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…not to mention Russian PW (Potato Warfare)

https://t.me/myLordBebo/29237

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Lol. You beat me to it ...

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In Soviet Russia, potatoes mash you

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Blackrock is the East India Company of the Globohomo American Empire.

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Both of which were/are overwhelmingly Jewish concerns.

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The USA will purge its Jewish population as it has been done already 110 times by countries in the past. Nothing new under the Sun. If a man went to jail 110 times for spouse abuse, what would his prison sentence be? The Parasitical teaching of the Talmud should be illegal worldwide.

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Oy vey. The Goyim know. Shut it down Shlomo.

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I guess pointing out the antisemitism here makes me an agent provocateur.

Simp you are judged by the people you enable and support

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Most Israelis are non-semitic genocidal LARPers. “Jews” have killed more semites this century than anyone. Yes, the goyim know.

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Both operate from the same broken premise of economic prestidigitation, and inevitably as "market" forces are incapable or re re-balancing the state must step in to make the "fix". Sovereigns outside the US satellite constellation would be extremely unwise to engage with this malign entity.

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What an excellent and appropriate word, thank you. I wasn't familiar with it.

prestidigitation

prĕs″tĭ-dĭj″ĭ-tā′shən

noun

Performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands; sleight of hand.

Skill or cleverness, especially in deceiving others.

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It is slowing sinking into even the most delusional supporters of Ukraine that they are badly losing and that there is nothing that they can do.

After being wrong for years and calling everyone who disagreed with them "Putin propagandists", I think that the Ukrainian supporters are going to have to eat some humble pie.

More significantly, this is a major strategic defeat for the West. As some have predicted, maybe even the end of NATO as a functional organization, although it will likely stay in name (too many corrupt high paying jobs at stake). It just will remain an ineffective organization at nation state war, just a swindle for taxpayers to make a few corporations and wealthy people even richer.

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Somebody will have to arm the many civil wars that are about to break out across Europe.

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I can't wait for American CW2, it's gonna be the most well-equipped CW in history!

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I live in the US. Although you're correct, we will suffer.

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Everyone except the elites in their compounds in Hawaii and chateaus in Switzerland.

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They will make sure there is a civil war in Europe before they ever allow it to come to that. The USA is Perfidious Albion to the 12th power.

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Actually, scratch that, they will make sure that there's a third world war before letting it get to civil war.

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Probably right on both counts. US troops leaving the US makes it far more likely that a CW will happen though, as the opposition will see the regime as being weak.

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No. Jews will create Civil War in USA also. And Jews plan to have their own USA president leading goy to the slaughter like Zelensky did in Ukraine. Israel is falling and Ukraine is bereft of a populace. Jews are taking over Ukraine whether ruled by Russia or NATO.

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Are the Jews in the room with you now? Can you show us on this doll where they touched you?

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I know that many people sort of wish this, it could also be the world's first nuclear civil war. I'm pretty sure we don't want to see that.

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I'd rather see that than what will happen w/o a CW: global USSR.

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David Axe is the kind of shill incapable of accepting evidence; change of narrative, that's a different story.

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I find his delusional articles quite hilarious. He's one of the Western buffoons, like General Mick Ryan, Rob Lee, Watling, Kofman and various others, who I skim through and then know the opposite is the truth.

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Good for you, I can't bother with MSM columnists and blowhards. They're part and parcel of the system that has to be flushed and that could take a generation.

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Or that upper-class prick at the UK Daily Telegraph, Hamish de Bretton Hamilton.

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I'd forgotten about him. You are quite right, I remember him lying about Syria using chemical weapons a few years ago.

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The UA fanboys are spouting the narrative that Russia has the overhand becausecof meat attacks and habe lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers whilst the Ukros have not. When confronted with the facts they simply walk away.

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The other fake narrative in US media is that Kiev is on the ropes now because the GOP blocked aid for six months. It wasn't Russia's destruction of 400,000 men and the desertion of another 100,000 men, it was the lack of ammo that helped Russia.

Like just about everything else the West spouts, that's propaganda for morons. It assumes Americans are such cretins they've forgotten that when Kiev launched its fabled "counteroffensive" there was no lack of ammo. Kiev and the US and NATO military personnel actively in the fight were defeated by Russia at the absolute top of their supply and training power curve.

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Most people want to believe it because they are horrified by the reality creeping up on them. Their collective denial will salvage the situation, so they hope.

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"the Ukrainian supporters are going to have to eat some humble pie." Alas, I don't think they'll do that. They'll double down on their narrative and go on a witch hunt for anybody who ever told the truth, saying it was you Putin propagandists who betrayed your own country.

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Correct. An acknowledgement of the truth will never properly happen. After some decades a few things will be quietly "discovered". That's the very best you can hope for without a total destruction and revolution. Even then, I wouldn't fully get my hopes up.

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Right, they're perfidious bastards, ALL western leadership, perfidious bastards LED by the perfidious Albion, UK and USA!

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UK and USA are controlled by Neocons, Jewish Banking Mafia, Zionist goy, and Israel. Those goy in official positions of power like President Biden are compromised puppets of Jews. Before Jewish Blackmail boss Epstein there was Jewish Mafia Blackmail boss Roy Cohn - Trump’s mentor. USA will purge Jews or have its carcass torn apart by barbarians.

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That sounds good. Doesn’t mean it’ll happen. There’s always the wicked end. How many people do you think went to war without thinking of their death ? And we’re talking about Psycopaths here.

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Yes. These are psychopaths, but exploration on the subject leads me to… The Zionists and the Crown and the Vatican are serving non-human beings. So who is on humanity’s side?

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Some of the Gods.

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The All-Father need only concern himself for more serious issues such as the end of the universe if there is such a thing.

The lesser or local gods would already be active in their own regions. If their people were good enough to keep them there. Maintaining their own customs and beliefs. Neither imposing them on others nor neglecting them.

That would make the world population more content. And actually safer.

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I love reading the ISW "analysis". Lol. I wonder how the poor sap writing this shite must feel knowing that everything they are saying is a lie.

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"Soros' son Alexander agreed with the Ukrainian authorities to allocate 400 square kilometers of agricultural land to American corporations for the disposal of hazardous waste, according to an investigation by French journalist Jules Vincennes." - Can this be verified somehow? Is there a link?

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Heavy, very. I fortunately, live in a GMO free area, Pacific NW, Southern Oregon …the health of the soil, the seeds, the water… the female principal, the Mother Land…we stay the course till the bones are laid to rest…and then we bury our people on the homestead.❤️🇷🇺💙

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Have you thought about giving it back to its rightful owners?

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Oh yes, I do encourage the people to do something, proper. I am pondering what I shall do with my home fort. I ponder it all….headed to the final years, so my bones tell me.❤️🐈‍⬛

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My knees are ageing at twice the rate of the rest of me.

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And you?

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I live in England, I am the rightful owner but own nothing, due to the fascist pigs who run the place.

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Have you tested your water supply for glyphosate?

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Worrying, but two things to bear in mind: PCR is very, very downbeat these days (doesn't make him wrong), and more importantly, Putin is no more gong to allow US corporations to operate in whatever is left of Ukraine than he is NATO. Finally, we haven't the Soros' been bumped off?

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Well, not everything USA sent was crap as another Russian oil refinery was hit last night.

Ukraine is still very strong and capable for long range (terrorist) attack on Russia's proper as weak posture of Russian government destroyed all deterrence Russia once had.

