scale terrorism, etc.
So the prospect of the communists returning to power still loomed large.
Then the realization came that certain concessions would have to made, the level of exploitation had to be reduced a bit, and the country had to be run at least somewhat competently, otherwise the oligarchy that took over from the USSR would have lost everything.
Thus Putin.
In many ways it is an analogous situation with FDR in the US -- his role was to save capitalism from the communists so he made a lot of concessions, thinking long-term about the situation (i.e. we will make concessions now and then revoke them later when we are more secure, which is what has been happening since the 1970s).
But at least FDR didn't start wars he did not plan to seriously fight...
You seem to think Yeltsin came to power all by himself. It was Anglo-American Oligarchy influence expressed through "Deep State" actions such as the CIA and NED who worked with the Russian Oligarchy to find a "front-man" who would do their bidding.
I propose that Yeltsin's heavy drinking was because he began to recognize that he was merely a puppet on a string, maybe several strings depending on how far you want to extend the metaphor.
Did he "realize himself" that he was the problem, or was he talked into that realization.
The "story" is that he picked Putin to replace himself. Was this his last opportunity to put one over on his puppet masters or did he believe like the people pulling the levers of power that Putin was a KGB man and as such would follow orders. They knew he liked Germany and wanted rapprochement with the West, but they had no idea that he was a true Russian Patriot with a very well-defined sense of morality.
GM provides more details, but I'm not sure about the reference to Khasavyurt which I imagine was about the end of the first Chechen war, but that was in 1996. It lead to the 2nd Chechen war which a brief examination of the Wikipedia page leads me to conclude that US backed Islamic terrorists initiated the conflict. This was 1999 so that's when Yeltsin resigned. What these events have to do with each other is just speculation.
If you're interested in knowing that Islamic Terrorists were and have always been, organized and maintained by the USA, this interview with Sibel Edmonds is very informative.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/tucker-carlsons-140112814
Remember Sullivan's email to Clinton, "al Qaeda is on our side now".
Edmonds has an extremely interesting story to tell about 9/11 and al Qaeda. One that makes more sense than the "official story."
– Who appoints the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo
This is quite common. Bolsheviks were "installed" too and then quickly revolted against their masters who then turned on them. Which is why Jacob Schiff immediately withdrew his $$ and started funding to overthrow the Bolsheviks culminating in Western "intervention" on the side of the White army forces.
I'm glad you mentioned Schiff. I hope you'll include names of more of the "captains of Industry" that control our economy and direct our wars.
It is my understanding that Schiff was supporting Kerensky because of his declaration that Jews were to be citizens. Maybe I'm picking at nits, but The Bolsheviks "seized power" so I don't see this as "installed". (Yeltsin seems to have "seized power".) It isn't clear to me what Lenin might have done that could be considered "turning on Schiff". After all the Bolsheviks supported the Jews, and there are dozens of famous Jewish communists.
I kind of have to conclude that Schiff was lying about his support of Russian Jews, much like Netanyahu lies about his support of the Hamas hostages. This ability to lie so convincingly seems to required of true Zionists, who aren't really interested in Israel, but in obtaining and maintaining their positions of wealth.
IOW, is Israel just a scam that used to accumulate large amounts of capital? Considering that (according to Ritter) Brooklyn Jews have moved to the West Bank to sit on their ass and collect stipends paid for by American Taxpayers... I need to stop here don't I. LOL
I found it "interesting" that Schiff's great-great-grandson was married to Al Gore's daughter.
So continuing down one of Snowden's (Apophenia) rabbit holes. Jacob Schiff told the Bolsheviks to kill the Tsar and his family.
https://www.henrymakow.com/jacob_schiff_ordered_murder_of.html
The fates of those who reported on this causes me to think, again, of Gary Webb and Michael Hastings.
Perhaps this is a good reason to not report on the money men behind the political front-men?
– Who appoints the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo
"Netanyahu will be next"
If only! that's the toughest nut of them all to crack because they have tentacles everywhere, and many of those are poisonous.
You may be right.
As I've already said though, I believe Putin has told Bibi "You're YOYO".
Iran has been supplied with munitions from Russia and China to defend against Israel's coming attack. I don't think the war will last 12 days this time. I'm rather pessimistic about Bibi's use of nukes.
Yes. Mielkowsky, Smotrich and Ben Gvir are just the sort of deranged millenarian junta that would do it. For all their religious scruples, it is to be hoped that the Iranian government has enough deliverable chemical weapons to act as a deterrent.
Iran doesn't need chemical weapons.
I guess it depends on the pundits you listen to, but I'm supporting those who say Israel will cease to exist after they attack Iran this time.
Alistar Crooke on Danny Haiphong was the latest to make this claim within the last couple of days (today is 13 Oct)
The "leaders" in power in the US and Europe who vilify Putin, in the most infantile stereotypical caricature manners, are as ignorant as most of the citizens beneath them.
Putin is a moderate, and consistently remains open to dialogue and seeking to deescalate a wider war.
If Putin were to resign, or forced out of office, whoever replaces him will be far more hawkish. The reasons are clear and logical as to why many in Russia would like to see more decisive responses to our "leaders" and unaccountable deep state agencies provocations, terrorist acts and loss of Russian soldiers' lives.
At this point, all things considered, I remain thankful that Putin retains his position. Our leaders are so stupid and desperate that a nuclear confrontation is very real. If Putin plays his cards right, his patience may pay off for the ultimate benefit of everyone.
A complete collapse of the Kiev regime, NATO and the EU, with social chaos in Europe is likely by simply letting the globalists destroy themselves.
And my country is impatient to engage in other adventures in Venezuela, Iran and Taiwan. Each new or continuing adventure makes the Ukraine project more of a distraction and annoyance for Washington. And the likelihood of a financial meltdown in my country is imminent. Once this occurs, Russia will be unmolested in securing its' buffer security zones.
I wonder who Putin's successor might be. The man is ageing and sooner or later he will have to step down. Putin understood that he needed to be a communicational president. Medvedev is a good communicator. But at the same time, the security apparatus, military, police and intelligence must be controlled. Otherwise westernwise oligarchs like Deriparka will regain control.
Nearly a month has passed and still we must be waiting for the nuclear war to stand. This awful Russian leadership must think that we have nothing to do but waiting for the function to start.
I am thinking of asking for a refund of my ticket.
Tediously bitter, opaque, self dialogue😶🌫️
Started reading your comment before looking who wrote it. After reading the 1st sentence I knew it was our old friend who goes by the name of GM. I'm still waiting for you to show me 1 single piece of evidence. That any NATO member state or Ukraine for that matter. Despite the amount of lives lost, the amount of equipment lost. Then the staggering amounts of money spent on Ukraine. Of any benefit whatsoever to any of them at all. Every NATO member state country is in financial decline. Some massively, Germany, UK France in particular. The US fudging is9 financial woes as usual but just ask any American citizen. Financial wizardry is finally catching up with the rogue state. But according to you despite what the whole World can see. It's Russia who is suffering the most. Here's a tip open your eyes for God's sake.
– Who appoints the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo
GM. In attacking Ukrainian infrastructure, Putin is doing exactly what you wanted him to do, and you're still whining like a toddler. How is that possible.
Necessary and sufficient conditions.
When I have called for shutting the grid, it was always in the context of a swift well planned ground operation. Which I pointed out here too. It has to help the front.
If it's just being done for some imaginary deterrence purposes (nobody is going to be deterred by that because Ukraine is fully disposable cannon fodder in this game), then it is useless.
Wow. You really hate Putin don't you.
Kiev is full of Banderites. The US used those Banderites even before the end of WWII to set up partisan attacks on Soviet troops. Those terrorist operations lasted until 1953. What is to be gained by Russia to repeat that mess? For that matter, many of those Banderites were ratlined to the the US and Canada where they have created chaos for the American (Alexander Vindman for example) and Canadian people (Christia Freeland). I don't want them here, just like I don't want the Brooklyn Jews who are living in the West Bank off of my tax subsidies to return to the USA.
Lvov is Polish. Maybe the Poles will want it back.
In any case, Russia is smart to not expose itself to another opportunity for US shenanigans, rather leave the problem with the US and let the Banderites turn on the USA.
You're also ignoring the "Big Picture". John Helmer reported yesterday that Putin's phone call to Netanyahu last Monday has resulted in the canceling of an Arab summit in Moscow that was being convened to discuss Trump's Gaza Peace Deal. "Everyone knows" there's no deal to be had. There's no reason to waste time pretending the summit would be productive.
I kind of believe that Putin's phone call was to tell Bibi that the "special relationship" with Russia is over. Helmer himself stated that the reason Russia was nice to Israel was because Russia was hoping that would give them "points" with the US. But the US is now totally controlled by Zionists (Larry Ellison's takeover of Paramount seals the deal). Thus, Bibi is going to attack Iran sooner and we get to see how this will affect the US aggression currently being organized against Venezuela -- especially since China has some strong commitments to Venezuela.
The American Fascists have deployed the Army into American Cities to scare everyone into "playing it safe". The US military is controlled by Christian Zealots like Pete Hegseth which Mikey Weinstein of the MRFF has been warning about for decades. I wonder if the Average Enlisted Guy is going to just continue to follow orders. (We don't have to worry about the JSOC forces in Ft Bragg, they just live to kill.)
