Geopolitical news has been relatively slow the past few days so it seemed a good occasion to catch up on frontline advancements, which have been picking up this week.
It seems that some 50 countries have already queued up to renegotiate their tariff arrangements with the US. It should be interesting how this turns out.
I am amused that Trump talks about all the other countries taking advantage of them after all of the pillagings the US has done to prop up their USD and retain hegemon status. It's an Israeli tactic. Act like you're the victim while being the aggressor.
The Russians could be at the gates of Kyiv and the Ukrainians would still be insisting that Russia must withdraw from Crimea before peace talks can begin.
I am backtracking and looking for confirmation. I should have kept it where I read it. It needs to be identified and confirmed by other sources. I'll get back to you.
Well, I had to delete my comment because I don't see confirmation of what I read. I searched back for the initial comment to no avail. I'm not wasting any more time searching. Without evidence, it never happened. Lesson learned.
To be fair, there's been a lot of wishful thinking throughout this war.
On all sides.
EDIT: Also, you admitted that you didn't have the evidence you thought you did, and deleted your comment in response. Most humans would just double down.
I admit that sometimes I cannot be bothered to chase down evidence, or that I don't always recall where I read a particular claim and have it at the tip of my paws, ready to be provided at a moment's notice.
Also, nobody in the Western commentariat will ever touch the subject of what the fact that the AFU is fighting so viciously really means.
This is the biggest Russian defeat in this whole shit show, and it is going against some really serious competition.
To make it so that ethnically Russian people fight to the death in their hundreds of thousands and millions so that the US can situate its missiles at point blank range against their motherland, and to continue to do so for years while the territory itself becomes a colony of the West, takes some incredible skill to pull off.
And the West did pull it off.
Meanwhile the Kremlin did what for 30 years?
Hoped that if it bribes the Ukrainian oligarchs sufficiently, the problem will somehow go away on its own and there will be no need to stir any trouble with the existing neocolonial arrangement in which Russia itself was already (i.e. we, the Russian elites, pump gas and oil to Europe for pennies on the dollar and get filthy rich in the process at the expense of the Russian state and people).
But again, nobody will touch that question. Because it would require asking some tough questions of the Kremlin, and that will hurt revenue for the "alternative media", which caters to an audience that sees in Putin its savior knight on a white horse.
As for Ukrainians - there are many reason why they fight on. The fact is that the war is not lost at all - the progress is small and they do not see much of the destruction in the rear. Take Serbia 1999 the whole country was immediately affected and gave up fast. Ukraine is huge and the support is massive. We all knew that it was massive but this recent NYT article beats even my expectations.
If this support stopped the war would be on another level. There have been some changes in this support as there have been no massive attacks on Russia far away from the front lines for some time or maybe I missed something.
Another subject and this is indeed completely missed from the Western optics - the Ukrainian core ethno-nationalist are behaving like the Nazis did but without their cities in ashes - theses people are extremely dangerous and NKWD had massive problems with them for many years after the end of the WW2. Bottom line however is this: if the military police works and ammunition is there they will be fighting, just like there was a bitter fighting till 9. may 1945. To change that Russia would have to use measures that some claimed to be off the table. I do not see this to end otherwise. In fact I do not see the end of the war even if the US withdrew from the whole nonsense completely. The country would have to suffer massive losses in millions to shake them into giving up. Current losses reported by Russians are in the range of 300 a day. that is less than 10.000 a month. Nothing nice but nothing that forced conscription cannot fix.
" Current losses reported by Russians are in the range of 300 a day. that is less than 10.000 a month."
That is evidently false. Current losses reported by the Russians are in the range of 1300-1600 per day. That includes severely wounded and KIA on the frontline, but not losses by bombings, missiles, and UAV in the rear.
In addition, there are AWOL and desertion losses where 86k "crime" cases filed in 2024 alone, where something like half of total ends up with a prosecution, and defections still sharply rising. Conservatively, at least 10k/month could be added as losses from defection/AWOL.
"Nothing nice but nothing that forced conscription cannot fix." Lol
I'll say one thing about Ukr videos, they have much better cameras than the Ru stuff. That BMP looked like it tanked the first shot but eventually the later ones started doing bad things
Actually showing the drone footage to the world is probably not helping their recruitment efforts one little bit. The promise will be you get to be a drone pilot! Until you wash out of the training.
Right? Not keeping track but the last bit is flagrant sarcasm by simpicius' usual standard? Shooting toddlers point blank in the face is a thing in Gaza. So yeah WRONG!
A seat at the negotiations would be amazing; Yeah we know we lied about everything, we are just waiting for the media and their herd of sheep, to catch up a bit. Then we can talk seriously.
Yeah we know why you don't trust us, but jeez can't you help us save face? Just till we crash China. Yeah it's delusional, but it's the plan.
All we want is Greenland, Canada, the middle east, Mexico. Yeah ok you can have Ukraine, but we get to evacuate Azoff and their brethren. We got bigger fish for them to fry.
>only aspect of the war that they’re actually winning
The war is a catastrophic loss for Russia so far.
How would you have qualified WWII if Hitler got to keep everything he controlled in late 1941?
Because we are in that exact situation -- the modern day descendants of the Nazis, both biological and ideological, control the territory Hitler did at that time.
But unlike what Stalin did to take it back, Putin is sitting on his hands.
When you have the entire collective west paying your bills and your only "wins" come through the lens of a camera. You better have the best quality camera and how many Ukrainians will literally "kill" for the job of camera man instead of going up against the Russian machine
Russian video has obviously been downscaled and resized before it’s released to vloggers (who probably also downscale and resize video to make downloads quicker).
In the early days of the war, both Russian and Ukrainian video was better. I remember seeing video clips from surveillance drones that must have been using crisp 80x zoom lenses (or better). But the Russians especially realized they were disclosing too much about their optical capabilities. So the most videos have been downscaled to not only hide capabilities of the optics, but also for other intel reasons. The Russians don’t want close up images online of troops, weapons, or drone defenses.
I also notice in the last couple years that there is much less night vision video released, again to not give away actual capabilities of their sensors.
Lastly, all released video from both sides is edited for propaganda purposes. There’s a lot that can be learned from watching the video, but I would not put much trust in any of it being accurate for any particular battle or any particular day. Narratives are created in the editing room.
They are cool from a Mad Max / rustpunk style but I'm genuinely surprised the Russians haven't started building modular "dreadnought" style box transports - basically just treads, an engine, a door in the rear and one foot thick armored box on all sides with a foot thick plate of glass at the front.
Though on the other hand maybe just fielding 1000s of unmmaned ground drones would be even easier than that.
I'm sure someone will eventually. Remember the BMPs were designed for a chem/bio/nuclear environment and are supposed to afford some protection from that.
OTOH only the israelis have deployed heavy, tank chassis based, APCs en masse.
Logistics, cost etc tend to push against that.
360° defense, never mind top too, for an AFV is highly problematic; a foot of conventional steel armor plate can be defeated by a 60's vintage shaped charge weighing less than three kg.
This has been partly countered with various solutions but it is a big problem.
There is only one solution to the drone problem -- make it so that Ukraine can neither import them nor make them.
And that solution has been in Putin's hands since Day 1. But he prefers to have hundreds of thousands of his own people get slaughtered in the trenches by drone swarms than to solve the problem.
I do not think Russia has the capability to stop it really. There are production facilities in Ukraine esp. for drones but this is like everything else there - a huge area and if distributed well cannot be easily destroyed just slowed due to infrastructure damage. The heavy equipment and ammunition is probably a different thing as most of it is done outside of Ukraine outside of the Russian reach. The transport ways into the country are Danau and Border with Poland. So the logistics are far away or well dispersed.
This all may have been a smaller problem if not for Ukrainian elites - they live undistracted. From their perspective this war can last forever.
1) Decapitation strikes on political and military leadership and on the economic oligarchy. Including outside Ukraine, if needed. All sorts of places -- tropical islands, yachts in the ocean, etc., are not under the official NATO umbrella. They will of course go into hiding after the first ones are taken out, but Russia has the tools to destroy their bunkers too.
2) Tactical nukes at border crossings in order to make them impassable, and also send a message to NATO to back off. No more weaponry or components for local drone and arms production going in after that. Ukraine does not make any computer chips, as the most relevant, but far from only example.
3) Finally truly shut down the grid so that any manufacturing is impossible.
4) Shut down logistics by destroying the locomotives and substations.
5) If NATO insists on intervening once the above is done, shoot a couple of the rabid dogs down so that the rest back off. In other words, strategic nuclear strikes to erase a couple countries off the map. We can have a debate about who deserves it most. If they still don't stand down after that, then a total exchange was always inevitable, so nothing will have been lost.
So, please tell us that you are a troll and not truly this unhinged from reality.
