That is the war party. European elites need war to maintain power. War is a great cover for financial instability. In fact war can be blamed for everything bad, and at the same time get people to rally around their current leaders. But if the EU goes ahead with these plans, it’s likely to be the most shambolic war we’ve ever seen. I only hope Trump has the sense to stay out of it.
I would put the EUs loudmouth female war mongers firmly in this category. At very low risk of stepping outside of an airconditioned environment let alone be exposed to the battlefield horrors of what they loudly promote.
Women egging on their menfolk has been a problem since one troupe of apes came down from the trees onto the big flat plains and suddenly saw that there were these others who were going to compete with it directly for this new place that would need defending. We have been carving up the resources of the fertile plains ever since.
Why are women war mongers any worse than men who will never fight?. I think it's misogyny.
As regards Von der Leyden see is merely doing what her bosses told her to do and say. Which is up the EU military spending, buying US arms, and get the public all in a lather about a threat from Russia. She's just a puppet of the US deep state (BlackRock ie arms, banking, tech, oil, animal ag and pharma), same as silly little boys Zelensky, Starmer and Macron.
I dont know as its your comparison and your question, which has little to do with what I said. Im guessing you see lots off things as misogyny if you play that card as an initial comment.
Only people who are aggressive war mongers are allowed into power by US interests (arms for example) or who are cynical proxy war mongers like Trump (who seems to have fooled you all, even Lavrov who says the EU are undermining their US puppet masters and repeating the US words 'the ball's in Putin court like they are their own words!).
The tiny amount of women allowed into power must be ball breakers, as aggressive as men or align themselves with fake peace like Trump, see above.
Who cares. Call it whatever you want. The fact remains that Europe is led by incompetent, sterile women disconnected from the basic realities of nature. It's like a pet shop rabbit unaware that wolves exist. I'd take them more seriously if the birth rates in their respective countries weren't .01
No. It is just a made-up term, meant to be derogatory towards people who have: 1. observational skills regarding physical, objective reality, 2. above-average logical and deductive reasoning skill, and 3. great discernment. In short: Being credited with the epithet sexism ought to be seen as praise, rather than criticism.
You chose to reflect on person instead on the argument this is worse than misogyny - it is just silly and prevents also any meaningful discussion. You can see it in your "arguments" which do not exist. For the argument about alleged misogyny one would have to show that it is one in the first place and that it actually mattered in the discussion and it is not. The truth is that women have preferential treatment in most of the EU. That is bound to cause some sort of response which then people like you interpret as misogyny to use it as ad hominem attack and disable the interlocutor. That is typica tactic of the woke to scut the the conversation.
Just exactly what is it you hope to prove by defending war criminals because you believe they are being attacked by misogynists? What is your goal here? Continuation of the Ukraine war?
Dude you keep going, aren't you. People pointed out to you the fact that women in power of military have had horrible track record, which is hard, provable fact. Somebody probably have to write psychiatric essay on why is this happening, but it is happening.
And you keep insisting that merely stating that is misogyny.
What you missing is definition of definition. Definitions are all encompassing for a reason, for precision sake. If you don't understand that, you skimped your lessons on logic and set theory. For you to be correct, misogynist have to hate all women.
They clearly don't, they hate very particular women which completely invalidates your opinion. Stop wasting our time.
I think that is a point of discussion for 2 reasons: one is the idea most of us indeed have about women bearing children and protecting them etc. not really fitting into a war scheme of things. The domestic result of this idea is that men attacked physically by a female with which they live do not report that to the police and often enough do not respond till they cannot stand it anymore in which case the whole difference between physical constitution of an average woman and an average man comes to light. The other reason is that we were fed nonsense about women being better then men over decades. Their politics is supposed to be more peaceful etc. That is clearly a nonsense for they are as human as men are but it gets worse because of the negative selection through quotas. Then you have people like Angela, Ursula, Kaja, Annalena etc. the bitch from NZ which name I already forgot belongs to the same group. They are in fact worse than men because their main qualification is possession of female reproduction organs. There may be a misogyny in all that. But after years of misandry that is to be expected.
Misogyny? Don't be retarded. Women historically have never been obligated to serve nor have they in significant command roles and they probably won't start now unless too many men are killed. It's easy too talk tough when you don't have to do any of the fighting.
There should be more fear. If Europe and Russia go at it, it will be a different war. With the advent of WWIII, which is what Europe is talking about, with Germany once again invading Russia - Germany and the rest of Europe will cease to exist. Take out the military with tactical nukes or oreshnik, and if that doesn't work, EMP the countries and they are dead. So easy. This is fucking nuclear, WWIII, and Europe should know that. They want their populations dead.
Either EU leadership is assuming 1. The US nuclear umbrella will save them. This gives the US veto power over any EU military adventures. Which in turn negates the independence from the US that was the whole point of the increased military spending or
2. France (as the only EU member not bound by the nuclear non-proliferation treaty) will need to take a chunk of the military funding to increase their nuclear arsenal. Other EU countries, especially Hungary, Greece, Italy, Spain, etc will be delighted to subsidize the French.
I think the PIGS countries haven't forgotten the austerity policies imposed on them by the French/Germans/EU when their debt got out of control, so good luck convincing them to increase debt now.
The pressure on the Trump administration to come to Europe's aid in case of war would be enormous. The war hawks on both sides are alive and well. It would truly be a test on Trump's desire for real peace.
That is a tempting stereotype. But here I think it is important to recognize that today's "leaders" are really not in charge--they are actors selected by Central Casting to play the parts assigned to them by those "behind the curtain." And those casting directors want plenty of women in those parts as well as men. But the selections are all based on who says their lines the best.
That Tyson quote perfectly captures what I explore in my recent piece "Violence is an Honest Answer." (https://roguebard.substack.com/p/violence-is-an-honest-answer) There's a profound disconnect between our sanitized modern discourse about conflict and the visceral reality of physical confrontation.
Many politicians exist in a strange limbo where they theorize about conflict while having outsourced all actual physical risk to others. This creates exactly the type of fragility Tyson humorously pointed out - elaborate mental frameworks that collapse upon first contact with reality.
I agree wholeheartedly. The problem is, you need something as a person to HAVE THAT OPTION. And having versus not having that option is a whole different ball game. And regarding the glorification, I am absolutely not glorifying the violence, but I admit I DO admire a person who HAS the capability AND uses it wisely.
That attitude is why the world is in such a pitiful state today. More ass kicking is the only answer at this point. It's past time for a reality check for the EU.
Civilization can NOT exist without the proper administration of violence when appropriate.
In Starmer’s case, he needs to be taken from his free VIP box at the Emirates Stadium and buried up to his neck at the penalty spot, facing midfield. British voters could then form a queue and see who could be the first to kick his head clean into the net.
Just take a look at the replies to the comment. It turned into women defending at least 2 examples of the absolute worst of the worst just because they are women. Not a single thought given to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost already and IF the EU has their way hundreds of thousands more will be sent to die. All of us in the so called West suffer from never being punched in the face. How many of your family or friends were driving to work and were destroyed by a missile or drone??
Pansies such as Starmer and Macron, for example. That’s one of the problems of modern UK and European leadership. From Winston Churchill in 1940 to Jim Callaghan in 1979, every single British PM - bar Harold Wilson and Lord Home, who had at least been in the army - had seen combat in a world war. That generation is long gone now, and so are their values.
The more I understand about Churchill, the less I like him. Apparently he really was the conniving criminal portrayed in "Peaky Blinders". The cold war didn't start until he announced it in Fulton, MO. A dinky little town of not even 12,000 today.
Don't get the impression I'm defending Starmer or Macron.
Ukraine’s leaders must be looking up homes in the west because their cause is doomed. The sheer difference in energy infrastructure is shocking to know that Ukraine hasn’t even done 1% of the damage. That the Russians have done to Ukraine despite Ukraine having been given 1/3 of their air defense. The western leadership sees the horror of drones and knows it would cause mass casualties, but their armies are limited because they have alienated much of their youth. Mass conscription isn’t an option for them.
Where will they find sufficient cannon-fodder to fuel their grandiose aspirations? I'm aware of the EU woke and alphabet genes. The queer Ukraine fighters were gleefully notched up as a scalp by Russian soldiers. The unicorn mob soon faded into obscurity. Convicts and psychopaths can only last for just so long.
Of course it's madness. Of course there isn't sufficient cannon-fodder. The point is not to win. The point is to allow the US to continue to extend Russia by proxy.
Negotiations have paused and will resume for the next round based on what occurs implementation-wise from those just concluded. I suggest reading what Lavrov and the Kremlin have said about the just completed round, https://karlof1.substack.com/p/negotiations-report-by-lavrov-and My report ends with some very odd doings regarding Odessa that's circulating in Russian language media. Putin looked great today at the Movement of the First Congress and Board Meeting. Watching and listening to the cheering crowd during his short 4-minute performance in front of the Congress shows he's a Rock Star, http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76542
That technology would finally assert itself versus drones is now being seen. Trump must fire Mike Waltz for making such a bad error in judgement, while the transcript shows the utter disgusting nature of Team Trump laughing about innocents being blown up by their illegal bombing war crime. In just two months, Trump has earned the name Genocide Don.
Or pedigree of evil, depending on perspective. Zion Don has been decreed to be a messiah by 163 rabbis who gave him the Silver Crown of the Torah. His vile statements about clearing out Gaza and leveling it down to bedrock show his true nature.
An untrustworthy megalomaniacal arsehole of the 1st order.
As distinct from the stylish ruling elites in europe, you mean? You have to live here to know what it is like to be run by these classy virtue signallers always on message, always brandishing a truly well polished turd.
This is what I was just saying about the Germans. What happened to them? They are meant to be pragmatic to a fault. My father is German (ww2 era) and a more pragmatic person I've never met.
I visited Germany on business a couple of years ago and was shocked at the state of the country. Hardly anything works, including the people. It is almost a joke.
The key to understanding the German psyche of today is guilt. They are still weighed down by incredible guilt about what they did in WW2. Destroying their own country is the only way they think they can atone.
And always trying to hide and dismiss what they’re doing in their backyards. Gaza seems to be the only breach in this self righteous discourse about western values and democracy above everything.
I am not referring to the political elite but to the real elite - Western international bankers and billionaires who have no national allegiances, except to israel.
He was a right wing fascist. Churchill - right wing fascist. Wilson, Roosevelt - right wing fascists.
Being a "Right wing fascist" seems to be a requirement to succeed in Western political systems. The few that aren't, get death threats - or assassinated if the political system itself can't stop/remove them.
FDR was a corporatist. He transferred many of the costs that would otherwise have been borne by wages, onto the taxpayer. That allowed the private corporations to keep wage costs down, while still protecting the capitalist system.
I agree that many communists can be designated authoritarians, especially the 'state-capitalism' ones.
You ever worked/lived in a properly democratic system? Self-interest works best, only need the "Kicking" when people have been abused from a young age, and they expect to be exploited. Self-motivated people are considerably more pleasant to work and be around. Most people who grow up in an abused state are not even aware they have been abused, it just seems "Normal" to them that to get anything done, someone has to be kicking.
Skandis consider the British, the most abused in N Europe, to be the laziest fuckers around, and not without cause. Americans can be even worse.
People who are given supportive, democratic, childhoods and schooling, are hard-working off-the-bat. That to them seems "Normal". And human nature.
Fascists are socialists. Nazis are socialists. Communists are socialists. Socialists of all stripes are left wing. So right wing should mean individual liberty.
There is no right wing in all of Europe. Just various left wing socialists, some more militant than others, but all lefties.
the 'leak' was deliberate to show what tough boys they are and to add to the propaganda of an EU-US split. Trump has no desire whatsoever to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine or Palestine. The exact opposite.
Get your facts straight, circumcision has been around since long before the vile sandland cult of Christ's 'saviour' was born sometime between 13 & 7 BC.
Many cultures have and do practices it for a variety of reasons.
I agree with you about the nomadic Turkic tribe of grifters though.
We are on the same page with regard to the Ashkenazim fake Jews. They are insane xenophobes, in part possibly due to millennia of institutional inbreeding.
Yes, it does seem likea deliberate leak, but by whom? Who came out as sane On that call? Only theVP. Who came out as a rabid warmonger? H.
And who gave them the phones for the call, a former Biden admin, could the call have been hacked to put Atlantic on the call, meaning W is just a fall guy? Very odd event IMO.
As for Trump being a warmonger, he is trying to end Ukraine. For the ME I think he is trying to get the ME rulers to solve the problem, why not do it himself? Probably because he has been told he/his family will be killed if he does.
He is dealing with genocidal maniacs, don't forget that. Remember the pagers Bibi gave him, they were a threat, if I know it, he certainly recoginized it as such as well.
The support to Putin of the Russian people is undeniable. Compare this passion to the Western corrupt walking deads. People in the west just dont care. They comply by fear. But imagine Putin is taken out. Will people support his successor too? Anyway, I think the hardwork is already done. People has understood the stakes for Russia, which can only go up once the Ukranian nightmare ends. This is the reason why the globalist dont want it to end. A world of powerful sovereign nations means the end of the centralized elite plans.
