Well, it finally happened: Avdeevka has fallen, or should I say Avdeyevka, as it’s being styled by many outlets like Sputnik now that it has returned home. Ukrainian forces retreated—or attempted to—from every part of Avdeevka, even in the Coke Plant, leaving the new front looking like this:
Ungainly language -The sea faring metaphor a comforting reminder of more glorious times, little old lady NATO now plays the victim of the mighty Putin, all powerful yet who single handedly moves his great country into disaster after catastrophe –
‘With no checks on his capacity to make fatal mistakes, an ageing Russian ruler surrounded by sycophants may embark on even more reckless moves in coming year’s’
This sounds like an exact description of the US President, apart from the Russian bit – especially as the author admits that the RF has/is winning the Ukraine war – whereas no one thinks Biden can win either the Ukraine war, or the Gaza war, or the China war, or the Iran war, or even the so called Houthi (Ansar Allah) war, but maybe might win the Haiti war with the help of the 30 Kenyan policeman they requested, if the Kenyan judge lets them go (unlikely)
The author is merely imitating VdL and talking up a forlorn and factfree and unlikely EUNATO re armaments plot
The one real world reason given for all this talk is how essential it is for NATO to defend the eternally threatened Baltics under Article 5 – the Latvia government famously used to claim in case of a RF invasion Latvia would survive for ‘twelve minutes’ –Less today or tomorrow
‘Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of Estonia, said that Europe must boost its defenses “because what really provokes an aggressor is weakness.” Then, Mr. Putin might risk attacking a country like hers in an attempt to fracture NATO. “But if we do more for our defense, it will act as a deterrent. People around Putin would say that, you know, you can’t win. Don’t take this up.”
‘As Putin threatens, despair and hedging in Europe’, NYT 18 Febuary
This is the level of childish language used to justify re armament, it is not surprising that NATO can do nothing actually to re arm
Much attention paid to Denmark’s publicity seeking – an arms donation announcement made to appear current in fact occurred last MSC and has long since been completed
The MSC Report is the only instance of realism, a welcome reminder that it is only the EU Bureautrash and politicians who are war mongers, as per this article from the UK Guardian, an otherwise ruling class propaganda outfit, as per – even! – Politico
Not that the MSC is pro Russia, it’s full of US slang and weasel talk ‘To alleviate the isolation that Russia has experienced since its invasion of Ukraine’, ‘Russia’s weaponization of Europe’s energy dependency’
The EUUS peoples are not worried about Russia and do not want war – the EUUS ruling class pretends to be worried and does
BRICS nations are positive and optimistic, EUUS ‘deeply’ pessimistic and negative
“If current trends continue, the US and its allies risk losing the blame game in the global court of public opinion, being branded the culprits of the erosion of a cooperative international order and of a lack of effort to ensure more mutually beneficial outcomes.”
“..the global perception of the strength of the community of liberal democracies depends on Ukraine prevailing over Russian revisionism.”
“And last Monday, groundbreaking began for a future munitions factory at a Rheinmetall industrial complex in the northern German town of Unterluss, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in attendance.
“This factory in 2025 will start producing NATO's standard 155-millimetre shells, used in numerous artillery systems, with an eventual output of 200,000 shells a year.”
Annual production good for max of ten days expenditure in one country….eventually – for NATO this is a real accomplishment – wait till they start thinking of re arming for full scale war in several countries as their propaganda proclaims they ‘must’
Only a couple very feeble complaints at the non confiscation of CBR assets
Invariably, the hardcore anti-Russian propaganda centres are British. They are the voice of the City's financial vampyres who control the tax haven network, the world drug cartels, the international banking and institutions, the currency and gold exchanges, the media, NATO, etc. This is a continuation of the XIX and XX century anti-Russian policies but at least the game is clear now. They understand that the creation of a strong trading triangle between the Russians, the Chinese and the Persians will certainly work as a magnet for other importan playerd like the Arabs, the Turks, the Egiptians, and so on. In addition, they are losing their grip on Africa. This could be the end of their fake casino empire.
The Brit gvmt/military establishment has serious intent in operating a few terrorist tactics which they regard as face saving, and hope will be evidence enough of willing collaboration/contribution to keep the USMIC at bay – they are capable of nothing more
The initiatives, political and economic as well as military, taken by RF China and so on in the rest of the world have already provided evidence of system and structure building which (have started to) by pass and replace the usual western, to their gain and to western loss
THE QUESTION being how much copying by "BRICS" from the blueprint inherited from THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN will take place and which BUGS are going to be included and which are going to be spotted and eliminated?
Article 5 is over-hyped. Most of old NATO Europe will send medical supplies that have expired or about to. Britain would love to send artillery, but has none left.
Rheinmetal must be getting 100% subsidized for the shell factory or is going to be selling the shells for the very low cost of $20,000 per shell to recoup it's costs. No matter, that works out to around 550 shells a day or 1/11 of what the Bandera army claims it needs today, not sometime in 2025.
Article 5 is the badge of honour worn with pride by the leaders of the small Baltic and Nordic states, it is their passport into the celebrity thinktank transAtlantic MIC class, a life of enduring ‘influence’ and wealth
The guarantee they will sacrifice national and popular interests in the service of USEUNATO
All these countries are hollowed out by association with the EU, they serve as frontline pets dangled in front of the RF in an attempt to provoke foolish actions
As for artillery shell costs, the subject of a recent NATO contract 220,000 for $1.2B, this is widely believed to be between $5,000 and $8,000 per shell – not forgetting, as VdL pointed out at the MSC, how much ‘greener’ and more efficient our shells are than their shells are
I wasn't aware VdL made such a a statement. The 1.2 billion contract is supposed to be for never, just like the promised 1 million shells that were supposed to be delivered by this March.
I think a regular shell in the US is around 4 grand and about 8 for the EU. Guided shells in the US are about 70k so I am sure much more expensive to build in Europe. The French Caesar system I believe, can only fire a special guided round.
It is my opinion the pecking order is the WEF, US, EU and NATO is the globalist military wing.
Well stated about the tiny Baltic states and appreciate the link to the Munich report.
VdL spoke of dirty RF weapons and 'our' clean precise weapons enhanced by AI - the speech is on the EC website as far as I can remember - she must have fawned Eric Schmidt
The problem with NATOEU is that they say they have the money they sign contracts but the money is not there, disappears, pressure from US MIC to buy token Fsomething planes – EU manufacturers have no confidence and will not invest
RF pay factories 80% upfront
KK is Kaja Kallas the most stupid and oversold of the Baltic/Nordic pets, she wrote a FT Women of the Year portrait of Mrs Zelensky which was a job application for the upcoming movie/US tour, her interview with the FT is a mess, shows how little she understands but how willing she is to talk about subjects she does not understand
‘Seize frozen Russian assets before US election, says Estonian PM’
They are aaall criminally making up this garbage about how Russia is going to invade them and they need to be ready for it. But look what I just found this morning. Apparently the Africans burnt Hague, Holland, many cops got injured in the process of responding to the riots, cop cars and buildings burnt and ransacked, the African wild monkeys even broke into the Opera House and destroyed everything in their path etc. But what are the EU Parliament baboons doing about it?!?!?! NOTHING!!!!! Europe is under attack and has been for at couple of years now and these low life scums have yet to do the thing about it. The illegal Africans are the ones who are attacking Europe and NOT the Russians. I Lost respect for the West blood sucking maggots that call themselves "politicians" aaall together. And they are threatening to let in another 75 million migrants into Europe!!!!!! Europe is gone.
Tucker Carlson said Moscow is squeaky CLEAN, and they don't like that. They cannot deal with Clean. Jackson Hinkle also took a tour of Moscow and said the same thing.
They cannot stand the fact that Russia is out of their filthy rotten reach.
As the Zerohedge mentioned , here in Toronto last summer we had similar (not as violent) conflicts between several groups of the Eritrian community. Cops in Toronto couldn't figure out where they got all their resources or what was going on. Open Society, Soros anyone? ie planned chaos.
Do you really believe Putin decides everything ? REALLY?
"In short: he believes he’s got Putin psychologically pegged, and that Putin, morally, is loath to the idea of fighting this brother war. We must admit that judging by many aspects of Putin’s ‘soft-gloved’ approach thus far, there is some substance to this idea—though it certainly doesn’t mean Putin will surrender. But rather that he may be a sort of tortured figure, allowing his principled faculties of reason to overpower his moral sentimentality to the detriment of his psyche in doing what he knows must be done."
Even when Russian Empire was ruled by Emperors even THEY didnt decide everything singlehandedly. They had cabinet of Ministers and a lot of different Allies and international coalitions between GROUPS of people. Power circles.
Putin feels this Putin feels that
Its just preposterous to read.
Do you realise that everything is decided by Security Council including all Center Left and Right forces inside Russia PLUS international connections.
And not by PUTIN alone.
This Putin syndrome in the west is just absurd. And people who said Putin this Putin that just dont understand how power works.
Especially i laugh every time when people said Biden this and that. Biden is just filler on position. Power is in other hands.
The use of Putin Putin is part of the hysterical campaign by EUUS media to personalise and to demonise ‘the enemy’ in an effort to simplify and reduceany description/justification of this war into a time honoured fairy tale of good versus evil in order the more easily to impose this on their countries
Being the only explanation they can imagine for this as all other conflicts –
Any attention would reveal that the RF is ruled and administered by a complex system of central and provincial adminstrations, balanced between popular elected representatives and state bureaucrats, taking into account large scale nationalised essential industry and commercial class interests
Obviously Putin plays a central role – one only has to read accounts of his journeys and meetings across Russia to glimpse the scope and scale of his interventions at every level
Exactly, and they fall victim to their own propaganda and brainwashing. They have poor impulse control and are psychologically impaired as they have a compulsion to engage in counter productive activity. And they can't mask their real intent behind word salads as the visual evidence mounts of their genocidal tendencies. The fixation on Putin show how juvenile the collective west's leadership team is. The Brits are malicious and driven by their ever shrinking stature in the wider world.
My father-in-law is pretty tuned in to the various power centers in Russia. He says that while Putin has some dictatorial authority for things like suppressing riots or revolts, handling censorship, etc., when it comes to big decisions, Putin acts as a manager and mediator whose job is to find solutions that the majority of power centers can live with, even if all of them aren't happy with it.
Ex: in 2014 there was a very strong bloc of the more hardline factions that wanted to roll tanks into Kiev immediately. Putin mediated a compromise which resulted in the encouragement and support of the Donbas republics and the annexation of Crimea.