If you truly believe the logrolling nonsense you spam us with here, I hope that your mom makes you wear a football helmet at all times so that you don't sustain further brain damage.
Those modded tanks are not something cool, they are the epitome of Russian strategic defeat.
But it takes trained eyes and mind to see through the smoke.
The military with the most firepower on the planet has been reduced to having to resort to makeshift "solutions" like this instead of using that firepower to solve the problem at its source. The source of the drones in this case.
It cannot do that, though, because the political elite has forbidden the military from using the really serious tools at its disposal and has effectively placed a veto on any real defense of the country.
And the internal situation is so captured by that political elite that nobody really even thinks to seriously protest.
Suborning enemy drones cheaply after bringing them down via EW (electronic warfare) would be a nice sci-fi direction for drone warfare to go. One can imagine extremely sweeping reverses on the battlefield where drones are suborned, used to push EW into a new area, and the drones in that area captured and suborned further.
I can imagine the engineers trying to churn out general-purpose command-and-control chips that work with most observed models right now.
Unfortunately actually picking the drones up after EWing them down likely requires control of the area, and possibly their damage rate after falling is too high to usefully reuse them other than stripping them for parts. Still, so much of the sci-fi author's future war dreams are happening in this war as we speak.
There is still a lot of Ukraine left to fall. Now, with the addition of Odessa to Putin's list, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Russia take all of Ukraine. They have to at this point. President Trump isn't the only counter party expecting to fully recover all the costs in "aid" to Ukraine.
That is correct indeed -- the whole of Ukraine must be taken.
But that is now impossible to do without using nukes.
Which in turn means that nukes must be used. Not against Ukrainian cities, of course, but in order to physically isolate the territory, so that the weapon flows are cut off. And, depending on what is actually technically possible in that domain, which none of us really knows, some EMP attacks in order to paralyze it and fry a lot of the AFU's equipment.
But with these scumbags in the Kremlin holding the country hostage, good luck with that.
We have been listening how the AFU is about to collapse any moment since April 2022. It is April 2025 now and it still takes weeks to take a single village with pre-war population of 500, and many such villages have turned to be impossible to take for much longer than that, the AFU is still resisting as fiercely as ever, and does not appear to be short of anything.
The Russian president made his proposal almost a year ago it is only wishful thinking the conditions he layed out still stands. The goals and demands have been probably moved but just not yet announced. It's good the Western MSM though maintaining some delusional fantasies are accepting some delayed reality. The comparison must be made of where western hypocrisy is more blatant, in the western press or the western political class. Or maybe there is no comparison as the western MSM is but the expression of western hypocrisy.
Western MSM are stenographers, no more than hand puppets, there is no "agency" as independent actors. Reading or watching their product is vomit inducing.
Which is why I am grateful for people like Simplicius and Alexander for doing that unpleasant work on my behalf. I likewise find the Western MSM to unpalatable and nauseating to consume other than in three seconds doses.
>The Russian president made his proposal almost a year ago it is only wishful thinking the conditions he layed out still stands.
That wasn't a proposal, that was begging to be allowed to surrender.
Given that nothing has changed in the rules of engagement since then, why would the conditions have changed in Russia's favor?
Actually I take that back -- things did change in the rules of engagement, as NATO gave itself permission to strike with heavy missiles and drones deep into Russia, and started doing it. And Putin didn't respond in kind.
Which only reinforces the point about him having surrendered already in practice.
Let me understand your logic, Russia demanding that the Ukrainian army be withdrawnn from the remainder of the four oblast is Russia begging to surrender? How did you come to that conclusion?
Did you ever look at a map of Russia in your life? Please look at that map and illustrate where NATO is striking deep inside Russia with missiles? Russia's industrial heartland in the Urals, have never been mentioned in the narrative news. So where are those deep strikes with missiles? You really believe the drones with their tiny payloads do any damage other than pinprick nuisances to Russia?
>Russia demanding that the Ukrainian army be withdrawnn from the remainder of the four oblast is Russia begging to surrender
That is correct.
Because "Ukraine" (in reality NATO) right now occupies a lot more Russian territory than those four oblasts.
Look at the map of WWII circa this time in 1942. Where was the frontline?
Would the war have been a win or a loss for the USSR if the war had ended there?
The events of 1989-1991 returned Russia back to where it was in the 17th century. Which was "tolerable" as long as its mortal enemies didn't move in to encircle it, but once they did do that, it became existential to push them back.
The four oblasts proposal cements that defeat.
Everything east of Zhytomyr, including Moldova and the Baltics, has to become Russian again, the remaining five Galician regions have to be at the very least under Russian occupation and demilitarized, preferably de-Ukrainizied too and then annexed, and there should be no US/British/French military presence east of the Copenhagen-Trieste line.
>Please look at that map and illustrate where NATO is striking deep inside Russia with missiles
If you have not followed events closely, I cannot help you. Missiles strikes have gone much deeper than Bryansk-Kursk-Belgorod, i.e. the immediate adjacent to Ukraine regions, and if you didn't get your news from The Duran and Martyanov, but from primary sources, you would know that.
And heavy drones have reached the Urals, and will soon reach as far as Novosibirsk too.
Well we are talking about the Russian federation not the Russian Empire or the USSR they are different entities in a different time. So if creating a hodgepodge understanding narrative of history to prove your point floats your boat then you are entitled to your opinion. Well I follow many different news sources and have read and listened to the opinions and assessments of expert and have never heard your claim of deep NATO missile strikes into Russia. So those missile strikes were done with Tomahawk cruise missiles or Trident D5s launched from Ohio class Submarines? Or minute man threes launched from US silos? As they are the missiles in NATO arsenals with the ranges you are claiming.
First, we had multiple drones attacking and some dropping FAB-250 bombs on the fiber optic cable manufacturing plant in Saransk the other day. On video. Read that again. Drone, FAB-250. In Saransk. Google it if you don't know where that is.
Does it even matter that it is not a "cruise missile" but a "drone"? We are way past the stage of the fire crackers from two years ago that could be ignored because they did "minimal damage"
Second, the actual range of both Storm Shadow and ATACMS is enough to reach Moscow.
Then we have the "Ukrainian" Neptune cruise missiles, which are just a laundering of Western-designed and produced missiles that have not been officially disclosed.
And JASSM/JASSM-ERs (or equivalents) were fired too, unofficially, including with tactical nukes and from directions other than Ukraine. Russia has eaten about half a dozen tactical nukes already.
Now imagine if the Russian people learned that truth and realized that their "leadership" has refused to defend the country even after that happened? We are in that situation...
Ok my friend you were the one that said NATO was firing missiles into Russia. Well you keep believing what you say not my place to debate you but I can just not believe you. Sorry if I cannot just believe your conjecture. I am one of those critics who require evidence and not just narratives ..... Russia drops Fabs and you need aircraft to get into range to launch jasms, Jdams and whatever. Not because "you" have the range to hit Moscow doesn't mean you did other than small payload drones. Also Moscow is not deep inside Russia compared to many other places, it's just the Russian capital. Well I wish "you"luck hope "you"don't get Fabbed by a Russian Su 34 or roasted by Toss1 thermobaric I do hate human suffering..
It's a laugh that the Ukies refer to the Russian forces as faggots, considering the testimonies and videos documenting Ukie filth engaging in homosexual acts.
I've come to realize - probably late, but still - that whatever westerners accuse other people of is the very thing they are themselves guilty of. Especially liberals, globalists, and Zionists, but it's true of MAGAers and every other westerner too.
It's so much not how life works in Russia and East Asia.
There was a hilarious video that came out recently of a captured Australian merc being interviewed by his captors. He described being punched in the face and called a "pidor" by a Ukrainian officer. A few questions later, and he admitted to "having sex with men but preferring women". The jokes write themselves.
Not sure where you're picking that up from. The nationalists like Right Sektor and Azov never say anything negative about LGBTQ+, and have shown up or been involving gay pride events in the past (like the recent Pride Parade in Kharkiv). The President of the country is clearly homosexual (as is his wife), and is probably involved in some sexual relationship with France's closeted homosexual President.
No irony in having a Ukrainian and rainbow flag as shirt pins or X profile decorations - add an Israeli Star-of-David flag to the mix, and you have the well-known "trifecta of stupid" that can't be recovered from.
Ironic, but not in the least surprising. This person would also have been a great public enthusiast for Net Zero, BLM and the Covid lockdowns and ‘vaccines’.
Nothing sadder than degenerate Ukrainians LARPing as NAZIs while being led to slaughter by Jews. Well, maybe American rednecks dying for Jews (that have declared war on White America) for the 10th time is comparable.
These Jew kiss asses azov are giving the ‘Nazis’ a bad name as the NS and Hitler youth burned the books of that Jew tranny sexologist magnus hirschfeld.
Old communist tactic "Accuse your enemy of the actions you yourself have committed!" Although I would like to note that the true meaning of communist is recognized by every slightly enlightened person !
