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pouffiasses is correct spelling, but a great word to use, please - I use it all the time and they just go 'it takes one to know one she smiled'

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Google is not always reliable - look it up in Larousse

The guy with old song was right, got to be french to know french

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not really realistic against these plastic, semi-submersible drones which mostly attack at night and hardly have a radar or heat signature.

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My turn to be first

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Well deserved!

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Roflmao …you guys 🤣

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Welcome to the exclusive club. ;)

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👍😁

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Congratulations, man. So how does it feel? I'm starting to feel like I'm missing out on something.

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I think the impact of the globe bombs, FAB 500-FAB 1500 is enormous, and up to 200 per day. If Russia continues to reduce the air defenses so that these globe bombs are used regularly and in such numbers I believe it will be a huge advantage.

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Auto correct! Glide bombs!

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They are the first real “game changer” of the conflict. Even the best defensive positions are seriously threatened with them (see Avdeevka), anything less is useless. And a doctrine of glide bombs, artillery and then assault is going to be difficult to hold back.

Kiev either needs a real Air Force to interdict the Russian careers of them (which it doesn’t have and won’t ever have, even with some F-16s), or it has to move a significant portion of its air defenses forward. Which it did and this week has seen them hunted and destroyed at an unsustainable rate.

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Good news for Ukrainian 21 year olds. Senile Brandon opened his state of the union stumbling by saying he won’t back down from Putin. Enjoy being turned into cannon fodder for the Globohomo American Empire!

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Yeah I just reported the same. Nah he’s not going down and he won’t even have to send American troops over there if the Rs just approve the spending 🤷‍♂️. The Ukraine defeat is now starting to reach the masses. In my comment I stated I don’t think the Empire can afford to back down. We should be ready for anything.

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he also promised to send "Lincoln" Riley to moscow on air force one LOL

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Ukraine is the number one priority of Biden and the Empire. By hook or crook, they will get the war they crave.

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Cynical me says this is China's dream: U.S. and the EU bankrupting themselves and draining their own morale while killing as many Russians as possible so that China can put itself in a position to take Taiwan without actually needing to invade, because the Taiwanese will recognize that China can offer them a better deal than the west.

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I hope that the Chinese are smart enough not to kill their own export markets. Methinks not.

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They're busy building new export markets in Latin America, the middle east, and Africa. From their perspective, crippling the military and economic alliance that poses the biggest threat to them is probably worth the temporary economic setback.

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Those markets are a drop in the bucket compared with trade with the US and EU.

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yeah, but as we've seen from this Ukrainian war, sacrificing their biggest export customer in the EU hasn't ruined the Russian economy. That's another lesson China is learning.

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But the US doesn't really have anything to trade. Just fiat dollars.

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Wrong feral. China trade with the global south now exceeds its trade with the west. David Goldman on his X blog and Asia times columns has published the data on that pretty frequently.

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Sorry, Israel is #1 priority for US. In my humble opinion.

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Biden is demanding much more money and weapons for Ukraine and is willing to condition aid to Israel on this.

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Every Ukie said the Russians are dying much more so it must be true. Penal convicts with spades in the first wave!

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Ha! numbers do not agree with 'ukie said' - there is a least 700K 'unaccounted' AFU/VSU personnel according to Zelensky/Suirsky vs 45k RU losses according to mediazone. my math is bad but that is 15 to 1 ratio in RU favor.

I have yet to see any not insane explanation on how 'project ukraine' being behind on soldiers, armor, morale, having no air force, no drones in quantity, no glide bombs, no hypersonics, being outmatched in artillery in every area (number, range, accuracy, etc) at least 15:1 is somehow 'inflicting heavy casualties' on volunteer/professional soldiers of RF. all 'explanations' are utter BS , at same level as various Ghost of drunken bandera story.

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Don’t worry guys. I listened to the beginning of the SOTU and Joe B assured the world Ukraine will win as long as we continue to pump money into the cause.

It’s as I thought at the very beginning of the SMO. My instincts told me this war is/was existential for both sides. We knew it was for Russia but do not underestimate how important it is for the Empire. Everything is riding on this now that they have gone all in.

