After various rumors following Trump’s announcement that the Kremlin had agreed to an energy ceasefire with Ukraine, Putin spokesman Peskov finally confirmed the news this morning:
I’m coming round to the idea that Russia pursuing this war in such a half arsed way is becoming a liability for the world. I’m not russophobic but I for one am quite capable of living in a world “without Russia” thank you very much. If they can’t prevail by conventional means maybe it’s time they cried uncle. I’m also sure that some of those who lost loved ones in Donbass since 2022, maybe earlier might be thinking they’d rather for them to be alive even if it meant speaking Ukrainian or Swahili.
I nevertheless think there’s a long list of things they can do before that. Starting with this developing siege of Iran. But will they?
China's works -- so far. I'm not attacking it, just that modern China really hasn't been at this very long. The last couple of decades have been a spectacular success, no doubt. Can they keep it going as the world changes around them? Only time will tell.
If you use your brain for a moment, then you should see what a moronic comment you left here.
Planning and forecasting are part of every management education.
You can not run any business without planning, long term and short term.
Planning is everything or you are out of business.
The only difference in socialism is the planning of the distribution of the fruit of labour. In capitalism it is clear that the owner/shareholder are the ones who claim the profit for private gain.
But basic economic knowledge is so pervertly twisted in the west, that comments like yours are even possible.
If you can't see the difference between hundreds of thousands of individual companies making plans -- many of which fail -- and the government making plans that everyone has to follow, there really is no common ground for discussion.
Right, there is no common ground, you don't even grasp how much BS you've been fed and by all means, roll over in your ignorance and feel great about yourself.
Like you have not to follow what your government plans.
I can't even stop laughing, it's really a great one, thank you.
Sorry, Vade, that is just stupid. You made this reply to me under the last topic. It makes no sense whatsoever to run a major campaign targeting energy infrastructure just so they could take one whole week off to make Trump look good. I would guess they did take the week off to buy some brownie points either with Trump or the rest of the world, but that is meaningless in the overall campaign and certainly not the reason for it.
Neither of is privy to the reasoning behind Russian actions. You choose to believe the only reason for doing it now is to produce suffering in the populace. That is your choice, but the fact you don't know of other reasons doesn't mean there aren't any.
I just ran across this on another site. It doesn't speak to the bombing in the coldest part of the year, but it does to the 'concessions' part. I can't vouch for the accuracy of it, but it certainly seems plausible:
Russia has by NO means ceased its attacks on Ukr; instead of targeting energy infrastructure, it has this week turned its attention to railway infrastructure in an attempt to disrupt Ukr supply lines.
On Jan 30 alone, approximately 20 attacks on diesel locomotive depots and individual locomotives were reported.
videos of the attack on the Sinelnikovo railway station last night
It is reported that electric train cars, freight cars, locomotives, tracks, power grids, administrative and industrial buildings were damaged, but there were no casualties.
I disagree. Flattery is a manipulative technique that is very commonly used by the strong as well in negotiations. What matters for it to work effectively is not necessarily the power dynamics but the psychological state of the subject of flattery. Flattering the weaker side helps them preserve their sense of agency and helps them frame their concessions as pragmatic, rational and cooperative, rather than humiliating or coerced (especially important when they have to sell it later to an audience). It also enables them to lower their guard and view you with more trust and helps the stronger side avoid resorting to costlier coercive measures - there's a reason they say that you can catch more flies with honey.
Flattery works especially well on people who have a deluded sense of grandeur, even if they think they are immune to it. The most dangerous flattery after all is the kind that disguises itself as honesty (such as status-affirming persuasion). As Brutus says about Caesar in the Shakespearan drama Julius Caesar :
I think you are underestimating the Russian friends and you are overestimating their enemies. It may also be a typical western attitude to look at flattery the way you wrote it down. In the west we have the rather stupid attitude of wanting to look strong, dominant, superior. Often it is perception, no substance, just a posture, like a peacock. And those people in power send others to die, the cowards they truly really are.
"Why, if he’s in a powerful position, doesn’t he let his power speak and tell the Americans to go away until they have something meaningful to say? That is what any serious negotiator would do."
Ah, no, that's what a child does. An expert negotiator uses his power with subtlety. Genuine power gives you the most important element of many negotiations, time. You can steal money. You can make more weapons. But you cannot reverse the arrow of time.
The Chinese are masters of the art. They don't hurry. They can negotiate for decades, no problem.
Russia does the same thing given their position of power. No need to hurry. Let's talk. That calms down the rest of the world, and it's a great way to play an aggressive fish like Trump. Let the stupid thing tire itself out while you're sitting on the back of your elegant sportfisherman yacht sipping a drink.
What you refer to as "farcical" negotiations serve the very deep and strong purpose of repeatedly revealing to the entire rest of the world the US's impotence, while at every step Russia shows it has all the time of the world, it's always willing to be reasonable and talk, and while Russia patiently underlines that Russia's demands are what they are and Russia will not back away from them. Let the Americans demonstrate to the rest of the world, over and over, the nonsensical dishonesty of the US position.
Trump himself has become a master at that, from the utterly moronic campaign claim he could "stop the war" in 24 hours, to all of his more recent, continuous, flip-flops. The entire world knows the US started this war and now it is desperate to present itself as somehow uninvolved, to extricate itself without the obvious defeat at the hands of Russia becoming more visible than it is.
Putin does tot understand the western mind where everything is in this dualism of defeat and victory. He does not understand that any concession there is considered as a weakness, where all relations are based on the principles of domination and submission.
Didn't the USSR let JFK save his face by allowing him to posture about "forcing the USSR to remove the nukes from Cuba," when the reality was that the nukes in Cuba was a mirrored response to the US nukes in Turkey, but the USSR agreed to let JFK have the "victory" as far as the US removed the nukes from Turkey (which they did) secretly?
My point is Putin sees with whom he deals with - Trump is pathologically vain and feeds on flattery, any semi-normal person would cringe at if aimed at him/her. I think Putin lets Trump "save" his much tarnished image as some kind of plan. To Russia the far reaching outcome is more important than projecting tough posturing. And after all, Putin remembers that Trump single-handedly "rehabilitated" in Putin's image in Alaska to the West's "unwashed masses", when he welcomed him, etc
1. Trump since he has not yet offered the slightest concession and clearly does not have a compromised sense of agency.
While I agree that Trump has not managed to extricate America from the proxy war and they continue to use Ukraine to target and bleed Russia, I would still argue that Trump has definitively pulled back support in a number of tangible ways such as stopping direct financial aid, restricting supplies of escalatory weapons, and breaking the elite consensus in the US that supporting Ukraine as long as it takes, is in their national interest. That said, we have to acknowledge how polarizing this topic is for his own party and cabinet and therefore the constant need for him to walk on a tightrope (read: flip-flop) even if the general direction is to reduce American involvement (which is still substantial today) and to offload the war to Europe.
The compromised sense of agency is because quite frankly, if Russia has any desire of reaching a negotiated end to the war, it needs a mediator capable of talking to both sides and preferably someone who can directly control the proxy's actions. If Trump believes that the negotiations are pointless, he is just going to withdraw from it (to me, its for the best because America has been running the process quite terribly and have no clue or intent to apply their leverage on Ukraine) and then Russia can then might as well consider the negotiation process foreclosed (because then the coercive lever on Ukraine will remain only in the military domain, with no guarantee that any Russian victory is meaningful enough to prevent a revanchist war or NATO entrenchment in the rump state at some point). Which is why as much as the optics suck (I agree with you on this), Putin keeps flattering and "kissing ass" (again agree) of Trump to make him believe that he is needed for the negotiation track (because honestly he kind of is)
2. does not apply during a war - I disagree. Trust and confidence building is especially required because these parties are slugging on the battlefield instead of conference rooms because they distrust each other so completely.
Elena, perhaps you misunderstand me. What I am trying to say is that US is a mediator in the sense that they can hypothetically facilitate an agreement on Ukraine, because they have leverage on Ukraine in forms that Russia does not have yet. I am not saying that they are a good faith mediator and in fact even began my response with this disclaimer that they continue to be substantially involved as a hostile party to the conflict. And while I also am personally not a fan at all of Putin's constant appeasement of Trump strategy, I believe that leaders like Putin and Trump are expending their valuable political capital, energy and time chasing the domestically deeply unpopular political position of negotiations, only because they think that some form of accommodation is possible at some point.
Like how they have leverage over VZ (former ally of Russia) with recent 3 recorded landings of CIA flights, re-opening of embassy. They took over a country with under 100 casualties.
While Putin and Zelensky (US) have massacred slavs in the millions and caused complete land destruction, carnage in 4years, and we are no where nearer to any resolution.
Dropping a Fn Nuke would have caused less deaths if it meant it would end it in a month. Regain balance of power in the world, accomplished tenfold.
Trump has done little, certainly publicly, to derail the constant public message of Ukraine good, Russia very bad. At his rate, the last of the sanctions will be lifted in 2040.
How can that be? We talking 3.5 million pages plus tens of thousands images and videos thrown out there by A G Barbie barely two days ago. There simply wasn’t enough time to digest this giant load of slime for humans. Are you suggesting that Putin is maneuvering to help out Trump from the fallout of the paperwork?
I don't know what Putin is up to, but rest assured anything that the US does will be to distract from the Epstein files and Trump's activities in those files.
If there was significant evidence against the orange dipstick , nothing short of WW3 , would keep it off the front page as was evidenced by the Andy Mountbatteryhen saga.
Yes I know , he will start WW3 to distract- no he won’t.
how is there significant evidence against Trump? basically all the epstein files show is the epstein was obsessed with trump and with getting blackmail on him...if trump was on mossad files fucking little kids, that wouldn't be the case.
files show that basically all of congress, every fucking AIPAC jew cunt, wallstreet and hollywood are all kid fuckers, and Trump likes to fuck women of legal age, you know that shit they re-redacted and pretended the legal age girl was underage? you don't have to like him....but read the actual shit
don't kid yourself, that dumb cunt kamala would've had us in nuclear war with Russia already
As time goes on and the dust settles a GIANT NETWORK OF INTERLOCKING INTERNATIONAL PEDOPHILE RINGS WILL EMERGE ALL CENTERED AROUND ISRAHELL AND THE WESTERN POLITICAL CLASSES. This will NEVER be forgotten.
The first anti ΙΟΥΔΑΙΟΙ were the Ancient Greeks , then Romans and then virtually everyone else who came into contact with them except those who fell under there spell and worshipped them.
Give us back the F16s that's perfect hahah. Appreciate the battlefield update, hadn't been following as closely since Christmas save for the movement in the south. Excellent work as always my friend <3
Maybe Denmark should have purchased a fleet of SAAB Gripens from Sweden instead on investing in defensively useless American F-35's. Then they would have a fleet of modern fighter aircraft with which to defend Greenland's airspace against American threats, instead of depending on ancient American F-16's that are only good for fodder in Ukraine.
There is a real fracture between Washington and London. Carney's speech at Davos, Starmers charm visit to China with behind the scenes deals being signed. Now the new Epstein papers targetted release hitting hard on key Brittish operators like Mandelson and... Bill Gates (a British globalist agent?) The big pharma covid scamdemic operators are being cornered too, a now a massive slam for silver prices at COMEX. It looks like this time the Iranians didnt play along with Trump theatrics after the bloody and failed color revolutions which gave the Mossad and CIA networks in the country away. Years will be needed to achieve a similar level of infiltration. And Putin just waits, sipping his tea while the enemy's camp is on fire. By the way, Kiev is tonight at a brutal -24 C... And 1 February is... Monday. This could be laughable if it wasnt for the screaming levels of pain the Ukranians are experiencing. But things wont probably ease. Trump has not redeemed a single sanction on Russia and the Russians are not stupid, they are just learning basic theatrics.
"they are just learning basic theatrics. " it only took 4+years... give them another 5-10years before they realize they've been hoodwinked again and millions more ethnic russians dead.
History has always proven that the Russians win in the end. Listen to British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery's first sentence in the first lesson of war: "Never invade Russia".
Quite true: how do you reverse course once a country's productive economy has been hollowed out and thoroughly financialized? If it took over 50 years to get to this point, it will take at least that long to re-build a productive, thriving economy, if it's at all possible.
"There is a real fracture between Washington and London"
Damn right there is... and it's about time.
the brits have NEVER given up the dream of recovering america into the "empire," Cecil Rhodes is (dead) proof of that... and that dream is now being revealed as a total nightmare for the close of the Commonwealth
Hopefully culminating in the final fracture and welcome (to of its components) of the malevolent geopolitical construct known as the "UK"; the first Rothschild mini-empire.
there is NO fracture. It is clearly a sham. The European vassals are ordered to go speak nice to the Chineses. The goal is to try to lure them into binding themselves more to the €/$ trade and related deals, so to try to decouple the China-Russia increasing hardening relation.
The usual strategy: try to make friend, mellow the other, then stab in the back or grab at the throad.
Chineses didn t forget the British agression in the 19th. c.
I think this time is for real. The Brits fear for Canada and Australia, that they control. They tried to sink Trump multiples times too, and he knows it. He never forgets. But anything could go... Maybe youre right.
You mean stole the world's.largest oil and gold reserves, no honor among theives and plus you always have to be looking out for the next thief looking to take it from you. Eventually your gonna snap that big stick of yours and get bum rushed by a world sick of your bs and bullying.
