There is a problem with modern access to information about anything, but including art
The access is mostly via representations of representations, mechanical transmissions of images which appear to allow access, but which also flit from image to image so as to render them almost generic
When one has seen any of the works generally presented as great works of art one may make judgement as to whether these continue to reamin relevant or meaningful or.. or not
That is where you are wrong, I was a professional at art before opening my eyes to contemplate the wider world
Indeed representation, in general, is more a political or social act than that which you westies like to call 'artistic' - especially when in the case you chose subordinated to various degrees of mechanical reproduction
Now would we be here -- Kursk invasion, threats against NPPs, daily missile and drone attacks on Russia -- if Putin had done his job, and:
1) Properly prepared for February 24th 2022?
2) Failing that, mobilized immediately and fully in March 2022?
3) Actually struck the mythical "decision making centers" upon the first serious violation?
Almost certainly not.
But what did he do instead? Tried to make a deal once again and refused to mobilize the necessary resources because the Russian oligarchs' interests would have been hurt by that.
There you are, right on cue, to spew out your usual BS. Yes, what a terrible job Putin has done turning Russia from the Russia of the 90s into the Russia of today... But we all know that with people like you, you always know best... You know best mate, you would have done everything perfectly, predicted everything, outwitted everyone, and all from the comfort of your couch as well...
Why is "the Russia of today" something to admire? It is largely the same neoliberal shithole as the West, with a bit more state control and without the identity politics BS. But the socioeconomic model is not that much different.
Putin's primary job was to make sure the communists never returned and the neoliberal oligarchic socioeconomic model was firmly cemented, not to save Russia.
But making sure that the communists never returned necessitated stabilizing the country, so that was done.
If, however, that comes at the cost of the final dissolution of the country, because right now the options are either that, global nuclear war, or finally conventionally striking the mythical decision making centers and desperately trying to reenforce deterrence that way (but it might be too late for that by now), then how will he be remembered?
Also, has Putin really resurrected Russia? Can you imagine the USSR allowing a combined arms NATO invasion into Russia proper without the nukes being launched immediately? That tells you all you need to know about the actual standing of the country right now.
Speaking as a global citizen held hostage by mentally unstable ideologues in the hegemonic West, I resent those who dither over genocide in Gaza & those who eagerly talk nukes because "Putin must lose."
"Can you imagine the USSR allowing a combined arms NATO invasion into Russia proper without the nukes being launched immediately?"
Seriously insane.
I have no admiration for the controllers of the USSR but they understood that the launch of nuclear missiles meant devastation for all, including themselves. Like Putin, they stood ready to do so in extremis but not to deal with a problem they could solve with their conventional forces.
You apparently have a lust for nuclear destruction. Fortunately Russia's leaders are far more sensible and capable. They are destroying NATO militarily and economically (the exact opposite of expectations by stupid Western apparatchiks when they started the war against Russia), while increasing their own strength every day.
A country which has seen off and destroyed multiple major invasions over centuries knows that to prevail they have to take some pain, but they prevail without engaging in mutual suicide.
Because if you refuse to use nukes, then you effectively don't have nukes, and NATO can destroy you conventionally. And then finish you off with some nuclear strikes too, if needed.
Which is precisely what has been happening, and we are on course to happen.
It's astounding that one can seethe so bitterly about not being a radioactive husk of carbon and bone at this very moment in time. His argument is literally "I'm not burning in nuclear fire right now, ergo Russia is weak!"
Tactical nukes have already been used already perhaps a dozen times (Gordon Duff, Veterans Today now the Intel Drop.) They were used primarily by Israel to intimidate non-nuclear states. Russia called them on it, but did nothing. Israel and the US think tactical nuclear wars winnable; I don't. Best thing to keep Israel from using nukes is for Russia and China to give Iran a couple dozen.
I see a lot of people who don't understand physics or weapons technology make claims about nuclear weapons having been used in anger since Nagasaki. Provide some proof of your claim that a dozen nuclear weapons have been used offensively by ANYONE EVER if you can, otherwise, GTF out of town with that noise.
Tactical nukes. If you really are Pfc. you should know about tactical nukes. In about 1960 as a kid a picked up a library book on US weapons and saw the “nuclear canon” the picture showing a howitzer with a mushroom cloud behind it. You have heard of suit case bombs? Gordon Duff at Veteran’s Today wrote a lot about tactical nukes being used in say Iraq:
I suspect GM is a voyeur. He enjoys the violence and misery from his keyboard. Will be curious how these people react at the real thing. I have a bad feeling he’s going to be tested very soon. Our greatest ally just insured Iran will probably respond and the economic fallout could shoot the misery index thru the roof.
GM could also hate his life so badly he thinks he wants to die. The problem is he wants everyone else to come with him.
I can tell that you are completely ignorant about Russia. I've actually been there several times. Russians today live better, on the whole, than do Americans or English. The quality of life is better in Russia and leaps beyond what it was during the '90s. You are ignorant and spouting off crap about things you know little to nothing about.
Saint Jimmy, I agree with you completely about the level of ignorance of most people that have never actually been to Russia. I have lived and worked there and am far more impressed with their lifestyles and social trajectory that that of the USA's.
Yeah. I'm 66 and I've travelled far more than most people. I know what an optimistic country on the rise looks and feels like. I remember the US during the '60s and '70s. Russia felt very similar. For about a decade, the US has felt and looked exactly the opposite - a depressed country in decline. I've rarely been more convinced of a "big thing" in my life. Secretly, some US and Euro elites who realize this are, I suspect, insanely jealous.
We are similar in both age (I'm 64) and travel experience; and I agree with you about the jealousy. I believe that in some regards Russia is culturally about 50 or 60 years behind us (in a positive aspect), but with the benefit of current technologies; which in my mind puts them in a much better state of being and with a potentially much better trajectory.
Thats not saying much. America" with homeless on every street corner? Iranians live better. Russians should live even better considering their inheritance smarts and education. But no the oligarchs pay them so little its still a place to immigrate from for skilled workers. I happen to have a Russian wife as well. We live in Southern Brasil and Southern USA not Russia. When we retired in our 40s we looked far a wide and Russia was not even in top 10.
I don't think you realize yet that people in the WH, including others in other countries, are masked actors, doubles, or clones. Putin is not Putin. Just like Biden, Kamala, and many others. A lot of people have been removed already.
I believe it's time the people in America start caring about America. Forget the other countries. We aren't even supposed to be involved in other conflicts outside the US. Our Military was never supposed to step foot off of American soil to fight anywhere. They took an Oath. We are not supposed to be aiding and abetting other countries in their manufactured wars for money, power, and control either.
What's unmerited about it? GM is a troll and i don't suffer fools lightly. Or your brilliant mind hasn't deduced that yet about GM? You didn't notice that his reply to me was way too fast for the length of it and it must have been a cut and paste job from whatever drivel his handlers give him. And the average person is so wise and knowledgeable, I mean you only have to look at the state of the world and have studied history to see that... There's no unmerited condescension for people or the human race as a whole eh? What's unmerited about pointing out how stupid people or when they say stupid things? Let people get away with spewing out BS and we get the state of the world as it is, particularly the Western world. But whatever it is, I'm sure you know best...
Simon, first let me apologize sincerely and profusely for my ignorance; I don't have or use any form of social media and generally don't engage in posting or replying to posts, so my competence in this area is lacking. Consequently, I misread your post and interpreted it as being a direct response to Simplicius' article rather than to GM's post which I had not read. Mea culpa. I will be more careful next time.
And I agree with you completely after putting things in the proper context.
BFD. Every Eastern block country is better than in the 90s. That aint sayin much. Russians should be much better considering their inheritance. The largest richest country on the planet. But no Oligarchs get it mostly.
Running a war is different than running a country. While Putin has been blessing for Russia overall, he has been a disaster in his management of the war, er, I mean SMO.
Putin has been feckless and not made tough retaliatory decision yet. Putin has to go. Personally I think Putin is a Atlanticist that wants to retain EU/West ties for his own ego.
Sounds like you have no clue what is actually happening. Here is a hint for you simpletons. The SMO is a very tiny part of what's at play. It borders on insignificance in the big picture.
Or is it that Russia is trying very hard to downplay the role of the smo? The fact that it is still a so called smo instead of a war after all the red lines have been crossed should give us pause. And the Russian General Staff as well as MoD being cleaned out is yet another sign that while Russia is on the right path, it made blunders before and during the so-called smo. Let's to give too much credit nor too much criticism.
THE SATANIC PHOENICIAN MEGA TRILLIONAIRE BLACK NOBILITY AND 2000 TRILLION DOLLAR ROTHSCHILDS HAVE ALWAYS OWNED IRAN, AMERICA, RUSSIA AND CHINA!!
Without manufactured wars all over the world, how would these guys maintain their obscene profits? With a trillion-dollar a year “defense” budget, we have a war economy, which requires constant war: if the wars don't materialize on their own, they can be faked, and are being faked. Have been for a long long time. Taxpayers only agree to those levels of defense spending if they see some results: big televised wars like the Gulf Wars, where they can watch missile strikes and cheer as thousands of innocent children are (allegedly) murdered in their beds. Shock and awe, you know.
To keep the people poor.
To keep us all under control.
Taxes for real wars, with lakes of blood and rivers of fire, was understandable; but taxes for fake wars? That's going too far!
Stalin made a pact with Der Fuhrer and never expected betrayal and how Operation Barbarossa, at that time he never saw coming and then the gloves came off. Give Putin credit for turning around the disaster of the fall of communism and turning it around for better or worse. Name me one Western leader with the same qualities in that time. " If Putin had done his job" facile nonsense
His mother only ever told him about teddy bears and fairy dust.
You should really read an excellent account ( Germany's War by John Wear ) of how Stalin made a deal with NS Germany entirely predicated on Soviet non interference in German affairs, thus allowing Hitler free rein to invade Poland to stop the ethnic slaughter of German nationals which was in full flood throughout 1939 - see "Bromberg Massacre" for the details.
Once the Allies had responded by declaring war, and subsequently then bled Germany, he would then invade from the east, as he had made all the plans for - including training one million paratroopers ( Germany had 4000 ) - troops which are only ever required for offensive operations.
And thus why Germany was forced to attack in 1941.
As for Putin, who has clearly channelled Hitler in so many obvious ways subsequently, it is reasonable to criticize his own naivety too, ie in not expecting western jewish leadership to betray him, and falling for the Minsk Scam as he so obviously did, and not attacking Ukraine years earlier, before the west had built up its army.
What he did instead is try to reach a settlement that would have minimised destruction and casualties whilst resolving Ukrainian persecution of ethnic Russians and constant threats to Russia's borders, keep his own allies on board and so neutralise western sanctions, avoid an annihilating wider war, and still win.
Yep, a big Ask. And it is what he is doing, GM, once we blow away the current storm of western propaganda designed as much as anything to take eyes away from the collapse of the Ukrainian frontline in the Donbass. That is still where the real war is being waged and where Ukraine now stands to lose half its former territory- at the very least. By its current strikes it may well have sealed its fate in becoming no state at all.
You have zero understanding of how modern Russia works.