Best thing I have assumed we could hope for is a NATO defector making peace. I assumed that’s why the Nordstream was really destroyed. Macron has laid his cards on the table. Germany has followed with the plan to blow up the bridge. Sweden just joined today and you know there must’ve been an enormous amount of money and pressure to pull that off.

All I am saying is that the Empire has no plans but to continue the escalation process IMHO. Don’t think they really know what to do though. I fear they will get more desperate in the months ahead.

PS that first video is brutal. You never want to be one who is retreating. You will be given no quarter; war or bar fight.

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I have hoped for some time that for the West this war was just their little way to launder money, I see I was wrong. I think they see a war with Russia, completely ignoring that Russia has allies, as the only way to justify/hide/bury the mess they have made of their economies.

I also think war is a "thing" they feel they can use to declare Martial law and finally stamp down all the ever more angry peasant/farmer/illegials. Plus they have their hearts set on printing trillions to pocket as they "rebuild" Ukraine.

On the first video, I was yelling at them, "Stay in the tree line you idiots." But they were already dead ;( May they rest in peace.

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You make a good point. At the onset many people were comparing this to a money laundering sham. They also compared to Iraq and Afghanistan. Though they are educated assumptions they are all incorrect. I’m all but certain of it. Many now compare it to the losses we faced in those two respective countries.

“US is going to suffer another humiliating defeat in Ukraine.”

“US elite are just doing this to line their pockets”

NO NO NO…..not this time IMHO. This means so much more to The Empire. It’s about keeping their dominance in the world. The kind of dominance one gets when they sit atop the world’s hegemony. When you listen to Lavrov or Yi (Chinese Guy) you will hear them mention this term a lot. There’s no need to guess.

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The ongoing genocide in Palestine gives all necessary clues. The Empire is owned and ruled by a psychopathic tribe devoid of conscience, shame, and merci. Russians (and the majority of humanity) have no choice but to target the banking cartel's upper echelon of power as well as the CEOs of mega-corporations that orders the music in US Congress / CIA / MI6. A careful elimination of all luxurious bunkers around the globe will certainly help bringing peace on earth.

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I knew from the outset that Russia drastically misunderstood western sociopathy.

The sociopaths who rule the West would gladly destroy 99% of life on earth without hesitation, if that were the price of dominion over whatever was left.

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Absolutely, no doubt in my mind at all.

A friend who lives in W VA was telling me of how he has set up a comfortable spot for himself in an abandoned mine. I found myself envying him.

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Like the people who erected the "Georgia Gidestones". One of their recommendations was to keep the human population below 500 million. I wonder how they envisioned achieving that goal?

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It is not Guidestones only, the current trends in media pointing to the wish to reduce the size of human population or even removing it all in order to "save the planet" or less broadly and equally silly the climate.

As for specifics ex polish president I think was first to advocate genocide on Russians.

I think big war is inevitable. As they are not afraid and think that they can survive it.

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Yes, Russia and her allies needs to get proactive in destroying the empire using all possible means in multiple directions. At the moment Russia is fighting alone. And the empire, without any doubt, will be opening more fronts around Russia.

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with Chinese financial and production resources, korean shells, Iranian support, ALL of the Asia behind it, All of the Africa, all of the South America favorable to them. Sure 'fighting alone'.

it is not a secret that Russia bought and got delivered train loads (!!) of equipment from China to build shells, that is how the outproducing West 10:1 was achieved (and that is why many current artillery shells produced seem to be 'very similar' to Chinese ones, same equipment that was sold). Same for Geramiums that are produced by thousands now and many other things

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The problem is that the Russian leadership really doesn't want this war.

The West does.

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They may not want it, but that doesn't mean they aren't going to kick our butts if it comes. They will do the necessary.

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Would to God, but when I see western leaders swanning in and out of Kiev for photo ops, they don't seem too scared.

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Mar 8·edited Mar 8

Empire could survive if they didn't invest so much. I believe they still can pull out, it is going to be damaging, but the longer it takes, the more damaging it is going to be. The least damaging it was in 2022. They might as well wait until it will be absolutely existential for the empire, then they either will pull out or will be destroyed, so what's the point?