Gonna be hard to be sympathetic when that page is turned.
Careful what you wish for and who you hit with your big stick.
America's future is one of further industrial decline, increasing wealth disparity and its resulting domestic turmoil. Not something to look forward to.
you could check actual data and facts. China gets its oil from Gulf, Iran, Venezuela and Russia. American piracies in Northern Atlantic and in Caracas are meant to cut off China from Venezuelan oil and the recent ban of a Hong-Kong shipping company to use Panama canal, is also a try to get China outside South America.
The effect of the piracy on Venezuela is that India and China have swapped this source of oil, India buying now US controled Venezuelan oil, and China switching to more Russian oil.
American piracy has pushed China into favoring Russia and Iran, because it is all land routes without hostile countries and borders along the way.
USA tries also to take control of Iran or at least render it of no use, in order to disrupt the logistics China-Iran.
The reason for control of Greenland is for moving sovereign US water much closer Island, and so with UK, build a sea barrier consisting of piracy on tankers to/from Russia, and also set piracy actions and navy operations closer the Siberian sea way navigated these days by China cargo on Russian ice-broken channels.
But gas and oil fro Russia to China flows entirely inside Russia and some Kazakhstan. Kazakstanians needless to say are not very keen to see CIA/MI6 run sabotaging operations or bases on their ground.
the point with USA and oil, is that in order to sustain their costly level of life and to feed the greediness of Wall Street, Americans need to sell their stuff at a higher price than competition. It is no longer possible to manipulate the price of oil very low like in the 1980's in order to induce significant revenue loss on the others.
all in all China is going more and more away from $ because $ is toxic. It is not money for a market economy but bonds from a mafia enforcing its rules by brute force. It can go away because the huge synergies inside Eurasia and with anyone fed up with Americans.
India is of course a key player, it typically wants to sit in a non-aligned position, but has not forgotten British imperialism and UK/USA betrayal at the time of Pakistan/India war. Russia instead was all the time along india, and on the other hand USA can't sanction India like a small South-American country.
A large part of the USA DNA comes from pirate rock so they have it in their DNA to loot pillage and sell drugs opium etc
You’re referring to Sir Francis Drake’s privateering activities against Spanish ships in the 16th century. Let me clarify the historical facts:
Drake’s Attacks on Spanish Treasure Ships:
Francis Drake was an English privateer (essentially a state-sanctioned pirate) who operated during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1570s-1580s. He famously raided Spanish ships and ports throughout the Americas and became wealthy doing so.
Some of his most notable captures:
• 1573: Drake captured a Spanish treasure convoy near Nombre de Dios in Panama, seizing large amounts of silver
• 1579: During his circumnavigation voyage, Drake captured the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (nicknamed Cacafuego), which was carrying enormous wealth in gold, silver, and jewels from Peru
• He conducted numerous other raids on Spanish colonial ports and ships throughout the Caribbean and Pacific coast
Important context:
Drake didn’t typically sink the Spanish galleons - he captured them and took their cargo. Sinking a ship full of treasure would defeat the purpose! The gold and silver were transferred to his own ships.
From England’s perspective, Drake was a hero who enriched the crown and weakened their Spanish rivals. Queen Elizabeth I knighted him in 1581. From Spain’s perspective, he was a pirate and terrorist.
The Spanish called him “El Draque” (The Dragon) and put a bounty on his head equivalent to millions in today’s money.
Come mee matees lets loot and pillage , ahoy ahoy 🏴☠️ 🏴☠️
China already has. It is no longer dependent upon the US either economically or strategically. Russia can supply China with all of the oil and gas it requires. As to gold, the US abandoned its gold standard over 50 years ago. Russia is now one of the largest gold producers on the planet.
China's exports to the US are no longer such a critical part of its economic production, and are bound to decrease in importance as the Belt and Road initiative progresses. If anything, the U.S. is dependent upon China for critical raw materials such as rare earth elements and critical electronic components.
The U.S.'s "orbit" is ever shrinking as it picks fights with its vassals, driving them away from its control. Canada is about to cancel its order of U.S. F-35 fighter jets in favour of a contract to assemble Sweden's Gripen fighter jets in Canada. All Trump has achieved is the acceleration of the fall of the bloodthirsty American Empire.
That's interesting. I did not know, and I don't think it is in the public mainstream, that Carney Boy is prominent in the Epstein files. Are you sure about your claims?
The January 2025 document releases did target Mandelson (UK Labour powerbroker) and Gates (transatlantic node), but the mechanism matters. These were court-ordered unsealings from settled litigation, not necessarily a coordinated strike. However, your intuition about timing has merit: the releases functioned as narrative ammunition against establishment figures precisely as populist governments took power in US/Argentina/elsewhere. Whether this represents directed political warfare or exploited coincidence remains unproven.
Your read on Iran is sharp. The 2022-2023 protests partially fueled by external networks did expose operational infrastructure when crackdowns followed. Tehran's refusal to engage Trump's "maximum pressure" theater in January 2025 (rejecting direct talks, demanding sanctions relief preconditions) reflects precisely the learning curve you identify. The Islamic Republic absorbed the lesson of 2018-2020: engagement with transactional US administrations yields only temporary reprieve followed by heightened demands.
Where your analysis risks overreach is the conspiratorial framing (British "globalist agents," coordinated silver/COVID/pharma takedowns). The simpler explanation: institutional decay, competing elite factions, and opportunistic exploitation of transparency mechanisms (Epstein files, FOIA releases) by various actors with overlapping but non-identical interests.
Russia's advantage isn't mastermind coordination it's strategic clarity derived from reduced complexity. When your opponent's camp includes factions actively sabotaging each other (Trump vs. security state, UK realignment hedging, EU energy disarray), patience becomes its own weapon. The tea grows cold slowly; the fire spreads quickly.
Putin does not and never did want the Ukrainian people to suffer. He doesn't want to conquer all of Ukraine either. He wants to give them relief from the UK/US/EU control and manipulation for good.
Your core argument about land route security has merit Russia-China pipelines do avoid maritime chokepoints, and China has indeed shifted toward Russian oil (now 20% of imports).
However:
China has not "swapped" Venezuelan oil with India Venezuelan oil represents a tiny fraction of both countries' imports (China's 1 million from Brazil, Colombia, so on not just Venezuela)
The "land route" advantage is limited. Only a small amount of China's oil comes via pipeline; 92% remains seaborne and vulnerable to maritime interdiction 
Last year China installed 430Gw of wind and solar generation bringing the total to 1800Gw. 16 million EVs were sold bringing the total on Chinese roads to just under 37 million. One day soon oil won't be the dominant economic force it was in the past.
Don't forget China has built up a substantial blue water navy for just such an eventuality. Your "maritime interdiction" is not a given, and has a limited probability of success.
The UK is the most anti-Russian country in the world. Starmer isn't doing anything in China. The whole split is fake. It isn't real. Their agenda isn't working out so they are trying to shake things up a bit.
Ukrainian cities are now quickly shuffling ammunition and generators into their practically untouched Orthodox churches as they know Russia will not target them there.
Putin can suck Trumps balls really well. I'm sure if Putin had his way, he would love to be included in the starz of epstein. Big regrets.
They may aswell have held hands in the photo-op in Alaska! like lovers, companions re-united! (Picture Ren and Stimpy) -- even Xi didn't get that honour.
(note: picture in WH placed above picture of Trump holding hands with girl)
This is clearly a PR act on the part of Russia. They can wait a week then crank up the attacks and get the next truckload of candy and praise. I can assure every reader here that every word, act and related body language of Trump was studied by a rather large team of Russian psychiatrists and they mapped an optimal approach advising Putin on a path to follow.
Daily people die on the battlefield, not those that are responsible for this NATO provoked conflict. The aim must be a European security agreement. Nobody benefits from another cold war. You cannot solve the conflict by military alone as the conflict is not between 2 nations. But between a nation and NATO. Why would the UK, France, USA surrender when they don’t feel the immediate pain physically? Just another show to watch far away. Hence different paths need to be tried.
Or more generally a war between global psychopaths (MORDOR is a good metaphor, Vampires also are another good metaphor for the evil we are dealing with) and normal non-psychopathic people trying to survive .
Vampires own and control Pedowood and other predatory fake media. They also control banking and fake money. They are masters of bribing and creating false flag conflicts and wars for fun and profit
Normal people suspect what they are dealing with is a very evil entity but (as Hitler even realized hence his advice from Mein Kampf - to lie outrageously whenever you lie - because non-psychopaths find it very hard to believe anyone would lie so outrageously so they dismiss evidence as impossible).
this makes it much harder to fight this (often invisible) war against Mordor/Vampires/Psychopaths.
the enemies (i.e. Satanyahoo) know this hence their increasingly outrageous lies get even more ambitious: i.e. we are not genocidal murderers - we are actually victims!
Well put. And to continue with your analogies, the West has created an army of Wormtongues, who spread poison within their own societies and around the globe. Their power is still not grasped fully by enough people. They are the West's strongest weapon and they need dealing with - read the passages when Gandalph is the only one who can read the depths of trickery and deceit where the others are fooled.
Don't see your metaphor at all. It seems to me Putin did everything he could to avoid a conflict he did not want. The evil seems to me to be very one sided.
Absolutely correct. It is a war between the Proletariat of the Western World and the Oligarchic, Political Classes. The only medicine is the creation of a Populist State Structure that covers the whole of the West.
Different paths need to be tried, I go along with you. Explain where UK, France and US don’t feel the immediate pain physically, is that their unavoidable destiny? Why should they commit themselves to choose such a fatality? Ukraine is not EU, not NATO and not the US but as a Pavlov dog they feel attracted to become a death dog.
they have been trained over centuries to play along with their genocidal masters when they were exploiting people in faraway colonies, pretending they don't see what is happening, as their master shared some ill gotten loot with their subjects. As the colonialism increasingly turns inward and gets applied internally to western Europeans and Americans (this is one of the definitions of fascism), the sheeple are a bit confused, and they try to become even more obedient and vaxtard-sheeple-like). Unfortunately for them , this slavish approach is further weaponized against them
They were absolutely sure of Russia's collapse. They literally self-propagandized and hypnotized themselves into own "sure" victory, and over-attached themselves to Ukraine as the vector of such "victory," and now, it's impossible for them to stop, they painted themselves into a corner by over-committing to Ukraine.
Many believe Putin is giving in to Trump and ingratiating himself to the President unnecessarily and to his shame. I believe Putin is taking advantage of Trump's narcissistic character to keep him under control. If Putin didn't do this publicly, it might well trigger an unfortunate and highly dangerous reaction from a mentally unstable Trump that could escalate very quickly into world war with all that that entails. Yes, Trump has given in to nothing thus far, but neither has Russia. Russia's philosophy, however, is based on patience and unwavering resolve to impact the future of Ukraine and Europe and protect Russia's borders and its future, whilst Trump's is based on quick wins giving him positive media exposure and self gratification. As long as Russia can continue to keep Trump under control, they can concentrate on meeting their ultimate goals - demilitarising Ukraine, de-nazifying Ukraine, preventing Western forces on Ukrainian soil, restoring traditional Russian lands back to the Motherland and forcing a European security agreement by "military-technical means" (as Putin tried to do through negotiations in December 2021). All this stuff happening in public is theatre on the part of both the US and Russia, and means - nothing. What really counts is what is happening in the background at the negotiating table and hidden talks where Russia is immoveable and will accept nothing less than a Ukrainian surrender.
The reality is that whilst all this public theatre is going on, Russia is decisively winning in Ukraine, slowly, patiently destroying Ukraine's ability to fight, decimating its weaponry and air defenses, destroying it's dual-use infrastructure, draining the West of its supplies and weaponry to the point that places their own defenses at risk, giving time to Europe to drain itself of its economic and financial strength, indirectly causing a fracture of NATO and the EU, strengthening and adapting their own military capabilities to meet the demands of a new kind of war, hugely expanding their military industrial base, enlarging their armies and preparing them for war with Europe should that become a reality, and creating and testing new technologies and weaponry that can be tested on the battlefield. All this takes time (a quick win by Russia in 2022 would have negated all this), and as Russia has said on multiple occasions, they have all the time in the world if it means protecting Russia - 4 years, 5 years, a generation, it doesn't matter - Russia is in it for the long haul (and has never spoken otherwise - as so many have suggested) as it has proven over the centuries and indeed has become a part of their DNA. No one does war as effectively as Russia, and likely never will.
And all during this time of "war" Russia has met head-on extensive sanctions by the West with an incredible and highly effective counter adapting to this attack by making and strengthening their economic ties to the East, Africa, and the rest of the world by redirecting their markets. They have also engaged in a massive and successful effort to effect a programme of import substitution leaving them essentially free of Western imports. They are even producing their own commercial aircraft from their own resources and industrial capabilities, and powered by new Russian-made engines. They have massively improved their infrastructure from a broken-down disaster to gleaming cities with clean air, beautiful buildings, a significantly raised living standard and improvement of life expectancy. They have forged and strengthened new alliances, including not only deepening ties with allies (China, Iran, North Korea, the Far East, Africa, etc) but combining forces with other nations to create the BRICS alliance that is to be the basis of the new multipolar world, an alliance that will ultimately create a new monetary system to replace the Bretton Woods world.