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Doubtful it is long range. It is easy enough to smuggle some explosives across the border and buy a cheap drone is Russia and launch the attack from relatively nearby. You literally cannot deter stuff like that.

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Please...you are embarrassing yourself and exposing your ignorance.

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Boooooring

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The damage will likely be repaired within days or a week, yet it is expected to have no impact on the war's outcome. Meanwhile, Russia has made advancements, and as the conflict persists, more AFU casualties are reported while Russia continues to achieve its objectives.

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I think these AFU casualties are not so important as Ukraine can always accept more casualties . Due to the propaganda they can accept any level of destruction and they wont stop while there is one of them left.

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"Ukraine can always accept more casualties" No, that's not true. The Kiev regime is already hitting the limits of the casualties it can absorb.

After a certain point, which appears to have already been passed, Kiev can no longer conscript more men than it loses through casualties and desertions. At that point the number of men fighting for Kiev gets smaller and smaller until it no longer has the critical mass required to stop Russian breakthroughs in various sectors.

Human nature being what it is, such breakthroughs tend to have a "tipping effect" where suddenly entire fronts collapse and the country is unconditionally defeated.

That's a classic pattern for countries that are defeated in ground wars. You can watch it happening in real time in Ukraine today.

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But Ukraine is going to lose the whole population in this way.

I wanted to say hat even that is acceptable to Ukrainian elite.

After men, the women would be conscripted, then the old people. Of course they would not be efficient, but they would not stop.

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There is some precedent for that, for example, Hitler's actions in being ready to take the entire German population into death with him at the end. But he was ideologically driven and had no options to either escape or to continue his ideology using other countries. Today's nazis in Kiev are going to be gone long before it comes down to drafting women, children and very old people.

The Kiev regime for the most part is not that ideological, and they do have options and other precedents. The non-ideological ones, like Zelensky, just want to stay on as long as they can keep raking off billions and as long as they can safely and for sure make a run to a very wealthy retirement in the West, in Miami or Cannes or wherever.

The ideological ones have the very successful precedent of WW2 era Ukrainian nazis. After committing some of the war's worst atrocities, killing Jews and other civilians with a ferocity that even shocked some of Hitler's SS, Ukrainian nazis were welcomed into Canada. In fact, showing an SS tattoo to Canadian immigration control proved to Canada you were neither a Jew nor a Communist, and thus welcome in Canada.

The Ukrainian nazi diaspora in Canada became a very effective and locally powerful political force. It kept the Ukrainian nazi dream alive until Ukraine - for the first time in history - became a country in 1991, and the Ukrainian nazi diaspora in Canada, the US, and UK has been one of the main political drivers for US support for the nazi regime in Kiev.

So it's likely today's nazis in Ukraine will do what their grandfathers did: when defeat is inevitable, they'll jet off to the US, Canada, the UK and other Western safe havens, to reconstitute their strength and to plan their come back. They're not going to wait for the bitter end and die in the ashes.

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>The Kiev regime for the most part is not that ideological,

why not? Their ideology is Russophobia.

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John Galtsky: "In fact, showing an SS tattoo to Canadian immigration control proved to Canada you were neither a Jew nor a Communist, and thus welcome in Canada."

Nonsense. That's a stupid invention.

Have you not seen what has happened to Canada? It has been overrun by the Third World thanks to the inordinate power of the malevolent Jews who now control our country with an Iron Fist.

In fact, they're deliberately destroying the country I grew up in faster than I can keep track of the damage.

What you may not be aware of is the fact that most of the Ukrainians who emigrated to Canada did so after the Jewish Bolsheviks took over their country and proceeded to murder and starve tens of Millions of the Ukrainian Christian population who were caught under their hob-nailed boot heels.

Canadians who lived and worked beside those Ukrainian emigres KNEW the TRUE STORY about who the real bad guyz were in Ukraine.

I'm not defending Azov or the rest of the punks and thugs pretending to be patriots in Ukraine - far from it. They're thugs, thieves, liars and murderers all working for the self-chozen crime bosses who now believe they have successfully stolen the country once again. Azov's leadership should be thrown in prison for the rest of their miserable lives.

The dumbasses who believed their lying leaders should be sent home to tend to their families. They now know they bit off more than they can chew.

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My eye is on China. How will they take the Tiktok ban, and how will they respond to Blinken's ultimatum. They need their $/SWIFT alternate up, and yesterday. Fact is there are a lot of painful levers the US can pull, and will.

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I think China would not be able to resist to US requests.

Their economy is to dependent on US.

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No, China will string the US along until the west realizes they are being played, all the while shifting their economy to something similar to America's post WWII economy, partially fueled by cheap Russian resources.

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This is indeed the decisive question - China is in a precarious position right now with the real estate bubble burst and western attempts to decouple and relocate production to other countries, resulting unemployment and instability. In this situation the US seems to have the upper hand in and an incentive to enter the next round of the game- just as they did with Russia - butRussia called their bluff and escalated to the next, the military/economic level, where Russia could not be defeated easily due to their soviet legacy military industrial infrastructure and chinese support triggered by US stupidity regarding Taiwan issue. The question is: will China cave in(improbable, as that would weaken Chinas main ally Russia and thus isolate China,damaging Chinas image as a rising superpower that has to be respected), react defensively to new sanctions (IMO probable, as China is too weak internally right now), or escalate in kind by hitting global supply chains at the chinese link, or hitting foreign business interests in China ( I remember how the Chinese suddenly introduced punitive new "environment regulations" etc that factually closed down some japanese plants in China 10 years ago during the diaoyu/senkaku island crisis - and I am seeing tightening regulations again right now in my field of work regarding products that are to be exported to China, so this will also be a part of the chinese response)

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"Russia's Sberbank Partners with China's Huawei on Cloud Services"

https://infobrics.org/post/41049/

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It doesn't work like that. Producer always have tremendous advantage over the buyer. China is producer over here. Just like Russia (another country with insane trade surplus) had no problem with sanctions, China won't either. There are many ways to skin the cat in this situation, all very disadvantageous/catastrophic to US

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Not always. If there are many producers, then the buyer has advantage over the porducer.

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You've made his point. There are no producers comparable to China's share of world industrial output and economy of scale. Everybody else is a dwarf.

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ok. I understand

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There are no "many producers" for goods China ships. We already have example with Chinese nitrocellulose for shells or another example with enriched uranium or titanium from Russia which US can't produce in any meaningful capacity. US/EU did a major oopsie due to their incredible incompetence. You can't attack countries like that with sanctions, they aren't Cuba

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What would be the reason for that level of incompetence?

What do you think?

I suppose it is more then the political of educational system.

I think there is psychological change in the last 20 years, a kind of mental reduction when living in conditions of total consumer society.

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Loss of expertise in production due to relying on China/Russia supplies (cheaper). Catastrophe is colossal. People in the know died, competencies are basically lost. Old designs are unreadable (literally). Just think about it. US doesn't produce it's own tanks, can't enrich uranium in any meaningful capacity and have no idea anymore on how to fly to the moon.

Incompetence in expertise on Russia/China is even simpler - they rely on yes-man dissident opinions who have grudge to these countries, any alternative view is Putin/Xi propaganda. They literally have no idea what they talking about. Never trust dissidents - they have very good reason to lie for profit - US already have completely distorted history of WW2 thanks to Paperclip.