People are saying that Russia would do world a favor if it nuke USA. This is a deadend, USA can nuke somebody, but there are many more "somebodies" who can nuke USA.

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Agree and also of the opinion that the conflict is essential for all parties involved (EU, NATO, USA empire). Maybe that is one of the reasons that Putin is operating so carefully as not to escalate the conflict. Unfortunately we don't have such people in the west. The sad thing is it is not in the benefit of the population. Hence, society may end one day just because some people can't accept losing face. Have to admit that I am extremely worried about the future.

At the same time wondering why the global south is not stepping up (visibly) as they will suffer tremendously as well when this end in nuclear war.

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Certainly not existential for NATO or US. People forget what existential means. It means one's existence depends on it. Not pride. Not wealth. Existence.

It is not even existential for Russia, although Russia without a doubt has more skin in the game than NATO.

It was from the start existential for DNR/LNR, and after Kiev made their move at the start of 2022, it became existential for Ukraine.

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I know exactly what it means and will reiterate; it is existential for the West. Not so much for the people but the elite. You can hear clues by listening to Lavrov and Yi (I think/China). They speak of the hegemony and how it weaponizes everything (money, products) against those who do not tow the line.

China and Russia along with the rest of the world (possibly including some West countries) breaking off will render this hegemony DOA. This hegemony carries without the ultimate power and these people/families been calling the shots for a very long time.

Still when it finally is smashed citizens of the West are going to feel it pretty hard. Think what happens when an economic system based solely on debt finally belches. At that point I assume it will feel quite existential to all of us as well. That being said, this system is evil and it must be destroyed. That’s exactly what China, Russia are doing.

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The definition of all money is debt: all money globally is created as debt via double entry bookkeeping.

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I mean, forgive me for being pedantic, and I do understand your point. But... "going to feel it pretty hard" isn't existential. That sounds to me like a scenario where the elites would lose money, maybe a lot of it.

I'd say "going to die" with reasonable certainty, or "going to totally lose their position within western society" with reasonable certainty, would be existential.

US isn't going to disappear as a power. It still has nukes. It still has natural resources. It's still protected by oceans. It can still squeeze anything it wants out of Canada and Mexico, and probably much of Latin America, at least for many decades.

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Lol no worries, but the way I see things is much different I suppose. We are 34T in debt and still climbing. It’s really been going bananas ever since the 2008 Financial Collapse. Of course I would hear guys like gold sellers and Peter Schiff shout warnings about this debt/spending being unsustainable. I being a pragmatic man who balances his checkbook have wondered just how our govt can continue to spend like drunken sailors with no ill effects.

Somewhere shortly after the SMO kicked off in 2022 it came to me. The answer is because we have an economic stranglehold over the world. It is our military which keeps it in line. If a country starts clamoring about financial responsibility they get the gas (see Libya). One way to achieve responsibility would be to back the currency to something like gold or even oil (petrodollar). I can tell you with confidence there’s nothing pegged to the USD anymore.

If other countries get the idea that they’re will be no consequences to seeking financial freedom then it will happen. No way around that. It’s what you see with BRICS and Belt and Road. Many other nations will follow them away from the current unipolar model. It’s called multipolar. Where supposedly no one system sets the rules. There is NO doubt many nations are pissed about they way they have been treated. You follow our rules or you will be punished financially and ultimately militarily.

So when this system breaks (inevitable) this empire of money is going to come crashing down in a hurry. We don’t make much anymore. After the smash it’s doubtful Puerto Rico would give 2 shits what we say. For the regular folks who have benefited from the Unipolar charade things will get dire very fast. Nobody will be able aid us either I don’t think.

We are not the people who survived the Great Depression. Lol not even close. It will get ugly good hard and fast. Can’t tell you to what degree but if the dollar implodes it will indeed be existential.