All this so much more - ALL at the hands of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin who is not only loved by his people but has completely re-engineered a Russia from the ground up, a Russia crushed by the West in the 90s, a Russia with a tragically demoralised and impoverished population.
What world leader today can lay claim to such accomplishments in such a brief period of history?
I believe Putin will go down in history as every bit the calibre of the greatest Russian leaders ever - Ivan IV Vasilyevich (the Terrible), Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Stalin and one of the greatest world leaders ever.
Of course those who accuse me of bias might have a point.
It's all true. Doesn't sound like bias to me. Are you Russian? Or what is the source of your bias?
I'm retired US Army but have studied Russia for decades and followed closely all the changes since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, of which I was a part. I witnessed first hand the shortcomings of the former USSR and, while not having visited Russia first hand, have seen through study and the writings of A. Martyanov and others the resurrection of Russia and the underhanded, and I would say evil, intentions of the west to destroy her.
In that respect, I find your comments a quite accurate description of Herr Putin's resurrection of Russia Sir... chip
No, I'm not Russian. However, my wife is and I have seen Russia as it was in the 90s and as it underwent transformation into what it is today (and still evolving!). I have seen first hand Putin's miracle.
He’s also the inspirer, if not the pre-architect of the security and surveillance construct of not only EU, NATO as far as it’s surviving it’s original strategy, and the final stop/ regress of the US Empire expansion. Putin made EU aware, and lately Zelensky made the remark, nothing moves nothing’s happening, they suffer from a deep somnambulism. Now Europe has made itself its greatest enemy, no more partners, no more equal allies there are only many threats and enemies everywhere. Russia and China in the east, Afrika and SE Asia in the south, immigration, Greenland in the north giving them headaches and now the 70 year love relation with Uncle Sam is a dead end, another Marshal plan is not gonna come. Donald says you pay from now on for everything, but no money. These problems socio-economic, geopolitical and especially military need a complete different approach and every second counts.
Europe has no surviving issues it puts its sunglasses on, everything is bright.
Although it was Boris Yeltsin who dragged Russia away from communism by the hair, it was Vladimir Putin who created a new Russian society to heal that country from the horrifying illness called communism. This process can be easily illustrated step-by-step based on the historical record.
Have you ever lived under communism? How I wish we could contract that "horrifying illness". My wife did - she and her family were provided a nice flat for free. They only had to pay for the utilities which were dirt cheap. She received an excellent education, free of charge all the way through post-graduate studies. She received free medical care. Their food, entertainment and transport was inexpensive. There were plenty of jobs to be had if you had the qualifications.
O that we would catch that disease.
And then came perestroika and everything went downhill as the jewish oligarchs come to the fore and predatory capitalism entered the system and the usual parasitic practices associated with capitalism took over by the 90s.
I experienced East (and West) Germany back then, and the Western system was by most people preferred at that time. There is the theory that communism was designed by the oligarchs to conquer (not only) Russia with all its resources, but Stalin turned the tide upon them. We all know that Trotzki, Lenin etc. were paid by the US banksters. We can also see Stalin doing the masons sign, but obviously he parted from them. 1990 the masons/western oligarchs again conquered Russia by bringing their modern pseudo-democratic system. The system probably is not so important, but how people use it. Socialism worked well in Scandinavia until that time, now it is a catastrophe for the EU. It is very complicated on the one hand, but on the other it is, of course, just Good vs. Evil.
I lived in one of the commie satellite states for many years. Your wife’s family had the best of communism that was handed down to a selected lucky minority there. The majority of the Russian population also suffered badly under Stalin although they constituted the so called elite there. Even many of their leaders’ families were punished one way or another. Khrushchev and Yeltsin both had their issues. While Khrushchev was fighting in Ukraine for peace and love in the 1930s his first wife and child died inside Mother Russia of starvation. Some of Yeltsin’s family members were carried off to the Gulag early where millions died. The whole of the centrally organized economy was a nonfunctional dead-end. Even as late as the 1970s and 1980s they were unable to organize food production to the point where they had to use up their gold reserves to buy wheat. Those ‘free apartments’ came with lifelong slavery and low wages for the majority after decades of waiting. In the 1970s and 1980s working class people without inside connections had to wait many years to receive their cars, after they paid for them. And you should have seen those Trabants and Lada cars from the inside. The Trabants were made in East Germany, the body constructed from some sort of compressed cardboard mixed with plastic, held together by paint. Death or loss of limb was fully guaranteed even if you had a minor accident. Up to about the early 1970s people who tried to run away were blown up by mines or shot to death at the borders. One close friend was killed there, another wounded badly. It took me five years to make it out of that dreamland.
I understand this was all the minor stuff. The major problem with the commies was their ever repeated ideological BS that was completely disgusting. They classified me a hostile element early on and did not allow me to higher education. I gained my first degree with summa cum laude in the US. A part of my family was German minority. The commies did not allow the parents to contact Red Cross to search for two of their boys after WWII where they disappeared. People need a degree of freedom to pursue business activities and family lives to construct successful families and a prospering nation. For most, communism was a nightmare. It was not an accident that in the 1950s and after half the commie satellite states revolted but even inside the Soviet state the same was going on and on. I hated those bastards with a passion.
The bias is justified. He is the greatest leader of a country on the planet. Putin was born in ‘47? 80 next year. Worrisome: if (by report) Russians wept in the streets on hearing news of Stalin’s demise, what will happen when Putin dies? Answer? The world will hold its breath!
Putin is a moderate politically. When he leaves office, the person replacing him, I think I am pretty safe to say, will not be Western friendly at all, and likely won't be patient to take the shit the West has to offer.
Yes, that seems quite likely. Russia has always had one foot in Europe and one in Asia. Likewise, Putin has always been a conflicted leader, with one foot in the neoliberal West and one foot in opposition to the destructive forces of neoliberalism, both domestic and foreign. I suspect you are right that the next generation of Russian leaders will be less inclined to look favourably upon the West, given the events of the last decade, and look to China, India and Africa for Russia's future prospects.
Maybe, but he wouldn't want that. In real life he's actually a shy person. He's never been comfortable with fame or adulation.
It's interesting how Russians don't name things after politicians. Parks, streets, schools and airports are named for poets, writers, scientists, and explorers, but not politicians. The Communists named things, especially streets and towns, for heroes of the Communist pantheon, but after Stalin died they didn't name anything for the top guys. There's no "Brezhnev" university, for example, even though he was General Secretary for a long time.
Privately, people feel very strong respect and affection for Putin. I've heard of old women bringing portraits of Putin to their churches to be blessed, as if they are icons. The church politely declines to bless them as that would be heresy, and patiently explains that instead they will say a prayer for him and so can the babushka as she might for anybody she respects and wishes well.
But Putin supports none of that and it's an unwritten rule that no jurisdiction puts up busts or statues of him or anything like that. A photo hanging in a government office along with other officials, like the governor, is OK. But they don't have any photos of him at airports.
That's a refreshing change. Fly into an airport in the US and you'll see portraits of creeps like Gavin Newsome and Trump greeting you, and the airport if it is named for somebody will likely be named for some political jerk, like Dulles. Norman Mineta was a decent guy, but still, it's bad form they named the San Jose airport for him in 2001, long before he died in 2022. But you're more likely to find something named in memory of Jack London in Russia than you'll find a road, school, or airport named for him in the US.
Agree in principle but respectfully disagree with "every word, act and related body language of Trump was studied by a rather large team of Russian psychiatrists"
The Russians put together a team of veterinarians, not psychiatrists.
I also hear there's a necromancer in tow in case, like Biden, Trump is already dead and running on a malfunctional brain implant from Musk's Frankenstein laboratory.
here's my analysis of his body language (I have a degree in psychology but anyone with any social intelligence can see this clearly):
Fake hair, a Yorkshire Terrier - like hairdo to cover up boldness and god knows what else, fake color, even his skin color is very obviously fake and too orange.
these are indicators of painful insecurity and lack of any ability of objective self-perception.
Kind of like Baby Jane from that old movie.
His childbearing hips and the way he is built not like a strong man (he tries to appear like), but like a fat frau - probably yet another cause of extreme insecurity he tries to cover up with constant bullying... which happens to be very socially acceptable in JUSSA,.
I have never seen such a widespread and pathological bullying anywhere else in the world - as well as tolerance thereof.
Like his master Satayahoo he also looks quite comical and pathetic whenever he tries to run (due to the awkward ways they are built, X-shaped legs, childbearing hips, being overweight and naturally clumsy - as we could see in the video of Natanyahoo running to a shelter during last year's 12 day war) - this is also a cause of their constant attempt to bully and over-compensate for what they know is their obvious freakishness.
this painful feeling of inadequacy is also the cause for their constant lying - that's a weak person's attempt to establish control via mudding the waters
Most importantly they are both psychopaths living in very psycho-tolerant and psycho-worshiping societies. Hence they feel a bit disoriented when they are forced to interact with people from other cultures (i.e not JUSSA)
That's it? You don't like Trump's appearance? You claim to know what is fake and what isn't about his appearance even though you have never met him or anyone who has. Yet all those who have met him and know him disagree with you about those exact features that you mention.
And yet you cite an irrelevant degree from an unmentioned source to substantiate your claims.
Even I can think of many serious problems with Trump's conduct without talking about his appearance. Unless, maybe you are gay and that's why physical appearance means so much to you. That I can understand.
its you who does not know what he is talking about
and is likely gay and or suffering from Orange imbecile infatuation
I actually celebrated when he won over Hitlery (and Bidet) even though I voted for Jill Stein (I could not bring myself to vote for either of the 2 friends of Epstein)
He appeared to be a lesser evil at the time.
Too bad he quickly turned out to be even uglier and more freakish from the inside then outside
Your "analysis" is not analysis it's just a string of personal insults dressed up as psychology.
Having a degree doesn't give you license to violate basic professional ethics. The Goldwater Rule (Section 7.3 of the American Psychiatric Association's Principles of Medical Ethics) explicitly states that it is unethical for mental health professionals to offer professional opinions about the psychological state of public figures they have not personally examined. Remote armchair diagnoses especially ones that throw around terms like "psychopath"are not credible; they are speculative and irresponsible.
What you're actually doing here is classic projection and dehumanization: fixating on physical appearance (hair, skin tone, body shape, gait) to mock and belittle. That's not insightful social intelligence; that's just body-shaming and ableism wrapped in pseudointellectual language. Mocking someone's build, the way they run, or their alleged "childbearing hips" doesn't reveal anything profound about their character it reveals the character of the person doing the mocking.
You also make sweeping generalizations about entire societies being uniquely "psycho-tolerant" and "psycho-worshiping." That's not cultural observation; that's lazy stereotyping.
If you want to criticize political figures, do it on the substance: policies, decisions, statements, actions. Attacking their appearance, inventing psychological motives from afar, and comparing them to horror-movie characters or dogs doesn't make your critique sharper it makes it weaker, because it signals that you can't or won't engage with the actual issues.
In short: this isn't psychology. It's just venting hostility through personal attacks. If you're capable of more rigorous thought, try using it.
But that's the problem: Trump has no substance. He is a classical narcissist and bully with a low I.Q. and a kind of feral intelligence. End of story. There's no sense in dissecting his actions or motives 'cause there's no sense there to dissect, nothing but mental pathology writ large. What he says one day he contradicts the next. What he does one day he undoes the next. Rigorous thought is wasted on Trump's antics and pathological lies. What's to analyze about genocide?
Your argument that Trump is essentially a chaotic force driven purely by narcissism and impulse, rendering traditional political analysis futile is one I've heard frequently, often from people exhausted by years of trying to find method in what appears to be madness.
But I'd push back gently on a few points:
The "no substance" claim is empirically questionable. Trump has very consistent through-lines: protectionist trade policy, restrictionist immigration, "America First" foreign policy skepticism, tax cuts, deregulation, judicial originalism. These aren't random they've been his positions since the 1980s. He's incoherent in rhetoric and tactics, often self-sabotaging, but not without ideological substance. That substance is populist nationalism.
The "low I.Q." framing is both unprovable and strategically unhelpful. He's demonstrated considerable intuitive intelligence in reading crowds, manipulating media cycles, and surviving situations that would have ended conventional political careers. "Feral intelligence" is apt; dismissing it as merely pathology underestimates why it works on millions of people.
"The "low I.Q." framing is both unprovable and strategically unhelpful."
I agree with you there. You have to understand the opposition if you want to make any headway in an environment where the opponent has significant influence, and not acknowledging the opponent's strengths is often a fatal mistake if your opponent is somebody like Trump.
I think part of the problem is that in fact he has a very high IQ. He's not well educated and is pretty damn ignorant of much of what educated people consider the basics (geography, history, languages, etc.), but there's a difference between being uneducated and being stupid, and the man isn't stupid.
That could well be one of the reasons his operational style is so wedded to shooting off the cuff: that's been very effective for him in the past and so he has every reason to think it will continue to be effective for him now and in the future. In that he has a lot in common with other very smart, but not well educated, people who have been very successful.
There's a certain personality type you often meet in settings where power and money count for a lot more than education: the guy who runs a favela neighborhood, the top dog in a Chicago-style political machine, or the most effective political developer in a 90's Russia or an 80's Atlantic City. Guys like that are usually very smart with extremely quick reacting smarts and are not given to drawn out contemplation based on formal education.
