Yesterday Ukrainian forces again tried to attack the Kursk region, this time in the Glushkovo area near the border town of Tetkino, further northwest from their previous entry attempts.
Are they acting "to spoil" the party? Or because there's a war going on?
Seems I hit a nerve in online Russky Mir. Unlike many here, I can't spend all day online. But I'll address "good faith" comments this evening (timezone USAID).
Well, it's been an interesting ongoing discussion on whether Russia's May 9th parade is a 'legitimate target'. One supposes that it is, technically speaking. However, the problem with the argument of hitting it on May 9th is that Russia has been doing a week or more of rehearsals with all the same troops, equipment, etc., which will appear on May 9th: the only difference? The rehearsals don't feature crowds of civilians.
So if Ukraine wanted to make the argument for hitting military assets "in the open", why not hit the rehearsals? Why wait until the 9th when the parade is filled with crowds of people? This would prove Ukraine's true motive in wanting to create as much civilian collateral casualties, which is a war crime.
Now Putin has *allegedly* threatened a response with the Oreshnik on Kiev, but that's likely what master-of-drama Zelensky would love to see, so he can turn the spectacle into a sympathy session for Ukraine.
They didn't target Moscow, except for airports. Your blurb was about whatever is going on around Kursk, but you framed it as intended to spoil Victory Day. It's been going on for years. Calling a brief timeout for a party? Kinda selfish, no?
"Calling a brief timeout for a party? Kinda selfish, no?"
No, it's not. The ceasefire is for three days to cover the day Victory Day is celebrated in Ukraine as well.
It's only nazi-loving scum in the West who don't celebrate the defeat of Germany in WW2. The most vicious, most totally evil nation that ever arose in Europe - Germany - was thoroughly defeated. That the nazi regime in Kiev does not want celebrations of the defeat of their fellow nazis is yet more proof that the regime in Kiev really are a bunch of vicious nazis.
The great majority of people in Ukraine have for 80 years celebrated the defeat of Germany and the liberation of their people and territory from German scum. The Russian ceasefire allows them to celebrate in safety.
Leave it to the perverted and evil West to try to twist that.
You know, the more this conflict goes on the more I'm reminded of how Gorbachev was totally wrong when in the wake of the putsch against him he said "this proves the communist party must be reformed" and how every person with common sense was instead thinking "this proves the communist party must be destroyed." Just like that, the more the West does evil like whitewash the crimes of Germany in WW2 and of the Kiev regime today, this proves that the evil governments of Europe, UK and even the US must not be reformed, they must be removed. They are beyond being healed, just like a dog in the late stages of rabies.
The whole shit show makes more sense when you finally deduce that the West is fascist and was always thus. The laundry list of genocide and piracy has bullet points too numerous to name. The solution? To quote the above is the only way forward:
"the evil governments of Europe, UK and even the US must not be reformed, they must be removed. They are beyond being healed, just like a dog in the late stages of rabies.
They get arrested when trying. It has started radicalizing since the Maidan coup. First, people were harrassed and abuse "only" by Nazi activists, later, all Victory Day celebration was banned. There have been some demonstrations though over the years. Nowadays, showing reverence for Victory Day risks at least 6 years in prison.
I suspect you know all that, and are just a Nazi troll.
Not surprised. My brother (pro-war/pro-Ukraine) but we both celebrate May 9. Our paternal line is hard-core military all the way to the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. Only this year, for the first time in congrats he managed to stuff pro-Ukraine "winning" nonsense, and proceeded with the same in his call. Blood is blood, but there is only so much nonsense one can take. I had to very maturely hang-up on him :-)
You are insane, Germans are not the enemy in WW2. Look at the World today and blame the usury banking lot. The Allies fought the wrong Country in WW2, your love of Stalin and your love of Communism is showing., with it your love of Zionism.
Most of Ukrainians, of all ethnicities, are descendants of Victors in WWII, including El Presidente Ze himself, non-entity traitor to his grandfather's cause. They would like to celebrate it and be proud, dissident Ukrainian telegram channels write about this day with pride.
Current UA regime and their idols, e.g. OUN-M/B, UPA, Sich, Mazepas, Banderas, Konovalets, Shukevichs etc, are historically losers. Like their puppet masters. So it was, so it will be. так было, так будет.
Unfortunately, again, accompanied with 100ks of casualties. But result will be the same.
Spare me the "master of drama Zelensky," garbage, drama guy. Oreshnik, Oreshnik!"
"World War 3!"
Ukraine's not going to strike a huge parade full of civilians. Even Russia limit their strikes to hospitals, schools, churches, theaters, apartment blocks and such.
Accusations as confessions. Here in the evil, imperialist USA we see video clips of destroyed civilian Ukranian targets nearly every day. They can't all be fake
:Slams your face against a screen while it plays images of Gaza:
Now THAT is what happens when an army does not care about civilian casualties. Of course there are accidents in war, and Russia has kept tally and apologised for each one. However, MANY of those destroyed Ukrainian civilian targets were destroyed by Ukraine themselves, usually by misfiring AD missiles coming back down.
I mean, when a bunch of Azov Nazis march into a village, line up every pro-Russian in the village in the street, and then murder them one by one - and RUSSIA gets the blame for this atrocity by Western media; I'm surprised you bother watching lamestream media at all. Unless of course, you like to be lied to.
Gaza: 2-300,000+ dead civilians.
Ukraine: 2-3000 dead civilians.
Israel: Over half the dead Israelis from the Oct breakout were killed by the IDF itself and then covered it up.
Ukraine: C/P from above.
Whereas the Ukrainians have INTENTIONALLY targeted civilians, in Donbas, Crimea, and Russia itself.
People who follow professional paid liars in the lamestream media are the most misinformed people in Western society - and that's media Academics who have said that after peer-reviewed studies.
Maybe you should actually READ some of your host's works, it's just a thought. It would seem apropos.
Here in the imperial evil USA we see civilian targets presented by a media and government complex that pays for edited news. Propaganda is legal for the US to use on it's own citizens.
The US has gotten caught paying for over 90% of Ukraine's media budget and and manipulating all levels of Ukraine's government per CIA admission as advisors.
When you say it all can't be wrong as if that makes most true or the majority true it dismisses any knowledge of how the US has crafted entirely fake narratives for decades verified by US government documents released through FOIA onto US government websites like the CIA Reading Room. There has not been one honest US war in any of our lifetimes. Ukraine is part of the pattern.
Think tank policy papers like the 2019 RAND Corporation - Extending Russia make it abundantly clear US efforts were premeditated in Ukraine, and Moldova, Georgia, Syria, and application of sanctions.
The biological weapons labs are US fact created by 29 August 2005 treaty still on the US State Dept website. The contracts assigning the work to Black & Veatch by DoD are still on the US GSA website.
The CIA admitted to 20 site being set up in 2014 with negotiations and planning predating that.
Undersecretary Victoria Nuland said in 2013 the US spent over $5 billion to promote regime change friendly to the US from 1991 to 2013.
The US gov bragged about helping change Ukraine's gov through the Orange Revolution in 2004. The western Guardian newspaper documented US NGOs and other Western agencies helping the US State Dept / USAID carry out a coup.
As for civilian targets. The vast majority of Russian targets are distinctly military as assessed by the US DoD and briefed in formal sessions in Europe and the US. Civilian casualties are very low for a conflict of the violence present in Ukraine. And compared to US doctrine which is to take out all utilities, communications, and essential infrastructures as the US did in Iraq and Yugoslavia, the Russians have bent over backwards to spare the civilian population in a way the US does not do and has not done.
Remove military targets in civilian areas. Remove self-inflicted damage Ukraine caused (AD gone wrong), remove staged events, and there is not much that does not count as a a military target. You can find some war crimes. It is by no means the norm or Russian doctrine, admitting that pictures of POWs by either side is technically a war crime.
In the imperial evil USA the military gladly blew up hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, date groves, camel herds, roads, power plants, water reservoirs, pump stations, if it deemed it militarily necessary. AND the US defended poppy fields that funded the Taliban, helped set up and use ISIS, and still continues to pay Al-Queda and the Taliban per US gov documents.
All too true. And you could add in Yemen and Libya. And UKania and France have been up to their ears in it too, desperate to keep on playing their game of Empire by any means and at any cost.
Ukronazis have been deliberately killing civilians since 2014.
It started with aviation dropping unguided munitions in the centers of Donbass cities.
After 2022 they got HIMARS and drones, and started precision strikes on civilians.
The favorite thing to do initially was firing M30A1 rockets at the civilian population. The ones with the tungsten pellets that are designed to kill soft targets over a wide area.
We have lots of videos of bus stops in Donbass with old women having their brains leaking out on the pavement as a result of such strikes.
Drones made it much worse though, because they are cheap and plentiful.
Public transportation, pension offices, marketplaces, private cars etc. etc., it has all been targeted.
Russia has struck "civilian targets" only when there are large military gatherings there. Usually restaurants, on a couple occasions conference centers.
Accidents do happen though, but usually it is Ukrainian air defense causing it -- there was that apartment building in Dnepropetrovsk that was destroyed by a missile, but that missile was deflected by air defense (that is when Arestovych made the mistake of telling the truth and had to flee the country as a result). However, against that you have multiple apartment buildings destroyed on purpose by ATACMS and Storm Shadow strikes in the Donbass and the one in Belgorod that was destroyed by a French AASM Hammer. Very precisely targeted right at foundations, the way you see it in Gaza.
Otherwise pretty much every time you see apartment buildings on fire in Ukraine, it is their own air defense missiles doing it.
Which should be obvious to everyone with a working brain (which category right now it is doubtful your belong to). We saw what happened in Dnepropetrovsk when that Russian missile collapsed a whole section of a commie block. That is what 500 kg of explosives do. But when Zelensky is bitching about "strikes on civilians", he is showing you some burnt out windows and very little real destruction. Because, of course, those buildings were not hit by Russian missiles, but by air defense missiles, which have much smaller warheads, and do very little damage. And they are hit by air defense missiles because Ukraine deliberately situates air defense (and everything else too) within cities, to use them as human shields.
The narrative that "Russia targets civilians" is idiotic just following basic logic:
1) Why would Russia waste expensive missiles on random apartment buildings? For what reason
2) If it wanted to kill Ukrainians, it has very powerful means to do it and to have the whole war over with very quickly. But it has not done that. Why?
3) Why didn't Russian kill all the "Ukrainians" in Melitopol, Berdyansk, and Kherson while they in control of it, and why were those cities not destroyed? They were taken largely without a fight, and life there carried on as normal after that. It was completely peaceful for the first six months, until the Ukronazis were given long-range weapons and started terrorizing what was supposedly their own people until just a few months prior.
4) Why would Russia want to kill Ukrainians when Putin motivated the war with "we are one people"?
BTW, the Ukrainians' own reports clearly show the absurdity of that narrative. But again, one has to have a brain and think. Typically when the large-scale missile strikes under Surovikin were going on you would see reports of "Russia committed yet another massacre, it fired 100 cruise missiles, there are 4 people killed". It was literally that kind of numbers. Read that again and think -- triple digit missiles, single-digit people killed according to Ukrainians themselves. How does that work if the goal was to "kill civilians".
"Here in the evil, imperialist USA we see video clips of destroyed civilian Ukranian targets nearly every day. They can't all be fake"
Well, actually they can all be fake when billions of dollars per year are spent on generating fake videos, making thousands per day, and you've only seen a few hundred, max, over the last year.
I see you don't know much about either the conflict or about what billions of dollars per year spent on propaganda can buy (the US spends over $2 billion per year alone through the Pentagon that is explicitly earmarked for "messaging").
There are actually two main techniques where videos which technically are not "fake" are used to tell lies.
Kiev has over one hundred thousand people who work full time in shifts, 24/7, chugging out fake news. They generate thousands of videos clips per day and flood Western social media. The first of their techniques for using real videos to tell lies goes back to the beginning of the war: they take *Russian* videos of towns and civilian targets that Kiev's attacks destroyed and present them as supposedly civilian targets in Ukraine. There are literally thousands of examples of such falsely-described videos.
So no, those videos aren't "fake" in the sense that they show events that really did happen, but the message of those videos is a lie because they claim the people killed were Ukrainians.
Kiev got away with that and still gets away with that because Americans and Brits are such total cretins and their media have become propaganda, not news, outlets. It's like Westerners don't have the slightest ability to recognize blatant lies as a result of a toxic mix of incredibly bad education, intrinsic stupidity, and absolutely Roman-era bread and circuses laziness.
For example, they'll be shown a video of a supposed "Russian" attack on a "Ukrainian" town and that every sign they see in the video is in Russian and the people are all speaking Russian doesn't register with them. That's the same people who also believe that Russian isn't spoken or used in Ukraine, that if you say, "Wait a minute, most Ukrainians speak Russian..." they accuse you of being a Putin shill. Well, see a video like that and one way or the other you know you're being lied to - either that's a Russian town shown in the video or you were told a lie when they told you Russian isn't used in Ukraine. Or, they see the name of the town in the video on a road sign or other clear geo-location markers that prove the scene shown is in Russia and none of that gets recognized either.
The second technique used with videos of "destroyed civilian Ukrainian target" videos is to tell lies about what those targets really were. Since the beginning of the conflict the nazi regime in Kiev has used civilians as human shields. They've done that in an industrial way. For example, when their armies attacked Donbass in 2014 and they took a town, they deliberately housed troops, command and control staff, and military supplies in what used to be hospitals. They did that so if that facility was struck they could say "Oh, look, those evil separatists (later "Russians") have hit a hospital!"
Speaking of hospitals, sometimes Kiev actually stages fake videos. A great example that anybody with a functioning brain can see was staged is the famous film showing the supposed immediate aftermath on a Russian strike on a supposed maternity hospital in Mariupol.
The video purports to show rescuers helping a pregnant woman out of a bombed-out building that was a maternity hospital just bombed by Russia. But it shows a huge building where apparently there were just two or three patients, the people seen in the video. The number of camera people outnumbers the number of "victims." But a "hospital" that size would have had hundreds of patients and staff, yet absolutely none are visible, either living or dead. In fact, there's no trace of any casualties except the two women the "rescuers" are helping.
There's also no trace of any responders other than the one vehicle in which the camera crew arrived. But a strike on a hospital that big would have had many dozens of emergency vehicles, including ambulances, police, fire trucks and others with hundreds of responders. But none of that is visible even though the video makes a point to sweep around to show the large, bombed hospital.
When it sweeps around you see a car, just one car, on fire in the courtyard. But there isn't the slightest trace of smoke or active fire from any of the wooden window frames and other wood, including trees, in the hospital building or in the courtyard.
Anybody with an IQ greater than an average dog can see the video is an obvious fake, yet US, UK and EU media reported it as a vicious Russian attack on a maternity hospital.
So what really happened? We know because Russia liberated Mariupol a month later and plenty of eye-witnesses came forward. What had been a maternity hospital was taken over by the Azov brigade and other Kiev military units with the former patients ejected out onto the street. Russia bombed what had become a military installation. About ten days after that happened Kiev sent a propaganda film crew to film the fake video, setting the car in the courtyard on fire. The girl who played the role of a pregnant patient came forward to talk about the filming and her role in it. There's absolutely no doubt from biometrics she's the same person.
All those techniques, from lying about what real videos show right on up to totally fake videos that are staged or generated with AI have flooded Western media. And then people who think they know all about the war because they credulously suck up propaganda for morons watch those videos, nod their heads and say, "evil Russians at work."
You see that all from 2014 right to the present day, when Kiev has industrialized the use of formerly civilian facilities for military use. In fact, that trend is openly reported in Western media without the slightest acknowledgement by Western media that what they are praising are war crimes. Western reporting often shows how Kiev's military drone manufacturing is based in civilian homes and apartments, how Kiev's military routinely changes into civilian clothing "because moving about in military uniforms would be too dangerous" and covering purely military training, run by NATO instructors no less, in civilian universities.
When Russia recently struck the gathering of Kiev's war criminals in Sumy not a single Western reporter noted that *all* of the initial videos circulating online that showed numerous bodies all showed bodies dressed in military uniforms. Instead, that was reported as a strike on a civilian educational institution.
Likewise, when Russia struck a hotel that was being used to house mercenaries, NATO military personnel, and Kiev's troops, that was reported by US media as a strike on a civilian hotel, without any mention that the people killed were the military personnel housed there.
The rule of thumb is that whatever US mainstream media reports, that's a lie.
If you really are American, then you should keep your mouth shut when it comes to 'destroyed civilian buildings'. Do you think the world has forgotten all the hospitals, schools, weddings, etc. the US-military has obliterated around the world within the last 40 years? Are you retarded?
Drone strikes aside, US military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan were committed in error, or by rogue individuals or small units or PMCs. Though I'm sure US has committed some atrocities intentionally, attacking civilian targets is not policy.
Russia's concept of "total war" and "reflexive control" call for psychological pressure on civilian populations, blurring lines between civilian and military domains. Western-termed Gerasimov Doctrine suggests integrating military and non-military measures to destabilize adversaries, accepting civilian 'disruption' as part of warfare.
Cities obliterated by mighty Russian forces include;
"If you really are American, then you should keep your mouth shut when it comes to 'destroyed civilian buildings'. "
Ah, one reason I left the US and moved to Russia is I was fed up living in a country where I was surrounded by people who were either unaware of the US's habit of bombing civilians in foreign lands or if they were aware approved of that habit. Only a very small percent of Americans these days are ready to take any active measures to protest their country's killing of innocent people. I also didn't want to become a co-conspirator in mass murder by helping to pay for the US's foreign wars.
Moving overseas is one of the few lawful ways Americans can ensure they don't support the US's killing of civilians by paying US taxes. Living overseas doesn't get you off the hook of paying US taxes, but there is a tax exclusion for people living overseas where if you make less than the allowed amount you pay no taxes to the US. The theory of that tax exclusion when it was enacted many years ago was that Americans living overseas don't benefit from the infrastructure and services their taxes pay for in the US, so they should not be taxed to pay for that.
If you choose wisely, picking a country where the cost of living is below the tax exclusion level, it's certainly possible to live overseas and legally not pay any US taxes. You do pay taxes wherever you live, of course, and if you make more than the exclusion you pay US taxes as well. But if you live modestly you can go through life without financing the US's killing of innocents.
Ukraine repeatedly and deliberately uses the same two tactics...
1. placing military resources next to its own civilian assets, so that any Russian attacks, no matter how precise, will sometimes have civilian collateral damage;
2. targeting its opponent's civilians with deadly force, ostensibly to make others afraid to continue supporting Russia.
These are precisely the tactics of terrorists. The history of this conflict proves beyond doubt that Ukraine is a terrorist regime. Any arguments to the contrary require cherry-picked facts, distorted narratives, and oblivious fact-free assertions. They amount to nothing but propaganda techniques of gaslighting, logical fallacies, semantic deception, and specious, contrived rationalizations. All of which applies to you.
I agree partially. In my opinion, the three days before the Russian truce were a rehearsal of the Ukronazis whether they could hit either the Moscow region, or any other significant area like Stalingrad etc.
Over 1000 drones and missiles were fired, about 95% shot down without any consequences, the rest with some insignificant fires, on civilian houses mainly.
Fact is, other than Volksgenosse Free Radical Nazi asserts, that more than two thirds of Ukrainian attacks, be it by drones or missiles, hit non military targets, few of them can be assumed unintentional. I just remind the Christmas 23 attack on Belgorod, and other Himars, Tochka, and MLRS strikes, the recent market massacre on the leftt Dnyepr bank, and many more.
Embedded in a threat to strike Kiev is a threat to take out the existing government based in Kiev if Ukraine is inclined to strike the 9 May celebration in Moscow.
If a strike on Kiev takes place, there's a high probability the sock puppet in combat fatigues will not get many more snorts of powdered courage or much of a chance to gloat over any widening of the conflict.
It's hard to speculate on the subtleties with which Putin would apply the Oreshnik scalpel but Zelensky is not in a good position to be pressing his luck. A parade marred by casualties will be coupled with the imperative made by the Russians themselves, to exact justice. Such justice may be delayed but it will be paid for by Zelensky in one way or another.
For the life of me I can't understand why many members of the SBU - Budanov and his lieutenants - are still alive. Offing your adversaries leadership is part of war. Ukraine gets it, Israel gets it, the US gets it. Why doesn't Russia get it
Russia knows. They also know they are not fighting Ukraine. The 29 March 2025 NYT article goes a long way to reveal how much all the command and control and coordination came from the US or UK. Russia knew when the Istanbul Peace Agreement was cancelled by Boris Johnson in April 2022 that the Kiev government was irrelevant. If the Russians were to remove the leadership of the opposition it would be in Berlin, Paris, London, and Washington DC. What is happening is managed conflict. Partly out of respect for a historically important region for Russia. And partly to keep the West from stupidly escalating. Putin said it himself. He was not sure how Russia would fair economically or socially.
The Kiev leadership is easier to manage and leverage than dealing with a unified West.
Wrong. Take out the Ukulele "leadership" then take out their replacements. Rinse and repeat. Make it as difficult as possible for this farce to continue.
This isn't the Middle East where resistance is a amoeba-like bottom up phenomenon, this is a top-down project carried out by state structures.
And Zelensky is, according to the Russians themselves, illegitimate in any case, so they would not be taking out a head of state, they would be taking out a regular terrorist.
Take him out, take out the whole top state structure, and you will disrupt their war effort substantially. They would have to hold elections, but whether they would even be able to do that is doubtful, and it will be a complete mess internally. Then keep doing it.
I assume the fear is that it would "set a bad precedent", but that is jsut BS, because that precedent was set a long time ago by the West and nobody is observing such rules anymore.
Also, another fear is that NATO might then enter the war directly.
To which I say let them do it. Enough with this proxy war crap.
Nuking some idiots in Europe was always the winning move to get out of this situation (after, say, Poland ceases to exist, what follows next is that NATO dissolves itself immediately because the US will refuse to nuke Russia in response and then the rest will realize how they have been used). ), while attrition of Russia from behind the Ukrainian proxy's back is how NATO will win the war if things continue the same way.
You love that one New York Times piece, but reject most NYT reporting over the last three years pointing out that most of the rest of your comment is kremlin propaganda - like the bullshit about "Istanbul Accords" ever being a viable ceasefire plan, much less anything close to a comprehensive peace deal.
It was mainly Kiev's own proposal, the only sticking point the size of the 'defence force'. It didn't need to be big, considering it would be guaranteed by all of its neighbours. And that is why Zelensky ordered it initialled to be signed.
And then London and DC learned of this, and were aghast! They hadn't bought all those Ukrainian body bags for nothing!
Of course, to YOU Ukrainians are nothing more than meat bags to soak up Russian bullets and artillery, which is why you mock this attempt to prevent the current outcome. "Wah wah".
You reveal your true face with every post you make. As do your two co-conspirators, 'Denis', and 'Virus'.
Is this just a co-ordinated yet shambolic '#forum-invasion', or are you employed? Bored minds wish to know.
There are over 4,000 official US documents on US websites showing official US policy was to support fascism in Ukraine from WWII to present. That's not a Russian talking point. It is US policy outlined in US reports, SOPs, and funding records kept by the US government made available through US courts. There are thousands of records showing decades of support for organizations like the Orgsnization of Ukrainian Nationalism (formed by the merger of two fascist orgs that predate the German Nazis by joining in 1919). The OUN exists in Ukraine today. It is not the only fascist org US records show support for.
The treaty establishing biolabs in Ukraine is an official US document, not a Russian document. The US contracts supporting the labs with maintenance and renovation are DoD funded on the US GSA website.
US CIA support for the Prolog Research Corporation tasked with rewriting Uktainian history under the direction of Mykola Lebed (Nazi collaborator and participant in the Holocaust and leader in OUN) is a matter of US record revealed in the Church Committee and other records before and since.