It is 5D chess. You fail to see the board.
"Lvov is Polish. Maybe the Poles will want it back."
Perhaps Vholyn as well? If the Ukes refuse to make peace and Russia is forced ever forward to stop the shelling and other attacks I think they should stop at the Lviv and Vholyn borders. Declare to the world that the RF will not take those provinces from Poland as Stalin and the Soviet did.
What would this do for Russia? It gives West Ukraine the refuge and the golden bridge the Azov need so they will retreat and saves Russian lives. It gives the EU the second largest army on the Eurasian continent to deal with. Poland will continue to build military munitions and infrastructure to arm their great ally Ukraine for the "return to Kiev". It gives the Ukrainians an opponent they can defeat — Europe.
Just a bubble in the breeze, nothing more. Remember how A. Hitler turned on the Russians? Why not the other way around?
God Bless Us All
If the Poles can be persuaded to take posession of the three or four western oblasts, then that will annoy the f*** out of the EU, and give the Poles the problem of dealing with the Uke Nazis.
It won't happen. Cannibalizing Ukraine would bring in millions of Ukrainians, including those temporarily resettled in the rest of the EU zone.
It would water down the ethnic Poles. Depending on Ukrainian fertility rate, in a generation or two the Poles would lose the majority in their own homeland.
It's called Pole-land for a reason. It's not a cosmopolitan melting pot like in the West. It's "Land of the Poles", not "Land of the Banderites" or "land of the freeloaders".
Vholyn is on the island of Guadelupe in the Caribbean.
I think you mean Volyn Oblast. ;^)
I recall David Stockman wrote an article "In Praise of Partition" either just before or after the beginning of the SMO and he outlined exactly your proposal.
I "hear" that Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova and Romania want their share of the "spoils".
That leaves a "Gaza-like" structure for Azov to be dealt with. Kind of like that Star Trek episode where people like the Azov Nazis (or the Zionists) were transported to a prison planet.
Will Russia advance to Odessa? Pundits are 50/50.
You're quite right about the spelling of Volyn. I've looked that up several times but for some reason keep wanting to put the h in.
God Bless Us All
Lvov isn't currently inhabited by Poles. The current population are Slavs who brand as Ukrainian.
NATO would never let Poland keep Lvov. If Russia doesn't control it somehow then it would be the centerpiece of a rump Ukraine.
If Russia took Lvov over and then said, "Here Poland, take this", like a football handoff, Poland would occupy it and as soon as Russian troops left Poland would install NATO and call it 'rump UKRAINE'.
"Lvov isn't currently inhabited by Poles."... and so?
AI answer:
"Yes, Lviv was part of Poland for several centuries, particularly during the time it was known as Lwów, and it was incorporated into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The city changed hands multiple times throughout history, including periods under Austrian and Soviet control."
NATO is suppose to be falling apart. Along with the EU. It is hard to say what events will unfold. I said "maybe".
Most pundits believe Russia will not occupy Western Ukraine. I've already outlines why.
more AI:
"Yes, there is a Polish community in Lviv (historically known as Lwów), with estimates suggesting around 19,000 Poles in the Lviv Oblast as of the 2001 census, although some sources claim the actual number may be closer to 2 million when including descendants. The Polish presence in Lviv has a long history, dating back to its time as part of Poland and later under Austrian rule."
Since the population of the Lvov Oblast is about 2.5M, it is kind of debatable about whether or not it is "Polish". I perhaps should have said "historically Polish".
AI has no clue what it's talking about.
After WWII mutually agreed upon ethnic cleansing was carried out on both sides of the border, moving the Ukrainians from western Galicia into Ukraine and the Poles from western Ukraine to Poland (mostly to the lands that were annexed from Germany).
Western Ukraine is no longer Polish in any meaningful sense.
And the whole Lvov Oblast has population only slightly above 2 million...
AI provides a starting point.
The first answer is 100% correct. How the Poles view Lvov as Polish may only depend on this history alone.
The second answer provides a wide range which the reader can choose to use to inform a decision or not. You are just another voice claiming the number is low vs those voices claiming it to be high. I myself take no position on that data point.
The fact remains that there have been many expressions from Polish officials about returning Lvov to Poland. All the other discussion is peripheral. It isn't like you and I will get a vote on Polish actions.
As I said, Poland "may" want Lvov back. Are you saying otherwise?
>The US used those Banderites even before the end of WWII to set up partisan attacks on Soviet troops. Those terrorist operations lasted until 1953. What is to be gained by Russia to repeat that mess?
Well, the mess is being repeated right now on a much larger scale than in 1953, because back then there were the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria as buffer, so the Western Nazis could not bring heavy weapons into Banderistan, and there were no cheap long-range PGMs back then anyway.
The only solution to that problem is to physically take over all of Ukraine, including Banderistan, then physically exterminate the Banderites.
Fortunately, there are other key technological changes since the 1950s -- such as surveillance tools and social media. Those allow the FSB and SVR to know very well who is a Banderite and who isn't, and to track them down everywhere, while making guerrilla warfare very difficult to sustain.
But Putin's official position is "Give us the four oblasts and we will keep taking drone and missile strikes into Russia in perpetuity". WTF...
The "Mess" is in Western Ukraine. The Oblasts Russia is annexing overwhelmingly want to be part of Russia.
I can't say you are wrong about the Banderites. However, they will require extensive support from the "Deep State" (or if you wish that banksters). That support has withered in Chechnya which is now strongly pro-Russian. I can only imagine that loyal Chechnyan forces did their own subversive cleansing removing the US supported terrorists. (BTW, this is exactly what happened in Xinjiang)
Russia is already well beyond 4 Oblasts. Ukraine's failure to come to terms has made it clear that Russia will continue advancing. Russia has also declared that there will be no cease-fire. Negotiations can begin, but there's no agreement until there's an agreement. In the meantime Russia will take more territory. How much more is Russia's decision based on more variables than I can contemplate.
There are good reasons to take Odessa, and good reasons to stay away. Pundits disagree on what action Russia will take. I imagine even Russia doesn't know at this point.
In the mean time...
"But Putin's official position is "Give us the four oblasts and we will keep taking drone and missile strikes into Russia in perpetuity". WTF..."
Why in the world would you make such a ridiculous statement? In what world will NATO (or whomever) be able continue to supply Ukraine an unending amount of munitions. I suggest you visit Wamsley's "Inside China Business" channel and grasp the number of resources where China has managed to gain a monopoly (or near-monopoly) -- Including, of all things, high-grade cotton required to make artillery shells. (Wamsley provides extensive foot-notes so check those out before you call the claim "silly".) The US has already proven it is incapable of manufacturing artillery shells at the rate needed to support just the Ukraine war.
You suffer from PDS. It warps your analysis so much that you make yourself sound dumb. Every once in a while though, you provide insight that shows otherwise. Maybe if you were to talk specifically about why you despise Putin so much rather than these derivative events that are so easily demolished, you'd have better luck getting your point across.
I don't now how these hidden Oligarchs control Putin, except financially, and Putin certainly has a problem with the head of the Russian Central Bank. The real traitor here is charging 17-24% to borrow to fight an existential WAR. The witch must go, or a new system developed: War Bonds direct.
You do realize that Putin can replace her at any time, right?
And that he actually reappointed her in the middle of the SMO,,,
He actually cant.
– Who appoints the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo
THANK YOU. People have been dodging this question and this isn't exactly the top of this stream. We control the Russian Central Bank. Putin is controlled opposition. Putin took the vax. Putin is protecting Netanyahu and the genocidal Russian settlers.
– Who appoints the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia? –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAkErMYugo
God! Would you stop calling Putin a “traitor”? And stop with catch phrases like “perestroika” and “Stalin” and “Third Reich”—histrionics—emotionally charged distractions.
Putin has to weigh actions in relation to his three over-arching goals: to avoid war with the US, to avoid war with NATO, and to eventually forge a comprehensive security pact with Eastern Europe, and thus, and only thus, to insure Russia’s future.
He doesn't have to weigh any of that.
The other side has made it clear it is in war to end Russia's existence, publicly and on many occasions.
What is there to weigh in?
Especially given the thousand years of prior history here?
The battle is engaged. It must be finished.
Writing dissertations about your predilections of Putin, change nothing on the ground.
Ukrainians were ginned up to hate Russians to one degree or the other, and printed US dollars from the inflation machine paved the road to Ukraine's final days.
Dead Ukrainians have no capacity to hate. Live Ukrainians will need to make choices.
Putin doesn't need Kiev, but he does need to secure Odessa and the rest of the Black Sea coastline. I predict that will be his major objective after Russia completely cripples Ukrainian logistics.
The Ukrainian people have suffered grievously in this war, but eventually they will reach their limit and demand an end to the war. That is what turning Kiev dark and cold will do. Also the flow of refugees from Kiev and other parts of Ukraine is about to grow exponentially, but where will they all go?
