CS ta for this - you being well informed - just what is the max range of the new missile that the US is rumoured to be considering sending to Ukraine one day and when.....
Put on your Burns the well researched insider cap not the other one propaganda duncefool peak dumb most here wear in bed and out
'attrited' is a past tense of the verb 'attrit'. 'attritional' might be an adjective form you could use. "He engaged in attritional combat in the Donbas."
Every side always claims that enemy victories are only the result of overwhelming numbers, while our victories are the result of our skill, elan, etc..
Well done cheetos, depressing as it is descriptive. It reminded me, a bit, of French historian Bernard Fall's description of events during the First Indochina War. Of course, different time and place and "orders of magnitude" but...recollections are recollections. It is early here and no bracing coffee for me yet so I snatched the following from ChatGPT, IE, AI generated response to a question posed re "Street Without Joy".
The term "Street Without Joy" refers to a region in Vietnam that became infamous during the First Indochina War (1946–1954) and later the Vietnam War (1955–1975). It specifically describes a road on the central coast of Vietnam, which ran through a series of villages that were heavily contested during military conflicts between the French colonial forces and the Viet Minh in the First Indochina War.
This area earned its name because of the devastating losses and brutal conditions experienced by the French troops who operated there. The road became notorious for ambushes, guerrilla warfare, and high casualty rates. The French military suffered significantly in this region, and it symbolized the difficulties foreign forces faced while fighting in Vietnam.
The term was popularized by the historian and war correspondent Bernard B. Fall in his 1961 book titled "Street Without Joy", which detailed his observations and experiences of the conflict. Fall highlighted the road as emblematic of the larger challenges of warfare in Vietnam, including the futility of conventional military tactics in the face of guerrilla warfare.
In summary, "Street Without Joy" is not a single battle but a notorious stretch of road associated with numerous skirmishes and military struggles in Vietnam during the mid-20th century.
That is simply because the RF forces were considerate up until now. That is unlikely to continue to be the case. Sometimes lessons need to be learned so hard that it lasts generations.
Another astounding article, but Simplicius I know you posted the poll for the quantity of content. Don't feel pressured to put out, we are perfectly ok with 1 article a week and we value your time.
I think events of the war are starting to spin faster and faster. If anything, Simplicius should keep hammering articles at his current rhythm of one every other day, while also he should beefing up his bitchute war-gore channel with even more death and destruction.
I don't think you thought it over too much, before hitting the "Post" button. You appreciate reading Simplicius sit-reps if you are here, and so: how will you keep updated about the war if he posts once a week? Also, the front changes daily, the political climate around the war also evolves fast, and a third aspect covered in Simplicius' posts, war technology, is slower than the preceding two, but still shows new enhancements - or even totally new surprises - pretty much every month.
That this message ended up being the first comment to the post, makes me think you planned this quite conspicuous bit of virtue signalling beforehand, even at the cost of shooting at your own foot as a Simplicius' reader, basically.
Tomorrow is 9/11, a reminder of when America attacked itself. lol
Right now, I'd say we're in the eye of the storm relating to the US election.
It's 8 weeks before the US election and the countdown has started for something big to occur sometime over this period. Talk about another virus-related economic shutdown has surfaced along with increasing media focus on monkeypox and other labels. This presidential election is even more ridiculous than that of Biden's. Kamala is running for President and if she wins all hell will break loose. I speculate stock markets would crash with lots of social upheaval. But we'll see. What a joke. The entire Presidential election has been reduced to theatrics without substance. Anything can happen which makes it that much more interesting. Buckle up, Hurricane Cackle is on the way. lol
The Phoenician Black Nobility - This is Actually How the World is Run
This is actually how the world is run – through a satanic hierarchy, through a pyramid of power; hence their popular symbolism of the ‘All-Seeing Eye” within the pyramid of power.
If your Satanic Psychopathic Phoenician Black Nobility Minion like Kamala, Biden, Macron, Turdow, is at the top of the Pyramid he can conscript you and send you to war, mandate the Deathvaxx, Digital identity, Central Bank Digital Currencies, total surveillance and the end of free speech!
Yup we know!!! That is their PLANS that is what you don't mention. Fear mongering and stating desires as factual predictions is kind of black pill and frankly equivalent to click bait.