The personal letter from Allan Dulles to both the US State Department and USNIS is on the CIA Reading Room website. It directs the two US agencies to ignore Lebed's crimes and past actions in order to bring him to the US to work for the US CIA.
There is no love for the NYT article. It is a convenient, publically, accessible research paper citing over 300 US sources. Forbes, The Economist, The Guardian, and innumerable Military Times articles, or more specialized Think Tank reports like from RAND Corporation all provide details that add to the larger picture.
There are also hundreds of hours of public testimony by Western leaders that reveal the truth without one single Russian document or quote from a Russian. The West has shaped the conflict in Ukraine for decades.
There are also IMF, and World Bank reports that suggest the 2022 ruble-rubble invocation was never right. Russia's economy despite some tensions is one of the strongest in the world. That's according to Western orgs not Russian orgs.
Simplicius has 1,000s of hours of research citing both Western and Russian sources. Much of what he analyzes comes from Western sources. If you were sincere they are available, covering years of developments, providing links to hundreds of Western sources.
But your not demonstrating any sincere desire for discussion you're acting like a broke dick troll.
And you can spout Russia propaganda... Russia, Russia, Russia, but that got old and over used already in the imperial evil USA. US documents paint a different picture from your invective.
hey, unit 8200 laborer, it is intolerable for you (zionists & banderites) that the facts on the ground escape the thoroughly zionized propaganda machine created in accordance with Zig Freud the Fraud's nephew's recommendations.
The leadership is at the City of London and DC. Budanov, Zelensky, Yermak, et al are sock puppets of the empire of offshore accounts and money laundering.
A detailed map of luxurious bunkers built for the moneyed degenerate families, which always need wars to maintain their power and comforts, would be a great first step.
The most practical solution would be if the strike of several Oreshniks arrived before the 9th, and the problem would be solved. As a consolation, they could have all the sympathy sessions they can handle. NATO is in disarray, and it is time to put an end to the suffering. DJT could declare victory because, finally, peace is on the horizon.
This is not intended as a dig against modern Russia - but as a historical fact, there was considerable (though doubtless cynical, yet mutually beneficial) military cooperation between the Soviets and Wehrmacht until a very late stage. As late as April 1941, the Luftwaffe hosted a VVS delegation and let its technicians have a good look over various Spits and Hurricanes it had captured. But this has no relevance to modern times.
Well it must be considered, if the Ukrainian leadership would risk an actual declaration of war from Russia. Would the PR hype be worth the risk of the actual unshackling of the Russian army? The Russians did make it clear early that any attack on Transnistria would result in a declaration of war. The Ukrainians have stayed clear of Transnistria, why? Considering that is where the largest stockpile of Soviet era munitions are allegedly stored. The propaganda war is important to Ukraine's war effort but a declaration of war from Russia would negate any benefit propaganda creates as in the end bullets and bombs win over the pen every time.
Russia should mimic the West and prepare a false flag attack to get their nation on a full war footing. The longer Russia waits the worse off they will be.
You got that backwards, just like the majority of people that have zero understanding of military strategy. The reality is that they longer they wait the stronger they become and with each day that passes the entire west gets weaker and closer to total collapse.
We've been hearing that for 3 years and Ukraine seems far away from total collapse. Nor does NATO appear to be near collapse
The EU are now increasing their military capacity--doubling it for now. They are currently behind Russia but have the potential to match it exceed Russia's capacity, both in numbers of men and ability to produce war material. Plus, they have over a million Ukrainian refugees in NATO countries that can be conscripted. And hundreds of billions in frozen Russian assets that can be seized.
Going slow while Russia built up their military was wise policy the first two years of the war, but not now. Now they are better off defeating the proxy army in Ukraine ASAP and getting to good defensive positions for a wider war (to the Polish and Romanian borders) so Russia can develop a buffer zone to Russia proper, protect the Russian populations in Kalinagrad and Transnistria (and possibly the Baltics), and increase access to allies in the Balkans.
"Well it must be considered, if the Ukrainian leadership would risk an actual declaration of war from Russia. Would the PR hype be worth the risk of the actual unshackling of the Russian army?"
You mean, "Could Putin survive if he calls a mobilization, expands martial law, and gives NATO reason to fully back Ukraine?"
That word changes little, except inside Russia. Those exempt or untouched by partial mobilization could face compulsory service. He's already talking about seizing citizens' assets.
Forcing industries to prioritize military production? He's already pillaging his oligarchs and their companies. Reallocating resources from civilian to military sectors would accelerate inflation and shortages. How are potato prices?
Justify wider use of martial law. Hard to censor more unless wants to go North Korea style. Curfews and restrictions on movement will be popular.
It would contradict earlier Russian narratives that the SMO was "defensive and limited."
They would need to prepare their citizens as much as possible. I assume there is plenty of Russian propaganda showing Ukrainian terrorism and how Russia faces an existential threat.
The opposite is also true. If Russia does not defeat this threat it will grow and destroy the Russian economy as well. So they need to pick their poison. A half won war will not solve the problem.
If that isn't obvious by now you will never understand. Like so many in your country, including your leaders, you simply lack the intellectual capacity to understand what is actually happening. Or as a very wise man told us a while back, just a bunch of gormless lumpen.
It shows Russia faces an existential threat but Russia is not willing or able to defeat this threat, which means the threat will only grow and not go away unless Russia eliminates the threat. It may have been wise while Russia had only a few hundred thousand troops in battle but now after 3 years they have no excuse--they either fully defeat the threat or let it fester and cause a problem for years. The slow approach is no longer wise.
Just how do you think it would have gone down, if during the Falklands War, the Argentinians had sent missiles to attack the Remembrance Day parade in London?
The only way to stop the homoerotic dancer in green from allegedly giving stupid orders is to target his owners at the City of London and BlackRock. The EU compradors also need a hard lesson in reality.
Just a hint of losing his offshore accounts would turn the "penist" into a peacemaker. For now, the banking cartel keeps Kievan Junta belligerent by promising the banderites hefty offshore accounts.
An Oreshnik hit on the square-mile City of London, MI6 HQ building and Blackrock HQ would seem to me to be a pretty clear message that enough is enough. Such an attack would not, I think, be sufficient to warrant a nuclear response, so what could they do except to pull in their fangs and claws and rage against their impotence.
GCHQ in Cheltenham would be the better choice. Less collateral damage than a central London strike. Also very easy to target: it is made of glass and they light it up in rainbow colours every Stonewall Gay Month.
>Such an attack would not, I think, be sufficient to warrant a nuclear response
The UK needs to be nuked thoroughly. Forget about Oreshniks.
And it is actually quite doable, it has been discussed many times. They only have SSBNs, those SSBNs are in a very sorry state, they only have one on patrol, the rest are sitting ducks in Clyde.
Russian attack subs tail and sink the UK SSBN on patrol, nuclear Zircon missiles fire from the North Sea and take out Clyde in 3-4 minutes, making sure the other subs are gone too before they can fire, then the rest is finished off by a couple heavily MIRV-ed ICBMs, or perhaps cruise missiles fired from the sea.
The US will again face the choice of standing down or dying itself too, and the rational decision will once again be to stand down (just as it is if Poland was to be removed as a logistics base and route for Ukraine). As it always is when it comes to third parties retaliating over nuclear countervalue attacks against others.
Unfortunately the oligarchs of Russia likely have close ties to the Blackrock et al. owners. They likely will make a deal with each other. Why isn't Russia promising to nationalize all the farmland Zelensky gave to Blackrock, for instance?
This has always been a western propaganda war designed one way or the other to generate internal subversion in Russia leading to its breakdown. So the May 9th event is just another opportunity.
It is hilarious the way Banderite Ukraine wastes its already meagre number of troops on fruitless military adventures. Zelensky and his military commanders have contributed immensely to Russia's attrition campaign
Chabad in Ukraine cordially supports the banderites (self-proclaimed Nazis).
"Chabad rabbis, specifically Rabbi Menachem Mendel Bleich, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, has expressed his support and admiration for Kyrylo Budanov. Rabbi Bleich has publicly recognized Budanov's bravery and leadership, and has even expressed a personal friendship with him. In a post on Instagram, Rabbi Bleich called Budanov a "true friend" and "Ukrainian Hero". He also celebrated Budanov's birthday and wished him continued success and strength."
No one can compete with the cynicism and dishonesty of jews:
"World census in 1939 had 15.6 million Jews worldwide. In 1945 after WWII, the census was 15.7 million Jews worldwide. The official Red Cross numbers for Jews killed in WWII is 271,000."
The very profitable "diaries" were concocted by Otto Frank, a swindler and Nazi contractor.
"In 1980, because of a lawsuit in a German court, the German state forensic bureau, the Bundes Kriminal Amt [BKA], forensically examined the original "diary" manuscript. Their analysis determined that "significant" portions of the work were written with a ballpoint pen. Since ballpoint pens were not available before 1951, portions of the work were added well after the war (Anne Frank died in March 1945). The BKA also determined that none of the "diary" handwriting matched known examples of Anne's handwriting. Earlier handwriting experts had determined that all of the writing in the "diary" was by the same hand. Therefore, the entire "diary" was a postwar fake."
None of the major jewish organizations, colleges, and synagogues has demanded to stop the ongoing Genocide in Gaza. None! This explains judaism pretty well. Add to that the jews' admiration for the Ukrainian banderites, and your fraudulent shoah-biz scheme has no leg to stand.
Zionists aren't Jews, they are antisemites posing as Jews while behaving like nazis because that's the pound of flesh that American Caesar wants in return for allowing the zionist antisemites to commit crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians etc blah.
"Adolf Hitler aimed for economic independence for Germany, specifically distancing it from the control of London bankers and the global financial system. This goal was part of a broader strategy to create a self-sufficient and powerful state, free from external influence."
1933: "Judea Declares War on Germany" (Daily Express)
Does the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi ring something for you?
In 2009, Muammar Gaddafi proposed a Pan-African currency, the gold dinar. Gaddafi's gold dinar threatened to disrupt this system by offering an alternative for oil transactions..."
In 2011, a NATO-led coalition began a military intervention into Libya, which resulted in the assassination of Gaddafi and ruination of the formerly prosperous Libya.
"In 1967 Colonel Gaddafi inherited one of the poorest nations in Africa; by the time he was assassinated, he had transformed Libya into Africa’s richest nation. Prior to the NATO bombing campaign in 2011, Libya had the highest Human Development Index, the lowest infant mortality and the highest life expectancy in all of Africa.
Today, Libya is a failed state. South of the country has become a haven for ISIS terrorists, and the Northern coast a center of migrant trafficking. This all occurs amidst a backdrop of widespread rape, assassinations and torture that complete the picture of a state that is failed to the bone."
Hitler tried to emulate the west European slave empires by creating an empire in the east to rival the British Raj. Your German independence was to come from the subjugation of the USSR and anywhere else the nazis fancied helping themselves.
The Daily Express is the British equivalent of Volkischer Beobachter.
Ghadaffi was murdered by American Caesar, using his European vassals. Libya isn't a failed state, it is a murdered state like Somalia, the US empire's first experiment in state-destroying and those that have followed, Syria, Leebanon, Palestine etc.
"Chabad rabbis, specifically Rabbi Menachem Mendel Bleich, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, has expressed his support and admiration for Kyrylo Budanov. Rabbi Bleich has publicly recognized Budanov's bravery and leadership, and has even expressed a personal friendship with him. In a post on Instagram, Rabbi Bleich called Budanov a "true friend" and "Ukrainian Hero". He also celebrated Budanov's birthday and wished him continued success and strength."
Are you ready to declare that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Bleich (the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine) and Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman (another Chief Rabbi of Ukraine) who both ardently support the Ukrainian Banderites are not jews?
Read carefully: "Josef Zissels, the chairman of the Jewish Confederation (Vaad), has defended the government's decision to rehabilitate wartime Ukrainians who massacred Jews."
Jews have no morals. Tribal jewish cohesiveness and profiteering always trump decency. Always.
"Emptying" is an ongoing process; if and when emptied, you will be witnessing large-scale deep penetrations behind enemy lines. You can even write home about it. lol
I have fought hard during this three-year campaign, SMO turned into a war, sandor. It's not easy being an armchair general when your army doesn't follow orders. lol
There are nearly 3 million Ukrainians in uniform, probably 800,000 alone facing 400,000–600,000 Russians in the giant fortified spiderweb of Donbass. The Russian victory will probably not be complete until 2030.
Well considering Russian registered reserves are 30 million the numbers they have deployed are based on force calculations for the achieving of their objectives. What is considered a decisive defeat of Ukraine?
Occupation and demilitarization of Ukraine. If the goal is to just take 4 oblasts and let NATO build up a hostile army right next to Russia then yeah, they have the right amount.
The goals have evolved since the beginning of the SMO until now. The original goal was basically recognition of Crimea, autonomy or independence of the Donbas republics and a signed agreement from the Ukrainian government not to join NATO. When the Ukrainians decided to fight then the four Republics became the evolved goal. Now the goals are possibly the annexation of Novorossiya leaving just a western Ukrainian rump state to burden the EU NATO states. Then there is a link up with Tranistria and a land connection with Kaliningrad these are at minimum what the Russian military may target. The political leadership may risk being decieved again by the West as was historically done throughout history.
They had chosen death instead of surrendering could not really use those brain cells wisely, also where on earth they learned the tactical maneuver? Video games is bad bad example.
Yes but how can they keep this pace? Ukraine was turned into a swollen-lip capitalist distopia with the western mix of money, libertinage, pop culture, individualism, mafia, oigarchy and political fraud long before 2014. Every western country is ruled by the same system. I met Ukranian migrants fleeing this in the early 2000 in France. They werre not listened about what was going on there. I remember Lvov Anatole, a Polish more than a Ukranian and still the proud son of a soviet WWII captain. We could not stand the banderite rising in Lvov. His beutiful Ukranian wife left him to marry a rich petrol tycoon. In France he looked down to us with dispise, because of the zombifies spectacle society we live in. Ukranians embraced the west with a passion, and those who didnt were ostracised and bullied. The society suffered the effects of a fast capitalist transition with devastating effects. That plague was infecting Russia too until the last patriots stopped it. The process forcibly leads to social destruction. Look at the UK and the US now. They are socially destroyed, no society any more. Thatcher claimed there was not such a thing as a society. Here you have the results Maggy. A great state person must forsee for the nation not only for his-her lifespan, but beyond, just in the case she is not just a Rothschild clerk like Maggy or Macron. Thats the difference between you and VVP. Ukraine is going through a purification process, not in the way the nazies intend, but inversely. The better ones like Anatole saw it coming long before. The remaining are now Russians or human sludge with no future.
There is one problem: it seems you hate capitalism. But Ukraine and capitalism? Capitalism needs a free market, free markets need the protection of private property, private property needs the rule of law, and the rule of law needs a clean democratic system. Of course, with this definition, there is no Western capitalist country. And by the way, when the government's share of the economy is well above 50%, this looks more like a socialist state than any form of free market. Sadly for the West, Russia or China is more free market than the EU countries.
1) There has never been and will never be such a thing as free market
2) Capitalism might need a free market, but the goal of any given capitalist is to destroy the free market, establish a monopoly and then collect a private tax for himself on the rest of society.
3) Because there are no limits to greed, the end condition of this process is absolute destitution, servitude and greatly reduced life expectancy for the masses and opulent luxury for the select few "capitalists".
4) There can be no capitalism without perpetual growth, because perpetual growth is how interest is repaid and profits are made. But perpetual growth means with 100% certainty we will all day eventually due to total ecological collapse, because nothing can grow forever in a finite system.
For these, and many other reasons, everyone who supports capitalism as a system has to be mercilessly hunted down and physically exterminated, with absolute zero tolerance to the very idea ever reemerging. Because such people and that idea jeopardize collective survival.
hate is too strong a word. I dont hate. I realise capitalism is a stage of history with particular features and results. It delivers cyclical economic crisis, imperial wars, colonialism... But I wouldnt say everything capitalism has created is wrong. You should revise your political economy notes..They are quite cheesy.
Maybe something completely different. When I grew up, the Maya writings were not decoded. A lot of authors (and believers) told a story of a friendly and not-aggressive culture. There was the proof: Europe and East Asia are evil, but in other places, mankind could live together in peace and harmony. And then some scientists decoded their writings, and these writings were full of greed and evil, war and slaughter. Which leads to a simple question: do you know one, only one, bigger culture without war, without economic (and therefore social) crisis, without criminals, and without conquest?
Not sure - I once saw a pack of feral dogs deliberately trying to force a "house dog" into the traffic. Or they say that the birds sometimes lead other birds to crash into windows to be killed.
I have read Marx and his commends about history. So what is the difference between the economy in the late 19th century, the high tide of capitalism, and the economy of Senatory Rom or, to go back in time, Phoenizin Trade republics or, to leave the Mediteranian, the Ming China after Zheng He? And please do not deviate to more advanced tech-levels, stay with capital, with workforce, with owner class and non-owner class.
Yes, by your definition, there is no Western capitalist country. In the US, Uber takes 60% of its drivers' earnings. I think it's more than even Sweden, while offering nothing in return, just the honors to use the app.
Nice to hear! I live in a country (Austria) where we had the right to have a taxi business within the constitution. This sounds crazy, this is crazy, but some pressure groups wanted this; they spent money on political parties, and then the politicians made a law that owning taxis requires a limited and special government permit. The courts rejected this, as all businesses should be treated equally; therefore, the parliament put this into the constitution. The result was foreseeable. The prices for the consumers exploded, and the drivers were helpless, as they could not get a permit, so they earned less, but some people got very rich! And the drivers would have been happy to get 40%! You see, everywhere the same corruption; some white-collar people siphon off the money, and the real workers can do nothing. (By the way, the two parties that at the time had the necessary majority, two-thirds, are now together at maybe 35%).
I live on the West coast of the US, and travel often across the US for work. I used Uber for 10+ years at least, and I do talk to Uber drivers. Uber used to be cheap in the beginning. And even for a taxi - there were flat rate taxi, and I could get from airport home for just $36 - 16 miles, but to take Uber was even cheaper - $12-15. So, Uber bankrupted taxi business owners, who paid thousands upfront to get their taxi license from the state, and lost customers due to cheaper Uber's rates. Now, Uber went IPO, and from airport to home is $76+. If if I book a pick-up beforehand, they charge extra $6 for "booking," and in LA it's worse, sometimes your trip is $24 but the surcharge is $35 on top, it's really some wild west racket going on. And regardless of what I'm charged by Uber, the drivers are getting a tiny portion of it. Last Dec in LA, Uber sent me a taxi instead of an Uber driver, as many Uber drivers quit when Uber demanded 60% of their income, and it's not worth the hustle for many of them. Surreal
And now a simple question: where do all these price hikes go? Uber made in 2024 some 44bn overall revenue. The free cash flow is 1.7bn, but the cash flow before capital expenditures was 1.8bn?!?!? Even the EBITDA is 1.8bn, showing that they have no capital invested. So real profit (as we Europeans would do it) would be something around 1bn, they give 0.77bn. Take the European accounting; then they have a margin of approx. 2%, I would not invest in such a company—no investment in facilities and only 2% profit. But 26bn in liabilities. This is not sustainable. Maybe they went into the market with a lot of cash, offered a much toooo low price, and now they are struggling to get sustainable market access? (And by the way, they killed a lot of small businesses. Ron Paul was right: End The FED!).
Like the Germans after September 1941, a strategic analysis would lead to the conclusion that defeat was inevitable so standing on the defensive would be an admission of defeat. A few Mickey Mouse attacks to be bigged up by the state media can muddy the waters and allow those who would be deluded to think that it isn't that bad, really....
Ukraine’s repeated attacks on the Kursk region, now targeting Tetkino and Glushkovo, speak less to strategic promise and more to desperation masked as defiance. These incursions, framed as tactical thrusts, are in reality symbolic provocations designed to stir headlines rather than alter frontlines.
With lightly armored columns and under-supported infantry thrown into fortified kill zones, Kyiv sacrifices manpower for fleeting media optics. The aim is to disrupt May 9th celebrations rather than achieve meaningful gains.
Russia, meanwhile, maintains initiative: shaping the battlefield with depth, reserve coordination, and hard power where it counts. The imbalance is stark. One side fights to hold a narrative, the other to secure the map.
Russia hasn't actually been securing much map. In 2024, Russia's net gains in Ukraine were 4000 square kilometers. The size of Rhode Island, the smallest US state. That's 0.0349% of the continental USA - 1/2865.
Piss off back to Langley, and take your little bot "Likers" with you.
Europe has enough materiel for a week's worth of high intensity conflict - where has all the rest gone? Oh yes, Ukraine's steppes to rust.
They have secured a LOT of map, considering the West spent mega-$Bns on building "Impregnable fortresses" over TEN YEARS - with every expectation their provocations would lead to a Russian invasion. It's quite one thing to take 100 miles of empty Libyan desert, very much another to take fortress cities after fortress cities. And once all those fortresses are taken, it's run, run away little Ukrainian conscript, throw away your uniform, and hide as a civilian until this fascist regime collapses like all Western proxies eventually do.
"And, no - "the Western Planners," have NOT been expecting Russia to lose ground."
Ahhh, I can tell you are very wise. So Zelenky's various "Offensives" were actually to simply deplete Ukrainian manpower and lives, rather than to take any land. TBF, I *can* see your point, as that is what actually happened.
I have spent the last 60 years within sound range of the Joint Base Lewis McCord artillery practice range, in NW Washington. For over a year it has been silent for the FIRST TIME EVER in all 60 years. We are out of artillery ammo and have none to practice with.
That was not the narrative at the beginning. Ukraine was going to take back all its territory as well as some Russian stuff, to negotiate from 'a position of strength' (natch). That narrative died a death on the ground..... or went to ground any way. It keeps sending up desperate 'new shoots'.
As for exhausting NATO stocks, that is exactly what Russia-China-NK-Iran have been effectively doing along with Ansar Allah, driving an east-west confrontation to the bottom line of who has best access to the raw material for regeneration (The facts on the ground here speak for themselves). Ansar Allah only pulled back because the US took away the target under the banner of 'job done' (!), but no one fighting this decrepit monster cares what lies it tells its own people, because those people are never going to fight and die for it, not in any quantity. The US has done a runner from a forward position. The rest of NATO is yet to find the courage to take one.
PS Russia's objective has never been about territory (map waving) but security and establishing it LONG TERM. Understand that and you understand the progression of the SMO- moving as it is, according to plan.
Long-term, Russia will be humiliated if it doesn't take the strategic initiative soon and force a surrender. Trump gave the military a trillion dollars for new weapons and to replace the old junk that Ukraine bought. lol
? Biden was supplying humungous weaponry with that wave cresting with the 'throw everything at 'em' counter offensive that went so well. Sullivan himself has just declared that strategy a failure- so best of luck to Trump overwhelming Russia with weaponry. Still, if you only have a hammer everything is a nail, eh?
Viral is correct. If Russia is so strong, why does it not break through the enemy's rear, push deep, and force the AFU lines to retreat and surrender? Everything Russia has done so far is small-scale maneuvers. The Americans would have pushed right through, then surrounded and besieged the forces of Kiev.
I do love the way you are saying that a country that spends 1/20th as much as the combined NATO countries on defence, should be able to treat a NATO, armed, trained and manpowered military, like the US did to an impoverished and defenceless Iraq.
The sheer idiocy of this position makes it BLINDINGLY obvious to everyone else here that you are not a reader of Simplicius.
It's not about dollars or rubles spent. Russia gets much more bang for its buck than the West.