Putin would have had to be a complete idiot to seriously think that he can reach a peaceful settlement. He isn't one, plus even if he was, he isn't alone in this -- there is a vast intelligence apparatus below him collecting information and analyzing things.
Anyone with two functioning neurons knew the only way out of this once Russia entered Ukraine was to end Ukraine's statehood for good. Because Ukraine can only exists on a virulently anti-Russian basis, as there is nothing else left of Ukrainian identity if you remove Russophobia. And once you enter directly, you stoke this hatred up by orders of magnitude.
Also, the longer NATO was given to establish itself in Ukraine, the worse the situation was going to become. After all, the war was started precisely in order to prevent NATO from being right next to Kursk. And NATO seriously and directly entered the war already in April 2022. Yet what did Putin do? He has been sitting on his hands now for a third year, and, of course, the war is now fought inside Russia. Not even in Kiev, let alone in London and DC, where it has to be taken.
Again, one had to be a complete moron to not see this coming. The trajectory was perfectly clear to everyone with a sober rational mind from the start. And it is also clear where it will go next -- to NATO nuclear strikes inside Russia, unless Russia strikes first and annihilates NATO at least in Europe.
Why did that happen?
Because Russia isn't run by Putin and Putinism in the interests of Russians, it is run in the interests of the oligarchs. With some restraints to prevent the worst self-destructive behavior, but this is much more of a shareholders agreeing on certain common interests policies within a corporation than a country being run for the good of its citizens.
And most of the oligarchs resolutely still insist on trying to maintain ties with the West. This is why natural resources continue to be exported to the enemy, why no "decision making centers" have been struck, and why Putin is still desperately looking for some kind of a deal.
I'll just take the 2nd paragraph. None of this has anything to do with Putin believing he could reach a settlement or not, everything to do with keeping his own allies on board which was absolutely vital in 2022 when that was most at risk. It is what he has had to do all along. Credit where credit is due.
As for your 'how to have a long horrible war for the sake of shady backroom interests' meme, this is an old song resounding through the halls of conspiracy land and I can't be bothered to go here. I thought you had more sense than to go here too. But desperate is what desperate does. Ukraine and its western allies could say a thing or two about that.
The intensity of the Information War right now betrays the anguish under which the U.S.-led OTAN is spiraling as they anticipate the collapse of Donbass. We've lived through a density of propaganda saturation like this before:
Ghost of Kiev
Snake Island
Mariupol theatre
Bucha massacre, etc.
Media-constructed narratives have an energy about them. What we've experienced this week has that quality
Yes, the OTAN mercs & a handful of Ukrainians rampaged into the Kursk Oblast, but it is in the telling about the event, the constructed narrative about the event, that the hype froth & fluffery come in
"You have zero understanding of how modern Russia works."
Which is a significantly greater understanding than YOU have.
"Anyone with two functioning neurons"
Has two more than YOU.
"NATO seriously and directly entered the war already in April 2022."
By emptying its armouries, paupering itself economically and showing the majority of the worlds population that NATO is a toothless tiger against anything more sophisticated than a goat herder.
"why natural resources continue to be exported to the enemy"
Thus earning Russia serious amounts of *external* cash, which enables it to buy all the external equipment it could possibly need to tool up its war factories. You REALLY are a General Moron if you can't see how the WEST is funding the Russian war machine to a far greater degree than the resources sold go to the over-priced and bloated Western MIC... (There's REASONS the West pinned its hopes on ECONOMIC sanctions)
Your lack of understanding is demonstrated by the depth of stupidity you resort to; in providing a strawman argument to which you give a nonsense answer.
No but they are ghettoized shitholes with failing economies, dumbass. The US is a fucking wreck with high crime and about 20 percent functional unemployment and the dumbest fucking elites I've seen in my 66 years.
I expect that one of the important goals for Putin is to avoid having an utterly destroyed “country” on its borders without social control and fought over by marauding gangs.
The dickhead that is General Moron steps out of his trailer to spout more lies from the success that is the USA LOL, would be hilarious if not so pathetically tragic.
Both sides have carefully, carefully ratcheted up their military actions and responses, so as to avoid the situation flashing over into a general multinational land war in Europe. In all such cases, bold action which tried to jump the back-and-forth several spaces - such as 'striking non-Ukrainian decision-making centres' would very likely have set things in motion that could not be stopped. I agree it was foolish for Putin to say it if he didn't intend to really do it, because that's a bluff, and NATO is quick to seize on an exposed bluff as an indication that everything you say is just a bluff. However, as both sides steadily escalated, only one really has staying power, and now time is running out for the other side. Can you guess which side is running out of time?
I don't know why I bother, because all your circuitry is dedicated to Transmit and there is nothing left over for Receive. But I dared to hope you would see that Russia could never have won by playing the west's game and allowing itself to be driven into a full mobilization and an escalating spiral of increasingly panicky reactions. What Russia did worked. In the end, that's a pretty fair standard for success.
>But I dared to hope you would see that Russia could never have won by playing the west's game and allowing itself to be driven into a full mobilization and an escalating spiral of increasingly panicky reactions.
But this was the only way to win -- quickly take over the whole of Ukraine, eliminate the proxy, don't allow NATO to use it.
And that required quick and total mobilization.
Look at where the "cautious" approach has taken us?
By the retarded logic that you should not be baited into full mobilization and "panic", Stalin shouldn't have mobilized in the summer of 1941 either, because Hitler was just doing "provocations". Right?
Well, what we have now is exactly a repeat of 1941, just in slow motion. The West isn't even hiding its intentions, they are quite openly stated.
>Both sides have carefully, carefully ratcheted up their military actions and responses, so as to avoid the situation flashing over into a general multinational land war in Europe
This is just silly. One side has been ever more rapidly escalating, the other has been turning the other cheek, all the way to an outright invasion of its territory without a response.
Liked, because you're in general correct, but respectfully, this is off the mark: " I agree it was foolish for Putin to say it if he didn't intend to really do it, because that's a bluff"
Putin doesn't bluff. If you look at what he says in the original Russian, he's careful not to make promises he won't keep.
I can't ever recall a situation where Putin promised to strike "non-Ukrainian decision-making centers". If there's one out there, I'd love to see a link to it.
Its been well over a decade since I saw any unfiltered footage of Putin the statesman in Western MSM. Pretty sure a majority of the public here are under the deliberately cultivated impression he can barely speak English. Even when he gives an address in English the best you can expect is 30 secs of VT overlayed with a narrator explaining how he's the literal reanimation of the Fuhrer. Or Stalin. Or both.
It says everything you need to know about the West's projection of the moral high ground that they're utterly terrified of letting their proles listen to a word Putin has to say on the matter.
There is a cool video on youtube of VVP singing Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" in a jazzy dinner club setting [ Duma members are in the audience; I see Margarita]
GM is best poster here. Just facts and logic while his detractors are name calling, and immersed in hopeum Russia will change the global new world neo-liberal order so dismiss the fact Russia is losing. Some even go into 5d chess how genius Putin is letting Russia be invaded.
Surely you jest ? GM is a loudmouth moron who has become the first person I ever blocked in Bitchute... there's more I have to now... his other identities.
Did you say the same things back in February 2022? Think about this question and try to be honest. Personally, I did not foresee everything that happened since. But my personal experience is only as the CEO of an electronic company. I make the same wrong assumptions: I think too positively, I react too late, I react with too little, and my planned reserves are too small, looking to much on facts that supports my personal view, ignoring the rest —again, again and again. Or, as Clausewitz stated: Make a plan; it will fail the very moment you meet the enemy.
I indeed said the same things in February 2022 (about the absolute necessity of taking over the whole of Ukraine). I didn't say it about mobilization because I foolishly thought nobody would be stupid enough to enter with 150K men and not have any reserves, so I expected them to have many more men deeper into Russia. But they didn't. By March 2022 I knew total mobilization has to happen immediately. and have been consistent on it ever since.
YOU are right that Putin miscalculated the entire SMO and the reaction of Ukraine and the US-controlled "WEST". But it is easy to draw the conclusion in retrospect. Put yourself in Russia's shoes. The net tightens around your nation. Ukraine is to be admitted to NATO and the clown Zelensky wants to base nuclear weapons aimed at your country a few minutes flying time from Moscow. You can't be sure of the US reaction if you make a total annihilation of Ukraine and mobilize all of Russia. Do you want to be the one to start a nuclear war? No.
But today 2.5 years later we have slowly crept into a WW3 and with as many red lines broken from the western side as possible. Russia has not broken a single one, but wars with one hand tied behind its back. West see this as a Russian weakness and reluctance to dare finish the ”””SMO
It is impressive to see how they, Russia, handled the setbacks and the huge sanctions and sabotage against their economy. Ukraine will lose somehow but the problem is who will be able to declare themselves victorious? What is a victory for Russia? Definitely not Crimea plus 4 oblasts. As long as Banderas remains in Kiev and the West has material and personnel in Ukraine, they will pose a mortal threat to Russia. Anything short of unconditional surrender will be presented as a Ukrainian victory and fuel a perpetual war on this continent. Just look at the crazy Germans who have gone and become PK Nazis again where they despise Russia as an entity and at the same time glorify and aid Israel in their genocide in Palestine. The West is biding its time and only hopes that Ukraine will weaken Russia in the meantime.
I don't believe as much as you that the West is capable of bringing Russia to its knees, but in this war of perception they themselves firmly believe it. The Russians should have taken that out of them a long time ago.
Also read Gerrard White's very reasonable argument in the thread.
Friendly reminder to ignore GM's shilling, concern trolling, and assorted subversive tactics. These posts are in bad faith and not worth engaging with.
You mean anyone who don't prostate and worship Putin as Mightier than God is a troll?
He fucked up in 2014 when he forced the Donbas militia to stand down from liberating Maruipol when there's only some shit chicken Azov Nazis between the city and the victorious Donbass militiamen.
"He fucked up in 2014 " I see that being aware of reality doesn't figure into your thinking about Ukraine.
The reality is that in 2014 Russia did not have the ability to fight the US and win. Had Russia entered into a war with the US in 2014 it not only would have lost that war, it also would not have been able to develop the economy and infrastructure required to resist US economic and military attacks in the future.
The earliest - barely - that Russia acquired the ability to fight the US and win was in late 2021. That's precisely when Russia delivered its ultimatums to the US, and when Russia went to war with the US after the US blew off those ultimatums.
A very important fact that most people ignore or are not aware of. You can not go to war or risk war when you are unprepared. The Crimea-stunt in 2014 was nevertheless a formidable achievement. And even when they thought they were prepared to stop the NATO-enchrochement in 2022 - they werent. Therefore we stand in this mud 2,5 years later with 100 000 of dead/maimed on both side (most Ukrainians).
Agreed in general, but respectfully disagree about the NATO encroachment in 2022. One reason Russia pulled back from wildly overextended positions they never really held (groups of disconnected ranger forces roaming across entire provinces full of no man's land isn't holding territory) is because they knew they couldn't defend those vast stretches of land with a handful of rangers. They had to fall back to positions they could really hold.
But Russia knew they could stop NATO and keep their real gains while continuing to fight a war that defeated the US and NATO in Ukraine, all the while growing Russia's economy. That's an astonishing achievement and massively better than what they could have done in 2014.