These are their plans... What Pedo “Joe Biden” actually accomplished in office - consciously - on Purpose - was the near-total wrecking of the USA. He torpedoed the authority and legitimacy of just about every federal agency, turned the Department of Justice into a Gestapo, seeded the federal court benches with Woke lunatics, allowed an invasion of perhaps 20-million border-jumpers (including many thousands of professional terrorists), coerced deathvaxx injections of an ineffective and injurious vaccine into millions of citizens - 35 Millions extra people dead! 35 Millions people not conceived, afraid of losing their livelihoods, promoted gross medical experiments on sexually troubled children, invited drag queens and mentally-ill degenerates to cavort in the White House, spent borrowed money at a rate that propelled the national debt past the event horizon into a black hole, by sanctions destroying the trust in the Dollar as the international currency, increased the price of petroleum, created famine by reducing fertiliser by 35% and destroying farming and food manufacturing centers, destroyed the army and made the seeking of incompetence the number one priority of the Pentagon, provoked a war in Ukraine that now teeters on the hazard of Worldwide World War 3 against Russia, China, and Iran, and allowed the CIA to complete its takeover of the US government that has even tried to assassinate Trump and now even Minion Pedo Joe has,"Disappeared" to be replaced by Giant Joe and Idiot Puppet Kamala . “Joe Biden” will go down in history as the worst of all 46 US presidents and for this Blame the Satanic 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschild Phoenician Mega Trillionaires. https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/throughout-history-seventy-two-empires
Kamala won the debate last night (optically which is all that matters to the dumbed down voter). They are now clear to pull off another stolen election. KH will be our next president. We are well and truly fucked... Chip
Either way. Last scenes of the Titanic, Trump and Kamal floating in the Atlantic, hanging on to the last wooden door, made in the USA.
Obama and his inside team have done an outstanding job of destroying America. It's almost as if he won't be satisfied until Kamal completes his 4th turn for him.
Yes it was three against one. Yes Kamala lied all night long. Optically, to the average undecided voter, she tromped Trump. You must be seeing what you want to see not the reality of the actual debate... Chip
Meanwhile, overheard in a Kyiv bar, Blinken says to Zelensky: “Congratulations, bud! The war is over! We exceeded our goal for creating dead Ukrainians, Russians, and miscellaneous mercenaries; our refugee side gig is booming; and we laundered so much money we’ve run out of soap!”
Zelensky: “But, Ants, don’t walk away now. I’ll look like a loser!”
Blinken: “Dude. You’re worried about your image? Everybody saw you play piano. Stick around and get mopped up . . . er, uh, I mean mop up.”
That Europe and Asia are 2 different continents is one of the most absurd constructs still surviving in the post-modern world. Clearly they are as geographically connected as is possible. Are we to accept through some form of pretzel logic, that the Ural Mountains are a formidable barrier, while the Himalayas are not?
Europe was a purely political construct based on a brief period of civilizational supremacy. It's over and Eurasia is one continent.
Even Russians talk about the European part of Russia. The English language is limited in this, you have no word for "world regions." Eurasia is a continent, Europe and Asia are two world regions.
Perhaps superficially, just looking at a world map, you could say that Europe is only one of the peninsulas emanating from the larger Eurasian mass, just like Arabia or India.
In all other aspects that define the discipline of Geography, Europe is its own separate thing.
Weather and climate are similar anywhere on the shores of the Mediterranean basin, however once you move past the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range, all the way to the Pacific ocean you'll find different climates than those of Europe.
In terms of ease of movement and bottlenecks, Siberia + Himalayas + the Central Asia (Turkestan) desert are difficult barriers to overcome, unless you are part of a nomadic horse-riding tribe.
Ethnographically speaking, Europe is the Homeland of the White race, enough said. In this regard, you could also include the Mediterranean coast of Asia as basically White, and also the shores of the Caspian sea including the Iranian side. However these regions of Asia have steadily become more Semitic since the Islamic expansion.
Politically: Herodotus in the V century b.C., and probably since even earlier times, defined Europe as the lands North and West of the Mediterranean sea, mainly governed by tribal polities or democracies, popular like Athens or aristocratic like Sparta. Everything to the East and South was subjected to the aptly named "Oriental despotism".
So in summary it is very justified to consider Europe its own continent, separated from Asia. Helps to remind us that an Arab and an Indonesian half the world away have something in common, while a European shares nothing with an Indonesian, and very little with the Arab.
No, I did not advance only ethnocultural arguments, read better.
Besides, it's easy to look at a map, consider Eurasia as a homogeneous landmass, and feel smarter than the accepted consensus on the topic, handed down tradition since time immemorial, that Europe and Asia are two separate entities.
Also, no one really thinks of the Ural mountains as an "unsurmountable barrier", it's not just you who noticed they are ancient and as such smoothed down mountains. What's really unsurmountable are the Siberian and Turkestani wastelands beyond.
In a nutshell, continents are not just landmasses. The same argument you made about Eurasia, could be made about Australia, and Oceania en large, as really being part of Asia and not their own thing. On a map, honestly they seem to be an offshoot of the Indonesian archipelago. Only 5 continents, and yet other similar examples could be made, of such incongruities.
But you don't really care about that either. You are more interested in scoring the moral points that are bizarrely rewarded, in the current day and age, for putting down Western civilisation and anything connected to it.
Sportsball(™) season is here, so noticing ground tremors and analyzing the possible progression of events following resumption of smoke rising from the local volcano is on hold. Plate tectonics never buys up blocks of prime time advertisement slots-
WWI was more of a pickup game, AFAICT. Those who planned for a nice profitable & much smaller war in Eastern Europe got RATHER more than they had bargained for.
What became the opening of the European hot phase of WWII was planned to go VERY differently, at least by the British Empire, Germany and USSR.