Russia has had 3 years to expand military production and capability and it has done a better job at this than the West. But from the beginning even Russian analysis was that they needed millions of troopers to occupy Ukraine. Russia has a small window right now to leap beyond Western abilities and get a decisive victory and get good defensive positions for a wider war with the West.
Russia needs to conscript a million men now or accept that their will be a hostile enemy near Moscow continually attacking and seeking Russia's destruction as it grows stronger.
Because their goal isn't to take territory, it's to eliminate the Nazi's future military capability. Russia's perfectly happy with attritional warfare.
The reason is the same reason that civilian casualties in this war are so freakishly low, with a combatant : civilian casualty ratio of something like 20 : 1. Russia is not fighting a PR war, and not (as a first priority) fighting a war to seize territory. It is fighting in very restricted parameters designed to a) minimize Russian casualties and maximize Ukrainian military losses, thereby pushing the balance of forces ever-more in Russia's favor, and b) minimize damage to Ukraine outside of its military aspect. Which is why, for instance, the Rada still exists and Zelensky's homes haven't been hit by missiles.
What is your point? -- Russians are not jews. Russians do not carpet bomb civilian population, hospitals, schools, and infrastructure to steal more land. Russia has more than enough of territory and resources.
Russia wanted to have healthy relationships with the collective west. The zionist-captured collective west was used to attack the Russian Federation to do the usual bankers' speciality: to Loot, Rape, Plunder, and Destroy.
“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls the British money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” -- Nathan Rothschild
Thanks. I think "their" sentiment however at the highest level anyway isn't hatred, it's a simple desire to have and maintain control. In my limited understanding I think that's Luciferian. Hatred per se is down the pyramid somewhat, those are more demonic and also within my very limited understanding I guess that's more along the lines of the Talmud. The Rothschilds, the head of the family I suppose is the Pindar, the representative of Satan, who may be an actual entity (although not human per se) but rather a higher-dimensional being. And then luckily there are postively-oriented higher-dimensional beings too.
What if it turns out to be a fundamentally moral universe after all (at least, the part we are aware of and live in)? With actual forces of light and darkness, extending far beyond our normal present human conceptions of time and space? An interdimensional reality which we here now are only partly aware of?
To me this is the most parsimonious explanation for the evil goings-on that continue going on. Also the most satisfying, karma being a bitch and all.
To want to control is a sign of fear. What is it they fear? The loss of the very real control they have now, and that what they have knowingly done to others will be done to them.
And that they will turn out to be "normal", rather than "special".
The entire 'English elite' school system is designed to promote fear upon its inmates, deep emotional needs. I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if other countries did so too.
Russia doesn't need to bomb civilian populations, but it could lay siege to the major cities, so that nothing goes in, nothing goes out. Simple. Instead, we get excuses. What's the holdup?
every single night, every day? Do you work for the BBC? You admit Ukraine is a British proxy war in your posts and still you align with the cheap British propaganda. How ineffective.
I didn't write anything about proxy wars, however it's good that you acknowledge that Ukraine is China's proxy war, chewing up Buryats, Chechens, Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Tuvans, Chuvash, and Ossetians.
Inefficacy - that's you all jerking each other off here - and Russia's air defense. Pretty humiliating for you.
You might want to reevaluate Russian history and the Zionist influence.
Are we sure Putin (after allegedly being approved for leadership by Bill Clinton) really had a change of heart and vanguished the bad Russian oligarchs? Kicked them all out of the country, did he?
Well the acquisition of land is of little importance if the objective is the attrition of the enemy army. When there is no Ukrainian army the Russian military can easily secure land. That's the secret to not fighting for 20 years and failing to achieve objectives. Well in reality the secret is actually having objectives.
Surely also the amount of map secured by Russia is less than the entire lunar territory, and what about that? If you really want to assert that Russia secured little or a lot of map, making comparisons of the absolute value of the amount of territory with another totally unrelated territory, not only doesn't make any sense, but it is misleading. And I imagine you have to know that, right?
Read an article where Ukraine is holding civilians captured in the Kursk region expecting to exchange them for soldiers the Russians captured. Only Nazis could do that without shame.
Oh, no. The German Nazis had shame, whereas the judeo-banderites have none. See Gaza.
"At a festive banquet held at Kyiv's central synagogue, Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, lit the second Hanukkah candle on the menorah alongside the Chief Rabbi and the Israeli ambassador. ... Budanov stated, "The flame of this candle will illuminate our future victory – both ours and that of the State of Israel."
You know we all do this thing, we closely agree on so much, but the internet seems to insist that when we interact, it be in the form of an argument with a clear winner.
It's like it is shameful to pull together on anything, the divide and conquer people have won.
From my limited window the Nazi and Zionists are working together, if not in fact the same people. You seem to somehow hold the German side up as admirable?
The Budanov thing is certainly revealing. Thanks for that.
perhaps you need to ponder for a sec about the enormous efforts of propaganda machine against Germans after WWII. They were demonized as a nation.
Here is a true cause of WWII: "Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime aimed to separate Germany's finances from the international system, primarily through the concept of autarky, which envisioned a self-sufficient German economy. They sought to reduce reliance on international trade and resources, aiming to build a strong, independent economy"
Do you remember the great Muammar Gaddafi whose policies created a gem of North Africa, a country more prosperous than the European vassals to the City of London? Muammar Gaddafi also wanted to introduce Gold Dinar, to which the criminal empire of offshore accounts and money laundering had immediately responded by murdering Muammar Gaddafi and destroying the formerly flourishing Libya.
Remember that global jewry is shameless and sadistic.
You know it started with a very quickly tossed off comment. With your permission I will edit it to say, "Only Zio-Nazis could do that without shame."
I know and love various Jewish people. I would change your quote to read. Remember that global psychopaths are shameless and sadistic.
They hide behind various identities and those who prescribe hatred of all Jews are among their best supporters!
Won't comment on all your points but do see the destruction of Libya as an evil enterprise. Anything done that undermines the petro-dollar is fatal, no matter how righteously progressive the instigator.
Gaddafi's attitude towards women is something we all could learn from! That we assassinate those who so strongly support universal education, is just plain inexcusably, disgusting. His predictions about African to Europe immigration were both prescient and proof of a deep wisdom.
There is a small minority of intelligent and principled Jewish individuals. They are viscerally hated by global Jewry. Don’t try to avoid the fact of the most shameful profiteering on WWII tragedy, the lies, slander, the merciless attacks on historians and engineers and chemists whose research does not agree with the profiteering holobiz schema. They still whine about their incomparable sufferings while propagating lies about 10/7.
Is it an illusion that US congress is an aipac-occupied territory? Is Gaza slaughter is an illusion? Are Friends of Israel in the UK are immaterial?
Before attacking the German Nazi for the lack of moral fiber, why don’t you check on Jacob Schiff, Goloschyokin, Sverdlov, the Sassoons, Leo Strauss, the Kagans’ clan?
Purpose of the SMO is demilitarization of UA not conquering it and advancing is not needed for that.
In fact you better to stay at defend position and grind AFU while they do counter attacks, and sometime do small advances to keep it going. Exactly that is happening.
And after or near demilitarization you will be able to advance anywhere you want without resistance.
It is not war for territory, it is war to nullify country's military power and keep it neutral afterwards. Just getting 4 oblasts with still existing strong AFU on the other side of the river will be a failure in the long run as it will lead to another war.
So demilitarization is needed and if UA is willing to spend all male population in the process then so be it, but I think breaking point will come sooner.
Demilitarization is only possible if all countries that supply weapons to Ukraine presently, stop the flow. I see no evidence of that happening just yet. Ukraine and it's suppliers have also switched to drone production on speed and terrorist acts will increase as we go along.
Those few klm advances need to be multiplied by the 1,000 - 1,200 klm length of the front to realise they are not too shabby.
Then add the amount of Ukie casualties, and lost armour all along the front. Ukie air assets are long gone so not worth mentioning now. Then add the targets hit in the Ukie rear, ammo warehouses and factories, ports, etc.
>Ukraine’s repeated attacks on the Kursk region, now targeting Tetkino and Glushkovo, speak less to strategic promise and more to desperation masked as defiance.
What they speak most about is the Kremlin's total ineptitude and catastrophic self-inflicted failures in this (not)war.
Let's review the sequence of events:
1) In April 2022 they withdrew without a fight to the official border
2) They apparently somehow expected it will be respected
3) But artillery strikes on the civilian population began immediately, over time creating an exclusion zone INSIDE Russian territory
4) Invasion attempts began already in 2023, with the RDK stunts
5) Drones expanded the exclusion zone to 20 km or so
6) Then the large-scale Kursk invasion came in August 2024
7) And, of course, it did not end with that.
At no point in this sequence of events did the Kremlin make any real effort to move the line of contact deep into Chernigov, Sumy and Kharkov so that its own population and territory are safe.
Again, this after having achieved that condition early in the war but surrendering it without a fight.
Let's also remind people that in that region the city of Konotop was taken without a fight, the city of Chernigov was fully encircled, and Sumy was almost encircled too. Had they pushed just a little bit more instead of pulling out without a fight, all that territory would be under Russian control now the same way the Azov Sea coast is.
And nobody has dared ask Putin in his face the inconvenient question why this fiasco was allowed to happen and who is responsible.
The spring is here and Russian forces are dominating on all fronts with overwhelming numbers. The way to stop these Kursk type adventures is by opening a new front toward Odessa and forcing the Ukrainians to give up on Kursk. As soon as they will realize that they can possibly lose Odessa they will start a mad rush toward the South and give up on Kursk. Russia must exploit her own superior strengths displayed on the battlefields. Taking Odessa or the area around it would be a major step toward a victory. The Kursk area from Odessa is a 400 mile trip, one way. Ukraine cannot afford to shuffle major forces between the two locations in open areas where the Russian air force can grind them down.
Just about all reports I have seen state that Russian forces easily out number Ukrainians plus they have major, already trained reserves available. One day they just have to finish this war and the road to victory goes through Odessa.
And yet you are commenting on your own. Bots, then.
Well, when Russia starts repatriating 50 Ukie bodies for each of their own, I shall say that. At the moment however, it's 'only' up to 20-1.
I mean, this is Ukies own figures, and while they lie like, umm, you, their figures can be taken as the minimum level, as the lies are always in their favour.
So I have official numbers, and math, behind me, while you have... apparently western media pravda outlets, because you're such a low-level CIA functionary.
Or is that simply your GOAL - to become a CIA "Influencer"?
Well, you're gonna crash and burn baby, HARD. Should have chosen an easier group to infiltrate.
It's Ukraine's own admission that they are both out numbered and dominated on the battlefield. The laments on Ukrainian national TV saying that Ukraine is out numbered, out planed, out artilleried, out ammunitions, and out supplied in food and medical are duplicated each year for the last two years beginning before Gen Zeluzny's The Economist article but that was the first big crack.
It was the head of C14 who said he was not a neo-Nazi, but a Nazi and it was Ukraine's job to die for the West if it meant hurting Russia. There is no doubt Ukraine is being dominated in Ukraine. The debate is to continue to fight the losing fight or give up.
“It's Ukraine's own admission that they are both out numbered and dominated on the battlefield” - yeah, one faction admits reality, and another shouts, “Ukraine is winning.”
The Russian advances are relatively slow but steady some months ago and show increasing speed. That is very close to dominance. The day must be coming when they will start pushing harder.
It speaks a lot about what happens when Western Intel agencies get full control of a country. Media, Govt, Military, Communications, Legal System, and add to that their pet paramilitary groups.
Looking at the general shape and trend of western countries, I'm not so sure we can feel smug. Not at all.
I know people in 2025 who are still queueing up for covid depopulation bioweapon injections. In the midst of an epidemic of early onset cancer and heart disease in their cadre. You can't fix stupid. Cowardice is universal, most people will do whatever the TV tells them to do.
Unfortunately, a lot of those people who you refer to as gullible, come from a time where they could trust what the medical community told them, and will continue to do so till they die. I am of course talking about an older generation:
Older people are often perceived as more gullible, but a more accurate term might be trusting—particularly in the context of how society operated during their formative years. Many older generations grew up in a time when institutions were more trusted, social interactions were more face-to-face, and community ties were stronger. Trust was often seen as a default position, not something to be earned.
Here are a few key factors to consider:
Cultural Norms: In mid-20th century Britain (and many other countries), values like honour, integrity, and "a man’s word is his bond" were widespread. People relied on each other more and expected decency in return. That upbringing can lead to a lasting tendency to give others the benefit of the doubt.
Cognitive Changes: As people age, there are some changes in brain function—especially related to risk assessment and memory—that can make it harder to detect deceit or manipulation. This doesn’t mean they’re foolish, but they might be more vulnerable to well-crafted scams, particularly those that play on emotion or fear.
Less Tech Savvy: Older adults may not be as familiar with modern scams, especially those involving technology. Their trusting nature meets an environment they weren’t socialised to navigate—phishing emails, fake websites, and AI-generated fraud.
Desire for Connection: Loneliness and isolation, common among older adults, can make them more receptive to contact—whether from telemarketers, scammers, or even con artists—simply because they crave interaction.
In short, they’re not necessarily more gullible by nature, but more conditioned to trust due to the values and experiences of their youth. That trust, when exploited in a harsher, more cynical modern world, can lead to vulnerability.
A very good point. Because we are told again and again the press gangs especially target the Russian-speaking population in the Galician area, they are less active. Therefore, a lot of Ukrainian servicemen must be Russian speakers. We should expect these people to turn their weapons against the Ukrainian commanders. But I can not see this happening. Some part of the story we are told seems to smell fishy.
They bow to US financial sanctions, since oil is bought and sold in dollars. If that doesn't work, then the US has no qualms with bombing countries till they do.
Just ban drones already like mustard gas. Bring back chemical warfare then. War is so gay right now. How fun would it have been brawling on battle cruisers or in a phalanx. Now you get hit by high explosive on a 4 wheeler.
The City of London gives orders and the Ukrainian forces again try to attack the Kursk region.
The pernicious judaic indoctrination has been showing its true nature this century: from Nuland-Kagan collaborating with the Ukrainian Nazi Party to initiate Judea War on Russia (and none of the major jewish organizations and synagogues has ever noticed the collaboration) to the ongoing real Holocaust in Gaza (and none of the major jewish organizations and synagogues has demanded to stop the mass slaughter of children and women).
The damned tribe is cohesive, shameless, sadistic, and hypocritical. Their hatred of "others" is legendary. Their annual declaration of kol-nidre is nothing but an open insult to all societies which the tribe leeches to:
"All vows, prohibitions, oaths, bans, renunciations, penalties, or invocations of the divine by which we have vowed, sworn, renounced, or foresworn anything from this Yom Kippur to an auspicious next Yom Kippur, we repent of them all. We repudiate them. All of them are undone, abandoned, cancelled, null and void, not in force, and not in effect." -- Judaists are agreement-incapable liars and traitors.
Condolences to a small minority of decent Jewish individuals who understand the degeneracy and anti-human essence of judaism. Nothing can be done to ameliorate the situation. Their supremacist lunacy makes jews immune to reason.
Anything less than a Ukrainian surrender will result in a strategic blunder for Russia.
The US and EU have already started the process of rearming in preparation for the next war with Russia. These countries have been given no reason to fear Russia. By allowing Ukraine to exist in its current form, Russia will essentially be giving NATO and its proxies a close-proximity springboard to attack it with more significant force. By defeating Ukraine, Russia would expand its buffer zone and set up strategic defences closer to the west of Ukraine and pummel invading forces as they crossed the border. Ukraine's unconditional defeat would demonstrate Russian might is right, putting NATO on a more cautious footing. It would also mean that Trump's resource agreement with Zelensky would be null and void, giving Putin leverage to re-negotiate a deal in a way that would buffer out the EU. Business is business. The US and Trump would not discriminate against Russia if it sees an opportunity to profit. Russia would profit from its newly acquired resources while keeping the EU in check, as the US would not want any interference affecting its profits from its new resource cash cow. But first, Russia must force Ukraine's military and political capitulation as soon as it can.
I’ve listened to Stani’s interviews on the Duran before. He’s no nonsense plain talking guy who knows what he’s talking about. I get a kick listening to him speak, I have numerous Ukie uncles and cousins and they all talk like that with a trace of accent and a warped cynical sense of humour. But seriously, he is very well informed and up-to-date, a reliable source.
Doubt Russia can force anyone with the perspective of doing a SMO.
It is only a matter of time until Ukraine, with the little help from ”partners”, will launch a massive and deadly attack on Moscow. If Russia then is still SMO-ing I doubt they will ever win. The best Russia then can hope for is not to lose and gain a ”draw.”
Mikey, I think the Russians could force a Ukrainian surrender, but the will isn't there for whatever reason. If Russia fails to force a surrender, it'll have a serious problem down the line. Russia must force a surrender. So many people just don't get it.
Agree fully. A negotiated ”peace” will only be a continuation of the hostilities and the seed for another War.
A surrender of Ukraine is better but no one has envisioned exactly how that scenario would unfold. Perhaps Russia has and came to the conclusion that it is not worthwile.
A ”surrender” has many problems to solve:
1. Suppose Yermak&Co leave for Tel Aviv - who would come next. Butcher X or Psychopath Yuril?
2. Will Ukraine lay down their weapons or just flee to Poland and Romania?
3. Will Macron, Starmer and Metz abstain from enter Ukraine territory?
4. Can Russia occupy and disarm the Ukraines fast enough without creating large bands of Partisans?
5. Can Russia take care of the administration and chaos that follows?
6. Can Russia create enough calm and organize Ukraine to function in a couple of years? Or will it take decades to rebuild?
Therefore I think Putin made a blunder when he started with the small perspective of SMO. Ukraine is a larger chunk than the Crimean peninsula. He has admitted the Russian was fooled and underestimated what West/US/Ukraine had been doing up to 2014. And after.
And now Russia has settled for four oblasts. And all ”offensives” are focused on pressing out the AFU from those oblast, not taking the whole of Ukraine.
>4. Can Russia occupy and disarm the Ukraines fast enough without creating large bands of Partisans?
Which is better? Fighting partisans or fighting well equipped real armies with Leopard tanks, Bradley IFVs, drone swarms in the millions and aviation support?
I think the answer is obvious.
Also, partisans are almost impossible to sustain in the modern world because of electronic communications and the total surveillance of those communications, plus drones overflying and watching everything.
The OUN/UPA lasted into the 1950s thanks to there being none of those things and being able to hide in the forests and in basements. Not possible now.
Just trying to figure out why Putins Russia hasnt gone all-in on Ukraine. What is holding them back? And why just settle for the four oblast and then thinking all is ok? It is something missing in the picture.
And I know your standing about Putins play.
Yes. Fighting partisans from the military view is better than an well-armed army but I am thinking from a ”peace-time” administrations view struggling with getting all back to ”normal”. You dont want to have PTSD:s running around and killing officials….
I can tell you why - the Russian leadership does not want to make war on what it still sees as its sadly misguided brethren. Russia does not want to destroy the West but to join it.
Needless to say, this reticence causes the West to smell blood.
The one thing all successful insurgencies have in common is a young population. The median age in Yemen is something like 19. The median age in Ukraine was over 40 - and that from before the war.
The markets obvious see it differently. The US government debt market is the largest most liquid and sophisticated securities market on earth, and yields on treasuries are not signaling anything like "crisis imminent".
It would be interesting if you did an "Anduril" special, because they are making a lot of noise and snappy videos of their kit which in most cases looks like analogues of stuff we have seen on the front. Question is, did they copy & improve, or is it still behind?
It's all about "stock, contract and money". Were it was "real shooting war" there would be nothing come out of the west, without the need of Russia to firing Nukes.
There is a small detail if the plan to strike the actual victory parade rather that the rehearsals were to go ahead: the presence of Xi (and a few other foreign grandees) at the parade, in addition to civilians. Of course, I can easily imagine the more radical wing of the Garden of Knowledge commentariat salivating at the consequences of a potential Putin-Xi doublé royal (let's launch the fireworks) but still I find it really difficult to imagine the collective West allowing the full monty to go ahead....
One sure thing in this uncertain world: the Russian and Chinese "designated survivors" on May 9 are likely to be of a higher caliber than usual.
There is contrast ideal between those Western Christian and Eastern Orthodoxy, with the later believe in martyrdom which will elevate their status in heaven. As for those AngloZioNazis, they will simply go to hell. For the Chinese they will reincarnate.
I think China probably said something to Kyiv along the lines of "If you attack the parade - Russia will get all the Chinese arms and ammo to take all of Ukraine; starting with the flattening of Kyiv government buildings, ie their Parliment, by long range missiles fired from China"; or something like that.
The Red Square is going to be the most heavily AAD inhabited piece of this planet on May 9. The 500 drone strike was a Ukrainian test of the system, trying to gauge just what they need to launch to actually strike the square.
Just an idea that sprang to mind, but maybe deploying say, half a dozen suicide bombers in the crowd or the immediate area would cause some significant disruption, and certainly p!ss on the Parade. Question remains; could Kiev find the necessary volunteers ? I honestly don't know, but as the above article recounts, they found enough to attempt the re-invasion of Kursk.
If you can imagine it, so can Russian security, so they will have counters in place. Can they cover the entire parade route? I doubt it, but any such disturbance will (should) be far from Red Square.
Not a good idea. Why can Israel dominate the political landscape, because the Palestinians resolved to terror. The attack on the Olympic Games in Munich gave them a lot of media coverage, but also pushed a lot of people from a neutral stance to hate mode against the Palestinians. As there will be a lot of foreign tourists within the crowd, this kind of terror would lead to a world wide reaction.
Can't agree more. Moreover, the number of drones until end of May 7 summed up to 570 ca., with > 300 per day the days before, nearly 2000 over the week, including one autonomous boat attack (30 BEK). The results were less than humble 50-100 drone attacks the months before, 95% approx. shot down without damages. If this was a test, the result was fairly clear.
One method to keep track for the UAV was and prolly still is using Russian mobile SIM cards in UAVs. This is countered by switching off and on mobile networks once UAV are spotted. It is then possible to identify mobile entities crossing abnormally long distances in short time by IMSI catching. This information also gives hints where and by whom the SIM was acquired, stuff for the FSB.
The latest refurb propaganda weapon (we have been here before) is to rewrite Russian objectives to be able to say it is failing (hey ho!) despite its steady progression everywhere that counts. You can find traces of this in the comments.
Russia has been fighting the entire collective west, or rather its arm's length extension through motley mercs (including corrupt Ukraine), and that takes a steady hand on the tiller. Exhausting NATO stock has had to be a core aim of a background Russia-China-NK-Iran alliance backed in the ME by Ansar Allah. The object is to drive the wide east-west confrontation to the bottom line of who has best access to the raw material for regeneration (The facts on the ground here speak for themselves).
Ansar Allah only pulled back because the US took away the target under the banner of 'job done' (!), but no one fighting this decrepit monster cares what lies it tells its own people, because those people are never going to fight and die for it, not in any quantity. The US has done a runner from a forward position. The rest of NATO is yet to find the courage to take one.
Russia's objective has never been about territory (map waving) but security and establishing it LONG TERM. Understand that and you understand the progression of the SMO- moving as it is, according to plan.
Long-term security requires added territory to act as a buffer, Julianne. If it wasn't about territory, why did Russia add 4 provinces of what was Ukrainian land? You contradict yourself, dear.
Thanks for the support but he simply took my statement out of its context. It is all about establishing security although there are other issues like the lack of security enabling Ukraine to persecute ethnic Russians who were until recently within its territorial (sic) borders. Did he really call me 'dear'? Bless. He decided to edit that out!
I call you dear out of respect for ladies, but you get all upset at me for pointing out an inconsistency which you corrected here:
"I meant it is not about territory per se, but in the context of establishing security. Sorry if I did not make that clear. How else is Russia to establish its security? In a Platonic abstract world of" Then you get upset with me for pointing it out.