I watched snippets of the so-called 'Munich Security Conference'... it was nothing more than a bunch of snivelling out of touch 'Elite' engaged in Hopium & Copium shenanigans to try & continue justifying their grift worth hundreds of billions of USD & Euros. As Project Ukraine is crushed decisively on the battlefield, the Grift will no doubt continue for a while still; though at this point all of said money is really just going toward bribing the various middlemen, bureaucrats, etc. Tragedy!
To report realistically on the state of security is beyond the scope of EU politicians and media - their role is to not be realistic
However there are sections of the goverrning class, in the military, and of the business class, in industry, who are of necessity realistic and rely on real world facts
These sections are not inclined to 're arm" - for very good reasons - the politicians are incapable of organising this, incapable of paying for it, and will be incapable of persuading or scaring the general peoples to actually fight
The better grounded and factual the information given in the MSC Report, the more influence this will have - after all MSC is an important part of the security 'apparatus' in Europe - compare and contrast with previous reports which were much more 'enthusiastic'
So the MSC report is like the IPCC WG1 report then?
Too long and detailed for a politician, so it's totally supplanted by the Summary For Politicians, which bears no resemblance to the original report, but plays to the media?
-for example the lies related by Denmark’s PM concerning the country’s artillery donation (she got a lot of publicity via the suggestion that this gift was this year’s rather than last year’s) VdL’s careful reproduction of US MIC talking points, KK’s childish fears, Macron’s absence
Are very unimpressive and unconvincing, good for TV grabs, and headlines to scare the masses, but of not other import – this level of stupidity can not find expression in real world programs
However the MSC report is reasonably researched and reaches reasonable conclusions, even if does use the usual ruling class slang when discussing RF or President Putin
The target audience for the MSC report is manifestly not the VdL's the KK's etc, but those sections of the governing class which are susceptible to arguments based on evidence
Hence it is clear that : any and all in house re armament initiatives will be inadequate for any purpose, that the general populations of NATO countries are not interested in war, that no one military establishment has any serious intent in operating anything but a few terrorist tactics which they regard as face saving, their general idea is buy enough USMIC arms to keep the US from starting a shooting war in Europe
I hesitantly agree, as the public appearances of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN are nothing but that "public appearances". NO-ONE can defy REALITY - THE TRUTH will settle in sooner than one might believe based on "public appearances" and perception.
You know as a citizen of the U.S. I have been saying "they ALL cannot be as stupid as they appear. There must be intelligent people somewhere behind the idiots. After a few years, even before the conflict in Ukraine, I have come to the conclusion that sure there are some people attached to the morons who can think rationally. BUT even those people have lost any sense of pride in their country, they no longer have a sense of belonging to anything. It has been forced out of them. They are literally worshipping the money. Fortune is more important than family, country, personal values. The idea of national security does not even occur to these people, it is just a tool for them to generate a personal fortune, anyway that is my opinion of so called "elites of the west" and their lackeys and servants
It is essential to remember that the structures of USEU societies and countries are set up not to produce and present clever, efficient governance and administration, but to protect and produce wealth for the dominant rich capitalist class
If politicians and bureaucrats have little to say of interest to the general public, and little to promote in the interests of the major part of the population as per living standards, work conditions, health, they do serve an essential purpose for the rich in maintaining stable conditions of wealth production and enforcement
This was until very recently perpetuated by a disregard for national and popular interests in favour of a global dispersal of investment and technology, with corresponding decline of native conditions, absolute and relative to the rest of the world
The recent conflicts with RF and China have revealed weaknesses in this system, with unforeseen strengths in commodity or production rich countries leading to rivalries and alternatives that have encouraged attempts, in the west, to somewhat re configure, so far with very little success
The MSC provided a picture in miniature of this attempt to adopt or to revert to a more realist modus operandum, together with the context within which the layers of practical business and administrative classes have to combat the inherited ignorance and limited ideologies of the classes in power, and the extreme prejudice focused on any of those movements which can be designated as ‘populist’, those in any way which try to represent any alternative
"They are literally worshipping the money." ... coming to this conclusion one - me included - usually doesn't realise how
1. TRUE this is!
2. What it actually means?
3. What to do about it?
And as far I am concerned there is NO general statement/answer to 1./2./3. ... as the "answer" is as INDIVIDUAL as LIFE FORMS are. Which doesn't take away the TRUTHFULNESS of above statement. Not even those worshiping - one way or another anyone of us has done so/does it - the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN - MONEY/WORLDLY POWER/CONTROL ...
Despite this conundrum anyone who would ask me how to approach it would be look for answers in THE BIBLE ... all of it is covered there!
"Fortune is more important than family, country, personal values." ... out of the above "fortune"/"standing in"/"approval by" the world becomes "THE VEIL" hiding THE TRUTH EVERYONE has access to, but which has been "abandoned" along the way - by accepting the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN/ buying into THE LIE from THE GARDEN OF EDEN - the description of ABANDONING GOD ALMIGHTY comes as close as it gets!
As THE LORD JESUS CHRIST said "... my kingdom is not from this world .." just before receiving HIS "death sentence", which is the pathway to ETERNAL LIFE! As LIFE is not material in ESSENCE, even though as a result it puts on a dress of blood and flesh to become visible to ITSELF.
The "elites" are only relevant to those that have left THE WAY, having bought into IDOL WORSHIP of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN - MATERIALISM!
THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE ONLY - THE LORD JESUS CHRIST - AMEN HALLELU-YAH!
The intelligent people are intelligent enough to shut up when they are asked for their opinions. In Germany many weren't that smart and were fired or even prosecuted for being 'Russian spies', just for telling their opinion. But I guess they are just a minority, the sad thing is, I think most of the Technocrats/Bureaucrats don't give a flying crap for anything but their money and power. I said it often and many here and in other forums are basically saying the same, the West will go down, crash, maybe after that it will be reconstructed, but I doubt it, intellectually, morally, financially, militarily the West is already bankrupt.
Evident when you see 'Anti-Racists' who are as racist as the KKK. Giving 'refugees' money for just coming to the Western countries without working and with huge unemployment numbers mind you. Having more than 2 genders which is parroted by 'professors', 'teachers' and other 'Elites'. Climate 'boiling' 'science', etc etc. Its just over, no recovery from all of that and I could go on and on for hours. Insanity, nothing else, they really think money printing will go on forever.
Alcohol party against Putin... That tells everything. Europe is an anglosaxon colony that will be used as cannon fodder as in WWI and II while the oversees anglosphere will be preserved to pick up the pieces and makes new profits rebuilding
Skeptic, I’ve followed your site since the earliest days of the war, thanks for all you have done and continue to do to shed facts and share opinions on the new era of great power conflict…
Only if honestly is used in terms of the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN - which I believe is not the case with VVP, he has a clear stance out of which naturally a clear AIM results, which he seems to be determined - out of his believe to be the right thing to do - to pursue till the end. Which is why he is able/willing to communicate about it for more than 3 hours a piece, without teleprompters en mass and/or other minions running a show for him. I have NOT seen a head of state as prepared, determined and capable as VVP. Indias MFA Jaishankar and Lavrov, with having to cover less bases, are equally impressive.
Thanks Simplicius, great report as always! One small correction: the scum sporting the X moniker @NyaVikingen is not Ukrainian, but Swedish or Danish, obviouosly from the region of Scania.
Good point! The mental salad that guys like these have is fascinating for me. How someone can be at the same time "White Internationalist", "paleoprogressive" and pro EU & pro NATO is beyond comprehension...
Honestly, "Europeans" like these make me grow more and more fond of the old French saying: "Africa starts at the Pyrenees". Its starting to look like a compliment instead of an insult....
I wholeheartedly agree! As the old meme goes - "the cognitive dissonnance is strong with this one" :)
The mental sallad guys like the one above are the epitome of Orwell's "doublethink", having the ability to hold 2 contrarian thoughts at the same time. Meanwhile, his self-attributed adjective "paleo" is the only accurate attribute describing neonazi scum like the "NeoViking"!
"... the epitome of Orwell's "doublethink", having the ability to hold 2 contrarian thoughts at the same time. " ... I oftentimes think "doublethink" is a bit misleading as well as the second part of the quote if you understand it in the true sense of the word. As in the case of comparing two things I have to hold them at the same time - like comparing apples and oranges I have to hold them before my eyes at the same time. Which is why I think it more akin to BLINDNESS. By not being able to understand the meaning of expressions - ANTIsocial media being the STEROIDS bringing the symptoms of THE DISEASE lately to full blossoming - let alone the discernment of the meaning of expressions. The expression "lost in the woods (words)" or "not seeing the woods for the trees" applies here LITERALLY!
Doublethink as per Orwell indeed represents a state of a (psychotic) mind that lacks critical reasoning skills AND subsequently is able to draw (false) inferences out of 2 or more mutually contradicting premises. I suggest you delve deeper into the subject of deductive reasoning to better understand this.
However, for a quick glimpse into how it works in practice, think of the old meme of a dark-skinned young male proudly posing in a red tee-shirt with a large black patched Nazi swastika on it. :)
I have personally witnessed what happens when a "genius" of his ilk finally understands that his entire system of moral values is the opposite of what he has believed his whole life and trust me that it is not a pretty sight. At best they end up with a nervous breakdown, but the majority sees no other way out but offing themselves...
It's not that I don't understand what Orwell is referring to, but "the pit of DARKNESS" is even deeper than what you describe.
The world is full of the "geniuses" you are talking about - which makes THE BEAST appear so frightening as THE BLINDNESS is abound and THE CULT - as a tribe - encourages mob-like behaviour.
THE DESEASE spreads wider than one thinks, and most likely than not we are part of it, while actually believing to be "wiser" simply because "hierarchically" we are not as obviously part of it.
The example, which you personally witnessed as THE DARKNESS dawns on somebody is interesting and maybe even shocking, as you describe. Rest assured "the world" is full of "blinded" minds - since EVE in THE GARDEN OF EDEN - from entry level - getting lured into "the system" by "the drug" for "free" with the highest PRICE tag of "getting lost" eventually - to the highest level becoming a ring leader alà "dick swinging clown" involved in Hitler-like behaviour!
These pro-EU "white supremacists" are the most obvious Establishment plants ever.
Like yeah okay. You're a far right paleoconservative. That's why you support an organization built on free trade, the free movement of peoples, the surrender of national sovereignty and the promotion of liberal notions of feminism, sexual orientation equality and respect for gender identity.
Yeah okay. And I'm a follower of Ares who believes in peaceful nonviolence.
