The talk of the blogosphere is the new devastating TIME magazine profile on Zelensky which paints the most grim, 1945 Führerbunker portrait of Zelensky yet. Bernhard covers it well on MoA, but I’m going to retread some of the same points to take the analysis into a slightly different direction of anticipating what comes next vis a vis the current political turmoil in the U.S.
Yes, he is no leader or military mastermind. He does have an adoring fan base in the west. I can imagine the adolotry he recieved from our own "moral, just and expert class", bestowed on him.
Martin Armstrong just had this to say in his latest blog update. IMO, no one has more credibility than him in commenting on Russian stuff since he was thrown into jail for not complying with the Neocons agenda back then:
The two most unreliable news propaganda outlets are the Ukrainian Intelligence and the Institute for the Study of War. Whatever they say, the truth lies typically in the opposite direction. The account of Telegram that started the FAKE NEWS that Putin had died traces back to Ukraine. I cannot stress enough that if Putin dies, we are in for a serious crisis. All the people who will move to become President are former Communists and, thus, hardliners. They will be as bad as our Neocons led by their queen - Victoria Nuland. Yeltsin turned to Putin in 1999 BECAUSE he was not a Communist whom the people would NEVER accept, nor was he an oligarch. That is why he had an approval rating of greater than 75%
It was the American Neocons who were trying to seize the Russian government stuffing in Berosnofsky as president in 2000. They wanted to get me to invest $10 billion into Hermitage Capital Management, and when I refused, Berisnofsky even called me personally. The American Neocons were beside themselves for that plot failed. Ever since they spun nothing but propaganda against Putin when he was moderate, they did not want peace with Russia. They even tried to get Gorbachev to join NATO. That resulted in the coup against Gorbachev when Yeltsin stood on the tank and pleaded with the Russian soldiers not to fire on the people. When they did not, the coup collapsed.
My deepest concern is that the hardliners have told him to wake up. This is not a war against Ukraine but against the US and NATO. Putin does not want World War III. He has offered peace deals numerous times to Zelensky. Still, he is a monkey on a leash, dancing in his high heels. He does what Blinkin and Nuland tell him with the promise he gets a free plane to Miami as his reward for destroying Ukraine and sacrificing more than 500,000 Ukrainians for what - territory occupied by Russians for hundreds of years?
Now, the Neocons are doing the same to the Israeli people. They are eager to see as many people killed in hopes of forcing Putin to come into the Middle East. Even Hillary Clinton, another Neocon, has even said that their scheme to defeat Russia is by attrition. So they are sacrificing everyone else to weaken Russia, and NATO will stroll into Moscow in 2025 for the kill.
Both the fake news outlets of the ISW and Ukrainian Intelligence cannot possibly think that the war would end if Putin were dead. The real agenda here is the hope to create a Russian civil war, but they fail to comprehend what if the hardliners tear the country apart thanks to the constant hatred of Russians being promoted in the West by both fake news outlets backfires. What they are NOT taking into account is that this hatred of Russians that they have created in the West is turning the Russian people in the direction of the hardliners.
The Neocons have not won a single war, starting with Vietnam. They were probably behind the assassination of Kennedy because he was anti-war, just as they are against RFK and Donald Trump.
The West will lose this one, and the Neocons are creating World War III far beyond what they ever imagined.
Germany invaded Russia while The Czar was still holding the throne. Germany was financing your Bolshrvik friends rebellion to distract Russia's war effort.
capult yup. Including Canada not just the US. Just look at Alberta/SK and compared to BC and Manitoba/Ontario. Secession will be the trend next 10 years. California and Florida are heading in opposite directions. In the end, ppl live their lives no matter how border changes among nations.
Look at the leadership across the collective west; it's a motley collection of morons, idiots, and zombies. It's a system where a cypher is put into power whose role is to read from the script provided by men in black suits. And each time there's failure it's a repeat performance until the various ships of state disintegrate which is what is happening in the USA. Ze will be lucky to enjoy retirement anywhere - it's written in the stars.
I actually believe the Bandera Capo Zelenski will run to China. Putin can't really protect him for domestic policy reasons I believe. Then the Bandera Capo can sing like a Bandera canary.
Could be wrong. He really might be stupid enough to believe he can survive in London or Miami. After all, we are his "allies". Of course, the führer bunker option is possible.
It's something for the betting shop. War crimes tribunals- scratch Moscow. Turkey? Fifty-fifty the Sultan can swing any which way, so not safe. China; he could try getting out in a double bass case. Xi doesn't have any favours with or from Biden crime family.
The Institution of the study of war , and Mr Kirby the spokesperson will announce that the Ukrainians approaching Moscow . Because the Russians can't win . Anyone say otherwise is a Putin stooge.
Zelensky time is running out, ceasefire or not, and any negotiation whatsoever will not change... will not change Russia's ultimate objective on this SMO laid out since day one. The logical thing he can do now is simply surrender to Russian side, quietly behind the stage begged Putin for any kind of mercy, then face tribunal trial on the court, but that.... if, only if the ultranationalist does not kill him first.
Ze's praetorian guard probably have something else in mind. Blofeld would press a button to deal with failure by subordinates, maybe Klaus and co have something similar.
Commander Z is in over his head on his comedy routine and needs a hook off-stage and a negotiated settlement, including a tribunal. Oddly enough, the same for Gaza. Talk about Hamas - "terrible." Talk about Gaza and it is the new Holy Land. I want to visit Palestine in Jerusalem along with Christians, Buddhists and Hindus and Muslims and all humanity. Apartheid? Jerusalem is all of ours, including mine (I'm Irish). Netanyahu and British imperialism and genocides must go. Pray for peace and suddenly Bernie comes out, not perfectly, but as someone who is concerned for humanity's sake. To hell with Tulsi - she seems to think Muslims are evil and Democracy as in Israel (???) good. Good luck flame out. You could have made it in Maui, but now you are done. Trump doesn't look so good either, but Alex turned against him months ago, and if he is the Caucasian savior of Israel, let him go to jail.
Yeah the Gaza conflict has really exposed the puppets, the fools and bought and paid for Israel-shills, some which even i thought were good guys before, but suddenly they are demanding civilians to be massacred...
Well, like the coof/vax mania exposed a lot of people to be total idiots without the ability to think or being in the pharma's pocket, same seems to happen now with Gaza - the bribed ones and the halfwits are brought to public light.
Yeah, and to think all the Ukraine shit in the west was bad, then Gaza. Fuck, the mask has come right off. Makes me think of all the colonialst propganda stuff of the 19t century. Outright pro genocide-in public-no apologies, no fucks given. Still I'm disappointed with Hamas, MSM reports only 320 Israeli soldiers killed to date-where are the fuck'n suicide bombers for christs sake? Should be comming outa the ground like angry ants!!