It's all cool, Denis. I don't mind being called 'dear'. The point is Russia is not on an imperialist rampage, just securing itself from obvious and immediate alien threats. Of course eastern Ukraine actually voted to join the RF. Russia is giving effect to a democratic self determination, one of those UN fundamental rights.
I meant it is not about territory per se but in the context of establishing security. Sorry if I did not make that clear. How else is Russia to establish its security? In a platonic abstract world of forms? If the west escalates the challenge then establishing security may well mean taking all Ukraine- as Sergey Petrov has actually said.
I have a question on the: Russia-China-NK-Iran alliance. In Sudan the Russians seems to support the one side, the Iranians the other - or did I miss a detail? It would be good to hear more about the other conflicts! This seems all to be interlocked.
>The latest refurb propaganda weapon (we have been here before) is to rewrite Russian objectives to be able to say it is failing (hey ho!) despite its steady progression everywhere that counts.
The minimal winning condition for Russia is that Ukrainian statehood ends.
Is that a realistic prospect under the current rules of engagement and with the current speed of progress? No.
Therefore Russia is failing. And because this is an existential war, it is failing catastrophically.
>Russia has been fighting the entire collective west
Correction: the "entire collective west" has been fighting Russia. Russia on the other hand has not fired a single shot that that "entire collective west", just repeatedly turning the other cheek.
I wonder if when this war is settled if Russia might just issue some kind of proclamation, decree, promise, or whatever - that warns the west that any future feckery would immediately trigger Oreshnik launches towards,,, say Brussels, Berlin, Paris, and London? Or even Washington and Ottawa? Although I doubt Ottawa would warrant that kind of expense.
Assuming this war actually has some sort of ending that is not a vast sea of mushroom clouds - that is. Maybe that is the reason behind the recent craze of eating bugs. Likely whom ever survives the nuclear winter would have to exist mainly on cock -a- roaches so you may as well get used to eating bugs now so it won't add to the stress of surviving nuclear armeggedon. Now, I just made up that theory on bugs but it sounds likes something that might be believed, especially on social media.
I digress.....
I'm sure this war will get studied extensively in the future and I'd sure like to find out who thought that these raids into Russia is the best thing they can do with thier diminishing Forces; while other areas of the line are being pushed back. I suppose an argument can be made that this is some sort of "active defense" to keep the Russians from attacking towards Sumy or Kyiv. After all - this is the internet where anything can be argued. I think these raids and the Krinky adventure will be forever remembered as disasters. Hopefully there are no more future disasters like this.
I kinda think that once the first Battalion or Brigade makes a break for the other side of the Dnieper - that that would lead to the rest, or a majority of them, also breaking contact and heading for the bridges. Speaking of bridges - I'm sure this will be studied as well - I do wonder why the bridges crossing the Dneiper were never destroyed. I would expect it would be very difficult to supply Ukrainian Armies at the front without these bridges. I'm sure there is some tactical reason behind it and I'm sure in the future we may or may not find out what that may or may not be.
” I'm sure this war will get studied extensively in the future”. Agree. It is a War. But if you argue about this being a War you have Galtsky&Co yelling ”SMO!”
It is a War like it was 1941 prior to Pearl Harbour. Who thought 1941 that 80 German cities would be eradicated and millions of japanese civilians grilled by Le May and vaporized by nukes? What is in store for us in 2027? Will we ever have a chance to study this War?
There are so many confounding aspects of this War. Russias restraint to destroy 10-14 main bridges over Dniepr for example. Ukraine will blow them as soon as Russian recons come within 1 km…
The de-nazifying narrative without decapitating the leadership???
The attrition War that seems to never result in a crumbling of the Uki forces in big scale….
>Russias restraint to destroy 10-14 main bridges over Dniepr for example. Ukraine will blow them as soon as Russian recons come within 1 km…
Yes, indeed, they will be blown up by Ukraine when Russians are close, which means Russians can only gain by doing it now and isolating eastern Ukraine.
The rumor circulating for years is that it has not been done because the relevant oligarchs ordered the Kremlin not to do it because it would hurt their commodity export businesses.
"Relevant oligarchs" not necessarily meaning just Russian ones.
That hypothesis cannot be dismissed.
It is quite well established that Mariupol was destroyed for precisely such a reason -- back in 2014 Azov withdrew and the DNR was about to take the city when the order came from Moscow to halt the advance. Why? Because Rinat Akhmetov called Putin and ordered him to do so. The reason being that if Mariupol went under sanctions that would have left him without a port, as all the others were Kolomoysky's feudal possessions and they hated each other.
Read that again.
Akhmetov (Ukrainian oligarch) orders Putin (the Russian president) to surrender a key city without a fight for his own personal business interests, which Putin duly complies with, resulting later on in the city being destroyed, some 10,000 Russian soldiers dying, 20-30,000 civilians too, and the SMO failing.
Yes, the SMO failing, because imagine Mariupol did not have to be taken and that force was sent towards Nikolaev and Odessa instead. One should be able to easily see how the catastrophes cascade from that fateful decision back in 2014 -- the BSF has been pushed out of Crime and holed up on Novorossyisk and NATO flies recon planes all over the Black Sea as an eventual consequence of it.
For that alone Putin should be charged with treason and publicly executed, and it is a minor such act in the grand scheme of things.
So yeah, it is not hard to imagine similar considerations determining decision making here too.
After all we all remember the grain deal and the ammonia pipeline.
Niggle. Clauswitz also talked about Purpose, Goal and strategy. The aims are political, but the means are military.
Pinprick attacks on Moscow serve no military purpose because they do not affect the Russian "Centres of Gravity".
The hope is that these raids will so demoralised the Russians that they implode. It's a pipe dream. Did they implode with the Wehrmacht 30 miles from the Kremlin?
These raids are as pointless as German V1 strikes in 1944.
You forget the flip side of the political/propaganda coin, which is to bolster Ukraine's image, both internally and, more importantly, with its external supporters.
Long time readers of this Substack understand that without that external support, we would be counting down the days for Russia to reach the Polish border.
Those external supporters *need* to see/show that Ukraine is still "in the game".
"These raids are as pointless as German V1 strikes in 1944." These attacks were for internal consumption, to bolster the claim that Germany needed time, rather than that it was running out.
Chris, you raise a couple of interesting questions in your comment, but I only want to comment on the 'bridges across the Dneiper' portion of your question. I am not an expert on the topic, but I've looked into the question of 'why are the Dneiper bridges still standing' question quite a bit, and here's what I've heard (and it sounds reasonable to me).
One of the problems of taking down those bridges (and the dams that are across the river and that also operate as bridges) is that those structures are very 'hard to hit' and 'hard to take down' (they are relatively thin and narrow and very very sturdily built on purpose by the Soviets to make them hard to take down in a war).
To take down such a sturdy structure, you have to get an extremely powerful warhead(s) to connect with the bridge / dam in exactly the right spot from an engineering perspective (close calls and hits on things like just the roadway are not enough) -- and that's hard to do. Plus, you can't just hit one of the engineering 'sweet spots' (like a key pylon for a bridge) -- you pretty much have to hit them all if you want to keep that crossing down for an extended period of time (it depends on the design of the specific target selected, but once again these bridges and dams are over-built from a design standpoint on purpose). Lots of conventional cruise missiles and / or conventional theatre ballistic missiles would be needed (or aircraft if you could get them there to use glide bombs) -- and drones probably can't carry the payload you would need to do real damage -- and that is both expensive (in terms of losses to air defense and due to opportunity cost -- you could do other useful things with those assets) and not fool-proof (think of how many weapon hits it took to knock down two Russian-controlled bridges and one dam around Kherson -- and those were targets that were relatively close to the contact line, not deep into the enemy's rear areas). So, it's a difficult and expensive long range deep strike 'ask' for any military using conventional weapons.
Tactical nukes would probably work -- but they are problematic ('look, Russia used a nuke!' -- especially since these targets are usually in urban areas), and unconventional weapons like Oreshniks are presently scarce (plus, it might be really embarrassing if they 'missed' or 'failed to fully do the job', plus currently the less the West sees of the Oreshnik the less chance the West has to understand / counter it -- if you were the Russians, you might not want to 'waste' it on something like a railroad bridge that might be ultimately easily repaired). That's the 'technical' argument I've heard made.
The political argument is slightly different. Assuming you could knock down all of those bridges, then what happens? Yes, you (for a short-to-intermediate time period) disrupt the Ukrainian ability to ship food, fuel, parts, ammunition, equipment, etc between east and west Ukraine (that is useful and not to be underestimated). But you probably don't cut everything off entirely(there are always ferries, pontoon bridges, second and tertiary routes, and stockpiles east of the Dneiper) and your enemy will likely repair some or all of the main crossings to some level of usefulness relatively quickly (think of how quickly Russia built and repaired the Crimean bridge when it was attacked). So is it worth to escalate things politically just to partially and temporarily disrupt Ukrainian logistics? Probably not.
The other political problem you create attacking the bridges and dams is the civilian damage you cause. There is the collateral damage caused by the explosions themselves, and there is the wide-spread flooding of civilian river areas when those dams violently burst apart, and there is the general humanitarian pain and suffering (and negative public relations impact) caused by the transportation disruption which results in civilian food shortages, families being cut off from one another, civilian economy work stoppages, etc. In the grand scheme of things and from a WW2 strategic bombing perspective, some will dismiss all of that and say 'boo hoo' -- but that is still a political escalation decision (like knocking down 100% of all Ukrainian power and water distribution) that the Russian leadership is not willing to take at this time (and maybe that is wise). Furthermore, if there is some sort of total Ukrainian regime collapse (and say a new, future, neutral or pro-Russian state), then those bridges and dams are going to be needed (and very expensive to replace) -- so may be the 'military gain' of taking down those crossings just isn't worth the 'political' cost for Russia.
In summary, I don't think that 'dropping the Dneiper bridges' is necessarily an easy thing to do nor necessarily a good decision for Russia. Eventually, if and when the Russians reach the Dneiper, I think it likely that someone (probably the Ukrainians) will blow those bridges and dams (at least the ones at risk of capture) and blowing the bridges and dams with pre-placed engineering charges is not so difficult a task to accomplish (with competent ground-based engineering demolition forces). But dropping those bridges from afar isn't going to happen (in my guesstimate).
Yes, I think that was likely the reason for Russia's retreat in Kherson. But the difference is that there were really only two bridges to attack at Kherson -- and they were in range of many weapon systems (including ATCAMS and Himars and Storm Shadows and probably even some longer range tube artillery etc) because the Ukrainian army was relatively close to those targets. This gave the Ukrainians more shots at fewer targets. And to cause problems for the Russians, the Ukrainians didn't really need to drop the bridges -- just make using them periodically disrupted (e.g. damage the roadway) and difficult to use and repair while under fire. That was enough to upset the logistics of the Russian forces across in Kherson (and increase the risk that may the Ukrainians might get lucky and damage the bridges completely, which would have trapped heavy equipment and supplies across the river -- therefore it was better to retreat to more reliable positions on the east bank of the river).
Note too that the two Kherson bridges didn't really collapse completely either but since the line of contact went right along the river, neither side could easily repair the damaged structures, so the bridges remain unusable to this day.
The Ukranians, however, would not have that problem if the Russians hit the upper Dneiper bridges today (they are far behind the front lines and repair crews could operate more or less unimpeded after each attack). So you get a scenario were hitting the upper Dneiper bridges is both harder to do (than the Kherson bridges) and easier to repair -- so probably not a great strategy for Russia.
The main problem with the Russian force on the right bank was that it was too extended, from Kherson, Berislav, Kakhovka down all the way to Nikolayev oblast border, and the shores of the Ingulets river. Most of the soldiers were mobilized DNR and LNR forces together with some Spetsnas, Marine, and Airborne troops.
At that time, UAF counted around a million of combat troops while all Russian and allied forces no more than 150,000, maybe double on conclusion of the partial mobilization.
Also, there was always the threat of the Kakhovka dam being blown up, creating a logistical nightmare for the troops west of the Dnyepr.
Mind that the UA army was the largest in all Europe west of Russia in 1922:
https://i.imgur.com/7GDnt4t.jpg . The number of tanks does not include a reserve of other about 2500 MBT (mostly T-64BV) in different states of readiness or repair/disrepair.
I agree that taking down bridges, especially Soviet built ones, is not an easy task. Yet I think you overestimate the difficulty. I would reckon 4-5 heavy load (500+kg) warheads specialized for the purpose would suffice to severely damage every bridge, leaving the rest of the job to Geran and similar, even FABs if in range (the SU-57 operate nearly unhindered in Ukrainian skies) to finish the target and prevent repair.
Yet it would not need to take out every bridge at a time, not even every railway bridge. Only those are really significant for military logistics where we are talking about several thousands, even some ten thousands of tons every day. That can't be done by Nova Poshta trucks, except for the last miles. And doubtfully by 600V-3KV electrified trasses.
There are 2 25KV bridges in Kiev, and 2 750V (one light railway line over the Dnyepr hardly counts). Next south is a non electrified line over the dam north of Kanew which ends in the nowhere short northeast of the dam.
Next is the bridge at Cherkassy, this is a relevant 25KV line (1 track only as it seems), followed by a non electrified lane over the dam of the Kremechuk hydropower plant. It may be relevant though as it is connected to rail tracks to river port facilities. Then, further south in Kremenchuk proper, there is one bridge with another 25KV line.
South of it, there are only three bridges with 3KV lines, over the dam in Kamjanskoye, and 2 more in Dnyepropetrovsk proper. Though better than mere Diesel traction they provide less load, less speed.
In summary, over the Dnyepr we have 4 25KV electrified crossings, as many 600-750V, 3 3KV lines, and 2 non electrified (one ending in the open).
Also there is the Zatoka bridge over the Dnyester in the southwestern part of the Odessa oblast. This one has been bombed a couple of times, I am not sure whether it is operational atm.
Honestly, though I am no friend of armchair generaling, I can't believe that the RF lacks the maybe 100-150 precision charges to take these bridges out. Maybe there are other considerations not to do it. But many Russian milbloggers, not only superpatriots or self esteemed better high commanders, share that view.
That's great detail and a very plausible scenario -- thanks for sharing that. It's access to data like that which really helps a person understand the nuances of what is going on. Some day in history there will be good discussion of what they did and why (i.e. which reasons or combination of reasons were most important for their decisions), but until then it is likely the answer is 'it is possible and could be done ... if it is deemed important enough to incur the various costs of doing it ...'. -- it must be that, for whatever reason, it is not important enough (yet) compared to other things or worth the trade-off's. Interesting stuff -- thanks again.
” an armored group of one tank and an armored vehicle went on the offensive from Iskriskovshchina and Budka to cut off Tetkino from the north.”
Pfeew! The perspective of what an offensive is has been distorted long since. It is like when Hitler manoeuvred his ”Divisions” on a giant map of Eastern Front when they actually had only a battalions strenght.
A good report, Simplicius!
And AMK-mapping has explained the Russian way to sneak behind the defensive lines of Toretsk. Hope they will have time to reap the resulting breakdown of Ukraines defences until the Orange man changes his mind again. Read on RT that an CIA-analyst has said US provided just enough of weapons for Ukraine to ”bleed” but not to lose or win. I think this is the strategy,Trump will continue.
I cant help to think what is coming after the War is over. All these soldiers with knowledge of FPV-war and ability to build them for themselves…Disgruntled Ukrainians will wreck havoc in European cities paid by Islamists.
Are they acting "to spoil" the party? Or because there's a war going on?
Seems I hit a nerve in online Russky Mir. Unlike many here, I can't spend all day online. But I'll address "good faith" comments this evening (timezone USAID).
Well, it's been an interesting ongoing discussion on whether Russia's May 9th parade is a 'legitimate target'. One supposes that it is, technically speaking. However, the problem with the argument of hitting it on May 9th is that Russia has been doing a week or more of rehearsals with all the same troops, equipment, etc., which will appear on May 9th: the only difference? The rehearsals don't feature crowds of civilians.
So if Ukraine wanted to make the argument for hitting military assets "in the open", why not hit the rehearsals? Why wait until the 9th when the parade is filled with crowds of people? This would prove Ukraine's true motive in wanting to create as much civilian collateral casualties, which is a war crime.
Now Putin has *allegedly* threatened a response with the Oreshnik on Kiev, but that's likely what master-of-drama Zelensky would love to see, so he can turn the spectacle into a sympathy session for Ukraine.
They didn't target Moscow, except for airports. Your blurb was about whatever is going on around Kursk, but you framed it as intended to spoil Victory Day. It's been going on for years. Calling a brief timeout for a party? Kinda selfish, no?
"Calling a brief timeout for a party? Kinda selfish, no?"
No, it's not. The ceasefire is for three days to cover the day Victory Day is celebrated in Ukraine as well.
It's only nazi-loving scum in the West who don't celebrate the defeat of Germany in WW2. The most vicious, most totally evil nation that ever arose in Europe - Germany - was thoroughly defeated. That the nazi regime in Kiev does not want celebrations of the defeat of their fellow nazis is yet more proof that the regime in Kiev really are a bunch of vicious nazis.
The great majority of people in Ukraine have for 80 years celebrated the defeat of Germany and the liberation of their people and territory from German scum. The Russian ceasefire allows them to celebrate in safety.
Leave it to the perverted and evil West to try to twist that.
You know, the more this conflict goes on the more I'm reminded of how Gorbachev was totally wrong when in the wake of the putsch against him he said "this proves the communist party must be reformed" and how every person with common sense was instead thinking "this proves the communist party must be destroyed." Just like that, the more the West does evil like whitewash the crimes of Germany in WW2 and of the Kiev regime today, this proves that the evil governments of Europe, UK and even the US must not be reformed, they must be removed. They are beyond being healed, just like a dog in the late stages of rabies.
The whole shit show makes more sense when you finally deduce that the West is fascist and was always thus. The laundry list of genocide and piracy has bullet points too numerous to name. The solution? To quote the above is the only way forward:
"the evil governments of Europe, UK and even the US must not be reformed, they must be removed. They are beyond being healed, just like a dog in the late stages of rabies.
People in Ukraine do not celebrate May 9. Guess when they stopped?
They moved it to May 8 and called it "Europe Day" - still it is (supposedly) a country-wide celebration that the three day ceasefire would respect.
Of course. The Ukrainian identity and celebration is wrapped in burning Russian-speaking peoples alive while locked inside a building.
Definitely the identity of non-humans.
They get arrested when trying. It has started radicalizing since the Maidan coup. First, people were harrassed and abuse "only" by Nazi activists, later, all Victory Day celebration was banned. There have been some demonstrations though over the years. Nowadays, showing reverence for Victory Day risks at least 6 years in prison.
I suspect you know all that, and are just a Nazi troll.
Please stop feeding this boring Nazi troll and his sock puppet "Free Radical"
Celebrating May 9 is a criminal offense in Ukraine, IIRC.
Not surprised. My brother (pro-war/pro-Ukraine) but we both celebrate May 9. Our paternal line is hard-core military all the way to the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. Only this year, for the first time in congrats he managed to stuff pro-Ukraine "winning" nonsense, and proceeded with the same in his call. Blood is blood, but there is only so much nonsense one can take. I had to very maturely hang-up on him :-)
You are insane, Germans are not the enemy in WW2. Look at the World today and blame the usury banking lot. The Allies fought the wrong Country in WW2, your love of Stalin and your love of Communism is showing., with it your love of Zionism.
"Germans are not the enemy in WW2." Thanks for definitively letting everybody know you're a vicious creep. Adios.
Did your mom have any kids that aren't retarded?
Most of Ukrainians, of all ethnicities, are descendants of Victors in WWII, including El Presidente Ze himself, non-entity traitor to his grandfather's cause. They would like to celebrate it and be proud, dissident Ukrainian telegram channels write about this day with pride.
Current UA regime and their idols, e.g. OUN-M/B, UPA, Sich, Mazepas, Banderas, Konovalets, Shukevichs etc, are historically losers. Like their puppet masters. So it was, so it will be. так было, так будет.
Unfortunately, again, accompanied with 100ks of casualties. But result will be the same.
Spare me the "master of drama Zelensky," garbage, drama guy. Oreshnik, Oreshnik!"
"World War 3!"
Ukraine's not going to strike a huge parade full of civilians. Even Russia limit their strikes to hospitals, schools, churches, theaters, apartment blocks and such.
Ukraine "struck" a concert hall with a terrorist attack, killing over a hundred civilians.
Like the Western countries, Ukraine DESIRES to kill civilians.
Accusations as confessions. Here in the evil, imperialist USA we see video clips of destroyed civilian Ukranian targets nearly every day. They can't all be fake
Now invert reality for me again.
:Slams your face against a screen while it plays images of Gaza:
Now THAT is what happens when an army does not care about civilian casualties. Of course there are accidents in war, and Russia has kept tally and apologised for each one. However, MANY of those destroyed Ukrainian civilian targets were destroyed by Ukraine themselves, usually by misfiring AD missiles coming back down.
I mean, when a bunch of Azov Nazis march into a village, line up every pro-Russian in the village in the street, and then murder them one by one - and RUSSIA gets the blame for this atrocity by Western media; I'm surprised you bother watching lamestream media at all. Unless of course, you like to be lied to.
Gaza: 2-300,000+ dead civilians.
Ukraine: 2-3000 dead civilians.
Israel: Over half the dead Israelis from the Oct breakout were killed by the IDF itself and then covered it up.
Ukraine: C/P from above.
Whereas the Ukrainians have INTENTIONALLY targeted civilians, in Donbas, Crimea, and Russia itself.
People who follow professional paid liars in the lamestream media are the most misinformed people in Western society - and that's media Academics who have said that after peer-reviewed studies.
Maybe you should actually READ some of your host's works, it's just a thought. It would seem apropos.
We're not talking about Israel.
Otherwise, whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better, 20:1 boy.
Here in the imperial evil USA we see civilian targets presented by a media and government complex that pays for edited news. Propaganda is legal for the US to use on it's own citizens.
The US has gotten caught paying for over 90% of Ukraine's media budget and and manipulating all levels of Ukraine's government per CIA admission as advisors.
When you say it all can't be wrong as if that makes most true or the majority true it dismisses any knowledge of how the US has crafted entirely fake narratives for decades verified by US government documents released through FOIA onto US government websites like the CIA Reading Room. There has not been one honest US war in any of our lifetimes. Ukraine is part of the pattern.
Think tank policy papers like the 2019 RAND Corporation - Extending Russia make it abundantly clear US efforts were premeditated in Ukraine, and Moldova, Georgia, Syria, and application of sanctions.
The biological weapons labs are US fact created by 29 August 2005 treaty still on the US State Dept website. The contracts assigning the work to Black & Veatch by DoD are still on the US GSA website.
The CIA admitted to 20 site being set up in 2014 with negotiations and planning predating that.
Undersecretary Victoria Nuland said in 2013 the US spent over $5 billion to promote regime change friendly to the US from 1991 to 2013.
The US gov bragged about helping change Ukraine's gov through the Orange Revolution in 2004. The western Guardian newspaper documented US NGOs and other Western agencies helping the US State Dept / USAID carry out a coup.
As for civilian targets. The vast majority of Russian targets are distinctly military as assessed by the US DoD and briefed in formal sessions in Europe and the US. Civilian casualties are very low for a conflict of the violence present in Ukraine. And compared to US doctrine which is to take out all utilities, communications, and essential infrastructures as the US did in Iraq and Yugoslavia, the Russians have bent over backwards to spare the civilian population in a way the US does not do and has not done.