People like that gentleman have had a difficult time accepting Russia ever since the Romanovs fell and were assasinated. Ruled by a germanic dynasty, Russia could be understood as part of Europe. Now its confusing... Asiatic!
What they don't understand is Russia has always been a nation with one foot in Europe and the other in Asia.
My God, if you look at modern reconstructions of Ivan IV's face, he has distinctively European and Asian physical features.
This is not a source of weakness buy rather of strength for Russian society. It makes Russian society pragmatic and able to make the multicultural angle work by simply treating each culture the way it wants to be treated.
Fun seeing the nafoists starting to realize that their hero Zelenskiiyiyiyiyyyyyiiii is nothing but a cheap huckster. They raved about his "leadership" when in fact it was a bunch of adolescent posturing and third-rate tinhorn dictator-ing. I mean a grown man going around the world meeting world leaders whilst wearing a t-shirt? Flipping off Russia and taking selfies? Who but 13 year olds are impressed by this act?
EVE and ADAM have been - since THE GARDEN OF EDEN - continuously impressed by/ have raised "their" offspring by this mantra of 3-yo posturing. Both being lured into the ANTIsocial media DRUG CARTEL bringing the symptom of THE UNDERLYING DISEASE to full fruition and for those with eyes to see presenting it on the world stage!
The UKE prisoner in the first video said that there were Canadians with him. I've seen no news here about Canada engaging in conflict in Ukraine. Maybe they were mercenaries. If not I regret seeing Can. forces where they should not have been involved and have no business to be. Maybe nobody even noticed the prisoner said "Canadians" except for me but it sure gave me a shock. I'm not happy about it but I can't change foreign policy. Notice how our governments lead us into things we don't want or agree with all the time. They are the useless eaters that we are much better off without.
He goes on to say they are mercenaries. We have Troops in Latvia but none, officially, in Ukraine. However we trained the Ukrainain Army before the war.
Thanks, Chris. I've met and know many Can. soldiers. They're good guys I hope don't get wasted in the Uke shit show. Bring them back home. Screw NATO and screw those UN blue helmets who will be used against us one day far worse than at the truckers' rally in Ottawa. The first person they kill means game on with most of our soldiers and police on our side. The UN is a bigger threat to us than any Russian will ever be.
Stop being delusional about Canada's position in this war and their support for Ukranian Nazis. You're letting blind nationalism for a Canada that doesn't exist and hasn't existed cloud your judgement about Canada's role in the world. The Ukranian World Congress (fascist diaspora org, founded to collect all the war criminals and Nazi scum from Europe and give them power, funding, and protection) was founded and is based in Canada. They have numerous Canadian politicians at their beck and call, Liberals, Cons, and NDP all included. I live right by a CF garrison and the amount of scumbag soldiers flying Ukraine flags and UPA flags outweigh all the sane soldiers by a lot. Hell the CF even sent guys to train Azov itself before the war. At every football or hockey game they honor some goosestepper for serving as a "medic" or "trainer" in Ukraine. Canada is a pathetic, fake country even more debased than the Baltics and somehow more pathetic.
You're upset because the obvious contradiction in your worldview has been pointed out. There is no "real Canada" where people make the right choices and support the right things, this country is rotten from the very beginning and the military, government, media,and all political parties all play the part of being the scum of this world. Beyond saving. You didn't even attempt to refute any of my points because they are true on a basic level.
So here is what I see. All populations of Western countries are currently sieged in every way by their governments through agencies like WEF and WHO and in collaboration with big pharma, and central bank cabbalsters. Their mission is to control all aspects of our lives through things like graphene electrical wireless control of our body with bio-weaponized vaccines transduced by the electricity of our body to the 6G network. And there's a lot more. Our populations have mostly been mind-controlled one may call mass formation psychosis. Indeed, it doesn't look good for the Awakened ones who see their evil, deceptive, and most cunning plan. The zombie masses face extinction whereas the rest of us have a fighting chance to prevail if we can survive the initial assaults. You don't tell me anything I don't already know. Of course, our soldiers are putting up Uke flags because they have been brainwashed and not given a chance to develop their brains yet for critical thinking. It's not their fault. Most are still good people just like all the other zombies. I don't refute any of your bloody points because, in essence, I agree with you. You're arguing with someone who shares your view. The difference is I am part of the human resistance as a Canadian, I think we will prevail. But you have just given up and quit. That's what the narcissistic controllers want. Quitters. Well, I know a hell of a lot of people who are resisting those dark forces and with a new awakening. Good things are happening but you're too busy crying the blues instead of just standing up, face the reality, adapt and overcome and survive. With your attitude you may as well just shoot yourself and spare the trouble of being part of the resistance. Quitters are no good to us.
There never has been a real Canada because were all divided by Westerners, Easterners, French Quebequers, Newfies, Natives, Chinese, East Indians. We got no Federal Identity, man. Now everyone hates Justin Trudeau so much, he's inadvertently united Canadians like never before and Pierre P. said that no member of his cabinet will be WEF. And the Supreme Court of Canada declared Trudeau's implemation of the Emergencies Act unconstitutional. You ain't telling me anything new, son. If the Patriots never stood up to the British they's still be part of the British Empire. So either stand your ground or kiss your ass goodbye. lol
The mercenaries have been often used as 'blocking' Detachments to prevent the Ukrainian mobniks from retreating. There's been some video evidence of friendly fire on US and UK mercs when the mobniks REALLY want to retreat.
THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN doesn't hide ... never has, but now it is being brought to light even by those living in DENIAL for decades/over millennia and are shattered to their core ... often creating deeper rooted DENIAL if rooted deep enough in THE CULT OF LIES, like Mr. "Fidel Castro" Trudeau, Ms. Freeland, Ms. Nuland ... dick swinging clown!
Two sides of the same corrupt coin. The murderous vulgar comedian with a penchant for penis piano and homeless beggar haute couture ...and the undeniably effeminate actor with a penchant for ridiculously emphatic diction as he meanders aimlessly, apponting a diverse and equitable equine senate here and WEF diktats there - all delivered as it is through an irritatingly over-nasally orator's pitch...as he 'doth protest too much'.
Both will end up fleeing their kingdoms soon under the wholly insufficient cover of darkness... as cascades of chaos envelop these fools witnessing their houses built on sand suddenly collapse.
Of course, there is no official military personnel of NATO countries in Ukraine. All of them are mercenaries from different NATO PMCs or volunteers who, by pure coincidence, left the army right before entering Ukraine.
“Military Advisors” somehow don’t count as foreign troops, even though they go into the field and take casualties. 122 American combatants were killed in Vietnam in 1963.
At 2:30 the PoW also said (according to the subtitles) that he was from Sonsk Oblast. I can't find anywhere called Sonsk in the Ukraine, though there is a village called Sońsk in Poland, a bit less than 100 km north of Warsaw. Then there was an exchange about "Happiness" on the Siversky Donets River. Are the subtitles wrong?
Thank you. That's very interesting. That town is very close to Lugansk City, and must have been liberated early on. I wonder how he came to be in the AFU. The recent rounds of conscription presumably wouldn't have had access to Счастье.
Heaven knows how Schastye turned into Sonsk in the subtitles. Now I know what to listen for it sounds like Shestye to my English ears, nothing like Sonsk. Again, thanks.
Don't even try to listen to pronunciations - Ukraine government after 2014 rolled out renames of all rusophonic names in Eastern Ukraine, so it's basically nuspeak, having nothing to do with history. That's why we have Avdeevka/Avdeyevka, Bahmut/Artemovsk clusterfuck and nobody in West know how to pronounce it. You have about 0% chance to stumble on correct, authentic Russian pronunciations of these places in anglo-internet because Wikipedia/Google maps immediately approved Ukraine's version.
Curious- while a psychological victory, and a pr victory, and great for people who were shelled from Avdeevka, does this victory really matter? Bahkmut fell, and almost a year later not much has changed in the front lines, and 2,000 men lost is horrific, but UKR already needed to raise 500,000. So I hate to say it, but the bigger impact may be about EU or USA levels of support, or even more important, internal political factions in Ukraine- including military. But in terms of the battlefield, I’m not sure it matters very Mitch, except perhaps as a sign of momentum…
I think that the victory over the strong point Avdeevka was very important. I think the defences to the west are not as well prepared. Getting Bahkmut and now Avdeevka, the Russians can use these places as a base for attacking towards other cities/defenses further west. But I'm no tactition, above Recce Troop level.
It takes awhile to dig true fortifications. All the fighting positions must be joined with trenches, and then additional trenches and bunkers to position men to reinforce the fighting positions. If you're going to have a battalion of troops in an area, for example, then you need bunker space for 500 men, otherwise they're going to get eaten up by artillery.
And then you need communications trenches to create a network of supply, reinforcements, and medical evac from the front all the way to wherever it's safe to bring up vehicles. And you need backup trenches and fighting positions in case the front-line fighting positions are taken or destroyed.
It's really difficult to do this once the battle is joined because most of the heavy equipment is vulnerable to artillery or air strikes..or simply sniper fire. Ex: if the Russians or Ukrainians see an excavator, it's almost a bigger priority target than a tank because it can dig the trenches and bunkers so much faster than men can.
Bro, Avdeevka is 12km from Donetsk City. So yeah, it matters a LOT. Adveevka was their favorite little fortified nest for popping off shells into shopping centers and markets in downtown Donetsk.
By Russia, maybe. AFU losses are far, FAR above that, just in Avdeevka, let alone in the time since they lost Bahkmut. This is beyond catastrophic for the AFU.
Russia set out to bleed Ukraine white, and then some more, NOT grab land for the sake of media opportunities.
This IS what successfully achieving a military goal looks like, vs AFU attempts at "winning"...
Some cannot grasp that the land follows the annihilation of Ukrainians.
And remember Pierre Trudeau had a special affinity for Nazis, a story buried deep. Trudeau the Lesser, a court jester for the WEF, does what he is told. Not an original thought nor a whiff of reason has ever entered his head.
Front line hasn't changed much after Bakhmut because it was only part of large and most fortified Ukrainian defence line in Donbass. Since maneuverable warfare with large flanking maneuvers and significant breakthroughs is almost impossible in conditions of modern war, Russia will gradually push the entire front line and significant changes in it will be possible only after all strong and most fortified defence points will be captured or suppressed. And Avdeevka was the strongest and most fortified fortress in Donbass front and in whole Ukraine. After its falling the events will only speed up. So, the falling of Avdeevka probably will be the most important event of this war.