You would do well to inform the Kremlin of your profound knowledge of military strategy as soon as possible so that the helpless Kremlin has a half decent chance of survival. Oh wait…Do you hear that? Your mom is calling for you: she says your pablum is getting cold.
It wouldn't be a problem for us Americans if only we didn't have such a grandstanding showboat gloryhound in Washington who loves to react to Europeans, so he can grab the spotlight.
Otherwise we could just ignore what's going on over there. It would soon die down and those involved would be forced to seek peace.
Most of what the EU is doing is making noise to get us Americans further involved.
Trump's very persona is built on self aggrandizement. Unlike the industrial barons of 100 years ago, Trump has never produced anything, not even a widget. Yet his wealth has doubled to $10 billion since he's taken office..
When Meta, who's product is words on a computer screen, is worth more than all of our car manufacturers combined, we know we've got a problem with our priorities.
The good thing is that with Trump/Hegseth's Qatar airbase in Idaho fiasco, the Trump base is collapsing. That's all he had to stave off impeachment..
You are not wrong, but you give too much credit to Trump. Remember it was under Biden this war started. Had Harris been elected the results would have been parallel to what is happening now.
Please check into Brian Berletic's many videos on "Continuity of Agenda". This most recent one is very explicit in explaining that the American Government is run by the "Deep State"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBdt5s_Z2g
And then, of course, if you want to know more about the Deep State, look for Aaron Goods two series on YouTube that provides an outstanding summary of who these guys are
And finally, although this rather short video is about the rise and fall of the British Empire, it precisely outlines exactly what is currently happening in the USA. It was all about "Money".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYIqa2TTxY
What one has to discover for themselves, since all the pundits seem to be reluctant to "Name Names", is the Zionist control over the Anglo-American Oligarchy which, in turn, has bought off the government of the USA. These Fascists are now deploying the US Army into American Cities. It is an occupation force of the type GM wants to see the Russians deploy in Kiev. Putin is smart enough to know that there are plenty of "stay behind" forces in Kiev. He doesn't want that headache. Whether or not groups like the "militias" are ready to take on the US Army, or whether or not Enlisted troops will obey their Christian Fascist commanders remains to be seen.
If 'you' (i.e. the USA) had "ignored what's going on over there" since from 80 years ago, then the chances are that there would actually be nothing 'going on over there' now.
That's what I said. :-)
oddly, as obnoxious as he can be with his blustering and threats, I believe that D Trump is also counting on Russia finishing things up quickly as possible. He sees (I am absolutely sure of it) that there is no "negotiated" end, Kiev has to be defeated so Trump can stop being distracted by that stupid war NATO needed. He's a pragmatist.
There are a number of Pundits who agree with you. Ritter (somewhat) and Krainer (a lot), stand out.
I think Trump is suffering from dementia so it doesn't matter what he wants.
Trump is a huge disappointment. It is likely he is suffering from the onset of dementia, as he changes his positions within hours of each infantile Truth Social post.
He comes off as unstable with reckless statements. It isn't clear if he grasps the reality of the imminent collapse of the Kiev regime, that NATO/US are utterly defeated militarily and Europe is falling apart. It's a historical pivot in history, the European wests' 5 centuries of primacy are over.
The flippant manner he approved deploying American served nuclear capable missiles to fire into Russia is certifiably insane. The last nuclear treaty is expiring and the Russians are dealing with an unstable narcissist president surrounded by maniacal and desperate neo cons seeking to escalate this war.
It's akin to approaching a suicide bomber armed with a nuclear device and attempting to calmly talk him off the brink.
The sooner the Russians collapse the Kiev regime the better. If they can create a mass migration out of Ukraine by taking out the power grids, it would save a lot of human life. That would collapse the Euro regimes ending their ability to continue this war.
his flipping and flopping and theatrics and bombast and threats are all things he learned in real estate. The deal. I ignore that, I’m trying to see the end game through all the murk and crap.
Too late.
The European countries are NATO countries. NATO is the United States. The United States is going to get itself into the next world war.
Sure would be a shame if there was a Russian decapitation strike on Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen and London.
Yessiree! A terrible shame if there was an Oreshnik strike at the EU parliament while it’s in session and can be found at the coordinates: 48° 35' 51.04" N 7° 46' 8.73" E.
We can dream
Simplicius at his best. The detailed, granular analysis of front news and making sense / showing patterns through the fog of war. Thank you.
My first impression having read the article (and not simply hit the reply button to win the rat race to be the first to comment) is that I cannot but feel sorry for the Ukrainian drone kid who is losing to the other teams of kids out there in Russia. Such a waste. And this unfortunately is not some war gaming competition.
If one tries to look ahead, my prayer to God would be not to let Russia screw up again when it eventually wins against Ukraine. Because another way to look at the root causes of this tragedy is that Russia badly failed to turn Ukraine (and Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan etc.) into a belt of friendly brother (or is that sister?) countries after the collapse of the USSR. The CIS project has largely been a failure (with the important exception of the customs union - but this only concerns Armenia, Belaruss, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan and Russia).
For those former USSR countries, the temptation was to build their national identity as victims of Russian imperialism (in USSR guise - and forgetting the fact that the monster No 1 and many of his henchmen were Georgian or... Ukrainian - Khrushchev) or otherwise to try to define national identity as "anti Russia" (as Arestovich would put it). For Russia, the temptation was to look at these countries as stray kids that needed to be brought back home with a big stick. On both sides, a great lack of affection and respect for nations with a history going back very deep in time.
Hopefully, Russia will reflect on the root causes that grew from its own backyard and will try to learn from the efforts that transformed Europe after the end of WW2 from a bunch of hurting and largely destroyed nations into a peaceful (but now often f***d up and woke) block. It should be one of Russia's key objectives to figure out a coherent policy to engage its neighbours in a constructive and peaceful way, building up on their common heritage and culture. To go back to the Western European post-war example, these efforts were multi pronged: twinning of towns and villages, encouraging learning languages (who in Russia is learning Kazakh or Azeri?) and school exchanges, honouring and sharing each other's culture etc. Appeasement among the nations in post WWII Europe did not appear by chance or as a result of post-conflict exhaustion, it was carefully devised and nurtured.
My own hope for a post-war Russia is that, having succeeded in the fierce defence of its own national identity and sovereignty, Russia will manage to redefine its historical role as the center of Christian orthodoxy and slavic / eurasian civilization, welcoming its neighbours and the world at large to share this incredible wealth.
There are plenty of people are focusing on how to win the war. I hope there will be enough focusing on how to win the peace.
Russia is responding to the Anglo-American Oligarchy threat.
I don't see that they have any other option than the path they're taking.
If you want peace, then you need to destroy the Banksters who occupy the "City of London" and "Wall Street".
I already posted this once, but AFAIK, it is the only video that directly explains how the banksters operate in very simple terms that anyone can understand in only an 18 minute video. Do note they mention the City of London. This is the enemy that has to be defeated. Trump is just a derivative that exists because of the money men. Were Harris president now, the money men would still be in charge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYIqa2TTxY
I don't think you appreciate the enormity of the task you are outlining for Russia and the opposition it faced from the USA through the NED. All of these "recalcitrant children" were infested by NED sponsored NGOs that worked unceasingly to create chaos and ambiguity and hatred toward Russia.
Berletic has broadly outlined color revolutions that have happened throughout Eurasia, but Friday Everyday is very specific about how a color revolution works as he exposes the current operation in Indonesia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQ5LwCdKR0
IOW, with the Anglo-American Oligarchy's hatred of Russia going back centuries, Russia is lucky to have survived at all.
Putin is going to go down in history as the greatest politician -- ever.
I appreciate it. It is easy to concentrate on the difficulties. But this is not the way you get things done. There is no need to hope in order to endearvor, nor is success needed to pursue you goals.
It isn't that simple. IMHO Russia has done the best it possibly could have given the opposition it faced. The fact that they tried for 8 years to negotiate a deal with the US after the Maidian coup is testimony to their desire for peace. It wasn't until they were pushed to the wall that they took action. Ukraine forces were set to invade the Donbas in March 2022, the SMO preempted that invasion using the US promulgated R2P doctrine that was used to justify the NATO invasion of Yugoslavia.
Your suggestion that Russia do what the US did with the Marshall plan after WWII was never a possibility given the US opposition and intrusions. It was Churchill who declared the "iron curtain" after all and the US that organized NATO declaring, without evidence, that the USSR was a threat to Western European nations.
The true purpose of NATO and later the EU was to pseudo-colonize Western Europe. Look at the limp dick politicians that now lead those nations. They are there because the Anglo-American Oligarchy provided the financing for their campaigns. And now they call Trump "Daddy". What the Marshall plan did was make Europe dependent on the US for technology and investment. So much so that when Biden destroyed the Nordstream, pipeline there wasn't a peep out of anyone in Europe.
This is just Berletic's "continuity of agenda" carried out by the "Deep State" under the direction of the Anglo-American Oligarchy. Without the banksters this would have gone no where.