There are over 600,000 dead nazis so far. Look at all the new cemeteries the nazis have built, which would have not been needed if the casualties were as low as you incorrectly believe. Lots of sat pics showing this if you'd bother to look
I guess I disagree. This war will go nuclear. Slow boiling the frog (Ukraine) won't work because it is NATO and you can kill every Ukrainian and still lose the war with NATO. No one is afraid of Putin. He needs to scare Europe and the US (NATO), cross their red lines, play dirty, or negotiate on their terms. Either way we, the people, lose. Unless there is a cease fire in Gaza, this is WWIII, and no one listening to MSM knows a thing about it. Gates: "Russia invaded Russia for no reason." Kill Gates, not me.
Russian civilization is facing a rotting corpse of the collective west (still perfumed here and there) infected with the supremacist, anti-Humanity, Talmudic mentality.
Russians are not Jews. Whereas zionists and banderites are indistinguishable. They talk the same, behave the same (with the distinguished sadism and arrogance), and they came from the same geographical area of western Ukraine. It’s a great tragedy that Ukrainians at large have been judaized by their anti-Slavic "owners." Was not Kolomojsky, the prez of the jewish community of Ukrainian and financier of Zelensky, also a founder and financier of four (4) Nazi battalions that eventually became the darlings of the Knesset on Potomac and Knesset?
The “penist” zelensky (a Jew of the Year in 2022, according to the Jerusalem post) has been working hard on turning Ukraine into a “land without people” as Golda Meir used to proclaim about the jews-terrorized Palestine: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/palestine-myth-empty-land
Supremacist lunatics always end up by becoming the genociders. Look at the slaughter of humans by jews in Gaza and the jewish attempts at bombing two nuclear power plants in Europe. Though I do agree that the global jewry's terrorism (by using NATO/US) will continue till the "owners" of the collective west and the populations of the US/EU (and particularly the British idiots in charge) acquire the same experience that the sufferings Libyans, Syrians, Gazans, and people of Donbas have got due to the Looters policies.
"All wars are bankers' wars," Smedley Butler, a United States Marine Corps major general and great American patriot. Today, US government & US army are owned by aipac and billionaires of mostly judaic persuasion.
You NAILED IT, Anna. Very nice and concise summary. Thanks. Does anyone imagine that Kamala or Dump has read one effing paragraph of history? Ever? The losers who couldn't defeat the Taliban after twenty years are somehow capable of beating Russia in their own backyard? Um, I don't think so. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
I am sorry, Simplicius. I am lost here ….. what nuclear strike and why journalists are waiting there? Are they not worried about nuclear fall out? What am I missing? — “Per RIA Novosti the planned strike against both nuclear power plants is being supervised by the Intelligence Services of the United Kingdom. Large numbers of Western journalists are in Zaporozhye and Sumy to report on the strikes and ensure early spin.”
Well, a dirty bomb is not a 'nuclear strike' per se. Meaning, it's not a nuclear bomb with the force/power of a nuclear explosion. It would be a regular sized strike by some kind of small missile which would have radioactive material attached to it, so when it explodes, it spreads the radiation. In fact, such an attack would likely have minimal effect, mostly on the local area most likely.
What do they hope to achieve with a dirty bomb and a bunch of journalists? Are they planning to blame Russia?
Russia blowing up it's own nuclear plant on territory it holds is even less plausible than Russia blowing up Nord Stream. The leadership in the west might go along with it, but it's more likely to kill public support in the west than it is to generate more weapons deliveries. I know that Zelensky is desperate, but this is going to backfire worse than the sanctions did.
I think perhaps they intend to run with headlines that with numerous more invasions at both locations the rf has lost control and resorted to nuking their own territory and poor poor citizens out of desperation. If they print and publish it, it becomes truth in their world. Until suddenly it doesn't.
They blame everything on Russia. Russia got Trump elected. Russia messed with the 2020 elections. In fact, Putin personally raised the price of US gas and blew up Nordstream. Russia is teh debil!
It's what happens when your warfighting arm is made of presstitutes and propagandists.
Our western media and MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligencia-media-academia-think tank) complex can convince the public of any insane conspiracy theory or false flag. All one has to do is look at the Syrian chemical attack in Darfur, WMD in Iraq, Russiagate, the Covid epidemic, etc.
The UN is also captured. They will also either find a way to blame Russia or ignore any evidence that points to western involvement.
You have truly fallen Simplicius. Carelessly reporting false info especially about a nuclear bomb. What happened to you? This is an all time low for you. I just had to stop reading . Either you are truly ignorant or charlatan riding on sensationalism to make money.
I think that you don't understand the nature of the people that are partially in control of Ukraine. We are talking about real Himler like nazi lunatics. Haven't you seen all the crazy stuff they've been doing? Last year they blew off the dam and then went all in, expecting to reach Tokmak in two days, sacrificing thousands of lives etc. These people are just nuts.
The news was brought by the major Russian news agencies like Tass. I read it 14 hours ago on Khairullin’s Telegram site, The more than 700 comments were equally distributed as on this substack. on X there was the message
As I understand it, it is also intended as a warning if Ukraine intends to do so. Why is S not allowed to mention this in his Substack?
One of the post on Telegram:)
Chukchi and meteorologist.
E shaman was asked what kind of winter it would be: cold or warm.
‘Just say it’s warm,’ the shaman thinks to himself, ‘they won’t stock up firewood for future use, but what if it’s cold?’ They chase you away right away! It’s better to make them think there will be severe frost!”
- It’s going to be an icy winter, provide a lot of firewood! - said the shaman, and he decided to ask the meteorologists what their prediction for the winter was.
- Of course it’s cold! - they answered him.
- Oh, what great guys! – admires the shaman. ‘How did you find out, comrade meteorologist?’
- What can be discovered! Nothing is easier! Come here, look out the window: you see, the locals are collecting a lot of dented wood - that means winter will be icy!
Calm down, Julie - the guy is just zeroing in on one speculation and examining it. Surely you don't think US NATO etc are above doing such a dirty trick, using Ukraine as the fall guy? They are shelling NPP already.
Not so minimal if they use 203mm artillery spotted in the area. At the very least the region will take tremendous damage to its soil, and it's a part of global foodbasket. An act of most vile and rabid terrorism.
Good points. The presstitues are there to gin up the Mighty Wurlitzer to play Zelenksky's one piece he mastered on the piano sans hands. As for CNN et al in 404-occupied Kursk, they should also be treated as terrorists along with any foreigners - especially westerners. As for western journalists gathering - a law professor at Harvard (of all places) named Adrian Vermeule had an very apt response to an inquires from Associated Presstitutes which I'll quote here:
Dear Mr. Smith,
Thank you for your message. With whatever respect may be due, I would rather handle a hissing viper than interview with a journalist from the Associated Press. Come to think of it, I have spoken unjustly; vipers are at least sincere in their own way.
Vermeule nailed it. Comparing such total scum to vipers is unfair to vipers.
Lubica, your problem is you are look for rationality.
That is not to be found in DC, London, Brussells and Kiev, and especially from a comedian who knows his own life is hanging by a thread. He was absolutely willing to facilitate the killing of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Slavs -- but his own life is precious and any concoction to protect it is grasped at, no matter how many other Ukrainians are killed in the process.
The entire PURPOSE of setting off a "dirty bomb" is to create as MUCH fallout as possible, which would likely drift over Western Europe as did Chernobyl fallout.
You can *Guarantee* there are ALREADY stories lined up on servers ready to post instantly in all Western Media saying "In an evil act of desperation RUSSIA blew up KNPP/ZNPP" with journalists nearby to "corroborate" those stories.
The only thing that can stop this happening is the Russian Army stopping those offensives cold, stone dead. So that NO-ONE can pretend Russia was in any way desperate.
If the Ukies can get within plausible range of the nuke plants, they can then fire the dirty nuke missles and then the "journalists" can claim that the Russians blew up the plants out of fear that they would end up in Ukie hands. Or that the Russian "accidentally" blew up the plant out of panic and caused a nuclear catastrophe.
The UN can then come in and either blame Russia or write an inconclusive report as cover.
I don't think they're would be 'fallout' as such from a dirty bomb. Instead, it would be sufficient for geiga counters to start clicking and would provide great material for the MSM to say "Look what Russia has done!".. Therefore, in practice, unless you're on top of the location, the risk is just an elevated background radiation, but not harmful (to 'the journalists').
The reports, as S’ above, that the Kursk intervention is an attempt by Ukraine to force RF to negotiate is very unlikely to succeed, given the stated no negotiations reactions from the RF
The real negotiations for a cease fire and for peace are taking place elsewhere
China’s special envoy Li Hui again spoke with the Pope’s Special Representative – Cardinal Zuppi
Likely happened as the Russians missed Kursk offensive coming, but how long can the last gasp incursion endure with the depleted and demoralized UAF running out of options and their economy in default?
The detail is that the strike was not as big/bad as they claim. The video released from the drone shows that 80-90% of the trucks quickly left and only a few were hit. Secondly, the fact the trucks peeled off instantly after the first explosion means they weren't sitting long, and had briefly stopped and had their engines running to begin with. This at least is a slight consolation in that it seems to imply it wasn't as big of a screwup as initially believed, as they seemed to have only stopped very briefly. Of course even that brief period was enough to still be targeted, but while bad, the losses were no where near what AFU claims. Maybe couple dozen or less at most by my reckoning.
The bigger blunder is the fact that a similar convoy was hit in that exact same Kursk area just a couple weeks prior, before the Kursk invasion, but it was by FPVs, which still managed to take out a few trucks parked in a row.
Omg if any of this is true, and it occurs then this provocation shows the depravity of the West and expect a serious response because his NATO puppet handlers obviously endorse this and are behind this and there is no way Russia will not react to this provocation. Nobody wants World War 3 but the West reckless actions indicate they are willing to risk this. Give China, Russia and Iran credit for sober responses to these provocations. Eventually the gloves will come off and then?
In a quite walled-off compartment of their ethics/mortal souls, the U.S. warmongers may have felt half a compunction about dropping Little Boy on Hiroshima on 5 August 1945, but they did it anyway, even reprising the event w/ Enola Gay visiting the skies of Nagasaki 4 days later.
"Depraved" is exactly the word for them
The depraved warmongers of 2024 are cut from the same cloth as those from 1945
As Marx said, "History repeats first as a tragedy, then as a farce"
So true! Although I have my doubts about the slightest compunction about the instant holocausts perpetrated by the daddies of the destruction of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Type "Albert Pike 3 world wars" into your search engine of choice and read about it. Planned at least since 1871. Not a theory, but written history. The Georgia Guidestones are gone now, but they stood for about 40 years before Covid. They spoke of reducing the world population to 500 million, permanently. War could be one tool to achieve that goal, also child sterilisation, poverty, food shortages, euthanasia, as well as pandemic plans.
Last time the Spanish Civil War and the Japanese colonisation of 'Manchukuo' were the prologue to WWII, but usually not considered with the main event. We are in the prologue to WWIII, but not there yet. Banking, the internet, electricity, petrol stations, and supermarkets are still working pretty much everywhere (except Gaza), even Kiev. Most of us are still in what the future will consider to be the good old days.