We are likely about to see what happens INSTEAD of the long planned for neoliberal/neocon regime change/degradation of the Russian Federation and "bringing China & Iran to heel", securing the realm for the Indispensable Nation in the New American Century & etc.. See you on the other side. Or not, more likely.
Bismarck said in 1899 when he was simply dismissed, that another 7-year war was planned. He knew what that means.
Planned by King Edward VII, even when dead at the start.
The USA got dragged in on the wrong imperial side, shortened it.
It is abundantly clear that UKraine fully intends NATO to be dragged into a WWIII. It may look like a desperate move, but remember Bismarck. After all Kaiser Wilhelm was King Edward VII's cousin, as was the Czar.
'That is the sense of the trip this week by Secretary of State Blinken to Kiev and of the visit to the White House on Friday by British Prime Minister Starmer.'
I gotta wonder why Russia is still letting NATO warmongers into Ukraine knowing how much they are trying to destroy Russia. Just tell them no you can’t go visit your puppet and if you try your train might have an accident. The only reason they are going there is to ramp up more war and attacks against Russian civilians.
Yes, he spoke with Rima on Dialog Works and said the same thing. Martin Armstrong wrote a blog today, remarking that the Netherlands Foreign Minister just told Ukraine that they would allow for their donated weapons to be used to strike Russia, any time, any way, was the nail in the coffin that we are, in fact, going to have WW3.
The idea that Poland would want millions of fractious and well-armed people who are not only by no means Polish, but who have committ4ed genocide against Poles within living memory, beggars the imagination.
Hey, they used to have tram signs "No dogs or Ukrainians allowed" only a hundred years ago. I believe in Polish bydlo-managing experience, after all it was Poles who bred this type of people and even invented the word. They'll do just fine.
Newest Sikorski leak pretty much reinforced my point. There are red lines for Poland beyond which it's going to slap together an expeditionary force and go in, and this line is Odessa. A city Russians view as definitely their own, bound to return home.
It's laughable that Zelensky wants to end the war, he's just grifting for more weapons to do terror strikes on Russia. They'll keep dragging it out, but Europeans are going to be footing more of the bill (a feature not a bug since it will be the gateway to install direct EU taxation for Brussels). Talk of "negotiations" is just the sales pitch.
Russia will go Full Grozny if need be. The EU will be too busy repeatedly falling on its own sword to have much to say in it. If the hot war cooks off then all bets are off….and no I am not black pill dooming.
I don't think Putin will initiate nuclear war unless their deterrent is degraded significantly. They're trying to force him to escalate via a Syria scenario to get a no-fly zone imposed. But through the prayers of the Russian saints and martyrs it hasn't been accomplished.
Kursk: "...the Ukrainians are in a state of loss, shock, and confusion as they are simply hit from every side—recall the previous video of the ‘road of death’ showing countless destroyed vehicles spanning miles."
How desperate Kiev and NATO must be to think that invading Russia was a winning strategy. They've exposed their soldiers in the Kursk bulge to attack from all sides. This is on ground that Russia knows well and considers sacred, having freed it from Nazi invaders 80 years ago. The Ukrainians will be shown no mercy. The only hope for them is to lay down their arms which I hope they do in great numbers.
These people - "western elites" - are purely short term thinkers and focused on perception. They are greedy and it makes them stupid. The gravity and decisive nature of their military and diplomatic defeat in "ukraine" is just beginning to dawn on them.
They have no idea what to do. They just flail about hoping some weapon system might be a miracle but none will be. They've left themselves no honorable way out of this defeat.
It's who you know not what you know. They are stupid. I went to one of their elite schools and most are legacy admissions. Dad or grandpa may have earned matriculation, but they are lazy dumb trust fund brats and act like it until they die. Being dumb, they pick the easiest majors and it doesn't matter, the nepotism continues to the tippy top of our institutions and corporate America.
edit:: This power elite phenomena was better described in C. Wright Mills book
So Putin has been getting frustrated by Lula and Modi's constant pleas for Russia to settle the conflict in Ukraine just when Russia has the upper hand. Putin should set them on a three-way call. Here's how that chat might go:
Putin-"Now, what we have here gentlemen is a failure to communicate. Do you think I'm going to call for peace when I've got the Americans and NATO by the balls and I'm just about to squish those balls tin shingle thick? You've both been taking it up the ass by the Americans for so long you can't even sit straight and I'm starting to think you might like it that way".
Lulubell-" But Vlad..."
Putin- "Shush, there are no Buts in yes, lulubell". "Relax, I was just kidding about the you guys liking it part. (Smiles and chuckles)
Lulu- "Yes, Vlad"
Putin "Very good, Lulu". "Now what I need the both of you to do is just shut the fuck up and stop busting my balls when I'm about to bust someone else's. And stop trying to play both sides like you're some kind of trans phonys. Russia has the upper hand now from which you fellow BRICK stakeholders will benefit greatly. So stop bugging me. See you at the BRICK meeting next month and we'll talk more. Good evening my good friends. (shakes his head)
Also, Ukraine refused to settle with Russia when it was offered so it gives Putin the perfect leverage to continue the SMO on his measured and regulated terms.