Meyer Lansky is the model. He was so well hidden that even this documentary on his life concludes he was a "nobody".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMzwjThxkNs&
Compare and contrast that conclusion with Aaron Good's Gray Alliance episode where Lansky plays a key role in JFKs assassination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK2XwsHSvEk
There was a recent YouTube explaining the subterfuge of the Marshall Plan, but I don't recall which one so I'll offer up this instead
Glenn Diesen interviews: Mike Benz: How NGOs and the CIA Hijacked Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vwRTrSmv8
So, no you don't appreciate the opposition Russia faced. It was like Jimmy Dore getting into the ring to face Mike Tyson. The fact that Russia survived at all is a testimony to the resilience and fortitude of the Russian people.
If you ain't prepping like the Ukrainian lady at the end, you don't know what is happening. US and Europe are at war with Russia and launching nuclear capable missiles at Russia. The advantages of a preemptive attack becomes the only way to win for both sides. The first strike will be an EMP to take out satellite, radar, and other electronic sensors to blind the enemy. It will also leave the populous with no food, electricity, communications, money, transportation, nothing, and we end up cannibalizing each other in the cities while they go to their bunkers so they can come out saviors with a new, computer based currency. They don't car about Europeans, and they don't care about you. It is war time during a planned depopulation event. Don't get in any elevators, especially in NY.
According to Larry Johnson the blue light in the Kiev video indicates a new kind of non-nuclear EMP. I have seen indications that Iran has a similar missile. I don't know about US?
The discussion below the line on that piece converged on the blue light being the result of a large transformer blowing out, perhaps after having been shorted by the strands of a graphite bomb designed to do just that. The facts that vehicles were still running after the flash and that the electronic cameras that took the videos survived argue against an EMP.
That was Larry Johnson saying it was an EMP, not me, and there are different kinds of EMPs. Most are nuclear. This was non-nuclear. The point is, Russia took out the entire electrical systems out in three cities so far and they are talking about moving the population in the cities into Europe as refugees as they won't have any electricity, water, communications and eventually, no government.
Lol. Blue light is common when transformers explode, it's caused by electric arcs. They are extremely hot and vaporize metal, copper melting will result in green/blue spectral effects.
Have you seen all three videos? The blue went all over the sky. It was not localized at a transformer. I assume the huge spray of sparks was a big transformer going, but one shot took out the entire city, not a couple transformers.
Just a general complaint: why do these videos come laden with watermarks that obscure the image? Is it just Ukrainian videos?
This is the way I think it goes,
those videos aren't for commercial consumption, we're all deep into the info-war here. Each faction has to tag their products so it's clear who they're coming from, and in such a way the opposition can't repurpose them.
I would actually trust a video LESS if it didn't have a big bold watermark bouncing all over the screen. What honest reason is there to conceal the origin or the channel's name?
I agree, but some watermarks are just obvious and situated in a corner of the screen. The one at the top of this post is almost obscured by the 'origin' watermark. That is all I am saying.
It does look like the Russians took a bit of licking in that video?
War is big shit and people die, simple as that.
Sometimes I think that people believe the only success in a war is to take no casualties, lose no equipment. If the enemy fights back then they seem to consider it losing. If the enemy fights back hard they think the war is lost.
The main crisis is that people don't think, as it seems to me. They consume 'news' and construct an opinion for themself.
If you ask why this war is fought, you get silly talking points as an answer.
The root cause is a decimating profit rate in the West as correctly predicted by K. Marx. Capital needs resources to function and Russia is therefore to loot as they looted the rest of the world previously. Just Russia is fighting back because it has the means to fight back.
True. The Masters of the Universe have maximised the debt levels and are in a desperate need for new collateral. They are beginning to consume themselves as Marx predicted - look at the US chewing deliciously on Europe.
"The main crisis is that people don't think, as it seems to me. They consume 'news' and construct an opinion for themself.
If you ask why this war is fought, you get silly talking points as an answer."
Yes, they live in Plato's Cave. And as he pointed out if they come out they are blinded by the light, or, as T.S. Eliot put it: "Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
They have no idea what is going on. It burns me up but I see it more and more every day. I come here to get relief from people who at the very least understand they are being lied to. Thanks, Simplicius.
We are in Invasion of the Body Snatchers territory now.
Forget the videos. The propaganda departments have tons of video clips from thousands of drones, and they only show what fits into the narrative. But there are videos of soldiers wading through the fiber optic cables. And now imagine how many drones (only fiber optics, not counting the wireless ones) must have passed by—but at the end of the day, you see a three-minute video.
Uhh... what??
"In the past, major cities like Kiev could put up a much bigger fight because top NATO missile systems like Patriot and IRIS-T were able to whittle down Russian cruise missiles while mobile anti-drone teams could take out a large portion of Russian Gerans and other decoys. But now it seems a critical mass has been reached where a huge amount of objects are able to get through defenses, giving Russia perhaps its first true opportunity of total dominion over Ukraine’s energy grid."
I have to admit that I didn't understand that statement either. I didn't think that Patriots and IRIS-T were effective against Iskanders and Kinzhals, and even some drones.
Oh they're *definitely* not effective against Iskanders and Kinzhals. It's downright laughable. I'm sure Patriots have improved since a client who was an operator they missed ~95% of the time, and that's against SCUDS in Iraq but they are still ineffective. Just take a look at their performance a couple years ago at the Saudi refinery that was attacked by the Houthis.
I'm not a military expert, but the push west along the southern front is moving well enough that they should just try and roll up that whole line all the way to the Dnieper river. I'm sure it's not that easy but the river acts like a natural barrier which would free up a ton of resources.
The West only reacts to news crises. It looks to me that Russia wants to boil the frog.
Attrition, attrition, attrition
No, the river is not a barrier. In WWII both sides easily crossed this river. The same with the Swedish campaign that culminated in Poltava.
>Many now believe this these latest actions may be the “big one”, marking Putin’s decisive turn to shut Ukraine off for good
What is the point of doing that if there is no large-scale ground invasion planned? These strikes would only make sense if they imposed deterrence (but they don't) and if they helped the front immediately, but that will only be the case if there are serious plans for a major move on the ground.
But clearly there isn't one coming because:
1) there has been no mobilization or accumulation of reserves in the border areas, and this cannot be hidden
2) it will have zero chances of success until Ukraine is shut off from access to drones, which clearly has not been done.
All that is achieved right now is to make life hell for ordinary working class Ukrainians, which will make them really, really love Russia, of course.
Meanwhile Zelensky and co. are still untouched, and they will not be in any way deterred by these strikes, because they themselves will always have power, and their future is not in Ukraine anyway.
Just genius moves from the 5D chess grandmaster all around.
Who also made another set of statements, for which she should have been immediately dragged in handcuffs by whatever agency in Russia is supposed to guard against high treason at the very top (if there is such an entity) -- he said that in response to Tomahawks Russia will beef up air defense (!?!?!?). Yes, indeed, that is what he said. This while once again praising Trump...
Imagine Stalin in 1942 supporting giving the Nobel Peace to Hitler. That is exactly what we have here...
>Putin announced that Russia is developing new “intercontinental” weapons that are as of yet unknown to the world
Which will just collect dust as museum exhibition pieces because God forbid something happens to the dear partners. Meanwhile the dear partners' missiles will be raining much harder on Russian cities than they are now (right as we speak there was another attack into Bashkiria, Tatarstan and Udmurtia).
In contrast to what Trump's reply would have articulated, "Well, I'm not happy with Putin, not happy at all"
Don't feed the troll.
trolls, rather ;-))
Trolls are people too.
TLM LOL
By physically sealing the Polish and Romanian borders, that is how.
Yes, they do, but that requires mobilization.
Mobilization will hurt the Russian oligarchy though, so it is still vetoed
Option #1: Peacefully, by issuing a nuclear ultimatum to Poland and Romania to shut it while situating Russian military observers along it to make sure there is no smuggling.
Option #2: By force, using tactical nukes on the roads and railways just inside the border. It is less than 25 crossings that need to be turned to giant radioactive craters and thus disabled
Option #3: If NATO still wants to play stupid games and Poland and Romania either refuse to comply or try to reestablish logistics after the strikes in option #2, you erase from the map Poland and Romania with strategic nukes and occupy them directly (and permanently)
There was also Option #0, which was to do the SMO properly back in February 2022, sealing the borders being the prime objective of such an operation, before NATO got a chance to get involved. But that ship has sailed now.
Yes, the nukes.
Modern war against a peer enemy cannot be won without nukes unless you have the American superpower of subversion.
Since Putin dithered around in the past, now he has no option to achieve escalatory dominance other than tactical nukes. If he doesn't like that conundrum, then he has nobody to blame but himself. The western game being played against him for at least the last 3 years is pure leftist, it's called the "decision dilemma". If you don't believe me, look it up on the leftist website of tactics, 'Beautiful Trouble'.
This is why you are insane,
The Ukrainian - Polish border is 540 km long, at the start of the war it was 850 - 900 km away from Russian controlled territory (Donetsk city to the Lviv crossing)
The Ukrainian - Romanian border is 540 km long, at the start of the war it was 450 - 500 km away from Russian controlled territory (Crimea or Southern Donetsk to the Romanian border near Chernivtsi or the Danube Delta).