I have a feeling we are not getting the whole truth. Hamas reports lots of equipment burned and many more IDF personnel than the media lets on. I don't know if anyone is telling the truth. We probably won't find out until 20 years after the last nuke has been launched.
Who in MSM are going to tell you unpalatable truths about Israeli body counts if Hamas WAS able to inflict casualties?
Also: You really want to see suicide bombing? Because you're not being ENTERTAINED? This isn't an "American Gladiators" game, those are real people on both sides.
This propaganda phenomenon has been on full display for some time in the West. The same folk who religiously watch sporting heroes, know with absolute certainty, the omnipotent mastery of NATO military men and equipment, how can you not root for such winners?
Then of course, when our boys come home, they cannot tell of their exploits, how dare you even ask? But kill themselves with drug OD? Yeah they got that down.
This is our just reward for ignoring 9/11! We rewarded that debacle with even more funding for the political imbeciles. Now, backed into a corner, they can go on and on about what a great investment it is trying to destroy Russia, and how if all goes right, we will ascend into the heavens rapturously! Is that the same as being vaporized in a nuclear blast?
Dang my portfolio never included regular contributions to an evangelical organization. Is it too late to buy my way into heaven like Gates, heard he bought God as a consultant.
I'll go along with that. We ignored clear demonstrations of total refusal by government to find and furnish truth. And we've continued to tolerate that ever since. Tolerate is the wrong word. We don't perceive and tolerate. We just remain dumbly, willfully ignorance, unknowing,uncaring. Pass the sauce...
I'm not sure how reliable Simon Shuster's testimony is, although I imagine he is gobsmacked by the amount of attention his article has attracted; some sources reported it infuriated the Zelensky regime, especially Podolyak: here's a translation from Russian at KP.RU -
<i>"Don’t forget that this is the subjective point of view of a particular journalist who has his own vision of what is going on. Secondly, I don’t understand who all these anonymous sources are whom they refer to all the time, because when I talk to someone on behalf of the Office of the President, I make sure to say who is speaking”, said “garbage mouth” Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of the Ukraine”, trying to disavow the bomb effect. “In some places, these anonymous sources are people who do not have access to certain information, but they are somewhere nearby, and they want to increase their sense of importance and pass off their visions as axiomatic knowledge.”
Podolyak considered it necessary to refute the “fiction” of the author and his source and that there was some kind of irritation on Bankova caused by it or that they considered their partners to be traitors. And then he refuted himself, saying that Kiev “always voices its claims publicly”. So, are there any complaints? Yes. And if they exist, then irritation must definitely be present.
“Today, after 600 days, we can see that there are many other points that global politicians are paying attention to. And this cannot but cause certain negative reactions. But again, this is an objective process: one simply needs to work with it. And therefore, to say that the president is furious — yes, the president wants more effective communications, more effective performance of functional duties, a clearer understanding of what strategy we have and how it is being implemented”, Podolyak said as he tried to get out of the trap into which he had driven himself. “At least to realise the declared intentions at least by 70-80%. Therefore, there is certainly a certain psychological fatigue. Not for the president, I mean. But in general, if we are talking about the circumstances of what is happening in the Ukraine today."</i>
Anyway, I somewhat agree with Podolyak that this is Shuster's opinion, and I think we have learned to take unattributed quotes with a grain of salt over the last few years, since you can make up anything and say it came from 'an official close to the situation, who cannot be identified because he is not authorized to comment'. Still, a thread of disquiet and the possibility that at least some of it might be true is provided here, reflecting that only a year ago, Ukraine bestowed the Order of Merit on...Simon Shuster, presumably because it liked what he said back then.
Whatever the case, a wave of bandwagon-jumping seems to be ensuing, and suddenly nobody thinks any more that Ukraine can win - consider this piece for The New Statesman, by John Gray:
<i>“War in the Middle East will accelerate American disengagement from Europe. The question is no longer whether America’s support for Ukraine will be wound down but when and by how much. Fatigue with the war and frustration with Europe are bipartisan moods in Washington. If Donald Trump would aim to negotiate a partition of the country, a Democratic administration in 2025 might emulate Biden in Afghanistan and essentially cut Ukraine adrift. Either way the consequences would be profound.
The continent of Europe is more dependent on the American security guarantee than it has been since the most perilous moments in the Cold War. With its main proponent, Emmanuel Macron, mired in domestic troubles in France, strategic autonomy – Europe taking over responsibility for its own defence – is more remote than ever. Though the Baltic nations, Sweden and Poland are arming themselves against Russia, Germany and France are leaning towards détente. Having haunted Euro-federalists and Brexiters alike for decades, the phantasm of a European state has evaporated. Europe is (to echo Bismarck in 1872) “a geographical expression”, not a geopolitical actor. Soft power has proved to be a euphemism for impotence. In a scenario unimaginable only months ago, the continent could soon become a Balkanised peninsula on the edges of an intact Russian empire.”</i>
Great title, since 'unraveling' sums up succinctly the way it is going - as someone (Hemingway, maybe) said once, gradually at first, then suddenly. The more pressure it's under, the louder it snaps when it breaks.
Incidentally, I read that the 'repositioning' of Russian forces from around Kiev was in fact a good-faith pullback immediately after Zelensky's representative signed the peace deal in Istanbul, from which Ukraine subsequently withdrew at BoJo's urging. I found that explanation to be quite credible.
"In a scenario unimaginable only months ago, the continent could soon become a Balkanized peninsula on the edges of an intact Russian empire.” John Grey.
I can imagine Putin and Medvedev after reading this spontaneously high fiving each other.
It might look like a bandwagon effect, but in fact these changes in direction of the opinion makers are all coordinated from above. Time won the lottery this round to start the snowball rolling.
The US PTB are simply changing horses in midstream to grab at the opportunity to look (so they think) like winners in the ME, no matter how many Palestinian children are purposely killed and wounded. It will all have been "worth it" as Madeline A. would say if the bitch was still kicking.
The massive show of force and use of it without NATO constraints, should that come to pass, is a last gasp of the Empire, though surely not the last gasp.
Long before the SMO, there was Obama’s observation that one must always respect Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up. The Ukrainian war, his top foreign policy priority and one to which he has devoted a great deal of his credibility (including multiple state visits to the penis puppet) is turning out to be a disaster, and one that was widely predicted and warned against at the time.
Given that Putin froze the conflict while he was ahead in both Minsk I and II, it will be interesting to see what Russia is willing to accept for peace. While I would like to see them capture Kiev and Odessa, that might cost 100,000 men and destroy two more historical Russian cities. I have a feeling that the sign of victory will be Zelensky being shot by one of his own generals.