German soldiers have always had a high degree of gayness among them since Frederik the Great who was a flaming gay guy and whose 'ideal soldier' was a 'super-homosexual'. The Nazis - and this includes those slavic Nazi-fanboys in Ukraine - are consequentially even more gay (see Hugo Boss designing their uniforms).
"Faggots?" I thought Simplicius was talking about US "boots on the ground" for a moment.
Same thing about the 90,000 US troops reduction. Got a little confused there. But just for a moment. I thought the US defense department representative was talking about the 90,000 US boots on the ground in Ukraine and their reduction. The KIA kind of reduction.
So much Fog of War crap. Didn't President Trump just send (reposition) 35,000 US troops to some Eastern European Russian border town?
If (when) there is (yet) another invasion of Russia by the West, I expect it to come out of one of the Baltic States. It's the shortest distance between two fronts. From Latvia, Moscow is "only" 500-miles. That's only the distance between Washington, DC and Charleston, SC (in US Civil War miles). None of this glorious (boasts of "troops in Moscow by summer") conquest crap. Just the straightest, shortest, distance between two points.
Just speculating. It just seems like there is some obsession with Moscow, even though the Russians themselves view Moscow as expendable. Washington, DC has already been expended, politically anyway.
Good rundown, but the Middle East is where the action is. Another THAAD and 2 more Patriot batteries to Israel, another couple of MQ-9s down in Yemen. Expanding destruction in Syria and the gas chambers and ovens in Gaza have been belching the ashes of ever more women, children and rescue workers. Tons(literally) of transport and recon activity and a second carrier just passed through the Strait of Malacca. It's hard to doubt that the big one is coming with Iran. No predictions since my thoughts regarding the efficacy of Hezbollah were wildly off (they lost). I would yawn and think it couldn't possibly happen if it were not for the wall-to-wall Zionist lunatics in the Trump administration. Apparently his military advisors are every bit as astute as his economic ones. But we did manage to wipe out a couple of hundred sinister participants in a Yemeni village council meeting and thereby save the USS Harry Truman. Nice work guys! (add American flag and arm muscle emoji here) I honestly thought it was impossible to be worse than Biden/Harris. Oh well, live and learn.
A lot of us have been wrong on the ME front - unfortunately. It seems no one has the balls to stand up to israel as they do what they want wherever they want without regard to international or moral standards. The holocaust was projection - Gazza is reality.
This is something I often think of regarding both Dimona and Iranian nukes. Israel/Palestine has approximately 7 million Jews and 7 million PALESTINIANS. How do you propose to destroy Israel with nukes without killing the people you are purporting to save?
Iranian nukes are like North Korean nukes; they’re a defense against US +and/or proxy invasion, not a threat to anyone. If the Israelis are going to genocide the Palestinians if you don’t nuke Israel, what difference does it make if you nuke Israel and kill Palestinians too?
They - Hezbollah-have the balls to stand up to Israel, but the price is too high. The Zionist strategy is to take out their failures on civilians. They know where the families of Hezbollah live in South Beirut, and can slaughter them at will. And that is precisely what they do, from the air with no real casualties.
Should the Lebanese sacrifice their families for this cause?
Yah, Bernie tried to stop the arming of Netanyahu, and got 15 votes. We are ruled by Racist and Genocidal Caucasian imperialists including Trump. And Tariffs are a TAX on US corporations and consumers doing business abroad.
Meh, the Middle East is always fighting about something; Eastern Europe not so much, which is what makes it more interesting.
You have to understand that for the mohammedan countries in the Middle East, the Palestinians have always been a political football to be used against (a) Israel, and (b) the West. In the case of the former, at the very minimum, they are good for bad publicity about Israel. Even better would be kinetic activity that causes Israel to spend military resources. In the case of the latter, Palestinians are a great way for the taxpayers in the West to waste their money enriching Middle Eastern governments who promise and never deliver, or local warlords with Swiss bank accounts. Note: I am not discounting the fact that US taxpayers have been wasting their hard-earned dollars on Israel for the last seven and a half decades.
Did you ever wonder why no mohammedan government ever volunteered to take the Palestinians into their country? It's because they are too valuable where they are.
Why would any country, Muslim or otherwise, want to participate in the ethnic cleansing of another country, and then want to import the survivors of the pogrom? Are they going to displace their own people in order to accommodate those that they've helped remove from their native land?
Neighboring Arab countries have taken in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Palestinians since the 1940s. You have to understand how expensive it is for governments to take in entire populations. Imagine the resources needed to integrate an entire population into the workforce. It would be some time before there is a net-gain in tax revenue.
And you make no sense with your football analogy. You have absolutely no understanding of political reality if you think the governments of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt are not currently pandering to their Jewish overlords? What rhetoric have you heard from these Arab countries that tells you they are using Palestine as a political tool?
Your usage of the phrase “mohammedan countries” tells me everything. You are not as smart as you think you are.
Hey we still have a border under control and the administrative state is being trimmed of partisan NGOs with make work jobs.
Cant have everything. It's always been lessor of two evils anyway will be because the oligarchs only allow you to certify their candidates at the ballot box who don't represent the 99%.. Trump gets conservative jewish billions Kamala lefty Jewish billions so Israel will always be first.
Middle East is being written off the news to carry on the genocide behind the scenes. It is excruciatingly depressing to say the least. I know the war with Iran will bring so much more destruction, but somehow hope that might be the only possibility to see the end of Israel. I just hope Iran doesn't act as legalistically as Putin...doesn't matter if attacks come from Diego García, they better blow up US bases in the region, including Israel. Otherwise this war will only hurt Iran.
Given that it is ulikely of any GCC countries to allow their territory be used to attack Iran, US and Israel would not be able to sustain a similar tempo as in Lebanon, Syria, or Gaza. Plus, Iran can shoot back. Thus, I want to see it first and estimate it rather than making pronouncements.
Considering that the gulfie tyrannies acquiesced to allowing Israel i aircraft to overfly their countries in their attack on Iran, I doubt anyone will give them a choice.
Red maybe yesterday that Iran threatened action against gulfies if they do that and that gulfies told US that they can allow the US only self defense actions on their territories.
Exactly. I don't remember seeing any of their underground missile facilities getting taken out. Also don't underestimate Erdogan pushing back in Syria. Israel taking out their air force base recently didn't go down well in Ankara.
Hi abc. Yeah, I don't see how losing half your tanks, accumulating the Israeli world records for dead, wounded and the psychologically wrecked .......... as well as being pushed out of south LEbanon by pissed off civilians after you move in and try to sean land gained after a ceasefire takes effect equates to victory. The latest news from yesterday in Israel is they have 50% of their reservists refusing to show up ....... for another round and IDF forces not deploying to areas in Gaza where resistance groups are know to be. Supposedly Islamic Jihad there just blew up a bunch of them when the IDF would not come out to play. So they went and got them where the IDF was positioned. It is very clear who is losing here.
And Egypt. An attack on Iran could precipitate a massive push on multiple fronts that could finish Israel in a weekend. I don't see how they could survive.
How did they not lose when they got decapitated then Israel continued to bomb Lebanon every day whenever they wished while Hezbollah stopped firing back?
They had a window of opportunity when it looked like they had depleted the Iron Dome a bit and could have struck with heavy missiles at the air bases and thus disabled much of the Israeli Air Force. They didn't use it, then it looks like they might have lost the ability to carry out such strikes.
Hez leadership was hit hard but it was overall fine because they are structured to withstand those type of things. Airstrikes and propaganda did not prevent the Israeli army from being slaughtered when trying to enter Lebanon. I served in the USMC and we were trained like that back in the day, to take serious losses and just keep on fighting. Hence, Hez adjusted without skipping a beat and the IDF did not capture a single town, even with 5 divisions trying for a couple of months. Outside of some airstrikes and pager attacks, their casualties were relatively light in comparison to what the Israelis suffered on the actual FEBA.
Presently Hez is already getting fed up with Zion Inc and is seriously considering going back at it with them. They are just very different than the european zionists like Benji and his crew, who have been brought in to live in Palestine. The key to understanding them is not to look at them through a western viewpoint. Now Israel proper is once again under rocket attack from Hamas and PIJ . If israel does not knock it off, it will begin rolling again and they could get it even worse this time. The Resistance has planned this out to last over a long time, with what would be considered incredible losses with the simple goal of peace on their land or Israel be gone.
I have no idea why the "resistance" (whichever faction) doesn't use FPV and grenadier drones on israel. No one in Turkey can smuggle drones to lebanon? No one in IRan can smuggle drones to jordan? It would just take a few FPV drones to mess up israel diaper warriors spread around syria and lebanon real badly. Hezbollah bombed a platoon of israelis in a canteen to smiteereens, killed a lot and maimed a lot. That was just one little droen that did that. Imagine hundreds. I know range is a limiter but still, most of the resistance factions are well within range, stop launching bottle rockets and start launching kill drones on tel aviv.