The US deep state does it deeds for the European old money oligarchy, that have used America as their muscle to ensure their control over the world's resources as collateral for their money lending empire. And yes, I do think they are deeply unsettled because they are gradually losing control over these resources which will end up in their house of cards collapsing onto itself.
The history books seldomly mention the fact that Russia helped the United States during the war of independence to rid themselves of British rule. Tsar Nicolas I assisted the Federal Army in the Civil War by blockading the Royal Navy from resupplying the Confederates. They wanted to keep the cheap cotton shipping into Britain, considered the "White Gold" at the time.
Now it looks like events could develop into that direction again. Federalist Russia and the American Republic joining forces against the imperialist and communist European Union with their headquarters in the City of London, where the devil himself resides.
Currently, Mishustin would become acting president if Putin became disabled, and he’s a very capable person. It’s possible some secret protocol exists regarding what action to take if Putin’s murdered. Given the current situation, I wouldn’t want to be in Kiev or London.
Zelensky and Starmer would come up swearing they didnt do it, strongly condemn, and so on. The worst thing is that the Russians will trust them. Anyway that would be done by some proxy Tadjik or Baluchi.
You cannot really expect different from the imperial city of Washington DC. There is hardly a ruler that would give up his empire's army - they all use it as it is available. USians are being used in a process but that applies to any nation which found itself owning an empire.
- Ukr, EU, pushing to continue war, maintaining maximalist conditions, with no signs of letting up, and in fact likely to double and triple down, perhaps fulfilling a Trump desire for Europe to take over the conflict. Art of the deal etc
Trump actually has pretty poor leverage. If he pulls support from Ukr, then they will simply exclude the US from the process and the war continues. So he is continuing to arm them because that gives him leverage. But its clear that his best move, in fact his only move, is to cut the whole thing loose and leave it to the EU, Ukraine, and Russia to sort out. The front has moved 50km west in the past year, and the Ukrainians still manage to make these token offensives. Lots of fight still left in them
I would disagree - the Russians have been very reserved and circumspect about their offensive strategy to maintain a plausible possibility of negotiation and not 'burn their bridges', but once all parties realize that the US is withdrawing support, the Russian strategy will change to something much more decisive and realistic in terms of getting it done.
As for how much fight Ukraine has left and how close it is to collapse, it reminds me of the bankrupted millionaire being asked how his ruination came to pass: he said "slowly, and then all at once".
This sort of falls into the "gloves off" theory, that the Russian army is not fighting to its full capacity. On one hand, to fight a very long war Moscow has to keep the economy going, on the other hand you wind up in a very long war because you don't commit to win.
We can bestow much criticism on the West for their lack of strategy, but the same can be said for the Kremlin.
Starlink is able to be ended, the immediate political result would most likely be a nuclear WWIII.
The physical result would be the most useful low earth orbit "sphere" which Starlink tennants would be denied to all users for some time (a few years for certain, possibly decades?) And even transiting through the debris left orbiting in that zone to reach higher orbits would be risky. On the plus side, there would be so many pretty shooting stars every night... If only we were alive and able to see them.
My sense of it is that Russia is actually doing a superb job of adapting and evolving with the developments of the entire situation, right from being on its knees in 1991 to resuming its status as World Power and basically taking on NATO today.
"Lack of strategy" would NOT have Russia winning the conflict (which is based on ATTRITION not today's 500 meter loss or gain, which means nothing in the big picture), enjoying excellent and profitable relations with the Global Majority, close to the lowest debt to GDP ratio in the world and a manufacturing base that is well supplied, designed and financed.
Russia's "lack of strategy" has it in a strong position to achieve its actual goals, NATO cracking into pieces, the US begging for negotiations and China standing firmly behind it! Lack of strategy??? Surely you jest!
I keep hearing about the impending defeat of the AFU yet it manages to launch counter attacks across the 1000 mile front pushing Russian troops back in numerous fronts from Pokrovsk to Toretsk.
Maybe, but at what cost? Is Ukraine actually improving its overall situation with these grand 'big red arrow' "counter attacks", or is it, in reality, just bashing its brains out against an implacable and immovable Russian bulwark that is happy to 'give up' 10 useless kms of swamp if it means the irreplaceable destruction and/or consumption of armor, soldiers and resources?
Read Clausewitz (and Mackinder, while you're at it) and get back to us about the efficacy of futile "counter attacks".
You give up a lot, and complain of much delusion on this blog. Perhaps you go to those 3 little dots, click them, and hit "block" so that your precious mental state doesn't have to suffer from all these statements anymore. I'm doing that now - try it, we will both be better off
If the US pulls out then the Russians will go into total war footing, that's the obvious scenario. Total war will last a few months and all bets are off then.
I sort of agree, though with Europe going full on Barbarossa you might think that Trump would walk sooner rather than later to avoid being dragged into the inevitable debacle. And Europe cannot remotely fight without US ISR capabilities, and indeed are extremely reluctant to do so anyway in most quarters. The absence or only limited presence of Europe/Ukraine in the various talks highlight really that this is the USA's proxy war against Russia. Maybe Trump wants the fighting to stop but would be content to let Europe continue (with US ISR) if it was the price of subduing his domestic enemies. I don't really know. Best thing Trump should have done is walk away early and blame Biden. Now it his problem. But maybe a win still is if two of the USA's geopolitical rivals continue a useless and expensive war against each other?
As you can see, I am struggling to see what is on the agenda here, still less the menu...
If Trump had simply walked away Ukraine would have collapsed and he would have another Kabul (or Saigon). It seems he's making a tactical retreat hoping to capitalise all round. Trade with Russia (historically minimal), land grabbing in Ukraine (not going that well to date), and weakening Europe even more (payback). The tactical retreat affects all 3. Look at how southern Europe is reacting to Barbarossa II.
My sense is it's classic Trump- scare the euros into spending more on defense, most of that winds up in the US anyway. NATO interoperability means US dominates. I can see an outcome not long from now where war continues but US spends 0 and only provides ISR and Europe pays the whole bill PLUS a few hundred billion more on defense on top.
He knows the war can't end. Getting everyone to agree was never possible. This is a show - he also has a neocon constituency that he has to assuage and they need to see him "try"
1. Ukraine capacity to fight DOA without US satellite data
2. The current klepto-fascist state in Kiev runs on a thousand frauds, small and large, all ultimately skimming $$$ from the billions US/EU/NATO funnel their way. Europeans can help with this but they can't print infinite money quite like the Americans can. Keep in mind Trump admin is totally upending the global economy at the same time ... and kicking off another massive war with Iran and Yemen which is likely to cause another energy shock
"The front has moved 50km west in the past year, and the Ukrainians still manage to make these token offensives. Lots of fight still left in them"
there is a common misconception about the progression. The point is that Donbas is a dense web of industrial towns and cities, mines and factories, build up by NATO in the 2015-2022 as bastions, strongholds,some heavily fortified.
Terrain is here and there difficult, hilly, some forest and some rivers to cross.
the idea of Russia is to retake these pre-USSR areas, where also remains population that didn't leave. The easy way would be to massively bomb the whole. Flatten everything. But then it would mean that: extensive destruction. Instead they try to keep some core infrastructure skeleton.
there were three big long defensive layers , and Russia has removed two, the last one, toward Kramatorsk and Slavyansk is the last standing for NATO , after what hilly densely urbanized land disappear and it is steppe to the Dnepr.
Russia could easily do Kharkov in Israeli extermination style on Gaza. Turn it to rumbles no matter what.
It is probable that Russia plays on its image also at world level. Because by now, despite not being powerful and so not taken into consideration, most countries see EU-USA has a bunch of bloody murderers and a thread to them soon or later. Anti-russian screaming bashing is encapsulated into what is called itself "Western" realm. But when Yanks and Germans need to deal with Third World countries without attacking or racketing them, they can not use the ethical nor diplomatic ways. Everybody sees that Israel does an extermination documented real time online with EU applauding and laughing.
He also covers extensively the US's new tactic - assassinating the leaders. Maybe that's what Zelensky's talking about. Putin better not trust the US as far has he could throw it.
Yes, I believe this is correct. This is not a Trump initiative - it is an elite initiative that Trump is carrying out. Buy off Russia, then defeat Iran. After Iran, China. And without Chinese support, Russia becomes a victim.
I'm certain that Russia hasn't figured this out. /s
Given Mr. Putin's extensive knowledge of history, love of chess and critical thinking, I believe he has already thought of a dozen or more scenario's, all of which he modifies as situations change.
Trump is not trying to buy off Russia. He's trying to get the EU to act as proxies to extend Russia so that the US can focus on Iran and ultimately China. They have explicitly stated this. They're pretending the EU is undermining them while all the while the EU are merely ventriloquist's dummies. Alt media and Lavrov seem to have fallen for it.
You're right it's not Trump, it's the initiative of US special interests (BlackRock- arms, banking, oil, animal ag, pharma). They want primacy, especially over China, at all costs.
As long as the war goes on, he can't focus on Iran or China. Even if he were to walk away and leave it to the EU, he would be seen by Russia as still a threat. Trump has stated that he might walk away and leave it to the EU, but I believe that is a bluff and that he hopes the EU will see reality if the US walks away and will in the end support the US in ending the war. If he can gain Russia's trust (and he certainly won't by allowing Europe to continue the war), he believes that he can then turn full attention to Iran. He believes he can get the war done in the next few weeks and then attack Iran (the US is already amassing a huge force as we speak). He will, however, be disappointed on several levels - one involves his not being able to stop the war when he wants, another is he is underestimating the strength of the Russian support for Iran and thirdly he underestimates Russia's ties with China.
Trump will fail. And that's where things will get very 'unpredictable'. Stock up on potassium iodide - just in case....
It's the last ditch attempt of a dying Empire to hang on to hegemony in the face of aggressive new competitors. Happens all the time in history, except that this time the stakes are higher.
Everyone knows the Russians stand by their allies, unlike the US. The concept of the US "buying Russia off" to turn on the Iranians is delusional.
As for Zylenskys pipe dream that Putin will be gone soon, we can place that beside his silly paintings of the Kremlin burning - if wishes were horses, beggars would ride!
And not just in 2024, Putin sold Syria out already back in 2012, because the Israelis control him.
Compared and contrast with Brezhnev literally sending the tactical nukes to protect Syria and Egypt back in 1973 (of course, that was followed shortly by the Egyptians betraying the USSR, but Syria remained a loyal ally, and then what did it get?)
Putin did as much as he could, and more. Russian support was simply not enough, to overcome US sanctions, Israeli attacks, Arab boycott, Turkish and Arab supported insurgency, US supported Kurdish insurgency.
You should ask yourself what Brezhnev did wrong when he ruined Soviet Union instead of reforming it.
Communist leaders destroyed SSSR, Putin has raised Russia from defeat
Putin is unique as his personal experience in dealing with the West resonates, mirrors, reflects the experience of Russian society, Russian people.
So in a sense Putin does speak for Russia, and represents Russia.
No one is infallible, but Putin is basically honest leader.
What I do not like about you GM is this negative energy towards Putin, that is in essence negative towards Russia itself, and that, really, puts you in the exact political position that MI6 would choose for their useful idiot.
Putin isn’t Russia and you clearly have no idea of the situation inside Russia.
There is huge resentment towards what leadership is (and isn’t) doing inside Russia right now, and it is coming precisely from the most patriotic sections of the population.
You also clearly have no idea what happened in the 1980s and ever since, how the USSR was broken up and why, and what that resulted in.
If you did know a bit about those subjects, you would not be dismissing the idea of the Kremlin doing treason, because you would have watched the Kremlin do grand treason constantly for decades.
Oh please what silly nonsense. Kremlin leaders for all their faults during Soviet times gave mass support to their allies from the Korean War to Vietnam and beyond.
and that weakness was a consequence of communist rule, created by communists who didn't know how to run economy.
Soviet Union at first adapted, there was NEP. new economic politics, in the early 1920 years,
but there was no one in the 1980-ies willing to say what Deng Hsiao Ping said
It is not important if the cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice
What people outside China call communism, is a peculiar variant of Chinese nationalism, Chinese know, China is an enormous state, that has to have a strong central government, and do not accuse their leaders of treason.
Russia has ten times less population but is enormous in size, and has to be governed from a strong central government,
There are only two countries in the world that can be at real war with both Japan and Germany at the same time,
USA and Russia. USA as a maritime power, but Russia as a land power, directly in Berlin and in Manchuria
Russia needs strong central government, that is also wise and intelligent, because Russian strength although enormous, is not infinite.
Ok if you’re taking the long view, Assad behaved like a child, wanted Russian assistance but refused to take Russian advice along with it, and was the victim of his own errors (and overwhelming Israeli/Western pressure of course). There is no helping some people.
As usual, you are making the mistake of thinking about the events of 2024 completely forgetting what happened in the 13 years prior.
Go back to those prior events and you will see how Putin is the key person to blame for Syria collapsing.
Case in point: Idlib was about to be taken and then the order came from the Kremlin to halt. Just as it did when Azov abandoned Mariupol in 2014. It wasn’t for the first time. What happened after that in the end, in both cases?