Mike R just left me this comment on this post. It’s excellent:

The war is existential for the US empire because it is built on financial hegemony - US prosperity is built around controlling the world economy to its benefit. That requires preventing the emergence of any peer or near peer competitor (Wolfowitz doctrine), so the US remains in control. If Russia wins and takes control of the Black Sea, it becomes far stronger. The rest of the world will stop complying with every US diktat, and engage in commerce without US manipulation. Actually this will all happen regardless of the outcome in Ukraine, but the US is the psycho tyrant that just can't see i

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You don't really understand the neocon mindset. Sure, for normies, Ukraine means zilch. But for people like Nuland and Kagan you bet your life this is existential. For the ideologues and Bolsheviks in DC, seeing their ideologies stomped into the mud is worse than death.

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The war is existential for the US empire because it is built on financial hegemony - US prosperity is built around controlling the world economy to its benefit. That requires preventing the emergence of any peer or near peer competitor (Wolfowitz doctrine), so the US remains in control. If Russia wins and takes control of the Black Sea, it becomes far stronger. The rest of the world will stop complying with every US diktat, and engage in commerce without US manipulation. Actually this will all happen regardless of the outcome in Ukraine, but the US is the psycho tyrant that just can't see it.

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@miker Very well said sir. Been educating some on this matter over at Caitlin Johnstown’s site. Many liberals on there but they are open minded. Had many conversations last explaining exactly what you so eloquently did. Told them make no mistake this is NOT about money laundering or enriching the war machine. Sure it is happening but the reason for this skirmish means so much more.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/pretending-the-us-cant-just-drive

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The US is Tony Montana in the last part of the film.

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Here's my "I told you so" moment. I'd said often That Big bombs work very well and someone told me that US experience in Korean and Vietnam wars proved they don't!

He missed the fact that US was dropping them from B52 up high and scattering. Nothing accurate There.

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American experience in all of its police actions has no relevant place in this discussion. The US hasn't faced a peer or "near peer" enemy since the early 1950's

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And now they face a "more" than peer opponent.

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They - the US - face no one on the battlefield.

Giving away 'funny money' for Ukraine to kill Russians, deemed 'the best investment ever' by the American establishment psychopath ghouls, is not the same as having coffins with tens of thousands of dead men coming back to their mothers.

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Early in the Vietnam war during operation arc light the B-52s were used tactically, the order to drop had to be given by an FO with direct visual observation of the target, to avoid friendly fire incidents.

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No mention of the SAS/nato/british navy killed in odessa?

IM embarrassed for the Russian nay, you could literally tie logs together and float them as a defense against these drones

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Yeah I don't understand either. It's well and good to have anti-missile/torpedo/drone weapons but your suggestion could work against surface sea drones. An actual floating log wall on the vulnerable side of the ship.

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It's not like that the Russian fleet has to actually fight other ships because Ukraine has no ships. Why they are not protected is a mystery.

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There's this NATO command center in Odessa task with war against Russia and as far as I know it's still there for almost 3 years. That's where the planning is done. Ok. Red Line from NATO that Putin cannot cross.

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Explain how

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Yo dude where do you think Odessa is?

Russia has been killing Polish soldiers and calling them "mercenaries". And recently hit French Foreign Legion and called them "mercenaries" too.

Everything is deniable and the last thing NATO will do at this moment is to admit they are in Ukraine actively attacking Russia.

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Yes, because it is not possible to prove these soldiers are active duty troops. The same thing happened when Soviets supplied equipment and provided Vietnam with advisors/pilots/etc.

It is not clear that NATO command center in Odessa has been found by Russians. Most likely not, otherwise it would have been visited arleady by mr. Kinzhal.

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it was visited 2 days ago after zelensky gave medals to them for the last ship they sunk. As soon as they saw him leave they launched the isklander

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I believe you are correct, and that is a problem. They hit Russ, and Russ can't hit back cause Britain will escalate, sink Russian ships, and start WWIII, which Europe seems to want. The special military operation has rules, and there is nuclear overhang, and so Russ let's them as long as they are winning on the ground. Is it time to go to war? I don't think the West will stop until the electrical grid in Europe and the US goes down. It isn't like the security state is democratic and worried about people. The navy, with all its advanced hypersonic missiles, can't handle speed boat attacks at night because it is dark. Stupid. It is this weakness that gives the west confidence they can win a big war with Russia, which I don't want to happen, but I'm prepping for when the war will hit here.