Also the fact that Ukraine flat out broke the agreement they made on 2022 means Russia no longer needs to consider their words as being worth anything.
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Can you imagine Stalin or Molotov saying "while the German Fascist is on our territory we cannot negotiate"? I cannot. The only "negotiations" that should be happening is accepting Ukraine's unconditional surrender, nothing more.
Total Hohol Death, i.e. complete demilitarization of Ukraine. Since all the survivors will hate Russia to their last breath there is no option but to tear them out by the roots.
I think Mercouris is off base here. Putin is both extremely patient and extremely professional. Anyone with a modicum of analysis understands the pressures and influences that Modi and Lula are under - certainly Putin would. Russia will talk to their partners and give them the opportunity to fandance with the West, but will equally not allow Russian interests to be damaged in the process.
For that matter, I don't share Mercouris' (and others) view that the CIA helped Lula win his election; Mercouris has either forgotten, or never knew, the role the CIA may have had in booting his party out of power in Brazil to start with.
Maybe this is just theater on the part of Lulu and Modi. A diplomatic feint to show the Americans, "hey! we tried.." But since you folks are losing at present and had no sincere desires in the past for a negotiated peace..well...long story short: eat shit and die, fools.
CS ta for this - you being well informed - just what is the max range of the new missile that the US is rumoured to be considering sending to Ukraine one day and when.....
Put on your Burns the well researched insider cap not the other one propaganda duncefool peak dumb most here wear in bed and out
'attrited' is a past tense of the verb 'attrit'. 'attritional' might be an adjective form you could use. "He engaged in attritional combat in the Donbas."
Point granted, their examples are valid. It probably deserves a multiple definition kind of thing.
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https://karlof1.substack.com/p/ocean-2024-russias-largest-naval
https://www.heritage.org/military-strength/assessment-us-military-power/us-navy
Every side always claims that enemy victories are only the result of overwhelming numbers, while our victories are the result of our skill, elan, etc..
Wow, reading that was an experience. Well done, cheetos.
Well done cheetos, depressing as it is descriptive. It reminded me, a bit, of French historian Bernard Fall's description of events during the First Indochina War. Of course, different time and place and "orders of magnitude" but...recollections are recollections. It is early here and no bracing coffee for me yet so I snatched the following from ChatGPT, IE, AI generated response to a question posed re "Street Without Joy".
The term "Street Without Joy" refers to a region in Vietnam that became infamous during the First Indochina War (1946–1954) and later the Vietnam War (1955–1975). It specifically describes a road on the central coast of Vietnam, which ran through a series of villages that were heavily contested during military conflicts between the French colonial forces and the Viet Minh in the First Indochina War.
This area earned its name because of the devastating losses and brutal conditions experienced by the French troops who operated there. The road became notorious for ambushes, guerrilla warfare, and high casualty rates. The French military suffered significantly in this region, and it symbolized the difficulties foreign forces faced while fighting in Vietnam.
The term was popularized by the historian and war correspondent Bernard B. Fall in his 1961 book titled "Street Without Joy", which detailed his observations and experiences of the conflict. Fall highlighted the road as emblematic of the larger challenges of warfare in Vietnam, including the futility of conventional military tactics in the face of guerrilla warfare.
In summary, "Street Without Joy" is not a single battle but a notorious stretch of road associated with numerous skirmishes and military struggles in Vietnam during the mid-20th century.
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Not really. That Ukraine has any infrastructure standing demonstrates otherwise.
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That is simply because the RF forces were considerate up until now. That is unlikely to continue to be the case. Sometimes lessons need to be learned so hard that it lasts generations.
We've been hearing that Russia really is going to take off the gloves for real this time for over two years now.
Impatient much?
I'm not the one making the predictions.
Yes you are here there and everywhere Top Ten troll of all tiome
No we have not dumpster dog
Not ever?
Another astounding article, but Simplicius I know you posted the poll for the quantity of content. Don't feel pressured to put out, we are perfectly ok with 1 article a week and we value your time.
Yeah, play the long game, Simpliticus. Steady does it.
I tend to agree…
I think events of the war are starting to spin faster and faster. If anything, Simplicius should keep hammering articles at his current rhythm of one every other day, while also he should beefing up his bitchute war-gore channel with even more death and destruction.
I don't think you thought it over too much, before hitting the "Post" button. You appreciate reading Simplicius sit-reps if you are here, and so: how will you keep updated about the war if he posts once a week? Also, the front changes daily, the political climate around the war also evolves fast, and a third aspect covered in Simplicius' posts, war technology, is slower than the preceding two, but still shows new enhancements - or even totally new surprises - pretty much every month.
That this message ended up being the first comment to the post, makes me think you planned this quite conspicuous bit of virtue signalling beforehand, even at the cost of shooting at your own foot as a Simplicius' reader, basically.
You are a bit of an asshole hey?
How much you giving to Simplicius every week or month?
My guess is you never contributed $1.
One hopes that given your ungrateful comment Simplicius blocks you.
How am I an asshole, what I wrote is the objective truth.