Then neither Russia nor Iran nor China broke the sanctions, which is how Syria was hollowed out like that. Nobody provided serious military support for expelling the Americans from the northeast either. And the dominoes will fall in such a way from here on that the situation in November 2024 warranted the Russian, Iranian and Chinese armies jointly sending several hundred thousand men to defend Assad, otherwise at the end all three of them will be destroyed too (Iran, Russia, China, in that order); so the Chinese are also to blame, it's not just Russia and Iran.
Also, let's not forget Israel for a decade having the complete freedom to bomb whatever they wanted whenever they wanted because Russian air defense never fired at the F-35s and F-15s. Not just that -- Syria had paid for a number of S-300 systems to be operated by its own army, which Putin never delivered.
Again, compare to the situation in Soviet times. Was there ever a moment when Syria was not allowed to use Soviet weapons to defend itself against Israeli aggression? I repeat myself, but Brezhnev sent the Soviet navy with tactical nukes ready to fire to defend Syria in 1973. What did Putin do?
Even after 2022 when the US started a direct war with Russia. How hard would it have been to send Syria some Tornado-S systems to take out the US bases once the HIMARS appeared in Ukraine? Tit-for-tat. But no.
Finally, let's not forget Putin playing the good cop to the Americans' bad cop in taking away Syria's chemical weapons deterrent. That is portrayed as some kind of a masterstroke on Putin's part when the net result of it was that Syria no longer had chemical weapons and was thus greatly weakened relative to Israel as Israel has nukes while Syria doesn't.
Why did all of that happen?
Because while the USSR before Gorbachev was run by people committed to a noble cause, after the USSR fell apart Russia is an oligarchy run in the interests of the oligarchs. Putin is merely the CEO of the corporation. But most of the oligarchs are Jews. Openly Zionist too. Which determines foreign policy as it does everywhere else -- it is run in the interests of Israel. Not as openly as in the US, but if you look at how much the Russian oligarchy is dominated by Jews in its composition, that is actually much more thoroughly so in Russia than in the US. So why should we think decision making is controlled by Israel in the US but Putin works for the interests of Russia? How likely is that?
BTW, this is also why NATO is not touched. Russia could have smoked out all of NATO's military bases in Europe and all of the US's bases in Eurasia in half an hour, won the war that way, and the US would not have dared fire strategic nukes at Russia. But if Russia does that, Israel is left defenseless. And Putin's loyalties are split, to put it mildly, so here we are, with Russian strategic bases going up in smoke deep inside Russia and Putin doing treasonous deals with the US instead of fighting back...
Whether or not Russia delivered S300s to Syria has so many dependencies that it is impossible to know for sure. It seems that there were no more than 3 additional batteries promised and that there had been some S300s delivered as far back as 2011. In any case, 3 batteries weren't going to change much.
Syria never had chemical weapons. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate have completely debunked that story.
You actually want someone to use Nukes? I'm pretty sure Putin's actions are to lessen that possibility.
I don't think Israel controls US foreign policy. I think the Deep State is using Israel to create chaos in the Middle East. I will not subscribe to the "tail wags the dog" theory. Not now. Not ever.
I will remind people that they should figure out who Meyer Lansky was.
Your "attack NATO" scenario is a good way to end life on earth.
Repeating accusations that are emotional, but absolutely out of logic.
People like you GM, destroyed the Tsar Nikolaj, and created fertile ground for a terrorist revolution.
Tsar was not a brightest specimen, he entered the First World War in haste, he send his armies to fight against Germans before a whole mobilisation could be finished...he suffered serious losses...
but Germans would not have succeeded in creating a Bolshevik Revolution, transporting Lenin and his associates from Switzerland across half Europe and releasing them in Finland, if there were not enough GMs who cried: Treason, Treason...
You are the only real danger Russia is facing today, not US, not Ukraine, not Europe, but voices like you, whether you are an MI6 agent, testing what is having effect on the population of Simplicius's substack, or just a useful idiot.
No your comment is delusional. Trump is clearly hoping to destroy the economies of Venezuela, he whacked crippling sanctions on its oil industry, and has said he is going to destroy Iran lol exports. I haven't heard a peep from the kte about this or trumps open threats to China. If I was an ally of the kremlin I'd be having second thoughts as it does not stand by it's allies unlike the USSR which never backed down during the cold war from military and economic support for it's allies.
The kremlin and it's billionaire oligarchs merely want to resume normal service with the imperialist West so that the oligarchs can go back to jet setting around enjoying their ill gotten gains.
Crooke starts by suggesting nothing will happen until October because of the JCPOA. Why then is the US deploying B2s to Diego Garcia?
He then says, "it will happen soon".
Iran is capable of deploying a nuke. Ritter suggests a week. But Iran doesn't want one.
He finally gets to the point that the US cannot be trusted so Iran isn't going to negotiate.
"They're all Jews from New York and they only talk to Jews from New York".
Johnson's discussion of the Torah at about 40 minutes is worth listening to. This was after Crooke was explaining that the Shia, more or less, believe that if you aren't Shia you aren't Muslim.
There is a lot covered in this interview that should be examined.
Iran actually doesn't need nuclear warheads, as it has already demonstrated that it can hypersonically destroy Dimona with impunity, any day of the week, and irradiate Israel for centuries..
How convenient that four Yankee soldiers went "missing" and turned up dead in Lithuania. I can see this shit continuing to try and get the Orangeman to react to a false flag with more dead 'Mericans.
Simp most likely on the right track here: US Army Black Ops killed in Ukraine/Russia being written off as "training accident in Lithuania".
Probably as part of the US/Saudi negotiations, Russian Army agreed to smuggle the bodies back via the Belorussia-NATO border.
Now we know what the panicked Trump Tweet about those supposedly "brave Ukrainian" soldiers who were "hopelessly surrounded" in Kursk Oblast was about. Running cover for these US Special Ops "Tactical Advisor" Officers who effed up their tactics, and inadvertently found themselves in a Russian cauldron.
In case, very chivalrous of the Russians to hand back their corpses without much fanfare or humiliation of the losers. Except I had expected 60 US officers' bodies or so, not only 4.
They turned a heavy vehicle upside down into a peat bog and SANK it, from what I have seen. They are still finding and recovering "collectible" WWII tanks which were lost or kept from capture by being driven into such bogs around the Baltic & Western Russia.
I am sad to say that there will be no ceasefire. The war will continue until all the goals of the SMO are completed - by force. Kiev and Odessa will be liberated. As will just about everything else, other than Banderistan in west Ukraine which the pollacks can have (enjoy those genocidal nazis poland you earned them). Zelensky and his pack of press ganging child raping vampires will get impaled on stakes, hunted down by the FSB, shipped to the gulag, hooked up to truck batteries and fed ear sandwiches (not neccessarily in that order!!)
I say I am sad because it means even more Russians must die, both Russian Russians and Ukrainian Russians. It also means even more of my precious American tax dollars will be burnt in the pyre of jewish hysterical bloodlust. I wonder what the final tally will get to before the wheels come off? 50 trillion? 100 trillion? I guess we'll know soon enough, trump is distracted and erractic in all things except in trashing our trade relations and bombing the Houthis. Thanks Trump!!! I voted for you to kill more brown people for zionist jews and prevent me from buying cheap Canadian cheese at Costco. Thanks so much boss!!!!
I just hope the Russian people find it in their hearts to forgive America someday, please know that a great many of us support your cause or perhaps don't give a shit one way or another and just want jews to stop burning our money. I hope your overwhelming and total victory will ease your pain. For what it's worth I have been tirelessly advocating for Russian-American Christian/European solidarity for...it seems like years now. I don't think I've been very successful, but at least know one American honors your leaders, your soldiers, and most of all your tireless, brave and long suffering people.
Glory to Russia - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Ukranians are holding the line and even counter attacking everywhere. Nobody thought they could resist Russia for so long. Your scenario means a total collapse of the Ukranian regime, which is not likely happening. Instead, expect more escalation, more Trump flip flopping, 25 European brigades on the ground, more genocide in Gaza, more bombs on the Huthis and on Iran.
God himself will grant Russia victory. It may take one year or a hundred, Russia will liberate Ukraine. Long after the EU, NATO and the rules based international jews and their sodomite slaves collapse, Russia will still be there, liberating Ukraine. It is what it is.
No more cheap reliable vehicles for you now with 25% tariffs on all imports. All that American Mexicana crap that keeps breaking down, that you can't buy parts for and/or are not allowed to fix yourself.
I swear, Trump is only motivated and cogent when doing the wrong thing. When doing the right thing he's slapdash and erratic - but trashing all our trade relations? The man is MOTIVATED to trash all our trade relations. Hmm yes were gonna fight in flation by *checks notes* tariffing all our food suppliers....weeeeeew lads
The war was lost as the instant the sanctions failed. Everything for the past 3 years has been wishful thinking and damage control.
The access to Northern China will need to be obtained another way...
In my own opinion, this is the only reason Trump is back in power and the Dems seem to be very quiet and restrained this time - Trump is the "Putin whisperer" who will get them access to Northern China without Russian interference, to enable the glorious north-south China pincer.
Haha, if I were China I would be shoveling every bomb, rocket and artillery shell to Russia that I could, maybe FOR FREE. If God forbid Russia falls in Ukraine then China is next on the "chopping block." Nothing would make me happier than see China liberating Taiwan at the exact moment Russia liberates Ukraine. Oh Lord, let me live to see it.
America is run by a criminal gang. They are often referred to as Oligarchs, but Americans need to understand Meyer Lansky and how he legitimized crime.
Trump is tired, but he feels as a man with stigma after the attack on his life, so all he does is with the blessing of the Lord, he can only die as a Saint. Putin looks like he won’t last any longer, cancer is feeding on him. Zelensky on EU tour as a beggar, tonight he’s begging on a French broadcast for more credits and contractor armies, I bet he’ll be replaced very soon. What will happen when they all are leaving the war scene before any peace treaty or deal with mutual benefits? Anyone some suggestions?
How long did it take to find out that J. Biden was suffering severe dementia? Are you sure because of the attack on Trump is not suffering anxiety disorde, tinnitus or having nightmares or insomnia? Look at Putin’s face, it is not the same as some years ago, Steroids?Radiation? Chemo?
Old age does that to everyone. He could have cancer but he's not losing much weight, in fact the opposite. The medics looking after him are probably the best in the world. I'd say he's fine and fit, if he wasn't, he'd be put out to pasture.
Not to everyone, and even with the best doctors they cannot save you. Do you think this war doesn’t give him stress, poisoning his mind, shortening his life? After the war he can go relax at the Black Sea Riviera and Trump at the Gaza Monte-Carlo Riviera. This whole war in Ukraine is completely oncogenic.
I can not hear any more stories of Putin being very ill. He is in an age, where he might see the Lord very quickly, but at the moment, he looks fit and healthy. If you have further information, than please share it!
Must have killed them to replace Biden. He was so placid and pliant and knew when to get out of the way, but there were bigger fish, and they all got their blanket pardons.
It will never cease to bemuse me that people think that Putin dying/resigning will be anything but a disaster for Ukraine. Do the Ukies think Medevev or one of the bug eyed crazy ultranationalist generals that have been burying Russian soldiers for three years will be softer to Ukraine than Putin? Putin's maudlin sentimentality is the only reason Ukraine is not a radioactive crater.
It is not personal, yet definitely not the same for Russia, US or Ukraine
Easiest is to decipher the fate of Zelensky,
Zelensky was a pet project of CIA and MI6, an exercise in media manipulation, necessary to ensure continued support of western audiences for financing an expensive proxy war. He will be slowly relegated to post like Bandera had in West Germany in 1945 and later. Removed from spotlight, kept in a drawer for possible later use. His personal fate reflecting the position if extreme Ukrainian nationalists.
Trump may be replaced by Vance. Nothing fundamental would change, relations with Ukraine and Russia would continue moving on a same trajectory, no support for proxy war, treating Russia with respect.
In case of Putin, the next Russian leader will be more business like, less ready to accomodate disrespect from the West.
The US has almost never lifted sanctions once imposed. So it seems Russia as the world's biggest commodities producer selling outside the dollar system is truly affecting the US's ability to export inflation to the world. The Europeans don't want to lift sanctions as if Europe starts to openly pay for Russian gas in Rubles, as was demanded by the Russians in 2022, would adversely affect the value of the Euro. As the Russians because of supply and demand could demand, in relation to currency exchange, a higher exchange rate. The big issue the US will face is the 95% Ruble/Renminbi trade which denies the dollar trillions in trade between Russia and China. Russia can never again sell her exports in Euro/dollars with what has happened and now the Russians and Chinese will probably push towards expanding trade in local currency further diminishing the importance of the Eurodollar system globally.
Trump's talking about it because he needs Russia to not help Iran/Yemen, and for some reason in his mind, US doing these attacks is urgent. The SWIFT monopoly has already been broken, but some coutnries or some banks of trade partners are still scared of secondary sanctions.
And the ship insurance part, which I take to mean the US would order Lloyd's to insure at standard rates, is a nice angle. The insurerance co's would ultimately be the ones to pay, literally, for Ukraine's rather probable violations of the agreement - ie blowing up freighters - and of course Lloyd's knows this.
Low likelyhood these promises will last but it's a good demonstration that incremental diplomacy is possible - which is something today's hawks deny.