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After thinking about it, I think the boat was bait. You think of speed boats and they have propellers spinning and tearing up the water, noise easily picked up by submarines like sonar. I think they were successful because they went around where the subs were. If not, why didn't the subs pick up the noise, or did they and couldn't relay the info?

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like killing NATO officers in droves pretty time any time Russia wants? French, Germans, Canadians, etc. I dont think RU gives a f about 'NATO Red Lines'. if you are in UA territory, you are a nice juicy target, about to be sent to hell , enjoy your 'article 5' as you die.

RU indeed in not (yet?) hitting the various spy planes flying near cost of Romania, however if you are in Ukraine, you die.

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https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/7march2024_Ukraine_Avdeevka_map.jpg

I would have expected a breakthrough to the West of Avdeevka after this much celebrated chaotic AFU retreat, but it seems it's been a few days that the advance has instead stalled at that river across Semenivka village.

Disappointment, as there shouldn't be much of a AFU defense line (trenches, minefields, concrete reinforced holdouts) there, just a few improvised foxholes. This past week was the perfect time to throw the kitchen sink at them - artillery, aviation, drones - and leap westward towards the river between the settlements of Progres and Karlivka.

Instead as usual Russians preferred to "consolidate" their positions, and by now the AFU has surely erected some kind of defence line. Oh well...

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yeah ..it's sad, life is tough

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the rationale of taking Avdeevka was that it was the strongest defense point on the front.

Now it's taken and Ukraine soft underbelly in southern Donbas should be left exposed. Yet doesn't look like Russia is upping the tempo there. Feels as though Avdeeevka was a media victory

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yeah I know the media are everywhere and tell us things about the war sometimes we believe them sometimes we think...wait....what if they are not telling the truth what is..it's all so confusing, I heard someone once ...say the fog of war, how true that is!

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Mar 8·edited Mar 8

This may cheer you up, the players in this world war/game has named Ukraine as their board, but the game pieces now in play are actually all over the world. Ukraine is just the element that gets much and occasionally all of the attention.

The pieces are; the French former colonies, other players in Africa, the interests of rising political parties in the EU, the war in the ME, BRICS+, Mexico wants to join BTW-didn't see that coming, new and old trade routes, endless swarms of illegials. This game is massive and all the pieces are in play at one time.

Russian tactics on the ground in Ukraine are directly and indirectly impacted by the speed/success and/or lack of it of all the many pieces in play. If Russia wins in Ukraine too soon, it could be to the detriment of the other pieces on the board.

So sit back and reflect on the extraordinary complexity of this game recognizing that history is being made before your eyes. At the same time strongly suspect your life and the lives of so very many probably depend on one man's gamesmanship. So to be on the safe side drink a toast to Putin's good health and prepare for the absolute worst, for that may be our future if he fails.

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I think Russia would have gone for the kill beyond Avdeevka, if they had the wherewithal in terms of artillery, aviation, drones, assault companies, and other infantry to hold the newly acquired exposed territory against inevitable AFU counterattacks

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think again, surely the RF knows what it is doing...or perhaps they do not...it's so hard isn't it to figure out just what is going on - but do not worry you are in good company Biden don't know neither, maybe if you go and have a look foryourself you'll know more...or ..?

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no need to defer to experts. It's a good habit of the mind to form opinions just based on facts on the ground, independently from what influencers say.

Just look at the map, and extrapolate each army's resources by how they behave.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=180u1IkUjtjpdJWnIC0AxTKSiqK4G6Pez&ll=49.85314359071876%2C37.7484259063819&z=10

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it's kind of you to call Biden an expert, on dementia maybe, on young girl hair sniffing for sure, but on the SMO?

Although I guess I do defer to RF Headquarters Army as having more information, training, knowlege of the enemy, and of their own aims and goals to be making decisions and taking actions that correspond to a best perception

The yanks used to say those who do do those who can't teach - and that's true - but nevertheless you could say the RF are teaching the US, et al, how this war is won

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I think in this war going to far on the offensive can be too risky. The Russian forces chased the routed AFU as far as they could without exposing themselves to a counterattack. With the the overmatch in firepower, glidebombs, drone production etc etc why rush? By all accounts the AFU hasnt managed to build much in the way of defences westward, What line they can build in the next month will not be strong enough to withstand a month of russian consolidation and build up. Why rush when the maths of procurement are on your side.