"Ungrateful", "asshole", these are all emotional remarks and ad-personam attacks.
You cannot engage in rational debate using emotions
Perhaps. But what does that have to do with you being an asshole?
looks like the herd can't handle the truth, and has to resort to blatant harassment...
I don’t think it’s nice call someone with a sincere question “the herd”. But it is something an asshole would do.
In the eye of the storm.
Tomorrow is 9/11, a reminder of when America attacked itself. lol
Right now, I'd say we're in the eye of the storm relating to the US election.
It's 8 weeks before the US election and the countdown has started for something big to occur sometime over this period. Talk about another virus-related economic shutdown has surfaced along with increasing media focus on monkeypox and other labels. This presidential election is even more ridiculous than that of Biden's. Kamala is running for President and if she wins all hell will break loose. I speculate stock markets would crash with lots of social upheaval. But we'll see. What a joke. The entire Presidential election has been reduced to theatrics without substance. Anything can happen which makes it that much more interesting. Buckle up, Hurricane Cackle is on the way. lol
The Phoenician Black Nobility - This is Actually How the World is Run
This is actually how the world is run – through a satanic hierarchy, through a pyramid of power; hence their popular symbolism of the ‘All-Seeing Eye” within the pyramid of power.
If your Satanic Psychopathic Phoenician Black Nobility Minion like Kamala, Biden, Macron, Turdow, is at the top of the Pyramid he can conscript you and send you to war, mandate the Deathvaxx, Digital identity, Central Bank Digital Currencies, total surveillance and the end of free speech!
https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/the-phoenician-black-nobility-this
You are a regular Nostradamus. Good job.
Yup we know!!! That is their PLANS that is what you don't mention. Fear mongering and stating desires as factual predictions is kind of black pill and frankly equivalent to click bait.
These are their plans... What Pedo “Joe Biden” actually accomplished in office - consciously - on Purpose - was the near-total wrecking of the USA. He torpedoed the authority and legitimacy of just about every federal agency, turned the Department of Justice into a Gestapo, seeded the federal court benches with Woke lunatics, allowed an invasion of perhaps 20-million border-jumpers (including many thousands of professional terrorists), coerced deathvaxx injections of an ineffective and injurious vaccine into millions of citizens - 35 Millions extra people dead! 35 Millions people not conceived, afraid of losing their livelihoods, promoted gross medical experiments on sexually troubled children, invited drag queens and mentally-ill degenerates to cavort in the White House, spent borrowed money at a rate that propelled the national debt past the event horizon into a black hole, by sanctions destroying the trust in the Dollar as the international currency, increased the price of petroleum, created famine by reducing fertiliser by 35% and destroying farming and food manufacturing centers, destroyed the army and made the seeking of incompetence the number one priority of the Pentagon, provoked a war in Ukraine that now teeters on the hazard of Worldwide World War 3 against Russia, China, and Iran, and allowed the CIA to complete its takeover of the US government that has even tried to assassinate Trump and now even Minion Pedo Joe has,"Disappeared" to be replaced by Giant Joe and Idiot Puppet Kamala . “Joe Biden” will go down in history as the worst of all 46 US presidents and for this Blame the Satanic 2000 Trillion Dollar Rothschild Phoenician Mega Trillionaires. https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/throughout-history-seventy-two-empires
Joe Biden didn't do any of that, all he is is a front, a facade, and fall guy to take the blame.
Just as the ridiculous Cackling Cow Kamala is.
Everything you stated above rest on Blinken, Mayorkas, Garland, Cohen, Haines, Yellin and others, who all have one thing in common.
The executive branch learned manners in 1963
Is this to say that is when they were "captured"?
Going by the turmoil inside US, conditions seem ripe for another false flag self-attack...
The Dancing Israelis enter the chat….
Kamala won the debate last night (optically which is all that matters to the dumbed down voter). They are now clear to pull off another stolen election. KH will be our next president. We are well and truly fucked... Chip
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 black pill BS
Either way. Last scenes of the Titanic, Trump and Kamal floating in the Atlantic, hanging on to the last wooden door, made in the USA.
Obama and his inside team have done an outstanding job of destroying America. It's almost as if he won't be satisfied until Kamal completes his 4th turn for him.
No Hope. Nothing's going to change.
Again Obama was just a tool, you folks never seem to grasp who really does the decision making.
We must have been watching a different debate, Trump took on a 3 against one fight and Kamala came across as a lost, out of touch and scared flunky.
One candidate stayed after, the other fled….
I burnt out 3/4 of the way through, which one stayed?
I didn’t watch any of it. Apparently the ORangeMan stayed for an hour of additional banter and Karmella fled the scene….
"fled the scene" Accurate.
Yes it was three against one. Yes Kamala lied all night long. Optically, to the average undecided voter, she tromped Trump. You must be seeing what you want to see not the reality of the actual debate... Chip
Markets, financial system & society are going to collapse regardless which figurehead "wins"/ is selected.
There is likely 1 more money printing cycle left before the collapse hits full force.
Likely sometime in 2025 or 2026 at the latest.