I read the US has been trying to get a dialogue going with Russia, something along the lines of, So let's stop fighting so we can say we won. Russia has not replied to date. Russia realizes it is dealing with sociopathic loons, and that the likelihood of a US 2024 election bringing back Trump given the way things are going is negligible.
So rather than advancing on Kiev, I think Russia will wait for Zelensky to be toppled, probably will be allowed to go to Miami, and for the rest of his probably short life will be living one step ahead of the Azov team.
Russia will take Odessa though, that massacre at the union hall demands it. And once the new guy sues for peace, he will take whatever terms Russia decides to dish out.
I believe Russia will run elections that it will supervise. Will have an international team work with the new govt to write a new Constitution with permanent neutrality and no military. Will demand that all farmland sold off to non Ukrainian entities by Z's govt be seized and repatriated to Ukraine. Will declare all debt owed to the West null and void. Most importantly Russia will refuse to allow the Black Rock/Clinton Foundation to set foot nor "invest" one dime in Ukraine. All this is just for starters.
Remember the Russian military recruitment videos? Russia is going to move its military into much of Ukraine as citizens. Ukraine once again will be part of Russia. New game, new rules.
Hey, once I become a "benevolent" dictator, and then decide to flee, Paris would certainly be an option. :)
His wife has two luxury condos in Paris, he and his parents have homes in Israel, he has the place/palace in Miami. I think he may have a spot in England as well. The dictator role certainly pays well, especially when you are in charge of the books!
Well, the basic principles you proposed are good ones. Unfortunately, the west will never allow a surrender under those terms so long as it retains control over Ukraine's actions. I am waiting for Washington to 'discover' something about Zelensky so cataclysmic, such a tremendous betrayal of all that makes the west good and honest that in decency it cannot continue to support him, and does not even want to enter into the negotiations; go ahead, Putin, take your rotten prize. Together with decent Ukrainians, we might have made something of it, but this is just too much. We didn't lose, let's make that abundantly clear - we merely exited when we learned further support would be detrimental to our values.
This would have the coincident bonus of removing implied obligation for the west to assist with rebuilding Ukraine after all it did to wreck it, instead dumping the whole mess in Russia's lap. I like it; it's got a good beat and you can dance to it - what do you think?
If you look at US prior military engagements, they look like the actions of a child kicking over a Lego structure. Pieces fly everywhere, nothing appears on the surface to make sense. But that is never the case. In all cases the US is taking out key pieces of a puzzle, preventing other nations from either uniting, profiting, prospering.
Take Afghanistan, that war which made absolutely no sense was to be a thorn in Russia's side, to control the world supply of heroin (the Taliban had shut it down), to run heroin into Russia, they even built a bridge so traffickers' could more easily enter Russia's regions. Then there is the usual MIC profit motive.
Ever wonder why we left? My guess was for several reasons, fentanyl traffic into the US was replacing heroin and they felt Afghanistan heroin was no longer relevant. Russian relations with Afghanistan were improving, and they MIC had other fish to fry upcoming in Ukraine, Armenia.
You recall the tons of weaponry left behind, that was part of the withdrawal deal. In exchange those weapons were sold by the Taliban to Ukraine, any number of the Baltic countries, the Stans. Remember that odd trade of the trans basketball player for the World's Most Successful Arms dealer? What was that about?? My guess it was to put him in place to broker the Afghanistan weapons sales and to make sure the US MIC got its cut.
Also, have you noticed that the Taliban are attacking Pakistan's borders, why? My guess is this too is part of the weapons deal. The same multifaceted agenda are visible in the attacks on Syria, on Libya, on Yemen, Somalia, etc. Keep in mind, the people in the DS are insane, they are not stupid.
Back to Ukraine, my guess is the US will allow a successor to Z to happen in the upcoming "elections." That guy will cut a deal with Putin, and the US will have nothing to say on the terms. The entire war, the entire nation will drop from all media. Now BlackRock, the Clinton Foundation have put together a massive commitment of cash from the US, World Bank, IMF, Eu to "rebuild" Ukraine. See Haiti for details.
I don't see Russia letting them in, would you?? Those people would savage Ukraine beyond imagining and if Ukraine was bad before it would become a very Hell on earth. NO way Russia will let that exist next store. Besides, Russia has a million man army it needs to reward, my dear soldiers, thank you, how about a nice farm located on the world's most valuable soil? Or a seaside condo on the beautiful Black Sea? Russia has plans, big plans, and if I can see it, they are far, far ahead of me :)
We can ask Putin for some hint how to lead , can't be that hard Europe is full with dumb leaders . We can outsmart them easily . Forget about Z he just steal all of our money , and send us up against a brick wall head on to see if we can win or not . We just give him a fake invitation to Izrael and get rid of him . Don't worry I be your body guard.
I'm still wondering what the surrender of Ukraine will look like. They should have and would have surrendered 30 days after the SMO began, but the West did not allow them to surrender. Zaluhzny is one option to overthrow Zelensky. The SBU is the other option, but they are stacked with MI6 and CIA. Zelensky is in the way and needs to be removed by someone.
I read that Russia's generals, top military, went to military colleges, training programs, with the Ukraine military. There are years long relationships that are probably being used to structure a transition. How smooth it will be given the Azov, CIA, MI6 and the probably present Mossad contingents, is anyone's guess.
Not only would they have surrendered, Zelensky's representative actually signed the draft agreement in Istanbul - but Boris Johnson persuaded Zelensky to renege on it.
Mint is typically not a very strong source, but western media networks refuse to even discuss it. Hey, speaking of Istanbul, this could be the thin edge of the wedge that intrudes between reality and fantasy - Turkey hosts a delegation from Crimea on the fairly-mundane ceremony of twinning Turkish and Crimean cities. But Turkey is a member of NATO. Ukraine demands an explanation.
The thing you have to understand is that typically as conflicts reach their terminal stage, insiders begin to scramble to make deals with the invading force to "save their hide". That means as Ukraine reaches a final stage, there's potential for many of the top generals to make secret/underhanded "amnesty deals" with Russia, while taking all the troops under their command "with them". That's the way I personally see the conflict ending. Some major general(s) surrendering with all his men, and turning against Zelensky, etc., after seeing the writing on the wall. Russian intelligence services will always be actively reaching out to such people in advance knowing they're "ripe" for the coup de grace when the time is right.
The deals will be made for amnesty for anyone who lays down their arms, etc., (as long as they're not Nazi/Azov/extremist members) and that will ultimately collapse the regime when it's on its last foot.
Agreements of this kind are, unfortunately, only sweet dreams of past wars. Now the reality is this: the fighters of the Slavyanka brigade were VERY surprised when they recently began to find AFU fighters locked in dugouts and not returning fire in defense. Until then, the Ukrosoldiers had fought to the last man.