Many of them breezed through what passed for formal education by making just the least effort required to get through it. They lived by their wits in the educational system (if they were in it at all), not by studying, and that's what they do in their professional lives. When you're much smarter than the people around you and especially if that smartness is exceptionally well tuned to social nuances, you can be very intellectually lazy and still be extremely successful. It's hard to find somebody better at manipulating media, people and social attention than Trump.
In fact, I'd guess that most of them would say that was a feature, not a bug. Because they don't waste time (as they would say) on deep study but instead shoot from the hip based on what their instinct tells them which expert should be believed, they say that they achieve much better efficiency in cases where time is money, which is every case for them. That's Trump.
I do like the term "feral intelligence." Definitely apt.
The truce was apparently Trump's idea, and by agreeing to it, Putin is able to flatter Trump and make the American president feel that his intervention in this war is making a difference. Putin agreed to stop targeting Kyiv's energy infrastructure until February 1 just two days away while the cold weather was forecast to worsen after the pause ended .
That said, it doesn't matter what Russia does - Putin could discover a cure for cancer using this one weird old trick and the MSM would chorus that it doesn't work, he stole it, he's weaponizing chemotherapy and besides putting hard working doctors out of jobs.
The Russians know the US wants them defeated and dismembered. The US knows the Russian know. The Russians know there really isn't a path for NATO to defeat them (and survive). The caravan moves on, the dog doesn't bark.
Wouldn't be surprised if the Danes regard their "built in license in Europe" F16's more trustworthy than Lockheed-built F35's with enough kill-switches to have them drop from the air en masse.
There is still the famous interview with Pierre Sprey around and the article "This Shitty Fighter Jet Could Provide 23 Years of Free College for Everyone (F-35)" on Russia Insider about the shittiness of the F35.
"I am fed up with this Vampires ball, Putin promised to end."
Putin promised to end it?
Perhaps you don't understand what he said, "They've spent centuries filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must realise that the vampire ball is ending."
Here here... many are sick and tired of seeing Zelensky, Putin, and Trump on the daily news, telegram channels that is truly making people wanting to vomit. Atleast sleepy joe 'big boy' Biden was easier to laugh at, to which much needed sattire to this crazy world.
"if the attacks on Kyiv and the region’s power grids continue, the consumption of diesel fuel in the Ukrainian capital could reach 300 to 900 tons per day. "
OK. At this late date why are distillates widely available in Ukraine? How are AFU enabled to hop up and down the front seemingly with ease?
Last question: If it's true the Russians shut down Starlink in Iran, why are communications still up in Ukraine?
There is no confirmation of it being used extensively or mass shutdown, the entire narrative was spin doctored by western media, and alternate media is dumb enough without questioning the source to regurgitate the same BS.
The thing in Iran is that ONLY the Mossad supported "protesters" had starlink. In Ukraine both sides use it (more so now the captured terminals from Iran are available to the Russians).
Apparently GPS spoofing was enough to disable most of the terminals. Also there was reportedly technology that mapped the base stations and allowed the security forces to arrest many of the users.
Starlink LEO satellites use beamforming and phased arrays, GPS (MEO satellites) are not required, hence the point of Starlink and why they have tens of thousands.
GPS spoofing would have little to no effect even at the receiver end.
This is from the article. I had thought that was how Starlink worked all along. I put mine on the roof of my deck - it traversed around and found out the best direction to aim to get the best signal. I didn't think it would need any type of GPS signal. Although I think it might work similar to a GPS. In how it triangulates a location that is.
But then again - I'm in Canada and maybe it doesn't work that way in Iran but I really don't think it would be any different. And maybe they are the "mini" Starlink and they work differently?
"[Starlink uses] the GPS position of the terminals to point their antennas towards the satellites," the people behind the X account @giammaiot2, a group of telecommunications researchers, told our team.
"Jamming GPS signals was the classic way to jam Starlink," Kave Salamatian, a professor at the University of Savoie in France, who specialises in the geopolitics of the internet, told our team. "But a Starlink update, which was added after Russia jammed signals in Ukraine and in the Black Sea, [now] enables users to bypass a GPS signal by relying on Starlink’s own satellites to identify a location using triangulation.”
I suspect that starlink can be jammed locally but is harder to jam over large areas . The Russians have been able to find the terminals presumably due to signal detection . If the excreta hits the rotor the Russians will probably just take them out in orbit with S500 missiles the same way .
Don't bet on it . It depends on the stakes involved . There is possibly better ways of neutralising them anyway . EMP weapons may be available to do the same job without the debris . There is already massive amounts of junk in orbit already anyway....
The "better ways" have been demonstrated by several Chinese satellites lately, exhibiting maintenance and refuelling routines on other satellites. Clearly then can simply grapple with and disable their targets.
By all accounts we are already on the cusp of a Kessler cascade event, and LEO is already be in peril.
Very good questions and if I may venture an answer on local expert (GM)’s part. “It is clearly another catastrophic failure by the Putin and the Russian leadership”.
Assume that’s the answer you wanted.
If the GM idiot answered it would be an essay with a couple of dozen irrelevant segues about his vast experience and prescient insight into matters military and political during Crimean War of the 19th century, when Russia was roundly defeated by the plucky poms.(Currently happening all over again according to him).
Putin doesn’t need apologists. He doesn’t apologize.
Are you a Green Goblin apologist? His venality and stupidity are beyond apology, but he grovels to anyone with a handful of filthy lucre. Perhaps you should chuck him a coin ?
‘consumption of diesel fuel in the Ukrainian capital could reach 300 to 900 tons per day. This amount will be needed only for the operation of emergency services and industrial generators at production and utility facilities.’
There must be a lot larger need for schools, gvmnt offices, hospitals, food distributors and endless other categories as well. Private homeowners with higher than average income will also run diesel or fuel generators to heat.
India is a little bit far off. I can hardly believe they are buying it from Russia as every dollar would be used against them. It could be brought in from Poland even or by boats to Odessa from the Mediterranean. Turkey could be the source also. The possibilities are endless.
I would posit that the Odessa rout is out due to the blockade . Russian oil and diesel are cheap and Russia cannot control where it goes after they sell it . India is buying large amounts of Russian oil and refining it . Its notable that the sanctions had little effect on exports from Russia .....
It is a major network of a delivery system that is sailing around under different flags making deliveries all over the planet. Just about all parties are hiding as much as they can. If India is involved there is the price of two long distance deliveries incorporated into the price. And that sounds rather expensive. AI describes a very complex delivery system that adds to the price for sure but EU/NATO must be paying it happily.
Regardless, here is the AI bubble on the subject and I take ZERO responsibility for credibility.
AI says:
Key Logistics Context
• Source Shift: Before 2022, most fuel came from Russia and Belarus; now, it is sourced from EU countries and international markets.
• India Connection: India became a major supplier of diesel to Ukraine by 2025.
• "Green Lanes": Customs processes were streamlined to allow hundreds of road tankers per day.
• Logistics Challenges: The supply chain relies on complex, multi-modal routes to avoid targeting, managed by both private traders and national operators like Naftogaz.
From India to Ukraine:
AI Overview
Indian diesel reaches Ukraine primarily via maritime shipments to European hubs like Romania and Turkey, followed by Danube River transport, rail, and trucks, driven by international traders. This route surged after Ukraine's 2025 refinery losses, though shipments now face strict checks for Russian origin.
Here are the key details on how the diesel is shipped:
Key Logistics & Routes
• Primary Channels: Fuel is shipped via tankers to Mediterranean and Black Sea ports.
• Transit Hubs:
o Romania: A large share passes through Romanian ports on the Danube River.
o Turkey: Shipments move through terminals like Marmara Ereğlisi (OPET terminal).
• Final Delivery: From these hubs, the fuel enters Ukraine via barges, rail, and road transport.
Context of the Trade
• Driver: The surge in imports followed the destruction of Ukraine's Kremenchug refinery in 2025.
• Suppliers: Major flows include products from Reliance Industries (port of Sikka, Gujarat).
• Regulation: Due to concerns over Russian crude content, Ukraine is implementing strict laboratory testing on Indian shipments as of late 2025
And a few additional sources, AGAIN ZERO GUARANTEES FOR CONTENT:
I’m coming round to the idea that Russia pursuing this war in such a half arsed way is becoming a liability for the world. I’m not russophobic but I for one am quite capable of living in a world “without Russia” thank you very much. If they can’t prevail by conventional means maybe it’s time they cried uncle. I’m also sure that some of those who lost loved ones in Donbass since 2022, maybe earlier might be thinking they’d rather for them to be alive even if it meant speaking Ukrainian or Swahili.
I nevertheless think there’s a long list of things they can do before that. Starting with this developing siege of Iran. But will they?
And then it fell because planned economies don't work.
Communism AND Capitalism in their extreme forms are unworkable. Pure Capitalism is Crony Crapitalism or Fascism.
China has a hybrid approach that works. USSR didn't. And the US is failing at every turn to fix inequality.
China's works -- so far. I'm not attacking it, just that modern China really hasn't been at this very long. The last couple of decades have been a spectacular success, no doubt. Can they keep it going as the world changes around them? Only time will tell.
If you use your brain for a moment, then you should see what a moronic comment you left here.
Planning and forecasting are part of every management education.
You can not run any business without planning, long term and short term.
Planning is everything or you are out of business.
The only difference in socialism is the planning of the distribution of the fruit of labour. In capitalism it is clear that the owner/shareholder are the ones who claim the profit for private gain.
But basic economic knowledge is so pervertly twisted in the west, that comments like yours are even possible.
If you can't see the difference between hundreds of thousands of individual companies making plans -- many of which fail -- and the government making plans that everyone has to follow, there really is no common ground for discussion.
Right, there is no common ground, you don't even grasp how much BS you've been fed and by all means, roll over in your ignorance and feel great about yourself.
Like you have not to follow what your government plans.
I can't even stop laughing, it's really a great one, thank you.
And you are the SUPERGENIUS who has it all figured out. Thanks, I needed the laugh this morning, too.
Sorry, Vade, that is just stupid. You made this reply to me under the last topic. It makes no sense whatsoever to run a major campaign targeting energy infrastructure just so they could take one whole week off to make Trump look good. I would guess they did take the week off to buy some brownie points either with Trump or the rest of the world, but that is meaningless in the overall campaign and certainly not the reason for it.
Neither of is privy to the reasoning behind Russian actions. You choose to believe the only reason for doing it now is to produce suffering in the populace. That is your choice, but the fact you don't know of other reasons doesn't mean there aren't any.
I just ran across this on another site. It doesn't speak to the bombing in the coldest part of the year, but it does to the 'concessions' part. I can't vouch for the accuracy of it, but it certainly seems plausible:
Russia has by NO means ceased its attacks on Ukr; instead of targeting energy infrastructure, it has this week turned its attention to railway infrastructure in an attempt to disrupt Ukr supply lines.
On Jan 30 alone, approximately 20 attacks on diesel locomotive depots and individual locomotives were reported.
videos of the attack on the Sinelnikovo railway station last night
It is reported that electric train cars, freight cars, locomotives, tracks, power grids, administrative and industrial buildings were damaged, but there were no casualties.
Flattery is a technique that works every time on fools.
Congratulations on your incommensurable degree of insight into human behaviour.
I disagree. Flattery is a manipulative technique that is very commonly used by the strong as well in negotiations. What matters for it to work effectively is not necessarily the power dynamics but the psychological state of the subject of flattery. Flattering the weaker side helps them preserve their sense of agency and helps them frame their concessions as pragmatic, rational and cooperative, rather than humiliating or coerced (especially important when they have to sell it later to an audience). It also enables them to lower their guard and view you with more trust and helps the stronger side avoid resorting to costlier coercive measures - there's a reason they say that you can catch more flies with honey.
Flattery works especially well on people who have a deluded sense of grandeur, even if they think they are immune to it. The most dangerous flattery after all is the kind that disguises itself as honesty (such as status-affirming persuasion). As Brutus says about Caesar in the Shakespearan drama Julius Caesar :
I can o'ersway him. For he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betrayed with trees,
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Lions with toils, and men with flatterers.
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
I think you are underestimating the Russian friends and you are overestimating their enemies. It may also be a typical western attitude to look at flattery the way you wrote it down. In the west we have the rather stupid attitude of wanting to look strong, dominant, superior. Often it is perception, no substance, just a posture, like a peacock. And those people in power send others to die, the cowards they truly really are.
"Why, if he’s in a powerful position, doesn’t he let his power speak and tell the Americans to go away until they have something meaningful to say? That is what any serious negotiator would do."
Ah, no, that's what a child does. An expert negotiator uses his power with subtlety. Genuine power gives you the most important element of many negotiations, time. You can steal money. You can make more weapons. But you cannot reverse the arrow of time.
The Chinese are masters of the art. They don't hurry. They can negotiate for decades, no problem.
Russia does the same thing given their position of power. No need to hurry. Let's talk. That calms down the rest of the world, and it's a great way to play an aggressive fish like Trump. Let the stupid thing tire itself out while you're sitting on the back of your elegant sportfisherman yacht sipping a drink.
What you refer to as "farcical" negotiations serve the very deep and strong purpose of repeatedly revealing to the entire rest of the world the US's impotence, while at every step Russia shows it has all the time of the world, it's always willing to be reasonable and talk, and while Russia patiently underlines that Russia's demands are what they are and Russia will not back away from them. Let the Americans demonstrate to the rest of the world, over and over, the nonsensical dishonesty of the US position.