Drone pieces are the easy part. Drone operators need to be trained. In the occupied areas the radio frequency can be quickly picked up by the IDF and training aborted.
Hope they figure it out, so SICK of them getting away with all this mass murder. When Hezbollah drone bombed that canteen I literally went "YES! FINALLY!"
Remember that Israel has no strategic depth. Key military bases are within very short distance from Palestinian-held territories, e.g. Nevatim is within 15 km of the West Bank and 50 km of Gaza.
Russians are flying optic fibre drones at 30 km now, Ukrainians have used repeaters to get even beyond that.
When Hamas burst out of Gaza, they did in fact reach within FPV drone range from those bases. It was vital at that moment to destroy as much of the planes on the ground as possible.
And Hezbollah has much more serious means to do it, as they have heavy missiles that can destroy the hardened aircraft shelters.
The IDF was shown to be largely impotent in ground warfare. Almost all of the damage is done by the airforce, of which the "resistance" has none. Thus it was absolutely vital to attack the IAF.
But nobody ever fired a single shot at those bases.
It is bizarre. Maybe muslims are just not good at war? Or they don't watch telegram channels of drone kill footage? Totally agree on hurling every goddamn drone on earth at IDF airbases, one piece of shrapnel through the F35 and it's bricked.
A systematic strategy of isolating the weakest component, neutralizing it, then moving on to the next one, and so on.
Such a strategy is countered by the strongest components intervening to stop the chain reaction while it is not too late, but they have had "other priorities" so far, and it has been working fantastically well for the aggressor as a result.
First Gaza was destroyed while Hezbollah and Iran didn't really do much to stop it, and Assad sat it out altogether.
Then Hezbollah was neutralized. Iran did nothing.
Shortly after that Syria was destroyed. All the while Iran and Russia stood and did nothing. And China, of course.
Now the Houthis are being hit hard while Iran just issues sternly worded statements as usual.
Coming soon:
1) Russia will stand by and do nothing while Iran is destroyed
2) Later China will stand by and do nothing while Russia is neutralized
The utmost shamelessness of the supremacist and sadistic Judaic education is on display in Gaza and on websites of the major jewish organizations - such as the Jewish federations of North America (uniting some 400 jewish organizations), synagogues, and holohoax museums. There is no real push from Jews to stop the atrocities in Gaza but only pious proclamations of “standing with Israel” and the unstoppable begging and demanding for more money.
It’s stunning how indistinguishable banderites and Zionists are. Both groups show certain mental defects due to their supremacist and hate-filled indoctrination.
I recently had a discussion with my neighbor about Ukraine. He pulled the old John McCain line out of his ass, you know, "Russia is a gas station with nukes", that was ridiculous when it was first blathered and absolutely stupid now. How indocrinated are you to utter that tripe now? Thank you for your substack, the MSM and their unreadable deluge of pro Khazar hype have to go away.
Ah, and then ask him "name the world's largest food exporters, in order" and then "on which country do fifty percent of the world's countries depend to avoid food insecurity?"
Boomer? My dad is like that. If it;s on Fox news it's reality and he was in Vietnam with all them lies. He should know better. I've never trusted authority or news even as a teen. Need to research subject heavily before I form opinion. Guess some of us are wired different.
Makes sense I suppose...Germans were kinda kin folk since so many Americans w/ German ancestry. A lot of people don't know this anymore but in the 30s Hitlers speech's were translated and ran on radio throughout USA. He attracted a large following for his ideas out of the great depression.
Hitler's speeches were NOT widely played on US radio. While there was some coverage of Nazi Germany in US newsreels, newspapers, and international broadcasts, Hitler speeches were rarely, if ever, aired on US radio, even in part.
>Russia is a gas station with nukes", that was ridiculous when it was first blathered and absolutely stupid now
It is stupid indeed.
Right now Russia is effectively a gas station WITHOUT nukes.
Because the threshold for vaporizing every single US and European asset in the whole of Eurasia was passed a long time ago, yet the drones and missiles keep destroying stuff deep inside Russia while absolutely nothing flies back.
Thus Russia is currently no different from Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The west doesn't have weapons that can match Oreshnik, hypersonics or the submarine based wonder weapons of radioactive tsunami fame. Putin is the reason we haven't been subjected to their effects. (I sincerely hope there are others who want to avoid WWIII.)
Who cares what you have if you are not going to fire it and the enemy knows that?
Right now Russian people are being killed in large numbers, and not just soldiers, but civilians too, and no longer just in what is formally Ukraine, but in Russia itself, very deep inside Russia even, and none of the following:
1) Elimination of the people responsible for it
2) Physical blockade of the weapon flows
Is happening.
But those are the only ways to stop it, and Putin has the military-technical tools to achieve both of those things within hours of issuing the order.
That order is not being issued though. What can we conclude from that fact? Some combination of the following has to be true:
1) Putin is completely incompetent and/or a coward, and totally not fit for office.
2) Putin is following an agenda different from ensuring the security of his country, whether due to his own internal reasons/convictions or because he is in the hands of other forces acting behind the scenes.
Russian civilians are not being killed in large numbers - but they sure as hell are being jailed in record numbers - for outrageous activities, like holding up blank pieces of paper, and for 'liking' social media posts.
putina's Russia holds as many political prisoners as the USSR did at the height of the Cold War.
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I love the smell of victory in the morning.
Almost as good as the aroma of roasted and toasted mercs from the 'west'.
lol
Tara, spit, don't swallow if it makes you ill.
It seems that some 50 countries have already queued up to renegotiate their tariff arrangements with the US. It should be interesting how this turns out.
I am amused that Trump talks about all the other countries taking advantage of them after all of the pillagings the US has done to prop up their USD and retain hegemon status. It's an Israeli tactic. Act like you're the victim while being the aggressor.
always accuse your adversary of what you've been doing. almost always works, just look at children playing ("playing") in the sandpit.
Typical Jew cry bully behavior. See Alec green on this board.
The Russians could be at the gates of Kyiv and the Ukrainians would still be insisting that Russia must withdraw from Crimea before peace talks can begin.
Judeo-Nazified Ukraine behaves in a predictable manner. - The junta is impossible to reason with.
Banderites are upset that the jewish fascist state is a first priority for the US.
"I read that 50,000 AFU forces have surrendered recently. "
Where have you heard this? I have seen no evidence of large numbers of captured, so if you have any, please provide.
I am backtracking and looking for confirmation. I should have kept it where I read it. It needs to be identified and confirmed by other sources. I'll get back to you.
Well, I had to delete my comment because I don't see confirmation of what I read. I searched back for the initial comment to no avail. I'm not wasting any more time searching. Without evidence, it never happened. Lesson learned.
No worries.
So much for the big Russian advance that I thought was unfolding. lol
To be fair, there's been a lot of wishful thinking throughout this war.
On all sides.
EDIT: Also, you admitted that you didn't have the evidence you thought you did, and deleted your comment in response. Most humans would just double down.
I admit that sometimes I cannot be bothered to chase down evidence, or that I don't always recall where I read a particular claim and have it at the tip of my paws, ready to be provided at a moment's notice.
It is false, of course.
Also, nobody in the Western commentariat will ever touch the subject of what the fact that the AFU is fighting so viciously really means.
This is the biggest Russian defeat in this whole shit show, and it is going against some really serious competition.
To make it so that ethnically Russian people fight to the death in their hundreds of thousands and millions so that the US can situate its missiles at point blank range against their motherland, and to continue to do so for years while the territory itself becomes a colony of the West, takes some incredible skill to pull off.
And the West did pull it off.
Meanwhile the Kremlin did what for 30 years?
Hoped that if it bribes the Ukrainian oligarchs sufficiently, the problem will somehow go away on its own and there will be no need to stir any trouble with the existing neocolonial arrangement in which Russia itself was already (i.e. we, the Russian elites, pump gas and oil to Europe for pennies on the dollar and get filthy rich in the process at the expense of the Russian state and people).
But again, nobody will touch that question. Because it would require asking some tough questions of the Kremlin, and that will hurt revenue for the "alternative media", which caters to an audience that sees in Putin its savior knight on a white horse.
As for Ukrainians - there are many reason why they fight on. The fact is that the war is not lost at all - the progress is small and they do not see much of the destruction in the rear. Take Serbia 1999 the whole country was immediately affected and gave up fast. Ukraine is huge and the support is massive. We all knew that it was massive but this recent NYT article beats even my expectations.
If this support stopped the war would be on another level. There have been some changes in this support as there have been no massive attacks on Russia far away from the front lines for some time or maybe I missed something.