Russia is failing to seize the moment to, once and for all, assert itself as the superpower it's supposed to be by being more aggressive against AFU forces and by making a bold stand in unison with its allies to put an end to Trump and Friends' endless bullying of their countries.
The more lollygagging Russia does in Ukraine the more time it gives Trump to set a plan to tear apart Russia's alliances. Trumpster plans to weaken Russia by threatening its allies which is well underway one country at a time. Now Iran faces an ultimatum or war within a few months. Russia should make clear that any attack on Iran is an attack on Russia. Russian allies are going to get popped one country at a time because they lack unity and they are all cucks. Lula and Modi are two big cucks trying to play midground between the US and Russia. Where is the Alliance of countries that say an attack on Iran is an attack on us? China is the biggest cuck of them all. So all that Trump sees are a bunch of cuck leaders waiting their turn to kiss his ass and that includes Macron and Starmer and a host of other cuckers.
Putin and friends are looking soft and that's why now Europeans are looking to be more belligerent against Russia because they're not afraid.
Being indecisive when decisiveness is needed most might be Russia and its ally's biggest mistake, not to be defeated but just cucked into submission. Cuck, cuck, kadidoo. The Empire wins again.
Your post would make more sense if Iran wasn't armed to the teeth in preparation for an attack. It's had decades to prepare. They haven't even defeated Hamas in 18 months. Going up against Iran is the ultimate in stupidity, I doubt even the US could be that naive.
Like in Afghanistan? The US is only capable against opponents who can't retaliate. Even the Taliban outplayed them.Everything else is spin. They dominate the World Propaganda Index.
While this analysis as usual is excellent, Simplicius says "American deep state forces are attempting to paralyze the Trump administration with concocted scandals." While that's true, Trump's Zionist loyalty is so shameful, so disgraceful, so evil, that I find it hard to take Trump seriously as anything other than an accomplice and enabler of murder. Even though in was very MAGA four years ago. (I'm Canadian btw.)
Unfortunately I think Berletic is right about "continuity of policy" of US presidents. It's been neocon for decades and Trump is not much more than the latest flavour of that perverse, cancerous, evil mindset. "God's chosen people."
What can a person do? I guess lighting oneself on fire is always an option.
The feminist run EU acts more and more crazily...Saying you're going to spend enormous amounts to create a military that can fight Russia is completely delusional..The money isn't there, and most of the EU countries and their banks are already teetering on the brink of insolvency...as a result, capital is fleeing the EU and UK to the US and other safe havens..Soon, there will be capital controls, and subsequently governmental collapse...
Women should have no part to play in senior political roles. Having lived with a mother and then married a wife, any man can see that women are completely unpredictable due to their nature. My wife and 2 daughters agree with me on this matter.
Really? I have met lots of women who have a materialist view of their material circumstances and a ruthless way with people who don't contribute to them. It's the men who make grand romantic gestures and women who appraise jewellery on other women's fingers, to decide if it's the right number of months of her bloke's salary. The philosopher Reginald D. Hunter is eloquent on the subject. ;O)
You can find the exceptions in this matter by spending two years getting to know women. If you're in a hurry you can ask me which ones I fancy, they'll be the nutters, guaranteed. ;O)
Quite. It is absurd and outrageous that they even have the vote. The advent of women’s suffrage marked the start of the decline and collapse of the west.
Aren’t you forgetting the “brilliant” men in power? Johnson, Starmer, Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Scholz, Rutte, Stubb and etc., etc.
I agree the choice of current female leaders is horrible, but it has nothing to do with PMS, menopause or women being “emotional creatures” making “stupid and illogical decisions.”
Trump’s controversial “pearls” put any pre-post menopausal woman to “shame” :-)
There were no women in power to blame for WWI and WWII - so whose “menopause” had drowned the world in blood then?
It is always interesting to see how the propaganda narrative is developed by Ukraine who is a pocket-master at manipulating its tame allies. After years of telling the west that Russia was going to collapse from:
1. internal revolution, moments away!
2. running out of weaponry, customising fridge parts!
3. devastating economic collapse (yeah right, problem was too many movers in the west knew that was rubbish)
4. the supremacy of new magic weaponry from or bought from western assistance- from the very large and when that failed, down to the very small (cardboard boxes) with a sotto voce threat of going nuclear in some shape of form (although they have to be careful not to become the first casualty of this one either literally, or via a sudden routing of allied support and their own sudden death from total absolute withdrawal of all foreign support and a consequent blanket financial collapse).
we now have-
5. DEATH OF PUTIN. That will do it, and it is coming, we promise. Just stick with us and this apparently lost war for a teeny bit longer and all those vast rewards from the Russian collapse will pour in to bail you all out. How can you give up now (sunk losses argument) when Russian riches are about to save your skins.
As Russia has said, it is going to have to win this war the hard way on the ground through gruelling attrition to finally grind these 'apes with grenades' into the dirt. There is sadly no other way. They are like some Rasputin style monster, as the US is also discovering, and it and its barmy so called allies made this one. It is the one western 'success' in this entire operation.
I never said any of these lines are novel. Go back to the WWII and find them all alive and well. It is just the first one to have been run this time round that is now returning like a dying satellite in a declining orbit. I was addressing S's suggestion that there was something in this- 'maybe he knows something...." by putting it in the context of the whole spiel and yes of course it appeared at the outset but this rerun has breathed a new malevolence into it.
The US is discovering that the Ukraine is a Rasputin monster? What? Even Lavrov admitted that Zelensky was a puppet of Washington so there was no point in talking to him.
Little Ukraine is now a savvy master of the EU and US and not a country constantly manipulated by the US who staged a coup in 2014? Have you completely rewritten history to suit your Trump hero agenda?
The Trump administration has become Cato and attacking Iran has become "Carthage must be destroyed." Everything else is secondary, including the negotiations with Russia. Finish negotiations quickly and move to the primary objective. By the way the Deep State is largely Zionist. Trump is cleaning out political enemies in the Deep State, not the Deep State itself.
Exactly. Instead of Carthage and the Romans I think the better parallel is Athens and Sicily, the latter being the mistake that lead to the Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian War. A full scale US attack on Iran would deeply damage both US and Israeli power. A possible very costly tactical victory and a massive strategic defeat is the best possible outcome. There are many worse possible outcomes.
Turky, ever the opportunist would side with Iran. Even the Saudi's are finally on talking terms with Iran, Iraq is still occupied territory but would throw off its chains and work with its historical enemy to defeat Israel, American Mexicana and the other Western terrorist states.
The Turkish ruling classes like their european vacations, their western bank accounts, their London and Paris trophy properties, their western war toys.
And dont forget China. Trump is even more rabid against China than any other democrat president. When you see Bannon talking about "communist" China you see pure hate togheter with paralysing envy and impuissance. They are the old allout churchillian Dullesish hitlerish poison spitting terrorist anticommunist world league. On top of that, they cant stop the red people Asian development and grab their ressources. Trumps victory was a relief because the world wss becoming a bad remake of the Rocky Horror picture show, but his star is fadding fast. His new bombing campaign has fininshed his peacemaker reputation. The Rocky Horror picture show might be preferable very soon.
Yesterday, the Globaltimes of China reported about the port fees. It was the main opinion article. All talk about tariffs, but there seems to be a more interesting development, which is biting Chinese shipbuilding. This seems to be more problematic for China than all this sanctions and tariffs.
That is the war party. European elites need war to maintain power. War is a great cover for financial instability. In fact war can be blamed for everything bad, and at the same time get people to rally around their current leaders. But if the EU goes ahead with these plans, it’s likely to be the most shambolic war we’ve ever seen. I only hope Trump has the sense to stay out of it.
Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face.
This is especially true for men who never had a physical altercation in all of their lives.
mike tyson quote... sad about the death of his daughter...
No it's not. Mike never said punched in the face, why do so many always get that wrong? He Always said punched in the mouth.
over the course of time it got altered.. i am sure of that..
I would put the EUs loudmouth female war mongers firmly in this category. At very low risk of stepping outside of an airconditioned environment let alone be exposed to the battlefield horrors of what they loudly promote.
Women egging on their menfolk has been a problem since one troupe of apes came down from the trees onto the big flat plains and suddenly saw that there were these others who were going to compete with it directly for this new place that would need defending. We have been carving up the resources of the fertile plains ever since.
Ursula and Kaja... Spoiled daughters of well-to-do families, with high ambitions and low morality.
Yet their coalitions keep winning elections...
That's because they count the votes.
Or rather their rulers like Klaus Schwab or whoever it is.
Why are women war mongers any worse than men who will never fight?. I think it's misogyny.
As regards Von der Leyden see is merely doing what her bosses told her to do and say. Which is up the EU military spending, buying US arms, and get the public all in a lather about a threat from Russia. She's just a puppet of the US deep state (BlackRock ie arms, banking, tech, oil, animal ag and pharma), same as silly little boys Zelensky, Starmer and Macron.
I dont know as its your comparison and your question, which has little to do with what I said. Im guessing you see lots off things as misogyny if you play that card as an initial comment.
Misogyny is mandatory!
It is one way to deal with the rampant misandrist antiwhiteism in the West.
It is not misogyny. Hillary Clinton, Ursula, and Kaja Kalla are examples for all eyes to see. Meloni of Italy is a rare exception.
It’s the definition of misogyny.
Maybe you need to check your misandry, Jo
Your delusional karen
Only people who are aggressive war mongers are allowed into power by US interests (arms for example) or who are cynical proxy war mongers like Trump (who seems to have fooled you all, even Lavrov who says the EU are undermining their US puppet masters and repeating the US words 'the ball's in Putin court like they are their own words!).
The tiny amount of women allowed into power must be ball breakers, as aggressive as men or align themselves with fake peace like Trump, see above.
Nuland, Samantha Power, Liz Truss, Sanna Matin, Madeleine Albright, etc.
Angela Merkel, Treason May, Badenoch, …
Who cares. Call it whatever you want. The fact remains that Europe is led by incompetent, sterile women disconnected from the basic realities of nature. It's like a pet shop rabbit unaware that wolves exist. I'd take them more seriously if the birth rates in their respective countries weren't .01
The fact remains that you are a total sexist arse hole who's been fooled by Trump.
No. It is just a made-up term, meant to be derogatory towards people who have: 1. observational skills regarding physical, objective reality, 2. above-average logical and deductive reasoning skill, and 3. great discernment. In short: Being credited with the epithet sexism ought to be seen as praise, rather than criticism.
You chose to reflect on person instead on the argument this is worse than misogyny - it is just silly and prevents also any meaningful discussion. You can see it in your "arguments" which do not exist. For the argument about alleged misogyny one would have to show that it is one in the first place and that it actually mattered in the discussion and it is not. The truth is that women have preferential treatment in most of the EU. That is bound to cause some sort of response which then people like you interpret as misogyny to use it as ad hominem attack and disable the interlocutor. That is typica tactic of the woke to scut the the conversation.
Just exactly what is it you hope to prove by defending war criminals because you believe they are being attacked by misogynists? What is your goal here? Continuation of the Ukraine war?
Can men get pregnant?
Why are you ghey?
Pasta! Pasta!
There you go again!
Not true at all. The fact is you have succumb to the only contagious mental illness, liberalism, ie the party of the potato. Typical Karen.
Dude you keep going, aren't you. People pointed out to you the fact that women in power of military have had horrible track record, which is hard, provable fact. Somebody probably have to write psychiatric essay on why is this happening, but it is happening.
And you keep insisting that merely stating that is misogyny.
What you missing is definition of definition. Definitions are all encompassing for a reason, for precision sake. If you don't understand that, you skimped your lessons on logic and set theory. For you to be correct, misogynist have to hate all women.
They clearly don't, they hate very particular women which completely invalidates your opinion. Stop wasting our time.
Thanks for the easy block decision. You contribute nothing useful and boundaries are made for people like you.
Who cares if something is "misogynistic" or "racist" or "mean". It's either true or false.
I think that is a point of discussion for 2 reasons: one is the idea most of us indeed have about women bearing children and protecting them etc. not really fitting into a war scheme of things. The domestic result of this idea is that men attacked physically by a female with which they live do not report that to the police and often enough do not respond till they cannot stand it anymore in which case the whole difference between physical constitution of an average woman and an average man comes to light. The other reason is that we were fed nonsense about women being better then men over decades. Their politics is supposed to be more peaceful etc. That is clearly a nonsense for they are as human as men are but it gets worse because of the negative selection through quotas. Then you have people like Angela, Ursula, Kaja, Annalena etc. the bitch from NZ which name I already forgot belongs to the same group. They are in fact worse than men because their main qualification is possession of female reproduction organs. There may be a misogyny in all that. But after years of misandry that is to be expected.
Doesn't Ursula have 7 kids?
Misogyny? Don't be retarded. Women historically have never been obligated to serve nor have they in significant command roles and they probably won't start now unless too many men are killed. It's easy too talk tough when you don't have to do any of the fighting.
There should be more fear. If Europe and Russia go at it, it will be a different war. With the advent of WWIII, which is what Europe is talking about, with Germany once again invading Russia - Germany and the rest of Europe will cease to exist. Take out the military with tactical nukes or oreshnik, and if that doesn't work, EMP the countries and they are dead. So easy. This is fucking nuclear, WWIII, and Europe should know that. They want their populations dead.