Remove military targets in civilian areas. Remove self-inflicted damage Ukraine caused (AD gone wrong), remove staged events, and there is not much that does not count as a a military target. You can find some war crimes. It is by no means the norm or Russian doctrine, admitting that pictures of POWs by either side is technically a war crime.
In the imperial evil USA the military gladly blew up hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, date groves, camel herds, roads, power plants, water reservoirs, pump stations, if it deemed it militarily necessary. AND the US defended poppy fields that funded the Taliban, helped set up and use ISIS, and still continues to pay Al-Queda and the Taliban per US gov documents.
The US has no ground to stand on.
All too true. And you could add in Yemen and Libya. And UKania and France have been up to their ears in it too, desperate to keep on playing their game of Empire by any means and at any cost.
You missed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and the Al Jazeera HQ in Baghdad.
I'm familiar with that 2019 RAND study. It is what it is, not how most Substack putin-boosters describe it.
"The purpose of the project
was to examine a range of possible means to extend Russia. By this, we
mean nonviolent measures that could stress Russia’s military or econ-
omy or the regime’s political standing at home and abroad. The steps
we posit would not have either defense or deterrence as their prime
purpose, although they might contribute to both. Rather, these steps
are conceived of as measures that would lead Russia to compete in
domains or regions where the United States has a competitive advan-
tage, causing Russia to overextend itself militarily or economically or
causing the regime to lose domestic and/or international prestige and
influence."
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf
You "like" only loony conspiracy stuff;
https://substack.com/@mdbreathe/note/c-109098064
And Yeadin and his "viruses aren't real" nonsense, and much more. Go find another rabbit hole. Bye.
Ukronazis have been deliberately killing civilians since 2014.
It started with aviation dropping unguided munitions in the centers of Donbass cities.
After 2022 they got HIMARS and drones, and started precision strikes on civilians.
The favorite thing to do initially was firing M30A1 rockets at the civilian population. The ones with the tungsten pellets that are designed to kill soft targets over a wide area.
We have lots of videos of bus stops in Donbass with old women having their brains leaking out on the pavement as a result of such strikes.
Drones made it much worse though, because they are cheap and plentiful.
Public transportation, pension offices, marketplaces, private cars etc. etc., it has all been targeted.
Russia has struck "civilian targets" only when there are large military gatherings there. Usually restaurants, on a couple occasions conference centers.
Accidents do happen though, but usually it is Ukrainian air defense causing it -- there was that apartment building in Dnepropetrovsk that was destroyed by a missile, but that missile was deflected by air defense (that is when Arestovych made the mistake of telling the truth and had to flee the country as a result). However, against that you have multiple apartment buildings destroyed on purpose by ATACMS and Storm Shadow strikes in the Donbass and the one in Belgorod that was destroyed by a French AASM Hammer. Very precisely targeted right at foundations, the way you see it in Gaza.
Otherwise pretty much every time you see apartment buildings on fire in Ukraine, it is their own air defense missiles doing it.
Which should be obvious to everyone with a working brain (which category right now it is doubtful your belong to). We saw what happened in Dnepropetrovsk when that Russian missile collapsed a whole section of a commie block. That is what 500 kg of explosives do. But when Zelensky is bitching about "strikes on civilians", he is showing you some burnt out windows and very little real destruction. Because, of course, those buildings were not hit by Russian missiles, but by air defense missiles, which have much smaller warheads, and do very little damage. And they are hit by air defense missiles because Ukraine deliberately situates air defense (and everything else too) within cities, to use them as human shields.
The narrative that "Russia targets civilians" is idiotic just following basic logic:
1) Why would Russia waste expensive missiles on random apartment buildings? For what reason
2) If it wanted to kill Ukrainians, it has very powerful means to do it and to have the whole war over with very quickly. But it has not done that. Why?
3) Why didn't Russian kill all the "Ukrainians" in Melitopol, Berdyansk, and Kherson while they in control of it, and why were those cities not destroyed? They were taken largely without a fight, and life there carried on as normal after that. It was completely peaceful for the first six months, until the Ukronazis were given long-range weapons and started terrorizing what was supposedly their own people until just a few months prior.
4) Why would Russia want to kill Ukrainians when Putin motivated the war with "we are one people"?
BTW, the Ukrainians' own reports clearly show the absurdity of that narrative. But again, one has to have a brain and think. Typically when the large-scale missile strikes under Surovikin were going on you would see reports of "Russia committed yet another massacre, it fired 100 cruise missiles, there are 4 people killed". It was literally that kind of numbers. Read that again and think -- triple digit missiles, single-digit people killed according to Ukrainians themselves. How does that work if the goal was to "kill civilians".
Use your brain.
If you have one.
"Here in the evil, imperialist USA we see video clips of destroyed civilian Ukranian targets nearly every day. They can't all be fake"
Well, actually they can all be fake when billions of dollars per year are spent on generating fake videos, making thousands per day, and you've only seen a few hundred, max, over the last year.
I see you don't know much about either the conflict or about what billions of dollars per year spent on propaganda can buy (the US spends over $2 billion per year alone through the Pentagon that is explicitly earmarked for "messaging").
There are actually two main techniques where videos which technically are not "fake" are used to tell lies.
Kiev has over one hundred thousand people who work full time in shifts, 24/7, chugging out fake news. They generate thousands of videos clips per day and flood Western social media. The first of their techniques for using real videos to tell lies goes back to the beginning of the war: they take *Russian* videos of towns and civilian targets that Kiev's attacks destroyed and present them as supposedly civilian targets in Ukraine. There are literally thousands of examples of such falsely-described videos.
So no, those videos aren't "fake" in the sense that they show events that really did happen, but the message of those videos is a lie because they claim the people killed were Ukrainians.
Kiev got away with that and still gets away with that because Americans and Brits are such total cretins and their media have become propaganda, not news, outlets. It's like Westerners don't have the slightest ability to recognize blatant lies as a result of a toxic mix of incredibly bad education, intrinsic stupidity, and absolutely Roman-era bread and circuses laziness.
For example, they'll be shown a video of a supposed "Russian" attack on a "Ukrainian" town and that every sign they see in the video is in Russian and the people are all speaking Russian doesn't register with them. That's the same people who also believe that Russian isn't spoken or used in Ukraine, that if you say, "Wait a minute, most Ukrainians speak Russian..." they accuse you of being a Putin shill. Well, see a video like that and one way or the other you know you're being lied to - either that's a Russian town shown in the video or you were told a lie when they told you Russian isn't used in Ukraine. Or, they see the name of the town in the video on a road sign or other clear geo-location markers that prove the scene shown is in Russia and none of that gets recognized either.
The second technique used with videos of "destroyed civilian Ukrainian target" videos is to tell lies about what those targets really were. Since the beginning of the conflict the nazi regime in Kiev has used civilians as human shields. They've done that in an industrial way. For example, when their armies attacked Donbass in 2014 and they took a town, they deliberately housed troops, command and control staff, and military supplies in what used to be hospitals. They did that so if that facility was struck they could say "Oh, look, those evil separatists (later "Russians") have hit a hospital!"
Speaking of hospitals, sometimes Kiev actually stages fake videos. A great example that anybody with a functioning brain can see was staged is the famous film showing the supposed immediate aftermath on a Russian strike on a supposed maternity hospital in Mariupol.
The video purports to show rescuers helping a pregnant woman out of a bombed-out building that was a maternity hospital just bombed by Russia. But it shows a huge building where apparently there were just two or three patients, the people seen in the video. The number of camera people outnumbers the number of "victims." But a "hospital" that size would have had hundreds of patients and staff, yet absolutely none are visible, either living or dead. In fact, there's no trace of any casualties except the two women the "rescuers" are helping.
There's also no trace of any responders other than the one vehicle in which the camera crew arrived. But a strike on a hospital that big would have had many dozens of emergency vehicles, including ambulances, police, fire trucks and others with hundreds of responders. But none of that is visible even though the video makes a point to sweep around to show the large, bombed hospital.
When it sweeps around you see a car, just one car, on fire in the courtyard. But there isn't the slightest trace of smoke or active fire from any of the wooden window frames and other wood, including trees, in the hospital building or in the courtyard.
Anybody with an IQ greater than an average dog can see the video is an obvious fake, yet US, UK and EU media reported it as a vicious Russian attack on a maternity hospital.
So what really happened? We know because Russia liberated Mariupol a month later and plenty of eye-witnesses came forward. What had been a maternity hospital was taken over by the Azov brigade and other Kiev military units with the former patients ejected out onto the street. Russia bombed what had become a military installation. About ten days after that happened Kiev sent a propaganda film crew to film the fake video, setting the car in the courtyard on fire. The girl who played the role of a pregnant patient came forward to talk about the filming and her role in it. There's absolutely no doubt from biometrics she's the same person.
All those techniques, from lying about what real videos show right on up to totally fake videos that are staged or generated with AI have flooded Western media. And then people who think they know all about the war because they credulously suck up propaganda for morons watch those videos, nod their heads and say, "evil Russians at work."
You see that all from 2014 right to the present day, when Kiev has industrialized the use of formerly civilian facilities for military use. In fact, that trend is openly reported in Western media without the slightest acknowledgement by Western media that what they are praising are war crimes. Western reporting often shows how Kiev's military drone manufacturing is based in civilian homes and apartments, how Kiev's military routinely changes into civilian clothing "because moving about in military uniforms would be too dangerous" and covering purely military training, run by NATO instructors no less, in civilian universities.
When Russia recently struck the gathering of Kiev's war criminals in Sumy not a single Western reporter noted that *all* of the initial videos circulating online that showed numerous bodies all showed bodies dressed in military uniforms. Instead, that was reported as a strike on a civilian educational institution.
Likewise, when Russia struck a hotel that was being used to house mercenaries, NATO military personnel, and Kiev's troops, that was reported by US media as a strike on a civilian hotel, without any mention that the people killed were the military personnel housed there.
The rule of thumb is that whatever US mainstream media reports, that's a lie.
But everything you see in putinland is real. Because baby Jesus and family values and no homos (or indoor toilets at home for 20% of the population).
In 2022, Ukraine publicly boasted that a half-million 'hacktivists" are working for Ukraine. It's a lot of manpower to fake everything.
If you really are American, then you should keep your mouth shut when it comes to 'destroyed civilian buildings'. Do you think the world has forgotten all the hospitals, schools, weddings, etc. the US-military has obliterated around the world within the last 40 years? Are you retarded?
Drone strikes aside, US military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan were committed in error, or by rogue individuals or small units or PMCs. Though I'm sure US has committed some atrocities intentionally, attacking civilian targets is not policy.
Russia's concept of "total war" and "reflexive control" call for psychological pressure on civilian populations, blurring lines between civilian and military domains. Western-termed Gerasimov Doctrine suggests integrating military and non-military measures to destabilize adversaries, accepting civilian 'disruption' as part of warfare.
Cities obliterated by mighty Russian forces include;
Grozny, Samashki, Gudermes, Shali, Argun, Urus-Martan, Urgun Aleppo, Idlib - Mariupol, Avdiivka, Volnovakha, Popasna, etc.
No comparison. But nice massive hypocrisy.
"If you really are American, then you should keep your mouth shut when it comes to 'destroyed civilian buildings'. "
Ah, one reason I left the US and moved to Russia is I was fed up living in a country where I was surrounded by people who were either unaware of the US's habit of bombing civilians in foreign lands or if they were aware approved of that habit. Only a very small percent of Americans these days are ready to take any active measures to protest their country's killing of innocent people. I also didn't want to become a co-conspirator in mass murder by helping to pay for the US's foreign wars.
Moving overseas is one of the few lawful ways Americans can ensure they don't support the US's killing of civilians by paying US taxes. Living overseas doesn't get you off the hook of paying US taxes, but there is a tax exclusion for people living overseas where if you make less than the allowed amount you pay no taxes to the US. The theory of that tax exclusion when it was enacted many years ago was that Americans living overseas don't benefit from the infrastructure and services their taxes pay for in the US, so they should not be taxed to pay for that.
If you choose wisely, picking a country where the cost of living is below the tax exclusion level, it's certainly possible to live overseas and legally not pay any US taxes. You do pay taxes wherever you live, of course, and if you make more than the exclusion you pay US taxes as well. But if you live modestly you can go through life without financing the US's killing of innocents.
Ukraine repeatedly and deliberately uses the same two tactics...
1. placing military resources next to its own civilian assets, so that any Russian attacks, no matter how precise, will sometimes have civilian collateral damage;
2. targeting its opponent's civilians with deadly force, ostensibly to make others afraid to continue supporting Russia.
These are precisely the tactics of terrorists. The history of this conflict proves beyond doubt that Ukraine is a terrorist regime. Any arguments to the contrary require cherry-picked facts, distorted narratives, and oblivious fact-free assertions. They amount to nothing but propaganda techniques of gaslighting, logical fallacies, semantic deception, and specious, contrived rationalizations. All of which applies to you.
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
Free Radical. It is noticeable that this conflict appears to have significantly more military casualties than civilian casualties.
The West hasn't killed more soldiers than civilians in any war for over 150 years. Is that real enough for you mate?
Wow a new troll. From the numerous western MSM talking points you bring up you are clearly deluded. I bet you are max vaxxed as well.
He's good practice considering that his statistical claims can be tested. I doubt they will withstand scrutiny but it's good to do homework.
>Ukraine's not going to strike a huge parade full of civilians
Oh, yes, they would, the only thing stopping them is that Xi will be there and they don't want to have a war with China on their hands too.
We can only hope the hot heads prevail in Ukronazistan and Moscow air defenses don't shoot everything down.
I agree partially. In my opinion, the three days before the Russian truce were a rehearsal of the Ukronazis whether they could hit either the Moscow region, or any other significant area like Stalingrad etc.
Over 1000 drones and missiles were fired, about 95% shot down without any consequences, the rest with some insignificant fires, on civilian houses mainly.
Fact is, other than Volksgenosse Free Radical Nazi asserts, that more than two thirds of Ukrainian attacks, be it by drones or missiles, hit non military targets, few of them can be assumed unintentional. I just remind the Christmas 23 attack on Belgorod, and other Himars, Tochka, and MLRS strikes, the recent market massacre on the leftt Dnyepr bank, and many more.
Since the Ukrainian Nazis hold torchlight parades for Bandera's birthday, what is stopping Russia from firing a few missiles at those parades?
I don’t see a flag in your profile. It’s time to pick a side.
https://planetfubar.substack.com/p/india-vs-pakistan-whom-to-support
Get a life.
But, I'll take China for 800
Get a life!
What an original retort. It's like being back in middle school.
Well, here's right back at you:
I know you are, but what am I?
Embedded in a threat to strike Kiev is a threat to take out the existing government based in Kiev if Ukraine is inclined to strike the 9 May celebration in Moscow.
If a strike on Kiev takes place, there's a high probability the sock puppet in combat fatigues will not get many more snorts of powdered courage or much of a chance to gloat over any widening of the conflict.
It's hard to speculate on the subtleties with which Putin would apply the Oreshnik scalpel but Zelensky is not in a good position to be pressing his luck. A parade marred by casualties will be coupled with the imperative made by the Russians themselves, to exact justice. Such justice may be delayed but it will be paid for by Zelensky in one way or another.
For the life of me I can't understand why many members of the SBU - Budanov and his lieutenants - are still alive. Offing your adversaries leadership is part of war. Ukraine gets it, Israel gets it, the US gets it. Why doesn't Russia get it
Russia knows. They also know they are not fighting Ukraine. The 29 March 2025 NYT article goes a long way to reveal how much all the command and control and coordination came from the US or UK. Russia knew when the Istanbul Peace Agreement was cancelled by Boris Johnson in April 2022 that the Kiev government was irrelevant. If the Russians were to remove the leadership of the opposition it would be in Berlin, Paris, London, and Washington DC. What is happening is managed conflict. Partly out of respect for a historically important region for Russia. And partly to keep the West from stupidly escalating. Putin said it himself. He was not sure how Russia would fair economically or socially.
The Kiev leadership is easier to manage and leverage than dealing with a unified West.
Likely Russia IS playing the managed conflict game. But the game could last for years, and that's not in Russia's interest.
Wrong. Take out the Ukulele "leadership" then take out their replacements. Rinse and repeat. Make it as difficult as possible for this farce to continue.
War is not always that simple. Especially war among near peer nuclear powers.
What are Russia's goals? Right now the regime in Kiev seems to help Russia well enough.
Exactly.
This isn't the Middle East where resistance is a amoeba-like bottom up phenomenon, this is a top-down project carried out by state structures.
And Zelensky is, according to the Russians themselves, illegitimate in any case, so they would not be taking out a head of state, they would be taking out a regular terrorist.
Take him out, take out the whole top state structure, and you will disrupt their war effort substantially. They would have to hold elections, but whether they would even be able to do that is doubtful, and it will be a complete mess internally. Then keep doing it.
I assume the fear is that it would "set a bad precedent", but that is jsut BS, because that precedent was set a long time ago by the West and nobody is observing such rules anymore.
Also, another fear is that NATO might then enter the war directly.
To which I say let them do it. Enough with this proxy war crap.
Nuking some idiots in Europe was always the winning move to get out of this situation (after, say, Poland ceases to exist, what follows next is that NATO dissolves itself immediately because the US will refuse to nuke Russia in response and then the rest will realize how they have been used). ), while attrition of Russia from behind the Ukrainian proxy's back is how NATO will win the war if things continue the same way.
You love that one New York Times piece, but reject most NYT reporting over the last three years pointing out that most of the rest of your comment is kremlin propaganda - like the bullshit about "Istanbul Accords" ever being a viable ceasefire plan, much less anything close to a comprehensive peace deal.
"Boris Johnson ruined everything! Wah, wah 😭"
It was mainly Kiev's own proposal, the only sticking point the size of the 'defence force'. It didn't need to be big, considering it would be guaranteed by all of its neighbours. And that is why Zelensky ordered it initialled to be signed.
And then London and DC learned of this, and were aghast! They hadn't bought all those Ukrainian body bags for nothing!
Of course, to YOU Ukrainians are nothing more than meat bags to soak up Russian bullets and artillery, which is why you mock this attempt to prevent the current outcome. "Wah wah".
You reveal your true face with every post you make. As do your two co-conspirators, 'Denis', and 'Virus'.
Is this just a co-ordinated yet shambolic '#forum-invasion', or are you employed? Bored minds wish to know.
There are over 4,000 official US documents on US websites showing official US policy was to support fascism in Ukraine from WWII to present. That's not a Russian talking point. It is US policy outlined in US reports, SOPs, and funding records kept by the US government made available through US courts. There are thousands of records showing decades of support for organizations like the Orgsnization of Ukrainian Nationalism (formed by the merger of two fascist orgs that predate the German Nazis by joining in 1919). The OUN exists in Ukraine today. It is not the only fascist org US records show support for.
The treaty establishing biolabs in Ukraine is an official US document, not a Russian document. The US contracts supporting the labs with maintenance and renovation are DoD funded on the US GSA website.
US CIA support for the Prolog Research Corporation tasked with rewriting Uktainian history under the direction of Mykola Lebed (Nazi collaborator and participant in the Holocaust and leader in OUN) is a matter of US record revealed in the Church Committee and other records before and since.
The personal letter from Allan Dulles to both the US State Department and USNIS is on the CIA Reading Room website. It directs the two US agencies to ignore Lebed's crimes and past actions in order to bring him to the US to work for the US CIA.
There is no love for the NYT article. It is a convenient, publically, accessible research paper citing over 300 US sources. Forbes, The Economist, The Guardian, and innumerable Military Times articles, or more specialized Think Tank reports like from RAND Corporation all provide details that add to the larger picture.
There are also hundreds of hours of public testimony by Western leaders that reveal the truth without one single Russian document or quote from a Russian. The West has shaped the conflict in Ukraine for decades.
There are also IMF, and World Bank reports that suggest the 2022 ruble-rubble invocation was never right. Russia's economy despite some tensions is one of the strongest in the world. That's according to Western orgs not Russian orgs.
Simplicius has 1,000s of hours of research citing both Western and Russian sources. Much of what he analyzes comes from Western sources. If you were sincere they are available, covering years of developments, providing links to hundreds of Western sources.
But your not demonstrating any sincere desire for discussion you're acting like a broke dick troll.
And you can spout Russia propaganda... Russia, Russia, Russia, but that got old and over used already in the imperial evil USA. US documents paint a different picture from your invective.
Everything I don't agree with is propaganda.
hey, unit 8200 laborer, it is intolerable for you (zionists & banderites) that the facts on the ground escape the thoroughly zionized propaganda machine created in accordance with Zig Freud the Fraud's nephew's recommendations.
You shouldn't interfere when your enemy is making mistakes.
The leadership is at the City of London and DC. Budanov, Zelensky, Yermak, et al are sock puppets of the empire of offshore accounts and money laundering.
A detailed map of luxurious bunkers built for the moneyed degenerate families, which always need wars to maintain their power and comforts, would be a great first step.
The homoerotic dancer and "penist" Zelinsky decides nothing. He is a sock puppet of banking cartel (the City of Looters) and BlackRock.
Bankers desperately need WWIII because their Ponzi scheme is crushing.
The most practical solution would be if the strike of several Oreshniks arrived before the 9th, and the problem would be solved. As a consolation, they could have all the sympathy sessions they can handle. NATO is in disarray, and it is time to put an end to the suffering. DJT could declare victory because, finally, peace is on the horizon.
Like Israel, Russia can survive a tide of global outrage so long as its allies stay on boards economically.
Israel is entirely reliant on the USA.
Russia can survive friendless, as she did from 1917- 1941.
In fairness, Germany was friendly enough from the mid-20s until May 1941.
Peter, in fairness, you're right, but I'd say until 1933. Even the Molotov-Ribbenrop pact wasn't done out of friendship.
This is not intended as a dig against modern Russia - but as a historical fact, there was considerable (though doubtless cynical, yet mutually beneficial) military cooperation between the Soviets and Wehrmacht until a very late stage. As late as April 1941, the Luftwaffe hosted a VVS delegation and let its technicians have a good look over various Spits and Hurricanes it had captured. But this has no relevance to modern times.
I think even his curators would be glad to see the last of the green goblin, as the saying goes, "a friend in need is a pain in the ass".
Kiev is a historical Russian city, so Lviv would be a better target for a response.
Well it must be considered, if the Ukrainian leadership would risk an actual declaration of war from Russia. Would the PR hype be worth the risk of the actual unshackling of the Russian army? The Russians did make it clear early that any attack on Transnistria would result in a declaration of war. The Ukrainians have stayed clear of Transnistria, why? Considering that is where the largest stockpile of Soviet era munitions are allegedly stored. The propaganda war is important to Ukraine's war effort but a declaration of war from Russia would negate any benefit propaganda creates as in the end bullets and bombs win over the pen every time.
Russia should mimic the West and prepare a false flag attack to get their nation on a full war footing. The longer Russia waits the worse off they will be.
You got that backwards, just like the majority of people that have zero understanding of military strategy. The reality is that they longer they wait the stronger they become and with each day that passes the entire west gets weaker and closer to total collapse.
We've been hearing that for 3 years and Ukraine seems far away from total collapse. Nor does NATO appear to be near collapse
The EU are now increasing their military capacity--doubling it for now. They are currently behind Russia but have the potential to match it exceed Russia's capacity, both in numbers of men and ability to produce war material. Plus, they have over a million Ukrainian refugees in NATO countries that can be conscripted. And hundreds of billions in frozen Russian assets that can be seized.
Going slow while Russia built up their military was wise policy the first two years of the war, but not now. Now they are better off defeating the proxy army in Ukraine ASAP and getting to good defensive positions for a wider war (to the Polish and Romanian borders) so Russia can develop a buffer zone to Russia proper, protect the Russian populations in Kalinagrad and Transnistria (and possibly the Baltics), and increase access to allies in the Balkans.