Exactly what I thought, might as well writing article about some sort of behind the stage operation / deal below the table. It always makes interesting story, espionage stuff, old tricks from old playbook.
"As we rode back to the Joint General Staff headquarters, Diệm sat silently, but Nhu and the captain [Nhung] began to insult each other. I don't know who started it. The name-calling grew passionate. The captain had hated Nhu before. Now he was charged with emotion."[24] Nghĩa said that when the convoy reached a train crossing, "[Nhung] lunged at Nhu with a bayonet and stabbed him again and again, maybe fifteen or twenty times. Still in a rage, he turned to Diệm, took out his revolver and shot him in the head. Then he looked back at Nhu, who was lying on the floor, twitching. He put a bullet into his head too. Neither Diệm nor Nhu ever defended themselves. Their hands were tied."
The fall of Ukraine is coming. I am reminded of the scene in Lord of the Rings where, within the Mines of Morea, Gandalf reads the record of the dwarves' last battle from the Book of Mazarbul. "They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes...drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming." May they rest in peace.
I'm thrilled that the Senate and the House are at odds on the military aid. How about zero dollars for foreign countries until we get this country back on track? And then, how about staying out of everyone's business in the future, and minding our own?
Never will pay the national debt to 0… it will always struggle to pay the interest only to continue to service the debt… but I certainly appreciate your sentiment. And a healthy focus on home and hearth and respect for other nations/cultures would be great!
actually, actors are the ideal puppets to achieve their hidden puppeteers (banksters) goals. Politicians are actors too but for mass media purposes, a professional actor permits more complex operations. Reagan was an actor too and people like Sean Pean, Morgan Freeman or Angelina Jolie are being used by the deep state in a similar and very effective way. The pandemic scam needed thousands of actors for instance, not politicians. We are in a new age of mind control.
Reagan was also the successful two time Governor of California, the then US' most populous and economically important state, before he became President. Harping on the fact that earlier in his life he was an actor betrays shallow thinking.
Ronald Reagan was good looking in his Hollywood youth, could read a script well, was an apparently affable & sociable yet ultimately small minded and mean spirited man (No surprise there, most Californians are pretty godamn lacking in any meaningful empathy towards their fellow men). Reagan was an ideal front man first for the local chamber of commerce, then for the PNAC/CIA nexus.
Reagan was as much an actor playing a part as Zelensky is and the equal of Z in self directed & visionary leadership too.
Sorry if you bought into the Reagan as great leader propaganda. If you think that who is Governor makes or breaks a state? Hell, we had JESSE THE BODY VENTURA for governor and the state still did reasonably well.
I said THE STATE did reasonably well (much as California did during Reagan's two runs of performing his part in the "Governor of California show").
Jesse Ventura is primarily remembered for installing a very large, round, rotating zebra skin print waterbed in the governor's residence. Yet despite Jesse's term in office, the MN state government did not crumble nor did the economy cease to grow. And OUR governor could have beat up YOUR governor with one hand tied behind his back, bee-yotch.
Note both articles reference "intelligence agents/experts" a la Russiagate, Hunter Biden laptop etc. saying the bedbug stories (since 2014!) are Russian misinformation.
Next: the latest EU sanctions package against Russia
Simpliticus, the Great, writes another MOAB's (mother of all bombs) article. From it, one concludes that the writing is on the wall. Zelensly, the penis pianist, has keyed his final notes from which he is about to become transed dickless and an irrelevance to anything political for good. The final joke will be upon himself never to set foot on Ukrainian soil again. And, wherever he goes, he will never be safe. Soon, the only name he will see on his hit list will be his own. Adieux, Zel.
Early on in this tragedy, Putin arranged for Zelensky's life to be saved. Likely more because "never interfere with your opponent while they are fucking up" than out of compassion, it is true.
What would one expect, Zelensky is literally nothing more than a halfwit entertainer. He's no leader or military mastermind.
Like Biden, he's not even a good puppet.
Indeed, a ludicrous clown show in both countries.
well that all looks like it is going to be an interesting read...
But how many leaders can play the piano with their d*ck? He's unique...
I seriously doubt any khokhols are boasting about that!
Khokhols....Fnar!
It was all fake of course.
Yes, he is no leader or military mastermind. He does have an adoring fan base in the west. I can imagine the adolotry he recieved from our own "moral, just and expert class", bestowed on him.
Martin Armstrong just had this to say in his latest blog update. IMO, no one has more credibility than him in commenting on Russian stuff since he was thrown into jail for not complying with the Neocons agenda back then:
The two most unreliable news propaganda outlets are the Ukrainian Intelligence and the Institute for the Study of War. Whatever they say, the truth lies typically in the opposite direction. The account of Telegram that started the FAKE NEWS that Putin had died traces back to Ukraine. I cannot stress enough that if Putin dies, we are in for a serious crisis. All the people who will move to become President are former Communists and, thus, hardliners. They will be as bad as our Neocons led by their queen - Victoria Nuland. Yeltsin turned to Putin in 1999 BECAUSE he was not a Communist whom the people would NEVER accept, nor was he an oligarch. That is why he had an approval rating of greater than 75%
It was the American Neocons who were trying to seize the Russian government stuffing in Berosnofsky as president in 2000. They wanted to get me to invest $10 billion into Hermitage Capital Management, and when I refused, Berisnofsky even called me personally. The American Neocons were beside themselves for that plot failed. Ever since they spun nothing but propaganda against Putin when he was moderate, they did not want peace with Russia. They even tried to get Gorbachev to join NATO. That resulted in the coup against Gorbachev when Yeltsin stood on the tank and pleaded with the Russian soldiers not to fire on the people. When they did not, the coup collapsed.
My deepest concern is that the hardliners have told him to wake up. This is not a war against Ukraine but against the US and NATO. Putin does not want World War III. He has offered peace deals numerous times to Zelensky. Still, he is a monkey on a leash, dancing in his high heels. He does what Blinkin and Nuland tell him with the promise he gets a free plane to Miami as his reward for destroying Ukraine and sacrificing more than 500,000 Ukrainians for what - territory occupied by Russians for hundreds of years?
Now, the Neocons are doing the same to the Israeli people. They are eager to see as many people killed in hopes of forcing Putin to come into the Middle East. Even Hillary Clinton, another Neocon, has even said that their scheme to defeat Russia is by attrition. So they are sacrificing everyone else to weaken Russia, and NATO will stroll into Moscow in 2025 for the kill.
Both the fake news outlets of the ISW and Ukrainian Intelligence cannot possibly think that the war would end if Putin were dead. The real agenda here is the hope to create a Russian civil war, but they fail to comprehend what if the hardliners tear the country apart thanks to the constant hatred of Russians being promoted in the West by both fake news outlets backfires. What they are NOT taking into account is that this hatred of Russians that they have created in the West is turning the Russian people in the direction of the hardliners.