Either EU leadership is assuming 1. The US nuclear umbrella will save them. This gives the US veto power over any EU military adventures. Which in turn negates the independence from the US that was the whole point of the increased military spending or
2. France (as the only EU member not bound by the nuclear non-proliferation treaty) will need to take a chunk of the military funding to increase their nuclear arsenal. Other EU countries, especially Hungary, Greece, Italy, Spain, etc will be delighted to subsidize the French.
I think the PIGS countries haven't forgotten the austerity policies imposed on them by the French/Germans/EU when their debt got out of control, so good luck convincing them to increase debt now.
The pressure on the Trump administration to come to Europe's aid in case of war would be enormous. The war hawks on both sides are alive and well. It would truly be a test on Trump's desire for real peace.
That is a tempting stereotype. But here I think it is important to recognize that today's "leaders" are really not in charge--they are actors selected by Central Casting to play the parts assigned to them by those "behind the curtain." And those casting directors want plenty of women in those parts as well as men. But the selections are all based on who says their lines the best.
Brilliant. You said what it took me a whole rambling spiel to fail actually to say- thank you.
That Tyson quote perfectly captures what I explore in my recent piece "Violence is an Honest Answer." (https://roguebard.substack.com/p/violence-is-an-honest-answer) There's a profound disconnect between our sanitized modern discourse about conflict and the visceral reality of physical confrontation.
Many politicians exist in a strange limbo where they theorize about conflict while having outsourced all actual physical risk to others. This creates exactly the type of fragility Tyson humorously pointed out - elaborate mental frameworks that collapse upon first contact with reality.
yes brother but violence should be the last recourse, not something glorified.
I agree wholeheartedly. The problem is, you need something as a person to HAVE THAT OPTION. And having versus not having that option is a whole different ball game. And regarding the glorification, I am absolutely not glorifying the violence, but I admit I DO admire a person who HAS the capability AND uses it wisely.
That attitude is why the world is in such a pitiful state today. More ass kicking is the only answer at this point. It's past time for a reality check for the EU.
Civilization can NOT exist without the proper administration of violence when appropriate.
I can think of quite a long list of men and women who badly need to be punched in the face.
Not just to clarify their thought processes, but simply because they deserve it.
In Starmer’s case, he needs to be taken from his free VIP box at the Emirates Stadium and buried up to his neck at the penalty spot, facing midfield. British voters could then form a queue and see who could be the first to kick his head clean into the net.
Israelis
Just take a look at the replies to the comment. It turned into women defending at least 2 examples of the absolute worst of the worst just because they are women. Not a single thought given to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost already and IF the EU has their way hundreds of thousands more will be sent to die. All of us in the so called West suffer from never being punched in the face. How many of your family or friends were driving to work and were destroyed by a missile or drone??
Pansies such as Starmer and Macron, for example. That’s one of the problems of modern UK and European leadership. From Winston Churchill in 1940 to Jim Callaghan in 1979, every single British PM - bar Harold Wilson and Lord Home, who had at least been in the army - had seen combat in a world war. That generation is long gone now, and so are their values.
The more I understand about Churchill, the less I like him. Apparently he really was the conniving criminal portrayed in "Peaky Blinders". The cold war didn't start until he announced it in Fulton, MO. A dinky little town of not even 12,000 today.
Don't get the impression I'm defending Starmer or Macron.
Churchill was a genocidal maniac who presided over the deaths of 3 million Indians in 1943 when he refused to help during the famine.
And that was only one of the many crimes against humanity he is responsible for.
Dresden. Cologne. Hamburg.
oh, just have a look at his younger days in africa and india.
his daddy died from syphilis and he probably inherited that along with all those lands and tenants.
world would be a much better place if that fucking island would...disappear.
Aurelien has an interesting theory that european rulers are trying to relive 1968.
Why 1968?
Just search for "protests of 1968"
Aw, Danny the Red is an old man now. Those fake New Left types transformed into neoliberals, besides there's nobody of DeGaulle's calibre to oust.
Ukraine’s leaders must be looking up homes in the west because their cause is doomed. The sheer difference in energy infrastructure is shocking to know that Ukraine hasn’t even done 1% of the damage. That the Russians have done to Ukraine despite Ukraine having been given 1/3 of their air defense. The western leadership sees the horror of drones and knows it would cause mass casualties, but their armies are limited because they have alienated much of their youth. Mass conscription isn’t an option for them.
They already have very nice condos, villas, etc. in the West.
Thank you for a truly excellent analysis.
Question:
Where will they find sufficient cannon-fodder to fuel their grandiose aspirations? I'm aware of the EU woke and alphabet genes. The queer Ukraine fighters were gleefully notched up as a scalp by Russian soldiers. The unicorn mob soon faded into obscurity. Convicts and psychopaths can only last for just so long.
The whole sorry affair smacks of utter madness.
Of course it's madness. Of course there isn't sufficient cannon-fodder. The point is not to win. The point is to allow the US to continue to extend Russia by proxy.
Are you sure it isn't a continuation of the US misogyny campaign?
Negotiations have paused and will resume for the next round based on what occurs implementation-wise from those just concluded. I suggest reading what Lavrov and the Kremlin have said about the just completed round, https://karlof1.substack.com/p/negotiations-report-by-lavrov-and My report ends with some very odd doings regarding Odessa that's circulating in Russian language media. Putin looked great today at the Movement of the First Congress and Board Meeting. Watching and listening to the cheering crowd during his short 4-minute performance in front of the Congress shows he's a Rock Star, http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76542
That technology would finally assert itself versus drones is now being seen. Trump must fire Mike Waltz for making such a bad error in judgement, while the transcript shows the utter disgusting nature of Team Trump laughing about innocents being blown up by their illegal bombing war crime. In just two months, Trump has earned the name Genocide Don.
Hegseth is a rabid zionist churchian. He shows his lack of pedigree.
Or pedigree of evil, depending on perspective. Zion Don has been decreed to be a messiah by 163 rabbis who gave him the Silver Crown of the Torah. His vile statements about clearing out Gaza and leveling it down to bedrock show his true nature.
An untrustworthy megalomaniacal arsehole of the 1st order.
I am surprised (actually, not really) that people can see Trump as an anti-establishment saint and simultaneously as a genocidal maniac.
He can't be both.
And he isn't.
Trump should be taken seriously, but not literally. The US Democrats took him literally, but not seriously. Look what happened to them.
It is truly a shame that the United States has been reduced to leaders like these - no class, no conscience, no empathy, intelligent stupidity.
As distinct from the stylish ruling elites in europe, you mean? You have to live here to know what it is like to be run by these classy virtue signallers always on message, always brandishing a truly well polished turd.
Clearly demonstrates just how severely mindf**ked the average West European is that they mostly just accept whatever they are told.
This is what I was just saying about the Germans. What happened to them? They are meant to be pragmatic to a fault. My father is German (ww2 era) and a more pragmatic person I've never met.
I visited Germany on business a couple of years ago and was shocked at the state of the country. Hardly anything works, including the people. It is almost a joke.
Europeans like being slaves. Like dogs, they don't so much fear Master's beatings so much as the thought that Master will abandon them.
The key to understanding the German psyche of today is guilt. They are still weighed down by incredible guilt about what they did in WW2. Destroying their own country is the only way they think they can atone.
Europeans like being slaves.
And always trying to hide and dismiss what they’re doing in their backyards. Gaza seems to be the only breach in this self righteous discourse about western values and democracy above everything.
I am not referring to the political elite but to the real elite - Western international bankers and billionaires who have no national allegiances, except to israel.
Were any Western leaders ever different? The more you know about them, the more your description fits like a glove.
I was thinking the same. Perhaps Charles de Gaulle but my French history is non existent.
He was a right wing fascist. Churchill - right wing fascist. Wilson, Roosevelt - right wing fascists.
Being a "Right wing fascist" seems to be a requirement to succeed in Western political systems. The few that aren't, get death threats - or assassinated if the political system itself can't stop/remove them.
Which Roosevelt do you mean? Teddy might answer that description, on a hostile reading. FDR was more of a Communist, i.e. left-wing fascist.
FDR was a corporatist. He transferred many of the costs that would otherwise have been borne by wages, onto the taxpayer. That allowed the private corporations to keep wage costs down, while still protecting the capitalist system.
I agree that many communists can be designated authoritarians, especially the 'state-capitalism' ones.
It is human nature. "Right wing fascists" as they are described, seem to have large feet and boots to kick people hard enough as to actually do stuff.
Once the kicking stops everyone goes back to sleep because they have it so good... due to the kicking.
You ever worked/lived in a properly democratic system? Self-interest works best, only need the "Kicking" when people have been abused from a young age, and they expect to be exploited. Self-motivated people are considerably more pleasant to work and be around. Most people who grow up in an abused state are not even aware they have been abused, it just seems "Normal" to them that to get anything done, someone has to be kicking.
Skandis consider the British, the most abused in N Europe, to be the laziest fuckers around, and not without cause. Americans can be even worse.
People who are given supportive, democratic, childhoods and schooling, are hard-working off-the-bat. That to them seems "Normal". And human nature.
Fascists are socialists. Nazis are socialists. Communists are socialists. Socialists of all stripes are left wing. So right wing should mean individual liberty.
There is no right wing in all of Europe. Just various left wing socialists, some more militant than others, but all lefties.
There is Left, Liberal, and Right.
Left is community.
Liberal is Individuality.
Right is hierarchy.
Search deep within your feelings Luke, you know it's true.
Anarchists are the only leftists, the rest are statist arseholes.
the 'leak' was deliberate to show what tough boys they are and to add to the propaganda of an EU-US split. Trump has no desire whatsoever to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine or Palestine. The exact opposite.
Get your facts straight, circumcision has been around since long before the vile sandland cult of Christ's 'saviour' was born sometime between 13 & 7 BC.
Many cultures have and do practices it for a variety of reasons.
I agree with you about the nomadic Turkic tribe of grifters though.
We are on the same page with regard to the Ashkenazim fake Jews. They are insane xenophobes, in part possibly due to millennia of institutional inbreeding.
Exactly.
Yes, it does seem likea deliberate leak, but by whom? Who came out as sane On that call? Only theVP. Who came out as a rabid warmonger? H.
And who gave them the phones for the call, a former Biden admin, could the call have been hacked to put Atlantic on the call, meaning W is just a fall guy? Very odd event IMO.
As for Trump being a warmonger, he is trying to end Ukraine. For the ME I think he is trying to get the ME rulers to solve the problem, why not do it himself? Probably because he has been told he/his family will be killed if he does.
He is dealing with genocidal maniacs, don't forget that. Remember the pagers Bibi gave him, they were a threat, if I know it, he certainly recoginized it as such as well.
The support to Putin of the Russian people is undeniable. Compare this passion to the Western corrupt walking deads. People in the west just dont care. They comply by fear. But imagine Putin is taken out. Will people support his successor too? Anyway, I think the hardwork is already done. People has understood the stakes for Russia, which can only go up once the Ukranian nightmare ends. This is the reason why the globalist dont want it to end. A world of powerful sovereign nations means the end of the centralized elite plans.
I believe BRICS+ is making serious progress in finally making the world a better place for the average Man.
The global elites are in panic mode right now.
'global elites' hilarious. You mean the US deep state is in a panic.
Them too.
Russia was the first stop on the way to China.
Cheap energy to enrich the western oligarchs in Ukraine, and the path clear to Northern China.
They are still wondering why their sanctions not only didn't work, but backfired.
The openly stated plan of American Mexicana since 2008.
The US deep state does it deeds for the European old money oligarchy, that have used America as their muscle to ensure their control over the world's resources as collateral for their money lending empire. And yes, I do think they are deeply unsettled because they are gradually losing control over these resources which will end up in their house of cards collapsing onto itself.
The history books seldomly mention the fact that Russia helped the United States during the war of independence to rid themselves of British rule. Tsar Nicolas I assisted the Federal Army in the Civil War by blockading the Royal Navy from resupplying the Confederates. They wanted to keep the cheap cotton shipping into Britain, considered the "White Gold" at the time.
Now it looks like events could develop into that direction again. Federalist Russia and the American Republic joining forces against the imperialist and communist European Union with their headquarters in the City of London, where the devil himself resides.
Currently, Mishustin would become acting president if Putin became disabled, and he’s a very capable person. It’s possible some secret protocol exists regarding what action to take if Putin’s murdered. Given the current situation, I wouldn’t want to be in Kiev or London.
Zelensky and Starmer would come up swearing they didnt do it, strongly condemn, and so on. The worst thing is that the Russians will trust them. Anyway that would be done by some proxy Tadjik or Baluchi.
You cannot really expect different from the imperial city of Washington DC. There is hardly a ruler that would give up his empire's army - they all use it as it is available. USians are being used in a process but that applies to any nation which found itself owning an empire.
Gabbard cackling about the civilian deaths in Yemen would make Hillary Clinton proud. Plus ca change...