I take your point- but this will not be like WWII - the allies are already heads over heels involved, and have been from the start
There are already many fires lit, and there is a great deal of political diplomatic trade and 'security alliance' warfare already under way, not to speak of the modern role of overwhelming propaganda and cyber y stuff
No one will ever declare war, or a military alliance, or declare intentions or objectives with any degree of realism
We need peace plans, not just between the various oligarch factions, but more importantly, peace plans between the oligarchs and commoners. So far, I see little sign of that happening. For example, an apology to all those who lost their livelihoods fighting the mandate or were injured because they submitted to the mandate - with restitution. In my dreams ...
Zelenskyyyiyiyyyiyiyiyiyiyiyyyy wants to give foreign fighters and their families citizenship. Most actual Ukrainians don't want to be citizens; Ukraine is basically a 3rd world shithole at this point. I don't see how anyone is going to be seduced by this offer.
Well giving them citizenship would immediately deprive them of their rights to diplomatic or consular interventions from their previous country, when they are mercilessly sent on suicide missions and try to refuse. Not that they are being warned or smart enough to realize they are being marched down the Primrose Path to death.
Factually the only people afraid of escalation is the Russians. If I were Elensky I have nothing to lose. Great PR moment.
Even the West is silently cheerleading.
Kursk is a great PR victory. Putin is busy doing whack a mole on NATO specops doing hit and runs on villages. Pepe said Ukies and NATO have at least 12k inside Russia. Not the 2k that Putinbois are claiming.
Err...in case you were asleep, NATO is expanding. NATO is soon to be in Japan, Philippines, South Korea... Admittedly, there is another name they are banding about for these places since they are conspicuously not connected with the NA area, but the idea NATO is not in ME. What? Maybe you missed what NATO did to Libya?! Turkey is a member of NATO... It will always be involved if Europe is involved, which it is. So what are you talking about?
That comment is truly baffling. It's NATO in all possible ways from intel to media cover to advanced weaponry and its crews (do you believe Ukrainians operate Himars or Patriots?) to "vacarioners" and imported mercs on the ground. This js a NATO operation throughout and beyond.
Ukies are de facto NATO army, not de iure because then our NATO govts could not talk shit in order to fool imbecilic golden billionis and not to trigger certain NATO articles.
Everything is public: they have been trained by NATO, equipped by NATO, integrated into NATO command and control processes, use NATO ISR, there are lots of NATO countries 'volunteers' on the ground, NATO special forces, NATO 'volunteers' command incursions into Russia (getting boinked on their cute GoPro cameras), etc. Amriqani general senhor Aguto is running things from Kiev (he does not distinguih between military and civilians, they are all 'enemy' to him, classic death cult amriqani).
In a year, nothing will remain of Ukraine and its "great PR victories" will be totally forgotten.
All that will matter is who is alive and who is dead, who controls the territory which briefly was Ukraine, and how the economies of Western countries continue to fall further against those of the principal BRICS nations.
G'day Fledr Maus, they never let truth get in the way whilst trolling. There is a list of considered trolls in the last comments section, shunning works better than inflating their Evil empire narrative. Check out the list but Surfer Ket fits in my list of doomers or Putin method doubters.
Of course it's Russians who are afraid to escalate. Because they don't want to kill you lot by millions, you pointless cackling moron. This is what escalation means.
Lol given Russias showing in Kursk, I wouldnt put itnpast them to lose the Orekhov sector as well, given Russia has not been able to counter Ukrainian blitz tactics. That is what I figure will happen in the Orekhov sector too.
Setting my clock, 20 days from August 17th we should see the battle for Energodar and the Zaporozhiye NPP begin
It's a tough sector because water to one side means Ukraine can't use true "enveloping" tactics and can only really come at Russian positions from one or two directions at most, making defending easier.
However, my long-time prediction is that any blitzkrieg out of "Orekhov" direction would mostly be a smokescreen to tie down Russian troops from Energodar, and force them to scramble reserves, while the *real* attack would be some kind of mass special forces raid straight onto Energodar itself across the Dnieper River, particularly if it's dried out enough, aided by air assault heli landings, etc.
Should be cannon fodder for the Russian drone, artillery and air resources. A nice big open area with no cover. That area is not some lightly defended border but a very actively defended area of the front line.
Raiding Energodar would entail pushing across the river as you aptly mention. How do they avoid getting spotted? Or are they relying on a paucity of forces in the region to stop them (due to them being sent to Orekhov)?
Now you're in total fantasy land. I'm rethinking the value of this "blog" or whatever it is.... western news accumulation site. I guess that's kind of like trash washed up on a river somewhere.
The same people who told us that Joe was "sharp as a tack" & that KH is a Joyful Warrior are now describing Russia as "fragile" & VVP as "humiliated."
This full-scale brutal unprovoked Information War relies primarily on *embarrassment* as a battlefield tactic.
When I turn to the 'E' section of my military strategy manual, I find these epic battles whose reliance on embarrassment as a signature campaign doctrine changed the course of history:
The destruction of the three bridges also means that Ukraine will not be able to advance further toward Kursk. So all that is left is to drive NATO military gear around local streets and farm fields, looking for more prisoners to exchange. There is nothing significant of military or economic value in the western part of Kursk.
If Medvedev wants to troll Kyiv, they could designate the NATO/UAF occupiers as "temporary foreign workers" and insist that they make themselves useful and assist with the seasonal crop harvest.
To put it simply, every government "survives" by paying off its past loans with new ones (in the form of bonds). A default means that, while it technically could issue more bonds, nobody will buy them, so Ukraine is now effectively unable to raise any more cash. That being said, countries that go into default are usually bailed out by multilaterals like the IMF, which impose certain conditions, blah blah blah.
In other words, prior to this year, Ukraine's government WAS actually paying for some things itself (by issuing bonds). From here on out, though, it is entirely surviving on other people's money. BTW, you might wonder about tax revenue etc, but that's just a drop in the bucket in terms of where operating revenue comes from for most countries, Ukraine most definitely included.
When Ukraine becomes the 51st state, it will have to choose a state flower. Could be a toss-up among the Blood Root, the Corpse Flower & Flowering Judas
?? 'The Last Supper' was the work of Leonardo da Vinci
If you want people to see what you see you must get the details right
There is a problem with modern access to information about anything, but including art
The access is mostly via representations of representations, mechanical transmissions of images which appear to allow access, but which also flit from image to image so as to render them almost generic
When one has seen any of the works generally presented as great works of art one may make judgement as to whether these continue to reamin relevant or meaningful or.. or not
But this can come only from contemplation
That is where you are wrong, I was a professional at art before opening my eyes to contemplate the wider world
Indeed representation, in general, is more a political or social act than that which you westies like to call 'artistic' - especially when in the case you chose subordinated to various degrees of mechanical reproduction
Now I lay me down to read,
Simplicius has populated my feed!
You are a special boy!
He's a poet,
But he doesn't know it,
Has a boat,
But can't row it.
I noticed another commenter inadvertantly waxing poetic;
"Time to face reality,
We are already in WW3!"
Now would we be here -- Kursk invasion, threats against NPPs, daily missile and drone attacks on Russia -- if Putin had done his job, and:
1) Properly prepared for February 24th 2022?
2) Failing that, mobilized immediately and fully in March 2022?
3) Actually struck the mythical "decision making centers" upon the first serious violation?
Almost certainly not.
But what did he do instead? Tried to make a deal once again and refused to mobilize the necessary resources because the Russian oligarchs' interests would have been hurt by that.
What a remarkable success Putinism has been...
There you are, right on cue, to spew out your usual BS. Yes, what a terrible job Putin has done turning Russia from the Russia of the 90s into the Russia of today... But we all know that with people like you, you always know best... You know best mate, you would have done everything perfectly, predicted everything, outwitted everyone, and all from the comfort of your couch as well...
Why is "the Russia of today" something to admire? It is largely the same neoliberal shithole as the West, with a bit more state control and without the identity politics BS. But the socioeconomic model is not that much different.
Putin's primary job was to make sure the communists never returned and the neoliberal oligarchic socioeconomic model was firmly cemented, not to save Russia.
But making sure that the communists never returned necessitated stabilizing the country, so that was done.
If, however, that comes at the cost of the final dissolution of the country, because right now the options are either that, global nuclear war, or finally conventionally striking the mythical decision making centers and desperately trying to reenforce deterrence that way (but it might be too late for that by now), then how will he be remembered?
Also, has Putin really resurrected Russia? Can you imagine the USSR allowing a combined arms NATO invasion into Russia proper without the nukes being launched immediately? That tells you all you need to know about the actual standing of the country right now.
You mean that it is not a gangster state ruled by nut jobs like....... Ukraine? the US?
Speaking as a global citizen held hostage by mentally unstable ideologues in the hegemonic West, I resent those who dither over genocide in Gaza & those who eagerly talk nukes because "Putin must lose."
What is terrible is that you are not even joking.
"Can you imagine the USSR allowing a combined arms NATO invasion into Russia proper without the nukes being launched immediately?"
Seriously insane.
I have no admiration for the controllers of the USSR but they understood that the launch of nuclear missiles meant devastation for all, including themselves. Like Putin, they stood ready to do so in extremis but not to deal with a problem they could solve with their conventional forces.
You apparently have a lust for nuclear destruction. Fortunately Russia's leaders are far more sensible and capable. They are destroying NATO militarily and economically (the exact opposite of expectations by stupid Western apparatchiks when they started the war against Russia), while increasing their own strength every day.
A country which has seen off and destroyed multiple major invasions over centuries knows that to prevail they have to take some pain, but they prevail without engaging in mutual suicide.
He mentioned nukes again, didn't he ?
(Can't be effed reading/responding to his dribble, I've had my turn at that, I just read the responses, which are much more thoughtful)
He always raises the nuclear option, like the total retard he is.
Yes, the nuclear option.
Because if you refuse to use nukes, then you effectively don't have nukes, and NATO can destroy you conventionally. And then finish you off with some nuclear strikes too, if needed.
Which is precisely what has been happening, and we are on course to happen.
No-one has REFUSED to use nukes....
That's as stupid as saying a NASCAR can't turn right...
It's astounding that one can seethe so bitterly about not being a radioactive husk of carbon and bone at this very moment in time. His argument is literally "I'm not burning in nuclear fire right now, ergo Russia is weak!"
Are you from the CIA or CNN?
How Putin keeps functioning quite amazes. When does he sleep?
Tactical nukes have already been used already perhaps a dozen times (Gordon Duff, Veterans Today now the Intel Drop.) They were used primarily by Israel to intimidate non-nuclear states. Russia called them on it, but did nothing. Israel and the US think tactical nuclear wars winnable; I don't. Best thing to keep Israel from using nukes is for Russia and China to give Iran a couple dozen.
@JimG
I see a lot of people who don't understand physics or weapons technology make claims about nuclear weapons having been used in anger since Nagasaki. Provide some proof of your claim that a dozen nuclear weapons have been used offensively by ANYONE EVER if you can, otherwise, GTF out of town with that noise.