Meanwhile, overheard in a Kyiv bar, Blinken says to Zelensky: “Congratulations, bud! The war is over! We exceeded our goal for creating dead Ukrainians, Russians, and miscellaneous mercenaries; our refugee side gig is booming; and we laundered so much money we’ve run out of soap!”
Zelensky: “But, Ants, don’t walk away now. I’ll look like a loser!”
Blinken: “Dude. You’re worried about your image? Everybody saw you play piano. Stick around and get mopped up . . . er, uh, I mean mop up.”
The ZIOs forced the U$A's hand.
Not the other way around.
Strikes... " within the European part of Russia."
That Europe and Asia are 2 different continents is one of the most absurd constructs still surviving in the post-modern world. Clearly they are as geographically connected as is possible. Are we to accept through some form of pretzel logic, that the Ural Mountains are a formidable barrier, while the Himalayas are not?
Europe was a purely political construct based on a brief period of civilizational supremacy. It's over and Eurasia is one continent.
Good point
misguided endorsement, Simp!
Opport Knocks is correct.
Perhaps it is best to consider Europe a geographical area of Eurasia and that part of Russia lies in that region.
Europe is Asia's wild west. ;O)
@Squeeth
Whenever Eurasia gets stood on end, everything loose rolls to the West coast?
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(My mom used to say that about North America/West coast, perhaps it is a continental constant?)
Gravity? ;O)
People like the West because of the sunset and the afternoon. Maybe it is just that simple.
Europe, the Wild West.
Armed with dangerous platitudes and pronouns, sans guns.
Even Russians talk about the European part of Russia. The English language is limited in this, you have no word for "world regions." Eurasia is a continent, Europe and Asia are two world regions.
In the schools of the USSR, Eurasia was considered one continent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four
Perhaps superficially, just looking at a world map, you could say that Europe is only one of the peninsulas emanating from the larger Eurasian mass, just like Arabia or India.
In all other aspects that define the discipline of Geography, Europe is its own separate thing.
Weather and climate are similar anywhere on the shores of the Mediterranean basin, however once you move past the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range, all the way to the Pacific ocean you'll find different climates than those of Europe.
In terms of ease of movement and bottlenecks, Siberia + Himalayas + the Central Asia (Turkestan) desert are difficult barriers to overcome, unless you are part of a nomadic horse-riding tribe.
Ethnographically speaking, Europe is the Homeland of the White race, enough said. In this regard, you could also include the Mediterranean coast of Asia as basically White, and also the shores of the Caspian sea including the Iranian side. However these regions of Asia have steadily become more Semitic since the Islamic expansion.
Politically: Herodotus in the V century b.C., and probably since even earlier times, defined Europe as the lands North and West of the Mediterranean sea, mainly governed by tribal polities or democracies, popular like Athens or aristocratic like Sparta. Everything to the East and South was subjected to the aptly named "Oriental despotism".
So in summary it is very justified to consider Europe its own continent, separated from Asia. Helps to remind us that an Arab and an Indonesian half the world away have something in common, while a European shares nothing with an Indonesian, and very little with the Arab.
So you agree, Europe is a political construct, based on ethno-cultural identity.
no, the scope of my answer was far wider than that
Seriously? You wrote; "it is very justified to consider Europe its own continent", and all the reasons you provided are political and ethno-cultural.
No, I did not advance only ethnocultural arguments, read better.
Besides, it's easy to look at a map, consider Eurasia as a homogeneous landmass, and feel smarter than the accepted consensus on the topic, handed down tradition since time immemorial, that Europe and Asia are two separate entities.
Also, no one really thinks of the Ural mountains as an "unsurmountable barrier", it's not just you who noticed they are ancient and as such smoothed down mountains. What's really unsurmountable are the Siberian and Turkestani wastelands beyond.
In a nutshell, continents are not just landmasses. The same argument you made about Eurasia, could be made about Australia, and Oceania en large, as really being part of Asia and not their own thing. On a map, honestly they seem to be an offshoot of the Indonesian archipelago. Only 5 continents, and yet other similar examples could be made, of such incongruities.
But you don't really care about that either. You are more interested in scoring the moral points that are bizarrely rewarded, in the current day and age, for putting down Western civilisation and anything connected to it.
We could begin by addressing the psychopathic, proselytizing and crusader tendencies that overshadow Western civ's better attributes.
The 'glass' is a glass; half empty or half full, deal with the 'glass'.
Shitty behaviours do not illuminate the good.
I've wondered about that since I was 11 years old.
You can divide it by culture but not geography.
Ditto for Australasia, then
In reality, flora and fauna set Oceania apart from Indonesia.
The same can be said about Europe and Asia.
In addition to different climates and natural barriers that set Europe and Asia apart, you could also look at geology.
Continent is not synonymous with landmass I am afraid. It's not as easy as just glancing at a map
The side show of war-the deaths, the destruction war requires is ignored. Of most interest is the perfect Friday night Pizza.