Trump himself has become a master at that, from the utterly moronic campaign claim he could "stop the war" in 24 hours, to all of his more recent, continuous, flip-flops. The entire world knows the US started this war and now it is desperate to present itself as somehow uninvolved, to extricate itself without the obvious defeat at the hands of Russia becoming more visible than it is.
Well put
Maybe just maybe, Trump offered to release the 2 Russian sailors on Jan 28th in exchange for a pause? timing is peculiar.
So 'powerful' Putin is truly kissing ass of his master.
Highly unlikely for a straight shooter like Putin.
Putin does tot understand the western mind where everything is in this dualism of defeat and victory. He does not understand that any concession there is considered as a weakness, where all relations are based on the principles of domination and submission.
Didn't the USSR let JFK save his face by allowing him to posture about "forcing the USSR to remove the nukes from Cuba," when the reality was that the nukes in Cuba was a mirrored response to the US nukes in Turkey, but the USSR agreed to let JFK have the "victory" as far as the US removed the nukes from Turkey (which they did) secretly?
My point is Putin sees with whom he deals with - Trump is pathologically vain and feeds on flattery, any semi-normal person would cringe at if aimed at him/her. I think Putin lets Trump "save" his much tarnished image as some kind of plan. To Russia the far reaching outcome is more important than projecting tough posturing. And after all, Putin remembers that Trump single-handedly "rehabilitated" in Putin's image in Alaska to the West's "unwashed masses", when he welcomed him, etc
Well put. Very shallow societies.
1. Trump since he has not yet offered the slightest concession and clearly does not have a compromised sense of agency.
While I agree that Trump has not managed to extricate America from the proxy war and they continue to use Ukraine to target and bleed Russia, I would still argue that Trump has definitively pulled back support in a number of tangible ways such as stopping direct financial aid, restricting supplies of escalatory weapons, and breaking the elite consensus in the US that supporting Ukraine as long as it takes, is in their national interest. That said, we have to acknowledge how polarizing this topic is for his own party and cabinet and therefore the constant need for him to walk on a tightrope (read: flip-flop) even if the general direction is to reduce American involvement (which is still substantial today) and to offload the war to Europe.
The compromised sense of agency is because quite frankly, if Russia has any desire of reaching a negotiated end to the war, it needs a mediator capable of talking to both sides and preferably someone who can directly control the proxy's actions. If Trump believes that the negotiations are pointless, he is just going to withdraw from it (to me, its for the best because America has been running the process quite terribly and have no clue or intent to apply their leverage on Ukraine) and then Russia can then might as well consider the negotiation process foreclosed (because then the coercive lever on Ukraine will remain only in the military domain, with no guarantee that any Russian victory is meaningful enough to prevent a revanchist war or NATO entrenchment in the rump state at some point). Which is why as much as the optics suck (I agree with you on this), Putin keeps flattering and "kissing ass" (again agree) of Trump to make him believe that he is needed for the negotiation track (because honestly he kind of is)
2. does not apply during a war - I disagree. Trust and confidence building is especially required because these parties are slugging on the battlefield instead of conference rooms because they distrust each other so completely.
Elena, perhaps you misunderstand me. What I am trying to say is that US is a mediator in the sense that they can hypothetically facilitate an agreement on Ukraine, because they have leverage on Ukraine in forms that Russia does not have yet. I am not saying that they are a good faith mediator and in fact even began my response with this disclaimer that they continue to be substantially involved as a hostile party to the conflict. And while I also am personally not a fan at all of Putin's constant appeasement of Trump strategy, I believe that leaders like Putin and Trump are expending their valuable political capital, energy and time chasing the domestically deeply unpopular political position of negotiations, only because they think that some form of accommodation is possible at some point.
Like how they have leverage over VZ (former ally of Russia) with recent 3 recorded landings of CIA flights, re-opening of embassy. They took over a country with under 100 casualties.
While Putin and Zelensky (US) have massacred slavs in the millions and caused complete land destruction, carnage in 4years, and we are no where nearer to any resolution.
Dropping a Fn Nuke would have caused less deaths if it meant it would end it in a month. Regain balance of power in the world, accomplished tenfold.
Trump has done little, certainly publicly, to derail the constant public message of Ukraine good, Russia very bad. At his rate, the last of the sanctions will be lifted in 2040.
Yes, it is a very destructive message.
Putin is portraying himself as a beta male, what specially resonates in the USA where everything is built on winner - loser duality.
Russia is in fact a new Venezuela, a vassal state of the US.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/russias-lukoil-sell-bulk-international-portfolio-us-carlyle-group
Russia's Lukoil To Sell Bulk Of International Portfolio To US Carlyle Grou
Trust ol’ Will to get it right!
Flattery is an INEXPENSIVE manipulative technique that the weaker use to try to influence the stronger.
Flattery is a technique used by both strong and weak.
You are completely right. Nothing can hide that.
Can't flattery be used by anyone against anyone for any purpose?
More like a way to influence the insane. Everybody knows its true.
Everything is related to the Epstein files...
How can that be? We talking 3.5 million pages plus tens of thousands images and videos thrown out there by A G Barbie barely two days ago. There simply wasn’t enough time to digest this giant load of slime for humans. Are you suggesting that Putin is maneuvering to help out Trump from the fallout of the paperwork?
I don't know what Putin is up to, but rest assured anything that the US does will be to distract from the Epstein files and Trump's activities in those files.
Everything is not related to the Epstein files.
If there was significant evidence against the orange dipstick , nothing short of WW3 , would keep it off the front page as was evidenced by the Andy Mountbatteryhen saga.
Yes I know , he will start WW3 to distract- no he won’t.
how is there significant evidence against Trump? basically all the epstein files show is the epstein was obsessed with trump and with getting blackmail on him...if trump was on mossad files fucking little kids, that wouldn't be the case.
files show that basically all of congress, every fucking AIPAC jew cunt, wallstreet and hollywood are all kid fuckers, and Trump likes to fuck women of legal age, you know that shit they re-redacted and pretended the legal age girl was underage? you don't have to like him....but read the actual shit
don't kid yourself, that dumb cunt kamala would've had us in nuclear war with Russia already
truth hurts eh?
As time goes on and the dust settles a GIANT NETWORK OF INTERLOCKING INTERNATIONAL PEDOPHILE RINGS WILL EMERGE ALL CENTERED AROUND ISRAHELL AND THE WESTERN POLITICAL CLASSES. This will NEVER be forgotten.
Lol thats probably.true except for the part where people are held accountable.
I have very little hope we are not too far inside this circus to turn back and fix the mess.
I sure hope im wrong
no, not everything in the world revolves around america, the pedophiles that run us and the jews in wallstreet...
sometimes shit in the world actually just happens
maybe they should stop running every pedophile ring on the planet then....
I thought that was supposed to be the Muslims?
that's in UK, pakis, arabs, indians
but worldwide pedo rings are all run by the jews
Please don't reply to me Hunter.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
They do let their pedophile folks come home before being charged in the states.
Check out that their cyber security chief was caught doing in Vegas.
sometimes its just true even if it does shine poorly on a certain style of little hat
Stop it with the pro Zionist crap
The first anti ΙΟΥΔΑΙΟΙ were the Ancient Greeks , then Romans and then virtually everyone else who came into contact with them except those who fell under there spell and worshipped them.
Trump is mentioned 5237 times see Stew Peters Podcasts
Everyone knows we are all inmates of the Insane Asylum Called Earth ….
well …..
Now you know if you didnt
The tiptoe of degeneracy comes though the media
Give us back the F16s that's perfect hahah. Appreciate the battlefield update, hadn't been following as closely since Christmas save for the movement in the south. Excellent work as always my friend <3
Danemark has been a barking chiuaua that has already lost Greenland. Their only hope is Trumps out of offiice after the midterms.
Maybe Denmark should have purchased a fleet of SAAB Gripens from Sweden instead on investing in defensively useless American F-35's. Then they would have a fleet of modern fighter aircraft with which to defend Greenland's airspace against American threats, instead of depending on ancient American F-16's that are only good for fodder in Ukraine.
Yes. Even the Canucks are thinking of Gripens instead of the frankly shit F-35.
There is a real fracture between Washington and London. Carney's speech at Davos, Starmers charm visit to China with behind the scenes deals being signed. Now the new Epstein papers targetted release hitting hard on key Brittish operators like Mandelson and... Bill Gates (a British globalist agent?) The big pharma covid scamdemic operators are being cornered too, a now a massive slam for silver prices at COMEX. It looks like this time the Iranians didnt play along with Trump theatrics after the bloody and failed color revolutions which gave the Mossad and CIA networks in the country away. Years will be needed to achieve a similar level of infiltration. And Putin just waits, sipping his tea while the enemy's camp is on fire. By the way, Kiev is tonight at a brutal -24 C... And 1 February is... Monday. This could be laughable if it wasnt for the screaming levels of pain the Ukranians are experiencing. But things wont probably ease. Trump has not redeemed a single sanction on Russia and the Russians are not stupid, they are just learning basic theatrics.
"they are just learning basic theatrics. " it only took 4+years... give them another 5-10years before they realize they've been hoodwinked again and millions more ethnic russians dead.
History has proven, Fools will always be fools.
fools... like you ?
History has always proven that the Russians win in the end. Listen to British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery's first sentence in the first lesson of war: "Never invade Russia".
No amount of visits and deals with China will make a difference. The West has been hollowed out by Neoliberal "solutions" for too many decades.
Quite true: how do you reverse course once a country's productive economy has been hollowed out and thoroughly financialized? If it took over 50 years to get to this point, it will take at least that long to re-build a productive, thriving economy, if it's at all possible.
The silver issue is another clue to the tension btwn (J)UK & (J)USA.
"There is a real fracture between Washington and London"
Damn right there is... and it's about time.
the brits have NEVER given up the dream of recovering america into the "empire," Cecil Rhodes is (dead) proof of that... and that dream is now being revealed as a total nightmare for the close of the Commonwealth
Brits and Fatmericans and EU: a circle jerk of toxic homosexuality.
I'm Canuckistani!
I don't play that side of the ball.
Hopefully culminating in the final fracture and welcome (to of its components) of the malevolent geopolitical construct known as the "UK"; the first Rothschild mini-empire.
Cecil Rhodes, died in 1902, is your proof?
Is it remotely possible that things might have changed in the last 124 years?
there is NO fracture. It is clearly a sham. The European vassals are ordered to go speak nice to the Chineses. The goal is to try to lure them into binding themselves more to the €/$ trade and related deals, so to try to decouple the China-Russia increasing hardening relation.
The usual strategy: try to make friend, mellow the other, then stab in the back or grab at the throad.
Chineses didn t forget the British agression in the 19th. c.
I think this time is for real. The Brits fear for Canada and Australia, that they control. They tried to sink Trump multiples times too, and he knows it. He never forgets. But anything could go... Maybe youre right.
The Brits don't control either Canada or Australia, the banks and the Americans do.
Yeah since the US has the largest reserves of oil and gold I doubt China can realistically afford to go away from our orbit
You mean stole the world's.largest oil and gold reserves, no honor among theives and plus you always have to be looking out for the next thief looking to take it from you. Eventually your gonna snap that big stick of yours and get bum rushed by a world sick of your bs and bullying.
Gonna be hard to be sympathetic when that page is turned.
Careful what you wish for and who you hit with your big stick.
As long as America looks to the future and China copies that will not be the case
China hasn't copied for years.
They always self-reflect and adapt.
Fatmerica sticks their hand into their pants and pulls repeatedly.
Zio-Kikes work the other side.
It’s been pretty clear they copy everything out of America then improve upon it.
Copied like with their 640Gw of wind turbines?
America's future is one of further industrial decline, increasing wealth disparity and its resulting domestic turmoil. Not something to look forward to.
While that could be true looking at American history it’s nothing but a series of crises and golden ages.
As long as I don’t see an complete overturning of the social contract: the constitution
And the debt issues which the whole world has gets resolved or better theirs nothing to worry about.
The only thing that could end it for the US is a massive natural disasters like an earthquake, hurricane and volcano eruption at the same time
you could check actual data and facts. China gets its oil from Gulf, Iran, Venezuela and Russia. American piracies in Northern Atlantic and in Caracas are meant to cut off China from Venezuelan oil and the recent ban of a Hong-Kong shipping company to use Panama canal, is also a try to get China outside South America.
The effect of the piracy on Venezuela is that India and China have swapped this source of oil, India buying now US controled Venezuelan oil, and China switching to more Russian oil.
American piracy has pushed China into favoring Russia and Iran, because it is all land routes without hostile countries and borders along the way.
USA tries also to take control of Iran or at least render it of no use, in order to disrupt the logistics China-Iran.
The reason for control of Greenland is for moving sovereign US water much closer Island, and so with UK, build a sea barrier consisting of piracy on tankers to/from Russia, and also set piracy actions and navy operations closer the Siberian sea way navigated these days by China cargo on Russian ice-broken channels.
But gas and oil fro Russia to China flows entirely inside Russia and some Kazakhstan. Kazakstanians needless to say are not very keen to see CIA/MI6 run sabotaging operations or bases on their ground.
the point with USA and oil, is that in order to sustain their costly level of life and to feed the greediness of Wall Street, Americans need to sell their stuff at a higher price than competition. It is no longer possible to manipulate the price of oil very low like in the 1980's in order to induce significant revenue loss on the others.
all in all China is going more and more away from $ because $ is toxic. It is not money for a market economy but bonds from a mafia enforcing its rules by brute force. It can go away because the huge synergies inside Eurasia and with anyone fed up with Americans.