Tactical nukes. If you really are Pfc. you should know about tactical nukes. In about 1960 as a kid a picked up a library book on US weapons and saw the “nuclear canon” the picture showing a howitzer with a mushroom cloud behind it. You have heard of suit case bombs? Gordon Duff at Veteran’s Today wrote a lot about tactical nukes being used in say Iraq:
https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/08/11/tid-nuclear-education-how-americas-secret-science-led-to-multiple-nuclear-bombings-of-iraq/
That is the dumbest thing you've ever said. Which is quite an accomplishment. Show us some proof.
See above.
I suspect GM is a voyeur. He enjoys the violence and misery from his keyboard. Will be curious how these people react at the real thing. I have a bad feeling he’s going to be tested very soon. Our greatest ally just insured Iran will probably respond and the economic fallout could shoot the misery index thru the roof.
GM could also hate his life so badly he thinks he wants to die. The problem is he wants everyone else to come with him.
I can tell that you are completely ignorant about Russia. I've actually been there several times. Russians today live better, on the whole, than do Americans or English. The quality of life is better in Russia and leaps beyond what it was during the '90s. You are ignorant and spouting off crap about things you know little to nothing about.
Saint Jimmy, I agree with you completely about the level of ignorance of most people that have never actually been to Russia. I have lived and worked there and am far more impressed with their lifestyles and social trajectory that that of the USA's.
Yeah. I'm 66 and I've travelled far more than most people. I know what an optimistic country on the rise looks and feels like. I remember the US during the '60s and '70s. Russia felt very similar. For about a decade, the US has felt and looked exactly the opposite - a depressed country in decline. I've rarely been more convinced of a "big thing" in my life. Secretly, some US and Euro elites who realize this are, I suspect, insanely jealous.
We are similar in both age (I'm 64) and travel experience; and I agree with you about the jealousy. I believe that in some regards Russia is culturally about 50 or 60 years behind us (in a positive aspect), but with the benefit of current technologies; which in my mind puts them in a much better state of being and with a potentially much better trajectory.
Thats not saying much. America" with homeless on every street corner? Iranians live better. Russians should live even better considering their inheritance smarts and education. But no the oligarchs pay them so little its still a place to immigrate from for skilled workers. I happen to have a Russian wife as well. We live in Southern Brasil and Southern USA not Russia. When we retired in our 40s we looked far a wide and Russia was not even in top 10.
I don't think you realize yet that people in the WH, including others in other countries, are masked actors, doubles, or clones. Putin is not Putin. Just like Biden, Kamala, and many others. A lot of people have been removed already.
I believe it's time the people in America start caring about America. Forget the other countries. We aren't even supposed to be involved in other conflicts outside the US. Our Military was never supposed to step foot off of American soil to fight anywhere. They took an Oath. We are not supposed to be aiding and abetting other countries in their manufactured wars for money, power, and control either.
If Putin is not Putin, who is?
Maybe we are all Putin now--?!!?
[ having a Spartacus moment ]
Putin is not Putin?? Have you been sucking hunters Crack pipe?
You, talentless charlatan what part of recent history did you miss or omit of continual provocations from the West since the collapse of the USSR
None of that will matter, if Russia does not win this war.
You have the gift of saying stupid things in a way that makes seem way stupider
LOL! Simon, I truly appreciate people like you. Your unmerited condescension is almost always entertaining. Almost...
What's unmerited about it? GM is a troll and i don't suffer fools lightly. Or your brilliant mind hasn't deduced that yet about GM? You didn't notice that his reply to me was way too fast for the length of it and it must have been a cut and paste job from whatever drivel his handlers give him. And the average person is so wise and knowledgeable, I mean you only have to look at the state of the world and have studied history to see that... There's no unmerited condescension for people or the human race as a whole eh? What's unmerited about pointing out how stupid people or when they say stupid things? Let people get away with spewing out BS and we get the state of the world as it is, particularly the Western world. But whatever it is, I'm sure you know best...
Simon, first let me apologize sincerely and profusely for my ignorance; I don't have or use any form of social media and generally don't engage in posting or replying to posts, so my competence in this area is lacking. Consequently, I misread your post and interpreted it as being a direct response to Simplicius' article rather than to GM's post which I had not read. Mea culpa. I will be more careful next time.
And I agree with you completely after putting things in the proper context.
Your honesty is refreshing, thank you!
BFD. Every Eastern block country is better than in the 90s. That aint sayin much. Russians should be much better considering their inheritance. The largest richest country on the planet. But no Oligarchs get it mostly.
Running a war is different than running a country. While Putin has been blessing for Russia overall, he has been a disaster in his management of the war, er, I mean SMO.
Putin has been feckless and not made tough retaliatory decision yet. Putin has to go. Personally I think Putin is a Atlanticist that wants to retain EU/West ties for his own ego.
Sounds like you have no clue what is actually happening. Here is a hint for you simpletons. The SMO is a very tiny part of what's at play. It borders on insignificance in the big picture.
Or is it that Russia is trying very hard to downplay the role of the smo? The fact that it is still a so called smo instead of a war after all the red lines have been crossed should give us pause. And the Russian General Staff as well as MoD being cleaned out is yet another sign that while Russia is on the right path, it made blunders before and during the so-called smo. Let's to give too much credit nor too much criticism.
THE SATANIC PHOENICIAN MEGA TRILLIONAIRE BLACK NOBILITY AND 2000 TRILLION DOLLAR ROTHSCHILDS HAVE ALWAYS OWNED IRAN, AMERICA, RUSSIA AND CHINA!!
Without manufactured wars all over the world, how would these guys maintain their obscene profits? With a trillion-dollar a year “defense” budget, we have a war economy, which requires constant war: if the wars don't materialize on their own, they can be faked, and are being faked. Have been for a long long time. Taxpayers only agree to those levels of defense spending if they see some results: big televised wars like the Gulf Wars, where they can watch missile strikes and cheer as thousands of innocent children are (allegedly) murdered in their beds. Shock and awe, you know.
To keep the people poor.
To keep us all under control.
Taxes for real wars, with lakes of blood and rivers of fire, was understandable; but taxes for fake wars? That's going too far!
https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/its-all-fake-its-all-a-scam
Perhaps if your writing wasn't so retarded you wouldn't have to troll successful stacks begging for readers for your failed stack. Bugger off wanker.
you're very consistent, much like a broken record...
Stalin made a pact with Der Fuhrer and never expected betrayal and how Operation Barbarossa, at that time he never saw coming and then the gloves came off. Give Putin credit for turning around the disaster of the fall of communism and turning it around for better or worse. Name me one Western leader with the same qualities in that time. " If Putin had done his job" facile nonsense
Poor old Stalin, who "never expected betrayal."
His mother only ever told him about teddy bears and fairy dust.
You should really read an excellent account ( Germany's War by John Wear ) of how Stalin made a deal with NS Germany entirely predicated on Soviet non interference in German affairs, thus allowing Hitler free rein to invade Poland to stop the ethnic slaughter of German nationals which was in full flood throughout 1939 - see "Bromberg Massacre" for the details.
Once the Allies had responded by declaring war, and subsequently then bled Germany, he would then invade from the east, as he had made all the plans for - including training one million paratroopers ( Germany had 4000 ) - troops which are only ever required for offensive operations.
And thus why Germany was forced to attack in 1941.
As for Putin, who has clearly channelled Hitler in so many obvious ways subsequently, it is reasonable to criticize his own naivety too, ie in not expecting western jewish leadership to betray him, and falling for the Minsk Scam as he so obviously did, and not attacking Ukraine years earlier, before the west had built up its army.
A wild Hitler lover appears
An utterly simplistic and biased opinion, as usual.
Better to expose it as such if you can, rather than just making empty assertions.
General Moron's bullshit rants expose themselves. No help from others needed.
All you are saying is simply ad hominem.
You are guilty of the No True Scotsman logical fallacy.
So you support the great moron?
Sounds like you are another cubicle dweller like the moron.
What he did instead is try to reach a settlement that would have minimised destruction and casualties whilst resolving Ukrainian persecution of ethnic Russians and constant threats to Russia's borders, keep his own allies on board and so neutralise western sanctions, avoid an annihilating wider war, and still win.
Yep, a big Ask. And it is what he is doing, GM, once we blow away the current storm of western propaganda designed as much as anything to take eyes away from the collapse of the Ukrainian frontline in the Donbass. That is still where the real war is being waged and where Ukraine now stands to lose half its former territory- at the very least. By its current strikes it may well have sealed its fate in becoming no state at all.
You have zero understanding of how modern Russia works.
Putin would have had to be a complete idiot to seriously think that he can reach a peaceful settlement. He isn't one, plus even if he was, he isn't alone in this -- there is a vast intelligence apparatus below him collecting information and analyzing things.
Anyone with two functioning neurons knew the only way out of this once Russia entered Ukraine was to end Ukraine's statehood for good. Because Ukraine can only exists on a virulently anti-Russian basis, as there is nothing else left of Ukrainian identity if you remove Russophobia. And once you enter directly, you stoke this hatred up by orders of magnitude.
Also, the longer NATO was given to establish itself in Ukraine, the worse the situation was going to become. After all, the war was started precisely in order to prevent NATO from being right next to Kursk. And NATO seriously and directly entered the war already in April 2022. Yet what did Putin do? He has been sitting on his hands now for a third year, and, of course, the war is now fought inside Russia. Not even in Kiev, let alone in London and DC, where it has to be taken.
Again, one had to be a complete moron to not see this coming. The trajectory was perfectly clear to everyone with a sober rational mind from the start. And it is also clear where it will go next -- to NATO nuclear strikes inside Russia, unless Russia strikes first and annihilates NATO at least in Europe.
Why did that happen?
Because Russia isn't run by Putin and Putinism in the interests of Russians, it is run in the interests of the oligarchs. With some restraints to prevent the worst self-destructive behavior, but this is much more of a shareholders agreeing on certain common interests policies within a corporation than a country being run for the good of its citizens.
And most of the oligarchs resolutely still insist on trying to maintain ties with the West. This is why natural resources continue to be exported to the enemy, why no "decision making centers" have been struck, and why Putin is still desperately looking for some kind of a deal.
Which is dooming Russia to eventual defeat.
I'll just take the 2nd paragraph. None of this has anything to do with Putin believing he could reach a settlement or not, everything to do with keeping his own allies on board which was absolutely vital in 2022 when that was most at risk. It is what he has had to do all along. Credit where credit is due.
As for your 'how to have a long horrible war for the sake of shady backroom interests' meme, this is an old song resounding through the halls of conspiracy land and I can't be bothered to go here. I thought you had more sense than to go here too. But desperate is what desperate does. Ukraine and its western allies could say a thing or two about that.
The intensity of the Information War right now betrays the anguish under which the U.S.-led OTAN is spiraling as they anticipate the collapse of Donbass. We've lived through a density of propaganda saturation like this before:
Ghost of Kiev
Snake Island
Mariupol theatre
Bucha massacre, etc.
Media-constructed narratives have an energy about them. What we've experienced this week has that quality
Yes, the OTAN mercs & a handful of Ukrainians rampaged into the Kursk Oblast, but it is in the telling about the event, the constructed narrative about the event, that the hype froth & fluffery come in
"You have zero understanding of how modern Russia works."
Which is a significantly greater understanding than YOU have.
"Anyone with two functioning neurons"
Has two more than YOU.