Wow seems like things are speeding up... And again the church is still shining. Amazing. I can't believe what the feeling must be for this guy waiting this out for 10 years. Unbelievable.
Official Uke Policy doesn't mean that in the hearts of a lot of Ukrainians in battle there isn't a connection to the past where they got along with their Russian compatriots.
One thing is certain, if Putin doesn't demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, this battle will start all over again.
Fortunately, sunset on the American Empire is now clearly in view.
"I can't believe what the feeling must be for this guy waiting this out for 10 years. " It's the same for the people who liberated him. Troops from Donetsk, many of whom have been fighting for 10 long years, were at the tip of the spear in the long hard fight for Avdyevka. Many of them had relatives stranded on the other side of the front that only now they may get to see again.
It's been the same in all the territories freed from Kiev. If you travel through those territories or talk to the people who lived there you know that the referenda were genuine and true reflections of what the people there wanted. By overwhelming margins they wanted not to be part of "Ukraine", and not standalone countries, but (as they themselves invariably describe it) to return to being part of Russia.
At the same time when people from the new territories go to places in Russia they're welcomed as family come home. I remember attending a concert in central Russia with guest soloists from the Donbass. When their names were announced and they walked on stage they were greeted with thunderous applause, a standing ovation. People in the audience had tears in their eyes.
I think it's that sincere, very strong emotion that powers the volunteering that's going on. All that is for real. It's not propaganda but the real deal: in truth over 1500 men per day really are volunteering to fight for their kin in Ukraine. The intensity of that dedication and emotion are unstoppable, an enormous factor the West has fatally ignored.
Kosovo voted to leave Serbia and the EU and U.S. rushed to legitimize it....but then when sections of Ukraine voted to leave Ukraine, they claimed all the elections were rigged or held at gun point.
You could have had half the Russian population of Crimea sit at home and the pro-Russia annexation vote would still have won by overwhelming numbers.
Actually, there wasn't any vote in Kosovo at the time of its declared independence. They claimed that a vote about a decade before justified it. I remember at the time of the Donbass referendums* that Obama claimed that they were not legitimate like the Kosovo vote because they weren't approved by the international community, i.e. the USA and whoever was obeying its diktats that day. People pointed out that he was lying about there having been any democratic process at all in the establishment of Greater Camp Bondsteel.
* I'll defend my choice of the English rather than Latin plural if anyone cares.
please understand that in the former Soviet Union 'germans' means fascist scum who invaded back in 1941. 'germans' themselves could be Romanian, German, Hungarian, Finn, French (SS division Charlemagne) or be hiwi auxiliaries like AFU right now. what the man is saying - kill fascists all of way to their lair, liberate the land. and currently Russians believe the lair of the beast is Washington, London, Berlin, etc. I doubt they will want to spend lives and resources to march to London however public sentiment is asking why the hell we are not nuking these satanic forces of evil, in their lair? Why is Rheinmetall allowed to build plants and capacity supplying its hiwi nazi puppet and not yet destroyed? Why is London not a lunar surface (Kiev is a birthplace of Russia and should be spared, London is not and should be f$cked). I do not think 'the west' understands what it is screwing with - this is the fourth biggest economy in the world, and tens of millions of men, advanced technology, and resolve above and beyond any other place I know, tested time after time after time. the whole 'limited sanction war' is only here because Putin is VERY moderate and very soft on the west and Russian public opinion complies out of huge respect to him, for now.
I think the words 'think' and 'West' can hardly be used together in same sentence. We (west) are so short term focused that it is always about next immediate thing, next meeting, next election, next press cycle, etc. This is not how you fight, and this is absolutely not how you win if you are always trying to live in make believe PR world vs reality.
The arrogance of the British generals (“Sir Winston Alistair Chinless Wot III”) in commenting on the war has peen particularly entertaining. The Russians were going to drop their weapons and flee at the sight of allied armor. 47th Brigade would break through to the sea. Russia had met its match!
Arrogance based on century old victories over pre-gunpowder armies. Take away all the wars where British soldiers were in the minority among allies, and there’s not a lot to brag about. Now, the Navy is a different story…..
(Although the ships apparently now can’t leave port without major repairs).
I guess. I just think of this less of a 'tool', it just is - that is how population thinks. to them , this is the repeat of ~80 years ago when 'ze Germans' (Axis forces of Euroreich) were occupying this territory and installing Ukrainian nationalism, attacking anything Russian and trying to create a fake myth of 'Ukrainian nation'. there was an occupational regime in Kiev, it published newsletters, movie theaters were working and there was a pretense that "euroassociation" (occupation by Reich) was 'normal'. Today it is same fascist 'heroes' in Kiev, exactly the same ideology, same flags, same policies - to population on the ground these are fascist occupiers installed by EU/NATO aka 'ze germans'. and they need to be dealt with the same way they were dealt with 80 some years ago. If that means Russian cities would have to be destroyed in the process, so be it, it would be rebuilt. if that means whose who took arms for 'the germans' have to be defeated, so be it. 'if enemy is not surrendering it is to be destroyed' (если враг не сдается то его уничтожают). Thus ' the germans' , thus Red Banners of Victory you see in photos and videos along with Russian flag. To russian population it is Great Patriotic War again and you need to honor your grandparents and their sacrifice and kick anyone with 'euro-orientation' either to hell or outside of your territory.
if you want my opinion, the official Russian government actually trying to downplay it because if that is how people feel, you cannot make any peace deals with fascists other than their unconditional surrender. Your own people would not understand.
" ... this is the repeat of ~80 years ago when 'ze Germans' (Axis forces of Euroreich) were occupying this territory and installing Ukrainian nationalism, ... " if you are interested about "THE FORCE" unleashing again and again the same plot have a look at
.... and much much more - a rabbit hole that never stops giving, but be careful not to be "sucked" right into it .... THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN has its tentacles EVERYWHERE!
Azov is the 3rd, right? So did they just mutiny against command to save themselves. Are they mad at their new commander for trying to get them killed? Will we see a big split? This could be bad for Z.
they are just one brigade out of many (hundreds), yes very high on PR status ('elite') ,etc but still a tiny force. Also, in Telegram interview of the captured company commander he told that he was transferred into 3rd from territorial defense forces just 3 weeks ago and given company to command , a lot of the troops are 'new' (newly transferred, grabbed of the street). the motivated nazi volunteers have been killed en masse so this is a shell of the fighting capacity it was previously.
the other thing is that it is the solder on the ground that it making life and death decision on capture/not capture in split second. you do not know if person truly intends to surrender or playing a trick on it, how crazy they are, what is on their mind. Territorial defense AFU mobiks who were dragooned off the street when going to grocery store is one thing. Dedicated nazies who fired on Donetsk for a decade, the man captured got VERY lucky he was captured at all..
I read Zaluzhny was keeping Avov back in the rear basically to protect himself. His power derives from the nazi Avov nationalists. When he was transferred to Britain the Avovs were thrown into Aveedka where they got massacred with no place prepared to hide. So they ran away and everyone had to run away. But they might deduce they were thrown into the trap to weaken them. I think this will divide the army further.
It seems there was some of that. Are they going to overthrow the gov? I suspect not, their power base in Ukraine is unfortunately entrenched enough today that they don't even need to. It would be one of those power struggles where they can demonstrate that their nominal superiors are in fact only able to give them orders with their own consent. The more urgent matters - shared by all in power, whether ultras or comedians, is how to get through the year, keep the war going at a medium pace that doesn't interfere with the looting, and smuggle the proceeds from previous looting to a safe jurisdiction. All of this hinges on western funding to grease the wheels.
The guy at the end moved me to tears. He seems genuine in his emotion. Speaking of, did y'all see the video from 2015 what the residents of Avdyevka thought of Ukraine?
"Ain't chew??" Apocalypse Now, Do Lung bridge. Nice one.
19 Febuary 2024 FTNATO Dead End Gulch
‘Nato has no choice but to strengthen it’s bulwarks against Putin’
https://www.ft.com/content/9828c5c5-2568-47ce-8253-a2d3a7cc9eba
Ungainly language -The sea faring metaphor a comforting reminder of more glorious times, little old lady NATO now plays the victim of the mighty Putin, all powerful yet who single handedly moves his great country into disaster after catastrophe –
‘With no checks on his capacity to make fatal mistakes, an ageing Russian ruler surrounded by sycophants may embark on even more reckless moves in coming year’s’
This sounds like an exact description of the US President, apart from the Russian bit – especially as the author admits that the RF has/is winning the Ukraine war – whereas no one thinks Biden can win either the Ukraine war, or the Gaza war, or the China war, or the Iran war, or even the so called Houthi (Ansar Allah) war, but maybe might win the Haiti war with the help of the 30 Kenyan policeman they requested, if the Kenyan judge lets them go (unlikely)
The author is merely imitating VdL and talking up a forlorn and factfree and unlikely EUNATO re armaments plot
The one real world reason given for all this talk is how essential it is for NATO to defend the eternally threatened Baltics under Article 5 – the Latvia government famously used to claim in case of a RF invasion Latvia would survive for ‘twelve minutes’ –Less today or tomorrow
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nato-baltic-frontline-bunkers-anti-tank-mines-russia-zbdqk3xlv
‘Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of Estonia, said that Europe must boost its defenses “because what really provokes an aggressor is weakness.” Then, Mr. Putin might risk attacking a country like hers in an attempt to fracture NATO. “But if we do more for our defense, it will act as a deterrent. People around Putin would say that, you know, you can’t win. Don’t take this up.”
‘As Putin threatens, despair and hedging in Europe’, NYT 18 Febuary
https://archive.is/565YW
This is the level of childish language used to justify re armament, it is not surprising that NATO can do nothing actually to re arm
Much attention paid to Denmark’s publicity seeking – an arms donation announcement made to appear current in fact occurred last MSC and has long since been completed
https://twitter.com/minna_alander/status/1759194632649310447
The MSC Report is the only instance of realism, a welcome reminder that it is only the EU Bureautrash and politicians who are war mongers, as per this article from the UK Guardian, an otherwise ruling class propaganda outfit, as per – even! – Politico
Not that the MSC is pro Russia, it’s full of US slang and weasel talk ‘To alleviate the isolation that Russia has experienced since its invasion of Ukraine’, ‘Russia’s weaponization of Europe’s energy dependency’
The EUUS peoples are not worried about Russia and do not want war – the EUUS ruling class pretends to be worried and does
BRICS nations are positive and optimistic, EUUS ‘deeply’ pessimistic and negative
“If current trends continue, the US and its allies risk losing the blame game in the global court of public opinion, being branded the culprits of the erosion of a cooperative international order and of a lack of effort to ensure more mutually beneficial outcomes.”