India is of course a key player, it typically wants to sit in a non-aligned position, but has not forgotten British imperialism and UK/USA betrayal at the time of Pakistan/India war. Russia instead was all the time along india, and on the other hand USA can't sanction India like a small South-American country.
A large part of the USA DNA comes from pirate rock so they have it in their DNA to loot pillage and sell drugs opium etc
You’re referring to Sir Francis Drake’s privateering activities against Spanish ships in the 16th century. Let me clarify the historical facts:
Drake’s Attacks on Spanish Treasure Ships:
Francis Drake was an English privateer (essentially a state-sanctioned pirate) who operated during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1570s-1580s. He famously raided Spanish ships and ports throughout the Americas and became wealthy doing so.
Some of his most notable captures:
• 1573: Drake captured a Spanish treasure convoy near Nombre de Dios in Panama, seizing large amounts of silver
• 1579: During his circumnavigation voyage, Drake captured the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (nicknamed Cacafuego), which was carrying enormous wealth in gold, silver, and jewels from Peru
• He conducted numerous other raids on Spanish colonial ports and ships throughout the Caribbean and Pacific coast
Important context:
Drake didn’t typically sink the Spanish galleons - he captured them and took their cargo. Sinking a ship full of treasure would defeat the purpose! The gold and silver were transferred to his own ships.
From England’s perspective, Drake was a hero who enriched the crown and weakened their Spanish rivals. Queen Elizabeth I knighted him in 1581. From Spain’s perspective, he was a pirate and terrorist.
The Spanish called him “El Draque” (The Dragon) and put a bounty on his head equivalent to millions in today’s money.
Come mee matees lets loot and pillage , ahoy ahoy 🏴☠️ 🏴☠️
China already has. It is no longer dependent upon the US either economically or strategically. Russia can supply China with all of the oil and gas it requires. As to gold, the US abandoned its gold standard over 50 years ago. Russia is now one of the largest gold producers on the planet.
China's exports to the US are no longer such a critical part of its economic production, and are bound to decrease in importance as the Belt and Road initiative progresses. If anything, the U.S. is dependent upon China for critical raw materials such as rare earth elements and critical electronic components.
The U.S.'s "orbit" is ever shrinking as it picks fights with its vassals, driving them away from its control. Canada is about to cancel its order of U.S. F-35 fighter jets in favour of a contract to assemble Sweden's Gripen fighter jets in Canada. All Trump has achieved is the acceleration of the fall of the bloodthirsty American Empire.
US is like that athlete that never trains until the last minute but through natural talent beats the better trained opponents.
US will likely get its shi together and using Australia mines, Taiwan EU Japanese factories and Wall Street get their rare earths
No your not. You're like a bully who tries to bully the little kids, but won't pick on anyone your own size.
And even some of the little kids can make you look foolish on occasion.
I expect you've got a brighter future than Europe, but it's nowhere near as bright as you seem to think.
I’d like to know which country has the organization and natural resources and technology to compete with the US in the next 300 years
Carney's all over those Epstein files, he 'visited' many times.
Ye. Hes a real greasy stage piece for sure.
You should see the look he let a cross his ugly mug when someone asked him about it at a rally.
Was all that i needed to see to confirm he one of the worst among us, but who in any low level of power isnt these days?
We just dont know for sure what goes on behind the curtains cause we dont have those vip tickets.
One can safely assume if you have morals and self respect you. Want nothing to do with any of it.
That's interesting. I did not know, and I don't think it is in the public mainstream, that Carney Boy is prominent in the Epstein files. Are you sure about your claims?
Beadhead, you'll find that truth is optional round here, mate.
The January 2025 document releases did target Mandelson (UK Labour powerbroker) and Gates (transatlantic node), but the mechanism matters. These were court-ordered unsealings from settled litigation, not necessarily a coordinated strike. However, your intuition about timing has merit: the releases functioned as narrative ammunition against establishment figures precisely as populist governments took power in US/Argentina/elsewhere. Whether this represents directed political warfare or exploited coincidence remains unproven.
Your read on Iran is sharp. The 2022-2023 protests partially fueled by external networks did expose operational infrastructure when crackdowns followed. Tehran's refusal to engage Trump's "maximum pressure" theater in January 2025 (rejecting direct talks, demanding sanctions relief preconditions) reflects precisely the learning curve you identify. The Islamic Republic absorbed the lesson of 2018-2020: engagement with transactional US administrations yields only temporary reprieve followed by heightened demands.
Where your analysis risks overreach is the conspiratorial framing (British "globalist agents," coordinated silver/COVID/pharma takedowns). The simpler explanation: institutional decay, competing elite factions, and opportunistic exploitation of transparency mechanisms (Epstein files, FOIA releases) by various actors with overlapping but non-identical interests.
Russia's advantage isn't mastermind coordination it's strategic clarity derived from reduced complexity. When your opponent's camp includes factions actively sabotaging each other (Trump vs. security state, UK realignment hedging, EU energy disarray), patience becomes its own weapon. The tea grows cold slowly; the fire spreads quickly.
Yup, the Second Law of Thermodynamics at play.
Putin does not and never did want the Ukrainian people to suffer. He doesn't want to conquer all of Ukraine either. He wants to give them relief from the UK/US/EU control and manipulation for good.
Your core argument about land route security has merit Russia-China pipelines do avoid maritime chokepoints, and China has indeed shifted toward Russian oil (now 20% of imports).
However:
China has not "swapped" Venezuelan oil with India Venezuelan oil represents a tiny fraction of both countries' imports (China's 1 million from Brazil, Colombia, so on not just Venezuela)
The "land route" advantage is limited. Only a small amount of China's oil comes via pipeline; 92% remains seaborne and vulnerable to maritime interdiction 
Last year China installed 430Gw of wind and solar generation bringing the total to 1800Gw. 16 million EVs were sold bringing the total on Chinese roads to just under 37 million. One day soon oil won't be the dominant economic force it was in the past.
Don't forget China has built up a substantial blue water navy for just such an eventuality. Your "maritime interdiction" is not a given, and has a limited probability of success.
The UK is the most anti-Russian country in the world. Starmer isn't doing anything in China. The whole split is fake. It isn't real. Their agenda isn't working out so they are trying to shake things up a bit.
Ukrainian cities are now quickly shuffling ammunition and generators into their practically untouched Orthodox churches as they know Russia will not target them there.
Yeah, that will definitely save them. Maybe they can say a prayer while they are there.
__________________________________
Putin can suck Trumps balls really well. I'm sure if Putin had his way, he would love to be included in the starz of epstein. Big regrets.
They may aswell have held hands in the photo-op in Alaska! like lovers, companions re-united! (Picture Ren and Stimpy) -- even Xi didn't get that honour.
(note: picture in WH placed above picture of Trump holding hands with girl)
Trump > where's my bitch Putin!
__________________________________
The Green Goblin appears to be turning into Blackadder.
Blackadder broke through the shell of the Green Goblin...:-)
‘Putin Flatters Trump With Kiev-Energy Ceasefire’
This is clearly a PR act on the part of Russia. They can wait a week then crank up the attacks and get the next truckload of candy and praise. I can assure every reader here that every word, act and related body language of Trump was studied by a rather large team of Russian psychiatrists and they mapped an optimal approach advising Putin on a path to follow.
Like Pavlov’s dog
Daily people die on the battlefield, not those that are responsible for this NATO provoked conflict. The aim must be a European security agreement. Nobody benefits from another cold war. You cannot solve the conflict by military alone as the conflict is not between 2 nations. But between a nation and NATO. Why would the UK, France, USA surrender when they don’t feel the immediate pain physically? Just another show to watch far away. Hence different paths need to be tried.
Better Pavlov’s dog than a death dog.
True, a war against the working class that is turning into a war against humanity.
Or more generally a war between global psychopaths (MORDOR is a good metaphor, Vampires also are another good metaphor for the evil we are dealing with) and normal non-psychopathic people trying to survive .
Vampires own and control Pedowood and other predatory fake media. They also control banking and fake money. They are masters of bribing and creating false flag conflicts and wars for fun and profit
Normal people suspect what they are dealing with is a very evil entity but (as Hitler even realized hence his advice from Mein Kampf - to lie outrageously whenever you lie - because non-psychopaths find it very hard to believe anyone would lie so outrageously so they dismiss evidence as impossible).
this makes it much harder to fight this (often invisible) war against Mordor/Vampires/Psychopaths.
the enemies (i.e. Satanyahoo) know this hence their increasingly outrageous lies get even more ambitious: i.e. we are not genocidal murderers - we are actually victims!
Well put. And to continue with your analogies, the West has created an army of Wormtongues, who spread poison within their own societies and around the globe. Their power is still not grasped fully by enough people. They are the West's strongest weapon and they need dealing with - read the passages when Gandalph is the only one who can read the depths of trickery and deceit where the others are fooled.
Gandalph is a symbol of meritocracy
Don't see your metaphor at all. It seems to me Putin did everything he could to avoid a conflict he did not want. The evil seems to me to be very one sided.
yes I think so too
Evil seems mostly Western especially jewish/mossad Epstein class
I agree with what you said about Putin
Absolutely correct. It is a war between the Proletariat of the Western World and the Oligarchic, Political Classes. The only medicine is the creation of a Populist State Structure that covers the whole of the West.
Different paths need to be tried, I go along with you. Explain where UK, France and US don’t feel the immediate pain physically, is that their unavoidable destiny? Why should they commit themselves to choose such a fatality? Ukraine is not EU, not NATO and not the US but as a Pavlov dog they feel attracted to become a death dog.
they have been trained over centuries to play along with their genocidal masters when they were exploiting people in faraway colonies, pretending they don't see what is happening, as their master shared some ill gotten loot with their subjects. As the colonialism increasingly turns inward and gets applied internally to western Europeans and Americans (this is one of the definitions of fascism), the sheeple are a bit confused, and they try to become even more obedient and vaxtard-sheeple-like). Unfortunately for them , this slavish approach is further weaponized against them
Spot on
Nailed it
Now the extractive colonialism is turned inward. Ain’t equality grand ?
They were absolutely sure of Russia's collapse. They literally self-propagandized and hypnotized themselves into own "sure" victory, and over-attached themselves to Ukraine as the vector of such "victory," and now, it's impossible for them to stop, they painted themselves into a corner by over-committing to Ukraine.
Many believe Putin is giving in to Trump and ingratiating himself to the President unnecessarily and to his shame. I believe Putin is taking advantage of Trump's narcissistic character to keep him under control. If Putin didn't do this publicly, it might well trigger an unfortunate and highly dangerous reaction from a mentally unstable Trump that could escalate very quickly into world war with all that that entails. Yes, Trump has given in to nothing thus far, but neither has Russia. Russia's philosophy, however, is based on patience and unwavering resolve to impact the future of Ukraine and Europe and protect Russia's borders and its future, whilst Trump's is based on quick wins giving him positive media exposure and self gratification. As long as Russia can continue to keep Trump under control, they can concentrate on meeting their ultimate goals - demilitarising Ukraine, de-nazifying Ukraine, preventing Western forces on Ukrainian soil, restoring traditional Russian lands back to the Motherland and forcing a European security agreement by "military-technical means" (as Putin tried to do through negotiations in December 2021). All this stuff happening in public is theatre on the part of both the US and Russia, and means - nothing. What really counts is what is happening in the background at the negotiating table and hidden talks where Russia is immoveable and will accept nothing less than a Ukrainian surrender.
The reality is that whilst all this public theatre is going on, Russia is decisively winning in Ukraine, slowly, patiently destroying Ukraine's ability to fight, decimating its weaponry and air defenses, destroying it's dual-use infrastructure, draining the West of its supplies and weaponry to the point that places their own defenses at risk, giving time to Europe to drain itself of its economic and financial strength, indirectly causing a fracture of NATO and the EU, strengthening and adapting their own military capabilities to meet the demands of a new kind of war, hugely expanding their military industrial base, enlarging their armies and preparing them for war with Europe should that become a reality, and creating and testing new technologies and weaponry that can be tested on the battlefield. All this takes time (a quick win by Russia in 2022 would have negated all this), and as Russia has said on multiple occasions, they have all the time in the world if it means protecting Russia - 4 years, 5 years, a generation, it doesn't matter - Russia is in it for the long haul (and has never spoken otherwise - as so many have suggested) as it has proven over the centuries and indeed has become a part of their DNA. No one does war as effectively as Russia, and likely never will.
And all during this time of "war" Russia has met head-on extensive sanctions by the West with an incredible and highly effective counter adapting to this attack by making and strengthening their economic ties to the East, Africa, and the rest of the world by redirecting their markets. They have also engaged in a massive and successful effort to effect a programme of import substitution leaving them essentially free of Western imports. They are even producing their own commercial aircraft from their own resources and industrial capabilities, and powered by new Russian-made engines. They have massively improved their infrastructure from a broken-down disaster to gleaming cities with clean air, beautiful buildings, a significantly raised living standard and improvement of life expectancy. They have forged and strengthened new alliances, including not only deepening ties with allies (China, Iran, North Korea, the Far East, Africa, etc) but combining forces with other nations to create the BRICS alliance that is to be the basis of the new multipolar world, an alliance that will ultimately create a new monetary system to replace the Bretton Woods world.