"NATO seriously and directly entered the war already in April 2022."
By emptying its armouries, paupering itself economically and showing the majority of the worlds population that NATO is a toothless tiger against anything more sophisticated than a goat herder.
"why natural resources continue to be exported to the enemy"
Thus earning Russia serious amounts of *external* cash, which enables it to buy all the external equipment it could possibly need to tool up its war factories. You REALLY are a General Moron if you can't see how the WEST is funding the Russian war machine to a far greater degree than the resources sold go to the over-priced and bloated Western MIC... (There's REASONS the West pinned its hopes on ECONOMIC sanctions)
Moron.
General Moron.
GM
Are Boston, Virginia and the Carolinas being bombed and invaded right now?
No.
What about Belgorod, Voronezh, and Kursk?
That tells you all you need to know about who is winning.
Your lack of understanding is demonstrated by the depth of stupidity you resort to; in providing a strawman argument to which you give a nonsense answer.
No but they are ghettoized shitholes with failing economies, dumbass. The US is a fucking wreck with high crime and about 20 percent functional unemployment and the dumbest fucking elites I've seen in my 66 years.
I'm in Boston. It is not nearly as bad as the rest of the large cities in the US but conditions are getting worse.
Every state is being invaded right now with hoardes of third world criminals.
You are dumber than vice president potato
I expect that one of the important goals for Putin is to avoid having an utterly destroyed “country” on its borders without social control and fought over by marauding gangs.
The dickhead that is General Moron steps out of his trailer to spout more lies from the success that is the USA LOL, would be hilarious if not so pathetically tragic.
That's because YOU failed to make sure Putin had your phone number. Or, did you just not return his repeated calls ?
Both sides have carefully, carefully ratcheted up their military actions and responses, so as to avoid the situation flashing over into a general multinational land war in Europe. In all such cases, bold action which tried to jump the back-and-forth several spaces - such as 'striking non-Ukrainian decision-making centres' would very likely have set things in motion that could not be stopped. I agree it was foolish for Putin to say it if he didn't intend to really do it, because that's a bluff, and NATO is quick to seize on an exposed bluff as an indication that everything you say is just a bluff. However, as both sides steadily escalated, only one really has staying power, and now time is running out for the other side. Can you guess which side is running out of time?
I don't know why I bother, because all your circuitry is dedicated to Transmit and there is nothing left over for Receive. But I dared to hope you would see that Russia could never have won by playing the west's game and allowing itself to be driven into a full mobilization and an escalating spiral of increasingly panicky reactions. What Russia did worked. In the end, that's a pretty fair standard for success.
>But I dared to hope you would see that Russia could never have won by playing the west's game and allowing itself to be driven into a full mobilization and an escalating spiral of increasingly panicky reactions.
But this was the only way to win -- quickly take over the whole of Ukraine, eliminate the proxy, don't allow NATO to use it.
And that required quick and total mobilization.
Look at where the "cautious" approach has taken us?
By the retarded logic that you should not be baited into full mobilization and "panic", Stalin shouldn't have mobilized in the summer of 1941 either, because Hitler was just doing "provocations". Right?
Well, what we have now is exactly a repeat of 1941, just in slow motion. The West isn't even hiding its intentions, they are quite openly stated.
>Both sides have carefully, carefully ratcheted up their military actions and responses, so as to avoid the situation flashing over into a general multinational land war in Europe
This is just silly. One side has been ever more rapidly escalating, the other has been turning the other cheek, all the way to an outright invasion of its territory without a response.
Thanks for reasoned comment, when all around are going up in flames
VVP has made some foolish over reaction ary remarks, especially about the nuclear, about negotiations, about what RF wants and so on
He has a lot of hard headed total warfare types to keep under control in his own ruling class circles and in the military
All these inflamed and inflamatory speeches & statements are more or less propaganda, home audience primary audience
>He has a lot of hard headed total warfare types to keep under control in his own ruling class circles and in the military
It is the exact opposite problem.
If those types had prevailed, we would not be in the current situation.
But they have not.
Liked, because you're in general correct, but respectfully, this is off the mark: " I agree it was foolish for Putin to say it if he didn't intend to really do it, because that's a bluff"
Putin doesn't bluff. If you look at what he says in the original Russian, he's careful not to make promises he won't keep.
I can't ever recall a situation where Putin promised to strike "non-Ukrainian decision-making centers". If there's one out there, I'd love to see a link to it.
Recall, too, that publics in the West get VVP filtered through Western biases & interpretations.
There is no Russian Lobby in D.C. to shape & craft an amenable perspective.
They are honor-bound never to put a 'W' in VVP's column of wins & losses
Its been well over a decade since I saw any unfiltered footage of Putin the statesman in Western MSM. Pretty sure a majority of the public here are under the deliberately cultivated impression he can barely speak English. Even when he gives an address in English the best you can expect is 30 secs of VT overlayed with a narrator explaining how he's the literal reanimation of the Fuhrer. Or Stalin. Or both.
It says everything you need to know about the West's projection of the moral high ground that they're utterly terrified of letting their proles listen to a word Putin has to say on the matter.
There is a cool video on youtube of VVP singing Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" in a jazzy dinner club setting [ Duma members are in the audience; I see Margarita]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00JgUL57X7s
@GM
Not many more paychecks in the pipeline for you.
GM is best poster here. Just facts and logic while his detractors are name calling, and immersed in hopeum Russia will change the global new world neo-liberal order so dismiss the fact Russia is losing. Some even go into 5d chess how genius Putin is letting Russia be invaded.
Surely you jest ? GM is a loudmouth moron who has become the first person I ever blocked in Bitchute... there's more I have to now... his other identities.
So the great moron has changed names again!
Did you say the same things back in February 2022? Think about this question and try to be honest. Personally, I did not foresee everything that happened since. But my personal experience is only as the CEO of an electronic company. I make the same wrong assumptions: I think too positively, I react too late, I react with too little, and my planned reserves are too small, looking to much on facts that supports my personal view, ignoring the rest —again, again and again. Or, as Clausewitz stated: Make a plan; it will fail the very moment you meet the enemy.
I indeed said the same things in February 2022 (about the absolute necessity of taking over the whole of Ukraine). I didn't say it about mobilization because I foolishly thought nobody would be stupid enough to enter with 150K men and not have any reserves, so I expected them to have many more men deeper into Russia. But they didn't. By March 2022 I knew total mobilization has to happen immediately. and have been consistent on it ever since.
You know nothing.
You copy and paste what your masters give you at the troll farm. You are simply a great moron. Fully retarded.
YOU are right that Putin miscalculated the entire SMO and the reaction of Ukraine and the US-controlled "WEST". But it is easy to draw the conclusion in retrospect. Put yourself in Russia's shoes. The net tightens around your nation. Ukraine is to be admitted to NATO and the clown Zelensky wants to base nuclear weapons aimed at your country a few minutes flying time from Moscow. You can't be sure of the US reaction if you make a total annihilation of Ukraine and mobilize all of Russia. Do you want to be the one to start a nuclear war? No.
But today 2.5 years later we have slowly crept into a WW3 and with as many red lines broken from the western side as possible. Russia has not broken a single one, but wars with one hand tied behind its back. West see this as a Russian weakness and reluctance to dare finish the ”””SMO
It is impressive to see how they, Russia, handled the setbacks and the huge sanctions and sabotage against their economy. Ukraine will lose somehow but the problem is who will be able to declare themselves victorious? What is a victory for Russia? Definitely not Crimea plus 4 oblasts. As long as Banderas remains in Kiev and the West has material and personnel in Ukraine, they will pose a mortal threat to Russia. Anything short of unconditional surrender will be presented as a Ukrainian victory and fuel a perpetual war on this continent. Just look at the crazy Germans who have gone and become PK Nazis again where they despise Russia as an entity and at the same time glorify and aid Israel in their genocide in Palestine. The West is biding its time and only hopes that Ukraine will weaken Russia in the meantime.
I don't believe as much as you that the West is capable of bringing Russia to its knees, but in this war of perception they themselves firmly believe it. The Russians should have taken that out of them a long time ago.
Also read Gerrard White's very reasonable argument in the thread.
Correct.
What a monster Putin is looking for a peaceful resolution, before war.
That tired binary--Russia either plays 5D chess or it soils itself--seems the only approved line of thought when the subject turns to Russia.
It's like, there can be no middle-ground normality for Russia, where an adjustment to changing conditions comes into play or a course correction.
Every event gets judged like it is a 3-minute floor competition in the Olympics.
Nothing surprising can catch Russia off-balance because Russia is omniscient.
In a real world Russia is not omniscient
Friendly reminder to ignore GM's shilling, concern trolling, and assorted subversive tactics. These posts are in bad faith and not worth engaging with.
GM is really Simplicicius..... Don't tell anyone.
I'm absolutely serious. People will do anything for money - sex, clap like trained seals, kill, strip naked.... anything.
I also strongly suspect “simplicicius” is more than one person. ;-)
Proof that retardation may be contagious
Yeah brilliant now it's all Putin's fault, how original. Why don't you go back and read our hosts posts from the last 3 years and then try again.
Thank you for a calm report - You will have noticed that the trolls are very active on this subject
It is part of the MSM propaganda campaign you describe
You mean anyone who don't prostate and worship Putin as Mightier than God is a troll?
He fucked up in 2014 when he forced the Donbas militia to stand down from liberating Maruipol when there's only some shit chicken Azov Nazis between the city and the victorious Donbass militiamen.
yak yakity yaka
"He fucked up in 2014 " I see that being aware of reality doesn't figure into your thinking about Ukraine.
The reality is that in 2014 Russia did not have the ability to fight the US and win. Had Russia entered into a war with the US in 2014 it not only would have lost that war, it also would not have been able to develop the economy and infrastructure required to resist US economic and military attacks in the future.
The earliest - barely - that Russia acquired the ability to fight the US and win was in late 2021. That's precisely when Russia delivered its ultimatums to the US, and when Russia went to war with the US after the US blew off those ultimatums.
Got that?
A very important fact that most people ignore or are not aware of. You can not go to war or risk war when you are unprepared. The Crimea-stunt in 2014 was nevertheless a formidable achievement. And even when they thought they were prepared to stop the NATO-enchrochement in 2022 - they werent. Therefore we stand in this mud 2,5 years later with 100 000 of dead/maimed on both side (most Ukrainians).
Agreed in general, but respectfully disagree about the NATO encroachment in 2022. One reason Russia pulled back from wildly overextended positions they never really held (groups of disconnected ranger forces roaming across entire provinces full of no man's land isn't holding territory) is because they knew they couldn't defend those vast stretches of land with a handful of rangers. They had to fall back to positions they could really hold.
But Russia knew they could stop NATO and keep their real gains while continuing to fight a war that defeated the US and NATO in Ukraine, all the while growing Russia's economy. That's an astonishing achievement and massively better than what they could have done in 2014.
There are over 600,000 dead nazis so far. Look at all the new cemeteries the nazis have built, which would have not been needed if the casualties were as low as you incorrectly believe. Lots of sat pics showing this if you'd bother to look
...should have written "hundreds of thousands" so that no nit-picker takes something out of context...