Cold War NATO calculations required 1 - 4 armored brigades to cover 30 - 50 km of frontline depending on the terrain and the threat. With 1100km of border to "seal off" you are asking for something like 400,000 men and 22 divisions to move 500 to 900km through or over hostile terrain and stay there separated from their supply lines indefinitely.
Alternatively, as a Plan B you are asking for a pre-emptive nuclear strike of at least 25 nuclear warheads, against a non-nuclear opponent, targeting not their weapon systems or command and control sites but open terrain and transport infrastructure. With the radiation contamination being not a serious problem but actually a positive bonus.
Also, you believe that Vladimir Putin and the Russian high command didn't do any of this because they're traitors against Russia's best interests.
Previously I had given you a 90/10 split for being a troll vs being schizoid.
Now I have updated my estimation to 50/50.
>Vladimir Putin and the Russian high command didn't do any of this because they're traitors against Russia's best interests.
Not the Russian high command, Putin and the people around him specifically. Look up who those people are, and you will quickly understand what is going on.
The Russian high command has been begging Putin to defend the country since before 2014, and yet here we are.
Do you see much defending of Russia's interests? I don't. The whole post-Soviet space other than Belarus has been lost, the positions in the Middle East have been lost, and the country is bogged down in a quagmire in Ukraine, and all of that largely without a fight or even with the active assistance of the Kremlin, and precisely because Putin again and again and again refused to defend the country's interests.
Regarding borders -- they sent a few dozen tanks towards Nikolaev, couldn't take it, went further northwest towards the SUNPP and were at Voznesenk on March 1st 2022. But tried to take it with something like 400 men. Yes, 400 men were sent to secure a crossing of the Bug and then press on to Transnistria and Odessa. No shit it didn't work. But on the other hand just 400 men reached Voznesensk. That was the state of the AFU back then. Compare to now. Missed windows of opportunity, etc.
Had Putin sent 50,000 instead of 500, what would have happened? Odessa taken, Transnistria linked, all by mid-March 2022. Then you press further towards Chernovtsy.
Meanwhile with Kiev blockaded, had 100,000 been sent from Brest south to secure the Polish border, and had decapitation strikes been carried out as they should have, it would have been game set and match. Combined that is only double of the total force the SMO started with.
But Putin went in with 150,000 total, after having eight years to prepare for this, which he spent bragging about how little Russia spends on the military and indeed slashing the budget from the brief slight bump it got around 2015 because of Syria. While the oligarchs had a competition on who can splurge the most billions for the largest megayacht...
Nice one Jack, the Devil, as ever, lies in the Details.
Silly old fool, still thinks its the Crimean war of the 19th century and the charge of the light brigade. Oh and Zelensky is a genius.
Kagan and Nuland’s mini me and dumb as Austin Powers cat.
Zelensky appears to be seriously rattled by the gas facility attacks. Meanwhile more refugees will head to Europe at exorbitant cost.
Sounds like a productive week for The Poot.
"(right as we speak there was another attack into Bashkiria, Tatarstan and Udmurtia)."
I don't disbelieve you, just wondering where you find this information. Are you able to provide your source?
https://t.me/s/lpr1_treugolnik
https://t.me/s/kupolrussia
It's always the same false choice with these doomer trolls, wherein the Collective West is all-powerful and can only be countered with Russia using nukes (doing exactly what the depopulation obsessed globalist nutjobs want) or surrender to the superior might of the West. The shit show of constant government turnover in France, the US war industrial base having multiple blasts as it tries to ramp up with DEI and inexperienced hires, the exhaustion of NATO's own Cold War stocks in Europe, the Turks wanting off the US/UK blank checks for Israel train: none of these matter. The enemy is like some unstoppable monster in an 1980s slasher movie or the dark sci fi slasher that was the first Terminator movie. It simply won't...stop...until Sarah Connor Russia is dead.
How is the constant govenment turnover in France and the exhaustion of the NATO Cold War stocks going to stop the AFU from having enough small drones to stalemate the front and how is it going to stop drones and missiles from flying deep into Russia every day?
I am yet to see one non-doomer non-troll explain the logical sequence of events that will lead from one to the other, and do so quickly.
Drones can be transported by truck, but fronts with thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian Army men can only be maintained with railway networks.
The home front can hold on, but rolling blackouts hinders the construction of underground drone manufacturing and makes generators for military facilities stand out on infrared drone scans of Ukrainian cities on cold days.
So yes, there is a significant damage being done to Ukraine's capacity to wage drone war from its own territory, which is precisely why so much of the manufacturing of drones and weapons is being shifted out of the country to NATO territory.
The Ukrainian capacity to fight is not inexhaustible. Nor are NATO's own manpower resources without its soldiers having to get killed or wounded in no longer disavowable numbers (read: the Colombian mercs will eventually wise up). Russia's attrition strategy is not designed to rapidly seize territory on a drone-saturated battlefield but to grind down Ukrainian resources until the 'world's most powerful alliance' has to show up on the battlefield in numbers that cannot be disavowed or denied. Particularly once those casualties cannot be dismissed as simple volunteer trigger pullers but are known to have had high rank or highly trained specialties (SAMs, EW, guided missiles).
The Tomahawk launchers that increasingly seem likely to be appear at the Polish-Ukrainian or Romanian-Ukrainian borders are going to be manned by British probably not American crews. When some of them die in Iskander counterstrikes a bus accident taking out an entire UK Typhoon crew is not going to be a plausible narrative.
Unsurprisingly, a massive propaganda campaign has been relaunched after Ukraine made its first public threat, targeted at western leaders, to surrender- down arms and do a deal with the Russians. If you missed it, this is because it was quickly wiped out of all western reportage, and the Russian media has left this western grief alone to stew in its own juice.
There was panic! And when in a panic get out the book of tried and trusted greatest hits to fire up the Ukrainian military with a fresh enthusiasm for certain death. A hero story is needed and prime among these is the story of the war Russia lost that it never actually fought, first run back at the start when the west tricked Russia into pulling back, and Russia discovered it really was going to have to go all in, boots on the ground and needed a bigger mobilised force. The west claimed a stunning victory for Ukraine in driving back Russian forces. This narrative of Ukraine winning against all odds is now having a rerun. it is the story entirely fabricated, of Russia's failed SUMMER OFFENSIVE.
PS- The other arm of new propaganda push this time using a so-called Russian patriotic voice, is the call to remove Putin in favour of a stronger response. Of course this push is not really for a stronger response. It is for a descent into a chaos of infighting in Russia in which melee any commitment to the Ukraine war simply dissolves.
Meanwhile..... Russia really is winning the real war, the one actually being fought to good Russian purpose, not a war of other self defeating performances the west is trying to provoke.
Any evidence for the yarn about the Ukies threatening to down arms to scare the Euros , haven’t seen any at all.
Then you haven't been watching closely enough. Thankfully I have. You can take my word for it, or not. I can guess how this fault-line will divide responses.
Sorry, that was too lazy of me. It was part of Zelenskiiy's public statement after the failure of his sanctions push, for how this war could then end. It was not intended as a description however, but as a threat. Has that jogged your memory?
Have better things to spend my time on than reading this stuff. It’s light entertainment.
No evidence , no source, only a fool would believe it.
Try GM , the old fool is doped up on nonsense.
It is just a matter of my own recall, Hussein. I find it interesting though that it is so implausible (or abhorrent) to you.
Sorry, I missed that as well.
:-)
It was in response to the european failure to rise up to Trump's challenge to put on those gee'd up sanctions. Zelenskiiy was asked 'what now for Ukraine? He outlined several options the first of which was surrender and do a deal (blink and you missed it), followed by various ways in which the west could avoid this.
The message was clear enough, though, and that was it. Not another word about it just a barrage of claims led from the west, that Ukraine was winning! It had turned the tide and the US would step up with more weapons support eg Toms. The Russian summer offensive had failed (! you probably missed this one too, this offensive, as did I, but this was because it never happened.... unlike the Ukrainian threat to down arms)
The Europeans cannot survive this war ending and having to hand over to Russia all the money they owe it and then make good all the bad debt they used those assets to back. Or rather Western European taxpayers will have to make good the hole on the balance sheets of their central banks and their leaders will be lucky especially in France which has a preference for locking up its politicos as an advance on hanging them, to avoid jail time.
There is zero evidence based on a couple of AI searches, and doesn’t pass the pub test. Abhorrent, no, don’t care enough. Its just my bullshit filter. Don’t leave home without it.
You did not answer my question which was not about whether you recalled this or not. Clearly- taking you at your word, here- you do not. But why you would want to doubt my recall?
People tend to doubt claims that contradict what they want to believe, or rather that is revealed when they express their doubt in pejorative tones that prejudge the issue as in calling my recall a 'yarn', that should join some other 'nonsense'. Not exactly the spirit of objective inquiry, is it?
Human memory is very faulty as any lawyer knows, applies to everyone. I despise Zelensky and politics. Political types, if someone questions them always think , it is politically motivated, whereas in this case it is simply about facts.
Unfortunately most political types don’t attach any importance at all to facts, only how they can be spun. Not my glass of vodka.
Speaking of lawyers, one's own first person recall is admissible evidence in court- as opposed to hearsay.