As other posters in this thread have pointed out this war is far bigger then territory in ukraine, its about toppling the western power structure and with it the wests control of the the financial systems the dominate the world. Time is on Rus side and looking at the way the western powers seem to be rushing head long into discrediting themselve for all the world to see, re Gaza genocide which will well and truely destroy any western claim to moral rightousness as well as if they go ahead and steal Rus assets, again will destroy financial banking credibility.

Putin the juda practicioner is using the wests actions against itself quite well.

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Yep. "Patience is a virtue" will be carved on Putin's grave on the (hopefully far off) day when he hits the bucket. We in the West don't do patience. In fact, we don't do virtue either.

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It's called logistics.

Outrun that, and you might as well dig your grave instead of a foxhole.

Ukraine still has NATO ISR and enough ammunition to disrupt the major logistics pipeline required to implement *your* idea.

Rest assured, Russia thinks further out than you.

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logistics are the same as before storming the town, they have advanced only a handful of kilometers past Avdeevka

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Yo Frances, Dis ain't no Sass. We all be sleeping wit da speed a lite. Check it out.

The Great Taking, David Rogers Webb

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3AVceraTI

https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download

Free download of DRW’s 129 page book in pdf

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already feeling depressed/hopeless after reading a the first page of the introduction as it describes what I am feeling. It reminds me of the architect in the first matrix: "Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion", but even more it is the absence in many to believe that there are such evil people behind the scenes. Logical alone dictates that these people definitely exist if you look for instance at the percentage of psychopaths (1%) and the percentage of humans with mental disorders (1-4%)

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Kindly read the pdf and watch the vid. DRW lays out the antidote to what has been assiduously crafted by intelligent (although satanic) design through the past decades. The State of South Dakota has already started to unravel the ‘dematerialization‘ changes to the Uniform Commercial Code. Best!

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Thank you, and yes I have seen it :)

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Agreed, you don't want to win the battle but lose the war.

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Half a million cops in Ukraine? Wow!

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Wonder if any are available to help with the US border?

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1) it's a really big country 2) "cops" fall under the Interior Ministry which also includes things like border guards, customs officers, prison guards, etc. Basically anyone with a weapon who isn't the military is a "cop" in American terms.

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Report to Congress on Results through May 31, 2023,213 of the Budget Support to the Government of Ukraine with Funds Provided under the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023, states the following: “U.S. government (USG) budget support is ensuring the survival of the Government of Ukraine (GOU) as its fight against Russia’s unprovoked aggression enters its second year.

With the support of Congress, the $18 billion provided to date has been used to:

• make direct payments to 1.8 million IDPs;

• provide housing and utility subsidies to 2.9 million Ukrainian citizens;

• pay salaries for over 512,000 teachers and school workers,

• pay salaries for over 57,000 first responders;

• support pensions for over 8 million vulnerable Ukrainian citizens;

• provide social assistance for over 730,000 Ukrainian citizens

• pay salaries for over 152,000 civil service employees and over 515,000 healthcare employees.

A tiny insight from my "As America Crumbles..." book https://amzn.to/3TBRPw5 that could be summarized as a shocking "$14 Trillion Gift of War."

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Gee. We could use some of that.

Is it too late to emigrate to Ukraine?

Remotely?

Then just re-enter USA, but keep my Ukrainian salary?

If I were only dishonest, I’d learn the skills to do just that, all the way from my house.

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Nothing easier:

1. Law 2654-IX "On Amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine and some other laws of Ukraine regarding the taxation peculiarities of electronic residents' enables you to be e-resident:

https://diia.gov.ua/services/zayava-pro-nabuttya-statusu-rezidenta-diya-city

2. Get a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS - they used to have emergency protocols.

3. Apply for a grant, say for media and get $350,000.00 via our generous government and once you're in, you can join the orgy of looting in order to stop Putin and Russia's impending invasion of Berlin and Odessa, Texas.