So, if I got this right
- US pushing to end war, for reasons
- Ukr, EU, pushing to continue war, maintaining maximalist conditions, with no signs of letting up, and in fact likely to double and triple down, perhaps fulfilling a Trump desire for Europe to take over the conflict. Art of the deal etc
Trump actually has pretty poor leverage. If he pulls support from Ukr, then they will simply exclude the US from the process and the war continues. So he is continuing to arm them because that gives him leverage. But its clear that his best move, in fact his only move, is to cut the whole thing loose and leave it to the EU, Ukraine, and Russia to sort out. The front has moved 50km west in the past year, and the Ukrainians still manage to make these token offensives. Lots of fight still left in them
I would disagree - the Russians have been very reserved and circumspect about their offensive strategy to maintain a plausible possibility of negotiation and not 'burn their bridges', but once all parties realize that the US is withdrawing support, the Russian strategy will change to something much more decisive and realistic in terms of getting it done.
As for how much fight Ukraine has left and how close it is to collapse, it reminds me of the bankrupted millionaire being asked how his ruination came to pass: he said "slowly, and then all at once".
This sort of falls into the "gloves off" theory, that the Russian army is not fighting to its full capacity. On one hand, to fight a very long war Moscow has to keep the economy going, on the other hand you wind up in a very long war because you don't commit to win.
We can bestow much criticism on the West for their lack of strategy, but the same can be said for the Kremlin.
there are a LOT of things that russians can do if they are assured that us won`t intervene.
i mean just closing starlink access would be an almost fatal blow to ukraine.
They should end starlink. But they can't
they can is not...rocket science :)))
but doing that will mean ww3
@Bash
Starlink is able to be ended, the immediate political result would most likely be a nuclear WWIII.
The physical result would be the most useful low earth orbit "sphere" which Starlink tennants would be denied to all users for some time (a few years for certain, possibly decades?) And even transiting through the debris left orbiting in that zone to reach higher orbits would be risky. On the plus side, there would be so many pretty shooting stars every night... If only we were alive and able to see them.
My sense of it is that Russia is actually doing a superb job of adapting and evolving with the developments of the entire situation, right from being on its knees in 1991 to resuming its status as World Power and basically taking on NATO today.
"Lack of strategy" would NOT have Russia winning the conflict (which is based on ATTRITION not today's 500 meter loss or gain, which means nothing in the big picture), enjoying excellent and profitable relations with the Global Majority, close to the lowest debt to GDP ratio in the world and a manufacturing base that is well supplied, designed and financed.
Russia's "lack of strategy" has it in a strong position to achieve its actual goals, NATO cracking into pieces, the US begging for negotiations and China standing firmly behind it! Lack of strategy??? Surely you jest!
Everyone would like this lack of strategy.
I keep hearing about the impending defeat of the AFU yet it manages to launch counter attacks across the 1000 mile front pushing Russian troops back in numerous fronts from Pokrovsk to Toretsk.
Maybe, but at what cost? Is Ukraine actually improving its overall situation with these grand 'big red arrow' "counter attacks", or is it, in reality, just bashing its brains out against an implacable and immovable Russian bulwark that is happy to 'give up' 10 useless kms of swamp if it means the irreplaceable destruction and/or consumption of armor, soldiers and resources?
Read Clausewitz (and Mackinder, while you're at it) and get back to us about the efficacy of futile "counter attacks".
If he pulls support from Ukraine, then they will simply exclude the US from the process and the war continues."
I gave up after this delusional sentence.
You give up a lot, and complain of much delusion on this blog. Perhaps you go to those 3 little dots, click them, and hit "block" so that your precious mental state doesn't have to suffer from all these statements anymore. I'm doing that now - try it, we will both be better off
If the US pulls out then the Russians will go into total war footing, that's the obvious scenario. Total war will last a few months and all bets are off then.
I sort of agree, though with Europe going full on Barbarossa you might think that Trump would walk sooner rather than later to avoid being dragged into the inevitable debacle. And Europe cannot remotely fight without US ISR capabilities, and indeed are extremely reluctant to do so anyway in most quarters. The absence or only limited presence of Europe/Ukraine in the various talks highlight really that this is the USA's proxy war against Russia. Maybe Trump wants the fighting to stop but would be content to let Europe continue (with US ISR) if it was the price of subduing his domestic enemies. I don't really know. Best thing Trump should have done is walk away early and blame Biden. Now it his problem. But maybe a win still is if two of the USA's geopolitical rivals continue a useless and expensive war against each other?
As you can see, I am struggling to see what is on the agenda here, still less the menu...
If Trump had simply walked away Ukraine would have collapsed and he would have another Kabul (or Saigon). It seems he's making a tactical retreat hoping to capitalise all round. Trade with Russia (historically minimal), land grabbing in Ukraine (not going that well to date), and weakening Europe even more (payback). The tactical retreat affects all 3. Look at how southern Europe is reacting to Barbarossa II.
My sense is it's classic Trump- scare the euros into spending more on defense, most of that winds up in the US anyway. NATO interoperability means US dominates. I can see an outcome not long from now where war continues but US spends 0 and only provides ISR and Europe pays the whole bill PLUS a few hundred billion more on defense on top.
He knows the war can't end. Getting everyone to agree was never possible. This is a show - he also has a neocon constituency that he has to assuage and they need to see him "try"
Plus, Zion Don really, really wants to level Gaza, war on Yemen and Iran and complete his owners Greater Israel Project.
Europe cannot afford the whole bill. They are bankrupt beyond compare save maybe Japan and the US... Chip
If you look at the prices of Bunds, for instance, europe is far from bankrupt.
Ahahahahahaha!!! Chip
He needs to get ALL American Mexicana troops out of every single foreign land. He can start with Romania and occupied Germany.
1. Ukraine capacity to fight DOA without US satellite data
2. The current klepto-fascist state in Kiev runs on a thousand frauds, small and large, all ultimately skimming $$$ from the billions US/EU/NATO funnel their way. Europeans can help with this but they can't print infinite money quite like the Americans can. Keep in mind Trump admin is totally upending the global economy at the same time ... and kicking off another massive war with Iran and Yemen which is likely to cause another energy shock
"The front has moved 50km west in the past year, and the Ukrainians still manage to make these token offensives. Lots of fight still left in them"
there is a common misconception about the progression. The point is that Donbas is a dense web of industrial towns and cities, mines and factories, build up by NATO in the 2015-2022 as bastions, strongholds,some heavily fortified.
Terrain is here and there difficult, hilly, some forest and some rivers to cross.
the idea of Russia is to retake these pre-USSR areas, where also remains population that didn't leave. The easy way would be to massively bomb the whole. Flatten everything. But then it would mean that: extensive destruction. Instead they try to keep some core infrastructure skeleton.
there were three big long defensive layers , and Russia has removed two, the last one, toward Kramatorsk and Slavyansk is the last standing for NATO , after what hilly densely urbanized land disappear and it is steppe to the Dnepr.
Russia could easily do Kharkov in Israeli extermination style on Gaza. Turn it to rumbles no matter what.
It is probable that Russia plays on its image also at world level. Because by now, despite not being powerful and so not taken into consideration, most countries see EU-USA has a bunch of bloody murderers and a thread to them soon or later. Anti-russian screaming bashing is encapsulated into what is called itself "Western" realm. But when Yanks and Germans need to deal with Third World countries without attacking or racketing them, they can not use the ethical nor diplomatic ways. Everybody sees that Israel does an extermination documented real time online with EU applauding and laughing.
here is an Alastair Crooke interview covering Russia and the US and why the US is trying to win
Russia over - its to do with the upcoming US attack on Iran. - https://youtu.be/dQ2gyFWRVEY
He also covers extensively the US's new tactic - assassinating the leaders. Maybe that's what Zelensky's talking about. Putin better not trust the US as far has he could throw it.
Yes, I believe this is correct. This is not a Trump initiative - it is an elite initiative that Trump is carrying out. Buy off Russia, then defeat Iran. After Iran, China. And without Chinese support, Russia becomes a victim.
I'm certain that Russia hasn't figured this out. /s
Given Mr. Putin's extensive knowledge of history, love of chess and critical thinking, I believe he has already thought of a dozen or more scenario's, all of which he modifies as situations change.
Trump is not trying to buy off Russia. He's trying to get the EU to act as proxies to extend Russia so that the US can focus on Iran and ultimately China. They have explicitly stated this. They're pretending the EU is undermining them while all the while the EU are merely ventriloquist's dummies. Alt media and Lavrov seem to have fallen for it.
You're right it's not Trump, it's the initiative of US special interests (BlackRock- arms, banking, oil, animal ag, pharma). They want primacy, especially over China, at all costs.
China is the goal 100%.
The western socialist utopia can only work if the west has complete control over supply.
COVID made them all realise that the West is no longer in control over anything that actually matters.
I would go as far as to say that Trump's tariffs are simply a way of trying to extend some control over supply.
Who wants some more Western debt? Got enough yet?
As long as the war goes on, he can't focus on Iran or China. Even if he were to walk away and leave it to the EU, he would be seen by Russia as still a threat. Trump has stated that he might walk away and leave it to the EU, but I believe that is a bluff and that he hopes the EU will see reality if the US walks away and will in the end support the US in ending the war. If he can gain Russia's trust (and he certainly won't by allowing Europe to continue the war), he believes that he can then turn full attention to Iran. He believes he can get the war done in the next few weeks and then attack Iran (the US is already amassing a huge force as we speak). He will, however, be disappointed on several levels - one involves his not being able to stop the war when he wants, another is he is underestimating the strength of the Russian support for Iran and thirdly he underestimates Russia's ties with China.
Trump will fail. And that's where things will get very 'unpredictable'. Stock up on potassium iodide - just in case....
I agree with your point except the bit about Trump who clearly relishes attacking Yemen and supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
It's the last ditch attempt of a dying Empire to hang on to hegemony in the face of aggressive new competitors. Happens all the time in history, except that this time the stakes are higher.
Great video. Thanks.
Everyone knows the Russians stand by their allies, unlike the US. The concept of the US "buying Russia off" to turn on the Iranians is delusional.
As for Zylenskys pipe dream that Putin will be gone soon, we can place that beside his silly paintings of the Kremlin burning - if wishes were horses, beggars would ride!
Like they stood by Syria?
And not just in 2024, Putin sold Syria out already back in 2012, because the Israelis control him.
Compared and contrast with Brezhnev literally sending the tactical nukes to protect Syria and Egypt back in 1973 (of course, that was followed shortly by the Egyptians betraying the USSR, but Syria remained a loyal ally, and then what did it get?)
GM
Putin did as much as he could, and more. Russian support was simply not enough, to overcome US sanctions, Israeli attacks, Arab boycott, Turkish and Arab supported insurgency, US supported Kurdish insurgency.
You should ask yourself what Brezhnev did wrong when he ruined Soviet Union instead of reforming it.
Communist leaders destroyed SSSR, Putin has raised Russia from defeat
Brezhnev letting the USSR decay and him doing what had to be done in 1973 are entirely different matters.
Putin did a lot indeed, to actively destroy Syria. Again, go back to the early years of the Syrian war.
Putin is unique as his personal experience in dealing with the West resonates, mirrors, reflects the experience of Russian society, Russian people.
So in a sense Putin does speak for Russia, and represents Russia.
No one is infallible, but Putin is basically honest leader.
What I do not like about you GM is this negative energy towards Putin, that is in essence negative towards Russia itself, and that, really, puts you in the exact political position that MI6 would choose for their useful idiot.
Putin isn’t Russia and you clearly have no idea of the situation inside Russia.
There is huge resentment towards what leadership is (and isn’t) doing inside Russia right now, and it is coming precisely from the most patriotic sections of the population.
You also clearly have no idea what happened in the 1980s and ever since, how the USSR was broken up and why, and what that resulted in.
If you did know a bit about those subjects, you would not be dismissing the idea of the Kremlin doing treason, because you would have watched the Kremlin do grand treason constantly for decades.
Oh please what silly nonsense. Kremlin leaders for all their faults during Soviet times gave mass support to their allies from the Korean War to Vietnam and beyond.
P.S. It is not just Syria in 2011-2024.
The whole Eastern Bloc plus all the other socialist countries around the world were betrayed by Moscow in 1989-1991.
Then Yugoslavia/Serbia and Libya should have been defended too, but weren't
Russia was almost dead, exhausted by communism that would not, could not reform.
former Russian Empire was destroyed in 70 years
and Gorbachev was just the one to bury the corpse of former mighty superpower Soviet Union.
Putin inherited a weak, sick child and help it grow strong again.
Why did the communists ever took power.
Because of the useful idiots and foreign agents like you, GM
GM
how long will it take until you understand,
what you call betrayal came out of weakness,
it was not a betrayal, it was weakness,
and that weakness was a consequence of communist rule, created by communists who didn't know how to run economy.
Soviet Union at first adapted, there was NEP. new economic politics, in the early 1920 years,
but there was no one in the 1980-ies willing to say what Deng Hsiao Ping said
It is not important if the cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice
What people outside China call communism, is a peculiar variant of Chinese nationalism, Chinese know, China is an enormous state, that has to have a strong central government, and do not accuse their leaders of treason.
Russia has ten times less population but is enormous in size, and has to be governed from a strong central government,
There are only two countries in the world that can be at real war with both Japan and Germany at the same time,
USA and Russia. USA as a maritime power, but Russia as a land power, directly in Berlin and in Manchuria
Russia needs strong central government, that is also wise and intelligent, because Russian strength although enormous, is not infinite.