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Right. They will try to accommodate as much as they can while playing for time. The more years pass the stronger their positions get. But this is flawed logic because US aggression will only increase, and why wouldn't it, if it appears to work?

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Yes. US would continue with more and more aggression.

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China is playing the long game. If it can arrange an alternative without taking a hit from losing US business, why not?

In particular, China wants to grow friendly countries, like Russia and those in Africa, into large scale consumers who will replace the US. That's already working in the automobile market in Russia, where Chinese cars have nearly completely replaced European brands. It's a huge win for China, as the economy of scale getting such a big new market is a big deal even for a huge volume producer like China.

China increasingly looks at European and US brands as unnecessary middlemen. Instead of making most of the components that go into a GM car, why not just make the whole car and cut out the middleman? That's true for just about everything that's made. No need for Bosch to build washing machines in China and sell them as "German" machines - China can just sell Haier brand machines made in China, and do that all over the world. Bosch can have whatever small market is left in a declining Germany.

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On China creating its own branded products, two members of my family recently bought small Chinese washing machines. A simple model that hooks up to your sink. They are amazingly good. Numerous sensible wash options, clearly designated controls. The clothes emerge not only clean but amazingly spun to near dry. And the production quality is excellent, no rough edges, no balancing issues, no cheap components. Go China!

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Very true. I had a similar experience. I'm an American living in Russia, and for many years German brands like Siemans and Bosch were popular here for home appliances like washing machines, dishwashers, etc.

There was a mystique about German-built quality, so people would often inquire at the appliance store where a particular model was built. For example, like most German brands Bosch builds most of its products in other countries, not in Germany, where production for many years has been so expensive that production in Germany is not competitive on world markets. Even in the case of products "made in Gemany" they are often only assembled in Germany of components made in other countries.

So people would ask if a Bosch washing machine was made in Germany, or in Czechoslovakia, China or some other place, preferring Germany. But after a while people stopped asking, because it seemed that all of Bosch's production, or at least the models people really wanted because of their balance of features, price, and quality, were all made in China.

I had purchased a Bosch dishwasher years ago and it performed well for a time, but then the heater unit in it broke. The only way to fix it was to replace the entire heater/pump assembly, which would cost more than simply buying a new dishwasher (a typical example of over-engineered German design). So my wife and I went shopping for a new dishwasher, and this time, not a Bosch brand.

All of the German brands were made in China, and some of them even in the same Chinese factory, which was manufacturing products for Bosch, Neff and others. We settled on a Neff dishwasher, made in the same Chinese factory as Bosch, but said to be a higher quality brand, costing more, than Bosch. It worked for less than a year before starting to have problems (the sump pump often won't fully empty the dishwasher after a cleaning cycle).

Our next dishwasher will be a Chinese Haier. Why waste money on German middlemen? Go China!

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I envy you! I never had the opportunity to live abroad for an extended period of time, although I have gotten to travel a good deal, primarily work related.

Here in the US, we've had the same experience with both German and American brands. The much loved Maytag brand is now made in Mexico and its reputation is pretty much "in tatters" as a certain EU maven would say :)

Just made a call and Haier makes the small marvel now a mainstay for some of my family, go China indeed!

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I agree with all your points, and I would add that most people forget the domestic market growth. China still has roughly 800-900 million people not in the middle class, that's a huge market in itself. Sociological Economic pressure which will produce growth pretty much automatically.

And the famous Chinese real estate bubble, yeah, I've heard about that for the last 10 years constantly, it will crush soon and China will be in big big trouble, something like that. I wouldn't bet on it.

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China does not own Tik-Tok. I believe it is a Singapore company, having major offices in Singapore, the USA, Europe and Asia - none that I know of in China. If I am wrong, please correct me.

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It's the question of actual presence / financial operations. Yandex, Russian IT-giant company, was "based" in Holland, yet most of their operations, staff, offices and money were made/located in Russia. When shit hit the fan, owner had to sell the company and now it's fully Russian. I believe if Tiktok Chinese part is bigger than everything else, it's Chinese, essentially

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As I said, I see no evidence that Tik-Tok has any official presence in China. Do you have such evidence? I would be very interested in it if you could pass it on to me.

Also, its CEO is Singaporean, not Chinese.

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Originally all its offices and data centers were in China.

It was called Douyin and it is still called like that in a China I believe

All the office in Europe and U.S. come after its tremendous growth when EU and U.S. started to cry Chinese espionage blah blah

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Also you can check the parent company ByteDance that is headquartered in Beijing

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@Victor

The primary issue with Tik-Tok is that it has a large market penetration among those too young to give much of a crap re: FakeBawk & Twatter, yet has no empire affiliated censorship mechanisms. Hence the requirement that it be forced to "heel" via a "western" controlled ownership structure or be banned from the US market.

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Tik-Tok is a business that can't afford to turn its back on China. If you think that the pain is on China I suggest you check what empty store shelves look like to know what pain would start to feel like. The combined west can't re-industrialise fast enough to fill the gaps. China will further diversification. Russia and China will replace SWIFT as it's been worked on for ten years already.

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1. Spoke yesterday with a Russian person who insisted that Russia produces no electronics and Russian weapons systems were comprised primarily of US and Chinese components.

No amount of evidence would dissuade him on this or other matters. "Human waves attacking with shovels, Putin blew up NS because he hates freedom,.etc."

2. Ocheretinoe is good news, if the Russian leadership is prepared to use it.

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"Human waves attacking with shovels, "

Imagine what the Russians might accomplish if they somehow sourced rakes, hoes and pitchforks?! Such evil is difficult to imagine! Shudder...

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Using hoes? The mind boggles. Matahari anyone?

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Then lawnmowers! The EU is undone!!

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Is Kamala a double agent?

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So this is the latest RuAF training simulator

https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/ShovelKnight

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@occamsrazorback22

There is a secret Russian project underway to develop & deploy a STICK WITH A NAIL IN IT. The UN has convened a special session to condemn this barbarity.

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Hot damn, what does the Geneva Convention and Oppenheimer say about such barbarity!? The mind reels…Give a Russian kid a chess set and all hell breaks loose. I recently fell in love with Siberian Pelmeni so you can guess which side I’m on.

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What? He didn’t mention how Russia has to steal Ukraine’s washing machines to get chips to build their weapons?

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One of my all time favorite bits of war propaganda ever.

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😁

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Every country has its share of dumb people.

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This individual is far from dumb. Cognitive dissonance is in fact more common among the intelligent and educated, because such humans are better at symbol manipulation.

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You're right, he just sounds like a coward who is terrified of accepting reality.

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Every country has its imbeciles and traitors. In Russia those are mercifully few: less than 5% of the population are crazed liberals who hate Russia and hate Putin.

In a twist of irony, there used to be more of them but the totally unhinged Russophobia of the West has convinced many of those former crazed liberals that they were wrong about the West and that Putin is right. One of my best friends (I'm an American living in Russia) used to be a fanatic anti-Putin liberal. Anything that went wrong, from rain when the weather forecast called for sun, was always Putin's fault. Well, after the special op started and he could see for himself how the West lied about everything, he switched gears and now makes comments like "Did you see what Putin said at the forum? He's spot on..."

About this:

"Spoke yesterday with a Russian person who insisted that Russia produces no electronics and Russian weapons systems were comprised primarily of US and Chinese components."