Another subject and this is indeed completely missed from the Western optics - the Ukrainian core ethno-nationalist are behaving like the Nazis did but without their cities in ashes - theses people are extremely dangerous and NKWD had massive problems with them for many years after the end of the WW2. Bottom line however is this: if the military police works and ammunition is there they will be fighting, just like there was a bitter fighting till 9. may 1945. To change that Russia would have to use measures that some claimed to be off the table. I do not see this to end otherwise. In fact I do not see the end of the war even if the US withdrew from the whole nonsense completely. The country would have to suffer massive losses in millions to shake them into giving up. Current losses reported by Russians are in the range of 300 a day. that is less than 10.000 a month. Nothing nice but nothing that forced conscription cannot fix.
" Current losses reported by Russians are in the range of 300 a day. that is less than 10.000 a month."
That is evidently false. Current losses reported by the Russians are in the range of 1300-1600 per day. That includes severely wounded and KIA on the frontline, but not losses by bombings, missiles, and UAV in the rear.
In addition, there are AWOL and desertion losses where 86k "crime" cases filed in 2024 alone, where something like half of total ends up with a prosecution, and defections still sharply rising. Conservatively, at least 10k/month could be added as losses from defection/AWOL.
"Nothing nice but nothing that forced conscription cannot fix." Lol
I can tell you get your war news from American and British MSM.
I'll say one thing about Ukr videos, they have much better cameras than the Ru stuff. That BMP looked like it tanked the first shot but eventually the later ones started doing bad things
They’re Hollywood actors and movie producers. Of course they have better cameras
It’s also the only aspect of the war that they’re actually winning if it can be even called that
Actually showing the drone footage to the world is probably not helping their recruitment efforts one little bit. The promise will be you get to be a drone pilot! Until you wash out of the training.
Right? Not keeping track but the last bit is flagrant sarcasm by simpicius' usual standard? Shooting toddlers point blank in the face is a thing in Gaza. So yeah WRONG!
A seat at the negotiations would be amazing; Yeah we know we lied about everything, we are just waiting for the media and their herd of sheep, to catch up a bit. Then we can talk seriously.
Yeah we know why you don't trust us, but jeez can't you help us save face? Just till we crash China. Yeah it's delusional, but it's the plan.
All we want is Greenland, Canada, the middle east, Mexico. Yeah ok you can have Ukraine, but we get to evacuate Azoff and their brethren. We got bigger fish for them to fry.
>only aspect of the war that they’re actually winning
The war is a catastrophic loss for Russia so far.
How would you have qualified WWII if Hitler got to keep everything he controlled in late 1941?
Because we are in that exact situation -- the modern day descendants of the Nazis, both biological and ideological, control the territory Hitler did at that time.
But unlike what Stalin did to take it back, Putin is sitting on his hands.
Oh, this again?
Sorry you can't afford your meds. Maybe apply for medicaid?
Sweet Jesus, are you on horse strength copium?
Wonderful insight.
When you have the entire collective west paying your bills and your only "wins" come through the lens of a camera. You better have the best quality camera and how many Ukrainians will literally "kill" for the job of camera man instead of going up against the Russian machine
Russian video has obviously been downscaled and resized before it’s released to vloggers (who probably also downscale and resize video to make downloads quicker).
In the early days of the war, both Russian and Ukrainian video was better. I remember seeing video clips from surveillance drones that must have been using crisp 80x zoom lenses (or better). But the Russians especially realized they were disclosing too much about their optical capabilities. So the most videos have been downscaled to not only hide capabilities of the optics, but also for other intel reasons. The Russians don’t want close up images online of troops, weapons, or drone defenses.
I also notice in the last couple years that there is much less night vision video released, again to not give away actual capabilities of their sensors.
Lastly, all released video from both sides is edited for propaganda purposes. There’s a lot that can be learned from watching the video, but I would not put much trust in any of it being accurate for any particular battle or any particular day. Narratives are created in the editing room.
Those modded tanks are awesome.
A welder’s paradise…
I wonder how many troops you can stack before the tank becomes top heavy?
Can't have too much infantry protection!
Let's see.
40 tonne tank.
Each soldier in combat kit about 100 kg, so you'd need 400 soldiers to merely equal the weight of the tank...
Let's just say that the number of soldiers they would risk on top of a tank is significantly less than it could actually carry...
They are cool from a Mad Max / rustpunk style but I'm genuinely surprised the Russians haven't started building modular "dreadnought" style box transports - basically just treads, an engine, a door in the rear and one foot thick armored box on all sides with a foot thick plate of glass at the front.
Though on the other hand maybe just fielding 1000s of unmmaned ground drones would be even easier than that.
I'm sure someone will eventually. Remember the BMPs were designed for a chem/bio/nuclear environment and are supposed to afford some protection from that.
OTOH only the israelis have deployed heavy, tank chassis based, APCs en masse.
Logistics, cost etc tend to push against that.
360° defense, never mind top too, for an AFV is highly problematic; a foot of conventional steel armor plate can be defeated by a 60's vintage shaped charge weighing less than three kg.
This has been partly countered with various solutions but it is a big problem.
There is only one solution to the drone problem -- make it so that Ukraine can neither import them nor make them.
And that solution has been in Putin's hands since Day 1. But he prefers to have hundreds of thousands of his own people get slaughtered in the trenches by drone swarms than to solve the problem.
I do not think Russia has the capability to stop it really. There are production facilities in Ukraine esp. for drones but this is like everything else there - a huge area and if distributed well cannot be easily destroyed just slowed due to infrastructure damage. The heavy equipment and ammunition is probably a different thing as most of it is done outside of Ukraine outside of the Russian reach. The transport ways into the country are Danau and Border with Poland. So the logistics are far away or well dispersed.
This all may have been a smaller problem if not for Ukrainian elites - they live undistracted. From their perspective this war can last forever.
Of course it has the capability to stop it.
Here is how you do it:
1) Decapitation strikes on political and military leadership and on the economic oligarchy. Including outside Ukraine, if needed. All sorts of places -- tropical islands, yachts in the ocean, etc., are not under the official NATO umbrella. They will of course go into hiding after the first ones are taken out, but Russia has the tools to destroy their bunkers too.
2) Tactical nukes at border crossings in order to make them impassable, and also send a message to NATO to back off. No more weaponry or components for local drone and arms production going in after that. Ukraine does not make any computer chips, as the most relevant, but far from only example.
3) Finally truly shut down the grid so that any manufacturing is impossible.
4) Shut down logistics by destroying the locomotives and substations.
5) If NATO insists on intervening once the above is done, shoot a couple of the rabid dogs down so that the rest back off. In other words, strategic nuclear strikes to erase a couple countries off the map. We can have a debate about who deserves it most. If they still don't stand down after that, then a total exchange was always inevitable, so nothing will have been lost.
So, please tell us that you are a troll and not truly this unhinged from reality.
If you truly believe the logrolling nonsense you spam us with here, I hope that your mom makes you wear a football helmet at all times so that you don't sustain further brain damage.
Those modded tanks are not something cool, they are the epitome of Russian strategic defeat.
But it takes trained eyes and mind to see through the smoke.
The military with the most firepower on the planet has been reduced to having to resort to makeshift "solutions" like this instead of using that firepower to solve the problem at its source. The source of the drones in this case.
It cannot do that, though, because the political elite has forbidden the military from using the really serious tools at its disposal and has effectively placed a veto on any real defense of the country.
And the internal situation is so captured by that political elite that nobody really even thinks to seriously protest.
Dude, get a grip.
Suborning enemy drones cheaply after bringing them down via EW (electronic warfare) would be a nice sci-fi direction for drone warfare to go. One can imagine extremely sweeping reverses on the battlefield where drones are suborned, used to push EW into a new area, and the drones in that area captured and suborned further.
I can imagine the engineers trying to churn out general-purpose command-and-control chips that work with most observed models right now.
Unfortunately actually picking the drones up after EWing them down likely requires control of the area, and possibly their damage rate after falling is too high to usefully reuse them other than stripping them for parts. Still, so much of the sci-fi author's future war dreams are happening in this war as we speak.
Each drone is a UXO. You learn in theater not to touch that shit. Fingers, hands, limbs are lost that way.
EOD types are their own special form of crazy and they have the tools, such as they are, to do that job.
The inevitable is starting to pick up speed....
There is still a lot of Ukraine left to fall. Now, with the addition of Odessa to Putin's list, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Russia take all of Ukraine. They have to at this point. President Trump isn't the only counter party expecting to fully recover all the costs in "aid" to Ukraine.
That is correct indeed -- the whole of Ukraine must be taken.
But that is now impossible to do without using nukes.
Which in turn means that nukes must be used. Not against Ukrainian cities, of course, but in order to physically isolate the territory, so that the weapon flows are cut off. And, depending on what is actually technically possible in that domain, which none of us really knows, some EMP attacks in order to paralyze it and fry a lot of the AFU's equipment.