It would not be dishonest:

Be a Hero - Join e-Residency in Ukraine!!

https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/352266

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To your first point: many of us humans really can't imagine "big" and hence they reduce everything to something they can understand. Based on that they then tell that people should have done A or B. But the frontline is a 1000 miles long for instance, the black sea is big as well (naval drones), there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers, modern warfare includes very good ISR, drones, ... Most of the population wouldn't last a day on this frontline.

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"Green Berets". and "Navy Seals"..god damn I laugh when I hear "Navy Seals"..Takes $ 2 million and 3.5 years to train one ! ...ONE SWINGING DICK WITH MENTAL PROBLEMS..That recent abomination of a Ukr landing attempt that got wiped out Is what NATO can generally expect for its "special" soldiers in this kind of war. ..About 20 of these commandos got waxed by POV drones ..at least they wont have to continue paying for them . Ami right ? ..American planners are still dreaming of the day when these people will be replaced by androids but that day is a looooooong way off.

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Mar 8·edited Mar 8

navy seals defend your freedom bro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LXbv6b_Raw

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🙄

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not a cringe video definitely

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Navy Seals work for the enemy.

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For that to be true they would have to be fighting the US government, which is the biggest threat to our freedom ,bro.

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An audit would have picked up the 700k if they were in the background doing support work.

Odds are the only place they show up now is on payday and the commander picks up their checks for them.

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You're not wrong - remember when Biden announced there were 300k 'NATO trained' troops in the Afghan National Army?

Yeah.

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they either neither existing or are reporting to duty from a ground (about six feet under, for those who were fortunate enough to be actually buried). large masses of UA soldiers were blown to pieces and never collected with relates hearing MIA reports

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Damn Abrams tanks are 1 shot garbage aren't they ?

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They were made for a different world, where enough steel could make you safe. Now it just makes you a target.

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Missile technology has vastly outpaced armor technology.

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8 March 2024 Yahoo!-Interesting news of Russia winning the war

“Russia’s real wages climb 7.8% in 2023 as unemployment hits record low”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russias-real-wages-climb-7-163103060.html

A sane straightforward and factual report

Yahoo/Reuters

“Retail sales, a key gauge of consumer demand, increased by 9.1% year on year in January, above analysts' expectations for a 7.8% rise. The central bank on Tuesday had said that consumer demand remained high and had only just started reacting to tight monetary policy. Interest rates stand at 16%.

Annual consumer price inflation was 7.58% as of Feb. 26, compared with 7.57% a week earlier.

Unemployment dropped back to a record low 2.9% in January, the statistics service Rosstat said, evidence of the labour shortage that is hampering the economy's productivity.

First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on Tuesday highlighted some of the economic challenges facing Russia as he warned that the 3.6% GDP rebound last year was not a sign that economic growth was yet sustainable.”

The FT right of reply-

“This is very bad news for Russia and very good news for the ‘collective west’ – further proof that sanctions are working, and that Russia will sue for peace and will pay us exascale $$$ reparations for their genocidal invasion of Ukraine”

“That workers are paid more is a deliberate fascist anti gender provocation and is an insult to our values and to the values of our brave, sick and homeless veterans”

(Advert for military grade amphetamine)

“More evidence of Russian corruption and dependence on China- Putin’s chief puppet string puller – this makes war with China our top priority – workers there are paid more with each passing year instead of being laid off and made homeless the only fit fate for this subrace scum”

(A word from our sponsor Secretary LL Au)

Meanwhile Germany Year Zero

https://rhg.com/research/tipping-point-germany-and-china-in-an-era-of-zero-sum-competition/

From Win-Win to Zero-Sum – guess which one is winwinning and which one is zero-summing

Worker wages down in Zero over last three years by as much as Russia’s are up last year

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And now with the very substantial salaries the Russian military receive, if they are sending that money home to the wife and kids or to Mom and Dad, consumer demand should remain strong.

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ahem..... Mom and Dad please...you know this is the year of the Family

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Ah, thank you for bringing that to my attention; I will correct it to "the wife and kids, or Mom and Dad. "

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A Good Russian would do both, and these are good russians, indeed Heroes of the Nation

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Yes, I do see them as doing that, and as being good Russians. A credit to their race and nation.