@Stegiel
Sportsball(™) season is here, so noticing ground tremors and analyzing the possible progression of events following resumption of smoke rising from the local volcano is on hold. Plate tectonics never buys up blocks of prime time advertisement slots-
Love that you used the term ‘SportsBall’…I do as well….
You mean, "$port$Ball".
As usual, excellent summation of the latest events.
"Happy" 9/11 anniversary.
;-(
Gilbert Doctorow thinks kinetic WW-3 is about to start. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/the-insane-recklessness-of-collective
The joint naval drills don't appear random.
Such drills are planned months in advance and often have little relation to current events.
World Wars are always planned well in advance.
@Archytas
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy"
WWI was more of a pickup game, AFAICT. Those who planned for a nice profitable & much smaller war in Eastern Europe got RATHER more than they had bargained for.
What became the opening of the European hot phase of WWII was planned to go VERY differently, at least by the British Empire, Germany and USSR.
We are likely about to see what happens INSTEAD of the long planned for neoliberal/neocon regime change/degradation of the Russian Federation and "bringing China & Iran to heel", securing the realm for the Indispensable Nation in the New American Century & etc.. See you on the other side. Or not, more likely.
Bismarck said in 1899 when he was simply dismissed, that another 7-year war was planned. He knew what that means.
Planned by King Edward VII, even when dead at the start.
The USA got dragged in on the wrong imperial side, shortened it.
It is abundantly clear that UKraine fully intends NATO to be dragged into a WWIII. It may look like a desperate move, but remember Bismarck. After all Kaiser Wilhelm was King Edward VII's cousin, as was the Czar.
Russia fully remembers this.
@Archytas
Ask any cop, the worst calls are family/domestic violence.
On the long range missile attacks:
'That is the sense of the trip this week by Secretary of State Blinken to Kiev and of the visit to the White House on Friday by British Prime Minister Starmer.'
I gotta wonder why Russia is still letting NATO warmongers into Ukraine knowing how much they are trying to destroy Russia. Just tell them no you can’t go visit your puppet and if you try your train might have an accident. The only reason they are going there is to ramp up more war and attacks against Russian civilians.
So many things just don’t make sense.
The world has entered a period of chaos and conflict that will last 20 to 30 years and if we survive that long it will only end with a Yalta 2.
Did everybody get out of bed on the Black Pill prediction side this morning?
@Carol Jones
I rearranged my bedroom furniture in early 2020, that's the only side I CAN get out on.
AND all the interior decorators are out to lunch!!
Do you mean to suggest that the world has not been in chaos and conflict fo the last generation or two maybe
WWIII is now baked in the cake, and it doesn't really matter who is titular president.
You are the titular tit
Yes, he spoke with Rima on Dialog Works and said the same thing. Martin Armstrong wrote a blog today, remarking that the Netherlands Foreign Minister just told Ukraine that they would allow for their donated weapons to be used to strike Russia, any time, any way, was the nail in the coffin that we are, in fact, going to have WW3.
Interesting.
So they want to turn whatever is left of Ukraine into Hamas?
It’s obviously a different situation altogether and Russia has no interest in Western Ukraine but something to think about how to neutralize it.
Feed it to Poland, duh.
@Andy Dean
Hungary is hungry too.
The idea that Poland would want millions of fractious and well-armed people who are not only by no means Polish, but who have committ4ed genocide against Poles within living memory, beggars the imagination.
Hey, they used to have tram signs "No dogs or Ukrainians allowed" only a hundred years ago. I believe in Polish bydlo-managing experience, after all it was Poles who bred this type of people and even invented the word. They'll do just fine.
Newest Sikorski leak pretty much reinforced my point. There are red lines for Poland beyond which it's going to slap together an expeditionary force and go in, and this line is Odessa. A city Russians view as definitely their own, bound to return home.
Which in turn begs the question whether the Americans will let Poland and its other poodles hang out to dry.
"Muh American Credibility" and all that. Russia was foolish not to have used overwhelming force from the outset.
The first generation of Wehrmacht Banderas didn't succeed with their insurgency - why would anyone with half a brain think this one would do better?
Note the same Western support, post WW2.
Only this time, Russia is relatively far stronger in its world positioning.
Bridge to Crimea will blow any minute now!!!
It's laughable that Zelensky wants to end the war, he's just grifting for more weapons to do terror strikes on Russia. They'll keep dragging it out, but Europeans are going to be footing more of the bill (a feature not a bug since it will be the gateway to install direct EU taxation for Brussels). Talk of "negotiations" is just the sales pitch.
Russia will go Full Grozny if need be. The EU will be too busy repeatedly falling on its own sword to have much to say in it. If the hot war cooks off then all bets are off….and no I am not black pill dooming.
I don't think Putin will initiate nuclear war unless their deterrent is degraded significantly. They're trying to force him to escalate via a Syria scenario to get a no-fly zone imposed. But through the prayers of the Russian saints and martyrs it hasn't been accomplished.
Agreed
Kursk: "...the Ukrainians are in a state of loss, shock, and confusion as they are simply hit from every side—recall the previous video of the ‘road of death’ showing countless destroyed vehicles spanning miles."