OK, so you spoke with somebody who is either a liar or they don't know anything about either the Russian electronics industry or Russian weapons systems. Russia has had a full-court press going to shift all military production to 100% Russian production since 2008 when the US engineered the Georgian sneak attack on South Ossetia.

They've been very successful at that, with a fairly large, 100% native Russian microelectronics industry emerging. None of that comes as a surprise to anybody who knows anything about microelectronics and military gear. Military gear is simple compared to the latest smartphone. You don't need 3 nanometer line widths, and these days you can cobble up generic multicore microprocessors from open source architectures and fab them on inexpensive production equipment that is easily procured or manufactured. Russia has tons of that stuff.

Russian processors are actually very good, because journeyman, good processors require very good software and algorithms these days, not tricky fab know how. Russians are also exceptionally good at materials physics (much better than the US), so they know how to fab microelectronics that are resistant to battlefield threats like high neutron fluxes, out of range temperatures, high G forces and so on.

Russia cannot yet match NVIDIA's latest processors and I'd still choose Huawei for a state of the art smartphone super-processor, but between Russian algorithms, architectures, and programming and Chinese production capability I think even in those areas the unified Russian/Chinese partnership will provide new alternatives to NVIDIA. In the meantime, Russia has no problem meeting its own military supply needs.

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Correct. People have a very deluded idea that all electronics used in war must be the most advanced, complex and fragile to produce, when it's actually the reverse.

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Here in Switzerland, one of our national rags often has articles about the liberal opposition in Russia. The people they showcase are the sort of crap you find all over the West: blue hair, piercing, and filled with that oh-so-superior snark that only rich lefties can manage. Thankfully, these people are kept as far away from the levers of power in Russia, otherwise it would be the same as the West.

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Interesting comments from Ukrainian soldiers. I'd just remember what my crusty NCO's said to me (paraphrasing), "we dont worry when people bitch, thats tells us there is still some morale, its when they stop bitching that we know morale is gone".

All these AFU guys bitch, but continue to support the effort - at least so far as we know. I'm sure they dont advertise fragging of officers.

It does seem that Ukrainians are highly compliant and submissive to "authority". I'm sure our "leadership" finds that most interesting and is trying to figure out how Ukraine does it.

Ukraine is clearly growing weaker by the day, but they also continue to resist with a reasonable degree of cohesion.

The meeting of Blinken in China is important. The US keeps threatening Chinese banks about trade with Russia. It's amazing how we throw our most valuable assets like USD Status at problems that are really peripheral to US interests. US leadership seems completely incapable of any sort of calibration.

For all the dismissal the US sanctions efforts get, over time Russia needs to either find a way to accumulate and spend USD without interference or get a good part of the world to accept an alternative to USD for trade settlement and CB Reserve use.

All of Russias friends, including China, have not be enthusiastic about that part of the BRICS mission. It's Russia that needs it. However, US threats effectively carry water for Russias arguments. Chinese treasury holdings are now below $800b and by the end of summer will be below the UK's holdings.

If China were to go all in with Russia on promoting an alternative to USD for trade settlement, the damage to USD would be measurable. The people in the US policy establishment just can't see it. It must be an effect of that Harvard/Columbia university education.

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Well, looks like they're going to sanction Chinese banks, so China doesn't have a choice but to accelerate the development of an alternative

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Last I heard, 100k "obedient" Ukrainian soldiers are now AWOL.

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That number would be astounding if true. Not saying it's not true. I read the claim and it raised by respect for Ukrainians a good bit. Just have no way of knowing how true it is. Do you have other sources confirming 100k.

Some number of these guys desert with their weapons and with buddies. Isnt that part of the whole Cossack tradition ? Bands of armed renegade men roaming the country side ? What do they do then ? Hide out in the country side. How do they live ?

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Really? Maybe I'm just exposed to too much propaganda, but I was under the belief (illusion?) that all BRICS members wanted to get off the USD for settlements.

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Your belief is correct (I think) on the surface the BRICS talk about an alternative as long at everything is kept vague. But when it comes to action, resist. Russia holds the presidency this year (I think) and yet, recognizing the sentiment, have taken talks of a gold/commodity backed settlement currency off the agenda even though that is what they really want. That could change however if China thinking changes. For China, I think, the main thing they want to avoid is the idea of Yuan becoming the alternative because they understand the trap that status represents.

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Yep, on the surface the US sanctions on Chinese banking look like suicide, yet consider who appears to be running the place and then think about who is probably running it. Keep in mind they want you to think they are stupid, they are far from stupid, and they are traitors IMO.

I believe the manufactured hits on the US dollar via sanctions, via asset seizure, via insane debt are to destroy the dollar. Its destruction their means to usher in a digital currency based on China's system of "merit." And notice that they are using US talk of seizing Russia's assets as a way to coerce the EU into doing the same. Knowing the EU is far more vulnerable to Russia's response than the US. The nations of the EU are targets of the NWO crowd, and have been since this show kicked off. Just as in every war since the Napoleonic.

By destroying the dollar as the reserve currency, they also destroy the US government for all intents and purposes, have an excuse to declare Martial Law, and can gain control of all US assets, resources that are in any way tied to the banks. Recall FDR's banking programs, they are running the same play on a world scale. And along with worldwide looting, the dollar destruction is as I said above, also their means to usher in a digital currency based on China's system of "merit" and the whole 15 minute, bugs program.

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Your comments certainly seems correct. The actions taken by whomever is running things seems more deliberate than simply stupid. Even if you are wrong (not saying you are), it's an argument that hangs together well and has to be take seriously.

To my own beliefs, it looks demonic with the author of the "conspiracy" being something other than "clever" people who think they are running their own agenda's.

Unfortunately there is very little we can do about it except try to keep out of the way for as long as we can.

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Thank you, I take no joy in possibly being right. It has a demonic flare for sure, but if you think about it war always does, and these people are very big on war.

As for what we can do, we can support candidates who seem reasonable, we can work on their campaigns, fund them if possible. We can move money to credit unions, small local banks, pay down, ideally off all credit cards. Use only cash, store and conserve food. And at this point it seems prudent to legally arm yourself as well.

So are we helpless, no, not entirely. Will we be up against it if worst comes to pass, absolutely. Can we win out, after a very difficult period of time; yes.

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Wars always take on a terrible life of their own, and move very quickly away from the original scenarios.

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Yes, as Smedley Butler once said, "War is a racket."

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The Ukrainian military's ability to absorb casualties whilst retaining its cohesion has been impressive. It seems that any western army would have thrown in the towel long before. However, it does seem that Ukraine is reaching the limits of its endurance as even the fanatical Azov unit has twice now in the last few months fled from battle as soon as contact was made.

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Paradise Lost, Book 4. Satan's Despair

"...For now Satan, now first inflamed with rage, came down,

The tempter ere the accuser of mankind, 10

To wreak on innocent frail Man his loss

Of that first battle, and his flight to Hell:

Yet, not rejoicing in his speed, though bold

Far off and fearless, nor with cause to boast,

Begins his dire attempt; which nigh the birth

Now rolling boils in his tumultuous breast,

And like a devilish engine back recoils

Upon himself; horrour and doubt distract

His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir

The Hell within him; for within him Hell 20

He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell

One step, no more than from himself, can fly

By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair,

That slumbered; wakes the bitter memory

Of what he was, what is, and what must be

Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue."