The Neocons have not won a single war, starting with Vietnam. They were probably behind the assassination of Kennedy because he was anti-war, just as they are against RFK and Donald Trump.
The West will lose this one, and the Neocons are creating World War III far beyond what they ever imagined.
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Isn't frisan close to old english?
Germany invaded Russia while The Czar was still holding the throne. Germany was financing your Bolshrvik friends rebellion to distract Russia's war effort.
History and stuff.
And Martin Armstrong's Socrates has the USA caput by 2030.
capult yup. Including Canada not just the US. Just look at Alberta/SK and compared to BC and Manitoba/Ontario. Secession will be the trend next 10 years. California and Florida are heading in opposite directions. In the end, ppl live their lives no matter how border changes among nations.
Fragmentation of states in Europe is also likely given the oligarchy's intransigence and misuse of multiculturalism.
Look at the leadership across the collective west; it's a motley collection of morons, idiots, and zombies. It's a system where a cypher is put into power whose role is to read from the script provided by men in black suits. And each time there's failure it's a repeat performance until the various ships of state disintegrate which is what is happening in the USA. Ze will be lucky to enjoy retirement anywhere - it's written in the stars.
Well stated.
I do believe the Bandera capo Zelenski will run to Russia via China or Turkey. His other choice will be getting Epsteined.
Now that's an interesting idea, and then he can start singing about the Biden crime family's money laundry in Ukraine.
I actually believe the Bandera Capo Zelenski will run to China. Putin can't really protect him for domestic policy reasons I believe. Then the Bandera Capo can sing like a Bandera canary.
Could be wrong. He really might be stupid enough to believe he can survive in London or Miami. After all, we are his "allies". Of course, the führer bunker option is possible.
It's something for the betting shop. War crimes tribunals- scratch Moscow. Turkey? Fifty-fifty the Sultan can swing any which way, so not safe. China; he could try getting out in a double bass case. Xi doesn't have any favours with or from Biden crime family.
China can just load Zelenski on a plane and fly him out. Will be the only flight into Ukraine that Russia will authorize.
What is everyone's guess on when the white flags come out on the field?
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The Institution of the study of war , and Mr Kirby the spokesperson will announce that the Ukrainians approaching Moscow . Because the Russians can't win . Anyone say otherwise is a Putin stooge.
ISW has gotten pretty tedious.
Zelensky time is running out, ceasefire or not, and any negotiation whatsoever will not change... will not change Russia's ultimate objective on this SMO laid out since day one. The logical thing he can do now is simply surrender to Russian side, quietly behind the stage begged Putin for any kind of mercy, then face tribunal trial on the court, but that.... if, only if the ultranationalist does not kill him first.
-Reserve for further post-
Ze's praetorian guard probably have something else in mind. Blofeld would press a button to deal with failure by subordinates, maybe Klaus and co have something similar.
really really looking forward to the collapse. Hope it really hurts Nato. Thanks for the post.
NATO exists in name only now. Even the paper tiger it once was has been blown away in the wind.
Commander Z is in over his head on his comedy routine and needs a hook off-stage and a negotiated settlement, including a tribunal. Oddly enough, the same for Gaza. Talk about Hamas - "terrible." Talk about Gaza and it is the new Holy Land. I want to visit Palestine in Jerusalem along with Christians, Buddhists and Hindus and Muslims and all humanity. Apartheid? Jerusalem is all of ours, including mine (I'm Irish). Netanyahu and British imperialism and genocides must go. Pray for peace and suddenly Bernie comes out, not perfectly, but as someone who is concerned for humanity's sake. To hell with Tulsi - she seems to think Muslims are evil and Democracy as in Israel (???) good. Good luck flame out. You could have made it in Maui, but now you are done. Trump doesn't look so good either, but Alex turned against him months ago, and if he is the Caucasian savior of Israel, let him go to jail.
Yeah the Gaza conflict has really exposed the puppets, the fools and bought and paid for Israel-shills, some which even i thought were good guys before, but suddenly they are demanding civilians to be massacred...
Well, like the coof/vax mania exposed a lot of people to be total idiots without the ability to think or being in the pharma's pocket, same seems to happen now with Gaza - the bribed ones and the halfwits are brought to public light.
Yeah, and to think all the Ukraine shit in the west was bad, then Gaza. Fuck, the mask has come right off. Makes me think of all the colonialst propganda stuff of the 19t century. Outright pro genocide-in public-no apologies, no fucks given. Still I'm disappointed with Hamas, MSM reports only 320 Israeli soldiers killed to date-where are the fuck'n suicide bombers for christs sake? Should be comming outa the ground like angry ants!!
I have a feeling we are not getting the whole truth. Hamas reports lots of equipment burned and many more IDF personnel than the media lets on. I don't know if anyone is telling the truth. We probably won't find out until 20 years after the last nuke has been launched.
Precision is hard, but broad outlines are possible.
I'd love a link if you have one. Rumble has a vid of Hamas drop'n a grenade on a bunch of Zionist troopers from a drone. https://rumble.com/v3t3zj1--israel-war-hamas-drone-strike-on-idf-forces-in-gaza-rcf.html
Also a few choice comments on the situation here: https://thedreizinreport.com/
@BillyBunt
Who in MSM are going to tell you unpalatable truths about Israeli body counts if Hamas WAS able to inflict casualties?
Also: You really want to see suicide bombing? Because you're not being ENTERTAINED? This isn't an "American Gladiators" game, those are real people on both sides.
The wrong side won WW2? Wtf?
I don't think christianity is a death cult. didn't it change the abrahamic core in that respect?
This propaganda phenomenon has been on full display for some time in the West. The same folk who religiously watch sporting heroes, know with absolute certainty, the omnipotent mastery of NATO military men and equipment, how can you not root for such winners?
Then of course, when our boys come home, they cannot tell of their exploits, how dare you even ask? But kill themselves with drug OD? Yeah they got that down.
This is our just reward for ignoring 9/11! We rewarded that debacle with even more funding for the political imbeciles. Now, backed into a corner, they can go on and on about what a great investment it is trying to destroy Russia, and how if all goes right, we will ascend into the heavens rapturously! Is that the same as being vaporized in a nuclear blast?
Dang my portfolio never included regular contributions to an evangelical organization. Is it too late to buy my way into heaven like Gates, heard he bought God as a consultant.
I'll go along with that. We ignored clear demonstrations of total refusal by government to find and furnish truth. And we've continued to tolerate that ever since. Tolerate is the wrong word. We don't perceive and tolerate. We just remain dumbly, willfully ignorance, unknowing,uncaring. Pass the sauce...
I see my enemy/ies as being my/our apathy. We have a system of democracy: govt. by the people for the people.