All this so much more - ALL at the hands of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin who is not only loved by his people but has completely re-engineered a Russia from the ground up, a Russia crushed by the West in the 90s, a Russia with a tragically demoralised and impoverished population.
What world leader today can lay claim to such accomplishments in such a brief period of history?
I believe Putin will go down in history as every bit the calibre of the greatest Russian leaders ever - Ivan IV Vasilyevich (the Terrible), Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Stalin and one of the greatest world leaders ever.
Of course those who accuse me of bias might have a point.
Explain how
Still waiting
sycophants usually get something tangible in return - what tangibilities are we talking here?
Another moronic content-free bilious posting from BillLawson. Why bother?
It's all true. Doesn't sound like bias to me. Are you Russian? Or what is the source of your bias?
I'm retired US Army but have studied Russia for decades and followed closely all the changes since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, of which I was a part. I witnessed first hand the shortcomings of the former USSR and, while not having visited Russia first hand, have seen through study and the writings of A. Martyanov and others the resurrection of Russia and the underhanded, and I would say evil, intentions of the west to destroy her.
In that respect, I find your comments a quite accurate description of Herr Putin's resurrection of Russia Sir... chip
Putin will be buried next to Solzhenitsyn as two of Russia’s greatest.
No so sure about Solzhenitsyn
No, I'm not Russian. However, my wife is and I have seen Russia as it was in the 90s and as it underwent transformation into what it is today (and still evolving!). I have seen first hand Putin's miracle.
Well I thought your comment was spot on Sir. Mirrors my own observations... Chip
He’s also the inspirer, if not the pre-architect of the security and surveillance construct of not only EU, NATO as far as it’s surviving it’s original strategy, and the final stop/ regress of the US Empire expansion. Putin made EU aware, and lately Zelensky made the remark, nothing moves nothing’s happening, they suffer from a deep somnambulism. Now Europe has made itself its greatest enemy, no more partners, no more equal allies there are only many threats and enemies everywhere. Russia and China in the east, Afrika and SE Asia in the south, immigration, Greenland in the north giving them headaches and now the 70 year love relation with Uncle Sam is a dead end, another Marshal plan is not gonna come. Donald says you pay from now on for everything, but no money. These problems socio-economic, geopolitical and especially military need a complete different approach and every second counts.
Europe has no surviving issues it puts its sunglasses on, everything is bright.
Excellent analysis!!!!!!
Although it was Boris Yeltsin who dragged Russia away from communism by the hair, it was Vladimir Putin who created a new Russian society to heal that country from the horrifying illness called communism. This process can be easily illustrated step-by-step based on the historical record.
Have you ever lived under communism? How I wish we could contract that "horrifying illness". My wife did - she and her family were provided a nice flat for free. They only had to pay for the utilities which were dirt cheap. She received an excellent education, free of charge all the way through post-graduate studies. She received free medical care. Their food, entertainment and transport was inexpensive. There were plenty of jobs to be had if you had the qualifications.
O that we would catch that disease.
And then came perestroika and everything went downhill as the jewish oligarchs come to the fore and predatory capitalism entered the system and the usual parasitic practices associated with capitalism took over by the 90s.
I experienced East (and West) Germany back then, and the Western system was by most people preferred at that time. There is the theory that communism was designed by the oligarchs to conquer (not only) Russia with all its resources, but Stalin turned the tide upon them. We all know that Trotzki, Lenin etc. were paid by the US banksters. We can also see Stalin doing the masons sign, but obviously he parted from them. 1990 the masons/western oligarchs again conquered Russia by bringing their modern pseudo-democratic system. The system probably is not so important, but how people use it. Socialism worked well in Scandinavia until that time, now it is a catastrophe for the EU. It is very complicated on the one hand, but on the other it is, of course, just Good vs. Evil.
I lived in one of the commie satellite states for many years. Your wife’s family had the best of communism that was handed down to a selected lucky minority there. The majority of the Russian population also suffered badly under Stalin although they constituted the so called elite there. Even many of their leaders’ families were punished one way or another. Khrushchev and Yeltsin both had their issues. While Khrushchev was fighting in Ukraine for peace and love in the 1930s his first wife and child died inside Mother Russia of starvation. Some of Yeltsin’s family members were carried off to the Gulag early where millions died. The whole of the centrally organized economy was a nonfunctional dead-end. Even as late as the 1970s and 1980s they were unable to organize food production to the point where they had to use up their gold reserves to buy wheat. Those ‘free apartments’ came with lifelong slavery and low wages for the majority after decades of waiting. In the 1970s and 1980s working class people without inside connections had to wait many years to receive their cars, after they paid for them. And you should have seen those Trabants and Lada cars from the inside. The Trabants were made in East Germany, the body constructed from some sort of compressed cardboard mixed with plastic, held together by paint. Death or loss of limb was fully guaranteed even if you had a minor accident. Up to about the early 1970s people who tried to run away were blown up by mines or shot to death at the borders. One close friend was killed there, another wounded badly. It took me five years to make it out of that dreamland.
I understand this was all the minor stuff. The major problem with the commies was their ever repeated ideological BS that was completely disgusting. They classified me a hostile element early on and did not allow me to higher education. I gained my first degree with summa cum laude in the US. A part of my family was German minority. The commies did not allow the parents to contact Red Cross to search for two of their boys after WWII where they disappeared. People need a degree of freedom to pursue business activities and family lives to construct successful families and a prospering nation. For most, communism was a nightmare. It was not an accident that in the 1950s and after half the commie satellite states revolted but even inside the Soviet state the same was going on and on. I hated those bastards with a passion.
The bias is justified. He is the greatest leader of a country on the planet. Putin was born in ‘47? 80 next year. Worrisome: if (by report) Russians wept in the streets on hearing news of Stalin’s demise, what will happen when Putin dies? Answer? The world will hold its breath!
Putin is a moderate politically. When he leaves office, the person replacing him, I think I am pretty safe to say, will not be Western friendly at all, and likely won't be patient to take the shit the West has to offer.
Yes, that seems quite likely. Russia has always had one foot in Europe and one in Asia. Likewise, Putin has always been a conflicted leader, with one foot in the neoliberal West and one foot in opposition to the destructive forces of neoliberalism, both domestic and foreign. I suspect you are right that the next generation of Russian leaders will be less inclined to look favourably upon the West, given the events of the last decade, and look to China, India and Africa for Russia's future prospects.
A long text worth reading. I wonder since a long time whether Putin will be called Putin the Great or Putin the Wise.
Putin the Patient?
Also a good name.
Well he'll certainly go down in history as one of Russia's greatest leaders, no doubt about it.
I see Putin as the George Washington of modern Russia.
An excellent analysis.
I think you're right Victor. I think they will put up statues to Putin when he dies.
Maybe, but he wouldn't want that. In real life he's actually a shy person. He's never been comfortable with fame or adulation.
It's interesting how Russians don't name things after politicians. Parks, streets, schools and airports are named for poets, writers, scientists, and explorers, but not politicians. The Communists named things, especially streets and towns, for heroes of the Communist pantheon, but after Stalin died they didn't name anything for the top guys. There's no "Brezhnev" university, for example, even though he was General Secretary for a long time.
Privately, people feel very strong respect and affection for Putin. I've heard of old women bringing portraits of Putin to their churches to be blessed, as if they are icons. The church politely declines to bless them as that would be heresy, and patiently explains that instead they will say a prayer for him and so can the babushka as she might for anybody she respects and wishes well.
But Putin supports none of that and it's an unwritten rule that no jurisdiction puts up busts or statues of him or anything like that. A photo hanging in a government office along with other officials, like the governor, is OK. But they don't have any photos of him at airports.
That's a refreshing change. Fly into an airport in the US and you'll see portraits of creeps like Gavin Newsome and Trump greeting you, and the airport if it is named for somebody will likely be named for some political jerk, like Dulles. Norman Mineta was a decent guy, but still, it's bad form they named the San Jose airport for him in 2001, long before he died in 2022. But you're more likely to find something named in memory of Jack London in Russia than you'll find a road, school, or airport named for him in the US.
The next war should be humanity versus the psychopaths. Ursula Fond of Lying should be right at the front of the line.
Difficult onr: Thinking whether she would be on A. the humanity side or B. the psychopath side🤔
Lord farquaad comes to mind😂
Definitely psycho.
You have a question?...LOL
I would think it obvious.
I loathe her. She and her gang are killing the future of Europe.
The humanity side? You are kidding, right?
Lavrov's dog, surely?
Good one!
Agree in principle but respectfully disagree with "every word, act and related body language of Trump was studied by a rather large team of Russian psychiatrists"
The Russians put together a team of veterinarians, not psychiatrists.
I also hear there's a necromancer in tow in case, like Biden, Trump is already dead and running on a malfunctional brain implant from Musk's Frankenstein laboratory.
Oh Lord, he's such an easy target, isn't he!
At least that is funny.
"Psychologists."
here's my analysis of his body language (I have a degree in psychology but anyone with any social intelligence can see this clearly):
Fake hair, a Yorkshire Terrier - like hairdo to cover up boldness and god knows what else, fake color, even his skin color is very obviously fake and too orange.
these are indicators of painful insecurity and lack of any ability of objective self-perception.
Kind of like Baby Jane from that old movie.
His childbearing hips and the way he is built not like a strong man (he tries to appear like), but like a fat frau - probably yet another cause of extreme insecurity he tries to cover up with constant bullying... which happens to be very socially acceptable in JUSSA,.
I have never seen such a widespread and pathological bullying anywhere else in the world - as well as tolerance thereof.
Like his master Satayahoo he also looks quite comical and pathetic whenever he tries to run (due to the awkward ways they are built, X-shaped legs, childbearing hips, being overweight and naturally clumsy - as we could see in the video of Natanyahoo running to a shelter during last year's 12 day war) - this is also a cause of their constant attempt to bully and over-compensate for what they know is their obvious freakishness.
this painful feeling of inadequacy is also the cause for their constant lying - that's a weak person's attempt to establish control via mudding the waters
Most importantly they are both psychopaths living in very psycho-tolerant and psycho-worshiping societies. Hence they feel a bit disoriented when they are forced to interact with people from other cultures (i.e not JUSSA)
That's it? You don't like Trump's appearance? You claim to know what is fake and what isn't about his appearance even though you have never met him or anyone who has. Yet all those who have met him and know him disagree with you about those exact features that you mention.
And yet you cite an irrelevant degree from an unmentioned source to substantiate your claims.
Even I can think of many serious problems with Trump's conduct without talking about his appearance. Unless, maybe you are gay and that's why physical appearance means so much to you. That I can understand.
I actually do know several people who know him
its you who does not know what he is talking about
and is likely gay and or suffering from Orange imbecile infatuation
I actually celebrated when he won over Hitlery (and Bidet) even though I voted for Jill Stein (I could not bring myself to vote for either of the 2 friends of Epstein)
He appeared to be a lesser evil at the time.
Too bad he quickly turned out to be even uglier and more freakish from the inside then outside
Damn bro is straight cooking the President 😂
Your "analysis" is not analysis it's just a string of personal insults dressed up as psychology.
Having a degree doesn't give you license to violate basic professional ethics. The Goldwater Rule (Section 7.3 of the American Psychiatric Association's Principles of Medical Ethics) explicitly states that it is unethical for mental health professionals to offer professional opinions about the psychological state of public figures they have not personally examined. Remote armchair diagnoses especially ones that throw around terms like "psychopath"are not credible; they are speculative and irresponsible.
What you're actually doing here is classic projection and dehumanization: fixating on physical appearance (hair, skin tone, body shape, gait) to mock and belittle. That's not insightful social intelligence; that's just body-shaming and ableism wrapped in pseudointellectual language. Mocking someone's build, the way they run, or their alleged "childbearing hips" doesn't reveal anything profound about their character it reveals the character of the person doing the mocking.
You also make sweeping generalizations about entire societies being uniquely "psycho-tolerant" and "psycho-worshiping." That's not cultural observation; that's lazy stereotyping.
If you want to criticize political figures, do it on the substance: policies, decisions, statements, actions. Attacking their appearance, inventing psychological motives from afar, and comparing them to horror-movie characters or dogs doesn't make your critique sharper it makes it weaker, because it signals that you can't or won't engage with the actual issues.
In short: this isn't psychology. It's just venting hostility through personal attacks. If you're capable of more rigorous thought, try using it.
Wow, AI is coming of age. Congrats.
But that's the problem: Trump has no substance. He is a classical narcissist and bully with a low I.Q. and a kind of feral intelligence. End of story. There's no sense in dissecting his actions or motives 'cause there's no sense there to dissect, nothing but mental pathology writ large. What he says one day he contradicts the next. What he does one day he undoes the next. Rigorous thought is wasted on Trump's antics and pathological lies. What's to analyze about genocide?
Your argument that Trump is essentially a chaotic force driven purely by narcissism and impulse, rendering traditional political analysis futile is one I've heard frequently, often from people exhausted by years of trying to find method in what appears to be madness.