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Some context is that before Book 4 Satan has attempted a coup against God which fails. Satan had been God's "right-hand man," the first among the angels. Satan is expelled from Heaven, taking one third of the angels with him; they fall into Hell.

In this scene, Satan reflects on his situation.

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Milton was on the team that brought Jews back to Britain. Which they proceeded to take over. Just as they had done before, which is why they were expelled in the first place.

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Interesting. Milton created the first real anti-hero in the character of Satan, the loveable alpha bad boy. The Christian apologists tried and still try to justify the childish, vindictive angry Biblical God, meanwhile the real agenda is, you too can be a sexy rebel.

My second-year prof let out that at least one critic argued that Milton was literally possessed, hm... Nowadays since we know about the Protocol of Zion, Satan at the Oscars, Epstein Island guest list, Jack Parsons, etc etc etc etc etc, I'd say, maybe. Thanks for your comment.

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An interesting side note. Not specific to Milton, but people don't realize how in early Norman England, Jewish financiers accumulated vast wealth. One of them, Aaron of Lincoln, was the richest man in England, richer than the king. Their predatory lending practices (enabled of course by foolish royals) eventually led to the expulsion of Jews from England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_of_Lincoln

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Wow. Practice something long enough and you get good it at, eh?

My earlier understanding was something like, "the Jews became rich because the Christians declared money-lending too dirty to engage in..." Now that seems like disinformation to me. And then there's "jubilee," the periodic forgiving of debt described in the Bible. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)

The question remains, who are all these trillions owed to?

We see that "Ancient Near Eastern societies regularly declared noncommercial debts void, typically at the coronation of a new king or at the king’s order." [But that] "According to current interpretation of Torah in contemporary Rabbinic Judaism, the observance of the Jubilee year only applied when the Jewish people were living in the Land of Israel according to their tribes. Therefore, in one sense Jubilee has not been applicable since the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE ...." I.e. the Jews aren't up even to Babylonian standards of humanity.

This biblical concept of jubilee, if it were applied, would eliminate all debt. I think that means the dollar system would evaporate, since it's literally based on debt, dollars are IOU's essentially. I guess we're headed there one way or another.

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I cannot even read this, and I tried. Believe me, I tried. Today, in a YouTube video featuring American Paul Craig Roberts, people leaving comments criticized Roberts rather ruthlessly, I might add, while I agreed with Roberts one thousand million billion and a half percent. Maybe even more. Russians have fought a stupid war. The only thing separating the ruthless Russians from ruthless NATO, run by the ruthless weapons-producing Americans in conjunction with the pathetic tail-grabbing Brits in a "special relationship," is that the Russians offered the corrupt, murderous Ukrainians an out in the Turkey negotiations held in the spring of 2022. That's it though. The Russians could have ended this slaughter long ago and saved the lives of fellow slavs while humiliating NATO, but instead chose to test their weapons in the field just as NATO does. The Russians waste their time meticulously focusing on taking minimal square footage daily in small towns of no strategic importance, rather than taking Kiev, which they could have done long ago to end the killing. No one party to this war wants to end this killing. They want to test their weapons. Kudos to Viktor Orban for permitting Ukrainians to cross the border into Hungary. He is saving lives while killing sponsored by Russia and NATO continue and will do so to the last Ukrainian who does not make it to Hungary. Yes, I know I am in trouble with all you Russophile's. I don't care. All parties engaging in this war are killers.

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Think about what it would have involved to "take Kyiv." Like as in to actually take the city and to hold it for any length of time. Probably a hundred thousand dead civilians in the course of a year and a half. Instead, as you note, Russia slowly and methodically takes smaller portions of actual strategically and tactically important land in the south and east - after many if not most civilians have long ago left or have been warned in advance - with the aim of securing the Donbass territories and a land bridge to Crimea. That is ultimately the main necessity in the long term for preventing continuing Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilians and infrastructure.

The way Ukraine has been set up as a means of weakening or actually balkanizing the RF over more than 2 decades, it was inevitable that there would be a big fight and lots of casualties. We can quibble over the early tactics, and even the true motives in the inner circle of Russian leadership. I don't disagree with you that there is cynicism and almost certainly some greed at play. Power does not cede power willingly in any country or system, and power will invariably enact measures to entrench itself from both usurpation and criticism.

Kyiv could surrender at any point in time were it actually a sovereign government acting on behalf of its own people. Unfortunately it isn't - It's a puppet regime and fake sovereign acting on orders from D.C., Brussels and London, who issue their mandates at the behest of their owners in the world of finance and the military industrial complex. Every war is a banker's war, for sure. But Russia stated its aims and has not fundamentally wavered from them. So it must continue until the weaker side finally faces, or is slowly crushed under the weight of....reality.

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The fact of the almost-inked Istanbul Agreement is proof positive of how vassalized Ukraine is. It has not been an actual sovereign nation since before 2014. It has no agency

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It is moving slow there...I understand. I'm thinking the Russians are slow walking this business so they can beef up their personnel and equipment reserves. While the American vassals in Europe burn through their equipment, the Russians are getting ever stronger. It's insulting to charge the Russians with ignoring the deaths on their side when you don't comprehend their overall strategy and endgame. It is becoming ever more apparent that the fascist west is showing their warmongering hand. This is obvious to all watching from the sidelines. NATO is being eroded and this is good for the future of peace in the world. Hats off to the tough, courageous and intelligent Russians. The centuries old western colonial empire is at long last unraveling. FINALLY! Remember, the Russians play chess and the fools in the west play Monopoly and Twister. The Russians will prevail because they MUST. And...FJB, genocider in chief.

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Apr 27·edited Apr 27

Actually the "fascist" West is anything but that. It is the Jewish oligarchical West.

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Ouanqueur

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Yenta

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You only wrote that because you#ve got a fat arse.

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Actually no. I have a very trim little arse. But I'll give you and E for Effort Granny.

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Even in slow-walking the next steps the Russians are attriting their adversary

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Russia is going slow compared to what? It took the USA 19 years to lose the Vietnam War. And it took them 20 years to lose their war in Afghanistan. I'd be surprised if the war in Ukraine goes beyond five years, which makes it a fairly short modern conflict given its scale.

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Jacque Baud's new book is The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat. It focuses on Russia's military approach, both historically & now

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I've read and can recommend it. Info was up-to-date around end-October 2023.

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Biden refused all security agreements that Putin wanted to discuss and secure prior to the commencement of hostilities in February 2022. This war has no innocents or nice guys…… but for the war not to be started. All biden had to do????? No nato troops or exercises in or near Ukrainian Russian border. Very simple.

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Also keep in mind that in March 2021 Ukraine began beefing up its troops in Donbass--as a 'gift' to the newly inaugurated U.S. president--and Churchillensky [ when he was still just a piano playing comedian who got elected prez ] assured his countrymen that Ukraine would take back Crimea.

No sooner had DJT's term ended than the piano playing comedian began bestowing gifts upon the new administration: abolishing dissident media was among the first.

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Actually, Russia has fought a brilliant war. You just don't understand what is going on.

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A change is afoot, the rise and fall of civilization. As before, carry on. The Spiritual Revolution moves ahead. Bloody hell, to bear witness; my time is on shelf life. ❤️🇷🇺💙

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100% This is why female generals are as rare as rocking-horse shit.

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Yep. Women are wonderful at many things, but they shouldn't be near the military.

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Sigh….

Maybe if you had read all of the articles posted here….