How desperate Kiev and NATO must be to think that invading Russia was a winning strategy. They've exposed their soldiers in the Kursk bulge to attack from all sides. This is on ground that Russia knows well and considers sacred, having freed it from Nazi invaders 80 years ago. The Ukrainians will be shown no mercy. The only hope for them is to lay down their arms which I hope they do in great numbers.
These people - "western elites" - are purely short term thinkers and focused on perception. They are greedy and it makes them stupid. The gravity and decisive nature of their military and diplomatic defeat in "ukraine" is just beginning to dawn on them.
Are you sure about that? Seems to me they still don't get the message.
They have no idea what to do. They just flail about hoping some weapon system might be a miracle but none will be. They've left themselves no honorable way out of this defeat.
I'm sure they know, deep down inside, late at night they are shitting their pants.
It's who you know not what you know. They are stupid. I went to one of their elite schools and most are legacy admissions. Dad or grandpa may have earned matriculation, but they are lazy dumb trust fund brats and act like it until they die. Being dumb, they pick the easiest majors and it doesn't matter, the nepotism continues to the tippy top of our institutions and corporate America.
edit:: This power elite phenomena was better described in C. Wright Mills book
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195133544?tag=bravesoftwa04-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US
I'm a 66 year old American who worked in government for 40 years. I know....
It's all trash now, huh? Would it take a complete change in our country such as war, here, or a massive natural disaster to change our government?
Mostly.... yeah. I think a true depression would spur serious changes.
So Putin has been getting frustrated by Lula and Modi's constant pleas for Russia to settle the conflict in Ukraine just when Russia has the upper hand. Putin should set them on a three-way call. Here's how that chat might go:
Putin-"Now, what we have here gentlemen is a failure to communicate. Do you think I'm going to call for peace when I've got the Americans and NATO by the balls and I'm just about to squish those balls tin shingle thick? You've both been taking it up the ass by the Americans for so long you can't even sit straight and I'm starting to think you might like it that way".
Lulubell-" But Vlad..."
Putin- "Shush, there are no Buts in yes, lulubell". "Relax, I was just kidding about the you guys liking it part. (Smiles and chuckles)
Lulu- "Yes, Vlad"
Putin "Very good, Lulu". "Now what I need the both of you to do is just shut the fuck up and stop busting my balls when I'm about to bust someone else's. And stop trying to play both sides like you're some kind of trans phonys. Russia has the upper hand now from which you fellow BRICK stakeholders will benefit greatly. So stop bugging me. See you at the BRICK meeting next month and we'll talk more. Good evening my good friends. (shakes his head)
Fortunately Kursk is there and the perfect excuse for Putin to continue the work of THD.
Also, Ukraine refused to settle with Russia when it was offered so it gives Putin the perfect leverage to continue the SMO on his measured and regulated terms.
Also the fact that Ukraine flat out broke the agreement they made on 2022 means Russia no longer needs to consider their words as being worth anything.
True, the Ukrainians are formidable cultural warriors. On all levels except physical they have already driven the Russians out.
At least on the surface.
On the spiritual on the mental on the social on the emotional on the addiction on the philosophical on the animal loving and caring, on the gender friendly non bipolar on the baby smuggling and organ sales on the book burning on the GMO and Pesticides on the invading US website levels
Good thing the USA has Germany’s back…..oh wait (NS2 enters the chat)
Can you imagine Stalin or Molotov saying "while the German Fascist is on our territory we cannot negotiate"? I cannot. The only "negotiations" that should be happening is accepting Ukraine's unconditional surrender, nothing more.
@TMTO
Please define "THD"? Means Total Harmonic Distortion to me, a measure of power supply efficiency.
Total Hohol Death, i.e. complete demilitarization of Ukraine. Since all the survivors will hate Russia to their last breath there is no option but to tear them out by the roots.
I think Mercouris is off base here. Putin is both extremely patient and extremely professional. Anyone with a modicum of analysis understands the pressures and influences that Modi and Lula are under - certainly Putin would. Russia will talk to their partners and give them the opportunity to fandance with the West, but will equally not allow Russian interests to be damaged in the process.
For that matter, I don't share Mercouris' (and others) view that the CIA helped Lula win his election; Mercouris has either forgotten, or never knew, the role the CIA may have had in booting his party out of power in Brazil to start with.
by this time its clear Lula is a shameless ridiculous yank shill
He doesn't have a choice.
There is always a choice.
Like "your money or your life!" isn't really robbery because the victim had a choice.
Maybe this is just theater on the part of Lulu and Modi. A diplomatic feint to show the Americans, "hey! we tried.." But since you folks are losing at present and had no sincere desires in the past for a negotiated peace..well...long story short: eat shit and die, fools.
Lula, in particular, has become aware that he retains his office and his freedom only at American sufferance.
India is a more complicated and multidimensional situation, but don't think that the color revolution in Bangladesh has goen unnoticed.
Nahhh, Putin is not bothered by Lula and Modi's constant please, for him they are just background noise produced by people who have no clue.
Comedy Gold. Funny because it’s true. I hope you dont mind but I quoted you on that…..