It helps to have corroboration, but I am not in the business of prosecuting a case here. You could have just taken my word for my recall, or not. But you decided to embellish your response.
Missed the point entirely . I give up try Kurosawa’s film Rashamon.
But then it’s just about you being right . who cares
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Like I keep saying: Ukraine men would rather die in a trench than say no to a 5 foot jewish comedian.
That is fleeing and not saying no... Saying no mean you stay in your Country and say no, then there is no war against Russa and Novorossiya.
Haha women comments. Please more emojis, you will win over the public with them and not truth. You are a retard or a bot and both are just wasting peoples time.
Why are they not complaining of the negro sub humans being sent to Europe by the Jew ?
So men women and kids did not flee Ukraine? Or they did? Where did you even get this from what I just typed? You really are that retarded!
this is true. my wife's cousin (30 something) hid out in Odessa for the first 3+ years of the war. at first he was all in for Z and company but changed his mind 180 deg. with our help looking in from the US. this past summer he made a break with a band of a dozen or so "brothers" and miraculously escaped and is now in Germany.
Well fuck his luck!
I personally know a young man that escaped (trapped in a school, under gunshot from both sides) via Germany to Mt. Athos to USA. He knows how fortunate he is, playing tennis and going to work when his buddies are not. Every time I see him I smile and wonder what God has planned for him.😉
"Ukraine men are fucked, and for a lot of them it just isn't their fault."
It became their fault at the moment they took Nuland's cookies at the Maidan in 2014 and sold out their own country to the Banderites.
Becoming an idiot is 99% your own choice.
I agree. Just the Germans 90 years ago were also led by then massive propaganda and brainwashing. And not Germans only. Times Magazine declared A. Hitler to the man of the year and many in the West hoped Germany would wipe the communists out and dragged their feet to fight the industrial slaughter of humans.
In the end it's "Knechte gegen Knechte" as Goethe so wise lets his Mephistopheles say. Or the other way: Old men who know each other well, send young men to die who don't know each other.
War is hell and not to turn your guns in the right direction, against the West in this case who send you to die for their profit, is a sign of surrender to fanatic Nazism. That's not new, look at Israel, look at the US, they all think of themself as exceptional, above the law and never held to be accountable for any crime they commit against humanity.
I can feel sorry for the individual but I do not feel sorry for the mass of people who willingly walk to their own slaughter because they think they're something special.
there is no comparison.
Uncle A was fighting a war for the Germans and all white people against the JEW and their ZOG empires.
look at the jew genocide of Palestine today and tell me it would not be better world if Uncle A had succeeded (which he almost did)
Dhdh. No he didn't. The industrial power of the USA was of a completely different calibre to anyone else's.
Once the USA got involved it was over for the Axis.
The US joined the war at the very end of 1941 and by mid 1944 they are reducing their orders because the war is won.
The USA had no real army in 1941. They had to learn everything from scratch, but by 1945 their army was as good as anyone's.
Their navy and Air force were probably better than the rest of the world's forces combined.
The Americans metaphorically never got out of 4th year and still dominated the allied war effort.
And that's not to denigrate the Soviets, because they beat Hitler. But if hypothetically the USSR has stayed neutral, the Allies would still have won.
How was Hitler going to beat that? Snookers?
What, 27 million WHITE Russians killed by the Germans weren't white enough for you? In Mein Kampf your Adolph rants about taking the land away from white Slavic people. He was a psychopath.
Probably the most important word you use is "propaganda". The West uses it well and Ukrainians are unable to counter it, so they end up a rotting corpse in a trench. In France they are preparing for a Russian attack by stocking up on canned food and blankets for the winter.
The unravelling of this madness will be a blood-letting to behold.
One most extraordinary thing is that they are saying that the population should have drinking water in reserve for three whole days.
Now, there is an optimistic and a pessimistic interpretation of that advice.
First, they thing that Russia would be defeated in three days, second, they are planing to surrender in half a week.
At Dien Bien Phu (1954) the French, as they died in the mud, had a trailer staffed with prostitutes and drank wine (powdered "wine" reconstituted with water) The French historian Bernard Fall gives a sobering account of that battle recounted in his book, "Hell in A Very Small Place". <<link>> The French loss here is detailed brilliantly. The first French colony to fall after 100 years of occupation. The post-WW2 imperial crackup begins. It is such a graphic account that it is simultaneously hard to read and hard to put down. How many times do the French have to be bitch-slapped before they sit down and STFU?!
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Elena is right. State propaganda is very effective on the unthinking 80% of the population.
That French clip near the end of Simplicius' article is a good example. Most ordinary French people actually believe that Russia is a threat to France. Britain is the same.
They live in Plato's Cave
Where it is safe for them. They don't even know (or care to know) that there is Light. I'm surrounded by them.
On the other hand, my sister thinks I am the nutter because I thought the shot was a bioweapon and I think Russia is winning.
It's extraordinary, eh? 🤷🏼♀️
I don't disagree Nick, but equally we don't REALLY think there is a clear and present danger from Russia.
People are prepared to pay lip-service to "the Russian Threat" because most don't care enough to contradict the narrative, but ask us to make any real sacrifices, such as conscription, and support for the narrative will disappear.
We are quite happy to swear at the Russians, and flick them the V's, but we aren't prepared to actually see them outside for a straightener.
“We are quite happy to swear at the Russians, and flick them the V's, but we aren't prepared to actually see them outside for a straightener.” A great summation of the common position in the west!
That's what I always say, we must throw 80% of the French into the sea. Yet I myself am French from an old family but I got out of this godforsaken place a long time ago.
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Could not agree more. Ukrainian fathers have to take on their hands and get even of ZeClown and his gang of merry men.
I have a scoop for you, in fact the source of covid is kyiv, the virus was found in Nuland biscuits.
That place is overflowing with guns and ammo. If the ukes who don't want to fight for the jew clown scum can't resist forced mobilization, no one can help them and they dont deserve a helping hand.
I've watched a lot of videos that show men being grabbed by the SBU guys in vans. Rather than run, they try arguing with the van guys. When that doesn't work they try slap fighting, essentially fighting like a girl. They are easily subdued, and stuffed into the vans, without handcuffs. At that point the men accept their fates, like meek little kittens..
That's not much of a fight. No knife pulled out, no pistol. Just a bit of grabbing, slapping hands away, dancing around and finally sitting meekly in the vans.
Klitschko must've been the only boxer in Ukraine.
I mean, I know I'm an American, but I definitely would put up more of a fight than that. And I have, all my life.
Where are people's will to live these days? Ya gotta have one to survive these days. 84 years ago 33,000 naked people lined up without a struggle at a ravine in Kiev called Babi Yar. The SS shot them all, adding 70,000 more to the ravine in the next three years..
Babi Yar is only 3.7 miles from Bankova street, where Zelensky is. I wonder if he's even been there. What Zelly has done to the Ukrainians would make Babi Yar look like a church picnic.
Nowadays the Ukrainians are still taking it, taking their turns to become meat bricks in the Donbass. Just to get a few more days, a few more hours, a few more minutes of life.
Lesson for us all. Generally the worm doesn't turn when it's in the crematorium line. The brave never got there, their hill was long before that.
Dunno mate.
You have all these armed militias sworn to protect the Constitution and Bill of Rights and yet Trump is riding rough-shod over the Constitution and they're doing bugger all. Riddle me that one?
My subjective opinion is that the average Ukrainian or Russian is much tougher than the average Anglo-Saxon.
2A + MJ = ?
We'll know the war is about over basically when the TCC are terrified to go out not only at night but in daytime without police escort due to Ukrainian men realizing they have nothing left to lose taking rifle pot shots at them then fleeing across the Belarussian or Hungarian borders.
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In Vietnam, by around 1970, the Army began to realize they a problem with an issue called fragging. Unpopular officers and senior NCOs were getting blown up by their own troops. This was happening both the field and the rear. By the time I left in ‘71, there was a lot of nervousness in the senior ranks as unpopularity of the war at home was still growing. When the troops rebel and turn on ‘leadership’, wars will end. I was in a recon & night ambush squad with the 101st Airborne, and by mid ‘71, our goal was avoiding contact. We should have been setting up ambushes along valley trails every night. Instead, we were finding high ground and settling up defensive positions where we would be least likely to have contact and best able to defend.
My dad, a WWII veteran, said the best chance at survival in a war was "don't volunteer" for anything. Don't be the fuckup either or you'll be sent in the front of the squad. My older brother was in Nam and scored a job driving around a Colonel.
Men must always take responsibility for their actions or inaction and this is what currently happens to the Ukrainian men who haven't stopped the Neo-Nazis from doing thousand-men strong marches all over Ukraine, eventually taking over the government. Sure, the comedian has 'fucked his voters over', but then again, he's a professional comedian who had a sitcom making fun of his current job. If you believed him, then you're either retarded or dangerously naive.
Russian men are now cleansing Ukraine of the corruption Ukrainian men were either too blind to see or too scared to fight: Let's not forget what the UAF and the Neo-Nazis did to the people they deem to be 'Untermenschen', especially in Donbass.