“..the global perception of the strength of the community of liberal democracies depends on Ukraine prevailing over Russian revisionism.”
https://securityconference.org/en/publications/munich-security-report-2024/
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-no-longer-top-threat-germany-g7-munich-security-conference-concern-ukraine-war-fades/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/12/national-self-interest-stymying-global-cooperation-report-finds-munich-security-conference
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/02/17/german-ukraine-ammo-factory-construction-begins-200k-rounds-annually/
https://archive.is/565YW
“And last Monday, groundbreaking began for a future munitions factory at a Rheinmetall industrial complex in the northern German town of Unterluss, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in attendance.
https://mb.com.ph/2024/2/18/germany-s-rheinmetall-to-produce-munitions-in-ukraine
“This factory in 2025 will start producing NATO's standard 155-millimetre shells, used in numerous artillery systems, with an eventual output of 200,000 shells a year.”
Annual production good for max of ten days expenditure in one country….eventually – for NATO this is a real accomplishment – wait till they start thinking of re arming for full scale war in several countries as their propaganda proclaims they ‘must’
Only a couple very feeble complaints at the non confiscation of CBR assets
Invariably, the hardcore anti-Russian propaganda centres are British. They are the voice of the City's financial vampyres who control the tax haven network, the world drug cartels, the international banking and institutions, the currency and gold exchanges, the media, NATO, etc. This is a continuation of the XIX and XX century anti-Russian policies but at least the game is clear now. They understand that the creation of a strong trading triangle between the Russians, the Chinese and the Persians will certainly work as a magnet for other importan playerd like the Arabs, the Turks, the Egiptians, and so on. In addition, they are losing their grip on Africa. This could be the end of their fake casino empire.
The Brit gvmt/military establishment has serious intent in operating a few terrorist tactics which they regard as face saving, and hope will be evidence enough of willing collaboration/contribution to keep the USMIC at bay – they are capable of nothing more
The initiatives, political and economic as well as military, taken by RF China and so on in the rest of the world have already provided evidence of system and structure building which (have started to) by pass and replace the usual western, to their gain and to western loss
THE QUESTION being how much copying by "BRICS" from the blueprint inherited from THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN will take place and which BUGS are going to be included and which are going to be spotted and eliminated?
The media language reeks of the C19th pompous and racist spluttering of the old empires.
Article 5 is over-hyped. Most of old NATO Europe will send medical supplies that have expired or about to. Britain would love to send artillery, but has none left.
Rheinmetal must be getting 100% subsidized for the shell factory or is going to be selling the shells for the very low cost of $20,000 per shell to recoup it's costs. No matter, that works out to around 550 shells a day or 1/11 of what the Bandera army claims it needs today, not sometime in 2025.
The Rheinmetal factory will be destroyed a second after Angela Merkel cuts the ribbon at the opening ceremony.
By it's ally and good friend, the US or by a malicious entity?
I don't think it's gonna matter for Ukraine whether an extra 550 shells a day in 2025 become available.
Article 5 is the badge of honour worn with pride by the leaders of the small Baltic and Nordic states, it is their passport into the celebrity thinktank transAtlantic MIC class, a life of enduring ‘influence’ and wealth
The guarantee they will sacrifice national and popular interests in the service of USEUNATO
All these countries are hollowed out by association with the EU, they serve as frontline pets dangled in front of the RF in an attempt to provoke foolish actions
As for artillery shell costs, the subject of a recent NATO contract 220,000 for $1.2B, this is widely believed to be between $5,000 and $8,000 per shell – not forgetting, as VdL pointed out at the MSC, how much ‘greener’ and more efficient our shells are than their shells are
I wasn't aware VdL made such a a statement. The 1.2 billion contract is supposed to be for never, just like the promised 1 million shells that were supposed to be delivered by this March.
I think a regular shell in the US is around 4 grand and about 8 for the EU. Guided shells in the US are about 70k so I am sure much more expensive to build in Europe. The French Caesar system I believe, can only fire a special guided round.
It is my opinion the pecking order is the WEF, US, EU and NATO is the globalist military wing.
Well stated about the tiny Baltic states and appreciate the link to the Munich report.
Who is KK?
VdL spoke of dirty RF weapons and 'our' clean precise weapons enhanced by AI - the speech is on the EC website as far as I can remember - she must have fawned Eric Schmidt
The problem with NATOEU is that they say they have the money they sign contracts but the money is not there, disappears, pressure from US MIC to buy token Fsomething planes – EU manufacturers have no confidence and will not invest
RF pay factories 80% upfront
KK is Kaja Kallas the most stupid and oversold of the Baltic/Nordic pets, she wrote a FT Women of the Year portrait of Mrs Zelensky which was a job application for the upcoming movie/US tour, her interview with the FT is a mess, shows how little she understands but how willing she is to talk about subjects she does not understand
‘Seize frozen Russian assets before US election, says Estonian PM’
https://archive.is/WkvwO
KK is just another WEF/EU/NATO Kamala Harris. The US has only one Kamala, Europe has at least 3 Kamala's. Another bragging right.
Appreciate the link
They are aaall criminally making up this garbage about how Russia is going to invade them and they need to be ready for it. But look what I just found this morning. Apparently the Africans burnt Hague, Holland, many cops got injured in the process of responding to the riots, cop cars and buildings burnt and ransacked, the African wild monkeys even broke into the Opera House and destroyed everything in their path etc. But what are the EU Parliament baboons doing about it?!?!?! NOTHING!!!!! Europe is under attack and has been for at couple of years now and these low life scums have yet to do the thing about it. The illegal Africans are the ones who are attacking Europe and NOT the Russians. I Lost respect for the West blood sucking maggots that call themselves "politicians" aaall together. And they are threatening to let in another 75 million migrants into Europe!!!!!! Europe is gone.
Tucker Carlson said Moscow is squeaky CLEAN, and they don't like that. They cannot deal with Clean. Jackson Hinkle also took a tour of Moscow and said the same thing.
They cannot stand the fact that Russia is out of their filthy rotten reach.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-mobs-violent-african-migrants-riot-attack-police-holland
As the Zerohedge mentioned , here in Toronto last summer we had similar (not as violent) conflicts between several groups of the Eritrian community. Cops in Toronto couldn't figure out where they got all their resources or what was going on. Open Society, Soros anyone? ie planned chaos.
Putin Putin Putin
Do you really believe Putin decides everything ? REALLY?
"In short: he believes he’s got Putin psychologically pegged, and that Putin, morally, is loath to the idea of fighting this brother war. We must admit that judging by many aspects of Putin’s ‘soft-gloved’ approach thus far, there is some substance to this idea—though it certainly doesn’t mean Putin will surrender. But rather that he may be a sort of tortured figure, allowing his principled faculties of reason to overpower his moral sentimentality to the detriment of his psyche in doing what he knows must be done."
Even when Russian Empire was ruled by Emperors even THEY didnt decide everything singlehandedly. They had cabinet of Ministers and a lot of different Allies and international coalitions between GROUPS of people. Power circles.
Putin feels this Putin feels that
Its just preposterous to read.
Do you realise that everything is decided by Security Council including all Center Left and Right forces inside Russia PLUS international connections.
And not by PUTIN alone.
This Putin syndrome in the west is just absurd. And people who said Putin this Putin that just dont understand how power works.
Especially i laugh every time when people said Biden this and that. Biden is just filler on position. Power is in other hands.
The use of Putin Putin is part of the hysterical campaign by EUUS media to personalise and to demonise ‘the enemy’ in an effort to simplify and reduceany description/justification of this war into a time honoured fairy tale of good versus evil in order the more easily to impose this on their countries
Being the only explanation they can imagine for this as all other conflicts –
Any attention would reveal that the RF is ruled and administered by a complex system of central and provincial adminstrations, balanced between popular elected representatives and state bureaucrats, taking into account large scale nationalised essential industry and commercial class interests
Obviously Putin plays a central role – one only has to read accounts of his journeys and meetings across Russia to glimpse the scope and scale of his interventions at every level
These are recorded at https://karlof1.substack.com/
Exactly, and they fall victim to their own propaganda and brainwashing. They have poor impulse control and are psychologically impaired as they have a compulsion to engage in counter productive activity. And they can't mask their real intent behind word salads as the visual evidence mounts of their genocidal tendencies. The fixation on Putin show how juvenile the collective west's leadership team is. The Brits are malicious and driven by their ever shrinking stature in the wider world.
My father-in-law is pretty tuned in to the various power centers in Russia. He says that while Putin has some dictatorial authority for things like suppressing riots or revolts, handling censorship, etc., when it comes to big decisions, Putin acts as a manager and mediator whose job is to find solutions that the majority of power centers can live with, even if all of them aren't happy with it.
Ex: in 2014 there was a very strong bloc of the more hardline factions that wanted to roll tanks into Kiev immediately. Putin mediated a compromise which resulted in the encouragement and support of the Donbas republics and the annexation of Crimea.
I think many understand this, Alex Mercouris says the same thing, Putin is more of a manager and moderator than a 'tough' leader.
I watched snippets of the so-called 'Munich Security Conference'... it was nothing more than a bunch of snivelling out of touch 'Elite' engaged in Hopium & Copium shenanigans to try & continue justifying their grift worth hundreds of billions of USD & Euros. As Project Ukraine is crushed decisively on the battlefield, the Grift will no doubt continue for a while still; though at this point all of said money is really just going toward bribing the various middlemen, bureaucrats, etc. Tragedy!
Read the MSC report - there are more intelligent people in the west than the tv shows want you to believe
But who actually listens to them and acts on their advice?
To report realistically on the state of security is beyond the scope of EU politicians and media - their role is to not be realistic
However there are sections of the goverrning class, in the military, and of the business class, in industry, who are of necessity realistic and rely on real world facts
These sections are not inclined to 're arm" - for very good reasons - the politicians are incapable of organising this, incapable of paying for it, and will be incapable of persuading or scaring the general peoples to actually fight
The better grounded and factual the information given in the MSC Report, the more influence this will have - after all MSC is an important part of the security 'apparatus' in Europe - compare and contrast with previous reports which were much more 'enthusiastic'
So the MSC report is like the IPCC WG1 report then?
Too long and detailed for a politician, so it's totally supplanted by the Summary For Politicians, which bears no resemblance to the original report, but plays to the media?