"The Russians waste their time meticulously focusing on taking minimal square footage daily in small towns of no strategic importance,"

You would know that Russia isn’t interested in taking territory. It’s been said time after time here. Demilitarize Ukraine and kill the Nazis. They’re doing both while pushing Ukraine troops further away from the Donbas. Ukraine had 8 years to build up defenses and Russia is still winning the war after defeating the defenses.

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No, they couldn't have ended this earlier w/o achieving their goals of Russia being safe from NATO aggression.

Reason for Russia attacking:

https://youtu.be/S2-Wu6JQzp4?t=30

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Interesting responses to your post.

Russia is not engaging in this prolonged war to test their weapons. This means revealing their capabilities to their enemy, and paying with piles of dead Russian bodies for the privilege of doing so.

Russia underestimated the ferocity of the US Empire’s response to their 2022 invasion and are now stuck advancing against the Empire a few meters a day—on a good day.

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"Russia underestimated the ferocity of the US Empire’s response"

You're not very bright are you?

31 Abrams... ferocious

A couple of Patriot systems... ferocious

Blowing Nordsteam, and totally denying it .... ferocious

Trickling in token quantities of every obsolete weapon system they own... ferocious

Failing to ramp their own weapons production... ferocious.

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Russian invaded Ukraine in February 2022 with a force smaller than the military it was attacking. Within a month, it was in peace negotiations with Ukraine, presumably expecting that significant goals for its invasion would be met. Russia expected that a "small" invasion would show the seriousness of its demands for Ukraine and that a considerable number of Ukrainians--even beyond the "ethnic Russians" there--would accept them as liberators from corrupt influences controlling the country.

The US Empire's response included:

1. Immediately stealing over $300 billion in Russian financial assets, kicking them off the SWIFT international payments system, and imposing yet more sanctions, including demanding the world adhere to a cap on Russian oil prices. The Empire continues to threaten any other country that trades with Russia with a similar response.

2. Blowing up Nord Stream.

3. Sending hundreds of billions in aid to Ukraine. Note that the entire Russian military budget for 2021 was about the size of just this latest aid package that passed the Empire's congress.

4. Emptying the Empire's warehouses of weapons and munitions and sending them to Ukraine. Heck, the Empire's even emptied the warehouses in its Asian provinces (South Korea and Japan) for use in its war in Europe.

5. Giving the Ukrainians so much intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) support that the Russian's cannot maneuver in any sort of stealth and that their air force has been neutralized for the first two years of the war.

6. Supporting continuing attacks against Crimea and in Russia proper.

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When the Russians sent their 150,000 or so troops into Ukraine in February 2022, they did not expect to still be fighting in the Donbass and on their own border, with attacks deeper into their country, over two years later. This lowest KIA estimates I've seen for the Russians in the war to date are around 30,000. Estimating wounded off this, and we have a big chunk of their original invasion force gone. They did not expect this and have had to scramble to assemble multiples of this force for operations in Ukraine since then--and have apparently assembled since another large force for expected offensive operations in the next few months. They have also scrambled and increased their military hardware production substantially since the war began. They have also scrambled and adjusted their fighting tools and techniques to adapt to new types of weapons injected by the Empire into the conflict.

(In fact, the Empire did not expect its own response. You can probably do better than me in listing all the "red line" weapons systems that the Empire said it wouldn't send--in order not to "provoke escalation" with the Russians--that it ended up sending. Aren't these ATACMS we're hearing about now on that list?)

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You really are a midwit, aren't you??

1. The $300 Billion have been FROZEN, not stolen, and they're still figuring out how to *actually* steal it, WITHOUT totally collapsing trust in the system.

The oil price cap is meaningless, and has been easily bypassed.

Cutting off SWIFT prevented Russian oligarchs from off-shoring their ongoing revenue streams, causing them to re-invest in Russia (hello economic boom), and doubled down with economic sanctions (thus isolating FAR MORE than $300 Billion of Western investment in Russia, which was snapped up for pennies on the dollar....literally)

2. Blowing up Nord Stream, to remove that political lever from Russia, has crashed the German economy, with no harm to Russia (gas is a fungible commodity)

3. Sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine, so the local apparatchiks can buy condos on the French Riviera, or in Italy, Greece, Spain or Florida, doesn't harm Russia in any way at all...

4. Empty warehouses that filled Ukrainian graves, not Russian ones.

5. All the best ISR in the world did, was help the Ukraine offensive fail harder, and encourage Russia to choose "Death by a Thousand Cuts" for Ukraine.

Russia's airforce was held back by the worlds second largest AD network, miserably assisted by some Patriots and other pointless NATO gifts. Duly attritted by Russian missile strikes, the frontline now belongs to Russian aviation.

6. Supporting continuing attacks by PUBLICLY telling Ukraine not to hit energy related targets, and NOT giving them enough to make a dent in Crimea...

The vast majority of the initial 150k are still alive, and Russia did not scramble to assemble the million plus now in the army. 300k were mobilised, the other 700k VOLUNTEERED (counts as scrambling in your tiny mind I suppose).

Scrambled to increase military hardware production? As opposed to the Wests talking about it??

You might want to revisit your use of scrambled, it doesn't mean what you think it means...

As for "red line" systems, no F-16 to be seen anywhere in Ukraine. No long range Taurus missiles.

The rest of the "list" is made up by Pro-US toadies, not Russia.

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1. The $300 billion has been stolen. For over two years, Russia has had no access to or control over these investments. And, as you mention, the US Empire is now deciding what to do with it. (I hope they return it to Russia, but that's the Empire's decision, not mine, yours, or Russia's.) Russia did not expect to be cut off from SWIFT when they invaded Ukraine in 2022. They have scrambled and seem to have adequate workarounds.

2. Russia did not expect the US Empire to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline. Yes, they may have found other customers, but it's nice to be able to just turn a valve and send enormous amounts of natural gas to a customer that's the fourth largest economy in the world.

3-5. You minimize Russian losses. See 6.

6. They went in with about 150k. By your count, they have needed 1 million more, which they didn't have ready at the time. I've heard Russia has vastly increased its production of all things military since spring 2022. You aren't saying that they were anywhere near the current levels of production prior to then, are you?

So Russia did not go in expecting the extent of response it got from the US Empire. They went in expecting a quick capitulation from the Ukrainians. Instead, the US Empire jumped in, not quite with everything it's got, but with a lot. And so, over two years later, Russia still fights in the Donbas, while absorbing attacks against Crimea and Russia proper.

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Russia has done an amazing job of responding to what the US Empire has thrown against it. The Empire has a limitless supply of funding and no concerns whatsoever over the level of casualties the soldiers that it sends to fight take. Also, the Empire allegedly has the best weapons with which to arm these soldiers, the best training to give them, and the best strategies to guide them.

So contrary to Empire propaganda, Russia has done well. But my point all along, is that they were not expecting to have to do what they have done.

(I'll add a sidenote: I think that in taking on this vast US Empire, Russia is much more on its own than people think. It is essentially a country of about 150 million people with a 2021 GDP that is a fraction of just the budget DEFICIT of the US government, pretty much all by itself taking on a "first-world" empire of nearly a trillion people. It has done an admirable job in not only not getting wiped out, but actually putting the Empire on its heels. Alleged support for Russia from China and elsewhere is not as the Empire's propaganda suggests.)