I'm a German man from Germany, and if the Russians choose to 'de-nazify' Germany once again, I will have to take responsibility for my actions and inaction as well as the Ukrainian men currently do. You're a woman, you have no way of comprehending what this means, which is why you should stay away from discussions like this. This isn't about 'fairness', it's about removing evil.
A Ukrainian soldier with 1 neurone would frag immediately his NCO or officer if they would force him to go to a useless sacrifice. But it seems that all those who had one are already under.
I think either Simplicius or Lord Bebo had a drone clip posted where two Ukr soldiers were walking in front of what appeared to be officers, towards a river (Dnieper?). They whirled around suddenly and shot the two Ukr officers. Then they switched course. Obvious case of fragging. I'm sure they decided they were going to get to the Russian line and surrender.
Press gangs are just their military collecting the draft dodgers. They should say no instead of dodging their draft. Next time maybe they will not start a war with Russia while not having enough of a military to beat them without having to ask my Country for handouts.
This is what makes no sense. How propagandized or terrorized are the Ukrainians to fight this jew war ?
One would have to be awfully low iq to swallow that propaganda. And from judging what I've witnessed around Europe where they run to, my summation is correct.
The problem is the vast majority of people will swallow anything.
Germans pay billions a year to a corrupt foreign country, that has blown up the NordStream pipeline and caused the destruction of their economy, while in the middle of a recession.
Two Armies on Meth:
In 1937 German chemists invented methamphetamines. There were no antidrug laws at the time.
It was marketed to the German public as "Pervitin". By 1939 it's use was widespread in Germany, millions of civilians took it.
It not only gave a user prodigious energy but he or she could stay up for days.
It was in that state that millions of German civilian meth addicts, were ecstatically happy that Hitler invaded Austria, the Sudetenland and finally Poland, thus starting WWII.
By 1939 about a quarter of Germany's population were taking the pills. It wasn't just German soldiers.
The zeitgeist in Germany became psychotic, disconnected to reality, aggressive.
When the blitzkrieg Westward began, the Wehrnacht was 100% pumped up on meth. It was the key to the whole success, a German soldier who could go for 4-5 days at a time.
WWII Western Europe was conquered by meth addicts.
• in the 1960's and 1970's it was known as "Speed" among hippies and dope addicts in the United States.
A German firm makes an improved "Super-Soldier" version of the old German formula of Methamphetamines. It was actually designed by the US, under DoD grants.
Given to Ukrainian solders since the beginning of the Ukraine SMO war, it prevents fear, anxiety, fatigue, hunger, sleep, pain, etc..
Unlike other blends of meth, there's a lot less immediate psychosis. Eventually there is, but not in the two to four week framework of the average Uke soldier's lifespan at the front.
The CIA advised Kiev to give their soldiers the pills. Otherwise the war would have been well over with within 12 months, massive revolts and mutinies would've occurred in Ukraine.
But Ukraine soldiers accept their fates because they're drugged out lemmings.
Ukraine leaders are able to oversee the death because they themselves are breaking bad on coke.
The meth drug is the sole reason the Ukrainian population allowed itself to be fed with abandon into the meatgrinders, 1,950,000 Kia's and over 1,500,000 injuries, in my calculations, yours may differ.
Even to this day the Ukrainian soldiers are being handed their rations of meth pills. It's why they trundle themselves off like lemmings to a certain death.
What good is a nation if nobody survives?
Wow to your observation about stimulants and ukranian soldiers.
But methamphetamine was first synthesized by a Japanese chemist who did study organic chemistry in Germany.
Ww2 ushered in 24hr a day combat and needed stimulants. The axis powers were given meth and the allied powers amphetamine.
Amphetamine was synthesized in amerca after methamphetamine was synthesized in japan.
After the war about 10% of american soldiers returned addicted to amphetamines.
In 1950s America, amphetamine was used as the first antidepressant.
Its was a fascinating time of history.
But I didnt know about the Ukrainians taking methamphetamine on the front. If you have a source handy on that information, please post it to me.
I thought everyone knew it. I've seen numerous TG videos of Russian soldiers removing the small packets of pills off of the dead Ukrainians. It's not a secret.
BTW, my father was in WWII, he fought in Bastogne, he never saw any drug use among his fellow GIs.
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so you dad was a jew tool...
Just a guess, you’re not a veteran.
Why would I fight for a Jew system that hates me and my family.
He was helping to save the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe from annihilation. By putting pressure on the Germans on the Western front, it took pressure off the Eastern front for the Russians, our allies.
I replied to your comment.
But pasted it as on the newest time ...7:32.
Sorry.
But let me recap....
Amphetamine wasn't considered a drug until the early '60s.
But you can Google ww2 gi Amphetamine use.
An interesting historical event.
It was the same in Syria, all those Jihadi's were pumped full of Captigon. Millions of pills were smuggled into Syria and I am sure even the Syrian army took part before their fall.
I guess the side that wins nowadays is the one with the better drugs.
To be repopulated by those who with intention unpopulated them. Do you think that Israel has it is stands a chance in the future?. Is a barren land without resources and too many people living of it. They will create a new Khazar kaganate.
Did you get your info from the ADL ?
Let's rather talk about western Nazis who sit in safety far away, hidden in NATO headquarters in Germany and command Kiev junta where to throw more cannonfodder. For western Nazis, both Ukrainian and Russian people, are Untermenschen. Actually, western Nazis consider ALL ordinary people of Europe, UK, US, etc. as Untermenschen. They dream of using us as cannonfodder in the war against Russia. We ARE "Ukrainians" (i.e. cannonfodder) for them too! That's why it would be more appropriate to take a look at EU, UK, US, etc. and start asking questions about our own countries. Russians, Ukrainians, EU citizens, UK citizens, US citizens, etc., we all have THE SAME ENEMY - our existence is threatened by western Nazis!
The Jew sees you and us as cattle and cannon fodder.
Do you know the word goyim?
Stop denigrating the Nazi as they were the solution to the problem. We still are.
Denigrating Nazis? How can they be denigrated enough is the question. They killed 27 million Russian people. That alone is an unforgivable crime. Look up Babi Yar, September 1941.. there's an entire video reel that the Nazis took. It wouldn't be hard to find the video or stills..
That’s nothing compared to bombing Dresden Nagasaki Hiroshima - the ‘Nazi’ we’re honorable compared to the terro bombing of women and children. Stalin and his Jew commissars murdered 24000 poles in cold blood and over 20million Russians.
R. Baker - are you a Jew ?
Is Baker a Jewish name? Is that an attempt to normalize Nazism? You're in a very small minority opinion group, even here. Lol.
I'm Anglo-Saxon btw.
How old are you, 18? Bored with the Stormfront forums already? You know the son of Mr. Black the founder over there renounced his own father over Nazism. He had to, to get away from the dead end street and cookie cutter family lifestyle.
I don't take anything you say personally, but I think you'll eventually change your mind on that Nazism stuff. Nazis aren't nice people, not even to each other . If you're sick, a Nazi isn't going to come around to you with chicken soup. Something to think about..
I've noticed, that for everything you accuse Jews of perpetrating, you approve of if it's done to the 'right' ethnic group, the one that you don't like.
Reread some of your own opinions here, you're actually approving of genocide. If you did any self reflecting, I think you'd find you're not being part of the solution. Consider doing some self reflection, please.
You seem hurt to write such a long diatribe.
Because all the handles are a persons actual name. Just admit you are a Jew defending its tribe or are some pleb whose brain has been rotted by Jew propaganda.
Break your Jew programming.
Are you opposed to the Jews committing a genocide in Palestine with the complete support of Zion don?
How many millions did the Soviets kill ?
How many millions did the US Empire kill?
Millions, but doesnt absolve the Juden Soviet Union of its sins.
Soviet U.S. or uk - allied controlled by the Jew who celebrate genocide.
Ussr was run by the Jew.
He is not Jewish, his mother is Christian.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents. Even a blind man can see that his rat face is that of a Jew, I mean synagogue of satan....
Only his mother transmits Jewishness, only his father is Jewish. He received no Jewish education, he is secular and a big bastard disrespectful of the family. Indeed, in his great-grand family members were decimated in the Holocaust and obviously with the help of the Bandera members with whom he is currently associated and whom he rehabilitates as national heroes. The Cgrist did not deserve crucifixion but he did. History will remember him as he committed genocide against his people and thus surpassed Hitler and his Holocaust.
Its like the Cultivated hatred between Serbs And Croats the same applies to the ukrainians they have been duped by the west , see Tucker Carlson interview with Mr Putin
From the above, it would seem that attempts to resurrect attacks by tanks have proven to be a failure. Funny how Andrei Martyanov has not yet given up on tanks.
Hohooo ...
Dear Simplicius, you say that last year, Ukrainian was able to destroy the russian missiles and the most of russian drones????
It's not what you said last year...
Well this shows the the Russian president does not need to make drunken blustering statements about "obliterating" or "decimating" the enemy. No need to behave like a chihuahua behind a fence making a rocous avoiding the obviously open gate. No need to create elaborate theatrical strikes to demonstrate "toughness". It shows there can be decour, diplomacy and statesmanship from a real leader and not merely bellicose rhetoric.