But with these scumbags in the Kremlin holding the country hostage, good luck with that.
We have been listening how the AFU is about to collapse any moment since April 2022. It is April 2025 now and it still takes weeks to take a single village with pre-war population of 500, and many such villages have turned to be impossible to take for much longer than that, the AFU is still resisting as fiercely as ever, and does not appear to be short of anything.
The Russian president made his proposal almost a year ago it is only wishful thinking the conditions he layed out still stands. The goals and demands have been probably moved but just not yet announced. It's good the Western MSM though maintaining some delusional fantasies are accepting some delayed reality. The comparison must be made of where western hypocrisy is more blatant, in the western press or the western political class. Or maybe there is no comparison as the western MSM is but the expression of western hypocrisy.
Western MSM are stenographers, no more than hand puppets, there is no "agency" as independent actors. Reading or watching their product is vomit inducing.
Which is why I am grateful for people like Simplicius and Alexander for doing that unpleasant work on my behalf. I likewise find the Western MSM to unpalatable and nauseating to consume other than in three seconds doses.
>The Russian president made his proposal almost a year ago it is only wishful thinking the conditions he layed out still stands.
That wasn't a proposal, that was begging to be allowed to surrender.
Given that nothing has changed in the rules of engagement since then, why would the conditions have changed in Russia's favor?
Actually I take that back -- things did change in the rules of engagement, as NATO gave itself permission to strike with heavy missiles and drones deep into Russia, and started doing it. And Putin didn't respond in kind.
Which only reinforces the point about him having surrendered already in practice.
Let me understand your logic, Russia demanding that the Ukrainian army be withdrawnn from the remainder of the four oblast is Russia begging to surrender? How did you come to that conclusion?
Did you ever look at a map of Russia in your life? Please look at that map and illustrate where NATO is striking deep inside Russia with missiles? Russia's industrial heartland in the Urals, have never been mentioned in the narrative news. So where are those deep strikes with missiles? You really believe the drones with their tiny payloads do any damage other than pinprick nuisances to Russia?
>Russia demanding that the Ukrainian army be withdrawnn from the remainder of the four oblast is Russia begging to surrender
That is correct.
Because "Ukraine" (in reality NATO) right now occupies a lot more Russian territory than those four oblasts.
Look at the map of WWII circa this time in 1942. Where was the frontline?
Would the war have been a win or a loss for the USSR if the war had ended there?
The events of 1989-1991 returned Russia back to where it was in the 17th century. Which was "tolerable" as long as its mortal enemies didn't move in to encircle it, but once they did do that, it became existential to push them back.
The four oblasts proposal cements that defeat.
Everything east of Zhytomyr, including Moldova and the Baltics, has to become Russian again, the remaining five Galician regions have to be at the very least under Russian occupation and demilitarized, preferably de-Ukrainizied too and then annexed, and there should be no US/British/French military presence east of the Copenhagen-Trieste line.
>Please look at that map and illustrate where NATO is striking deep inside Russia with missiles
If you have not followed events closely, I cannot help you. Missiles strikes have gone much deeper than Bryansk-Kursk-Belgorod, i.e. the immediate adjacent to Ukraine regions, and if you didn't get your news from The Duran and Martyanov, but from primary sources, you would know that.
And heavy drones have reached the Urals, and will soon reach as far as Novosibirsk too.
Well we are talking about the Russian federation not the Russian Empire or the USSR they are different entities in a different time. So if creating a hodgepodge understanding narrative of history to prove your point floats your boat then you are entitled to your opinion. Well I follow many different news sources and have read and listened to the opinions and assessments of expert and have never heard your claim of deep NATO missile strikes into Russia. So those missile strikes were done with Tomahawk cruise missiles or Trident D5s launched from Ohio class Submarines? Or minute man threes launched from US silos? As they are the missiles in NATO arsenals with the ranges you are claiming.
First, we had multiple drones attacking and some dropping FAB-250 bombs on the fiber optic cable manufacturing plant in Saransk the other day. On video. Read that again. Drone, FAB-250. In Saransk. Google it if you don't know where that is.
Does it even matter that it is not a "cruise missile" but a "drone"? We are way past the stage of the fire crackers from two years ago that could be ignored because they did "minimal damage"
Second, the actual range of both Storm Shadow and ATACMS is enough to reach Moscow.
Then we have the "Ukrainian" Neptune cruise missiles, which are just a laundering of Western-designed and produced missiles that have not been officially disclosed.
And JASSM/JASSM-ERs (or equivalents) were fired too, unofficially, including with tactical nukes and from directions other than Ukraine. Russia has eaten about half a dozen tactical nukes already.
Now imagine if the Russian people learned that truth and realized that their "leadership" has refused to defend the country even after that happened? We are in that situation...
Ok my friend you were the one that said NATO was firing missiles into Russia. Well you keep believing what you say not my place to debate you but I can just not believe you. Sorry if I cannot just believe your conjecture. I am one of those critics who require evidence and not just narratives ..... Russia drops Fabs and you need aircraft to get into range to launch jasms, Jdams and whatever. Not because "you" have the range to hit Moscow doesn't mean you did other than small payload drones. Also Moscow is not deep inside Russia compared to many other places, it's just the Russian capital. Well I wish "you"luck hope "you"don't get Fabbed by a Russian Su 34 or roasted by Toss1 thermobaric I do hate human suffering..
It's a laugh that the Ukies refer to the Russian forces as faggots, considering the testimonies and videos documenting Ukie filth engaging in homosexual acts.
NAZIs love projection.
Virtually everything coming out of Ukr media is projection. Sad thing is that people accept such things without question.
…..all “western” media
I've come to realize - probably late, but still - that whatever westerners accuse other people of is the very thing they are themselves guilty of. Especially liberals, globalists, and Zionists, but it's true of MAGAers and every other westerner too.
It's so much not how life works in Russia and East Asia.
Orwell me more
The Ukrainians don't seem very tolerant of the LGBTQ+ community (or whatever letters we're supposed to be using these days).
It's ironic that one of the biggest rainbow flag wavers I know is also one of the biggest Ukrainian flag pin wearers I know.
"LGBTQ+ community (or whatever letters we're supposed to be using these days"
These letters: MENTALLY ILL
D E M O M I C
There was a hilarious video that came out recently of a captured Australian merc being interviewed by his captors. He described being punched in the face and called a "pidor" by a Ukrainian officer. A few questions later, and he admitted to "having sex with men but preferring women". The jokes write themselves.
Not sure where you're picking that up from. The nationalists like Right Sektor and Azov never say anything negative about LGBTQ+, and have shown up or been involving gay pride events in the past (like the recent Pride Parade in Kharkiv). The President of the country is clearly homosexual (as is his wife), and is probably involved in some sexual relationship with France's closeted homosexual President.
No irony in having a Ukrainian and rainbow flag as shirt pins or X profile decorations - add an Israeli Star-of-David flag to the mix, and you have the well-known "trifecta of stupid" that can't be recovered from.
Just a joke based on the tweet grr quoted. It may well be ironic on the Urkainian side as well.
Ironic, but not in the least surprising. This person would also have been a great public enthusiast for Net Zero, BLM and the Covid lockdowns and ‘vaccines’.
Nothing sadder than degenerate Ukrainians LARPing as NAZIs while being led to slaughter by Jews. Well, maybe American rednecks dying for Jews (that have declared war on White America) for the 10th time is comparable.
These Jew kiss asses azov are giving the ‘Nazis’ a bad name as the NS and Hitler youth burned the books of that Jew tranny sexologist magnus hirschfeld.
Old communist tactic "Accuse your enemy of the actions you yourself have committed!" Although I would like to note that the true meaning of communist is recognized by every slightly enlightened person !
German soldiers have always had a high degree of gayness among them since Frederik the Great who was a flaming gay guy and whose 'ideal soldier' was a 'super-homosexual'. The Nazis - and this includes those slavic Nazi-fanboys in Ukraine - are consequentially even more gay (see Hugo Boss designing their uniforms).
Stop buying the Jew propaganda about the NS.
I know quite a lot about my nation's history.
Maybe you're the one buying the Jew's propaganda? Ever thought about that?
Citation needed.
Two bitches hissing at each other
Do you want to join in, or just bitch about it?
The Nazis don't 'love ' projection as it is a Freudian Ego Defense Mechanism which is an unconscious act.
Hence, they don't even now that they are 'projecting' so they cannot, by definition, 'love it'.
Freud the Jew molested his daughter and a crank who as Jung stated Freud's theory was "nothing but a dirty joke,"
Well you are a racist moron
What is wrong with being racist ? The Jew is the most racist tribe and it works for them.
The Zionists are evil not your non Zionist Jew.
As for you, you are beneath contempt
lol. 95% Jews self identify as Zionist. Zionism is Jew. Jew is Zionism.