I guess I disagree. This war will go nuclear. Slow boiling the frog (Ukraine) won't work because it is NATO and you can kill every Ukrainian and still lose the war with NATO. No one is afraid of Putin. He needs to scare Europe and the US (NATO), cross their red lines, play dirty, or negotiate on their terms. Either way we, the people, lose. Unless there is a cease fire in Gaza, this is WWIII, and no one listening to MSM knows a thing about it. Gates: "Russia invaded Russia for no reason." Kill Gates, not me.
Russian civilization is facing a rotting corpse of the collective west (still perfumed here and there) infected with the supremacist, anti-Humanity, Talmudic mentality.
Russians are not Jews. Whereas zionists and banderites are indistinguishable. They talk the same, behave the same (with the distinguished sadism and arrogance), and they came from the same geographical area of western Ukraine. It’s a great tragedy that Ukrainians at large have been judaized by their anti-Slavic "owners." Was not Kolomojsky, the prez of the jewish community of Ukrainian and financier of Zelensky, also a founder and financier of four (4) Nazi battalions that eventually became the darlings of the Knesset on Potomac and Knesset?
The “penist” zelensky (a Jew of the Year in 2022, according to the Jerusalem post) has been working hard on turning Ukraine into a “land without people” as Golda Meir used to proclaim about the jews-terrorized Palestine: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/palestine-myth-empty-land
Supremacist lunatics always end up by becoming the genociders. Look at the slaughter of humans by jews in Gaza and the jewish attempts at bombing two nuclear power plants in Europe. Though I do agree that the global jewry's terrorism (by using NATO/US) will continue till the "owners" of the collective west and the populations of the US/EU (and particularly the British idiots in charge) acquire the same experience that the sufferings Libyans, Syrians, Gazans, and people of Donbas have got due to the Looters policies.
"All wars are bankers' wars," Smedley Butler, a United States Marine Corps major general and great American patriot. Today, US government & US army are owned by aipac and billionaires of mostly judaic persuasion.
You NAILED IT, Anna. Very nice and concise summary. Thanks. Does anyone imagine that Kamala or Dump has read one effing paragraph of history? Ever? The losers who couldn't defeat the Taliban after twenty years are somehow capable of beating Russia in their own backyard? Um, I don't think so. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Brussels found their ideologues in a maximum security prison.
OTAN is not OTAN -- it is OTAN-K
The more Ukraine fails, the more shrill they become.
I am sorry, Simplicius. I am lost here ….. what nuclear strike and why journalists are waiting there? Are they not worried about nuclear fall out? What am I missing? — “Per RIA Novosti the planned strike against both nuclear power plants is being supervised by the Intelligence Services of the United Kingdom. Large numbers of Western journalists are in Zaporozhye and Sumy to report on the strikes and ensure early spin.”
Well, a dirty bomb is not a 'nuclear strike' per se. Meaning, it's not a nuclear bomb with the force/power of a nuclear explosion. It would be a regular sized strike by some kind of small missile which would have radioactive material attached to it, so when it explodes, it spreads the radiation. In fact, such an attack would likely have minimal effect, mostly on the local area most likely.
What do they hope to achieve with a dirty bomb and a bunch of journalists? Are they planning to blame Russia?
Russia blowing up it's own nuclear plant on territory it holds is even less plausible than Russia blowing up Nord Stream. The leadership in the west might go along with it, but it's more likely to kill public support in the west than it is to generate more weapons deliveries. I know that Zelensky is desperate, but this is going to backfire worse than the sanctions did.
Or am I missing something?
I think perhaps they intend to run with headlines that with numerous more invasions at both locations the rf has lost control and resorted to nuking their own territory and poor poor citizens out of desperation. If they print and publish it, it becomes truth in their world. Until suddenly it doesn't.
They blame everything on Russia. Russia got Trump elected. Russia messed with the 2020 elections. In fact, Putin personally raised the price of US gas and blew up Nordstream. Russia is teh debil!
It's what happens when your warfighting arm is made of presstitutes and propagandists.
Classic example of "A drowning man will clutch at a straw"
Of course it is implausible. Doesn't matter. Russia will be blamed.
Zelenskii could publicly toss toddlers into piranha tanks, live on his YouTube channel, and Putin will be ritually blamed.
Our western media and MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligencia-media-academia-think tank) complex can convince the public of any insane conspiracy theory or false flag. All one has to do is look at the Syrian chemical attack in Darfur, WMD in Iraq, Russiagate, the Covid epidemic, etc.
The UN is also captured. They will also either find a way to blame Russia or ignore any evidence that points to western involvement.
You have truly fallen Simplicius. Carelessly reporting false info especially about a nuclear bomb. What happened to you? This is an all time low for you. I just had to stop reading . Either you are truly ignorant or charlatan riding on sensationalism to make money.
I think that you don't understand the nature of the people that are partially in control of Ukraine. We are talking about real Himler like nazi lunatics. Haven't you seen all the crazy stuff they've been doing? Last year they blew off the dam and then went all in, expecting to reach Tokmak in two days, sacrificing thousands of lives etc. These people are just nuts.
The news was brought by the major Russian news agencies like Tass. I read it 14 hours ago on Khairullin’s Telegram site, The more than 700 comments were equally distributed as on this substack. on X there was the message
https://x.com/RealKhairullin/status/1824540961889743057
As I understand it, it is also intended as a warning if Ukraine intends to do so. Why is S not allowed to mention this in his Substack?
One of the post on Telegram:)
Chukchi and meteorologist.
E shaman was asked what kind of winter it would be: cold or warm.
‘Just say it’s warm,’ the shaman thinks to himself, ‘they won’t stock up firewood for future use, but what if it’s cold?’ They chase you away right away! It’s better to make them think there will be severe frost!”
- It’s going to be an icy winter, provide a lot of firewood! - said the shaman, and he decided to ask the meteorologists what their prediction for the winter was.
- Of course it’s cold! - they answered him.
- Oh, what great guys! – admires the shaman. ‘How did you find out, comrade meteorologist?’
- What can be discovered! Nothing is easier! Come here, look out the window: you see, the locals are collecting a lot of dented wood - that means winter will be icy!
Dirty bomb. Not 'nuclear bomb'. Big difference. Can you explain why you are convinced this information is false?
Your reading comprehension scores were pretty low in grade school, correct?
Calm down, Julie - the guy is just zeroing in on one speculation and examining it. Surely you don't think US NATO etc are above doing such a dirty trick, using Ukraine as the fall guy? They are shelling NPP already.
Dumb little girl.
Shut up. You're annoying.
Not so minimal if they use 203mm artillery spotted in the area. At the very least the region will take tremendous damage to its soil, and it's a part of global foodbasket. An act of most vile and rabid terrorism.
Good points. The presstitues are there to gin up the Mighty Wurlitzer to play Zelenksky's one piece he mastered on the piano sans hands. As for CNN et al in 404-occupied Kursk, they should also be treated as terrorists along with any foreigners - especially westerners. As for western journalists gathering - a law professor at Harvard (of all places) named Adrian Vermeule had an very apt response to an inquires from Associated Presstitutes which I'll quote here:
Dear Mr. Smith,
Thank you for your message. With whatever respect may be due, I would rather handle a hissing viper than interview with a journalist from the Associated Press. Come to think of it, I have spoken unjustly; vipers are at least sincere in their own way.
Vermeule nailed it. Comparing such total scum to vipers is unfair to vipers.
Lubica, your problem is you are look for rationality.
That is not to be found in DC, London, Brussells and Kiev, and especially from a comedian who knows his own life is hanging by a thread. He was absolutely willing to facilitate the killing of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Slavs -- but his own life is precious and any concoction to protect it is grasped at, no matter how many other Ukrainians are killed in the process.
Yes, I sadly must agree. Besides, I suspect rationality is rather in retreat. But I prefer to be stuck with rationality 😎
The entire PURPOSE of setting off a "dirty bomb" is to create as MUCH fallout as possible, which would likely drift over Western Europe as did Chernobyl fallout.
You can *Guarantee* there are ALREADY stories lined up on servers ready to post instantly in all Western Media saying "In an evil act of desperation RUSSIA blew up KNPP/ZNPP" with journalists nearby to "corroborate" those stories.
The only thing that can stop this happening is the Russian Army stopping those offensives cold, stone dead. So that NO-ONE can pretend Russia was in any way desperate.
I think the fallout would drift eastward over Russia? Chip
If the Ukies can get within plausible range of the nuke plants, they can then fire the dirty nuke missles and then the "journalists" can claim that the Russians blew up the plants out of fear that they would end up in Ukie hands. Or that the Russian "accidentally" blew up the plant out of panic and caused a nuclear catastrophe.
The UN can then come in and either blame Russia or write an inconclusive report as cover.
I don't think they're would be 'fallout' as such from a dirty bomb. Instead, it would be sufficient for geiga counters to start clicking and would provide great material for the MSM to say "Look what Russia has done!".. Therefore, in practice, unless you're on top of the location, the risk is just an elevated background radiation, but not harmful (to 'the journalists').
The reports, as S’ above, that the Kursk intervention is an attempt by Ukraine to force RF to negotiate is very unlikely to succeed, given the stated no negotiations reactions from the RF
The real negotiations for a cease fire and for peace are taking place elsewhere
China’s special envoy Li Hui again spoke with the Pope’s Special Representative – Cardinal Zuppi
And Modi is arriving in Kiev 23 August
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3274649/china-and-vatican-discuss ukraine-peace-plan-russia-continues-lose-ground
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-08/ukraine-war-phone-call-of-cardinal-zuppi-chinese-representative.html
Didn't agent Z state that there would be no negotiation with Russia 2 years ago? How the turn tables turn.
Both Ukrainians and Russians are not inclined to talk, but to fight
Z pretends to talk about negotiations, mainly as a propaganda - RF's various statements are equally unconvincing
The RF know that their Allies, China Brazil, are doing the talking
Putin has indicated recently that no negotiations are possible... Chip
Any details on the strike on Russian convoy in Oktyabr’skoe E38 highway?
Likely happened as the Russians missed Kursk offensive coming, but how long can the last gasp incursion endure with the depleted and demoralized UAF running out of options and their economy in default?
The detail is that the strike was not as big/bad as they claim. The video released from the drone shows that 80-90% of the trucks quickly left and only a few were hit. Secondly, the fact the trucks peeled off instantly after the first explosion means they weren't sitting long, and had briefly stopped and had their engines running to begin with. This at least is a slight consolation in that it seems to imply it wasn't as big of a screwup as initially believed, as they seemed to have only stopped very briefly. Of course even that brief period was enough to still be targeted, but while bad, the losses were no where near what AFU claims. Maybe couple dozen or less at most by my reckoning.
The bigger blunder is the fact that a similar convoy was hit in that exact same Kursk area just a couple weeks prior, before the Kursk invasion, but it was by FPVs, which still managed to take out a few trucks parked in a row.
Omg if any of this is true, and it occurs then this provocation shows the depravity of the West and expect a serious response because his NATO puppet handlers obviously endorse this and are behind this and there is no way Russia will not react to this provocation. Nobody wants World War 3 but the West reckless actions indicate they are willing to risk this. Give China, Russia and Iran credit for sober responses to these provocations. Eventually the gloves will come off and then?