The statements made by the politicians at the MSC
-for example the lies related by Denmark’s PM concerning the country’s artillery donation (she got a lot of publicity via the suggestion that this gift was this year’s rather than last year’s) VdL’s careful reproduction of US MIC talking points, KK’s childish fears, Macron’s absence
Are very unimpressive and unconvincing, good for TV grabs, and headlines to scare the masses, but of not other import – this level of stupidity can not find expression in real world programs
However the MSC report is reasonably researched and reaches reasonable conclusions, even if does use the usual ruling class slang when discussing RF or President Putin
The target audience for the MSC report is manifestly not the VdL's the KK's etc, but those sections of the governing class which are susceptible to arguments based on evidence
Hence it is clear that : any and all in house re armament initiatives will be inadequate for any purpose, that the general populations of NATO countries are not interested in war, that no one military establishment has any serious intent in operating anything but a few terrorist tactics which they regard as face saving, their general idea is buy enough USMIC arms to keep the US from starting a shooting war in Europe
Are you saying this based on the Economics chapter?
I hesitantly agree, as the public appearances of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN are nothing but that "public appearances". NO-ONE can defy REALITY - THE TRUTH will settle in sooner than one might believe based on "public appearances" and perception.
You know as a citizen of the U.S. I have been saying "they ALL cannot be as stupid as they appear. There must be intelligent people somewhere behind the idiots. After a few years, even before the conflict in Ukraine, I have come to the conclusion that sure there are some people attached to the morons who can think rationally. BUT even those people have lost any sense of pride in their country, they no longer have a sense of belonging to anything. It has been forced out of them. They are literally worshipping the money. Fortune is more important than family, country, personal values. The idea of national security does not even occur to these people, it is just a tool for them to generate a personal fortune, anyway that is my opinion of so called "elites of the west" and their lackeys and servants
The love of money is the root of all evil.
It is essential to remember that the structures of USEU societies and countries are set up not to produce and present clever, efficient governance and administration, but to protect and produce wealth for the dominant rich capitalist class
If politicians and bureaucrats have little to say of interest to the general public, and little to promote in the interests of the major part of the population as per living standards, work conditions, health, they do serve an essential purpose for the rich in maintaining stable conditions of wealth production and enforcement
This was until very recently perpetuated by a disregard for national and popular interests in favour of a global dispersal of investment and technology, with corresponding decline of native conditions, absolute and relative to the rest of the world
The recent conflicts with RF and China have revealed weaknesses in this system, with unforeseen strengths in commodity or production rich countries leading to rivalries and alternatives that have encouraged attempts, in the west, to somewhat re configure, so far with very little success
The MSC provided a picture in miniature of this attempt to adopt or to revert to a more realist modus operandum, together with the context within which the layers of practical business and administrative classes have to combat the inherited ignorance and limited ideologies of the classes in power, and the extreme prejudice focused on any of those movements which can be designated as ‘populist’, those in any way which try to represent any alternative
"They are literally worshipping the money." ... coming to this conclusion one - me included - usually doesn't realise how
1. TRUE this is!
2. What it actually means?
3. What to do about it?
And as far I am concerned there is NO general statement/answer to 1./2./3. ... as the "answer" is as INDIVIDUAL as LIFE FORMS are. Which doesn't take away the TRUTHFULNESS of above statement. Not even those worshiping - one way or another anyone of us has done so/does it - the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN - MONEY/WORLDLY POWER/CONTROL ...
Despite this conundrum anyone who would ask me how to approach it would be look for answers in THE BIBLE ... all of it is covered there!
"Fortune is more important than family, country, personal values." ... out of the above "fortune"/"standing in"/"approval by" the world becomes "THE VEIL" hiding THE TRUTH EVERYONE has access to, but which has been "abandoned" along the way - by accepting the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN/ buying into THE LIE from THE GARDEN OF EDEN - the description of ABANDONING GOD ALMIGHTY comes as close as it gets!
As THE LORD JESUS CHRIST said "... my kingdom is not from this world .." just before receiving HIS "death sentence", which is the pathway to ETERNAL LIFE! As LIFE is not material in ESSENCE, even though as a result it puts on a dress of blood and flesh to become visible to ITSELF.
The "elites" are only relevant to those that have left THE WAY, having bought into IDOL WORSHIP of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN - MATERIALISM!
THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE ONLY - THE LORD JESUS CHRIST - AMEN HALLELU-YAH!
The more rational do have beliefs beyond greed: globalism, power, Blood Worship, men are God.
The intelligent people are intelligent enough to shut up when they are asked for their opinions. In Germany many weren't that smart and were fired or even prosecuted for being 'Russian spies', just for telling their opinion. But I guess they are just a minority, the sad thing is, I think most of the Technocrats/Bureaucrats don't give a flying crap for anything but their money and power. I said it often and many here and in other forums are basically saying the same, the West will go down, crash, maybe after that it will be reconstructed, but I doubt it, intellectually, morally, financially, militarily the West is already bankrupt.
Evident when you see 'Anti-Racists' who are as racist as the KKK. Giving 'refugees' money for just coming to the Western countries without working and with huge unemployment numbers mind you. Having more than 2 genders which is parroted by 'professors', 'teachers' and other 'Elites'. Climate 'boiling' 'science', etc etc. Its just over, no recovery from all of that and I could go on and on for hours. Insanity, nothing else, they really think money printing will go on forever.
Alcohol party against Putin... That tells everything. Europe is an anglosaxon colony that will be used as cannon fodder as in WWI and II while the oversees anglosphere will be preserved to pick up the pieces and makes new profits rebuilding
Notice the US did not even hint at a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine like those EU puppets have been signing.
3rd in the comments :{ Now I know how Joe Biden feels after he shits his diaper.
I can feel your pain man. I arrived when the article was 1 minute (!) old. But I didn't want to comment "First!".
Not a joke, fat!
I notice that Ahnaf Ibn Qais is nearly always first or second. It is rewarding to be a super fast reader!
I wonder if he is that fast with his wife!!! :)
Apparently in Mexico faster is more macho. It may have something to do with siesta time limits. lol
Don't be ridiculous.
The last time Biden was able to successfully pass a shit was 1994.
Corpses don't defecate.
As with all the other cities to fall, is it strategically unimportant too? Eventually, all of Ukraine will be 'strategically unimportant'.
A Skeptic War Reports
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/war-reports-2024-02-19
Yes - read reports from the MSC - now attention is focussed on the war with NATO
Skeptic, I’ve followed your site since the earliest days of the war, thanks for all you have done and continue to do to shed facts and share opinions on the new era of great power conflict…
And "strategically missing".
"Eventually, all of Ukraine will be strategically unimportant"
The sooner, the better!
Why would it be a problem if Putin were honestly trying to negotiate with the West/Ukraine?
Only if honestly is used in terms of the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN - which I believe is not the case with VVP, he has a clear stance out of which naturally a clear AIM results, which he seems to be determined - out of his believe to be the right thing to do - to pursue till the end. Which is why he is able/willing to communicate about it for more than 3 hours a piece, without teleprompters en mass and/or other minions running a show for him. I have NOT seen a head of state as prepared, determined and capable as VVP. Indias MFA Jaishankar and Lavrov, with having to cover less bases, are equally impressive.
Make Odesa Odessa again, in Ukraine oblast.
Thanks Simplicius, great report as always! One small correction: the scum sporting the X moniker @NyaVikingen is not Ukrainian, but Swedish or Danish, obviouosly from the region of Scania.
#ZаРодину!
Good point! The mental salad that guys like these have is fascinating for me. How someone can be at the same time "White Internationalist", "paleoprogressive" and pro EU & pro NATO is beyond comprehension...
Honestly, "Europeans" like these make me grow more and more fond of the old French saying: "Africa starts at the Pyrenees". Its starting to look like a compliment instead of an insult....
I wholeheartedly agree! As the old meme goes - "the cognitive dissonnance is strong with this one" :)
The mental sallad guys like the one above are the epitome of Orwell's "doublethink", having the ability to hold 2 contrarian thoughts at the same time. Meanwhile, his self-attributed adjective "paleo" is the only accurate attribute describing neonazi scum like the "NeoViking"!
"... the epitome of Orwell's "doublethink", having the ability to hold 2 contrarian thoughts at the same time. " ... I oftentimes think "doublethink" is a bit misleading as well as the second part of the quote if you understand it in the true sense of the word. As in the case of comparing two things I have to hold them at the same time - like comparing apples and oranges I have to hold them before my eyes at the same time. Which is why I think it more akin to BLINDNESS. By not being able to understand the meaning of expressions - ANTIsocial media being the STEROIDS bringing the symptoms of THE DISEASE lately to full blossoming - let alone the discernment of the meaning of expressions. The expression "lost in the woods (words)" or "not seeing the woods for the trees" applies here LITERALLY!
It doesn't really work that way :)
Doublethink as per Orwell indeed represents a state of a (psychotic) mind that lacks critical reasoning skills AND subsequently is able to draw (false) inferences out of 2 or more mutually contradicting premises. I suggest you delve deeper into the subject of deductive reasoning to better understand this.
However, for a quick glimpse into how it works in practice, think of the old meme of a dark-skinned young male proudly posing in a red tee-shirt with a large black patched Nazi swastika on it. :)
I have personally witnessed what happens when a "genius" of his ilk finally understands that his entire system of moral values is the opposite of what he has believed his whole life and trust me that it is not a pretty sight. At best they end up with a nervous breakdown, but the majority sees no other way out but offing themselves...
It's not that I don't understand what Orwell is referring to, but "the pit of DARKNESS" is even deeper than what you describe.
The world is full of the "geniuses" you are talking about - which makes THE BEAST appear so frightening as THE BLINDNESS is abound and THE CULT - as a tribe - encourages mob-like behaviour.
THE DESEASE spreads wider than one thinks, and most likely than not we are part of it, while actually believing to be "wiser" simply because "hierarchically" we are not as obviously part of it.
The example, which you personally witnessed as THE DARKNESS dawns on somebody is interesting and maybe even shocking, as you describe. Rest assured "the world" is full of "blinded" minds - since EVE in THE GARDEN OF EDEN - from entry level - getting lured into "the system" by "the drug" for "free" with the highest PRICE tag of "getting lost" eventually - to the highest level becoming a ring leader alà "dick swinging clown" involved in Hitler-like behaviour!
These pro-EU "white supremacists" are the most obvious Establishment plants ever.
Like yeah okay. You're a far right paleoconservative. That's why you support an organization built on free trade, the free movement of peoples, the surrender of national sovereignty and the promotion of liberal notions of feminism, sexual orientation equality and respect for gender identity.