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Well, after 10 years of failing to get out of the Depression, fighting a war certainly saved the US economy. Why shouldn't it work for Russia?

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Mar 8·edited Mar 8

that is exactly what is happening with GDP growth in pretty much all sectors. I also read a quiet news article about RU cornering at least 30% of global grain markets now. want to help nazies in Ukraine or NATO if are country? no food for you buddy, go eat 'services' of G7 economy. Of cause you cannot eat 'services' so that ends very quickly.

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Ironic and quietly amusing is that, through their sanctions on Russia, the Western nations have actually demonstrated in the most practical way imaginable the incorrectness of their economic doctrines. According to Western economists, everyone gains from global trade and inter-dependency, as each country does what it can do most efficiently.

If that is true, can anyone explain why the Russian economy should have benefited enormously from the cessation of trade with many of the world's "most advanced nations"?

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'free trade' is not 'fair trade' - that is what is VERY evident now to Global Majority. When France could extract uranium from Niger and pay for it only 2% of the world market value while pushing its good overpriced 200% that is was France was getting fat and Niger (and all 'French prosperity zone' in Africa) was constantly starving. Same issue in South America , Central America , and Mexico. Which is why BRICS exists and new global alliances are being built. 'Most Advanced Nations' forgot that they are at most 15% of the world population and further and further declining percentage of the world production (look at steel, aluminum, etc)

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Russians already knew how to program and do fancy accounting math. That eliminated a considerable number of "services" western countries could offer them.

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Of course it has already worked for Russia, and the war is only just beginning

However the west, pols and press, pour out paper stating that war (battlefield, sanctions, pol isolation) is not working for Russia, that Russia is reeling, can not produce either friends or food let alone soldiers let alone tanks etc etc

Why does the west ruling class do this - because fighting a war has had the opposite result in the west to the effect it has in Russia, i.e. de industrialisation, falling wages, political confusion, disunity, and alienation of the rest of the world

Their propaganda describes their own situation

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the term I heard is 'confession through projection'.

I think it applies to almost everything 'west' does and especially about Kiev regime right now. Anytime I hear of 'human waves' by 'mobiks' by 'shortages in everything' on the 'russian side', I know exactly what is going on here - confession through projection..

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I have heard of this - it goes to show not only how self centred, self generated, propaganda is, but also how self defeating

- blinding oneself to one's own failures as well as the successes of the enemy you have made

Then the west claims that it has won the information war!

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NATO defense systems acquisition prioritized expensive, highly complex, low-volume production because the top think-tanks just couldn't imagine a war where soldiers had to dig in to hardened positions while dodging old school artillery being called in from spotters using cheap drones.

Nor could they imagine a scenario where high tech multi-million dollar missiles could get shot down by much cheaper missiles.

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Then why did they go to war with Russia?

They did not know what arms RF had were capable of and how the RF fought?

They did not know that their arms and operations were unsuitable?

They are that stupid?

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Their economy was very healthy before this started so why do you think it needed saving?

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I try to keep my comments short and simple. The American economy certainly needed saving in 1941 - FDR had been trying to get it going again for years. The war did the trick immediately.

While the Russian economy was not in a depression before 2014, it is now doing even better. That was what I was trying to convey.

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I see you get all your news from the msm propaganda. Anyone that thinks the economy is doing well is out of touch. Everyone on a fixed income knows it is harder and harder to put food on the table. Ask any young worker and they tell you buying a house is next to impossible.

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The comment was referring to the FDR war economy, when the US had some notion of economy and of war

The US is not currently 'fighting a war' the US is passing the buck, and trying all it can to not fight a war

Not succeeding at either

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I think Russia is testing new and secret countermeasures for the naval issues, unfortunately unsuccessfully so far. To test it you have to risk it. That's why so many incidents.

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I agree. Fact - in WW2 British navy regularly sent vulnerable small cargo vessels near Dover to tempt the Luftwaffe to come out and fight on favourabel terms for the RAF.

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No, they stopped ocean-going convoys after OA 178 but had to keep coal convoys going during the Kanalkampf.

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