But I'd push back gently on a few points:
The "no substance" claim is empirically questionable. Trump has very consistent through-lines: protectionist trade policy, restrictionist immigration, "America First" foreign policy skepticism, tax cuts, deregulation, judicial originalism. These aren't random they've been his positions since the 1980s. He's incoherent in rhetoric and tactics, often self-sabotaging, but not without ideological substance. That substance is populist nationalism.
The "low I.Q." framing is both unprovable and strategically unhelpful. He's demonstrated considerable intuitive intelligence in reading crowds, manipulating media cycles, and surviving situations that would have ended conventional political careers. "Feral intelligence" is apt; dismissing it as merely pathology underestimates why it works on millions of people.
"The "low I.Q." framing is both unprovable and strategically unhelpful."
I agree with you there. You have to understand the opposition if you want to make any headway in an environment where the opponent has significant influence, and not acknowledging the opponent's strengths is often a fatal mistake if your opponent is somebody like Trump.
I think part of the problem is that in fact he has a very high IQ. He's not well educated and is pretty damn ignorant of much of what educated people consider the basics (geography, history, languages, etc.), but there's a difference between being uneducated and being stupid, and the man isn't stupid.
That could well be one of the reasons his operational style is so wedded to shooting off the cuff: that's been very effective for him in the past and so he has every reason to think it will continue to be effective for him now and in the future. In that he has a lot in common with other very smart, but not well educated, people who have been very successful.
There's a certain personality type you often meet in settings where power and money count for a lot more than education: the guy who runs a favela neighborhood, the top dog in a Chicago-style political machine, or the most effective political developer in a 90's Russia or an 80's Atlantic City. Guys like that are usually very smart with extremely quick reacting smarts and are not given to drawn out contemplation based on formal education.
Many of them breezed through what passed for formal education by making just the least effort required to get through it. They lived by their wits in the educational system (if they were in it at all), not by studying, and that's what they do in their professional lives. When you're much smarter than the people around you and especially if that smartness is exceptionally well tuned to social nuances, you can be very intellectually lazy and still be extremely successful. It's hard to find somebody better at manipulating media, people and social attention than Trump.
In fact, I'd guess that most of them would say that was a feature, not a bug. Because they don't waste time (as they would say) on deep study but instead shoot from the hip based on what their instinct tells them which expert should be believed, they say that they achieve much better efficiency in cases where time is money, which is every case for them. That's Trump.
I do like the term "feral intelligence." Definitely apt.
Don't forget that phallic tie of his, talk about overcompensation.
Ah but as Freud once remarked, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
People tend to get stamped by the fashion trends that were in when they rose to fame. Ties like that were a big thing back in the day.
The truce was apparently Trump's idea, and by agreeing to it, Putin is able to flatter Trump and make the American president feel that his intervention in this war is making a difference. Putin agreed to stop targeting Kyiv's energy infrastructure until February 1 just two days away while the cold weather was forecast to worsen after the pause ended .
Undoubtedly. Trump is an open book.
I consider him a closed book. A hopeless horror story.
Russia is really bad at PR.
That said, it doesn't matter what Russia does - Putin could discover a cure for cancer using this one weird old trick and the MSM would chorus that it doesn't work, he stole it, he's weaponizing chemotherapy and besides putting hard working doctors out of jobs.
When trump hears the word epstein his heart skips a beat
A friendship made in hell.
Trump: "I personally asked Putin not to fire on Kiev and the cities and towns for a week."
Putin agreed. Did he ask for something in return? If so, what?
Spank Zel and get the fck a copy like Macron’s sunglasses
To get a mention in the Epstein files perhaps , almost every other leader has.
Implicitly, if he gives Donnie some scrap, Donnie must give something in return, ie his continued support of Russia rather than Ukraine.
The Russians know the US wants them defeated and dismembered. The US knows the Russian know. The Russians know there really isn't a path for NATO to defeat them (and survive). The caravan moves on, the dog doesn't bark.
Seriously? Has stupidity no bounds? — “a Danish report claimed that Denmark wants its F-16s back from Ukraine to defend Greenland”?
They need to have the Danish sheeple entertained.
LOL 🤫
I doubt it's a real story. A few F16s aren't going to save Greenland.
Indeed! The question is if they re going to save Ukraine?
Hehehe, great point! Also, how many are left?
If there's actually any question there, the answer is no. Not one bit.
Wouldn't be surprised if the Danes regard their "built in license in Europe" F16's more trustworthy than Lockheed-built F35's with enough kill-switches to have them drop from the air en masse.
I've always thought that F16's were a much better bang for the buck than the F35... Chip
There is still the famous interview with Pierre Sprey around and the article "This Shitty Fighter Jet Could Provide 23 Years of Free College for Everyone (F-35)" on Russia Insider about the shittiness of the F35.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
As Shakespeare knew a long time ago 🫣
Will 3 million redacted Epstein files mean anything?
Good question...
Those who want to use them for their own purposes will find a way to do so.
SMO = ”still moving on”?
How many more men must die until reason prevails?
I am fed up with this Vampires ball, Putin promised to end.
I am also fed up with reading all these Epstein files. The vampires are roaming free.
"I am fed up with this Vampires ball, Putin promised to end."
Putin promised to end it?
Perhaps you don't understand what he said, "They've spent centuries filling their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they must realise that the vampire ball is ending."
The human flesh continues to be swallowed and I dont see their pockets empty.
They are more filled then ever. And we are entering the fifth year of the ”special military operation”. Very special indeed.
And exactly what has Putins SMO ended?
Instead they now have increasing harassment against their shipping and Lindsey lickings his lips over the prospect to ejaculate Tomahawks over Moscow.
War is dreadful and more people are vampires now then before.
Changes of the world order take decades. We'll have to wait another decade or two. This isn't Hollywood, sorry.
Agree.
Agree, it will take 2 more decades for Russia to reach Kiev.
Here here... many are sick and tired of seeing Zelensky, Putin, and Trump on the daily news, telegram channels that is truly making people wanting to vomit. Atleast sleepy joe 'big boy' Biden was easier to laugh at, to which much needed sattire to this crazy world.
Hi Simplicius, no mention of the ground drone that reportedly captured 3 Russian recon troops West of Guiliapole?
Stories from the Munich "Paulaner Garden"...
Apparently that town has been just secured by the Russians.
"if the attacks on Kyiv and the region’s power grids continue, the consumption of diesel fuel in the Ukrainian capital could reach 300 to 900 tons per day. "
OK. At this late date why are distillates widely available in Ukraine? How are AFU enabled to hop up and down the front seemingly with ease?
Last question: If it's true the Russians shut down Starlink in Iran, why are communications still up in Ukraine?
re:starlink,
There is no confirmation of it being used extensively or mass shutdown, the entire narrative was spin doctored by western media, and alternate media is dumb enough without questioning the source to regurgitate the same BS.
The thing in Iran is that ONLY the Mossad supported "protesters" had starlink. In Ukraine both sides use it (more so now the captured terminals from Iran are available to the Russians).
Apparently GPS spoofing was enough to disable most of the terminals. Also there was reportedly technology that mapped the base stations and allowed the security forces to arrest many of the users.
Starlink LEO satellites use beamforming and phased arrays, GPS (MEO satellites) are not required, hence the point of Starlink and why they have tens of thousands.
GPS spoofing would have little to no effect even at the receiver end.
You haven't been keeping up.
https://www.france24.com/en/iran-jammed-starlink-get-around-it
This is from the article. I had thought that was how Starlink worked all along. I put mine on the roof of my deck - it traversed around and found out the best direction to aim to get the best signal. I didn't think it would need any type of GPS signal. Although I think it might work similar to a GPS. In how it triangulates a location that is.
But then again - I'm in Canada and maybe it doesn't work that way in Iran but I really don't think it would be any different. And maybe they are the "mini" Starlink and they work differently?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"[Starlink uses] the GPS position of the terminals to point their antennas towards the satellites," the people behind the X account @giammaiot2, a group of telecommunications researchers, told our team.
"Jamming GPS signals was the classic way to jam Starlink," Kave Salamatian, a professor at the University of Savoie in France, who specialises in the geopolitics of the internet, told our team. "But a Starlink update, which was added after Russia jammed signals in Ukraine and in the Black Sea, [now] enables users to bypass a GPS signal by relying on Starlink’s own satellites to identify a location using triangulation.”
abcdefg,
I suspect that starlink can be jammed locally but is harder to jam over large areas . The Russians have been able to find the terminals presumably due to signal detection . If the excreta hits the rotor the Russians will probably just take them out in orbit with S500 missiles the same way .
Nobody is going to start a cascade of satellite destruction around the planet by shooting up Starlink satellites.
Velociraver,
Don't bet on it . It depends on the stakes involved . There is possibly better ways of neutralising them anyway . EMP weapons may be available to do the same job without the debris . There is already massive amounts of junk in orbit already anyway....
The "better ways" have been demonstrated by several Chinese satellites lately, exhibiting maintenance and refuelling routines on other satellites. Clearly then can simply grapple with and disable their targets.
By all accounts we are already on the cusp of a Kessler cascade event, and LEO is already be in peril.
Satellites shielded from solar particles and radiation may be innured to such EMP pulses unless very powerful and localized.
There are currently over 9300 Starlink satellites in orbit....
Very good questions and if I may venture an answer on local expert (GM)’s part. “It is clearly another catastrophic failure by the Putin and the Russian leadership”.
Assume that’s the answer you wanted.
If the GM idiot answered it would be an essay with a couple of dozen irrelevant segues about his vast experience and prescient insight into matters military and political during Crimean War of the 19th century, when Russia was roundly defeated by the plucky poms.(Currently happening all over again according to him).
Putin doesn’t need apologists. He doesn’t apologize.
Are you a Green Goblin apologist? His venality and stupidity are beyond apology, but he grovels to anyone with a handful of filthy lucre. Perhaps you should chuck him a coin ?
As I said GM kindergarten is out early. Did you get a unicorn stamp today for being a good boy.
‘consumption of diesel fuel in the Ukrainian capital could reach 300 to 900 tons per day. This amount will be needed only for the operation of emergency services and industrial generators at production and utility facilities.’
There must be a lot larger need for schools, gvmnt offices, hospitals, food distributors and endless other categories as well. Private homeowners with higher than average income will also run diesel or fuel generators to heat.
KM,
I wonder how much of the diesel they are using now originates from Russia ? India would sell to whoever has the cash...
India is a little bit far off. I can hardly believe they are buying it from Russia as every dollar would be used against them. It could be brought in from Poland even or by boats to Odessa from the Mediterranean. Turkey could be the source also. The possibilities are endless.
KM,
I would posit that the Odessa rout is out due to the blockade . Russian oil and diesel are cheap and Russia cannot control where it goes after they sell it . India is buying large amounts of Russian oil and refining it . Its notable that the sanctions had little effect on exports from Russia .....
Refined fuel deliveries to Ukraine:
It is a major network of a delivery system that is sailing around under different flags making deliveries all over the planet. Just about all parties are hiding as much as they can. If India is involved there is the price of two long distance deliveries incorporated into the price. And that sounds rather expensive. AI describes a very complex delivery system that adds to the price for sure but EU/NATO must be paying it happily.
Regardless, here is the AI bubble on the subject and I take ZERO responsibility for credibility.
AI says:
Key Logistics Context
• Source Shift: Before 2022, most fuel came from Russia and Belarus; now, it is sourced from EU countries and international markets.
• India Connection: India became a major supplier of diesel to Ukraine by 2025.
• "Green Lanes": Customs processes were streamlined to allow hundreds of road tankers per day.
• Logistics Challenges: The supply chain relies on complex, multi-modal routes to avoid targeting, managed by both private traders and national operators like Naftogaz.
From India to Ukraine:
AI Overview
Indian diesel reaches Ukraine primarily via maritime shipments to European hubs like Romania and Turkey, followed by Danube River transport, rail, and trucks, driven by international traders. This route surged after Ukraine's 2025 refinery losses, though shipments now face strict checks for Russian origin.
Here are the key details on how the diesel is shipped:
Key Logistics & Routes
• Primary Channels: Fuel is shipped via tankers to Mediterranean and Black Sea ports.
• Transit Hubs:
o Romania: A large share passes through Romanian ports on the Danube River.
o Turkey: Shipments move through terminals like Marmara Ereğlisi (OPET terminal).
• Final Delivery: From these hubs, the fuel enters Ukraine via barges, rail, and road transport.
Context of the Trade
• Driver: The surge in imports followed the destruction of Ukraine's Kremenchug refinery in 2025.
• Suppliers: Major flows include products from Reliance Industries (port of Sikka, Gujarat).
• Regulation: Due to concerns over Russian crude content, Ukraine is implementing strict laboratory testing on Indian shipments as of late 2025
And a few additional sources, AGAIN ZERO GUARANTEES FOR CONTENT:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ukraine-imports-indian-origin-diesel-fuel-after-loss-key-refinery-analyst-says-2025-09-08/#:~:text=%22Therefore%20the%20market%20rushed%20to,Polityuk;%20Editing%20by%20Kevin%20Liffey
https://www.wionews.com/world/india-becomes-ukraine-s-biggest-diesel-supplier-as-trump-wages-tariff-war-on-new-delhi-over-russian-oil-1756541739906
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/us-hits-india-over-russian-oil-but-ukraine-runs-on-indian-diesel-refined-from-it/ar-AA1Lwmu0
The EU will buy that fuel anyway.
To the last question: It is easier to shut down something in one's own country than in a region that is controlled by the enemy alliance.