But we/I don't bother participating.
Der Untergang vibe all over again.
Anxiously awaiting the AI Lancet swarms!
Maybe they could equip a swarm with lights and create messages over the sky in Kiev, such as, ...
Zelensky should get Calibrated, but that's too simple, he should be hunted down like Saddam.
@Scott
"Surrender Dorothy"?
No Kill I
Hortas. What Hamas needs right now.
I'm not sure how reliable Simon Shuster's testimony is, although I imagine he is gobsmacked by the amount of attention his article has attracted; some sources reported it infuriated the Zelensky regime, especially Podolyak: here's a translation from Russian at KP.RU -
<i>"Don’t forget that this is the subjective point of view of a particular journalist who has his own vision of what is going on. Secondly, I don’t understand who all these anonymous sources are whom they refer to all the time, because when I talk to someone on behalf of the Office of the President, I make sure to say who is speaking”, said “garbage mouth” Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of the Ukraine”, trying to disavow the bomb effect. “In some places, these anonymous sources are people who do not have access to certain information, but they are somewhere nearby, and they want to increase their sense of importance and pass off their visions as axiomatic knowledge.”
Podolyak considered it necessary to refute the “fiction” of the author and his source and that there was some kind of irritation on Bankova caused by it or that they considered their partners to be traitors. And then he refuted himself, saying that Kiev “always voices its claims publicly”. So, are there any complaints? Yes. And if they exist, then irritation must definitely be present.
“Today, after 600 days, we can see that there are many other points that global politicians are paying attention to. And this cannot but cause certain negative reactions. But again, this is an objective process: one simply needs to work with it. And therefore, to say that the president is furious — yes, the president wants more effective communications, more effective performance of functional duties, a clearer understanding of what strategy we have and how it is being implemented”, Podolyak said as he tried to get out of the trap into which he had driven himself. “At least to realise the declared intentions at least by 70-80%. Therefore, there is certainly a certain psychological fatigue. Not for the president, I mean. But in general, if we are talking about the circumstances of what is happening in the Ukraine today."</i>
Here's the source article, for Russian speakers.
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27575/4845247/
Anyway, I somewhat agree with Podolyak that this is Shuster's opinion, and I think we have learned to take unattributed quotes with a grain of salt over the last few years, since you can make up anything and say it came from 'an official close to the situation, who cannot be identified because he is not authorized to comment'. Still, a thread of disquiet and the possibility that at least some of it might be true is provided here, reflecting that only a year ago, Ukraine bestowed the Order of Merit on...Simon Shuster, presumably because it liked what he said back then.
https://www.txtreport.com/news/2023-11-01-the-author-of-the-scandalous-time-article-promised-to-publish-new-materials-about-ukraine.B1-W23Sx7T.html
Whatever the case, a wave of bandwagon-jumping seems to be ensuing, and suddenly nobody thinks any more that Ukraine can win - consider this piece for The New Statesman, by John Gray:
<i>“War in the Middle East will accelerate American disengagement from Europe. The question is no longer whether America’s support for Ukraine will be wound down but when and by how much. Fatigue with the war and frustration with Europe are bipartisan moods in Washington. If Donald Trump would aim to negotiate a partition of the country, a Democratic administration in 2025 might emulate Biden in Afghanistan and essentially cut Ukraine adrift. Either way the consequences would be profound.
The continent of Europe is more dependent on the American security guarantee than it has been since the most perilous moments in the Cold War. With its main proponent, Emmanuel Macron, mired in domestic troubles in France, strategic autonomy – Europe taking over responsibility for its own defence – is more remote than ever. Though the Baltic nations, Sweden and Poland are arming themselves against Russia, Germany and France are leaning towards détente. Having haunted Euro-federalists and Brexiters alike for decades, the phantasm of a European state has evaporated. Europe is (to echo Bismarck in 1872) “a geographical expression”, not a geopolitical actor. Soft power has proved to be a euphemism for impotence. In a scenario unimaginable only months ago, the continent could soon become a Balkanised peninsula on the edges of an intact Russian empire.”</i>
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2023/10/the-great-unravelling
Great title, since 'unraveling' sums up succinctly the way it is going - as someone (Hemingway, maybe) said once, gradually at first, then suddenly. The more pressure it's under, the louder it snaps when it breaks.
Incidentally, I read that the 'repositioning' of Russian forces from around Kiev was in fact a good-faith pullback immediately after Zelensky's representative signed the peace deal in Istanbul, from which Ukraine subsequently withdrew at BoJo's urging. I found that explanation to be quite credible.
Thank you, very helpful.
"In a scenario unimaginable only months ago, the continent could soon become a Balkanized peninsula on the edges of an intact Russian empire.” John Grey.
I can imagine Putin and Medvedev after reading this spontaneously high fiving each other.
It might look like a bandwagon effect, but in fact these changes in direction of the opinion makers are all coordinated from above. Time won the lottery this round to start the snowball rolling.
The US PTB are simply changing horses in midstream to grab at the opportunity to look (so they think) like winners in the ME, no matter how many Palestinian children are purposely killed and wounded. It will all have been "worth it" as Madeline A. would say if the bitch was still kicking.
The massive show of force and use of it without NATO constraints, should that come to pass, is a last gasp of the Empire, though surely not the last gasp.
@Scott
Where is Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright buried? I need to piss.
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BURIAL
Oak Hill Cemetery
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
PLOT
North Hill 103C
MEMORIAL ID
237890638
Excellent comment. Thank you!
Long before the SMO, there was Obama’s observation that one must always respect Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up. The Ukrainian war, his top foreign policy priority and one to which he has devoted a great deal of his credibility (including multiple state visits to the penis puppet) is turning out to be a disaster, and one that was widely predicted and warned against at the time.
If Schuster didn't think that the Zelenskii regime would be infuriated, then he's been living under a rock.
If it is aware of nothing else, the regime is acutely aware of controlling the narrative and its public image.
Given that Putin froze the conflict while he was ahead in both Minsk I and II, it will be interesting to see what Russia is willing to accept for peace. While I would like to see them capture Kiev and Odessa, that might cost 100,000 men and destroy two more historical Russian cities. I have a feeling that the sign of victory will be Zelensky being shot by one of his own generals.
I read the US has been trying to get a dialogue going with Russia, something along the lines of, So let's stop fighting so we can say we won. Russia has not replied to date. Russia realizes it is dealing with sociopathic loons, and that the likelihood of a US 2024 election bringing back Trump given the way things are going is negligible.
So rather than advancing on Kiev, I think Russia will wait for Zelensky to be toppled, probably will be allowed to go to Miami, and for the rest of his probably short life will be living one step ahead of the Azov team.
Russia will take Odessa though, that massacre at the union hall demands it. And once the new guy sues for peace, he will take whatever terms Russia decides to dish out.