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I think you've gotten hung up on a few words I've used:

a. By "ferocious", I didn't mean overwhelming. The Russians have handled everything thrown at them so far. I meant that the Empire's response was far more than the Russians originally expected in February 2022. And as you point out, much of that "ferocity" has ended up blowing up in the Empire's face.

b. "Scrambled", "quickly adapted", "rapidly responded", whatever.

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And, as for the "red-line systems", I intended that as a bone thrown to you, pointing out that the Empire itself had no idea where its response to the Russian invasion was going, so I'm not going to spend time on this. FWIW, I think this longer-ranger version was something that the Empire at first said it would never send to Ukraine for fear of use against Russian territory and possible escalation. There was something that Biden said the Empire would never send that eventually they did; maybe it was this same thing. Again, whatever.

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Girl, stick to cooking, sewing, and whatever else girls do.

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Hi girl(?). Never mind the bashers in the comments. You are right, this is unbearable. This is a stupid war, as most are, and all participating are murderers. War is murder. However. You are wrong that Russia could have ended the war. And they are not testing their weopons for pure joy. Its about survival.

Russia is not wasting time on purpose. The War changed drastically when the US trap felled upon them in the spring of 2022. They had to retreat from Kiev, Charkov and Kherson and consolidate a new, shorter, front. Thereafter they have been doing the most they can to sub-due the opponent. Yes, it goes slowly. But I hope you have read as much to comprehend the very difficulty both parties encounter in this battlefield. I am convinced that US/NATO pushed Russia as hard they could with the Ukraine-issue and basicly lured the Russians to move first. They were so SURE that sanctions, de-coupling of energy, freezing Russian assets would crush the country and make way for an another colour revolution with goal to topple Putin. They, US, gambled and lost. But instead of leaving the table and say ”I am out” they stayed and put even more money on the table in a desperate bid to out-bid the Russians. This Poker-game is not over until the US/NATO realize that it was Chess that was played….

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'Chasing the money,' as sick gamblers do

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The difference is that Russia has just cause, solid logic and a firm right to confront NATO expansion. Suggesting Russia is simply testing weapons and could easily 'stop the war' ignores documented and factual realities.

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PCR also dissed Iran for their nuanced, and highly effective response to the embassy attack.

He got that wrong too.

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What everyone is asking himself: what would a real Ukrainian leader do? What path, what kind of relations to Russia, US and EU?

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Long before NATO NATO-ized Ukraine, the newly independent country & its big neighbor, the newly established Russian Federation, inked a contract/treaty for how they would jointly administer the Hero City Sevastopol & its Black Sea ports: 22,000 Russian troops based there & 22,000 Ukrainian troops

This was a stable, lengthy contract--to extend decades

An example of peaceful relations before NATO-ization

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I've been following the Russian leadership's s public position for decades. It hasn't changed. This war was always going to happen as NATO moved east, to eventually subsume Ukraine. To think it's something of a recent phenomena is to be totally oblivious to history. The number of times it could have been stopped would be impossible to count. Ofc this is just a skirmish in a much larger war involving other "competitors" to the Hegemon.

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Paul Craig Roberts writes excellent stuff, also active at - https://www.unz.com/author/paul-craig-roberts/

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Another good article on your link is "Trump Sold-Out His Base to Shovel $95 Billion to Ukraine and Israel" https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trump-sold-out-his-base-to-shovel-95-billion-to-ukraine-and-israel/

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tru dat. its author (Mike Whitney)'s work is greatly appreciated as well. but it's very frustrating to see both Trump and RFK,Jr making some really weird statements and willing to receive some really weird support from those who are more interested in pursuing their own agenda than ours.

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To judge if Putin has been successful or not, you have to go back to his clearly-stated war aims. The main one was to demilitarize Ukraine and destroy its Western-funded army on Russia's borders. I'd say he's been extraordinarily successful at that. And as a bonus point, he's also defanged NATO and show the US to be a paper tiger. Whatever works! Neither you nor PCR understand warfare.

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The production capabilities of the west/NATO are laughable. It seems as if they were the ones wanting a swift war, defeating Russia in a week or month,that ridiculous piece of propaganda that they floated as Russian miscalculation. It is painfully obvious that their planning didn't take reality into account - it is only 2 years and 2 months and there are not sufficient weapons, and no hope of making any.

I am glad that the West have finally come up against an adversary that show up their ridiculous propaganda campaigns for exactly what they are - lies based on a superiority complex in turn based on pure state terrorism of developing countries.

I certainly hope this will bring them to the negotiating table/international law and abolish the 'rules based NWO' in the future. Humanity can thank their lucky stars for Russian and Chinese wisdom.

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The East, the rising sun💛🌅💛

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If you had read Andrei Martyanov's books years ago you'd have realised that the US and NATO are exactly as Chairman Mao described, "paper tigers".

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Finally. Something sensible.

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This war should have been concluded within the year it broke out. Here’s why it continues. 1. Americans are not fighting. 2. Old/defective equipment 3. Russia is the offense, observing tactics is important 4. In short, NATO is getting closer to Russia and the more information that is gathered helps for the future... resupplying including response time, resources utilized, manufacturing locations, electronic communications, priorities. 5. This is the same workforce that manned Chernobyl. 6. Ukraine is Ukraine, it was a pyrrhic government in the 90’s, state department advised not to travel, our government sees them as Useful Idiots.

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It doesn't really help saying that it should have concluded in whichever time frame. Wishful thinking.

1. Americans fought very long wars with no victory, against developing countries.

2.Yes, NATO has supplied a lot of junk to Ukraine

3. Indeed, the Russians are making headway into Ukraine. I think most important here is the fact that everything is visible, so you can't really amass huge groupings and plough forth. It's a new kind of war.

4. NATO has the opportunity to study Russian tactics, but so do the Russians.

5. ?? Debatable statement. Chernobyl happened a long time ago and I really dont think everyone worked at Chernobyl.

6. 'Pyrrhic' as in a government that came at to great a cost to whom? I'm not quite sure what you mean by this? Also why would the fact that they are seen as useful idiots prolong the war?

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I’ll speak to #6. I made a mistake on the wording, I meant to “pariah”, but thanks for pointing that out.

Btw, your other points are well spoken. For #4, Russia has skin in the war, NATO is an impartial “observer” and can take chances where (IMO) Russia is limited. Sorta like a Scout who’s watching next week’s opponent play.

This is a different war; why our DOD provided American aircraft instead of MIGs(Poland) has quite a few ... is beyond my understanding. Ukrainian pilots know how to fly MIGs. Ukraine is no match for Russia, I do agree that the USA has had problems with smaller countries when engaged in conflicts, where I see the difference is that this battle is on Russia’s border.

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I hate to say it but finding out that a shiny and expensive new weapons system performs badly in theater is one of the reasons why proxy wars are valuable. Better to learn the lesson in Ukraine than Alaska.

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Lol ok boomer. Kiev is closer to Moscow than Anchorage is to DC

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Sure, but that works both ways. I'd say Russia gets far more benefit in that regard.

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This is a big advantage that the US Empire has in its war in Ukraine against Russia. If its weapons don’t work well, only more Ukrainian soldiers die—which hardly matters to the Empire—while when Russian weapons don’t work well, it’s Russian lives lost—bad for Russia.

In fact, for these reasons, the Empire has an incentive to hold back from revealing its best weapons, while the Russians have an incentive to use theirs, revealing more of their capabilities to the Empire.