Thanks for this comment. Even many of the so called alternative media have been nonstop criticizing President Putin because he doesn't speak like Trump or any of the EU idiots.
Various sources place the present Kiev population around 3 million and upward from there. The longest siege of a city during WWII was probably against Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by the German Army, lasting for over two years and four months. Estimates are that around a million defenders died there but likely nobody knows the real number. The civilian deaths were around 1.5 million inside the city, or even more. The German/Finnish losses are unknown.
Russia cannot even hope to repeat the German act but if they manage to kill off most of the electrical, gas and fuel distribution, water/sewage service infrastructure just for the coming winter – that will a give a taste for the inhabitants what happened inside Leningrad. This would greatly weaken the resolve of the Ukraine population and their ruling classes. This might even stop the revolving door of visiting Western leaders who arrive to click their selfies in Central Kiev. As far as the proletarian class I truly do not wish to see them to go through this but the Russians will try to motivate them to give up the war with a demolition derby. I can already see Trump raising his fist, screaming: ‘I am a Ukrainian!’ JFK, 1963 style, but nothing will help.
GM is a Cookie Monster cuck.
No army can invade across a front as wide as Ukraines, even a “limited” push across say 50-100kms is impossible due to a) Drones and b) the need to maintain supply lines for a large number of troops ( as the Russians found out in 2022, when they went to far to fast and had to retreat. On the scale of the Ukraine front , with today’s conditions, attrition is the only real option and it is working. Ukraine will collapse, politically , militarily, economically or all 3 , only a matter of time.
Cut off the supply of drones, disable the supply lines.
That’s what they are doing, if you look over the barricade of your ridiculous self importantance
Set fire to the rain.
Tell the sun not to shine.
All easier said than done.
"as the Russians found out in 2022, when they went to far to fast and had to retreat"
The Russians wrote the book on land warfare. They haven't "learned" what they teach in first-year military academies. If this wasn't clear in 2022, you should know it by now:
The 2022 offensive on Kiev was always a temporary raid and had several goals: 1. An attempt to intimidate the Ukrainian leadership into complying with the peace agreement, which almost worked. 2. A diversionary maneuver, drawing Ukrainian forces away while the real offensive in the south created a land bridge to Crimea. You understand that ANY offensive MUST have multiple axes, including secondary and feints, to have a chance of success, right? You understand that such offensives ALWAYS involve losses, ambushes, and logistical problems and are the norm, not a sign of failure, right? If there was any miscalculation, it was political, not military one.
Don’t entirely disagree with that
"What is leaving Kiev without electricity going to achieve if there is no 100,000 Russian army around Kiev to take advantage of it?"
It will achieve a mass exodus of civilians. More headaches for NATO countries.
Azov Disneyland, where they fight to the last Nazi, while the Green Goblin hides in his bunker with a vial of rat poison. Got another bridge to sell ya , real bargain, eastern ukraine, rarely used, some assembly required
Well though Russia has her own strategic geniuses, it must be highlighted how close the strategies employed relate to Tsun Zhu's strategy of attacking where you are not expected. Avoid where the enemy is strong and strike where he is weak. The good thing is the Russian military is not fighting a PR war, but are in some ways free to express strategic initiatives in the field and not constrained to PR narratives to attract support.
" it must be highlighted how close the strategies employed relate to Tsun Zhu's strategy "
Like this one ?
"There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare."
In these last months leading to a decisive Russian victory the board suddenly fills up with a clamour of voices that Russia is not doing enough! Time for an insurrection!
Yeah, right.
What ! I thought NATO was winning !
They are - they told us so.
Even the "beloved" Duran boys have been all over Putin down to calling him names and how weak he is and how he will do nothing no matter what the "west" or NATO do. They just cannot stand it that President Putin will not speak like Trump or any of the worthless EU vassals. They keep trying to convince their listeners that Putin is under tremendous pressure from "the kremlin"
Mercouris runs several narratives that have floated free of reality for sometime. As for the Russians, they are not about to be bounced into costly escalations they do not need to inflict, to win. There is far more damage they can inflict on Western Europe through escalations within Ukraine- hold tight for the mass winter exodus heading into Poland et al. Watch this one unfold!
That aside, who blew up that BAE explosives factory in Tennessee, vaporised it, not the sort of place you would expect to be lax on security or safety blankets. Oddly none of the western press is accusing the Russians. Ponder why that might be.
> Mercouris runs several narratives that have floated free of reality for sometime.
Which narratives?
For starters.
1. There is going to be a third WW any minute now. (Larry J is also a stuck record here).
2. The west is about to give Ukraine the Russian assets- officially. This has run and run for several years now. No discussion about what is/has actually happened to that stuff and why western european leaders are frantic to launder a fake disposal in some direction or other, somehow to cover their own misdoings with those assets. As in most ludicrously 'can't we claim to invest them in something legit but VERY risky and then declare them 'lost' to that- one of the nuttier recent fringe ideas to be floated along with the whole idea that the fruit somehow does not belong to the tree).
3. Ukraine does not want any deal. Wrong. They have wanted a freeze for ages now- to rearm and rebuild.
5. Germany has already given Ukraine Taurus missiles. The US will give Ukraine whatever it wants.
Either Ukraine/NATO is incredibly inept in the disposition of these weapons or what actually goes on, on the ground, does not mirror the blah blah- one reason why Russia has not felt propelled into extravagant escalations. The provocations are not what they appear to be.
4. Russia does not want all Ukraine and anyway could not take it. FFS. Russia did not want any of Ukraine. It is doing what it is doing to secure itself and its people, and the way the west is behaving means it will have to take it all, right up to the extant NATO borders. That has been blindingly obvious for ages now, although Putin prefers to do a Chechnya and absorb by consent, with Ukraine voting to join the RF. Russia, however, will certainly take it all by force IF IT HAS TO and this will happen via a ground fight with NATO for which Russia has already built its army. Meaning, folks, there will not be a real final fight. Ukraine will be let go with its own forces already destroyed which is what Putin is currently doing through this grinding attrition apropos of which the west is trying to big up a wave of protest- hence the 'Russia is going too slow, Putin is weak' mantra meaning, let's get to a dirty stand off quickly and agree a partition so we can rearm what is left of Ukraine and go at you again.
I could go on and on. Try listening for a few days yourself and do your own list. I routinely post comments on their sites that never get published! Alex has lately been running on the line that Putin is weak although Alexander sort of sits on the fence on this one.
But the Russian assets, WW3 and the Taurus missiles are stand-outs. He was claiming that the Taurus missiles had been supplied disguised as something else- this despite the restrictions of Germany's own constitution and parliament and the stickler Germany is for its rules. When I said 'for starters' I meant that.
That said, Mercouris is an absolute gem with an extraordinary grasp of world affairs and history and a selfless commitment to his truth. And the world is a far better place for having him and (needless to say this) Simplicius in it, the latter being the real deal.
Ok. I also regularly listen to their podcast, and generally have a pessimistic view on Western intentions and methods. I also thought WW3 was going to start until DJT pivoted from attacking China to Venezuela. NATO vs China would be a world war of the same scale as WW2.
For point 5., every time Biden announced the US would not supply tanks, F-16s, etc, I mentally reversed it, and 6 months later the US supplied them. There was a pattern - US announces they wouldn't supply, starts debate on supplying, then announces they will. DJT is less predictable though.
I agree that Putin isn't weak, just practical. GM's comments worry me, the idea that Russians are tired of suffering - when countries like Yemen has suffered more, is still unbroken, and Russia is renowned for their resilience. This is a marathon - there will be 20 years more war, spread out along BRICS+ lines. Trying to sprint to end things quickly doesn't win marathons.
It was never that the west said it would not do X and then did it. That misses out a crucial middle step. It was always saying we won't do X IF.....
The problem the west got into, was with threatening to do stuff, and Russia shrugging. Then it had to act or look feeble as it tries to mirror on Russia (except Russia is actually winning where it counts). So we got desultory supplies eg of the odd F16.
It was not that this was the plan all along- ie to refuse to do stuff then tah ra, do it in some sort of potent escalation! The plan was always to bluff Russia to the table to do a western favourable deal.
So now we have the threat of the toms and the reason Trump is being ambiguous is because he does not want to have honour that threat if Russia is unfazed (as it is, incidentally- cue Putin's comment- bring them on. We will deal with them). So, that's going well. eh?
So far NATO-US has done just enough to demonstrate how ineffectual are its wunderwaffen. And this has infuriated the US that does not want to continue to have its weaponry rubbished in the field of actual battle.
Fog of war, Robert. As I said, less going on than you might think and nothing nearing WWIII. The west threatened boots on the ground en masse, and Russia shrugged. No sign of that threat being honoured. That threat has just disappeared up the western talk show fundament. There is a break point to these threats, you see.
The GMs and Girkins been here since start because operation was fucked up from Start. 150K vs 800K, while attacking, Seriously? 8 years to plan this master stroke of military science? lol?
What 8 years of planning? It looked to me that Russian leadership were asleep at the wheel with Minsk Agreements deluding themselves that West is rational actor and needs them too. So when intel services reported NATO buildup in Ukraine in 2022, Putin had to react with what Russia had on hand at the time.