I believe Russia will run elections that it will supervise. Will have an international team work with the new govt to write a new Constitution with permanent neutrality and no military. Will demand that all farmland sold off to non Ukrainian entities by Z's govt be seized and repatriated to Ukraine. Will declare all debt owed to the West null and void. Most importantly Russia will refuse to allow the Black Rock/Clinton Foundation to set foot nor "invest" one dime in Ukraine. All this is just for starters.
Remember the Russian military recruitment videos? Russia is going to move its military into much of Ukraine as citizens. Ukraine once again will be part of Russia. New game, new rules.
Hopefully it won't be.
He has property in Paris as well, so the guy has options. And would he want to go to yet another war zone, maybe not :)
Hey, once I become a "benevolent" dictator, and then decide to flee, Paris would certainly be an option. :)
His wife has two luxury condos in Paris, he and his parents have homes in Israel, he has the place/palace in Miami. I think he may have a spot in England as well. The dictator role certainly pays well, especially when you are in charge of the books!
I nominate Frances Lynch for President of Ukraine. Seconded?
I agree !
Goof :)
Thank you, thank you! <tugs forelock> I am not worthy.
And I would be shot in the first fifteen, maybe five seconds of my term :)
Well, the basic principles you proposed are good ones. Unfortunately, the west will never allow a surrender under those terms so long as it retains control over Ukraine's actions. I am waiting for Washington to 'discover' something about Zelensky so cataclysmic, such a tremendous betrayal of all that makes the west good and honest that in decency it cannot continue to support him, and does not even want to enter into the negotiations; go ahead, Putin, take your rotten prize. Together with decent Ukrainians, we might have made something of it, but this is just too much. We didn't lose, let's make that abundantly clear - we merely exited when we learned further support would be detrimental to our values.
This would have the coincident bonus of removing implied obligation for the west to assist with rebuilding Ukraine after all it did to wreck it, instead dumping the whole mess in Russia's lap. I like it; it's got a good beat and you can dance to it - what do you think?
Fantastic links! Thank you!
If you look at US prior military engagements, they look like the actions of a child kicking over a Lego structure. Pieces fly everywhere, nothing appears on the surface to make sense. But that is never the case. In all cases the US is taking out key pieces of a puzzle, preventing other nations from either uniting, profiting, prospering.
Take Afghanistan, that war which made absolutely no sense was to be a thorn in Russia's side, to control the world supply of heroin (the Taliban had shut it down), to run heroin into Russia, they even built a bridge so traffickers' could more easily enter Russia's regions. Then there is the usual MIC profit motive.
Ever wonder why we left? My guess was for several reasons, fentanyl traffic into the US was replacing heroin and they felt Afghanistan heroin was no longer relevant. Russian relations with Afghanistan were improving, and they MIC had other fish to fry upcoming in Ukraine, Armenia.
You recall the tons of weaponry left behind, that was part of the withdrawal deal. In exchange those weapons were sold by the Taliban to Ukraine, any number of the Baltic countries, the Stans. Remember that odd trade of the trans basketball player for the World's Most Successful Arms dealer? What was that about?? My guess it was to put him in place to broker the Afghanistan weapons sales and to make sure the US MIC got its cut.
Also, have you noticed that the Taliban are attacking Pakistan's borders, why? My guess is this too is part of the weapons deal. The same multifaceted agenda are visible in the attacks on Syria, on Libya, on Yemen, Somalia, etc. Keep in mind, the people in the DS are insane, they are not stupid.
Back to Ukraine, my guess is the US will allow a successor to Z to happen in the upcoming "elections." That guy will cut a deal with Putin, and the US will have nothing to say on the terms. The entire war, the entire nation will drop from all media. Now BlackRock, the Clinton Foundation have put together a massive commitment of cash from the US, World Bank, IMF, Eu to "rebuild" Ukraine. See Haiti for details.
I don't see Russia letting them in, would you?? Those people would savage Ukraine beyond imagining and if Ukraine was bad before it would become a very Hell on earth. NO way Russia will let that exist next store. Besides, Russia has a million man army it needs to reward, my dear soldiers, thank you, how about a nice farm located on the world's most valuable soil? Or a seaside condo on the beautiful Black Sea? Russia has plans, big plans, and if I can see it, they are far, far ahead of me :)
Just do what you said you will , and live or die you are our hero !
I see we have a plan! Now to let Putin and Z in on it :)
We can ask Putin for some hint how to lead , can't be that hard Europe is full with dumb leaders . We can outsmart them easily . Forget about Z he just steal all of our money , and send us up against a brick wall head on to see if we can win or not . We just give him a fake invitation to Izrael and get rid of him . Don't worry I be your body guard.
I'm still wondering what the surrender of Ukraine will look like. They should have and would have surrendered 30 days after the SMO began, but the West did not allow them to surrender. Zaluhzny is one option to overthrow Zelensky. The SBU is the other option, but they are stacked with MI6 and CIA. Zelensky is in the way and needs to be removed by someone.
Najibullah style,
I read that Russia's generals, top military, went to military colleges, training programs, with the Ukraine military. There are years long relationships that are probably being used to structure a transition. How smooth it will be given the Azov, CIA, MI6 and the probably present Mossad contingents, is anyone's guess.
Not only would they have surrendered, Zelensky's representative actually signed the draft agreement in Istanbul - but Boris Johnson persuaded Zelensky to renege on it.
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/putin-publicly-shows-draft-of-peace-treaty-signed-by-russia-ukraine-in-2022-watch-11687136116863.html
Mint is typically not a very strong source, but western media networks refuse to even discuss it. Hey, speaking of Istanbul, this could be the thin edge of the wedge that intrudes between reality and fantasy - Turkey hosts a delegation from Crimea on the fairly-mundane ceremony of twinning Turkish and Crimean cities. But Turkey is a member of NATO. Ukraine demands an explanation.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-requests-explanation-from-turkey-on-delegation-from-russian-occupied-crimea/ar-AA1jgANd
Even if the Odessa Trade Union massacre had never happened, Odessa is arguably the most strategic point in the rump Ukraine.
Absolutely, no question. The massacre just makes it an absolute, no turning back priority.
The thing you have to understand is that typically as conflicts reach their terminal stage, insiders begin to scramble to make deals with the invading force to "save their hide". That means as Ukraine reaches a final stage, there's potential for many of the top generals to make secret/underhanded "amnesty deals" with Russia, while taking all the troops under their command "with them". That's the way I personally see the conflict ending. Some major general(s) surrendering with all his men, and turning against Zelensky, etc., after seeing the writing on the wall. Russian intelligence services will always be actively reaching out to such people in advance knowing they're "ripe" for the coup de grace when the time is right.