"Well it must be considered, if the Ukrainian leadership would risk an actual declaration of war from Russia. Would the PR hype be worth the risk of the actual unshackling of the Russian army?"
You mean, "Could Putin survive if he calls a mobilization, expands martial law, and gives NATO reason to fully back Ukraine?"
That word changes little, except inside Russia. Those exempt or untouched by partial mobilization could face compulsory service. He's already talking about seizing citizens' assets.
Forcing industries to prioritize military production? He's already pillaging his oligarchs and their companies. Reallocating resources from civilian to military sectors would accelerate inflation and shortages. How are potato prices?
Justify wider use of martial law. Hard to censor more unless wants to go North Korea style. Curfews and restrictions on movement will be popular.
It would contradict earlier Russian narratives that the SMO was "defensive and limited."
They would need to prepare their citizens as much as possible. I assume there is plenty of Russian propaganda showing Ukrainian terrorism and how Russia faces an existential threat.
The opposite is also true. If Russia does not defeat this threat it will grow and destroy the Russian economy as well. So they need to pick their poison. A half won war will not solve the problem.
Of course Ukraine plans to engage in a purely terrorist attack, and do so with the approval of their American masters.
What does Russia propose to do about it?
Russia, as usual, will ignore it and plow ahead with own plans.
If that isn't obvious by now you will never understand. Like so many in your country, including your leaders, you simply lack the intellectual capacity to understand what is actually happening. Or as a very wise man told us a while back, just a bunch of gormless lumpen.
It shows Russia faces an existential threat but Russia is not willing or able to defeat this threat, which means the threat will only grow and not go away unless Russia eliminates the threat. It may have been wise while Russia had only a few hundred thousand troops in battle but now after 3 years they have no excuse--they either fully defeat the threat or let it fester and cause a problem for years. The slow approach is no longer wise.
What red line will it take?
Just how do you think it would have gone down, if during the Falklands War, the Argentinians had sent missiles to attack the Remembrance Day parade in London?
The only way to stop the homoerotic dancer in green from allegedly giving stupid orders is to target his owners at the City of London and BlackRock. The EU compradors also need a hard lesson in reality.
Just a hint of losing his offshore accounts would turn the "penist" into a peacemaker. For now, the banking cartel keeps Kievan Junta belligerent by promising the banderites hefty offshore accounts.
An Oreshnik hit on the square-mile City of London, MI6 HQ building and Blackrock HQ would seem to me to be a pretty clear message that enough is enough. Such an attack would not, I think, be sufficient to warrant a nuclear response, so what could they do except to pull in their fangs and claws and rage against their impotence.
It just occurred to me that perhaps I am beginning to sound like GM. O mercy me!
That had occured to me as well.....
But not really.
:-) GM is special but you have to gim him credit sometimes.
That is the dumbest thing you've ever said. The great moron is sitting in a cubicle at a troll farm in San Francisco according to her IP.
I was about to tap reply to your post to suggest GM hacked your account.
LOL
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Perhaps we are seeing more and more reality in his statements.
I haven't seen any of them since I figured out how to block the moron. Zero reality comes from the troll farm.
Blackrock's HQ is in New York.
GCHQ in Cheltenham would be the better choice. Less collateral damage than a central London strike. Also very easy to target: it is made of glass and they light it up in rainbow colours every Stonewall Gay Month.
>Such an attack would not, I think, be sufficient to warrant a nuclear response
The UK needs to be nuked thoroughly. Forget about Oreshniks.
And it is actually quite doable, it has been discussed many times. They only have SSBNs, those SSBNs are in a very sorry state, they only have one on patrol, the rest are sitting ducks in Clyde.
Russian attack subs tail and sink the UK SSBN on patrol, nuclear Zircon missiles fire from the North Sea and take out Clyde in 3-4 minutes, making sure the other subs are gone too before they can fire, then the rest is finished off by a couple heavily MIRV-ed ICBMs, or perhaps cruise missiles fired from the sea.
The US will again face the choice of standing down or dying itself too, and the rational decision will once again be to stand down (just as it is if Poland was to be removed as a logistics base and route for Ukraine). As it always is when it comes to third parties retaliating over nuclear countervalue attacks against others.
Unfortunately the oligarchs of Russia likely have close ties to the Blackrock et al. owners. They likely will make a deal with each other. Why isn't Russia promising to nationalize all the farmland Zelensky gave to Blackrock, for instance?
It would have been be a response to be remembered.
It certainly would, but for all the wrong reasons.
This has always been a western propaganda war designed one way or the other to generate internal subversion in Russia leading to its breakdown. So the May 9th event is just another opportunity.
"Are they acting "to spoil" the party? Or because there's a war going on?"
Neither... They just enjoy to be butchered by Russkies
It is hilarious the way Banderite Ukraine wastes its already meagre number of troops on fruitless military adventures. Zelensky and his military commanders have contributed immensely to Russia's attrition campaign
Chabad in Ukraine cordially supports the banderites (self-proclaimed Nazis).
"Chabad rabbis, specifically Rabbi Menachem Mendel Bleich, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, has expressed his support and admiration for Kyrylo Budanov. Rabbi Bleich has publicly recognized Budanov's bravery and leadership, and has even expressed a personal friendship with him. In a post on Instagram, Rabbi Bleich called Budanov a "true friend" and "Ukrainian Hero". He also celebrated Budanov's birthday and wished him continued success and strength."
Scratch a Jew, find a Zionist; scratch a Zionist find a NAZI.
German Nazi had a code of honor, whereas jewish fascists (zionists) are ignorant of the very concept of honor.
Bullshit, the Nazis were unscrupulous amoral pragmatists.
They even mitigated their antisemitism in favour of the war effort.
No one can compete with the cynicism and dishonesty of jews:
"World census in 1939 had 15.6 million Jews worldwide. In 1945 after WWII, the census was 15.7 million Jews worldwide. The official Red Cross numbers for Jews killed in WWII is 271,000."
The very profitable "diaries" were concocted by Otto Frank, a swindler and Nazi contractor.
"In 1980, because of a lawsuit in a German court, the German state forensic bureau, the Bundes Kriminal Amt [BKA], forensically examined the original "diary" manuscript. Their analysis determined that "significant" portions of the work were written with a ballpoint pen. Since ballpoint pens were not available before 1951, portions of the work were added well after the war (Anne Frank died in March 1945). The BKA also determined that none of the "diary" handwriting matched known examples of Anne's handwriting. Earlier handwriting experts had determined that all of the writing in the "diary" was by the same hand. Therefore, the entire "diary" was a postwar fake."
None of the major jewish organizations, colleges, and synagogues has demanded to stop the ongoing Genocide in Gaza. None! This explains judaism pretty well. Add to that the jews' admiration for the Ukrainian banderites, and your fraudulent shoah-biz scheme has no leg to stand.
"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking empire
Zionists aren't Jews, they are antisemites posing as Jews while behaving like nazis because that's the pound of flesh that American Caesar wants in return for allowing the zionist antisemites to commit crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians etc blah.
Let's scratch deeper:
"Adolf Hitler aimed for economic independence for Germany, specifically distancing it from the control of London bankers and the global financial system. This goal was part of a broader strategy to create a self-sufficient and powerful state, free from external influence."
1933: "Judea Declares War on Germany" (Daily Express)
Does the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi ring something for you?
In 2009, Muammar Gaddafi proposed a Pan-African currency, the gold dinar. Gaddafi's gold dinar threatened to disrupt this system by offering an alternative for oil transactions..."
In 2011, a NATO-led coalition began a military intervention into Libya, which resulted in the assassination of Gaddafi and ruination of the formerly prosperous Libya.
"In 1967 Colonel Gaddafi inherited one of the poorest nations in Africa; by the time he was assassinated, he had transformed Libya into Africa’s richest nation. Prior to the NATO bombing campaign in 2011, Libya had the highest Human Development Index, the lowest infant mortality and the highest life expectancy in all of Africa.
Today, Libya is a failed state. South of the country has become a haven for ISIS terrorists, and the Northern coast a center of migrant trafficking. This all occurs amidst a backdrop of widespread rape, assassinations and torture that complete the picture of a state that is failed to the bone."
Hitler tried to emulate the west European slave empires by creating an empire in the east to rival the British Raj. Your German independence was to come from the subjugation of the USSR and anywhere else the nazis fancied helping themselves.
The Daily Express is the British equivalent of Volkischer Beobachter.
Ghadaffi was murdered by American Caesar, using his European vassals. Libya isn't a failed state, it is a murdered state like Somalia, the US empire's first experiment in state-destroying and those that have followed, Syria, Leebanon, Palestine etc.
You were no attentive to the previous post:
"Chabad rabbis, specifically Rabbi Menachem Mendel Bleich, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, has expressed his support and admiration for Kyrylo Budanov. Rabbi Bleich has publicly recognized Budanov's bravery and leadership, and has even expressed a personal friendship with him. In a post on Instagram, Rabbi Bleich called Budanov a "true friend" and "Ukrainian Hero". He also celebrated Budanov's birthday and wished him continued success and strength."
Are you ready to declare that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Bleich (the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine) and Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman (another Chief Rabbi of Ukraine) who both ardently support the Ukrainian Banderites are not jews?
Read carefully: "Josef Zissels, the chairman of the Jewish Confederation (Vaad), has defended the government's decision to rehabilitate wartime Ukrainians who massacred Jews."
Jews have no morals. Tribal jewish cohesiveness and profiteering always trump decency. Always.
Jews are people who follow the religion ergo they can't be zionists since zionism is inimical to Judaism.
Which haSSbara unit are you in?
No, Jews are antizionists.
No! Zelensky contributed immensely to emptying Ukraine of the able-bodied young men, so the new owners of the land don't have to contend with.
If Ukraine is so emptied of forces, why aren't the Russians making large-scale deep penetrations behind enemy lines? lol
"Emptying" is an ongoing process; if and when emptied, you will be witnessing large-scale deep penetrations behind enemy lines. You can even write home about it. lol
I have fought hard during this three-year campaign, SMO turned into a war, sandor. It's not easy being an armchair general when your army doesn't follow orders. lol
I know the feeling, amigo.
There are nearly 3 million Ukrainians in uniform, probably 800,000 alone facing 400,000–600,000 Russians in the giant fortified spiderweb of Donbass. The Russian victory will probably not be complete until 2030.
They don't have enough troops. They have 600,000 to 800,000 troopers in battle, and they need double or triple that to decisively defeat Ukraine.
Well considering Russian registered reserves are 30 million the numbers they have deployed are based on force calculations for the achieving of their objectives. What is considered a decisive defeat of Ukraine?
Occupation and demilitarization of Ukraine. If the goal is to just take 4 oblasts and let NATO build up a hostile army right next to Russia then yeah, they have the right amount.
The goals have evolved since the beginning of the SMO until now. The original goal was basically recognition of Crimea, autonomy or independence of the Donbas republics and a signed agreement from the Ukrainian government not to join NATO. When the Ukrainians decided to fight then the four Republics became the evolved goal. Now the goals are possibly the annexation of Novorossiya leaving just a western Ukrainian rump state to burden the EU NATO states. Then there is a link up with Tranistria and a land connection with Kaliningrad these are at minimum what the Russian military may target. The political leadership may risk being decieved again by the West as was historically done throughout history.
Yes, the Jew plan. It's a win-win for them.
They had chosen death instead of surrendering could not really use those brain cells wisely, also where on earth they learned the tactical maneuver? Video games is bad bad example.
As Napoleon supposedly said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake."
That doesn't mean insignificant breakthroughs into enemy lines.
Yes but how can they keep this pace? Ukraine was turned into a swollen-lip capitalist distopia with the western mix of money, libertinage, pop culture, individualism, mafia, oigarchy and political fraud long before 2014. Every western country is ruled by the same system. I met Ukranian migrants fleeing this in the early 2000 in France. They werre not listened about what was going on there. I remember Lvov Anatole, a Polish more than a Ukranian and still the proud son of a soviet WWII captain. We could not stand the banderite rising in Lvov. His beutiful Ukranian wife left him to marry a rich petrol tycoon. In France he looked down to us with dispise, because of the zombifies spectacle society we live in. Ukranians embraced the west with a passion, and those who didnt were ostracised and bullied. The society suffered the effects of a fast capitalist transition with devastating effects. That plague was infecting Russia too until the last patriots stopped it. The process forcibly leads to social destruction. Look at the UK and the US now. They are socially destroyed, no society any more. Thatcher claimed there was not such a thing as a society. Here you have the results Maggy. A great state person must forsee for the nation not only for his-her lifespan, but beyond, just in the case she is not just a Rothschild clerk like Maggy or Macron. Thats the difference between you and VVP. Ukraine is going through a purification process, not in the way the nazies intend, but inversely. The better ones like Anatole saw it coming long before. The remaining are now Russians or human sludge with no future.
There is one problem: it seems you hate capitalism. But Ukraine and capitalism? Capitalism needs a free market, free markets need the protection of private property, private property needs the rule of law, and the rule of law needs a clean democratic system. Of course, with this definition, there is no Western capitalist country. And by the way, when the government's share of the economy is well above 50%, this looks more like a socialist state than any form of free market. Sadly for the West, Russia or China is more free market than the EU countries.
1) There has never been and will never be such a thing as free market
2) Capitalism might need a free market, but the goal of any given capitalist is to destroy the free market, establish a monopoly and then collect a private tax for himself on the rest of society.
3) Because there are no limits to greed, the end condition of this process is absolute destitution, servitude and greatly reduced life expectancy for the masses and opulent luxury for the select few "capitalists".
4) There can be no capitalism without perpetual growth, because perpetual growth is how interest is repaid and profits are made. But perpetual growth means with 100% certainty we will all day eventually due to total ecological collapse, because nothing can grow forever in a finite system.
For these, and many other reasons, everyone who supports capitalism as a system has to be mercilessly hunted down and physically exterminated, with absolute zero tolerance to the very idea ever reemerging. Because such people and that idea jeopardize collective survival.
By now, I’ll settle for at least an imitation of free market:-)
hate is too strong a word. I dont hate. I realise capitalism is a stage of history with particular features and results. It delivers cyclical economic crisis, imperial wars, colonialism... But I wouldnt say everything capitalism has created is wrong. You should revise your political economy notes..They are quite cheesy.
Maybe something completely different. When I grew up, the Maya writings were not decoded. A lot of authors (and believers) told a story of a friendly and not-aggressive culture. There was the proof: Europe and East Asia are evil, but in other places, mankind could live together in peace and harmony. And then some scientists decoded their writings, and these writings were full of greed and evil, war and slaughter. Which leads to a simple question: do you know one, only one, bigger culture without war, without economic (and therefore social) crisis, without criminals, and without conquest?
Greed and the willingness to do evil, seem to be in any human DNA. It's what sets us apart from animals.
Chimps and gorillas are not very nice to each other. Chimps pull off others arms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
Not sure - I once saw a pack of feral dogs deliberately trying to force a "house dog" into the traffic. Or they say that the birds sometimes lead other birds to crash into windows to be killed.
Another capitalist apologist using the no true Scotsman fallacy.
I have read Marx and his commends about history. So what is the difference between the economy in the late 19th century, the high tide of capitalism, and the economy of Senatory Rom or, to go back in time, Phoenizin Trade republics or, to leave the Mediteranian, the Ming China after Zheng He? And please do not deviate to more advanced tech-levels, stay with capital, with workforce, with owner class and non-owner class.
Always good to tune in to Profs. Michael Hudson and Richard D. Wolff for their analysis on historical and current events.
Yes, by your definition, there is no Western capitalist country. In the US, Uber takes 60% of its drivers' earnings. I think it's more than even Sweden, while offering nothing in return, just the honors to use the app.
Nice to hear! I live in a country (Austria) where we had the right to have a taxi business within the constitution. This sounds crazy, this is crazy, but some pressure groups wanted this; they spent money on political parties, and then the politicians made a law that owning taxis requires a limited and special government permit. The courts rejected this, as all businesses should be treated equally; therefore, the parliament put this into the constitution. The result was foreseeable. The prices for the consumers exploded, and the drivers were helpless, as they could not get a permit, so they earned less, but some people got very rich! And the drivers would have been happy to get 40%! You see, everywhere the same corruption; some white-collar people siphon off the money, and the real workers can do nothing. (By the way, the two parties that at the time had the necessary majority, two-thirds, are now together at maybe 35%).
I live on the West coast of the US, and travel often across the US for work. I used Uber for 10+ years at least, and I do talk to Uber drivers. Uber used to be cheap in the beginning. And even for a taxi - there were flat rate taxi, and I could get from airport home for just $36 - 16 miles, but to take Uber was even cheaper - $12-15. So, Uber bankrupted taxi business owners, who paid thousands upfront to get their taxi license from the state, and lost customers due to cheaper Uber's rates. Now, Uber went IPO, and from airport to home is $76+. If if I book a pick-up beforehand, they charge extra $6 for "booking," and in LA it's worse, sometimes your trip is $24 but the surcharge is $35 on top, it's really some wild west racket going on. And regardless of what I'm charged by Uber, the drivers are getting a tiny portion of it. Last Dec in LA, Uber sent me a taxi instead of an Uber driver, as many Uber drivers quit when Uber demanded 60% of their income, and it's not worth the hustle for many of them. Surreal
And now a simple question: where do all these price hikes go? Uber made in 2024 some 44bn overall revenue. The free cash flow is 1.7bn, but the cash flow before capital expenditures was 1.8bn?!?!? Even the EBITDA is 1.8bn, showing that they have no capital invested. So real profit (as we Europeans would do it) would be something around 1bn, they give 0.77bn. Take the European accounting; then they have a margin of approx. 2%, I would not invest in such a company—no investment in facilities and only 2% profit. But 26bn in liabilities. This is not sustainable. Maybe they went into the market with a lot of cash, offered a much toooo low price, and now they are struggling to get sustainable market access? (And by the way, they killed a lot of small businesses. Ron Paul was right: End The FED!).
They must have been among the most incompetent military strategists in world history. Even the Iraqi army was cleverer.
Like the Germans after September 1941, a strategic analysis would lead to the conclusion that defeat was inevitable so standing on the defensive would be an admission of defeat. A few Mickey Mouse attacks to be bigged up by the state media can muddy the waters and allow those who would be deluded to think that it isn't that bad, really....
Ukraine’s repeated attacks on the Kursk region, now targeting Tetkino and Glushkovo, speak less to strategic promise and more to desperation masked as defiance. These incursions, framed as tactical thrusts, are in reality symbolic provocations designed to stir headlines rather than alter frontlines.
With lightly armored columns and under-supported infantry thrown into fortified kill zones, Kyiv sacrifices manpower for fleeting media optics. The aim is to disrupt May 9th celebrations rather than achieve meaningful gains.
Russia, meanwhile, maintains initiative: shaping the battlefield with depth, reserve coordination, and hard power where it counts. The imbalance is stark. One side fights to hold a narrative, the other to secure the map.
Russia hasn't actually been securing much map. In 2024, Russia's net gains in Ukraine were 4000 square kilometers. The size of Rhode Island, the smallest US state. That's 0.0349% of the continental USA - 1/2865.
While taking on the largest army in Europe, and the entirety of NATO military stocks.
The Western planners expected Russia to LOSE ground, never mind gain any.
"The entirety of NATO stock."
Sure. If that makes you feel better.
Don't move the goalposts. Paulo wrote, "One side fights to hold a narrative, the other to secure the map." They have secured very little map.
No - "the Western Planners," have NOT been expecting Russia to lose ground.
Piss off back to Langley, and take your little bot "Likers" with you.
Europe has enough materiel for a week's worth of high intensity conflict - where has all the rest gone? Oh yes, Ukraine's steppes to rust.
They have secured a LOT of map, considering the West spent mega-$Bns on building "Impregnable fortresses" over TEN YEARS - with every expectation their provocations would lead to a Russian invasion. It's quite one thing to take 100 miles of empty Libyan desert, very much another to take fortress cities after fortress cities. And once all those fortresses are taken, it's run, run away little Ukrainian conscript, throw away your uniform, and hide as a civilian until this fascist regime collapses like all Western proxies eventually do.
"And, no - "the Western Planners," have NOT been expecting Russia to lose ground."
Ahhh, I can tell you are very wise. So Zelenky's various "Offensives" were actually to simply deplete Ukrainian manpower and lives, rather than to take any land. TBF, I *can* see your point, as that is what actually happened.
I have spent the last 60 years within sound range of the Joint Base Lewis McCord artillery practice range, in NW Washington. For over a year it has been silent for the FIRST TIME EVER in all 60 years. We are out of artillery ammo and have none to practice with.
Don't worry, the US used up most of its old junk. Trump has a trillion-dollar budget for the military. That'll buy a lot of weapons. lol
Yeah. Perhaps he can buy them from China? hahaha. West can't make s*it
Camp Roberts is within earshot for me, same story, haven't hear artillery fire for over year now.
I’m just gonna go ahead and say it you suck
That was not the narrative at the beginning. Ukraine was going to take back all its territory as well as some Russian stuff, to negotiate from 'a position of strength' (natch). That narrative died a death on the ground..... or went to ground any way. It keeps sending up desperate 'new shoots'.
As for exhausting NATO stocks, that is exactly what Russia-China-NK-Iran have been effectively doing along with Ansar Allah, driving an east-west confrontation to the bottom line of who has best access to the raw material for regeneration (The facts on the ground here speak for themselves). Ansar Allah only pulled back because the US took away the target under the banner of 'job done' (!), but no one fighting this decrepit monster cares what lies it tells its own people, because those people are never going to fight and die for it, not in any quantity. The US has done a runner from a forward position. The rest of NATO is yet to find the courage to take one.
PS Russia's objective has never been about territory (map waving) but security and establishing it LONG TERM. Understand that and you understand the progression of the SMO- moving as it is, according to plan.
Long-term, Russia will be humiliated if it doesn't take the strategic initiative soon and force a surrender. Trump gave the military a trillion dollars for new weapons and to replace the old junk that Ukraine bought. lol
And who will manufacture these new weapons? And where will they manufacture them? And how many years will it take to do so?
With respect Denis, the American military has sometimes failed, but it has never failed due to a lack of funding.
? Biden was supplying humungous weaponry with that wave cresting with the 'throw everything at 'em' counter offensive that went so well. Sullivan himself has just declared that strategy a failure- so best of luck to Trump overwhelming Russia with weaponry. Still, if you only have a hammer everything is a nail, eh?
What makes you think that Russia wants to occupy militarily a "country" with 20 million Russian-haters?
Russia wants to install a new regime that will be neutral as was written in the 1991 Ukrainian Constitution.
They can keep garrisons at the borders to ensure that NATO behaves itself. That is what they did with East Germany.
That trillion dollars is only 150 billion more than last year. It won't even cover what we spent in the last year defending Israel.
@julianne: apparently the Oman-brokered cease fire w/Ansar Allah was initiated by the US, because T will be traveling to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, including for a meeting w/Putin (May13th/16th), a trip that puts T within range of Houthi missiles - https://johnhelmer.org/the-summit-in-the-sand-putin-agrees-to-meet-trump-in-abu-dhabi-on-may-15-16/
Always good to listen/read John Helmer.
Viral is correct. If Russia is so strong, why does it not break through the enemy's rear, push deep, and force the AFU lines to retreat and surrender? Everything Russia has done so far is small-scale maneuvers. The Americans would have pushed right through, then surrounded and besieged the forces of Kiev.
I do love the way you are saying that a country that spends 1/20th as much as the combined NATO countries on defence, should be able to treat a NATO, armed, trained and manpowered military, like the US did to an impoverished and defenceless Iraq.