Stop being an useful idiot.
The Russians were prepared to fight but not when the Syrians were abandoning their vehicles and fleeing.
Syria didn’t collapse overnight in November 2024.
It collapsed slowly over more than a decade.
Putin betrayed it from the start of that long slow process.
People seriously need to try to forget everything they have vaguely heard about who did what and look into the sequence of events objectively.
Ok if you’re taking the long view, Assad behaved like a child, wanted Russian assistance but refused to take Russian advice along with it, and was the victim of his own errors (and overwhelming Israeli/Western pressure of course). There is no helping some people.
What was Russia to do? The US had rat-lined Islamic terrorists to Idlib, including the Uyghur ETIM folks.
The Syrians themselves had given up. The US was still occupying the NE and stealing the oil and controlling the wheat.
There were no other options.
As usual, you are making the mistake of thinking about the events of 2024 completely forgetting what happened in the 13 years prior.
Go back to those prior events and you will see how Putin is the key person to blame for Syria collapsing.
Case in point: Idlib was about to be taken and then the order came from the Kremlin to halt. Just as it did when Azov abandoned Mariupol in 2014. It wasn’t for the first time. What happened after that in the end, in both cases?
Then neither Russia nor Iran nor China broke the sanctions, which is how Syria was hollowed out like that. Nobody provided serious military support for expelling the Americans from the northeast either. And the dominoes will fall in such a way from here on that the situation in November 2024 warranted the Russian, Iranian and Chinese armies jointly sending several hundred thousand men to defend Assad, otherwise at the end all three of them will be destroyed too (Iran, Russia, China, in that order); so the Chinese are also to blame, it's not just Russia and Iran.
Also, let's not forget Israel for a decade having the complete freedom to bomb whatever they wanted whenever they wanted because Russian air defense never fired at the F-35s and F-15s. Not just that -- Syria had paid for a number of S-300 systems to be operated by its own army, which Putin never delivered.
Again, compare to the situation in Soviet times. Was there ever a moment when Syria was not allowed to use Soviet weapons to defend itself against Israeli aggression? I repeat myself, but Brezhnev sent the Soviet navy with tactical nukes ready to fire to defend Syria in 1973. What did Putin do?
Even after 2022 when the US started a direct war with Russia. How hard would it have been to send Syria some Tornado-S systems to take out the US bases once the HIMARS appeared in Ukraine? Tit-for-tat. But no.
Finally, let's not forget Putin playing the good cop to the Americans' bad cop in taking away Syria's chemical weapons deterrent. That is portrayed as some kind of a masterstroke on Putin's part when the net result of it was that Syria no longer had chemical weapons and was thus greatly weakened relative to Israel as Israel has nukes while Syria doesn't.
Why did all of that happen?
Because while the USSR before Gorbachev was run by people committed to a noble cause, after the USSR fell apart Russia is an oligarchy run in the interests of the oligarchs. Putin is merely the CEO of the corporation. But most of the oligarchs are Jews. Openly Zionist too. Which determines foreign policy as it does everywhere else -- it is run in the interests of Israel. Not as openly as in the US, but if you look at how much the Russian oligarchy is dominated by Jews in its composition, that is actually much more thoroughly so in Russia than in the US. So why should we think decision making is controlled by Israel in the US but Putin works for the interests of Russia? How likely is that?
BTW, this is also why NATO is not touched. Russia could have smoked out all of NATO's military bases in Europe and all of the US's bases in Eurasia in half an hour, won the war that way, and the US would not have dared fire strategic nukes at Russia. But if Russia does that, Israel is left defenseless. And Putin's loyalties are split, to put it mildly, so here we are, with Russian strategic bases going up in smoke deep inside Russia and Putin doing treasonous deals with the US instead of fighting back...
Whether or not Russia delivered S300s to Syria has so many dependencies that it is impossible to know for sure. It seems that there were no more than 3 additional batteries promised and that there had been some S300s delivered as far back as 2011. In any case, 3 batteries weren't going to change much.
Syria never had chemical weapons. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate have completely debunked that story.
You actually want someone to use Nukes? I'm pretty sure Putin's actions are to lessen that possibility.
I don't think Israel controls US foreign policy. I think the Deep State is using Israel to create chaos in the Middle East. I will not subscribe to the "tail wags the dog" theory. Not now. Not ever.
I will remind people that they should figure out who Meyer Lansky was.
Your "attack NATO" scenario is a good way to end life on earth.
Useful idiot.
Repeating accusations that are emotional, but absolutely out of logic.
People like you GM, destroyed the Tsar Nikolaj, and created fertile ground for a terrorist revolution.
Tsar was not a brightest specimen, he entered the First World War in haste, he send his armies to fight against Germans before a whole mobilisation could be finished...he suffered serious losses...
but Germans would not have succeeded in creating a Bolshevik Revolution, transporting Lenin and his associates from Switzerland across half Europe and releasing them in Finland, if there were not enough GMs who cried: Treason, Treason...
You are the only real danger Russia is facing today, not US, not Ukraine, not Europe, but voices like you, whether you are an MI6 agent, testing what is having effect on the population of Simplicius's substack, or just a useful idiot.
Just for a second imagine what would have happened if Prigozhin had succeeded in his march on Moscow.
Killing Putin, as you suggest, starting a civil war inside a nuclear country.
Just a MI6 wet dream.
u forget that assad refused russians offer to train/equip syrian army.
Russia did what it could in Syria; more than most. It kinda has its hands full - to expect it to go down with Assads ship is a little much GM LOL
No your comment is delusional. Trump is clearly hoping to destroy the economies of Venezuela, he whacked crippling sanctions on its oil industry, and has said he is going to destroy Iran lol exports. I haven't heard a peep from the kte about this or trumps open threats to China. If I was an ally of the kremlin I'd be having second thoughts as it does not stand by it's allies unlike the USSR which never backed down during the cold war from military and economic support for it's allies.
The kremlin and it's billionaire oligarchs merely want to resume normal service with the imperialist West so that the oligarchs can go back to jet setting around enjoying their ill gotten gains.
The US assassinating Putin might be the best thing for Russia right now.
It might untie the military's hands to do what has to be done.
Assuming there isn't a liberal traitor coup lined up already, of course, but maybe even then.
MI6 agrees wholeheartedly.
Taking out Starmer, Macron and the E.U. leadership would be far more productive.
you belong in Israel
Useful idiot.
Crooke starts by suggesting nothing will happen until October because of the JCPOA. Why then is the US deploying B2s to Diego Garcia?
He then says, "it will happen soon".
Iran is capable of deploying a nuke. Ritter suggests a week. But Iran doesn't want one.
He finally gets to the point that the US cannot be trusted so Iran isn't going to negotiate.
"They're all Jews from New York and they only talk to Jews from New York".
Johnson's discussion of the Torah at about 40 minutes is worth listening to. This was after Crooke was explaining that the Shia, more or less, believe that if you aren't Shia you aren't Muslim.
There is a lot covered in this interview that should be examined.
Iran actually doesn't need nuclear warheads, as it has already demonstrated that it can hypersonically destroy Dimona with impunity, any day of the week, and irradiate Israel for centuries..
How convenient that four Yankee soldiers went "missing" and turned up dead in Lithuania. I can see this shit continuing to try and get the Orangeman to react to a false flag with more dead 'Mericans.
They drove down into a marsch. And drowned. End of story.
Drowned in a training accident in a marsh. Nudge, wink, know what I mean?
Simp most likely on the right track here: US Army Black Ops killed in Ukraine/Russia being written off as "training accident in Lithuania".
Probably as part of the US/Saudi negotiations, Russian Army agreed to smuggle the bodies back via the Belorussia-NATO border.
Now we know what the panicked Trump Tweet about those supposedly "brave Ukrainian" soldiers who were "hopelessly surrounded" in Kursk Oblast was about. Running cover for these US Special Ops "Tactical Advisor" Officers who effed up their tactics, and inadvertently found themselves in a Russian cauldron.
In case, very chivalrous of the Russians to hand back their corpses without much fanfare or humiliation of the losers. Except I had expected 60 US officers' bodies or so, not only 4.
Doubt that, probably couldn't read a map and went into Belarus where they met their end, or as Simplicius says, they were liquidated in Ukraine.
@Haywood Jablome
They turned a heavy vehicle upside down into a peat bog and SANK it, from what I have seen. They are still finding and recovering "collectible" WWII tanks which were lost or kept from capture by being driven into such bogs around the Baltic & Western Russia.
https://www.d-archive.org/world-war-2-tank-pulled-from-bog-after-60-years/
Remember when a tank crew in Iraq managed to drop their M1 Abrahms upside down into the Euphrates back around 2003?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/01/iraq7
Losing a crew in swamps or water hazards doesn't require enemy action, just your average soldiers driving around with no "parental supervision".
I am sad to say that there will be no ceasefire. The war will continue until all the goals of the SMO are completed - by force. Kiev and Odessa will be liberated. As will just about everything else, other than Banderistan in west Ukraine which the pollacks can have (enjoy those genocidal nazis poland you earned them). Zelensky and his pack of press ganging child raping vampires will get impaled on stakes, hunted down by the FSB, shipped to the gulag, hooked up to truck batteries and fed ear sandwiches (not neccessarily in that order!!)
I say I am sad because it means even more Russians must die, both Russian Russians and Ukrainian Russians. It also means even more of my precious American tax dollars will be burnt in the pyre of jewish hysterical bloodlust. I wonder what the final tally will get to before the wheels come off? 50 trillion? 100 trillion? I guess we'll know soon enough, trump is distracted and erractic in all things except in trashing our trade relations and bombing the Houthis. Thanks Trump!!! I voted for you to kill more brown people for zionist jews and prevent me from buying cheap Canadian cheese at Costco. Thanks so much boss!!!!
I just hope the Russian people find it in their hearts to forgive America someday, please know that a great many of us support your cause or perhaps don't give a shit one way or another and just want jews to stop burning our money. I hope your overwhelming and total victory will ease your pain. For what it's worth I have been tirelessly advocating for Russian-American Christian/European solidarity for...it seems like years now. I don't think I've been very successful, but at least know one American honors your leaders, your soldiers, and most of all your tireless, brave and long suffering people.
Glory to Russia - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are not alone - many Americans see this shit for what it really is, and even a few Brits do.
And Aussies and Kiwis
The Ukranians are holding the line and even counter attacking everywhere. Nobody thought they could resist Russia for so long. Your scenario means a total collapse of the Ukranian regime, which is not likely happening. Instead, expect more escalation, more Trump flip flopping, 25 European brigades on the ground, more genocide in Gaza, more bombs on the Huthis and on Iran.
God himself will grant Russia victory. It may take one year or a hundred, Russia will liberate Ukraine. Long after the EU, NATO and the rules based international jews and their sodomite slaves collapse, Russia will still be there, liberating Ukraine. It is what it is.
Can I have some of what you are smoking? Chip
@Chip Worley
Why would you WANT to experience that?
If you must try it, daturas (spp.) grow pretty much everywhere, just make sure someone competent knows to check on you:
https://litfl.com/anticholinergic-toxidrome/
No more cheap reliable vehicles for you now with 25% tariffs on all imports. All that American Mexicana crap that keeps breaking down, that you can't buy parts for and/or are not allowed to fix yourself.
Yeah.... Good luck with that.
I swear, Trump is only motivated and cogent when doing the wrong thing. When doing the right thing he's slapdash and erratic - but trashing all our trade relations? The man is MOTIVATED to trash all our trade relations. Hmm yes were gonna fight in flation by *checks notes* tariffing all our food suppliers....weeeeeew lads
The war was lost as the instant the sanctions failed. Everything for the past 3 years has been wishful thinking and damage control.
The access to Northern China will need to be obtained another way...
In my own opinion, this is the only reason Trump is back in power and the Dems seem to be very quiet and restrained this time - Trump is the "Putin whisperer" who will get them access to Northern China without Russian interference, to enable the glorious north-south China pincer.
could be. Kamala was the worst candidate possible...
Haha, if I were China I would be shoveling every bomb, rocket and artillery shell to Russia that I could, maybe FOR FREE. If God forbid Russia falls in Ukraine then China is next on the "chopping block." Nothing would make me happier than see China liberating Taiwan at the exact moment Russia liberates Ukraine. Oh Lord, let me live to see it.
America is run by a criminal gang. They are often referred to as Oligarchs, but Americans need to understand Meyer Lansky and how he legitimized crime.
Trump is tired, but he feels as a man with stigma after the attack on his life, so all he does is with the blessing of the Lord, he can only die as a Saint. Putin looks like he won’t last any longer, cancer is feeding on him. Zelensky on EU tour as a beggar, tonight he’s begging on a French broadcast for more credits and contractor armies, I bet he’ll be replaced very soon. What will happen when they all are leaving the war scene before any peace treaty or deal with mutual benefits? Anyone some suggestions?
Putin has cancer? You must have some incredible sources to make that claim. Care to share?
How long did it take to find out that J. Biden was suffering severe dementia? Are you sure because of the attack on Trump is not suffering anxiety disorde, tinnitus or having nightmares or insomnia? Look at Putin’s face, it is not the same as some years ago, Steroids?Radiation? Chemo?