"Faggots?" I thought Simplicius was talking about US "boots on the ground" for a moment.
Same thing about the 90,000 US troops reduction. Got a little confused there. But just for a moment. I thought the US defense department representative was talking about the 90,000 US boots on the ground in Ukraine and their reduction. The KIA kind of reduction.
So much Fog of War crap. Didn't President Trump just send (reposition) 35,000 US troops to some Eastern European Russian border town?
If (when) there is (yet) another invasion of Russia by the West, I expect it to come out of one of the Baltic States. It's the shortest distance between two fronts. From Latvia, Moscow is "only" 500-miles. That's only the distance between Washington, DC and Charleston, SC (in US Civil War miles). None of this glorious (boasts of "troops in Moscow by summer") conquest crap. Just the straightest, shortest, distance between two points.
Just speculating. It just seems like there is some obsession with Moscow, even though the Russians themselves view Moscow as expendable. Washington, DC has already been expended, politically anyway.
Please don’t denigrate ‘Nazis’. They were the ones who burned the filth tranny books of Jew magnus Hersfeld
dhdh - looks like you're finally coming out of the closet
>It's a laugh that the Ukies refer to the Russian forces as faggots
It's a general insult, usually not really meant to be taken literal.
Ukraine as a society is not all that much more gay-friendly than say, Saudi Arabia.
Those are your father's "poker night" videos
Good rundown, but the Middle East is where the action is. Another THAAD and 2 more Patriot batteries to Israel, another couple of MQ-9s down in Yemen. Expanding destruction in Syria and the gas chambers and ovens in Gaza have been belching the ashes of ever more women, children and rescue workers. Tons(literally) of transport and recon activity and a second carrier just passed through the Strait of Malacca. It's hard to doubt that the big one is coming with Iran. No predictions since my thoughts regarding the efficacy of Hezbollah were wildly off (they lost). I would yawn and think it couldn't possibly happen if it were not for the wall-to-wall Zionist lunatics in the Trump administration. Apparently his military advisors are every bit as astute as his economic ones. But we did manage to wipe out a couple of hundred sinister participants in a Yemeni village council meeting and thereby save the USS Harry Truman. Nice work guys! (add American flag and arm muscle emoji here) I honestly thought it was impossible to be worse than Biden/Harris. Oh well, live and learn.
A lot of us have been wrong on the ME front - unfortunately. It seems no one has the balls to stand up to israel as they do what they want wherever they want without regard to international or moral standards. The holocaust was projection - Gazza is reality.
Contaminate Gaza with nuclear waste. Okay, you can have the land!
This is something I often think of regarding both Dimona and Iranian nukes. Israel/Palestine has approximately 7 million Jews and 7 million PALESTINIANS. How do you propose to destroy Israel with nukes without killing the people you are purporting to save?
Iranian nukes are like North Korean nukes; they’re a defense against US +and/or proxy invasion, not a threat to anyone. If the Israelis are going to genocide the Palestinians if you don’t nuke Israel, what difference does it make if you nuke Israel and kill Palestinians too?
They - Hezbollah-have the balls to stand up to Israel, but the price is too high. The Zionist strategy is to take out their failures on civilians. They know where the families of Hezbollah live in South Beirut, and can slaughter them at will. And that is precisely what they do, from the air with no real casualties.
Should the Lebanese sacrifice their families for this cause?
Would you?
Yah, Bernie tried to stop the arming of Netanyahu, and got 15 votes. We are ruled by Racist and Genocidal Caucasian imperialists including Trump. And Tariffs are a TAX on US corporations and consumers doing business abroad.
Not Caucasian - JEW.
AIPAC elected 'em all.
"And Tariffs are a TAX on US corporations and consumers doing business abroad."
And you're an economic retard.
Meh, the Middle East is always fighting about something; Eastern Europe not so much, which is what makes it more interesting.
You have to understand that for the mohammedan countries in the Middle East, the Palestinians have always been a political football to be used against (a) Israel, and (b) the West. In the case of the former, at the very minimum, they are good for bad publicity about Israel. Even better would be kinetic activity that causes Israel to spend military resources. In the case of the latter, Palestinians are a great way for the taxpayers in the West to waste their money enriching Middle Eastern governments who promise and never deliver, or local warlords with Swiss bank accounts. Note: I am not discounting the fact that US taxpayers have been wasting their hard-earned dollars on Israel for the last seven and a half decades.
Did you ever wonder why no mohammedan government ever volunteered to take the Palestinians into their country? It's because they are too valuable where they are.
Why would any country, Muslim or otherwise, want to participate in the ethnic cleansing of another country, and then want to import the survivors of the pogrom? Are they going to displace their own people in order to accommodate those that they've helped remove from their native land?
Your argument makes no sense at all.
Both things can be true, Brian. Plus they don't want the burden of absorbing the millions of people? Pretty reasonable.
Neighboring Arab countries have taken in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Palestinians since the 1940s. You have to understand how expensive it is for governments to take in entire populations. Imagine the resources needed to integrate an entire population into the workforce. It would be some time before there is a net-gain in tax revenue.
And you make no sense with your football analogy. You have absolutely no understanding of political reality if you think the governments of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt are not currently pandering to their Jewish overlords? What rhetoric have you heard from these Arab countries that tells you they are using Palestine as a political tool?
Your usage of the phrase “mohammedan countries” tells me everything. You are not as smart as you think you are.
Enjoy the collapse of your society, American.
Wasn't so long ago all of Europe fought each other all the time and the ME was fairly stable (colonialism).
Now we can have large local conflicts, globally. That is US foreign policy, abetted by the fading Globalists.
Hey we still have a border under control and the administrative state is being trimmed of partisan NGOs with make work jobs.
Cant have everything. It's always been lessor of two evils anyway will be because the oligarchs only allow you to certify their candidates at the ballot box who don't represent the 99%.. Trump gets conservative jewish billions Kamala lefty Jewish billions so Israel will always be first.
Lesser evil: Massa picks two overseers. You get to vote for the one you want. Beatings every day or beatings three times a week.
I suggest:
"Beatings every other morning or beatings three evenings per week"?
Zionist billions if you please, most of it from US sources using the zionazis as a front.
Stop with your Jew defense squeeze.
Middle East is being written off the news to carry on the genocide behind the scenes. It is excruciatingly depressing to say the least. I know the war with Iran will bring so much more destruction, but somehow hope that might be the only possibility to see the end of Israel. I just hope Iran doesn't act as legalistically as Putin...doesn't matter if attacks come from Diego García, they better blow up US bases in the region, including Israel. Otherwise this war will only hurt Iran.
Given that it is ulikely of any GCC countries to allow their territory be used to attack Iran, US and Israel would not be able to sustain a similar tempo as in Lebanon, Syria, or Gaza. Plus, Iran can shoot back. Thus, I want to see it first and estimate it rather than making pronouncements.
Who will stop them using those countries? They are all US flunky States. They will do as they are told by the boss.
Considering that the gulfie tyrannies acquiesced to allowing Israel i aircraft to overfly their countries in their attack on Iran, I doubt anyone will give them a choice.
Red maybe yesterday that Iran threatened action against gulfies if they do that and that gulfies told US that they can allow the US only self defense actions on their territories.
Something similar happened during the previous attack, IIRC. Anyway, the point of using B-2 bombers is to avoid having to use the gulfie airspace.
If Iran could do that, they would have done so a long time ago.
They have the military-technical means to do it.
They don't have the courage.
Hez did not lose.
Exactly. I don't remember seeing any of their underground missile facilities getting taken out. Also don't underestimate Erdogan pushing back in Syria. Israel taking out their air force base recently didn't go down well in Ankara.
Hi abc. Yeah, I don't see how losing half your tanks, accumulating the Israeli world records for dead, wounded and the psychologically wrecked .......... as well as being pushed out of south LEbanon by pissed off civilians after you move in and try to sean land gained after a ceasefire takes effect equates to victory. The latest news from yesterday in Israel is they have 50% of their reservists refusing to show up ....... for another round and IDF forces not deploying to areas in Gaza where resistance groups are know to be. Supposedly Islamic Jihad there just blew up a bunch of them when the IDF would not come out to play. So they went and got them where the IDF was positioned. It is very clear who is losing here.
Best regards abc.
I agree. And so do many Israelis, who have designated Turkey as the number one enemy. Above Iran.
It's possible that Syria will prove disastrous for Israel.
overreach. and getting into a fight with Turkey. not good.
And Egypt. An attack on Iran could precipitate a massive push on multiple fronts that could finish Israel in a weekend. I don't see how they could survive.
trying to bully their way out (leave that up to the fanatic rabbis in the Isr government).
Turkish leaders like their western vacations, their western bank accounts, their London trophy properties, their shiny western toys.