The sheer idiocy of this position makes it BLINDINGLY obvious to everyone else here that you are not a reader of Simplicius.
So what are you doing here, Denis?
I am a subscriber to Simpliticus, who is an exceptionally gifted forensic writer. I value all his articles.
I'm just voicing an opinion, just like you, Gnuneo.
But I don't cry like a little girl when someone has an opposing view.
I keep opposing views in mind.
Stop being so emotional and let people say what they want.
It's called free speech.
You ain't one of them commies that got away by chance.
lol, be happy don't worry.
It's not about dollars or rubles spent. Russia gets much more bang for its buck than the West.
Russia has had 3 years to expand military production and capability and it has done a better job at this than the West. But from the beginning even Russian analysis was that they needed millions of troopers to occupy Ukraine. Russia has a small window right now to leap beyond Western abilities and get a decisive victory and get good defensive positions for a wider war with the West.
Russia needs to conscript a million men now or accept that their will be a hostile enemy near Moscow continually attacking and seeking Russia's destruction as it grows stronger.
Denis the Americans would have bombed everything that moved for months, killing indiscriminately.
Then they would have sent in a coalition force to take over the rubble and kill anyone they didn't like the look of.
Then they would have thrown money at anyone, no matter how shady, who would work with them.
Then they would sit there for a few years, calling it nation building.
Then they would leave, having achieved nothing of value, but having spent trillions, killed hundreds of thousands and basically destroyed the country.
Not sure it's a great blue print mate?
Nailed it!
Spot on.
Yup, and it worked, in the sense that the US achieved its goal in Iraq, which was to turn that country into a failed state.
Didn’t Americans pay off Iraqi generals not to show up on the battlefield?
Thanks for concurrence, I think. But claiming that "Everything Russia has done so far is small-scale maneuvers," is simply absurd.
Because their goal isn't to take territory, it's to eliminate the Nazi's future military capability. Russia's perfectly happy with attritional warfare.
The reason is the same reason that civilian casualties in this war are so freakishly low, with a combatant : civilian casualty ratio of something like 20 : 1. Russia is not fighting a PR war, and not (as a first priority) fighting a war to seize territory. It is fighting in very restricted parameters designed to a) minimize Russian casualties and maximize Ukrainian military losses, thereby pushing the balance of forces ever-more in Russia's favor, and b) minimize damage to Ukraine outside of its military aspect. Which is why, for instance, the Rada still exists and Zelensky's homes haven't been hit by missiles.
What is your point? -- Russians are not jews. Russians do not carpet bomb civilian population, hospitals, schools, and infrastructure to steal more land. Russia has more than enough of territory and resources.
Russia wanted to have healthy relationships with the collective west. The zionist-captured collective west was used to attack the Russian Federation to do the usual bankers' speciality: to Loot, Rape, Plunder, and Destroy.
“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls the British money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” -- Nathan Rothschild
Warning: Idiot Jukraine loving NAZI inbound.
Go get your 23rd booster. Then die.
The true enemy of all mankind
Ha! I read that like the line "Death and hatred to mankind" from Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"...
And then thought it was a good idea to tell you about it.
https://youtu.be/K3b6SGoN6dA?t=13
Thanks.!
Have you seen the AI one?
Ahhhh, the good old days, when the only ache you had was from the head-bangers to good music. They told me, I had fun😄.
Thanks. I think "their" sentiment however at the highest level anyway isn't hatred, it's a simple desire to have and maintain control. In my limited understanding I think that's Luciferian. Hatred per se is down the pyramid somewhat, those are more demonic and also within my very limited understanding I guess that's more along the lines of the Talmud. The Rothschilds, the head of the family I suppose is the Pindar, the representative of Satan, who may be an actual entity (although not human per se) but rather a higher-dimensional being. And then luckily there are postively-oriented higher-dimensional beings too.
What if it turns out to be a fundamentally moral universe after all (at least, the part we are aware of and live in)? With actual forces of light and darkness, extending far beyond our normal present human conceptions of time and space? An interdimensional reality which we here now are only partly aware of?
To me this is the most parsimonious explanation for the evil goings-on that continue going on. Also the most satisfying, karma being a bitch and all.
That's what I think.
To want to control is a sign of fear. What is it they fear? The loss of the very real control they have now, and that what they have knowingly done to others will be done to them.
And that they will turn out to be "normal", rather than "special".
The entire 'English elite' school system is designed to promote fear upon its inmates, deep emotional needs. I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if other countries did so too.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/08/public-schoolboys-boris-johnson-sad-little-boys-richard-beard
Russia doesn't need to bomb civilian populations, but it could lay siege to the major cities, so that nothing goes in, nothing goes out. Simple. Instead, we get excuses. What's the holdup?
Then why has it done so most every night over the last few months? And regularly throughout the "special military operation?"
every single night, every day? Do you work for the BBC? You admit Ukraine is a British proxy war in your posts and still you align with the cheap British propaganda. How ineffective.
More nights than not.
I didn't write anything about proxy wars, however it's good that you acknowledge that Ukraine is China's proxy war, chewing up Buryats, Chechens, Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Tuvans, Chuvash, and Ossetians.
Inefficacy - that's you all jerking each other off here - and Russia's air defense. Pretty humiliating for you.
They need at least a million more troopers.
Anna, you got everything right. I wish there were more of you on earth to help bring PEACE ON EARTH.
You might want to reevaluate Russian history and the Zionist influence.
Are we sure Putin (after allegedly being approved for leadership by Bill Clinton) really had a change of heart and vanguished the bad Russian oligarchs? Kicked them all out of the country, did he?
Who really knows?
Well the acquisition of land is of little importance if the objective is the attrition of the enemy army. When there is no Ukrainian army the Russian military can easily secure land. That's the secret to not fighting for 20 years and failing to achieve objectives. Well in reality the secret is actually having objectives.
Surely also the amount of map secured by Russia is less than the entire lunar territory, and what about that? If you really want to assert that Russia secured little or a lot of map, making comparisons of the absolute value of the amount of territory with another totally unrelated territory, not only doesn't make any sense, but it is misleading. And I imagine you have to know that, right?
How much blood and treasure does the US government invest in defending Rhode Island?
“Blood and treasure?” Get over yourself.
The yearly budget of RI is about $16-billion for 1.1M people.
How do I mute notifications from this thread?
Try taking your head out of your arse. Let me elucidate, how much blood and treasure does American Caesar invest in the defence of SS-Ukraine?
Great points.
Stupid is as stupid does.
It'd be hilarious if it weren't so tragic
Read an article where Ukraine is holding civilians captured in the Kursk region expecting to exchange them for soldiers the Russians captured. Only Nazis could do that without shame.
Oh, no. The German Nazis had shame, whereas the judeo-banderites have none. See Gaza.
"At a festive banquet held at Kyiv's central synagogue, Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, lit the second Hanukkah candle on the menorah alongside the Chief Rabbi and the Israeli ambassador. ... Budanov stated, "The flame of this candle will illuminate our future victory – both ours and that of the State of Israel."
You know we all do this thing, we closely agree on so much, but the internet seems to insist that when we interact, it be in the form of an argument with a clear winner.
It's like it is shameful to pull together on anything, the divide and conquer people have won.
From my limited window the Nazi and Zionists are working together, if not in fact the same people. You seem to somehow hold the German side up as admirable?
The Budanov thing is certainly revealing. Thanks for that.
An example of Nazi shame please.
perhaps you need to ponder for a sec about the enormous efforts of propaganda machine against Germans after WWII. They were demonized as a nation.
Here is a true cause of WWII: "Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime aimed to separate Germany's finances from the international system, primarily through the concept of autarky, which envisioned a self-sufficient German economy. They sought to reduce reliance on international trade and resources, aiming to build a strong, independent economy"
Do you remember the great Muammar Gaddafi whose policies created a gem of North Africa, a country more prosperous than the European vassals to the City of London? Muammar Gaddafi also wanted to introduce Gold Dinar, to which the criminal empire of offshore accounts and money laundering had immediately responded by murdering Muammar Gaddafi and destroying the formerly flourishing Libya.
Remember that global jewry is shameless and sadistic.
You know it started with a very quickly tossed off comment. With your permission I will edit it to say, "Only Zio-Nazis could do that without shame."
I know and love various Jewish people. I would change your quote to read. Remember that global psychopaths are shameless and sadistic.
They hide behind various identities and those who prescribe hatred of all Jews are among their best supporters!
Won't comment on all your points but do see the destruction of Libya as an evil enterprise. Anything done that undermines the petro-dollar is fatal, no matter how righteously progressive the instigator.
Gaddafi's attitude towards women is something we all could learn from! That we assassinate those who so strongly support universal education, is just plain inexcusably, disgusting. His predictions about African to Europe immigration were both prescient and proof of a deep wisdom.
There is a small minority of intelligent and principled Jewish individuals. They are viscerally hated by global Jewry. Don’t try to avoid the fact of the most shameful profiteering on WWII tragedy, the lies, slander, the merciless attacks on historians and engineers and chemists whose research does not agree with the profiteering holobiz schema. They still whine about their incomparable sufferings while propagating lies about 10/7.
Is it an illusion that US congress is an aipac-occupied territory? Is Gaza slaughter is an illusion? Are Friends of Israel in the UK are immaterial?
Before attacking the German Nazi for the lack of moral fiber, why don’t you check on Jacob Schiff, Goloschyokin, Sverdlov, the Sassoons, Leo Strauss, the Kagans’ clan?
What Russian initiatives are you talking about? You mean those few km advances?
Purpose of the SMO is demilitarization of UA not conquering it and advancing is not needed for that.
In fact you better to stay at defend position and grind AFU while they do counter attacks, and sometime do small advances to keep it going. Exactly that is happening.
And after or near demilitarization you will be able to advance anywhere you want without resistance.
It is not war for territory, it is war to nullify country's military power and keep it neutral afterwards. Just getting 4 oblasts with still existing strong AFU on the other side of the river will be a failure in the long run as it will lead to another war.
So demilitarization is needed and if UA is willing to spend all male population in the process then so be it, but I think breaking point will come sooner.
Demilitarization is only possible if all countries that supply weapons to Ukraine presently, stop the flow. I see no evidence of that happening just yet. Ukraine and it's suppliers have also switched to drone production on speed and terrorist acts will increase as we go along.
Those few klm advances need to be multiplied by the 1,000 - 1,200 klm length of the front to realise they are not too shabby.
Then add the amount of Ukie casualties, and lost armour all along the front. Ukie air assets are long gone so not worth mentioning now. Then add the targets hit in the Ukie rear, ammo warehouses and factories, ports, etc.
What has it cost the US_Ukronazis to hold the ground they have left? The battles Verdun and the Somme nearly broke the German army.
>Ukraine’s repeated attacks on the Kursk region, now targeting Tetkino and Glushkovo, speak less to strategic promise and more to desperation masked as defiance.
What they speak most about is the Kremlin's total ineptitude and catastrophic self-inflicted failures in this (not)war.
Let's review the sequence of events:
1) In April 2022 they withdrew without a fight to the official border
2) They apparently somehow expected it will be respected
3) But artillery strikes on the civilian population began immediately, over time creating an exclusion zone INSIDE Russian territory
4) Invasion attempts began already in 2023, with the RDK stunts
5) Drones expanded the exclusion zone to 20 km or so
6) Then the large-scale Kursk invasion came in August 2024
7) And, of course, it did not end with that.
At no point in this sequence of events did the Kremlin make any real effort to move the line of contact deep into Chernigov, Sumy and Kharkov so that its own population and territory are safe.
Again, this after having achieved that condition early in the war but surrendering it without a fight.
Let's also remind people that in that region the city of Konotop was taken without a fight, the city of Chernigov was fully encircled, and Sumy was almost encircled too. Had they pushed just a little bit more instead of pulling out without a fight, all that territory would be under Russian control now the same way the Azov Sea coast is.
And nobody has dared ask Putin in his face the inconvenient question why this fiasco was allowed to happen and who is responsible.
The Bandarites are always ready to sacrifice their soldiers lives for a PR stunt. It tells you all you need to know
The spring is here and Russian forces are dominating on all fronts with overwhelming numbers. The way to stop these Kursk type adventures is by opening a new front toward Odessa and forcing the Ukrainians to give up on Kursk. As soon as they will realize that they can possibly lose Odessa they will start a mad rush toward the South and give up on Kursk. Russia must exploit her own superior strengths displayed on the battlefields. Taking Odessa or the area around it would be a major step toward a victory. The Kursk area from Odessa is a 400 mile trip, one way. Ukraine cannot afford to shuffle major forces between the two locations in open areas where the Russian air force can grind them down.
"Russian forces are dominating on all fronts with overwhelming numbers."
Hardly.
Just about all reports I have seen state that Russian forces easily out number Ukrainians plus they have major, already trained reserves available. One day they just have to finish this war and the road to victory goes through Odessa.
Outnumbering does not mean "dominating." You know that.
Gee, I dunno - when one side has a 20-1 kill ratio to the other WHILE ATTACKING, I'd say "Dominating" is an acceptable word to use.
Gee - I dunno. Why didn't you just pull a 50-1 ratio out from your asshole.
And 3 'likes' again, just like that.
And yet you are commenting on your own. Bots, then.
Well, when Russia starts repatriating 50 Ukie bodies for each of their own, I shall say that. At the moment however, it's 'only' up to 20-1.
I mean, this is Ukies own figures, and while they lie like, umm, you, their figures can be taken as the minimum level, as the lies are always in their favour.
So I have official numbers, and math, behind me, while you have... apparently western media pravda outlets, because you're such a low-level CIA functionary.
Or is that simply your GOAL - to become a CIA "Influencer"?
Well, you're gonna crash and burn baby, HARD. Should have chosen an easier group to infiltrate.
It's Ukraine's own admission that they are both out numbered and dominated on the battlefield. The laments on Ukrainian national TV saying that Ukraine is out numbered, out planed, out artilleried, out ammunitions, and out supplied in food and medical are duplicated each year for the last two years beginning before Gen Zeluzny's The Economist article but that was the first big crack.
It was the head of C14 who said he was not a neo-Nazi, but a Nazi and it was Ukraine's job to die for the West if it meant hurting Russia. There is no doubt Ukraine is being dominated in Ukraine. The debate is to continue to fight the losing fight or give up.
“It's Ukraine's own admission that they are both out numbered and dominated on the battlefield” - yeah, one faction admits reality, and another shouts, “Ukraine is winning.”
lol
The Russian advances are relatively slow but steady some months ago and show increasing speed. That is very close to dominance. The day must be coming when they will start pushing harder.
Some truth about the speed. Nicely done.
3 likes again, and in under 5 mins. Bots.
"hardly", said the pedantic mosquito on the back of the ox that was plowing a land full of stones and roots
Great post! Very informative!
I’m glad those Ukrainian boys surrendered. They were obviously sent on a suicide mission by their cynical commanders.
It's a crying shame the entire goddamned army doesn't surrender. Or better yet, turn their guns on their 'commanders'.
Yet after 3 years of SMO they can't leave behind their cowardice, speaks a lot about the psychological state of Ukroinistan.
It speaks a lot about what happens when Western Intel agencies get full control of a country. Media, Govt, Military, Communications, Legal System, and add to that their pet paramilitary groups.
Looking at the general shape and trend of western countries, I'm not so sure we can feel smug. Not at all.
I know people in 2025 who are still queueing up for covid depopulation bioweapon injections. In the midst of an epidemic of early onset cancer and heart disease in their cadre. You can't fix stupid. Cowardice is universal, most people will do whatever the TV tells them to do.
The world will be a better place with the gullible and stupid gone.....
Unfortunately, a lot of those people who you refer to as gullible, come from a time where they could trust what the medical community told them, and will continue to do so till they die. I am of course talking about an older generation:
Older people are often perceived as more gullible, but a more accurate term might be trusting—particularly in the context of how society operated during their formative years. Many older generations grew up in a time when institutions were more trusted, social interactions were more face-to-face, and community ties were stronger. Trust was often seen as a default position, not something to be earned.
Here are a few key factors to consider:
Cultural Norms: In mid-20th century Britain (and many other countries), values like honour, integrity, and "a man’s word is his bond" were widespread. People relied on each other more and expected decency in return. That upbringing can lead to a lasting tendency to give others the benefit of the doubt.
Cognitive Changes: As people age, there are some changes in brain function—especially related to risk assessment and memory—that can make it harder to detect deceit or manipulation. This doesn’t mean they’re foolish, but they might be more vulnerable to well-crafted scams, particularly those that play on emotion or fear.
Less Tech Savvy: Older adults may not be as familiar with modern scams, especially those involving technology. Their trusting nature meets an environment they weren’t socialised to navigate—phishing emails, fake websites, and AI-generated fraud.
Desire for Connection: Loneliness and isolation, common among older adults, can make them more receptive to contact—whether from telemarketers, scammers, or even con artists—simply because they crave interaction.
In short, they’re not necessarily more gullible by nature, but more conditioned to trust due to the values and experiences of their youth. That trust, when exploited in a harsher, more cynical modern world, can lead to vulnerability.
There are legions of young gullible too though. My daughter knows only one other young person her age among uni, work, and friends, that is mRNA free.
I would bet the vast majority of troops haven't seen their commanders this year, and have zero idea of where those commanders are...
A very good point. Because we are told again and again the press gangs especially target the Russian-speaking population in the Galician area, they are less active. Therefore, a lot of Ukrainian servicemen must be Russian speakers. We should expect these people to turn their weapons against the Ukrainian commanders. But I can not see this happening. Some part of the story we are told seems to smell fishy.
Wake me when something happens . Three years of this is enough for me . I’ll tune back in 2030 .
lol, Ray. A turtle walking for three years can advance faster into Ukraine than the Russians.
I have been watching your comments Denis.
IF the world behaved 'militarily' like the USA how would this look?
When was the last war the US won? Grenada!
Yet every country bows to the US.
They bow to US financial sanctions, since oil is bought and sold in dollars. If that doesn't work, then the US has no qualms with bombing countries till they do.
Propaganda.
C'est la verite quand meme, Mademoiselle.
The United States achieved its goals in Iraq, Syria and Libya, which was to turn those countries into failed states.
This is true.
press forward
Just ban drones already like mustard gas. Bring back chemical warfare then. War is so gay right now. How fun would it have been brawling on battle cruisers or in a phalanx. Now you get hit by high explosive on a 4 wheeler.
Achilles and Patroclus were gay too, but I get what you're saying
The City of London gives orders and the Ukrainian forces again try to attack the Kursk region.
The pernicious judaic indoctrination has been showing its true nature this century: from Nuland-Kagan collaborating with the Ukrainian Nazi Party to initiate Judea War on Russia (and none of the major jewish organizations and synagogues has ever noticed the collaboration) to the ongoing real Holocaust in Gaza (and none of the major jewish organizations and synagogues has demanded to stop the mass slaughter of children and women).
The damned tribe is cohesive, shameless, sadistic, and hypocritical. Their hatred of "others" is legendary. Their annual declaration of kol-nidre is nothing but an open insult to all societies which the tribe leeches to:
"All vows, prohibitions, oaths, bans, renunciations, penalties, or invocations of the divine by which we have vowed, sworn, renounced, or foresworn anything from this Yom Kippur to an auspicious next Yom Kippur, we repent of them all. We repudiate them. All of them are undone, abandoned, cancelled, null and void, not in force, and not in effect." -- Judaists are agreement-incapable liars and traitors.
Condolences to a small minority of decent Jewish individuals who understand the degeneracy and anti-human essence of judaism. Nothing can be done to ameliorate the situation. Their supremacist lunacy makes jews immune to reason.
Just fire the Oreshnik, Cucktin. What are you waiting for?
Shut up Jake. Go back take your meds.
Anything less than a Ukrainian surrender will result in a strategic blunder for Russia.
The US and EU have already started the process of rearming in preparation for the next war with Russia. These countries have been given no reason to fear Russia. By allowing Ukraine to exist in its current form, Russia will essentially be giving NATO and its proxies a close-proximity springboard to attack it with more significant force. By defeating Ukraine, Russia would expand its buffer zone and set up strategic defences closer to the west of Ukraine and pummel invading forces as they crossed the border. Ukraine's unconditional defeat would demonstrate Russian might is right, putting NATO on a more cautious footing. It would also mean that Trump's resource agreement with Zelensky would be null and void, giving Putin leverage to re-negotiate a deal in a way that would buffer out the EU. Business is business. The US and Trump would not discriminate against Russia if it sees an opportunity to profit. Russia would profit from its newly acquired resources while keeping the EU in check, as the US would not want any interference affecting its profits from its new resource cash cow. But first, Russia must force Ukraine's military and political capitulation as soon as it can.
Here's an excellent interview on the Duran with Stanislav Krapivnik.
It's the first time I've heard of him, but maybe some of you know of him.
Stanislav has a good handle on how things are unfolding on the Ukrainian battlefield.
It's worth a listen.
https://rumble.com/v6sy56d-russian-military-objectives.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Duran
I’ve listened to Stani’s interviews on the Duran before. He’s no nonsense plain talking guy who knows what he’s talking about. I get a kick listening to him speak, I have numerous Ukie uncles and cousins and they all talk like that with a trace of accent and a warped cynical sense of humour. But seriously, he is very well informed and up-to-date, a reliable source.
Thank you, David.
How do your relatives feel about this conflict?
Surely Ukrainians must see that they're being played. I imagine it's risky for them to criticize the Zelensky regime.
Doubt Russia can force anyone with the perspective of doing a SMO.
It is only a matter of time until Ukraine, with the little help from ”partners”, will launch a massive and deadly attack on Moscow. If Russia then is still SMO-ing I doubt they will ever win. The best Russia then can hope for is not to lose and gain a ”draw.”
Mikey, I think the Russians could force a Ukrainian surrender, but the will isn't there for whatever reason. If Russia fails to force a surrender, it'll have a serious problem down the line. Russia must force a surrender. So many people just don't get it.
Agree fully. A negotiated ”peace” will only be a continuation of the hostilities and the seed for another War.
A surrender of Ukraine is better but no one has envisioned exactly how that scenario would unfold. Perhaps Russia has and came to the conclusion that it is not worthwile.
A ”surrender” has many problems to solve:
1. Suppose Yermak&Co leave for Tel Aviv - who would come next. Butcher X or Psychopath Yuril?
2. Will Ukraine lay down their weapons or just flee to Poland and Romania?
3. Will Macron, Starmer and Metz abstain from enter Ukraine territory?
4. Can Russia occupy and disarm the Ukraines fast enough without creating large bands of Partisans?
5. Can Russia take care of the administration and chaos that follows?
6. Can Russia create enough calm and organize Ukraine to function in a couple of years? Or will it take decades to rebuild?
Therefore I think Putin made a blunder when he started with the small perspective of SMO. Ukraine is a larger chunk than the Crimean peninsula. He has admitted the Russian was fooled and underestimated what West/US/Ukraine had been doing up to 2014. And after.
And now Russia has settled for four oblasts. And all ”offensives” are focused on pressing out the AFU from those oblast, not taking the whole of Ukraine.
>4. Can Russia occupy and disarm the Ukraines fast enough without creating large bands of Partisans?
Which is better? Fighting partisans or fighting well equipped real armies with Leopard tanks, Bradley IFVs, drone swarms in the millions and aviation support?
I think the answer is obvious.
Also, partisans are almost impossible to sustain in the modern world because of electronic communications and the total surveillance of those communications, plus drones overflying and watching everything.
The OUN/UPA lasted into the 1950s thanks to there being none of those things and being able to hide in the forests and in basements. Not possible now.
Just trying to figure out why Putins Russia hasnt gone all-in on Ukraine. What is holding them back? And why just settle for the four oblast and then thinking all is ok? It is something missing in the picture.
And I know your standing about Putins play.