Yeah okay. And I'm a follower of Ares who believes in peaceful nonviolence.
People like that gentleman have had a difficult time accepting Russia ever since the Romanovs fell and were assasinated. Ruled by a germanic dynasty, Russia could be understood as part of Europe. Now its confusing... Asiatic!
But yet they seemed to have no problem with the UK Monarchy being German 🤔
Well that's the point ain't it. Central europeans want to control the heartland
What they don't understand is Russia has always been a nation with one foot in Europe and the other in Asia.
My God, if you look at modern reconstructions of Ivan IV's face, he has distinctively European and Asian physical features.
This is not a source of weakness buy rather of strength for Russian society. It makes Russian society pragmatic and able to make the multicultural angle work by simply treating each culture the way it wants to be treated.
Fun seeing the nafoists starting to realize that their hero Zelenskiiyiyiyiyyyyyiiii is nothing but a cheap huckster. They raved about his "leadership" when in fact it was a bunch of adolescent posturing and third-rate tinhorn dictator-ing. I mean a grown man going around the world meeting world leaders whilst wearing a t-shirt? Flipping off Russia and taking selfies? Who but 13 year olds are impressed by this act?
World leaders obviously know the game and are playing their part as well.
EVE and ADAM have been - since THE GARDEN OF EDEN - continuously impressed by/ have raised "their" offspring by this mantra of 3-yo posturing. Both being lured into the ANTIsocial media DRUG CARTEL bringing the symptom of THE UNDERLYING DISEASE to full fruition and for those with eyes to see presenting it on the world stage!
Looks like the same t-shirt too. The guy is grubby in all senses of the word.
But he can play the piano with his dick!
I applaud the new ideograph, it's got a great Rorschach/Man in the Moon element to it: just close enough to a face to register...
The UKE prisoner in the first video said that there were Canadians with him. I've seen no news here about Canada engaging in conflict in Ukraine. Maybe they were mercenaries. If not I regret seeing Can. forces where they should not have been involved and have no business to be. Maybe nobody even noticed the prisoner said "Canadians" except for me but it sure gave me a shock. I'm not happy about it but I can't change foreign policy. Notice how our governments lead us into things we don't want or agree with all the time. They are the useless eaters that we are much better off without.
He goes on to say they are mercenaries. We have Troops in Latvia but none, officially, in Ukraine. However we trained the Ukrainain Army before the war.
Thanks, Chris. I've met and know many Can. soldiers. They're good guys I hope don't get wasted in the Uke shit show. Bring them back home. Screw NATO and screw those UN blue helmets who will be used against us one day far worse than at the truckers' rally in Ottawa. The first person they kill means game on with most of our soldiers and police on our side. The UN is a bigger threat to us than any Russian will ever be.
"The first person they kill means game on with most of our soldiers and police on our side. "
The disgraceful way the pigs treated citizens during the truckers CV19 protests show that to be hopium.
Yes Grrr, I do hope that my speculation is to be so.
https://policeonguard.ca/
Trudeau the Lesser, taking Canada from the hive of Diplomacy to the dungheap of Mercenaries.
Stop being delusional about Canada's position in this war and their support for Ukranian Nazis. You're letting blind nationalism for a Canada that doesn't exist and hasn't existed cloud your judgement about Canada's role in the world. The Ukranian World Congress (fascist diaspora org, founded to collect all the war criminals and Nazi scum from Europe and give them power, funding, and protection) was founded and is based in Canada. They have numerous Canadian politicians at their beck and call, Liberals, Cons, and NDP all included. I live right by a CF garrison and the amount of scumbag soldiers flying Ukraine flags and UPA flags outweigh all the sane soldiers by a lot. Hell the CF even sent guys to train Azov itself before the war. At every football or hockey game they honor some goosestepper for serving as a "medic" or "trainer" in Ukraine. Canada is a pathetic, fake country even more debased than the Baltics and somehow more pathetic.
You're an extreme idiot. And that was the compliment part.
You're upset because the obvious contradiction in your worldview has been pointed out. There is no "real Canada" where people make the right choices and support the right things, this country is rotten from the very beginning and the military, government, media,and all political parties all play the part of being the scum of this world. Beyond saving. You didn't even attempt to refute any of my points because they are true on a basic level.
So here is what I see. All populations of Western countries are currently sieged in every way by their governments through agencies like WEF and WHO and in collaboration with big pharma, and central bank cabbalsters. Their mission is to control all aspects of our lives through things like graphene electrical wireless control of our body with bio-weaponized vaccines transduced by the electricity of our body to the 6G network. And there's a lot more. Our populations have mostly been mind-controlled one may call mass formation psychosis. Indeed, it doesn't look good for the Awakened ones who see their evil, deceptive, and most cunning plan. The zombie masses face extinction whereas the rest of us have a fighting chance to prevail if we can survive the initial assaults. You don't tell me anything I don't already know. Of course, our soldiers are putting up Uke flags because they have been brainwashed and not given a chance to develop their brains yet for critical thinking. It's not their fault. Most are still good people just like all the other zombies. I don't refute any of your bloody points because, in essence, I agree with you. You're arguing with someone who shares your view. The difference is I am part of the human resistance as a Canadian, I think we will prevail. But you have just given up and quit. That's what the narcissistic controllers want. Quitters. Well, I know a hell of a lot of people who are resisting those dark forces and with a new awakening. Good things are happening but you're too busy crying the blues instead of just standing up, face the reality, adapt and overcome and survive. With your attitude you may as well just shoot yourself and spare the trouble of being part of the resistance. Quitters are no good to us.
There never has been a real Canada because were all divided by Westerners, Easterners, French Quebequers, Newfies, Natives, Chinese, East Indians. We got no Federal Identity, man. Now everyone hates Justin Trudeau so much, he's inadvertently united Canadians like never before and Pierre P. said that no member of his cabinet will be WEF. And the Supreme Court of Canada declared Trudeau's implemation of the Emergencies Act unconstitutional. You ain't telling me anything new, son. If the Patriots never stood up to the British they's still be part of the British Empire. So either stand your ground or kiss your ass goodbye. lol
Here is an interesting article about Canadian banderaite progeny in Ukieland.
https://fondfbr.ru/en/articles/canada-ukrainians-nazis-en/
Well, I hope those Uke Canadians don't make it back. Maybe Russia will take them out.
The mercenaries have been often used as 'blocking' Detachments to prevent the Ukrainian mobniks from retreating. There's been some video evidence of friendly fire on US and UK mercs when the mobniks REALLY want to retreat.
Here is a video from Avdeevka, dude is talking about Canadian mercs. Drinking with Batko in Valhalla now, me thinks.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/101909?single
The Ukrainian diaspora in Canada resemble nothing so much as the Miami Cubans.
More about Fentanyl, less about Cocaine trafficking though.
THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN doesn't hide ... never has, but now it is being brought to light even by those living in DENIAL for decades/over millennia and are shattered to their core ... often creating deeper rooted DENIAL if rooted deep enough in THE CULT OF LIES, like Mr. "Fidel Castro" Trudeau, Ms. Freeland, Ms. Nuland ... dick swinging clown!
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Two sides of the same corrupt coin. The murderous vulgar comedian with a penchant for penis piano and homeless beggar haute couture ...and the undeniably effeminate actor with a penchant for ridiculously emphatic diction as he meanders aimlessly, apponting a diverse and equitable equine senate here and WEF diktats there - all delivered as it is through an irritatingly over-nasally orator's pitch...as he 'doth protest too much'.
Both will end up fleeing their kingdoms soon under the wholly insufficient cover of darkness... as cascades of chaos envelop these fools witnessing their houses built on sand suddenly collapse.
And they will begin to reap as they have sown.
Of course, there is no official military personnel of NATO countries in Ukraine. All of them are mercenaries from different NATO PMCs or volunteers who, by pure coincidence, left the army right before entering Ukraine.
“Military Advisors” somehow don’t count as foreign troops, even though they go into the field and take casualties. 122 American combatants were killed in Vietnam in 1963.
At 2:30 the PoW also said (according to the subtitles) that he was from Sonsk Oblast. I can't find anywhere called Sonsk in the Ukraine, though there is a village called Sońsk in Poland, a bit less than 100 km north of Warsaw. Then there was an exchange about "Happiness" on the Siversky Donets River. Are the subtitles wrong?
He is from town "Счастье", which is translated as Happiness
Thank you. That's very interesting. That town is very close to Lugansk City, and must have been liberated early on. I wonder how he came to be in the AFU. The recent rounds of conscription presumably wouldn't have had access to Счастье.
Heaven knows how Schastye turned into Sonsk in the subtitles. Now I know what to listen for it sounds like Shestye to my English ears, nothing like Sonsk. Again, thanks.
Don't even try to listen to pronunciations - Ukraine government after 2014 rolled out renames of all rusophonic names in Eastern Ukraine, so it's basically nuspeak, having nothing to do with history. That's why we have Avdeevka/Avdeyevka, Bahmut/Artemovsk clusterfuck and nobody in West know how to pronounce it. You have about 0% chance to stumble on correct, authentic Russian pronunciations of these places in anglo-internet because Wikipedia/Google maps immediately approved Ukraine's version.
Thanks again. Your information is very helpful.
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Curious- while a psychological victory, and a pr victory, and great for people who were shelled from Avdeevka, does this victory really matter? Bahkmut fell, and almost a year later not much has changed in the front lines, and 2,000 men lost is horrific, but UKR already needed to raise 500,000. So I hate to say it, but the bigger impact may be about EU or USA levels of support, or even more important, internal political factions in Ukraine- including military. But in terms of the battlefield, I’m not sure it matters very Mitch, except perhaps as a sign of momentum…
I think that the victory over the strong point Avdeevka was very important. I think the defences to the west are not as well prepared. Getting Bahkmut and now Avdeevka, the Russians can use these places as a base for attacking towards other cities/defenses further west. But I'm no tactition, above Recce Troop level.
It takes awhile to dig true fortifications. All the fighting positions must be joined with trenches, and then additional trenches and bunkers to position men to reinforce the fighting positions. If you're going to have a battalion of troops in an area, for example, then you need bunker space for 500 men, otherwise they're going to get eaten up by artillery.
And then you need communications trenches to create a network of supply, reinforcements, and medical evac from the front all the way to wherever it's safe to bring up vehicles. And you need backup trenches and fighting positions in case the front-line fighting positions are taken or destroyed.