How did they not lose when they got decapitated then Israel continued to bomb Lebanon every day whenever they wished while Hezbollah stopped firing back?
They had a window of opportunity when it looked like they had depleted the Iron Dome a bit and could have struck with heavy missiles at the air bases and thus disabled much of the Israeli Air Force. They didn't use it, then it looks like they might have lost the ability to carry out such strikes.
Hi GM.
Hez leadership was hit hard but it was overall fine because they are structured to withstand those type of things. Airstrikes and propaganda did not prevent the Israeli army from being slaughtered when trying to enter Lebanon. I served in the USMC and we were trained like that back in the day, to take serious losses and just keep on fighting. Hence, Hez adjusted without skipping a beat and the IDF did not capture a single town, even with 5 divisions trying for a couple of months. Outside of some airstrikes and pager attacks, their casualties were relatively light in comparison to what the Israelis suffered on the actual FEBA.
Presently Hez is already getting fed up with Zion Inc and is seriously considering going back at it with them. They are just very different than the european zionists like Benji and his crew, who have been brought in to live in Palestine. The key to understanding them is not to look at them through a western viewpoint. Now Israel proper is once again under rocket attack from Hamas and PIJ . If israel does not knock it off, it will begin rolling again and they could get it even worse this time. The Resistance has planned this out to last over a long time, with what would be considered incredible losses with the simple goal of peace on their land or Israel be gone.
My take on things, take care GM.
Again, they need to start taking out the IAF.
Lots of ways to go about it.
Until they do that, they are just taking hits and, yes, losing.
I disagree on the losing part. IDF ground forces are done, all they have are planes now. ;)
Take care GM.
Is that why the IDF ground forces are occupying new land in Syria every day?
Yeah I love a report from Simp about the ME situation
I have no idea why the "resistance" (whichever faction) doesn't use FPV and grenadier drones on israel. No one in Turkey can smuggle drones to lebanon? No one in IRan can smuggle drones to jordan? It would just take a few FPV drones to mess up israel diaper warriors spread around syria and lebanon real badly. Hezbollah bombed a platoon of israelis in a canteen to smiteereens, killed a lot and maimed a lot. That was just one little droen that did that. Imagine hundreds. I know range is a limiter but still, most of the resistance factions are well within range, stop launching bottle rockets and start launching kill drones on tel aviv.
Drone pieces are the easy part. Drone operators need to be trained. In the occupied areas the radio frequency can be quickly picked up by the IDF and training aborted.
Hope they figure it out, so SICK of them getting away with all this mass murder. When Hezbollah drone bombed that canteen I literally went "YES! FINALLY!"
Forget the "diaper warriors".
There are much more valuable targets.
Remember that Israel has no strategic depth. Key military bases are within very short distance from Palestinian-held territories, e.g. Nevatim is within 15 km of the West Bank and 50 km of Gaza.
Russians are flying optic fibre drones at 30 km now, Ukrainians have used repeaters to get even beyond that.
When Hamas burst out of Gaza, they did in fact reach within FPV drone range from those bases. It was vital at that moment to destroy as much of the planes on the ground as possible.
And Hezbollah has much more serious means to do it, as they have heavy missiles that can destroy the hardened aircraft shelters.
The IDF was shown to be largely impotent in ground warfare. Almost all of the damage is done by the airforce, of which the "resistance" has none. Thus it was absolutely vital to attack the IAF.
But nobody ever fired a single shot at those bases.
It is bizarre. Maybe muslims are just not good at war? Or they don't watch telegram channels of drone kill footage? Totally agree on hurling every goddamn drone on earth at IDF airbases, one piece of shrapnel through the F35 and it's bricked.
The only reason that anyone is talking about pausing the War On Russia is so that the empire can focus its efforts on The War On Iran.
A systematic strategy of isolating the weakest component, neutralizing it, then moving on to the next one, and so on.
Such a strategy is countered by the strongest components intervening to stop the chain reaction while it is not too late, but they have had "other priorities" so far, and it has been working fantastically well for the aggressor as a result.
First Gaza was destroyed while Hezbollah and Iran didn't really do much to stop it, and Assad sat it out altogether.
Then Hezbollah was neutralized. Iran did nothing.
Shortly after that Syria was destroyed. All the while Iran and Russia stood and did nothing. And China, of course.
Now the Houthis are being hit hard while Iran just issues sternly worded statements as usual.
Coming soon:
1) Russia will stand by and do nothing while Iran is destroyed
2) Later China will stand by and do nothing while Russia is neutralized
3) Eventually China's turn will come too.
Iran will collapse internally before a single shot is fired in anger.
Loved the last "tongue in cheek" paragraph. World media controlled by the small hats. Nothing to see here. Move along.
If the "West" didn't have its double standards, it wouldn't have ANY standards at all!
Can't wait to hear the last of the Bucha nonsense - not that The Wad will notice.
Gas chambers and ovens of Gaza - indeed.
The utmost shamelessness of the supremacist and sadistic Judaic education is on display in Gaza and on websites of the major jewish organizations - such as the Jewish federations of North America (uniting some 400 jewish organizations), synagogues, and holohoax museums. There is no real push from Jews to stop the atrocities in Gaza but only pious proclamations of “standing with Israel” and the unstoppable begging and demanding for more money.
It’s stunning how indistinguishable banderites and Zionists are. Both groups show certain mental defects due to their supremacist and hate-filled indoctrination.
I recently had a discussion with my neighbor about Ukraine. He pulled the old John McCain line out of his ass, you know, "Russia is a gas station with nukes", that was ridiculous when it was first blathered and absolutely stupid now. How indocrinated are you to utter that tripe now? Thank you for your substack, the MSM and their unreadable deluge of pro Khazar hype have to go away.
next time ask him who operates the space station ;)
Ah, and then ask him "name the world's largest food exporters, in order" and then "on which country do fifty percent of the world's countries depend to avoid food insecurity?"
Boomer? My dad is like that. If it;s on Fox news it's reality and he was in Vietnam with all them lies. He should know better. I've never trusted authority or news even as a teen. Need to research subject heavily before I form opinion. Guess some of us are wired different.
More Americans supported the Vietnam war than the war on Germany.
Makes sense I suppose...Germans were kinda kin folk since so many Americans w/ German ancestry. A lot of people don't know this anymore but in the 30s Hitlers speech's were translated and ran on radio throughout USA. He attracted a large following for his ideas out of the great depression.
Hitler's speeches were NOT widely played on US radio. While there was some coverage of Nazi Germany in US newsreels, newspapers, and international broadcasts, Hitler speeches were rarely, if ever, aired on US radio, even in part.
I read that the US is a shopping mall with nukes.
A homeless camp with nukes... 😉
It is a negro tranny disco with nukes run by the Jew
>Russia is a gas station with nukes", that was ridiculous when it was first blathered and absolutely stupid now
It is stupid indeed.
Right now Russia is effectively a gas station WITHOUT nukes.
Because the threshold for vaporizing every single US and European asset in the whole of Eurasia was passed a long time ago, yet the drones and missiles keep destroying stuff deep inside Russia while absolutely nothing flies back.
Thus Russia is currently no different from Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
I think you're confusing measured restraint with inaction. Putin's patience properly practiced produces prolonged pfrustration.
Putin has a duty to protect the Russian people.
But his actions show that their lives are worth nothing to him
The west doesn't have weapons that can match Oreshnik, hypersonics or the submarine based wonder weapons of radioactive tsunami fame. Putin is the reason we haven't been subjected to their effects. (I sincerely hope there are others who want to avoid WWIII.)
Who cares what you have if you are not going to fire it and the enemy knows that?
Right now Russian people are being killed in large numbers, and not just soldiers, but civilians too, and no longer just in what is formally Ukraine, but in Russia itself, very deep inside Russia even, and none of the following:
1) Elimination of the people responsible for it
2) Physical blockade of the weapon flows
Is happening.
But those are the only ways to stop it, and Putin has the military-technical tools to achieve both of those things within hours of issuing the order.
That order is not being issued though. What can we conclude from that fact? Some combination of the following has to be true:
1) Putin is completely incompetent and/or a coward, and totally not fit for office.
2) Putin is following an agenda different from ensuring the security of his country, whether due to his own internal reasons/convictions or because he is in the hands of other forces acting behind the scenes.
Russian civilians are not being killed in large numbers - but they sure as hell are being jailed in record numbers - for outrageous activities, like holding up blank pieces of paper, and for 'liking' social media posts.
putina's Russia holds as many political prisoners as the USSR did at the height of the Cold War.
Duh! He launched his suicidal, expansionist war. Ongoing abject humiliation ...
You really need help. You are so deep in PDS that I don't think there is any hope for you.
Given that Russia is wiping the floor with NATO in Ukraine, to be beaten by this “gas station” is even more pathetic:-)
Good post. Your closing paragraphs are absolutely superb!