Yes. Fighting partisans from the military view is better than an well-armed army but I am thinking from a ”peace-time” administrations view struggling with getting all back to ”normal”. You dont want to have PTSD:s running around and killing officials….
I can tell you why - the Russian leadership does not want to make war on what it still sees as its sadly misguided brethren. Russia does not want to destroy the West but to join it.
Needless to say, this reticence causes the West to smell blood.
"But partisans!" is just more cope.
The one thing all successful insurgencies have in common is a young population. The median age in Yemen is something like 19. The median age in Ukraine was over 40 - and that from before the war.
Could be. Afghanistan had a lot of old ”fighters”. I think what is left over of the AFU, the Nazi-ones, will have nothing else to do….
Afghanistan has one of the youngest populations on earth.
The EU has done nothing except talk. And never will.
The Americans already spend as insane amount on "defense" and are super keen to pivot to Asia.
The Americans spend an insane amount of other countries' money on defence, which they will never repay. Now that's a good deal. lol
10 yr. treasuries, baby. Safe and effective. lol
It is - until it isn't Denis.
If the bottom falls out of the Bond Market....well, all good things must come to an end mate.
Take a look at treasury futures and stop kidding yourself.
Tell me more FF.
I'm not sure.
In my opinion, the Bond market is built on Trust and Trust is like virginity - when it's gone it's gone.
And as I see it, the U.S is burning through trust at an alarming rate.
The markets obvious see it differently. The US government debt market is the largest most liquid and sophisticated securities market on earth, and yields on treasuries are not signaling anything like "crisis imminent".
It would be interesting if you did an "Anduril" special, because they are making a lot of noise and snappy videos of their kit which in most cases looks like analogues of stuff we have seen on the front. Question is, did they copy & improve, or is it still behind?
It's all about "stock, contract and money". Were it was "real shooting war" there would be nothing come out of the west, without the need of Russia to firing Nukes.
There is a small detail if the plan to strike the actual victory parade rather that the rehearsals were to go ahead: the presence of Xi (and a few other foreign grandees) at the parade, in addition to civilians. Of course, I can easily imagine the more radical wing of the Garden of Knowledge commentariat salivating at the consequences of a potential Putin-Xi doublé royal (let's launch the fireworks) but still I find it really difficult to imagine the collective West allowing the full monty to go ahead....
One sure thing in this uncertain world: the Russian and Chinese "designated survivors" on May 9 are likely to be of a higher caliber than usual.
There is contrast ideal between those Western Christian and Eastern Orthodoxy, with the later believe in martyrdom which will elevate their status in heaven. As for those AngloZioNazis, they will simply go to hell. For the Chinese they will reincarnate.
I think China probably said something to Kyiv along the lines of "If you attack the parade - Russia will get all the Chinese arms and ammo to take all of Ukraine; starting with the flattening of Kyiv government buildings, ie their Parliment, by long range missiles fired from China"; or something like that.
The Red Square is going to be the most heavily AAD inhabited piece of this planet on May 9. The 500 drone strike was a Ukrainian test of the system, trying to gauge just what they need to launch to actually strike the square.
Answer: more than 500 drones
Just an idea that sprang to mind, but maybe deploying say, half a dozen suicide bombers in the crowd or the immediate area would cause some significant disruption, and certainly p!ss on the Parade. Question remains; could Kiev find the necessary volunteers ? I honestly don't know, but as the above article recounts, they found enough to attempt the re-invasion of Kursk.
If you can imagine it, so can Russian security, so they will have counters in place. Can they cover the entire parade route? I doubt it, but any such disturbance will (should) be far from Red Square.
Not a good idea. Why can Israel dominate the political landscape, because the Palestinians resolved to terror. The attack on the Olympic Games in Munich gave them a lot of media coverage, but also pushed a lot of people from a neutral stance to hate mode against the Palestinians. As there will be a lot of foreign tourists within the crowd, this kind of terror would lead to a world wide reaction.
Can't agree more. Moreover, the number of drones until end of May 7 summed up to 570 ca., with > 300 per day the days before, nearly 2000 over the week, including one autonomous boat attack (30 BEK). The results were less than humble 50-100 drone attacks the months before, 95% approx. shot down without damages. If this was a test, the result was fairly clear.
One method to keep track for the UAV was and prolly still is using Russian mobile SIM cards in UAVs. This is countered by switching off and on mobile networks once UAV are spotted. It is then possible to identify mobile entities crossing abnormally long distances in short time by IMSI catching. This information also gives hints where and by whom the SIM was acquired, stuff for the FSB.
The latest refurb propaganda weapon (we have been here before) is to rewrite Russian objectives to be able to say it is failing (hey ho!) despite its steady progression everywhere that counts. You can find traces of this in the comments.
Russia has been fighting the entire collective west, or rather its arm's length extension through motley mercs (including corrupt Ukraine), and that takes a steady hand on the tiller. Exhausting NATO stock has had to be a core aim of a background Russia-China-NK-Iran alliance backed in the ME by Ansar Allah. The object is to drive the wide east-west confrontation to the bottom line of who has best access to the raw material for regeneration (The facts on the ground here speak for themselves).
Ansar Allah only pulled back because the US took away the target under the banner of 'job done' (!), but no one fighting this decrepit monster cares what lies it tells its own people, because those people are never going to fight and die for it, not in any quantity. The US has done a runner from a forward position. The rest of NATO is yet to find the courage to take one.
Russia's objective has never been about territory (map waving) but security and establishing it LONG TERM. Understand that and you understand the progression of the SMO- moving as it is, according to plan.
Long-term security requires added territory to act as a buffer, Julianne. If it wasn't about territory, why did Russia add 4 provinces of what was Ukrainian land? You contradict yourself, dear.
The 4 oblasts were added at the request of those oblasts NOT because Russia decided to take them.
No contradiction, just you being ignorant.
Lol, Nig. You're jealous I called her dear, huh?
Oh look, the condescending asshole is condescending.
Film at 11.
AND too arrogant to apologise.
Thanks for the support but he simply took my statement out of its context. It is all about establishing security although there are other issues like the lack of security enabling Ukraine to persecute ethnic Russians who were until recently within its territorial (sic) borders. Did he really call me 'dear'? Bless. He decided to edit that out!
I call you dear out of respect for ladies, but you get all upset at me for pointing out an inconsistency which you corrected here:
"I meant it is not about territory per se, but in the context of establishing security. Sorry if I did not make that clear. How else is Russia to establish its security? In a Platonic abstract world of" Then you get upset with me for pointing it out.
It's all cool, Denis. I don't mind being called 'dear'. The point is Russia is not on an imperialist rampage, just securing itself from obvious and immediate alien threats. Of course eastern Ukraine actually voted to join the RF. Russia is giving effect to a democratic self determination, one of those UN fundamental rights.
I think we all agree that Russia holds the moral high ground.
Most of our collective differences relate to how Russia should best defend itself. Best wishes, dear lady.
I meant it is not about territory per se but in the context of establishing security. Sorry if I did not make that clear. How else is Russia to establish its security? In a platonic abstract world of forms? If the west escalates the challenge then establishing security may well mean taking all Ukraine- as Sergey Petrov has actually said.
I have a question on the: Russia-China-NK-Iran alliance. In Sudan the Russians seems to support the one side, the Iranians the other - or did I miss a detail? It would be good to hear more about the other conflicts! This seems all to be interlocked.
>The latest refurb propaganda weapon (we have been here before) is to rewrite Russian objectives to be able to say it is failing (hey ho!) despite its steady progression everywhere that counts.
The minimal winning condition for Russia is that Ukrainian statehood ends.
Is that a realistic prospect under the current rules of engagement and with the current speed of progress? No.
Therefore Russia is failing. And because this is an existential war, it is failing catastrophically.
>Russia has been fighting the entire collective west
Correction: the "entire collective west" has been fighting Russia. Russia on the other hand has not fired a single shot that that "entire collective west", just repeatedly turning the other cheek.
>Russia's objective has never been about territory (map waving) but security and establishing it LONG TERM.
Forward deployment of nukes means that security is in fact about territory.
And in the current situation that territory goes way beyond Ukraine.
Great report Mr Simplicius!
I wonder if when this war is settled if Russia might just issue some kind of proclamation, decree, promise, or whatever - that warns the west that any future feckery would immediately trigger Oreshnik launches towards,,, say Brussels, Berlin, Paris, and London? Or even Washington and Ottawa? Although I doubt Ottawa would warrant that kind of expense.
Assuming this war actually has some sort of ending that is not a vast sea of mushroom clouds - that is. Maybe that is the reason behind the recent craze of eating bugs. Likely whom ever survives the nuclear winter would have to exist mainly on cock -a- roaches so you may as well get used to eating bugs now so it won't add to the stress of surviving nuclear armeggedon. Now, I just made up that theory on bugs but it sounds likes something that might be believed, especially on social media.
I digress.....
I'm sure this war will get studied extensively in the future and I'd sure like to find out who thought that these raids into Russia is the best thing they can do with thier diminishing Forces; while other areas of the line are being pushed back. I suppose an argument can be made that this is some sort of "active defense" to keep the Russians from attacking towards Sumy or Kyiv. After all - this is the internet where anything can be argued. I think these raids and the Krinky adventure will be forever remembered as disasters. Hopefully there are no more future disasters like this.
I kinda think that once the first Battalion or Brigade makes a break for the other side of the Dnieper - that that would lead to the rest, or a majority of them, also breaking contact and heading for the bridges. Speaking of bridges - I'm sure this will be studied as well - I do wonder why the bridges crossing the Dneiper were never destroyed. I would expect it would be very difficult to supply Ukrainian Armies at the front without these bridges. I'm sure there is some tactical reason behind it and I'm sure in the future we may or may not find out what that may or may not be.
I really enjoy reading your informative reports.
” I'm sure this war will get studied extensively in the future”. Agree. It is a War. But if you argue about this being a War you have Galtsky&Co yelling ”SMO!”
It is a War like it was 1941 prior to Pearl Harbour. Who thought 1941 that 80 German cities would be eradicated and millions of japanese civilians grilled by Le May and vaporized by nukes? What is in store for us in 2027? Will we ever have a chance to study this War?
There are so many confounding aspects of this War. Russias restraint to destroy 10-14 main bridges over Dniepr for example. Ukraine will blow them as soon as Russian recons come within 1 km…
The de-nazifying narrative without decapitating the leadership???
The attrition War that seems to never result in a crumbling of the Uki forces in big scale….
>Russias restraint to destroy 10-14 main bridges over Dniepr for example. Ukraine will blow them as soon as Russian recons come within 1 km…
Yes, indeed, they will be blown up by Ukraine when Russians are close, which means Russians can only gain by doing it now and isolating eastern Ukraine.
The rumor circulating for years is that it has not been done because the relevant oligarchs ordered the Kremlin not to do it because it would hurt their commodity export businesses.
"Relevant oligarchs" not necessarily meaning just Russian ones.
That hypothesis cannot be dismissed.
It is quite well established that Mariupol was destroyed for precisely such a reason -- back in 2014 Azov withdrew and the DNR was about to take the city when the order came from Moscow to halt the advance. Why? Because Rinat Akhmetov called Putin and ordered him to do so. The reason being that if Mariupol went under sanctions that would have left him without a port, as all the others were Kolomoysky's feudal possessions and they hated each other.
Read that again.
Akhmetov (Ukrainian oligarch) orders Putin (the Russian president) to surrender a key city without a fight for his own personal business interests, which Putin duly complies with, resulting later on in the city being destroyed, some 10,000 Russian soldiers dying, 20-30,000 civilians too, and the SMO failing.
Yes, the SMO failing, because imagine Mariupol did not have to be taken and that force was sent towards Nikolaev and Odessa instead. One should be able to easily see how the catastrophes cascade from that fateful decision back in 2014 -- the BSF has been pushed out of Crime and holed up on Novorossyisk and NATO flies recon planes all over the Black Sea as an eventual consequence of it.
For that alone Putin should be charged with treason and publicly executed, and it is a minor such act in the grand scheme of things.
So yeah, it is not hard to imagine similar considerations determining decision making here too.
After all we all remember the grain deal and the ammonia pipeline.
"who thought that these raids into Russia is the best thing they can do with their diminishing Forces"
Von Clausewitz: War is a continuation of Politics by other means.
The raids are purely political theatre, but it's not the politicians who are paying the Butcher's Bill.
Niggle. Clauswitz also talked about Purpose, Goal and strategy. The aims are political, but the means are military.
Pinprick attacks on Moscow serve no military purpose because they do not affect the Russian "Centres of Gravity".
The hope is that these raids will so demoralised the Russians that they implode. It's a pipe dream. Did they implode with the Wehrmacht 30 miles from the Kremlin?
These raids are as pointless as German V1 strikes in 1944.
You forget the flip side of the political/propaganda coin, which is to bolster Ukraine's image, both internally and, more importantly, with its external supporters.
Long time readers of this Substack understand that without that external support, we would be counting down the days for Russia to reach the Polish border.
Those external supporters *need* to see/show that Ukraine is still "in the game".
However pointlessly.
Fair point.
But Western Support for Ukraine isn't driven by popular opinion. So these political attacks are pretty pointless.
Our Governments support Ukraine, but if there was a referendum they'd never get a majority for spending billions on a lost cause.
But since we aren't genuine democracies, it doesn't matter.
"These raids are as pointless as German V1 strikes in 1944." These attacks were for internal consumption, to bolster the claim that Germany needed time, rather than that it was running out.
I thought the strategy was to make Russia crumble internally.
Hence the drone strikes.
I believe they think that getting Russia to defeat herself is the best strategy?
Sadly, there's likely enough believers, in Western corridors of power, that this whole thing will drag out past the end of the year.
Chris, you raise a couple of interesting questions in your comment, but I only want to comment on the 'bridges across the Dneiper' portion of your question. I am not an expert on the topic, but I've looked into the question of 'why are the Dneiper bridges still standing' question quite a bit, and here's what I've heard (and it sounds reasonable to me).
One of the problems of taking down those bridges (and the dams that are across the river and that also operate as bridges) is that those structures are very 'hard to hit' and 'hard to take down' (they are relatively thin and narrow and very very sturdily built on purpose by the Soviets to make them hard to take down in a war).
To take down such a sturdy structure, you have to get an extremely powerful warhead(s) to connect with the bridge / dam in exactly the right spot from an engineering perspective (close calls and hits on things like just the roadway are not enough) -- and that's hard to do. Plus, you can't just hit one of the engineering 'sweet spots' (like a key pylon for a bridge) -- you pretty much have to hit them all if you want to keep that crossing down for an extended period of time (it depends on the design of the specific target selected, but once again these bridges and dams are over-built from a design standpoint on purpose). Lots of conventional cruise missiles and / or conventional theatre ballistic missiles would be needed (or aircraft if you could get them there to use glide bombs) -- and drones probably can't carry the payload you would need to do real damage -- and that is both expensive (in terms of losses to air defense and due to opportunity cost -- you could do other useful things with those assets) and not fool-proof (think of how many weapon hits it took to knock down two Russian-controlled bridges and one dam around Kherson -- and those were targets that were relatively close to the contact line, not deep into the enemy's rear areas). So, it's a difficult and expensive long range deep strike 'ask' for any military using conventional weapons.
Tactical nukes would probably work -- but they are problematic ('look, Russia used a nuke!' -- especially since these targets are usually in urban areas), and unconventional weapons like Oreshniks are presently scarce (plus, it might be really embarrassing if they 'missed' or 'failed to fully do the job', plus currently the less the West sees of the Oreshnik the less chance the West has to understand / counter it -- if you were the Russians, you might not want to 'waste' it on something like a railroad bridge that might be ultimately easily repaired). That's the 'technical' argument I've heard made.
The political argument is slightly different. Assuming you could knock down all of those bridges, then what happens? Yes, you (for a short-to-intermediate time period) disrupt the Ukrainian ability to ship food, fuel, parts, ammunition, equipment, etc between east and west Ukraine (that is useful and not to be underestimated). But you probably don't cut everything off entirely(there are always ferries, pontoon bridges, second and tertiary routes, and stockpiles east of the Dneiper) and your enemy will likely repair some or all of the main crossings to some level of usefulness relatively quickly (think of how quickly Russia built and repaired the Crimean bridge when it was attacked). So is it worth to escalate things politically just to partially and temporarily disrupt Ukrainian logistics? Probably not.
The other political problem you create attacking the bridges and dams is the civilian damage you cause. There is the collateral damage caused by the explosions themselves, and there is the wide-spread flooding of civilian river areas when those dams violently burst apart, and there is the general humanitarian pain and suffering (and negative public relations impact) caused by the transportation disruption which results in civilian food shortages, families being cut off from one another, civilian economy work stoppages, etc. In the grand scheme of things and from a WW2 strategic bombing perspective, some will dismiss all of that and say 'boo hoo' -- but that is still a political escalation decision (like knocking down 100% of all Ukrainian power and water distribution) that the Russian leadership is not willing to take at this time (and maybe that is wise). Furthermore, if there is some sort of total Ukrainian regime collapse (and say a new, future, neutral or pro-Russian state), then those bridges and dams are going to be needed (and very expensive to replace) -- so may be the 'military gain' of taking down those crossings just isn't worth the 'political' cost for Russia.
In summary, I don't think that 'dropping the Dneiper bridges' is necessarily an easy thing to do nor necessarily a good decision for Russia. Eventually, if and when the Russians reach the Dneiper, I think it likely that someone (probably the Ukrainians) will blow those bridges and dams (at least the ones at risk of capture) and blowing the bridges and dams with pre-placed engineering charges is not so difficult a task to accomplish (with competent ground-based engineering demolition forces). But dropping those bridges from afar isn't going to happen (in my guesstimate).
Thanks Martin, those are all valid points!
Didn't Russia evacuate Kherson in part out of concern that NATO missiles would destroy the bridge links and leave the forces there isolated?
Yes, I think that was likely the reason for Russia's retreat in Kherson. But the difference is that there were really only two bridges to attack at Kherson -- and they were in range of many weapon systems (including ATCAMS and Himars and Storm Shadows and probably even some longer range tube artillery etc) because the Ukrainian army was relatively close to those targets. This gave the Ukrainians more shots at fewer targets. And to cause problems for the Russians, the Ukrainians didn't really need to drop the bridges -- just make using them periodically disrupted (e.g. damage the roadway) and difficult to use and repair while under fire. That was enough to upset the logistics of the Russian forces across in Kherson (and increase the risk that may the Ukrainians might get lucky and damage the bridges completely, which would have trapped heavy equipment and supplies across the river -- therefore it was better to retreat to more reliable positions on the east bank of the river).
Note too that the two Kherson bridges didn't really collapse completely either but since the line of contact went right along the river, neither side could easily repair the damaged structures, so the bridges remain unusable to this day.
The Ukranians, however, would not have that problem if the Russians hit the upper Dneiper bridges today (they are far behind the front lines and repair crews could operate more or less unimpeded after each attack). So you get a scenario were hitting the upper Dneiper bridges is both harder to do (than the Kherson bridges) and easier to repair -- so probably not a great strategy for Russia.
Ever heard of a double-tap?
The main problem with the Russian force on the right bank was that it was too extended, from Kherson, Berislav, Kakhovka down all the way to Nikolayev oblast border, and the shores of the Ingulets river. Most of the soldiers were mobilized DNR and LNR forces together with some Spetsnas, Marine, and Airborne troops.
At that time, UAF counted around a million of combat troops while all Russian and allied forces no more than 150,000, maybe double on conclusion of the partial mobilization.
Also, there was always the threat of the Kakhovka dam being blown up, creating a logistical nightmare for the troops west of the Dnyepr.
Mind that the UA army was the largest in all Europe west of Russia in 1922:
https://i.imgur.com/7GDnt4t.jpg . The number of tanks does not include a reserve of other about 2500 MBT (mostly T-64BV) in different states of readiness or repair/disrepair.
I think that you are trying to say 2022, not 1922.
Regardless, the point stands - if Russia could not have supplied the troops that were on the right bank, it could not have supplied more troops.
Moreover, it's not as if Russian troops require logistical support, while Ukrainian troops do not.
My larger point throughout all these discussions is that Russia needed to and needs to stop pussyfooting around.
I agree it is 2022, as the statistics linked show. I also understand your point against "pussyfooting", yet I do not agree to.
My point here was, given the resources at hand, the retreat from the west bank of the Dnyepr was a sound one.
I think the retreat probably was necessary under the circumstances.
The problem is that that Russia miscalculated from the beginning which is what led to that mess in the first place.
I agree that taking down bridges, especially Soviet built ones, is not an easy task. Yet I think you overestimate the difficulty. I would reckon 4-5 heavy load (500+kg) warheads specialized for the purpose would suffice to severely damage every bridge, leaving the rest of the job to Geran and similar, even FABs if in range (the SU-57 operate nearly unhindered in Ukrainian skies) to finish the target and prevent repair.
Yet it would not need to take out every bridge at a time, not even every railway bridge. Only those are really significant for military logistics where we are talking about several thousands, even some ten thousands of tons every day. That can't be done by Nova Poshta trucks, except for the last miles. And doubtfully by 600V-3KV electrified trasses.
There are 2 25KV bridges in Kiev, and 2 750V (one light railway line over the Dnyepr hardly counts). Next south is a non electrified line over the dam north of Kanew which ends in the nowhere short northeast of the dam.
Next is the bridge at Cherkassy, this is a relevant 25KV line (1 track only as it seems), followed by a non electrified lane over the dam of the Kremechuk hydropower plant. It may be relevant though as it is connected to rail tracks to river port facilities. Then, further south in Kremenchuk proper, there is one bridge with another 25KV line.
South of it, there are only three bridges with 3KV lines, over the dam in Kamjanskoye, and 2 more in Dnyepropetrovsk proper. Though better than mere Diesel traction they provide less load, less speed.
In summary, over the Dnyepr we have 4 25KV electrified crossings, as many 600-750V, 3 3KV lines, and 2 non electrified (one ending in the open).
Also there is the Zatoka bridge over the Dnyester in the southwestern part of the Odessa oblast. This one has been bombed a couple of times, I am not sure whether it is operational atm.
Honestly, though I am no friend of armchair generaling, I can't believe that the RF lacks the maybe 100-150 precision charges to take these bridges out. Maybe there are other considerations not to do it. But many Russian milbloggers, not only superpatriots or self esteemed better high commanders, share that view.
That's great detail and a very plausible scenario -- thanks for sharing that. It's access to data like that which really helps a person understand the nuances of what is going on. Some day in history there will be good discussion of what they did and why (i.e. which reasons or combination of reasons were most important for their decisions), but until then it is likely the answer is 'it is possible and could be done ... if it is deemed important enough to incur the various costs of doing it ...'. -- it must be that, for whatever reason, it is not important enough (yet) compared to other things or worth the trade-off's. Interesting stuff -- thanks again.
” an armored group of one tank and an armored vehicle went on the offensive from Iskriskovshchina and Budka to cut off Tetkino from the north.”
Pfeew! The perspective of what an offensive is has been distorted long since. It is like when Hitler manoeuvred his ”Divisions” on a giant map of Eastern Front when they actually had only a battalions strenght.
A good report, Simplicius!
And AMK-mapping has explained the Russian way to sneak behind the defensive lines of Toretsk. Hope they will have time to reap the resulting breakdown of Ukraines defences until the Orange man changes his mind again. Read on RT that an CIA-analyst has said US provided just enough of weapons for Ukraine to ”bleed” but not to lose or win. I think this is the strategy,Trump will continue.
I cant help to think what is coming after the War is over. All these soldiers with knowledge of FPV-war and ability to build them for themselves…Disgruntled Ukrainians will wreck havoc in European cities paid by Islamists.