The deals will be made for amnesty for anyone who lays down their arms, etc., (as long as they're not Nazi/Azov/extremist members) and that will ultimately collapse the regime when it's on its last foot.
So many people in these comments ask/suggest that Russia do x, where x is something the U.S.A. would do/has done.
You only have to look at how well that has worked out for the U.S. to answer your question/refute your suggestion....
Agreements of this kind are, unfortunately, only sweet dreams of past wars. Now the reality is this: the fighters of the Slavyanka brigade were VERY surprised when they recently began to find AFU fighters locked in dugouts and not returning fire in defense. Until then, the Ukrosoldiers had fought to the last man.
Exactly what I thought, might as well writing article about some sort of behind the stage operation / deal below the table. It always makes interesting story, espionage stuff, old tricks from old playbook.
Putin will never fall for that trick again, he's going to accept only the unconditional surrender of the AFU.
And war crimes trials for the perpetrators including those in the US and UK when those dual passport controlled regimes also collapse soon after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_assassination_of_Ngo_Dinh_Diem
Z should keep away from APCs.
A brutal way to go. They shot him then let him bleed out inside the APC (An M113 I understand).
"As we rode back to the Joint General Staff headquarters, Diệm sat silently, but Nhu and the captain [Nhung] began to insult each other. I don't know who started it. The name-calling grew passionate. The captain had hated Nhu before. Now he was charged with emotion."[24] Nghĩa said that when the convoy reached a train crossing, "[Nhung] lunged at Nhu with a bayonet and stabbed him again and again, maybe fifteen or twenty times. Still in a rage, he turned to Diệm, took out his revolver and shot him in the head. Then he looked back at Nhu, who was lying on the floor, twitching. He put a bullet into his head too. Neither Diệm nor Nhu ever defended themselves. Their hands were tied."
The fall of Ukraine is coming. I am reminded of the scene in Lord of the Rings where, within the Mines of Morea, Gandalf reads the record of the dwarves' last battle from the Book of Mazarbul. "They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes...drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming." May they rest in peace.
I am reminded of Gaddafi-a bayonet up the arse!!!
I'm thrilled that the Senate and the House are at odds on the military aid. How about zero dollars for foreign countries until we get this country back on track? And then, how about staying out of everyone's business in the future, and minding our own?
How about zero dollars for foreign countries until the national debt is 0...That's what I want to see...
Never will pay the national debt to 0… it will always struggle to pay the interest only to continue to service the debt… but I certainly appreciate your sentiment. And a healthy focus on home and hearth and respect for other nations/cultures would be great!
Of course, but at least we wouldn't be giving billions away to criminals all over the world, with kickbacks to DC of course...
Please replace "Bidenomics" I will vote for you .
"Debaltsevo 2.0 is clearly emerging."
Good.
What does the World expect when a second rate comic is made the president and has absolutely no experience in the job and no ability to learn?
And is massively outmanned, despite the foreign mercs, and outgunned by the best technology in the world...Ukraine never actually had a chance...
I sure agree with that. Unfortunately it takes a man with courage and political acumen to understand that and Zelensky isn't such a one.
AFAICT, Ukraine always had a significant advantage in manpower.
That is why this war has taken as long as it did.
actually, actors are the ideal puppets to achieve their hidden puppeteers (banksters) goals. Politicians are actors too but for mass media purposes, a professional actor permits more complex operations. Reagan was an actor too and people like Sean Pean, Morgan Freeman or Angelina Jolie are being used by the deep state in a similar and very effective way. The pandemic scam needed thousands of actors for instance, not politicians. We are in a new age of mind control.
Reagan was also the successful two time Governor of California, the then US' most populous and economically important state, before he became President. Harping on the fact that earlier in his life he was an actor betrays shallow thinking.
Gore Vidal liked to call him the Acting President of the US.
Wrong…biography is instructive.
@Bazza McKenzie
Ronald Reagan was good looking in his Hollywood youth, could read a script well, was an apparently affable & sociable yet ultimately small minded and mean spirited man (No surprise there, most Californians are pretty godamn lacking in any meaningful empathy towards their fellow men). Reagan was an ideal front man first for the local chamber of commerce, then for the PNAC/CIA nexus.
Reagan was as much an actor playing a part as Zelensky is and the equal of Z in self directed & visionary leadership too.
Sorry if you bought into the Reagan as great leader propaganda. If you think that who is Governor makes or breaks a state? Hell, we had JESSE THE BODY VENTURA for governor and the state still did reasonably well.
@Nazi neo pagan wannabe
I said THE STATE did reasonably well (much as California did during Reagan's two runs of performing his part in the "Governor of California show").
Jesse Ventura is primarily remembered for installing a very large, round, rotating zebra skin print waterbed in the governor's residence. Yet despite Jesse's term in office, the MN state government did not crumble nor did the economy cease to grow. And OUR governor could have beat up YOUR governor with one hand tied behind his back, bee-yotch.
How many state and national governments have you run Billy?
@Bazza McKenzie
Exactly as many as you have.
Yikes!
Thank you for an excellent update.
I did want to post this very amusing timeline.
First: a 2014 article about bedbugs in France
https://www.thelocal.fr/20140829/france-bedbugs
Next, a Fodor's article on 10/3/2023 about bedbugs in Paris
https://www.fodors.com/world/europe/france/paris/experiences/news/bedbugs-have-taken-over-france-heres-how-not-to-bring-them-home
Followed by these 2 articles on October 25, 2023
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1827773/france-bedbugs-russian-fake-news
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-trolls-could-sparked-bedbug-31273168
Note both articles reference "intelligence agents/experts" a la Russiagate, Hunter Biden laptop etc. saying the bedbug stories (since 2014!) are Russian misinformation.
Next: the latest EU sanctions package against Russia
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-without-heaters-from-the-eu-sanctions-might-also-cover-nails/ar-AA1iCt3y
"nails, needles and knitting accessories"
Putin was asked about this latest sanctions package - I paraphrase his response: We don't need more of this junk. It might come with bedbugs. LOL
Simpliticus, the Great, writes another MOAB's (mother of all bombs) article. From it, one concludes that the writing is on the wall. Zelensly, the penis pianist, has keyed his final notes from which he is about to become transed dickless and an irrelevance to anything political for good. The final joke will be upon himself never to set foot on Ukrainian soil again. And, wherever he goes, he will never be safe. Soon, the only name he will see on his hit list will be his own. Adieux, Zel.
Fear not, word is that Steiner’s Panzer Gruppe will break through the enemy encirclement and save the day.
😂
That's easy, they couldn't get a bigger fool for an opponent.
@Aryan Prison Gang Shaman
Early on in this tragedy, Putin arranged for Zelensky's life to be saved. Likely more because "never interfere with your opponent while they are fucking up" than out of compassion, it is true.