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I'm sure they're hiding all those secret alien technologies in reserve.

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Alien technology is one area in which everyone seems to agree the US has an advantage. They seem to crash over the US more than any other place.

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It's scary just how alien the US is

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You're giving the US MIC waaaay too much credit - the Western cope is strong as NATO's top shelf equipment is revealed to be woefully inadequate when the shit actually hits the near peer fan.

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I'm just proposing a theory based on incentives.

The theory has some observational support: These incessant reports that the US Empire is sending all their older junk to Ukraine--coming from both pro-Empire and pro-Russian media all the way to Ukrainians themselves.

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Clearly, NATO is using the Ukraine conflict as a convenient opportunity to exchange dated Cold War inventory for newer gear at taxpayer expense but I think that the suggestion that this is some clever war fighting or observational strategy is really far fetched.

NATO has been given way too much rope in the last 30 years and is now, unbelievably, totally hanging itself with it. Leaders like Orban, who find themselves literally in the middle of an impossibly complex situation, understand how dangerous their position is - they've tried to play both ends against the middle and when the chips are down they will be left with some grim choices.

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What I'm suggesting is hardly a clever war fighting strategy, or even much of a strategy at all.

We may think that NATO is so disorganized as to be unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, but we shouldn't misunderestimate them. It doesn't take a smoothly running organization to know hold back some of (what they believe to be) their cutting-edge stuff, if only Ukrainian lives are at stake from doing so. The risk of showing everything you can do--and even worse, maybe having some stuff fall into Russian hands for reverse engineering--is completely obvious.

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Having known people in the MIC it's more likely that the top shelf stuff is an embarrassment that cost way too much money. It was always a grift to get more money and they never expected to have to actually show results and reveal the scam.

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They're sending the older junk instead of the newer junk. You think F35s would last a day over Ukraine?

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I doubt it, but I have no special expertise in the subject of weaponry.

My point is that--dumb as we might think they are--they are at least smart enough not to let anyone find out.

(Even the F-16s that they are endlessly dragging out on sending over hardly seem better than ones that were sitting in a boneyard for spare parts.)

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I agree (and have posted) that NATO should not be underestimated or triffled with - Russia is timing and playing them *perfectly* IMO.

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I must admit that I am having a hard time managing my incredulity that trillions spent could actually produce a non-usable, 29% operability showroom aircraft.

Like, really???

And when we combine that apparent boondoggle with the developing reality of contemporary attrition warfare (even if it's actually straight up Clausewitz anyway), we are left in slack-jawed amazement.

Honestly I still.cant believe it.

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Yeah, where's that head exploding emoji when you need it.

The idea of $1,000 toilet seats and $100 hammers have become cliche, but recent events should open everyone's eyes to the extent of graft going on.

I think of the F-35 and the littoral class ships, but people who pay more attention to US weapons systems can probably list many more.

Heads should be rolling all over the place, but people just end up getting paid more.

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Empires always die warring on the periphery. It's natural. Ukraine is a little like Afghanistan in that regard.

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Afghanistan was a lot like Afghanistan in that regard.

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Note. The American Empire has been hijacked by the "you know whos."

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The French?

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This goes both ways lol. Russia's also testing its new shiny equipment like glide bombs.

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Correction: Russia's equipment, old or new, isn't 'shiny' - it's dull, its boxy, it affordable, and it actually WORKS.

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The US MIC won't learn the lessons. They are programmed to turn out vastly overcomplicated and ineffective weapons systems that the DoD has no choice but to buy.

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The epithet "rat faced" for Blinken is inspired and accurate, as a matter of looks, but, it must be said, somewhat unfair to rats, which, whatever their faults, are not remotely as dishonest, nor as likely to be bearers of lethal parasites.

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I wonder how much hatred of rats is due to their resemblance to a certain desert tribe?

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If I was a Rat I would be offended by being compared to blinkey as Pepe Escobar calls it. Almost said him but these them would be better. You ever see the castle this POS lives in while decent working Americans are in slums and tents?

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An inevitable fate awaits……. The collapse of Ukraine. The financial implosion of usa due to dollar destruction. Two years at most for the inevitable ? Which one will occur first. And would one precipitate the occurrence of the other?

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The fall of Ukraine will happen first

The implosion of the "exorbitant privilege," which the dollar's status as the reserve currency has accorded to the U.S., will happen incrementally: gradually and then suddenly

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The only site that actually tracks the war, to my mind. Please tell me if you know better. I feel starved for information.

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Unfortunately there is nothing better out there- which, with all due respect to Simplicius, is a monument to the abject and utter failure of the combined might of the media complex, to deliver information based on facts and military knowledge. One is forced to gather piecemeal bits of information from more or less competent or trustworthy individuals on web sites, youtube and twitter channels, to get some information about the situation. For what its worth,and in the hopes others will chime in with hints, the sites I use are:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/

https://sonar21.com/

https://johnhelmer.net/

https://thehardtruthwithtony.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@Kalibratedwithscott

https://www.youtube.com/@historylegends

https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo

https://twitter.com/RWApodcast

https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps

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What is nitter.poast.org? I'm banned from twitter, so if it anything like it, I'd like to join.

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It's a proxy for twitter, useful if you're only interested in reading and not responding since it doesn't support accounts. Keeps them (Twitter) from tracking you.

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Wow! It shows my old account! Yes, I am perfectly fine with just reading. It can become an addiction for me, so just reading will help keep that from happening...I hope. Thanks!

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Sad news. But just as I suspected. But think, there's more and more of us looking.... so that's a good thing of itself, isn't it?

But yes, it is somewhat pathetic right now. Biggest disappointment is what I've learned is called 'the clerisy'. Those who purport to know and show the way.

They are not doing it are they?

Just as they did not during Covid.

Shame.

Thanks for your list. I got a new one out of it: 'thehardtruth' otherwise it is the same as mine with respect to normal internet. Thanks for that.

My additions to that list that I lean on more and are all Telegram channels.

I find Russia MoD and the 'Sitrep in English' and that same Suriyakmaps you mention quickly put me in the picture.

And I use veonnia xronika (excuse the tranliterations) and Slavyangrad and Komsomolskaya Pravda pretty often. Others too of course but they'd be the main.

Oh: 'Two Majors', too. Used to use Russell (Texas) Bentley but he's apparently been killed.

From there I browse all the afrementioned sites looking for discussion, new revelations, whatever.

It will get better.

We simply do not have a voice, a venue, as yet.

I asked my son and he said the 'people's venue' is Twitter. 'X' now of course.

Well that's pretty weak but at least it demonstrates the notion. The need.

I think we need venues, focus points, 'tools' such as 'real' truth checkers instead of that bullcrap stuff we had/have.

And we need universal suffrage to repair the lacunae in our democratic setup.

Some way to be able to vote 24/7/52 on any issue whatever and see the results, see what we're all doing/thinking in real time.

Fortunately the 21st C can deliver this and hopefully soon will.

More: https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/

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Judge Nap - almost everyone worth listening to, in one place. https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom/streams

The Inimitable Dmitri Orlov, shows up monthly, on Dialog Works channel https://www.youtube.com/@dialogueworks01/videos

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Yep, I think Dmitri is above average. And Nima is an above average interviewer. You are right in my opinion, it is an excellent channel. Dialog Works. Hmm, let's hope it does. :)

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Not comparable but Dima is priceless.

https://rumble.com/c/MilitarySummary/videos

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