It's really difficult to do this once the battle is joined because most of the heavy equipment is vulnerable to artillery or air strikes..or simply sniper fire. Ex: if the Russians or Ukrainians see an excavator, it's almost a bigger priority target than a tank because it can dig the trenches and bunkers so much faster than men can.
Putin said during the summer that they will be moving the front line away from the borders. This is part of that promise.
Why is Avdyevka important? Because it prevents the shelling of Donetsk City. Avdyevka was were the Ukros shelled it from for 10 years.
Bro, Avdeevka is 12km from Donetsk City. So yeah, it matters a LOT. Adveevka was their favorite little fortified nest for popping off shells into shopping centers and markets in downtown Donetsk.
2000 men lost??
By Russia, maybe. AFU losses are far, FAR above that, just in Avdeevka, let alone in the time since they lost Bahkmut. This is beyond catastrophic for the AFU.
Russia set out to bleed Ukraine white, and then some more, NOT grab land for the sake of media opportunities.
This IS what successfully achieving a military goal looks like, vs AFU attempts at "winning"...
Some cannot grasp that the land follows the annihilation of Ukrainians.
And remember Pierre Trudeau had a special affinity for Nazis, a story buried deep. Trudeau the Lesser, a court jester for the WEF, does what he is told. Not an original thought nor a whiff of reason has ever entered his head.
Front line hasn't changed much after Bakhmut because it was only part of large and most fortified Ukrainian defence line in Donbass. Since maneuverable warfare with large flanking maneuvers and significant breakthroughs is almost impossible in conditions of modern war, Russia will gradually push the entire front line and significant changes in it will be possible only after all strong and most fortified defence points will be captured or suppressed. And Avdeevka was the strongest and most fortified fortress in Donbass front and in whole Ukraine. After its falling the events will only speed up. So, the falling of Avdeevka probably will be the most important event of this war.
The reactions of the Ukrainians says that it is important.
Wow seems like things are speeding up... And again the church is still shining. Amazing. I can't believe what the feeling must be for this guy waiting this out for 10 years. Unbelievable.
I suppose a example of how accuracte Russian fire is.
Right, but I am also surprised that the Ukrainians didn't destroy it out of spite.
Official Uke Policy doesn't mean that in the hearts of a lot of Ukrainians in battle there isn't a connection to the past where they got along with their Russian compatriots.
One thing is certain, if Putin doesn't demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, this battle will start all over again.
Fortunately, sunset on the American Empire is now clearly in view.
"I can't believe what the feeling must be for this guy waiting this out for 10 years. " It's the same for the people who liberated him. Troops from Donetsk, many of whom have been fighting for 10 long years, were at the tip of the spear in the long hard fight for Avdyevka. Many of them had relatives stranded on the other side of the front that only now they may get to see again.
It's been the same in all the territories freed from Kiev. If you travel through those territories or talk to the people who lived there you know that the referenda were genuine and true reflections of what the people there wanted. By overwhelming margins they wanted not to be part of "Ukraine", and not standalone countries, but (as they themselves invariably describe it) to return to being part of Russia.
At the same time when people from the new territories go to places in Russia they're welcomed as family come home. I remember attending a concert in central Russia with guest soloists from the Donbass. When their names were announced and they walked on stage they were greeted with thunderous applause, a standing ovation. People in the audience had tears in their eyes.
I think it's that sincere, very strong emotion that powers the volunteering that's going on. All that is for real. It's not propaganda but the real deal: in truth over 1500 men per day really are volunteering to fight for their kin in Ukraine. The intensity of that dedication and emotion are unstoppable, an enormous factor the West has fatally ignored.
That is important to hear. I just hope it is not sort of fake like when I used to hear the forced "thank you for your service" from clerks in a store.
"Thank you for your service" has the same ring as "would you like fries with that?"
Perfunctory and disingenuous, a sop from the Cowards and Profiteers who would Never, Ever put their own blood on the line.
The guy could have been a Uki soldier wearing civilian clothing.
Kosovo voted to leave Serbia and the EU and U.S. rushed to legitimize it....but then when sections of Ukraine voted to leave Ukraine, they claimed all the elections were rigged or held at gun point.
You could have had half the Russian population of Crimea sit at home and the pro-Russia annexation vote would still have won by overwhelming numbers.
Actually, there wasn't any vote in Kosovo at the time of its declared independence. They claimed that a vote about a decade before justified it. I remember at the time of the Donbass referendums* that Obama claimed that they were not legitimate like the Kosovo vote because they weren't approved by the international community, i.e. the USA and whoever was obeying its diktats that day. People pointed out that he was lying about there having been any democratic process at all in the establishment of Greater Camp Bondsteel.
* I'll defend my choice of the English rather than Latin plural if anyone cares.
That use of "Germans" for the Ukronasties, it's potentially a pretty powerful tool.
Fully agree! I can't tell you how ashamed I feel as an Austrian...
please understand that in the former Soviet Union 'germans' means fascist scum who invaded back in 1941. 'germans' themselves could be Romanian, German, Hungarian, Finn, French (SS division Charlemagne) or be hiwi auxiliaries like AFU right now. what the man is saying - kill fascists all of way to their lair, liberate the land. and currently Russians believe the lair of the beast is Washington, London, Berlin, etc. I doubt they will want to spend lives and resources to march to London however public sentiment is asking why the hell we are not nuking these satanic forces of evil, in their lair? Why is Rheinmetall allowed to build plants and capacity supplying its hiwi nazi puppet and not yet destroyed? Why is London not a lunar surface (Kiev is a birthplace of Russia and should be spared, London is not and should be f$cked). I do not think 'the west' understands what it is screwing with - this is the fourth biggest economy in the world, and tens of millions of men, advanced technology, and resolve above and beyond any other place I know, tested time after time after time. the whole 'limited sanction war' is only here because Putin is VERY moderate and very soft on the west and Russian public opinion complies out of huge respect to him, for now.
It appears the objective of the West is to have their Capital Cities become 1945 Berlin.
The U.S. State Department, CIA, and London have started a fire they cannot put out.
I think the words 'think' and 'West' can hardly be used together in same sentence. We (west) are so short term focused that it is always about next immediate thing, next meeting, next election, next press cycle, etc. This is not how you fight, and this is absolutely not how you win if you are always trying to live in make believe PR world vs reality.
The arrogance of the British generals (“Sir Winston Alistair Chinless Wot III”) in commenting on the war has peen particularly entertaining. The Russians were going to drop their weapons and flee at the sight of allied armor. 47th Brigade would break through to the sea. Russia had met its match!
Arrogance based on century old victories over pre-gunpowder armies. Take away all the wars where British soldiers were in the minority among allies, and there’s not a lot to brag about. Now, the Navy is a different story…..
(Although the ships apparently now can’t leave port without major repairs).
Erm...I think we are in agreement?
I guess. I just think of this less of a 'tool', it just is - that is how population thinks. to them , this is the repeat of ~80 years ago when 'ze Germans' (Axis forces of Euroreich) were occupying this territory and installing Ukrainian nationalism, attacking anything Russian and trying to create a fake myth of 'Ukrainian nation'. there was an occupational regime in Kiev, it published newsletters, movie theaters were working and there was a pretense that "euroassociation" (occupation by Reich) was 'normal'. Today it is same fascist 'heroes' in Kiev, exactly the same ideology, same flags, same policies - to population on the ground these are fascist occupiers installed by EU/NATO aka 'ze germans'. and they need to be dealt with the same way they were dealt with 80 some years ago. If that means Russian cities would have to be destroyed in the process, so be it, it would be rebuilt. if that means whose who took arms for 'the germans' have to be defeated, so be it. 'if enemy is not surrendering it is to be destroyed' (если враг не сдается то его уничтожают). Thus ' the germans' , thus Red Banners of Victory you see in photos and videos along with Russian flag. To russian population it is Great Patriotic War again and you need to honor your grandparents and their sacrifice and kick anyone with 'euro-orientation' either to hell or outside of your territory.
if you want my opinion, the official Russian government actually trying to downplay it because if that is how people feel, you cannot make any peace deals with fascists other than their unconditional surrender. Your own people would not understand.
" ... this is the repeat of ~80 years ago when 'ze Germans' (Axis forces of Euroreich) were occupying this territory and installing Ukrainian nationalism, ... " if you are interested about "THE FORCE" unleashing again and again the same plot have a look at
1. https://youtu.be/jiHm2S0w3_Q?si=XaYMgK6m_1BYPfcq
2. The black sun cult
3. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
4. The Pilgrims
.... and much much more - a rabbit hole that never stops giving, but be careful not to be "sucked" right into it .... THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN has its tentacles EVERYWHERE!
Azov is the 3rd, right? So did they just mutiny against command to save themselves. Are they mad at their new commander for trying to get them killed? Will we see a big split? This could be bad for Z.
they are just one brigade out of many (hundreds), yes very high on PR status ('elite') ,etc but still a tiny force. Also, in Telegram interview of the captured company commander he told that he was transferred into 3rd from territorial defense forces just 3 weeks ago and given company to command , a lot of the troops are 'new' (newly transferred, grabbed of the street). the motivated nazi volunteers have been killed en masse so this is a shell of the fighting capacity it was previously.
the other thing is that it is the solder on the ground that it making life and death decision on capture/not capture in split second. you do not know if person truly intends to surrender or playing a trick on it, how crazy they are, what is on their mind. Territorial defense AFU mobiks who were dragooned off the street when going to grocery store is one thing. Dedicated nazies who fired on Donetsk for a decade, the man captured got VERY lucky he was captured at all..
I read Zaluzhny was keeping Avov back in the rear basically to protect himself. His power derives from the nazi Avov nationalists. When he was transferred to Britain the Avovs were thrown into Aveedka where they got massacred with no place prepared to hide. So they ran away and everyone had to run away. But they might deduce they were thrown into the trap to weaken them. I think this will divide the army further.
It seems there was some of that. Are they going to overthrow the gov? I suspect not, their power base in Ukraine is unfortunately entrenched enough today that they don't even need to. It would be one of those power struggles where they can demonstrate that their nominal superiors are in fact only able to give them orders with their own consent. The more urgent matters - shared by all in power, whether ultras or comedians, is how to get through the year, keep the war going at a medium pace that doesn't interfere with the looting, and smuggle the proceeds from previous looting to a safe jurisdiction. All of this hinges on western funding to grease the wheels.
Your work is always excellent, but I do think this posting is one of your best, thank you.
The guy at the end moved me to tears. He seems genuine in his emotion. Speaking of, did y'all see the video from 2015 what the residents of Avdyevka thought of Ukraine?