In a quite walled-off compartment of their ethics/mortal souls, the U.S. warmongers may have felt half a compunction about dropping Little Boy on Hiroshima on 5 August 1945, but they did it anyway, even reprising the event w/ Enola Gay visiting the skies of Nagasaki 4 days later.
"Depraved" is exactly the word for them
The depraved warmongers of 2024 are cut from the same cloth as those from 1945
As Marx said, "History repeats first as a tragedy, then as a farce"
Is our farce both a farce *and* a tragedy?
So true! Although I have my doubts about the slightest compunction about the instant holocausts perpetrated by the daddies of the destruction of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
"Nobody wants World War 3"
Type "Albert Pike 3 world wars" into your search engine of choice and read about it. Planned at least since 1871. Not a theory, but written history. The Georgia Guidestones are gone now, but they stood for about 40 years before Covid. They spoke of reducing the world population to 500 million, permanently. War could be one tool to achieve that goal, also child sterilisation, poverty, food shortages, euthanasia, as well as pandemic plans.
Time to face reality
This is already WWIII
Last time the Spanish Civil War and the Japanese colonisation of 'Manchukuo' were the prologue to WWII, but usually not considered with the main event. We are in the prologue to WWIII, but not there yet. Banking, the internet, electricity, petrol stations, and supermarkets are still working pretty much everywhere (except Gaza), even Kiev. Most of us are still in what the future will consider to be the good old days.
I take your point- but this will not be like WWII - the allies are already heads over heels involved, and have been from the start
There are already many fires lit, and there is a great deal of political diplomatic trade and 'security alliance' warfare already under way, not to speak of the modern role of overwhelming propaganda and cyber y stuff
No one will ever declare war, or a military alliance, or declare intentions or objectives with any degree of realism
And already peace plans are on the march
We need peace plans, not just between the various oligarch factions, but more importantly, peace plans between the oligarchs and commoners. So far, I see little sign of that happening. For example, an apology to all those who lost their livelihoods fighting the mandate or were injured because they submitted to the mandate - with restitution. In my dreams ...
G'day Cheryl, nice fantasy we all share with you though the expression pigs might fly comes to mind.
??? It appears you are off on a far tangent using language of some obscurity to evident meaning
A polite way of telling you - this is nonsense
Conspiracy theory insanity
Funniest thing I've seen in a while:
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-foreign-fighters-citizenship-zelensky/32786522.html
Zelenskyyyiyiyyyiyiyiyiyiyiyyyy wants to give foreign fighters and their families citizenship. Most actual Ukrainians don't want to be citizens; Ukraine is basically a 3rd world shithole at this point. I don't see how anyone is going to be seduced by this offer.
Well giving them citizenship would immediately deprive them of their rights to diplomatic or consular interventions from their previous country, when they are mercilessly sent on suicide missions and try to refuse. Not that they are being warned or smart enough to realize they are being marched down the Primrose Path to death.
And the ability to leave their adopted country ;)
Except in body bags, organs removed.
By giving them citizenship, they are no longer mercenaries. They would get dual citizenship, as they won't have to give up their original citizenship.
Dual citizenship was illegal for Ukrainians. Unless they recently changed that.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/president-zelenskyys-dual-citizenship-proposal-presents-wartime-dilemmas/
Ok. Renouncing existing citizenships to get Ukrainian is madness.
Factually the only people afraid of escalation is the Russians. If I were Elensky I have nothing to lose. Great PR moment.
Even the West is silently cheerleading.
Kursk is a great PR victory. Putin is busy doing whack a mole on NATO specops doing hit and runs on villages. Pepe said Ukies and NATO have at least 12k inside Russia. Not the 2k that Putinbois are claiming.
Btw, expect Putin to do a sweetheart deal with the West and allow their NATO forces to withdraw intact.
Guaranteed.
how much will you wager?
What are you talking about? My goodness y'all are truly idiots. NATO is not there
Err...in case you were asleep, NATO is expanding. NATO is soon to be in Japan, Philippines, South Korea... Admittedly, there is another name they are banding about for these places since they are conspicuously not connected with the NA area, but the idea NATO is not in ME. What? Maybe you missed what NATO did to Libya?! Turkey is a member of NATO... It will always be involved if Europe is involved, which it is. So what are you talking about?
New! It's McNato! With electrolites! It's what plants crave!
Liking your Brawndo reference from Idiocracy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZ9YuPm_Ls
That comment is truly baffling. It's NATO in all possible ways from intel to media cover to advanced weaponry and its crews (do you believe Ukrainians operate Himars or Patriots?) to "vacarioners" and imported mercs on the ground. This js a NATO operation throughout and beyond.
Ukies are de facto NATO army, not de iure because then our NATO govts could not talk shit in order to fool imbecilic golden billionis and not to trigger certain NATO articles.
Everything is public: they have been trained by NATO, equipped by NATO, integrated into NATO command and control processes, use NATO ISR, there are lots of NATO countries 'volunteers' on the ground, NATO special forces, NATO 'volunteers' command incursions into Russia (getting boinked on their cute GoPro cameras), etc. Amriqani general senhor Aguto is running things from Kiev (he does not distinguih between military and civilians, they are all 'enemy' to him, classic death cult amriqani).
Here is Reisner explaining how it is:
https://t.me/IntelRepublic/13557
Ignorant little girl
Yep, he'll allow them to withdraw all the way to the US.
Unfortunately for those forces, the Zionists in control of the US plan on throwing them into war in the ME and their remnants will be destroyed there.
You charlatan, you are to geo political and calculating analysis what McDonalds is to nutrition.
What PR victory? It is truly Ukraine's suicide mission
In a year, nothing will remain of Ukraine and its "great PR victories" will be totally forgotten.
All that will matter is who is alive and who is dead, who controls the territory which briefly was Ukraine, and how the economies of Western countries continue to fall further against those of the principal BRICS nations.
What putinbois? Alaudinov publicly said there where 11600 - 11900 ukies in Kursk.
G'day Fledr Maus, they never let truth get in the way whilst trolling. There is a list of considered trolls in the last comments section, shunning works better than inflating their Evil empire narrative. Check out the list but Surfer Ket fits in my list of doomers or Putin method doubters.
Of course it's Russians who are afraid to escalate. Because they don't want to kill you lot by millions, you pointless cackling moron. This is what escalation means.
It's not just PR, it's cover for initiating a non-conventional false-flag. Look at Syria.
Lol given Russias showing in Kursk, I wouldnt put itnpast them to lose the Orekhov sector as well, given Russia has not been able to counter Ukrainian blitz tactics. That is what I figure will happen in the Orekhov sector too.
Setting my clock, 20 days from August 17th we should see the battle for Energodar and the Zaporozhiye NPP begin
It's a tough sector because water to one side means Ukraine can't use true "enveloping" tactics and can only really come at Russian positions from one or two directions at most, making defending easier.
However, my long-time prediction is that any blitzkrieg out of "Orekhov" direction would mostly be a smokescreen to tie down Russian troops from Energodar, and force them to scramble reserves, while the *real* attack would be some kind of mass special forces raid straight onto Energodar itself across the Dnieper River, particularly if it's dried out enough, aided by air assault heli landings, etc.
Should be cannon fodder for the Russian drone, artillery and air resources. A nice big open area with no cover. That area is not some lightly defended border but a very actively defended area of the front line.
"Theirs not to ask why, theirs but to do & die"
I can see French OTAN troops joining the fray
Once the drugs kick in, they'll give it a try
Having a leader like ("I married my papa") Macron would drive anyone to a suicide mission.
I say CS, you have stolen the brit lines of everlasting glory, them froggy woggies got nothing to do with us britishers
And why is it that Russian forces aren't sufficient to cover everything?
Raiding Energodar would entail pushing across the river as you aptly mention. How do they avoid getting spotted? Or are they relying on a paucity of forces in the region to stop them (due to them being sent to Orekhov)?
You've heard of Stinkin' Thinkin'
As in Hennesey made me do it
This is Krynky Thinkin'
The Krynky is talking
Now you're in total fantasy land. I'm rethinking the value of this "blog" or whatever it is.... western news accumulation site. I guess that's kind of like trash washed up on a river somewhere.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. No one will miss your ignorant ranting.
Bugger off cockroach
Up the ante and take out Budanov as a warning if the Russians are capable of that
Don't expect much from Russia when it comes to retaliation. We will see more angry messages by Medvedev's social media person. That's about it.
The same people who told us that Joe was "sharp as a tack" & that KH is a Joyful Warrior are now describing Russia as "fragile" & VVP as "humiliated."
This full-scale brutal unprovoked Information War relies primarily on *embarrassment* as a battlefield tactic.
When I turn to the 'E' section of my military strategy manual, I find these epic battles whose reliance on embarrassment as a signature campaign doctrine changed the course of history:
Battle of Hastings
Siege of Orleans
Battle of Vienna
Siege of Yorktown
Waterloo
Gettysburg
Humiliation has always been the root cause of wars.
"Ehhh?" I thought it was money for the ((bankers)).
Yeah. I've found no reason to trust US elites about anything since the invasion of Iraq.
You missed it by several decades.
The Turkish missile crisis or the Gulf of Tonkin was enough for most intelligent people.
What the fuck is wrong with you? You sound irrational and angry. What a clown.
The destruction of the three bridges also means that Ukraine will not be able to advance further toward Kursk. So all that is left is to drive NATO military gear around local streets and farm fields, looking for more prisoners to exchange. There is nothing significant of military or economic value in the western part of Kursk.
If Medvedev wants to troll Kyiv, they could designate the NATO/UAF occupiers as "temporary foreign workers" and insist that they make themselves useful and assist with the seasonal crop harvest.
Like an amusement park ride: Bumper Cars in the Borderlands
It's a big bump when a FAB 3000 hits you.
gonna leave a mark
No, Mark will be killed too.
So the whole Kursk push was a PR stunt to get Western cash to pay loans.
What happens if they continue to default?
To put it simply, every government "survives" by paying off its past loans with new ones (in the form of bonds). A default means that, while it technically could issue more bonds, nobody will buy them, so Ukraine is now effectively unable to raise any more cash. That being said, countries that go into default are usually bailed out by multilaterals like the IMF, which impose certain conditions, blah blah blah.
In other words, prior to this year, Ukraine's government WAS actually paying for some things itself (by issuing bonds). From here on out, though, it is entirely surviving on other people's money. BTW, you might wonder about tax revenue etc, but that's just a drop in the bucket in terms of where operating revenue comes from for most countries, Ukraine most definitely included.
Spot on
The U.S. will take Ukraine under receivership & it will become the 51st state
Americans can add a new star to their flags
The only "Ukraine" left to take under receivership will be Banderastan in the West.
That would be almost as bad as being the receiver for Chicago or Detroit. May they enjoy it.
When Ukraine becomes the 51st state, it will have to choose a state flower. Could be a toss-up among the Blood Root, the Corpse Flower & Flowering Judas
It might be the cleanest, safest state in the union.
States have rights.
Puppets, not so much.
Great drone footage of a Patriot firing off missiles to intercept an incoming Iskandar which peppered the launcher with cluster munitions.
https://t.me/intelslava/65118