Old age does that to everyone. He could have cancer but he's not losing much weight, in fact the opposite. The medics looking after him are probably the best in the world. I'd say he's fine and fit, if he wasn't, he'd be put out to pasture.
Not to everyone, and even with the best doctors they cannot save you. Do you think this war doesn’t give him stress, poisoning his mind, shortening his life? After the war he can go relax at the Black Sea Riviera and Trump at the Gaza Monte-Carlo Riviera. This whole war in Ukraine is completely oncogenic.
I can not hear any more stories of Putin being very ill. He is in an age, where he might see the Lord very quickly, but at the moment, he looks fit and healthy. If you have further information, than please share it!
See above Eoin Clancy
Trump was set up to win.
This includes those assassination attempts.
Must have killed them to replace Biden. He was so placid and pliant and knew when to get out of the way, but there were bigger fish, and they all got their blanket pardons.
It will never cease to bemuse me that people think that Putin dying/resigning will be anything but a disaster for Ukraine. Do the Ukies think Medevev or one of the bug eyed crazy ultranationalist generals that have been burying Russian soldiers for three years will be softer to Ukraine than Putin? Putin's maudlin sentimentality is the only reason Ukraine is not a radioactive crater.
Ukraine is already a crater, how deep you wanna go? Hell it’s all instant available.
It is not personal, yet definitely not the same for Russia, US or Ukraine
Easiest is to decipher the fate of Zelensky,
Zelensky was a pet project of CIA and MI6, an exercise in media manipulation, necessary to ensure continued support of western audiences for financing an expensive proxy war. He will be slowly relegated to post like Bandera had in West Germany in 1945 and later. Removed from spotlight, kept in a drawer for possible later use. His personal fate reflecting the position if extreme Ukrainian nationalists.
Trump may be replaced by Vance. Nothing fundamental would change, relations with Ukraine and Russia would continue moving on a same trajectory, no support for proxy war, treating Russia with respect.
In case of Putin, the next Russian leader will be more business like, less ready to accomodate disrespect from the West.
The US has almost never lifted sanctions once imposed. So it seems Russia as the world's biggest commodities producer selling outside the dollar system is truly affecting the US's ability to export inflation to the world. The Europeans don't want to lift sanctions as if Europe starts to openly pay for Russian gas in Rubles, as was demanded by the Russians in 2022, would adversely affect the value of the Euro. As the Russians because of supply and demand could demand, in relation to currency exchange, a higher exchange rate. The big issue the US will face is the 95% Ruble/Renminbi trade which denies the dollar trillions in trade between Russia and China. Russia can never again sell her exports in Euro/dollars with what has happened and now the Russians and Chinese will probably push towards expanding trade in local currency further diminishing the importance of the Eurodollar system globally.
This is the big war.
BRICS+ is getting stronger in every way, every day. Interesting developments in the Sahel region as well.
Trump's talking about it because he needs Russia to not help Iran/Yemen, and for some reason in his mind, US doing these attacks is urgent. The SWIFT monopoly has already been broken, but some coutnries or some banks of trade partners are still scared of secondary sanctions.
And the ship insurance part, which I take to mean the US would order Lloyd's to insure at standard rates, is a nice angle. The insurerance co's would ultimately be the ones to pay, literally, for Ukraine's rather probable violations of the agreement - ie blowing up freighters - and of course Lloyd's knows this.
Low likelyhood these promises will last but it's a good demonstration that incremental diplomacy is possible - which is something today's hawks deny.
Russia is failing to seize the moment to, once and for all, assert itself as the superpower it's supposed to be by being more aggressive against AFU forces and by making a bold stand in unison with its allies to put an end to Trump and Friends' endless bullying of their countries.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/ukraine-bombs-russian-airfield-435-miles-front-lines/
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-ukraine-continually-striking-energy-sites
The more lollygagging Russia does in Ukraine the more time it gives Trump to set a plan to tear apart Russia's alliances. Trumpster plans to weaken Russia by threatening its allies which is well underway one country at a time. Now Iran faces an ultimatum or war within a few months. Russia should make clear that any attack on Iran is an attack on Russia. Russian allies are going to get popped one country at a time because they lack unity and they are all cucks. Lula and Modi are two big cucks trying to play midground between the US and Russia. Where is the Alliance of countries that say an attack on Iran is an attack on us? China is the biggest cuck of them all. So all that Trump sees are a bunch of cuck leaders waiting their turn to kiss his ass and that includes Macron and Starmer and a host of other cuckers.
Putin and friends are looking soft and that's why now Europeans are looking to be more belligerent against Russia because they're not afraid.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/7-actions-nato-countries-are-taking-which-indicate-something-really-big-coming
Being indecisive when decisiveness is needed most might be Russia and its ally's biggest mistake, not to be defeated but just cucked into submission. Cuck, cuck, kadidoo. The Empire wins again.
Your post would make more sense if Iran wasn't armed to the teeth in preparation for an attack. It's had decades to prepare. They haven't even defeated Hamas in 18 months. Going up against Iran is the ultimate in stupidity, I doubt even the US could be that naive.
Never underestimate the enemy, Alphabet, especially when it's the entire US military-industrial complex. lol
I had to laugh at that! So true.
LOL!
Like in Afghanistan? The US is only capable against opponents who can't retaliate. Even the Taliban outplayed them.Everything else is spin. They dominate the World Propaganda Index.
The US goal in Iran is simply to turn that country intoa failed state, like if did in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
The US has figured out since 2001 that nation-bulding is a resource suck. Far more cost-effective to just break things.
this is working when the enemy can`t hit you back.
iran can and it will.
We keep hearing that one over and over again, but it never happens.
Break & steal.
I think you need to give yourself an update on current geopolitics.
Thanks for the tip. Time will tell. The snapback is in October so we don't have long to wait.
A more wrong headed analysis than I've heard in a long time... Chip
While this analysis as usual is excellent, Simplicius says "American deep state forces are attempting to paralyze the Trump administration with concocted scandals." While that's true, Trump's Zionist loyalty is so shameful, so disgraceful, so evil, that I find it hard to take Trump seriously as anything other than an accomplice and enabler of murder. Even though in was very MAGA four years ago. (I'm Canadian btw.)
Unfortunately I think Berletic is right about "continuity of policy" of US presidents. It's been neocon for decades and Trump is not much more than the latest flavour of that perverse, cancerous, evil mindset. "God's chosen people."
What can a person do? I guess lighting oneself on fire is always an option.
You got it.
I'd rather light one of them on fire ......
The feminist run EU acts more and more crazily...Saying you're going to spend enormous amounts to create a military that can fight Russia is completely delusional..The money isn't there, and most of the EU countries and their banks are already teetering on the brink of insolvency...as a result, capital is fleeing the EU and UK to the US and other safe havens..Soon, there will be capital controls, and subsequently governmental collapse...
I think the current EU leaders will have siphoned enough cash to buy a Florida villa before the crash happens.
Women should have no part to play in senior political roles. Having lived with a mother and then married a wife, any man can see that women are completely unpredictable due to their nature. My wife and 2 daughters agree with me on this matter.
I have a similar life story; you have my condolences.
Yep. Generally to make decisions men use logic, women use emotions.
Really? I have met lots of women who have a materialist view of their material circumstances and a ruthless way with people who don't contribute to them. It's the men who make grand romantic gestures and women who appraise jewellery on other women's fingers, to decide if it's the right number of months of her bloke's salary. The philosopher Reginald D. Hunter is eloquent on the subject. ;O)
Generally. There are exceptions to everything.
You can find the exceptions in this matter by spending two years getting to know women. If you're in a hurry you can ask me which ones I fancy, they'll be the nutters, guaranteed. ;O)
The nutters are the best in the cot 😁
You just got lemons:-)
Quite. It is absurd and outrageous that they even have the vote. The advent of women’s suffrage marked the start of the decline and collapse of the west.
Women should never be in positions of power. PMS or later menopause and these emotional creatures make stupid and illogical decisions.
Aren’t you forgetting the “brilliant” men in power? Johnson, Starmer, Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Scholz, Rutte, Stubb and etc., etc.
I agree the choice of current female leaders is horrible, but it has nothing to do with PMS, menopause or women being “emotional creatures” making “stupid and illogical decisions.”
Trump’s controversial “pearls” put any pre-post menopausal woman to “shame” :-)
There were no women in power to blame for WWI and WWII - so whose “menopause” had drowned the world in blood then?
Politics can only stand as long as women keep their legs closed, and might they open their mouths, men will flee to Mars.
It is always interesting to see how the propaganda narrative is developed by Ukraine who is a pocket-master at manipulating its tame allies. After years of telling the west that Russia was going to collapse from:
1. internal revolution, moments away!
2. running out of weaponry, customising fridge parts!
3. devastating economic collapse (yeah right, problem was too many movers in the west knew that was rubbish)
4. the supremacy of new magic weaponry from or bought from western assistance- from the very large and when that failed, down to the very small (cardboard boxes) with a sotto voce threat of going nuclear in some shape of form (although they have to be careful not to become the first casualty of this one either literally, or via a sudden routing of allied support and their own sudden death from total absolute withdrawal of all foreign support and a consequent blanket financial collapse).
we now have-
5. DEATH OF PUTIN. That will do it, and it is coming, we promise. Just stick with us and this apparently lost war for a teeny bit longer and all those vast rewards from the Russian collapse will pour in to bail you all out. How can you give up now (sunk losses argument) when Russian riches are about to save your skins.
As Russia has said, it is going to have to win this war the hard way on the ground through gruelling attrition to finally grind these 'apes with grenades' into the dirt. There is sadly no other way. They are like some Rasputin style monster, as the US is also discovering, and it and its barmy so called allies made this one. It is the one western 'success' in this entire operation.
They do realise if Putin is not there as a stabilising influence - the real dogs of war may well be unleashed ...... then they are truly fucked!
Medvedev. He's not the same man that he was when Libya was destroyed. He has found his inner demon.
The Putin is dying story is as old as the SMO. You must have missed it.
Yes, i remember yellow press headlines from 2014 that were screaming about Putin being ill and soon gone, what a load of crap.
Perhaps they have been trying to poison him that long, likely a reason why he has his own water bottle and glass with him in international events.
I never said any of these lines are novel. Go back to the WWII and find them all alive and well. It is just the first one to have been run this time round that is now returning like a dying satellite in a declining orbit. I was addressing S's suggestion that there was something in this- 'maybe he knows something...." by putting it in the context of the whole spiel and yes of course it appeared at the outset but this rerun has breathed a new malevolence into it.
The US is discovering that the Ukraine is a Rasputin monster? What? Even Lavrov admitted that Zelensky was a puppet of Washington so there was no point in talking to him.
Little Ukraine is now a savvy master of the EU and US and not a country constantly manipulated by the US who staged a coup in 2014? Have you completely rewritten history to suit your Trump hero agenda?
The Trump administration has become Cato and attacking Iran has become "Carthage must be destroyed." Everything else is secondary, including the negotiations with Russia. Finish negotiations quickly and move to the primary objective. By the way the Deep State is largely Zionist. Trump is cleaning out political enemies in the Deep State, not the Deep State itself.
"By the way the Deep State is largely Zionist. Trump is cleaning out political enemies in the Deep State, not the Deep State itself."
Bingo! If we really had a free and independent media, that analysis would sweep the board on it.
Exactly. Instead of Carthage and the Romans I think the better parallel is Athens and Sicily, the latter being the mistake that lead to the Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian War. A full scale US attack on Iran would deeply damage both US and Israeli power. A possible very costly tactical victory and a massive strategic defeat is the best possible outcome. There are many worse possible outcomes.
Completely agree. Athens and Sicily is more comparable. The Romans won, after all. Athenian hubris ended in catastrophe.
Turkey would be a huge winner. Surely this is not in Israels interest.
Turky, ever the opportunist would side with Iran. Even the Saudi's are finally on talking terms with Iran, Iraq is still occupied territory but would throw off its chains and work with its historical enemy to defeat Israel, American Mexicana and the other Western terrorist states.
The Turkish ruling classes like their european vacations, their western bank accounts, their London and Paris trophy properties, their western war toys.
And dont forget China. Trump is even more rabid against China than any other democrat president. When you see Bannon talking about "communist" China you see pure hate togheter with paralysing envy and impuissance. They are the old allout churchillian Dullesish hitlerish poison spitting terrorist anticommunist world league. On top of that, they cant stop the red people Asian development and grab their ressources. Trumps victory was a relief because the world wss becoming a bad remake of the Rocky Horror picture show, but his star is fadding fast. His new bombing campaign has fininshed his peacemaker reputation. The Rocky Horror picture show might be preferable very soon.
I wonder if Trump has a Harley?
A Hardly Makeitson? I doubt very much he has ever ridden a bicycle let alone a motorcycle
He has always been a pampered soyboy. A weak effeminate poser.
Hands are too small for the controls...also, bonespurs 😬
A favorite accessory for those seeking to overcompensate.
Yesterday, the Globaltimes of China reported about the port fees. It was the main opinion article. All talk about tariffs, but there seems to be a more interesting development, which is biting Chinese shipbuilding. This seems to be more problematic for China than all this sanctions and tariffs.
Holy Athens and Sicily, I got a like from Alcibiades!